24.Dec.2016
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amiga-news.de wishes Merry Christmas
The team of amiga-news.de wishes all Amiga fans a Merry Christmas as well as a Happy New Year 2017!
In 2016 so far we have published 727 news on amiga-news.de which are again some less compared to the last year but apart from that, a lot is going on about Amiga - for example there is the Vampire accelerator board, the availability of the X5000 or community projects like Matzes Graka.
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2016, 17:01] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2016
amigaimpact.org (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulation on ARM: HAPPIGA 1.4.1
Happiga is a Debian-based Linux distribution for ARM-based computers like the Raspberry Pi which directly boot into the Amiga emulator UAE4ARM. An AGA-Amiga with 68040-processor and sufficient RAM is emulated, Picasso96 is installed as well. A Samba-Share is preconfigured for exchanging data with other systems.
You cannot update Happiga to version 1.4, you have to completely reinstall the application. Changes in version 1.4.1:
- A last minute bugfix which greatly slowed the raspberry
- New image based on Rapsbian Pixel
- Update the firmware of the raspberry
- Updated uae4arm
- Button to turn happiga off from the menu
- Integration of KODI with launch from the menu
- Removal of the gamepad menu, because most people use the program with pixel raspbian
- Even more stable
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24.Dec.2016
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eBook: Special edition of "Commodore - The Amiga Years" for supporters
According to a user on Amigaworld, supporters of the second part of Brian Bagnall's Commodore chronicle which was financed by Kickstarter will get a chapter of the book as a special ebook edition.
The eBook has 371 pages and is about the history of the Amiga 1000, which in this special edition is explained more detailed than in the forthcoming final version of "Commodore - The Amiga Years".
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2016, 16:26] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2016
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Jump'n Run: Easter Egg
"Easter Egg" is a Jump'n Run created with Backbone. In this game you have to collect all eggs and make your way to the exit. Easter egg offers 31 levels and a "cheat mode" for beginners. You can also gain an extra life by collecting a big gold egg.
Easter Egg requires an Amiga with 1 MB RAM and 512 KB Chip-RAM. You can play the game using a joystick or the keyboard.
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24.Dec.2016
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eMail: SimpleMail 0.43
At Christmas 2000 the first alpha version of SimpleMail was released. At each following Christmas an update has been released. In 2016 version 0.43 is under the Christmas tree, which fixes some minor bugs and uses a new version of OpenSSL:
- OpenSSL to 1.0.1u updated
- Building mail index no longer blocks user-interface
- Replaced Error window by more general Logging window
- Several bug fixes
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24.Dec.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZuneView 0.31
Yannick Erb has released version 0.31 of his picture viewer ZuneView for AROS which also provides some editing functions.
Changes:
- Icon generation feature added
- ZuneView should now work again on Linux / Windows hosted
- Selection area is limited to picture dimension (I watched my kid doing some weird stuff with ZuneView to find this bug)
- Updated (already outdated now) czech catalog
- Corrected bilinear filtering creating shift to right and down
- Improvement of some effect windows
- Added brightness, Contrast and Gamma correction
- Correction in Statistical filter (out of array access)
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23.Dec.2016
Prosac (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 3.4.0
Toni Wilen has released version 3.4.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE. Besides, the website has got a new layout.
New emulated hardware:
- Graphics adapters:
- ColorBurst
- Harlequin
- OpalVision (OpalPaint, King of Karate)
- Accelerator boards:
- Blizzard 1230 MK II and III
- IVS Vector 68030
- HD controllers:
- Blizzard 1230 MK II and III SCSI Kit
- Buddha
- Expansion Systems Dataflyer Plus
- FileCard 2000/OSSI 500
- Mainhattan A-Team
- Microbotics HardFrame
- SCRAM 500/2000
- Network adapters:
- AmigaNet
- Ariadne
- Ariadne II
- LAN Rover/EB920
- NE2000 compatible PCMCIA
- NE2000 compatible ISA (x86 bridgeboard compatible)
- X-Surf and X-Surf 100 (Partial)
- American Laser Games arcade game hardware:
- LaserDisc player (video file)
- Genlock (using video file genlock mode)
- Light gun and buttons
New features:
- RAM/RTG RAM handling updated, all size combinations are now supported
- Autoconfig board GUI list with custom sorting support
- RAM Z2/Z3 board full autoconfig data customization support
- Up to 4 Z2 and Z3 RAM boards can be enabled simultaneously
- Multiple display and sound boards can be now enabled simultaneously
- Genlock realtime custom image, video file or capture stream overlay
- Genlock mode screenshot/video alpha channel support
- Accelerator board 68000 fallback mode supported
- Game Ports panel custom mapping autofire support
- Network access on screen led
- Single step (emulate one frame + pause) input event
- MIDI and Genlock video volume control
Updates:
- Reduced input latency
- Reduced WASAPI sound mode latency
- WinPCap network mode now uses generated local MAC address, no more MAC conflicts between Windows and emulated Amiga
- If some RAM board is not JIT Direct capable, only board’s access mode changes to JIT Indirect. Global JIT Direct option is not switched off
- Most RAM size/position related JIT Direct restrictions are gone
- Environment variables in file paths (%VAR%) are now always expanded
- Implemented AGA only bitplane DMA overrun emulation (Moon Child)
- Host path 260 character limit removed (Windows 10 v1607+ only)
Bug fixes:
- Shortcuts with Shift key work again
- Custom Game Port remapping does not disappear mysteriously anymore
- Mounting file with size less than 512 bytes as a harddrive work again
- CDTV statefiles fixed
- On the fly directory/archive mounting only worked once under OS4.x
- Worms DC and ACSYS (possibly others) graphics glitch fixed
- Bad sprite collision optimization fixed (Jumpman Junior)
- Stop PPC emulation first, before freeing any emulation resources to prevent random crashes at exit
- FPS.Adj config file handling fixed
- ATAPI CD emulation odd data size fix (HDToolbox hang)
- default.uae with unplugged device: set to none, not layout A
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2016, 05:27] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2016
amigaworld.net (ANF)
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Icaros Desktop 2.2 X-Mas with AROS port of Final Writer
From today on a pre-version of Icaros Desktop 2.2 is available, which additional to many improvements for the first time also includes a demo version of the word processing software Final Writer, meanwhile maintained by Timothy 'Terminills' Deters.
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21.Dec.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Podcast: AMIcast 19 - Interview with Hans de Ruiter
In issue 19 of his podcast AMIcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Hans de Ruiter who writes "Amiga OS 4.x graphics drivers for R5xx and higher graphics cards."
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[News message: 21. Dec. 2016, 18:03] [Comments: 0]
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21.Dec.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SDK-Browser 2.1.1.0
After the a first version a week ago, now version 2.1.1.0 of Jamie Krueger's SDK Browser for developing software under AmigaOS 4 is available. Additional to the commercial one, also a Freeware version is available.
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21.Dec.2016
news (Kommentar)
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Individual Computers: ACA500plus can be ordered, delivery from January 3rd on
The ACA500plus is the successor version of the accelerator board ACA500, which was introduced three years ago, and now can be preordered under the title link. While some first customers will have their boards on Christmas, all others will not get them before January 3rd due to a high demand.
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[News message: 21. Dec. 2016, 17:18] [Comments: 0]
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18.Dec.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 17.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until December 17th, 2016:
netsurf-m68k.lha comm/www 8.4M 68k CSS capable web browser
Supreme-TheDemoDisk.zip demo/disk 452K 68k The Demo Disk of Supreme
MuForce.lha dev/debug 288K 68k V40 Enforcer,detect illegal R...
MuGuardianAngl.lha dev/debug 316K 68k detect accesses to non-alloca...
ThorLib.lha dev/lib 38K 68k link library w/ useful suppor...
MuScan.lha dev/misc 135K 68k Print the MMU tree layout.
character-sets.lha docs/hyper 13K IANA Charset MIB (Amiga catal...
AmigaPower.lha docs/lists 68K aMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Mag ...
MuManual.lha docs/misc 929K 68k mmu.lib: Tutorial, includes, ...
DQK_HexCodes.lha game/hint 1K Hex Offsets for Dark Queen of...
MaxKnightXmas_v2.lha game/jump 284K 68k Max Knight Xmas Edition (demo...
MaxKnightXmasHDD.lha game/jump 283K 68k Max Knight Xmas Edition (HDD ...
PyAGLaunchGC.tar.gz game/misc 22K AmigaGuide launcher generatio...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AP57Covers.lha pix/misc 352K aMiGa=PoWeR n?57 Cover Recto
LoadModule.lha util/boot 18K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
MuFastChip.lha util/boot 134K 68k Chip memory cache mode fine t...
MuFastRom.lha util/boot 134K 68k MuLib conformal ROM to RAM re...
MuFastZero.lha util/boot 151K 68k MuLib ZeroP. remapper, replac...
MuLockLib.lha util/boot 127K 68k Lock mmu.library in memory on...
MuMapRom.lha util/boot 122K 68k MuLib based ROM Replacement Hack
MuOmniSCSIPatc.lha util/boot 132K 68k Make the omniscsi.device MMUL...
MuProtectModule.lha util/boot 133K 68k MuLib ROM Modules Write Prote...
MuRedox.lha util/boot 117K 68k MuLib based math speedup for ...
MuSetCacheMode.lha util/boot 137K 68k MMU tree adjustment tool for ...
diceware-amiga.lha util/crypt 82K MOS Bitcoin & Zcash keypair g...
MMULib.lha util/libs 658K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 64K 68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 310K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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18.Dec.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 17.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until December 17th, 2016:
seq.lha aud/mis 100kb 4.0 Simple MIDI step sequencer
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 2Mb 4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
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18.Dec.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 17.12.2016
The following package has been added to the AROS-Archives until December 17th, 2016:
astromenace.i386-aros.zip gam/act 58Mb OpenGl scrolling space shooter.
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16.Dec.2016
hjoerg (ANF)
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PDF Magazine: Raspberry Pi Magazine MagPi with Amiga tutorial
The latest issue of the official Raspberry Pi Magazine MagPi describes how to turn your Pi into an Amiga emulator by using the UAE4ARM distribution Amibian.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Dec. 2016, 00:32] [Comments: 0]
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15.Dec.2016
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 124 - preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 124 (January/February 2017) of the Amiga Future. This issue among others includes an
interview with EntwicklerX, a workshop on Frying Pan as well as a review of "Enemy 2 - Missing in Action".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Dec. 2016, 05:46] [Comments: 0]
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