26.Feb.2016
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Review: Netsurf under AmigaOS 3 (Update)
If nowadays users of classic Amiga hardware are going to surf the Internet, until recently they could only choose between iBrowse and A-Web. But both web browsers have not been updated since 2006 and 2011, respectively. As long as you are only intending to browse websites like amiga-news.de or the Aminet, then these two are sufficient - but it is quite impossible to access more complex websites like yahoo.de. Our editor Daniel Reimann has examined the new alternative called Netsurf:
In recent times, almost unnoticed a third option for surfing the Internet has been added: Netsurf. More precisely you would have to say a third and a fourth option, because there are two different versions of this browser that was originally ported to AmigaOS 4. Almost unnoticed, because these ports were only early alpha versions. Now both ports have been released in version 3.4.
Netsurf is a free, open source web browser, which is available for different platforms. The project was established in 2002, the first public version 1.0 of Netsurf was released in 2007. Already in August 2008 a port for the operating system AmigaOS 4 was added. Since that time, the browser has been uninterruptedly developed and now is available in version 3.4.
Since about a year, Chris Young is also working on a ReAction-based port for AmigaOS 3. According to Chris, Artur Jarosik has been developing a version for OS3 for a longer time, but which so far required the ixemul-environment. Today we are going to have a closer look at the port of Chris Young and find out if this version can be launched, is working or even is suitable for daily use. Test system was an Amiga 1200, extended with a Blizzard 1230/50 and 32 MB RAM, which is connected to the scart port of a TV set.
The readme states explicitly that AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9 with 32 MB RAM are required. Besides it is pointed out that "this is early beta quality software for testing only". Chris also wrote, that "it *will* crash!". Well, this I can already tell you: Netsurf did not crash a single time - this is quite an unusual quality concerning Amiga software: Hats off! The archive also contains a detailed tutorial in AmigaGuide format.
While earlier versions of Netsurf could not be unpacked under OS3, this is no longer a problem with the latest Lha archive. It contains an installer, which simply copies Netsurf to the desired destination and finally runs FixFonts. Afterwards you can launch Netsurf without installing any other additional Software.
After a few seconds, a first welcome screen is opened which tells you that Netsurf is "The Open Source Web Browser for AmigaOS 4". After that, the browser window is opened. The first time you start the program, a locally saved home page is loaded:
Of course this default home page can be changed.
Chris Young has uninterruptedly developed his port of Netsurf. While in earlier versions the preferences window did not work, the latest version even has added Tabs - which so far cannot be closed, though.
As you can see looking at the screenshot, the buttons for "forward", "backward" und "reload" currently do not work. According to Chris, this bug crept into the latest release while implementing the tabs.
Before we are going to load some more complex websites using Netsurf, two facts: Javascript is still disabled. And which perhaps is some more disappointing and because this considerably limits Netsurf: HTTPS connections do not work using this version of the browser. According to Chris Young it should work, but when accessing howsmyssl.com, after a few seconds a message pops up: "Timeout was reached" - therefore at the moment you cannot access websites like yahoo.com which use HTTPS.
But what Netsurf can load: www.tagesschau.de
As you can see (by the way, in the background the Workbench works using 256 colours) sometimes there are some graphic bugs if you use the "normal" presentation. The horizontal scroll bar also is missing. But the browser has a real nice and handy feature: It can scale.
According to Chris Young, this function still does not work as it should, because the website should not be cut off at the side, but either there should be the horizontal scroll bar or the whole website should be seen. For me, this feature was very helpful, because often the fonts are displayed much better when the website is scaled.
I want to mention two issues: Speed and memory consumption. As you can see on the lower left corner of the last screenshot, Netsurf always informs you about the time it takes for loading a website. In this case it took Netsurf 266 seconds to load tagesschau.de, while amiga-news.de is loaded in about 42 seconds. This is a lot of time but compared with its previous version, which makes me watching the monitore for about 70 seconds, it loads it much faster.
According to the author, all preferences are set by default to values which speed up the browser as much as possible. Only in respect to the memory he recommends to try out to set the value of the disc cache to 0. In my case, this had not any influence to the speed of Netsurf. However I did increase and decrease the value for the memory cache: For my computer, the value of 20 MB was found to be best. Higher values did slow down my system again.
As usual for Amiga browsers you can disable loading pictures, which saves a lot of loading time. Everyone has to decide for himself if and when pictures should be loaded ot not. For example loading the website www.spiegel.de took Netsurf 874 seconds to load with pictures and only 292 seconds without loading of pictures.
The number of colours set for the Workbench screen did not have an explicit influence to the loading time of the browser.
By the way, I did not have any issues with missing free memory at any point. The lowest available free memory which I had was about 11 MB. On average I had 19 MB of free RAM.
What conclusions can we draw from our tests? Actually I can recommend to give this early version of Chris' Netsurf a try! Of course the missing features like disabled Javascript or still not working HTTPS support are limiting the potential of the browser - and compared with iBrowse and AWeb, loading times sometimes are extremely high. But already at this early stage, Netsurf reliably works and gives you the option to access websites, which until now were not available to the classic Amiga user. Chris Young asks to report bugs to chris@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk. You can have a very nice and personal contact to him and he actually does answer to your questions and problems. So it depends on all of us, the users of OS3, to provide feedback to him and demonstrate our interest so he keeps looking forward to develop Netsurf with energy and enthusiasm.
Update: (04.03.2016, 00:30, cg)
In the meantime, we figured out how the SSL problem can be solved: The configuration file Netsurf/users/default/choices contains a "curl_fetch_timeout" that determines how many seconds Netsurf will wait until it displays the timeout error message. Increasing that value to 60 we managed to loadebay's classifieds (just to hit the next stumbling block, due to the lack of Javascript):
Loading howmyssl.com worked fine aswell now. Why it describes our SSL client as "bad" instead of "imrovable" - Chris Young tells us it should be the latter - is currently being investigated.
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25.Feb.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 49 (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.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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25.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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USB-Adapter: Firmware update for Ryś MKII and Ryś USB
The Ryś MKII adapter can be used together with USB HID devices like mouses, joysticks and pads to connect them as input devices for Amiga computers. The latest firmware update for this adapter as well for its previous variant Ryś USB adds the following devices:
- iBuffalo Classic USB Gamepad
- SNES pad with USB adapter
- elektronic switcher 2in1 DB9 (mouse/joystick)
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24.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Interview: Fernando 'Retrofan' Martin (Real AmiKit)
The blog of the English-language podcast Amicast has published an interview with Fernando 'Retrofan' Martin, who is the author of Real AmiKit, which is an adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for real Amigas.
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24.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 15.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 15th:
- A crash in TLSF memory manager has been fixed (mschulz)
- Amiga.lib no longer depends on C library (neil)
- AvailFonts function of diskfont.library now supports NULL parameter (mazze)
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24.Feb.2016
Kris (ANF)
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MiST: FPGA-AGA-Core 1.2
For the Atari/Amiga clone MiST (amiga-news.de reported) an update of the emulated Amiga with AGA-support has been released which further increases the compatibility.
Changes in version 1.2:
- Initial implementation of programmable display modes
- OSD HRTmon enable/disable switch is working (ON – F11 acts as NMI and enters HRTmon; OFF – F11 is HELP key)
- Proper handling of CPU access to Chip-RAM & custom regs – CPU waits for free slot when turbo option is disabled
- Fixed playfield 2 color LUT offset when playfield 2 has priority for OCS/ECS modes
- Some IRQ changes
- Added support for undocumented Agnus/Denise behaviour when BPL=7 in ECS/OCS mode (fixes demos like SushiBoyz by Ghostown, Sliced&Diced by Dekadence etc.)
- Blitter line mode fixed (fixes demos like SushiBoyz & Sunglasses by Ghostown, Vectorize by RSi etc.)
- Bitfield instructions fixed, barrel shifter implemented by Till Harbaum
- Fixed colortable for sprites (bplxor) – fixes Alien Breed 3D (and probably many others)
- Fixed keyboard rate
- Kickstart-ROM is also uploaded to mirror position (E0)
- Fixed reset problems & Fast-RAM disappearing
- Added CPU CACR cache control, fixed reading CACR reg
- Added scanlines for non-doublescan config
- Fixed video dithering – both spatial & random dithering weren’t working properly
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23.Feb.2016
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Kickstart switcher: A500Flash
A500Flash is a Kickstart switcher allowing Flash-memory reprogramming. The device should be installed inside the Amiga A500/A500+/A2000.
The design of the Flash memory enables loading another Kickstart image by running additional software on the same Amiga computer and subsequent switching between available ROM images by holding down CTRL+Amiga+Amiga keys.
The A500Flash is available in two versions, either for 512 KB or 1 MB ROMs:
A500Flash 5k
- Designed for Amiga A500/A500+/A2000 models
- Comes with 512kB of built-in Flash memory
- Support for 512kB ROM images – only the primary ones
- Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds
- Original ROM chip required
- PCB boards installation in place of original ROM and Gary chip
- Flash chips programming using native Amiga OS software
- Included software requires Amiga OS 1.3+
A500Flash 1M
- Designed for Amiga A500/A500+/A2000 models
- Comes with 1MB of built-in Flash memory
- Support for 1MB ROM images - standard and extended ROM images
- Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds
- Original ROM chip required
- PCB boards installation in place of original ROM and Gary chip
- Flash chips programming using native Amiga OS software
- Included software requires Amiga OS 1.3+
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23.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.4
Chris Young has updates his AmigaOS-4-port of the web browser NetSurf. Additional to improvements (websites now are better displayed) and bug fixes, now the Duktape Javascript engine is included. It is disabled by default because the support of Javascript still is incomplete.
For users of AmigaOS 3.5 or higher, there is also a new beta version. The author asks for feedback to improve this version.
Download:
netsurf.lha (6 MB)
netsurf_os3.lha (3 MB)
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23.Feb.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: 3D videos and pictures of 30th Amiga anniversary party in Mountain View
During the 30th anniversary party in Mountain View, Alex Carmona took stereoscopic pictures and now has published them under the title link.
The photographs are available in Multi Picture Object format, while the AVI-videos have two channels (A/B) and use the MJPG-codec.
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23.Feb.2016
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 119 - preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 119 (March/April 2016) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are previews of Spielwiese, Spice Obsession Mod for Dune 2 and Amiga Racer as well as an interview with Pascal Papara. The cover CD contains PD-software as well as some full versions.
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22.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Distribution: AEROS for Pi updated
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS is available for registered users as updated version for the ARM-based computer Raspberry Pi (video).
AmiCloud, AmigaRacer, MilkyTracker, fixed lokales, audio driver for AROS, VisualBoyAdvance and FCEUX are included.
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22.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.4.4
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a puzzle game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Android, Linux and Windows) in which you have to correctly answer questions on common knowledge, each with four possible answers. In the L and XL edition there is also a two-player mode. A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.
In version 2.4.4 some questions as well as the English and Greek translations have been reworked and the German, Portuguese and Swedish translations habe been completed.
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21.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZuneView 0.22
Yannick Erb has released version 0.22 of his picture viewer with editing functions called ZuneView for AROS.
Changes:
- GUI clean up
- Clean up the mess about Applying processing on selection or not, if a area is selected it's getting used, otherwise the whole picture is used
- Added a clear selection button and menu entry
- Live Barrel Correction is now working
- Rotation takes also last line and column into account for bilinear filter
- Added Barrel correction tool
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21.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Test your reaction time: R²Z 1.0
R²Z is a Hollywood programm written by Ulrich Beckers "to measure times required to motor-react (pressing a key) to different visual stimuli." R²Z is available in German and English for AmigaOS/68k, AROS and MorphOS.
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21.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amiga developer Dave Needle died
According to RJ Mical on his Facebook site, Dave Needle has died. After their employment at Amiga Corporation, they both worked as developers of the game consoles Atari Lynx and 3DO.
Dave Needle did belong to the original hardware developers of the Amiga. Despite of circulated love-hate relationship between him and Jay Miner's dog Mitchie he later pointed out to his relevance of the computer development. In the past year he did participate in the Amiga 30th anniversary party (picture).
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21.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 20th, 2016:
dsm.lha comm/net 7.4M WOS Synology Download Manager MUI
dnstracer.lha comm/tcp 58K 68k Trace a chain of DNS servers ...
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 3.0M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
streamer.lha comm/www 366K 68k Internet radio MPEG/RealAudio...
gathering95.lha demo/tg95 20M Introduction/results from Gat...
unixlib.lha dev/src 198K Unix compatibility library (s...
TheCrypt36.zip docs/mags 7.3M Issue 36 of "The Crypt" onlin...
TheCrypt39.zip docs/mags 14M Issue 39 of "The Crypt" onlin...
Gorky17Demo.lha game/demo 177M OS4 Demo version of the 3D strate...
Cantaloupe.lha game/misc 284K 68k 1996 Puzzle game, full version
Cantaloupe_src.lha game/misc 245K 1996 Puzzle game, AMOS source
Kumquat.lha game/misc 118K 68k 1996 'Quix' clone, full version
Kumquat_src.lha game/misc 66K 1996 'Quix' clone, AMOS/ASM s...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-1.txt mags/misc 41K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 1 (Jun...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-2.txt mags/misc 83K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 2 (Aug...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-3.tr.gz mags/misc 82K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 3 (Sep...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-3.txt mags/misc 123K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 3 (Sep...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-3ps.pdf mags/misc 289K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 3 (Sep...
wirenet.lha misc/antiq 6.0M website snapshot: UK Amiga IS...
GoatTrackerStereo-mos... mus/edit 747K MOS Tracker-like C64 stereo music...
AmigaOS39.lha pix/boot 115K AmigaOS39: Rainboot Theme
InstallerGen.lha util/misc 223K 68k Installer script creation tool
R2Z_68k.lha util/wb 1.3M 68k Test your reaction times
R2Z_AROS_intel.lha util/wb 1.4M x86 Test your reaction times
R2Z_MorphOS.lha util/wb 1.4M MOS Test your reaction times
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21.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 20th, 2016:
textfont_ex.lha doc/tut 346kb 4.0 TextFont examples
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 2Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
utf8_library.lha lib/mis 199kb 4.1 Encode/Decode or manipulate UTF8...
colors.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Prints out a color table with al...
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 16kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
showfiles.lha uti/she 36kb 4.0 shows a sorted & text-format...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 416kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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21.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 20.02.2016
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until February 20th, 2016:
- 2016-02-18 updated: Darkmere (Core Design) made 68000 compatible (Info)
- 2016-02-18 improved: Eye Of The Storm (Rebellion) supports the original disks (Info, Image)
- 2016-02-15 fixed: Brian the Lion (Psygnosis) works on 68000 now, quitkey, icons, manual added (Info)
- 2016-02-14 improved: Astro Marine Corps (Dinamic) 68000 quitkey support, all blitter wait patches removed, lots of trainer options added, support for 2nd fire button (grenades) added, interrupts fixed, MoveP instructions patched, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
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21.Feb.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Accelerator board: Adding a FPU to the ACA-1233
The Amiga user Allan 'Drewlio77' Versaevel has upgraded his ACA-1233 accelerator board (55 MHz) by adding a 68882-FPU and a coresponding oscillator by himself. In his opinion, this might be the fastest 68030-board for the Amiga 1200.
Additional to his abridged report, under the title link he also has published pictures.
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20.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: Six applications added
Six applications have been added to the software collection Games-Coffer: Easycalc, Future Writer 1.2, Magicmenu, Parnet, Trevs Demomaker and VIC 20 Emulator.
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20.Feb.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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IBrowse developers explained usage of TLS with AmiSSL
The developers wrote: "I'm sure you are all well aware that many secure websites are normally not reachable with IBrowse 2.4 any longer, due to servers shutting off SSLv2 and SSLv3 connections due to the POODLE attack. However, there is a solution...
This is delayed advice, as I have only just realised it was possible: contrary to the previous news item, you should enable both "SSLv2 support" and "SSLv3 support" on the "Security" page of the IBrowse preferences. You must then also enter the following command in a shell:
setenv save AmiSSL/SSL_CLIENT_VERSION tls1
This will force any most applications that use AmiSSL, including IBrowse, to disable both SSLv2 and SSLv3, and use more secure TLSv1 connections instead.
This issue will be properly addressed in IBrowse 2.5 and a new version of AmiSSL."
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19.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Demo version of Gorky 17
In October Hyperion Entertainment released its AmigaOS-4 port of the game "Gorky 17" (amiga-news.de reported). Under the title link today a demo version was released which includes the first level.
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19.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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MorphOS: Amiga Racer 2.8e
While the version for AmigaOS-4.1 of the racing computer game "Amiga Racer" (amiga-news.de reported) is constantly updated in the OS4Depot-Uploads, the version for MorphOS from the end of October remained almost unnoticed. On tuesday version 2.8e was released.
As our reader "p-OS" has pointed out, updating to newer versions is possible from within the game. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 01.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 1st:
- 64-bit fixes have been applied to Urltext, BWin and TheBar MUI classes (Kalamatee)
Week of February 8th:
- Performance of part of rendering of decoration system has been improved (Kalamatee)
- Alpha blitting in IntelG45 driver in now improved (Kalamatee)
- Fixes for 68k compatibility have been added to Calculator (wawa)
- Which command has been fixed only to find files (mazze)
- Romania keymap now available in Input preferences (polluks)
- Multiview is now able to scroll with space and backspace (mazze)
- Compatibility of Which command has been improved (mazze)
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18.Feb.2016
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amiga-news.de: Downtimes due to attacks on the database
During the last two days amiga-news.de could not be accessed for a longer period: Our server was attacked by a script which succeeded several times in overloading our database. But no data got lost and the hackers could not break into our system. The problem should be fixed now. We apologize for the downtimes.
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16.Feb.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 3.3.0
As usual Toni Wilen has given a detailed preview to the forthcoming version of the Amiga emulator WinUAE. Version 3.3.0 will focus on AmigaOS 4-specific adaptions. Wilen thanks all donators, who have supported him to make these changes possible. He also points out that the performance of this extensions will never be the equal of the AmigaOS 3 extensions because the context switches between emulated and native code is much more complicated and therefore slower.
New features:
- New optional "indirect" UAE expansion trap system, fully compatible
with OS4.x, virtual memory and some debugging programs.
- PC Bridgeboard disk drive raw image support. (ipf, ext adf,...)
- Monochrome video out emulation, including A1000 color/mono video
out software control (BPLCON0 COLOR bit).
- Dark palette fix option to correct colors of badly ported Atari ST
games (Midnight Resistance etc..)
- Official CSPPC/BPPC flash updater can be used to install full ROM
image without having existing ROM image.
- Custom input events can execute Amiga-side commands and scripts.
UAE-extensions, now supported by OS4:
- Directory harddrives, including on the fly insertion/removal.
- CDFS CD mounting.
- Clipboard sharing.
- uaegfx RTG.
- uaehf.device hardfiles.
- Virtual mouse driver/magic mouse/tablet mode.
- uaenet.device.
- uaeserial.device.
- uaescsi.device.
- uae.resource and uaenative.library.
Updates:
- Game Ports panel input customization is finally very intuitive.
- On the fly input device insertion/removal now remembers if device
was previously inserted and autoselects previous game ports slot.
- Many input device handling updates and fixes.
Fixed bugs:
- Hardware RTG emulation rendered same frame twice in some situations causing
slow performance.
- Amithlon partition type (0x78/0x30) support works again.
- Some storage devices failed to mount as a harddrive.
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16.Feb.2016
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Preview videos: Shoot'em Ups "Ego Wings" and "Steel Hawk"
Two vertically scrolling Shoot'em Ups currently are in development for the Amiga: The author of "Ego Wings" has published a first video, but at the same time has regret that due to a lack of time the development proceeds rather slowly. Already the third video has been published of "Steel Hawk", which now shows version number 0.10.
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14.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 13th, 2016:
AmiVNC4.lha comm/tcp 160K OS4 Experimental VNC server w/ sr...
GoogleDrive_handler_O... comm/tcp 1.1M OS4 Google Drive handler for OS4
dkd-twce.lha demo/40k 38K 68k Twice by Dekadence
Minimig.lha demo/intro 38K 68k Minimig demo
ADE_Embed_C.sh.txt dev/src 1K Embed a C program inside UNIX...
Koules.lha game/actio 238K 68k Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Koules_OS4.lha game/actio 228K OS4 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
KoulesMOS.lha game/actio 235K MOS Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Chain_Gang.lha game/wb 42K 68k Make some chains!
webptools050_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.8M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools050_aros.lha gfx/conv 5.3M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
PCxSP.lha misc/emu 13K PCx Spanish Docs
DeliTrackerSP.lha mus/play 31K DeliTracker Spanish Docs
Redit.lha text/edit 49K 68k Text editor
EvenMore.lha text/show 337K 68k V0.88: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 416K MOS V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 415K OS4 V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMoreSP.lha text/show 4K EvenMore v0.88 spanish catalog
FBlitGuideES.lha util/boot 24K Spanish translation of FBlit....
exutil_68k.lha util/wb 1.2M 68k Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_AROS.lha util/wb 1.3M x86 Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_MorphOS.lha util/wb 1.2M MOS Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_OS4.lha util/wb 1.6M OS4 Batch renames picture files b...
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14.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 13th, 2016:
drawergad.lha dev/lib 176kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
picflowgad.lha dev/lib 15kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
radiobuttonxgad.lha dev/lib 78kb 4.0 Radiobutton gadget expanded
textfont_ex.lha doc/tut 12kb 4.0 TextFont examples
hatari.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 Atari ST and STE emulator
koules.lha gam/act 228kb 4.0 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 72Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
googledrive_handler.lha net/mis 1Mb 4.0 Google Drive handler for OS4
amivnc4.lha net/ser 160kb 4.0 VNC server for AmigaOS4
exutil.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 An exif based batch renamer
showfiles.lha uti/she 37kb 4.0 shows a sorted & text-format...
wheelrun.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.1 another program launcher written...
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14.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 13.02.2016
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until February 13th, 2016:
- 2016-02-09 updated: Turrican (Factor 5/Rainbow Arts) overall rework (Info)
- 2016-02-07 improved: Netherworld (Hewson) fixed for 68000, removed NTSC dependency (Info)
- 2016-02-07 improved: Bart vs. the World (Virgin) loading optimzed, more blitter waits (Info)
- 2016-02-07 improved: Ultimate Golf (Gremlin) 68000 quitkey support added (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: Further prototypes added
After the Amiga 2200, now further prototypes have been added to the Big Book of Amiga Hardware:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Feb. 2016, 10:43] [Comments: 0]
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14.Feb.2016
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Short guide to Lua
The next article in the MorphOS-Library the Finnish member 'jPV' of the demo group RNO has called "Getting Started with Lua". It is a short guide to the programming language Lua and is available under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Feb.2016
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Quick review: PDF magazine Amigaville, issue 4
November last year Brian Hedley started publishing his PDF magazine Amigaville, releasing a new issue every month. Having released just three issues, each downloaded "several hundred times" (Hedley), the author decided to switch to commercial distribution: Amigaville #4 needs to be purchased for 2 GBP. We had a closer look at the review copy kindly provided by Hedley.
At 36 pages, Amigaville #4 is slightly thicker than the previous issues. The design stayed pretty much the same: a mix of single column (a rather odd choice, given the A4 page size) and three column layouts as well as pages with or without background pictures or patterns. The lack of justification and hyphenation results in a slightly jagged and amateurish appearance, many of the embedded graphics seem to have a low resolution - the full page ads included for nostalgia being the worst offenders - or have clearly visible JPEG artifacts.
The design does continue to improve with every issue though. Should the remaining problems get fixed in future releases, the mag's appearance is absolutely adequate given the price asked for it.
With regard to contents, Amigaville is still covering all aspects of the Amiga scene. The current issue features news, reviews of old games (Pacmania, Prince of Persia, Heroquest, Deluxe Galaga und Castlevania), an overview over First Person Shooters on the Amiga, an indepth look at Amiga Anywhere's destiny and the cover story "Should Hyperion port OS4 to x86?". The final two features are Hedley's personal history with computers ("My Amiga experience - or lack thereof") - which eats up no less than six pages - and the "Grumpy old Git" column.
The quality of the content matches that of your average retro blog: Hedley's texts are entertaining to read and he's offering an interesting mix of topics - while research or fact checking seem to play only a minor role during the writing process. Additionally, the author's lack of Amiga experience is clearly evident in many cases. The Amiga Anywhere article is a good example: While it does provide a decent overview, several technical terms get mixed up and it gets a few historical facts wrong. Plus, its conclusion starts with "for all the good intentions that Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss had" - nobody who witnessed the whole thing would ever word it like that.
Our conclusion: If you prefer having information presented in the style of a magazine, Amigaville is not that bad of a deal: you'll get a fair amount of entertainment for your 2 GBP, even if the switch to commercial distribution came too early and should have been delayed until several minor issues had been fixed.
Comparing Amigaville to the competition doesn't do it any favours though: Every other month, you can buy one issue of Amiga Future (6.50 Euro, 50+ pages, professionally printed) or two issues of Amigaville (5.40 Euro, about 70 pages, PDF only) - and all of a sudden, the newcomer's price/performance ratio doesn't look all that good anymore. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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10.Feb.2016
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Aminet needs help: searching for freely distributable Amiga magazines
The Aminet team writes: A lot of older freely distributable software is still missing from Aminet. Some of it is preserved nicely on Public Domain disks or CD compilations easily available on the web - but a lot of it is rotting away on private hard disks, old, unmaintained ftp servers or forgotten websites. The Aminet team has been collecting dormant software and quietly adding it to the collection for nearly a decade now. Hunting down software is a rather time consuming process though, and many things can no longer be tracked down easily.
Our current focus is freely distributable magazines - diskmags, ASCII newsletters, free PDF documents - you name it, we want it. We have compiled a list of all the titles we have (note that not all of these are available for download yet), as you can see we're still missing a lot of these releases.
If any of you collectors out there can provide us with missing information or even supply some of the missing releases, we'd be very glad to hear from you. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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09.Feb.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with Christoph Gutjahr (Aminet, amiga-news.de; engl./fr.)
French magazine Obligement published an interview with Christoph Gutjahr today, administrator of the software repository Aminet and one of the two publishers of amiga-news.de since 2010.
The interview contains background information on both websites and is available in english at the title link as well as in french. (snx)
[News message: 09. Feb. 2016, 19:32] [Comments: 0]
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08.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 25.01.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of January 25th:
- MultiView is now used for animation datatype (mazze)
- Work on modularization of SysExplorer started (Kalamatee)
- MultiView is now showing more details about data objects (Kalamatee)
- Fix for accessing freed memory implemented in Listtree MUI class (deadwood)
- MultiView is now presenting more information about images and animations (Kalamatee)
- Animation.datatype is reworked to speed up playback (Kalamatee)
- Intuition no longer crashes when menu name is not provided (Kalamatee)
- Rendering of animations in EHB mode has been fixed (Kalamatee)
- Anim.datatype now correctly supports anim-8 unpacking (Kalamatee)
- Further fixes to anim-3 format implemented (Kalamatee)
- Implementation of jumping to a selected frame in animation.datatype started (Kalamatee)
- Hooks are now correctly called from within realtime.library (Kalamatee)
- Tapedeck.gadget handles input on progress bar correctly (Kalamatee)
- Forward/rewind is now working in animation.datatype (Kalamatee)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text editor featuring Kickstart-1.2 compatibility: Redit 1.12
Kai Scherrer's text editor Redit works without any limitations on an Amiga equipped with Kickstart 1.2, but also is fully compatible with higher versions of the system. The editor can be also launched from an emergancy disk or used after booting without startup-sequence. Changes in version 1.12:
- added: Undo & Redo
- improved: more pleasent inital size and position of file request
- improved: loading large directories in 1.3 file request was slow
- bugfix: selecting last line with triple mouse click was broken
- bugfix: selecting first word with double mouse click was broken.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 17:25] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Tutorial for mounting network drives
The Finnish member 'jPV' of the demo group RNO has added the tutorial for for mounting network drives to the MorphOS library. It is about Samba, NetFS, RDesktop and the Google-Drive-Handler.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 15:11] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 6th, 2016:
AFnews-68k.lha comm/tcp 894K 68k Amiga Future Everywhere 68k
GoogleDrive_handlr_AR... comm/tcp 950K x86 Google Drive handler for AROS
DiskImageGui.lha disk/misc 17K 68k Mount ADF, ISO and HDF disk i...
ImageMount.lha disk/misc 18K 68k Mount ADF, ISO and HDF disk i...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AssaultCubeReloaded26... game/shoot 68M x86 First-person shooter
Flecho.lha game/wb 31K 68k Point arrows to the numbers!
Calimero_2.5.lha text/dtp 6.3M MOS A DTP Program
Redit.lha text/edit 48K 68k Text editor
mARK.lha util/arc 12K 68k Simple Gui for LhA, LZX, UnZi...
PoseidonScripts.lha util/misc 15K 68k Alternative ways of using the...
xbenchlist.lha util/misc 28K 68k X-bEnCh List Generator
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07.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 6th, 2016:
mhe.lha dev/ide 6Mb 4.0 Hollywood IDE
reactive_crypto.lha dri/mis 93kb 4.1 Hashing classes for Reactive
voxelbird.lha gam/act 4Mb 4.0 Amazing Voxel Bird Saga
voxelnoid.lha gam/act 7Mb 4.0 Duel Edition
wingsbf_rhdc.lha gam/act 16Mb 4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
wingsbf_w3dr12.lha gam/act 16Mb 4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
wingsbf_w3dr7.lha gam/act 16Mb 4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 72Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
sqrxz2.lha gam/pla 1Mb 4.0 Better play golf!
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 64kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 13kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
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[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 10:00] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until February 6th, 2016:
rebound.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 7Mb Brick busting puzzle game.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 10:00] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 06.02.2016
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until February 6th, 2016:
- 2016-02-05 updated: Airborne Ranger (Microprose) patch redone, movep instructions patched, blitter waits disabled on 68000, trainer options added, byte write to volume register fixed, new install script (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: Amiga 2200 (A1000jr) added
On the Amiga hardware reference website "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" the A2200 has been added. The website wrote: "A few months after the cancellation of the A1000+ and A3000+ it was decided the company should attempt to salvage the A1000+ technology and build a lower spec ECS-based machine. The project was developed under the codename 'A1000jr', an unofficial title intended to annoy Bill Sydnes."
The Amiga 2200 had an ESC chipset, which for reasons of costs only contained Zorro-II slots. They are on a Riser card, other extension boards had to be plugged in horizontally. All in all four different versions were planned which should differ in the processor as well as in the number of Zorro-II slots: A2200 (68020, two slots), A2400 (four slots) and analogical to that the A3200 and A3400 with a 68030-processor. The case of the A2200 was similar to the case of the Amiga 4000.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Results of the Amiga Games Award 2015
On February 6th 2016, french magazine Obligement announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2015 for the best Amiga games, voted by Amigans from all Amiga platforms.
AmigaOS (68k):
- Zerosphere (Code Red / Alexander Grupe)
- SQRXZ 3 (Retroguru)
- Solomon's Key 2 (Oookami Games)
AmigaOS 4:
- Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
- Gorky 17 (Metropolis Software)
- Swamp Defense 2 (AmiBoing/EntwicklerX)
MorphOS:
- Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
- Ask Me Up XXL (Boing Attitude :))
- Fruit'Y (Retroguru)
AROS:
- Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
- Fruit'Y (Retroguru)
- L'Abbaye Des Morts (LocoMalito)
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[News message: 07. Feb. 2016, 08:53] [Comments: 0]
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05.Feb.2016
Amigaville (ANF)
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English PDF magazine: Fourth issue of "Amigaville" for sale
Amigaville is an English-language PDF magazine. Ther first three issues are available on Aminet. The published decided to take 2£ for the forthcoming issue, you can pay via Paypal.
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[News message: 05. Feb. 2016, 14:45] [Comments: 0]
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05.Feb.2016
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Amiga Inc.-Magazine: "Club Amiga Monthly" on archive.org
After it was evident that the participants of the coupon action of Amiga Inc. would not get back their money and that the promised auxiliary services could not be realized, Amiga Inc. tried to avoid a PR desaster, which could have damaged AmigaOS 4 and the AmigaOne.
All purchasers of the coupon were rewarded with a "club" membership. All members should get an exclusive club magazine providing the latest information on AmigaOS 4/AmigaOne development. The HTML-based "Club Amiga Monthly" was published monthly on os.amiga.com/cam/ and could only be accessed by club members. After twelve issues the magazine was discontinued.
The magazines which were already thought to have been lost forever are now available again for eveybody on archive.org.
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04.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: FUSE file system exFAT 53.3 and NTFS-3G 53.4
Since November, the FUSE file system framework has been available to AROS, thanks to Fredrik Wikstrom (amiga-news.de reported). Now the drivers for the NTFS-3G and for the exFAT file system have been updated. The last mentioned "does not crash anymore when used to automount USB drive ".
Changes:
- exFAT 53.3
- Disk I/O layer now uses a segmented LRU for the read cache and automatically sorted block ranges for the write cache.
- Replaced cache semaphore with a simple boolean variable that indicates to the memhandler when the cache is being accessed.
- NTFS-3G 53.4
- Disk I/O layer now uses a segmented LRU for the read cache and automatically sorted block ranges for the write cache.
- Replaced cache semaphore with a simple boolean variable that indicates to the memhandler when the cache is being accessed.
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02.Feb.2016
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Arcade game: Tanks Furry can be preordered
Now it is possible to preorder the tank shooter "Tanks Furry" (promotion video, (playable demo of a previous version), in the Polish Amiga shop amiga.pl.net on advance payment. In the price it is included a CD with the game - for an additional charge also a disk - as well as a printed, coloured manual, disk tags, refrigerator magnet and an A3-poster.
According to the shop the game will be delivered in a "box". The scan of the box shows that it is a DVD case. The price for Tanks Furry is 54 Złoty (about 12,50 ¤) including shipping and for an additional charge of 5 Złoty / about 1 Euro you can order an additional disk.
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01.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Review: Accelerator board Vampire II
Since the end of the last year, the FPGA-based accelerator board Vampire II can be ordered for the Amiga 600. As one of the first users who received such a board, Renaud 'TuKo' Schweingruber, member of the Swiss user group Amiga Multitask Force, has published a first review under the title link.
The Polish blogger 'Davka' also described a first impression of his accelerator board.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jan.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: APK Compiler 1.0 for Windows
Press release: Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business - are proud to present a brand new add-on for Hollywood 6.0: The Hollywood APK Compiler.
This program does what many people were waiting for: It allows the conversion of Hollywood applets into stand-alone APK packages that can then be published on the Google Play Store or distributed in an other way.
Once the Hollywood APK Compiler has been set up, the conversion of a Hollywood applet into an APK file takes only a few seconds. Additionally, the Hollywood APK Compiler can also install the generated APK file onto an Android device connected via USB.
The Hollywood APK Compiler is currently only available for the Microsoft Windows platform because it requires the Java SE Development Kit (JDK), Apache Ant and the Android SDK and NDK toolchains, all of which are available for free download on the web. Versions for Linux and Mac OS X might follow in the future but Amiga versions are impossible because of those dependencies. Hollywood 6.0 is also required.
The Hollywood APK Compiler comes with a convenient GUI that allows you to convert your Hollywood applets into stand-alone APK files with just a few mouse clicks. A detailed documentation of all the program's features is also included. The APKs generated by the Hollywood APK Compiler will run on all ARM-based Android devices that run at least Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread).
The program's license also allows you to sell the apps created by the Hollywood APK Compiler without any restrictions or royalties. So there is nothing stopping you from getting rich quickly with your Hollywood applets on the Google Play Store now! Programming and publishing for Android has really never been so easy!
So get ready for Android development and purchase the Hollywood APK Compiler now on the official Hollywood portal at the title link!
Screenshots:
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[News message: 31. Jan. 2016, 13:39] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: MPlayer-GUI 1.60
Daniel Westerberg's MPlayer-GUI is a Reaction-based user-interface for diverse MPlayer ports, which among others supports drag'n'drop.
In version 1.60 realtime control panel sliders for seeking and volume, wpa video driver and a time display in the control panel have been added.
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[News message: 31. Jan. 2016, 13:28] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: Five applications added
Five applications have been added to the software collection Games-Coffer: AMOSEyes, ASI Audio Magic (version 1.1 and 2.0), CAG (Adventure Game Creator), Soundtracker 2.6 and Speed Utilities.
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31.Jan.2016
Retroguru Facebook (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Sqrxz 2 1.10
After over two years, Retroguru's Jump'n'Run game Sqrxz 2 has been updated by Frank Wille. All those, who were fond of Alexander Wiklund's chiptunes, but never suceeded in reaching the next level to listen to the next tune, will be delighted now to have a soundcheck option in the menu.
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[News message: 31. Jan. 2016, 10:26] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 30.01.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 30th, 2016:
GoogleDrive_handler_6... comm/tcp 1.5M 68k Google Drive handler for Amig...
GoogleDrive_handler_M... comm/tcp 1.0M MOS Google Drive handler for MorphOS
objc.lha dev/c 2.6M MOS Portable Object Compiler
MCC_MiniMailerSP.lha dev/mui 4K MiniMailer MCC v20.2 spanish ...
giggledisk.lha disk/misc 38K MOS V1.19 MBR/RDB -> MountLis...
gamewatch.lha game/actio 11M MOS VTech Game & Watch Simula...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.5M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.7M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
zerosphere.lha game/jump 562K 68k Platform game with a twist
AssaultCubeReloaded26... game/shoot 68M x86 First-person shooter
gerber2eps_1.0.lha gfx/conv 97K MOS Konvert gerber to eps
Redit.lha text/edit 46K 68k Text editor
thaicheck.lha text/misc 36K MOS Tool to check Thai text for v...
thaiconv.lha text/misc 50K MOS Convert text between diff. Th...
jsonMaster.lha text/show 418K 68k Simple json viewer
Chelp.lha util/batch 34K Online help for MorphOS shell...
BExchangeSP.lha util/cdity 3K BExchange v1.2 spanish catalog
FixFonts.lha util/cli 9K MOS A recompile of the CBM fixfon...
ARexxPatch.lha util/sys 1K Patch small ARexx bugs
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31.Jan.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.01.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 30th, 2016:
songwrangler.lha aud/pla 170kb 4.1 An iTunes like front end for Ami...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
upload.lha net/ftp 27kb 4.0 File upload utility (FTP)
st_rooms.lha uti/mis 65Mb 4.0 Database of rooms aboard the shi...
st_schematics.lha uti/mis 29Mb 4.0 Database of schematics in Star Trek
du_patch.lha uti/sci 355kb 4.0 A small patch for Digital Univer...
thaiconv.lha uti/tex 50kb 4.0 converts UTF-8 <-> TIS-620...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 414kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
thaicheck.lha uti/tex 36kb 4.0 Tool to check Thai text for vali...
mplayer-gui.lha vid/mis 217kb 4.1 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
smtube.lha vid/pla 3Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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31.Jan.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 30.01.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until January 30th, 2016:
tennix.i386-aros.zip gam/spo 1Mb Simple top-down tennis match.
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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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A520HD: HDTV-version of TV-Modulators
Using Commodore's TV-Modulator A520, the video signal of the Amiga could be transfered via the aerial input of the TV. GGLABS has developed a version of it, which outputs a YPbPr-signal of high quality and which is compatible to HDTV-TVs having a component input.
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[News message: 31. Jan. 2016, 05:47] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2016
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Hollywood: MiniHollyEdit NG 1.0 available for AmigaOS/68k, WarpOS and MorphOS
MiniHollyEdit NG written by the French programmer 'ArtBlink' is an editor for the programming language Hollywood which is self-implmented using the plugins MUI Royale and GLGalore (screenshot). Hollywood 4.5, a graphic board and MUI4 are required.
At the beginning of January, version 1.0 for AmigaOS 4 was released. Now versions for AmigaOS 3.x, WarpOS and MorphOS are available as well.
Download: Helmuth.lha (6 MB)
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