20.Jul.2012
amiga.org (Webseite)
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List of Amiga-extensions of independent developers updated
The list of Amiga hardware devices developed by independent hardware developers and which are not available through standart retail channels was updated. Additional to replaced pictures and updated pricing the following projects have been added:
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19.Jul.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.4 (alpha version)
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interace with now 128 colours which replaces the Workbench for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe) and requires few ressources.
According to the developer the program runs on all Amigas (OCS to AGA as well as 68000 to 68060 processor). The changes in alpha version 0.4 are listed under the title link.
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19.Jul.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.4.5
Paolo Besser's AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop version 1.4.5 includes an improved support of Amiga software, the game Hurrican as well as applications like Cinnamon Writer and Ignition. AMOS Professional and XAMOS also are part of the distribution.
"The new extension to AmiBridge already allow running most classic desktop applications for the Amiga computer without the need of its boot ROMs and original OS anymore. Classic software is handled by AROS itself, compiled for the Motorola 68000 processor, running in coherency mode under Janus-UAE with JIT."
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18.Jul.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood and Hollywood Designer: Online store to close on July 31th, 2012
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: "Due to personal reasons the Airsoft Softwair online store has to close at the end of July 2012. This means that no more orders can be processed after 31th July, 2012. Thus, everybody who doesn't own Hollywood or Hollywood Designer yet (or still needs the upgrade to the latest versions) should take the opportunity to secure himself a personal copy of this amazing multimedia software NOW because the store will go down on July 31th, 2012. The download versions are delivered instantly via email/WWW download and the CD versions of Hollywood and Hollywood Designer come in a nice digipak. Thank you for your continued support over the last 15 years!"
Upon request of amiga-news.de Falkenhahn explained that there will be support for his products. Updates and new plugins will be published in future as well.
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17.Jul.2012
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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PPC-Hardware: UltimatePPC-team reconsiders processor choice
The UltimatePPC team wrote: "As we are nearing the summer holidays it is time for a quick status update from our side. The last few months have been hectic as both Gideon and myself have been extremely busy with personal affairs besides trying to advance the UltimatePPC project. As we have the prototype boards in our hands we have been actively working on booting a basic kernel on the PowerPC core and interfacing the board to the Amiga bus. Parallel we are starting the software development side of things, with WarpOS support being worked on - as well as first contact with Hyperion regarding AmigaOS4 support.
We also keep an eye on feedback from the community and are evaluating the choice made for the P1013 CPU.We knew that the FPU in this processor is incompatible with the ones found on older PowerPC boards. Our original plan to fix these incompatibilities in software turns out to have more impact that we had foreseen. For this reason, we will reconsider the choice of PowerPC CPU, while continuing the development work of other important stuff on the current prototype.
So what's next? First we'll take a few weeks off for holidays and time with family. Somewhere in August we get together again. Expect a new update end of August! Happy holidays!"
Editor's note: The main feature of the UltimatePPC would have been that the used controler (as System on a Chip (SoC)) could have been accessed from "outside" (in this case from the Amiga). If a different CPU would be chosen it is doubtful whether this concept still works.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. Jul. 2012, 06:51] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Individual Computers: New products for C64 and Amiga
Press release: Due to popular demand, we've put a product for the C64 back into production that was previously only available from selected resellers. The PLA chip replacement SuperPLA will be back in stock starting september of this year. The revised edition will be available for 18,90 EUR from all our retail partners.
SuperPLA V3 is meant for repair jobs and can be used in the following computers:
- Commodore C64 (old model)
- C16, C116, plus/4
- Floppy-Cartridge 1551
- Commodore 610
- Commodore 710
- Commodore PET (socket UE5)
The target computer is set by jumpers. The new, much more compact design has the jumpers moved to the back of the board.
Our new accelerator for the Amiga 500 has already been discussed in user forums, but will be released with some changes, so customer demand is met in both price and features. The ACA500 is powered by a 14MHz CMOS-68000 processor with 2MBytes RAM and a mass-storage controller for CF-cards and CD drives. Autoboot from CF-card is possible from Kickstart V1.3 and higher. Thanks to our TrueIDE technology, any CF card can be used, even if the card identifies as "removable device". A CD-ROM drive can be connected to the easily reachable IDE port on the side of the A500.
The relatively moderate increase in speed is enough to run WHDload. For those who want more CPU power, the ACA500 has a CPU-slot compatible with our accelerators for A1200 computers. This makes even our top model ACA1231 available to the A500 computer. The ACA500 will be available from all resellers for 79,90 EUR. We're currently negotiating about including Kickstart licenses into the ACA500, so the built-in flashrom can be pre-loaded with different Kickstart licenses.
Our new ACA1220 is powered by a full 16,67MHz 68020. For the A1200, this card can be considered a 128MByte-RAM expansion, but for the A500 with ACA500, this board is a turbo-tidbit that provides more memory than has ever been offered at this price: The ACA1220 will be available starting from 89,90 EUR.
The ACA1220 can be expanded with a realtime clock. In an A500 setup, the RTC is already located on the trapdoor expansion, so it's not required there. If you're going to use the ACA1220 in an A1200, you can add an RTC for 19,90 EUR. Battery is not included.
The RTC-module can also be used with other accelerators or even without an accelerator in an A1200. For example, if you own an ACA1230 and haven't yet equipped it with the hard-to-find RTC chip, this module will solve your problem.
As a replacement for the sold-out ACA630, we'll have a new budget-accelerator for the A600, available in Q4/2012. It will be powered by a 16.67MHz 68EC020 processor and provides the popular maprom function, just like all our ACA cards do: Maprom allows executing Kickstart ROM from fast 32-bit memory, increasing execution speed considerably. The ACA620 provides 9+1MBytes of RAM (1MByte reserved for maprom-function). The target price is 99,90 EUR.
The "big" Amiga models don't have to stand back: We'll have big memory for a small budget soon. The new BigRamPlus offers 256MBytes of memory for A3000(T) and A4000(T). The full-size Zorro-3 card will be available from all Individual Computers resellers at 99,90 EUR.
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15.Jul.2012
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS 3.1: Amending character length for PFS3
Different than stated in the release notes for MorphOS 3.1, the included filesystem PFS3 does not use 107 characters for file and directory names.
This can be amended by the user with the Shell command "PFSSetFileNameSize NameDesPFS3Laufwerks: 107". This issue has been fixed for 3.2 and later MorphOS releases.
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[News message: 15. Jul. 2012, 19:22] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jul.2012
ANF
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Puzzle-Platform-Game: Me and my Shadow 0.2
"Me and my Shadow" is a platform game. The user has to solve Aufgaben tasks to reach the exit. The SDL-based game requires AmigaOS 3.x.
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[News message: 15. Jul. 2012, 16:58] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jul.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.07.2012
The following files have been added until 14.07.2012 to the Aminet:
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[News message: 15. Jul. 2012, 10:11] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jul.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.07.2012
The following files have been added until 14.07.2012 to the OS4Depot:
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15.Jul.2012
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 14.07.2012
The following files have been added until 14.07.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
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15.Jul.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 14.07.2012
The following files have been added until 14.07.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
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15.Jul.2012
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Ultimate Pack 3.1
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Ultimate Pack is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators. Now an updated version for MorphOS 3.1 has been published. A basic installation of the operating system is required.
Three double system files were deleted:
sys:classes/MUI/urltext.mcc
sys:classes/MUII/urltext.mcp
sys:classes/screenbar/drivelamps.sbar
Download: ultimate.iso (558 MB)
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15.Jul.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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WarpDTPrefs 45.6
The preference program for the Warp-datatypes written by Oliver Roberts was updated. Version 45.6 fixes a bug which prevented reading the correct parameters for pens and dithering.
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[News message: 15. Jul. 2012, 08:46] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jul.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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plipbox: Internet over the parallel interface
With Christian 'lallafa' Vogelgsang's plipbox Amigas which have been not extended can get access to the Internet. The Arduino-based adapter provides a connection to the Ethernet-port of the Arduino board.
The magPLIP-protocol is used but the firmware is still in development.
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[News message: 15. Jul. 2012, 08:37] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jul.2012
pegasosforum.de
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IRC-Client: AmIRC 3.6.1 for AmigaOS 3/MorphOS
Nicolas "Henes" Sallin has published an update of his AmIRC-version (screenshot). In version 3.6.1 a crash on drag & drop of a file on a query window was fixed. Additionally the lists of the graphical user-interface all use MUI-lists as default.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Jul. 2012, 23:22] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jul.2012
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AROS meets Linux: AEROS published
AEROS is an AROS distribution published by Pascal Papara which uses the Linux-hosted version of AROS as desktop replacement for a Linux distribution. Linux applications can be launched with a Shell command from AROS. Linux and AROS applications can be run simultaneously.
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[News message: 14. Jul. 2012, 14:08] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jul.2012
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Homebank 4.4 for AmiCygnix
Homebank is Freeware and can be used to manage your personal accounts.
Up to version 3.1 Homebank was developed for AmigaOS. Because the author left the Amiga community, Homebank officially is only available for Windows and Linux. Thanks to Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix the latest version of the application also can be used under AmigaOS 4 again (screenshot). Old files of the Amiga-Version can be imported.
Download: homebank.lha (11 MB)
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[News message: 14. Jul. 2012, 12:03] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jul.2012
Exec.pl (Webseite)
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Zeus68k: 4-in-1 accelerator board for Amiga 500/2000/CDTV
Zeus68k is a accelerator board for the Amiga 500 and 2000 as well as the CDTV which is development and performs several functions: Accelerator, memory extension, IDE-controler and Kickstart switcher as well as - maybe - an action-replay-replacement. It might be also used in different 68k-computers, e.g. the Atari ST.
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(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Jul. 2012, 08:57] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jul.2012
Exec.pl (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Timberwolf 4.0.1.0182 - RC1
The AmigaOS-4-port of the web browser Firefox is available as Timberwolf version 4.0.1.0182 which is the "Release Candidate 1". According to Thomas Frieden this update fixes most of the known bugs.
In substance the bugs were fixed in the JavaScript code because the browser itself was written in JavaScript.
Download: timberwolf.lha (26 MB)
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[News message: 14. Jul. 2012, 08:24] [Comments: 0]
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