27.Jun.2011
Andreas Hirsing (ANF)
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Amiga-Demos as video stream
Andreas Hirsing has created a video stream with a website on which Amiga demos and Amiga mods can be played.
In the end a video stream is supposed to be created which only consists of free clips.
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27.Jun.2011
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet Gnumeric 1.8.4 for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has ported a new version of the spreadsheet Gnumeric for his X11-environment AmiCygnix (screenshots: 1, 2). Changes:
- New version 1.8.4 with many changes.
- Support of Python-plugins. A special Python package is included.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jun.2011
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Fortis 1.2
Fortis by Encore Games is a 2D-Shooter with 3D-background which is similar to the Amiga classic Super Stardust. The MorphOS version can be downloaded for free. If you ant to register the game you either can purchase the iPhone-/iPod-version or to advertise for the game.
In version 1.2 less processor performance is used and support of USB-joysticks was added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jun.2011
Richie (ANF)
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Viva Amiga: Appeal for donations for documentary
Viva Amiga is a documentary film of the American Zach Weddington.
Under the title link an appeal for donations was started in order to be able to continue the filming. After meetings with Jeff Porter, Dave Haynie, Bil Herd and Andy Finkel, RJ Mical and Eric Schwartz will be interviewed as well.
Until 20. July at least 25.000 US-Dollar are required and already 62 % were donated. You need to have a credit card. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jun.2011
Richie (ANF)
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Retrospect: Jeri Ellsworth's "Amiga on a Chip"-project
In a clip on Youtube, Jeri Ellsworth presented her (not working any longer) "Amiga on a Chip"-prototype which similar to other projects emulates the customchips of the Amiga in a FPGA to make possible a remake of the computer.
The project is from the year 2005 and apparently was meant as successor of the C64 DTV. The interested producer canceled because of the low demand for such a toy. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jun.2011
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Web-Browser: Netsurf 2.7
Artur Jarosik has published a new update of the AmigaOS-port of the browser NetSurf. Some features of the original project were implemented now and additionally these improvements were added:
- added dropdown Url textbox showing recently entered addreses (beta;)
- information of each button function
- linked with libpng 1.2.44
- linked with libjpeg v8c
- cookie support for ppa.pl
- restart by clicking on reload with RMB or F7
- quick play multimedia using GetVideo with F4
- proper display of scalled images (eg. amiga.org poll bars)
- possible speedup by setting incremental_reflow to 0
(needs experimenting)
- labels for bookmarks
- compiled for 060
- save page as pdf
- ffplay with gui (port by Piotr Bandurski)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Hyperion takes part in AmiWest 2011
According to Brian Deneen, chairman of the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club, Steven Solie who is chef of the AmigaOS-4 developer team will take part in the AmiWest as representative for Hyperion Entertainment.
The British trader AmigaKit will take part as well.
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24.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: AssaultCube ported / Patch for Icaros 1.3
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz has ported the game AssaultCube.
Similar to Cube, AssaultCube requires version 17 of the mesa.library which is available under the title link. For version 1.3 of the AROS-distribution Icaros a patch was published which fixes some bugs as well.
Download:
cube-20050829.i386-aros.zip (31 MB)
assaultcube-1.1.0.4.i386-aros.zip (45 MB)
mesa.library-V17.zip (1 MB)
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24.Jun.2011
Floppy (Forum)
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AROS: Emulator updates
This month the following emulators for AROS were ported or updated:
- FCEU 0.98.11:
Nintendo-Famicom/NES-emulator, ported by Yannick Erb
- FUSE 1.0.0.1: ZX-Spectrum-emulator, ported by Miloslav Martinka
- KEGS 0.64: KEGS-Apple-IIGs-emulator, ported by Yannick Erb
- VBA 1.7.2: Gameboy-Advance-emulator, ported with the latest SDL.library (with sound) by Matthias Rustler
- ZSNES 1.51: SuperNES-emulator, ported by Yannick Erb
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24.Jun.2011
AROS-Mailingliste
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AROS: Integration to Amiga Forever in progress
Michael C. Battilana has announced to integrate ther open-source operating system AROS to Cloanto's complete package Amiga Forever and has published a screenshot.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jun. 2011, 06:33] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jun.2011
RJernigan/dzone (ANF)
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Free eBooks for C/C++-programmers
Under the title link six free eBooks for C/C++-programmers are available.
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22.Jun.2011
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0 (2011.06.04)
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the movie player MPlayer.
Download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2011.06.04.lha (15 MB) (Readme)
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21.Jun.2011
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Lua meets ARexx
Grzegorz Kraszewski's ipc.module is a new MorphOS-specific extension for his port of the scripting language Lua. The MorphOS port, which just reached version 0.5, is highly customized one and very well integrated with the operating system.
The purpose of ipc.module is to interface Lua with ARexx ports in applications. Sending ARexx commands and receiving results in Lua scripts is now very easy.
A proof of concept included to the archive is a Lua version of "love.rx" script from TVPaint. It may be executed with exactly the same result as the original one's, but a bit faster. It also shows that legacy 68k applications may be scripted in Lua as well as PPC native ones. (snx)
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21.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: GfxBench2D
Hans de Ruiter's GfxBench2D is a benchmarking tool for 2D graphics and also a web-app for displaying results uploaded by the benchmarking tool, giving opportunity to see some real data on graphics card performance for a wide range of graphics cards and AmigaOS 4 systems
Some results are already available at the title link. For example the Radeon X1950 Pro, being the last high performance card to include a dedicated 2D blitter unit, is currently leading the benchmark table. (snx)
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20.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Blender 2.48.3
Andy Broad has published an update of his AmigaOS-4 port of Blender which includes several minor bug fixes and now requires less memory. According to the author Renderer now also works on "Classic"-versions of AmigaOS 4.1.
Download: blender.lha (46 MB)
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20.Jun.2011
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PUAE: Snapshot of version 2.3.1 WIP for Mac OS X/x86
With PUAE Mustafa 'GnoStiC' Tufan tries to implement the features of recent WinUAE-versions to UAE. The version of PUAE is based on the actual implemented version of WinUAE.
Under the title link a beta version of PUAE for Mac OS X can be downloaded. It is "development snapshot" and therefore you will use it at your own risk.
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20.Jun.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Nintendo-Emulator A/NES Pro 1.14
Version 1.14 of the Nintendo emulator for faster Amiga systems (starting with 68060/50 MHz) called A/NES Pro is available:
- CPU: cmp ($xx,x) bugfixed
- CPU: Stackhandler bugfixed (fixes "Slalom")
- Massive rewrite of CPU clockcycle timings (=better compability)
- Reading from CHRROM was broken. Fixed
- Mapper 3 initcode was broken (fixes Dragon Quest(J).)
- Lots of PPU compability fixes
- Mappers that are not emulated now carries a "(!)" sign in the GUI
- Added mapper 184 (95%)
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20.Jun.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IceFileSystem 2.6
IceFS is a 64-Bit filesystem for MorphOS.
In version 2.6 some minor bugs were fixed:
- Setting file comments broke in 2.5, fixed
- A potential notification issue fixed
- A potential issue with early requesters fixed
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19.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (website)
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AROS: AHCI SATA Driver bounty assigned
The AHCI SATA Driver bounty has been assigned to Jason McMullan, who has already a proven track record in AROS community by working previously on m68k port of AROS and completing the Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase I) bounty.
The bounty aims at extending AROS with hot-swappable support for AHCI SATA storage devices. So far, 409 US-Dollars have been donated to this bounty project. (snx)
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19.Jun.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 91 preview and excerpts online
The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 91 (July/August 2011) are online now. Highlights in this issue are a test of AmigaOS 4.1 Classic, an interview with ACube Systems and a status report about the AmigaOne X1000.
Besides PD software, again some full versions can be found on the cover CD, e.g. Candy Factory Pro and FMSynth. The Amiga Future is available as an English and German print magazine directly at its editorial office and some Amiga dealers. (snx)
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19.Jun.2011
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Reggae-Update F
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has published an update of his MorphOS multimedia library Reggae. It contains seven reworked classes and a completion of the MorphOS-SDK.
Download-Link
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19.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 1.6
Jack is an alternative file request window for AmigaOS 4. Additional to simple file operations there are further features like picture editing, saving screen pictures and now playing music.
You can find a complete list of changes under the title link.
Download: jack.lha (3 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Jun. 2011, 07:57] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jun.2011
Hyperion-Blog (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Official AmigaOS-Support-Forum
Under the title link Hyperion Entertainment established a forum as communication interface between AmigaOS-4 customers and developers and for posting bugs. Additionally there is a section for Hyperion's game ports.
You only may write if you are a registered customer of Hyperion products. Before you have to register all of your products at the main site.
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17.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Amiga Eastern Meeting 2011 (Poland)
On 16./17. July near Włodawa the Amiga Eastern Meeting 2011 will take place, entrance free.
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17.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Ami-Lineapolis 2.9
Ami-Lineapolis is a AmigaOS-4-port of Morpion Solitaire.
Version 2.9 does still not include all of the features but according to the author is the first playable version. If the game freezes - especially on some Radeon-HD graphic boards - it is recommended to deactivate the preference "graphics sync".
Download: ami-lineapolis.lha (348 KB)
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17.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Snapshoter 1.5.1
Version 1.5.1 of Snapshoter was published. It is a Hollywood-based programm for all Amiga systema and Windows for recording screen pictures. Please note that this version only is available in English.
Changes:
- Added Video Capture, snapshoter can capture any size video from your desktop, and save it as an AVI file
- Added new text engine in the composer, now you can use any font installed in your system and use colors and text styles as bold, italic, underline, shadow
- Fixed some bugs
- Auto update snapshoter via dropbox for share clipboards and photos between devices
- Improved RGB color palette
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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SMBMounter 0.2
Robert Cranley's SMBMounter is a commodity with a clear user-interface for mounting and unmounting network drives.
Version 0.2 was tested under AmigaOS 3.9 and 4.1. The author wants to know if the under MorphOS the tool works without any problems.
New features include:
- User-definable font settings
- Passwords are now stored encrypted and are only displayed as they are entered
- Support for filesystem charset translation via SMBFS
- New "automount" feature to mount shares as soon as SMBMounter starts (very useful for WBStartup use)
- User/password prompt for Quickmount shares, and as an option in normal shares
- "Unmount all" option added to Project menu
- Improved error handling and requester information
Download: SMBMounter.lha (113 KB)
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15.Jun.2011
Obligement (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with Darren Eveland
French magazine Obligement has published an interview with Darren Eveland, one of the few people involved in both AmigaOS 4 and NatAmi. The canadian user of several Amiga systems is one of the main AmigaOS 4 "Classic" betatesters - the AmigaOS 4 version that is sold the most as he confirms.
Besides the english version at the title link, the interview is also available in french. (snx)
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14.Jun.2011
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Issues 75 and 76 online
Issues 75 and 76 of the magazine Amiga Future are sold out and therefore the articles of the German and English edition of both issues are online available.
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[News message: 14. Jun. 2011, 17:21] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jun.2011
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Game ports of ASCIIpOrtal 1.2a and Hex-a-Hop 1.1.0
Herbert "HAK" Klackl has ported the arcade puzzle ASCIIpOrtal and the puzzle game Hex-a-Hop for MorphOS.
Downloads:
asciiportal-1.2a-morphos.lha (10 MB)
hex-a-hop-1.1.0-morphos.lha (9 MB)
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13.Jun.2011
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Commodore-Show in Maarssen, Netherlands (18.June)
On 18. June the Commodore Gebruikersgroep (CGG) will organize its "Commodore Show", according to the motto "robotics". Robots will be presented which are controled by Commodore and Amiga computers.
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[News message: 13. Jun. 2011, 16:08] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jun.2011
Achim Kern (ANF)
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Klix: Puzzle game for all Amiga systems
Klix is a puzzle game which in 1994 won a German Shareware award and was added to the ADDY courseware by Coktel France (Screenshot).
The author has implemented the game now with Hollywood and has published ports for all Amiga systems as well as for Windows and Mac OS X.
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[News message: 13. Jun. 2011, 15:55] [Comments: 0]
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12.Jun.2011
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AGWViewer 1.0 (AmigaGuide Windows Viewer)
AGWViewer (AmigaGuide Windows Viewer) shows AmigaGuide documents under Windows. The programm also can open documents which were compressed with Powerpacker or XPK (requires WinUAE), can export in HTML or text files.
The features of AmigaGuide which were introduced with AmigaOS 3.1 are still not supported.
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11.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Mailbox-Software: Excelsior! 1.23 available for free
Version 1.23 of the Mailbox-Software Excelsior! can be downloaded under the title link for free. You are only asked to distribute it further.
Additional to the programm a registered Sysop-keyfile as well as several extensions are available. A PDF-file of the original tutorial will follow.
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10.Jun.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: Broadway 0.0.5
Pascal Papara has published a new version of his AROS-distribution Broadway. A bug in the quickstarter was fixed and the performance was increased.
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09.Jun.2011
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SimpleMail 0.37
After versions for AmigaOS and AROS today version 0.37 of the MUI-based eMail programm SimpleMail was published for MorphOS.
Changes:
- Fixed config save bug introduced in 0.36 that didn't allow the charset information to be stored
- Fixed DSIs/Enforcer Hits of the folder window
- Now longer should crash, if a read window is open and the application is closed
- Retrieving new messages from huge IMAP folders should be faster now
- Selecting a IMAP mail, now downloads the mail if the preview area is displayed
- Several cleanups addressing the port for MorposOS (henes)
- Resolved some issues with the text completion of email address fields
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08.Jun.2011
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amiga-news.de: Backend scripts updated
Due to moving to a new server, our backend scripts did not work anymore. This has been solved now. Thus third party websites utilizing our services need to update their scripts accordingly. (snx)
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08.Jun.2011
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Preview: Swamp Defense for AmigaOS 4
Swamp Defense is a commercial Tower Defense-game written by Entwickler X which will be published for XBox, AmigaOS 4 and other platforms. For AmigaOS 4 the game will be published in few weeks. Three days ago a Youtube
video of the almost finished Amiga version was published.
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08.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Gurmita Singh
On amigapd.com an interview with Gurmita Singh was published who wrote the Amiga game Henry's House for the Amiga.
Additionally the already published interview with Andrew Morris was completed with twelve further questions.
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08.Jun.2011
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: AspireOS 0.95
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published an update of his AROS-distribution AspireOS (previously called ArosAspire). This distribution is meant for the Acer-netbook Aspire One but should also run on other hardware.
Version 0.95 includes updated system files and improved performance speed.
Download: aspireos-i386-june2011.tar.gz (149 MB)
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08.Jun.2011
A-EON (E-Mail)
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A-EON Technology: Update to AmigaOne X1000
Press release, London, 7th June 2011
A-EON Technology is pleased to announce that following an extensive test programme Varisys are about to commence manufacturing the full complement of Nemo 2 motherboards for the AmigaOne X1000 Beta Test Team. As part of the pre-qualification process, Varisys have ported the PowerPC version of Debian Squeeze to demonstrate that all onboard components and subsystems are working as expected. The AmigaOS4 developers have also been busy porting the latest version of AmigaOS4.1.x
Cool Running
The energy efficiency of the PA Semi CPU was fully demonstrated during the testing phase. A thermal imaging camera was used to measure the CPU and board temperatures while running Debian Squeeze in dual-core under full load conditions. A maximum CPU/Heatsink/Fan assembly temperature of 31.1C was recorded while playing a DVD on a software rendered 1920x1200 full screen display. With the CPU fan disconnected the temperature rose to meagre 34.6C with a CPU core temperature of 61C.
AmigaOne X1000 Update Article
We are also pleased to announce that the next issue of "Amiga Future" magazine will contain a Nemo 2 update article. Issue 91 (July/August) should be released in early July and can be ordered from the "Amiga Future" website or your local Amiga reseller.
A-EON Technology CVBA
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08.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Announcement: FPGA-based accelerator board
With a video under the title link, Igor Majstorovic announced his FPGA-based accelerator board for the Amiga 600. It is based on the TG68-Core which also wil be used in the next versions of the Minimig.
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07.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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DiscreetFX: New Webshop Metropolis
Metropolis is called the new webshop of DiscreetFX. After having purchased software you can there download it. Bill Panagouleas is going to offer self-developments as well as other applications.
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07.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench complement: BetterWB 2.2
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench tools for AmigaOS 3.1.
Version 2.2 adds a new Exchange commodity, the new commodity ToolAlias, a replacement of the version-command with four-digit year display and some minor bug fixes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2011
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WHDLoad: New packages until 05.06.2011
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which have been published on disks. Besides, several incompatibilities with new Amiga models are fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
- 04.06.2011 improved: D/Generation (Mindscape) rewritten CD32 version for WHDLoad v16 (Info)
- 28.05.2011 improved: Conflict: Europe (PSS) supports german version (Info)
- 21.05.2011 fixed: Misja Harolda (MarkSoft) music is played in game now (Info)
- 17.05.2011 fixed: Cannon Fodder 2 (Sensible Software) keyboard handling corrected, savegame loading fixed (Info)
- 12.05.2011 updated: Apprentice (Rainbow Arts) avoid error with newer whdload versions about low free stack (Info)
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05.Jun.2011
AmigaFan (ANF)
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List of AmigaOS 4-compatible Scene-Demos
David "Dave" Hauser has published a list of scene demos that run under AmigaOS 4. This idea was born in a discussion at a1k.org
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jun. 2011, 16:13] [Comments: 0]
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05.Jun.2011
Floppy (Forum)
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AROS: 3D-Shooter Cube
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz has ported the 3D-Shooter Cube to AROS. The author asks for your feedback if the port has any bugs and if you like it. You are welcome to make suggestions for further ports.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jun. 2011, 00:26] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FFmpeg and FFplay: GIT-version a52f598
Piotr Bandurski has compiled the latest version of FFmpeg for AmigaOS. PLease note that the included FFplay at least requires version 62 of the ixemul.libary.
Download: ffmpeg-gita52f598-m68k.lha (19 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jun. 2011, 17:05] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench complement: BetterWB 2.1
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench tools for AmigaOS 3.1 which are simple and with low hardware requirements.
Version 2.1 includes some minor improvements. And the filesystems PFS3 was added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jun. 2011, 17:00] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Picture editing: iBatch 1.2
With Gero Birkenfelds iBatch it gets very simple to rename or convert a lot of picture files.
The new version 1.2 also is available on Aminet and includes many improvements. A test report as well as a workshop have been published in the Amiga Future 90.
Download: iBatch.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jun. 2011, 14:53] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: fpga.resource 53.1 for Sam460ex-boards
Under the title link ACube Systems has announced the availability of fpga.resource. With this driver under the AmigaOS 4 the 80 I/O-pins of the J22-connector on the Sam460ex-board can be accessed.
The archive also includes a tutorial and the source codes of the examples. All users are reminded that already there is a driver for access to the I2C-bus gibt.
Download: fpga_res.lha (633 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. Jun. 2011, 07:58] [Comments: 0]
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03.Jun.2011
Hacker News (website)
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Website: Open Source Game Clones
The website osgameclones.com tries to gather information about open-source reimplementations of great old games in one place. (snx)
[News message: 03. Jun. 2011, 17:21] [Comments: 0]
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03.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Programming competition: List of projects
Yannick Buchy (meta-morphos.org) and the Swiss Amiga trader Relec had started a programming competition (amiga-news.de reported). Now a list of selectable projects was published:
During this month you can vote for your project which is to be written. Fill in this formular and send it to papiosaur2 [at] hotmail.fr before 1st of July.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. Jun. 2011, 13:35] [Comments: 0]
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03.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.3.2
Version 2.3.2 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE was published. For the first time the update uses the AROS/68k-version as Kickstart replacement if an original file ist not available.
New features:
- AROS ROM replacement development snapshot included, replaces old
very basic ROM replacement feature, used by default if official
KS ROM is not found
- New autofire option. Button released = autofire. Button pressed = normal non-autofire firebutton
- Stop the CPU and wait until blitter has finished if any blitter register is accessed while blitter is busy and CPU mode is fastest possible
- Better workaround than immediate blitter for programs that have blitter wait bugs with fast CPU
- Serial port telnet server
Updates:
- Disk emulation accuracy improved (Codertrash / Mexx, El Egg Tronic Quarts / Quadlite)
- CIA timer undocumented startup delays emulated (Risky Woods sound glitches)
- win32.floppy_path and win32.hardfile_path really works as expected
- Display panel refresh rate accepts non-integer values
Fixed bugs:
- Implemented workaround that should fix Direct3D blank screen problem
- Sample ripper crash
- 68000 exception 3 emulation fixed again. (Broke compatibility with some
very old copy protections, for example Soldier of Light and Zoom!)
- Reset bug that broke Arcadia mode, A1000 mode and Action Replay ROMs
- Automatic resolution switch interlace detection was unreliable
- CD32 early boot menu is accessible again
- Rare crash when switching from fullscreen RTG mode to native mode
- Borderblank chipset feature didn't work in ECS Denise mode
- Possible input configuration corruption due to uninitialized variable
- Color change table overflow crash that can happen when emulated program crashes really badly
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. Jun. 2011, 09:23] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jun.2011
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Hungarian PDF-magazine: Amiga Mania #1
"Amiga Mania" is a PDF-magazine with 36 pages from Hungary which is about all Amiga topics - hints for A600-users, a review of Hollywood as well as news on Sam440ep.
Amiga Mania 01_OnLine.pdf (14 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jun. 2011, 19:01] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 1.5
Jack is a alternative file request window for AmigaOS 4. Additional to simple file perations like deleting or renaming there are also several further features like picture editing and recording screenshots.
A detailed list of changes in version 1.5 you can find under the title link.
Download: jack.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jun. 2011, 17:29] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Andrew Morris (English)
amigapd.com has interviewed Andrew Morris who is graphic artist of e.g. Lotus and Super Cars.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jun. 2011, 17:00] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jun.2011
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS: ScummVM 1.3.0
After the MorphOS version, version 1.3.0 of the adventure interpreter ScummVM now is also available for AmigaOS 4 and AROS/x86. The changes are listed in the official Release Notes.
Download:
scummvm.lha (8 MB)
scummvm-1.3.0.i386-aros.lha (8 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jun. 2011, 15:50] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jun.2011
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.3
Paolo Besser has published an update of his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop. Version 1.3 includes many improvements which mainly apply to 68k-integration and 3D-support.
Additionally many games as well as emulators were compiled again to use the latest SDL-libraries. The NES-emulator FCE Ultra were added. Under the title link you can find a detailed list of changes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jun. 2011, 05:50] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2011
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amiga-news.de: Server migration finished, team changes
Meanwhile the announced server migration was finished. We would like to thank our both technicans Sven Drieling and Philippe Bourdin.
With the migration our former publisher Nico Barbat left the team of amiga-news.de. Eight years ago he had taken the responsibility from the founder Petra Struck. Without his engagement amiga-news.de would not exist in the current way. We would like to thank him for his longtime support.
We also say good bye to a second amiga-news.de member: Marc Albrecht who worked for the former Amiga dealer ACT has hosted the news for more than ten years. We would like to thank him as well.
This is the current team of amiga-news.de:
Christoph Gutjahr (cg): Editorial staff, Publisher
Martin Heine (snx): Editorial staff, Publisher
Daniel Reimann (dr): English translation
Carsten Schröder (cs): Newsticker
Philippe Bourdin (pab): Technician
Sven Drieling (sd): Technician
From now on amiga-news.de is on a server of the Aminet-team. We would like to thank Nicolas Mendoza for his support.
If you want to support our team then you are very welcome. Please send a eMail to team@amiga-news.de.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. May. 2011, 18:15] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Demoscene party Flashback 2011 (Sydney, Australia)
From 11.-13. June the Flashback 2011 will take place in Sydney. Amiga, C64 and PC will be presented. You can get further information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. May. 2011, 15:08] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2011
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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Event: Pictures of Commodore-Meeting 2011
On Sunday the Commodore-Meeting 2011took place in Vienna. Several users have published pictures:
Stefan Egger, Peter Urban and Georg Fuchs
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. May. 2011, 14:56] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2011
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 50
The Amiga Round Table (ART) is an English-language podcast where Amiga users and invited guests (this time Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald, Mike Blackburn, Bill P, and Jerry Withers) have duscussed the latest events.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. May. 2011, 17:34] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Adventure-Interpreter ScummVM 1.3.0
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has ported version 1.3.0 of the adventure interpreter ScummVM to MorphOS. The changes are listed in the official Release Notes.
Direct download: scummvm-1.3.0.lha (9,5 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. May. 2011, 17:23] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Nintendo-Emulator A/NES Pro 1.13
The Nintendo emulator for faster Amiga systems (ab 68060/50 MHz) called A/NES Pro is available in version 1.13 which fixes minor bugs in the graphic board support and includes minor optimizations of the graphic engine.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. May. 2011, 17:19] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2011
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New webinterface for amiga-news.de chat
The IRC-channel #amiganews is one of the oldest and probably most active German chat room about the Amiga. Thanks to a hint of Christian Rosentreter now we can offer a comfortable webinterface which can be accessed by any web browser.
The webinterface does not work with IBrowse or AWeb but the channel can be used with a traditional IRC-client: irc.freenode.net, Port: 6667, Kanal: #amiganews.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. May. 2011, 16:50] [Comments: 0]
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28.May.2011
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Amiga-News.de: Server migration on Monday (30th May)
Next Monday amiga-news.de will move to a new server. Therefore some parts of the website (forum, comments) will be temporarily not available during the day.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. May. 2011, 19:52] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Sam460: Audio driver for OS4 in beta testing
ACube is happy to inform you that Ross Vumbaca in association with ACube Systems, has released an initial version of the SAM460 audio driver to the OS4 beta testing team. It is expected that this driver will then shortly be released to all other SAM460 owners.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. May. 2011, 19:54] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2011
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Short review of Janus-UAE 1.1 (English/French)
On the website of Obligement a short Janus-UAE review in English as well as in French was published by Niko Tomatsidis.
As a result the high performace speed was honoured (on a netbook with 1,6-GHz-Atom-processor). There were minor problems with the mouse pointer and the complicated way of the installation was criticised.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. May. 2011, 15:34] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2011
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Commercial WLAN-driver with WPA/WPA2-support (AmigaOS 3/4)
For a long time Neil Cafferkey has been working on a network driver for PCI and PCMCIA-WLAN boards with the Prism 2-chipset. All available, free versions only could handle the WEP-encryption.
According to Cafferkey on amiga.org, now he offers a commercial version of the driver for AmigaOS 3/4 which supports WPA-/WPA2-encryption as well. For 15 Euro for each board you will get a driver for AmigaOS 3 and/or 4. You can write your requests per eMail to the author.
In order to use the WLAN-board with the Amiga driver among others a firmware update is required. Cafferkey recommends version 1.7.4 and refers to an English tutorial.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. May. 2011, 14:55] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2011
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: PowerUp download website accessable again
The old version 1.4.5 of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS can be downloaded for Amiga computers with BlizzardPPC and CyberstormPPC boards under the title link.
Please note that new versions for PowerUp Amigas are not planned and that there is not any chance of a registration.
Nevertheless, in the last year Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek compiled a basic version 2.7 for himself (screenshot 1, 2, 3).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. May. 2011, 11:23] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: CommVEx 7 on 23./24. July (USA)
The seventh Commodore Vegas Expo will take place on 23. and 24. July in Las Vegas Club Hotel & Casino (Nevada, USA). (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. May. 2011, 07:37] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Ron Pieket Weeserik (Silkworm)
Under the title link you can find an interview with Ron Pieket Weeserik. Among others he wrote the classic Silkworm (Screenshot).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2011, 12:53] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 1.1
Jack is an advanced feature-laden ASL file-requester replacement for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot).
It could also be described as a fantastic standalone program that makes common tasks so much easier.
Download: jack.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2011, 12:44] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2011
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)
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XFDguide
Lorence Lombardo's XFDguide is a text viewer for compressed AmigaGuide documents. To do so, xfdmaster.library is required.
To open a file, enter "XFDguide <file> [PUBSCREEN]". An empty string can be used for the file name to access the [PUBSCREEN] parameter with a file requestor. (snx)
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24.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IceFileSystem 2.5 and IceDoctor 1.0
Version 2.5 of the IceFileSystem was published which includes bug fixes and minor improvements.
The healer and rescuer of IceFS volumes was updates as well. Version 1.0 of IceDoctor also was slightly improved.
Changes IceFS:
- Write locking volume with zero key, could not be unlocked again, fixed
- A serious internal bug fixed
- Action_end() improvement
- Silly optimisation prevented error requesters to work when FS was used on boot partition; now works again
Changes IceDoctor:
- Drives were inhibited when not really needed, fixed
- Internal error requesters popping up with "recover lost extents" option enabled, fixed
- Cosmetic changes
- Recycledir scanning/repair improved
- Improved handling of broken entry names
- Quit while scanning didn't work, fixed
- Forgotten flush of meta changes, oops.. fixed
- "Resume from backup" didn't work, fixed
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2011, 06:47] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2011
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IRC-Client Sermonatrix 0.6
Sermonatrix is an IRC-client written by Antoine 'Tcheko' Dubourg, which ca be completed by plugins written in the programming language Lua. Changes in version 0.6:
- added /command scripting feature. Go to menu Settings / Script Editor, Commands panel in Script Editor window.
- made url handling smarter but still dumb (supports only http). Copy pasting them is now possible.
- added some logic to show/hide userlist object
- added two new lua functions: sermonatrix.quit() and sermonatrix.userlist(). See autodoc.
Direct download: Sermonatrix-0.6.lha (279 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. May. 2011, 13:35] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 2.3.2
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE has given a preview to the next version. WinUAE 2.3.2 is supposed to be published in one or two weeks and for the first time is supposed to be used a 68k-port of AROS as Kickstart replacement if there is not an official Kickstart.
New features:
- AROS ROM replacement development snapshot included, replaces old
very basic ROM replacement feature, used by default if official
KS ROM is not found
- New autofire option. Button released = autofire. Button pressed = normal non-autofire firebutton
- Stop the CPU and wait until blitter has finished if any blitter register is accessed while blitter is busy and CPU mode is fastest possible
- Better workaround than immediate blitter for programs that have blitter wait bugs with fast CPU
- Serial port telnet server
Updates:
- Disk emulation accuracy improved (Codertrash / Mexx, El Egg Tronic Quarts / Quadlite)
- CIA timer undocumented startup delays emulated (Risky Woods sound glitches)
- win32.floppy_path and win32.hardfile_path really works as expected
- Display panel refresh rate accepts non-integer values
Bug fixes:
- Implemented workaround that should fix Direct3D blank screen problem
- Sample ripper crash
- 68000 exception 3 emulation fixed again. (Broke compatibility with some
very old copy protections, for example Soldier of Light and Zoom!)
- Reset bug that broke Arcadia mode, A1000 mode and Action Replay ROMs
- Automatic resolution switch interlace detection was unreliable
- CD32 early boot menu is accessible again
- Rare crash when switching from fullscreen RTG mode to native mode
- Borderblank chipset feature didn't work in ECS Denise mode
- Possible input configuration corruption due to uninitialized variable
- Color change table overflow crash that can happen when emulated program crashes really badly
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. May. 2011, 13:28] [Comments: 0]
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