16.Nov.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 15.11.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 15h, 2014:
PPaintRUS.lha biz/cloan 21K Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c R...
libxvidcore.lha dev/lib 624K OS4 Add XviD support to your app
BackUp.lha disk/bakup 68K 68k A directory mirroring backup ...
diskimage_deviceSP.lha disk/misc 33K diskimage.device 53.3 spanish...
Prism2SP.lha driver/net 28K Prism2.device 1.7 & 2.6 s...
Koules.lha game/actio 238K 68k Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Koules_OS4.lha game/actio 223K OS4 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
KoulesMOS.lha game/actio 234K MOS Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
F12014carset.lha game/data 13K 2014 Car Set for F1GP Ed/Micr...
GloomDeluxe.lha game/data 12M New maps and characters for G...
ArcheoBot.lha game/wb 40K 68k Find artifacts from Earth's p...
Eqwi.lha game/wb 36K 68k Clear all tiles from each board!
X_marks.lha game/wb 30K 68k Spot the 'X' marks!
xroar.lha misc/emu 771K MOS Dragon and Tandy Coco emulator
Liisa1.adf misc/math 880K 68k determine prime factors + mis...
CodeAudio.lha mus/misc 1.2M 68k GUI for Lame,Ogg,Flac,Faad + ...
blum.lha util/cli 19K 68k A very good random number gen...
sha256.lha util/cli 10K 68k Calculate SHA-256 hashes of f...
MPlayer-GUI.lha util/misc 207K OS4 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
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16.Nov.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 15.11.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 15h, 2014:
gnufind.lha dev/uti 170kb 4.0 GNU find 4.1.20 (from findutils)
finalburnalpha.lha emu/gam 7Mb 4.1 FB Alpha is an arcade emulator
koules.lha gam/act 223kb 4.0 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
spidercave.lha gam/act 5Mb 4.0 a small action game
aceyducey.lha gam/car 2Mb 4.0 simulation of the Acey Ducey car...
bageln.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.0 a small numbers game
hottiesview.lha gra/vie 158kb 4.1 A modern image viewer
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 211kb 4.0 A custom BOOPSI system
cmg.lha uti/scr 2kb 4.1 Create an amigaguide file to pla...
d_cmd.lha uti/she 3kb 4.1 D is a small shell util for list...
fortune.lha uti/she 725kb 4.1 write random sentences in the sh...
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 19kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_ell.lha uti/wor 8kb 4.1 Greek catalog files for AmiUpdat...
jack.lha uti/wor 14Mb 4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
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16.Nov.2014
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 15.11.2014
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until November 15h, 2014:
oricutron_v12.i386-aros.lha emu/com 2Mb Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat/Pravetz 8...
arosminimal.zip gra/the 33kb Fixed version of theme arosminimal
icaros20walls.zip gra/the 66kb 2 Spiffy wallpapers for Icaros D...
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16.Nov.2014
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WHDLoad: New packages until 15.11.2014
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 15th, 2014:
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16.Nov.2014
Szymon 'Szaman' Zyla (ANF)
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Gloom Deluxe: New maps and characters
Czesław 'Leon' Mnich created an archive containing many new levels and examples made by him with the easy-to-use editor Maped. It also includes new weapons and characters from Star Wars and Doom as well as programs written by Robert Szacki to import pictures and objects into Gloom. Furthermore there are two articles in polish by Czesław Mnich on Exec.pl: one about Maped and one how to create, Gloom objects, guns, sound effects and more.
Download: GloomDeluxe.lha (12 MB) (snx)
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14.Nov.2014
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Retro Game Calendars 2015
An user has created different desk calendars (PDF) with retrogaming motives which can be printed. Old CD cases can be used to present them. There are calendars with Amiga, C64, ZX Spectrum, ZX 81 and SMS motives.
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12.Nov.2014
Achim Kern - KeHo Software (ANF)
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Multi platform arcade game: SpiderCave
Achim Kern's "SpiderCave" is a simple arcade game in which with your spaceship you have to avoid the attacks of a spider and to build ladders to the spider webs to steal its eggs.
The game is distributed as Hollywood-applet and should run on each platform which has a port of the Hollywood-player (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS PPC/x86, Linux PPC/x86, Android).
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11.Nov.2014
Olaf Schönweiß (Forum)
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New English-language Amiga forum: amigaforum.de
Under amigaforum.de Olaf Schönweiß has established an English-language forum which is about all kind of Amiga computers and which is independent of the manufacturer.
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11.Nov.2014
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A600 accelerator board Fúria EC020, second revision
The Polish Amiga trader RetroAmi.com.pl has announced at the turn of the year to offer a revised version of the A600 accelerator board Fúria EC020 which was put on the market a year ago. The processor now has 33 Mhz. We do not know any furhter changes or the price.
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11.Nov.2014
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CompactFlash-Adapter inclusive A1200-cover
Amigakit offers a CompactFlash adapter which is fastened to the A1200 back plate. After having installed the adapter - an IDE cable is included - the CF-card can be easily installed or removed without opening the A1200 every time.
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10.Nov.2014
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App-Store: Amistore is online (update)
The App-store "Amistore" established by Amigakit obviously is online. A shop application which only runs under AmigaOS 4 (a version for AmigaOS 3 was announced) and according to the website is still a beta version can be downloaded. A web-interface for the store currently does not exist and as far as we know is not planned.
We would like to thank Andy "broadblues" Broad for the screenshots taken of shop. Broad has pointed out that not all items are already available but "soon".
Hint of the editorial staff: As far as we know the shop was written with Hollywood. If you launch the application a large number of pictures is loaded. Users with slower computers or low memory has reported long loading times.
Update: (11.11.2014, 16:45, cg)
According to reports of some customers, to the prices in the Amistore VAT and packaging and shipping costs must be added. Currently the final price for the product obviously will be only shown on the Paypal website after having purchased it. The amount of money which Paypal lists as packaging and shipping costs seems to be the Amistore fee. The pure purchase price will get the author of the product. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Nov.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 08.11.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 8th, 2014:
curl.lha comm/net 1.5M OS4 Command line URL file transfer
libcurl.lha dev/lib 1.7M OS4 The multiprotocol file transf...
libopenssl.lha dev/lib 5.8M OS4 The Open Source toolkit for S...
libxml2_os4.lha dev/lib 7.5M OS4 The XML C parser and toolkit ...
Koules.lha game/actio 238K 68k Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Koules_OS4.lha game/actio 224K OS4 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
KoulesMOS.lha game/actio 234K MOS Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
WormWarsSP.lha game/actio 6K Worm Wars 8.87 spanish catalog
F12014carset.lha game/data 13K 2014 Car Set for F1GP Ed/Micr...
ImageMagick-bin_os4.lha gfx/conv 13M OS4 Image manipulation programs
ImageMagick-src_os4.lha gfx/conv 14M Image manipulation programs -...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha misc/emu 14K AmiArcadia spanish catalog fo...
oricutron.lha misc/emu 1.4M MOS Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat/Pravet...
Epub-Reader_1.0.lha text/show 5.5M MOS Reader for the free+open e-bo...
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.6M MOS Directory and files tool
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09.Nov.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 08.11.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 8th, 2014:
libcurl.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 The multiprotocol file transfer ...
libopenssl.lha dev/lib 6Mb 4.0 The open source toolkit for SSL/TLS
prism2.lha dri/net 309kb 4.0 Driver for 11Mbps wireless netwo...
oricutron.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 Oric-1 / Atmos / Telestrat / Pra...
koules.lha gam/act 224kb 4.0 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
bghalloween.lha gam/boa 8Mb 4.0 Bed Games I Special Halloween 2014
imagemagick-bin.lha gra/edi 13Mb 4.0 Image manipulation programs
imagemagick-src.lha gra/edi 14Mb 4.0 Source
libxml2.lha lib/xml 7Mb 4.0 The XML C parser and toolkit of ...
curl.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Command line URL file transfer
bougesouris.lha uti/mis 119kb 4.0 CLI program to move cursor/click...
amiupdate_deu.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
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09.Nov.2014
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 08.11.2014
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until November 8th, 2014:
Koules 1.18 gam/act 234 A simple arcade game, where...
SimpleMail 1.1 net/mai 1677 Very good e-mail client. MU...
EPub Reader 1.0 off/tex 291 Reader of e-books in EPub f...
BUFF-GANT Icon Set - sys/gra 12589 A large set of disk and dra...
Oricutron 1.2 uti/emu 1458 Emulator of 6502 based Oric...
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09.Nov.2014
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WHDLoad: New packages until 08.11.2014
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 8th, 2014:
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09.Nov.2014
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: New videos from AmiWest 2014
Additional Bill Borsari, Robert Bernardo also has published videos from this year's AmiWest:
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09.Nov.2014
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Miniature model: Amiga 1000 as 3D-print
Since yesterday the shop Etsy has offered the miniature model of an Amiga 1000 with monitor, keyboard and mouse in two different versions. Version one shows the screen of the Workbench, version two shows Deluxe Paint with the well-known motive from Sandro Botticelli's painting "The Birth of Venus".
The Amiga is only slightly larger than a coin and is produced with the 3D printing technology.
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07.Nov.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition for ACube-hardware with limited Radeon HD-driver
The SAM4x0-version of the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1 will not include a RadeonHD-driver, because version 1.x of the driver is available for free only for X1000-customers. Many owners of a SAM have to purchase the driver.
In order to be able to launch the Final Edition on a SAM-motherboard equipped with a Radeon HD graphic board, A-EON and ACube have reached an agreement: A limited version of the driver will be included on the installation-CD.
The "RadeonHD Lite"-driver does not support compositing and is limited to a screen solution of 1024x768 but allows installing the operating system. Owners of ACube's hardware with Radeon HD graphic board later can install the commercial and full version of the driver.
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06.Nov.2014
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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New systems of ARES - e.g. complete systems with refurbished SAM440-motherboards
Under the name "Boingbox (refurbished SAM440@733MHZ)", Pascal Papara now also offers complete systems with used Sam440-motherboards. According to him it is used hardware which was cleaned, enhanced with new components and checked and which has guarantee (not warranty) of one year.
The AresOne is replaced by the "ARES XEON Workstation". Additionally for the first time ARM-based systems are available called "ARES II".
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05.Nov.2014
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Unreleased games: May & Yam 1, May & Yam 2
On his website, David "Hawk" Gavilan has made available two old, so far unreleased Amiga games which he programmed 20 years ago in AMOS. May & Yam 1 (Youtube video) is a Pang-clone for two players, May & Yam 2 (Youtube video) is a platform game for one or two players.
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04.Nov.2014
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future, issue 111
Today the German and English issue 111 (November/December 2014) of the printed magazine Amiga Future has been published and can be ordered from the editorial office and in Amiga shops.
The topics of the issue are a review of "Boxx", a special about "MorphOS & Office", a preview of the AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and an AmigaOS 4.1 poster.
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03.Nov.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Cloanto: Workbench 3.1 Floppy Disk Set
A few days ago, Cloanto started offering bootable CF cards containing Workbench 3.1. Meanwhile a floppy disk set is available, consisting of 6 DD disks (available from Vesalia, Amigakit and Amigastore.eu amongst others).
Just like they did with the CF card, Cloanto is using the Cloanto owned trademarks "Workbench" and "AmigaForever" as branding, this is why the previously unused moniker "Workbench 3.1" is introduced - with version 3.1 of the system software, Commodore originally used the term "AmigaOS".
Update: (05.11.2014, 17:15, cg)
We've been informed by Cloanto that this distribution has a few improvements over the original 3.1 disk set:
- Updated C/Version (Y2K patch)
- Addition of Libs/workbench.library (for A-4000T 3.1 ROMs and 3.X ROMs)
- Updated S/Startup-Sequence (for 3.X ROMs)
- Updated Installer 44.10 and FastFileSystem 45.9 (to support larger disks)
- Installer itself is now part of the system installation (inside the Utilities directory)
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02.Nov.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 01.11.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 1st, 2014:
prism2v2.lha driver/net 309K OS4 Driver for 11Mbps wireless ne...
AutumnInColorado.jpg pix/views 741K Autumn in Boulder, Colorado (US)
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 384K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
layers.lha util/sys 206K 68k Layers Library V45 for Os 3.9
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02.Nov.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 01.11.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 1st, 2014:
jacktunes.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.1 An iTunes Library player for Ami...
towertoppler.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.0 Remake of the old classic Nebulo...
redeth.rar net/sam 3Mb 4.0 Graphical interface to manage co...
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02.Nov.2014
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 01.11.2014
The following archive has been added to MorphOS-Files until November 1st, 2014:
Statline 0.16 sys/too 56 Statline is a small utility...
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02.Nov.2014
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WHDLoad: New packages until 01.11.2014
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 1st, 2014:
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02.Nov.2014
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Amiga 1200: DVI-cover as 3D print file
Pascal Papara has created a DVI-cover for the Amiga 1200 which can be printed with 3D-printers. The STL-file can be downloaded for non-commercial purposes. In the (German) thread under the title it is discussed to generate a collective order save on shipping costs.
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01.Nov.2014
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
During the last two months the articles listed below have been added to the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. Translations into other languages are always appreciated. If you are interested in then please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- Septembre/October news.
- Old articles from Amiga News 60 to 62: AMOS Pro 2.0 review, CanDo 2.5 review, Hardware: CD32, Brilliance review, Interview with Spina, Report: World Of Commodore 1993 Pasadena, Hardware: Emplant, Real 3D 2.0 review, Hardware: Vidi Amiga 12, etc.
- Interview: Philippe Guichardon (games developper).
- Interview: Randy Platt (developper at Cinemaware).
- Review: VR Slingshot.
- Review: AMIStore.
- Review: Speed Dreams 2.
- Comparison: multimedias software from 1988-1993.
- Update of the glossary.
- File: the Amiga CD32.
- Tutorial: Wi-Fi on MorphOS.
- Tutorial: installation of AmigaOS 4.1 Classic on WinUAE.
- Tutorial: Retr0Bright (update).
- Special quizz about the graphic cards.
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01.Nov.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Set-Top-Box: Android-based "Met@box" with Amiga emulator
In the late 1990s, the German company PIOS (among others Stefan Dohmeyer, Dave Haynie, Peter Kittel) developed PPC-hardware for the operating system Apple and Amiga but devices like the PIOS One or the "AmiJoe" were never produced in series.
After changing the name into "Met@box", a Coldfire-based Set-Top-Box with the same name was developed. The software was written by some well-known Amiga developers. Only a few months after first devices have been delivered to developers, the company became insolvent. Actually there was a final attempt to rescue the company by the shareholders but after a second insolvency proceeding and after the company was prosecuted for course fraud, it had to shut down.
Under the IP-address 188.122.70.211 (we do not known a corresponding domain) since shortly a website of the "new" Met@box was established: The Android-based device is supposed to have access to the Google Play Store and play TV productions from a wide range of sources - e.g. CYMTV ChannelStore, from the Internet or local data media and which is supposed to have access to the world wide web or eMail.
Obviously the company is going to take up the history of the trademark in the Amiga market because additional to the motto "we're b@ck" it was announced that an Amiga emulator with "free ROMs" will be installed on the devices.
Meanwhile we got information that Ron van Herk is the leader of CYMTV and Met@box. The former Amiga salesman ("Computer City") did experiment with Set-Top-Boxes with regard to the Amiga in the past: In co-operation with the present Amiga-News publisher Martin Heine the company AHT was founded which announced an AROS-based Box after licensing AmigaOS 4 had failed. In the end, only "Tribbox" which works under Linux was put on the market.
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31.Oct.2014
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 2.0
After 18 months of development, version 2.0 of the AROS/x86-distribution Icaros Desktop has been released which includes major changes. In particular, the distribution (just like its previous "work-in-progress"-versions) is based on backports provided by Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz. His ABIv0-on-trunk includes changes for the application binary interface ABIv0 which is used unter AROS/x86 so far and which were initially implmented for the forthcoming ABI-version 1.
The appereance has also changed because Icaros Desktop now uses DirectoryOpus 5 Magellan as user-interface (screenshot). Additionally the 68k-environment for Amiga games and applications has been polsihed and the faster TLSF memory management has been integrated. ZuneView, PictureAlbum and ScalOS (screenshot) have been added as new applications.
DirectoryOpus was pre-configured to make it a "reliable, usable and enjoyable replacement for Wanderer". ADF and ISO files now can be mounted and unmounted with ease via context menu or DiskImage GUI (screenshot). Regarding the 68k-emulation (screenshot) it is now possible to "run AmigaOS 3.X and AROS M68K concurrently". Applications have been updated e.g. LunaPaint (screenshot).
As usual Icaros Desktop is available in two versions: The executable Live!-package which includes a DVD-ISO-file for a native installation and a virtual machine for QEMU under Windows as well as the Light-version which only includes the most important files but fits on a CD-ROM or a 1-GB-USB-stick.
Paolo Besser was not only supported by Krzysztof Śmiechowicz who backported and updated the browser, bit also by Neil Cafferkey, who fixed several bugs in AROS, Oliver Brunner, who updated Janus-UAE, and Szilárd Biró, who ported DirectoryOpus 5 Magellan to AROS and helped to developed it further, as well as by 'Magorium' and other beta testers.
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31.Oct.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Photographs and videos from the µAlchimie 2014
Last weekend, in Clérieux (France) the third issue of the "µAlchimie" took place. Several visitors have published photographs and videos from this Amiga and retro meeting:
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31.Oct.2014
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: Videos from the AmiWest 2014 (Update)
As in previous years, Bill 'tekmage' Borsari has published the following videos from the AmiWest:
Update: (07:15, 02.11.14, snx)
Addition of the WinUAE presentation. Another video of the show has been published by a visitor. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2014
Amiga.org (Forum)
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ACube Systems: Price for Sam460cr officially announced
After the announcement of the cost reduced PowerPC mainboard Sam460ex (amiga-news.de reported), ACube Systems now updated the price lists for the Sam460cr. It is not known yet when the board is deliverable.
You have to pay 640 Euro for the 1,1-GHz-version or 560 Euro for the 1,0-GHz-version (both include AmigaOS 4.1, RadeonHD-1.0-driver.
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31.Oct.2014
MUI-AmigaOS (ANF)
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MUI for AmigaOS: MUI4.0-2014R5 and MUI3.9-2014R3
The team of "MUI for AmigaOS" has released new versions of MUI 4.0 (AmigaOS 4) and MUI 3.9 (AmigaOS 3.x).
MUI 3.9 no langer is called a beta version because since the previoius release no fatal bugs have been reported.
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30.Oct.2014
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Cloanto: Workbench 3.1 on CF card
In addition to its emulator package Amiga Forever, Cloanto now offers a Workbench 3.1 copy preinstalled on a CF card. This allows quick and quiet booting without having to deal with an assortment of floppy disks, the required CF to IDE adapter is included in the package.
The CF card can be bought at Amiga dealers like Vesalia or Amigastore.eu, and probably other suppliers (which will be added once we get notified they're carrying the product). (snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Oct.2014
ANF
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Renegades Deluxe 2014
After he released his PD-game Renegades almost 20 years ago, Wayne Ashworth now has reworked it. Renegades is an Alien-Breed-clone for (exclusive) two players.
Renegades Deluxe 2014 has been graphically reworked and now offers new landscapes with random pickups, jammed doors, fake walls and injury of the players (more injured walk slower).
The game has been tested on an Amiga 1200 but according to the author will not run on an Amiga 500. If you take a picture of how you play Renegades Deluxe 2014, Wayne Ashworth would be pleased if you send it to him via eMail to convince him that nowadays people still like playing games using the Amiga.
Changes:
- No 'Made in Amos' screen, instead it's 'Pickups explained'
- New title screen artwork
- New titlescreen music by Marcus Becker
- New character selection screen
- New character selection graphics
- Slightly tweaked character stats
- New in-game screen
- New tileset
- New maps
- Jammed doors
- Fake walls
- Random pickups that vary each time you play the map
- Injury (more injured walk slower)
- Bleeding when injured
- Randomised 'Winner' and 'Loser' messages
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28.Oct.2014
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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RadeonHD driver: Version 1.2 and 2.4 announced / Sam460cr installation solution
Under the title link A-EON Technology has announced updates of his RadeonHD graphic board driver for AmigaOS 4. Additional to the free update to version 1.2 for owners of version 1.0 of the driver released in April, there will be also the commercial version 2.4.
Version 1.2 of the the driver developed by Hans de Ruiter supports further RadeonHD boards of the R5,
R7 and R9 serie (compatibility list). With version 2.4 the hardware accelerated video output in 1080p will be possible as announced at the AmiWest. DMA-support for RadeonHD boards will be available as well.
Features of the V2 driver:
- YUV bitmaps with CompositeTags(). YUV420p bitmaps are 37.5% the size of 32-bit ARGB bitmaps so there's less data to copy to the graphics card
- While overlay is restricted to 1-2 surfaces and does not respect transparency, Composite Video can render an unlimited number of surfaces and can perform alpha blending instead of chroma keying which can be used for advanced video effects
- Videos can be Rotated, warped and even projected into another video
- Alpha blending/compositing can be used for cross-fade between video files and other effects
- Full 1080p Video playback with supported video files
- Support for the latest generation of AMD Radeon Rx graphics cards from the R5, R7 and R9 series
The full RadeonHD driver ordered by A-EON Technology will be not part of the announced Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1. In order to make the driver available to future owners of a Sam460cr without having to use an additional and old graphic board, a minimal version will be included. According to AmigaKit and confirmed by Hans de Ruiter, A-EON Technology, ACube Systems and Hyperion are working on an adequate solution.
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27.Oct.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Breakout clone: VoxelNoid for AROS-x86
At the beginning of the month, the Breakout clone Voxelnoid was released and now is also available for AROS-x86. A 3D-graphic board is required.
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27.Oct.2014
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MorphOS: SimpleMail-MOS 1.01, a fork of SimpleMail (update)
"neoman" has compiled the mailer SimpleMail for MorphOS. He considers his programm as "fork" of the official SimpleMail-project, which will be separately developed. The first release uses OpenSSL instead of AmiSSL and thus supports all modern SSL/TSL protocol versions. Besides, a bug in the IMAP folder index implementation was fixed, "so huge IMAP accounts can be fetched now".
The author will add all updates of the original SimpleMail to his project and implement additional, specific MorphOS improvements.
Update: (27.10.14, 21:00, cg)
Meanwhile version 1.01 was released. "Self-signed certs can be validated permanently now" and "common root CAs are supported (Google Mail etc.)".
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27.Oct.2014
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Brian Bagnall hopes to publish "Commodore - The Amiga Years" in 2015
A year ago, Brian Bagnall stopped the second part of the new edition of his Commodore biographie . In a statement at Twitter, the author held out hope that "Commodore - The Amiga Years" will be published after all and said: "I believe 2015 will be the year for the Amiga book".
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26.Oct.2014
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MorphOS: TeX Live 2012 available again
Last year, Oliver Urbann has ported the TeX-distribution TeX Live 2012 to MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) but due to its size the archive was only available as Torrent. Now a user has made available the archive under the title link.
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26.Oct.2014
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Hyperion: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Available Before the End of 2014
Press release: Brussels, October 27, 2014 - Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the imminent availability of "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition" for all supported platforms.
AmigaOS 4.1 was released in September of 2008 and has seen no less than 6 free major updates and at least 88 smaller updates released through AmiUpdate.
New functionality in AmigaOS 4.1 Final Update includes but is not limited to:
- Extended memory functionality (beneficial for all supported platforms even those platforms which cannot be equipped with more than 2GB)
- Most powerful console for AmigaOS
- New Intuition features
- New Workbench features
- Much improved DOS
- New unified graphics library with RTG support which allows for (current and future) very substantial general and platform specific performance optimizations e.g. through the use of on-chip DMA engines (present on recently released hardware going back to the Sam440)
- Updated Python port
- Installation graphics, new icons and back-drops by Martin Merz
- Countless minor updates, new other functionality and bug-fixes
AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition requires NO previous version of AmigaOS 4.x and is a stand-alone product, quite possibly the most affordable version of AmigaOS ever to be released.
This frees current users of AmigaOS 4.1 to install the original version of AmigaOS 4.1 and subsequently download or apply 6 updates and countless minor updates.
Users are nevertheless recommended to register their copy of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on the Hyperion Entertainment website as this will be required for downloading possible future updates and bug fixes.
An updated SDK for developers which exposes all new OS functionality to developers, is being worked on.
Hyperion Entertainment wishes to thank all those developers and contributors who have furthered AmigaOS development over the years and especially those that have worked tirelessly on delivering "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition" to customers before the end of 2014.
Our thanks go out to all of our supporters and loyal customers who can rest assured that work on AmigaOS 4.2 is ongoing apace albeit somewhat behind schedule due to the fact that substantial time had to be allocated for supporting new upcoming exciting hardware platforms. We appreciate your support!
AmigaOS Final Edition has gone gold and is in production at this time.
Suggested retail price is 29,95 EUR (SRP includes German VAT, may vary depending on your location). (snx)
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26.Oct.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 25.10.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 25th, 2014:
SQLMan.lha biz/dbase 7.6M MOS SQLite database manager
BackUp.lha disk/bakup 67K 68k A directory mirroring backup ...
prism2v2.lha driver/net 309K OS4 Driver for 11Mbps wireless ne...
Wazp3D.lha driver/vid 1.3M 68k CPU only Warp3D implementation
Soko4MUI_AROS.lha game/think 10M x86 Soko4MUI, Thinking game with ...
Soko4MUI_MorphOS.lha game/think 9.7M MOS Soko4MUI, Thinking game with ...
Soko4MUI_OS3.lha game/think 9.6M 68k Soko4MUI, Thinking game with ...
Soko4MUI_OS4.lha game/think 10M OS4 Soko4MUI, Thinking game with ...
tileworld.i386-aros.zip game/think 1.1M x86 A clone of Chip's Challenge
amath.lha misc/math 1.0M 68k Simple command line calculator
digibooster3.library.lha mus/play 140K 68k DigiBooster 3 replayer as sha...
Cuba_on_carpet.jpg pix/back 433K Cuba island represented by a ...
Mega_graffiti.jpg pix/back 425K Old building covered with gra...
SSW_Laval2014.lha pix/back 4.6M Photos of the S Scale Worksho...
GuideMaker.lha text/hyper 1.9M OS4 AmigaGuide file maintenance u...
SoundBookCreator_0.2.lha text/misc 67K MOS Creates Soundbooks in EPUB Fo...
Epub-Reader_0.9.lha text/show 3.8M MOS Reader for the free+open e-bo...
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26.Oct.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 25.10.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 25th, 2014:
atunes.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 manage & play your music/rad...
bghalloween.lha gam/boa 7Mb 4.0 Bed Games I Special Halloween 2014
soko4mui.lha gam/puz 10Mb 4.0 Thinking game with MUI Interface
digibooster3.library.lha lib/aud 260kb 4.1 DigiBooster3 module replayer as ...
sqlman.lha off/dat 8Mb 4.0 SQLite database manager
bougesouris.lha uti/mis 101kb 4.0 CLI program to move cursor/click...
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
fasthide.lha uti/wor 495kb 4.1 Fast Hide/Unhide Workbench windows
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26.Oct.2014
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 25.10.2014
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 25th, 2014:
soko4mui.i386-aros.lha gam/puz 10Mb Thinking game with MUI Interface
tileworld.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb Tileworld is a clone of Chip's C...
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26.Oct.2014
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 25.10.2014
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until October 25th, 2014:
LibMaker 0.11 dev/C 144 MUI based, parametrized sou...
digibooster3.library 1.0 dev/lib 177 The official DigiBooster3 r...
Sound Book Creator 0.1 mul/pro 64 Creates audiobooks in EPub ...
DAPlayer 1.12 mus/pla 343 A MUI based audio player ha...
EPub Reader 0.9 off/tex 291 Reader of e-books in EPub f...
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26.Oct.2014
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WHDLoad: New packages until 25.10.2014
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 October 25th, 2014:
- 2014-10-25 new: Back 2 Base (Crusaders) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2014-10-24 new: Don't Panic (LSD) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2014-10-23 improved: Chase H.Q. 2 (Ocean/ICE) address error on 68000/10 fixed, manual added (Info)
- 2014-10-23 fixed: Zine 7 (Brainstorm) wrong default tool in installer icon corrected (Info, Image)
- 2014-10-23 fixed: Zine 6 (Brainstorm) wrong default tool in installer icon corrected (Info, Image)
- 2014-10-23 fixed: Zine 5 (Brainstorm) wrong default tool in installer icon corrected (Info, Image)
- 2014-10-23 new: Nightshade's Harmony (Ecstasy) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2014-10-22 new: Project Beat (Crusaders) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2014-10-21 A composition of the installation icons contained in the install packages were added to the install page. Hope that loosens the install pages a bit.
- 2014-10-21 new: Visual Intensity 1 (Dual Format) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2014-10-20 new: The Party 2 Slideshow (Decnite) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2014-10-19 new: P.E.N.I.S 3 (Doctor Mabuse Orgasm Crackings) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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26.Oct.2014
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Event: News from AmiWest 2014 (2nd update)
Up to and including today, in Sacramento this year's AmiWest is taking place. We have summarized the news which has been available so far.
Additional to the official announcement of the Sam460cr by ACube Systems (Foto, amiga-news.de reported) and the takeover of Amigaworld.net by A-EON Technology, now it has been officially announced, that at the end of the year AmigaOS 4.1 "Final Edition" (update 8) are supposed to be released (amiga-news.de reported). So far we have not binding statements if the Final Edition, which among others summarizes the previous online updates, requires an existing licence or if it is a full version, despite the fact that the price is only 29 Euro. According to third parties, a serial number of a previously purchased version of AmigaOS 4.1 seems to be required.
Due to the fact that the Final Edition will be delivered on DVD, it is much likely that the announced version 4.2 of the operating system is even further away from a soon release: According to Hyperion's Steven Solie, it is recommended to purchase the Final Edition instead of waiting for version 4.2, because "it is not that close". For AmigaOS 4.2 again Gallium-3D-graphic as well as the support of several processor cores have been announced.
On-site the Cyrus+-boards for the AmigaOne X5000 have been presented which still are in beta test. A photograph shows its new Early-Startup menu with the common appearance of the Amiga. While Linux completely supports the computer - the game SuperTuxKart was demonstrated -, the current level of development of the version of AmigaOS according to Trevor Dickinson reminds to the early versions for the AmigaOne XE.
Currently the first expansion card for the Xorro slot of the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 as another hardware is in development. The "Sentinel X-Logger" is supposed to record Debug output of the serial interface on a built-in SD-card.
Regarding software, it was announced, that A-EON Technology has bought the rights for the further development of the 3D-driver system Warp3D. Besides, a native GDB-debugger for AmigaOS 4 as well as an update of the Radeon driver were announced. The driver will support hardware-accelerated video output in 1080p as well as the latest graphic boards.
Additionally, the Radeon driver will be part of the new software package called Radiance Multimedia Suite. Radiance also includes Workbench Candi for hardware-supported animation of the Workbench background with the compositing-Engine, version 7.3 of Personal Paint (the update includes e.g. new brushes), Sketchblock Lite with the Fraktal-Generator, MPlayer and DvPlayer as well as videos, background pictures and pictogramms.
Further information was available about LibreOffice ( its AmigaOS-4-port currently is debugged) and the Soundtracker Octamed (a licence for a port to AmigaOS 4 was purchased).
Photographs of the event from Friday and Saturday you can find in the "Epsilon's AmigaOne X1000 Blog".
Update: (16:27, 26.10.14, snx)
On our demand, Ben Hermans (Director Legal, Hyperion Entertainment) made it clear, that actually the "Final Edition" does not require a previously purchased version of AmigaOS 4. A press release is being prepared.
2nd update: (16:57, 29.10.14, snx)
Additional photos have been published by Mike Brantley. Furthermore the leader of the AmigaOS 4 development team, Steven Solie, has stated that also owners of an AmigaOne X1000 will have to pay for the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1. Originally, at purchase of the computer customers were promised that AmigaOS 4.2 would be included. Besides this, mentioning of PageStream seems to have been by error of the reporter, since Steven Solie is not aware of it. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Oct.2014
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PPC-Hardware: Sam460cr ("cost reduced")
Acube has announced, that it was decided to offer a version of the Sam460, which does not include built-in graphic, sound and SATA chips. Many customers would have used more powerful hardware using PCI(e) plug-in cards. Additionally the PPC-motherboard can be offered cost reduced.
In the ACube-shop the new version still is not available but the external supplier comsytec.eu offers both versions for the following prices:
- SAM460CR 1.10GHz: 622,80 Euro
- SAM460EX 1.15GHz: 719 Euro
According to information of an Amiga user, the price does not include a OS4-licence and the motherboards also are not on hand in the shop.
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25.Oct.2014
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A-EON now owner of amigaworld.net
In June, the hardware supplier A-EON ("AmigaOne X1000") took over the longest-serving Amiga portal amiga.org.
Now we have received information, that during his "Amiwest"-presentation Trevor Dickinson has officially confirmed that A-EON also has taken over amigaworld.net.
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25.Oct.2014
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Video: Petro Tyschtschenko and Michael Battilana at the Saku 2014
Under the title link a video of the Saku 2014 has been released which took place on September 20th in Tampere, Finland. It shows Janne Sirén interviewing both the honoured guests Petro Tyschtschenko and Michael Battilana.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Oct.2014
MorphZone (Webseite)
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digibooster3.library 1.0
After the static library for DigiBooster-3-files (amiga-news.de reported), Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski now has released a shared library. Programms playing such files gets smaller and does not have to be compiled again if the library was improved.
Download for AmigaOS 4 (260 KB)
Download site for MorphOS
Download for AmigaOS 3.x (140 KB, requires a 68020-processor)
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25.Oct.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Database: SQLMan 0.1
Lázár Zoltán has released an alpha version of SQLMan (screenshot). The Hollywood-programm based on SQLite can create, open and edit databases. Spreadsheet files of the Open-XML-format can be converted. The programm is available for all Amiga systems (under AROS only for x86).
Download: SQLMan.lha (8 MB)
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23.Oct.2014
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Commercial update: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition available by the end of November
In a excerpt of the upcoming issue of the magazine Amiga Future, for the first time a "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition" is mentioned. It is a commercial update for AmigaOS 4.1 which is supposed to be available by the end of November.
Currently a detailed list of changes is not available. The excerpt of the article mentioned the following improvements:
- New Shell wit tabs and line buffer
- Workbench context menu with icons (sizes can be changed via tooltypes)
- Workbench with new preview mode (files having not any can be previewed)
- Reworked Workbench menu which can be set up more easily
- New versions of Python and NTFS
The "Final Edition" is supposed to be available for 29,95 Euro and will be delivered in a DVD-box.
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23.Oct.2014
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future 111 - preview and excerpts online
A preview and some excerpts of the upcoming issue 111 (November/December 2014) of Amiga Future magazine have been released. Highlights of this issue are a preview to "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition" as well as the AmigaOS 4.1 Poster. Additionally there is an interview with Toni Wilen (WinUAE) and a review to DigiBooster 3.1. On the CD there are PD-software and some full versions as well.
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20.Oct.2014
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Development tool: LibMaker 0.11
Grzegorz Kraszewski's LibMaker is a development tool for shared libraries. The current version generates library skeletons for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x (AmigaOS 4 support is on the way).
The generated skeleton is a complete project, which may be compiled out of the box. It also contains include files needed to use the library in applications. LibMaker is open source.
Download site (snx)
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