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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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30.Dec.2012
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
Amiga Impact (Webseite)


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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30.Dec.2012



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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30.Dec.2012



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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30.Dec.2012



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"
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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30.Dec.2012



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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30.Dec.2012



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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29.Dec.2012
MorphZone (Forum)


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
Amiga Impact (Webseite)


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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27.Dec.2012
Amiga Impact (Webseite)


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
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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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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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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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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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19.Dec.2012
amiga.org (Webseite)


AROS: Doom-Engine Odamex 0.6.2
Odamex is a version of the Doom-engine which combines the features of Boom with some new ones: The widescreen format is supported and you can control it with the mouse ("mouselook"). Additionally the game character can jump. The AROS-port was written by Szilárd "BSzili" Biró.

Direct download: odamex.lha (1,5 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Dec.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


MorphOS: Puzzle game Ask Me Up
The puzzle game "Ask Me Up" written by Jérôme "Glames" Senay now is also available for MorphOS. The AmigaOS4-version was released 10 days ago. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Dec.2012
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)


Directory Opus Magellan: Source code available
About three weeks ago Olaf Schönweiß' bounty for releasing the source codes of Directory Opus Magellan was finished. Now the source codes are available under the "AROS Public License".

Olaf Schönweiß thanks Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry from GPSoft, Roman 'kas1e' Kargin for his support as well as all donators. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Dec.2012
Olaf Barthel (Kommentarbereich)


TCP-Stack: Update of demo version of Roadshow
Olaf Barthel's TCP-stack Roadshow is supposed to be available in January. Now the demo version was updated: Further example configuration files were added and a bug in the manual and in the installation script were fixed. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Dec.2012



Arcade-Puzzler: Amiganitzu
Amiganitzu (screenshot) is a clone of the DOS-classic Paganitzu developed by Apogee Software. The Amiga port of the arcade puzzle game is similar to Chip's Challenge and includes all levels of the Shareware version of the DOS-original as well as 10 new sections.

Amiganitzu should run on all Amigas with at least Kickstart 2.0 and is available as LhA-archive and as bootable Disk-image. If there are any stability problems then the author recommends to increase the stack to 50000 Bytes. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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Aminet-Uploads until 15.12.2012
The following files have been added until 15.12.2012 to the Aminet:
netio132.lha             comm/tcp   54K   68k NETIO Network Benchmark Utility
Blitz_Timer.lha          dev/basic  9K    68k "timer.device" dev kit for Blitz
kamin-morphos.lha        dev/lang   1.2M  MOS Various interpreters from Sam...
xamos.i386-aros.lha      dev/lang   3.8M  x86 Reimplementation of AMOS BASIC
qrencode.lha             dev/lib    1.2M  MOS libqrencode - QR Code encodin...
joy2kbd.lha              driver/inp 14K   68k redirect joystick to keyboard
joy2mouse.lha            driver/inp 11K   68k controls mouse with joystick
openbor.i386-aros.lha    game/actio 994K  x86 OpenBOR - Beats of Rage engine
fanwor_68k.lha           game/role  596K  68k Zelda like game
candycrisis.i386-aros... game/think 5.8M  x86 Candy Crisis
candycrisis.src-aros.tgz game/think 536K      Candy Crisis sources
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 19.12 spanish catalog
david_guetta-dj_mix-o... mods/mpg   85M       David Guetta DJ Mix FREE
CheckAMiGA.lha           util/boot  24K   68k Check your AMiGA (+ AmigaE So...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 15.12.2012
The following files have been added until 15.12.2012 to the OS4Depot:
dg_midi_player.lha       aud/pla 350kb 4.0 Simple MIDI player
db101.lha                dev/deb 316kb 4.1 Debug 101 - first class debugger...
hw_app_template.lha      dev/exa 2Mb   4.0 Super Hollywood Application Temp...
ahiw.lzx                 gra/con 5Mb   4.0 A easy tool to handling pictures...
devinfos.lha             uti/mis 258kb 4.0 Shows many infos about a device
capstestppc.lha          uti/scr 9kb   4.0 Reports caps lock status, useful...
showfiles.lha            uti/she 47kb  4.0 DIR command - shows a sorted &am...
largefile.lha            uti/tex 45kb  4.0 LargeFile - a text viewer for LA...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 15.12.2012
The following files have been added until 15.12.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
xamos.i386-aros.lha          dev/lan 4Mb   Reimplementation of AMOS BASIC
openbor.i386-aros.lha        gam/act 994kb OpenBOR - Beats of Rage engine
candycrisis.i386-aros.lha    gam/puz 6Mb   Candy Crisis
candycrisis.src-aros.tgz     gam/puz 536kb Candy Crisis sources
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 15.12.2012
The following files have been added until 15.12.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
LibQREncode              3.4.1   dev/lib   1238 A library for encoding QR C...
XAMOS                    0.29    dev/too   2672 Reimplementation of AMOS pr...
NVM                      0.7     mul/pla     36 Downloads subtitles for You...
KwaKwa                   1.0     net/cha    184 Instant messenger using Gad...
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WHDLoad: New package until 15.12.2012
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 15.12.2012:
  • 2012-12-13 fixed: Time Lock (Boeder Software) main music is no more corrupted (Info)
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16.Dec.2012
PPA (Webseite)


MorphOS: KwaKwa 1.0 and NVM 0.7
Filip 'widelec' Maryjañski has updated two of his MorphOS-programmes. Version 1.0 of the Instant Messenger KwaKwa now supports the Gadu-Gadu-protocol as well as GIF-emoticons. With NVM 0.7 you can download YouTube-subtitles and convert them to the SubRip-format.

Download:
kwakwa-1.0.lha (184 KB)
NVM-0.7.lha (36 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Dec.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 66
"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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Dec.2012
itsuart / Hacker News (ANF)


Programming language: REBOL-3 source code released
As announced Carl Sassenrath released the REBOL-3 source code on github under the Apache-2.0-licence yesterday. This first release is meant for non-Windows systems like Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and Android. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Dec.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Source Level Debugger Debug 101
Debug 101 written by Alfkil Wennermark is a source level debugger similar to GDB but having a Reaction-based graphical user-interface (screenshot). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Dec.2012



TCP-Stack: Roadshow for AmigaOS 2/3 in January, Demo-version available
Roadshow is a TCP-stack which was ported by Olaf "Olsen" Barthels and which is used under AmigaOS 4. About 10 years ago it was intended to release another version for earlier AmigaOS. This project failed due to the lack of a graphical user-interface.

Meanwhile Barthel decided to realise the project without a GUI and instead to explain the text-based configuration files with a manual. Because Roadshow can only be run from the command line shell and the printable PDF reference document which has more than 100 pages the author and APC&TCP wrote that "Roadshow is expected to be most useful for knowledgable, experienced Amiga users rather than for beginners."

The demo version of the stack is limited to 15 minutes and is already available on the website of APC&TCP. According to Barthel the release of the full version is planned for January. The price has not yet been set but Barthel guesses it will be 20-25 Euro for the download-version and a little bit more for the CD. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Dec.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Quiz game Ask Me Up
Jérôme "Glames" Senay who also is the author of Word Me Up XXL has released a new quiz game called Ask Me Up which for the present is available for AmigaOS 4.1 - a MorphOS version is to follow during the next days.

"Ask Me Up is a video game about general knowledge. The principle is quite simple: 1 question, 4 possible answers" (screenshot). "A "dual" mode is available in L and XL editions: two players compete in turn on the same set of questions." A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.

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

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09.Dec.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Print magazine: Amiga Future 100, preview and excerpts
Andreas Magerl writes: "As we all know, on December 21st the world will end. So we decided to give you a preview of the next Amiga Future Issue 100 (January / February 2013) online today, just in case. So you get the chance to spend your money quickly and wisely. :) But if we somehow survive doomsday, then issue 100 will be published on January 15th 2013. If not ... - well, shit happens. ;)"

Topics of the issue are, among others, the Amiga Future magazine's history, "A Frog Game" and AmiCygnix. On the cover CD there is the full version of GadToolsBox 3 including the source code. (snx)

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09.Dec.2012
Sqrxz-Homepage (ANF)


Jump and Run: Sqrxz 2 for OCS-Amigas
At the yesterday's fourth "Retro-Börse" in Vienna the developers Retroguru have released the second part of the Sqrxz-series for Amigas with original chipset on floppy-disk.

From now on the disk image can be downloaded for free. There is also a version which can be installed on harddrive as well as a CD-image for CDTV and CD32. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Aminet-Uploads until 08.12.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 08.12.2012 to the Aminet:
LuettjeBookholler.lha    biz/misc   382K  OS4 Little Personal Finanz program
dogma12.lha              docs/mags  43M       Russian magazine,HTML vers. (...
FourPlayerGames_DE.pdf   docs/misc  77K       Games supporting 4 joysticks ...
FourPlayerGames_EN.pdf   docs/misc  75K       List of games supporting four...
openbor.i386-aros.lha    game/actio 994K  x86 OpenBOR - Beats of Rage engine
openbor.src-aros.lha     game/actio 4.4M      OpenBOR sources
cavestory.i386-aros.lha  game/jump  1.7M  x86 Cave Story (NXEngine)
cavestory.src-aros.tgz   game/jump  595K      NXEngine sources
duke3dw.i386-aros.lha    game/shoot 1.3M  x86 Duke3dw
yquake2.i386-aros.lha    game/shoot 2.3M  x86 Yamagi Quake II for AROS
yquake2.ppc-mos.lha      game/shoot 2.1M  MOS Yamagi Quake II for MorphOS
yquake2.src.tgz          game/shoot 1.8M      Yamagi Quake II sources
candycrisis.i386-aros... game/think 5.8M  x86 Candy Crisis
candycrisis.src-aros.tgz game/think 535K      Candy Crisis sources
CandyCrisis_68k.lha      game/think 5.5M  68k exciting action puzzler game
webptools_aros.lha       gfx/conv   425K  x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
fail_68k.lha             gfx/show   647K  68k View & Convert Atari images
mp3gain152_aros.lha      mus/edit   80K   x86 analyzes and adjusts mp3 files
normalize077_aros.lha    mus/edit   136K  x86 adjusting the volume of audio...
opus-tools-0.15_aros.lha mus/edit   381K  x86 Opus Audio Tools
vorbistools140_aros.lha  mus/edit   4.1M  x86 Tools to manipulate Vorbis files
lameAros-3.100a2.lha     mus/misc   1.2M  x86 MP3 encoder for Aros
Annotate_src.lha         text/edit  388K      Text Editor with adv. feature...
Annotate_usr.lha         text/edit  1.2M  MOS Text Editor with advanced fea...
CheckAMiGA.lha           util/boot  23K   68k Check your AMiGA (+ AmigaE So...
CapsTestPPC.lha          util/cli   9K    OS4 Reports caps lock status (for...
DevInfos.lha             util/misc  258K  OS4 Shows many infos about a device
amistatus.lha            util/wb    659K  68k Pop-up notifications and app ...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 08.12.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 08.12.2012 to the OS4Depot:
music-tagger.lha         aud/edi 133kb 4.1 MP3 Tag Editor
jackcharts.lha           aud/pla 4Mb   4.1 iTunes Chart Commodity for your ...
libart_lgpl.lha          dev/lib 390kb 4.0 A small and fast 2D drawing library
sketchblock.lha          gra/edi 4Mb   4.1 Digital Sketching For AmigaOS
netspeedometer.lha       net/mis 133kb 4.1 A network monitor and bandwidth ...
showfiles.lha            uti/she 48kb  4.0 DIR command - shows a sorted &am...
annotate.lha             uti/tex 1Mb   4.0 Text Editor with advanced features
annotate_src.lha         uti/tex 388kb 4.0 Text Editor with advanced featur...
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09.Dec.2012



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 08.12.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 08.12.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
glee.i386-aros.lha           dev/lib 234kb GL Easy Extension library
glee.src-aros.tgz            dev/lib 225kb GLee sources
openbor.i386-aros.lha        gam/act 994kb OpenBOR - Beats of Rage engine
openbor.src-aros.lha         gam/act 4Mb   OpenBOR sources
duke3dw.i386-aros.lha        gam/fps 1Mb   Duke3dw
yquake2.i386-aros.lha        gam/fps 2Mb   Yamagi Quake II for AROS
yquake2.src.tgz              gam/fps 2Mb   Yamagi Quake II sources
cavestory.i386-aros.lha      gam/pla 2Mb   Cave Story (NXEngine)
cavestory.src-aros.tgz       gam/pla 595kb NXEngine sources
candycrisis.i386-aros.lha    gam/puz 6Mb   Candy Crisis
candycrisis.src-aros.tgz     gam/puz 535kb Candy Crisis sources
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09.Dec.2012



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 08.12.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 08.12.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
Yamagi Quake II          4.9     gam/sho   2174 Native port of Yamagi Quake...
Saga                     1.83    gam/str    441 A computer conversion of bo...
Bluebox Cinematique G...         sce/dem    148 Invitation intro for Experi...
Annotate                 3.0.1   uti/tex    424 Fully featured texteditor w...
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09.Dec.2012



WHDLoad: New packages until 08.12.2012
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 08.12.2012: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Dec.2012
AROS-Exec (Forum)


Developer tool: AnnPEGCC compiles PortablE source code out of Annotate
For developers who want to compile their PortablE-programs out of the editor Annotate, Christopher Handley has released AnnPEGCC. It was tested under AmigaOS 4 and AROS but should also work under MorphOS.

Download: AnnPEGCC_r1.lha (79 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Dec.2012
Pascal Papara (ANF)


Puzzle game: G.E.M.Z. 1.1 for all Amiga systems
G.E.M.Z. written by Fabio Falcucci and Pascal Papara is a commercial puzzle game. The goal of the game is to push bricks of the same colour closely together to make them disappear (screenshot, video).

In version 1.1 there are some new preferences. Additionally the programm code was highly optimized:
  • Got several FPS increase in all scenes for the High and Medium detail levels
  • Huge speed up in the Play screen rendering +35% for High and Medium detail levels
  • Fullscreen message was corrected for Amiga, OSX and MorphOS systems (alt/cmd/amiga+enter)
  • Now it's possible to turn on/off the music in the main screen and in the pause screen, this setting will be saved for the next sessions
  • During language selection the you may change the details level which will be remembered for the next game sessions
  • Added Swedish and Japanese translations, fixed english translation
  • Corrected the sprite layers order in LOW and MIN settings
  • Now all musics are encoded using OggVorbis/128Kb, this means that the game size is now around 130Mb (depending on the version), MacOSX PPC is still 480Mb because a bug we are trying to resolve.
  • Speed up in game matrix initial rendering, madness level rendering is much faster now
  • Reduced 20% SoundFX volume

Since November 2012 G.E.M.Z. has been sold for free with all sold AresOne complete systems. If you purchase the game now and later an AresOne you will get back the money for G.E.M.Z. Purchasers of the software bundle A-Live will get a free copy of G.E.M.Z. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Dec.2012
PPA (Webseite)


MorphOS: YouTube-Script for OWB updated
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has updated the YouTube-HTML5 converter script for his Odyssey Web-Browser due to changes of the video platform.

YouTube.js (15 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Dec.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: GemRB 0.7.2
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè has updated his AmigaOS-4-port of GemRB ("Game engine made with pre-Rendered Background"). Among other changes a SDL2-based software keyboard was added.

GemRB is a reimplementation of the Infinity Engine developed by BioWare. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Dec.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AROS: 3D RPG-/Strategy game Adrian
"serk118" has ported the simple RPG-/strategy game Adrian to AROS. The AROS-version can be played in full screen mode - launch the game from the Shell with the parameter "fullscreen". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Dec.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Game of skill Equilibrio
Andrea "afxgroup" Palmatè has ported the game of skill Equilibrio to AmigaOS 4. The game is sold for Nintendo's console Wii but for different platforms there are freeware versions.

Obviously the Amiga-port was released with the help of ACube: According to a note on the website of the company they succeeded in persuading the former Amiga user Christophe Kohler to rework the source codes. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Dec.2012
Diverse (ANF)


PCI-Busboard: Documents for Prometheus PCI released
12 years ago Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewski developed for Matay the PCI-busboard Prometheus. Now Kraszewski has made available all files on his website which are necessary for the production of the hardware.

The available firmware is being used in all 250 produced Prometheus-boards. Some years later E3B reworked the original firmware for the project DaVinci - this new firmware can also transfer DMA.

On amigaworld.net Filip Dąb-Mirowski (Matay) has announced that E3B will make available this updated firmware versions under e3b.de/prometheus/ soon which will include a brief instruction for a firmware upgrade of the Prometheus. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Dec.2012
Sqrxz-Homepage (ANF)


Jump and Run: Sqrxz 1.2 for OCS-Amigas
The Retroguru-team has released an update of the Amiga-OCS game Sqrxz. With version 1.2 the programmer Frank Wille has added the support of a gamepad. Additionally a CDTV/CD32-image now is available.

Sqrxz 2 for Amiga OCS has been finished as well and this weekend will be released at the 4. Retrobörse in Vienna. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Dec.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: ShowFiles 0.9
ShowFiles formerly known as DisplayFiles is command line programm for AmigaOS 4. "It displays a sorted and text-formatted list of files, drawers (dirs) and soft/hard-links on disk or other storage medium. It will also display their additional information such as size, date, possible comment, executable header type (68k or ELF program), protection-bits."

Changes in version 0.9:
  • Added switches for FILES, DIRS, and LINKS, it is also possible to intermix them.
  • Changed the name for "EHead" to "Exe" (and "eh" to "e").
  • Fetching of exe-headers -> little faster (cleaned up some code there).
  • Updated Install/Uninstall scripts further, to be more safer and error resistant, and typos fixed.
  • Updated the documentation some further, except for documenting what's new.
  • Output slightly changed.

Download: showfiles.lha (28 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Dec.2012
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)


amiga-coding.de: Developer forum for all Amiga-Systems
Olaf Schönweiß has established a forum which is to serve as discussion basis for developer of all Amiga systems. According to Schönweiß the site is supposed to be "neutral and to support all systems and the cooperation". "Emotional" discussions are not desirable. It is based on utilitybase.com which is not available anymore.

Schönweiß asks all former developers registered at Utilitybase to upload their Utilitybase archives on archive.org to amiga-coding.de because he is not allowed to do it himself. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Dec.2012



AmigaOS 4: Possible Update for Samba-Client smbfs
Olaf "olsen" Barthel currently thinks about a major update for his Samba client smbfs which is implemented as filesystem. For that he asks for precise feedback of users with which SMB-servers smbfs still works. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Dec.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Emulator: WinUAE 2.5.0
The well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE now is available in version 2.5.0.

New features and updates:
  • GUI is finally fully resizeable! Configurable GUI font.
  • GUI position, size and fonts saved separately for windowed, fullwindow and fullscreen modes.
  • GUI CD volume control added.
  • Syncronize clock option does full time sync when emulation is unpaused or exited from GUI.
  • Memory configuration can be fully modified (on the fly, loading state file or using Restart button) without need to rerun the emulator.
  • RTG screenshot and video recording directly from emulated VRAM if capture before filtering ticked.
  • RTG monitor (if multiple monitors) selection added to GUI.
  • RTG hardware sprite and hardware vblank emulation are now optional.
  • Chipset "Wait for Blitter" too fast CPU workaround added, enabled by default, fixes most graphics glitches if program does not wait for the blitter, more compatible than immediate blitter.
  • Optional fake 1G directory harddrive size limit for old programs that think drive is full or has negative space if drive is bigger than 2G. Can be changed on the fly.
  • Added disable notification icon option.
  • Added blank unused displays(s) (opens full screen topmost black window(s)) option.
  • CD32 CD controller emulation improved (Missing Universe CD32 title and ingame CD audio)
  • AutoVSync 100Hz/120Hz capable monitor support added.
  • Low latency vsync and legacy vsync stability improved.
  • Full PC hardware interlaced mode support.
  • 68060 missing integer instructions are not anymore emulated if more compatible CPU checkbox is checked.
  • Chipset emulation improvements. (EyeQlazer/Scoopex, Blerkenwiegel/Scoopex, No Way Demo/Academy, Brian the Lion AGA, SuperPlus monitor mode)
  • Sometimes appearing Windows "no disk in drive" dialogs that point to missing harddrive path are gone.
  • Audio emulation quality improved.
  • Parallel port sampler emulation audio quality improved.
  • Lots of Input panel improvements. (qualifiers, custom events etc)
  • Easy to use debug logging option added.
  • GamePorts panel remap option allows separate axis configuration and multiple events
  • Game Ports panel Test mode can be used to test any kind of input event, not just joystick events.
  • Optional MIDI In to Out routing.
  • 64-bit build supports 2.5G address space, allowing up to 2G of Z3 expansion memory.
Bug fixes of 2.4.x-versions:
  • Add Harddrive dialog didn't list all harddrives on some Windows XP systems.
  • New CDFS didn't work with DVDs (2G size limit removed).
  • Extended ADF write support was accidentally disabled.
  • "ALT-TAB or middle mouse button untraps mouse - F12 opens settings" window title was missing.
  • Directory filesystem 64-bit seek was broken.
  • USB HID game controller [-] and [+] input axis movement was broken.
  • SPTI + built-in CDFS crash
  • uaescsi.device error codes fixed (MakeCD)
General bug fixes:
  • RTG palette (if 8-bit mode) wasn't saved to statefile.
  • Disable screen saver option haven't worked since 2.0.
  • Warp mode didn't work in all vsync modes.
  • CD image mounter MDS image CD audio tracks didn't play if subchannel data was not included, MDS image data tracks with subchannel data didn't work at all.
  • CD/CD image on the fly switching was unreliable. (Again)
  • Random unexplained graphics glitches when cycle-exact CPU enabled and bsdsocket emulation was in use.
  • Some chipset mode on the fly configuration changes caused blank screen when returning back to RTG mode.
  • Volume control in WASAPI exclusive mode didn't work.
  • Windows XP blank screen after ALT-TAB back to Direct3D fullscreen mode.
  • Direct3D pixel alignment errors in some modes. (Again)
  • Many Input configuration fixes.
  • Windows Mouse mouse mode sometimes stopped at invisible barriers
  • CD32 CD audio was delayed
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03.Dec.2012
amifone^team Dogma (ANF)


HTML magazine: Dogma #12 (russian)
Today issue #12 of the Russian-language Amiga magazine Dogma has been released on Aminet, celebrating its 10-year anniversary. The design of the magazine has changed and become more readable, the number of articles has stepped to 50 and the site moved to a new domain.

In the current issue are the latest important news, interviews with Grzegorz Kraszewski, Mark Olsen, Thomas Frieden, reports of AmiParty 2012 and DiHalt 2012 , various memory expansions for the Amiga 600, new accelerators, tests of the AmigaOne X1000, exclusive interviews with ED^V-Nom and LVD^NedoPC, reviews of the latest updates of AmigaOS and MorphOS, the game Return To Castle Wolfenstein, classic card games and more.

Download: dogma12.lha (43 MB) (snx)

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02.Dec.2012



OpenPCI: Graphic board driver Radeon 0.99
Note from the staff (26.12.2012, cg): according to information now available to us, the driver initially presented in this news item seems to be partially based on code that was not properly licensed. Due to this copyright infringement, Amiga-News will no longer cover this project until further notice. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Dec.2012



Pictures of Kick Off World Championships 2012
Alkis Polyrakis has published pictures of the Kick Off 2 world championships which took place in Mailand last month. One of the over 40 participants has been Dino Dini himself who is the author of the Kick Off-series (right). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Dec.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 01.12.2012
The following packages have been added until 01.12.2012 to the Aminet:
iwan3-13.lha             comm/tcp   41K   68k SANA-II device for the BSC IS...
libart_lgpl.lha          dev/lib    390K  OS4 A small and fast 2D drawing l...
cdtvvideo2ami.png        docs/hard  10K       CDTVVideo2Ami
f1champ.lha              docs/misc  67K       Statistics of Formula One '50...
HP_Photosmart.lha        driver/pri 8K    68k HP Photosmart Workbench Driver
Saga.lha                 game/board 395K  68k Conversion of TSR boardgame
SagaMOS.lha              game/board 441K  MOS Conversion of TSR boardgame
Saga-OS4.lha             game/board 522K  OS4 Conversion of TSR boardgame
n2sa.lha                 game/shoot 1K        example joy2kbd script for no...
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...
vorbistools140_aros.lha  mus/edit   5.0M  x86 Tools to manipulate Vorbis files
Scriba_1.3.0.lha         text/edit  6.2M  MOS Simple word processing softwa...
IconLib_46.4.lha         util/libs  205K  68k free icon.library in optimize...
AmiSystemRestore.lha     util/misc  916K  OS4 Monitors & allows undoing...
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02.Dec.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 01.12.2012
The following packages have been added until 01.12.2012 to the OS4Depot:
audacious.lha            aud/pla 13Mb  4.1 An audio-player for AmiCygnix ba...
audacious-src.lha        aud/pla 3Mb   4.1 Sources of the Audacious package
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
taran.lha                gam/adv 13Mb  4.0 Taran im Abenteuerland
saga.lha                 gam/boa 565kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR boardgame
7boings.lha              gam/puz 2Mb   4.0 mixed tetris and sudoku interest...
viivi_greek.lha          gra/vie 1kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for Viivi
myx11setup_ita.lha       net/mis 40kb  4.0 Italian catalog for myX11Setup
openurl_greek.lha        net/mis 2kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for OpenURL
uget.lha                 net/mis 8Mb   4.1 uGet - a download manager for Am...
uget-src.lha             net/mis 137kb 4.1 Sources of the uGet package for ...
homebank.lha             off/mis 11Mb  4.1 A personal accounting program fo...
homebank-src.lha         off/mis 476kb 4.1 Sources of the Homebank package
fast7z.lha               uti/arc 1Mb   4.0 Fast7z : Compress files & dr...
amipad.lha               uti/mis 3Mb   4.0 Website App-Wrapper
amisystemrestore.lha     uti/mis 916kb 4.0 Monitors & allows undoing ch...
showfiles.lha            uti/she 26kb  4.0 DIR command - shows a sorted &am...
sysmon.lha               uti/wor 543kb 4.1 monitor for Process, Windows (+ ...
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02.Dec.2012



WHDLoad: New packages until 01.12.2012
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 01.12.2012: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Dec.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


USB-Stack: Poseidon-driver for ASIX-88772B-chipset
For the USB-2.0 network adapter Edimax sold by Amistore.de Chris Hodges has made available a driver for his USB-stack Poseidon.

The update includes the asixeth.class written by Patrick Launhardt which provides the support of the ASIX-88772B-chipset as well as the latest subway.device and the drivers serialcp210x.class and serialpl2303.class.

Download: Poseidon_Update.zip (26 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Dec.2012



Event: Summary report of Pianeta Amiga - AMOS-Pro source code released
Under the title link Stefano 'Lecta' Guidetti has published a summary report of the Pianeta Amiga 2012. Additional to the 6. update for AmigaOS 4.1 as well as the Sam460-port of MorphOS the following has been presented or announced:
  • Beta version of Sirion-USB3-XHCI-driver under AmigaOS 4
  • AROS in a PowerPC version
  • Digibooster-3 beta version under AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6
  • After the release of the source codes of AMOS 1.3 nine years ago Pietro Ghizzoni has released the source codes of AMOS Professional as well - currently available on the website of the Pianeta Amiga 2012 and soon on Aminet as well
  • Mario Locati has presented Linux Debian Squeeze, Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu 12.04 on the Sam460ex as well as Sketchblock 1.8, Abiword 2.8.6, Gnumeric 1.10.17 and The Gimp 2.6.11
  • Andrea 'AFX' Palmatè has released his game port Equilibrio
  • A new charge of Sam460ex-Boards, the Minimig with 4 MB RAM and the ARM-controller are available
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01.Dec.2012



Accelerator board: ACA 620 soon available again
A week ago we announced that the ACA 620 temporarily had to be taken off the market due to stability problems. According to Jens "Paradroid" Schönfeld the problem was fixed and the hardware has passed a stress test lasting several hours.

Soon the product should be availble again. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Dec.2012
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Pianeta Amiga: MorphOS on Sam460
At Pianeta Amiga obviously Frank Mariak demonstrates MorphOS on a Sam460 developed by ACube (pictures of the computer with Ambient). ACube also has hang up posters with Sam460/MorphOS-advertisement (1, 2).

The MorphOS-team members Mark "Bigfoot" Olsen (via screenshot) and Guido "Geit" Mersmann (in the German AmigaNews comments section) has confirmed the existence of a Sam460-port of MorphOS.

According to visitors of the event the port still is in an "early stage of development". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Dec.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Hyperion: AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6, automatic updates in future
The AmigaOS 4-team has released update 6 for users of AmigaOS 4.1. Registered customers can download the update from website of Hyperion. The update does not include any bug fixes but is supposed to be the basis for future updates:

Instead of collecting minor updates and relasing them in big packages ("Update 5", "Update 6"...) new versions of AmigaOS-components in future will be available immediately via the simple package manager "AmiUpdate". A new preferences tool called "Update" will manage the automatic updates. Additionally a new "Update software..." menu item on Workbench now launches AmiUpdate.

"Only registered users will be able to download updates. To register your AmigaOS serial number go to www.hyperion-entertainment.biz. During the registration process a user name and password will be created. You will be prompted for your user name and password the first time you try to access the update.amigaos.net server with AmiUpdate." (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Nov.2012
Edgar Schwan (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: AmiCygnix-applications uGet 1.8.2, Audacious 3.2r3 and Homebank 4.4r2
For his X11-environment AmiCygnix Edgar Schwan has updated the audio player Audacious as well as Homebank.

The download manager uGet was added. It is possible to continue downloads and the tool monitors the clipboard if there are URLs (screenshot).

Features:
  • Supported protocols: http, https, ftp, ftps
  • Download Queue with resumable download support.
  • Categories with independent configurable settings.
  • Batch Downloads (add groups of files easily)
  • Bandwidth Speed Control (per category and/or download)
  • Automatic Shutdown (for overnight downloading)
  • Clipboard Monitoring (for automatic download insertion) Works with the Amiga clipboard and the X11 clipboard.
  • Importing & Exporting (via HTML or txt files)
  • Sequential Downloads (Ex: file_1.zip, file_2.zip, etc.)
Download:
uget.lha (8 MB)
audacious.lha (13 MB)
homebank.lha (11 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Nov.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


X500 Plus "Black Edition" case: Specifications (video)
Loriano 'TheDaddy' Pagni has introduced his self-made hardware case X500 Plus "Black Edition" in a YouTube video. The video is about the specifications of the X500 Plus Black Editon computer case. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Nov.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Demonstration of an USB 3-driver on the Pianeta Amiga
Next weekend in Bologna (Italy) the Pianeta Amiga will take place. According to the organizer on its website for the first time the the prototype of an USB 3-driver for PCIe-based USB-controllers on a Sam 460 is supposed to be demonstrated. The driver was written by Sebastian Bauer. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Nov.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


OnyxSoft: Text editor Annotate 3.0.1
The open-source text editor Annotate written by Daniel Westerberg and Doug Bakewell offers syntax-highlighting, unlimited undo/redo and support for several clipboards. The program is available for all Amiga-systems. The changes are listed in the Readme-file.

Download: annotate.lha (1 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Nov.2012
PPA (Webseite)


Elbox: Driver-update for FastATA 1200 MK-IV CF/SATA
For the IDE-Controller FastATA 1200 MK-IV CF/SATA (amiga-news.de reported) Elbox has released an updated ATA3-driver. It is unknown which changes the update 11.1 include.

Download: FastATA'99v11.1a3.8.lha (110 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Nov.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: SysMon 2.5, FastLHA, FastLZX, FastZIP
Guillaume Boesel's SysMon is MUI-based and makes it possible to identify and remove freezed windows and to monitor drives, assigns and system information.

In version 2.5 it is now possible to request a desired network port if there are several ones. Additionally the user-interface was reworked. The benchmark-program RageMem now already is included in the archive.

The same author also has released three little tools called FastLHA, -LZX und -ZIP. With these tools the corresponding compression programs can be launched (screenshots: AmiDock, Kontextmenü).

Download:
sysmon.lha (543 KB)
fastlha.lha (2 MB)
fastlzx.lha (1 MB)
fastzip.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Nov.2012
AROS-Exec (Forum)


Bounty fulfilled: Source code of Directory Opus Magellan II will be released
Olaf Schönweiß has agreed with Dr. Greg Perry by GPSoft on a possible release of the source code of the well-know file manager Directory Opus Magellan II (version 5.82) (amiga-news.de reoported).

After ten months 4097 US-Dollar have been donated which are three-quarters of the required amount.

Update: (17:18, 29.11.12, snx)
According to Olaf Schönweiß, GPSoft has accepted the collected amount and will release the source code during the next days. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Nov.2012
Jürgen Beck (ANF)


Podcast: Giana Sisters Tribute (BitJam-Episode #161)
Jürgen Beck wrote: Even little girls are getting old one day. Once upon a time, in 1987 to be precise, we played around with two cute girls on C64 and Amiga: The Great Giana Sisters. A great jump 'n run game in the style of Mario, featuring fantastic music by sound magician Chris Hülsbeck.

Now, 25 years later, a new game with the twin girls has been released. After a successful Kickstarter campaign Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams was brought to life by Black Forest Games. With music by Chris Hülsbeck himself, Fabian del Priore and the metal guys from Machinae Supremacy plus awesome graphics where you can switch fluently between the beautiful landscapes and dark places this download title captured our hearts by storm.

Now we want to celebrate the 25th birthday of the Giana Sisters together with the creators and you! The BitJam podcast episode #161 features not only the original Giana theme, but also music from the DS version of the game, which was released in 2009, the brand new Twisted Dreams game as well as some cool remixes. Jump, dash and twirl together with us through a beautiful soundscape! (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2012
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Audio-Player AmigaAMP 3.4
Thomas Wenzel has released an update of his audio player AmigaAMP. Changes in version 3.4:
  • Added localization
  • Switched about window and tag editor to ReAction
  • Changed pitch step setting to 1/4 semitone (w/o SHIFT) or 1/16 semitone (w/ SHIFT)
  • Fixed HTTP redirection when requested file is a playlist
  • Prevent playlists from being scanned for tags
  • Fixed loading of skin colours (e.g. playlist background)
  • Added M4A support. Play your iTunes music!
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Nov.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 24.11.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 24.11.2012 to the Aminet:
CloneWindow.lha          dev/src    16K   OS4 Clone&Filter&Resize a...
DoBoing.lha              dev/src    53K       Generate Boing Ball 3D objects
joy2kbd.lha              driver/inp 12K   68k redirect joystick to keyboard
freesynd.i386-aros.lha   game/strat 4.6M  x86 A GPL Syndicate reimplementation
freesynd.src-aros.tgz    game/strat 2.4M      FreeSynd sources
candycrisis.i386-aros... game/think 6.5M  x86 Candy Crisis
candycrisis.src-aros.tgz game/think 535K      Candy Crisis sources
Atoms-X.lha              game/wb    734K  68k Strategy/Action Board Game fo...
AllKeys.lha              util/misc  86K   OS4 Use ALL mapped rawkeys which ...
THE2.lha                 util/wb    394K  OS4 Prefseditor for Tools Menu an...
WBCopperECSOCS.lha       util/wb    7K    68k Color Rainbows on WB, ECS/OCS...
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25.Nov.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.11.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 24.11.2012 to the OS4Depot:
amisounded_greek.lha     aud/edi 2kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for AmiSoundEd
adripper_greek.lha       aud/mis 4kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for ADRipper
jackcharts.lha           aud/pla 4Mb   4.1 iTunes Chart Commodity for your ...
diskimage_greek.lha      dri/sto 2kb   4.0 Greek catalog files for DiskImag...
tuxfootball.lha          gam/spo 17Mb  4.0 Tux Football - 2D football game
mcc_betterstring_gree... lib/mui 1kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for MCC Bette...
mcc_nlist_greek.lha      lib/mui 6kb   4.0 Greek catalog files for MCC NList
mcc_texteditor_greek.lha lib/mui 4kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for MCC TextE...
yam_greek.lha            net/ema 47kb  4.0 Greek catalog files for YAM and ...
amiftp_greek.lha         net/ftp 3kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for AmiFTP
netspeedometer.lha       net/mis 119kb 4.1 A network monitor and bandwidth ...
fastlha.lha              uti/arc 2Mb   4.0 FastLHA : Compress files & d...
fastlzx.lha              uti/arc 1Mb   4.0 FastLZX : LZX Compress files and...
fastzip.lha              uti/arc 2Mb   4.0 FastLZIP : Compress files & ...
ips-o-matic_greek.lha    uti/fil 906b  4.0 Greek catalog file for IPS-o-Matic
iso-o-matic_greek.lha    uti/fil 916b  4.0 Greek catalog file for ISO-o-Matic
ppf-o-matic_greek.lha    uti/fil 1kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for PPF-o-Matic
allkeys.lha              uti/mis 86kb  4.0 Use all mapped rawkeys which inc...
amisafedemo.lha          uti/mis 608kb 4.0 AmiSafe - Password keeper progra...
the_greek.lha            uti/mis 1004b 4.1 Greek catalog file for T.H.E.
nowined_greek.lha        uti/tex 9kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for NoWinEd
aminetreadme_greek.lha   uti/tex 1kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for Aminet Re...
cmeditor_greek.lha       uti/wor 1kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for CMEditor
flipclock.lha            uti/wor 2Mb   4.1 Nice Weather-Flipclock for your ...
the2.lha                 uti/wor 394kb 4.1 Tools Menu and Hotkey Editor (T....
cdxlplay_greek.lha       vid/pla 898b  4.1 Greek catalog file for CDXLPlay
srec_greek.lha           vid/rec 1kb   4.0 Greek catalog file for SRec
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25.Nov.2012



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 24.11.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 24.11.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
devil.i386-aros.lha          dev/lib 757kb A full featured cross-platform I...
devil.src-aros.tgz           dev/lib 3Mb   DevIL sources
lcms.i386-aros.lha           dev/lib 321kb Little CMS - color management en...
lcms.src-aros.tgz            dev/lib 892kb Little CMS sources
libjasper.i386-aros.lha      dev/lib 554kb JasPer JPEG-2000 library
libjasper.src-aros.tgz       dev/lib 1Mb   JasPer JPEG-2000 library sources
libmng.i386-aros.lha         dev/lib 196kb Multiple-image Network Graphics ...
libmng.src-aros.tgz          dev/lib 1Mb   Multiple-image Network Graphics ...
libtiff.i386-aros.lha        dev/lib 491kb TIFF library
libtiff.src-aros.tgz         dev/lib 1Mb   TIFF library sources
candycrisis.i386-aros.lha    gam/puz 6Mb   Candy Crisis
candycrisis.src-aros.tgz     gam/puz 535kb Candy Crisis sources
freesynd.i386-aros.lha       gam/str 5Mb   FreeSynd, a GPL Syndicate reimpl...
freesynd.src-aros.tgz        gam/str 2Mb   FreeSynd sources
bluepearl.rar                gra/the 102kb Blue Pearl  Theme (A grey pearl ...
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25.Nov.2012



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 24.11.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 24.11.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
Zaz                      1.0.0   gam/thi  21208 Addictive logic game. A tra...
Scriba                   1.2.0   off/tex   6173 A simple WYSIWYG wordproces...
Reggae Update            3.1.6   sys/reg    279 Update of Reggae classes fo...
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25.Nov.2012



WHDLoad: New packages until 24.11.2012
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 24.11.2012: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Nov.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Scriba 1.3.0 (China-Update)
Scriba is a simple text processing software which is still in development by Carsten Siegner. Since version 1.3.0 it is possible to write Chinese characters with the help of a input method. For this it is important to know how these Chinese characters are transcribed in Pinyin. Additionally an Unicode-font is required which can display Chinese characters.

Scriba now also has an ARexx-port with three commands. Complete ASCII-texts or unknown characters in UTF8-code can be added with the Rexx-command to an existing text.

http://world-of-amiga.eu/download/Scriba_1.3.0.lha (6 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Nov.2012
Achim Kern - KeHo Software (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Taran im Abenteuerland 3.0
Under the title link Achim Kern has released the Hollywood-remake of the adventure "Taran im Abenteuerland" for AmigaOS 4. After possibly existing bugs have been fixed the game will be also available for AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS and Mac OS X. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Nov.2012



Accelerator board: ACA 620 temporarily withdrawn from the market due to revision
The accelerator board ACA 620 which has been introduced onto the market in October is currently not available due to some stability problems. Producer Jens "Paradroid" Schönfeld is confident having identified and fixed the problem: Different Gayle-revisions would have been the cause. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Nov.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


APC&TCP: AmigaOS Boing Poster and Sticker
From now on APC&TCP offers a AmigaOS poster and sticker which will be delivered in a roll or folded.

Dealers which want to offer these products please contact APC&TCP. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Nov.2012
German Amiga Community


Interviews with the developers of Ziriax, Zarathrusta and Deliverance
Amiga Lore has interviewed the Belgian game developers Peter Verswyvelen, Erlend Robaye and Kim Goossens who wrote the games Ziriax, Zarathrusta and Deliverance. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Nov.2012
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)


MorphOS: Reggae 3.1.6
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has published an update of his MorphOS multimedia library Reggae. Version 3.1.6 fixes some bugs, includes some minor improvements and the following new features:
  • The first image encoder using lately introduced media saving API, the class is written by Michał Żukowski and supports IFF DEEP format.
  • Czech, French, German, Polish and Spanish locale for multimedia.class and GUI of audio codecs.
  • Improved looping and error reporting in audio.output.

The developer files (includes, autodocs) have been updated as well. Reggae can be downloaded from morphos-files.net or via Grunch. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.Nov.2012
amiga.org (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4/AROS: Bonus mission for arcade game BOH
John "klx300r" Scolieri has released a bonus mission for Simone Bevilacqua's commercial arcade game BOH. The mission "3min-33sec" can be downloaded from the BOH-website and has to be copied to the "missions"-folder. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.Nov.2012
Amiga.org (ANF)


Individual Computers: ACA 1220 and ACA 1232 available
In July Individual Computers advertised Amiga 1200-extensions. Now they are available in different shops (AmigaKit, Vesalia, Alinea):

The ACA 1220 is available in three different versions. All are equipped with 128 MB RAM and a 68020-CPU which are used processors and therefore can show traces of usage. The board has a clockport which can be connected to a "realtime clock" module which is also available.

The ACA 1232 is equipped with a 68030 and 128 MB RAM and currently can be only ordered with 33-Mhz (a CPU with 25 Mhz and with or without MMU is planned). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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