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Workbench December 2007 Issue 245 Merry Christmas Workbench December 2007 Issue 245 Merry Christmas AmigaOS 4.0 for Classic has gone Gold! Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce that AmigaOS 4.0 for PowerPC equipped Amiga 1200/3000/4000’s has gone gold and should be available for sale around 30 November depending on location. Further information can be found here: http://www.hyperion- entertainment.biz:8080/news/2007-10-23 Prospective customers are once more encouraged to verify the (regularly updated) compatibility list @: http://www.acube-systems.com/compatibility/ prior to purchase. AmigaOS 4.0 for Classic Amiga’s will be distributed worldwide by Acube Systems s.r.l.. http://www.acube-systems.com/ December 2007 Workbench 1 Editorial Hi Folks! Merry Christmas to one and all from your Editor AUG Committee members. We would also like to wish our Barry Woodfield Phone:9917 2967 Assistant Co-ordinator, Jim Lewis all our very best and Mobile : 0448 915 283 hope something can be done for him very soon to remedy [email protected] ibutions his condition. Contributions can be soft copy (on floppy½ disk) or THIS WILL BE THE LAST PRINT hard copy. It will be returned EDITION OF WORKBENCH. SO if requested and accompanied with a self- NEXT MONTH, WE’LL SEE YOU addressed envelope. ALL ONLINE. The editor of the Amiga Users Group Inc. newsletter Please keep us up to date on all your details. Ciao for now, Workbench retains the right to edit contributions for Barry R. Woodfield. clarity and length. Send contributions to: Amiga Users Group P.O. Box 2097 Seaford Victoria 3198 OR [email protected] rtising Advertising space is free for members to sell private items or services. For information on commercial rates, contact: Tony Mulvihill 0415 161 2721 [email protected] Deadlines Last Months Meeting Workbench is published each month. The deadline for each November 18th 2007 issue is the 1st Tuesday of Yet another good meeting, with a the month of publication. Reprints few old faces turning up with some All articles in Workbench are Copyright 2007 the freebies. Jim brought in an old Amiga Users Group Inc. firewall machine with cassette tape unless otherwise indicated. Articles may be reproduced drive in it. Very Interesting. for noncommercial purposes if accompanied by a credit line including the original authors name and the words: This Months Meeting Reprinted from Workbench December 9th 2007 ADUG Memberships the newsletter of the Amiga The Amiga Downunder Users Group. Rock up to our last meeting for this http://www.aug.org.au year and enjoy yourself. User Group offers you Disclaimer the chance to help bring The views expressed in the Amiga back to the people. Amiga Users Group Inc. newsletter Workbench are Next Months Meeting those of the authors and do January 20th 2008 By joining ADUG you help fund for not necessarily represent the views of the editor or the show appearances like the upcoming AUG committee. Sydney CeBit show this year. It was ??? through ADUG the 2001/2002 Comdex show appearances were Who knows what wondrous things funded. Memberships can be paid may be happening. at AUG meetings. http://www.amigadownunder.org December 2007 Workbench 2 In This Issue Bytes & Pieces Front Cover 1 Editorial 2 NetworkSnoop is a register their copies in our Group News 2 transparent-patch tool, its Support Center. Bytes & Pieces 3 purpose is similiar to Thank you. SnoopDos but it is aimed Lincity-ng ported to Assorted News 4 at tracing bsdsocket.library AmigaOS4 In Memorium 7 calls. LinCity-NG is a City Meeting Pics 8 This is not a program for Simulation Game. It is a WB Funnies 10 an ordinary user - it is not polished and improved Boing.Net 14 going to improve the version of the classic Anything Amiga 14 functionality of TCP/IP LinCity game. Within the Dealer Directory 15 stack. scope of the GoTM project About The Group 16 NetworkSnoop is for we have created a new iso- developers who develop 3D graphics engine, with a StarFighter:D'Yammen's tools which use completely redone and Reign bsdsocket.library. This modern GUI. The game StarFighter: tool offers them ability to Enjoy another Amigasoft D'Yammen's Reign was check: eg: content of the game..At moment is in: commercially published in buffers of such functions http://www.os4depot.net/d 1999. It is now released for as recv(), send(), content ownload.php?file=queue/l free by the developer to of the system's structures incity.lha Amiga users. which are used by The Mana World - The It requires AGA and CD- bsdsocket.library. The first AmigaOS4 rom. developers may also like MMORPG Download from here: to check if the function The Mana World (TMW) http://www.drewfx.com/St receives proper parameters is a serious effort to create ar/star.htm and what they are. an innovative free and Tool can be downloaded open source MMORPG. To All from here: TMW uses 2D graphics Amigans http://amigg.integradesign and aims to create a large .org/NetworkSnooper.lha and diverse interactive AmiWebView 2 update. world. It is licensed under AmiWebView 2.1 update the GPL, making sure this is available in our Support game can't ever get away Center: from you. At moment it is http://support.alinea- at: computer.de/ We would http://www.os4depot.net/d like to ask all ownload.php?file=queue/t AmiWebView 2 hemanaworld.lha customers, that they December 2007 Workbench 3 Assorted News Nova Design Amiga Software HALF OFF for the Holidays Right now all new Nova Design, Inc. Amiga products, when bought from Nova's online store, are half off for the Holidays! This includes ImageFX and Aladdin 4D - our entire line of Amiga special effects and 3D rendering software! ImageFX is the award-winning special effects and image editing package that has been the standard-bearer on the Amiga for over a decade. Aladdin 4D is the easy-to-use and powerful in operation 3D modeling, rendering, and animation package. Not only that, but we're completely ignoring the rising costs of shipping and keeping our shipping rates exactly the same as they've been for years! Upgrades are not included. No hot mugs of cider either. Buy early and often! @: http://www.novadesign.com From Yam Support Site: YAM 2.5 sneak preview available with AmigaOS4... The YAM developer team is proud to announce that in cooperation with Hyperion Entertainment, the upcoming release of the 'Classic' version of AmigaOS4 (to be released on 30th November) will come with an official sneak preview version of YAM 2.5. This version will be PowerPC native, comes with a fully working default installation and was contributed to allow users of AmigaOS4 to have a look at the current state of the development of YAM 2.5. In addition, we hope to get some more feedback from those users having installed the sneak preview so that we can finalise our development on YAM 2.5 and release a stable version soon. So please stay tuned and enjoy the sneak preview version waiting for you on the 'Classic' release of AmigaOS4." http://www.yam.ch/ Lately it's been raining TuneNet plugins! Let me sum them up for you! TuneSC68_plug.lha - A plugin based on SC68, it plays a lot of Atari and Amiga formats. It also plays SNDH files (The plugin currently doesn't support this though). I couldn't find any complete list of the supported formats, but I know it supports a lot of Atary YM tunes, and a lot of synthetic Amiga formats (Fred, Future Composer, Delta music etc). Download all SC68 music files in one big archive here! I'll post a link to an SNDH archive when/if the plugin gets fixed. TuneGSF_plug.lha a plugin that plays Gameboy Advance music! Download a lot of GSF tracks here! TunePSF_plug.lha a plugin based on SexyPSF that plays Playstation music! (psf/minipsf) Download a lot of PSF/MiniPSF tracks here! TuneAU_plug.lha plays SUN AU files! TuneRA_plug.lha plays Real Audio files! December 2007 Workbench 4 Assorted News TuneACM_plug.lha plays Interplay ACM music. Sadly I haven't found any source for music in this formats, anyone? TuneWAVE_plug.lha plays WAV files! All these 7(!) plugins has been written by Fredrik Wikstrom aka Salass00. Write this name down on a sheet of paper, pick up a red pen and draw a heart around it. Keep this paper under your pillow! Alternatively, send him some cash! :) This man deserves all the love we can muster! Amigaworld. AmigaSYS 3 Plus for Amithlon Released! After much night work, it’s finally here ... Original AmigaSYS 3 Plus features! + new Amithlon features : Contrib 3b GFX pack installed! powerfb1, powerfb2, powerfb3, powerfb4, powerfb5. AmigaSYS has no built in extra drivers (net,usb,etc), you need install them. http://amigasys.extra.hu/ AmigaSYS 3 Live 07 for USB released! Newest version goes USB If you never heard of AmigaSYS live, please read the 'older versions' chapter below. I have decided that it would be much nicer if one had a bootable AmigaSYS on a USB stick instead of having to boot from a separate CD. Here are some pros and cons: PROS: Takes less space to take with you. USB sticks/drive are becomming very affordable CD's damage more easily CONS: Not all computers can boot from a USB drive Not everyone has a USB stick big enough Tell me if there's more... Requirements and steps to take to get started: I've made an "Instructions" movie for those who'd like to see how next steps are done.
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