10.Feb.2016
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Aminet needs help: searching for freely distributable Amiga magazines
The Aminet team writes: A lot of older freely distributable software is still missing from Aminet. Some of it is preserved nicely on Public Domain disks or CD compilations easily available on the web - but a lot of it is rotting away on private hard disks, old, unmaintained ftp servers or forgotten websites. The Aminet team has been collecting dormant software and quietly adding it to the collection for nearly a decade now. Hunting down software is a rather time consuming process though, and many things can no longer be tracked down easily.
Our current focus is freely distributable magazines - diskmags, ASCII newsletters, free PDF documents - you name it, we want it. We have compiled a list of all the titles we have (note that not all of these are available for download yet), as you can see we're still missing a lot of these releases.
If any of you collectors out there can provide us with missing information or even supply some of the missing releases, we'd be very glad to hear from you. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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09.Feb.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with Christoph Gutjahr (Aminet, amiga-news.de; engl./fr.)
French magazine Obligement published an interview with Christoph Gutjahr today, administrator of the software repository Aminet and one of the two publishers of amiga-news.de since 2010.
The interview contains background information on both websites and is available in english at the title link as well as in french. (snx)
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08.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 25.01.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of January 25th:
- MultiView is now used for animation datatype (mazze)
- Work on modularization of SysExplorer started (Kalamatee)
- MultiView is now showing more details about data objects (Kalamatee)
- Fix for accessing freed memory implemented in Listtree MUI class (deadwood)
- MultiView is now presenting more information about images and animations (Kalamatee)
- Animation.datatype is reworked to speed up playback (Kalamatee)
- Intuition no longer crashes when menu name is not provided (Kalamatee)
- Rendering of animations in EHB mode has been fixed (Kalamatee)
- Anim.datatype now correctly supports anim-8 unpacking (Kalamatee)
- Further fixes to anim-3 format implemented (Kalamatee)
- Implementation of jumping to a selected frame in animation.datatype started (Kalamatee)
- Hooks are now correctly called from within realtime.library (Kalamatee)
- Tapedeck.gadget handles input on progress bar correctly (Kalamatee)
- Forward/rewind is now working in animation.datatype (Kalamatee)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Feb. 2016, 14:45] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text editor featuring Kickstart-1.2 compatibility: Redit 1.12
Kai Scherrer's text editor Redit works without any limitations on an Amiga equipped with Kickstart 1.2, but also is fully compatible with higher versions of the system. The editor can be also launched from an emergancy disk or used after booting without startup-sequence. Changes in version 1.12:
- added: Undo & Redo
- improved: more pleasent inital size and position of file request
- improved: loading large directories in 1.3 file request was slow
- bugfix: selecting last line with triple mouse click was broken
- bugfix: selecting first word with double mouse click was broken.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 17:25] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Tutorial for mounting network drives
The Finnish member 'jPV' of the demo group RNO has added the tutorial for for mounting network drives to the MorphOS library. It is about Samba, NetFS, RDesktop and the Google-Drive-Handler.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 15:11] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 6th, 2016:
AFnews-68k.lha comm/tcp 894K 68k Amiga Future Everywhere 68k
GoogleDrive_handlr_AR... comm/tcp 950K x86 Google Drive handler for AROS
DiskImageGui.lha disk/misc 17K 68k Mount ADF, ISO and HDF disk i...
ImageMount.lha disk/misc 18K 68k Mount ADF, ISO and HDF disk i...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AssaultCubeReloaded26... game/shoot 68M x86 First-person shooter
Flecho.lha game/wb 31K 68k Point arrows to the numbers!
Calimero_2.5.lha text/dtp 6.3M MOS A DTP Program
Redit.lha text/edit 48K 68k Text editor
mARK.lha util/arc 12K 68k Simple Gui for LhA, LZX, UnZi...
PoseidonScripts.lha util/misc 15K 68k Alternative ways of using the...
xbenchlist.lha util/misc 28K 68k X-bEnCh List Generator
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 10:00] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 6th, 2016:
mhe.lha dev/ide 6Mb 4.0 Hollywood IDE
reactive_crypto.lha dri/mis 93kb 4.1 Hashing classes for Reactive
voxelbird.lha gam/act 4Mb 4.0 Amazing Voxel Bird Saga
voxelnoid.lha gam/act 7Mb 4.0 Duel Edition
wingsbf_rhdc.lha gam/act 16Mb 4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
wingsbf_w3dr12.lha gam/act 16Mb 4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
wingsbf_w3dr7.lha gam/act 16Mb 4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 72Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
sqrxz2.lha gam/pla 1Mb 4.0 Better play golf!
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 64kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 13kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 10:00] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until February 6th, 2016:
rebound.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 7Mb Brick busting puzzle game.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 10:00] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 06.02.2016
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 installer has been added until February 6th, 2016:
- 2016-02-05 updated: Airborne Ranger (Microprose) patch redone, movep instructions patched, blitter waits disabled on 68000, trainer options added, byte write to volume register fixed, new install script (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 10:00] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: Amiga 2200 (A1000jr) added
On the Amiga hardware reference website "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" the A2200 has been added. The website wrote: "A few months after the cancellation of the A1000+ and A3000+ it was decided the company should attempt to salvage the A1000+ technology and build a lower spec ECS-based machine. The project was developed under the codename 'A1000jr', an unofficial title intended to annoy Bill Sydnes."
The Amiga 2200 had an ESC chipset, which for reasons of costs only contained Zorro-II slots. They are on a Riser card, other extension boards had to be plugged in horizontally. All in all four different versions were planned which should differ in the processor as well as in the number of Zorro-II slots: A2200 (68020, two slots), A2400 (four slots) and analogical to that the A3200 and A3400 with a 68030-processor. The case of the A2200 was similar to the case of the Amiga 4000.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 09:54] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Results of the Amiga Games Award 2015
On February 6th 2016, french magazine Obligement announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2015 for the best Amiga games, voted by Amigans from all Amiga platforms.
AmigaOS (68k):
- Zerosphere (Code Red / Alexander Grupe)
- SQRXZ 3 (Retroguru)
- Solomon's Key 2 (Oookami Games)
AmigaOS 4:
- Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
- Gorky 17 (Metropolis Software)
- Swamp Defense 2 (AmiBoing/EntwicklerX)
MorphOS:
- Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
- Ask Me Up XXL (Boing Attitude :))
- Fruit'Y (Retroguru)
AROS:
- Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
- Fruit'Y (Retroguru)
- L'Abbaye Des Morts (LocoMalito)
(snx)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 08:53] [Comments: 0]
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05.Feb.2016
Amigaville (ANF)
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English PDF magazine: Fourth issue of "Amigaville" for sale
Amigaville is an English-language PDF magazine. Ther first three issues are available on Aminet. The published decided to take 2£ for the forthcoming issue, you can pay via Paypal.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Feb. 2016, 14:45] [Comments: 0]
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05.Feb.2016
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Amiga Inc.-Magazine: "Club Amiga Monthly" on archive.org
After it was evident that the participants of the coupon action of Amiga Inc. would not get back their money and that the promised auxiliary services could not be realized, Amiga Inc. tried to avoid a PR desaster, which could have damaged AmigaOS 4 and the AmigaOne.
All purchasers of the coupon were rewarded with a "club" membership. All members should get an exclusive club magazine providing the latest information on AmigaOS 4/AmigaOne development. The HTML-based "Club Amiga Monthly" was published monthly on os.amiga.com/cam/ and could only be accessed by club members. After twelve issues the magazine was discontinued.
The magazines which were already thought to have been lost forever are now available again for eveybody on archive.org.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Feb. 2016, 14:40] [Comments: 0]
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04.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: FUSE file system exFAT 53.3 and NTFS-3G 53.4
Since November, the FUSE file system framework has been available to AROS, thanks to Fredrik Wikstrom (amiga-news.de reported). Now the drivers for the NTFS-3G and for the exFAT file system have been updated. The last mentioned "does not crash anymore when used to automount USB drive ".
Changes:
- exFAT 53.3
- Disk I/O layer now uses a segmented LRU for the read cache and automatically sorted block ranges for the write cache.
- Replaced cache semaphore with a simple boolean variable that indicates to the memhandler when the cache is being accessed.
- NTFS-3G 53.4
- Disk I/O layer now uses a segmented LRU for the read cache and automatically sorted block ranges for the write cache.
- Replaced cache semaphore with a simple boolean variable that indicates to the memhandler when the cache is being accessed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Feb. 2016, 17:57] [Comments: 0]
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02.Feb.2016
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Arcade game: Tanks Furry can be preordered
Now it is possible to preorder the tank shooter "Tanks Furry" (promotion video, (playable demo of a previous version), in the Polish Amiga shop amiga.pl.net on advance payment. In the price it is included a CD with the game - for an additional charge also a disk - as well as a printed, coloured manual, disk tags, refrigerator magnet and an A3-poster.
According to the shop the game will be delivered in a "box". The scan of the box shows that it is a DVD case. The price for Tanks Furry is 54 Złoty (about 12,50 ¤) including shipping and for an additional charge of 5 Złoty / about 1 Euro you can order an additional disk.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Feb. 2016, 18:32] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Review: Accelerator board Vampire II
Since the end of the last year, the FPGA-based accelerator board Vampire II can be ordered for the Amiga 600. As one of the first users who received such a board, Renaud 'TuKo' Schweingruber, member of the Swiss user group Amiga Multitask Force, has published a first review under the title link.
The Polish blogger 'Davka' also described a first impression of his accelerator board.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Feb. 2016, 12:38] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: APK Compiler 1.0 for Windows
Press release: Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business - are proud to present a brand new add-on for Hollywood 6.0: The Hollywood APK Compiler.
This program does what many people were waiting for: It allows the conversion of Hollywood applets into stand-alone APK packages that can then be published on the Google Play Store or distributed in an other way.
Once the Hollywood APK Compiler has been set up, the conversion of a Hollywood applet into an APK file takes only a few seconds. Additionally, the Hollywood APK Compiler can also install the generated APK file onto an Android device connected via USB.
The Hollywood APK Compiler is currently only available for the Microsoft Windows platform because it requires the Java SE Development Kit (JDK), Apache Ant and the Android SDK and NDK toolchains, all of which are available for free download on the web. Versions for Linux and Mac OS X might follow in the future but Amiga versions are impossible because of those dependencies. Hollywood 6.0 is also required.
The Hollywood APK Compiler comes with a convenient GUI that allows you to convert your Hollywood applets into stand-alone APK files with just a few mouse clicks. A detailed documentation of all the program's features is also included. The APKs generated by the Hollywood APK Compiler will run on all ARM-based Android devices that run at least Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread).
The program's license also allows you to sell the apps created by the Hollywood APK Compiler without any restrictions or royalties. So there is nothing stopping you from getting rich quickly with your Hollywood applets on the Google Play Store now! Programming and publishing for Android has really never been so easy!
So get ready for Android development and purchase the Hollywood APK Compiler now on the official Hollywood portal at the title link!
Screenshots:
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[News message: 31. Jan. 2016, 13:39] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: MPlayer-GUI 1.60
Daniel Westerberg's MPlayer-GUI is a Reaction-based user-interface for diverse MPlayer ports, which among others supports drag'n'drop.
In version 1.60 realtime control panel sliders for seeking and volume, wpa video driver and a time display in the control panel have been added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Jan. 2016, 13:28] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: Five applications added
Five applications have been added to the software collection Games-Coffer: AMOSEyes, ASI Audio Magic (version 1.1 and 2.0), CAG (Adventure Game Creator), Soundtracker 2.6 and Speed Utilities.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jan.2016
Retroguru Facebook (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Sqrxz 2 1.10
After over two years, Retroguru's Jump'n'Run game Sqrxz 2 has been updated by Frank Wille. All those, who were fond of Alexander Wiklund's chiptunes, but never suceeded in reaching the next level to listen to the next tune, will be delighted now to have a soundcheck option in the menu.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Jan. 2016, 10:26] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 30.01.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 30th, 2016:
GoogleDrive_handler_6... comm/tcp 1.5M 68k Google Drive handler for Amig...
GoogleDrive_handler_M... comm/tcp 1.0M MOS Google Drive handler for MorphOS
objc.lha dev/c 2.6M MOS Portable Object Compiler
MCC_MiniMailerSP.lha dev/mui 4K MiniMailer MCC v20.2 spanish ...
giggledisk.lha disk/misc 38K MOS V1.19 MBR/RDB -> MountLis...
gamewatch.lha game/actio 11M MOS VTech Game & Watch Simula...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.5M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.7M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
zerosphere.lha game/jump 562K 68k Platform game with a twist
AssaultCubeReloaded26... game/shoot 68M x86 First-person shooter
gerber2eps_1.0.lha gfx/conv 97K MOS Konvert gerber to eps
Redit.lha text/edit 46K 68k Text editor
thaicheck.lha text/misc 36K MOS Tool to check Thai text for v...
thaiconv.lha text/misc 50K MOS Convert text between diff. Th...
jsonMaster.lha text/show 418K 68k Simple json viewer
Chelp.lha util/batch 34K Online help for MorphOS shell...
BExchangeSP.lha util/cdity 3K BExchange v1.2 spanish catalog
FixFonts.lha util/cli 9K MOS A recompile of the CBM fixfon...
ARexxPatch.lha util/sys 1K Patch small ARexx bugs
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Jan. 2016, 05:52] [Comments: 0]
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