17.Feb.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: KwaKwa source code released
Under the title link Filip 'widelec' Maryjañski has released the source code of his Instant Messenger KwaKwa and its corresponding protocol modules.
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17.Feb.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 83 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Aquaventura", "Ashes of Empire" and "Flight of the Amazon Queen".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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17.Feb.2018
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: AmigaMAD 61 (Norwegian/English)
The Norsk Amigaforening publishes the Norwegian PDF magazine Amigaguiden and its English issue AmigaMAD. Topics of issue 61 are the punk band "Paula Powered" and the operating system FriendUP.
Download sites:
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English
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15.Feb.2018
Huno (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: EGL to OpenGL ES 2.0 wrapper (beta 2), testers wanted
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is working on a EGL to OpenGL ES 2.0 wrapper based on the Warp 3D Nova/OpenGL ES 2.0 combination sold by A-EON which is supposed to simplify and enable porting modern OpenGL-based games (Youtube video).
Nouvel offers a beta version of his port for download. Currently only beta testers of the next version of A-EON's Enhancer package can use it.
According to Nouvel his library supports "virtually all functions of opengles.library". His port provides mainly the following features:
- Full keyboard support
- The window mode and full screen mode
- GUI reaction options:
- Limit fps
- Frame rate display function
- Selection Screen depth
- VSync
- PNG Image natively with alpha
- Uncompressed TGA image with alpha
- Planned: MiniGlutES
- Planned: Sound Effects via datatype
Update (15.02.18, 15:00, cg)
Unlike originally reported here, Nouvel is not offering an OpenGL ES to NOVA wrapper, but an EGL to OpenGL ES wrapper. We apologize for the misunderstanding. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Feb.2018
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Collective purchase order: Motherboard, network card, 68030 accelerator board
Amy-ITX is an Amiga motherboard in standard ITX form factor. The board has to be equipped with the usual Amiga custom chips, offers two Zorro slots (DMA is only supported on one of the slots) and is compatible to accelerator boards like the Vampire 500, which are directly plugged in the processor socket.
For this motherboard now - after a test run with only 25 produced pieces in 2017 - a first and according to the developer singular public production run will be started. For 65 Euro each interested user will get a bare motherboard, a bare daughterboard which will take the CHIP-RAM, a detailed list of the required components as well as a instruction for assembling the computer. If you are not able to program the ICs you can order three preprogrammed ICs for additional 25 Euro. Official support is not offered, it is referred to the growing [Amy-ITX-]community.
The same developers also offers two extensions, developed for Amy-ITX but should also work on different Amigas with Zorro or m68k processor socket. They also are bare boards which have to be equipped by the puchasers:
For 35 Euro a 10Mbit network card for Zorro slots is available which is based on the same network chip like the well-known Ariadne (RTL8019) and is compatible with the original drivers of the VillageTronic.
An accelerator board with 68030 processor, 6 MB Fast RAM and an IDE bus is available for 55 Euro. The board is plugged into the processor socket of the 680000 and should be also compatible to the Amiga models 500, 1000 and 2000. According to the developers it is an "extremely optimized 030-based accelerator" which "outperforms every single Amiga accelerator in the category".
The components required for the projects have to be organized and collected by the users themselves. For the moment you can register your interest. This registration still is not binding. Some weeks later all interested users will be contacted and get the option to place an official order and to pay the money in advance.
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11.Feb.2018
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 7.1 released
Press release: A new year, a new Hollywood: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with Hollywood 7.1, a brand-new update to the popular Multimedia Application Layer. Hollywood 7.1 is a major update with lots of new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 7.1:
- Support for 64-bit Android
- Improved date and time library which now includes UTC support
- Added timezone support
- New syntax for ultra-convenient error handling
- Lots of additions to the plugin API: Ready for cool new plugins!
- Raw key support
- Plugin loader is now compatible with the next version of AmigaOS 4
- Greatly improved locale library
- Cryptography-proof pseudo random number generator
- Added support for radio menu items
- Always-on-top windows are now supported
- Windows IDE supports syntax highlighting and online help for methods now
- Moving files and directories is now supported
- Several new string library functions
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood 7.1 is provided free of charge for all users who have bought Hollywood 7.0. It can be downloaded from the restricted download area. People who haven't bought Hollywood yet can place their order at the official Hollywood portal at the title link now. Note that there is currently a special 50%-off offer available for people wanting to buy Hollywood for one platform only. See here for details.
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different AmigaOS compatible platforms and the other three modern desktop systems, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux! Additionally, Hollywood also supports the Android and iOS platforms. A truly unique feature is the ability to cross-compile native executables for many different platforms including: AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86, x64), Mac OS X (x86, x64, PPC) and Linux (x86, x64, PPC, ARM). You don't even have to own these platforms in order to compile executables for them. It's enough to run Hollywood on one of the supported platforms and then compile programs for all the others! Only Hollywood makes it possible. If you want to learn more about Hollywood, please visit the the official Hollywood portal which also has a forum for all questions concerning Hollywood.
All this makes Hollywood The Cross-Platform Multimedia Application Layer. Join the Multimedia revolution and get your personal copy of Hollywood 7.1 now! This release was brought to you by Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business. (snx)
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11.Feb.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 10.02.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until February 10th, 2018:
AmIRC_DE.lha comm/irc 16K New German catalog for AmIRC
AmiFTP-prefs_update.lha comm/tcp 1K Updated prefs for AmiFTP (sit...
dizzytorrent1.01.lha comm/tcp 468K 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
xa-mos.lha dev/cross 273K MOS Cross-assembler for 65xx/R65C...
bffs16_src.lha disk/misc 999K 68k read/write BSD FFS/UFS filesy...
CoderAid.lha docs/help 103K 68k Aid for programming demos for...
hstwb_igame_eab_demos... game/misc 37M HstWB iGame screenshots for E...
hstwb_igame_eab_games... game/misc 132M HstWB iGame screenshots for E...
mod2wav.lha mus/edit 24K 68k Convert Protracker module to ...
workbenchexplorer.lha util/dir 2.1M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
BoardsLib.lha util/libs 74K 68k provides detailed info about ...
espeak.lha util/sys 1.5M 68k amiga-port of espeak speech s...
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11.Feb.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 10.02.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until February 10th, 2018:
libopencore-amr.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.0 OpenCORE Adaptive Multi Rate spe...
giflib.lha dev/lib 952kb 4.0 A library for processing GIF ima...
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
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11.Feb.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 10.02.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until February 10th, 2018:
C-Dogs_0.5.5.1.lha Games/Shoot 2D C-Dogs 0.5.5.1, classic...
HeborisC7EZ.lha Games/Think Heboris is Tetris clone...
GrafX2_2.5_WIP.lha Graphics/Draw A quick compilation of ...
dcraw_9.27.lha Graphics/Tools dcraw 9.27, CLI conver...
pngcrush_1.8.13.lha Graphics/Tools PngCrush is an optimize...
MUIwake_0.2.lha Network/TCP Wake On Lan with MUI gui
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11.Feb.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 10.02.2018
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until February 10th, 2018:
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11.Feb.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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A500 accelerator board: HC 508 available
Under the title link the accelerator board HC 508 (amiga-news.de reported) is available. A 68HC000 processor with 50 MHz is used and a slot for IDE harddrives as well as for compact flash cards is available.
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11.Feb.2018
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Video interview with Christian Spanik: Part 4 released
A year ago the Scene World Magazine started a video interview series with Christian Spanik ("Neues... - die Computer-Show"; amiga-news.de reported). Now part four has been released.
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08.Feb.2018
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Amiga Future: Issues 105, 106 and 107 can be read online
Issues 105, 106 and 107 (November 2013 until April 2014) of the printed magazine Amiga Future is sold out, you can read the German and English edition of the magazine online (picture files). You also can buy a PDF-version.
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04.Feb.2018
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Support for Polaris graphic cards (Enhancer Software)
Under the title link Matthew Leaman of A-EON Technology wrote that for the AmigaOS-4 extension "Enhancer Software" he guess the support for graphic cards equipped with AMD's Polaris chip set will be added.
This is also due to the Southern-Islands chipset cards of which only the variant of the Oland-based R7 240 was sold on the market.
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[News message: 04. Feb. 2018, 10:43] [Comments: 0]
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04.Feb.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 03.02.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until February 3rd, 2018:
dizzytorrent1.0.lha comm/tcp 468K 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 10K 11 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
gcc-mos2wos.lha dev/gcc 12M MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
CoderAid.lha docs/help 103K 68k Aid for programming demos for...
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 2.0M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
hocoslamfy.lha game/misc 13M MOS A flappy bird clone (MorphOS ...
bsaog.lha game/shoot 793K 68k Blake Stone Aliens of Gold
bsps.lha game/shoot 198K 68k Blake Stone Planet Strike
ClassicInvaders.lha game/shoot 2.4M MOS Classic Invaders v1.0 (MorphO...
LTris_v1-0-19.lha game/think 624K MOS tetris clone with multiplayer...
FlashMandelNG.lha gfx/fract 34M OS4 Best Mandelbrot & Julia f...
mod2wav.lha mus/edit 22K 68k Convert Protracker module to ...
mod2wav_mos.lha mus/edit 21K MOS Convert Protracker module to ...
Play16_v1.9.lha mus/play 191K 68k Multi format sound player, su...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 673K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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04.Feb.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 03.02.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until February 3rd, 2018:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
l7z.lha uti/arc 1Mb 4.1 Create & unpack 7z archives ...
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04.Feb.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 03.02.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until February 3rd, 2018:
mod2wav_mos.lha Audio/Editor Convert Protracker modu...
faac_1.29.3.lha Audio/Encoder FAAC 1.29.3 encoder and...
mos2wos_0.4.lha Development/GCC Make MorphOS GCC output...
Hatari_2.0.0.lha Emulation Atari ST emulator
Hocoslamfy_1.0.lha Games/Misc A flappy bird clone.
MiniSlug.lha Games/Platform The Mini Slug Project -...
ClassicInvaders_1.0.lha Games/Shoot 2D Classic Invaders is an ...
LTris_1.0.19.lha Games/Think Tetris clone with multi...
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04.Feb.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 03.02.2018
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until February 3rd, 2018:
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02.Feb.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #12 - Once more with feeling
Topics of the 12th issue of the podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland among others are the third user meeting, another demo of Andrzej Wilk, the Amiga Future anniversary and the OCS game "Highway Sprint" which is in development.
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02.Feb.2018
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AROS: Summary of development in January
Based on the weekly information on the development of the open source operating system AROS, this is the summary for January.
- Fixed a crash in AHI prefs when there's no output available (hitchhikr)
- Fixed code corruption (corrupt taglists) caused by compiler optimisation quirks. This may have caused bugs in various places throughout AROS: it is known to have affected some DataTypes at least (neil)
- The French translations for system components were brought up to date (hitchhikr)
- Fixed a crash in the standard text editor that sometimes occurred while opening a file (hitchhikr)
- Fixed two visual glitches in Wanderer regarding the lasso and the headings in list mode (hitchhikr)
- Fixed the same code corruption problem as last week, but for GCC 6 (neil)
- More visual bugs fixed in Wanderer (hitchhikr)
- SAM440 build works again (balaton)
- Fixed MMU setup on SAM440 to avoid exceptions before TLB entries for handlers are set up (balaton)
- Fixed a potential crash in the USB HID driver (balaton)
- Fixed a memory corruption bug in IPrefs (balaton)
- Added a command line interface to FTManager (o1i)
- Give a more helpful error message when calling C:List on NIL: (polluks)
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01.Feb.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Trailer: Jump'n Run "Elfie - The Unicorn" for kids
"Elfie - The Unicon" is a classic jump'n run game for kids which is supposed to be released as free download. The author still needs graphic artists, sound designers and testers for supporting him finishing the game.
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[News message: 01. Feb. 2018, 00:57] [Comments: 0]
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