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Archive 04/2015

10.Apr.2015
Johannes Genberg (ANF)

Swedish print magazine: Amiga Forum 12
The swedish print magazine "Amiga Forum" is published since 2012 and consists of 28 A5 pages, with 12 of them in color. The price is 25 kronor plus shipping. It can be ordered at the title link or at Amigastore.

In this issue you can read about:

News - is Hyperion bankrupt?
Other Amiga related news
Game reviews
Old useful programs
Book review - The Amiga book
Scene fiction short story
Latest news from from Swedish User Group of Amiga, Safir and the demo scene
Learn to program Hollywood, part 2

(snx)

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10.Apr.2015
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)

AROS: 68k-Distribution Aros Vision 2.9.2 / Other versions planned
Version 2.9.2 of the AROS/68k-distribution Aros Vision provided by Olaf Schönweiß (screenshot) includes updates of some programms as well as a new screensaver.

In addition, in future there will be different versions of the distribution. To this version in future a "RTG" will be added. Aros Vision ECS (for real 68k-hardware and FPGA-reconstructions) and Aros Vision X86 (screenshots: EdiSyn, Antyriad) are in development.

The last mentioned distribution is based on the Windows-hosted version of AROS which makes it easier to launch it because you do not have to install it. Disadvantage: So far network and audio support is not included. Other platforms are planned.

Changes of version 2.9.2:

New structure
Netsurf updated
Free Pascal updated
Theme can be changed in the menu
MUI-classes updated
Hollywood-plugins updated
AppStore-client updated
Should run faster now
New: Screensaver

(snx) (Translation: dr)

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09.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite) AmigaOS 4: Tools collection zTools 1.6
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated his commercial tools collection "zTools". Version 1.6, which is exclusively distributed on the Amistore, includes updates of SysMon, WebReplay and of the zTools-installer as well as bug fixes of FastView, aTunes, FastNote and CPUDock. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Apr.2015

Platform classic: Jay the Miner
"Jay the Miner" is a clone of the 8-Bit classic game Manic Miner. The game was developed with the editor Backbone and offers 15 levels and two levels of difficulty.

(cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Apr.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite) History: The 68000 Wars (English)
In his blog "The Digital Antiquarian", Jimmy Maher has started writing an article about the history of the Amiga as well as of the Atari named "The 68000 Wars" (part 2). (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Apr.2015

Benchmarks: Warp 3D SI on the dem Sam460 and the X1000
During the last few days, AmigaOS 4 users started to collect benchmark results for the recently released commercial Warp 3D drivers for Radeon HD graphic cards. The results are collected and presented on amigans.net, an older result using a Sam440 and the onboard Radeon Mobility chip was provided by Alain Thellier (Wazp 3D) back in 2013.

Two benchmarks are performed, with the exception of Thelliers older test the results were all recorded using the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1.

Quake 3 Timedemo 1: using Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvels ioquake3-Portierung (Ioquake3.lha), a resolution of 1280x1024, these Settings and MiniGL 2.20
Cow 3D (a Warp 3D benchmark from Alain Thellier): When running this, the Buffers should be enabled using the 'b' key, to make sure the Frames don't have to be recalculated by the CPU constantly and you're only benchmarking the graphics performance.

Below you can see the benchmark results published so far, benchmarks with older Radeon graphic cards are not available currently. The listed values mean 'frames displayed per second' (FPS), so the higher the value, the better the result:

Editor's note: In some cases, the users didn't list average values, but FPS ranges. For the sake of simplicity, we used the higher value of the two - the difference is neglegible anyway. The listed values were all provided by AmigaOS 4 users, Amiga-News staff has no means of verifying them. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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