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Archive 11/2017

`06.Nov.2017` a1k.org (ANF)	FPGA processor: 68080 is to licenced to hardware producers for free Gunnar von Boehn offers to provide his reimplementation of a 68k processor calles 68080 to further hardware producers. Currently the Vampire accelerator boards ("Apollo Cores") are equipped with a 68080 which are available for A500/A600 and announced for the A1200. For the "big" Amigas so far nobody has offered such solutions. von Boehns now offers that a hardware producer can licence a version of the 68080 for free which after booting the system is reduced to the speed of a real 68060 processor but apart from that has all the features of a 68080. This "Shareware output" of the CPU end users could turn off by purchasing a keycode. If companies would use this offer, producers could again offer fast accelerator board for Amigas and Ataris despite the high prices resp. the unavailability of such boards. On the other hand, von Boehn could break into new markets because producers like Jens Schönfeld could offer boards for the Amiga3000/4000. This offer is limited to the CPU of the Apollo Core. Other parts like SAGA or a chipset emulation are not included. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 06. Nov. 2017, 23:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Nov.2017` Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)	15 years of Hollywood: Malibu 1.4 released as Freeware Press release: 15 years ago today, on Nov 5th 2002, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released version 1.0 of Hollywood. Back then it was advertised as a "multimedia authoring system" comprising over 150 functions and it was only available for 68k Amigas. It immediately attracted the attention of lots of creative people from all around the world and thanks to the fantastic support of its community Hollywood has grown into a real swiss army knife for all different kinds of purposes. Who would have guessed 15 years ago that Hollywood would evolve into such a beast of a software that runs on over a dozen of different platforms and has lots of plugins that enhance its capabilities even further? To celebrate Hollywood's 15th anniversary, Airsoft Softwair proudly presents a brand-new version of Malibu, the plugin that enables Hollywood to run Scala scripts. First released in June 2003, Malibu was the first Hollywood plugin and the one that started it all. As a special gift to the Hollywood community for its fantastic support over the last 15 years Airsoft Softwair has decided to make Malibu freely available for everybody. Previous versions were sold commercially but now Malibu is a Hollywood plugin that is provided completely free of charge like all other Hollywood plugins. Malibu 1.4 is a major update that introduces support for Linux and Mac OS and for 64-bit architectures. It also contains various bug fixes and enhancements like the ability to export Scala scripts as Hollywood scripts. Malibu emulates nearly the whole Scala command set and supports all Scala versions from 1.0 up to Scala InfoChannel 500 which was the last Amiga version of Scala. Emulation is done by the El Capitan microkernel which tries to achieve the best performance possible on the system used. With Malibu it is now possible to run those Scala presentations without the actual classic Amiga hardware. Because the whole emulation runs on top of Hollywood's multimedia application layer you can run Scala presentations on every platform supported by Hollywood. In many cases the quality of the pictures that Malibu displays is much better than the original Scala quality because Scala often had to remap many pictures with very different colors to a 8-bit display which resulted in a massive loss of color information. With Malibu, however, all graphics are shown in true colour. Scala is a program which helped the Amiga to become a real multimedia wonder. There were no products for a long long time that could beat an Amiga with Scala. Therefore Scala was widely used in all different production fields, from movies and television to big shows. Everyone who has worked with Scala knows what powers it has. But this power is only possible because Scala is very hard-coded to the Amiga's custom chips which leads to the problem that it does not run on modern Amiga systems or other platforms. For many years all sorts of users complained that there was no Scala that runs RTG compatible. This time is over now. Malibu revives Scala in a completely system-friendly way. Malibu is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal under the title link. Versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86,x64), Mac OS X (ppc, x86, x64) and Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64) are provided. Screenshots: (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Nov. 2017, 06:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Nov.2017` Amiga.org (Forum)	AMOS animation: Alfredo's Perilous Pitfall Alfredo's Perilous Pitfall is a remake of the sequel of an C64 animation which was inspired by an Apple-II series about a stick figure written by Richard Derocher. The source code of the AMOS animation is included. Download: alfredo.adf (880 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Nov. 2017, 06:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Nov.2017`	Aminet-Uploads until 04.11.2017 The following archives have been added to the Aminet until November 4th, 2017: WhatChanged.lha biz/dbase 6K MOS Identifies file system change... SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 6K 4 Stefano Maria Regattin Blit... file-mos.lha dev/gg 1.3M MOS Determine file type Aquaria_ppc-morphos.lha game/actio 3.3M MOS Aquaria, underwater game bermudasyndrome-wos.lha game/actio 306K WOS Bermuda Syndrome Engine (Warp... MCE.lha game/edit 1.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.0M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor fxPAINT_de.lha gfx/show 23K Unofficial German catalog for... alfredo.adf pix/anim 880K 68k Alfredo's Perilous Pitfall workbenchexplorer.lha util/dir 2.0M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi... FontWalker_mos.lha util/misc 1.4M MOS Collect and display TTF fonts FontWalker_os3.lha util/misc 2.4M 68k Collect and display TTF fonts FontWalker_os4.lha util/misc 1.8M OS4 Collect and display TTF fonts RSCP.lha util/moni 25K 68k RawSpeed Controller Performan... (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Nov. 2017, 06:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Nov.2017`	OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.11.2017 The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until November 4th, 2017: mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ... (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Nov. 2017, 06:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Nov.2017`	AROS-Archives-Uploads until 04.11.2017 The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until November 4th, 2017: metadiary.i386-aros.zip off/mis 220kb Color-coded activity log. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Nov. 2017, 06:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Nov.2017`	WHDLoad: New installers until 04.11.2017 Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until November 4th, 2017: 2017-11-03 improved: PP Hammer (Demonware) RawDIC imager, disk access disabled, new install script (Info) 2017-11-02 improved: Twin World (Blue Byte/UBI-Soft) RawDIC imager, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, DMA waits in replayer and sample player fixed, trainer options added, source code included, new install script (Info) 2017-10-31 improved: Toki (Ocean) reverted to previous install release (Info) 2017-10-31 updated: Gem'X (Demonware/Kaiko) patch redone, RawDIC imager, bugs in TFMX replayer fixed, high-score load/save, source code included (Info) 2017-10-30 fixed: Great Courts 2 / Pro Tennis Tour 2 (Blue Byte) load/Save tournament was broken (Info) 2017-10-30 fixed: Gem'X (Demonware/Kaiko) disk access removed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, copperlist termination fixed (Info) 2017-10-30 improved: Amnios (Psygnosis) 68000 quitkey support (Info) 2017-10-30 fixed: Mr.Nutz (Ocean) problem with wrong disk request after intro screens fixed (Info) 2017-10-30 new: Aunt Arctic Adventure (Midware) patch redone, SPS 1757 version supported, trainers added (Info) 2017-10-30 improved: Toki (Ocean) adapted to WHDLoad v17: dynamic CUSTOM settings (Info) 2017-10-29 improved: Mr.Nutz (Ocean) proper 68000 quitkey support, illegal copperlist entries fixed, source code included (Info) 2017-10-29 improved: Celtic Legends (UBI-Soft) RawDIC imager, more blitter waits added, blitter wait patches disabled on 68000, load/save game routines rewritten, 68000 quitkey support, new install script (Info) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Nov. 2017, 06:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Nov.2017` Amigaworld.net (Webseite)	Print magazine: 2nd issue of "Amiga User" available After having published issue "0" a month ago, now the next issue "1/2017" of the magazine "Amiga User" (amiga-news.de reported) is available in an Polish and English edition and can be also ordered as e-book. This latest issue among others is about mathematical software, database management system, effective disk recovery and about hard disk drive in Amiga 500. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 04. Nov. 2017, 06:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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