27.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: SPI controller for clockport announced
Under the title link Retro 7-bit has announced a SPI controller for the clockport. Using the "Serial Peripheral Interface" you can access SD cards. The corresponding video shows such a card with 2 GB, to which is accessed by the prototype of the controller on an Amiga 1200.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2018, 21:36] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2018
Qemu (ANF)
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Emulator: QEMU 2.12.0 emulates Sam460ex
According to the version history available under the title link, version 2.12.0 of the emulator QEMU, released three days ago, includes the feature of emulating the Sam460ex board produced by ACube Systems.
Any further details e.g. to the compatibility regarding diverse Amiga operating systems are not available. At least in September 2017, AROS and MorphOS did not work (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2018, 21:21] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FCEU 1.7, GenesisPlus 1.9, Hu-Go 1.5
Kelly Samel - formerly known as company "Emerald Games", now operating as "Realstar Software" - has released updates of three of his MorphOS ports of emulators of Japanese game consoles.
FCE Ultra emulates the Nintendo-Entertainment-System (NES), GenesisPlus the Sega consoles Mega Drive, Sega CD, Master System as well as Game Gear and Hu-Go the PC Engine. Further details are available under the title link.
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25.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: Looking for help for verifying old bugs
The bugtracker of the WHDLoad team contains more than 1500 bugs which are partly very old. Bert Jahn, the author of WHDLoad, suspects that many of the bugs can be refered to e.g. the usage of cracked versions or buggy hardware. Other bugs have not sufficient details to be able to reconstruct the bug.
Jahn is going to reduce the amount of open bug report as far as possible. Therefore he asks users of WHDLoad to check some of the open bugs listed in the database and to give a feedback if they could be reconstructed. In this way the team can recognize which bugs have priority. Very old bugs which nobody could reconstruct will be deleted.
If users should find new problems with WHDLoad versions of games then they are asked to post them in the bugtracker instead of writing them in the forum.
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25.Apr.2018
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #46 - Interview with Robert Bernardo
The 46th issue of the Scene World Podcast offers an interview with Robert Bernardo. The US-American is chairman of the "Fresno Commodore User Group", attends several Commodore nd Amiga events worldwide and publishes videos of those meetings.
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2018, 22:19] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2018
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Puzzle game: Block Off! (third preversion)
Colin Vella's Block Off! (Youtube video) is a puzzle game written in AMOS in which you have to move bricks of the same colour side by side. This preversion includes 14 levels. All users are invited to create new levels using the editor and to send them to the authors. Block Off! requires one Megabyte RAM. The game runs on an A500 but an Amiga 1200 is recommended.
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22.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Website)
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Obligement: Review of MorphOS-3.10 (French)
On the Obligement website, David Brunet has published a detailed article about version 3.10 of the operating system MorphOS in French (amiga-news.de reported). Automatic translations into other languages - e.g. English - are available by choosing the corresponding flags.
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22.Apr.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 21st, 2018:
gopherexx.lha comm/tcp 3K Gopher server for MiamiDX/AmiTCP
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 43K 68k Mediator driver for G3/G4 PCI...
gs2000AGAfix.lha game/patch 14K 68k Fixes Gunship 2000 AGA/CD32 w...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.2M MOS Sega Genesis and MasterSystem...
VICE-i386-AROS-3.1.ta... misc/emu 22M x86 Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
VICE-MorphOS-3.1.lha misc/emu 29M MOS Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
InstantZip_3.5.lha util/arc 201K MOS ZIP (un)packer + en-/decrypte...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 20K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
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22.Apr.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archive has been added to the OS4Depot until April 21st, 2018:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
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22.Apr.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until April 21st, 2018:
aiss.lha gra/ico 9Mb Toolbar images
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22.Apr.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until April 21st, 2018:
GenesisPlus_1.8.lha Emulation Genesis-Plus emulates t...
VICE_3.1.lha Emulation The Versatile Commodore...
InstantZip_3.5.lha Files/Archive A ZIP packer / unpacker...
Anagramarama_0.5.lha Games/Think Anagramarama 0.5, multi...
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22.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.04.2018
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 April 21st, 2018:
- 2018-04-17 improved: Ode to Ramon 2 (Digital Force) illegal copperlist entries fixed, keyboard interrupt fixed, decruncher optimised, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info, Image)
- 2018-04-17 improved: Ode to Ramon (Digital Force) illegal copperlist entries fixed, keyboard interrupt fixed, decruncher optimised, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info, Image)
- 2018-04-16 improved: Odyssey (Audiogenic) fixed install script, removed debug code (Info)
- 2018-04-16 fixed: Speedball 2 CD?? (Renegade) fixed button not working on most joysticks (Info)
- 2018-04-16 improved: James Pond 2 - Robocod (Millennium) AGA support rewritten, fixed joypad handling, updated installer script (Info)
- 2018-04-15 improved: Shadoworlds (Krisalis) patch works with 0.5 MB chip and 0.6 MB other memory now, 68000 quitkey support, default quitkey changed to F10, WHDLoad v17+ features used, source code included, new install script (Info)
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2018, 06:45] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: WicherInstaller 1.8 for accelerator board Wicher 500i
For the accelerator board Wicher 500i produced by Retro 7-bit a software update has been relesaed. Version 1.8 now supports SD cards with more than 4 GB.
Download: WicherInstallerV1_8.lha (133 KB)
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2018, 06:44] [Comments: 0]
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21.Apr.2018
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Crowdfunding: History of Commodore - The Final Years
Started with Commodore: A Company on the Edge and Commodore: The Amiga Years, Brian Bagnall now is working on the thirs part of his triology about the history of Commodore.
According to Bagnall "this book is mostly written and now requires extensive editing and polish". He has started a campaign for crowdfunding the third volume: The book is supposed to be available at the end of the year.
So far 24,862 Euro were pledged and thus the goal of 15,906 Euro exceeded. Similar to the previous book "stretch goals" were defined like metallic foil stamp on spine, pages of color photos or embossed title on front cover which can be implemented if the required money will be donated. In order to achieve the same product quality, about 57.000 Euro have to be pre-financed by May 16th.
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[News message: 21. Apr. 2018, 23:36] [Comments: 0]
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20.Apr.2018
Vinnny (ANF)
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Demo scene: The Black Lotus released final version of Starstruck
12 years after the first release of "Starstruck" at the Assembly 2006 - the demo did win the competition - the scene group The Black Lotus has released a final version of it. According to the authors, the final version fixes some display errors. Additionally some optimizations of the performance, caused by an Atari-Falcon-port by MiKRO / Mystic, were back ported to the Amiga.
Starstruck requires an AGA Amiga with a 68060 (50 Mhz) and about 50 MB Fast-RAM. Graphic boards are not supported.
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20.Apr.2018
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris, beta 24
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the default mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. The program requires MorphOS 3.10. You can give feedback to the author using the corresponding discussion on Morphzone. Changes since our last news item:
Beta 24
- Email viewer displays some basic error on failure now, instead of just showing the loading animation forever
- Fixed: OAuth2 wouldn't always migrate to new settings correctly
- Fixed: OAuth2 could never complete in some cases
- Fixed: if the latest message in folder was removed on server, it was not removed from the local cache
Beta 23
- Reworked job priority queue to avoid situations where one has to wait for email contents for too long
- Folder full sync jobs can now be done in steps (unlocks email reading while syncing)
- Fixed email counts in the folder tree for IMAP
- Reworked autoconfiguration for OAuth2 providers
- Added Yahoo! Mail OAuth2 provider (does NOT work at the moment)
- Cut text (cmd+x) shortcut added to the email writer
- Revamped transport security settings - now a switch between TLS, STARTTLS and opportunistic STARTTLS
- When replying or forwarding mail, an appropriate flag on the source email is set
- Fixed: quick folder synchornization would call Close on a fh twice if ChangeMode() failed
- Fixed: Removing an account did not kill the entry from the settings list
- Fixed: After an account was removed but not removed from the list, collecting properties for the non-existing account threw exceptions
- Fixed: there was a rather nasty race condition in the main Session class
- Fixed: after adding a message to a folder and synchronizing the folder, each time it was synchronized, the message would duplicate in the index
Download: iris.lha (22,3 MB)
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19.Apr.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 132 - preview and extracts
A preview and extracts from issue 132 (May/June 2018) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a "special" about "CD or not CD", ein fair report from the DoReCo and a review of Golden Wing.
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18.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 85 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Bionic Commando", "Blue Max" and the educational game "Nations of the World: Australia".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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[News message: 18. Apr. 2018, 04:40] [Comments: 0]
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17.Apr.2018
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: InstantZip 3.5
Carsten Siegner's InstantZip (screenshot) is a graphical user-interface for PkZIP as well for the xad.library of MorphOS. In version 3.5 it is possible to create LhA archives (modifying will be added in a later version).
Download: InstantZip_3.5.lha (201 KB)
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[News message: 17. Apr. 2018, 02:32] [Comments: 0]
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16.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Video: Survey on MorphOS 3.10
Dan Wood has released a video which introduces some of the new features of MorphOS 3.10. Besides, he demonstrates how to change the look of MorphOS in two simple steps.
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[News message: 16. Apr. 2018, 23:02] [Comments: 0]
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16.Apr.2018
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Full version: Foundation Gold as free download
The Amiga Future offers the full version of the Siedler clone Foundation Gold for free download - but a registration is required.
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16.Apr.2018
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A4000: Two projects for original motherboard remakes
Last week two projects for the remake of A4000 motherboards (revision B) were presented:
The US-American trader and repair service Paul 'Acill' Rezendes is going to solve the problem of highly attrited A4000 motherboards he gets for repairing. Therefore he started a campaign Amiga 4000 Replica with Schematics at GoFundMe.
At the moment 4910 USD of the required 5000 USD were donated but Rezendes himself did finance the remaining sum and already tasked an US-American company with the development of an exact clone of the revision B of the A4000 motherboard. The corresponding project file will be available in different file formats ("open and public"), so interested people can produce new motherboards. The initiator of the project answers questions in a thread on amiga.org.
Another remake of the A4000 motherboard is A4000+ Alice. This design has been already finished. The developer already has assembled a working Amiga 4000 using "his" motherboard. As soon as the remaining motherboards will be sold on Amibay, the project documents will be publicly available. The Finnish developer 'hese7' plans also an ATX version of the motherboard. According to Finnish users a Prometheus-PCI solution will be included.
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15.Apr.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 14th, 2018:
NetFS-revised.lha comm/net 70K MOS Revised Network File System f...
VampireDemo2D.lha demo/misc 5.0M 68k VampireDemo2D
less-mos.lha dev/gg 534K MOS Viewer program similar to "more"
VICE-AmigaOS3-3.1.lha misc/emu 24M 68k Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
VICE-AmigaOS4-3.1.lha misc/emu 32M OS4 Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
InstantZip_3.4.lha util/arc 331K MOS ZIP (un)packer + en/decrypter...
ScreamBar.lha util/wb 37K MOS Screenbar plug-in + more for ...
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[News message: 15. Apr. 2018, 07:23] [Comments: 0]
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15.Apr.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 14.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until April 14th, 2018:
Less_530.lha Development/GeekGadgets A paginator similar to ...
InstantZip_3.4.lha Files/Archive A ZIP packer / unpacker...
Tuxfootball_0.31.lha Games/Sport Tux Football is a 2D fo...
Anagramarama_0.05.lha Games/Think Anagramarama 0.5, multi...
Report+_7.13.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
NetFS-revised_1.1.lha Network/Filesystem Network File System for...
MUIwake_0.3.lha Network/TCP Wake On Lan with MUI gui.
iConecta_2.35.lha Network/Wifi A little and easy tool ...
ScreamBar_1.1.lha System/Ambient/Screenb... Screenbar module plug-i...
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15.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.04.2018
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 April 14th, 2018:
- 2018-04-14 improved: Betrayal (Microprose) RawDIC imager, 68000 quitkey support, interrupts fixed, out of bounds blit fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2018-04-12 improved: Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (Origin Systems) RawDIC imager, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, illegal copperlist entries fixed, new install script (Info)
- 2018-04-10 fixed: Dynamo (Code Masters) access fault fixed, ext. mem size increased to 512k, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, 3 blitter waits added (v2), built-in cheat can be enabled by pressing C (Info)
- 2018-04-09 improved: Elvira - Mistress of the Dark (Horrorsoft/Accolade) quitkey on 68000 added, docs added (Info)
- 2018-04-09 improved: Speedball 2 CD?? (Renegade) fixed button not working on most joysticks (Info)
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10.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Book: "MorphOS - Volume One" in English, volume 2 in Polish available
The English-language version of the first volume of the two-volume book about the operating system MorphOS wriiten by Adam Zalepa (amiga-news.de reported) is supposed to be available from next week.
The first volume of the tutorial, originally published in 2016, is about the basics like booting from CD, the installation and the most important settings and the Shell. The second volume which will be published in Polnish this month, already regarding MorphOS 3.10, is about additional details, e.g. network, different file formats and file systems, data compression and data recovery, ARexx, Lua and emulation.
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[News message: 10. Apr. 2018, 20:20] [Comments: 0]
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08.Apr.2018
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update Gold 2.9
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of Motorolas m68k-series, which also provides a separate graphic mode called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). All changes are listed under the title link:
- Better support for fast Power-Off/On of the Amiga
- Allow software to turn off built-in Map-ROM to access on-board ROM-Chip
- Map-ROM mapping support for Atari ROMs
- Memory management support for Atari Memory map
- FPU speed-up (now 51 MFlops at x11 according to SysInfo)
- FPU fully working under Atari OS
- Pressing Fire buttons on Power-On will boot EmuTOS (Atar OS)
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08.Apr.2018
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZunePaint 0.12, ZuneView 0.38
Yannick Erb has updated his "ZuneTools" including ZunePaint, which is a simple bitmap graphic program, and ZuneView, which is picture viewer with editing functions. Both tools now can save pictures as ILBM files.
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[News message: 08. Apr. 2018, 17:59] [Comments: 0]
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08.Apr.2018
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: InstantZip 3.4
Carsten Siegner's InstantZip (screenshot) is a graphical user-interface for PkZIP as well for the xad.library of MorphOS. In version 3.4 previews were added of JPEG pictures using libexif and of films using the MUI class avcodec.mcc
Download: InstantZip_3.4.lha (331 KB)
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08.Apr.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 7th, 2018:
dizzytorrent1.04.lha comm/tcp 452K 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
HelloVOID.lha demo/intro 649K 68k HelloVOID demo
Shrinkler.lha dev/cross 844K 68k Shrinkler executable file com...
gcc-mos2wos.lha dev/gcc 17M MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
avcodec_mcc_1.0.lha dev/mui 2.1M MOS A Avcodec MUI Class
SCSISnoop.lha disk/moni 7K 68k Snoop accesses to SCSI device...
Chelp.lha util/batch 1.4M Online help for MorphOS shell...
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 559K MOS Multipurpose utility
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[News message: 08. Apr. 2018, 07:27] [Comments: 0]
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08.Apr.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 7th, 2018:
hp_photosmart.lha dri/pri 74kb 4.0 HP PCL3GUI printer driver
lhx.lha uti/arc 200kb 4.1 Pack & unpack using XZ/LZMA ...
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08.Apr.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 07.04.2018
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until April 7th, 2018:
kens_icons_v4.lha gra/ico 5Mb dual png icons
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08.Apr.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 07.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until April 7th, 2018:
mos2wos_0.5.lha Development/GCC no description
lariad_1.0.4.lha Games/Platform Lariad a space adventur...
SkyCheckers_1.03.lha Games/Think no description
MCC_AVcodec_1.0.lha System/MUI Classes A Avcodec MUI Class.
Chelp_1.3.lha System/Shell A lua script to fetch a...
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08.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.04.2018
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 April 7th, 2018:
- 2018-04-02 fixed: Police Quest 3 (Sierra) removed crash on 68000 machines (Info)
- 2018-04-02 improved: Laser Squad (Teque) added quitkey support for 68000, reduced chipmem usage (Info)
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04.Apr.2018
jPV (ANF)
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MorphOS Library: What's New in MorphOS 3.10?
At MorphZone's "MorphOS Library" an article has been published at the title link that presents the main features and changes of the new MorphOS version 3.10 in a visual way. (snx)
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03.Apr.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP takes over distribution of Reshoot and Reshoot R
Press release: APC&TCP is pleased to announce that the distribution of the well-known Amiga Games Reshoot and its successor Reshoot R has been taken over. Reshoot is now available in the APC&TCP online shop. In addition, a download version of Reshoot is now available directly from APC&TCP. Resellers who want to offer Reshoot to their customers, contact APC&TCP via email. Reshoot R is still under development and is expected to be released later this year.
APC&TCP has been active as an Amiga publisher for over 25 years and always looks for good and interesting Amiga products for release. If anyone is interested in selling his product via APC&TCP...just write an email.
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[News message: 03. Apr. 2018, 23:54] [Comments: 0]
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02.Apr.2018
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: MUI class avcodec.mcc
The MUI class avcodec.mcc distributed by Carsten Siegner can play different film formats using the AVCodecs but does not support audio output (screenshot). MorphOS 3.10 is required.
Download: avcodec_mcc_1.0.lha (2 MB)
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01.Apr.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 31.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until March 31th, 2018:
dizzytorrent1.03.lha comm/tcp 451K 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
exomizer.lha dev/cross 692K MOS A cruncher for 6502/Z80/6809 ...
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 719K Hollywood 7.1 spanish catalog...
fpc-3.1.1.powerpc-mos... dev/lang 57M MOS Free Pascal Compiler - MorphO...
lw_AdvLights_tut.lha gfx/3d 27K LW tutorial: advanced lightin...
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 640K 68k MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
LoadModule.lha util/boot 20K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
notAnAltTab.zip util/cdity 30K 68k Skips between open screens
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 685K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
MMULib.lha util/libs 723K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 501K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 642K OS4 Multipurpose utility
MagicMenu_2.35.lha util/wb 95K 68k Final MagicMenu release (Beta...
MagicMenu_2.35_src.zip util/wb 166K Sources for MagicMenu 2.35
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01.Apr.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 31.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until March 31th, 2018:
mixer.lha aud/mis 670kb 4.1 Audio mixer
reportplus.lha uti/mis 642kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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01.Apr.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 31.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until March 31th, 2018:
Exomizer_2.0.11.lha Development/Cross A cruncher for 6502/Z80...
FPC_3.1.1_20170826.lha Development/FreePascal no description
ResidualVM_0.40git_270... Emulation ResidualVM is a cross-p...
RegisterISO_1.12.lha Files/Convert A quick and dirty hack ...
Abuse_0.8.lha Games/Shoot 2D Abuse is a dark 2D side...
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31.Mar.2018
Philippe Lang (E-Mail)
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Crowdfunding: New Amiga-500 cases
After the Amiga-1200 cases and keyboard caps, Philippe Lang has started another crowdfunding project for financing the production of new cases for the Amiga 500 and 500+.
The new cases are not only supposed to replace the yellowed and recalcitrant cases but can also be equipped with the standalone version of the accelerator board Vampire V4 instead of an Amiga-500 board. For this and the Vampire-V2-A500 there are port extension for USB, HDMI and SD-card ports. Plastics used for the case are treated Anti-UV.
Philippe Lang wrote: "Plastics used for the case are treated Anti-UV. It will never yellow ever."
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31.Mar.2018
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Ex-employee of TAO Group talked about Elate and Amiga DE
In January of 2000 the new Amiga owner Amiga, Inc. announced a co-operation with the British TAO Group. Its product called Elate/Intent enabled the development of applications which are independent from the processor - which Amiga Inc. wanted to use to establish its Elate-based "AmigaDE" to as many as devices (handhelds, desktop computers, set-top-boxes).
Since 1991 the predecessor product of Elate called "TAOS" was introduced in the British issue of the magazine Byte. Meanwhile the arcticle also is available online. David Given, an ex-employee of TAO Group, took the corresponding discussion for reporting about the development of the system and to point out its strengths and weaknesses. He also talked about the co-operaqtion with Amiga, Inc.
The plan was that Amiga provides the customer support which the little TAO Group were not able to. David Given wrote: "We had a fling with Amiga pretty late on, and were the technology behind Amiga Anywhere, which nobody ever cared about. (Although we did actually get a few external users. The sheer novelty of this was hard to handle.)"
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[News message: 31. Mar. 2018, 17:16] [Comments: 0]
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30.Mar.2018
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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 12
The twelfth and last part of his series of articles called A History of the Amiga started in 2007 by the author Jeremy Reimer is about the events since the turn of the millennium. (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Mar. 2018, 23:54] [Comments: 0]
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30.Mar.2018
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MorphOS: Public beta test of new email client Iris
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, member of the MorphOS team, has released an early beta version of the forthcoming MorphOS standard email client. "Iris" supports IMAP as well as viewing and writing HTML eMails with pictures and different fonts. You can get more information in the corresponding posts of the MorphZone.
Download: iris.lha (22 MB)
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[News message: 30. Mar. 2018, 20:04] [Comments: 0]
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29.Mar.2018
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AmigaOS update: Further details to AmigaOS 3.1.4
In a discussion on amiga.org, the developers Thomas 'Thor' Richter and Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel have informed about the current status of the development of their updates for AmigaOS 3.1 called "3.1.4". Additional to diverse bug fixes and the changes which are known since the Amiga32, among others the following changes will be added:
- The update will include a new version of "DiskDoktor" which "examine the contents of the volume, looking for defects and copy the contents of the directory tree to a different volume". Large volumes and long file names are supported. The new version of DiskDoktor only requires 1 Megabyte dealing with a 1 Gigabyte partition, and 8 Megabytes for a 8 Gigabyte partition.
- A replacement for the CD file system CDFS: A backport of the CD file system of of AmigaOS 4 (currently without supporting mixed-mode CDs, UDF, HFS and HFS-plus) which supports the new mount options "NoNSD", "DirectSCSI" and "SuperFloppy". Besides, "Mask", "Maxtransfer" and "BufMemType" are honoured.
- "CrossDos now also supports long file names, FAT32, FAT24 and FAT16."
- CrossDOS as well as the new CDFS now are multithreaded, that means they do not freeze the Workbench any longer while working.
- Obviously the Workbench developed by Olaf Barthel from AmigaOS 3.5+ is used - or at least part of it: Richter mentioned that replacements for the prefs programs of Workbench and ASL have to be used since Reaction was removed.
- The programs MagTape and Edit were removed from the distribution. Edit "suffered from several bugs and limitations".
- workbench.library and icon.library "are already too large to fit into the ROMs", they will be on disks. They will also take more RAM, "so that there is less left on the low-end machines. It will probably not work with 512K alone."
Richter pointed out that many parts of the new features still have to be tested. The developers are looking for new beta testers.
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28.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Weekly progresses since 26th February
Neil Cafferkey has published the latest progresses on the open source AmigaOS clone called AROS:
- Allow kernel debug output to be captured by Sashimi, Bifteck etc. (neil)
- Fixed a problem with software interrupts that caused stuttering in HDAudio playback when ACPI was enabled (neil)
- Allow CPU to sleep again when no task is running and ACPI is disabled; avoids VMs stealing host CPU time for no reason and saves power when running natively (neil)
- ICU library V60.2 ported for future use with Odyssey (wawa)
- Implemented retrieval and usage of all PCI IRQ routing tables from ACPI (instead of just the one for the root bus). This solves the problem of some devices having incorrect IRQ numbers when ACPI is enabled (e.g. wired and wireless network interfaces on the Acer AspireOne A110 and A150 work again) (neil)
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28.Mar.2018
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Introduction to Objective-C under MorphOS 3.10
Objective-C is an "object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language". Due to the conceptual similarity to BOOPSI ("Basic Object Oriented Programming System for Intuition"), Objective-C now is used in MorphOS to simplify creating and using new (MUI-) classes. On the website of the MorphOS project you can "read more about the implementation details and how MorphOS developers will be able to use these new frameworks".
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[News message: 28. Mar. 2018, 23:49] [Comments: 0]
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