29.Apr.2016
amigaimpact.org (Webseite)
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Emulators: HAPPIGA 1.2 launches ARM computer in Amiga emulation mode
Happiga is a Debian-based Linux distribution for ARM-based, credit card-sized computers like the Raspberry Pi, which directly is booting in the Amiga emulator UAE4ARM. An AGA-Amiga with 68040-processor and sufficient RAM is emulated and Picasso96 is installed. In order to enable excahnging data wth other computers, a Samba-share already is pre-configured.
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29.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Free hardware: Atari-USB Joystick-Adapter
Stefan 'Develin' Blixth has developed an adapter which connects classic joysticks with the USB-port of modern computers. The adapter does not require any additional drivers, the included firmware can be updated directly over the USB-port.
The open source V-USB is used as firmware. His PCB-layout Blixth also has made available under the GPL. The developer is going to sell assembled adapters but asks you for some patience. All those who are going to buy such a adapter, please contact Blixth via eMail.
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29.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Meta compiler: PortablE r6-04-26-2016 (beta)
Christopher Handley's meta compiler PortablE is a "recreation of the Amiga E programming language" providing many improvements. It can be used on AmigaOS4, AROS, MorphOS and Windows.
Changes since the last release:
- Built-in procedures can now support unlimited parameters (although only some have been updated to use this ability)
- Improved MUI & ReAction modules to use procedures with unlimited parameters (instead of immedate tag lists). So the C/C++ code generated for GUIs is now human-readable!
- Added the NoListOptim switch, so that the code generated for Immediate Lists can be more human-readable
- AmigaOS4: Added the 'intuition/menuclass' module, aka "AISS menus", and the example program "Examples/Amiga/OS4_ReAction/MenuClass.e"
- When a bug exception was thrown during compilation, it could give the wrong message. Now fixed
- Fixed a few module bugs
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26.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.5.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a trivia game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Windows) in which you have to correctly answer 1700 questions on common knowledge, each with four possible answers. You can play it for yourself or together with up to five other players (four players using a joystick, the other two sharing the keyboard). A demo version including 80 questions is available for free.
In version 2.5.0 mainly some translations have been completed (German, Swedish, Portuguese) or improved (English).
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[News message: 26. Apr. 2016, 19:28] [Comments: 0]
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26.Apr.2016
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: WebPButton 1.2
Using Carsten Siegner's programm WebPButton, you can replace pictograms on the Ambient user-interface by motifs of your own (screenshot). As the name suggests, the format is limited to pictures or animations of the WebP-format.
Download: WebPButton_1.2.lha (8 MB)
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25.Apr.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Record: Panel discussion with former "Amiga Power" editors
Last Thursday the British Guardian has invited former editors of the Amiga magazine "Amiga Power" to a panel discussion (information of the organizer).
Now some photographs of the event were published which despite a fee of 11 pound sterling was well-attended. Besides, there is also an audio record of the discussion.
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2016, 23:27] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Viva Amiga Interview: The Retro Hour Podcast
The latest issue of the podcast "The Retro Hour" includes an interview with Zach Weddington who is the initiator of the crowd funded Amiga documentation Viva Amiga.
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2016, 23:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Cinnamon Writer 0.95 beta 2
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a "compact and efficient word processor" which can import simple RTF and DocX files, offers a spell check and can restore lost documents.
Now the latest beta version also is available for MorphOS and fixes some bugs:
- Window trashing should be fixed
- Localization should now support other charsets than the generic. Please let me know if the char set of your language is not working satisfactory (but please first see if the problem is caused by limitations of the font used)
- Import of images now works. Feel free to send me images that are not imported correctly
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2016, 23:13] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 18.04.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of April 18th:
- SMB file system received a 64bit fix (Kalamatee)
- ScummVm has been updated to version 1.8.0 (mazze)
- MilkyTracker has been added to AROS ports repository (mazze)
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2016, 19:11] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 53 (Italian/English)
The PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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[News message: 24. Apr. 2016, 17:24] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Epsilon's Amiga Blog: Multiple CDTV Upgrades
In his latest blog entry which have been always illustrated, 'Epsilon' has described the expansion of his Amiga CDTV.
In previous entries he told how a disk drive and a SCSI harddrive can be added and now he explained how Kickstart 3.1 and Extended-ROMs provided by Cloanto, a 8-MB Fast-RAM expansion, a port for joystick and mouse as well as a CF-card can be used.
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[News message: 24. Apr. 2016, 06:41] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 23.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 23th, 2016:
yWeather.lha comm/misc 361K MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
brittmarie.lha dev/cross 9K 68k Serial S-RECORD loader
HollywoodSP.lha dev/misc 637K Hollywood 6.1 spanish catalogs
Oubliette.adf game/actio 880K 68k Find the exit. Kill the dragon.
Oubliette_src.txt game/actio 78K AMOS source code for Oubliette
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.0M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.3M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.3M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
DontBeSoShy.lha mods/pro 146K Don't Be So Shy by Imany
Club_des_16_map.lha pix/back 88K Map of 'Club des 16' camp area
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 152K 68k WarpDT preferences program V45.8
WarpDTPrefs_deutsch.lha util/dtype 2K German catalog for WarpDTPrefs
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 323K WOS JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.13
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 180K WOS PNG image datatype V45.20
APoke.lha util/shell 3K 68k Poke value to a given memory ...
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[News message: 24. Apr. 2016, 06:40] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 23th, 2016:
warpjpegdt.lha dat/ima 323kb 4.0 JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.13
warppngdt.lha dat/ima 180kb 4.0 PNG image datatype V45.20
mhe-ng.lha dev/ide 9Mb 4.0 Hollywood IDE
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
awc.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.0 A web anim tool
smbfs.lha net/sam 211kb 4.0 SMB file system client; compleme...
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
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[News message: 24. Apr. 2016, 06:40] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.04.2016
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 23th, 2016:
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21.Apr.2016
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USB: RapidRoad might be destroyed by hot plugging USB devices
In a thread on a1k.org, owners of a RapidRoad USB expansion from Individual Computers report that their hardware has been destroyed by plugging an external device into one of the USB ports while the computer was turned on. This process is referred to as 'hot plugging' and is actually a central part of the USB protocol - but in some cases seems to result in a dead RapidRoad.
Jens 'Paradroid' Schönfeld from Individual Computers explains (German) that some power supply units react
to a sudden increase of the load - i.e. when the users inserts a USB device - with a voltage peak that might be fatal for the RapidRoad. Due to the low amount of known cases, the vendor is currently unable to identify problematic PSU types or additonal circumstances that might worsen the problem. He generally advises users to stay away from ATX power supplies though.
According to Schönfeld, he still has a sufficient number of RapidRoad units in stock ro replace expansions that break down during the warranty period, since so far he had to replace only 13 cards. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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21.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (ANF)
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Virtual maschine for Lazarus cross compiler (AmigaOS 3/AROS/MorphOS)
Using his compiled Lazarus source and cross compilers, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released a virtual maschine for the VMWare Player for AmigaOS 3, AROS (i386) and MorphOS. On Youtube, a short video explains the development of the programm for all three platforms.
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21.Apr.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Commodore Free issue 92 published
"Commodore Free" is free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers, which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag.
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[News message: 21. Apr. 2016, 15:39] [Comments: 0]
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21.Apr.2016
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Amiga Future: Issues 95 and 96 available online, preview of issue 120 (Update)
Issue 95 (March/April 2012) and 96 (Mai/June 2012) of the printmagazine Amiga Future are sold out, the German and English editions can be read online at the magazine's website.
For the forthcoming issue 120 (May/June 2016) today a preview and some extracts has been published. The new magazine will be about Icaros Desktop 2.1 und Hollywood 6.1 and will include an interview with Bert Jahn (WHDLoad).
Update: (25.04.2016, 13:45, cg)
Issue 96 has been released online aswell. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Apr.2016
a1k.org (Webseite)
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FPGA Expansion: GRETA for Amiga 500
GRETA is supposed to expand an Amiga 500 by 8 MB SDRAM, an ethernet controller as well as a port for MicroSD cards and a freely usable I/O-port. It seems that the development of the board has been finished but since 2013 obviously the programming of the FPGA was not continued: Currently GRETA only offers additional memory. All other features still have to be programmed. The documentation of the projects are available on Github under the GNU General Public License.
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[News message: 20. Apr. 2016, 23:37] [Comments: 0]
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20.Apr.2016
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Brian Bagnall: Information on preorders of "Commodore - The Amiga Years"
In an article on amiga.org, author Brian Bagnall has pointed out that the second part of his Commodore biography which was financed by Kickstarter has delayed a lot so that his distributor recommended to cancel the original 2015 Amiga book. If you have preordered it at a dealer you will soon got informed that "Commodore - The Amiga Years" will not be published.
According to Brian "this does not mean the actual book is cancelled". It is done "because large retailers will begin to drop their preorders when a book is delayed too much (the book was originally scheduled for late 2015 and has been pushed back to summer 2016)".
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[News message: 20. Apr. 2016, 23:30] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: yWeather.sbar 1.16
Thomas Igracki's screenbar module yWeather for Ambient "shows the current weather information for a selected location." The programm gets the data from Yahoo.
Since our last news news item the latest version provides bug fixes and the temperature in Celsius now is shown with a decimal place.
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[News message: 19. Apr. 2016, 16:27] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AnimWebConverter 2.50
AnimWebConverter is a little Hollywood programm for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which can convert IFF-animations from Anim or Yafa format into animated GIF and PNG files. it can also change the size.
Changes in version 2.50:
- Added new features:
- Change the animation speed
- Loop playing animation
- Fixed some bugs
- Compiled with the lastest Hollywood™ version 6.1
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[News message: 19. Apr. 2016, 16:23] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Blog article: Making a(n Amiga) game in 1993
Under the title link Krister Karlsson has described what in 1993 it meant to develop an (Amiga) game.
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[News message: 19. Apr. 2016, 16:11] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 11.04.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of April 11th:
- MinAD application is now part of AROS contrib repository (mazze)
- It is now possible to globally disabled lto optimization (Kalamatee)
- ffmpeg library in version 3.0.1 is now part of AROS contrib repository (Kalamatee)
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