08.Jun.2011
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amiga-news.de: Backend scripts updated
Due to moving to a new server, our backend scripts did not work anymore. This has been solved now. Thus third party websites utilizing our services need to update their scripts accordingly. (snx)
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08.Jun.2011
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Preview: Swamp Defense for AmigaOS 4
Swamp Defense is a commercial Tower Defense-game written by Entwickler X which will be published for XBox, AmigaOS 4 and other platforms. For AmigaOS 4 the game will be published in few weeks. Three days ago a Youtube
video of the almost finished Amiga version was published.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Gurmita Singh
On amigapd.com an interview with Gurmita Singh was published who wrote the Amiga game Henry's House for the Amiga.
Additionally the already published interview with Andrew Morris was completed with twelve further questions.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jun.2011
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: AspireOS 0.95
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published an update of his AROS-distribution AspireOS (previously called ArosAspire). This distribution is meant for the Acer-netbook Aspire One but should also run on other hardware.
Version 0.95 includes updated system files and improved performance speed.
Download: aspireos-i386-june2011.tar.gz (149 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jun.2011
A-EON (E-Mail)
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A-EON Technology: Update to AmigaOne X1000
Press release, London, 7th June 2011
A-EON Technology is pleased to announce that following an extensive test programme Varisys are about to commence manufacturing the full complement of Nemo 2 motherboards for the AmigaOne X1000 Beta Test Team. As part of the pre-qualification process, Varisys have ported the PowerPC version of Debian Squeeze to demonstrate that all onboard components and subsystems are working as expected. The AmigaOS4 developers have also been busy porting the latest version of AmigaOS4.1.x
Cool Running
The energy efficiency of the PA Semi CPU was fully demonstrated during the testing phase. A thermal imaging camera was used to measure the CPU and board temperatures while running Debian Squeeze in dual-core under full load conditions. A maximum CPU/Heatsink/Fan assembly temperature of 31.1C was recorded while playing a DVD on a software rendered 1920x1200 full screen display. With the CPU fan disconnected the temperature rose to meagre 34.6C with a CPU core temperature of 61C.
AmigaOne X1000 Update Article
We are also pleased to announce that the next issue of "Amiga Future" magazine will contain a Nemo 2 update article. Issue 91 (July/August) should be released in early July and can be ordered from the "Amiga Future" website or your local Amiga reseller.
A-EON Technology CVBA
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08.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Announcement: FPGA-based accelerator board
With a video under the title link, Igor Majstorovic announced his FPGA-based accelerator board for the Amiga 600. It is based on the TG68-Core which also wil be used in the next versions of the Minimig.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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DiscreetFX: New Webshop Metropolis
Metropolis is called the new webshop of DiscreetFX. After having purchased software you can there download it. Bill Panagouleas is going to offer self-developments as well as other applications.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench complement: BetterWB 2.2
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench tools for AmigaOS 3.1.
Version 2.2 adds a new Exchange commodity, the new commodity ToolAlias, a replacement of the version-command with four-digit year display and some minor bug fixes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2011
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WHDLoad: New packages until 05.06.2011
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which have been published on disks. Besides, several incompatibilities with new Amiga models are fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
- 04.06.2011 improved: D/Generation (Mindscape) rewritten CD32 version for WHDLoad v16 (Info)
- 28.05.2011 improved: Conflict: Europe (PSS) supports german version (Info)
- 21.05.2011 fixed: Misja Harolda (MarkSoft) music is played in game now (Info)
- 17.05.2011 fixed: Cannon Fodder 2 (Sensible Software) keyboard handling corrected, savegame loading fixed (Info)
- 12.05.2011 updated: Apprentice (Rainbow Arts) avoid error with newer whdload versions about low free stack (Info)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2011
AmigaFan (ANF)
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List of AmigaOS 4-compatible Scene-Demos
David "Dave" Hauser has published a list of scene demos that run under AmigaOS 4. This idea was born in a discussion at a1k.org
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2011
Floppy (Forum)
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AROS: 3D-Shooter Cube
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz has ported the 3D-Shooter Cube to AROS. The author asks for your feedback if the port has any bugs and if you like it. You are welcome to make suggestions for further ports.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FFmpeg and FFplay: GIT-version a52f598
Piotr Bandurski has compiled the latest version of FFmpeg for AmigaOS. PLease note that the included FFplay at least requires version 62 of the ixemul.libary.
Download: ffmpeg-gita52f598-m68k.lha (19 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench complement: BetterWB 2.1
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench tools for AmigaOS 3.1 which are simple and with low hardware requirements.
Version 2.1 includes some minor improvements. And the filesystems PFS3 was added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Picture editing: iBatch 1.2
With Gero Birkenfelds iBatch it gets very simple to rename or convert a lot of picture files.
The new version 1.2 also is available on Aminet and includes many improvements. A test report as well as a workshop have been published in the Amiga Future 90.
Download: iBatch.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: fpga.resource 53.1 for Sam460ex-boards
Under the title link ACube Systems has announced the availability of fpga.resource. With this driver under the AmigaOS 4 the 80 I/O-pins of the J22-connector on the Sam460ex-board can be accessed.
The archive also includes a tutorial and the source codes of the examples. All users are reminded that already there is a driver for access to the I2C-bus gibt.
Download: fpga_res.lha (633 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jun.2011
Hacker News (website)
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Website: Open Source Game Clones
The website osgameclones.com tries to gather information about open-source reimplementations of great old games in one place. (snx)
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03.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Programming competition: List of projects
Yannick Buchy (meta-morphos.org) and the Swiss Amiga trader Relec had started a programming competition (amiga-news.de reported). Now a list of selectable projects was published:
During this month you can vote for your project which is to be written. Fill in this formular and send it to papiosaur2 [at] hotmail.fr before 1st of July.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.3.2
Version 2.3.2 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE was published. For the first time the update uses the AROS/68k-version as Kickstart replacement if an original file ist not available.
New features:
- AROS ROM replacement development snapshot included, replaces old
very basic ROM replacement feature, used by default if official
KS ROM is not found
- New autofire option. Button released = autofire. Button pressed = normal non-autofire firebutton
- Stop the CPU and wait until blitter has finished if any blitter register is accessed while blitter is busy and CPU mode is fastest possible
- Better workaround than immediate blitter for programs that have blitter wait bugs with fast CPU
- Serial port telnet server
Updates:
- Disk emulation accuracy improved (Codertrash / Mexx, El Egg Tronic Quarts / Quadlite)
- CIA timer undocumented startup delays emulated (Risky Woods sound glitches)
- win32.floppy_path and win32.hardfile_path really works as expected
- Display panel refresh rate accepts non-integer values
Fixed bugs:
- Implemented workaround that should fix Direct3D blank screen problem
- Sample ripper crash
- 68000 exception 3 emulation fixed again. (Broke compatibility with some
very old copy protections, for example Soldier of Light and Zoom!)
- Reset bug that broke Arcadia mode, A1000 mode and Action Replay ROMs
- Automatic resolution switch interlace detection was unreliable
- CD32 early boot menu is accessible again
- Rare crash when switching from fullscreen RTG mode to native mode
- Borderblank chipset feature didn't work in ECS Denise mode
- Possible input configuration corruption due to uninitialized variable
- Color change table overflow crash that can happen when emulated program crashes really badly
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02.Jun.2011
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Hungarian PDF-magazine: Amiga Mania #1
"Amiga Mania" is a PDF-magazine with 36 pages from Hungary which is about all Amiga topics - hints for A600-users, a review of Hollywood as well as news on Sam440ep.
Amiga Mania 01_OnLine.pdf (14 MB)
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02.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 1.5
Jack is a alternative file request window for AmigaOS 4. Additional to simple file perations like deleting or renaming there are also several further features like picture editing and recording screenshots.
A detailed list of changes in version 1.5 you can find under the title link.
Download: jack.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Andrew Morris (English)
amigapd.com has interviewed Andrew Morris who is graphic artist of e.g. Lotus and Super Cars.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jun.2011
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS: ScummVM 1.3.0
After the MorphOS version, version 1.3.0 of the adventure interpreter ScummVM now is also available for AmigaOS 4 and AROS/x86. The changes are listed in the official Release Notes.
Download:
scummvm.lha (8 MB)
scummvm-1.3.0.i386-aros.lha (8 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jun.2011
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.3
Paolo Besser has published an update of his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop. Version 1.3 includes many improvements which mainly apply to 68k-integration and 3D-support.
Additionally many games as well as emulators were compiled again to use the latest SDL-libraries. The NES-emulator FCE Ultra were added. Under the title link you can find a detailed list of changes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2011
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amiga-news.de: Server migration finished, team changes
Meanwhile the announced server migration was finished. We would like to thank our both technicans Sven Drieling and Philippe Bourdin.
With the migration our former publisher Nico Barbat left the team of amiga-news.de. Eight years ago he had taken the responsibility from the founder Petra Struck. Without his engagement amiga-news.de would not exist in the current way. We would like to thank him for his longtime support.
We also say good bye to a second amiga-news.de member: Marc Albrecht who worked for the former Amiga dealer ACT has hosted the news for more than ten years. We would like to thank him as well.
This is the current team of amiga-news.de:
Christoph Gutjahr (cg): Editorial staff, Publisher
Martin Heine (snx): Editorial staff, Publisher
Daniel Reimann (dr): English translation
Carsten Schröder (cs): Newsticker
Philippe Bourdin (pab): Technician
Sven Drieling (sd): Technician
From now on amiga-news.de is on a server of the Aminet-team. We would like to thank Nicolas Mendoza for his support.
If you want to support our team then you are very welcome. Please send a eMail to team@amiga-news.de.
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31.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Demoscene party Flashback 2011 (Sydney, Australia)
From 11.-13. June the Flashback 2011 will take place in Sydney. Amiga, C64 and PC will be presented. You can get further information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2011
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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Event: Pictures of Commodore-Meeting 2011
On Sunday the Commodore-Meeting 2011took place in Vienna. Several users have published pictures:
Stefan Egger, Peter Urban and Georg Fuchs
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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