06.Nov.2017
a1k.org (ANF)
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FPGA processor: 68080 is to licenced to hardware producers for free
Gunnar von Boehn offers to provide his reimplementation of a 68k processor calles 68080 to further hardware producers. Currently the Vampire accelerator boards ("Apollo Cores") are equipped with a 68080 which are available for A500/A600 and announced for the A1200. For the "big" Amigas so far nobody has offered such solutions.
von Boehns now offers that a hardware producer can licence a version of the 68080 for free which after booting the system is reduced to the speed of a real 68060 processor but apart from that has all the features of a 68080. This "Shareware output" of the CPU end users could turn off by purchasing a keycode.
If companies would use this offer, producers could again offer fast accelerator board for Amigas and Ataris despite the high prices resp. the unavailability of such boards. On the other hand, von Boehn could break into new markets because producers like Jens Schönfeld could offer boards for the Amiga3000/4000.
This offer is limited to the CPU of the Apollo Core. Other parts like SAGA or a chipset emulation are not included.
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05.Nov.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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15 years of Hollywood: Malibu 1.4 released as Freeware
Press release: 15 years ago today, on Nov 5th 2002, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released version 1.0 of Hollywood. Back then it was advertised as a "multimedia authoring system" comprising over 150 functions and it was only available for 68k Amigas. It immediately attracted the attention of lots of creative people from all around the world and thanks to the fantastic support of its community Hollywood has grown into a real swiss army knife for all different kinds of purposes. Who would have guessed 15 years ago that Hollywood would evolve into such a beast of a software that runs on over a dozen of different platforms and has lots of plugins that enhance its capabilities even further?
To celebrate Hollywood's 15th anniversary, Airsoft Softwair proudly presents a brand-new version of Malibu, the plugin that enables Hollywood to run Scala scripts. First released in June 2003, Malibu was the first Hollywood plugin and the one that started it all. As a special gift to the Hollywood community for its fantastic support over the last 15 years Airsoft Softwair has decided to make Malibu freely available for everybody. Previous versions were sold commercially but now Malibu is a Hollywood plugin that is provided completely free of charge like all other Hollywood plugins.
Malibu 1.4 is a major update that introduces support for Linux and Mac OS and for 64-bit architectures. It also contains various bug fixes and enhancements like the ability to export Scala scripts as Hollywood scripts. Malibu emulates nearly the whole Scala command set and supports all Scala versions from 1.0 up to Scala InfoChannel 500 which was the last Amiga version of Scala. Emulation is done by the El Capitan microkernel which tries to achieve the best performance possible on the system used. With Malibu it is now possible to run those Scala presentations without the actual classic Amiga hardware. Because the whole emulation runs on top of Hollywood's multimedia application layer you can run Scala presentations on every platform supported by Hollywood. In many cases the quality of the pictures that Malibu displays is much better than the original Scala quality because Scala often had to remap many pictures with very different colors to a 8-bit display which resulted in a massive loss of color information. With Malibu, however, all graphics are shown in true colour.
Scala is a program which helped the Amiga to become a real multimedia wonder. There were no products for a long long time that could beat an Amiga with Scala. Therefore Scala was widely used in all different production fields, from movies and television to big shows. Everyone who has worked with Scala knows what powers it has. But this power is only possible because Scala is very hard-coded to the Amiga's custom chips which leads to the problem that it does not run on modern Amiga systems or other platforms. For many years all sorts of users complained that there was no Scala that runs RTG compatible. This time is over now. Malibu revives Scala in a completely system-friendly way.
Malibu is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal under the title link. Versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86,x64), Mac OS X (ppc, x86, x64) and Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64) are provided.
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05.Nov.2017
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AMOS animation: Alfredo's Perilous Pitfall
Alfredo's Perilous Pitfall is a remake of the sequel of an C64 animation which was inspired by an Apple-II series about a stick figure written by Richard Derocher. The source code of the AMOS animation is included.
Download: alfredo.adf (880 KB)
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05.Nov.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.11.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until November 4th, 2017:
WhatChanged.lha biz/dbase 6K MOS Identifies file system change...
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 6K 4 Stefano Maria Regattin Blit...
file-mos.lha dev/gg 1.3M MOS Determine file type
Aquaria_ppc-morphos.lha game/actio 3.3M MOS Aquaria, underwater game
bermudasyndrome-wos.lha game/actio 306K WOS Bermuda Syndrome Engine (Warp...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.0M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
fxPAINT_de.lha gfx/show 23K Unofficial German catalog for...
alfredo.adf pix/anim 880K 68k Alfredo's Perilous Pitfall
workbenchexplorer.lha util/dir 2.0M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
FontWalker_mos.lha util/misc 1.4M MOS Collect and display TTF fonts
FontWalker_os3.lha util/misc 2.4M 68k Collect and display TTF fonts
FontWalker_os4.lha util/misc 1.8M OS4 Collect and display TTF fonts
RSCP.lha util/moni 25K 68k RawSpeed Controller Performan...
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05.Nov.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.11.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until November 4th, 2017:
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
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05.Nov.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 04.11.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until November 4th, 2017:
metadiary.i386-aros.zip off/mis 220kb Color-coded activity log.
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05.Nov.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.11.2017
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 November 4th, 2017:
- 2017-11-03 improved: PP Hammer (Demonware) RawDIC imager, disk access disabled, new install script (Info)
- 2017-11-02 improved: Twin World (Blue Byte/UBI-Soft) RawDIC imager, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, DMA waits in replayer and sample player fixed, trainer options added, source code included, new install script (Info)
- 2017-10-31 improved: Toki (Ocean) reverted to previous install release (Info)
- 2017-10-31 updated: Gem'X (Demonware/Kaiko) patch redone, RawDIC imager, bugs in TFMX replayer fixed, high-score load/save, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-30 fixed: Great Courts 2 / Pro Tennis Tour 2 (Blue Byte) load/Save tournament was broken (Info)
- 2017-10-30 fixed: Gem'X (Demonware/Kaiko) disk access removed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, copperlist termination fixed (Info)
- 2017-10-30 improved: Amnios (Psygnosis) 68000 quitkey support (Info)
- 2017-10-30 fixed: Mr.Nutz (Ocean) problem with wrong disk request after intro screens fixed (Info)
- 2017-10-30 new: Aunt Arctic Adventure (Midware) patch redone, SPS 1757 version supported, trainers added (Info)
- 2017-10-30 improved: Toki (Ocean) adapted to WHDLoad v17: dynamic CUSTOM settings (Info)
- 2017-10-29 improved: Mr.Nutz (Ocean) proper 68000 quitkey support, illegal copperlist entries fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-29 improved: Celtic Legends (UBI-Soft) RawDIC imager, more blitter waits added, blitter wait patches disabled on 68000, load/save game routines rewritten, 68000 quitkey support, new install script (Info)
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04.Nov.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Print magazine: 2nd issue of "Amiga User" available
After having published issue "0" a month ago, now the next issue "1/2017" of the magazine "Amiga User" (amiga-news.de reported) is available in an Polish and English edition and can be also ordered as e-book. This latest issue among others is about mathematical software, database management system, effective disk recovery and about hard disk drive in Amiga 500.
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01.Nov.2017
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
English articles:
- Review: Beneath A Steel Sky
French articles:
- September/October 2017 news
- Old articles from Tilt 104 to 108:
- Report: Supergames Show 1992, Siggraph 92, Foire de Paris 1992, Jaguar XJ220
- Reviews: Campaign, Flashback, Road Rash, The Manager, BAT 2
- News: Ocean, ça déménage, Interview with Eric Chahi, What's new on CDTV?, Interview with Jordan Mechner
- Comparative: Amiga 4000 vs Falcon 030
- Interview with Zaher Sai (Amiga user from Syria)
- Interview with Artur Jarosik (developper of NetSurf)
- Review: Beneath A Steal Sky
- Review: C64 Forever 7
- Review: Slarti
- File: Classic Reflections - Whatever happened to Micro-Systems Software?
- File: Behind the scenes, developpment of Traps 'n 'Treasures
- Tutorial: Installation of Linux Ubuntu on AmigaOne X5000
- Point of view: Behin the scenes, developpment of the Amiga 3000+
- Point of view : First steps of a MorphOS user on AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition
- Special quizz about the Kickstarts
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01.Nov.2017
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Space Invaders clone: Space Hippies
"Space Hippies" (Youtube video) is a Space Invaders clone, developed in 1992 and by Martin Fowler and so far was not released. The scene group Wanted Team could get the source codes from Fowler and created a scene like release - including intro and trainer menu. The souce codes are included in the release.
Direct download: Space-Hippies-2017-Trainer-Fix-Flashtro.zip (678 KB)
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31.Oct.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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FPGA graphics board: Driver and firmware 1.8.3 for the VA2000
Lukas 'mntmn' Hartmann has released another driver and firmware update for his FPGA-based graphics board VA2000. In version 1.8.3 a linear memory management is used which allows it to work with applications and games which do not accept the "BytesPerRow" specification. Besides, a workaround for a Picasso96 bug is included. For the extension VA21000CX now an automatic de-interlacer for the "Hires Laced" and "Lores Laced" screen solutions is available.
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31.Oct.2017
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Logic game: impsbru
In "impsbru" (Youtube video) you have to control a red block along 3D objects which remind on M.C. Escher. Level editors also are included in the game. The source codes of the game which was written in C are available on Github.
impsbru was developed and tested on an A500 with Kickstart 1.3 but should run on any Amiga.
Download: impsbru.zip (50 KB)
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31.Oct.2017
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphZone Library: Crash Course to Hollywood Programming
Under the title link a short "crash course" for programming in Hollywood was published including three example programs, one of them for creating an user friendly interface.
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30.Oct.2017
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AmigaOS 4: Playable preview of "Spencer" (Entwickler-X)
"Spencer" (Youtube video) is the latest project of Entwickler-X (M.A.C.E., Swamp Defense, Emotion). Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus provides a playable preview but explicitly points out that this early version has still many bugs. For full performance, Spencer requires the latest versions of Warp 3D Nova and OpenGL ES although it is not perfectly clear if the last version which is available for users can meet this requirements. Spencer should also run without Nova, then MiniGL is used instead of it - and objects do not cast a shadow.
Some hints for reducing the graphical representation - to make the game running on weaker computers - and to the keyboard layout, Claus has published under the title link.
Direct download: Spencer.lha (19 MB)
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29.Oct.2017
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Preversion of Wings Remastered at Amiga32
We mistakenly have reported that Wings Remastered had been completed. We apologise for this mistake. A final Amiga version of Wings Remastered could not be presented at the Amiga32 but users who have ordered the game in advance could have a preversion of the AmigaOS 4 port burned on CD and take it home together with a box and a printed manual.
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29.Oct.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: HDAudio driver 6.27
Neil Cafferkey has released an update of the HDAudio driver for AROS/x86. For a while, version 6.27 is included in the Nightly Builds but only now was known to the public.
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29.Oct.2017
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Book: Sales launch for Brian Bagnall's "Commodore: The Amiga Years"
According to the reports and pictures of the Amiga32, Brian Bagnall's "Commodore: The Amiga Years" could already be purchased there. At Amazon the book is listed as available.The delivery is expected to be done between 18. - 29. November.
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29.Oct.2017
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Hyperion announced another update for AmigaOS 3.1
At the Amiga32, yesterday Hyperion obviously announced another update for AmigaOS 3.1. Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel and Thomas 'Thor' Richter are the programmers. The most important new feature may be the support for big patitions and long file names: All relevant modules (file system, HDToolbox, Mount etc.) have been reworked. A detailed list of the planned update was published in a message at the Amiga32:
Currently we dot not have further information. If the updated system still fit on an usual ROM is not clear.
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29.Oct.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 28.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until October 28th, 2017:
netsurf.lha comm/www 6.8M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 3.5M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
Void-7Ate9.lha demo/intro 51K 68k "7 Ate 9" by Void
Void-ApplejackPack2.lha demo/sound 373K 68k "Applejack Pack 2" by Void
BlitzLocale.lha dev/basic 123K 68k Use Locale in AmiBlitz Programs
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 691K Hollywood 7.0 spanish catalogs
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 66K 68k Align 3 tiles of the same col...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.0M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.6M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mods/smpl 54K 68k Some samples created by Sampl...
SamplesCreator.lha mus/edit 62K 68k Samples creation and saving
xad_7z.lha util/arc 240K OS4 XAD (UnArc) client for 7-Zip ...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 499K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 557K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 640K OS4 Multipurpose utility
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29.Oct.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until October 28th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
vmt.lha off/dat 7Mb 4.1 Vehicles costs management tool
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29.Oct.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 28.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until October 28th, 2017:
edgar.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 125Mb Sdl 2d platform adventure game.
nickboum.i386-aros.lha gam/pla 1Mb NickyBoum
vmt.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 7Mb Vehicles costs management tool
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29.Oct.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.10.2017
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 October 28th, 2017:
- 2017-10-27 improved: Airball (Microdeal) blitter waits added, out of bounds blit fixed, 68000 quitkey support, default quitkey changed to Del, interrupts fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-27 improved: Lotus 3 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) 68000 quitkey support, manual protection completely disabled, wrong DDFSTRT fixed, manual included, new install script (Info)
- 2017-10-27 improved: Thunderstrike (Millennium) copperlist problem fixed, manual protection completely disabled, 68000 quitkey support, new install script, blitter wait patches disabled on 68000, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-26 improved: Beyond Dark Castle (Activision) crash after intro on fast machines fixed, missing icons added (Info)
- 2017-10-26 improved: Harley Davidson (Mindscape) stack problem fixed, byte write to volume register fixed, illegal copperlist entries fixed, drive access disabled, access faults fixed, manual protection completely skipped (Info)
- 2017-10-26 improved: Utopia (Gremlin) 68000 quitkey support, disk access removed, manual protection completely skipped, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-25 improved: Lothar Matth?us (Ocean/Audiogenic) Bplcon0 color bit fix, 68000 quitkey support, disk 2 request disabled, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-24 improved: Whizz (Flair Software) support for another AGA version added, source code included (AGA version) (Info)
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28.Oct.2017
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A3660: Free, 68060-compatible replica of A3640
John "Chucky" Hertell has replicated the A3000/A4000 CPU board A3640. A 68060 processor can be plugged in his board which analogous to the 68040-based model was named A3660. The project was started because many of the A3640-boards was damaged due to leaking capacitors and the modification of such a board is considered to be difficult for a 68060-processor. The developer has published all information about the replica in his blog.
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28.Oct.2017
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World Episode 39 - Chris Abbott and "Project Hubbard"
In its 39th issue of the "Scene World" podcast the moderators have interviewed Chris Abbott (C64Audio.com) about his latest Kickstarter project - a book about Rob Hubbard which is named "Project Hubbard".
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28.Oct.2017
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Event: Pictures and reports of Amiga 32
Today the "Amiga32" is taking place in Neuss. Visitors of the event have published some first pictures:
Reports of the event:
Videos:
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26.Oct.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench distribution: AKReal 9
AKReal works with 16 colours and is the inofficial adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit to real Amigas. Now version 9 has been released. The changes are listed in the changelog.
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26.Oct.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 3/4: Web browser NetSurf 3.7
On 20. October the official version 3.7 of the browser NetSurf was released. Therefore Chris Young also has updated his native, ReAction-based port (not to be confused with the SDL version provided by Artur Jarosik). Version 3.7 "features performance improvements, improved page layout, and many fixes and allows Hotlist (Bookmarks), History and Cookies to be searched."
Download:
netsurf.lha (7 MB)
netsurf_os3.lha (beta version, 4 MB)
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23.Oct.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Mouse pad: "Red Board" (Amiga 500 board)
APC&TCP now offers a mouse pad designed in "red board". Red Board is a replication of an Amiga 500 motherboard.
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22.Oct.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until October 21st, 2017:
FFT_AMIGA.py.txt dev/src 3K 68k Simple FFT for AMIGA Python 2...
tigerclaw-amigateaser... game/demo 69K 68k Jump'n Kick, early non-playab...
Greedium.lha game/wb 863K MOS A small mui game about numbers
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
furiatuneGUI1.2.lha util/app 40K 68k Graphical user interface for ...
TinyLauncher.lha util/misc 110K 68k WHDLoad frontend and more
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22.Oct.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.10.2017
The following archive has been added to the OS4Depot until October 21st, 2017:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
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22.Oct.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.10.2017
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 October 21st, 2017:
- 2017-10-20 improved: Dragon Wars (Interplay) Slave uses kickstart 1.3 for 68000 compatible (Info)
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21.Oct.2017
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AmiWest presentations from A-EON and Hyperion
AmiWest 2017 is taking place in Sacramento (USA) this weekend. The first presentation was another joint effort of Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) and Steven Solie (Hyperion). For the first time in many years, the Hyperion representative did not make any announcements, he was simply there to answer a few questions from the audience at the end of the presentation.
The following is a summary of the topics discussed. Unfortunately, the live stream had a few problems and completely dropped out for two or three minutes during the Q&A session - it's unlikely but possible that we missed something noteworthy.
AmigaOne X5000
The computer is "selling well", even with AmigaOS not being "fully optimised" for the hardware yet. Asked about optimization, Solie explains that the SATA driver "just works, it's not optimised at all". An Ethernet driver is still missing aswell, after that the CopyMem routine would be an obvious target for optimizations. Solie can't say if these updates will be distributed as a complete ISO or separate downloads. Asked for a timeframe, he expects them to arrive "in months, not years". Support for the 2nd CPU core is not discussed. Dickinson points out that a X5000 running MorphOS 3.10 is present at the show.
Tabor
For the first time, a Tabor motherboard running AmigaOS 4 is on display at AmiWest. It's still missing audio and ethernet drivers, and the FPU emulation is still being worked on. As soon as these problems are solved, the machine could go on sale. Dickinson again mentions a price tag of 400 Euros, but points out it's not clear yet if the licence fee for AmigaOS will be included in that price.
A-EON will offer special builds of its software compiled to achieve maximum speed with Tabor's incompatible FPU. Hyperion will offer an SDK update that will enable external developers to release Tabor builds of their programs aswell.
A.L.I.C.E.
The Laptop running Windows and (emulated) AmigaOS 3/4 had already been presented at last year's AmiWest. It should have been on sale this year, but due to a supplier messing up, only very few (one?) machine made it to Sacremento. The unintentional one-year-delay was used to "implement a lot of new features", but the new features were not explained during the presentation. A.L.I.C.E.'s price will depend on the actual Laptop used - apparently, several different versions of the package will be offered.
Enhancer
A new release of A-EONs "Enhancer" bundle is in the works. Amongst other things, it will include a new version of the RadeonHD drivers, that support the entire RAM on a Radeon graphics card (as opposed to only two Gigabyte) and newer Radeon GPU models. More details can be found in the screenshots of Dickinson's slides included below.
LibreOffice
The LibreOffice port, which was said to have entered betatesting shortly before last year's AmiWest, was not mentioned at all during the presentation. As far as we could tell from observing IRC channels, it didn't come up during the part of the Q&A session where the live stream was dead.
AmigaOS 4
An update for the AmigaOS 4 SDK is in the works, it will be released "as soon as I finish the work". Steven Solie would appreciate some help with this: big parts of the SDK are Free Software or Public Domain, so any external developer could assist Solie in finishing the update.
Asked about a roadmap for Amiga 4 and the lack of updates, Solie points out that this was a new policy introduced by (then) new management - we assume he's referring to Costel Mincea, who joined Hyperion in 2015 as the third director. Solie thinks there "might another change be coming in that policy", he's feeling the "winds of change". According to him, the short-term roadmap is obvious: finish OS4 for Tabor, optimize the X5000 build.
PORTIA: DIY Laptop case for Tabor/Mini-ITX
Hans de Ruiter (RadeonHD, Warp 3D Nova) is working on a Laptop case for his Tabor motherboard. We couldn't make out the details due to audio issues - but it sounded like the plastic case, which is supposed to take any miniITX motherboard, will become a commercial product.
Some very small pictures of PORTIA ("PORtable Tabor Incorporating AmigaOne") could be seen on one of Dickinson's slides during the presentation.
NoviaOS
Towards the end of his presentation, Dickinson clarifies a joke he made in his latest blog post: "NoviaOS" is simply AmigaOS. He was just having some fun and wanted to point out that AmigaOS will soon support more than two Gigabyte of GFX RAM (see above).
Screenshots of the slides
The following screenshots show all slides from Dickinson's presentation that were shown fullscreen during the (low resolution) live stream. A few more slides were only shown in the background of the video.
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21.Oct.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Scene World: Audio interview with Dr. Peter Kittel
On Scene World the former Commodorea and Amiga Technologies employee Dr. Peter Kittel has been interviewed. Besides, today the third part of the interview series with Christian Spanik has been published.
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21.Oct.2017
Amigans.net (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Integrated development environment CodeBench 0.55
After a break of four years, Simon "Rigo" Archer has released a new beta version of his integrated development environment CodeBench (screenshot). AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1 as well as the latest version of the SDK are required. Two free versions of Codebench are offered: One is meant for using with the AmigaOS 4-SDK, the other one is meant for Hollywood users.
A detailed list of changes is included in the download archive. The online documentation has not been updated which will be done step by step.
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19.Oct.2017
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Web browser: IBrowse 2.5 presentations at AmiWest and Amiga32
For years the website of the MUI-based web browser IBrowse has published hints for a forthcoming version 2.5. But these hints only were little texts - and the program itself could not be purchased any longer since the exit of the last publisher IOSPIRIT. Therefore many Amiga users have lost faith in an update.
According to the IBrowse team, the forthcoming version 2.5 will be presented during the next weekends at the AmiWest and the Amiga32. Because many users cannot attend the events, the team has provided "a work-in-progress news summary page which lists the main new features and changes since IBrowse 2.4."
New features:
- OS4 Native Version Added (OS4.1 Final Edition Required)
- AmiSSL v4 Support
- MUI 4.0 and 5.0 Support
- Alpha Channel Support (OS4)
- 4Gb+ File/Downloads (OS4)
- OpenSearch support
Re-written features:
- TextEditField Text Editor
- Disk Cache clean up
Improved features:
- JavaScript Engine
- HTML Engine
- HTTP Engine
- Password Manager
- Cookie support
- Various GUI Elements
- Internal Image Decoders
- Memory Management
- Bug Fixes
There are also detailed information to the respective points on the IBrowse website. About the HTML Engine it is said: "The existing HTML4 engine has been enhanced, with improved support for more tags and attributes, as well as being compatible with more sites. Redraw speeds of background images containing transparency has been greatly improved."
The FAQ and the Changelog have been updated as well. It is neither said anything about a possible date of release nor about a commercial sale of the program. According to the FAQ it "has yet to be decided" if the IBrowse 2.5 update will be available for free.
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19.Oct.2017
FS-UAE (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.7dev (beta)
Frode Solheim has released a new developer version 2.9.7 of the emulator FS-UAE providing the following changes:
Changes in FS-UAE:
- Support building with latest version of MSYS2
- Renamed option frame to bezel
- New option: force_aspect
- Added shaders compiled/ported/written by guest.r
Changes in FS-UAE Launcher:
- Fix detection of Windows 10
- Support building with latest version of MSYS2
- Include quick setting to toggle display of bezel
- Quite a bit of changes, but many related to non-Amiga platforms
Changes in FS-UAE Arcade:
- Respect joystick modes from the game database in input selection screen
- Fixed aspect toggle button
- Fixed support for dual X-Arcade controllers
- Gamepad/joystick devices can be hotplugged with on-screen notifications
- Option to disable search function (arcade_search)
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19.Oct.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 129 - preview and extracts
A preview and extracts from issue 129 (November/December 2017) of Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a preview of Reshoot R, a review of Hermes and an interview with Ben Hermans.
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19.Oct.2017
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Dock in Mac OS style: New version of MacLikeDock (update)
In a tutorial for beatifying Workbench, Stefan Egger has pointed out that an updated version of the dock MacLikeDock is available. The program which was originally written for AmigaOS 4 imitates the look and the performance of the dock of Mac OS X. There is an older port of the program to AmigaOS 3, which is also used in Amikit, but this is supposed to be quite bugged. The version of MacLikeDock which is available on his website still has the version string "Mac-Like Dock 3.2 (03.29.13)", but according to Egger includes diverse bug fixes.
Direct download: MacLikeDock.lha (1,4 MB)
Update: (19.10.2017, 15:30, cg)
According to our reader Cego in our German comment section, compared to the Amikit version, this version of MacLikeDock does not run on AGA systems any longer.
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18.Oct.2017
Markus Tillmann (ANF)
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Event: Update to Amiga32
Markus Tillmann wrote: One and a half week before the Amiga32 will start on 28. Oktober in Neuss, we want to announce some final information:
- For about three month the event is sold out - 520 persons (exhibitors and honoured guests included) will attend the Amiga32. We could have sold about 150 additional ticktes. Therefore the Amiga32 is one the biggest Amiga events.
- There will be no box office at the event! Therefore it will be useless trying to attend the event without a valid ticket. If you are still interested in a ticket, then we recommend to have a look at our facebook site and at the diverse Amiga forums.
- 27 exhibitors as well as 12 users will be on spot presenting their products and (partly) offering them for sale.
- Several honoured guests also will be participate and most of them will give a lecture. Jeff Porter, Dr. Tim King as well as Jürgen Haage surely can be considered as the most interesting guests.
- All guests also can enjoy wonderful music performed by Blue Metal Rose, Chris Hülsbeck and Mark "TDK" Knight.
- There will be also a draw for which already more than 30 attractive prices have been made available.
- Cloanto will give a free full version of its Amiga emulator "Amiga Forever" of the latest version to each guest.
- Of course everybody will be invited to use our catering service.
- The comeback issue of the Amiga Joker will be available for 5,- Euro.
- On Saturday 9:15 p.m. the Amiga documentation "From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years" will start in the Hitch cinema. The film will be shown in the original, English-language version. Tickets are available for 5,- Euro and can be ordered from info@amiga32.de or the Eventbrite ticket site.
The organizing team is looking forward to the Amiga32 and wants to give thanks to all supporters!
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18.Oct.2017
Oliver Brunner (E-Mail)
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Web browser Voyager released under GPL
David Gerber together with Oliver Wagner who died in 2016 have developed the web browser "Voyager". Now Gerber has released the source code of the program on his website. Until the beginning of the new millennium Voyager together with IBrowse and AWeb (its source code was already released in 2002) formed the Amiga browser triumvirate.
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15.Oct.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until October 14th, 2017:
MUIbase-4.0.lha biz/dbase 5.1M MOS Programmable relational datab...
FFNews_src.lha comm/news 1.0M FFNews source code
MUISnapscan_src.lha driver/oth 1.3M MUISnapscan source code
KillerBees.adf game/actio 880K 68k Port of G7000 game KillerBees
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 2.0M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
ceporro_src.lha game/think 9K ceporro source code
mpegplaygui_src.lha gfx/show 2K mpegplaygui source code
amitamagochi_src.lha misc/emu 25K amitamagochi source code
emucpc_src.lha misc/emu 469K EmuCPC source code
gbripper_src.lha misc/emu 4K gbripper source code
emotions.lha mods/med 87K Emotions_8Channels
MPEGA_src.lha mus/play 520K MPEGA source code
MPEGAPlayer_src.lha mus/play 449K MPEGAPlayer source code
AP59Covers.lha pix/misc 1.9M aMiGa=PoWeR n?59 Cover Recto
MPEGALibrary_src.lha util/libs 1.0M MPEGALibrary source code
assignerpro_src.lha util/misc 15K assignerpro source code
rememberday_src.lha util/time 19K Remember Day source code
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 14.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until October 14th, 2017:
zelda-nsq.i386-aros.zip gam/adv 17Mb Fan made SDL game in Zelda style...
glcolumns.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb OpenGL game to match 3 or more f...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.10.2017
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 October 14th, 2017:
- 2017-10-11 new: Gnome (Linel) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2017-10-08 improved: New York Warriors (Arcadia Systems) fix for low memory guru, adapted for latest kickemu (Info)
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14.Oct.2017
Murakami (ANF)
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French print magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 59
Since 1998 the French printed magazine aMiGa=PoWer has been published by the Association Française du Libre Essai (AFLE). Among others issue issue 59 offers a review of the Vampire accelerator board as well software reviews of Reshoot, Bubbelsche de luxe, AMIcast Player, gcp.device and MUIMapparium.
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12.Oct.2017
Amigaworld (Webseite)
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Emulator: Plugins for Amikit
Ján Zahurančík, who in August registered the trademark "Amiga" in Slovakia , now offers an commercial "plugin" for his emulator distribution Amikit: For 4,95 Euro you get a collection of 13 new Workbench backgrounds ("themes") for the emulator. Two other commercial products provides a package of 35 SDL-based games ported by Artur Jarosik as well as the raytracing application Real3D.
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11.Oct.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version as download: Aquakon
The full version of the first person shooter Aquakon can be downloaded for free from the website of the Amiga Future.
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08.Oct.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until October 7th, 2017:
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha dev/hwood 4.7M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
MUIRoyaleSP.lha dev/hwood 166K MUI Royale 1.7 spanish guide
webp_mcc.1.0.lha dev/mui 5.5M MOS A WebP MUI Class
MCE.lha game/edit 1.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.0M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 12M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
PaletteEd.lha gfx/misc 87K 68k Edit IFF-ILBM Palettes
RNOComics.lha gfx/show 2.4M MOS Comic book reader
RNOComics_OS4.lha gfx/show 2.8M OS4 Comic book reader
lcal.lha text/misc 94K MOS Generate PostScript lunar pha...
240pTestSuite.lha util/misc 29K 68k 240p test suite Amiga impleme...
aminetreadme.lha util/misc 66K OS4 Aminet .readme creator
aminetreadme-os3.lha util/misc 55K 68k Aminet .readme creator
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until October 7th, 2017:
hivelytracker.lha aud/tra 6Mb 4.1 Tracker program based upon the A...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
rnocomics.lha gra/vie 3Mb 4.0 Comic book reader
aminetreadme.lha uti/tex 66kb 4.0 Aminet .readme creator
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.10.2017
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 October 7th, 2017:
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07.Oct.2017
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Popular Mechanics report about "The Cult of Amiga ..."
Since 115 years the popular science US magazine Popular Mechanics has been published. Under the title link it reports about how "The Cult of Amiga Is Bringing an Obsolete Computer Into the 21st Century".
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05.Oct.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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SD controller for Zorro Amigas: SD Drive Z2
The SD Drive Z2 is a Zorro-II card for reading and writing common SD/SDHC/MMC cards with up to 1,5 MB transfer rate. Fat32 is used as file system which should enable an easy data communication with a PC. The card slot is let out of the case using a long flat cable - ending in an external block which stands on the desk. The hardware is supposed to be available in different shops, currently only listed at Amedia Computer.
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05.Oct.2017
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Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #8 - 64K’s Later
The eighth issue of the English-language podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland is about new games and forthcoming Amiga events.
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