08.Nov.2012
Amiga.org (ANF)
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Hardware-Information: SysInfo 4.0
Exactly 19 years ago the last update of SysInfo was released. With the permission of the original author Nic Wilson today a new version of the well-known hardware diagnosis tool has been released (screenshot).
Changes in SysInfo 4.0:
- Crasch due to assumed accessable memory at $2000 changed to $4000. (tnx Piru)
- Updated memory size calculation in Memory Info to handle 64MB+ sizes correctly.
- Updated board size calculation to handle 64MB+ correctly, added MB suffix for sizes greater than 2MB.
- Several small corrections in the code.
- Added some support for 68060, more to do. Doesn't yet handle the difference between LC/EC versions.
- Added identification of UAE Autoconfig™ boards.
- Added identification of Individual Computers GmbH Germany (www.icomp.de) Autoconfig™ boards. (tnx Jens Schönfeld)
- New contact information: http://sysinfo.d0.se SysInfo@d0.se.
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08.Nov.2012
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Donation for G5-port achieved
With the donated amount of currently 3186,77 Euro the condition of three thousand Euro for the port of MorphOS to PowerMac computers with G5-processor was achieved (amiga-news.de reported).
500 Euro of the initiator Wiktor 'Pampers' Głowacki are included because differently from what was originally expected he had not to provide the hardware. Instead of it two G5-computers will be donated by AmigaDave: Additional to the 2,0-GHz-model M9747LL/A a M9749LL/A with 2,7 GHz as well.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SysMon 2.4
Guillaume Boesel's SysMon is MUI-based and allows you to identify and remove frozen windows, to change priorities of tasks and processes as well as to monitor drives, assigns and system information.
In version 2.4 the version of the graphics driver was added as well as the RageMem-benchmark. A detailed list of changes is available under the title link.
Download: sysmon.lha (401 KB)
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08.Nov.2012
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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AROS: Video of Jacon McMullan's AmiWest-presentation
Additional to the written copy of Jason McMullan's AROS-presentation on the AmiWest (amiga-news.de reported) under the title link there is a video as well. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2012
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Petro Tyschtschenko: Amiga-1200 shipping started
According to Petro Tyschtschenko the shipping of the Amiga-Magic packages which are still in original packaging was started yesterday (amiga-news.de reported). Two pictures have been published to prove it:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Nov.2012
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: New themes "modernDark" and "Blue Accent" (Update)
Thomas Claus who is the graphic designer of Entwickler X (Swamp Defense, Tap Jewels) has created two new themes for AmigaOS 4.1. modernDark is his first attempt to create a "dark" OS4-theme and Blue Accent is available with dark blue or dark grey window frames.
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06.Nov.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Pianeta Amiga: Developer tutorials, exhibitor-lists, Sensible Soccer tournament
From 30. November until 2. December in Bologna the Pianeta Amiga 2012 will take place. Amiga Future and ACube (presenting AROS on the Sam460) will attend the event. Additionally there will be presentations of DigiBooster 3 and of the open-source BeOS-clone called Haiku.
On 30. November there also will be a daylong "DevCon" for novice programmers. Cross-Compiler-Setups, porting applications and Reaction-programming will be explained. All those who are interested in this tutorial please sign up for it via eMail.
A Sensible Soccer tournament also is planned. Further information will be available soon.
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05.Nov.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future asking for feedback for their hundredth issue
Andreas Magerl writes: issue 99 has just been published, we're already working on the next one. As this will be Amiga Future 100, we'd like to hear from you: how and when did you learn about Amiga Future? Why are you reading it (or not reading it)? What did you always want to tell us, and what do you wish for in the future?
We created some space in the crypt, so Higgins can reply to all your letters in issue 100. We'd really appreciate if you could write him at Higgins@amigafuture.de, the sooner the better. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Nov.2012
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: AmiWest-presentation
The AROS-presentation of Jason 'Ezrec' McMullan on the AmiWest now is available as PDF-file.
Download: AmiWest-2012-Presentation.pdf (138 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Nov.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 03.11.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 03.11.2012 to the Aminet:
GadToolsBox3a.lha dev/gui 1.0M 68k GUI creation toolkit - full v...
NewStormWizardDemos.lha dev/gui 138K New StormWizard demos
sonix-os4.lha driver/vid 1.0M ppc Display/grab pictures from so...
AFrogGameSP.lha game/jump 3K A Frog Game 1.0 spanish catalog
ScummVM_AGA_040.lha game/misc 5.0M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.4...
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 5.5M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.4...
RiverPiratesSP.lha game/strat 3K River Pirates 1.0 spanish cat...
SwampDefenceSP.lha game/strat 3K Swamp Defence 1.0 spanish cat...
TapJewelsSP.lha game/think 3K Tap Jewels 1.0 spanish catalog
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
sox-morphos.lha mus/edit 1.7M MOS Sound Effects/Player-Tool
playOGG.lha mus/play 5.6M 68k multi format sound player.
Filer_Turkish.lha util/dir 28K Filer 4.07 Turkish Catalog
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04.Nov.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 03.11.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 03.11.2012 to the OS4Depot:
hivelytracker.lha aud/tra 867kb 4.0 tracker program based upon the A...
ami-ingenious.lha gam/boa 1Mb 4.0 Great strategy game with easy to...
amiupdate_german.lha uti/wor 19kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
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04.Nov.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 03.11.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 03.11.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
SteamDraw 2.1 gra/edi 325 Vector graphics editor. Sup...
NVM 0.5 mul/pla 20 Downloads subtitles for You...
wget 1.13.4 net/too 317 Popular commandline network...
Grunch 2.0 sys/too 1852 Advanced software package m...
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04.Nov.2012
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WHDLoad: New packages until 03.11.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games, demos and intros which originally had to be used from disks on your harddrive. The following installation packages have been added until 03.11.2012:
- 2012-11-03 improved: Franko (World Software) gfx bug and hiscores saving crash removed, BoxIcon added and new install script (Info)
- 2012-10-30 new: Beam (Magic Bytes) done by Psygore (Info)
- 2012-10-29 improved: Doman (World Software) another protection check removed, BoxIcon added and install script updated (Info)
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04.Nov.2012
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Kick Off 2 World Championship (17./18. November, Mailand) with Dino Dini
On 17. and 18. November the 12th Kick Off 2 World Championship will take place in the Antares Hotel Concorde in Mailand (Italy). Dino Dini who is the author of the game will come to visit the event.
On Youtube you can find a video of the semi-final return game Greece - England from the last year. The Greeks played in yellow colour and lost the first game 5:8 verloren and had to win the game by at least four goals.
Alkis Polyrakis has oploaded a lot of pictures, tables and statistics to his private website.
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03.Nov.2012
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Shoot'em Up: Agent Lux - Mission Europe (update)
Patrick Nevian's "Agent Lux" is a shooter created with Backbone.
The game file is about 17 MB which is according to the author the biggest Backbone-project.
Direct download: AgentLuxFULL.zip (9,3 MB)
Update: (05.11.2012, 18:20, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.1 is available which includes bug fixed files. Additionally now there is a Lha-file which includes all executable files. If you get any error messages at the start of the game it is recommended to replace all executable files by the ones from the Lha-archive. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Nov.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Music: Kickstarter-Project by Allister Brimble
Under the title link Allister Brimble (e.g. Alien Breed, Mortal Kombat, Superfrog, Zeewolf) has established a Kickstarter-project to finance a CD which will be called "The Amiga Works". Old songs as well as remixes will be included.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Nov.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video: Trevor Dickinson (A-Eon) about AmigaOne X1000, Warp 3D and LibreOffice
Robert Bernardo has recorded Trevor Dickinson's presentation on the AmiWest 2012 (18.-21. October, Sacramento) and uploaded it to blip.tv (requires Flash) and IntuitionBase. Here is a little summary of the speech.
AmigaOne X1000
Currently the third production run is made. Until January all computers will be delivered to the customers. Dickinson called that a "probably last production run". He said that there is no shortage of PASemi-CPUs - but they cost 975 US-Dollar which makes the production of further computers unlikely.
Dickinson explained that the current production makes a loss of 475 US-Dollar on each computer.
Further PPC-based motherboards
Nonetheless there are plans for new hardware. In future processors made by Freescale will be used. A "Mid-Range-Product" with a Quadcore-CPU with 1,5 Ghz is considered as well as a "High-Level-Product" with a Dualcore-processor with 2.2 Ghz. But it will still take some time before it will be ready for the market.
LibreOffice
Thomas Frieden was introduced as chief operator for the LibreOffice-port but Dickinson several time mentioned the "Friedens". Currently it is spare time project. The development was started one month ago. Results can be expected only in distant future. The finished port is supposed to be sold, "probably" as package with other software.
Warp 3D-driver for Radeon HD
For Radeon HD 5000/6000 graphic boards currently Warp 3D-drivers are deevloped. Dickinson had hoped to present the finished drivers on the AmiWest but he expects the drivers to be released soon.
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02.Nov.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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NetBSD: Driver for Hydra-/ASDG-Network boards reworked
NetBSD/amiga which is available as version 6.0 is developed further: Frank Wille has reworked ther drivers for Zorro-network boards of Hydra ("AmigaNet") and ASDG ("LAN Rover") to fix compatibility problems with 68040 and 68060 processors.
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02.Nov.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: HivelyTracker 1.7
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format. AHX was developed in the 90s to be able writing songs which are similar to the typical chip-sound of the SID (sound chip of the C64).
In version 1.7 two minor bugs were fixed. Additionally now there is a SDL-based version which makes ports to Windows and Mac OS possible.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Nov.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Midi-Sequencer BarsnPipes 0.7.1
Lyle Hazelwood who has taken over the development of the AmigaOS 4-version of the MIDI-sequencer BarsnPipes of Alfred Faust has released a first minor update of the programm. Changes in version 0.7.1:
- You no longer need LhA in the C directory
- The multiple CAMD in and out tools have been replaced with
a single CAMD_In and CAMD_Out pipetools. These no longer
read ENVARC: for camd cluster names. Each tool may have any
CAMD cluster, no limits.
This version is not backward compatible to previous releases of BarsnPipes. On the AmiWest the author had announced to adapt all extensions little by little.
It is not certain if this version can import saved BarsnPipes-projects. The author recommends to hide the Tools-directory so no tools are loaded. MIDI-files can be imported with the tool "sMerFF".
In future the CAMD-support is supposed to be improved as well as a modern graphical user-interface to be created.
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02.Nov.2012
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Vector graphic programm SteamDraw 2.1
SteamDraw written by Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich is a EPS-compatible 2D vector graphic programm. The main changes in version 2.1 which requires MorphOS 3:
- cairo.library (shared) is used instead of Linklib
- "Gradient"-function was deleted
- "Picture"-function is rotated if an object is rotated
- Some big bugs fixed; SteamDraw now can be used without "30min timeout" :crazylol:
- SteamDraw only uses one task again.
Direct download: SteamDraw.lha (325 KB)
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02.Nov.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Arcade-Puzzle Game: Preview video of "Balance Blox" (Entwickler X)
Balance Blox developed by Entwickler X (Tap Jewels, Swamp Defense) is a special Tetris-clone: The board is situated on a see-saw which must not tilt. Balance Blox is still in development. First screenshots as well as a Youtube-video give a first impression of the game.
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01.Nov.2012
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Bounty for a port to PowerMac-computers with G5-CPU
The Polish MorphOS website morphos.pl collects money which will be used to pay the developer Mark "Bigfoot" Olsen for writing a port of MorphOS to PowerMacs with a CPU PPC970FX ("G5").
The MorphOS-Team several times announced a port for G5-computers (1, 2, 3) but never came true.
The port will be started if 3000 Euro has been collected. The Macintosh computer is donated by Wiktor "Pampers" Glowacki from morphos.pl. Bounty requirements are as follows:
- The port of MorphOS must work on one model of PowerMac G5: : A1047 (7,3 - M9747LL/A) with 2,0 Ghz. Support of other PowerMac G5 models is not precluded, but is not required.
- Support of Bluetooth module and AirPort (WiFi) module is not required.
- Only one CPU will be supported.
- Bounty donations are not related to MorphOS license. Any contributor wanting to buy a MorphOS license for PowerMac G5, will pay the regular price.
- Bounty timeframe: 3 months after the programmer receives the machine.
You can donate on the official project site with Paypal.
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01.Nov.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Tux Football
serk118 has ported the soccer simulation Tux Football to AROS. The game is still in development and is inspired by classics like Sensible Soccer and Kick Off.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Nov.2012
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-Website
During the last two months the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement has uploaded several new articles to their website. Translations to different languages are welcome. Please write to David 'Daff' Brunet.
English articles:
- Tutorial: utilization and configuration of Amiga911 Maker 1.54
Französische Artikel:
- September/October 2012 news
- News: insights about the Amiga in 2012
- Old articles from A-News 13 to 16: Review: KindWords 2, File: voice synthesis, Report: World Of Commodore Show 1989, Review: Kick Off, File: video titler, Hardware: A590, Hardware: LUCAS 68020, Review: Sculpt-Animate 4Dn etc.
- Report: Amigâteries 2011
- Interview with Yannick Buchy (webmaster of Meta-MorphOS.org)
- Interview with Aaron Digulla (coordinator of AROS, from December 2006)
- Point of view: hardware projects on Amiga
- Review: Amiga Forever 2012
- Review: Hurrican
- Review: Wild Streets
- Review: Thundercats
- Review: Curse Of Enchantia
- Review: The Colonel's Bequest
- Hardware: reflash of graphic cards in order to you it on Mac/MorphOS (update)
- File: Amiga history, year 1999 (update)
- File: Amiga shoot'em ups (1991)
- File: Amiga shoot'em ups (1992)
- Tutorial: Imagine 3D - creation of a simple asteroid
- Tutorial: utilisation of GMail with SimpleMail and YAM (update)
- Tutorial: presentation and utilisation of Amiga911 Maker (update).
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31.Oct.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 99
The English and German issue 99 (November/December 2012) of the Amiga Future magazine has been distributed today. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office as well as from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Current issue contains among other topics articles about Sqrxz, Agent Lux, AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 and Zormanita. (snx)
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30.Oct.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Elbox: Boot-ROM 7.0 for FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA
According to Elbox under the title link the FastATA-boards which have been completed with adapters (amiga-news.de reported) are now called MK-VI and sold for the Amiga 3000 and 4000 with a new Boot-ROM version. Version 7.0 improves the compatibility to AmigaOS 4.1 which also is guaranteed by the native drivers. Further information are not available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Oct.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Retro computer case: X500 Plus "Black Edition"
Loriano 'TheDaddy' Pagni who in May had introduced his third self-made hardware case called "x500 Plus" now has published a short YouTube video of the "Black Edition".
Pagni who said that he will not recover to his developing costs by selling the case, asks all interested users to contact him under amigarulez@hotmail.com to tell him how much one is prepared to spend for the case.
Pagni also has published a picture which shows a X500-case with installed FPGA Arcade-board.
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28.Oct.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Ultimate Pack 3.1.1
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Ultimate Pack is a preconfigured collection of programms, games and emulators and now is available in version 3.1.1 for MorphOS 3.1. A basic installation of the operating system is required.
News:
- PowerSDL 15.7
- Scriba 1.1.0 fr
- CandyCrisis
- VAMP 0.86
- GRunch 1.53
- OpenBOR 3.3711.1
- YouTube_EZDownload.js 0.4.4
- YouTube.js 0.86
- Zormanita 1.1
- New screen background by Patbest
- Sudominator 1.1
- U1Synth 1.2
- Mime-Type for opening PDFs under Odyssey
- Reduction of the menu entries
- Reggae 3.1.5
- Sqrxz 3
- ProStation Audio
Download: Ultimate.iso (627 MB)
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28.Oct.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.10.2012
The following packages have been added until 27.10.2012 to the Aminet:
Blitz_catharsis.lha dev/basic 22K 68k beta catharsis lib dev kit fo...
pforth_v27.i386-aros.lha dev/lang 302K x86 Forth compiler written in ANSI C
Blokop.lha game/wb 32K 68k Move a coloured box to the exit!
Ice_Dungeon.lha game/wb 48K 68k Find talismans in the Ice Dun...
Mlink.lha game/wb 62K 68k Solve this chainlink puzzle!
shp2ilbm.lha gfx/conv 15K OS4 Converts Blitz .shp gfx to .i...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 2.9M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Scriba_1.1.0.lha text/edit 6.7M MOS Simple word processing softwa...
bzip2_68k.lha util/arc 263K 68k Bzip2 file (de)compressor &am...
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 11K 68k Decompiles catalogs back into...
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28.Oct.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.10.2012
The following packages have been added until 27.10.2012 to the OS4Depot:
barsnpipes.lha aud/mis 2Mb 4.0 A MIDI sequencer with lots of tools
libtre.lha dev/lib 356kb 4.0 regexp matching library, agrep
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 3Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
ami-ingenious.lha gam/boa 1Mb 4.0 Great strategy game with easy to...
wwtbaa.lha gam/boa 4Mb 4.0 Who Wants to be an AmigaN
shp2ilbm.lha gra/con 15kb 4.0 Converts Blitz .shp gfx to .ilbm...
sketchblock.lha gra/edi 3Mb 4.1 Digital Sketching For AmigaOS
viivi.lha gra/vie 75kb 4.0 Picture viewer
aamp-update.lha net/ser 46kb 4.1 AAMP native update - fixes probl...
assist.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 An assistant for AmigaOS users
autocopyfile.lha uti/scr 155kb 4.0 AutoCopyFile copy a file Library...
excalibur.lha uti/wor 1Mb 4.1 Excalibur, a workbench start menu
sysmon.lha uti/wor 346kb 4.1 monitor for Process, Windows (+ ...
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28.Oct.2012
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 27.10.2012
The following packages have been added until 27.10.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
pforth_v27.i386-aros.lha dev/lan 302kb Forth compiler written in ANSI C
irrxml-1.2.zip lib/mis 1Mb irrXml - a fast and lightweight ...
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28.Oct.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 27.10.2012
The following packages have been added until 27.10.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
SteamDraw 2.0 gra/edi 902 Vector graphics editor. Sup...
Scriba 1.1.0 off/tex 6885 A simple WYSIWYG wordproces...
PowerSDL 15.7 sys/lib 1279 A fast and powerful impleme...
Reggae Update 3.1.5 sys/reg 248 Update of Reggae classes fo...
AmiArcadia 19.0 uti/emu 3207 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
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28.Oct.2012
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WHDLoad: New package until 27.10.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games, demos and intros which originally had to be used from disks on your harddrive. The following installation package has been added until 27.10.2012:
- 2012-10-27 new: Sixiang (Kingsoft) done by Psygore (Info)
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27.Oct.2012
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: "A Frog Game" by Entwickler X
"A Frog Game" (Screenshot, Youtube-Video) was written by Entwickler X. "In this game you just have to catch flies."
The AmigaOS 4-port supports hardware-accelerated graphics in 32 Bit to a solution of of 1920x1080 pixels.
For 5 Euro you can purchase the full version which includes an additional bonus ("Time fly", you get a bonus time), a two-player mode and the opportunity to save your highscore at amiboing.de and to achieve "Awards".
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27.Oct.2012
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.0.1
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5+ (i386, PPC) and Linux (i386, AMD64) is based on WinUAE and can be completely controlled with a joypad.
Now version 2.0.1 is available. A detailed list of changes can be found in the Release Notes.
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26.Oct.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Another year in review
Neil Cafferkey has summarized the past 12 months in a status update.
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26.Oct.2012
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Market survey: USB-Adapter for Commodore/Atari joysticks
Retronic Design is now offering a joystick adapter that lets you connect classic Commodore and Atari joysticks to modern computers. Retronic is located in Canada, the product is distributed through ebay.
Similar products are available from various other vendors: Amigakit (not in stock yet), Retrozone (USA) or keio.dk are offering prebuilt solutions. In Germany, retro-donald.de is offering an adapter kit, and last but not least Individual Computer's Keyrah can be used to connect joysticks to your computer - this one just simulates keystrokes though.
For hardware tinkerers who want to build their own adapter from scratch, there's a wide variety of tutorials available:
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26.Oct.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview: Bobby Earl (Dune 2, Hook, Total Recall)
Amiga-user "Codetapper" has interviewed Bobby Earl who developed several well-known commercial games.
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26.Oct.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Graphic programm SketchBlock 1.7
The latest version of Andy Broad's graphic programm "Sketchblock" (screenshot) introduces among others animbrushes and makes it possible for developers to create graphical user-interfaces. A complete list of changes can be found in the Readme.
SketchBlock-macros require ProAction. For exporting files into different formats than the built-in ILBM, Python Imaging Library is used.
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26.Oct.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vlink 0.14b
Frank Wille has updated vlink which can handle a lot of binary formats and is part of the compiler package vbcc. In version 0.14b a bug was fixed.
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26.Oct.2012
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Reggae 3.1.5
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has updated his media processing framework for MorphOS, Reggae, to version 3.1.5. New version numbering scheme is synchronized with MorphOS. Any 3.1.x update is for MorphOS 3.1. The update has been available earlier via Grunch package manager, now it is also released as a plain archive with installation script.
The update mostly consists of new and updated classes written for the (now completed) bounty for media writing. There are also numerous bugfixes. All changes are listed in the changelog contained in the archive. Developer documentation and SDK include files are also updated automatically if SDK installation is detected. (snx)
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25.Oct.2012
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Amiga-Emulator: Janus 0.6
Janus is an Amiga emulator written in Javascript and by Rupert Hausberger which works with modern web browsers - although being completely supported only by Chrome currently (amiga-news.de reported).
In the latest version 0.6 AmigaOS 1.x as well as now version 2.04 and AROS are supported. Additionally games like Alien Breed Tower Assault, Project-X Special Edition, Shadow of the Beast 2 or Wings now work.
Changes in version 0.6 (25.10.2012):
- ROM
- Added support for extended-roms.
- AROS kickstart replacement is now the default-rom, and will be downloaded and used on the fly.
- RAM
- Changed internal memory alignment from 8 to 16 bit.
- Added fast-ram support, through a emulated Commodore A2058 in Zorro2-mode.
- Removed the D8DC-memory-option from the GUI. This memory space is now always allocated.
- Sorted access for memory-routines by priority.
- CPU
- Fixed sign-extension for memory to address-register transfers in MOVEM.
- Fixed sign-extension for absolute-word addresses in exEA.
- Fixed wrong address when writing a byte to the stack in ldEA.
- Fixed 32bit calculations for address-regsiters in ADDQ/SUBQ.
- Fixed remainder calculation in DIVU.
- Optimized integer-arithmetic functions. Size depending calcalations are now used.
- Improved exception 2/3 handling.
- More small cleanups not listed here.
- Disk
- Ported latest disk-code from WinUAE. Disk-based problems should be gone now, e.g. floopy shown as BAD or read errors.
- Diskchange does now work.
- Drives can be disabled now.
- DD/HD types are now supported.
- Display
- Added missing support for HAM6.
- Fixed horizontal and vertical screen-centering.
- Fixed screen-draging, almost, read the "Known bugs" section.
- Added better screen-scrolling.
- Input
- Fixed key-mapping to the amiga key-layout, at least in Chrome. Firefox does not like "öäü", it seems.
- Added support for individual configurations of joystick-movement and fire-buttons.
- Fixed bug, that made the fire 1 button on joystick 0 not working.
- Fixed bug in the mouse-movement function, that calculates the wrong coordinates in some cases.
- GUI
- Added eject-button in the disk-change requester.
- Removed the CPU and OCS/ECS options. They are useless so far.
- The "Pause" and "Resume" buttons are once now.
- Made some options only apera when selected.
- Did some cosmetics.
- Misc
- Added support for Zorro2-expansion cards.
- Added a more precise event-handling. This makes the audio-output a little smoother.
- Changed the ratio of CPU-/Chipset-time from 1:8 to 1:4
- Fixed a bug in the RTC. "Year" is now calculated correctly.
- Fixed incorrect response of serial.device. Now crashed programms does reset (and show the guru), instead of idle.
- Any output on the serial.device is now redirected to the debug-log. (dev only)
- Kickstart/Workbench 2.04 and AROS does now work.
- Overall about 10-30% more speed, as long as the blitter is not used too much.
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25.Oct.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Realtime strategy game Nether Earth, Arcade-Puzzler X-pired, KTEM 2
"serk118" has ported a remake of the realtime classic Nether Earth, the arcade-puzzle game X-pired as well as the shoot'em Up KETM 2 ("Kill Everything That Moves") to AROS.
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25.Oct.2012
Facebook/Retroguru (ANF)
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Interviews with the Retroguru-Team (Sqrxz) and Rob Hewitt (Timebomb)
The interview serie on amigapd.com was continued with conversations with the Retroguru-Team (Giana's Return, Sqrxz) and Rob Hewitt (Timebomb).
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24.Oct.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video: Lyle Hazelwood's AmiWest presentations (Bars&Pipes, SoftSynth, Score)
Robert Bernardo has recorded Lyle Hazelwood's presentation on last Saturday. He introduced his AmigaOS 4 port of Bars&Pipes as well as his two programs SoftSynth and the Deluxe Music clone called "Score", which are still in development. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.Oct.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: AROS for Sam460-PowerPC-Boards
According to ACube Systems under the title link, now AROS also is available for the Sam460-board and all AmigaOne-500-systems which are based on it.
Based on the work of Michal Schulz, Jason McMullan has adapted AROS. Soon AROS will be available for all ACube-Systems-boards. AROS for Sam460-computers was presented on the AmiWest and will be presented on the Pianeta Amiga.
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21.Oct.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.10.2012
The following packages have been uploaded until 20.10.2012 to the Aminet:
Blitz_XM.lha dev/basic 16K 68k beta XM lib dev kit for Blitz.
c2b.lha dev/basic 161K 68k Converts C ".h" files to Blitz
BootMon.lha disk/misc 213K 68k Bootblockmanipulator (incl. S...
AmiQuake.lha game/shoot 244K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.6M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ...
18Pats.lha pix/mwb 2K MagicWB style WBPatterns for ...
midtofront.i386-aros.... util/cdity 24K x86 MidToFront for AROS
AFSwitch.lha util/cli 3K ppc AFS - switch for audio filter...
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 10K 68k Decompiles catalogs back into...
powersdl.lha util/libs 1.2M MOS SDL audio and video library f...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.10.2012
The following packages have been uploaded until 20.10.2012 to the OS4Depot:
datatype_sound_signal... aud/pla 472kb 4.0 Use of Sound datatype with messa...
wwtbaa.lha gam/boa 4Mb 4.0 Who Wants to be an AmigaN
netspeedometer.lha net/mis 99kb 4.1 A network monitor and bandwidth ...
sysmon.lha uti/wor 302kb 4.1 monitor for Process, Windows (+ ...
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21.Oct.2012
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 20.10.2012
The following package has been uploaded until 20.10.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
midtofront.i386-aros.tar.gz uti/wor 24kb MidToFront for AROS
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21.Oct.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 20.10.2012
The following packages have been uploaded until 20.10.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
OpenBOR 3.3711. gam/act 1903 An open source "one on one"...
MomosIRC 1.1 net/cha 159 Beta version of new IRC cli...
PowerSDL 15.6 sys/lib 1279 A fast and powerful impleme...
DOSBox 0.74.1 uti/emu 1481 Emulator of legacy PC compu...
Nano 2.2.6 uti/tex 400 Popular console fullscreen ...
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21.Oct.2012
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WHDLoad: New package until 20.10.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games, demos and intros which originally had to be used from disks on your harddrive. The following installation package has been added until 20.10.2012:
- 2012-10-17 improved: RVF Honda (Micro Style) manual protection request removed to make it CD32 friendly (Info)
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21.Oct.2012
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmiWest 2012: First announcements and pictures
Since Friday in Sacramento the AmiWest has been taking place. First pictures T.J. 'amigasociety' Ferreira has made available.
A-EON Technology has announced to support the development of Warp3D-drivers for RadeonHD-boards.
On the other hand A-EON Technology has placed the development of the AmigaOS-4-port of LibreOffice. LibreOffice is a splitting-off of OpenOffice.
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21.Oct.2012
A-EON (Blog)
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A-EON Technology: Background pictures
According to Trevor Dickinson in his blog A-EON Technology has released four background pictures for the AmigaOne X1000.
They have been created by Kevin Saunders and can be downloaded under the title link.
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21.Oct.2012
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Arcade game: Timebomb
In Timebomb you have to collect as many bombs as possible Timer before the time runs out. You can only go to each field one time - then it vanishes. Single lines of the field can be moved to the left or to the right.
Timebomb runs on each Amiga with 512 KB virtual memory. Computer with at least 1 Megabyte virtual memory offers additional music and sound effects.
Download: timebomb.zip (399 KB)
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20.Oct.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.0 (beta version)
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5+ (i386, PPC) and Linux (i386, AMD64) is based on WinUAE and can be controlled with a joypad.
Beta version 2.0 now includes a graphical user-interface for the configuration. A detailed list of changes can be found under the title link.
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20.Oct.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Tap Jewels by Entwickler-X
Tap Jewels is a new commercial game in match-3-diamant/jewels-style for AmigaOS 4 written by Entwickler-X. You can find further information about the three different varieties Puzzle Quest, Time Challenge and Survival as well as about the purchase under the title link.
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20.Oct.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Scriba 1.0.0
Scriba is a simple text processing software written by Carsten Siegner which is still in development.
Changes in version 1.0.0:
- Calltips.mcc mui class is now required, which is included in MorphOS 3+ or 2.x SDK with Scribble
- Added document statistic (open/close with F12 key)
- Enabled repeat of the CR key
- Speed-up of render engine
- Added fast inline spellcheck (doubleclick on a word starts spellcheck)
- Inits second process for spellcheck at startup
- Opens selected dictionary at startup
- Fixes bug in line renderer (underline etc.)
- Change render calculation of double lines
- More translations
Download: Scriba_1.0.0.lha (6 MB)
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19.Oct.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Preview to Amiga Future 99
The preview to issue 99 (November/December 2012) of the Amiga Future is online. Among others it will be about Classic Computing, Agent Lux, AmiSystemRestore and
Sqrxz. On CD e.g. the full version of Foundation DC is included.
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19.Oct.2012
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amiga Inc.: Interview with Bill McEwen about BlackBerry games
Under the title link the BlackBerry news site crackberry.com has interviewed Bill McEwen from Amiga Inc. about the Amiga games which are offered for the PlayBook (amiga-news.de reported).
He said that further 85 games will follow to the currently avaible fifteen ones. Finally at least 1500 games are supposed to be released.
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18.Oct.2012
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NetBSD 6.0 for Amiga/68k
Version 6.0 of NetBSD supports a lot of plattforms, e.g. the Amiga. During the last months several new drivers have been added to the Amiga-port. Among others the SCSI-host of a BlizzardPPC or the PCI-busboards G-Rex and Mediator are supported.
The website NetBSD/amiga still has been not updated and refers to the old version 5.1.2. On the official FTP-server NetBSD/amiga 6.0 is available. An Amiga with 68020 CPU and a MMU, a harddrive as well as at least 24 MB virtual memory are required. NetBSD/amiga also runs under WinUAE (Version 2.3.0 or higher).
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16.Oct.2012
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AROS: Fun-Shooter Triplane, Puzzle Game Hex-a-Hop
"serk118uk" has ported the fun-shooter Triplane as well as the puzzle game Hex-a-Hop to AROS.
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16.Oct.2012
Tomasz Muszyński (ANF)
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GadToolsBox 3.0: Source code released (Update)
Under the title link Tomasz Muszyński has released the source code of his editor for graphical user-interfaces called GadToolsBox 3.0 (Aminet).
Update: (15:45, 17.10.12, snx)
The full version including keyfile and an update to the before unreleased version 3a is available as of today at the archive of Amiga Future. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Oct.2012
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MorphOS: OpenBOR 3.3711.1, DOSBox 0.74.1, MomosIRC 1.1
OpenBOR 3.3711.1
OpenBOR is an open-source sequel of Beats of Rage. The MorphOS-port includes a lot of changes and was written by Paweł Stefański and Sergio Campillo.
openbor-3.3711.1.lha (1,9 MB)
DOSBox 0.74.1
Marcin "Morgoth" Kurek has ported the latest version of the DOS-emulator DOSBox to MorphOS.
Direct Download: dosbox-0.74.1.lha (1,4 MB)
MomosIRC 1.1 (Beta)
MomosIRC written by Marian "MaaG^dA" Guc is a MUI based IRC client. The current beta version still creates debug-output.
Direct Download: MomosIRC_beta.lha (159 KB)
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15.Oct.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 2.5.0
As usual ther developers of the well-known Amiga-emulator WinUAE have provided a short preview to the changes planned in the next version. WinUAE 2.5.0 is suppsoed to be released in November or Decemberand will includes the following changes:
New features and updates:
- GUI is finally fully resizeable! Configurable GUI font.
- GUI position, size and fonts saved separately for windowed, fullwindow and fullscreen modes.
- GUI CD volume control added.
- Syncronize clock option does full time sync when emulation is unpaused or exited from GUI.
- Memory configuration can be fully modified (on the fly, loading state file or using Restart button)
without need to rerun the emulator.
- RTG screenshot and video recording directly from emulated VRAM if capture before filtering ticked.
- RTG monitor (if multiple monitors) selection added to GUI.
- RTG hardware sprite and hardware vblank emulation are now optional.
- Chipset "Wait for Blitter" too fast CPU workaround added, enabled by default, fixes most graphics
glitches if program does not wait for the blitter, more compatible than immediate blitter.
- Optional fake 1G directory harddrive size limit for old programs that think drive is full or has
negative space if drive is bigger than 2G. Can be changed on the fly.
- Added disable notification icon option.
- Added blank unused displays(s) (opens full screen topmost black window(s)) option.
- CD32 CD controller emulation improved (Missing Universe CD32 title and ingame CD audio)
- AutoVSync 100Hz/120Hz capable monitor support added.
- Low latency vsync and legacy vsync stability improved.
- Full PC hardware interlaced mode support.
- 68060 missing integer instructions are not anymore emulated if more compatible CPU checkbox is checked.
- Chipset emulation improvements. (EyeQlazer/Scoopex, Blerkenwiegel/Scoopex, No Way Demo/Academy,
Brian the Lion AGA, SuperPlus monitor mode)
- Sometimes appearing Windows "no disk in drive" dialogs that point to missing harddrive path are gone.
- Audio emulation quality improved.
- Parallel port sampler emulation audio quality improved.
- Lots of Input panel improvements. (qualifiers, custom events etc)
- Easy to use debug logging option added.
- Game Ports panel Test mode can be used to test any kind of input event, not just joystick events.
- Optional MIDI In to Out routing.
- 64-bit build supports 2.5G address space, allowing up to 2G of Z3 expansion memory.
Bug fixes of previous verions:
- Add Harddrive dialog didn't list all harddrives on some Windows XP systems.
- New CDFS didn't work with DVDs (2G size limit removed).
- Extended ADF write support was accidentally disabled.
- "ALT-TAB or middle mouse button untraps mouse - F12 opens settings" window title was missing.
- Directory filesystem 64-bit seek was broken.
- USB HID game controller [-] and [+] input axis movement was broken.
Bug fixes of old versions:
- RTG palette (if 8-bit mode) wasn't saved to statefile.
- Disable screen saver option haven't worked since 2.0.
- Warp mode didn't work in all vsync modes.
- CD image mounter MDS image CD audio tracks didn't play if subchannel data was not included,
MDS image data tracks with subchannel data didn't work at all.
- CD/CD image on the fly switching was unreliable. (Again)
- Random unexplained graphics glitches when cycle-exact CPU enabled and bsdsocket emulation was in use.
- Some chipset mode on the fly configuration changes caused blank screen when returning back to RTG mode.
- Volume control in WASAPI exclusive mode didn't work.
- Windows XP blank screen after ALT-TAB back to Direct3D fullscreen mode.
- Direct3D pixel alignment errors in some modes. (Again)
- Many Input configuration fixes.
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15.Oct.2012
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: 68k-Distribution AROS Vision 1.5.4
Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k-distribution. It is a mix of AROS and AmigaOS software (English tutorial). The author thanks all users for their active interest - the previous version 1.5.3 was downloaded 1200 times.
The update includes a completely integrated WHDLoad with a preinstalled "AROS ROM Replacements". That means several classic games now should run at once. A list of the compatible games have been already made. With the permission of the right-holder the point'n click-adventure "Lure of the Temptress" now is part of the distribution.
The following programms have been added in AROS Vision 1.5.4:
- Amistart (Amikit-version, thanks to Jan, Ken and Darius)
- AGA (scene) demos for demonstration
- free printer driver
- Annotate
- Inga
- AmiArcadia
- ScummVM AGA
- AmiMastergear
- minor changes like new includes for Amiblitz
- Sqrz (HD-version)
- Brutal Homicide (with permission)
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15.Oct.2012
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USB-board: Design of "Thylacine" released, possibly reissue as construction kit
Thylacine USB is a low-cost USB-controller which was introduced 2002 and on a "full length" Zorro 2 plugin-card hosts an USB 1.1-port. The developers have released all information which are necessary for the production of a reissue by third persons.
For the Thylacine USB there is a Poseidon-driver which works together with version 4.4 of USB-Stacks which is available for free. A possible reisue of the hardware as a construction kit is currently discussed (German) on a1k.org.
Already 10 years ago there were reports which gave the impression that the Thylacine only works with selected USB-hardware without any problems. On a1k.org (all in German) Poseidon author Chris "Platon42" Hodges, Michael Boehmer from E3B and Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) warn of the quality of the used USB-chip (SL811) as well as of the Poseidon driver.
It must be said that all three critics might not be completely objective: Jens Schönfeld obviously has plans for an USB-hardware and Boehmer/Hodges are going to publish a reissue of the Subway: According to them a third person apparently has licenced the design of the clockport-extension of E3B and the Poseidon-drivers of Hodges and thus avoided the problems.
Actually the Subway now is available in the Vesalia-shop again but currently with indefinite date of delivery.
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