22.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interviews: Krzysztof Matys, Robert Szacki and David Makin
AmigaPD.com has continued its interview serie with the games authors Krzysztof 'Koyot' Matys and Robert 'Minniat' Szacki and David Makin.
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22.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench complement: BetterWB 2.0
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench complements for AmigaOS 3.1 with low hardware requirements.
Changes:
- New text.datatype that enables text marking and copying passages
- Bugfixed and faster serial.device
- A greatly enhanced Shell console with a ton of neat features called ZShell
- The famous LHA archiver command is installed in its latest incarnation
- Queue-Handler has been bugfixed
- An incredibly faster mathtrans.library with an extra feature is included
- Jaztools is a commandline tool to handle ZIP and JAZ drives
- A low resource and flexible filemanager is now present
- Support for FAT and FAT32 volumes is achieved with fat95
- Cosmetic fixes regarding icons and their locations
- Addtools commodity for workbench menu creation
- All floppies now come with nice printable labels, resembling old Commodore ones
- Updated xpkmaster.libary and compressors
- Modified CrossDOS mountlist to use fat95
- Speak-Handler got a bugfixed update
- Less memory usage it now eats only 14KB (version 1.x ate 29KB)
- Removed LoadMondrvs for better compatibility
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22.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Bootdisk-Creator: Amiga911 Maker 1.38
With version 1.38 of Amiga911 Maker you can create and manage boot disks under AmigaOS 3.x if the Amiga is equipped with at least 1 MB memory. The changes are listed under the titel link.
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20.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FPGA-Amiga: Multiple Classic Computer (MCC)
The Multiple Classic Computer (MCC) is a FPGA computer with now three available cores: Commodore 64, Atari 2600 and now also (currently as beta version 0.9; Video) Amiga 500 (SysInfo-Screenshot). There is an English-language review of the C64-core from the last year in the Commodore-Free-Magazine, Issue 46.
The computer is delivered with C64 Forever by Cloanto (Amiga Forever is planned) and allows you to connect SD-cards as well as Competition-Pro-joysticks, PS/2-mouse and -keyboard. For the graphic output VGA as well as S-Video (NTSC or PAL) are available. It is offered in US for 149 US-Dollar.
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20.May.2011
[ujb] (ANF)
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Acube announced availability of Sam460ex lite
According to Acube the lite version of the Sam460ex motherboard is available. For technical details please have a look at the press release under the title link.
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19.May.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Wasted Dreams for free download
Several full versions were added to the download section of the Amiga Future, among others the point'n click adventure Wasted Dreams.
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18.May.2011
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Amiga 600: Memory extension A604
The A604 developed by Individual Computers is the successor of the Amiga 600 memory extension A603. It offers 1 MB additional Chip RAM, a battery-backed clock, a clockport for Amiga 1200 expansion modules as well as an expansion socket for the Indivision ECS.
The A604's new design allows to mount an Indivision ECS without losing the floppy disk drive (which was a problem with the A603 card). Additionally, the A604 now features a second clockport especially designed for the Subway USB controller module. This second clockport can boast a performance gain of 60% compared to a standard clockport, so the Subway's USB transfers are faster than ever before.
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18.May.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4.1 for PowerUp-Amigas available
According to Amigakit, AmigaOS 4.1 for PowerUp computers is now available. The new features in this version of the operating system recently Hyperion did explain in its press release.
Currently the PowerUp version of AmigaOS 4.1 is available at Amigakit, Alinea and ACube Systems.
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17.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview: Lee Bamber ("Relics of Deldroneye")
amigapd.com has published an English-language interview with Lee Bamber who published point'n click adventures (e.g. Relics of Deldroneye). The games also are available for download on this website.
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17.May.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Word Me Up XXL 1.3 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
The game "Word Me Up XXL" published by Boing Attitude is available in version 1.3 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. The update includes new music tracks written by Anders "Boray" Persson and improved graphics in the "Shop". Besides, Word Me Up XXL now was compiled with GCC 4.2.4.
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15.May.2011
Achim Kern (ANF)
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Game: Imbiss 3.0
In this game written by Achim Kern for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS you are owner of a snack stand. You have to earn as much much money as possible.
The author thanks Oliver Schwald for the programm idea as well as Thomas Bauer.
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15.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Ben Wright
Under the title link an interview with Ben Wright was published who wrote the 2D-shooter Scavenger in 1995.
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13.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Blu Manager 0.6
Blu Manager is a database application for managing Blue-ray films for AmigaOS 4 written by Pål Ringkilen. For the online access wget in directory C is required.
Version 0.6 fixes some bugs:
- First time started it downloads 2 database.txt; has been fixed
- Files could not be deleted, in use; now finally fixed
- Removed the close button in the "search database" window
- Fixed a bug that added a empty line in the "info" listbrowser
- Fixed more typos in the database
Download: blu_manager.lha (40 KB)
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13.May.2011
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Update für Gimp 2.4.7
For his AmiCygnix-port of the picture editing programm Gimp, Edgar Schwan has published an update.
News:
- Support of Python-plugins (incl. several plugins)
- New plugin "print" for printing graphics
- With the help of the included Python package, external Python programms which require the GUI-modul "pyGTK" can be started
- Some bugs in AmiCygnix-code for the plugin support were fixed
You can get further information from the included ReadMe file. The following pictures demonstrates the new functions:
Download: gimp-update.lha (50 MB)
Update: (06:08, 14.05.11, snx)
Due to a buggy installation file, the author has uploaded the archive to the OS4Depot again where currently it is stored in the upload directory.
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12.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: DVI-support for Radeon-HD-4000-driver
According to Hans de Ruiter under the title link, now his AmigaOS-4-driver for graphic boards of the Radeon HD 4000 serie supports video output over DVI.
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12.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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WHDLoad: New packages until 11.05.2011
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were delivered on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities mit newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
- 11.05.2011 fixed: Moonstone (Mindscape) other games releases are working again (Info)
- 10.05.2011 new: Megademo 2 (Disorder) done by Dr Cinicus (Info,Image)
- 07.05.2011 new: Mega Motion (Extend Design/Black Legend) done by Don Adan (Info)
- 06.05.2011 improved: Moonstone (Mindscape) sound improved on faster hardware, intro skip added, uses less memory, item init fixed on uae (Info)
- 05.05.2011 new: Locomotion (KingSoft) done by Psygore (Info)
- 27.04.2011 new: Turrican demo (Rainbow Arts) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
- 27.04.2011 fixed: Lost In Mine (MarkSoft) soundfx correctly played now (Info)
- 12.04.2011 new: Lost In Mine (MarkSoft) done by Psygore (Info)
- 05.04.2011 updated: Never Ending Story 2 (Linel) keyboard routine fixed, trainer improved, blitter waits configurable (Info)
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12.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, Issue 50
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different ways - among others as HTML-version and C64-Diskmag.
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10.May.2011
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 49
The Amiga Round Table (ART) is an English-language Podcast where Amiga users discussed the latest events. In Episode 49 a former Amiga user talked about his past.
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10.May.2011
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Amiga Future: Issues 72 and 73 online
Because issues 72 and 73 of the Amiga Future are sold out the articles are available online in English and German.
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09.May.2011
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Full version of RemoteDesktop for AmigaOS 4.1 users
Up to now purchasers of the Sam460-motherboards got a full version of RemoteDesktop-client on their AmigaOS-CD. Now this programm is also included in AmigaOS 4.1 Classic.
There are also plans to make the tool available to users of other AmigaOS 4.1 versions as soon as a new CD-Image will be provided with a forthcoming update.
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08.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate 2.8
AmiUpdate is a simple package manager which informs users about updates of installed applications. The changes of version 2.8 are listed in the Release Notes.
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07.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4.1 for PowerUp-Amigas soon available (Update)
According to Hyperion Entertainment under the title link, all components for the version of AmigaOS-4.1 for Amigas with BlizzardPPC or CyberstormPPC accelerator boards have been finished and will be available soon.
Features which are not included in AmigaOS 4.0:
- Intelligent Installer for PCI / Zorro with automatic AGA-Fallback support
- New classic styled Bootlogo and Backdrops
- Improved bootloader with large table MMU support
- Updated kernel offering increased stability in low memory conditions
- Support for virtual memory via harddisk paging
- ZororRAM and DKB 3128 support as memory pagers
- Improved (future proof) Mediator support with Radeon 9200 and 9250 using up to 256MB of video memory (correct voltage graphics card required)
- Support for PCI sound card (ESS SOLO-1 based cards)
- Warp3D hardware acceleration support for Radeon, Voodoo 3/4/5 and Cybervision / Blizzardvision PPC (stable beta version for Permedia2-based cards)
- DDC automatic monitor detection for Radeon and Voodoo 3
- Hardware compositing engine (Radeon only) with software fall-back
- Native FastATA driver support
Update: (17:20, 08.05.11, snx)
According to a message from british dealer AmigaKit, who has been instrumental in funding the PowerUp version of the operating system, they will start advertising the update in their webstore in about nine days. Meanwhile they are inviting further Amiga dealers to order AmigaOS 4.1 for Commodore Amiga computers from AmigaKit. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Snapshoter 1.4.9b
Snapshoter - a Hollywood based programm for all Amiga systems and Windows for recording screen pictures - is available in version 1.4.
Changes:
- Fixed bug in copyclipboard routine
- Added Cecilia FX icons
- Added new powerful image composer
- Gradients, solids, outlines, primitives, text or arrows, easy intuitive and fast environment
- Swap layers up and down, keep ratios, browse layers, auto import to collage mode directly clicking over the snapshoter bar, crop and cut images over the compositions and paste again, gradient paint effect
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05.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video: Minimig on a Turbo Chameleon 64
Under the title link a video was published which shows the FPGA-Amiga-core of the Minimig on the C64-extension called Chameleon produced by Individual Computers.
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04.May.2011
MorphZone (Forum)
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Updated overview: Registered Amiga trade marks
On Aminet Christoph Gutjahr has published version 1.1 of a list of all Amiga related trade marks sold in USA and Europe.
Additional to fixes of typing errors, Cloanto which is official owner of the US-trade mark "Amiga Forever" and "Workbench" was added to the list.
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03.May.2011
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 90
The German and English issue 90 (May/June 2011) of the magazine Amiga Future has been published today. This issue offers among others a interview with Cloanto, tests on iBatch, BetterWB and AmigaAMP as well as an iBatch-workshop.
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03.May.2011
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)
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Audio-Player: playOGG 110502
playOGG plays audio files which are available as Ogg Vorbis.
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03.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: Further demos added
During the last month the following demos have been added to the Amiga Demoscene Archive:
- Spitz by Focus Design
- Fourskin by RNO
- Human Traffic by Ghostown & Loonies
- Shake Off The Dust by Elude
- Swansong by Dekadence
- Software Make The Dance Foam Oil by Ephidrena & RNO
- Norwegian Kindness by Spaceballs
- MegaMusicDisk by Zymosis
- In Monaco by Desire
- Blumen Kraft by Bluebox Cinematique GmbH
- Updater 2010 by Moods Plateau
- Rotek by Focus Design & Depth
- Grind by Dekadence & Accession
- Dust by Elude
- Chips don't lie by Ephidrena & Darklite
- Megane Rellu by Da Jormas
- Superoriginal by Supergroup
- Elude step by step by Elude
- Roboty by Tulou
- Prototype 1 by Haujobb
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02.May.2011
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: XSane 0.998 for AmiCygnix
For his X11-environment AmiCygnix Edgar Schwan has published the scanner software XSane 0.998 (screenshot). The Sane-Backends of version 1.0.22 are included. Please note that the current version only supports USB-scanners and those with network interface.
Some features of XSane:
- Shows scanned graphics in a window
- Saves graphics in:
- May be used as Gimp-Plugin
Download: xsane.lha (20 MB)
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02.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: Dragging screens in VESA-mode
Being able to drag screens is a well-known feature of the Amiga abd is now also available for AROS im VESA-mode and thus on all PC graphic boards. Under the title link a video is available. With NVidia graphic boards this feature already has been available.
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02.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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USB-Controller: New Deneb-Firmware V11
An update for the firmware of the USB2-Controller Deneb by E3B was published. With this firmware for the first time a workaround is offered for a bug in buster 11.
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01.May.2011
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-website
During the last two months the listed aticles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. Translations to other languages are very welcome.
- March/April 2011 news
- Articles from ANews n°2 (November 1999) and n°3 : Investigation on IWin, Resignations of Jim Collas and Bill McEwen, File: legality of emulation, Report: Home Electronic World (Cologne 1999), Interview with Daniel Ackerman (QNX France), Hardware: Prelude 1200 and Delfina Lite, etc.
- Old interviews with Francis Charig (Tao, January 2001), Francis Charig (Tao, October 2001), Allan Havemose (Amiga Inc., November 1998), Noël Baldacchino (publisher of the diskmag ROM, September 1996), Jean-Christophe Capdevila (organiser of the Sea Soft Sun demoparty, Octobre 1996) and Mattias Gruvman/Thies Edeling (The Black Lotus members, July 1996).
- Review of Looking For Xmas
- Review of CRABUM 1.4
- File: history and features of the PA6T-1682M
- File: the signatures on the Amiga 1000
- File: Carl Sassenrath
- Demoscene headings from January 1995 to December 1996
- Tutorial: use of Retr0Bright
- Tutorial: software installation of the AtéoBus and the Pixel64
- Tutorial: software installation of the AtéoPar
- Tutorial: software installation of the AtéoSer
- Tutorial: software installation of the AtéoSCSI
- Tutorial: software installation of the AtéoNet
- Tutorial: installation of ROM 3.1 on Amiga 1200
- Update of the glossary
- Special quizz about Amiga Power fanzine
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01.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IceDoctor 0.9 beta 5
IceDoctor is a repair tool for IceFS-users. It repairs damaged filesystems or rescues files from damaged partitions.
Changes since our last message:
- Fixes/improvements to directory rebuilding
- Cosmetics/GUI improvements
- Orphan recovery failed for fienames longer than 36 chars, fixed
- File salvage would stop salvaging a directory when file comment was found, ouch! Fixed
- Program icon by Patbest
- Added "Recover lost extents" scanning option
- Modification date was not preserved when salvaging, fixed for real now
- More readme additions/improvements
- Hardlink improvements
- Added option to ignore or auto retry IO errors
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01.May.2011
Tim (E-Mail)
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Intros and Trainer: Cracktros.com
With cracktros.com another retro website was launched.
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01.May.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future looking for copyright holders
Press release As you all know, we release full versions of commercial and shareware titles on the Amiga Future homepage and the cover CD.
The type of software doesn't matter, i.e. games, applications, drivers or CDs. We want to preserve all commercial titles. To do this in a legal way, we need the permission of the individual copyright holders.
The biggest problem is to find the copyright holders. That's why we ask you for help. Are you in contact with copyright holders of shareware or commercial software? Do you know some in person or did you have contact with someone a short time ago? Then please drop us an email at redaktion@amigafuture.de.
Also we are looking for someone who can help us establishing contacts to some italian, french and american companies. This means ideally someone who has an origin there and could phone those companies. (snx)
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01.May.2011
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Vector graphic editor MagicalInk 1.0 beta 2
MagicalInk written by Carsten Siegner was updated. With the program you can open and edit Word95, OpenOfficeDraw and SVG files (video). It has a graphical user-interface inclusive drag'n'drop support as well as a Shell-interface.
Download: MagicalInk.lha (3 MB)
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30.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Firefox-Port: Requirements for "Timberwolf"-bounty slightly changed
Because the Mozilla Foundation decided to publish updates every two months, amigabounty.net decided to change the requirements for a successful Firefox-port. It only has to be published a port of the currently latest version 4.0.1 inclusive "stability fixes".
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30.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Sam460ex: Linux-Kernel 2.6.38.2 and Bootloader Parthenope 0.93
For its PPC-motherboard Sam460ex ACube has published new versions of the Linux-kernel as well as of the bootloader Parthenope. An English-language installation guide is included.
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30.Apr.2011
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Interview: Adrian Cummings (Mutation Software) released games as Freeware
In a interview with amigapd.com, Adrian Cummings by Mutation Software has confirmed that his formerly commercial Amiga games (Bug Bash, Castle Kingdoms, Cyberpunks, Doodlebug, Nucleus, Our-Type, Tin Toy Adventure, Tommy Gun, Vac-Suit Jack) have been released as Freeware. You can download the games from amigapd.com.
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[News message: 30. Apr. 2011, 16:29] [Comments: 0]
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30.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-magazine: Monthly Page 18
Monthly Page is a little English-language magazine which is available as PDF-file. The latest issue includes an interview with NovaCoda (ScummVM AGA), informationen to the Shell-command "which" and the download top-ten of the OS4Depot.
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29.Apr.2011
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Natami: Pictures of first start of boards
On the website of the Natami-team pictures (part 1, part 2) were published which show the first start of the first boards of the Amiga clone.
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29.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview: Shareware-Programmer Paul Huckstepp
amigapd.com has published an interview with Paul Huckstepp who wrote several Freeware and Shareware games for the Amiga.
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29.Apr.2011
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Action-Adventure: "EasyPlay"-Version of Enemy - Tempest of Violence
For Enemy: Tempest of Violence a so called "EasyPlay"-version was published which is supposed to announce the second part.
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29.Apr.2011
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Software-News: avi2aud 1.0, PortablE r6-28-04-2011 (Beta)
Audio-Tool: avi2aud 1.0
avi2aud written by Lorence Lombardo extracts audio traces from AVI-files and saves them in MP3 or WAV-format.
Download: avi2aud.lha (Readme)
Metacompiler: PortablE r6-28-04-2011 (Beta)
Christopher Handley's Metacompiler PortablE translates the programming language E into other ones. Changes in this version:
- BUG: In 'std/cGui', for a Group as the first item of another Group, all of it's own items would not respond to user interaction (nor be part of a MUI cycle chain).
- BUG: In 'std/cGui', for a Group as the last item of another Group, followed by another item, all of it's own items would not respond to user interaction (nor be part of a MUI cycle chain).
- BUG: In 'std/cGui', for a Page Group as the first (outer) Group of a window, it would not respond to setState(), and setStateItem() would crash.
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29.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: Broadway 0.0.4
Pascal Papara has published an update for his AROS-distribution Broadway. Performance and stability were improved.
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29.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: AmiWest 2011 (21.-23. October, California)
The meeting will take place from 21. until 23. October in Sacramento (California).
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29.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Demo scene: 3 Music-Disks by "Up Rough" (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS)
The Demo group Up Rough has published three new Music-Disks which are available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS:
Uh Oh, Even More Hits For Kids LP (Screenshot)
Oh No! More Hits for Kids LP - Side A (Screenshot)
Oh No! More Hits for Kids LP - Side B (Screenshot)
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28.Apr.2011
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Overview: Registered Amiga trade marks
On Aminet a PDF-document was published which shows an overview of all Amiga trade marks registered in USA and Europe. The author points out that this list ought to be complete but was not checked a second time.
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27.Apr.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future as PDF-Download
From today the webshop can be accessed under amigashop.org and offers PDF versions of the magazine Amiga Future which have to be paid.
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27.Apr.2011
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Pictures of Commodore-Show in Maarssen, 16. April
On 16th April a meeting of the Commodore Gebruikersgroep took place in Maarssen (Netherlands). You can find pictures of the meeting on the webseite of the club.
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27.Apr.2011
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Software-News until 27.04.2011
Batch-Renaming: MultiRen 1.70
With MultiRen written by Daniel Westerberg you can rename many files in one go. Changes in version 1.71:
- Made the File Cleaner "Initial letter upper" restart after a period "." or opening paratheses
- Added some more extensions to the extension editor
- Fixed a crash when adding an extension in the extension editor
CodeAudio 3.04
CodeAudio is a graphical user-interface for MP3 and other encoders (flac, faad, ogg). With it you can convert CDs into MP3-files. Changes in version 3.04:
- Dieter B. has been very kind and pulled the HTML docs up to date again!
I will try to keep it in sync from now on
- The default AHI mode ID for Mpega became "$DEFA" instead of "Default"
AmigaOS 4: Word Me Up XXL Demo 1.2
"Word Me Up XXL" published by Boing Attitude is a game with arcade and puzzle elements. The new demo version of the commercial game includes improved ingame and menu graphics as well as two new levels.
AmigaOS 4: CopyStore 2.6 for AmiUpdate
AmiUpdate is a simple package manager which informs users about updates of installed applications. A new version of the modul CopyStore is available which no longer delivers the message "Object in Use". CopyStore 2.6 has to be installed manually.
AmigaOS 4: Bed Games 1 - Carola
Bed Games 1 is similar to the child's play rock-paper-scissors written with Hollywood where you play against lightly clad women.
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27.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Origyn Web Browser 3.32
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. You can find a detailed list of changes in the Changelog.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2011, 16:07] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Looking for developers and other supporters
Over two entries in the Hyperion-blog, Steven Solie has offered the opportunity to support developing AmigaOS 4.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2011, 10:27] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2011
KeHo Software (ANF)
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Puzzle game: Doors 1.0
Achim Kern's Hollywood port of the puzzle game Doors by Bill Ingram is available for all Amiga systems. In this game you have to try to open four doors with ten keys.
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[News message: 24. Apr. 2011, 19:15] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hyperion: Evert Carton will back out
According to amigaworld.net under the title link, Evert Carton will back out from the Amiga scene. He will cancel his work for Hyperion Entertainment.
Evert Carton himself explained that for several years he has not been working on Amiga products.
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24.Apr.2011
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 4.8 now with Linux support
Press release Airsoft Softwair is happy to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 4.8. This update contains mostly bug fixes and one great new feature requested by many people: Hollywood is now able to compile executables for Linux systems! With the ability of compiling for Linux systems Hollywood finally comes full circle because it now supports all major desktop operating systems. All in all, Hollywood can create programs for nine different platforms now: AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS X (Intel), Mac OS X (PowerPC) und Linux (Intel). A totally unique feature in the Amiga world!
Great care was taken to make Hollywood compiled executables as portable as possible across the many different Linux distros. Package dependencies were kept down to an absolute minimum: Only plain X11 - which should be present on any Linux system - is required by Hollywood executables! All other dependencies like gtk and ALSA for sound output are entirely optional: If they are installed, Hollywood will use them, if not, Hollywood will just run without them. Thus, Hollywood compiled executables will usually run straight out of the box on most common Linux distros. You definitely won't have to install dozens of packages before being able to run Hollywood executables!
Please visit the Airsoft Softwair webpage for screenshots of Hollywood 4.8 running on Gentoo (KDE), Ubuntu (Gnome), Fedora (Gnome), openSUSE (KDE) and the brand-new GNOME 3.
Hollywood 4.8 is Airsoft Softwair's ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for every Amiga user who wants to use the full power that is in his machine. Hollywood is available on a CD-ROM and as a download version. If you order the download version, you will have to download an ISO image which you need to burn on CD-R then. If you already own Hollywood, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. (snx)
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23.Apr.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Adventure-Interpreter: ScummVM ECS
With the release of version 1.2.x of the adventure interpreter ScummVM for ECS-Amigas (after versions for AGA and RTG) the project of the 68k-port was finished.
Download: ScummVM_ECS_030.lha (3 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Apr. 2011, 07:33] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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WinUAE Help File 2.2.1 (English)
Under the title link version 2.2.1 of the WinUAE help file was published. Changes:
- Corrected lots of internal and external links
- Fixed HTML validity problems
- Various content and layout updates, error corrections
- Converted changelog into HTML, included in the help itself
- Added new About screen
- Floppy: Bootblock, FFS
- Input: Test and remap
- Output: Recording section
- Misc: More new options
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22.Apr.2011
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Programming contest
The Swiss Amiga trader Relec and Yannick Buchy (meta-morphos.org) have started a programming contest where a Efika-5200B with MorphOS licence computer can be won (picture).
Interested developers can send their projects which after their releases at least have to run under MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 until 31. May. Afterwards for one month you can vote for a project which will be ported.
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22.Apr.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SabreMSN 0.76
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 4. Version 0.76 fixes a crash problem.
Download: sabreos4_20110422.lha (808 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2011, 08:49] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Filesystem: PFS3 5.3
After the release of version 5.1 of the Professional File System 3 under BSD-licence, Michiel Pelt has published version 5.3 from 1999 under the title link on Aminet.
Meanwhile Harry 'Piru' Sintonen is working on a new version of this filesystem. According to his latest status update he has already replaced all assembler parts by C-source code und has ported it to MorphOS.
Download: PFS3_53.lha (3 MB)
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19.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New tracks added
AmigaRemix has published new remixes well-known soundtracks of Amiga games available as MP3-files for free download. The latest update includes the following track:
- Globdule (Artroo Remix)
- Golden Axe first level metal remake
- Cabal metal remake
- Test Drive 2 - 2011er CoolDown Version
- Turrican II - The Explorer Rock Band Edition
- Hybris Title (RAWk!)
- Turrican II - The Great Bath (Piano Arrangement)
- Street Fighter 2 Intro remix
- Back From Blue
- Simon the Sorcerer Main Theme (Remake-Remix)
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19.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: (Double)DrawerBall 1.0c
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published Drawerball 1.0c which is an early version of a simple file manager. The package also includes a second version with two directory windows ("DoubleDrawerBall").
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19.Apr.2011
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Audio-Player AmigaAMP 3.2
The third generation of the audio player AmigaAMP written by Thomas Wenzel is completely PPC-nativ. Changes in version 3.2:
- Removed QUIET ToolType, added SKINPROGRESS instead.
- Reverted to loading skins and plugins from PROGDIR: by default.
- Added unicode support to ID3v2.3, added basic ID3v2.4 support.
- Fixed DSI error when starting AmigaAMP in skin mode but not all elements could be loaded.
- Added OGG support
- Implemented loading base skin from memory.
- Changed "shuffle" to "random play" behaviour.
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19.Apr.2011
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IceFileSystem 2.4
Version 2.4 of the IceFileSystem was published which mainly includes bug fixes.
Changes:
- Deleting file larger than "Max recycle bytes" no longer empties recycle
dir. Max filesize in recycledir is now "Max recycle bytes" / 16 (if set)
- New (optional) environment variable: ICE_AUTORETRYIO. Set it to 1..n
for number of automatic retries of failed io requests
- Smaller bug in automatic renaming of recycledir files fixed
- action_seek() allowed seeking beyond file with internal error
requester as result, fixed
- IceSalv did not preserve file dates, fixed
- IceCheck fixes/improvements
- FSConfig got renamed to IceConfig
- VInfo got renamed to IceInfo
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17.Apr.2011
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Dreamcast: UAE4All RC3
Two weeks ago the third release candidate of the Amiga emulator UAE4All for the Sega Dreamcast was published. The speed was increased and the support was added for SD-cards. At Youtube a video is available.
Changes:
- 30% speed increased: Sound and Video render improved
- Savestates support: The length of a savestate file is 200-300KB, so SD-Card is needed
- Dreamcast SD-Card support
- New option menu for screen position
- Uses latest FAME Motorola 68000 core: More stable, fast and accurate
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17.Apr.2011
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.57 RC1
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has published a first "release candidate" of his MorphOS port of the 3D graphic program Blender. The littlecms.library is required.
Please note that this RC1 may crash yet. Besides, you should not have an additional Python-3.1.x-installation because the version included in the package differs (you can keep version 2.x ).
Download: blender-2.57-mos-rc1.lha (15 MB)
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17.Apr.2011
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Dave Haynie about his work at Metabox
Additional to his "garage sale", Dave 'hazydave' Haynie has talked about his work at Metabox under the title link.
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16.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser NetSurf 2.7
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally developed for RiscOS and supports among others HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1. The changes in version 2.6 are listed in the Changelog.
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[News message: 16. Apr. 2011, 16:09] [Comments: 0]
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16.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: Firmware-Update for Sam460ex
ACube Systems has published a new version of the firmware used in the PPC-motherboard Sam460ex. Changes in this update called "UBoot 2010.06-05":
- improved Radeon X1550, X1650, X1950 setup
- fixed a bug in the PCI-E setup which cures a crash when both a gfx card and an USB3 card were used
- DDR2 boost setup is now disabled by default, to enable it, set ddr2_boost to 1 from the U-Boot prompt
- removed a debug output from ext2fs.c
The update is available as ISO-image and TFTP-updater.
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14.Apr.2011
Joe Maroni (ANF)
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Dave Haynie sells AAA-prototype "Nyx" on ebay
The former Commodore hardware developer Dave Haynie sells his collection of Commodore hardware, among others two old Amiga joysticks.
The most exciting piece of hardware is a Nyx-prototype which was meant for tests with the Custom Chips of the third generation ("AAA"). Unfortunately the chips are lacking on the this.
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[News message: 14. Apr. 2011, 16:03] [Comments: 0]
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14.Apr.2011
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 90, preview and reading samples
Under the title link the included articles and software was listed.
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12.Apr.2011
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Spellchecker.library 1.0
Antoine 'Tcheko' Dubourg has published the spellchecker.library which is meant for developers since currently there are no applications available which take use of it.
The algorithms Double Metaphone and Levenshtein-distance are used.
Download: SpellChecker-1.0.lha (14 KB)
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12.Apr.2011
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Audio-Player: AmigaAMP 2.25
Thomas Wenzel has published an of his audio player AmigaAMP. Contrary to the third generation which only is available for AmigaOS 4, AmigaAMP 2.25 is meant for AmigaOS 3.
Changes:
- Fixed call to xadmaster.library
- Fixed potential bugs in loading of complete directories
- Fixed mouse button message handling
- Improved playlist keyboard navigation
- Fixed UTF support in ID2v3
- Implemented basic ID2v4 support
- Added 68000 version
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[News message: 12. Apr. 2011, 16:32] [Comments: 0]
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11.Apr.2011
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: New Masonicons
Two new icon sets in the AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1 design are available on the Masonicons website.
Masonicons Collection April 2011:
Icons for Apps, Tools and Utilities like a completed RDesktop and Newscoaster set, several generic icons for backup, default icons for audio files, Hyperbench, QT and many more
Disk Icons Collection:
Additional Device Icons for AmigaOS 4.1 (snx)
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11.Apr.2011
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Filesystem: PFS3 published under Open Source on Aminet
Michiel Pelt has published the full version of his filesystem PFS3. The source codes are available under a BSD-licence as well.
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