09.Oct.2016
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP stack: Roadshow 1.12
Press release: The Roadshow TCP/IP stack for the Amiga has been updated to version 1.12 and is available immediately. An updated demonstration version is available too, as well as the updated software development kit.
A free update is available for customers using Roadshow 1.11, upgrading it to version 1.12. Note: if you are still using Roadshow 1.8 you need to upgrade to version 1.11 first before you can upgrade to version 1.12.
The changes in Roadshow 1.12 are as follows:
- A buffer overflow bug has been fixed which could occur when
querying network interface hardware addresses. This bug could
cause the "ShowNetStatus" command to crash.
- The ftp command has been reworked, fixing bugs which had been
present for years (buffer overflows, etc.).
- Overlapping name resolution operations can no longer collide
with each other so easily and produce corrupt query data. This
problem could occur only very rarely.
- New API functions for name resolution have been added, which are
common in the Unix world, for which no alternatives had been
available before. These enhancements are new for Amiga
TCP/IP software in general.
- If Roadshow sets up a network interface using the DHCP protocol
it can now request that the DHCP server sends its responses
directly to Roadshow (unicast) instead of broadcasting them to
the local network.
- Changing the system clock time (e.g. during daylight saving
time transitions) no longer affect Roadshow's internal
time keeping.
- A new ready-made network configuration file for PCMCIA cards
using the "cnet16.device" driver is provided under
"Storage/NetInterfaces/CNet16").
- The reference documentation has been updated.
More detailed descriptions of the changes can be found in the "ReadMe" file of the Roadshow archive, and the SDK archive.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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09.Oct.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: pictures and videos from AmiWest 2016 (update)
After receiving the news from the presentation of A-EON Technology and Hyperion at the AmiWest 2016 (amiga-news.de reported), Robert Bernardo also has published first pictures of the event.
Update: (10.10.2016, 22:45, cg)
Christian 'xeno' Zigotzky has published lots of pictures from the event as well: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Additionally, video recordings from the show are available now:
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09.Oct.2016
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Catacomb 3D: Full version can be ordered
The announced full version of the 25 years old ego-shooter Catacomb 3D with an adaption to the Amiga CD³² now can be ordered for all ECS-Amiga with 68020-processor, 2 MB Chip-RAM and AmigaOS 3.x under the title link.
Pascal Papara also provides further information about this and other projects on the crowdfunding website Patreon.
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09.Oct.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 08.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until October 8th, 2016:
c-ares.lha comm/tcp 162K 68k Command line DNS tools
FAsm040.lha dev/asm 9K 68k Super Fasmicom Amiga-SNES X A...
c-ares-src.lha dev/gcc 1.9M Asynchronous DNS resolver lib...
libcares.lha dev/gcc 941K 68k Asynchronous DNS resolver lib...
PDCopy30.lha disk/bakup 23K 68k PD Copy v3.0, no docs, xcopy ...
don_ceferino.i386-aro... game/actio 3.1M x86 clone of Pang
MotherLode.adz game/actio 68K 68k Mother Lode a Lode Runner clone
pang.i386-aros.zip game/actio 1.5M x86 The classic Pang game
tuxfootball.i386-aros... game/actio 20M x86 Tux Football is a great 2D so...
Links_demo.lha game/demo 797K 68k very good Golf in 4096 colors
adrian_3d.i386-aros.lha game/role 5.5M x86 Simple 3D role playing strate...
blackshade.i386-aros.zip game/shoot 1.4M x86 shoot em up
Huge.lha gfx/edit 38K 68k icons, sprites, bobs Editor a...
srec.lha gfx/misc 119K OS4 Screen Recorder
BestOfMorphOS_2013_1.pdf mags/misc 203K MorphOS newsletter, November ...
BestOfMorphOS_2013_2.pdf mags/misc 318K MorphOS newsletter, January 2014
BestOfMorphOS_2014_1.pdf mags/misc 297K MorphOS newsletter, March 2014
BestOfMorphOS_2014_2.pdf mags/misc 324K MorphOS newsletter, May 2014
BestOfMorphOS_2014_3.pdf mags/misc 352K MorphOS newsletter, September...
EvenMore.lha text/show 335K 68k Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 411K MOS Freeware Textviewer (MorphOS)
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 410K OS4 Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
Blitter.lha util/pack 2K 68k Blitter-MFM-Coder by Cruncher...
BytekillerPro10.lha util/pack 39K 68k Bytekiller Professional v1.0,...
tzdata.lha util/time 1.6M Time Zone Database
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09.Oct.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 08.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until October 8th, 2016:
seq.lha aud/mis 95kb 4.0 Simple MIDI step sequencer
drawergad.lha dev/lib 269kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
radiobuttonxgad.lha dev/lib 83kb 4.0 Radiobutton gadget expanded
amicraftnova.lha gam/mis 3Mb 4.1 Minecraft style game for Warp3D ...
glblocktube_bl.lha gra/scr 538kb 4.1 OpenGL Screen Blanker
glboing_bl.lha gra/scr 58kb 4.1 OpenGL Screen Blanker
comicami_free.lha gra/vie 206kb 4.1 A comic book viewer
qt-minimal.lha lib/mis 76Mb 4.1 Multiplatform Gui Toolkit (Minimal)
preferences.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Prefs window for starting differ...
prefscenter.lha uti/wor 258kb 4.0 Launch prefs programs from a GUI
quickstarter.lha uti/wor 319kb 4.0 Quick program start menu
srec.lha vid/rec 119kb 4.1 Screen Recorder
srec_deu.lha vid/rec 2kb 4.1 German catalog file for SRec v2.1
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09.Oct.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 08.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the AROS-Archives until October 8th, 2016:
dgen.i386-aros.zip emu/gam 2Mb Emulator for Sega Genesis/MegaDr...
blackshade.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb shoot em up
pang.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb The classic Pang game
don_ceferino.i386-aros.lha gam 3Mb clone of Pang
adrian_3d.i386-aros.lha gam/rol 6Mb Adrian is a simple 3D role playi...
tuxfootball.i386-aros.lha gam/spo 20Mb Tux Football is a great 2D soccer..
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08.Oct.2016
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AmiWest: Dickinson and Solie talk about A-EON's and Hyperion's current projects
This year's AmiWest is taking place in Sacramento (USA) this weekend. The first presentation was a joint effort of Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) and Steven Solie. The latter was introduced as the "AmigaOS team leader", which he confirmed by replying "for now, hehe". Actually, Solie had stopped describing himself as "Team leader" a while ago and only referred to himself as the team's spokesperson, while Costel Mincea was supposed to act as Hyperion's technical director.
Dickinson and Solie gave short talks about A-EON's and Hyperion's current projects and then answered questions from the audience. The following topics were discussed during the presentation:
AmigaOne X5000
Dickinson officially announced the X5000 going on sale. Solie confirms that the Release Candidate of AmigaOS 4 for the X5000 is currently being tested and will be shipped with the computer. The onboard network controller is not supported yet, a replacement network interface card will be delivered with complete systems though. According to Solie, Multicore support has been deferred so the team could concentrate on finishing the X5000 port, but will be the focus once the X5000 version is shipping.
The cheapest complete systems will ship for 1700 GBP, which would be about 1900 Euro (excluding taxes and postage). Dickinson states he brought two bare X5000 motherboards to the show, which can be bought by visitors for 1350 USD (about 1200 Euro).
Tabor
The Tabor motherboard is currently booting into Workbench. The developer assigned to it is working hard to get it to a state where the rest of the team can help with the porting. Dickinson says the target price for Tabor is "below 400 Euro", the boards will be sold at net cost. A-EON is hoping that the increased userbase will result in improved software sales, which is how Tabor is supposed to make them money.
AmigaOS 4
The OS team is also working on "AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 1", a Release Candidate is curently being tested. Solie expects it to be released before the end of the year. Only one feature of the update is mentioned: extended memory is supposed to work properly now. While AmigaOS can still only adress two gigabytes of memory, up to four gigabytes are supported now and will be used by modules like the Ram Disk.
LibreOffice
The port of LibreOffice is said to be "usable" now, beta testing has just started. A copy of the office suite is apparently installed on one of the machines at the show, so that visitors can have a closer look.
Gutenprint
A-EON acquired Timothy 'Terminills' Deters' sources of his AROS port of Gutenprint, Tony Wyatt is working on adapting it to AmigaOS 4.
Amiga Enhancer
Work is ongoing on both a port to AmigaOS 3 and an update for the PPC version. Additionally, a cheaper version will be released that is not containing any of the parts that are not compatible with or useful on weaker machines - Warp 3D Nova is mentioned as an example.
A.l.i.c.e.
The laptop with preinstalled emulator environments will include officially licensed copies of both Amiga Forever and the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1. Additionally, a MUI license has been acquired from MUI's original author, Stefan Stuntz. Dickinson estimates that the cost of the entire package would be "a couple of hundred Euro" higher than that of the original laptop, due to all the software licenses. Assuming the laptop would cost 450 Euro, he thinks it might be possible to sell A.l.i.c.e. at 650 Euro.
Miscellaneous
Using amigadeveloper.com, A-EON is currently managing 50 projects with 22 paid developers working on them. The SVN repository has recieved 2885 commits so far. 900 customers registered for Amistore and purchased about 3000 items. Amistore is currently offering about 50 titles. (cg)
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05.Oct.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Trevor Dickinson hoping to present LibreOffice at AmiWest
On September 16th Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) attended the Amiga & Retro meeting in Adelaide. In his presentation from minute 20 he also talked about LibreOffice and hoping that the software, which is financed by him and developed by the Frieden brothers, can be introduced at the AmiWest (8./9. October, Sacramento, USA) running under AmigaOS 4.
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05.Oct.2016
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Mailbox: AmigaWorld BBS online again
Under amigaworldbbs.spdns.org the "AmigaWorld BBS" can be accessed again. The mailbox also have a second port with a real modem. The number will be given on demand by the maintainer.
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05.Oct.2016
Morphzone (Webseite)
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French MorphOS group established file archive and and small ads platform
For some time WArMUp ("World Association of MorphOS Users") provides a separate archive for MorphOS software, which is supposed to replace the closed MorphOS-Files and wants to become a competition to the Aminet: MorphOS Storage offers screenshots, links to Youtube videos and a comment function.
Simultaneously the maintainer also has established the MorphOS Store, which is a snall ads platform for MorphOS users: Registered users can publish offers and requests in different categories for hardware and software. The website is available in different languages but currently the English and German translations are incomplete - the maintainers would be grateful for any support.
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05.Oct.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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MOD-Streaming: AmiModRadio 0.994
AmiModRadio can play over twenty thousand music moduls from the Aminet. In version 0.994 now almost all parts of the graphical user-interface are working, the lists with directories, files and mods are presented in different windows and the "auto-ban"-function leaves out lowly rated moduls. Besides, some minor bugs have been fixed.
AmiModRadio is free software, the C source code is available on Bitbucket. The author asks the users to use its bugtrucker for reporting bugs.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Oct.2016
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A-EON is going to start delivery of X5000 soon, first price information
Apparently, the first customers who expressed their interest in an AmigaOne X5000 are contacted (German) by their distributors and asked for an advance payment for the computer. Shipment is allegedly (German) starting in a few weeks. Customers who got contacted describe (German) the prices like this: Depending on the configuration, a complete system will cost 2300 to 2500 Euro, a naked motherboard will cost 1700 Euro.
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03.Oct.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit for Android devices 1.8.0.03
The latest version 1.8.0.03 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for phones and tablets has an higher speed performance due to an improved JIT-compiler, a new transparent keyboard and an bug fixed sound output.
Additional to the operating system files (AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9), at least Android 4.2 and an ARM-v7-processor are required.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Oct.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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ModExplorer 0.9a
Similar to AmiModRadio, the Hollywood-programm ModExplorer plays music modules from the Internet but also supports the Aminet, Modland and modules.pl. The tool is available for all Amiga systems.
As the author explained on a1k.org, version 0.9a among others offers a minimalist "streamer", a (still not finished) ARexx port as well as thanks to the update of MUI Royale the possibility to use the MUI version on Amigas without having a graphic card.
Download: modexplorer.lha (8 MB)
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02.Oct.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Video player VAMP 1.60
The "Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player" written by Juan Carlos Herran Martin is avideo player implemented with Hollywood, which can show and play diverse picture and animation formats. In version 1.60 some bugs have been fixed and some new graphics and pictogramm added.
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02.Oct.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: StackMon 0.1
For his own needs, Yannick Erb has written a little stack monitor based on the source codes of SysMon to see, "how much stack my apps are actually using".
After launching the programm, "just select the task/process you want to look at. If task/process is not in the list click on Refresh button or select auto refresh (task list will be updated every second)." After choosing the tasks/processes, you get two information: The currently used stack (used in the last 20ms) as well as the maximum ("measured while the current task is selected").
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02.Oct.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 01.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until October 1st, 2016:
m68k-amigaos-gcc.tar.gz dev/gcc 17M 68k GCC based dev toolchain for A...
m68k-amigaos-gcc-src.... dev/gcc 34M GCC based dev toolchain for A...
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha dev/hwood 4.8M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
MegaMon_182.lha dev/moni 18K 68k Amiga Monitor the Original
MegaMon_32.lha dev/moni 74K 68k Amiga Monitor Final Version a...
Infect.lha disk/misc 2K 68k Infect Boot Intro Insaller
soliton_decks.lha game/data 4.7M New Soliton card sets
MCE.lha game/edit 1.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.8M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
protracker23d.i386-ar... mus/edit 3.2M x86 Music making software "ProTra...
tzdata.lha util/time 907K Time Zone Database
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02.Oct.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 01.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until October 1st, 2016:
sqlite.lha dev/lib 12Mb 4.1 SQL database engine
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
jabberwocky.lha uti/com 492kb 4.0 Jabber client
fxstr.lha uti/scr 10kb 4.0 Converts strings to ReadArgs format
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02.Oct.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 01.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the AROS-Archives until October 1st, 2016:
protracker23d.i386-aros.zip aud 3Mb Music making software "ProTracke...
csbwin.i386-aros.lha gam/rol 1Mb Engine to Play Dungeon Master/Ch...
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29.Sep.2016
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Playable previews: Bridge Strike and Small Cars Drag Race
"Bridge Strike" (Youtube video) developed by the Tanks Furry authors is a vertically scrolling Shoot'em Up. The first demo version requires an Amiga with 68020-processor and one Megabyte RAM. It is a very early beta version, the authors recommend to start the game without startup-sequence. So far Bridge Strike was successfully tested on an Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.3 and on an A600.
S.C.D.R. ("Small Cars Drag Race", Youtube video) simulates a drag racing, where two cars compete. The game was developed on an A500 with one Megabyte RAM.
Downloads:
Bride Strike: bscrunched (405 KB)
Download page for S.C.D.R. (click on "Pobierz")
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28.Sep.2016
Once Upon a Byte and 8bitchip (ANF)
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Video: Igor "Majsta" Majstorovic presents the Vampire 500
On September 10th at the "BalCCon" (Balkan Computer Congress), Igor "Majsta" Majstorovic - who is the developer of the FPGA-based accelerator board Vampire 500 - for the first time presented his board to the public. In a detailed presentation Majstorovic explained the history of the Vampire and the pitfalls, which he and the Apollo team had to avoid during the development. He also talked about the next generation of the Vampire, the Vampire 1200.
Hint of editorial staff: Majstorovic gave his presentation in his mother tongue Serbian. Forr the Youtube video there is an English-language subtitle which has to be manualy enabled in the "preferences" of the video.
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