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Archive 05/2014

`13.May.2014` (ANF)	68k-Core for FPGA: The "Apollo-Core" in use The "Apollo-Core" is the reimplementation of a m68k-CPU in a FPGA, which was originally developed for the Natami. Because instead of a CPU the Vampire 600 has a FPGA-unit, it can be used as test environment for the Apollo-Core. Now the developers (group shot) have released a first video (AVI-file), which shows a Vampire together with an Apollo-Core, running Amiga demos. In order to be able to compare the demonstrated speed with different computers, the used demo is available for download (Executable, 70 KB). It shows the calculated frames per second: three figures in orange are integers, the fourth blue figure shows a tenth of a whole frame. The Core is supposed to be made available as a free update to all owners of a Vampire, as soon as all software tests have been passed. According to Boehn other accelerator boards are in development, which have more powerful FPGAs and therefore are able to use other ALUs. According to Gunnar von Boehn on a1k.org, the Apollo-Core is not a complete m68k-implementation. Currently it has the following features integrated: + the major part of the 68060 instruction sets - Bitfields are deactivated in the build + 68020 EA-modes are activated - if they use the Brief-Extension Format + indirect jumps are activated in the memory - indirect EA with Inner/outer displacement are deactivated in double memory The caches are coherent. - Memory stream detection and automatic prefetching are deactivated + Out of order memory access is activated Hint of the editorial team: We do not kno how this limitations affect the compatibility or speed of different software. Because the used demo was offered by the Apollo developers themselves, it must be assumned that it is adapted to the features of the Apollo-Core at best. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 13. May. 2014, 17:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2014` Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)	AROS: 68k-Distribution AROS Vision 2.6 Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k-distribution AROS Vision: New background provided by Wawa System-files updated latest version of Magellan (5.90) Voice-support ("say" + computer can read text files) FAT95 Demos added new compiler added (e.g. ACE) and much more (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 13. May. 2014, 16:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.May.2014`	Aminet-Uploads until 10.05.2014 The following packages have been added to Aminet until May 10th, 2014: ACE_string.lha dev/basic 18K 68k Extended string functions for... Blitz_kdfreq.lha dev/basic 13K 68k kdfreq lib dev kit for Blitz. Blitz_reqs.lha dev/basic 120K 68k New requesters for Blitz. CodeWar-MOS.lha game/misc 253K MOS CRobots-style programming game CodeWar-OS3.lha game/misc 258K 68k CRobots-style programming game CodeWar-OS4.lha game/misc 227K OS4 CRobots-style programming game SS_VoidBlast.lha game/shoot 229K 68k simple arcade space game In_My_Dreams.lha mods/xm 7.5M New mod by Pseudaxos EP_AndyParton.lha mus/play 13K 68k EaglePlayer "Andrew Parton" e... EP_Mugician2.lha mus/play 25K 68k EaglePlayer "Mugician II" ext... playOGG.lha mus/play 5.9M 68k multi format sound player. Spreedy_0.8.lha text/edit 2.8M MOS Spreedsheet editor EvenMore.lha text/show 431K 68k V0.80: Freeware textviewer EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 479K MOS V0.80: Freeware Textviewer (M... HWP_MUIRoyale.lha util/libs 3.9M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. May. 2014, 07:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.May.2014`	OS4Depot-Uploads until 10.05.2014 The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until May 10th, 2014: retrosoft.lha emu/uti 136kb 4.0 Start listed software in an emul... codewar.lha gam/mis 241kb 4.0 CRobots-style programming game davidope_puzzle.lha gam/puz 6Mb 4.0 native Amiga OS4 animated simple... dcraw.lha gra/con 3Mb 4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files amiganews_wp.zip gra/the 7Mb 4.0 Amiga News.it space wallpapers hwp_avcodec.lha lib/hol 6Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for AVCodec hwp_muiroyale.lha lib/hol 4Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs odyssey.lha net/bro 32Mb 4.1 Port of Odyssey from morphos dopus5.lha uti/fil 3Mb 4.0 Directory Opus 5 : legendary fil... scripts.lha uti/wor 7Mb 4.1 Workbench menu for launching scr... (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. May. 2014, 07:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.May.2014`	AROS-Archives-Uploads until 10.05.2014 The following package has been added to AROS-Archives until May 10th, 2014: viewbox.i386-aros.zip gra/vie 1Mb Essential WB picture viewer (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. May. 2014, 07:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.May.2014`	MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 10.05.2014 The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until May 10th, 2014: Open Jedi Knight 1.0a gam/act 5755 Port of Jedi Knight: Jedi A... Spreedy 0.8 off/dat 2878 A table editor. Exports in ... (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. May. 2014, 07:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.May.2014`	WHDLoad: New packages until 10.05.2014 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 May 10th, 2014: 2014-05-10 improved: Magic Pockets (Renegade/Bitmap Brothers) reworked installed script, added trainer key (Info) 2014-05-10 improved: Buck Rogers (TSR) character creation and save fix & speedup, fixed access fault (Info) 2014-05-10 improved: 4D Sports Boxing (Mindscape) checks for disk 2 installation at startup (Info) 2014-05-08 improved: Deliverance (21st Century) fixed keyboard even more (Info, Image) 2014-05-06 improved: Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Arcade) (Konami) another version supported, trainer added (Info) 2014-05-06 improved: Minskie - The Abduction (Binary Emotions) ocs slave no longer needs AGA/68020, no more crash on exit (Info) 2014-05-06 improved: Conquests of Camelot (Sierra) sound issues fixed, adapted to WHDLoad v16 (Info, Image) 2014-05-05 improved: Virocop (Graftgold) ocs slave included again (Info, Image) 2014-05-05 improved: Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision) fixed controller issue (Info) 2014-05-05 fixed: Virocop (Graftgold) fixed access fault on game over (Info, Image) 2014-05-05 fixed: Castles (Interplay) access fault fix now working (Info) 2014-05-04 new: Aaargh! - Arcadia (Arcadia Systems) done by Don Adan (Info, Image) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 11. May. 2014, 07:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.May.2014` amigafuture.de (Webseite)	Full version for download: Bloody Afternoon Games-Coffer offers different Freeware and PD games and from time to time, formerly commercial games are available as well. Now the shooter Bloody Afternoon was added. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. May. 2014, 20:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.May.2014` Amiga.org (Webseite)	Viva Amiga: Video of speech of the producer Viva Amiga is a documentary film of the US-Amercian Zach Weddington (amiga-news.de reported), which is still in progress. During the Vintage Computer Festival East, the producer talked about his project and showed some parts of the film. By courtesy of Weddington, a video of this presentation was published by Robert Bernardo under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. May. 2014, 20:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.May.2014` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Directory Opus 5.90 Since last year, the file manager Directory Opus is open source and today version 5.90 was released for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, AROS/x86 and AROS/ARM vor. Download: Dopus5_90_os3.lha (3 MB) Dopus5_90_os4.lha (3 MB) Dopus5_90_i386-aros.lha (3 MB) Dopus5_90_arm-aros.lha (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. May. 2014, 20:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.May.2014` Amigaworld.net (Forum)	AmiDARK: Game engine for sale Frédéric Cordier describes the AmiDARK-engine as "Game Development Kit", which is highly inspired by DarkGDK. This a collection of macros and functions for C-programmers to simplify developing software. In January, beta version 0.9 was released for AmigaOS 4 (for MorphOS version 0.7 is available). According to the author under the title link, now he is going to sell his project for about 2000/2500 Euro due to financial and domestic issues. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. May. 2014, 07:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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