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Archive 06/2020

`12.Jun.2020` Gregory Donner (E-Mail)	Graphics card: Firmware and driver update for ZZ9000 For his graphics card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported) Lukas F. Hartmann has released updates of the firmware and the driver. Version 1.6.2 among others offers improved stability and performance. Changes: Higher stability, esp. with 68060/CyberStorm. Better output signal. 1.5.1 for Zorro 3 had faulty FPGA timing. We finally figured out this was a Xilinx Vivado bug Improved raw read/write speed Improved speed on some P96 drawing functions, especially RectFill() Pattern Fixes to network driver incl. the possibility to switch to INT2 instead of INT6 in the case you have hardware conflicts. To do this, set the interrupt jumper on ZZ9000 to INT2 and create an empty file ENVARC:ZZ9K_INT2 Unified scandoubler (“videocap”) code for Denise and Videoslot sampling with slightly better centering (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 12. Jun. 2020, 23:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jun.2020`	Full version for download: Nicky 2 After the platform game Nicky Boom, now the successor released in 1993, "Nicky 2", can be downloaded for free from the website of the Amiga Future. An ADF disk image as well as WHDLoad installer are available. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 12. Jun. 2020, 23:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jun.2020` amigaworld (Webseite)	Crowdfunding: A book from David Pleasance and Trevor Dickinson After Commodore - The Inside Story, the former "managing director" of Commodore UK, David Pleasance, is working on a second book, this time in co-operation with Trevor Dickinson from A-EON. The book with the subtitle "From Vultures to Vampires" will tell the Amiga history "starting from the day when Escom were the highest bidder at Commodore's liquidator’s auction in New York (I was there), how their attempts to relaunch the Amiga spectacularly failed, then the troublesome years when our beloved computer bounced around from company to company, Viscorp, Quickpack, Gateway 2000, etc. and beyond." For 15 Euro supporters will get an e-book (epub, mobi and PDF), for 30 Euro a printed book. Both variants are supposed to be available in February 2021. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 12. Jun. 2020, 21:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jun.2020` commodore.news (Webseite)	Arcade classic: Missile Command Kevin Gallagher's "Missile Command" (video) is a remake of Ataris' arcade classic having the same name. The game runs on each Amiga having at least 512 KB RAM. The developer is already working on another arcade remake, the shooter Phoenix. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 12. Jun. 2020, 21:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2020` Amigaworld.net (Webseite)	Video: Hans de Ruiter about his stagnant laptop project For a long time there has not been any news about Hans de Ruiter's plans of creating a laptop case for the Tabor board (amiga-news.de reported). In a video now the developer, well-known for his RadeonHD graphics card drivers, spoke about this project: According to him it has not been cancelled but is only stagnating. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Jun. 2020, 20:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jun.2020`	Self-made project: USB joystick adapter with support for three fire buttons With Volker Oth's "C64 Joystick Adapter" you can connect Atari and Commodore compatible joysticks to modern computers having an USB port. The adapter supports up to three fire buttons, the mode for additional fire buttons (Amiga or C64) is set by a click on the button and displayed with a status LED. Up to four additional buttons can be connected to the adapter itself, required for navigating in the menus of the C64 replicas THEC64 and THEC64 Mini. On Bitbucket all required documents of the adapter Oth has published under the Creative-Commons licence CC-BY-SA. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. Jun. 2020, 17:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2020`	Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.3 Press release: IBrowse 2.5.3 has been released and can now be downloaded to update your existing IBrowse 2.5 installation (OS4 users can also upgrade using AmiUpdate). This is a free update for registered owners of IBrowse 2.5. IBrowse 2.4 and 1.x users can upgrade to IBrowse 2.5.3 via our store at discounted rates. We hope you are all well in these strange times - stay safe! The main target for this new version was to improve performance on HTTPS connections, given that SSL is relatively slow on 68k processors. Despite the performance enhancements that came in AmiSSL 4.4 (4.6 is available now, by the way), there is not much more that can be done in AmiSSL unless someone is able to write 68k assembly optimised versions of some of the modules (as is the case for PowerPC). Therefore, some other options have been exploited to enhance performance, which have been in beta testing over the past 3 months, due to the major changes required to the HTTP engine... SSL Session Caching: IBrowse 2.5.3 now implements a SSL session cache for all HTTPS connections, supporting all the differing session/ticket methods use from TLSv1.0 to TLSv1.3. This allows the slow initial handshaking to be bypassed on subsequent connections to the same host, thus increasing performance noticably on OS3, and even on OS4 too. Most websites support this feature universally. Persistent Connections: This is an older HTTP feature that was never implemented in IBrowse until now, partly because IBrowse has always relied on opening multiple connections to websites, which didn't really make this feature worthwhile. However, it can be useful for HTTPS connections as it allows them to be left open and reused, without having spend CPU time renegotiating the SSL connection at all. HTTP(S) persistent connections support is now available in IBrowse 2.5.3 (can be disabled in the settings). Not all websites support persistent connections and, some of those that do, do not keep connections open long enough (e.g. 1 second) to make a difference. We advise that 68k users pay additional attention to the Max. number of connections and Max. number of secure connections settings in the network preferences. These settings may need retuning because of the two new features described above. Probably, you should not set the number of secure connections to above 4, otherwise multiple connections can battle for CPU time and may well end up timing out. Fewer connections can turn out to be faster, but we suggest that you experiment with these settings to see what feels the best on your particular system. A number of other improvements and fixes have also been made and are listed in the history log and newly updated changes summary. We would also love to hear your experience of the new features on our mailing list which is still working and hosted by Yahoo! Groups. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Jun. 2020, 23:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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