24.Nov.2018
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast #57: The Hungarian C64 and Amiga gaming scene
In the new issue of the English-language podcast "Scene World", Martin Ahman and Jörg are talking with Andras Kaptas of insert-coin.hu about the C64 and Amiga gaming scene in Hungary and its development.
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23.Nov.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Individual Computers: Advance orders for ACA500plus and Indivision ECS V2
Press release: For the second production run of the ACA500plus, we've done a few small upgrades to adapt the card to the needs of our customers that were communicated in support cases and other customer feedback. Some customers were not satisfied with the speed of the card, which is why we have changed to the new CPU type 68SEC000. For this processor we can't just guarantee 14.1MHz, but stable operation up to 21MHz. It is of course still possible to set the CPU frequency to up to 42MHz, but since this is very demanding for the power supply regulation and cooling, this is not covered by standard customer support.
We've also updated the DisMo: The 2-digit display is now bigger, and the status LED is not two- but three-colour. The button has been moved to a more ergonomic position. Despite these upgrades, the increase in price for the ACA500plus is very moderate.
When Indivision ECS was released in 2009, scan line emulation was still special. Over the years, other products and emulators have copied our idea. We've now refined this feature: The scan line emulation in Indivision ECS V2 can be carefully adjusted, so the effect can be set according to individual taste.
We often got questions about how to adjust the picture to be full-screen. Often times, this was not possible without adding black bars around the picture, because the resolution of the Amiga-output had an unfavourable size relation to the resolution of the screen. With the new upscaler in Indivision ECS V2, it is now much simpler to adjust the picture size and keep the correct aspect ratio. The scaler of Indivision ECS V2 is geared towards keeping the "pixel-art" appearance of the picture, and can be adjusted in very small steps to introduce only the lowest-possible blur that's always introduced by a scaler.
We have entered a delivery date of december 22nd for both products. However, we will already start shipping next week, but cannot guarantee when a shipment will leave here due to the high demand for both products. Parcels will be shipped in the order of incoming money transfers.
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23.Nov.2018
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Jump'n Run port: Cave Story for AmigaOS 3
Cave Story is a Metroid/Castlevania clone which was ported to several systems. The version for AmigaOS 3 (video) has high hardware requirements. The performance speed can be increased by reducing the Workbench resolution.
Download: CaveStory.lha (39,6 MB)
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23.Nov.2018
morph.zone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Spreadsheet sc 7.16
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich has ported the Shell-based spreadsheet sc from the Unix world to MorphOS. The MorphOS-SDK is required. In order to start sc with the tutorial table, you have to type 'sh -c "TERM=morphos sc tutorial.sc"'.
Direct download: sc.lha (618 KB)
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22.Nov.2018
SZAMAN/eXec.pl (ANF)
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New news service: amiganews.exec.pl
According to their own statement, eXec is the "oldest Polish Amiga portal" dealing with the subjects Amiga, the AmigaOne as well as compatible computers. Now an English-Language news service was added. This new service also is introduced in the eighth special edition of the English-language podcast "AMIcast".
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22.Nov.2018
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Memory extension: Advance orders for A1208 possible
From January the Polish dealer RetroAmi will offer an A1200 memory extension called A1208 which can be preordered. The card does not offer realtime but can switch between 8MB and 4MB mode with a jumper. The 4MB mode is meant for using PCMCIA devices.
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21.Nov.2018
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Hyperion resumes selling digital version of AmigaOS 3.1.4
On 19. October the sale of Hyperion's AmigaOS 3.1.4 was interrupted for a short time: Amiga Inc. had sent Hyperion's service provider for digital sales a cease and desist letter. The Belgian company evades the problem by changing the service provider but 10 days later also this service was stopped. First it was communicated as stop initiated by Hyperion itself because the physical sets with ROMs and disks now were available in shops.
Using a facebook poll last weekend Hyperion wanted to know if there is still interest in the digital edition. Today it was announced that the company were happy to fulfill the customer wish and to offer AmigaOS 3.1.4 again as payable download.
Obviously it was not necessary to change the service provider again: the "Buy Now!" links refer to shareit.com aka MyCommerce.
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19.Nov.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: Limited Wicher-500i edition in black
7-bit Retro Electronics has produced a limited number of black Amiga-500(+) accelerator boards of the type Wicher 500i for the Polish shop RetroAmi which can be purchased under the title link.
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19.Nov.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 92 (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 "Arnhem", "Leisure Suit Larry III", "Rollerball", "Tyran", "Sierra Soccer" and the educational quiz "Ask me Other".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2018, 19:41] [Comments: 0]
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18.Nov.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 17.11.2018
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 17th, 2018:
ColourMatch.lha dev/basic 28K 68k Colour match in Blitz
sfsdoctor-1.2.lha disk/misc 125K MOS The disk recovery and repair ...
Calendario2008.lha docs/misc 1.3M 2008 italian calendar printab...
Calendario2010.lha docs/misc 3.6M 2010 italian calendar printab...
Koules.lha game/actio 249K 68k Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Koules_OS4.lha game/actio 240K OS4 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
KoulesMOS.lha game/actio 234K MOS Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Uwol-Quest_for_money.adf game/jump 880K 68k Amiga port of Mojon Twins 8 b...
ADV-ITA.lha game/role 130K Italian adventures creator (+...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 13M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AmiQuake.lha game/shoot 253K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
stratagus.lha game/strat 23M WOS Realtime strategy game engine
RNOComics.lha gfx/show 5.9M MOS Comic book and PDF reader
RNOComics_OS4.lha gfx/show 6.7M OS4 Comic book and PDF reader
RNOPDF.lha gfx/show 5.4M MOS Compact PDF viewer
RNOPDF_OS3.lha gfx/show 14M WOS Compact PDF viewer
RNOPDF_OS4.lha gfx/show 6.1M OS4 Compact PDF viewer
NRLWilderness.lha mods/misc 109K Ninja Remix Legacy The Wilder...
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 640K 68k MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
SampleZ.lha mus/edit 135K 68k 16Bit HD-Edit Sample Editor
horny-68k.lha mus/midi 162K 68k Easy to use MIDI sequencer
horny-base.lha mus/midi 207K Data files for Horny MIDI seq...
horny-manual-de.lha mus/midi 2.6M Manual for Horny MIDI sequenc...
horny-OS4.lha mus/midi 228K OS4 Easy to use MIDI sequencer
Vim_8.1-i386-aros.lha text/edit 9.7M x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 9.6M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-src.lha text/edit 14M The ubiquitous text editor (s...
Ranchero.lha util/cdity 102K 68k Pop-up notification server li...
InstallerGen.lha util/misc 226K 68k Installer script creation tool
CestinoGlobale.lha util/wb 55K 68k Unfinished global trashcan, B...
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18.Nov.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 17.11.2018
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 17th, 2018:
koules.lha gam/act 240kb 4.0 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
classic_boingball.zip gra/the 4Mb 4.0 Classic Boingball with AmigaOS W...
rnocomics.lha gra/vie 7Mb 4.1 Comic book and PDF reader
rnopdf.lha gra/vie 6Mb 4.1 Compact PDF viewer
kt_scripts.lha uti/scr 170kb 4.0 Helper scipts for Odyssey, Simpl...
ffmpeggui.lha vid/con 261kb 4.1 A GUI for the ffmpeg video conve...
mplayer-gui.lha vid/mis 218kb 4.1 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
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18.Nov.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 17.11.2018
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until November 17th, 2018:
aspireos_v.2.2.rar dev/mis 150Mb AspireOS codename "Obitus"
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18.Nov.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 17.11.2018 / 1.000 Archive / Awards for help
Meanwhile the MorphOS-Storage cotains over 1.000 archives. But some of the entries lack of screenshots and YouTube links. Therefore some prizes were awarded: Those three persons who until 15. December will send the most screenshots and YouTube links, will get Hollywood 7.1 (3. place), a MorphOS licence (2. place) or a 1,5-GHz-Mac mini with MorphOS licence and Hollywood 7.1.
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until November 17th, 2018:
AmiArcadia_24.92.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Koules_1.33.lha Games/Action Port of Linux+OS/2 arca...
MUIPlot_0.2.lha Graphics/Mathematics MUIPlot
RNOComics_1.4.lha Graphics/Show Comic book reader.
Hex2_0.2.lha Misc Hex
VAMP_2.0.lha Multimedia A Multimedia Player pro...
RNOPDF_1.1.lha Office/Show A compact PDF viewer.
SensorsList_1.0.lha System/Monitoring List of all sensors in ...
InstallerLG_0.1.0a32.lha System/Shell Commodore Installer rep...
InstallerGen_1.5.lha System/Utilities Installer script creati...
Vim_8.1.527.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
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18.Nov.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.11.2018
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 installer has been added until November 17th, 2018:
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17.Nov.2018
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Web browser: NetSurf 3.8 updated again (SDL version) (Update)
A few days ago Artur Jarosik has released a new update of his Amiga port of the web browser NetSurf. His port uses SDL, only the preferences pane is based on MUI, and is not to be confused with the Chris Young's native, Reaction-based version.
Our editor Daniel Reimann has tested the update on his Amiga 1200 equipped with Blizzard-1230 accelerator board and Amiga OS 3.9. Additional to bug fixes (details under the title link) now Netsurf again can access https websites. The required "ca-bundle" file in the "resources" folder was missing in the archives before.
Starting Netsurf on the Amiga1200 proved to be rather difficult. Often Netsurf loaded and stopped doing it with a black screen. It also could happen that the first blank screen was loaded and then the icons of the menu appeared very slowly: Loading an icon took several seconds. But if Netsurf properly started then the browser runs stable. Compared with the native version, this SDL port provided by Artur Jarosik presents the website in a more comfortable way: The characters are clear and the sites are viewed in a compact design (screenshots: amiga-news.de, netsurf-browser.org).
Surprisingly Netsurf takes "only" 37 seconds to load amiga-news.de which is a https connection (pictures enabled, pictures disables it takes about 32 seconds) but loading aminet.net it takes 60 seconds (53 seconds without pictures). Working with the SDL version of Netsurf is quite confortable because the websites are scaled in this way that you do not have to scroll across. I guess that this operation is more complex at the amiga-news.de website.
In order to exclude the reasons of instability during the start process are due to the special configuration environment of the Amiga1200, our editor would be grateful for feedback in the comment section, e.g. by users working with emulators.
Update: (17:28, 18.11.18, snx)
screenshots added (snx) (Translation: dr)
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