31.Mar.2018
Philippe Lang (E-Mail)
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Crowdfunding: New Amiga-500 cases
After the Amiga-1200 cases and keyboard caps, Philippe Lang has started another crowdfunding project for financing the production of new cases for the Amiga 500 and 500+.
The new cases are not only supposed to replace the yellowed and recalcitrant cases but can also be equipped with the standalone version of the accelerator board Vampire V4 instead of an Amiga-500 board. For this and the Vampire-V2-A500 there are port extension for USB, HDMI and SD-card ports. Plastics used for the case are treated Anti-UV.
Philippe Lang wrote: "Plastics used for the case are treated Anti-UV. It will never yellow ever."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Mar.2018
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Ex-employee of TAO Group talked about Elate and Amiga DE
In January of 2000 the new Amiga owner Amiga, Inc. announced a co-operation with the British TAO Group. Its product called Elate/Intent enabled the development of applications which are independent from the processor - which Amiga Inc. wanted to use to establish its Elate-based "AmigaDE" to as many as devices (handhelds, desktop computers, set-top-boxes).
Since 1991 the predecessor product of Elate called "TAOS" was introduced in the British issue of the magazine Byte. Meanwhile the arcticle also is available online. David Given, an ex-employee of TAO Group, took the corresponding discussion for reporting about the development of the system and to point out its strengths and weaknesses. He also talked about the co-operaqtion with Amiga, Inc.
The plan was that Amiga provides the customer support which the little TAO Group were not able to. David Given wrote: "We had a fling with Amiga pretty late on, and were the technology behind Amiga Anywhere, which nobody ever cared about. (Although we did actually get a few external users. The sheer novelty of this was hard to handle.)"
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30.Mar.2018
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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 12
The twelfth and last part of his series of articles called A History of the Amiga started in 2007 by the author Jeremy Reimer is about the events since the turn of the millennium. (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Mar. 2018, 23:54] [Comments: 0]
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30.Mar.2018
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MorphOS: Public beta test of new email client Iris
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, member of the MorphOS team, has released an early beta version of the forthcoming MorphOS standard email client. "Iris" supports IMAP as well as viewing and writing HTML eMails with pictures and different fonts. You can get more information in the corresponding posts of the MorphZone.
Download: iris.lha (22 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Mar.2018
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AmigaOS update: Further details to AmigaOS 3.1.4
In a discussion on amiga.org, the developers Thomas 'Thor' Richter and Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel have informed about the current status of the development of their updates for AmigaOS 3.1 called "3.1.4". Additional to diverse bug fixes and the changes which are known since the Amiga32, among others the following changes will be added:
- The update will include a new version of "DiskDoktor" which "examine the contents of the volume, looking for defects and copy the contents of the directory tree to a different volume". Large volumes and long file names are supported. The new version of DiskDoktor only requires 1 Megabyte dealing with a 1 Gigabyte partition, and 8 Megabytes for a 8 Gigabyte partition.
- A replacement for the CD file system CDFS: A backport of the CD file system of of AmigaOS 4 (currently without supporting mixed-mode CDs, UDF, HFS and HFS-plus) which supports the new mount options "NoNSD", "DirectSCSI" and "SuperFloppy". Besides, "Mask", "Maxtransfer" and "BufMemType" are honoured.
- "CrossDos now also supports long file names, FAT32, FAT24 and FAT16."
- CrossDOS as well as the new CDFS now are multithreaded, that means they do not freeze the Workbench any longer while working.
- Obviously the Workbench developed by Olaf Barthel from AmigaOS 3.5+ is used - or at least part of it: Richter mentioned that replacements for the prefs programs of Workbench and ASL have to be used since Reaction was removed.
- The programs MagTape and Edit were removed from the distribution. Edit "suffered from several bugs and limitations".
- workbench.library and icon.library "are already too large to fit into the ROMs", they will be on disks. They will also take more RAM, "so that there is less left on the low-end machines. It will probably not work with 512K alone."
Richter pointed out that many parts of the new features still have to be tested. The developers are looking for new beta testers.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Weekly progresses since 26th February
Neil Cafferkey has published the latest progresses on the open source AmigaOS clone called AROS:
- Allow kernel debug output to be captured by Sashimi, Bifteck etc. (neil)
- Fixed a problem with software interrupts that caused stuttering in HDAudio playback when ACPI was enabled (neil)
- Allow CPU to sleep again when no task is running and ACPI is disabled; avoids VMs stealing host CPU time for no reason and saves power when running natively (neil)
- ICU library V60.2 ported for future use with Odyssey (wawa)
- Implemented retrieval and usage of all PCI IRQ routing tables from ACPI (instead of just the one for the root bus). This solves the problem of some devices having incorrect IRQ numbers when ACPI is enabled (e.g. wired and wireless network interfaces on the Acer AspireOne A110 and A150 work again) (neil)
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[News message: 28. Mar. 2018, 23:58] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2018
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Introduction to Objective-C under MorphOS 3.10
Objective-C is an "object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language". Due to the conceptual similarity to BOOPSI ("Basic Object Oriented Programming System for Intuition"), Objective-C now is used in MorphOS to simplify creating and using new (MUI-) classes. On the website of the MorphOS project you can "read more about the implementation details and how MorphOS developers will be able to use these new frameworks".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Mar. 2018, 23:49] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2018
wazup (ANF)
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MorphOS: RegisterISO 1.12 fixes problem with MorphOS 3.10 ISO file
Guido 'Geit' Mersmann's RegisterISO is a little tool to inject the MorphOS keyfile into any MorphOS ISO file. Previously, an overflow in the buffer offset calculation was triggered by the MorphOS 3.10 ISO file, so that it got patched at the wrong place. Version 1.12 of RegisterISO fixes the problem. (snx)
[News message: 26. Mar. 2018, 19:57] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS 3.10 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.10, which represents one of the biggest updates in its history yet. This brand new version introduces support for AmigaOne X5000 systems as well as A-EON X5000 mainboards, and it greatly expands the general hardware compatibility by adding numerous new drivers for graphics cards, scanners, network cards, SATA controllers, and USB audio devices.
Furthermore, MorphOS 3.10 brings Flow Studio, which is an integrated development environment that offers features such as a built-in source level debugger and seamless MorphOS shell access.
In addition to many bug fixes and general performance improvements, MorphOS 3.10 also provides varied user interface and usability improvements (screenshot). This release includes modern themes, new fonts, and support for vector graphics, such as SVG icons, as well as time zones via Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
For a more extensive overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.
As usual, existing MorphOS users can update to the latest release entirely for free.
We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.10 is available for download in our files section. (snx)
[News message: 25. Mar. 2018, 21:30] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 24.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until March 24th, 2018:
MUIwake.lha comm/net 28K 68k Wake On Lan with MUI gui.
quarterback_src.lha disk/bakup 3.1M Quarterback source code
superduper_css_src.lha disk/misc 105K SuperDuper (CCS) source code
SweepOut.lha game/board 215K 68k Minesweeper w/ online multipl...
swatdemoWIP.adf game/demo 880K 68k Mini Swat WIP Demo, all Amiga...
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 2.0M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
designworks_src.lha gfx/edit 818K DesignWorks source code
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.5M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 2.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
disk2disk_src.lha misc/emu 654K Disk-2-Disk source code
dos2dos_src.lha misc/emu 635K Dos-2-Dos source code
mac2dos_src.lha misc/emu 944K Mac-2-Dos source code
vorbistools140_68k.lha mus/edit 821K 68k Tools to manipulate Vorbis fi...
vorbistools140_wos.lha mus/edit 878K WOS Tools to manipulate Vorbis fi...
quickwrite_src.lha text/dtp 451K QuickWrite source code
profonts_src.lha text/print 67K ProFonts source code
InstantZip_3.3.lha util/arc 143K MOS ZIP (un)packer + en/decrypter...
Chelp.lha util/batch 1.4M Online help for MorphOS shell...
GetWBPattern.lha util/cli 37K 68k Read WBPattern.prefs file val...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 684K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
flow_src.lha util/misc 454K Flow source code
FontWalker_mos.lha util/misc 1.4M MOS Collect and display TTF fonts
FontWalker_os3.lha util/misc 2.5M 68k Collect and display TTF fonts
FontWalker_os4.lha util/misc 1.8M OS4 Collect and display TTF fonts
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2018, 09:54] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until March 24th, 2018:
adripper.lha aud/mis 1Mb 4.1 Audio CD grabber and encoder
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
spencertrial.lha gam/pla 34Mb 4.1 Demoversion of Spencer
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 72kb 4.1 A Custom BOOPSI System
rprglist_cmd.lha uti/she 3kb 4.1 List running Reactive Programs
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25.Mar.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 24.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until March 24th, 2018:
ACE_1.16.lha Emulation The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
InstantZip_3.3.lha Files/Archive A ZIP packer / unpacker...
MCE_10.2.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Davegnukem_0.91.lha Games/Shoot 2D Dave Gnukem is a retro-...
Sokoban_2.01.lha Games/Think Still Yet Another Sokob...
AnimWebConverter_2.85.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
FontWalker_1.3.lha Office/Show Collects all TTF font f...
Chelp_1.2.lha System/Shell A lua script to fetch a...
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25.Mar.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.03.2018
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 March 24th, 2018:
- 2018-03-22 improved: UFO - Enemy Unknown (Microprose) OCS version supported, new install script, minor fixes (Info)
- 2018-03-19 improved: Ambermoon (Thalion) support for caches and fast memory, german keymap added, minor fixes (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Mar.2018
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Jump'n'run game Spencer available (Update)
The jump'n'run game "Spencer" developed by EntwicklerX (amiga-news.de reported) has been almost completed for AmigaOS 4 and should be available still this weekend. Additional to the full version for Windows on Steam, now a trial version for AmigaOS 4 was released.
The authors have pointed out that the game "runs best with Warp3D Nova". It is recommended to update Warp3D Nova and OpenGLES2 to the latest version. For the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 a screen resolution of 1080p should be possible (or 720p with antialiasing). On a Sam 460 it can be played with a screen resolution of 720p.
Videos:
Update: (20:20, 25.03.18, snx)
Meanwhile the game has been finalized for AmigaOS 4 as well and can be purchased at AmiStore. The required libraries are available through the Updater, the game needs ogles2.library 1.19, W3DN_SI.library 1.47 and Warp3D_Nova.library 1.47. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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