01.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hollywood: APPBuilder 1.0
The APPBuilder simplifies it compiling Hollywood-programs. Using its user-interface you can e.g. choose the target platform or the required plugins with a mouse click (screenshot). You can also choose non-Hollywood components which are supposed to be added - e.g. readme files - in this way.
Besides, the finished project can be compressed as archive if 7-Zip is installed on the computer. APPBuilder is shareware, but fully usable without registration, and can be downloaded under the title link as well as from the IndieGO!-appstore.
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01.May.2015
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
During the last two months, several new articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. Translations into other languages are very welcome. If you are interested then please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- March/April 2015 news.
- Old articles from Amiga News 69 to 71: Review of DICE Pro 3.0, Hardware: Warp Engine 4028, Review of SAS C 6.50, Review of Scala MM300, Review of TVPaint 3.0, Report: Amiga at CERN, Hardware: Amiga 4000/040LC, Review of Imagine 3.0, File: History of computer science, etc.
- Interview with Laurent Parisot (founder of Amiga Rescue Team).
- Interview with Gary Peake (member of Amiga Inc., from 2000).
- Review of Duck Tales: The Quest for Gold.
- Review of Shell 53.15 from AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.
- Review of SMTube.
- Review of Flight Of The Amazon Queen.
- Report: Amiga in north american schools.
- Programmation: Assembleur (remake of Shadow Of The Beast).
- DIY: plug an external screen on PowerBook G4.
- Tutorial: how to crack the game Deliverance.
- Tutorial: how to crack the game Rick Dangerous 2.
- Tutorial: configuration of X-bEnCh.
- Special quizz about RPG.
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01.May.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Free downloads: Sharks!, Beneath a Steel Sky, Danger Dogg, Fussball Total
On the Amiga Arena website, the games Sharks!, Beneath a Steel Sky (HD-version with English voice output), Danger Dogg and Fussball Total are available as free downloads again.
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01.May.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 87
"Commodore Free" is a 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: 01. May. 2015, 16:15] [Comments: 0]
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01.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Text editor EdiSyn 0.52
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntax highlighting for C/C++, Pascal and HTML. From version 0.52 on, different fonts can be chosen (screenshot). Highlighting all search results have been already introduced in version 0.51.
Download: EdiSyn_0.52.lha (3 MB)
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29.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ADRipper 1.12
ADRipper can "rip" audio-CDs and convert them into MP3- or OGG-format as well as using version 1.12 now also into AAC-format.
Additionally updated memory allocation routines to use OS4's new memory system and updated GUI initialization routines to use new Intuition features have been added.
Since this new version 1.12 Daniel 'Trixie' Jedlicka has taken over the development and maintenance which involves further changes. All plugins now are included in the programm archive. Due to a change of the API, the previous encoder versions cannot be used any longer.
The program window snapshotting was removed because it was buggy. Besides, the programm icon is no longer added to AmiDock automatically at startup and the documentation has been assembled in a single AmigaGuide file.
Download: adripper.lha (911 KB)
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[News message: 29. Apr. 2015, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
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28.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: PDFToolkit 1.1
Lazar Zoltan's PDFToolkit - not to be confused with pdftk from the Linux-world - can add PDF-documents or devide them into single pages. Additionally it is possible to overlay pages to add page numbers or toplines and footers into a document afterwards. In version 1.1 single pages now also can be rotated.
PDFToolkit was created with Python and is available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Additional to the basic installation of Python, the pyPDF-module developed by Mathieu Fenniak are required and is automatically downloaded with an existing network connection. Under MorphOS additionally PyMUI is required. The software was not tested under AmigaOS/68k.
Download: pdftoolkit.lha (861 KB)
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[News message: 28. Apr. 2015, 16:31] [Comments: 0]
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28.Apr.2015
Esbit (ANF)
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Museum of Electronic Games & Art: MEGA65 8-bit computer
Under the title link the Museum of Electronic Games & Art has announced the MEGA65, which is a FPGA-based 8-bit computer inspired by the Commodore 65 which never was mass-produced.
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[News message: 28. Apr. 2015, 06:54] [Comments: 0]
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28.Apr.2015
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AROS: A week in AROS (since 20.04.15)
Since September Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz has summarized the weekly progresses of the AROS developer under the category "A week in AROS". In future amiga-news.de is going to publish them here as well.
Week of April 20th:
- Pendisplay MUI class now correctly handles pen data and issues notifications when needed (neil)
- Development of AROS kernel for Raspberry Pi port continues (mschulz, Kalamatee)
- AROS website now contains section on testing specification (neil)
- Additional Raspberry Pi 2 CPU cores are now woken up and await for interrupts (mschulz)
- Colorfield MUI class now correctly initializes and sends notifications (neil)
- MUI_PenSpec structure is now corrected to be source compatible (neil)
- 64 bit integer to double conversion for ARM platform is now available (mschulz)
- Work on porting APDF continues (mazze)
- "Ignore Workbench/Shell" option in Snoopy now works correctly (mazze)
- State of VFP registers is now correctly saved and restored on ARM platform (mschulz)
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27.Apr.2015
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Trademark rights: "Commodore Business Machines" offline
Only recently the Italian Massimo Canigiani founded "Commodore Business Machines". With the company he was going to develop a C64-inspired smartphone. According to Canigiani he had purchased the trademark "Commodore" probably making interfere the registered proprietor Commodore Holdings - for a few days Canigiani's website commodoresmart.com has gone offline.
Update: (28.04.2015, 17:00, cg)
After a down time of about four days, the website is back online again. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Picture viewer LoView 2.80
LoView written by Simone 'Tuxedo' Monsignori is picture viewer with datatype support which offers also simple picture editing functions and thumbnails. Thanks to Hollywood 6, LoView now runs ten to fifteen percent faster. Besides, in version 2.80 a preferences editor was added.
Download: loview.lha (5 MB)
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[News message: 26. Apr. 2015, 17:32] [Comments: 0]
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26.Apr.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 25.04.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 25th, 2015:
gTranslator.lha comm/misc 224K MOS A google translator for your ...
jrm-hc71.lha demo/sound 209K 68k dA JoRMaS: H?pyCarva #71
libpng1617_a68k.lha dev/lib 1.4M 68k Lib for reading/writing PNG
colemak.lha driver/inp 4K Alternative Colemak Key Map f...
Robbo-src.zip game/misc 373K Robbo Clone for Amiga (ASM so...
Cave.zip game/shoot 472K Unfinished Turrican clone, in...
SoloFlight.zip game/shoot 367K 68k Unfinished Shoot'em Up, incl....
webptools_a68k.lha gfx/conv 1.9M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
SPACECAKE-Rips.zip mods/demo 1.1M SPACECAKE-Rips
anightmaretoothers.lha mods/jorma 181K Hardcore mod by RaatoMestari
dunnelul.lha mods/jorma 19K Dunne Lul by Vesuri & Nak...
GBAPIISwitch.lha util/cdity 4K 68k software monitor switch for G...
ToolsMenu.lha util/cdity 41K 68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
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[News message: 26. Apr. 2015, 06:50] [Comments: 0]
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26.Apr.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 25.04.2015
The following archive has been added to OS4Depot until April 25th, 2015:
dopus4.lha uti/fil 3Mb 4.0 The legendary filemanager
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26.Apr.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 25.04.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installer has been added until April 25th, 2015:
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26.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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External disk drive: Pictures of finished Sakura-drives
At the beginning of March, Sakura was announced as a new disk drive (amiga-news.de reported). At this stage there were only non-painted prototypes. Now the drives are produced and pictures of the finished product could be published. The price of the advance order is valid until Tuesday.
Pictures: front view, rear view, overhead view, view from below
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[News message: 26. Apr. 2015, 06:42] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2015
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 114 - Preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 114 (May/June 2015) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are the second part of the interview with Cherry Darling, a review of Swamp Defense 2 and a report about the demo scene.
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[News message: 23. Apr. 2015, 21:22] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2015
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amiga-news.de: our policy regarding app stores
With Amigakit's Amistore and Pascal Papara's indieGO!, app stores have entered the Amiga scene. As news items about new or updated titles exclusively available in an app store always equal advertisement for the actual store, it is in the vendors' interest to generate many small updates to achieve as much coverage on news sites as possible - which would result in software from app stores getting more coverage on amiga-news.de than applications distributed through other means.
This is why amiga-news.de staff decided to use a more conservative approach for app store titles than we do when covering software distributed through traditional websites. While we usually try to cover any and all software updates or new releases in a timely manner, in case of software from app stores we will try to evaluate if the actual improvements or the usefulness of an application are newsworthy.
To help with that process, we tried to formulate a set of guidelines for our approach to app stores. For transparency's sake, these guidelines will be published here as well. The staff would appreciate feedback and further suggestions - after all, this is a first for the team as well.
- The app store itself will only be covered in case of updates of the client software, or - depending on the amount of such updates - in case of major updates. Just like traditional stores, internal changes to the shop system, special offers, competitions and the like will be ignored.
- Commercial titles added to an app store's inventory will only be covered if they're exclusively available through said app store.
- Free software added to an app store's inventory will only be covered if (a) the software in question is exclusively available through said store (b) can be downloaded by new customers without any financial commitments and (c) is deemed useful and/or important enough be the staff (see below).
- Updates for free or commercial software exclusively available in an app store will only be covered if the team considers them useful and/or important enough.
Usefulness of an application/importance of a particular update:
If updates for app store software get released, customers should be automatically notified via the app store's client software, which means it is no longer necessary to cover every single bugfix update in a news item. To prevent app store owners from trying to increase coverage by releasing lots of smaller exclusive titles or updates, amiga-news.de might ignore smaller releases that would have usually been covered as part of a weekly news item about Aminet uploads or something like that. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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20.Apr.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 18.1
Using WHDLoad you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. In version 18.1 an update check was added:
- New: update check added: when a network connection is available
WHDLoad will check via a HTTP request if a newer version
exists on the WHDLoad webpage for the used Slave and WHDLoad,
supports a proxy with optional basic authentication via option
Proxy/K, to disable any network access the option NoNetwork/S
can be used
uses sha256 implementation by Robert Leffmann, thanks!
- Changed: dumping loaded files using bit #31 set in the disk number via
resload_DiskLoad will now use the offset in ExpMem in the
created file name, also the written files will go through the
file cache to avoid recurring switches to the operating system
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20.Apr.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Browser games: Commodore-Quiz / Commodore Hangman
In two Browser-based games, Commodore-Fans can prove their knowledge: In the Commodore-Quiz you have to recognize 30 Commodore devices with the help of details of a photograph as fast as possible. In Hangman you have to guess terms from the world of Commodore.
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20.Apr.2015
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Interviews with diverse former games developers
Ross 'Chryssalid' Sillifant has interviewed diverse programmers and graphic artists from the heydays of the home computer era and published them on different websites:
- Peter Baron (Devious Designs)
- Paul Carruthers (Archipelagos, Hover Force, Mortal Kombat, Stormball)
- John Croudy (Indy Heat, Rod-Land, Saint Dragon, SWIV)
- Will Harbison (Batman The Movie)
- Ian Moran (Robocop 2, Midnight Resistance, Hudson Hawk)
- Frank Sauer (Agony, Unreal)
- Mick West (Lethal Weapon, U.N. Squadron, Parasol Stars, Rotox)
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