28.Sep.2012
AROS-Exec (forum)
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AROS: Distribution AspireOS 1.95
Nikolaos Tomatsidis released a new version of his AROS distribution AspireOS. It is made for the Acer netbook Aspire One, but does also fully support the Toshiba notebook Satellite Pro A200; also on other hardware the distribution should run, but this is untested.
Changes include a Wifi scanning tool, the editor Annotate, an AmigaOS 3.1 theme, new wallpapers, an optimisation of the boing icon bar and a bugfix for downloading Youtube videos. This time there is no update option for existing systems available, though, instead a fresh installation of version 1.95 is recommended. (snx)
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28.Sep.2012
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Multi-purpose tool: Jack 3.2.5
Jack is a multi-purpose utility for all Amiga systems. Besides basic file operations Jack features image editing, saving screenshots, a music player, AppStore functions, weather forecast, currency conversion and a diary with connection to the Google diary.
Changes in version 3.2.5:
- AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5's introduction of asynchronously loading the TCP/IP at Workbench startup exposed a new bug in Jack. The DELAY tooltype was previously being ignored, this has now been fixed. If you still see an error message if starting Jack this way simply increase the value of the DELAY tooltype. Value is no. of seconds
- Python ITC Extractor has been updated to version 0.3.2 which adds support for Apple's use of ARGB images in album cover artwork. Thanks to Simon Kennedy
- Moved php scripts to another server, older versions of Jack will continue to run for a limited time only
Download:
Jack_Classic.zip (13 MB)
Jack_WarpOS.zip (12 MB)
jack.zip (13 MB, AmigaOS 4 version)
Jack_MorphOS.zip (12 MB, beta version)
jack.i386-aros.zip (12 MB) (snx)
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28.Sep.2012
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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A-EON Technology: Mousepad available
A-EON director Matthew Leaman does now also sell an A-EON mousepad in his webshop Amigakit at the title link. It shows boingballs and has "AmigaOS" and "A-EON" written on it. (snx)
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28.Sep.2012
Moo Bunny (forum)
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Amiga Inc.: Bill McEwen's name spotted at BlackBerry live demo
After the official Amiga Inc. press release on availability of classic Amiga games for the BlackBerry tablet PlayBook and the upcoming smartphone BlackBerry 10 (amiga-news.de reported), a video of this cell phone's live presentation has been discovered which supports the claim of a business relationship.
At the title link, Bill McEwen's name has been spotted as a contact person on the phone. Although the corresponding photo does not depict the longtime CEO - allegedly it is the junior -, the entry is titled "Amiga". At minute 4:41 a virtual customer meeting can be seen and at minute 6:16 there are OSNews articles about Amiga from June/July. (snx)
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27.Sep.2012
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 1.3.28
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE (Screenshot) for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5+ (i386, PPC) and Linux (i386, AMD64) is based on WinUAE and completely accessible by joypad.
Changes in version 1.3.28:
- New official boolean option uaegfx_card to enable the “Picasso 96 card”
- Re-initialize shaders after fullscreen<->window switching
- (Launcher) Double-click (or enter) in configuration list starts FS-UAE
- (Launcher) Remember last directories used when browsing for floppies, CDs, hard drives and kickstarts
- (Launcher) Automatically add floppies in drives to swap list if swap list is empty
- (Launcher) Find hard drive zip file relative to hard drives dir
- (Launcher) GUI widgets to override memory settings
- (Launcher) Added checkboxes for uaegfx.card and bsdsocket.library
- (Launcher) Added checkbox to enable NTSC mode
- (Launcher) Updated GUI main window background drawing to make the GUI look better on Linux (looks much nicer on Kubuntu now)
- (Launcher) Center FS-UAE window on launcher window
- (Launcher) Center launch dialog on main window also on OS X
- (Launcher) Updated look for OS X
(cg) (Translation: snx)
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27.Sep.2012
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: SysMon 2.0
Guillaume Boesel's SysMon is a MUI-based system monitor and window removal tool. Changes in version 2.0 can be found at the title link.
Download: sysmon.lha (253 KB) (snx)
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27.Sep.2012
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Sudominator 1.1 and U1Synth 1.2
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has updated two of his programs - the Sudoku solver Sudominator and the software synthesizer U1Synth. Both can be also installed by Grunch now.
Sudominator had some problem with new MUI 4 transparency effect for disabled gadgets. This effect has been unnecessarily applied to the sudoku field when live solver was running, so the whole thing was unreadable. U1Synth has got an octave switch, a first small step towards changing it from a toy to a simple, yet usable synthesizer. (snx)
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26.Sep.2012
Amiga.org (website)
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ACube Systems: Further complete systems
ACube Systems offer further pre-assembled computers based on the Sam440ep-Flex in their webshop: SamFlex Core 667 and 733.
Content:
- Board: Sam440ep Flex
- Case: Fractal Design Core 1000
- PSU: ATX 500W
- RAM: 1 GB DDR
- HD: Western Digital 500 GB
- Drive: DVD RW
- Graphic card: Radeon 9200 Pro (128 MB RAM, 128 bit bus)
(snx)
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25.Sep.2012
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AROS: Anubis OS started again
Alex Perez has made up his mind to revive the project Anubis OS focused on the ARM-architecture and inclusive the Raspberry Pi and the Beagleboard and is looking for developers. The basis will be Linaro-Tiny-Android-kernel.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Sep. 2012, 16:23] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2012
mhd / Hacker News (ANF)
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Programming language: REBOL becomes Open Source
As already announced of Carl Sassenrath in an earlier blog the source code of his programming language REBOL will be released probably under GPL.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Sep.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: HarmonyPlayer 0.1
HarmonyPlayer written by "serk118uk" is a further development of a MP3-player programm written by the same author. The programm supports a lot of music-formats:
- Mp3
- Ogg (Vorbis audio format)
- Flac (Flac audio format)
- Wav (wav audio format)
- Mid (midi format via timidity)
- 669 (Composer 669, Unis 669)
- AMF (DSMI Advanced Module Format)
- AMF (ASYLUM Music Format V1.0)
- APUN (APlayer), DSM (DSIK internal format)
- FAR (Farandole Composer)
- GDM (General DigiMusic)
- IT (Impulse Tracker)
- IMF (Imago Orpheus)
- MOD (15 and 31 instruments)
- MED (OctaMED)
- MTM (MultiTracker Module editor)
- OKT (Amiga Oktalyzer)
- S3M (Scream Tracker 3)
- STM (Scream Tracker)
- STX (Scream Tracker Music Interface Kit)
- ULT (UltraTracker)
- UNI (MikMod)
- XM (FastTracker 2)
Direct download: HarmonyPlayer.lha (2,1 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Sep. 2012, 15:40] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2012
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Kickstarter-Project: Biography of Sensible Software
The author Darren Wall has secured the funding of his new book with the help of kickstarter.com: Probably in June of 2013 his English-language biography of the game software developers Sensible Software will be published.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Sep. 2012, 14:51] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2012
Jim Neray (ANF)
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Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.72 (beta version)
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with 128 colours which is meant for starting WHDLoad-games (.slave, .exe).
In version 0.72 a bug was fixed. Additionally now by pressing the DELETE-key it is possible to prevent X-bEnCH to be loaded and instead to start the Workbench.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Sep. 2012, 00:16] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Fredrik Wikström new member of AmigaOS 4 team
Team leader Steven Solie has introduced another new member of the AmigaOS 4 team: Fredrik Wikström has written a lot of tools and ports for AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Sep. 2012, 00:09] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2012
amigaworld.net (ANF)
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SerialEcho 50.6 for all Amiga systems
Christian Rosentreter's SerialEcho for AmigaOS and MorphOS works like the "echo"-command but sends its output to the serial interface. The latest version is available for MorphOS, AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS (x86).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2012, 21:37] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2012
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Puzzle game Tap Jewels (preview video)
The next project developed by Entwickler X (Swamp Defense, Bubbelsche Deluxe) is going to be a puzzle game: In "Tap Jewels" you have to clear jewels of the same colour. On Youtube a first video has been released and the product site was launched.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2012, 16:19] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Dragon-/Tandy-Emulator XRoar 0.28.1
XRoar ported by Ventzislav Tzvetkov emulates the 8-Bit-systems Dragon and Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer. A minimal firmware is included in the archive but for the real compatibility the ROM-image of the emulated computers is required.
Changes since our last message:
- CPU timing fix
- Temporary fix for French keyboard: superscript 2 mapped to Clear
- Fix emulation of Dragon 32 with 64K
- New keyboard map: Canadian French [Pierre Sarrazin]
- CPU core optimisations
- VDG palette tweaks
- Allow user to specify rom lists with -romlist, and inspect the currently
defined lists with -romlist-print
- Similarly, allow user to specify ROM CRC32s that are equivalent with
-crclist, printing current list with -crclist-print
- Use ROM CRCs to determine which breakpoints are effective
- Force CRC matching (breakpoints only based on arch) with -force-crc-match
- Add -tape-write option to specify an output tape file on the command line
- Add -type option to type a string into BASIC
- Permit incomplete last tracks in JVC disk images
- Removed GP32 and NDS support from main tree
- Remove obsolete GTK+ version 1 file requester
- Test for and use GLib list and hash functions if available
- Data bus state updated during NVMA (fixes Manic Miner protection)
- -tape-pad-auto leader thresholds updated
- CPU fixes: verified flags set/cleared in SEX and DAA instructions
- Tape fixes: various usability fixes
- VDK files: fill in header bytes more completely when writing
- SAM-VDG interaction fix - 48 byte-per-line mode now works
- More resilient fast tape loading
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2012, 16:13] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2012
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Audio-converter Zormanita 1.1
Zormanita is another example how the Reggae-library can be used. The source code is available under a BSD-licence. Currently Zormanita can convert AIFF-, 8SVX-, 16SV-, WAVE- and MP3-files to the formats AIFF, WAVE or RAW. Altivec is supported.
Version 1.1 also includes an update for Reggae which now supports the 24- and 32-Bit modes of AIFF, WAVE, and RAW. Additionally default file name extension based on selected codec was added.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2012, 15:49] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 1.3.27
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE (screenshot) for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5+ (i386, PPC) and Linux (i386, AMD64) is based on WinUAE and can be completely controlled with a joypad.
Changes in version 1.3.27:
- Config for Retro Joystick interface v1.2 (joystick adapter) [Magnar]
- Fixed serial port emulation when not serial port is not "used"
- Native serial port for POSIX systems [lallafa]
- Added A1000 model support (defaulting to Kickstart 1.2)
- Fixed a bug preventing the launcher from starting on some systems
- (Launcher) Added A1000 model support
- (Launcher) Work around bug in openSUSE 12.2′s gettext.py
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Sep. 2012, 19:29] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood-Plugins for Android available
Since July the development environment Hollywood also supports Google's Handheld operating system Android. Meanwhile most of the Hollywood-Plugins also are available under Android.
The plugins are available in two different versions: The so called "armeabi"-Build works with floating-point numbers in a software library similar to AmigaOS' math*-libraries. The "armeabi-v7a"-versions use the faster floating-point hardware of modern processors which all newer Android-devices contain - in case of doubt have a look at the manual of the device if it supports hardware floating-point calculations.
The plugins have to be copied to the directory "Hollywood/_Plugins" on the SD-card of the Android-device. You can get more information in the Android Release Notes.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Sep. 2012, 17:19] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 22.09.2012
The following packages have been uploaded until 22.09.2012 to the Aminet:
getvideo.lha comm/www 53K get video files from YouTube ...
adplug.lha dev/lib 3.4M OS4 A free AdLib sound player lib...
libadplug_68k.lha dev/lib 2.8M 68k AD mod plug lib & binio lib
libbinio.lha dev/lib 217K OS4 A Binary I/O stream class lib...
libx264.lha dev/lib 3.4M OS4 H.264/AVC encoder
ToDisk.lha disk/misc 60K 68k Thomson disk manager & PC...
WormWarsSP.lha game/actio 6K Worm Wars 8.8 spanish catalog
syobon.i386-aros.lha game/jump 4.3M x86 Syobon Action
syobon.src-aros.lha game/jump 4.4M Syobon Action sources
syobon_68k.lha game/jump 2.2M 68k Action platform game
AmiQuake.lha game/shoot 251K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
yquake2.src.tgz game/shoot 4.2M Yamagi Quake II sources
glulxe.i386-aros.lha game/text 360K x86 a Glulx text adventure interp...
asciiportal.i386-aros... game/think 12M x86 ASCIIpOrtal
asciiportal.src-aros.tgz game/think 9.7M ASCIIpOrtal sources
Blokator.lha game/wb 33K 68k Put together blocks of same t...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha misc/emu 14K AmiArcadia 18.7 spanish catalog
uBee512-MOS.lha misc/emu 1.3M MOS Microbee emulator
uBee512-OS3.lha misc/emu 1.3M 68k Microbee emulator
adplay_68k.lha mus/play 463K 68k play & decode AD lib mod ...
adplug_tnplug.lha mus/play 416K OS4 AdPlug based plugin for TuneNet
playOGG.lha mus/play 5.3M 68k multi format sound player.
Scriba_0.7.0.lha text/edit 6.8M MOS Simple word processing softwa...
AFSwitch.lha util/cli 2K 68k AFS - switch for audio filter...
AmiSystemRestore.lha util/misc 778K OS4 Monitors&allows undoing c...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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