08.Nov.2020
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #79 - Ultimate Floppy Emulator
In issue 79 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton has introduced the Ultimate Floppy Emulator developed by Edu Arana and compares it with the GoTek drive. The floppy emulator can be connected internally or externally to the computer, the AFD files can be provided on an USB stick or on a MicroSD card.
Currently the Ultimate Floppy Emulator is sold out, but preorders for the next batch are possible.
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08.Nov.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.11.2020
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 07.11.2020:
tok64.lha dev/lang 56K MOS C64 Basic Converter
partcopy.lha disk/misc 13K 68k copy partitions from/to HD to...
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 9K 2020 Carset for F1GP
GemRB-Morphos.lha game/role 3.1M MOS Portable Bioware's Infinity E...
scr2gif.i386-aros.lha gfx/conv 97K x86 Converts ZX Spectrum screens ...
st2iff.i386-aros.lha gfx/conv 106K x86 Atari ST NEOchrome/DEGAS to I...
RGetSize.lha gfx/misc 9K MOS Outputs width and height of a...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.1M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
EvenMore.lha text/show 349K 68k V0.94: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 442K MOS V0.94: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 432K OS4 V0.94: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
ShowGRexx.lha util/dtype 10K Simple batch converter for Sh...
BogoMIPS.lha util/moni 360K OS4 standalone BogoMIPS calculator
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 120K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 153K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
WebRadio_sbar.lha util/wb 94K MOS A sbar plugin to listen to We...
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08.Nov.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.11.2020
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 07.11.2020:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
shooter15.lha gam/shm 2Mb 4.1 Shoot at enemies and collect (P)
kens_drawers_modern.lha gra/ico 6Mb 4.0 Ken's icon v4 style drawers...
bogomips.lha uti/ben 233kb 4.0 Standalone BogoMIPS gorbulator
whetdhrystone.lha uti/ben 2Mb 4.0 Whetstone, Dhrystone, Sieve, Bog...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 754kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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08.Nov.2020
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 07.11.2020
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until 07.11.2020:
ccleste.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 2Mb Tough platform game with retro s...
st2iff.i386-aros.lha gra/con 106kb Atari ST NEOchrome/DEGAS to IFF ...
aya02.lha net/mis 2Mb access wolfram alpha answer mach...
ha.i386-aros.lha uti/arc 163kb The best archiver for text file ...
bogomips.i386-aros.lha uti/ben 217kb Standalone BogoMIPS gorbulator
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08.Nov.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 07.11.2020
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 07.11.2020:
Chrysalis_3.14.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
Chrysalis-update_FR_1.... Chrysalis Script permettant d'ins...
Chrysalis-update_EN_1.... Chrysalis Script allowing to inst...
pc105_i_1.1.lha Devices/Keyboard MorphOS Italian Keymap
GemRB_0.8.5b3.lha Games/Role Portable Bioware's Infi...
ShowCRexx_0.9.lha Graphics/Tools Arexx script for ShowCa...
VectorInk_1.0.lha Graphics/Vector A basic vector graphics...
WitchCleaner_1.40.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
EvenMore_0.94.lha Office/Show A freeware Textviewer C...
WebRadio_2.3.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar A sbar plugin to listen...
WhetDhryStone_1.3.lha System/Benchmark AmigaDOS commands for M...
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08.Nov.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.11.2020
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installer has been added until 07.11.2020:
- 2020-11-05 improved: Mega-Typhoon (Bernhardt Braun / Nordlicht Edv.) adapted to whdload 17 (Info)
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07.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Commerciall AGA platform game: 'Wiz' available as download or boxed edition
Adrian Cummings' AGA platform game 'Wiz' (promotion video) is now available. The boxed edition can be purchased for 21 British Pound - about 23 Euro - shipping included. The box contains two disks as well as a drinks coaster with 'Wiz' design. The USB version includes the disk image on an USB stick as well as two two disk labels and - while stocks last - a mini poster (A5) and a button badge. The download version is available on itch.io for ten USD (eight Euro).
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06.Nov.2020
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Video: "Commodore Show and Tell" featuring Dave Haynie and Bil Herd
In a video which was recorded for the this year's virtual "Vintage Computer Festival East 2020" the both former Commodore developers Bil Herd (C16, C128) and Dave Haynie (Amiga 2000, 3000) has talked about their work and time at Commodore.
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05.Nov.2020
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Dan Malone (Bitmap Brothers) sells signed prints
Dan Malone was graphics artist for the Bitmap Brothers. On his website he now sells signed prints of some of his work. At least one of them should be also interesting for Amiga users: The Navvie is a character from The Chaos Engine.
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05.Nov.2020
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Vector graphics editor VectorInk
André Siegel's VectorInk is a vector graphics editor for SVG files and mainly is meant for creating icons or basic graphics. A SVG source code editor is built-in.
Download: vectorink.lha (21 MB)
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04.Nov.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 147
The English and German issue 147 (November/December 2020) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Among others this latest issue includes a "Special" about 68k processors as well as tests of the Raspberry-Pi adapter A314 and of the jump'n run 'Smarty And The Nasty Gluttons'.
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02.Nov.2020
CGPress (ANF)
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Illustrated book: The Making of 'Prince of Persia'
Jordan Mechner who developed the classic game Prince of Persia on the Apple II has released his diaries and developer documents. Additional to digital versions (PDF, ePub) a printed book is available as well.
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02.Nov.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AMOS: Overlaying different layers with ALS
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has written "ALS", the AMOS Layers System, which "turns the screens of AMOS Professional into layers that can be laid over one another, with complete control of order, colors and opaqueness, while keeping them renderable as usual." (video).
It was written in AMOS and thus is available as a source code library.
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01.Nov.2020
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- Septembre/October 2020 news
- Old articles from Joystick 10 to 12:
- News: The blitzkrieg of Storm Computers
- Interview with Marc Djian
- Review of Total Recall
- Review of Metal Masters
- Review of Globulus
- Report: Salon De La Micro 1990
- Interview with Brian Fargo
- Review of Death Trap
- Review of Ultima 5
- News: Simulation of the London subway
- Report: SICOB Micro 1990
- Review of Cadaver
- Review of Super Skweek
- Interview with Richard Lowenstein (Reshoot developer)
- Interview with Manuel Fernández Higueras (SiDi designer)
- Interview with Andy Smith (Amiga Format/Sega Power)
- Review of Wayfarer
- Review of Mr Beanbag
- Hardware: Turbo Chameleon 64 V2
- Point of view: My real story of Grand Theft Auto
- File: Classic Reflections - What happened to Phase 5? (1st part)
- DIY: An Amiga 1200 in a DVD reader
- Tutorial: Utilization of the new MorphOS 3.10+ print system
- Misc: Manual of the Action Replay MKIII
- Special quiz about RoboCop 3
Articles in english:
- Interview with Richard Lowenstein (developer of Reshoot)
- Intervuew with Entrevue avec Manuel Fernández Higueras (SiDi's designer)
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01.Nov.2020
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Aminet uploads until 31.10.2020
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 31.10.2020:
Shrinkler.lha dev/cross 987K MOS Shrinkler executable file com...
freealut.lha dev/lib 714K OS4 Free ALUT (OpenAL utility) li...
MorphOS_PRINTING.lha docs/help 1.6M Printing with MorphOS (Englis...
AtapiMagic.lha driver/med 2K 68k Use 4 way IDE devices
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 9K 2020 Carset for F1GP
JumpBesiJump.adf game/misc 880K 68k Jump on platforms and dont fa...
Toki_is_not_dead-V3.lha mods/xm 10M Mod by Pseudaxos - Toki is no...
DeviceLoaded.lha util/cli 9K 68k Checks wheter a device is loaded
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01.Nov.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 31.10.2020
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 31.10.2020:
freealut.lha dev/lib 714kb 4.0 Free ALUT (OpenAL utility) library
shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders
sshterm.lha net/mis 158kb 4.1 SSH client with builtin terminal...
ctlg2ct.lha uti/tex 45kb 4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
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01.Nov.2020
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AROS Archives uploads until 31.10.2020
The following packages have been added to AROS Archives until 31.10.2020:
zxsna_datatype.i386-aros.lha dat/ima 28kb ZX Spectrum .sna DataType
arexxreference_1.32.lha doc/dev 33kb ARexx command/function reference...
installer_dev.lha doc/dev 81kb Amiga Technologies V43.3 Install...
opentyrian2.1.zip gam/act 6Mb Open-source port of the DOS game...
jvgs.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 24Mb Short OpenGL minimalistic game w...
povray_manual_eng.tar gra/ray 6Mb Manual of Povray on english lang...
aya01.lha net/mis 2Mb access wolfram alpha answer mach...
consize.i386-aros.lha uti/she 65kb Print out the size of the CLI wi...
winsize.i386-aros.lha uti/she 46kb Short app shows the size of the ...
jbanner.i386-aros.lha uti/tex 69kb Makes banners using any system font
autoactivate.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 64kb Activate window under mouse on k...
scrollscreen.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 43kb Scrolls the public screen by X a...
zapperng.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 59kb Change the behaviour of the zoom...
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01.Nov.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.10.2020
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 31.10.2020:
MilkyTracker_sdl2_Micr... Audio/Tracker An XM/MOD tracker by th...
Chrysalis_3.14.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
Chrysalis-update_EN_1.... Chrysalis Script allowing to inst...
Chrysalis-update_FR_1.... Chrysalis Script permettant d'ins...
Shrinkler_4.6.lha Development/Cross Shrinkler executable fi...
SDL2_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL2 with...
Imprimer_avec_MorphOS_... Documentation/Tutorials Tutoriel pour imprimer ...
Julius_1.5.1.lha Games/Strategy An open source re-imple...
AmiBrixx_2.0.lha Games/Think AmiBrixx_2.0.lha
CandyCrisis_2.0.2.lha Games/Think Yet another Tetris clon...
Jpeg7MUI_1.7a.lha Graphics/Tools JPEG 7 Tools with MUI
ShowGRexx_0.9.lha Graphics/Tools Arexx script for ShowGi...
Wayfarer_1.5.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
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01.Nov.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 31.10.2020
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 31.10.2020:
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31.Oct.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Unfinished Jump'n Run: Jab Jum
"Jab Jum" (video, download website) is an unfinished jump'n run game written in 1996 in AMOS. Currently an user tries to get the complete AMOS source code "so maybe someone can debug the game (colission issues) and make some more levels if anybody is interested."
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30.Oct.2020
FS-UAE (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 3.0.5 (update)
Frode Solheim's Amiga emulator FS-UAE provides the new features made in WinUAE to a cross-platform UAE version for Windows, Mac OS X and several Linux and BSD versions. Although specific release notes still are not available, the main page of FS-UAE as well as the main window after starting the program inform about the new version 3.0.5.
Update: Added release notes taken from the English Amiga Board (01.11.2020, 07:20 dr)
Changes in FS-UAE since version 3.0.3:
- Fix compilation of sana2.cpp with GCC 10.
- Fix OpenGL shaders with multiple passes on macOS.
- Include compilation fix for "unknown" CPUs architectures.
- Updated the GLAD OpenGL loader.
Changes in FS-UAE Launcher since version 3.0.3:
- Workaround for old file database entries with incorrect \ escape.
- Filename escaping for FS-UAE and .uaem comments when using .lha files as HDs.
- Fixed bug in escaping of \ in archive.py.
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29.Oct.2020
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Puzzle game: AmiBrixx 2.0 for all Amiga systems
Jörg 'Evil' Renkert wrote about the game: "In a field of stacked stones, your target is to elminate groups of stones of the same color. Thereby the other stones will fall down and form new groups. The game ends, when no more groups can be eliminated."
The gameplay of the original release from 2004 is the same as in version 2.0 but online highscores and the option of downloading "skins" from within the game were added. AmiBrixx was written with Hollywood and therefore is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android.
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28.Oct.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer package: "DevPack" installs diverse compilers, editors and tools
The free "DevPack" provided by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is meant for Amiga users who under AmigaOS are going to develop software. The package is hosted on the Amikit website but does not have any dependencies on the commercial Workbench environment and can be installed on harddrive by extracting the lzx archive. Diverse compilers, text editors and other tools are included as listed in the Readme.
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28.Oct.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 115 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes Amiga articles about the classic point and click graphic adventure "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and the Formula One car race "Vroom".
Download sites:
English
Italian
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28.Oct.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Wolfram Alpha question machine for Amiga systems: AskYourAmiga 0.2
According to the author, AskYourAmiga, in short AYA, is "a very early version of a GUI for Wolfram Alpha question machine" (Wikipedia entry). It does not find any links but right away the answer which can be also represented in e.g. graphs.
In version 0.2 "related searches" as well as a history of your searches and suggestions sorted in categories have been added. As usual the program is available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.
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27.Oct.2020
MorphZone (Forum)
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Final Writer: New screenshots / release date is getting closer
In 2015 Timothy 'terminills' Deters has acquired the rights to the word processing software "Final Writer" (amiga-news.de reported). The latest screenshots show font rendering and spelling.
Final Writer will be able to save documents as a PDF. Furthermore Deters wrote: "RTF has been updated to the final spec as well. I have many future enhancements planned based on how quickly I can recover my costs. You can print to selectable devices and PDFDirect support has been started but it'll take a little bit before I would say that is feature complete."
He also said that there is a "a slim possibility of releasing FW before the end of the year".
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27.Oct.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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HDMI converter: D520 available again
Thorsten Schubert's HDMI converter D520 is available again. A third batch of the converter which is connected to the video port was completed. The website of the project was updated as well.
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26.Oct.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.6
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.6 provides the following changes:
- WHDLoad now disables interrupts of graphics cards under
the Picasso96 software. This should solve problems with
Spectrum cards and newer P96 releases (issue #2598). Thanks
to Thomas Richter for providing useful information.
- Manual translations are in sync again for catalan and czech.
- Kickemu kick31.s can be instructed to load/init the custom
nonvolatile.s via option INIT_NONVOLATILE.
- nonvolatile.s now correctly works on searching nonexistent
items in a existing nvram file
- In kickemu kick13.s a waitblit has been added to avoid
problems with the gfx.Text patch (Psygore).
- The provided source keyboard.s now uses cia timers instead the
raster beam for the keyboard acknowledge delay.
- Access faults of size word to address -1 and of size long to
addresses -3..-1 are now reliable detected and reported.
In earlier releases: on 68030: when ExpMem was used these were
undetected, on 68040: when ExpMem was used and vector base was
not write protected (e.g. Freezer detected, Snoop*,
resload_Protect used) these were undetected, if vector base
was protected a fault inside WHDLoad was reported, on 68060:
these were always correctly reported
- To reduce the likelihood that resload functions get
interrupted by other calls to resload functions, some resload
functions which usually take not much execution time, have
been changed to be not interruptible anymore.
The following resload functions have been changed that way:
Abort, SetCACR, FlushCache, Control, Protect#?, SetCPU,
GetCustom, VSNPrintF and Log.
In general the option NoResInt/S can be used to avoid problems
with interrupted resload calls at the cost of possible sound/
graphics distortions when interrupts are disabled for a longer
time.
- The provided source sources/whdload/savegame.s is now fully
pc-relative. It contains also additional fixes for interrupt
acknowledge and AGA compatibility (JOTD/ross).
- The inplace decruncher for the old RNC1 format has been
improved to support files which need a larger distance
(Heimdall/JOTD).
- The kick31.s now prefers a A600 kickstart image if NO68020 is
set. It fails now if there is only a 68000/010 and a
A1200/A4000 kickstart image was loaded (JOTD).
- When using kickfs.s the dos.library function
Open(MODE_READWRITE) now performs correctly on Kickstart 3.1
by creating a non-existent file. On Kickstart 1.3 the old
behavior remains to not create a file.
- If a call to resload_Examine is attempted without the flag
WHDLF_Examine has been set in the Slave structure WHDLoad now
terminates with an appropriate error message (JOTD).
- The kickemu kick12.s, kick13.s and kick31.s has been modified
to automatically set the Slave flag WHDLF_Examine if HDINIT is
set (JOTD).
- When using resload_Relocate with tags CHIPPTR/FASTPTR and the
specified chip/fast memory location would result in an
overlapping with base executable WHDLoad now gives a useful
error message (JOTD).
- Instead of waiting for a long video frame WHDLoad now forces a
long frame before starting the Slave. This fixes startup
problems on Kickstart 3.0 and an interlace video mode
(issue #4798).
- MMU-table creation has been reworked. It is now faster and
uses less memory.
- Support for ACA-freezer added.
- if "*" is specified for the Slave to load WHDLoad searchs the
current directory for a file with the pattern "#?.slave" and
will use the first file matching (Toni Wilen)
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26.Oct.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Another teaser video: Jump'n Run 'Super Metal Hero'
A third teaser video of the jump'n run game 'Super Metal Hero' has been published.
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25.Oct.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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FPGA: MISTer with RTG support
The FPGA Amiga clone MISTer (amiga-news.de reported) now also supports RTG. 'NovaCoder' has published a video on it.
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25.Oct.2020
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Event: Video and reports of AmiWest 2020 (update)
This year's AmiWest is taking place this weekend - as usual in Sacramento, California. Our news-item will be updated as further videos, news (besides release of Enhancer Core) and reports are released.
Videos:
Reports:
- Report of Thomas Richter: Individual Computers has released version 3.0 of the RTG driver P96, free for those ones who purchased the software during the last 12 months. It now "supports screen dragging for all graphic cards included in the package, except for the CVisionPPC whose hardware lacks a particular feature to make it work. The next important feature is that there is a new driver pair, namely for the CVisionPPC and BVisionPPC boards. They support all bitmap types (unlike under CGfx) except planar, namely chunky 8 bit, 16 bit RGB, 16 Bit RGB PC, 16 bit BGR PC, 24 bit RGB, 24 bit BGR, 32 bit RGBA, 32 bit BGRA, 32 bit ARGB and 32 bit ABGR."
- Report of TribbleSmasher: The accelerator board ACA 1260 developed by Individual Computers "is still delayed as features are added and it seems the focus will be on the 040 version because of the shortage or insane prices for 060 cpus.
IComp also produced new dsub23 connectors and will create a bugfixed Buster12 chip with Dave Haynie! - ACube will produce the Tabor A1222 prototypes and Tabor is no longer called by its code name anymore.
Also the sound driver is ready..." Only "a few bugs to iron out" (AmigaKit). - TribbleSmasher continues writing: "AmigaOS4 updates and bugfixes are plentiful but there is some controversy how to distribute them: new disc or other methods, and date is ambigious too."
- Report of Amifrog (not public): The kernel ExecSG now boots faster and includes new mechanism for later support of multiple cores; a new version of the Enhancer Software is planned for X-MAS; a PPC-native version of ImageFX Studio was announced.
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25.Oct.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Print magazine: Amiga Addict announced
"Amiga Addict" aims at reestablishing a british Amiga print magazine after 14 years. Required are 500 buyers, though. Currently, 84 copies of issue #1 have been preordered. Included will be all Amiga flavours from 68k via PPC and AROS to Vampire.
December's issue will be available - according to its webshop - for 4.50 UKP and consist of 54 full-colour A4 pages. A digital version will be available as well and be free of charge for subscribers of the printed magazine. Among the content announced are interviews with Dave Haynie and Cloanto, articles about Kim Justice and AmigaBill, a tutorial about using Compact Flash on Amiga, a report about a Raspberry Pi used as Amiga 600 and an article about PageStream. (snx)
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Aminet uploads until 24.10.2020
The following items have been added to Aminet until 24.10.2020:
guardamy_sources.lha comm/www 121K Watch web pages for changes + pl
PDCurses_OS4.lha dev/lib 1.8M OS4 NCurses clone that outputs th...
mhimpegit.lha driver/aud 3K 68k MHI driver for Prelude/MPEGit...
PreludeAHI.lha driver/aud 12K 68k AHI driver for Prelude soundcard
PreludeLib.lha driver/aud 16K 68k Driver library for Prelude so...
MrPoker.lha game/board 402K 68k The Poker game by AxelSoftware
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 9K 2020 Carset for F1GP
uqm.lha game/misc 1.9M OS4 Port of Ur-Quan Masters
uqm-src.lha game/misc 1.8M Source for Ur-Quan Masters port
GemRB-Morphos.lha game/role 3.1M MOS Portable Bioware's Infinity E...
Fortis.lha game/shoot 19M MOS classic shooter in 3D environ...
GEMATRIA.lha game/text 15K 68k Turn words into Lottery numbe...
zapperng.i386-aros.lha game/text 59K x86 Change the behaviour of the z...
AMIread_No1.zip mags/misc 124M MOS Polish magazine
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.9M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
Albireo.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 36K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.7M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
CycleCounter.ACEpansi... misc/emu 10K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
annotate_pascal_synta... text/edit 397K Annotate Pascal Syntax
CopyMemAIO.lha util/boot 46K 68k Speedup your programs & workb...
autoactivate.i386-aro... util/cdity 64K x86 Activate window under mouse o...
CONSize.lha util/cli 13K 68k Print out the size of the CLI...
HasDevice.lha util/cli 15K 68k Checks for the existence of a...
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OS4Depot uploads until 24.10.2020
The following items have been added to OS4Depot until 24.10.2020:
minigl.lha dri/gra 7Mb 4.0 OpenGL subset 3D API
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
uqm.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.1 Port of Ur-Quan Masters
uqm-src.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.1 Source for Ur-Quan Masters port
shooter15.lha gam/shm 2Mb 4.1 Shoot at enemies and collect (P)
iconecta.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 A little and easy program to tes...
muimapparium_ita.lha net/mis 7kb 4.0 Italian catalog for MUIMapparium
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.10.2020
The following items have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 24.10.2020:
Chrysalis_3.14.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
Drucken_mit_MorphOS_1.... Documentation/Tutorials A tutorial about printi...
Printing_with_MorphOS_... Documentation/Tutorials A tutorial about printi...
Iris_beta_0.94.lha Email New email client suppor...
CycleCounter_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Albireo_1.2.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
AmiArcadia_26.81.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
ACE_1.22.lha Emulation The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
TecnoBallZ_0.92.lha Games/BrickBreaker A Brick Breaker with 50...
GemRB_0.8.5b1.lha Games/Role Portable Bioware's Infi...
Fortis_1.3.lha Games/Shoot 2D A classic shooter in ne...
Wayfarer_1.4.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
WitchCleaner_1.31.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
iConecta_4.0.lha Network/Wifi A little and easy progr...
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24.Oct.2020
Amigaworld (website)
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AmigaOS 4: A-EON released "Enhancer Software Core 1.1" for free
"Enhancer Core" is a free collection of classes and libraries taken from the Enhancer Software package which was announced a year ago. It is supposed "to encourage further development in the community."
Additional to some specific A-EON applications (Amisphere Server, Updater...) the package includes the following software:
- LogFile Datatype
- Anim Gadget Class
- Clock Gadget Class
- DateSheet Gadget Class
- InfoData Gadget Class
- InfoWindow Class
- ListViewer Gadget Class
- OptionButton Gadget Class
- PieChart Gadget Class
- ProgressBar Gadget Class
- Select Gadget Class
- SliderBar Gadget Class
- Shared Image Class
- Thumblist Gadget Class
- TickBox Gadget Class
- Time Gadget
- ToolBar Gadget
- codesets.library
- LDCK
- RequestChooser
- SystemReboot
- InfoWindow
Enhancer Core can be downloaded from amisphere.com, a free registration is required.
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23.Oct.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 124 of Amiga Future readable online
The English issue 124 (January/February 2017) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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22.Oct.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Open Laser Mouse: Optical mouse replacement for classic Amiga mice
Open Laser Mouse is an Arduino-based kit for the classic Amiga mice. The entire inner system has to be soldered by the user, even the lens of the laser optic has to be printed by yourself using a 3D printer. If you do not have an original mouse you then can also print a complete mouse case.
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22.Oct.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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RCEU540: 4-players joystick adapter for soldering
RCEU540 is an adapter for the parellel interface providing a third and fourth joystick port. If you are going to build it, then you can find all required information under the title link on GitHub.
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20.Oct.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 147 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 147 (November/December 2020) have been published online now at the title link. Its contents include the making of Amiga Future TV, a review of Tiny Booble and an interview with Davide Bucci.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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19.Oct.2020
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Commodore's Amiga software for DSP support
On Commodore's unfinished A3000 successor AA3000 / A3000+ a digital signal processor (DSP) would have performed which according to the system specifications would have been used for a fast serial data communication or decoding audio streams.
The developer Eric Lavitsky responsible for the the software support of the DSP at Commodore now has made available the software to an Amiga fan for test purposes on his AA3000 replica developed by the Finnish developer 'hese'. The software may not be freely distributed but some screenshots has been taken and the extent of the software and codecs has been descibed.
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18.Oct.2020
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web-Browser Wayfarer 1.4 (Update)
Today version 1.2 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web browser Wayfarer has been released. Additional to some bug fixes, favicons, quick links and the support for WebP images has been implemented.
MorphOS 3.14 and 1 GB RAM are required. A processor with at least 1,5 GHz is recommended. For giving feedback please use the corresponding discussion on morphzone.
Changes:
- Implemented Quick Links
- Implemented favicons
- Enabled support for WebP images
- Updated libcurl
- Fixed blob: support
- Fixed file name encoding and cookie issues in downloads
- Fixed Bookmarks menus to show more depth levels
- Fixed a crash on exit caused by the password autofill manager
- Fixed a crash on exit in WebCore's fileapi
- Fixed Copy image URL context menu function
Update: (22:46, 19.10.20, snx)
Meanwhile version 1.4 has been released, the additional changes can be found at the link above. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Oct.2020
ANF
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AskYourAmiga - a Wolfram Alpha question machine for Amiga systems
According to the author, AskYourAmiga, in short AYA, is "a very early version of a GUI for Wolfram Alpha question machine" (Wikipedia entry). It does not find any links but right away the answer which can be also represented in e.g. graphs.
The answers are grouped into different categories and can be displayed and saved als text or image. AskYourAmiga has a MUI GUI and is available for AmigaOS 3.x (starting with a 68020 processor), AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS 3.x.
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Aminet uploads until 17.10.2020
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 17.10.2020:
GPFC1-346350.lha comm/misc 36K 68k Patch GPFax 2.346 Class 1 to ...
GPFC2-347350.lha comm/misc 48K 68k Patch GPFax 2.347 Class 2 to ...
guardamy_sources.lha comm/www 116K V1.2 Watch web pages for changes
KONEY_FATAL_DEFRAG.lha demo/sound 504K 68k KONEY: FATAL DEFRAG Hardcore ...
CestinoGlobale.lha dev/blitz 53K 68k Italian global trashcan WIP
rasm.lha dev/cross 1.0M MOS Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
Geometric.lha dev/src 7K LOGO geometric examples in AS...
rascal.lzh docs/hard 10K Project for 1.5MB RAM on A500...
amimagtv02.lha docs/hyper 1K Belgian Amiga Youtube channel
PreludeAHI.lha driver/aud 12K 68k AHI driver for Prelude soundcard
PreludeLib.lha driver/aud 16K 68k Driver library for Prelude so...
A1200PlusNetworkDrive... driver/net 14K 68k SANA-2 Device Driver for Amig...
awiz964.lha driver/oth 72K 68k AmyWiz2 - connect to Sharp Wi...
Qbreed.lha game/data 6.3M 68k AB3D level maps for Quake. w/...
sendai.lha game/role 698K 68k Anime-style RPG
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 44K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AMIread_No1.zip mags/misc 159M MOS AMIread (Polish)
ibem_patch.lzh misc/emu 60K 68k Update IBeM PC emulator to 1.20
dosread-1.4.tar misc/unix 97K Read AmigaDOS disks under Ami...
Adorable.lha mods/8voic 95K 5ch Adorable Guit/Piano Slinger
CopyMemAIO.lha util/boot 47K 68k Speedup your programs & workb...
zapperng.lha util/cdity 59K MOS Change the behaviour of the z...
iGame-v2.0.lha util/misc 239K MOS Frontend for WHDLoad
AnalogClock.lha util/wb 38K 68k Analog transparent clock for ...
DockBot.lha util/wb 400K 68k A program launcher for OS 3.
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.10.2020
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 17.10.2020:
zapperng.lha uti/wor 79kb 4.0 Change the behaviour of the zoom...
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AROS Archives uploads until 17.10.2020
The following packages have been added to AROS Archives until 17.10.2020:
ami-playmod.i386-aros.lha aud/pla 2Mb CLI ProTracker MOD player
opentyrian2.1.zip gam/act 6Mb Open-source port of the DOS game...
sumeria.i386-aros.lha gam/mis 149kb Classic economic game about Hamm...
nikwi.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 974kb Platform game, help Nikwi find a...
fractalvoyager_aros.lha gra/mis 2Mb Fractal sets generator for educa...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.10.2020
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 17.10.2020:
RASM_1.3.lha Development/Cross Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
cc1541_3.2.lha Emulation/Misc Create Commodore 1541 f...
iGame_2.0-MorphOS.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching...
AMIread_No1_1.2.lha Mags AMIread_No1_1.2.lha
BootClock_1.10.lha Misc A little and easy progr...
Stream_5.10.lha System/Monitoring A Memory Bandwith Tester
InstallerLG_0.1.0a54.lha System/Shell Commodore Installer rep...
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18.Oct.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.10.2020
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 17.10.2020:
- 2020-10-12 updated: Apple Hunt (Ecthelion) corrected install icon (Info)
- 2020-10-12 updated: Mission Elevator (Micropartner) fixed for 68000, updated install script (Info)
- 2020-10-11 improved: Death Mask (Alternative) support for CD32 release added, quitkey for 68000 added (Info)
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18.Oct.2020
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: e-mail client Iris 0.94
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is going to be the standard e-mail client of MorphOS. It supports IMAP and is able to display as well as create HTML e-mails.
Beta version 94 adds minor crash fixes in autoconfiguration and updated libs. The plan now is to migrate to the Wayfarer core as soon as Wayfarer has the same feature coverage (read: printing). For feedback to the developer the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (snx)
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17.Oct.2020
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Vampire configuration tool: VControlGUI
VControlGUI (video) is a graphical user interface for VControl which is a tool for configurating Vampire cards. The source code has been released on Github.
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