21.Jun.2009
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4.1: New QuickFix package available
Press release Antwerp, Belgium, June 21, 2009 - Hyperion Entertainment announces the immediate availability for download of a new "QuickFix" package for all versions of AmigaOS 4.1 (i.e. AmigaOne, SAM/SAM Flex and Pegasos II).
The new QuickFix package is available for registered users of AmigaOS 4.1 and incorporates the first QuickFix package released earlier this year.
Features include:
- Improved overall system stability
- Fixed shared object handling especially for larger applications
- Fixed Radeon Warp3D graphics drivers
- Increased performance of IDE drivers
- Fixed JXFileSystem issues with file scanning
- Fixed Sam440ep ethernet driver to work with hubs and Envoy
Installation of the new “Quickfix” package is highly recommended. (snx)
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21.Jun.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Compiler: ECX 2.1.1
ECX is a compiler for the programming language E for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4. ECX requires an existing installation of the Amiga-E-package. The changes in this version are listed in the Readme-file.
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19.Jun.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.6.1
The Amiga emulator WinUAE is now available in version 1.6.1. This update fixes several bugs and includes the following new functions:
- Added disk image and configuration file icons, file extension
association improved
- Added button/key toggle mode to Input panel
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19.Jun.2009
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Software News until 19.06.2009
SpeakerRangeTester 1.0
Daniel Westerberg's MUI-based SpeakerRangeTester tests the frequency output of connected speakers. The results are graphically shown (screenshot).
MorphOS: Updates of some Reggae classes
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewski has published updates of some of his classes of his multimedia library Reggae:
- multimedia.class 52.15
- multiread.buffer 51.6
- zxscreen.decoder 51.3
Disassembler: IRA 2.0
IRA is a portiable disassembler for AmigaOS 3-binaries which is available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS.
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18.Jun.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 63 of Amiga Future online
Issue 63 of the print magazine Amiga Future is sold. All articles of the magazine are now online.
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18.Jun.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: "Castle"-Skin for the game BOH
For the game BOH which is availble for AmigaOS 4, Mac OS X and Windows there is a new skin called "Castel" (screenshots: 1, 2).
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17.Jun.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.15
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
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16.Jun.2009
BitWorld (ANF)
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BitWorld: News from the Amiga demo scene
BitWorld contains now demos which were recently published at the GREP Green 2009 in Sweden.
Tulou won with the 4k-Intro Roboty the demo competition. Also available the fun production Project Edis. Some days ago the A500-musicdisk Coolism was published which was created by group Depth.
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15.Jun.2009
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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MagicMenu now Open Source
Mario Cattaneo wrote: Since 8th June 2009 MagicMenu is Open Source. For the project was not developed further during the last years we have decided to release it as Open Source project.
Everyone can now have a look "behind the scenes". Additionally MM can be ported to other platforms. If you are interested in the project just visit the sourceforge-sites.
Still a last request: Unfortunately we do not have the archives of the "current" beta versions that means all versions after V2.30. If you should have some of these versions on your harddrive I ask you to contact me (and not to send it at once!). Thank you.
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13.Jun.2009
Andreas Wolf (Kommentar)
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Amiga Anywhere: No support by Envizions
In the last year Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation (amiga-news.de reported) advertised for its EVO Smart Console among others with Amiga-Anywhere games.
Meanwhile in its FAQ the company announced that this platform will be not supported any longer.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jun.2009
Murakami (ANF)
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Printmagazin: aMiGa=PoWeR, issue 44
Among others, issue #44 of the French printmagazine aMiGa=PoWeR covers the following topics:
- News: BOH, F1Spirit, Ambermoon Arcade, M.A.X. Reloaded, Digital Universe 1.6
- Reviews: WarpView 1.03 OS4, OWB 1.3 MOS, Hollywood 4 VideoUp, Celestia 1.5.1 OS4, Giddy 3
- Tutorials: PalmUAE, Grub 1.95, WinUAE on a flashdrive, HTML programming
aMiGa=PoWeR is published by AFLE since 1998 and is distributed worldwide. (snx)
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12.Jun.2009
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Software-News until 12.06.2009
Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.50
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new update of SabreMSN which is an Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
Compiler: ECX 2.1.0
ECX is a compiler for the programming language E for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4. ECX requires an existing installation of the Amiga-E-package. The changes in the new version 2.1.0 are listed in the Readme-file.
MorphOS: Reggae-Updates - multimedia.class and multiread.buffer
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewski has published two updates for his multimedia library Reggae:
multimedia.class 52.14:
- New helper methods for implementing seek in subclasses: PreSeek/PostSeek pair has similar purpose as PrePull/PostPull. They do all the framework "bookkeeping", parameters verification, detection of seek past end of stream, method forwarding along the pipeline, log messages and so on. What is also important, PreSeek implements automatic "seek-by-read" fallback for not seekable data sources. Then a subclass implementor may be sure he can always perform forward seek in his demuxer/decoder, even for streams like http.stream (which is not seekable).
multiread.buffer 51.5
- No functional changes, just uses pull and seek helpers in the new multimedia.class, it requires multimedia.class 52.14+ for this reason. Updated documentation.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jun.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Level editor for the game BOH
For the game BOH developed by Simone Bevilacqua and which is available for AmigaOS 4, Mac OS X and Windows, 'motorollin' has written a Web-based level editor with the following functions:
- Help page
- Undo
- Upload of existing (non-encrypted) maps
- Copy and paste
- Row/column insertion and deletion
- Zoom in and out
- Fill
- All tiles and objects from BOH
- Floors
- Automatic recalculation of surrounding tiles when placing, pasting or filling tiles (e.g. to change buttons to passages when placing barriers on either side of them)
- Save to a BOH .bmd file or display ASCII map data for copy/paste in to a text editor
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11.Jun.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Origyn Web Browser 0.9.6
On sand-labs.org Stanislaw Szymczyk has published another test version of his AROS-port of the Origyn Web Browser. So far for the Bounty-project 1231 US-Dollar and 120 Euro were donated.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jun.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Commodore Vegas Expo 2009 / Questions to Dave Haynie
On 25. and 26. July in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, the Commodore Vegas Expo (ComVEx) will take place for the fifth time. As former Commodore developers Dave Haynie will be there as well as Chuck Peddle and Bil Herd will attend via video conference.
In the forum of commodore.ca you can send questions which will be supposed to be asked during the event.
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10.Jun.2009
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WHDLoad: New packages until 10.06.2009
The following installers for WHDLoad have been added, improved or updated:
- 03.06.2009 fixed: Fire and Brimstone (Microprose) disk image fixed, slave rewritten, new install script and icons, 2nd button supported (Info)
- 02.06.2009 improved: Turrican 2 (Factor 5/Rainbow Arts) sound replay fixed, 'time out' corrected in CDTV version (Info)
- 02.06.2009 improved: Flink CD³² (Psygnosis) language detection fixed (Info)
- 02.06.2009 improved: Castles (Interplay) fixes for the german version (Info)
- 02.06.2009 links to BitWorld added for most demos and magazines
- 30.05.2009 fixed: Celtic Legends (UBI-Soft) install script corrected (Info)
- 29.05.2009 improved: Knights of the Crystallion (US Gold/Bill Williams) supports german version too, manual protection skipped, solution added (Info)
- 29.05.2009 improved: Atomic Robo-Kid (Activision) highscores are saved, speed improved (with BLITWAIT macro) (Info)
- 27.05.2009 fixed: Sabre Team (Krisalis) CD³² and AGA version corrected (Info)
- 26.05.2009 new: Dragon Tiles 2: The Tournament (Software Circus) done by Psygore (Info)
- 25.05.2009 links to Mantis BugTracker have been added for installs which already have issues there
- 20.05.2009 fixed: Cannon Fodder 2 (Sensible Software) now works with WHDLoad 16.9 (only), new install script (Info)
- 18.05.2009 improved: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) another version supported, quitkey didn't work in both italian versions on 68000 machines (Info)
- 17.05.2009 improved: Breathless (Fields of Vision) another version supported, new install script and icon (Info,Image)
- 17.05.2009 improved: Explora 3: Sous Le Signe Du Serpent (Infomedia) bug in text routine fixed, new install script and icon (Info)
- 16.05.2009 improved: Mega lo Mania (Sensible Software/Mirrorsoft) trainer added (Info,Image)
- 16.05.2009 improved: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) reassembled with the latest kickemu (Info)
- 15.05.2009 improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century) fixed access faults in in-game option menu (Info,Image)
- 15.05.2009 improved: Legend Of Faerghail (reLINE) fixed problem for pre WHDLoad 16.9 users (Info)
- 15.05.2009 improved: Dungeon Master (FTL/Software Heaven) removed 68020+ restriction, converted to WHDLoad v16 (Info)
- 15.05.2009 improved: Sky Chase (Imageworks) another version supported, new icon and install script (Info)
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10.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Bounty for development of PPC-JIT-compiler for UAE
At amigabounty.net a project was established which is supposed to help developing a JIT-68k-compiler for the PPC-version of UAE - similar to existing versions of x86-CPUs. In contrary to the 68k-emulator which has been used in PPC-versions by UAE the speed of emulated appliactions would increase.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Cinnamon Writer 0.62 (beta)
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer (screenshot) is a SDL-based text editing software for AmigaOS 4 which provides the usual text editing features. The most important changes in version 0.62:
- Major speed optimization
- Added Find/Replace functionality
- Selectable document sizes
- Resizable document area
- New document ruler (WIP)
- Several minor additions improve user experience
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jun.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future issue 53 online
The articles of issue 53 are online on the website of the magazine.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jun.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.14
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
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08.Jun.2009
(ANF)
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Web-Browser: First alpha version of Netsurf for AmigaOS 3
On a discussion on amiga.org Artur Jarosik told that he has ported the browser Netsurf to AmigaOS 3. NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally developed for RiscOS and which works from 17 MB memory on and supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1.
The AmigaOS 3-version is an early alpha version. There are till some bugs (colours, text input). Netsurf requires Truetype-Fonts, which therefore requires a Truetype-Handler (the author recommends AfA). The required fonts are included in the package and must be copied to ONTS:TrueType/. Additionally a screen mode of 32 Bit colour depth should be used for Netsurf.
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08.Jun.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Megadrive-Emulator Genesis Plus 1.3.2
Ventzislav "drHirudo" Tzvetkov has published a new version of the MegaDrive emulator GenesisPlus.
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07.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube: Price reduction for AmigaOS 4.0 for Classic Amiga
Press release:
Bassano del Grappa - 07. June 2009
Hyperion Entertainment and ACube Systems are pleased to announce a special and limited in time price reduction for AmigaOS 4.0 for "Classic Amiga"-systems.
Until the end of June 2009 AmigaOS 4.0 is available for "Classic Amiga"-systems for 60 Euro (plus taxes).
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07.Jun.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Picture viewer: Eye Viewer SE 1.0
The picture viewer Eye Viewer SE 1.0 includes now a plugin for converting and saving, datatype support and music files can be played.
Download: EyeViewerSE-68k.lha (852 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2009
Amiga.org (website)
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Cloanto: Amiga Explorer 2009
Press release Amiga Explorer 2009 has just been released. The new version includes enhanced support for Windows 7, an update to Software Director and support for Amiga Forever 2009. The update is free to all Amiga Explorer users.
Amiga Explorer 2009 can be downloaded via Software Director, or from the Amiga Explorer Home Page. If doing a manual download, note the two different editions, one for x86 systems, the other for x64 systems. The Amiga side is always included and works on both 68K and PPC systems.
Traditionally, the release of the new Amiga Explorer as included in Amiga Forever precedes by a few days the launch of a new version of Amiga Forever itself. (snx)
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06.Jun.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Origyn Web Browser 1.3
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published a new version of the Origyn Web Browser for MorphOS. The changes - e.g. the resumption of downloads, pop-up blocker, mimetypes and configurable context menus - are listed in the Readme-file.
As usual three different versions of the program are available. Additional to the full version with all functions there are two versions which require less memory: OWB-nosvg (no support of SVG-format) and OWB-lite (no SVG-support, only UTF-8 and European codepages).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Tutorial: Guide to Amiga compatible programming
The "Guide to Amiga compatible programming" is a programming guide originally written in Italian which is little by little translated into English. For further development of the course a code.google.com-project was established. Interested users are very welcome.
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06.Jun.2009
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OpenURL 7.5 for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS
With OpenURL you can define default tools for HTTP and mailto links. The library is supported by many applications. Version 7.5 is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS.
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03.Jun.2009
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Software-News until 03.06.2009
VorbisGain 0.36, xpdftools 3.02
On amiga.sourceforge.net two new Unix-ports are available: VorbisGain corrects the volume of Ogg Vorbis music tracks to standard values and xpdftools 3.02 is a collection of little tools about the PDF-format.
vasm 1.4
vasm is an assembler which supports diverse CPU-families (m68k, PPC, i386, 6502...). It is partof the vbcc-distribution. The changes of version 1.4 are listed on the download site.
New full versions on amigafuture.de
In the download section of the Amiga Future some new full versions are available. For example Virtual Ball Fighters, Anstoss, Doodlebug, Nucleus, Tommy Gun, Outlander and Visualprefs.
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02.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Filesharing: AmiGift 2.0
Amigift is a P2P-filesharing system which is based on a giFT-daemon (Gnutella, FastTrack, OpenFT) and includes a MUI-based graphical user-interface called "GiftMUI" (screenshot). After a few beta versions finally version 2.0 of the program is available. The changes are listed in the Changelog. The most important changes in AmiGift 2.0:
- The daemon no longer uses ixemul, we have now a totally native application!
- Each of the libs and plug-ins are now compiled and loaded individually, rather than linked with the daemon executable
- GiFTMui (The MUI front-end) now uses MUI Custom Classes for everything
- LOTS of code have been either rewritten from scratch or optimized
- There's now a dopus-like file manager embedded into GiFTMui
Before installing it interested users are asked to have a look at the sections Requirements and Getting started of the AmiGift website. The complete manual is online as well.
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01.Jun.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: 8-Bit-Emulator Atari++ 1.56
The emulator Atari++ emulates Atari's 8-Bit-home computer as well as the game console Atari 5200. The AmigaOS-4-version was ported by Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkov and supports AmigaInput.
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01.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messaging: AmiMSN adjusted to AmigaOS 4 (beta)
AmiMSN is a console based Instant Messenger-client for the MSN-Network written in ARexx. The author has published a version which was adjusted to AmigaOS 4 and offers almost all features of the original version.
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01.Jun.2009
Michael C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Cloanto release C64 Forever
Press release June 1st, 2009 - Cloanto, developers of Commodore/Amiga software since the 1980s, and already publishers of Amiga Forever, launched today C64 Forever (screenshots), a revolutionary preservation, emulation and support package.
C64 Forever embodies an intuitive player interface, backed by a built-in database containing more than 5,000 C64 game entries, and advanced support for the new RP2 format, dubbed the "MP3 of retrogaming" (amiga-news.de reported).
When the C64 was launched in 1982 it immediately set the standard for 8-bit home computers. Its low cost, superior graphics, high quality sound and a massive 64 KB of RAM positioned it as the winner in the home computer wars, knocking out competitors from the likes of Atari, Texas Instruments, Sinclair, Apple and IBM.
Selling over 30 million units and introducing a whole generation to computers and programming, the C64 shook up the video games industry and sparked cultural phenomena such as computer music and the demoscene. In recent years the C64 has enjoyed a spectacular revival manifesting itself once again as a retrocomputing platform.
C64 Forever expands Cloanto's RetroPlatform family, aiming to set new standard in ease of use, emulation power and access to contents. The RetroPlatform player technology, the frequently-updated RetroPlatform Library database and content recognition engine, and the RP2 file format act in synergy to provide a superior user experience.
The software includes more than 100 games, some of the finest demoscene productions, and other bits and pieces of history. Adding content is as easy as a drag-and-drop. The RP2 Manager feature further makes it possible to import thousands of games at once from existing C64 CDs, DVDs or internet downloads, while the built-in search functionality makes it easy to find more games on C64 preservation sites.
C64 Forever (video) is available now in two editions:
- Downloadable Plus Edition - $19.95
- Boxed Plus Edition - $24.95 (photo, includes instant download)
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31.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Video of Amiga and C64-Forever-Chat
The record of the video chat about C64 Forever and Amiga Forever 2009 is now online:
http://vimeo.com/retroplatform
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: DigiRoller - Betatest for DigiBoosterPro
Press release The Open Beta Test of DigiBoosterPro has started today. For this purpose we have published the program DigiRoller at the title link. We wish to get as much users as possible for this Open Beta Test to avoid future problems.
DigiRoller is a standalone DBM module player and renderer. It is released for free as a preview of sound synthesis technology used in upcoming DigiBooster 3. With DigiRoller any DBM music module can be played or saved to an AIFF/WAVE file. There is also a benchmark mode which allows for estimating DigiBooster 3 player engine speed on different hardware. DigiRoller is being released for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS 1.4/2.x and runs on all hardware supported by these operating systems (with exception of 68020+ requirement for AmigaOS 3 version).
The key feature of the new DigiBooster 3 player engine is AHI independency. The new engine does not rely on AHI resampling and mixing. Using own algorithms allows for better quality, for example track mixing is done with 24-bit precision. Breaking AHI dependency also opens a way for making high quality DigiBooster 3 module replayers for non-Amiga operating systems like Windows, Linux or MacOS. DigiRoller uses AHI as a playback backend only, to stay compatible with as many sound hardware as possible. (snx)
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30.May.2009
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AMIX: Back port project AmixBP
AMIX, Commodore's Amiga Unix, is a port of Unix System V Release 4 to the Amiga 2000 and 3000. Under the title link the Sourceforge.net-project AmixBP was established.
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29.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Metacompiler: PortablE r4
Christopher Handley's Metacompiler PortablE translates the programming language E into different ones. Through this extensive E-programs are supposed to be changes in this way that they can be compiled to a wider range of platforms.
With version r4 additional to AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS now Windows is supported as well.
Changes:
- PortablE now has basic support for Windows, along with some standard
portable modules which allow the same program to run unchanged on
Windows & Amiga; documentation & several examples are provided
- PortablE now comes with an installer (for all supported platforms)
- The PEGCC program runs both PortablE and G++ (GCC) for you, thus
producing an executable directly from E code
- PortablE now runs up to twice as fast
- Added MUI support for AROS
- Fixed modules to work with AmigaOS 4's latest SDK
- FastNew() & NEW are now thread safe
- Fixed FastNew() & NEW, which were previously un-aligned & so could
cause crashes under certain circmstances
- OpenLibrary() could a crash on AmigaOS 4; really fixed this time
- Numerous other improvements, changes & bug fixes
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29.May.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AISS ToolBar Creator 0.2
The MUI-based AISSTBC ("AISS Toolbar Creator") is supposed to help developers creating button bars: With drag'n drop whole button bars can be configured and saved from AISS-pictures. In version 0.2 a bug was fixed which caused a crash if pictures were loaded.
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[News message: 29. May. 2009, 13:57] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2009
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Reggae-Updates multimedia.class 52.13 and zxscreen.decoder 51.2
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has published two updates for his multimedia library Reggae:
multimedia.class 52.13
- Added two helper methods for class implementors: MMM_PrePull() and MMM_PostPull(). Using them in a class saves about a kilobyte of code :-)
- Added a separete memory lict semaphore, so one can use Reggae memory allocation functions inside MMM_Setup(). One of new incoming classes needs it.
zxscreen.decoder 51.2
- The first class to use PrePull()/PostPull() helpers
- Because of this added multimedia.class 52.13+ check at initialization
- Binary is shorter. ;-)
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[News message: 29. May. 2009, 13:18] [Comments: 0]
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28.May.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Log-Analyzer logtool 2.6
Jacek Piszczek has published an update of his log-analyzer logtool (screenshot). Changes in version 2.6:
- Changes in log filtering. Please note that the filter prefs changed and you might need to recreate your filters.
- Support for firewire logs with OHCI1394Mon by Frank Mariak
logtool requires at least versions 50.70 of the MUI-class Powerterm.mcc which is part of the MUICON-package.
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[News message: 28. May. 2009, 16:42] [Comments: 0]
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28.May.2009
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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What about ... Jim Collas?
Jim Collas which was managing director at Amiga Inc. at the end of the last centenary seems to has found a new job: As managing director of SocialWise he tries to establish the pay service "BillMyParents".
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[News message: 28. May. 2009, 16:35] [Comments: 0]
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