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28.Jan.2013
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)


AROS: 68k-Distribution AROS Vision 1.5.7
Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k-distribution. It is a mix of AROS and AmigaOS software (tutorial). In version 1.5.7 some parts have been updated or added:

Added:
  • New Amiblitz-Includes
  • Limpidclock
  • Handy095
  • Screenblanker
  • many additional CLI-commands

Updated:
  • All System-Files
  • MCC Betterstring
  • MCC OpenURL
  • MCC NList
  • MCC Texteditor
  • MCC The Bar
  • Org_68k
  • oggv_dec
  • Simplemail
  • YAM
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Jan.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Real AmiKit: Distribution for AGA-Amigas (beta version)
The well-known distribution AmiKit for users of emulators now was reworked so it can be also used on real Amigas which is called "Real AmiKit".

The original AmigaOS files and Kickstart-ROM of the AGA-chipset and at least 16 MB RAM are required. An accelerator board is highly recommended. Owners of an Apollo-board should use the RemApollo-patch. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2013



USB: New edition of Thylacine canceled
In October all documents on the Zorro 2 plug-in card Thylacine were released which made it possible to recreate the low-cost USB-controller. Users on a1k.org expressed the wish to have the original design reworked and then sold the construction kit at cost price.

Actually during the first eight weeks several revisions of a reworked layout have been presented which the could have been produced as prototypes. After more than one month of silence the initiator "crasbe" explained that he has canceled the project which was called "Nova-Thylacine".

He has suspend the project in order to prevent "screwing up anybodies business". A commercial competing product which "is not or at least not much more" expensive than the Nova-Thylacine will be available "at the latest by the next quarter". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 26.01.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until January 26th, 2013:
netclip.py.gz            comm/tcp   1K        netclip client
dmg2iso-morphos.lha      disk/misc  107K  MOS Convert DMG images to ISO
Szalter.zip              game/think 471K  68k A nice logic game
AlphaQuad.lha            game/wb    32K   68k Place the letters in the righ...
BulGom.lha               game/wb    34K   68k Burst some bubbles!
Flecho.lha               game/wb    29K   68k Point the arrows to the numbers!
Numo.lha                 game/wb    31K   68k Find all pairs of correspondi...
Quetiles.lha             game/wb    32K   68k Change all tiles to one colour!
Roman_Wheel.lha          game/wb    31K   68k Place the numbers in the righ...
SevenHex.lha             game/wb    28K   68k Place 7 pawns on an hexagonal...
Tri_It.lha               game/wb    35K   68k Try to match a triangular pat...
XCenter.lha              game/wb    29K   68k Link from the center to the e...
TSFixer.lha              gfx/misc   36K   68k fix/join/cut (HD) transport s...
flite_device.lha         mus/misc   30M   OS4 Device API based on Flite Spe...
pacplay_68k.lha          mus/play   431K  68k Play & Decode PAC music m...
playOGG.lha              mus/play   5.7M  68k multi format sound player.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.01.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until January 26th, 2013:
flite_device.lha         dri/aud 30Mb  4.1 Device API based on the Flite Sp...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amifig_de.lha            gra/edi 6kb   4.0 New German Catalog for AmiFig
iconsreworked3.lha       gra/ico 10Mb  4.1 Icons for 3rd party software
showgeo.lha              gra/vec 2Mb   4.0 3D object viewer for VideoScape ...
a-ftp_server.lha         net/ser 2Mb   4.0 FTP Server for AmigaOS4
aa3-dp5_buttons.lha      uti/mis 18kb  4.1 AmigaAMP3 control buttons for Do...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 26.01.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until January 26th, 2013:
VAMP                     0.92    mul/pla   1532 VAMP is a simple Hollywood ...
eGame                    1.4     off/dat    345 Simple MUI based game datab...
EggTimer                 1.4     uti/mis     41 Software version of an egg ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 26.01.2013
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 January 26th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Jan.2013
David Brunet (ANF)


Voting: Amiga Games Award 2012
David Brunet writes: Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2012! To vote for the best games, you can rate them at the title link.

There will be no "global" winner but a winner by systems (AmigaOS/68k, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS or AROS). The final results will be published on wednesday, February 6, 2013. (snx)

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25.Jan.2013
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Interview with Grzegorz Kraszewski
In the forum of MorphZone an interview with Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski was published. He told about computers who he owned until in 2002 he joined the MorphOS-team. Since then he has mainly developed his multimedia library Reggae as well as helped to integrate the programming language Lua to the operating system. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jan.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.83
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours which replaces the Workbench for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe) and requires less memory. According to the developer the programm works with all OCS and AGA Amigas.

Additional to several bug fixes, with the version 0.83 the mouse pointer can be controled with the joystick (important to Amiga CDTV and CD³²). (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jan.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Text editor: CygnusED with new website and domain
For several years the well-known text editor CygnuesED has been developed by Olaf Barthel and sold by APC&TCP. Now for the programm under cygnused.de a new website was established.

Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP) pointed out that CygnusED still is developed further. Users can post their requests in the CygnusED support forum. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jan.2013
(ANF)


Preconfigured AEROS computer: Ares M1000
Pascal Papara is offering another preconfigured system for his linux hosted AROS distribution AEROS. The Ares M1000 is also referred to as the "Ares Mini", comes with AEROS preinstalled and offers the following features:
  • AMD C60 1GHZ dualcore (turbo mode 1,33GHZ)
  • 250GB HD
  • 2GB DDR3 RAM (supports up to 8GB RAM)
  • 6xUSB2
  • DVD-writer
  • Onboard GPU/LAN/Audio support
  • DVI / VGA
  • Case and PSU
  • Software: AMC, A-Live X and the game G.E.M.Z
(cg)

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20.Jan.2013
Andreas Magerl (comment area)


MorphOS: Update of the TCP/IP stack Roadshow
The MorphOS compatible version of the AmigaOS 3 compile of TCP stack Roadshow has been updated: The MorphOS related configuration files of Roadshow 1.8 can handle static IPv4 addresses now. Additionally, configuration files for the following drivers have been added: mpc52xx_eth.device, mv6436x_eth.device und rtl_8139pci.device.

There is still no installation script provided, but MorphOS user Cato Hagen has written an ARexx script that automates the installation process (requires ARexx). (snx)

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20.Jan.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 19.01.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until January 19th, 2013:
viewcsv.lha              biz/dbase  392K  68k MUI based CSV file reader
tn3270.lha               comm/tcp   68K   68k A tn3270 client for Amiga com...
ZVNC_1.5.1.lha           comm/tcp   282K  MOS Fast VNC client for remote co...
Blitz_OPT.lha            dev/basic  13K   68k gcc like CPU checking for Ami...
flite.lha                dev/lib    62M   OS4 Flite speech synthesis engine
powersdl_sdk.lha         dev/misc   2.3M  MOS SDK to SDL audio and video li...
aca620rd.lha             disk/misc  3K    68k ACA620 RAM Disk
Envy24HT.zip             driver/aud 1.7M      Source code for Envy24HT AHI ...
retrobattle.ppc-mos.lha  game/jump  5.5M  MOS Retrobattle
BOOM.lha                 game/shoot 2.8M  68k Amiga port of BOOM v2.02
Tri_Q.lha                game/wb    35K   68k A triangular shaped peg game
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.0M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.4M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.2M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 19.15 spanish catalog
Handy095.lha             misc/emu   230K  68k Atari Lynx emulator
flite_device.lha         mus/misc   3.3M  OS4 Device API based on Flite Spe...
oggv_dec.lha             mus/play   233K  68k play & decode OGG vorbis
org_68k.lha              mus/play   207K  68k play & decode org music
powersdl.lha             util/libs  1.3M  MOS SDL audio and video library f...
powersdl_src.lha         util/libs  3.5M      Source code: SDL audio and vi...
eGame.lha                util/misc  882K  MOS Game launcher with tagging &a...
backupcopy.tgz           util/shell 4.8M  MOS Copy,synchronise, mirror + ar...
AmiUpdateSP.lha          util/sys   9K        AmiUpdate 2.27 spanish catalogs
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20.Jan.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.01.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until January 19th, 2013:
flite.lha                dev/lib 62Mb  4.0 Flite speech synthesis engine
flite_device.lha         dri/aud 3Mb   4.0 Device API based on the Flite Sp...
dcraw.lha                gra/con 3Mb   4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files
iconsreworked3.lha       gra/ico 11Mb  4.1 Icons for 3rd party software
a-ftp_server.lha         net/ser 2Mb   4.0 FTP Server for AmigaOS4
clipdown.lha             uti/fil 149kb 4.0 Utility to download/play URL's f...
poweroff.lha             uti/har 2kb   4.1 Shell command to turn off the X1000
assist.lha               uti/mis 3Mb   4.1 An assistant for AmigaOS users
egame.lha                uti/mis 882kb 4.0 Game launcher with tagging &...
amimagicdemo.lha         uti/wor 42kb  4.0 Adds sounds to system events
videoclipper.lha         vid/edi 115kb 4.0 Cut and/or join multiple format ...
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20.Jan.2013



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 19.01.2013
The following package has been added to AROS Archives until January 19th, 2013:
backupcopy_v1.0.i386-aros... uti/she 5Mb   BackupCopy
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jan.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 19.01.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS files until January 19th, 2013:
PowerSDL SDK             15.10   dev/lib   2334 The Software Developer Kit ...
Taran im Abenteuerland   3.0     gam/adv  12970 Hollywood remake of old poi...
RetroBattle              4.0     gam/pla   5657 Classic style platform game...
AHIW                     2.0     gra/edi   6344 Yet another image processin...
ShowGeo                  1.0     gra/vie   4676 Viewer for 3D objects from ...
ZVNC                     1.5.1   net/rem    282 Minimal VNC client only han...
eGame                    1.3     off/dat    303 Simple MUI based game datab...
BubbleDoc                0.5.0   off/tex   1403 Early version of MS Office ...
PowerSDL                 15.10   sys/lib   1286 A fast and powerful impleme...
EggTimer                 1.4     uti/mis     41 Software version of an egg ...
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20.Jan.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 19.01.2013
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 January 19th, 2013:
(snx) (Translation: cg)

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18.Jan.2013
PPA (ANF)


Thinking game: Szalter 1.0
In Benedykt Dziubałtowski und Czesław Mnichs game Szalter steuern you guide an avatar through a labyrinth full of light bulbs that switch on or off when you get close. The aim is to switch all light bulbs on.

Szalter has been tested on 68000, 68030 and 68060 CPUs. It requires 1 MB RAM and the amos.library. (snx) (Translation: cg)

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18.Jan.2013
Pascal Papara (ANF)


AROS distribution: AEROS 3.5
In version 3.5 of Pascal Paparas Linux hosted AROS distribution AEROS low level components like the Linux kernel (release 3.2.0 now) or the Nvidia driver (release 310 now) have been updated which increases the range of supported CPUs, GPUs, gfx cards and other hardware components. Additionally, AEROS now contains the Amiga emulator FS-UAE.

Users without a Nvidia graphics card can find hints for removing the related dependencies in section 4 of the manual. (snx) (Translation: cg)

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18.Jan.2013
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)


Javascript: Scripted Amiga Emulator 0.8.0
Rupert Hausberger's Scripted Amiga Emulator is written in Javascript and should run in any modern web browser, but currently the best performance can be achieved using Chrome.

Changes in version 0.8.0 (16.01.2013):
  • New online games
    • Alien Breed - Spezial Edition 92
    • Alien Breed 2
    • Lemmings
    • Pinball Fantasies
    • R-Type
    • Rubicon
    • Shadow of the Beast
    • Silkworm
    • Stunt Car Racer
  • Display
    • Ported and optimized playfield-code from WinUAE.
      This adds ECS and AGA support and fixes graphics-errors.
      The AGA part is commented out, because there is no 68020 yet.
    • Added support for drawing via 'Canvas 2D' if 'WebGL' is not avail.
    • Added support for auto-driver detection.
  • Audio
    • While disk access, audio performance is much better now.
    • Added support for the A500 lowpass-filter. Not enabled by default.
    • Added support for auto-driver detection.
  • Memory
    • To gain speed, all memory is now accessed directly and not via functions.
      So, don't care for a possible illegal memory access.
    • Fixed bug, where kickstart 1.2 failed to load.
    • Fixed incorrect extended-address bug.
  • CPU
    • Splitted address-types of ADDQ/SUBQ into separate functions for more speed.
    • Added bus-read/write cycles tables. For internal use only.
  • CIA
    • I decided to port the latest cia-code from WinUAE while i was trying to find a bug.
      Well, the bug is still there. Let's keep the code nevertheless.
  • GUI
    • Added info box of supported drivers.
    • Added a 'Chipset'-section and various options.
    • Packed the main GUI.
  • Common
    • Added support for easy URL sharing. E.g. to show the Multica-demo to a friend,
      one may send the link "http://scriptedamigaemulator.net/#Multica"
      and the demo will start immediately. (thanks mrdoob)
    • Many small optimizations.
(cg)

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18.Jan.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Major update of Amiga Software Datenbank
In the Amiga Software Datenbank (ASD) of the Amiga Future during the last weeks and months several hundreds of entries have been added or changed. Additionally there are almost 1000 new scans. Meanwhile ASD includes over 3700 entries as well as nearly 5000 pictures of packings, manuals and much more.

The next update will mainly affect CD-ROMs, (cover-) disks and magazines. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jan.2013
Moo Bunny (Forum)


Commodore USA: Barry Altman deceased
According to Leo Nigro (Amigatek), CTO of Commodore USA, under the title link the founder of the company, Barry S. Altman, who died on December 8, 2012 after a courageous, year long, battle with cancer.

Two years ago Commodore USA had purchased a licence for the name "Amiga" and had announced recently a Commodore Amiga Mini. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jan.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AROS: Super-Tirititran ported
Super-Tirititran is a classic Shoot'em-Up game which is now also available for AROS, but only in Spanish.

Download: Tirititran-Aros.lha (34 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jan.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


TCP stack: Roadshow update for MorphOS
Press release: Since today there is an update available, so roadshow can also be used on MorphOS. Roadshow is much faster than the internal TCP / IP stack for MorphOS.

Please note, that with MorphOS a manual installation of roadshow is required. The supplied installation script will not run under MorphOS. The user should therefore familiar with the operating system.

The manually installed Roadshow is now directly usable and requires no further intervention to boot. New sample files for the network usage on the Pegasos/Pegasos II, and for Apple hardware are also included.

The update can be downloaded for free on the Support homepage Roadshow.

About Roadshow

Roadshow is an Amiga TCP/IP stack, that allows you to connect to the Internet, to access your e-mail, web pages, chat, etc. It can also be used to access and exchange files within your local home network.

Roadshow is one of the fastest, if not THE fastest Amiga TCP/IP stacks.

Some features include:
  • Amiga-ised configuration utilities rather than the terse and somewhat cryptic Unix legacy tools
  • DHCP configuration for Ethernet devices
  • "TCP:" device support, for use with, for example, ARexx scripts
  • Enhanced & cleaned-up software development kit, that includes the complete source code to all the configuration tools and sample programs
(cg) (Translation: cg)

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15.Jan.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Simple video editing with VideoClipper 1.0
VideoClipper written by Kevin 'ktadd' Taddeucci is a graphical user-interface for mencoder which is to simplify cutting and and converting videos and offers simple picture editing functions (screenshots: 1, 2, 3).

VideoClipper requires mencoder and MPlayer or MUI-MPlayer. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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15.Jan.2013



Preview: Minimig box with A1000-design
With the PC Thomas 'Tommes' Koch has drawn a box for the Minimig sold by ACube which is inspired by the design of the Amiga 1000. He has designed several variations. He will have the one produced in serial production which is shown here.



Currently different possibilities are being discussed, e.g. the 3D-print or financing series with 150 boxes which would mean a price of 150 Euro for one unit. With the 3D-print the price for one unit would obviously be about 200 Euro but then could be produced in very small quantities. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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15.Jan.2013
David Brunet (ANF)


Obligement: Amiga games list updated
David 'Daff' Brunet has updated his Amiga games list which he has kept since April 1991. With the latest update the list includes 11.894 entries: 10.802 games, 912 extensions and data-disks, 134 game or level editors and 46 interpreters. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jan.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Workbench Nostalgia: Updated CDTV information
CDTV team member Inventor Reichart has added some information about the CTDV to Greg Donner's Workbench history "Workbench Nostalgia". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jan.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Thomas Dellert (DCE) deceased
Thomas Dellert who was responsible with his company for several Amiga products and projects passed away on Monday after a serious illness. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jan.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 12.01.2013
The following archives have been uploaded until 12.01.2013 to the Aminet:
getvideo.lha             comm/www   53K       get video files from YouTube etc
Blitz_OPT.lha            dev/basic  13K   68k gcc like CPU checking for Ami...
liblcms.lha              dev/lib    760K  OS4 Little CMS color engine
liblcms2.lha             dev/lib    3.1M  OS4 Little CMS color engine
powersdl_sdk.lha         dev/misc   2.2M  MOS SDK to SDL audio and video li...
AMIGA_Magic_Eye.py.txt   dev/src    4K    68k EM87 Magic Eye DEMO For AMIGA...
aca620rd.lha             disk/misc  3K    68k ACA620 RAM Disk
dogma12.lha              docs/mags  43M       Russian magazine, HTML vers. ...
joy2key2.lha             driver/inp 13K   68k redirect joystick to keyboard
joy2mouse.lha            driver/inp 12K   68k controls mouse with joystick
anaiis.lha               driver/oth 220K  68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.07
anaiis_boot.lha          driver/oth 205K  68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
Ball_Breaker_68k.lha     game/actio 602K  68k full screen Arkanoid clone
meritous_68k.lha         game/actio 2.7M  68k action adventure RPG
AmigaColoringBook.lha    game/misc  519K  68k draw & paint classic Amig...
BOOM.lha                 game/shoot 2.8M  68k Amiga port of BOOM v2.02
darkplaces.i386-aros.lha game/shoot 3.0M  x86 QuakeWorld/Nexuiz/Xonotic engine
darkplaces.src-aros.tgz  game/shoot 4.6M      Darkplaces engine sources
AstroBlox.lha            game/think 15K   68k Logic game similiar to SokoBan
DragonMemory_68k.lha     game/think 2.3M  68k A memory game
flobopuyo_68k.lha        game/think 3.1M  68k An action puzzler
net-bubble_68k.lha       game/think 2.4M  68k A silent puzzle bobble clone
A2Zee.lha                game/wb    30K   68k Put the letters in the right ...
Bordo.lha                game/wb    34K   68k Line up 3 tiles of the same c...
Chain_Gang.lha           game/wb    48K   68k Make some chains!
GoFigure.lha             game/wb    40K   68k Create some closed figures!
Totematik.lha            game/wb    37K   68k Recreate all 10 totems!
Microbe3D-demo.lha       gfx/3d     4.0M  OS4 Microbe3D engine demo using W...
showgeo.lha              gfx/3d     9.3M  MOS 3D object viewer: VideoScape ...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.0M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.4M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.2M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 19.14 spanish catalog
opus_68k.lha             mus/edit   3.3M  68k OGG Opus tools & libs
lame-3.99.5-morphos.lha  mus/misc   587K  MOS MP3 encoder with AltiVec support
lame-3.99.5-morphos-s... mus/misc   8K        MP3 encoder with AltiVec supp...
lame-morphos.lha         mus/misc   321K  MOS MP3 encoder optimized for G3-...
Annotate_usr.lha         text/edit  1.2M  MOS Text Editor with advanced fea...
Scriba_1.5.0.lha         text/edit  6.3M  MOS Simple word processing softwa...
Bubbledoc_0.5.0.lha      text/show  1.4M  MOS A Viewer of Microsoft Word do...
DrawerBall.lha           util/dir   2.5M  MOS Directory and files tool
WarpPNGdt.lha            util/dtype 207K  WOS PNG image datatype V45.17
powersdl.lha             util/libs  1.3M  MOS SDL audio and video library f...
powersdl_src.lha         util/libs  3.4M      Source code: SDL audio and vi...
DevInfos.lha             util/misc  265K  OS4 Shows many infos about a devi...
DumpA1000BootROM.lha     util/misc  2K    68k Dump the Amiga 1000 boot ROMs...
eGame.lha                util/misc  851K  MOS Game launcher with tagging &a...
THE2.lha                 util/wb    121K  OS4 Prefs Editor for Tools Menu a...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.01.2013
The following archives have been uploaded until 12.01.2013 to the OS4Depot:
mixer.lha                aud/mis 210kb 4.1 Audio mixer
amigaamp3.lha            aud/pla 1Mb   4.1 Multi format audio player with GUI
hugi_se4.lha             dem/mag 126Mb 4.1 HUGI Special Edition #4
zaphod.lha               dev/edi 180kb 4.0 A simple binary file editor
amidark2dengine.lha      dev/lan 54Mb  4.1 Game Development Package (Demo v...
xamos-bin.lha            dev/lan 4Mb   4.1 Cross-platform AMOS BASIC reimpl...
liblcms.lha              dev/lib 760kb 4.0 Little CMS color engine
liblcms2.lha             dev/lib 3Mb   4.0 Little CMS color engine
libsge.lha               dev/lib 477kb 4.0 SDL Graphics Extension
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
anotherworld.lha         gam/act 259kb 4.1 Another World game engine
residualvm.lha           gam/adv 2Mb   4.1 3D game interpreter
residualvm-src.zip       gam/adv 5Mb   4.1 ResidualVM Source
dcraw.lha                gra/con 3Mb   4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files
showgeo.lha              gra/vec 2Mb   4.0 3D object viewer for VideoScape ...
viivi.lha                gra/vie 169kb 4.0 Picture viewer
viivi_german.lha         gra/vie 3kb   4.0 German catalog files for Viivi
yam_greek.lha            net/ema 45kb  4.0 Greek catalog files for YAM and ...
abiword.lha              off/wor 57Mb  4.1 AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix
abiword-src.lha          off/wor 7Mb   4.1 Sources of the AbiWord package
arexxconsole.lha         uti/mis 39kb  4.0 Utility for sending ARexx messages
assist.lha               uti/mis 3Mb   4.1 An assistant for AmigaOS users
devinfos.lha             uti/mis 265kb 4.0 Shows many infos about a device 
egame.lha                uti/mis 851kb 4.0 Game launcher with tagging &...
keyremapper.lha          uti/mis 13kb  4.0 Program that swaps right-amiga k...
wordnet.lha              uti/sci 9Mb   4.1 Electronic database of the Engli...
amiupdate_german.lha     uti/wor 20kb  4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_greek.lha      uti/wor 7kb   4.0 Greek catalog files for AmiUpdat...
amiupdate_ita.lha        uti/wor 45kb  4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
the2.lha                 uti/wor 121kb 4.1 Tools Menu and Hotkey Editor (T....
ffshop.lha               vid/edi 4Mb   4.0 Frames and video edit with ffmpeg.
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 12.01.2013
The following archives have been uploaded until 12.01.2013 to the AROS-Archives:
curl.i386-aros.lha           dev/lib 303kb cURL library
curl.src-aros.tgz            dev/lib 3Mb   cURL library sources
darkplaces.i386-aros.lha     gam/fps 3Mb   Darkplaces engine (QuakeWorld, N...
darkplaces.src-aros.tgz      gam/fps 5Mb   Darkplaces engine sources
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 12.01.2013
The following archives have been uploaded until 12.01.2013 to the MorphOS-Files:
AmiDARK Engine           0.7     dev/lib  33605 Advanced Game Development K...
libzip                   0.8     dev/lib    591 Linklibrary for handling an...
PowerSDL SDK             15.9    dev/lib   2217 The Software Developer Kit ...
MorphOS SDK              2013-01 dev/too  27873 Official MorphOS Software D...
Smilla Enlarger          1.1     gra/edi    363 Advanced enlarger for bitma...
SteamDraw                2.2     gra/edi    343 Vector graphics editor. Sup...
VAMP                     0.91    mul/pla   1423 VAMP is a simple Hollywood ...
LAME                     3.99.5  mus/pro    587 Popular open source MPEG Au...
eGame                    1.2     off/dat    295 Simple MUI based game datab...
BubbleDoc                0.5.0   off/tex   1403 Early version of MS Office ...
Chasca                   1.0     sys/gra     10 Plain and simple dark gray ...
PowerSDL                 15.9    sys/lib   1286 A fast and powerful impleme...
Chronometer              1.2     uti/mis     38 Chronometer measures period...
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WHDLoad: New packages until 12.01.2013
With WHDLoad you can install games, demos and intros which originally had to be used from disks on your harddrive. The following installation packages have been added until 29.12.2012: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jan.2013
Jim Neray (ANF)


Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.81 (beta)
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours which replaces the Workbench for starting WHDLoad-games (.slave, .exe) and and uses low computer resources. According to the developer the programm works on all Amigas (OCS to AGA) with 68000 to 68060 processors and uses little virtual memory.

Changes in this release:
  • Fixed the fade to black issue on init. (Should work now with highgfx mode)
  • Fixed the refresh timing speed with fast cpu.
  • Fixed the display redraw bug in the Prefs when switching tabs.
  • Added the "Main Menu" prefs tab.
  • Added an on/off switch for the main menu music.
  • Added an on/off switch for the main menu starfield. (usefull if your migy is a bit too slow.)
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jan.2013
PPA (Webseite)


Datatype: WarpPNG 45.17
Oliver Roberts ha updated his Warp-Datatype for PNG-graphics for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS and MorphOS.

Changes:
  • Fixed bug in the decoding of 32-bit RGBA interlaced images, when ALPHA_MODE was set to KEEP, which corrupted pixels down the left edge of the image
  • Faster decoding of 32-bit RGBA interlaced images
  • Updated with libpng 1.5.13 and zlib 1.2.7
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Jan.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AROS: Ri-li 2.0.1
Ri-li is a SDL-based game of skill. You have to collect waggons with the help of a wooden rail. Additional to the other Amiga systems it is now available for AROS as well.

Download: Ri-LI_Aros.lha (21 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Jan.2013
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: Smilla Enlarger
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has adapted Smilla Enlarger to MorphOS. You can use it for enlarging drawn or painted pictures.

Download: SmillaEnlarger.lha (363 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Jan.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Print magazine: Amiga Future #100
Press release: So it looks like the world didn't end on December 21st. Despite all those doubts we sent all our print data right on time to our printer service and so now we are able to deliver to you, hot off the press, our collectible issue #100.

The English and German editions of Amiga Future issue 100 (January/February 2013) have been distributed today. They can also be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future, and any Amiga dealer that stocks our magazine.

Highlights of this issue:
  • Interview: Gerhard Bauer
  • Amiga Future making of
  • AmigaOS 4 Update 6

and much more... (cg)

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10.Jan.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Interview: Dave Semmens (The Lion King, Rainbow Warriors, Kid Gloves 2)
Ian 'Codetapper' Lightbody has interviewed Dave Semmens who with others developed the game The Lion King, Rainbow Warriors and Kid Gloves 2. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jan.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Dragon-/Tandy-Emulator XRoar 0.29.1
XRoar ported by Ventzislav Tzvetkov emulates the 8-Bit-systems Dragon and Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer. A minimal firmware is included in the archive but for real compatibility a ROM-image of the emulated computers is required.

Changes since our last message:
  • Fixed the "-cart-becker" option
  • New PIA & keyboard code supports matrix ghosting
  • Fixed emulation of Dragon 32 with 64K
  • Underlying video module rewrite
  • VDG sub-scanline mode switching more accurate (CSS & !INT/EXT delayed)
  • Use vertex and texture coord arrays in OpenGL code
  • Alias '²' to Clear for French keyboards. TODO: generic key bind ability
  • Fake ACIA responses to fix 32K mode autorepeat. TODO: real ACIA support
  • Curses video module removed - incompatible with new VDG/video code
  • SDL YUV video module tries harder to find accelerated overlay
  • "Becker" port supported in RS-DOS
  • Various CPU timing fixes
  • Hitachi 6309 support (unverified) with "-machine-cpu 6309"
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jan.2013
os4welt.de (Webseite)


Game quiz: Amiga Screenshot Challenge
"Amiga Screenshot Challenge" is a game in which 100 screenshots must be recognized - you can choose from four possible options. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jan.2013



Retro case: X500 Plus can be ordered
Loriano 'TheDaddy' Pagni has set a price for his self-made computer case X500 Plus : For 318 Euro (259 UKP, 416 USD) the purchaser will get a black or white case for Mini-ITX-/Flex-ATX-motherboards with the following, still installed components:
  • black or white USB keyboard and all the screws, nuts, washers & spacers
  • rubber feet
  • on/off switch
  • LEDs
  • custom made steel DVD and 3.5" USB card reader brackets
  • slim SATA DVD-RW drive with SATA cable
  • 3.5" USB card reader (52in1)
  • one 40mm silent fan
  • silicone fan mounts on the right side (in case you want to add extra fans)
  • powder coated aluminium base and rear (inside and out) in black or white with a matt finish

The case must be paid in advance. Only 50 units will be made and the purchaser has the following ordering options:
  • X500 Plus colour (white or black)
  • Colour combination of the LEDs (white, blue, red, green or amber, they are interchangeable)
  • Please confirm keyboard layout preference (U.K. layout is second best option if first is not available)
  • Would you like two free ACube's "A" keys adhesives?

If you are going to buy a case then please contact Pagni via eMail and write him your prefered configuration as well as full home address (for the delivery) and your your Paypal email address. According to Pagni the delivery will take 2-4 weeks.

At the end Pagni wrote: "This project has sucked a lot of energy, free time and money, my entire classic, NG Amiga and Commodore collection, plus my car (twice!) and a few other items which ended up on ebay during seven years. You probably already know but I'll be making these at a loss for a while but I love it and I hope you're going to love it too. Add sad music here." (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jan.2013
morphzone.org (Webseite)


MorphOS 3.2 Software Development Kit (Beta)
The MorphOS-team has released version 3.2 of the Software Development Kit. The update includes an updated version of the compiler environment called "Geek Gadgets" (GCC, Bash and GNU-tools) and the latest MorphOS-includes with documentation. Additionally some minor bugs have been fixed.

This release is still a beta version. At least MorphOS 3.1 is required. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Jan.2013
amiga.org (Webseite)


Curiosity: Rare A1000-keyboard developed by Cherry
At the British ebay an onknwon keyboard version for the Amiga 1000 has been turned up: A keyboard of the "G80"-production by Cherry which has a typical A1000 RJ-11-plug and which partly copies the special layout of the original keyboard.

Obvioulsy the offerer knows that he has curiosity: The bid starts with 200 US-Dollar. If you want to buy it now then 777 USD have to be paid. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Jan.2013
Edgar Schwan (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix
For the X11-environment AmiCygnix an update of the word processing software AbiWord has been released (Screenshot). Most important changes in this version:
  • New version 2.8.6 with many new features compared to the last version 2.6.2.
  • Gnumeric spreadsheets can now be embedded into an AbiWord document. You can load and edit existing spreadsheets or create new ones. Gnumeric 1.10.17 is integrated into AbiWord for this. You don't need to install the standalone package of Gnumeric!
  • With the new plugin "OpenXML" you can now load and save documents in .docx format (MS Word 2007+)..
  • Compiled with GTK+ 2.24.
  • Several bugfixes.

The Amiga version also loads ILBM-pictures, German and English catalogs for spell checking are included in the archive. AbiWord requires AmiCygnix 1.2. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jan.2013



Retro-Gaming-Comics: Blow The Cartridge
On his website "Blow The Cartridge", Cameron Davis explores several game classics in little cartoons. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jan.2013
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Bubbledoc 0.0.1 shows Microsoft Word-documents
Bubbledoc written by Carsten Siegner shows Microsoft Word-dokuments. The programm is based on antiword 0.37 and currently can only manage text. Pictures are not supported yet.

Download: Bubbledoc_0.0.1.lha (189 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jan.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.5
In version 1.5 of Paolo Besser's AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop the files layout, the installation process as well as the the emulation environment have been completely overhauled. The emulation environment now starts ADF-images as well as harddrive-based applications without requiring the original Kickstart-files.

Icaros 1.5 now is based on the latest AROS-kernel ("ABI v1 Backport") which is supposed to provide improved speed, compatibility and stability. For users who have problems with this kernel a "Legacy Kernel Edition" of Icaros is avilable. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


TCP stack: full version of Roadshow on sale now
Press release: Starting today, the full version of the Roadshow TCP/IP stack is available to buy through the APC&TCP online store. Roadshow is an Amiga TCP/IP stack, that allows you to connect to the Internet, to access your e-mail, web pages, chat, etc. It can also be used to access and exchange files within your local home network.

Roadshow is one of the fastest, if not THE fastest Amiga TCP/IP stacks. Some features include:
  • Amiga-ised configuration utilities rather than the terse and somewhat cryptic Unix legacy tools
  • DHCP configuration for Ethernet devices
  • "TCP:" device support, for use with, for example, ARexx scripts
  • Enhanced & cleaned-up software development kit, that includes the complete source code to all the configuration tools and sample programs
  • and much more ...
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02.Jan.2013
Jim Neray (ANF)


Workbench-replacement: X-bEnCH 0.8 (alpha)
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours which replaces the Workbench for starting WHDLoad-games (.slave, .exe) and and uses low computer resources. According to the developer the programm works on all Amigas (OCS to AGA) with 68000 to 68060 processors and uses little virtual memory.

The current alpha version includes the following changes:
  • Black lines closing effect added to the init logo
  • No more credits scroll text; now have a rotating text on the menu
  • New VBL sync more smoother
  • Fixed the repeat delay
  • 3d effect added to menu texts
  • New loading screen with a cool parallax effect
  • List name bug fixed
  • Now the listings fatters than 1920 files are working fines
  • Xsetup code heavily reworked
  • Startup tab added to the setup
  • Added the Del key switch option
  • Added an option to choose from where start Xbench (menu, launcher, cli)
  • Fixed the ugly 3d effect in the setup
  • Many bugs fixs and various optimizations
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2013



New tracks: "Northern Germany Challenge" for Test Drive 2
"Mombasajoe" has released a so called "Scenery Disk" for the classic Test Drive 2 which provides six new tracks: "Ostsee", "Lüneburger Heide", "Wesertal", "Teutoburger Wald", "Harz" and "A7".

Download: Test_Drive_II_-_Scenery_Disk_-_Northern_Germany.zip (150 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2013
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MorphOS: Taran im Abenteuerland 3.0
Under the title link Achim Kern has released the remake of his adventure "Taran im Abenteuerland" for MorphOS which is written with Hollywood. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


ACube Systems: Minimig and ARM-controllers available again
The Minimig which is a FPGA-reimplementation of an Amiga 500 and originally developed by Dennis van Weeren is available again at ACube Systems.

You can select between two boards with 2 or 4 MB RAM which are available with PIC (Peripheral Interface Controller) or without it (and then can be used with a ARM-controller which makes it possible having a writing access to disk and harddrive images). (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2013



New demos
The demo-portal pouet.net has uploaded some new demos from the Amiga-scene:
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01.Jan.2013
David Brunet (ANF)


New articles on Obligement-website
During the last two months the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement has been completed with new articles. Translations into other languages are always welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
  • November/December 2012 news
  • Old articles from A-News 17 to 20: Report: Amiga '89 Cologne, MIDI interfaces, Lamer Exterminator virus, Review of Musical Enlightment 1.4, Review of HiSoft Basic, Hardware: A-Max, Review of ARexx 1.10, Review of Digi-Paint 3.0 etc.
  • Interview: Jonathan Potter (author of Directory Opus)
  • Hardware: Turbo Chameleon 64
  • Hardware: ACA 1231
  • Hardware: ARM controller for Minimig
  • Review: Dragon Ninja
  • Review: Tower Of Babel
  • Review: Savage
  • Review: Yo! Joe!
  • Review: Globdule
  • Commodore monitors
  • Amiga shoot'em ups (1993)
  • Amiga shoot'em ups (1994)
  • Tutorial: optimization of RunInUAE, ScummVM et DOSBox on AmigaOS 4
  • Tutorial: Photogenics - draw streaks
  • Tutorial: create a video game with Backbone
  • Tutorial: switch from a CRT monitor to a LCD/TFT/LED monitor on AmigaOS 4
  • Special quizz about the first name of Amiga software and hardware
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Jan.2013
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


GUI-development: MUI Royale 1.0 for Hollywood
Press release: This is it! Airsoft Softwair has saved their greatest firework for New Year's Day! MUI Royale is a plugin for Hollywood (screenshots: 1, 2, 3) that finally allows you to easily create MUI GUIs with Hollywood. MUI Royale supports over 40 MUI classes including popular third-party classes like TextEditor.mcc and TheBar.mcc. Creating and managing menustrips is also fully supported.

The plugin sets new standards concerning the ease of use because the GUI layout can be conveniently defined using an XML file that is converted into a MUI GUI by MUI Royale on the fly. GUI design has never been so easy! Of course, new features of MUI 3.9 (AmigaOS 4) and MUI 4.0 (MorphOS) are also supported.

The highlight of MUI Royale, however, is certainly its inbuilt Hollywood MUI class. This class allows dynamic embedding of complete Hollywood displays into MUI GUIs which can be used to combine the best of both worlds - MUI's proven GUI skills and Hollywood's unequalled multimedia capabilities - into one powerful application, limited by the scope of your creativity only.

MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood 5.2 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. It is available for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC), and AROS (i386). The package comes with almost 20 example scripts, many of which are direct ports from the MUI 3.8 SDK by Stefan Stuntz, but there are also original developments like demonstrations of how to create a video player using the combined power of Hollywood and MUI. On top of that MUI Royale comes with extensive documentation as a 280 page PDF file which is also available in the HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM formats thanks to the Hollywood documentation system.

All this makes MUI Royale the truly royal MUI experience, carefully crafted for you Kings and Queens of MUI! (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Jan.2013
Pegasosforum (Webseite)


MorphOS: Vector graphic programm SteamDraw 2.2
SteamDraw written by Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich is an EPS-compatible 2D vector graphic programm. You can now define the size of the drawing with the "project"-entry in the object list.

Download: SteamDraw.lha (343 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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01.Jan.2013
PPA (Webseite)


AROS: Zod-Engine ported
Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró has ported the game engine Zod to AROS/x86 which is a remake of the game Z developed by the Bitmap Brothers in 1996. It is a SDL-based realtime online strategy game for single or multi players.

Download: zod.7z (1 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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01.Jan.2013
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: PowerSDL.library 15.9 (Update)
Ilkka 'itix' Lehtoranta has updated his SDL library for MorphOS. It is a bug fix release and now works also better with G5-computers.

Update: (07:56, 02.01.13, snx)
Meanwhile by version 15.9 another update is available which fixes a bug in fullscreen mode of the game 1941 DX Dual Players.

Download: powersdl_15.9.lha (164 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2012



AmigaOS 4: First adapted version of Directory Opus Magellan, mailing list
In a thread on amigans.net, Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has made available a first, to AmigaOS 4 adapted version of the file manager Directory Opus Magellan. It is still a 68k-build but which runs under PPC-operating systems.

Additionally at the Yahoogroups a mailing list for AmigaOS 4-users was established.

Direct download: dopus5_68k_os4mod.lha (10 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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PPA (Webseite)


Polish magazine: Polskie Pismo Amigowe 9
The ninth issue of the Polish magazine PPA is available. The magazine has 28 completely coloured pages and is available for about 4,70 Euro (with inland shipping). Older issue are available as PDF-files for free download. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2012
Amiga Impact (Webseite)


Event: Alchimie X (9.-11. November)
The tenth French Alchimie wil take place from 9. until 11. November 2013 in Tain l''Hermitage. All friends of technology are welcome. There will be also a demo competition. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2012
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Developer tool: vasm 1.6
Frank Wille has released an update of vasm which is a portable assembler supporting different CPU-families. A list of changes can be found under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


UAE: AmiKit 1.6.4
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and is now available in version 1.6.4. The update includes new versions of some installed MUI-classes and applications, among others SimpleMail and YAM. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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30.Dec.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Status-Updates for Warp3D and LibreOffice
According to A-EON on its website it was planned to release the Warp 3D-driver for Radeon HD-boards announced at the AmiWest this year "but circumstance beyond our control has caused some unforeseen delays."

Instead the developer Hans-Jörg Frieden has given a short status report on the development of the missing parts of the driver.

A-EON also has announced that "Thomas Frieden, the developer porting LibreOffice to AmigaOS 4, has also has made excellent progress." (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Dec.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Scriba 1.4.5 and Lector 1.0.0
Scriba is a text processing software which is still in development and written by Carsten Siegner. With the update 1.4.5 it is now possible to use the additional programm Lector which is a character recognition extension with MUI-user-interface based on GOCR 0.49.

Download:
Scriba_1.4.5.update.lha (748 KB)
Lector_1.0.0.lha (677 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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PPA (Webseite)


AROS: HarmonyPlayer 0.2
The archive of the latest version only includes the updated file. Therefore an existing installation of version 0.1 is required.

HarmonyPlayer written by 'serk118uk' is a further development of his MP3-player and thus, inspite of the low version number, has already a high development status. The programm supports a lot of music- formats:
  • MP3 (MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer III)
  • Ogg (Vorbis audio format)
  • Flac (Flac audio format)
  • Wav (Wave audio format)
  • Mid (Midi format via timidity)
  • 669 (Composer 669, Unis 669)
  • AMF (DSMI Advanced Module Format)
  • AMF (ASYLUM Music Format V1.0)
  • APUN (APlayer)
  • DSM (DSIK internal format)
  • FAR (Farandole Composer)
  • GDM (General DigiMusic)
  • IMF (Imago Orpheus)
  • IT (Impulse Tracker)
  • MED (OctaMED)
  • MOD (15 and 31 instruments)
  • MTM (MultiTracker Module editor)
  • OKT (Amiga Oktalyzer)
  • S3M (Scream Tracker 3)
  • STM (Scream Tracker)
  • STX (Scream Tracker Music Interface Kit)
  • ULT (UltraTracker)
  • UNI (MikMod)
  • XM (FastTracker 2)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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30.Dec.2012
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: AmiDARK-Engine 0.7
The AmiDARK-engine is described as "Game Development Kit" by Frédéric Cordier inspired by DarkGDK. It is a collection of macros and functions for C-programmers which is to make it easier to develop games.

The changes in version 0.7 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS are listed under the title link. An AROS version will be released if the SDK will provide the necessary libraries.

Download:
AmiDark2DEngine_AOS4_Beta0.7.lha (54 MB)
AmiDark2DEngine_MOD_Beta0.7.lha (33 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Aminet-Uploads until 29.12.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 29.12.2012 to the Aminet:
viewCSV.lha              biz/dbase  397K  68k MUI based CSV file reader
YAM28-AmigaOS3.lha       comm/yam   2.6M  68k YAM 2.8 - MUI-based E-mail cl...
YAM28-AmigaOS4.lha       comm/yam   3.3M  OS4 YAM 2.8 - MUI-based E-mail cl...
YAM28-AROS-i386.lha      comm/yam   2.7M  x86 YAM 2.8 - MUI-based E-mail cl...
YAM28-AROS-ppc.lha       comm/yam   3.0M  ppc YAM 2.8 - MUI-based E-mail cl...
YAM28-AROS-x86_64.lha    comm/yam   2.9M  ppc YAM 2.8 - MUI-based E-mail cl...
YAM28-MorphOS.lha        comm/yam   3.0M  MOS YAM 2.8 - MUI-based E-mail cl...
libpng1513_aros.lha      dev/c      915K  x86 LibPNG 1.5.13
ruby-os4.lha             dev/lang   13M   OS4 An object-oriented scripting ...
libexif-0.6.21-aros.lha  dev/lib    548K  x86 Parsing, editing and saving E...
popt-aros.lha            dev/lib    81K   x86 C lib for parsing command lin...
zlib127_aros.lha         dev/lib    158K  x86 ZLib 1.27 link library for Ar...
joy2mouse.lha            driver/inp 12K   68k controls mouse with joystick
fanwor_68k.lha           game/role  580K  68k Zelda like game
VirusKiller_68k.lha      game/shoot 4.7M  68k A fun mouse action shooter
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.0M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.4M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.2M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
aspireos_revelation.7... misc/os    127M  x86 AspireOS codename "Revelation"
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha  mods/smpl  104K      Some samples created by Sampl...
Scriba_1.4.0.lha         text/edit  6.3M  MOS Simple word processing softwa...
eGame.lha                util/misc  842K  MOS Game launcher with tagging &a...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 29.12.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 29.12.2012 to the OS4Depot:
ruby.lha                 dev/lan 13Mb  4.1 An object-oriented scripting lan...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
magicmaze.lha            gam/puz 160kb 4.1 A simple and low-tech monster-ba...
freeciv-sdl.lha          gam/str 18Mb  4.0 Open source empire-building stra...
mcc_nlist.lha            lib/mui 2Mb   4.0 NList custom classes for MUI
simplemail.lha           net/ema 1Mb   4.0 E-Mail Client using MUI
yam.lha                  net/ema 3Mb   4.0 MUI-based E-mail client
gnumeric.lha             off/spr 52Mb  4.1 A spreadsheet for AmiCygnix
gnumeric-src.lha         off/spr 2Mb   4.1 Sources of the Gnumeric package
assist.lha               uti/mis 3Mb   4.1 An assistant for AmigaOS users
egame.lha                uti/mis 842kb 4.0 Game launcher with tagging &...
keyremapper.lha          uti/mis 9kb   4.0 Program that swaps right alt/rig...
du_xl_maps.lha           uti/sci 41Mb  4.0 Additional Feature Maps for Digi...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 29.12.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 29.12.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
aspireos_v.1.97b_i386.rar    dev/mis 148Mb AspireOS codename "Revelation"
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 29.12.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 29.12.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
Perlin                   1.2     gra/mis     44 Parametrized generator of P...
NVM                      0.8     mul/pla     36 Downloads subtitles for You...
Metronome                1.1     mus/mis     43 A digital metronome with 40...
KwaKwa                   1.1     net/cha    234 Instant messenger using Gad...
YAM                      2.8     net/mai   3067 Yet Another Mailer is a tra...
Odyssey Web Browser, ... 1.18    net/WWW  26867 A modern, full featured web...
Odyssey Web Browser, ... 1.18    net/WWW  24306 A modern, full featured web...
eGame                    2.0     off/dat    316 Simple MUI based game datab...
nlist.mcc                0.115   sys/MUI    513 Package of 3-rd party List ...
KidLock                  1.2     sys/too     46 Commodity for blocking keyb...
HotCorner                1.1     uti/des     36 A commodity sending configu...
AmiArcadia               19.13   uti/emu   3307 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
Multigame Character E... 7.3     uti/mis   1042 A tool for editing characte...
Chronometer              1.1     uti/mis     38 Chronometer measures period...
EggTimer                 1.3     uti/mis     42 Software version of an egg ...
BinauralWaves            1.2     uti/sci     39 This program generates acou...
AppendDate               1.4     uti/she     12 Insert dates into filenames...
AntiFlow                 1.1     uti/she      2 A tool for simulating keypr...
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WHDLoad: New package until 29.12.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games, demos and intros which originally had to be used from disks on your harddrive. The following installation package has been added until 29.12.2012: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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30.Dec.2012
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Another report on G5-port
Under the title link Mark Olsen's interim statement on the MorphOS-port to G5-computers developed by Apple is completed. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Dec.2012
morphzone.org (Webseite)


Swedish magazine: Amiga Forum Nr. 3, issue 1 as PDF-download
Since July in Sweden a printed Amiga magazine has been available again. Now the third issue of "Amiga Forum" has been published and has 28 A5-pages, 12 of them coloured. With shipping the magazine costs 39 Swedish Kronen (about 5 Euro).

Issue 1 of the magazine is available as PDF-download. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS / AROS: Game launcher eGame
Chris Handley's eGame, "(Portabl)E Game Launcher", is a list of all installed games for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86 with which you do not have to search through the respective directories (screenshot).

Download: eGame.lha (827 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Text processing software Scriba 1.4.0
Scriba is a text processing software which is still in development and written by Carsten Siegner (screenshots: 1, 2). Most important changes in version 1.4.0:
  • Barcode/QR-code generator
  • Labels/ visiting cards print system
  • Input assistance for unicode-characters, additional to the ASCII-characters

Download: Scriba_1.4.0.lha (6,3 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2012
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: 1941 DX Dual Players 2.0.6
1941 DX Dual Player 2.0 is a new port of the arcade classic 1941: Counter Attack. The SDL-based game is commercially sold, a licence key costs 1,70 Euro. Already registered users can copy their keys to the new version.

The changes are listed under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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AmigaOS 4: KeyRythMe 1.0
KeyRythMe is a music programm for AmigaOS 4 written by Tony 'Sinisrus' Canazza (Screenshot). You can add sound files, mix them, play them in loops and add some effects. The result can be exported as MP3-files.

Download: KeyRythMe_V1.0_17-12-2012.lha (13 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2012
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: Stratagus 2.2.7
After ports have been released for different Amiga systems during the past years, Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró has ported Stratagus to AROS. The screenshot shows the realtime strategy game Aleona's Tales 2.2.7 which was released in October for this engine.

Download: stratagus.7z (1 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2012
PPA (Webseite)


MorphOS: KwaKwa 1.1 and NVM 0.8
Filip 'widelec' Maryjañski has updated two of his MorphOS-programms. Version 1.1 of the Instant Messenger called KwaKwa supports the Gadu-Gadu-protocol and includes bug fixes and new keyboard commands. With NVM you can download YouTube-subtitles. In version 0.8 a bug in the graphical user-interface was fixed.

Download:
kwakwa-1.1.lha (234 KB)
NVM-0.8.lha (36 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2012
PPA (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Digital Universe 1.7
Under the menu item "Install Files" registered customers can download the new version 1.7 of the astronomy programm Digital Universe for AmigaOS 4. The changes are listed here. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Dec.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Linux: Debian/68k reactivated
After years of inactivity, the 68k-version of the Linux-distribution Debian is supposed to be reactivated. Automatic packages for this architecture are being already generated.

If you are interested in helping and supporting this project then under the title link you can find further information. You are invited to contact the team via mailing-list or via IRC (#debian-68k via irc.oftc.net). (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2012
PPA (Webseite)


MorphOS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.18
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has released another update of the WebKit-engine based web browser Odyssey for MorphOS. Among others the HTML5-compatibility was increased and uploading documents to Google Docs and Drive was improved. All changes are listed in the Readme-file. As usual there is also a version without SVG-support which uses less memory.

Please note: If you have used instead of the version 1.17 from the website of the author the one from the MorphOS-CD 3.0/3.1, so please overwrite the file conf/font/fonts.conf during the installation.

Download:
owb-morphos-1.18.lha (26 MB)
owb-morphos-1.18-nosvg.lha (24 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2012
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Status report on G5-port
As a result of the bounty project two G5-PowerMacs as well as money have been donated for the port von MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now there is also a first status report.

wielkastopa wrote: "I got the first G5 machine set up on the 3rd of December and I have been busy with the MorphOS port since then. Basically the work so far has consisted of two major parts: Reorganising the Quark source code so that support for a second CPU architecture could be added and writing and testing all the code required to support the PPC64 architecture, and in particular the Powermac G5s.

The G5 is incompatible to regular PowerPC CPUs in a number of, for MorphOS, important aspects, both when it comes to the supervisor mode and the user mode. Unfortunately some of the supervisor mode incompatibilities have been done in such a way that executing code written for PPC32 on the G5 will run without errors, but subtle differences in the operation of some instructions caused problems with system stability which were hard to track down. The good news is that I believe that all of these problems have now been tracked down and the system is running stable. When it comes to user mode differences, the G5 is lacking CPU instructions which are widely used throughout MorphOS' 68k emulators. Luckily Piru did some changes there and the emulators should work fine on the G5 now, although I haven't really tested it.

So the status now is that the G5 boots to MorphOS and seems to run stable, however only USB and the on-board IDE interfaces are support by MorphOS drivers right now. The next things I will focus on is getting the on-board NIC and fan control working. Hopefully neither of those two will be particularly difficult, so that will likely be done some time this week."
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2012



Amiga-News wishes Merry Christmas!
The team of Amiga-News wishes all Amiga-fans a Merry Christmas, relaxing holidays and a happy New Year!

Over 900 news in the year 2012 demonstrate that the world of the Amiga is still alive which probably nobody has expected after the decline of Commodore more than 18 years ago. On behalf of our readers we would like to thank all those who keep "our" Amiga alive. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2012
MorphOS auf Google+ (ANF)


MorphOS Team raffles CD-boxes on Google+
In order to advertise for the "Official MorphOS Community on Google+" the MorphOS-team raffles three MorphOS-CD-boxes with "Google+ Limited Edition"-motive. Everybody who contributes something to one of the "streams" of the MorphOS Community on Google+ until January 24th can participate. The winners will be drawn by lot and notified on January 25th. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2012



EMail-client: YAM 2.8 for all Amiga-systems
The YAM-Open-Source-Team has released version 2.8 of the MUI-based mail programm. Among others a user now can create different "identities" and assign them to different SMTP-servers and signatures. Similar to other Mail-clients YAM now also has a folder "drafts".

You can find a detailed list of changes in the Readme-file which is included in the archive. YAM 2.8 is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and several AROS-branches (x86, x64, PPC). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2012
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


EMail-client: SimpleMail 0.39
For years in time for Christmas an update of the mail programm SimpleMail has been released, so in 2012 as well. Version 0.39 is available for Amiga 3/4, a MorphOS-port will be released soon. Changes:
  • Enhancement: Filter rules may be created now from attributes common in multiple mails
  • Enhancement: Supports ATTACHMENT/K/M argument for both the command line and the MAILWRITE ARexx command
  • Enhancement: Included more translations
  • Bug fix: Fixed memory leak
  • Bug fix: Various multi selection problems
The SimpleMail Team wishes you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2013! (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2012
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)


Javascript: Scripted Amiga Emulator 0.7
Rupert Hausberger's Scripted Amiga Emulator is written in Javascript and thus should run under all modern web browsers, but so far its completely supported by Chrome only.

Changes in version 0.7 (24.12.2012):
  • Common:
    • Chaned the project-name from 'Janus' to 'SAE' (Scripted Amiga Emulator)
    • Separated the GUI form the core and rewrote most of it
    • Simplified the whole code. This means, that functions are called faster
    • Ported new Copper-, Blitter-, Audio-, Disk- and event-handling code from WinUAE 2.5.0
    • Moved all "beam-functions" to events.js, for faster access
    • Added "CPU usage" to the GUI
    • Added "Hall of Fame"
  • CPU:
    • Added support for exact cycling. The CPU have now 7.09 MHz on PAL and 7.16 MHz on NTSC respectively
    • Added option for "Original" and "Maximum" speed.
  • Audio:
    • Added a ring-buffer before output. No more "bagpipe"-like audio
    • Added a option to just emulate the hardware, but not to play any sound, e.g. "Agony" was not starting, if audio was disabled
  • Display:
    • Switched from RGB to the 565 texture-format-encoding in WebGL, which gives a little more speed
    • Added support and a option for 4x scaling
    • Fixed screen-draging in lo-hires-modes
    • Added a option to disable the output. Can be used to better play music-demos
  • Disk:
    • Added support for different speed-modes
    • Added support for extended ADF-files
    • Enabled write support (to memory)
  • Input:
    • The F-keys do work normaly now, i.e F5 doesn't reload the emulator, backspace doesn't go to the last page, etc.
    • Fixed bug in the joystick-emulation
  • New games in version 0.7:
    • Alien Breed Special Edition 92
    • Boby Blows Galactic
    • Barbarian
    • Dynablaster
    • North'n'South
    • Prince of Persia
    • Project-X
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Dec.2012
Edgar Schwan (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Gnumeric 1.10.17 for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has ported a new version of the spreadsheet Gnumeric for his X11-environment AmiCygnix (Screenshot). Changes in this update:
  • New version 1.10.17 with many changes compared to the previous version 1.8.4.
  • A Python-package version 2.7.2 was added.
  • Compiled with GTK+ 2.24.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Dec.2012
Pascal Papara (ANF)


AROS: Distribution Broadway 0.86 "redux"
Version 0.86 of Pascal Papara's AROS-distribution Broadway now is available and called "redux" (Screenshot, Video). 1 GB RAM is required (640 MB might be sufficient).

Changes since Broadway 0.8:
  • Updated systemfiles including ABI v1 backports by Deadwood
  • New Boot-Menu to choose from Live/Rescue-mode, Installation and Webinstaller
  • Updated applications and games
  • Added new wallpapers, video and music
  • Added some c64 music disc to be used with Vice
  • IconScale allows to choose from 64x64, 32x32 and 48x48 Iconssets, so you change iconsize depending on your device/screensize
  • Games G.E.M.Z and BOH added
  • UI changes: Renamed "otherOS" submenu in quickstater to "Emulation" and splitted it into "computers" and "consoles"
  • Standard-Iconsize is now 48x48 pixels
  • Removed all gory games. Up2date will offer from January some optional App/Game packs and a development Environment
  • Upd2date (the live-updater of Broadway) isn't active at the moment because of server changes. It will be reactivated for the first update
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Dec.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Windows: WinUAE game management Amigula 1.5.10.2 (beta version)
The game management Amigula (Amiga Games UAE Launcher, which was iGame for Windows before) is insipred by the WHDLoad-complement iGame and allows you to directly start games with WinUAE (Screenshot).

With version 1.5 it is possible to download additional information like date of release and screenshots and to delete single games from the database. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Dec.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 22.12.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 22.12.2012 to the Aminet:
OpenURL-7.12.lha         comm/www   464K  MOS OpenURL - Get that URL!
ReginaDoc.lha            dev/lang   1.3M      Alternative REXX interpreter doc
ReginaMOS.lha            dev/lang   1.5M  MOS Alternative REXX interpreter,...
libsge.lha               dev/lib    477K  OS4 SDL Graphics Extension
libyaml.lha              dev/lib    311K  OS4 A C lib for parsing and emitt...
libyaml-cpp.lha          dev/lib    3.9M  OS4 A YAML parser and emitter for...
sdl_gfx.lha              dev/lib    264K  OS4 SDL graphics drawing primitives
FlexCat-2.11.lha         dev/misc   322K  MOS Flexible catalogs (C,Asm,Ober...
MCC_BetterString-11.2... dev/mui    302K  MOS BetterString custom class for...
MCC_NList-0.115.lha      dev/mui    1.8M  MOS NList custom classes for MUI,...
MCC_TextEditor-15.40.lha dev/mui    783K  MOS TextEditor custom class for M...
MCC_TheBar-26.11.lha     dev/mui    1.6M  MOS Next Generation Toolbar MUI C...
pfs3aio.lha              disk/misc  39K   68k PFS3 All-In-One
joy2mouse.lha            driver/inp 11K   68k controls mouse with joystick
anaiis.lha               driver/oth 214K  68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.07
anaiis_boot.lha          driver/oth 205K  68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
just4qix_68k.lha         game/actio 4.3M  68k A Qix like game
MCE.lha                  game/edit  880K  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  1.0M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  1.0M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
amiganitzu.lha           game/misc  63K   68k Clone of the DOS game Paganitzu
DustDigger.adf           game/misc  880K  68k Dust Digger AMIGA version
arcem_os4.lha            misc/emu   711K  OS4 Acorn Archimedes A400 emulator
CheckAMiGA_1_14.lha      util/boot  24K   68k Check your AMiGA (+ AmigaE So...
SysMonSP.lha             util/moni  9K        SysMon 2.6 spanish catalog
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23.Dec.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 22.12.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 22.12.2012 to the OS4Depot:
dg_midi_monitor.lha      aud/mis 42kb  4.0 MIDI Monitor
dg_midi_player.lha       aud/pla 369kb 4.0 Simple MIDI player
sdl_gfx.lha              dev/lib 264kb 4.0 libSDL_gfx
libyaml.lha              dev/lib 311kb 4.0 A C lib for parsing and emitting...
libyaml-cpp.lha          dev/lib 4Mb   4.0 A YAML parser and emitter for C++
flexcat.lha              dev/mis 322kb 4.0 Flexible catalogs (C, Asm, E, AR...
arcem.lha                emu/com 711kb 4.0 Acorn Archimedes A400 emulator
arnold.lha               emu/com 426kb 4.0 emulator of the Amstrad/Schneide...
atari.lha                emu/com 1Mb   4.0 emulator of the Atari 8-bit and ...
beebem.lha               emu/com 5Mb   4.0 BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator
sddapple.lha             emu/com 170kb 4.0 emulator of the Apple ][ series ...
simcoupe.lha             emu/com 875kb 4.0 SAM Coupé Emulator
xroar.lha                emu/com 369kb 4.0 Dragon/Tandy computers emulator.
dgen.lha                 emu/gam 435kb 4.0 emulator of the Sega Genesis/Meg...
askmeup_demo.lha         gam/mis 7Mb   4.1 A video game about general knowl...
mce.lha                  gam/uti 1Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
ab_power9.lha            gra/ico 1Mb   4.0 A collection of powericons
cha05e90_icons_2012.lha  gra/ico 2Mb   4.0 cha05e90 Icons 2012
ifs-blanker.lha          gra/scr 1Mb   4.0 IFS Screen Blanker Module
mcc_betterstring.lha     lib/mui 302kb 4.0 BetterString custom class for MUI
mcc_nlist.lha            lib/mui 2Mb   4.0 NList custom classes for MUI
mcc_texteditor.lha       lib/mui 783kb 4.0 TextEditor custom class for MUI
mcc_thebar.lha           lib/mui 2Mb   4.0 The MUI Toolbar custom class
openurl.lha              net/mis 464kb 4.0 Get that URL!
gnumeric.lha             off/spr 52Mb  4.1 A spreadsheet for AmiCygnix
gnumeric-src.lha         off/spr 2Mb   4.1 Sources of the Gnumeric package
fastcompress.lha         uti/arc 3Mb   4.0 Quickly compress into LHA,ZIP,LZ...
hyperbench.lha           uti/mis 1Mb   4.0 Desktop for public screens
largefile.lha            uti/tex 103kb 4.0 A text viewer for LARGE files (5...
excalibur.lha            uti/wor 1Mb   4.1 Excalibur, a workbench start menu
ssdr.lha                 uti/wor 213kb 4.1 Screen Switching Done Right
sysmon.lha               uti/wor 575kb 4.1 monitor for Process, Windows (+ ...
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23.Dec.2012



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 22.12.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 22.12.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
AskMeUp Demo             1.03    gam/thi   7274 A demo version of a "trivia...
NetCat                   0.7.1   net/too     29 Low-level TCP/IP data sende...
Scriba                   1.3.5   off/tex   6440 A simple WYSIWYG wordproces...
Regina Rexx              3.5.1   sys/lib   1547 Regina is an opensource Rex...
nlist.mcc                0.114   sys/MUI    511 Package of 3-rd party List ...
texteditor.mcc           15.40   sys/MUI    256 A complete, versatile and p...
thebar.mcc               26.11   sys/MUI    551 A MUI custom class for crea...
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23.Dec.2012



WHDLoad: New packages until 22.12.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games, demos and intros which originally had to be used from disks on your harddrive. The following installation packages have been added until 22.12.2012:
  • 2012-12-22 new: Colorado (Scoopex) done by Dr Cinicus (Info)
  • 2012-12-19 improved: The way of the Little Dragon (Parsec Software) supports another version, icons added (Info)
  • 2012-12-18 updated: Gunshoot (Micropartner) made compatible with WHDLoad 16.6+, trainer added, highscores saving, new icons and more (Info)
  • 2012-12-17 improved: Harlequin (Gremlin) let options display, improved error detection on 512k version (Info)
  • 2012-12-16 improved: Gold of the Aztecs (U.S.Gold) rewritten, trainer added, second version supported, 2nd joystick button supported (Info)
  • 2012-12-16 improved: Commando (Elite) rewritten, blitwaits added, trainer added, faults fixed, new icons, joypad support (Info)
  • 2012-12-16 new: Hot Music 1 (Ram Jam) done by Dr Cinicus (Info, Image)
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23.Dec.2012
EAB (Forum)


Emulator: WinUAE 2.5.1
Version 2.5.1 of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE was released.

2.5.0 bugs fixed:
  • 1G RTG RAM size was rejected
  • Windows mouse cursor becoming visible in windowed modes
  • 2.4.x and older versions allowed higher Z3/RTG total memory under 32-bit Windows
  • Maprom feature crashed in JIT mode
  • CDTV emulation didn't work
  • Power led state was incorrect
Other bugs fixed:
  • Inserting or ejecting USB game controller or mouse deleted all custom Game Ports panel configurations
  • Fixed DirectDraw fullscreen mode problems if using secondary monitor positioned on left side of primary monitor
  • SCSI emulation read commands returned wrong data if CD/CD image had more than one track
  • Fixed mouse cursor jumping to opposite direction if it was moved to same direction long enough
  • File comments and protection flags wasn't read correctly from _UAEFSDB.___ files (if non-NTFS drive)
  • Windowed mode status bar had gap on Windows Vista classic theme
  • Epson matrix printer emulation red and blue colors were swapped
  • Lzh/lha archive MSDOS-style timestamps supported
New features:
  • Directory filesystem full Amiga 1/50s datestamp resolution support, previously resolution was only 1s (NTFS and archives only)
  • Mount drag'n'dropped archive file as a directory harddrive only if removable drive support is enabled, without harddrive support attempt to mount as a disk image in DF0:
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23.Dec.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has uploaded new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files which can be downloaded. The following new songs have been added since our last messages:
  • Rastaman (T-101 Diesel Remix)
  • Hero Quest (Pophousedub Remix)
  • Turrican I Intro 2nd Try (Badliz Remix)
  • RSI Megademo - Ba1 (Xerxes Remix)
  • Boot Up (Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 Theme)
  • Pinball Dreams (Electro houSID Remix)
  • B.A.T II - The Koshan Conspiracy (Szudi^Implexy RmX)
  • Turrican II - The Final Challenge
  • Turrican II Freedom (Christmas Edit)
  • The Four Seasons Remix (Hook)
  • Moby's Sea of Love Remix
  • The Lost Patrol
  • Turrican II Intro 2nd Try (Badliz Remix)
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23.Dec.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Hardware: AGA-Flickerfixer ScanJuggler XAGA
For the first quarter of 2013 new models of XAGA and XAGA Lite of the Hungarian Flickerfixer ScanJuggler have been announced which have been presented for the first time four years ago.

Under the title link you can find detailed information and pictures of the Flickerfixer which is developed for Amiga 1200 and 4000. The price for abroad has not yet been set but for Hungary it will be between 18.000 and 25.000 Forint (about 65 and 90 Euro). (snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Dec.2012
amiga.org (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Santa's Monster Shootout by Entwickler X
"Santa's Monster Shootout" (Screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4) developed by Entwickler X is a free game. You will help Santa protect the gift packages and to ged rid of monsters and zombies.

Highscores can be saved online but an account at amiboing.de is required. AmiBoing wrote: "There is a configuration tool, where you can set full screen, screen resolution and vSync to obtain the best possible gaming experience. Our Sam440 with Radeon 9250 - 800x600 at 30FPS, Sam460 with HD5450 - 1920x1080 around 30FPS, faster graphics cards also provide 60fps at any resolution." (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.Dec.2012
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Audio-Player AmigaAMP 3.5
Thomas Wenzel has updated his audio player AmigaAMP or as the author said: "Instead of Armageddon there is a new AmigaAMP! :)". Changes in version 3.5:
  • Added Rec option, changed URL requester to ReAction
  • Fixed tag editor layout
  • Added MOD support through libmodplug
  • Improved playlist scanning
  • Added region.txt support for skins
  • Fixed opening/closing Eq/Playlist when changing prefs while AmigaAMP is running

Thomas Wenzel wishes all users Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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