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20.Nov.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Screenshot-Utility: SnapIt 1.2 for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS
The author describes SnapIt as "powerful screen grabber". For the first time version 1.2 also is available for AmigaOS 4. Changes:
  • AmigaOS4 support
  • AROS support
  • Updated JPEG/PNG save routines
  • Workaround for missing ScalePixelArray()-function in AROS
  • Filtered out backdrop windows to avoid crashes
  • Fix to erase old preview data when new one is overlapping
  • New icon set from Thomas Blatt (found in icons-drawer)
  • Italian translation by Samir Hawamdeh
  • Added keyfile support, functionality is not crippled (don't worry) =)
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Nov.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Tutorials: Roadshow on the Minimig/Turbo Chameleon 64
The "Turbo Chameleon 64" is a FPGA-based C64 accelerator board which can be also used in the stand-alone mode. On the board a RS-232-port can be upgraded as Amiga extension using the clockport.

Christian "Lallafa" Vogelsang shows in his English-language blog how he uses the clockport with the help of a simple hardware-mods for an emulated Amiga and how he integrates the computer with Roadshow and PPP into a home network. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Nov.2013



Game launcher: X-bEnCH 0.91 Beta 5
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface for launching WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe) with up to 128 colours. It requires few resources (Youtube-video of version 0.8). The update fixes some minor bugs:
  • The bad display of the longs names for registered users
  • The "CD Mode" crash when switching On/Off in the setup
  • The strange month/year bug with the Setclock in the setup
  • The "Esc" key in the launcher in some cases
  • ...
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20.Nov.2013



Interview: Jérôme 'Glames' Senays (Boing Attitude)
The Swedish website "Safir" has published an English-language interview with Jérôme 'Glames' Senay from Boing Attitude (Dir Me Up, Ask me Up). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Nov.2013
amiga68k.de (ANF)


Jump and Run: Frank Wille announces "Solid Gold" for Amiga 500
Frank "phx" Wille (among others Sqrxz, vbcc) has announced another jump'n run game for the end of the year. "Solid Gold" is created in cooperation with the brother of Wille who is the graphic artist:



Wille describes Solid Gold as "a mix of Turrican, Giana Sisters and Rick Dangerous". The game was developed in assembler and features smooth 8-way-scrolling with 50 pictures per second. An Amiga with at least one megabyte RAM (512 KB Chip, 512 KB Fast) is required.

Currently the highscore list and the final sequence are written. Apart from "some fine-tuning" (Wille) all other work was completed. Solid Gold will be released as ADF-image. The source code will be available for free. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Nov.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


PDF-Newsletter: "Best of MorphOS September/October 2013"
Best of MorphOS (PDF) is a short newsletter which summarizes the most important news around MorphOS on a A4-page. It is published by WArMUp (PDF), which is the "World Association of MorphOS Users". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Nov.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Magazine: Commodore Free, Issue 74 and 75
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and C64-Diskmag. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Nov.2013



AmigaOS 4: RadeonHD driver 1.0 RC2 (0.57)
A-EON has released an update of the commercial graphic board driver for RadeonHD, which is developed by Hans de Ruiter. Changes in this version:
  • Golden register initialisation code added (golden registers are a table of registers supplied by AMD's hardware engineers to be initialised on startup)
  • Improved the VGA (UBOOT/CFE screen) shutdown code for Evergreen+ chipsets. This solves the intermittent boot problems which affected some Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 cards. (and possibly others)
The driver supports 2D-operations and compositing and among others works with the following RadeonHD-types:
  • X1300-X1950 Serie
  • HD4000 Serie
  • "Evergreen" HD5000 Serie
  • "Northern Islands" HD6000 Serie
  • "Southern Island" HD7000 Serie
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Nov.2013
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Scriba 1.9.9
Version 1.9.9 of Carsten Siegnes text processing software Scriba now can save spreadsheets in the following formats: PDF, SVG, CSV, XML, HTML, XMLSS and ODS. Additionally the spreadsheets can also include hyperlinks.

XMLSS-files are saved in the sub-format of Microsoft Excel 2003 which can be opened by Excel 2010 or OpenOffice. The file format OpenDocumentSpreadsheet (ODS) can be opened by e.g. OpenOffice or Google Docs.

Besides, Scriba can create websites with the following features:
  • background
  • text
  • lists
  • pictures
  • spreadsheets
Download: Scriba_1.9.9.lha (7 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Nov.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 16.11.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until November 16th, 2013:
DesignerSP.lha           biz/misc   81K       Hollywood Designer 4.0 spanis...
HollywoodSP.lha          biz/misc   417K      Hollywood 5.3 spanish catalogs
DXP_4kb_Intro2_AGA.lha   demo/intro 6K    68k DXP 4KB Intro 2 - AGA
SAF_4KB_Intro.lha        demo/intro 4K    68k SAF 4KB Intro - NoAGA
prjmegaranfix.lha        demo/track 1K    68k Picture fix for 'Project Mega...
CW-Keyboard.lha          driver/inp 11K   MOS OpenPCI/Zorro Catweasel MK3 k...
KOG.lha                  game/actio 781K  OS4 Innovative objects-catching game
DustDigger.adf           game/misc  880K  68k Dust Digger AMIGA version
ADOM_Guide.lha           game/role  77K       ADOM Guide
Dodecagon.lha            game/wb    32K   68k Connect all tiles!
Iarrow.lha               game/wb    31K   68k Move or rotate some arrows
X_marks.lha              game/wb    31K   68k Spot the 'X' marks!
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.3M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.6M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.6M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
asapconv.lha             mus/edit   341K  68k Play & convert Atari 8-bi...
playOGG.lha              mus/play   5.8M  68k multi format sound player.
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  428K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  500K  MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  553K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
MT_ADPCM.lha             util/pack  8K        (De-)Cruncher for FP_ADPCM (C...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Nov.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.11.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until November 16th, 2013:
atunes_cover_aamp.lha    aud/mis 2Mb   4.1 aTunes-AAmp "plugin" to display ...
mixer.lha                aud/mis 696kb 4.1 Audio mixer
universe-thetrip.lha     dem/sce 10Mb  4.1 Alchimie 2013 winner demo.
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
kog.lha                  gam/act 781kb 4.0 Innovative objects-catching game
freeserf.lha             gam/str 31Mb  4.1 Faithful clone of classic simula...
datetime_docky.lha       uti/doc 99kb  4.1 Displays the current time/date/w...
netdock.lha              uti/doc 420kb 4.0 Docky to monitor your network ac...
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 586kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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17.Nov.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 16.11.2013
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 November 16th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Nov.2013
Amiga.org (Forum)


Z3SDRAM: Development of Zorro-II/III memory extension and network card
In the forum of Amiga.org, Tim 'tnt23' Taschpulatow has introduced version 1.2 of his Z3SDRAM-project. The memory extension was originally developed for Zorro-III-slots but now can also be used with Zorro II and additionally has an ethernet-controller based on the DM9000-chip by Davicom. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Nov.2013
Murakami (ANF)


Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 52 (French)
Since 1998 the French magazine aMiGa=PoWer has been published by the Association Française du Libre Essai (AFLE) and sold worldwide.

Issue 52 includes among others reviews on MorphOS 3.3, Qt and Strife as well as tutorials about Basilisk 2 and the serial interface. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Nov.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Accelerator board: Progress report about ACA500 (English)
Under the title link an English-language progress report about the accelerator board ACA500 developed by Individual Computers was released.

The report, written by an user who was a co-developer, concludes: 2 MB Fast-RAM as well as a missing case are the disadvantages of the board. Otherwise, the board delivers what was promised and has a high compatibility. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Nov.2013
ANF


Linux: Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian 7.2 for the Sam440ep (Flex) and Sam460ex
Under the title link, for the Sam4x0-boards of ACube Systems a separate Linux-support-section in the forum of Hyperion Entertainment was establsihed. There, updated versions of ports of Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian 7.2 were linked which was released at the end of October.

Additional to updates for the Sam440ep - Ubuntu 12.04-2 and Debian 7.2 with kernel 3.12 - Linux-distributions are also available for the Sam460ex. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Nov.2013
Power2People (ANF)


AmigaOS 4/AROS: Bounty-project for Odyssey web browser
Under the title link on Power2poeople.org, a bounty project for releasing Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly's web browser Odyssey under an open-source-licence was established which would make it possible to adapt it to AmigaOS 4 and AROS.

Earlier versions of his browser the author already released for free. But these versions cannot play e.g. HTML5-videos. This fearture Fabien Coeurjoly developed himself; there is not any other Amiga implemenation for that except the (still unsatisfying) Firefox/Timberwolf. Alternative browsers for different operating systems are open-source but often overdependent (Chrome) or bloated (Webkit-GTK), or not open-source (Apple Quicktime for the Mac-version of Webkit or the Windows-implementation). (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Nov.2013
Pascal Papara (ANF)


Aminux: AROS-Vision-68k-Distribution for i386 desktops and notebooks
Pascal Papara has released a first public version of Aminux. It is a 68k-distribution AROS Vision via FS-UAE for USB-sticks using the Linux-distribution Mikroknoppix. An installation is not necessary.

For the next version it is planned to execute Linux and AROS applications out of AROS/68k. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Nov.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


TCP/IP stack: Roadshow 1.11
Version 1.11 of the TCP/IP stack Roadshow has been released today. The update improves the stability of the stack itself as well as of its PPP drivers and is recommended to every customer.

Focus of the update has been an increased stability of the software on Amigas with 68000 and 68010 CPU. Additionally, a new configuration file is included.

The update can be downloaded for free at the title link. Furthermore, a new demo version is available as well. Roadshow is exclusively available from APC & TCP. (snx)

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10.Nov.2013
amiga.org (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Game DVD 1 with 70 game ports
At the Alchimie, ACube announced a game-DVD which is from now on available in the ACube-shop. It includes about 70 ports, which either are available for the first time or which were updated compared to existing versions (bug fixes, Joystick-support etc.).

If a game or engine should require external level data then they are not included in the DVD due to licence reasons. Instead, the included installer will download the files from the Internet during the installation.

The following games are available on "Game DVD 1":

RPG/Adventure:
  • Flare
  • Polymorphable
  • Zelda-TimeToTriumph
  • Zelda-OniLinkBegins
  • Zelda-ReturnoftheHylian
  • Zelda-Solarus-DX
  • Zelda-Solarus-XD
  • ZeldaPicross (French only)
Racing:
  • zeRace
Arcade:
  • BallGameHD
  • Beat2X
  • Bomber
  • Breakers
  • CandyCrisis
  • Linball
  • MiniSlug
  • OpenBOR
  • PangZero
  • ShootingstarGL
  • Tetris
  • TetrisLAN
  • Tong
First Person Shooter:
  • Hexen2
  • Hhexen
  • Hheretic
  • PrboomGL
  • PRBoomPlus
  • Rise_of_the_Triad
Knobeln
  • Airball
  • Anagramarama
  • HexGem
  • Lpairs
  • MissDrillerXtrem
  • Numpty Physics
  • OpenGF
  • Pathmania
  • PatienceMahjongg
  • Pingus
  • Primrose
  • PushOver
  • SokobAMIGA
  • SUDoQ
  • Tongits
  • Zaz
Plattform:
  • Frogatto
  • MegaMario
  • NX-Engine
  • REminiscence
  • SecretMaryoChronicles
  • SuperMarioWar1.7AFE
Shoot'em Up
  • 1941-DELUXE-2.0.6-DUAL-PLAYER
  • LightDroid-JapAnim
  • LightningSpirit2
  • Lightning_Symphony
  • Lonesome
  • Noiz2sa
  • Odyssee
  • OpenTyrian
  • PowerManga
  • Spirit
  • ThunderSlash
  • Volta
Demos
  • Fire1.0
  • glExcess-1.0-sound
Emulatoren
  • Handy (Lynx)
  • NeoPop (NeoGeo)
  • ohboy (GameBoy)
  • oSMoSe (Sega Master System)
  • PokemonMini (Pokemon Mini)
  • SMS-Plus (Sega Master System)
  • Virtual-Jaguar (Jaguar)
Dev-Bonus
  • LibBoostyGfx
  • HunoJoyWrapper-lib-OS4
  • Libbox2d
  • libintl
  • snes_spc
  • snes_spcFAST
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Nov.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 09.11.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until November 9th, 2013:
ultraacc-key.lha         biz/misc   0K        UltraAccounts free keyfile
deformpatch.lha          demo/track 8K    68k Trackloader Patch for Deforma...
SimProdSpeedHDInstall... demo/track 8K    68k HD-Loader for Speed/Sim Produ...
SimProd-SpeedOneFiled... demo/track 1.9M  68k Speed/Sim Productions trackmo...
fib_com.lha              dev/basic  86K   68k FDC/EDC audio compression for...
mp3_dec.lha              dev/basic  21K   68k mpega lib dev kit for Blitz &...
libqdev-bin-m68k.lha     dev/lib    1.8M  68k Quick Development Suite and U...
Esc_Codes.shell.txt      dev/src    6K    68k UNIX Style Escape Sequences D...
Format64_m1.lha          disk/misc  49K   68k Format replacement, >4GB s...
PAS.lha                  driver/aud 16K   68k portable audio system
etherbridge.lha          driver/net 115K  68k Ethernet driver (SANA2) for P...
Gimcana.zip              game/actio 73K   68k Videogame (Race/Maze)
Matrioska.zip            game/actio 191K  68k Videogame (Puzzle, Tetris like)
Megaworm_Marco.zip       game/actio 201K  68k Videogame (Puzzle/Maze, Nibbl...
TilesSlide.lha           game/actio 66K   68k Align 3 tiles of the same col...
TrackerHeroAGA.lha       game/misc  3.0M  68k "Guitar Hero" clone using mod...
chromiumbsu_os3.lha      game/shoot 1.6M  68k Vertical scrolling Shoot'em up
D1X_Rebirth_AGA.lha      game/shoot 2.9M  68k Amiga AGA port of Descent D1X...
D1X_Rebirth_RTG.lha      game/shoot 2.9M  68k Amiga port of Descent D1X-Reb...
etlegacy.i386-aros.lha   game/shoot 17M   x86 Wolfenstein Enemy Territory: ...
etlegacy.src.tgz         game/shoot 15M       ET Legacy sources
gems.zip                 game/think 147K  68k Videogame (Puzzle, Columns like)
npush_68k.lha            game/think 258K  68k (n)curses based Sokoban like ...
Arroway.lha              game/wb    32K   68k Align arrows in the same dire...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.3M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.6M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.6M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
oricutron.lha            misc/emu   220K  MOS Oric-1 / Atmos emulator
ADPCM_enc.lha            mus/edit   23K   68k ADPCM/FDC/EDC encoder
mp3toSV.lha              mus/edit   17K   68k Play & Convert MPEG Audio...
ADPCM_dec.lha            mus/misc   36K   68k ADPCM/FDC/EDC decoder
Lac_Lafontaine.jpg       pix/back   421K      Sunset on Lac Lafontaine
Icons-4-AmigaOS.lha      pix/picon  1.1M      AmigaOS 4.1 Style DualPNG Ico...
qboot.lha                util/boot  229K  68k Visual/verbose startup-sequen...
jcalc_0.4_b185-aros.zip  util/misc  87K   x86 A simple calculator
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  426K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  498K  MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  551K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
snapit.lha               util/misc  77K   MOS A screen grabber with MUI-Int...
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