27.May.2005
Darren Eveland (ANF)
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RemoteDesktop client: New website
The website of the RemoteDesktop client for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS has moved
to http://www.hd-zone.com.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
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MorphOS: Software news until 27.05.2005
OpenTTD 0.4.0.1
OpenTTD is an Open-Source clone of the Microprose game called "Transport Tycoon Deluxe".
Christian Rosentreter has published an update to the newest version which fixes
some bugs concerning the network.
Link: Download site
nzbDirect 1.0
nzbDirect written by Rupert Hausberger uses diverse Web based search engines to find
and download nzb files (binaries delivered over the Usenet).
Link: Download site
Download: nzbDirect.lha (129 KB) (Readme)
BullDog 1.2
Rupert Hausberger has written BullDog which is a MorphOS program for downloading
files from the Usenet. BullDog uses the descriptions of the nzb files and can be
downloaded under the title link. You can get detailed information
from the Readme file.
Link: Download site
Download: BullDog.lha (196 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Netherlands: Computer City only available as mail-order firm
According to the last Dutch Amiga dealer with a seperate shop called Computer City
from the 1st June it will only be accessable as pure mail-order firm.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
Norman Walter (ANF)
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New lection of Amiga-C-course for beginners
There is a new lection for the Amiga-C-course for beginners.
This time "Images" is the topic. A (still uncomplete) literature list
has been added.
This course can be downloaded and therefore read offline.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.May.2005
Norman Walter (ANF)
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HP printer configuration: Setup LaserJet
"Setup LaserJet" is an installer script for changing the configuration of a
HP LaserJet printer. Now you can configure things like EconoMode, RET,
Duplex and Powersave with your Amiga.
The script was only tested with a HP LaserJet 1320 but should also work fine
with other printers of the LaserJet serie.
Download: SetupLJ.lha (36 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.May.2005
morphzone.org (website)
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MorphOS: Paradroid Clone "Freedroid"
Freedroid is a clone of the 8-Bit classic Paradroid.
Direct download: freedroid-1.0.2_mos.lha (4.5 MB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)
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MorphOS: Breakout-Clone Barkanoid 2 Available
Epic Interactive and Current Ad Agent have made known that "Barkanoid 2" is ready:
"The casual game Barkanoid 2 is now also available for MorphOS users with Pegasos I or II.
A demo-version may be found - thanks to the friendly support of the Genesi firm - under the following link:
http://www.ppczone.org/downloads/Barkanoid2Demo.lha
The full version is available starting Monday at Current Ad Agent for 14.95 euros. Please contact Mr. M. Goldisch at
alternative-computer @ web.de.
More information on Barkanoid 2 may be found at the product description page at our website."
[rest of lengthy article not translated -dm] (cg) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
MorphZone (forum)
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Pegasos: CD32-Live-CD Released via BitTorrent
Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun has released Pegasos software for making your own CD32-Live-CDs. This may be downloaded from pegasos.org via BitTorrent.
The archive only needs a CD32 ISO image of your choice named "cd32.iso" as well as a CD32 Kickstart ROM image named "cd32.rom" in the main directory and then burn it all to CD.
On top of that the CD contains the 3D-Ego-Shooter Aleph One and several emulators (inc. MAME, Sega, Nintendo, and C64). Aleph One requires some additional files that are available by clicking on the previous "Aleph One" link. The emulators require the desired games as well as the BIOS or Kickstart image corresponding to the system.
More information may be found in the instructions in the archive as well as the related MorphZone thread.
The CD32-Live-CD has only been tested on Pegasos II computers so far, the results on Pegasos I are not yet available.
Torrent-Datei: cd32-live.torrent (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
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Convention Update: AmiGBG (Sweden) and Boinged in Belgium (Belgium)
AmiGBG 2005
The official website of the 23rd July 2005 11 AM to 5 PM Amiga convention in the Swedish town of Göteborg is now online.
[rest of this section not translated, Mikael Haglund of IBM will be there to talk about POWER architecture and the new "Cell" processor -dm]
For the convention Boinged in Belgium, which takes place on 6th and 7th August in the vicinity of Antwerp, hosted by the Belgian Amiga Club, Michele C. Battilana of (Cloanto) has donated three complete Amiga Forever 6.0 emulator CDs. One will be awarded to the 100th visitor, another, it's planned, to the owner of the best "modded" Amiga. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.May.2005
MorphOS-Team (e-mail)
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MorphOS: Update of ft2.library
The MorphOS Team has released an update of ft2.library for MorphOS 1.4.5. The new library cleans up a couple minor problems with the previous version and is linked against the current freetype2, yielding improved quality.
The new version of ft2.library may be downloaded by registered MorphOS users at download.morphos-team.net or at the support FTP server. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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25.May.2005
Thomas Würgler (ANF)
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Susumu Hirasawa composes boot jingle for AmigaOS 4.0
Leuven, Belgium, May 25, 2005 - Chaos Union and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that recording artist Susumu Hirasawa will deliver a boot jingle created specifically for AmigaOS 4.0. Two additional tracks will also be included on the AmigaOS 4.0 CD to showcase Hirasawa's music.
About Susumu Hirasawa
Susumu Hirasawa is a highly acclaimed recording artist. He has written soundtracks for commercial successes such as Millenium Actress, Paranoia Agent, the Beserk TV-series and videogame, and he is currently working on his latest CD-release. Since 1979 he helped defined Japanese pop-techno in the group P-MODEL and launched his first solo album in 1989. Since the mid-90s Hirasawa has toured with his Interactive Live Show utilizing Amigas with the support of Amiga user group of Japan (FAMIGA) for a spectacular interactive multimedia performance.
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded in March of 1999. The company specializes in 3D graphics and the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X).
Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics to low power digital devices such as PDAs and STBs.
Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in 1985. (snx)
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25.May.2005
dietmar (ANF)
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Formerly commercial editor microgolded updated and now a free download
microgolded is now available as free download. Instead of asking users to pay for it, it is released as sponsored software and contains offline advertising.
About microgolded: microgolded is a small editor. It provides basic editing features, such as undo-redo, folding, macro recording, formatting, auto-case, auto-completion and other basic editor stuff. It is very fast and very configurable. All in one file, no installation.
Screenshot
Download
Registered users can find a new, advertising-free version on the GoldED website. New features: black-on-white color scheme (optional) and navigation tabs.
Amiga users and dealers interested in advertising software, events, websites or services in microgolded please contact GoldED support. (snx)
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25.May.2005
Jürgen Lucas (comments)
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MUI: Update of texteditor.mcc to version 15.11
The open source texteditor.mcc is now available in version 15.11 and offers most functions of a normal
text editor, embedded to a MUI class. The archiv contains native version for MorphOs and AmigaOS4 also.
Download: MCC_TextEditor.lha (340 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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25.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Adventure: "The Labyrinth of Time" Amiga version available for free download
The originally 1994 published game "The Labyrinth of Time" (screenshot) is
now freely downloadable.
The Amiga version requires AmigaDOS 1.3, 1 MB Chip RAM and 512 KB Fast RAM and runs under UAE also. An English manual is
online available. Please study the included readme file.
Ordering the game on CD is possible at the title link.
Download: LABAMIGA.lha (134 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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24.May.2005
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MorphOS: Software news until 24-05-2005
Blob Wars
Blob Wars is an SDL based board game.
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Downloadpage
Pachi el marciano
One more board game which is similar to "Manic Miner" or "Jet Set Willy"
(screenshot).
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Downloadpage
Password manager: Ling 1.3
Ling is a data base for saving several passwords. All passwords are encoded with the BlowFish CBC algorithm before storing them to the data base.
(screenshot). The latest changes:
- Windows were left locked after an export operation
- Arggggggg found a very bad bad in passwords saving. All 1.1 archives are not compatible anymore
- Changed RNG function: now it is a KISS one with a sha1-ed randomly generated seed
- Some minor changes
Please note that old data files which were created with an ancient version of Ling are not compatible to Ling 1.3. Please export all your data prior to
updating to a CSV file and import these files then by hand to Ling 1.3.
Link: Homepage
Download: Ling.lha (635 KB)
TheBar.mcc 20.5
"TheBar" is a MUI class by Alfonso Ranieri to easily generate button banks.
Link: Homepage
Download: MCC_TheBarMOS.lha (425 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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24.May.2005
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Package management system: APMS
With "Amiga Package Management System" (APMS) David Pitcher releases a clone of the known from the Unix world package
manager like RPM or apt-get. APMS should assist users while installation or upgrade of software packages:
The program recognizes dependencies (application X requires library Y) and manages the download and installation
of all required archives.
In a later phase APMS will introduce an Amiga specific format,
also mechanisms to transmit bug reports to a central data base are planned. Additionally support of further platforms
(beside AmigaOS 4) and servers (beside os4depot.net) is thought of.
The first version of APMS still has several bugs and is partly incomplete:
- Install, uninstall and update do not work yet
- Loads of debug output
- The program does not show verbose status information
- Before download the (os4depot.net-) category must be selected by hand
For all interested ones there is a mailing list at yahoo groups available. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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21.May.2005
ANN (website)
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OpenPCI: updates for RTL8139 driver and OpenPCIInfo
Benjamin Vernoux released a new version of his OpenPCI driver for the RTL8139 ethernet chipset fixing several problems with connection abortions and with file transfers.
A new version of OpenPCIInfo is available, too. Here were internal configuration options added.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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21.May.2005
jamiga.org/ (ANF)
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Amiga-Java: Jamiga 0.0.5
Jamiga, a Java implementation for AmigaOS and MorphOS, is available in version 0.0.5 (download page).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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20.May.2005
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Puzzle game: Update of AmiBrixx to version 1.2
Jörg Renkert has published an update of his puzzle game called AmiBrixx. The
version 1.2 is available from now on under the title link for AmigaOS/68k, WarpOS, AmigaOS4 and
MorphOS.
News:
- OS4 version added
- Code optimation
- Skins can now contain graphics and sounds
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.May.2005
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Live camera of Amiga-Osna user meeting is online
Today at 6 pm the live-camera of the LAN-party of the Amiga-Osna user group is
online. It will stay until Sunday at 5 pm.
An Active-X-Plugin for Windows or Mac OS X is required. Amiga users can watch a picture
which must be updated manually.
Besides this there will be a picture archive under the following address: ftp://ftpuser:05404957836@pegasos2.homelinux.net:21/IP-Cam/
The guest access is:
Name: guest
Password: 05404957836
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.May.2005
Eule (ANF)
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Demo-Crew "Abyss" Now Developing for Nintendo
The members of the earlier Amiga demo group Abyss are now developing for Nintendo under the name "Shin'en." You'll find an interview with Manfred "Pink" Lizner under the title-link. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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19.May.2005
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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Ten Thousandth Day of Amiga Timekeeping
After nearly 20 years of Amiga, Chris Hodges called our attention to another reason to celebrate this year: today is the 10,000th day since 01-Jan-1978, the beginning date of the Amiga's internal time calculator. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.May.2005
Michael Garlich (ANF)
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Papyrus Office: French dictionary available
For Papyrus Office customers a French dictionary is available now for download:
Dowload: pap_frenchdictionary.lha (189 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.May.2005
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MorphOS: Dodgin' Diamond & Ling
Shoot'em Up: Dodgin' Diamond 2
Dodgin' Diamond is an SDL based, vertical scrolling Shoot'em Up (screenshot).
Link: Homepage of the Windows version
Download: dd2-0.2.1_mos.lha (326 KB)
Password manager: Ling
Ling is a data base for storing several passwords. All passwords are encoded with the BlowFish-CBC algorithm before saving them to the data base
(screenshot).
Link: Homepage
Download: Ling.lha (479 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.May.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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Hardware compendium: Updates of the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
The "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" was expanded with a few more details and
photos. An overview with the latest changes is available
here.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.May.2005
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Ian Chapman
Amiga Future today has published an interview with Ian Chapman (The Big Book of Amiga Hardware). (snx)
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18.May.2005
Rupert naTmeg Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: BullDog - an nzb-based Usenet ripper
BullDog is a MorphOS program by Rupert Hausberger to download from Usenet using the nzb-descriptor files. For full features see the enclosed readme file.
Main features:
- Can download from multiple servers at the same time
- Each server can download with multiple connections
- Connections can be paused or aborted
- Pause/Resume downloads, even after quit
- Abort/Restart downloads any time
- Easy to use, non-blocking and intelligent GUI
(snx)
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18.May.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga-User-List: GAUHPIL Database shows all registered users
From now on, the GAUHPIL database shows all registered users, but only for other registered users that have to be logged in.
A personal homepage is no longer required for registration.
The new "Amiga-User-List" is not limited to users with homepage. After registering and filling in name and country, one can already browse the new "Amiga-User-List". Furthermore, the introduction of additional address information is prepared.
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a MySQL based database created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can be questioned by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function.
Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 702 users from 38 countries. Again, lots of broken links have been removed. (snx)
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17.May.2005
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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D-Box 1200: New tower case announced by Elbox
Elbox today announced the D-Box 1200 for early June, a new tower case for Amiga 1200 computers which has been designed for the Dragon 1200, a ColdFire turbo board with included PCI/AGP expansion board announced in December. The new tower is said to be useable for other bus boards like Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200 LT4, Mediator PCI 1200 or Mediator PCI ZIV, too, though.
The case offers four 5.25" and five 3.5" bays, two USB front connectors and one CD drive cover. Also included is a 350 W ATX power supply unit.
The D-Box 1200 replaces the discontinued Mirage 1200 and E/Box 1200 (also known as A1200 Power Tower and A1200 Winner Tower) Amiga tower systems. The suggested retail price will be EUR 149.95 or US$ 194.95 (VAT and local taxes excluded). (snx)
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17.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Feelin: Update of the object oriented system to version 9.0
Olivier Laviale's open source project 'Feelin', an object orientated system for AmigaOS, is now available in version 9.0
(screenshot).
The system consists of two compounds: the completely assembler written feelin.library as core as well as an expandable system to
create graphical user interfaces. Even there is a set of classes aiming at the latter purpose delivered with Feelin it is not
limited to such use.
With the update there are now 20 new classes (76 all together), additionally the website is extended with many
autodocs, three more screenshots
and forum.
Download: feelin050517.lha (814 KB)
Complete list of changes:
Feelin is an object-oriented system (OOS) for the AmigaOS. It provides two things: A small shared library, fast and powerful (the object-system's core), offering everything needed to create a complete object-oriented environement. And an extensible system to create and maintain GUIs. Although Feelin comes with a lot of GUI oriented classes, Feelin is not limited to that, and can be used for a variety of projects.
New preference item standard
Preference items are now defined in a CSS style format e.g. $button-frame (note well the dollar sign). The preference system has been partially rewritten and is now even more efficient.
Preview / Pop / Adjust
Created an adjust system with two new base classes FC_Adjust and FC_Preview. All previous adjust and pop classes are now subclasses of those two. FC_Adjust and FC_Preview subclasses are very modular, it's so simple now to create preview, popup and adjust classes.
Documents: XML / HTML
FC_XMLApplication has been split to create FC_XMLObject. FC_XMLDocument has been split to create FC_Document, which is now the base class for documents interpreting. FC_HTMLDocument is one of its new subclass. As FC_XMLDocument is used to parse XML code, FC_HTMLDocument can be used to parse HTML code (which is less formal).
XMLObjects
Feelin is not only able to create whole applications from XML files, but is now also able to create XML objects anywhere in your applications (and classes) very easily! For example, all groups used by the preference editor are generated from XML files.
XMLApplications was a first step in the separation between code and GUI, now the user can do WHAT HE WANTS with its GUI.
FC_PreferenceGroup totally rewritten
ALL preference groups (group objects used by the preference editor to adjust preferences) are now using XMLObjects! XML files are available in the "Feelin:XMLSources/Feelin/Preferences" directory.
Only ONE tiny little line of code is needed to create a preference group! It was already very easy to create preference groups, now everything is AUTOMATIC! Thanks to the new preference items standard (e.g. $button-frame), the XML support and the FPreferenceScript type the whole preference process (object generation, loadin, saving and object disposal) is TOTALY AUTOMATIC!
A LOT of preference items have been added to a LOT of classes, making the GUI EXTREMELY configurable.
Layout & Rendering
At last, FC_ImageDisplay is
capable of drawing GRADIENTS. This awaited improvement make the GUI really nice and soft.
Feelin GUI is now powered by a new layout rethinking system, the fourth and the last (I hope), it's just fabulous! Rethink requests are now buffered, even if 20 rethinks are requested, only 1 redraw is performed! And as usual only modified objects are updated.
Window expansion is nicer now. The window is expanded from all sides, thus a centered window expanding remains centered, instead of expanding only to the left and the bottom.
FC_Area and FC_Window are now subclasses of FC_Frame, which now handles the FA_Back on its own making refreshing just perfect. The complex refresh mode has been improved and is now fabulous!
Events
The new event code FV_EVENT_BUTTON_WHEEL of class FF_EVENT_BUTTON has been added and can be used to react on mouse wheel. Most classes are now using this nice feature. In fact, eveything that can be adjusted with the mouse can also be adjusted with mouse wheel e.g. lists, sliders, proportionals, cycles, event group pages!
Dialogs
Subclass of FC_Window, the new FC_Dialog class can be used to create a lot of commom requesters e.g. "Ok", "Yes | No", "Save | Use | Cancel"... Custom objects can be added very easily making dialog window fully customizable e.g. FC_PreferenceEditor is now a subclass of FC_Dialog.
FC_List
FC_List has been particuliarly updated and is now become as powerful as configurable. Column format is now defined in XML and a lot of features are available.
With, 20 new classes (76 classes available), I've done my best to offer a more complete, powerful and pleasant framework for Amiga developers; and an attractive GUI for users that like customizing A LOT. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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16.May.2005
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FreePascal 2.0
The FreePascal team publishes version 2.0 of their Pascal compiler FreePascal. Thanks to Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh
the current version is also available for MorphOS at the official website.
(cg)
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16.May.2005
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS/AmigaOS4: OpenTTD 0.4.0
OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", which is available for a wide range of operating systems incl. MorphOS.
The brand new version 0.4.0 was just released a few minutes ago. It will probably need a few minutes until all sourceforge mirrors have the file, so be patient. :-)
What is new in this release?
- Bigger maps
- New realistic acceleration; should be much better
- Multiple road stations (up to 8) on a single station (multibus)
- New PathFinder (NPF)
- Dynamic towns/ industries/ stations/ vehicles/ signs/ orders/ everything, up to 64K
- Brand new OldLoader so OpenTTD is TTD(Patch) compatible again. Also endian safe
- Even better newgrf support, except for callbacks, everything works (ok, almost)
- Improved multiplayer. More console options, less desyncs and more fun
- Protected OpenTTD from interference of hacked clients, so it should be safe to play again
- Saving vehicle sorting criteria for each vehicle type
- Resizable orders GUI
- Focus keyboard on input-box in Multiplayer Menu
- terrain hotkeys nonfunctional in scenario editor (D,Q,W,E,R,T,Y,U fltr)
- Complete rework of console and new commands like ls, save, load, help, etc.
- Signs are shown in the colour of the player who created them
- Added cheat option to set production of raw-material industries in game
- Replaced train GUI remembers railtype selected from the dropdown menu
- Improved Autoreplace
- many more smaller features :D
- many bugfixes
For a full list of all new features and bugfixes, known bugs and additional information please check out the documentation which is included in the release archive, which you can get from the title link.
NOTE from the author of the MorphOS port: "OpenTTD source should compile w/o a single change for AmigaOS and OS4 too. Just grab and compile. As my A4K is not up and running anymore and I do not own an A1 I can't provide ready made binaries for OS4 and AmigaOS 68k. But the source was prepared since ages with all AmigaOS 68k compatible systems in mind. As past has shown: ready made binaries for these both systems will soon appear from 3rd parties. So stay tuned if you can't use the MorphOS build and you're too lazy to start gcc. :-)"
Update: (16:10, 16.05.05, snx):
AmigaOS4-Download: openttd_aos4.lha (2 MB) (snx)
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15.May.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List: GAUHPIL database software update
From now on, the GAUHPIL software uses no cookies anymore. Registration is done by sending a password by electronic mail. After logging in, the user can edit his entry as before. Furthermore, every registered user can now finally alter the e-mail address and password. If wanted, the user can also remove the whole entry from the database.
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a MySQL based database created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can be displayed by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function. Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 707 users from 38 countries. The number of users for each country can be found on the page "All Countries". (snx)
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14.May.2005
ANN (website)
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Amiga-Anywhere: arcade puzzler "Word Me Up"
The developers team Boing Attitude announce the immediate availability of "Word Me Up" for PocketPC and Smartphones. As distributor is Amiga Inc. mentioned, Word Me Up is available in the company's web shop.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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13.May.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Ports of several Quake 2-mods
Steffen Häuser has ported some of the Quake 2-mods which are offered on the
"Amiga Quake 2 Page" to AmigaOS 4:
- Bots (Battle of the Sexes)
- CTF
- Annihilation
- HolyWars
- StarTrek
- Headhunters
- Headhunters CTF
- WarMod
Besides this there is a new archive called "os4_quake2_tools.lha" which is required for
the installation of the mods under AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2005
RainMan (ANF)
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Website amiga-arena.de online again
The website of the Amiga-Arena is online again and is now called "AmigaInsider-Intern" homepage.
The full versions which existed on the Amiga-Arena should be available again little by little.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2005
Pegasosforum (website)
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Linux: Another two Gentoo-Game-CDs for Pegasos available
Pieter van den Abeele has made available another two Live-CD-games based on Gentoo-Linux for
the Pegasos. TORCS is a
3D-racing game (screenshot)
and Trigger is a rally game (screenshot).
Both games can be downloaded with the help of BitTorrent-filesharing. They can be started
from the Open Firmware with the command "boot cd torcs" and "boot cd trigger".
Torrent-files:
torcs.torrent
trigger.torrent
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2005
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Amiga events in Belgium and Finland
From May 20th to 22nd Motorola Inside 2005 will take place
in Turku in Finland. This is a pure Amiga demoparty which will take place since
1997 for the forth time. The entrance fee is ten or fifteen Euro; in order to participate
book for it via e-mail.
On 6th and 7th August the Belgian Amiga-Club will organize the Boinged in Belgium 2005
in the near of Antwerpen.
There should be an exhibition "20 years Amiga", a party around the
clock as well as games and demos. Exhibitors and visitors who are interested in participating
please give a feedback.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.May.2005
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Retro-Computing: Amiga-Demos Reintroduced in DHTML
Under the title-link an Amiga fan has reintroduced old "scene" demos - in DHTML. Please note that in order to use the functions of the site correctly Internet Explorer is required. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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12.May.2005
AmigaFuture (ANF)
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DSL at 16 MBit/s by debitel and QSC
Debitel wants to offer DSL connections with up to 16 MBit/s in the future, and is cooperating with QSC to attain this goal. The offer primarily concerns private customers. It will be based on ADSL2+ and coupled with a VoIP offer (Voice over IP). (cg) (Translation: dm)
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12.May.2005
Amiga.org (website)
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Magazine: Total Amiga 16 available in PDF Form (English-Language)
Issue #16 of the English-language print magazine Total Amiga (appeared in October 2003) is available as a PDF file, after having sold out in print.
In the issue are reviews of MorphOS 1.4, the USB card Algor, Hollywood 1.5, Perfect Paint and AmiAtlas 6. There are also the first parts of instructions for C programming and digital picture processing.
Download: totalamiga_16.pdf (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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11.May.2005
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Software news until 11.05.2005
Exotic Ripper 3.3
"Exotic Ripper" saves music tracks in MOD format extracted from demos or games. The program is freeware now, a keyfile is no longer required.
A list of changes is includes in the readme.
Download: exoticripper33.lha (231 KB) (Readme)
playOGG 2.4
The program playOGG by Lorence Lombardo is an audio player for at least the following formats:
OGG Vorbis, MP3, RA and SID. It may be launched from the Workbench or the CLI.
Beside some bug removements the version 2.4 contains a new verbose mode and a new HTML program guide.
Link: Download page
Download: playOGG.lha (2 MB) (Readme)
VorbisTools 1.01 (68k/WOS)
The VorbisTools are programs to encode, decode or manipulate audio files in the Ogg Vorbis format.
Link: Download page 68k version
Link: Download page WOS version
FLAC 1.1.2
With the help of this CLI based tool music tracks can be encoded to the lossless FLAC format.
Link: Download page
GNU Make 3.81
Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer has ported version 3.81 of this compile frontend to AmigaOS.
Link: Download page (cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.May.2005
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Amiga emulator: WinFellow 0.4.4 build 2 (Alpha)
A new version of the Windows based Amiga emulator "WinFellow" is available now. The option "Exact vertical pixel doubling" has been added.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.May.2005
morphzone.org
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MorphOS: Special ArakAttack beta version
Guido "geit" Mersmann provides beta version especially for Pegasos users of his OpenUSB.device from the ArakAttack package which allows
the use of PCI based USB 2.0 controllers under MorphOS.
Please note that this beta version of the OpenUSB.device was compiled for the 68k CPU and the author provides no support
for this beta version. Mersmann circumvents a malfunction in MorphOS: Support for the
UHCI protocol has been disabled to prevent conflicts with the Poseidon drivers.
Download: OpenUSB.lha (26 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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10.May.2005
ANN (website)
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File system handler: Updates of Ext2FS and SGIXFS
Marek Szyprowski has updated his file system handler for the Second Extended File System (ExtFS2)
as well as for the SGI X File System (XFS) for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS.
Beside a few bug removements there has been support for file names longer than 107 characters added.
Download:
ext2fs_0.5.lha (58 KB)
sgixfs_0.4.lha (58 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2005
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar: 1st Quest - barbarians of the Southern lands!
Rules:
This quest is for new players beginning June, 1st 2005. Players who want to register for this quest have to enter 'Barbaren der Südlande' in the notes field of the registration form.
The aim of the barbarians is to conquer at least 150 Morgen of the northern countries each month. It's not 150 acres per barbarian but all lords together have to reach this aim.
To ensure a free development the area of the barbarians is kept encapsuled. Beginning with August, 1st 2005 the frontiers will be opened and from then on each month the conquered Morgen will be counted. If the number passes the 150 Morgen all barbarians can continue playing for free. Does the conquered area not pass 150 Morgen is the invasion not successful and the players' state will be set to
the shareware mode.
Registering will be possible from May, 15th to May, 30th 2005.
This quest is cross platform, so it can be played an all systems (PC, Linux, Mac, Amiga (+ MOS,+ OS4)).
Quest operator: Martin Wolf
Price: continued playing for free as long as the quest's aim is reached.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
OS4Depot (website)
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AmigaOS4: Apache 1.3.33 beta released
Edgar Schwan uploaded Apache 1.3.33 in a beta version as AmigaOS4 port to the OS4Depot. Supported are PHP 4.3.0 and MySQL 3.23.49.
Contained programs:
- httpd - Apache server for the hypertext transfer protocol
- htpasswd - creating and updating of users authentification files
- htdigest - creating and updating of text files for the digest authentification
- ab - benchmark tool for the Apache HTTP server
- logresolve - resolving of host names of the IP addresses in Apache log files
- rotatelogs - rotates Apache logs without the need to kill the server
- checkgid - checks whether a group ID exists
- php - standalone PHP interpreter compiled for this package
Download: apache.lha (10 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
ANN (website)
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Dave Haynie archives online again
The Dave Haynie Archives - a collection of documents created by Dave Haynie for Commodore - are now online accessible again. Next to information about single computers and chips there can be found e.g. information about the never released AAA technology of the prototype Nyx.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2005
ANN (website)
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Final update for SystemPatch to version 2.94
SystemPatch by Sante Nocciolino changes various operating system routines to increase the performance of systems with newer 68k processors. The most can be got from 68060 systems but it can be used on all Amigas with at least a 68020.
The author expects the version 2.94 to be the last update. A release of the source code at a later time - as it was with others of his programs - is possible.
Download: SystemPatch2.lha (42 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 07. May. 2005, 14:27] [Comments: 0]
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07.May.2005
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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MorphOS: OpenPictureSpace 2.5 released
Marc le Douarain, meanwhile the maintainer of the program originally written for Linux by Thomas Hänselmann, released version 2.5 of OpenPictureSpace for MorphOS.
OpenPictureSpace shows a directory containing images as thumbnails (screenshot). Supported are JPEG, GIF, PNG and IFF-ILBM including the Amiga specific HAM and EHB modes.
In contrary to other programs of this kind OpenPictureSpace does not display the pictures in a grid with n x m thumbnails but scales them only vertically and tries to put as many as possible in each row to use the screen space as best as possible.
Changes in version 2.5:
- Using powersdl.library and powersdl_image.library (makes more image formats in the future possible)
- Wheelmouse keys can be used for scrolling of the thumbs list
- Delay when displaying the whole image removed
- Picture rotation via the '<' key
- Displaying useful keys at the bottom
- Do not try to double the size of the current opened image despite the fact that it is possible!
- Error removed when entering a drive for the path
Download: OpenPictureSpace_MOS.lha (242 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.May.2005
banana development committee (ANF)
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MorphOS: MisterBanana 1.3 published
It follows the original press release concerning the publishing of the newest version
for the known desktop mascot for MorphOS:
"No may without Banana
That's our motto. Sadly current MisterBanana 1.5 with all the cool
extra features only works properly with still unreleased MorphOS 1.666.
But thanks to the banana god, we could resurrect source code of MisterBanana
1.4 and bumped it down to 1.3 to make this update release happen just in time.
It's hopefully the last before the 1.5 release, and solves no bugs or
problems with the previous public release, but adds a few new sayings and
options, including faked transparency, an updated hotlist, anonymizer support
and a secret feature to destroy the world.
We wish you fun!
Oh.. and get the little fellow from here
or become amazed 'bout this very cool screenshot." (cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.May.2005
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: UADE 1.02 published
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has published an update of UADE to version 1.02 for MorphOS.
UADE can play Amiga music files with the help of UAE-emulation and of a cloned
Eagleplayer-API.
Download: uade-1.02-mos1-bin.lha (1.4 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.May.2005
Carsten "flip" Wiebers (ANF)
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A History of the GUI
Under the title link you can find an English article written by Ars Technica
about the history of the graphic user interfaces. It is described the evolution
from the earliest beginning in the 60ies over Xerox and Apple as well as
the systems of the 80ies (including the Workbench) to the present.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2005
Michal Schulz (AROS-ML)
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File system: SFS source code put under LGPL
The Smart File System (SFS) is a journalling file system for Amiga systems which was created to get most of performance, scalability and file integrity. At the title link John Hendrikx has set up an according sourceforge project to publish the original C version to LGPL. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.May.2005
ANN (website)
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WLAN driver prism2.device for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS
Neil Cafferkey has released the first complete version of his prism2.device for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. The kit contains a SANA II driver for 11 Mbps WLAN cards based on the Prism II chipset.
There is support for PCMCIA cards for the A1200/A600 and PCI cards for Amigas equiped with the Prometheus boards, AmigaOne and Pegasos as well as for PCs running Amithlon.
Download: prism2.lha (138 KB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.May.2005
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: GUI toolkit FLTK
FLTK is a C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, MacOS X and AmigaOS 4.0, that is licensed according to the LGPL. FLTK might be linked static or as shared library. The kit contains a GUI-Builder called FLUID also.
The Amiga version (screenshots: 1, 2) is described by the author as "work in progress", but is almost complete. Nearly all functions of the official version 1.1.6 is implemented already, the following features are still missing and will be added in a following release:
- OpenGL support
- Drag and Drop
- Threads
- Custom pointers
There are more than 60 demos available which show the potential of that tool kit. The whole package is put to several archives:
Libs, includes and documentation: fltk.lha (1 MB)
Demos: fltk_demos.lha (11 MB)
FLUID: fltk_fluid.lha (622 KB)
The source code will be made available within the next days, until then a "not yet cleaned up" version is obtainable from the author by e-mail request.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 04. May. 2005, 07:16] [Comments: 0]
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04.May.2005
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List: GAUHPIL Database in Spanish
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a MySQL based database created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll. It contains website addresses of Amiga users, that can be questioned by continent and country. Additionally, it features a flexible search function.
Thanks to the kind support of Dámaso Domínguez, the GAUHPIL is now also translated to Spanish. Furthermore, Dámaso again found many users from the "Lost Links List" by hardworking research. Other defective links were moved there. So the database contents could be cleaned up significantly.
Currently, the GAUHPIL lists 713 users from 38 countries. The number of users for each country can be found on the page "All Countries". (snx)
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30.Apr.2005
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Current state of DKG II and SN-Archiv homepage
The SN-Archiv homepage is now accessable via the short URL sn-archiv.de, too.
Of SN-EuroArchiv is version 1.95 under development. Image support for the HTML support for course coins sets was added that will be available in the future for special coins, too. Additionally, some bugs were removed that concerned the HTML support. An example for the new ccs generating can be found here (needs some loading time because of the images).
Steffen Nitz also decided to create an images gallery for SN-EuroArchiv. The page is still under construction and can be accessed via this URL.
There are thoughts to create a similar gallery for "Die Kleine Gilde II" to show the scope of the game. DKG II v0.70 is almost finished but the author has had not found the time to do the last adaptions to release this version. Things like town fires, burglary and sabotages like setting fires or placing bombs at competitiors buildings were added. You can now place things in buildings that are quite helpful, e.g. against fire and burglary.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Apr.2005
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MorphOS: ldview 0.8
ldview is a view program for files of Lego-models in
ldraw-format (screenshot).
New in version 0.8:
- Support for .mpd format
- Smooth shading
- Faster loading of models (also uses less memory)
- Possibility to display parts used in the model
- Different display modes (lines/solids)
- Automatic fixing of broken transformation matrices
- Automatic fixing of bowtie quads
- Camera movement
- Better transparency
- Possible to change background color
- Support for high detail primitives
Download: ldview0.8-mos.lha (30 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Neo (ANF)
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DTP: PageStream 5 Status-Update
According to Grasshopper LLC the final beta tests for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS versions of
PageStream 5 will start soon. The development of a AmigaOS 4 version was
continued because now an AmigaOne is available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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File system: Update of Smart Filesystem (SFS)
The Smart Filesystem (SFS) is now available in version 1.239. A bug in
AmigaOS 3.x was avoided and the function ACTION_FILESYSTEM_ATTR implemented.
Download: SFS_1.239.lha (44 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Apr. 2005, 13:26] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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Tales of Tamar: Update of Amiga-Version to V0.53R9
Tales of Tamar which is a round based Massive-Multiplayer-PBEM-Game is now available
in version 0.53R9.
Besides this an animation packet has been released which contains On-Screen-Animations
instead of pictures.
If you want to know what has changed in the new version please have a look at the homepage.
Download:
ToT_Amiga_V0.53_R9.lha (15 MB)
ToT_Anims.zip (41 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Apr. 2005, 13:21] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2005
Olaf Barthel (ANF)
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Developing tool: Subversion 1.1.4 for Amiga ported
Subversion is a software packet for maintaining of source texts and
binary data just like the older RCS or CVS. Above all it is meant as a replacement
for CVS and has not its bugs e.g. insufficient maintenance of binary data.
In this port made by Olaf Barthel the functions for maintaining the Amiga
file attributes (hold, archive, script, pure, etc.) and file comments have been added.
The archive contains the documentation, the whole changes made on the source code
of the Amiga version and the programs (client/server) translated for
AmigaOS 2.x/3.x/4.x.
Download: subversion-1.1.4.lha (7 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Calo Nord (ANF)
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Update of AmigaSYS 1.7.1 for E-UAE (beta version)
AmigaSYS is available in a new beta version for E-UAE. AmigaSYS is a
collection of a comfortable Workbench environment for use with the Amiga emulator UAE
in the way of AIAB ("Amiga in a box").
AmigaSYS contains no Kickstart-ROM because of legal reasons and you need
a Workbench 3.0/3.1-disk. The installation itself runs automatically.
To the current beta version for E-UAE Calo Nord wrote:
"Many users have already heard of AmigaSYS and some of you were missing the
E-UAE-Version for Linux, MorphOS and AmigaOS4. Now there is a first and also last
version for E-UAE. Because of the limited possibilities of E-UAE we will not work
with it in future.
We have released a beta version of AmigaSYS 1.7.1 with little modifications for E-UAE.
Under MorphOS the packet unfortunately does not work proper which is caused by
E-UAE.
Under AmigaOS4 there is a bug when unarchiving the Startup-Sequence.
After the installation this must be copied manually from the archive to the installed
AmigaSYS directory. A packet created under AmigaOS4 will follow soon.
Under Linux AmigaSYS should work so far with the known limitations.
If there are bugs after installing the archive the packet probably was extracted in a wrong way.
This is not caused by AmigaSYS but by the unarchiver program or the Linux file system.
The current version has been successfully tested under AmigaOS4, Debian Linux PPC, SuSE 9.2 x86, Mandrake Linux 10.1 x86 and Mandrake Linux LE 2005 x86.
Because we will not develop further for E-UAE there is no support. But bug reports
can be always sent to my e-mail address.
If E-UAE should get remarkable progress some times later I probably will continue
my work."
Download: AmigaSYS.tar.gz (35 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Strategy game engines FreeCNC and Stratagus ported
Juha Niemimaki has ported the realtime strategy games engines Stratagus 2.1 and FreeCNC 0.3
for AmigaOS4. The author asks you to note the instructions for starting a game.
Stratagus supports games like
Invasion - Battle of Survival (contained), Wargus (WarCraft 2, requires the original data files) and
Astroseries. There are some sound problems at the last mentioned one.
FreeCNC supports early Command & Conquer games.
The C&C1 demo version works but may crash when quitting it. Red Alert does not work.
Download:
freecnc.lha (1 MB)
stratagus.lha (22 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Apr.2005
Amiga Future (website)
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MorphOS: E-mail Commodity Lola Released
Alfonso Ranieri wrote a little MorphOS commodity by the name of Lola, with which one can quickly send an e-mail (screenshot).
Download: lola.lha (248 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2005
Pegasosforum (website)
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MorphOS: NcFTP 3.1.9 Appears
Matthias Münch has compiled NcFTP version 3.1.9 for MorphOS. NcFTP is a set of free programs having to do with File Transfer Protocol (FTP). It may be downloaded under the title-link. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Gathering: AmiGBG 2005 Takes Place on 23rd July (Sweden)
For the "stay-at-home" Europeans there's a parallel event to AmiWest. Simultaneously on the 23rd of July, AmiGBG occurs in the Swedish town of Göteborg, taking the theme of a 20th birthday world Amiga celebration. The event team has grown by a factor of three this year, more details will follow in the coming weeks. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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PegXMac: Spring Offer for Update Subscription
David Bentham's started a spring special on his Mac-on-Linux-Live-CD PegXMac: a single payment will be accepted for the price and the updates for the duration of this special.
With this one-time payment, one gets updates for four months, not just one, so the cost is a lot lower. This offer covers all variants: Pegasos II, Pegasos I and AmigaOne. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2005
Darren Eveland (ANF)
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Reminder: AmigaOne-Survey for all Amiga users closes in four days
Darren Eveland reminds his survey whether you are owning an AmigaOne or planning to buy one. It will close in four days (amiga-news.de reported).
Over 1550 people have filled out this survey so far. Encouraged to participate are all Amiga users, no matter if you use AmigaOS4, AmigaOS, MorphOS or AROS and no matter if you use it on original hardware or via Amithlon or UAE. (snx)
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27.Apr.2005
amigafuture.de (website)
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MorphOS: mfkey 1.8
With "mfkey" Alfonso Ranieri provides a clone of the AmigaOS commodity Fkey. Yet mfkey supports "CLI" and "ARexx" events only. Changes with version 1.8:
- Added keyboard.device supported MMkeys (PLAY, STOP, PREV, NEXT)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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27.Apr.2005
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Software news: playOGG 2.1 & Clarissa RSS module
playOGG 2.1
The program playOGG by Lorence Lombardo is an audio player for OGG Vorbis, MP3, RA and SID. It may be launched from Workbench or the CLI.
Link: Homepage
Download: playOGG.lha (796 KB) (Readme)
RSS module for the webserver Clarissa
Clarissa is a webserver written in ARexx by Martin Kayser. A plugin by Oliver "Bladerunner" Hummel enables it to provide RSS feeds now.
Link: Homepage
Download: newsreader.rexx (4 KB) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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27.Apr.2005
PPC-Zone (website)
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Pegasos: New Linux "LiveCD" Niktarix
Nick Niktaris has created another Linux "LiveCD" called nektarix for the Pegasos (ODW) (screenshots).
Compounds of Knoppix, Kanotix and Debian Sarge were used; beside the kernel 2.6.11 there is also KDE 3.3.2, UnionFS, Mozilla/Firefox, Open Office and GIMP.
UnionFS, which takes some time during the boot up process, offers a workflow as if the machine was booted from a hard disk - one may install or remove .deb files.
The V0.03 is the first public version, which may contain some serious bugs and not all planned features are integrated yet.
Open Firmware call:
boot cd niktarix root=/dev/ram rw init=linuxrc
MD5 checksum:
834340ff550101757cb56e38cfe08a09
Download:
NIKTARIX_0_03.ISO (550 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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27.Apr.2005
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Amiga Inc. becomes member of the iPAQ developer program
Amiga Inc. announce at the title link their participation of Hewlett-Packard's iPAQ Developer Program. Amiga are set to the "Premier Member" status which gives them access to developer tools, source codes, prerelease tools as well as information and offerings for a common marketing and fair participation.
Greg Sigel, Amigas vice president for sales and marketing, is amazed by the plenty available iPAQ expansions and emphasizes the benefits of HP's developer program for Amiga Inc. and their developer community.
They are planning an "aggressive marketing" and is heading for the release of about a dozen titels per quarter year.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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26.Apr.2005
shim (ANF)
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MorphOS: Image viewer shim updated to v1.0 and released under GPL
shim is a simple commandline image viewer. The updated source has been released under GPL, along with binaries for MorphOS and Linux (PPC/x86). The version has been bumped to 1.0. The program needs (Power-) SDL and (Power-) SDL_image.
Download:
shim-1.0_morphos.lha (23 KB) (snx)
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25.Apr.2005
Maxime Doyen (ANF)
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HomeBank V3.1 released
After several beta versions, Maxime Doyen now released the final version 3.1 of his program HomeBank under the title link. This version fixes a major bug in the Define Payee & Define Category section, which was leading to instability of the system and sometimes crashes (especially on MorphOS and AmigaOS4).
It also fixes any reported/found other minor bugs and suggestions of changes. No new functionality has been added, though. Furthermore, the author would like every user of HomeBank to subscribe to the corresponding mailing list. (snx)
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23.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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New US magazine: NewsTek
With NewsTek is in the USA a new commercial magazine brought to life that follows the tradition of Video Toaster User, Newtekniques and NewtekPro. The Digital Lifestyle Magazine with focus on the NewTek products takes AmigaOS and MorphOS into account, too.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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22.Apr.2005
morphzone.org (website)
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MorphOS: sc68mui plays Amiga-/Atari-Chiptunes
sc68mui is a MorphOS-port of sc68 which is a player of the so called "Chiptunes". The
music tracks must be available in a special format. You can find a big collection
of titles on the official homepage.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2005
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Software-News: playOGG 2.0 & VorbisTools
playOGG 2.0
The program playOGG written by Lorence Lombardo can play audio files of the formats
OGG Vorbis, MP3, RA and SID. It can be started from the Workbench or from CLI.
Link: Homepage
Download: playOGG.lha (489 KB) (Readme)
VorbisTools WOS
Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer has compiled the VorbisTools for WarpOS. The VorbisTools are
a collection of tools for en-/decoding and changing of audio files in Ogg Vorbis-format.
Link: download site (cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2005
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: Desktop-calendar April
#AmigaZeux has published a desktop calendar for MorphOS called April
(screenshots). You can configure
fonts, colours, background graphics, transparency and the size of the window.
Download: April.lha (149 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2005
Jens Langner (ANF)
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MUI: BetterString.mcc / HotkeyString.mcc under LGPL published
After having saved the source codes of the known MUI-Custom class BetterString.mcc and HotkeyString.mcc
from the hard drive of the former author Allan Odgaard the complete source code has been
published under the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) as Open Source and has been put together
in a seperate project on Sourceforge.net.
Interested developers are encouraged to take contact to the
current main authors (Jens Langner and Ilkka Lehtoranta) if you want to develop further
BetterString.mcc and HotkeyString.mcc.
Probably there will be a new version of BetterString.mcc/HotkeyString.mcc which will
also include native PPC versions for AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2005
David Brunet (ANF)
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Magazine: Obligement #50 available
Issue 50 of the French magazine Obligement is now available. You can read in this issue: latest Amiga news, interview with David Gerber (ex-MorphOS developer), interview with Stéphane Guillard (OS4 French developer), Test: Audio Evolution 4, Test: Amibrixx, Test: Don Ceferino Hazana, Test: Weather, Test: la France par Monts et par Vaux, Test: SNES9x, article about CRT and LCD screens, how to build a demo, installation of a AmigaOne XE motherboard, tutorial about TVPaint and lot more. The magazine (zip archive, 1.4 MB) is freely downloadable at http://obligement.free.fr (title link). (nba)
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21.Apr.2005
m.w. verlag GmbH
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Search for the Best Websites of Germany
Everyone certainly knows about the problems with search engines. When you type in your search words you get a long list of hits, but most of them don't have a thing to do with what you're looking for. However there's an unusual searcher that's been established, one that targets the websites that you're really after. "Turn the page, don't Google it" is the new trick to find your way in the Internet maze. The "Web Address Book" is a reference work in book form.
[this part of long article not translated -DM]
More information may be found on the
www.web-adressbuch.de homepage. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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21.Apr.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Native Versions of AHI 6.0rc3 and the Emu10kx Drivers
At OS4 Depot, Davy Wentzler released AmigaOS4-native versions of AHI 6.0rc3 and the emu10kx drivers 6.1 for SB Live, Audigy and Audigy2 sound cards. Please note the accompanying "readme" texts.
CAMD testers are asked to provide detailed debug information once they install this version.
Download:
ahidevice.lha (79 KB)
emu10kx.lha (22 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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20.Apr.2005
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MorphOS: Software news until 20-04-2005
Torrent 0.8.2
Torrent is a small SDL based game where one has to collect as many same coloured tiles as fast as possible (screenshot).
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Download
Scramble 0.9.5
With Scramble one has to build as many English words from 6 given letters in a given time (screenshot).
Link: Homepage of the Linux version
Link: Download
Add ons to some MorphOS skins
Tristan "TriMa" Mangold has released some Songplayer button graphics for his MorphOS skins "Blue Space Ninja II" and "trima".
Link: Homepage
Trima buttons: trima-songplayer.lha ( KB)
BSN2 buttons: bsnii-songplayer.lha ( KB)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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20.Apr.2005
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CAD: Full version of "Cycas" released to Aminet
Cycas is a program for architectural drawing in two and three dimensions. Additional to the normal CAD function Cycas offers some special elements and techniques for architecture and construction drawing.
Perspectives, isometries and planar views of a building can be rendered as line graphics and can also be reworked.
3D data can be exported in different exchange formats to programs which can render graphics from the data. That allows a rapid and high quality simulation of buildings.
Further development of the Amiga version is put to halt currently, for that reason the latest full version is now available for free.
For further information about the Windows and Linux versions of Cycas
please visit the official website.
Download:
German version: Cycas178_DE.lha (1.2 MB) (Readme)
English version: Cycas178_EN.lha (1.2 MB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: ub)
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20.Apr.2005
ANN (website)
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GoldED: envGDE 1.9 available
The AmigaGuide development mode of Dietmar Eilert's editor and C/C++-IDE GoldED has been updated and supports now syntax validation by using Guido Mersmann's GuideCheck.
Check errors are shown within the editor window in an adjustable area below the text (screenshot). By clicking a shown warning the editor jumps to the regading line automatically.
The update to envGDE 1.9 is available at the title link (after validation of the serial). (snx) (Translation: ub)
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19.Apr.2005
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Commodore Gebruikersgroep: Photos of the Amiga party in Maarssen
The Commodore Gebruikersgroep have published four pages with photos of their Amiga party which took place on Saturday in Maarssen, the Netherlands, to celebrate 20 years of Amiga.
At the party, besides several Amiga models, among other stuff the latest products by Individual Computers were shown - Catweasel, Retro-Replay, MMC64 card and the C-One - as well as the AmigaOne, an Amiga Porsche and the set-top box Ariana. (snx)
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18.Apr.2005
IOSPIRIT GmbH (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT GmbH: IBrowse and IBrowse update available again
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of IBrowse in our
online shop. The internal restructurizations that have previously
prevented the availability of IBrowse have now been completed.
Our new express shop now accepts and processes orders within minutes.
Furthermore, we now accept American Express in addition to Visa and
Mastercard credit cards for payment. Customers that had trouble
accessing our shop through the firewall of their company before will
be happy to hear, that the secured SSL connection now runs on the
respective standard port. (snx)
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18.Apr.2005
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: First photos of the ColdFire-board Dragon 1200
Elbox have published first photos of the Dragon 1200 announced in December (amiga-news.de reported). The product is a ColdFire-based accelerator card combined with a PCI/AGP expansion busboard.
Furthermore, Elbox have announced a special offer for all Mediator PCI busboards for Zorro III-equipped Amigas purchased between 15 April and 14 May 2005 in the Elbox Online Store: In this period, with every Mediator purchase, the end-user can receive an eFlash 4000/2MB Zorro III card for half price. (snx)
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