19.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: yWeather.sbar 1.16
Thomas Igracki's screenbar module yWeather for Ambient "shows the current weather information for a selected location." The programm gets the data from Yahoo.
Since our last news news item the latest version provides bug fixes and the temperature in Celsius now is shown with a decimal place.
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19.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AnimWebConverter 2.50
AnimWebConverter is a little Hollywood programm for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which can convert IFF-animations from Anim or Yafa format into animated GIF and PNG files. it can also change the size.
Changes in version 2.50:
- Added new features:
- Change the animation speed
- Loop playing animation
- Fixed some bugs
- Compiled with the lastest Hollywood™ version 6.1
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19.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Blog article: Making a(n Amiga) game in 1993
Under the title link Krister Karlsson has described what in 1993 it meant to develop an (Amiga) game.
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19.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 11.04.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of April 11th:
- MinAD application is now part of AROS contrib repository (mazze)
- It is now possible to globally disabled lto optimization (Kalamatee)
- ffmpeg library in version 3.0.1 is now part of AROS contrib repository (Kalamatee)
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17.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Issue 94 online
Today issue 94 of the Amiga Future has been published online. It is the issue from January/February 2012. You can also purchase a pdf file of the issue which has a better quality.
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17.Apr.2016
Stephan Dörner (E-Mail)
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MNT VA2000: Open source graphic card for Amiga 2000
Lukas F. Hartmann develops a FPGA-based, open source graphic card for the Amiga 2000 which almost has been finished. Under the title link the source code is available as well as a documentation of the history of he project.
If you do not want to assemble the Zorro-II card for yourself, in future you can also buy the MNT VA2000 as well as construction kits from the developer.
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17.Apr.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 16th, 2016:
CamView.lha comm/net 43K 68k Cam Viewer for Lan + Internet...
EdimaxCfg.lha comm/net 78K 68k Configure Edimax AR-7284WnB R...
netsurf.lha comm/www 6.2M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 3.0M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
BoingCube.lha demo/misc 2.7M OS4 Bouncing rotating boing cube ...
NoClick.lha disk/misc 4K MOS Multiplatform NoClick enabler
Oubliette.adf game/actio 880K ppc Find the exit. Kill the dragon.
MCE.lha game/edit 1.5M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.7M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.7M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Krystal_Kaves.lha game/wb 35K 68k Find some coloured crystals!
Twinine.lha game/wb 30K 68k Make some twines!
Uppo.lha game/wb 30K 68k Move all coloured tiles to th...
SKemoCAD3928.lha gfx/misc 172K 68k Electro-mechanical CAD f. ind...
SkemoCAD3928_disk.adf gfx/misc 880K 68k Electro-mechanical CAD f. ind...
FrodoV2_4.lha misc/emu 318K 68k C64 emulator, V2.4
Ami2K16.lha mods/xm 6.9M New mod by Pseudaxos
ics2csv_1.3.lha text/misc 28K MOS Convert iCalendar files to CSV
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17.Apr.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 16th, 2016:
mhe-ng.lha dev/ide 9Mb 4.0 Hollywood IDE
hwplayer.lha dev/mis 9Mb 4.0 Run applets created by Hollywood
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
netsurf.lha net/bro 6Mb 4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
amigacloudhandlers.lha net/mis 9Mb 4.0 Dos handler for Google Drive and...
noclick.lha uti/mis 4kb 4.0 Multiplatform NoClick enabler
st_ships.lha uti/mis 16Mb 4.0 Database of ships in Star Trek
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17.Apr.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.04.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until April 16th, 2016:
gemdrop.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 1Mb Based on Atari 8-bit game "Gem D...
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17.Apr.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.04.2016
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 16th, 2016:
- 2016-04-13 improved: Global Gladiators (Virgin) fixed lockup on checkered screen (Info)
- 2016-04-13 improved: Cool Spot (Virgin) chipmem usage lowered, fixed spurious interrupts (Info)
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16.Apr.2016
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File transfers: SMB file system smbfs 1.102 (AmigaOS 3/4)
During the last months, Olaf Barthel has released several minor updates for the SMB file system smbfs. You can find a detailed list of changes in the changelog on the download site. Several minor bugs have been fixed and the compatibility to Windows Vista/7/8 improved. Connections to Windows 10 also are possible if the new protocols SMB2/SMB3 are not used.
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16.Apr.2016
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Shoot'em Up: Playable demo version of RESHOOT
Richard Löwenstein has released a first demo version of his Shoot'em Up RESHOOT which was announced in October 2015 (Youtube-Video). An AGA-compatible Amiga is required to run the game.
Direct download: RESHOOT_Patreon_Demo.lha (329 KB)
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16.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.12dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Among others beta version 2.7.12dev adds further keyboard emulated joysticks.
You can find a detailed list of changes under the title link.
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16.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Game: AmiBoing support for Alinearis 2
In the logic game Alinearis 2 "your goal is to remove all the balls from a level". The latest version adds support for the portal AmiBoing which makes it possible to upload and share your high scores. The update is available via the support center.
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16.Apr.2016
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: ics2csv 1.3
Carsten Siegner's ics2csv converts files from the iCalendar format to the CSV format. Additionally the data can be sorted and single dats sets can be edited or deleted.
Download: ics2csv_1.3.lha (28 KB)
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15.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: NetSurf 3.5
Chris Young has updated his AmigaOS-4 port of the web browser NetSurf. Version 3.5 provides bug fixes and optimizations. A new beta version for AmigaOS 3.5+ will be released during the next days.
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14.Apr.2016
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Platform game: "Bonanza Bros" as free download
In 1991 the platform game Bonanza Bros was released and now can be downloaded for free from the website of the Amiga Future.
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14.Apr.2016
Jarno Smit (E-Mail)
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Crowd funding: Another A1200 case
At Indiegogo, Jarno Smit has started a crowd funding project called "AMIGA CASE". It is a case which according to the description is "based on classic Amiga 1200" and "is meant as a replacement for the old (yellowed/damaged) Amiga 1200 case": AMIGA CASE looks like a real A1200 but is slightly larger which provides more space for any expensions or a different motherboard.
The most important features of Smit's case which is officially licenced by Amiga Inc.:
- Original Amiga logo on the case
- Designed for classic Amiga 1200 hardware
- Designed for the Thin Mini-ITX form factor, Raspberry PI 1B+/2/3 and Keyrah V2 keyboard adapter
- Designed for usage with internal and external keyboards. Can function as a keyboard stand
- Two 3,5 inch bays to build in devices of your choice. Covers for the 3,5 inch expansion bays with pre cut USB connection holes
- Recessed air vents for Amiga 1200 accelerators and the Thin Mini-ITX motherboard
- Adjustable placement in height of the Amiga 1200 motherboard
- Removable and replaceable backplates
- High quality plastics with UV stabilizer (no more yellowing)
- High quality screw points with blind brass inserts
A single case will cost between 60 and 70 Euro. In order to to put this project into practice, during the next two months in total preorders of 90.000 Euro have to be received.
Hint of the editorial staff: Since 2015, "AMIGA CASE" is a registered trademark of Jarno Smit in Benelux.
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13.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video: Interview with Volker Wertich (The Settlers)
Already at the end of March, under the title link Matt Chat has released a video interview with Volker Wertich, who is the programmer of the Amiga game "The Settlers". He was also involved in the games "Emerald Mine" and "Emerald Mine 3 Professional".
Two other parts of the interview are about later projects and reflections about the future development of the games industry.
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12.Apr.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: AmiWest 2016 on October 8th and 9th
This year the AmiWest will take place in Sacramento, California on October 8th and 9th in the hotel "Holiday Inn Express", 2224 Auburn Boulevard. The programming seminar already will start on Thursday October 6th.
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11.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Distribution: Aros Vision PAL and Aros Vision RTG 3.1
Olaf Schönweiß' has released new versions of his AROS/68k distribution "Aros Vision". The RTG version 3.1 (mainly meant for emulators) provides updated system files and you can choose between different MUI-implementations (Zune, MUI 3.8 and MUI 4 for AmigaOS) and Workbench replacements (Wanderer, Scalos, Magellan) (screenshot).
The new PAL-version is meant for slower hardware and provides less software. Because the author cannot test it on real Amigas, any feedback is welcome.
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11.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 28.03.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of March 28th:
- Work on being able to use Clang/LLVM to compile AROS continues (Kalamatee)
- Find tool now uses MUI requesters and supports localization (mazze)
- It is now possible to search for content in Find tool (mazze)
- Possible memory overrun has been fixed in unard (mazze)
- A fix has been implemented in MUI Process class (mazze)
- Find tool now uses background process to do the directory scanning (mazze)
- Various catalog files have been reviewed and updated (mazze)
- Initiated work for supporting ARM 64-bit architecture (Kalamatee)
- Poseidon USB stack now compiles for AROS 68k (Kalamatee)
- Crash during initialization of MUI List class has been fixed (o1i)
- animation.datatype behavior has been updated (Kalamatee)
- Zip and Zoom clients of xad.library have had out of bounds access fixed (Kalamatee)
Week of April 4th:
- Work on being able to use Clang/LLVM to compile AROS continues (Kalamatee)
- MadMatrix game is now part of AROS Contrib repository (mazze)
- FKey commodity received a small UI update (mazze)
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11.Apr.2016
Aros-Exec (ANF)
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Compiler: Free Pascal 3.1.1 and alpha version of Lazarus for AmigaOS 3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has ported the Pascal compiler Freepascal 3.1.1 as well as the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) to AmigaOS. Using this library it is possible to develop cross-platform applications. The port for Amiga is still an alpha version but many examples can already be built wothout any problems.
Some games and tools (BinShifter, ColorIt, FPCMines and PasteQuick) which were created with LCL, Sackrow already has compiled for AmigaOS.
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11.Apr.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 6.1 Add-ons released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 6.1. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
- Hollywood Player 6.1 for all supported platforms (also available for your smartphone/tablet on Google Play)
- Hollywood SDK 6.1 for developing your own plugins (includes examples and over 350 pages of documentation in various formats)
- Hollywood 6.1 add-on for Cubic IDE (kindly provided by Michael Jurisch)
- Hollywood 6.1 wordfile for UltraEdit
- Hollywood 6.1 online reference manual (over 850 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
The release of these add-ons completes the Hollywood 6.1 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ for download and more information.
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10.Apr.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 9th, 2016:
yWeather.lha comm/misc 360K MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
AmigaCloudHandlers.lha comm/tcp 9.0M MOS Amiga Cloud Handlers
wif_info.lha dev/src 10K Fully commented MorphOS PPC a...
Africa.lha game/board 278K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 325K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 323K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
comedesert-data.zip game/shoot 2.1M 68k Did IT come from the desert? ...
tanksfurry1-2.adf game/shoot 880K 68k Tanks Furry
Juliet_Sea_Shell.lha pix/3dobj 6.8M Juliet with bikini, for Micro...
cardInfo.lha util/cli 20K 68k Get info about PCMCIA cards f...
lzmaLoader.lha util/pack 67K MOS Packer and loader for executa...
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10.Apr.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 9th, 2016:
mhe.lha dev/ide 9Mb 4.0 Hollywood IDE
drawergad.lha dev/lib 185kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
radiobuttonxgad.lha dev/lib 83kb 4.0 Radiobutton gadget expanded
snes9x.zip emu/gam 167Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
africa.lha gam/boa 323kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
ftpd.lha net/ser 741kb 4.1 FTPdaemon v2.2 for AmigaOS 4
boingcube.lha uti/ben 3Mb 4.0 A bouncing rotating boing cube.
prefscenter.lha uti/wor 113kb 4.0 Launch prefs programs from a GUI
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09.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.10dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Beta version 2.7.10dev adds the e.g. the options "network_card" and "freezer_cartridge". And now the proper processor is set for a certain accelearot board.
You can find a detailed list of changes under the title link.
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09.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Pictures of funeral service for Dave Needle
In February Amiga developer Dave Needle died. After the burial, some well-known persons from the Amiga scene met and some Amiga exhibits lile the prototype Lorraine were presented. The blog of retro-link.com shows some pictures of the meeting.
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09.Apr.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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FPGA: Vampire 600/Apollo-Update "SILVER3"
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola, which also provides an (emulated) graphic chip named SAGA. The latest update of the core which currently is used in the Vampire accelerator boards provides the following improvements:
- Flag for BFTST fixed
- Super-Scalar improvements:
- Allow more instructions in 2nd pipe
- More 64Bit MMX instructions added
- PADD, PSUB, PMUL, ... (used by videoplayers like RIVA)
- Improved RESET behaviour (AROS)
- Improved SAGA video out (24Bit, 32Bit, YUV422)
- Clock-cycle register added
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09.Apr.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amiga hostory: First model had number 1000
On Internet sometimes you can read the that the first Amiga did not have any model number and only as the A500 and A2000 were produced, it would have retroactively renamed to "Amiga 1000".
Under the title link by means of a picture of the original box Blake Petterson proved that already at that time it was named "Amiga 1000 Personal Computer". Additionally the name is also used in the repair manual.
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09.Apr.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Photographs and videos of RJ Mical's 60th anniversary party
This year, the former Amiga developer RJ Mical has become 60 years and on this occasion he hold a big party. Additional to pictures, Robert Bernardo also has released two videos: First one shows a spontaneous speech, the second one a C64 game which was written for the him.
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08.Apr.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Retrospective view: How the Amiga Powered Your Cable System in the '90s
By means of the channel "Prevue Channel", in "How the Amiga Powered Your Cable System" it is descibed how Amigas were used in the American TV industry.
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07.Apr.2016
[missing source, SourceURL exists]
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CD release: Loading... Digital edition
"Loading... Digital Edition" (teaser video) is an album with 15 tracks, which Pseudaxos has created using Milkytracker on the Amiga. According to the composer, his CD is a mixture of Trip hop, Cyber Trance, Vocal Trance, Dance / Club House and Electro Rock and is available for 9,90 Euro.
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07.Apr.2016
Retro 7-bit (ANF)
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External keyboard adapter: SumCDTV
Retro 7-bit offers a CDTV version of the keyboard adapter Sum A234/CD32. The Sum adapters have an integrated USB-stack "which enables USB HID keyboards support without the need for installing additional AmigaOS software drivers."
There are no information on the website of Retro 7-bit, if the SumCDTV differs from the original Sum adapter only by the colour.
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07.Apr.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS distribution: Icaros Desktop 2.1.1
Version 2.1.1 of Paolo Besser's AROS distribution Icaros Desktop provides a better bersion of the LiveUpdater, which now installs system updates directly after booting the computer - before any application was launched. Additionally the update includes new versions of the web browser OWB and of the emulator package VICE.
- Updated OWB to final release 1.25
- Updated VICE ermulators to version 2.4 (n/a on Light version)
- Fixed HDToolBox right panel text
- Updated LiveUpdater
- fixed bug with user-startup being moved to RAM: without motivation
- Updates are now performed at startup, when no program is running
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07.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 52 (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.
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03.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.25
After the previous beta versions, now Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released Odyssey 1.25 for AROS/x86. This version is based on the WebKit version 187682 from July 2015 and can play HTML5-videos. The latest version 2.1 of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop is required.
If you like the web browser and if you want to support the developer, you can do that by donating money (via PayPal under deadwood@onet.pl or by supporting a bounty project under power2people).
Changes:
- Updated to WebKit r187682 (July 2015). (AROS)
- Ported Odyssey directly on top of WebKit repository. (Common)
- Enable HTML5 video feature. (AROS)
- Bookmarks management panel has been made functional (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Cookies management panel has been made functional (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Fixed "second download crash". (AROS)
- Updated to ffmpeg 2.6.2. (AROS)
- Fixed problem with Odyssey not remembering window width after closing. (AROS)
- Fixed problem with pressing enter not being handled in search window. (AROS)
- Added a "graceful exit" option on crash of Odyssey allowing to close the application and free memory. (AROS)
- It is possible to disable JavaScript Just-in-Time compiler using NO_JSC_JIT tooltype. (Common)
- WebKit codes revision is now presented in AboutBox. (Common)
- Browser spoofing agents are updated for Firefox and Chrome. (Common)
- Added option to disable/enable MP4 support (enabled by default). (Common)
- Fixed crash when closing bookmarks panel (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Double-clicking on bookmarks opens it in current tab. (AROS)
- Fixed list-related code that was trashing memory. (AROS)
- Lists (download, mime settings, history) now have a scroll bar (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Fixed "division by zero" error in Quick Links handling (Common)
- Synchronized display of checkboxes and radioboxes (Common)
- Updated Russian and Italian catalog (Common)
- Provided HTML documentation (Common)
- Messages console is enabled (AROS)
- Fixed continuous allocations of memory when browsing (Common)
- Made memory freeing more aggressive (Common)
- Enabled disk cache by default (Common)
- Fixed setting proxy users/password (Common)
- Fixed cookie handling on numerous sites (Common)
Download: owb-1.25.i386-aros.zip (41 MB)
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03.Apr.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 02.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 2nd, 2016:
yWeather.lha comm/misc 359K MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
dsm.lha comm/net 8.3M WOS Synology Download Manager MUI
owb-1.25.i386-aros.zip comm/www 41M x86 Odyssey Web Browser
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 33K 68k Mediator driver Sonnet 7200 G...
SagaMOS.lha game/board 427K MOS Conversion of TSR boardgame
tanksfurry1-1.adf game/shoot 880K ppc Tanks Furry
GuideMaker-src.lha text/hyper 143K Sources for GuideMaker.
ExtraVersion.lha util/cli 7K OS4 Finds the extra version numbe...
AmiKick.lha util/misc 39K ppc Check Kickstart images under ...
speak-handler.lha util/sys 15K 68k New replacement for the C= sp...
Preferences.lha util/wb 1.5M OS4 Prefs window for starting OS ...
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03.Apr.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 2nd, 2016:
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 70kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
st_ships.lha uti/mis 21Mb 4.0 Database of ships in Star Trek
rbroadcastwol.lha uti/she 3kb 4.1 Send out a Magic Packet to wake ...
ripconfig.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Display info about Ethernet adap...
prefscenter.lha uti/wor 229kb 4.0 Launch prefs programs from a GUI
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03.Apr.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.04.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until April 2nd, 2016:
owb-1.25.i386-aros.zip net/bro 41Mb Odyssey Web Browser
dsm.i386-aros.zip net/ser 1Mb Synology Download Station Manage...
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03.Apr.2016
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WHDLoad: New archives until 02.04.2016
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 2nd, 2016:
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01.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MUI for AmigaOS: MUI 4.0-2016R1
The team of "MUI für AmigaOS" has released new versions of MUI 4.0 for AmigaOS 4 and AmigaOS 3.x. Under AmigaOS 3.x, a graphic board and a fast processor are required. Therefore it is recommended to use an emulator instead of a real Amiga.
The update provides a native reimplementation of the MUI-class GIFAnim.mcc and fixes several bugs.
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31.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 11 interviewed Mike Battilana (Cloanto)
In its eleventh episode, the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed Mike Battilana of Cloanto, who is now especially well known for his preservation effort Amiga Forever, but also was an active developer in the early Commodore/Amiga days. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.9dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files. For the beta version 2.7.9dev the plugins have to be updated as well - you can get further information under the title link.
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29.Mar.2016
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: yWeather.sbar 1.14
Thomas Igracki's screenbar module yWeather "shows the current weather informations for a selected location". It is used with Ambient and gets its weather data from Yahoo. The default location is Berlin/Germany which you can change in the screenbar settings. You can also change the unit of the temperature to Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Changes Version 1.12:
- Chg: Don't eat RMB over my sbar
- Fix: Crash if you remove the sbar while trying to download weather infos
- Chg: add the inputhandler after first successful download
- Chg: if downloading of weather infos failed, try again after 10 seconds,
if it fails 5 times in a row, deactivate auto-update!
You have to left-click on the sbar to activate it again!
Offline will be recognized and displayed
- New: Recognize if yahoo sends no weather data, then "Yahoo error!" will be displayed
- Fix: don't show the all-info-bubble, if there was no successful download!
- Chg: If the conversion of the yahoo date failed, display the original date instead the localized22 in the bubble
Dates like this "Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:00 AM CEST" fail, because of the "12:xx AM"
- New: New strings to localize: msgDeactivated, msgOffline, msgYahooError
Changes Version 1.13:
- Chg: Display "Update check..." in the sbar, if you press middle mouse button
- Chg: The required icons are now located in Sys:Data/Screenbar/yWeather/ instead of Sys:Data/yWeather/
- New: Added a simple installation script
Changes Version 1.14:
- Fix: Wind-speed was always 0.00 [reported by jPV, 29-Mar-16]
- Fix: the units for wind speed, chill, visibility and pressure were missing
- New: added a version string in the all-info-bubble
Download: yWeather.lha (357 KB)
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28.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Download of full version of Gravity Power available
In the download section of the Amiga Future now the game Gravity Power is available which once was on the cover disk of the magazine "Amiga Power". It is a revision of Gravity Force 2 released in 1994. Additional levels you can find on Aminet.
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28.Mar.2016
Alexander Fritsch (ANF)
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Voice output: speak-handler 39.1
Alexander 'selco' Fritsch has written a new speak-handler which is a replacement for the original one available on the Workbench disks starting with version 2.1. It is a new development and not a patch.
The new speak-handler can simultaneously use (experimentally) different versions of the translator.library and of the narrator.device. (In this way it is possible to use the retro sound of the old narrator.device provided by AmigaOS 1.3 as well as the modern sound of the device provided by AmigaOS 2.0.)
Download: speak-handler.lha (16 KB)
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28.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.25 beta (version 26.03.2016)
Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz' latest update of beta version 1.25 of Odyssey allows loading Google-spreadsheet and working with other of those applications (Draw, Drive etc. - partly some of them may need spoofing). Besides, the support of WebWorker was re-enabled and the internal threading support was changed to the POSIX-threads library of AROS. The diskcache now correctly works, so you can clean your it.
Download: owb-aros-1.25-20160326.zip (41 MB)
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28.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 21.03.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of March 21st:
- Autodocs documentation has been updated from source code (mazze)
- Diffutils have been updated to version 3.3 (Kalamatee)
- pthread.library has been extended with pthread_detach and pthread_getschedparam (deadwood)
- MUI Colorfield, Cycle and Pendisplay classes received a fix for modifying passed parameters (Kalamatee)
- Corrupted image in About MUI class on 64-bit has been fixed (mazze)
- Scalos is being adapted to work on 64bit (Kalamatee)
- Chunkyimage class has been corrected to work on 64-bit (mazze)
- FreeGadgets function of gadtools.library has been made more compabile in regards to message handling (stegerg)
- AROS Amiga RTG driver has received threading and VMRA<->RAM swapping improvements (stegerg)
- A crash has been fixed in MUIMine game (mazze)
- Initial work on adding Clang/LLVM as optional cross compiler has started (Kalamatee)
- A bug has been fixed in textengine of muimaster.library (mazze)
- C:Info command now works correctly under 64-bit (jmcmullan)
- Norwegian catalog has been added and German catalog has been fixed in Yahzee game (polluks)
- Work started on GUI file searching tool integrated with Wanderer (mazze)
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27.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amithlon: Information, patches and kernel source codes
Under the title link, Tom Crews has collected information about Amithlon. The Amiga emulator, which was discontiniued 15 years ago, launches UAE based on a minimal Linux kernel and could have pavd the way for an AmigaOS/x86.
After all those years, many links are no longer valid, so on Crews' website you can find information about supported hardware or a tutorial for compiling a kernel.
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27.Mar.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 26.03.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 26th, 2016:
yWeather.lha comm/misc 308K MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
CDL-banished_wings.lha demo/intro 806K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-cube_1445.lha demo/intro 805K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-jigsaw_puzzle.lha demo/intro 806K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-patriarchs.lha demo/intro 807K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-primezator.lha demo/intro 806K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-pyspider.lha demo/intro 805K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-space_war.lha demo/intro 805K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
CDL-spaceball_2000.lha demo/intro 805K OS4 Simple "boot intro" in/for th...
BoingCube.lha demo/misc 2.6M OS4 Bouncing rotating boing cube ...
Saga.lha game/board 382K 68k Conversion of TSR boardgame
Saga-OS4.lha game/board 441K OS4 Conversion of TSR boardgame
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
lazymines_mos.lha game/think 108K MOS The ULTIMATE minesweeper game
yahzee_mos.lha game/think 67K MOS Dice game
Barrzar.lha game/wb 32K 68k Create series of bars from to...
Xtrings.lha game/wb 33K 68k Align diagonanally same type ...
Colors.lha util/cli 4K OS4 Prints out a table with all C...
Colors-CLI-command.lha util/shell 4K OS4 Prints out a table with all C...
ShowFiles-sf.lha util/shell 36K OS4 Shows sorted & text-forma...
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27.Mar.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.03.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 26th, 2016:
mhe.lha dev/ide 7Mb 4.0 Hollywood IDE
saga.lha gam/boa 441kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR boardgame
dsm.lha net/ser 2Mb 4.1 Synology Download Station Tool
bewegungsdetektor.lha uti/sci 2Mb 4.0 Learn and visualize motion detec...
colors.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Prints out a color table with al...
rrandom.lha uti/she 3kb 4.1 32bit Random Generator
evenmore.lha uti/tex 410kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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27.Mar.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 26.03.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until March 26th, 2016:
sdlhana.i386-aros.zip gam/car 979kb The Japanese Hanafuda card game ...
rebound.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 7Mb Brick busting puzzle game.
glmark.i386-aros.zip uti/ben 1Mb OpenGL 3D benchmark.
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27.Mar.2016
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WHDLoad: New archives until 26.03.2016
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 26th, 2016:
- 2016-03-25 new: The Codertrash (Mexx) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-23 new: Burning Spear (The Dark Demon) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-20 new: Megademo (a.k.a. Hit Fido) (KGB) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2016-03-20 improved: Groovy Jives 3 (Relay) byte write to Bltcon1 fixed, keyboard interrupt problem fixed, decruncher optimised (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-20 improved: Alfred - The Music Disk (Relay) some more Bplcon0 color bit fixes, WHDLoad v17+ features used, keyboard interrupt problem fixed, decruncher optimised and error check added, install script updated (Info, Image)
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25.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Compiler: vbcc 0.9e
vbcc is a C-compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific adaptions). The compiler supports AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, PowerUp as well as WarpOS. "It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99)."
Version 0.9e provides several bug fixes and improvements. The detailed list of changes:
- New options -deps and -deps-for-libs to output dependencies for a Makefile.
- Print whole include-stack when encountering an error in include files.
- Fixed undefined symbols in DWARF output by avoiding debug information for removed static variables.
- Do not consider floats as induction variables. Fixes -O3 optimized loops with float variables.
- Fixed bug with nested designated initalizers in unions.
- Updated Warp3D headers and link libraries to V4.2a.
- amigalib: Fixed rtEZRequest() and rtEZRequestTags().
- Make sure kick13 config file is included for m68k-amigaos (Kickstart 1.x compatibility).
- m68k: Fixed asm-peephole optimization of move.l dx,ay; move.l ay,dx when cc of ay is used.
- vclib: Improve C99 compatibility in m881, m040 and m040 libraries with Inf and NaN values.
- vclib: 6888x, 68040 and 68060 math libraries for Atari.
- vclib: C99 inttypes.h, strtoimax(), strtoumax(), imaxabs(), imaxdiv(), isblank().
- vclib: Fixed sign of remainder in div(), ldiv(), lldiv().
- vclib: minstart.o fixes for OS4 and MorphOS (small data and WB start).
- vclib: sscanf() erroneously included the string terminator.
- vclib: Fixed float operations with m13.lib (Kickstart 1.x mathffp).
- vclib: setjmp/longjmp() also save/restore FPU registers.
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24.Mar.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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3D driver system: A-EON announced Warp 3D Nova and OpenGL ES 2.0
"Warp 3D" is a 3D driver system for AmigaOS which was developed by the Frieden brothers at the end of the nineties. Originally the archive was Freeware and in 2001 became a commercial product, distributed by Hyperion. Later it became part of AmigaOS 4. Unfortunately the drivers have not been developed further for years neither by the Friedens nor by Hyperion. Instead of, drivers for current graphic boards has been developed by Hans de Ruiter on behalf of A-EON. NOVA should be the name of the fifth version Warp 3D which was never released.
In 2014 A-EON purchased rights which allows the company to develop further Warp 3D. First results soon are expected: In a press release A-EON today has announced, that Hans de Ruiter is working on an improved version of Warp 3D, which is supposed to be sold as "Warp 3D Nova". The most important new feature is the support of shaders:
- A modern shader-based 2D/3D graphics API for AmigaOS 4
- Supports vertex and fragment (pixel) shaders giving developers great freedom over lighting models, effects, vertex transformations, etc.
- Hardware accelerated Transformation, Clipping & Lighting (TCL) is implicitly supported (programmed via shaders)
- Uses the SPIR-V standard for shaders. A GLSL to SPIR-V compiler is included
- All rendering is done via Vertex Buffer Objects (VBOs) which can be stored in VRAM for high performance.
- Render state stored in Render State Objects (RSOs). Having no global state avoids state thrashing, and allows multi-threaded rendering. Note: While there's no global state, a default RSO is allocated for convenience
- Includes an SDK with everything needed to start writing apps & games including examples ranging from querying hardware capabilities through to per-pixel lighting with normal mapping
- Can co-exist with earlier versions Warp3D-SI & MiniGL
Warp 3D Nova is supposed to support most of the "Radeon HD" graphic boards with "Southern Island"-chipset.
In order to complete the support of 3D, additionally Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener was hired to develop a OpenGL ES 2-wrapper, which is an emulation of the OpenGL ES specifications with the help of Warp 3D Nova.
There are no information regarding the price. In a quote from Hans de Ruiter in the press release he said "there is still work to add compiler enhancements and many more features".
Hint of the editorial stuff: For some time A-EON tries to develop further some part of the operating system or to replace some components of the OS by new and improved ones. Additional to 2D and 3D graphic drivers, Warp 3D Nova or Multiviewer NG, for months an archive named "Amiga Enhancer" is mentioned, which among others is supposd to include improved versions of the InstallerNG and of the Ringhio Notification Server and provides a text editor ("MultiEdit") as well as a dock called X-Dock. We do not know what Hyperion thinks of such activities.
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23.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Martyn Brown (Team 17)
Already on 11. März on RetrogamesMaster an interview with Martyn Brown was published. He was co-founder of Team 17 which among others is well-known for its game Worms.
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23.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hollywood: MiniHollyEdit NG 1.1
MiniHollyEdit NG written by the French programmer 'ArtBlink' is an editor for the programming language Hollywood which is implemented itself in Hollywood with the help of the plugins MUI Royale and GLGalore (screenshot). Hollywood version 4.5 at least is required.
Additional to bug fixes version 1.1 introduces syntax highlighting. Saving the source code can be done in two different formats, one of them saves also the colours.
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