Newsletter for Saturday, July 05th 2008

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (27) :::

[001] - AgileWiki 0.1.3 (COWDB2)
[002] - Architecture Rules 2.1.0
[003] - Calf 0.0.14
[004] - cego 2.0.9
[005] - Ctpp 1.0.36
[006] - diri 0.3
[007] - DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.6-beta2
[008] - DOLPHIN SMASH 5.11.0
[009] - DrScheme 4.0.2
[010] - eric4 4.1.6
[011] - FbTerm 1.0
[012] - Galactic Killdozer 20080704
[013] - GNU Interactive Tools 4.9.4
[014] - Gnumeric 1.9.1 (Development)
[015] - GOffice 0.7.0 (Development)
[016] - Igelle Connector 0.3.0
[017] - iRODS 1.1
[018] - Logger 08178.1710
[019] - namefix.pl 4.0
[020] - Open Babel 2.2.0 (Development)
[021] - Ruby/AWS 0.4.0
[022] - Sockso 1.0.3
[023] - Support Incident Tracker 3.35
[024] - TCExam 5.4.000
[025] - TEA for Linux 18.0.0
[026] - Tunguska 0.0.3.3
[027] - Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator 2.11 (2.xx)

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[001] - AgileWiki 0.1.3 (COWDB2)
by Bill la Forge (http://freshmeat.net/users/laforge49/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 20:14

Database
Documentation
Information Management

About: AgileWiki is meant to create software systems which are fluid,
easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing
requirements. It includes a COW-based database, the Rolonics programming
paradigm, and semantic inferencing.

Changes: The control package is now complete, including the Javadocs.

License: Common Public License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/agilewiki/

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[002] - Architecture Rules 2.1.0
by MikeNereson (http://freshmeat.net/users/MikeNereson/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:30

Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: Architecture Rules is a Java library that allows a programmer to
assert code's architecture via unit tests or ant tasks. This test is able
to assert that specific packages do not depend on others and is able to
check for and report on cyclic dependencies among your project's packages
and classes. This project wraps a industry accepted JDepend to simplify the
process of maintaining a solid software architecture.

Changes: This release included a report class creating the cyclic
redundancy, made testArchitecture() public, added configuration method
chaining, included a license file, added support for wildcards, and
provided an API for retrieving the list of violations. Exceptions should
now implement an ArchitectureRulesException. Meaningful defaults were
provided with the Maven plugin. A classpath conflict with common-io and
Spring was fixed.

License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/architecturerules/

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[003] - Calf 0.0.14
by Krzysztof Foltman (http://freshmeat.net/users/kfoltman/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 20:19

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis

About: Calf is a set of audio effect plugins compatible with audio
technologies popular in Linux and other open-source operating systems.
Currently, several plugins are available (flanger, reverb, multimode
filter, vintage delay, phaser, simple monophonic VA synthesizer, and
organ/pad synthesizer). All of these plugins are available in versions
compatible with major Linux plugin specifications: LADSPA+LRDF, DSSI, and
LV2. A standalone application using GTK+2 and JACK is provided.

Changes: Memory management bugs were fixed. Knobs were improved. The
preset system was improved. New Monosynth presets were added. Startup time
was reduced in Organ and Monosynth.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/calf/

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[004] - cego 2.0.9
by lemke (http://freshmeat.net/users/lemke/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 20:26

Database
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Database :: Front-Ends

About: Cego implements a relational and transactional database system with
support for the SQL query language. The current release contains the most
common database features for basic table manipulation and data retrieval.
Indexes, foreign keys, views, and stored procedures are also implemented.
Future releases (2.0 and above) will support a multi-node database concept
with log file shipping for an automatic database application failover.

Changes: Locking improvements were made for parallel table access.
Dedicated index locks were introduced.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cego/

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[005] - Ctpp 1.0.36
by thx1132 (http://freshmeat.net/users/kiesling3/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:27

About: Ctpp is the C99-compatible C preprocessor of the Ctalk language,
which provides object oriented extensions for C. You can download the
preprocessor separately while Ctalk is between versions for development.

Changes: This release defines built-in macros for many command line
options.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ctpp/

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[006] - diri 0.3
by Lost Goblin (http://freshmeat.net/users/lostgoblin/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:26

Information Management :: Document Repositories
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: diri is an extremely minimalistic wiki system. It consists of a
collection of several rc scripts consisting of roughly 215 lines of code.
It includes support for password protection and page previews, uses
markdown formatting, and it doesn't require a database.

Changes: Various improvements and fixes.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/diri/

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[007] - DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.6-beta2
by Russell Miller (http://freshmeat.net/users/prism/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:29

Internet
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: DNS Blacklist Packet Filter is a Linux netfilter client that
decides whether to accept or drop packets based on the results of a DNS
blacklist query (such as MAPS, SORBS, or SPEWS, to name a few). One use is
to filter all incoming SMTP SYN packets for spam filtering.

Changes: A few minor cleanups were made to make the client work with newer
machines and OSes. It now compiles and runs successfully on FC9 under
2.6.25 on a 64-bit machine.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/packetbl/

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[008] - DOLPHIN SMASH 5.11.0
by Gilles Depeyrot (http://freshmeat.net/users/depeyrot/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 10:07

Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

About: Dolphin Smash is a mixed-signal, multi-language simulator for IC or
PCB designs. It uses SPICE syntax for analog descriptions, Verilog-HDL and
VHDL for digital, Verilog-A/AMS, VHDL-AMS and ABCD (a combination of SPICE
and C) for analog behavioral, and C for DSP algorithms.

Changes: The release implements enhanced ease of setup with a simulator
control file for analog and logic designers, a streamlined graphic user
interface with reworked menu bar and enriched tool bars, integrated
Power-Up analysis for transient ramp-up of circuit power supplies,
accelerated automatic operating-point searching, bias point saving during
transient analysis, noise analysis for Verilog-A models, encryption of
SPICE libraries, and optimized on-the-fly SDF annotation to reduce memory
consumption during circuit elaboration.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dolphinsmash/

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[009] - DrScheme 4.0.2
by Eli Barzilay (http://freshmeat.net/users/elibarzilay/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:27

Education
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development

About: DrScheme is a graphical environment for developing programs using
the Scheme, MzScheme, and MrEd programming languages. DrScheme runs under
Windows 95/98/NT, MacOS, and Unix/X. DrScheme's features include source
text highlighting of syntax and run-time errors, support for multiple
levels of Scheme from beginner to advanced, an algebraic stepper for the
beginner language, interactive and graphical static analysis, a graphical
user interface (GUI) library, objects, threads, modules, exceptions,
TCP/IP, regular expressions, and filesystem support.

Changes: This release fixes a bug that caused PLaneT packages to install
abnormally slowly.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/drscheme/

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[010] - eric4 4.1.6
by Detlev Offenbach (http://freshmeat.net/users/detlev/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:33

Software Development

About: Eric4 is a Python IDE written using PyQt4 and QScintilla2. It has
integrated project management capabilities with class browsing functions,
gives developers an unlimited number of editors with syntax highlighting
and code folding, an integrated Python shell, an integrated Python
debugger, a file system browser with class browsing capabilities for Python
files, and more. Eric4 is the successor of the well known eric3 development
environment.

Changes: Bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eric4/

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[011] - FbTerm 1.0
by dragchan (http://freshmeat.net/users/dragchan/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:27

Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals

About: FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for Linux that uses the frame
buffer. It is mostly as fast as the Linux kernel's terminal when
accelerated scrolling is enabled on the frame buffer device. It allows you
to select fonts with fontconfig, auto-detect and convert text encoding with
support for double width scripts like Chinese and Japanese etc, dynamically
create and destroy up to 10 windows, record scroll-back history for every
window, and copy/paste selected text between windows with mouse the when
the gpm server is running.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fbterm/

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[012] - Galactic Killdozer 20080704
by Alexandre Kharlamov (http://freshmeat.net/users/alex_kharlamov/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:30

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: Galactic Killdozer is a PC-port of a good-old ZX-Spectrum era game,
a Boulderdash-like 2D scroller originally named "Astra Down to Earth".

License: BSD License (original)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/killdozer/

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[013] - GNU Interactive Tools 4.9.4
by Ian Beckwith (http://freshmeat.net/users/ianbeckwith/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:31

Utilities

About: GIT is a set of interactive tools. It contains an extensible file
system browser, an ASCII/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer, and some
other related utilities and shell scripts. It can be used to increase the
speed and efficiency of most of the daily tasks such as copying and moving
files and directories, invoking editors, compressing and uncompressing
files, creating and expanding archives, compiling programs, sending mail,
etc. It looks nice, has colors (if the standard ANSI color sequences are
supported), and is user-friendly.

Changes: A new apropos command (^X^A) was included for key-binding search.
gitaction was rewritten, adding more file types and viewers. Environment
variables used by gnuit now start with GNUIT_ rather than GIT_ (eg
GNUIT_PAGER, GNUIT_BROWSER, etc.). The old names are still accepted for
backwards compatibility. Input in incremental-search mode was fixed. Base
1024 is now used when auto-scaling. Large file support was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnuinteractivetools/

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[014] - Gnumeric 1.9.1 (Development)
by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdassen/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 10:13

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Office/Business :: Financial :: Spreadsheet

About: Gnumeric is a powerful and easy to use spreadsheet using GNOME. Its
goal is to provide a full featured spreadsheet and a smooth migration path
for people and organizations currently using proprietary applications. It
provides more sheet functions and greatly improved accuracy when compared
to Microsoft's Excel. A plugin system lets you extend Gnumeric, adding
functions, I/O formats, and real time data capabilities. The existing
Python, Guile, and Perl plugins let you define complex functions. Gnumeric
is capable of reading and writing MS Excel (XLS and Office Open XML), and
reading Lotus, Applix, Quattro Pro, OpenCalc (ODF), XBase, DIF, SYLK, HTML,
Psion, MPS, oleo, sc, misc. text formats, and its native XML. It can also
generate Latex, HTML, and others.

Changes: Numerous bugs were fixed. Froblems found using fuzz testing and
valgrind testing were fixed. There were also fixes for a text export
problem for times with fractional seconds, XLS import and export problems,
translation of function descriptions, parser crashes, an array evaluation
problem, empty array handling, R1C1 parsing of refs followed by
subtraction, range highlighting while editing, highlighting of merged
cells, display confusion when reordering away from an RTL sheet, an
internal cleanup for analysis tools, and markup/text confusion. Tango-based
icons are now used.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnumeric/

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[015] - GOffice 0.7.0 (Development)
by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdassen/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 10:09

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Office/Business
Software Development :: Libraries

About: GOffice is a library of document-centric objects and utilities
building on top of GLib and Gtk+ and used by software such as Gnumeric.

Changes: It is now possible to exclude outliers from boxplots. GOConf code
was moved from Gnumeric to GOffice. Plot type activation/deactivation
issues were fixed. Full lines are now always used when drawing markers.
Singleton support was added to scatter and bar/column plots. X axis text
clipping was fixed on Win32. The bubble size calculation was tuned to be
closer to other implementations. Plain menu items are used for toolbar
overflow image menu item proxies so that they are displayed correctly with
gtk-menu-images=0.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/goffice/

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[016] - Igelle Connector 0.3.0
by M. Kero (http://freshmeat.net/users/pokxm/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 20:28

System :: Networking

About: Igelle Connector is a network management tool for Linux-like
operating systems, capable of connecting to different kinds of networks and
managing the created connections. Igelle Connector utilizes existing
networking tools for various tasks (Bluez, wpa-supplicant, dhcp, etc.).

Changes: This is the first release of Igelle Connector, and as such it is
still incomplete in features. User friendliness still needs to be improved.
Current features include a command line interface, a GTK+ based graphical
user interface, wired Ethernet connections, wireless LAN, fixed and
automatic IP address (DHCP) support, GSM/3G wireless data connections, and
Bluetooth wireless modem support.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/igelle-connector/

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[017] - iRODS 1.1
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:28

System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: iRODS (integrated Rule-Oriented Data Systems) is a second
generation data grid system providing a unified view and seamless access to
distributed digital objects across a wide area network. It is an adaptive
middleware data grid that operates by means of user-supplied rules and a
Rule Engine which interprets the rules to decide how the system is to
respond to various requests and conditions.

Changes: GSI was added as an authentication method. The ERA module
contains new collections management micro-services for manipulating
objects, user accounts, access rights, and metadata. Several micro-services
have also been added to retrieve audit trail information from the iCAT. An
XML module has been created and contains a micro-service that performs XSLT
transformations on iRODS objects. HDF5 support was added along with PHP and
Java APIs, improved Oracle access, and support for public accounts.
Passwords are no longer stored as plain text.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/irods/

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[018] - Logger 08178.1710
by BpMatthias (http://freshmeat.net/users/BpMatthias/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 20:31

System :: Logging
System :: Systems Administration
Utilities

About: Logger is a log queueing and optimization utility. It can
completely replace sys/klogd, handle logs larger than 2GB, perform
automatic nightly log rotation without affecting services, and transfer
logs between machines via TCP connections. Any application that writes a
text log can be maintained by Logger. It is light, small, and fast,
emphasizes security, and reduces drive usage through memory queueing.

Changes: This version has proven extremely stable and handles connection
interrupts properly.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/slogger/

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[019] - namefix.pl 4.0
by mem (http://freshmeat.net/users/mem/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:33

Multimedia

About: namefix.pl is a cross platform batch file renamer, facilitating
quick and painless renaming of filenames. It features all the expected
batch file renaming functions, id3v1 and id3v2 support, Explorer
integration for Windows, and much more. It is especially useful for
cleaning up BT downloads.

Changes: The block rename window can now be resized nicely. MP3 genres
were sorted. An issue with fn_readdir removal of '.' and '..' that
occasionally lead to a file being omitted when the directory array was
truncated was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/namefix.pl/

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[020] - Open Babel 2.2.0 (Development)
by Geoff Hutchison (http://freshmeat.net/users/ghutchis/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:28

Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Open Babel is a community-driven scientific project including both
cross-platform programs and a developer library designed to support
molecular modeling, chemistry, and many related areas, including
interconversion of file formats and data.

Changes: Highlights include improved force fields and coordinate
generation, conformer searching, enhanced plugins including molecular
descriptors, filters, and command-line transformations. Many formats are
improved or added, including CIF, mmCIF, Gaussian cube, PQR, OpenDX cubes,
and more. An improved developer API and scripting support and many, many
bugfixes are also included.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openbabel/

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[021] - Ruby/AWS 0.4.0
by Ian Macdonald (http://freshmeat.net/users/ianmacd/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 20:28

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules

About: Ruby/AWS is a high-level Ruby language interface to the Amazon
Associates Web Service API v4. It aims to automate and remove the grunt
work of interacting with the Amazon API and, in so doing, make it much
easier to use. Ruby/AWS is the successor to Ruby/Amazon.

Changes: A new method, Amazon::AWS::ShoppingCart::Cart#cart_get, has been
added, to allow the retrieval of an existing shopping-cart. This is
necessary when the original Cart object no longer exists. The version of
the Amazon AWS API requested when performing operations is now 2008-06-26.
This is the latest at the time of writing.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ruby-aws/

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[022] - Sockso 1.0.3
by naph (http://freshmeat.net/users/naph/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:34

Communications :: File Sharing
Multimedia
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: Sockso is a personal music server for everyone. It's designed to be
as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some MP3s can get
their friends listening to their music across the Internet in minutes.

Changes: Users can now store their own cover artwork for artists and
albums on the filesystem. The proplist command now pretty prints, orders
correctly, and can be filtered. A few minor bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sockso/

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[023] - Support Incident Tracker 3.35
by Ivan Lucas (http://freshmeat.net/users/ericthefish/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 20:24

About: Support Incident Tracker (or SiT!) is a Web-based application for
tracking technical support calls or emails. It can manage contacts, sites,
technical support contracts, and support incidents in one place. You can
send and receive email directly from SiT!, attaching files and recording
every communication in the incident log. SiT! is aware of Service Level
Agreements, and incidents are flagged if they stray outside of them.

Changes: This release builds upon the stable 3.33 platform and adds many
new features and improvements to existing features. Among many new features
are better searching, triggers, an improved portal, refreshing dashlets,
and better language support.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sitracker/

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[024] - TCExam 5.4.000
by Nicola Asuni (http://freshmeat.net/users/nicolaasuni/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 20:32

Education :: Testing

About: TCExam is Web-based assessment software for generating and managing
online tests and exams. It simplifies the exam cycle, including generation,
execution, evaluation, presentation, and archiving.

Changes: This version contains better support for the Arabic language,
some new exporting features, and several bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tcexam/

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[025] - TEA for Linux 18.0.0
by roxton (http://freshmeat.net/users/roxton/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:31

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Text Editors
Text Processing

About: TEA is a modest and easy-to-use GTK+2-based editor with many useful
features for HTML editing. It features a small footprint, a tabbed layout
engine, support for multiple encodings, code snippets, templates,
customizable hotkeys, an "open at cursor" function for HTML files and
images, miscellaneous HTML tools, preview in external browser, string
manipulation functions, SRT subtitles editing, Morse-code tools, bookmarks,
syntax highlighting, and drag-and-drop support.

Changes: This is the first release of a new, Qt-based branch.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/teaforlinux/

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[026] - Tunguska 0.0.3.3
by Viktor Lofgren (http://freshmeat.net/users/eudial/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 20:23

System :: Emulators

About: Tunguska is a computer emulator and virtual machine that uses
numerical base three (ternary) number system for its lowest-level
operations instead of the commonly used base two (binary) number system.
Its goal is to provide a useful experimental platform, on par with early
personal computers.

Changes: This release fixes a few bugs that have been creating problems
for people. Most notably, a 1-byte buffer overflow that caused random
crashes was fixed. This is a minor bugfix release with no new features over
the old 0.0.3.x releases.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tunguska/

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[027] - Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator 2.11 (2.xx)
by Heikki Orsila (http://freshmeat.net/users/shaihulud/)
Sat, Jul 5th 2008 08:27

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator (UADE) plays most Amiga music file
formats by simulating Amiga hardware and software. It plays approximately
200 Amiga music file formats. It provides a command line tool for playing,
but it also provides music player plugins for XMMS and Audacious. For other
music players, there is a FUSE filesystem that transparently converts Amiga
songs to WAV files.

Changes: Audacious plugin installation path and OS X support were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uade/

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