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08.Jun.2015

Amiga-Emulator: WinUAE 3.1
Version 3.1 of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE emulates a lot of additional hardware extensions for the first time. Besides, the sound of Paula can be mixed with other sound sources (CD, CD32 FMV, Toccate) and many other improvements have been implemented:

First emulated hardware extensions

SCSI-Hosts:
- A2090/A2090a (ST-506 not supported)
- AdSCSI Advantage 2000
- Archos ADD-500
- C-Ltd A1000/A2000
- GVP Series I (Three models)
- GVP Series II
- Expansion Systems DataFlyer 1200/4000 SCSI+
- HK-Computer Vector Falcon 8000
- J.Kommos A500
- Kupke Golem
- Masoboshi MC-702 (Incomplete)
- Microbotics StarDrive (Clock not emulated)
- Preferred Technologies Nexus
- Protar A500
- RocTec RocHard RH800C (SCSI+IDE)
- SupraDrive (All five models)
IDE-Controller:
- ICD AdIDE
- AlfaPower/AT-BUS 508/2008/AlfaPower Plus
- M-Tec AT 500
- Masoboshi MC-302/MC-702 (Incomplete)
- RocTec RocHard RH800C
CPU-boards:
- ACT Apollo 1240/1260
- DKB 1230/1240
- RCS Fusion Forty
- GVP A3001
- GVP A530
- GVP G-Force 030
- Kupke Golem 030 A500
Video-Hardware:
- Archos AVideo 12
- Archos AVideo 24 (Animation features not implemented)
- Black Belt Systems HAM-E and HAM-E Plus
- Newtronic Technologies Video DAC 18
- Impulse FireCracker 24
Other extension:
- Toccata Zorro II sound card
- Nordic Power v3.2 freezer cartridge
- Pro Access v2.17 freezer cartridge

New features

CD, CD32 FMV and Toccata audio are now optionally mixed with Paula audio stream. Sound sync is not lost even when emulation speed changes and sound is included with audio recording.
Multiple SCSI/IDE expansion boards can be enabled at the same time.
Floppy sound per-drive empty/disk inserted volume control.
Added partial A1000 Velvet prototype support. Unfortunately currently no known Velvet boot disks exist.
GUI Filter panel configurable overscan region blanking.
Hardfile ATA and SCSI version configuration option.
Fullscreen GUI option.
If system has touch screen (Windows tablet for example), touching top of screen more than 2 seconds will open GUI.
GUI Paths panel portable mode checkbox enabled.
Configured but disconnected game controller is remembered.

Updates

Custom chipset display emulation partially rewritten, many A1000 vs OCS vs ECS chipset undocumented edge cases are now fully emulated.
AMAX ROM dongle emulation improved.
CD and disk image volume label is shown in status message bar.
CPU Idle feature rewritten, lower CPU usage.
More reliable simultaneous on the fly media insertions/removals.
Action Replay 2/3 emulation improved.
Added 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 filter panel "integer" scaling options.
Audio master volume is now real master volume control. Paula, CD and AHI are sub-volume controls.
Optionally disk saveimages can use same directory as parent image.
More accurate 68000 bus/address error stack frame undocumented fields.

Fixed bugs of WinUAE 3.0

Some CPU halted conditions caused emulator hang.
Chip RAM/Slow RAM size change on the fly crash.
Multiple other crash bugs fixed.

Other fixed bugs

Low level SCSI emulation fixes and updates.
RTG mode screenshots in 16-bit host color depth mode had wrong colors.
Real CD drive as emulated ATAPI or SCSI returned wrong last block.
Graffiti corrupted display in non-AGA modes.
Some programs had shifted display in some configurations (For example Gloom AGA, Worms Directors Cut title screens)
Picasso IV graphics corruption in OS4 16-bit modes.
Picasso IV mode switch out of bounds memory access crash (OS41FE).
Serial port emulation lost characters in some situations.
Branch FPU instructions didn't work in more accurate CPU modes.
AVI recording audio/video sync problems fixed.
Stuck key if "Mouse captured: emulation paused" was ticked.

(cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Jun.2015 Epsilons Blog: Software presentation "MultiviewerNG"
'Epsilon' has got a pre-version of A-EON's recently announced MultiviewerNG and introduces the programm and its range of functions in detail. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Jun.2015
Pegasosforum (Forum)

MorphOS: PastePass 1.0
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS with encrypted database which enters user name and password by pressing a special keyboard shortcut.

Changes:

All reported bugs and questions concerning the use of the software fixed
Can be launched via tooltypes iconified
Hotkey for deiconifying added
Use of keyboard (Cyclechain and Controlchar)
Import of text files
All data in memory encrypted
GUI for Passtool added
adequate icons added

Download: PastePass.lha (90 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jun.2015

Aminet-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 6th, 2015:

AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.4M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
windsurf.lha             mods/demo  120K      A Module composed by Pete/Eni...
Calimero_beta_0.14.lha   text/dtp   8.8M  MOS A DTP Program
StormMesa_Libs68K.lha    util/libs  515K  68k MESA/OpenGL implementation fo...
StormMesa_LibsPPC.lha    util/libs  531K  WOS MESA/OpenGL implementation fo...
cAMIra.lha               util/misc  168K  68k simple webcam software using ...

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07.Jun.2015

OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 6th, 2015:

screentitleformat.lha    doc/mis 252b  4.0 Set alternative Screen Title on ...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amicraft.lha             gam/mis 950kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
aiss.lha                 gra/ais 8Mb   4.1 Amiga Image Storage System
aiss.pdf                 gra/ais 5Mb   4.1 Documentation
x1ktemp.lha              uti/doc 179kb 4.1 CPU Temp Monitor docky for the X...
dirmeup_demo.lha         uti/fil 977kb 4.1 Amiga Files Explorer
yt.lha                   vid/mis 2Mb   4.0 YouTube URL extractor script
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player

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07.Jun.2015

MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until June 6th, 2015:

PyMUI for Python 2.7     0.7.0   dev/pyt   1142 A Python module allowing fo...
ExFAT File System        1.1     sys/lib    193 Port of exFAT filesystem ba...
AmigaMark                1.2     sys/too   1119 A complex computer speed be...

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07.Jun.2015

WHDLoad: New packages until 06.06.2015
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 installer has been added until June 6th, 2015:

2015-06-01 improved: Lorna (Topo Soft) supports another disk version (Info)

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07.Jun.2015
Pascal Papara (ANF) AROS-Distribution: Aeros for Raspberry Pi 2 Premium with ExaGear
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution Aeros now exclusively is available for the Raspberry Pi 2 as premium version (screenshot), which includes the lx-command for launching Linux-programms out of AROS as well as the commercial programm ExaGear.

Using this emulator it is possible to execute x86-applications on the ARM-processor of the Raspberry. Therefore programms like Skype (Linux/x86) and Wine (Linux/x86) as well as, based on them, Amiga emulators WinUAE (Windows/x86) and WinFellow (Windows/x86) can be used with this distribution (Video: WinFellow).

Some of the x86-programms only runs with limitations: For instance Skype has not a sound output because the required soundserver PulseAudio was left out due to problems with other apllications. Without ExaGear and the programms which use it, the distribution can be also used on a Raspberry Pi 1. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2015

Platformer: "The Game"
David Eriksson's "The Game" is an unfinished platformer written in AMOS. The game is fully playable, according to the author it only lacks "a title and a little bit of polish". The author explains that "there is no real ending, you just get to a room that says Well Done and there's no real end".

Eriksson also states that "The main reason I stopped development was that when I tried the game on a clean A1200 there was some minor sprite flicker that I couldn't get rid of (and its still there) but now I decided to clean up some other parts of the game up a bit and release what I have."

"The Game" was heavily inspired by the retro platformer You have to win the game, even if work on the former started way before the latter was released.

"The Game" runs on 68000-based Amigas but according to the author "it still is a little slow". An Amiga 1200 with some FastRAM is recommended. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jun.2015
Martin Merz (ANF) AISS 4.19 released
Martin Merz has released an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS) which is a system for managing toolbar images under AmigaOS and other systems.

AISS 4.19 has more than 7.900 images. Due to compatibility reasons alle pictures and animations of the previous version are included as well. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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