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`17.Dec.2022` Twitter	Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.8 for Amiga OS 3/4 and MorphOS Press release: Happy Christmas to all our loyal IBrowse users and thank you for the continued support. In 2023, we hope to share some exciting plans for the future of IBrowse. In the meantime, we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of IBrowse 2.5.8, which may be here downloaded (OS4 users may use AmiUpdate instead). This is the eighth free update for registered owners of IBrowse 2.5. IBrowse 2.1-2.4 and 1.x owners may upgrade to IBrowse 2.5.8 via our store at discounted rates. Please note: IBrowse 2.5.8 requires AmiSSL 5.5 as minimum, with AmiSSL 5.6 being the latest version at the time of writing, so you are advised to download it before updating IBrowse, otherwise you will be left without HTTPS access. Due to the bugs that unfortunately crept into the initial 2.5.7 release (although these were quickly resolved with hotfixes) we decided to make a full new stable release. This release contains the previous hotfixes, plus a few more fixes and improvements: Unescape the URL before showing it in the popup bubble when the mouse is over links Fixed crash that occurs if the info window failed to allocate memory when updating the URL Fixed crash that can happen when specifying a non-existent filename on the command line when starting from the shell OS4: Reversed the protocol and codec modules file lock change in 25.108, unless at least elf.library 53.35 is detected, due to a relocation issue in older versions Fixed Gemini support which stopped working in 25.108 Include updated Greek catalogs from Aminet (dr) [News message: 17. Dec. 2022, 16:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Dec.2022`	MorphOS: Sixth beta version of TinyGL MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has released the sixth public beta version of his TinyGL update. He wrote: "The main change in this update is the completion of project 1: Implement the fixed-function OpenGL pipeline as shaders. This change fixes a variety of rendering problems in various apps and games on hardware that currently supports shaders, meaning R300 and newer. Unfortunately there are a couple of known regressions in this update as well, but at this point they've reached a number and severity that is low enough that I didn't want to hold off this update any longer before getting it out to you all. The known problems all affect R300 and newer hardware and are: Virtual Grand Prix 2 runs noticeably slower than before, and the rear view mirrors no longer render correctly. FooBillard has rendering glitches it didn't have before. However this update also does fix some rendering issues that were previously broken, so this one is a mixed bag. Descent Freespace is completely broken. Reportedly there's an issue with the plasma blanker, but I'm not entirely sure of the details at this point. I will probably release one more TinyGL update this year that hopefully addresses all of the above, plus any other regressions that might be reported by you." (dr) [News message: 16. Dec. 2022, 18:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Dec.2022`	Kickstarter camaign: Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor successfully financed Just three days ago, it did not look as if the Kickstarter campaign to finance the Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor could be successfully completed with 138.938 of the required 239.785 Euro paid at that time. Now, about two days before the end of the campaign, 248.781 euros have been received, and the goal has thus been exceeded. (dr) [News message: 16. Dec. 2022, 09:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Dec.2022`	Emulator: QEMU 7.2.0 released QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need of hardware virtualization. So it is possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who gives lots of tips and info on a dedicated webseite (see also our Excursion of Amiga operating systems on non-native hardware). According to Zoltan Balaton, the now released version 7.2.0 (PowerPC related commits) contains some changes that mainly affect newer Power CPUs, but also those that affect the entire PPC emulation: for example, the command decoding has been changed to decodetree. This is a generic method of describing commands, using general code for decoding instead of the custom code used before. As the developer kindly explained to us, this can lead to better performance, but it does not have to, as Decodetree is not optimised. Similarly, there were also some changes to the implementation of AltiVec commands that could improve their speed, but it would depend on how it was used and what the host CPU supported. He had done some tests and found that in some cases it could be a few percent faster, but it did not really make a big change. Since sam460ex does not have AltiVec, it only benefits from the PPC instruction decoding changes, he said. Emulation via pegasos2 and mac99 could be slightly better with code that uses AltiVec. However, he says it is difficult to test this with AmigaOS 4, which has no graphics driver for the graphics cards emulated by QEMU in the pegasos2 version. For tinkerers, however, he has an idea that could be tried out: One would have to copy some drivers to get the output on pegasos2. This means that one has to edit the boot CD or an installed version (which is not so easy, but feasible). You would have to copy the kernel from the AmigaOS-pegasos2 version and update the PCIGraphics.card and siliconmotion502.chip from the sam460ex version, as he erwähnt before. You would then have to create a CD from this. (dr) [News message: 16. Dec. 2022, 06:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Dec.2022`	Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.6 (AmigaOS 3/4) The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.6 and contains a fix for server applications and some other minor changes. The changes in detail: Fixed TLS 1.3 cipher lookup failure regression on OS4. The improvement from v5.4 that released file locks on the OS4 libraries is now only activated with elf.library 53.35 or higher. Minor build changes. Download AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.6-OS3.lha (3,3 MB) Download AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.6-OS4.lha (3,1 MB) Download SDK: AmiSSL-5.6-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr) [News message: 15. Dec. 2022, 20:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Dec.2022` CS-Lab website (ANF)	Warp 560/Warp 1260: Firmware Pack 1.300 CS-Lab has released an update of the firmware for its 68060-based Warp accelerator boards. Changes of Warp Firmware Pack 1.300: WiFi support through SANA-2 warpNET.device (you need TCP/IP stack like Roadshow or Miami) Separate driver for onboard IDE (warpATA.device) Added direct-scsi mode support for warpSD.device and warpUSBDisk.device P96 RTG driver fix of WHDLoad "freeze" issues Updated WarpDiag and WarpTool tools Included firmware for Warp1240 model Lots of other minor fixes (dr) [News message: 15. Dec. 2022, 06:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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