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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06.Jan.2014
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Enhanced emergency disk for AmigaOS 3.9
Soon an update for the bootdisk-creator Amiga 911 Maker will be released which can create an enhanced version of an emergency disk for AmigaOS 3.9. As a little preview the author has made available some versions of his "Emergency Disk II":
The new emergency disk should work on all A600/A1200 with at least 6 MB RAM. Additional to the option to boot with a disk, then to integrate a CD-ROM drive and accessing the OS 3.9-CD, the Emergency Disk II supports further options to boot or install the system :
- You can use an AmigaOS 3.9 ISO image which can be present on any drive that gets mounted on startup
- You can also use an external USB CD-ROM drive
- you can make a AmigaOS 3.9 USB pendrive or a Compact Flash card to be used with a CF-PCMCIA adapter
Due to legal reasons the disk does not include all necessary files - they have to be imported with the tool "Activate E-Disk-II" from an existing AmigaOS CD or installation.
Download sites for the different versions:
EDiskII-V1a-OS3.9-020.zip (676 KB)
EDiskII-V1a-OS3.9-020-LE.zip (378 KB) ("Lite"-version, half of the disk is empty)
EDiskII-V1a-OS3.9-020-USB.zip (681 KB) (USB-support)
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06.Jan.2014
PPA (Webseite)
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Game: Rise of the Triad ECS/AGA/RTG 1.0.0
After the version for AmigaOS 4, the Ego-shooter Rise of the Triad now also is available for AmigaOS 3.1. A 68030-processor, at least 16 MB Fast-RAM and 20 MB harddrive memory are required. The game was originally published by Apogee Software in 1994 for the PC. In 2002 the source code was disclosed. The files of the original game are required.
Download: ROTT_V1.0.lha (9 MB)
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06.Jan.2014
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser InternetSurfboard 0.002
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has released a first adaption of the Qt-based web browser InternetSurfboard to AmigaOS 4.1.
The browser currently is in a very early stage of development. It features "HTML5, CSS3 and plugin support, tabs, bookmarks, download manager and optimal privacy protection. Unlike many other webbrowsers, Internet Surfboard does not leave any information about visited websites on your harddisk."
Download: internetsurfboard.lha (1 MB)
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06.Jan.2014
Floppy (ANF)
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AROS: Nano VM 3.2.1
Stefan Pietzonke has released version 3.2.1-2 of his virtual maschine Nano (amiga-news.de reported). Unter AROS/i386, the JIT-compiler of Nano is switched off because the author thinks of it as a cause of trouble.
"The new rights management makes it possible to run programs in sandbox mode." (have a look under the title link)
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05.Jan.2014
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: InstantZip 2.0.0 - Zip Archiver with MUI GUI
Carsten Siegner's InstantZip is a Zip archiving programm which can add any file to existing archives, create new archives or which can remove or unzip files from the main directory of an archive. Version 2.0.0 features a GUI similar to WinZip.
InstantZip_2.0.0.lha (150 KB)
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05.Jan.2014
Andreas Böhm (ANF)
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Event: Vintage Computer Festival Europe (3./4. May, Munich)
On 3 and 4 May 2014 in Munich the Vintage Computer Festival Europe (VCFe) will take place for the 15th time. Its "mission is to encourage the preservation of obsolete computer hard- and software of years past, to promote interest in researching and documenting the history of the computer age and to have fun playing with old iron." This year the focus of the VCFe is on "exotoic computers".
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05.Jan.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.01.2014
The following packages have been added to Aminet until January 4th, 2014:
SSU_0_19.lha dev/asm 335K 68k Space Ship Assembly Example
PAS.lha driver/aud 41K 68k portable audio system
Wazp3D.lha driver/vid 1.4M 68k CPU only Warp3D implementation
KimPongIl.lha game/2play 13K 68k Pong clone written in assembler
Africa.lha game/board 231K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 272K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
SolidGold.adf game/jump 880K 68k Classic 8-way soft scrolling ...
DustDigger.adf game/misc 880K 68k Dust Digger AMIGA version
Accumulus.lha game/wb 33K 68k Don't put same types of tiles...
Arroway.lha game/wb 33K 68k Align arrows in the same dire...
kertoma.gz misc/math 3K ppc Calculates factorial of any i...
MilkyTracker_09086_ar... mus/edit 1.6M x86 Multiplatform Music Tracker
astro2.lha pix/back 754K Astro Wallpaper in 16:9 resol...
Spreedy_0.2.lha text/edit 332K MOS Table editor
ami2pc.lha text/misc 3K ppc Converts Amiga text files to ...
html2txt.lha text/misc 4K ppc Convert html-files to Amiga t...
pc2ami.lha text/misc 3K ppc Convert MS-DOS text files to ...
Calendaro.lha util/time 44K 68k Calendaro - a Workbench calen...
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