12.Jun.2015
Spidi (ANF)
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USB-adapter for input devices: Ryś MK II
In March the second version of the USB-adapter Ryś was announced und now is available. The Ryś MKII "provides built-in USB stack which enables USB HID devices (like a mouse, a joystick or a pad) support without the need for installing additional software drivers."
Features of Ryś MKII:
- ready for use with every Amiga (although some models may require additional adapters)
- support for mouses using both USB HID and USB-PS/2
- 3 mouse emulation modes
- built-in USB stack
- "Bootloader" function facilitating future firmware upgrades
- "Status" indicator LED providing information about device's state
- built-in EEPROM memory enabling user preferences storage
The product is sold by Amedia Computer France,
AMIGAstore,
RELEC and
RetroAmi.
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12.Jun.2015
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Jump'n Run: Sqrxz 1.3
As announced, Frank Wille has adapted the first part of the Sqrxz series to the new engine which the forthcoming release of Sqrxz 3 will be based as well. Now the game runs with 50 frames per second.
Download: sqrxz-v.latest-amigaocs.adf (880 KB)
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11.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS / MorphOS: "Wings Battlefield" available
After the release of the demo version a month ago, Cherry Darling's "Wings Battlefield" now is available. The game emulates the air fight sequences of the Cinemaware classic Wings - now with up to four players (screenshots).
Due to the small number of test computers it is recommended to give the updated demo version a try before purchasing the game. "Wings Battlefield" is offered for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (but not on Amiga computers) as well as for AROS/x86 by Alinea, Amedia and Amigastore. Later it will be also available by GoldenCode. A version for Windows is available as well.
Eigenschaften:
- 1 to 4 players battle
- split screen or LAN*
- human or CPU opponents
- adjustable CPU intelligence
- player profiles
- adapts to all screen-modes / window sizes
- Tate mode (pivot monitor support)
- best played with your digital joysticks
- procedural level editor
- three different landscape styles
- online high scores
- lots of graphics options to get the perfect balance between performance / quality
- localized to English, German, French, Hungarian, Greek, Spanish and Swedish
- automatic updates (actually the first update that adds another gfx option just arrived)
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10.Jun.2015
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Updates of commercial graphic board drivers for AmigaOS 4
Amigakit announces (1, 2) that free updates for the commercial RadeonHD and Warp3D-RadeonHD drivers are available on Amistore. Changes in the 2D drivers (currently versions 1.7 and 2.10) aren't explained, the "Warp3D/Southern Islands" driver (version 1.14) is said to "deliver greater performance on most games".
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09.Jun.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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Printed magazine: Retro Planet, issue 8 (Greek)
The Greek printed magazine "Retro Planet" has 52 coloured pages and is quarterly published. The eighth issue (front page) includes an interview with Pascal Papara.
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09.Jun.2015
Antony Mo (ANF)
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Event: Amiga meeting in Maarssen, Netherlands (20. June)
On June 20th the "Commodore Ineteressegroep" will invite to an event in Maarssen. As usual the meeting will take place in "Trefpunt", in Kerkweg 21 in Maarssen. Admission is free..
The meeting will take place on the occasion of the 30th Amiga birthday: some computers will be sold (e.g. A1200 with Blizzard accelerator board and a Pegasos). Demo presentations are also planned. Besides, it is possible to play old games on A1200 and CD32.
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09.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has uploaded new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files which can be downloaded for free. Since our last message the following songs have been added:
- Cream of the Earth
- Super Twintris "Those 3" Tunes Up-Mix
- Risky Woods - "El Pueblo" Cover Version
- Kid Gloves [ Castle ] The Toe-tapper's Up-Mix
- Hyperbased 2015
- Lethal Xcess - Ruins of Methallycha
- Einstein 2d6 - Wings of Victory (Spacetrip Mix)
- Total Eclipse (Main Theme Remix)
- MegaLoMania title
- Agony - Loading Forest (TITAN Deep Blue Mix)
- Defender Of The Crown (title)
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08.Jun.2015
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slengpung.com: Pictures of (partly very old) demoscene meetings
On slengpung.com there are pictures of meetings of the demoscene. The archive includes pictures which are also from the eighties: Recently pictures of the meeting
Ikari & Zargon Party (1989), Jewels/Danish Gold/Dominators/Upfront Party (1988) and Furuland Hacker Conference (1989) have been published.
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08.Jun.2015
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Amiga-Emulator: WinUAE 3.1
Version 3.1 of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE emulates a lot of additional hardware extensions for the first time. Besides, the sound of Paula can be mixed with other sound sources (CD, CD32 FMV, Toccate) and many other improvements have been implemented:
First emulated hardware extensions
- SCSI-Hosts:
- A2090/A2090a (ST-506 not supported)
- AdSCSI Advantage 2000
- Archos ADD-500
- C-Ltd A1000/A2000
- GVP Series I (Three models)
- GVP Series II
- Expansion Systems DataFlyer 1200/4000 SCSI+
- HK-Computer Vector Falcon 8000
- J.Kommos A500
- Kupke Golem
- Masoboshi MC-702 (Incomplete)
- Microbotics StarDrive (Clock not emulated)
- Preferred Technologies Nexus
- Protar A500
- RocTec RocHard RH800C (SCSI+IDE)
- SupraDrive (All five models)
- IDE-Controller:
- ICD AdIDE
- AlfaPower/AT-BUS 508/2008/AlfaPower Plus
- M-Tec AT 500
- Masoboshi MC-302/MC-702 (Incomplete)
- RocTec RocHard RH800C
- CPU-boards:
- ACT Apollo 1240/1260
- DKB 1230/1240
- RCS Fusion Forty
- GVP A3001
- GVP A530
- GVP G-Force 030
- Kupke Golem 030 A500
- Video-Hardware:
- Archos AVideo 12
- Archos AVideo 24 (Animation features not implemented)
- Black Belt Systems HAM-E and HAM-E Plus
- Newtronic Technologies Video DAC 18
- Impulse FireCracker 24
- Other extension:
- Toccata Zorro II sound card
- Nordic Power v3.2 freezer cartridge
- Pro Access v2.17 freezer cartridge
New features
- CD, CD32 FMV and Toccata audio are now optionally mixed with Paula audio stream. Sound sync is not lost even when emulation speed changes and sound is included with audio recording.
- Multiple SCSI/IDE expansion boards can be enabled at the same time.
- Floppy sound per-drive empty/disk inserted volume control.
- Added partial A1000 Velvet prototype support. Unfortunately currently no known Velvet boot disks exist.
- GUI Filter panel configurable overscan region blanking.
- Hardfile ATA and SCSI version configuration option.
- Fullscreen GUI option.
- If system has touch screen (Windows tablet for example), touching top of screen more than 2 seconds will open GUI.
- GUI Paths panel portable mode checkbox enabled.
- Configured but disconnected game controller is remembered.
Updates
- Custom chipset display emulation partially rewritten, many A1000 vs OCS vs ECS chipset undocumented edge cases are now fully emulated.
- AMAX ROM dongle emulation improved.
- CD and disk image volume label is shown in status message bar.
- CPU Idle feature rewritten, lower CPU usage.
- More reliable simultaneous on the fly media insertions/removals.
- Action Replay 2/3 emulation improved.
- Added 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 filter panel "integer" scaling options.
- Audio master volume is now real master volume control. Paula, CD and AHI are sub-volume controls.
- Optionally disk saveimages can use same directory as parent image.
- More accurate 68000 bus/address error stack frame undocumented fields.
Fixed bugs of WinUAE 3.0
- Some CPU halted conditions caused emulator hang.
- Chip RAM/Slow RAM size change on the fly crash.
- Multiple other crash bugs fixed.
Other fixed bugs
- Low level SCSI emulation fixes and updates.
- RTG mode screenshots in 16-bit host color depth mode had wrong colors.
- Real CD drive as emulated ATAPI or SCSI returned wrong last block.
- Graffiti corrupted display in non-AGA modes.
- Some programs had shifted display in some configurations (For example Gloom AGA, Worms Directors Cut title screens)
- Picasso IV graphics corruption in OS4 16-bit modes.
- Picasso IV mode switch out of bounds memory access crash (OS41FE).
- Serial port emulation lost characters in some situations.
- Branch FPU instructions didn't work in more accurate CPU modes.
- AVI recording audio/video sync problems fixed.
- Stuck key if "Mouse captured: emulation paused" was ticked.
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08.Jun.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 01.06.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of June 1st:
- Keymaps have been updated for non breaking space support (polluks)
- Countries have been updated for first day of week support (polluks)
- 64-bit AROS again loads Amiga format fonts correctly (jmcmullan)
- fat-handler is now correctly stopping at end of root directory (neil)
- Formatting is now possible with fat-handler (neil)
- Renaming disk is now working correctly in fat-handler (neil)
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08.Jun.2015
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Epsilons Blog: Software presentation "MultiviewerNG"
'Epsilon' has got a pre-version of A-EON's recently announced MultiviewerNG and introduces the programm and its range of functions in detail.
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08.Jun.2015
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New demos
The scene portal pouet.net has been added a lot of new Amiga demos during the last months:
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08.Jun.2015
amigaimpact.org (Webseite)
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French review to MorphOS 3.8
David Brunet working for the magazine Obligement has written a detailed and illustrated review (in French) to the recently released MorphOS 3.8.
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08.Jun.2015
Pegasosforum (Forum)
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MorphOS: PastePass 1.0
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS with encrypted database which enters user name and password by pressing a special keyboard shortcut.
Changes:
- All reported bugs and questions concerning the use of the software fixed
- Can be launched via tooltypes iconified
- Hotkey for deiconifying added
- Use of keyboard (Cyclechain and Controlchar)
- Import of text files
- All data in memory encrypted
- GUI for Passtool added
- adequate icons added
Download: PastePass.lha (90 KB)
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07.Jun.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood-Plugin: GL Galore 1.0 for hardware-accelerated 2D-/3D-graphics
Press release: This is the game changer you've been waiting for! Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the next big thing: GL Galore, the ultimate OpenGL® scripting solution for Hollywood! GL Galore is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to access the OpenGL 1.1 command set directly from Hollywood. This makes it possible to write scripts that utilize the host system's 3D hardware to create high-performance, butter-smooth 2D and 3D animation that is computed completely in hardware by the GPU of your graphics board. This leads to a huge performance boost over the classic Hollywood graphics API which is mostly implemented in software. Especially systems with slower CPUs will benefit greatly from hardware-accelerated drawing offered by OpenGL.
OpenGL is a portable software interface to graphics hardware. It is available for almost every platform in a variety of flavours. On AmigaOS and compatibles, OpenGL is available as MiniGL on AmigaOS 4, TinyGL on MorphOS, StormMesa on AmigaOS 3, and Mesa 3D on AROS. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems are usually shipped with an OpenGL driver already installed.
GL Galore offers wrapper functions for most commands of the OpenGL 1.1 API including many GLU functions. Additionally, GL Galore also offers bridging functions that allow you to convert Hollywood brushes into OpenGL textures and vice versa. Furthermore, when GL Galore is activated, Hollywood's hardware brushes and hardware double-buffers are mapped directly to OpenGL so that you can even benefit from hardware accelerated drawing and transformation without writing a single line of GL code. Whenever GL Galore is activated, all graphics output will automatically be routed through OpenGL.
GL Galore can also be useful for rapidly prototyping software in OpenGL. People who used to program OpenGL using C will greatly appreciate Hollywood's convenient multimedia API which offers functions for almost all common tasks. For example, by using GL Galore to write OpenGL programs you can avoid all the hassle of managing a GL window using one of the many different toolkits out there. Also, jobs like image loading, sound or video playback, font handling and image manipulation will become ridiculously easy thanks to Hollywood's powerful command set which covers almost 700 functions. And of course, there aren't 14 different versions of commands like glColor, but just one version because sometimes less is more.
GL Galore is the first plugin to bear the Powered by Hollywood 6.0 seal of quality as it utilizes the new display adapter plugin interface introduced with Hollywood 6.0. The plugin will not work with older versions of Hollywood. It is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ Versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (i386), Windows, Mac OS X (PowerPC and i386) and Linux (PowerPC and i386) are provided. On top of that, GL Galore comes with over 250 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM. Finally, many impressive example scripts are included in the distribution archive to get you started really quickly.
All of this makes GL Galore the ultimate OpenGL scripting experience combining the best of both worlds into one powerful plugin: Hollywood's extensive and convenient multimedia function set and OpenGL's raw graphics power!
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07.Jun.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 6th, 2015:
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
windsurf.lha mods/demo 120K A Module composed by Pete/Eni...
Calimero_beta_0.14.lha text/dtp 8.8M MOS A DTP Program
StormMesa_Libs68K.lha util/libs 515K 68k MESA/OpenGL implementation fo...
StormMesa_LibsPPC.lha util/libs 531K WOS MESA/OpenGL implementation fo...
cAMIra.lha util/misc 168K 68k simple webcam software using ...
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07.Jun.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 6th, 2015:
screentitleformat.lha doc/mis 252b 4.0 Set alternative Screen Title on ...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amicraft.lha gam/mis 950kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
aiss.lha gra/ais 8Mb 4.1 Amiga Image Storage System
aiss.pdf gra/ais 5Mb 4.1 Documentation
x1ktemp.lha uti/doc 179kb 4.1 CPU Temp Monitor docky for the X...
dirmeup_demo.lha uti/fil 977kb 4.1 Amiga Files Explorer
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL extractor script
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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07.Jun.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until June 6th, 2015:
PyMUI for Python 2.7 0.7.0 dev/pyt 1142 A Python module allowing fo...
ExFAT File System 1.1 sys/lib 193 Port of exFAT filesystem ba...
AmigaMark 1.2 sys/too 1119 A complex computer speed be...
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07.Jun.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 06.06.2015
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 June 6th, 2015:
- 2015-06-01 improved: Lorna (Topo Soft) supports another disk version (Info)
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07.Jun.2015
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS-Distribution: Aeros for Raspberry Pi 2 Premium with ExaGear
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution Aeros now exclusively is available for the Raspberry Pi 2 as premium version (screenshot), which includes the lx-command for launching Linux-programms out of AROS as well as the commercial programm ExaGear.
Using this emulator it is possible to execute x86-applications on the ARM-processor of the Raspberry. Therefore programms like Skype (Linux/x86) and Wine (Linux/x86) as well as, based on them, Amiga emulators WinUAE (Windows/x86) and WinFellow (Windows/x86) can be used with this distribution (Video: WinFellow).
Some of the x86-programms only runs with limitations: For instance Skype has not a sound output because the required soundserver PulseAudio was left out due to problems with other apllications. Without ExaGear and the programms which use it, the distribution can be also used on a Raspberry Pi 1.
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07.Jun.2015
Forum-64 (Webseite)
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Petro Tyschtschenko obviously sells his Walker prototype
According to rumours in several forums, Petro Tyschtschenko offers the last Walker prototype - the other model he sold to Nicholas Blachford long ago - for sale via Facebook. The entry on Facebook is not generally accessible. Therefore currently there are only some screenshots:
If these screenshots prove themselves true, then Tyschtschenko obviously hopes to get 25.000 Euro by selling this rare prototype - which recently could be booted at a retro meeting for the first time (the IDE-cable was connected incorrectly).
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06.Jun.2015
Rick Thornquist (ANF)
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Company history: "Commodore - The Amiga Years" soon at Kickstarter
In October, Brian Bagnall expressed the hope, that the second part of his Commodore biography could be published. Now he has announced a Kickstarter campaign on Facebook for finishing "The Amiga Years" which will start on June 15th.
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06.Jun.2015
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Platformer: "The Game"
David Eriksson's "The Game" is an unfinished platformer written in AMOS. The game is fully playable, according to the author it only lacks "a title and a little bit of polish". The author explains that "there is no
real ending, you just get to a room that says Well Done and there's no real end".
Eriksson also states that "The main reason I stopped development was that when I tried the game on a clean A1200 there was some minor sprite flicker that I couldn't get rid of (and its still there) but now I decided to clean up some other parts of the game up a bit and release what I have."
"The Game" was heavily inspired by the retro platformer You have to win the game, even if work on the former started way before the latter was released.
"The Game" runs on 68000-based Amigas but according to the author "it still is a little slow". An Amiga 1200 with some FastRAM is recommended.
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06.Jun.2015
Geram Amiga Community (Webseite)
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PDF: The History of Psygnosis
A year ago the British podcast "Retro Asylum" released an episode named The History of Psygnosis. All the documents which the podcast is based on were visually conditioned and published as free E-Book: "Retro Asylum - The History of Psygnosis" can be downloaded as PDF-file from Google Docs.
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06.Jun.2015
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AISS 4.19 released
Martin Merz has released an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS) which is a system for managing toolbar images under AmigaOS and other systems.
AISS 4.19 has more than 7.900 images. Due to compatibility reasons alle pictures and animations of the previous version are included as well.
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06.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Forum)
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Download page: MorphOS Central
Bastiaan de Waard's "MorphOS Central" is a download page which currently has more than 1400 files. The entries have been not categorized and can be only found by searching for the file name or the short name.
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04.Jun.2015
(ANF)
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Sam460 customers can return AmigaOS 4.1 and get a refund
Three weeks ago, MorphOS 3.8 has been released, including support for the Sam460 motherboards from ACube. Now the Italian hardware vendor reacts to this development and offers his customers a refund if they want to return their copy of AmigaOS 4.1: If you return your AmigaOS DVD to ACube, ACube will pay you 48 Euros.
The exact conditions for the refund are listed in a PDF file that is linked to from ACube's webshop:
- The refund is only available for "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition OEM" and needs to be requested no more than 30 days after purchase of the hardware
- the DVD package is unopened and still shrinkwraped
- The customer returns the DVD to ACube at his own costs and also pays any additional paypal or bank fees required for returning the money to him
- To avoid the additional costs and the hassle of sending the DVD back to ACube, customers can request a refund immediately after ordering the hardware, bevore it's even processed at ACube
All Sam460 variants are still available only as a bundle with AmigaOS 4.1 though. The fact that ACube keeps referring to a "refund" even if it's clear new customers can pretty much buy a motherboard and request the 'refund' at the same time and that the company explains in detail why they're offering a refund - including a link to the EU guidelines on "Unfair Commercial Practices" suggests that ACube's contractually obligated to always sell a copy of AmigaOS 4.1 with their Hardware.
It's currently unknown if the refund will also be available when purchasing a Sam460 through another dealer. (cg)
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03.Jun.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology: Announcement of MultiViewer
After Trevor Dickinson mentioned it in an interview, now the official press release (PDF) by A-EON Technology regarding the MultiViewer or MultiViewerNG is available.
Similar to MultiView developed by Commodore, the programm shows pictures but also text or AmigaGuide files, if the datatypes are available (screenshots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; video). MultiViewer for AmigaOS 3.9 and MultiViewerNG for AmigaOS 4 will be available soon in the appstore AMIStore.
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03.Jun.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 25.05.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of May 25th:
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS ARM kernel continue (mschulz)
- C library strtok function has been fixed (neil)
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02.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Calimero 0.14
Carsten Siegner's word processing software Calimero is still in development. Beta version 0.14 features different levels for objects and allows you to copy them to the clipboard, to cut and to paste them.
Download: Calimero_beta_0.14.lha (9 MB)
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02.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Forum)
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Interview with Trevor Dickinson
Under the title link, Michal Bergseth has interviewed Trevor Dickinson (A-EON Technology). He talked about the 30-birthday-events in Amsterdam, Neuss, Mountain View and Peterborough (which he will all attend) and that he supported financially later versions of Amiga Forever.
He has announced "MultiViewer" for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4, a new software which will replace MultiView and show all kind of files which are supported by datatypes.
For the AmigaOne X5000 which is about to start production, A-EON Technology offers the prospect of a cheaper price compared to its predecessor.
Using the Cow3D demo, the latest benchmarks under Warp3D and a Southern-Island graphic board (XFX RadeonHD 7770) had demonstrated that the AmigaOne X5000 would be almost twice as fast as any other AmigaOS-4-PowerPC hardware, althouth a non-optimized OS4-version with Debug output was used. Dickinson did not mention, if this could be caused by the X-kernel.
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02.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Filemanager Dir Me Up 2.40
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays has released an update of his commercial filemanager "Dir Me Up".
Changes:
- Create drawers:
- Checkbox added to automatically go into new drawer after creation
- Check added on non valid characters (:,//)
- Possible input of slash (/) to create several drawers in a row
- Volumes details now displayed in "text" preview field when selected
- Quick double click comeback on files
- Prefs: .wmv and .webm suffixes added like video
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31.May.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 30.05.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 30th, 2015:
jansson-2.7.zip dev/lib 2.0M x86 encoding, decoding and manipu...
libsndfile.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 20M x86 read/write files containing s...
libzip.lha dev/lib 672K OS4 Read, create and modify zip a...
amuidiff_sp.lha dev/misc 1K Spanish/Español catalog for A...
Help_My_Cat-AOS3.lha game/misc 5.6M 68k A Platform puzzle adventure
Help_My_Cat-AOS4.lha game/misc 6.0M OS4 A Platform puzzle adventure
Help_My_Cat-AROS.lha game/misc 5.8M x86 A Platform puzzle adventure
Help_My_Cat-MorphOS.lha game/misc 5.8M MOS A Platform puzzle adventure
agassm-licence.zip gfx/show 0K 68k Licence key to for AGA Slides...
minishowpict_sp.lha gfx/show 1K Catálogo Español para MiniSho...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.6M MOS Directory and files tool
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 391K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.05.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 30th, 2015:
libzip.lha dev/lib 672kb 4.0 Read, create and modify zip arch...
perception-ime.lha dri/inp 369kb 4.1 Perception Input Method Editor
help_my_cat.lha gam/pla 6Mb 4.0 A Platform puzzle adventure
loview.lha gra/vie 5Mb 4.0 The Easy Viewer & Thumber :)
x1ktemp.lha uti/doc 178kb 4.1 CPU Temp Monitor docky for the X...
comparedirs.lha uti/fil 354kb 4.1 Compare two dirs for different f...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 502kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 1Mb 4.1 Qt Download videos from YouTube
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31.May.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 30.05.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until May 30th, 2015:
jansson-2.7.zip lib/mis 2Mb encoding, decoding and manipulat...
libsndfile.i386-aros.zip lib/mis 20Mb reading and writing files contai...
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30.May.2015
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Book review: Commodore Amiga: A Visual Commpendium
The Blog "Commodore is Awesome" has published a detailed review to the illustrated book "Commodore Amiga: A Visual Commpendium".
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30.May.2015
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Platformer: PuzCat
PuzCat (Youtube video) is a platform game written with AMOS in 8-Bit style. In this game you have to collect all mice in a level and then to reach the exit. You have to avoid dogs, but you can also hit them with a block or break them with very high jumps.
The AMOS source code of the game is included in the archive.
Download: PuzCat.zip ( KB)
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30.May.2015
amigaforum.de (Webseite)
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Final Writer: Development started under new owner
Some time ago Timothy "Terminills" Deters has announced that he had acquired the rights to text processing software "Final Writer". Meanwhile a programmer seems to start developing further the programm, as the screenshot released by Deters shows:
According to the file name, currenty the programm still runs under the 68k-port of AROS. Ports to AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS have been already announced. According to Deters in discussion, all interested users should expect "more of an evolution than a revolution" concerning the further development of Final Writer. Before a new release, the following improvements are absolutely necessary:
- Turboprint support for prints in 24 Bit
- RTG-support, currently Final Writer has problems with screens with more than 256 colours
- Bug fixes
- Working support for the locale.library
Additionally Deters is looking for support concerning the OpenDocument-format, although it is not clear if already in the first version this feature will be implemented.
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29.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology acquired TuneNet
TuneNet is a programm written by Paul Heams for playing music inclusive Internet radio streams, which now was acquired by A-EON Technology (press release, PDF). The author did not have time to develop further the programm. The last version was released in 2010 (OS4Depot) and is delivered with AmigaOS 4.1.
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29.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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MorphOS: Cross-Development-Server
Developers without an own MorphOS system can compile their programms with the Debian-based server of 'Jupp3' by uploading the source code and downloading the finished programm; it is not possible to execute the software as well as having a graphical output.
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29.May.2015
hjoerg (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Completely pictured installation guide for WinUAE
Under the title link there is an English-language guide created by Thomas Rapp which demonstrates all 53 steps for installing AmigaOS 4.1 under the emulator WinUAE with a screenshot.
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27.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Picture viewer LoView 2.85
LoView written by Simone 'Tuxedo' Monsignori is a picture viewer with datatype support which also offers simple picture editing functions. The files can be viewed as thumbnails as well.
First of all version 2.85 is a bug fix release, but also offers three new options: Using the internal or external JPEG Loader, automatic saving of the preferences when quitting the programm and a compatibility option for Directory Opus 5.
Download: loview.lha (5 MB)
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27.May.2015
21stcentury (ANF)
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French news forum: Ultimate Amiga
Ultimate Amiga is a new french forum for Amiga news and more, currently there are 175 registered members. The website covers all flavors of Amiga systems. (snx)
[News message: 27. May. 2015, 06:32] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amicast 4 (English), interview with Pascal Papara
In his fourth issue, the English-language podcast Amicast has interviewed Pascal Papara who is well-known for his AROS distributions Broadway and AEROS as well as for his app-store Indiego.
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25.May.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.86
EvenMore is a text viewer written with ECX in Amiga E and by Chris Perver. The FinalWriter/Copy-plugin of version 0.86 now also supports crossed out text.
Download:
EvenMore.lha (425 KB)
EvenMore_OS4.lha (502 KB)
EvenMore_MOS.lha (503 KB)
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[News message: 25. May. 2015, 18:36] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2015
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.25
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser. The author would be pleased about any kind of feedback and is looking for help for the French translation.
After launching TAWS, the "History (english)" of version 0.25 can be found in the folder "System/TAWS" on the Workbench.
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25.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 18.05.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of May 18th:
- Regression in CPU cache handling impacting at least AGP and USB on i386 has been fixed (neil)
- A performance regression in IntelGMA driver has been fixed (neil)
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS ARM kernel continue (Kalamatee)
- Handling of secret text in MUI String class has been improved (neil)
- Handling of partitions list in HDToolBox has been improved (neil)
- FindTask implementation has been extended to look at spinning tasks (Kalamatee)
- A crash in FTManager when selecting anti-aliasing has been fixed (neil)
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24.May.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 23.05.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 23rd, 2015:
Copper-rulez-AGAin.lha demo/aga 424K 68k Oldschool AGA-Copperdemo w/ n...
xa-mos.lha dev/cross 314K MOS Cross-assembler for 65xx/R65C...
Transfer_SP.lha docs/misc 3K Transfer Spanish Catalog
five-towers.zip game/actio 2.2M 68k The most frustrating Jet Set ...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
DGen_SP.lha misc/emu 12K DGen Spanish/Espa?ol Guide
k8o_IconPack-3.lha pix/picon 191K v0.3 Extended Icon Set for Mo...
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24.May.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.05.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 23rd, 2015:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wordmeupxxl_demo.lha gam/act 24Mb 4.1 Word puzzle game
askmeup_demo.lha gam/mis 18Mb 4.1 A video game about general knowl...
smtube.lha vid/pla 3Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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24.May.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 23.05.2015
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 May 23rd, 2015:
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24.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Assembly Summer 2015 in Helsinki
Since 1992 the demoparty "Assembly" has been celebrated. This year the Oldskool demo competition will be dropped - in honour of the celebration of 30 years of Amiga there will be only an Amiga competition (additional to the Newskool competitions).
The demoparty will take place in Messukeskus, Helsinki, Finland from 30th July until 2nd August.
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[News message: 24. May. 2015, 07:56] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2015
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Arcade adventure: Help My Cat!
"Help My Cat!" (Youtube video) is a little arcade adventure in cartoon style. In this game you have to save the cat of an old lady from the roof of a house. Thanks to Hollywood the adventure is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2015
Scene World Magazine staff (ANF)
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Music: Video interview with Jeroen Tel and Tess Fries (English)
For issue 7 of the "Scene World Podcast" the computer game composer Jeroen Tel as well as the singer and dancer Tess Fries have been interviewed.
Additional to many C64 and console games, Jeroen Tel composed music for some Amiga games like Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op!.
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[News message: 23. May. 2015, 05:56] [Comments: 0]
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22.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology and ACube Systems strengthen strategic alliance
In a press release (PDF) A-EON Technology informed that they agreed a new hardware and
software development roadmap with the Italian company ACube Systems which both companies will jointly fund and support.
As a first project the Minimig Plus was mentioned. Additionally A-EON Technology has acquired the Ringhio Messaging System which is used in AmigaOS 4 and which was announced in another press release (PDF).
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22.May.2015
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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Meeting: Pictures und a short report from Commodore-Meeting in Vienna
Stefan Egger writes: I posted a few photos from the Commodore Meeting in Vienna on Flickr. Here's a small report from the meeting:
In addition to lots of C64 computers and similar hardware (roboter arms, C116, Commodore Pong games, a Japanese VIC 1001), lots of Amiga systems were presented at the meeting: Stefan Egger ("computer collection vienna") was showing the very first and very last Amiga models: the A1000 prototype 'Velvet' and one of the few Amiga 4000T systems manufactured by Commodore.
AMike had brought his Amiga 1000 which was featuring a new motherboard ('GBA060'), Turrican had a snow white Amiga 1200 with black keys running various scene demos.
Thomas Dorn, former Commodore Austria employee, was demonstrating something very special: his Amiga 4000 was running a train control system developed by Siemens.
Reinhold Schertler was showing his Amiga 2000 equipped with a 68030 CPU, which was playing videos with a resolution of up to 320x216 pixels at 15 FPS featuring 22 kHz stereo sounnd. (snx) (Translation: cg)
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21.May.2015
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VICE: Report about Team 17
On the website of the English-language magazine Vice a report about Team 17 is available which also takes a closer look at the Amiga history of the developer team.
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21.May.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Word Me Up XXL 1.61
For the commercial arcade/puzzle mix "Word Me Up XXL" developed by Boing Attitude a free update has been released which was compiled with the latest version of SDK and fixes a bug in the "Help" and "About" menu.
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20.May.2015
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Poll: how many news items should be displayed on the amiga-news.de front page?
The Amiga scene went through a lot of change in the last decade: it used to be an alternative desktop computer system with active users, now it's a hobby for retro enthusiasts and collectors. This had effects on both the amount of news items published by amiga-news.de - it shrank from 10 to 15 items per day to just 3 or 4 per day - and the behaviour of our readers: many of them only check in every few days now.
While every reader could theoretically configure the front page to suit his needs, experience shows that most people simply use the default settings without ever changing them. That's why we would like to ask our users what their preferred configuration for the front page would be. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.May.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.3.0
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 answer correctly 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 2.3.0 the "Quick Start"-mode as well as further translations (Swedish, Portuguese, Polish) have been added. Additionally the Spanish translation has been improved.
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19.May.2015
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Commercial BIOS update for Sam460
For 9 Euro in ACube's webshop a new version of the BIOS software "UBoot" is available. The update includes the following changes:
- new redesigned GUI with an 'amiga' style, enabled via Menu->Video Options->Console->Silent
- unified support for Sam460ex and Sam460cr boards
- support for USB EHCI, now booting from a SD card is very fast
- better support for USB devices
- removed 2 GB limit for USB sticks
- better compatibility with newer Radeon HD graphic cards
- introduced a new menu entry to change the x86 gfx BIOS emulator accuracy. If your graphic card show some visual problems on startup, try increasing the x86 BIOS emulator accuracy
- new DDR2 boost settings: read, write, read + write (up to 5% speed increase on reads and up to 10% on writes)
- DDR2 boost setup done from a new menu entry
- added support for old Permedia2 graphic cards, for 'history' reasons :-)
- added 'ping' command
- corrected a bug in the serial port GPIO configuration
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18.May.2015
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PDF-Magazine: 880 Gamer, issue 6 (English)
The latest issue of the English-language PDF-magazine "880 Gamer" includes reports about the 30th birthday of the Amiga as well as reviews about Street Fighter II, Pang, Super Hang on, Silkworm and Toki.
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[News message: 18. May. 2015, 11:44] [Comments: 0]
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17.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 11.05.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of May 11th:
- Work on having higher priority tasks yield when spinning started (Kalamatee)
- Work on USB 3.0 support continues (dizzyofcrn)
- Tasks which are spinning are moved to separate list now in AROS ARM kernel (Kalamatee)
- Work on scheduler of ARM kernel continues (Kalamatee)
- Testing specification for String class added (neil)
- MUI String class now does a display-beep in case of rejected character (neil)
- MUIA_String_BufferPos attriute of MUI String class is now initializable (neil)
- MUIA_String_Format attribute of MUI String class is now gettable (neil)
- Rocks and Diamonds game is now part of ports repository of AROS (mazze)
- MUI Aboutbox custom class now displays the build information (deadwood)
- UI bug in Poseidon pop up window fixed (Kalamatee)
- Handling of scheduling flags has been made mutli-core aware (Kalamatee)
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17.May.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Password manager PastePass 0.7
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS with encrypted database which enters user name and password by clicking a special keyboard shortcut.
Download: PastePass.lha (75 KB)
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17.May.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 16th, 2015:
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 6.9M 68k The Webgallery/Onlineshop Cre...
MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 40K 68k External Prefs Editor for Max...
Crypt-2.0.lha dev/gg 66K WOS crypt v2.0 - UNIX password cr...
ColorPrint.lha dev/misc 91K 68k Print sources with syntax hig...
dt2rawimage.lha dev/mui 69K MOS Convert images to rawimage C ...
Accelerators-SP.lha docs/help 12K Accelerators Guide Spanish/Es...
FrenchCanadianKeymap.zip driver/inp 2K Keymap for French Canadian ke...
A2091RAMPatch.lha driver/med 1K 68k Move A590/A2091 driver from R...
F12015Carset.lha game/data 22K 2015 Car Set for F1GP Ed/Micr...
potrace-mos.lha gfx/conv 802K MOS Transform bitmaps into vector...
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.3M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
DezHexBin2.lha misc/math 36K 68k Convert integers <-> bi...
Emotions_Reworked.lha mods/xm 6.4M New Mod By Pseudaxos
UniScrobbler.lha mus/play 41K MOS Last.fm scrobbler script
Calimero_beta_0.13.lha text/dtp 8.8M MOS A DTP Program
Loadertune.lha util/boot 80K 68k Another boot song resident mo...
MemOptimizer.lha util/boot 210K 68k Optimize for better memory al...
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 151K 68k WarpDT preferences program V45.7
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 235K WOS JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.12
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 227K 68k Dynamic buffers (IFF streamab...
sdl2.lha util/libs 751K MOS SDL 2 audio and video library
RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 416K 68k Timer controled random WBPatt...
screenrecorder_DE.lha util/wb 1K German catalog for ScreenReco...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 16th, 2015:
hwplayer.lha dev/mis 9Mb 4.0 Run applets created by Hollywood
amicraft.lha gam/mis 933kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
odyssey_dan.lha net/bro 6kb 4.1 Danish catalog for Odyssey
amiupdate_swe.lha uti/wor 11kb 4.1 Swedish translation of Amiupdate
smarthome_chapter_001... uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Amiga Kurs Chapter 001
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.1 Qt Download videos from YouTube
smtube.lha vid/pla 3Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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17.May.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until May 16th, 2015:
crates.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 3Mb Find the path to clear the key c...
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17.May.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until May 16th, 2015:
ReadWMF 1.0 gra/mis 71 Analyses Windows Meta File ...
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17.May.2015
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WHDLoad: Neue Pakete until 16.05.2015
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 May 16th, 2015:
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17.May.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SDL 2.0
SDL ('Simple DirectMedia Layer') provides a platform independent API for game developers. The MorphOS port of the 1.x series of SDL has been maintained by Ilkka 'itix' Lehtoranta as powersdl.library so far.
The new 2.x generation of SDL (list of improvements) will be distributed for MorphOS as sdl2.library. The current release is based on SDL 2.0.3. It is currently lacking 3D support and some less important interfaces are not implemented yet. Additionally, only sdl2_image.library has been ported so far, sdl2_mixer.library is currently being worked on (sub libraries from powersdl.library are not compatible with sdl2.library).
SDL 2.0 requires MorphOS 3.8, so far no game ports using the new library have been released.
Download: sdl2.lha (751 KB) (snx) (Translation: cg)
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17.May.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Development tool: vasm 1.7c
Frank Wille released an update of vasm, a portable assembler supporting a variety of CPU architectures. A list of changes in this release can be found on the program's website. (snx) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 17. May. 2015, 07:09] [Comments: 0]
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16.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Datatype: WarpJPEG 45.12 and WarpDTPrefs 45.7
Oliver Roberts has updated his Warp-datatype for JPEG-graphics as well as the corresponding preferences programm WarpDTPrefs. Under AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS it now offers Altivec support which makes the JPEG-decoding at least one and a half times faster compared with version 45.11.
If under MorphOS there is also a higher decoding speed compared with the original datatype of the operating system is not known yet. The original datatype also supports Altivec.
Changes:
- Added AltiVec speed optimizations for the OS4 and MorphOS versions making decoding speed of baseline images 1.5x faster on a G4 and 1.9x faster on a PA6T, with fancy upsampling off, on average. With fancy upsampling on, the AltiVec speed gain is even greater - 1.9x faster on a G4 and 2.3x faster on a PA6T. These optimizations can be toggled off/on using the new USE_ALTIVEC setting
- Huffman decoder in PowerPC versions is now 5-10% faster
- Reintegrated higher quality fancy upsampling smoothing feature from IJG jpeglib v6b which had not been present since WarpJPEG 45.5 due to its removal from IJG jpeglib v7 and higher
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9d
- Added new set of benchmarks for OS4 (benchmark updates for other platforms suspended until my A1200 motherboard has been repaired)
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15.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Text editor EdiSyn 0.53
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntaxhighlighting for C/C++, Pascal and HTML. Version 0.53 now is also available for Hollywood-programms.
Download: EdiSyn_0.53.lha (3 MB)
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15.May.2015
amiga.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS 3.8 public release with Sam460 and 4K support
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.8, which introduces support for ACube´s Sam460 series of mainboards and numerous Radeon graphics cards from AMD´s X1000 and HD series. In addition to various performance improvements related to the Quark kernel, Exec, 3D graphics and video playback, MorphOS 3.8 also adds the ability to use state-of-the-art 4K displays in their native resolution. For a more extensive overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.
As usual, existing MorphOS users can update to the latest release entirely for free. Sam460 owners who are interested to register MorphOS for their system will be able to do so for 49 EUR.
We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.8 is available for download in our files section.
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15.May.2015
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AmigaOS 4.1: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition ISO images for download
Press release: Brussels, May 14, 2015
We at Hyperion Entertainment CVBA are more than thrilled about the overwhelming success our customers made out of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition! Thank you!
Actually the success is so great, causing especially the supply of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition for Classic to dry up during the last weeks and some of your preferred dealers even ran out of stock already, which is of course unacceptable!
In order to remedy this drawback, Hyperion Entertainment CVBA commissioned the production of another batch of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition for Classic, which will be available to and from dealers before the end of May - yes, 2015 ;) So if you did not get a copy yet or want another one for your shelf, place your preorder at your favorite dealer now!
Good news for interested A3000 owners: of course we took advantage of this opportunity and fixed the Kicklayout to allow proper booting on A3000 machines without the need for a special bootdisk.
And also some good news for all existing AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition owners: with immediate effect the CD images of your registered AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition version(s) are available in the restricted download area. If not done already, please log in yourself and register your copies by entering the serial numbers in the registration form. We hope we eliminated in this way the fear of a broken CD some of you expressed.
In closing, thank you all again for making the huge success of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition possible in the first place! This is the best support you can give us for developing AmigaOS, so let's continue to stick together :-)
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14.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: FUSE file system bounty project in progress again
Already in December, instead of Leif Salomonsson, Fredrik 'salass00' Wikstrom started working on implementing the FUSE-framework to AROS. It is a complete adaption of the filesysbox.library and not only a recompilation of the version of AmigaOS-4.
According to a statement, the time schedule (May 31st) cannot be achieved. Currently so far 202 US-Dollar has been donated. Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has offered to double each donation until 500 Dollar has been achieved.
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14.May.2015
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 33 (Italian/English)
The PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. The game reviews of the REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games between different former platforms.
Some screenshots are linked with the retro trailer site of Amigapage.it. If you have a browser which supports Flash then there you can watch little videos of the described games.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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13.May.2015
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Full versions for download: Cybernetix, Bangboo, kleine Gilde, Alien Fish Finger
Amiga Arena has made available the full versions of the shooter Cybernetix as well as of the puzzle game Bangboo for free download again. Additionally the last two versions of the realtime economy simulation die kleine Gilde is available again. Amiga Future offers the shoot'n run Alien Fish Finger as download.
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13.May.2015
Pegasosforum (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS / MorphOS: Demo version of "Wings Battlefield"
After the release of the preview video in December, under the title link Cherry Darling has released a demo version of "Wings Battlefield". The game emulates the air fight sequences of the Cinemaware classic Wings - now with up to four players.
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12.May.2015
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AROS: A week in AROS (since 04.05.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of May 4th:
- Work on Inter-processor Interrupts in AROS ARM kernel continues (Kalamatee)
- Memory pool semaphore protection now works correctly when using TLSF mememory manager (deadwood)
- Task scheduler in ARM kernel updated to correctly move running/ready tasks (Kalamatee)
- Idle tasks are now started on additional CPU cores in ARM kernel (Kalamatee)
- Work on USB 3.0 support continues (dizzyofcrn)
- SDL application will no longer exit with unfreed signals (mazze)
- ScreenRecorder tool now has german catalog (polluks)
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10.May.2015
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: Aros Vision X86 1.0
As announced, there are now different versions of Olaf Schönweiß' AROS/68k-distribution "Aros Vision". Aros Vision X86 is based on the Windows-hosted version of AROS, that means it can be started as application under Windows without using VMware or having some special hardware (screenshot). The disadvantage: So far sound or network are not supported.
The distribution is based on Magellan featuring some major improvements, supports Mesa/Gallium and includes the game engine Antiryad (a debug-requester will appear but it does work), Free Pascal, many emulators, some games and many applications like AmiFIG or Lunapaint.
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10.May.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood Player 6.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce that the Hollywood Player is now also available in version 6.0 for all platforms supported by Hollywood (AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS PPC & x86, Linux PPC & x86 & ARM, Android).
With the Hollywood Player software authors can choose to distribute their programs as Hollywood applets instead of stand-alone executables. In contrast to stand-alone executables, Hollywood applets are universally executable which has the advantage that you don't have to compile your programs for as much as almost a dozen of different platforms but just one Hollywood applet is already sufficient. The end-user then simply has to install the Hollywood Player compatible with his platform and can run the Hollywood applet with it. Another advantage is that applets are much smaller than stand-alone executables compiled by Hollywood. While stand-alone executables often take up as much as 2 MB for only very few lines of code, Hollywood applets are very compact and often consist of only a few kilobytes. A last advantage is that programs distributed as Hollywood applets will automatically profit from improvements and bug fixes in newer versions of the Hollywood Player while programs distributed as stand-alone executables would have to be completely recompiled with each new Hollywood update in order to profit from improvements and bug fixes.
As its very name implies, the Hollywood Player can only be used to run applets compiled by Hollywood. It obviously cannot be used to create your own programs. You will still need the full version of Hollywood to create your own programs, of course.
On all Amiga compatibles, Hollywood Player installs itself to SYS:Utilities to be globally available as a default tool for Hollywood applets. Software authors choosing to distribute their programs as Hollywood applets can then simply set the default tool for their applets to "HollywoodPlayer" and inform the user to install the Hollywood Player before attempting to run the program.
The Hollywood Player is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal for a wide range of architectures and comes with three demo applets to show its capabilities.
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10.May.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.05.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 9th, 2015:
APX-Reborn_final.lha demo/intro 65K ppc REBORN by APPENDIX
jrm-hc72.lha demo/sound 512K ppc dA JoRMaS: H?pyCarva #72
LeakWatch.lha dev/debug 7K MOS Show deltas of resources usage
AbbayeDesMorts.lha game/actio 558K MOS Abbaye Des Morts game for Amiga
webptools_aros.lha gfx/conv 2.8M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
26letters.lha mods/jorma 220K 26 Letters by Vesuri (from JR...
Fear.lha mods/xm 4.9M New Mod By Pseudaxos
The_Intruder.lha mods/xm 5.2M New Mod By Pseudaxos
U_re_too_close.lha mods/xm 8.1M New Mod By Pseudaxos
U_re_too_close_Rework... mods/xm 8.1M New mod by Pseudaxos
engrus.hash.lha text/misc 2.4M iSpell English-Russian Dictio...
EvenMore_DE.lha text/show 4K Unofficial German catalog for...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 437K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 462K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 531K OS4 Multipurpose utility
Daywatch.lha util/time 153K 68k Powerful MUI calendar & r...
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10.May.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.05.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 9th, 2015:
abbayedesmorts.lha gam/act 558kb 4.0 An old school game like Ghost'n ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 531kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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10.May.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.05.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until May 9th, 2015:
xkoch.i386-aros.zip gra/mis 184kb Create koch fractals.
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10.May.2015
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WHDLoad: New archives until 09.05.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installer has been added until May 9th, 2015:
- 2015-05-04 improved: A-Train (Maxis) OS swap reduced a lot, custom3 option added (Info)
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10.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Another bounty project for developing free software
Under the title link, Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy has established another bounty project which is supposed to provide money to developers of free MorphOS software. The names of the developers are listed under the title link.
If you are going to donate you can do that using the PayPal-link on the home page of the user group WArMUp. So far 57 Euro have been donated.
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10.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Game: Meteor Defender
Meteor Defender is a little arcade game written in AMOS. In this game you have to shoot a meteorites before they have damaged the protective shield of a town so that it will be destroyed (screenshot).
Download
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10.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ABIv1 Snapshots
Under the title link, Matthias 'mazze' Rustler has provided ABIv1 snapshots for 68k and x86 from external sources. Programmes which are maintained or ported by other developers are not included.
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10.May.2015
Achim Kern (ANF)
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Hollywood: Programming course SmartHome
Under the title link, Achim Kern has started a project for controlling a SmartHome. As software Hollywood 6 is used. As hardware, an Amiga as well as a Arduino Mega 2560, LEDs and resistors are required.
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07.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Linux: openSUSE 13.2 for AmigaOne X1000
For users of the AmigaOne X1000, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has ported the Linux distribution openSuSE. He wrote: "Be aware, that openSUSE is experimental and isn't supported. openSUSE for the X1000 is alpha software! It's only for testing!" English-language installation hints you can find under the title link.
Download: openSUSE-13.2-1-x1000-ppc64.tar.gz (1 GB)
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05.May.2015
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Event: AmiWest 2015 (16.-18. October)
This year the AmiWest will take place in Sacramento (California) from October 16 to 18 in the hotel "Holiday Inn Express", 2224 Auburn Boulevard. On October 15, Steven Solie will organize a seminar on programming C with AmigaOS-4.
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05.May.2015
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Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 114
Today the German and English issue 114 (May/June 2015) of the magazine Amiga Future has been published and can be ordered directly from the magazine's editorial office or Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Among other articles the current issue contains the second part of the interview with Cherry Darling, a review of Swamp Defense 2 and a report from the demo scene.
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05.May.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix releases mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last message the following songs have been added:
- Shadow of the Beast 3 - Intro (Jungle Mix)
- Turrican Medley (1-3 Main Theme)
- Bubble Bobble - Theme Remix
- Agony - Loading Sea (Trip Hop Mix)
- Lotus III Theme
- Galactic: The Xmas Edition - Ingame
- Battle Squadron title screen
- Chambers of Shaolin - Trapped in China
- Lemmings Medley Remix
- Flashback Holocube Slaygon
- Clairvoyance by Absolute! - Just A Dream
- The Town With No Name (country mix)
- Apidya - Meadows Edge 1-3
- Weird Dreams (2015 dark mix)
- Treasures of the Savage Frontier
- Bubba'N'Stix Part 2 Remix
- Xenon2 2010 Remix
- Shadow of the Beast
- Shadow of the Beast III
- STATIX - Against Time
- Shadow of the Beast - Death Scene
- Hymn To Aurora
- Turrican - Techno Dungeon
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05.May.2015
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AROS: A week in AROS (since 27.04.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of April 27th:
- Development of AROS kernel for Raspberry Pi port continues (mschulz, Kalamatee)
- Work on per CPU core of handling of SysBase for AROS ARM kernel started (Kalamatee)
- Work on task scheduler for AROS ARM kernel started (Kalamatee)
- Accessing the current task has been cleaned up in exec.library codes (mschulz)
- task.resource module has been introduced to allow access to AROS-specific task information (Kalamatee)
- C:TaskList has been updated to use task.resource (Kalamatee)
- task.resource has been extended with functionality of querying task lists (Kalamatee)
- AROS ARM kernel now records start time and running time of task (Kalamatee)
- Support for spinlock primitive has been added to AROS kernel (Kalamatee)
- Basic support for Inter-processor Interrupts implemented in AROS ARM kernel (mschulz)
- AMR-specific implementation of spinlocks has been added to AROS kernel (mschulz)
- AHCI driver no longer constantly mounts/unmounts the medium (dizzyofcrn)
- Crashes and memory leaks have been fixed in AROS Vim port (mazze)
- xxd tool is now build together with Vim (mazze)
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