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Archive 12/2017


24.Dec.2017



E-Mail program: SimpleMail 0.44 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Since the year 2000, at Christmas a new version of Simplemail has been released, and this year as well. Changes:
  • Added AmiSSL 4 support
  • Decreased folder index storage
  • Improved the e-mail address auto-completion
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2017



Aminet-Uploads until 23.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until December 23th, 2017:
dizzytorrent1.0b4.lha    comm/tcp   1.7M  68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
HWP_XAD.lha              dev/hwood  62K   MOS Hollywood plugin for xadmaste...
Lumberjack_Xmas.adf      game/actio 880K  68k Lumberjack Xmas
Bibarr.lha               game/wb    33K   68k Move all bars in the center hole
Pathos.lha               game/wb    32K   68k Make a path from entry to exit
amigamad-60.pdf          mags/misc  30M       English PDF magazine (fka #am...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.4M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Vim_8.0-i386-aros.lha    text/edit  9.5M  x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.0-mos.lha          text/edit  9.4M  MOS The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.0-src.lha          text/edit  14M       The ubiquitous text editor (s...
LoadModule.lha           util/boot  27K   68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
AmiTimeKeeper.i386-ar... util/cdity 103K  x86 Keep your time right
AmiTimeKeeper.lha        util/cdity 84K   68k Keep your time right
jpeg2000_dtc.lha         util/dtype 476K  OS4 JPEG 2000 (.j2k, .jp2) datatype
MMULib.lha               util/libs  717K  68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha                util/libs  65K   68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
AmigaMARK-morphos.lha    util/moni  1.1M  MOS AmigaMARK - Benchmark Suite
Dev-Handler.lha          util/sys   23K   68k Un*x like raw device access h...
tzdev.lha                util/time  691K      Time Zone Database and Librar...
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24.Dec.2017



OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until December 23th, 2017:
jpeg2000_dtc.lha         dat/ima 476kb 4.1 JPEG 2000 (.j2k, .jp2) datatype
libmad.lha               dev/lib 297kb 4.0 MAD: MPEG Audio Decoder
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
scummvm.lha              gam/adv 23Mb  4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip          gam/adv 37Mb  4.1 ScummVM Source
preferences.lha          uti/wor 2Mb   4.1 Prefs window for starting differ...
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24.Dec.2017



WHDLoad: New installers until 23.12.2017
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 December 23th, 2017:
  • 2017-12-21 improved: Impossamole (Gremlin/Core Design) access fault (caused by a bug in the replayer) fixed (Info)
  • 2017-12-21 improved: D.O.S. (Andromeda) interrupts fixed, blitter wait added, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, sine scroller code unrolled to avoid slow-downs on machines with slow chip ram access, 68000 quitkey support, default data directory changed to "data", new install script (Info, Image)
  • 2017-12-20 updated: Impulse 2 (Tilt) patch redone, disk accesses disabled, blitter waits added, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info)
  • 2017-12-20 updated: Desert Dream (Kefrens) patch redone, timing problems fixed, blitter waits added, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image, Image)
  • 2017-12-19 improved: X-Pose (Silents DK) BPLCON2 problem fixed, interrupts fixed, illegal copperlist entries fixed, some more blitter waits added (Info, Image)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Event: Amiga Ireland 3.0
On 19. and 20. January, Irish Amiga users will organize their third meeting. It will again take place in the hotel "The Prince of Wales" in Athlone. You can get further information under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Hardware: MP3 sound card for Amiga 1200 in development
According to Matthias Münch under the Twitter title link (German), Piotr Gozdur is developing a MP3 sound card for the clock port of the Amiga 1200. It will have 128 KB memory buffer and hardware support for the formats MP3, AAC, OGG, MIDI, WMA, FLAC and WAV. Currently he is working on finishing the software. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Dec.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #10.1 - Artstate Digital
For issue 10.1 of the English-language podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland, Andrzej Wilk was interviewed who is well-known as "ΛRTΣTΛTΞ DIGITΛL" in the demo scene. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Dec.2017
viddi (ANF)


Tales of Gorluth II: Official trainer version available
Purchasers of Patrick Nevian's Tales of Gorluth now can also download a trainer version of the game. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Dec.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Print magazine: Amiga Future 130 - preview and extracts
A preview and extracts from issue 130 (January/February 2018) of Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features review of "Flug der Amazon Queen", a report of the Amiga fair Amiga 32 and the first part of a FreePascal workshop. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Dec.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


XAD-Plugin for Hollywood released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working elves in Christmas business, are proud to present a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: xad.hwp! This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to conveniently open and browse archives through xadmaster.library. It uses Hollywood 6.0's new file and directory adapter plugin interfaces which allow you to iterate through XAD archives as if they were normal directories. Files within XAD archives can also be accessed as if the XAD archive was a normal directory. It just doesn't get any easier! With xad.hwp it is not necessary to unpack a file stored in a XAD archive to a temporary file before it can be opened. Hollywood 6.0's file adapter plugin interface allows direct streaming from the XAD archive into the respective file handler without any temporary file overhead. This makes it even possible to stream music or video directly from a XAD file!

Airsoft Softwair wouldn't be Airsoft Softwair without some extra goodies, though: The XAD plugin is not only available for Amiga platforms but also for all other platforms supported by Hollywood. This is possible because the original xadmaster.library was open-sourced a few years ago which made it possible to port it to other platforms as well. Thus, on AmigaOS and compatibles, xad.hwp will use xadmaster.library directly whereas on all other systems like Windows, MacOS, Linux, and Android xad.hwp contains the open-source version of xadmaster.library in its binary. This makes it possible to unpack lots of archive formats like ZIP, LhA, LZX, CAB, bzip2, TAR, and RAR on Windows, MacOS, and Linux as well!

By the way, the program "The Unarchiver", which is at the time of this writing the 7th most downloaded program from Apple's App Store is also based on xadmaster.library originally developed for the Amiga by Dirk Stöcker. This is a good example of how original Amiga technologies are now very successful on other platforms.

The XAD plugin requires at least Hollywood 6.0 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. Note that it is recommended that you use at least Hollywood 7.0 because with earlier versions there is no support for archives which contain files with non-ASCII names. The XAD plugin is available in versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86,x64), Mac OS X (ppc, x86, x64), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64) and Android. On top of that, the plugin comes with 30 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM.

This release concludes Airsoft Softwair's release cycle in 2017. We wish all Hollywood users a merry XAD-Mas and a happy new year! (cg) (Translation: dr)

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