26.Jan.2016
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Google Drive-Handler: mount Google Drive storage under AmigaOS (Update 2)
Google Drive Handler is a DOS handler "allowing easy access to Your Google Drive storage." The handler was built with the latest version of OpenSSL.
Google Drive Handler is Shareware - "Without a licence key, the handler acts as a read only volume, and document exporting is disabled." It can be purchased for 10 Euro. Exporting documents is not working with certain file managers (Directory Opus is mentioned as an example) since the handler only learns the actual filesize during the export operation.
According to the author "this handler is still in an early stage of development, far from the mature state." A port for MorphOS has been announced.
Update: (2016-01-27, 18:15, cg)
amiga-news.de reader Dandy has asked the programmer Norbert Klett about his future plans regarding the Google Drive-Handler:
Dandy: In the 'Google Drive Handler'-readme you wrote that "Dropbox and Google Cloud Print are planned as well". Any idea how long I will still have to wait for Dropbox support?
Norbert Kett: DropBox handler is under development, my intent is to release it in next month.
Dandy: What will "Google Cloud Print" be? Will there be something comparable for Dropbox?
Norbert Kett: Google Cloud Print would be an easy printing solution for Amiga. You can print documents with drag&drop, and no printer driver is required. This is sort of network printing. As I know only Google offers this printing support at the moment. With one licence, you can use all my upcoming REST API based products on all Amiga like platforms without limitation.
Dandy: What does "REST API based products" mean?
Norbert Kett: REST API is an industry standard for app <-> server communication. It is getting more popular. Some services for example: Google Drive, Google Cloud Printing, DropBox, Microsoft One-Drive, Amazon Cloud, PayPal, Twitter, FaceBook, and many others.
Update: (28.01.2016, 17:15, cg)
Initially, our news item stated that the handler would list all files as having a size of 0 bytes, that's not correct: It actually lists an imaginary file size, since the real, unknown filesize might cause various problems. But some filemanagers are not compatible with the latter behaviour either, the author mentions Directory Opus as an example. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jan.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 28.12.2015)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of December 28th:
- Startup code on AROS 68k has been made compatible with programs expecting seglist in A3 (twilen)
- Handling of palettes and operations on HAM8 images in ilbm.datatype has been improved (neil)
- Initialization of Scalos preferences.library is fixed to be done only once (wawa)
Week of January 4th:
- Dispatchers in Scalos Boopsi classes are now working correctly on AROS 68k (wawa)
- Dispatchers in Scalos MUI classes are now working correctly on AROS 68k (wawa)
- Definitions of structures used by animation.datatype are now binary compatible (Kalamatee)
- A fix has been implemented in calling hooks in realtime.library (Kalamatee)
Week of January 11th:
- Work started on porting AROS to STM32F7 DISCOVERY board (DizzyOfCRN)
- Window size has been fixed in MultiView (polluks)
- Static C library has been extended with a number of math functions (Kalamatee)
- Fix for buttons being stuck after mouse button is released has been implemented in Area MUI class (neil)
- Ability to use GCC 5.3.0 as a cross compilers has been added (DizzyOfCRN)
- Version of used datatypes is used visible in MultiView about window (Kalamatee)
- Development started on animation.datatype (Kalamatee)
- Initial versions of anim.datatype and gifanim.datatype have been introduced (Kalamatee)
- Initial version of mpegvideo.datatype has been introduced (Kalamatee)
- DOS's FindSegment function has been fixed to be compatible with original (neil)
- Animation.datatype is now available in nightly builds (Kalamatee)
- Work started on tapedeck.gadget (Kalamatee)
- Unpacker for anim-j format has been added to anim.datatype (Kalamatee)
- Tapedeck.gadget now handler input and changes color based on mouse input (Kalamatee)
- Tapedeck.gadget is integrated with animation.datatype (Kamalatee)
- Listtree.mcc no longer causes memory trashing by freeing freed memory (deadwood)
- Tapedeck.gadget now correctly handles state based on input (Kalamatee)
Week of January 18th:
- Animation.datatype player is paused when handling gadget input (Kalamatee)
- Animations can now be started and paused via the UI (Kalamatee)
- Tapedeck.gadget mentains a fixed height (Kalamatee)
- Animation.datatype now creates a player that does not interfeer with other players (Kalamatee)
- Fix for leaving semaphore in a locked state has been implemented in anim.datatype (Kalamatee)
- Datatype for ANIM has the file type detection improved (Kalamatee)
- Frame handling in animation.datatype has been improved (Kalamatee)
- Autodocs available at www.aros.org has been refreshed (mazze)
- List MUI class has been fixed not to have images overlap text (neil)
- Datatypes.library now supports code embedded in datatype for type detection (Kalamatee)
- Anim.datatype now supports anim-4 format (Kalamatee)
- Pen allocation in EHB mode has been fixed in animation.datatype (Kalamatee)
- Access to pen array in animation.datatype is now thread-safe (Kalamatee)
- Work on support for playing embedded sounds data in anim.datatype has started (Kalamatee)
- BWins custom MUI class now works on AROS 68k (wawa)
- Improve rendering of animation.datatype to high/true color screen (Kalamatee)
- Tapedeck.gadget no longer flickers when rendering (Kalamatee)
- ANIM-5 format now correctly renders (Kalamatee)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jan.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Vote for the best Amiga games of 2015
As every year, David Brunet asks you to vote for the best Amiga games of the previous twelve months. At the Obligement website at the title link you can choose your favorites in four categories, corresponding to the respective operating systems: AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS.
The results will be published on saturday, February 6, 2016. (snx)
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25.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: Five applications added
Five applications have been added to the software collection Games-Coffer: 3D Programs, Agene, Diskmaster 3, Disk Sticker and Menumaster III.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 23.01.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 23th, 2016:
LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.3M OS4 Little Personal Finance program
dsm.lha comm/net 12M WOS Synology Download Station Tool
PPC68k20.lha dev/asm 537K 68k Use your PPC as the ultimate ...
muiplus.i386-aros.zip dev/mui 123K x86 C++ wrapper classes for ZUNE/...
Retro-Computing.pdf docs/hard 24M C64/Amiga HW repairs/projects...
Simulation-Emulation.pdf docs/hard 21M Exotic retro computing projec...
ModsAnthologySP.lha docs/hyper 46K Mods Anthology Spanish Readme...
AmigaInsider-01.pdf docs/mags 12M German PDF magazine, 02/2004
AmigaInsider-02.pdf docs/mags 13M German PDF magazine, 05/2004
AmigaInsider-03.pdf docs/mags 2.2M German PDF magazine, 11/2004
AmigaInsider-04.pdf docs/mags 3.5M German PDF magazine, 07/2005
zerosphere.lha game/jump 561K 68k zerosphere (platform game wit...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
opus-tools-0.19_a68k.lha mus/edit 328K 68k Opus Audio Tools
Amsterdam.zip pix/misc 8.3M Pics from the Amiga30 Party i...
Calimero_2.0.lha text/dtp 7.4M MOS A DTP Program
EvenMore.lha text/show 336K 68k V0.88: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 414K MOS V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 413K OS4 V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
ARexxPatch.lha util/sys 1K Patch small ARexx bugs
JKFFDisp.lha util/sys 261K 68k Patch graphics.library for kanji
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24.Jan.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.01.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 23th, 2016:
ixemul_bin.tar.bz2 dev/lib 425kb 4.0 ixemul library
ixemul_src.tar.bz2 dev/lib 689kb 4.0 ixemul library, source archive
libffmpeg.lha dev/mis 11Mb 4.0 Multimedia libraries
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 72Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
dsm.lha net/ser 1Mb 4.1 Synology Download Station Tool
luettjebookholler.lha off/mis 1Mb 4.0 Little Personal Finance program
exutil.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 An exif based batch renamer
evenmore.lha uti/tex 414kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
amiupdate_rus.lha uti/wor 7kb 4.1 Russian catalogs for AmiUpdate
ffmpeg.lha vid/con 20Mb 4.0 Video and audio converter
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24.Jan.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 23.01.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until January 23th, 2016:
muiplus.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 123kb C++ wrapper classes for ZUNE/MUI...
dsm.i386-aros.lha net/ser 1Mb Synology Download Station Tool
exutil.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 1Mb An exif based batch renamer
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24.Jan.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 23.01.2016
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 January 23th, 2016:
- 2016-01-19 fixed: After Burner 2 (WeeBee Games/Sega) freezing bug at start of level fixed, invincibility trainer added, another icon added (Info)
- 2016-01-17 improved: Winzer (Starbyte) CDTV support added, long read from $dff006 fixed (Info)
- 2016-01-17 updated: After Burner 2 (WeeBee Games/Sega) patch redone, RawDIC imager, keyboard problems fixed, more trainers added, new install script, renamed to After Burner 2 (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2016
Kris (ANF)
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MiST: Update of FPGA-AGA-Core 1.1
For the Atari-/Amiga-clone MiST (amiga-news.de reported), an update to version 1.1 of the emulated Amigas with AGA-support has been released. Besides, the compatibility was increased by some bug fixes.
The MiST developer Till Harbaum wrote: "The last few weeks i fixed the 68020 bitfield instructions in the tg68k cpu core we use. This means that one pretty important part of the 68020 has been fixed.
The extent of improvement is not clear to me. But it seems this has fixed quite a lot of software. Have fun! And thanks to MikeJ from FPGA arcade for bugging me to fix these."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jan.2016
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Donators and programmers for Python-port needed
"Since the big effort required for the port, this bounty is the first of a series of 5 that will bring" Python to AROS. First the core of Python 2.7 will be ported, afterwards the integration of Zune and Python as well as of Python 3.5 will follow.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jan.2016
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MorphOS SDK 3.10 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team would like to announce the immediate availability of version 3.10 of the official MorphOS Software Development Kit (SDK). The most notable additions and changes are:
- GCC 5.3.0, including baserel support
- Added a Lua interpreter
- Updates ixemul to 50.16
- Updated tar to 1.28 and sed to 4.2.2
Important: The new SDK requires at least 650 MB of free disk space to install!
The new software development kit is available for download in our files section.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Renaming picture files: Exutil 0.5
The MUI-based Hollywood programm Exutil written by Ulrich Beckers renames picture files using their date of creation which is saved in the EXIF-information or the date of creation of the file.
Version 0.5 is available for all Amiga systems. Now a "common file name part can get placed after date & time information". A progress bar was also added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jan.2016
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS: Another update to Odyssey 1.25 beta
Three days ago, Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released an update of the beta version of Odyssey 1.25 which starts fixing the problems of the excessive memory consumption.
Changes:
- Fixed messages console to display messages
- Made aligned allocation not take additional memory
- Made memory allocator work better with fragmented memory
- Fixed major memory leak where Frames were not released together with their JS data - memory no longer continously consumed while browsing
- Fixed a number of small memory leaks
- Implemented a more agreesive memory freeing strategy which keeps allocated memory as low as possible
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jan.2016
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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Toni Wilen is working on WinUAE adaptions for AmigaOS 4
The WinUAE programmer Toni Wilen currently is working on an improved integration of AmigaOS 4 in WinUAE. The goal is to adapt as many parts as possible of the native infrastructure (uaehf.device, UAEGFX) provided by the emulator to the PPC operating system - and to give up slower emulation of real hardware e.g. the SCSI-controller of the Cyberstorm, the Picasso 4 graphic board or network and sound cards which were needed up to now.
A first and early trial version Wilen now has made available. It is possible to include directories as harddrives and HDF-images are supported. Some more details:
Currently supported UAE devices:
- Directory harddrives
- uaehf.device (hardfiles). HD_SCSICMD is NOT supported yet
Supported but not tested:
- uae.resource
- Some "uaelib" functions
Not yet supported (lots more work needed):
- uaegfx
- bsdsocket.library
- uaenative.library
- clipboard sharing
- uaescsi.device
- uaenet.device
- virtual mouse driver
- on the fly directory harddrive changes
- And everything else that was not mentioned
In order to enable the trap system, in the configuration file the line "uaeboard=full+indirect" has to be added. The new features has not been completely optimised and therefore are not faster than the previous SCSI-emulation. Additionally a computer with at least three processor cores is recommended.
Toni Wilen emphasised that he himself is not intersted in an improved PPC-emulation and that therefore donations for this project would be the greatest motivation. If you are interested in further adaptions of WinUAE to AmigaOS 4, then a donation via Paypal is very welcome.
Hint of the editorial staff: So far Wilen has not said anything about the limitation of the RAM - AmigaOS 4 currently recognizes maximal 128 MB RAM under UAE. In theory this limitation could be raised to 256 MB, if a CyberstormPPC would not have been emulated (due to the SCSI-controller) and the emulator could present itself as BlizzardPPC .
Direct download: winuae_OS4UAE.7z (3 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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