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  • CBM Free Magazine, Issue 56 - Part 4

    From Stephen Walsh@39:901/281 to All on Wed Dec 7 10:24:06 2011
    -File renaming and deleting -
    -D64 Image Writing, and Creation of Disks from Those Images
    -D71 Image Writing, and Creation of Disks from Those Images
    -D81 Image Writing, and Creation of Disks from Those Images
    -Send command to drive
    -Simple "Paging" Text-File Viewer
    -Moving into, and out of, sub-directories and disk-images
    -Configuration Utility
    -Whole Disk Copying

    http://cbmcommand.codeplex.com/

    New features are:
    -Support for CMD partitions
    -sd2iec's disk images.
    -CBM 8050 and CBM 8250 (SFD-1001) disk copier.
    -Improved help file.
    -Better support for RELative files.
    -Better layout for the VIC-20 screens
    -many others....


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    CrossCrabTris 1.0 RELEASED
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    KeHo Software has released a logic game for the Amiga. The game was created by Achim Kern, and is programmed in the Hollywood language. The game is a cross between a crossword puzzle, Scrabble and Tetris. The game is available for MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS4, AmigaOS3 and AROS http://www.kehosoft.de/crosscrabtris_hollywood.html


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    Jack 2.4 is now available
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    Jack is a multi (jack of all trades) application for the Amiga OS)

    Download/Installation instructions:
    * Existing Users - Simply start your current version of Jack as normal and
    when prompted click the confirmation button to proceed with the download**. Open the Installation Drawer and click on the Install Jack icon - after that simply select the location where you already have Jack installed and the installation is complete.

    ** Once Jack has left OS4Depot's Upload queue.

    * New Users - Visit OS4Depot http://www.os4depot.net/ and type Jack in the search box. Installation is simple, just press the Install Jack icon and
    select a location where you would like Jack to be installed. Jack will now appear on your Dockbar.

    WBStartup:
    Users can enjoy Jack on their Workbench all the time if they wish, simply
    press F6 inside Jack's Commodity Window and select WBStartup - alternatively open up your system disk and select the Prefs drawer. Next click the add button, find and double-click Jack and then save.

    Jack has the follow features :
    * App-Store for AmigaOS4 Applications; access to all applications hosted on
    OS4Depot.net
    * App-Store: If you sign-up you can also give software a Star Rating from 1-5
    * JackTunes: Play music from your iTunes library across a Samba network; still
    under development - at present - at best you can use it as tag editor -
    thanks to Python
    * Capture Screen and integrated image editor for performing simple tasks
    * In-built Amiga Knowledge-base which anyone in the Amiga community can
    contribute towards
    * Weather on your desktop for your location
    * Calendar and time on your desktop for your locale
    * Basic File Manager, delete/rename/comment, send to archive, extract from
    archive, open numerous filetypes and more
    * Quick access to AmigaOS System Preferences
    * Integrates with WordNet (if installed) - the online English thesaurus
    * 'Spotlight-like' calculator
    * System-wide Search tool, interact directly with files in your search results * Google Currency Converter
    * Glorious Full-screen Image Directory Viewer
    and more...


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    EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF COMMODORE RELATED VIDEOS
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    Robert wrote:
    - Sadlik talks Codebench at Amiwest 2011 http://blip.tv/file/5681441
    - Bosari talks Remote Access and Amiga at Amiwest 2011
    http://blip.tv/file/5681549
    - Sadlik talks Media Players and Amiga at Amiwest 2011
    http://blip.tv/file/5688738
    - Bernardo talks the MCC-216 at Amiwest 2011 http://blip.tv/file/5688824
    - Morris talks MorphOS at Amiwest 2011 http://blip.tv/file/5691847
    - Dickinson talks the AmigaOne X1000 at Amiwest 2011
    http://blip.tv/file/5692571
    - Sadlik talks AmiCygnix and the OS 4.x at Amiwest 2011
    http://blip.tv/file/5692825
    - Solie talks the Amiga OS 4.1 update 3 at Amiwest 2011
    http://blip.tv/file/5693014

    The above video, Bernardo talks the MCC-216 at Amiwest 2011, has been uploaded to YouTube also. Go to http://youtu.be/eJ9JlLBwCN0 Under YouTube's 15-minute limit,

    Yes! The last 2 videos have been uploaded; they are:

    - Deneen talks REBOL at Amiwest 2011 http://blip.tv/file/5713826
    - Keynote dinner speeches at Amiwest 2011 http://blip.tv/file/5713798

    Robert Bernardo
    Fresno Commodore User Group
    http://videocam.net.au/fcug


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    CBM prg Studio Version 1.6.0 released
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    This version allows you to target the Commodore 128 machine. The only major limitation being the screen designer (and some other minor tools) are not available for C128 projects at the moment. A huge thanks to Tony Schiffbauer who helped with getting the C128 support off the ground!

    Note
    C64PrgGen and VIC20PrgGen are no longer being developed; they have been

    --- CrashWrite 2.0
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