31.Mar.2018
Philippe Lang (E-Mail)
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Crowdfunding: New Amiga-500 cases
After the Amiga-1200 cases and keyboard caps, Philippe Lang has started another crowdfunding project for financing the production of new cases for the Amiga 500 and 500+.
The new cases are not only supposed to replace the yellowed and recalcitrant cases but can also be equipped with the standalone version of the accelerator board Vampire V4 instead of an Amiga-500 board. For this and the Vampire-V2-A500 there are port extension for USB, HDMI and SD-card ports. Plastics used for the case are treated Anti-UV.
Philippe Lang wrote: "Plastics used for the case are treated Anti-UV. It will never yellow ever."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Mar.2018
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Ex-employee of TAO Group talked about Elate and Amiga DE
In January of 2000 the new Amiga owner Amiga, Inc. announced a co-operation with the British TAO Group. Its product called Elate/Intent enabled the development of applications which are independent from the processor - which Amiga Inc. wanted to use to establish its Elate-based "AmigaDE" to as many as devices (handhelds, desktop computers, set-top-boxes).
Since 1991 the predecessor product of Elate called "TAOS" was introduced in the British issue of the magazine Byte. Meanwhile the arcticle also is available online. David Given, an ex-employee of TAO Group, took the corresponding discussion for reporting about the development of the system and to point out its strengths and weaknesses. He also talked about the co-operaqtion with Amiga, Inc.
The plan was that Amiga provides the customer support which the little TAO Group were not able to. David Given wrote: "We had a fling with Amiga pretty late on, and were the technology behind Amiga Anywhere, which nobody ever cared about. (Although we did actually get a few external users. The sheer novelty of this was hard to handle.)"
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30.Mar.2018
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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 12
The twelfth and last part of his series of articles called A History of the Amiga started in 2007 by the author Jeremy Reimer is about the events since the turn of the millennium. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Mar.2018
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MorphOS: Public beta test of new email client Iris
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, member of the MorphOS team, has released an early beta version of the forthcoming MorphOS standard email client. "Iris" supports IMAP as well as viewing and writing HTML eMails with pictures and different fonts. You can get more information in the corresponding posts of the MorphZone.
Download: iris.lha (22 MB)
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29.Mar.2018
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AmigaOS update: Further details to AmigaOS 3.1.4
In a discussion on amiga.org, the developers Thomas 'Thor' Richter and Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel have informed about the current status of the development of their updates for AmigaOS 3.1 called "3.1.4". Additional to diverse bug fixes and the changes which are known since the Amiga32, among others the following changes will be added:
- The update will include a new version of "DiskDoktor" which "examine the contents of the volume, looking for defects and copy the contents of the directory tree to a different volume". Large volumes and long file names are supported. The new version of DiskDoktor only requires 1 Megabyte dealing with a 1 Gigabyte partition, and 8 Megabytes for a 8 Gigabyte partition.
- A replacement for the CD file system CDFS: A backport of the CD file system of of AmigaOS 4 (currently without supporting mixed-mode CDs, UDF, HFS and HFS-plus) which supports the new mount options "NoNSD", "DirectSCSI" and "SuperFloppy". Besides, "Mask", "Maxtransfer" and "BufMemType" are honoured.
- "CrossDos now also supports long file names, FAT32, FAT24 and FAT16."
- CrossDOS as well as the new CDFS now are multithreaded, that means they do not freeze the Workbench any longer while working.
- Obviously the Workbench developed by Olaf Barthel from AmigaOS 3.5+ is used - or at least part of it: Richter mentioned that replacements for the prefs programs of Workbench and ASL have to be used since Reaction was removed.
- The programs MagTape and Edit were removed from the distribution. Edit "suffered from several bugs and limitations".
- workbench.library and icon.library "are already too large to fit into the ROMs", they will be on disks. They will also take more RAM, "so that there is less left on the low-end machines. It will probably not work with 512K alone."
Richter pointed out that many parts of the new features still have to be tested. The developers are looking for new beta testers.
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28.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Weekly progresses since 26th February
Neil Cafferkey has published the latest progresses on the open source AmigaOS clone called AROS:
- Allow kernel debug output to be captured by Sashimi, Bifteck etc. (neil)
- Fixed a problem with software interrupts that caused stuttering in HDAudio playback when ACPI was enabled (neil)
- Allow CPU to sleep again when no task is running and ACPI is disabled; avoids VMs stealing host CPU time for no reason and saves power when running natively (neil)
- ICU library V60.2 ported for future use with Odyssey (wawa)
- Implemented retrieval and usage of all PCI IRQ routing tables from ACPI (instead of just the one for the root bus). This solves the problem of some devices having incorrect IRQ numbers when ACPI is enabled (e.g. wired and wireless network interfaces on the Acer AspireOne A110 and A150 work again) (neil)
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28.Mar.2018
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Introduction to Objective-C under MorphOS 3.10
Objective-C is an "object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language". Due to the conceptual similarity to BOOPSI ("Basic Object Oriented Programming System for Intuition"), Objective-C now is used in MorphOS to simplify creating and using new (MUI-) classes. On the website of the MorphOS project you can "read more about the implementation details and how MorphOS developers will be able to use these new frameworks".
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26.Mar.2018
wazup (ANF)
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MorphOS: RegisterISO 1.12 fixes problem with MorphOS 3.10 ISO file
Guido 'Geit' Mersmann's RegisterISO is a little tool to inject the MorphOS keyfile into any MorphOS ISO file. Previously, an overflow in the buffer offset calculation was triggered by the MorphOS 3.10 ISO file, so that it got patched at the wrong place. Version 1.12 of RegisterISO fixes the problem. (snx)
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25.Mar.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS 3.10 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.10, which represents one of the biggest updates in its history yet. This brand new version introduces support for AmigaOne X5000 systems as well as A-EON X5000 mainboards, and it greatly expands the general hardware compatibility by adding numerous new drivers for graphics cards, scanners, network cards, SATA controllers, and USB audio devices.
Furthermore, MorphOS 3.10 brings Flow Studio, which is an integrated development environment that offers features such as a built-in source level debugger and seamless MorphOS shell access.
In addition to many bug fixes and general performance improvements, MorphOS 3.10 also provides varied user interface and usability improvements (screenshot). This release includes modern themes, new fonts, and support for vector graphics, such as SVG icons, as well as time zones via Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
For a more extensive overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.
As usual, existing MorphOS users can update to the latest release entirely for free.
We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.10 is available for download in our files section. (snx)
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25.Mar.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 24.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until March 24th, 2018:
MUIwake.lha comm/net 28K 68k Wake On Lan with MUI gui.
quarterback_src.lha disk/bakup 3.1M Quarterback source code
superduper_css_src.lha disk/misc 105K SuperDuper (CCS) source code
SweepOut.lha game/board 215K 68k Minesweeper w/ online multipl...
swatdemoWIP.adf game/demo 880K 68k Mini Swat WIP Demo, all Amiga...
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 2.0M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
designworks_src.lha gfx/edit 818K DesignWorks source code
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.5M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 2.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
disk2disk_src.lha misc/emu 654K Disk-2-Disk source code
dos2dos_src.lha misc/emu 635K Dos-2-Dos source code
mac2dos_src.lha misc/emu 944K Mac-2-Dos source code
vorbistools140_68k.lha mus/edit 821K 68k Tools to manipulate Vorbis fi...
vorbistools140_wos.lha mus/edit 878K WOS Tools to manipulate Vorbis fi...
quickwrite_src.lha text/dtp 451K QuickWrite source code
profonts_src.lha text/print 67K ProFonts source code
InstantZip_3.3.lha util/arc 143K MOS ZIP (un)packer + en/decrypter...
Chelp.lha util/batch 1.4M Online help for MorphOS shell...
GetWBPattern.lha util/cli 37K 68k Read WBPattern.prefs file val...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 684K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
flow_src.lha util/misc 454K Flow source code
FontWalker_mos.lha util/misc 1.4M MOS Collect and display TTF fonts
FontWalker_os3.lha util/misc 2.5M 68k Collect and display TTF fonts
FontWalker_os4.lha util/misc 1.8M OS4 Collect and display TTF fonts
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25.Mar.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until March 24th, 2018:
adripper.lha aud/mis 1Mb 4.1 Audio CD grabber and encoder
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
spencertrial.lha gam/pla 34Mb 4.1 Demoversion of Spencer
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 72kb 4.1 A Custom BOOPSI System
rprglist_cmd.lha uti/she 3kb 4.1 List running Reactive Programs
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25.Mar.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 24.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until March 24th, 2018:
ACE_1.16.lha Emulation The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
InstantZip_3.3.lha Files/Archive A ZIP packer / unpacker...
MCE_10.2.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Davegnukem_0.91.lha Games/Shoot 2D Dave Gnukem is a retro-...
Sokoban_2.01.lha Games/Think Still Yet Another Sokob...
AnimWebConverter_2.85.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
FontWalker_1.3.lha Office/Show Collects all TTF font f...
Chelp_1.2.lha System/Shell A lua script to fetch a...
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25.Mar.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.03.2018
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 24th, 2018:
- 2018-03-22 improved: UFO - Enemy Unknown (Microprose) OCS version supported, new install script, minor fixes (Info)
- 2018-03-19 improved: Ambermoon (Thalion) support for caches and fast memory, german keymap added, minor fixes (Info)
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24.Mar.2018
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Jump'n'run game Spencer available (Update)
The jump'n'run game "Spencer" developed by EntwicklerX (amiga-news.de reported) has been almost completed for AmigaOS 4 and should be available still this weekend. Additional to the full version for Windows on Steam, now a trial version for AmigaOS 4 was released.
The authors have pointed out that the game "runs best with Warp3D Nova". It is recommended to update Warp3D Nova and OpenGLES2 to the latest version. For the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 a screen resolution of 1080p should be possible (or 720p with antialiasing). On a Sam 460 it can be played with a screen resolution of 720p.
Videos:
Update: (20:20, 25.03.18, snx)
Meanwhile the game has been finalized for AmigaOS 4 as well and can be purchased at AmiStore. The required libraries are available through the Updater, the game needs ogles2.library 1.19, W3DN_SI.library 1.47 and Warp3D_Nova.library 1.47. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Beta version of Icaros Desktop 2.2.2 for supporters
The release candidate of version 2.2.2 of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop has been available to all beta testers as well as financial supporters for this week.
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23.Mar.2018
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Data backup: Quarterback source code released
Under the title link the source code of the backup program Quarterback has been released on Aminet under the GPL. Olaf Barthel did analyze it and recommends to use partitions with less than four gigabytes "with the partitions residing completely within the first 4 Gigabytes of a storage medium".
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23.Mar.2018
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: PkZIP-GUI InstantZip 3.3
Carsten Siegner's InstanzZip (screenshot) is a graphical user-interface for PkZIP as well as in version 3.3 for the xad.library of MorphOS as well. Therefore now it is possible to extract archives which were compressed with RAR, LHA, BZIP2 or other algorithms.
But only the XAD client provided by Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly works without any problems (link below), the Aminet version cannot be recommended. The corresponding 7z client does not correctly extract but does properly list the content.
Download:
InstantZip_3.3.lha (143 KB)
xad_rar.lha (118 KB)
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22.Mar.2018
Piotr Zgodzinski (ANF)
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Interview: Predecessor to Blender was developed on the Amiga
In an interview Ton Roosendaal, the original author of the open source raytraycer Blender, explained how the predecessor of his program was developed on the Amiga. As a little gift the Amiga software named "Traces" including the source code is provided at the end of the article.
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22.Mar.2018
Floppy (Kommentar)
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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update Gold 2.8 / SAGA driver 1.2
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of Motorolas m68k-series, which also provides a separate graphic mode called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). Changes in the latest core "Gold 2.8":
- Improved HDMI DMA support for misaligned Screen Pointers
- Minor FPU fix
- A500 RTC fix
- Improved SDcard / SDNet
- V500+ Expansion port enabled (Ethernet/USB/.you_name_it.)
A new version of the P96 driver for SAGA was released as well - changes in SAGA drivers 1.2:
- Updated SDNet.device to 1.2
- Some more work on TX stability
- Should recover from ENC Module hangs more often
- Aligned with future EXPnet
Download website
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22.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Minesweeper clone with online highscores: SweepOut 1.1
Julien 'Crisot' Cervellera's SweepOut (Youtube video) is a clone of the Windows classic Minesweeper, which offers 100 different series each with eight levels. The highscores of a series are saved on a central server on Internet so the players can compete with each other. After some beta releases now the official version 1.1 of the game is available.
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21.Mar.2018
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Ethernet driver for Tabor reaching beta status (update)
A-EON has been pointing out for quite a while that the Tabor motherboard is finished and the only thing preventing sales to end users is a port of AmigaOS 4 to the hardware. The biggest roadblocks usually listed are the FPU emulation and a driver for the onboard ethernet chip.
Earlier this month in a posting on amigaworld.net, the distributor adressed this problem more blatantly than usual by pointing out that Costel Mincea from Hyperion Entertainment had been contracted in August 2015 and paid in full in September 2015 to develop and/or finish ethernet drivers for X1000, X5000 and Tabor. Today, the 'Updater' component of A-EON's commercial Enhancer bundle started offering an 'a1222eth.device' to users (Screenshot).
According to our information, this is not the driver Mincea has been working on, A-EON contracted another developer to write a driver instead. This has not been confirmed in public yet, but A-EON betatesters and external developers are also referring to the newly released driver as "A-EON's own driver" in a discussion on os4welt.de (German).
Update: (22.3.2018, 13:00, cg)
In a posting on os4welt.de (German) Mincea reacts to Amigakit's claims by vehemently denying that he was "ever paid any money" for the ethernet driver: According to him, his payment for the driver was a tabor motherboard and nothing else. Since Mincea was busy with a multitude of other tasks related to the development and distribution of AmigaOS 4, finishing the network driver simply got delayed.
Since ethernet could also be accessed using a USB to ethernet converter, Mincea had to take care of other, more pressing issues first. Payment for the X1000 ethernet driver was also just a X1000 motherboard, that driver hasn't been finished yet for the same reason as the Tabor driver: lack of time and relatively low priority. (cg)
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20.Mar.2018
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Emulator: A/NES PRO 1.20
A/NES Pro is a NES emulator written in assembler, which requires ECS or AGA, at least a 68020 processor and some megabyte FastRAM. In version 1.20 some minor optimizations of the CPU and PPU emulation are included.
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19.Mar.2018
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hyperion sued Amiga Inc., Amino, Itec and Cloanto
In the legal dispute about Amiga trademarks in USA and Europe, on 13th March in USA Hyperion sued all parties which are directly or indirectly involved. A request which still is not publicly available named "Complaint for Declaratory Judgement and Breach of Contract" (etwa: "Feststellungsklage wegen Vertragsbruch") the following companies are listed as defendant:
Currently it is not clear to which this lawsuit relates. According to the title and the time of the filing it can be speculated that Hyperion considers his rights being infringed by the inactivity ofItec/Amiga with regard to the protection of the US trademark.
We are going to publish a summary of the situation.
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18.Mar.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 17.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until March 17th, 2018:
cc65-morphos.lha dev/cross 13M MOS ANSI C 6502 cross development...
PatchCompositeTags.lha driver/vid 114K OS4 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
MCE.lha game/edit 1.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.1M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.5M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
RNOInfoScreen.lha mus/play 8.4M WOS Music player front-end and in...
UADE_MMV8.lha mus/play 14K 68k MusicMakerV8 players for UADE
lw_LEGO_TIE-Fighter.lha pix/3dobj 399K LEGO TIE-Fighter scene for Li...
InstantZip_3.2.lha util/arc 139K MOS (un)pack, encrypt+decrypt ZIP...
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18.Mar.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 17.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until March 17th, 2018:
rnoinfoscreen.lha aud/pla 8Mb 4.0 Music player front-end and info ...
dtdescrip.lha dev/uti 61kb 4.1 Tools for creating datatype desc...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 71kb 4.1 A Custom BOOPSI System
ripconfig_cmd.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Display info about Ethernet adap...
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18.Mar.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 17.03.2018
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until March 17th, 2018:
milkytracker.i386-aros.lha aud/tra 2Mb Music Tracker
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18.Mar.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 17.03.2018 (Update)
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS-Storage until March 17th, 2018:
RNOInfoScreen_1.5.lha Audio/Players RNOInfoScreen works as ...
IRA_2.09.lha Development/ASM MC68000/10/20/30/40 rea...
cc65_2.17.lha Development/Cross ANSI C 6502 cross devel...
duktape_v2.20.lha Development/Tools Duktape is a small and ...
InstantZip_3.2.lha Files/Archive A ZIP packer / unpacker...
freedroid-rpg_0.16.1.lha Games/Action FreedroidRPG is an open...
YouTube_URL_Extractor_... Network/Web no description
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18.Mar.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.03.2018
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 17th, 2018:
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18.Mar.2018
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 26 - Interview with Steve Jones
In Issue 26, Krzysztof Radzikowski has interviewed Steve 'ClusterUK' Jones (YouTube channel) in his podcast. Topics are the A1500, the Siamese system, Gateway, the Vampire accelerator boards and AROS.
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18.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vasm 1.8c
Frank Wille has released an update for the modular assembler vasm.
Changes:
- Relocated ORG blocks within a section were not recognized, when their start address was 0
- The count in repeat-directives is always unsigned, even when given as a negative value
- Check for target address space overflows
- Fixed crash when undefining non-existing register symbols
- A redefined label is no longer a warning, but an error
- arm: Fixed compile-error from last release
- vobj-output: Fixed uninitialized symbol index for internal/local symbols
- oldstyle-syntax: New directive ROFFS to set the program counter relative to the start of the current section
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16.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 84 (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.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Backstage", "Castle of Dr. Brain", "Fields of Glory", "Operation Stealth: Speech version", "Super Sport Challenge" and a little congratulation on the "Amiga Future".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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16.Mar.2018
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Puzzle game: Block Off! (preversion)
Colin Vella's Block Off! (Youtube video) is a puzzle game written in AMOS in which you have to move bricks of the same colour side by side. This preversion only contains three levels but a level editor is included.
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15.Mar.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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RNOInfoScreen 1.5
According to the author "RNOInfoScreen works as a front-end to various music and media players by displaying the "now playing" information with cover art images, and by providing basic media control options for the user."
Changes in version 1.5:
- Support for embedded images in MP3 files (ID3v2.3.0)
- Doesn't crash when iconified
- On-screen volume level indicator
- The invisible depth gadget now switches the screen to the back in the standard way
- UTF-8 support
- Option to launch an external script with the tab key
- ARexx support
Download: RNOInfoScreen.lha (8 MB)
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15.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #12.1 - Interview with Łukasz Kucharuk
Issue 12.1 of the English-language podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland includes an interview with Łukasz Kucharuk who is the founder of the Chelm Amiga Legion which organizes the "AmiParty" in Poland.
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15.Mar.2018
Kai Scherrer (ANF)
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Text editor: Redit 2.0
Version 2.0 of the AmigaOS-1.2-compatible text editor Redit was released under the title link and on Aminet including the sources.
In this latest version the search dialog now has a result list and you can search and replace on all open documents.
You also now can "Save all" and "Save all + quit" documents and the support for a mouse wheel (NewMouse) was added. All other changes are listed in the Changelog.
Download:
Redit.lha (55 KB)
Redit_src.lha (87 KB)
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15.Mar.2018
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Hyperion forcibly deleted from Belgium's company register
Belgium-based companies are required to register in Belgium's official company register (KBO, Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen)
and to update their entry in that database if the company's address or key personnel changes. To keep the registration active,
a company also has to file annual reports for each fiscal year with the "Central Balance Sheet Office" of the Belgian National Bank.
Hyperion Entertainment - the company responsible for the development of AmigaOS 4, that had temporarily been declared bankrupt
in early 2015 - apparently failed to comply with the latter requirement by not filing any reports for the last three years. As a result, they were forcibly deleted
from the KBO back in October. The change was announced in one of the October issues of
Belgium's legal newsletter and can be verified in the
online database
of the KBO.
Hyperion still exists as an entity, but according to our research
(automated translation of a Dutch
explanation), having no active registration with the KBO severely restricts a company's ability to do business:
- the company is banned from any commercial activities, i.e. selling goods or services
- the company is currently unable to file any claims in a Belgian court: claims from unregistered entities are
not admissible in Belgian courts
Hyperion can have the deletion from the registry annulled by supplying the missing annual reports to the Belgian National Bank.
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14.Mar.2018
Benitosub (ANF)
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Tower 57 for Amiga systems released
In summer of 2015 the arcade shooter "Tower 57" was crowdfunded and released in November 2017. Now also the Amiga port has been finished. The versions for AmigaOS 4 (builds for regular systems as well as for the Tabor motherboard), MorphOS and AROS have been developed by Daniel 'Daytona' Müßener and are distributed in a single archive. First videos of the game played on a X5000 and on Tabor can be found on Youtube.
Because the Amiga version could not be separately donated during the Kickstarter campaign, the developer asks all supporters who are interested in the Amiga port to contact him. New customers can purchase the game for about 12 Euro.
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12.Mar.2018
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Vampire accelerator boards: SAGA driver 1.1
SAGA is "a softcore reimplementation of the Commodore AGA chipset" which provides "some improvements over the original chipset". The corresponding driver now was updated to version 1.1 featuring the following changes:
- Updated VampireGFX.card to 1.12:
- Adds Scanlines settings
- Assumes SOFTSPRITE=YES by default if not set in tooltypes
- Updated SDNet.device to 1.1: Fix for x12 cores
- Added VampireGFX tooltypes documentation
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12.Mar.2018
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Raspberry Pi 3: Uae4arm emulator image Amibian 1.4.004 (beta)
Gunnar Kristjansson's Amibian is a preconfigured image for the Raspberry Pi 3 (resp. an overclocked Raspberry 2), which starts the Amiga emulator Uae4arm and according to the author "boots fast and runs fast".
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12.Mar.2018
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: PkZIP-GUI InstantZip 3.2
Carsten Siegner's InstanzZip (screenshot) is a graphical user-interface for PkZIP. Changes in version 3.2:
- based on libzip 1.3.0
- Support for Bzip2 compression
- New: included text and picture viewer
- Add whole directories to archives
Download: InstantZip_3.2.lha (139 KB)
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11.Mar.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 10.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until March 10th, 2018:
irssi-1.1.1.lha comm/irc 2.3M MOS Terminal based IRC client
ira.lha dev/asm 334K MOS MC68000/10/20/30/40 reassembler
luxcc.i386-aros.lha dev/c 526K x86 C compiler and toolchain.
CubicIDE_HW71.lha dev/hwood 797K 68k Hollywood add-on for Cubic IDE
Hollywood_SDK.lha dev/hwood 2.4M Plugin development kit for Ho...
pfs3aio.lha disk/misc 74K 68k PFS3 All-In-One
LightView.lha gfx/3d 347K 68k Realtime LightWave objects sh...
mod2wav.lha mus/edit 24K 68k Convert Protracker mod to WAV...
GED5MorphED_Pas.lha text/edit 42K 68k Object Pascal Parser
AmiSSL-4.2.lha util/libs 5.5M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
RocketManMOS.lha util/sys 1K North Korean country for Morp...
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11.Mar.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 10.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until March 10th, 2018:
liblua.lha dev/lan 434kb 4.0 Lightweight embeddable scripting...
aweb.lha net/bro 11Mb 4.1 The best browser in the history ...
pdf_maker.lha uti/tex 27kb 4.1 Convert postscript to PDF with s...
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11.Mar.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 10.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until March 10th, 2018:
mod2wav.i386-aros.zip aud/mis 33kb i386 AROS build of mod2waw from ...
luxcc.i386-aros.lha dev/lan 526kb C compiler and toolchain.
freedroid-rpg.i386-aros.lha gam/str 1Mb RPG Games
icons_games.lha gra/ico 110kb a little icons games for boingic...
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11.Mar.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 10.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS-Storage until March 10th, 2018:
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11.Mar.2018
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Game: BOH Advance
For Simone Bevilacqua's commercial "Dungeon-Crawler" BOH (AmigaOS 4, AROS and other) the 18th free update is available, which after a development of eleven years adds the name "advance" to the game. Under the title link all other changes are listed, among others 23 new missions.
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11.Mar.2018
Hacker News / gazsp (ANF)
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Video: 81-year-old Amiga artist Samia Halaby
Samia Halaby is a world renowned painter who purchased a Commodore Amiga 1000 in 1985 at the tender age of 50 years old. She taught herself the BASIC and C programming languages to create "kinetic paintings" with the Amiga and has been using the Amiga ever since. Samia has exhibited in prestigious venues such as The Guggenheim Museum, The British Museum, Lincoln Center, The Chicago Institute of Art, Arab World Institute, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Sakakini Art Center, and Ayyam Gallery just to name a few. (snx)
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07.Mar.2018
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 7.1 add-ons and trial version released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 7.1 as well as a trial version. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
- Hollywood Player 7.1 for all supported platforms (also available for your smartphone/tablet on Google Play)
- Hollywood SDK 7.1 for developing your own plugins (includes examples and almost 400 pages of documentation in various formats)
- Hollywood 7.1 add-on for Cubic IDE (kindly provided by Michael Jurisch)
- Hollywood 7.1 wordfile for UltraEdit
- Hollywood 7.1 online reference manual (over 950 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
- Hollywood SDK 7.1 online reference manual (almost 400 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
Additionally, we are now offering a free trial version of Hollywood 7.1 for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. The trial version of Hollywood 7.1 cannot compile executables, limits the script size to 16kb and may only be used for 30 days. It also comes with the RapaGUI and GL Galore plugins preconfigured so you can also do GUI and OpenGL programming with the trial version.
The release of these add-ons and the demo version completes the Hollywood 7.1 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal for download and more information.
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05.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Forever 7: R2-Update
Yesterday Cloanto released update "R2" (version 7.2.5.0) for version 7 of Amiga Forever as well as C64 Forever. Existing users can download the update via the Help/About entry in the menu. Under the title link you can find a summary of the changes made in the past eight months.
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05.Mar.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 131
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 131 (March/April 2018) have been released today, they can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include a review of "Tower 57" and "The Dream of Rowan", a fair report of the "Amiga Ireland Meetup 2018" as well as report about the demo scene.
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05.Mar.2018
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Emulator: WinUAE 3.6.1
Version 3.6.1 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been published. Compared to the features announced in the preview, the following changes have been added:
3.6.0 bugs fixed:
- It was not possible to create “DOS” file names like “AUX” to directory filesystem
Older bugs fixed:
- Game Ports panel selected Custom input mapping reverted to none in some situations
- Restart didn’t completely free configured emulated network cards
- Other misc bugs fixed
New emulated expansions:
- Progressive Peripherals & Software Zeus 040
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04.Mar.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 03.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until March 3rd, 2018:
dizzytorrent1.02.lha comm/tcp 469K 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
Void-AbsoluteDolle2.lha demo/sound 6.1M MOS Music disk by Void
HWP_SID.lha dev/hwood 203K WOS Play SID files with Hollywood
Amithlon-Guides.zip docs/help 2.9M Complete Guide to Installing ...
MonitorDriver.lha docs/misc 30K 68k On Graphics Monitor Drivers
RetroWars_1.0_DE.adf game/misc 880K 68k Point&click adventure (Ge...
RetroWars_1.0_FR.adf game/misc 880K 68k Point&click adventure (Fr...
RetroWars_1.1_EN.adf game/misc 880K 68k Point&click adventure
RetroWars_1.4_ES.adf game/misc 880K 68k Point&click adventure (Sp...
GoldenWingADF.lha game/shoot 447K 68k Asteroids clone, 1st at Capac...
GoldenWingHD.lha game/shoot 277K 68k Asteroids clone, 1st at Capac...
RiVA-0.53.lha gfx/show 898K 68k RiVA MPEG player
MMV8_2_PCM.lha mus/edit 8K 68k MusicMaker V8 to PCM converter
PPCCpuInfo.lha util/cli 14K OS4 query some cpu proprieties
workbenchexplorer.lha util/dir 2.1M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
JFIFdt44.lha util/dtype 820K 68k JFIF picture datatype 44.8
Uninstaller.lha util/wb 21K Uninstaller using Installer l...
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04.Mar.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 03.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until March 3rd, 2018:
milkytracker_sdl2.lha aud/tra 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 version of an FT2 compatibl...
oo.lha dev/lib 965kb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
aisshelper.lha dev/uti 2Mb 4.1 An advanced browser for AISS icons
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
gcp_device.lha dri/pri 1Mb 4.0 Google Cloud Print driver
stuntcarremake.lha gam/dri 3Mb 4.1 a remake of Stunt Car Racer
sdl2.lha lib/mis 5Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
ftpprint.lha uti/pri 3kb 4.1 Simple FTP based printing
ppccpuinfo.lha uti/she 14kb 4.0 AmigaDOS command for AmigaOS4 to...
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
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04.Mar.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 03.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until March 3rd, 2018:
Void-AbsoluteDolle2_1.... Demoscene Music disk by Void
HWP_SVGImage_1.3.lha Development/Hollywood/... Hollywood plugin for lo...
HWP_VectorGfx_1.2.lha Development/Hollywood/... Hollywood plugin for ve...
HWP_ZIP_1.1.lha Development/Hollywood/... Read and write ZIP arch...
GIT_2.16.2.lha Development/Tools A free and open source ...
stratagus_2.4.2.lha Games/Strategy A MorphOS port of Strat...
Wyrmsun_3.3.0.lha Games/Strategy Wyrmsun is an open-sour...
Wyrmsun_3.3.0_p1.lha Games/Strategy keine Angabe
VAMP_1.80.lha Multimedia A Multimedia Player pro...
Astuces_1.0.lha System/Utilities A new tips tool for Mor...
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04.Mar.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 03.03.2018
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 3rd, 2018:
- 2018-03-01 improved: Ambermoon (Thalion) access fault removed, icons and docs added (Info)
- 2018-02-28 improved: Super Skidmarks (Acid Software) increased memory to allow more cars, fixed crash on exit (Info)
- 2018-02-28 improved: Laser Squad (Teque) supports another version (Info)
- 2018-02-27 improved: Xenon 2 (Bitmap Brothers) possibility to skip introduction added (Info)
- 2018-02-27 improved: Silkworm (Sales Curve) jeep player controls defaults to joystick, adapted to WHDLoad v17, files can be crunched, no high scores save on used cheat mode (Info)
- 2018-02-27 improved: Great Courts / Pro Tennis Tour (UBI-Soft) fixed random keyboard interrupt crash at startup (Info)
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04.Mar.2018
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Asteroids clone: Final version of Golden Wing released
The Asteroids clone "Golden Wing", which took first place in the game competition at the Capacitor 2017 and was released on Aminet in December, now is available as final version since yesterday.
Download:
GoldenWingADF.lha (447 KB - disk version)
GoldenWingHD.lha (277 KB - harddrive version)
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04.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Weekly progresses (since 19.02.2018)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS:
- Fixed/re-introduced i8259A legacy PIC support (neil)
- Bug fixes that allow ACPI support to be fully disabled when using the 'noacpi' boot option (neil)
- Allow PCI devices to be used again when ACPI is disabled (neil)
- Fixed a memory corruption bug when setting up IRQ routing table information for PCI (neil)
- Added a new boot option, 'noapic' (not to be confused with 'noacpi'), that disables modern APICs in favour of legacy i8259A PICs (e.g. in case APIC support doesn't work well on your PC). 'noapic' and 'noacpi' must be used together to have an effect (neil)
- Fixed a bug in APIC support that led to crashes during boot because the kernel's list of system call handlers was corrupted during IRQ initialisation. This fixes booting with ACPI disabled (neil)
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