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18.Sep.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Board game Age of Thieves 1.0 with computer opponents
Age of Thieves is a computer version of the board game Carcassonne. Version 1.0 for the first time has available computer opponents which according to the author have the power of an advanced novice. The game is donationware. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Sep.2013
(ANF)


MorphOS 3.3 - Public Release
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.3, which includes various bug fixes and other improvements. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.

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 3.3 is available for download in our files section. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Sep.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Network configuration: EasyNet 0.177
With its user-interface, EasyNet simplifies the network configuration. AmigaKit adds the program to different network hardware like the X-Surf 100 but it can be also purchased separately. The program is updated via the live-update-function.

Changes:
  • Wireless Network Scanning (prism2 v2.5 driver required)
  • Network device querying - EasyNet reports network card's MAC address
  • Added support for two new network devices: x-Surf-100.device and plipbox.device
  • New settings configuration for the X-Surf 100 network card
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Sep.2013
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)


X-Surf 100: New, faster driver for AmiTCP/Genesis
Today version 1.11 of the x-surf-100.device has been released which provides special "turbo"-versions for AmiTCP-/Genesis-users. Previously Genesis-users reported transfer rates which were identical to an Usb2Ethernet-connection with Deneb. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Sep.2013



Game launcher: X-bEnCH 0.91 alpha
X-bEnCH (Youtube video of version 0.8) is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours which can replace the Workbench for launching WHDLoad-games (.slave, .exe) and requires low resources. From now on X-bEnCH is "Donationware". At the start the unregistered version asks you to register.

The most important changes in version 0.91 alpha:
  • Now with up to 272 colors on AGA (128 with OCS/ECS)
  • New .mod replay routine that's now perfectly working
  • CDMode to create your own CD32/CDTV compilations
  • Enhanced display on ECS/OCS
  • New 68060 recognition routine
  • You can now setup the RTC in the setup panel
  • New shortcuts (F1-F6) to access your 6 launching lists
  • New colorful loading bar on init
  • Double redraw bug fixed in the setup
  • X-bEnCh.guide now up to date
Update: (18.09.2013, 14:00, cg)

Version 0.91 Beta has been released, which fixes numerous bugs. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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15.Sep.2013
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Word processor Scriba 1.9.7
Scriba is a text processing software developed by Carsten Siegner which is still in development. New in version 1.9.7:
  • Tables can be loaded and saved as XML-files
  • Tables can be loaded via the Shell (z.B. Scriba test.xml) into the table editor and then are displayed
  • Drag/drop of tables into the main window or in the window of the table editor, which then are displayed
  • the table editor can also handle Unicode (example chart: Table_3.lha, PDF-version), the Truetype-chartset "Arial Unicode MS" is required.
Direct download: Scriba_1.9.7.lha (6,8 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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15.Sep.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 14.09.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until September 14th, 2013:
SpamFryerPatch.lha       comm/mail  68K       Patch SpamFryer to ver 6:21
SpamFryerSMRX.lha        comm/mail  47K       Spam Filter for SimpleMail
SpamFryerTHOR.lha        comm/mail  79K       Spam Filter for Thor
SpamFryerYAM.lha         comm/mail  50K       Spam Filter for YAM
RPilot.lha               dev/lang   79K   MOS Rob's PILOT interpreter
AMV.lha                  game/jump  185K  68k Small Viking-Partygame
AmiWolf.lha              game/shoot 3.7M  68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
genplus_mos.lha          misc/emu   1.1M  MOS Emulate various classic Sega ...
PeriodicTable.lha        misc/sci   446K      Periodic table (PageStream fo...
IconLib_46.4.lha         util/libs  276K  68k free icon.library in optimize...
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  548K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Sep.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.09.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until September 14th, 2013:
rpilot.lha               dev/lan 110kb 4.0 Rob's PILOT interpreter
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha                  gam/uti 1Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
sketchblock.lha          gra/edi 9Mb   4.1 Digital Sketching For AmigaOS
iview.lha                net/mis 2Mb   4.0 ABC iView client for AmigaOS
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 582kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Sep.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 14.09.2013
The following package has been added to MorphOS-Files until September 14th, 2013:
GenesisPlus              1.6     uti/emu   1151 Emulator of Sega Genesis an...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Sep.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 14.09.2013
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 installers have been added until September 14th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Sep.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


MorphOS: GenesisPlus 1.6
The update version 1.6 of the Sega-Mega-Drive-emulator GenesisPlus fixes three bugs:
  • Fixed C button USB gamepad mapping
  • Fixed some unfreed signals on exit
  • Fixed certain ROMs locking up the system issue
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Sep.2013
Christian Zigotzky (ANF)


AmigaOne X1000: Update of the Linux 3.10 kernel
The 3.10 Linux kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 has been updated by Christian Zigotzky. It is a port of the official Ubuntu kernel 3.10.3-6.17.

Changes:
  • Ubuntu patches
  • Pas_shutdown by DStevens (thanks to Darren)
  • Kernel does not need a modules directory anymore
  • UVD support
  • New firmwares added from Ubuntu (1.1.13)
  • Faster boot from CFE
Download: kernel-3.10.3-6.17-2-powerpc-x1000-ubuntu.tar.bz2 (snx)

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13.Sep.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Graphics program SketchBlock 2.3
The latest version of Andy Broad's graphics program SketchBlock provides several minor improvements:
  • Selection Masks: some optimisation of the selection process, speed up of up to 30%
  • Transform Plugin GUIs: added ProAction GUIs for the GradientFill and RadialFill plugins
  • Macro Recording: completely reworked macro recording. Can now output Rexx or Python code. Can output Wedge events, can output timestamps as comments in the code, also notes external scripts called in the comments.
  • Internal text creation: text creation no longer requires an external helper command,the freetype code has been moved in to the main executable. Resulting in substantial speedups. The maketext.rexx script has been adapted (and much simplified) to take advantage of this.
  • Improved anti-aliasing of paths fills: by scanning in both the x and y axes and combining the results smooth anti-aliasing of path fills is now performed, without the need for oversampling. This contributes to further improvements in the rendering of text.
  • Splash screen on startup: A splash screen with loading progress bar is displayed at program startup
  • Some bug fixes: see the changelog for details
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Sep.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has uploaded the following new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files since our last message:
  • Xenon - The Real ExaBlast (gibs / David Whittaker)
  • Turrican II - The Wall (RaKeeMs Extended Remix) (RaKeeM / Chris Hülsbeck)
  • Pinball Dreams - Steelchambers2 HQ Remake (Saga Musix / Olof Gustafsson)
  • Agony-Intro V1.0 Cinema-Score (Sharrukin / Tim Wright & Franck Sauer)
  • Dear Rob (Gigatron / Frederic Hahn)
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Sep.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AROS: Audio-Player zOGGPLayer 0.1
zOGGPlayer (screenshot) is a MUI-port of the GTK-based Ogg Vorbis Player which plays audio files of the Vorbis-format. A volume control will be implemented in the next version. Any feedback is very welcome, please send it via email to the author. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Sep.2013



New demos
The website pouet.net has uplpaded several new Amiga demos: (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Sep.2013



Book: "Commodore - The Amiga Years" discontinued?
The publication of Brian Bagnall's Commodore: The Amiga Years has been suspended since about a year for several weeks or months. The publication of the first part of the Commodore biography, Commodore - A Company On The Edge was also delayed but there is some indication that problems exist:

The publisher Variant Press has removed the product page from its website and online trader like Amazon or Waterstones has informed customers that the preorders unfortunately must be rejected due to a lack of availability. Currently there is no official statement of the author or his publishing house. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Sep.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AROS: Game-Engine Antiryad Gx
Antiryad Gx is an engine for 2D-/3D-games with an integrated editor. After a registration with the free version also commercial games can be developed. The AROS-port supports 68k-, x86- and PPC-processors and is available on the website of the developer.

Hint of the editorial staff: Obviously the port for AmigasOS which is announced on the website up to now seems still not available. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Sep.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 07.09.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until September 7th, 2013:
HollywoodSP.lha          biz/misc   337K      Hollywood 5.3 spanish catalogs
Blitz_CtrlC.lha          dev/basic  16K   68k 4 Ctrl-C checking methods for...
Blitz_Dub.lha            dev/basic  13K   68k Experimental doubles for Blitz
Blitz_IEEED.lha          dev/basic  2K    68k EZ double float functions for...
Blitz_mem.lha            dev/basic  7K    68k Extended memory functions for...
Blitz_Nano.lha           dev/basic  12K   68k AmiBlitz syntax parser for Na...
Blitz_thread.lha         dev/basic  13K   68k thread lib dev kit for Blitz
num2str.lha              dev/basic  31K   68k number to string functions fo...
ValF_NG.lha              dev/basic  23K   68k multi base string to val func...
libjpeg9_a68k.lha        dev/lib    941K  68k JPEG encoding/decoding library
libjpeg9_aros.lha        dev/lib    1.4M  x86 JPEG encoding/decoding library
libpng163_a68k.lha       dev/lib    1.3M  68k Lib for reading/writing PNG
libpng163_aros.lha       dev/lib    1.5M  x86 Lib for reading/writing PNG
sdl_image1.2.12_aros.lha dev/lib    940K  x86 library to load images of var...
SDL_image-1_2_12-png.lha dev/lib    372K  68k minimalist SDL image build
WormWars-OS4.lha         game/actio 1.0M  OS4 Advanced snake game
ronda_68k.lha            game/board 1.4M  68k a fishing card game
AssaultCubeReloaded25... game/shoot 59M   x86 First-person shooter
exobius0_68k.lha         game/shoot 15M   68k amusing space shooter
xgalaga_68k.lha          game/shoot 739K  68k excellent galaga like game
hexgem_68k.lha           game/think 1.1M  68k action puzzle game
kapooka_68k.lha          game/think 720K  68k A silent puzzler to the exit
syasokoban_68k.lha       game/think 456K  68k A silent sokoban clone
GridBlock.lha            game/wb    34K   68k Unlock all corners!
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.7M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
genplus_mos.lha          misc/emu   1.1M  MOS Emulate various classic Sega ...
afsp_68k.lha             mus/edit   1.2M  68k Audio manipulation tools &...
lame_68k.lha             mus/edit   1.3M  68k MP3 Audio encoder/decoder
playOGG.lha              mus/play   5.8M  68k multi format sound player.
nano_231_68k.lha         text/edit  1.5M  68k ncurses based text editor
nano_232_68k.lha         text/edit  1.5M  68k ncurses based text editor
shed_68k.lha             text/edit  223K  68k ncurses based hex editor
Conspiracy-Deutsch.lha   text/misc  135K  68k German gag-program, creates c...
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  425K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  496K  MOS Multipurpose utility
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08.Sep.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.09.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until September 7th, 2013:
mixer.lha                aud/mis 366kb 4.1 Audio mixer
ira.lha                  dev/mis 231kb 4.0 MC68000/10/20/30/40 reassembler
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha             gam/act 1Mb   4.0 Advanced snake game
zoomit.lha               gra/mis 152kb 4.0 A simple MUI-based magnify/zoom-...
zoomit_ita.lha           gra/mis 4kb   4.0 Italian catalog file for ZoomIT
netclipper.lha           net/mis 50kb  4.0 Share the Amiga clipboard on the...
winbar_docky_src.zip     uti/doc 127kb 4.0 Sources of winbar docky
nemo_led_p31.lha         uti/har 18kb  4.0 Control the spare LED header on ...
clipgrab.lha             vid/mis 2Mb   4.0 Qt Download videos from YouTube
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08.Sep.2013



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 07.09.2013
The following package has been added to AROS-Archives until September 7th, 2013:
syasokoban.i386-aros.zip     gam/puz 480kb Still Yet Another Sokoban clone
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Sep.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 07.09.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until September 7th, 2013:
IRA                      2.07    dev/too    121 M68k disassembler. Programm...
WormWars                 8.83    gam/act    674 Single and multiplayer arca...
CgmRadio                 1.0     mus/pla     13 Minimal, shell based shoutc...
AmiArcadia               21.5    uti/emu   3711 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
GenesisPlus              1.5     uti/emu   1152 Emulator of Sega Genesis an...
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08.Sep.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 07.09.2013
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 installers have been added until September 7th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Sep.2013



Amiga-News celebrates 15th anniversary
In late summer of 1998 Petra Struck began to publish news about the Amiga on here private website. The oldest news message is from August  13th - the regular news then started to be published in September.

Right from the beginning a whole team was involved in editing the news: From August 1998 Christoph Dietz has been responsible for the technical issues, the first translator joined the team in February 1999. The member who has been for the longest time part of the team and still active, is Sven Drieling, who in June 1999 started as an editor and for several years has developed the software of Amiga-News as programmer.

There was a time, the access figures of the website could compete with those of other platforms, a seperate server could be financed by the adverts of different Amiga traders placed on the start page. More than 20 persons joined the team - among others a cartoonist, a reader as well as a lot of translators: For a while Amiga-News was available not only in German and English, but also in French, Polish, Japanese or Turkish and Flemish.

10 years ago we all hoped that the Amiga market would recover but it has not - for fifteen years Amiga-News has documented the transformation of an actual market - with companies and its press releases, proper fairs, commercial product as well as differnt developers - to a hobby, which basically is kept alive by fans who support the platform in the spare time.

This transformation also affected Amiga-News: The team now consists of seven persons and for a very long time the maintenance of the website is underfunded. If you want to support us then you are very welcome to make a little donation which is linked on the start page of the website. At the best of times, more than 300 news have been reported per month. Today averagely 70 news per month are published.

But we all still enjoy the Amiga and we are a happy to continue to provide you with the latest news. Therefore we want to thank all our loyal readers so much and wish you a happy reading with Amiga-News during the next fifteen years. ;-) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Sep.2013
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AmigaOS 4: Programming competition for best Qt-ports finished
At the beginning of July, Alfkil Wennermark called for a competition: The programmer who developed or ported the most Qt-applications until 30th August will get an award of him.

Today Wennermark has published the winners:
  1. zzd10h - Award: a completely equipped Minmig
  2. spotUP - Competition Pro USB and a "special award"
  3. Chris Young - Competition Pro USB
  4. cha05e90 - AmigaOne coffee mug
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Sep.2013
a1k.org (Forum)


Elbox: Announcement of a PCI-board for the Amiga 3000D
According to a post at the a1k.org forum under the title, Elbox has started developing a desktop version of a PCI-extension for the Amiga 3000. Compared with the version for the Amiga 4000, the Mediator-A3000Di-busboard has three PCI-slots instead of four. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Sep.2013



MorphOS-Team: 2000 Registrations, hardware statistics
Press release: In order to celebrate the 2000th MorphOS registration, we'd like to thank our users for their support since the introduction of the MorphOS 2.0 in 2008. Since MorphOS 2.4, we've been expanding our hardware base to a variety of Apple PowerPC computers, including their excellent portables. The adoption rate of the Mac mini quickly surpassed the bPlan machines, and the Mini still remains the most popular MorphOS platform.
  • 37% - Mac Mini
  • 25% - Pegasos 2
  • 12% - Powerbooks
  • 9% - PowerMac G4
  • 8% - Efika
  • 4% - Pegasos 1
  • 3% - PowerMac G5
  • 2% - Others
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Sep.2013



Sales figures: Entwickler-X satisfied with M.A.C.E. sales
During a discussion on os4welt.de, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus of Entwickler-X has revealed some sales numbers for the recently released shooter M.A.C.E.: About 50 people purchased the download version which is available from the developers - this is about the same amount of sales they had with earlier projects.

Additionally M.A.C.E. was the first Entwickler-X release distributed on CD, about 130 copies at 10 Euros each were sold to various dealers. Claus can't say how many of these copies have already been sold on to end users, but he mentions "positive feedback from dealers". He describes the sales numbers as "pretty good, considering the size of the Amiga scene". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Sep.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Initiative: Restart of OpenAmiga project
Under the title link the OpenAmiga initiative was relaunched. "The OpenAmiga standard is intended to minimize the programming effort needed to port between the four current Amiga platforms, Amiga OS 3.x, AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4." (snx) (Translation: dr)

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05.Sep.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 104
Today the Enghlish and German issue 104 (September/October 2013) of the magazine Amiga Future has been released and can be ordered from the editorial staff or in Amiga shops. The topics of the this latest issue as well as reading extracts can be found at the website of the magazine. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Sep.2013
morphzone.org (Webseite)


MorphOS: Sega-Emulator GenesisPlus 1.5
GenesisPlus is an emulator of the Sega game console MegaDrive (Genesis). Version 1.5 provides a completely new emulation engine and now can also emulates SegaCD, MasterSystem and GameGear:
  • Major update complete overhaul of emulation core to new based on the latest GenesisPlus Wii version
  • Sega CD, MasterSystem and GameGear emulation
  • Better window size handling
  • Seperate rom dirs for each supported console
  • New input configuration panel
  • XBox 360 gamepad support via sensors.library
  • New save state manager panel
  • Many other bug fixes and improvements
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Sep.2013



100-Mbit network interface card: X-Surf 100 available
Three months ago, Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) announced a 100-Mbit network interface card which now is available.

For about 130 Euro it provides the following features:
  • 100 Mbit physical connection
  • 32-bit Zorro-III-interface for maximum performance
  • Sana-II-Device for Amiga OS 2.0 up to Amiga OS 3.9
  • Linux-driver in progress
  • power-saving 3,3V-technology with 1,8V core voltage
  • space-saving design
  • gold-plated Zorro contact strip and stainless stell faceplate
  • Extension interface for (still not available) USB-modul
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Sep.2013
PPA (Webseite)


AROS: Star Trek Voyager - Elite Force
After the version for MorphOS, Szilárd 'Bszili' Biró has ported Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force which is based on the Quake-3-engine to AROS/x86. So far the so called efport project only supports the "Holomatch" multiplayer mode. The original files of the game are required. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Sep.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


AROS: Distribution AROS Vision 2.0
Olaf Schönweiß has released version 2.0 of his AROS/68k-distribution AROS Vision which now is based on Directory Opus Magellan II (screenshot). The following features are included:
  • Directory Opus Magellan II (SAS-Version)
  • ARexx (Regina)
  • Snapshoter
  • OWB (AROS-Version), Netsurf and AWeb
  • Updated system files
  • Hotkeys (description on the download site)
  • Filetypes for the most important picture and sound formats incl. AVI
  • Packer-support
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Sep.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AROS: AEROS-Betaversion 4 for Raspberry Pi
For registered users and purchasers via eBay the fourth beta version on Pascal Papara's Debian-Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS for the Raspberry Pi is available. "The difference to the "supporter" version is that you can't launch Linux apps from inside AROS." But beta version 3 inclusive lx now is avaialble for all.

Beta version 4 now is based on the stable ARMhf-ABI written by Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz. It is now possible to compile programs which should also work with future versions. A cross-compiler for the i586-architecture is included as well as other software, demos, games, screenrecorder and Wazp3D. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Sep.2013



TCP-Stack: AmigaKit sells AmiTCP 4
Accordung to a press release, the British trader Amigakit will sell the full version of the TCP-stack AmiTCP 4. AmiTCP was the first common TCP-stack under AmigaOS. Later version 4.0 was part of the "Netconnect"-bundle and together with the graphical user-interface "Genesis" is under AmigaOS 3.9 handles the network connection.

AmigaKit will sell AmiTCP 4 together with its graphical user-interface EasyNet as "EasyNet Professional Edition". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Sep.2013
Jens 'bruzard' Henschel (ANF)


AmiBlitz³: New website and forum
Jens Henschel wrote: "Because amiforce.de cannot be accessed for several months and the maintainer does not response, some weeks ago I have reserved the domain amiblitz.de and now have copied the official site.

Still a forum is missing, therefore I have established a Bulletin Board and linked it on the official site. The temporary forum can be accessed under www.amiblitz.de/community. I hope to be aböe to transfer new entries to the original forum as soon as it is online again.

Unfortunately the forum cannot be accessed with classic Amiga browsers. But if there will be sufficient interest I will provide such a theme.

Additional to the website and the forum I have linked the Blitzbasic2 tutorial in the new formats PDF and HTML." (snx) (Translation: dr)

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01.Sep.2013
David Brunet (ANF)


100th issue of Obligement magazine
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.
  • July/August 2013 news
  • Old articles from Amiga News 23 to 36
    • Report: AmiExpo 1991 Berlin
    • Review of Excellence! 2.0
    • Review of Scala
    • File: Amiga mouses
    • Review: Bars & Pipes Professional
    • Report: CeBIT 1991
    • Hardware: A2088XT
  • Interview with Trevor Dickinson (manager of A-Eon Technology)
  • Interview with David Taddei
  • Hardware: Mediator PCI 1200 TX
  • Review of NetSpeedometer et NetDock
  • Review of Silly Putty
  • Review of Amiga Revisited 2011
  • Review of Tracker Hero
  • Review of Lure Of The Temptress
  • File: Roger Dean and his Psygnosis productions
  • Tutorial: How to draw watermarks with Art Effect 4
  • Tutorial: Network share with SMBFS under MorphOS
  • Misc: Book "101 Jeux Amiga"
  • Special quiz about The Settlers
Articles in english:
  • Interview with Trevor Dickinson (manager of A-Eon Technology)
By this, David Brunet has issued the 50th online issue and the 100th in total of Obligement, which has been available in different forms since its birth:
  • 6 issues in paper (1997)
  • 7 issues in Scala (1998-1999)
  • 7 issues in Blitz Basic AGA (1999-2000)
  • 2 issues in AmigaGuide (2000)
  • 14 issues in Blitz Basic RTG (2000-2002)
  • 14 issues in HTML (2003-2005)
  • 50 issues online (2005-2013)
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01.Sep.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Developer tool: vlink 0.14b
Yesterday Frank Wille has released version 0.14b of vlink. A list of changes you can find under the title link. vlink is a portable linker which can handle many binary formats and which is part of the compiler package vbcc. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Aminet-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until August 31st, 2013:
atheros5000.lha          driver/net 265K  OS4 Driver for 54Mbps wireless ne...
prism2v2.lha             driver/net 308K  OS4 Driver for 11Mbps wireless ne...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha     game/role  6.0M  68k Tunnels & Trolls implemen...
AmiQuake2.lha            game/shoot 2.0M  68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II...
AssaultCubeReloaded25... game/shoot 59M   x86 First-person shooter
Aye_Q.lha                game/wb    34K   68k My version of a peg game...
Blokop.lha               game/wb    33K   68k Move a coloured box to the exit!
Eclairium.lha            game/wb    35K   68k Play with lightning!
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.4M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.6M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.6M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
stellarium.lha           misc/sci   45M   OS4 Planetarium
qpdfview.lha             text/show  11M   OS4 Tabbed PDF/DjVu document viewer
romboot44_3.lha          util/boot  18K   68k romboot replacement for 68k h...
CTLG2CT.lha              util/conv  17K   OS4 Decompiles catalogs back into...
zoomit.lha               util/misc  152K  MOS A MUI-based magnify/zoom appl...
zoomit.pobj.lha          util/misc  33K   MOS A magnify/zoom panel object f...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until August 31st, 2013:
atheros5000.lha          dri/net 265kb 4.0 Driver for 54Mbps wireless netwo...
prism2.lha               dri/net 308kb 4.0 Driver for 11Mbps wireless netwo...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
whdload-to-uae.lha       emu/uti 212kb 4.0 WHDLoad to E-UAE
melite.lha               gam/mis 543kb 4.1 A remake of the classic Amiga ga...
sketchblock.lha          gra/edi 9Mb   4.1 Digital Sketching For AmigaOS
ab_power10.lha           gra/ico 3Mb   4.0 Icons in png format
qt-drawer.lha            gra/ico 5Mb   4.0 Icons for Qt4.7
blender.lha              gra/ray 46Mb  4.1 The free open source 3D content ...
mihphoto.lha             gra/vie 2Mb   4.1 Touch-friendly image viewer.
qpdfview.lha             gra/vie 11Mb  4.1 Tabbed PDF/DjVu document viewer
netup.lha                net/mis 1Mb   4.1 App for testing roadshows connec...
cutereport.lha           off/dat 11Mb  4.1 Report designer and solutiontabl...
stellarium.lha           uti/sci 45Mb  4.1 An open source planetarium (Qt)
ctlg2ct.lha              uti/tex 36kb  4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
ascii_design.lha         uti/tex 1Mb   4.0 Qt : ascii-art program based on ...
jack.lha                 uti/wor 14Mb  4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until August 31st, 2013:
wakkabox.i386-aros.zip       gam/puz 252kb Difficult Klotski sliding block ...
metadiary.i386-aros.zip      off/mis 206kb Color-coded activity log.
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until August 31st, 2013:
ZoomIt                   1.3     uti/des     83 A screen magnifying glass t...
ZoomIt.pobj              1.0     uti/des     33 Screen zoom as an Ambient p...
distributed.net client   2.9111. uti/sci    715 An official client for dist...
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WHDLoad: New packages until 31.08.2013
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 installers have been added until August 31th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Aug.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has released new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last messsage the following songs have been added:
  • Turrican II - Desert Rocks (metal version 1.1) Aki Järvinen Chris Hülsbeck
  • Beyond The Ice Palace (metal version) Aki Järvinen David Whittaker
  • Goldrunner (Maccie Pimp Me Up Remix) Scyphe Rob Hubbard
  • Aeromute (multi-platform-remix).mp3 Scyphe Modesty
  • Turrican II - Traps Hache Chris Hülsbeck
  • Stardust Memories chabee Volker Tripp (Jester) of Sanity
  • Pirates - Retromix DerDiener Microprose
  • Turrican - Freedom Titanic Remix ThOMber Chris Hülsbeck
  • Logical Green AarbronBeast Rudolf Stember
  • Apprentice Title Remix (Short Edit) CZ Tunes Chris Hülsbeck
  • Echoing remix moonove Banana
  • Turrican 2 - Level 1 remix moonove Chris Hülsbeck
  • Turrican 2 - Traps (Turricano Dos - El Trapo) Mahrellon Chris Hülsbeck
  • Elvira (The Frozen Earth) Isacco Garcia Peveri Phillip Nixon
  • Bubble Bobble Title Gigatron David Whittaker
  • Agony Medley SunSpire Various Artists: Jeroen Tel, Martin Iveson, Martin Wall, Robert Ling, Tim Wright
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31.Aug.2013
Finnish Amiga Users Group (ANF)


Event: Saku 2013 in Vantaa (Finland)
Saku 2013 will take place on September 21 at the Finnish Science Center Heureka in Vantaa near Helsinki, Finland. According to the event poster it is planned to become the country's biggest Amiga event in over ten years. (snx)

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30.Aug.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Magnifying glass: ZoomIT 1.3 for all Amiga systems, ZoomIT.pobj 1.0 (MorphOS)
ZoomIT is a MUI-based screen magnifier for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS.

ZoomIT.pobj is an implementation of ZoomIt as MorphOS-panel-object. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Aug.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Graphic program SketchBlock 2.2
The latest version of Andy Broad's graphic program SketchBlock now can use selected areas as mask for a graphic operation. You can mark rectangles, ellipses and areas with identical colour. "It's also possible to create a selection mask from the alpha channel of a layer". Other changes:
  • There now a thumbnail in the layers list
  • Pixel transforms are now true plugins. Also added SaturationAdjust and GradientFill, RadialFill, and Ripples filters.
  • Martin "Mason" Mertz has contributed some great new toolbar images and a splash logo. Thanks Mason!
  • All (well nearly all) actions can be recorded into a macro, which can then be run or edited as needed
  • Some bug fixes
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Aug.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: AmiSystemRestore release 1 beta version 7
Chris Handley's AmiSystemRestore "aims to give AmigaOS4 a similar ability to Window's very useful system restore" by saving the systems files (SYS:) if new programms are installed. In beta 7 a bug was fixed which could can result in loss of data if softlinks were used. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Aug.2013
Boris Krizma (E-Mail)


A600-accelerator board Fúria EC020 finished, production started
As Boris 'Boboo' Krizma reported, the development of his accelerator board "Fúria EC020" has finished and the production was started. First boards will be delivered to users who supported the development financially.



Likely the delivery will start at the end of September. One board costs 90 Euro. The number of the boards is limited by the number of available CPUs. A MC68EC020FG25 processor is used as well as FPU MC68882FN40. The processor has 28Mhz but can be overclocked by the user up to 37,8 Mhz.



With the help of included tools "Furiatune" provided by Martin Kuchinka you can configure some of the features of the Fúria:
  • Set FPU and CPU-caches on/off
  • (De)activate IDE-Speedup
  • ShadowROM (copy Kickstart ROM to RAM)
  • MapROM (load and use ROM-images from harddrive with up to 1 MB)
  • integration of additional 1,5 MB of virtual memory [probably at the expense of ShadowROM-/MapROM-functions, editor's note]
  • Rebbot of the computer
  • Display or reset of all Fúria-paramters
If you are interested in this board then please contact Boris Krizma via email. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Aug.2013
jolo (ANF)


Developer tools: vasm 1.6c and vlink 1.4c
Frank Wille has updated vasm and vlink. Currently both uopdates are only available as source codes.

Vasm is a portable assembler which supports several CPU-families, vlink is a portable linker which can handle a lot of binary formats. Both are part of the compiler package vbcc. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Aug.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Quickfix 5 and installation tutorial for Qt 4.7
Under the title link an illustrated tutorial for installing C++-class libraries Qt 4.7 under AmigaOS 4 was published. Additionally Alfkil Wennermark has released a bug fix update for his Qt-port.

Download: qt-quickfix5.lha (10 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Aug.2013
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)


Arcade game: Port of XGalaga
Lorence Lombardo has ported the Galaga-remake XGalaga to AmigaOS. The game requires SDL as well as a FPU. Some further details are listed in the readme. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Aug.2013
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Scriba 1.9.5 with spreadsheet editor
Scriba is a simple text processing software written by Carsten Siegner. In version 1.9.5 you can now create spreadsheet which is still an early version.

You can write entries and format them but you cannot export or import data or insert spreadsheets in a document.

Download: Scriba_1.9.5.lha (7 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Aug.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 24.08.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until August 24th, 2013:
twittAmiga.lha           comm/misc  2.8M  MOS Twitter client
NASS2013cracked.lha      demo/intro 200K  68k OCS/ECS old school intro style
binutils-m1-bin-m68k.lha dev/gg     1.9M  68k GNU binutils (debug gen. fixed)
GG-Lite-bin-m68k.lha     dev/gg     11M   68k Compact Developer Environment...
GG-Lite-doc-m68k.lha     dev/gg     9.7M  68k Compact Developer Environment...
GG-Lite-net-m68k.lha     dev/gg     1.1M  68k Compact Dev Environment (TCP/...
libqdev-bin-m68k.lha     dev/lib    1.8M  68k Quick Development Suite and U...
Format64-m1.lha          disk/misc  46K   68k Format replacement w/ >4GB...
MCE.lha                  game/edit  969K  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  1.1M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  1.1M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Bloksters.lha            game/wb    35K   68k Align 4 blocks of the same co...
netpbm-10.26.63-bin.lha  gfx/pbm    2.6M  68k Graphics manipulation toolkit
PuzznicST.lha            mods/cust  13K   68k Custom module from "Puzznic ST"
RoadRunnerST.lha         mods/cust  12K   68k Custom module from "Road Runn...
SolomonsKeyST.lha        mods/cust  12K   68k Custom module from "Solomon's...
WhereTimeStoodST.lha     mods/cust  12K   68k module from "Where Time Stood...
X-OutST.lha              mods/cust  50K   68k Custom modules from "X-Out" (...
EP_SpecialFXST.lha       mus/play   14K   68k EaglePlayer "Special FX ST" e...
qpdfview.lha             text/show  12M   OS4 Tabbed PDF/DjVu document viewer
qboot.lha                util/boot  209K  68k Visual/verbose startup-sequen...
AmiSystemRestore.lha     util/misc  909K  OS4 Monitors & allows undoing...
Mu680x0Libs.lha          util/sys   347K  68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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25.Aug.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.08.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until August 24th, 2013:
mixer.lha                aud/mis 326kb 4.1 Audio mixer
hunspell.lha             dev/lib 3Mb   4.1 Spell checker and morphological ...
mce.lha                  gam/uti 1Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
winpointers.lha          gra/mis 40kb  4.1 Set of 32-bit PNG pointers based...
fastview.lha             gra/vie 2Mb   4.1 Show, crop & scale pictures ...
mihphoto.lha             gra/vie 2Mb   4.1 Touch-friendly image viewer.
poppler.lha              gra/vie 11Mb  4.1 PDF reading and rendering facili...
fastcompress.lha         uti/arc 4Mb   4.0 Quickly compress into LHA,ZIP,LZ...
netdock.lha              uti/doc 247kb 4.0 Docky to monitor your network ac...
os4depotgui.lha          uti/fil 47kb  4.0 Easy access to the OS4Depot files
amisystemrestore.lha     uti/mis 909kb 4.0 Monitors & allows undoing ch...
quicky.lha               uti/tex 1Mb   4.1 Wiki style editor.
ascii_design.lha         uti/tex 1Mb   4.0 Qt : ascii-art program based on ...
flippaper.lha            uti/wor 725kb 4.1 Manages and auto-change your wal...
sysmon.lha               uti/wor 1Mb   4.1 monitor for Process, Windows (+ ...
qflv2avi.lha             vid/con 485kb 4.0 Qt Convert flv files (youtube fo...
clipgrab.lha             vid/mis 2Mb   4.0 Qt Download videos from YouTube
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25.Aug.2013



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 24.08.2013
The following package has been added to AROS-Archives until August 24th, 2013:
vtractors.i386-aros.zip      gam/boa 1Mb   Make the longest tractor path.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Aug.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 24.08.2013
The following package has been added to MorphOS-Files until August 24th, 2013:
Multigame Character Editor 8.12 uti/mis   1 148 A tool for editing charact...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Aug.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 24.08.2013
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 installers have been added until August 24th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Aug.2013
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)


Game: Hexgem_68k
Lorence Lombardo has adapted the Zookeper-clone Hexgem for AmigaOS/68k (readme-file) which recently was ported to AmigaOS 4. In this game you must try to get two or three gems in a line by changing them to make them disappear.

Download site (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Aug.2013
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: IRC-chat with Jason McMullan
For this Sunday the team of the English-language IRC-channel "Ashachat" has invited Jason McMullan. As member of the AROS developer team, he has concentrated on the m68k-branch of the operating system and the AmigaOS-compatibility.

As usual the the channel #team*amiga on irc.superhosts.net is used, port 6667. The chat will start at 3 PM EDT. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Aug.2013
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)


Game: Bugfix update for "Asgard Met Vikings"
For the recently released party game "Asgard Met Vikings", an update is available which fixes some minor bugs:
  • Cracktro: Jerky scroller on fast machines
  • If you start the Game from Workbench, the Highscores are saved in SYS: Now in the same directory as the game
  • Sometimes the sprites were corrupt
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Aug.2013



AmigaOS 4: Port of new edition of Battle Squadron announced
Torben Larsen of Cope-com has announced that the new edition of his Shoot'em Up classic Battle Squadron soon will be ported to AmigaOS4. For some time the game has already been sold for Android and iOS. Currently the game is tested in a solution of 1024x768. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Aug.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Event: Hyperion member at AmiWest 2013
According to the organizer under the title link, this year Steven Solie as a member of Hyperion will be on the AmiWest. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Aug.2013
Amiga.org (Forum)


Text processing: Rashumon source code offered
Under the title link Michael Haephrati who is the author of Rashumon has contacted the users because the Wikipedia entry might be deleted. Possibly Rashumon, which was written in 1989, was the first Amiga text processing software which supported multiple languages. Also, he offers the source code, if anybody is interested in developing it further. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Aug.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Workbench complement: BetterWB 2.9
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench tools for AmigaOS 3.1 which are simple and require low hardware resources.

BetterWB works on all Amigas, is available as disk images and requires the original Workbench 3.1 disks (3.0 might work as well but was not tested) and 8 MB harddrive memory.

Changes:
  • CAMD.library and Midiports preferences for midi supported programs
  • DMS command writes and reads its floppy images from CLI
  • Gzip, the very popular multiplatform compressor is now included
  • LZX is yet another compressor
  • PFS3 All in one (now requires less memory for usage and autodetects large drives)
  • SuperPlus has been updated and no longer shows the infamuos beta warning message
  • TSGUI lets you read and write adf and dms floppy images with an easy to use interface
  • WBStartup preferences enables you to select the commodities you want to run when workbench loads
  • New commodities: DontShowIBorder (removes icon borders), ModePro (screen promotion) and MagicMenu (flying menus)
  • Printfiles tool has been updated with plenty of features and an arexx port
  • TagLiFE is a simple patch for the utility.library to install a new set of optimized assembler routines to get a faster TagList support
  • Now boot in CLI mode with maximum ram to run memory demanding games and demos by booting without startup sequence and running add44k from CLI
  • Text datatype was rolled back, due to printing bugs
  • Lha can now adequately work under low memory condition
  • Boards.library allows proper identification of Amiga hardware
  • WhichAmiga replaces showconfig, as it has plenty more features
  • PatchWB solves many workbench bugs
  • Many minor tweaks and bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Aug.2013
Stefan Pietzonke (ANF)


AROS: Nano VM 3.1.0
Today Stefan Pietzonke has released version 3.1.0 of his virtual maschine Nano (amiga-news.de reported). Compared with the Linux version, Nano under AROS/x86 still has not included the JIT-compiler. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Aug.2013
The NetBSD Foundation (ANF)


Operating system: NetBSD 6.1.1
The new stable release of NetBSD operating system is now available. Version 6.1.1 brings important security updates and bug fixes. The only Amiga specific difference from 6.1 is a bug fix related to kernel panic with Deneb cards equipped with firmware v11. (snx)

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21.Aug.2013
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)


Card game: Ronda
Lorence Lombardo has compiled the SDL-based Spanish card game Ronda for AmigaOS. A FPU is required (readme-file).

Download-Seite (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Aug.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Game: Asgard Met Vikings
In Asgard Met Vikings "you take on the role of the Erikson brothers Svelgur and Ragnar and you have the task to catch as many met bottles as possible thrown by Odin from Asgard." The game requires 1 MB virtual memory. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Aug.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Print magazine: Amiga Future 104 - Preview and excerpts online
The full colour preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 104 (September/October 2013) are now available online. Among the articles in the current issue are an interview about MIST, a show report about the Silicon Dreams & Vintage Computer Festival 2013 and a review of the game MACE. (snx)

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18.Aug.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 17.08.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until August 17th, 2013:
luettjebookholler.lha    biz/misc   636K  OS4 Little Personal Finance program
twittAmiga.lha           comm/misc  2.8M  MOS Twitter client
amigaboy.lha             demo/intro 155K  68k OCS/ECS old school intro style
gimmearos.zip            dev/cross  3K        Script for building AROS from...
termcap-bin.lha          dev/lib    393K  68k GNU termcap library. V1.3.1
termcap-src.lha          dev/lib    453K      GNU termcap library. V1.3.1
HoloH.lha                game/wb    34K   68k Move shapes in the hole!
eis.lha                  gfx/conv   349K  OS4 Easy Image Sizer (Qt)
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 21.3 spanish catalog
qmetro.lha               misc/misc  1.2M  OS4 Subway/metro/underground rout...
meteostation.lha         misc/sci   3.4M  OS4 USB weather station reader (Qt)
AcidHouse4YaSpouse.lha   mods/anaki 2K        THX module by DF0:BAD and Mr....
AndThenSomeMore.lha      mods/anaki 1K        THX module by DF0:BAD and Mr....
FunTimeSixtyFour.lha     mods/anaki 3K        THX module by Mr.Roboto
Interdimensional.lha     mods/anaki 2K        THX module by DF0:BAD and Mr....
LetsGo.lha               mods/anaki 2K        THX module by DF0:BAD and Mr....
SimpleE.lha              mods/anaki 3K        THX module by Mr.Roboto
Sucks.lha                mods/anaki 2K        THX module by Mr.Roboto
Cloud_Storm.lha          mods/xm    5.9M      New mod By Pseudaxos
k8o_IconPack-1.lha       pix/picon  1.0M      v0.1 Extended Icon Set for Mo...
crystal.zip              pix/theme  54K       AROS Crystal Theme
drawing_dt.lha           util/dtype 256K  OS4 Structured art superclass + D...
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  421K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  493K  MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  527K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
AmiUpdateSP.lha          util/sys   9K        AmiUpdate 2.33 spanish catalogs
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Aug.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 17.08.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until August 17th, 2013:
qtagger.lha              aud/edi 1Mb   4.0 Qt : Simply ID3v2 MP3 tag editor
metronome.lha            aud/mis 174kb 4.0 Qt simple metronome
mixer.lha                aud/mis 312kb 4.1 Audio mixer
drawing_dt.lha           dat/ima 256kb 4.0 Structured art superclass + DR2D...
alabastra.lha            dev/edi 2Mb   4.0 a C++ code editor
cobras.lha               dev/ide 2Mb   4.0 Qt : IDE with MDI windows and Cl...
edyuk.lha                dev/ide 7Mb   4.0 Qt IDE with syntax highlighting,...
taglib.lha               dev/lib 2Mb   4.0 library for working with audio m...
runadf.lha               emu/uti 80kb  4.1 RunADF is tooltype program to st...
truae.lha                emu/uti 318kb 4.1 E-UAE configuration file editor
connectagram.lha         gam/boa 2Mb   4.0 Qt word unscrambling game (engli...
tanglet.lha              gam/boa 8Mb   4.1 Qt clone of Boggle multilingual ...
tetzle.lha               gam/boa 1Mb   4.0 Qt Jigsaw puzzle game
qeodart.lha              gam/chi 7Mb   4.0 Qt : geography education game.
melite.lha               gam/mis 403kb 4.1 A remake of the classic Amiga ga...
gottet.lha               gam/puz 481kb 4.0 Qt simple Tetris
hexalate.lha             gam/puz 585kb 4.0 Qt color matching game
simsu.lha                gam/puz 814kb 4.0 Qt Sudoku game
wordsearchcreator.lha    gam/puz 2Mb   4.0 Qt crossword creator with print ...
eis.lha                  gra/con 349kb 4.0 Easy Image Sizer (Qt)
qwatermark.lha           gra/edi 123kb 4.0 Qt : text or picture watermark o...
qt_drawer.lha            gra/ico 4Mb   4.0 Icons for Qt4.7
qstrange.lha             gra/mis 54kb  4.1 Qt Strange Attractor Function vi...
mindspace.lha            gra/vec 8Mb   4.1 Create MindMaps, UML and quaint ...
miniweb.lha              net/bro 1Mb   4.0 Qt : light Web browser simulatin...
hotot.lha                net/cha 1Mb   4.0 QtWebKit based Twitter client
qgmail.lha               net/ema 585kb 4.1 A GMail notifier that lives in A...
facebook.lha             net/mis 1Mb   4.0 Facebook - Simple and stylish QT...
quicklytranslate.lha     net/mis 4Mb   4.0 Qt Translator based on google tr...
tickvue.lha              net/mis 1Mb   4.0 Qt : Stock market tracking
webmonx.lha              net/mis 1Mb   4.1 Monitor your favourite websites ...
passkeychanger.lha       net/p2p 153kb 4.1 Changes passwords of torrent files
easywake.lha             net/ser 206kb 4.1 Wake up LAN computers
sqliteman.lha            off/dat 5Mb   4.1 Qt GUI to manage SQLite databases
lifetime2.lha            off/mis 540kb 4.1 helps you keep track of your wor...
aarni.lha                uti/arc 270kb 4.0 Qt small and easy-to-use file en...
algo.lha                 uti/fil 108kb 4.1 Organises files to perfectly fil...
qrename.lha              uti/fil 102kb 4.1 A file rename tool
assist.lha               uti/mis 6Mb   4.1 A knowledge base for AmigaOS users
cdfly.lha                uti/mis 398kb 4.0 Qt : multiplatform CD/DVD files ...
meteostation.lha         uti/mis 3Mb   4.0 USB weather station reader (Qt)
qexchange.lha            uti/mis 2Mb   4.0 Qt : Currency exchange calculato...
qmetro.lha               uti/mis 1Mb   4.0 Subway/metro/underground route p...
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 577kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
shoppinglist.lha         uti/mis 535kb 4.0 Qt : program to plan and account...
taskreminder.lha         uti/mis 290kb 4.1 Add tasks and display them on a ...
calcus.lha               uti/sci 224kb 4.1 A cross-platform scriptable calc...
qeasycalc.lha            uti/sci 688kb 4.1 Calculator with Reverse Polish n...
kombine.lha              uti/tex 822kb 4.0 Build up words from entered rand...
daily.lha                uti/wor 4Mb   4.0 Qt : Schedule prog with sound, c...
excalibur.lha            uti/wor 4Mb   4.1 A workbench start menu
qrule.lha                uti/wor 193kb 4.1 A tool for measuring screen items.
clipgrab.lha             vid/mis 2Mb   4.0 Qt Download videos from YouTube
mixer.lha                aud/mis 312kb 4.1 Audio mixer
daplayer.lha             aud/pla 343kb 4.0 A digital audio player for Amiga
alabastra.lha            dev/edi 2Mb   4.0 a C++ code editor
qdevelop.lha             dev/ide 5Mb   4.1 development environment dedicate...
uae4all.lha              emu/com 3Mb   4.0 Open Source Amiga 500 emulator
truae.lha                emu/uti 318kb 4.1 E-UAE configuration file editor
hollypaint.zip           gra/edi 6Mb   4.0 Paint application
warpview_pubkey.lha      gra/vie 8kb   4.0 Public keyfile for WarpView
facebook.lha             net/mis 1Mb   4.0 Simple and stylish QT based face...
spock.lha                net/mis 607kb 4.0 Downloading server subtitles
lifetime2.lha            off/mis 540kb 4.1 helps you keep track of your wor...
luettjebookholler.lha    off/mis 636kb 4.0 Little Personal Finance program
algo.lha                 uti/fil 108kb 4.1 Organises files to perfectly fil...
qrename.lha              uti/fil 102kb 4.1 A file rename tool
lighttasks.lha           uti/mis 248kb 4.0 Qt simple and lightweight task t...
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 577kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
qmetrics.lha             uti/sci 1Mb   4.0 Qt measurement unit converter ap...
amiupdate_german.lha     uti/wor 20kb  4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_ita.lha        uti/wor 46kb  4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
jack.lha                 uti/wor 14Mb  4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Aug.2013



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 17.08.2013
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until August 17th, 2013:
muitronome.i386-aros.lha     aud     83kb  a Mui Ahi Metronome
gimmearos.zip                dev/cro 3kb   Script for building AROS from th...
nuclearchess.i386-aros.zip   gam/boa 2Mb   Modern-day alternative to chess.
ronda.i386-aros.zip          gam/car 1Mb   Mediterranean card game.
toppler.i386-aros.zip        gam/pla 2Mb   Nebulous clone. Jump and run up ...
2h4u.i386-aros.zip           gam/puz 3Mb   Too Hard For You. Tetris and Bre...
sporktris.i386-aros.zip      gam/puz 4Mb   Tetris clone.
crystal.zip                  gra/the 54kb  AROS Crystal Theme
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Aug.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 17.08.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until August 17th, 2013:
EMScanner                  1.2  dev/e         6 Tool for checking need of ...
EProcLister                1.1  dev/e        70 A MUI based tool listing a...
AskMeUp Demo             1.3.0  gam/thi   7 617 A demo version of a "trivi...
HollyPaint                 1.1  gra/edi   1 295 Simple painting program wr...
MorphEnc                   0.1  mul/pro     249 Simple GUI for MEncoder. W...
GhostScript               8.70  off/tex   9 285 Native port of well known ...
K8o Icons                  0.1  sys/gra   1 059 Set of icons (drives, game...
AmiArcadia                21.3  uti/emu   3 692 Emulator of many coin-op m...
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18.Aug.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 17.08.2013
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 installers have been added until August 17th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Aug.2013
PPA (Webseite)


MorphOS: POV-Ray 3.6.1
Version 3.6.1 of the platform independent raytracer POV-Ray (Persistence of Vision) has been released for MorphOS. The preview option has been added.

Download: povray.lha (7 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Aug.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: GMail-Notifier for AmiDock
Qt-GmailNotifier requires Alfkil Wennermark's Qt-port and informs you as AmiDock-extension about new eMails on GMail-accounts.

qgmail.lha (585 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Aug.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


Interview: Mike Oldfield used an Amiga
Under the title link the singer Mike Oldfield ("Moonlight Shadow") told in an interview that at the end of the 80ies he used an Amiga to compose his album "Amarok":

Interviewer: "Musician friends of mine continue to marvel at Amarok. They can't understand how you made something that complex prior to Pro Tools or Logic."

Mike Oldfield: "And it was all hand-played as well. I used a very primitive sequencer and sampler that was a precursor to Notator, which became Logic. It was on a primitive computer called an Amiga. I would arrive every morning and plot something out in skeleton form, put it on the multitrack and say to Tom "Okay, we're going to work on that. That's the little sketch." Everything on top of that sketch was hand-played. There were no synthesizers. Eventually, we threw away the sketch. That was the technique of working on it." (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Aug.2013
Andre "Ratte" Pfeiffer (ANF)


Monitor switcher: SwitchControl with experimental DPMS-support
SwitchControl is used to control different self-made monitor-switcher. In this way graphic boards without a monitor-switcher (BVision, PCI-graphic boards) can be used together with an Amiga monitor.

In the experimental version 1.1d of SwitchControl the DPMS-support was added: SwitchControl set the AGA-output to "suspend" and waits a few seconds before it switches to the graphic board. In this way perhaps some sync-problems can be fixed which may occur in the combination of Micovitec M1764, 15khz and graphic board. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Aug.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Vector drawing program MindSpace 1.2c
MindSpace is a program which can create spider diagrams and mind maps, UML, ER and use case diagrams. In version 1.2c the user-interface has been "cleaned up".

The author now explained that he is not going to develop version 2 because Sodipodi (under AmiCygnix) and AmiFig are already available as similar software. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Aug.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Hometown of DMA Design put up Lemming-statues
The headquarter of the software developer of DMA Design formerly was situated in Scottish Dundee. Among others it released the famous Amiga classic Lemmings. Near the former DMA-headquarter the city administration now has put up some Lemming-statues which are trying to climb a stone column. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Aug.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up 1.3.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a "video game about general knowledge" for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. You get one question and four possible answers and you have to chosse the right one. The L- and XL-edition additionally have a two player mode. A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.

In version 1.3.0 translations for Portuguese and Polish have been completed as well as translations for other languages : Italian (95%), Greek (51%), Spanish (36%), German (17%) and Swedish (9%). All other questions are in English. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Aug.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


AROS: Bounty for Directory-Opus-Magellan-II-port
Szilárd 'Bszili' Biró has accepted the bounty of porting the file manager Directory Opus Magellan II to AROS.

Under the title link you can now donate to support him. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Aug.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Frogatto 1.2.1 and HexGem 1.0.0
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel has updated his AmigaOS-4-port of the Jump'n'Run-game Frogatto. Additionally HexGem was released which is a puzzlegame using hexagonal gems. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Aug.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 72
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Aug.2013
Floppy (E-Mail)


FPGA accelerator board: Vampire 600 can be preordered
The Vampire 600 (amiga-news.de reported) now can be preordered for 90 Euro plus delivery costs. It is a FPGA-based accelerator board with 64 MB RAM which can emulate a MC68000, MC68010 or (partly) a MC68020. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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