13.Nov.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 12.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 12th, 2016:
ntimed.lha comm/net 266K 68k Network time synchronization ...
streamer.lha comm/www 355K 68k Internet radio MPEG/RealAudio...
AmigaProgramming-1.0.lha docs/help 286K Guide to Amiga Compatible Pro...
RiVA-src.lha gfx/show 89K 68k RiVA MPEG player source code
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.4M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
Travel_Around_Earth.lha mods/xm 731K New mod by Pseudaxos
cranker.lha util/pack 730K 68k Amiga exe cruncher/loader,dat...
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13.Nov.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until November 12th, 2016:
pypdf2.lha dev/lib 86kb 4.1 Manipulate PDFs from python code
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
sortbench.lha uti/she 8kb 4.0 a CPU benchmark that stresses CP...
pdf_maker.lha uti/tex 26kb 4.1 Convert postscript to PDF with s...
amiupdate_fin.lha uti/wor 32kb 4.1 Finnish catalogs for AmiUpdate
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12.Nov.2016
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Video: Production of new Amiga-1200 cases has started
Yesterday the mass production of the new Amiga-1200 cases has started by producing the trapdoors, like the video proves which is available under the title link. Next week more videos and photos will be added.
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10.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Podcast: AMIcast, Special Episode 4
In the fourth special episode of the English-language podcast AMIcast the Pole Adam Zalepa was invited, who is distributing books and games for the Amiga under amiga.net.pl. The host Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked with him about his projects but also about the AmiWest 2016 and the news which was announced at the event.
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10.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Hollywood: Date&Time Lib 1.3 offers date functions
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci has released a new library for developers of Hollywood: The Date&Time Lib provides diverse functions regarding the date. It is distributed as Shareware, the Shareware Fee is three Euro.
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10.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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World of Commodore 2016: 3./4. December, Toronto (Canada)
On December 3rd and 4th in Toronto (Canada) the "World of Commodore" will take place. Additional to a peddlers market and stalls of official dealers there will also be presentations of diverse hardware and software projects of different Commodore computers.
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10.Nov.2016
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Documentation: "Viva Amiga" - International Release on January 6th
The website of the crowdfunded Amiga documentation Viva Amiga has announced the official release date: From January 6th 2017, Zach Weddington's six years lasting project will be available. Pre-Orders will begin in December.
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10.Nov.2016
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.8.1
After several beta versions, now Frode Solheim has released a "stable" one of the Amiga emulator FS-UAE. There are ports for Windows, Mac OS and different Linux and BSD versions. Changes since the last release:
- Alt+F4 and Cmd+Q will no longer quit FS-UAE (in full keyboard emulation mode)
- Use raw input on Windows again (allows grabbing of Windows keys, etc)
- New option raw_input = 0 will disable use of raw input for keyboard
- Fixed loading shaders from fs-uae.dat
- Updated Xbox 360 configs for Linux
Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.8.1:
- Fixed problem where rating could be reset for first loaded game/variant
- New experimental option: relative_temp_feature
Changes in FS-UAE Arcade 2.8.1:
- Added stretch / keep aspect toggle button to top right menu
- Added V-Sync toggle button to top right menu
- Ability to see and change variant before starting the game
- Make menu rendering conformant to FS-UAE style
- More transition animations
- New cover rendering for non-portrait covers
- Use --platform= to start with a given platform filter, e.g. --platform=cd32
- Variant sort order fixed to be same as in FS-UAE Launcher
- Fixed arrow keys for FS-UAE Arcade on MacOS
- Reversed position of platform and publisher names
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10.Nov.2016
Max Mustermann (ANF)
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New Amiga video of Eric Schwartz
For a while, Eric Schwartz, well-known by his Cartoon characters like "Amy" or "Rachel Racoon", creates music videos for existing songs, in which animated Amiga computers play the leading role. At the beginning of 2008 Still Alive was released, for the 25th anniversary Only Amiga was presented and a few days ago, Schwartz has released The (Amiga) Song.
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06.Nov.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 05.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 5th, 2016:
librhash.lha dev/lib 326K 68k C library for computing hash ...
HeartOfTheAlienRedux.lha game/actio 269K 68k Amiga version of action-adven...
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.8M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
scummvm-1.8.1-rtg.lha game/misc 29M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 1.8.1
mebt.lha misc/misc 31K 68k Psychological test (Turkish)
AmigaAMP3-68k_3.17.lha mus/play 329K 68k MPEG audio player with GUI (A...
armodplugplayer02.aro... mus/play 1.8M x86 Plays 22 different mod formats
rhash.lha util/crypt 155K 68k Recursive Hasher
tzdata.lha util/time 367K Time Zone Database
tzdata2015g.tar.gz util/time 293K Time Zone Database
tzdata2015g-all.lha util/time 1.6M Time Zone Database
tzdata2015g-zones.lha util/time 371K Time Zone Database
tzdata2016g.tar.gz util/time 309K Time Zone Database
tzdata2016g-all.lha util/time 1.6M Time Zone Database
tzdata2016g-zones.lha util/time 375K Time Zone Database
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06.Nov.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 05.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until November 5th, 2016:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
reactive_crypto.lha dri/mis 96kb 4.1 Hashing classes for Reactive
sf.lha gam/shm 47Mb 4.0 Space Game
winpointers.lha gra/mis 48kb 4.1 Set of 32-bit PNG pointers based...
glblocktube_bl.lha gra/scr 538kb 4.1 OpenGL Screen Blanker
glboing_bl.lha gra/scr 58kb 4.1 OpenGL Screen Blanker
glboxed_bl.lha gra/scr 201kb 4.1 OpenGL Screen Blanker
knobgad.lha lib/rea 57kb 4.0 Round knob gadget
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_deu.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_fin.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.1 Finnish catalogs for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_fra.lha uti/wor 7kb 4.0 AmiUpdate French Catalog
amiupdate_ita.lha uti/wor 47kb 4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
srec_fra.lha vid/rec 828b 4.1 SRec french catalog
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06.Nov.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 05.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the AROS-Archives until November 5th, 2016:
armodplugplayer02.i386-ar... aud 2Mb Plays 22 different mod formats ,...
mame.i386-aros.zip emu/gam 24Mb mame 0.113 complete
tomatoes.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 9Mb 10 mazes. 10 minutes. Bomb all t...
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04.Nov.2016
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 123
The English and German issue 123 (November/December 2016) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today, and can also be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future as well as other Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. The current issue includes a report from Evoke 2016, an Amiga Waves interview and a test of the game "Reshoot". (snx)
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02.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Developer tools: vlink 0.15c and vasm 1.7g (update)
Frank Wille has updated the portable linker vlink which can handle a lot of binary formats and is part of the compiler package vbcc.
Update: (19:43, 04.11.16, snx)
Also an update has been released for the modular assembler vasm. As usual, only the source code has been released and has to be compiled by oneself. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Nov.2016
Foxman (ANF)
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Audio-Player: AmigaAMP 3.17 with support of Prisma Megamix
According to Thomas "TomSoniq" Wenzel in the German comment section of amiga-news.de, he has ported version 3 of AmigaAMP which so far was only available for AmigaOS 4 to AmigaOS 3. AmigaAMP 3.17 plays MP3-files as well as the formats M4A, OGG and FLAC. In order to be able to play that formats, the hardware decoder "Prisma Megamix" is supported which was recently released. MHI-drivers are used to control it.
According Wenzel the codec on the decoder card is considered to be a little bit unstable. Therefore the player and decoder may happen to stop running synchronously, if the user does fast-forward and rewind within a track.
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01.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Hyperion: ISO-Images of "Heretic II" for registered customers
According to the Amiga Future, for registered customers for two weeks Hyperion offers ISO-images of its action-adventure Heretic II which was released in 2000.
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01.Nov.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- September/October 2016 news
- Old artticles from Tilt 78 to 82
- Interview with Stuart Bonn
- Comparative: Tennis simulations of 1989-1990
- Review of Gold Of The Aztecs
- Interview with Alexey Pajitnov
- Review of Damocles
- Review of Flimbo's Quest
- Report: Amiga on a TF1 studio
- File: The software protections
- Review of Dynasty Wars
- File: The profession of graphist
- Review of F29 Retaliator
- Report: ECTS European Awards 1990, etc
- Report: Adelaide Retro Computing (september 2016)
- Interview with Steve Hammond (graphist of Hired Guns and Lemmings 2)
- Interview with Crashdisk (member of TOSEC)
- Review: Dir Me Up 3.02
- Review: Enhancer Software 1.1
- Review: MultiRacer 1.0.4
- File: Classic Reflections - What happen to Electronic Arts?
- Tutorial: utilization et configuration of SCANdal
- DIY: overclock PowerPC 603e and 68060 of a BlizzardPPC
- Programming: AMOS - manage keyboard commands for a game
- Special quizz about the Amiga 4000
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01.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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ModExplorer 0.9b for all Amiga systems
Similar to AmiModRadio, the Hollywood-programm ModExplorer plays music modules from the Internet but also supports the Aminet, Modland and modules.pl.
- Some bugs have been fixed
- The GUI was slightly changed. Now it should fit (with the corresponding MUI options) on a screen with simple PAL solution. The author himself even could handle a solution of 390*241.
- The ARexx-port was expanded and a little Doc explains the commands
- A button "last" was added. If you should forget pressing the button in time while streaming (the playlist is not updated with new songs utomatically), you can get to the "last" mod which was downloaded.
- Skin-GUI was completely removed
- In order to reduce the download time, the archive does not contain any executables any more.
Downloads:
Main archive: modexplorer.lha (1 MB)
OS3-Executable: me_os3.exe (2,3 MB)
OS4-Executable: me_os4.exe (3,1 MB)
MOS-Executable: me_mos.exe (2,4 MB)
AROS-Executable: me_aros.exe (2,8 MB)
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31.Oct.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hardware-Audio-Player: Prisma Megamix Music Card available
The "Prisma Megamix Music Card", which was originally advertised using the slightly misleading term 'sound card', is now available at Amigakit. Thanks to a built-in hardware decoder, the card plays various music formats (e.g. MP2, MP3, WMA, OGG) without putting stress on the Amiga's CPU.. It has both a Zorro and a Clockport interface. A properly isolated version that can be used in the original Amiga 1200 desktop case is said to be "coming soon".
Features:
- Clockport and Zorro II interfaces (if operated in Zorro II slot, clockport can be used for compatible add-on cards)
- Compatible with Amiga A1200 T, A2000, A3000, A4000, A4000T
- Based on VS1063 chip
- Playback of wide range of formats: MP2, MP3, WMA, OGG, LC-AAC, HE-AAC, FLAC, ALAC, IMA ADPCM, G.711 u-law, G.711 a-law, G.722, and WAV PCM formats
- Pass through port for Paula mixing. Paula mixing is automatically activated by hardware, no software interaction needed
- CDDA header
- MHI support for use with MHI compatible software such as AmigaAmp
- can be expanded by optional digital module S/PDIF
You can get further information in wiki.amiga.org/prisma.
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31.Oct.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 3.4.0
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE present a short preview to the changes of the next version. The main focus of version 3.4.0 is the emulation of further hardware extensions as well as the improvement of already emulated extensions. WinUAE 3.4.0 is supposed to be released in December.
New emulated expansion hardware:
- Graphics adapters:
- ColorBurst
- Harlequin
- OpalVision
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Accelerator boards:
- Blizzard 1230 MK II and III.
- IVS Vector 68030
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HD controllers:
- Blizzard 1230 MK II and III SCSI Kit.
- Buddha.
- Expansion Systems Dataflyer Plus.
- FileCard 2000/OSSI 500
- SCRAM 500/2000
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Network adapters:
- AmigaNet.
- Ariadne.
- Ariadne II.
- LAN Rover/EB920.
- NE2000 compatible PCMCIA.
- NE2000 compatible ISA (x86 bridgeboard compatible).
- X-Surf and X-Surf 100 (Partial)
New features:
- RAM/RTG RAM handling updated, all size combinations are now supported.
- Autoconfig board GUI list with custom sorting support.
- RAM Z2/Z3 board full autoconfig data customization support.
- Up to 4 Z2 and Z3 RAM boards can be enabled simultaneously.
- Multiple display and sound boards can be now enabled simultaneously.
- Genlock realtime custom image, video file or capture stream overlay.
- Genlock mode screenshot/video alpha channel support.
- Accelerator board 68000 fallback mode supported.
- Game Ports panel custom mapping autofire support.
- Network access on screen led.
- Single step (emulate one frame + pause) input event
Updates:
- Reduced input latency.
- Reduced WASAPI sound mode latency.
- WinPCap network mode now uses generated local MAC address, no more
MAC conflicts between Windows and emulated Amiga.
- If some RAM board is not JIT Direct capable, only board's access mode
changes to JIT Indirect. Global JIT Direct option is not switched off.
- Most RAM size/position related JIT Direct restrictions are gone.
- Environment variables in file paths (%VAR%) are now always expanded.
- Implemented AGA only bitplane DMA overrun emulation (Moon Child).
- Host path 260 character limit removed (Windows 10 v1607+ only)
Bug fixes:
- Shortcuts with Shift key work again.
- Custom Game Port remapping does not disappear mysteriously.
- Mounting file with size less than 512 bytes as a harddrive work again.
- CDTV statefiles fixed.
- On the fly directory/archive mounting only worked once under OS4.x.
- Worms DC and ACSYS (possibly others) graphics glitch fixed.
- Bad sprite collision optimization fixed (Jumpman Junior).
- Stop PPC emulation first, before freeing any emulation resources
to prevent random crashes at exit.
- FPS.Adj config file handling fixed.
- ATAPI CD emulation odd data size fix (HDToolbox hang)
- default.uae with unplugged device: set to none, not layout A
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31.Oct.2016
Foxman (ANF)
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Dune II: "Spice Obsession"-Mod 0.6
"Spice Obsession" is a mod of the realtime strategy classic Dune II. In version 0.6 a new level was added to the campaign. Five of nine planned levels have been finished with it.
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