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Archive 02/2013


25.Feb.2013



Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.1.28 (Beta)
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. Changes in the latest beta version:
  • For directory hard drives, save file attributes in .uaem files (permissions, timestamp, file note).
  • Fix for directory hard drives so correct case is reported back to the Amiga when the Amiga opens a file with another case than what’s stored.
  • Report local time for files in directory hard drive.
  • Use re-entrant / thread-safe variants of time functions.
  • Reverted the scanline function to its older / simpler behavior, use the shader “scanlines-nonlinear” instead.
  • New shaders included: scanlines-classic (same as scanline CPU filter), and scanlines-nonlinear (a scanline filter which varies with pixel intensity and also introduces some pixel blending).
  • Text cache texture size is now 2048×2048 (was 1024×1024).
  • For automatic directory hard drive volume label, only use the part before an opening parenthesis (if it exists).
  • New options to configure what screenshots to save and where to save them.
  • A bit more compact naming of screenshots, and reset sub-minute counter for each minute (makes sorted names always cronological even with large number of screenshots).
  • Can now bind keys to action_screenshot, notification replaces previous notification (of same type).
  • Lua scripts can be used to read/write Amiga memory, position the output video rectangle, change shader (experimental feature).
  • Support /dev/tty as the serial output [Jason S. McMullan].
  • Patch for Linux CD ioctl support [Jason S. McMullan].
  • Removed a some useless stubs printed to stdout, removed several printf statements logging stuff to stdout.
  • Updated translations: fi [GoingDown], cs [spajdr].
  • (Launcher) Make sure the nickname is a valid IRC nickname (net play).
  • (Launcher) Fixed problem where .fs-uae configurations could in some cases disappear from the configuration list when refreshing the online database.
  • (Launcher) Fixed a bug where config name was saved in config file if based on a config from online database.
  • (Launcher) Automatically set screenshots_output_prefix based on floppy name.
  • (Launcher) If A500 kickstart is not found on startup, look for Amiga Forever in default location and add kickstarts to database if found (Windows).
  • (Launcher) Add Amiga Forever shared documents directory to search path.
  • (Launcher) Index files in .rp9 archives, contained disk images can be used with the online database (when match is found).
  • (Launcher) Support file comments for WHDLoad slave files when using the online database, comments are stored in .uaem files. Fixes Embryo.
  • (Launcher) Allowing selecting .lha files as hard drives.
  • (Launcher) Fixed an issue with selecting Amiga 1000 (2.1.26).
  • (Launcher) Updated translations: cs [spajdr].
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Feb.2013



Prototype: Minimig-case in A1000-style
In mid-January, Thomas 'Tommes' Koch had presented his designs for a Minimig-case which is similar to the design of an Amiga 1000. Now Koch has a first prototype produced and presents photos of it (is still not varnished) for the first time:



Koch is satisfied with quality and accuracy of fit but is going to change some minor details. The price has not been yet fixed ("between 110 and 180 Euro"). If a low volume production was started, it might be possible to varnish the case directly at the producer. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Feb.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


ACube Systems: onchipmem.resource for Sam460ex-boards
With the onchipmem.resource, under AmigaOS 4.1 ACube Systems provides developers access to the buffer memory of the APM460Ex-SoC. This is much faster than the main memory, nearly as fast as the level-2-cache of the processor.

The buffer is meant to handle application data or to faster exchange data with the video memory. The archive includes a description as well as example source code. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Feb.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Digital Universe 1.7 for new customers
After existing customers (amiga-news.de reported), now new customers can purchase the latest version 1.7 of the astronomy programm Digital Universe for AmigaOS 4.1 as well. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Feb.2013
Trevor's Amiga Blog


Accelerator board: Vampire 600 is stable
Two years ago Igor Majstorovic announced the FPGA-based accelerator board Vampire 600 for the Amiga 600. According to the developer in the VooDoo-Amiga forum this board is stable and is currently tweaked. He then is going to produce (after the revision) 50 boards with 8 MB memory, and then with 64 MB.

Compared with accelerator boards which have a proper 680x0-processor, like the Fúria EC020, currently the Vampire has a lower performance speed (checked by Sysinfo): With a 72 MHz clocked FPGA, 1332 Dhrystone-instructions per second, compared with the Fúria, which features 4846 on its 28 MHz MC68EC020FG25. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Feb.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


A-EON Technology: HD-Audio-driver working
In his blog on the website of A-EON-Technology, Trevor Dickinson told that Lyle Hazlewood recently has started working on the HD-Audio-driver for the AmigaOne X1000. Actually now under AmigaOS 4 sound output is possible over the onboard-chip. Therefore there is no need for a PCI-sound board any more. Currently he is working on the AHI-driver.

Additionally, Lyle Hazlewood together with the USB-stack developer Sebastian Bauer figured that it is possible to record USB-sound over the onboard-ports of the AmigaOne X1000 with the existing stack. But there are some problems with the Sam-boards. They possibly are going to develop an AHI-USB-driver.

Trevor Dickinson has started on a journey to Europe and will meet members of Varisys for talking about hardware and future plans. He is also going to meet other "Amiga" companies and developers. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Feb.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: AttachMail 1.1, FastCompress 1.4, NetDock 50.2, SysMon 2.8
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated four of his AmigaOS-4 programms: AttachMail, FastCompress, NetDock and SysMon.
  • AttachMail allows to add attachments to eMails per context menu (YAM and SimpleMail). In version 1.1 among others a Ringhio-notification was integrated
  • FastCompress allows to pack files and drawers with two mouse clicks (LHA, LZX, ZIP, 7z). In version 1.4 the Ringhio-notification was added as well as the name of the archive specified by taking the biggest, included file/drawer - if no other name was specified
  • NetDock is a docky which displays the network activity and now in version 50.2 can be also to miniaturized. Additionally three ToolTypes as well as AmiUpdate-support were added
  • SysMon is MUI-based and allows to identify and remove frozen windows, to change priorities of tasks and processes and to watch drives, assigns and system information. Additional to the Ringhio-notification, in version 2.8 bubble help for different IDETool-gadgets were added
Download:
attachmail.lha (424 KB)
fastcompress.lha (3 MB)
netdock.lha (239 KB)
sysmon.lha (687 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Feb.2013
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Scriba 1.7.0
Scriba written by Carsten Siegner is a simple text editing software being still work in progress. Version 1.7.0 is now able to import SVG files. Also a new tool called "Professional PDF" was added which is still in alpha status and can create PDF files.

Download: Scriba_1.7.0.lha (7 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Feb.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 23.02.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until February, 23th:
libharu_2.3.0_RC2.lha    dev/lib    2.5M  MOS library for generating PDF
librtf-0.0.3.lha         dev/lib    440K  MOS A free lib to read/write RTF-...
Binary_Write.shell.txt   dev/src    2K    68k Write binary files using AMIG...
ngl-MUIMineDZ-Boing.lha  game/data  131K      Nicely done BoingBall gfx for...
ngl-MUIMineDZ-RMXv1.1... game/data  322K      Hand Dithered MUIMine DZ grap...
ngl-MUIMine-WarNPiece... game/data  212K      A MUIMine GFX Set for high re...
gigalomania.i386-aros... game/strat 4.5M  x86 RTS Mega-Lo-Mania-like god game
gigalomaniasrc.zip       game/strat 8.7M      Gigalomania Source
AHIW-OS3.lha             gfx/edit   6.0M  68k Edit and convert pics
MagicSVG_1.0.lha         gfx/show   217K  MOS A Scalable Vector Grafics (SV...
MagicSVG_1.1.lha         gfx/show   217K  MOS A Scalable Vector Grafics (SV...
VAMP-OS3.lha             gfx/show   2.3M  68k Play/show videos,animations,m...
faad2.lha                mus/edit   1.4M  68k AAC/MP4 audio decoder.
mpg123-morphos.lha       mus/misc   506K  MOS MP3 Player with Altivec-Support
adplay_68k.lha           mus/play   463K  68k play & decode AD lib mod ...
playOGG.lha              mus/play   5.7M  68k multi format sound player.
AP50Covers.lha           pix/misc   1.2M      aMiGa=PoWeR n?50 Cover Recto
To-Do.lha                util/misc  139K  68k Simple To-Do list program
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Feb.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.02.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until February, 23th:
libcurl.lha              dev/lib 2Mb   4.0 The multiprotocol file transfer ...
curl.lha                 net/mis 1Mb   4.0 Command line URL file transfer
assist.lha               uti/mis 3Mb   4.1 Get the most out of your AMIGA
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Feb.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 23.02.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until February, 23th:
libid3tag                0.15.1b dev/lib     56 ID3 tag parsing library. Su...
libmad                   0.15.1b dev/lib     90 High quality MPEG-Audio dec...
libmxml                  2.7     dev/lib    355 Mini-XML is small, lightwei...
Gigalomania              0.25    gam/str   3361 A strategy game, where play...
MPO2JPG                  1.0     gra/con    151 Converts 3D images done wit...
SteamDraw                2.3     gra/edi    361 Vector graphics editor. Sup...
RDesktop                 1.6.1   net/rem    437 Remote Desktop client allow...
HotCorner                1.2     uti/des     36 A commodity sending configu...
Multigame Character E... 8.1     uti/mis   1140 A tool for editing characte...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Feb.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 23.02.2013
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 February 23th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Feb.2013
Jim Neray (ANF)


Amiga game launcher: X-bEnCH 0.85 (beta)
X-bEnCH (Youtube-video) is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe). For this purpose, it can replace the Workbench and requires low ressources. According to the developer the programm runs on all Amigas with OCS or AGA (68000 to 68060 processors).

Most important changes in version 0.85 beta:
  • A new installer will setup X-bEnCH for you.
  • Modified files checks on startup.
  • Menu Starfield optimised (Faster with 20% more stars on screen).
  • Checkerboard loader issue with Indivision/HighGfx fixed.
  • "sysinfo" cli command added.
  • "help" cli command updated.
  • The cli tab is now activated in the setup and you can change the cli colors.
  • Many internals checks added.
  • Internal changes to be ready for the future Xplorer alpha-testing.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Feb.2013
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)


MorphOS: Vector graphic programm SteamDraw 2.3
SteamDraw written by Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich is an EPS-compatible 2D vector graphic programm. Most important changes in version 2.3:
  • Symmetrical polygons
  • "Private" tools included in the edit-tool; they were created for polygons and Bezier curves and makes it possible to shift (control)points and (only for polygons) to add or remove poinzs.
  • These functions are shown in the context menu.

Download: SteamDraw.lha (361 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Feb.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Dir Me Up 1.12
Dir Me Up written by Jérôme 'Glames' Senays is a commercial file manager for AmigaOS 4.1. Version 1.12 offers a second progress bar for copied files, AISS-support and the possibility to open pictures and source codes with external programms. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Feb.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)


MorphOS: Remote Desktop 1.6
For MorphOS, version 1.6 of Darren Eveland's Remote Desktop is available. It was ported by Michał Żukowski. The Remote-Desktop-Protocol developed by Microsoft allows the remote access to some Windows operating systems, among others to Vista and Windows 7.

News and improvements:
  • UTF support including:
    • UTF8 clipboard chunk to RDP (UTF16-LE)
    • RDP (UTF16-LE) to UTF8 clipboard chunk
    • RDP (UTF16-LE) to ID_CHRS clipboard chunk with conversion to local codepage
    • ID_CHRS clipboard chunk to RDP (UTF16-LE) with conversion from local codepage
    • Conversion from/to local codepage to UTF16-LE during disk access operations, user name, password etc.
  • Version string fix
  • Audio (backported from RDesktop 1.5)
  • MorphOS directory mounting under Windows (NETDISK option)
  • Libnix version compiled with GCC4
  • Clone WB mode for automatic fullscreen mode selection
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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