10.Aug.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Version 0.10 beta of information tool statline
Version 0.10 beta of the information tool 'statline' is available.
Changes:
- size gadget area is now a bit larger (catoh, canuma)
- added placeholders for opened screens and windows
- uses now BetterString for the formatstring (prefs)
- added placeholder for env vars
- added poplist for placeholders (prefs)
- added uptime and record uptime
- added placeholder for context switches per second
- added CPU temperature (not tested, maybe it works with MorphOS > 1.4.2 and G3)
- added CPU usage with dnetc filter
- certain smaller optimizations
- optimized calculation of load average (thx to piru for example)
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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10.Aug.2004
Gerhard Schmid (E-Mail)
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WinUAE: Major bug in version 0.9.90
The latest version 0.9.90 of WinUAE contains major bugs in the filesystem emulation,
that can lead to data loss.
Verson 0.9.91 (in progress) will contain these changes:
- Bugs in 0.9.90 fixed:
- Multiple directory filesystem emulation bugs (files getting truncated
to zero if opened in rw-mode, read-only files failing to open and some
operations returning incorrect AmigaDOS error codes)
- AGA horizontal scrolling bug in some games.
- Stereo separation setting was not always set properly.
- Another task-switching Direct3D/OpenGL-mode problem.
- Other bugs:
- Picasso96 black screen after CTRL-ALT-DEL.
- New features:
- "uae-configuration" Amiga side program that can list current configuration, change all
configuration parameters and send any inputevent on the fly.
- Both right alt and ctrl are mapped to firebutton in keyboard layout B
(some laptops don't have right ctrl).
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2004
Heise Newsticker
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 finished
After a longer period of time the operating system producer Microsoft now announced the finishing of the Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. It is said to be available for download for 25 languages in the coming two months. Alternatively it can be ordered for free on CD. The Service Pack 2 contains for the most parts security relevant improvements that are Microsoft's reaction on the criticism of their security concept for their OS. Read more in the (German) article of the Heise newsticker following the title link.
(cs) (Translation: wk)
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07.Aug.2004
Ralf Himmel (ANF)
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Haage & Partner: icon competition
The company Haage & Partner organizes an icon competition for AmigaOS 4. Looked for are complete OS4 icon sets or an application set. The creators of the three best looking sets win an OS4 version of ArtEffect. Deadline for the competition is October, 6th 2004. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.Aug.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)
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Instant Messenger: sixth prerelease of Jabberwocky V1.5
The sixth prerelease of v1.5 of the instant messenger Jabberwocky is now available. New are among other things the gadgets updating for changes done via the ARexx port, opening and closing the datatypes.library only once and reworked sound routines.
Download: Jabberwocky_aos_v1_5pre6.lha (82 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2004
heise.de (ANF)
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PPC-Linux: First preversion of Yellow Dog Linux 4
Terra Soft Solutions has published a first preversion of its PPC-Linux-distribution
"Yellow Dog Linux Release 4".
The preversion runs on Apple Macintosh computers with G3-, G4- or
G5- (PPC 970) processors.
So far only a 32-Bit-version has been planned and the 64-Bit-modus of the PowerPC G5
is being not supported currently.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Ati-News (ANF)
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Sources of Q3-Engine will be released at the end of the year
In a forum John Carmack from ID Software (Doom, Quake) announced on
slashdot.org that the Quake3-source codes will be released at the end of this year.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
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Hardware-FAQ: Which floppy drives work with an Amiga?
Under the title link you can find an English FAQ which lists information to the
compability of several floppy drives to the Amiga.
If you have to change a floppy drive on your Amiga you can find there important
information.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Amiga Games Hit Parade (ANF)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results July/August 2004
The results of the Amiga games hit parade of July/August 2004:
- 1. (1) Quake 2 - 96 pts
- 2. (7) Slam Tilt - 89 pts
- 3. (5) Heretic 2 - 76 pts
- 4. (2) Earth 2140 - 75 pts
- 5. (3) Payback - 74 pts
- 6. (4) Crossfire 2 - 62 pts
- 7. (12) Sensible World Of Soccer - 62 pts
- 8. (13) WipEout 2097 - 61 pts
- 9. (9) Napalm - 59 pts
- 10. (6) Knights And Merchants - 53 pts
- 11. (11) Quake - 50 pts
- 12. (14) The Settlers - 49 pts
- 13. (28) SuperFrog - 47 pts
- 14. (33) Shogo - 42 pts
- 15. (34) Stardust / Super Stardust - 35 pts
- 16. (52) Bubble Heroes - 39 pts
- 17. (22) Hired Guns - 31 pts
- 18. (17) Fields Of Battle - 31 pts
- 19. (19) Dune 2 - 29 pts
- 20. (10) Kick Off 2 - 28 pts
The next votes (for September/October 2004) will be started on September.
You can get further information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-EuroArchiv I: V1.6 published / DKG II-Status
SN-EuroArchiv I V1.6 is available on my homepage. You can now limit all statistics
to one year or month to show only the whole statistic of e.g. August 2004.
This limitation can be also linked with the "free choice gadget" which has been added in the
last version.
DKG II-status: I only have to finish the buying of buildings of competitors.
Then a proper test of the new routines of the real game (and not the debug version)
must be done to see if it is all right. I think during the next seven days
a new release will be published. If you want to know what features have been added in the
new version then have a look at the
status-website.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Website of the GAUHPIL database updated
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, a cosmetic change was done, that should improve the look a lot:
the languages of the homepages are now symbolised by small flags. (snx)
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05.Aug.2004
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Various Software Updates by Thilo Köhler
Thilo Köhler released the following updates to his programs:
- Sample Manager 1.3 - AHI sample editor in the AudioMaster style with DSP effects
- PosTED 1.3 - Memory aid for Workbench in the style of PostIT!
- TuiTED 1.3 Alpha - Text editor with data browser and syntax highlighting for HTML, C++, AmiBlitz
- TKPlayer 1.3 - Mini-AHI-player for mp3, aiff, wav, maud, 8svx, cdda.
ideal for Def-Icons or for a filer on account of the fact that it has no extensive GUI. New: TKPlayer Lite, which doesn't open a GUI at all and therby may be utilized as a soundplayer in programs such as YAM.
- AsteroidsTR 1.2 - Asteroids clone with global Internet highscore List. New: improvements to the Internet highscore list and better compatibility with MorphOS
- ArTKanoid 2.9 - Arkanoid clone for the WB screen w 24 bit skins. New: more sound skins, bugfixes
The named software is available under the title link or on Aminet, after the next Aminet refresh. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Psyria Music Productions (ANF)
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More Amiga Games for Mobile Telephone
Psyria writes: because the subject has come up in today's news I'd also like to mention something.
For those familiar with good old Amiga games, the following two links should be of interest:
Jubble Bobble -
freeware Bubble Bobble for all Siemens Handys with Java
Tower - Nebulus Buy&Play variant (levels may be purchased alongside) for various Handy models
Have fun with the gaming! :) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer for Mobile Telephone
Under the title link you'll find an english language interview with Tower Studios, a firm that was recently founded by Jon Hare (former leader of Sensible Software), Mike Montgomery (former leader of Bitmap Brothers) and John Phillips (former Technical Director of Bitmap Brothers). They want to bring the Amiga game classics Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer to mobile telephone. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Olaf Barthel & Matthias Rustler
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Sourceforge Project for "clib2"
"clib2" is a C library that's used in OS4 wherever the alternative "newlib" is not. Olaf Barthel has worked on this library for two years, originally with the goal of using it for the port of Samba 2.2.5.
In the meantime a lot more has happened:
An almost complete ISO-C (1994) compatible runtime environment with fully available source code. It may be used with GCC (68k und PowerPC) or SAS/C. Whoever has problems with the StormC runtime library, for example, may have better luck with clib2 (assuming an adaptation to this compiler has been made).
Because such a big project is not without bugs after two years, Olaf would be pleased to have the support of more developers. To this end the clib2 project has been hosted on sourceforge.net for the past few weeks. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS Adaptations of MUIFind and Altabber, Devedie Update
The programs Altabber and MUIFind are now also available for MorphOS. Relating to that there have been some recent instances of bugs being eliminated that gave the current MorphOS version problems.
And so the graphic user interface of Devedie for DVD display by way of MPlayer has been updated. This may be downloaded for Pegasoshere , in the Pegasos Forum.
MUIFind is a search program taht has the option of opening the found data as well as opening the corresponding program.
Altabber works in principal like Alt+Tab key combinations under Windows. It also enables switching between programs. The way this is done involves separate handling of screens and windows, and the hotkeys are freely configurable.
Download:
Altabber-MOS.lha (43 KB)
MUIFindMOS_R2.lha (46 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Incriminations against Genesi in connection with the Guardian withdrawn
While reporting about the discontinuation of Pegasos support by the operating system OpenBSD, we also linked to a statement by Mitch B. Parker on the mailinglist OpenBSD-misc. Mr. Parker had worked on the Guardian project together with Dale Rahn and ShopIP.
In the mentioned mailinglist posting, he had accused Genesi of reverse engineering and sabotage with regard to ShopIP's CrunchBox. Under the title link, again on the OpenBSD-misc mailinglist, he has now withdrawn his incriminations as being utterly false. (snx)
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04.Aug.2004
ANN (Website)
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Report from the AmiWest 2004
Warren Katchmar has published a report about the "AmiWest 2004", which was done in Sacramento (California, USA) on July the 24th and 25th, at intuitionbase.com. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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04.Aug.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Beta version of the Free Pascal-Compiler available
Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh has provided a first developer snapshot of the MorphOS version of Free Pascal for download at the title link.
The current version has been published mainly for those who like to play around with it - for bigger, serious programming projects this version is not matured enough yet, but this should change quickly.
The Free Pascal compiler for MorphOS is based on the same sources as the current FP-CVS version 1.9.5. Further information about this programming language is to obtain from http://www.freepascal.org. There is also some MorphOS specific information regarding the Free Pascal compiler.
Download: fpc_20040803.lha (2.4 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Aug.2004
Michael Garlich (ANF)
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Papyrus Office: Preordering phase for MorphOS started
Titan Computer has started the preordering phase of Papyrus Office for MorphOS. Those who preorder save 10 Euro.
Please note that you must have a working Turboprint system. If Turboprint does not work properly on your Pegasos, Papyrus will not print correctly either. (snx)
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31.Jul.2004
Amiga.org (website)
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Commodity: Window2Front
Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer's commodity Window2Front is since today available on Aminet.
Unlike other programs of this kind it doesn't move the windows to the front via mouse click but via keyboard hotkey - which makes the need of rearranging the windows when the wanted one is just now completely covered and not directly accessable via the mouse obsolete. Required are at least Kickstart 2.04 and the commodities.library.
Download: Window2Front.lha (8 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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31.Jul.2004
Simon Goodwin (ANF)
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Spam blocker: SpamFryer 3
'SpamFryer' checks the headers of all e-mails in your pop3 account without downloading the whole mail and deletes unsolicited mails directly on the server. For users with broadband Internet access there's an option to check your local mail folders after downloading all mails.
SpamFryer 3 knows more than 100 ways to identify unsolicited e-mails and can be configured by editing ASCII configuration files.
Direct download: SpamFryer.lha (77 KB)
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Jul.2004
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AmigaOS 4: Various software updates
Ripple
This is a small graphics effect for your Workbench.
Direct download: ripple.lha (45 KB) (readme)
ELIST
ELIST is an expanded 'List' command that marks executables as 'PPC native ELF binary' or '68k hunk binary'.
Direct download: elistv1.2.lha (54 KB) (readme)
vmpeg
vmpeg is an MPEG movie player with audio support. The author describes this version as "a work in progress, not fully functional yet".
Direct download: vmpeg.lzx (239 KB) (readme)
HTML Tidy
'HTML Tidy' cleans up and fixes HTML code.
Direct download: tidy_os4.lha (494 KB) (readme)
(cg)
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31.Jul.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5.22
MLdonkey is a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client. Currently,
with eDonkey, it supports several large networks, such as Overnet,
Bittorrent, Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire, etc.), Gnutella2 (Shareaza),
Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster), Soulseek (beta), Direct-Connect (alpha),
and Opennap (alpha).
Changes for 2.5.22 since 2.5.20:
- Fixed a bug in number of sources computation.
- Major changes in search results management
- 'mem_stats' now takes an argument (0 normal, 1 more details).
- Fixed bug adding unwanted friends
- Added RSS loading via option web_infos (command "rss")
- DonkeyClient: re-implemented indirect connections
- Applied Savannah patches:
#3165 (ipset), #3166 (mozilla height), #3178 (BT compatct). #3184 (hightime)
#3162, #3005 (networks), #3007 (printf2), #3008, #3016 (solaris), #3017
(log),#3023 (telnet), #3024 (log), #3028 (donkey-ip), #3029 (firewalled),
#3030 (log), #3031 (ft users), #3033 (chmod), #3039 (Makefiles), #3046
(telnet), #3065 (misc), #3067 (bsd), #3096 (wincomp), #3100 (force dl),
#3070 (upload), #3120 (html), #3124 (ed2khash)
For a full list of changes read the ChangeLog inside the archive.
The archive can be downloaded from the title link.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Jul.2004
Dirk Best (ANF)
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PDF magazine: APoV (Amiga Point of View) issue 2
'Amiga Point of View' is a retro-gaming magazine distributed as a PDF file. Amongst other things, this issue contains the following things:
- Reviews': Micro Machines, Ishar, Aladdin, The Lion King, Robocop, Liberation CD32, Yogi's Great Escape, PD games
- Articles about Bullfrog, interpreters und Open Source conversions
- Walkthroughs, Hints And Maps for Legend Of Kyrandia, Zak McKracken Part 2, Switchblade Level 2
- Also: News, mini-articles, CAPS, WHDLoad, letters, adverts, back page
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Jul.2004
AMIGAplus editorial staff
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AMIGAplus readers survey 2004 until August 30th, 2004
In the current issue #09/2004 of the AMIGAplus a big readers survey
was started to deliver not only feedback about the AMIGAplus but also give a representative overview of the current used Amiga systems in the market. You can participate in this survey until August, 30th (over than described in the magazine) and win a Kodak digital camera. The editorial staff is pleased about the already high number of participants - thanks to all, also the future participants!
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.Jul.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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OpenTTD v0.3.3 for AmigaOS 68k and WOS
Open Transport Tycoon is a clone of the strategy game "Transport Tycoon
Deluxe" by Microprose that comes with numerous improvements and new qualities. Frank Menzel has released the new version 0.3.3 of OpenTDD for AmigaOS 68k and WarpOS (among other things with network support) that can be downloaded using the title link. In addition to this version the original data of the Windows version are required.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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