24.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Interview: Fernando 'Retrofan' Martin (Real AmiKit)
The blog of the English-language podcast Amicast has published an interview with Fernando 'Retrofan' Martin, who is the author of Real AmiKit, which is an adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for real Amigas.
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24.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 15.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 15th:
- A crash in TLSF memory manager has been fixed (mschulz)
- Amiga.lib no longer depends on C library (neil)
- AvailFonts function of diskfont.library now supports NULL parameter (mazze)
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24.Feb.2016
Kris (ANF)
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MiST: FPGA-AGA-Core 1.2
For the Atari/Amiga clone MiST (amiga-news.de reported) an update of the emulated Amiga with AGA-support has been released which further increases the compatibility.
Changes in version 1.2:
- Initial implementation of programmable display modes
- OSD HRTmon enable/disable switch is working (ON – F11 acts as NMI and enters HRTmon; OFF – F11 is HELP key)
- Proper handling of CPU access to Chip-RAM & custom regs – CPU waits for free slot when turbo option is disabled
- Fixed playfield 2 color LUT offset when playfield 2 has priority for OCS/ECS modes
- Some IRQ changes
- Added support for undocumented Agnus/Denise behaviour when BPL=7 in ECS/OCS mode (fixes demos like SushiBoyz by Ghostown, Sliced&Diced by Dekadence etc.)
- Blitter line mode fixed (fixes demos like SushiBoyz & Sunglasses by Ghostown, Vectorize by RSi etc.)
- Bitfield instructions fixed, barrel shifter implemented by Till Harbaum
- Fixed colortable for sprites (bplxor) – fixes Alien Breed 3D (and probably many others)
- Fixed keyboard rate
- Kickstart-ROM is also uploaded to mirror position (E0)
- Fixed reset problems & Fast-RAM disappearing
- Added CPU CACR cache control, fixed reading CACR reg
- Added scanlines for non-doublescan config
- Fixed video dithering – both spatial & random dithering weren’t working properly
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23.Feb.2016
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Kickstart switcher: A500Flash
A500Flash is a Kickstart switcher allowing Flash-memory reprogramming. The device should be installed inside the Amiga A500/A500+/A2000.
The design of the Flash memory enables loading another Kickstart image by running additional software on the same Amiga computer and subsequent switching between available ROM images by holding down CTRL+Amiga+Amiga keys.
The A500Flash is available in two versions, either for 512 KB or 1 MB ROMs:
A500Flash 5k
- Designed for Amiga A500/A500+/A2000 models
- Comes with 512kB of built-in Flash memory
- Support for 512kB ROM images – only the primary ones
- Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds
- Original ROM chip required
- PCB boards installation in place of original ROM and Gary chip
- Flash chips programming using native Amiga OS software
- Included software requires Amiga OS 1.3+
A500Flash 1M
- Designed for Amiga A500/A500+/A2000 models
- Comes with 1MB of built-in Flash memory
- Support for 1MB ROM images - standard and extended ROM images
- Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds
- Original ROM chip required
- PCB boards installation in place of original ROM and Gary chip
- Flash chips programming using native Amiga OS software
- Included software requires Amiga OS 1.3+
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23.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.4
Chris Young has updates his AmigaOS-4-port of the web browser NetSurf. Additional to improvements (websites now are better displayed) and bug fixes, now the Duktape Javascript engine is included. It is disabled by default because the support of Javascript still is incomplete.
For users of AmigaOS 3.5 or higher, there is also a new beta version. The author asks for feedback to improve this version.
Download:
netsurf.lha (6 MB)
netsurf_os3.lha (3 MB)
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23.Feb.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: 3D videos and pictures of 30th Amiga anniversary party in Mountain View
During the 30th anniversary party in Mountain View, Alex Carmona took stereoscopic pictures and now has published them under the title link.
The photographs are available in Multi Picture Object format, while the AVI-videos have two channels (A/B) and use the MJPG-codec.
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23.Feb.2016
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 119 - preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 119 (March/April 2016) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are previews of Spielwiese, Spice Obsession Mod for Dune 2 and Amiga Racer as well as an interview with Pascal Papara. The cover CD contains PD-software as well as some full versions.
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22.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Distribution: AEROS for Pi updated
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS is available for registered users as updated version for the ARM-based computer Raspberry Pi (video).
AmiCloud, AmigaRacer, MilkyTracker, fixed lokales, audio driver for AROS, VisualBoyAdvance and FCEUX are included.
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22.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.4.4
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a puzzle game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Android, Linux and Windows) in which you have to correctly answer questions on common knowledge, each with four possible answers. In the L and XL edition there is also a two-player mode. A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.
In version 2.4.4 some questions as well as the English and Greek translations have been reworked and the German, Portuguese and Swedish translations habe been completed.
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21.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZuneView 0.22
Yannick Erb has released version 0.22 of his picture viewer with editing functions called ZuneView for AROS.
Changes:
- GUI clean up
- Clean up the mess about Applying processing on selection or not, if a area is selected it's getting used, otherwise the whole picture is used
- Added a clear selection button and menu entry
- Live Barrel Correction is now working
- Rotation takes also last line and column into account for bilinear filter
- Added Barrel correction tool
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21.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Test your reaction time: R²Z 1.0
R²Z is a Hollywood programm written by Ulrich Beckers "to measure times required to motor-react (pressing a key) to different visual stimuli." R²Z is available in German and English for AmigaOS/68k, AROS and MorphOS.
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21.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amiga developer Dave Needle died
According to RJ Mical on his Facebook site, Dave Needle has died. After their employment at Amiga Corporation, they both worked as developers of the game consoles Atari Lynx and 3DO.
Dave Needle did belong to the original hardware developers of the Amiga. Despite of circulated love-hate relationship between him and Jay Miner's dog Mitchie he later pointed out to his relevance of the computer development. In the past year he did participate in the Amiga 30th anniversary party (picture).
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21.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 20th, 2016:
dsm.lha comm/net 7.4M WOS Synology Download Manager MUI
dnstracer.lha comm/tcp 58K 68k Trace a chain of DNS servers ...
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 3.0M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
streamer.lha comm/www 366K 68k Internet radio MPEG/RealAudio...
gathering95.lha demo/tg95 20M Introduction/results from Gat...
unixlib.lha dev/src 198K Unix compatibility library (s...
TheCrypt36.zip docs/mags 7.3M Issue 36 of "The Crypt" onlin...
TheCrypt39.zip docs/mags 14M Issue 39 of "The Crypt" onlin...
Gorky17Demo.lha game/demo 177M OS4 Demo version of the 3D strate...
Cantaloupe.lha game/misc 284K 68k 1996 Puzzle game, full version
Cantaloupe_src.lha game/misc 245K 1996 Puzzle game, AMOS source
Kumquat.lha game/misc 118K 68k 1996 'Quix' clone, full version
Kumquat_src.lha game/misc 66K 1996 'Quix' clone, AMOS/ASM s...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-1.txt mags/misc 41K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 1 (Jun...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-2.txt mags/misc 83K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 2 (Aug...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-3.tr.gz mags/misc 82K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 3 (Sep...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-3.txt mags/misc 123K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 3 (Sep...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-3ps.pdf mags/misc 289K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 3 (Sep...
wirenet.lha misc/antiq 6.0M website snapshot: UK Amiga IS...
GoatTrackerStereo-mos... mus/edit 747K MOS Tracker-like C64 stereo music...
AmigaOS39.lha pix/boot 115K AmigaOS39: Rainboot Theme
InstallerGen.lha util/misc 223K 68k Installer script creation tool
R2Z_68k.lha util/wb 1.3M 68k Test your reaction times
R2Z_AROS_intel.lha util/wb 1.4M x86 Test your reaction times
R2Z_MorphOS.lha util/wb 1.4M MOS Test your reaction times
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21.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 20th, 2016:
textfont_ex.lha doc/tut 346kb 4.0 TextFont examples
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 2Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
utf8_library.lha lib/mis 199kb 4.1 Encode/Decode or manipulate UTF8...
colors.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Prints out a color table with al...
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 16kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
showfiles.lha uti/she 36kb 4.0 shows a sorted & text-format...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 416kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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21.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 20.02.2016
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 February 20th, 2016:
- 2016-02-18 updated: Darkmere (Core Design) made 68000 compatible (Info)
- 2016-02-18 improved: Eye Of The Storm (Rebellion) supports the original disks (Info, Image)
- 2016-02-15 fixed: Brian the Lion (Psygnosis) works on 68000 now, quitkey, icons, manual added (Info)
- 2016-02-14 improved: Astro Marine Corps (Dinamic) 68000 quitkey support, all blitter wait patches removed, lots of trainer options added, support for 2nd fire button (grenades) added, interrupts fixed, MoveP instructions patched, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
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21.Feb.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Accelerator board: Adding a FPU to the ACA-1233
The Amiga user Allan 'Drewlio77' Versaevel has upgraded his ACA-1233 accelerator board (55 MHz) by adding a 68882-FPU and a coresponding oscillator by himself. In his opinion, this might be the fastest 68030-board for the Amiga 1200.
Additional to his abridged report, under the title link he also has published pictures.
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20.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: Six applications added
Six applications have been added to the software collection Games-Coffer: Easycalc, Future Writer 1.2, Magicmenu, Parnet, Trevs Demomaker and VIC 20 Emulator.
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20.Feb.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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IBrowse developers explained usage of TLS with AmiSSL
The developers wrote: "I'm sure you are all well aware that many secure websites are normally not reachable with IBrowse 2.4 any longer, due to servers shutting off SSLv2 and SSLv3 connections due to the POODLE attack. However, there is a solution...
This is delayed advice, as I have only just realised it was possible: contrary to the previous news item, you should enable both "SSLv2 support" and "SSLv3 support" on the "Security" page of the IBrowse preferences. You must then also enter the following command in a shell:
setenv save AmiSSL/SSL_CLIENT_VERSION tls1
This will force any most applications that use AmiSSL, including IBrowse, to disable both SSLv2 and SSLv3, and use more secure TLSv1 connections instead.
This issue will be properly addressed in IBrowse 2.5 and a new version of AmiSSL."
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19.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Demo version of Gorky 17
In October Hyperion Entertainment released its AmigaOS-4 port of the game "Gorky 17" (amiga-news.de reported). Under the title link today a demo version was released which includes the first level.
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19.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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MorphOS: Amiga Racer 2.8e
While the version for AmigaOS-4.1 of the racing computer game "Amiga Racer" (amiga-news.de reported) is constantly updated in the OS4Depot-Uploads, the version for MorphOS from the end of October remained almost unnoticed. On tuesday version 2.8e was released.
As our reader "p-OS" has pointed out, updating to newer versions is possible from within the game. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 01.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 1st:
- 64-bit fixes have been applied to Urltext, BWin and TheBar MUI classes (Kalamatee)
Week of February 8th:
- Performance of part of rendering of decoration system has been improved (Kalamatee)
- Alpha blitting in IntelG45 driver in now improved (Kalamatee)
- Fixes for 68k compatibility have been added to Calculator (wawa)
- Which command has been fixed only to find files (mazze)
- Romania keymap now available in Input preferences (polluks)
- Multiview is now able to scroll with space and backspace (mazze)
- Compatibility of Which command has been improved (mazze)
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18.Feb.2016
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amiga-news.de: Downtimes due to attacks on the database
During the last two days amiga-news.de could not be accessed for a longer period: Our server was attacked by a script which succeeded several times in overloading our database. But no data got lost and the hackers could not break into our system. The problem should be fixed now. We apologize for the downtimes.
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16.Feb.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 3.3.0
As usual Toni Wilen has given a detailed preview to the forthcoming version of the Amiga emulator WinUAE. Version 3.3.0 will focus on AmigaOS 4-specific adaptions. Wilen thanks all donators, who have supported him to make these changes possible. He also points out that the performance of this extensions will never be the equal of the AmigaOS 3 extensions because the context switches between emulated and native code is much more complicated and therefore slower.
New features:
- New optional "indirect" UAE expansion trap system, fully compatible
with OS4.x, virtual memory and some debugging programs.
- PC Bridgeboard disk drive raw image support. (ipf, ext adf,...)
- Monochrome video out emulation, including A1000 color/mono video
out software control (BPLCON0 COLOR bit).
- Dark palette fix option to correct colors of badly ported Atari ST
games (Midnight Resistance etc..)
- Official CSPPC/BPPC flash updater can be used to install full ROM
image without having existing ROM image.
- Custom input events can execute Amiga-side commands and scripts.
UAE-extensions, now supported by OS4:
- Directory harddrives, including on the fly insertion/removal.
- CDFS CD mounting.
- Clipboard sharing.
- uaegfx RTG.
- uaehf.device hardfiles.
- Virtual mouse driver/magic mouse/tablet mode.
- uaenet.device.
- uaeserial.device.
- uaescsi.device.
- uae.resource and uaenative.library.
Updates:
- Game Ports panel input customization is finally very intuitive.
- On the fly input device insertion/removal now remembers if device
was previously inserted and autoselects previous game ports slot.
- Many input device handling updates and fixes.
Fixed bugs:
- Hardware RTG emulation rendered same frame twice in some situations causing
slow performance.
- Amithlon partition type (0x78/0x30) support works again.
- Some storage devices failed to mount as a harddrive.
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16.Feb.2016
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Preview videos: Shoot'em Ups "Ego Wings" and "Steel Hawk"
Two vertically scrolling Shoot'em Ups currently are in development for the Amiga: The author of "Ego Wings" has published a first video, but at the same time has regret that due to a lack of time the development proceeds rather slowly. Already the third video has been published of "Steel Hawk", which now shows version number 0.10.
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14.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 13th, 2016:
AmiVNC4.lha comm/tcp 160K OS4 Experimental VNC server w/ sr...
GoogleDrive_handler_O... comm/tcp 1.1M OS4 Google Drive handler for OS4
dkd-twce.lha demo/40k 38K 68k Twice by Dekadence
Minimig.lha demo/intro 38K 68k Minimig demo
ADE_Embed_C.sh.txt dev/src 1K Embed a C program inside UNIX...
Koules.lha game/actio 238K 68k Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Koules_OS4.lha game/actio 228K OS4 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
KoulesMOS.lha game/actio 235K MOS Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Chain_Gang.lha game/wb 42K 68k Make some chains!
webptools050_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.8M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools050_aros.lha gfx/conv 5.3M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
PCxSP.lha misc/emu 13K PCx Spanish Docs
DeliTrackerSP.lha mus/play 31K DeliTracker Spanish Docs
Redit.lha text/edit 49K 68k Text editor
EvenMore.lha text/show 337K 68k V0.88: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 416K MOS V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 415K OS4 V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMoreSP.lha text/show 4K EvenMore v0.88 spanish catalog
FBlitGuideES.lha util/boot 24K Spanish translation of FBlit....
exutil_68k.lha util/wb 1.2M 68k Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_AROS.lha util/wb 1.3M x86 Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_MorphOS.lha util/wb 1.2M MOS Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_OS4.lha util/wb 1.6M OS4 Batch renames picture files b...
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14.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 13th, 2016:
drawergad.lha dev/lib 176kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
picflowgad.lha dev/lib 15kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
radiobuttonxgad.lha dev/lib 78kb 4.0 Radiobutton gadget expanded
textfont_ex.lha doc/tut 12kb 4.0 TextFont examples
hatari.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 Atari ST and STE emulator
koules.lha gam/act 228kb 4.0 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 72Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
googledrive_handler.lha net/mis 1Mb 4.0 Google Drive handler for OS4
amivnc4.lha net/ser 160kb 4.0 VNC server for AmigaOS4
exutil.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 An exif based batch renamer
showfiles.lha uti/she 37kb 4.0 shows a sorted & text-format...
wheelrun.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.1 another program launcher written...
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14.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 13.02.2016
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 February 13th, 2016:
- 2016-02-09 updated: Turrican (Factor 5/Rainbow Arts) overall rework (Info)
- 2016-02-07 improved: Netherworld (Hewson) fixed for 68000, removed NTSC dependency (Info)
- 2016-02-07 improved: Bart vs. the World (Virgin) loading optimzed, more blitter waits (Info)
- 2016-02-07 improved: Ultimate Golf (Gremlin) 68000 quitkey support added (Info)
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14.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: Further prototypes added
After the Amiga 2200, now further prototypes have been added to the Big Book of Amiga Hardware:
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14.Feb.2016
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Short guide to Lua
The next article in the MorphOS-Library the Finnish member 'jPV' of the demo group RNO has called "Getting Started with Lua". It is a short guide to the programming language Lua and is available under the title link.
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12.Feb.2016
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Quick review: PDF magazine Amigaville, issue 4
November last year Brian Hedley started publishing his PDF magazine Amigaville, releasing a new issue every month. Having released just three issues, each downloaded "several hundred times" (Hedley), the author decided to switch to commercial distribution: Amigaville #4 needs to be purchased for 2 GBP. We had a closer look at the review copy kindly provided by Hedley.
At 36 pages, Amigaville #4 is slightly thicker than the previous issues. The design stayed pretty much the same: a mix of single column (a rather odd choice, given the A4 page size) and three column layouts as well as pages with or without background pictures or patterns. The lack of justification and hyphenation results in a slightly jagged and amateurish appearance, many of the embedded graphics seem to have a low resolution - the full page ads included for nostalgia being the worst offenders - or have clearly visible JPEG artifacts.
The design does continue to improve with every issue though. Should the remaining problems get fixed in future releases, the mag's appearance is absolutely adequate given the price asked for it.
With regard to contents, Amigaville is still covering all aspects of the Amiga scene. The current issue features news, reviews of old games (Pacmania, Prince of Persia, Heroquest, Deluxe Galaga und Castlevania), an overview over First Person Shooters on the Amiga, an indepth look at Amiga Anywhere's destiny and the cover story "Should Hyperion port OS4 to x86?". The final two features are Hedley's personal history with computers ("My Amiga experience - or lack thereof") - which eats up no less than six pages - and the "Grumpy old Git" column.
The quality of the content matches that of your average retro blog: Hedley's texts are entertaining to read and he's offering an interesting mix of topics - while research or fact checking seem to play only a minor role during the writing process. Additionally, the author's lack of Amiga experience is clearly evident in many cases. The Amiga Anywhere article is a good example: While it does provide a decent overview, several technical terms get mixed up and it gets a few historical facts wrong. Plus, its conclusion starts with "for all the good intentions that Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss had" - nobody who witnessed the whole thing would ever word it like that.
Our conclusion: If you prefer having information presented in the style of a magazine, Amigaville is not that bad of a deal: you'll get a fair amount of entertainment for your 2 GBP, even if the switch to commercial distribution came too early and should have been delayed until several minor issues had been fixed.
Comparing Amigaville to the competition doesn't do it any favours though: Every other month, you can buy one issue of Amiga Future (6.50 Euro, 50+ pages, professionally printed) or two issues of Amigaville (5.40 Euro, about 70 pages, PDF only) - and all of a sudden, the newcomer's price/performance ratio doesn't look all that good anymore. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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10.Feb.2016
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Aminet needs help: searching for freely distributable Amiga magazines
The Aminet team writes: A lot of older freely distributable software is still missing from Aminet. Some of it is preserved nicely on Public Domain disks or CD compilations easily available on the web - but a lot of it is rotting away on private hard disks, old, unmaintained ftp servers or forgotten websites. The Aminet team has been collecting dormant software and quietly adding it to the collection for nearly a decade now. Hunting down software is a rather time consuming process though, and many things can no longer be tracked down easily.
Our current focus is freely distributable magazines - diskmags, ASCII newsletters, free PDF documents - you name it, we want it. We have compiled a list of all the titles we have (note that not all of these are available for download yet), as you can see we're still missing a lot of these releases.
If any of you collectors out there can provide us with missing information or even supply some of the missing releases, we'd be very glad to hear from you. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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09.Feb.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with Christoph Gutjahr (Aminet, amiga-news.de; engl./fr.)
French magazine Obligement published an interview with Christoph Gutjahr today, administrator of the software repository Aminet and one of the two publishers of amiga-news.de since 2010.
The interview contains background information on both websites and is available in english at the title link as well as in french. (snx)
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08.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 25.01.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of January 25th:
- MultiView is now used for animation datatype (mazze)
- Work on modularization of SysExplorer started (Kalamatee)
- MultiView is now showing more details about data objects (Kalamatee)
- Fix for accessing freed memory implemented in Listtree MUI class (deadwood)
- MultiView is now presenting more information about images and animations (Kalamatee)
- Animation.datatype is reworked to speed up playback (Kalamatee)
- Intuition no longer crashes when menu name is not provided (Kalamatee)
- Rendering of animations in EHB mode has been fixed (Kalamatee)
- Anim.datatype now correctly supports anim-8 unpacking (Kalamatee)
- Further fixes to anim-3 format implemented (Kalamatee)
- Implementation of jumping to a selected frame in animation.datatype started (Kalamatee)
- Hooks are now correctly called from within realtime.library (Kalamatee)
- Tapedeck.gadget handles input on progress bar correctly (Kalamatee)
- Forward/rewind is now working in animation.datatype (Kalamatee)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text editor featuring Kickstart-1.2 compatibility: Redit 1.12
Kai Scherrer's text editor Redit works without any limitations on an Amiga equipped with Kickstart 1.2, but also is fully compatible with higher versions of the system. The editor can be also launched from an emergancy disk or used after booting without startup-sequence. Changes in version 1.12:
- added: Undo & Redo
- improved: more pleasent inital size and position of file request
- improved: loading large directories in 1.3 file request was slow
- bugfix: selecting last line with triple mouse click was broken
- bugfix: selecting first word with double mouse click was broken.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2016
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Tutorial for mounting network drives
The Finnish member 'jPV' of the demo group RNO has added the tutorial for for mounting network drives to the MorphOS library. It is about Samba, NetFS, RDesktop and the Google-Drive-Handler.
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07.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 6th, 2016:
AFnews-68k.lha comm/tcp 894K 68k Amiga Future Everywhere 68k
GoogleDrive_handlr_AR... comm/tcp 950K x86 Google Drive handler for AROS
DiskImageGui.lha disk/misc 17K 68k Mount ADF, ISO and HDF disk i...
ImageMount.lha disk/misc 18K 68k Mount ADF, ISO and HDF disk i...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AssaultCubeReloaded26... game/shoot 68M x86 First-person shooter
Flecho.lha game/wb 31K 68k Point arrows to the numbers!
Calimero_2.5.lha text/dtp 6.3M MOS A DTP Program
Redit.lha text/edit 48K 68k Text editor
mARK.lha util/arc 12K 68k Simple Gui for LhA, LZX, UnZi...
PoseidonScripts.lha util/misc 15K 68k Alternative ways of using the...
xbenchlist.lha util/misc 28K 68k X-bEnCh List Generator
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07.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 6th, 2016:
mhe.lha dev/ide 6Mb 4.0 Hollywood IDE
reactive_crypto.lha dri/mis 93kb 4.1 Hashing classes for Reactive
voxelbird.lha gam/act 4Mb 4.0 Amazing Voxel Bird Saga
voxelnoid.lha gam/act 7Mb 4.0 Duel Edition
wingsbf_rhdc.lha gam/act 16Mb 4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
wingsbf_w3dr12.lha gam/act 16Mb 4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
wingsbf_w3dr7.lha gam/act 16Mb 4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 72Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
sqrxz2.lha gam/pla 1Mb 4.0 Better play golf!
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 64kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 13kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
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07.Feb.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until February 6th, 2016:
rebound.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 7Mb Brick busting puzzle game.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 06.02.2016
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 February 6th, 2016:
- 2016-02-05 updated: Airborne Ranger (Microprose) patch redone, movep instructions patched, blitter waits disabled on 68000, trainer options added, byte write to volume register fixed, new install script (Info)
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07.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: Amiga 2200 (A1000jr) added
On the Amiga hardware reference website "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" the A2200 has been added. The website wrote: "A few months after the cancellation of the A1000+ and A3000+ it was decided the company should attempt to salvage the A1000+ technology and build a lower spec ECS-based machine. The project was developed under the codename 'A1000jr', an unofficial title intended to annoy Bill Sydnes."
The Amiga 2200 had an ESC chipset, which for reasons of costs only contained Zorro-II slots. They are on a Riser card, other extension boards had to be plugged in horizontally. All in all four different versions were planned which should differ in the processor as well as in the number of Zorro-II slots: A2200 (68020, two slots), A2400 (four slots) and analogical to that the A3200 and A3400 with a 68030-processor. The case of the A2200 was similar to the case of the Amiga 4000.
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07.Feb.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Results of the Amiga Games Award 2015
On February 6th 2016, french magazine Obligement announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2015 for the best Amiga games, voted by Amigans from all Amiga platforms.
AmigaOS (68k):
- Zerosphere (Code Red / Alexander Grupe)
- SQRXZ 3 (Retroguru)
- Solomon's Key 2 (Oookami Games)
AmigaOS 4:
- Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
- Gorky 17 (Metropolis Software)
- Swamp Defense 2 (AmiBoing/EntwicklerX)
MorphOS:
- Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
- Ask Me Up XXL (Boing Attitude :))
- Fruit'Y (Retroguru)
AROS:
- Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
- Fruit'Y (Retroguru)
- L'Abbaye Des Morts (LocoMalito)
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05.Feb.2016
Amigaville (ANF)
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English PDF magazine: Fourth issue of "Amigaville" for sale
Amigaville is an English-language PDF magazine. Ther first three issues are available on Aminet. The published decided to take 2£ for the forthcoming issue, you can pay via Paypal.
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05.Feb.2016
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Amiga Inc.-Magazine: "Club Amiga Monthly" on archive.org
After it was evident that the participants of the coupon action of Amiga Inc. would not get back their money and that the promised auxiliary services could not be realized, Amiga Inc. tried to avoid a PR desaster, which could have damaged AmigaOS 4 and the AmigaOne.
All purchasers of the coupon were rewarded with a "club" membership. All members should get an exclusive club magazine providing the latest information on AmigaOS 4/AmigaOne development. The HTML-based "Club Amiga Monthly" was published monthly on os.amiga.com/cam/ and could only be accessed by club members. After twelve issues the magazine was discontinued.
The magazines which were already thought to have been lost forever are now available again for eveybody on archive.org.
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04.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: FUSE file system exFAT 53.3 and NTFS-3G 53.4
Since November, the FUSE file system framework has been available to AROS, thanks to Fredrik Wikstrom (amiga-news.de reported). Now the drivers for the NTFS-3G and for the exFAT file system have been updated. The last mentioned "does not crash anymore when used to automount USB drive ".
Changes:
- exFAT 53.3
- Disk I/O layer now uses a segmented LRU for the read cache and automatically sorted block ranges for the write cache.
- Replaced cache semaphore with a simple boolean variable that indicates to the memhandler when the cache is being accessed.
- NTFS-3G 53.4
- Disk I/O layer now uses a segmented LRU for the read cache and automatically sorted block ranges for the write cache.
- Replaced cache semaphore with a simple boolean variable that indicates to the memhandler when the cache is being accessed.
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02.Feb.2016
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Arcade game: Tanks Furry can be preordered
Now it is possible to preorder the tank shooter "Tanks Furry" (promotion video, (playable demo of a previous version), in the Polish Amiga shop amiga.pl.net on advance payment. In the price it is included a CD with the game - for an additional charge also a disk - as well as a printed, coloured manual, disk tags, refrigerator magnet and an A3-poster.
According to the shop the game will be delivered in a "box". The scan of the box shows that it is a DVD case. The price for Tanks Furry is 54 Złoty (about 12,50 ¤) including shipping and for an additional charge of 5 Złoty / about 1 Euro you can order an additional disk.
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01.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Review: Accelerator board Vampire II
Since the end of the last year, the FPGA-based accelerator board Vampire II can be ordered for the Amiga 600. As one of the first users who received such a board, Renaud 'TuKo' Schweingruber, member of the Swiss user group Amiga Multitask Force, has published a first review under the title link.
The Polish blogger 'Davka' also described a first impression of his accelerator board.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jan.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: APK Compiler 1.0 for Windows
Press release: Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business - are proud to present a brand new add-on for Hollywood 6.0: The Hollywood APK Compiler.
This program does what many people were waiting for: It allows the conversion of Hollywood applets into stand-alone APK packages that can then be published on the Google Play Store or distributed in an other way.
Once the Hollywood APK Compiler has been set up, the conversion of a Hollywood applet into an APK file takes only a few seconds. Additionally, the Hollywood APK Compiler can also install the generated APK file onto an Android device connected via USB.
The Hollywood APK Compiler is currently only available for the Microsoft Windows platform because it requires the Java SE Development Kit (JDK), Apache Ant and the Android SDK and NDK toolchains, all of which are available for free download on the web. Versions for Linux and Mac OS X might follow in the future but Amiga versions are impossible because of those dependencies. Hollywood 6.0 is also required.
The Hollywood APK Compiler comes with a convenient GUI that allows you to convert your Hollywood applets into stand-alone APK files with just a few mouse clicks. A detailed documentation of all the program's features is also included. The APKs generated by the Hollywood APK Compiler will run on all ARM-based Android devices that run at least Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread).
The program's license also allows you to sell the apps created by the Hollywood APK Compiler without any restrictions or royalties. So there is nothing stopping you from getting rich quickly with your Hollywood applets on the Google Play Store now! Programming and publishing for Android has really never been so easy!
So get ready for Android development and purchase the Hollywood APK Compiler now on the official Hollywood portal at the title link!
Screenshots:
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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: MPlayer-GUI 1.60
Daniel Westerberg's MPlayer-GUI is a Reaction-based user-interface for diverse MPlayer ports, which among others supports drag'n'drop.
In version 1.60 realtime control panel sliders for seeking and volume, wpa video driver and a time display in the control panel have been added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Jan. 2016, 13:28] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: Five applications added
Five applications have been added to the software collection Games-Coffer: AMOSEyes, ASI Audio Magic (version 1.1 and 2.0), CAG (Adventure Game Creator), Soundtracker 2.6 and Speed Utilities.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jan.2016
Retroguru Facebook (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Sqrxz 2 1.10
After over two years, Retroguru's Jump'n'Run game Sqrxz 2 has been updated by Frank Wille. All those, who were fond of Alexander Wiklund's chiptunes, but never suceeded in reaching the next level to listen to the next tune, will be delighted now to have a soundcheck option in the menu.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jan.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 30.01.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 30th, 2016:
GoogleDrive_handler_6... comm/tcp 1.5M 68k Google Drive handler for Amig...
GoogleDrive_handler_M... comm/tcp 1.0M MOS Google Drive handler for MorphOS
objc.lha dev/c 2.6M MOS Portable Object Compiler
MCC_MiniMailerSP.lha dev/mui 4K MiniMailer MCC v20.2 spanish ...
giggledisk.lha disk/misc 38K MOS V1.19 MBR/RDB -> MountLis...
gamewatch.lha game/actio 11M MOS VTech Game & Watch Simula...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.5M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.7M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
zerosphere.lha game/jump 562K 68k Platform game with a twist
AssaultCubeReloaded26... game/shoot 68M x86 First-person shooter
gerber2eps_1.0.lha gfx/conv 97K MOS Konvert gerber to eps
Redit.lha text/edit 46K 68k Text editor
thaicheck.lha text/misc 36K MOS Tool to check Thai text for v...
thaiconv.lha text/misc 50K MOS Convert text between diff. Th...
jsonMaster.lha text/show 418K 68k Simple json viewer
Chelp.lha util/batch 34K Online help for MorphOS shell...
BExchangeSP.lha util/cdity 3K BExchange v1.2 spanish catalog
FixFonts.lha util/cli 9K MOS A recompile of the CBM fixfon...
ARexxPatch.lha util/sys 1K Patch small ARexx bugs
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31.Jan.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.01.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 30th, 2016:
songwrangler.lha aud/pla 170kb 4.1 An iTunes like front end for Ami...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
upload.lha net/ftp 27kb 4.0 File upload utility (FTP)
st_rooms.lha uti/mis 65Mb 4.0 Database of rooms aboard the shi...
st_schematics.lha uti/mis 29Mb 4.0 Database of schematics in Star Trek
du_patch.lha uti/sci 355kb 4.0 A small patch for Digital Univer...
thaiconv.lha uti/tex 50kb 4.0 converts UTF-8 <-> TIS-620...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 414kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
thaicheck.lha uti/tex 36kb 4.0 Tool to check Thai text for vali...
mplayer-gui.lha vid/mis 217kb 4.1 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
smtube.lha vid/pla 3Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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31.Jan.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 30.01.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until January 30th, 2016:
tennix.i386-aros.zip gam/spo 1Mb Simple top-down tennis match.
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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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A520HD: HDTV-version of TV-Modulators
Using Commodore's TV-Modulator A520, the video signal of the Amiga could be transfered via the aerial input of the TV. GGLABS has developed a version of it, which outputs a YPbPr-signal of high quality and which is compatible to HDTV-TVs having a component input.
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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hollywood: MiniHollyEdit NG 1.0 available for AmigaOS/68k, WarpOS and MorphOS
MiniHollyEdit NG written by the French programmer 'ArtBlink' is an editor for the programming language Hollywood which is self-implmented using the plugins MUI Royale and GLGalore (screenshot). Hollywood 4.5, a graphic board and MUI4 are required.
At the beginning of January, version 1.0 for AmigaOS 4 was released. Now versions for AmigaOS 3.x, WarpOS and MorphOS are available as well.
Download: Helmuth.lha (6 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jan.2016
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Text editor featuring Kickstart 1.2 compatibility: Redit 1.11
Kai Scherrer's text editor Redit works without any limitations on an Amiga equipped with Kickstart 1.2, but also is fully compatible with higher versions of the system. The editor can be also launched from an emergancy disk or used after booting without startup-sequence. Changes in version 1.11:
- improved: small distance scrolling is now faster and looks nicer
- bugfix: on some machines the menu colors were wrong. fixed
- bugfix: random crash due to uninitialized data. fixed
- added: Alt+Cursor up/down now scrolls document by one page
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26.Jan.2016
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Google Drive-Handler: mount Google Drive storage under AmigaOS (Update 2)
Google Drive Handler is a DOS handler "allowing easy access to Your Google Drive storage." The handler was built with the latest version of OpenSSL.
Google Drive Handler is Shareware - "Without a licence key, the handler acts as a read only volume, and document exporting is disabled." It can be purchased for 10 Euro. Exporting documents is not working with certain file managers (Directory Opus is mentioned as an example) since the handler only learns the actual filesize during the export operation.
According to the author "this handler is still in an early stage of development, far from the mature state." A port for MorphOS has been announced.
Update: (2016-01-27, 18:15, cg)
amiga-news.de reader Dandy has asked the programmer Norbert Klett about his future plans regarding the Google Drive-Handler:
Dandy: In the 'Google Drive Handler'-readme you wrote that "Dropbox and Google Cloud Print are planned as well". Any idea how long I will still have to wait for Dropbox support?
Norbert Kett: DropBox handler is under development, my intent is to release it in next month.
Dandy: What will "Google Cloud Print" be? Will there be something comparable for Dropbox?
Norbert Kett: Google Cloud Print would be an easy printing solution for Amiga. You can print documents with drag&drop, and no printer driver is required. This is sort of network printing. As I know only Google offers this printing support at the moment. With one licence, you can use all my upcoming REST API based products on all Amiga like platforms without limitation.
Dandy: What does "REST API based products" mean?
Norbert Kett: REST API is an industry standard for app <-> server communication. It is getting more popular. Some services for example: Google Drive, Google Cloud Printing, DropBox, Microsoft One-Drive, Amazon Cloud, PayPal, Twitter, FaceBook, and many others.
Update: (28.01.2016, 17:15, cg)
Initially, our news item stated that the handler would list all files as having a size of 0 bytes, that's not correct: It actually lists an imaginary file size, since the real, unknown filesize might cause various problems. But some filemanagers are not compatible with the latter behaviour either, the author mentions Directory Opus as an example. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jan.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 28.12.2015)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of December 28th:
- Startup code on AROS 68k has been made compatible with programs expecting seglist in A3 (twilen)
- Handling of palettes and operations on HAM8 images in ilbm.datatype has been improved (neil)
- Initialization of Scalos preferences.library is fixed to be done only once (wawa)
Week of January 4th:
- Dispatchers in Scalos Boopsi classes are now working correctly on AROS 68k (wawa)
- Dispatchers in Scalos MUI classes are now working correctly on AROS 68k (wawa)
- Definitions of structures used by animation.datatype are now binary compatible (Kalamatee)
- A fix has been implemented in calling hooks in realtime.library (Kalamatee)
Week of January 11th:
- Work started on porting AROS to STM32F7 DISCOVERY board (DizzyOfCRN)
- Window size has been fixed in MultiView (polluks)
- Static C library has been extended with a number of math functions (Kalamatee)
- Fix for buttons being stuck after mouse button is released has been implemented in Area MUI class (neil)
- Ability to use GCC 5.3.0 as a cross compilers has been added (DizzyOfCRN)
- Version of used datatypes is used visible in MultiView about window (Kalamatee)
- Development started on animation.datatype (Kalamatee)
- Initial versions of anim.datatype and gifanim.datatype have been introduced (Kalamatee)
- Initial version of mpegvideo.datatype has been introduced (Kalamatee)
- DOS's FindSegment function has been fixed to be compatible with original (neil)
- Animation.datatype is now available in nightly builds (Kalamatee)
- Work started on tapedeck.gadget (Kalamatee)
- Unpacker for anim-j format has been added to anim.datatype (Kalamatee)
- Tapedeck.gadget now handler input and changes color based on mouse input (Kalamatee)
- Tapedeck.gadget is integrated with animation.datatype (Kamalatee)
- Listtree.mcc no longer causes memory trashing by freeing freed memory (deadwood)
- Tapedeck.gadget now correctly handles state based on input (Kalamatee)
Week of January 18th:
- Animation.datatype player is paused when handling gadget input (Kalamatee)
- Animations can now be started and paused via the UI (Kalamatee)
- Tapedeck.gadget mentains a fixed height (Kalamatee)
- Animation.datatype now creates a player that does not interfeer with other players (Kalamatee)
- Fix for leaving semaphore in a locked state has been implemented in anim.datatype (Kalamatee)
- Datatype for ANIM has the file type detection improved (Kalamatee)
- Frame handling in animation.datatype has been improved (Kalamatee)
- Autodocs available at www.aros.org has been refreshed (mazze)
- List MUI class has been fixed not to have images overlap text (neil)
- Datatypes.library now supports code embedded in datatype for type detection (Kalamatee)
- Anim.datatype now supports anim-4 format (Kalamatee)
- Pen allocation in EHB mode has been fixed in animation.datatype (Kalamatee)
- Access to pen array in animation.datatype is now thread-safe (Kalamatee)
- Work on support for playing embedded sounds data in anim.datatype has started (Kalamatee)
- BWins custom MUI class now works on AROS 68k (wawa)
- Improve rendering of animation.datatype to high/true color screen (Kalamatee)
- Tapedeck.gadget no longer flickers when rendering (Kalamatee)
- ANIM-5 format now correctly renders (Kalamatee)
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26.Jan.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Vote for the best Amiga games of 2015
As every year, David Brunet asks you to vote for the best Amiga games of the previous twelve months. At the Obligement website at the title link you can choose your favorites in four categories, corresponding to the respective operating systems: AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS.
The results will be published on saturday, February 6, 2016. (snx)
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25.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: Five applications added
Five applications have been added to the software collection Games-Coffer: 3D Programs, Agene, Diskmaster 3, Disk Sticker and Menumaster III.
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24.Jan.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 23.01.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 23th, 2016:
LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.3M OS4 Little Personal Finance program
dsm.lha comm/net 12M WOS Synology Download Station Tool
PPC68k20.lha dev/asm 537K 68k Use your PPC as the ultimate ...
muiplus.i386-aros.zip dev/mui 123K x86 C++ wrapper classes for ZUNE/...
Retro-Computing.pdf docs/hard 24M C64/Amiga HW repairs/projects...
Simulation-Emulation.pdf docs/hard 21M Exotic retro computing projec...
ModsAnthologySP.lha docs/hyper 46K Mods Anthology Spanish Readme...
AmigaInsider-01.pdf docs/mags 12M German PDF magazine, 02/2004
AmigaInsider-02.pdf docs/mags 13M German PDF magazine, 05/2004
AmigaInsider-03.pdf docs/mags 2.2M German PDF magazine, 11/2004
AmigaInsider-04.pdf docs/mags 3.5M German PDF magazine, 07/2005
zerosphere.lha game/jump 561K 68k zerosphere (platform game wit...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
opus-tools-0.19_a68k.lha mus/edit 328K 68k Opus Audio Tools
Amsterdam.zip pix/misc 8.3M Pics from the Amiga30 Party i...
Calimero_2.0.lha text/dtp 7.4M MOS A DTP Program
EvenMore.lha text/show 336K 68k V0.88: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 414K MOS V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 413K OS4 V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
ARexxPatch.lha util/sys 1K Patch small ARexx bugs
JKFFDisp.lha util/sys 261K 68k Patch graphics.library for kanji
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24.Jan.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.01.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 23th, 2016:
ixemul_bin.tar.bz2 dev/lib 425kb 4.0 ixemul library
ixemul_src.tar.bz2 dev/lib 689kb 4.0 ixemul library, source archive
libffmpeg.lha dev/mis 11Mb 4.0 Multimedia libraries
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 72Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
dsm.lha net/ser 1Mb 4.1 Synology Download Station Tool
luettjebookholler.lha off/mis 1Mb 4.0 Little Personal Finance program
exutil.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 An exif based batch renamer
evenmore.lha uti/tex 414kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
amiupdate_rus.lha uti/wor 7kb 4.1 Russian catalogs for AmiUpdate
ffmpeg.lha vid/con 20Mb 4.0 Video and audio converter
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24.Jan.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 23.01.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until January 23th, 2016:
muiplus.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 123kb C++ wrapper classes for ZUNE/MUI...
dsm.i386-aros.lha net/ser 1Mb Synology Download Station Tool
exutil.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 1Mb An exif based batch renamer
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24.Jan.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 23.01.2016
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 January 23th, 2016:
- 2016-01-19 fixed: After Burner 2 (WeeBee Games/Sega) freezing bug at start of level fixed, invincibility trainer added, another icon added (Info)
- 2016-01-17 improved: Winzer (Starbyte) CDTV support added, long read from $dff006 fixed (Info)
- 2016-01-17 updated: After Burner 2 (WeeBee Games/Sega) patch redone, RawDIC imager, keyboard problems fixed, more trainers added, new install script, renamed to After Burner 2 (Info)
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24.Jan.2016
Kris (ANF)
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MiST: Update of FPGA-AGA-Core 1.1
For the Atari-/Amiga-clone MiST (amiga-news.de reported), an update to version 1.1 of the emulated Amigas with AGA-support has been released. Besides, the compatibility was increased by some bug fixes.
The MiST developer Till Harbaum wrote: "The last few weeks i fixed the 68020 bitfield instructions in the tg68k cpu core we use. This means that one pretty important part of the 68020 has been fixed.
The extent of improvement is not clear to me. But it seems this has fixed quite a lot of software. Have fun! And thanks to MikeJ from FPGA arcade for bugging me to fix these."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jan.2016
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Donators and programmers for Python-port needed
"Since the big effort required for the port, this bounty is the first of a series of 5 that will bring" Python to AROS. First the core of Python 2.7 will be ported, afterwards the integration of Zune and Python as well as of Python 3.5 will follow.
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22.Jan.2016
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MorphOS SDK 3.10 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team would like to announce the immediate availability of version 3.10 of the official MorphOS Software Development Kit (SDK). The most notable additions and changes are:
- GCC 5.3.0, including baserel support
- Added a Lua interpreter
- Updates ixemul to 50.16
- Updated tar to 1.28 and sed to 4.2.2
Important: The new SDK requires at least 650 MB of free disk space to install!
The new software development kit is available for download in our files section.
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19.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Renaming picture files: Exutil 0.5
The MUI-based Hollywood programm Exutil written by Ulrich Beckers renames picture files using their date of creation which is saved in the EXIF-information or the date of creation of the file.
Version 0.5 is available for all Amiga systems. Now a "common file name part can get placed after date & time information". A progress bar was also added.
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19.Jan.2016
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS: Another update to Odyssey 1.25 beta
Three days ago, Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released an update of the beta version of Odyssey 1.25 which starts fixing the problems of the excessive memory consumption.
Changes:
- Fixed messages console to display messages
- Made aligned allocation not take additional memory
- Made memory allocator work better with fragmented memory
- Fixed major memory leak where Frames were not released together with their JS data - memory no longer continously consumed while browsing
- Fixed a number of small memory leaks
- Implemented a more agreesive memory freeing strategy which keeps allocated memory as low as possible
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18.Jan.2016
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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Toni Wilen is working on WinUAE adaptions for AmigaOS 4
The WinUAE programmer Toni Wilen currently is working on an improved integration of AmigaOS 4 in WinUAE. The goal is to adapt as many parts as possible of the native infrastructure (uaehf.device, UAEGFX) provided by the emulator to the PPC operating system - and to give up slower emulation of real hardware e.g. the SCSI-controller of the Cyberstorm, the Picasso 4 graphic board or network and sound cards which were needed up to now.
A first and early trial version Wilen now has made available. It is possible to include directories as harddrives and HDF-images are supported. Some more details:
Currently supported UAE devices:
- Directory harddrives
- uaehf.device (hardfiles). HD_SCSICMD is NOT supported yet
Supported but not tested:
- uae.resource
- Some "uaelib" functions
Not yet supported (lots more work needed):
- uaegfx
- bsdsocket.library
- uaenative.library
- clipboard sharing
- uaescsi.device
- uaenet.device
- virtual mouse driver
- on the fly directory harddrive changes
- And everything else that was not mentioned
In order to enable the trap system, in the configuration file the line "uaeboard=full+indirect" has to be added. The new features has not been completely optimised and therefore are not faster than the previous SCSI-emulation. Additionally a computer with at least three processor cores is recommended.
Toni Wilen emphasised that he himself is not intersted in an improved PPC-emulation and that therefore donations for this project would be the greatest motivation. If you are interested in further adaptions of WinUAE to AmigaOS 4, then a donation via Paypal is very welcome.
Hint of the editorial staff: So far Wilen has not said anything about the limitation of the RAM - AmigaOS 4 currently recognizes maximal 128 MB RAM under UAE. In theory this limitation could be raised to 256 MB, if a CyberstormPPC would not have been emulated (due to the SCSI-controller) and the emulator could present itself as BlizzardPPC .
Direct download: winuae_OS4UAE.7z (3 MB)
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17.Jan.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.01.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 16th, 2016:
LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.3M OS4 Little Personal Finance program
Links2.12.lha comm/www 6.8M 68k A graphic- and text-mode Web ...
renderlib31.lha dev/misc 214K 68k Assembler version of render l...
ModsAnthologySP.lha docs/hyper 46K Mods Anthology Spanish Readme...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
Aye_Q.lha game/wb 32K 68k My version of a classic peg game
Totematik.lha game/wb 35K 68k Recreate all 10 totems!
Redit.lha text/edit 45K 68k Text editor
EvenMore.lha text/show 428K 68k V0.88: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 506K MOS V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 505K OS4 V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
OpenGuide.lha text/show 1K Open amigaguide file at a spe...
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.6M MOS Directory and files tool
HWP_Plananarama.lha util/libs 48K 68k Run Hollywood scripts on plan...
MultiView.lha util/sys 72K 68k The datatype frontend (AROS b...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.01.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 16th, 2016:
songwrangler.lha aud/pla 124kb 4.1 An iTunes like front end for Ami...
libcurl.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 The multiprotocol file transfer ...
aisshelper.lha dev/uti 2Mb 4.1 An advanced browser for AISS icons
hwp_plananarama.lha lib/hol 48kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for planar screen
pftp_ita.lha net/ftp 31kb 4.0 Italian translation for pFTP
dsm.lha net/ser 16Mb 4.1 Synology Download Station Tool
luettjebookholler.lha off/mis 1Mb 4.0 Little Personal Finance program
evenmore.lha uti/tex 505kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
jack.lha uti/wor 4Mb 4.1 A fantastic AppStore for AmigaOS
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 1Mb 4.1 Qt Download videos from YouTube
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17.Jan.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.01.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until January 16th, 2016:
fractures.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 4Mb Port of demo from Alternative '08.
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17.Jan.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 16.01.2016
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 January 16th, 2016:
- 2016-01-13 new: Alfabet Smierci (Arte) done by Asman, Irek'72 (Info)
- 2016-01-13 improved: First Contact (Chris Newcombe) load/save support added, all checksum checks disabled, 68000 quitkey support, trainer added, interrupts fixed, new install script (Info)
- 2016-01-11 fixed: Chambers of Shaolin (Thalion) character saving bug fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, blitter waits added, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, sound problems fixed, new install script (Info)
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17.Jan.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Update of the Amiga Games List
The "Amiga Games List", created and maintained by David Brunet since 1991, was updated on January 16, 2016. By its own account, Amiga Games List is the most extensive collection of its kind on the internet. Besides other news, the games created in 2015 have been added, reaching 12,403 entries in total now:
- 11,865 games
- 316 extensions and data disks
- 143 game and level editors
- 79 interpreters
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17.Jan.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 9 interviewed Tomasz Marcinkowski (PPA)
In its ninth issue, the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed Tomasz Marcinkowski who is involved in the Polish portal PPA and the "Museum of the history of computers and computing".
The podcast also is about the source codes of AmigaOS 3.1 and Odyssey as well as the Vampire II and the Tabor-Board.
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15.Jan.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Epsilon's Amiga Blog: My A1222 has arrived!
Under the title link the blogger and Betatester 'Epsilon' wrote about his AmigaOne A1222 (Tabor board, amiga-news.de reported) which has just arrived. In another blog he described the installation of the Linux distribution Debian. So far he has not got AmigaOS 4.
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11.Jan.2016
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Text editor with Kickstart 1.2 compatibility: Redit 1.9
Kai Scherrer's text editor Redit runs without limitations on an Amiga eqipped with Kickstart 1.2, but also is compatible with later versions of the system. The editor can be also used from an emergency disk or without a startup-sequence after booting the system. Changes in version 1.9:
- Redit 1.9, bugfix: removed dependency to mathieeedoubas.library
- Redit 1.9, bugfix: increased stack size to 12288
- Redit 1.9, added: alternative Icons by Colani1200
- Redit 1.8, bugfix: Replace all 'a' by 'aa' in a document resulted into an
infinite loop. fixed
- Redit 1.7, added: Search & Replace dialog
- Redit 1.7, improved: Tooltypes are now found if Redit is loaded via path
(requires Kickstart 2.0 and better)
- Redit 1.7, bugfix: crash when started with Workbench screen in the
background. fixed
- Redit 1.7, bugfix: crash when empty file was loaded. fixed
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10.Jan.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Plananarama-Plugin
Press release: It's planar, baby! Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business - are back on your screen with the Plananarama plugin for Hollywood. With the Plananarama plugin Hollywood is finally able to run on planar screens again! This finally makes it possible to run Hollywood scripts on plain AGA or ECS systems with no graphics board installed - for the first time since Hollywood 1.93 (released in March 2005)!
Starting with version 2.0, Hollywood required CyberGraphX or Picasso96 to run. Since then, many people have asked for a revival of Hollywood's planar engine, so here it is, a real blast from the past! Thanks to Hollywood 6's greatly extended plugin API this feature could be implemented completely in plugin space. Once Plananarama is installed, all Hollywood scripts will magically run on palette screens again! All resolutions are supported - from 8-bit LowRes to 1-bit productivity SuperHighRes Interlace.
Plananarama is the third plugin to bear the Powered by Hollywood 6.0 seal of quality as it utilizes the new display and bitmap adapter plugin interfaces introduced with Hollywood 6.0. The plugin will not work with older versions of Hollywood. Only Hollywood 6.0 makes it possible. That's why we here at Airsoft Softwair say: Life starts at 6.0. Plananarama is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal. It is only available in a version for AmigaOS 3 because all other systems don't use planar graphics any more.
You need an 68020 or better. It is also recommended to install FBlit because otherwise you are likely to run out of chip memory really quickly. When configuring FBlit make sure you add Hollywood to its "Include" list in the "FAllocBitMap" tab so that Hollywood will be able to store its graphics in fast memory. Speaking of fast mem, 16 megabyte of fast memory are highly recommended.
This release is dedicated to all people who think life is better in 8 bitplanes. Who needs chunky? This is planar, baby! Proudly brought to you by Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business.
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10.Jan.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.01.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 9th, 2016:
DSM_0.1.6.lha comm/net 16M WOS Synology Download Station Tool
odyssey1.23_src.tar.gz comm/www 44M Source code of Odyssey 1.23 f...
ROWAN_demo.zip game/demo 500K 68k The Dream of Rowan (Demo, WIP)
Angoes.lha game/wb 35K 68k Put 3 angles in the same dire...
MusikerSP.lha mus/misc 8K Musiker AmigaGuide in Spanish
NoiseconverterSP.lha mus/misc 4K Noiseconverter Spanish Catalog
RR_backdrops.lha pix/back 221K A collection of Workbench bac...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 407K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
DevInfos.lha util/misc 639K OS4 Shows infos about a device an...
ARexxPatch.lha util/sys 1K Patch small ARexx bug
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10.Jan.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.01.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 9th, 2016:
mhe.lha dev/ide 2Mb 4.0 Hollywood IDE
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...
libsdl_ttf.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL
libcurl.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 The multiprotocol file transfer ...
librtmp.lha dev/lib 248kb 4.0 A support library for RTMP streams
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 63Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
stvoyhm.lha gam/fps 3Mb 4.0 Elite Force
tremulous.lha gam/fps 134Mb 4.1 Free and open source FPS based game
curl.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Command line URL file transfer
rtmpdump.lha net/mis 1Mb 4.0 Downloads streams from RTMP/RTMP...
devinfos.lha uti/mis 639kb 4.0 Shows many infos about a device
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.01.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until January 9th, 2016:
exfatfs.i386-aros.lha dri/fil 48kb A free exFAT file system impleme...
ntfs3g.i386-aros.lha dri/fil 204kb A port of Tuxera's NTFS-3G file ...
tressette.i386-aros.zip gam/car 4Mb Italian card game.
qonk.i386-aros.zip gam/str 971kb Quick space strategy game to con...
filesysbox.i386-aros.lha lib/mis 45kb A FUSE compatible file system layer
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10.Jan.2016
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 09.01.2016
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until January 9th, 2016:
Magic WebP 4.0 gra/con 1408 Viewer and encoder of image...
recentfiles.sbar 1.1 uti/des 53 Screenbar module detecting ...
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10.Jan.2016
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WHDLoad: New archives until 09.01.2016
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 January 9th, 2016:
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10.Jan.2016
Floppy (ANF)
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AROS: Bounty project for implementing the animation datatype in progress
Nick 'Kalamatee' Andrews has accepted the bounty project to implement the animation datatype (inclusive Boopsi-Control-Gadget) for AROS. It is also part of the bounty to implement a daughter datatype (for AVI, MPEG, DivX or a similar format) and to release a simple tool for demonstrating the functionality.
The bounty has to be finished until March 31st, 2016. You still can donate for the project. 167 US-Dollar has been donated so far.
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