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16.Feb.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.8.0
An update has been released for the Atari-ST/STE/Falcon emulator Hatari. According to the developer, the emulation of the Atari ST and STE on an AmigaOne X1000 "works finde". The emulation of the Falcon requires Frameskip 5, "but the DSP sound is working good as seen on this video".

The changes are listed in the release notes. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Feb.2015



A-EON acquires OctaMED Soundstudio
In a press release, A-EON has announced to acquire the soundtracker OctaMED Soundstudio as already mentioned on the AmiWest. The company purchased the source code and exclusive rights for the AmigaOS and Amiga-inspired operating systems.

The press release does not go into details concerning the development. On the AmiWest a port to AmigaOS 4 was held out in prospect. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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15.Feb.2015
muidev.de (ANF)


MUI for AmigaOS: MUI4.0-2015R1 and MUI3.9-2015R1
The team of "MUI for AmigaOS" has released new versions of MUI 4.0 (AmigaOS 4 and AmigaOS 3.x) and MUI 3.9 (AmigaOS 3.x).

For MUI 3.9 this is a first public version of MUI4 for AmigaOS 3.x (after AmiKit 8) but it is also the last version of MUI 3.9 for AmigaOS 3.x. In future only MUI4 will be developed further. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Feb.2015



Aminet-Uploads until 14.02.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 14th, 2015:
PPaintRUS.lha            biz/cloan  50K       Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c+ ...
bc.lha                   dev/gg     446K  MOS GNU bc and dc calculators (no...
dogma01.lha              docs/mags  622K      Ukrainian magazine, HTML (28....
dogma02.lha              docs/mags  2.1M      Ukrainian magazine, HTML (09....
AfricaMOS.lha            game/board 312K  MOS Conversion of 3W board game
MCE.lha                  game/edit  1.4M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  1.5M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  1.6M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
WhoBecomesAmigaGuru_A... game/misc  23M   x86 A fictitious tv quiz show
WhoBecomesAmigaGuru_m... game/misc  23M   MOS A fictitious tv quiz show
WhoBecomesAmigaGuru_O... game/misc  15M   68k A fictitious tv quiz show
WhoBecomesAmigaGuru_O... game/misc  23M   OS4 A fictitious tv quiz show
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.8M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   4.1M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
fceu_mos.lha             misc/emu   651K  MOS Nintendo NES / Famicom emulator
68060iob.lha             pix/3dobj  2.3M      Imagine: Motorola 68060 objec...
68EC020iob.lha           pix/3dobj  598K      Imagine: Motorola 68EC020 object
ToolsMenu.lha            util/cdity 40K   68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
minipro_20150206.lha     util/misc  265K  68k programming utility for MiniP...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Feb.2015



OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.02.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 14th, 2015:
exfatfs.lha              dri/fil 178kb 4.1 Free exFAT file system implement...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
africa.lha               gam/boa 393kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
whobecomesamigaguru.lha  gam/mis 23Mb  4.1 Game about a fictitious tv show
mce.lha                  gam/uti 2Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
vmeter.lha               uti/har 229kb 4.1 An editor for the VMeter USB tou...
brewtarget.lha           uti/mis 2Mb   4.1 Brewtarget Beer Software
nqueens.lha              uti/she 196kb 4.1 A N Queens puzzle solver
poff_swe.lha             uti/she 1kb   4.1 Swedish translation of Poff
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15.Feb.2015



WHDLoad: New packages until 14.02.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until February 14th, 2015:
  • 2015-02-13 improved: Rick Dangerous (Core Design) blitwaits added for faster machines, highscore saving fixed (Info)
  • 2015-02-11 updated: Double Dragon 3 - The Rosetta Stone (Sales Curve) patch redone, uses real files, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, trainers added, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Feb.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AmiDARK: Bounty project canceled
The bounty project for releasing the game engine AmiDARK (amiga-news.de reported) was canceled because a donator did reverse his financial contribution and thus the minimum amount has not been achieved.

Before the source code was made available to the donators which proved some problems. After canceling the project, the donators have been informed by power2people.org via e-mail. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Feb.2015



Hyperion declared bankrupt
According to the Belgian bankruptcy register faillissementsdossier.be, Hyperion has been declared bankrupt by a court in Brussels on January 27, 2015. There is no further information available about the proceedings at this point.

Hyperion was established in 1999 to port commercial games to smaller systems like AmigaOS and Linux. In 2001, the company became responsible for the further development of AmigaOS. According to our information, the last directors of Hyperion were Ben Hermans and Timothy DeGroote. (cg)

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13.Feb.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: exFATFileSystem 53.7
The file system exFAT requires the "Final Edition" of AmigaOS 4.1. Some input and output operations are supposed to be faster than NTFS3G. Besides, the file system uses case insensitive file names. The source code is included.

Download: exfatfs.lha (178 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Feb.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


PDF magazine: English-language issue of REV'n'GE 27
Under the title link, issue 27 of the Italian PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") has been published in an English-language translation.

The game reviews compare the releases of classic games between different former platforms. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Feb.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)


MorphOS: Nintendo-Emulator FCEU 1.6
Kelly Samel has released a new version of his MorphOS-port of FCE Ultra, which is an emulator of the Nintendo-Entertainment-Systems (NES). The author wrote about it: "FCEU currently has great compatibility, sound support, save ram and save state support."

Version 1.6 includes a new emulation core, which now works with the ROM-hack "Zelda: The Legend Of Link". You can get further information under the title link.

Changes in version 1.6:
  • Updated emulation core to fceu_mm latest svn build
  • Updated all mappers to latest fceux versions
  • Fixed mmc5 register $5130 emulation
  • Legend Of Link rom hack now works
  • Doubled sound output
  • Fixed a file requestor crash
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Feb.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Workbench distribution: AmiKitReal 8.2
AmiKitReal is a version of the Workbench distribution AmiKit meant for real Amigas and now is available as version 8.2.

Additional to the new features of AmiKit, MacLikeDock and updates of RandomFile and MMULib are included which have been integrated into MorpheuZ. THe global MUI-preferences, Better Config and BDSlide have been reworked as well. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Feb.2015



Aminet-Uploads until 07.02.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 7th, 2015:
PowerAmiga5.zip          demo/mag   733K  68k Russian Amiga E-Magazine, iss...
Kaleidoscopycus.lha      demo/misc  309K  68k Psychedelic Quatrtals and Cyc...
ADE.zip                  dev/gcc    18M   68k GCC based Amiga Development E...
hyphen-2.8.8.lha         dev/lib    746K  MOS use converted TeX hyphenation...
libmikmod-morphos.lha    dev/lib    1.3M  MOS Module player library: mod,s3...
dogma13.lha              docs/mags  50M       Ukrainian magazine, HTML (10....
foo2zjs.lha              driver/pri 3.4M  MOS Convert images to ZJ-stream f...
WormWars.lha             game/actio 788K  68k Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha         game/actio 1.0M  OS4 Advanced snake game
Africa-OS4.lha           game/board 314K  OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
AssaultCubeReloaded26... game/shoot 68M   x86 First-person shooter
ODAMEX_AGA.lha           game/shoot 8.2M  68k Amiga port of Odamex v0.6.4
ODAMEX_RTG.lha           game/shoot 8.2M  68k Amiga port of Odamex v0.6.4
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.8M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   4.0M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.1M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Becomes_the_Mix.lha      mods/xm    6.5M      New Mod By Pseudaxos
68010iob.lha             pix/3dobj  500K      Imagine: Motorola 68010 Gold ...
6888xiob.lha             pix/3dobj  1.8M      Imagine: Motorola FPUs w/socket
ToolsMenu.lha            util/cdity 40K   68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
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08.Feb.2015



OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.02.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 7th, 2015:
reactive_crypto.lha      dri/mis 33kb  4.1 Hashing classes for Reactive
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha             gam/act 1Mb   4.0 Advanced snake game
rcube.lha                gra/mis 18kb  4.1 Showing a moving GLCube
reactive_lib.lha         lib/mis 202kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
d_cmd.lha                uti/she 3kb   4.1 D is a small shell util for list...
rhash_cmd.lha            uti/she 13kb  4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
contextmenus_4.1fe_it... uti/wor 16kb  4.1 Italian catalog for ContextMenus
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08.Feb.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Podcast: AmiCast 1
The new podcast "AmiCast" held an interview with Jan Zahurancik (Workbench distribution AmiKit). (snx)

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08.Feb.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Collection of tools zTools 1.4
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated his commercial collection of tools "zTools". Version 1.4, which exclusively is distributed via the Amistore, includes updates of aTunes, NetDock, WebReplay, FastView and FlipPaper. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Feb.2015
Amiga.org (website)


PDF magazine: English translation of REV'n'GE 26
Issue 26 of the italian PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") has been translated into english and can be downloaded at the title link.

The game reviews do also compare the releases for different platforms of the 1980s and 1990s. (snx)

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08.Feb.2015
David Brunet (ANF)


Obligement: Results of the Amiga Games Award 2014
On February 7th 2015, the french magazine Obligement announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2014. This represents the best Amiga games voted by Amigans from all Amiga platforms.

AmigaOS (68k):
  1. Tales Of Gorluth: The Tear Stone Saga (Amiworx Software, Patrick Nevian)
  2. Renegade Deluxe 2014 (Kevin Darbyshire, Wayne Ashworth)
  3. Smurf Rescue (Mikael Persson)
AmigaOS 4:
  1. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Raven Software/LucasArts)
  2. Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast (Raven Software/LucasArts)
  3. Ace Of Hearts (Cherry Darling)
MorphOS:
  1. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Raven Software/LucasArts)
  2. Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast (Raven Software/LucasArts)
  3. Amazing Voxel Bird Saga (Cherry Darling)
AROS:
  1. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Raven Software/LucasArts)
  2. Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast (Raven Software/LucasArts)
  3. Amazing Voxel Bird Saga (Cherry Darling)
(snx)

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07.Feb.2015
Amiga Spiele News (ANF)


Doom-Engine: Odamex AGA
Odamex is a version of the Doom engine, which combines the features of Boom with some other ones: The widescreen format is supported and the mouse can be used for controlling it ("mouselook"). Additionally the player can jump.

Currently "NovaCoder" is working on an AGA-optimized port. Network and joypad support as well as background music while the game runs are still left out in the first public release. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2015



Aminet-Uploads until 31.01.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 31st, 2015:
iView.lha                comm/misc  2.3M  OS4 ABC iView client for AmigaOS
toram.i386-aros.lha      comm/tcp   1.0M  x86 Remote GUI for Transmission
toram-morphos.lha        comm/tcp   1.3M  MOS Remote GUI for Transmission
sgit.lha                 dev/misc   1.1M  OS4 A simple and incomplete git c...
dogma13.lha              docs/mags  50M       Ukrainian magazine, HTML (10....
Africa.lha               game/board 263K  68k Conversion of 3W board game
Bobarr.lha               game/wb    32K   68k Move all bars!
Hexado.lha               game/wb    31K   68k Align bars in the same direct...
Squarado.lha             game/wb    31K   68k Align bars in the same direct...
PictureOverview.lha      gfx/show   234K  68k Picture management
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.8M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
XanaX.lha                mods/xm    5.1M      New Mod By Pseudaxos
68030iob.lha             pix/3dobj  1.6M      m68030 object with Socket for...
Calimero_beta_0.7.lha    text/dtp   2.7M  MOS A DTP Program
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 31.01.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 31st, 2015:
sgit.lha                 dev/uti 1Mb   4.0 A simple and incomplete git client
kens_drawers_modern.lha  gra/ico 3Mb   4.0 Ken's icon v4 style drawers with...
hottiesview.lha          gra/vie 206kb 4.1 A modern image viewer
guigfxlib.lha            lib/gra 235kb 4.0 Application layer for pixel grap...
iview.lha                net/mis 2Mb   4.0 ABC iView client for AmigaOS
assist.lha               uti/mis 6Mb   4.1 A knowledge base for AmigaOS users
contextmenus_4.1fe_sw... uti/wor 17kb  4.1 Context menus for AmigaOS 4.1FE ...
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