31.Dec.2016
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Trashcan released
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, member of the MorphOS team, has released the first version of his TrashFileSystem, which provides a trashcan under Ambient.
Attention: Beta testers of MorphOS 3.10 should not install it, for "you downgrade vital components of the system to 3.9, which causes other parts to fail. Wait for the next beta iso."
Features:
- Can trash files and directories on any writable volume
- Collects all trashed files/dirs into a virtual Trashcan volume
- Files in Trashcan are read-only; directories can only be restored (no read access)
- Has two virtual disk.infos for empty/full state - the only file that can be written
- Supports removable volumes
Ambient integration:
- Trashcan icon on desktop - can be emptied with the context menu, supports dropping files
- Regular listers/icon views - files can be trashed with a hotkey or context menu
- Lister/icon view inside Trashcan - files can be restored to their original location
Download: trashcan.lha (1 MB)
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31.Dec.2016
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS: AEROS for Odroid U2/U3 and CuBox-i available for free
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS distribution AEROS is available for free for Odroid U2 and U3 (but not for XU3) as well as for CuBox-i under the title link.
In future, Pascal Papara will not support the CuBox-i platform. Bug reports and similar ones are not requested any longer. Instead he will focus on the Odroid models XU3/XU4 as well as the Raspberry Pi and the Orange Pi. For the U2 and U3 there will be only available AROS updates, but no ones for the Linux part.
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31.Dec.2016
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Hyperion Entertainment: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 available (Update)
Press release: Brussels, December 31, 2016 - Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce the immediate release of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 for all supported systems including PowerPC equipped 68k Amiga machines.
Building on the existing AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition platform, Update 1 is the culmination of many man-months of work by our dedicated team of AmigaOS developers, translators and beta testers. It delivers a selection of new features and a host of bug fixes and best of all, it is available as a free digital download, from the restricted download area of the Hyperion Entertainment website and via AmiUpdate, for all registered AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition customers. Details about all changes can be found in the included AmigaGuide changelog document.
AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 prerequisites:
- Operating system: installed AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition (*)
- Hardware compatibility: AmigaOne XE, SE and micro, AmigaOne 500, AmigaOne X1000, Sam440, Sam460, Pegasos 2, Amiga Classic PPC; the AmigaOne X5000 line of computers is already equipped with Update 1 and does therefore not need this update
- Price: free to registered users of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition
(* = AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition can be purchased as CD boxed set from participating Amiga retailers)
Update: (18:02, 31.12.16, snx)
Meanwhile the changes have also been published at the forum of Amigaworld.net. (snx)
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31.Dec.2016
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS: SimpleMail 0.43
On Christmas version 0.43 of the email programm SimpleMail has been released for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4. Now Miloslav Martinka has also compiled this version for AROS. The archive only includes the main programm.
Download-Seite
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31.Dec.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: 68k-Distribution Aros Vision RTG 3.2
Version 3.2 of Olaf Schönweiß' AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision now also includes Mapparium and AmiModRadio. Besides, the AROS system files, the libraries boards.library, icon.library and guigfx.library as well as the programms AmigaAMP, Eagleplayer, Free Pascal, Netsurf, ScummVM and Simplemail has been updated. This is only an update for the RTG version, the PAL version has been not updated yet.
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31.Dec.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Hardware: Open source accelerator board TerribleFire for Amiga 500
Stephen Leary is developing a 68020 accelerator board for the Amiga 500 called "TerribleFire". Under the title link the files for producing the TF520 are available under the licence of GPLv2. The Scotsman also shows his progresses on YouTube. There you can find information about its usage in the Atari ST as well as about his next goal, the TF530.
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30.Dec.2016
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AROS: November 2016 Highlights
Based on his weekly news on the progresses of the operating system AROS, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz also summarizes the results for a month under the title link.
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30.Dec.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Updated ABIv0-branch
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released an updated ABIv0-branch, which also version 2.2 of the distribution Icaros Desktop is based on. It will be also used for the Nightly-Builds. All improvements and bug fixes of the last two years are made available to the users by this updade.
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30.Dec.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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Commodore emulator: VICE 3.0
VICE emulates almost all 8-Bit systems of Commodore. Ports of version 3.0 are available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, PPC, AMD64) and MorphOS. The SourceForge website of the program lists all the changes of this version.
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29.Dec.2016
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: Bug fixes for FS-UAE 2.8.2
A minor update of the emulator FS-UAE has been released, which fixes some bugs: Version 2.8.2u1 for MacOS "fixes FS-UAE Arcade not starting as well as gamepad config issues. Version 2.8.2u2 for Windows fixes the built-in config for XInput gamepads."
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29.Dec.2016
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Video reviews: Music card Prism Megamix
On Youtube some reviews of Prism Magamix customers have been published. "lantus360" shows the card in his A1200 and demonstrates an adapted version of the first person shooter Heretic. Dan Wood has installed the card in his Amiga 4000.
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28.Dec.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Enhancer Software 1.2
According to A-EON Technology in a press release (PDF file), a second update for the tool collection "Enhancer Software" has been released. Registered customers can download it for free on Amistore.
By installing the update, now the RadeonHD graphic card driver supports the Oland chips and updates of Warp3D Nova (version 1.34) and OpenGL ES 2.0 (version 1.12) as well as two new preferences (Sound Prefs, Time Prefs) are provided.
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28.Dec.2016
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Toolbar images: AISS 4.22
Martin Merz has released an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS) which "offers a photo-illustrative icon style for toolbar images" and "is an environment to store, access and maintain this toolbar images" under AmigaOS and other systems.
AISS 4.22 provides more than 8.800 graphics for the pictograms of AmigaOS 4. Due to compatibility reasons, all pictures and animations of the previous version are included as well.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Dec.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with Carlo Pirri (english, french)
The magazine Obligement has published an interview with Carlo Pirri today, a member of the well known websites "Hall Of Light" and "Amiga Magazine Rack". Carlo Pirri does also own one of the biggest Amiga original games collections.
Besides the english version of the interview at the title link there is also a french one. (snx)
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27.Dec.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Picture viewer: Vintage Viewer 2.25
Vintage Viewer written by Juan Carlos Herran Martin (AnimWebConverter, Acuario, VAMP) is a simple picture viewer written with Hollywood. Versions for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and Windows are available.
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27.Dec.2016
Morphzone (Webseite)
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Report of AmiCamp (10. and 11. December, Athens)
At the beginning of December the "Amicamp" took place in Athens for the fifth time. retroplanet.gr has published an English-language report of the event.
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27.Dec.2016
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #29 - Interview with Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers
The guest of the latest issue of the podcast of the C64-Diskmag "Scene World" is Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) who was talking about future (C64-) products and his company in general.
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26.Dec.2016
Philippe Lang (E-Mail)
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Crowdfunding: Keycaps can be produced
Philippe Lang's Kickstarter project for producing new keycaps for Amiga keyboards (amiga-news.de reported) has been successful. Seventeen days before the deadline the goal of 102.000 Singapore-Dollar (about 67.400 Euro) was exceeded by more than 108.000 Singapore-Dollar that was pledged. (snx)
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26.Dec.2016
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Web browser: Short review on SDL/MUI-version of NetSurf
At the beginning of this year, editor Daniel Reimann of amiga-news.de has written a detailed review on Chris Young's Reaction-based port of Netsurf, but the SDL-port provided by Artur 'Arti' Jarosik he is testing as well:
On his blog, Jarosik has released new versions of his browsers during the last weeks. On my Amiga1200 these versions did not run very stable and a special FPU-version I could not start at all. Meanwhile there is only one version for AGA and RTG, a seperate FPU version was dropped.
The last AGA-version of Netsurf, which was released on Aminet on December 23, runs quite stable and fast on my Amiga1200.
It is a little bit unusual how you have to enter a web address into the address bar of the browser: Nothing happens by clicking with the left mouse button in the bar. After clicking with the right mouse button, Netsurf does vanish and a little window appears on the Workbench. There you can enter your web address.
Foreground and background picture loading disabled, Netsurf does take about 30 seconds for loading the main website of amiga-news.de on my Amiga1200 with Blizzard 1230 and for loading the Aminet site about 52 seconds. (cg)
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26.Dec.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Game launcher: X-bEnCh 1.00 X-mas Public pre Release
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 272 colours (AGA; 128 on OCS/ECS-computers) which can replace the Workbench for launching WHDLoad-games and other applications and requires low hardware resources. An integrated command line as well as the file manager Xpl0rEr are also available.
Changes in the pre release of X-bEnCh 1.0 (the rework of the manual has not been completed):
Xinit 3.8
- Added the Display Mode switch support
- DisplayMode fix
- Fixed the 501 countdown freez bug. (In some rare case the countdown
of the regscreen was not working and stay freezed at 501)
Xmenu 3.4
- Added the Display Mode switch support
- Display is no more forced to 60Hz until you've chosen this option.
(This was the case in some internals previous release)
- DisplayMode fix
- Code optimisation (near 10% lighter). Need less memory
Xlaunch 4.2
- Games screenshots implementation (100 availables in this release,
more to come asap!)
- DisplayMode fix
- Version number fixed in debug mode
- Loading an audio playlist recorded at the root of a drive (not in a
subdir) was failing (No sound). Fixed
- Position error in the audio playlist. Fixed
- Added the Display Mode switch support
Checkerboard 1.6
- DisplayMode fix
- Fixed the checkerboard loader for the Display Mode switch
Xpl0rEr 1.7
- Fixed the useless permanent refresh of each track Volume Oscillo
- Now you can quit Xpl0rEr with the "Esc" Key
- DisplayMode fix
- Version number fixed in debug mode
- Fixed the bug that was adding a blank entry at the end of each xpl
- Fixed the display bug in the Mod player if you load a playlist
shorter than the previous one
- Release number and date fixeds
- When deleting a file on one side, the other side was mistackenly
refreshed too. Fixed
- The buffers of the listings were not properly cleared. fixed
- Added the Display Mode switch support
Xcli 1.7
- New Xbench cLi logo made by "sns"
Xsetup 4.0
- Audio playlist path bug fixed again .. and working this time
- DisplayMode switch Fix
- The Select a path to scan requester in the launcher tab was not using
the previously selected path saved in the launchers.prf. Fixed
- The Select a playlist requester in the launcher tab was not using
the previously selected playlist saved in the launchers.prf. Fixed
- Fixed the format of the playlist path in the prefs file
- Selecting a playlist saved in the ram disk was going to guru. Fixed
- Added the Display Mode switch support
Direct download: xbench1.00x.lha (866 KB)
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25.Dec.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 24.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until December 24th, 2016:
irssi-0.8.20-ppc-mos.lha comm/irc 1.5M MOS Terminal based IRC client
netsurf-m68k.lha comm/www 8.5M 68k CSS capable web browser
VOID-XmasLights.lha demo/intro 97K 68k 2016 Xmas intro by Void
easteregg.lha game/jump 787K 68k Easter Egg - platform game 68k
MaxKnightXmasFDD.adf game/jump 880K 68k Max Knight Xmas Edition (ADF ...
ultimate-maze-pack.zip game/shoot 2.3M 68k Ultimate Maze - Gloom mod
mathomatic-mos.lha misc/math 651K MOS Computer Algebra System Matho...
Psyber_Christmas.lha mods/tranc 7.4M New mod by Pseudaxos
Calimero_3.8.lha text/dtp 9.2M MOS A DTP Program
LoadModule.lha util/boot 18K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
BoardsLib.lha util/libs 74K 68k provides detailed info about ...
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25.Dec.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until December 24th, 2016:
libgen.lha dev/uti 40kb 4.0 A tool to automate building libr...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
glcrackberg_bl.lha gra/scr 63kb 4.1 OpenGL Screen Blanker
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25.Dec.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 24.12.2016
The following package has been added to the AROS-Archives until December 24th, 2016:
modexplorer.i386-aros.zip aud 2Mb Streaming mod file from aminet, ...
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25.Dec.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.12.2016
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 December 24th, 2016:
- 2016-12-23 fixed: Bob's Bad Day (Psygnosis/Dome Development) crash after intro fixed when blitter waits were disabled, DMA waits in sample player and MED replayer fixed, 68000 quitkey support, manual included, new install script (Info)
- 2016-12-23 updated: Bionic Commando (Go!/Software Creations) patch redone, all OS stuff patched, timing fixed, high score load/save added, trainers added (Info)
- 2016-12-22 improved: Bob's Bad Day (Psygnosis/Dome Development) blitter wait patches can be disabled with CUSTOM1, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info)
- 2016-12-22 new: Non Stop Music (Jungle Command) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-12-22 fixed: Miami Chase (Code Masters/Team 17) install script was broken (probably since V1.1) and only installed disk 1 of the game, install script redone using latest template from the WHDLoad package (Info)
- 2016-12-22 improved: Aquaventura (Psygnosis) 68000 quitkey support, default quitkey changed to Del, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config), new install script (Info)
- 2016-12-21 improved: Miami Chase (Code Masters/Team 17) Bplcon0 color bit fixes, invalid copperlist entries fixed, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, CPU dependent delays fixed, WHDLoad v17+ features used, CD32 joypad support added (Info)
- 2016-12-20 improved: Exolon (Hewson) timing fixed, wrong DDFSTOP in one version fixed, new install script (Info)
- 2016-12-20 improved: Espa?a The Games '92 (Ocean/Creative Materials) load/save support added, 68000 quitkey support, manual included (Info)
- 2016-12-19 fixed: Match of the Day (Zeppelin Games) crash when using ButtonWait fixed, DMA wait in replayer fixed, byte write to volume register fixed, 68000 quitkey support, WHDLoad v17+ features used, new install script (Info, Image)
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25.Dec.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 69 (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.
Among others the latest issue includes an article about the Amiga game "Maupiti Island".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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