01.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MUI for AmigaOS: MUI 4.0-2016R1
The team of "MUI für AmigaOS" has released new versions of MUI 4.0 for AmigaOS 4 and AmigaOS 3.x. Under AmigaOS 3.x, a graphic board and a fast processor are required. Therefore it is recommended to use an emulator instead of a real Amiga.
The update provides a native reimplementation of the MUI-class GIFAnim.mcc and fixes several bugs.
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[News message: 01. Apr. 2016, 19:34] [Comments: 0]
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31.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 11 interviewed Mike Battilana (Cloanto)
In its eleventh episode, the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed Mike Battilana of Cloanto, who is now especially well known for his preservation effort Amiga Forever, but also was an active developer in the early Commodore/Amiga days. (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Mar. 2016, 14:11] [Comments: 0]
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31.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.9dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and 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. For the beta version 2.7.9dev the plugins have to be updated as well - you can get further information under the title link.
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29.Mar.2016
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: yWeather.sbar 1.14
Thomas Igracki's screenbar module yWeather "shows the current weather informations for a selected location". It is used with Ambient and gets its weather data from Yahoo. The default location is Berlin/Germany which you can change in the screenbar settings. You can also change the unit of the temperature to Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Changes Version 1.12:
- Chg: Don't eat RMB over my sbar
- Fix: Crash if you remove the sbar while trying to download weather infos
- Chg: add the inputhandler after first successful download
- Chg: if downloading of weather infos failed, try again after 10 seconds,
if it fails 5 times in a row, deactivate auto-update!
You have to left-click on the sbar to activate it again!
Offline will be recognized and displayed
- New: Recognize if yahoo sends no weather data, then "Yahoo error!" will be displayed
- Fix: don't show the all-info-bubble, if there was no successful download!
- Chg: If the conversion of the yahoo date failed, display the original date instead the localized22 in the bubble
Dates like this "Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:00 AM CEST" fail, because of the "12:xx AM"
- New: New strings to localize: msgDeactivated, msgOffline, msgYahooError
Changes Version 1.13:
- Chg: Display "Update check..." in the sbar, if you press middle mouse button
- Chg: The required icons are now located in Sys:Data/Screenbar/yWeather/ instead of Sys:Data/yWeather/
- New: Added a simple installation script
Changes Version 1.14:
- Fix: Wind-speed was always 0.00 [reported by jPV, 29-Mar-16]
- Fix: the units for wind speed, chill, visibility and pressure were missing
- New: added a version string in the all-info-bubble
Download: yWeather.lha (357 KB)
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28.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Download of full version of Gravity Power available
In the download section of the Amiga Future now the game Gravity Power is available which once was on the cover disk of the magazine "Amiga Power". It is a revision of Gravity Force 2 released in 1994. Additional levels you can find on Aminet.
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[News message: 28. Mar. 2016, 19:42] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2016
Alexander Fritsch (ANF)
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Voice output: speak-handler 39.1
Alexander 'selco' Fritsch has written a new speak-handler which is a replacement for the original one available on the Workbench disks starting with version 2.1. It is a new development and not a patch.
The new speak-handler can simultaneously use (experimentally) different versions of the translator.library and of the narrator.device. (In this way it is possible to use the retro sound of the old narrator.device provided by AmigaOS 1.3 as well as the modern sound of the device provided by AmigaOS 2.0.)
Download: speak-handler.lha (16 KB)
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[News message: 28. Mar. 2016, 19:27] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.25 beta (version 26.03.2016)
Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz' latest update of beta version 1.25 of Odyssey allows loading Google-spreadsheet and working with other of those applications (Draw, Drive etc. - partly some of them may need spoofing). Besides, the support of WebWorker was re-enabled and the internal threading support was changed to the POSIX-threads library of AROS. The diskcache now correctly works, so you can clean your it.
Download: owb-aros-1.25-20160326.zip (41 MB)
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[News message: 28. Mar. 2016, 08:32] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 21.03.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of March 21st:
- Autodocs documentation has been updated from source code (mazze)
- Diffutils have been updated to version 3.3 (Kalamatee)
- pthread.library has been extended with pthread_detach and pthread_getschedparam (deadwood)
- MUI Colorfield, Cycle and Pendisplay classes received a fix for modifying passed parameters (Kalamatee)
- Corrupted image in About MUI class on 64-bit has been fixed (mazze)
- Scalos is being adapted to work on 64bit (Kalamatee)
- Chunkyimage class has been corrected to work on 64-bit (mazze)
- FreeGadgets function of gadtools.library has been made more compabile in regards to message handling (stegerg)
- AROS Amiga RTG driver has received threading and VMRA<->RAM swapping improvements (stegerg)
- A crash has been fixed in MUIMine game (mazze)
- Initial work on adding Clang/LLVM as optional cross compiler has started (Kalamatee)
- A bug has been fixed in textengine of muimaster.library (mazze)
- C:Info command now works correctly under 64-bit (jmcmullan)
- Norwegian catalog has been added and German catalog has been fixed in Yahzee game (polluks)
- Work started on GUI file searching tool integrated with Wanderer (mazze)
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[News message: 28. Mar. 2016, 08:20] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amithlon: Information, patches and kernel source codes
Under the title link, Tom Crews has collected information about Amithlon. The Amiga emulator, which was discontiniued 15 years ago, launches UAE based on a minimal Linux kernel and could have pavd the way for an AmigaOS/x86.
After all those years, many links are no longer valid, so on Crews' website you can find information about supported hardware or a tutorial for compiling a kernel.
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[News message: 27. Mar. 2016, 09:14] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 26.03.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 26th, 2016:
yWeather.lha comm/misc 308K MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
CDL-banished_wings.lha demo/intro 806K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-cube_1445.lha demo/intro 805K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-jigsaw_puzzle.lha demo/intro 806K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-patriarchs.lha demo/intro 807K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-primezator.lha demo/intro 806K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-pyspider.lha demo/intro 805K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-space_war.lha demo/intro 805K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-spaceball_2000.lha demo/intro 805K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
BoingCube.lha demo/misc 2.6M OS4 Bouncing rotating boing cube ...
Saga.lha game/board 382K 68k Conversion of TSR boardgame
Saga-OS4.lha game/board 441K OS4 Conversion of TSR boardgame
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
lazymines_mos.lha game/think 108K MOS The ULTIMATE minesweeper game
yahzee_mos.lha game/think 67K MOS Dice game
Barrzar.lha game/wb 32K 68k Create series of bars from to...
Xtrings.lha game/wb 33K 68k Align diagonanally same type ...
Colors.lha util/cli 4K OS4 Prints out a table with all C...
Colors-CLI-command.lha util/shell 4K OS4 Prints out a table with all C...
ShowFiles-sf.lha util/shell 36K OS4 Shows sorted & text-forma...
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[News message: 27. Mar. 2016, 09:02] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.03.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 26th, 2016:
mhe.lha dev/ide 7Mb 4.0 Hollywood IDE
saga.lha gam/boa 441kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR boardgame
dsm.lha net/ser 2Mb 4.1 Synology Download Station Tool
bewegungsdetektor.lha uti/sci 2Mb 4.0 Learn and visualize motion detec...
colors.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Prints out a color table with al...
rrandom.lha uti/she 3kb 4.1 32bit Random Generator
evenmore.lha uti/tex 410kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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27.Mar.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 26.03.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until March 26th, 2016:
sdlhana.i386-aros.zip gam/car 979kb The Japanese Hanafuda card game ...
rebound.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 7Mb Brick busting puzzle game.
glmark.i386-aros.zip uti/ben 1Mb OpenGL 3D benchmark.
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27.Mar.2016
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WHDLoad: New archives until 26.03.2016
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 March 26th, 2016:
- 2016-03-25 new: The Codertrash (Mexx) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-23 new: Burning Spear (The Dark Demon) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-20 new: Megademo (a.k.a. Hit Fido) (KGB) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2016-03-20 improved: Groovy Jives 3 (Relay) byte write to Bltcon1 fixed, keyboard interrupt problem fixed, decruncher optimised (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-20 improved: Alfred - The Music Disk (Relay) some more Bplcon0 color bit fixes, WHDLoad v17+ features used, keyboard interrupt problem fixed, decruncher optimised and error check added, install script updated (Info, Image)
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25.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Compiler: vbcc 0.9e
vbcc is a C-compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific adaptions). The compiler supports AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, PowerUp as well as WarpOS. "It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99)."
Version 0.9e provides several bug fixes and improvements. The detailed list of changes:
- New options -deps and -deps-for-libs to output dependencies for a Makefile.
- Print whole include-stack when encountering an error in include files.
- Fixed undefined symbols in DWARF output by avoiding debug information for removed static variables.
- Do not consider floats as induction variables. Fixes -O3 optimized loops with float variables.
- Fixed bug with nested designated initalizers in unions.
- Updated Warp3D headers and link libraries to V4.2a.
- amigalib: Fixed rtEZRequest() and rtEZRequestTags().
- Make sure kick13 config file is included for m68k-amigaos (Kickstart 1.x compatibility).
- m68k: Fixed asm-peephole optimization of move.l dx,ay; move.l ay,dx when cc of ay is used.
- vclib: Improve C99 compatibility in m881, m040 and m040 libraries with Inf and NaN values.
- vclib: 6888x, 68040 and 68060 math libraries for Atari.
- vclib: C99 inttypes.h, strtoimax(), strtoumax(), imaxabs(), imaxdiv(), isblank().
- vclib: Fixed sign of remainder in div(), ldiv(), lldiv().
- vclib: minstart.o fixes for OS4 and MorphOS (small data and WB start).
- vclib: sscanf() erroneously included the string terminator.
- vclib: Fixed float operations with m13.lib (Kickstart 1.x mathffp).
- vclib: setjmp/longjmp() also save/restore FPU registers.
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24.Mar.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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3D driver system: A-EON announced Warp 3D Nova and OpenGL ES 2.0
"Warp 3D" is a 3D driver system for AmigaOS which was developed by the Frieden brothers at the end of the nineties. Originally the archive was Freeware and in 2001 became a commercial product, distributed by Hyperion. Later it became part of AmigaOS 4. Unfortunately the drivers have not been developed further for years neither by the Friedens nor by Hyperion. Instead of, drivers for current graphic boards has been developed by Hans de Ruiter on behalf of A-EON. NOVA should be the name of the fifth version Warp 3D which was never released.
In 2014 A-EON purchased rights which allows the company to develop further Warp 3D. First results soon are expected: In a press release A-EON today has announced, that Hans de Ruiter is working on an improved version of Warp 3D, which is supposed to be sold as "Warp 3D Nova". The most important new feature is the support of shaders:
- A modern shader-based 2D/3D graphics API for AmigaOS 4
- Supports vertex and fragment (pixel) shaders giving developers great freedom over lighting models, effects, vertex transformations, etc.
- Hardware accelerated Transformation, Clipping & Lighting (TCL) is implicitly supported (programmed via shaders)
- Uses the SPIR-V standard for shaders. A GLSL to SPIR-V compiler is included
- All rendering is done via Vertex Buffer Objects (VBOs) which can be stored in VRAM for high performance.
- Render state stored in Render State Objects (RSOs). Having no global state avoids state thrashing, and allows multi-threaded rendering. Note: While there's no global state, a default RSO is allocated for convenience
- Includes an SDK with everything needed to start writing apps & games including examples ranging from querying hardware capabilities through to per-pixel lighting with normal mapping
- Can co-exist with earlier versions Warp3D-SI & MiniGL
Warp 3D Nova is supposed to support most of the "Radeon HD" graphic boards with "Southern Island"-chipset.
In order to complete the support of 3D, additionally Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener was hired to develop a OpenGL ES 2-wrapper, which is an emulation of the OpenGL ES specifications with the help of Warp 3D Nova.
There are no information regarding the price. In a quote from Hans de Ruiter in the press release he said "there is still work to add compiler enhancements and many more features".
Hint of the editorial stuff: For some time A-EON tries to develop further some part of the operating system or to replace some components of the OS by new and improved ones. Additional to 2D and 3D graphic drivers, Warp 3D Nova or Multiviewer NG, for months an archive named "Amiga Enhancer" is mentioned, which among others is supposd to include improved versions of the InstallerNG and of the Ringhio Notification Server and provides a text editor ("MultiEdit") as well as a dock called X-Dock. We do not know what Hyperion thinks of such activities.
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2016, 01:56] [Comments: 0]
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