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| 12.Sep.2019 |
Amiga Forever 8: R2 update released Cloanto's emulator package "Amiga Forever" - as well as its pendant "C64 Forever" - has been updated to version 8 R2. Changes include an option to dock the virtual keyboard beneath the playback window (screenshot) and controls for the full-screen mode that can be overlayed (screenshot). Below you will find the official press release. Press release: September 9, 2019 - Cloanto released today the "R2" (8.2.2.0) update for Amiga Forever 8 and C64 Forever 8. The "R2" build is the result of eight months of work since the previous major release, and takes into account user feedback, operating system enhancements and numerous features from our own wish list. This is a free update for existing version 8 users, who can get the new version through the Help/About dialog in Amiga Forever and C64 Forever. The updated full installation package can also be accessed via the original confirmation e-mail or from the new Help/My Downloads and Keys menu item, and is set to remain available for 10 years after an order. The new release further delivers an important milestone in the effort to implement better mechanisms for documenting and delivering version changes. Changelog details for available, installed and past versions, including early access builds, are now accessible from the Changelog tab under Help/About, and as part of the software update notifications. Other new and enhanced features include:
Overall, the project remains permeated by attention to detail, usability and beauty, which have been part of our Amiga software development work for more than three decades. As always, we are grateful to everyone who supported this project and to the friends who shared our passion and vision during these sometimes challenging, but always bright Amiga days. Please stay tuned for more to come. (snx) [News message: 12. Sep. 2019, 09:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 12.Sep.2019 Andreas Magerl (ANF) |
Amiga Future: 20 years anniversary website relaunch Andreas Magerl writes: On 09.09.99 the Amiga Future webpage went online for the first time. At that time, the webpage barely had content and only a few visitors daily. Meanwhile, the Amiga Future webpage has become one of the biggest websites for the Amiga. In addition to thousands of games and other downloads (including hundreds of commercial titles), the Amiga Future webpage is home to one of the largest cheats collections for the Amiga. But also several thousand reviews, previews and other articles about the Amiga you can read for free on the Amiga Future webpage. Many sold-out Amiga Future issues are also available on the webpage for free. Of course you are always up to date with the news and calendar about the Amiga. The news section is currently being expanded. We are looking for helpers for the news and other areas of the homepage. If anyone wants to help, please write to us. After 20 years the time has come and we have reworked the complete Amiga Future webpage. Of course, some mistakes may have crept in. If you discover any, please let us know. Unfortunately, the passwords of the accounts could not be transferred to the new page for all users. If you receive an error when logging in, please request a new password from the webpage. Have fun with the new homepage of the Amiga Future. (snx) [News message: 12. Sep. 2019, 09:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Sep.2019 |
IBrowse 2.5: Interview with Oliver Roberts The release of IBrowse 2.5 - 13 years after the latest update of the only web browser specifically created for the Amiga that is still in development - started an argument in the german comments section of our related news-item with regard to its price/performance ratio. A good reason for our editor Daniel Reimann to talk about this to the main developer of IBrowse, Oliver Roberts. In the preliminary talk to the actual interview found below, confronted with a certain disappointment of our readers regarding the features of version 2.5 and their critique of the price, the developer expressed his understanding in both cases, but pointed out that it had always been made clear what IBrowse 2.5 was going to be - and that it had been never promised to include CSS or HTML5; instead the plan had just been to deliver an AmigaOS 4 native version. And regarding the price, Oliver Roberts would like to advise users to only think about paying for what is available at the time of purchase and not the hope of something which may or may not be added in the future. amiga-news.de (AN): Are you satisfied with the keys sold so far for IBrowse 2.5? Can you give some figures? Does the future development depend on the number of sold keys? Oliver Roberts (OR): Not necessarily - no keys were sold the last 12 years, yet development did not stop. I won't give figures, but I am both encouraged and pleasantly surprised at the sales so far. Particularly for new licences, as I had assumed most people had purchased 2.x by now and we were mainly aiming 2.5 as an upgrade for existing customers. I'm very grateful for the many positive messages I have received and the general excitement that many IBrowse users have expressed with the release of 2.5. It reminds me of the good times I had around 2.3 and 2.4 releases. In the immediate future, I plan on continued development and more regular updates to 2.x, but this probably won't include HTML5/CSS. AN: Why is the price quite expensive for a new 2.5 licence, comparatively, although no current internet standards were implemented? OR: Depends which way you look at it, I guess! Sorting out the pricing structure was highly complex, mainly because of the addition of the AmigaOS 4 native version and I primarily wanted to be fair to our loyal existing customers, not devaluing what they have already paid for 1.x and/or 2.x in the past. So, I decided to freeze the price for a new license at the same price IBrowse has always been (in the real world, prices increase with inflation). In 1996, I paid the equivalent of 55 Euro for IBrowse 1.x and this was a lot of money back then - 23 years on, not so much comparatively. Also, all the development on the whole 2.x line since the late 1990s should be considered in the price - 55 Euro for thousands of hours development time. I fully realise that IBrowse 2.5 is not for everybody. I'm not forcing anybody to buy it and encourage everybody to try the demo before paying for it. People are entitled to their opinions and if people don't like 2.5, or don't have a use for it, then I'm fine with that - just move on. On the flipside, some users have been eagerly waiting for 2.5 for ages, knowing full well what the finished feature set was, having been published on our website and discussed on the mailing list. As I've tried to make clear on the website over the past few years, 2.5 was never about CSS/HTML5. Initially, it was just going to be rushed out as an AmigaOS 4 native 2.4 with only important bug fixes thrown in for AmigaOS 3.x users. Obviously, things did not pan out that way, for many, many reasons, and 2.5 is so much more than it originally was going to be, with continued development over the past 13 years. Unfortunately, only our beta testers got to experience the progress first hand. It is impossible to convey from the history logs exactly how much time was spent on 2.5, since some entries will have taken 10 minutes, whilst others have taken 100+ hours! AN: When can users expect a version of IBrowse which has CSS, HTML5 or an updated Javascript implemented? OR: I make no promises that this may ever come, but if it does, it will be in IBrowse 3.0. Some work was done on the CSS parser even before IBrowse 2.4 was released, but most likely this is itself in need of a major update. To be honest, I've not thought much beyond the release of 2.5 yet, as I had been concentrating my efforts on bringing everything together to get 2.5 done. IBrowse 2.5 still has a pretty good Javascript core engine - what is completely separate and lets it down now is the lack of access to browser/host-side elements. But, this more an issue with the current old restrictive internal DOM implementation, rather than a Javascript issue per se. AN: With regard to the previous question - is it possible at all to add those features to the current IBrowse without having to completely rewrite it? OR: Not at all. The GUI side of things wouldn't need rewriting, but the HTML engine would need a complete rewrite from scratch. Firstly, there are the HTML/CSS parsers which turn the source text into the internal DOM structures, and those structures are then read by the layout engine to properly display them in the browser. You can't change one of these things without the other - it is all intertwined. You can't just add bits of CSS support to the existing engine as you go along, for example. Everything has to be rewritten. IBrowse 2.x's HTML engine was designed in a time when essentially it was mainly images and form elements that were accessible via Javascript, whereas now it is much more complex and Javascript needs to be able to interface with every single element on a page, visible or not. This design really does not fit the current requirements of HTML5/CSS and DHTML, hence there is no way around it but to rewrite or port some existing solution. IMHO, Javascript is used way too much and to unnecessary extremes these days, but that's another story! AN: How much money future versions of IBrowse will cost if a user has bought already a 2.5 key? OR: There are no plans for any further charges for updates to the 2.x line. Free updates/fixes for 2.5 will be coming soon, maybe even 2.6. Should 3.0 ever happen (and there is no guarantee or immediate plans for this), bringing a new, more modern HTML engine, this would not be free. IBrowse 3.0 was always going to be a paid for update, with AmigaOS 4/PowerPC support and a new CSS capable HTML engine - IBrowse 2.5 is essentially what IBrowse 3.0 would have been without a new HTML engine. Hence, those who buy or upgrade to 2.5 would get a better discount upgrade price to 3.0 than those upgrading from earlier versions. I can't give figures on something that may never happen, but as I hope the upgrade discounts on 2.5 prove, any 3.0 upgrade prices would be just as fair. AN: Do you have some special desire or expectations to the remaining Amiga users? OR: Not sure I understand the question, but I'm just as much an Amiga user as a developer. Past years prove that the Amiga community will never really change, apart from getting smaller :(. As long as Amiga users are happy to use their Amigas, there is nothing wrong with that and there are still many things that Amigas can do better. I'm pleased that some Amiga users are happy to have IBrowse 2.5 at last. AN: What are your expectations concerning the future development of Amiga hardware? OR: I don't really have any expectations at this stage. I'm still happy using my AmigaOne XE as my main Amiga, but also want to try to get my Amiga 1200 motherboard fixed somehow. It will be great to see new hardware out there, although I tend to get the impression that recent efforts have not gone so well (unfinished/broken software and hardware). It all seems rather confusing to me and recent hardware efforts leave a nasty taste of unprofessionalism (makes the Eyetech days seem perfect). (snx) [News message: 08. Sep. 2019, 10:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Sep.2019 |
Web browser: NetSurf 3.10dev (SDL version), update 2 Artur Jarosik has released an update of his Amiga port of the web browser NetSurf. His port uses - in contrary to Chris Young's native, Reaction-based version - SDL. Only the preferences pane is MUI-based. Changes:
Update: (13.09.2019, 07:30, dr) Upon request author Artur Jarosik has informed that currently only the RTG version has been updated. The AGA version will be soon available as well. Update: (15.09.2019, 07:15, dr) Today Artur Jarosik has uploaded the full archive - including the AGA version. Direct download: NetSurf-m68k-3.10dev.lha (8,5 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Sep. 2019, 07:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Sep.2019 Amiga.org (Forum) |
AmigaKit acquired AK-Datatypes According to a press release (PDF file) of the British retailer, distributor and manufacturer of Amiga computer hardware and software, AmigaKit, it has acquired the graphics datatypes developed by Andreas Kleinert since he "had to stop due general lack of time and ability to further commit to the platform." For five years his image processing program SView has also been up for sale. AmigaKit is going to distribute the AK-Datatypes as well as bundle them with other products. With regard to existing customers AmigaKit plans "to offer concessions against future upgrades." (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Sep. 2019, 06:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Sep.2019 |
Aminet-Uploads until 07.09.2019 The following archives have been added to Aminet until September 7th, 2019: Gels020.lha dev/e 9K Pads AnimComp structures for ... RamJam_Corso_Assemble... docs/help 14M Italian Assembler tutorial Ramjam_Corso_SRC.lha docs/help 2.6M Sources for Italian Assembler... Amifish.lha game/board 2.0M OS4 interface for Stockfish chess... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul... Purpose.lha mods/misc 125K Purpose 4ch Pop Rock by HKvalhe ToolsMenu.lha util/cdity 67K 68k Add tools to the Workbench To... ReportPlus.lha util/misc 565K 68k Multipurpose utility ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 724K OS4 Multipurpose utility TinyLauncher.lha util/misc 111K 68k WHDLoad frontend and more LilCalendar.lha util/time 3.0M 68k Versatile calender and remind...(snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Sep. 2019, 06:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Sep.2019 |
OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.09.2019 The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until September 7th, 2019: amifish.lha gam/boa 2Mb 4.0 Chess program interface for Stoc... aiostreams.lha vid/mis 190kb 4.1 Stream online video from major p...(snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Sep. 2019, 06:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Sep.2019 |
AROS-Archives-Uploads until 07.09.2019 The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until September 7th, 2019: cover_cd_icaros.tgz gra/mis 45kb my artwork for icaros desktop cd(snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Sep. 2019, 06:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Sep.2019 |
MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 07.09.2019 The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until September 7th, 2019: DimScreen_1.2.lha System/Ambient/Commoditie Dims your screen to eye... MouseTracker_1.1.lha System/Ambient/Commoditie Record Mouse movements ... GrimoriumPDF_2.05.lha Office/Show A program made with Hol...(snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Sep. 2019, 06:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 08.Sep.2019 |
WHDLoad: New installers until 07.09.2019 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 installers have been added until September 7th, 2019:
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| 06.Sep.2019 |
Demo scene: Voting for next issue of "Versus" charts started Void and Nukleus are working on another issue of the scene magazine "Versus" which was founded in 2004. Amiga fans are invited to vote for the charts of the next issue and to propose the best demos, intros, programmers etc. You can propose up to ten names per category - but you are also welcome to participate if you have less than ten favourites. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 06. Sep. 2019, 22:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
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