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Stephan Assmus (alias stippi) has uploaded a newer version of Icon-O-Matic, which also includes some basic SVG import:
http://www.yellowbites.com/stuff/icons.zip
According to Stephan this version of Icon-O-Matic should hopefully be less buggy. Keep in mind that there are still a couple of bugs left, and that still is pretty rough regarding usability. Nevertheless, have fun experimenting with it and creating some cool icons for the contest! :-)
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IsComputerOn today received an e-mail from Runesoft's Thomas Steiding:
"Runesoft will be presenting games for Macintosh and ZetaOS users at the booth of their partner company Magnussoft at this years Games Convention in Leipzig/Germany (August 24th to 27th, 2006). Please meet us in Exhibition centre 3, Booth B26.
Mac Gamers will be able to relive the area of the "Cold War" on a set of Intel iMacs. "Cold War" allows you to sneak around the former Soviet Union and visit famous locations such as Lenis Mausoleum or Chernobyl and lets you play around with nice little gadgets such as the X-Ray camera. Casual gamers can take a first look at the Macversion to the nations latest brain teaser game: "Buku Kakuro" will put your brain to a real test.
ZetaOS gamers can take a first walk around the Sherwood forrest in "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" and help Robin against the Sheriff from Nottingham and his troops. Zeta Gamers are also ready to take off with the cartoon style bussiness simulation "Airline Tyccon Deluxe" which puts you in charge of your own Airline.
We are looking forward to meet you in Leipzig!
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For the techies always on the move, never stopping, but who desperately need to keep track on the Haiku developer commits, now there's a way! All you need is point your mobile phone/pda/sidekick/whatever-mobile-device-you-have to this adress. You can now follow Haiku's latest developments, without the need to stop the car you're driving!
Below you can see the site rendered on my aging Nokia 7210, where you can see DarkWyrm's latest commitment (click it for a larger version). Thanks to Ralf for the heads up on this one.
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With a smart combination of contributed translations, and a Mozilla Firefox extension, Japanese users can now easily translate non-Japanese sites into their own language, and enjoy the results in real time. This is made possible by a free service called Japanize being developed by Cybozu Labs, a company dedicated to the research of information sharing technologies.
Click below to read more...
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Thanks to MYOB (or his/her friend for sharing a birthday) for reminding us that today Haiku turns 5. It was on this day back in 2001 (I'm good in math) that OpenBeOS (at the time) started, with mails not only from Michael Phillips but also from for example Marcus Overhagen, Erik Jakowatz among others (you can check the first mails via the Freelists archives).
It's been a long road, a rollercoaster ride so far, and the road will continue on towards what we hope to be a bright future. Many milestones have been reached and many more are coming. I remember writing (back in the TBJ days) about David Reid booting OpenBeOS for example, or more recently for example Firefox up and running and surfing the net in style. It's been fun even for those, like me, who watch the coders from the sidelines so to speak, so happy birthday Haiku, here's to 5 more years (at least).
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Stephan Assmus (alias stippi) has found it neccessary to make a few clarifications regarding the recently announced Haiku Icon Contestany.
The objective of the Haiku Icon Contest is to help develop design guidelines for the eventual creation of a full Haiku Icon Set. The guidelines would look something like the Tango guidelines, but would be specific to the Haiku Operating System.
In order to achieve this goal, the Haiku team are accepting artwork sample submissions per the rules outlined in the "Contest Rules" section of the Haiku Icon Contest official page. The submitted artwork will be rated in several areas by means of an online system. The rating system will be open, so anyone interested will be able to participate; take a peak at the beta version rating page.
During and after the rating period, an open discussion will then be held in the Haiku mailing list, as a brain storming exercise leading to the Haiku icon design guidelines which will provide the base for the creation of the final artwork.
Although the final icon set for Haiku will be the result of a collaborative effort through the rating of the submitted artwork and an open discussion in the Haiku mailing list, the contest will have a "Best Rated Entry", which will be awarded a special recognition certificate from the Haiku project.
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Recently, Haiku has seen some good and noticeable progress made. The Intel Extreme gfx driver can now do partial overlay drawing. This is especially important (video gurus out there, correct me if I'm wrong) for video playback, speeding it up and reducing the CPU load. Matrox card owners will start to see some TVOut goodness coming their way.
Also, mounting disk images now works correctly under Haiku (and OBFS of course), with fixes that not only brings it up to speed, but actually improves it over the old BeOS implementation.
The Media Player received a ton (give or take a kilo), and now has the hability to seek the media being played, open such media files, and the volume control now works (for real). Of course, all of this work will be of little worth, if Haiku doesn't support as much media types and codecs out there as possible, so if you work in that area, come onboard and help the Haiku team.
More updates, fixes, additions have been made of course (for example to the app_server), many to list here, so I'd like to thank eNIGMa for posting this summary.
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With the GC - Games Convention, Europe's biggest event for interactive games, just days away, magnussoft® Germany has together with Runesoft™ announced the first two commercial games for ZETA.
The release of magnussoft ZETA 1.21 is probably just days away, and will be showcased on the game convention together with the two classic games "Airline Tycoon Deluxe" and "Robin Hood: The Legend Of Sherwood"! Both are originally from Spellbound Entertainment AG and developed for Windows. Spellbound Entertainment AG is perhaps best known for the game "Desperados". Runesoft has earlier made these two games available for MacOS X, Linux (and MorphOS). The games are to be published and sold online for the recommended price of €29,95 (+ postage) by RuneSoft™. The release of the games are set to be some time in September, and will require a copy of magnussoft® ZETA 1.21.
As you will see from Spellbound Entertainment's pages, the Windows version of the games make use of Direct X. Runessoft has rewritten the games to instead use the cross-platform multimedia library Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL). IsComputerOn was happy to hear that magnussoft also will be shipping ZETA with a better preforming SDL.
Some information to our readers that plan to visit magnussoft's stand on the game convention
magnussoft will be having their stand at G|C Family. We hope that some of you will be willing to send us a report with some photos from magnussoft's stand, so that we can publish it.
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The Japanese Haiku/ZETA user Mitiya Masuda is the first to submit an icon set for the Haiku Icon Contest. His Ponkan icon set has been released under the suggested MIT license, and have the cartoonish look known from the BeOS icons. The icons have been made available in various sizes in PNG and as scalable vector graphics. "Ponkan" means tangerine. Tangerine is by the way the name of the default icon set for the popular Ubuntu distro.
Mitiya Masuda has earlier also created the Japanese font set Konatu for Haiku. Latest version (v1.5) released 2006/07/29.
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Michael Phipps, Haiku's leader, announced recently the place, date and price for this year's WalterCon. This year it'll be held a bit later than before, shortly after Summer (vacation time), and this year it'll be help in... *drumroll*... Orlando, Florida! The date? The last weekend of October, 28th and 29th.
Michael hasn't chosen which hotel they'll destr... stay in, but the search is narrowing down. The price will be slightly higher, $125 USD, which included the meeting room, a t-shirt and the hotel room. No lady entertainment (this time), sorry. Internet access will be available.
So if you're interested in attending (and why wouldn't you be), drop a line to waltercon2006 at haiku-os dot org and tell Michael you're in!
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