06.May.2010
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AmigaOne X1000: First pictures of casing
On the website of A-Eon you can find in the section "Media" the first two pictures of the casing of the AmigaOne X1000. Obviously it is a casing called Define R2 with modified front side.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.May.2010
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IDEFix-Patches 1.1 (Update)
'Doobrey' and 'Cosmos' have published the IDEFix-Patches version 1.1. With them you can use Compact-Flash-Media with the extension cards XSurf, Catweasel, Buddha and IDEFix produced by indiviual Computers. You can find a list of changes under the title link.
Update: (13.09.2012, cg)
One of the authors requested to have the patches removed from Aminet. They are still available on the original programmer's private web site though. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2010
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: ScummVM 1.1.1
Today ScummVM has been also published for MorphOS in version 1.1.1.
Download: scummvm-1.1.1.lha (7 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.May.2010
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amiga Explorer 2010.0.0.0 as unlimited Shareware-Version
With Cloanto's Amiga Explorer you can access to all drives of an Amiga under Windows. For the file transfer either a modem cable or a network connection are used. Version 2010.0.0.0 is a free update which includes minor bug fixes.
Amiga Explorer is now Shareware: Cloanto asks you to keep on registering the software but the free version does not include any limitations.
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04.May.2010
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: FTP-Client pFTP 1.1
Pete's FTP (screenshot) written by Peter Gordon offers among others unlimited windows, server-to-server-transfers and SFTP-support. The changes of this version are listed in the Readme.
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04.May.2010
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 84
Press release: Issue 84 of Amiga Future (May/June 2010) has been released today. This means that all subscriptions, pre-orders and dealer supplies have been shipped. Besides many other reviews there are reviews of Bubbelsche Deluxe, YAM 2.6, AmiPodder and a first preview of Zelda.
Special features in this issue:
- new information regarding the AmigaOne X1000
- exclusive interview with Hyperion
On the cover CD aside many full versions and PD software you can find the full versions of Blitzbasic, Der Clou, Datastorm, Guldkorn Expressen, Das Boot and Blue Max.
The Amiga Future is available as an English or German printed magazine directly from the editorial office and from some Amiga dealers like APC&TCP, Alinea, AmigaKit, ASB, GGS Data, Hast, Voxel, Samuli and Vesalia. Of course we are always looking for other dealers interested in adding the Amiga Future to their range of products. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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03.May.2010
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: Video preview of game Fortis
Encore Games has announced a game called Fortis which will be published for Windows and iPhoneOS this month as well as for MorphOS. Fortis is a 3D-action-game similar to Asteroids.
You can get further information as well as videos and screenshots under the title link.
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02.May.2010
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AmigaOne X1000: AmigaKit becomes official distributor
According to A-EON on its website, the British Amiga dealer AmigaKit becomes primary distributor for the AmigaOne X1000 and will answer all requests of customers and traders.
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02.May.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmiTwitter 0.29 for AmigaOS 4
Version 0.29 of AmiTwitter is now also available for AmigaOS 4.
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02.May.2010
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Diamond Player 1.4
Robert Szacki's Diamond Player plays MED-, MMD0-, MMD1- and Protracker-MOD-modules using AHI. The program works under AmigaOS 4.0 on an Amiga 1200 or 4000 but also under AmigaOS 4.1 on different computers.
Download: diamplay.lha (50 KB)
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02.May.2010
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Text editor: NoWinED 0.82
NoWinED is a MUI-based text editor for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS.
Mainly the latest version 0.82 includes bug fixes which are listed in the Changelog.
Download: nowined.lha (4 MB)
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02.May.2010
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AmigaOS 4: ScummVM 1.1.1 and ScummVM-Tools 1.1.1
ScummVM version 1.1.1 as well as the additional ScummVM-Tools version 1.1.1 are now available for AmigaOS 4.
Download:
scummvm.lha (7 MB)
scummvm-tools.lha (944 KB)
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01.May.2010
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MUI-Klassen: NList 0.104, TextEditor 15.32 and BetterString 11.18
The NList-, TextEditor- and BetterString-classes for the Magic User Interface are now available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS in version 0.104, 15.32 and 11.18.
Download:
MCC_NList-0.104.lha (2 MB)
MCC_TextEditor-15.32.lha (842 KB)
MCC_BetterString-11.18.lha (327 KB)
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[News message: 01. May. 2010, 19:27] [Comments: 0]
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01.May.2010
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS: Vector graphic program AmiFIG ported
AmiFIG is a vector graphic program which was originally written by Andreas Schmidt for AmigaOS based on XFig. Yannick Erb has now ported it to AROS. A first alpha version is available under the title link (screenshot).
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01.May.2010
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-Website
In the last two months on the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement the following articles were added:
- Amiga/MorphOS news of march/april 2010
- Old news from march/april 1998 and its relatives articles: report of the Imagina 1998 show, interview with Jeff Schindler, interview with Michael Battilana, etc.
- Interviews: Frédéric Rignault (Amiga and MorphOS developer), Jac Petit-Jean-Boret (ex-Amiga artist and journalist), the AmigaOS 4.0 developers (from May 2001), Jay Miner (from June 1988, special Obligement's 2000th article)
- Reviews: Origyn Web Browser 1.7 (MorphOS), UFO Alien Invasion, F-1 Spirit, Zelda Return Of The Hylian, Deluxe Galaga 2.6, Moonstone, Cruise For A Corpse
- Hardware: eFrame, a digital picture frame project based on the Efika 5200B
- Hardware: X-QPack 2 case
- Hardware: Lorraine (update)
- File: Scoopex (6th part, 1999-2000)
- File: Scoopex (7th part, 2001-2007)
- File: the financial situation of Commodore in 1994
- Special quizz about Phase 5, and the year 1990 and 1991
You can support the magzine with translating single articles to different languages. Please contact David Brunet.
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01.May.2010
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: iODBC Engine 3.52.7 / SQLManager 0.9a
Andrea Palmatè's iODBC-port for AmigaOS 4 was updated. A list of changes you can find under the title link.
iODBC is an acronym for "Independent Open DataBase Connectivity". This an implementation of the standardized database interface ODBC and of X/Open-specification.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Apr.2010
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MorphOS: Elephant.sbar 20.6, New desktop background pictures
Elephant.sbar 20.6
Elephant.sbar is an additional modul for the screen title bar and shows if the "Enhanced Layers" for the current screen is activated.
The latest version fixes some bugs. The archive can be downloaded under the title link.
Ambient background pictures created by Patrick Jung
Patrick Jung has published further self-made MorphOS-background pictures in different solutions:
1600x1200
1920x1200
1920x1080
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30.Apr.2010
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hyperion: Update 2 for AmigaOS 4.1 published
Press release:
Brussels, Belgium - April 30th, 2010
Hyperion Entertainment CVBA announces the immediate availability of Update 2 for AmigaOS 4.1 for AmigaOne, SAM440EP and Pegasos II for registered users.
Note that for this update you must have previously installed AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1. Installation of this Update 2 is required for the upcoming public alpha of Timberwolf.
This is a minor update which contains mostly bugfixes. Updated components include:
- Updated Python
- New Cairo 1.8.10 with partial hardware acceleration
- Updated Ringhio notification system
- New version of AmiDock
- Several fixed system libraries
- New version of the Python-scriptable Installation Utility
- A couple of updated Shared Object files compiled and linked with the new V2 SObjs ABI
Registered users can find the update in our Download section.
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29.Apr.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.1.0
Today version 2.1.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE was published. Changes since the last release:
New features:
- CDTV/CD32 direct CD image file support, including audio tracks,
plain iso, cue + bin, cue + bin + wav and cue + bin + mp3
- Quickstart GUI support, cdimage0= in configuration file and
-cdimage= in command line
- Direct 3D rewrite, shader based (if shaders supported), overlays
and RTG supported, Direct3D is now default rendering backend,
configuration in Misc panel, all software filters are available
in Direct3D and DirectDraw modes
- DF3: on screen led shows internal (NV)RAM accesses (CDTV and CD32)
- Input panel Caps and Scroll Lock full remapping support
- A1000 Agnus vblank bug emulated. (Alcatraz Megademo 2)
- Fullscreen dialogs have separate size and position settings (Vista/7),
always center dialogs in fullscreen (XP)
- Multidisk image selection helper, right click on disk image select
button to open quick selection menu
- "GamePorts" "Copy From" option added to Input panel, copies Game Ports
panel mouse/joystick settings to current input configuration
- Parallel port sound sampler emulated, WIP, bad sound quality.
- Windowed mode status bar CD/HD/floppy "led" activity status improved
- "Minimize when focus is lost" option
- Expand environment variables in configuration and command line file paths
Updates:
- Many 68000 CPU cycle-exact mode instruction cycle counting and interrupt
timing updates, A500 emulation accuracy is near-perfect now
- More compatible CDTV/CD32 CD audio support using direct digital audio
extraction. Sound panel volume control adjusts CD audio volume
- OCS Denise horizontal position counter bug fully emulated
- Autoscale display size detection improved
- Support DMS files that have fake complete track zero. (BBS ads)
- Epson matrix printer emulation improved, no extra libraries or fonts
required anymore, color text and graphics supported
- OCS chipset "fake 60Hz" refresh rate support rewritten, now handles
non-60Hz rates
- Raw keyboard option is now always enabled, Input panel multiple
keyboard support
Bug fixes in version 2.x:
- Super Stardust level selector sprite bug
- Directory filesystem mount failures if ISO-8859-15 character set was
not installed in Windows
- 68020 CE mode duplicate interrupts
- Command line parser heap corruption
Further bug fixes:
- Random Direct3D mode graphics crap is gone
- Direct3D fullscreen ALT-TAB weird behavior
- More than 8 CD drives crash
- Rare dualplayfield buffer corruption. (Shadow Fighter AGA)
- CD32 pad emulation compatibility improved. (Roadkill CD32)
- Some game controller device types were ignored
- Vista/7 file dialog multi file selection fix (Disk swapper)
- Swapped sound channels if stereo separation was enabled
- Unreliable VSync in interlaced Direct3D mode
- NTSC statefiles didn't restore correctly
- Sometimes printer always reported busy, paper out or offline
- Directory filesystem rename operation weird behavior if file name
included non-ISO-8859-1 characters
- Directory filesystem cyrillic character set support
- Mouse driver (tablet) mode random mouse jitter
- Filter presets
- Rar unpacking crashed if unrar.dll was too old
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29.Apr.2010
Christian Krenner (ANF)
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Vintage Computer Festival Europe V11.0 (1./2. May, Munich)
On the next weekend (1st and 2nd of May) the "Vintage Computer Festival Europe" will take place in Munich.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Apr. 2010, 15:29] [Comments: 0]
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28.Apr.2010
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AmigaOS 4: City simulation LinCity-NG 2.0
Andrea Palmatè has compiled version 2.0 of the SDL-game LinCity-NG for AmigaOS 4.
Download: lincity-ng.lha (121 MB) (snx)
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[News message: 28. Apr. 2010, 20:37] [Comments: 0]
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