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16.Feb.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Feb.2016



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. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Feb.2016



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



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



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)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


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: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Feb.2016
MorphZone (Forum)


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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Feb.2016



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.

Amigaville Cover

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.

Amigaville Cover

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



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)


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)


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)


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)


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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2016



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



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



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



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)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2016
David Brunet (ANF)


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):
  1. Zerosphere (Code Red / Alexander Grupe)
  2. SQRXZ 3 (Retroguru)
  3. Solomon's Key 2 (Oookami Games)
AmigaOS 4:
  1. Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
  2. Gorky 17 (Metropolis Software)
  3. Swamp Defense 2 (AmiBoing/EntwicklerX)
MorphOS:
  1. Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
  2. Ask Me Up XXL (Boing Attitude :))
  3. Fruit'Y (Retroguru)
AROS:
  1. Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
  2. Fruit'Y (Retroguru)
  3. L'Abbaye Des Morts (LocoMalito)
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05.Feb.2016
Amigaville (ANF)


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. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Feb.2016



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. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)


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.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Feb.2016



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. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


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)


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:
(snx)

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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


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)

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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


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)


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



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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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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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)


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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


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



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
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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26.Jan.2016



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)


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)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Jan.2016
David Brunet (ANF)


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)


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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jan.2016



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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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



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



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)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jan.2016
Kris (ANF)


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)


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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Jan.2016



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. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Jan.2016
Floppy (Kommentar)


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
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Jan.2016
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)


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) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jan.2016



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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17.Jan.2016



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



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



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)


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)


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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Jan.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Jan.2016
a1k.org (Webseite)


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)


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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jan.2016



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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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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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



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: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jan.2016
Floppy (ANF)


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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix provides new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last message the following songs have been added:
  • The Secret of Monkey Island (daXX Remix)
  • Pinball Dreams Menu Theme (daXX Remix)
  • Shadow of the Beast - Eerie Forest Jujegolo
  • Elysium (daXX Remix)
  • Jaguar XJ220 Title (Digital Acoustic Remix)
  • Turrican 2 - Exploring Secret Dungeons (Wild @ Heart)
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07.Jan.2016



Promotion video: Tanks Furry is (also) commercially distributed
In "Tanks Furry" you have to destroy the opponent's tanks before they can destroy your base - at the beginning of December, a playable demo was released. Now the developers have published a very professional promotion video and have pointed out, that the game will be not only distributed as free download, but also on CD in a DVD-case.


Tanks Furry offers a single and a two player mode and requires an Amiga with 68020-processor and at least 1 MB RAM. The game will be probably released in Februar. The commercial game will be distributed with a 12-page manual as well as with stickers, so you can create "original disks". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jan.2016



Web Browser: Github-Repository for Odyssey
Against a payment of 7500 Euro, in January 2014 Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly released the source code of his web browser Odyssey. After the release of an AmigaOS 4 port, for some months the available AROS port provided by Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz is the only one which is currenty developed further.

On Github, the programmer has published the source code of his Odyssey port and has invited all Amiga developers to join the work. He is willing to introduce the code base and the developing process to unexperienced programmers. If you are interested in, then please contact him via eMail.

The archive on Github includes the latest version 1.25 which is based on Coeurjoly's latest release Odyssey 1.24 and provides the following improvements:
  • uses directly the Webkit engine - the Orygin layer is no longer required - which makes it easier to use Webkit updates
  • uses WebKit revision 187682 (from end of July)
  • Source code and build configuration are prepared for the development of several (Amiga) destination platforms
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06.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Tracker: Symphonie Pro can be compiled again
Patrick Meng's tracker Symphonie Pro supports 256 physical audio channels, a 16-Bit software DSP as well as 16-Bit samples. Originally the pro-version of the programm was distributed for 120 D-Mark and eight years ago it was made available with its source codes on Aminet.

It turned out that the source code was incomplete, but now the missing parts could be filled. Under the title link on GitHub the completed source code as well as the programm are available, all programmers who are going to develop the programm further are very welcome. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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05.Jan.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Amiga documentary: "Viva Amiga" available from March
After more than four years, Zach Weddington obviously has finished his Amiga documentary "Viva Amiga" which was financed by crowd funding: At Kickstarter the producer has announced, that "the film is 100% complete and the distribution plan is solid and all set up". The film will be officially introduced at the South by Southwest Film Festival in mid march 2016. All supporters of the Kickstarter project will get their copy of the film before. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Jan.2016
Hyperion Entertainment CVBA (ANF)


Hyperion: AmigaOS 3.1 source code leak - official statement
Press release: Brussels, January 5, 2016 - Hyperion Entertainment wishes a happy New Year 2016 everybody!

The days between last Christmas and New Year were actually clouded by the sad fact that the source code of AmigaOS 3.1 and additional content dating back to 1994 was published and widely spread without permission of the rights-holder. Note that no code of AmigaOS 4.x was released or distributed.

Hyperion Entertainment holds an exclusive, world-wide, perpetual source-code license to the intellectual property of AmigaOS 3.1 and additional content as documented in the publicly available settlement agreement between Hyperion Entertainment and Amiga, Inc. which has taken the form of a stipulated judgement.

Based on this license AmigaOS 4.x development was started in 2001 by Hyperion Entertainment using the AmigaOS 3.1 code as a basis and as the direct successor of what Commodore left behind in 1994. AmigaOS 4.x is an actively developed product on sale and still incorporates a substantial amount of AmigaOS 3.1 code.

While this would be already more than enough of a reason to care about the unauthorised disclosure and distribution, it is also the very same settlement agreement which made all of this possible in the first place, which contractually requires Hyperion to enforce and protect any intellectual property rights associated with AmigaOS including the AmigaOS 3.1 source-code.

This entails that Hyperion Entertainment will examine all possible legal action against any unauthorised source of or use of this material it is aware of. All of this leads up to the reason why we "make such a fuss" about code which is more than 20 years old by now. While the original leak seems to stem from someone outside of the active community, it is even more sad to see quite some of the remaining active users happily participate in distributing this unauthorised copy, compromising years of development work and all possible future versions of AmigaOS and therefore biting the hand that feeds them against all common sense and in blatant violation of copyright.

Having said that, our most special thanks go to all loyal customers, user groups, dealers, partners and all others who showed and continue to show their support to us. You are the reason why AmigaOS still exists, why it remains under active development and why we care.

Thank you,
on behalf of Hyperion Entertainment, all associated developers, translators and testers.

Hyperion Entertainment CVBA
Tervurenlaan 34
1040 Brussels
Belgium (snx)

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05.Jan.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: MiniHollyEdit NG 1.0
MiniHollyEdit NG written by the French programmer 'ArtBlink' is an editor for the programming language Hollywood, which itself is implemented in Hollywood using the plugins MUI Royale and GLGalore (screenshot). At least Hollywood version 4.5 is required.

Characteristics
  • Multi editor tabs
  • Mono Multi Window window
Preferences options
  • The default scripts directory
  • The name of the default scripts
  • the language (French or English)
  • Graphic theme among 6 topics
  • Do not open the "About" at the start of MHE
  • Enable / disable Hollywood completion of commands (not MuiRoyale nor GLGalore)
  • Choose your favorite to open calculator to help you in your scripting
  • Select your drawing program (eg opens PPaint to create or modify your sprites)
  • Select your music software (eg opens Digibooster to create music for your program)
  • Activate default systems for which you want to compile your / your script (s)
  • Activate the crushing demand for security compile file
  • Enable compression of your executable
Script execution options
  • View Hollywood resources Monitor
  • Enable / disable resizing the execution window
  • Turn on / off the edges of the execution window
  • Enable / disable resizing the content of the execution window
Editor Features
  • Cut / Copy / Paste / Undo / Redo / Search Up and down
  • Update cursor coordinates
  • You can change the line and column number to jump to the line / desired column (press Enter / Return to validate)
  • Hollywood command completion window
  • Window with all your Personal function ()
  • Skips by double clicking on the function in the list on the right line in the editor
Online Help
  • Button to open all the guides
  • Window attributes MuiRoyale
  • Listing orders Hollywood / MuiRoyale / GLgalore
  • Insert double click on Help in your script
  • Quick help with the attributes of Hollywood and commands GLGalore
  • Buttons specific aids to open the guide directly to the control display
Download: MHEOS4.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jan.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


68k-Distribution Aros Vision 3.0
Olaf Schönweiß' AROS/68k-distribution Aros Vision now includes the full version of WHDLoad as well as the corresponding AROS ROMs. Additionally several system files have been updated. The main changes of the distribution:
  • full whdload-installation thanks to whdload now freeware and Aros Rom Replacements working in it
  • System files updated
  • MUI classes updated and new added
  • you can change easily between MUI38 and Zune now
  • filesystems added
  • Installer can be automatically downloaded from aminet
  • App Store updated
  • With one key-press you can save or restore the most important system files
  • Faster, newest version of Peterk icon library added
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04.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Windows: ADTWin 1.3
ADTWin is a programm to write Amiga disks under Windows (amiga-news.de reported) to use the content of ADF-files on real Amigas.

Version 1.3 supports compressed ADF-files and runs under the 32 and 64 Bit version of Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.1 and 10. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2016
Spidi (ANF)


USB adapter: Firmware update for Ryś MKII
The Ryś MKII adapter can be used together with USB HID devices like mouses, joysticks and pads to connect them as input devices for Amiga computers. The latest firmware update enables assigning "up" command to the "square" / 4 button in PAD mode. It also brings various fixes for user-reported bugs.

Download: RysMKII_20160103.7z (27 KB) (snx)

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03.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Dune II: Spice Obsession Mod 0.5
For the real-time strategy game Dune II, originally released in 1993, yesterday a modification was released under the title link. The Spice Obsession Mod 0.5 includes four missions, level of difficulty increases faster compared with the original missions. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Amiga game launcher: X-bEnCh 0.99 R7
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.

X-bEnCh 0.99 R7 fixes several bugs.

Download: xbench0.99r7.lha (665 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 02.01.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 2nd, 2016:
CruelSummer_Box.lha      demo/misc  455K  68k 2009-12 unreleased oldschool ...
Kaleidoscopycus_II.lha   demo/misc  348K  68k Simple Demo: colorful Cycle P...
cop.lha                  dev/debug  162K  68k Low Level Debugger
m68k-amigaos-gcc.tar.gz  dev/gcc    12M   68k GCC based dev toolchain for A...
fd2libmaker.lha          dev/lib    1K        Convert FD to LibMaker functions
sgit.lha                 dev/misc   1.0M  OS4 A simple and incomplete git c...
A3000-INT_2-Mod.lha      docs/hard  1.3M      A3000D INT_2 motherboard modi...
Amigaville3.pdf          docs/mags  43M       Amigaville Magazine Issue 3
elves-dreamland.zip      game/actio 515K  68k Jet Set Willy clone as Xmas game
webptools044_a68k.lha    gfx/conv   2.3M  68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
magicwebp_4.0.lha        gfx/show   1.4M  MOS View/encode Webp pictures + a...
CxPX_SP.lha              util/cdity 4K        CxPX v1.0 spanish catalog
CxSP.lha                 util/cdity 4K        CX v2.3 spanish catalog
devinfos.lha             util/misc  639K  OS4 Shows infos about a device an...
recentfiles.sbar.lha     util/misc  53K   MOS A recent file information scr...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.01.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 2nd, 2016:
vsp.lha                  aud/pla 2Mb   4.0 An easy mod, mp3, ogg and wav Vi...
warpjpegdt.lha           dat/ima 235kb 4.0 JFIF-JPEG datatype
wiiloader.lha            dev/cro 190kb 4.0 Nintendo Wii network loader utility
libogg.lha               dev/lib 312kb 4.0 lib for handling OGG files
libvorbis.lha            dev/lib 1Mb   4.0 lib for handling Ogg Vorbis audio
libpng.lha               dev/lib 2Mb   4.0 Lib for handling PNG files
libsdl_image.lha         dev/lib 1Mb   4.0 SDL image file loading library
libtiff.lha              dev/lib 3Mb   4.0 Lib for handling Tag Image File ...
libvpx.lha               dev/lib 2Mb   4.0 WebM VP8/VP9 Codec library
libwebp.lha              dev/lib 6Mb   4.0 lib for handling WebP images
libx264.lha              dev/lib 3Mb   4.0 H.264/AVC encoder
sgit.lha                 dev/uti 1009k 4.0 A simple and incomplete git client
amigaracer.lha           gam/dri 48Mb  4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
aiss.lha                 gra/ais 8Mb   4.1 Amiga Image Storage System
aiss.pdf                 gra/ais 5Mb   4.1 Documentation
pintorweb.lha            gra/con 2Mb   4.0 An easy program to handling pict...
awc.lha                  gra/mis 2Mb   4.0 A web anim tool
loview.lha               gra/vie 5Mb   4.0 The Easy Viewer & Thumber :)
gummisurf.lha            net/bro 98kb  4.0 The downloader manager companion
dsm.lha                  net/ser 1Mb   4.1 Synology Download Station Tool
devinfos.lha             uti/mis 639kb 4.0 Shows many infos about a device
jack.lha                 uti/wor 4Mb   4.1 A fantastic AppStore for AmigaOS
clipgrab.lha             vid/mis 1Mb   4.1 Qt Download videos from YouTube
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 02.01.2016
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until January 2nd, 2016:
AmIRC                    3.6.2   net/cha    805 Simply the best IRC client ...
NetFS Revised            1.0     net/fil     68 Modernized network file sys...
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03.Jan.2016



WHDLoad: New packages until 02.01.2016
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 2nd, 2016:
  • 2016-01-02 improved: Goal! (Virgin) WHDLoad v17+ features used (config), a few blitter waits added (68010+ only) (Info)
  • 2016-01-02 new: Manchester United: The Double (Krisalis) done by StingRay (Info)
  • 2016-01-02 improved: Manchester United: Premier League Champions (Krisalis) writes to Beamcon0 and Bplcon4 disabled, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, WHDLoad v17+ features used, patch works with 0.5MB chip memory now (Info)
  • 2016-01-02 improved: Defenders of the Earth (Enigma Variations) patch rewritten, trainer and CD32 joypad support added, blitter waits can be disabled with Custom2, decruncher relocated, ButtonWait support (Info)
  • 2016-01-02 new: Sooty's Fun With Numbers (Alternative) done by Abaddon (Info)
  • 2016-01-02 new: Mafdet And The Book Of The Dead Software Horizons (Kingsoft) done by Abaddon (Info)
  • 2016-01-02 new: Space Assault (Software 2000) done by Abaddon (Info)
  • 2016-01-02 new: Fighting Soccer (Activision) done by Abaddon (Info)
  • 2016-01-02 improved: Netherworld (Hewson) RawDIC imager, supports another version, blitter wait patches can be disabled with Custom2, uses files, disk access removed, problem with second intro screen fixed (Info)
  • 2016-01-02 improved: Satan (Dinamic) trainer added, blitter waits can be disabled with Custom2, trainer added, WHDLoad v18+ features used (Info)
  • 2016-01-01 improved: Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters (Tengen/Teque) supports another version (Info)
  • 2016-01-01 updated: Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon (Master Designer Software/Cinemaware) patch redone, protection checks removed properly, final answer when talking to characters displayed for 5 seconds, manual added (Info)
  • 2015-12-31 updated: Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters (Tengen/Teque) patch redone, works on 68000, trainers added, high-score load/save, blitter waits skipped on 68000 (Info)
  • 2015-12-30 updated: Toyota Celica GT Rally (Gremlin) patch redone, uses files, full load/save support, out of bounds blits fixed, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support (Info)
  • 2015-12-29 fixed: Ultimate Golf (Gremlin) wrong quit patch fixed, new install script (Info)
  • 2015-12-29 improved: Lethal Zone (Infernal Byte System) wrong copperlist patch corrected, timing fixed, out of bounds blits fixed, lots of trainer options added, uses WHDLoad v17+ features (Info)
  • 2015-12-28 fixed: Devious Designs (Imageworks) crash when starting game fixed, high score load/save, more trainer options, uses WHDLoad v17+ features (Info)
  • 2015-12-28 updated: Dragonstone (Core Design) patch redone, fast ram support done properly, trainers added, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support (Info)
  • 2015-12-27 fixed: Magicland Dizzy (Codemasters) crash during title part fixed, hidden credits part supported, interrupts fixed, new trainer options, 68000 quitkey support, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2016
Martin Merz (ANF)


Toolbar images: AISS 4.20
The Amiga Image Storage System (AISS) offers a photo-illustrative icon style for toolbar images - it approaches the realism of photography but uses the features of illustrations to convey a lot of information in a small image. AISS is an environment to store, access and maintain this toolbar images. For more information about AISS please have a look at the documentation.

The new release features more than 8,300 images in the AmigaOS 4 icon design and for compatibility reasons all pictures and animations of the previous releases. (snx)

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02.Jan.2016



MUI für AmigaOS with licensing issues (Update)
In December 2014 it was revealed that the MUI distribution "MUI for AmigaOS" contained API documentation that had been copied from the MorphOS SDK without acquiring a proper license first. During the following discussion, both developers of "MUI for AmigaOS" - Jens "damato" Maus und Thore "tboeckel" Böckelmann - apologized for their mistake.

When the latest update of the distribution was discussed on amiga-news.de today, Christian 'Tokai' Rosentreter issued another statement (German) claiming that the developer documentation inside the archive still contained large parts copied verbatim from the MorphOS SDK. After a short conversation with Rosentreter and an indepth look at two of the files listed by him, we found evidence (German) that suggests his allegations are true.

After discussing our findings with Maus and Böckelmann, amiga-news.de decided to stop covering any future versions of "MUI for AmigaOS" until the documentation in question has been rewritten from scratch.

Update: (03.01.2016, 21:00, cg)

Replaced the original news item about the latest update to "MUI for AmigaOS" with an explanation of the licensing issues. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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01.Jan.2016
Amigaville (ANF)


PDF-Magazine: Amigaville, issue 3 (English)
Amigaville is an English-language pdf-magazine and provides news, reviews to old games and reprintes of full-page games advertising taken from the heyday of the Amiga. The third issue includes an arcticle about archiving commercial programms and games as well as an essay about the question "Programming: The dying art?".

Download: Amigaville3.pdf (34 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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01.Jan.2016
David Brunet (ANF)


New articles on the Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
  • November/December 2015 news
  • Old articles from Tilt 52 to 55:
    • Review of Passagers Du Vent
    • Review of Graphics Studio
    • Report: SICOB 1988
    • Interview with David Joiner
    • Review of Crystal Hammer
    • Report: CeBIT 1988
    • Review of Tetris
    • Review of Deluxe Paint 2
    • Review of Hollywood Poker
  • Interview with Antoine Dubourg (MorphOS developper)
  • Interview with David Rosen and Jason Compton (Escom, 1996)
  • Review of Gorky 17
  • Review of AmiCloud 1.0 beta
  • Review of AmigaAMP 3.16
  • Comparison: Amiga MIDI sequencers of 1990-1994
  • Hardware: Sum 1200
  • File: the Amiga chipsets (update)
  • Tutorial: utilisation of Gmail/IMAP with SimpleMail 0.41
  • Tutorial: how to crack Turrcian 2
  • Special quiz about the Ishar series
(snx)

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