10.Dec.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS bounty: MPlayer Altivec optimization
Konstantinos 'feanor' Margaritis would optimize the PPC-port of MPlayer for the Altivec-unit built in G4-, G5- and PA6T-processors, if 1000 Euro will be donated. A corresponding bounty now was opened at bountysource.com.
The goal of the optimization is to be able to perfectly play the h264-coded trailer of the motion picture Prometheus in a solution of 1920x1080 pixels on a X1000 - currently only 18 instead of the required 24 frames per second are achieved. If a Altivec optimization is able to increase the performance by 33% and how much influence on less powerful processors it would have, currently the software developer cannot reckon.
The description of the bounty does not say for which systems the optimization has to be released. Margaritis does not own an OS4-compatible computer, but only a Powerbook G4.
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10.Dec.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop Update 2.0.1
In version 2.0.1 Paolo Besser has fixed some bugs in his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop.
Changes:
- ntfs.handler moved to Storage/L (for new installations only)
- AROS system files brought to Dec 6th, 2014 Nightly Build
- SVN executables brought back to Development:bin
- Updated AntiryadIDE with a working version (see screenshot above)
- HDToolBox now shows drives connected to AHCI device (fixed missing icon tooltype)
- removed offending duplicated Datatype.info file
- fixed noacpi issue
- fixed regression: running AmiBridge at startup will work again
- fixed regression: Icaros will try to fall back to VESA mode first when selecting Native option in grub, like older Icaros (for new installations only)
- fixed Theme preferences
- removed offending (not working and crashing aros) themes
- added AmigaOS 3.1 theme
- fixed a bug preventing AROS68K from running, if themes were disabled in host environment
- updated ZuneFig and ZuneView to latest releases
- added "Prefs" option to Icaros menu in Magellan
- fixed ZuneView option in Magellan's "Programs" menu
- added a new version of WeatherBar
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10.Dec.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.2.1
Version 2.2.1 of the commercial game "Ask me Up" is available. The update of the video game about general knowledge includes some minor improvements and translations into other languages:
- Game: the animation speed of results can be accelerated/decelerated by [Ctrl] key
- Quiz: medals are now displayed as soon as they are won during the game
- Map: "medal" score of the player is now displayed
- Map: the best player in the world is displayed with its "medal" score
- Map: You can browse the worlds by pressing the up/down arrow keys
- Some questions fixed
- Fully translated into Spanish and Greek (in addition to French, English and Italian)
- New translations in Swedish, Portuguese and Polish added
- Spanish, Greek and Polish localizations improved
- Help file now also available in Spanish, Polish and Greek
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10.Dec.2014
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiTCP-Bundle: EasyNet Pro
EasyNet was an user-interface which should simplify the configuration of network hardware. The successor EasyNet Pro now includes a separated TCP-stack - AmiTCP 4 is used.
EasyNet Pro is available in the Amigakit-webshop or in Amistore. Owners of the previous version can purchase a price-reduced update to the Pro-version.
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10.Dec.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Creating Installer-scripts: InstallerGen 1.1
Using InstallerGen, developers can create installer scripts for their programms for the Commodore-installer. The programm has a MUI user-interface. AmigaOS 3.0 as well as the MUI-class NList.mcc are required.
Changes of this version:
- Locale support with German and French catalogs included
- Variable support for paths in Version, Delete, exists and Rename step types
- Fixed Delete & Exists steps
- Context-sensitive help
- Improved and fixed guide
- Improved variables list (updates in real-time, excludes literal strings)
- GUI updates optimised, much faster redrawing on classics and much reduced jittering
- Fixed a couple of enforcer hits
- Lots more bug fixes and improvements...
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10.Dec.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 18.0
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.
Changes of version 18.0:
- fix:WHDLoad lock up happen when FullChip/S is used and
exec.MaxLocMem is equal to BaseMemSize fixed
- fix:ExpChip/S and FullChip/S cannot be enabled together, if both
are set FullChip/S will be silently disabled (Psygore)
- chg:option NoTrapHandler/S has been removed
- fix:race condition fixed which sometimes caused a 'Privilege
Violation Exception' when a Resload function was called from
Usermode and got interrupted during the internal switch to
Supervisor mode and then trace exception was used from the
installed program, seen especially in installs using kick13
emu and performing a lot of disk io, fixes issue #2094 and
connected ones
- chg:the log file created by the FileLog/S facility has been
renamed from .whdl_filelog to .whdl_log
- new:function resload_Log which puts custom messages into the log
file .whdl_log, uses the same file as the FileLog/S facility
and requires that FileLog/S option is set so that messages
will be written
this function is intended to make it easier to debug/follow
alien code by adding trace messages to dump the execution
state at useful places
- new:option LogBuffer/K/N to control the size of the internal
buffer allocated for log messages by FileLog/S and
resload_Log
- new:function resload_VSNPrintF implementing a exec.RawDoFmt/
sprintflike string formatting routine
- new:kickfs.s has new option SNOOPFS which will cause in
conjunction with HDINIT all dos packets after processing to
be logged using resload_Log, the supplied perl script
chkunlock.pl can be used to search the log file for missing
dos.UnLock and dos.Close calls
- new:using the function resload_Control and the tags
WHDLTAG_CUST_DISABLE/READ/WRITE/STROBE the allowed custom
registers for Snoop*/S can be modified now
- chg:ReSource support files updated to cover recent WHDLoad
extensions
- new:added XAD support to the installer template script
- chg:external program SP to save pictures from dump files has been
improved to better support AGA screens (ddf, fmode, bplcon)
- chg:on the 68030 the instruction burst is now always enabled if
the instruction cache is enabled (Psygore)
- chg:the 68040 processor is now fully supported regarding the
special mmu features (Snoop, resload_Protect), the
implementation was planned since years, it was a lot of work
becausethe handling is very different to the 68030 und 68060,
although I'm unsure if this feature will be used much, I'm
happy to have it completed now
- chg:option ChkAudPt/S is also supported on the 68030 and 68040 now
- chg:the interrupt redirect feature of ACA500/Zeus is not used when
option NoVBRMove/S is set
- chg:PreloadSize/N will also be set by WHDLoad if ws_DontCache is
used in the Slave
some more end user related improvements are planned for the next
release :-)
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09.Dec.2014
Exec.pl (ANF)
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Ego-Shooter: 8bit Killer
The first three levels of the PC-game 8bit Killer now have been ported by Czesław 'Leon' Mnich to the Amiga using the Gloom-Deluxe-engine.
Download:
8bitkiller.lha (452 KB)
8bitkilleradf.lha (521 KB)
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09.Dec.2014
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Distribution for AGA-Amigas: AmiKitReal 8
AmiKitReal is a version of AmiKit for real AGA-Amigas which now is also available in version 8 vor (screenshot). You can find a detailed list of changes under the title link.
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07.Dec.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.12.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until December 6th, 2014:
PPaintRUS.lha biz/cloan 22K Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c R...
FindModule.lha dev/e 36K 68k Find the module that holds a ...
libopenssl68k.lha dev/lib 23M 68k OpenSSL crypto and SSL/TLS li...
LineBloks.lha game/wb 36K 68k Line up 8 tiles of same pattern!
PenDenTive.lha game/wb 36K 68k Align tiles but don't let 'em...
Simplix.lha game/wb 31K 68k Move a shape to the upper left!
Togglo.lha game/wb 31K 68k Make alignments of same colou...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.3M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Liisa2.adf misc/math 880K 68k miscancellous programs
DigiboosterSP.lha mus/play 19K Spanish catalog for DigiBooster
wallpapers.lha pix/back 1.3M Big collection of 4 color bac...
openssl.lha util/crypt 14M 68k OpenSSL command line tool
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 393K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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07.Dec.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.12.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until December 6th, 2014:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
rcube.lha gra/mis 46kb 4.1 Showing a moving GLCube
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 42kb 4.0 A custom BOOPSI system
netstat.lha net/mis 69kb 4.1 CLI tool to display network acti...
showcomputer.lha uti/she 86kb 4.0 Display informations about your ...
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07.Dec.2014
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Workbench distribution for UAE: AmiKit 8 available as download
Recently version 8 of AmiKit was released which is a Workbench distribution for Amiga emulators (amiga-news.de reported). Now this release also is available as free download.
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07.Dec.2014
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Live Updater 1.8 for Icaros Desktop
For the update of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop from version 2.0 to 2.0.1 under the title link version 1.8 of the live updater can be downloaded.
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07.Dec.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: zTools 1.1
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated his collection of programms called "zTools". Version 1.1 includes updates for SysMon, aTunes, FlipPaper, FastView, FastCompress,
WebReplay, CPUDock, RAMDock, GFXDock, NetDock, LittleBrother and FastHide.
The update of zTools to version 1.1 is available for free in the Amistore.
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07.Dec.2014
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: Amiga Mania #8 (Hungarian)
"Amiga Mania" is a Hungarian pdf-magazine about all aspects of the Amiga which was very elaborately designed on 36 pages. Issue 8 (front page) is about the CD³² as well as WLAN using an Amiga.
Download: Amiga%20Mania%2008_OnLine.pdf (95 MB)
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05.Dec.2014
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Hardware review: MCC-TV - Multiple Classic Computer
The English-language blog "Indie Retro News" has got a MCC for reviewing it. The FPGA-based, small-sized computer emulates an Amiga and a C64 and is meant for connecting it to a modern TV.
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02.Dec.2014
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.24
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser. The author would be pleased about any kind of feedback.
Version 0.24 includes the following changes:
- Preferences:
- New style «OS4»: GUI elements (TextBox, CheckBox, ListBox, Cycle, Button and Slider) are drawn in an OS4-style.
- New: Background pattern for preferences dialogs
- New iconset: BetterWB
- Requesters for OS versions >= 4.0 now have a XEN look, icons are centred on the screen.
The font of the first button is now bold.
- For OS versions >= 4.0 «Verdana» is now the default font (used for the labels on the preferences dialogs, buttons, etc.)
which is quite close to «DejaVu Sans».
- Clock: Colors are now corresponding for OS versions >= 4.0.
- New poosibility to use «random» as value for the URL parameter «preset», which will chosse a preset by random. Example:
http://www.taws.ch/WB.html?preset=random
- Optional parameter «noforce» instead of «force»: The new default is that the preset of the URL parameter has higher priority
than the user settings in the cookie. If «noforce» is stated the priority is witched. Example:
http://www.taws.ch/WB.html?preset=OS_1.3&noforce
- New Preset: «OS 1.0»
- Palette: New entry «GUI Elements background»
- Text color of selected text in TextBoxes is now set corresponding the «Palette» settings.
- Adjusted the text in «About» for OS version 4.1.
- Bugfixes:
- Some Chrome versions have wrongly been detected as touch devices.
- In case of an invalid URL preset parameter value now the default preset is used and no longer some stoneaged TAWS default values.
- In case of loading a Preset by URL parameter, GadTools style was not correctly applied.
- Correction of the cycles height in MedRes mode.
- Correction in the startup checks, so TAWS now runs on Firefox 3.6.28 again (the last version for PPC-Macs).
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01.Dec.2014
amiga68k.de (Webseite)
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Preview video: Amiga Games Creator
Already in September a video was published on Youtube introducing a new "Amiga Games Creator" which can be used for creating games without having to have programming knowledge. According to the author a first preview version is planned for the next months.
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01.Dec.2014
Michael Jurisch (ANF)
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Crowdfunding: Rocket Ranger Reloaded (update)
The current holder of the Cinemawares rights is going to release again the classic action-adventure Rocket Ranger as a "reloaded"-version and has established a crowdfunding-project at Kickstarter.
According to the publisher's own information he is going to "bring the game to as many platforms as possible" and to "make the project freely available for porting to Linux and AmigaOS by any team interested in undertaking these conversions."
Hint of the editorial staff: We do not know, if "freely" means "for free" or "free" (within the meaning of "troublefree" and so on). The last meaning would imply to make payment of licence fees which would make an Amiga-port unlikely.
Update: (04.12.2014, 18:15, cg)
In the German thread for this news item, a Cinemaware representative announces that all required materials for porting the Game to the Amiga will be made available free of charge. since Cinemaware does not expect a potential Amiga version to generate any revenue. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
Pascal Papara
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Hollywood essentials: Libraries for Hollywood developers
The "Hollywood essentials" are five libraries written by Fabio Falcucci which are supposed to provide useful functions for Hollywood developers.
The libraries in detail:
- HELPERS Library: A collection of functions to speed up common and repetitive tasks
- EASING Library: The easing library can be used to achieve smooth transitions between values. With it you can animate objects, fade colors and change values smoothly using one of the provided 41 transition functions.
- TABLES Library: This library exposes common functions to manipulate and convert tables
- DEBUG Library: With this library you can easily manage debug output to the console or to a log file. The console log system allow you to define channels and message types you can easily filter during the debug of your programs.
- FILESYSTEM Library: This library exposes common functions to manipulate files and check the file system.
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30.Nov.2014
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Graphics software: PersonalPaint 7.3 for AmigaOS 3 available
On the new website ppaint.com, the m68k-port of Personal Paint 7.3 is available which does not require an Amistore log-in. Paypal is used for payment. If you have already purchased the version for AmigaOS 4, you can get a low-priced "cross-platform-licence" in the Amistore.
Changes in version 7.3:
- Totally integrated with the AmigaOS Workbench
- True colour animation frame thumbs in the StoryBoard window
- High resolution gadget imagery and thin borders style GUI option for a more modern look
- 9 new built in brush shapes
- 100 new Custom Brushes
- Pressure sensitive drawing
- Dithered transparency
- New Airbrush Linemode
- Extended paint functionality with image processing tool
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30.Nov.2014
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)
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Chris Hülsbeck starts Kickstarter-project "The Piano Collection"
After releasing the Turrican Soundtrack Anthology, Chris Hülsbeck has started his second project at Kickstarter: "Chris Huelsbeck - The Piano Collection & Limited Score Book". If you are going to support the project, then you can buy an album with well-known songs played with the pinao and written by Chris Hülsbeck.
Pianist will be Patrick Nevian who was also involved in both online albums Amiga Meets Piano. For all included songs there will be also the scores, which will be printed as limited edition and available for an additional charge.
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30.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Workbench-Distribution for UAE: AmiKit 8 with MUI4 and new Netsurf
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and was now updated to version 8. Currently it is sold on a bootable USB-stick. A free download will be available later.
The latest version exclusively includes the new version of the graphical user-interface MUI as well as a special version of web browser Netsurf with a specific design of Amikit created by Ken Lester. The latest beta version of Directory Opus Magellan 5.91 also is part of Amikit 8.
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30.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Graphics software: Candy Factory Pro available for free
Amigafuture.de offers the CD-image of Candy Factory Pro for free download. Due to the size of the the file, the download only is available for registered users.
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30.Nov.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 29th, 2014:
zlib-source.lha dev/lib 859K 68k General purpose data compress...
clr.py.txt dev/src 4K 68k Clear-Screen and Beep for Pyt...
sinebeep.py.txt dev/src 1K 68k Create a WAVE format Beep for...
savED121.lha disk/moni 80K 68k Hex editor, esp. for editing ...
f1champ.lha docs/misc 67K Statistics of Formula One '50...
SCANdalSP.lha driver/oth 4K SCANdal spanish catalog and r...
F12014Carset.lha game/data 30K 2014 Car Set for F1GP Ed/Micr...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 9.7M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
DAplayerSP.lha mus/play 2K Spanish catalog for DAplayer ...
EvenMore.lha text/show 413K 68k V0.82: Freeware textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 437K MOS V0.82: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 180K V0.82: EvenMore textviewer pl...
KlipsSP.lha util/cdity 7K Klips spanish catalog and doc...
sha256.lha util/cli 9K 68k Calculate SHA-256 hashes of f...
hashc.lha util/misc 23K 68k Calculates various hash algor...
wet_update.lha util/wb 325K OS4 Wet weather info v6.4 patch
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30.Nov.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 29th, 2014:
evenmore.lha uti/tex 440kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
wet_update.lha uti/wor 325kb 4.0 Wet weather software v6.4 patch
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30.Nov.2014
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until November 29th, 2014:
lander.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 3Mb OpenGL Lunar Lander clone.
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30.Nov.2014
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archive has been added to MorphOS-Files until November 29th, 2014:
gTranslator 3.0 uti/des 195 A screenbar module for lang...
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30.Nov.2014
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WHDLoad: New packages until 29.11.2014
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 November 29th, 2014:
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