09.Oct.2011
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Finished graphic sets for arcade games
On amigaworld.net a graphic designer offers graphics which stand under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported-licence and can be used for different projects.
The graphics (examples) are devided into two archives:
kfs_4GameArtPacks_Sprites.zip (5 MB - full graphic sets):
- Tetris
- Pacman
- Breakout / Arkanoid
- Asteroids
Amiga_GameSprites.zip (10 MB, incomplete graphics):
- Adrenalin Racer (top down version of wipeout/spyhunter)
- Brutal Sports (speedball clone)
- misc (icometric bits)
- Morph (platform game with morphing ball character)
- Uridzone (Uridium Clone)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Oct.2011
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WHDLoad-Launcher: Tiny Launcher 1.3
Lionel 'Gibs' Deri's Tiny Launcher searches for directories defined by the user which includes ECS or AGA games and demos (YouTube-video).
WHDLoad games and files with the ending ".exe" are recognized automatically. For other games the user must create little AmigaDOS scripts.
Download: TinyLauncher131.lzh (121 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Oct.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Peter Hutchisons "Amiga C Tutorial"
Peter John "pjhutch" Hutchison's English-language "Amiga C Tutorial" is supposed to help C newcomers to program under AmigaOS with the help of many code examples.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Oct.2011
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WHDLoad: New packages until 09.10.2011
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which were originally puzblished on disks. Additional several incompatibilities with new Amiga models are fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
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09.Oct.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Picture viewer : PictureAlbum Preview 08-10-2011 for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS
With Christopher Handley's PictureAlbum you can search for picture directories. The included pictures are viewed as thumbnails. With a double-click you can view any number of pictures and place them on the screen (screenshots: 1, 2). PictureAlbum to memorises the opened pictures and its positions for each directory.
Download: PictureAlbum_preview_111008.lha ( MB)
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09.Oct.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Kalle Marjola
The interview serie on amigapd.com now was continued with a conversation with Kalle Marjola who wrote Knights and Fantasy Forces.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Oct.2011
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Nouveau and Mesa-3D update for Fermi graphic boards
With new versions of the Mesa-3D library and of the Nouveau video driver, AROS now supports some of the current GeForce graphic boards of the 400er and 500er series completely in 2D and 3D.
The updates are part of the Nightly Builds but can be downloaded under the title link as well.
Other features, improvements and known problems:
- Improved 3D rendering for NV50 series (GeForce 8 and up)
- Reporting VRAM and GART sizes and free space via SysMon utility
- Corrected memory allocation problems
- Improved VRAM->RAM swapping on low memory conditions
- Known problem: Rendering regression with Cube/AssaultCube for GeForce 6200 users
Download: Mesa-V19-2011-10-06.zip (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Oct.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 2.0
The author wrote: "Jack could be described as an advanced feature-laden ASL
file-requester replacement, it could also be described as a fantastic
standalone program that makes common tasks so much easier."
Version 2.0 now includes a Google Currency Converter and numerous bug fixes across the board and code optimisations.
Download: jack.lha (8 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Oct.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Text processing software Cinnamon Writer 0.75
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a text processing software. Version 0.75 now is compatible with Microsoft's docx-format. New "layout-options" as well as a reworked graphical user-interface were added.
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04.Oct.2011
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 54
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazin about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different fomats - among others as HTML-version and C64-diskmag.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Oct.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview with Gabriele Greco
On amigapd.com an interview with Gabriele Greco was published who is the author of the soccer simulation Eat The Whistle.
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02.Oct.2011
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Windows: "Amiga Conversion Kit" 1.1
The "Amiga Conversion Kit" tries to adapt Look and Feel of Windows to AmigaOS 4 (Screenshot).
Among others Amiga Icons (Ken's Icons, Source Icons), an AmigaOS 4-skin as well as Amiga mouse pointer are used. Additionally the package patches an entry in the registry which deletes the toolbars from the Windows-Explorer.
The author does not describe which versions of Windows are supported.
Download: AmigaConversionKit.zip (9 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Oct.2011
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video: Legends do not die - All star
With his video under the title link Stefanos 'Cool_amigaN' Karousos reminds of some of the greatest Amiga games.
He also has published a HD-version of "Legends do not die - All star" (Link, 395 MB).
A sequel will follow and include all those games which were left out in the first part but not in this year.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Oct.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Ranger 1.52
Steven Solie's Ranger is a little diagnostic routines for AmigaOS 4 which visualises process trees and delivers additional information. The update now supports the AmigaOne X1000 (processor, PCI-devices).
Download: ranger.lha (371 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Oct.2011
EAB (Forum)
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Event: Datastorm 2012 (Sweden)
From 10. until 12. Februar 2012 in Göteborg (Sweden) the Datastorm 2012 will take place. In 2010 the event was organized as winterly counterpart to the Little Computer People and is a scene party for "oldskool"- and retro systems like C64 or Amiga.
The demo scene competition will be organized by the groups Up Rough Soundsystem, Genesis Project, Divine Stylers and SceneSat.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Oct.2011
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amiga-news.de: Server failure due to supposed hardware problems
Yesterday amiga-news.de could not be accessed for about 13 hours: our server did set the filesystem to pure read function which actually is indicative of a problem with the connected drives. Under the title link you can comprehend the efforts of the technician of our hoster Dreamhost to find and solve the problem.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
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28.Sep.2011
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: PowerBook purchase advice
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has written an English-language purchase advice for users who want to buy an Apple PowerBook to use it with MorphOS.
Grzegorz 'krashan' Kraszewski has translated the text into Polish.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Sep.2011
Cloanto (RSS)
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Amiga Forever 2012.0.16.0
Cloanto has published two new updates for its emulator package Amiga Forever 2012. The "player" and the RP9-editor were updated and additional to minor bug fixes, the performance of booting the computer was improved.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Sep.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Installer 1.39 for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS
Installer written by Guido "geit" Mersmann is a replacement for the installation programm provided by Commodore. In version 1.39 several minor bugs were fixed. The Installer is available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS.
Installer.lha (570 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Sep.2011
Achim Kern - KeHo Software (ANF)
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Puzzle game: "Symbol-Rechnen" for all Amiga systems
"Symbol-Rechnen" simulates the arithmetical problem where each figure is encrypted by a certain symbol. The computer generates new tasks every time - which have to be solved so all additions and subtractions or multiplications and divisions (Vers 2.1) fit in horizontal and perpendicular lines.
Achim Kern has ported an older puzzle game with Hollywood and offers versions for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, AROS and Windows. The next port will be the puzzle and action game CrossCrabTris.
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25.Sep.2011
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Amiga Inc. lost several US-trademarks
Recently Amiga Inc. had had six registered trademarks in the United States. For five of these trademarks the company would have proved a commercial use until August. This did not happen. Therefore the "US Patent and Trademark Office" deleted the following registration of the trademarks:
- AMIGA - Standard Character Mark
- AMIGA - Drawing/Design + Words
- AMIGA ANYWHERE - Standard Character Mark
- AMIGA ENABLED - Standard Character Mark
- BoingBall [image] - Drawing/Design (No Words)
The last registered trademark of Amiga Inc. is AMIGA.
Amiga owns several trademarks in the EU. A complete list can be found on Amiga-Trademarks.pdf.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Sep.2011
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Programming language: Hollywood creates iPad-applications
Press release: Hollywood has recently been ported to the iPad (ARM architecture) by order of a commercial customer who needs to use it on tablet devices in clinics and hotels. A small demo video of Hollywood running on iPad has been uploaded to YouTube.
Unfortunately, it will most likely not be possible to integrate iPad support into Hollywood's cross-compiler because of several technical and legal restrictions that iPad apps are subject to. For commercial customers, however, we can now offer several solutions to get their Hollywood projects converted into iPad apps. Please contact us.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Sep.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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HSMathLibs 46.00 for MC68060, MC68040 and MC68881/82
Matthias Henze's HSMathLibs replace the libraries mathieeedoubbas.library, mathieeedoubtrans.library, mathieeesingtrans.libray and mathtrans.library and patch or replace the libraries mathffp.library and mathieeesingbas.libray by optimized versions.
Changes:
- The functions "IEEEDPFloor", "IEEEDPCeil" (mathieeedoubbas.library), "IEEESPFloor", "IEEESPCeil" (mathieeesingbas.library and mathieeesingbas-patch), "SPFloor" and "SPCeil" (mathffp.library and mathffp-Patch) were written again
- Bug fixes of the functions "IEEEDPPow" (mathieeedoubtrans.library), "IEEESPPow" (mathieeesingtrans.library), "SPCos", "SPSincos", "SPCosh", "SPExp" and "SPPow" (mathtrans.library)
- Reworked patch routines of mathffp-patch and mathieeesingbas-patch
- Reworked Initfunctions of all libraries
- Many minor optimization
- Reworked manuals; support of programms like Remus added
- Reworked installer script; support of programms like Remus added
- Reworked uninstall
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24.Sep.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: LLVM-Bounty (Phase 1) completed
After the release of the first release candidate of the cross-compiler LLVM, this bounty project was now successfully completed.
Pascal Papara who is initiator and main sponsor is looking for suggestions for the description of the second phase. The point of the bounty is to simplify the transition to 64 bit.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2011, 14:35] [Comments: 0]
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24.Sep.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Distribution AspireOS 1.2
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published an update of his AROS-distribution AspireOS (screenshot). This is customized to the Acer-netbook Aspire but should run on every other hardware.
The update requires an existing 1.x-installation. Amiga games now are started via AROS/68k instead of using AmigaOS Kickstart files. Additionally the music programm MilkyTracer, the BoingIconBar, Snapshoter, some games and many updated system files were added.
Users of Samsung or Dell netbooks have to replace the hdaudio.config and the HDAudio-driver by the ones with the ending "dell". Please do the same with the file Sys:system/network/AROSTCP/S/Package-Startup if you are using a USB network stick.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Sep. 2011, 14:15] [Comments: 0]
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23.Sep.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Database: MUIbase 2.10
Steffen Gutmann has published an update of his database MUIbase. Changes in version 2.10:
- New function SETBGPEN for setting the background color of attributes
- Several new pre-defined constants PEN_* useful for SETBGPEN
- New function 'mainWindowTitle' for computing the title of the main window
- Drag and drop of a record from a virtual list onto a reference attribute for setting the reference to the dropped record
- Allow dropping of icons onto text fields that support filenames.
This sets the contents to the pathname of the dropped icon (Amiga).
- Warn user when changing a read-only project
- Use native MorphOS-classes instead of NList and TextEditor.
MUIbase stills uses BetterString instead of Textinput.
- The Windows setup executable now containes all necessary GTK+ libraries
- Better support of copy & paste on Mac OS X
- Several bug fixes
Die MUIbase-distribution includes ports for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. An port for AROS will follow. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Sep.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser NetSurf 2.8
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally written for RiscOS. It can be used with 17 MB memory and supports among others HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1. The changes in version 2.8 are listed in the Changelog.
Release notes for this AmigaOS 4 build:
- DataTypes content handler now used for JPEG and PNG images on the 4.0 (static) build
- Low-memory version of parserutils.library included in the archive, for people wishing to reduce memory requirements
- MNG and WebP internal decoders no longer compiled in. Please install appropriate datatypes for WebP and (limited) MNG support
- The file Resource/mimetypes can be used to specify applications to run plug-in content (to use, right-click plug-in area and select "launch in external application"). It also links DataTypes, MIME types and DefIcons, so if something isn't working as expected it might be related to this file
- Please note the new DPI setting in prefs. Some people reported particulary small text on certain websites with the previous release. Setting DPI correctly fixes this. If you use a widescreen monitor you may need to set "option_widescreen:1" in Resources/Options
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22.Sep.2011
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Another video from Amiganoid 2011
Last saturday, the Amiganoid 2011 was held in Essen (Germany). AmigaGTI has released another Youtube vdeo from the meeting now. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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22.Sep.2011
amigafuture.de (website)
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Interview: Richard Hewison (Speedball 2, Stunt Car Racer)
Richard Hewison was involved with various classic Amiga games (Beneath a Steel Sky, Cannon Fodder, Sensible Soccer, Stunt Car Racer, Speedball II) as a playtester or project manager. In this interview he speaks about his memories of the former Amiga games market. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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21.Sep.2011
Amigaworld.net (website)
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OnyxSoft: BackUp 1.71 and DECH 1.50
The developers group OnyxSoft has updated two of their programs: BackUp and DECH.
BackUp 1.71
An average copying speed in kB or MB/s has been added to Daniel 'Deniil' Westerberg's backup tool. It will show up after finishing. It's mostly interesting when you make the first complete backup, since all time is considered, not just during actual copying.
Please note that if you transfer more than 2.5 TB in one go, the speed calculator won't cope.
DECH 1.50
Deniil's E-Compiler Handler (which works for make, gcc or whatever too) is a graphical compiler aid. Changes:
- More descriptive gadget names
- Editable gadget names
- Ctrl-C in the console is sent to the executed program instead of eaten by DECH itself
- Added datetime and bold to compile and run output to clearly mark where it starts when scrolling
- Added a window sleepy pointer when compiling
- The compiler priority wasn't properly loaded from prefs
- Fixed some layout issues when using larger fonts
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21.Sep.2011
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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MorphOS: Prospect of version 3.0
Nicolas 'Henes' Sallin has given an outlook on the next update of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS at MorphZone.
- The next public version of MorphOS will be version 3.0 and introduce support for PowerBook (only 15" and 17" PowerBooks of versions 5.6 till 5.9, which are the two latest revisions D and E)
- It will be a completely free upgrade for already registered users
- There will probably be some experimental wireless support for a few external cardbus cards featuring WPA/WPA2; that was demonstrated in Essen
- There will be enhanced 3D drivers for the R2xx range of Radeon cards
- Proper use of AGP bus has been added where reasonable and available, helping on some low vmem issues with Mac mini for example
- There will be a builtin CD/DVD recording tool named Jalapeno
- There will be various other enhancements which are not disclosed yet
- Release date can't be expected before December
Furthermore, G5 iMac/PowerMac support will not be released anytime soon. It was just some experiment and no development work is done on it, Henes continued. The focus would be on bug fixing and implementing remaining features for 3.0 now. Also the OS will not be released for another CPU architecture in the next 12 months. (snx)
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21.Sep.2011
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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MorphOS: SDK update 20110916
The MorphOS Software Development Kit has been updated. This update fixes minor issues related to Scribble MUI update as well as improves project indexing functionality. (snx)
[News message: 21. Sep. 2011, 15:01] [Comments: 0]
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20.Sep.2011
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Interview: Andreas Magerl (Amiga Future)
nemesiz.com has published an interview with Andreas Magerl, in which he talks about his magazine Amiga Future as well as upcoming software projects. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.Sep.2011
amigafuture.de (website)
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AmigaOS 4: integrated development environment CodeBench 0.23
Simon "Rigo" Archer has released a new beta version of his integrated development environment CodeBench (screenshot). Codebench 0.23 requires AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1, but Update 3 is highly recommended for use with Codebench.
The free edition available right now comes in two flavours: One for use with the AmigaOS 4 SDK, one for users of the commercial programming language Hollywood.
Changes in version 0.23:
- When loading a project by double-clicking the project icon, the loaded project was not internally assigned properly. This led to DSI errors when trying to use the menus. Thanks to Paul E. Blodel for the report.
- When selecting a directory of files to be added to the project, the files were added with a root path, rather than in a sub-directory. This would lead to the files being saved into the wrong place, and could potentially over-write an existing file with the wrong contents.
- When switching files, if a file that was not part of the project was made current, the project list still showed the previous file as selected. Fixed
- The enabling/disabling of the "Compiler" buttons has now been moved into each plugin. This should allow a much greater degree of acuracy in determining just what options should be available.
- Now only shows the public screen name in the titlebar when on a custom screen.
- Added a couple more keyboard descriptions in the "Key Bindings" editor for keys that do not print a glyph.
Changes in AmigaOS4SDK.ccplugin 5.1:
- API changes so bumped to V5
Changes in Hollywood.ccplugin 5.1:
- Fixed a problem with loading the dictionary and the description was actually the prototype. Reported by Paul E. Bloedel.
- Added functionality to set the "compiler" buttons as required.
- Any errors or warnings are cleared now when running the script just like when building the script.
- Fixed a few more subtle operational issues.
- API changes so bumped to V5.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.Sep.2011
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: Zune bounty divided into separate projects
The original bounty project for enhancement of the MUI clone for AROS, Zune, is now being split into smaller steps. Current donors are advised to request by e-mail that their contributions are moved to the new "Phase 1" bounty detailed at the title link.
This first step's focus will be to reach complete compatibility with MUI version 3.8. So far, 265 US-Dollars have been donated to it, while 545 Dollars are still with the original bounty. (snx)
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19.Sep.2011
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Amiga-Meeting 2011: Further exhibitors, dealers and developers wanted
The organisers of this year's Amiga-Meeting in Bad Bramstedt (near Hamburg), Germany, are still looking for further exhibitors, dealers and developers to take part. So far almost 40 participants have been registered. Among them are for example Alinea Computer, Geit, Entwickler-X and the creators of Boingsworld and AmitopiaTV.
Especially AROS has been widely missing in the previous years, thus especially developers of this operating system are very welcome. In this context Sven Scheele of Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein would like to remind everyone that developers get a discount on their registrations. (snx)
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19.Sep.2011
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ACube announces complete systems labeled "AmigaOne 500"
ACube announces the "AmigaOne 500", a complete system based on their well-known PPC motherboard Sam460ex. It comes in a case with "AmigaOne 500" and Boingball stickers and includes the following components:
- Sam460ex 1.15 GHz
- 2 GB DDR2 RAM
- 500 GB HD
- DVD RW
- PCI SATA 3512 controller
- AmigaOne mouse
- Stickers for keyboard customization
- Optional: PCIe Radeon 4650 1 GB VIDEO RAM
- Optional: SATA2 SSD (Solid State Disk) 64 GB or 128 GB (replacing the internal 500 GB hard disk)
The systems are said to be available from September 26 onwards, they will ship for 878 Euro (excluding taxes and shipping costs). (cg)
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18.Sep.2011
Abime (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.3.3
Version 2.3.3 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released today. The update introduces a new VSync mode to solve the problem of complete CPU usage.
New features:
- New very low latency VSync mode, autodetects real refresh rate, no more 100% CPU usage, supports also windowed modes. (Not compatible with fastest possible CPU modes but planned in future)
- Experimental rawinput joystick/joypad support. (-rawhid command line parameter). Added because DirectInput is said to introduce some extra input lag.
Updates:
- Real cause for Max Transfer IDE problem found. IDE emulation detects and logs it now. (*)
- CD image audio buffer increased slightly, some systems had glitches in CD audio.
- Non-configured joystick/mouse autoswitch update: short firebutton press or move left = insert into joystick port, longer press or move right = insert into mouse port.
- Add Harddrive option does not require Administrator privileges anymore, most removable drives can be used without higher privileges, at least under Windows 7.
Bugs removed:
- IDE emulation write hang introduced in 2.3.2.
- A590/A2091 emulation crash if CPU was 68020+.
- On the fly CD switching (both images and real CDs) reliability improved.
- Direct3D blank screen problem is now 100% fixed. Really.
- win32.hardfile_path didn't work.
- On the fly resolution change didn't work correctly, resolution autoswitch improved.
- Key or joystick button mapped to mouse direction didn't work.
- Analog stick mapped to mouse had too fast and unstable speed.
*) Max Transfer problem was introduced with ATA v2 specification. ROM built-in IDE driver assume ATA v1 behavior, some drives are compatible with ATA v1, some are not and will require Max Transfer fix. It is NOT a drive bug. (snx)
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17.Sep.2011
NetBSD (ANF)
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NetBSD/amiga now supporting Prometheus PCI
The PCI sub system recently integrated into NetBSD/amiga has been expanded with a driver supporting the Prometheus PCI board. All PCI cards supported by device independent NetBSD drivers will now also work on an Amiga equipped with a Prometheus board - provided they do not require DMA, which the Prometheus hardware does not support. (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 17. Sep. 2011, 21:40] [Comments: 0]
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17.Sep.2011
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Amiga Image Storage System: AISS 4.12
Martin Merz has published an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS). With it you can manage toolbar graphics under AmigaOS and other systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. Sep. 2011, 14:45] [Comments: 0]
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17.Sep.2011
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First pictures from the Amiganoid 2011 (Update 3)
The Amiganoid 2011 is taking place in Essen (Germany) today. On Gero Birkenfeld's website you can already find some picture galleries from the event.
Update: (19:26, 17.09.11, snx)
Now two videos from the meeting have been uploaded to Youtube.
Update 2: (00:00, 18.09.11, cg)
THe team behind the Amiga podcast Boingsworld was attending the meeting aswell and took pictures aswell: gallery on Facebook, download as a ZIP file (85 MB)
Update 3: (23:00, 19.09.11, cg)
More pictures have been released by AmigaGTI and Mika. (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 17. Sep. 2011, 14:26] [Comments: 0]
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17.Sep.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 1.9
The author wrote: "Jack could be described as an advanced feature-laden ASL file-requester replacement, it could also be described as a fantastic
standalone program that makes common tasks so much easier." In version 1.9 the weather forecast was added (screenshot).
Download: jack.lha (8 MB).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. Sep. 2011, 06:44] [Comments: 0]
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16.Sep.2011
Abime (Webseite)
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Colemak keyboard layout / Java: Keymap-Editor Fatma and ADF-Tools
Wei-ju Wu has written a Java-based keymap editor called Fatma (The Final Amiga Type Map Assembler) to create a Colemak-keyboard layout for the Amiga. They can be downloaded under the titel link.
The author also has written ADF-Tools in Java to be able working with Amiga disk images and icons.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Sep. 2011, 20:20] [Comments: 0]
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16.Sep.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, Issue 53
"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 C64-Diskmag.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Sep. 2011, 19:50] [Comments: 0]
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16.Sep.2011
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Kick Off 2 world championships in Birmingham, Great Britain (11.-13. November)
The Kick Off 2 world championships 2011 will be organized for the eleventh timeand will take place in the Menzies Strathallan Hotel in Birmingham (Great Britain). The rules have been already fixed.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Sep. 2011, 16:48] [Comments: 0]
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15.Sep.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Syllable OS: Interview with Kaj de Vos
Under the title link TechWorld has interviewed the developer Kaj de Vos and talked with him about the operating system Syllable OS (screenshot). On page 5 he described how AmigaOS - over AtheOS - influenced the development.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Sep. 2011, 07:23] [Comments: 0]
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14.Sep.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 1.8
The author wrote: "Jack could be described as an advanced feature-laden ASL file-requester replacement, it could also be described as a fantastic
standalone program that makes common tasks so much easier. In version 1.8 you will discover a host of new features in the App-Store and substantly increased stability in the downloading of software from OS4Depot." (Screenshot).
Download: jack.lha (8 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Sep. 2011, 20:50] [Comments: 0]
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14.Sep.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Hosted Android version
Since today, also a port of AROS running hosted on Android (V2.2+) can be downloaded from the Nightly Builds at the title link (photo).
ARMv6 with VFP is required, but no Android modifications like rooting for example. In case someone owns a x86-based Android device, the author, Pavel 'SonicAmiga' Fedin, offers to compile a version for it as well, but he can't test it himself.
AROS is launched as a separate process on top of the Linux kernel, leaving the Java Virtual Machine aside. The Java-side runs a simple X11-alike server, which AROS talks to and uses for display. So basically it is just the ARM version of AROS.
To use the current Nightly Build, the following steps are required after unpacking the arcvhive:
- Copy "AROS" directory to the root of your SD card (or whatever removeable media your device uses)
- Install the supplied .APK on the device
- Run the program "AROS"
(snx)
[News message: 14. Sep. 2011, 15:46] [Comments: 0]
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13.Sep.2011
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New Amiga demos
The scene portal pouet.net has published new Amiga demos:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Sep. 2011, 17:23] [Comments: 0]
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13.Sep.2011
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AmiWest 2011: Schedule published, Steven Solie will speak
The organizers of the AmiWest 2011 have published the schedule. This year on the traditional banquet meal Steven Solie will be the main speaker who is the project manager of AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Sep. 2011, 17:11] [Comments: 0]
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13.Sep.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions (Opus 5.5, Opus Plus CD...)
The download section of the Amiga Future was comleted. Directory Opus 5.5, Directory Opus Plus CD and the Adventure-engine Inga were added.
Hint: Before you can download the CD images, you have to create an account at amigafuture.de.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Sep. 2011, 17:00] [Comments: 0]
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