25.May.2016
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Unfinished R-Type clone: Thesius XII
In Autumn 2003 the team of Underware Design released the R-Type clone "Thesius XII" which they did not finish. According to the authors "this version is basically a 3 level edition of the game, minus the final two levels (which are no where near complete) and lots of polish" and for some time is available on their website.
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24.May.2016
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Tutorial: Raspberry Pi as PPP-server for the Amiga (Update 2)
An blog entry explains how you can use a Raspberry Pi with a cheap TTL-to-RS232-converter as a PPP server for an Amiga. The Amiga is connected to the single board computer using a regular RS 232 serial cable und is using a TCP stack - the tourial is using Miami as an example - to connect to the network.
Update: (25.05.2016, 15:20, cg)
The blog is hosted on the author's Raspbery Pi, which apparently can't handle the current amount of visitors very well. The website keeps disappearing for short periods of time.
Update: (26.05.2016, 22:15, cg)
A different Blog describes pretty much the same setup, apart from using the free AmiTCP 4.0 available from Aminet as a TCP stack on the Amiga.
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24.May.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update "Silver6"
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k series of Motorola which also provides a separate graphic output called SAGA. Currently the accelerator boards "Vampire 600 V2" are using the core.
Already last week the latest update "Silver6" (video) was released which among others fixes a PCMCIA bug (changelog).
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24.May.2016
Constantinos Nicolakakis (ANF)
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Renaming files: SRename 3.10.0 final
Using SRename you can you can rename a lot of files. After a break of ten years, Constantinos Nicolakakis started the developement again and last year he released a first beta version of SRename 3.10. Mainly the update provides internal improvements and at least requires AmigaOS 3.0. For users of AmigaOS-4, the version for 68020 is recommended.
Download: SRename.lha (164 KB)
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24.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Book announcement: AmigaOS 4.1 Emulation (English/Polish)
Under the title link Krzysztof 'Radzik' Radzikowski, who is well-known by his podcast AmiCast, has announced the publication of his book about using an emulated AmigaOS 4.1 for August. The book will have 300 pages. Additional to the English-language issue there will be also a Polish one as well as an version for ebooks.
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23.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Workbench-Distribution: AmiKit MK2 (8.5.1) for Android devices
The Workbench distribution AmiKit now also is available for Android mobile phones and tablets providing JIT and support for touchscreens (picture). Additional to files of the operating system (AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9), at least Android 4.2 and an ARM-v7-processor are required.
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22.May.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.05.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 21st, 2016:
twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 4.5M MOS Twitter client with map view
MCE.lha game/edit 1.5M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.7M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.7M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
BlitzQuake68k_150.lha game/shoot 371K 68k GLquake / GLqwcl (MiniGL/Warp...
HipBarr.lha game/wb 31K 68k Move a coloured bar to the exit
DiscFontColly1.lha text/bfont 89K Disc Font Collection 1 in var...
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.6M MOS Directory and files tool
WarpDTPrefsSP.lha util/dtype 4K WarpDTPrefs 45.9 spanish catalog
HWP_RapaGUI.lha util/libs 5.9M MOS Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo...
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 508K MOS Multipurpose utility
xfrmaster.zip util/misc 117K ppc eXternal Format Rippers maste...
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22.May.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.05.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 21st, 2016:
e_string.lha dev/lan 7kb 4.0 Extended string functions for E
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 77Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
hwp_rapagui.lha lib/hol 6Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for GUI creation
odyssey.lha net/bro 32Mb 4.1 Port of Odyssey from morphos
twittamiga.lha net/mis 5Mb 4.0 Twitter client with map view
xad_7z.lha uti/arc 240kb 4.0 XAD (UnArc) client for 7-zip arc...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 410kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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22.May.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.05.2016
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until May 21st, 2016:
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22.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: The Retro Hour interviewed David Pleasance (Commodore UK)
In its 20th issue, the British podcast "The Retro Hour" published by Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott interviewed David Pleasance - who was the former chief of Commodore UK. After the bankruptcy of the parent company, Commodore UK made an offer for it but was outbit by Escom.
Pleasance talked about rise and fall of Commodore and the Amiga, the plans for future of Commodore UK to that time as well as about the recently published film "From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years".
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19.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 12 interviewed Jim Collas (Amiga Inc.)
In its twelfth issue the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed Jim Collas, who from 1992 until 1999 worked for Gateway - in the end as CTO and Senior Vice President for the worldwide product strategy, product development and the product management. For half a year he also was president of Amiga. Today he runs a technology company for financial services, Engage Financial Technology.
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19.May.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games Coffer: Three new games added
Games-Coffer is a collection of games, applications and demos for Amiga and C64, which can be downloaded legally for free. Now three new Amiga games written by Phil Ruston have been added: Aquanaut, Giddy II and Operation Firestorm.
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19.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 55 (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 reviews about the Amiga games Black Viper, Wanderer and Flight of the Intruder.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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19.May.2016
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.14dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Beta version 2.7.14dev fixes some minor bugs and some translations have been updated.
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16.May.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Virtual maschine for Lazarus crosscompiler, now with AmigaOS 4-support
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released an update of Virtual Lazarus. It is a virtual maschine, which can be used with the VMWare Player and in which Linux inluding the Freepascal crosscompilers for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (i386) and MorphOS as well as Lazarus as RAD (Rapid Application Development) are installed.
Version 2 of the distribution for the first time supports AmigaOS 4. Additionally some minor bugs have been fixed:
- FIX: Redraw problems on AmigaOS3
- FIX: Size problems
- FIX: Mouse event crashes
- ADD: Support for AmigaOS4
- CHG: Striped image from unneeded things, reduced download size
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16.May.2016
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Arcade racing game Amiga Racer 3.1 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS)
Over the update function included in Michael Neitzel's Lotus clone "Amiga Racer", players get new features. Currently version 3.1 provides the first modules required for the multiplayer mode. Registered users also get a new Hungarian scenario, which is the 8th for Amiga Racer:
The next update is planned for May 22nd which will add the function "live weather": Then the weather conditions in the scenarios will correspond to the weather conditions in reality which means if it rains in England for real then in the corresponding scenario of the Amiga Racer game it also rains. This also applies to the time of day.
Amiga Racer is available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS as well as for other operating systems, a version for classic Amigas also is planned.
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16.May.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Driver system: OpenPCI under GPL released
The openpci.library provides an interface for drivers of PCI expansion cards which does not depend on the hardware. The PCI busboards Prometheus, GRex and Mediator as well as the emulator Amithlon are supported. With permission of the initiating author the project now was released under the GNU GPL, a corresponding repository was established at Github.
In the free version some mediator busboards of Elbox are not supported.
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16.May.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: RapaGUI 1.0
Rapid Cross-Platform GUI Development On All Islands
Press release: This is the game changer you've been waiting for! Airsoft Softwair is proud to present its most ambitious Hollywood plugin yet: RapaGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit that allows the creation of native (!) GUIs for AmigaOS (MUI), Windows, Linux (GTK), and Mac OS X based systems! This is a real killer plugin and truly a world's first because RapaGUI is the first cross-platform GUI toolkit to support Amiga-based systems with MUI as well. This is surely a dream come true for many Amiga users! In fact, RapaGUI is a MUI Royale spin-off with the killer app twist. Like in MUI Royale, 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!
MUI Royale and RapaGUI are very similar in their design. Thus, porting scripts from one to another is not much of an effort. A detailed migration guide from MUI Royale to RapaGUI is included in the RapaGUI manual. Note that for Amiga-only apps MUI Royale is still the number one choice because it allows you to access almost all of MUI's features whereas RapaGUI's focus is on full portability which is why its API represents the lowest common denominator between the Amiga, Windows, Linux and Mac OS X GUI toolkits. All MUI fans will be happy to see that RapaGUI's API was heavily inspired by the MUI API so that you can now use the world-famous MUI API to write GUIs for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X as well!
RapaGUI uses an object-oriented design composed of over 40 MOAI (Magic Omnigui Architecture Interface) classes. Those MOAI classes constitute the heart of RapaGUI. All GUI elements supported by RapaGUI (windows, widgets, menu bars...) are simply objects derived from those MOAI classes. By wrapping the diverse native OS GUI APIs into platform-independent MOAI classes, those classes reduce the many faces of the different OS GUI APIs into just a single MOAI API face, carved in stone by RapaGUI!
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 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 the fourth plugin to bear the "Powered by Hollywood 6.0" seal of quality as it utilizes the new display adapter plugin interface introduced with Hollywood 6.0. That's why we here at Airsoft Softwair say: Life starts at 6.0. Since RapaGUI requires a few enhancements introduced in Hollywood 6.1, you need at least Hollywood 6.1 to use RapaGUI. RapaGUI is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal at the title link. 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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15.May.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.05.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 14th, 2016:
SQLManSP.lha biz/dbase 14K SQLMan spanish guide v0.4
Euroscene_1.gz demo/funet 606M 68k Euroscene 1 CD Demos, music a...
Euroscene_2.gz demo/funet 600M 68k Euroscene 2 CD Demos, music a...
BoozeIntro.adz demo/intro 50K 68k Booze Party Intro (Skitfull)
ExpPyro2.adz demo/mag 106K 68k Explosives & Pyrotechnics...
cop.lha dev/debug 162K 68k Low Level Debugger
DiskSafe.lha disk/salv 92K 68k No longer non validated disks!
Carrelage.lha game/wb 33K 68k Move a diagonal bar to the exit
FrodoSP.lha misc/emu 8K Frodo v2.4 spanish & gali...
lameA68K-3.100a2.lha mus/misc 534K 68k MP3 encoder for A68K
EvenMoreSP.lha text/show 4K EvenMore v0.90 spanish catalog
xad_7z.lha util/arc 240K OS4 XAD (UnArc) client for 7-Zip ...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 448K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 551K OS4 Multipurpose utility
PIconTools.lha util/wb 45K 68k Various GUIs for managing icons
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15.May.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.05.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 14th, 2016:
e_string.lha dev/lan 7kb 4.0 Extended string functions for E
fpc.lha dev/lan 56Mb 4.0 Free Pascal 3.1.1 including LCL ...
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 76Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
getpixel.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.1 Get hexadecimal colour of a pixe...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 551kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
st_ships.lha uti/mis 120Mb 4.0 Database of ships in Star Trek
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15.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Amiga film: "From Bedroom to Billions-The Amiga Years!" available from May 19th
Last year money was collected for another Amiga film (there is also "Viva Amiga"): "The Amiga Years", which is a sequel to the documentary report "From Bedroom to Billions" (amiga-news.de reported).
From May 19th under the title link the film will be available as stream as well as later as DVD/Blu-ray (trailer). Among others the developers of Populous, The Secret of Monkey Island, Sensible World of Soccer, Defender of the Crown, Syndicate, Alien Breed, Wings, Shadow of the Beast, Turrican II, The First Samurai, Another World and Flashback are interviewed.
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14.May.2016
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New single of Blue Metal Rose
Since yesterday a new single of Blue Metal Rose is available. For "Strange Life", Alice Schmidt is supported by Thorsten Schwesinger (vocals. Under the title link a video for this track has been released.
For its songs the Dark-Pop-Duo Blue Metal Rose also uses the Amiga programm OctaMed Soundstudio. Patrick Nevian (together with Javier Alcaniz) has developed the free game "Tales of Gorluth".
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13.May.2016
Ricardo Iglésias (E-Mail)
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USB mouse adapter: JP-Mouse
Two members of the Portuguese forum Retromania.pt, José Gonçalves and Paulo Sousa (JPRetro), have developed a space-saving low-cost adapter which can connect an USB-mouse to an Amiga or Atari ST.
Under the title link this article is introduced in Portuguese, but on the left side you can translate the website into English. The adapter supports optical mice as well as wireless ones (27 MHz). If you order an adapter, the version for Amiga is set as default. If you want to order the version for Atari, you have to specify it.
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11.May.2016
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Crowd funding: Turrican 2 - The Orchestral Album
Already in the past, Chris Hülsbeck experimented with orchestral arrangements. Now he is going to record the songs from the Amiga classic Turrican II with an orchestra. In order to be able realizing "Turrican 2: The Orchestral Album", the fans have to finance it via Kickstarter with 75.000 Euro. So far about 44.000 Euro has been donated.
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10.May.2016
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Alien Breed clone: Prototype of new "Chaos Guns" engine
Originally "Chaos Guns" was meant to be a multiplayer shooter, a mix of Alien Breed and Hired Guns. Two years ago, a first demo version was released. Shortly afterwards the only programmer did back out. According to the team in a blog entry, meanwhile for a new programmer was looked and the concept of the game was completely reconsidered and simplified.
The old engine Chaos Guns, which was written in the exotic language PowerD, was far too demanding for Amiga computers. Therefore the graphics have been reduced from 256 to 32 colours and a classic tile-base model used. The Multiplayer theme "had to go" but the functional inventory and items management was reworked.
In order to be able testing the changes, different prototypes have been developed. At first there were some internal versions created with the Windows-based Game Maker, now also a playable version for the Amiga was released using Backbone (Youtube video).
The Backbone prototyope is meant to demonstrate the concept of the game to prove "that a full game using Backbone IS possible". The proper game will be written in computer code, which the Slovakian programmer Jozef Tomka will do.
The prototype is available in three different versions which differ from the size of the section of the playfield. Version A features the biggest section of the playfield but does not run smoothly on a 68030.
Download:
ChaosGunsBBDemo.lha (7 MB) (all three versions)
ChaosGunsBBDemo-A.lha (2 MB) (biggest section of the playfield
ChaosGunsBBDemo-B.lha (2 MB)
ChaosGunsBBDemo-C.lha (2 MB)
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09.May.2016
German Amiga Community (Webseite)
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Graphic card: Picasso II+ clone "Matzes-GraKa" available
For quite some time, Matthias "Matze" Heinrichs has been working on clone of the Picasso II+. Now in the Kryoflux store such a graphic card can be bought. Matzes-Graka has the same performance like the original card - a Cirrus GD5434 graphic chip with 2 MB RAM is also used - but is "about 25% faster than a Picasso II+ in an A2000 with A2630 accelerator board".
The card also can be used in an Amiga 500 - after soldering the expansion port connector. It has an integrated monitor switcher, which switches between Amiga and VGA signal. Matzes-GraKa consists of two parts (mainboard and slot sheet with VGA-port) which are connected with a flat ribbon cable.
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08.May.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Issue 97 can be read online
After issue 97 (July/August 2012) of the magazine Amiga Future is sold out, the articles of the English (title link) and German version of the magazine can be read online watching image files. You also can purchase a pdf version.
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08.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Free Pascal updated
In 2004 Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh ported the compiler Free Pascal to MorphOS and two years later for the first time adapted it to AmigaOS 4. Based on Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's version of Free Pascal for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x he has adapted the latest version for AmigaOS 4. Completed by Marcus Sackrow the compiler now is available for all platforms.
Karoly Balogh himself does not use the version for AmigaOS 4, therefore he asks all users to try it and give feedback.
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08.May.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.05.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 7th, 2016:
SQLMan.lha biz/dbase 8.5M MOS SQLite database manager
HTTX.lha comm/www 111K 68k HTML to formatted text conver...
NetSurf-m68k.lha comm/www 11M 68k CSS capable web browser
NitroNobel2016Src.lha demo/intro 89K OldSk00l Crackers Retro intro...
Time_Zone_BBS_Intro_3... demo/intro 116K 68k Legionay's BBSIntro3^Deceit/u...
BoingCube.lha demo/misc 2.7M OS4 Bouncing rotating boing cube ...
FredMonReplaySrc.lha dev/asm 7K 68k Example Source: Play A FredMo...
Amiga-Trademarks.pdf docs/misc 1.4M List of Amiga related trademarks
umc.lha driver/vid 36K 68k Calculates Picasso96 screen m...
WormWars.lha game/actio 791K 68k Advanced snake game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 684K MOS Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.0M OS4 Advanced snake game
robin_hood_demo.lha game/demo 64M MOS Robin Hood: The Legend of She...
RedEclipse1.5.3_Aros.lha game/shoot 110M x86 A Free, Casual Arena Shooter
cetro_del_sol.adf game/text 880K 68k Spanish text adventure
Brikabrak.lha game/wb 34K 68k Move all same type shapes tog...
opus-tools-0.19_a68k.lha mus/edit 329K 68k Opus Audio Tools
opus-tools-0.19_aros.lha mus/edit 436K x86 Opus Audio Tools
abcm2ps.lha mus/misc 484K MOS Convert music tunes from ABC ...
z.lha text/edit 5.2M 68k Vi(M) like editor that works ...
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 153K 68k WarpDT preferences program V45.9
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 517K WOS TIFF and BigTIFF image dataty...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 641K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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08.May.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.05.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 7th, 2016:
warptiffdt.lha dat/ima 517kb 4.0 TIFF and BigTIFF image datatype ...
gmap.lha emu/mis 45Mb 4.0 Amiga Player & Maldita Castilla
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
sqlman.lha off/dat 8Mb 4.0 SQLite database manager
strlen.lha uti/she 3kb 4.1 Shell command to return the leng...
amiupdate_fra.lha uti/wor 35kb 4.0 AmiUpdate French Catalog
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08.May.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.05.2016
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until May 7th, 2016:
- 2016-05-04 new: Megademo (Possessed) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2016-05-01 updated: Hybris (Discovery Software) reverted to previous install release (Info)
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07.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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ReWarp: Reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4 in progress
Under the title link Dennis van der Boon (well-known by his SonnetAmiga project) is working on a reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4. The goal of "ReWarp" (screenshot) is to make it possible runing WarpOS-programms under PowerPC computers which are supported by the WarpOSEmu.
A supporter of the project mentioned the PowerPC cores e500, e5500 and 4x0 - that means the processors of the AmigaOne X5000 as well as of the Sam460 and of the Tabor-board.
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07.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FPGA: Vampire-600/Apollo update "SILVER5"
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola which also features an emulteg) graphic chip named SAGA.
The latest update of the core which currently is used in the Vampire-600 accelerator boards togehter with the included version 0.9c of the SAGA-driver allow programmable screen solutions (screenshot of the user Marios Filos with a 8-Bit solution of 1360x768 pixels).
Changelog:
- Bugfixes (SFS, HDToolBox, VBRControl etc.)
- Some Core speed-ups
- In-ROM support for big partitions (>4Gb) on internal IDE
- SD card improvements
- Programmable screen resolutions
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07.May.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: CD³² prototype added
Two new entries have been added to the "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" concerning the Amiga CD³². Additional to the Full-Motion-Video module, which allowed the full screen mode outpit of MPEG films, under the title link you can find the "Spellbound"-prototype of this game console, which was sold by Carl Sassenrath during the AmiWest 2010.
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07.May.2016
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AMOS games: Mink Gold, preview to Total Pattern
Mink Gold is a version of Pacman (Youtube video) which was wriiten in AMOS. The same author supported by a graphic artist and a musician also has announced the Sokoban game "Total Pattern" (Youtube video) which is supposed to be released soon.
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07.May.2016
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Level editor for Turrican 2
Dennis Meuwissen has developed a level editor for the Amiga classic Turrican II. The programm runs under Windows and requires the files of the CDTV version of Turrican II. So far not all elements of a level can be changed. You can get further information in the readme. In a Youtube video, Meuwissen plays the first level of the game which was changed with his editor.
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06.May.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Free download: Dizzy Dice
The gambling game Dizzy Dice was released in 1990 and now is available for free download.
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06.May.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Review of tool collection "Enhancer Software"
In his blog, Epsilon introduces the software collection Enhancer Software .
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06.May.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Datatype: WarpTIFF 45.9
Again after five years, Oliver Roberts has released another update of his WarpTIFF-datatypes for AmigaOS 3.x, WarpUp, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which are sold as Shareware.
Changes in version 45.9:
- Can now load image files conforming to the BigTIFF specification
- Added JPEG AltiVec speed optimizations for the AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS versions making decoding speed of baseline images 1.5x faster on a G4 and 1.9x faster on a PA6T, with fancy upsampling off, on average. These optimizations can be toggled off/on using the new USE_ALTIVEC setting
- JPEG Huffman decoder in PowerPC versions is now 5-10% faster
- Applications may now configure the datatype settings via a local variable, overriding any global user settings present in ENV:
- Replaced usage of old Exec and Dos AmigaOS 4 functions with the new ones
- Updated with libtiff 4.0.6, zlib 1.2.8 and jpeglib 9b
- AmigaOS 4 version and MorphOS AltiVec code recompiled with GCC 5.2.0
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9d
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06.May.2016
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Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.5 68k (SDL-MUI-Version)
Artur Jarosik has released an update of his SDL and MUI based AmigaOS/68k port of the web browser NetSurf. This port of Netsurg is different to the one based on ReAction provided by Chris Young (review) which additional to the version for AmigaOS-4 is available as beta version 3.5 for AmigaOS 3.5.
The update of the SDL-version (video of NetSurf 3.4 under AmiKit X) provides a MUI-based preferences. Besides, it is now possible to use TrueType and non-TrueType fonts. The libraries and source codes correspond to the latest version. This time NetSurf was compiled with GCC 3.4 instead of 4.5 which provides a better 68k output.
Download: NetSurf-m68k.lha (11 MB)
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06.May.2016
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 54 (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.
The latest version among others includes articles about the games "Darius+", "Beyond Castle Wolfenstein", "Combat Lynx" and "PHM Pegasus".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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05.May.2016
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Emulation: Debian 8 for FS-UAE
If you ever have been thinking about running the latest version of the Linux distribution Debian using an Amiga emulator, you can now give it a try: Today a configuration file for the emulator FS-UAE as well as a HD-image including Debian 8 have been released.
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05.May.2016
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Sensible World of Soccer - The official world cup in Netherlands (20./21.08.)
Since 2004 all fans of the classic Sensible World of Soccer (SWOS) meet for "Sensible Days" each year, together looking back on past times and selecting the "official" SWOS world champion. According to the website "there will be two main tournaments (PC SWOS and Amiga SWOS), two side tournaments (Classic Sensi and X-Box) and hopefully a few surprises (oranges and apples anyone?).
Ifg you want to see how strong the players are, you can watch a video of the last year's PC final. The Sensible Days 2016 will take place on August 20th and 21st in Bornerbroek (Almelo), Netherlands. The maximum possible fee (entry fee, 3 overnight stays, 8 meals, unlimited snacks and beverages) would be 120 Euro, but there are different charges.
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04.May.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future, issue 120
Today the English and German issue 120 (May/June 2016) of the printed magazine Amiga Future have been published can be ordered directly from the magazine's editorial office or Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. This issue includes an interview with Bert Jahn (WHDLoad) and a review of Icaros Desktop 2.1 and Hollywood 6.1.
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02.May.2016
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaOS 4: Arcade emulator FinalBurn Alpha 0.2.97.37 R2
FinalBurn Alpha is an arcade emulator supporting several hardware platforms, e.g. Sega Master System and MegaDrive, Colecovision, Capcom CS-1/2/3 and Neo Geo.
The update includes OpenGL, new supported games (8449 in total now), rendering effects, new SkinFX, animated GIFs in the GUI, speed improvements, bug fixes and sample support. (snx)
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02.May.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 25.04.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of April 25th:
- SMB file system has been updated to version 1.102 bringing Windows 7 compatibility (Kalamatee)
- Lodepaint is now part of AROS ports repository (mazze)
- GCC 6.1.0 is now available as cross compiler for AROS (Kalamatee)
- Notification on changing gl.library implementation are now correctly registered (neil)
- ZuneArc application has been updated to version 1.4b (mazze)
- Abcm2ps has been updated to version 8.11.4 and BWBasic has been updated to version 3.0 (mazze)
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02.May.2016
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.13dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Beta version 2.7.13dev fixes some minor bugs.
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02.May.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: "Enhancer Software" updates system files and tools
In a press release A-EON has announced the availability of the software bundle "Enhancer Software". In the late 1980s Commodore did sell OS-updates for AmigaOS 1.x - obviously A-EON tries to avoid using the name "OS-update": Enhancer Software is a collection of tools, commodities, classes, datatypes and library "with the aim of enhancing the AmigaOS experience". Included are:
Drivers and file systems:
- Warp3D Nova: pre-release, inclusive free updates
- RadeonHD-Treiber: Adapted for Nova in version v1 or v2, depending on the desired edition
- SmartFilesystem 2
Tools:
- X-Dock: A new dock
- updated version of AmiDVD
- MultiEdit: New text editor featuring tabs
- MultiViewer 2.2: Among others image thumbnails added
- updated version of the partition wizard
- TuneNet: updated version, the user-interface now supports "4.1 FE features", the new classes InfoWindow and Progressbar (s.b.) are used. Only available as part of the Enhancer Software.
- CANDI: Different versions, depending on the desired edition
- InfoWindow Tool
System:
- Updated version of the notification system Ringhio: Sound and colorwheel support, individual app configuration, several bug fixes
- Format with SFS-support
Commodities:
- ClipViewer: A clipboard manager
- Exchanger: A commodity and application manager which can show, hide (iconify) or quit programms, display the Workbench information requester for the particular program or which can enable and disable commodities
C-commands:
- RequestChooser: Shows a text - e.g. a software licence - "in a scrollable window and obtain a response via standard requester buttons"
Gadgets and classes:
- InfoWindow class
- Optionbutton gadget class
- PieChart gadget class
- ProgressBar gadget class
- SharedImage class
Datatypes:
"Enhancer Software" is available in two editions. The cheaper version is delivered with a limited version of CANDI (four animated Workbench backgrounds and the first generation of the RadeonHD driver). For an additional charge the full versions of CANDI as well as the latest version of the RadeonHD driver can be purchased.
According to an user the standard version can be purchased for 51.35 Euro, the "plus"-edition is available for 62.40 Euro. If you have already purchased single parts of the bundle, you will get a discount on the Appstore. In this regard the shop system still seems to have some technical problems.
Soon Amiga Enhancer is supposed to be sold in a box. A version for AmigaOS 3 also was announced. Further information are available in A-EONs new Wiki under wiki.amiga.org. As you can see there, the logo of amiga.org now is used for commercial products like the Enhancer Software.
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01.May.2016
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Password manager PastePass 1.4
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS "featuring an encrypted database and the abilty to fill in username + password at the stroke of a simple shortcut." A little tool called PassTool for encrypting the password is included as well.
In version 1.4 some bugs were fixed and user defined groups added.
Download: PastePass.lha (107 KB)
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01.May.2016
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'Amiga' no longer a registered trademark in Germany
All over the world more than 60 Amga related trademarks are still registered with various local trademark offices (overview, PDF). For the vast majority of them, the owner is listed as 'Amiga Inc., New York'. But the registration of a trademark has to be renewed in regular intervalls by its owner - usually every ten years - otherwise the mark gets deleted.
Since Amiga Inc. doesn't take care of that process anymore, Amiga trademark registrations have been deleted for several years already. So far, only superfluous registrations or marks in less relevant markets like Bulgaria had been affected. But from 2016 to 2018, all relevant trademark registrations in the important markets are about to expire, and the German marks are taking the lead: The registration period for the figurative mark 'Amiga' aswell as the word marks 'Amiga' and 'Amiga OS' ended in 2015.
As the German Trademark Office (DPMA, Deutsches Marken- und Patentamt) tells us, the actual expiry of a registration is followed by a grace period of six months, during which the original owner can reregister a trademark. After that, it takes another few weeks until the status of a registration is actually changed to 'expired' in the DPMA database. In fact, the DPMA register lists the figurative mark Amiga as 'deleted' and the word mark Amiga had already been deleted some six months ago. Amiga OS on the other hand will still be considered a registered Mark for a few more months.
Despite that, 'Amiga' isn't up for grabs yet in Germany - the European Intellectual Property Office also has a registration for an 'Amiga' trademark (file number 000815779) that only expires in 2018 and is valid in all countries of the European Union. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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01.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amicast: Interview with Toni Wilen
In the blog of the English podcast Amicast an interview with Toni Wilen has been published. He is well-known for the development of the Amiga emulator WinUAE but has also written file manager FileMaster.
In the interview he mainly talked about the WinUAE and his future plans: Adding missing expansion cards, improving the compatibility, using of several emulated graphic cards simultaneously and emulating the micro controller 4510 (CDTV-CR) which controls the communication with the front-LCD. For the emulation of the controller he asks for ROMs. For further details please have a look at the WinUAE main page.
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01.May.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on the Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- March/April 2016 news
- Old articles from Tilt 60 to 66:
- File: games and flops
- Report: CeBIT 1989
- Review of Space Harrier
- Interview with Steve Bak
- File: joysticks from 1987-1989
- Review of Design 3D
- Report: Winter CES 1989
- Review of Double Dragon
- Interview with Brian Fargo
- Review of Operation Wolf
- Review of Zynaps
- Interview with Benoît Charcosset (musican known as "Maf" on the demoscene)
- Review of Tanks Furry
- Review of Amiga Forever 2016
- Review of Ludexo
- Hardware: A2386SX
- DIY: Mute the ventilation on an AT power supply and a BlizzardPPC
- Tutorial: How to make MorphOS like AmigaOS 4
- Tutorial: How to get Delitracker working on X1000 under AmigaOS 4
- Tutorial: Use of the Nordic Power
- Programming: AMOS - the memory
- Special quiz about Infogrames
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01.May.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 30.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 30th, 2016:
amirc_362_68000.lha comm/irc 637K 68k 68000 version of AmIRC
NetSurf-m68k.lha comm/www 11M 68k CSS capable web browser
OSCRetroIntro2016.lha demo/intro 85K 68k OldSk00l Crackers Retro Intro...
Retro2016Src.lha demo/intro 29K ASM source for 'Retro 2016' i...
TheWallV11Src.lha demo/mega 1K WHDLoad slave src: Kefrens' "...
RNIOM1.lha demo/sound 502K 68k Retro Noises In Our Minds, Is...
ADF2FMS13Src.lha dev/asm 2K 68k Asm Source for ADF 2 FMS
C64P00-P00C64ConvSrc.lha dev/asm 3K 68k C64 - P00 ^ P00 - C64 Convert...
LP110.lha dev/asm 3K 68k Lamer Protection
PortablE.lha dev/e 9.7M MOS E compiler, r6 beta (26.04.2016)
FlexCat-2.18.lha dev/misc 1.1M MOS Flexible catalogs (C,Asm,Ober...
VMCISDN.lha driver/net 370K 68k VMC-ISDN Software
Oubliette.adf game/actio 880K 68k Find the exit. Kill the dragon.
arBar.lha game/wb 30K 68k Make some connections!
C64P00-P00C64ConvSrc.lha misc/emu 2K 68k C64 - P00 ^ P00 - C64 Convert...
GMAP.lha misc/emu 45M OS4 Game Maker Amiga Player&M...
ClassicWB3.9-MWB.lha pix/mwb 2.7M MWB iconset replacement for C...
Calimero_3.0.lha text/dtp 6.6M MOS A DTP Program
NoFastMemSrc.lha util/boot 1K allocate all available fast RAM
BoardsLib.lha util/libs 74K 68k provides detailed info about ...
WebPButton_1.2.lha util/wb 8.4M MOS A animated Button
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 30th, 2016:
c_string.lha dev/lan 10kb 4.0 Extended string functions for C
e_string.lha dev/lan 7kb 4.0 Extended string functions for E
portable.lha dev/lan 10Mb 4.1 E compiler, r6 beta (26.04.2016)
olctk.lha dev/lib 124kb 4.1 Simple AOS4 dev toolkit
flexcat.lha dev/mis 1Mb 4.0 Flexible catalogs (C, Asm, E, AR...
tbimageviewer.lha gra/ais 93kb 4.1 AISS image viewer based on AISSView
boingcube.lha uti/ben 3Mb 4.0 A bouncing rotating boing cube.
st_ships.lha uti/mis 29Mb 4.0 Database of ships in Star Trek
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 30.04.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until April 30th, 2016:
quad-stalker.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 1Mb Two simple 8-bit inspired clones.
lodepaint_src_svn146.tar.bz2 gra/edi 4Mb Source code of paint application
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01.May.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.04.2016
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until April 30th, 2016:
- 2016-04-30 updated: Z-Out (Advantec/Rainbow Arts) enabled VBL interrupt during game (Info)
- 2016-04-30 improved: Hybris (Discovery Software) smart bomb can be triggered using second joystick button (Info)
- 2016-04-30 improved: Badlands (Tengen) added second button, quitkey on 68000 machines, re-enabled VBL interrupt (Info)
- 2016-04-30 new: Sounddisk (Possessed) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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30.Apr.2016
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Calimero 3.0
According to the author Carsten Siegner, Calimero "is a powerful DTP program" and now is available in version 3.0 for MorphOS including the following changes:
- Texture mask (screenshot)
- Function to insert alpha channel in pictures (screenshot)
- Import picture directories
- Export WebP Anims with alpha channel (if selected)
- Load gif anims (alpha !)
Download: Calimero_3.0.lha (7 MB)
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30.Apr.2016
AlternativeTo.net (ANF)
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Software directory: AlternativeTo.net supports Amiga platforms
AlternativeTo.net helps searching for software alternatives. For instance, when you switch from Windows to Linux, you can check what is a free Microsoft Word alternative for that operating system.
Since yesterday the service also lists programs for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS. The database depends on third party submissions, thus (after registration) there is a form to add further software. (snx)
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29.Apr.2016
amigaimpact.org (Webseite)
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Emulators: HAPPIGA 1.2 launches ARM computer in Amiga emulation mode
Happiga is a Debian-based Linux distribution for ARM-based, credit card-sized computers like the Raspberry Pi, which directly is booting in the Amiga emulator UAE4ARM. An AGA-Amiga with 68040-processor and sufficient RAM is emulated and Picasso96 is installed. In order to enable excahnging data wth other computers, a Samba-share already is pre-configured.
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29.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Free hardware: Atari-USB Joystick-Adapter
Stefan 'Develin' Blixth has developed an adapter which connects classic joysticks with the USB-port of modern computers. The adapter does not require any additional drivers, the included firmware can be updated directly over the USB-port.
The open source V-USB is used as firmware. His PCB-layout Blixth also has made available under the GPL. The developer is going to sell assembled adapters but asks you for some patience. All those who are going to buy such a adapter, please contact Blixth via eMail.
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29.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Meta compiler: PortablE r6-04-26-2016 (beta)
Christopher Handley's meta compiler PortablE is a "recreation of the Amiga E programming language" providing many improvements. It can be used on AmigaOS4, AROS, MorphOS and Windows.
Changes since the last release:
- Built-in procedures can now support unlimited parameters (although only some have been updated to use this ability)
- Improved MUI & ReAction modules to use procedures with unlimited parameters (instead of immedate tag lists). So the C/C++ code generated for GUIs is now human-readable!
- Added the NoListOptim switch, so that the code generated for Immediate Lists can be more human-readable
- AmigaOS4: Added the 'intuition/menuclass' module, aka "AISS menus", and the example program "Examples/Amiga/OS4_ReAction/MenuClass.e"
- When a bug exception was thrown during compilation, it could give the wrong message. Now fixed
- Fixed a few module bugs
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