14.May 2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 13th, 2017:
PhxAss_src.lha dev/asm 380K PhxAss 4.46 source code
PhxLnk_src.lha dev/asm 49K PhxLnk 4.32 source code
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha dev/hwood 4.7M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
regina.pdf dev/lang 3.5M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
gcp_device.lha driver/pri 1.4M OS4 Google Cloud Print driver (gc...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Apple2000v13_src.lha misc/emu 119K Apple2000v1.3 source code
Liisa1.adf misc/math 880K 68k determine prime factors + mis...
Liisa2.adf misc/math 880K 68k miscancellous programs
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha pix/picon 8.8M Game icons in OS4.1 Update 1 ...
WorkbenchExplorer.lha util/dir 1.5M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
cranker.lha util/pack 341K 68k Amiga executable and data cru...
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14.May 2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 13th, 2017:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha gra/ico 9Mb 4.0 s0y gameicons 2017
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 581kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
wex_ita.lha uti/wor 15kb 4.0 italian catalog for WorkbenchExp...
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14.May 2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until May 13th, 2017:
bs.i386-aros.lha gam/adv 667kb Bermuda Syndrome executable
icon_game.lha gra/ico 76kb Icon and script for many game
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13.May 2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Printer driver for Google Cloud Print
For AmigaOS 4 Chris Young has released the printer driver gcp.device which makes it possible to use Google's Cloud-Print service. "gcp.device enables the Amiga to print directly to any of these cloud-
connected printers, using the PostScript printer driver."
Download: gcp_device.lha (1 MB)
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13.May 2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire Edition 0.99
Artur 'Arti' Jarosik has updated his Amiga port of "The Legend of Zelda - Return of the Hylian" which is a fan continued sequel of Nintendo's adventure series. Additional to some new sounds, the game now is available as m68k-version as well as version for the Vampire accelerator boards. This one supports the AMMX commands of the Apollo cores.
System requirements:
- AmigaOS 3.x with fast 020+ no FPU (UAE/Vampire)
- RTG P96/CGX
- AHI 4.20+
- 70 MB free hard disk space
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13.May 2017
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Story of Commodore: Separating the current manuscript into two books?
Originally Brian Bagnall had split the second issue of his story of Commodore called "On The Edge" into two volumes - the first volume was published in 2010 and finished the story before the company Amiga was took over. The publication of the second volume called "The Amiga Years" has delayed again and again. In 2015 finally it was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign.
Now Bagnall has written in his Kickstarter blog, that there is so much to tell that it would be impossible to do this by using 500 pages.
Therefore he has suggested to seperate "The Amiga Years" into two volumes. The first one would start in 1982 with the foundation of Hi Toro/Amiga Inc. and end in 1987. The second one called "The final Years" would describe the time between 1987 until the bankruptcy.
Supporters of the Kickstarter campaign would get ebook editions of "The Amiga Years" and "The Final Years" as soon as possible. The printed edition of the first volume would follow. In order to be able to publish "The Final Years" also as printed edition, another Kickstarter campaign would be required.
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11.May 2017
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Hyperion: problems with the registration of new trademarks
Due to Amiga, Inc's inactivity, the registration for the US trademark "Amiga" expired at the end of last year. Immediately afterwards, Cloanto applied to have the mark registered in their name, while Hyperion took a while longer to notice what was going on and filed for "AmigaOS", "AmigaOne" and the boingball logo roughly four weeks later.
By now, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reacted to Hyperion's filings: All registrations have been refused. The application for the BoingBall logo was denied because it wasn't signed or dated - the Belgium based company has six months to correct that error. The other two applications - "AmigaOS" and "AmigaOne" - were not signed either, but were addtionally refused (1, 2). due to a "likelihood of confusion": the USPTO deems them too close to Cloanto's "Amiga" mark. Again, Hyperion has six months to react to the refusal, by either objecting and argueing for a withdrawal of the refusal or by trying to register the mark for a class of products not related to computer hardware or software - which wouldn't make much sense in this particular case, obviously.
In contrast to that, Cloanto's "Amiga" mark was published in the USPTO's "Trademark Official Gazette" yesterday. If no other party files an opposition or extension request within the next thirty days, the mark will be assigned to Cloanto for good. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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10.May 2017
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast 33: Interview with Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion)
Issue 33 of the podcast Scene World offers an interview with Ron Gilbert, who was also responsible for the adventure classics like Maniac Mansion and recently released the point'n click adventure Thimbleweed Park.
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10.May 2017
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Preview: First issue of English magazine "Amiga User"
In March the Polish publisher amiga.net.pl had released a new English-language magazine. Meanwhile some first reading extracts of the first issue have been published. The complete magazine will be published in July as ebook and printed issue.
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10.May 2017
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Web browser: Netsurf 3.7 (SDL version) with Youtube streaming
Artur Jarusik has released an update of his Amiga port of the web browser NetSurf. His version is based on SDL, only the preferences use MUI, and should not be confused with Chris Young's native, Reaction-based version. Additional to some bug fixes, version 3.7 now offers Youtube streaming.
Upon request of amiga.news.de, Artur Jarosik explained: "This is RTG classic version, I may compile AGA version and put it on my website soon." That means that for the current version a graphics card is required.
Changes:
- reduce cpu usage by 7-10mips
- hide annoying console windows when playing modules.pl mods
- fixed and improved youtube playback.
- Better video quality (uses ffmpeg now), shorter conversion time
- New API key needed from cloudconvert.com
- fixed cda.pl playback
- fixed youtube playback
- NEW autoupdate
- NEW youtube streaming
- NEW information about convertion status
- faster htpps loading with asm optimised libssl (Chris Young)
- fix compatability on FPU systems
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08.May 2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Interview with Timothy de Groote (Hyperion Entertainment)
Under the title link, Generation Amiga has interviewed Timothy de Groote Hyperion Entertainment). He talked about the end of the trademark "Amiga" in Europe as well as about the shopping tour of Cloanto, acquiring former parts of Commodore (amiga-news.de reported). But Hyperion is not "worried by this" because they "expect that Amiga Inc. or its shareholders will renew the trademarks".
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08.May 2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 23 - Interview with Jarlath Reidy
In its 23th issue, Krzysztof Radzikowski has interviewed in his podcast Amicast Jarlath Reidy, who is one of the organizers of the Amiga Ireland Meetup. They also talked about the history of the Amiga, NG computers, Odyssey and Vampire-exclusive software as well as the Amiga Ireland Podcast.
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08.May 2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 02.05.2017)
Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week:
- autodocs/webpage updated/fixed (mazze)
- Posixc.library enhancements (Kalamatee)
- work on native GIT continues (Kalamatee)
- adapt network driver code to recent utility.library changes (neil)
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08.May 2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: MUI Royale 1.5
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the immediate availability of MUI Royale 1.5. The biggest new feature in MUI Royale 1.5 is Unicode support if Hollywood 7 is available. On top of that, MUI Royale 1.5 has its executable size reduced by about 80kb, contains various bug fixes and adds support for some more MUI features.
MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood 5.2 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. It is available for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC), and AROS (x86).
The package comes with over 20 example scripts, many of which are direct ports from the MUI 3.8 SDK by Stefan Stuntz, but there are also original developments like demonstrations of how to create a video player using the combined power of Hollywood and MUI. On top of that MUI Royale comes with extensive documentation in over 300 PDF pages which are also available in the HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM formats thanks to the Hollywood documentation system.
All this makes MUI Royale the truly royal MUI experience, carefully crafted for you Kings and Queens of MUI!
Screenshots:
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07.May 2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 6th, 2017:
CCNCatabasisSrc.lha demo/aga 666K 68k Sources for the cocoon demo C...
Cocoon_Catabasis.lha demo/aga 305K 68k Cocoon AGA Demo Catabasis (HD)
CocoonCatabasisD.adf demo/aga 880K 68k Cocoon Demo Catabasis Adf ver...
COP.lha dev/debug 163K 68k Low Level Debugger
ZeldaROTH.lha game/role 32M 68k Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire E...
Gloom_src.lha game/shoot 6.8M The first-person shooter sour...
68020iob.lha pix/3dobj 1.7M Imagine: Motorola 68020 objec...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 19K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
MuProtectModules.lha util/boot 134K 68k MuLib ROM Modules Write Prote...
icoutils.i386-aros.lha util/conv 1.1M x86 Extract resources from Window...
WorkbenchExplorer.lha util/dir 1.5M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
MMULib.lha util/libs 716K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
ReggaeList.lha util/rexx 18K AmigaGuide of your multimedia...
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 370K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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07.May 2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 6th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
nostromo.lha gam/act 8Mb 4.1 9 games in 1
starsmap.lha gam/mis 6Mb 4.1 Wordguess: Hungarian and Latin n...
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
simonsays.lha uti/mis 476kb 4.1 Utility for HTML, Info, HAM, MOD
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
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07.May 2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 06.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until May 6th, 2017:
icoutils.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 1Mb Extract resources from Microsoft...
umc.i386-aros.lha vid/mis 48kb Calculates Picasso96 screen modes
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07.May 2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP celebrates 25 years
Press release: APC&TCP will be 25 years old in May. Since 25 years, the APC&TCP distribution exists. In its origin APC&TCP was founded to publish the software of computer club members on fair terms. However, the offer was expanded very quickly and non-members can also distribute their software via APC&TCP.
The computer club has not been around for a long time, but APC&TCP is still active. There are still new software titles such as Roadshow, CygnusEd or DigiBooster released and also new updates are being worked on.
APC&TCP is also present in the merchandising market and has been publishing stickers, mousepads, posters and more for years. And, of course, there is also the print magazine Amiga Future, which is almost 20 years old.
In the meantime, APC&TCP has published more than 200 products for the Amiga and hopefully they will become much more in the next few years. We can not really celebrate. We simply lack of time. Nevertheless, a small draw. The price is a one-year subscription of Amiga Future:
What was APC&TCP's first commercial product released nearly 25 years ago?
- a) CygnusEd
- b) Databench
- c) Crossfire II
Send the correct answer by e-mail to Andreas@apc-tcp.de with the subject: "Raffle" until May 30, 2017 at the latest. The winner will be raffled among all correct entries. The legal process is of course excluded as usual.
You can find out more about the history of APC & TCP and the published products by visiting the title link. (snx)
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04.May 2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 18.04.2017)
As successor of Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' (amiga-news.de reported), Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week.
Week of April 18th to April 24th:
- Build fixes (Kalamatee)
- Vpdf compiler warnings fixed (wawa)
- Vpdf German catalog added (pollux)
- MuiMine fixed for SMP builds (Kalamatee)
- Amosaic/TinyIrc build fixes (wawa)
Week of April 25th to May 1st:
- Build fixes / improvements (Kalamatee)
- 68k semaphore fix (Kalamatee)
- FFmpeg fixes (Kalamtee)
- Posix enhancements (Kalamatee)
- Work on native GIT continues (Kalamatee)
- Pthreads/bsdsocket conflict solved (Kalamatee)
- Autodocs updated (mazze)
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04.May 2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 126
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 126 (May/June 2017) has been released today, it can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include a preview of 'Reshoot R' and Reviews of the Vampire 600 V2 and the Viper 530/E-Matrix 530. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.May 2017
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OpenStreetMap viewer: MUIMapparium 0.2 (alpha)
Currently Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow adapts his program Mapparium, which is an OpenStreetMap viewer for all Amiga systems, to MUI. Version 0.2 now can handle way points and tracks and can save and load them.
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