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Archive 04/2015


03.Apr.2015
AOS4 Beta Mailing List (ANF)


Hyperion: Declaration of inability to pay quashed
According to Ben Hermans on the internal mailing list for beta testers, the decision declaring Hyperion for insolvent was quashed yesterday. According to the company database of the Belgian government, the legal sitaution of "Hyperion Entertainment" actually is "Situation normale". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Apr.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.5.30dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD is based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Since the last stable version released in March (2.4.1), so far only developer versions have been released - excepted a bug fix version for Linux.

Under the title link you can find a detailed list of changes of version 2.5.30dev. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Apr.2015
Amiga.org (Forum)


PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 30 (Italian/English)
Issue 30 of the Italian PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available as well as an English translation. The game reviews of the REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games to releases of different former platforms.

Download sites:
Italian
English (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Apr.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Commercial Warp3D driver for Radeon-HD cards
A-EON has announced the availability of Warp 3D drivers for für Radeon-HD graphic cards. They are not the drivers developed by the Frieden-brothers for Radeon-HD cards with Evergreen-chipset (just like the Radeon-HD 5450, built in the X1000 as standard) and announced for a long time, but the drivers developed by Hans de Ruiter and for Radeon cards with Southern Island-chipset.

The driver is named Warp 3D-SI and is ecklusively distributed via Amigakit's App-Store Amistore for 33 Euro. Additional to the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1, it requires the 2D graphic driver RadeonHD which is separately distributed as well as MiniGL 2.20.

Features of the driver:
  • supports Radeon HD 7750-7970 series graphics cards (excluding the Radeon HD 7790), Radeon R7 250X/265 (excluding R7 250), Radeon R9 270/270X/280/280X
  • Supports larger textures (up to 16384x16384 memory permitting)
  • Performance is less dependent on resolution than previous drivers, including rendering at HD resolutions
  • Submits vertices to the GPU via vertex buffers rather than directly in the command stream (one of the bottlenecks of the old Radeon drivers)
  • Uses the RadeonHD_RM.resource for VRAM allocation, providing more efficient memory management than own system
  • Accumulates small vertex arrays into larger buffers to provide faster performance where lots of tiny render operations are performed
  • Doesn't lock the entire graphics system between 3D_LockHardware() / W3D_UnlockHardware(), so an application or game crash is less likely to freeze the entire system
Simultaneously with the new Warp3D-drivers, updates for both versions of the 2D-driver RadeonHD have been released on Amistore. The updates to version 1.4 and 2.7 are free available for registered users.

According to Amigakit, the work on "Warp3D Evergreen" driver is ongoing and making good progress. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Apr.2015



Amiga Games Inc. no longer distributing classic Amiga Games (Update)
Since September 2012 Amiga Inc. and later on Amiga Games Inc. have been distributing classic Amiga games in Blackberrys App Store. At the start of the project, "more then 300 titles" were promised, plans to support various mobile platforms were announced.

By now, all Amiga titles have been removed from the App Store: just a few days ago, there were still several dozen games available - this was initially reduced to Impossamole being for sale, in the mentime this game has been removed aswell, the vendor "Amiga" is not listed anymore.

The reason for this change is currently unknown, though the timing - right at the beginning of a new month - might be an indication that Amiga has to fullfull contractual obligations. Back in February, Michael Battilana from Cloanto had revealed that Amiga Inc. do no longer own any rights to Kickstart or Workbench and that they had to obtain a license from Cloanto for their activities on the Blackberry platform.

Update: (02.04.2015, 19:45, cg)

In the meantime, the last remaining game has been removed from the shop, the vendor "Amiga" is not listed anymore. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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