22.Mar.2017
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Download version of Gorky 17, minor update for registered users
In October Hyperion released the port for AmigaOS-4 of the strategy roleplay game Gorky 17 on CD. Now you can purchase a download version for a discount price of 24,95 Euro directly at Hyperion.
Additionally there is reworked installation script in the download area of Hyperion for purchasers of the CD version, which fixes problems of the installation of the game under the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1.
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19.Mar.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 7: Eternity available
Press release: In the year of Hollywood's 15th anniversary, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with Hollywood 7: Eternity. Hollywood 7.0 is a massive update with many new features and bug fixes.
The most important new feature is full support for Unicode and native support for 64-bit CPUs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This is especially useful on Linux because using 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit Linux is quite a hassle. On top of that, there are lots of other new features.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 7.0:
- Unicode is now fully supported
- Lots of new functions for dealing with Unicode text
- Hollywood is now available in native 64-bit versions for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and iOS
- Mac OS X and iOS backends have been completely rewritten, they are a lot faster now
- High resolution ("Retina") displays now fully supported on Windows, Mac OS X and iOS; Hollywood is ultra-crisp in 4K modes now
- New hardware-accelerated full screen scale mode
- Faster drawing on Windows and Mac OS X
- Lots of new features in the iOS backend
- Support for conditional compiling at preprocessor level
- Switch-Case statement supports fall through now
- Text can now be laid out in justified lines
- Lots of improvements in the IDE on Windows (e.g. direct help and syntax highlighting for functionality provided by plugins)
- Multi-coloured vector paths are now supported
- Live resizing on Windows and Mac OS X
- Time-stamped events
- New example scripts
- 70 new pages of PDF documentation, now 924 altogether!
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood 7.0 is the ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for all creative people. Hollywood is available on CD and as a download version. Both versions include Hollywood for all supported platforms (except the Android and iOS versions). It is no longer necessary to buy separate licenses for the different platforms. Buying Hollywood gives you a single-user license for all 15 platforms supported by Hollywood. If you already own Hollywood, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. People who bought Hollywood 6.1 in 2017 can request a free upgrade.
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: Eternity now! (snx)
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19.Mar.2017
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: AutoVisible.sbar
Thomas Igracki has created a screenbar module for Ambient called AutoVisible.sbar. On MorphZone the author wrote:
"If you are using an AutoScroll screen (where the real width of the screen is greater than the visible width) and it annoyed you that not all sbar modules, especially the clock;) are visible if you are "working" on the left side of the screen, then you should my new screenbar module!
If the "left" side of such a screen is visible, then some of the screenbar modules aren't visible in the titlebar because they are adjusted to the right and therefore (partially) in the invisible area.
AutoVisible.sbar adds an extra empty space (depending on the position of the screen) to the titlebar, to have all your sbar modules in the visible area. Well, only if you are not having that many modules, that they don't fit into the visible area;)"
Download: AutoVisible_sbar.lha (7 KB)
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2017, 07:54] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZunePaint 0.6 and ZuneView 0.36
Yannick Erb has released updates for his AROS paint program ZunePaint and his picture viewer ZuneView.
Changes in ZunePaint:
- Completed gradient edit function
- Several brush shapes can be selected
- Improvement in painting modes (better behaviour when going in and out of painting area)
- Enabled help for text buttons (was inadvertently kept out)
- Rework color reduction window and main window gadgets
- Added French catalogs/UpdateCat
- mcc_GradEdit.c created for gradient edition
- Splitted ZunePaint.c to enhance reuse with ZuneView
Changes in ZuneView:
- Updated Czech catalogs
- Better handling of IDCMP signals in histdisp
- Reworked color reduction window
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19.Mar.2017
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World Magazine: Start of a series of interviews with German IT journalists
Scene World Magazine has published two video interviews with German IT TV journalism pioneers:
- Wolgang Back ("WDR-Computerclub" and, before that, "Hobbythek"; interview in German, english version will follow)
- Christian Spanik (founder of "Neues... - die Computer-Show" at 3sat)
The interview with Christian Spanik is actually part 1 of a series and is about "Writing books for the C64 and Amiga (and PC afterwards)". (snx)
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19.Mar.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 18.03.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until March 18th, 2017:
AmigaIniDevBas.lha dev/basic 100K 68k Using AmigaINI lib from Hisof...
GMAP.lha misc/emu 45M OS4 Game Maker Amiga Player&M...
VICE-MorphOS-3.0.lha misc/emu 25M MOS Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
amath.i386-aros.lha misc/math 398K x86 Simple command line calculator
amath.lha misc/math 805K 68k Simple command line calculator
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha pix/picon 4.9M Game icons in OS4.1 Update 1 ...
Vim_8.0-mos.lha text/edit 8.9M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.0-src.lha text/edit 14M The ubiquitous text editor (s...
AmiSSL-4.1.lha util/libs 5.5M OS4 AmiSSL - OpenSSL as an Amiga ...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 671K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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19.Mar.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 18.03.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until March 18th, 2017:
cmake.lha dev/cro 15Mb 4.1 Cross platform build toolkit
picflowgad.lha dev/lib 79kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha gra/ico 5Mb 4.0 s0y gameicons 2017
exutil.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 An exif based batch renamer
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19.Mar.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.03.2017
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 March 18th, 2017:
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18.Mar.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 72 (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 "Back to the Golden Age", "Guerilla in Bolivia", "Premiere", "Prime Mover" and the music software "The Miracle Piano Teaching System".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2017, 07:26] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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English manual for AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 is delivered
Last year in autumn the guide "AmigaOS 3.9 - User's Manual" was announced (index, PDF-file) and now is available as e-book. The printed book will be delivered starting next week.
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2017, 07:21] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2017
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.0.7
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's 'Ask Me Up' is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free.
In 3.0.7 two new game modes were added ("Quiz" and "Survival", the previous Quiz mode now is named "Studies") and the display of the online highscore has been reworked. Additionally, some graphics have been exchanged and graphic bugs fixed.
200 questions have been reworked as well and two new add-ons are available: "Girls Band" includes two new avatars for the players and is available for free. And for 3.99 Euro you can purchase the "Multitheme #1", which is a collection of 400 new questions in 15 different categories.
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[News message: 17. Mar. 2017, 23:44] [Comments: 0]
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15.Mar.2017
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Perl script: Converting Amiga ASCII art to SVG
A Perl script released at Github converts Amiga ASCII art, which partly differs from the PC ASCII art due to the different typeface and character set, to the vector image format SVG.
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[News message: 15. Mar. 2017, 22:45] [Comments: 0]
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15.Mar.2017
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Pictures of Australian Amiga meeting
In last autumn the US American Robert Bernardo toured New Zealand and Australia and attended several Amiga meetings. Now he has published some pictures of it:
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15.Mar.2017
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Podcast: Amiga Ireland
The organizer of the "Amiga Ireland Meetup" has established an English-language podcast. The first issue is about community meetings like the Amiga Ireland Meetup from January. Besides, the podcast offers a mixture of news, gaming and similar topics.
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[News message: 15. Mar. 2017, 19:29] [Comments: 0]
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15.Mar.2017
(ANF)
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Individual Computers: ACA500plus delivered, cash payment at iComp
Press release: The ACA500plus has kept us busy since it's introduction in december 2016: After less than four months, the all-rounder for the A500 is already one of the most successful products in company history. While our shop system is still not showing any stock, the average wait time for a card has gone down to just three days. Only a fraction of the customers had a waiting time of more than a week. We'd like to say thank-you to all our customers for a great start into the year 2017!
Starting in April 2017, our customers from Germany and areas close to the German border will be able to pay in cash for their orders from our shop through our partner Barzahlen.de. If you go shopping next time at Rewe, Penny, dm and many other retail stores, you can also pay for your order from our shop and use either cash or the cards that are accepted in those stores. This way, safety-conscious customers have the best protection of their bank data. Barzahlen.de offers buyer protection, and also a refund in cash in case you make use of your right of revocation. We will get an instant notification of your payment, so your parcel may already be on it's way before you get back home.
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15.Mar.2017
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Operating system: NetBSD 7.1
NetBSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system, now also available in version 7.1 for Amiga computers. The changes are listed in the changelog which also informs about the following specific Amiga changes:
- Maximize virtual memory space for amiga; tested on a 400MB model. [phx, ticket #986]
- Reduce amiga MAXDSIZ from 416MB back to 224MB, to fix ticket #986.
[phx, ticket #989]
- Make dev/sbic.c compile with -DDEBUG again. [mlelstv, ticket #1345]
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14.Mar.2017
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.9.4
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a preconfigured collection of programms, games and emulators (PDF description) and now is available in version 3.9.4 for MorphOS 3.9. An unchanged basic installation of the operating system is required.
Changes:
- Added CookieMaster (1.5.4)
- Added MorphOS Storage into OWB search engine and quick link
- Added Exutil (1.0)
- Added PastePass (1.4)
- Added TrashcanFS (51.3r2)
- Added Slarti (1.1)
- Updated SnapIt (1.4)
- Updated Calimero (3.9)
- Updated Mirrorcheck (1.0)
- Updated codesets.library (6.20)
- Updated Grunch databases
- Updated MUI Royale (1.4)
- Updated MUIBase (3.3)
- Updated ACE (1.14)
- Updated VAMP (1.60)
- Updated AnimWebConverter (2.60)
- Updated yWeather (1.19)
- Updated VintageViewer (2.25)
- Updated VICE (3.0)
- Updated AnimWebConverter (2.65)
- Modification of installation script (merci BeWorld!)
- Correction of some strings in frech in CRABUM menu instead of english
Download site.
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14.Mar.2017
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AROS: Vector graphics program ZuneFIG 1.3.343
ZuneFIG is an AROS port of the vector graphics editor Xfig, using the Amiga User Interface from the older AmiFIG project. Several demo videos on Youtube (1, 2, 3) show how ZuneFIG can be used for illustrations.
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[News message: 14. Mar. 2017, 00:09] [Comments: 0]
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13.Mar.2017
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Shoot'em Up: RESHOOT R in development
Richard Löwenstein is working on a sequel of his commercial bullet hell shooter RESHOOT which was released last summer. Some screenshots of a prototype have been published on the Patreon website of the project. The final release is meant to be available in October 2017.
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13.Mar.2017
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Successful Kickstarter campaign for book of David Pleasance, Interview
A few days ago David Pleasance, CEO of Commodore UK from 1983 to 1995, had announced a book about his time at Commodore, which will be crowdfunded. Meanwhile the Kickstarter project was started. So far 25.289 £ of the aim of 25.000 £ were donated and thus successfully financed. The E-Book "Commodore: The Inside Story" will cost about 17 Euro and the printed book about 34 Euro.
Corresponding issue 29 of Krzysztof Radzikowski's podcast "Amicast" has interviewed Pleasance, recordrd at the Amiga Ireland MeetUp.
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