21.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AmigaKit: Developers needed
Under AmigaOS 4 a library named application.library is used. Some programms which require this library are supposed to be ported to AmigaOS 3.x. Therefore AmigaKit is looking for developers who will write a new version of the application.library for AmigaOS 3.x.
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21.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 14.03.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of March 14th:
- Scalos is being adapted to work on 64bit (Kalamatee)
- Work started on tool that converts images to C source (mazze)
- RawDoFmt and FormatString functions now have a datastream definition that is working on all architectures (jmcmullan)
- Zune prefs now has icon images for certain internal classes (mazze)
- Work of adjusting AROS sources to GCC 6 continues (Kalamatee)
- AROS repository reached 52000 commits
- LazyMines game is no longer crashing on startup (mazze)
- Italian translation for Wanderer has been fixed (impulse)
- DiskImage GUI has been fixed to work on 64-bit (jmcmullan)
- A crash in diskimage.device has been fixed (jmcmullan)
- Initial seed for C library rand function calculation has been improved (Kalamatee)
- FormatString and LocRawFoFmt has been extended with ARM anx x86_64 specific patches (jmcmullan)
- LazyMines game have been extended with install script (polluks)
- A bug in MUIM_List_Remove of MUI List class has been fixed (mazze)
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21.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 2.70
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays has released an update of his commercial file manager "Dir Me Up". As usual it is free for all registered users. All others can test a limited demo version (Download). There is a tutorial in Englich and Greek provided as pdf-file.
Changes:
- Copy / Optimization for a cut/paste operation if made on the same volume
- Copy / The accuracy of the overall progress bar has been improved, particularly noticeable when copying a drawer
- Copy / The available space is checked on the destination. If there is not enough space, a warning requester is displayed (ability to copy all that can be)
- Copy / Drag&drop from the Workbench now also uses the overall progress bar
- Copy / The end notification now specifies if it's a copy or a move operation
- Copy / Free space is updated for the affected volumes after a copy or move
- Deletion / The available space on a volume is updated after deletion
- Miscellaneous / It now displays the available memory for RAM: volume
- Translation / Spanish, Italian and German translations completed
- Compilation with the latest public available SDK (53.30)
- Prefs / .pb extension (PureBasic) added as source
- Prefs / .tiff extension added as image
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21.Mar.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: APK-compiler 1.2 for Windows
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with a late night release: The Hollywood APK Compiler 1.2 (amiga-news.de reported). This version contains two major new features: It's possible now to link Hollywood plugins into your APK files and it's also possible to link Android assets with the Hollywood APK Compiler and access them later from your Hollywood script using new Hollywood 6.1 APIs. Finally, the Hollywood APK Compiler is now compatible with the latest version of the Android NDK. The Hollywood APK Compiler 1.2 is now available for download for all registered users from the restricted download area.
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20.Mar.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.03.2016
The following archive has been added to Aminet until March 19th, 2016:
seta1final.lha driver/oth 9K OS4 Tweak the AmigaOne SE/XE hard...
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20.Mar.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.03.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 19th, 2016:
seta1.lha dri/mis 9kb 4.0 Tweak the AmigaOne SE/XE hardware
scummvm.lha gam/adv 17Mb 4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip gam/adv 29Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
afnews.lha net/new 1Mb 4.0 Amiga Future Everywhere AmigaOS 4
tierlexikon.lha off/dat 94Mb 4.1 Simple Animal-Database done with...
scummvm-tools.lha uti/fil 3Mb 4.1 ScummVM Tools
scummvm-tools-src.zip uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 ScummVM Tools Source
jack.lha uti/wor 4Mb 4.1 A fantastic AppStore for AmigaOS
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 1Mb 4.1 Qt Download videos from YouTube
smtube.lha vid/pla 3Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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20.Mar.2016
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WHDLoad: New archives until 19.03.2016
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 19th, 2016:
- 2016-03-19 improved: Peace in the Gulf (Animators) Bplcon0 color bit fixes, some blitter waits added (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-19 improved: Music Party 1990 (Cryptoburners) Bplcon0 color bit fix, install script updated (Info)
- 2016-03-18 improved: Musicland 2 (Brainstorm) Bplcon0 color bit fix (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-18 improved: Musicland (Brainstorm) Bplcon0 color bit fixes, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-17 updated: The Dogs Cogs (Nerve Axis) patch redone, uses real files, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, decruncher relocated, source included (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-16 improved: Crystal Symphonies 2 (Phenomena) illegal copperlist entries fixed, 68000 quitkey support, source included, new install script (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-16 improved: Crystal Symphonies (Phenomena, Scoopex, Rebels) Bplcon0 color bit fix, 68000 quitkey support, source included, new install script (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-16 improved: Hymn 633 (Damage) some more Bplcon0 color bit fixes (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-15 improved: The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul (LSD) write to INTREQR fixed, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-15 improved: The Triple Breasted Whore of Eroticon 6 (LSD) odd address copperlists disabled, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-15 improved: Total Kaos (LSD) Bplcon0 color bit fix, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-15 improved: Techno Warrior (LSD) Bplcon0 color bit fix, wrong CIA access fixed, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-15 improved: Grapevine Megamix (LSD) some more odd address copperlists disabled (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-14 improved: Absolute Swedish (Phew! Productions) WHDLoad v17+ features (config) used (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-14 improved: Animotion (Phenomena) illegal out of bounds blit fixed, a few more blitter waits added (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-14 improved: Sound De Light (Software of Sweden) 2 more byte writes to volume register fixed (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-14 improved: Megademo (Software of Sweden) illegal copperlist entries fixed (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-13 improved: Megademo (Phenomena) byte write to VPOSW fixed, more blitter waits added, more Bplcon0 color bit fixes, out of bounds blit fixed, some wrong blitter wait patches corrected, illegal copperlist entries fixed, some more byte writes to volume register fixed (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-13 improved: Music Compacting 2 (Zylon & Alpha Flight) some more Bplcon0 color bit fixes (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-13 improved: Autumn Nights (Palace) copperlist termination fixed (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-13 improved: Amplifier II (Dimension 4) copperlist problem fixed (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-13 improved: Audio Violation (Defekt) copperlist problems fixed, missing source added (Info, Image)
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19.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Information website: AskAmiga
On AskAmiga.com questions and answers about the Amiga are collected. You can also search the website for certain solutions.
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19.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Neurobiology: Bewegungsdetektor 2.0
"Bewegungsdetektor", written by Ulrich Beckers, "is a software to simulate and learn about the elementary motion detector (EMD) proposed by B. Hassenstein and W. Reichardt (1956)."
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19.Mar.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 51 (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.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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19.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 9
In its nineth issue, Jeremy Reimer wrote about Video Toaster in his series "A history of the Amiga" which since 2007 has been published on Ars Technica.
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16.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 91
"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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15.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 07.03.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of March 7th:
- Moves of MUI Windows are no longer wrongly interpreted as resizes (stegerg)
- Internal MUI classes in Zune preferences now have a default picture (mazze)
- Work on switching AROS to GCC 6+ started (Kalamatee)
- Complete AROS sources are beeing adjusted to work with GCC 6.0 (Kalamatee)
- Complete Contrib and Ports sources are beeing adjusted to work with GCC 6.0 (Kalamatee)
- Memory leak in Zune preferences related to icon images fixed (mazze)
- Blits on AROS Amiga RTG driver in cases of simple copies have been speed up (stegerg)
- AROS Amiga RTG driver has been extended to handle bitmaps outside of VRAM (stegerg)
- Autodocs documentation has been updated from source code (mazze)
- FAT filesystem handler is now fully ROMable (jmcmullan)
- Definition of TagItem has been corrected to work on AROS x86_64 (Kalamatee)
- A possible overflow in BltTemplate function of graphics.library has been fixed (stegerg)
- Value range in AROS Amiga RTG driver in PutTemplate method has been fixed (stegerg)
- A fix for passing wrong value of Screen in Wanderer has been implemented (Kalamatee)
- Stability of AROS Amiga RTG driver improved by adding locking (stegerg)
- Blocker issue causing wrong optimization in intuition.library under GCC 6.0 has been found and fixed (Kalamatee)
- Register-spill issue for ScalePixelArray function under 68k has been worked around (jmcmullan)
- Boot delay for USB boot devices now works correctly (Kalamatee)
- Bug related to write commands in FFS file system and partition.library has been fixed (Kalamatee)
- Correctly preserve A5 register on 68k when compiling with GCC 6.0 (jmcmullan)
- FKey commodity can now execute AREXX scripts (mazze)
- A bug in color mapping has been fixed (stegerg)
- Next round of x86_64 fixes in FryingPan has been implemented (Kalamatee)
- A bug has been fixed in LUA MUI library (Kalamatee)
- Memory trashing bug has been fixed in XAD CAB library (Kalamatee)
- LZO library has been updated to version 2.09 (Kalamatee)
- Scout, Wazp3D, BWins class and Scalos has had bugs related to 64-bit compatibility fixed (Kalamatee)
- ATA driver no longer crashes on 68k under low memory condition (jmcmullan)
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15.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.9.2
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a preconfigured collection of programms, games and emulators (PDF description) and now is available in version 3.9.2 for MorphOS 3.9. An unchanged basic installation of the operating system is required.
Changes:
- Added AmigaRacer (2.9) - AmigaTec.com
- Added Aurus skin - Jambalah
- Added RecenFiles 1.1 - OnyxSoft
- Added NetFS 1.0 - OffseT
- Added VintageViewer - Templario
- Added VintageSongPlayer (anciennement SirenaPlayer) - Templario
- Added PintorWeb (2.0) - Templario
- Added nouvaux fonds d'écran - The Bucheron
- Added new drawer icons (Add-on) - The Bucheron
- Added PicShow (visualisateur par défaut) - Thomas Rapp
- Added FPSE plugins - BSzili
- Added Google Drive Handler (0.4) - Norbert Kett
- Added a mimetype to compress directly one file to LHA - Beworld
- Updated LAME (3.99.5) dans CodeAudio/Bin - Harry Sintonen
- Updated de VAMP (1.40) - Templario
- Updated AnimWebConverter (2.35) - Templario
- Updated ACE (1.11) - OffseT
- Updated AmIRC (3.6.2) - Henes
- Updated SimpleMail (0.42) - SimpleMail Team and Henes
- Updated SimpleCat (3.25) - Geit
- Updated FPSE (0.10.6) - Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund
- Updated Grunch (2.18) - Geit
- Updated Toram (0.8.0) - Guillermo 'Deuteros' Amat
- Updated MUIBase (3.2) - Steffen Gutmann
- Updated Calimero (2.5) - pegasossigi
- Updated InstallerGen (1.4) - Daedalus
- Updated LoView (2.91) - Simone 'Tuxedo' Monsignori
- Installation script improved - Beworld
- Correction in Crabum menu - nerumo
- Twins .catalog files deleted - Beworld
- AmRSS configuration file updated (new websites) - Beworld
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15.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulator: iUAE 1.1 for iOS
After about two years the implementation of the Amiga emulator UAE for Apple's iOS-devices has been updated. As usual iUAE is available on Cydia. Owners of a Mac-OS-X computer can also install the programm without jailbreak via Sideload to the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch by compiling the source code for themselves.
New features:
- Support for Multiple Configurations
- Completely Redesigned OnScreen Joypad (Supports Up To Four Programmable Buttons now)
- Map Amiga Keyboard Buttons to Physical Joypad or Onscreen Joypad
- New GUI
- Configurable Onscreen Buttons to Map Keyboard Buttons (Thanks SimonToens)
- Support for df2 to df4 (Thanks Simontoens)
- Roms and Adf files can now be copied using Itunes (Thanks SimonToens)
- Various Crash fixes. Chaos Engine now runs. Turrican 2 is more stable (Thanks SimonTones)
- Enabled Sprite To Sprite Collision Detection. Games Like Archon and Gravity Force run now (Thanks Mithendral)
- Several New Options for Display Settings
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14.Mar.2016
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS-Distribution: Icaros Desktop 2.1
In version 2.1 of Paolo Besser's AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop several bugs have been fixed and new versions of applications added - e.g. a new version of the web browser Odyssey which now supports HTML-5-videos.
Drivers for NTFS-3G and exFAT partitions have been completed as well. Additionally it is possible to access (read) Google-Drive accounts. Icaros Desktop adds a preference programm written in Lua for configuring it in a more comfortable way (screenshot).
Changes:
- Writing to a NTFS partition
- Updated OWB to version 1.25, build from march 2016: Youtube, Vimeo and other similar sites are now supported (HTML5 video)
- Updated DirectoryOpus 5 "Magellan" to latest release
- Added a lot of development libraries
- Added GoogleDrive Handler (allows read only access)
- Added configuration tool for GoogleDrive handler
- Added Filesysbox library
- Added NTFS-3G handler (supports Windows NTFS partitions up to Windows 10/2016)
- Added EX-FAT handler (for larger, modern VFAT volumes)
- Improved help pictures for Magellan interface
- Added SNUG HTTP server to network startup daemons, and you can now access MyWokspace files with a browser
- Enhanced AmiBridge's "Amiga as a service"
- Ignition M68K running on x86 desktop
- Updated PortablE to latest release
- Updated FPC to latest release
- Updated ZuneView to latest release
- Cleaned up GRUB2 boot menu
- Restored "complete" user manual and updated to version 2.1
- Applications: updated Amath, EdiSyn, metaDiary, RPNScientific
- Benchmarks: added Water, updated GLMark
- New Demoscene folder in Extras with Fract and Timeless
- Design: fixed GrafX2, updated ThemeEdit
- Filesystem: updated Scalos, Unarc
- Games: updated/fixed Ri-Li, added RotateGear, Skunks (OpenGL)
- Media editors: added FFMPEG, ImageMagick
- Misc: added meteData, RFT-Riddle
- Networking: added toram
- Updated AROS system files to Jan 6th, 2016
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13.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix provides new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last message the following songs have been added:
- Captain Planet Ma Ti (Synthwave Mix)
- Great Courts 2 (You Can Win)
- Mantronix & Tip's Jazzy Nork - Live Jazz Club Cover
- Strider Vs Thunderblade
- Pinball Prelude Medley
- Stardust Warp Sequence 2
- Hybris [2016 Remix]
- Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 Intro
- Fire & Ice Temple Theme (daXX Remix)
- Wrath Of The Demon Title (2016 Wremix)
- Golden Axe - Death Adder Theme (daXX Remix)
- Arabian Nights (daXX Remix)
- Return of the Jedi - Hard Wars (Livemix)
- Return of the Jedi - Hard Wars
- Some Day
- Lotus III - Space Rock Ninja Remix Flekador
- DYLAN DOG - The Murderers Intro
- Another World Ending
- Jupiters Masterdrive Level Selection Menu
- Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
- Turbo Imploder 4.0
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13.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Assembler and Linker: vasm 1.7e and vlink 0.15a
Frank Wille has released updates for the assembler vasm and its corresponding linker vlink.
Changes in vasm 1.7e:
- Ability to print the source line also in output module error messages.
- Current PC symbol in absolute code regions was erroneously relocated to the section's base address.
- Make sure that labels from absolute code regions are not relocated.
- m68k: Fix for a bug introduced in last version: fmovem list,(An) and fmovem list,(d,An) were no longer recognized as valid for M68k FPUs.
- PPC: Fixed mtvscr instruction, which uses the vB field instead of vD.
- ARM: Accept the new SVC mnemonic as an alias for SWI.
- ARM: Fixed macros. Previously only three characters for a macro name were allowed. Qualifiers are not allowed on ARM macros.
- std-syntax: Permit the '$' as start character and in the middle of a label (note: a terminating '$' still defines a local label!).
- std-syntax: A missing last macro argument no longer causes an error message, but is replaced by a default value (when defined) or an empty string.
- std-syntax: .org directive defines the offset from the current section's start address when it appears within a section (GNU-as compatibility).
- mot-syntax: ORG directive can be used within any normal section to define a block of code relocated to an absolute start address.
- mot-syntax: Numeric absolute symbol expansion is supported for macro parameters of the form \<symbol> or \<$symbol> (hexadecimal value).
- madmac-syntax: Removed the -rorg option, which is the default behaviour now.
- oldstyle-syntax: The special macro argument \@ is replaced by an underscore, followed by a six-digit number again, as before V1.7c.
- tos-output: Check for overflows in relocation fields.
- aout-output: Fixed a crash since last version, when embedding absolute code regions in a section.
Changes in vlink 0.15a:
- New option -mrel instructs the linker to merge all sections with PC-relative references between them. This was done automatically in previous versions, but makes no sense for most targets
- New option -hunkattr, which assigns memory attributes to an input section name. The memory attributes of all those input sections will be overwritten
- (elf) Introduced the new target "elf32jag", an unofficial ELF target for the Atari Jaguar RISC CPU
- (ados/ehf) Read/write extended memory attributes (0xc0000000 in hunk type or size). Extended attributes in object files seem inofficial, but supported by vasm now
- (ados/ehf) Allow memory flags with HUNK_PPC_CODE in object files
- (ados/ehf) Support HUNK_RELRELOC32 in executables (since OS3.0)
- (a.out) Fixed pc-relative relocations in relocatable object file output
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13.Mar.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 6.1 available
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present Hollywood 6.1. Hollywood 6.1 is a major update with many new features and bug fixes. The most important new feature is that Hollywood 6.1 now comes with GUIs for Mac OS (x86 and PowerPC) and Linux (x86, PowerPC, ARM). Previously Hollywood could only be used from the command line on these systems. Starting with Hollywood 6.1 the Mac OS and Linux versions come with a native GUI which is identical to the GUI used in the Amiga version.
Additionally, Hollywood plugins can now be linked into executables compiled by Hollywood. Speaking of plugins, Hollywood 6.1 contains major extensions to the plugin interface which will be utilized by a soon to be released killer plugin which has been three years in the making. This plugin (codename: Secret Weapon III) will be the most powerful plugin in the history of Hollywood and it will open up a whole new world of programming with Hollywood. And it will be released free of charge for all Hollywood users. So watch this space...
Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 6.1:
- Hollywood has a GUI for all supported platforms now
- New sound channel API makes Hollywood's sound library much more flexible
- Hollywood plugins can be linked into executables now
- Support for streaming through sound.datatype on MorphOS
- Functions to conveniently load and save user preferences
- Virtual files can also be opened for writing now
- Fine-tuned control over appicons in the Amiga version
- Android extensions for the Hollywood APK Compiler
- New debugging and event functions
- Several new functions that were requested by users
- More convenient distribution model: the download version no longer requires you to run custom tools to generate an ISO image first; instead download versions are ready-to-run on all platforms now
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
- Ready for the killer plugin
Hollywood 6.1 is the ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for all creative people. Hollywood is available on a CD-ROM and as a download version. Both versions include Hollywood for all supported platforms. It is no longer necessary to buy separate licenses for the different platforms. Buying Hollywood gives you a single-user license for all 11 platforms supported by Hollywood. If you already own Hollywood, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. People who bought Hollywood 6.0 in 2016 can request a free upgrade.
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different AmigaOS compatible platforms and the other three modern desktop systems, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux! Additionally, Hollywood also supports the Android platform. A truly unique feature is the ability to cross-compile native executables for many different platforms including: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows, Mac OS X (x86 & PPC), and Linux (x86 & PPC & ARM). You don't even have to own these platforms in order to compile executables for them. It's enough to run Hollywood on one of the supported platforms and then compile programs for all the others! Only Hollywood makes it possible. If you want to learn more about Hollywood, please visit the the official Hollywood portal which also has a forum for all questions concerning Hollywood.
All this makes Hollywood The Cross-Platform Multimedia Application Layer. Join the Multimedia revolution and get your personal copy of Hollywood 6.1 now!
Screenshots (AmigaOS 4, Linux, Mac OS X):
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13.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amicast: Text interview with Frank Wille
The blog of the English podcast Amicasthas published a text interview with Frank Wille. The developer is well-known for the game Solid Gold and the Amiga ports of Retroguru games like the Sqrxz series (1, 2, 3), Giana's Return, Xump or Fruit'Y, but he is also well-known for the assembler PhxAss and his assistance in developing the compiler vbcc as well as the assembler and its linker vasm and vlink, for his assistance in developing the Amiga and Pegasos version of the operating system NetBSD as well as for the ppclibemu. He also was involved in the beta tests of the Pegasos-II adaption of AmigaOS 4.1. By adapting vasm and vlink, he also supports the Sonnet-Amiga-project.
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13.Mar.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Board game: Kings of Israel 0.67
With permission of the right holder Funhill Games, the Finnish programmer 'Bugala' has released an update of his Amiga version of the board game Kings of Israel which is still in development (video of an earlier version from April of the last year).
The free game which still has not been finished is available for all Amiga systems in Pascal Papara's indieGO!-Appstore. Under AmigaOS 3.x the Hollywood game requires about 100 MB RAM and a graphic board. Under AmigaOS 4 the game hast to be launched in window mode.
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13.Mar.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 12.03.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 12th, 2016:
dsm.lha comm/net 7.4M WOS Synology Download Manager MUI
dsm.i386-aros.zip comm/tcp 1.2M x86 Synology Download Station Man...
AFnews-68k.lha comm/www 886K 68k Amiga Future Everywhere 68k
GLExcess.lha demo/misc 676K MOS The OpenGL Demo
AGUI.lha dev/amos 1.0M A GUI for AmosPro
NixNext.lha game/wb 32K 68k Remove neighbouring tiles of ...
LoViewAROS.lha gfx/show 4.6M x86 LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewMOS.lha gfx/show 4.3M MOS LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewOS3.lha gfx/show 3.9M 68k LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewOS4.lha gfx/show 5.2M OS4 LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewWOS.lha gfx/show 5.0M WOS LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
ezhome.lha misc/misc 430K 68k X-10 Home Control.ECS or AGA ...
fmovecr_dump.lha misc/misc 13K 68k Reads the FPU ROM. Send me th...
opus-tools-0.19_aros.lha mus/edit 435K x86 Opus Audio Tools
ezcron4.lha util/time 995K 68k Start progs/reminders/scripts...
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13.Mar.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.03.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 12th, 2016:
muteoutput.lha uti/she 5kb 4.0 when you can't use >NIL:
evenmore.lha uti/tex 407kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
wheelrun.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.1 another program launcher written...
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13.Mar.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 12.03.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archiven until March 12th, 2016:
glcolumns.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb OpenGL game to match 3 or more f...
dsm.i386-aros.zip net/ser 1Mb Synology Download Station Manage...
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13.Mar.2016
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WHDLoad: New archives until 12.03.2016
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 12th, 2016:
- 2016-03-12 improved: Demon's Rage (Nerve Axis) illegal Bltcon0/1 values in line drawing routines fixed (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-08 improved: Boundless Void (Nemol) Bplcon0 color bit fixes, blitter wait added, illegal Bplcon2 value fixed, byte write to volume register fixed, read from VPOSW fixed, new install script (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-07 updated: Groovy (Lemon) patch redone, byte writes to Bltcon1 fixed, illegal BltCon0 values fixed, 68000 quitkey support, blitter waits added, works with 512k chip now, new install script (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-06 new: Public Attack (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-06 new: Greatest Hits (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-06 updated: Test Drive 2 - The Duel (Accolade) converted for newer WHDLoad (Info)
- 2016-03-06 improved: Prince of Persia (Jordan Mechner/Br?derbund) trainer improved (Info)
- 2016-03-06 new: Vectordance (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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12.Mar.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Beta version of Cinnamon Writer 0.95
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a "compact and efficient word processor developed especially with Amiga and Amiga-like systems in mind" which can import RTF and DocX files and offers a spellchecker.
Almost three years after the last release, at least for AmigaOS 4 a new beta version is available which among others supports inserting pictures. The version for MorphOS still has some bugs. Therefore it has not been released yet. A version of the Cinnamon Writer for AROS will be released if the author once is "happy with AOS4 and MorphOS versions."
Furthermore the author asks for your feedback: "If you believe that CW is not displaying your Docx document correctly, I would very much like to have the document sent to bugs@desler.be so I can correct the mistake. However, please be aware that I cannot fix problems with things like textboxes and tables since they are not supported by CW yet. Also remember, that if you havn't got the truetype font used in your word document installed on your amiga, the text will look different, and this is not a bug."
New functionality:
- Support for images
- UTF format support
- Improved spellchecking
- Optimizations and stability improvement
- Much, much, more
Known problems:
- CW chokes with large documents
- Printing/PDF exporting is still very experimental. I am looking for users who uses ghostscript and printer with their Amiga routinely
- Cursor problems
- Screen garbage when starting up. This issue has been reported to me, but I cannot reproduce it. If you see this bug please report which machine you are using and which version of AOS you are running
- Trying to open a CW Docx format in Word leads to a warning. Just trust the document, and it should load just fine
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11.Mar.2016
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Amiga Future: Issue 93 (German/English) can be read online
After issue 93 of the magazine Amiga Future is sold out, the articles of the German and English version of the magazine can be read online.
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11.Mar.2016
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Preview video: Amikit X ("A.L.I.C.E") launches Linux applications
A preview video shows the forthcoming version X of the emulator distribution Amikit, which is suppposed to be used in A-EONs announced Laptop A.L.I.C.E. ("A Laptop Incorporating A Classic Experience"). One of the important new features of Amikit will be launching Linux applications out of the emulated AmigaOS 3 - the video demonstrates this using the example of Firefox and the video player VLC.
In the video in each case one Linux application is launched, used and quitted without changing to AmigaOS or to another Linux application in the meantime. This demonstrates one of the substantial problems such a emulation have: For example the windows of Firefox or VLC would vanish behind the Amiga emulation running in full screen mode if you click on the Workbench and you can only change back to the Linux program by using the keyboard shortcut ALT-TAB.
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11.Mar.2016
Pegsasosforum (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Optical character recognition gOCR 0.50
Thore Sittly has ported version 0.50 of the optical character recognition program gOCR to MorphOS. Pnm, pbm, pgm and ppm as well as partly pcx and tga pictures files can be recognized. It is also possible to read barcode graphics.
Download: gocr-0.50.lha (666 KB)
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11.Mar.2016
AROS-EXEC.org (ANF)
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AROS: Text editor EdiSyn 0.54
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntax highlighting for C/C++, Pascal, HTML and Hollywood. Version 0.54 fixes bugs. Additionally the content of the window is redrawed faster:
- FIX: Restored default highlighter colors
- FIX: Hint marker for freepascal output
- FIX: Faster redrawing
- FIX: Message window buttons
- ADD: Basic Printing
- FIX: Menu in experimental Icaros
Direct download: EdiSyn_0.54.lha (3 MB)
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09.Mar.2016
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amiga-news.de: Server problems, relocation in progress
Currently amiga-news.de is located on a server of a friendly web presence. Obviously the (virtual) server cannot handle the additional traffic so we were going to move to a new server.
During the last days, amiga-news.de could not be accessed for several days. Therefore our technicians are trying to establish the new server - at the same time we are about to update our technical infrastructure. For our technicians are very buzy, the relocation will still take some time.
We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may has caused.
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09.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 29.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 29th:
- Hooks in Lunapaint have been corrected to work under 68k (wawa)
- Hebrew keymap extended with right-to-left and left-to-right marks (polluks)
- BoingIconBar now correctly detaches from shell (mazze)
- Menu handling in FryingPan corrected (Kalamatee)
- Scalos now better handles situation when preferences.library is missing (neil)
- BoingIconBar has been updated to newer version (mazze)
- BoingIconBar has been extended with Quit menu option (mazze)
- UAE AROS driver has had its mode definitions corrected (wawa)
- BoingIconBar can now open drawers if they have an icon (mazze)
- Reading hunk executable in AROS 68k is now faster (twilen)
- TextEditor, NList and BetterString preferences are now correctly showing images under any endianess (mazze)
- Names of external classes in Zune preferences are now more readable (mazze)
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07.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Dutch Kick-Off-2 championship 2016 in Amsterdam
On April 2nd, the this year's Dutch Kick-Off-2 championship will take place in Amsterdam. "The games will be 2 halves of 5 minutes each, and it will be a round-robin format. The entry fee will be about 20 - 25 euros."
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07.Mar.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.25 Beta (Version 6.3.2016)
The latest update of Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz' beta version of Odyssey 1.25 supports the disk cache for contents and fixes the bug of the Proxy settings for users and password. Additionally a Russian catalog file was added.
Download: owb-aros-1.25-20160306.zip (40 MB)
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07.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Amiga Racer 2.9
Michael Neitzel's racing game "Amiga Racer" is inspired by Lotus and is available in version 2.9 (video). Now you can configure the controller settings.
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07.Mar.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 50 (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.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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07.Mar.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 05.03.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 5th, 2016:
c-ares.lha comm/tcp 418K 68k Command line DNS tools and de...
dnstracer.i386-aros.lha comm/tcp 52K x86 Trace a chain of DNS servers ...
fping.i386-aros.lha comm/tcp 81K x86 Show which network hosts are ...
QuadrigaChessBoardInt... demo/intro 880K 68k Quadriga - ChessBoard Intro
Quadriga-Revolution.adf demo/misc 880K 68k Quadriga - Revolution
Quadriga-Void.adf demo/misc 880K 68k Quadriga - Void
Quadriga-ComicSlideSh... demo/slide 880K 68k Quadriga - Comic SlideShow
QuadrigaAcousticSilen... demo/sound 880K 68k Quadriga - Acoustic Silence
libgd-2.1.1_a68k.lha dev/lib 5.3M 68k library for dynamic image cre...
OMFAnalyzer.lha dev/moni 84K MOS Analyzer of the Object Module...
AmigaPower.lha docs/mags 77K aMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Maga...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 287K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.11
gnuplot-5.0.3_a68k.lha gfx/misc 6.3M 68k Portable graphing utility
gnuplot-MOS.lha gfx/misc 1.0M MOS Interactive function and data...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
EvenMore.lha text/show 343K 68k V0.89: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 408K MOS V0.89: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 408K OS4 V0.89: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 288K V0.89: EvenMore textviewer pl...
EvenMoreSP.lha text/show 4K EvenMore v0.89 spanish catalog
ControllerTest.lha util/misc 52K 68k Test different types of contr...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 447K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 507K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 551K OS4 Multipurpose utility
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 05.03.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 5th, 2016:
drawergad.lha dev/lib 183kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
picflowgad.lha dev/lib 63kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
radiobuttonxgad.lha dev/lib 78kb 4.0 Radiobutton gadget expanded
reportplus.lha uti/mis 551kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
vuremote.lha uti/mis 698kb 4.1 Remote control for Vu+ Receivers
ctlg2ct.lha uti/tex 19kb 4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 420kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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07.Mar.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 05.03.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until March 5th, 2016:
amph.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb 2D-Jump'n run shooter.
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07.Mar.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 05.03.2016
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 5th, 2016:
- 2016-03-05 new: Kefmania (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2016-03-04 improved: Side Arms (Probe) patch is NTSC compatible now (Info)
- 2016-03-04 new: Vector Dance 2 (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-01 updated: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) fixed wrong keyboard interrupt (Info)
- 2016-02-29 improved: Archon (Electronic Arts) adapted to WHDLoad v16 (Info)
- 2016-02-29 improved: Archon 2: Adept (Electronic Arts) adapted for WHDLoad 16, reworked readme & install script (Info)
- 2016-02-29 new: Musical Secrets (Zite) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-02-28 improved: Sound Disk (Zenith) unitialised copperlist problem fixed, wrong write to INTENA fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes added, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info, Image)
- 2016-02-28 improved: Megademo (Zeus) illegal copperlist entry fixed, one more blitter wait and Bplcon0 fix added, intro part random generator recoded and included random data removed (Info, Image)
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04.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Distribution: Latest AEROS for Pi available to all
One and a half week ago, Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS was made available for the Raspberry Pi (models 1 & 2) to registered customers. Now it is available to all users in his indieGO!-Appstore called "AEROS Premium 3" (2,54 GB).
The successor "AEROS 4.0 for Pi 1/2/3" which is based on Debian 8 instead of 7 is supposed to be available to registered customers this weekend and among other things include an Amiga emulation with JIT-compiler.
Changes in AEROS 4.0 for Pi:
- Updated to Debian 8.0
- Updated Exagear to version 1.4.1 which takes less RAM and is much faster
- Boots in under 4 seconds on a Pi2
- AmiCloud beta 5
- Updated indieGO!-Appstore
- Updated Spotify
- Ubuntu 14.04 is used for i386 compatibility
- UAE4ARM with JIT
- Broadway 68K
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02.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 22.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 22nd:
- AROS x86_64 is now using large memory model and allows putting executable above 2GB barier (mschulz)
- Skip command will no longer enter infinite loop when a matching Lab/EndSkip can't be found (neil)
- AROS x86_64 now allocates more than 4GB of RAM (mschulz)
- Wanderer now correctly displays available memory when > 4GB (mschulz)
- Avail command has been corrected to work on x86_64 AROS (Kalamatee)
- FormatString function of locale.library now supports displaying of IPTR type (mschulz)
- AROS monitor drivers are now correctly detected during boot on AROS linux hosted (Kalamatee)
- Autodocs documentation has been updated from source code (mazze)
- Lunapaint is now part of AROS Contrib repository (mazze)
- Hebrew keymap has been added (polluks)
- More utility now correctly handles files with more than 32768 lines (mazze)
- Dir command now allows interactive directory walking (mazze)
- FryingPan has been corrected to work on X86_64 AROS (Kalamatee)
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01.Mar.2016
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 during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- January/February 2016 news.
- Old articles from Tilt 56 to 59:
- Interview with John Phillips
- Review of Summer Olympiad
- Report: Personal Computer Show 1988
- Interview with Franck Lanne
- Review of Cybernoid
- Report: Summer Consumer Electronics Show 1988
- File: flight simulators in 1988
- Review of Enlightenment: Druid 2
- File: women and computers
- Interview with Bruno Bonnell, etc.
- Interview with Christoph Gutjahr (Aminet, amiganews.de).
- Hardware: MIST (update).
- Hardware: presentation of AmigaOne 1222 (betatester).
- DIY: connect and use an ACA 500 on an Amiga 1000.
- File: Amiga Games List (update).
- File: virus (update).
- Tutorial: share files with NetFS revised on MorphOS.
- Tutorial: Wi-Fi on Amiga 1200 (with Prism2 V2 and MiamiDX).
- Programmation: AMOS - loops.
- Special quizz about the year 2015 on Amiga.
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28.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 27th, 2016:
fping.lha comm/tcp 91K 68k Show which network hosts are ...
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
Addicts-Kifftro.adf demo/intro 880K 68k Demo
gui4cli-update.lha dev/gui 100K 68k Easy, event driven GUI langua...
Xix.lha game/wb 33K 68k Rotate shapes so they connect...
WebPButton_0.5.lha gfx/show 543K MOS A animated Button
sidid.lha mus/misc 43K MOS HVSC playroutine identity sca...
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 19K OS4 Decompiles catalogs back into...
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28.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 27th, 2016:
universe-thetrip.lha dem/sce 9Mb 4.1 Alchimie 2013 winner demo.
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
gorky17.lha gam/str 177Mb 4.0 Demo version of the 3D strategy RPG
netsurf.lha net/bro 6Mb 4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
extraversion.lha uti/she 7kb 4.0 Finds the extra version number (...
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 16kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
rrandom.lha uti/she 2kb 4.1 31bit Random Generator
evenmore.lha uti/tex 420kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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28.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 27.02.2016
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 installer has been added until February 27th, 2016:
- 2016-02-25 improved: Final Fight (Capcom) now works on 68000, files can be crunched (Info)
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28.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: Six applications addedd
Six applications have been added to the software collection Games-Coffer: BBase II, Deskbench 1.3, Direct Action, Future Composer, Giant Utilities 3, Giant Utilities 4, Noisetracker 2.0 and Text Plus V3/X-Spell.
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28.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 10 interviewed Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo-Core)
In its tenth issue, the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed the developer Gunnar von Boehn who is working on the Apollo-Core as well as on the accelerator board Vampire II.
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27.Feb.2016
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File manager: Tasko (update)
"Tasko" written by Andreas G. Szabo offers any number of directory windows you like. Between them, you can copy files with drag&drop - for each new directory window, just start Tasko once again. The current release is called a "release candidate", which probably includes bugs. So far you cannot delete empty directories.
Tasko requires AmigaOS 3.0 or higher. The author recommends at least AmigaOS 3.5. The screennotify.library is supported, that means if the Workbench is supposed to be closed or opened, Tasko immediately responds.
Download: Tasko_v1.0rc6.zip (176 KB)
Update: (03.03.2016, 06:00, cg)
Meanwhile the sixth "release candidate" is available. According to Andreas G. Szabo "now the files list is only refreshed when the dir reading is ready. However you can turn back on the live-refresh in the menu settings. I also changed the live-refresh method and it perhaps now performs better." Additional changes:
- Only one lister is read/refreshed at a time.
- Initial bookmarks feature added, drag dirs or volumes into the bookmarks list (turn it on in the settings menu).
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26.Feb.2016
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Review: Netsurf under AmigaOS 3 (Update)
If nowadays users of classic Amiga hardware are going to surf the Internet, until recently they could only choose between iBrowse and A-Web. But both web browsers have not been updated since 2006 and 2011, respectively. As long as you are only intending to browse websites like amiga-news.de or the Aminet, then these two are sufficient - but it is quite impossible to access more complex websites like yahoo.de. Our editor Daniel Reimann has examined the new alternative called Netsurf:
In recent times, almost unnoticed a third option for surfing the Internet has been added: Netsurf. More precisely you would have to say a third and a fourth option, because there are two different versions of this browser that was originally ported to AmigaOS 4. Almost unnoticed, because these ports were only early alpha versions. Now both ports have been released in version 3.4.
Netsurf is a free, open source web browser, which is available for different platforms. The project was established in 2002, the first public version 1.0 of Netsurf was released in 2007. Already in August 2008 a port for the operating system AmigaOS 4 was added. Since that time, the browser has been uninterruptedly developed and now is available in version 3.4.
Since about a year, Chris Young is also working on a ReAction-based port for AmigaOS 3. According to Chris, Artur Jarosik has been developing a version for OS3 for a longer time, but which so far required the ixemul-environment. Today we are going to have a closer look at the port of Chris Young and find out if this version can be launched, is working or even is suitable for daily use. Test system was an Amiga 1200, extended with a Blizzard 1230/50 and 32 MB RAM, which is connected to the scart port of a TV set.
The readme states explicitly that AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9 with 32 MB RAM are required. Besides it is pointed out that "this is early beta quality software for testing only". Chris also wrote, that "it *will* crash!". Well, this I can already tell you: Netsurf did not crash a single time - this is quite an unusual quality concerning Amiga software: Hats off! The archive also contains a detailed tutorial in AmigaGuide format.
While earlier versions of Netsurf could not be unpacked under OS3, this is no longer a problem with the latest Lha archive. It contains an installer, which simply copies Netsurf to the desired destination and finally runs FixFonts. Afterwards you can launch Netsurf without installing any other additional Software.
After a few seconds, a first welcome screen is opened which tells you that Netsurf is "The Open Source Web Browser for AmigaOS 4". After that, the browser window is opened. The first time you start the program, a locally saved home page is loaded:
Of course this default home page can be changed.
Chris Young has uninterruptedly developed his port of Netsurf. While in earlier versions the preferences window did not work, the latest version even has added Tabs - which so far cannot be closed, though.
As you can see looking at the screenshot, the buttons for "forward", "backward" und "reload" currently do not work. According to Chris, this bug crept into the latest release while implementing the tabs.
Before we are going to load some more complex websites using Netsurf, two facts: Javascript is still disabled. And which perhaps is some more disappointing and because this considerably limits Netsurf: HTTPS connections do not work using this version of the browser. According to Chris Young it should work, but when accessing howsmyssl.com, after a few seconds a message pops up: "Timeout was reached" - therefore at the moment you cannot access websites like yahoo.com which use HTTPS.
But what Netsurf can load: www.tagesschau.de
As you can see (by the way, in the background the Workbench works using 256 colours) sometimes there are some graphic bugs if you use the "normal" presentation. The horizontal scroll bar also is missing. But the browser has a real nice and handy feature: It can scale.
According to Chris Young, this function still does not work as it should, because the website should not be cut off at the side, but either there should be the horizontal scroll bar or the whole website should be seen. For me, this feature was very helpful, because often the fonts are displayed much better when the website is scaled.
I want to mention two issues: Speed and memory consumption. As you can see on the lower left corner of the last screenshot, Netsurf always informs you about the time it takes for loading a website. In this case it took Netsurf 266 seconds to load tagesschau.de, while amiga-news.de is loaded in about 42 seconds. This is a lot of time but compared with its previous version, which makes me watching the monitore for about 70 seconds, it loads it much faster.
According to the author, all preferences are set by default to values which speed up the browser as much as possible. Only in respect to the memory he recommends to try out to set the value of the disc cache to 0. In my case, this had not any influence to the speed of Netsurf. However I did increase and decrease the value for the memory cache: For my computer, the value of 20 MB was found to be best. Higher values did slow down my system again.
As usual for Amiga browsers you can disable loading pictures, which saves a lot of loading time. Everyone has to decide for himself if and when pictures should be loaded ot not. For example loading the website www.spiegel.de took Netsurf 874 seconds to load with pictures and only 292 seconds without loading of pictures.
The number of colours set for the Workbench screen did not have an explicit influence to the loading time of the browser.
By the way, I did not have any issues with missing free memory at any point. The lowest available free memory which I had was about 11 MB. On average I had 19 MB of free RAM.
What conclusions can we draw from our tests? Actually I can recommend to give this early version of Chris' Netsurf a try! Of course the missing features like disabled Javascript or still not working HTTPS support are limiting the potential of the browser - and compared with iBrowse and AWeb, loading times sometimes are extremely high. But already at this early stage, Netsurf reliably works and gives you the option to access websites, which until now were not available to the classic Amiga user. Chris Young asks to report bugs to chris@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk. You can have a very nice and personal contact to him and he actually does answer to your questions and problems. So it depends on all of us, the users of OS3, to provide feedback to him and demonstrate our interest so he keeps looking forward to develop Netsurf with energy and enthusiasm.
Update: (04.03.2016, 00:30, cg)
In the meantime, we figured out how the SSL problem can be solved: The configuration file Netsurf/users/default/choices contains a "curl_fetch_timeout" that determines how many seconds Netsurf will wait until it displays the timeout error message. Increasing that value to 60 we managed to loadebay's classifieds (just to hit the next stumbling block, due to the lack of Javascript):
Loading howmyssl.com worked fine aswell now. Why it describes our SSL client as "bad" instead of "imrovable" - Chris Young tells us it should be the latter - is currently being investigated.
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25.Feb.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 49 (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.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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25.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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USB-Adapter: Firmware update for Ryś MKII and Ryś USB
The Ryś MKII adapter can be used together with USB HID devices like mouses, joysticks and pads to connect them as input devices for Amiga computers. The latest firmware update for this adapter as well for its previous variant Ryś USB adds the following devices:
- iBuffalo Classic USB Gamepad
- SNES pad with USB adapter
- elektronic switcher 2in1 DB9 (mouse/joystick)
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24.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Interview: Fernando 'Retrofan' Martin (Real AmiKit)
The blog of the English-language podcast Amicast has published an interview with Fernando 'Retrofan' Martin, who is the author of Real AmiKit, which is an adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for real Amigas.
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24.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 15.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 15th:
- A crash in TLSF memory manager has been fixed (mschulz)
- Amiga.lib no longer depends on C library (neil)
- AvailFonts function of diskfont.library now supports NULL parameter (mazze)
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24.Feb.2016
Kris (ANF)
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MiST: FPGA-AGA-Core 1.2
For the Atari/Amiga clone MiST (amiga-news.de reported) an update of the emulated Amiga with AGA-support has been released which further increases the compatibility.
Changes in version 1.2:
- Initial implementation of programmable display modes
- OSD HRTmon enable/disable switch is working (ON – F11 acts as NMI and enters HRTmon; OFF – F11 is HELP key)
- Proper handling of CPU access to Chip-RAM & custom regs – CPU waits for free slot when turbo option is disabled
- Fixed playfield 2 color LUT offset when playfield 2 has priority for OCS/ECS modes
- Some IRQ changes
- Added support for undocumented Agnus/Denise behaviour when BPL=7 in ECS/OCS mode (fixes demos like SushiBoyz by Ghostown, Sliced&Diced by Dekadence etc.)
- Blitter line mode fixed (fixes demos like SushiBoyz & Sunglasses by Ghostown, Vectorize by RSi etc.)
- Bitfield instructions fixed, barrel shifter implemented by Till Harbaum
- Fixed colortable for sprites (bplxor) – fixes Alien Breed 3D (and probably many others)
- Fixed keyboard rate
- Kickstart-ROM is also uploaded to mirror position (E0)
- Fixed reset problems & Fast-RAM disappearing
- Added CPU CACR cache control, fixed reading CACR reg
- Added scanlines for non-doublescan config
- Fixed video dithering – both spatial & random dithering weren’t working properly
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23.Feb.2016
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Kickstart switcher: A500Flash
A500Flash is a Kickstart switcher allowing Flash-memory reprogramming. The device should be installed inside the Amiga A500/A500+/A2000.
The design of the Flash memory enables loading another Kickstart image by running additional software on the same Amiga computer and subsequent switching between available ROM images by holding down CTRL+Amiga+Amiga keys.
The A500Flash is available in two versions, either for 512 KB or 1 MB ROMs:
A500Flash 5k
- Designed for Amiga A500/A500+/A2000 models
- Comes with 512kB of built-in Flash memory
- Support for 512kB ROM images – only the primary ones
- Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds
- Original ROM chip required
- PCB boards installation in place of original ROM and Gary chip
- Flash chips programming using native Amiga OS software
- Included software requires Amiga OS 1.3+
A500Flash 1M
- Designed for Amiga A500/A500+/A2000 models
- Comes with 1MB of built-in Flash memory
- Support for 1MB ROM images - standard and extended ROM images
- Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds
- Original ROM chip required
- PCB boards installation in place of original ROM and Gary chip
- Flash chips programming using native Amiga OS software
- Included software requires Amiga OS 1.3+
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23.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.4
Chris Young has updates his AmigaOS-4-port of the web browser NetSurf. Additional to improvements (websites now are better displayed) and bug fixes, now the Duktape Javascript engine is included. It is disabled by default because the support of Javascript still is incomplete.
For users of AmigaOS 3.5 or higher, there is also a new beta version. The author asks for feedback to improve this version.
Download:
netsurf.lha (6 MB)
netsurf_os3.lha (3 MB)
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23.Feb.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: 3D videos and pictures of 30th Amiga anniversary party in Mountain View
During the 30th anniversary party in Mountain View, Alex Carmona took stereoscopic pictures and now has published them under the title link.
The photographs are available in Multi Picture Object format, while the AVI-videos have two channels (A/B) and use the MJPG-codec.
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23.Feb.2016
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 119 - preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 119 (March/April 2016) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are previews of Spielwiese, Spice Obsession Mod for Dune 2 and Amiga Racer as well as an interview with Pascal Papara. The cover CD contains PD-software as well as some full versions.
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22.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Distribution: AEROS for Pi updated
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS is available for registered users as updated version for the ARM-based computer Raspberry Pi (video).
AmiCloud, AmigaRacer, MilkyTracker, fixed lokales, audio driver for AROS, VisualBoyAdvance and FCEUX are included.
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22.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.4.4
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a puzzle game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Android, Linux and Windows) in which you have to correctly answer questions on common knowledge, each with four possible answers. In the L and XL edition there is also a two-player mode. A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.
In version 2.4.4 some questions as well as the English and Greek translations have been reworked and the German, Portuguese and Swedish translations habe been completed.
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