12.Jan.2014
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WHDLoad: New Packages until 11.01.2014
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until January 11th, 2014:
- 2014-01-11 new: Wing Commander (Origin) done by Psygore (Info)
- 2014-01-09 improved: Megademo (Red Sector) slave rewritten, requires WHDLoad 17+ and less memory, saves and displays your profile in the end part (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-07 new: Enemy 2 - Missing in Action (Anachronia) done by Wepl (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-06 new: Pharaohs Match (Arcadia Systems) done by Don Adan (Info)
- 2014-01-06 new: Delta Command (Arcadia Systems) done by Don Adan (Info)
- 2014-01-06 new: Blastaball (Mastertronic) done by Don Adan (Info)
- 2014-01-06 improved: Rainheart Project (Bad Company) updated to use WHDLoad v17+ features, byte write to $dff036 fixed (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-06 improved: Music Disk 1 (Bass) interrupt request check fixed (write to INTREQR) (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-06 improved: Megademo (Freedom Force) 7 more byte writes to volume register fixed (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-06 improved: Megademo (Beastie Boys) 5 more byte writes to volume register fixed (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Megademo 2 (Bass) interrupt request checks fixed (write to INTREQR), byte write to $dff043 fixed (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Megademo (Bass) snoop problem in part 5 fixed (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Musicland 2 (Brainstorm) updated to use WHDLoad v17+ features, byte write to VPOSW fixed, snoop bug fixed that occured when intro was skipped (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Jungle Mania (Jungle Command) byte writes to volume register fixed (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 fixed: New York Warriors (Arcadia Systems) made 68000 compatible (Info)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Musication (Absolute!) byte write to $dff043 fixed, install script adapted to not use hardcoded df0: value (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 improved: E.C.E.S. Slideshow (Rebels) snoop bug (write to $bfed00) fixed (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Snap! (Rebels) wrong blits in circle scroller part fixed (illegal C+D pointers) (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Det Kniber (Rebels) snoop bug (illegal copperlist entries) fixed (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Sane Sounds (Academy) snoop bug (illegal copperlist entries) fixed (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style (Rebels) fixed wrong blits in 3d-scroller part (illegal D pointer) (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Megademo (Alcatraz) 3 more byte writes to volume register fixed (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 improved: King's Quest Enhanced (Sierra) reassembled without DEBUG flag (fastmem enabled) (Info, Image)
- 2014-01-05 updated: Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis (Lucasfilms Games) complete rewrite and adapted for WHDLoad v17, better crack patch (Info)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Altered Destiny (Accolade) reassembled without DEBUG flag (fastmem enabled) (Info)
- 2014-01-05 improved: Megademo 3 (Alcatraz) 3 more byte writes to volume register fixed, copperlist termination fixed in part 2, 3 and 5, write to $dff000 disabled (Info, Image)
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11.Jan.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Newsletter: "Best of MorphOS November/December 2013" (English)
Best of MorphOS (PDF) is a short newsletter which summarizes the most important news about MorphOS. It is published by WArMUp (PDF), the "World Association of MorphOS Users".
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11.Jan.2014
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: get_exif_info 1.0 and Diashow 1.2
Carsten Siegner's get_exif_info extracts the meta data of a picture. Additionally he has also updated his picture viewer Diashow which in version 1.2 also reads the Exif-data and supports autorotation of the picture.
Download:
get_exif_info.lha (94 KB)
diashow_1.2.lha (134 KB)
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11.Jan.2014
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZuneView 0.3
Yannick Erb has released version 0.3 of his picture viewer ZuneView for AROS (screenshot).
Download: ZuneView_v0.3.zip (123 KB)
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10.Jan.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiDARK-Engine 0.9
Frédéric Cordier describes the AmiDARK-Engine as "Game Development Kit" which is highly inspired by DarkGDK. It is a collection of macros and functions for C-programmer which is supposed to simplify developing games.
The changes in version 0.9 for AmigaOS 4 are listed under the title link. An archive for MorphOS will be released soon.
Download: amidark2dengine.lha (38 MB)
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10.Jan.2014
Amiga.org (Forum)
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A-EON Technology: Name of Cyrus-Plus-Computer is AmigaOne X5000
According to A-EON Technology on its public Facebook page under the title link, the voting on the name for the computer with Cyrus-Plus-motherboard was finished and the winner is: "AmigaOne X5000".
The both processors are differed by a certain name affix - AmigaOne X5000/20 for P5020 and the AmigaOne X5000/40 for P5040. The computer with a P3041-processor will be called AmigaOne X3500.
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10.Jan.2014
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Project Synergy: App-Store for all Amiga systems
In November, Pascal Papara announced an App-Store which currently is in beta test. He wrote:
"Developers already can register and provide feedback.
Pleasenote: It does not become a Web frontstore! The Web interface is meant for developers/content creators (music, books, magazines, films, demos).
Customers will access via client applications and will not via the browser. The API will be documented and in future third-party-developers can create other clients.
A referral-system will be made available, thus distributions can benefit from the proceeds. Via the referral-system, 3rd-party-webstores can access the store via API.
The virtual currency is used mainly for supporting Amiga-related projects. Additionally, traders can join in. The user beta test will start as soon as possible.
Similar to Apple's App-Store, our client will provide future system updates for AROS-Broadway and AEROS."
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09.Jan.2014
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: APng-Player 1.0 plays PNG-animations
Carsten SIegner's APng-Player plays animated PNG-files which have to be available in APNG-format.
APng_1.0.lha ( KB)
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09.Jan.2014
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Preview-Video: Multiplayer Coop-Shooter "Chaos Guns"
The name "Chaos Guns" is a mixture of the both examples "Chaos Engine" and "Hired Guns" but was also inspired by Alien Breed. In "Chaos Guns" you can control your character with single button joystick.
On the website of the game you can find background information as well as character introductions. There are also a preview video (Youtube, two months old) as well as a detailed explanation of controlling Chaos Guns.
A first demo version of Chaos Guns will be released soon.
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09.Jan.2014
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 106
The German and English issue 106 (January/February 2014) of the magazine Amiga Future is available. Among others, this issue is about WordMeUp, AmigaOS 4.1 SDK as well as the "Amiga Meeting".
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08.Jan.2014
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A-EON Technology: Pictures and further information on Amiga soundcard
On its Facebook site, A-EON Technology has published a picture under the title link which shows the prototype (revision 2.0) of the soundcard Prisma which was announced on the AmiWest. Furthermore the company informs that the digital sound output via S/PDIF was successfully tested and beta version 2.0 of the driver is MHI-compatible. Thus the soundcard can play AmigaAMP MP3-files with rewinding and fast-forwarding.
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08.Jan.2014
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: wifi.sbar 1.0
Carsten Siegner's wifi.sbar is a screenbar extension for Ambient which shows the power of a W-LAN-signal. According to the author it is an experimental version. He also points out that the Internet connection may be slowed down by checking the signal power.
Download: wifi_sbar_1.0.lha (18 KB)
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07.Jan.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: AmiGBG 2014 in Gothenburg
After almost ten years - the last AmiGBG took place in 2005 - this Swedish Amiga event will be organized again in association with team of Retrospelsmässan on May 3rd, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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07.Jan.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player 1.07
Now version 1.07 of the Hollywood-based multimdeia player V.A.M.P. (Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player) is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and WarpOS as well as for Windows: With the help of the cursor-keys the frames per seconds of a video can be changed. Additionally, a bug was fixed which happened when the elapsed time was calculated.
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07.Jan.2014
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Text editor with Kickstart 1.2-compatibility: Redit 1.6 (update)
Kai Scherrer's text editor Redit works without any limitations on an Amiga equipped with Kickstart 1.2 and also is compatible with higher versions of the system. The editor can be also used from an ermergency disk or without a startup-sequence after rebooting. Changes since version 1.2:
- bugfix: 1.4 broke project close. fixed
- added: documents with unsaved work are now marked with an asterisk in
front of their names
- changed: increased size of line/column field in status bar
- bugfix: sometimes console.device was closed while main window was
still active. fixed
- bugfix: sometimes nonstatic menu items' names pointed to volatile
strings. fixed
- changed: new documents can now be created by CLI interface
- added: tabsize now configurable by tooltype
- added: colors now configurable by tooltype
- added: status bar to display cursor line and column
- added: switching between documents by hotkey
Update:
Meanwhile version 1.6 was released fixing a bug which could happen if the process "save as" was canceled. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jan.2014
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Action-/Strategy Game: The Ancient Art Of War In The Skies for download
In 1993, Microprose released The Ancient Art of War in the Skies as a mix of action and strategy elements. Now the game can be downloaded for free from amigafuture.de.
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07.Jan.2014
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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RayStorm now open source
André Siegel writes: The MUI-based 3D rendering package RayStorm has been made open source by its original authors. You can download the source code at the title link.
For information about the software (including screenshots), please visit its cached homepage. You can find the 680x0 and PowerPC versions of the application on Aminet.
RayStorm consists of a scene modelling tool and the actual rendering engine.
Scenario Modeller:
- Lets you visually create scenes in Top/Front/Right/Perspective and splitted view
- Create spheres, planes, boxes, lightsources and cameras
- Mesh objects: plane, sphere, box, torus, cone, tube
- Unlimited number of cameras to view scene from different directions
- Define surfaces for all objects, including brushes and textures
- Load external objects (Imagine TDDD files, AutoDesk 3DS files and RAW files)
- Save and load scenes (RayStorm Object file RSOB)
- Render scenes with RayStorm
- Preview of renderd scenes
- Preview in material requester
- Create visible lights and lens flares
- Undo/Redo
RayStorm Renderer:
- Octree algorithm used for rendering
- Color, reflectivity, filter, altitude and specular mapping
- Flat, cylinder and sphere mapping
- Soft brush mapping
- Mathematical textures: wood, marble, radial, bumps, checker, linear, stars
- Tranparency and physically correct refractions
- 8 levels of antialiasing (adaptive supersampling)
- Rendering box
- Three builtin object types: sphere, plane and triangle
- Three light types: ambient, point and spot
- Depth of field with adjustable focal distance and aperture
- Depth of field
- Soft shadows
- Backdrop picture
- Global fog and foggy objects
- Material attributes for realictic objects: ambient color, diffuse color, specular color, pecular reflection exponent, diffuse transmission color, specular
- transmission color, specular transmission exponent, specular transmittance, transparent color, reflective color, index of refraction, foglength
- Bright objects
- Motion blur for realistic animations
- Motion blur
- Quick rendering
- Global reflection map
- Supported image formats: TGA, IFF-ILBM, PNG, (JPEG since v2.0)
- Visible lights and lens flares
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06.Jan.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: AEROS-Betaversion 7 for Raspberry Pi
The seventh beta version of Pascal Papara's Debian-Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS for the Raspberry Pi (video) is available for all registered users. The public version for unregistered users will follow soon.
- Linux system updated (thanks to dwyloc)
- 2D hardware-accelerated X11. No black schlieren any longer if windows are moved; faster scrolling.
- XBMC - direct access to rPi GPU - after quitting, presss ctrl+alt+f2 and then ctrl+alt+f7 to get back to Wanderer
- symbols fixed
- Empty folders and ._-files removed
- Cause of crashes fixed
- Bug in Linux file manager fixed
- Command for screenshots using Shell
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06.Jan.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4/AROS: Anniversary special edition of arcade game "Boh"
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the arcade game Boh, the author has released a "special edition" on CD which provides some improvements:
- includes all the updates released previously
- reworks the video modes handling (full screen by default; window on 16-bit screens allowed; more robust; etc.)
- adds the CRT and LCD pixel modes
- adds the 5x zoom
- adds 5 new missions, bringing the total to a massive 60
- assigns the pause to the [ESCAPE] key (instead of a specific key), which thus no longer causes the immediate abort of the current mission
- reworks the menu controls (more keys; do not depend anymore on the in-game controls configuration)
- adds the emergency configuration reset (assigned to the key [F12])
- adds the screenshot functionality (assigned to the key [PRINT])
- makes quitting by means of [ALT]+[F4] available on all platforms
- sets the default URL for records submission to www.retream.com/BOH (it is no longer necessary to specify such URL manually in the configuration file)
- replaces the copy code with an email address for the records submission
- updates the manuals
- applies many other optimizations/changes/fixes, for more performance, polish and robustness
The CD includes versions for AmigaOS 4, AROS, Linux, MacOS and Windows and provides an installation programm which installs the latest version or can update an existing version as well as the complete soundtrack and high-resolution images of the DVD-covers.
A demo version of the "special edition" for diverse systems is available on the website of the game.
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06.Jan.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Update of Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
The Amiga Virus Encyclopedia is an English-language encyclopedia about viruses on the Amiga. The database currently includes 547 diferent viruses and is permanently updated. In December for example the entries for B.E.O.L. 1, LOBOsimple and Clonk! were added.
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06.Jan.2014
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Wifi_list 1.0 shows WLAN-networks
Carsten Siegner's Wifi_list is a Shell-command which shows all available WLAN-networks.
Download: wifi_list_1.0.lha (20 KB)
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