10.Aug.2013 
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
 
 
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    AROS: Bounty for Directory-Opus-Magellan-II-port 
Szilárd 'Bszili' Biró has accepted the bounty of porting the file manager Directory Opus Magellan II to AROS. 
 
Under the title link you can now donate to support him.
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08.Aug.2013 
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
 
 
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    AmigaOS 4: Frogatto 1.2.1 and HexGem 1.0.0 
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel has updated his AmigaOS-4-port of the Jump'n'Run-game Frogatto. Additionally HexGem was released which is a puzzlegame using hexagonal gems.
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07.Aug.2013 
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
 
 
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    Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 72 
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag.
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07.Aug.2013 
Floppy (E-Mail)
 
 
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    FPGA accelerator board: Vampire 600 can be preordered 
The Vampire 600 (amiga-news.de reported) now can be preordered for 90 Euro plus delivery costs. It is a FPGA-based accelerator board with 64 MB RAM which can emulate a MC68000, MC68010 or (partly) a MC68020.
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06.Aug.2013 
 
 
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    Game launcher: X-bEnCH 0.90 beta 
X-bEnCH (Youtube-video of version 0.8) is a game launcher with a graphical user-interface which can start WHDLoad-games (.slave, .exe) and requires very few resources.
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05.Aug.2013 
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
 
 
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    AmigaOS 4: Free keyfile for Warp3D picture viewer WarpView 
WarpView loads pictures with the help of datatypes and shows them with Warp3D - which makes fast scaling possible but requires additional video-RAM. The author Stephen "Cobra" Fellner now has provided a free keyfile for the program which so far was sold as shareware.
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04.Aug.2013 
Matthias Rustler (ANF)
 
 
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    Paint program: HollyPaint 1.1 (for all Amiga systems) 
HollyPaint is a simple, with Hollywood created paint program with MUI-based user-interface. Additional to basic painting functions, all Hollywood filters like "Sepiatone", "Blur" or "Gray" are offered.
  
Versions for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS are available. The author himself could only test the AROS-version. HollyPaint is open-source software. The sources stand under a BSD-licence and are available on sourceforge.net.
  
Changes in version 1.1:
- Rebuilt with Hollywood 5.3
 
- Fixed issues with running stable under AROS, Morphos and AmigaOS4
 
- Colorwheel with alpha sliders in own window
 
- Individual setting of color for gradient, shadow and edge
 
- Made toolbar window resizable
 
- Loading and saving of transparent brushes
 
- Implemented remaining filters
 
- Implemented Arc tool
 
- Added command line options -v (verbose) and -vv (very verbose) for debug output
 
- New brush functions:
- Trim brush (cuts off transparent areas)
 
- Invert brush
 
- Invert mask
 
- Invert alpha
 
- Replace Background by Pen color
 
- Replace Pen by Background color
 
- Copy Canvas: creates a brush from whole canvas
 
- Put Back: place brush at given coordinates
 
- Implemented reverting of brush
 
  
- Print hotspot offset in brush information window
 
- User borderless display. This makes it possible to load pictures with the same resolution as the screen
 
- Print the size of the picture if it is too large to be opened
 
- Added a checkmark to the status bar which shows if a brush is active
 
- Use checkmark instead of text objects to show mask and alpha state
 
 
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04.Aug.2013 
 
 
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    Aminet-Uploads until 03.08.2013 
The following packages have been added to Aminet until August 3rd, 2013: 
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04.Aug.2013 
 
 
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    OS4Depot-Uploads until 03.08.2013 
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until August 3rd, 2013: 
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04.Aug.2013 
 
 
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    MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 03.08.2013 
The following package has been added to MorphOS-Files until August 3rd, 2013: 
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04.Aug.2013 
 
 
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    WHDLoad: New packages until 03.08.2013 
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until August 3rd, 2013:
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04.Aug.2013 
Amiga.org (Webseite)
 
 
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    Games of chance: Ami Jackpot 1.21, Jackpot Corruption, The 7 Bandits 
Juan Martin's Ami Jackpot is a classic slot machine with Amiga logos (Boing-ball, Kitty etc.) written with Hollywood which is available for all Amiga systems. Version 1.21 fixes a bug and adds some new buttons for starting a new game. 
 
Jackpot Corruption and The 7 Bandits are two other slot machines which are only available for for AmigaOS 3.9, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Some additional Hollywood-plugins are required.
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03.Aug.2013 
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    Event: Classic Computing 2013 (21.-22.9., Berlin) 
On Saturday September 21st, 2013 and on Sunday September 22nd, 2013 in the Humboldt unversity Berlin the Classic Computing will take place which also celebrating the 10th anniversary of the "Vereinszum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V.". There will be several classic computers. It will be open Saturday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Der Eintritt ist frei.
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03.Aug.2013 
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
 
 
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    AmigaOS 4: Shoot'em Up M.A.C.E. available 
M.A.C.E. is a classic space shoot'em-up, inspired by the legendary Amiga games of this genre. With "Handdrawn 2D graphics in HD resolutions, parallax scrolling, explosion effects and optimized games mechanics, combined with the proven gameplay" ther developer is going to release a modern version of a classic shooter.
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03.Aug.2013 
Amiga.org (Webseite)
 
 
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    Interview with Bullfrog-Entwickler Glenn Corpes (Spanish) 
Under the title link an interview with Glenn Corpes was published who is one of the programmer of Populous. 
 
The interview only is available in Spanish, but with the help of the automatic translation it is quite comprehensible in English. The interview will be continued.
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