18.Dec.2014
Djprosac (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 3.0.0 with PowerPC emulation
Version 3.0.0 of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released. The main new feature is the PowerPC emulation of a PowerPC accelerator board which first was introduced in the beta versions.
New emulated hardware:
- PPC CPU emulation. CyberStorm PPC and Blizzard PPC boards emulated
using QEMU PPC core, on-board SCSI supported
- Other accelerator boards emulated (Blizzards, CyberStorms, Warp
Engine, TekMagic, A2630), including on-board SCSI if available
- More SCSI expansion boards emulated (Fastlane, Oktagon, Blizzard Kit IV)
- CD32 Full Motion Video cartridge emulation
- CDTV-CR emulation
- A590 XT hard drive emulation
New features:
- Show on screen message when disk or CD is inserted or ejected or input
device is autoswitched
- Added null serial port mode that connects two WinUAE instances running
on same PC
- Fastest possible CPU speed mode is now available with cycle-exact mode,
CPU is fastest possibly, only chip memory and chipset is cycle-exact
- Immediate blitter is available in cycle-exact modes
- 68040/060 with more compatible emulates instruction cache, MMU supported
- 68000/68010 + 32-bit address space is supported
- Optionally game controllers can be kept active when WinUAE does not have focus
- Implemented secondary Z2 RAM board, for example 6M Z2 RAM + 2M Z2 RTG board combination is now possible
- Added "history" menu to filesystem, hardfile and tape drive path selection
- Added CDTV/CDTV-CR/CD32 turbo CD read mode
- Multiple SCSI controllers can be active simultaneously
Updates:
- Programmed chipset display modes accuracy improved
- Uncompressed CHD harddrive image write support
- Implemented previously unavailable small Z2 RAM board sizes (64k to 512k)
- Z3 board emulation supports official autoconfig space, required when using PPC-only operating systems
- 68000 cycle exact mode updates
- Improved cycle counting in 68000 more compatible mode
Bugs fixed:
- 68060 with "Unimplemented CPU emu" checkbox ticked: 68060 only unimplemented instructions were not emulated normally
- Screenshot with D3D shader filter enabled always took filtered screenshot
- SCSI CD READ CD command only worked if audio track was first track of CD
- Hard reset didn't reset map rom loaded KS ROM data
- AGA sprites in borders were clipped incorrectly in some situations (2.8.0)
- Autofire always on mode crashed
- PCMCIA IDE emulation was broken long time ago
- uanet.device + slirp combination was unusable
- Directory filesystem statesave support open file path handling fixed
- AVI audio recording always used PCM mode
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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14.Dec.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.12.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until December 13th, 2014:
PPaintRUS.lha biz/cloan 50K Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c+ ...
jrm-dulu.lha demo/sound 47K 68k dA JoRMaS: Dunne Lul
libaiff.lha dev/lib 147K OS4 Read/write aiff files
AB3Dedit_src.lha dev/src 149K Alien Breed 3D II LevelEditor...
AntiPC.lha game/shoot 295K 68k Destroy the Amiga worst enemy!
harmonyplayer.i386-ar... mus/play 1.3M x86 multi format music player
CL_WB_Wallp_16.9.lha pix/back 5.4M ppc Classic_WB_Wallp_16.9
InstallerGen.lha util/misc 167K 68k Installer script creation tool
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14.Dec.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.12.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until December 13th, 2014:
libaiff.lha dev/lib 147kb 4.0 Read/write aiff files
askmeup_demo.lha gam/mis 18Mb 4.1 A video game about general knowl...
l2cache.lha uti/she 61kb 4.1 A utility to increase performanc...
smtube.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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14.Dec.2014
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 13.12.2014
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archiven until December 13th, 2014:
harmonyplayer.i386-aros.zip aud 1Mb multi format music player
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14.Dec.2014
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS: AEROS for Amiqube available
For the amiqube, the Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS now is available - either under the title link (Amiqube) or in the indieGO!-Appstore.
amiqube is the CuBox-i (Wikipedia), which is an ARM-based, small-sized computer. The processor is an i.MX6 Dual Lite. According to their own statements, the amiqube is put on the market by Amidore Inc. and also is available in three stores in Florida, USA. This is an Italian company belonging to Formato Media SRL based in Rome.
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14.Dec.2014
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #3 - The Peruvian Scene
Also in Peru there has been an Amiga scene. The C64 podcast Scene World talks to Lobsang 'Mr. Byte' Alvites, who had been involved in establishing it. (snx)
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13.Dec.2014
ACube Systems (ANF)
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ACube Systems: L2 cache utility for Sam460/AmigaOne 500
One week ago already ACube Systems released a small utility that may increase performance on the Sam460/AmigaOne 500. The utility works on both, Sam460ex and Sam460cr boards.
To avoid incoherency between L2 cache and main memory, on Sam460 CPU the AmigaOS 4.1 kernel disables L2 cache write by default. On your own risk you can activate L2 cache write now, but it is suggested to do so only in advance of performance-intensive tasks like watching videos. Afterwards, L2 cache write should be switched off again.
Please be aware that activating L2 cache write may cause system instability and/or data corruption. On the other hand, once L2 cache write is enabled, Ragemem will report around 35% speed increase in the L2 WRITE32/WRITE64 tests, and some applications may see improved performance too (for example 3-5% speed increase in MPlayer with some videos).
Download: L2cache-1.0.lha (61 KB) (snx)
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11.Dec.2014
MorphZone (Forum)
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A-EON Technology acquires Aladdin 4D
A-EON Technology has purchased the AmigaOS source code and development rights for the raytracing and animation programm Aladdin 4D from DiscreetFX. Versions for MorphOS and AROS might be also possible. DiscreetFX will retain the rights for non-Amiga related operating systems.
Aladdin 4D "was originally created by Greg Gorby before being acquired by DiscreetFX in December 2007."
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10.Dec.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS bounty: MPlayer Altivec optimization
Konstantinos 'feanor' Margaritis would optimize the PPC-port of MPlayer for the Altivec-unit built in G4-, G5- and PA6T-processors, if 1000 Euro will be donated. A corresponding bounty now was opened at bountysource.com.
The goal of the optimization is to be able to perfectly play the h264-coded trailer of the motion picture Prometheus in a solution of 1920x1080 pixels on a X1000 - currently only 18 instead of the required 24 frames per second are achieved. If a Altivec optimization is able to increase the performance by 33% and how much influence on less powerful processors it would have, currently the software developer cannot reckon.
The description of the bounty does not say for which systems the optimization has to be released. Margaritis does not own an OS4-compatible computer, but only a Powerbook G4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Dec.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop Update 2.0.1
In version 2.0.1 Paolo Besser has fixed some bugs in his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop.
Changes:
- ntfs.handler moved to Storage/L (for new installations only)
- AROS system files brought to Dec 6th, 2014 Nightly Build
- SVN executables brought back to Development:bin
- Updated AntiryadIDE with a working version (see screenshot above)
- HDToolBox now shows drives connected to AHCI device (fixed missing icon tooltype)
- removed offending duplicated Datatype.info file
- fixed noacpi issue
- fixed regression: running AmiBridge at startup will work again
- fixed regression: Icaros will try to fall back to VESA mode first when selecting Native option in grub, like older Icaros (for new installations only)
- fixed Theme preferences
- removed offending (not working and crashing aros) themes
- added AmigaOS 3.1 theme
- fixed a bug preventing AROS68K from running, if themes were disabled in host environment
- updated ZuneFig and ZuneView to latest releases
- added "Prefs" option to Icaros menu in Magellan
- fixed ZuneView option in Magellan's "Programs" menu
- added a new version of WeatherBar
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10.Dec.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.2.1
Version 2.2.1 of the commercial game "Ask me Up" is available. The update of the video game about general knowledge includes some minor improvements and translations into other languages:
- Game: the animation speed of results can be accelerated/decelerated by [Ctrl] key
- Quiz: medals are now displayed as soon as they are won during the game
- Map: "medal" score of the player is now displayed
- Map: the best player in the world is displayed with its "medal" score
- Map: You can browse the worlds by pressing the up/down arrow keys
- Some questions fixed
- Fully translated into Spanish and Greek (in addition to French, English and Italian)
- New translations in Swedish, Portuguese and Polish added
- Spanish, Greek and Polish localizations improved
- Help file now also available in Spanish, Polish and Greek
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10.Dec.2014
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiTCP-Bundle: EasyNet Pro
EasyNet was an user-interface which should simplify the configuration of network hardware. The successor EasyNet Pro now includes a separated TCP-stack - AmiTCP 4 is used.
EasyNet Pro is available in the Amigakit-webshop or in Amistore. Owners of the previous version can purchase a price-reduced update to the Pro-version.
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10.Dec.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Creating Installer-scripts: InstallerGen 1.1
Using InstallerGen, developers can create installer scripts for their programms for the Commodore-installer. The programm has a MUI user-interface. AmigaOS 3.0 as well as the MUI-class NList.mcc are required.
Changes of this version:
- Locale support with German and French catalogs included
- Variable support for paths in Version, Delete, exists and Rename step types
- Fixed Delete & Exists steps
- Context-sensitive help
- Improved and fixed guide
- Improved variables list (updates in real-time, excludes literal strings)
- GUI updates optimised, much faster redrawing on classics and much reduced jittering
- Fixed a couple of enforcer hits
- Lots more bug fixes and improvements...
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10.Dec.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 18.0
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks.
Changes of version 18.0:
- fix:WHDLoad lock up happen when FullChip/S is used and
exec.MaxLocMem is equal to BaseMemSize fixed
- fix:ExpChip/S and FullChip/S cannot be enabled together, if both
are set FullChip/S will be silently disabled (Psygore)
- chg:option NoTrapHandler/S has been removed
- fix:race condition fixed which sometimes caused a 'Privilege
Violation Exception' when a Resload function was called from
Usermode and got interrupted during the internal switch to
Supervisor mode and then trace exception was used from the
installed program, seen especially in installs using kick13
emu and performing a lot of disk io, fixes issue #2094 and
connected ones
- chg:the log file created by the FileLog/S facility has been
renamed from .whdl_filelog to .whdl_log
- new:function resload_Log which puts custom messages into the log
file .whdl_log, uses the same file as the FileLog/S facility
and requires that FileLog/S option is set so that messages
will be written
this function is intended to make it easier to debug/follow
alien code by adding trace messages to dump the execution
state at useful places
- new:option LogBuffer/K/N to control the size of the internal
buffer allocated for log messages by FileLog/S and
resload_Log
- new:function resload_VSNPrintF implementing a exec.RawDoFmt/
sprintflike string formatting routine
- new:kickfs.s has new option SNOOPFS which will cause in
conjunction with HDINIT all dos packets after processing to
be logged using resload_Log, the supplied perl script
chkunlock.pl can be used to search the log file for missing
dos.UnLock and dos.Close calls
- new:using the function resload_Control and the tags
WHDLTAG_CUST_DISABLE/READ/WRITE/STROBE the allowed custom
registers for Snoop*/S can be modified now
- chg:ReSource support files updated to cover recent WHDLoad
extensions
- new:added XAD support to the installer template script
- chg:external program SP to save pictures from dump files has been
improved to better support AGA screens (ddf, fmode, bplcon)
- chg:on the 68030 the instruction burst is now always enabled if
the instruction cache is enabled (Psygore)
- chg:the 68040 processor is now fully supported regarding the
special mmu features (Snoop, resload_Protect), the
implementation was planned since years, it was a lot of work
becausethe handling is very different to the 68030 und 68060,
although I'm unsure if this feature will be used much, I'm
happy to have it completed now
- chg:option ChkAudPt/S is also supported on the 68030 and 68040 now
- chg:the interrupt redirect feature of ACA500/Zeus is not used when
option NoVBRMove/S is set
- chg:PreloadSize/N will also be set by WHDLoad if ws_DontCache is
used in the Slave
some more end user related improvements are planned for the next
release :-)
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09.Dec.2014
Exec.pl (ANF)
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Ego-Shooter: 8bit Killer
The first three levels of the PC-game 8bit Killer now have been ported by Czesław 'Leon' Mnich to the Amiga using the Gloom-Deluxe-engine.
Download:
8bitkiller.lha (452 KB)
8bitkilleradf.lha (521 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Dec.2014
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Distribution for AGA-Amigas: AmiKitReal 8
AmiKitReal is a version of AmiKit for real AGA-Amigas which now is also available in version 8 vor (screenshot). You can find a detailed list of changes under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Dec.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.12.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until December 6th, 2014:
PPaintRUS.lha biz/cloan 22K Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c R...
FindModule.lha dev/e 36K 68k Find the module that holds a ...
libopenssl68k.lha dev/lib 23M 68k OpenSSL crypto and SSL/TLS li...
LineBloks.lha game/wb 36K 68k Line up 8 tiles of same pattern!
PenDenTive.lha game/wb 36K 68k Align tiles but don't let 'em...
Simplix.lha game/wb 31K 68k Move a shape to the upper left!
Togglo.lha game/wb 31K 68k Make alignments of same colou...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.3M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Liisa2.adf misc/math 880K 68k miscancellous programs
DigiboosterSP.lha mus/play 19K Spanish catalog for DigiBooster
wallpapers.lha pix/back 1.3M Big collection of 4 color bac...
openssl.lha util/crypt 14M 68k OpenSSL command line tool
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 393K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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07.Dec.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.12.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until December 6th, 2014:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
rcube.lha gra/mis 46kb 4.1 Showing a moving GLCube
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 42kb 4.0 A custom BOOPSI system
netstat.lha net/mis 69kb 4.1 CLI tool to display network acti...
showcomputer.lha uti/she 86kb 4.0 Display informations about your ...
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07.Dec.2014
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Workbench distribution for UAE: AmiKit 8 available as download
Recently version 8 of AmiKit was released which is a Workbench distribution for Amiga emulators (amiga-news.de reported). Now this release also is available as free download.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Dec.2014
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Live Updater 1.8 for Icaros Desktop
For the update of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop from version 2.0 to 2.0.1 under the title link version 1.8 of the live updater can be downloaded.
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07.Dec.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: zTools 1.1
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated his collection of programms called "zTools". Version 1.1 includes updates for SysMon, aTunes, FlipPaper, FastView, FastCompress,
WebReplay, CPUDock, RAMDock, GFXDock, NetDock, LittleBrother and FastHide.
The update of zTools to version 1.1 is available for free in the Amistore.
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07.Dec.2014
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: Amiga Mania #8 (Hungarian)
"Amiga Mania" is a Hungarian pdf-magazine about all aspects of the Amiga which was very elaborately designed on 36 pages. Issue 8 (front page) is about the CD³² as well as WLAN using an Amiga.
Download: Amiga%20Mania%2008_OnLine.pdf (95 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2014
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Hardware review: MCC-TV - Multiple Classic Computer
The English-language blog "Indie Retro News" has got a MCC for reviewing it. The FPGA-based, small-sized computer emulates an Amiga and a C64 and is meant for connecting it to a modern TV.
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02.Dec.2014
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.24
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser. The author would be pleased about any kind of feedback.
Version 0.24 includes the following changes:
- Preferences:
- New style «OS4»: GUI elements (TextBox, CheckBox, ListBox, Cycle, Button and Slider) are drawn in an OS4-style.
- New: Background pattern for preferences dialogs
- New iconset: BetterWB
- Requesters for OS versions >= 4.0 now have a XEN look, icons are centred on the screen.
The font of the first button is now bold.
- For OS versions >= 4.0 «Verdana» is now the default font (used for the labels on the preferences dialogs, buttons, etc.)
which is quite close to «DejaVu Sans».
- Clock: Colors are now corresponding for OS versions >= 4.0.
- New poosibility to use «random» as value for the URL parameter «preset», which will chosse a preset by random. Example:
http://www.taws.ch/WB.html?preset=random
- Optional parameter «noforce» instead of «force»: The new default is that the preset of the URL parameter has higher priority
than the user settings in the cookie. If «noforce» is stated the priority is witched. Example:
http://www.taws.ch/WB.html?preset=OS_1.3&noforce
- New Preset: «OS 1.0»
- Palette: New entry «GUI Elements background»
- Text color of selected text in TextBoxes is now set corresponding the «Palette» settings.
- Adjusted the text in «About» for OS version 4.1.
- Bugfixes:
- Some Chrome versions have wrongly been detected as touch devices.
- In case of an invalid URL preset parameter value now the default preset is used and no longer some stoneaged TAWS default values.
- In case of loading a Preset by URL parameter, GadTools style was not correctly applied.
- Correction of the cycles height in MedRes mode.
- Correction in the startup checks, so TAWS now runs on Firefox 3.6.28 again (the last version for PPC-Macs).
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01.Dec.2014
amiga68k.de (Webseite)
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Preview video: Amiga Games Creator
Already in September a video was published on Youtube introducing a new "Amiga Games Creator" which can be used for creating games without having to have programming knowledge. According to the author a first preview version is planned for the next months.
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01.Dec.2014
Michael Jurisch (ANF)
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Crowdfunding: Rocket Ranger Reloaded (update)
The current holder of the Cinemawares rights is going to release again the classic action-adventure Rocket Ranger as a "reloaded"-version and has established a crowdfunding-project at Kickstarter.
According to the publisher's own information he is going to "bring the game to as many platforms as possible" and to "make the project freely available for porting to Linux and AmigaOS by any team interested in undertaking these conversions."
Hint of the editorial staff: We do not know, if "freely" means "for free" or "free" (within the meaning of "troublefree" and so on). The last meaning would imply to make payment of licence fees which would make an Amiga-port unlikely.
Update: (04.12.2014, 18:15, cg)
In the German thread for this news item, a Cinemaware representative announces that all required materials for porting the Game to the Amiga will be made available free of charge. since Cinemaware does not expect a potential Amiga version to generate any revenue. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
Pascal Papara
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Hollywood essentials: Libraries for Hollywood developers
The "Hollywood essentials" are five libraries written by Fabio Falcucci which are supposed to provide useful functions for Hollywood developers.
The libraries in detail:
- HELPERS Library: A collection of functions to speed up common and repetitive tasks
- EASING Library: The easing library can be used to achieve smooth transitions between values. With it you can animate objects, fade colors and change values smoothly using one of the provided 41 transition functions.
- TABLES Library: This library exposes common functions to manipulate and convert tables
- DEBUG Library: With this library you can easily manage debug output to the console or to a log file. The console log system allow you to define channels and message types you can easily filter during the debug of your programs.
- FILESYSTEM Library: This library exposes common functions to manipulate files and check the file system.
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30.Nov.2014
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Graphics software: PersonalPaint 7.3 for AmigaOS 3 available
On the new website ppaint.com, the m68k-port of Personal Paint 7.3 is available which does not require an Amistore log-in. Paypal is used for payment. If you have already purchased the version for AmigaOS 4, you can get a low-priced "cross-platform-licence" in the Amistore.
Changes in version 7.3:
- Totally integrated with the AmigaOS Workbench
- True colour animation frame thumbs in the StoryBoard window
- High resolution gadget imagery and thin borders style GUI option for a more modern look
- 9 new built in brush shapes
- 100 new Custom Brushes
- Pressure sensitive drawing
- Dithered transparency
- New Airbrush Linemode
- Extended paint functionality with image processing tool
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30.Nov.2014
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)
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Chris Hülsbeck starts Kickstarter-project "The Piano Collection"
After releasing the Turrican Soundtrack Anthology, Chris Hülsbeck has started his second project at Kickstarter: "Chris Huelsbeck - The Piano Collection & Limited Score Book". If you are going to support the project, then you can buy an album with well-known songs played with the pinao and written by Chris Hülsbeck.
Pianist will be Patrick Nevian who was also involved in both online albums Amiga Meets Piano. For all included songs there will be also the scores, which will be printed as limited edition and available for an additional charge.
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30.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Workbench-Distribution for UAE: AmiKit 8 with MUI4 and new Netsurf
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and was now updated to version 8. Currently it is sold on a bootable USB-stick. A free download will be available later.
The latest version exclusively includes the new version of the graphical user-interface MUI as well as a special version of web browser Netsurf with a specific design of Amikit created by Ken Lester. The latest beta version of Directory Opus Magellan 5.91 also is part of Amikit 8.
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30.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Graphics software: Candy Factory Pro available for free
Amigafuture.de offers the CD-image of Candy Factory Pro for free download. Due to the size of the the file, the download only is available for registered users.
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30.Nov.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 29th, 2014:
zlib-source.lha dev/lib 859K 68k General purpose data compress...
clr.py.txt dev/src 4K 68k Clear-Screen and Beep for Pyt...
sinebeep.py.txt dev/src 1K 68k Create a WAVE format Beep for...
savED121.lha disk/moni 80K 68k Hex editor, esp. for editing ...
f1champ.lha docs/misc 67K Statistics of Formula One '50...
SCANdalSP.lha driver/oth 4K SCANdal spanish catalog and r...
F12014Carset.lha game/data 30K 2014 Car Set for F1GP Ed/Micr...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 9.7M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
DAplayerSP.lha mus/play 2K Spanish catalog for DAplayer ...
EvenMore.lha text/show 413K 68k V0.82: Freeware textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 437K MOS V0.82: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 180K V0.82: EvenMore textviewer pl...
KlipsSP.lha util/cdity 7K Klips spanish catalog and doc...
sha256.lha util/cli 9K 68k Calculate SHA-256 hashes of f...
hashc.lha util/misc 23K 68k Calculates various hash algor...
wet_update.lha util/wb 325K OS4 Wet weather info v6.4 patch
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30.Nov.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 29th, 2014:
evenmore.lha uti/tex 440kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
wet_update.lha uti/wor 325kb 4.0 Wet weather software v6.4 patch
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30.Nov.2014
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until November 29th, 2014:
lander.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 3Mb OpenGL Lunar Lander clone.
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30.Nov.2014
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archive has been added to MorphOS-Files until November 29th, 2014:
gTranslator 3.0 uti/des 195 A screenbar module for lang...
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30.Nov.2014
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WHDLoad: New packages until 29.11.2014
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until November 29th, 2014:
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29.Nov.2014
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New demos
The scene portal pouet.net has released some new Amiga demos in the last months:
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28.Nov.2014
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Hardware-Review: USB-card RapidRoad
In an article on amiga.org, "Oldsmobile_Mike" has described his experiences with the RapidRoad USB-card developed by Individual Computers.
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28.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Old instructional videos (in German) for Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000 digitized
With the kind permission of the executive producer Bernd Weyrauch, the Amiga user AmigaGTI could digitize two old instructional videos about the AGA-Amigas and publish them on Youtube:
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27.Nov.2014
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A-EON buys Personal Paint, full version removed from Aminet (2nd Update)
In a joint press release, A-EON and Cloanto announce that A-EON will exclusively develop and distribute all future versions of Cloanto's paint program Personal Paint. PPaint 7.3 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 is currently available through Amistore, the press release also mentions potential ports to AROS and MorphOS. Cloanto will continue to distribute version 7.2 with Amiga Forever.
At the request of the copyright holders, the full version of Personal Paint, which had been released on Aminet 17 years ago, has been removed from the archive yesterday. Approached by Amiga-News, Trevor Dickinson from A-EON states that they "plan to offer free downloads of historical Classic versions in the future".
Update: (28.11.2014, 19:10, cg)
While at least one administrator of an Aminet mirror who hadn't removed the file yet, has apparently been contacted individually in the meantime, A-EON has now created a download page for the old Personal Paint 7.1c at ppaint.amistore.net.
2nd Update: (30.11.14, 09:22, snx)
Also at Cloanto version 7.1c of PPaint can be downloaded. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Nov.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Mediator driver: Mediator Multimedia CD UP 2.3
For registered users of the PCI-busboards Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 TX, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200LT4, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI 1200LT and Mediator PCI ZIV, version 2.3 of the MM CD 2.0 update is available.
Changes in this update:
- pci.library 9.10: includes new procedures for allocation of the DMA buffers for PCI cards working in the busmaster mode.
- pci.library 9.10: New software improves timings of the PCI busmaster cards (Spider, SB4.1, SB128, FM801, TV tuner, FastEthernet) during their acesses to the DMA buffers located in the SDRAM/SGRAM memory of the PCI gfx card.
- pci.library 9.10: should solve issues of same SB128 cards in the Radeon based configurations.
- MedConfig 2.0: support for RadeonMemOS, VoodooMemOS and SpiderBuf variables has been added. New RadeonMemOS and VoodooMemOS variables allow to control the function which adds a part of gfx card SDRAM/SGRAM memory to the Amiga system memory.
- Radeon.card 2.20, Voodoo.card 4.34: support for RadeonMemOS/VoodooMemOS variables
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24.Nov.2014
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Linux: Kernel 3.18 RC6 for AmigaOne X1000
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled "release candidate 6" (RC6) of the Linux kernel 3.18 for the X1000 (changelog).
Download: vmlinux-3.18.0-rc6-KVM-PR-OVERLAYFS-AMIGA_one_X1000.tar.bz2 (8 MB)
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24.Nov.2014
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Fractal generator Fractals For SketchBlock 1.5
Andy Broad has released version 1.5 of his commercial fractal generator plugin for Sketchblock. Changes in this update:
- Themeing: if SketchBlock Lite has been purchased from AmiStore, Fractals For SketchBlock will adopt the current theme
- Smoothing: Iteration based colouring modes can now be smoothed, given even transition between colours
- Repeating Palette Mode: This new colouring mode uses one colour from the palette for each iteration step, giving greater control by allowing the user to create there own colour transitions. Works best with longer palettes with gradual colour changes (unless you want a stripey look :-)
Users who have already purchased a previous version can download the update for free from the website or the Amistore. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Nov.2014
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MorphOS: Text processor Calimero 0.2
Carsten Siegner is about to develop a new text processor for MorphOS. Now another alpha version of "Calimero" has been released (screenshot).
Neu in version 0.2:
- TextEdit-MUI-Class 100 % finished
- Memory-management system 100% finished
- Pagehandler + window 100% finished
- Support of Hyperlinks 100% finished
- Meta-Data Handler + window 100% finished
- AmigaGuide Exportmodul 100% finished
- MUI-GUI 99% finished
- Clipboard handler 100% finished
- Add contextmenu to textedit class
Download: Calimero_0.2.lha (123 KB)
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23.Nov.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Shoot'em Up: SuperTed - The Search for Spot
SuperTed developed by Mikael 'Hipoonios' Persson using Backbone is a side scroller shooter with five levels (Youtube video). The game requires a 68030-processor, 2 MB Chip-RAM as well as 4 MB Fast-RAM.
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23.Nov.2014
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AROS: AEROS beta version 8 for Raspberry Pi (free version)
Pascal Papara's Linux-based AROS-distribution AEROS for the small computer Raspberry Pi now is available as public beta version 8 (video). Registered users can download the new version under the title link. As usual the free version does not include the lx-command for launching Linux-programms from the Shell or the Wanderer and is available in the indieGO!-Appstore.
Changes:
- Better compatibility with different SD-cards (8 GB or more is required)
- Supports now Raspberry Pi model B+ and A
- Changed theme for Linux app to one with less hunger for ressources
- Epiphany webbrowser with HW-accelerated HTML5 (YouTube is working, HTML5 games as well)
- Latest Debian Wheezy system files
- Enabled AROS network stack at boot so games and software requiring this will work now (for example Abuse)
- Removed old unnecessary stuff
Pascal Papara has changed his Ebay offer for the new Raspberry-Pi models. He ships MicroSD-cards with adapters for the old models.
If there are any problems concerning the speed of downloads from his Appstore, he recommends to edit the chunk size in the file "app-dlm.prefs" using a text editor. Instead of using the default setting of 64, the figures 128, 256, 512 and so on can be checked out.
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23.Nov.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 22.11.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 22nd, 2014:
SQLMan.lha biz/dbase 7.6M MOS SQLite database manager
gTranslator.lha comm/misc 197K MOS A google translator for your ...
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.2M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
xroar.lha misc/emu 775K MOS Dragon and Tandy CoCo emulator
apg.lha util/crypt 56K 68k An automated password generator
apg-source.lha util/crypt 184K An automated password generat...
sha.lha util/crypt 152K 68k File hashing utility
Click_Wit.lha util/misc 564K OS4 A fortune cookie program
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23.Nov.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 22.11.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 22nd, 2014:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
firefox2like_theme.lha gra/the 2Mb 4.0 Mozilla Firefox 2.x like Theme f...
hottiesview.lha gra/vie 169kb 4.1 A modern image viewer
sqlman.lha off/dat 8Mb 4.0 SQLite database manager
click_wit.lha uti/mis 564kb 4.1 A fortune cookie program for wor...
mplayer-gui.lha vid/mis 207kb 4.0 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
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23.Nov.2014
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 22.11.2014
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until November 22nd, 2014:
cblocks.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 239kb Sliding-block puzzles with ascii...
xorgramana.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 776kb Block pushing maze game.
activatewin.i386-aros.tar.gz uti/she 13kb Gives Shell some Intuition's han...
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23.Nov.2014
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WHDLoad: New packages until 22.11.2014
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until November 22nd, 2014:
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23.Nov.2014
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.82 (22.11.14)
EvenMore is a text viewer written with ECX in Amiga E developed by Chris Perver. Version 0.82 includes some bug fixes as well as improvements concerning viewing .docx-files.
Download:
EvenMore.lha (410 KB)
EvenMore_OS4.lha (440 KB)
EvenMore_MOS.lha (436 KB)
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22.Nov.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Database: SQLite Manager 0.2
Lázár Zoltán has released a second alpha version of his SQLite Manager (screenshot). Using this Hollywood-programm it is possible to create, open and edit databases. It is also possible to convert Open-XML spreadsheet files. The programm is available for all Amiga systems (under AROS only for x86).
"Main new feature is the ability to create queries by the SQL Select command or by interactively select corresponding items. The queries can transfer to new separate windows in any quantity."
Download: SQLMan.lha (8 MB)
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22.Nov.2014
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Meta compiler: PortablE r6-14-07-2013b (beta)
An update for PortablE has been released which is a fix for the latest Software Development Kit (SDK) of AmigaOS 4.1. Most likely AmiDevCpp will not compile programms for AmigaOS 4 until this compiler is also adapated to the new SDK.
Christopher Handley's meta compiler PortablE is an enhancement for the programming language Amiga E and translate it into other ones with "the aim of being portable across many platforms."
In this release 6, graphics, sound, music & GUI modules have been added. Additionally there is a PortablE-forum. First of all PortablE supports AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS, partly AmigaOS 3.x and rudimentarily Windows.
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20.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Clockport Expander II
Matthias Münch's "Clockport Expander II" is an adapter which can connect two clockport extensions to the clockport of an Amiga 1200. The second generation of the adapter is compatible with current busboards and other extensions, e.g. a BlizzardVision or a GRex-busboard.
On the website of the project (in German) there is a list with compatible hardware. If you are interested in the adapter then please contact Münch.
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20.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Workbench enhancement: BetterWB 3.9
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench enhancements for AmigaOS 3.1, which are useful but rather simple and therefore require low hardware configuration.
Changes in version 3.9:
- Disksalv and pfsdoctor are now integrated as salvage options
- Addmem command allows you to configure non autoconfig friendly ram expansions
- Icon.library has been updated to 46.4.399
- Prism2v2 has been updated to 2.6
- PrepCard+ has been updated to v0.2
- SmartWin is no longer needed. CleverWIN replaces it, and doesnt require a workbench reset
- TextEngine crashed under some RTG systems. It has been replaced by Redit
- SwazInfo is suggested when switching to GlowIcons
- Reduced memory footprint a bit more
- A few more minor fixes and tweaks
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20.Nov.2014
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.5.20dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD is based on WinUAE and can be completely controlled with a joypad. Since the last stable version released in March (2.4.1), so far only developer versions have been released.
Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.20dev:
- Use qemu-uae for slirp support
- Added support for softfloat library (not tested)
- Enabled support for prowizard module ripper
- New action “action_module_ripper” available for custom input mapping
- A few other bugfixes
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18.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Word processor Calimero 0.1
Carsten Siegner is about to develop a new word processor for MorphOS. A first alpha version of "Calimero" now has been released (screenshot).
Download: Calimero_0.1.lha (107 KB)
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17.Nov.2014
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Picture galleries of "Saku" (Finnland, 20. September)
"Saku 2014" took place on September, 20th in Tampere (Finland) and according to the organizers about 200 up to 300 visitors attended it. Among others Petro Tyschtschenko and Mike Battilana (Cloanto) were special guests.
The Finnish Amiga User Group now has publsihed some picture galleries of the event (some other external picture galleries are linked on the official website of the event):
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17.Nov.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PCMCIA Right Angled Adapter (A1200/A600)
Amigakit offers a PCMCIA Right Angled Adapter which can be used for putting an Amiga 1200 or Amiga 600 into a tower case and making the PCMCIA-port available again.
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