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27.Nov.2005
Bernd Roesch (ANF)


 AFA OS: New beta version for the final 3.91 release
AFA OS ("AROS for AmigaOS") extends AmigaOS 3.x with functions of the open source operating system AROS. With the current beta test, Version 3.91 should be finalized. On this, Bernd Roesch, the initiator of the project, writes:

"Since AFA OS was now tested by some, and all known bugs were fixed, it now comes to the final beta test. If there are no more problems, this will be the final version 3.91.

A problem was noted, where it would be the best solution that all Amiga systems can use TrueType fonts without .otag files. In Aminet, there are, for example, Vera-Fonts, which feature an incompatible .otag file. It would be best if the freetype2.library, which MorphOS and AROS as well as AFA use, goes without the .otag file. Then, you do not have to create it by Fontmanager. Also, under Windows, you can just copy the files to it and it runs. But I am not familiar with TrueType fonts. Fonts that work with AFA have an .otag file, in which "freetype2.library" appears. In the enclosed fonts, you can also check what this should look like. Also it seems as if you must copy the fonts into the SYS:Fonts directory.

Error corrections:
  • With the new datatype, pictures with 256 colors were displayed wrongly on 32 bit screens
  • Archive is now available in LhA format, since there were problems with the protection bits in the ZIP format
  • My E-Mail address was stated wrongly in the Readme file (without <>) - now you can copy and paste it into the E-Mail program
Improvements:
  • Installation script by David Eriksson (fx)
  • Adjustable anti-alias intensity in 100 gradations, to specify an individual optimum between pixelation and blurring - at lower anti-alias value, the processor load turns out accordingly lower, too
  • 39 of the most commonly used AmigaOS functions of the exec.library of AROS are now used by AFA. The AmigaOS exec possesses more than 119 functions. For the rest, it will be more difficult to find out whether they can be used, since I do not even know what they do, to some extent. Therefore, it would be nice if someone could help here, to test the remaining functions as well, or to write a test program.
All commands should be made safe, so that they do not produce memtrash with wrong parameters, or cause the system to crash. At present, the following commands are safe:
  • GetMsg
  • ReplyMsg
  • SendIO
  • CheckIO
  • DoIO
  • WaitIO
  • RemHead
If these commands are called with nonsensical values, an Enforcer hit will be produced, if the Enforcer is running (tst.l $0) and the command does nothing. Only one Enforcer hit is known to me. The ReplyMsg command from Fontprefs 3.5 does this, because the message has already received an answer (you detect this in the node type). But it runs without problems anyhow.

If someone has problems with the software, whereat he suspects that it comes from the exec.library, then he may delete the library through a restart, try it once again, and please report which library causes the problem.

In this regard, the AROS source code has several compatibility problems/bugs that are already changed in AFA. Though I reported these, I do not know to what extent it is adopted. Also, it looks as if no interest exists on the part of the AROS developers to make the operating system more crash-safe through this.

Whoever wants to compile exec and meets with crashes, which do not exist with the binary file, may please send an E-Mail, I send the up-to-date files then." (snx) (Translation: cad)

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27.Nov.2005
Jan Zahurancik (ANF)


 WinUAE: OS-Distribution Amikit, including Opus Magellan 2
Amikit is another complete distribution for WinUAE users, similar to AIAB or AmigaSys. As a highlight, the package includes a completely functional trial version of the well-known file manager Directory Opus Magellan. Windows as well as WinUAE with an existing AmigaOS installation are required.

Note: The trial version of Opus Magellan 2 is not registered, i.e. there is an "annoying requester" to acknowledge when starting, moreover, the program start is delayed for 10 seconds. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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26.Nov.2005
PPCNUX (ANF)


 PPCNUX: better gaming under MorphOS - Radeon 9000 vs. 8500
PPCNUX made another test regarding graphics boards installed in the Pegasos II running under MorphOS. This time they compared last time's winner, the Radeon 9000 Pro AIW, with an 8500 LE graphics card. Next to the usual 3D games benchmarks there's an overview of the 2D power of the boards tested the last time. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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26.Nov.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 APC&TCP: information/demo/update CD with all issues of the NoCover
The information/demo/update CD by APC&TCP, availble now, contains next to demo versions and patches all 125 issues of the no longer published online magazine NoCover. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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26.Nov.2005
MaaG^dA (ANF)


 AutoDocReader 1.1
Marian Guc has released version 1.1 of his AutoDocReader for AmigaOS and MorphOS. Changes since the previous release:
  • ARexx support
  • New icon (by Thore Sittly)
  • Locale update
  • Bugfixes
  • Bugtracker added
(snx)

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25.Nov.2005
Alinea Computer (ANF)


 AmigaOS 4: News from Alinea Computer
Wehrheim, Germany,
24. November 2005.

We want to announce the following news:

AmiWebView :

The Webcam-Viewer AmiWebView has no longer beta status and now supports the HTTP 1.1-protocol. You can find the updated version in our download section.

ANotice 2:

Now for ANotice 2 a Polish catalog is available. You can download it in our download section. We want to thank the translators Szymon Tomzik and Sebastian Rosa.

New product in our shop:

From now on you can order the SDK Browser from BITbyBIT Software Group in our Onlineshop. You can get it for 22,95 Euro and it will be delivered via email.

You can get more information to this product at BitbyBitSoftware. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Nov.2005
amigaworld.net (Website)


 AmigaOS 4: KEGS emulates Apple II GS
KEGS emulates an Apple II GS (screenshot). A ROM image in version ROM.01 or ROM.03 is required. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Nov.2005
Ragonsoft.com (ANF)


 Ragonsoft published Speedpaint as Freeware
As already announced Ragonsoft published the paint program Speedpaint (screenshot) as Freeware for Classic Amigas. Speedpaint is similar to Deluxe Paint and is meant for pixel graphics but it offers not so many functions.

Like all other programs and games from Ragonsoft for Classic Amigas Speedpaint was completely developed in AMOS Pro,too. You can get further information to SpeedPaint under the title link in the section "Tools, Software, Downloads".

Download: SpeedPaint.zip (75 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Nov.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 No Risc No Fun will be closed
Fabio Trottas "No Risc No Fun" which is a review and article collection to the Amiga will be closed. The contents were integrated to amigafuture.de. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Nov.2005



 Aminet: Status update November 2005
October and November have been two quite busy months for us. The following is a short summary of the most important changes - a detailed list can be found at our news section.

A lot of bug hunting and fixing has been going on behind the scenes. The internal scripts and the database got quite a lot of tweaking and finetuning.

The entire Aminet tree needed some cleaning up as well. All archives have a proper architecture field by now, lots of (very) old archives were missing their readmes or readme files were shared between archives (foo.lzh and foo.lha both had foo.readme). We could even resurrect some ancient archives that were accidentally deleted from the indices years ago.

The mailing lists are back - if you want to get daily or weekly e-mails listing the recent uploads, just send a mail to aminet-daily-subscribe@aminet.net or aminet-weekly-subscribe@aminet.net. They do not carry information about a package's architecture yet, but we're working on that.

Aminet mirrors are on the verge to be rolled out properly. A new German mirror hosted by Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea is already online and can be accessed at de4.aminet.net for now. We're still missing a mirror in eastern europe - if you think you can help out, please get in touch with us.

The uploader's e-mail address gets obfuscated now, both in the web interface and in the actual readme. Please note that this field is now strictly required - not specifying an e-mail address may result in your upload getting deleted.

The statistics have been expanded aswell - we have uploader stats now. This month's most active uploader is Tony "I was born for SDL" Aksnes. If you want to compete with him, make sure your uploader field is spelled exactly the same on all your uploads.

The search function now supports Amiga wildcards: You can search for foo?.lha, foo#?.lha or even foo*.lha. Searching readmes should be quite a lot faster now aswell, though the database is still busy indexing all the readme files.

Most of you will have recognised it already: You can now configure Aminet to your liking. Simply go to Setup and select which architectures you want to have displayed. This setting affects all aspects of the web interface (recent uploads, directory browsing, search function).

During the first six months of this year, we did have some problems: Packages didn't get moderated as regularly as we would have wished, we had database problems and the server went down several times. These issues should be solved by now - as far as we can tell everything is running smoothly. But please don't hesitate to drop us a note if you encounter any problems or just want to give some feedback. We're open to suggestions aswell: If you have an idea for improving Aminet, let us know.

Last but not least: October was a new record month for uploads and in November we surpassed the year 2003 in terms of uploads, making 2005 the first year Aminet's upload rate rises since 1997! (cg)

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25.Nov.2005
antibike (ANF)


 MorphOS: First public beta of the "Packet Management" system MorphUp
Rupert "naTmeg" Hausberger has published the first beta version of his Paket-Manager MorphUp. MorphUp is supposed to simplify the installation of software by installing required libraries automatically.

According to the status update the client is in early status but the "Generator" already works and so you can get a first impression.

Download: morphup_beta.lha (163 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Nov.2005
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 E3B and individual Computers stop selling hardware
Jens Schönfeld from individual computers announces that both individual and E3B are going to stop selling hardware for now:

"Both companies, who became famous for innovative and powerful hardware expansions for classic Amiga computers, are forced to stop selling hardware until further notice due to changes in German law. No hardware is being shipped within the EU, neither to resellers, nor to direct customers.

According to the national implementation of EU-directive 2002/96/EG into German law (Bundesgesetzblatt 2005 Teil I Nr. 17), every vendor in Germany must be registered with the Stiftung EAR. For vendors from outside Germany, the importer must be registered, in case the vendor himself is not registered in Germany. This law applies to all electronic products that are mentioned in rule EAR 03-011, no matter what country they come from - within or outside the European union.

The new law aims at vendors and importers, who need to take resposibility for the electronic devices if they are discarded at the end of the product's life. Putting electronic devices into circulation without being registered (indicated by a trashcan symbol) is against German law since today, and can be penalized with a monetary fine of up to 50.000,- EUR.

Due to the complicated implementation by German authorities, it's not easy to estimate the consequences and the new obligations created by this law. In addition to that, the extremely high administration effort goes with high fees that must be paid to the Stiftung EAR - especially smaller companies' existance is endangered by the fees that are more than one hundred times higher than the recycling cost itself. individual computers and E3B, who have been developing and producing in Germany for many years, are now evaluating possibilities to comply with the strict rules in a close cooperation, so customers all over Europe can continue to buy top quality products from Germany. Both companies want to act responsible and sustainable in this regard.

Many issues are not yet resolved, therefore both companies cannot continue to deliver hardware to customers and resellers within the European union. Customers outside the EU are not affected by this decision.

We're hoping to proceed with the necessary steps in a timely manner. Unfortunately, the "Stiftung EAR" cannot cope with the bureaucracy created by their own rules, so our registration number is not yet assigned. We are of course interested in continuing to offer innovative products, and will do everything to keep the shortage as short as possible. We're asking for your indulgence for any inconveniences." (cg) (Translation: cg)

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24.Nov.2005
Ragonsoft (ANF)


 "Der Händler" of Ragonsoft published as freeware
Ragonsoft has released the game "Der Händler" for free download. According to the producer the game is very old and was nearly finished even before "Another Commander".

Following Ragonsoft projects of the same time period (1996/97) will be shortly released as freeware:
  • Speedpaint (graphics programm similar to DPaint, but less comfortable)
  • RagonSnake (variant of E-Snake)

All this products were finally developed and compiled within this quarter. (nba) (Translation: ts)

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22.Nov.2005
antibike (ANF)


 driver system: AHI 6.0
Martin Blom has published version 6.0 (Final) of his soundcard driver system AHI. Versions for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, Amithlon an AROS are available under the link above. (cg)

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22.Nov.2005
Aaron Leitch (ANF)


 USB: improved digitiser tablet support in Poseidon
Due to various enquiries from users Chris Hodges decided to improve the support for Wacom digitiser tablets in his USB stack Poseidon.

The following tablets can in the future not only be used in the "relative coordinates mode", but also in the "absolute coordinates mode" - the corresponding beta tests will start shortly:
  • Cintiq 21 UX
  • Cintiq Partner
  • DTF-720
  • Graphire
  • Graphire 2 4x5
  • Graphire 2 5x7
  • Graphire 3
  • Graphire 3 6x8
  • Graphire 4 4x5
  • Graphire 4 6x8
  • Intuos 4x5
  • Intuos 6x8
  • Intuos 9x12
  • Intuos 12x12
  • Intuos 12x18
  • Intuos 2 12x12
  • Intuos 2 12x18
  • Intuos 2 4x5
  • Intuos 2 6x8
  • Intuos 2 6x8
  • Intuos 2 9x12
  • Intuos 3 4x5
  • Intuos 3 6x11
  • Intuos 3 6x8
  • Intuos 3 9x12
  • PenPartner
  • PenPartner 2
  • PenStation 2
  • PL-400
  • PL-500
  • PL-510
  • PL-550
  • PL-600
  • PL-600 SX
  • PL-700
  • PL-710
  • PL-800
  • Volito
  • Volito 2 2x3
  • Volito 2 4x5
(cg)

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22.Nov.2005
PPCZone (Webseite)


 Linux: Hardened Gentoo on the Pegasos (englisch)
Chris White started under the link above to give instructions for the installation of Hardened Gentoo on the Pegasos. This project aims at using the Linux distribution Gentoo in surroundings which require especially high safety and stability.

The first part of the intructions deals with the kernel compilation. (snx) (Translation: iw)

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22.Nov.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Issues 20-22 of Amiga Future can be read online
In the article database (link above) of Amiga Future the articles from the issues 20, 21 and 22 are now available and can be read online, among others there are articles about TFX, Wasted Dreams, Nightlong, Heretic 2, WipEout 2097 and AmigaOS 3.5. (nba) (Translation: iw)

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22.Nov.2005
MorphZone (Forum)


 MorphOS: new Ambient-Skin MorphQS
The new Ambient-Skin MorphQS from 'Toto' is loosely based on the Mercury-Skin for gnomes (Screenshot). (snx) (Translation: iw)

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22.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)


 AmigaOS 4: Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell 0.0.34
Henning Nielsen Lund provided the Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell for AmigaOS 4 in the version 0.0.34. The update comprises the latest settlement of errors of pdksh from Debian and OpenBSD. In addition SDK:Local/C was added to the standard path. The ABC-Shell is able to ease portings from POSIX systems due to its Bourne/POSIX compatibility.

Download: abc-shell.tar.bz2 (432 KB) (snx) (Translation: iw)

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21.Nov.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)


 Event: Commodore Gebruikers Groep on the HCC Expo
The "Commodore Gebruikers Groep" (CGG) are also this year on the netherlands HCC Expo. This is a Game and Computerfair, with more than 105.000 Visitors last year.

The CGG is located in Hall 10, stand Number 10F018. The club presents the possiblility to play old Games on the original hardware and a lot of presentations e.g. a introduction how to code a scene-demo on a C64 or Amiga.

The HCC Expo is from 25. til 27. November in Utrecht (Dutch). (cg) (Translation: aj)

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21.Nov.2005
(ANF)


 IRC-Klient: Wookiechat 1.9.1 for AmigaOS 3/4
The newest Version 1.9.1 of the MUI-based IRC-Klients Wookiechat (Screenshot) is available in Versionen for AmigaOS 3 and 4 with following changes:
  • When you're holding down the left mouse button highlighting text, channel messages etc are paused until you let go.
  • "Unknown nick" and "Cannot send to channel" messages are displayed in their proper tabs again
  • Channel lists are no longer sorted alphabetically. It was causing a huge drain on the CPU when thousands of channels were present. It sometimes led to a crash.
  • No more garbled channel part messages
  • "Clear all" button added to the URL Grabber window
  • Added code to prevent DCC Transfers window from popping to the front when you get an incoming file if its already open in the background somewhere
  • 68k WookieChat development has resumed, and it longer hangs when recieving incoming DCC sends. A divide by zero bug in the file transfer stats function has been removed! (thank you wegster for telling me what was wrong)
  • Now works with WebChat and DarkMyst networks (homes of #amiga.org and #amigazeux). Wookie was doing its connection detection in a slightly bad way previously.
  • Clicking in the main chat display now activates the chat string gadget
  • Outgoing swear word filter. use /filter to toggle on and off

Download: WookieChat1_9_1.lha (370 KB) (cg) (Translation: aj)

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21.Nov.2005
(ANF)


 AmigaOS 4: Drumcomputer Rockbeat 1.3
The Software-Drumcomputer Rockbeat is now in Version 1.3 available. Changes since last version:
  • Position LED's light up while playing, and scrolls automatically
  • You can now switch between drumkits, and it will remember the last drumkit you used.

Download: RockBEAT1_3.lha (1,6 MB) (cg) (Translation: aj)

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21.Nov.2005



 Aminet-Uploads since 20.11.2005
Aminet-Uploads since our last news report: 
qsilver-ws.lha               comm/www     22K  GEN  HTTP/1.0 compliant webserver in ARexx
Explosions_y2k1y2k5_OS4.lha  demo/file   666K  OS4  Example Code , 2 Sets from 2001 and 2005
lamintvro.lha                demo/mag    258K  OS3  lame warp3d intvro
bintoc.lha                   dev/c        14K  VAR  Binary to C source converter
simplecat.lha                dev/misc    103K  VAR  Powerful CatComp replacement
lyrics.lha                   docs/misc    57K  GEN  Trance/Techno song texts (lyrics)
AirSeaBattle_OS4.lha         game/2play  1.4M  OS4  Shoot down the airplanes with your brand
Apricots_OS4.lha             game/2play  2.1M  OS4  Small mulitplayer Shooter , nice and fas
Foosball_OS4.lha             game/2play  329K  OS4  Board football, The oldschool type!
DeathChase3D_OS4.lha         game/actio  181K  OS4  Fast 3d Starwars game based on Starwars 
Connect4_OS4.lha             game/board  875K  OS4  4 in a row puzzler
dossizola_mos.lha            game/board  932K  MOS  Simple SDL game: block your opponent
Dossizola_OS4.lha            game/board  1.2M  OS4  Block Your opponent!
WoodenBars.lha               game/demo    43K  OS3  Simple bars game for all the PAL AMIGAs
Netrok_OS4.lha               game/jump   825K  OS4  Mario Bros type of game but with new ide
FreeFallinFred_OS4.lha       game/misc   917K  OS4  Remake of the old game Parachute.
Late_OS4.lha                 game/misc   2.0M  OS4  An Qix/Styx/Barrack clone
LinuxLunarLander_OS4.lha     game/misc   801K  OS4  Land Your Lunar
LinuxShuttleLander_OS4.lha   game/misc   1.2M  OS4  Land Your Space Shuttle!
Fanwor_os4.lha               game/role   822K  OS4  Zelda clone , with oldschool gfx and mus
NameOfGame_PRV_OS4.lha       game/role   4.3M  OS4  Preview of a TopDown RPG game
CertainDeathViaSpaceThi.lha  game/shoot  739K  OS4  Fast Vertical Shoot em up with a very st
HeroesOfRoswell_OS4.lha      game/shoot  3.0M  OS4  Vertical ShootEmup with good theme and g
HighMoon_OS4.lha             game/shoot  2.6M  OS4  The First Worms Clone on OS4 , and it's 
KETM_os4.lha                 game/shoot  2.4M  OS4  A Very stylish Shoot Em up
Anagramarama_OS4.lha         game/think  1.3M  OS4  Word puzzler , with nice gfx and blips a
FloboPuyo_OS4.lha            game/think  3.4M  OS4  The best PuyoPuyo clone ever made!
InterLogic_OS4.lha           game/think  3.4M  OS4  Remake of an old Amiga Classic , great g
MatchBall_OS4.lha            game/think  2.0M  OS4  Connect'a puzzler , with gfx themes etc
amiphoto_guis.lha            gfx/misc    572K  GEN  GUIs for AmiPhoto v1
anotice_textures.lha         gfx/misc    1.3M  GEN  Textures for ANotice v2
WarpView.lha                 gfx/show     33K  OS4  A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
datutil.lha                  misc/emu    118K  OS3  Data file creation/conversion tool
generator_mos.lha            misc/emu    320K  MOS  Sega Genesis/Megadrive Emulator
mamediff.lha                 misc/emu    125K  OS3  Data file comparison tool
ADPCM_dec.lha                mus/misc     26K  OS3  Decoder for Christian Buchner's ADPCM pa
playOGG.lha                  mus/play    1.0M  OS3  Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
katydid.jpg                  pix/fauna   120K  GEN  Green grasshopper (katydid)
scummbubbles2.lha            pix/icon    348K  GEN  Scumm VM Bubbles in png format
systempatch2.lha             util/boot    46K  OS3  Speedup patch for 68020+
r.lha                        util/cli    242K  VAR  Just in time GUIs for nearly any DOS com
sed-4.1.4-bin_os4.lha        util/gnu    325K  OS4  The GNU sed stream editor
sed-4.1.4-diff_os4.lha       util/gnu      1K  GEN  The GNU sed stream editor
sed-4.1.4-src_os4.lha        util/gnu    1.0M  GEN  The GNU sed stream editor
pngalpha_lib.lha             util/libs    61K  OS3  Load alpha channel data from PNG picture
cliexchange15.lha            util/shell   19K  OS4  Shell equivalent to Exchange
echo2debug.lha               util/shell   13K  OS4  Echo a string to the debug output
MultiView.lha                util/sys     55K  OS3  The datatype frontend (AROS backport)
wet.lha                      util/wb     664K  OS4  Weather conditions on Workbench 4, AppIc
(cg) (Translation: aj)

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21.Nov.2005



 os4depot.net: Uploads til 20.11.2005
os4depot.net uploads since our last news report: 
highmoon.lha            gam/act    2Mb  The First Worms Clone on OS4 , and it's 
late.lha                gam/mis    1Mb  An Qix/Styx/Barrack clone
linuxlunarlander.lha    gam/mis  801kb  Land Your Lunar
linuxshuttlelander.lha  gam/mis    1Mb  Land Your Space Shuttle!
nameofgame.lha          gam/rol    4Mb  Preview of an TopDown RPG game
matchball.lha           gam/str    2Mb  Connect'a puzzler , with gfx themes etc
wet.lha                 uti/wor  663kb  Weather conditions on Workbench 4, AppIc
heroesofroswell.lha     gam/act    3Mb  Vertical ShootEmup with good theme and g
ketm.lha                gam/act    2Mb  A Very stylish Shoot Em up
interlogic.lha          gam/puz    3Mb  Remake of an old Amiga Classic , great g
connect4.lha            gam/str  874kb  4 in a row puzzler
dvplayer-amixp.zip      vid/pla   40kb  Skin dvplayer Os4
mixer_blue_skin.lha     aud/mis   12kb  Skin Blue for OS4 Audio mixer
explosions.lha          dem/mis  665kb  Example Code , 2 Sets from 2001 and 2005
noiz2sa.lha             gam/act    9Mb  An abstract shoot'em up game by Kenta Ch
fanwor.lha              gam/adv  822kb  Zelda clone , with oldschool gfx and mus
fred.lha                gam/mis  916kb  Remake of the old game Parachute.
flobopuyo.lha           gam/puz    3Mb  The best PuyoPuyo clone ever made!
foosball.lha            gam/spo  328kb  Board football, The oldschool type!
echo2debug.lha          uti/she   13kb  Echo a string to the debug output
airseabattle.lha        gam/act    1Mb  Shoot down the airplanes with your brand
apricots.lha            gam/act    2Mb  Small mulitplayer Shooter , nice and fas
cdvst.lha               gam/act  739kb  Fast Vertical Shoot em up with a very st
deathchase3d.lha        gam/dri  180kb  Very fast 3d Starwars game based on Star
anagramarama.lha        gam/puz    1Mb  Word puzzler , with nice gfx and blips a
netrok.lha              gam/pla  824kb  Mario Bros type of game but with new ide
processtorrent.lha      uti/scr    3kb  Arexx-Script to handle .torrent files
cliexchange.lha         uti/she   18kb  Shell equivalent to Exchange
dossizola.lha           gam/boa    1Mb  Block Your opponent!.
amiphoto_guis.lha       gra/the  571kb  GUIs for AmiPhoto v1
anotice_textures.lha    gra/the    1Mb  Textures for ANotice v2
warpview.lha            gra/vie   33kb  A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
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21.Nov.2005



 Aros Archives: Uploads til 20.11.2005
Uploads of aros-archives since our last news report: 
i386-aros-cross-gcc-3.3.1-cygwin.zip  dev/cro   38Mb  i386 AROS Cross GCC For Cygwin
soliton.rar                           gam/     114kb  Port of Solitaire-like Amiga Game
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20.Nov.2005
Amiga Future (Web page)


 MorphOS: TD-MPlayer-GUI 0.5
The multi-platform developer group TDolphin has released the MorphOS version 0.5 of its graphical user interface for the video player MPlayer. The update contains, among others, a button for minimizing as well as additional bubble help texts.

Download: tdmplayergui.lha (50 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)

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20.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (Web page)


 AmigaOS 4: Weather program Wet 4.1 with AmiDock support
In addition to the weather display in the title bar or as an icon on the Workbench, Version 4.1 of the AmigaOS 4 program Wet now offers this functionality for the AmiDock as well. Moreover, the program can now be run behind a proxy server also.

Download: wet.lha (664 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)

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20.Nov.2005
MorphOS-News.de (Web page)


 PDF-Book "Le livre du Pegasos" now in English translation as well
The 148-page book "Le livre du Pegasos," available as a PDF file, for which translators had been sought (reported by amiga-news.de), is now available in a first, though still incomplete, English version as well. At present, Mac OS X as well as half of the Linux section are still missing.

Aim of the book is to bring information and articles on every aspect of the Pegasos and its operating systems (MorphOS, Linux, Mac OS X via Mac-on-Linux) together in a single document, so that these can be consulted offline as well, and printed without problems.

Translations to more languages (German, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Swedish and Polish) are already in the works. In the meantime, donations can be made to the authors and translators, too. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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20.Nov.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Example-Project: Skeletal animation with Blender
Carsten Siegner has created a small animation for the raytracer Blender, which demonstrates the insertion of skeletal animations in a real scene. In doing so, the so-called shadow objects are used as well, meaning objects that are not depicted themselves, but rather, only cast a shadow. With shadow objects, you can furnish every 3D object in a real scene with shadows.

Download: Skelett.lha (440 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)

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20.Nov.2005
ANN (Web page)


 Audio-Decoder: ADPCM_dec 1.2
Lorence Lombardo has released an update of ADPCM_dec to version 1.2. The audio decoder is intended for the ADPCM Package by Christian Buchner.

Thereby, the ADPCM file is either converted to RAW format or transferred directly to AHI. Details on the changes in the new version are not available.

Download: ADPCM_dec.lha (28 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)

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20.Nov.2005



 AROS: Status-Update November 2005
At the title link, Paolo Besser has published another status update of the latest AROS developments. Besides Bernd Roesch's AfA OS for 68k processors (amiga-news.de reported), there is also a hosted version for FreeBSD/x86 meanwhile on the FTP server of BTTR, and Joe Fenton got AROS running hosted on Fedora Core 4/PPC on his iMac.

Furthermore, Michal Schulz has re-vitalized the VMware graphic HIDD and Pavel Fedin did back-port many commands from MorphOS, e.g. "mount" (amiga-news.de reported). (snx)

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19.Nov.2005
Heinz-Raphael Reinke (ANF)


 AmiDevCpp: Version 0.5 released / AROS now target platform as well
AmiDevCpp, the integrated Amiga development environment for Windows, is available in version 0.5, and now includes, in addition to the m68k-amigaOS cross-compiler, an i686-aros cross-compiler as well.

With this, it is (at least theoretically) possible to compile a project created with AmiDevCpp for AmigaOS (m68k) as well as for AROS (x86) with few mouse clicks.

For downloading and installing, an Internet installer created specially for this is recommended.

Download: InetInstallerAmiDevCpp.exe (61 KB) (snx) (Translation: cad)

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18.Nov.2005
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)


 Arcade game: BatDefense 0.4.3
There is a new version of the arcade game BatDefense (screenshot). Changes to the previous versions:
  • One of the sound routines was deactivated
  • Bugfix for CGFX systems: BatDefense runs now on CGFX- just like on Picasso96 systems
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Nov.2005
ANN (Webseite)


 SystemPatch 2.95 (Update)
SystemPatch written by Sante Nocciolino changes diverse operating system routins to increase the performance of systems with newer 68k processors. The highest increase of peformance is gained at 68060 systems but you can use it for all Amigas with at least a 68020. Changes in version 2.94:
  • SystemPatch now detects rtg systems and doesn't install layers and graphics patches
  • added patches to utility.library
  • added dos.library patches: Read(), Write(), DoPkt()
  • added QUICKWAITBLIT option: Waitblit() returns immediately
  • added DynamicDMA in auto interrupt vector 3
  • added gfx patches: InitGels(), ClearRectRegion(), AreaDraw(), InitBitMap(), InitView(), InitVPort()
  • added exec patches: CopyMem(), CopyMemQuick(), FindName(), FindPort(), FindTask(), FindResident(), FindSemaphore(), AllocSignal(), FreeSignal()
  • CopyMem() and CopyMemQuick() patch code depends on your CPU
  • added interrupts patches: IVPORTS, IVSOFTINT
  • bug fix for ClearRegion(), DisposeRegion()
  • little speedup to auto interrupt routines
  • Extent patches are not installed by default because buggy: you can use +Extent to override
  • MMU option not supported in this version
  • other things I forgot

Download: SystemPatch2.lha (47 KB)

Update: (13:00, 20.11.05, snx)
Yestserday version 2.95a was published. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Nov.2005
Amiga.org (Webseite)


 Cross-Compiler for AROS as destination platform
Jocke 'Zerohero' Birging has added a short documentation to his Cross-Compiler site as well as the i686-Linux binaries for AROS as destination platform. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Nov.2005
Bernd Roesch (Kommentare)


 AROS: AfA OS (AROS für AmigaOS) initiated (Update)
AfA OS (AROS for AmigaOS) from Bernd Roesch enables AmigaOS users to use the extended functions of the operating system AROS (Amiga Research OS), as well as the compilation of the AROS source code without further adaptations.

AfA runs hosted under AmigaOS and is extending it currently with antialiasing for true type fonts, alpha channel support for datatypes as well as further AROS functions for developers.

Download: AFA_OS.zip (524 KB)

Update: (18:55, 17.11.2005, snx)
In the meantime an own Forum for AfA OS has been set up, too. (snx) (Translation: iw)

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16.Nov.2005
Amiga Future / MorphZone


 MorphOS: Software-News until 16.11.2005

E-UAE 0.8.28-2

Yesterday Fabien Coeurjoly provided the latest version 0.8.28 of the Amiga emulator E-UAE. However there is no information concerning the changes in the archives.

Download: e-uae-0.8.28-2.lha (2,3 MB)

Tuxracer 0.61

The French developer 'SixK' yesterday once again compiled his porting of the game Tuxracer, where you have to steer the Linux penguin down a snow covered hill (Screenshot),in the latest version 0.61 for MorphOS. We have no information concerning the changes.

Download: tuxracer-0.61-mos.lha (8,3 MB)

Scumm VM Bubbles V2

Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel has extended his pictographs for the game engine ScummVM among other things with icons for Heirs of the Earth and Gobliiins.

Download-Seite (snx) (Translation: iw)

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16.Nov.2005
amidevcpp (ANF)


 AmiDevCpp: Ability to upload own DevPaks and example projects
AmiDevCpp is a free development environment Dev-C++, which has the original compiler replaced with an AmigaOS cross compiler. Thus, it is possible to develop and compile programs for Amiga (m68k) while using Windows.

At the title link the ability to upload your own DevPaks is now available. With DevPaks new includes, linkerlibs and source code examples may be installed or deinstalled comfortably. A detailed manual how to create own DevPaks is avaialble here.

There is also the option to upload small example projects (max 1000kB) which may help beginners to a better start into programming. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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14.Nov.2005
Pegasos.org (Webseite)


 Manual: Installation of a USB2-Card into a Pegasos with MorphOS
Linked to the header had Gunne Steen a short collection of all steps which are required to install a USB2-Card into a Pegasos with MorphOS.

The essential under MorphOS 1.4.5 is to copy the OpenUSB.device into the Drawer MOSSYS:Devs/USBHardware and added to Prefs. This Device is a part of Guido Mersmanns Arakattack. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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14.Nov.2005
Neo (ANF)


 AmigaOS 4: Status-Update for AVD GUI Builder
The commercial AVD GUI Builder is for building and maintenance of Reaktion-based graphical user identerfaces. The author linked to the header screenshoots to demonstrated how to use this tool with the most available reaction-objecs.

The newest version, which are available for registered user soon, supports now 25 Reaction and BOOPSI-Classes, to able build and manipulate in realtime. A interactive clipboard-system is available and also a definition of a user interfaces which is builed from more then one window is now possible. Loading of existing projects is now per Drag'n Drop on the AppIcon or into the AppWindow possible.

AVD Template Project v1.2.0.0

The Freeware "AVD Template" is a template of a frame for a AmigaOS 4-application, writen in C. The newest version is added with programcode for handling more then one window and it's now possible to combinated it with the C-output from the newest GUI Builder-Version. The newest version will be released at Aminet in next time.

guiX

This new freeware-project generates from XML-projectdata, e.g. builded by GUI Builder, "on-the-fly" a graphical userinterface. E.g. guiX is usefull to generate graphical userinterfaces for Shell- or ARexx-Scripts. A first version will be released with a final version of GUI Builder. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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14.Nov.2005



 Printmagazin: Total Amiga, issue 22
Issue 22 of the english printmagazin "Total Amiga" ist available now. A overview of all themes of this issue is linked to the news header. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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14.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


 AmigaOS 4: Warp3D-Pictureviewer WarpView 0.6
The pictureviewer WarpView use Warp3D for rendering, which makes a fast skaling possible. But the program needs more video-RAM as a regular pictureviewer. Datatypes are required for decoding..

In version 0.6 a lot of minor errors are fixed, among others is a Drag'n Drop support, mouse-blanking and a alphanumerical sort added. Also the 90°-turn will be rejected by a change between files.

Download: warpview.lha (33 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)

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14.Nov.2005
ANN (Webseite)


 Soundplayer: PlayOGG 3.4 released
PlayOGG is a soundplayer for following formates e.g. OGG Vorbis, MP3, MPEG, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA and SID

Version 3.4 includes a lot of fixed errors, a actual documentation and the support of more ADPCM-variants and for this a special progress indication. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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14.Nov.2005
Richard H. Poser II. (E-Mail)


 Instant Messenger: AmigAIM-Betaversion 0.9454 released
Linked to the header is the betaversion 0.0454 of the Instand Messenger AmigAIM. Now it's possible to deactivated the Program-end-Requester. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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14.Nov.2005
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


 Workbench-Clon: Scalos 41.2
A new beta.version of the Workbench replacment Scalos for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS is now released. All changes are listed in the History.

AmigaOS 3: ScalosBeta_41.2_68K.lha (1,8 MB)
MorphOS: ScalosBeta_41.2_MOS.lha (2,2 MB) (cg) (Translation: aj)

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14.Nov.2005



 Aminet-Uploads til 13.11.2005
Aminet-Uploads since our last news report: 
StarAm_Plan.lha              biz/misc    848K  OS3  Spreadsheet, V2.3,OS 3.0+, 68000 CPU
StarAm_Plan881.lha           biz/misc    842K  OS3  Spreadsheet, V2.3,OS 3.0+, needs FPU
ctorrent.lha                 comm/tcp     60K  OS3  BitTorrent Client For Amiga
grp_0divide.lha              demo/aga    130K  OS3  ZeroDivide - 64Kb AGA Intro by gRp
grp_0dividermx.lha           demo/aga     55K  OS3  ZeroDivideRmx - 52Kb AGA Intro by gRp
beegeez.lha                  dev/basic     6K  GEN  Short examples of using some devices and
clipit.lha                   dev/c       264K  VAR  ClipIt V2 GUI for clipboard.device src i
expat-ppc.lha                dev/c       1.2M  OS4  Expat C library for parsing XML
cppboost.lha                 dev/misc    5.8M  OS4  Boost C++ libraries
subversion-1.1.4.lha         dev/misc    6.6M  VAR  Revision control system, successor to RC
amon.lha                     dev/moni     23K  GEN  AMON hex monitor (Pascal source)
sysspeeda3000.zip            dev/moni      1K  OS3  SysSpeed Module: A3000/CyberstormMKII/Cy
alcatraz_iq.lha              game/demo   391K  OS3  Alcatraz' IQ Engine (3D Engine)
landofgenesis_demo.zip       game/demo   2.8M  OS3  Land of Genesis (Demo)
njam_mos.lha                 game/jump   1.4M  MOS  Full featured cross-platform pacman-like
PacMan05.lha                 game/jump   1.2M  OS4  PacMan 05
scummvm_tools-aos4.lha       game/misc   822K  OS4  SCUMMVM Tools for use with SCUMM games.
magx-mos.lha                 game/text   377K  MOS  text adventures compiler
scrambly.lha                 game/think  208K  OS4  puzzle game - port of a cellphone game
mencoder.lha                 gfx/edit    3.1M  OS4  MEncoder for OS4
shim-src.lha                 gfx/show     13K  GEN  C Source of shim, a CLI image viewer
d_WinUAE.lha                 hard/drivr    5K  OS3  German keymap for WinUAE
vbamuigui.lha                misc/emu     14K  OS4  VisualBoy Advance MUI GUI
BA_Tracks.lha                mods/blkha  194K  GEN  4 PT (2 channel) mods by blakkhar
Beat_for_my_sweet_remix.lha  mods/blkha  2.0M  GEN  DBM remix by blakkhar
CantUCremix.lha              mods/blkha  131K  GEN  DBM remix by blakkhar
KDA.lha                      mods/blkha  860K  GEN  DBM by blakkhar
MimiInHouse_Mix.lha          mods/blkha   46K  GEN  PT mod by blakkhar
OK.lha                       mods/blkha  570K  GEN  DBM by blakkhar
Spectrum-One.lha             mods/blkha    5K  GEN  PT mod by blakkhar
ruidos nuevos 4.mp3          mods/mpg    3.6M  GEN  Song by Diezi7
atmosfear_stuermera.zip      mods/xm     450K  GEN  Realms of Atmosfear (XM Module)
breakthesilen_stuermera.zip  mods/xm     185K  GEN  Break the Silence (XM Module)
cybericalwar_stuermera.zip   mods/xm     460K  GEN  Cyberical Wargames (XM Module)
redalert_stuermera.zip       mods/xm     477K  GEN  Red Alert (XM Module)
ADPCM_dec.lha                mus/misc     25K  OS3  Decoder for Christian Buchner's ADPCM pa
freedb_copytracks.lha        mus/misc     11K  GEN  ARexx script for FreeDB to copy CD track
playOGG.lha                  mus/play    986K  OS3  Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
snowyhills-panorama.jpg      pix/3dani   268K  GEN  Snowy Hills (Computergenerated Panorama)
EVIcons.lha                  pix/icon    197K  GEN  NewIcons for Eye Viewer v1.x-2.1
EVSkullflags.lha             pix/icon     34K  GEN  Patch with Skullflags for Eye Viewer 2.1
WWorth_fincats.lha           text/edit    27K  OS3  Wordworth 3SE,4SE & 7 Finnish catalogs
mkpasswd.lha                 util/cli      8K  OS4  Small program for generating 'random' pa
wave_dt.lha                  util/dtype  113K  OS4  An OS4 native RIFF-WAVE datatype, with s
StartBar-ITA.lha             util/misc    96K  OS3  Italian version of StartBar
wbmakelink_os4.lha           util/wb      49K  OS4  A tool to make links all over your volum
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 os4depot.net: Uploads til 13.11.2005
os4depot.net uploads since our last news report: 
wave_dt.lha            dat/sou  112kb  An OS4 native RIFF-WAVE datatype, with s
pacman05.lha           gam/mis    1Mb  PacMan 05
njam.lha               gam/act    2Mb  Njam - SDL action game
mkpasswd.lha           uti/she    7kb  Small program for generating 'random' pa
wbmakelink.lha         uti/wor   48kb  A tool to make links all over your volum
freedb_copytracks.lha  aud/mis   10kb  ARexx script for FreeDB to create MP3 tr
vbamuigui.lha          emu/uti   14kb  VisualBoy Advance MUI GUI
scrambly.lha           gam/puz  208kb  puzzle game - port of a cellphone game
clipit.lha             uti/wor  264kb  ClipIt V2 GUI for clipboard.device src i
mencoder.lha           vid/edi    3Mb  MEncoder for OS4
boost.lha              dev/lib    5Mb  Boost C++ libraries
expat-ppc.lha          dev/lib    1Mb  Expat C library for parsing XML
scummvm_tools.lha      gam/adv  821kb  SCUMMVM Tools for use with SCUMM games.
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14.Nov.2005
Alinea Computer (ANF)


 ALINEA Computer introduces itself to the public
Wehrheim, Germany, the 14th of november 2005.

Alinea Computer is proud of presenting itself as a new company for Amiga-Software. We are an enterprise which concentrates it's work mainly on the development and the distribution of AmigaOS 4 applications and games. Besides, we offer support services like CD production, webdesign and dataprint. The following Amiga-Software is now available:

ANotice 2 - a memo programme

ANotice 2 is a memo programme for your workbench. It will help you to manage your notes, dates, to-do-lists or other important information. You can easily and fast change the notice and export it into different text-formats. ANotice 2 can manage up to 13 notes and each note can be designed individually with 13 different background and text- colors, 7 textures, different fonts and 4 text attributes.

Besides the large reaction-prefs which can controll all functions, ANotice 2 includes a network-function with client-server-programme, so that distributing a to-do-list in an enterprise can easily be done.

ANotice 2 was programmed as a commodity and runs totaly system friendly. It operates on each Amiga with at least AmigaOS 4.0. You do not need any other libraries or additional programmes.

ANotice 2 is delivered by E-Mail and costs 5,95 Euro only.

AmiPhoto - a quick and comfortable photo-manager

AmiPhoto is a photo album for your digital photos and pictures. It's easy handling and attractive GUI will convince you. You can manage up to half a million pictures in 500 albums at the most. You can show the photos on the surface or by multiview. Because of a direct support of the Amiga OS4.0 datatype-system, it is possible to use all picture-formats which exist as datatype. AmiPhoto can further select and show the EXIF-dates of your digital photos.

For adapting perfectly on your workbench-skin, AmiPhotos uses it's own Bitmap-skin-system. The 17 skins you find on your CD will help you to style your AmiPhoto surface. You can certainly create your own skins. We would be proud to present your skin on our website. AmiPhoto is programmed totaly system friendly. It supports the application library and does not need any additional libraries.

AmiPhoto is delivered an CD and costs just 19,95 Euro.

Freeware

The main ambition of Alinea Computer is to support the Amiga market. That's the reason why we will continue releasing programmes free of charge, so that the existing lack of Amiga-Software can be repaired. We hope you can use our software and we would be happy to hear some feedback concerning our products.

You'll find more information on our website. You can buy all our products in our Alinea-Shop. As a dealer, please contact us via this e-mail.

We would be glad to welcome you as a new customer! (cg) (Translation: cg)

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13.Nov.2005
ANN (Web page)


 OpenPCI: PciTool provides information on installed PCI cards
PciTool by Marian Guc is available in versions for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS, and provides information on installed PCI cards on a system equipped with the openpci.library. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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13.Nov.2005
Thorsten Passow (ANF)


 Spreadsheet: StarAm Plan 2.3
Thorsten Passow discloses the completion of version 2.3 of his spreadsheet StarAm Plan. Changes compared to version 2.24:
  • almost all chart types can be created using the graphics menu now. This includes the superpostion auf different charts. A requester pops up first, now, to request the most important settings.
  • the error messages of the commands in the menus edit and format contain more information and give you different choices in some cases now. The commands will be executed incompletely if this makes sense now.
  • the data in the clipboard can be inserted as complete row or column if desired
  • it is possible to insert references to other worksheets or layers in a formular by mouse now
  • the options empty and zeros are supported by all chart types but the 2d area chart now
  • the feature provided by XPK to save worksheets encrypted is better supported now
  • the autosave function has been improved
  • a lot of further improvements
  • many bugs fixed
  • registered users can get the german manual as PDF file if desired now
    • [sic]

A complete list of changes is part of the archive, which is available for download under the title link. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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13.Nov.2005
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Status Report: Schlachtfeld Phase II - Unit development
The makers of the strategy game "Schlachtfeld Phase II" deliver a further short insight into the current state of developments:

Stefan Jurisch has taken over the new development of the units für Schlachtfeld Phase II, based on the designs by Edgar Leidig. The destroyer, as the first unit, has received its last grinding for the time being, and can be surveyed on the page of Stefan Jurisch (title link).

Under the Destroyer Gallery item, the development of the unit is illustrated with 19 pictures in total.

But the final version of the unit will only be released in the course of the first half of the coming year. For a start, the development of the next unit (out of 42 in total) is moved on to. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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12.Nov.2005
Bill Buck & Raquel Velasco (Blog)


 Japanese Pegasos web page established for developers and users
Under the address pegasosppc.jp, registered by Genesi, a Pegasos web page is now also available in the native language for Japanese developers and users. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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12.Nov.2005
Paul J. Beel (ANF)


 AROS: Interview with Michal Schulz (English)
Paul J. Beel has carried out an interview with AROS developer Michal Schulz within the scope of his blog "The AROS Show." Herein, among other things, in addition to his personal career as programmer, he also describes what AROS lacks most desperately at present, in his opinion: that is particularly a better documentation for developers, reportedly, in addition to more drivers as well as a complete compiler toolchain.

Michael Schulz has contributed, among other things, the native bootability on x86 systems, the first versions of the trackdisk.device and the ide.device, a new ata.device, as well as a range of drivers, to AROS. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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11.Nov.2005
Pegasos.org (Webseite)


 MorphOS: Patch for reactivating the network chips after using Linux
There is a patch called Via-Wakeup for all Pegasos users who use MorphOS as well as Linux 2.6.9 or higher which reactivates the Via Rhine-network chip under MorphOS after usinf Linux.

Copy the patch to the MorphOS directory SYS:C and start it before you use a network progrmm. It is recommended to start Via-Wakeup with the help of the user-startup.

Download: via-wakeup.lha (13 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Nov.2005
Grasshopper LLC (E-Mail)


 AmigaOS 4: New beta versions of PageStream 4.1 and 5.0
According to Deron Kazmaier from Grasshopper there are new beta versions of the DTP program PageStream for AmigaOS 4.

Loading, Saving, editing and printing documents is already possible and all other remaining PageStream bugs concerns Interface/MUI. Please have a look at the Readme file. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Nov.2005
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


 Beta testers for Prometheus PCI-Board wanted
For the new firmware of the Prometheus pci board (which allows full pci dma at all four pci slots of the Prometheus and 100MBit / for the first time with it) E3B is urgently looking for beta testers.

Interested people should possibly live in Germany (headword: postage costs), own a functional amiga system and a Prometheus (firmware revision doesn't matter), run dma cards (like 100MBit RTL8139, usb NEC) in their system and should have a tolerable knowledge of it.

Anybody who wants to assist bringing the Prometheus board one important step further, can contact Michael Böhmer atE-Mail. (ps) (Translation: ts)

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10.Nov.2005
PPCNUX (homepage)


 Test report: 3D shooter under MorphOS with different graphics cards (Update)
Under the title link PPCNUX performs a detailed test of Morphos' suitability for 3D shooters with the use of different graphics cards.

Ports of Quake I-III were tested on a Pegasos II/G4 with the graphics cards Radeon 9200SE, Voodoo 3 3500TV and Radeon 9000 Pro All in Wonder.

Conclusion: "All games ran smoothly and without trouble - except the fatal try to set a 1600x1200 gaming resolution with the Voodoo 3."

Update: (08:33, 11.11.05, snx)
The test report has been translated into the English language meanwhile, thus the title link has been changed accordingly. (snx) (Translation: ts)

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09.Nov.2005
ANN (Webseite)


 Soundplayer: PlayOGG 3.3 released
PlayOGG is a sound player for OGG Vorbis, MP3, MPEG, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, SID and some more module and sound format files.

Version 3.3 circumpasses a problem of different sensitivity for wrong positive identifications if the alternative mpega.library clone is used. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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09.Nov.2005



 MorphOS: ezTCP 0.13, 7zip 4.29, Antiword 0.36.1

ezTCP 0.13

Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin has released alpha version 0.13 of the PPC native TCP/IP stack ezTCP. It fixes kown bugs of the predecent version.

Thanks to a hint by Frank Mariak AmiSSL should work now, too. Also the functions MiamiIsOnline() and MiamiOnOffline() have been implemented now which should are needed by YAM to work properly.

The DHCP implementation has been started from scratch again, since the formerly planed solution was tied to too many Unix dependencies.

If you encounter problems with applications while using ezTCP please inform the author or have a look to the regarding thread at the MorphZone.

Download page

7zip 4.29

7zip is a file compressor with a high compression ratio. Four bugs from the recent version 4.27 have been removed.

Download: 7zip_4.29_mos.lha (1,1 MB)

Antiword 0.36.1

Antiword is a tool to convert Word documents to either plain Text, AdobePDF, PostScript or XML/DocBook.

With version 0.35 Word documents may be converted to "formated" texts with a marked *bold*, /italic/ and _underlined_ words. Additionally the analysis of tables and support for the cyrillic alphabet has been improved.

Download: antiword_0.36.1.lha (258 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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09.Nov.2005
Pegasos.org (Website)


 Linux: "Introduction to Smart Cards" - The ODW run by Gentoo
Pieter van den Abeele has written an English article which gives an introdruction to the use of Smart Cards with Gentoo Linux on the Open Desktop Workstation (ODW).

For the report an Athena SCS ASEDrive IIIe Smart Card reader was used, it is teh same model which is shipped by Genesi together with ODW. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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07.Nov.2005
ANN (Webseite)


 MorphOS: New Screenshots from KHTML-porting progress
Linked to the header are four actual screenshots from development progress of the KHTML-Port for MorphOS. Among other thinks now are several Codepages supported, e.g. Unicode.

Also on the AmiZaduszki Event in Krakow the KHTML.library was presented. (Pictures). (snx) (Translation: aj)

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07.Nov.2005
AROS-Exec (website)


 Team AROS: Bounty #33 completed (Backporting of MorphOS CLI commands)
Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin has completed Team AROS Bounty #33. It's aim has been the backporting of the improved CLI commands from MorphOS. The amount of the bounty, donated by Neil Cafferkey, has been 100 US-Dollar. (snx)

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07.Nov.2005
Sven Dröge (ANF)


 Stock excange software proBonds V2.20
Today the Version 2.2 of the Stock excange software proBonds was released. The author did't have a MorphOS or AmigaOS 4 System, so he ask special for Errormessages on this systems.

Major changes:
  • Windows by adding of information are reduced.
  • ISIN as Identificationsfeature for Objectes added
  • Several gui corrections added
  • Objecteditor & Exchangeindexeditor are not longer modally
  • Several items are corrected on the graphical user interface
  • Statistics are now shown graphical
  • Reimplementation of a simple printfunction
  • A lot of minor details are improved by the constructive help of the betatester. Many thanks of the author at this point.
For the next vision a improved depotmanager with better handling and more functions, e.g. funds,is planed. Also the implemtation of a graphical display for depots is a target. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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07.Nov.2005
Golem.de (Webseite)


 Zeta: yellowTab conside a PowerPC-support
Linked to the header yellowTab, developer of BeOS-follower Zeta, shows his plans for the future.

So makes the change of the compiler to GCC&nbsü:4 for the next release of the Operationsystem a PowerPC-Version possible - which is interessting for yellowTab and the Open source-port Haiku too. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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07.Nov.2005
MorphZone (Download-area)


 MorphOS: ezTCP 0.12 released
Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin released the Alphaversion 0.12 of the PPC-nativen TCP/IP-Stacks ezTCP. For compatible reasons is a excange of the miami.library included - further is for the next versions a implementation of the Miami-Panel-API intended.

Changes:
  • IP-Fragmentationssourcecodes replaced with a new sourcecode of BSD-Version 4.4
  • Replacement of miami.library added - now is the compatibility to TCP/IP-Stack Miami official given, but not all functions are supported; please inform the author if programs are not working and the message "Function not implemented" is shown at Syslog
  • Graphical Syslog-viewer ezSysLog as replacement for the Syslog-CLI-window
  • Improved Startnet-Skript
Known Problems:
  • Crash from ezTCP, if it will be stop with running Syslog-viewer.
  • The Button "Log level" from Syslog-viewer is without no effected
The Alphaversion 0.12 needs incase of the major changes more tests. The implemention of DHCP is in according to a estimation of the author to 70% finished. The workprogress at the configurationeditor is started now.

In case of problems with ezTCP and third party programs inform the author or ask at the MorphZone Forum Thread. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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07.Nov.2005
IOSPIRIT GmbH (ANF)


 IOSPIRIT GmbH: PayPal now supported
Felix Schwarz writes:

"Our express shop does now also accept payments via PayPal.

With the addition of PayPal to the repertoire of possible methods of payment, we are realising a frequently expressed wish of our customers. Already previously our customers could choose between pre-payment via bank transfer and cash as well as a range of creditcards, namely Visa, Mastercard/Eurocard and American Express.

By supporting PayPal, new and interesting possibilities are created, especially for our international customers. Through PayPal, bank transfers and direct debits without high fees (or any at all) are now available in many countries.

You can learn more about PayPal at http://www.paypal.com/". (cg)

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07.Nov.2005



 os4depot.net: Uploads til 06.11.2005
os4depot.net uploads since our last report: 
libablit.lha       dev/lib    2Mb  Alpha Channel Blit Library
nesdevtools.lha    emu/uti   74kb  NES Development Graphics Tools
romsearcher.lha    emu/uti  227kb  RomSearcher
warpview.lha       gra/vie   31kb  A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
amipcb.lha         off/cad  572kb  PCB vectorial electronics program
rockbeat.lha       aud/tra    1Mb  Create drumming tracks and export them a
asp2php.lha        dev/web  264kb  asp to php converter
bmp2ico.lha        gra/con    5kb  bmp 2 ico converter
ringtonetools.lha  uti/mis  164kb  Helps in the creation of ringtones
miniamp.lha        aud/mis  855kb  A Small Graphical Interface for AmigaAmp
abc-shell.lha      dev/uti  530kb  Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell
xnet-rss.lha       net/new    1Mb  Native AOS4.0 RSS News Reader
coreutils-bin.lha  dev/uti    4Mb  GNU core utilities
coreutils-src.lha  dev/uti    8Mb  GNU core utilities (source)
ularn.lha          gam/adv  501kb  Ularn
universe-one.lha   dem/sce    5Mb  Universe, #One: Geometry (W3D demo).
scummvm.lha        gam/adv    3Mb  Point-and-Click adventure interpreter
libusb.lzx         lib/mis   72kb  libusb port for OS4
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07.Nov.2005



 Aminet-Uploads til 06.11.2005
Aminet-Uploads since our last report: 
xnet-rss.lha                 comm/news   1.3M  OS4  Native AOS4.0 RSS News Reader
facts.lha                    comm/tcp    199K  OS3  NTP clock time synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
asp2php-mos.lha              comm/www    125K  MOS  ASP to PHP converter.
asp2php.lha                  comm/www    265K  OS4  asp to php converter
bmp2ico.lha                  comm/www      6K  OS4  bmp 2 ico converter
beegeez.lha                  dev/basic     5K  GEN  Short examples of using some devices and
SFinfo.lha                   dev/basic    11K  OS3  sndfile.library dev kit for Blitz
libablit.lha                 dev/c       2.4M  OS4  Alpha Channel Blit Library
coreutils-bin.lha            dev/gg      4.6M  OS4  GNU core utilities
coreutils-src.lha            dev/gg      8.2M  OS4  GNU core utilities
France.lha                   docs/hyper   55M  GEN  La France par monts et par vaux : An "en
fourmaze_demo.lha            game/actio  301K  OS3  Pacman Clone
ularn.lha                    game/actio  501K  OS4  Ultra Larn, dungeon game in Hack or Mori
WoodenBars.lha               game/demo    52K  OS3  Simple bars game for all the PAL AMIGAs
scummvm-0.8.0.lha            game/misc   2.4M  MOS  Adventure game engine
scummvm.lha                  game/misc   3.3M  OS4  Point-and-Click adventure interpreter
scummvm_tools-mos.lha        game/misc   616K  MOS  SCUMMVM tools for use with SCUMMVM games
WarpView.lha                 gfx/show     31K  OS4  A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
551conv_asm.lha              misc/emu     10K  GEN  Source code for 551conv
NESDevTools_AOS4.lha         misc/emu     74K  OS4  NES Development Graphics Tools
palmuae0.9.zip               misc/emu    506K       PalmUAE
RomSearcher_AOS4.lha         misc/emu    227K  OS4  RomSearcher
amipcb_1.11.lha              misc/sci    573K  OS4  PCB vectorial electronics program
digifilter-1.0.lha           misc/sci     53K  MOS  Digital FIR filter design software
rockbeat.lha                 mus/edit    1.6M  OS4  Create drumming tracks and export them a
ringtonetools.lha            mus/misc    135K  OS3  Convert and create ringtones/logos for m
Eagleplayer2.04-Sources.zip  mus/play    2.0M  GEN  Source code for Eagleplayer 2.04 as foun
Eagleplayer_2.03.lha         mus/play    2.1M  OS3  Eagleplayer V2.03ß1
Eagleplayer_key.lha          mus/play      0K  GEN  Eagleplayer-keyfile for non-commercial u
wb.jpg                       pix/wb        5K  GEN  Helgis' WB!
wb2.jpg                      pix/wb      181K  GEN  Modified Helgis' Zami Theme BeOS Style!
MemTrailer.lha               util/boot    16K  OS3  allocates 16-96 bytes for mem-protection
abc-shell.lha                util/misc   531K  OS4  Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell
ringtonetools.lha            util/misc   165K  OS4  Helps in the creation of ringtones
NewWait4Port.lha             util/rexx    12K  VAR  Replacement for WaitForPort command
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06.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (Web page)


 AmigaOS 4: Support for sound card Terratec Phase 22
As Davy Wentzler announces, the Envy24HT-5.5-AHI-driver now supports the sound card Terratec Phase 22, too.

The card possesses both analog and digital stereo inputs and outputs, as well as MIDI-in and -out. The new driver version should be available in OS4Depot before long. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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06.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (Web page)


 Browser: Status update for Paihia development
Under the title link, a status update for the development status of Paihia was published, a browser planned for all Amiga systems.

Reportedly, the CSS engine is currently as good as done and is checked using the W3C test suite. The language parts of EcmaScript are also complete, whereas the object library is not, yet. The Document Object Model in Version Level 3, on the other hand, is implemented only to 20%.

Reportedly, all this and the source code of the Paihia Web-Engine requires less than 700 KB uncompressed, and is compiled by Visual Studio to a binary file that is only around 300 KB in size.

Grande Paihia should become a modern, small, fast and portable web browser, which fully supports XML, HTML 4, CSS 2.1, DOM Level 3 and EcmaScript 3. The browser, according to the author, is written from scratch and is based on no existing web software. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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06.Nov.2005
ANN (Web page)


 MorphOS: Descent:Freespace 2 ported (SDL version)
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has adapted Descent:Freespace 2 to MorphOS. The port is based on the SDL version by Taylor Richards.

System requirements:
  • MorphOS 1.4.x
  • 3D drivers
  • powersdl.library
  • 256 MB RAM
  • Radeon graphics card (recommended)
  • Original version of Descent:Freespace 2 (3 CD's)
Limitations:
  • Small graphical errors can appear (especially in fog)
  • No network support
  • Mods were not tested
  • Some keyboard commands possibly do not work correctly; should you come across such keys or key combinations, you can allocate the affected commands to other inputs via the settings (F2)
Installation:

For installation with the accompanying script, you need the original version of the game with 3 CD's. For this, copy the files from the MorphOS archive into the directory in which the game should be installed. Afterwards, start the installation script.

Download: Freespace2.lha (1.7 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)

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05.Nov.2005
Michael Suther, Webmaster amigalon5.de (ANF)


 amigalon5.de: Amiga link list
Some time ago amigalon5.de set up a top list for Amiga sites with legal and serious content. Everybody running an Amiga website may register - no matter whether it's a fan site, a retailer site, a developers site or a forum. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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05.Nov.2005
Amiga Future (Webseite)


 AmigaOS 4: RockBEAT 1.2.1
RockBEAT is a simple software drum machine for AmigaOS 4 by James Carroll. It is a tool for musicians that allows you to create drumming tracks.

It can create multiple tracks, each one being 4x 4/4 measures with 16th notes. You can save individual tracks as WAV files, or the whole thing as one big song. You can drop in your own 16 Bit 44100 Hz PCM WAV samples in the drumsamples folder if you like.

Version 1.2.1 fixes an important bug. The WAV files that were generated by RockBEAT had an incorrect header value.

The demo is restricted to 10 minutes. If you like it, you can purchase a keyfile from the author for 15 US-Dollar. (snx)

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05.Nov.2005
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 MorphOS: DigiFilter 1.0
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has released DigiFilter 1.0 today - a tool for designing digital FIR filters ("finite impulse response").

Unlike other applications limited to typical lowpass, highpass, bandpass and bandstop frequency responses, or limited set of frequency points, DigiFilter features graphical frequency response editor.

The program uses windowing design technique with rectangle, triangle, Blackman and Kaiser windows up to 2048 taps.

Designed responses may be stored to file and loaded later. Set of tap multipliers for a designed filter may be saved to a text file as a set of floating point numbers.

Download: digifilter-1.0.lha (53 KB) (snx)

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05.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)


 WinUAE: Games frontend Lemonade 0.9.8 public beta
Lemon Amiga has released a public beta of Lemonade, a new Windows based frontend for WinUAE. Lemonade allows both newcomers and veterans of Amiga emulation to play games more comfortable than ever before - no more setting up configurations, each game is pre-configured.

Lemonade's main features include:
  • Games Encyclopedia - Play games at the click of a button, save high scores, view game notes and cheats and more.
  • Games Scanner - Scans your Amiga collection for any recognised game files and automatically add them to the encyclopedia.
  • Easy to setup and use - Everything is designed to be as comfortable to use as possible.
  • Pre-written configurations for Amiga 500, 600, 1200 and CD32 models.
  • Custom configuration manager - Import your own WinUAE configurations.
  • Emulator Quickstart - Start anything in WinUAE in seconds.
(snx)

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04.Nov.2005
amiga.org (Webseite)


 CommodoreTalk.com: New forum for Commodore and Amiga fans
Under commodoretalk.com there is a new, English forum for Commodore- and Amiga fans. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Nov.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Amiga Future: Issue 57 (November/December 2005) published
Some topics of the current issue:
  • Apache for Amiga
  • MorphOS on PowerUP
  • Amiga Forever 2005 Premium Edition
  • Wild Flyin (with interview)
  • Battle of Wesnot
  • Turson
  • TroikaNG
  • Amiga 1200 on car
  • Games Convention
  • Programmer-Workshop
Full versions on the CD:
  • MediaPoint
  • XiPaint
  • Med Soundstudio 1.03c
  • Bandit Mania
  • Boppin
  • Tomcat
  • Willy Castle Dreams
  • Winning Post
  • Technology 2
  • Psycho Squares
  • Desert Apache
You can get the Amiga Future directly under the title link as well as at APC&TCP and diverse Amiga dealers. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Nov.2005
AROS-Exec (Forum)


 Feelin: Demonstration videos to alphablending and XML support
Olivier Laviale has published two short movies about his Open-source project Feelin which demonstrate the alphablending feature and the XML supprt. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Nov.2005
Amiga Future (homepage)


 Event: Photos of Alchimie 5 (France)
Under the title link you will find photos of the Alchimie 5 which was held from 29th to 31th of Oktober in Tain l'Hermitage (France). At the event, spreaded over the system, among other things Mac OS and Linux were present next to AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (Foto) . (snx) (Translation: ts)

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03.Nov.2005
ANN (homepage)


 Amiga user's map of the world based on Frappr
Under the title link amiga users of all variants can register themselves on a map of the world based on Google Maps. The system, where Frappr is based on, does not work with amiga browsers. The registration of not present cities can be applied to Frappr with the information of the degree of longitude and latitude. (snx) (Translation: ts)

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02.Nov.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)


 Event: TV report about the Belgian Commodore show online
The TV report about the Belgian Commodore show (amiga-news.de reported), that has been produced by the local TV station Ring-TV in Brussels, is now available online as well. Its length is 2:06 minutes.

Download: Default.wmv (16 MB) (snx)

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02.Nov.2005
OS-News (Webseite)


 Taking OS features for granted: A comparison between RISC OS and AmigaOS
At the title link, Chris Williams continues his comparison between RISC OS and AmigaOS. Following the 'political' view of the 1st part, the author is looking at the operating systems' features now. (snx)

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02.Nov.2005
David Brunet (ANF)


 New articles at the Obligement website (French)
The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the previous two monthes:
  • Amiga and MorphOS news of september/october 2005
  • Interview with Frédéric Imbert (retailler "Axe-Z")
  • Interview with Nicolas Det (MorphOS developer)
  • Review of Monkey Island 3
  • Review of Foobillard
  • Review of Hu-Go
  • Tutorial: how to use XAD and Voodoo-X
  • Tutorial: upload to Aminet (update)
  • Tutorial: TVPaint - creation of an electric socket
  • Article about the Sony AIBO ERS-7
  • Article about HTTP codes
  • The Amiga quizz
(snx)

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31.Oct.2005



 MorphOS: Virtual Grand Prix 2 (Update)
Paolo 'the Alien' Cattani and Alassoft ported Virtual Grand Prix 2 to MorphOS. The full MorphOS version is now available for download free of charge for personal use, as a thank you to the whole MorphOS community.

The MorphOS version has been made possible thanks to a free ODW development system from Genesi/Freescale. It requires MorphOS 1.4.5, the 3D Update and a supported gfx board.

Virtual Grand Prix 2 is a modern open-wheeled racecar simulator by Paolo Cattani and his staff at Alas Soft. It is the sequel of the original Virtual Grand Prix developed for the Amiga range of computers.

VGP2 uses industrial standards for the simulation of the mechanical components of the car, thus achieving a very high degree of realism in the handling of the virtual one-seater.

The MorphOS version of Virtual Grand Prix 2 is free for personal use and can be downloaded from the title link. However, if you think that the software deserves it, you can make a small donation for it. According to the authors, you can consider it as a kind of "sequel-ware" - i.e. if they collect some money, they might port any further development of the game or sequels to MorphOS as well.

Update: (19:00, 01.11.05, snx)
Andrea Maniero points out that the MorphOS version is compatible with additional tracks that have been created for the Mac and Win versions (you just need to edit the VGP2/config/circuiti.config file accordingly), and with the update pack that gives names, models and textures from the real 2004 F1 championship.

The additional packs can be found at the official VGP2 website. For further information, you can also check the old threads in the RaceSimCentral VGP2 forum. (snx)

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31.Oct.2005
Duke (ANF)


 Gamedatabase "Amiga Games That Weren't" launched
The Gamedatabase "Amiga Games That Weren't" is now avalaible. Aim of this page is, similar the older page Games That Weren't 64 carry informationen and if possible providing downloads of never released Amiga-games.

The first entry is Son Shu Shi , a Jump'n'Run like Super Wonderboy. Enabled was this by a friend of the coder and Software Preservation Society (Disk Mastering) and Codetapper (WHDLoad-Install). (snx) (Translation: aj)

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31.Oct.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)


 Event: Picture of the belgian Commodore-Show
Linked to this header are pictures of the belgian Commodore-Show, happened on last sunday in Taverne Schettenberg in Affligem.

The local Brussels TV channel Ring TV and the belgian newspaper "Het Nieuwsblad" were on site. (snx)

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31.Oct.2005
Golem.de (Webseite)


 Golem.de: Report of ScummVM 0.8.0 mentioned AmigaOS 4
With the header "ScummVM 0.8.0 - Monkey Island for PSP, PS2 and AmigaOS 4" reports Golem.de about the up to date version of the Interpreter for LucasArts-Games, which includes a better game support and a better gui. (snx) (Translation: aj)

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30.Oct.2005
Pegasos.org (Web page)


 Pegasos: Rescue CD Mupper 1.0 Xtreme Makeover Edition
The rescue CD Mupper for the Pegasos is now available in Version 1.0 as "Xtreme Makeover Edition".

In addition to the supported filesystems FAT, VFAT, ReiserFS, XFS, EXT3 and SFS, the contained programs meanwhile comprise, apart from Parted and Midnight Commander, X.org, Mozilla Firefox, QTParted, GTK2+ toolkits, QT and the complete GCC, too, for instance.

Moreover, the Kudzu Hardware Detection and WiFi support for suitable PCI cards based on Atmel, MadWifi and Prism chips are found on the CD. Mupper is based on the Gentoo-Linux 2.6.13 kernel.

Should you like Mupper, you can grant the author, Mikael Karlsson, a small donation via PayPal.

Download: mupper-v1.0.iso (331 MB) (snx) (Translation: cad)

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30.Oct.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Amiga Cheats Database revised extensively
The German Amiga Cheats Database was completely revised in structure and visuals, whereby a simpler usability was achieved. Currently, cheats for over 2500 games are found here. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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30.Oct.2005
Holger Kremss (ANF)


 Emulator : German language DLL for WinUAE 1.1.1
Dr. Creep from the "German Amiga Community" Forum has created a German language DLL for WinUAE 1.1.1.

Direct download: WinUAE_German(1.1.1.0).rar (20 KB) (cg) (Translation: cad)

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30.Oct.2005
Alfred Faust (ANF)


 AmigaOS 4: Work on BarsnPipes port started
Alfred Faust, responsible for further development of the well-known MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes, has been provided a free µA1 motherboard by Hyperion in the meantime.

Meanwhile, work was started on a port of the program, whose progress will be reported at this place. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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30.Oct.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 3D Demo Object for Blender: Gingerbread man with bones (update)
Carsten Siegner has created a demo object for the 3D renderer Blender, which illustrates how bones (so-called fittings) are built into the gingerbread man from the Blender tutorial.

In addition to other diverse platforms, Blender is also available as a port for MorphOS.

Using the bones, you can animate the gingerbread man arbitrarily freely. In the existing demo object, only bones for arms and legs are available, however more - for the movement of the head, for instance - can be added.

The object does not possess textures yet, since it should primarily illustrate the integration of the bones.

Download: Blender-3D-demo.lha (28 KB)

Update: (10:22, 30.10.05, snx)
The related instructions in the original tutorial also exist in German. (snx) (Translation: cad)

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29.Oct.2005
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 File systems: updates of NTFS and Ext2 drivers
Marek Szyprowski released updates to his file system handlers for the New Technology Filesystem (NTFS) and the Second Extended Filesystem (Ext2) for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS.

Please read the disclaimers in the readme files - you use these beta versions on your own risk.

New in NTFS driver v0.4:
  • updated to latest Ext2FS filesystem skeleton - this adds support for removable media, handler inhibit and shutdown
  • added unicode to local charset translation (read more below)
  • minor bug fixes
New in Ext2 driver v0.20:
  • added support for software write-protection (ACTION_WRITE_PROTECT packet)
  • made cache buffers flush asynchronous - this makes all write operations a lot faster
  • fixed problem with incompatible volume names (like these containing characters '/' and ':')
  • the driver now is able to format disk and create all EXT2 filesystem structures (ACTION_FORMAT packet)
  • by default the filesystem is case insensitive, but you can change this by setting the control field in the mountlist to "CASESENSITIVE"
Download:
ext2fs_0.20.lha (92 KB)
ntfs_0.5.lha (66 KB)

Update: (08:30, 31.10.05, snx)
Meanwhile the NTFS driver has been updated to version 0.5. The updates fixes a bug which caused crashes during startup on some systems. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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28.Oct.2005
Reth (ANF)


 Hyperion: Official website to AmigaOS 4 online
Under the topic "Remember when computing was fun?" Hyperion has created an official website to AmigaOS 4 under the title link. With several articles the operating system is introduced and a short history of the Amiga is given. Additionally the "Feature Spotlight" appreciate the RAM-Disk as one of the unique feature of the AmigaOS. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Oct.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)


 Event: Local TV will cover Belgian C= and Amiga show
The local TV station Ring TV will make a report of the Belgian Commodore show. The show will be next sunday from 10:00 till 17:00 at the Taverne Schettenberg in Affligem, Belgium (near Brussels). Every Commodore fan is welcome and entrance is for free. (snx)

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28.Oct.2005
Sigbjørn Skjæret (MorphOS-ML)


 MorphOS-SDK: libnix-Update
Under the title link there is an libnix-update for developers for the MorphOS-SDK. Additional to new functions a major bug was fixed. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Oct.2005
amigamicro (Forum)


 Game database: AmigaMemo celebrates first anniversary
AmigaMemo celebrates first anniversary. Meanwhile the database contains more than 500 games, more than 400 photos, several screenshots and many background information. Because of the cooperation with "Hall Of Light" in future each title will be linked to both sites. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Oct.2005
morphos-news.de (Webseite)


 Updates for SimpleCat and R
Guido Mersmann has published version 2.17 of his Catalog-Compiler SimpleCat. Besides this there is an update of the tool "R" which creates pgraphical user-interfaces for almost each Shell-command in real-time. Both programs are available for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Oct.2005
Amiga Future (website)


 amigalon5: Database Fiasco in version 1.2 available as giftware
In the download area of amigalon5.de, a website dedicated to the amiga emulation under windows and linux , the outdated, but as giftware released version 1.2 of the database Fiasco from Nils Bandener, is available (latest shareware version on aminet: 2.2). (snx) (Translation: ts)

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27.Oct.2005
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)


 Problems when using the alternative mpega.library clone
Lorence Lombardo is pointing out a problem of release 7 of the alternative mpega.library clone (mpega_libmad.lha).

The clone library is returning false-positive validity for files which are no MPEG audio files more often than the original one (mpega_library.lha). This is causing programs such as playOGG and mpega to fail. (snx)

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26.Oct.2005
amigaworld.net (website)


 Phase5 support site: Manuals available
In appointment with DCE scans of manuals for several phase5 products are available at the inofficial Phase5 supportsite now. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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26.Oct.2005
Neo (ANF)


 AmigaOS 4: Movie player DvPlayer V0.49
With the latest version of the movie player DvPlayer a bug within the loading routine for skins has been fixed. Registered users should receive the update via email.If you are registerd user and haven't got an email please contact the author. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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26.Oct.2005
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)


 Music: Liquid Skies records #089
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 89th music package yesterday. This time there is a slow track named "Ze" by Maxus included. The regarding cover was done by DaFreak.

Information regarding the track:
  • Title: Ze
  • Artist: Maxus
  • Style: Chillout
  • Duration: 5:43
  • Format: mp3 (~154 kbps VBR)
The ziped file of 6,5 MB is available for free download at the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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26.Oct.2005
GAC (Website)


 Recorded Amiga Games: (Complete) solutions for Amiga games on video
The aim of "Recorded Amiga Games" is to provide partial or complete solutions for famous Amiga games as video files. Some videos (Quick and Silva, Giana Sisters) are available for download already. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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26.Oct.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 APC&TCP distributor of MED Soundstudio 2
APC&TCP announcing they will become the worldwide distributor for MED Soundstudio 2. That AmigaOS 4 announced product is the official successor of OctaMED Soundstudio V1.3c.

Versions for AmigaOS/68k and MorphOS are not excluded. The program is developed by Gerd Frank, the release is planed for early 2006. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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26.Oct.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


 AmigaOne: Driver for the AC97 onboard sound
Davy Wentzler acquaints, he build a working AC-97 driver for the onboard sound of he AmigaOne board with the help of Stephen Brookes.

Mainboards from recent production runs are not equiped with the Sigmatel chip, which resides left to the AGP slot, any more.

The first version of that driver is very basic and offers only replay and a CD in monitor, there is no volume setting or other functions yet, but should be added later on.

If you have an AC97 chip and are going to use the driver, the author would welcome a PayPal donation of 5 Euro.

Download: via686b_ahi.lha (10 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)

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26.Oct.2005
mikey_c (ANF)


 Print magazine: Total Amiga Magazine #22 including Troika interview
The British print magazine Total Amiga Magazine anounces for the coming issue an exclusive interview with Troika about their planed PowerPC board Amy'05.

Questions among the interview are covering board availability or the possibility to run AmigaOS 4 on the board. Issue 22 including the interview with some exclusive photos will be published in November and is to order by the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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25.Oct.2005
amigaworld.net (homepage)


 Software news: LAME v3.97 (beta), unrar v3.51, wget v1.10.2
Newer versions of some linux ports released again at amiga.sf:
  • LAME an mp3 encoder. New versions are available for AmigaOS 3 and WarpOS, sndfile.library is required.
  • Unrar extracts rar archives. New versions are available for AmigaOS 3 and WarpOS.
  • Wget downloads files via http-, https- or ftp protocols and offers numerous options e. g. automated backup of complete web appearances onto the local hard disk.
(cg) (Translation: ts)

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24.Oct.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


 Emulation: WinUAE 1.1.1 released
The Amiga-Emulator WinUAE is now avalaible in Version 1.1.1. Following Problems with Windows 9.x/ME are fixed. Furthermore is the fully SCSI-Support in SPTI-Modus (SCSI Pass-Through Interface) implemented.

Bugfixes:
  • Incorrect AF 2005 path defaults
  • Blitter freeze in CE-mode if D-channel was not enabled
  • Misc/Priority panel crash when running under Windows 9x/ME
  • Parallel port emulation (Gauntlet III)
  • Two disk emulation bugs (Xybots, Disposable Hero and others)
  • Incorrect .uae extension path if -datapath -command line parameter was used
New features:
  • Old versions of AdaptecASPI and NeroASPI are now automatically rejected: No more crashes or bluescreens under Windows 9x/ME if Windows build-in ASPI is used
  • Full SCSI device support in SPTI-mode
  • Display panel resolution and depth moved to separate select boxes
  • Disk history format changed: File name is now visible even if path is very long
Download: InstallWinUAE1110.exe (1,3 MB) (snx) (Translation: aj)

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24.Oct.2005
Eule (ANF)


 Power-Prozessoren with 64Bit, 2 Kernel, 2GHz, 5Watt
At the "Fall Processor Forum" in San Jose the new "POWER"-CPU Family was presented. They are design for a high output with a minor electricalpower consumtion.

This CPUs are SoC-Parts (System on Chip), this means all Peripherie devices, like Memory Controller, PCIe, Ethernet and I/O, are integrated. (cg) (Translation: aj)

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24.Oct.2005



 Aminet-Uploads til 23.10.2005
Here the since our last report added Aminet-uploads: 
uucp2smtp.lha                comm/tcp     11K  all  SMTP sender for UUCP spool mail jobs -- 
MakeHTMLMap.lha              comm/www    891K  OS3  The Gallery/Onlineshop Creator for Amiga
war_sot1.lha                 demo/disk   385K  OS3  "Suck on This" (Side A). by WAR
war_sot2.lha                 demo/disk   473K  OS3  "Suck on This" (Side B). by WAR
ozone-savetheearth1.zip      demo/euro   769K  OS3  save the earth #1 pack by skid/ozone
sdl_demoeffects.lha          demo/file   4.5M  OS4  14 eyecatching effects.
7days.lha                    demo/mag    4.9M  VAR  Polish mag "Seven Days" issue #1
war_mind.lha                 demo/sound  382K  OS3  "one minute mind" by WAR Oct. 2005
clockita.lha                 dev/basic    79K  OS3  Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
make-ppc.lha                 dev/c       178K  OS4  GNU make PPC
ecx_upd.lha                  dev/e       126K  VAR  E Compiler ECX. Update to 1.4.7
distcc.lha                   dev/gcc     394K  OS4  distcc distributed C/C++ compiler
chocolatecastle.lha          dev/mui      62K  MOS  Parametrized MUI custom class code gener
b5i2iso.lha                  disk/misc    28K  OS3  b5i2iso 0.4 - Convert B5I (BlindWrite) f
bin2iso.lha                  disk/misc    29K  OS3  bin2iso - Convert BIN files to ISO-9660
ccd2iso.lha                  disk/misc    34K  OS3  ccd2iso - Convert CCD (CloneCD) files to
cdi2iso.lha                  disk/misc    29K  OS3  cdi2iso - Convert CDI (DiscJuggler) file
mdf2iso.lha                  disk/misc    41K  OS3  mdf2iso - Convert MDF (Alcohol 120%) fil
MSH-1.58.lha                 disk/misc   325K  OS3  Messydos File System 1.58 - read/write p
nrg2iso.lha                  disk/misc    31K  OS3  nrg2iso 0.4 - Convert NRG (Nero) files t
pdi2iso.lha                  disk/misc    32K  OS3  pdi2iso - Convert PDI (InstantCopy) file
bubbletrain.lha              game/actio  4.6M  OS4  A clone of Worms Blast /offspring of Puz
quadromania_os4.lha          game/board  538K  OS4  Tiny board game
Liga05-06.lha                game/data    40K  all  Update of the Spanish season 2005-06 for
supertux.lha                 game/jump   7.3M  OS4  SDL platform jump'n'run like Giana Siste
syasokoban.lha               game/misc   590K  OS4  A Sokoban Clone with quite decent gfx
PBD-Install.lha              game/patch    0K  all  Patch for installing Pinball Brain Damag
sdl-fighter_os4.lha          game/shoot  2.0M  OS4  SDL-Fighter OS4
stargun.lha                  game/shoot  1.0M  OS4  Stargun is a space shooter, vertical scr
abandoned_bricks-mos.lha     game/think  2.2M  MOS  SDL cross-platform tetris-like game
masterpiece.lha              game/think  1.6M  OS4  A Columns clone
pegs.lha                     game/think  1.3M  OS4  SDL puzzle game
robotescape.lha              game/think  992K  OS4  Strange and orginal maze think and shoot
scalar.lha                   game/think   11M  OS4  Pandoras box clone , and a very good one
twin_distress.lha            game/think  3.5M  OS4  Block game with nice gfx and lots of opt
ataripac2pbm.lha             gfx/conv     33K  OS4  Atari PAC2PBM - An Image Converter
c64gfx_aos4.lha              gfx/conv    509K  OS4  C64GFX - Conv between C64 and Amiga Imag
DIYrekoIII.lha               gfx/ifx      52K  all  Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
bdancer_os4.lha              gfx/misc    345K  OS4  Make dancing images
dvplayer-demo.lha            gfx/show    575K  OS4  Video Player with skinnable GUI
WarpView.lha                 gfx/show     27K  OS4  A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
vba-ppc-amigaos-bin.lha      misc/emu    1.4M  OS4  a full featured Game Boy Advance emulato
vba-ppc-amigaos-src.lha      misc/emu    3.9M  all  a full featured Game Boy Advance emulato
adt.c                        misc/unix    78K  all  Aminet Download Tool
maquinamala.lha              mods/hardc   71K  all  30000bpm hardcore mod by TRAPOSOFT
atlantis                     mods/house  254K  all  ManFromAtlantis OctaMed song
Awen-101DreadingTheInev.mp3  mods/mpg    2.5M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-102DominionOfSgath.mp3  mods/mpg    6.3M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-103BearingDown.mp3      mods/mpg    3.7M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-104TheTriumphant.mp3    mods/mpg     11M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-105TheHunterTheHun.mp3  mods/mpg     13M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-106JourneyThroughT.mp3  mods/mpg     17M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-107NightInAnnwvyn.mp3   mods/mpg     12M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-108MomentOfJoy.mp3      mods/mpg    3.1M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-109UnderSeige.mp3       mods/mpg    6.1M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-110TheSeasOfTime.mp3    mods/mpg     12M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-111Invaders.mp3         mods/mpg    8.6M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-112TheApprentice.mp3    mods/mpg    6.4M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-113ASorcerer.mp3        mods/mpg     19M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-114AWarrior.mp3         mods/mpg    9.3M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-115Wolves.mp3           mods/mpg    6.6M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-201AQuestAlone.mp3      mods/mpg    4.9M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-202AFoolsWish.mp3       mods/mpg    8.4M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-203BindingRunes.mp3     mods/mpg    6.4M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-204AllHopeIsLost.mp3    mods/mpg    8.3M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-205TurnedToStone.mp3    mods/mpg    8.8M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-206Game.mp3             mods/mpg    3.0M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-207CreepingMagic.mp3    mods/mpg    1.8M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-208ACompanion.mp3       mods/mpg    4.6M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-209DarkWorld.mp3        mods/mpg    2.3M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-210TheBlacksmith.mp3    mods/mpg    3.7M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-211CuChullain.mp3       mods/mpg    4.5M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-212DarknessFalls.mp3    mods/mpg    3.7M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-213Ratatosk.mp3         mods/mpg    5.2M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-214GainingSadness.mp3   mods/mpg    3.7M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-215DaughterOfTheBo.mp3  mods/mpg    3.7M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-216FlowOfMadness.mp3    mods/mpg    4.9M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-217LikeAnts.mp3         mods/mpg    3.5M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-218RedBoar.mp3          mods/mpg    4.9M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-219Prehistoric.mp3      mods/mpg    5.5M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-220InvisibleImposs.mp3  mods/mpg     12M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-301TheMarket.mp3        mods/mpg    2.4M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-302Lapwing.mp3          mods/mpg    4.0M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-303NoRelief.mp3         mods/mpg    3.6M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-304StrangePerspect.mp3  mods/mpg    3.0M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-305ByStealthPartI.mp3   mods/mpg    3.2M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-306ByStealthPartII.mp3  mods/mpg    3.7M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-307IntoTheHallOfK.mp3   mods/mpg    3.3M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-308SlingingStone.mp3    mods/mpg    2.4M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-309TheTest.mp3          mods/mpg    3.7M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-310Warlord.mp3          mods/mpg    2.4M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-311WaitingForDawn.mp3   mods/mpg    3.9M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-312BySea.mp3            mods/mpg    3.3M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-313Wardrums.mp3         mods/mpg    2.0M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-314Pursued.mp3          mods/mpg    4.0M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
Awen-315Assault.mp3          mods/mpg    1.3M  all  Instrumental Heavy Metal albums created 
arnold.lha                   mus/misc    1.6M  OS4  Useless utility which was used in radio 
playOGG.lha                  mus/play    986K  OS3  Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
sc68.lha                     mus/play    1.1M  OS4  Plays Atari ST and Amiga music (.sc68 fo
SimpleSamples.lha            mus/play     43K  OS3  Little musical toy for PAL AMIGAs
stsound.lha                  mus/play    188K  OS4  Plays .ym music files (Amstrad, Atari...
gbposterpdf.lha              pix/art     134M  all  AMIGA -Get Boinged!- poster for printing
Awen-100Nwyvre_Back.jpg      pix/illu    378K  all  Cover for Heavy Metal album by Awen
Awen-100Nwyvre_Front.jpg     pix/illu    299K  all  Cover for Heavy Metal album by Awen
Awen-100Nwyvre_Inside.jpg    pix/illu    349K  all  Cover for Heavy Metal album by Awen
Awen-200CollachD_Back.jpg    pix/illu    308K  all  Cover for Heavy Metal album by Awen
Awen-200CollachD_Front.jpg   pix/illu    239K  all  Cover for Heavy Metal album by Awen
Awen-200CollachD_Inside.jpg  pix/illu    267K  all  Cover for Heavy Metal album by Awen
Awen-300DrumadoirBack.jpg    pix/illu    298K  all  Cover for Heavy Metal album by Awen
Awen-300DrumadoirFront.jpg   pix/illu    274K  all  Cover for Heavy Metal album by Awen
Awen-300DrumadoirInside.jpg  pix/illu    278K  all  Cover for Heavy Metal album by Awen
totalchaosagav5_review.jpg   pix/misc    177K  all  Review of the game Total Chaos AGA
gnu-sed.lha                  util/gnu    154K  OS4  Shell based text stream editor
avcodec_lib.lha              util/libs   665K  OS4  Audio and Video codec library for OS4
dca_codec.lha                util/libs   284K  OS4  A simple, cross-platform CD playing libr
birdie2000.lha               util/wb     112K  OS3  Configure the windowborder from the work
ClipIt.lha                   util/wb      93K  OS3  Access clipboard via GUI
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23.Oct.2005



 Aros Archives: Uploads up to 23.10.2005
Here are the newly added uploads at aros-archives since our last news item: 
luautilities.i3861.lha  dev/lib    2kb  Lua Utilities Library
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23.Oct.2005



 os4depot.net: Uploads up to 23.10.2005
Here are the newly added uploads at os4depot.net since our last news item: 
stargun.lha          gam/act    1Mb  Stargun is a space shooter, vertical scr
pegs.lha             gam/puz    1Mb  SDL puzzle game
scalar.lha           gam/puz   11Mb  Pandoras box clone , and a very good one
twin_distress.lha    gam/puz    3Mb  Block game with nice gfx and lots of opt
ataripac2pbm.lha     gra/con   32kb  Atari PAC2PBM - An Image Converter
warpview.lha         gra/vie   27kb  A fast Image Viewer using Warp3D
msxditools.lha       uti/fil   74kb  MSX Disk Image Tools
popurl.lha           uti/she    7kb  OS4 replacement for OpenURL shell comman
figlet.lha           uti/tex  319kb  Makes big ASCII Characters
arnold.lha           aud/mis    1Mb  Useless utility which was used in radio 
syasokoban.lha       gam/puz  589kb  A Sokoban Clone with quite decent gfx
distcc.lha           dev/lan  393kb  distcc distributed C/C++ compiler
make-ppc.lha         dev/uti  177kb  GNU make PPC
bubbletrain.lha      gam/puz    4Mb  A clone of Worms Blast /offspring of Puz
dca_codec.lha        aud/mis  284kb  DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder
robotescape.lha      gam/mis  992kb  Strange and orginal maze think and shoot
supertux.lha         gam/pla    7Mb  SDL platform jump 'n run like Giana Sist
masterpiece.lha      gam/puz    1Mb  A Columns clone
gnu-sed.lha          uti/she  154kb  Shell based text stream editor
sdl_demoeffects.lha  dem/mis    4Mb  14 eyecatching effects.
quadromania_os4.lha  gam/boa  537kb  Tiny board game
bdancer_os4.lha      gra/mis  345kb  Make dancing images
colem_os4.lha        emu/gam  135kb  Colem ColecoVision Emulator
sdl-fighter_os4.lha  gam/act    1Mb  A small horizontal Shoot em up
c64gfx_aos4.lha      gra/con  508kb  C64GFX - Conv between C64 and Amiga Imag
sc68.lha             aud/pla    1Mb  Plays Atari ST and Amiga music (.sc68 fo
stsound.lha          aud/pla  187kb  Plays .ym music files (Amstrad, Atari...
uips_aos4.lha        uti/fil   35kb  Universal IPS patcher - patches ROM file
dvplayer-demo.lha    vid/pla  574kb  Video Player with skinnable GUI
(cg) (Translation: cad)

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23.Oct.2005



 WHDLoad: New archives up to 23.10.2005
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your hard drive which were originally meant only for use with disks. In addition, numerous incompabilities with newer Amiga models are fixed.

The following installers have been added, improved or updated since our last update:
(cg) (Translation: cad)

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23.Oct.2005



 Games Database: 200 updates at "Hall of Light"
In the biggest database for Amiga games, the "Hall of Light", numerous entries were revised and extended. You can find a precise list of changes under the title link. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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23.Oct.2005
Steffen Nitz (ANF)


 SN-AnlagenArchiv: Current exchange rates and status report
SN-AnlagenArchiv is a manager for investment coins, and gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion. The current exchange rates for gold, silver, platinum and palladium are now available on the program homepage until 21.10.2005.

A preview of the future Version 0.55 of SN-AnlagenArchiv:
  • The two pictures for each entry of the inventory can be selected and displayed.
  • The cumulative statistics now contain an overview of collection areas (for example, China-Panda in gold or silver) for individual entries as well. Data such as quantity, metal value, auction value and the weights are displayed.
  • The global notice that is saved in the record can be edited in an external editor (such as GoldED).
(cg) (Translation: cad)

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23.Oct.2005
Sven Drieling (ANF)


 Book: "Version Control with Subversion - For Subversion 1.1"
Version control systems like CVS and Subversion are used in software development in particular. They support multiple developers working on a project at the same time, and every state of a project, that was previously saved, can be restored at any time, for example, when a new idea has turned out to be the wrong way, and then you would rather pick up from where you were a week ago.

In his journal entry, Sven Drieling describes his first experiences with Subversion, states possible applications for a version control system, and gives an account of his impressions from the online book Version Control with Subversion -For Subversion 1.1.

Subversion exists for the Amiga and for MorphOS, too. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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23.Oct.2005
anonym (ANF)


 AmigaOS 4: Warp3D picture viewer WarpView
The picture viewer WarpView uses Warp3D (and with it, the 3D hardware of your computer) for displaying pictures. The advantage lies in very fast and high-quality scalings (screenshot) that are thus possible, however, the program requires more Video-RAM than conventional picture viewers. Datatypes are used for loading the pictures. Voodoo graphics cards are not supported yet. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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23.Oct.2005
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 BeOS successor Zeta 1.1 as gratis Live-CD as well
The update to Version 1.1 of the BeOS successor Zeta improves primarily the hardware support. Thus, the system should be able to be deployed on yet more systems as a Windows alternative. There is a gratis Live-CD to try out. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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23.Oct.2005
Mario Misic (ANF)


 BBoAH: Complete outage of the German mirror
Due to a complete outage of our hoster, the German mirror of the BBoAH is not accessible at the moment. Since, therefore, no Mails can be received and sent either, it is asked to send important Mails anew when the hoster is back on the Net.

We thank you for your understanding and refer to the English main pages on amiga-hardware.com until then. (cg) (Translation: cad)

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