03.Apr.2015
AOS4 Beta Mailing List (ANF)
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Hyperion: Declaration of inability to pay quashed
According to Ben Hermans on the internal mailing list for beta testers, the decision declaring Hyperion for insolvent was quashed yesterday. According to the company database of the Belgian government, the legal sitaution of "Hyperion Entertainment" actually is "Situation normale".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. Apr. 2015, 23:18] [Comments: 0]
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03.Apr.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.5.30dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD is based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Since the last stable version released in March (2.4.1), so far only developer versions have been released - excepted a bug fix version for Linux.
Under the title link you can find a detailed list of changes of version 2.5.30dev.
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[News message: 03. Apr. 2015, 07:50] [Comments: 0]
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02.Apr.2015
Amiga.org (Forum)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 30 (Italian/English)
Issue 30 of the Italian PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available as well as an English translation. The game reviews of the REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games to releases of different former platforms.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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[News message: 02. Apr. 2015, 07:13] [Comments: 0]
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02.Apr.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Commercial Warp3D driver for Radeon-HD cards
A-EON has announced the availability of Warp 3D drivers for für Radeon-HD graphic cards. They are not the drivers developed by the Frieden-brothers for Radeon-HD cards with Evergreen-chipset (just like the Radeon-HD 5450, built in the X1000 as standard) and announced for a long time, but the drivers developed by Hans de Ruiter and for Radeon cards with Southern Island-chipset.
The driver is named Warp 3D-SI and is ecklusively distributed via Amigakit's App-Store Amistore for 33 Euro. Additional to the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1, it requires the 2D graphic driver RadeonHD which is separately distributed as well as MiniGL 2.20.
Features of the driver:
- supports Radeon HD 7750-7970 series graphics cards (excluding the Radeon HD 7790), Radeon R7 250X/265 (excluding R7 250), Radeon R9 270/270X/280/280X
- Supports larger textures (up to 16384x16384 memory permitting)
- Performance is less dependent on resolution than previous drivers, including rendering at HD resolutions
- Submits vertices to the GPU via vertex buffers rather than directly in the command stream (one of the bottlenecks of the old Radeon drivers)
- Uses the RadeonHD_RM.resource for VRAM allocation, providing more efficient memory management than own system
- Accumulates small vertex arrays into larger buffers to provide faster performance where lots of tiny render operations are performed
- Doesn't lock the entire graphics system between 3D_LockHardware() / W3D_UnlockHardware(), so an application or game crash is less likely to freeze the entire system
Simultaneously with the new Warp3D-drivers, updates for both versions of the 2D-driver RadeonHD have been released on Amistore. The updates to version 1.4 and 2.7 are free available for registered users.
According to Amigakit, the work on "Warp3D Evergreen" driver is ongoing and making good progress.
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[News message: 02. Apr. 2015, 01:46] [Comments: 0]
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01.Apr.2015
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Amiga Games Inc. no longer distributing classic Amiga Games (Update)
Since September 2012 Amiga Inc. and later on Amiga Games Inc. have been distributing classic Amiga games in
Blackberrys App Store. At the start of the project, "more then 300 titles" were promised, plans to support various mobile platforms were announced.
By now, all Amiga titles have been removed from the App Store: just a few days ago, there were still several dozen games available - this was initially reduced to Impossamole being for sale, in the mentime this game has been removed aswell, the vendor "Amiga" is not listed anymore.
The reason for this change is currently unknown, though the timing - right at the beginning of a new month - might be an indication that Amiga has to fullfull contractual obligations. Back in February, Michael Battilana from Cloanto had revealed that Amiga Inc. do no longer own any rights to Kickstart or Workbench and that they had to obtain a license from Cloanto for their activities on the Blackberry platform.
Update: (02.04.2015, 19:45, cg)
In the meantime, the last remaining game has been removed from the shop, the vendor "Amiga" is not listed anymore. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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30.Mar.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: EdiSyn 0.34
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntax highlighting for C/C++ and Pascal. Since our last message mainly the search function has been improved.
Download: EdiSyn_0.34.lha (3 MB)
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[News message: 30. Mar. 2015, 20:41] [Comments: 0]
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30.Mar.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: 6 Amiga games added
Games-Coffer offers some old games for download: Baffle, Deadline!, Defektris, Giger Tetris, Hirnris and Parcheese.
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[News message: 30. Mar. 2015, 18:15] [Comments: 0]
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30.Mar.2015
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Fan proposal: Lego-Amiga
In the section "Lego Ideas", the Danish toy maker collects proposals for new products. If such a proposal is supported by 10.000 people, employees of Lego will check if it can be produced.
Under the title link an Amiga inclusive platine was suggested, which currently has 287 supporters (you have to create an account). 210 days are left to achieve the required number.
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[News message: 30. Mar. 2015, 16:59] [Comments: 0]
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30.Mar.2015
Murakami (ANF)
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Print magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 55 (french)
Issue 55 of aMiGa=PoWeR is available, as always in full color, containing for example reviews of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition, Tales of Gorluth and Voxelnoid. Further articles cover the AmigaOne X5000, Eric Chahi and the AmiWest event.
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French newspaper issued by AFLE (French association). Created in 1998, aMiGa=PoWeR became thanks to the experience of AFLE (created in 1994) the first French-speaking Amiga newspaper. Entirely laser printed, aMiGa=PoWeR is distributed in the whole world. (snx)
[News message: 30. Mar. 2015, 15:48] [Comments: 0]
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29.Mar.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood / Cubic IDE: hw4cubic 6.0
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: Michael "Clyde Radcliffe" Jurisch's Hollywood add-on for Cubic IDE has been updated to support the full Hollywood 6.0 command set now. Furthermore, there have been some bug fixes and optimizations.
The hw4cubic plugin allows you to use Cubic IDE as an IDE for Hollywood. The complete Hollywood command set is imported into Cubic IDE so you'll get syntax highlighting, quick command information, hotkey links to the documentation for command under cursor, function list, direct access to the compiler, auto complete and intellisense functionality and much more.
In addition, a Hollywood 6.0 wordfile for the popular Windows text editor UltraEdit is now also available for download on the official Hollywood portal. This wordfile allows you to conveniently edit Hollywood scripts on Windows using UltraEdit. All downloads are available from the official Hollywood portal.
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[News message: 29. Mar. 2015, 14:31] [Comments: 0]
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29.Mar.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 28.03.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 28th, 2015:
HollywoodSP.lha biz/misc 505K Hollywood 6.0 spanish catalogs
CamView.lha comm/net 41K 68k Cam Viewer for Lan and Intern...
LanCamTool.lha comm/net 111K 68k Lancam Tool for Edimax IC 303...
magnet2torrent.lha comm/net 22K MOS Convert magnet links to .torr...
BlitzLocale.lha dev/basic 116K 68k Use Locale in AmiBlitz Programs
pthread.lha dev/c 28K MOS POSIX Threads for AROS and Mo...
sgit.lha dev/misc 1.1M OS4 A simple and incomplete git c...
2060_rom8_5.zip driver/med 17K 68k Blizzard 2060 SCSI Rom (Phase 5)
Blizzard_1230_SCSI_IV... driver/med 10K 68k Blizzard 1230IV SCSI ROM (Pha...
CS-SCSI-Tools-31.lha driver/med 529K 68k SCSI Systemdisk (Phase 5)
scsi85mk1.lha driver/med 10K 68k cyberscsi.device (MKI) (Phase 5)
scsi86mk2.lha driver/med 16K 68k cyberscsi.device (MKII) (Phas...
040_060Libs.lha driver/oth 132K 68k 68040/68060 libraries (Phase 5)
68060-19101999.lha driver/oth 186K 68k 68060 Library (Phase 5)
68060systemdisk.lha driver/oth 272K 68k 68060 Systemdisk (Phase 5)
blizzard2060systemdis... driver/oth 272K 68k Blizzard 2060 Systemdisk (Pha...
fastlanez3.lha driver/oth 15K 68k z3scsi.device (Phase 5)
FlashUpdates-09042000... driver/oth 940K ppc-powerup CyberStorm PPC/MK3 & Bliz...
FlashUpdates-26042002... driver/oth 940K ppc-powerup CyberStorm PPC/MK3 & Bliz...
SystemDisk-431.lha driver/oth 352K 68k Cyberstorm system disk (Phase 5)
ultimate-maze-pack.zip game/shoot 2.3M 68k Ultimate Maze -Gloom mod
Show_Vector_1.2.lha gfx/show 1.3M MOS A Vectorgraphic viewer
amath.i386-aros.lha misc/math 345K x86 Simple command line calculator
amath.lha misc/math 1.3M 68k Simple command line calculator
amath.src.lha misc/math 257K Simple command line calculato...
amath-mos.lha misc/math 132K MOS Simple command line calculator
ppc-user-09042000.lha misc/os 93K 68k PPC Library - User Archive (P...
Icons-for-AmigaOS.lha pix/picon 6.3M AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
cabextract.lha util/arc 34K 68k Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.C...
cabextract_MOS.lha util/arc 40K MOS Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.C...
cabextract_OS4.lha util/arc 38K OS4 Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.C...
MuFastZero.lha util/boot 153K 68k MuLib ZeroP. remapper, replac...
barcode.lha util/conv 1.1M MOS Convert text strings to barcodes
MMULib.lha util/libs 637K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 353K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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29.Mar.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.03.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 28th, 2015:
flexcat.lha dev/mis 368kb 4.0 Flexible catalogs (C, Asm, E, AR...
sgit.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 A simple and incomplete git client
infones.lha emu/gam 3Mb 4.0 NES Emulators
banki.lha gam/boa 64Mb 4.0 Adventure XXX Game
inutilis-inga.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.0 Editor for Point'n'Click Adventures
potrace.lha gra/con 300kb 4.0 transform bitmaps into vector gr...
icons-for-amigaos.lha gra/ico 6Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
snapshoter.lha gra/mis 9Mb 4.0 Clipboard manager, collage maker...
codesets.lha lib/mis 617kb 4.0 Library for handling codesets an...
mcc_betterstring.lha lib/mui 310kb 4.0 BetterString custom class for MUI
mcc_nlist.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 NList custom classes for MUI
mcc_texteditor.lha lib/mui 811kb 4.0 TextEditor custom class for MUI
mcc_thebar.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 The MUI Toolbar custom class
openurl.lha net/mis 514kb 4.0 Get that URL!
cabextract.lha uti/fil 38kb 4.0 Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB)...
gpsbabel.lha uti/sci 834kb 4.0 Convert, upload, download data f...
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 1Mb 4.0 Qt Download videos from YouTube
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29.Mar.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 28.03.2015
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 installers have been added until March 28th, 2015:
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29.Mar.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Linux: Installations instructions for Ubuntu Server 15.04 on the AmigaOne X1000
Under the title link, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has written a short installations instructions for users of an AmigaOne X1000 how to install Ubuntu Server 15.04 via Netboot (downloading the files during the installation, e.g. if you do not have an optical drive).
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[News message: 29. Mar. 2015, 08:17] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2015
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New demos
During the last month the scene portal pouet.net has added new Amiga demos:
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28.Mar.2015
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: New full versions online (again)
In the Amiga Arena three new games are available again: Fatal Heritage, PairsNG and PuzzleBOBS.
- Fatal Heritage: Fatal Heritage is a "Click and point"-adventure developed by EGO Software in 1990. Using the original disk omages of EGO Software and Bernd Gmeineder, in 2003 the Amiga Arena together with Bert Jahn could create a HD-version for the first time.
- PairsNG: PairsNG is a mix of Memory, Shanghai and similar games. Until 2009 PairsNG was distributed as Shareware. The Amiga Arena exclusively provides the full version as download.
- PuzzleBOBS: In 2001 for the first time at the fair "Amiga 2001", the Bust'n'Move-clone PuzzleBOBS developed by Nexus Development was presented for the first time. The formerly commercial game is exclusively offered by Amiga Arena as download.
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27.Mar.2015
a1k.org (ANF)
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Event: Carl Sassenrath attends "Amiga 30 Years" in Amsterdam
The organizers of the birthday party "Amiga 30 Years" (June 27th, Amsterdam) have announced that additional to Dave Haynie and David Pleasance (Commodore UK), Carl Sassenrath will be attend the event. Sassenrath is the author of the AmigaOS-kernel "Exec".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Mar. 2015, 15:48] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2015
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Ralph Schmidt: Commercial distribution of Cyberstorm-ROMs inadmissible (update)
According to Ralph Schmidt in German comment on Amiga-News, he still owns the rights to the drivers, ROMs and utilities distributed by Phase 5 or DCE for their Amiga hardware. The company DCE never has been right holder of the software and therefore is not allowed to grant a licence for commercial sale.
Some years ago, he gave his permission to offer the software for download on phase5.a1k.org. He also agreed with the distribution on Aminet, where the drivers from now on are available as well.
With his comment, Schmidt responds to the press release of Pascal Papara, who on Tuesday announced the commercial distribution of the der ROMs in his App-Store IndieGo!. Yesterday Ralph Schmidt did express his view in an English-language forum but Papara held his view that DCE has exlcusive rights on it and therefore have a valid licence.
The archives available on phase5.a1k.org and Aminet only contains updates for the ROMs used in a Cyberstom PPC. They cannot be used as ROM-file for UAE. On request of Amiga-News, Ralph Schmidt clarified that he is not going to release full ROM-images.
Update: (26.03.2015, 18:30, cg)
Meanwhile Pascal Papara has confirmed, that he has stopped distributing the ROMs. Thus the ROMs that are required for the Cyberstorm emulation are not legally available. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.Mar.2015
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Podcast: Amicast 2 (English)
In the second issue of the English-language podcast Amicast the Australian AmigaOS 4 user and blogger Epsilon has been interviewed.
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[News message: 27. Mar. 2015, 00:06] [Comments: 0]
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