24.May.2017
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AnimWebConverter 2.75
AnimWebConverter is a little tool for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS written with Hollywood, which can convert IFF animations of the Anim or Yafa format into animated GIF and PNG files. Changing the size of the pictures is possible as well. In version 2.75 some bugs have been fixed.
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24.May.2017
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Interview: Glenn Keller, Amiga Paula Chip Designer
On the ocassion of the last "Vintage Computer Festivals", the Youtube channel "TheGuruMediation" has interviewed the former Amiga developer Glenn Keller. Keller has designed the Amiga-Custom-Chip "Paula", which controls audio playback, floppy disk drive control, serial port input/output and joystick.
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24.May.2017
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Amiga Future: Issue 103 can be read online
Issue 103 (July/August 2013) of the printed magazine Amiga Future is sold out, you can read the German and English edition of the magazine online (picture files). You also can buy a PDF-version.
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24.May.2017
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AmigaOS 4: File browser Workbench Explorer 1.2
Mark Ritter's Workbench Explorer (WEx) is a file browser for AmigaOS 4. Its preview function can show pictures, GIF-animations and read texts but also can play music files of the mp3 format. Version 1.2 provides bug fixes and some minor improvements.
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24.May.2017
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Compiler: vbcc 0.9f, sponsored by Individual Computers
vbcc ist ein C-compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific adaptions). The compiler supports AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, PowerUp as well as WarpOS. "It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99)." Frank Wille gave thank to Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers), who now sponsors the m68k-AmigaOS port of the compiler. He wrote: "This does not only help us to continue supporting and improving this port but it also allows us to relax the terms of use for the Amiga-68k community. Everyone may now freely use vbcc to develop 68k-AmigaOS code for commercial as well as non-commercial usage."
News in vbcc 0.9f:
- Changed licenses concerning commercial usage for AmigaOS/68k
- Power-of-two optimizations
- Warn when truncating constants
- Warn on hexadecimal escape sequence overflow
- Fixed some shortcut-optimzations that were calculating an expression in the target type even if that was larger due to casts
- Fixed -deps dependency generation for including local header files
- New option -no-cpp-warn to turn off all preprocessor warnings
- Fixed gcc-compatibility of #pragma pack() and documented it
- Fixed bug with CSE trying on non-scalars
- New config files for residentable programs and minimal startup codes (e.g. aos68kr and aos68km)
- m68k: Struct copy was using byte-copy also for aligned data
- m68k: Some addressing mode fixes with Dn.W displacement
- m68k: Constants in -sd mode are put into the code section by default and into the small data section when -const-in-data is specified
- vclib/atari: Fixed problem with receiving a trash-character on stdin
- vclib/amiga: Include missing cia protos and inlines
- vclib/amiga: New startup code and linker support for residentable programs
- vclib/amiga: More C99 math functions
- vclib: New target m68k-kick13 (Kickstart 1.x with 1.x OS headers)
- vclib: New target m68k-jaguar (Atari Jaguar)
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24.May.2017
Murakami (ANF)
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Printed magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 58 (French)
Since 1998 the French printed magazine aMiGa=PoWer has been published by the Association Française du Libre Essai (AFLE). Among others issue issue 58 offers reviews of the video player Emotion, the Enhancer Software Pack and Flower Pot. There are also reports about Gmail with Odyssey, UAE under MorphOS as well as Mist versus Minimig.
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22.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: GL Galore 1.1
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present GL Galore 1.1, the ultimate OpenGL® scripting solution for Hollywood! This is a major update which introduces Unicode support (requires at least Hollywood 7), support for the Raspberry Pi (needs at least a Raspberry Pi 2), and support for 64-bit architectures on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. On top of that, GL Galore 1.1 also introduces a modern joystick API which allows you to query joysticks with more than two buttons and axes. Finally, GL Galore also contains direct online help now for people using the Hollywood 7 IDE on Windows.
GL Galore is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to access the OpenGL 1.1 command set directly from Hollywood. This makes it possible to write scripts that utilize the host system's 3D hardware to create high-performance, butter-smooth 2D and 3D animation that is computed completely in hardware by the GPU of your graphics board. This leads to a huge performance boost over the classic Hollywood graphics API which is mostly implemented in software for maximum portability and compatibility. Especially systems with slower CPUs will benefit greatly from hardware-accelerated drawing offered by OpenGL.
OpenGL is a portable software interface to graphics hardware. It is available for almost every platform in a variety of flavours. On AmigaOS and compatibles, OpenGL is available as MiniGL on AmigaOS 4, TinyGL on MorphOS, StormMesa on AmigaOS 3, and Mesa 3D on AROS. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems are usually shipped with an OpenGL driver already installed.
GL Galore offers wrapper functions for most commands of the OpenGL 1.1 API including many GLU functions. Additionally, GL Galore also offers bridging functions that allow you to convert Hollywood brushes into OpenGL textures and vice versa. Furthermore, when GL Galore is activated, Hollywood's hardware brushes and hardware double-buffers are mapped directly to OpenGL so that you can even benefit from hardware accelerated drawing and transformation without writing a single line of GL code. Whenever GL Galore is activated, all graphics output will automatically be routed through OpenGL.
GL Galore can also be useful for rapidly prototyping software in OpenGL. People who used to program OpenGL using C will greatly appreciate Hollywood's convenient multimedia API which offers functions for almost all common tasks. For example, by using GL Galore to write OpenGL programs you can avoid all the hassle of managing a GL window using one of the many different toolkits out there. Also, jobs like image loading, sound or video playback, font handling and image manipulation will become ridiculously easy thanks to Hollywood's powerful command set which covers over 700 functions. And of course, there aren't 14 different versions of commands like glColor, but just one version because sometimes less is more.
GL Galore is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ Versions for AmigaOS 3 (FPU required), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86,x64), Mac OS X (ppc, x86, x64) and Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64) are provided. On top of that, GL Galore comes with over 250 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM. Finally, many impressive example scripts are included in the distribution archive to get you started really quickly.
All of this makes GL Galore the ultimate OpenGL scripting experience combining the best of both worlds into one powerful plugin: Hollywood's extensive and convenient multimedia function set and OpenGL's raw graphics power!
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21.May.2017
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit X
The Workbench distribution AmiKit, which is meant for emulators, now is available as version 10 ("X") for the notebook "A.L.I.C.E." (A-EON Technology) which was announced two years ago and introduced in a preview video last year but still is not available.
Among others the performance was sped up, stability improved and a new version 4.8 of AfA_OS added.
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21.May.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 20th, 2017:
SMBMounter.lha comm/net 261K 68k SMBFS Frontend GUI / Commodity
vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 343K WOS POSIX compatibility library f...
Koules.lha game/actio 240K 68k Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Koules_OS4.lha game/actio 221K OS4 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
KoulesMOS.lha game/actio 234K MOS Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 420K MOS V0.91: Freeware Textviewer (M...
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 537K MOS Multipurpose utility
listwindows.lha util/wb 6K 68k lists open screens/windows fr...
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21.May.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 20th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
koules.lha gam/act 221kb 4.0 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
aos-iconsupdate.lha gra/ico 5Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
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19.May.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.3.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. Version 3.3.0 provides a lot of improvements:
- Last visited location saved to automatically load it the next run
- Soft or hard links creation ("refresh volumes" button used, [Amiga]+[K])
- The list of volumes and the current location are refreshed when uniconifying Dir Me Up
- Bookmarks / When a bookmark is added, a notification is now displayed rather than a window (except for the first one)
- Bookmarks / The "remove" button is no longer displayed when the list is empty
- Filter / If only one item results from the filter, it is automatically selected (and previewed if necessary)
- Filter / If the filter did not produce any results and the "Home" or "End" keys were pressed, a run-time error occurred: fixed
- Link preview / the type (soft or hard) is now displayed
- Soft link to a drawer did not work: fixed
- Hard link did not work: fixed
- Location / Italian translation fixed
The following new features require AmigaOS 4.1 FE:
- "Location" menu:
- "Remove bookmark" option has been added
- "Create link" option added
- "Create Text File" option added to create a text file in the current location
- "Add to bookmarks" and "Create drawer(s)" options inverted
- "File" menu:
- "File/Send to" sub menu:
- "Editor" option added: opens the selected file(s) under the defined editor
- "Multiview" option added: opens the selected file(s) under Multiview
- "E-mail" option added: opens your e-mail client (YAM or SimpleMail) and creates a message with the selected file(s) as an attachment
- Bookmarks / When adding a favorite via the keyboard shortcut ([Amiga]+[B]), the action was done twice and generated an information message: fixed
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19.May.2017
Amigafuture (ANF)
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Descent: Freespace as download / Update for AmigaOS 4.1
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the space-combat simulation Descent: Freespace (also known as "Descent: Freespace - The Great War", "Conflict: Freespace - The Great War", "Freespace - The Great War") for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition from the direct downloads section of our website.
Customers can now choose between two formats of this amazing game:
- a purely digital version at a price of only EUR 14.95 incl. VAT (may very depending on your local taxes) for download in our restricted download area,
- or buy a boxed version (boxed version only includes AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS version, the AmigaOS 4.1 version is available for download after registration on our website) at their preferred Amiga dealer.
The downloadable content consists of an image of the original CD for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and an archived game drawer for AmigaOS 4.1 including all languages and manual.
Purchasers get a serial number inside their box or by email to register their purchase at our website in order to get access to our restricted download area for the game archive, the original ISO image as well as potential future updates. For a first look, free demo versions are available from the public download area.
The updated version for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition includes among others:
- compatibility with Southern Islands based Radeon cards
- uses MiniGL texture compression if available
- tons of game bugfixes including a fully playable tutorial
For existing customers of Descent: Freespace the updated AmigaOS 4.1 version is available free of charge after registering their genuine copy with their free Hyperion account on our website.
Descent: Freespace - The Great War is the highly acclaimed space-combat simulator from Volition/Interplay and offers an unparalleled mix of top-notch graphics for its time, plot and game-play. It is widely considered one of the best space-combat simulators ever and gained lots of kudos from all important game magazines. The game was originally released in 2001 for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and in December 2004 for AmigaOS 4 by Hyperion Entertainment CVBA. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.May.2017
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Hyperion attacking Cloanto's Amiga trademarks on a broad front (update 2)
It looks as if Cloanto's registration of the 'Amiga' mark filed in January in the USA will be contested by Hyperion: After the Belgium based company's attempts to register its own trademarks 'AmigaOS' and 'AmigaOne' failed, Hyperion now filed a request for extension of time to file opposition against Cloanto's mark. This is usually the initial step when trying to file opposition, so the United States Patent and Trademark Office is now listing Hyperion as a potential opposer.
Hyperion's application for registration of the trademarks 'AmigaOne' and 'AmigaOS' was primarily rejected due to 'likelihood of confusion' with Cloanto's recently registered Amiga trademark. It's possible that Hyperion is going to turn that argument around by trying to declare Cloanto's trademark illegitimate for being too similar to Hyperion's marks 'AmigaOne' and 'AmigaOS' - which are not registered but have been commercially used for years.
Update: (19.5.2017, 16:45, cg)
Yesterday, Hyperion went one step further: The EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) received an application for registration of the 'Amiga Forever' mark - not from Cloanto though, who's been using that mark in commerce for two decades, but from Monard Law, the law firm Ben Hermans works for. Hermans had created an account on amiga-news.de just recently, to point out (German) that use in commerce does not neccessarily equal ownership of the mark in all areas of this world.
Update 2: (19.5.2017, 23:00, cg)
Apparently Hyperion is also trying to attack Cloantos 'Workbench' mark: The Italian company had registered said mark - the US version of which they own since 2011 - with the EUIPO earlier this year. Just a few days ago, Hyperion - or rather, Ben Hermans employer Monard Law - has applied for the very same 'Workbench' trademark. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 09.05.2017)
Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week:
- Adapt code for const TagItem changes (neil)
- Network card improvements (neil)
- Debug build now stores debug info in .dbg files (Kalamatee)
- InitKickMemDiag fixed (twilen)
- ROM image size check added (Kalamatee)
- Amiga-m68k ROM fixes, A1200 should boot again (twilen)
- M68k ROM size optimization (Kalamatee)
- CD-startup improvements (Kalamatee)
- Add separate gifanim datatype descriptor)
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15.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.2
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free.
In Version 3.2 diverse translations have been completed and updated and some questions reworked.
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15.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 7.0 Addons
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 7.0. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
- Hollywood Player 7.0 for all supported platforms (also available for your smartphone/tablet on Google Play)
- Hollywood SDK 7.0 for developing your own plugins (includes examples and over 350 pages of documentation in various formats)
- Hollywood 7.0 add-on for Cubic IDE (kindly provided by Michael Jurisch)
- Hollywood 7.0 wordfile for UltraEdit
- Hollywood 7.0 online reference manual (over 900 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
- Hollywood SDK 7.0 online reference manual (over 350 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
The release of these add-ons completes the Hollywood 7.0 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal for download and more information.
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15.May.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP stack: bugfixed version of the ping command for Roadshow
Earlier this month Roadshow 1.13 was released. The updated "ping" command to ship in this release was found to contain a serious bug which could cause it to crash. The demonstration and retail versions of Roadshow 1.13 as well as the update archive that upgrades version 1.12 to 1.13 have been updated and now contain the repaired "ping" command. (cg)
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14.May.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 13th, 2017:
PhxAss_src.lha dev/asm 380K PhxAss 4.46 source code
PhxLnk_src.lha dev/asm 49K PhxLnk 4.32 source code
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha dev/hwood 4.7M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
regina.pdf dev/lang 3.5M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
gcp_device.lha driver/pri 1.4M OS4 Google Cloud Print driver (gc...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Apple2000v13_src.lha misc/emu 119K Apple2000v1.3 source code
Liisa1.adf misc/math 880K 68k determine prime factors + mis...
Liisa2.adf misc/math 880K 68k miscancellous programs
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha pix/picon 8.8M Game icons in OS4.1 Update 1 ...
WorkbenchExplorer.lha util/dir 1.5M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
cranker.lha util/pack 341K 68k Amiga executable and data cru...
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14.May.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 13th, 2017:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha gra/ico 9Mb 4.0 s0y gameicons 2017
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 581kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
wex_ita.lha uti/wor 15kb 4.0 italian catalog for WorkbenchExp...
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14.May.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until May 13th, 2017:
bs.i386-aros.lha gam/adv 667kb Bermuda Syndrome executable
icon_game.lha gra/ico 76kb Icon and script for many game
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13.May.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Printer driver for Google Cloud Print
For AmigaOS 4 Chris Young has released the printer driver gcp.device which makes it possible to use Google's Cloud-Print service. "gcp.device enables the Amiga to print directly to any of these cloud-
connected printers, using the PostScript printer driver."
Download: gcp_device.lha (1 MB)
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13.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire Edition 0.99
Artur 'Arti' Jarosik has updated his Amiga port of "The Legend of Zelda - Return of the Hylian" which is a fan continued sequel of Nintendo's adventure series. Additional to some new sounds, the game now is available as m68k-version as well as version for the Vampire accelerator boards. This one supports the AMMX commands of the Apollo cores.
System requirements:
- AmigaOS 3.x with fast 020+ no FPU (UAE/Vampire)
- RTG P96/CGX
- AHI 4.20+
- 70 MB free hard disk space
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13.May.2017
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Story of Commodore: Separating the current manuscript into two books?
Originally Brian Bagnall had split the second issue of his story of Commodore called "On The Edge" into two volumes - the first volume was published in 2010 and finished the story before the company Amiga was took over. The publication of the second volume called "The Amiga Years" has delayed again and again. In 2015 finally it was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign.
Now Bagnall has written in his Kickstarter blog, that there is so much to tell that it would be impossible to do this by using 500 pages.
Therefore he has suggested to seperate "The Amiga Years" into two volumes. The first one would start in 1982 with the foundation of Hi Toro/Amiga Inc. and end in 1987. The second one called "The final Years" would describe the time between 1987 until the bankruptcy.
Supporters of the Kickstarter campaign would get ebook editions of "The Amiga Years" and "The Final Years" as soon as possible. The printed edition of the first volume would follow. In order to be able to publish "The Final Years" also as printed edition, another Kickstarter campaign would be required.
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11.May.2017
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Hyperion: problems with the registration of new trademarks
Due to Amiga, Inc's inactivity, the registration for the US trademark "Amiga" expired at the end of last year. Immediately afterwards, Cloanto applied to have the mark registered in their name, while Hyperion took a while longer to notice what was going on and filed for "AmigaOS", "AmigaOne" and the boingball logo roughly four weeks later.
By now, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reacted to Hyperion's filings: All registrations have been refused. The application for the BoingBall logo was denied because it wasn't signed or dated - the Belgium based company has six months to correct that error. The other two applications - "AmigaOS" and "AmigaOne" - were not signed either, but were addtionally refused (1, 2). due to a "likelihood of confusion": the USPTO deems them too close to Cloanto's "Amiga" mark. Again, Hyperion has six months to react to the refusal, by either objecting and argueing for a withdrawal of the refusal or by trying to register the mark for a class of products not related to computer hardware or software - which wouldn't make much sense in this particular case, obviously.
In contrast to that, Cloanto's "Amiga" mark was published in the USPTO's "Trademark Official Gazette" yesterday. If no other party files an opposition or extension request within the next thirty days, the mark will be assigned to Cloanto for good. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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10.May.2017
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast 33: Interview with Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion)
Issue 33 of the podcast Scene World offers an interview with Ron Gilbert, who was also responsible for the adventure classics like Maniac Mansion and recently released the point'n click adventure Thimbleweed Park.
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10.May.2017
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Preview: First issue of English magazine "Amiga User"
In March the Polish publisher amiga.net.pl had released a new English-language magazine. Meanwhile some first reading extracts of the first issue have been published. The complete magazine will be published in July as ebook and printed issue.
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10.May.2017
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Web browser: Netsurf 3.7 (SDL version) with Youtube streaming
Artur Jarosik has released an update of his Amiga port of the web browser NetSurf. His version is based on SDL, only the preferences use MUI, and should not be confused with Chris Young's native, Reaction-based version. Additional to some bug fixes, version 3.7 now offers Youtube streaming.
Upon request of amiga.news.de, Artur Jarosik explained: "This is RTG classic version, I may compile AGA version and put it on my website soon." That means that for the current version a graphics card is required.
Changes:
- reduce cpu usage by 7-10mips
- hide annoying console windows when playing modules.pl mods
- fixed and improved youtube playback.
- Better video quality (uses ffmpeg now), shorter conversion time
- New API key needed from cloudconvert.com
- fixed cda.pl playback
- fixed youtube playback
- NEW autoupdate
- NEW youtube streaming
- NEW information about convertion status
- faster htpps loading with asm optimised libssl (Chris Young)
- fix compatability on FPU systems
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08.May.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Interview with Timothy de Groote (Hyperion Entertainment)
Under the title link, Generation Amiga has interviewed Timothy de Groote Hyperion Entertainment). He talked about the end of the trademark "Amiga" in Europe as well as about the shopping tour of Cloanto, acquiring former parts of Commodore (amiga-news.de reported). But Hyperion is not "worried by this" because they "expect that Amiga Inc. or its shareholders will renew the trademarks".
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08.May.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 23 - Interview with Jarlath Reidy
In its 23th issue, Krzysztof Radzikowski has interviewed in his podcast Amicast Jarlath Reidy, who is one of the organizers of the Amiga Ireland Meetup. They also talked about the history of the Amiga, NG computers, Odyssey and Vampire-exclusive software as well as the Amiga Ireland Podcast.
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08.May.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 02.05.2017)
Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week:
- autodocs/webpage updated/fixed (mazze)
- Posixc.library enhancements (Kalamatee)
- work on native GIT continues (Kalamatee)
- adapt network driver code to recent utility.library changes (neil)
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08.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: MUI Royale 1.5
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the immediate availability of MUI Royale 1.5. The biggest new feature in MUI Royale 1.5 is Unicode support if Hollywood 7 is available. On top of that, MUI Royale 1.5 has its executable size reduced by about 80kb, contains various bug fixes and adds support for some more MUI features.
MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood 5.2 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. It is available for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC), and AROS (x86).
The package comes with over 20 example scripts, many of which are direct ports from the MUI 3.8 SDK by Stefan Stuntz, but there are also original developments like demonstrations of how to create a video player using the combined power of Hollywood and MUI. On top of that MUI Royale comes with extensive documentation in over 300 PDF pages which are also available in the HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM formats thanks to the Hollywood documentation system.
All this makes MUI Royale the truly royal MUI experience, carefully crafted for you Kings and Queens of MUI!
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07.May.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 6th, 2017:
CCNCatabasisSrc.lha demo/aga 666K 68k Sources for the cocoon demo C...
Cocoon_Catabasis.lha demo/aga 305K 68k Cocoon AGA Demo Catabasis (HD)
CocoonCatabasisD.adf demo/aga 880K 68k Cocoon Demo Catabasis Adf ver...
COP.lha dev/debug 163K 68k Low Level Debugger
ZeldaROTH.lha game/role 32M 68k Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire E...
Gloom_src.lha game/shoot 6.8M The first-person shooter sour...
68020iob.lha pix/3dobj 1.7M Imagine: Motorola 68020 objec...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 19K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
MuProtectModules.lha util/boot 134K 68k MuLib ROM Modules Write Prote...
icoutils.i386-aros.lha util/conv 1.1M x86 Extract resources from Window...
WorkbenchExplorer.lha util/dir 1.5M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
MMULib.lha util/libs 716K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
ReggaeList.lha util/rexx 18K AmigaGuide of your multimedia...
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 370K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 6th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
nostromo.lha gam/act 8Mb 4.1 9 games in 1
starsmap.lha gam/mis 6Mb 4.1 Wordguess: Hungarian and Latin n...
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
simonsays.lha uti/mis 476kb 4.1 Utility for HTML, Info, HAM, MOD
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 06.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until May 6th, 2017:
icoutils.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 1Mb Extract resources from Microsoft...
umc.i386-aros.lha vid/mis 48kb Calculates Picasso96 screen modes
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07.May.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP celebrates 25 years
Press release: APC&TCP will be 25 years old in May. Since 25 years, the APC&TCP distribution exists. In its origin APC&TCP was founded to publish the software of computer club members on fair terms. However, the offer was expanded very quickly and non-members can also distribute their software via APC&TCP.
The computer club has not been around for a long time, but APC&TCP is still active. There are still new software titles such as Roadshow, CygnusEd or DigiBooster released and also new updates are being worked on.
APC&TCP is also present in the merchandising market and has been publishing stickers, mousepads, posters and more for years. And, of course, there is also the print magazine Amiga Future, which is almost 20 years old.
In the meantime, APC&TCP has published more than 200 products for the Amiga and hopefully they will become much more in the next few years. We can not really celebrate. We simply lack of time. Nevertheless, a small draw. The price is a one-year subscription of Amiga Future:
What was APC&TCP's first commercial product released nearly 25 years ago?
- a) CygnusEd
- b) Databench
- c) Crossfire II
Send the correct answer by e-mail to Andreas@apc-tcp.de with the subject: "Raffle" until May 30, 2017 at the latest. The winner will be raffled among all correct entries. The legal process is of course excluded as usual.
You can find out more about the history of APC & TCP and the published products by visiting the title link. (snx)
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04.May.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 18.04.2017)
As successor of Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' (amiga-news.de reported), Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week.
Week of April 18th to April 24th:
- Build fixes (Kalamatee)
- Vpdf compiler warnings fixed (wawa)
- Vpdf German catalog added (pollux)
- MuiMine fixed for SMP builds (Kalamatee)
- Amosaic/TinyIrc build fixes (wawa)
Week of April 25th to May 1st:
- Build fixes / improvements (Kalamatee)
- 68k semaphore fix (Kalamatee)
- FFmpeg fixes (Kalamtee)
- Posix enhancements (Kalamatee)
- Work on native GIT continues (Kalamatee)
- Pthreads/bsdsocket conflict solved (Kalamatee)
- Autodocs updated (mazze)
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04.May.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 126
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 126 (May/June 2017) has been released today, it can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include a preview of 'Reshoot R' and Reviews of the Vampire 600 V2 and the Viper 530/E-Matrix 530. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.May.2017
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OpenStreetMap viewer: MUIMapparium 0.2 (alpha)
Currently Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow adapts his program Mapparium, which is an OpenStreetMap viewer for all Amiga systems, to MUI. Version 0.2 now can handle way points and tracks and can save and load them.
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03.May.2017
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Source codes of Gloom released on Github
The source codes of the 3D shooter Gloom has been released on Github. Obviously Gloom was written in Assembler and BlitzBasic 2.
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03.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Workbench Explorer 1.1
Mark Ritter's Workbench Explorer (WEx) is a file browser for AmigaOS 4. Its preview function can show pictures, GIF-animations and read texts but also can play music files of the mp3 format which since last month in USA is off-patent (Screenshot).
There are different styles for WEx, it has tabs and shortcut menus and can download files via FTP. Some addons also are available - using the PicFlow.gadget the preview function then also can play movies.
In the commodity mode, WEx can be automatically started after the computer has booted (WBStartup) and then runs in background. Using the hotkey (standard LAmiga + E) the file browser opens.
Download: WorkbenchExplorer.lha (1 MB)
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02.May.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP stack: free update to Roadshow 1.13
The Roadshow TCP/IP stack for the Amiga has been updated to version 1.13 and is available immediately. An updated demonstration version is available, too, as well as the updated software development kit.
A free update is available for customers who are using Roadshow version 1.12, upgrading it to version 1.13. Note: if you are still using Roadshow versions 1.8 or 1.11 then you will need to upgrade to version 1.12 first before you can upgrade it to version 1.13.
The changes in Roadshow 1.13 are as follows:
- Polish localization files were contributed by Tomasz Potrykus,
which can be installed as part of the update process.
- The "ping" command has been updated to support new options, which can
be used limit the number of test packets sent, either by
time or count. The time interval measurements taken and displayed
were upgraded and are now much more accurate than they were before.
- The "traceroute" command shares the same time interval measurement
improvements with the "ping" command.
- The "wget" command no longer crashes if too little stack memory
is available in the shell. Also, the data throughput rate calculation
now works correctly, which both affects the display of the estimated
remaining transmission time and the data rate limiting feature of
the "wget" command. Finally, the short form command line options (e.g.
"-q" for "--quiet") never worked correctly. This has been fixed.
- Several related bugs were fixed within "bsdsocket.library",
the "SampleNetSpeed" and "ppp_sample" programs, which could
lead to memory corruption or seemingly random crashes.
- The "ConfigureNetInterface" did not process the DHCPUNICAST
parameter correctly. This has been fixed.
- The specially optimized versions of "bsdsocket.library",
"ppp-serial.device" and "ppp-ethernet.device" for use on Amigas with
CPUs other than the MC68000 and MC68010 can no longer result in crashes
if they are used on systems for which they are not suited.
- The "TCP:" handler leaked memory whenever it was opened. This
has been fixed.
- How much memory "bsdsocket.library" will use for incoming network traffic
can now be tweaked. This is helpful for applications which keep
running for day or weeks on end. Previously, "bsdsocket.library" could
end up allocating much more memory than strictly necessary, causing other
active software to run out of free memory. Because the choice to
spend as little memory as possible comes with a cost (slightly lower
data throughput), this option is not enabled by default.
- The software development kit has been updated, fixing bugs in the example
source code, the "wget" command, as well as replacing the inline header
files for the GCC 68k compiler.
- The reference documentation has been updated.
The "ReadMe" file of the "Roadshow" update archive contains more detailed information about the contributors who helped to make this update possible, as well as more detailed descriptions of the changes.
The update archive does not contain the updated documentation or source code. Please download the demonstration version and/or the software development kit, respectively, to find the new material.
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01.May.2017
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AROS: ZunePaint 0.11
Yannick Erb's "ZunePaint" is a simple bitmap graphics program for AROS. Changes in version 0.11:
- added possibility to "stretch" clipboard and text objects
- remove use of static variable in mcc_Pictdisp.c
- added Eraser function
- tolerance range extended to 0-255
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.5.2 (alpha)
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Pang. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
For the program currently there is only a closed Facebook group, but the authors also can be contacted via eMail. The latest alpha version can be downloaded using Google Drive.
Changes in version 0.5.2:
- In Animation Menu offset of each frame can now be changed by dragging the image with the mouse
- In game setup you can select if you want enemies to collide against other enemies to avoid them using the same space
- Edit Level has been renamed to edit map, map now only refers to the level tilemap
- Background image in map edit screen can now be removed using the new Remove button
- Load map and Save map features have been added
- Added a condition trigger to check tiles with a comparison. Old one is keep for compatibility
- Added condition trigger to check if tile is solid. Parameters are the offset in X or Y to check adjacent tiles
- Added condition trigger to check if tile is not solid. Parameters are the offset in X or Y to check adjacent tiles
- Added action trigger to go to the next level (this sounded epic)
- Added action trigger to reload trigger. Right now it does the same as restart level, but in the future reload will reset the tile status of the map
- Added action trigger to change Display Offset of the object
- Added action trigger to change Size of the object collision box. Use it with caution
- Animation player in animation screen now takes into consideration the target frame rate of the game
- Tile border parameter for the tilesets is working again
- Fix for the issue causing past keys to be written when clicking on an edit gadget
- Fixed a graphic glitch when changing levels both in the editor and the player
- Fixed an issue with condition parameters not being edited correctly
- Fixed an issue causing a crash when using a background image for the level without tileset
- Fixed a glitch when going from animation screen to the main screen
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01.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: APK Compiler 2.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business - are proud to present version 2.0 of the Hollywood APK Compiler. This program 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.
Version 2.0 is a major update that adds support for the Gradle build system. A few months ago, the Android SDK build system was changed from Apache Ant to Gradle. The Hollywood APK Compiler now supports this new build system. Version 2.0 also erases the dependency on Cygwin meaning the Hollywood APK Compiler can be used without Cygwin now. Finally, version 2.0 also allows you to set the Android target version. If you set this to 3.0, your app will no longer be marked as "Designed for phones" on the Play Store.
This update is provided free of charge for all licensees of the Hollywood APK Compiler and can be downloaded from the restricted download section.
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! This release was brought to you by Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business.
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01.May.2017
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- March/April 2017 news
- Old articles from Tilt 92 to 94:
- Interview with Phlippe Ulrich
- Review of Magic Pockets
- Review of Elf
- File: Conception of a game scenario
- Interview with Stewart Gliray
- Review of Hunter
- Review of Gauntlet 3
- Comparison: Platforms/action games from 1990-1991
- Report: Summer Consumer Electronics Show 1991
- Hardware: 1000SU
- Review of Hero Quest
- Interview with Olivier Plaisier and Alan Kerjean
- Interview with Erwan Jestin (Happiga developper)
- Review of Emotion
- Hardware: Amiga 3000T
- DIY: Build your Amiga arcade joystick
- File: History of the magazine Amiga Information Online
- File: Biography of Muriel Tramis
- File: Classic Reflections - What happen to ASDG?
- File: Amiga history, year 2002 (update)
- Tutorial: Recording an LP with Audio Evolution 4
- Galleries: Mike Dafunk's gallery
- Special quiz about the AmigaOne X5000
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30.Apr.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 29.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 29th, 2017:
ign-addon-ods.lha biz/spread 1.8M OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
HWP_RapaGUI.lha dev/hwood 6.4M MOS Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo...
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 702K MOS Advanced snake game
abacus_src.lha game/board 108K Abacus source code
GloomTrainer_src.lha game/patch 12K Gloom trainer source code
SeaShell_src.lha gfx/3d 221K SeaShell source code
plplot68k-5.0.1.lha gfx/show 3.3M 68k PLPLOT Plotting Library
Handy095.lha misc/emu 182K 68k Atari Lynx emulator
Handy095-OS4.lha misc/emu 228K OS4 Atari Lynx emulator
YAG_Genesis_src.lha misc/emu 46K YAG_Genesis source code
acalc_src.lha misc/math 55K ACalc source code
convcalc_src.lha misc/math 34K ConvCalc source code
MathPaint_src.lha misc/math 39K MathPaint source code
izmirmarsi_mod.lha mods/pro 146K izmir marsi by emarti
BootManager_src.lha util/boot 26K BootManager source code
FocusWindow_src.lha util/cdity 13K FocusWindow source code
StringInOut_src.lha util/cdity 15K StringInOut source code
PCalc_src.lha util/cli 16K PCalc source code
RndBG_src.lha util/wb 17K RndBG source code
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 29.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 29th, 2017:
drawergad.lha dev/lib 285kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
handy-jacobs.lha emu/gam 228kb 4.0 Atari Lynx emulator
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 64kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
reactivetls.lha net/mis 704kb 4.1 ReactiveTLS is a TLS lib for sec...
enewsreader.lha net/new 2Mb 4.1 News reader for RSS, Atom, Twitt...
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 2Mb 4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
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30.Apr.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 29.04.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until April 29th, 2017:
jfif.i386-aros.lha lib/mis 109kb jfif.library
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30.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Atom Demo IV Soundtrack (Strange Days 2017 Refurbish)
- Pinball Dreams (Beatbox Ingame Remix)
- Enigma - A Final Hyperbase (Piepie Remix)
- Return To Monkey Island Theme
- Ecolove VS Ghost In The Shell voices
- Hyperbased [Saturday Night Edit]
- Apidya - Meadow's Edge (EXON 2017's REMIX)
- SWIV (Decimation Remix)
- Apidya - Meadow's Edge
- Elf - Forest world [2017 Remix]
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30.Apr.2017
Achim Pankalla (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: First upgrade for ignition-OpenDocument support
In December Achim Pankalla released an extension for the spreadsheet ignition, which added the option of reading and writing OpenDocument files (amiga-news.de reported). This format is used by LibreOffice and OpenOffice-Calc, but also can be imported and exported by any other spreadsheets.
Version 0.20 of this addon now provides a first update of the functions and some bugs fixes. ignition 1.0 beta4 and AmigaOS 4.1 FinalEdition are required.
For this addon still is a beta version, the author asks for your comments, bug reports and possible updates for functions. Please write them in the forum of OS4Welt.
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30.Apr.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: AmiWest 2017 from October 19th to 22nd
This year the AmiWest will take place from October 19th to 22nd in the capital city of California, Sacramento in the hotel "Holiday Inn Express", 2224 Auburn Boulevard.
Schedule of the event:
- AmigaOS DevCon starts on Thursday Oct 19, 2017 through Friday, October 20, 2017
- Classic Clinic starts at 5 PM on Friday Oct 20, 2017
- Show doors open at 10 AM on Saturday Oct 21, 2017
- Banquet starts at 7 PM on Saturday Oct 21, 2017
- Sunday starts at 10 AM on Sunday Oct 22, 2017
- Doors close at 4 PM Sunday Oct 22, 2017
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30.Apr.2017
VisioRetron (Forum)
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External HDMI-converter D520 in development
Thorsten Schubert is working on a device, which converts the analogue video signal of the Amiga as well as the sound into a digital signal in order to make it possible using current monitors with a HDMI-port. The external module will be connected to the video port of the Amiga.
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30.Apr.2017
AMiGA4Ever (Kommentar)
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Archive.org: Software Library Amiga online again
In August Jason Scott made available an Amiga software library in the Internet archive Archive.org which only worked for few days. Now it is online again.
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27.Apr.2017
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Amiga 32: Further guests and exhibitors announced
The organizers of the "Amiga 32" which will take place on 28. October in Neuss, have completed the list of guests and exhibitors:
- Return Magazin
- ACube Systems
- Dave Haynie
- ARES Computer
- Amedia Computer
- Ron Nicholson
- Mike Clark und Tim Wright (Psygnosis)
- A1200.net
- Hyperion
- Individual Computers
- Salvador Gomez
- Dr. Tim King und Jessica King
- A-EON Technology
- Trevor Dickinson
- Dr. Petter Kittel
- Richard Löwenstein
- Birgit Roßmöller
- Frank Geisler
- Perry Kivolowitz
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27.Apr.2017
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Hollywood: Graphics library G2D 1.8
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's G2D (demo video) is a graphics library for Hollywood programmers, which provides commands, objects and methods for manipulating 2D-graphics and offers a skinning system. G2D also is used in Falcucci's GUI-system HGUI.
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27.Apr.2017
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AmigaOS4: eNewsReader R1
Chris Handley's commercial "eNewsReader" follows RSS and Atom feeds as well as Twitter and Facebook acounts but "you will need to give eNewsReader permission to access your Timeline posts on Facebook."
Currently you can download a "trial" version from the website of the author which is not limited. After a certain period of time and the amount of downloaded files, the author will decide how much the full version of eNewsReader will cost.
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23.Apr.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: RapaGUI 1.1
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present version 1.1 of one of the most popular Hollywood plugins: RapaGUI. RapaGUI is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that allows the creation of native (!) GUIs for AmigaOS- (MUI), Windows-, Linux- (GTK) and Mac OS X-based systems! GUI layouts in RapaGUI are conveniently defined in XML files which are then converted into full-blown GUIs by RapaGUI on-the-fly. It just doesn't get any easier!
RapaGUI supports all the widgets you need to create modern GUI applications, including multi-column listviews, treeviews, tabbed page widgets, toolbars, status bars, text editor widgets, menu bars, HTML views and much more. The highlight of RapaGUI, however, is certainly its inbuilt Hollywood MOAI class. This class allows dynamic embedding of complete Hollywood displays into GUIs which can be used to combine Hollywood's powerful multimedia functionality with RapaGUI's GUI abilities into one powerful application.
RapaGUI 1.1 is a major update and contains the following new features:
- Unicode support (requires Hollywood 7)
- 64-bit support on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (requires Hollywood 7)
- Drag'n'drop support
- Combobox class greatly enhanced
- Lots of new functions for Choice class
- Online help for the Windows IDE (requires Hollywood 7)
- Support for high DPI monitors (requires Hollywood 7)
- Several other smaller improvements and bug fixes
RapaGUI comes with almost 300 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide and CHM that describes the GUI programming basics in detail and provides a convenient MOAI function and class reference. A step-by-step tutorial that guides you to your first RapaGUI program is also included. On top of that, almost 20 example scripts are included in the distribution archive, including advanced scripts like a complete video player, which really show off the power of Hollywood and RapaGUI working together.
All this makes RapaGUI the ultimate cross-platform GUI toolkit, carefully crafted for you sailors of the seven GUI seas! Only RapaGUI allows rapid cross-platform GUI development on all islands - it is the ultimate fusion of all the different OS GUI toolkits into one MOAI face, carved in stone for eternity and beyond. RapaGUI is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal at hollywood-mal.com. Versions for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are provided. AmigaOS users please do note that although RapaGUI is still compatible with MUI 3.8, it is highly recommended to install MUI 4.0 to use all of RapaGUI's features.
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23.Apr.2017
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Distribution: AROS Broadway 1.0 Preview 8 available
Preview 8 of Pascal Papara's AROS-distribution "AROS Broadway" includes new client versions for accessing his "AmiCloud" and "indieGO!-Appstore". Otherwise this version does not provide any other changes.
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23.Apr.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (ab 11.04.2017)
As successor of Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' (amiga-news.de reported), Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week.
Week of April 11th to April 17th:
- GIT for AROS native (Kalamatee)
- Build system improvements / fixes (Kalamatee)
- Nouveau wait_event implemented, lock added (mschulz)
- MUI autodocs improved (neil)
- Moved iconv to contrib (Kalamatee)
- Various source code cleanups for m68k/gcc-4.6 (wawa)
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23.Apr.2017
Amiga.org (Forum)
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OpenStreetMap viewer: MUIMapparium evaluation version 0.1
Currently Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow adapts his program Mapparium, which is an OpenStreetMap viewer for all Amiga systems, to MUI. He has released an early evaluation version of MUIMapparium for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS (x86/ARM) under the title link.
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23.Apr.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 22.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 22th, 2017:
ShimmerDB_src.lha biz/dbase 40K ShimmerDB source code
eNewsReader.lha comm/news 2.1M OS4 News reader for RSS, Atom, Tw...
acc.lha dev/asm 20M 68k Amiga Coders Club diskset f. ...
vda68k.lha dev/asm 70K MOS Portable M68k disassembler w/...
vdappc-mos.lha dev/asm 37K MOS A PowerPC disassembler w/ Alt...
ShapeGen_src.lha dev/basic 16K ShapeGen source code
luaexplorador.lha dev/debug 59K MOS GUI based source level debugg...
WormWars.lha game/actio 796K 68k Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.0M OS4 Advanced snake game
GDTrainer_src.lha game/patch 12K GDTrainer source code
daleks_halibut.lha game/wb 46K Daleks (Halibut) game
daleks_halibut_src.lha game/wb 31K Daleks (Halibut) source code
Greedium.lha game/wb 863K MOS A small mui game about numbers
lw_wheel_tutorial.lha gfx/3d 1.0M LW tutorial for accurate rota...
PatchCompositeTags.lha gfx/misc 648K OS4 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
RNOAnim.lha gfx/show 1.9M MOS Animation player, converter, ...
RNOAnim_OS4.lha gfx/show 2.2M OS4 Animation player, converter, ...
ShapeShifter_src.lha misc/emu 317K ShapeShifter source code
mathx_src.lha misc/math 342K mathX source code
23Nisan_mod.lha mods/pro 58K 23Nisan by emarti
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha pix/picon 6.5M Game icons in OS4.1 Update 1 ...
wpls2rtf.lha text/misc 152K MOS Convert First Word format to ...
KPatch_src.lha util/boot 3K KPatch source code
MakeHex.lha util/conv 151K MOS Convert an IRP file to Pronto...
ReggaeList.lha util/rexx 18K AmigaGuide of your multimedia...
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23.Apr.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 22.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 22th, 2017:
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
pythonssl.lha lib/mis 103kb 4.1 AmiSSL 4 based Python SSL Module
amisocial.lha uti/com 1Mb 4.1 A simple gnusocial client to upd...
rnoanim.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Animation player, converter, and...
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23.Apr.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.04.2017
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until April 22th, 2017:
- 2017-04-17 improved: Chaos Engine 2 (Bitmap Brothers) access fault fixed, 2nd joystick can be disabled, quitkey for 68000 added (Info)
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23.Apr.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 22 - Interview with new Amiga user
In its 22nd issue, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked in his podcast Amicast to 'slygon' from the forum Amiga.org. The AmigaOne X5000 is the first Amiga system to Eric at all.
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19.Apr.2017
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Trademark: Application of new "Commodore" refused
Two years ago, Italian Massimo Canigiani tried to have the mark "Commodore" registered in the European trademark registry using his UK based company "Commodore Business Machines Ltd.". Although the design of Canigiani's mark was pretty much identical to the famous original mark - which is still listed as active in the very same EU trademark registry - he hoped to get away with this by applying for registration in a different procduct area (smartphones). But this hope has been dashed: The owner of the original trademark successfully appealed against Canigiani's application last autumn.
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19.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Individual Computers: Memory extension A512 can be preordered
Under the title link Individual Computers has announced that the 512-KB memory extension will be available from 26. May. You can already order for about 25 Euro in advance.
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18.Apr.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmiModRadio 0.998
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." Version 0.998 provides bug fixes and adds another source, "The Module Archive".
You can report other bugs using the bugtracker.
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18.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.2.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. Version 3.2.0 provides some minor improvements for updating the display and for changing the window size. Besides, minor bugs were fixed and a German and Spanish translation added.
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18.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Amiga demos of Revision 2017
On Easter weekend the this year's demo scene party Revision took place. The Amiga Future has listed some videos of Amiga demos which have been released there.
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