New Amiga goodies at Amiga Sector
Amiga Sector regulary offers new demos, older disk mags and games for download. Currently available:
Demo Reel 3, Einsteinium, Obituary 24, X-Ray Megademo, Grapvine Issue 1-4 and Deluxe Print 2.0.
AFD-Copyright News
The AFD-COPYRIGHT Official Support Site had just today its
1000th visitor! This shows that there still is interest in the
"Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note".
The recent visitor boom happened partly due to the fact that
so many Amiga News sites reported about the latest release.
Thanks to all news-webmasters for your support!
I collected some of the sites on the page "What's New?"
If you are interested, you can visit the AFD-Homepage at:
http://AFD.home.pages.de/ (title link).
The list of news sites even includes one in Russia - and a Russian
translation will be released as the 15th language soon! Keep the
momentum going! Thanks!
Fun of Computing NG
The Amiga Zentrum Thüringen e.V. offers a computer meeting "Fun of Computing" every year,
a highlight not to be missed. On June 24th to 25th, a lot of interesting new hard- and software developments
can be discovered in the "Technologie- u. Gründerzentrum", Ilmenau. Fans of Amiga, and other
systems too, will find their time worthwile.
More informations about the "Fun of Computing NG" will be announced on the AZT e.V. internet pages
in the next weeks, and will be continously expanded. Interested exhibitors are asked to contact the AZT
board by e-mail.
MorphOS status
After MorphOS got attention by small pictures on their homepage (AmigaNews reported), there is now
a small status report on the project itself:
We are currently working on rewriting as many elemental parts of the AmigaOS as possible directly in
PowerPC code. The tests of the 68k emulation have been finished already for some time, and it works
reliable with Workbench 3.1 and 3.5. CyberGraphX, the CS PPC SCSI driver, the CDrive CD-ROM file
system and other stuff has almost completely been ported natively, to achieve best possible performance
even on the current CS PPC card generation.
The ppc.library has also been completed in a full PowerPC version (means the former 68k part is native,
too), so direct compatibility to PowerUP software is ensured, and available software is working directly
without special MorphOS adjustments. For software adhering to the original PowerUP specs there
shouldn't be a problem at all.
Since everything is running directly on the PowerPC CPU, the infamous CPU context switches for 68k
AmigaOS are removed, so PowerUP software is frequently running faster. Programs with many I/O
accesses or graphics output via AmigaOS can profit from this.
We are just now testing several PowerUP software products, and will soon publish a guideline as
well as a list of successfully tested software, so PowerUP software can employed under MorphOS
without problems.
We are working on a developer release; due to several hardware defects, the release date was
sadly delayed.
Working title: "Audiomaster 2000"
Frank Fenn (Bright Light Software) writes:
We (Michael Ulbrich and myself) have taken on the sources of AudioStream, which were released
on Aminet. The goal is to create an easy-to-use, not too complex sample tool in the style of the
classic Audiomaster IV. We consciously don't implement special functions like 2D/3D spectrograms,
since they are of little use for the home user.
Some features are (or are planned):
As soon as the first public version is finished, it will be offered for download on the homepage
above (title link). Of course we gladly accept suggestions.
CGXBlanker, DPMSManager update
Stefan Robl writes: I integrated numerous user wishes in both programs. CGXBlanker
version 1.25 now has an ARexx port, another very nice blanker module, does not get confused
by windows or screens popping up, and can optionally suppress blanking when the mouse
pointer is on the title bar.
Download: CGXBlanker.lha
and DPMSManager.lha
OpusMI Release 3 released
Since today, version 3 of OpusMI is available on Aminet. The
archive contains 300 GlowIcons for the start menu and the
toolbar of DOpus Magellan in the format 40x32 pixel.
Download: opusmi.lha
Wordworth7 updates still available
Wordworth7 updates still available
Digita have kindley allowed the kickstart amiga user group based in
surrey, england to hold the final updates to the excellent wordworth7.
Since they have been removed from their site.
Slengpung has opened!
A new scene website that presents people, pictures and
reports of the various scene parties.
Have you ever wondered how those scener friends of yours look like?
Or have you ever returned from a party and searched through the internet
to try to find all those pictures you know people took? Well.. Search no
more. The sceners online gallery has opened. Check it out at www.slengpung.com!
Ncoder V1.55 released
Speed up under PowerUp. A 5.53 min song will be encoded in 3.31 min
(with PPC 604 233Mhz)! Bug fix for BurnIt Ncoder PlugIn. Large sound
quality enhancement compared with Ncoder 1.50.
Please note:
Under OS3.5 you have to disable Skin display if strange crashes occur.
Wrong installed datatypes are responsible for this. Please use the
datatypes provided with the NcoderCD. DON`T mix WarpUS Datatyes with
PowerUp version. If you use WarpUp make sure that you don`t use any
PowerUp software in background (e.g TurboPrint). DON`T use PPCInstall
in your Startup or Userstartup-sequence!! If Ncoder won`t start under
PowerUp. Please start PPCInstall before you start Ncoder. (PPCInstall
is included on BlizzardPPC and Cyberstorm SystemDisks).
AROS
There are still problems to make AROS native/i386 with EGCS
(GCC 2.95.2), but it should work soon. New screenshots were added.
DOOM is already partly playable on AROS.
Nobody knows precise details :-(. Sadly. To me it currently seems
to be the other way round. What I read from the last statements and
interviews with Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss is that they want to
concentrate fully on TAO and their OS and do not plan to support the PPC.
Haage & Partner maintain silence in this matter. (ps)
PlayGui 2.5 and new skins released
PlayGui 2.5 is now available. If there are no bugs, this
will be the last version for the time being (final release).
Some bugs were fixed, now there's a requester for almost every
problem and Multiview is used for viewing the help file.
Download: PlayGUI.lha - 498 Kb
Gui4Cli
John Chandler writes each month an article at Suite101. In the
current article John writes about the script language Gui4Cli, which
allows to create graphical interfaces for shell commands.
The latest about AmigaOS 3.5
A new FAQ
was released on the AmigaOS homepage. It contains AmigaOS 3.5
tips and tricks that Alex compiled based on hints, tips and
discussions in the Onelist mailing list amigaOS3_5@onelist.com
(subscribe via amigaOS3_5-subscribe@onelist.com).
Warp9 celebrates
Right now we have to celebrate two events at the same time:
That the reason for us to start again a
"Counter-Competition". We have installed a counter on our special
birthday-page. Find this page and be the 3000th vistor. Everyone who
sends us a screenshot with the lucky number 3000 will take part at the
final competition. There you have the chance to win a brand-new 20 GB
harddisk by Quantum. We will pick up the winner from all e-mails with
the screenshot of the 3000 number. Good luck.
A500 Power Board available again
Those who own and use an Amiga 500 can come across the problem of not
being able to replace a defective memory expansion for their computer.
Well, not anymore. The A500 Power Board is available again.
The expansion board offers the following features:
The price for the A500 Power Board is EURO 34,99 including posting and
packaging within Europe mainland. Orders from outside Europe mainland
add EURO 10,00.
The A500 Power Board is available from all local Amiga dealers and
distributed through GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH.
For more information:
Computer City
Zebrastraat 7-9
NL-3064 LR Rotterdam
Phone: +31-10-4517722
Fax: +31-10-4517748
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