Richard Lake worked very hard on a new release of his multitool named Jack. It's a natural update of the 3.2 point release of this tool and a lot of changes were made since the last time we mentioned the 3.1.2 release. One of the most noticable difference is that the Aros version now has it's own package to download.
It's a bit hard to really describe this multi-tool in one word. It is a screenshot maker, image editor, image batch file processor, document browser, music player, calculator, filemanager and can do much, much more.
More information about this multifunctional tool can be read on the web-blog of Jack and can be found here.
Good news for Aros as the first distribution for 68k sees the day of light. What this means in practise is that we (besides nightly downloads) are now able to run Aros on our classic Amiga's (or emulator). OlafS3 did a tremendous job putting all things together into one single distro for 68k and which was named Aros Vision.
OlafS3 was so nice to put up a website for his distribution with a tutorial, screenshots, and much more.
Because this distro is still in it's early stages it is to be expected that there will be some troubles. One of those is that Aros tend to run very slow on classic amiga's. Until now we had no real distro to use to actually tackle this problem (and others), so hopefully this will set things in motion in order to make Aros even better.
In case you run into problems then OlafS3 very much would like to here about them, so please report them in the special thread that you can find here. Suggestions and other questions related to this distribution are welcome as well.
So checkout this distribution to see what Aros is all about, returning to it roots !!!!
Fredrik Wikström ported Ur-Quan Masters to Aros. Ur-Quan Masters is a space adventure game that amongst other things features role-playing elements with a 2D combat system. The port has its origin in a game called Star Control II that in itself was ported to the 3DO video game console from PC and was licensed under the GNU-GPL in 2002.
Unfortunatly Netplay was not compiled into this version due to various issues with getting the network code to compile.
More additional download files can be found on the Ur-Quan Masters downloadpage, more screenshots of the game can be found here and more information about the original game can also be found here
Showcase: Linux Format magazine's Coverdisk with Icaros
Once in a while the more generic public get's a chance to learn about our beloved Operating System. This time the Linux Format magazine Issue 158 (June 2012) has a coverdisk (DVD) with Icaros Desktop.
Unfortunately i was unable to obtain a copy in time and see what it is all about. So if you have a chance, take a peak yourself at your local bookstore, magazine stand or online, as it perhaps is worth a buy.
For the ones that are unfamiliar with it, Serk118uk is almost finished working on his self-written zune based mp3-player for Aros. It has a lot of the neat things one expect from a mp3-player such as playing-controls, playlist and tag-editing. Serk118uk even wants to add support for drag-n-drop as well, but at the moment this seems to be limited by our Zune-gui. Reason for his update was the addition of a nice icon for his player.
More information about the update of this nice player is available at Serk118uk's blog and can be found here
Szilárd Biró ported yet another game for us. This time he ported Return to Castle Wolfenstein, a First Person Shooter developed by id Software. Szilárd based his work upon Mark Olsen's port of RTCW for MorphOS.
More information about Szilárd's port of RTCW can be found here
The 'fearsome' picture you are looking at in this news-item is our Aros Mascotte Kitty, so watch out and don't get shot by our nice little Kitty !! The picture was especially designed for RTCW by graphics artist Manu. Great work Manu !
Manu occasionally provide the Aros community with his wonderfull work when he has some time on his hands, and he also has his own website, so go check out Manu's other work !
* This game requires additional datafiles from the original (demo) game in order to run correctly.
magorium on April 30 2012 ·
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Software: MPlayer
Deadwood released an update of his MPlayer port for Aros/i386, This multimedia player is based on FAB's current MorphOS version of the player and is Aros' main application for listening to audiotracks and viewing videofiles.
The player originates from the original MPlayer whose website can be found here.
magorium on April 25 2012 ·
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Software: glMorphing
Serk118uk ported two gems for us. They are two little executables (glMeshEdit and glMorp) that makes it possible for us to do some morphing on Aros.
The original programs were developed by Juan Pedro Bolïvar Puente as part of another project. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much more information available on the web about the original programs. Nonetheless, it doesn't mean we can't have some fun with it as you can see in the screenshot.
More information about glMorphing is available at Serk118uk's blog that can be found here
magorium on April 25 2012 ·
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Software: Jack 3.1.3 (Re)
Today Richard Lake released a new version of his multitool named Jack. It's a natural update of the 3.1 point release of this tool.
It's a bit hard to really describe this multi-tool in one word. It is a screenshot maker, image editor, image batch file processor, document browser, music player, calculator, filemanager and can do much more.
More information about this multifunctional tool can be read on the web-blog of Jack and can be found here
Download: Jack 3.1.3 (25mb, includes Jack for Aros/Classic/OS4/MOS)
This news was updated april 23th to reflect the newest 3.1.3 update of Jack
magorium on April 19 2012 ·
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Richard Lake worked very hard on a new release of his multitool named Jack. It's a natural update of the 3.2 point release of this tool and a lot of changes were made since the last time we mentioned the 3.1.2 release. One of the most noticable difference is that the Aros version now has it's own package to download.
Once in a while the more generic public get's a chance to learn about our beloved Operating System. This time the Linux Format magazine Issue 158 (June 2012) has a coverdisk (DVD) with Icaros Desktop. 
Deadwood released an update of his MPlayer port for Aros/i386, This multimedia player is based on FAB's current MorphOS version of the player and is Aros' main application for listening to audiotracks and viewing videofiles.
Serk118uk ported two gems for us. They are two little executables (glMeshEdit and glMorp) that makes it possible for us to do some 
Today Richard Lake released a new version of his multitool named Jack. It's a natural update of the 3.1 point release of this tool.
