19.Jun.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.6.1
The Amiga emulator WinUAE is now available in version 1.6.1. This update fixes several bugs and includes the following new functions:
- Added disk image and configuration file icons, file extension
association improved
- Added button/key toggle mode to Input panel
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19.Jun.2009
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Software News until 19.06.2009
SpeakerRangeTester 1.0
Daniel Westerberg's MUI-based SpeakerRangeTester tests the frequency output of connected speakers. The results are graphically shown (screenshot).
MorphOS: Updates of some Reggae classes
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewski has published updates of some of his classes of his multimedia library Reggae:
- multimedia.class 52.15
- multiread.buffer 51.6
- zxscreen.decoder 51.3
Disassembler: IRA 2.0
IRA is a portiable disassembler for AmigaOS 3-binaries which is available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS.
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18.Jun.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 63 of Amiga Future online
Issue 63 of the print magazine Amiga Future is sold. All articles of the magazine are now online.
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18.Jun.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: "Castle"-Skin for the game BOH
For the game BOH which is availble for AmigaOS 4, Mac OS X and Windows there is a new skin called "Castel" (screenshots: 1, 2).
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17.Jun.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.15
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
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16.Jun.2009
BitWorld (ANF)
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BitWorld: News from the Amiga demo scene
BitWorld contains now demos which were recently published at the GREP Green 2009 in Sweden.
Tulou won with the 4k-Intro Roboty the demo competition. Also available the fun production Project Edis. Some days ago the A500-musicdisk Coolism was published which was created by group Depth.
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15.Jun.2009
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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MagicMenu now Open Source
Mario Cattaneo wrote: Since 8th June 2009 MagicMenu is Open Source. For the project was not developed further during the last years we have decided to release it as Open Source project.
Everyone can now have a look "behind the scenes". Additionally MM can be ported to other platforms. If you are interested in the project just visit the sourceforge-sites.
Still a last request: Unfortunately we do not have the archives of the "current" beta versions that means all versions after V2.30. If you should have some of these versions on your harddrive I ask you to contact me (and not to send it at once!). Thank you.
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13.Jun.2009
Andreas Wolf (Kommentar)
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Amiga Anywhere: No support by Envizions
In the last year Envizions Computer Entertainment Corporation (amiga-news.de reported) advertised for its EVO Smart Console among others with Amiga-Anywhere games.
Meanwhile in its FAQ the company announced that this platform will be not supported any longer.
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13.Jun.2009
Murakami (ANF)
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Printmagazin: aMiGa=PoWeR, issue 44
Among others, issue #44 of the French printmagazine aMiGa=PoWeR covers the following topics:
- News: BOH, F1Spirit, Ambermoon Arcade, M.A.X. Reloaded, Digital Universe 1.6
- Reviews: WarpView 1.03 OS4, OWB 1.3 MOS, Hollywood 4 VideoUp, Celestia 1.5.1 OS4, Giddy 3
- Tutorials: PalmUAE, Grub 1.95, WinUAE on a flashdrive, HTML programming
aMiGa=PoWeR is published by AFLE since 1998 and is distributed worldwide. (snx)
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12.Jun.2009
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Software-News until 12.06.2009
Instant Messenger: SabreMSN 0.50
James 'jahc' Carroll has published a new update of SabreMSN which is an Instant Messenger for the MSN-network for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
Compiler: ECX 2.1.0
ECX is a compiler for the programming language E for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4. ECX requires an existing installation of the Amiga-E-package. The changes in the new version 2.1.0 are listed in the Readme-file.
MorphOS: Reggae-Updates - multimedia.class and multiread.buffer
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewski has published two updates for his multimedia library Reggae:
multimedia.class 52.14:
- New helper methods for implementing seek in subclasses: PreSeek/PostSeek pair has similar purpose as PrePull/PostPull. They do all the framework "bookkeeping", parameters verification, detection of seek past end of stream, method forwarding along the pipeline, log messages and so on. What is also important, PreSeek implements automatic "seek-by-read" fallback for not seekable data sources. Then a subclass implementor may be sure he can always perform forward seek in his demuxer/decoder, even for streams like http.stream (which is not seekable).
multiread.buffer 51.5
- No functional changes, just uses pull and seek helpers in the new multimedia.class, it requires multimedia.class 52.14+ for this reason. Updated documentation.
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12.Jun.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Level editor for the game BOH
For the game BOH developed by Simone Bevilacqua and which is available for AmigaOS 4, Mac OS X and Windows, 'motorollin' has written a Web-based level editor with the following functions:
- Help page
- Undo
- Upload of existing (non-encrypted) maps
- Copy and paste
- Row/column insertion and deletion
- Zoom in and out
- Fill
- All tiles and objects from BOH
- Floors
- Automatic recalculation of surrounding tiles when placing, pasting or filling tiles (e.g. to change buttons to passages when placing barriers on either side of them)
- Save to a BOH .bmd file or display ASCII map data for copy/paste in to a text editor
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11.Jun.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Origyn Web Browser 0.9.6
On sand-labs.org Stanislaw Szymczyk has published another test version of his AROS-port of the Origyn Web Browser. So far for the Bounty-project 1231 US-Dollar and 120 Euro were donated.
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11.Jun.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Commodore Vegas Expo 2009 / Questions to Dave Haynie
On 25. and 26. July in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, the Commodore Vegas Expo (ComVEx) will take place for the fifth time. As former Commodore developers Dave Haynie will be there as well as Chuck Peddle and Bil Herd will attend via video conference.
In the forum of commodore.ca you can send questions which will be supposed to be asked during the event.
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10.Jun.2009
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WHDLoad: New packages until 10.06.2009
The following installers for WHDLoad have been added, improved or updated:
- 03.06.2009 fixed: Fire and Brimstone (Microprose) disk image fixed, slave rewritten, new install script and icons, 2nd button supported (Info)
- 02.06.2009 improved: Turrican 2 (Factor 5/Rainbow Arts) sound replay fixed, 'time out' corrected in CDTV version (Info)
- 02.06.2009 improved: Flink CD³² (Psygnosis) language detection fixed (Info)
- 02.06.2009 improved: Castles (Interplay) fixes for the german version (Info)
- 02.06.2009 links to BitWorld added for most demos and magazines
- 30.05.2009 fixed: Celtic Legends (UBI-Soft) install script corrected (Info)
- 29.05.2009 improved: Knights of the Crystallion (US Gold/Bill Williams) supports german version too, manual protection skipped, solution added (Info)
- 29.05.2009 improved: Atomic Robo-Kid (Activision) highscores are saved, speed improved (with BLITWAIT macro) (Info)
- 27.05.2009 fixed: Sabre Team (Krisalis) CD³² and AGA version corrected (Info)
- 26.05.2009 new: Dragon Tiles 2: The Tournament (Software Circus) done by Psygore (Info)
- 25.05.2009 links to Mantis BugTracker have been added for installs which already have issues there
- 20.05.2009 fixed: Cannon Fodder 2 (Sensible Software) now works with WHDLoad 16.9 (only), new install script (Info)
- 18.05.2009 improved: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) another version supported, quitkey didn't work in both italian versions on 68000 machines (Info)
- 17.05.2009 improved: Breathless (Fields of Vision) another version supported, new install script and icon (Info,Image)
- 17.05.2009 improved: Explora 3: Sous Le Signe Du Serpent (Infomedia) bug in text routine fixed, new install script and icon (Info)
- 16.05.2009 improved: Mega lo Mania (Sensible Software/Mirrorsoft) trainer added (Info,Image)
- 16.05.2009 improved: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) reassembled with the latest kickemu (Info)
- 15.05.2009 improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century) fixed access faults in in-game option menu (Info,Image)
- 15.05.2009 improved: Legend Of Faerghail (reLINE) fixed problem for pre WHDLoad 16.9 users (Info)
- 15.05.2009 improved: Dungeon Master (FTL/Software Heaven) removed 68020+ restriction, converted to WHDLoad v16 (Info)
- 15.05.2009 improved: Sky Chase (Imageworks) another version supported, new icon and install script (Info)
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10.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Bounty for development of PPC-JIT-compiler for UAE
At amigabounty.net a project was established which is supposed to help developing a JIT-68k-compiler for the PPC-version of UAE - similar to existing versions of x86-CPUs. In contrary to the 68k-emulator which has been used in PPC-versions by UAE the speed of emulated appliactions would increase.
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10.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Cinnamon Writer 0.62 (beta)
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer (screenshot) is a SDL-based text editing software for AmigaOS 4 which provides the usual text editing features. The most important changes in version 0.62:
- Major speed optimization
- Added Find/Replace functionality
- Selectable document sizes
- Resizable document area
- New document ruler (WIP)
- Several minor additions improve user experience
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09.Jun.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future issue 53 online
The articles of issue 53 are online on the website of the magazine.
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09.Jun.2009
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser OWB 3.14
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
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08.Jun.2009
(ANF)
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Web-Browser: First alpha version of Netsurf for AmigaOS 3
On a discussion on amiga.org Artur Jarosik told that he has ported the browser Netsurf to AmigaOS 3. NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally developed for RiscOS and which works from 17 MB memory on and supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1.
The AmigaOS 3-version is an early alpha version. There are till some bugs (colours, text input). Netsurf requires Truetype-Fonts, which therefore requires a Truetype-Handler (the author recommends AfA). The required fonts are included in the package and must be copied to ONTS:TrueType/. Additionally a screen mode of 32 Bit colour depth should be used for Netsurf.
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08.Jun.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Megadrive-Emulator Genesis Plus 1.3.2
Ventzislav "drHirudo" Tzvetkov has published a new version of the MegaDrive emulator GenesisPlus.
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07.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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ACube: Price reduction for AmigaOS 4.0 for Classic Amiga
Press release:
Bassano del Grappa - 07. June 2009
Hyperion Entertainment and ACube Systems are pleased to announce a special and limited in time price reduction for AmigaOS 4.0 for "Classic Amiga"-systems.
Until the end of June 2009 AmigaOS 4.0 is available for "Classic Amiga"-systems for 60 Euro (plus taxes).
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07.Jun.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Picture viewer: Eye Viewer SE 1.0
The picture viewer Eye Viewer SE 1.0 includes now a plugin for converting and saving, datatype support and music files can be played.
Download: EyeViewerSE-68k.lha (852 KB)
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07.Jun.2009
Amiga.org (website)
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Cloanto: Amiga Explorer 2009
Press release Amiga Explorer 2009 has just been released. The new version includes enhanced support for Windows 7, an update to Software Director and support for Amiga Forever 2009. The update is free to all Amiga Explorer users.
Amiga Explorer 2009 can be downloaded via Software Director, or from the Amiga Explorer Home Page. If doing a manual download, note the two different editions, one for x86 systems, the other for x64 systems. The Amiga side is always included and works on both 68K and PPC systems.
Traditionally, the release of the new Amiga Explorer as included in Amiga Forever precedes by a few days the launch of a new version of Amiga Forever itself. (snx)
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06.Jun.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Origyn Web Browser 1.3
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published a new version of the Origyn Web Browser for MorphOS. The changes - e.g. the resumption of downloads, pop-up blocker, mimetypes and configurable context menus - are listed in the Readme-file.
As usual three different versions of the program are available. Additional to the full version with all functions there are two versions which require less memory: OWB-nosvg (no support of SVG-format) and OWB-lite (no SVG-support, only UTF-8 and European codepages).
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06.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Tutorial: Guide to Amiga compatible programming
The "Guide to Amiga compatible programming" is a programming guide originally written in Italian which is little by little translated into English. For further development of the course a code.google.com-project was established. Interested users are very welcome.
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06.Jun.2009
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OpenURL 7.5 for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS
With OpenURL you can define default tools for HTTP and mailto links. The library is supported by many applications. Version 7.5 is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS.
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03.Jun.2009
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Software-News until 03.06.2009
VorbisGain 0.36, xpdftools 3.02
On amiga.sourceforge.net two new Unix-ports are available: VorbisGain corrects the volume of Ogg Vorbis music tracks to standard values and xpdftools 3.02 is a collection of little tools about the PDF-format.
vasm 1.4
vasm is an assembler which supports diverse CPU-families (m68k, PPC, i386, 6502...). It is partof the vbcc-distribution. The changes of version 1.4 are listed on the download site.
New full versions on amigafuture.de
In the download section of the Amiga Future some new full versions are available. For example Virtual Ball Fighters, Anstoss, Doodlebug, Nucleus, Tommy Gun, Outlander and Visualprefs.
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02.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Filesharing: AmiGift 2.0
Amigift is a P2P-filesharing system which is based on a giFT-daemon (Gnutella, FastTrack, OpenFT) and includes a MUI-based graphical user-interface called "GiftMUI" (screenshot). After a few beta versions finally version 2.0 of the program is available. The changes are listed in the Changelog. The most important changes in AmiGift 2.0:
- The daemon no longer uses ixemul, we have now a totally native application!
- Each of the libs and plug-ins are now compiled and loaded individually, rather than linked with the daemon executable
- GiFTMui (The MUI front-end) now uses MUI Custom Classes for everything
- LOTS of code have been either rewritten from scratch or optimized
- There's now a dopus-like file manager embedded into GiFTMui
Before installing it interested users are asked to have a look at the sections Requirements and Getting started of the AmiGift website. The complete manual is online as well.
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01.Jun.2009
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: 8-Bit-Emulator Atari++ 1.56
The emulator Atari++ emulates Atari's 8-Bit-home computer as well as the game console Atari 5200. The AmigaOS-4-version was ported by Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkov and supports AmigaInput.
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01.Jun.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Instant Messaging: AmiMSN adjusted to AmigaOS 4 (beta)
AmiMSN is a console based Instant Messenger-client for the MSN-Network written in ARexx. The author has published a version which was adjusted to AmigaOS 4 and offers almost all features of the original version.
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01.Jun.2009
Michael C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Cloanto release C64 Forever
Press release June 1st, 2009 - Cloanto, developers of Commodore/Amiga software since the 1980s, and already publishers of Amiga Forever, launched today C64 Forever (screenshots), a revolutionary preservation, emulation and support package.
C64 Forever embodies an intuitive player interface, backed by a built-in database containing more than 5,000 C64 game entries, and advanced support for the new RP2 format, dubbed the "MP3 of retrogaming" (amiga-news.de reported).
When the C64 was launched in 1982 it immediately set the standard for 8-bit home computers. Its low cost, superior graphics, high quality sound and a massive 64 KB of RAM positioned it as the winner in the home computer wars, knocking out competitors from the likes of Atari, Texas Instruments, Sinclair, Apple and IBM.
Selling over 30 million units and introducing a whole generation to computers and programming, the C64 shook up the video games industry and sparked cultural phenomena such as computer music and the demoscene. In recent years the C64 has enjoyed a spectacular revival manifesting itself once again as a retrocomputing platform.
C64 Forever expands Cloanto's RetroPlatform family, aiming to set new standard in ease of use, emulation power and access to contents. The RetroPlatform player technology, the frequently-updated RetroPlatform Library database and content recognition engine, and the RP2 file format act in synergy to provide a superior user experience.
The software includes more than 100 games, some of the finest demoscene productions, and other bits and pieces of history. Adding content is as easy as a drag-and-drop. The RP2 Manager feature further makes it possible to import thousands of games at once from existing C64 CDs, DVDs or internet downloads, while the built-in search functionality makes it easy to find more games on C64 preservation sites.
C64 Forever (video) is available now in two editions:
- Downloadable Plus Edition - $19.95
- Boxed Plus Edition - $24.95 (photo, includes instant download)
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31.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Video of Amiga and C64-Forever-Chat
The record of the video chat about C64 Forever and Amiga Forever 2009 is now online:
http://vimeo.com/retroplatform
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30.May.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: DigiRoller - Betatest for DigiBoosterPro
Press release The Open Beta Test of DigiBoosterPro has started today. For this purpose we have published the program DigiRoller at the title link. We wish to get as much users as possible for this Open Beta Test to avoid future problems.
DigiRoller is a standalone DBM module player and renderer. It is released for free as a preview of sound synthesis technology used in upcoming DigiBooster 3. With DigiRoller any DBM music module can be played or saved to an AIFF/WAVE file. There is also a benchmark mode which allows for estimating DigiBooster 3 player engine speed on different hardware. DigiRoller is being released for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS 1.4/2.x and runs on all hardware supported by these operating systems (with exception of 68020+ requirement for AmigaOS 3 version).
The key feature of the new DigiBooster 3 player engine is AHI independency. The new engine does not rely on AHI resampling and mixing. Using own algorithms allows for better quality, for example track mixing is done with 24-bit precision. Breaking AHI dependency also opens a way for making high quality DigiBooster 3 module replayers for non-Amiga operating systems like Windows, Linux or MacOS. DigiRoller uses AHI as a playback backend only, to stay compatible with as many sound hardware as possible. (snx)
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30.May.2009
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AMIX: Back port project AmixBP
AMIX, Commodore's Amiga Unix, is a port of Unix System V Release 4 to the Amiga 2000 and 3000. Under the title link the Sourceforge.net-project AmixBP was established.
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29.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Metacompiler: PortablE r4
Christopher Handley's Metacompiler PortablE translates the programming language E into different ones. Through this extensive E-programs are supposed to be changes in this way that they can be compiled to a wider range of platforms.
With version r4 additional to AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS now Windows is supported as well.
Changes:
- PortablE now has basic support for Windows, along with some standard
portable modules which allow the same program to run unchanged on
Windows & Amiga; documentation & several examples are provided
- PortablE now comes with an installer (for all supported platforms)
- The PEGCC program runs both PortablE and G++ (GCC) for you, thus
producing an executable directly from E code
- PortablE now runs up to twice as fast
- Added MUI support for AROS
- Fixed modules to work with AmigaOS 4's latest SDK
- FastNew() & NEW are now thread safe
- Fixed FastNew() & NEW, which were previously un-aligned & so could
cause crashes under certain circmstances
- OpenLibrary() could a crash on AmigaOS 4; really fixed this time
- Numerous other improvements, changes & bug fixes
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29.May.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AISS ToolBar Creator 0.2
The MUI-based AISSTBC ("AISS Toolbar Creator") is supposed to help developers creating button bars: With drag'n drop whole button bars can be configured and saved from AISS-pictures. In version 0.2 a bug was fixed which caused a crash if pictures were loaded.
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29.May.2009
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Reggae-Updates multimedia.class 52.13 and zxscreen.decoder 51.2
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has published two updates for his multimedia library Reggae:
multimedia.class 52.13
- Added two helper methods for class implementors: MMM_PrePull() and MMM_PostPull(). Using them in a class saves about a kilobyte of code :-)
- Added a separete memory lict semaphore, so one can use Reggae memory allocation functions inside MMM_Setup(). One of new incoming classes needs it.
zxscreen.decoder 51.2
- The first class to use PrePull()/PostPull() helpers
- Because of this added multimedia.class 52.13+ check at initialization
- Binary is shorter. ;-)
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28.May.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Log-Analyzer logtool 2.6
Jacek Piszczek has published an update of his log-analyzer logtool (screenshot). Changes in version 2.6:
- Changes in log filtering. Please note that the filter prefs changed and you might need to recreate your filters.
- Support for firewire logs with OHCI1394Mon by Frank Mariak
logtool requires at least versions 50.70 of the MUI-class Powerterm.mcc which is part of the MUICON-package.
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28.May.2009
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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What about ... Jim Collas?
Jim Collas which was managing director at Amiga Inc. at the end of the last centenary seems to has found a new job: As managing director of SocialWise he tries to establish the pay service "BillMyParents".
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[News message: 28. May. 2009, 16:35] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MUI-class: TheBar.mcc 26.3
The MUI-class TheBar.mcc is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and now for AROS in version 26.3 as well. With it you can create switch panels. You can make suggestions how this class should be developed further.
Download: MCC_TheBar-26.3.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. May. 2009, 12:04] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2009
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: 15 new full versions online / Support wanted
Press release The download area of the Amiga Future homepage has been updated again. There are new full versions online. New downloads are highlighted in the download database. Additionally there is an overview of new downloads at the lower border of the download page. Furthermore there have been updates to the descriptions and screenshots of some downloads.
The Amiga Future is a non-profit project. That's why the Amiga Future homepage has to completely manage itself in terms of financing. The about 8 GB containing homepage is entirely paid by advertising, donations and our own private money. Especially the development of new expansions, databases and features is really expensive. That's why we ask you to support us by donating money. It allows us to make the homepage more user friendly and comprehensive. (snx)
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26.May.2009
Ralf Steines (ANF)
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Back to the Roots: Server-Crash
Ralf Steines wrote: Unfortunately here come bad news. Recently a Raid5-Array was damaged so two harddrives lost their data. Despite of rescue attempts almost all data were lost which were saved in ther main archive and on the FTP server.
The main archive has got a backup server which unfortunately cannot save the high amount of data on the FTP-server. We have a loss of nearly 2,6 millions (nearly all Amiga-) files.
Thank God, in winter the whole archive was checked for viruses. Additionally ca. 20.000 new disk archives and ca. 50.000 virus protocols were uploaded which were almost all (online) lost. Thanks to the virus tests ca. 95% of the lost data are morrored offline.
Therefore it will take a while until all data will be uploaded to the FTP. With a home-DSL connection it will take ca. half of a year. Until then the main archive is available on the replacement server (automatic redirect). The FTP-server will stay offline until the first upload will be done.
Of course the whole archive will be recovered but it will take a while. The affected harddrives were all completely financed with donations 4 years ago.
If anybody is interested in supporting the new acquisition: On each download site there is a donation link. We will try to expand the main site (3 TB) and to get a mirror with the whole archive.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. May. 2009, 09:48] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video magazine: Amitopia TV issue 5/09
Amitopia TV is an English video magazine about the Amiga. The latest issue includes an introduction in the logo creator called "Titler" for MorphOS.
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[News message: 25. May. 2009, 23:24] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: #Amigaguide issues for free download
The published issues of the English magazine #Amigaguide are now available as free download. A registration is no longer required.
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[News message: 25. May. 2009, 23:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Obligement: Interview with Fabien Coeurjoly (French)
Under the title link David Brunet has interviewed the developer Fabien Coeurjoly (e.g. Ambient, MPlayer, Origyn Web Browser). With the help of Babelfish there are links to automatic translations.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. May. 2009, 21:38] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
Troels Ersking (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: WxWidgets bounty opened
At the title link, amigabounty.net announces a bounty to get WxWidgets ported to AmigaOS 4.1.
Having WxWidgets available on AmigaOS 4.1 should enable the users to get easier access to a huge number of cross-platform applications and developers an option to reach a wider audience if they develop using WxWidgets. A few examples of applications using WxWidgets include KiCAD, Audacity, Code::Blocks IDE and (originally from the Amiga) Audio Evolution 5. (snx)
[News message: 25. May. 2009, 21:16] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2009
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Reggae-updates MediaLogger 1.12 and amossound.demuxer 51.1
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has published two updates for his multimedia library Reggae. MediaLogger is a tool enabling developers to spot bugs in Reggae applications and amossound.demuxer is a class for AMOS sound banks.
MediaLogger 1.12:
- Fully localized (Polish catalog for now, German one is amlost ready, but needs some fixes)
- Improved keyboard handling (missing tab cycles, more hotkeys)
- Installer script
amossound.demuxer 51.1:
- A new class for sound AMOS banks
- Creates multiple outputs, one per every sound in a bank
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[News message: 25. May. 2009, 20:01] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiKit: Version 1.5.9 / Installation guide for real Amigas
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and is now available in version 1.5.9. If you have already installed a previous version you should update with the Live-Update. The changes are listed in the Changelog. Additionally the new WinUAE-version 1.6.0 can be installed with the Add-on.
The Amigahellas-editor Dimitris Panokostas has published an English guide about how you can install the AmiKit package on a real Amiga. You can find it in the AmiKit-Knowledge-Base.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2009, 19:31] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2009
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Wookiechat 2.12 Beta 3, SabreMSN 0.49
James "jahc" Carroll has published updates of his MUI-based messenger WookieChat (AmigaOS 3/4, AROS, MorphOS) and SabreMSN (AmigaOS 3/4, AROS).
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[News message: 24. May. 2009, 14:57] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: NetSurf 2.1
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally developed for RiscOS and which can be used from 17 MB memory on. It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1. The changes of version 2.1 are listed in the Changelog.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2009, 14:50] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2009
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: xMAME 1.06
Steffen Häuser has published an update of the AmigaOS-4-port of the arcade emulator xMAME.
Download: xmame.lha (20 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2009, 13:25] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2009
Amiga-Forever-Team (ANF)
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Amiga Forever and C64 Forever Live Video Meetup
The Amiga Forever Team will have a live video meetup today. The session is set to begin at 17:00 UTC (10 AM San Francisco, 1 PM New York, 6 PM London, 7 PM Berlin).
Topics will include C64 Forever and Amiga Forever 2009 and how they fit into the RetroPlatform context, and questions from the public. The live show, which includes a chat window for questions and comments, is hosted on ustream.tv. (snx)
[News message: 24. May. 2009, 13:02] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 1.6.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE is now available as new version 1.6.0. Now you can convert between Amiga and Windows-Clipboard (HAM6/8 to 24 Bit, EHB to 64-colour-picture; pictures with more than 256 colours to 24-Bit-IFF), have growing harddrive-images and an improved mouse emulation with regard to the Pipelining minigame at "Oil Imperium".
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[News message: 23. May. 2009, 06:10] [Comments: 0]
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22.May.2009
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FFmpeg: SVN-Version 18880 with FFplay
Piotr Bandurski has compiled the latest version of the video converter FFmpeg for AmigaOS. Now an Amiga version of the play program FFplay is included.
Please note that FFplay requires version "61" of the ixemul.libary which is not compatible any longer to the original version.
Download: ffmpeg-svnr18880-m68k.lha (7 MB)
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[News message: 22. May. 2009, 15:23] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2009
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Software-News until 21.05.2009
ixemul.library 61.1
The ixemul.library provides some Unix and BSD specific functions under AmigaOS and though makes it more easy porting applications. Bernd Rösch has ported back the MorphOS version of ixemul to AmigaOS 3. The changes of version 61.1 are listed in the Changelog.
SDL 1.2.13 Rev. 2
For AmigaOS there is a port of the Simple DirectMedia Layer in version 1.2.13 Rev.2 vor. The changes are listed in the Changelog.
Lame 3.98.2
Michel "DMX" Bagmeijer has compiled the MP3-encoders LAME 3.98.2 which fixes some problems of the binary offered at amiga.sf.net.
Shorten 3.6.1
Shorten is an audio compressor which both lossless and lossy audio compression supports. The AmigaOS-port was made by Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer.
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[News message: 21. May. 2009, 23:17] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2009
german Amiga Community
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Tripos-manuals as download, comparison with AmigaDOS
In his English blog Michael Steil has provided the manuals of the AmigaDOS first version called Tripos and compared it with the first "AmigaDOS Manuals" published by Commodore.
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[News message: 21. May. 2009, 15:21] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2009
Matthias 'maz' Ziegs (ANF)
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Music CD: Second edition of Symphonic Shades
Press release Sold out way too quick in December last year, now it is back! With its transparent standard-tray the new edition is lower priced than the first edition. All other details incl. CD content and the extensive booklet with interview, photos and artwork are identical.
The CD presents all songs of the concert performed in August 2008 in Cologne, which was a world-premiere: Minimalist homecomputer sounds turned into arrangements for 120 musicians of orchestra and choir - a complete symphonic concert dedicated to the works of one video game musician exclusively.
The name of this person is Chris Huelsbeck, who is regarded as legend among enthusiasts for his music in game classics of the C64- and Amiga-homecomputer era such as "Giana Sisters" or "Turrican". The songs were rearranged by demoscene legend Jonne Valtonen (aka Purple Motion / Future Crew), director was Grammy-winning artist Arnold Roth. (snx)
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20.May.2009
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Protrekkr 1.98k
Fernando Mastandrea has ported the SDL-based music program Protrekkr (formerly NoiseTrekker) to AROS/x86 (screenshot).
Download: protrekkr.lha (4 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. May. 2009, 18:36] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Guru Meditation: The Amiga Joyboard
According to the legend the name "Guru Meditation" is derived from a game which the original Amiga developers played with a self-made joystick replacement called Joyboard as soon as the Amiga prototypes did not work any longer.
Exactly this game Ian Bogost has implemented now - for the Atari VCS. 25 years ago such a Joyboard was offered for it as well. This limited edition which has only 10 pieces consisting of game modul, Atari VCS-console and an original Amiga Joyboard (!). If you are interested in you should contact Bogost per eMail.
If you miss this offer you can buy an iPhone version in Apple's AppStore - but without Joyboard.
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[News message: 20. May. 2009, 03:53] [Comments: 0]
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19.May.2009
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Commodore-Show in Maarssen (Netherlands)
The next event of the Dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep will take place on Saturday, 20. June in Kerkweg 21, in Maarssen.
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[News message: 19. May. 2009, 19:51] [Comments: 0]
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19.May.2009
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Updates for twoi Reggae-classes
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewski has published updates for two classes of his multimedia library Reggae:
- audio.output 51.11: An old bug has been fixed, the class crashed when an object could not be created for any reason (usually the cause was exclusive AHI use by some application)
- zxscreen.demuxer 51.3: The class has been extended with support of ZX Interface 1 screen dumps and ZX82 emulator screen dumps.
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[News message: 19. May. 2009, 15:22] [Comments: 0]
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18.May.2009
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Videos from AmiWest 2000
Robert Bernardo has recorded videos on the AmiWest 2000 which are now available on blip.tv: Part 1 is a tour through the event. The second part shows the speech of McEwens.
Hint: blip.tv does not work with IBrowse.
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[News message: 18. May. 2009, 15:37] [Comments: 0]
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17.May.2009
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Claws Mail 3.7.1 for AmiCygnix
For his X11-environment AmiCygnix Edgar Schwan has published a port of the email-program Claws Mail in version 3.7.1. Claws Mail is based on the GTK+-toolkit (screenshots: 1, 2, 3).
Download: claws-mail.lha (17 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. May. 2009, 20:16] [Comments: 0]
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17.May.2009
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: UAE4ALL-Update
Mainly meant for Efika owners this MorphOS-port of the Amiga emulator UAE4ALL (amiga-news.de reported) is faster than the previous version. Additionally now the file manager works and the window modus was deactivated.
Download: uae4all_morphos.lha (2 MB)
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[News message: 17. May. 2009, 07:14] [Comments: 0]
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