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Archive 04/2013


23.Apr.2013
Michael C. Battilana (e-mail)


Cloanto: Amiga Forever Essentials for Android
Press release: April 23, 2013 - Cloanto, publishers of Amiga Forever since 1997, is announcing today the immediate availability of Amiga Forever Essentials on Google Play. The release marks the first of a planned series of "Essentials" packages for different platforms, in which officially licensed Amiga ROM and OS files are made available for programmatic access by a diversity of open-source emulation engines.

For the Android release, Cloanto worked closely with the developers of UAE4Droid, AnUAE4All, UAE4All2 and other apps to make sure that the Amiga system files are autodetected and easy to use.

"We are grateful for the fact that Google Play is open-minded about emulators and GPL components. As such, Android was our ideal candidate for the initial release in the Amiga Forever Essentials series", said Cloanto President Mike Battilana. "This makes it possible to keep Amiga emulation accessible, enjoyable and legal in ways that are not always within reach for other systems or platforms."

Amiga Forever Essentials unlocks the potential of different Amiga emulation apps designed for Android, making it possible to play thousands of Amiga titles on Amiga OS versions 1.2, 1.3, 2.04, 3.0 and 3.1 in emulated computers like the Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200. Bonus content like Workbench 1.3 and First Demos disk images let Amiga enthusiasts enjoy memorable classics such as the 1984 Boing demo.

The app is available now for only $0.99 on the Google Play store. For developers, there is also information on shared system files on Android devices. (snx)

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23.Apr.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: 8-bit emulator Atari++ 1.72
Atari++ emulates Atari's 8-bit homecomputer as well as the game console Atari 5200. The AmigaOS-4-port was written by Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkov, supports AmigaInput and can be controlled with joysticks.

Changes:
  • The binary file loader automatically generated when inserting a COM or EXE into the disk drive and booting from it is now much shorter and requires a lot less RAM. It requires now, however, an additional ESCape code and hence emulator support. This will now also load binary files that require RAM from 0x800 and up
  • This release adds support for ATX files and includes an emulation of the disk drive timing, handling of bad and duplicate sectors and a more precise emulation of the SIO timing
  • An additional type of watch point was added: The default watch point now only reacts on memory writes, whereas the new watch point continues to react on reads and writes
  • Experimented a lot with the timing of the GTIA Prior writing and found that the currently implemented logic is actually very close to the real system, additional delay cycles make results only worse, not better. Thus, leaving it as it is right now
  • The SDL StringGadget now reacts on Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+Delete and erases its contents on this keyboard command
  • Added emulation for "stuck" Player/Missile shift registers when switching from 4x or 2x expansion to the size register "2" value, which is almost, but not quite 1x expansion
  • The built-in Os blocks NMIs now early in the reset cycle and by that tries to work around bad display lists left over by buggy programs
  • Minor modification in the built-in FMS (Dos 2.++): CONFIG.SYS can now change the position of the FMS buffers by poking into DiskBufferBase $710,$711 and relocate them
  • Minor modification of the short VBI: GPrior, ColBK and Col1 are now only reloaded if the graphics mode really requires it. This applies to fine scrolling text modes, and the text window modes with the GTIA modes (modes 9+64,10+64 and 11+64). This fixes compatibility issues with Atari Tennis and some Lucasfilms intros
  • Minor modifications in the FMS: Rename with wildcard was broken, and the FMS no longer tries to load non-valid VTOCs
  • The DUP COPY command avoids now trying to overwrite BASIC program memory or other user memory protected correctly by setting APPMEMHI. Some cartridges do not set this Os pointer correctly, though. Mac/65 does not. The new DUP command NEW will erase user memory and make it available for COPY
  • Fixed a long standing bug of all Dos 2.XX compatible FMS'es: Directory reading mode did not cooperate with any other operations that would access the directory, and would invalidate the directory access channel. This is no longer the case now. Additionally, reading the directory sets now the EOF warning flag (Y = 3) correctly right before the EOF
  • The STATUS command, as specified by DOS 2.0S and DOS 2.5, was actually quite unuseful as it required a file specification which was never supplied by BASIC. The new implementation returns the status of the last CIO command on the same channel if the channel is open, allowing BASIC for example to access the near-EOF warning return code
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Apr.2013



MorphOS counter: inofficial chart illustrates the MorphOS sales since 2008
Shortly after the release of MorphOS 2, MorphOS users started posting the serial numbers of their newly acquired MorphOS license in a thread on morphzone.org. As the serial numbers seem to increase in a linear fashion, most people assume that the latest assigned serial number also represents the number of MorphOS copies sold so far.

Konrad 'koszer' Czuba is regularly using the available serial numbers to create a chart that illustrates the number of MorphOS sales since 2008 (click on the picture to display it in full size):



We are not aware of statements from the MorphOS team regarding the validity of the numbers discussed here. Thanks to Konrad Czuba for the kind permission to publish his chart. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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21.Apr.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 20.04.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until April 20th, 2013:
libgtk-mui.i386-aros.... dev/lib    436K  x86 lib to port and zunify GTK ap...
libgtk-mui.src.tar.gz    dev/lib    738K      libgtk-mui source code
ipp_dev.lha              driver/pri 1.8M  OS4 Internet Printing Protocol (I...
Wazp3D.lha               driver/vid 1.2M  68k CPU only Warp3D implementation 
KOG.lha                  game/actio 1.2M  OS4 Innovative objects-catching game
AmiQuake2.lha            game/shoot 2.0M  68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II...
MEMO.lha                 game/think 381K  68k Card memory game celebrating ...
SCRAMBLY_DV.lha          game/think 331K  OS4 15 slide puzzle with twists
Deblok.lha               game/wb    33K   68k Unlock all bars!
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.1M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.5M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.4M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
glUAE.lha                misc/emu   14K       Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
lameA68K-3.100a2.lha     mus/misc   514K  68k MP3 encoder for A68K
Scriba_1.7.8.lha         text/edit  6.6M  MOS Simple word processing softwa...
BoardsLib.lha            util/libs  31K   68k provides detailed info about ...
HWP_TIFF.lha             util/libs  692K  WOS Hollywood plugin for TIFF images
Microbe3D.lha            util/libs  7.5M  68k micro .obj 3D engine using Wa...
StormMesa2010.lha        util/libs  1.2M  68k StormMesa2010 reworked sources 
stream_mos.lha           util/moni  170K  MOS STREAM is a Memory Bandwith T...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.Apr.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.04.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until April 20th, 2013:
hvl2wav.lha              aud/con 59kb  4.0 Converts Hively Tracker (HVL) tu...
tolua.lha                dev/lan 180kb 4.0 Port of ToLUA++ to bind LUA scri...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
gluae.lha                emu/uti 14kb  4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
kog.lha                  gam/act 1Mb   4.0 Innovative objects-catching game
scrambly_dv.lha          gam/puz 331kb 4.0 15 slide puzzle with twists
stargus.lha              gam/str 6Mb   4.0 Stratagus mod that allows you to...
gimp-beautify.lha        gra/edi 55Mb  4.1 Gimp 2.6.11 beautify plug-in for...
gimp-beautify-src.lha    gra/edi 4Mb   4.1 Sources of beautify for Gimp 2.6...
gimp-plugin-pack.lha     gra/edi 78Mb  4.1 Gimp 2.6.11 plug-in pack for Ami...
gimp-plugin-pack-src.lha gra/edi 1Mb   4.1 Sources of the plug-in pack for ...
djnick-hd_wallpapers_... gra/mis 20Mb  4.0 HD WallPapers pack 01 by djnick ...
fastview.lha             gra/vie 355kb 4.1 Show pictures & thumbnails b...
netspeedometer.lha       net/mis 146kb 4.1 A network monitor and bandwidth ...
fastcompress.lha         uti/arc 3Mb   4.0 Quickly compress into LHA,ZIP,LZ...
netdock.lha              uti/doc 219kb 4.0 Docky to monitor your network ac...
x1ktempdocky.lha         uti/doc 286kb 4.1 CPU Temp Monitor docky for the X...
attachmail.lha           uti/wor 531kb 4.0 Attach file(s) to YAM or SimpleM...
sysmon.lha               uti/wor 750kb 4.1 monitor for Process, Windows (+ ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.Apr.2013



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 20.04.2013
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until April 20th, 2013:
libgtk-mui.i386.tar.gz       dev/lib 436kb Link library to port and zunify ...
libgtk-mui.src.tar.gz        dev/lib 738kb libgtk-mui source code
aros_shell_manual_0.81.pdf   doc/man 581kb AROS SHELL MANUAL
gnurobbo066.i386-aros.zip    gam/puz 2Mb   GnuRobbo - maze game.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.Apr.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 20.04.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until April 20th, 2013:
ACE                      1.5     uti/emu    818 Amstrad CPC family computer...
Bochs                    2.6     uti/emu    989 Emulator of a PC computer w...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.Apr.2013



WHDLoad: New packeges until 20.04.2013
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 April 20th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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