02.Jan.2010
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PR-campaign: Is Hyperion announcing new hardware? (2nd Update)
At the screenshots of the Firefox-port Timberwolf published two dys ago the website a-eon.com could be seen. Smart users figured out that this website belongs to Ben Hermans (Hyperion Entertainment) and obviously has hidden some hints to Hyperion's next project.
By clicking the graphics on each site you can release another text or get the next hint (1.html, 2.html, 3.html, 4.html). Each day a-eon.com will be completed with another hint. Again and again you can read the terms "OMEN" or ("OM"), "ENIGMA" and "AEON" with which users tried to make anagrams.
The hint added today plays with these terms and then shows the text "Have you figured it out yet?". The I-dot at "it" is something more dark - if you move the mouse cursor above it you get the reaction: "(Oh no! Don't look at that!".
If you ignore this warning and have a look at the I-dot you will see that it is a highly scaled down photo. A photo which apparently shows a part of a motherboard.
In a thread at amigaworld.net Hans-Jörg "Rogue" Frieden explained that it is more than "just" new hardware. Further information will be available tomorrow.
According to the Belgian Staatsblad (PDF-document) the company A-EON was founded in April 2009 by Ben Hermans and the both British men Robert Trevor Dickinson and Anthony Moorley.
Update: (03.01.10, 12:14, snx)
Meanwhile almost the complete mainboard is visible, also one further picture was found on the server which seems to show part of a case.
2nd Update: (03.01.10, 13:52, snx)
Hans-Jörg Frieden adds that the slots on the mainboard are two PCIe x16, three PCIe x1, two PCI 33 MHz and finally one "Xorro" slot, with the latter being in line with the third PCIe 1x slot. All 16 lanes of the PCIe x16 slot can be used only if just one slot is occupied, though, otherwise two times eight lanes are used.
The javascript file (4.js) used for today's page confirms that the CPU is a PowerPC - and according to another picture already found on the server it seems to provide more than one core. At the second still covered position on the mainboard, there seems to be a chip called "Xena" which might serve as a custom chip. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: EasyUAE 1.2
After the beta version Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea has now published a first release candidate of his user-interface for the Amiga-emulator E-UAE. For the bounty-project so far 316,34 Euro were donated.
Download: easyuae-1.2.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2010
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-website
The following articles have been added during the last two months to the website of the french AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. If you want to support the magazine with translations of single articles then please contact David Brunet.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of November/December 2009
- Old news from September/October 1997 and November/December 1997 and their relatives articles
- Review of Open Tyrian
- Review of Quake
- Review of Amiga Forever 2008
- Hardware: Indivision ECS
- File: The year 2000 problem and the Amiga
- File: History of the Amigan year 1997 (update)
- Tutorial: Enhance a Mac mini G4
- Tutorial: Create themes for AmigaOS 4.1
- Tutorial: Utilisation of RDBrecov
- Tutorial: Boot up MorphOS 2.4 from an USB key on Mac mini G4
- Special quiz about the year 1994, 1995 and 1996
Articles in english :
- File: The year 2000 problem and the Amiga
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01.Jan.2010
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AmigaOS 4: New screenshots of Firefox-port Timberwolf
Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden are working on a Firefox-port for AmigaOS 4.1 which will be called Timberwolf. Meanwhile the bookmarks-system is working as well as the "Popup-Windows" which are used for displaying the menus (screenshot) and Help-Bubbles (screenshot).
Hans-Jörg Frieden explained that they have been involved in different projects during the last time. But it is planned to release an alpha-version soon ("soonish").
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2009
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Text adventure: An Amiga Christmas Story
"An Amiga Christmas Story" is a text adeventure writtten in AMOS which was originally meant for the Xmas-competition but was finished too late. The author described the the game as the "first chapter of a longer story which will be published anytime".
The game should run on Amigas with at least 512 KB RAM. The ZIP-archive includes an ADF-file as well as a LhA-archive for the installation on the harddrive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2009
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MorphOS: Scanner-application SCANdal 1.3-stable
Michal Zukowski has published an update sof his Scanner-application SCANdal. Changes in version 1.3-stable:
- Autocrop (works best with LineArt mode)
- Autoconnect tooltype, Connect button
- TIFF and PDF saver
- Fixed JPEG saver
- Sketch plugins support (NOTE: do not use plugins from MorphOS 2.4, latest plugins are included in SCANdal archive, plugins don't work with 1.4.5)
- Fixed Mode list (for gt68xx driver)
- Fixed DPI Radio (for gt68xx driver)
- Settings window
- Autoincrement filenames
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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BOH: Underground-Theme
For his commercial arcade game BOH, Simone Bevilacqua has published another theme called "Underground". Additionally graphic artists can get the game for free if they create themes for the game.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Further downloads online
Further files have been added to the following categories of the Amiga Future download area: C64 Digital Talk, WinUAE, videos, game and application demoversions, respectively, Spielekiste Extra and APC&TCP FD. New files are marked by a sun. (snx)
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29.Dec.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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ViewHTTPPic updated
ViewHTTPPic downloads files from the Internet and provides them to other programs. The author uses it to be capable of viewing single pictures on a 8-Bit-screen with e.g. Multiview while using IBrowse on an AGA-screen with e.g. 3 Bit. The latest update includes several bug fixes.
Download: ViewHTTPPic.lha (36 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.22
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4 which fixes several bugs and is now based on SVN-version 1202. The expat.library as well as at least AmigaOS 4.0 are required. For some functions version 4.1 is required.
Download: owb.lha (13 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2009
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Competition "Amiga Christmas Tree": Four other games
Dwarves in the Iceland
It is a Lemming-clone which is still an early release (screenshot).
Download: DITI.lha (155 KB)
Xmas Glass Ball Factory
It is a simple mind game. There are versions for ECS, AGA and graphic boards.
Download: XMAS_GBF.lha (70 KB)
Sam and Max
This a point'n click-adventure created with Gaphic Adventure Creator ("GRAC") with the two comic heros Sam & Max
(screenshots: 1, 2, 3). The author calls it as a first attempt to work with GRAC. Hint: The game requires an assign GRAC2: which has to refer to the directory which includes the Sam&Max-folder.
Download: GRAC2.zip (608 KB)
Christmas Boulderdash
This is Guido Mersmann's famous BoulderDäsh RTX which the author facetiously had offered for several times as game for the competition - obviously in vain.
Download: boulderfull.lha (4,5 MB)
The vote will be soon started. Currently a HTML-solution which is compatible to IBrowse is tried to be found. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2009
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: 8-Bit-Emulator Atari++ 1.58
The emulator Atari++ emulates Atari's 8-Bit-home computer as well as the game console Atari 5200. The AmigaOS-4-port was made by Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkov, supports AmigaInput and can be controled with joysticks or analog controllers.
New features of version 1.58 include:
- Fixed a couple of issues in the GUI, specifically when entering data into string gadgets
- Fixed again a couple of exception handling issues in the menu
- Made the keypad stick configurable, the keys for joystick emulation are now part of the configuration
- Added a dummy front-end, "NONE", that does not render anything to the screen
- This release supports .CAS images; however, they are not part of a C: (tape) emulation, but emulated as disks. Depending on the contents of the tape archive, the disk is either considered a boot disk, a binary or a basic file
- This release supports better disk support for BASIC and MAC/65 files. If you insert such a file into the emulated disk drive, the emulator will build a DOS 2.0S compatible disk structure around it and you can load the image from the emulated disk as D:PROGRAM.BAS or D:PROGRAM.ASM. Note that such disks are *not* bootable, you first need to boot, and then turn on the emulated disk drive
- Fixed emulation of read-modify-write instructions. The 6502 consistently writes the old value before replacing it by a second write with the updated value
- The default alsa output device has been changed from hw:0.0 to default, making it more compatible to hardware setups
- The disassembly of the BVC instruction was invalid, fixed
- Added the space bar as possible source for joystick events
- Fixed some issues with preferences reading
- Added additional tests for ROM image verification
- Fixed a NULL pointer reference in the cartridge module
Download: Atari++_1.58.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Meeting: Amiga-Club Denmark
On Saturday 30th January 2010 the Amiga Club Denmark will meet in Værløse at Copenhagen. You can bring along your own Amigas or different Commodore computers. Guests from abroad are also very welcome.
AmigaOS 4.1 will be presented and can be tested from everybody. Amigabounty.net will present the latest developing version of the Firefox-port Timberwolf. Additionally the Minimig will be performed and there will be a section for playing classic Amiga games.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2009
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Sequencer: HD-Rec is Open-Source
Version 1.0 of the MIDI and audio sequencer HD-Rec (screenshots) will be published soon. Author Thilo Köhler will not commercially distribute this program but publish it as open-source software on sourceforge.net.
Interested programmers may contact the author in order to be entered as developer. HD-Rec is written in AmiBlitz and requires the still unpublished version 3.5.1 of this BASIC-distribution.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2009, 23:51] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2009
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Lawsuit between Amiga and Hyperion settled
Under the title link the official judgment is available which confirms the joint stipulated motion for judgment entry as granted.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2009
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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WinUAE-interface AmiGame 2.0
AmiGame is an interface for the Amiga-emulator WinUAE which among others inlcudes a database and currently 1724 preconfigured games (video). Version 2.0 is available in French, English, Italian and Polish. A German translation is still missing and wanted.
Features:
- 1724 pre-configured games - click'n play, that's all
- Boxscans, discscans, covers, musics, logos included
- Automatic ADF & Whdload scanner
- Audio player with playlists usage
- Youtube video player to watch longplays, speedruns, et cetera...
- Multilingual
- Database engine (search games with many fields: artists, coders, musicians, type, year, et cetera...)
- Store and save your favourite games and prefs
- Nice interface with many skins
- Rate your games and see results in a chart
- Partnerships links for reviews and test
- Direct download with legal links only
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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WinUAE: New version of online-help
The online-help of the well-known Amiga-emulator WinUAE was reworked:
- All GUI screenshots updated
- New Expansions tab added
- CPU - New 68040 MMU option
- IO Ports - New Protection Dongle option
- Sounds - New Drivers options
- Various options moved around
- AmigaDOS - Parameter information added to all commands
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Dec.2009
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MorphOS: Port of Virtual Grand Prix 3 "possible"
The Aminet-team asked author Paolo Cattani if it is allowed to publish the MorphOS-version of his Formel 1 simulation "Virtual Grand Prix 2" on Aminet. The author answered that it is still possible to donate for VGP2 as well as it is possible to port the successor Virtual Grand Prix 3 although there are some "technical problems" and he is not going to "promise the earth".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: AmiMSN 1.2-WIP ("Xmas-edition")
- Minor memory leak fix
- Launch from icons. PNG/NewIcon/Old-style icons included
- Removal of MD5SUM. Using function in rxlibnet
- Only says "is now known as" if they were already online
- "User is typing.." message sent to recipients. This is only
now possible due to the new switchboard code in 1.1
- Changed text font (that will be shown on recipients side)
from MS Sans Serif to Segoe UI
- Recognises when WLM aborts a file being sent to you
- Thumbnail data sent from Windows Live Messenger when an image
file is offered, is saved to RAM:Preview.png
- Obtain ticket quicker on OS4
- If someone offers you a file without saying anything first,
a window will now open. Increases compatibility with some
clients that use a new switchboard session for file transfers
- Small change to try to stop clients from requesting your
avatar too often
- A few minor optimizations
- Fixed long standing bug when removing a group in IRCd mode.
Anyone who was online in the group/channel that was removed,
the WHOIS reponse would still show them being in that now
non-existant channel
- Crude Direct connection support for receiving when listening.
Should work in the majority of cases when receiving from WLM
Users of AmigaOS 4 should add the libraries rxsocket.library and rxlibnet.library to the Blacklist of the JIT-emulator to avoid problems with AmiMSN.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2009, 15:48] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2009
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FFmpeg: SVN-Version 20918
Piotr Bandurski has compiled the latest version of FFmpeg for AmigaOS. Please note that the playback program FFplay, which is included, requires version 61 of the ixemul.libary.
Download: ffmpeg-svnr20918-m68k.lha (17 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2009, 13:38] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: RunInUAE
Christopher Handley's RunInUAE makes running the Amiga-emulator E-UAE under AmigaOS 4 more comfortable. E-UAE has to be seperately installed.
Download: RunInUAE_r1.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2009, 13:18] [Comments: 0]
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