12.Aug.2008
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.5.1
The latest version of the well-known Amiga-emulator WinUAE includes several bug fixes. Additionally there are some improvements at the screen modes:
New features in version 1.5.1:
- Added support for Direct3D pixel shader filters (very fast compared
to software filters, pixel shader 2.0+ compatible display card
required), plain Direct3D filter performance improved.
Latest (August 2008 or later) DirectX required
- In windowed mode all resolution or chipset/RTG mode switches
resize the window instead of window closing and opening
- Aspect ratio setting added to RTG and filter panels
- Window resize enabled in windowed mode (chipset mode)
- Added Picasso96 option "Always scale in windowed mode" which enables
window resizing and disables automatic resize. Keeps aspect ratio
automatically
- Only reset fullscreen mode when resolution or depth changes
- On the fly USB mouse/joystick insert/removal does not modify
currently selected input device(s) in Ports-panel
- Enable ini-mode (registry replacement) if .ini
(without .exe) is found. Previously always used winuae.ini
With version 1.5.0 introduced bugs were fixed:
- Failed to start with some display card/driver combinations
- Regular (non-RDB) OFS formatted hardfiles didn't mount under KS 1.3
- Memory corruption in configuration file handling causing random
crashes when loading or saving configuration files
- Configuration files in subdirectories didn't load if configuration
cache was enabled
- RTG hardware mouse cursor may have been invisible (or had
wrong graphics) in some cases after resolution change
- Switching between non-interlaced and interlaced modes caused random
"scanline" graphics corruption
Further bug fixes:
- Built-in HRTMon crashed in JIT modes
- Interlace modes fixed in "normal" (non-doubled/scanline) modes
- Fixed borderblank graphics corruption in interlaced modes
- Fixed possible crashes when switching Windows desktop resolution or
when using quick user switching
- "Kickstart Replacement" fixed
- PCMCIA SRAM emulation didn't work in memory expansion mode
- Emulation paused if "stop sound while inactive/minimzed" was enabled
- Improved directory filesystem statefile support
- AVI recording crash if only audio recording was enabled
- Native DLL support fixed
- Forced fullscreen refresh rates didn't work in some cases
- Multiple identical (same serial number) USB game controllers do not
confuse input system anymore
- Major blitter slowdown in some AGA modes
- ADF was not updated if disk write was aborted (Cadaver save disk)
- Crash when USB mouse/joystick was removed or inserted before
emulation was started
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Aug.2008
www.scacom.de.vu (ANF)
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PDF-magazine: SCACOM Aktuell issue 7 (jubilee edition)
SCACOM.aktuell is a free PDF-magazine which is about the computers by Commodore. With issue 7 the magazine celebrates its first anniversary. Therefore additional to the normal magazine with 48 pages a jubilee edition with 22 pages were published. Besides this at SCACOM the C64-game "Gold Quest 4" as well as the corresponding disk-cover are available and at the website of SCACOM two new background pictures were published.
The publisher asks for your feedback or guest book entries on the website and hopes that there will be some further interested people who want to cooporate.
The next eighth issue will include a survey about the patents from Commodore/Amiga and some facts to the topic "Why did home computers vanish?". (cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Instant Messenger: SabreMSN Alpha 29
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his Instant Messenger for the MSN-network. Several bugs were fixed in alphaersion 29. The program is available for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Morgue Soft: Screensavers Flowers 1.0 and Acuario 1.75
Under the title link with Flowers 1.0 a new screensaver by Morgue Soft was published which shows flowers and has a relaxing sound. Additionally Acuario was updated. Both screensavers are available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Music module: Modland-webinterface
Modland is a archive managed by Daniel 'Coma' Johansson with over 360.000 music modules in 290 different formats. You can access them via a FTP-server (mirror).
To make the access more easy ExoticA in cooperation with Modland has created a webinterface with which you can search for names, authors or formats.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2008
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Fotodraw 0.1 (Update)
Carsten Siegner has published a first alpha version of his command line "Fotodraw". With Fotodraw you can create EPS-files or PDF-documents. It supports raster images and texts.
MorphOS 2.0 and Ghostscript 8.54 are required. There is not still a detailed documentation but you can activate a help text with "Fotodraw -h".
Download: Fotodraw-0.1.lha (403 KB)
Update: (21:21, 10.08.08, snx)
Meanwhile Fotodraw 0.1 was published. In this version a document system was added. With it you can create complicated documents as PDF-file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2008
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: New "old" interviews and game downloads
The Amiga Arena was completed with contents from previous years such as over 50 interviews from 2002. There is a new section in the download for sport games starting with the games "Fußball Total" (AGA), "Burnout" (AGA) and "Xtreme Racing" (AGA).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2008
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Reggae supports now AIFC/sowt
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewskis has published a new modul for his multimedia library Reggae: The "sowt"-pseudocodec for the AIFC-format (compressed audio IFF) is used to save sound data in Little-Endian-format and was introduced by Apple. Most of the current audio applications under Mac OS save in this format.
The new aiff.demuxer 51.7 for Reggae supports AIFC as well as the "sowt"-version.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2008
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Lawsuit: Case of Itec against Hyperion in New York dismissed
The case of Itec LLC in New York against Hyperion VOF was dismissed there because the contract between both parties from 24. April 2003 is applied to the contract between Amiga Inc., Hyperion and Eyetech from 3. November 2001 and for this one only two courts in Washington are responsible for.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4.1 gone gold
Press release:
Antwerp, Belgium - 6 August, 2008.
Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that Amiga OS 4.1 has gone "gold" and should be available through dealers mid August. Building on the solid foundations of Amiga OS 4.0, Amiga OS 4.1 introduces a wealth of substantial new functionality which is a prerequisite for the deployment of industry standard applications on the Amiga platform.
Updated non-exhaustive feature-list of Amiga OS 4.1:
- Intelligent memory paging
- Hardware compositing engine (Radeon R1xx and R2xx family)
- Implementation of the "Cairo" device-independent 2D rendering library
- Reworked P96 with improved overlay support
- Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) support for greater digital camera compatibility
- JXFS filesystem with the support for drives and partitions of multiple terabyte size
- Improved Workbench functionality
- New and improved DOS functionality (full 64 bit support, universal notification support, automatic expunge and reload of updated disk resources)
- Improved 3D hardware accelerated screen-dragging
- Reworked AmiDock with true transparency
- Choice between several GUI themes including Amiga OS 4.0 and Amiga OS 4.1 default themes
- Powerful and user-friendly installation utility
- Reworked Warp3D Radeon drivers with new functionality
- Improved OpenGL support through MiniGL 2.0
- And much, much more.
Required hardware: AmigaOne (for now)
Required graphics card for hardware compositing: Radeon 1xx or Radeon 2xx
Recommended graphics card: Radeon 9250
Amiga OS 4.1 will ship in a cardboard package with a printed Quick Start Guide.
Screenshots: 1, 2. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: Integrated development environment "CodeBench" (preview)
Simon "Rigo" Archer develops an integrated development environment called CodeBench for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). There will be a limited version of the program with the next OS4-SDK. The full version of CodeBench will be distributed commercially.
The author describes CodeBench as "plugin-based management-system". The C/C++ and PHP/HTML-plugins already work. With the help of the corresponding plugin each programming language can be supported. CodeBench can compile itself as well as AmigaOS 4 source code.
Under the title link the author explained some features of CodeBench in a discussion.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
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AmigaOS 4: GUI-Designer MindGUI 0.1
MindGUI is supposed to become a GUI-designer for Reaction-based applications. MindGUI generates C-source code.
The project has still an very early status and the author particularly points out that MindGUI is still not very useful. According to the author additional to OS4 SDK, AISS, svgtools as well as svg.datatype) "humor" is required.
MindGUI01.lha (468 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga-clone: First Natami-prototype is produced
The Amiga-clone NatAmi developed by Thomas Hirsch has a reimplementation of the Amiga-Custom Chips - in contrary to similar projects the AGA-compatibility is aspired.
Meanwhile the development of the NatAmi-motherboard was forwarded so far that the production of the first prototype called NatAmi60 could be started.
The specification of the NatAmi60 includes 16 Mb Chip-RAM, 256 Fast-RAM, a 68060-processor as well as several improvements of the chipset features. For further information have a look at section Questions and Answers.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
Bobic^BTTR (ANF)
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Amiga-Demos from the Assembly 2008
For the Oldskool Demo Competition on the demo party Assembly 2008 two new demos were published for the Amiga 500.
Hardknee Lotus shows effects in AGA-quality but requires 1 MB Chip- and 2 MB Fast-RAM. The second demo is a 32 KB intro by Limbo and was called Ex-Flies.
There is a report about the event at 4Sceners.de.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Amitopia TV: Isue August online
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. Issue August includes the following topics:
- Amiga News Headlines
- Amiga at the movies
- Frame 18, Atmosphere Amiga Demo
- MorphOS 2 review
- Shuffle review
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Grub-2-support in Nightly Builds for x86
The automatically generated "Nightly Builds" of the x86-version of AROS now include the bootloader Grub 2. With its help the harddrive partition DH0 can use the file system SFS.
InstallAROSwas adapted to it. You can now choose the file system for DH0 and DH1.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2008
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Scene-party: Evoke 2008 (08.-10. August, Cologne)
For the 11. time the demo scene party Evoke will open its gates. It will take place in the "Vulkanhalle" in the city of Cologne.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Aug.2008
James Jacobs (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Console-emulator AmiArcadia 7.5a
AmiArcadia emulates different game consoles based on the Signetics 2650A like Arcadia 2001 or the only German console Interton VC4000. In version 7.5a, that now is also available for AmigaOS 4, some minor bugs were fixed.
Download: amiarcadia.lha (1,4 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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