13.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amicast: Text interview with Frank Wille
The blog of the English podcast Amicasthas published a text interview with Frank Wille. The developer is well-known for the game Solid Gold and the Amiga ports of Retroguru games like the Sqrxz series (1, 2, 3), Giana's Return, Xump or Fruit'Y, but he is also well-known for the assembler PhxAss and his assistance in developing the compiler vbcc as well as the assembler and its linker vasm and vlink, for his assistance in developing the Amiga and Pegasos version of the operating system NetBSD as well as for the ppclibemu. He also was involved in the beta tests of the Pegasos-II adaption of AmigaOS 4.1. By adapting vasm and vlink, he also supports the Sonnet-Amiga-project.
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13.Mar.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Board game: Kings of Israel 0.67
With permission of the right holder Funhill Games, the Finnish programmer 'Bugala' has released an update of his Amiga version of the board game Kings of Israel which is still in development (video of an earlier version from April of the last year).
The free game which still has not been finished is available for all Amiga systems in Pascal Papara's indieGO!-Appstore. Under AmigaOS 3.x the Hollywood game requires about 100 MB RAM and a graphic board. Under AmigaOS 4 the game hast to be launched in window mode.
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13.Mar.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 12.03.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 12th, 2016:
dsm.lha comm/net 7.4M WOS Synology Download Manager MUI
dsm.i386-aros.zip comm/tcp 1.2M x86 Synology Download Station Man...
AFnews-68k.lha comm/www 886K 68k Amiga Future Everywhere 68k
GLExcess.lha demo/misc 676K MOS The OpenGL Demo
AGUI.lha dev/amos 1.0M A GUI for AmosPro
NixNext.lha game/wb 32K 68k Remove neighbouring tiles of ...
LoViewAROS.lha gfx/show 4.6M x86 LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewMOS.lha gfx/show 4.3M MOS LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewOS3.lha gfx/show 3.9M 68k LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewOS4.lha gfx/show 5.2M OS4 LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewWOS.lha gfx/show 5.0M WOS LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
ezhome.lha misc/misc 430K 68k X-10 Home Control.ECS or AGA ...
fmovecr_dump.lha misc/misc 13K 68k Reads the FPU ROM. Send me th...
opus-tools-0.19_aros.lha mus/edit 435K x86 Opus Audio Tools
ezcron4.lha util/time 995K 68k Start progs/reminders/scripts...
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13.Mar.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.03.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 12th, 2016:
muteoutput.lha uti/she 5kb 4.0 when you can't use >NIL:
evenmore.lha uti/tex 407kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
wheelrun.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.1 another program launcher written...
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13.Mar.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 12.03.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archiven until March 12th, 2016:
glcolumns.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb OpenGL game to match 3 or more f...
dsm.i386-aros.zip net/ser 1Mb Synology Download Station Manage...
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13.Mar.2016
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WHDLoad: New archives until 12.03.2016
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 12th, 2016:
- 2016-03-12 improved: Demon's Rage (Nerve Axis) illegal Bltcon0/1 values in line drawing routines fixed (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-08 improved: Boundless Void (Nemol) Bplcon0 color bit fixes, blitter wait added, illegal Bplcon2 value fixed, byte write to volume register fixed, read from VPOSW fixed, new install script (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-07 updated: Groovy (Lemon) patch redone, byte writes to Bltcon1 fixed, illegal BltCon0 values fixed, 68000 quitkey support, blitter waits added, works with 512k chip now, new install script (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-06 new: Public Attack (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-06 new: Greatest Hits (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-06 updated: Test Drive 2 - The Duel (Accolade) converted for newer WHDLoad (Info)
- 2016-03-06 improved: Prince of Persia (Jordan Mechner/Br?derbund) trainer improved (Info)
- 2016-03-06 new: Vectordance (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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12.Mar.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Beta version of Cinnamon Writer 0.95
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a "compact and efficient word processor developed especially with Amiga and Amiga-like systems in mind" which can import RTF and DocX files and offers a spellchecker.
Almost three years after the last release, at least for AmigaOS 4 a new beta version is available which among others supports inserting pictures. The version for MorphOS still has some bugs. Therefore it has not been released yet. A version of the Cinnamon Writer for AROS will be released if the author once is "happy with AOS4 and MorphOS versions."
Furthermore the author asks for your feedback: "If you believe that CW is not displaying your Docx document correctly, I would very much like to have the document sent to bugs@desler.be so I can correct the mistake. However, please be aware that I cannot fix problems with things like textboxes and tables since they are not supported by CW yet. Also remember, that if you havn't got the truetype font used in your word document installed on your amiga, the text will look different, and this is not a bug."
New functionality:
- Support for images
- UTF format support
- Improved spellchecking
- Optimizations and stability improvement
- Much, much, more
Known problems:
- CW chokes with large documents
- Printing/PDF exporting is still very experimental. I am looking for users who uses ghostscript and printer with their Amiga routinely
- Cursor problems
- Screen garbage when starting up. This issue has been reported to me, but I cannot reproduce it. If you see this bug please report which machine you are using and which version of AOS you are running
- Trying to open a CW Docx format in Word leads to a warning. Just trust the document, and it should load just fine
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11.Mar.2016
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Amiga Future: Issue 93 (German/English) can be read online
After issue 93 of the magazine Amiga Future is sold out, the articles of the German and English version of the magazine can be read online.
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[News message: 11. Mar. 2016, 22:34] [Comments: 0]
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11.Mar.2016
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Preview video: Amikit X ("A.L.I.C.E") launches Linux applications
A preview video shows the forthcoming version X of the emulator distribution Amikit, which is suppposed to be used in A-EONs announced Laptop A.L.I.C.E. ("A Laptop Incorporating A Classic Experience"). One of the important new features of Amikit will be launching Linux applications out of the emulated AmigaOS 3 - the video demonstrates this using the example of Firefox and the video player VLC.
In the video in each case one Linux application is launched, used and quitted without changing to AmigaOS or to another Linux application in the meantime. This demonstrates one of the substantial problems such a emulation have: For example the windows of Firefox or VLC would vanish behind the Amiga emulation running in full screen mode if you click on the Workbench and you can only change back to the Linux program by using the keyboard shortcut ALT-TAB.
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11.Mar.2016
Pegsasosforum (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Optical character recognition gOCR 0.50
Thore Sittly has ported version 0.50 of the optical character recognition program gOCR to MorphOS. Pnm, pbm, pgm and ppm as well as partly pcx and tga pictures files can be recognized. It is also possible to read barcode graphics.
Download: gocr-0.50.lha (666 KB)
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11.Mar.2016
AROS-EXEC.org (ANF)
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AROS: Text editor EdiSyn 0.54
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntax highlighting for C/C++, Pascal, HTML and Hollywood. Version 0.54 fixes bugs. Additionally the content of the window is redrawed faster:
- FIX: Restored default highlighter colors
- FIX: Hint marker for freepascal output
- FIX: Faster redrawing
- FIX: Message window buttons
- ADD: Basic Printing
- FIX: Menu in experimental Icaros
Direct download: EdiSyn_0.54.lha (3 MB)
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09.Mar.2016
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amiga-news.de: Server problems, relocation in progress
Currently amiga-news.de is located on a server of a friendly web presence. Obviously the (virtual) server cannot handle the additional traffic so we were going to move to a new server.
During the last days, amiga-news.de could not be accessed for several days. Therefore our technicians are trying to establish the new server - at the same time we are about to update our technical infrastructure. For our technicians are very buzy, the relocation will still take some time.
We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may has caused.
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09.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 29.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 29th:
- Hooks in Lunapaint have been corrected to work under 68k (wawa)
- Hebrew keymap extended with right-to-left and left-to-right marks (polluks)
- BoingIconBar now correctly detaches from shell (mazze)
- Menu handling in FryingPan corrected (Kalamatee)
- Scalos now better handles situation when preferences.library is missing (neil)
- BoingIconBar has been updated to newer version (mazze)
- BoingIconBar has been extended with Quit menu option (mazze)
- UAE AROS driver has had its mode definitions corrected (wawa)
- BoingIconBar can now open drawers if they have an icon (mazze)
- Reading hunk executable in AROS 68k is now faster (twilen)
- TextEditor, NList and BetterString preferences are now correctly showing images under any endianess (mazze)
- Names of external classes in Zune preferences are now more readable (mazze)
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07.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Dutch Kick-Off-2 championship 2016 in Amsterdam
On April 2nd, the this year's Dutch Kick-Off-2 championship will take place in Amsterdam. "The games will be 2 halves of 5 minutes each, and it will be a round-robin format. The entry fee will be about 20 - 25 euros."
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07.Mar.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.25 Beta (Version 6.3.2016)
The latest update of Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz' beta version of Odyssey 1.25 supports the disk cache for contents and fixes the bug of the Proxy settings for users and password. Additionally a Russian catalog file was added.
Download: owb-aros-1.25-20160306.zip (40 MB)
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07.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Amiga Racer 2.9
Michael Neitzel's racing game "Amiga Racer" is inspired by Lotus and is available in version 2.9 (video). Now you can configure the controller settings.
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07.Mar.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 50 (Italian/English)
The PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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07.Mar.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 05.03.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 5th, 2016:
c-ares.lha comm/tcp 418K 68k Command line DNS tools and de...
dnstracer.i386-aros.lha comm/tcp 52K x86 Trace a chain of DNS servers ...
fping.i386-aros.lha comm/tcp 81K x86 Show which network hosts are ...
QuadrigaChessBoardInt... demo/intro 880K 68k Quadriga - ChessBoard Intro
Quadriga-Revolution.adf demo/misc 880K 68k Quadriga - Revolution
Quadriga-Void.adf demo/misc 880K 68k Quadriga - Void
Quadriga-ComicSlideSh... demo/slide 880K 68k Quadriga - Comic SlideShow
QuadrigaAcousticSilen... demo/sound 880K 68k Quadriga - Acoustic Silence
libgd-2.1.1_a68k.lha dev/lib 5.3M 68k library for dynamic image cre...
OMFAnalyzer.lha dev/moni 84K MOS Analyzer of the Object Module...
AmigaPower.lha docs/mags 77K aMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Maga...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 287K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.11
gnuplot-5.0.3_a68k.lha gfx/misc 6.3M 68k Portable graphing utility
gnuplot-MOS.lha gfx/misc 1.0M MOS Interactive function and data...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
EvenMore.lha text/show 343K 68k V0.89: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 408K MOS V0.89: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 408K OS4 V0.89: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 288K V0.89: EvenMore textviewer pl...
EvenMoreSP.lha text/show 4K EvenMore v0.89 spanish catalog
ControllerTest.lha util/misc 52K 68k Test different types of contr...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 447K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 507K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 551K OS4 Multipurpose utility
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07.Mar.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 05.03.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 5th, 2016:
drawergad.lha dev/lib 183kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
picflowgad.lha dev/lib 63kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
radiobuttonxgad.lha dev/lib 78kb 4.0 Radiobutton gadget expanded
reportplus.lha uti/mis 551kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
vuremote.lha uti/mis 698kb 4.1 Remote control for Vu+ Receivers
ctlg2ct.lha uti/tex 19kb 4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 420kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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07.Mar.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 05.03.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until March 5th, 2016:
amph.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb 2D-Jump'n run shooter.
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07.Mar.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 05.03.2016
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 5th, 2016:
- 2016-03-05 new: Kefmania (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2016-03-04 improved: Side Arms (Probe) patch is NTSC compatible now (Info)
- 2016-03-04 new: Vector Dance 2 (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-01 updated: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) fixed wrong keyboard interrupt (Info)
- 2016-02-29 improved: Archon (Electronic Arts) adapted to WHDLoad v16 (Info)
- 2016-02-29 improved: Archon 2: Adept (Electronic Arts) adapted for WHDLoad 16, reworked readme & install script (Info)
- 2016-02-29 new: Musical Secrets (Zite) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-02-28 improved: Sound Disk (Zenith) unitialised copperlist problem fixed, wrong write to INTENA fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes added, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info, Image)
- 2016-02-28 improved: Megademo (Zeus) illegal copperlist entry fixed, one more blitter wait and Bplcon0 fix added, intro part random generator recoded and included random data removed (Info, Image)
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