15.Mar.2017
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Podcast: Amiga Ireland
The organizer of the "Amiga Ireland Meetup" has established an English-language podcast. The first issue is about community meetings like the Amiga Ireland Meetup from January. Besides, the podcast offers a mixture of news, gaming and similar topics.
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15.Mar.2017
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Individual Computers: ACA500plus delivered, cash payment at iComp
Press release: The ACA500plus has kept us busy since it's introduction in december 2016: After less than four months, the all-rounder for the A500 is already one of the most successful products in company history. While our shop system is still not showing any stock, the average wait time for a card has gone down to just three days. Only a fraction of the customers had a waiting time of more than a week. We'd like to say thank-you to all our customers for a great start into the year 2017!
Starting in April 2017, our customers from Germany and areas close to the German border will be able to pay in cash for their orders from our shop through our partner Barzahlen.de. If you go shopping next time at Rewe, Penny, dm and many other retail stores, you can also pay for your order from our shop and use either cash or the cards that are accepted in those stores. This way, safety-conscious customers have the best protection of their bank data. Barzahlen.de offers buyer protection, and also a refund in cash in case you make use of your right of revocation. We will get an instant notification of your payment, so your parcel may already be on it's way before you get back home.
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15.Mar.2017
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Operating system: NetBSD 7.1
NetBSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system, now also available in version 7.1 for Amiga computers. The changes are listed in the changelog which also informs about the following specific Amiga changes:
- Maximize virtual memory space for amiga; tested on a 400MB model. [phx, ticket #986]
- Reduce amiga MAXDSIZ from 416MB back to 224MB, to fix ticket #986.
[phx, ticket #989]
- Make dev/sbic.c compile with -DDEBUG again. [mlelstv, ticket #1345]
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14.Mar.2017
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.9.4
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a preconfigured collection of programms, games and emulators (PDF description) and now is available in version 3.9.4 for MorphOS 3.9. An unchanged basic installation of the operating system is required.
Changes:
- Added CookieMaster (1.5.4)
- Added MorphOS Storage into OWB search engine and quick link
- Added Exutil (1.0)
- Added PastePass (1.4)
- Added TrashcanFS (51.3r2)
- Added Slarti (1.1)
- Updated SnapIt (1.4)
- Updated Calimero (3.9)
- Updated Mirrorcheck (1.0)
- Updated codesets.library (6.20)
- Updated Grunch databases
- Updated MUI Royale (1.4)
- Updated MUIBase (3.3)
- Updated ACE (1.14)
- Updated VAMP (1.60)
- Updated AnimWebConverter (2.60)
- Updated yWeather (1.19)
- Updated VintageViewer (2.25)
- Updated VICE (3.0)
- Updated AnimWebConverter (2.65)
- Modification of installation script (merci BeWorld!)
- Correction of some strings in frech in CRABUM menu instead of english
Download site.
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14.Mar.2017
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AROS: Vector graphics program ZuneFIG 1.3.343
ZuneFIG is an AROS port of the vector graphics editor Xfig, using the Amiga User Interface from the older AmiFIG project. Several demo videos on Youtube (1, 2, 3) show how ZuneFIG can be used for illustrations.
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13.Mar.2017
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Shoot'em Up: RESHOOT R in development
Richard Löwenstein is working on a sequel of his commercial bullet hell shooter RESHOOT which was released last summer. Some screenshots of a prototype have been published on the Patreon website of the project. The final release is meant to be available in October 2017.
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13.Mar.2017
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Successful Kickstarter campaign for book of David Pleasance, Interview
A few days ago David Pleasance, CEO of Commodore UK from 1983 to 1995, had announced a book about his time at Commodore, which will be crowdfunded. Meanwhile the Kickstarter project was started. So far 25.289 £ of the aim of 25.000 £ were donated and thus successfully financed. The E-Book "Commodore: The Inside Story" will cost about 17 Euro and the printed book about 34 Euro.
Corresponding issue 29 of Krzysztof Radzikowski's podcast "Amicast" has interviewed Pleasance, recordrd at the Amiga Ireland MeetUp.
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12.Mar.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.03.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until March 11th, 2017:
ignition-1.0beta1.lha biz/spread 542K 68k 2006 beta release of a good s...
less-mos.lha dev/gg 526K MOS A paginator similar to more o...
curl-7.53.1.lha dev/lib 8.1M MOS Down/Upload HTTP,FTP,SMB,SMTP...
libTinyGL.lha dev/lib 371K 68k TinyGL
libzip_1.2.0.lha dev/lib 4.7M MOS Zip oriented link lib
AmiBird.lha game/jump 132K 68k A clone of FlappyBird
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.5M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
Amoric_src.lha misc/emu 149K ppc Amoric source code
AXshUsershell_with_sr... util/shell 81K 68k AXsh Usershell with source code
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12.Mar.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.03.2017
The following archive has been added to the OS4Depot until March 11th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
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12.Mar.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 11.03.2017
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until March 11th, 2017:
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11.Mar.2017
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Update for retro arcade game "Huenison"
Huenison is an arcade game with retro look for AmigaOS 4 and Windows, which according to the developer combines elements of Arkanoid, Decathlon, Dynablaster, Impossible Mission, Oil's Well, Pac-Man, Pang, Qix, Slam Tilt, Space Invaders, Tetris and Vital Light.
The game is available for about 5 US-Dollar. Now an update has been released which provides an improved joypad handling, reworked controls reconfiguration and
minor internal improvements.
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08.Mar.2017
Ulrich Beckers (Kommentar)
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Renaming picture files: Exutil 1.0
The MUI-based Hollywood program Exutil written by Ulrich Beckers renames picture files using their date of creation which is saved in the Exif-information or the date of creation of the file.
Version 1.0 is available for all Amiga systems, in English and now in German as well, provides bug fixes and the option to select pictures to rename from the thumbnail view.
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08.Mar.2017
MiggySpeed (Kommentar)
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Open source accelerator board TerribleFire 530
The announced open source accelerator board TerribleFire 530 for the Amiga 500 (amiga-news.de reported) has been completed (video). Now the developer is working on a version for 68040 and, if possible, for 68060 processors.
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08.Mar.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 96
"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 as C64-Diskmag.
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08.Mar.2017
Spidi (ANF)
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Turbo board: Wicher 500i to be produced soon
The turbo board for the Amiga 500 and 500+ that has been announced by Retro 7-bit is expected to be produced soon. Since it has been adapted to be mounted internally, the turbo board is called Wicher 500i.
Features:
- Processor: MC68000/68010
- Maximum clock speed: 50 MHz
- RAM: 1-8 MB SIMM-72-Modul (FPM, EDO)
- IDE controller
- SPI controller
Performance utilizing an MC68000 with 50 MHz (measured by SysInfo 4.0 and AIBB 6.5, video):
- Mips: 4.40
- Dhrystones: 4222
- IDE transfer: ~3.1 MB/s
- RAM transfer: ~6.94 MB/s
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08.Mar.2017
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Cloud storage with Amiga access: AmiCloud 1.2
Using the AmiCloud client available for all Amiga systems as well as for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, you can access cloud storage provided by Pascal Papara without traffic limitation (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 1.2 meets the more strict Apache requirements to HTTP requests. Basic and pro-accounts are offered, each now with 5,5 and unchanged 25 GB storage (tutorial, video).
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06.Mar.2017
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David Pleasance (Commodore UK) announced book
Until 1995 David Pleasance was CEO of Commodore UK for 12 years and tried to buy Commodore but finally Escom made it. In a speech at the British "Geekfest 2" in Cheltenham, the former manager announced his new project: He is going to write about his time at Commodore, which will be financed by Kickstarter.
Pleasance indicated, that he will speak plainly, telling what went wrong and who was responsible. Already in his speech at the Amiga 30 in Amsterdam, he criticised the way, Escom continued the Amiga line.
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05.Mar.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Video shows SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) test with fractal generator
Under the title link, a video published by Michal Schulz shows a fractal generator which demonstrates the usage of one and of four processor cores under AROS/x64.
The result is "not fully optimal yet". Michael Schulz further explained: "Drawing fractal requires quite frequent access to common bitmap shared among all tasks on all cores, so a spinlock is used for protection, thus, speed penalty. One could surely do that better :) There are also tons of memory allocations in the threads."
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05.Mar.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.03.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until March 4th, 2017:
a68kenh6_src.lha dev/asm 84K A68kEnh source code
GadEdit.lha dev/gui 25K 68k Gadgets Editor (GadEdit)
libpng1628_a68k.lha dev/lib 1.6M 68k Lib for reading/writing PNG
DC-VLmui_src.lha dev/mui 33K DC-VLmui source code
KOG.lha game/actio 1K OS4 Innovative objects-catching game
Lumberjack.adf game/actio 880K 68k Lumberjack Game
SpaceStation3000_Demo... game/demo 4.9M 68k 1999 demo of a space station ...
potrace-mos.lha gfx/conv 867K MOS Transform bitmaps into vector...
webptools060_a68k.lha gfx/conv 3.9M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools060_aros.lha gfx/conv 6.7M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
App8ImUSource.lha misc/emu 27K App8ImU source code
Apple2DiskServ_src.lha misc/emu 16K 68k Apple ][ DiskServer OS2.0+ so...
c1581_src.lha misc/emu 150K c1581 source code
WaveTracer_Sources.zip mus/edit 21M Sources for Michael Pfeiffer'...
Vim_8.0-mos.lha text/edit 8.9M MOS Vim - The ubiquitous text edi...
Vim_8.0-src.lha text/edit 14M The ubiquitous text editor (s...
InstantZip_3.1.lha util/arc 267K MOS (un)pack, encrypt + decrypt Z...
Stroke_src.lha util/cdity 63K Stroke source code
file-mos.lha util/cli 1.2M MOS Determine file type
Foreach_igracki.lha util/cli 8K MOS Execute cmd for every argumen...
SensorsList.lha util/cli 5K MOS List of all sensors in your c...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 671K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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05.Mar.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.03.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until March 4th, 2017:
picflowgad.lha dev/lib 73kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
odysseylauncher2.lha net/bro 112kb 4.0 Avoid starting Odyssey twice wit...
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05.Mar.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.03.2017
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until March 4th, 2017:
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