• Content page progress bar displays proper values now
• Progress bars start from valid positions when appending already written disc
• Overall progress bar displays valid information when burning multiple tracks in TAO
• Install script utilizes xad/lha/lzx whichever is found first
• In_MP3.module has been updated and features checking (accepts only MPEG1 LAYER3 44kHz Stereo)
• Multiselection of data/audio tracks is now allowed; filetype for multiple tracks can be changed at once, multiple tracks can be removed in a single click, et cetera
• Removed scroll bar from settings and hardware settings panels
• Write method is now recorded
• Empty ISO images are ignored from now on
• Added text object displaying amount of data to be written to disc
• Write speeds are properly remembered now

• Nach dem Kopieren&Einfügen hatten beide Objekte die gleiche Füllstruktur, wenn man also bei einem die Farbe änderte folgte das andere
• Die Objektliste wurde nach "Cut" nicht automatisch angepasst

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                A M I R E V I V A L   I N   J U L Y

             C O D E X   A L P E   A D R I A   2 0 0 6

          I M A G I N E   U P D A T E   A V A I L A B L E

                  A K C   D E M O   D O E S N ' T

             C Y G N U S E D   I S   R E H A T C H E D 

            H O L L Y W O O D   M I N O R   U P D A T E

            W B   S U P E R   G A M E S   I S   D O N E 

         M A I L T E X T   M U I   C U S T O M   C L A S S

            W O O K I E C H A T   R E A C H E S   2 . 2 

             A M I G A   F O R E V E R   P R E M I U M 

        A B C S H E L L   I S   A   B O U R N E   S H E L L 

         T I M I D I T Y   0 . 6   A T   O S 4   D E P O T

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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 You can certainly see from this month's stories that the Amiga 
community is moving into "Summer mode". We have stories of shows and 
get-togethers and games collections all arriving to help make the 
summer more enjoyable.
 Unfortunately, one interesting item arrived this month which would 
have been better covered in last month's issue. That is the extension 
of Amiga Voices by a month. The probable ending date for the extension 
is today. The e-mail indicates the project may continue beyond today, 
but no promises. Here's the note we received:

"Dear Brad,

On behalf of the Amiga Forever team I wanted to let you know that we
extended the Amiga Voices (http://www.amigaforever.com/voices/)
initiative by an extra month. As you are a long-time Amiga supporter, 
we believe that this could be of interest both to you and to your 
readers.

Cloanto's Amiga Voices project aims to preserve and make accessible 
bits and bytes of Amiga oral history in the form of personal messages, 
with a maximum duration of three minutes per fragment. Amiga Voices 
gives Amiga friends worldwide a unique opportunity to record their 
stories and other Amiga-related messages. To make the initiative as 
accessible as possible, dedicated local telephone numbers have been 
set up in different countries.

In consideration of demand, Amiga Voices will remain active at least
until June 30, 2006.

Regards,
Michael"

 This is really great idea. We hope it will remain in operation for at 
least a few days after this issue gets to folks so readers who'd been 
unaware of this can participate if interested. I might give this a try 
myself. 
 We hope you enjoy this issue.

 Brad Webb,
 Editor

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                A M I R E V I V A L   I N   J U L Y

28 June, 2006 

AmiRevival, the Amiga event to watch this July, will soon be upon us 
so now is the time to book tickets and exhibitor tables. The event 
promises to be a success with the likes of Mindspace (UML diagram 
software for OS4 and soon OS3.x) and other exhibitors attending, 
providing a large amount of interest.

In order to make this event the success it deserves to be we need your 
feedback and support. We are looking to provide something for everyone 
from the new user to the old, classic to next generation. To help us 
in this goal we would gladly welcome exhibitors from the Pegasos / 
MorphOS side as well as those from AROS and the Amiga communities. 
The Amiga community has always been one of friendly support and a 
cheerful and we want to rekindle that spirit.

We are also looking for more exhibitors to attend the event, helping 
in its success. If you feel you could exhibit, be that as a trader, 
usergroup or an individual we would like to hear from you. See the 
official Amirevival website for more exhibitor information. We will 
welcome all exhibitors so long as what your exhibit is related to the 
Amiga or Amiga-like systems (including Amiga emulation, AROS and 
MorphOS).

If you have a new product that you want to release in style, 
AmiRevival would be a good place to do this. With eyes on this event 
and all the after event reports this could be a great marketing 
opportunity. Yoodoo2, one of the authors of Mindspace, plans to attend 
and will be launching version 1 of his very useful product on the day 
of the show – why not join him?

Various user groups from around the UK will also be exhibiting the 
likes of SEAL, the authors of Total Amiga, will be attending the show 
with other usergroups including AmiSEK; the only user group in the 
South East of England.

PegXMac, the software allowing you to run MacOS on your AmigaOne, will 
also be available on the AmiSEK stand to try and we are hoping to have 
the latest version available to demonstrate at the event – its first 
public demonstration.

To book tickets, exhibitor space or just to find out more information 
visit the official AmiRevival website, http://www.amirevival.com/
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            C O D E X   A L P E   A D R I A   2 0 0 6

You Are Invited to a Celebration of
People, Diversity, Creativity and Excellence

        
        
Where:  Udine, Italy [Google Earth]
When:   June 30th to July 2nd, 2006
Topics:     Code for fun, code for work, computing trends, melting 
                pot of people, excellence...
Technology:     Code, diversity, classic computing, emulation...
Humans:     Developers, sceners, enthusiasts, resources for 
                developers, new friends, old friends...
Easy to reach:  By car, train, air, sea (from under ¤10.00 per leg)
Extras:     Friday evening, dinner on Saturday, competitions on 
                Sunday, trips on Monday...
Related:    Music & culture, Alps & beaches, food & wine... 
Conference
Scheduled Sessions

Codex Alpe Adria sessions have a focus on public seminars on Saturday, 
and on demoscene productions and creativity on Sunday. Demoscene 
productions and retrocomputing artifacts will be on display all day 
during both Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday

The following sessions are planned for Saturday:

    * 10:30 - M. C. Battilana:
          o Welcome
    * 11:00 - Dennis van Weeren:
          o Presentation of Minimig (an Amiga in an FPGA)
    * 12:00 - Bernd Schmidt:
          o History of UAE (the original Amiga emulation software)
    * 12:30 - Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers):
          o Presentation of Keyrah (turns classic computers into USB 
            keyboards) and other new products
    * 13:30 - Break
    * 14:00 - Dario Soccoli:
          o Presentation of the latest version of AmigaOS 4.0
    * 14:30 - Matteo Rodaro (Reload) and Marco Pini (Apple User Group 
            Friuli Venezia Giulia):
          o Retrocomputing culture
    * 15:00 - Cesare Castiglia and Max Raber:
          o Demoscene culture
    * 16:00 - Break
    * 16:30 - Open Microphone
    * 17:00 - Update on Competitions
    * 17:30 - Announcements for Sunday

Last-minute changes may be posted at the event venue.
Sunday

Please refer to the overall event schedule.
Personal Presentations

All the speakers of the scheduled sessions will be available t
hroughout the day for personal presentations. This especially applies 
to the case where the language of the session was not what you hoped 
for, in which case we are at your disposal to repeat, translate and 
assist as desired.

Additional presentations will be held at the various computing desks 
located at the venue.

International Audience

As in previous years, visitors and attendees have pre-registered from 
several neighboring and more distant countries, including Austria, 
Slovenia, Germany, Denmark, Finland and the UK. We encourage everybody 
to take this opportunity to build bridges and make new friends.

http://0xaa.org/
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         I M A G I N E   U P D A T E   A V A I L A B L E

 17 June, 2006

- New ACUP release: Imagine V5.19 -

A new update to Imagine is now available. ACUP subscribers should 
login to the ACUP download server to obtain the update. 

Imagine was first introduced on the Amiga computer platform in 1987 
(originally named Turbo Silver). Now Imagine is at Version 5.0, with 
the Constant Upgrade Program in active development to help us work 
towards Version 6.0.

The Constant Upgrade Program, and the Version 6 release, demonstrates 
our continued commitment to the Amiga platform; offering high quality 
3D software for a price within the reach of all computer users.
Make sure you visit our Gallery page, where you will find a host of 
images created by users just like you.

When you think about 3D programs you immediately start to add up the 
features... Imagine is very robust and the feature list is almost 
endless.  If we missed something that you feel you need, or you don't 
see it here in the feature list, drop us a note at 
comments@cadtechnologies.co.uk and we will be more than happy to 
respond to your request. If you want to know what we are adding to 
Imagine, please check out our A.C.U.P. page to see just what's going 
on.

http://www.imaginefa.com/
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                   A K C   D E M O   D O E S N ' T

10 June, 2006

{For those who had hoped to see a report on the ACK CPU demo it looks 
as though you'll have to wait longer. The following note was posted 
during the month. Brad}

Due to time and resource constrainsts the CPU demo has been cancelled 
and will not be rescheduled at this time. There have been technical 
difficulties getting the CPU module to work with both the existing 
AmigaOne boards and the new TSi109 based design and I need time to 
analyze the issue. I will be available for questions in #Amigaworld on 
rc.amigaworld.net at 1500 hrs EDT. Apologies for those anxiously 
awaiting the demonstration.

Adam Kowalczyk

ACK Software Controls, Inc.
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            C Y G N U S E D   I S   R E H A T C H E D 

6 June, 2006

Starting today, CygnusEd can be ordered from APC&TCP.

About CygnusEd Professional Release 5

The perhaps most famous Amiga text editor for programmers was 
developed 20 years ago (1986/1987) Bruce Dawson, Colin Fox & Steve 
LaRocque (CygnusSoft Software) and was originally self-published. Even 
back then CygnusEd distinguished itself through its high performance 
and robustness. Development on CygnusEd would proceed at a steady pace 
in the years to follow. CygnusEd was one of the first programs to 
feature an ARexx interface and the first Amiga text editor with an 
Undo/Redo feature. Many Amiga programmers "grew up" with CygnusEd and 
a considerable part of the Amiga software library was created with 
CygnusEd.

The last version published was CygnusEd Professional 4. It became a
vailable in 1997 and was a completely revised version of the editor 
and its auxiliary tools, adapted for AmigaOS 3.1.

The current CygnusEd version 5 was enhanced with new features, and 
robustness and performance were improved again. The "Ed" auxiliary 
tool was rewritten from scratch and its complete source code is 
included with the editor. Many limitations and deficiencies of 
CygnusEd were removed. Version 5 is also the first CygnusEd release 
ported entirely, including all auxiliary tools, to the PowerPC and one 
of the first commercial software packages specially adapted for 
AmigaOS 4.

Upgrades from older versions are available at a reduced price. In 
order to obtain an upgrade you will need to mail your old CygnusEd 
floppy disk or CD-ROM to APC&TCP. http://www.apc-tcp.de

The support home page for CygnusEd 5 also went online today: 
http://www.apc-tcp.de/support/0030e.html

The associated support form for CygnusEd can be reached under 
http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=25 .

Dealers who want to sell CygnusEd should contact APC&TCP directly by 
e-mail.

http://www.apc-tcp.de
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           H O L L Y W O O D   M I N O R   U P D A T E

10 June, 2006 

Hollywood 2.0 Update available

A small update for Hollywood 2.0 is available now. This update fixes 
two bugs in the AmigaOS4 version of Hollywood. As all Hollywood 
versions are able to save native AmigaOS4 executables, users of 
Hollywood versions for other platforms (e.g. MorphOS or AmigaOS3) 
should install this update, too. The update can be downloaded from the 
Hollywood product information page. 

http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/ 
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            W B   S U P E R   G A M E S   I S   D O N E 

Wehrheim, Germany, June 19th, 2006.

We are glad to inform you, that we are finished the WB Super Games and 
the Payback Fan CD. The two products are available in our OnlineShop.

WB Super Games - The Workbench games collection for your AmigaOS 4

WB Super Games is a Workbench game collection for AmigaOS 4 which 
includes 7 different games. LogiLog, Alinearis and Cerebrum guarantee 
fun for all fans of brain gym. But also action fans will find them 
enjoyable. They can train themselves with the network games AXO, 
Memoria, Serpentis and Stoertebeker for one or two players.


There is always the option to run other programs while playing, 
because WB Super Games are executed on the Workbench. So you can 
control a chat-program for example. Moreover, all games are developed 
to use minimal resources, so that there is still enough system 
performance for other applications running at the same time. The 
collection was developed especially for AmigaOS 4 PPC-native. It does 
not need any additional libraries or SDL.

The WB Super Games is delivered on CD and costs just 9,95 Euro.

Payback Fan CD - The AddOn CD for Payback

Payback is one of the most popular amiga games of the last years and 
can still fascinate a loyal fan community. Because of that we have 
created a CD for Payback fans.
The Payback Fan CD is an AddOn CD for the Amiga game Payback. On the 
CD you can find 12 background pictures and 16 Patterns for the 
Workbench as well as skins for AmigaAmp. The highlight of the CD are 
the 22 still unpublished Maps, which guarantee you many hours of fun. 
If you like to create your own levels, you can find many textures of 
all types on the CD. Additionally you can find a exclusive interview 
of James Daniel, all "Amiga Speed" tests, the Amig@lien Payback 
Website and many reports about Payback. As a Payback Fan you 
absolutely need this CD.

The Payback Fan CD is delivered on CD and costs just 5,95 Euro.

A big thanks goes to the author of Payback James Daniels for his 
support.

For more information visit our website: http://www.alinea-computer.de.
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        M A I L T E X T   M U I   C U S T O M   C L A S S

9 June, 2006

The Mailtext MUI custom class package (for Amigas) is especially 
designed to display electronic messages. Its main features cover: 
Handling of font attributes, highlighting of quoted textpasses and 
highlighting and handling of URLs.

An OS4/PPC version of the MCC_Mailtext MUI library is now available 
at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailtext

The MCC_Mailtext sourcecode has been updated to compile with GCC and 
ported to OS4. The version 3.2 user archive contains OS4 binaries and 
GCC compiled 68020 binaries. The purpose of this update is to provide 
a native OS4/PPC version of MCC_Mailtext and there are no changes in 
the operation of MCC_Mailtext. Amiga 68k users can continue to use 
version 3.1 of MCC_Mailtext and do not need to update to version 3.2.

Currently, there are no plans for further developement of 
MCC_Mailtext, but any bugs or problems that may occur with future 
versions of OS4, MUI or MUI libraries will be addressed by the 
MCC_Mailtext development team. MCC_Mailtext is used by Jabberwocky and 
several other Amiga MUI programs.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailtext
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            W O O K I E C H A T   R E A C H E S   2 . 2 

8 June, 2006 

WookieChat 2.2 ready

What does this program do?
----
It allows you to connect to Internet Relay Chat networks (IRC!) and 
chat with other users in a text medium in real-time. Some of the 
server groups are preconfigured to join an Amiga chat channel upon 
sucessful connection. There is some documentation now to help explain 
WookieChat commands, and hopefully make the program easier to 
understand for people new to IRC.


Added a few requested features and addressed a few bugs!

- Support added for clickable URL's
- CTCP SOUND support added. See the "Main Settings > Sounds" for the 
  samples directory. "/sound" to play!
- No more crashes if loading Wookie before a TCP/IP stack is running
- PING replys are now compatible with mIRC (removed an extra control 
  character from the end of a PING reply message that wasnt supposed 
  to be there)
- Added a banlist window with unban button
- Added ban option to the nicklist popup menu
- The columns in the XChat/AmIRC-style display can have a fixed width 
  now. See the "power_users.txt" file for more information. Default is 
  "auto resizing"

Download it from the WookieChat homepage or os4depot.net!

Update- late breaking bug fixes, get 2.2.1 at:
http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/wookiechat/WookieChat2_2_1.lha 
or os4depot.net!
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             A M I G A   F O R E V E R   P R E M I U M 

21 June, 2006 

Good summer time !

Amiga Forever, 2006 Premium Edition !

The Amiga computer, launched by Commodore in 1985, combined superior 
multimedia technology with ease of use, inspiring millions of the most 
creative and enthusiastic computer users ever. Thats to read as 
introduction concerning the very nice creation Amiga Forever by 
Cloanto.

The Premium Edition of Amiga Forever contains the most and best of 
Amiga ever released in one single package.

The edition blends high-quality software and original content with the 
ultimate set of videos to chronicle and let you experience firsthand 
the history, culture, challenges and passion behind the Amiga.

Amiga Forever 2006 Premium Edition contains 200 MB of new games and 
demoscene productions, again adding special value to the physical 
product. This is accompanied by hundreds of minor updates and 
improvements, including new emulation software, new ROMs, a new 
updating mechanism, and more. In total Amiga Forever 2006 Premium 
Edition contains almost 20GB of software.

We offer five different products to choose from including a complete
new product - Amiga Forever 2006, Video Edition.

# Amiga Forever, 2006 Premium Edition SEK 479,- equal EUR 51,-

- Complete package, 1 CD + 2 DVD

# Amiga Forever, 2006 Premium Edition + AmigaOS 3.9 SEK 819,- equal 
  EUR 88,-

- Complete package + also AmigaOS 3.9 CD-edition giving everything 
  100% complete. 2 CD + 2 DVD

# Amiga Forever, 2006 Premium Edition, upgrade SEK 359,- equal 
  EUR 39,-

- Complete package, upgrade from Amiga Forever 2005 & Amiga Forever 
2005 Premium Edition. 1 CD + 2 DVD

# Amiga Forever, 2006 Premium Edition, upgrade + AmigaOS 3.9 SEK 699,- 
equal EUR 75,-

- Complete package + also AmigaOS 3.9 CD-edition giving everything 
100% complete. Upgrade from Amiga Forever 2005 & Amiga Forever 2005 
Premium Edition. 2 CD + 2 DVD

# Amiga Forever, 2006 Video Edition SEK 319,- equal EUR 34,-

- Video Edition of Amiga Forever 2006 Premium Edition. Contains 2 DVD.

----

Keyrah - makes keyboards of classic computers available to new 
computers.

Keyrah is available in two models.

- The 8-bit edition is adapted for C64, VIC-20, C-16, C128/D and turns 
  the classic computer into a USB keyboard.

- The Amiga edition is adapted for Amiga 1200 & 600 and turns the 
  classic computer into a USB keyboard.

Keyrah has been successfully tested with common operating systems like 
Linux, Amiga OS, Mac OS and Windows. It works on desktop and laptop c
omputers, and also on the X-Box, and is excellent for emulators like 
Vice and Amiga Forever.

# Keyrah 8-bit SEK 279,- equal EUR 30,-

# Keyrah Amiga SEK 279,- equal EUR 30,-
----

Classic game collections.

Runesoft and Magnussoft have created several nice game collections 
through the Amiga Classix and C64 Classix series.

The CD creations have been put together in very nice way and gives You 
easy access to the 'old classic game of favourite'.

- Temporary Summer offer -

# Amiga Classix 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 in one package SEK 355,- equal EUR 38,-

# C64 Classix CD (C64 Classix Gold included with purchase) SEK 198,- 
equal EUR 21,-

The discount is valid to the end of June and will be applied when Your
order is processed.

The CD Retro Classix contains no less then 1200 classic original games 
from Amiga, Atari XL/XE, C64, Spectrum.

This big collection for:

# Retro Classix CD SEK 109,- equal EUR 11.50

http://amigaforever.com/
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        A B C S H E L L   I S   A   B O U R N E   S H E L L 

5 June, 2006 

abc-shell is a Bourne/POSIX compatible shell, that can be very usefull 
when porting from POSIX systems (you are for example able to run 
configure scripts).

please update to abc-shell-0.1.08

I have made an upload to OS4Depot.net and Aminet.net

If You have any questions, ideas or bugfixes, then contact us -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/abc-shell - or me private - 
hnl_dk@amigaos.dk (try the new "contact" command) - thanks for Your 
support.
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         T I M I D I T Y   0 . 6   A T   O S 4   D E P O T

3 June,2006

After some time of work away, I've uploaded to OS4Depot the new 
version 0.6 of OS4 TiMidity.


You can download it at www.os4depot.net

OS4 TiMidity ver.0.6

What's different to the previous version:
from the History:
- playmodus from shell-start added (-oahiplay, breakable with Ctrl-C)
- verbosity in shell options (-i?) reactivated
- Files-tab removed - filechoosing added to the front (now "Main") -
  tab
- About now inside the tab, no extra window is opened
- taskpriorities altered - this increases the stability
- to reduce the influence of other tasks during playing/converting the
main window is iconified during playing conversion
- Verbosity added in Other-tab (to control the amount of information 
  output, also to suppress any output)
- progress-bar and play-time removed from mainwindow, and added in the
small control-window
- increased stability by adding separate tasks for time and progress
display
- bug removed: After a call from shell without arguments, not all 
  Signals were freed.
- Information-side in the main-window removed again, because of
stability - reason. The output is done (if the Verbosity settings are
higher) in a workbench-window again.

In a special dir "AWeb" a HOWTO_play_MIDI in AWeb is included.
Hubert Maier shows a way to use TiMidity as a pseudoplugin for MIDIs 
in AWeb. No control is possible, but it works.

The overall stability is now better since in the earlier versions.
In the shell-mode without any information-output (-iqqq option),
it is near chrash-safe ... but not 100% ... nothing is perfect .

Hopeful you enjoy the new version.
And nevertheless, like in the previous versions, please send me a 
mail, if you find a bug.

Kindly
Alfred
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• neue Funktionen in der memoptimizer.library
• Verbesserung des gesamten FreeStack Systems der Library

• verbesserte Bildformat-Erkennung für verschiedene JPEG Derivate bei gleichzeitiger Beschleunigung des gesamten Algorithmus, der nun ca. 28,7% schneller läuft
• einige kleinere Unschönheiten :-) bei der Iconerstellung sowie den Thumnail-Generator Arexx-Scripts verbessert

• add parser to show xml files from OS4 SDK
• now files are strored with full pathname
• change files base editor option
• fixed some program and gui bugs..

• fully multitasking search bar
• browsable rotating history
• double-click on any displayed text to automatically perform a quick function lookup or to copy the keyword into the search bar
• fully updated to support the latest AmigaOS 4 SDK
• and much more

• überarbeitetes Gui System
• Unterstützung für Legend of Kyrandia
• Unterstützung für The Feeble Files

• Linien und Punkte sind jetzt magnetisch
• Umstellung der Objektauswahl im Edit-Modus auf Magnetismus
• Neues Tool für regelmässige Polygone
• Neues Objekt-Fenster mit erweiterten Möglichkeiten
• diverse Kleinigkeiten und Bugfixes

• Die Internet-Verbindung funktioniert jetzt, surfen im Web ist nun also möglich!
• Update auf die neueste Version 8.8.5 (Änderungen bitte unter w3.org/Amaya einsehen)
• WebDAV-Unterstützung integriert (ungetestet)
• Die meisten Debug-Ausgaben wurden entfernt. Amaya sollte jetzt etwas schneller laufen

• Got the release numbers under control
• Full screen support (-fullscreen)
• CVLaunch: new GUI launcher. Just drop ROMS in roms folder and run CVLaunch
• known bugs:
  
  • Can have difficulty allocating pens in windowed mode
  • Sound is still limited
  • General compatability is good but not perfect

• GIF-Animation bei 24 bit funktioniert nun auch unter OS4
• Undo/Redo-Fenster nun fixierbar
• Arexx-Skripte in "General" bereinigt. Es gab einige Schreibfehler in den Skripten, die bei einige Skripten die korrekte Funktion verhinderten
• neues Katalogfile (V2.94)
• Tool "newconvert" durch eigene Routine ersetzt. Ein Dank geht an Bernd Rösch der das Tool ersetzt hat.

• Enthält jetzt 10976 Spiele
• In der Spalte "Div" wird jetzt eine eventuelle Kompatibilität mit den Grafik-Erweiterungen Graffiti und Opal Vision erwähnt
• Die neue Spalte "Orig" gibt Auskunft über das Datum der Erstveröffentlichung
• Die Datenbank enthält jetzt auch die Lizenz-Typen GPL, LGPL, Artistic Licence ("Artis") und Zlib
• Auch AmigaBasic-Spiele werden jetzt entsprechend gekennzeichnet

• Online-Edition: Herunterladbares Installationsprogramm für Windows-Rechner
• Plus-Edition: Herunterladbares CD-Image, welches zusätzliche Software enthält, die entweder spezifisch für Windows oder aber auch plattform-neutral ist
• Premium-Edition: Physisches Produkt, bestehend aus einer DVD-Hülle mit der Plus-Editions-CD sowie zwei DVDs (Foto)

• Emulation der Amiga-Hardware
• Originale ROM- und Betriebssystemsdateien des Amiga (alle Versionen von 1.0 bis 3.X)
• Zusätzliche Emulation und Treiber (z.B. RTG, SCSI, TCP/IP, AHI sowie CDTV und CD³²)
• Vorkonfigurierte Einstellungen für die Emulatoren WinUAE und WinFellow mit automatischen Updates über den Software Director
• Vorinstallierte Spiele, Demos und Anwendungen (z.B. Web-Browser und Malprogramm)
• Unterstützung für Tausende herunterladbarer Spiele, Demos und Anwendungen
• Datentransfer mittels des Programms Amiga Explorer sowie über das Verzeichnis Amiga Files
• Optionale Bootbarkeit der CD auf x86-PCs auf der Basis von KX Light
• Plus- und Premium-Edition: Galerie mit Bildern von historischem Interesse
• Premium-Edition: Über fünf Stunden historischen Videomaterials zum Amiga auf DVD

• gcc 2.95.4 wurde aus dem Paket entfernt, da 2.95.3 inzwischen aktueller ist (sic)

• Sie müssen vor der Installation das komplette OS4 51.22 SDK [153 MB] im Contributions-Verzeichnis ablegen. Ansonsten wird das Paket entweder gar nicht (OS4) oder ohne Cross-Compilation-Möglichkeit installiert (andere Plattformen).
• Diese Version des C/C++-Paketes kann ein installiertes SDK nicht benutzen: Sie müssen das SDK durch Cubic installieren lassen. Als Belohnung gibt es eine bessere und saubere Installation als bisher möglich.

• r200, rv250 and rv280 cards (8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9250) now work on Pegasos 1
• Fixed a rare lockup condition on r200 (8500, 9100)
• Fixed a random crash on starting the first 3D application on Pegasos 1
• Fixed a scissoring problem on r200, rv250 and rv280 (8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9250)
• Minor speedups and improvements

• MPC 5200 @ 400-466MHz
• 512MB Ram onboard
• Onboard-Grafik: Radeon Mobility
• ATA/IDE-Interface
• 100 Mbit Ethernet
• USB 1.1
• AC97 Audio-CODEC (mit automatischer Integration in die Soundausgabe des Amiga Soundchips)
• Funktioniert im ursprünglichen A1200-Desktopgehäuse

• ATX Formfaktor
• Northbridge: Tundra TSI109
• CPU-Slot kompatibel zu AmigaOne/MicroA1 (Unterstützung für 133/167/200 Mhz FSB)
• 2 DDR2-DIMM-Slots, bis zu 2 GB RAM
• 2 x Gigabit-Ethernet onboard
• 1 x PCI Express Graphics (1x)
• 1 x PCI 66 Mhz
• 4 x PCI 33/66 Mhz
• BIOS: UBoot

• Multiple libbases, each opener gets their own private base and global data.
• A task will always get the same base, thus the library can be indirectly opened elsewhere through the same task and still get the right libbase.
• However this means callers should avoid sharing libbase across tasks (this is frowned upon anyway), as it'll lead to trouble!
• You can use libnix I/O and anything requiring constructors etc in the library.
• Full of comments (hopefully enough) to help you understand the magic involved.
• The skeleton uses SYSV (with r12base to be able to work its magic) functions, since this is the most likely candidate (it is however possible to adapt it for 68k entries, basically you have to change the global __restore_r13() function).
• You *can* *not* pass filedescriptors between caller and library, or free() memory allocated by the other etc, doing so will mean certain death, you have been warned! ;)

• fix: no more enforcer hits (byte read from adr 0) on directory cache preload on FFS filesystems (Christian)
• upd: italian documentation is in sync again, thanks David Bergantin for updating it
• upd: small enhancement for HrtMon to print out expmem boundaries
• fix: no longer complains about missing ENV: assign
• fix: bus/address error messages on 68000 corrected
• fix: the message returned on interrupted resload functions did have the same name for both functions, this has been corrected
• chg: argument checking for resload functions improved, now the current stack can not be overwritten by resload functions (size of reserved stack space is 64 bytes)
• new: command GA added to resload_Patch/Seg to get a address and store it inside a variable in the slave
• fix: modify at ExpMem via resload_Patch works again, was permitted in version 16.5
• chg: kickemu improved, compiles with PhxAss and AsmOne again, new switch NO68020 for kick31.s to get 68000 compatible code, patches to the kickstart added to avoid overwriting the vector table, this allows WHDLoad to catch exceptions also on 68000 (Don Adan)
• new: greek translation of documentation, thanks to Dimitris Panokostas of ATO

• Support added for clickable URL's
• CTCP SOUND support added. See the "Main Settings > Sounds" for the samples directory. "/sound" to play!
• No more crashes if loading Wookie before a TCP/IP stack is running
• PING replys are now compatible with mIRC (removed an extra control character from the end of a PING reply message that wasnt supposed to be there)
• Added a banlist window with unban button
• Added ban option to the nicklist popup menu
• The columns in the XChat/AmIRC-style display can have a fixed width now. See the "power_users.txt" file for more information. Default is "auto resizing"

• Bugfix: the ASL requester for choosing a browser in the Settings window was set to directorys only
• Bugfix: closing the server selection window does not automatically save ALL your settings, it will only save your nick settings now.

• 1MB Speicher zur Erweiterung auf insgesamt 2MB Chip-RAM
• Batteriegepufferte Echtzeituhr
• Auslaufsichere Lithium-Zelle aus deutscher Produktion
• Uhrenport für A1200-Erweiterungen wie Silversurfer, Delfina oder Subway
• Extrem kleine Bauweise

• 04.06.06 fixed: Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Gremlin) more smc removed, options added for avoid patches (Info)
• 04.06.06 fixed: Vroom Multiplayer (Lankhor) works on 68000 now (Info)
• 04.06.06 improved: Vroom (Lankhor) exitkey for 68000 added, icons added (Info)
• 04.06.06 improved: Katakis (Factor 5) supports another version (Info)
• 04.06.06 improved: Ishar 3 (Silmarils) supports french version, new install script (Info)
• 04.06.06 improved: Denaris (Factor 5) more icons added (Info)
• 31.05.06 improved: Wild Wheels (Red Rat Software/Ocean) supports another version, exitkey on 68000 (Info)
• 28.05.06 improved: Space Rogue (Mindscape) manual protection removed, access fault fixed (Info)
• 27.05.06 new: Wild Wheels (Red Rat Software/Ocean) done by CFOU! (Info)
• 27.05.06 improved: Torvak the Warrior (Core Design) blit waits added, trainer added (Info)
• 27.05.06 new: Tie-Break (Starbyte) done by Psygore (Info)
• 27.05.06 improved: Super Cauldron (Titus) blit waits added, works with 68060 (Info)
• 27.05.06 improved: Stormlord (Hewson) more versions supported, SMC removed, 2-button joystick support, trainer added, highscores saved, new icons (Info)
• 27.05.06 new: Sherman-M4 (Loriciel) done by Psygore (Info)
• 27.05.06 improved: Ninja Warriors (Sales Curve) support for 2 button joystick added (Info)
• 27.05.06 improved: Highway Hawks (Anco) uses fast memory (Info)
• 27.05.06 improved: Disposable Hero (Euphoria/Gremlin Graphics) many fixes and improvements, complete rework (Info,Image)
• 27.05.06 improved: CaveMania (Atlantis) access fault removed, joypad handling extended (Info)
• 27.05.06 improved: Black Sect (Lankhor) fixed for 68000, intro fixed (Info)
• 19.05.06 fixed: Soldier 2000 (Astronic) freeze bug fixed when starting game, exit key fixed for 68000 (Info)
• 19.05.06 fixed: Rage (CAD/Ubi Soft) self modifying code fixed (Info)
• 19.05.06 fixed: Black Sect (Lankhor) stack problem in intro fixed, exit key fixed for 68000 (Info)
• 19.05.06 updated: Tracker (Mindware/Rainbird) manual now included (Info)
• 19.05.06 improved: Denaris (Factor 5) supports another version, trainer added, checksums removed (Info)
• 19.05.06 improved: Black Crypt (Raven Software) miscellaneous improvements (Info)
• 19.05.06 new: Space Rogue (Mindscape) done by JOTD (Info)
• 19.05.06 new: Highway Hawks (Anco) done by JOTD (Info)
• 19.05.06 improved: Globdule (Psygnosis) miscellaneous improvements (Info)
• 19.05.06 improved: Katakis (Factor 5) supports another version, saves high scores, trainer added (Info)
• 19.05.06 fixed: Maupiti Island (Lankhor) exit key fixed for 68000 (Info)
• 13.05.06 improved: Ilyad (UBI-Soft) supports another version, trainer added, saves high scores (Info)
• 13.05.06 fixed: G.Nius (Lankhor) exit key fixed for 68000, disk access removed (Info)
• 13.05.06 new: New Year Lemmings 91/92 (Psygnosis) done by Psygore (Info)
• 08.05.06 improved: Tracker (Mindware/Rainbird) supports another version (Info)
• 08.05.06 improved: Ninja Warriors (Sales Curve) trainer added, 68000 fixes, new icons (Info)
• 08.05.06 updated: Window Wizard (reLINE) readme updated (Info)
• 05.05.06 improved: Son Shu-Shi (Expose Software) blitter waits added, fixes for 68060 (Info,Image)
• 04.05.06 improved: Saint Dragon (Ocean) quitkey for 68000 added, highscore saving added, new imager and icons (Info)
• 04.05.06 new: High Seas Trader (Impressions) done by JOTD (Info)
• 02.05.06 new: Oxxonian (Time Warp) done by Psygore (Info)

• Laden, Speichern und Drucken von Spielfeldern
• Generieren eigener Felder (Solver vorhanden)
• Darstellung im Fenster auf der Workbench oder mit eigenem Bildschirm
• Verwendung von Datatypes für Grafik- und Tonausgabe
• Lauffähigkeit auf allen Amigas ab AmigaOS 3.0

• Detaillierte Statistiken zu jeder Funktion
• Profile auch der Code-Blöcke
• Statistik zum Stapelspeicherbedarf
• Neues Prf-Parser-Tool
• Optimierungen

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          P R O G R E S S   R E P O R T   O N   A M Y  ' 0 5

      A M I G A O N E   C P U   D E M O   D A T E   C H A N G E

               A C P - T C P   N E W S   F O R   M A Y

      O N Y X S O F T   R E L E A S E S   S I X   U P D A T E S

         E - U A E - O . 8 . 2 9 - W I P 2   R E L E A S E D 

  A M I G A   F U T U R E   F U L L   V E R S I O N S   O N L I N E

  M O B I L E Z O N E   /   A M I G A   I N C .   I N   A   D E A L

                   M M K E Y B O A R D   V 3 . 2 2

              A L S O   F R O M   G E I T . D E   . . .

            A M I G G   I N S T A N T   M E S S E N G E R

            T A L E S   O F   T A M A R   I N   H I R E S

         R E S I D U A L   -   F O R   L U C A S G A M E R S

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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

Absolutely no-one figured out what was different about last month's 
issue. Or maybe no-one cared. That could well be the case, since it 
involved Amiga Inc. If you're at all curious, last month's issue was 
the first where we didn't lead off with a story about Amiga Inc. when 
we had one. At least, I can't remember any other time we've not done 
so. The reason, of course, is Amiga Inc. is largely irrelevant now to 
the Amiga Community. However, they still hold the ultimate rights to 
the OS and we will continue to keep you informed about them. Well, we
will for a few more months, anyway.

My first bit of Amiga Journalism appeared in the October, 1986 issue 
of "JumpDisk", the disk based magazine edited for many years by 
Richard Ramella. That means when October rolls around this year I will 
have been an Amiga journalist for 20 years! I'm betting there aren't 
many who can match that run. Ok, it's not paying anything now and 
hasn't for years, (actually, it never paid much) but I'm still doing 
it. I look at it as my way of giving something back to the community 
which has kept the best OS I've ever used alive and well against all 
odds. However, 20 years is a long run and it's about time to move 
on. Accordingly, the October issue of AU is planned to be the last. I 
had hoped to keep this little newsletter alive until a) OS4 was 
released in full commercial version and b) I reached 20 years of Amiga 
journalism. Looks like it's going to be only "b". On the other hand, 
there's still an outside chance "completed" OS4 could be announced in 
this publication. We'll see. Either way, it's been fun (but it's not 
as much fun as it was) and I'll probably have more to say about the 
end of AU as we close in on October. Then again, maybe not. I don't 
plan anything special for the last issue. 

The most interesting news this month involves progress by the teams 
working to create more OS4 capable hardware. This is great, and we 
lead off with some information from both groups. The folks at ACK held 
a discussion at www.amigaworld.net where they announced their high end 
board would be called "PowerVixxen TL" - Thunder & Lightning. Cool 
name. (You can read an edited transcript at the AmigaWorld site.) We 
wish both groups real success with their efforts. Since the lack of 
hardware seems to be the only thing keeping commercial OS4 from 
release, we hope the race to get hardware done and on sale is a good 
one.

We also hope you enjoy this issue and will be with us all the way 
through the countdown to the October issue.

 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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         P R O G R E S S   R E P O R T   O N   A M Y  ' 0 5 

6 May, 2006 

We thought a progress report was in order as we have some very good 
news. After much development we are happy to report that version 1.4 
of Amy'05 is nearly complete. Our next progress report will contain 
lots of information about Amy, along with the much awaited Photos! 
{Note: any photos will not appear in AU of course, but we can run a 
URL pointing to them if one exists. Brad}

For many of the first adopters of Eyetech Amiga One models, their 
needs and wants have grown past the specifications of the machines 
they are currently using and they wish to upgrade to a more modern 
motherboard design.

Our original intent with project ?Prometheus? was to design and build 
several low cost lines of motherboards, built on proven technology. 
The Amy?05 design would be followed by a more powerful design. When we 
designed Amy?05 we did not envisage the changes that have taken place 
in the Power PC market, most notable, Apple's shift from PowerPC to 
Intel that has presented both problems as well as opportunities for 
Troika.

While developing Amy?05 we have been investigating several good 
opportunities for the existing Amiga user base. We have found others 
with similar business interests to ours, from which we were able to 
form new alliances which has allowed us to begin due diligence 
procedures for purchasing a design of a higher end motherboard. 
Acquiring the rights to this motherboard will allow us to bring a 
higher end board to market far quicker than if we were to design one 
from the ground up. Also, by forming new alliances we will be able to 
bring the per unit cost of this motherboard down - a saving that we 
wish to pass on to you.

We would like to show you photographs of our higher end motherboard 
but our NDA does not permit this. However, we are able to show you 
pictures that have been cropped to conceal the board?s identity.

Provided we are able to do this, we plan on offering this higher end 
motherboard as a compliment to our first line of Amy motherboards.

We have been down this road before, with announcements based on 
assurances from third parties who have failed to deliver. Amy?05 has 
encountered problems but they are all in the past.

Between now and then we shall post regular progress reports, instead 
of intermittent press releases and promises.

http://troikang.com/preview/2ndMB.jpg
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     A M I G A O N E   C P U   D E M O   D A T E   C H A N G E


22 May, 2006 

I know...a slightly longer wait. As with all plans with tight 
schedules, I have hit a bit of a technical barrier that prevents me 
from making the live demonstration of a working CPU module. Similarly, 
I didn't have the time to set up a proper agenda for the event. I was 
not expecting people to physically want to visit in person and have 
addressed this properly. In addition a few others mentioned that the 
original date being on a Monday would be difficult to participate in. 
Here is the new date, timing and location for the event:

Date: Saturday, June 10th, 2006
Time: 4:00 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Savings Time)

Location:

The UPS Store
26-200 Fitch Street
Welland, ON L3C 4V9
Canada

Parking and space is limited. Please e-mail your intention to attend. 
Beverages and food will be provided.

Agenda:

4:00 pm Brief Introduction
4:10 pm Overview of the CPU module Installation and Settings
4:30 pm Booting OS4
4:35 pm Benchmark Testing
5:00 pm Question & Answer Period
5:55 pm A Few Final Words
6:00 pm Wrap-Up

The Question and Answer period will first take questions from the 
people physically in attendance at the demonstration followed by 
questions via IRC and e-mail.

Sincerest apologies on the delays to those who have been waiting very 
patiently.

Adam Kowalczyk

ACK Software Controls, Inc.
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              A C P - T C P   N E W S   F O R   M A Y 

1 May, 2006

APC&TCP is 14 years old!

To celebrate this we have decided to push down the prices of many 
APC&TCP products in the online shop permanently.

APC&TCP is more active than ever. CygnusEd 5 is right before its 
release and also the release of MED Soundstudio 2 is coming closer and 
closer.

But work is also going on for DigiBoosterPro and it's being checked 
for the possibility for a release of a reprint of an English Amiga-
Guru-Book.

Besides that development for a lot of other products which will be 
released this year is going on.

The APC&TCP computer club, from which the distributor was founded, was 
founded some time earlier. If someone knows the exact date please get 
in contact with us.

It would be interesting to know how old the APC&TCP is. :)

13 May 2006 

Today we upload all issues from the german Diskmag NoCover. You can 
download the 125 issues on 
http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/downloads.php .

http://www.apc-tcp.de

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      O N Y X S O F T   R E L E A S E S   S I X   U P D A T E S 

10 May, 2006

We are a independent group of people who develop freeware applications 
for AmigaOS and MorphOS in our spare time! And we do it because it's 
fun!

The sun rises and the summer awaits, we though you should have some 
new versions to test drive during your vacation so here comes a bag of 
new stuff ;)

-Your OnyxSoft crew-

Updated programs

AllKeys v1.3 - (OS4,MOS) Hotkey program supporting all multimedia-keys 
and mousebuttons. The MOS version has been updated! Added support for 
a second scroll-wheel, TRANSLATE can copy into any number of codes, 
instant update when saving prefs-file (no need to restart AllKeys), 
more free prefs file (now allows empty lines and pure ;comment lines), 
easy WB mode, and more!

Annotate v2.4 - (OS4) A very comprehensive text editor with a lot of 
functions. These are the major updates: Fixed the close-config-crash. 
Editable hotkeys, full tab-key support + a few new functions, auto-
save functions, new text-selecting and copy functions, new functions 
regarding cursor movement plus many more fixes and enhancements.

Macc v1.1 - (OS4) Mouse accelerator with a couple of settings. Now 
added scroll-wheel acceleration and NewMouse support which makes K
ingCON, CubicIDE, AmIRC, etc. to work (again).

MPlayer-GUI v1.41 - (OS4) GUI for MPlayer. Now with arexx-support and 
a Control Panel to control MPlayer through the GUI and much better 
cooperation between MPlayer and the GUI (in mini-release v1.40), file-
pattern filter for the filerequester (updated in v1.41).

TheMPegEncGUI v2.61 - (68k) Full-featured GUI for MP3-encoders. Added 
the --noreplaygain switch and a freetext-field. You who have used 
TheMPegEncGUI the last week may already have seen this update through 
the automatic update feature in v2.60

ActivateWindow v1.3 - (68k) A program to activate and rearrange 
windows and screens. Very useful together with AllKeys. I think I've 
fixed some sporadic crashes.

http://www.onyxsoft.se/
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        E - U A E - O . 8 . 2 9 - W I P 2   R E L E A S E D 

3 May, 2006

This releases fixes 32-bit P96 screens on PPC hosts and some minor 
bugs in the build scripts.

This is a version of UAE, the Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator, with an 
emulation core largely based on WinUAE. It attempts to bring many of 
the great features of WinUAE to non-Windows platforms. This version 
now finally has a name, E-UAE, since that's what everybody was calling 
it anyway. The 'E' can stand for anything you fancy. Experimental, 
extreme, exciting, egalitarian, eggplant, . . .

Currently it will build and run (with a varying degree of supported 
features) on Linux and other Unices, Mac OS X, BeOS, AmigaOS itself 
(either for 68k machines or PPC machines with AmigaOS 4.0 and the 
AmigaOS clones MorphOS and AROS). OS X requires either LibSDL or an X 
server for graphics output, but native graphics are supported on 
AmigaOS and BeOS, although, at the moment, SDL is also preferred on 
BeOS since the native driver is incomplete.

E-UAE is open-source software and is made available under the terms of 
the GNU GPL. E-UAE is based on the work of dozens of contributors 
including Bernd Schmidt (the original author and maintainer of UAE), 
Bernie Meyer (the author of the x86 JIT compiler), Toni Wilen (the 
current maintainer of WinUAE), and many more.

To make full use of E-UAE you will need access to an image of some 
version of the Amiga Kickstart ROM (although UAE does include a ROM 
emulation which may work with some old games). The Amiga Kickstart 
ROMs are copyrighted material and may not be freely distributed (so 
don't ask me for a copy). If you don't have an Amiga from which you 
can legally make a ROM image, a selection of ROM images are available 
for purchase online from Cloanto - publishers of the Amiga Forever 
distribution.

http://rcdrummond.net/uae/index.html
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  A M I G A   F U T U R E   F U L L   V E R S I O N S   O N L I N E  

9 May, 2006 

Subject: Amiga Future Full Version Download Opened


>From today you can find some full versions in the download section of 
the Amiga Future homepage for free download. The Amiga Future has many 
licences for full versions. These will be published irregularly on our 
homepage.

We start with around 25 full versions online.

Furthermore many issues of the Amiga Future are available for a 
heavily reduced price.

24 May, 2006

There have been put around 15 new full versions on the download 
section of the Amiga Future homepage. We wish lots of fun with it.

If someone should know license holders of commercial games and 
applications or even is reading this it would be nice to get in 
contact via email. Of course we want to put a lot of more full 
versions in long term on the Amiga Future homepage.

If someone wanted to write descriptions for all those downloads (in 
English and German) we would be grateful to get in contact. We are too 
busy to do it ourselves.

At this point we want to remind that many old issues of the Amiga F
uture are available in our online shop beginning with just 1 Euro and 
that issue 59 is nearly sold off.

http://www.amigafuture.de
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  M O B I L E Z O N E   /   A M I G A   I N C .   I N   A   D E A L

May 1, 2006 - San Francisco, CA/Sao Paolo, Brazil.? Mobilezone and 
Amiga bring AmigaAnywhere (TM) applications to Mobilezone's customers 
worldwide. Now, visitors to Mobilezone can purchase their favorite 
Amiga content for their Microsoft Windows PCs, Smartphones, and PDAs. 
Amiga's innovative technology allows mobile users to take advantage of 
emerging technologies such as media storage cards and U3 mobile 
storage devices.

This announcement brings another strong channel for application 
developers that are looking for a refined and efficient solution to 
developing content one-time and running it across a myriad of devices.

MobileZone gives current information about mobile technologies and 
provides a local web reference for PDAs, smartphones, Pocket PCs and 
wireless technologies like Wi-Fi. It has quickly grown into Brazil's 
leading and most complete Wi-Fi hotspot locator, earning well over 
400,000 unique visitors to Mobilezone webpages since it was created, 3 
years ago. The "Plugged" section of the site gives up to date news 
about what's happening with the wireless market inside and outside the 
country. It also carries monthly articles about interesting related 
subjects, such as mobile content and WiMax "hype" analysis.

Brazil is part of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) group of 
countries with the fastest expanding wireless markets, is the second 
largest mobile market in South America and 6th largest in the world. 
The country's mobile penetration rate is 41.1%, reaching 79.9 million 
customers through September 2005. Further, Brazil dominates the Latin 
American Internet market with broadband growth of 31% in 2005. "The 
growth in complex mobile and web usage in Brazil is very attractive to 
Amiga", said Gregory Sigel, Amiga's vice president of sales and 
marketing. "MobileZone provides a great entree to this market, given 
their popularity with wireless and wired subscribers."

Amiga's cross-platform technologies fit well with Brazil, given the 
growing popularity of convergence strategies. In October 2004, TV 
Cidade and TVA were the first Brazilian operators to adopt the triple 
play strategy, combining VoIP, broadband and pay TV services. It also 
meshes well with MobileZone's combined mobile and WiFi target areas. 
"Brazilians continue to be big fans of the Amiga name", said Ricardo 
Menezes, President of Mobilezone. "We are very excited to provide our 
customers with rich graphical Amiga content and let them run it across 
their mobile, desktops and ultimately TV-based devices."

Mobilezone is highlighting Amiga with an About Amiga section ("Sobre 
Amiga") and an updated News/Interview ("Entrevista") section. The 
Amiga Games ("Jogos") section on the website lets Mobilezone's 
customers from over 20 countries purchase Amiga content for their 
devices of choice. As Amiga grows its applications and content 
portfolio, the two companies will work together to update the 
Mobilezone-Amiga site with the most market-relevant content.

About MobileZone:

MobileZone is a Brazilian portal that focuses on wireless and mobile 
technologies, news and related content. With its operations started in 
early 2004, MobileZone has, since then, received more than 360.000 
unique visitors searching for Wi-Fi hotspots, news and exclusive 
content covering a variety of subjects including WiMax, UMTS, UWB and 
EVDO.

The majority of Mobilezone?s visitors, can be classified as IT 
professionals, wireless providers, doctors, business executives, 
government organizations and university students.
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                   M M K E Y B O A R D   V 3 . 2 2 

27 May, 2006



MMKeyboard V3.22 for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, Amithlon, AmithlonXL and 
MorphOS

MMKeyboard is a multimedia keyboard driver for any Amiga compatible 
computer systems.

You like those Windows keyboards with many additional tool buttons for 
EMail, WWW, music and so on? You want to use a wireless keyboard? You 
don?t want to buy expensive hardware that only supports the standard 
keys and leaving the others unused? Then you found the right site! For 
a few bucks you'll get a self made hardware that uses everything!

MMKeyboard allows you to use a Windows keyboard as Amiga keyboard. In 
addition to that it's possible to launch programs via the multimedia 
buttons.

No driver problems like on the PC! One little commodity enables all 
available non standard keys on any keyboard! Even future keyboards are 
working!

Start your music player by pressing the play button on your keyboard. 
Eject your CDROM by pressing the eject button, or open a Shell in the 
same way! Now it's possible to execute any tool without qualifier, 
because the keys are unknown to the system! Of course it's still 
possible to use qualifiers to be more flexible!

Updated for MMKeyboard V3.22:

Input events were filtered out even if the task didn't match. This 
caused problems, because defining F1 for YAM with task option caused 
the F1 key to stop working in any other application.

Notes:

The MMKeyboard software is not working with any kind of available 
nterface hardware. On real Amiga hardware you'll need the MMKeyboard 
hardware.

The MMKeyboard hardware is only required when using a PC keyboard on 
normal Amiga Hardware. For systems like Amithlon, AmithlonXL, UAE, 
AmigaOS4 and MorphOS no additional hardware is needed. These systems 
just need the software installed.

The required version of UAE is currently not available for the public. 
The next official Update will contain full MMKeyboard functionality.

http://www.geit.de/
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              A L S O   F R O M   G E I T . D E   . . . 

19.May-2006 - Meridian V2.21

Meridian V2.21 for AmigaOS and MorphOS

You all know PDAs where you use a pen to draw invisible lines on the 
display. The PDA is converting these combinations into characters or 
functions.

Meridian is doing exactly this! Meridian is a small commodity to 
create virtual hotkeys by using the mouse. You draw a symbol and 
Meridian is starting the requested action. Since the starting point 
and the direction is also important, there are countless combinations 
you can use.

I promise! You'll love it. Flipping screens and windows, closing 
windows, quitting requesters, starting programs and actions just by 
moving the mouse. No visible GUI, dock or something like that. Just 
the mouse pointer on screen. I am using Meridian now for around 24 
hours and I can't live without it anymore.

Meridian allows to execute CLI and Workbench programs. It's also 
possible to translate the mouse gesture into a new key which will be 
treated by the active application as if the real keyboard key was 
pushed. A great feature is that Meridian provides a massive bunch of 
internal macros. So you can close window, flip screens and windows and
much more.

It's possible to combine the mouse gestures with tasks, so it's 
possible to define the same mouse gesture multiple times for multiple 
tasks with different actions.

FEATURES:

    * Commodity.
    * MUI GUI
    * Easy configuration.
    * Many internal macros.
    * Online Help.
    * Locale Support.
    * 68K and PPC Binaries

R V2.19 for AmigaOS, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS

Did you ever feel bored when dealing with dos commands and their 
arguments?

Did you ever wait for a GUI because the CLI only tool is to 
complicated for your Shell/CLI skills?

Did you ever understand all these cryptic argument names?

Did you ever wish dos arguments would be in your native language for 
better understanding?

Yes? Then then here comes the solution for your problems. "R" - The 
only weapon to defeat templates! (Something like Airwolf! :) )

Since the early 90th "R" is the one and only weapon to defeat dos 
templates and now it returns! Reenforced, upgraded, reworked and ready 
for the future. Tons of new features also allow professionals to 
enhance dos and for any other user it's as easy to use as ever. Simple 
call "r list" to get a high quality localized gadget user interface 
for the dos command list.

Set up the options and push execute. Setup predefined options for 
stuff you need every time and never type them again!

No longer wait for an user interface made by others. Grab a project 
icon, insert "R" as default tool and there it is!

If you don't believe it, you haven't tried it!

It's not a hack! It's "R"!
FEATURES:

    * Automatic creation of a high quality MUI GUI for most available 
      commands.
    * Automatically localizes any known argument item.
    * Save and auto load of predefined command options.
    * Optional auto use mode for commands you need more than once with 
      nearly the same option set.
    * Very small and easy to use.
    * Full locale support.
    * Online help.
    * 68K and PPC Binaries

http://www.geit.de/
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            A M I G G   I N S T A N T   M E S S E N G E R

3 May, 2006

AmiGG is an instant messenger application which can handle Gadu-Gadu 
protocol (Gadu-Gadu protocol is widely spreaded in Poland). Right now 
AmiGG may not be useful for many of you but pretty soon plugin system 
will be implemented and another protocols will be supported (Jabber, 
Tlen (also known in Poland) and more).

Features:
- unique tabs' system which provides carrying on many chats in one 
single window,
- AmigaAMP plug-in which gives ability to bring the name of the played 
song into the status description
- Sauranizator plug-in which gives ability to check IP or client 
version of people who you are chatting with
- display of animated smiley
- ability to send files through the protocol
- POP3 module which gives ability to check e-mails
- enhanced and constantly improved preferences system which gives 
ability to adjust the look of the application to your needs and 
favours
- display of the photo of person who you are chatting with.
- internet update function which can download and install any new 
version of AmiGG which is available.

Requirements are: AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.0 or MorphOS (three different 
native versions are available in the archive), MUI 3.8 (or higher), 
some MUI classes (TextInput, TextEditor, NList, NFloattext, NListview, 
Busy, Toolbar), wbstart library (for internet update function), 
openurl library (optionally), Play16 (optionally). AmiGG is 
distributed in polish and english language versions. People who want 
to create other language versions are welcome and should contact the 
author. People who are interested in this application should consider 
to download it and give it a try. To encourage you to give this tool a 
try, you should look at the screenshots.

http://amigg.integradesign.org/
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            T A L E S   O F   T A M A R   I N   H I R E S

7 May, 2006 

It is done!

Finally, after 8 months of work, we are proud to present Tales of 
Tamar in HiRES 2D!

The new client of our massively multiplayer strategy and roleplaying 
game is running at a resolution of 1024*768 with double buffering in 
15 bit, 16 and 32 bit, as well as the usual 640*480/8 bit.



Therefore, Tales of Tamar is working on all Amiga systems starting 
with an A1200 with 030 accelerator board up to the most recent systems 
and also takes advantage of the faster hardware of Amithlon, AmigaOne, 
Pegasos or UAE setups.

The engine has been improved meanwhile, of course.

Unfortunately, Amiga computers are reaching their limits here. To use 
the HiRES map, a 060 processor and a fast graphics card is required. 
If your system doesn't meet the requirements, you can always go back 
to 640*480, though.



New features:

- HiRES mode activated
- 24 bit support added
- auto conversion of 8 bit graphics added
- Esc in the residence exists to the title screen now
- Input-Handler rewritten
- Works with OS4 Pre 4
- FTP-Download doesn't block the mouse anymore
- map screen optimized
- ToT uses expansion.library to determine whether it runs on a OS4 
  Classic system or an AmigaOne (thanks to Stephan Rupprecht!)
- faster laoding on some systems
- text labels don't disappear when scrolling
- large code parts on the map support ppc, unfortunately no great 
  improvements in speed with WarpOS
- numbers of workers don't disappear when scrolling
- new catalogs


Path: http://www.tamar.net/bin/ToT_Amiga_V0.55_R1.lha
Size: 16.319.118 Bytes

The current 2D HiRES map is an important step towards the coming 3D 
map, which is currently implemented on the PC version, to avoid both 
incompatibilities and delays due to missing testers. This was an 
important step for us. Now a few personal words: The 2D HiRES map is 
my very own "thank you" to the Amiga computer, which has been with me 
for the bigger part of my life so far. For now, it will mark the 
crowning achievement for the game, and further development can only 
take place if we can find enough players to keep the game alive.

The HiRES 3D map will be a step at least as big as the 2D map, and is 
simply required to have a lot of testers to make it work. Just one 
example: We have only had 2 or 3 really active testers for OS4. As a 
result, bugs that are not obvious will be found late or not at all. We 
hope that the support from the Amiga community will improve little in 
the future.

My thanks go to Stephan Rupprecht with whom I had long dicussions on 
the how and why of blitting which resulted in better and smoother 
performance of ToT. Thank you, Stephan! You weren't enthused but still 
you listened, for weeks on end.

Thanks to Wolfgang Vogel for his PPC board, since mine were both 
broken again. I wouldn't have been able to finish this version without 
it.

Also thanks to Frank Mariak, who was always helpful about CGX 
problems. I hope CGX will see some new developments again.

I would also like to thank the whole OS4 team and the MOS team for 
their support.

What will be next?

The HiRES 2D map has been ported to the PC, where is will be tested 
some more and then released as well.

The Mac version will takeover the finished sources and also implement 
the HiRES map.

We signed a contract with a new programmer, Richard Drummond, who will 
work on ToT for Linux PPC and x86 and possibly Zeta. Richard has been
working on OS4 before, and has already completed a first version of 
ToT for Linux. He has received the sources for the HiRES map as well
and will try adapt the Linux version for it.

Last but not least, we found a known and capable author. She has 
looked into the history of Arbanor and will write a book about Tales
of Tamar. With this, we are picking up an idea from the last 
millenium.

However, we are still looking for help to speed up development, in 
particular:

- pixel artists, for 2D map hexagons and GUI improvements
- 3D object designer and texture artists
- assembler programmers to optimized the 68k code
- musicians for digibooster/fasttracker modules
- translators for portuguese
- PHP programmers to support the browser version
- programmers to improve the Amiga Installer script
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       R E S I D U A L   -   F O R   L U C A S G A M E R S

{The following item appeared on the OS4 Depot - home of Much Good 
Stuff - http://os4depot.net/ - recently. While we usually avoid alpha 
software, we do make rare exceptions for programs we think will 
generate special interest. Like this one. Brad}

Description:    Residual: A LucasArts 3D game interpreter
Download:   residual.lha       
Version:    0.06a-SVN
Date:           21 May 06
Author:     various
Submitter:  frak
Email:          jhogs/spray se
Homepage:   http://www.scummvm.org
Requirements:   os4 pre#4
Category:   game/adventure
License:    GPL
Distribute:     yes
FileID:     1838
    
What is Residual?
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Residual is a ScummVM (http://www.scummvm.org/) sub-project to play 
LucasArts' LUA-based 3D adventures, such as Grim Fandango. Residual is 
an OpenGL program, and requires a 3D card with working OpenGL support 
for optimum playability.

A software renderer is also included for machines without hardware 
OpenGL.

The main ScummVM program can run LucasArts 2D SCUMM adventures (among 
others). Residual is named such as it aims to do the same for the 
residual (remaining) games. It is also a word pun, as the engine used 
in these LUA-based adventure is called GrimE (as opposed to SCUMM). 
Grime is a type of residue.

What games does it support?
---------------------------
Residual is a fairly new project and slow developing project, and is 
still very much considered alpha. Currently it contains initial 
support for Grim Fandango.

It is possible, but far from promised, that we can support the other 
LucasArts LUA-based title 'Escape from Monkey Island' in the distant 
future.

----

AmigaOS4: Hardware rendering & Fullscreen busted...for now.

first thing to do is edit the residualrc file and adjust the datapath, 
after that it's just a matter of doubleclicking the supplied residual 
icon.

good luck.


Credits:

> > > ACEFQN < < <

and

myself.


ok ok, toaks as well.
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