03.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RunInUAE r2
Christopher Handley's RunInUAE enables to use the Amiga emulator E-UAE under AmigaOS 4. E-UAE has to be installed before. With the release 2 loading of games on several disks should now work.
Changes in release 2 of RunInUAE:
- Hopefully fixed HD installed games not starting for some people (please reinstall Workbench 3.1)
- Added automatic loading of multi-disk games
- Per-drawer & per-game config files now work with ADFs (bug fix)
- Now opens an App Window for you to drop games on; easier than dropping them on its AmiDock icon
- A new icon, thanks to David Braconnier
- Improved installer & manual, thanks to user feedback
Download: RunInUAE_r2.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2010
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 4.5 available
Today Hollywood 4.5 was published. Please read the official press release.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-magazine: Monthly Page 9 / Interview with Davy Wentzler
The Monthly Page is an English magazine published as PDF-file. The latest issue consists of three pages and offers among others an interview with Davy Wetzler (Audio Evolution).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.62
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another beta version of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4 as well as AROS.
With version 0.62 it is possible to transmit several files at once (under AROS causing crashes). There is a detailed list of changes in the Readme-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2010
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: iffilbm.demuxer 51.3
Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski has updated his Reggae-class iffilbm.demuxer. Version 51.3 fixes some bugs.
Download: iffilbm.demuxer-51.3.lha (16 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-News: tinyulMUI 1.1, IRA 2.04
Frank Wille has published a new version of IRA which is a portable disassembler for AmigaOS 3-binaries. Additionally with the MUI-based tinyulMUI an upload-tool is available with which programs can be transmitted to tinybld-based Programmable Interface Chips like e.g. Minimig is using it.
Both programs are available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2010
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PR-campaign: Is Hyperion announcing new hardware? (2nd Update)
At the screenshots of the Firefox-port Timberwolf published two dys ago the website a-eon.com could be seen. Smart users figured out that this website belongs to Ben Hermans (Hyperion Entertainment) and obviously has hidden some hints to Hyperion's next project.
By clicking the graphics on each site you can release another text or get the next hint (1.html, 2.html, 3.html, 4.html). Each day a-eon.com will be completed with another hint. Again and again you can read the terms "OMEN" or ("OM"), "ENIGMA" and "AEON" with which users tried to make anagrams.
The hint added today plays with these terms and then shows the text "Have you figured it out yet?". The I-dot at "it" is something more dark - if you move the mouse cursor above it you get the reaction: "(Oh no! Don't look at that!".
If you ignore this warning and have a look at the I-dot you will see that it is a highly scaled down photo. A photo which apparently shows a part of a motherboard.
In a thread at amigaworld.net Hans-Jörg "Rogue" Frieden explained that it is more than "just" new hardware. Further information will be available tomorrow.
According to the Belgian Staatsblad (PDF-document) the company A-EON was founded in April 2009 by Ben Hermans and the both British men Robert Trevor Dickinson and Anthony Moorley.
Update: (03.01.10, 12:14, snx)
Meanwhile almost the complete mainboard is visible, also one further picture was found on the server which seems to show part of a case.
2nd Update: (03.01.10, 13:52, snx)
Hans-Jörg Frieden adds that the slots on the mainboard are two PCIe x16, three PCIe x1, two PCI 33 MHz and finally one "Xorro" slot, with the latter being in line with the third PCIe 1x slot. All 16 lanes of the PCIe x16 slot can be used only if just one slot is occupied, though, otherwise two times eight lanes are used.
The javascript file (4.js) used for today's page confirms that the CPU is a PowerPC - and according to another picture already found on the server it seems to provide more than one core. At the second still covered position on the mainboard, there seems to be a chip called "Xena" which might serve as a custom chip. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2010
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: EasyUAE 1.2
After the beta version Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea has now published a first release candidate of his user-interface for the Amiga-emulator E-UAE. For the bounty-project so far 316,34 Euro were donated.
Download: easyuae-1.2.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2010
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-website
The following articles have been added during the last two months to the website of the french AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. If you want to support the magazine with translations of single articles then please contact David Brunet.
- Amiga/MorphOS news of November/December 2009
- Old news from September/October 1997 and November/December 1997 and their relatives articles
- Review of Open Tyrian
- Review of Quake
- Review of Amiga Forever 2008
- Hardware: Indivision ECS
- File: The year 2000 problem and the Amiga
- File: History of the Amigan year 1997 (update)
- Tutorial: Enhance a Mac mini G4
- Tutorial: Create themes for AmigaOS 4.1
- Tutorial: Utilisation of RDBrecov
- Tutorial: Boot up MorphOS 2.4 from an USB key on Mac mini G4
- Special quiz about the year 1994, 1995 and 1996
Articles in english :
- File: The year 2000 problem and the Amiga
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01.Jan.2010
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AmigaOS 4: New screenshots of Firefox-port Timberwolf
Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden are working on a Firefox-port for AmigaOS 4.1 which will be called Timberwolf. Meanwhile the bookmarks-system is working as well as the "Popup-Windows" which are used for displaying the menus (screenshot) and Help-Bubbles (screenshot).
Hans-Jörg Frieden explained that they have been involved in different projects during the last time. But it is planned to release an alpha-version soon ("soonish").
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2009
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Text adventure: An Amiga Christmas Story
"An Amiga Christmas Story" is a text adeventure writtten in AMOS which was originally meant for the Xmas-competition but was finished too late. The author described the the game as the "first chapter of a longer story which will be published anytime".
The game should run on Amigas with at least 512 KB RAM. The ZIP-archive includes an ADF-file as well as a LhA-archive for the installation on the harddrive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2009
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MorphOS: Scanner-application SCANdal 1.3-stable
Michal Zukowski has published an update sof his Scanner-application SCANdal. Changes in version 1.3-stable:
- Autocrop (works best with LineArt mode)
- Autoconnect tooltype, Connect button
- TIFF and PDF saver
- Fixed JPEG saver
- Sketch plugins support (NOTE: do not use plugins from MorphOS 2.4, latest plugins are included in SCANdal archive, plugins don't work with 1.4.5)
- Fixed Mode list (for gt68xx driver)
- Fixed DPI Radio (for gt68xx driver)
- Settings window
- Autoincrement filenames
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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BOH: Underground-Theme
For his commercial arcade game BOH, Simone Bevilacqua has published another theme called "Underground". Additionally graphic artists can get the game for free if they create themes for the game.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Further downloads online
Further files have been added to the following categories of the Amiga Future download area: C64 Digital Talk, WinUAE, videos, game and application demoversions, respectively, Spielekiste Extra and APC&TCP FD. New files are marked by a sun. (snx)
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29.Dec.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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ViewHTTPPic updated
ViewHTTPPic downloads files from the Internet and provides them to other programs. The author uses it to be capable of viewing single pictures on a 8-Bit-screen with e.g. Multiview while using IBrowse on an AGA-screen with e.g. 3 Bit. The latest update includes several bug fixes.
Download: ViewHTTPPic.lha (36 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.22
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4 which fixes several bugs and is now based on SVN-version 1202. The expat.library as well as at least AmigaOS 4.0 are required. For some functions version 4.1 is required.
Download: owb.lha (13 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2009
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Competition "Amiga Christmas Tree": Four other games
Dwarves in the Iceland
It is a Lemming-clone which is still an early release (screenshot).
Download: DITI.lha (155 KB)
Xmas Glass Ball Factory
It is a simple mind game. There are versions for ECS, AGA and graphic boards.
Download: XMAS_GBF.lha (70 KB)
Sam and Max
This a point'n click-adventure created with Gaphic Adventure Creator ("GRAC") with the two comic heros Sam & Max
(screenshots: 1, 2, 3). The author calls it as a first attempt to work with GRAC. Hint: The game requires an assign GRAC2: which has to refer to the directory which includes the Sam&Max-folder.
Download: GRAC2.zip (608 KB)
Christmas Boulderdash
This is Guido Mersmann's famous BoulderDäsh RTX which the author facetiously had offered for several times as game for the competition - obviously in vain.
Download: boulderfull.lha (4,5 MB)
The vote will be soon started. Currently a HTML-solution which is compatible to IBrowse is tried to be found. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2009
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: 8-Bit-Emulator Atari++ 1.58
The emulator Atari++ emulates Atari's 8-Bit-home computer as well as the game console Atari 5200. The AmigaOS-4-port was made by Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkov, supports AmigaInput and can be controled with joysticks or analog controllers.
New features of version 1.58 include:
- Fixed a couple of issues in the GUI, specifically when entering data into string gadgets
- Fixed again a couple of exception handling issues in the menu
- Made the keypad stick configurable, the keys for joystick emulation are now part of the configuration
- Added a dummy front-end, "NONE", that does not render anything to the screen
- This release supports .CAS images; however, they are not part of a C: (tape) emulation, but emulated as disks. Depending on the contents of the tape archive, the disk is either considered a boot disk, a binary or a basic file
- This release supports better disk support for BASIC and MAC/65 files. If you insert such a file into the emulated disk drive, the emulator will build a DOS 2.0S compatible disk structure around it and you can load the image from the emulated disk as D:PROGRAM.BAS or D:PROGRAM.ASM. Note that such disks are *not* bootable, you first need to boot, and then turn on the emulated disk drive
- Fixed emulation of read-modify-write instructions. The 6502 consistently writes the old value before replacing it by a second write with the updated value
- The default alsa output device has been changed from hw:0.0 to default, making it more compatible to hardware setups
- The disassembly of the BVC instruction was invalid, fixed
- Added the space bar as possible source for joystick events
- Fixed some issues with preferences reading
- Added additional tests for ROM image verification
- Fixed a NULL pointer reference in the cartridge module
Download: Atari++_1.58.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Meeting: Amiga-Club Denmark
On Saturday 30th January 2010 the Amiga Club Denmark will meet in Værløse at Copenhagen. You can bring along your own Amigas or different Commodore computers. Guests from abroad are also very welcome.
AmigaOS 4.1 will be presented and can be tested from everybody. Amigabounty.net will present the latest developing version of the Firefox-port Timberwolf. Additionally the Minimig will be performed and there will be a section for playing classic Amiga games.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2009
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Sequencer: HD-Rec is Open-Source
Version 1.0 of the MIDI and audio sequencer HD-Rec (screenshots) will be published soon. Author Thilo Köhler will not commercially distribute this program but publish it as open-source software on sourceforge.net.
Interested programmers may contact the author in order to be entered as developer. HD-Rec is written in AmiBlitz and requires the still unpublished version 3.5.1 of this BASIC-distribution.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2009
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Lawsuit between Amiga and Hyperion settled
Under the title link the official judgment is available which confirms the joint stipulated motion for judgment entry as granted.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2009
Amigaweb.net (Webseite)
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WinUAE-interface AmiGame 2.0
AmiGame is an interface for the Amiga-emulator WinUAE which among others inlcudes a database and currently 1724 preconfigured games (video). Version 2.0 is available in French, English, Italian and Polish. A German translation is still missing and wanted.
Features:
- 1724 pre-configured games - click'n play, that's all
- Boxscans, discscans, covers, musics, logos included
- Automatic ADF & Whdload scanner
- Audio player with playlists usage
- Youtube video player to watch longplays, speedruns, et cetera...
- Multilingual
- Database engine (search games with many fields: artists, coders, musicians, type, year, et cetera...)
- Store and save your favourite games and prefs
- Nice interface with many skins
- Rate your games and see results in a chart
- Partnerships links for reviews and test
- Direct download with legal links only
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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WinUAE: New version of online-help
The online-help of the well-known Amiga-emulator WinUAE was reworked:
- All GUI screenshots updated
- New Expansions tab added
- CPU - New 68040 MMU option
- IO Ports - New Protection Dongle option
- Sounds - New Drivers options
- Various options moved around
- AmigaDOS - Parameter information added to all commands
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Dec.2009
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MorphOS: Port of Virtual Grand Prix 3 "possible"
The Aminet-team asked author Paolo Cattani if it is allowed to publish the MorphOS-version of his Formel 1 simulation "Virtual Grand Prix 2" on Aminet. The author answered that it is still possible to donate for VGP2 as well as it is possible to port the successor Virtual Grand Prix 3 although there are some "technical problems" and he is not going to "promise the earth".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: AmiMSN 1.2-WIP ("Xmas-edition")
- Minor memory leak fix
- Launch from icons. PNG/NewIcon/Old-style icons included
- Removal of MD5SUM. Using function in rxlibnet
- Only says "is now known as" if they were already online
- "User is typing.." message sent to recipients. This is only
now possible due to the new switchboard code in 1.1
- Changed text font (that will be shown on recipients side)
from MS Sans Serif to Segoe UI
- Recognises when WLM aborts a file being sent to you
- Thumbnail data sent from Windows Live Messenger when an image
file is offered, is saved to RAM:Preview.png
- Obtain ticket quicker on OS4
- If someone offers you a file without saying anything first,
a window will now open. Increases compatibility with some
clients that use a new switchboard session for file transfers
- Small change to try to stop clients from requesting your
avatar too often
- A few minor optimizations
- Fixed long standing bug when removing a group in IRCd mode.
Anyone who was online in the group/channel that was removed,
the WHOIS reponse would still show them being in that now
non-existant channel
- Crude Direct connection support for receiving when listening.
Should work in the majority of cases when receiving from WLM
Users of AmigaOS 4 should add the libraries rxsocket.library and rxlibnet.library to the Blacklist of the JIT-emulator to avoid problems with AmiMSN.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Dec.2009
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FFmpeg: SVN-Version 20918
Piotr Bandurski has compiled the latest version of FFmpeg for AmigaOS. Please note that the playback program FFplay, which is included, requires version 61 of the ixemul.libary.
Download: ffmpeg-svnr20918-m68k.lha (17 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2009, 13:38] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: RunInUAE
Christopher Handley's RunInUAE makes running the Amiga-emulator E-UAE under AmigaOS 4 more comfortable. E-UAE has to be seperately installed.
Download: RunInUAE_r1.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2009, 13:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Astronomy program 3D Stars 1.0
With "3D Stars" written by Dan Charrois und William Eaves you can travel through virtual interstellar spaces at the speed of light. The data of the positions of the suns were taken from the Hipparcos-satellite.
Download: 3D_Stars.lha (25 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2009
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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E-Mail-Client: SimpleMail 0.35
On time on Christmas an update of the MUI-based eMail program SimpleMail was published. Changes since version version 0.33:
- New ARexx-commands: MAILDELETE, MAILMOVE, MAILSETSTATUS and VERSION
- A new column in the message list offers an outline of the mails
- You can now search the contents of the mails
- New command line argument: PROFILEDIR and IMAGEDIR
- Some bug fixes
Currently versions for AmigaOS 3 and 4 are available. The MorphOS-port will follow soon. The SimpleMail Team wishes all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Download sites: AmigaOS 3 / AmigaOS 4
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2009
A. Otto - Admin. Tristar (ANF)
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Demo Scene: Tristar website now with Internet-Radio
The Tristar website was updated. An Internet-radio was added which plays free available music from the world of the video game remix scene. The Tristar-Team wishes all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010. Enjoy the website.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2009
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Amiga-News wishes Merry Christmas!
The team of Amiga-News wishes all Amiga fans Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are looking forward to experience the next 12 months with our Amiga.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.0.1
The Amiga emulator WinUAE is now available in version 2.0.1. Changes since the last release:
- Bugfix: Random interference in some AGA screen modes
- Bugfix: Blitter onedot line drawing mode was partially broken in non cycle exact modes
- Screenshot and AVI recording "capture before filtering" options
- Tar archive support added to "archive" harddrives
- Custom chipset emulation compatibility updates. NOTE: ECS Denise
undocumented feature is now emulated and some demos have blank
screen if chipset configuration is set to ECS Denise/Full ECS
- More compatible directory filesystem character set translation
- Mouse driver (tablet) mode didn't work without magic mouse
- Ignore unrar.dll versions that do not support unicode
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Dec.2009
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Competition "Xmas Amiga games": Four games published
Four games were published for the "First Annual Festive Amiga Game Making Competition" started two weeks ago. More details wil be published on the official website of this competition.
Cornelius Saves Christmas
Cornelius saves Christmas is a platform shooter with 30 levels (YouTube video, screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4).
Download: CSC.lha (2 MB)
X-Mas Desaster
X-Mas Desaster is a Shoot'em Up for AGA-Amigas. The player controls an "ugly, rabid Alien" and tries to kill the mankind which is saved by Santa Clause (screenshot).
Download: x-masdisaster.lha (270 KB)
Syman
Syman is an implementation of Senso/Simon for the Amiga (screenshots: 1, 2).
Download: Xmas_Syman.lha (140 KB) / Xmas_Syman.adf (880 KB)
Santa Montana (Preview)
If you want to cope with "Santa Montana" you must throw presents to the chimneys of the inhabitants (screenshot).
Download: santamontana.lha (35 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2009
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Commodore-Emulator: VICE 2.2 for all Amiga-Systems
VICE emulates almost all 8-Bit-Systems from Commodore. Ports of version 2.2 are available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (x86, PPC, x86-64) and. The changes are listed in the official Readme.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2009
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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Twitter-Client: AmiTwitter 0.23 for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS
AmiTwitter (screenshot, documentation) is an open-source, MUI-based client for Twitter.
The latest beta version offers the following features:
- Sends Tweets and Direct Messages on the Twitter network
- Downloads Following Tweets Timeline (and images)
- Downloads @Replies; Retweets of me, by me and to me
- Downloads Public Timeline (Random Tweets just for fun...)
- Displays the most recent Tweets that you have sent
- Displays the most recent Tweet by all friends and followers (currently via User ID only)
- Follow/Unfollow, Block/Unblock specified Users
- Receive/Stop receiving SMS messages from Users
- Update your Twitter website profile; view Favorites, and view Users currently Blocking (currently via User ID only)
- Display most recent Tweet for any User (whether following them or not)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Dec.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Scanner driver and software SANE for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has ported the Scanner application SANE to his X11-environment AmiCygnix (screenshots: 1, 2). The package includes a lot of drivers ("Sane Backends 1.0.20") as well as some graphical or console based scanner-programs ("Sane Frontends 1.0.14"). This current version only supports Scanners with USB-port or network-interface.
Supported Backends:
- microtek2
- hp
- fujitsu
- epson
- canon_dr
- avision
- net
- mustek_usb
- ma1509
- lexmark
- hp5400
- hp4200
- hp3900
- gt68xx
- genesys
- epson2
- epjitsu
- dell1600n_net
- coolscan3
- coolscan2
- cardscan
- canon630u
- artec_eplus48u
- umax
- snapscan
- xerox_mfp
- umax1220u
- u12
- test
- stv680
- sm3840
- rts8891
- plustek
- pixma
Included Frontends:
- xscanimage
- xcam
- scanimage
- scanadf
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21.Dec.2009
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AROS: New audio driver for iMica
In the next year Steve "Cluster UK" Jones will sell a new serie of his AROS-complete system iMica. The computers will be pre-configured as Dualboot-systems with IcAros 1.2 and Ubuntu 9.10. By order of Cluster UK, Davy Wentzler has developed drivers for the soundchips of the iMica. These drivers will also available seperatly for ten British Pounds.
Additionally each iMica will from now on include licenced versions of "Workbench 1.3 and Workbench 3.1" which can be used with UAE or Janus-UAE.
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21.Dec.2009
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Pictures of Commodore-Show in Maarssen, 19. December
On 19. December in Maarssen (Netherlands) a meeting of the Commodore Gebruikersgroep took place. You can find pictures of this meeting on the website of the club.
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Software-News until 21.12.2009
Text viewer: EvenMore 0.69
EvenMore is a textviewer written in AmigaE and by Chris Perver. Changes since the last version:
- Modified exec list sorting to receive a list length variable, so it doesn't need to be counted first. Also modified Dir2Text plugin to accept this
- Was freeing information bar pattern data by mistake when launching an external program
- Pär Boberg has updated his Swedish catalog file following the changes made to the preferences
- Added two new escape code sequences. ESC[52m will set the displayed font in EvenMore to the user selected font, while ESC[53m will set the displayed font to the default system font. This will allow plugins such as the Generic2Text plugin to switch to a uniform system font when viewing hexadecimal files.
- Updated Generic2Text plugin to use the system font when viewing hexadecimal files
MorphOS: Drawerball 0.8q
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published Drawerball 0.8q which is a very early version of a simple file manager.
AmigaOS 4: Modula 2-development environment AgletM2PPC
AgletM2PPC is a complete Modula 2-development environment inclusive compiler. Only a text editor is required (GoldEd, CygnusEd and TurboText are supported). Changes since the last release:
Compiler:
- The compiler itself is now PPC native, and is
significantly faster!
- The size limit on procedures is now probably large enough
for any sane program
- A bug which caused extremely excessive stack use was fixed.
Now 40 or 50K should be enough for almost any compile
- Some code generation errors were fixed
- Fixed problem with Opaque pointers resolved within the
IMPLEMENTATION module by imported pointer types
- Added compiler warning: OpenArrayCopyWarn
- SDK 53.8+ now using the GNU assembler v2.18 vs. 2.14
in earlier SDKs. This required that some instructions be
output slightly differently
- Certain "recording" versions of FP instructions are no
longer generated, since Sam 440ep/flex does not support
them
(Pre)Linker
- Mod2Lnk recognizes a "-stack" switch and inserts the
"$STACK:xxxx" cookie into executables.
The .asm files no longer need be kept around. All dependency
information is in the object file now. Asm files are written
to T:
- Added the "-g" debug switch, which causes both exported and
non-exported symbols to be put into the Elf symbol table so
that SymbolsRTS can find them as well
M2IDE
- Option "Make Icons?" added for the project file save
- Fixed problem of GR on exit if M2IDE changed its current
directory
- Multiselect now supported for the "Misc Files" file
requester
Amiga Modules
- Added Definition files for about 25 more Amiga Libraries,
and all supplied Amiga definition files (over 150 of them) were
brought up to the v53.13 SDK
- The TextEditor gadget is now working much better, as the
Definition file now adjusts to a glitch in the SDK's .h
file
Aglet Modules
- System module SymbolsRTS was introduced for better debugging
of exception locations
- CLI program arguments and Workbench ToolTypes are
transparently (almost) unified when the ArgsSupport module
is used to read startup arguments
- Many improvements in the (experimental) SimpleXXX modules
(SimpleGUI, SimpleScreens, SimpleMenus, SimpleGraphics, etc)
- new modules: BigInt, for 155 bit integers; IconSupport, for
writing out icons
Filesharing: Testing Amigift 2.0 for free
Amigift is a P2P file sharing system based on the giFT-demon (Gnutella, FastTrack, OpenFT) ported from the Unix-system and which has a MUI-based graphical user-interface called "GiftMUI" (screenshot). The author now offers a key with which you can test all the features of the shareware program for a limited time for 30 minutes per session.
AmigaOS 4: Astronomy program Digital Universe for 40% discount
The astronomy program Digital Universe can be ordered for a discount of 40% until 1.1.2010.
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20.Dec.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Picture viewer ShowGirls 1.2 / WAManager 1.0
ShowGirls is a picture viewer written by Michal 'kiero' Wozniak which provides some picture editing functions and features known from "MiniShowPicture", "ShowPPC" and similar programs. Additionally pictures can be catalogued and assigned to virtual albums.
Version 1.2 includes some bug fixes as well as the WAManager which was integrated (screenshot). With this new program also written by Michal 'kiero' Wozniak you can manage Picasa Internet albums and offers in version 1.0 the following features:
- User authorization
- Album list gathering
- Album creation, name, comment and access rights modification
- Uploading of images to albums
- Checking for already uploaded images
- ShowGirls integration
- Images can be resized to given dimmensions and recompressed to JPEG format with selected quality. All image formats for which a Datatype or Reggae class exists are supported
Download:
ShowGirls-1.2.lha (463 KB)
WAManager-1.0.lha (880 KB)
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20.Dec.2009
Retro Gamer (ANF)
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Game consoles: Alien-Breed-Series will be continued
The Alien-Breed-Series, which was published from 1991 to 1996 for the Amiga and partly for the PC as well, will be officially continued with "Alien Breed Evolution". Under the title link you can find a short report on the Xbox-360-version at 4Players.de (in German). Versions for Playstation 3 and PC will be published next year. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga in use: Famous Amiga Uses 2.4
The list of the "Famous Amiga Uses" written by David Tiberio and Pär Boberg was updated. It is listed where the Amiga was used. From version 2.4 the new entries can be recognized.
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19.Dec.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Demo scene: Bitworld-Frontend Amiga Scene Demo Database
The website "Amiga Scene Demo Database" (still in beta status) offers a search function for the demo scene data base Bitworld.
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19.Dec.2009
Martin Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #110
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch wrote: This time the 110th "Musikpack" by LQS includes a MP3-Tune called "Your Own Oxygen" in Electro-style. It was written by our Polish musician Lcr and mixed by Kuadziw. The cover was created by DaFreak.
The "Musikpack" can be downloaded from the title link (7,2 MB).
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18.Dec.2009
a1k.org (forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Zelda - Mystery of Solarus (Demo)
"Zelda - Mystery of Solarus" is a role playing game (screenshots) similar to Nintendo's Legend of Zelda-serie. The game is still in development. The latest demo version is finished after the first dungeon. The AmigaOS 4-port was written by "HunoPPC".
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17.Dec.2009
HelmutH (ANF)
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Update of Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
The Amiga Virus Encyclopedia is an English reference work on virus on the Amiga. The database includes more than 400 different viruses. 63 entries have been added or updated during the last months.
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17.Dec.2009
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MorphOS: OWB 1.6.1, Gallerius 2.4
Web-Browser: OWB 1.6.1
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published a new version of the Origyn Web Browser for MorphOS.
- Enabled WebInspector (Firebug-like, Screenshot). WebInspector allows browsing resources/scripts, profiling, debugging... It can be enabled with: "setenv OWB_ENABLE_INSPECTOR 1". When enabled, a new "inspect element" entry is
added to webview contextmenus.
- Avoid conflicts between regular context menus and javascript contextmenus
- Updated russian, swedish and czech locales
- Added a lame workaround in javascript interpreter that caused regressions in google maps
- Fixed a possible crash with priority popups in MLdonkey HTML interface
As usual there are two different versions: OWB-nosvg without support of the SVG-format which requires less memory.
HTML-galleries: Gallerius 2.4
Gallerius written by Pawel 'Stefkos' Stefanski creates HTML-Thumbnail-Galleries. Changes in version 2.4:
- support for ShowGirls galleries
- new logo
- option to abort the html generation process
- 2 new modes added for aspect ratio picture scaling (by width and by height)
- fixed reported bugs
Direct download: gallerius.lha (135 KB)
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17.Dec.2009
Patrick Nevian (ANF)
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Music: X-mas special for Amiga-Users
The debut album from Blue Metal Rose, "Spreading the seed", as well as the next CD was made with the help of an Amiga 4000.
Until the end of December there is a special offer for Amiga users: Spreading the seed can be ordered for 5 Euro (delivery within Germany, else 6 Euro) inclusive shipping. For this you must enter the following code: BMRLOVESAMIGA.
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16.Dec.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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CGG: Winners of Innovation award 2009
On 19th of December the Dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep will award its Innovation Price 2009. Winners are Dennis van Weeren's FPGA-Amiga Minimig (category hardware) as well as the C64/SID-music program ACID 64 written by Wilfred Bos (software).
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16.Dec.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Ranger 1.41
Steven Solie's Ranger is a little diagnostic routines for AmigaOS 4 which shows processor trees and provides additional information. A part of the new functions of this version 1.41 already requires functions of the "Update 1" for AmigaOS 4.1 which has been still not published.
Changes include:
- Added home directory (aka PROGDIR:) field to DOS/Processes tab
- Added monitor DDC information to Hardware/Gfx Boards tab
- Added new effects fields to Screen and Window attributes in the GUI/Objects tab
- Added Exec/IntHandlers tab which displays information about the interrupt handlers
Download: ranger.lha (331 KB)
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15.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Interview: Bartek Kuchta (NatAmi-Team)
The Polish portal retroage.net has published an English interview with Bartek Kuchta. Kuchta is graphic designer and creates logos, 3D-models for demos and other graphics for the NatAmi-Team.
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14.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.21
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. Changes in version 3.21:
- Fixed bugs.os4depot.net issues #194, #263, #280, #287, #303, #317,
#319, #325, #326, #329, #330 and #332
- Updated to SVN revision 1176
- Added a workaround for a javascript interpreter bug, for example on
maps.google.com
- Added Firefox2Like theme
- Updated about : and error page
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14.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Lawsuit: settlement agreement between Amiga and Hyperion published
In October, Hyperion had announced that it had reached an agreement with Amiga Inc. regarding the rights to AmigaOS 4. A few days ago, the actual settlement agreement between both parties has been published in the court archives as part of the judge's recent order to accept the agreement and close the case.
The most important points of the agreement are:
- Hyperion is the sole owner of the operating system they are distributing, excluding the parts derived from AmigaOS 3.1 - for which Hyperion will get a new licence from Amiga Inc. (see below)
- While Amiga Inc. is described as the "sole owner of the software 'AmigaOS 3.1'", they exclusively license most rights associated with the product to Hyperion, including the right to sell AmigaOS licenses to other parties.
- Amiga Inc. may only distribute AmigaOS 3.1 bundled with "gaming content" - and only as long as it is not modified and the user interface of AmigaOS is never shown to the user. An example mentioned in the contract is a retro games console, but the games/WinUAE bundles distributed through Amiga's shop would also fit this description.
- Hyperion now has an exclusive license to the "Amiga OS" and "AmigaOne" trademarks. Both parties may use the "Boingball" on their products.
- Existing licensees (e.g. Cloanto) are not concerned with this agreement.
The agreement, which is signed by Bill McEwen for Amiga und Evert Carton for Hyperion, does not describe what kind of compensation - if any - Amiga Inc. recieves in return. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Dec.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Software-News until 13.12.2009
CAD-Programm: ATcad 11/2009
ATcad is a simple 2D vector graphic program (screenshot) which originally was written for developing simple conductor boards.
ATcad requires a 68030-Processor, 8 MB RAM as well as screen modus with at least 720x564 Pixels (users of graphic boards must use the Mode-Promotion-Utility).
MorphOS: Drawerball 0.8p
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published an update for his simple file manager Drawerball 0.8p. The archive includes a version with two directory windows ("DoubleDrawerBall").
AmigaOS 4: Database interface iODBC
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmatè has ported the ODBC-implementation iODBC to AmigaOS. If you want to help testing the latest and not public beta version then please contact the author.
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13.Dec.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.0.0
Version 2.0.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been published. A detailed list of changes is available on the website.
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13.Dec.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.61
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new beta version of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS. File transfers should now work under AROS as well. Additionally there are some minor improvements like "Auto-Unaway". The detailed changes are listed in the Readme.
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13.Dec.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Picture viewer ShowGirls 1.1
ShowGirls is a picture viewer written by Michal 'kiero' Wozniak which provides some editing functions and some features of programs like "MiniShowPicture" or "ShowPPC".
With the latest version 1.1 you can now also catalogue your pictures.
Further changes:
- Noise filter (color/luminance, strength depending on source pixel luminance, perlin noise)
- Image searching functionality: searching by name, comment (file or album), date (file or exif), dimensions
- Sorting for thumbnail lists
- Display options for thumbnail lists (filename/date/dimmensions)
- Optimized glow effect
- Optimized resampling code, added altivec version
- Batch converter can apply filters during image processing (only a few selected for now)
- It can also process images from given album
- Grayscale filter with adjustable color component weights, don't discard alpha contents
- Changed RGB Balance filter to Color Balance filter which should work in similar way to its Photoshop equivalent
- Optimized noise reduction filter
- Optimized threshold filter
- Optimized overlay image generation
- Optimized rgb->hsv conversion (faster hsv balance filter)
- Fixed slideshow start/stop after fullscreen/window change
- Reimplemented full-dir thumbnail scanning mode, visible entries will be scanned first
- Improved sorting of files with numeric names
- Various speed/memory usage optimizations
- State of album manager, color picker and information overlay is saved on application exit (use NOALBUMS tooltype/param to disable opening of album manager)
- Reggae support
Download: ShowGirls-1.1.lha (484 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Dec.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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DiscreetFX: Xmas lottery
DiscreetFX has started a Xmas lottery. If you want to take part then simply fill out the form wit the text "DiscreetFX 2009 Christmas Giveaway".
All registrations must be done before 25th of December. The winners will be announced on New Year's Day. The following prizes will be raffled:
- Amiga Forever Value Edition (3x)
- Aladdin 4D Instant Download (10x)
- Competition-Pro-Joystick by Individual Computers and Speedlink (6x)
- Amiga-Round-Table-DVD, Episodes 1-3 with bonus material (6x)
- AmigaOS 4.1, optionally in Sam440-, Pegasos-II- or AmigaOne/MicroA1-version (1x)
- MorphOS 2.x (1x)
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