16.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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intuitionbase.com opens online shop
The AmigaOS 4 information site intuitionbase.com has
opened an online shop. The first available items are
"AmigaOne" stickers for computer cases.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jun.2004
Andreas R. Kleinert
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SViewIV: PPC modules released
In addition to the key file, Andreas R. Kleinert has also released the PPC modules for SViewIV today by uploading them to Aminet. Previously, these modules were only available for registered PPC users. (snx)
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12.Jun.2004
#amigazeux
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AmiNetRadio: New skins
Following the title link you can find new skins available for NG-Gui of AmiNetRadio, among others "CogWheel" by EmericSH or "Earlgrey" by Cato Hagen.
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jun.2004
jami (ANF)
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Publication: IBM PowerPC newsletter #17 released
The latest issue #17 of the English PowerPC Processor
News by IBM covers the following topics:
- 64-bit PowerPC technology for high-volume server applications
- Power management techniques in IBM PowerPC microprocessors
- PowerPC 970FX processors in Spain supercluster
- PowerPC 750GX in Momentum's single-board computers
- IBM PowerPC microprocessors in Artesyn's telecom blades
- Optimizing device software development with IBM PowerPC
The reading of the newsletters is possible for free following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jun.2004
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DTP: Grashopper LLC announce Pagestream 5.0
Grashopper LLC announce on their website the immediate availability of "Pagestream 5.0" for Windows and Linux. Versions for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS are said to follow later this month. The schedule for the AmigaOS 4 version is said to depend on the further development of things due to the OS rights transfer to KMOS.
New in Pagestream 5.0:
- Alpha blending for text and objects
- Picture Transparency
- Text Widow and Orphan Control
- Definable Printer Marks
- More shortcuts
- Path Flatten and Smooth
- Hanging Bullets, DropCaps and Number
- New Duplicate Objects Method
- etc.
New in Pagestream 5.0 Pro:
- Place PDF Objects
- Objects can be exported as bitmap
- Automatically Adjust Text Width Justify
- Gradient/Radial Blend Masks for Pictures/EPS/PDF/Drawings
- Path Math: Union/Add/Unique/Subtract
- etc.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jun.2004
www.masonicons.de (ANF)
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AISS (Amiga Image Storage System) released
AISS (Amiga Image Storage System) is a system to manage toolbar images under AmigaOS. Some default images are already implemented. Further information and a link for downloading AISS can be found on the MasonIcons website following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jun.2004
Sabrina Online editorial office (e-mail)
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Comic: Sabrina Online.de with strips #221-#225
After a longer break new Sabrina comics were released on the website "Sabrina Online" under the title link:
- 221 Frauengespräche
- 222 Kein Kommentar
- 223 Wiedersehen zum Wiedersehen
- 224 Auf in den Alltag
- 225 TIMMIEH!
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jun.2004
ANN (website)
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distributed.net: "Amiga RC5 effort" team third
Within distributed.net's OGR-25 competition computers that are organized in teams calculate so called "optimal Golomb scales".
The "Amiga RC5 Team Effort", founded years ago to participate in the decryption of RC5 "keys", is on the third place in the OGR competition.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jun.2004
amigafuture.de
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Backup software: Back-it-all-up version 9.6
Colin Wenzel has released version 7.3 of his backup tool 'BACK-IT-ALL-UP'. The program is able to backup complete hard drives, supports up to eight partitions and requires AmigaOS 3.x.
Direct download: backitallup96.lha (17 KB)
(cg)
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11.Jun.2004
Raziel (ANF)
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Adventure-Engine: ScummVM 0.6.0
Uwe Ryssel has compiled version 0.6.0 of the adventure engine ScummVM for AmigaOS. As usual, there are versions for 68k and WarpOS.
Using ScummVM, classic adventures from LucasArts - like for example Monkey Island 1-3, Day Of The Tentacle, Sam & Max, The Dig or Full Throttle - can be played on modern Amiga systems. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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11.Jun.2004
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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amiga-news.com online again
Simon Neumann wrote:
"Amiga-news.com which formerly was Amigaliennews is now online again and will be still
more up-to-date because of additional editors and improved web technology.
Because of many mails and some reflections we have made up our minds to call us "amiga-news.com".
We do not want to be a competitor to existing Amiga news sites but more a completion.
We also want to point out that we have underestimated the possibility of confusion
with amiga-news.de to the time of registration of our domain.
We did not have this intention. From our point of view amiga-news.de is one of the best
Amiga news sites which we all owe a lot.
Because of the positive messages of the last days about the development of the new
Amiga system we have decided to publish an AmigaOS 4-software list. It is meant to
give you a syrvey about current AmigaOS 4-software.
We all wish you a lot of fun with our new sites."
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jun.2004
Amiga Games Hit Parade (ANF)
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Amiga games hit parade: Results May/June 2004
Under the title link
you can find the results of the Amiga games hit parade for May/June of this year.
The first place has not changed with Quake 2 followed by Earth 2140 and Payback.
The vote for July/August will be started in July.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Swedish OS4-Prerelease-Parties
Because of the delivery of the AmigaOS4-Prerelease ACG Göteborg which is the Swedish
Amiga user group and Syntax-Society have announced the OS4-Prerelease-Parties.
One will be take place from June 18th to 20th in Landskrona the other in Stockholm to another date.
The organizers want you to take your Classic-Amiga or AmigaOne to the party.
Visitors with a computer have to pay 50 kronor.
For further information please have a look at ACG Göteborg
but which is only in Swedish.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jun.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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Linux: PPCZone opens
On June 10th PPCZone which is the PPC
Linux-counter-part to MorphZone has opened.
Webmaster is Dave 'Targhan' Crawford, too.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jun.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Genesi: Photos from the Freescale International FAE Conference Tech Fair
Under the title link you'll find photos from the Freescale International FAE Conference Tech Fair in Austin, Texas (USA), in which Genesi currently is presenting the Pegasos and associated products such as Open Desktop Workstation. Also Pegasos training of the Freescale colleagues (photo) has occurred here (as amiga-news.de reported). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jun.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Amiga C Course for Beginners Newly Expanded
The Amiga C course for beginners has been expanded with a few exercises that are (hopefully) appropriate for beginners. These exercises are found in the current archive of the course. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: CPU Monitor V1.3 Released
Christian Rosentreter has released an update to his CPU Monitor for MorphOS (screenshot).
Changes since version 1.0:
- fixed refresh bug (thx. to itix for solution)
- added vertical grid
- removed a small memory leak
- added DONOTACTIVATE tooltype
- added NOSIZEGADGET tooltype
- added BORDERLESS tooltype + additional required functionality
- internal cleanups and improvements
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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English Pegasos Review by Prof. Peruggi Expanded / Italian Translation
The very comprehensive English language review of Pegasos and the MorphOS operating system by Prof. Fulvio Peruggi, From Genesi(s) to Revelation, (amiga-news.de reported has been reworked and expanded. The text is now also in Italian. Inquiries about translations into other languages are welcome, if anyone with the "soul of a martyr" feels up to it. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jun.2004
Maxime Doyen (ANF)
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HomeBank: German Language Catalog Data Available
For the a-while-ago-released-as-freeware program HomeBank from Maxime Doyen there is now also german language catalog data (6 KB) available. The author is thankful to Andreas Mayer-Gürr for this translation. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Jun.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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DvPlayer: Screenshot of an Upcoming Movie-Player for OS4 (Update)
RiVA author Stephen Fellner is now working on a movie output program for OS4 by the name of DvPlayer (screenshot). More information should follow shortly.
Update: (16:08, 10.06.04, snx)
As the author stated in a comment on Amigaworld.net, DvPlayer is not based on RiVA but is, on the other hand, a completely new project. MPEG1/2, Video-CD, SVCD and DVD are envisioned as output formats, but other formats will possibly be supported. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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09.Jun.2004
Amiforce (ANF)
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Abakus-Design: New screenshots of Port Royal
There are new screenshots from the the currently being developed adventure game Port
Royal available at
Abakus-Design's
website.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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09.Jun.2004
Giancarlo Piscitello (ANF)
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PNG icons: AmiCrystal v1.1
Giancarlo Piscitello released a new version of his icon pack 'AmiCrystal' (Screenshot, low resolution / Screenshot, high resolution).
Direct download: Ami-Crystal.lha (1.7 MB) (cg)
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09.Jun.2004
Thomas Steiding (ANF)
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Barkanoid 2 for MorphOS/AmigaOS?
In a joint press release, Magnussoft and e.p.i.c. interactive announce the availability of Barkanoid 2 for Linux and MacOS. Thomas Steiding (e.p.i.c.) asks for feedback regarding a potential MorphOS or AmigaOS version:
"e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh could port Barkanoid 2 to MorphOS and/or AmigaOS as well. As we are unable to estimate the size of the current market and the resulting demand, we would appreciate feedback regarding ports to the operating systems mentioned above."
(cg)
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09.Jun.2004
ANN (website)
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SWAUG: Mounting an Amiga 1200 into a standard tower case
Under the title link
the South Wales Amiga User Group describes the mounting of an Amiga 1200 into a normal PC tower case. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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09.Jun.2004
Hans-Jörg Frieden (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: official status update
AmigaOS 4.0 status update
by Hans-Jörg Frieden, Hyperion Entertainment
With the Developer Pre-release finally out, the time is right for a status report on the current state of AmigaOS 4.0. The huge amount of work invested into the project by a lot of dedicated developers means that there has already been substantial progress since the pre-release.
Some of the 68k components of the pre-release have in the meantime been ported to PowerPC code. The most prominent of these are Picasso96 and MUI. While Picasso96 is still in alpha test among the developers, the PPC version of MUI is being beta-tested right now, and is expected to be stabilized soon.
The kernel has also seen some updates. Among other things, it now supports a special resource called the performance monitor. The performance monitor is a hardware profiler within the CPU that allows the programmer extremely fine-tuned profiling of code, even including counting cache hits and misses, instruction timing, pipeline stalls, number of instructions patched, instruction throughput, and a lot of other factors. The performance monitor is controlled via performancemonitor.resource, which offers an easy-to-use API that wraps all this functionality into a few functions.
Further improvements of the kernel include support for the Altivec unit. The Altivec unit is a SIMD vector processing unit. SIMD stands for "single instruction multiple data", meaning that a series of instructions is executed in parallel on multiple streams of data items. Altivec has a lot of uses, most prominently in 3D graphics, but also in image processing, signal processing, compression/decompression, and all general computing applications that inherently work by executing the same instructions on large datasets. Altivec support in the kernel isn't 100% stable yet, but is expected to be fully functional very soon.
Moovid, the well-known media player, has now also been ported to PowerPC, and the results are quite spectacular. An Altivec-enabled version is also in the works. Moovid plays a wide range of movie codecs, including DivX.
A lot of progress has also been made on the shared C library, newlib, and the static C library, clib2.
Subsequently, there is now a new gcc compiler suite that runs up to six times faster than the compiler included in the SDK. Furthermore, since the final release of GNU C 3.4.0 has emerged, it has also been successfully ported to AmigaOS 4.0, and is now used for most components and programs. GCC 3.4.0 features a much better code generator than previous versions, much better support for ANSI C++, and implements the Motorola 'vector' extension for Altivec (meaning you can use types like 'vector unsigned char x' in your program to signify a vector for Altivec).
One program that has seen a tremendous speed boost is AmiPDF. The new PowerPC version of AmiPDF is, depending on input, up to 60 times faster than the original version on the prerelease.
Furthermore we expect a working serial device and floppy support soon.
The USB stack is shaping up as well. It now supports HID devices like keyboards and mice as well as HID joysticks and steering wheels, and USB mass storage devices like USB sticks, flash card readers, 7-in-1 card readers and cameras.
The A1 IDE device now has working UDMA support. Also, interrupts are no longer polled but delivered properly. This means that the device does not require any CPU time for transfers.
Currently, work concentrates on performance optimization. Results look quite good already, and stress tests have shown the device to be 100% reliable - no data corruption occurs.
This material will in due course be released for download to registered users of the Developer Pre-release on our web site at:
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz (cg) (Translation: ub)
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08.Jun.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Download archive: os4depot.net
Björn Hagström & Amigaworld.net present OS4Depot.net. This is a File Depot portal dedicated to providing and hosting AmigaOS 4 files and related resources. (cg)
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08.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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AmigaOne: Beta tester for "PegXMac" port wanted
The author of PegXMac is searching for beta testers willing to test the AmigaOne version of his distribution.
PegXMac is a 'LiveCD' that uses 'MacOnLinux' to enable booting MacOS X from CD - without the need to install Linux first.
If you want to test the beta image of PegXMac, use the following boot args:
root=/dev/ram rw init=linuxrc video=tdfx:1024x768-8@60 lang=uk
(adjust the parameters "lang=" and "video=" to your personal configuration).
Direct download: boot (5.2 MB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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08.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: IRC bouncer "Miau"
"Miau" is a small but powerful IRC bouncer for MorphOS.
A bouncer can be used to keep the connection to the IRC server after exiting your IRC client. This way your nickname will be protected against abuse from other users.
IRC bouncers can also hide your real IP address - though this requires running the bouncer on a remote computer. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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08.Jun.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Status of missing bits
H.-J. Frieden is giving on amigaworld.net
a short overview of the missing bits of the prerelease.
Altivec, IDE DMA: Yes.
USB: Supports mice, keyboards, mass storage (USB sticks, flash card readers, most modern cameras), HID devices (joysticks, pads, steering wheels, AmigaInput driver in the works).
SNAP: The system already runs on LinuxPPC and the AmigaOS 4.0 port has already begun.
Floppy: Almost finished.
Warp3D: Ported and functional. The reason it isn't released yet is mostly a crash when flushing the library, and the fact that old 68k programs cannot use it yet due to the lack of a 68k jump table.
Native graphics system: In alpha testing for the developers. Mostly done, but needs a bit of polish to go off into beta test.
JIT: Mostly functional using the apprunner. What doesn't work is automatic starting of applications. Going to be tackled soonish.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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08.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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MiniShowPicture: NewIcons and Italian local file
For the picture viewer MiniShowPicture now NewIcons
and an Italian local
file are available.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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