09.May.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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MorphOS: Point'n click shooter "Barrage"
LouiSe has ported the point'n click shooter Barrage to MorphOS.
Direct download: barrage-1.0.1.tgz (709 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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09.May.2004
Maxime Doyen (ANF)
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Account Management: Homebank now Freeware, version 3.0 released
The account management software "HomeBank" is now distributed as Freeware. Additionally, version 3.0 has been released today, which comes with the following enhancements:
- subcategories
- payees
- budgets
- some overall improvements
- some more reports
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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08.May.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Amiga Java: Status report from "JAmiga"
The JAmiga project has released a short status report:
"JAmiga status report May 2004
it's been a long time since our last status report and things have become very quiet around JAmiga. However, a lot of work was done in the background. We have meanwhile ported JAmiga so that it can be compiled with gcc which will open up chances to compile it for other platforms. While being a major task, for most users no difference between the StormC and gcc version will be visible.
We are planning to release a new version with the classpath 0.09 fairly soon, once all classpath-changes have been properly reflected within JAmiga. Eventually, you may be able to use a few AWT gadgets by then, but no promise about that :)
New JAmiga Forum
We now have our "own" Forum on www.jamiga.org which may be used for chitchat, discussions, requests, etc.
First donation arrived
Only a few days ago, we have received our first donation -100 EUR- wow. Thank you very much! We have therefore decided to put up bounties for certain tasks....
Bounty for ZIP File reader
This bounty is endowed with EUR 50. It will go to the person that writes a ZIP Reading "JavaStream" class. Please see our Forum or contact us if you're willing to help!
best regards,
Your JAmiga Team"
(cg)
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08.May.2004
(ANF)
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Live Amiga webcam from "Webbit"
Right now and until 20:00/21:00 GMT+1 (CET) you can see "live" pictures from the Amiga booth at the Italian IT gathering Webbit.
(cg)
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08.May.2004
Gunne Steen (Beta2-ML)
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Event: reminder regarding PUSH 2004 in Gothenburg from May, 20th - May, 22nd
On the MorphOS-Beta2 mailing list Gunne Steen reminds in the name of the Swedish Pegasos users group PUGS of the upcoming computer event PUSH in Gothenburg from May, 20th - May, 22nd 2004.
The PUSH is meant to be used for experience exchange with other users, there'll be workshops offered and you can come with own computers. Representatives of the MorphOS development team will be there, too, showing the latest beta version of the operating system. The Gentoo development team will also, be at the show.
The participiants can win a Pegasos-I/G3 motherboard with 128 MB RAM. The complete invitation can be downloaded as PDF file in English or Swedish.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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08.May.2004
Computer City (ANF)
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Computer City: Chance to pick up orders in Essen / Image-Installer V2 production
Although Computer City is not an exhibitor at the Essen OS4 event, we will attend as visitors. Therefore, any orders placed before Friday the 14th can be taken with us (when in stock of course) and picked up at the event. Let's call it the "Computer City Trunk-Sale" :-)
As a sidenote, the Image Installer V2 production has now (finally)
started and all ordered copies are shipping early next week. Of course,
the Image Installer V2 CD and DVD editions can also be ordered and
picked up at the OS4 event, where you will have the possibility for a
'meet and greet' with the Image Installer team themselves!
Image-Installer team homepage
Computer City homepage (snx)
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08.May.2004
Spiegel Online
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Police arrested suspected "Sasser" programmer
An 18 year old Nether Saxon from the area Rothenburg/Wümme was arrested on Friday. He is suspected to have programmed the widely spread Internet worm "Sasser". Read more following the title link to a (German) article at Spiegel Online.
(cs) (Translation: wk)
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08.May.2004
Aminet (website)
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Aminet uploads until 08-May-2004
Here are the new added Aminet uploads:
GGSearch.lha comm/irc 2K+Search GOOGLE with AmIRC or Shell
iSpell_YamEdit.lha comm/mail 6K+Replaces iSpell_lookup&iSpell_suggest.YA
trsi-ftpd01.lha comm/misc 172K+FAME-FTPd - FTP Server for FAME Systems
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 39K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
Nature-One.lha demo/intro 103K+One by Nature, #1 64k at Underscore'03
Nature-TTA.lha demo/intro 6K+Tribute to Acid, #2 4k at Breakpoint'04
nano.lha dev/lang 250K+New virtual machine, assembler like lang
Apfelberge.lha dev/src 11K+3D fractal example, includes MOS port
PFS3ud.lha disk/misc 133K+PFS3 undelete
Companion.lha docs/hyper 32K+AmigaGuide frontend for Amiga Developer
AmigaFuture48.lha docs/mags 664K+Great german paper mag preview
nocover122.lha docs/mags 814K+Great german diskmagazine
DC2Lvl-EMine5.lha game/data 471K+99 levels for Diamond Caves II
Follia_NBA_FE.lha game/think 1.4M+Extremely addictive puzzler; pure fun!
Nim200468kMOS.lha game/think 2.1M+Nice wb game based in the classic Nim 68
YAPMG100.lha game/think 2.0M+YAPMG - A tiny MiniGL game v1.00 (68k&Wa
Permutax.lha game/wb 38K+Try to clear 25 levels full of coloured
Star_Q.lha game/wb 45K+Try to solve these star-shaped peg games
GS8gui.lha gfx/conv 44K+GUI for Ghostscript8 done with rxMUI
RiVA.lha gfx/show 50K+Very Fast MPEG Player for AGA/P96/CGFX
ArakAttack.lha hard/drivr 283K+V1.10 USB Driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
WinUAE-AFW.lha hard/hack 70K+AF Wattmeter, for use with WinUAE-ADC.
WinUAE-RFW.lha hard/hack 66K+RF Wattmeter, for use with WinUAE-ADC.
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 569K+Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator for Morp
GNUboy.lha misc/emu 177K+A Gameboy Color emulator with a MUI gui.
make_lnx.lha misc/emu 9K+.LYX to Atari Lynx .LNX file conversion
Nostalgia.lha misc/emu 341K+THE Multi-Emulation system (2.3)
rotate.lha misc/emu 8K+Set the ROTATION flag of any Atari Lynx
imdbDiff040416.lha misc/imdb 3.7M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
PuK-Lottery.lha misc/misc 111K+Puk-lottery v2 (portacall user interface
MC-303setA01.lha mods/blkha 297K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
Nummer2.lha mods/blkha 445K+Techno DBM by blakkhar
Extase.lha mods/cust 122K+Custom module from "Extase"
JesusMedley.mpg mods/mpg 8.0M+Improvisational Medley of 2 themes
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 232K+MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
EP_Cinemaware.lha mus/play 13K+EaglePlayer 'Cinemaware' external replay
SongPlayer.lha mus/play 264K+Cool and powerful audio player V1.62 (68
obligement-44.jpg pix/misc 58K+Obligement's cover n 44
paschiche.lha pix/misc 205K+Pictures made for Paschiche.com
Pixel-preview.lha pix/misc 1.8M+Amiga pictures previews
WBMorphos-2.lha pix/misc 1.8M+Morphos Workbench screen
WBMorphos.lha pix/misc 526K+Morphos Workbench screen
PromoA500.mpg pix/mpg 1.3M+Promotional Amiga 500 Video (in French)
SRename.lha util/cli 108K+Advanced rename utility. Version 3.9.0
ttengine.lha util/libs 515K+TrueType text rendering engine (v 6.6)
AmiZipRecover.lha util/misc 122K+AmiZip-recover v2 (recovers lost .zip'ed
aPersonal.lha util/misc 25K+APersonal v1 (another portacall user int
PFC.lha util/pack 116K+PFCv2 (portacall user interface pui)
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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08.May.2004
#amigazeux
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AmiNetRadio 3 released (update)
AmiNetRadio has been released in version 3.0. The known MP3 and Shoutcast player supports in the new version more formats and offers a new, modular extendable GUI system.
The features:
- Loading, playing and saving of Shoutcast streams
- Flexible search tool for Shoutcast server
- External and inbuilt scopes
- Support of AMPlifier and AmigaAMP compatible plugins
- OpenURL support
- URLs can be inserted as IP and as DNS name
- Support of the XPK system for unpacking of XPK packed files 'on the fly'
GUI modules:
- Classic ANR
- ANR NG
- WinAMP skins
- MUI
Supported sound formats:
- MP3
- OGG-Vorbis
- Audio CDs (CDDA) via AHI
- ProTracker
- AHX
- SoundMon
- Future Composer
For a seamless use are MUI 3.8, NList.mcc, busy.mcc, render.library v30+, guigfx.library v19+, mpega.library v2+, OS3.x or MorphOS and AHI v4+ needed. Recommended, though, are: MorphOS/Pegasos PPC, Internet connection (128kbps or better), 8MB Fast-RAM, graphics card with CyberGraphX v5, MUI 3.9, xpkmaster.library v5.2 incl. 'sublibs' and xadmaster.library v10 incl. 'slaves'.
Archive and official press release can be found following the title link. An overview over the changes can be found under What's new?.
Update, 08.05.2004 (cr)
In the meantime an update to version 3.1 was released. Next to the added support of ProTracker modules under 68k there have some problems been fixed.
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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07.May.2004
Heise Newsticker
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Intel announces Dual-Core-Processor for desktop-computers
Intel has announced a desktop processor with Dual-Core for 2005. The planned Pentium-4-Prescott
successor with codename Tejas will be not produced. The company has not given any statement
if this means the end for the Pentium-4-architecture; but it is more likely that Intel
turns to the Pentium-M-architecture that does not need so much current.
(cs) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future 48 (May/June 2004) published
Today issue 48 of the Amiga Future (May/June 2004)
has been published. The magazine can be bought directly at the editorship. You can choose
whether you want to get the Amiga Future with or without CD.
Content:
- Previews: Gorky, Eat the Whistle, Project Starfighter
- Specials: Icon-Graphic-Adventures, Amiga History part 3
- Workshops: Work with Pegasos, UAE in use part 3, Linux on Pegasos part 2
- Other: Interview with Gerd Frank (AmiAtlas), a.m.m.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2004
Organizer Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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AmigaOS4-Event Essen: ArtEffect in native OS4-version
Stefan Robl will demonstrate ArtEffect in a native OS4-version in Germany for the first
time. Besides this Jürgen Haage will be there as guest. For further information to this
event please have a look at the official website.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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Amigaworld.org: Interview with Elena Novaretti
Amigaworld.org has interviewed Elena Novaretti
who is the author of the ZoneXplorers and the PowerIcons.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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Event: First pictures of Webbit 2004
Under the title link
you can find first pictures of the Webbit 2004 in Padova, Italy.
The MicroA1, Pegasos and Amiga Forever 6 are shown.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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MorphOS: Updates of VIM and Stratagus
Ali Akcaagac has adapted the forthcoming new
version 6.3a of the editor VIM for MorphOS.
Additionally all needed changes for MorphOS now the source code tarballs contains so you will
not need any seperate patch.
Furthermore the realtime-strategy-engine
Stratagus has been updated which
now runs more stable.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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LaSekta: Tarot-program Gitano published / New version of NIM
On the webseite of LaSekta you can find
Gitano (14.3 MB,
Readme-file)
which is a new Tarot-program. Until now it is only in Spanish - if you want to help to translate it
into other languages please contact the author.
Furthermore the game NIM (2.3 MB, Readme-file)
has been updated and has got now music, a stronger computer opponent as well as some
improvements. You need guigfx.library and render.library. The versions for AmigaOS and MorphOS
are included in the archive.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2004
Amigart (Website)
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PC Magazine: John C. Dvorak mentioned AmigaOS 4.0
On issue from 4th May 2004 John C. Dvorak mentioned in US-American PC Magazine
on page 65 after MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported)
also AmigaOS 4.0 and called the competition between the two PPC operating systems as
possible lucky chance for the desktop computers.
He wrote: "Amiga Not Dead Yet Dept.: When I wrote about the MorphOS initiative, essentially a clean-room redesign of the Amiga OS for the PowerPC, I failed to mention that there is still a lively pure-amiga crowd that is developing a new OS for a PowerPC iteration of the original Amiga. OS4's implementation should modernize and perhaps revitalize the platform. A competition between these two camps could be the best thing to happen to desktop computing in decades."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.May.2004
Tom Duin alias Amigaharry (ANF)
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GoScreen 1.0: Redirection of programs to an own screen
The small 68k machine code program GoScreen by Tom Duin alias Amigaharry redirects programs such as AmigaWriter, StormC or DeluxeMusic 2.0 onto an own screen. GoScreen 1.0 is to be started from the Shell and includes some presets. (snx)
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06.May.2004
Michael Christoph (ANF)
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Solitaire: MyKlondike v. 1.00 Released
MyKlondike is an RTG-compatible solitaire card game that also runs without problems under AmigaOS 4 (at this time still using 68k emulation). The appearance of the cards may be changed to your own graphics; with the installation of mreko-datatype or sidreko-datatype you may also make use of a wide variety of card sets in REKO (Amiga) and RKP (PC) formats.
From here on MyKlondike offers the following qualities:
- Support for Soliton card sets
- Background graphics and colors freely selectable
- "AutoPlay" and "WallyWarpUp" automatically
- May be played in a Workbench window or its own screen
- optional display of possible game moves
- Fallback mechanism for screen-mode, background picture and card sets...
[some text not translated -DM]
MyKlondike is cost-free and ready for download at the homepage of its author.
[some text not translated -DM]
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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06.May.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Guido Mersmann
Amiga Arena spoke with Guido Mersmann about his programs ArakAttack and BoulderDäsh as well as his experiences with Amithlon.
The interview was originally conceived for the second issue of the PDF magazine AmigaInsider and is now available at www.amiga-arena.de. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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06.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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Case Modding: Monster A1200 Wins Spanish Contest
Gaby "Keysoft" Martínez won a "case modding" contest in the most important Spanish PC magazine. The computer is comprehensively described in the current issue of the magazine.
In the case are an A1200/040/PPC with Busboard, a Playstation 2, and a mini-ITX PC motherboard combined, outside of that it has an integrated output monitor, on which the video signals from Amiga and Playstation may be shown.
Here are a few pictures of the computer, which measures 20 x 91 x 45 cm:
Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
Picture 4
Picture 5
Picture 6
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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06.May.2004
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Glowicons: "Masonicons" Are Back
Martin 'Mason' Merz, responsible for lots of icon sets in the 'Glowicons' style, redesigned his homepage and now offers all of the icon packs he released during the last few years in one single archive: the "Masonicons collection 2000-2003" (5235 KB).
The archive contains the following icon sets:
- 3pmguiMI.lha
- adocartMI.lha
- amfMI.lha
- amicomsysMI.lha
- amimdcMI.lha
- aminetidxMI.lha
- amipanelMI.lha
- amisdmMI.lha
- amistartMI.lha
- apacheMI.lha
- appMI.lha
- audioMI.lha
- awebMI.lha
- charonMI.lha
- classMI.lha
- cmanMI.lha
- coolMI.lha
- cutnpasteMI.lha
- dataMI.lha
- dbackupMI.lha
- enoteMI.lha
- evenMI.lha
- ezpagerMI.lha
- ffnewsMI.lha
- flagsMI.lha
- giambyMI.lha
- glowflagsMI.lha
- ibrowseMI.lha
- mapplugMI.lha
- metalwebMI.lha
- mftpMI.lha
- miamiphoneMI.lha
- microdotMI.lha
- morehtmlMI.lha
- mreaderMI.lha
- muiMI.lha
- muisearchMI.lha
- ncoasterMI.lha
- nrogMI.lha
- opusMI.lha
- peditorMI.lha
- pfpaintMI.lha
- photoMI.lha
- picshowMI.lha
- pintMI.lha
- playMI.lha
- plotterMI.lha
- ppaintMI.lha
- prorenMI.lha
- prowinMI.lha
- quadraMI.lha
- reqMI.lha
- scalosMI.lha
- showMI.lha
- simplepostMI.lha
- spitfireMI.lha
- stfaxMI.lha
- stricqMI.lha
- tableMI.lha
- taskismsMI.lha
- transcatMI.lha
- turboprintMI.lh
- uaeappMI.lha
- updaterMI.lha
- videoMI.lha
- voimariiMI.lha
- voodooxMI.lha
- voyagerMI.lha
- vpamberMI.lha
- vpbigQMI.lha
- vpbubbleMI.lha
- vpcleanMI.lha
- vpglowMI.lha
- vpmacMI.lha
- vpmirrorMI.lha
- vpsapMI.lha
- vpvisualMI.lha
- vpwinMI.lha
- vpxenMI.lha
- wb2000MI.lha
- webplugMI.lha
- wordpadMI.lha
- workonMI.lha
- yamMI.lha
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.May.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphZone MorphOS Essentials Pack 2 Available
At MorphZone the second MorphZone Essentials Pack is ready for download.
The Essentials Packs gather together a lot of freeware und demo-versions to make things more convenient for new MorphOS users. Pack 2 contains more MCCs, text editors, shell utilities and libraries. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.May.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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PhotoKid V1.0 released
PhotoKid is a tool for a simple lettering of digital pictures. Text is written directly to the picture, therefore every picture viewer can show the lettering.
Such pictures a especially suited for a usage in photo albums on (S)-VCDs. Further information is available at the author's homepage. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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05.May.2004
Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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Event: Time schedule for the 'AmigaOS4 Event' published
At the official website for the 'AmigaOS4 Event', which is going to happen at the City of Essen ('Ruhrgebiet', Germany)
on May the 15th 2004, there is a time schedule of the show published. Also a picture showing the
MicroA1 has been put on that site. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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05.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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Anachronism Industries/Matay: Prometheus price reduction, RTL8029 source GPLed
Anachronism Industries has reduced the price for the PCI bridge "Prometheus" for Zorro III Amigas. Additionally Matay put the sources for the RTL8029 network adapter driver under the GPL.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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TrueTypeFonts: TTEngine 6.6
TTEngine is a textrendered version for AmigaOS based on the FreeType2 project, these makes a simple support for the developers in TrueType possible.
The new version kills some latest found bugs. There are versions for AmigaOS 3 (68020) and MorphOS 1.x (604e).
Directly download: ttengine-6.6.lha (514 KB)
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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04.May.2004
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)
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Event: Genesi with Marvell on the Networld + Interop in Las Vegas
How Genesi publishes, the Luxemburgian company will take part at the
Stand 1935
of Marvell on the Networld + Interop event in Las Vegas, USA from May 9th to May 14th.
Presented are many operating systems and applications on the pegasos-based Open Desktop Workstation,
whose Northbridge is a Discovery-II-Chip of Marvell.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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04.May.2004
Sebastian Buschko (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4 in the latest c't
The c't is publishing in the latest edition the coming delivery of the AmigaOS 4-Prerelease (Site 42). (cg) (Translation: gf)
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04.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5-20 published
MLdonkey for MorphOS is now available in the version 2.5-20
On networks there are supported of those Peer-to-peer for example eDonkey, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap.
It could be controlled local or from the distance with interfaces for example telnet and http.
News since yesterday (version 2.5-19)
- Applied patches: disconnect (Spiralvoice)
- Applied Savannah patches: #3003, #2988
- Fixed bug preventing connections with Overnet clients
- New command 'activity'
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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04.May.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Event: Webbit 2004 in Padova, Italy
From May 6th until May 8th this year the event Webbit take place in Padova, Italy, one of the biggest and most important IT-events of this country.
Placed from the Amiga-area are: Virtual Works, Bitplane, Soft3 and Alternative Technology,
which have doubled their presentation area and there are more computers there, because so the visitors have the possibility to test the developer-prerelease of the AmigaOS4.0.
Special highlights are the AmigaOS 4.0 and the MicroA1 and also Alan Redhouse is called, who ist there for all the three days of this event.
More products of the event are: AmigaOne G4-933, MiniITX-Products, Linux/Linspire, ZetaOS (BeOS) and AmigaForever V6. And Bitplane will be there with his latest edition which contains on a preview for the coming AmigaOS4-developer-prerelease.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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03.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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The Crypt: No. 35
The Crypt 35 - Planet Exploration deals with Knoppix, Mandrake and Flash animation on Amiga. The first of a new series of articles about freely available Amiga Games and funny movies, pictures and jokes are included as well.
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03.May.2004
Bjoern (ANF)
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Filesharing: AmiGift update
A new update for the p2p filesharing client "AmiGift" is now available.
- Bug #946324 fixed - version v36 of rexxsyslib.library is required
- amigift.library bugs fixed
- Chat window scrolling changed
- minor bugfixes
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03.May.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Hymn of AmiGBG 2004 available as mp3
Hymn of AmiGBG 2004 by 2XM is now available as mp3-file at AmiGBG.com.
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03.May.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Gentoo 2004.1 official support for Pegasos
Pegasos is now officially supported by Gentoo 2004.1. The Gentoo PowerPC-handbook now contains installation instructions for the Pegasos. The 2004.1-Universal-CD is required.
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03.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5- 19 released
Version 2.5-19 of MLdonkey for MorphOS is now available.
Changes:
- fixed bug causing lost of partially downloaded chunks.
- fixed bug in recover_bytes
- new edonkey command 'recover_bytes' to recover files at a byte level
- improved emule compatibility
- memory bug in bandwidth management (partially) fixed
- new command 'set_brothers'
- safer options-saving at exit
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01.May.2004
ANN (website)
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Download portal AmigaShare.com open
The download portal AmigaShare.com has started phase I of its implementation and is now accessible by all users after the test phase. The providers hope for feedback by the visitors to optimize the website and invite to the availability of the most popular Amiga applications.
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01.May.2004
Darek Smietana / Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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EU eastward enlargement: Customer information by Elbox and Individual Computers
On the occasion of the European Union's eastward enlargement by ten countries today, the companies Elbox and Individual Computers inform their customers about its effects on future orders.
Elbox in the European Union
We are very happy that now we are in the European Union!
Today, customs borderlines disappear between Poland and: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.
What does this mean for our customers?
Now our packages will reach you even faster!
Also, prices for shipment are definitely lower, starting from EUR 10.00 for customers from EU!
Check it for yourself...
Visit our Online Store at http://shop.elbox.com.
With best wishes,
Elbox Computer Team
Individual Computers welcomes the new member states of the EU
The European Union got ten new member states today. The new states Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia together have about 74 million citizens who's everyday life will most probably not change significantly. We want to spare you the polemics that's seen on all media today and point to an EU-directive that affects every EU citizen when shopping in other countries. Shopping on the Internet is either done with credit cards, PayPal or bank transfers. Customers from many of the new EU member states are not accepted by PayPal, and credit cards are not very popular in eastern Europe, so the only thing left is a bank transfer for mail-ordered goods from other EU states.
EU-directive 2001/C 363/01 (PDF) applies to these cases. It states that cross-border transfers within the EU may not be more expensive than domestic transfers, provided that the currency is EUR, the BIC/IBAN numbers are used (international account data), and the transfer has been entered online. This also applies to the states that haven't introduced the EUR currency yet. It works fine in Sweden for example, but some British banks prefer not to tell their customers about this directive, and charge high international fees.
Sometimes banks try to trick their customers into making a traditional SWIFT transfer by handing them outdated forms. This transfer method still works fine, but the sender bank and the beneficiary bank deduct fairly high fees from the amount. Since the EU directive does not apply to this older transfer method, the fees are justified. You should insist on electronic access to your account, so you can take advantage from this EU-directive.
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01.May.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Online magazine NoCover: issue #122 released
On May, 1st issue #122 of the popular online magazine NoCover has been released and it has already been sent to all subscribers via email.
In the next days this issue will be put online on our homepage http://www.nc-mag.de as well as on the homepage http://www.apc-tcp.de, too. It will bve available on aminet and on the Amiga Future CDROMs.
Enjoy the new NoCover
Wolf Zimmer
Cord Hagen
Andreas Magerl
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01.May.2004
Organizer: Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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OS4 event Essen: Alan Redhouse as guest / AmigaOS4 on CyberstormPPC
As Andreas Weyrauch informs us Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group Ltd.) will be at the AmigaOS4-Event on May, 15th in Essen. And Ralf Toenjes (OS4 beta tester) will demonstrate the current version of the operating system on his Amiga 4000 with CyberstormPPC.
A schedule regarding the presence of each person will be released in the next days. Further information can be found on the official website of the Essen event.
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01.May.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: VIM update, tools&demos package updated
The text editor VIM is available for MorphOS in the version 6.2.517. Besides that, Ali Akcaagac has also updated his tools&demos package (amiga-news.de reported).
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01.May.2004
ANN (website)
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Directory Opus: Amiga source codes for sale again
As Dr. Greg Perry of GPSoftware informs on the official support mailing list for Directory Opus 5 the source code of the Amiga version of the file manager is for sale again after the former agreement with Hyperion has been officially finished in the meantime.
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30.Apr.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packets until 30-Apr-2004
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were originally meant
only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated since
our last message:
- 23.04.04 new: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (Gametek)
- 21.04.04 new: Lombard RAC Rally (Red Rat/Mandarin Software)
- 21.04.04 fixed: Twylyte (Wicked)
- 21.04.04 new: Tornado (Digital Integration)
- 21.04.04 improved: Syndicate (Bullfrog)
- 21.04.04 updated: Railroad Tycoon (Microprose)
- 11.04.04 new: Tip Off (ANCO)
- 11.04.04 new: Civilization (Microprose)
- 11.04.04 improved: Air Support (Psygnosis)
- 07.04.04 new: Twylyte (Wicked)
- 07.04.04 improved: Oriental Games (MicroStyle/MicroProse)
- 04.04.04 new: Tennis Cup 2 (Loriciel)
- 04.04.04 new: Space Racer (Loriciels)
- 04.04.04 new: Oriental Games (MicroStyle/MicroProse)
- 04.04.04 new: Black Shadow (CRL/Zen Room)
- 04.04.04 fixed: Shadow of the Beast 2 (Psygnosis)
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29.Apr.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Interview with Susumu Hirasawa (Japanese Musician and Amiga User)
Ikir Sector, the Italian web-portal for alternative computer systems, has conducted an interview with the well-known Japanese musician Susumu Hirasawa (Group P-Model, Soundtracks of Animes Berserk and Millennium Actress) as well as a long-time Amiga user (Bars&Pipes). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Patrick Henz (E-Mail)
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New FreeCD: "small world FONTS" and "1984"
Two more CD-ROMs have appeared in the FreeCD series. "Small world
FONTS," contains about 2000 fonts, mostly in the TrueType format, and
is directed primarily at graphic artists and desktop publishers. The CD "1984" is a collection of different remakes of classic games, among them "Turrican" and "Barbarian". Each CD costs three euros for handling and shipping. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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LAME: WarpOS Version 3.96 Appears
The current version 3.96 of the open source MP3 encoder LAME at amiga.sourceforge.net now also has a WarpOS version. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Emulator: GenesisPlus Ported to MorphOS
The Sega MegaDrive/Genesis emulator GenesisPlus has been ported to MorphOS, and may be used with MUI-based graphic "skins." (snx) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Heiko Kuschel (E-Mail)
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In Memoriam: Commodore Business Machines
Ten years ago today, on the 29th of April 1994, the onetime USA computer giant Commodore Business Machines declared bankruptcy. Commodore UK and Commodore Germany persisted a few more months, until the Amiga rights were sold to the German concern Escom and later to Gateway 2000. Today, the Amiga OS rights belong to KMOS, the trademark belongs to Amiga Inc., and the Commodore rights and trademark to Tulip Computers. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus 04/2004 (#146) - AmigaOS 4 & KMOS
AMIGAplus 04/2004 (#146) has been published including the following
reports:
- Preview of Amiga OS 4.0
- KMOS-Report
- ScummVM review and interview
- microgolded review
- reviews of Canon i865 and HP 5150
- Amiga Status Report
- Top 7 Shareware
- SVCD-workshop (part 3)
- demoscene-report (What happened to the demosceners?)
- and much more.
AMIGAplus Leser-CD 27 includes the PC-full versions of "Beneath a steel sky" and "Flight of the Amazon Queen (Talkie-version)" plus ScummVM, great icons for AmigaOS from Hemera and Ralf Himmel and the offline-version of amiga-news.de.
AMIGAplus may be subscribed or ordered directly from
falkemedia for 5 Euro including
shipping. (nba)
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29.Apr.2004
Ron van Herk (E-Mail)
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MediaPoint: 68k Source Code Again Online
The source code of the presentation program MediaPoint, originally released in mid-April (as amiga-news.de reported) and then removed from the Net apparently because of commercial software in the archive, has now been placed online again, thanks to the help of Gerd Frank. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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28.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Emulator: Aosolin 0.8.24 (AmigaOSoverLinux)
The aim of the Aosolin project
("AmigaOSoverLinux") is to offer a special suited slackware
Linux distribution which boots directly into an Amiga emulator.
Curently the author tries to join the sources of LinuxUAE
0.8.22, LinuxUAE 0.8.21/JIT and WinUAE 0.8.22 to improve UAE
to his demands. A first version of his emulator (Aosolin
0.8.24) is available at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
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Tulip presents the "C64 Mini Game Console"
Tulip presents the "C64 Mini Game Console" by the title link:
A console fitted into a joystick case with 30 preinstalled C64
games (Summer Games, Winter Games and California Games are
mentioned) which can be connected to a TV directly.
The device, which is a cooperation with Ironstone, is
announced to be released within the 2nd half of 2004 and will
be priced around EUR 30. It's said to be the first device of
an entire line.
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28.Apr.2004
Holger Krefting (ANF)
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Map editor for Tales of Tamar
For the round based strategy game "Tales of Tamar" there is a
new map editor available which has been developed by a ToT gamer. Further information is
available at the title link.
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28.Apr.2004
PPCNUX (ANF)
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Motorola/Freescale announces forthcoming PPC product line
"Freescale Semiconductor", Motorola's semiconductor division,
announces their
forthcoming
PPC product line.
An illustrated, detailed German article about Motorola's plans is to get
at
ppcnux.de.
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28.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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BabelDoc V2.9 released
Lorence Lombardo has released version 2.9 of
BabelDoc. This program uses the according service by
Altavista to translate text documents. The reqtools.library, a
TCP/IP-Stack as well as the KingCON handler are required to
run the program.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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New download link for PegXMac (for newly registered users only)
David Bentham offers a faster server access for his software package
PegXMac now. But it's
required to get a new registration to log on that server and
get the ISO
file.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
Thorsten Mampel, 1. Vorsitzender Amiga-Club Hamburg e.V. (ANF)
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"5. Amiga-Meeting Nord" in Bad Bramstedt
During Friday the 29th October till Sunday the 31st October
2004 there will be the 5. Amiga-Meeting Nord
held at Bad Bramstedt, a bit north from Hamburg, Germany. Up to 40
computers can be brought up and get connected.
Planned is:
- Beamer demo and film presentations
- Hard and Software market (Amigas and accessoires) free of charge
- Creation of a party CD by the participants
- Network with Internet access (DSL)
- Webcam
- Further more...
Of course the main focus will be set to the fun of it.
This year we want to offer the remaining hard and software
developers the possibility to introduce their products to a
broader audience. It is planned to record a movie from those
presentations and to put that to the Internet and cover disks.
Developers interested in this are welcome to contact
Thorsten
Mampel to check the details.
All Amiga users (AmigaOS 1 to 4, MorphOS and Emulator users)
are invited to register at our homepage or directly at the
Hotel "Tanneneck" speaking to Norbert Kapahnke on phone by +49 4192 500071.
The fees:
- For the full weekend from Fri to Sun including two
nights, twice a full dinner (warm) and
twice a (continental, buffet) breakfast the fee is EUR 75.-.
- For the half weekend from Fri to Sat or from Sat to Sun
including one night, one full diner (warm) and one breakfast
(continental, buffet) the fee is EUR 37.50.
- for a day only guest the fee is EUR 5.- (registration
not urgent, those day guests who plan to bring their own
computer must register also!).
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27.Apr.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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Pegasos: PegXMac available (Update)
The Live-CD PegXMac from the PegXLin developer David Bentham (amiga-news.de reported), which allows it to boot MacOS on a Pegasos using Mac-on-Linux without a hard disk-installation of Linux, is now available.
Main features:
- Live-CD (no hard disk-installation required)
- Mac-on-Linux (MOL) 0.70-3
- Automatic hardware-detection (specific for the Pegasos)
- One CDROM, DVD or CDRW drive required
- Easy to use interface for setting up MOL
Advantages of PegXMac:
- PegXMac is the first existing Live-CD which is specifically configured for the Pegasos I/II
- No installation required (except for the MacOS part), just boot from CD if you want to use MacOS only
- Everything is set up for installing the (not included) MacOS, therefore no need to burn the midnight candle for installing and configuring Linux before
- Fast booting
- Easy to use
Update: (27.04.2004, 23:44, cg)
The author's homepage has moved to http://pegxmac.zftp.com/. (snx)
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26.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net
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New IDE for AmigaOS
"Ecommerce Logic" announced a new IDE for AmigaOS. The package contains an interpreter, compiler and the IDE itself.
The supported programming language is developed by "Ecommerce Logic" and is similar to Java and C#. Examples are available at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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26.Apr.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Short-software-news: Updates at amiga.sourceforge.net
Updates of the following ports are available at amiga.sourceforge.net:
hotwayd v0.8 hotmail/msn email client
xpdftools v3.00 pdf files collection tools
cdrtools v2.01 CD burner collection tools
lame v3.96 mp3 encoder
cdrdao v1.1.7 Disk-At-Once burning collection tools
vcdimager v0.7.20 VCD and super VCD collection tools
mjpegtools v1.6.2 mpeg files collection tools
swftools v0.5.1 swf files collection tools
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26.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Review: USB-Stick "Pendrive" with Amiga (English)
A review by the South Wales Amiga User Group (SWAUG) about the usability of the Pendrive with the Amiga is now available at the titel link.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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26.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: CPU-Monitor (Update)
Ecologically friendly CPU Monitor for MorphOS
I'm very proud to annouce that we could finish today the first ever ecologically friendly CPU Monitor for the MorphOS operating system.
CPU Monitor 1.0 is completly based on old and recycled source code. It is also completly recyclable for further use and all non recyclable parts, like the falled out hairs of the development crew, are 100% biodegradable. It was for the first time ever possible to renounce animal experiments, therefore no coders were harmed during the several years lasting development of CPU Monitor.
We're very proud and excited about this success!
Please visit http://www.the-recyclable-cpumonitor-project.org for more information and corporate inquiries.
We opened the shop so you can order your 100% chloroform-free copy of CPU Monitor 1.1 for the MorphOS operating system (C.O.D.) NOW! Also a CPU Monitor Brochure for immediate download is available for free.
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24.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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Amiga ports of avilib, bzlib and libxm12
At amiga.sf there are now Amiga ports of some libraries from the Unix world. Right now avilib, bzlib, and libxml2 have been ported. The Amiga implementations are shared libraries.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
Organizer: Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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Hyperion and the MicroA1 at the AOS 4 event in Essen
The following employees from Hyperion Entertainment will be at the AmigaOS4 event on May, 15th in Essen: Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden (AmigaOS 4), Steffen Haeuser (AmigaInput and several OS 4 ports) and Timothy De Groote (sales manager).
Besides that, the MicroA1 with AmigaOS 4 will be shown for the first time in Germany. Further information can be found on the official AmigaOS4 event website.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MPEG player: RiVA 0.48
Stephen Fellner has released a new version of the MPEG player RiVA with AHI support and several bugfixes. Details as well as a demo version (restricted in displaying no colours) can be found following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename 3.9.0
Constantinos Nicolakakis has released version 3.9.0 of the tool SRename. Using SRename, which requires AmigaOS 3.0+, you can rename files easily.
New features:
- Improved the benchmarking functionality of the STATS option. Added a more
meaningful "Renamed objects per second" statistic. This figure is displayed
only if the given rename operations take at least a second, and an
additional
message is displayed if this figure doesn't represent performance accurately
because of given options or other factors.
Also added the percentage of processed files that are or would be renamed.
- Added the FORCEPATH option to force the entire filepattern to be taken as a
path regardless if it ends with a slash or not. This was added to avoid
having
to add a slash at the end of a path every time a path has to be supplied.
- Display of warnings when the parser detects problematic command sequences
that
can still be executed.
- More speed in Indirect mode and less code size by streamlining the internal
workings of Indirect mode. Several storage buffers were unified into one
making the code that handles Indirect mode much less convoluted and much
more robust.
- Further reduced startup time when Indirect mode is used.
Bugfixes:
- Mishandling of separators under certain conditions.
- Sometimes error messages weren't displayed.
- The Main component failed to be created under certain conditions.
- Incorrect number placement when modifying the Basename using swapping,
shifting or unifying 2-component basenames since version 3.8.0.
- Incorrect operation of Indirect mode in some occasions.
Other changes:
- Added the script "RenumberNoBase" for renumbering batches of filenames that
don't share a common basename.
- Fixed the "HexToChr" script to process only byte hex values.
(snx)
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24.Apr.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga-User-List: Old GAUHPIL website deactivated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll, containing websites of
Amiga users, ordered by continents and countries. Meanwhile, the
GAUHPIL has been converted into a MySQL based database solution.
Today, the old website http://gauhpil.home-pages.de/ was completely
deactivated. From now on, the GAUHPIL can only be reached at http://gauhpil.dietmar-knoll.de. The moderator kindly asks all webmasters to check
their links and update them if necessary. (snx)
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23.Apr.2004
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Soon AmigaOne with AmigaOS-Prerelease available
As the management of Hyperion reports the AmigaOne computers will be sold with a prerelease
CD of AmigaOS 4 after its publishing.
Customers who buy an AmigaOne before the final version of AmigaOS 4 has published
will get the same support and the same access to the updates (which will be online available)
as "Earlybird"-owners. They will be delivered the full version of AmigaOS by their dealers
after it is available.
Prices for the combination of AmigaOne and the prerelease are still not known.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Heise (ANF)
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Forgent sues for licence fees for JPEG
As Heise and
Golem report that the company
Forgent Networks has sued 31 companies for patent violation.
It is the patent number 4,698,672 with which Forgent claims to the
JPEG-compression method.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Pictures of the Amiga-party in Maarssen, Holland
There are some pictures online of the Amiga party which took place on April 17th in Maarssen (Holland)
(Galery 1,
Galery 2
) and additionally an
article of a local
newspaper, too.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: Strategy game "Stratagus"
Ali Akcaagac has ported the realtime strategy engine
Stratagus to MorphOS.
It is not a complete game: Stratagus is only an "engine" which works an external "dataset"
which contains the whole information of a game.
There are several datasets (in different levels of development) and it also works with
files of the commercial game "Warcraft".
You can find a survey about
the different compatible datasets on the official homepage of the program.
Screenshots of the MorphOS-version: 1,
2, 3,
4.
Direct Download: stratagus-mos.lzx (700 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Anonym (ANF)
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merregnon.de: Further mp3s for download
At merregnong.de a CD is being created which contains well-known composers of the game
industry (e.g. Chris Hülsbeck) with own tracks that tell a fantasy story.
You can find two excerpts of the CD under the title link: "Unintentional
Descention" and "Firelit Council" written by Fabian Del Priore and Markus
Holler.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Coyote Flux (ANF)
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KickFlash OS4: New firmware 1.3 available
A new version of Individual Computer's Kickflash OS4 firmware is available now, with several bugfixes and improvements over the last version. There is now one single version which should work on every machine and it now updates the Kickstart version correctly. The floppy disk save code has been temporarily removed.
Kickstart remapping is being worked on and will initially support the CyberStorm/Blizzard cards and the Commodore CPU cards.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Genesi announces CPU-cards with IBM 750GX
Genesi announces to use the new PowerPC-CPU 750GX of IBM for the future processor cards.
They will be used in the new "Pegasos II" computers and will be available for existing
computers as upgrade.
The 750GX is based on the 750FX series and contains some improvements for increasing the
performance and for lowering the current consumption. The CPU offers support for up to
1.1 GHz and 1 MB L2-cache.
You can get further information under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Mind game: NIM
"NIM" is a mind game where you and the Amiga have to take matches away from the game field -
and this one who has to take the last match loses.
The game was written with Hollywood and in the archive you can find versions for
AmigaOS and MorphOS.
Direct Download: nim.lha (382 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2004
Matthias M. (ANF)
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Amiga-Coldfire.de updates
On amiga-coldfire.de which is a website
to the topic "Amiga and Coldfire" there have been some updates.
Besides some improvements on the homepage itself there are also some news of the
Atari ColdFire Projekt (ACP): It is worked on the second version of the Coldfire boards
which now is supposed to come in microATX format with PCI, SDRAM, Expansion Slot and
with onboard-graphic solution.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Apr.2004
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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CD Tools: PhotoAlbum 1.0 Released as Freeware
Christian Effenberger has finalized version 1.0 of PhotoAlbum.
With that he writes: "I decided to make all 3CaDo programs available as freeware. Everyone who uses the program often has the opportunity to send a little money, thereby enabling 3CaDo to be further developed.
The next program I'm targeting is EpisodeAlbum!" (snx) (Translation: dm)
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22.Apr.2004
SongPlayer team (ANF)
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SongPlayer v1.62 now also available for AmigaOS
The Amiga version of SongPlayer 1.62 is available now.
The CDDA management will be improved but you will find a new tag editor for that. The CPU consumption comes back to a low level and a great improvement is the better mp3 support (still no vorbis at the moment).
Another version allows you to use SongPlayer without any hardware hit (full AHI and no filter access). It is well oriented to be used with Amithlon and OS4 under emulation. (snx)
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22.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Genesi named Hewlett-Packard Business Development Partner
According to a press release by Genesi, Hewlett-Packard has named the Luxembourgish computer manufacturer a Business Development Partner.
The press release continues: "Genesi will be offering HP products with
the Open Desktop Workstation and the associated server and thin client configurations based on
the PegasosPPC. HP Technology Solutions and Tool and Office Template Support will be offered in
conjunction with Genesi products." (snx)
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21.Apr.2004
Breakpoint Organizing (ANF)
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Demo scene: Where should the next Breakpoint party be held?
At the title link there is a poll about the demo scene party Breakpoint.
Because of differences about the future of Bingen's Bundeswehr depot, where the party was held this and last year, this poll should help the organizers by their descision if it will be worth to try to obtain a license for that depot for the next year again or if it will be better to switch to the event hall of the city.
Because of the direct effect the answers of that poll will take, the organizers ask to take the time to honest and really think about the answers before giving them.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Apr.2004
Gerd Frank & Manfred Rohde (E-Mail)
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AmiAtlas: Important note about your registration
Gerd Frank & Manfred Rohde write in an e-mail to AmiAtlas-users:
"A short time ago we have released some new updated and enhanced maps.
Please visit our website for further information at www.amiatlas.net.
To estimate the actual Amiga market situation or better to get
information about your use of an AmigaOS compatible system and of course
AmiATLAS itself, we have asked for another registration via our website.
This possibility was used by a lot of people!
So if you have done this registration but still received no updates via
e-mail or if you still want these updates but have not yet registered
again, please contact us immediately at support@amiatlas.net.
The best way to contact us is of course to use the registration form at
our website! Not only to keep our database up to date!
ATTENTION! This is your last possibility to get free updates of AmiATLAS!
All future releases, especially the forthcoming AmigaOS4 PPC version, will
be only available at some costs!
Dont forget: We also offer a nice user forum at our website...
We still wish you lots of fun with AmiATLAS 6!" (nba)
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21.Apr.2004
Martin Wollert (ANF)
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New screen shots and information regarding Papyrus Office (update)
By the title link there are some new screen shots of the MorphOS version of Papyrus Office available. They show the Word document import also. Additionally the information about the supported file formats and the feature list were added.
Update: (13:12, 21.04.04, snx)
Papyrus Office will be available as an Amiga-68k version also.
System requirements:
- AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9
- MUI 3.8
- 68040 processor
- 48 MB RAM
- Graphic adapter with CyberGFX support
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Apr.2004
Mike Preuß (E-Mail)
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Exhibition on tour: Century of the computers - understanding computers
For all those who misses the CeBIT 2004 exhibition "Century of the computers - understanding computers"
there are additional dates for that exhibition in the north of Germany:
- 19.04.2004 - 24.04.2004:
Hannover Industriemesse, Hannover
- 27.04.2004 - 09.05.2004
Karstadt im Holstentörn, Kiel
- 16.05.2004
Fachhochschule, Sokratesplatz 6, Kiel
- 31.08.2004 - 11.09.2004
Strela-Park, Grünhufer
Bogen 13-17, Stralsund
- 14.09.2004 - 25.09.2004
Citti-Park, Langberger Weg 4, Flensburg
- 28.09.2004 - 09.10.2004
Citti-Park, Herrenholz 14, Lübeck - 22.11.2004 - 10.01.2005
PHÄNOMENTA, Norderstr. 157, Flensburg
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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20.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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MorphOS: OpenPictureSpace V2.2
The MorphOS-Port of OpenPictureSpace
is now available in the version 2.2 (444 KB, basecodeindentified).
OpenPictureSpace is a list which contains pictures and show them as thumbmails. Supported are JPEG, GIF, PNG and IFF-ILBM included the Amiga specific forms HAM and EHB.
Instead of listing the pictures to one bar of thumbnails n x m, the OpenPictureSpace just scale them vertical and tries to put so much as possible in one line.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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20.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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AmigaOS4: Screenshots of the SDK Prerelease-CD
Under the title link you can find sreeenshots of Nicolas Mendoza, which shows development tools
for the AmigaOS4-Prerelease software development kits.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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19.Apr.2004
Sigbjørn Skjæret (IRC)
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MorphOS: VCDGear 1.76 released
VCDGear lets you extract MPEG streams out of CD images or convert VCD files into MPEG files.
Further information is available at http://www.vcdgear.com/.
(cr) (Translation: sk)
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19.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Tutorial: BlizzardPPC overclocking
Brian Hoskins explains in his tutorial how to overclock a BlizzardPPC.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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19.Apr.2004
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MorphOS: FIGlet 2.2
Ali Akcaagac did port FIGlet to MorphOS. FIGlet can compose big writings of ASCII signs (MorphOS-Screenshots: 1, 2).
Direct download. figlet-2.2.lzx (170 KB)
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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18.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: Sound Exchange ("SoX") 12.17 (noixemul)
SoX (also known as Sound eXchange) is a commandline tool which translates sound files between different file formats, and optionally applies various sound effects.
SoX is intended as the Swiss Army knife of sound processing tools. It doesn't do anything very well, but sooner or later it comes in very handy.
The no-ixemul MorphOS version was build against libmad and libmp3lame and comes therefore with mp3 support. Following formats are supported:
aiff, auto, avr, cdr, cvs, dat, vms, gsm, hcom, maud, mp3, nul, prc, raw, sb, sf, sl, smp, sndt, sph, 8svx, sw, txw, voc, wav, wve and a few more.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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17.Apr.2004
amiga.org (website)
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Interview with the doers of amigashare.com
On amigacentre.co.uk you can find an interview with one of the founders of amigashare.com.
The aim of amigashare.com is to become a comprehensive download portal for Amiga software. Planned are also "sponsorship" programs where users give financial support for projects.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
Obligement (ANF)
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Magazine: Obligement #44 out now
Issue 44 (1.3 MB) of the French AmigaOS/MorphOS magazine Obligement is now available.
You can read in this issue: latest Amiga news, interview with Oliver Hannaford-Day (Coldfusion project) and with David Boisset (from Triple A association), reviews of Invasion and PairsNG, articles about Ogg Vorbis, ICQ, domain names, TView, Song Player and lot of other things. (snx)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: board-game "Quadromania"
Ali Akcaagac has ported the board-game Quadromania to MorphOS.
Direct download: quadromania-0.2.lzx (426 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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TV: The Amiga on 3sat (German TV programme), today 18:30 h
The (German) TV show "neues" on 3sat will report about the Amiga today (18:30 h). Following the title link you can find the subjects that will be handled in the report:
- Die AmiGBG in Göteborg
- Presentation of AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4
- MacOS (via Mac on Linux) on the AmigaOne
- Amiga Forever 6.0
Further information about the programme can be found following the title link.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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DTP: PDF import for Pagestream
Grashopper LLC announce in the April issue of their newsletter as well as on their homepage the completion of a first version of a PDF import filter for Pagestream.
The filter allows to open and edit existing PDF documents.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: New version of "DOSBox"
The emulator DOSBox emulates a DOS environment to make old PC games running on newer computers. For MorphOS is now a new version of the emulator available.
The most important changes:
- CD-ROM support
- 25% faster than the previous version
- runs now more stable
Direct download: DOSBox.lha (565 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Ghostscript: Spooky V1.0 released
Spooky is a small collection of scripts that make the use of Ghostscript easier. The Postscript respectively PDF files can be chosen via ASL requester. An installer script makes the installation easier. Needs Ghostscript 8.0.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: ShapeShow 1.0 released (update)
The fun program ShapeShow (24 KB) creates moveable windows out of graphics that can be round, with a hole or of another shape. The current version 1.0 still runs not stable, though (memory fragmentation, etc.) and can therefore lead to a crash!
Update (17-Apr-04, cr):
The author points in the comments out that there are only problems if you're using hacks like SmartWin.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: VIM 6.2.479 released
Ali Akcaagac has released VIM 6.2.479 for MorphOS.
The update of the text editor known from the Unix world contains next to the improvements by Bram Moolenar, the author and administrator of VIM, some smaller changes for MorphOS - for example the file s:color-startup that gives the shell ANSI colours. Further information can be taken from the included manual.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5-18 released
MLdonkey for MorphOS is now available in version 2.5-18 (2.4 MB). The package has been assembled because of the continuity by Ali Akcaagac in the same way as it has been handled in the past by Sigbjørn Skjærets and Christian Rosentreters MLdonkey ports.
MLdonkey is a peer-to-peer client for many platforms and networks. Supported networks are for example eDonkey, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap. It can be controlled locally as well as remote with interface for e.g. telnet and http.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: LTris ported
Ali Akcaagac has ported (684 KB) LTris 1.0.6-SDL for MorphOS. It is recommended to play LTris in the full screen mode.
LTris is a Tetris clone with several game modes - next to the classic version there's a multiplayer mode to play against human or computer competitors as well as a demo mode with the computer playing alone.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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Announcement: First Pegasos-Live CD boots Linux/Mac-on-Linux
The PegXLin developer David Bentham announces the first Linux-Live CD for the Pegasos I and II that is for the time being mainly meant to start the version 0.70 of the program Mac-on-Linux.
By this it is possible to start the Pegasos like a real Macintosh computer (the operating system is not included). The Live CD is in the beta testing phase and shall be made available for download soon.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
Andreas Boehm (e-mail)
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Event: XzentriX meeting 2004
In Seeshaupt (appr. 40 km south from Munich) takes from September, 3rd to September 5th 2004 again a XzentriX meeting place - for all "computer friends who believe in a live beyond the standard software".
This is an event for Amiga, Archimedes, Apple I/Apple II, Atari, C64/C128/C16/VC20, CP/M, CPC, Joyce, MSX, NeXT, X68000, Acorn BBC, RiscPC, TI 99/4A and everything else that is 8bit or cult out of other reasons.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Apr.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga User List: GAUHPIL Database now complete
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and
moderated by Dietmar Knoll, containing websites of Amiga users,
ordered by continents and countries.
Meanwhile, the GAUHPIL has been converted into a MySQL
based database solution. The remaining static HTML pages have
been replaced, so that all pages form a closed union again.
On the Welcome page you can find notes about registration.
But this is only a preliminary version. Be prepared for things to
come! (snx)
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17.Apr.2004
Linspire
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Linspire (formerly Lindows) as free download
Because of the necessary name change for the operating system Lindows (that is meant to be some kind of symbiosis of Linux and Windows) due to the law suit with the competitor Microsoft into Linspire has the distributor decided to make the current version 4.5 of the product available for a free download for some days. According to the website is a PC with at least 800 MHz clock and 128 MByte RAM needed to use the software. Further information regarding the necessary conditions can be found under the title link.
(cs) (Translation: wk)
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16.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Prerelease "goes Gold"
Hyperion announces that the Amiga 4-Prerelease has been finished and it will be
copied from next Monday on.
The prerelease contains a snapshot of AmigaOS 4, a polyglot installation guide
(English, German, France and Italian) as well as the AmigaOS 4.0 SDK.
The SDK contains the following components:
- Full installation routine for simple and uncomplicated installation
- GNU C Compiler 2.95.3
- GNU C Compiler 3.4.0 RC 1
- vbcc 0.8f
- GNU GDB Source-Level Debugger
- System Includes V 50
- System Autodocs V 50
- PDF-Documentation for the GNU C Compiler and the GNU Debugger
- PDF-Document "Project Migration to AmigaOS 4.0"
- Example programs with source codes (Reaction, expansion.library, Roadshow, FFS2)
- Newlib.library (experimental shared C library)
- CLIB2 Source-Code
Users can register their copy of the prerelease on the portal site which will go online
soon and which will offer things for download that refer to AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Videos and Audio records of AmiGBG 2004
Under the title link you can find several videos and audio records of the "AmiGBG" (Göteborg, April 3rd),
e.g. statements of Ben Hermans, Alan Redhouse or Jens Schönfeld.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Apr.2004
Heise (ANF)
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Foundation makes Microsoft FAT-Patent dubious
Since December 2003 Microsoft has demanded licence charges for "FAT" (a widely spread
file system which is used on flash-memory or on older Windows versions). It is possible
because the company has got a patent for this technology.
The Public Patent Foundation has requested at the US Patent Office to check this patent.
Obviously the Foundation thinks to prove that parts of the technology existed before
Microsoft implemented it.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Apr.2004
Ron van Herk (e-mail)
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Computer City: MediaPoint available for download
The Dutch Amiga dealer Computer City has opened a website for the presentation software MediaPoint at http://www.mediapoint.biz. Registered users of the site can freely download the full MediaPoint package (for "classic" Amigas) as well as the manuals and the full sources.
Furthermore, Computer City announces Amiga Party Promotions: During the Amiga-Party in Maarssen on April 17th, Computer City will offer special prices on some products. During this day, all these items will also be available for online ordering, for those who cannot attend the Amiga Party. For more information, please visit the "Amiga Party Promotions" section at the Computer City webshop.
At the Amiga Party, Computer City will also demonstrate the final version 6.0.1.0 of Amiga Forever for the first time.
Update: (10:10, 16.04.04, snx)
Later today also the MorphOS version and the CGX support sources will be added. (snx)
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15.Apr.2004
AmigaForever.com (ANF)
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Cloanto released Amiga Forever 6.0
April 15, 2004 - Cloanto released today version 6.0 of
Amiga Forever, the
Classic Amiga emulation, OS, connectivity and support suite officially licensed
by the Amiga companies.
Amiga Forever is available in a downloadable
Online Edition and in a
CD
Edition which includes premium content of historical interest (all
Amiga OS
versions, gallery,
videos,
games) and
KX Light. All versions of Amiga Forever
include Amiga OS 1.3 and 3.X files and make it possible to run Classic Amiga
software (including hundreds of
legally downloadable games) on any PC, with
special support for the Windows platform, but also compatible with
Mac OS X and
GNU/Linux systems.
Amiga Forever 6.0 is a completely restructured package which took more than two years to complete. New features include:
- Preinstalled Amiga applications more than doubled (both in the 3.X and in
the 1.3 environments)
- Support for hard disks larger than 4 GB, mouse wheel, AHI, MUI, etc.
- Built-in web browser, great for both "safe surfing" and for cross-browser
web design testing (e.g. to see how your sites look without Java, Flash or
ActiveX)
- CDs are now automounted in real time (includes CacheCDFS file system)
- Built-in CD audio player and media player
- New Amiga ROM and OS files (as in Amiga OS "3.5" and "3.9", but also
historical items such as the Amiga 1000 boot ROM)
- New reference configurations (for A500, A1200, CDTV, CD32, etc.)
- More than 10 "First Demos" (Boing, Robo-City, Juggler, etc.) added to 1.3
environment
- More realistic emulation (e.g. floppy disk drive sound, which makes an
unexpected big difference in perception, but also required the addition of a
good old "noclick" utility ;-)
- New documentation (HTML shared by both Amiga and host OS)
- Amiga Explorer 6.0 software
- New launcher panel with one-click controls
- New Software Manager for easy emulation news and updates
The CD Edition of Amiga Forever additionally includes the following new
features:
- Boot from CD option (featuring the
KX Light GNU/Linux distribution)
- New Gallery section (includes 1985 Byte Magazine reprint)
- New high quality videos (includes Launch of Amiga New York event)
- New preinstalled games (Mindwalker, Ports of Call, Deluxe Galaga, etc.)
(Please refer to the Amiga Forever web site for important additional
information and screenshots.)
Classic Amiga software compatibility is achieved by means of an Amiga
hardware emulation layer (configurable to emulate different Amiga models and
custom chip sets) and different versions of the original Amiga OS (not an
emulation). The Amiga environment in turn relies on host operating system
functionality to transparently enable modern features such as up-to-date
hardware drivers, virtual memory, WiFi networking, DirectX technology, advanced
power management, Serial ATA storage, etc.
Amiga Forever 6.0 is scheduled to be featured on 3sat TV's "neues" show, on
April 17, at 18:30 (via Astra satellite), and at the Amiga Party in Maarssen,
the Netherlands, also on April 17.
As always, the Amiga Forever Team at Cloanto would like to thank the Amiga
Community for its support over these almost 20 years, which made this new version
possible. (cg)
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15.Apr.2004
MaxWorld (ANF)
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MUI: Preview of the Upcoming PNG Button Class
MaxWorld has prepared a preview (107 KB) of its PNG button class for MUI. The idea came from PNG icons. This class should make possible the use of 24 bit PNG pictures with Alpha transparencies under MUI.
The purpose of this preview of the work-in-progress MUI class is, firstly, to get feedback regarding results with various configuration of Amigas. Following that there should then be a free external MUI class. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Convention: Amiga Meeting and Pegasos Show in Lodz (Poland)
On the 15th of May in Lodz, Poland, Amiga-Meeting 2004 takes place. The computers Pegasos II and AmigaOne will be on hand, as well as the retailers eFUNZINe, Matay and X-Soft. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Apr.2004
Andreas Boehm (E-Mail)
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Convention: Vintage Computer Festival Europe
On 1st and 2nd May 2004 in Munich the Vintage Computer Festival is taking place for the fifth time. The aim of this convention is, according to the organizers, "to promote the preservation and care of 'historical' computers and other (E)DV equipment, to awaken interest in 'excess' hard and software, and above all to live this all up with some fun." The Amiga 1200 will be displayed. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Apr.2004
ANN (Webseite)
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AutoDocReader: Dutch Version Available (Update)
AutoDocReader has now also been translated into Dutch, thanks to Bas Overtoom.
Update: (11:35, 16.04.04, snx)
In the meantime Dank Valwit provided a German version. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Apr.2004
Golem (Website)
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Golem: Apple Makes EMacs Faster and Cheaper
Apple is going to fortify its position in the desktop market by making faster, cheaper eMac models. The entry-level machine comes at the price of 849 euros in the shops and makes use of a 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 processor, 256 megabytes of 333 MHz DDR SDRAM, a 32X combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW), as well as an ATI Radeon 9200 with 32 megabytes of video RAM. Read the complete story [in German -dm] at Golem IT News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.Apr.2004
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)
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Hollywood Designer 1.0 released
After a long development time, Hollywood Designer 1.0 is now available and can be ordered on
the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Hollywood Designer is a high-end
presentation software that creates together with Hollywood 1.9 the ultimate Multimedia suite for
your Amiga or Pegasos.
About Hollywood Designer:
Hollywood Designer is a state-of-the-art WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)
editor for presentations. You can create amazing presentations with just a few
clicks and they will be shown with Hollywood then. You can also save your
presentations as stand-alone executables for AmigaOS, WarpOS and MorphOS.
Additionally, your presentations can be saved as Hollywood scripts. Pages can
be exported as single pictures too so that you can e.g. embed them in a HTML page.
The program makes project management very easy by organizing all your project files
in one directory which you can administrate with the inbuilt data manager.
If you create a new project with Hollywood Designer, it will create a whole
environment for your work complete with icons, drawers and info files. It just
can't get any easier!
Hollywood Designer has everything you would expect from a modern multimedia
application: Many colorful icons, images and toolbars, extensive online help
system, undo/redo, context menus, recent menu, clipboard usage, keyboard control
and a completely localized interface. It uses a page-pased presentation concept,
which means that your project consists of as many pages as you want and each page
consists of as many objects as you want. Objects are for example texts, animations,
brushes and graphics forms. It has a powerful layout window where you can easily drag
all objects around with the mouse, change the look of your pages and modify the
objects attributes. Everything is implemented in a WYSIWYG way.
The program supports bitmap, color, intelli and truetype fonts for your
texts. You can edit your text objects by using the powerful integrated text
editor or you can import texts from external files into Hollywood Designer.
Clipboard text import and export is also supported of course. There are many
text formatting possibilities like bold, italic, underlined, shadow and outline
text which can be used. Of course the shadow and outline style can be configured
to fit your needs. You can also specify the text alignment (left, right or centered).
You can use brushes and animations to create absolutely unique presentations.
24-bit transparency is supported for both types. You can also scale brushes to
your desired size. Hollywood Designer can insert simple graphics forms into your
presentations like rectangles, ellipses and lines. You can configure the shadow
and border settings of these objects as well as some other attributes like round
edges for rectangles and line thickness. You can choose colors from a pre-defined
palette of popular colors or you can mix your own colors in the powerful color
manager. Hollywood Designer is a complete 24-bit application that can display
every single color of the 16.7 million possible colors.
Every object and every page can be displayed with a transition effect. You
can choose from a massive palette of over 150 different transition effects
which are partly very impressive. You can use cool fly-on effects for your
objects like sine wave fly-on, curved fly-on or bounce fly-on. You can also
remove your objects from the display with transition effects! Objects and pages
can be used to assure the correct timing of your presentation which is precise
in milliseconds.
Hollywood Designer can play sound samples and Protracker modules when a page
or an object is displayed. You can modify the pitch value, volume, panning and
loop settings of sound samples. Samples are loaded through datatypes so that
you can use almost every format you want, 8 or 16-bit, mono or stereo. Hollywood
Designer supports them all. Additionally full channel mixing is supported which
means that you can play as many sound samples as you want at the same time. And
also Protracker modules can be played at the same time as sound samples. Audio
support is implemented fully retargetable through AHI.
You can also use the program to create interactive presentations, e.g. you
can add menus to your presentation that query user input and react on it.
This allows you to create even complete multimedia applications like front-ends
or disk magazines. Every object can be used as a button that monitors several
events like mouse over, left mouse or right mouse click. If an event occurs,
you can define many actions to take, e.g. show/hide other objects, play sounds,
start programs, switch page, quit presentation and more.
Advanced users who are familiar with the Hollywood script language can also
embed their own Hollywood code in the presentation. Every object and every
page has the option to execute custom Hollywood code to make the presentation
even more unique. Hollywood code can be easily edited within Hollywood Designer
and there are such helpful tools like syntax checking, online reference and
import/export of code.
Your presentation can be displayed in a window on Workbench/Ambient or on a full
screen for a very noble look of your work! You can configure every detail of the
background frame of your presentation. You can use a background pattern, background
color, gradient, an image or even everything together! Presentations can be configured
to loop after they have reached the end and they can also be started in mute mode
without sound output. Hollywood Designer is just the ideal tool for all your
presentation needs on your Amiga or Pegasos.
Hollywood Designer is a modern application that requires a modern system to
work best. A graphics board is strongly recommended as well as much memory. You
should have at least 32 megabytes of free memory. For users with little memory, there
is a low-end setting which will use less resources than the normal version does.
Additionally you will require Hollywood 1.9. Hollywood Designer comes on a CD-ROM
together with example presentations and an extensive documentation which explains
every part of the program. The program is really easy to use. Most things are
self-explaining and for the rest you have the documentation. Everyone can create
stunning presentations now!
The program has direct support for CyberGraphX and Picasso96 as well as for
AHI. There are versions for AmigaOS Classic and for MorphOS (PPC native). The
program was successfully tested on AmigaOS Classic, MorphOS 1.4, WinUAE and
Amithlon. An OS4 version is planned to be available as soon as the operating
system is available. Hollywood Designer is written in a OS friendly way and
should run on every Amiga compatible system. Get creative now with Hollywood Designer!
Features:
General:
- State-of-the-art GUI allows you to design your presentations
- Uses the popular page-based presentation concept
- Create presentations with a few clicks
- Easy to use layout part which allows you to drag objects around
- Object, page and color manager are very useful tools to manage your project
- Modern interface design with many colorful icons, toolbars and big images
- Fully WYSIWYG compliant
- Support for undo/redo and clipboard usage
- Extensive online help interface for all dialogs
- Hollywood Designer is completely localized
- Many context menus for easy access to all popular functions
- Modern project management with a data manager to organize your project files
- Save your presentations as AmigaOS, WarpOS or MorphOS native executable!
- Every presentation can also be saved as a Hollywood script
- Fully keyboard controllable
- Presentations can be shown in window and full screen mode
Pages & Objects:
- Objects are brushes, animations, rectangles, ellipses, lines or texts
- Each object can have a configurable shadow and border
- Every object can play sounds and can execute timing options
- All objects can be used as buttons to catch events
- Objects can be displayed and removed with a transition effect
- Every object has its own layer and can appear behind other objects
- Objects can also execute your own custom Hollywood code (for advanced users)
- Objects can also be hidden and grouped with the page background
- Full 24-bit transparency support for brushes and animations
- You can use color, bitmap, intelli and truetype fonts
- Different styles are supported for every font type
- Over 150 transition effects can be used for all objects and pages
- Graphics can be scaled to any size
- Pages can have a gradient, image, color or texture background
- Pages can be exported as single pictures too
- All graphics are loaded through datatypes
- Page and object positions can easily be changed
- Rectangles with round edges and thick lines can be used
- Cool fly-on effects with sine wave, curves, bounces, etc.
Sound:
- Objects and pages can play sound samples and Protracker modules
- You can adjust the pitch, volume, panning and looping of samples
- Audio playback fully retargetable through AHI
- Sound samples are loaded through datatypes
- Support for 8 and 16-bit samples
- You can play virtually any number of samples at the same time
- Sample size is not limited
Interactive presentations:
- Every object can act as a button so you can create interactive presentations
- Objects can catch mouse over, left mouse and right mouse click events
- Many reactions on events are possible (e.g. show or hide other objects, play sounds, start programs, quit presentation, skip page...)
- Custom reactions for events are also possible with Hollywood code (for advanced users)
- Use Hollywood Designer to create your diskmags, front-ends or games!
Requirements:
- Kickstart 3.0 or MorphOS 1.x
- 68020 CPU
- Hollywood 1.9
- Graphics board strongly recommended
- 32 megabyte memory recommended
- 800x600 resolution recommended
More information, screenshots and order possibility are available on the
Airsoft Softwair website. (snx)
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14.Apr.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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Boot pictures and screen backdrops for MorphOS
Cato Hagen provides several alternative boot pictures and screen backdrops at the Morphzone for Hdownload. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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14.Apr.2004
ANF
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Protest Against Software Patents in Brussels, Belgium
As Heise Online reports, there are various protests against software patents underway this week, such as a demonstration in Brussels with the motto No Software Patents - Power to the Parliament, a demonstration whose lead organizer is in favor of a cost-free information infrastructure (FFII). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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14.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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April 14th: Developer Feedback Day
The MorphZone declared today as the Developer Feedback Day.
Whoever uses a program today might take the time to write a small message to the according author and let him know that the product is used and maybe place some additional remarks. Most times the authors do not receive any feedback by the users - soemtimes not even when they update the program.
Please take the Developer Feedback Day as a raeson for a quick note to the developers, graphic artists or other activists whose work is used day by day - the authors have earned a honour and maybe also the users will benefit from such responses by generating a new motivation for the developers to care for their products.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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14.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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MAME: Version 0.80 for MorphOS available
The "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" (MAME) for MorphOS is available in version 0.80 now.
The archive (12.05 MB) from the Morphzone (title link) consists of the executable only and requires the file structure of MAME 0.72 or 0.69.
Changes:
- Connection to version 0.80 of the common shared tree
- Triple buffer in full screen mode
- Reduced time delay while audio playback
- small bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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14.Apr.2004
David Scheibler (E-Mail)
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Sunbeam Business Solutions announces Pegasos prebuild systems
Neufahrn, April 13th, 2004 - Sunbeam Business Solutions, an IT consulting company for small and medium business are offering Pegasos prebuild systems since April the 8th.
The systems are available for 699 Euro (G3 system, incl. VAT) or 999 Euro (G4 system, incl VAT) and are orderable at the
XAPO-Shop - powered by Sunbeam. They include the according Pegasos-II mainboard with G3/600MHz or G4/1GHz processor card, 256MB DDR-RAM, a Radeon 9200SE 128MB gfx card, a 120GB hard disk, a CDRW/DVD (G3 system) or CDRW/DVD+RW combo drive (G4 system),a µATX case and Logitech's Premium Desktop Optical.
With their knowledge in assembling integrated systems for private and commercial use Sunbeam Businesss Solutions offers customers the chance to benefit from their experience and to give the customers the freedom to focus on important things and not to mess around with assembling a computer system.
For the future Sunbeam Business Solutions plans to offer more systems based on the Pegasos.
Contact:
Sunbeam Business Solutions GbR
Moosmühlenweg 5
85375 Neufahrn
info@sunbeam-
business.de
http://www.sunbeam-
business.de
http://www.xapo.de (snx) (Translation: ub)
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13.Apr.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #069
Liquid Skies has released the 69th music pack. This time it contains a track named
"Killing Obsession" from the Polish musician Lcr. The cover was created by Kuadziw.
More information about the track:
- Title: Killing Obsession
- Artist: Lcr
- Style: Drum'n'Base
- Length: 3:27
- Format: mp3
The zipped file (about 2.5 MB) is available for free download at the homepage.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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13.Apr.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Update of commodity.library and parallel.device
Last week new versions of the commodity.library and parallel.device for MorphOS
are uploaded to the FTP server for Pegasos customers for download.
Update (13-Apr-04, cr)
The new parallel.device is only for PegasosII systems.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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13.Apr.2004
Darius Brewka (E-Mail)
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AmiStart: Further development of the start menu
Darius Brewka, author of the Windows like Startmenu
AmiStart, points to the further development of this program.
He asks AmiStart users with gfx boards to contact
him via e-mail. AGA and screens under 15 bit are not longer supported by AmiStart.
AmiStart contains a QuickLaunch bar, Drag&Drop-Support and a adaptable graphical surface
allowing transparency, rounded edges, background textures, shape-Layer and many more. (snx) (Translation: gf)
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13.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: LAME 3.96 (non-ixemul)
Christian Rosentreter has compiled the latest version 3.96 of the LGPL MP3 encoder
LAME for MorphOS and provides it for download under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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12.Apr.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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AmiChameleon: Update
After beeing off-line for two weeks the AmiChameleon-Homepage is back! There are some major changes and additions.
Changes:
- Support for Pixload, ReBooter and ArTKanoid
- Documentation update (now available as HTML)
- Online-Help added
- Cache-Structure reworked
- Online-Support for theme creation
- Update of the Installation program
AmiChameleon V1.2 is now available here.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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12.Apr.2004
Jacek Piszczek/ #morphos
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MorphOS: TranspoClock 1.02
Jacek Piszczek released a new bugfixed version of TranspoClock for MorphOS. The archive is available at the title link.
(cr) (Translation: sk)
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12.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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BabelDoc V2.8 (Update)
Lorence Lombardo released version 2.8 of BabelDoc. BabelDoc uses the Altavista translation service to translate texts. The program requires the reqtools.library, a TCP/IP-stack and the KingCon handler.
Update: (13.04.04, 21:00, cg)
Meanwhile version 2.8 is available.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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12.Apr.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: HollyRecord recompilation
Amiga Arena presents in co-operation with Telemar Rosenberger "HollyRecord".
"HollyRecord" lets you easily record animations or presentations made with Hollywood.
HollyRecord has been recompiled with the new version 1.9 of Hollywood. Furthermore a WarpOS-version is now available.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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12.Apr.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Happy Easter from Cloanto / Amiga Forever 6.0
Cloanto wish a peaceful and happy Easter holiday and present the updated Amiga Forever website, which includes the new features of version 6.0 compared to its predecessor. Some work would still be needed on the website, though, and comments are always very welcome.
The new features of Amiga Forever 6.0 compared to version 5.3:
- Preinstalled Amiga applications more than doubled (both in the 3.x and in the 1.3 environments)
- Support for hard disks larger than 4 GB, mouse wheel, AHI, MUI, etc.
- Built-in web browser (great for cross-browser web design testing)
- CDs are now automounted in real time (includes CacheCDFS file system)
- Built-in CD audio player and media player
- New Amiga ROM and OS files (as in Amiga OS "3.5" and "3.9", but also historical items such as the Amiga 1000 boot ROM)
- New reference configurations (for A500, A1200, CDTV, CD³², etc.)
- More than 10 "First Demos" (Boing, Robo-City, Juggler, etc.) added to 1.3 environment
- More realistic emulation (e.g. floppy disk drive sound, which makes an unexpected big difference in perception, but also required the addition of a good old "noclick" utility ;-)
- New documentation (HTML shared by both Amiga and host OS)
- Amiga Explorer 6.0 software
- New launcher panel with one-click controls
- New Software Manager for easy emulation news and updates
The CD Edition of Amiga Forever additionally includes the following new features:
- Boot from CD option (featuring the KX Light GNU/Linux distribution)
- New Gallery section (includes 1985 Byte Magazine reprint)
- New high quality videos (includes Launch of Amiga New York event)
- New preinstalled games (Mindwalker, Ports of Call, Deluxe Galaga, etc.)
(snx)
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10.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net (website)
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Installation instructions for AmigaOS 4 prerelease CD
The installation instructions that will be contained on the AmigaOS prerelease CD for the AmigaOne, was in advance released on amigaworld.net.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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10.Apr.2004
AmigaWorld.net (ANF)
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AmiGBG: event photos by members of the web portal Amigaworld.net
Under the title link you can find pictures from the AmiGBG in the Swedish Göteborg (most of them commented) which took place on April, 3rd. Also shown are photos of some members of the Amigaworld.net team showing their arrival and a city sight seeing tour after the event.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Apr.2004
MCP (ANF)
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More pictures from the AmCluSt hardware meeting
Under the title link you can find some more snapshots from the hardware meeting of the Amiga Club Steinfurt (AmCluSt) in Dreierwalde from March, 2nd to March, 4th 2004.
'The MCP' wrote about it: I hope that we can repeat this once more.
Unfortunately has the community shrinked very much, but we hope that one or the other had a little bit fun in being here. There had been only a little bit (thanks, Thomas) but aside that could the clones and emulators shine with speed and stability.
Maybe a meeting with all German Amiga clubs could be planned?
Start something...
In this sense greetz,
The MCP
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Apr.2004
Organiser: Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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Petro Tyschtschenko promised to come to the AmigaOS4 event in Essen
Petro Tyschtschenko (former chief of Amiga International Inc. in Germany)
has given his firm acceptance to participate in the AmigaOS4 event in Essen. Next to seeing the presentation of the current version of AmigaOS 4 (we reported) will the visitors have among other things the opportunity to get merchandising products signed by "Petro".
The event will take place on Saturday, May, 15th 2004 from 10:00 to 17:30 o'clock in the "Zukunft Zentrum
Zollverein" (TripleZ) in Essen-Katernberg (Ruhrgebiet, Germany).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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10.Apr.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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WHDLoad V16.2 released
The hard disk installation program for old disk games WHDLoad is now available as version 16.2.
Download:
Users version (599 KB)
Developers version (1.3 MB)
Since April, 1st the support for the following games has been added/ improved:
- Twylyte (Wicked)
- Oriental Games (MicroStyle/MicroProse)
- Tennis Cup 2 (Loriciel)
- Space Racer (Loriciel)
- Oriental Games (MicroStyle/MicroProse)
- Black Shadow (CRL/Zen Room)
- Shadow of the Beast 2 (Psygnosis)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Apr.2004
#aros
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Further pictures from the AmiGBG 2004
Under the title link have more pictures from this year's AmiGBG in Sweden been released.
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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10.Apr.2004
The CAPS Team (ANF)
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CAPS project: Exhibiting at Classic Gaming Expo UK / Offline game database
The Classic Amiga Preservation Society, who archive old, copy-protected Amiga games including their copy-protection, have converted another 50 games into the CAPS format.
A list of the new games is available from the CAPS homepage. In the meantime 1599 games have been archived.
Furthermore there is now an XML-based offline version of the games database as a ZIP archive (95 KB) available, which does not yet include the latest 50 entries, though. To display it, an XSL-capable browser is required.
At the Classic Gaming Expo UK on July 24th/25th in Croydon, South London, also the CAPS will be an exhibitor. (snx)
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09.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Emulator-GUI: Nostalgia 2.2
"Nostalgia" is a graphical user-interface for 13 several emulators. The AmigaOS 3-application
works under MorphOS without problems, too. The new version supports now also the emulators
"Snes9x" (MorphOS) and "TGEmu" (MorphOS).
Direct Download: Nostalgia.lha (340 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Petro Tyschtschenko visits Amiga-Party in Holland
The organizer of the Amiga-Party in Maarssen (April 17th, Holland) announces that
the former Amiga chairman named Petro Tyschtschenko will also visit the event.
Petro will arrive only at noon because he celebrates his birthday one day before.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Apr.2004
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)
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Translation Tool: New Version of Amifish
Amifish is a little help program that assists you in translating text through the use of Babelfish.
Because a few routines were changed at Babelfish there is again a new version of Amifish. Besides the program you need: amarquee.library V54, MUI 3.8, betterstring.mcc, nlist.mcc and busy.mcc.
Direct download: amifish.lha (44 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Apr.2004
Ingo Schmitz (ANF)
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Mailing List for Amiga Users in Vicinity of Osnabrück
Whoever wants to stay current on activities of Amiga users in the vicinity of Osnabrück (Rheine, Bielefeld, Germany) may click on the title link to subscribe to a mailing list.
The participants meet once a month to dine, and also schedule hardware get-togethers irregularly as well as coordinating car pools to these meals and get-togethers. (cg) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 08. Apr. 2004, 21:03] [Comments: 0]
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08.Apr.2004
Steffen Gutmann (ANF)
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MUIbase v1.8 Released
MUIbase-Version 1.8 is available immediately from http://www.muibase.de and it will also be on Aminet shortly.
New features in MUIbase since version 1.7 are:
- A new option in the "New Field/Field Modify" window allows changes in the field to be ignored so they are no longer counted as a change in the project.
- New option to sort alphabetically by trigger functions.
- New option, to sort tables and fields according to the sequence in the display list.
- The numbering of the commands GETVIRTUALLISTACTIVE and
SETVIRTUALLISTACTIVE have been changed to begin with 1, as opposed to 0. This is more consistent with the numbering of data statements and display lists, in which index 0 relates at the top of the list. Attention: this change functions under circumstantial incompatibilities with existing projects.
- Correction of false index lists in the user handbook.
- A few bug fixes.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 08. Apr. 2004, 13:00] [Comments: 0]
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08.Apr.2004
Beta2-ML
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ProTracker II: Projected Completion Date Shifted
The completion of the soundtracker program ProTracker II, which had been announced for March (asamiga-news.de reported), has been delayed to December 2004 due to the higher priority of other of the author's projects. (snx) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 08. Apr. 2004, 04:39] [Comments: 0]
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07.Apr.2004
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Instant Messaging: Jabberwocky 1.5 Preview
Tom Parker and Matthias Münch have released the "preview"-version 1.5 of
the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open
XML protocol for a direct message exchange.
A connect with other instant messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is
possible by using gateways.
The new version now allows the administration of several accounts. The
change between the accounts is controlled via an ARexx script which is
available on the website of Jabberwocky.
Download: Jabberwocky040407.lha (71 KB) (cg) (Translation: nba)
[News message: 07. Apr. 2004, 23:46] [Comments: 0]
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07.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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Emulators: Published source codes of TrueReality and SOPE
Mathias 'AmiDog' Roslund released the source codes for his
AmigaPPC-ports of the emulators TrueReality and SOPE. TrueReality is an
emulator for the Nintendo 64, SOPE emulates the Sony Playstation. Both
applications are based on MiniGL and require a 3D-graphics-card to be
executed. (snx) (Translation: nba)
[News message: 07. Apr. 2004, 18:53] [Comments: 0]
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07.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Event: OS4-presentation at QAUG (New York)
The US-american user group QAUG (Queens Amiga User Group) continues its
presentation of the current development status of AmigaOS 4 during
its meeting on April 10th, 2004, in Ridgewood, New York.
In addition to the OS4-show the current Debian-version in combination
with KDE 3.2 and Mac OS 9.2 based on MacOnLinux will be presented.
Possible also Mac OS X and the new UAE-version will be shown. More
information can be found on the
website of QAUG. (snx) (Translation: nba)
[News message: 07. Apr. 2004, 18:41] [Comments: 0]
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07.Apr.2004
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: News review-scans and advanced forum
Kultpower.de, the fanpage about kult-magazines such as Powerplay, ASM and
Amiga Joker, today released some more review-scans and opened an
advanced discussion board for all classic-game-freaks.
News PowerPlay-reviews from Powerplay 10/92: B-17 Flying Fortress
(MS-DOS), B.A.T. 2 (MS-DOS), Carl Lewis Challenge (MS-DOS), Darklands
(MS-DOS), Dinosaurs (Super NES), Gleylancer (Mega Drive), Hook (Super
NES), Hook (MS-DOS), Lemmings (Mega Drive), Ragnarök (MS-DOS), RoboSport
(MS-DOS), Siege (MS-DOS), Switchblade 2 (Lynx), World Class Soccer (Lynx).
The Kultpower and TheLegacy forum announces a new partnership:
STCArchiv.de, which archives articles of various classical
Atari-magazines, is the third operator of this discussion board about
classic games. (nba) (Translation: nba)
[News message: 07. Apr. 2004, 12:32] [Comments: 0]
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05.Apr.2004
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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AsteroidsTR: Update (Version 0.8)
Due to the encouriging comments by the public Thilo Köhler released another update for AsteroidsTR
Changes:
- Keyboard-Bugfix (MorphOS)
- In-Game and highscore music
- Global Internet-Highscore-Register
- "Burning" asteroids from Wave 12
Download: http://www.hd-rec.de/Archive/AsteroidsTR08.lha
Music: http://www.hd-rec.de/Archive/AsteroidsAhead.mp3
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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05.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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bplan: New firmware for the Pegasos II available
bplan GmbH has released a flash update for the Pegasos II firmware. Please read the installation instructions carefully.
Changes:
- Network boot 10/100 (setenv client-ip/setenv server-ip)
- 256MB memory limitation under Linux removed
- RAM Timing changes for better support of different memory modules
- additional RTAS functions
(snx)
[News message: 05. Apr. 2004, 19:14] [Comments: 0]
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05.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: RunDOS V1.1 released
Version 1.1 of RunDOS is now available
Download: Version 1.1 (33 KB)
(snx) (Translation: sk)
[News message: 05. Apr. 2004, 19:05] [Comments: 0]
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05.Apr.2004
Murakami (ANF)
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Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 26 released
aMiGa=PoWeR is a magazine issued by the French association AFLE. Since its creation in 1998 the aMiGa=PoWeR became one of the leading French Amiga publications.
Among other reports you can find the following topics in the current issue number 26:
- KMOS
- AmigaOS4
- Destinea Wars
- Barkanoid 2
- GoldED Studio AIX SP16
- Hollywood Designer
- Jamiga v0.0.2
- PairsNG v2.4
- Screenplay
(snx)
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05.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Benchmark: AmigaOne vs. Pegasos
Findings of a benchmark between AmigaOne and Pegasos can be found at the title link. Rage was used for this benchmark wich is available for AmigaOS4 as well as for MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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