24.Jan.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update "Gold2"
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of Motorolas m68k-series, which also provides a separate graphic output called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). Changes in the latest core "Gold2":
- AMMX greatly improved
- Added CPU counters
- Added TURTLE mode
- Modified PCR register: 68080 now acts as a 060
- Modified MOVEC Rc,Rn (reads in User mode and Writes in Supervisor mode)
- Improved some loops patterns
- Improved self-modifying code support
- Improved memory controller to be full 32-bit
- Improved HDMI core
The SAGA driver was also updated and now is available in version 0.11.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2017
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Calimero 3.82
Carsten Siegner's Calimero "is a powerfull DTP program" which can handle spreedsheets (screenshot) now of the formats EPUB (photo 1) and ODT (photo 2).
The comic picture shown in the document is a WMF image format file which can be converted by Calimero into other formats. The spreedsheets in the ODT-documents for example in OpenOffice can be moved without limitations, thus do not depend on lines.
Download: Calimero_3.82.lha (8 MB)
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24.Jan.2017
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A500 accelerator board: HC508 in progress
Another accelerator board for the Amiga 500 is in development called HC508 which is based on a 68HC000 processor clocked with 50 Mhz and according to the developer is fully compatible to the 68000. The hardware has been tested for a loner time, the layout is final.
The HC508 has the following features:
- 68HC000 CPU with 50 MHz, 100% MC68000 compatible
- IDE-port (40 pin) for HD and CD-ROM
- integrated port for CF-cards
- 8 MB FastRAM (1 wait state)
- 512k FlashROM for Kickstart (1 wait state)
- Tool for disabling/enabling of all moduls (CPU, RAM, ROM, IDE)
It is still not clear how the board will be sold.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2017
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PCMCIA driver: CFD 1.33 (Update)
CFD ("CompactFlashDevice") supports using CompactFlash memory cards on the PCMCIA-Port of an A600 or A1200. Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has released an update of the driver which improves compatibility with SD-cards (inserted via SD-CF-adapter). The updated driver also could provide support of a higher number of CF memory cards.
Update: (08:05, 27.08.17, snx)
As Grzegorz Kraszewski points out in a comment, this driver update has been created by Paul Carter and not by himself. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2017
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New PCMCIA angle connector: KA37 (Update)
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski offers another angle connector for the PCMCIA port of the A1200 or A600 called "KA37" which is mostly required if the Amiga was put into a tower. The "KA37" is available for about 21 Euro and thus cheaper than similar products of Amigakit or
Elbox. However, Krashan only accepts Bitcoin (0.0249 Bitcoin). You can order the connector via email from the developer.
Update: (09:25, 30.01.2017, snx)
Grzegorz Kraszewski mentions in a comment that PayPal and SEPA transfers are also accepted, although they are not advertised on the webpage. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2017
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview with Patrick Nevian (Tales of Gorluth, Blue Metal Rose)
generationamiga.com has published an interview with Patrick Nevian who among others is the developer of the Tales of Gorluth series and founder of the Indie Pop band project Blue Metal Rose.
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24.Jan.2017
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Platform game: Slackskin & Flint for free download
The full version of the platform game Slackskin & Flint which was released in 1992 can be downloaded for free.
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24.Jan.2017
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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 10
The tenth part of the series "A history of the Amiga", since 2007 released on Ars Technica, is about the decline of the Amiga.
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23.Jan.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Subtitle editor: Slarti (all Amiga platforms)
"Slarti" is written in Hollywood and can "help making or modifying video subtitles" in the SubRip format. Using the avcodec-plugin, Slarti loads the video into its user-interface (which was created with RapaGUI) and offers rich editing modes.
Obviously other ports of the program are only available as free downloads if a certain amount of donations has been achieved. This is explained on the website under "Donations":
"If you send any amount of donation you will get an email with the download link of your chosen platform and the release target counter will be added by one point.
If the counter hit one of the goals then a release of the program will happen as a free download as described below."
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23.Jan.2017
(ANF)
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Ben Hermans resigns his position as director of Hyperion
During the afternoon a hint was published on amiga.org that in the Belgisch Staatsblad an application of Hyperion (PDF) was published for removing the rank of the director ("Bestuurder") for Ben Hermans because he did resign this position on December 16th. This has been certified since January 12th because the KBO ("Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen") lists only founding member Timothy de Groote as well as the German Costel Mincea, joined in May 2015 as directors of Hyperion.
A few hours later Hyperion's website also announced the change:
"Hyperion Entertainment CVBA wishes to announce that Mr. Ben Hermans has resigned as a director of the company to allow him to concentrate on his practice as legal counsel. He remains committed to Hyperion Entertainment and will continue representing its legal interests in the best possible way. Ben of course also remains a shareholder in the Hyperion Entertainment business."
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jan.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.01.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 21st, 2017:
DiskSafe.lha disk/salv 92K 68k No longer non validated disks!
Boxx3.adf game/jump 880K 68k Boxx 3 Platform game (Bootabl...
Boxx3HDD.lha game/jump 304K 68k Boxx 3 Platform game (HD Inst...
PatchCompositeTags.lha gfx/misc 625K OS4 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
Dina.lha text/bfont 72K Dina Programming Font
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22.Jan.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.01.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until January 21st, 2017:
amitransformator_ita.lha dev/lan 479b 4.1 italian catalog for Amitransform...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
qt-minimal.lha lib/mis 72Mb 4.1 Multiplatform Gui Toolkit (Minimal)
vmt.lha off/dat 7Mb 4.1 Vehicles costs management tool
screengrab.lha uti/mis 358kb 4.1 Simple screengrab app for Qt4
rbroadcastwol.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Send out a Magic Packet to wake ...
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 18kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
juffed.lha uti/tex 6Mb 4.1 Advanced text editor for Qt4
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22.Jan.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 21.01.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until January 21st, 2017:
ogg-dec-enc.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 2Mb ogg format decoder and encoder
protrekkr.i386-aros.lha aud 10Mb tracker program with advance fea...
audioevolution3_src.lha aud/rec 317kb source code of version 3 the hd ...
audioevolution4.i386-aros... aud/rec 27Mb hd recording
eternal.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 7Mb Port of OpenGL demo from ReAct 2004
vmt.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 7Mb Vehicles costs management tool
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22.Jan.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.01.2017
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 January 21st, 2017:
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19.Jan.2017
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Emulator: FS-UAE Wrapper simplifies access to archives
The FS-UAE Wrapper, written in Python, is supposed to simplify the access to archives, so for example you can compress ISO-images together with configuration files into an archive.
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19.Jan.2017
(ANF)
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MorphOS: Harry "Piru" Sintonen hacks QNap network
Harry Sintonen, who is programmer in the MorphOS team, works as Senior Security Consultant at the Finnish security specialist F-Secure. In Helsinki he recently did "teach the audience a lesson in how attackers take advantage of insecure devices. Harry created the demonstration after he discovered several vulnerabilities in a QNAP network attached storage (NAS) device."
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16.Jan.2017
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Update of Amiga Games List
Since 1991 David Brunet has updated "Amiga Games List". Now all releases of the year 2016 have been added, so the database includes 12632 games, level editors, data disks, extensions and interpreters, which divide like that:
- 12076 games
- 320 extensions and data disks
- 143 game or level editors
- 84 interpreters
According to Brunet the Amiga Games List is the most extensive games list on Internet.
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15.Jan.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AEROS for indieGO! available
Purchasers of Pascal Papara's "indieGO!", which is an ARM-based system combining several games consoles by using different emulators, now also can use his Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS. Using the online update function, AEROS can be added at the start of indieGO!. A video shows AEROS starting on the system and later the game AmigaRacer.
According to Pascal Papara "it is the first time AROS hosted on ARM runs with a 32bit color depth and so hand in hand with the 3D accelerated drivers or the console." AROS itself includes al system files which recently were back ported by Krzysztof Śmiechowicz for the ABIv0 and are also used in the distribution Icaros Desktop.
Additional to AEROS, version 1.7.0 of the Linux-based operating system "indieGO! OS" also offers FS-UAE as well as the latest version of the Amiga emulator uae4arm, compiled on and for the Odroid-XU4, supporting JIT, full screen mode and sound (actually uae4arm is optimized for Raspberry Pi2/3).
Pascal Papara also wrote: "Besides this preparations are made to allow the execution of IcAROS desktop utilizing the commercial i386 to ARM wrapper ExaGear. Performance wise it feels similar to my macbook pro late 2009 and running it in Virtualbox. This is possible because it used the wrapper only for the CPU translation and else it relies on native ARM API's.
There are much more updates like a new launcher menu done by Fabio and fixes to other system emulation but since they are not Amiga Related I would like to invite you to have an eye on the AMC-Support-Forum."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jan.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.01.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 14th, 2017:
ign-addon-ods.lha biz/misc 1.8M OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
Amiga30Years.lha demo/euro 45K 68k OCS Demo for High Coast Hack ...
YouMustObey.lha demo/euro 82K 68k OCS Demo for High Coast Hack ...
boingball.lha demo/intro 56K 68k OCS intro for High Coast Hack...
hch_2016_xmas.lha demo/slide 69K 68k OCS Demo for High Coast Hack ...
K-War_TreasurePattern... demo/track 642K 68k Musicdisk "Treasure Patterns"...
PointerDevBas.lha dev/basic 34K 68k Using Pointer lib with HBasic
Cow3D.lha dev/src 722K ppc Draw a textured 3D cow with W...
LosingMyBestFriend.mp3 mods/mpg 2.4M A slow sad tune by pecaN
unzip_6.0-21.lha util/arc 186K MOS De-archiver for .zip files
ShellUpdate.lha util/boot 130K 68k Update Os 3.9 BB2 Shell to 45.36
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15.Jan.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.01.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until January 14th, 2017:
versus7.lha dem/mag 2Mb 4.0 Chartmag (AOS4 version).
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 2Mb 4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
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15.Jan.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 14.01.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until January 14th, 2017:
bubbletrain.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 3Mb Bubble shooter.
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15.Jan.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.01.2017
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 January 14th, 2017:
- 2017-01-14 new: Lovesongs (Crime Devils) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-13 new: Music Disk (Cryptic) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-12 new: Audio Dreams (Chaos) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2017-01-12 new: Sound of Music 7 (Cave) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-11 new: Music Collection 4 (Zarch) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-11 new: Music Collection (Exocet) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-10 new: One Day on Mars (Exile) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-09 new: Music Disk (Escape) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-08 new: Music Disk 1 (Vega) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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13.Jan.2017
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Dave Haynie: Entire "Deathbed Vigil" video at Youtube
In spring 1994 with his own camera hardware developer Dave Haynie recorded the almost deserted Commodore production facility in West Chester, a mass dismissal as well as a party of former employees ("wake") on the day after the announcement of the companys bankrupt.
The video which resulted from that was sold as "The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst": First of all by Haynie himself, finally as part of the premium edition of the emulator distribution Amiga Forever. Now Haynie has made available the video at Youtube for free.
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13.Jan.2017
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Bounty project for new system monitor
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, member of the MorphOS-Team, has suggested a bounty project in the forum of the MorphZone for a replacement of "Scout".
Unlike the former system monitor, "Scout NG" should not depend on external MUI-classes but will provide some MorphOS information. Besides, certain system lists should be shown in context (processes/tasks/windows as a tree).
On the website of the WArMUp ("World Association of MorphOS Users") you can donate for that project, which requires 200 Euro.
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