08.Feb.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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First version of Arjuna, new Windows drivers for Catweasel
Arjuna is a modular, expandable solution to access floppy disks from many
different systems. It supports the Catweasel controller to read and write
formats not compatible with the standard PC controller. Arjuna is written in
C++ and uses Qt for its GUI. The project by Christoph 'Doc Bacardi' Thelen
now has its own homepage and a mirror on our webspace. The first version 0.6beta is available for download there.
Arjuna is a project that reaches very far into the past, digging deep into
almost forgotten knowledge about data storage. At the same time it focusses
on the future as a universal tool for data restauration and conversion. Hoping to find a lot of developers to contribute floppy disk formats, Christoph is trying to make this a Sourceforge project.
The Windows version of Arjuna needs an updated driver for the Catweasel to work properly. Download this version here (87 KB, experimental). (snx)
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07.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (website)
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Swedish Web portal for Pegasos/MorphOS
The Swedish Amiga distributor GGS-Data has set up a Web portal for Scandinavian Pegasos users under www.pegasosworld.se. The established Swedish Pegasos forum pegasos.org is accessible again and has been integrated into pegasosworld.se.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (website)
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Pegasos: Official Gentoo and OpenBSD support
As OpenBSD says, will the Genesis PPC computers "Pegasos" and Pegasos-II" now be supported. Download links and a short installation instruction can be found on the OpenBSD website.
The Gentoo kernel "ppc-sources-dev-2.4.24" now supports the Pegasos-II, too. This kernel offers among other things
"cryptoloop" (for encrypted file systems), GRSecurity 2.0-rc4, access control lists and some more things.
Under http://dev.gentoo.org/~dholm/ppc.html you can find kernels to adapt an existing Pegasos installation for a Pegasos-II. Kernels for a complete new installation on a Pegasos-II are also available.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Magazine: next CAM issue postponed
Because of a last minute extension will the next issue of the Amiga online magazin "Club Amiga Monthly" be released on February, 9th instead of February, 7th, as it was announced before. (cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
OSNews (ANF)
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CNN: The silliest moments of the IT industries in 2003
CNN has collected the "silliest occurrences in the IT industry in 2003" and presents under the title link a collection of funny anecdotes - from CD copy protection that can be "removed" via the "shift" key to Microsoft's toilet PC "iLoo".
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)
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ASoft: new MUI libraries and tools
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) has released new updates of his programs:
CManager v28.2 (global contact management),
TheBar.mcc v16.2
(MUI button bar class),
RxMUI v40.5
(ARexx MUI library), RexxMustHave v22.4 (Rexx functions) and Calendar.mcc v15.1 (Calendar MUI class for an easy date input).
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
Merregnon-Team (email)
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Merregnon: new work in progress file of Merregnon 2 and cooperation wih MUSA Ltd
Merregnon Studios, the makers of the highly anticipated music CD of the same name, and MUSA Ltd. bundle the powers to make a high quality of live orchestra recordings and post productions for the video gaming industry possible. There's a
work in progress music piece of the second part of Merregnon
in MP3 format with a length of 1:30 minutes online. The piece has been recorded by Andy Brick with members of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the New Yorker Philharmony.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
Tom Duin a.k.a. Amigaharry (ANF)
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Search program: SearchStar 0.84
The search program "SeachStar" is available in version 0.84. With this tool you can search files and file comments and do many more things. New in version 0.84 is the possibility to search in several directories and drives.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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First draft of the GAUHPIL data base online
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll containing websites of Amiga users sorted by continents and countries. Right now is the GAUHPIL migrating to a MySQL based database solution. Under the title link you can find a description of the current state of things and of course a link to the first draft.
The start page is now localized into German/English. New are the lists for each single continent. The users can be found as before sorted in alphabetical order below their countries, in addition you can now query single countries or search for single terms.
Things to do are a form for entering new links, a form (with password request) for changing existing links, a dynamic list of new links and a dynamic list of lost links.
For now, the GAUHPIL contains 867 users in 38 countries.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Feb.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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Video of TV-presentation of Pegasos II available
The Pegasos II presentation which took place on the Hungarian TV station "FixTV" is now available
on morphzone.org as an AVI-video. You can download it under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)
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Picture Viewer: MiniShowPicture 1.55
A new version of the picture viewer "MiniShowPicture" has been released, containing the following changes:
- Special version for users without graphics cards (beta status)
- new title picture
- Shortcut "h" to change the display mode
- shows picture on its own screen (shortcut "g")
- filenames may be changed
- more smaller changes...
Direct download: MiniShowPicture.lha (275 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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05.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)
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MorphOS: Poll for "Freeware of the Year"
On morphzone.org
there's a poll to decide the best "Freeware of the Year." All registered users of the portal may vote.
The nominees must fulfill the following criteria:
- No Ports
- Either MorphOS native or at the least "thought of for MOS"
- Free (no shareware)
The license (closed source/open source) as well as the utilized programming language are not material to the poll.
The poll runs until noon on Friday the 29th of February. The nominees are:
- 2Pair2Furious
- AmigaMARK
- AmiNetRadio
- CDSpeedKiller
- CyberLemmings
- Euph0ria
- Maguila
- MiniShowPicture
- PTP DigCam
- TranspoClock
- WallGet
- ZoneXplorer
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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05.Feb.2004
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Convention: Date for AmiWest 2004 Set
The organizers of AmiWest have set and made public the date for this year's show: 24th and 25th July. This year the show will take place at a new location. Further details will follow. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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05.Feb.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail: Version 0.23 Released
The email program SimpleMail has reached version 0.23.
Changes since the previous version:
- AppIcon support (bgol)
- mbox Data may be directly imported in a selected order (bgol)
- APOP support
- ported to MorphOS (henes)
- various bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)
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Video Toaster Flyer: Source Code Released
On www.openvideotoaster.org the source code for the Video Toaster Flyer by NewTek has been released as a gift to Amiga users. Previously Amiga Video Toaster Flyer Character Generator and Toaster Paint had been released.
Newtek was founded in 1991 by Tim Jenison and partners. Their Amiga Video Toaster enabled the production of video at drastically lower prices than the studio equipment that had been available until that time. In 1994 came the Newtek Video Toaster Flyer, tapeless processing hardware.
With this gesture by Newtek, opening the source code, the world doesn't just get the first video production system in a box. It gets the first open source realtime video processing system for the Amiga.
The Amiga Video Toaster Flyer Character Generator supports among other things Postscript, Real-time Scrolls, and professional-quality crawls and titling of live or pre-taped videos and static pictures.
ToasterPaint is a 24-Bit paint program with tools for drawing, coloring, tinting, blending, and warping of pictures. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Feb.2004
Gunnar Bernhardt (Maintainer dt. Mirror) (ANF)
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WinUAE 0.8.24 Released
Toni Wilen has released a new version of his Windows port of UAE.
Removed Bugs:
- Undesired keyboard input while using USB keyboards under Windows 9x/ME
- Updates of the bsdsocket emulation (TCP:, Apache)
- The saving of a compressed "state" data without zlib1.dll resulted in data distortion
- crashing after saving "state" data a fourth time
Newly added:
- Multi-monitor support improved
- Slide-bar for the speaker volume as well as corresponding keyboard shortcuts ("END"+"Numpad -", "END"+"Numpad +" und "END"+"Numpad *", as well as Multimedia keypress "Volume +/-" und "Mute")
- Configurable emulation of the floppy noises :)
- Improved debugger (new breakpoints, memwatch points etc.)
- Windows XP-compatible multi-mouse support, improved input support
- FDI 2.0 disk image format
And a few smaller updates.
WinUAE may be downloaded under the title link. A German mirror that also offers older versions of the emulator is at http://www.webwood.de/winuae_1/index.html. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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04.Feb.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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LinuxPPC: Debian supports Pegasos II from kernel version 2.4.22-6 on
The official Debian PowerPC kernel supports not only the Pegasos I but also the Pegasos II now. It is a V 2.4.22 kernel with back ported security fixes.
The version 2.4.22-8 works so far, but voodoo fbdev is not integrated yet, the radeonfb should work. There is also an image available for a network install. That one does not work with Voodoo gfx cards yet - Radeons should work without problems.
Further information is available at the Pegasos Linux forum. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.Feb.2004
AmiGBG (Website)
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AmiGBG: More exhibitors announced
At the AmiGBG held on April the 3rd in Swedish Goteborg there will be some more exhibitors among them Martin
Blom, developer of the audio systems for AmigaOS Classic, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, AHI, as well as the company Guru Meditation and the online community
AmigaWorld.net. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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04.Feb.2004
Heise Newsticker (Website)
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Game consoles: X-Box 2 equipped with three PPC processors by IBM
The not yet for the public released specifications of the "X-Box 2" by Microsoft seem to have been given to an American newspaper. According to that the console will be equipped with three processors of the PPC 9xx family by IBM, like those known from Apple's G5 computers.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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03.Feb.2004
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)
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Scalos: Version 1.4 Beta of Workbench replacement available
Available since Silvester 2003 is the version 12.4 beta of the Workbench replacement Scalos.
The archive has a size of 744 KB and contains only the
files updated or changed since
Version 1.2 (432 KB).
Some new features of Scalos are for instance complete multitasking (every window has its own task), transparency of icons,
if dragged above something where drag&drop is applicable, Stretching, Tiled, and centering of backdrops, iconify of drawer
icons, and a plugin system for exchange and adding of new features.
Minimum system requirements are an Amiga with 68020, Kickstart 3.0, 1 MB free memory and MUI 3.6. Recommended are MUI 3.8,
also the render.library, guigfx.library, popupmenu.library and the newicons.library. The mentionend libraries are also
available on the Scalos-Download-page.
On the website a list of all changes/updates is available in the History. (snx) (Translation: gf)
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03.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)
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Operating Systems: Athene 3.3 published
With version 3.3 of Athene the OS has some more similarities
towards the AmigaOS. For example the ASL based file requester was reworked and the file manager contains now DirOpus inspired
functions like single click, multi choice and a ew fullscreen mode (Screenshot).
Athene is an OS running for itself or it can be hosted under Windows or Linux. The GUI is variable and can be configured
to look like Windows or AmigaOS.
The versions for Windows and Linux can be downloaded for free.
Requirements are min. Pentium-II-processor, Windows 98/Kernel-Version 2.4 of Linux.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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03.Feb.2004
AmigaWorld.net (ANF)
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New screenshots of AmigaOS 4 published
On AmigaWorld.net
you can find new inofficial screenshots of AmigaOS4.
You will see a general Workbench screenshot
with IBrowse, SoundPlayer and the new layers.library in action (shape and mask of windows) and some running
68k-programs: ArtEffect, WBAsteroid,
ZoneXplorer and YAM.
Further more two screenshots show Descent 2 (1,
2). This is a port from d2x, the Linux/SDL-version of the game.
Hyperion is working on an optimisation and on an OpenGL-Integration.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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02.Feb.2004
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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Commodore Gebruikers Groep: Amiga-Party on April 17th in Holland
The Dutch Commodore Gebruikers Groep will held an Amiga-Party in Maarssen on April 17th.
Two halls are available. The venue is to be found in the Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, The Netherlands. Visitors are welcome from 10 to 16.
Additional information can be found on the homepage of the 'Commodore Gebruikers Groep': http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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