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Archive 12/2016

28.Dec.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite) AmigaOS 4: Enhancer Software 1.2
According to A-EON Technology in a press release (PDF file), a second update for the tool collection "Enhancer Software" has been released. Registered customers can download it for free on Amistore.

By installing the update, now the RadeonHD graphic card driver supports the Oland chips and updates of Warp3D Nova (version 1.34) and OpenGL ES 2.0 (version 1.12) as well as two new preferences (Sound Prefs, Time Prefs) are provided. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Dec.2016
Martin Merz (ANF) Toolbar images: AISS 4.22
Martin Merz has released an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS) which "offers a photo-illustrative icon style for toolbar images" and "is an environment to store, access and maintain this toolbar images" under AmigaOS and other systems.

AISS 4.22 provides more than 8.800 graphics for the pictograms of AmigaOS 4. Due to compatibility reasons, all pictures and animations of the previous version are included as well. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Dec.2016
David Brunet (ANF) Obligement: Interview with Carlo Pirri (english, french)
The magazine Obligement has published an interview with Carlo Pirri today, a member of the well known websites "Hall Of Light" and "Amiga Magazine Rack". Carlo Pirri does also own one of the biggest Amiga original games collections.

Besides the english version of the interview at the title link there is also a french one. (snx)

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27.Dec.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite) Picture viewer: Vintage Viewer 2.25
Vintage Viewer written by Juan Carlos Herran Martin (AnimWebConverter, Acuario, VAMP) is a simple picture viewer written with Hollywood. Versions for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and Windows are available. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2016
Morphzone (Webseite) Report of AmiCamp (10. and 11. December, Athens)
At the beginning of December the "Amicamp" took place in Athens for the fifth time. retroplanet.gr has published an English-language report of the event. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2016
Scene World Magazine (ANF) Podcast: Scene World #29 - Interview with Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers
The guest of the latest issue of the podcast of the C64-Diskmag "Scene World" is Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) who was talking about future (C64-) products and his company in general. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2016
Philippe Lang (E-Mail) Crowdfunding: Keycaps can be produced
Philippe Lang's Kickstarter project for producing new keycaps for Amiga keyboards (amiga-news.de reported) has been successful. Seventeen days before the deadline the goal of 102.000 Singapore-Dollar (about 67.400 Euro) was exceeded by more than 108.000 Singapore-Dollar that was pledged. (snx)

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26.Dec.2016

Web browser: Short review on SDL/MUI-version of NetSurf
At the beginning of this year, editor Daniel Reimann of amiga-news.de has written a detailed review on Chris Young's Reaction-based port of Netsurf, but the SDL-port provided by Artur 'Arti' Jarosik he is testing as well:

On his blog, Jarosik has released new versions of his browsers during the last weeks. On my Amiga1200 these versions did not run very stable and a special FPU-version I could not start at all. Meanwhile there is only one version for AGA and RTG, a seperate FPU version was dropped.

The last AGA-version of Netsurf, which was released on Aminet on December 23, runs quite stable and fast on my Amiga1200.

It is a little bit unusual how you have to enter a web address into the address bar of the browser: Nothing happens by clicking with the left mouse button in the bar. After clicking with the right mouse button, Netsurf does vanish and a little window appears on the Workbench. There you can enter your web address.

Foreground and background picture loading disabled, Netsurf does take about 30 seconds for loading the main website of amiga-news.de on my Amiga1200 with Blizzard 1230 and for loading the Aminet site about 52 seconds. (cg)

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26.Dec.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)

Game launcher: X-bEnCh 1.00 X-mas Public pre Release
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 272 colours (AGA; 128 on OCS/ECS-computers) which can replace the Workbench for launching WHDLoad-games and other applications and requires low hardware resources. An integrated command line as well as the file manager Xpl0rEr are also available.

Changes in the pre release of X-bEnCh 1.0 (the rework of the manual has not been completed):

Xinit 3.8

Added the Display Mode switch support
DisplayMode fix
Fixed the 501 countdown freez bug. (In some rare case the countdown of the regscreen was not working and stay freezed at 501)

Xmenu 3.4

Added the Display Mode switch support
Display is no more forced to 60Hz until you've chosen this option. (This was the case in some internals previous release)
DisplayMode fix
Code optimisation (near 10% lighter). Need less memory

Xlaunch 4.2

Games screenshots implementation (100 availables in this release, more to come asap!)
DisplayMode fix
Version number fixed in debug mode
Loading an audio playlist recorded at the root of a drive (not in a subdir) was failing (No sound). Fixed
Position error in the audio playlist. Fixed
Added the Display Mode switch support

Checkerboard 1.6

DisplayMode fix
Fixed the checkerboard loader for the Display Mode switch

Xpl0rEr 1.7

Fixed the useless permanent refresh of each track Volume Oscillo
Now you can quit Xpl0rEr with the "Esc" Key
DisplayMode fix
Version number fixed in debug mode
Fixed the bug that was adding a blank entry at the end of each xpl
Fixed the display bug in the Mod player if you load a playlist shorter than the previous one
Release number and date fixeds
When deleting a file on one side, the other side was mistackenly refreshed too. Fixed
The buffers of the listings were not properly cleared. fixed
Added the Display Mode switch support

Xcli 1.7

New Xbench cLi logo made by "sns"

Xsetup 4.0

Audio playlist path bug fixed again .. and working this time
DisplayMode switch Fix
The Select a path to scan requester in the launcher tab was not using the previously selected path saved in the launchers.prf. Fixed
The Select a playlist requester in the launcher tab was not using the previously selected playlist saved in the launchers.prf. Fixed
Fixed the format of the playlist path in the prefs file
Selecting a playlist saved in the ram disk was going to guru. Fixed
Added the Display Mode switch support

Direct download: xbench1.00x.lha (866 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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