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26.Dec.2016
Philippe Lang (E-Mail)


Crowdfunding: Keycaps can be produced
Philippe Lang's Kickstarter project for producing new keycaps for Amiga keyboards (amiga-news.de reported) has been successful. Seventeen days before the deadline the goal of 102.000 Singapore-Dollar (about 67.400 Euro) was exceeded by more than 108.000 Singapore-Dollar that was pledged. (snx)

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26.Dec.2016



Web browser: Short review on SDL/MUI-version of NetSurf
At the beginning of this year, editor Daniel Reimann of amiga-news.de has written a detailed review on Chris Young's Reaction-based port of Netsurf, but the SDL-port provided by Artur 'Arti' Jarosik he is testing as well:

On his blog, Jarosik has released new versions of his browsers during the last weeks. On my Amiga1200 these versions did not run very stable and a special FPU-version I could not start at all. Meanwhile there is only one version for AGA and RTG, a seperate FPU version was dropped.

The last AGA-version of Netsurf, which was released on Aminet on December 23, runs quite stable and fast on my Amiga1200.


It is a little bit unusual how you have to enter a web address into the address bar of the browser: Nothing happens by clicking with the left mouse button in the bar. After clicking with the right mouse button, Netsurf does vanish and a little window appears on the Workbench. There you can enter your web address.

Foreground and background picture loading disabled, Netsurf does take about 30 seconds for loading the main website of amiga-news.de on my Amiga1200 with Blizzard 1230 and for loading the Aminet site about 52 seconds. (cg)

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26.Dec.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Game launcher: X-bEnCh 1.00 X-mas Public pre Release
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 272 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 are also available.

Changes in the pre release of X-bEnCh 1.0 (the rework of the manual has not been completed):

Xinit 3.8
  • Added the Display Mode switch support
  • DisplayMode fix
  • Fixed the 501 countdown freez bug. (In some rare case the countdown of the regscreen was not working and stay freezed at 501)
Xmenu 3.4
  • Added the Display Mode switch support
  • Display is no more forced to 60Hz until you've chosen this option. (This was the case in some internals previous release)
  • DisplayMode fix
  • Code optimisation (near 10% lighter). Need less memory
Xlaunch 4.2
  • Games screenshots implementation (100 availables in this release, more to come asap!)
  • DisplayMode fix
  • Version number fixed in debug mode
  • Loading an audio playlist recorded at the root of a drive (not in a subdir) was failing (No sound). Fixed
  • Position error in the audio playlist. Fixed
  • Added the Display Mode switch support
Checkerboard 1.6
  • DisplayMode fix
  • Fixed the checkerboard loader for the Display Mode switch
Xpl0rEr 1.7
  • Fixed the useless permanent refresh of each track Volume Oscillo
  • Now you can quit Xpl0rEr with the "Esc" Key
  • DisplayMode fix
  • Version number fixed in debug mode
  • Fixed the bug that was adding a blank entry at the end of each xpl
  • Fixed the display bug in the Mod player if you load a playlist shorter than the previous one
  • Release number and date fixeds
  • When deleting a file on one side, the other side was mistackenly refreshed too. Fixed
  • The buffers of the listings were not properly cleared. fixed
  • Added the Display Mode switch support
Xcli 1.7
  • New Xbench cLi logo made by "sns"
Xsetup 4.0
  • Audio playlist path bug fixed again .. and working this time
  • DisplayMode switch Fix
  • The Select a path to scan requester in the launcher tab was not using the previously selected path saved in the launchers.prf. Fixed
  • The Select a playlist requester in the launcher tab was not using the previously selected playlist saved in the launchers.prf. Fixed
  • Fixed the format of the playlist path in the prefs file
  • Selecting a playlist saved in the ram disk was going to guru. Fixed
  • Added the Display Mode switch support
Direct download: xbench1.00x.lha (866 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Dec.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 24.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until December 24th, 2016:
irssi-0.8.20-ppc-mos.lha comm/irc   1.5M  MOS Terminal based IRC client
netsurf-m68k.lha         comm/www   8.5M  68k CSS capable web browser
VOID-XmasLights.lha      demo/intro 97K   68k 2016 Xmas intro by Void
easteregg.lha            game/jump  787K  68k Easter Egg - platform game 68k
MaxKnightXmasFDD.adf     game/jump  880K  68k Max Knight Xmas Edition (ADF ...
ultimate-maze-pack.zip   game/shoot 2.3M  68k Ultimate Maze - Gloom mod
mathomatic-mos.lha       misc/math  651K  MOS Computer Algebra System Matho...
Psyber_Christmas.lha     mods/tranc 7.4M      New mod by Pseudaxos
Calimero_3.8.lha         text/dtp   9.2M  MOS A DTP Program
LoadModule.lha           util/boot  18K   68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
BoardsLib.lha            util/libs  74K   68k provides detailed info about ...
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25.Dec.2016



OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until December 24th, 2016:
libgen.lha               dev/uti 40kb  4.0 A tool to automate building libr...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb   4.1 An arabic console device
glcrackberg_bl.lha       gra/scr 63kb  4.1 OpenGL Screen Blanker
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25.Dec.2016



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 24.12.2016
The following package has been added to the AROS-Archives until December 24th, 2016:
modexplorer.i386-aros.zip    aud     2Mb   Streaming mod file from aminet, ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Dec.2016



WHDLoad: New installers until 24.12.2016
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 24th, 2016:
  • 2016-12-23 fixed: Bob's Bad Day (Psygnosis/Dome Development) crash after intro fixed when blitter waits were disabled, DMA waits in sample player and MED replayer fixed, 68000 quitkey support, manual included, new install script (Info)
  • 2016-12-23 updated: Bionic Commando (Go!/Software Creations) patch redone, all OS stuff patched, timing fixed, high score load/save added, trainers added (Info)
  • 2016-12-22 improved: Bob's Bad Day (Psygnosis/Dome Development) blitter wait patches can be disabled with CUSTOM1, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info)
  • 2016-12-22 new: Non Stop Music (Jungle Command) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
  • 2016-12-22 fixed: Miami Chase (Code Masters/Team 17) install script was broken (probably since V1.1) and only installed disk 1 of the game, install script redone using latest template from the WHDLoad package (Info)
  • 2016-12-22 improved: Aquaventura (Psygnosis) 68000 quitkey support, default quitkey changed to Del, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config), new install script (Info)
  • 2016-12-21 improved: Miami Chase (Code Masters/Team 17) Bplcon0 color bit fixes, invalid copperlist entries fixed, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, CPU dependent delays fixed, WHDLoad v17+ features used, CD32 joypad support added (Info)
  • 2016-12-20 improved: Exolon (Hewson) timing fixed, wrong DDFSTOP in one version fixed, new install script (Info)
  • 2016-12-20 improved: Espa?a The Games '92 (Ocean/Creative Materials) load/save support added, 68000 quitkey support, manual included (Info)
  • 2016-12-19 fixed: Match of the Day (Zeppelin Games) crash when using ButtonWait fixed, DMA wait in replayer fixed, byte write to volume register fixed, 68000 quitkey support, WHDLoad v17+ features used, new install script (Info, Image)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Dec.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 69 (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 an article about the Amiga game "Maupiti Island".

Download sites:
Italian
English (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2016



amiga-news.de wishes Merry Christmas
The team of amiga-news.de wishes all Amiga fans a Merry Christmas as well as a Happy New Year 2017!


In 2016 so far we have published 727 news on amiga-news.de which are again some less compared to the last year but apart from that, a lot is going on about Amiga - for example there is the Vampire accelerator board, the availability of the X5000 or community projects like Matzes Graka. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2016
amigaimpact.org (Webseite)


Amiga-Emulation on ARM: HAPPIGA 1.4.1
Happiga is a Debian-based Linux distribution for ARM-based computers like the Raspberry Pi which directly boot into the Amiga emulator UAE4ARM. An AGA-Amiga with 68040-processor and sufficient RAM is emulated, Picasso96 is installed as well. A Samba-Share is preconfigured for exchanging data with other systems.

You cannot update Happiga to version 1.4, you have to completely reinstall the application. Changes in version 1.4.1:
  • A last minute bugfix which greatly slowed the raspberry
  • New image based on Rapsbian Pixel
  • Update the firmware of the raspberry
  • Updated uae4arm
  • Button to turn happiga off from the menu
  • Integration of KODI with launch from the menu
  • Removal of the gamepad menu, because most people use the program with pixel raspbian
  • Even more stable
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2016



eBook: Special edition of "Commodore - The Amiga Years" for supporters
According to a user on Amigaworld, supporters of the second part of Brian Bagnall's Commodore chronicle which was financed by Kickstarter will get a chapter of the book as a special ebook edition.

The eBook has 371 pages and is about the history of the Amiga 1000, which in this special edition is explained more detailed than in the forthcoming final version of "Commodore - The Amiga Years". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2016



Jump'n Run: Easter Egg
"Easter Egg" is a Jump'n Run created with Backbone. In this game you have to collect all eggs and make your way to the exit. Easter egg offers 31 levels and a "cheat mode" for beginners. You can also gain an extra life by collecting a big gold egg.


Easter Egg requires an Amiga with 1 MB RAM and 512 KB Chip-RAM. You can play the game using a joystick or the keyboard. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2016



eMail: SimpleMail 0.43
At Christmas 2000 the first alpha version of SimpleMail was released. At each following Christmas an update has been released. In 2016 version 0.43 is under the Christmas tree, which fixes some minor bugs and uses a new version of OpenSSL:
  • OpenSSL to 1.0.1u updated
  • Building mail index no longer blocks user-interface
  • Replaced Error window by more general Logging window
  • Several bug fixes
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: ZuneView 0.31
Yannick Erb has released version 0.31 of his picture viewer ZuneView for AROS which also provides some editing functions.

Changes:
  • Icon generation feature added
  • ZuneView should now work again on Linux / Windows hosted
  • Selection area is limited to picture dimension (I watched my kid doing some weird stuff with ZuneView to find this bug)
  • Updated (already outdated now) czech catalog
  • Corrected bilinear filtering creating shift to right and down
  • Improvement of some effect windows
  • Added brightness, Contrast and Gamma correction
  • Correction in Statistical filter (out of array access)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Dec.2016
Prosac (ANF)


Emulator: WinUAE 3.4.0
Toni Wilen has released version 3.4.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE. Besides, the website has got a new layout.

New emulated hardware:
  • Graphics adapters:
    • ColorBurst
    • Harlequin
    • OpalVision (OpalPaint, King of Karate)
  • Accelerator boards:
    • Blizzard 1230 MK II and III
    • IVS Vector 68030
  • HD controllers:
    • Blizzard 1230 MK II and III SCSI Kit
    • Buddha
    • Expansion Systems Dataflyer Plus
    • FileCard 2000/OSSI 500
    • Mainhattan A-Team
    • Microbotics HardFrame
    • SCRAM 500/2000
  • Network adapters:
    • AmigaNet
    • Ariadne
    • Ariadne II
    • LAN Rover/EB920
    • NE2000 compatible PCMCIA
    • NE2000 compatible ISA (x86 bridgeboard compatible)
    • X-Surf and X-Surf 100 (Partial)
  • American Laser Games arcade game hardware:
    • LaserDisc player (video file)
    • Genlock (using video file genlock mode)
    • Light gun and buttons
New features:
  • RAM/RTG RAM handling updated, all size combinations are now supported
  • Autoconfig board GUI list with custom sorting support
  • RAM Z2/Z3 board full autoconfig data customization support
  • Up to 4 Z2 and Z3 RAM boards can be enabled simultaneously
  • Multiple display and sound boards can be now enabled simultaneously
  • Genlock realtime custom image, video file or capture stream overlay
  • Genlock mode screenshot/video alpha channel support
  • Accelerator board 68000 fallback mode supported
  • Game Ports panel custom mapping autofire support
  • Network access on screen led
  • Single step (emulate one frame + pause) input event
  • MIDI and Genlock video volume control
Updates:
  • Reduced input latency
  • Reduced WASAPI sound mode latency
  • WinPCap network mode now uses generated local MAC address, no more MAC conflicts between Windows and emulated Amiga
  • If some RAM board is not JIT Direct capable, only board’s access mode changes to JIT Indirect. Global JIT Direct option is not switched off
  • Most RAM size/position related JIT Direct restrictions are gone
  • Environment variables in file paths (%VAR%) are now always expanded
  • Implemented AGA only bitplane DMA overrun emulation (Moon Child)
  • Host path 260 character limit removed (Windows 10 v1607+ only)
Bug fixes:
  • Shortcuts with Shift key work again
  • Custom Game Port remapping does not disappear mysteriously anymore
  • Mounting file with size less than 512 bytes as a harddrive work again
  • CDTV statefiles fixed
  • On the fly directory/archive mounting only worked once under OS4.x
  • Worms DC and ACSYS (possibly others) graphics glitch fixed
  • Bad sprite collision optimization fixed (Jumpman Junior)
  • Stop PPC emulation first, before freeing any emulation resources to prevent random crashes at exit
  • FPS.Adj config file handling fixed
  • ATAPI CD emulation odd data size fix (HDToolbox hang)
  • default.uae with unplugged device: set to none, not layout A
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Dec.2016
amigaworld.net (ANF)


Icaros Desktop 2.2 X-Mas with AROS port of Final Writer
From today on a pre-version of Icaros Desktop 2.2 is available, which additional to many improvements for the first time also includes a demo version of the word processing software Final Writer, meanwhile maintained by Timothy 'Terminills' Deters. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Dec.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Podcast: AMIcast 19 - Interview with Hans de Ruiter
In issue 19 of his podcast AMIcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Hans de Ruiter who writes "Amiga OS 4.x graphics drivers for R5xx and higher graphics cards." (snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.Dec.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: SDK-Browser 2.1.1.0
After the a first version a week ago, now version 2.1.1.0 of Jamie Krueger's SDK Browser for developing software under AmigaOS 4 is available. Additional to the commercial one, also a Freeware version is available. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.Dec.2016
news (Kommentar)


Individual Computers: ACA500plus can be ordered, delivery from January 3rd on
The ACA500plus is the successor version of the accelerator board ACA500, which was introduced three years ago, and now can be preordered under the title link. While some first customers will have their boards on Christmas, all others will not get them before January 3rd due to a high demand. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Dec.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 17.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until December 17th, 2016:
netsurf-m68k.lha         comm/www   8.4M  68k CSS capable web browser
Supreme-TheDemoDisk.zip  demo/disk  452K  68k The Demo Disk of Supreme
MuForce.lha              dev/debug  288K  68k V40 Enforcer,detect illegal R...
MuGuardianAngl.lha       dev/debug  316K  68k detect accesses to non-alloca...
ThorLib.lha              dev/lib    38K   68k link library w/ useful suppor...
MuScan.lha               dev/misc   135K  68k Print the MMU tree layout.
character-sets.lha       docs/hyper 13K       IANA Charset MIB (Amiga catal...
AmigaPower.lha           docs/lists 68K       aMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Mag ...
MuManual.lha             docs/misc  929K  68k mmu.lib: Tutorial, includes, ...
DQK_HexCodes.lha         game/hint  1K        Hex Offsets for Dark Queen of...
MaxKnightXmas_v2.lha     game/jump  284K  68k Max Knight Xmas Edition (demo...
MaxKnightXmasHDD.lha     game/jump  283K  68k Max Knight Xmas Edition (HDD ...
PyAGLaunchGC.tar.gz      game/misc  22K       AmigaGuide launcher generatio...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.4M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AP57Covers.lha           pix/misc   352K      aMiGa=PoWeR n?57 Cover Recto
LoadModule.lha           util/boot  18K   68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
MuFastChip.lha           util/boot  134K  68k Chip memory cache mode fine t...
MuFastRom.lha            util/boot  134K  68k MuLib conformal ROM to RAM re...
MuFastZero.lha           util/boot  151K  68k MuLib ZeroP. remapper, replac...
MuLockLib.lha            util/boot  127K  68k Lock mmu.library in memory on...
MuMapRom.lha             util/boot  122K  68k MuLib based ROM Replacement Hack
MuOmniSCSIPatc.lha       util/boot  132K  68k Make the omniscsi.device MMUL...
MuProtectModule.lha      util/boot  133K  68k MuLib ROM Modules Write Prote...
MuRedox.lha              util/boot  117K  68k MuLib based math speedup for ...
MuSetCacheMode.lha       util/boot  137K  68k MMU tree adjustment tool for ...
diceware-amiga.lha       util/crypt 82K   MOS Bitcoin & Zcash keypair g...
MMULib.lha               util/libs  658K  68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha                util/libs  64K   68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
Mu680x0Libs.lha          util/sys   310K  68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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18.Dec.2016



OS4Depot-Uploads until 17.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until December 17th, 2016:
seq.lha                  aud/mis 100kb 4.0 Simple MIDI step sequencer
ign-addon-ods.lha        off/spr 2Mb   4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
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18.Dec.2016



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 17.12.2016
The following package has been added to the AROS-Archives until December 17th, 2016:
astromenace.i386-aros.zip    gam/act 58Mb  OpenGl scrolling space shooter.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Dec.2016
hjoerg (ANF)


PDF Magazine: Raspberry Pi Magazine MagPi with Amiga tutorial
The latest issue of the official Raspberry Pi Magazine MagPi describes how to turn your Pi into an Amiga emulator by using the UAE4ARM distribution Amibian. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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15.Dec.2016
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Printed magazine: Amiga Future 124 - preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 124 (January/February 2017) of the Amiga Future. This issue among others includes an interview with EntwicklerX, a workshop on Frying Pan as well as a review of "Enemy 2 - Missing in Action". (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Dec.2016
Generation Amiga (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Simple sequencer Seq 1.2
Tuomas Hokka's "Seq" is "simple MIDI step sequencer" for AmigaOS 4. It provides some quick editing functions and has some features for live performance. Patterns can be loaded and saved in the standard MIDI file format 1. Besides, several patterns can be loaded one after another and then arranged to a set of up to 32 sequences. Version 1.2 of Seq makes it easier to choose MIDI clusters.

Download: seq.lha (101 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)


Event: Amiga Ireland 2017 (21. January, Athlone)
On January 21st in the "Prince of Wales Hotel" in Athlone near Dublin the "Amiga Ireland 2017" will take place. These special guests were invited:
  • David Pleasance (former Managing Director, Commodore UK)
  • Mike Battilana (Cloanto)
  • Ravi and Paul (Retro Hour Podcast)
  • Neil Cafferkey (author of Prism2v2 driver)
  • Rob Cranley (Amiga Future)
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Update for game "Huenison"
Huenison is an arcade game in retro look for AmigaOS 4 and Windows, which according to the developer combines elements of Arkanoid, Decathlon, Dynablaster, Impossible Mission, Oil's Well, Pac-Man, Pang, Qix, Slam Tilt, Space Invaders, Tetris and Vital Light. The game is available for 4.99 USD and now has been updated providing some minor improvements. The website of the game moved to retream.itch.io/huenison. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2016



Preview videos: Vertical shooter "EgoWings"
For some time Javier Alcaniz (code) and Carlos 'Estrayk' Del Alamo (music) have been working on a vertically scrolling shoot'em up developed with AMOS. The game runs on each Amiga with at least 1 MB RAM. Now some first videos have been published which show the current level of development which the authors describe as "alpha": The blog of the developers has not been updated since July 2015 but a first demo version of the game is supposed to be availble before Christmas. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2016
fs-uae.net (Webseite)


Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.0 (beta)
After releasing the "stable" version 2.8.1 of his Amiga emulator FS-UAE, Frode Solheim now concentrates on implementing new features in the so called "development" releases. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Amiga Future: Issue 100 can be read online
Issue 100 (January/February 2013) of the printed magazine Amiga Future is sold out, you can read the German and the English edition of the magazine online (picture files). You also can buy a PDF-version. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2016
Murakami (ANF)


Printed magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 57 (French)
Since 1998 the French printed magazine aMiGa=PoWer has been published by the Association Française du Libre Essai (AFLE). Among others issue 57 offers reviews of AEROS, AmiCloud and MorphOS working on the Sam460 and on a PowerMac G4. The magazine also reports about ArtBase, RadeonHD with Warp 3D and offers a AmigaOne-X1000 workshop (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Dec.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 10.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until December 10th, 2016:
ign-addon-ods.lha        biz/spread 1.8M  OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
HaldCLUT.lha             gfx/3d     1.5M  MOS HaldCLUT create/correct/fun/v...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.1M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   4.4M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
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11.Dec.2016



OS4Depot-Uploads until 10.12.2016
The following package has been added to the OS4Depot until December 10th, 2016:
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
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10.Dec.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: SDK-Browser 2.0.0.100
Ten years after the public release of the SDK Browser v1.6.0.0, Jamie Krueger has released an update of his SDK-browser. In 2008 he became official member of the development team of Amiga Inc.

The SDK-browser is supposed to provide a comfortable interface to developers for using the OS4 developer documentation. For example it shows the prototypes of any system calls or finds methods, structures or tag items.

New features:
  • Updated and built for the latest AmigaOS 4 SDK
  • Tested under AmigaOS4.1 FE [Update 1]
  • Support for 64-BIT Filesystems
  • New (STRUCT)ure browsing
  • User settable Fonts and displayed Tab lengths
  • Dynamic target screen selector
  • Mouse Wheel Variable Acceleration Mode
  • Enhanced user preference settings
  • New "Find Files (in dir)"
  • New "Search (in Search Results)"
  • New "Open in File Browser"
  • New "Open in Workbench window..."
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Dec.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


Video: Watching Viva Amiga in USA online
Officially only in January the documentary "Viva Amiga" will be released. Since the beginning of December you can watch the film via the video portal Hulu online (following the title link), though Hulu is restricted to US American IP-addresses. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Dec.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AROS: October 2016 Highlights
Based on his weekly news on the progresses of the operating system AROS, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz also summarizes the results for a month under the title link.

"In October the AROS repository breached 53000 commits mark thank to contributions from multiple developers. Neil Cafferkey continued his work on improving MUI as well as fixed the IntelGMA video driver. Miloslav Martinka contributed further Czech localization as well as localized WiMP tool. Yannick Erb and Marcus Sackrow contributed fixes to AROS programs and we saw introduction of new AROS GUI theme. Lastly ARM Linux hosted version of AROS has been fixed to compile again as part of ABIv0 refresh by Krzysztof Smiechowicz.

After September's explosion of distributions, October was quiet on that front. 3rd party developers however continued their work. Yannick Erb released updated version of ZuneView tool and Joerg Renkert released new version of his ModExplorer application for playing online and offline music modules. AROS archives also saw upload of two interesting Zelda-type games, Time to Triumph und Navi's Quest." (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Dec.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaAMP 3.19
Thomas Wenzel has updated his audio player AmigaAMP for AmigaOS 3.9 and AmigaOS 4. In version 3.19 some bugs have been fixed (window position saving bug, DIRECTORY ToolType bug) and the support for BufferSize=File has been extended to more file types. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Dec.2016



AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet ignition with OpenDocument support
Achim Pankalla has released an "addon" for the spreadsheet program ignition - which he maintains and has adapted to AmigaOS 4 - that adds support for the OpenDocument-format which is used by OpenOffice and LibreOffice.

The addon requires ignition 1.0 beta 4 and can load and save documents the suffix ods. It is the first public release which still cannot convert all formulas and functions ignition can calculate. Besides, currently only a few optical attributes (font) are accepted. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Dec.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Amiga Future: Issue 99 online
Issue 99 (November/Dezember 2012) of the printed magazine Amiga Future is sold out, you can read the German and English edition of the magazine online. You also can buy a PDF-version. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Dec.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.7.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's 'Ask Me Up' is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free.

In version 2.7.0 among others the German, English, Frech and Swedish translations have been improved as well as some questions in the themes "People" und "Entertainment" updated. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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05.Dec.2016
ANF


FPGA accelerator board: Vampire V500 V2+ can be preordered
Following the title link now it is possible to express interest in a Vampire accelerator board by registering on the website. The board for the Amiga 500 version 2+ is available for 300 Euro, the V600 V2 for 250 Euro. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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05.Dec.2016
George Sokianos (ANF)


Event: AmiCamp #5 in Athens
Press release: AmiCamp #5, the Amiga event for all the Greek Amiga Users, will take place in Athens (Greece) on Saturday, 10th, and Sunday, 11th of December. 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 and Pegasos II 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. (snx)

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04.Dec.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: MKShare 1.6
Andy Broad's MKShare is a keyboard and mouse sharing utility for AmigaOS 4 computers available for 5 Pound. The author wrote about it:" If you have more than one OS4 machine and you like to use them at the same time this software enables you to operate all your machines with the same keyboard and mouse. As a bonus Clipboard sharing is thrown in for good luck!"

Two or more machines running AmigaOS 4.0 or higher, (or one machine running AmigaOS 4.0 or higher and a machine running AmigaOS 3.x) connected to te same Local Area Network are required. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Dec.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Programming competition: AmiGameJam 2016
This year the AmiGameJam 2016 has the theme "TV Shows and Movies". It is also allowed to enter a festive/Christmas-themed game instead. Until December 31st you have to create a new Amiga game with at least a playable demo version (one level) to participate.

The winners will be selected in an online vote, possibly completed by votes of prominent jurors from the Amiga scene. The best games ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd are honored as well as best game in the category "Amiga NG". (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Dec.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 03.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until December 3rd, 2016:
ADFBlitzer3.lha          disk/misc  43K   68k Read and Write ADF Files to/f...
f1champ.lha              docs/misc  69K       Statistics of Formula One 195...
Chocolate-Heretic-1.0... game/shoot 895K  68k Amiga port of Chocolate-Heretic
IconLib_46.4.lha         util/libs  675K  68k free icon.library in optimize...
AmiKick.lha              util/misc  41K   ppc Check Kickstart images under ...
TaiwanMOS.lha            util/sys   1K        Taiwan country for MorphOS an...
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04.Dec.2016



OS4Depot-Uploads until 03.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until December 3rd, 2016:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb   4.1 An arabic console device
blender.lha              gra/ray 66Mb  4.1 The free open source 3D content ...
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04.Dec.2016



WHDLoad: New installer until 03.12.2016
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 3rd, 2016:
  • 2016-12-03 improved: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) intro & game merged in one slave, icons added (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Dec.2016



PDF-Magazine: Amiga Mania #11 (Hungarian)
"Amiga Mania" is an elaborately designed Hungarian PDF-magazine with 36 pages concentrating on all topics around the Amiga. The eleventh issue among others is about the accelerator board Vampire V600v2 and its developer Igor 'Majsta' Majstorovic. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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01.Dec.2016



Hyperion announcing AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update #1
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the pre-release version of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update #1 especially adapted for the latest next-generation AmigaOne X5000 computer developed by A-EON Technology Ltd.

The pre-release version of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update #1 is an official update to AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition released by Hyperion Entertainment in 2014. It is the combined result of many many years of effort by the core AmigaOS developers, translators and beta testers and includes a number of bug fixes and updates to the original AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition release.

AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update #1 is scheduled to be released by Hyperion Entertainment for all supported systems before the end of 2016.

The pre-release version for AmigaOne X5000 will be replaced by a future full AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition update. Until that time registered AmigaOne X5000 owners will be able to download machine specific critical updates and bug fixes as and when they become available and will be entitled to a free digital copy of the full AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update #1 when it is released by Hyperion Entertainment. (cg)

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30.Nov.2016



Calendar for 2017 with Amiga themes for printing
Amiga fan "ptyerman" has created three calendars with Amiga themes, which other users can print and hang them on the wall. The calendars are written in English and use the paper size 450x582 and 582x450mm which are quite unusual for Central Europeans.



Downloads:

2017_Calender_1.pdf (3 MB)
2017_Calender_2.pdf (3 MB)
2017_Calender_3.pdf (4 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Nov.2016
(ANF)


Demo scene: Voting for charts of seventh issue of "Versus"
After a longer break, the scene group Nukleus and VOID are going to release a new issue of his "chart mag" Versus. Versions for Amiga (OCS) and AmigaOS 4 are planned. On the website of Nukleaus a votesheet was established, where you can vote for your favourite coder, graphic artist, productions or parties. It is not necessary to vote in all sections or to nominate five candidates. The organizers hope to get as much feedback as possible to create the charts as representative as possible. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Nov.2016
ANACHRONIA (ANF)


Action-Adventure: Enemy 2 Collectors Edition now available
Press release: The Collectors Edition of ENEMY 2: Missing in Action is now available! It includes a slightly updated version of the game on disk, a manual with a poster and a telescope box with Cover-Art from Ogan Kandemiroglu. The game as well as the manual are available in English and German. The first time the game is started the desired language is installed (Caution: Disks are modified).


Enemy is an action-adventure similar to Flashback for the classic Amiga. It runs on each Amiga with Kickstart 1.2 and higher and 1 MB RAM (possibly CPU-caches and AGA have to be disabled). For users of WinUAE, on our website there is a ready to use configuration file as well as a disk image as ADF-files.

The Collectors Edition is available for 15.00 Euro plus shipping (1.70 Euro in Germany, 4.10 Euro worldwide). If you order two copies you will pay shipping only once! You can order via the corresponding form on our website.

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27.Nov.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 26.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 26th, 2016:
yWeather.lha             comm/misc  362K  MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
netsurf.lha              comm/www   6.2M  OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
netsurf_os3.lha          comm/www   3.4M  68k Fast CSS capable web browser
RobotGang.lha            demo/intro 194K  68k Robot Gang
renderlib301.lha         dev/misc   259K  ppc image processing kernel 060NO...
amiga-assembler-buch.pdf docs/misc  1.3M      Das endliche Assemblerbuch (N...
Chocolate-Heretic-1.0... game/shoot 884K  68k Amiga port of Chocolate-Heretic
emutos.lha               misc/emu   396K  ppc EmuTOS - Amiga version
Eagleplayer_2.05.lha     mus/play   2.0M  68k comprehensive modular sound p...
ControllerTest.lha       util/misc  56K   68k Test many different types of ...
ExtractHere.lha          util/wb    37K   68k Simple LhA wrapper for Workbench
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27.Nov.2016



OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until November 26th, 2016:
seq.lha                  aud/mis 100kb 4.0 Simple MIDI step sequencer
netsurf.lha              net/bro 6Mb   4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
amiupdate_ell.lha        uti/wor 7kb   4.1 Greek catalog files for AmiUpdat...
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27.Nov.2016



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 26.11.2016
The following package has been added to the AROS-Archives until November 26th, 2016:
tuxmath.i386-aros.zip        gam/chi 5Mb   Math game styled like 'Missle Co...
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27.Nov.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Accelerator board: Photo and speed tests of Wicher 500
In August, Retro 7-Bit announced an accelerator board for the Amiga 500. Under the title link now photos of this Wicher board have been published as well as some speed tests released. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Nov.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Video: AmigaOS 4.1 booting on the Tabor-Board
Under the title link, Hyperion Entertainment has released a video of an early development version of a port of AmigaOS 4.1 to the Tabor board ("AmigaOne 1222"). (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Nov.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: EdiSyn 0.55 and Mapparium 0.7 for ARM
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS offers tabs and syntax highlighting for C/C++, Pascal, HTML and Hollywood. Version 0.55 for the first time and exclusively is available for ARM-based AROS-systems, which now remebers recently opened files.

The OpenStreetMap viewer Mapparium has been also released for ARM.

Download:
EdiSyn_0.55_ARM.lha (3 MB)
Mapparium_0.7.arm-aros.lha (4 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Nov.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


Visual effects Pioneer: Ron Thornton died
"After a short battle with liver disease" Ron Thornton died on 21. November 2016. He was 59. Together with Paul Beigle-Bryant, he was one of the pioneers using computers for creating visual effects for space films.

His animations created on an Amiga with the videotoaster and Newteks LightWave 3D have had a formative influence on the TV serie "Babylon 5". For the pilot of this serie, "The Gathering", in 1993 he received the Emmy, the most important award for TV in USA. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Podcast: AMIcast 18 - Amibian (Amiga on the Raspberry Pi)
In the latest issue of his podcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Gunnar Kristjánsson and Thomas Navarro Garcia, members of the project Amibian, which directly boots a Raspberry Pi into the Amiga emulator UAE4All. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Nov.2016



Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.4.4 (alpha)
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which is supposed to help developing games of diverse genres - released videos show ports of Pacman and Pang. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" for running the finished games requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast-RAM.

On Internet so far there only is a closed Facebook group, but you can contact the authors via eMail. The latest alpha version can be downloaded via Google Drive.

Now the RedPill editor tries not to use a FPU. More changes of version 0.4.4:
  • Tiles can have 3 shapes: Normal, Ramp Up and Ramp Down. Define them in the Tiles screen.
  • Audio: Amiga Mods can be played. Define them in the audio menu and use Play Mod trigger to play them. They are loaded at play moment, it is better to play them once at the start of the level.
  • Audio: Amiga IFF sounds can be played. Define them in the audio menu and use Play Sound trigger to play them.
  • Sprite color Remap now gives an error message when failing.
  • Sprite generation from sprite sheets is more robust.
  • Physics and platform code has been redone (again) to support the new tile shapes.
  • GameObjects process has been slightly optimized.
  • When editting values the previous value is not lost anymore.
  • When editing levels now you can use F to flood fill the current tile.
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22.Nov.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Game: BOH-Update 17, new website
There is a free update for Simone Bevilacqua's commercial "Dungeon-crawler" BOH (among others available for AmigaOS 4, AROS). Besides, the website moved and can be now found under the title link.

Changes:
  • Adds 17 new missions (5 very easy, 8 easy, 4 average)
  • Improves 43 missions by means of new/revised hints, little changes to the layouts, and other changes
  • Marks training missions with a dedicated icon
  • Adds the remote control icon to the HUD
  • Adds graphics interpolation to enemy sprites
  • Improves some graphics and shooting sound effects
  • Adds specific sound effects to the theme "C64"
  • Renames some missions and most themes
  • Reworks the manuals entirely
  • Reworks the soundtrack artwork entirely
  • Allows to run the game on Windows 10 as a normal user (due to changes in the Windows files handling policy, it had become necessary to run the game as administrator)
  • Fixes the resetting of the timer due to the focus loss auto-pause when the game was already paused
  • Applies various other changes/optimizations
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Nov.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Web browser: NetSurf 3.6 for AmigaOS 3/4
Chris Young has updated his ports of the web browser Netsurf. In version 3.6 some bugs have been fixed and the GUI-code cleared up. Besides, supercookies now can be refused and handling certificates was improved. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 95
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers, which is available in different formats - among others as HTML version and as C64-Diskmag. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Full version of "Gadget: Lost in Time" as free download
The full version of the puzzler and platform game Gadget: Lost in Time is available as free download. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Nov.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 19.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 19th, 2016:
BlitzISOtoFloppy.lha     dev/basic  1K        Make floppy from Ultimate Bli...
SonnetLibrary.lha        driver/oth 36K   68k Mediator driver Sonnet 7200 G...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha     game/role  11M   68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
srec.lha                 gfx/misc   149K  OS4 Screen Recorder
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha        mus/play   334K  68k MPEG audio player with GUI (A...
CTLG2CT.lha              util/conv  14K   68k Decompiles catalogs back into...
pwdGen.lzh               util/misc  8K    68k password generator
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  455K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  517K  MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  567K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
tz.lha                   util/time  1.0M  68k Time Zone Database and Library
tzdev.lha                util/time  743K      Time Zone Database and Librar...
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20.Nov.2016



OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until November 19th, 2016:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb   4.1 An arabic console device
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 567kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
ctlg2ct.lha              uti/tex 39kb  4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
amiupdate_rus.lha        uti/wor 7kb   4.1 Russian catalogs for AmiUpdate
srec.lha                 vid/rec 149kb 4.1 Screen Recorder
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20.Nov.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Hyperion Entertainment: Facebook website
For all the little "in between" news, Hyperion Entertainment has established a Facebook website under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Nov.2016
Pascal Papara (ANF)


Catacomb 3D: Delivery has started
Since the beginning of this week, the game Catacomb 3D (amiga-news.de reported) has been delievered. Purchaser of Projekt Lila can apply for a "VIP-Status" in Pascal Papara's Ares-shop and then will get a discount for the game.

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16.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Kickstarter: New keycaps for Amiga keyboards
Last year, Philipp Lang and his team achieved the production of new A1200 cases via Kickstarter. The production just has started. As completion now new keycaps are supoposed to be produced which are compatible with existing Amiga keyboards.

About 67.000 Euro has to be collected cia Kickstarter to start the production. One set of keycaps consist of all necessary keys Tasten (some of them in different sizes to be compatible with as many as possible Amiga computers), new springs as well as plastic clips for sticking some of the bigger keys like SPACE or ENTER. The sets will be available with German, British and American layout. Additionally a lot of different colours will be offered, some of them as limited editions.

A single set will cost 49 Euro in the Kickstarter campaign, but there also will be diverse special editions for a higher sum of money. Please note, that all Dollar prices - unless otherwise specified - on the project website are not in US but in Singapore-Dollar ("SGD"). At the beginning of the project website, the maintainers give information how to convert the prices into USD or Euro (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Audio-Player: AmigaAMP 3.18 (AmigaOS 3/4)
In the latest version of the audio player AmigaAMP a bug was fixed, which could cause crashes if the preferences are changed while playing. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Nov.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Video-Review: ARMIGA, ARM-based Amiga emulating microconsole
"The Game Show" has released a video review of the ARM-based Amiga emulating microconsole ARMIGA. In March the ARMIGA-project was started via crowdfunding, meanwhile you can buy the devices in a webshop. A special feature of the ARMIGA is the built-in disk drive which can read Amiga disks. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Nov.2016



CD1200 prototype in Retro-Computer-Museum in Leicester
The CD-drive CD1200, which was introduced by Commodore at the CeBIT 1994, should make the Amiga 1200 compatible with the CD³² by using the integrated Akiko-chip. There are two prototypes, a gray one which Ryan Czerwinski ("Merlancia") own and the white one, which was presented at the CeBIT.

During the last months, readers of Amiga.org discussed where the white CD1200 could be located. The producer of the podcast "The Retro Hour", Ravi Abbott, has found it in the Retro-Computer-Museum in Leicester, proved by photos under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Nov.2016
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Crowdfunding: First Amiga pictures of the game Tower 57
In summer last year, the development of the game "Tower 57" was crowdfunded. As an additional goal also it was given so much money to develop an Amiga version, which Daniel Müßener does. Under the title link some first screenshots show the current level of development. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Nov.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 12.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 12th, 2016:
ntimed.lha               comm/net   266K  68k Network time synchronization ...
streamer.lha             comm/www   355K  68k Internet radio MPEG/RealAudio...
AmigaProgramming-1.0.lha docs/help  286K      Guide to Amiga Compatible Pro...
RiVA-src.lha             gfx/show   89K   68k RiVA MPEG player source code
ACE-MorphOS.lha          misc/emu   1.4M  MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
Travel_Around_Earth.lha  mods/xm    731K      New mod by Pseudaxos
cranker.lha              util/pack  730K  68k Amiga exe cruncher/loader,dat...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until November 12th, 2016:
pypdf2.lha               dev/lib 86kb  4.1 Manipulate PDFs from python code
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb   4.1 An arabic console device
sortbench.lha            uti/she 8kb   4.0 a CPU benchmark that stresses CP...
pdf_maker.lha            uti/tex 26kb  4.1 Convert postscript to PDF with s...
amiupdate_fin.lha        uti/wor 32kb  4.1 Finnish catalogs for AmiUpdate
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Video: Production of new Amiga-1200 cases has started
Yesterday the mass production of the new Amiga-1200 cases has started by producing the trapdoors, like the video proves which is available under the title link. Next week more videos and photos will be added. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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