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07.Jun.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)

Hollywood-Plugin: GL Galore 1.0 for hardware-accelerated 2D-/3D-graphics
Press release: This is the game changer you've been waiting for! Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the next big thing: GL Galore, the ultimate OpenGL® scripting solution for Hollywood! GL Galore is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to access the OpenGL 1.1 command set directly from Hollywood. This makes it possible to write scripts that utilize the host system's 3D hardware to create high-performance, butter-smooth 2D and 3D animation that is computed completely in hardware by the GPU of your graphics board. This leads to a huge performance boost over the classic Hollywood graphics API which is mostly implemented in software. Especially systems with slower CPUs will benefit greatly from hardware-accelerated drawing offered by OpenGL.

OpenGL is a portable software interface to graphics hardware. It is available for almost every platform in a variety of flavours. On AmigaOS and compatibles, OpenGL is available as MiniGL on AmigaOS 4, TinyGL on MorphOS, StormMesa on AmigaOS 3, and Mesa 3D on AROS. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems are usually shipped with an OpenGL driver already installed.

GL Galore offers wrapper functions for most commands of the OpenGL 1.1 API including many GLU functions. Additionally, GL Galore also offers bridging functions that allow you to convert Hollywood brushes into OpenGL textures and vice versa. Furthermore, when GL Galore is activated, Hollywood's hardware brushes and hardware double-buffers are mapped directly to OpenGL so that you can even benefit from hardware accelerated drawing and transformation without writing a single line of GL code. Whenever GL Galore is activated, all graphics output will automatically be routed through OpenGL.

GL Galore can also be useful for rapidly prototyping software in OpenGL. People who used to program OpenGL using C will greatly appreciate Hollywood's convenient multimedia API which offers functions for almost all common tasks. For example, by using GL Galore to write OpenGL programs you can avoid all the hassle of managing a GL window using one of the many different toolkits out there. Also, jobs like image loading, sound or video playback, font handling and image manipulation will become ridiculously easy thanks to Hollywood's powerful command set which covers almost 700 functions. And of course, there aren't 14 different versions of commands like glColor, but just one version because sometimes less is more.

GL Galore is the first plugin to bear the Powered by Hollywood 6.0 seal of quality as it utilizes the new display adapter plugin interface introduced with Hollywood 6.0. The plugin will not work with older versions of Hollywood. It is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ Versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (i386), Windows, Mac OS X (PowerPC and i386) and Linux (PowerPC and i386) are provided. On top of that, GL Galore comes with over 250 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM. Finally, many impressive example scripts are included in the distribution archive to get you started really quickly.

All of this makes GL Galore the ultimate OpenGL scripting experience combining the best of both worlds into one powerful plugin: Hollywood's extensive and convenient multimedia function set and OpenGL's raw graphics power!

(cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jun.2015

Aminet-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 6th, 2015:

AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.4M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
windsurf.lha             mods/demo  120K      A Module composed by Pete/Eni...
Calimero_beta_0.14.lha   text/dtp   8.8M  MOS A DTP Program
StormMesa_Libs68K.lha    util/libs  515K  68k MESA/OpenGL implementation fo...
StormMesa_LibsPPC.lha    util/libs  531K  WOS MESA/OpenGL implementation fo...
cAMIra.lha               util/misc  168K  68k simple webcam software using ...

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07.Jun.2015

OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 6th, 2015:

screentitleformat.lha    doc/mis 252b  4.0 Set alternative Screen Title on ...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amicraft.lha             gam/mis 950kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
aiss.lha                 gra/ais 8Mb   4.1 Amiga Image Storage System
aiss.pdf                 gra/ais 5Mb   4.1 Documentation
x1ktemp.lha              uti/doc 179kb 4.1 CPU Temp Monitor docky for the X...
dirmeup_demo.lha         uti/fil 977kb 4.1 Amiga Files Explorer
yt.lha                   vid/mis 2Mb   4.0 YouTube URL extractor script
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player

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07.Jun.2015

MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until June 6th, 2015:

PyMUI for Python 2.7     0.7.0   dev/pyt   1142 A Python module allowing fo...
ExFAT File System        1.1     sys/lib    193 Port of exFAT filesystem ba...
AmigaMark                1.2     sys/too   1119 A complex computer speed be...

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07.Jun.2015

WHDLoad: New packages until 06.06.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until June 6th, 2015:

2015-06-01 improved: Lorna (Topo Soft) supports another disk version (Info)

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07.Jun.2015
Pascal Papara (ANF) AROS-Distribution: Aeros for Raspberry Pi 2 Premium with ExaGear
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution Aeros now exclusively is available for the Raspberry Pi 2 as premium version (screenshot), which includes the lx-command for launching Linux-programms out of AROS as well as the commercial programm ExaGear.

Using this emulator it is possible to execute x86-applications on the ARM-processor of the Raspberry. Therefore programms like Skype (Linux/x86) and Wine (Linux/x86) as well as, based on them, Amiga emulators WinUAE (Windows/x86) and WinFellow (Windows/x86) can be used with this distribution (Video: WinFellow).

Some of the x86-programms only runs with limitations: For instance Skype has not a sound output because the required soundserver PulseAudio was left out due to problems with other apllications. Without ExaGear and the programms which use it, the distribution can be also used on a Raspberry Pi 1. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jun.2015
Forum-64 (Webseite)

Petro Tyschtschenko obviously sells his Walker prototype
According to rumours in several forums, Petro Tyschtschenko offers the last Walker prototype - the other model he sold to Nicholas Blachford long ago - for sale via Facebook. The entry on Facebook is not generally accessible. Therefore currently there are only some screenshots:

If these screenshots prove themselves true, then Tyschtschenko obviously hopes to get 25.000 Euro by selling this rare prototype - which recently could be booted at a retro meeting for the first time (the IDE-cable was connected incorrectly). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2015
Rick Thornquist (ANF) Company history: "Commodore - The Amiga Years" soon at Kickstarter
In October, Brian Bagnall expressed the hope, that the second part of his Commodore biography could be published. Now he has announced a Kickstarter campaign on Facebook for finishing "The Amiga Years" which will start on June 15th. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2015

Platformer: "The Game"
David Eriksson's "The Game" is an unfinished platformer written in AMOS. The game is fully playable, according to the author it only lacks "a title and a little bit of polish". The author explains that "there is no real ending, you just get to a room that says Well Done and there's no real end".

Eriksson also states that "The main reason I stopped development was that when I tried the game on a clean A1200 there was some minor sprite flicker that I couldn't get rid of (and its still there) but now I decided to clean up some other parts of the game up a bit and release what I have."

"The Game" was heavily inspired by the retro platformer You have to win the game, even if work on the former started way before the latter was released.

"The Game" runs on 68000-based Amigas but according to the author "it still is a little slow". An Amiga 1200 with some FastRAM is recommended. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2015
Geram Amiga Community (Webseite) PDF: The History of Psygnosis
A year ago the British podcast "Retro Asylum" released an episode named The History of Psygnosis. All the documents which the podcast is based on were visually conditioned and published as free E-Book: "Retro Asylum - The History of Psygnosis" can be downloaded as PDF-file from Google Docs. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2015
Martin Merz (ANF) AISS 4.19 released
Martin Merz has released an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS) which is a system for managing toolbar images under AmigaOS and other systems.

AISS 4.19 has more than 7.900 images. Due to compatibility reasons alle pictures and animations of the previous version are included as well. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Forum) Download page: MorphOS Central
Bastiaan de Waard's "MorphOS Central" is a download page which currently has more than 1400 files. The entries have been not categorized and can be only found by searching for the file name or the short name. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jun.2015
(ANF)

Sam460 customers can return AmigaOS 4.1 and get a refund
Three weeks ago, MorphOS 3.8 has been released, including support for the Sam460 motherboards from ACube. Now the Italian hardware vendor reacts to this development and offers his customers a refund if they want to return their copy of AmigaOS 4.1: If you return your AmigaOS DVD to ACube, ACube will pay you 48 Euros.

The exact conditions for the refund are listed in a PDF file that is linked to from ACube's webshop:

The refund is only available for "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition OEM" and needs to be requested no more than 30 days after purchase of the hardware
the DVD package is unopened and still shrinkwraped
The customer returns the DVD to ACube at his own costs and also pays any additional paypal or bank fees required for returning the money to him
To avoid the additional costs and the hassle of sending the DVD back to ACube, customers can request a refund immediately after ordering the hardware, bevore it's even processed at ACube

All Sam460 variants are still available only as a bundle with AmigaOS 4.1 though. The fact that ACube keeps referring to a "refund" even if it's clear new customers can pretty much buy a motherboard and request the 'refund' at the same time and that the company explains in detail why they're offering a refund - including a link to the EU guidelines on "Unfair Commercial Practices" suggests that ACube's contractually obligated to always sell a copy of AmigaOS 4.1 with their Hardware.

It's currently unknown if the refund will also be available when purchasing a Sam460 through another dealer. (cg)

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