04.May.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 132
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 132 (May/June 2018) have been released today, they can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include reviews of 'Spencer' and the DKB Wildfire and a special called "Vampire Diaries". (cg)
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02.May.2018
A1k.org (ANF)
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MUIMapparium 0.6 for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 0.6 of his MUI port of the OpenStreetMap viewer Mapparium. The author wrote that "the biggest changes are the Manual, the faster network speed, an about window and route calculation."
Changes in version 0.6
- BugFix: OS4 ToolType reading
- BugFix: Track plot enabling
- BugFix: Deleting Tiles
- Update checking
- AmigaGuide manual
- "About MUI"menu entry
- About window
- Reopen Statistics Window on start if left open on quit
- Set color for Tracks and Routes
- Show Route Orders jump to position
- Block redrawing when moving map (prevents map jumping)
- Faster Image Download
- Choose double click map feature lists mode
- Popup menu for all map feature lists
- ASCII Export for plot
- Calculate Routes with YOURS
- Include *.cd file for own translations
MUIMapparium is available for AmigaOS 3 (with graphic board), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (ARM, i386, x64)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2018
(ANF)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 4.0.0
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE present a short preview to the changes of the next version. WinUAE 4.0.0 is supposed to be released in May or June and will provide the following features:
New features:
- Beam Racing Lagless VSync which reduces input latency to sub-5ms. Replaces old Low Latency VSync.
- Virtual multi monitor support. Each virtual Amiga video output connector (Video port graphics adapter, RTG boards) can be “connected” to separate WinUAE window, emulating real hardware being connected to more than one physical monitor.
- Debugger supports running Amiga executables from shell, adds symbol and gcc stab debugging data support, loads executable to special reserved address space which enables detection of any illegal accesses byte accurately and more.
- Overlay graphics led (power, floppy etc) support.
- Close confirmation option added to misc panel.
- Default WASAPI audio device automatically follows Windows default audio device.
- Directory harddrives now use uaehf.device as a fake device driver (replacing non-existing uae.device), for example programs that query extra information (like SCSI Inquiry data) now get valid data.
- Directory filesystem harddrive fake block size dynamic adjustment now starts from smaller disk size, workaround for WB free space calculation overflow when partition is larger than 16G.
- Disk swapper config file data is restored from statefile.
3.6.x bug fix:
- WD33C93 based SCSI controllers hung the system if controller didn’t have any connected SCSI devices.
Older bugs fixed:
- On the fly switching from non-cycle exact to cycle-exact mode stopped emulation in certain situations.
- Fixed E-Matrix accelerator board RAM selection.
- If CD was changed and system was reset during change delay, drive become empty and new CD was never inserted. Mainly affected CD32 and CDTV.
- Code analyzer warnings fixed (uninitialized variables, buffer size checks etc..)
New emulated expansions:
- C-Ltd Kronos
- CSA Magnum 40
- DCE Typhoon MK2
- GVP A1230 Series II
- Hardital TQM
- MacroSystem Falcon 040
- Xetec FastTrak
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.May.2018
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- March/Arpil 2018 news
- Old articles from Amiga News Tech n° 0 to 5:
- File: The IFF ILM format
- Programming: Assembleur, the art of machine code
- Tutorial: Utilization of the "List" command
- Programming: AmigaBasic, loops and jumps
- Hardware: A2630
- Programming: AmigaBasic, the variables
- Programming: Assembleur, screen and window structures
- Review: HiSoft Basic 1.0
- Interview with Francis Gradel (hardware designer)
- Interview with Hogne Titlestad (engineer at FriendUP)
- Interview with Thierry Levastre (graphist from Delphine Software)
- Review of MorphOS 3.10
- DIY: Installation of a CD Player inside an Amiga 1200 case
- Hardware: MiSTer
- File: Professional musicians on Amiga
- File: Classic Reflections - What happened to MacroSystem?
- Tutorial: Installation of MorphOS 3.10
- Programming: AMOS - the pointers
- Galleries: Unusual Amiga pictures (update)
- Special quiz about Dune
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.May.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 28th, 2018:
smbfs-68k_1.116.lha comm/tcp 91K 68k SMB file system client; compl...
smbfs-68k_1.117.lha comm/tcp 95K 68k SMB file system client; compl...
MusicDisk01_CopperSky... demo/sound 880K 68k Music disk 01, by CopperSky
gcc-mos2wos.lha dev/gcc 17M MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
HeartOfTheAlienRdx-MO... game/actio 139K MOS Amiga version of action-adven...
View64.lha gfx/show 166K MOS View various C64 pictures
fceu_mos.lha misc/emu 630K MOS Nintendo NES / Famicom emulator
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.1M MOS Sega Genesis and MasterSystem...
hugo_mos.lha misc/emu 769K MOS PC-Engine / TurboGrafx 16 emu...
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 325K 68k MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
STP.lha mus/play 109K 68k Soundtracker player with CD-P...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 505K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 529K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 644K OS4 Multipurpose utility
ToolManager2_1bin.lha util/wb 490K 68k ToolManager 2.1 (Binaries and...
ToolManager2_1gfx.lha util/wb 175K ToolManager 2.1 (Anims, Brush...
ToolManager2_1src.lha util/wb 280K 68k ToolManager 2.1 (sources/supp...
ToolManager21a.lha util/wb 24K 68k Small update for ToolManager 2.1
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 28th, 2018:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
reverteris.zip gam/adv 128Mb 4.1 another text-game / interactive ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 644kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until April 28th, 2018:
warmux.i386-aros.lha gam/pla 125Mb Worms Clone
aleonatales.i386-aros.lha gam/str 37Mb real time strategy game fantasy
boswars.i386-aros.lha gam/str 63Mb real time strategy game in the f...
zod.i386-aros.lha gam/str 44Mb Zeta Games
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until April 28th, 2018:
mos2wos_0.6.lha Development/GCC Make MorphOS GCC output...
MorphOS_SDK_3.12_20180... Development/SDK MorphOS Software Develo...
FCEU_1.7.lha Emulation FCEU emulates the class...
GenesisPlus_1.9.lha Emulation Genesis-Plus emulates t...
Hu-Go!_1.5.lha Emulation A TurboGrafx16/PC Engin...
HeartOfTheAlienRedux_1... Games/Action Amiga version of action...
Davegnukem_1.00.lha Games/Shoot 2D Dave Gnukem is a retro-...
View64_1.60.lha Graphics/Show View various C64 pictures.
Report+_7.2.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
AminetReadmeMaker_1.0.lha Text Easy creation & upload ...
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29.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.04.2018
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 installers have been added until April 28th, 2018:
- 2018-04-26 improved: Amazing SpiderMan (Paragon/Oxford Digital/Empire) another version supported (Info, Image)
- 2018-04-25 improved: Crystal Hammer (reLINE) unlimited lives and reset hiscores added, dma wait patched, quitkey works on 68000 (Info)
- 2018-04-23 improved: Coala (Empire) copy protection screen completely skipped, caches enabled (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS Software Development Kit 3.12
Press release: The MorphOS Development Team would like to announce the immediate availability of the April 2018 release of the MorphOS SDK 3.12. The new SDK introduces support for Objective-C MUI application development, adds a Clang compiler, GCC 6.4.0, updated GCC5 as well as a GIT suite, many updated libraries and components.
Please note that, at this point, the Objective-C support should be considered a demo - both ABI and API are not yet 100% stable. MorphOS 3.12 may require your applications to be recompiled to work.
The new SDK requires at least 2GB of free disk space to install and is available for download in our files section.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2018
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Gary-Wafer in private American library (picture)
In the "Walker Library of Human Imagination" Arthur Steinmetz has recognized a wafer of the Amiga custom chip Gary, which in the Amiga 500, Amiga 2000 (B) and in Amiga CDTV "provides glue logic for bus control and houses supporting functions for the floppy disk drive". Under the title link he has published a picture of the exhibit.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: SPI controller for clockport announced
Under the title link Retro 7-bit has announced a SPI controller for the clockport. Using the "Serial Peripheral Interface" you can access SD cards. The corresponding video shows such a card with 2 GB, to which is accessed by the prototype of the controller on an Amiga 1200.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Apr.2018
Qemu (ANF)
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Emulator: QEMU 2.12.0 emulates Sam460ex
According to the version history available under the title link, version 2.12.0 of the emulator QEMU, released three days ago, includes the feature of emulating the Sam460ex board produced by ACube Systems.
Any further details e.g. to the compatibility regarding diverse Amiga operating systems are not available. At least in September 2017, AROS and MorphOS did not work (amiga-news.de reported).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FCEU 1.7, GenesisPlus 1.9, Hu-Go 1.5
Kelly Samel - formerly known as company "Emerald Games", now operating as "Realstar Software" - has released updates of three of his MorphOS ports of emulators of Japanese game consoles.
FCE Ultra emulates the Nintendo-Entertainment-System (NES), GenesisPlus the Sega consoles Mega Drive, Sega CD, Master System as well as Game Gear and Hu-Go the PC Engine. Further details are available under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: Looking for help for verifying old bugs
The bugtracker of the WHDLoad team contains more than 1500 bugs which are partly very old. Bert Jahn, the author of WHDLoad, suspects that many of the bugs can be refered to e.g. the usage of cracked versions or buggy hardware. Other bugs have not sufficient details to be able to reconstruct the bug.
Jahn is going to reduce the amount of open bug report as far as possible. Therefore he asks users of WHDLoad to check some of the open bugs listed in the database and to give a feedback if they could be reconstructed. In this way the team can recognize which bugs have priority. Very old bugs which nobody could reconstruct will be deleted.
If users should find new problems with WHDLoad versions of games then they are asked to post them in the bugtracker instead of writing them in the forum.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2018
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #46 - Interview with Robert Bernardo
The 46th issue of the Scene World Podcast offers an interview with Robert Bernardo. The US-American is chairman of the "Fresno Commodore User Group", attends several Commodore nd Amiga events worldwide and publishes videos of those meetings.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Apr.2018
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Puzzle game: Block Off! (third preversion)
Colin Vella's Block Off! (Youtube video) is a puzzle game written in AMOS in which you have to move bricks of the same colour side by side. This preversion includes 14 levels. All users are invited to create new levels using the editor and to send them to the authors. Block Off! requires one Megabyte RAM. The game runs on an A500 but an Amiga 1200 is recommended.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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