31.Aug.2019
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Web browser: IBrowse 2.5 available
Press release: 30th August 2019 - Oliver Roberts and the IBrowse Team are pleased to announce the immediate release of IBrowse 2.5 for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x. After many years in the making, development has been on a roller coaster since IBrowse 2.4, with challenging personal, technical and commercial issues complicating the release schedule. However, we are extremely happy to finally make this new version available to all the valued users who have been waiting so patiently.
IBrowse 2.5 fixes many bugs, making it the most stable and fastest version yet, but more importantly brings modern SSL/TLS support and a fully native AmigaOS 4.x build. Below is a very brief summary of the key changes since version 2.4:
- Brand new OS4 PPC native version. This is not a simple port, but we have taken great care to ensure it fully utilises of all the relevant new features avaiable in OS4 and as such requires a minimum of OS4.1 Final Edition. Uses the new graphics.library RTG system, dropping CyberGraphX support completely. Other features include faster image rendering using hardware compositing, anti-aliased text rendering and proper daylight saving time handling.
- Support for AmiSSLv4 has been added to IBrowse 2.5, allowing the use of the most up to date SSL implementation available for AmigaOS, including TLSv1.3, based on the most recent versions of OpenSSL.
- Integrated with new MUI 4.0 and 5.0 features, including new context sensitive mouse pointers, support for various built-in MUI menus and other new GUI additions. MUI 3.8 is still supported (although we recommend 3.9 as a minimum).
- Browser spoofing strings can now be customised in a variety of different ways with up to 128 user defined strings available in the preferences.
- All the internal image decoders have been improved, with various fixes, alpha channel handling, and speed optimisations. The JPEG and PNG decoders now fully utilise the decoding improvements and optimisations from the current Warp Datatypes, which also includes AltiVec acceleration in the JPEG decoder.
- Full alpha channel support on >= 15-bit displays (OS4 only).
- 4Gb+ file handling and downloads, with files bigger than 2Gb now being handled properly in the GUI (OS4 only).
- The OpenSearch standard is now supported for allowing search engines to automatically be added to the search bar, in addition to the existing older Sherlock/Mycroft support from IBrowse 2.4.
- TextEditField object has had an overhaul, fixing various issues and adding new features. Rendering is done in a more MUI4/5 compatible manner allowing these objects to inherit your MUI settings. Your mousewheel can now be used for scrolling and various MUI defined keyboard shortcuts are now honoured.
- Improved general stability and memory leaks plugged.
- Hundreds of other minor and major bug fixes + improvements, and increased tolerance of broken sites for better compatibility.
Editorial note: Also for existing customers, the update is not available for free: if you watn to use the demo version without any limitations you have to purchase a keyfile. The full version costs 54 Euro and you will get the 68k as well as the PPC version for it. Upgrades of previous versions cost 45 Euro (upgrades of IBrowse 1.x) or 30 Euro (IBrowse 2.x). If you are going to upgrade only your AmigaOS 3 version, you only have to pay 15 or 30 Euro depending on version of the existing keyfile.
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30.Aug.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 140
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 140 (September/October 2019) have been released today and can be ordered from the magazine staff or various Amiga dealers. The publisher has pointed out that recently the magazine was selling very well. Therefore it was sold out before the publication date. Until an increase of the edition will be realized it is highly recommended to order in advance at an early stage or to acquire a subscription.
This issue's topics include reviews to the AmigaOS 3.1.4-Update and "Skill Grid" as well as a special about "XCopy".
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25.Aug.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 24.08.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until August 24th, 2019:
jrm-hc74.lha demo/sound 287K dA JoRMaS: Happy Carva #74
re2c-morphos.lha dev/gg 7.1M MOS Modern lexer generator for C/C++
libgif_a68k.lha dev/lib 642K 68k library for manipulating GIF ...
MCE.lha game/edit 2.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.0M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmigaAMP3.lha mus/play 1.7M OS4 Multi format audio player wit...
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha mus/play 361K 68k MPEG audio player with GUI
ptplayer.lha mus/play 26K 68k ProTracker player w/ support ...
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25.Aug.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.08.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until August 24th, 2019:
amigaamp3.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.1 Multi format audio player with GUI
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
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25.Aug.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 24.08.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until August 24th, 2019:
aros-one-v1.1-pc-i386-par... uti/mis 137Mb New Distribution Similar at OS3....
aros-one-v1.1-pc-i386-par... uti/mis 137Mb New Distribution Similar at OS3....
aros-one-v1.1-pc-i386-par... uti/mis 137Mb New Distribution Similar at OS3....
aros-one-v1.1-pc-i386-par... uti/mis 48Mb New Distribution Similar at OS3....
led-20190818.tar.gz uti/tex 12kb A simple line-oriented text editor.
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25.Aug.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 24.08.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until August 24th, 2019:
Tree_1.8.0.lha Files/Dir Display a tree view of ...
WormWars_9.21.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ...
DimScreen_1.1.lha System/Ambient/Commoditie Dims your screen to eye...
ModernArt_3.0.lha System/Ambient/Blankers Screen Blanker by Matth...
WSK_icon_pack.lha System/Ambient/Icons WSK_icon_pack.lha
Re2c_1.2.1.lha Development/GeekGadgets Scanner generator f. re...
AmiArcadia_25.7.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
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25.Aug.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.08.2019
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 August 24th, 2019:
- 2019-08-20 improved: Premiere (Core Design) avoid trashed gfx, quit via joypad, levelskip added (Info)
- 2019-08-18 improved: Road Rash (Electronic Arts Racing) adapted to whdload v17, joypad support, added password management (Info)
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25.Aug.2019
K&A+ (ANF)
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Print magazine: K&A+ #13 (Polish/English)
Komoda & Amiga plus is a Polish print magazine about the C64 and the Amiga which is also sold in an English-language edition. Additionally an Amiga-Cover-CD is available which can be ordered separately. The magazine has 82 pages and is available for 8 Euro plus shipping.
The latest 13th issue includes a review about WinUAE, articles about the biggest Commodore collection, the games "The Settlers" and "Street Fighter 2" as well as interviews with Gunnar Kristjánsson, Carl-Henrik Skårstedt and Roy Widding.
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25.Aug.2019
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio player: AmigaAMP3 3.25 (update)
Thomas Wenzel wrote: This version mainly provides bug fixes and stability improvements. As new feature the AmigaOS-4 version now also supports the mpega.library for decoding MP2/MP3.
As user you can now choose between the traditional AMP (giving the name to the application) and MPEG-A. MPEG-A is available as highly optimized fixed point version which, in particular, requires few computing time under QEMU-based emulations (WinUAE).
Update: (27.08.2019, 06:15, dr)
Upon request of amiga-news.de Thomas Wenzel confirmed the experiences of a reader that AmigaAMP 3.25 cannot read WAV/AIFF files. This support was skipped by introducing version 3 of the 68k version. Thomas Wenzel cannot remember the exact reason for it but will examine it. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2019
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Disk magazine: Scene World #29
In 2001 the scene diskmag "Scene World" was published for the first time. Since 2018 also an Amiga version is provided. Retroactively starting by issue 28, the magazine now can also be started in the browser thanks to Rupert Hausberger (Scripted Amiga Emulator).
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21.Aug.2019
MorphZone (Forum)
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Power architecture: ISA released as open source, softcore introduced
According to the OpenPOWER Foundation under the title link, the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of the IBM POWER processors have been released as open source. Hugh Blemings, Executive Director of the OpenPOWER Foundation, furthermore wrote: "In addition to open sourcing the POWER ISA, IBM is also contributing a newly developed softcore to the community. In a very short time, an IBM engineer was able to develop a softcore on the POWER ISA, and get it up and running on a Xilinx FPGA. This softcore implementation is being demonstrated this week at OpenPOWER Summit North America."
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18.Aug.2019
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Screen blanker ModernArt Blanker 3.0
ModernArt Blanker is a screen blanker which according to the author "draws psychedelic shapes like circles, triangles, squares and stars all over the screen producing multicoloured pieces of random modern art". Version 3.0 among others adds more shapes: "It is now possible to select between circles, triangles, squares, stars and hexagons."
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18.Aug.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 17.08.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until August 17th, 2019:
rexxforum_051.lha comm/www 32K Simple forum for gW3S ARexx w...
CS-Restyling.lha demo/misc 478K 68k 2013+2015 restyled old school...
wla_dx_v9.9.lha dev/cross 2.8M 68k 8-bit CPU Cross Macro Assembl...
HWP_Polybios.lha dev/hwood 22M MOS The ultimate PDF tool for Hol...
WormWars.lha game/actio 857K 68k Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-AROS.zip game/actio 688K x86 Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 927K MOS Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron game
tictactoe.lha game/board 642K 68k It is my simple game in my 1s...
napalm_update1.4.lha game/patch 74K 68k Update for Napalm
nightlong-update-1.2p... game/patch 235K WOS Update for Nightlong PPC
nightlong-update-v1.2... game/patch 121K 68k Update for Nightlong 68K
Simon2Upd5.lha game/patch 525K 68k Update patch for Simon the So...
T0v1_01.lha game/patch 355K 68k Update for T-zer0
TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 2.9M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
BootPicture.lha util/boot 33K 68k Show pictures + play sounds d...
bootprefs.zip util/boot 5K 68k Configure DOS windowd from Bo...
tree-mos.lha util/dir 116K MOS Display a tree view of direct...
SMRMag2Theme.lha util/dopus 1.1M 68k My Magellan II theme
TaiwanMOS.lha util/sys 1K Taiwan country for MorphOS an...
desaddamv10b.lha util/virus 10K 68k SADDAM Virus killer & disk re...
DockBot.lha util/wb 248K 68k A program launcher for OS 3.
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18.Aug.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 17.08.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until August 17th, 2019:
flitegui.lha aud/mis 71kb 4.0 GUI for the Flite speach program
libjsoncpp.lha dev/lib 134kb 4.0 JsonCpp : C++ library for manipu...
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
getdata.lha net/mis 16kb 4.0 reverse phone # search
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18.Aug.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 17.08.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until August 17th, 2019:
goattracker2.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 532kb SDL based SID chip tracker
polybios.i386-aros.lha dev/lib 22Mb Library Plugin For Hollywood App...
wormwars.i386-aros.zip gam/act 688kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
deserted_house.i386-aros.lha gam/adv 4Mb text adventure with gui
licalendar_icon_new.lha gra/ico 1kb icon for licalendar apps
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18.Aug.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 17.08.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until August 17th, 2019:
InstallerLG_0.1.0a37.lha System/Shell Commodore Installer rep...
HWP_Polybios_1.2.lha Development/Hollywood/... The ultimate PDF tool f...
Anaglyph3D_0.2.lha Graphics/Tools Anaglyph3D_0.2.lha
UAE4ALL_rc3_0.3.2.lha Emulation UAE4ALL release candida...
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18.Aug.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.08.2019
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 August 17th, 2019:
- 2019-08-17 improved: B.C.Kid (Factor 5) joypad controls added, fixed lockup when saving hiscores/options (Info)
- 2019-08-15 improved: Parasol Stars (Ocean) support for joypad controls added, trainer added (Info)
- 2019-08-15 new: Ball Raider II (US Action) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2019-08-12 improved: Road Kill (Vision) changed joypad read routine, fixed controls CD32 (Info)
- 2019-08-12 fixed: Prince (Arc) some SMC patches corrected (Info)
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16.Aug.2019
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video: Amiga Inc.'s Offices (2001)
Under the title link a video was posted which shows Amiga Inc.'s offices during a visit of Peter Hanson (talking there to Gary Peake) in 2001, recorded by Robert Bernardo.
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16.Aug.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Event: Dickinson and Tyschtschenko at Amiga Future Gamescom booth
Press release: Amiga Future: Again at Gamescom - Also this year the Amiga Future will be represented with APC&TCP at Gamescom in the retro area.
Visitors can get detailed information about the Amiga computer system at the almost 90 m² booth and, of course, also test more than 20 devices on site. The Amiga Future team will surely be able to answer all your questions about Amiga.
As guests of honor we have Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology on tuesday and wednesday and Petro Tyschtschenko (formerly Amiga Technologies) on saturday at the stand.
In addition, the Apollo team shows the brand new Vampire 4. You can test the Vampire 4 in detail and the developers are also available for questions.
But we also have two IndieGO systems on our stand, which of course can be thoroughly tested.
Of course, Pascal Papara is also there, ready to answer all your questions.
Since we can not (yet) be in two places at the same time, no orders will be sent from August 17 to 27 by our online shop.
This also applies to download versions. E-mails can only be answered after Gamescom. We ask for patience.
It may take some time before all orders and e-mails can be processed. (snx)
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14.Aug.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 140 - preview and excerpts
A preview and excerpts of issue 140 (September/October 2019) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features an interview with Richard Löwenstein, the second part of "AmigaOS 3.1.4 - How it's done" and a review of Hibernated.
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