28.Apr.2013
MAZ Sound Tools (ANF)
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Soundtrack-CD: Paula Agnus Denise - Best of Amiga and CD32 Video Game Music
Press release: Delivered in a neat Super Jewelcase, "Paula Agnus Denise" presents a compilation of remastered and remixed Amiga videogame soundtracks. Translated into todays studio recordings, it celebrates the catchy melodies of legendary games which have been released during 1989-1994.
Numerous classics are waiting to be newly discovered, such as Shadow of the Beast, Pinball Dreams, Turrican 2, Alien Breed, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Cannon Fodder, Speedball 2, Hired Guns or Battle Squadron. Composers featured on the album include Chris Hülsbeck, Tim Wright, Allister Brimble, David Whittaker, Barry Leitch and many others.
You're welcome to order the CD at a price of 14.95 Euro as of now, it will be released May 6th. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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28.Apr.2013
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Video-tour: Inside Commodore-Amiga
For an Amiga developer conference, Dave Schein made a video 20 years ago which documented a fourty minutes lasting tour through the offices of Commodore.
This video now has been uploaded to Youtube.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Apr. 2013, 18:04] [Comments: 0]
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28.Apr.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Interview: Dave Townsend (Bull Run)
The interview serie on amigapd.com was continued with a conversation with Dave Townsend who in 1987 released the strategy game "Bull Run".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Apr. 2013, 17:56] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2013
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Aminet-Uploads until 26.04.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until April 26th, 2013:
TS-Wetter.lha comm/misc 1.5M MOS Stream tagesschau.de's wether...
netsurf.lha comm/www 4.7M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser ...
FlexCat-2.12.lha dev/misc 323K MOS Flexible catalogs (C,Asm,Ober...
MCC_BetterString-11.2... dev/mui 305K MOS BetterString custom class for...
MCC_NList-0.116.lha dev/mui 1.8M MOS NList custom classes for MUI
MCC_TextEditor-15.41.lha dev/mui 793K MOS TextEditor custom class for MUI
MCC_TheBar-26.12.lha dev/mui 1.6M MOS Next Generation Toolbar MUI C...
codesets-6.15.lha util/libs 602K MOS Library handling codesets and...
stream_mos.lha util/moni 181K MOS STREAM is a Memory Bandwith T...
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27.Apr.2013
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.04.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until April 26th, 2013:
xeromouse.lha dri/inp 64kb 4.1 A driver for Cherry "Xero" USB m...
yam_greek.lha net/ema 45kb 4.0 Greek catalog files for YAM and ...
x1ktempdocky.lha uti/doc 350kb 4.1 CPU Temp Monitor docky for the X...
arexxconsole.lha uti/mis 39kb 4.0 Utility for sending ARexx messages
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27.Apr.2013
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 26.04.2013
The following package has been added to AROS-Archives until April 26th, 2013:
tong-its.i386-aros.zip gam/car 572kb Tong-its - Filipino Card game.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Apr.2013
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 26.04.2013
The following package has been added to MorphOS-Files until April 26th, 2013:
VecxGL 1.0 uti/emu 96 Emulator of 1982 game cons...
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27.Apr.2013
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WHDLoad: New packages until 26.04.2013
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until April 26th, 2013:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Apr. 2013, 08:25] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Interview with Loriano Pagni
Under the title link, Loriano Pagni was interviewed who recently has finished the Kickstarter project for the self-made computer case "X500 Plus" with about 12.000 pounds.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Apr. 2013, 08:14] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up 1.1.1
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's "Ask Me Up" is a "video game about general knowledge" and is available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (screenshot). There is also a L- and XL-edition with two player mode. A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.
In version 1.1.1 the answers are displayed randomly. Additionally a part of the answers was translated into different languages: Italian (95%), Spanish (25%), Swedish (9%), Greek (8%) and German (4%).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Apr. 2013, 08:10] [Comments: 0]
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26.Apr.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmigaAMP 3.7
Thomas Wenzel has updated his music player program AmigaAMP. Version 3.7 now supports plugins of TuneNet:
- Added TuneNet Plugin support
- Now using faad.library instead of built in AAC decoder
- Fixed automatic opening of playlist window in ReAction GUI mode
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Apr. 2013, 00:32] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Netsurf 3.0
After for AmigaOS 3.x, the fast browser Netsurf is available for AmigaOS 4 as well. Version 3.0 was ported by Chris Young. Now Javascript is supported (beta status) as well as Cairo and shared libraries. Additionally the the DOM-library was improved.
Download: netsurf.lha (5 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Apr. 2013, 18:56] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2013
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Petro Tyschtschenko: Further Amiga-1200 packages available
According to Petro Tyschtschenko, in June he will get a new delivery of Amiga-1200 packages. Some first packages were delivered in November. The price is 150 Euro plus shipping and taxes. Interested persons can order via eMail.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Apr. 2013, 13:32] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IceDoctor 1.3
With IceDoctor you can repair a damaged IceFS file system and backup its data. Changes in version 1.3:
- Less memory used when salvaging files
- "Rebuilding reuse linkage" phase could freeze computer, fixed
- Hard links were always seen as broken, fixed
Download: IceDoctor-1.3.lha (106 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Apr. 2013, 09:02] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Interview with Guillaume Boesel
The Italian news site "Amiga News.IT" has interviewed the developer Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel (FastCompress, SysMon) which is available in English and Italian.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Apr. 2013, 08:56] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2013
Michael C. Battilana (e-mail)
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever Essentials for Android
Press release: April 23, 2013 - Cloanto, publishers of Amiga Forever since 1997, is announcing today the immediate availability of Amiga Forever Essentials on Google Play. The release marks the first of a planned series of "Essentials" packages for different platforms, in which officially licensed Amiga ROM and OS files are made available for programmatic access by a diversity of open-source emulation engines.
For the Android release, Cloanto worked closely with the developers of UAE4Droid, AnUAE4All, UAE4All2 and other apps to make sure that the Amiga system files are autodetected and easy to use.
"We are grateful for the fact that Google Play is open-minded about emulators and GPL components. As such, Android was our ideal candidate for the initial release in the Amiga Forever Essentials series", said Cloanto President Mike Battilana. "This makes it possible to keep Amiga emulation accessible, enjoyable and legal in ways that are not always within reach for other systems or platforms."
Amiga Forever Essentials unlocks the potential of different Amiga emulation apps designed for Android, making it possible to play thousands of Amiga titles on Amiga OS versions 1.2, 1.3, 2.04, 3.0 and 3.1 in emulated computers like the Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200. Bonus content like Workbench 1.3 and First Demos disk images let Amiga enthusiasts enjoy memorable classics such as the 1984 Boing demo.
The app is available now for only $0.99 on the Google Play store. For developers, there is also information on shared system files on Android devices. (snx)
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23.Apr.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: 8-bit emulator Atari++ 1.72
Atari++ emulates Atari's 8-bit homecomputer as well as the game console Atari 5200. The AmigaOS-4-port was written by Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkov, supports AmigaInput and can be controlled with joysticks.
Changes:
- The binary file loader automatically generated when inserting a COM or EXE into the disk drive and booting from it is now much shorter and requires a lot less RAM. It requires now, however, an additional ESCape code and hence emulator support. This will now also load binary files that require RAM from 0x800 and up
- This release adds support for ATX files and includes an emulation of the disk drive timing, handling of bad and duplicate sectors and a more precise emulation of the SIO timing
- An additional type of watch point was added: The default watch point now only reacts on memory writes, whereas the new watch point continues to react on reads and writes
- Experimented a lot with the timing of the GTIA Prior writing and found that the currently implemented logic is actually very close to the real system, additional delay cycles make results only worse, not better. Thus, leaving it as it is right now
- The SDL StringGadget now reacts on Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+Delete and erases its contents on this keyboard command
- Added emulation for "stuck" Player/Missile shift registers when switching from 4x or 2x expansion to the size register "2" value, which is almost, but not quite 1x expansion
- The built-in Os blocks NMIs now early in the reset cycle and by that tries to work around bad display lists left over by buggy programs
- Minor modification in the built-in FMS (Dos 2.++): CONFIG.SYS can now change the position of the FMS buffers by poking into DiskBufferBase $710,$711 and relocate them
- Minor modification of the short VBI: GPrior, ColBK and Col1 are now only reloaded if the graphics mode really requires it. This applies to fine scrolling text modes, and the text window modes with the GTIA modes (modes 9+64,10+64 and 11+64). This fixes compatibility issues with Atari Tennis and some Lucasfilms intros
- Minor modifications in the FMS: Rename with wildcard was broken, and the FMS no longer tries to load non-valid VTOCs
- The DUP COPY command avoids now trying to overwrite BASIC program memory or other user memory protected correctly by setting APPMEMHI. Some cartridges do not set this Os pointer correctly, though. Mac/65 does not. The new DUP command NEW will erase user memory and make it available for COPY
- Fixed a long standing bug of all Dos 2.XX compatible FMS'es: Directory reading mode did not cooperate with any other operations that would access the directory, and would invalidate the directory access channel. This is no longer the case now. Additionally, reading the directory sets now the EOF warning flag (Y = 3) correctly right before the EOF
- The STATUS command, as specified by DOS 2.0S and DOS 2.5, was actually quite unuseful as it required a file specification which was never supplied by BASIC. The new implementation returns the status of the last CIO command on the same channel if the channel is open, allowing BASIC for example to access the near-EOF warning return code
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22.Apr.2013
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MorphOS counter: inofficial chart illustrates the MorphOS sales since 2008
Shortly after the release of MorphOS 2, MorphOS users started posting the serial numbers of their newly acquired MorphOS license in a thread on morphzone.org. As the serial numbers seem to increase in a linear fashion, most people assume that the latest assigned serial number also represents the number of MorphOS copies sold so far.
Konrad 'koszer' Czuba is regularly using the available serial numbers to create a chart that illustrates the number of MorphOS sales since 2008
(click on the picture to display it in full size):
We are not aware of statements from the MorphOS team regarding the validity of the numbers discussed here. Thanks to Konrad Czuba for the kind permission to publish his chart. (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2013, 16:01] [Comments: 0]
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