09.Oct.2012
Jürgen Beck (ANF)
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Podcast: BitJam #159 - Retrobeat by Yerzmyey
BitJam episode #159 consists of an exclusive mix called "Retrobeat" from renowned artist Yerzmyey, created using special 8-channel tunes for the Amiga, all recorded from original hardware. The podcast has been mixed by Vincenzo.
Track list:
- Critical Density
- GeoCosmos
- Interdimensional Crusader
- RetroBeat
- Into Aphelium
- From Desert to Forest
- Arcane Zone
- Time Machine
Total playing time: 31:17 Minuten
MP3-Download: bitjam_159.mp3
CUE-Sheet: bitjam_159.cue
YouTube: Video (snx)
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09.Oct.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Sam460: Linux-Distribution Ubuntu as live-CD
ACube has published the well-known Linux-distribution Ubuntu as so called live-CD. We do not know which version of Ubuntu has been used.
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09.Oct.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate-SDK-Server accessible again, AmiUpdate 2.18
AmiUpdate is a simple package manager which informs the user about updates of his installed applications. The server which runs the central AmiUpdate-database now is accessible again. The administrator needs support maintaining and updating the SDK-database. Please write him to spotUP@gmail.com if you are interetsed.
Additionally today version 2.18 of AmiUpdate was released. The changes are listed in the Release Notes.
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07.Oct.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 1.3.30
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5+ (i386, PPC) and Linux (i386, AMD64) is based on WinUAE and can be completely controlled with a joypad.
Please note that the paths of the repository and the downloads have been changed and the launcher-database has to be scanned again.
Changes in version 1.3.29:
- Implemented fs_application_exe_path for Unix-like systems.
- Data files (“share”) are now also searched relative to fs-uae executable (executabledir/share and executabledir/../share) before checking the default system locations, and no longer searched for under cwd.
- Fixed problem where A key press could mysteriously appear on OS X.
- Fixed bug with shader passes being multiplied on mode switch.
- Link with -headerpad_max_install_names on OS X [Tobias Netzel].
- (Launcher) Saving configurations is now possible.
- (Launcher) Added new “default” input device options.
- (Launcher) Contract paths with $BASE or $HOME if possible.
- (Launcher) Automatically scan local config files (.fs-uae) on startup.
- (Launcher) Net play panel must be enabled with custom setting netplay_feature = 1 (temporary for 2.0 series).
- (Launcher) New icon to distinguish the launcher from FS-UAE.
Changes in version 1.3.30:
- (Launcher) New list control implementation for configurations list.
- (Launcher) You can now type in the config list to jump to items.
- (Launcher) Configuration list items are prefixed with an icon.
- (Launcher) New setup page for importing kickstarts when starting the launcher for the first time.
- (Launcher) Automatically scan for rom changes in main Kickstarts folder on startup.
- (Launcher) Fixed backspace behaviour in config name text box.
- (Launcher) Windows installer: explicitly put registry keys in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes instead of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.
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07.Oct.2012
Finnish Amiga Users Group (ANF)
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Event: Photos and videos of Saku 2012
At the title link photos and videos of the Saku 2012 have been published. The Finnish Amiga User Group comment: "The event was held on September 29th in Oulu, the northern Amiga capital of Finland. The event was a success with around 70 visitors, which was achieved with proper advertisement and also promotion in other public events.
For example, we were asked to arrange some retro gaming at Oulu Arts' Night earlier this year and we got around 200 interested nostalgia gamers there. Amiga is not forgotten! Maybe we just should participate in more mainstream events to get people interested in our specific events as well.
Saku 2012 featured thirteen Amiga compatible and three Commodore 64 computers, four video projectors, several sales tables, game and programming competitions with prizes, demo and video shows and a very enthusiastic atmosphere.
Next year we aim higher with the Saku 2013 event. It will be held in southern Finland where the potential of reaching the masses is a lot higher. It will also be our 20th anniversary event. Be ready for it!
About Finnish Amiga Users Group:
Finnish Amiga Users Group (officially Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry) is a registered, non-profit organization dedicated to helping Finnish Amiga computer users by preserving and advancing the Amiga hobby and knowledge of the Amiga computing platform in Finland. The group aims to reach its goals through volunteer efforts such as maintaining a web site and discussion forum and organizing events. (snx)
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07.Oct.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.10.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 06.10.2012 to the Aminet:
facts.lha comm/tcp 247K 68k NTP clock time synchroniser A...
Blitz_lisp.lha dev/basic 10K 68k lisp lib dev kit for Blitz.
libmpg123.lha dev/lib 870K OS4 Library for decoding mpeg aud...
libvgmstream.lha dev/lib 5.0M OS4 Library for decoding video ga...
Locate_Demo.py.txt dev/src 4K 68k Text drawing inside a default...
pfs3ks13.lha disk/misc 76K 68k PFS3 for KS1.X
anaiis.lha driver/oth 222K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.06
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 199K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
anaiis_hostusb.lha driver/oth 130K 68k ANAIIS libusb support for WinUAE
Retrobattle.lha game/jump 7.3M x86 Retrobattle
retrobattle.src-aros.lha game/jump 5.3M Retrobattle sources
neverball-os4-bin.lha game/misc 47M OS4 Neverball / Neverputt (Ball g...
Colorit.lha game/wb 33K 68k Try to match the displayed pa...
Hexit.lha game/wb 34K 68k Try to match an hexagonal sha...
Tri_It.lha game/wb 34K 68k Try to match a triangular pat...
X-OutST.lha mods/cust 50K 68k Custom modules from "X-Out" (...
vgmstream_tnplug.lha mus/play 481K OS4 VGMStream plugin for TuneNet
wsr_tnplug.lha mus/play 105K OS4 Wonderswan (.wsr) plugin for ...
Scriba_0.9.0.lha text/edit 6.8M MOS Simple word processing softwa...
midtofront.i386-aros.... util/cdity 21K x86 MidToFront for AROS
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.5M MOS Directory and files tool
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07.Oct.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.10.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 06.10.2012 to the OS4Depot:
vgmstream_tnplug.lha aud/pla 481kb 4.0 VGMStream plugin for TuneNet
wsr_tnplug.lha aud/pla 106kb 4.0 Wonderswan (.wsr) plugin for Tun...
once_upon.lha dem/sce 1Mb 4.0 Once upon a Time in the East by Fit
libmpg123.lha dev/lib 870kb 4.0 Library for decoding mpeg audio ...
libvgmstream.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.0 Library for decoding video game ...
libvo-aacenc.lha dev/lib 800kb 4.0 VisualOn AAC encoder library
libvo-amrwbenc.lha dev/lib 531kb 4.0 VisualON AMR-WB encoder library
libopenjpeg.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 lib for handling JPEG 2000 images
neverball-bin.lha gam/mis 47Mb 4.1 Neverball / Neverputt (Ball games)
neverball-src.lha gam/mis 27Mb 4.0 Source for Neverball / Neverputt...
flare.lha gam/rol 2Mb 4.0 A free action RPG engine
nuvie.lha gam/rol 1Mb 4.0 Nuvie Ultima 6 game engine
autocopyfile.lha uti/scr 130kb 4.0 AutoCopyFile copy a file Library...
avcodec.lha vid/mis 8Mb 4.1 Audio and Video decoding library...
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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07.Oct.2012
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 06.10.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 06.10.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
ami-ingenious.i386-aros.zip gam/boa 522kb Great strategy game with easy to...
retrobattle.i386-aros.lha gam/pla 7Mb Retrobattle
retrobattle.src-aros.lha gam/pla 5Mb Retrobattle sources
midtofront.i386-aros.tar.gz uti/wor 21kb MidToFront for AROS
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07.Oct.2012
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 17.1
With WHDLoad you can install games, scene demos and intros on your harddrive which originally could only be used from disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with new Amiga models were fixed.
Today the final version 17.1 has been released. Additionally since our last message with Antideluvian Sloppy Spectacle (Essence), created by BlackWine (info, image) a new package was uploaded.
Changes in version 17.1:
- Fix: Formatting of termination reason string in register dump fixed on very long texts (Psygore)
- Fix: If the vbr is moved by WHDLoad the interrupts of levels 4-6 (vectors $70..$78) are directly forwarded to the installed program now, in previous releases all the sanity checks and checks for the keyboard were done in each interrupt which has increased the latency and duration of the interrupts, now these checks are only performed in interrupt levels 1-3 or if the option CheckInts/S is used for all levels it seems that the increased amount of code put into the interrupts by the later WHDLoad versions has caused problems with several games, this is hopefully fixed now and these games will work with the current WHDLoad as good as with versions 16.8 or 16.9
- Fix: On a 68020 the default cache setup was instruction cache enable, this bug has been introduced in version 17.0, now the default is again disabled (Toni Wilen)
- Chg: The icon started from is only written if any gadget has been pressed, previously it were written everytime if Config or Expert was active (Graham)
- Fix: Prevented a bug when FileLog/S will be disabled via the splash window
- New: Resload_DiskLoad can now dump all read files, see autodoc
- New: SnoopOCS/ECS/AGA/S checks also that writes to custom.aud*ptr are not outside BaseMem and are not equal zero, check is only performed on 68060 (Psygore)
- Chg: WHDLoad now detects a filesize difference between the directory scan used for resload_Examine/ExNext requested by WHDLF_Examine and the file PreLoad, this may reveal filesystem problems in conjunction with dos.ExAll, e.g. ffs 39.x (issue #2575)
- Chg: Documentation regarding patch lists in include and autodoc files improved
- Fix: On chip memory only machines with Kickstart 3.0 or better slaves with WHDLF_Examine failed on building the directory cache due problems with exec.CreatePool (Psygore)
Download:
WHDLoad_usr.lha (1 MB)
WHDLoad_usr_small.lha (782 KB)
WHDLoad_dev.lha (3 MB)
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07.Oct.2012
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: List of old hardware for new developers
On Meta-morphos.org Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy has made available a text file where users can enter their hardware which they want to donate and developers their requests for hardware.
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06.Oct.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hungarian PDF-Magazine: Amiga Mania #5
"Amiga Mania" is an elaborately designed Hungarian PDF-magazine with 36 pages. Issue 5 (front page) includes aong others an interview with Trevor Dickinson.
Download: Amiga Mania 05_OnLine.pdf (88 MB)
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05.Oct.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: avcodec.library 53.611
As a result of the bounty project on updating the avcodec.library (amiga-news.de reported) which is donated with more than 600 Euro Diego Cassoran has released the final version 53.611. With one exception all problems have been fixed.
The avcodec.library is the AmigaOS-4-port of the ffmpeg-library libavcodec. The last version 0.10.3 was called "Freedom" and released in May this year.
Download: avcodec.lha (8 MB)
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05.Oct.2012
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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A-EON Technology: Announcement of RadeonHD-driver 0.54
As planned Hans de Ruiter has added full support for AMD Radeon HD series 7 graphics card in version 0.54 of the RadeonHD-driver for AmigaOS 4.1 (update 5) which is supported by A-EON Technology.
According to the company under the title link the new version will be available soon. Besides, owners of multiple AmigaOS systems can now purchase additional licences through its website.
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04.Oct.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix uploads new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last message the following new songs have been added:
- Hybris speedy chef remix
- Hybris (Time out Remix)
- Odyssey Part 5 New Trance Mix
- Altered Beast: Heaven on Earth
- Rastaman with a banjoman
- Amberstar - Mysty Orc Fanfares
- Elvira´s Garden - Solfeggio Acoustic Remix
- A Prehistoric Tale: Fall into prehistoric
- Cannon Fodder - Of Blood And Honor
- Seven Gates of Jambala: Assemble the magic staff (The right colour sequence mix)
- Turrican (Title 3) - Shoot Or Die!
- Shadow of the Beast (daXX 2012 Remix)
- Echoing (SID EMULATED MIX)
- Odyssey Megademo Part 5 NEWMIX
- Elvira / Demon Blue (High Scores) short remix
- Dylan Dog - The Murderers
- Sly Spy (amiga intro)
- Pinball Illusions Intro
- Turrican 3 Intro(Badliz Remix)
- Rollerball - Remix
- Arabian Nights: Arabia (loop) - Remastered
- Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
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04.Oct.2012
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Interview: Jonathan Potter (Directory Opus)
The Amiga website "Amiga Lore" has published an interview with Jonathan Potter who is the author of the well-known file manager Directory Opus. The interview is completed by an article about the history of Directory Opus.
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04.Oct.2012
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Strategy game: 1980s Football Manager
"1980s Football Manager" was written with AMOS and is a homage to the first games of this genre. Now the "final" version was released.
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04.Oct.2012
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Digital copies of Amiga magazines at archive.org
The Internet Archive should mainly be known for its Wayback Machine which since 1996 has been taking snapshots of the current state of many websites.
Besides, many printed magazines have been scanned and made available to the general public, among others many computer magazines.
About the Amiga for example 104 issues of the British CU Amiga can be read and are available as PDF or EPUB document.
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04.Oct.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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PFS3: Kickstart-1.x-compatible version 1.1
Toni Wilen's adaptations of the filesystem PFS3 to AmigaOS 1.x (amiga-news.de reported on it) has been updated and noe supports ROMs of the CDTV.
Changes:
- Merged latest official SVN updates
- Compatible with KS 1.3 + 2.x extended ROM CDTV with v37 exec
- Enabled removable media support
- Fixed ACTION_DIE (unmount) crash
- WB 1.x C:Info reports correct state information
Download: pfs3ks13.lha (76 KB)
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04.Oct.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 64
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag.
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03.Oct.2012
Heinz-Raphael Reinke (ANF)
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AROS: New DevPak for AmiDevCpp
The last AROS-DevPak for AmiDevCpp (amiga-news.de reported on it) all system-includes and linker-libraries were included but most of the contrib-includes and linker-libraries were missing. In this version now all these files are included.
What is AmiDevCpp?
AmiDevCpp is an Integrated Cross Platform Development Environment for Windows, that helps you to comfortable develop C/C++ Applications for the AmigaOS (m68k), AmigaOS4 (PPC), MorphOS(PPC) and for AROS (i386, ppc and x86_64). In the best case, you can just select another Compilerset and compile the same program for different Platforms.
What is a DevPak?
DevPaks are Archives, that contains Includes and Linker Libraries for some Libraries. Those files are installed and deinstalled automatically by the AmiDevCpp Package Manager:
- AROS-i386
- AROS-x86_64
- AROS-ppc
Download-Link
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03.Oct.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: VGM-Stream-TuneNet-Plugin 1.1
Fredrik Wikström has added VGM-stream support to Paul Heams' music and Internet radio player TuneNet. With this plugin over 200 music formats of different game consoles can be played.
Download: vgmstream_tnplug.lha (481 KB)
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03.Oct.2012
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Book: Commodore - The Amiga Years
According to the publishing house this month the American original edition of the second book of Brian Bagnall's books on Commodore history will be published. After "A Company on the Edge" which ended with the year 1984 now "The Amiga Years" will follow.
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02.Oct.2012
Bild.de (Webseite)
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Video: Computer music with scanner, harddrives and an Amiga 600
Under the title link Youtube user bd594 has uploaded a video which shows a somg performed by a HP Scanjet 3C, harddrives (as drums), an Amiga 600 (bass and guitar) as well as a glockenspiel.
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02.Oct.2012
Exec.pl (Webseite)
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USB-Stack: ANAIIS 1.06
ANAIIS ("Another Native Amiga IO Interface Stack") written by Gilles Pelletier is an USB-stack which also runs on systems with a 68000-processor. The stack at least requires AmigaOS 1.3 and was written for Zorro-II-systems without an accelerator board.
In this latest version the complements ANAIIS-Bootdisk and ANAIIS-HostUSB were added. ANAIIS-HostUSB was written for WinUAE and provides the access to the libusb of Windows.
Download:
anaiis.lha (222 KB)
anaiis_boot.lha (199 KB)
anaiis_hostusb.lha (130 KB)
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02.Oct.2012
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Breakout game: BabeAnoid 2.5b1
Richard Fhager's Breakout game BabeAnoid was written in AMOS and released ten years ago. In 2003 version 2.0 was released. The next version 2.5 was never released because the author stopped developing Amiga software.
Upon request of an a1k.org-reader Fhager has provided a download link for a beta version BabeAnoid 2.5. This beta version is being not developed further and according to the author possibly has included "some special modes". BabeAnoid requires a 68020 as well as 2 MB RAM. It could be also played with computers with only 1 MB Chip-RAM if some preferences are set to a lower level.
Direct download: babe25b1.lha (3,1 MB)
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02.Oct.2012
Ohloh (ANF)
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MUI-Klasse: NList source codes "saved"
After Jens Langner could have saved the source codes of a lot of well-known MUI-classes ten years ago with a "emergency surgery" this time he did have to get help from the open source directory ohloh.net to restore the contents of the source code repository of mcc.nlist which have been accidentally deletated on sourceforge.net.
The team of ohloh.net described the happening in a blog on its site.
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