08.Mar.2017
Ulrich Beckers (Kommentar)
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Renaming picture files: Exutil 1.0
The MUI-based Hollywood program Exutil written by Ulrich Beckers renames picture files using their date of creation which is saved in the Exif-information or the date of creation of the file.
Version 1.0 is available for all Amiga systems, in English and now in German as well, provides bug fixes and the option to select pictures to rename from the thumbnail view.
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08.Mar.2017
MiggySpeed (Kommentar)
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Open source accelerator board TerribleFire 530
The announced open source accelerator board TerribleFire 530 for the Amiga 500 (amiga-news.de reported) has been completed (video). Now the developer is working on a version for 68040 and, if possible, for 68060 processors.
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[News message: 08. Mar. 2017, 20:34] [Comments: 0]
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08.Mar.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 96
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers, which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-Version and as C64-Diskmag.
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08.Mar.2017
Spidi (ANF)
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Turbo board: Wicher 500i to be produced soon
The turbo board for the Amiga 500 and 500+ that has been announced by Retro 7-bit is expected to be produced soon. Since it has been adapted to be mounted internally, the turbo board is called Wicher 500i.
Features:
- Processor: MC68000/68010
- Maximum clock speed: 50 MHz
- RAM: 1-8 MB SIMM-72-Modul (FPM, EDO)
- IDE controller
- SPI controller
Performance utilizing an MC68000 with 50 MHz (measured by SysInfo 4.0 and AIBB 6.5, video):
- Mips: 4.40
- Dhrystones: 4222
- IDE transfer: ~3.1 MB/s
- RAM transfer: ~6.94 MB/s
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08.Mar.2017
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Cloud storage with Amiga access: AmiCloud 1.2
Using the AmiCloud client available for all Amiga systems as well as for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, you can access cloud storage provided by Pascal Papara without traffic limitation (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 1.2 meets the more strict Apache requirements to HTTP requests. Basic and pro-accounts are offered, each now with 5,5 and unchanged 25 GB storage (tutorial, video).
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06.Mar.2017
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David Pleasance (Commodore UK) announced book
Until 1995 David Pleasance was CEO of Commodore UK for 12 years and tried to buy Commodore but finally Escom made it. In a speech at the British "Geekfest 2" in Cheltenham, the former manager announced his new project: He is going to write about his time at Commodore, which will be financed by Kickstarter.
Pleasance indicated, that he will speak plainly, telling what went wrong and who was responsible. Already in his speech at the Amiga 30 in Amsterdam, he criticised the way, Escom continued the Amiga line.
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05.Mar.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Video shows SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) test with fractal generator
Under the title link, a video published by Michal Schulz shows a fractal generator which demonstrates the usage of one and of four processor cores under AROS/x64.
The result is "not fully optimal yet". Michael Schulz further explained: "Drawing fractal requires quite frequent access to common bitmap shared among all tasks on all cores, so a spinlock is used for protection, thus, speed penalty. One could surely do that better :) There are also tons of memory allocations in the threads."
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05.Mar.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.03.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until March 4th, 2017:
a68kenh6_src.lha dev/asm 84K A68kEnh source code
GadEdit.lha dev/gui 25K 68k Gadgets Editor (GadEdit)
libpng1628_a68k.lha dev/lib 1.6M 68k Lib for reading/writing PNG
DC-VLmui_src.lha dev/mui 33K DC-VLmui source code
KOG.lha game/actio 1K OS4 Innovative objects-catching game
Lumberjack.adf game/actio 880K 68k Lumberjack Game
SpaceStation3000_Demo... game/demo 4.9M 68k 1999 demo of a space station ...
potrace-mos.lha gfx/conv 867K MOS Transform bitmaps into vector...
webptools060_a68k.lha gfx/conv 3.9M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools060_aros.lha gfx/conv 6.7M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
App8ImUSource.lha misc/emu 27K App8ImU source code
Apple2DiskServ_src.lha misc/emu 16K 68k Apple ][ DiskServer OS2.0+ so...
c1581_src.lha misc/emu 150K c1581 source code
WaveTracer_Sources.zip mus/edit 21M Sources for Michael Pfeiffer'...
Vim_8.0-mos.lha text/edit 8.9M MOS Vim - The ubiquitous text edi...
Vim_8.0-src.lha text/edit 14M The ubiquitous text editor (s...
InstantZip_3.1.lha util/arc 267K MOS (un)pack, encrypt + decrypt Z...
Stroke_src.lha util/cdity 63K Stroke source code
file-mos.lha util/cli 1.2M MOS Determine file type
Foreach_igracki.lha util/cli 8K MOS Execute cmd for every argumen...
SensorsList.lha util/cli 5K MOS List of all sensors in your c...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 671K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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05.Mar.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.03.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until March 4th, 2017:
picflowgad.lha dev/lib 73kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
odysseylauncher2.lha net/bro 112kb 4.0 Avoid starting Odyssey twice wit...
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05.Mar.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.03.2017
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 March 4th, 2017:
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04.Mar.2017
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AmigaOS 4: Closed beta test for LibreOffice started
According to A-EON on its Facebook site, the beta test of the port of the office suite LibreOffice has started.
For the first time in 2012 the port of LibreOffice was announced. The office suite is ported by the developer Thomas Frieden and financed by A-EON. The software will be commercially distributed.
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03.Mar.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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Renaming picture files: Exutil 0.10
The MUI-based Hollywood program Exutil written by Ulrich Beckers renames picture files using their date of creation which is saved in the EXIF-information or the date of creation of the file.
Version 0.10 is available for all Amiga systems and provides an improved user-interface. RapaGUI is required.
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[News message: 03. Mar. 2017, 20:04] [Comments: 0]
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02.Mar.2017
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Source codes of WaveTracer DS, AnimFX and other tools released
Michael Pfeiffer has released the source codes of his Amiga programs under the GNU GPL. These are, for example, the sound editor WaveTracer DS and the IFF-ANIM player AnimFX. The tools are written in C and Pascal.
Direct download: WaveTracer_Sources.zip (21 MB)
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02.Mar.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 125
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 124 (March/April 2017) has been released today, it can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include an interview with the ignition maintainer, the fourth part of the Blitz Basic workshop and a report from the demo scene. (cg)
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01.Mar.2017
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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PkZIP-GUI: InstantZip 3.1 supports encryption
Now version 3.1 of Carsten Siegner's InstantZip also can encrypt ZIP-archives. The methods AES-128, AES-192 and AES-256 are supported.
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01.Mar.2017
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement, which started 20 years ago, during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- January/February 2017 news
- Old articles from Tilt 88 to 91:
- Comparison: Golf simulations from 1990-1991
- File: The démos
- Review of The Killing Cloud
- Review of Merchant Colony
- File: hand scanners
- Review of Full Contact
- Review of Dick Tracy
- Report: PC Forum 91
- Review of Hard Drivin' 2
- Comparison: Adventure games from 1990
- Review of Car-Vup, etc
- Interview with Madija Al-Husyni
- Review of Happiga 1.4.3
- Review of AmiCloud 1.0 bêta 4
- Hardware: Vampire 500 V2
- Hardware: Classic Boing Ball Mouse
- File: Classic Reflections - What happen to GPSoftware?
- File: Amiga Games List (update)
- File: Autobiography of Peter Kittel
- Special quizz about the year 2016
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28.Feb.2017
Gunnar von Boehn (ANF)
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Looking for testers for Vampire 600 Fast-IDE
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola, which also provides a separate graphic mode called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards Vampire 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). For the forthcoming version 'Gold 3' testers are wanted, who can help optimizing the IDE-support by collecting data.
Gunnar von Boehn wrote: "For a deep testrun on as many as possible A600 systems we look for volunteer testers.
If you have an A600, a Blaster, and like to take part in the Fast-IDE testing/ championship.
Then please contact us on IRC.
We will publish all collected results, so that also other AMIGA Accelerator manufacturer can use them - so that hopefully all AMIGA cards can run 7 MB/sec IDE in the future."
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27.Feb.2017
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AROS: ZunePaint 0.2, ZuneView 0.33, ZuneArc 1.5, ZuneCalc 1.1, VNC Client 1.0
The "Zunetools"-project develops different tools for AROS, based on the GUI-Toolkit Zune (MUI). During the last days updates and first versions of the paint program Zunepaint, the picture viewer ZuneView, the archiving program ZuneArc, the calculator ZuneCalc as well as of a VNC-client have been released.
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27.Feb.2017
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Accelerator board: Vampire 500 has CE certification
According Igor 'Majsta' Majstorovic on his website, the Vampire 500 has got a CE certification. For many electronic and electronical devices a CE certification is required for selling them in the European Economic Area. In contrary to the Vampire 600, in future the Vampire 500/600 will be professionally made and equipped in larger quantities.
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26.Feb.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 25.02.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until February 25th, 2017:
OdysseyLauncher2.lha comm/www 112K OS4 Avoid starting Odyssey twice ...
GadEdit.lha dev/gui 2K 68k Gadgets Editor (GadEdit) (1992)
MaxKnightFDD.adf game/jump 880K 68k Max Knight (FULL GAME - 36 le...
MaxKnightHDD.lha game/jump 430K 68k Max Knight (FULL GAME - 36 le...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmoricSource.lha misc/emu 153K Amoric source code
hipkey.lha mus/play 1K 68k HippoPlayer free keyfile
hippoplayerSource.lha mus/play 597K HippoPlayer source code
WWorth_fincats.lha text/dtp 27K Wordworth 3SE,4SE & 7 Fin...
Redit_src.lha text/edit 72K Sourcecode of Redit
VIM_8.0.363.lha text/edit 9.2M MOS Vim - The ubiquitous text edi...
VIM_8.0.363-src.lha text/edit 17M Vim - The ubiquitous text edi...
InstantZip_3.0.lha util/arc 265K MOS A ZIP packer / unpacker with GUI
ShellUpdate.lha util/boot 131K 68k Update Os 3.9 BB2 Shell to 45...
hfinder.i386-aros.zip util/dir 1.5M x86 Tool to search files in your ...
jpeglibrarySP.lha util/libs 7K JpegLibraryPrefs spanish guid...
app.lha util/misc 899K 68k download/install/start APPlic...
TinyLauncher.lha util/misc 109K 68k WHDLoad frontend and more
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26.Feb.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 25.02.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until February 25th, 2017:
seq.lha aud/mis 109kb 4.0 Simple MIDI step sequencer
sess.lha aud/mis 40kb 4.0 Start/stop multiple MIDI sequenc...
picflowgad.lha dev/lib 63kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
radiobuttonxgad.lha dev/lib 83kb 4.0 Radiobutton gadget expanded
potrace.lha gra/con 292kb 4.0 transform bitmaps into vector gr...
contextmenus-config.lha gra/the 157kb 4.1 Adds icons to all missing menu e...
knobgad.lha lib/rea 57kb 4.0 Round knob gadget
prefscenter.lha uti/wor 259kb 4.0 Launch prefs programs from a GUI
quickstarter.lha uti/wor 325kb 4.0 Quick program start menu
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26.Feb.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 25.02.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until February 25th, 2017:
muiroyale_hwp.i386-aros.lha lib/mis 163kb Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
rapagui.i386-aros.lha lib/mis 219kb Cross-platform GUI toolkit for H...
mcc_betterstring-11.30.i3... lib/mui 310kb BetterString custom class for MUI
mcc_mailtex.i386-aros.lha lib/mui 34kb Mui Custom Class for Messagetexts
mcc_nlist-0.121.i386-aros... lib/mui 2Mb NList custom classes for MUI
mcc_texteditor-15.47.i386... lib/mui 836kb TextEditor custom class for MUI
mcc_toolbar.i386-aros.lha lib/mui 28kb Toolbar custom class for MUI
mcc_urltex.i386-aros.lha lib/mui 26kb MUI public custom url class
odyssey-1.25-11.i386-aros... net/bro 22Mb web browser
hfinder.i386-aros.zip uti/fil 1Mb Tool to search files in your media
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26.Feb.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.02.2017
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 February 25th, 2017:
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[News message: 26. Feb. 2017, 07:24] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2017
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MorphOS: MUI-based port of text editor Vim 8.0
Vim ("Vi improved") is a powerful texte ditor for the console, which was originally developed on the Amiga, but became famous with Unix-/Linux.
Similar to projects like Gvim, Ola Söder's port to MorphOS adds a simple graphical user-interface.
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[News message: 25. Feb. 2017, 22:41] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2017
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Crowdfunding: The Commodore Story, the next Commodore documentation
After Viva Amiga and The Commodore Wars, a third film is supposed to tell the story of Commodore, financed by Kickstarter. "The Commodore Story" will be recorded, if 17.500 British Pound will be donated by April 20th - so far about 10.300 pounds were donated.
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[News message: 25. Feb. 2017, 22:32] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2017
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio-Player: AmigaAMP 3.21 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The latest version of Thomas Wenzel's audio player AmigaAMP provides several minor improvements:
- Replaced connection popup window with info in title bar (reaction) or info line (skin mode).
- ReAction: Added iconify gadget to main window.
- Fixed long filename handling.
- Set default for "Show TagEditor" to FALSE. If this setting doesn't exist in the prefs file then info window will not be shown.
- 68k: Fixed internal memory overflow when calculating plugin data.
- "Engine" part of amigaamp.prefs is now compatible with AmigaAMP2.
- 68k: Changed visualisation routine to support high resolution and peak-dots.
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23.Feb.2017
ANF
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Plipbox Deluxe: Cases for Ethernet adapters in Commodore style
Already since November, under the title link cases for Christian Vogelgsang's external Ethernet adapter plipbox (amiga-news.de reported) are offered which are made with 3D printing. The adapter is included in the price.
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23.Feb.2017
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Text editor Redit: Source code released
Kai Scherrer's Redit ist a text editor which is compatible to Kickstart 1.2 (amiga-news.de reported). Now the source code of the latest version 1.15 was released.
Download: Redit1.15_src.lha (72 KB)
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21.Feb.2017
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SDK Browser 2.1.3.0
In the latest version of Jamie Krueger's SDK-Browser a bug was fixed, which did prevent it starting from Shell. Besides, the paths to the MUI-Includes and -Autodocs have been adapted to the altered conditions of AmigaOS-4-SDK.
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[News message: 21. Feb. 2017, 00:33] [Comments: 0]
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21.Feb.2017
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Workbench distribution: AKReal 8.8
AKReal is an inofficial adaption of the Workbench distribution Amikit to real Amigas without a graphic board. The whole environment works with 16 colours and is meant for AGA-Amigas.
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20.Feb.2017
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Printmagazine: Amiga Future 125 - previews and extracts
A preview and extracts from issue 125 (March/April 2017) of Amiga Future have been released today. Amongst other things, this issue features reviews of AmigaOS 4 FE Update 1 and the new Amiga 1200 cases, an interview with Achim Pankalle (spreadsheet ingition) and two workshops. (cg)
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19.Feb.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 18.02.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until February 18th, 2017:
CookieMaster_demo_ALL... comm/www 5.6M MOS Web browser cookie cleaner demo
DrawStudioSP.lha gfx/edit 20K DrawStudio v2.0.0 spanish lan...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
MidiTracker-source.zip mus/midi 504K Complete source code for Midi...
ShellUpdate.lha util/boot 131K 68k Update Os 3.9 BB2 Shell to 45.38
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19.Feb.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 18.02.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until February 18th, 2017:
universe-zero.lha dem/sce 4Mb 4.1 First AmigaOs4 demo ever
sdl2_sdk.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 for d...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
contextmenus-config.lha gra/the 145kb 4.1 Adds icons to all missing menu e...
sdl2_user.lha lib/mis 2Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 for u...
cookiemaster_demo.lha net/bro 2Mb 4.1 Web browser (currently Odyssey) ...
fuelgauge.lha uti/wor 91kb 4.0 Volume gauges underneath hard dr...
emotion_demo.lha vid/pla 6Mb 4.1 Demo of Emotion media player
smtube.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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19.Feb.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.02.2017
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 February 18th, 2017:
- 2017-02-16 fixed: PP Hammer (Demonware) install script corrected (Info)
- 2017-02-16 improved: Gobliiins (Cocktel Vision) missing sounds fixed (Info)
- 2017-02-16 improved: D/Generation (Mindscape) rewritten OCS/AGA versions for WHDLoad v17, quit key on 68000 added (Info)
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19.Feb.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: 8-Bit- & Amiga-Party RetroKomp/Load Error 2017 in Gdansk
This year from 20. to 22. October in Gdansk the RetroKomp/Load-Error-Party will take place in the GAK (invitation video).
It is a combined event featuring the sixth issue of the RetroKomp, which is about retro games, games competition and presentations, as well as the third issue of the Load-Error-Demoscene-Party.
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18.Feb.2017
EntwicklerX (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: commercial media player "Emotion" released
Press release: We are very happy inform you that that the first release of the Emotion media player is finished and will be released immediately! Currently AmiStore and Alinea Computer are setting up their stores with data provided from us, the software should be available through them when you read this.
What is Emotion?
Emotion is a powerful multimedia player specially developed for AmigaOS 4.
The easy-to-use interface, deliberate limitation to required basic functions, as
well as optimization on operating system functions, makes Emotion to a software
that integrates perfectly into the current AmigaOS.
The use of FFmpeg as a subsystem for video and audio decoding (through AmigaOS
specific shared libraries) allows emotion to access proven and powerful
technologies in the background. Due to the Reaction based interface in
combination with optimized operating system functions and FFmpeg as a decoder,
Emotion understands itself as its own interpretation of a multimedia player
which is not just a port of existing open source projects but tries to connect
tried and tested technologies with the ecosystem of AmigaOS.
Emotion looks like AmigaOS software, works like AmigaOS software… it is AmigaOS software!
Features:
- Compositing based video scaling on RadeonHD graphics cards
- YUV video acceleration (RadeonHD 2.0)
- video overlay (PIP) on Radeon 9xxx graphics cards
- software rendering, on classic Amiga and emulation
- supports local video files and web streams
- fullscreen, window und borderless modes
- recent list, for reopen media files
- supports video subtitles and multiple audio tracks
- optimization for Altivec
- enable / disable video filters (on graphics cards supporting Compositing)
- FFmpeg based video decoding, optimized for the most used codecs
- easy-to-use Reaction based GUI, AISS Icons, AmigaOS 4.1 F.E. context menu
- Conscious focus on basic functions and optimization for AmigaOS
- ARexx port
- manual and automatic Frameskip
System requirements:
- AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition (Update 1 recommended)
- graphics card: ATI Radeon 9xxx, ATI RadeonHD (RadeonHD driver V2.0 recommended)
- also works in software mode when no Radeon graphics card is available (i.e. Classic Amiga or under emulation)
Before buying, please test the demoversion extensively!
Additional information and contact details:
www.entwickler-x.de/emotion
www.amiboing.de
Thank you for buying and using Emotion!
Frank and Thomas from EntwicklerX (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 18. Feb. 2017, 23:18] [Comments: 0]
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17.Feb.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Flower Pot: Preconfigured WinUAE preferences for AmigaOS 4
If you do not want to waste your time with configuring the emulator WinUAE on your Windows or Mac-OS-X/x86 computer for running AmigaOS 4, you can use "Flower Pot" sold by the AmiKit-Team for 6,95 Euro which is a preconfigured environment.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. Feb. 2017, 20:08] [Comments: 0]
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17.Feb.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: AmigaMAD 60 (Norwegian/English)
This years Norsk amigaforening is celebrating its 25th anniversary and has published issue 60 of Amigaguiden. The English edition, formerly called Amiga Guide Magazine, now has been renamed into AmigaMAD Magazine by the editor Tommy Strand.
Download site:
Norwegian
English
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. Feb. 2017, 05:43] [Comments: 0]
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16.Feb.2017
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Video: Tower 57 playing on the "Tabor" motherboard (update)
In a blog entry Hyperion shows the crowdfunded shooter Tower 57, which will be also released for AmigaOS 4. Daniel Müßener is developing the port for OS4 and has created a special version of the game for the Tabor motherboard ("A1222") presenting the current stage of development. A video showing the game on an AmigaOne A1222 gives an impression.
The developer wrote, that the version for the Tabor would run "a lot faster than on a sam460ex" - explaining: "Tower57 is some kind of special case though, primarily because I do pure software rendering inside this Amiga port, so the program doesn't have to comunicate floats directly to other libraries, roughly spoken."
Hint of the editorial staff: The processor QorIQ P1022, part of Tabor, uses a FPU which is incompatible to most of the Power Processors, also that ones, which are used in the AmigaOS 4 computers. In order to make it compatible to existing AmigaOS 4 software, the operating system has to have a compatibility layer, which currently none of us knows any information or details. Therefore it is not clear if this special Tabor edition of the game was created due to speed or compatibility reasons.
Update: (17.02.2017, 15:00 Uhr, cg)
As one of our readers in our German comments has pointed out, there are more information on the YouTube website concerning a normal build of the game:
"The "normal" Tower57 FPU build works too on the Tabor btw. In that case, as with all other FPU-using programs, the OS' current compatibility backend kicks in and "translates" each and every FPU-opcode into something the Tabor likes. Interesting enough: even then the Tabor is so powerful that it's still playable (about 20fps where the sam460 reaches about 30fps)." (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Feb. 2017, 23:37] [Comments: 0]
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16.Feb.2017
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 71 (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 Hannibal and Smash.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Feb. 2017, 23:16] [Comments: 0]
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15.Feb.2017
Klearchos Gourgourinis (a.k.a. Muadib a.k.a. Anelixis in the Group, Admin) (ANF)
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Facebook group for Amiga-3D artists
A new Facebook group is supposed to become a meeting point for 3D-artists and fans. Additional to discussions about topics, the group is supposed to be a place for users who are going to join for future productions.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Feb. 2017, 20:14] [Comments: 0]
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15.Feb.2017
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Assembler: vasm 1.7h
Frank Wille has released an update of the assembler vasm. As usual Wille does not provide vasm binaries except with the vbcc compiler distribution. If you are interested in, you have to compile the assembler on your own. Changes in version 1.7h:
- Implemented a dynamic line buffer. No limitations on line lengths anymore
- Octal escape sequences are limited to a maximum of three digits
- Allow assembler text output (echo, printv) in offset sections
- Print a warning for initialized data in a bss-type section. This already worked in the past (1.2c and later), but has been lost somewhere
- Some single-character labels and symbols will be rejected (depending on the syntax module)
- -maxerrors=0 should print all errors in the source
- Print expressions in the listing file and the test output in decimal and hexadecimal form
- m68k: Immediate- and PC-relative destination addressing modes for 68851 PMOVE are not allowed. PMOVE ea,PCSR doesn't exist
- 6502: Perform zero-page optimization with a known label from an absolute section
- std-syntax: Fixed problem with parentheses in character constants
- oldstyle-syntax: New option -org=<address> to set the absolute base address of the program from the command line
- oldstyle-syntax: Implemented some listing file directives, but without any function yet: nam, subttl, page, space
- bin-output: Fixed output section sorting, which didn't work with some implementations of qsort()
- elf-output: Fixed external references in stabs
- elf-output: Use a hash table for ELF symbols to speed up the output
- hunk-output: Optimization to make it faster with many sections
- test-output: Fixed crash when printing stabs without a value
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Feb. 2017, 20:07] [Comments: 0]
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15.Feb.2017
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Issue 101 can be read online
Issue 101 (March/April 2013) of the printed magazine Amiga Future is sold out, you can read the German and the English edition of the magazine online (picture files). You also can buy a PDF-version.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Feb. 2017, 20:04] [Comments: 0]
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14.Feb.2017
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Cross compiler: GCC 6 for m68k-AmigaOS development (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
At Github, Stefan "Bebbo" Franke has adapted the full GCC-toolchain for the m68k-AmigaOS development. Version 6 of the cross compiler, binutils and the link library libnix are included, can be compiled for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Binaries are not contributed, the tools still have to be compiled.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Feb. 2017, 14:46] [Comments: 0]
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13.Feb.2017
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.4dev (beta)
Frode Solheim has released a new development version FS-UAE 2.9.4dev which provides changes of the Launcher and of FS-UAE Arcade.
Changes in FS-UAE Lanucher:
- Try to use config from game database when launching with a WHDLoad archive
- New startup argument –no-auto-detect-game to disable the above feature
- Save directory based on archive name when launching with an archive
- Fixed a bug where rating icons could disappear from variants list
- New option whdload_preload, defaults to 1 (change in behavior)
- More language flags for the status bar
- New option to toggle close buttons in dialogs
- New reset to defaults button on settings pages (GUI does not update yet)
Changes in FS-UAE Arcade:
- New option arcade_initial_favorites to start with favorites filter
- New startup argument –favorites to show the favorites list directly
- Show game lists in FS-UAE Arcade (favorites, etc)
- New option arcade_theme (=blue/red)
- Fixed aspect correction toggle button
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Feb. 2017, 22:13] [Comments: 0]
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13.Feb.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Jérôme Senay (French)
Under the title link an interview in French with Jérôme 'Glames' Senay has been published, who is the author of Ask Me Up and Dir Me Up (English Google translation).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Feb. 2017, 19:45] [Comments: 0]
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