21.Mar.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Printed magazine: Retro Planet, issue 7 (Greek)
The Greek magazine "Retro Planet" has 52 coloured pages and is published quarterly. Issue 7 includes a review of AmigaOS 4.1 FE, a market review on Amiga accelerator boards and an interview with Laurent Zorawski (French Amiga shop Amedia Computer).
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21.Mar.2015
amigaforum.de (Webseite)
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Game engine Antiryad Gx 3.4.04 (AmigaOS3, AROS, MorphOS)
Antiryad Gx is an engine for 2D-/3D-games with integrated editor and available for several platforms. After registering you can use the free version developing commercial games. Changes in version 3.4:
- Enhanced video codec and tools, added new compressions
- Added support of smjpeg video codec
- Added support of Theora video codec
- Added support of Ogg sound codec
- Enhanced fastcol3d
- Optimized and enhanced dsp object
- Enhanced math object
- Enhanced megalib system
- Enhanced geom object
- Optimized OpenGL rendering
- Enhanced obj3d
- Optimized collisions
- Enhanced skin object
- Optimized and enhanced font object
- Added support of ETC1 with alpha channel support in OpenGLES2 driver
- Enhanced executablecompiler
- Added faster software rendering
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20.Mar.2015
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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App Store: Update of indieGO!-client for all systems
The Hollywood-based client for Pascal Papara's App Store "indieGO!" has been updated (screenshot). It is divided into two parts: The App Store-Browser and the download manager. Using the download manager it is possible to pause downloads and continiue them after several days.
The client now works with screen solutions less than 800x600 pixels (z.B. EEEPC701) and much faster as well. According to Papara currently there is much debug output, so this can be still improved. The speed of the download manager was doubled.
The detailed changes:
- Refactoring and optimization of the libServer module
- Submit Bug Report : now reports if there was error submitting the reports
- Change Mail Address : FIXED a bug that was not accepting the user's input
- Many optimization a faster response in many time-critical sections
This option can be disabled with the preference -> speedboost = 0
- Added preference switch
- Added pointer behaviours (busy mouse pointer for long operations)
- Added the possibility to close the category requester with the ESC key
- Font size reduced automatically in app name and app description if needed
to let it fit in its available space. (magorium)
- Now categories and items difference is more evident thanks to an overlay
image on the category icons (see picture). (magorium)
- Now the AppStore recognize if a previous session has not closed properly
and ask to the user if he wish to submit a bug report with the previous
session's log file, no additional informations from the user are required. (magorium)
- Speed up of the app details window opening
- download speed is now twice as fast
Until now developers of commercial applications have had to pay a store fee of ten percent of the selling price. Developers who have registered after March 1st 2015 have to pay twelve percent. The ten most "successful" developers - including developers of Freeware software - monthly will earn a gift coupon of 10 Euro.
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20.Mar.2015
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Civilization clone FreeCiv 2.4.4
Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró has ported version 2.4.4 of the turn-based strategy game FreeCiv to MorphOS. Because he is not a passionate strategy player, the game has been not much tested.
Direct download: freeciv2-mos.lha (27 MB)
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20.Mar.2015
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Crowdfunding: US-American celebration for Amiga 30th anniversary via Kickstarter
On the occasion of Amiga 30th anniversary - on July 23rd 1985 it was presented for the first time - in Computer History Museum in Mountain View (California) a big party will take place.
It is planned: a panel discussion with former Amiga developers Dale Luck, RJ Mical, Dave Needle and Carl Sassenrath; a banquet with feature speakers Colin Proudfoot (ex Commodore UK), Mike Battilana (Cloanto) and Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) as well as the presentation of a new, longer trailer of Viva Amiga. Additionally there will be a little exhibition of Amiga-"artefacts", presenting the original Amiga prototype and all the following Amiga models.
In order to finance the event, the organizers are going to collect 20.000 US-Dollar via Kickstarter. If you want to support the project, you can choose between nine different payments: starting with 10 USD (the donator will be mentioned on the website and during the event) and ending with 5.000 USD (complete VIP-programm, diverse merchandising products as well as an AmigaOne X1000).
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19.Mar.2015
viddi (ANF)
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Music: Blue-Metal-Rose-Song with pure C64-sound
On March 27th the album "Farbenfrohe Welt" written by Blue Metal Rose will be released. One song was recorded with C64-sounds and can be found under the title link on YouTube.
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19.Mar.2015
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New "old" downloads at Amiga Arena and Games-Coffer
Amiga-Arena again has listed "Land of Genesis" and the German version of "Aqua" as downloads. Games-Coffer has added the games "Breakout", "Games Galore #11", "Missiles Over Xerion", "To The Death" and "Two Player Games 1200".
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18.Mar.2015
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AEROS Beta 9 (Raspberry Pi 1 and 2) for registered users
AEROS Beta 9 is available for registered users. Changes in this release:
- updated linux base
- added epiphany webbrower icon to wanderer
- added boot animation
- reduced image size to fit again on 8GB+ cards (the last one worked only on 16+)
- added indieGO!- Appstore and Downloadmanager
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18.Mar.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: AmiCamp #3 (21./22. March, Greece)
On the next weekend, in Athens the "AmiCamp" will take place for the third time. All fans of the Amiga or its different follow-up projects are welcome: Amigas and PPC-computers will be presented. There will be also lectures on AmigaOS and MorphOS and you can play different games.
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18.Mar.2015
torrentfreak.com (ANF)
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Universal music hijacks Youtube videos of Bjørn Lynne
The musician Bjørn Lynne, well-known from the demo scene, is in trouble with the Universal Music Group (UMG): The company claimed to Youtube to possess the rights to two songs of Lynne - actually UMG has the rights to an audiobook that uses Lynne's music track "Kingdom of the Persians" as background music.
Universal forced Youtube monetizing the songs: They've hijacked the ads on the original video. In the linked article on TorrentFreak, Lynne desribed how he managed to get back the rights to his music.
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16.Mar.2015
MorphZone (Forum)
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File system: exfatfs 1.1
Rupert Hausberger has also released version 1.1 of his MorphOS-port of the exFAT-file system (Wikipedia) for AmigaOS 3.x.
The AmigaOS-version requires a 68020-processor and has several limitations which are listed in the readme file. For example partitions which have more than 2 TiB cannot be connected and files which have more than 2 GiB are shown as links without size and rights.
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16.Mar.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Netsurf 3.3
Chris Young has released the latest version of the browser Netsurf for AmigaOS 4 which originally has been developed for RISC OS. The changes are listed in the changelog.
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16.Mar.2015
www.aros-broadway.de (ANF)
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AROS Broadway 1.0 preview 1
Pascal Papara has released version "1.0 preview 1" of his AROS-distribution Broadway (Youtube video). Changes of this release:
- based on latest abi v0
- reduced size so it fits also on a cdrw (659MB)
- streamlined installation (depending on install media it can be done in under a minute)
- indiego AppStore (alpha)
- indiego download manager (alpha)
- amiwallet (alpha)
- new wip theme
Direct download: broadway1pr1.iso.7z (219 MB)
According to the developer, it is a "technical preview" which still is not meant for the practical usage. The installation under Virtualbox is demonstrated in the linked Youtube video.
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16.Mar.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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AIFF and PCX plugins for Hollywood
Press release: As many people have already noticed, the recently released Hollywood SDK comes with source codes for several example plugins. Among them are source codes for plugins that enable Hollywood to load PCX images and AIFF sound files. Due to popular demand Airsoft Softwair has now released these two plugins also as binaries for all platforms supported by Hollywood.
Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (Classic), AmigaOS3 (FPU), AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (Intel), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (Intel), Linux (ARM), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (Intel), Windows and Google's Android platform are provided.
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16.Mar.2015
C. Hahn (ANF)
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"Guide to Amiga Compatible Programming" as Markdown-/HTML-document
The "Amiga Compatible Programming Guide" written by Gianfranco "ShInKurO" Gignina (e.g. NoWinEd) is an introduction to the development of cross-platform Amiga applications focused on the development of graphical user-interfaces with MUI.
So far the guide has been available as text files without special formatting and was now converted to Markdown. Therefore it is now possible to read the guide with a Markdown Reader or to convert it to different format, e.g. HTML and PDF. A HTML-version already has been created for free download.
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16.Mar.2015
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Crowdfunding: Dave Lowe - Double album with classic video game soundtracks
Dave 'Uncle Art' Lowe who was responsible for creating soundtracks of several commercial Amiga games and his daughter are going to release a double album containing his old compositions.
The first CD will include exclusive versions of his old songs, created with the original source codes of the songs. The second CD will include remakes.
The production costs will be 20.000 Pounds financed by crowdfunding. If there there will be enough money, the title tracks from Frontier: Elite II will be recorded with the "Chamber Orchestra of London" in the Abbey Road-Studios.
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15.Mar.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.03.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 14th, 2015:
ntimed.lha comm/net 50K 68k Network time synchronization ...
AbbayeDesMorts.lha game/actio 502K OS4 Abbaye Des Morts game for Amiga
ReadWMF_1.0.lha gfx/misc 71K MOS Shows info of windows meta fi...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
uBee512-MOS.lha misc/emu 1.3M MOS Microbee emulator
Sunchine_Rising.lha mods/xm 14M New mod By Pseudaxos
SunshineRising_Rework... mods/xm 14M New mod By Pseudaxos
Icons-for-AmigaOS.lha pix/picon 5.5M AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
russian45.lha util/sys 35K 68k Russian language driver v45
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15.Mar.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.03.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 14th, 2015:
watchdog.lha dri/han 13kb 4.1 A Linux "/dev/watchdog" like Ami...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
abbayedesmorts.lha gam/act 502kb 4.0 An old school game like Ghost'n ...
bedgames1-3d.lha gam/boa 5Mb 4.0 Rock, Paper, Scissors anaglyph game
dragonmemory.lha gam/puz 6Mb 4.1 puzzle kind game, opengl
swampdefense2_demo.lha gam/str 27Mb 4.1 Demoversion of Swamp Defense 2
icons-for-amigaos.lha gra/ico 6Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
fairies.lha gra/scr 2Mb 4.0 Portable And freeware screen sav...
redeth.rar net/sam 3Mb 4.0 Graphical interface to manage co...
usbrecycle.lha uti/mis 64kb 4.1 'Solve' SAM4x0 USB stall at boot...
cleanname.lha uti/scr 1kb 4.0 Python script to clean file and ...
cmg.lha uti/scr 3kb 4.1 Create an amigaguide file to pla...
cmt.lha uti/scr 3kb 4.0 Python script for creating a TV ...
ffmpeggui.lha vid/con 242kb 4.1 A GUI for the ffmpeg video conve...
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15.Mar.2015
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WHDLoad: New archives until 14.03.2015
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 14th, 2015:
- 2015-03-14 updated: James Pond 2 - Robocod (Millennium) OCS patch redone, RawDIC imager, uses WHDLoad v17+ features, more trainers added, uses real files (Info)
- 2015-03-08 new: Fast Lane (Artronic) done by StingRay (Info)
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15.Mar.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 29 (Italian/English)
Issue 29 of the Italian PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in the Italian original as well as in English translation. Under the title link you can find an archive containing the translated issues 26 up to 29.
The game reviews of the REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games between different former platforms.
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11.Mar.2015
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Bugfix for Swamp Defense 2
Recently, Swamp Defense 2 has been released. Two minor bugs have been found yet: Additional to a memory leak, in some sections of the game the background graphic have been rotated by 180 degrees. On the website an update to version 1.2 is available.
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11.Mar.2015
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Tutorial videos for Hollywood Designer
An user has created some tutorial videos for the presentation programm Hollywood Designer. The first as well as the still not finished third part are available on Youtube. The second part only is available in the Indiego-Appstore (for free).
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11.Mar.2015
Spidi (ANF)
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Ryś USB / Ryś MKII: Connecting original Amiga, C64, Atari joysticks
Press release: Thanks to the new firmware version Rys_JoystickToUSB (Ryś USB / Ryś MKII) and dedicated Ryś USB / Ryś MK II adapter one can now connect original Amiga, C64 and Atari joysticks to PCs, Macs and Amiga NG computers using an USB A-A cable. (snx)
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