23.Jul.2014
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Multimedia Authoring: Hollywood Player 5.3
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce that the Hollywood Player is now also available for all desktop platforms supported by Hollywood (AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS PPC & x86, Linux PPC & x86).
Although it was originally scheduled for release on June 3, 2006 (and even finished back then) its final publication for desktop systems was postponed again and again limiting the availability of the Hollywood Player to the Android platform for several years.
But now that the Hollywood Player is finally available for desktop platforms as well, software authors can choose to distribute their programs as Hollywood applets instead of stand-alone executables. In contrast to stand-alone executables, Hollywood applets are universally executable which has the advantage that you don't have to compile your programs for as much as almost a dozen of different platforms but just one Hollywood applet is already sufficient. The end-user then simply has to install the Hollywood Player compatible with his platform and can run the Hollywood applet with it.
Another advantage is that applets are much smaller than stand-alone executables compiled by Hollywood. While stand-alone executables often take up as much as 2 MB for only very few lines of code, Hollywood applets are very compact and often consist of only a few kilobytes. A last advantage is that programs distributed as Hollywood applets will automatically profit from improvements and bug fixes in newer versions of the Hollywood Player while programs distributed as stand-alone executables would have to be completely recompiled with each new Hollywood update in order to profit from improvements and bug fixes.
As its very name implies, the Hollywood Player can only be used to run applets compiled by Hollywood. It obviously cannot be used to create your own programs. You will still need the full version of Hollywood to create your own programs, of course.
On all Amiga compatibles, Hollywood Player installs itself to SYS:Utilities to be globally available as a default tool for Hollywood applets. Software authors choosing to distribute their programs as Hollywood applets can then simply set the default tool for their applets to "HollywoodPlayer" and inform the user to install the Hollywood Player before attempting to run the program.
The Hollywood Player is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal for a wide range of architectures and comes with three demo applets to show its capabilities.
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23.Jul.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Writing Amiga disks under Windows: ADTWin 1.0
With the help of a PC disk drive, which is connected with a self-made cable to the parallel port of a PCs, the Windows programm ADTWin writes ADF-images on Amiga disks. It takes approximately 37s per disk. It is not possible to read disks.
If you do not have any PC disk drive you can also use an Amiga-Floppy. In this case, ADTWin offers a special "Connection Mode" called "Amiga Drive".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jul.2014
klesterjr (comment)
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Linux distribution: AmiPUP 1.1.0
Following public availability for AmiKit (amiga-news.de reported), AmiPUP has been updated to version 1.1.0 and is at the same time available separately from that Amiga distribution now.
AmiPUP is a Linux Live CD of less than 180 MB and based on Slacko Puppy Linux 5.7. It's purpose is to be a portable host for AmiKit, Amiga Forever or any other emulated Amiga/AROS system. (snx)
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23.Jul.2014
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: ScummVM 1.7.0
Version 1.7.0 ("The Neverrelease") of the adventure interpreter ScummVM has been released for AmigaOS 4 and does support five additional games now: The Neverhood, Mortville Manor, Voyeur, Return to Ringworld, Chivalry is Not Dead.
Details about the changes can be found in the official release notes. (snx)
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22.Jul.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmiKit: AmiPUP available for all users
AmiPUP is the live-boot-version of the Amiga distribution AmiKit, up to now was only available for registered users (amiga-news.de reported) but now for all.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jul.2014
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Retrospect: The almost forgotten story of the Amiga 2000
Under the title link, yesterday Glen van den Biggelaar published an article about the Amiga 2000, which later also was mentioned on Slashdot.
The focus of his text is on the equippment of the Amiga 2000 as well as on the usage of the computer for film productions using Video Toasters developed by NewTek and the rendering software LightWave.
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21.Jul.2014
amigaimpact.org (Webseite)
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PPC-Hardware: New production run of Sam460-motherboards
On the Facebook-site of the company, ACube announced that new Sam460-motherboards are in production. It is planned to sell the boards in August.
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20.Jul.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.07.2014
The following packages have been added to Aminet until July 19th, 2014:
twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 4.3M MOS Twitter client with map view
Fussball-WM-2014.lha docs/misc 10K TurboCalc Spreadsheet WM-2014...
worldcup.lha docs/misc 559K Statistics of soccer World Cu...
f12014carset.lha game/data 8K 2014 Car Set for F1GP Ed/Micr...
DonkeyDownfall.lha game/jump 882K 68k Donkey Downfall is a platform...
FlappyBirdA500.lha game/jump 882K 68k Flappy Bird is a 2013 mobile ...
DoorMaze.lha game/wb 32K 68k Open doors and get to the exit!
ImageMagick-bin_os4.lha gfx/conv 13M OS4 Image manipulation programs
ImageMagick-src_os4.lha gfx/conv 14M Image manipulation programs -...
PictureAlbum.lha gfx/show 1.2M OS4 A unique picture browser/orga...
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.1M MOS Emulates various classic Sega...
amath.src.lha misc/math 23K Simple command line calculato...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 337K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
daysleeper-aros.i386.lha util/misc 154K x86 Shutdown/reboot at a selected...
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20.Jul.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.07.2014
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until July 19th, 2014:
webcamslist.lha doc/mis 635b 4.1 A list of webcams for BigSister
e-uae.lha emu/com 3Mb 4.0 E-UAE with EasyUAE GUI
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
imagemagick-bin.lha gra/edi 13Mb 4.0 Image manipulation programs
imagemagick-src.lha gra/edi 14Mb 4.0 Source
picturealbum.lha gra/vie 1Mb 4.0 A unique picture browser/organis...
asynergygui.lha net/mis 114kb 4.0 Gui for client Asynergyc
tumblr.lha net/mis 1kb 4.1 download large _1280 tumblr imag...
twittamiga.lha net/mis 4Mb 4.0 Twitter client with map view
findmore.lha uti/fil 101kb 4.0 File searching tool (GUI only)
findmore_german.lha uti/fil 2kb 4.0 German catalog for FindMore
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20.Jul.2014
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 19.07.2014
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until July 19th, 2014:
rc2k.i386-aros.zip dem 479kb OpenGL rollercoaster demo with f...
daysleeper.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 154kb Shutdown/reboot at a selected time
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20.Jul.2014
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 19.07.2014
The following package has been added to MorphOS-Files until July 19th, 2014:
GenesisPlus 1.7 uti/emu 1177 Emulator of Sega Genesis an...
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20.Jul.2014
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WHDLoad: New packages until 19.07.2014
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 July 19th, 2014:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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20.Jul.2014
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Platform game: Goatlizard DX
Goatlizard DX is a reworked version of The Incredible Adventures of Moebius Goatlizard which was written in assembler. The update adds music during the game, provides an improved two player mode and a level editor. Besides, more enemies are in the game.
Goatlizard DX should run on most of the Amiga configurations, but the author recommends a 68020-CPU. The game is not compatible to 68010-processors.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Jul.2014
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood / Cubic IDE: hw4cubic 5.3
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: Michael 'Clyde Radcliffe' Jurisch's Hollywood add-on for Cubic IDE has been updated to support the full Hollywood 5.3 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 5.3 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 at the title link. (snx)
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18.Jul.2014
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Game development: "Chaos Guns"-project needs new programmer
Recently a playable demo of the multiplayer coop-shooter "Chaos Guns" was released - now the developers have informed that the only programmer left and a new one is needed.
Chaos Guns is written in PowerD which is a very obscure further development of Amiga E which obciously is very similar to it. Therefore it is necessary to write the engine of the game right from the beginning or to translate the 10.000 lines of the PowerD source code into regular Amiga E and then to work in this language.
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18.Jul.2014
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Apollo-Core: Photograph of Phoenix prototype (Update)
Under the title link the developers of the Apollo-Core, which also is tested in the Vampire-600 accelerator board (amiga-news.de reported), have published a photograph of Rev. A of the Apollo-Phoenix-board.
Probably in the third quarter of this year this extension for existing systems with a 68000-processor will be available. It is put on the mainboard and is supposed to provide a higher speed and complete code-compatibility.
Additional to the Cyclone-V-FPGA, the Phoenix-board has 128 MB (DDR3, 800 MHz). The operating system can be copied into the RAM using the corresponding MapROM-functions. Further features are a SD-card as IDE-harddrive, HDMI video output (Truecolor) and a network port.
In Future an included flickerfixer/scandoubler (to connect an Amiga to a HDMI-TV), a Chip-RAM-extension and an AGA- (and later Super-AGA-) extension as well as Picasso96-drivers will be added.
Update: (18:32, 19.07.14, snx)
The complete extension consists of two cards. The FPGA module is shown on a second photo (below the Amiga 600 mainboard); how it is mounted on the Phoenix board is illustrated by an animation. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Amiga Forever 2014.0.3.0
This little update for the emulator package Amiga Forever 2014 released in June includes among others minor improvements concerning the "jump lists" introduced in Windows 7.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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