18.Dec.2017
viddi (ANF)
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Tales of Gorluth II: Official trainer version available
Purchasers of Patrick Nevian's Tales of Gorluth now can also download a trainer version of the game.
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18.Dec.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 130 - preview and extracts
A preview and extracts from issue 130 (January/February 2018) of Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features
review of "Flug der Amazon Queen", a report of the Amiga fair Amiga 32 and the first part of a FreePascal workshop.
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18.Dec.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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XAD-Plugin for Hollywood released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working elves in Christmas business, are proud to present a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: xad.hwp! This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to conveniently open and browse archives through xadmaster.library. It uses Hollywood 6.0's new file and directory adapter plugin interfaces which allow you to iterate through XAD archives as if they were normal directories. Files within XAD archives can also be accessed as if the XAD archive was a normal directory. It just doesn't get any easier! With xad.hwp it is not necessary to unpack a file stored in a XAD archive to a temporary file before it can be opened. Hollywood 6.0's file adapter plugin interface allows direct streaming from the XAD archive into the respective file handler without any temporary file overhead. This makes it even possible to stream music or video directly from a XAD file!
Airsoft Softwair wouldn't be Airsoft Softwair without some extra goodies, though: The XAD plugin is not only available for Amiga platforms but also for all other platforms supported by Hollywood. This is possible because the original xadmaster.library was open-sourced a few years ago which made it possible to port it to other platforms as well. Thus, on AmigaOS and compatibles, xad.hwp will use xadmaster.library directly whereas on all other systems like Windows, MacOS, Linux, and Android xad.hwp contains the open-source version of xadmaster.library in its binary. This makes it possible to unpack lots of archive formats like ZIP, LhA, LZX, CAB, bzip2, TAR, and RAR on Windows, MacOS, and Linux as well!
By the way, the program "The Unarchiver", which is at the time of this writing the 7th most downloaded program from Apple's App Store is also based on xadmaster.library originally developed for the Amiga by Dirk Stöcker. This is a good example of how original Amiga technologies are now very successful on other platforms.
The XAD plugin requires at least Hollywood 6.0 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. Note that it is recommended that you use at least Hollywood 7.0 because with earlier versions there is no support for archives which contain files with non-ASCII names. The XAD plugin is available in versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86,x64), Mac OS X (ppc, x86, x64), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64) and Android. On top of that, the plugin comes with 30 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM.
This release concludes Airsoft Softwair's release cycle in 2017. We wish all Hollywood users a merry XAD-Mas and a happy new year!
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17.Dec.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until December 16th, 2017:
AmiNBD-0.1.lha comm/tcp 15K 68k Network Block Device (NBD) Se...
libid3tag.lha dev/lib 217K OS4 ID3 tag manipulation library
libmad.lha dev/lib 297K OS4 MAD: MPEG Audio Decoder
blobwars.lha game/actio 68M OS4 Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid
edgar.lha game/jump 97M OS4 The Legend of Edgar
NAGI-68k.lha game/misc 2.0M 68k NAGI - New Adventure Game Int...
tworld-68k.lha game/misc 1.7M 68k Tile World
xye-68k.lha game/misc 4.2M 68k Xye
Terrahawks.adf game/shoot 880K 68k Port of G7000 game Terrahawks
TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.6M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
dgen-68k.lha misc/emu 594K 68k DGen - Sega Genesis MegaDrive...
RNOWidgets.lha util/wb 2.9M MOS Desktop widgets application
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17.Dec.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until December 16th, 2017:
libid3tag.lha dev/lib 217kb 4.0 ID3 tag manipulation library
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
blobwars.lha gam/pla 68Mb 4.1 Metal Blob Solid
edgar.lha gam/pla 97Mb 4.1 The Legend of Edgar
aos-iconsupdate2.lha gra/ico 2Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
showfiles.lha uti/she 38kb 4.0 shows a sorted & text-format...
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17.Dec.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.12.2017
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 16th, 2017:
- 2017-12-13 improved: Flimbos Quest (System 3) blitter wait patches can be disabled with CUSTOM3, lots of nice icons by Irek added (Info)
- 2017-12-12 improved: B.A.T. 2 (UBI-Soft) copperlist problem fixed, 68000 quitkey support, new install script (DIC used to create the disk images) (Info)
- 2017-12-12 improved: Flimbos Quest (System 3) another version supported, high score load/save added, interrupts fixed, illegal copperlist entries fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, more blitter waits added, out of bounds blit fixed, timing fixed, more trainer options added, end sequence fixed (Info)
- 2017-12-11 new: Read & Rhyme (Unicorn Software) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2017-12-11 new: Kinderama (Unicorn Software) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2017-12-11 new: Curiosity (Pseudodos) done by Dr Cinicus (Info, Image)
- 2017-12-11 new: One to One Match (Computer Sight) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2017-12-11 new: Decimal Dungeon (Unicorn Software) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2017-12-11 new: Math Wizard (Unicorn Software) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2017-12-10 improved: Blastar (Core Design) writes to FMODE disabled, lots of Bplcon0 color bit fixes, blitter waits added, WHDLoad v17+ features used, problem with in-game keys feature fixed (Info)
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16.Dec.2017
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: RNOWidgets 1.1
RNOWidgets is a collection of widgets (little tools placed on the Ambient desktop). The author wrote: "RNOWidgets contains widgets for calendar (ISO), analog clock, digital clock, notes, pictures (local and net), and RSS feeds." ARexx is supported, some preconfigured themes are included.
Download: RNOWidgets.lha (3 MB)
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10.Dec.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until December 9th, 2017:
LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program
PTAF.lha demo/intro 4.7M 68k Plastic toys are forever
bsa.lha dev/cross 101K MOS Bit Shift Assembler
libmikmod.lha dev/lib 1.1M OS4 Portable sound library (music...
libmodplug.lha dev/lib 1.4M OS4 Render mod music files as raw...
libsdl_mixer.lha dev/lib 751K OS4 SDL mixer library
amibox.lha game/board 446K 68k AmiBOX - logical game 68k
EuroFighter.lha game/misc 936K 68k Party game from Capacitor Par...
Raining_Eggs.lha game/misc 541K 68k Party game from Capacitor Par...
crispy-doom.lha game/shoot 1.4M MOS Crispy Doom
AmiTimeKeeper.i386-ar... util/cdity 168K x86 Keep your time right
AmiTimeKeeper.lha util/cdity 119K 68k Keep your time right
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 652K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
ZIPTest.lha util/misc 34K 68k test Amiga 3000 ZIP DRAM memo...
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10.Dec.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until December 9th, 2017:
libmikmod.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 Portable sound library (music mo...
libmodplug.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 Render mod music files as raw au...
libsdl_mixer.lha dev/lib 751kb 4.0 SDL mixer library
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
aos-iconsupdate2.lha gra/ico 2Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
luettjebookholler.lha off/mis 2Mb 4.1 Little Personal Finance program
extraversion.lha uti/she 8kb 4.1 Finds the extra version number (...
getversion.lha uti/she 30kb 4.1 Shell/CLI cmd to show version st...
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10.Dec.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.12.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until December 9th, 2017:
hocoslamfy.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 2Mb SDL Flappy Bird clone.
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10.Dec.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.12.2017
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 9th, 2017:
- 2017-12-09 improved: Enigma (Phenomena) blitter waits added, interrupts fixed, SMC fixed, wrong blit fixed, text writers fixed, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image)
- 2017-12-08 improved: Impossamole (Gremlin/Core Design) patch works on 68000 now, new RawDIC imager, real files used now, interrupts fixed, more trainer options added, blitter waits disabled on 68000, sound problems fixed, keyboard routine fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2017-12-07 updated: Risky Woods (Electronic Arts/Dinamic) patch redone, real files used, sound problems fixed, 68000 quitkey support, lots of trainer options added, source code included (Info)
- 2017-12-05 improved: Alcatraz (Infogrames) another version supported, blitter wait patch corrected (Info)
- 2017-12-03 improved: Scooby-Doo (Hi-Tec) blitter wait patches disabled on 68000, keyboard problems fixed, source code included (Info)
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10.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #10 - Fairy Tale
The tenth issue of the podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland among others is about AmigaOS 3.1.4 and MorphOS 3.10 as well as IRIS, the forthcoming mail program for MorphOS 3.12.
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09.Dec.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiCast: Text interview with HunoPPC
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is the guest of the eleventh text interview of the English-language podcast AmiCast. Additional to several ports of games and of the arcade emulator FinalBurn Alpha, he also wrote the EGL-Wrapper library OpenGL ES 2.0.
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09.Dec.2017
Hacker News / mmastrac (ANF)
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Amiga 2500 with historic NASA project files and software for sale
Amiga computers once were also used by NASA. Now for 6,700 Canadian Dollars again one of them is sold.
According to the seller, the system was used in NASA's telemetry labs and is decked out with NASA asset and inventory tags from 2005. The Amiga 2500 was equipped with two custom boards that helped it to analyze telemetry data for various NASA-related equipment in space: an Amiga 2000 serial interface and an Amiga 2000 remote DMA output controller. (snx)
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07.Dec.2017
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Web-Browser: Netsurf 3.7 (2017-12-03)
Artur Jarosik has released an update of his Amiga port of the web browser NetSurf. His port is based on SDL, only the preferences are MUI-based, and should not be confused with Chris Young's Reaction-based port.
Changes in this release:
- Added YouTube streaming of 3gp files though ffplay (needs to be in C: and CLI must support long names)
- Faster jpeg loading by 40%
- Updated to newest sources
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06.Dec.2017
A. Pankalla (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Financial management LüttjeBookholler 1.60
The author Achim Pankalla wrote: "It is a easy to use personal finance program. "Lüttje Bookholler" is a german dialect and means "little accountant" and that is what you are, when using my little program. The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. LB is email-ware, if you want to use it permanent, please send me an email and you will get some advantages! for examples updates...LB needs at least AOS4.1u6".
In version 1.60 the DateBrowser for date-data fields was added. Any kind of feedback or suggests are very welcome.
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03.Dec.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP/IP-Stack: Roadshow now also available on CD
Press release: As more and more users ask for it, we have decided to publish a CD-Version (DVD Box) of Roadshow. Roadshow will be available in two versions in our online shop: as a download version as well as on CD, including the download version.
For all users who have already purchased the download version of Roadshow, there is the option to purchase an upgrade to the CD version for 4.90 Euro plus shipping costs in our online shop. Please note: The purchase of the CD must be done via the same account in our online shop as the purchase of the download version. If you have any questions, please send us an e-mail in advance.
About Roadshow:
Roadshow is an Amiga TCP/IP stack that allows you to connect to the Internet, access your e-mail, web pages, chat etc. It can also help you to access and exchange files within your local home network. Roadshow is one of the fastest, if not the fastest Amiga TCP/IP stack. In sustained data transmission tests, Roadshow was able to receive 997 KByte/s (tested on an Amiga 3000T, using a 40 MHz 68040 WarpEngine CPU card and an Ariadne Ethernet card). (snx)
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03.Dec.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 02.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until December 2nd, 2017:
CapacitorIntro2016.lha demo/intro 812K 68k Intro remade for Capacitor Pa...
CapacitorOfTheBeast.lha demo/intro 21M WOS Promo Intro for Capacitor Par...
IntroBG.lha demo/intro 622K 68k Intro from Capacitor Party 2017
SilvermanIntro.lha demo/intro 473K 68k Intro from Capacitor Party 2017
TheCube.lha demo/intro 447K 68k Intro from Tolkien - Capacito...
TrollsFreeDemo.lha demo/intro 401K 68k Demo from Capacitor Party 2017
BadNinjas_RickyPlace.lha demo/slide 220K Graphic from Capacitor Party ...
JojoPantallas05.lha demo/slide 460K 68k Slideshow from Capacitor Part...
BeebAsm.lha dev/cross 908K MOS Assembler with BBC Micro styl...
wosdb.lha dev/debug 42K WOS A simple WarpOS/PowerOpen deb...
wosdb_src.lha dev/debug 29K Source text of wosdb debugger
sp-mos.lha dev/lang 4.0M MOS SGML parser
libflac.lha dev/lib 1.6M OS4 Free Lossless Audio Codec
f1champ.lha docs/misc 70K Statistics of Formula One 195...
worldcup.lha docs/misc 568K Statistics of soccer World Cu...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 2.0M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.1M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
EuroFighter.lha game/misc 508K 68k Party game from Capacitor Par...
GoldenWing_party.lha game/misc 269K 68k Party game from Capacitor Par...
Laberinto_SENSEI.lha game/misc 277K 68k Party game from Capacitor Par...
MirrorRedPill.lha game/misc 423K 68k Party game from Capacitor Par...
NAGI-68k.lha game/misc 798K 68k NAGI - New Adventure Game Int...
Puzzle_SENSEI.lha game/misc 365K 68k Party game from Capacitor Par...
Raining_Eggs.lha game/misc 542K 68k Party game from Capacitor Par...
Silverman.lha game/misc 419K 68k Test game from Capacitor Part...
SpaceCombat_Juande305... game/misc 51M 68k Party game from Capacitor Par...
TBL.lha game/misc 644K 68k Party game from Capacitor Par...
TheThings-test.lha game/misc 382K 68k Test game from Capacitor Part...
Breathless-1996-Sourc... game/shoot 3.6M Breathless by Fields of Visio...
webptools061_a68k.lha gfx/conv 4.2M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools061_aros.lha gfx/conv 5.8M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
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...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 2.5M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
glUAE.lha misc/emu 15K Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
AmigaIsLife.lha mods/demo 234K 68k MOD by FireBoy from Capacitor...
BreakFree.lha mods/demo 803K MOD by Zoltar from Capacitor ...
Calipso.lha mods/demo 31K MOD by DJ UNO from Capacitor ...
EmbrujoGitano.lha mods/med 574K MED by Zoltar for Capacitor P...
UADE_MMV8.lha mus/play 14K 68k MusicMakerV8 players for UADE
Caribesu_BG.lha pix/misc 16K Graphic by Mac for Capacitor ...
Degas_BG.lha pix/misc 11K 68k Graphic by Mac for Capacitor ...
Queen.lha pix/misc 60K 68k Graphic from Capacitor Party ...
borderzunescrollbar.lha pix/theme 94K Border themes with Zune scrol...
AmiTimeKeeper.i386-ar... util/cdity 82K x86 Keep your time right
AmiTimeKeeper.lha util/cdity 53K 68k Keep your time right
cAMIra.lha util/misc 160K 68k simple webcam software using ...
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03.Dec.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until December 2nd, 2017:
void-absolute_dolle_2... dem/mus 2Mb 4.1 Amiga OS4 Musicdisc released at ...
libflac.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Free Lossless Audio Codec
oo.lha dev/lib 476kb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
libffmpeg.lha dev/mis 12Mb 4.0 Multimedia libraries
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
gluae.lha emu/uti 15kb 4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
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03.Dec.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.12.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until December 2nd, 2017:
borderthemeszunescrollbar... gra/the 94kb Border themes with Zune scrollbar.
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03.Dec.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.12.2017
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 2nd, 2017:
- 2017-12-01 improved: Hero Quest (Gremlin) blitter waits disabled on 68000, 68000 quitkey support, default quitkey changed to Del, copperlist bug fixed, byte write to volume register fix, sample player fixed, manual protection completely disabled, Bplcon0 color bit fix (Info)
- 2017-11-30 improved: Prophecy: The Viking Child (Imagitec Design) RawDIC imager, other supported version works again, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config), new install script (Info)
- 2017-11-29 improved: Grapevine 16 (LSD) support for another version added (Info, Image)
- 2017-11-28 improved: Switchback (Rebels) support for the fixed/final version of the demo added (Info, Image)
- 2017-11-28 improved: Scooby-Doo (Hi-Tec) RawDIC imager, WHDLoad v17+ features used, new install script (Info)
- 2017-11-27 improved: Lords of the Rising Sun (Cinemaware) crash upon exit in PAL version fixed (Info, Image)
- 2017-11-27 improved: Lords of the Rising Sun (Cinemaware) NTSC check removed, NTSC version now also works on PAL machines (Info, Image)
- 2017-11-27 improved: Lords of the Rising Sun (Cinemaware) Herndon HLS protection removed in a clean way, slave code optimised (Info, Image)
- 2017-11-27 improved: Pushover (Red Rat Software/Ocean) sample players fixed, manual included (Info)
- 2017-11-26 updated: Dogfight (Microprose Ltd.) patch redone, manual protection completely disabled, input handler fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2017-11-26 improved: IK+ (Archer MacLean) DMA wait in level 4 interrupt fixed, samples are now played properly on fast machines (Info)
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03.Dec.2017
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #41 - Interview with David Fox
David Fox is a game designer and programmer that worked on some of LucasArts' most memorable games, as well as the new Thimbleweed Park. AJ and Joerg talk to him about his history in the games industry, and his experience coming back to the point-and-click adventure genre. (snx)
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03.Dec.2017
walkero (ANF)
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Event: AmiCamp #6 on January 27/28 2018 (Athens)
AmiCamp #6, the Amiga event for all the Greek Amiga User, will take place in Athens (Greece) on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th of January 2018. It will be open to the public and all the Amiga enthusiasts who keep using and having fun with their Amigas, especially the Next Generation ones.
Visitors will have the chance to watch presentations about the major operating systems (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS). Computers such as AmigaOne X1000, AmigaOne 500, AmigaOne A1222 will be available among the best Classic Amiga models, which they can use and test. The gaming will also be part of the event, as well, and a SWOS competition will take place.
More information you can find at the official website at the title link as well as on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus und YouTube. (snx)
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27.Nov.2017
viddi (ANF)
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Action RPG: Heroes of Gorluth announced
Patrick "viddi" Nevian has announced "Heroes of Gorluth" which is an action RPG in the Tales of Gorluth universe. The game again was developed with the Construction Kit Backbone and is supposed to be released in December 2018. The CDs which are limited to 300 pieces can be preordered from now on.
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26.Nov.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Looking back at 10 years of Icaros Desktop
Under the title link Paolo Besser looks back at the development of his AROS distribution Icaros Desktop, which - inspired by the Pianeta Amiga 2007 - tomorrow ten years ago was born as VmwAROS. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Nov.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.95
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) "is a program to explore and manipulate files, links and drawers of your Amiga."
In version 3.95 now extracting files is much faster, the F11 key can be used for full screen view and you can use the mouse wheel for scrolling in the pictogram view.
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26.Nov.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 25.11.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until November 25th, 2017:
ColourMatch.lha dev/basic 28K 68k Colour match in Blitz
HWP_ZIP.lha dev/hwood 301K MOS Read and write ZIP archives
Frontiera.lha game/misc 138K 68k Frontier alike game WIP for i...
NAGI-68k.lha game/misc 895K 68k NAGI - New Adventure Game Int...
Debian-9.0-m68k.bz2 misc/os 147M ppc Debian (unstable)
IcarosLive-2.2.1.tar.bz2 misc/os 1903M x86 Icaros Desktop LIVE!
borderzunescrollbar.lha pix/theme 96K Border themes with Zune scrol...
WBStartup+UPD.lha util/boot 196K 68k WBStartup Enhancer (Small upd...
uaemremover.lha util/dir 64K MOS Remove junk files created by ...
espeak.lha util/sys 1.5M 68k amiga-port of espeak speech s...
AutoVisible_sbar.lha util/wb 9K MOS All sbars visible on AutoScro...
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26.Nov.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 25.11.2017
The following archive has been added to the OS4Depot until November 25th, 2017:
ffmpeg.lha vid/con 24Mb 4.0 Video and audio converter
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26.Nov.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 25.11.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until November 25th, 2017:
naev.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 133Mb OpenGL top-down space trading an...
fishfillets.i386-aros.tar.gz gam/puz 141Mb Two fish must cooperate to escap...
borderthemeszunescrollbar... gra/the 96kb Border themes with Zune scrollbar.
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26.Nov.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.11.2017
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 November 25th, 2017:
- 2017-11-24 updated: Sly Spy Secret Agent (Ocean) patch redone, access faults fixed, sample player fixed, high-score load/save added, trainer options added, crash after entering name fixed, 68000 quitkey support, timing fixed (Info)
- 2017-11-23 improved: The Blues Brothers (Titus) patch uses real files now (reinstall required), byte write to volume register fixed, sample player fixed, illegal copperlist entry fixed, trainer options added, 68000 quitkey support, interrupts fixed (Info)
- 2017-11-19 improved: Shadow Dancer (U.S.Gold) fixed problem with Ninja Magic triggered twice when activated with fire 2 (Info)
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25.Nov.2017
amiga68k (ANF)
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Elfie - The Unicorn: Jump and Run game for girls (beta version)
Christian Giesing's "Elfie - The Unicorn" is a jump and run game, which the author has created for his daughters using Backbone. "Jack - The Unicorn Hunter" has also already announced and will be the equivalent for boys.
Currently the game is a beta version thus can include bugs and according to the author has not been perfectly balanced out. Some graphics and screens are still missing as well. 14 MHz, 2 MB RAM and Kickstart 3.x are required.
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25.Nov.2017
viddi (ANF)
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Tales of Gorluth II: Digital download available
The game "Tales of Gorluth II" (amiga-news.de reported) now can be purchased as digital download under the title link.
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19.Nov.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: ZIP plugin 1.0
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the unstoppable coding machine, is back on your screen with a brand new plugin for Hollywood: zip.hwp! This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to conveniently read and write zip archives. It uses Hollywood 6.0's new file and directory adapter plugin interfaces which allow you to iterate through zip archives as if they were normal directories. Files within zip archives can also be accessed as if the zip archive was a normal directory. It just doesn't get any easier!
With zip.hwp it is not necessary to unpack a file stored in a zip archive to a temporary file before it can be opened. Hollywood 6.0's file adapter plugin interface allows direct streaming from the zip archive into the respective file handler without any temporary file overhead. This makes it even possible to stream music or video directly from a zip file!
Additionally, zip.hwp also offers a range of functions to read, modify, and write zip archives. New zip archives can be created and existing zip archives can be opened and modified. There are lots of functions which allow you to read, change, and write attributes of files stored in zip archives. On top of that, zip.hwp also supports reading and storing password-protected files with strong AES-128, AES-192, and AES-256 encryption (though note that on AmigaOS 3.x and AROS it is not recommended to encrypt archives because the randomizer on these operating systems isn't strong enough for cryptography purposes.)
The zip plugin requires at least Hollywood 6.0 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. Note that it is recommended that you use at least Hollywood 7.0 because with earlier versions there is no support for archives which contain files with non-ASCII names. The zip plugin is available in versions for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86, x64), Mac OS X (PPC, x86, x64), Linux (PPC, ARM, x86, x64) and Android. On top of that, the plugin comes with 30 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM.
Zip.hwp is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal at the title link. (snx)
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19.Nov.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 18.11.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until November 18th, 2017:
m68k-amigaos-gcc-2017... dev/gcc 23M ppc GCC based dev toolchain for A...
m68k-amigaos-gcc-src.... dev/gcc 54M GCC based dev toolchain for A...
SINE.rexx.txt dev/src 1K Text mode sinewave _anim_ in ...
Envy24HT.lha driver/aud 1.0M Source code for Envy24HT AHI ...
Envy24HT_MOS.lha driver/aud 23K MOS Binary for Envy24HT AHI driver
DoomAttack-AIO.lha game/shoot 4.6M 68k All-In-One edition of this Do...
PaletteEd.lha gfx/misc 81K 68k Edit IFF-ILBM Palettes
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...
IcarosLive-2.2.1.tar.bz2 misc/os 1903M x86 Icaros Desktop LIVE!
NetBSD-7.1-amiga.tar.bz2 misc/os 191M ppc NetBSD
Robs-AmigaOS39.png pix/wb 444K Rob's Amiga OS 3.9 Setup!
PIconTools.lha util/wb 82K 68k Various GUIs for managing icons
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 18.11.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until November 18th, 2017:
lame.lha aud/rec 1Mb 4.0 Lame MP3 encoder
libmp3lame.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 MP3 LAME encoding engine
libogg.lha dev/lib 313kb 4.0 lib for handling OGG files
libopus.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.0 Audio codec for speech and music
libfreetype.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab...
libjpeg.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.0 Lib for handling JPEG images
libpng.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 Lib for handling PNG files
libsdl_image.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 SDL image file loading library
libsdl_ttf.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL
libsdl2_image.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 SDL2 image file loading library
libsdl2_ttf.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2
libtiff.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.0 Lib for handling Tag Image File ...
libvpx.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 WebM VP8/VP9 Codec library
libwebp.lha dev/lib 8Mb 4.0 lib for handling WebP images
libxvidcore.lha dev/lib 682kb 4.0 Add XviD support to your app
libopenssl.lha dev/lib 6Mb 4.0 The open source toolkit for SSL/TLS
libx264.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.0 H.264/AVC encoder
libz.lha dev/lib 219kb 4.0 libZ / zlib / z library (.a/.so)
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
abkviewer.lha gra/vie 324kb 4.1 ABKViwer show AMOS Sprites in a ...
libxml2.lha lib/xml 7Mb 4.0 The XML C parser and toolkit of ...
ftpd.lha net/ser 844kb 4.1 FTPdaemon v2.2 for AmigaOS 4
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19.Nov.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.11.2017
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 November 18th, 2017:
- 2017-11-17 fixed: Monster Business (Eclipse) game always restarted from last played level after game over, fixed (Info, Image)
- 2017-11-16 improved: Shadow Dancer (U.S.Gold) ninja magic can be activated with fire 2, DMA wait in sample players fixed, lots of trainer options added, high-score load/save added, source code included (Info)
- 2017-11-15 improved: Chase H.Q. 2 (Ocean/ICE) blitter wait patches disabled on 68000, 68000 quitkey support, interrupts fixed, self-modifying code fixed, support for fire button 2 added, lots of trainer options added (Info)
- 2017-11-14 fixed: Jocky Wilson's Darts Challenge (Zeppelin) keyboard interrupt fixed, 68000 quitkey support, WHDLoad v17+ features used, source code included (Info)
- 2017-11-14 fixed: Wayne Gretzky Hockey (Betchesda SoftWorks) access fault fixed, graphics problems caused by trashed copperlist fixed (Info)
- 2017-11-13 improved: Stardust (Bloodhouse) 68000 quitkey support, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, support for fire button 2 added, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
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19.Nov.2017
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:
- AckerLight - The Last Star
- Final Fight - Lost in Time
- Mad Scientist
- Loveland (Mr. Oli)
- Platoon - Level 1 Combat Zone Remix
- Nearly There
- Mega-Lo-Mania Ingame medley
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16.Nov.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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User's guide: Directory Opus 5
Under the title link, Amiga.net.pl sells a user's guide with 480 pages for the file manager Directory Opus 5 including Magellans, Magellans II and the latest version 5.9.
The user's guide also is available together wit the program as collector's edition, which can be ordered on CD and as a supplement also on disk.
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16.Nov.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 80 (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 "Garden Fax: Fruit & Vegetables", "Mega Lo Mania" and "Star Trek: The Game".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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12.Nov.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.11.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until November 11th, 2017:
irssi.lha comm/irc 2.3M MOS Terminal based IRC client
eld-riseandshine-amig... demo/aga 17M 68k Rise & Shine
RSE-FutureBalls.zip demo/aga 945K 68k Future Balls
AlienApparat80.zip demo/disk 410K 68k Alien Apparat 80%
Altair-ZenerDrive.zip demo/disk 368K 68k Zener Drive by Altair
BeamRiders.lha demo/euro 9.2M 68k Beam Riders
tek-inspirited.zip demo/euro 136K 68k Inspirited
WantedTeam-Nullae.zip demo/intro 75K 68k Nullae
AS_Recruitment.lha demo/misc 141K 68k Funny Demo signed Axel Retro-...
gcc-mos2wos.lha dev/gcc 2.8M MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
HWP_Malibu.lha dev/hwood 640K MOS Scala emulation for Hollywood
BlazingGunsPreview.zip game/demo 97K 68k Blazing Guns Preview
Crazy_Priest_Extra.lha game/misc 1.2M 68k Crazy Priest Extra
Exult-wos.lha game/role 2.1M WOS Exult for WarpOS
Lightwave.3D-PlugIns.lha gfx/3d 1.5M 68k Lightwave 3D Plugin Collection
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...
lameA68K-3.100.lha mus/misc 512K 68k MP3 encoder for A68K
lameAros-3.100.lha mus/misc 570K x86 MP3 encoder for Aros
lw_ViperMk2.lha pix/3dobj 6.1M BSG Colonial ViperMk2 for Lig...
Convert.lha util/rexx 11K 68k Simple command line currency ...
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The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until November 11th, 2017:
milkytracker_sdl2.lha aud/tra 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 version of an FT2 compatibl...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
download.lha net/ftp 37kb 4.0 File download utility: http, htt...
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WHDLoad: New installers 11.11.2017
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 November 11th, 2017:
- 2017-11-11 fixed: Double Dragon 2 - The Revenge (Virgin) new RawDIC imager, memory corruption fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, sample players fixed, blitter waits added, trainer options added (Info)
- 2017-11-09 improved: Blazing Thunder (Hi-Tec Software) sample players fixed, new RawDIC imager, much faster installation, blitter wait patches disabled on 68000, 68000 quitkey support, trainer options added, default quitkey changed to F10 (Info)
- 2017-11-08 updated: Armour Geddon 2 (Psygnosis) patch redone, chip memory requirements reduced, blitter waits added, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info)
- 2017-11-07 fixed: Aladdin (Virgin) intro animation flickering fixed (Info)
- 2017-11-07 improved: Wolfchild (Core Design) Bplcon0 color bit fixes, interrupts fixed, blitter wait added, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image, Image)
- 2017-11-05 improved: Gem'X (Demonware/Kaiko) version check adapted, trainers added, option to reset high scores added (Info)
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12.Nov.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: First pictures of Alchimie 2018 (France)
This weekend in France, in Tain l'Hermitage, this years's Alchimie is taking place. On Twitter Eric Luczyszyn has published some first pictures.
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12.Nov.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hollywood-GUI: HGui 1.1
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's HGui is a GUI system developed with Hollywood which in contrary to the Amiga specific MUI Royale is available for all platforms that are supported by Hollywood (amiga-news.de reported) - although there are some limitations under Android. The author said: "HGui is not yet complete, but I'd say at 90%, it is really stable."
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09.Nov.2017
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Point'n Click Adventure: English version of "Retro Wars"
"Retro Wars" is a point'n click adventure created with GRAC and a bit of AMOS code which was highly inspired by Star Wars. The Spanish version has been available for years and meanwhile there is also an English translation. The game can be downloaded for free but there is also a commercial box version which can be ordered from the authors or in several Amiga shops.
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08.Nov.2017
Lorfarius (Host) (ANF)
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Retro podcast: AMIGArama, issue 2
AMIGArama is an English-language podcast, new issues are suppoesed to be published every week. Topics of the retro podcast are Amiga games and utilities - each issue is about one classic Amiga game. This week the podcast is about Jetstrike. The aim of the moderator Lafarius is to present every commercial Amiga game in one episode of his podcast.
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08.Nov.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Game announcements: Cybermove and Speedgrid
According to a report of the Amiga Future, Virtual Dimension is developing a Sokoban-like game, in which a robot has to move boxes around barriers. The game is supposed to be finished when the Gamescom 2018 will be take place.
Another game has been announced by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. "BOH"). In Speedgrid (video) you control a spaceship and have to collect different objects.
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07.Nov.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 129
The English and German issue 129 (November/December 2017) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today, and can also be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future as well as Amiga dealers who stock the magazine. Content includes a show report from Gamescom 2017, news from the MorphOS camp and a laser upgrade for Amiga mice. (snx)
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06.Nov.2017
a1k.org (ANF)
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FPGA processor: 68080 is to licenced to hardware producers for free
Gunnar von Boehn offers to provide his reimplementation of a 68k processor calles 68080 to further hardware producers. Currently the Vampire accelerator boards ("Apollo Cores") are equipped with a 68080 which are available for A500/A600 and announced for the A1200. For the "big" Amigas so far nobody has offered such solutions.
von Boehns now offers that a hardware producer can licence a version of the 68080 for free which after booting the system is reduced to the speed of a real 68060 processor but apart from that has all the features of a 68080. This "Shareware output" of the CPU end users could turn off by purchasing a keycode.
If companies would use this offer, producers could again offer fast accelerator board for Amigas and Ataris despite the high prices resp. the unavailability of such boards. On the other hand, von Boehn could break into new markets because producers like Jens Schönfeld could offer boards for the Amiga3000/4000.
This offer is limited to the CPU of the Apollo Core. Other parts like SAGA or a chipset emulation are not included.
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05.Nov.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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15 years of Hollywood: Malibu 1.4 released as Freeware
Press release: 15 years ago today, on Nov 5th 2002, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released version 1.0 of Hollywood. Back then it was advertised as a "multimedia authoring system" comprising over 150 functions and it was only available for 68k Amigas. It immediately attracted the attention of lots of creative people from all around the world and thanks to the fantastic support of its community Hollywood has grown into a real swiss army knife for all different kinds of purposes. Who would have guessed 15 years ago that Hollywood would evolve into such a beast of a software that runs on over a dozen of different platforms and has lots of plugins that enhance its capabilities even further?
To celebrate Hollywood's 15th anniversary, Airsoft Softwair proudly presents a brand-new version of Malibu, the plugin that enables Hollywood to run Scala scripts. First released in June 2003, Malibu was the first Hollywood plugin and the one that started it all. As a special gift to the Hollywood community for its fantastic support over the last 15 years Airsoft Softwair has decided to make Malibu freely available for everybody. Previous versions were sold commercially but now Malibu is a Hollywood plugin that is provided completely free of charge like all other Hollywood plugins.
Malibu 1.4 is a major update that introduces support for Linux and Mac OS and for 64-bit architectures. It also contains various bug fixes and enhancements like the ability to export Scala scripts as Hollywood scripts. Malibu emulates nearly the whole Scala command set and supports all Scala versions from 1.0 up to Scala InfoChannel 500 which was the last Amiga version of Scala. Emulation is done by the El Capitan microkernel which tries to achieve the best performance possible on the system used. With Malibu it is now possible to run those Scala presentations without the actual classic Amiga hardware. Because the whole emulation runs on top of Hollywood's multimedia application layer you can run Scala presentations on every platform supported by Hollywood. In many cases the quality of the pictures that Malibu displays is much better than the original Scala quality because Scala often had to remap many pictures with very different colors to a 8-bit display which resulted in a massive loss of color information. With Malibu, however, all graphics are shown in true colour.
Scala is a program which helped the Amiga to become a real multimedia wonder. There were no products for a long long time that could beat an Amiga with Scala. Therefore Scala was widely used in all different production fields, from movies and television to big shows. Everyone who has worked with Scala knows what powers it has. But this power is only possible because Scala is very hard-coded to the Amiga's custom chips which leads to the problem that it does not run on modern Amiga systems or other platforms. For many years all sorts of users complained that there was no Scala that runs RTG compatible. This time is over now. Malibu revives Scala in a completely system-friendly way.
Malibu is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal under the title link. Versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86,x64), Mac OS X (ppc, x86, x64) and Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64) are provided.
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05.Nov.2017
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AMOS animation: Alfredo's Perilous Pitfall
Alfredo's Perilous Pitfall is a remake of the sequel of an C64 animation which was inspired by an Apple-II series about a stick figure written by Richard Derocher. The source code of the AMOS animation is included.
Download: alfredo.adf (880 KB)
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.11.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until November 4th, 2017:
WhatChanged.lha biz/dbase 6K MOS Identifies file system change...
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 6K 4 Stefano Maria Regattin Blit...
file-mos.lha dev/gg 1.3M MOS Determine file type
Aquaria_ppc-morphos.lha game/actio 3.3M MOS Aquaria, underwater game
bermudasyndrome-wos.lha game/actio 306K WOS Bermuda Syndrome Engine (Warp...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.0M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
fxPAINT_de.lha gfx/show 23K Unofficial German catalog for...
alfredo.adf pix/anim 880K 68k Alfredo's Perilous Pitfall
workbenchexplorer.lha util/dir 2.0M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
FontWalker_mos.lha util/misc 1.4M MOS Collect and display TTF fonts
FontWalker_os3.lha util/misc 2.4M 68k Collect and display TTF fonts
FontWalker_os4.lha util/misc 1.8M OS4 Collect and display TTF fonts
RSCP.lha util/moni 25K 68k RawSpeed Controller Performan...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.11.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until November 4th, 2017:
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
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05.Nov.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 04.11.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until November 4th, 2017:
metadiary.i386-aros.zip off/mis 220kb Color-coded activity log.
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05.Nov.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.11.2017
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 November 4th, 2017:
- 2017-11-03 improved: PP Hammer (Demonware) RawDIC imager, disk access disabled, new install script (Info)
- 2017-11-02 improved: Twin World (Blue Byte/UBI-Soft) RawDIC imager, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, DMA waits in replayer and sample player fixed, trainer options added, source code included, new install script (Info)
- 2017-10-31 improved: Toki (Ocean) reverted to previous install release (Info)
- 2017-10-31 updated: Gem'X (Demonware/Kaiko) patch redone, RawDIC imager, bugs in TFMX replayer fixed, high-score load/save, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-30 fixed: Great Courts 2 / Pro Tennis Tour 2 (Blue Byte) load/Save tournament was broken (Info)
- 2017-10-30 fixed: Gem'X (Demonware/Kaiko) disk access removed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, copperlist termination fixed (Info)
- 2017-10-30 improved: Amnios (Psygnosis) 68000 quitkey support (Info)
- 2017-10-30 fixed: Mr.Nutz (Ocean) problem with wrong disk request after intro screens fixed (Info)
- 2017-10-30 new: Aunt Arctic Adventure (Midware) patch redone, SPS 1757 version supported, trainers added (Info)
- 2017-10-30 improved: Toki (Ocean) adapted to WHDLoad v17: dynamic CUSTOM settings (Info)
- 2017-10-29 improved: Mr.Nutz (Ocean) proper 68000 quitkey support, illegal copperlist entries fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-29 improved: Celtic Legends (UBI-Soft) RawDIC imager, more blitter waits added, blitter wait patches disabled on 68000, load/save game routines rewritten, 68000 quitkey support, new install script (Info)
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04.Nov.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Print magazine: 2nd issue of "Amiga User" available
After having published issue "0" a month ago, now the next issue "1/2017" of the magazine "Amiga User" (amiga-news.de reported) is available in an Polish and English edition and can be also ordered as e-book. This latest issue among others is about mathematical software, database management system, effective disk recovery and about hard disk drive in Amiga 500.
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01.Nov.2017
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.
English articles:
- Review: Beneath A Steel Sky
French articles:
- September/October 2017 news
- Old articles from Tilt 104 to 108:
- Report: Supergames Show 1992, Siggraph 92, Foire de Paris 1992, Jaguar XJ220
- Reviews: Campaign, Flashback, Road Rash, The Manager, BAT 2
- News: Ocean, ça déménage, Interview with Eric Chahi, What's new on CDTV?, Interview with Jordan Mechner
- Comparative: Amiga 4000 vs Falcon 030
- Interview with Zaher Sai (Amiga user from Syria)
- Interview with Artur Jarosik (developper of NetSurf)
- Review: Beneath A Steal Sky
- Review: C64 Forever 7
- Review: Slarti
- File: Classic Reflections - Whatever happened to Micro-Systems Software?
- File: Behind the scenes, developpment of Traps 'n 'Treasures
- Tutorial: Installation of Linux Ubuntu on AmigaOne X5000
- Point of view: Behin the scenes, developpment of the Amiga 3000+
- Point of view : First steps of a MorphOS user on AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition
- Special quizz about the Kickstarts
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01.Nov.2017
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Space Invaders clone: Space Hippies
"Space Hippies" (Youtube video) is a Space Invaders clone, developed in 1992 and by Martin Fowler and so far was not released. The scene group Wanted Team could get the source codes from Fowler and created a scene like release - including intro and trainer menu. The souce codes are included in the release.
Direct download: Space-Hippies-2017-Trainer-Fix-Flashtro.zip (678 KB)
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31.Oct.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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FPGA graphics board: Driver and firmware 1.8.3 for the VA2000
Lukas 'mntmn' Hartmann has released another driver and firmware update for his FPGA-based graphics board VA2000. In version 1.8.3 a linear memory management is used which allows it to work with applications and games which do not accept the "BytesPerRow" specification. Besides, a workaround for a Picasso96 bug is included. For the extension VA21000CX now an automatic de-interlacer for the "Hires Laced" and "Lores Laced" screen solutions is available.
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31.Oct.2017
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Logic game: impsbru
In "impsbru" (Youtube video) you have to control a red block along 3D objects which remind on M.C. Escher. Level editors also are included in the game. The source codes of the game which was written in C are available on Github.
impsbru was developed and tested on an A500 with Kickstart 1.3 but should run on any Amiga.
Download: impsbru.zip (50 KB)
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31.Oct.2017
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphZone Library: Crash Course to Hollywood Programming
Under the title link a short "crash course" for programming in Hollywood was published including three example programs, one of them for creating an user friendly interface.
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30.Oct.2017
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AmigaOS 4: Playable preview of "Spencer" (Entwickler-X)
"Spencer" (Youtube video) is the latest project of Entwickler-X (M.A.C.E., Swamp Defense, Emotion). Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus provides a playable preview but explicitly points out that this early version has still many bugs. For full performance, Spencer requires the latest versions of Warp 3D Nova and OpenGL ES although it is not perfectly clear if the last version which is available for users can meet this requirements. Spencer should also run without Nova, then MiniGL is used instead of it - and objects do not cast a shadow.
Some hints for reducing the graphical representation - to make the game running on weaker computers - and to the keyboard layout, Claus has published under the title link.
Direct download: Spencer.lha (19 MB)
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29.Oct.2017
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Preversion of Wings Remastered at Amiga32
We mistakenly have reported that Wings Remastered had been completed. We apologise for this mistake. A final Amiga version of Wings Remastered could not be presented at the Amiga32 but users who have ordered the game in advance could have a preversion of the AmigaOS 4 port burned on CD and take it home together with a box and a printed manual.
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29.Oct.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: HDAudio driver 6.27
Neil Cafferkey has released an update of the HDAudio driver for AROS/x86. For a while, version 6.27 is included in the Nightly Builds but only now was known to the public.
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29.Oct.2017
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Book: Sales launch for Brian Bagnall's "Commodore: The Amiga Years"
According to the reports and pictures of the Amiga32, Brian Bagnall's "Commodore: The Amiga Years" could already be purchased there. At Amazon the book is listed as available.The delivery is expected to be done between 18. - 29. November.
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29.Oct.2017
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Hyperion announced another update for AmigaOS 3.1
At the Amiga32, yesterday Hyperion obviously announced another update for AmigaOS 3.1. Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel and Thomas 'Thor' Richter are the programmers. The most important new feature may be the support for big patitions and long file names: All relevant modules (file system, HDToolbox, Mount etc.) have been reworked. A detailed list of the planned update was published in a message at the Amiga32:
Currently we dot not have further information. If the updated system still fit on an usual ROM is not clear.
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29.Oct.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 28.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until October 28th, 2017:
netsurf.lha comm/www 6.8M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 3.5M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
Void-7Ate9.lha demo/intro 51K 68k "7 Ate 9" by Void
Void-ApplejackPack2.lha demo/sound 373K 68k "Applejack Pack 2" by Void
BlitzLocale.lha dev/basic 123K 68k Use Locale in AmiBlitz Programs
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 691K Hollywood 7.0 spanish catalogs
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 66K 68k Align 3 tiles of the same col...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.0M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.6M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mods/smpl 54K 68k Some samples created by Sampl...
SamplesCreator.lha mus/edit 62K 68k Samples creation and saving
xad_7z.lha util/arc 240K OS4 XAD (UnArc) client for 7-Zip ...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 499K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 557K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 640K OS4 Multipurpose utility
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until October 28th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
vmt.lha off/dat 7Mb 4.1 Vehicles costs management tool
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 28.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until October 28th, 2017:
edgar.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 125Mb Sdl 2d platform adventure game.
nickboum.i386-aros.lha gam/pla 1Mb NickyBoum
vmt.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 7Mb Vehicles costs management tool
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29.Oct.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.10.2017
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 October 28th, 2017:
- 2017-10-27 improved: Airball (Microdeal) blitter waits added, out of bounds blit fixed, 68000 quitkey support, default quitkey changed to Del, interrupts fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-27 improved: Lotus 3 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) 68000 quitkey support, manual protection completely disabled, wrong DDFSTRT fixed, manual included, new install script (Info)
- 2017-10-27 improved: Thunderstrike (Millennium) copperlist problem fixed, manual protection completely disabled, 68000 quitkey support, new install script, blitter wait patches disabled on 68000, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-26 improved: Beyond Dark Castle (Activision) crash after intro on fast machines fixed, missing icons added (Info)
- 2017-10-26 improved: Harley Davidson (Mindscape) stack problem fixed, byte write to volume register fixed, illegal copperlist entries fixed, drive access disabled, access faults fixed, manual protection completely skipped (Info)
- 2017-10-26 improved: Utopia (Gremlin) 68000 quitkey support, disk access removed, manual protection completely skipped, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-25 improved: Lothar Matth?us (Ocean/Audiogenic) Bplcon0 color bit fix, 68000 quitkey support, disk 2 request disabled, source code included (Info)
- 2017-10-24 improved: Whizz (Flair Software) support for another AGA version added, source code included (AGA version) (Info)
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28.Oct.2017
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A3660: Free, 68060-compatible replica of A3640
John "Chucky" Hertell has replicated the A3000/A4000 CPU board A3640. A 68060 processor can be plugged in his board which analogous to the 68040-based model was named A3660. The project was started because many of the A3640-boards was damaged due to leaking capacitors and the modification of such a board is considered to be difficult for a 68060-processor. The developer has published all information about the replica in his blog.
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28.Oct.2017
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World Episode 39 - Chris Abbott and "Project Hubbard"
In its 39th issue of the "Scene World" podcast the moderators have interviewed Chris Abbott (C64Audio.com) about his latest Kickstarter project - a book about Rob Hubbard which is named "Project Hubbard".
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28.Oct.2017
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Event: Pictures and reports of Amiga 32
Today the "Amiga32" is taking place in Neuss. Visitors of the event have published some first pictures:
Reports of the event:
Videos:
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26.Oct.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench distribution: AKReal 9
AKReal works with 16 colours and is the inofficial adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit to real Amigas. Now version 9 has been released. The changes are listed in the changelog.
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26.Oct.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 3/4: Web browser NetSurf 3.7
On 20. October the official version 3.7 of the browser NetSurf was released. Therefore Chris Young also has updated his native, ReAction-based port (not to be confused with the SDL version provided by Artur Jarosik). Version 3.7 "features performance improvements, improved page layout, and many fixes and allows Hotlist (Bookmarks), History and Cookies to be searched."
Download:
netsurf.lha (7 MB)
netsurf_os3.lha (beta version, 4 MB)
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23.Oct.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Mouse pad: "Red Board" (Amiga 500 board)
APC&TCP now offers a mouse pad designed in "red board". Red Board is a replication of an Amiga 500 motherboard.
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22.Oct.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.10.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until October 21st, 2017:
FFT_AMIGA.py.txt dev/src 3K 68k Simple FFT for AMIGA Python 2...
tigerclaw-amigateaser... game/demo 69K 68k Jump'n Kick, early non-playab...
Greedium.lha game/wb 863K MOS A small mui game about numbers
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
furiatuneGUI1.2.lha util/app 40K 68k Graphical user interface for ...
TinyLauncher.lha util/misc 110K 68k WHDLoad frontend and more
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22.Oct.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.10.2017
The following archive has been added to the OS4Depot until October 21st, 2017:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
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22.Oct.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.10.2017
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 October 21st, 2017:
- 2017-10-20 improved: Dragon Wars (Interplay) Slave uses kickstart 1.3 for 68000 compatible (Info)
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21.Oct.2017
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AmiWest presentations from A-EON and Hyperion
AmiWest 2017 is taking place in Sacramento (USA) this weekend. The first presentation was another joint effort of Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) and Steven Solie (Hyperion). For the first time in many years, the Hyperion representative did not make any announcements, he was simply there to answer a few questions from the audience at the end of the presentation.
The following is a summary of the topics discussed. Unfortunately, the live stream had a few problems and completely dropped out for two or three minutes during the Q&A session - it's unlikely but possible that we missed something noteworthy.
AmigaOne X5000
The computer is "selling well", even with AmigaOS not being "fully optimised" for the hardware yet. Asked about optimization, Solie explains that the SATA driver "just works, it's not optimised at all". An Ethernet driver is still missing aswell, after that the CopyMem routine would be an obvious target for optimizations. Solie can't say if these updates will be distributed as a complete ISO or separate downloads. Asked for a timeframe, he expects them to arrive "in months, not years". Support for the 2nd CPU core is not discussed. Dickinson points out that a X5000 running MorphOS 3.10 is present at the show.
Tabor
For the first time, a Tabor motherboard running AmigaOS 4 is on display at AmiWest. It's still missing audio and ethernet drivers, and the FPU emulation is still being worked on. As soon as these problems are solved, the machine could go on sale. Dickinson again mentions a price tag of 400 Euros, but points out it's not clear yet if the licence fee for AmigaOS will be included in that price.
A-EON will offer special builds of its software compiled to achieve maximum speed with Tabor's incompatible FPU. Hyperion will offer an SDK update that will enable external developers to release Tabor builds of their programs aswell.
A.L.I.C.E.
The Laptop running Windows and (emulated) AmigaOS 3/4 had already been presented at last year's AmiWest. It should have been on sale this year, but due to a supplier messing up, only very few (one?) machine made it to Sacremento. The unintentional one-year-delay was used to "implement a lot of new features", but the new features were not explained during the presentation. A.L.I.C.E.'s price will depend on the actual Laptop used - apparently, several different versions of the package will be offered.
Enhancer
A new release of A-EONs "Enhancer" bundle is in the works. Amongst other things, it will include a new version of the RadeonHD drivers, that support the entire RAM on a Radeon graphics card (as opposed to only two Gigabyte) and newer Radeon GPU models. More details can be found in the screenshots of Dickinson's slides included below.
LibreOffice
The LibreOffice port, which was said to have entered betatesting shortly before last year's AmiWest, was not mentioned at all during the presentation. As far as we could tell from observing IRC channels, it didn't come up during the part of the Q&A session where the live stream was dead.
AmigaOS 4
An update for the AmigaOS 4 SDK is in the works, it will be released "as soon as I finish the work". Steven Solie would appreciate some help with this: big parts of the SDK are Free Software or Public Domain, so any external developer could assist Solie in finishing the update.
Asked about a roadmap for Amiga 4 and the lack of updates, Solie points out that this was a new policy introduced by (then) new management - we assume he's referring to Costel Mincea, who joined Hyperion in 2015 as the third director. Solie thinks there "might another change be coming in that policy", he's feeling the "winds of change". According to him, the short-term roadmap is obvious: finish OS4 for Tabor, optimize the X5000 build.
PORTIA: DIY Laptop case for Tabor/Mini-ITX
Hans de Ruiter (RadeonHD, Warp 3D Nova) is working on a Laptop case for his Tabor motherboard. We couldn't make out the details due to audio issues - but it sounded like the plastic case, which is supposed to take any miniITX motherboard, will become a commercial product.
Some very small pictures of PORTIA ("PORtable Tabor Incorporating AmigaOne") could be seen on one of Dickinson's slides during the presentation.
NoviaOS
Towards the end of his presentation, Dickinson clarifies a joke he made in his latest blog post: "NoviaOS" is simply AmigaOS. He was just having some fun and wanted to point out that AmigaOS will soon support more than two Gigabyte of GFX RAM (see above).
Screenshots of the slides
The following screenshots show all slides from Dickinson's presentation that were shown fullscreen during the (low resolution) live stream. A few more slides were only shown in the background of the video.
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21.Oct.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Scene World: Audio interview with Dr. Peter Kittel
On Scene World the former Commodorea and Amiga Technologies employee Dr. Peter Kittel has been interviewed. Besides, today the third part of the interview series with Christian Spanik has been published.
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21.Oct.2017
Amigans.net (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Integrated development environment CodeBench 0.55
After a break of four years, Simon "Rigo" Archer has released a new beta version of his integrated development environment CodeBench (screenshot). AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1 as well as the latest version of the SDK are required. Two free versions of Codebench are offered: One is meant for using with the AmigaOS 4-SDK, the other one is meant for Hollywood users.
A detailed list of changes is included in the download archive. The online documentation has not been updated which will be done step by step.
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19.Oct.2017
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Web browser: IBrowse 2.5 presentations at AmiWest and Amiga32
For years the website of the MUI-based web browser IBrowse has published hints for a forthcoming version 2.5. But these hints only were little texts - and the program itself could not be purchased any longer since the exit of the last publisher IOSPIRIT. Therefore many Amiga users have lost faith in an update.
According to the IBrowse team, the forthcoming version 2.5 will be presented during the next weekends at the AmiWest and the Amiga32. Because many users cannot attend the events, the team has provided "a work-in-progress news summary page which lists the main new features and changes since IBrowse 2.4."
New features:
- OS4 Native Version Added (OS4.1 Final Edition Required)
- AmiSSL v4 Support
- MUI 4.0 and 5.0 Support
- Alpha Channel Support (OS4)
- 4Gb+ File/Downloads (OS4)
- OpenSearch support
Re-written features:
- TextEditField Text Editor
- Disk Cache clean up
Improved features:
- JavaScript Engine
- HTML Engine
- HTTP Engine
- Password Manager
- Cookie support
- Various GUI Elements
- Internal Image Decoders
- Memory Management
- Bug Fixes
There are also detailed information to the respective points on the IBrowse website. About the HTML Engine it is said: "The existing HTML4 engine has been enhanced, with improved support for more tags and attributes, as well as being compatible with more sites. Redraw speeds of background images containing transparency has been greatly improved."
The FAQ and the Changelog have been updated as well. It is neither said anything about a possible date of release nor about a commercial sale of the program. According to the FAQ it "has yet to be decided" if the IBrowse 2.5 update will be available for free.
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19.Oct.2017
FS-UAE (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.7dev (beta)
Frode Solheim has released a new developer version 2.9.7 of the emulator FS-UAE providing the following changes:
Changes in FS-UAE:
- Support building with latest version of MSYS2
- Renamed option frame to bezel
- New option: force_aspect
- Added shaders compiled/ported/written by guest.r
Changes in FS-UAE Launcher:
- Fix detection of Windows 10
- Support building with latest version of MSYS2
- Include quick setting to toggle display of bezel
- Quite a bit of changes, but many related to non-Amiga platforms
Changes in FS-UAE Arcade:
- Respect joystick modes from the game database in input selection screen
- Fixed aspect toggle button
- Fixed support for dual X-Arcade controllers
- Gamepad/joystick devices can be hotplugged with on-screen notifications
- Option to disable search function (arcade_search)
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19.Oct.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 129 - preview and extracts
A preview and extracts from issue 129 (November/December 2017) of Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a preview of Reshoot R, a review of Hermes and an interview with Ben Hermans.
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19.Oct.2017
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Dock in Mac OS style: New version of MacLikeDock (update)
In a tutorial for beatifying Workbench, Stefan Egger has pointed out that an updated version of the dock MacLikeDock is available. The program which was originally written for AmigaOS 4 imitates the look and the performance of the dock of Mac OS X. There is an older port of the program to AmigaOS 3, which is also used in Amikit, but this is supposed to be quite bugged. The version of MacLikeDock which is available on his website still has the version string "Mac-Like Dock 3.2 (03.29.13)", but according to Egger includes diverse bug fixes.
Direct download: MacLikeDock.lha (1,4 MB)
Update: (19.10.2017, 15:30, cg)
According to our reader Cego in our German comment section, compared to the Amikit version, this version of MacLikeDock does not run on AGA systems any longer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Oct. 2017, 00:34] [Comments: 0]
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18.Oct.2017
Markus Tillmann (ANF)
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Event: Update to Amiga32
Markus Tillmann wrote: One and a half week before the Amiga32 will start on 28. Oktober in Neuss, we want to announce some final information:
- For about three month the event is sold out - 520 persons (exhibitors and honoured guests included) will attend the Amiga32. We could have sold about 150 additional ticktes. Therefore the Amiga32 is one the biggest Amiga events.
- There will be no box office at the event! Therefore it will be useless trying to attend the event without a valid ticket. If you are still interested in a ticket, then we recommend to have a look at our facebook site and at the diverse Amiga forums.
- 27 exhibitors as well as 12 users will be on spot presenting their products and (partly) offering them for sale.
- Several honoured guests also will be participate and most of them will give a lecture. Jeff Porter, Dr. Tim King as well as Jürgen Haage surely can be considered as the most interesting guests.
- All guests also can enjoy wonderful music performed by Blue Metal Rose, Chris Hülsbeck and Mark "TDK" Knight.
- There will be also a draw for which already more than 30 attractive prices have been made available.
- Cloanto will give a free full version of its Amiga emulator "Amiga Forever" of the latest version to each guest.
- Of course everybody will be invited to use our catering service.
- The comeback issue of the Amiga Joker will be available for 5,- Euro.
- On Saturday 9:15 p.m. the Amiga documentation "From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years" will start in the Hitch cinema. The film will be shown in the original, English-language version. Tickets are available for 5,- Euro and can be ordered from info@amiga32.de or the Eventbrite ticket site.
The organizing team is looking forward to the Amiga32 and wants to give thanks to all supporters!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Oct. 2017, 23:59] [Comments: 0]
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18.Oct.2017
Oliver Brunner (E-Mail)
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Web browser Voyager released under GPL
David Gerber together with Oliver Wagner who died in 2016 have developed the web browser "Voyager". Now Gerber has released the source code of the program on his website. Until the beginning of the new millennium Voyager together with IBrowse and AWeb (its source code was already released in 2002) formed the Amiga browser triumvirate.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Oct. 2017, 23:56] [Comments: 0]
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