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Archive 08/2015

17.Aug.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)

Swedish printed magazine: Amiga Forum 13
Since 2012 the Swedish printed magazine "Amiga Forum" has been published, which contains 28 A5-pages, 12 of them in colour, and is available for 25 kronor plus shipping. You can order it under the title link or on Amigastore.

Issue 13 includes the following topics:

News: Hyperion not bankrupt
News from Amigaland, SUGA and the Scene
Game reviews: Colonization and Wings Battlefield
Hardware review: Keyrah
Book review: Amiga, a visual Compendium and the memoirs of Petro Tyschtschenko
About the unreleased Amiga 700
17 tips of how to use your Amiga better
About the year 1985 ...
... and a Scene short story

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17.Aug.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite) IEEE Spectrum: Amiga 30 and the Unkillable Machine
IEEE Spectrum is the most important magazine and website of the world's largest professional organization devoted to engineering and the applied sciences, named "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers". Under the title link it also reports about the 30th anniversary of the Amiga. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Aug.2015 Web-Browser: Netsurf 3.3 alpha with Reaction interface
Chris Young has ported his AmigaOS 4-port of the web browser Netsurf to AmigaOS 3. In contrary to the ports made available for the Amiga by Artur 'Arti' Jarosik - which unfortunately are distributed with the same name - Young's version uses a native Amiga-toolkit,

Due to the use of Reaction, at least AmigaOS 3.5 is required. According to the author this latest version is an alpha version.

Download: netsurf_os3.lha (3 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Aug.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite) Obligement: Interview with Igor Majstorovic (English/French)
The French Amiga magazine Obligement has interviewed Igor Majstorovic, who is the developer of the FPGA-based accelerator board Vampire 600. In his opinion all orders should be delivered until the end of the year.

Additional to the English-language version, under the title link the interview is also available in French. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Aug.2015

Aminet-Uploads until 15.08.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until August 15th, 2015:

fping.lha                comm/tcp   86K   68k Show which network hosts are ...
cproto.lha               dev/gcc    223K  MOS Generate protos and convert d...
libmspack.lha            dev/lib    1.4M  MOS Microsoft packing library (CA...
MUI-Pointers.lha         dev/mui    15K       MUI B&W Pointers Set with...
AmiMag_04.pdf            docs/mags  16M       Belgian Amiga e-zine, issue 4
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.2M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   4.5M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.4M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
kuutamolla.lha           misc/sci   172K      graphically determine the moo...
Czech_It_Out.lha         mods/pro   472K      Czech made 4ch tune
InstallerGenSP.lha       util/misc  7K        InstallerGen 1.3 spanish catalog
BenchTrash-MOS.lha       util/wb    10K       Global trashcan patch for Mor...
FindMoreSP.lha           util/wb    9K        FindMore 2.0-2.4 spanish catalog

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16.Aug.2015

OS4Depot-Uploads until 15.08.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until August 15th, 2015:

an_arabic_console_dev... dri/inp 2Mb   4.1 An arabic console device
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
bubbleshooterdx_demo.lha gam/puz 4Mb   4.0 Demoversion of Bubble Shooter DX
libboostygfx.lha         lib/gra 402kb 4.1 BoostyGFX library used with Huno...
kryoflux.lha             uti/mis 6Mb   4.1 USB-based floppy controller
liveforit-mplayerng.lha  vid/pla 17Mb  4.1 MPlayerNG altivec/nonaltivec

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16.Aug.2015

AROS-Archives-Uploads until 15.08.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until August 15th, 2015:

4klive.i386-aros.zip         aud     491kb Simple synth toy.

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16.Aug.2015

WHDLoad: New packages until 15.08.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until August 15th, 2015:

2015-08-15 new: BBS Intro (Taurus) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
2015-08-15 new: Beach Volley demo (Paradox) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
2015-08-14 fixed: Hydra (Tengen/Domark) all sound problems fixed (Info)
2015-08-14 new: Gate to Hell (Technology) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
2015-08-13 improved: Waterproof (Rebels) 5 more Bplcon0 color bit fixes added (Info, Image)
2015-08-13 improved: Our Definition of a Boombastic Demo Style (Rebels) 4 more blitter waits added (Info, Image)
2015-08-13 new: Demon's Tomb: The Awakening (Melbourne House) done by StingRay (Info)
2015-08-12 improved: E.C.E.S. Slideshow (Rebels) Bplcon0 color bit fixes added (Info, Image)
2015-08-12 improved: Det Kniber (Rebels) line drawing routine fixed (d pointer out of bounds) (Info, Image)
2015-08-12 improved: Blue House 2 (Rebels) 6 more Bplcon0 color bit fixes added, 1 more blitter wait added (Info, Image)
2015-08-12 improved: Hexadecimal Perfection (Action Direct) writes to INTREQR fixed, blitter wait added, Bplcon0 color bit fix, uses WHDLoad v17+ features (Info, Image)
2015-08-12 improved: Bard In A Box (Academy) illegal Bplcon2 settings fixed, 2 blitter waits added (Info, Image)
2015-08-12 new: The Colony (Mindscape) done by StingRay (Info)
2015-08-11 new: Tanglewood (Microdeal) done by StingRay (Info)
2015-08-10 new: Das schmutzige Erbe (Comad) done by StingRay (Info)
2015-08-10 new: Das Erbe (Comad) done by StingRay (Info)
2015-08-09 improved: Musication (Absolute!) Bplcon0 color bit fixes, illegal Bltcon0 values in line drawer fixed (Info, Image)
2015-08-09 improved: Numeric 2 (Profecy) support for another version added (Info, Image)
2015-08-09 new: Numeric 3 (Profecy) done by StingRay (Info, Image)

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16.Aug.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite) AmigaOS 4: Bubble Shooter DX by EntwicklerX
Bubble Shooter DX is a classic bubble shoot game and the new game developed by EntwicklerX. There are more than 200 levels as well as a colorblind mode.

You can purchase the full version of the game on AmiStore. Additionally there is a free trial version. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Aug.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)

AmigaOS 4: Frogatto 1.2.22
The Jump'n'Run Frogatto is a combination of an open source engine with proprietary game data. For iOS and Blackberry a fee is required. Ports for desktop operating systems are availavble for free. Version 1.2.22 available for AmigaOS-4 was provided by Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel and requires his library libboostyGfx.so, which accelerates the 2D-graphic operations using 3D-graphic hardware and which has been also updated.

Changes:

New optimization of libboostyGfx now pass to version 1.0.4
Change function OpenGL glShadeModel(GL_FLAT) to glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH)
Compilation with new libpng and libjpeg

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15.Aug.2015

New A1200 case: More than half of required money donated / MiST + RPi
Five days before the Kickstarter campaign for a new Amiga-1200 case will be finished (amiga-news.de reported), so far almost 52 % of the required money have been donated. The case is meant for existing A1200-boards as well as for the Amiga-Reloaded-mainboard developed by Individual Computers, the FPGA-computer MiST and for the Raspberry Pi and corresponds the original case, but is prepared for several extensions by pre-cuts.

Since our last update message two weeks ago the following updates have been added:

Cases are now available in all colors
The 20 Eur pledge has been revamped to supply you with new parts like trapdoors, adapters and case screws, and you'll get our new Case sticker / badge as well !
New awesome signature embedded in our cases: David Pleasance
Commodore: The amiga years, added to our bonuses list
Scoopex special edition
Raspberry-Pi support
Keyrah-USB keyboard controller support
MiST support
recommendation programm

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15.Aug.2015
amiga30.is (ANF) Event: Amiga 30 Reykjavik
The, by their own account, "coolest" of the 30th Amiga Anniversary events takes place beyond the 64th degree of latitude, in the capital of Iceland. It starts at five o'clock in the afternoon at the restaurant Potturinn og Pannan at Brautarholt 22 in Reykjavik.

Other activities are planned, for whoever wishes to join. To confirm attendance, to submit ideas and for information, please send an e-mail. (snx)

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15.Aug.2015
viddi (ANF) Tales of Gorluth II: 75 percent of required preorders achieved
For the successor of the "Best Amiga game of 2014", Tales of Gorluth, 200 persons are required who will preorder it (amiga-news.de reported). After three weeks 150 preorders were received. Under the title link a video promotes for further ones. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Aug.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite) AmigaOS 4: Update of KryoFlux-archive
Last year version 2.61 of KryoFlux was released for AmigaOS 4. Now the archive also contains the latest version of the Disk Tool Console (DTC). The AmigaOS-4 version of DTC was created on July 8th, 2015.

Using KryoFlux you can create images of all 3,5"-disks (of different systems as well) which contains all information - including the copy protection. Using the commmand line of DTC each function is executed. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Aug.2015

Cracker scene: Unreleased Amiga port of "Mutant League Hockey" (AGA)
In 1994 Electronic Arts released the sport simulation Mutant League Hockey on the Megadrive. An Amiga port ordered by Ocean was never released although the port was almost finished.

20 years later the cracker group Scoopex obviously has found the original game and released it as "crack". We do not know any legal source of download. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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