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`16.Jul.2016`	Demo party: Evoke (Cologne, 12.08. bis 14.08.) In August, this year's edition of the demo party 'Evoke' will take place in the AbenteuerHallenKALK in Cologne. As usual, various demo, graphics and music competition will be held. There are no categories planned for retro computers, but 8 or 16 bit productions can be submitted to the 'alternative platform' competition - this might require supplying proper hardware for playing the demo though. Competitions for pixel graphics and Protracker modules are available this year. The crowd-funded documentary 8-Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars will be screened during this year's Evoke. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 16. Jul. 2016, 22:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jul.2016` Rupert Hausberger (ANF)	Javascript: Scripted Amiga Emulator 0.9.0 Rupert Hausberger's "Scripted Amiga Emulator" is written in Javascript and HTML5. Among many changes in version 0.9.0 there are usability of Amiga Forever ROMs, emulation of 68020/68030 CPU and AGA chipset and support of HDF and Extended ADF files as well as Mac emulators ShapeShifter and A-Max. Features: Models A1000/A1000-Velvet (new) A500/A2000 A500+ A600 (new) A1200 (new) A3000 (partial, new) A4000/030 (partial, new) CPUs 68000 68010 (new) 68020/68030 (new) 32-bit support. Cache support. Prefetch support. Variable speeds. Chipset Original-Chip-Set (OCS) A1000-Agnus (8361 PAL, 8367 NTSC) emulation. (new) Enhanced-Chip-Set (ECS) Partial (Agnus/Denise only) or full emulation. (new) Advanced Graphics Architecture. (AGA) (new) PAL/NTSC-regions. Sprites-only or full collision-detection. Full blitter support. Full copper support. Full gayle support (A600/A1200) (new) IDE PCMCIA Real-Time-Clock (RTC) types MSM6242B RF5C01A Complex-Interlace-Adapter (CIA): Different Time-Of-Day (TOD) sources. (Vertical Sync/Power Supply) (new) ROM overlay emulation. (maps ROM from e.g. 0xf80000 to 0x000000 at reset) (new) A1000 Velvet prototype CIA (6526) emulation. (new) RAM 256-2048K Chip-ram. (0x000000) Up to 1536K Slow-/Bogo-ram. (0xC00000) Up to 64M onboard Fast-ram for A3000/A4000. (new) Up to 8M Zorro2 expansion Fast-ram. (0x200000) Up to 8M Zorro3 Chip-ram. (new) Up to 1024M (1G) Zorro3 expansion Fast-ram. (new) 512K Chip-/512K Bogo-ram to 1024K Chip-ram aliasing. (new) 24-/32-bit support. (32-bit memory is required for original A3000/4000-roms and emulation) (new) ROM All kinds of standard and extended kickstart roms. Support for encrypted Cloanto-roms. (Amiga Forever) (new) Special A1000 kickstart handling. (new) ROM-patcher, which does remove unneeded resident libraries. (new) ROM-mirroring. (mirrors ROM to 0xA80000 or 0xE00000) (new) ShapeShifter-support. (new) AMAX-support. (Mac emulator) (new) ROM-info from internal database. (new) Floppy Supported diskimage-types Standard ADF, read/write (.adf) Extended ADF (EXT1/EXT2), read/write (.adf) (new) PCDOS, read/write (.img) (new) DMS (DiskMasher), read only (.dms) (new) SCP (SuperCardPro), read-only (.scp) (new) EXE, read-only (.exe) (new) Up to 4 Double-/High-density drives. (DF0-DF3) Variable drive-speeds. (Original-Turbo). Drives are write-protectable. (new) Diskimage creation feature. (new) Mount (new) Supported hardfile-types Standard, read/write (.hdf) Virtual, read/write (.vhd) Up to 4 Onboard-IDE units (IDE0-IDE3) with supported ATA-modes ATA 1 ATA 2 ATA 2 Strict PCMCIA-slots, configurable as SRAM HDD Units are write-protectable. Video HTML5 WegGL- or Canvas2D-rendering. 2/4 bits-per-pixel modes. (new) Lores-/Hires-/Superhires-types. Doublescan-types. Frameskip. (renders every 2nd frame only) Centering. (new) Audio HTML5 WegAudio-processing. Samplerates from 11025-48000 Hz. Mono or Stereo. Lowpass filter for A500/A1200. (A1200 new) Variable Stereo-channel separation. (new) Different interpolation modes (Anti, RH, Crux) (Anti new) Ports HTML5 mouse-position and buttons import. HTML5 keyboard import. Joystick emulation via keyboard. Mapping of some special keys for pinball-games. Serial-port. (output to developer-console) Changes in version 0.9.0 (15.07.2016) CPU Completely rewrote the core. Added support for the 68010. (5 instructions, 3 registers) Added support for the 68020. (27 instructions, 2 registers) Added support for the 68030. (4 instructions) Exploded each instruction to it's own size-form and sometimes additionally to it's type form. For faster access, each instruction does now have it's customized parameter-object. Effective-address access and decoding are now done via 6+1 highspeed function-tables, each 64 entries long. This does save up to 12 (322) switch statements per instruction. Condition-code checking is now done via a 16 entries long function-table instead of a switch-function with 16 entries. Optimized condition-code calculations. Fixed/removed DIVU-remainder calculation, also new and faster DIVS. New and faster versions of ABCD, NBCD, SBCD, ASL, ASR, LSL, LSR, ROL, ROXL, ROR, ROXR. Fixed MOVEP instruction. Fixed all 68000/68010 execution-time calculations. Program-counter calculations are not hardcoded any more. Ported high-level functions from actual WinUAE. General Re-ported and optimized the following parts from actual WinUAE: Audio, Blitter, CIA, Config, Copper, CPU-highlevel, Custom, Disk, Drawing, Events, Expansion, Filesys, Gayle, Hardfile, IDE, Memory, Roms, Playfield, RTC and Serial Chipset Custom-chip registers are now accessed via a 256 entries long function-table instead of a switch-function with 256 entries. Added support for the A1000-Agnus. CIA Added support for different TOD sources. Added support for ROM overlay. Added support for A1000 Velvet prototype. Blitter Minterms are now calculated via a 256 entries long function-table instead of a switch-function with 256 entries. RAM Added Zorro3 and 32bit support. Added support for chip-/bogo-ram aliasing. Access is now done via function-tables (banks) instead of area-selecting switch-functions. ROM Added support for encrypted Cloanto-roms. (Amiga Forever) Added special A1000 kickstart handling. Added ROM-patcher, which does remove unneeded resident libraries. Added support for ROM-mirroring. Added ShapeShifter-support. Added a ROM-info page. Updated AROS-ROMs to actual version SVN52764. Floppy Added 3.5" DD ESCOM and 3.5" DD/HD PC only drive-types. Added support for the diskspare-format. Added support for PCDOS-images. Added support for DMS-images. (DiskMasher) Added support for SCP-images. (SuperCardPro) Added support for EXE-images. Disk can now be inserted from the database. Drives are now write-protectable. Added a disk-info page. Mount Added support for hardfiles. (.hdf/.vhd) Added support for Onboard-IDE (A600/A1200) Added support for PCMCIA-slots (A600/A1200) Units are write-protectable. Playfield Added AGA-support. Added support for 16 bits-per-pixel (R5G6B5) rendering. Got rid of an internal temp-buffer. So in WebGL-mode, we render to the texture directly now. Added options for video-centering. Video The output-driver is now selectable. Added support and options for brightness, contrast and gamma. Added alpha-channel support. Added line-change indicator. (debug) Audio Added "Anti"-samplehandler. Added A1200 lowpass-filter. Added support for stereo-channel separation. Rewrote handling of WebAudio-stuff. Events If supported by the browser, timing-functions does use performance.now() instead of Date.now(), which increases the precision by the factor of 1000. Optimized switching between pause/run. Thanks 'majcherek2048'. Input Added distinction between left/right shift/alt keys. The config-entry "Map L/R-Shift to L/R-Arrows" is gone. Config Completely reworked the advanced config page. Changed all SAEV_Config_* to SAEC_Config_* to match the new namespace. Sorry for that :/ Many new options. Not listed here, see sae/config.js for details. API Deprecated and removed the old API function "SAE()". We're on javascript, so let's use: (new API) "var sae = new ScriptedAmigaEmulator(); [...] var error = sae.start(); [...]" See index.js for details. Reworked error-handling for API-calls. Now an error-code (SAEE_*) is returned on any API-call. Common Introduced global functions, references, variables and constants for more speed. See sae/amiga.js for details. Moved all entries from constants.js to their specific place and renamed them to match the new global name-space. Updated asynchronous file-transfers to latest standards. Added proper GPL-header to the source-files. Moved the "Your game and demo..."-section from the main-site to the readme. Fixed linkage to contributors websites. Added SAE-specific-links to the info-box in the main-page. Added an disassembler tool. "var sda = new ScriptedDisAssembler(); [...] var result = sda.disassemble();" See disass.js for details. (snx) [News message: 16. Jul. 2016, 05:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2016` Amiga.org (Forum)	OpenStreetMap viewer: Mapparium 0.6 Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 0.6 of the OpenStreetMap viewer Mapparium for all Amiga systems. Changes: ADD: Image List with EXIF position Data ADD: Image preview ADD: AREXX commands for Add images to imagelist ADD: Menu for Main window and ImageList ADD: Active Route color ADD: Overall statistics FIX: Color settings (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Jul. 2016, 07:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2016` Amiga.org (Webseite)	FPGA: Apollo-Core update "Silver7" The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola which also provides a seperate graphic mode called SAGA. The core currently is used in the accelerator board "Vampire 600 V2". Among others the update "Silver7" provides tools for Mac-OS as well as the version of the Vampire for the Amiga500 which still is in development. The developers would appreciate any kind of feedback and ask you to use the IRC-channel #Apollo-Team on Freenode. Changelog: Added CHK2, CAS2, CMP2 for Mac OS programs Added EXTW/L instruction fusing Added FAST-IDE for V500 Added HDMI bootpic (credits to flype and Crom00) Added MOVEX (Little Endian Move) Enabled 85% of BranchTargetCache Enabled PEA/BSR/JSR/RTS in 2nd pipe Fixed BFEXTU and BFEXTS flag bugs (thanks JimDrew) Fixed MOVES, NCBD, PACK and TRAPcc bugs Optimized SUBQ/BNE loop pattern Removed Fusion memory reserve (broke some games) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Jul. 2016, 07:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jul.2016`	Aminet-Uploads until 09.07.2016 The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 9th, 2016: arenas.lha game/data 613K New Arenas for BurnOut AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.3M MOS Signetics-based machines emul... geo_tag_1.1.lha util/wb 2.5M MOS Geo tag addon for mapparium (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Jul. 2016, 07:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jul.2016`	OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.07.2016 The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until July 9th, 2016: arabic_console_device... dri/inp 2Mb 4.1 An arabic console device amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator lix.lha gam/puz 6Mb 4.0 Interactive Rodent Simulator (Le... (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Jul. 2016, 07:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jul.2016`	WHDLoad: New installers until 09.07.2016 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 has been added until July 9th, 2016: 2016-07-03 improved: Final Fight (Capcom) removed floppy drive access (Info) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Jul. 2016, 07:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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