31.Jan.2018
Steffest (ANF)
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ADF tool: TOSEC Checker 0.1
Steffest writes: With all the disk-imaging going on the past weeks with the Bamiga Sector One collection and others, we made a simple and accessible tool to quickly check if your freshly made ADF file is already in the TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) database or not.
Of course there already tools that do that, but they involve installing obscure software and hunting down and installing tons of database files. TOSEC Checker instead is a simple web-based tool: nothing to install. You drag a bunch of ADF files on the page and it tells you quickly if your disks are already in TOSEC or not.
As an added bonus you can click on a disk to browse it, view files in ASCII and hex and download files straight from the ADF image. It's like a TOSEC-enabled mini ADF Opus in your browser!
The tool is open source. We are open to any suggestions to improve it. - Enjoy! (snx)
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28.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Vampire accelerator board: SAGA driver 0.14
Under the title link for Vampire accelerator boards version 0.14 of the SAGA driver has been released. The latest Apollo core "Gold 2.5" is required.
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28.Jan.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 27th, 2018:
dizzytorrent1.0b9.lha comm/tcp 452K 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
luxcc.i386-aros.lha dev/c 523K x86 C compiler and toolchain.
COP.lha dev/debug 163K 68k Low Level Debugger
YAPong_os4.lha game/2play 1.6M OS4 YAPong
Remini-wos.lha game/actio 496K WOS REminiscence WarpOS
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
DisLib.lha util/libs 17K 68k A library based MC68K disasse...
FreeTibetMOS.lha util/sys 3K Tibet country for MorphOS and...
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28.Jan.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until January 27th, 2018:
libsdl2_mixer.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.0 Mixer library for Simple DirectM...
libsmpeg2.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 SDL2 MPEG Player Library (SMPEG2)
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
yapong.lha gam/act 2Mb 4.0 Yet Another Pong
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
showfiles.lha uti/she 39kb 4.1 shows a sorted & text-format...
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28.Jan.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 27.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until January 27th, 2018:
luxcc.i386-aros.lha dev/lan 523kb C compiler and toolchain.
ltris.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb A Tetris clone for up to 3 players.
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28.Jan.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 27.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until January 27th, 2018:
libFLAC_1.3.2.lha Development/Library MorphOS port of LibFLAC...
Beret_1.2.1.lha Games/Platform Beret is a 2D puzzle-pl...
Cadog-GL-MOS.lha Games/Platform Cadog Adventures Asseml...
OpenJazz.lha Games/Platform OpenJazz. is a free, op...
SecretMaryoChronicles.lha Games/Platform Just port for MorphOS o...
XRick_2.0.0.lha Games/Platform Xrick is an open source...
SDL-Ball_1.0.2.lha Games/Think MegaBall/Breakout clone
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28.Jan.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 27.01.2018
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until January 27th, 2018:
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28.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga User International: Jay Miner interview
A week ago an interview with Jay Miner, "the father of the Amiga", was released on the website of "Amiga User International" which the magazine originally published in its issue 06/1988.
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28.Jan.2018
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Reports and pictures from the Amiga Ireland Meetup 3.0
On 19. and 20. January the third meeting of the Amiga Users Ireland took place in Athlone. Trevor Dickinson (A-EON Technology) and David Pleasance (Commodore UK) attended the meeting and Mr. Dickinson interviewed Mr. Pleasance.
In this interview (video) the former Commodore manager - from about minute 34 - also talked about his engagement for the operating system "Friend" (amiga-news.de reported). After Hogne Titlestad in his open letter talked about native hardware in general, at the Amiga Ireland Meetup David Pleasance did speculate about a Raspberry-Pi-based "CD 1200" for Friend and a corresponding Kickstarter project.
Reports and further videos:
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28.Jan.2018
Spidi (ANF)
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Retro 7-bit: WicherInstaller 1.5 for accelerator board Wicher 500i
For the accelerator board Wicher 500i developed by Retro 7-bit a software update has been released. Among others version 1.5 accelerates the data transmission of the functions SPI_Read() and SPI_Write().
Download: WicherInstallerV1_5.lha (53 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Jan.2018
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiCast: Text interview with Boing Attitude
The twelfth text interview of the English podcast AmiCast was done with Jérôme 'Glames' Senay, the author of Ask Me Up and Dir Me Up.
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25.Jan.2018
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)
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Amiga motherboard in ITX form factor: Amy ITX
Already for some years "Amy", which is an Amiga motherboard in standard ITX form factor (170x170 mm), is developed. The board has to be equipped with the Amiga-Custom-Chips, offers two Zorro slots (DMA is supported on one of the slots) and is compatible with accelerator boards like the Vampire 500, which are directly plugged in the processor socket.
According to the developers the project has been almost finished and works without any problems. So far 25 boards have been produced which were delivered to testers and enthusiats. If the project should be successfully finished a second production run is possible - if there is sufficient interest.
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21.Jan.2018
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Crowdfunding: Mini-ITX case X500 Pro
Loriano Pagni has improved his X500 case. Under the title link you can participate in financing the Pro version. You can also choose single Cherry-MX compatible keys.
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21.Jan.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 20th, 2018:
irssi.lha comm/irc 2.3M MOS Terminal based IRC client
AmigaCloudHandlers.lha comm/tcp 9.0M MOS Amiga Cloud Handlers
dizzytorrent1.0b7.lha comm/tcp 462K 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
OpenURL-7.18.lha comm/www 520K MOS OpenURL - Get that URL!
libflac.lha dev/lib 1.7M OS4 Free Lossless Audio Codec
MCC_BetterString-11.3... dev/mui 313K MOS BetterString custom class for...
MCC_NList-0.124.lha dev/mui 2.0M MOS NList custom classes for MUI
MCC_TextEditor-15.50.lha dev/mui 864K MOS TextEditor custom class for MUI
MCC_TheBar-26.19.lha dev/mui 1.6M MOS Next Generation Toolbar MUI C...
AF_Spec_An_DEMO.sh.txt dev/src 5K 68k AF Spectrum Display, FFT DEMO.
Viva_Amiga-FR.lha docs/misc 35K French subtitles for Viva Amiga
gigalomania.i386-aros... game/strat 23M x86 RTS Mega-Lo-Mania-like god game
gigalomaniasrc.zip game/strat 26M Gigalomania Source
optipng-morphos.lha gfx/misc 165K MOS Advanced PNG optimizer
led.i386-aros.lha text/edit 10K A simple line-oriented text e...
led-20180101.tar.gz text/edit 10K A simple line-oriented text e...
Redit.lha text/edit 48K 68k Text editor
Redit_src.lha text/edit 75K Sourcecode of Redit
AmiZIP_1.0.lha util/arc 7.7M MOS ZIP (un)packer + en/decrypter...
codesets-6.21.lha util/libs 639K MOS Library handling codesets and...
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21.Jan.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until January 20th, 2018:
libflac.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Free Lossless Audio Codec
oo.lha dev/lib 961kb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
baby-animal-show.lha gam/chi 3Mb 4.1 Entertainment for kids (0-3 yrs)
beret.lha gam/pla 44Mb 4.1 puzzle platformer about a scientist
gigalomania.lha gam/str 24Mb 4.1 2D Real Time Strategy game
grafx2.lha gra/edi 2Mb 4.1 Pixel paint program (like DPaint...
codesets.lha lib/mis 639kb 4.0 Library for handling codesets an...
mcc_betterstring.lha lib/mui 313kb 4.0 BetterString custom class for MUI
mcc_nlist.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 NList custom classes for MUI
mcc_texteditor.lha lib/mui 864kb 4.0 TextEditor custom class for MUI
mcc_thebar.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 The MUI Toolbar custom class
openurl.lha net/mis 520kb 4.0 Get that URL!
servers.lha net/mis 62kb 4.0 Enable and disable servers quick
showfiles.lha uti/she 39kb 4.1 shows a sorted & text-format...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 422kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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21.Jan.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 20.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until January 20th, 2018:
tomatoes.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 9Mb 10 mazes. 10 minutes. Bomb all t...
gilbert.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 18Mb SDL platform game. Collect all k...
lariad-i386-aros.zip gam/pla 35Mb OpenGL jump and shoot platformer.
gigalomania.i386-aros.lha gam/str 23Mb RTS Mega-Lo-Mania-like god game
gigalomaniasrc.zip gam/str 26Mb Gigalomania Source
led-20180101.tar.gz uti/tex 10kb A simple line-oriented text editor.
amitimekeeper.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 103kb Keep your time right
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21.Jan.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 20.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until January 20th, 2018:
IRSSI_1.1.0.lha Communication Terminal based IRC client.
mos2wos_0.3.lha Development/GCC Make MorphOS GCC output...
libyaml-cpp_0.5.2.lha Development/Library A YAML parser and emitt...
ScummVM_2.0.0.lha Emulation A MorphOS build of Scum...
AmiZIP_1.0.lha Files/Archive ZIP (un)packer + en/dec...
SuperMarioWar_2.0wip.lha Games/Platform A VERY good multiplayer...
Gigalomania_1.0.0.lha Games/Strategy Gigalomania is an open ...
Optipng_0.7.7.lha Graphics/Tools An advanced PNG optimizer.
MCC_BetterString_11.32... System/MUI Classes BetterString custom cla...
MCC_NList-0.124.lha System/MUI Classes NList custom classes fo...
MCC_TextEditor_15.50.lha System/MUI Classes TextEditor custom class...
MCC_TheBar_26.19.lha System/MUI Classes Next Generation Toolbar...
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21.Jan.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.01.2018
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until January 20th, 2018:
- 2018-01-18 improved: Apache / Overdrive (Team 17) Apache Bonus level disabled as it doesn't work, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, interrupts fixed, blitter waits added, 68000 quitkey support, source code included, new install script (Info)
- 2018-01-17 new: Royal Music (The Magic Guild) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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20.Jan.2018
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Debugger: Source code of Adebug under GPL released
Adebug is a debugger for Atari-ST und Amiga computers which previously was distributed commercially. Daniel Vérité who in the early 90s maintained the Amiga version now has released his source code under GPL. The archive contains the last commercial distribution as well as binaries assembled from the latest sources. 68000 and 68020/68030 processors are supported.
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19.Jan.2018
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Emulator: WinUAE 3.6.0
Version 3.6.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been published. Compared to the features announced in the preview, the following changes have been added:
Core emulation updates:
- 68020/030 BCD instructions undocumented V flag behavior fixed (68000 was already correct)
New emulated hardware expansions:
Other new features and updates:
- Optional non-rawinput mouse and keyboard mode is back (-norawinput_all)
- Added Misc panel option to show WinUAE in Windows shutdown/logoff screen (Vista or newer) if emulation session is active
- JIT Direct is allowed in CyberStorm PPC configuration but it also disables CSPPC MAP ROM hardware feature
- Ability to image CHS-only IDE drives using USB adapters that don’t support CHS-only drives. (Common side effect is drive being detected but it appears as zero size drive in Windows Disk Management)
Bugs fixed
- 68040/060 without FPU: many FPU instruction F-line exceptions generated incorrect stack frames
- Tape drive emulation fixes. Fixes Amix install error if last file on tape was selected for install
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19.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE #82
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Heat Wave", "In the Shadow of Time", "Microsoft Golf", "Reach for the Stars" and "Track & Field II".
Download sites:
English: Sendspace / Mega
Italian: Sendspace / Mega
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19.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Free download: Fortress (1994)
The full version of the strategy game Fortress written in AMOS now can be downloaded for free from the Amiga Future website.
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[News message: 19. Jan. 2018, 16:35] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2018
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Update of Amiga Games List
Since 1991 David Brunet has updated "Amiga Games List". Now all releases of the year 2016 have been added, so the database includes 12803 games, level editors, data disks, extensions and interpreters, which divide like that:
- 12241 games
- 325 extensions and data disk
- 145 editors
- 92 interpreters
According to Brunet the Amiga Games List is the most extensive games list on Internet.
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17.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaWARP: Amiga calender for 2018
AmigaWARP offers two simple calendars for 2018 which are illustrated with Amiga motifs and created on a single page. The calendars are available in Croatian and English (1, 2).
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16.Jan.2018
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Text editor featuring Kickstart-1.2 compatibility: Redit 1.16
Kai Scherrer's text editor Redit works without any limitations on an Amiga equipped with Kickstart 1.2, but also is fully compatible with higher versions of the system. The editor can be also launched from an emergancy disk or used after booting without startup-sequence. In version 1.16 some minor bugs have been fixed:
- bugfix: a multiple line undo was not drawn properly. fixed
- bugfix: the displayed amount of occurrences of a find & replace
operation was always 0. fixed
- improved: Redit is now using INTUITICKS only when required, which
decreases the CPU usage with an idle, active window
- bugfix: in CLI mode an error code was never returned. fixed
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15.Jan.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future has become 20 years
According to Andreas Magerl, with the latest issue 130 his print magazine "Amiga Future" has become 20 years - for some years it is also the "longest published Amiga Print magazine worldwide". Celebrating this anniversary there are some special offers on the website of the magazine.
The team of amiga-news.de congratulates the Amiga Future on this decadal birthday and wishes Andreas and his team power and success for at least another 20 years!
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15.Jan.2018
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Development: Hollywood APK Compiler 2.1
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present the Hollywood APK Compiler 2.1. This version adds support for Android Studio 3.0 and makes the conversion of Hollywood applets into APKs even easier by erasing the direct dependencies on the Java Development Kit (JDK) and Gradle. Instead, the JDK and Gradle versions that are shipped with Android Studio are used now. So Android Studio is the only thing that is required by the Hollywood APK Compiler now.
Note that version 2.1 requires at least Android Studio 3.0 so existing users should only upgrade to this version if they also want to upgrade their Android Studio version. Keep in mind, though, that Google dropped support for older Android versions in Android Studio 3.0 so all APKs compiled by the Hollywood APK Compiler will require at least Android 4.0. If you still need to target Android 2.3, don't upgrade to the latest version of Android Studio and the APK Compiler. Finally, also note that version 2.1 is no longer compatible with 32-bit systems. It requires a 64-bit Windows so 32-bit users should also keep their old versions.
Version 2.1 of the Hollywood APK Compiler is now available for free download from the restricted download area for all existing Hollywood APK Compiler users.
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14.Jan.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 13th, 2018:
COP.lha dev/debug 163K 68k Low Level Debugger
gcc-mos2wos.lha dev/gcc 5.2M MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
MCC_NList-0.123.lha dev/mui 2.0M MOS NList custom classes for MUI,...
JumpingAround.lha game/demo 235K 68k JumpNRun demo game, working i...
GohuFont.lha text/bfont 40K GohuFont - a monospace bitmap...
DisLib.lha util/libs 17K 68k A library based MC68K disasse...
MMULib.lha util/libs 722K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
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14.Jan.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until January 13th, 2018:
hwplayer.lha dev/mis 9Mb 4.0 Run applets created by Hollywood
libmaker.lha dev/mis 197kb 4.1 GUI based library skeleton gener...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
grafx2.lha gra/edi 2Mb 4.1 Pixel paint program (like DPaint...
hwp_ahx.lha lib/hol 130kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for Abyss' High...
hwp_avcodec.lha lib/hol 6Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for AVCodec
hwp_glgalore.lha lib/hol 3Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for OpenGL
hwp_httpstreamer.lha lib/hol 74kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for video/audio...
hwp_malibu.lha lib/hol 640kb 4.0 Run Scala presentations
hwp_muiroyale.lha lib/hol 5Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
hwp_rapagui.lha lib/hol 6Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for GUI creation
hwp_sqlite3.lha lib/hol 952kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for SQL databases
hwp_xad.lha lib/hol 62kb 4.0 Allow to open archives using the...
hwp_zip.lha lib/hol 301kb 4.0 read and write zip archives for ...
chocolatecastle.lha lib/mui 156kb 4.1 the MUI custom class code generator
mcc_nlist.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 NList custom classes for MUI
smtube.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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14.Jan.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 13.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until January 13th, 2018:
The_Legend_of_Edgar_1.... Games/Platform A platform game, not un...
MCC_NList_0.123.lha System/MUI Classes NList custom classes fo...
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14.Jan.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.01.2018
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until January 13th, 2018:
- 2018-01-08 improved: Nippon Safes Inc (Dynabyte) french language fixed, docs added, new imager (Info)
- 2018-01-07 improved: Dune (Cryo) RawDIC imager, slave uses files instead of disk images now, problems with saving games should be fixed (Info)
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13.Jan.2018
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Amiga User 2/2018
On 20. January, issue 2/2018, which is the third issue, of the Polish magazine "Amiga User" will be published. As usual the magazine has 90 colour pages and also is available as ebook.
Topics of the English-language magazine are a review of the ACA500plus, creating localization files, strategy games and audio software tips.
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12.Jan.2018
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Amiga archiving: Huge collection of "Bamiga Sector One" is saved
According to Jason Scott (Internet Archive), the complete disk collection of a former member of the Belgian scene group "Bamiga Sector One" recently was taken over by an active Amiga fan. The collection has approximately over 10.000 disks and is saved on disk images step by step. All users involved in this initiative hope to find some rare releases on the disks.
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12.Jan.2018
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Several new books about AmigaOS and MorphOS
Adam Zalepa has published several new books about Amiga topics on amiga.pl: In 2014 he published three AmigaOS-3.1 books in Polish language. Now the first volume "AmigaOS 3.1 user's manual - Volume 1" (500 pages in B5) was published as English translation, available as printed book or PDF.
Zalepa also wrote "AmigaOS 3.9 - User Manual" (B5, 400 pages), available as printed book and as PDF edition.
For MorphOS users, Zalepa has published "MorphOS - Volume 1" (printed book, PDF), which is an English translation of the Polish book "MorphOS - tom pierwszy" published in 2016. A second volume about MorphOS software already is available in Polish.
About the topics AMOS, BlitzBasic and Assembler, Zalepa has published books, as printed book and as pdf, in English as well as in Polish language.
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11.Jan.2018
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Free PDFs: "101 Amiga Games..." and "Lemmings - The Ports"
Justin Castle's books 101 Amiga Games That Influenced The Gaming Industry and Lemmings – The Ports now are available as free PDF files on issuu.com (registration required).
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10.Jan.2018
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Special offer to celebrate 2018
Press release: To celebrate the new year Airsoft Softwair are now officially the hardest DISCOUNTING men in code business because for a short time only Hollywood is now available for each platform individually for just half the price. This offer is very interesting for people who only want the Amiga version of Hollywood, for example. They can now buy Hollywood just for the Amiga platform (which includes native versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, and WarpOS) for just 49 euros instead of 99 euros which is a saving of 50%! The same is true for people who only want the Linux, Mac OS, or Windows version of Hollywood. Single-platform licenses are now only 49 euros for a short time! People who want Hollywood for all platforms can still buy the all-round version for all platforms for 99 euros of course.
Note that the single-platform versions of Hollywood still support compiling for all platforms supported by Hollywood, so even if you only buy Hollywood for Amiga, you can still compile for all other platforms including Linux, Mac OS, and Windows as well!
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10.Jan.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 130
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 130 (January/February 2018) have been released today, they can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include a review of "Schütze Mike and the Treasures of the Inkas" and an interview with editor Andreas Magerl on the occasion of the magazine's 20th birthday.
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09.Jan.2018
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Trademarks: Amiga Inc. renewed Europe registration of "Amiga"
In respect of the dispute about different trademarks (amiga-news.de reported), in Europe today the registration of the trademark "Amiga" has been renewed by Amiga Inc. at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for another ten years.
Before other parties had registered interest in case Amiga Inc. would have not renewed the trademarks.
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08.Jan.2018
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmiModRadio 0.9991
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." A rating function is included as well. Version 0.9991 provides bug fixes and the option to specify a limit for the size of files to be downloaded.
There is also a bugtracker for reporting bugs.
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07.Jan.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 6th, 2018:
dizzytorrent1.0b6.lha comm/tcp 1.7M 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
TSBTrainerMenu.lha dev/src 10K The Special Brothers Trainer ...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 28K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
MMULib.lha util/libs 717K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
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07.Jan.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until January 6th, 2018:
amos2ascii.lha dev/lan 62kb 4.1 Convert AMOS token files to ASCII
oo.lha dev/lib 857kb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
services.lha net/mis 62kb 4.0 Enable and disable servers quick
extraversion.lha uti/she 8kb 4.1 Finds the extra version number (...
mplayer-mickjt.lha vid/pla 28Mb 4.1 A powerful multimedia video and ...
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07.Jan.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 06.01.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until January 6th, 2018:
Simplemail_0.44.lha Email E-mail client
ScummVM_2.0.0_beta.lha Emulation A MorphOS build of Scum...
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07.Jan.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.01.2018
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until January 6th, 2018:
- 2018-01-05 updated: 242 (Fairlight/Virtual Dreams) patch redone, keyboard problems fixed, patch works with 512k chip and 512k other mem now, source code included (Info, Image)
- 2018-01-05 improved: Megademo (Deathstar) freezing problems fixed, graphics problems fixed, byte write to ADKCON fixed, copperlist problems fixed, more Bplcon0 color bit fixes, problems with scroller in greetings part (caused by a wrong blitter wait) fixed, end part adapted to replay tune correctly also on machines with slow chip ram access, ButtonWait support for loader part added (Info)
- 2018-01-03 fixed: Global Gladiators (Virgin) fixed level 6 interrupt lockup on checkered screen (Info)
- 2018-01-02 improved: Xenon 2 (Bitmap Brothers) splash window buttons added (Info)
- 2018-01-02 improved: Impossible Mission 2 (Epyx) reduced fastmem requirements (Info)
- 2018-01-01 improved: Archipelagos (Astral Software) imager adapted to save data for level 1 too (Info)
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07.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Gods - Into the Wonderful
- Wings of Death - Level 2
- Stardust Memories (MDK remix)
- Arcane (Remix)
- Memorial Theme (Before and After)
- Cousin's Song (Megaforce)
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06.Jan.2018
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Rare prototype: Commodore Amiga CD 1200
The CD 1200 not only should provide an external CD-ROM drive for the A1200, but also compatibility with Commodore's game console CD32. The drive would have been connected with a plug-in card for the trapdoor slot of the A1200 which among others had contained the CD32 chip "Akiko".
One of the rare prototypes for the CD1200 obviously was found in an old barn and was given to the Retro Computer Museum in Leicester (amiga-news.de reported). The staff member Andy Spencer has introduced the prototype in a Youtube interview with the "Centre for Computing History".
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05.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Italian version of Flight of Amazon Queen
After the release of a German version of the adventure game, now an Italian translation is available as well. Again the texts of the DOS version have been translated and revised. Additionally texts in pictures have been translated into Italian as well.
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05.Jan.2018
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AMOS author talks about his past fee
In the Facebook group "AMOS Professional" Francois Lionet, author of STOS/AMOS for Atari ST and Amiga, talked about the fee which he got for his package.
Francois Lionet's statement:
I did make good money... During STOS, around 60.000 ¤ / year ( I convert Francs to Euros directly, as today in France things cost the same in Euros than what they used to in Francs at that time)...
STOS and AMOS 1.3 raised that to around 100.000 on the first year and lower the next year with STOS sales declining... But my best year was AMOS Professional.... Initial sales were fantastic as many people were waiting for it in UK and rushed to buy it... Could not believe my eyes when I saw a check of more than 150.000¤... it payed for a large part of our house... and cool holidays! This is a lot of course, not enough to buy a Porsche! (would not have anyway)
Europress was very happy to see me each time I came to Manchester... My royalties were 15%, a simple multiplication will give you how much cash they made, so yeah they were happy! And me too each time I came to see them, Richard and all the team...
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04.Jan.2018
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Wireless joysticks for retro computers
On Gizhub, "t33bu" has published documents for making "make a wireless mouse/joystick for Amiga500 retro computer". This solution is based on the radio moduls of the XBee series and can be used with any Atari/Commodore compatible joystick.
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04.Jan.2018
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Party game: Highway Sprint (alpha version)
In "Highway Spint" (video) four human or computer controlled players try to survive on a highway bristled with obstacles. On AGA computers a wider range of colours is used and the game runs without "frame skips". Up to four joysticks are supported but it is also possible that two players use the keyboard and the other two share a CD32 joypad.
The author descibes Highway Sprint as "prototype". It is still not clear if the game will be developed further.
Download: HighwaySprint.zip
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03.Jan.2018
Vinnny (ANF)
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Amiga emulator: WinFellow 0.5.7
Version 0.5.7 of the Windows-based Amiga emulator WinFellow exclusively fixes bugs.
Changes:
- Floppy code was updated to use a track limit > 80; it will output random data beyond track 80 - fixes Outrun/The Games: Summer Edition; also added missing checks for disabled drives, fixing Winter Olympics 94
- Fixed a bug where unexpected pixel format flags besides RGB stopped DirectDraw initialization
- Several bugs in the screenshot code were fixed; standalone screenshots were not saved correctly in D3D mode, and used with Amiga Forever raw screenshots were missing screen areas due to faulty initialization of the internal clipping areas
- Fixed screen area mismatch when Amiga Forever region/size settings are both set to auto; auto clipping is still not supported
- CPU instruction fixes:
- Fixed a signed bug in 64-bit division
- Minor timing adjustment for btst
- CIA event counter changes according to documentation
- The project files were updated to Visual Studio 2017
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03.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Individual Computers: Buddha IDE again available from January
Press release: In the past months, we've had a lot of requests for buying a Buddha IDE controller from us. This high demand, combined with the fact that even 20-year old controllers are traded for more than twice the original price on auction platforms, made us put the controller back into production.
The new controllers got a small technology update and a vast extension to the included software. We're accepting pre-orders now, and will ship starting late January 2018.
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03.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Sam440ep: UBOOT 1.3.1f with reworked updater (false news)
Note from staff: the BIOS update mentioned in this news item has been released a year ago. We're sorry for the inconvenience. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 3.6.0
As usual Toni Wilen, the developer of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE, presents a short preview to the changes of the next version. WinUAE 3.6.0 is supposed to be released in January and will provide the following improvements:
Core emulation updates:
- 68030, 68040 and 68060 full instruction and data cache emulation, with or without MMU emulation.
- 68030, 68040 and 68060 EC model partial MMU (transparent translation registers only) emulation.
- 68030, 68040 and 68060 MMU emulation performance improved (added extra translation caches).
- STOP-instruction CPU model specific undocumented behavior emulated when parameter does not have S-bit set.
- 68020+ DIVS/DIVU CPU model specific undefined overflow condition N and Z flags emulated.
- Undocumented 68881/68882 FMOVECR values emulated.
- Optional Toshiba Gary slow (chip ram like) Z2 IO and/or ROM space access speed.
Emulated hardware expansion updates:
- Added Cubo CD32 later revision hardware support, PIC copy protection, touch screen, NVRAM and RTC emulation. (TODO: Coin and ticket dispenser support, no hardware information available)
- Cubo CD32 is now expansion device, added DIPs, PIC game ID/language and expansion device enable options.
- A2090 Combitec and MacroSystem 3rd party ROM update/adapter supported.
- DKB 1230/1240/Cobra and Rapidfire flash rom writes emulated.
New emulated hardware expansions:
- Ashcom Addhard (SCSI)
- Evesham Micros Reference (SCSI)
- FastATA 4000 MK I/II (IDE)
- Gigatron Arriba (IDE)
- Kupke Golem HD3000 (OMTI)
- Reiter Software Wedge (OMTI)
- Sprit Technology InMate (SCSI)
- Music Master dongle
Direct3D 11 support implemented:
- Requires Windows 7SP1 and later. Windows 7 requires KB2670838 (Available via Windows update as an optional update), Windows 8 and later does not need any extra packages. Ancient DX9 redistributable is not needed.
- Requires hardware level 9.1 or higher, which means most Windows 7 capable GPUs are supported.
- All Direct3D9 mode features supported (overlays, masks, custom shaders)
- Variable sync (G-Sync, possibly also FreeSync) supported in windowed mode.
- Many D3D9 custom shaders are supported automatically, some require manual modifications to work in D3D 11 mode.
Other new features and updates:
- Simple box art/screenshot config file support.
- If Wait for Blitter is enabled and blit size makes no sense, don’t wait. Fixes long delay in Vital / Mystic.
- Added “CIA 391078-01” advanced chipset checkbox. This CIA revision has a bug in IO port output mode, reading output mode port will always read output mode data state. Other models, including original DIP 8520, 391078-02 and Akiko internal CIAs read IO pin external voltage level as documented. This can affect “bad” mouse left button/joystick fire button reading code (not working or stuck button). Used in A600. A1200/A4000 can have -01 or -02 revision.
- Added ATAPI Tape drive emulation.
- CD SCSI emulator READ CD-DA and READ CD-DA MSF commands emulated.
- Expansion device GUI changes are now activated after hard reset.
- uaehf.device hardfiles/harddrives unit number is now user configurable.
- “Include CD and FMV Audio” and/or sound mode change on the fly when CD or FMV audio is playing is now supported.
- Debugger assembler support (a) and some other misc debugger updates.
Bugs fixed:
- It was not possible to override Z2 RAM board autoconfig data if board had built-in manufacturer/product ID defaults
- It was not possible to change existing path with Select Directory/Select Archive or Plain File buttons.
- Fixed 64-bit version random crashes that usually happened with some shell extensions.
- Z3 RAM in manual mode was completely broken.
- KS 1.2 autoboot hack didn’t work without extra reset if UAE autoconfig board wasn’t first board in autoconfig chain.
- 68030 data cache emulation corrupted data if write was cached, write size was word or long and address was odd.
- ECS Denise BPLCON2 ECS-only bits (for example KILLEHB) were masked unless AGA was also selected.
- Obsolete IDE FORMAT TRACK command fixed.
- GamePorts panel custom mapping incorrectly parsed joystick autofire state from config file.
- Directory filesystem ACTION_SET_DATE failed to change datestamp if file was read-only.
- 68020 memory cycle exact CPU speed slider is again partially working, CPU speed can be reduced but not increased.
- GamePorts panel custom mapping incorrectly parsed joystick autofire state from config file.
- uae-configuration joystick port (joyportx) modification only queued but didn’t apply changes.
- uaeserial.device crash fixed.
- Fixed uaegfx VRAM size check, some modes that almost filled whole VRAM didn’t appear in resolution list.
- uaenet.device didn’t close low level ethernet handles when Amiga was reset, causing duplicate packets.
- Bitplane overrun condition triggered incorrectly in rare situation where bitplane DMA is enabled after DDFSTOP on OCS
AVI recording bug fixes and updates:
- First avioutput recorded frame was sometimes partially corrupted.
- When saving state with avioutput active: last frame before state save was not recorded.
- Number of avioutput frames buffered (waiting for compression thread processing) counter was reset periodically which caused lost frames (and leaked memory) in recorded video if CPU was not fast enough.
- Delay initialization until first display frame or sound buffer recording request comes, previously “before filtering” option may have used wrong display size in some situations.
- Uncompressed video selection is not forgotten anymore.
- First frame was not rendered (and also not recorded) if statefile was restored when emulation was already running.
- If emulator state was changed (debugger breakpoint, statefile save etc..), last frame before state change was not recorded.
- File splitting (2G limit) flushed sound buffers causing random sound glitches.
- Added -max_avi_size <bytes> -command line parameter to set split size.
- If recording was started and GUI was never opened in same session, sound recording rate become 44100Hz, causing syncronization issues if real rate was not same.
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03.Jan.2018
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Operating system: NetBSD 7.1.1
NetBSD "is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system" and now is available also as new Amiga version 7.1.1. The update does not provide new functions but fixes security holes and bugs. The official announcement lists the most important changes. The Amiga port can be downloaded under ports/amiga.
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02.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tools: vasm 1.8b and vlink 0.16b
Frank Wille has released updates for the modular assembler vasm and the corresponding linker vlink.
Changes:
vasm 1.8b:
- Option -noialign disables the automatic instruction alignment.
- m68k: New Apollo Core instructions (core >=4035.jic), provided by Henryk Richter.
- m68k: Referencing absolute-short labels and optimizing labels into absolute short addressing mode is allowed, when the label resides in an absolute ORG section.
- jagrisc: Fixed MOVE PC,Rn instruction.
- oldstyle-syntax: Internal symbol __RPTCNT can be used as iteration counter in the inner repeat loop.
- oldstyle-syntax: Numeric absolute symbol expansion is supported for macro parameters of the form \<symbol>.
- vobj-output: Ignoring internal/local symbols does not work. Now we create and use section symbols as a relocation reference.
vlink 0.16b:
- New option -mtype: merge all sections of the same type (code, data, bss), ignoring name and attributes.
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02.Jan.2018
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Puzzle game KingPin released
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's "KingPin" is a little puzzle game with so far only two levels in which you have to guide the "KingPin" to the middle of the game board.
Download: KingPin.lha (26 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.2018
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- November/December 2017 news
- Old articles from Tilt 109 to 117:
- News: Next games from Team 17
- Review of Whale's Voyage
- Review of Genesia
- Interview with Andy Blazdell
- Reports European Computer Trade Show April 1993
- News: Goal!, the worthy successor of Kick Off
- Review of Sleepwalker
- File: video games and epilepsy
- Report: Consumer Electronics Show 1993 Winter
- Review of Alien Breed Special Edition 1992
- etc
- Interview with Hugues Nouvel (AmigaOS 4 developer)
- Interview with Susumu Hirasawa (musician on Amiga)
- Interview with Ronald Pieket (Silkworm and SWIV developper)
- Hardware: Amiga 2000
- File: Classic Reflections - Whatever happened to DCE?
- File: 10 years of Icaros Desktop
- File: Why was DiskDoctor so spectacularly bad at its job?
- File: Amiga History (year 2003)
- Tutorial: Make the Workbench more beautiful
- Programmation: AMOS (the conditions)
- Special quizz about AMOS
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31.Dec.2017
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Legal dispute: a Statement by Hyperion and an open letter from two developers
At the end of 2016, Amiga Inc.'s US registration of the "Amiga" trademark expired, which ultimately led to Hyperion and Cloanto competing for various Amiga marks on two different continents. The conflict resulted in Cloanto suing Hyperion in the US for trademark infringement and copyright violations recently.
Hyperion now reacts to the lawsuit becoming public with a press release, expressing regret that Cloanto decided to go that way, forcing Hyperion to "once again redirect substantial resources away from development to litigation" and claiming to be "perplexed" by Cloantos litigation, given that the Italian Company distributed AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition "for many months". Hyperion states it still maintains that all their actions are covered by their settlement agreement with Amiga, Inc.
Meanwhile, Thomas 'Thor' Richter and Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel, who are working on a recently announced update to AmigaOS 3.1 on behalf of Hyperion, released an open letter addressing both parties. On behalf of "your fellow Amiga community", they're aksing both companies to rethink their strategies, since it does irreparable harm to their biggest assets - the enthusiastic Amiga fans:
Open Letter to Cloanto Italy SRL Udine,
and Hyperion Entertainment CVBA, Brussels
Fellow Amiga copyright owners and licence holders,
we recently became aware of another lawsuit concerning potential trademark and copyright violations between your two companies, and we are distressed to witness another round of legal action in the aftermath of the Amiga’s slow decline as a business. It is understood that both of you want to protect your assets and secure your corresponding business models, but at what cost?
May we invite you, however, to take a step back as we provide our analysis of what establishes your assets? While you may be certain that you have control over the Amiga trademarks, the AmigaOS source code, the ROM images and the contents of the Workbench disks, these assets only establish the respective legal and technical grounds on which you can run your businesses.
The reason why your companies are able to do Amiga-business is due to us, the users, the fans, the software and hardware developers and Amiga experts - the few who are still around and who keep driving the system, by buying your products, by developing software and hardware in our own spare time, by providing support in our spare time, and by keeping the community alive. Your products, copyrights and trademarks would be void if it were not for the countless people who support a product which, from a purely technical perspective, has long lost its shine and appeal.
We, the users, developers and fans, are also your customers. And as such, we are very concerned to witness how you invest time and effort into lawsuits, which would be much better spent on your users and your products. The market is still sufficiently diverse to support more than one company caring for the Amiga, but this would call for coexistance rather than a prolonged struggle for control. From the very beginning, “Amiga” stood for creativity and passion, but always in conjunction with both a wonderful machine and a fascinating operating system. These issues never had to be settled in court.
We kindly ask you to consider the ramifications of each party having just enough legal leverage to frustrate the other party’s means to conduct its Amiga-business. The resulting stalemate has repercussions beyond this legal stand-off. The goodwill and the passion which sustain the Amiga are not bottomless. We are weary of having to witness how the results of our efforts, the countless hours of spare time we devoted, are diverted into lawsuits rather than productive work.
We would ask of you to find the common ground which allows the both of you to do Amiga-business and not step on each other’s toes. You share more than what currently brings you into conflict, you certainly share the need for a sustainable Amiga market and the community which enables it.
Your fellow Amiga Community (cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Dec.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 81 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Mega Phoenix", "Santa's Xmas Caper", "Xmas Lemmings 1991" and the demo maker "Demo Maniac V1.17".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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31.Dec.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Game: The Dream of Rowan (Update)
After a developmental period of two years, the AMOS game "The Dream of Rowan" financed by crowdfunding is available as digital download. The disk version already is sold out.
The jump'n'run game for ECS-Amigas equipped with 2 MB Chip-RAM requires a 68030 processor with at least 16 MHz as well as a harddrive.
Update: (10:37, 04.01.17, snx)
As the developers rectify, the game has been paid by themselves since the crowdfunding campaign did not succeed. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 30.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until December 30th, 2017:
dizzytorrent1.0b5.lha comm/tcp 1.8M 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
gopher.lha comm/tcp 27K 68k Gopher client for AmiTCP
gcc-mos2wos.lha dev/gcc 4.6M MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
ElseWeGetMad.lha game/2play 1.2M 68k new fight Amiga game for 1 or...
ARLB.lha game/race 2.5M MOS Show AmigaRacer highscores in...
CustJo2Songs.lha mods/cust 12K 2 Modules composed by Jesper ...
CustJoAcon.lha mods/cust 12K A Module composed by Jesper O...
CustJoScrooge.lha mods/cust 12K A Module composed by Jesper O...
backupsongs.zip mods/kicko 1.2M Backup of my hdrec and TnF tunes
DeliTracker234.lha mus/play 39K 68k module player, minor update
AmiTimeKeeper.i386-ar... util/cdity 103K x86 Keep your time right
pixman_lib.lha util/libs 294K OS4 Pixman-1 as an AmigaOS shared...
tzdev.lha util/time 691K Time Zone Database and Librar...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until December 30th, 2017:
amos2ascii.lha dev/lan 60kb 4.1 Convert AMOS token files to ASCII
amosextension2ascii.lha dev/uti 60kb 4.1 This command designed to extract...
pixman_lib.lha lib/gra 294kb 4.0 Pixman-1 as an AmigaOS shared li...
amosextension.library... lib/mis 376kb 4.1 AmosExtension.library load AMOS ...
mplayer-mickjt.lha vid/pla 28Mb 4.1 A powerful multimedia video and ...
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 30.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until December 30th, 2017:
Envy24HT_5.15.lha Audio/Drivers Binary for Envy24HT AHI...
BeebAsm_1.08.lha Development/Cross Assembler with BBC Micr...
mos2wos_0.2.lha Development/GCC Make MorphOS GCC output...
HWP_XAD_1.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... Hollywood plugin for xa...
HWP_ZIP_1.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... Read and write ZIP arch...
Vim_8.0.1422-src.lha Development/Sources A highly configurable t...
AmiArcadia_24.66.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
UAEmremover_1.2.lha Emulation Remove junk files creat...
Vim_8.0.1422.lha Files/Editor A highly configurable t...
MCE_10.09.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
StoWaSta_0.8.lha Games/Misc A stop watch software.
AmigaRacerLeaderBoard_... Games/Race Show AmigaRacer highsco...
Chromium_0.9.16.1.zip Games/Shoot 2D A vertical scrolling Sh...
CrispyDoom_4.3.lha Games/Shoot 3D Crispy Doom is a limit-...
PushOver_0.0.5.lha Games/Think Port of PushOver 0.0.5 ...
SlotMachineSAGA_WArMUp... Games/Think A slot machine game to ...
GrafX2_2.5_WIP.lha Graphics/Draw A quick compilation of ...
SacrificioPagano_1.30.lha Misc A special app to people...
RNOWidgets_1.1.lha System/Ambient/Commodi... Desktop widgets applica...
AutoVisible_1.2.lha System/Ambient/Screenb... All sbars visible on Au...
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31.Dec.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.12.2017
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until December 30th, 2017:
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30.Dec.2017
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Upcoming games: Alco-Copter (demo) and Green Beret (video)
In Alco-Copter developed by "Flashtro" you have to control a little helicopter. Now a playable demo version with six levels is available. The game requires 1 MB Chip-RAM.
Another developer team called "Megastyle" currently is working on its first Amiga game: Green Beret (Youtube video) is supposed to become a port of the same-titled C64 classic game.
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29.Dec.2017
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Retro arcade action: Roadtrip and Quasarius
On his website Rafael Lima has released ports of two classic arcade games: In Roadtrip written in only 12 days you have to find your way to the exit in time and to avoid vehicles and obstacles. Quasarius is a Space-Invaders clone.
Roadtrip requires 1 MB RAM. On computers equipped with OCS chipset it can cause graphic errors. Users of emulators should enable cycle-accurate emulation. Quasarius runs on every Amiga with at least 512 Kilobyte RAM.
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28.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: New MPlayer port MickJT-MPlayer
Michael Trebilcock has ported the latest version 1.3.0 of the movie player MPlayer to AmigaOS. All Amiga related code was taken from previous ports of afxgroup (Workbench startup code) and LiveForIt (other Amiga related code). By default MickJT-MPlayer reduces the video quality in order to reduce cpu load - you can change that by editing the included configuration file.
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28.Dec.2017
Spidi (ANF)
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A500 accelerator board: Wicher 500i (Ex) supports MP3 decoder Hardware
The accelerator boards of the Wicher 500i series now support MP3 decoder hardware based on the VS1003 chip. The decoder modules have to be bought and connected with the accelerator board with a self-made cable by the users themselves. Tutorials can be found on the product sites of the models Wicher 500i and Wicher 500i Ex.
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28.Dec.2017
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Commercial games: Playable preview of AlarCity, teaser video of "Worthy"
The developers of Pixelglass have published news for two of their upcoming, commercial games: For AlarCity, which is a top-down-view-shooter for AGA computers, a new demo version is available. The game will be distributed by amiga.net.pl. Additional to the digital download, the sale of disks (with or without a box) and diverse "Gold Editions" is planned as well. The game is supposed to be released in the second quarter of 2018 but already can be paid.
A second Pixelglass game in the "low budget" segment is supposed to be released at the beginning of Anfang 2018 despite it was announced recently: A Youtube video provides a first impression of "Worthy", which is a little arcade game. The game was written by Alex Brown known for the game Blocky Skies and is almost completed. It will be sold on CD, disk or as digital download.
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28.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Preferences 1.60
Marko Seppänen's Preferences groups the prefs programs under AmigaOS 4 in six categories. The names of the groups can be localized, the program requires ARexx.
Download: preferences.lha (2 MB)
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27.Dec.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Trademark disputes: Cloanto sued Hyperion in USA
In the dispute about the rights of the trademark "Amiga" (amiga-news.de reported), this month Cloanto, for some years owner of the Commodore and Amiga copyrights, has sued Hyperion in the USA, where in January the company applied for this trademark. Reason for the law-suit is that Hyperion did appeal against this application because in their opinion the registration could cause confusion with their own trademarks "AmigaOS" and "AmigaOne".
According to the statement of claim (PDF file), Cloanto wants to be determined by court that they are the lawful owner of the trademark "Amiga" and that therefore Hyperion is not allowed to apply for trademarks like "AmigaOS" or "AmigaOne". Furthermore the court battle is about the distribution of AmigaOS 1.3 Kickstart ROMs by Hyperion; also the document notes that Hyperion would not have been allowed to market AmigaOS 3.1. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: WicherInstaller 1.3 for accelerator board Wicher 500i
For the accelerator board Wicher 500i produced by Retro 7-bit a software update has been released. The release provides support for the variation "500i Ex" of the accelerator board.
Download:
WicherInstallerV1_3.lha (43 KB)
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27.Dec.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Amiga history: Pictures of Checkmate-1500 case
Under the title link a collector has published pictures of one of his two Checkmate 1500. This is a metal case sold around the year 1990 for the Amiga 500, which offered more space for extensions (entry in Big Book of Amiga Hardware).
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26.Dec.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hollywood-GUI: HGui 1.2
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's HGui is a GUI system developed with Hollywood, which in contrary to MUI Royale is available for all platforms which support Hollywood (amiga-news.de reported) - although currently there are some limitations under Android.
Changes:
- Fix: There was missing parameters when the callback 'OnChange' for TreeView
items was called
- New: Added flag 'selectGroups' on TreeView class(default to True):
if it is set to false the group items cannot be selected
- Fix: ListView's :set() method. When using the special tag 'selected' to pass
a single item to be selected (a numeric value), there was no check
to see if the ListView was allowing 'multi-selection'. This was
causing multiple selections on 'single-selection' ListViews using this
specific tag
- New: ListView -> Added method :Insert() to add a single record, this is
an additional way to add items (see special tag 'insert' of the :set()
method for further details)
- New: ListView -> Added event 'OnInsert' raised when an item has been added
to the ListView
- Doc: Improved the HGui.Window:InputBoxNew(params) documentation
- New: Added new method HGui.Gadget:freeChildren(refresh) to free all children
attached to a gadget. This is usefull when you have to create gadget
groups at runtime
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Hogne Titlestad (ANF)
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Operating system: FriendUP 1.1
Hogne Titlestad's operating system FriendUP (amiga-news.de reported) was inspired by Amiga but is not compatible to it. Now version 1.1 is available. A list of changes and news can be found under the title link and you can create a demo account under friendsky.cloud.
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26.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games launcher: X-bEnCh 1.1 X-mas Public Beta Release
Jim Neray's X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 640 colours (AGA; 128 on OCS/ECS-computers) which can replace the Workbench for launching WHDLoad-games and other applications and requires low hardware resources. An integrated command line as well as the file manager Xpl0rEr (video) are also available.
In version 1.1 among others a bug concerning Vampire accelerator boards was fixed and 112 new game screenshots were added.
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24.Dec.2017
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E-Mail program: SimpleMail 0.44 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Since the year 2000, at Christmas a new version of Simplemail has been released, and this year as well. Changes:
- Added AmiSSL 4 support
- Decreased folder index storage
- Improved the e-mail address auto-completion
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Aminet-Uploads until 23.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until December 23th, 2017:
dizzytorrent1.0b4.lha comm/tcp 1.7M 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
HWP_XAD.lha dev/hwood 62K MOS Hollywood plugin for xadmaste...
Lumberjack_Xmas.adf game/actio 880K 68k Lumberjack Xmas
Bibarr.lha game/wb 33K 68k Move all bars in the center hole
Pathos.lha game/wb 32K 68k Make a path from entry to exit
amigamad-60.pdf mags/misc 30M English PDF magazine (fka #am...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Vim_8.0-i386-aros.lha text/edit 9.5M x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.0-mos.lha text/edit 9.4M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.0-src.lha text/edit 14M The ubiquitous text editor (s...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 27K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
AmiTimeKeeper.i386-ar... util/cdity 103K x86 Keep your time right
AmiTimeKeeper.lha util/cdity 84K 68k Keep your time right
jpeg2000_dtc.lha util/dtype 476K OS4 JPEG 2000 (.j2k, .jp2) datatype
MMULib.lha util/libs 717K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 65K 68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
AmigaMARK-morphos.lha util/moni 1.1M MOS AmigaMARK - Benchmark Suite
Dev-Handler.lha util/sys 23K 68k Un*x like raw device access h...
tzdev.lha util/time 691K Time Zone Database and Librar...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until December 23th, 2017:
jpeg2000_dtc.lha dat/ima 476kb 4.1 JPEG 2000 (.j2k, .jp2) datatype
libmad.lha dev/lib 297kb 4.0 MAD: MPEG Audio Decoder
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
scummvm.lha gam/adv 23Mb 4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip gam/adv 37Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
preferences.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.1 Prefs window for starting differ...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.12.2017
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until December 23th, 2017:
- 2017-12-21 improved: Impossamole (Gremlin/Core Design) access fault (caused by a bug in the replayer) fixed (Info)
- 2017-12-21 improved: D.O.S. (Andromeda) interrupts fixed, blitter wait added, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, sine scroller code unrolled to avoid slow-downs on machines with slow chip ram access, 68000 quitkey support, default data directory changed to "data", new install script (Info, Image)
- 2017-12-20 updated: Impulse 2 (Tilt) patch redone, disk accesses disabled, blitter waits added, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info)
- 2017-12-20 updated: Desert Dream (Kefrens) patch redone, timing problems fixed, blitter waits added, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image, Image)
- 2017-12-19 improved: X-Pose (Silents DK) BPLCON2 problem fixed, interrupts fixed, illegal copperlist entries fixed, some more blitter waits added (Info, Image)
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24.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Amiga Ireland 3.0
On 19. and 20. January, Irish Amiga users will organize their third meeting. It will again take place in the hotel "The Prince of Wales" in Athlone. You can get further information under the title link.
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22.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hardware: MP3 sound card for Amiga 1200 in development
According to Matthias Münch under the Twitter title link (German), Piotr Gozdur is developing a MP3 sound card for the clock port of the Amiga 1200. It will have 128 KB memory buffer and hardware support for the formats MP3, AAC, OGG, MIDI, WMA, FLAC and WAV. Currently he is working on finishing the software.
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22.Dec.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #10.1 - Artstate Digital
For issue 10.1 of the English-language podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland, Andrzej Wilk was interviewed who is well-known as "ΛRTΣTΛTΞ DIGITΛL" in the demo scene.
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