10.Nov.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.11.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 9th, 2019:
wacomtablet.lha dri/inp 474kb 4.1 USB driver for Wacom Tablets
iview.lha net/mis 5kb 4.0 ABC iView client for AmigaOS
ppccpuinfo.lha uti/she 112kb 4.0 AmigaDOS command to query some c...
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10.Nov.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.11.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until November 9th, 2019:
runindosbox.i386-aros.lha emu/com 639kb Double-clicked MS-DOS games run ...
yam_drawer.lha gra/ico 3kb ken's v4 drawer for yam
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10.Nov.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 09.11.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until November 9th, 2019:
Drucken_unter_MorphOS.pdf Documentation/Tutorials Drucken_unter_MorphOS.pdf
Printing_with_MorphOS.pdf Documentation/Tutorials Printing_with_MorphOS.pdf
AMIread_1.10b.lha Misc Disk mag preview
Deark_1.5.3.lha Files/Archive Extracting data from va...
AntiryadGX_4.7_install.7z Development/Engine 2D-3D Antiryad Gx is an unifi...
PPCCpuInfo_1.6.lha System/Monitoring AmigaDOS command to que...
PluginSDK_Sketch-Scand... System/Plugins PluginSDK_Sketch-Scanda...
DateCalc_1.0.lha System/Utilities GUI based date calculat...
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10.Nov.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.11.2019
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 November 9th, 2019:
- 2019-11-09 updated: Birds of Prey (Electronic Arts) removed 68020 restriction, enabled fast memory, skip introduction added (Info)
- 2019-11-08 improved: Maupiti Island (Lankhor) supports spanish version, uses less memory (Info)
- 2019-11-08 fixed: Wings of Fury (Brøderbund) problem on some memory configs solved (Info)
- 2019-11-05 improved: Jaguar XJ-220 (Ocean) no longer requires NoCache (Info)
- 2019-11-05 improved: Garrison (Rainbow Arts/Digital Dreams) uses less memory, quitkey on 68000 added (Info)
- 2019-11-05 improved: Garrison 2 (Rainbow Arts/Digital Dreams) uses less memory, quitkey on 68000 added (Info)
- 2019-11-03 improved: Wings of Fury (Brøderbund) supports another version, access fault fixed, uses files now (Info)
- 2019-11-03 improved: Off Shore Warrior (Titus) supports another version, highscores saving added (Info)
- 2019-11-03 updated: Borobodur (Thalamus/EyesSoft) faster loading, less chip memory needed, access fault fixed, sprite bugs fixed, cheat activate via custom tolltypes (Info)
- 2019-11-03 improved: Agony (Psygnosis) intro delay added, gfx glitches fixed on AGA (Info, Image)
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10.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 3.0.2
For Frode Solheim's Amiga emulator FS-UAE there are ports for Windows, Mac OS X and different Linux and BSD versions. The latest version 3.0.2 fixes a bug of the video scaling under Windows which happened if the fullscreen mode was closed.
Changes in FS-UAE since version 3.0:
- Fix video scaling when restoring from fullscreen on Windows
Changes in FS-UAE Launcher since version 3.0:
- Scanner bug prevented Conquests of the Longbow WHDLoad to be recognized
- The correct kickstart wasn’t always loaded
- Cloanto ROMs were not always decrypted
- Fix for global WHDLoad quit key
- Another fix for global WHDLoad quit key
- Fixed a misleading warning when cyberstorm ROM was not found (3.0.1)
Download: FS-UAE-Suite_3.0.2_Windows_x86-64.zip (41 MB)
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10.Nov.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Operating system: Friend announces "Sky-Computing"
The operating system FriendUP (amiga-news.de reported) is inspired by the Amiga but not compatible to it. The former developers of AROS and MorphOS programs, Hogne Titlestad and Paweł Stefański, as well as the former Commodore-UK manager David Pleasance and Colin Proudfoot are involved in this project. Under the title link now they announced to introduce "Sky Computing" which is to link all their different cloud solutions.
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10.Nov.2019
Indie Retro News
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Game announcements: Preview videos onf 'Metro Siege' and 'Formula Fun'
Metro Siege (video) is a horizontally scrolling beat'em up for up to two players which requires 512 KB chip and Fast RAM. According to the developers "it will feature foreground and background parallax, over 60 colours on screen, multi button and joypad support, 2 player co-op and sophisticated combat with dozens of moves even the karate kid would be impressed by!".
According to the developer the fun racer 'Formula Fun' (videos: 1, 2) developed with AMOS is inspired by classic games like 'Indy Heat', 'Super Sprint' and Super Off-Road. The videos have been already recorded in February and show an early prototype of the game.
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09.Nov.2019
Indie Retro News
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Commercial puzzle game: Vegetables Deluxe
Mike Richmond's 'Vegetables Deluxe' (video) is a "match 3 game featuring all-new full colour hi-resolution graphics". Originally developed for the C64 entwickelt, purchasers of a 'deluxe' version will get an ADF download including an Amiga port as bonus. You can purchase the digital editon of Vegetables Deluxe for 5,40 ¤, the boxed version delivered on a (C64-) disk and with printed manual for 17 ¤, plus shipping from Canada.
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09.Nov.2019
Indie Retro News
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Playable demo: Jump'n Run 'M.KID'
M.KID (video) is an Amiga port of an unreleased jump'n run game with the same name for the MSX2 platform. It was created with the Game Construction Kit RedPill.
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06.Nov.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 141
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 141 (November/December 2019) have been released today and can be ordered from the magazine staff or various Amiga dealers. The publisher points out that the magazine was selling very well recently, resulting in it being sold out before the publication date. Until the total circulation of the magazine can be increased, it is highly recommended to order issues early subscribe to the publication.
This issue's topics include a show report from 'Evoke 2019' and reviews of Vampire V4 Standalone and Amiga Forever.
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05.Nov.2019
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview with Andreas Magerl (Amiga Future)
At amigans.net an interview with Andreas Magerl was published who is the publisher of the print magazine "Amiga Future".
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05.Nov.2019
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Video interview: Roman Werner (Traps'n Treasures, Leonardo, Eliminator) (update)
Roman Werner is a former video game developer whose best known game might be his jump'n run Traps'n Treasures but who was also involved as musician in other games (Leonardo, Eliminator). In the video interview with Scene World he has talked about his time as video game developer for Starbyte and his latest retro activities like type-in BASIC games for competitions or the "One Button Controller" which he developed.
Update: (25.11. 2019, 23:00 cg)
In the German comments section, people were asking for a summary of the long interview. In response, Jörg Dröge from the Sceneworld team supplied the following detailed overview of the topics discussed during the two hours. Thank you, Jörg!
- 00:00:55 "First commercial product" an dem ich mitgewirkt habe.
- 00:01:38 "How to get into Computers?"
- 00:03:47 "Shorter Listings next time"?
- 00:04:00 "Did you got a Datasette at some point, or Disk Drive?"
- 00:04:30 "How were the prices in Switzerland?"
- 00:05:19 "Disk Drive was more expensive than the c64, cause 1541 was like a computer, CPU, ram on its own"
- 00:06:05 "Then you started with gaming and discovered the cracking scene" / meeting in shopping centers?
- 00:07:30 Stars Wars when I was 10
- 00:08:07 "Accoustic Coupler" / Big Apple nickname
- 00:09:45 “Swiss Cracking Association” Bild von Cracker Landkarte??
- 00:09:56 "Same group that was famous later on for having coded the first Amiga Virus"
- 00:11:25 "But you could get rid of it, right?"
- 00:12:15 Jim Sachs / Defender of the Crown Bild???
- 00:12:35 "Press said that Defender of the Crown was photo realistic"
- 00:14:39 "You write mostly about Amiga or Atari Stuff on your blog, why not C64?"
- 00:15:32 "You are known of those people who can do everything a bit graphics, coding, music?"
- 00:16:20 Christian Gleinser / Shadow Switcher / Frogs Bild???
- 00:17:00 "Synthesizer / music for computers
- 00:18:07 "Sound Fx" Bild???
- 00:20:00 "Leonardo" C64 version
- 00:21:20 "Animated Intro, Leonardo going into the house" Bild???
- 00:22:24 Eliminator / John Philips / How the intro music was made
- 00:25:05 Music NTSC/PAL timing / DTV / Summer Games
- 00:27:00 On Amiga you could switch PAL/NTSC
- 00:27:54 "Your own game?" Traps'n'Treasures
- 00:32:20 "Traps'n'Treasures is the game we are talking about" Bild???
- 00:32:32 - 00:32:43 cut
- 00:34:05 - 00:34:38
- 00:38:43 "Suprising that Starbyte went bankrupt"
- 00:41:00 Last Ninja 3 in 1991 sold 3.5 Million / 5.5 Million.
- 00:43:56 Krisalis Bild???
- 00:44:55 "Did you ever work on other games?"
- 00:45:55 "2016 returned to retro-scene"
- 00:46:18 BASIC Tenliners Contest Bild???
- 00:48:00 Single Button Game concept / Single Button Game Controller Bild???
- 00:50:26 "How many were produced?"
- 00:51:00 Delayed sending
- 00:52:45-00:55:30 Intellivision Amico / Graphic Designer Peru / Victor working on Mobile Games
- 00:55:12 "Leonardo 2"
- 00:59:13 "Rolling Ronny" / "Level-Ed"
- 01:00:00 Starbyte wanted to replace the hero in TnT
- 01:01:00 Commodore bankrupt 1995
- 01:02:06 Race between "Lemmings" (Jeroen Tel) / "Mayhem in Monsterland" 1993
- 01:03:09 Mike Clarke (Psygnosis) / dutch developers wanted to tick off the system
- 01:05:00 - 01:06: DTV / TheC64 Discussion
- 01:08:35 "What do you do nowadays?"
- 01:08:59 "Do you still know assembler?"
- 01:09:39 "VCS developers did not have any tools"
- 01:10:55 "Two type of people - People who want to talk about it or people who say let it be"
- 01:11:25 "Meeting for Gamescom / Blackjack"
- 01:14:18 "Preserving the stories"
- 01:14:30 "1977 Homecomputers / PET / Toasters / FAX machine"
- 01:15:30 "CD-Player came to market"
- 01:16:00 "Micowave"
- 01:17:00 "VHS Player"
- 01:17:35 "Scene C64 - Fixing your C64 / Capacitors / FPGA / Software does not age
- 01:19:45 Emulating a Seagate drive
- 01:20:35 Arcade Machines Batteries that leaked
- 01:21:54 "VHS tape quality"
- 01:23:30 "VHS Player"
- 01:24:19 "Going to the Cinema"
- 01:25:00 "Bulgaria / Brand new Cinema"
- 01:27:07 "Vinyl" players
- 01:27:40 Stereo from 1992 (with 10)
- 01:28:30 Record covers to present your dream / Every medium has its beauty
- 01:29:25 Cherish old computer games and video game consoles
- 01:30:09 If you have the tools you can fix it
- 01:30:20 Harddisk with all my Amiga Stuff on it blew up
- 01:31:35 "one of the few people from the German part of Switzerland"
- 01:33:25 "Everybody threw their old games away"
- 01:33:45 After 12 years Last Ninja 3 on disk
- 01:35:00 Traps'n'Treasures box close up / 1400 Euro
- 01:35:50 Was sent 10 copies to give my friends
- 01:37:40 "You know so much more about the old days than me" *** Über die 90er Jahre ***
- 01:38:00 "My knowledge starts at 1990 when I got my own C64"
- 01:39:00 George Lucas re-Releasing frist Start Wars Movie on VHS tape (Gold Edition)
- 01:39:20 1997 Jurrasic Parc 2 was released / "Had to see it"
- 01:39:30 First movie I ever saw 1994 "The Flintstones"
- 01:40:00 "Super Mario Brothers" Movie
- 01:40:21 "Who Framed Roger Rabit" / Bob Hoskins (nicht Bob Hopkins)
- 01:41:56 "School friend I swapped disks with"
- 01:41:24 "86" (war eigentlich "96") WinRAR / Duke Nukem 3D - mit 15
- 01:41:47 School Library had a computer with Tomb Raider
- 01:42:00 "Toblerone"
- 01:42:30 PS1 Metal Gear / Tomb Raider / Destruction Derby
- 01:42:50 PC Version
- 01:43:00 "That are the ninenties for me"
- 01:43:15 CDs with D64 images with Leonardo, Zak McKraken, Maniac Mansion / Learned about all the classics
- 01:43:32 2008 with Ebay - access to Originals
- 01:44:00 "Did you actually every work on a C64 game commercially"
- 01:44:44 "Rather develop for a Commodore 64 than for the Amiga"
- 01:45:20 Sound on Amiga / No filter / Same "Obarski"-sounds on Amiga
- 01:46:00 Going with Intellivision Amico?
- 01:46:40 "Sams Journey can't be beaten"
- 01:47:53 "...and then you hire Jeroen Tel for the music"
- 01:48:00 "You have it a lot easier nowadays because you have all the information"
- 01:48:33 "Want to figure it out myself"
- 01:49:30 "How many people know how to program a needle printer?"
- 01:49:50 "Fast Loader that would work on all drives (NTSC/PAL)"
- 01:50:30 "Good luck on the Demake of Traps'n'Treasures.
- 01:50:42 "Kickstarter?" "Not such a fan"
- 01:51:29 "Will ask you for a demo"
- 01:51:39 "We talked almost 2 hours" / used to talk english
- 01:52:11 "Whats your next plan?"
- 01:52:50 BASIC games based on a 3-Page Listing
- 01:54:02 Christian's "BASIC Weihnachten"
- 01:54:40 "Old Starbyte buddies"
- 01:55:45 "You are pretty proud of it and keep the memory alive on your blog"
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04.Nov.2019
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Vampire team distributed pirated software during 'Vampire Standalone' launch
For years, a customized, unlicensed distribution of AmigaOS 3.9 targeting the FPGA based 'Vampire' accelerators and Amiga clones has been available on the net. The package comes with tons of preinstalled software - including hundreds of games and productivity applications that used to be distributed commercially.
Whenever people were criticizing this, Gunnar von Boehn's Vampire team was quick to point out that they were not involved with the distribution called 'Coffin' and didn't see a reason to act.
But in the days following "Amiga 34", where the 'Vampire Standalone' variant was sold to endusers for the first time, an increasing number of users reported on a1k.org that they had recieved a CF card with preinstalled Coffin OS from Gunnar von Boehn himself when purchasing their Vampire computer (screenshots (German): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
When other users started criticizing this approach to launching a commercial product into the market - selling 32 Vampire units at a price of 550 Euros each at A34 should have generated sales of more than 17000 Euros in just a few hours - Vampire spokesman 'grond' explained that the team had to switch back to Amiga Kickstarts due to "ongoing boot problems with AROS" and had bought Kickstart 3.1 licenses from Mike Battilana (Cloanto) right at the show. Additionally, "H&P had given their OK" for the distribution of AmigaOS 3.9, according to grond (Screenshot (German)).
This would explain just a tiny fraction of the software actually contained in the Coffin distribution - the package has a total size of 32 Gigabyte and contains a complete collection of preinstalled WHDLoad games as well as many other commercial titles such as Cinema 4D, SAS/C or "Foundation Director's Cut" - but was probably meant to diffuse the main point of criticism: Pirating software still available from dealers, like AmigaOS 3.9, is generally frowned upon, even in the usually rather 'Abandonware' friendly retro community.
But due to our own conversations with Jürgen Haage from many years ago, we doubted even the claim that the Vampire team got permission to distribute AmigaOS 3.9. And approached by amiga-news.de, Mr. Haage did indeed state that he didn't know about the Vampire project and did not have any communication with the people behind it - according to him, nobody approached Haage & Partner to ask about OS 3.9.
amiga-news.de has contacted Gunnar von Boehn to ask for a statement regarding this matter and to see if he could forward our mail to 'grond', since we do not have a contact address for the latter. Von Boehn states that his team "considers the current legal situation regarding the OS as very sad" und mentions that "not even properly purchased licenses might not guarantee legal ownership" - we assume he's referring to the legal battle between Hyperion and Cloanto. Mr. Von Boehn did not address Coffin OS in his reply, but admits in a subclause that he thinks Vesalia is still selling AmigaOS 3.9. We did not recieve a reply from 'grond'. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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03.Nov.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 02.11.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 2nd, 2019:
f64summer.lha dev/cross 20K MOS Checksummer for BASIC listings
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 745K 68k Amiga AGA port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 753K 68k Amiga RTG port of Duke Nukem 3D
AMIread.lha mags/misc 32M MOS Disk mag preview
DOSBox_AGA.lha misc/emu 1.9M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 1.9M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
Morpheus_1.0.lha text/dtp 275K MOS Word processor
PPCCpuInfo.lha util/cli 115K MOS query some PPC cpu proprieties
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 950K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
perciman_68k.lha util/wb 1.4M 68k Tool to manage contact and ot...
perciman_MOS.lha util/wb 1.4M MOS Tool to manage contact and ot...
perciman_OS4.lha util/wb 1.8M OS4 Tool to manage contact and ot...
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03.Nov.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.11.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 2nd, 2019:
asciimandelbrot.lha gra/mis 75kb 4.0 Bench a Mandelbrot set in a cons...
mindspace.lha gra/vec 10Mb 4.1 Create MindMaps, UML and quaint ...
deark.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
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03.Nov.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.11.2019
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until November 2nd, 2019:
hivelytracker-1.8-i386-ar... aud/tra 1Mb SDL version of Amiga AHX module ...
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03.Nov.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 02.11.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until November 2nd, 2019:
lariad_pl_1.0.lha Games/Platform Polish translation for ...
aha_0.5.lha Text/Misc Ansi HTML Adapter
PerCIMan_0.6.lha Office/Organizer A program to manage con...
f64summer.lha Development/Cross Checksummer for BASIC l...
Iris_beta69.lha Email New email client suppor...
AsciiMandelbrot_2.0.lha Graphics/Mathematics Draw a Mandelbrot set i...
SacrificioPagano_1.60.lha Misc A special app to people...
Python_2.7.6-16.lha Development/Python Python_2.7.6-16.lha
Chrysalis_3.12.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
Morpheus_1.0.lha Office/WordProcessor Word processor
PPCCpuInfo_1.2.lha System/Monitoring AmigaDOS command to que...
HWP_AHX_1.3.lha Development/Hollywood/... Hollywood plugin for AH...
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03.Nov.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.11.2019
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 November 2nd, 2019:
- 2019-11-01 improved: Shadow of the Beast 2 (Psygnosis) skip intro added, joypad support added, quitkey on 68000 supported (Info)
- 2019-11-01 improved: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ultra Games) unlimited energy added, supports SPS 2994 version, BoxIcon added (Info)
- 2019-11-01 fixed: Dyna Blaster (Hudson Soft) fix an access fault in battle mode (Info)
- 2019-11-01 fixed: Tintin on the Moon / Tim und Struppi auf dem Mond (Infogrames) sub-folder "data" used as CurrentDir (Info)
- 2019-10-30 improved: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) new imager, new install script, borders fixed on AGA (Info, Image)
- 2019-10-29 improved: Rygar (Seismic Minds) runs on 2MB chip, added joypad support, added trainer (Info)
- 2019-10-28 improved: Soccer Kid (Krisalis) 68000 quitkey support, works without PreLoad, uses less chip memory (Info)
- 2019-10-28 improved: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) fixed sprites in main multi scrollings screen (Info, Image)
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03.Nov.2019
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Announcement: New FPGA Amiga implementation M5
Under the title link Jesús de la Torre - among others developer of a laser upgrade for Amiga mice - has announced a new Amiga FPGA board in Mini-ITX format called M5 for 224,95 Euro. A Kickstart-ROM chip provided by Cloanto is included but alternative versions can be loaded as well.
The used FPGA is a Spartan 3 XC3S400 (PDF survey), for the emulation of the 68000 processor and the Custom chips are separate softcore and a revision of the Minimig implementation will be used (blog entry with comments, automated English deutsche automatisierte translation).
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03.Nov.2019
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Computer case: Second batch of Checkmate 1500 Plus can be preordered
As announced, Stephen Jones will produce another batch of maximal 500 pieces. From the first batch, still 100 cases have to be delivered. These cases for the keyboard Amigas A500, A600 and A1200 now can be preordered. The delivery time is three up to six months. In a video Jones provides further details.
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03.Nov.2019
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.12
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's "Chrysalis" is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators and now is available in version 3.12 for MorphOS 3.12. An unchanged basic installation of the operating system is required.
Updates:
- Iris-Betaversion 69
- MPlayer 1.3.0
- WebRadio 1.10
- VidentiumPicta 2.0
- RNOTags 1.0
- RNOPDF 1.3
- ScummVM 2.1.0
- ACE 1.19
- WHDLOpener 1.3
- ModernArt 3.0
- Polybios 1.2
- HollywoodPlayer 8.0
- RNOInfoScreen 1.7
- AHX-1.3 plugin for Hollywood
Download: Chrysalis_3.12.iso (710 MB)
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01.Nov.2019
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Acquisition of Amiga: Summary of Mike Battilana's speech at Amiga34 (Update)
At the "Amiga 34" in Neuss, Mike Battilana spoke at last. On the timetable he was not announced as "Cloanto" but due to his acquisition of the rights from Amiga Inc. as "Amiga". We want to summarize the most important facts of his speech:
Mike Battilana underlined his efforts of collecting the whole Commodore heritage to establish a reunited company "Commodore-Amiga". Again he suggested the idea of a foundation as a possible legal form for a new "Amiga" parent company as well as to release the source codes of software developed by Commodore.
About all other plans he has to remain discret but probably he could help developers by providing free licences. To be on the safe side, he acquired the domain amiga.com twice - for the first time in the course of Amiga, Inc.'s acquisition but also for the second time from Vince Pfeifer.
He is not offended by AmigaOS 3.1.4 at all but he would have preferred to be released after the lawsuit. Besides, he thinks that it should be available for free because the developers also have not get any money. Finally it should lead to an open source project.
With regard to the legal dispute he has emphasized his interest of coming to an agreement and that he commnunicates with Hyperion's CEO Timothy de Groote daily and meets him on a monthly basis. They were on good terms.
With regard to P96 he explained that in his conversation with Jens Schönfeld a settlement has not been reached but he is glad that they talked and at least could clarify some details. Furthermore he pointed out that he himself would have never spoken about lawsuits. Instead, he would prefer to solve problems quietly.
He has also told how interesting it was having a look at the Commodore documents because the business processes in many ways were ahead of the times. His company has a large archive of internal, electronial Commodore documentation and communication but having an eye to the privacy of the parties involved it would be difficult to make it available. Maybe step by step the archive can be partly published.
Update: (18:23, 02.11.19, snx)
Correction of the final sentence about P96, which had been interpreted more liberally before. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Nov.2019
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.
- September/October 2019 news
- Old articles from Joystick Hedbo 16 to 33
- News: Deluxe Paint 3, the pixels masters
- News: Behind The Scene of Drakkhen
- Reviews: Hollywood Poker Pro, Circus Attractions, The Kristal, Robocop, Wrangler, Steve Davis World Snooker, F-16 Combat Pilot, News: Philippe Agripnidis manage Infogrames' products, Super Hang-On, Cosmic Pirate, etc.
- Interview with Matt Furniss (musician of Mortal Kombat and Speedball 2)
- Interview with Mark Ritter (developer of Workbench Explorer)
- Review of MorphOS 3.12
- Review of Spencer
- Review of OSMoSe 0.9.2
- Tutorial: installation of MorphOS (update)
- Tutorial: utilization of Flacapella
- File: the Amiga history of Team 17
- File: the Amiga on TV and cinema
- Point of view: my job at Commodore as Regional Product Demonstrator
- Special quizz about Aegis Development
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31.Oct.2019
Icke (a1k) (ANF)
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Crowdfunding: Mechanical Amiga-500/1200 keyboards
Similar to the project, announced by the A1200.net team, under the title link the Australian Liwei Guan offers a crowdfunding campaign for mechanical keyboards for the computers Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200.
They are meant as replacements for existing keyboards because the metal carrier and the controller are not included. Additional to the US/UK keycaps also German ones are planned - other languages will be offered if there is sufficient demand.
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31.Oct.2019
Samuli Holopainen (ANF)
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Real-time strategy game: AI
Samuli Holopainen writes: AI was made for Christiandevs annual Speedgame 2019 competition where it became #1 in both categories of "Best Fun Game" (shared #1) and "Most Original Concept", in which AI scored the maximum score of 5 points. Overall ending however only at #3.
In AI you are in control of an AI sending Robots to kill Humans. There's a catch however, you cant control Robots individually, but you can only control from where and when to send Robots, and what ALL Robots will be targeting at any time and then Robots will themselves decide how to achieve it.
The version sent to the competition is not the same as this release version. This release version is worked a bit further, adding such features as Save Game (autosave), Upgrades, bug fixes, other tweaks, and the possibility to actually complete the game properly.
Notice, however, that this game does need a heavy machine, and no real AmigaOS 3.x machine is able to run this, AmigaOne X1000 or equivalent is recommended. Although if you don't mind a slower speed, then you could play this with some lower spec machines. In addition, there is also a possibility to make the speed faster for slower machines, but this happens with the cost of stability. You might be able to play this with for example lower-spec Sams but prepare for bugs then.
You can check a bit about this game (the competition version) from a video about all Speedgames.
As usual with my games, to support Indiego Appstore, this game will first be available only through Indiego Appstore. But it will be released to Aminet later as well. (snx)
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31.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 103 (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 articles about the Amiga games "Heavy Metal" and "Unreal".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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31.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga floppy reader: ADF-Copy 1.012
Dominik Tonn wrote: "ADF-Copy is a small hardware i developed which uses a Teensy 3.2 microcontroller to read and write non copy protected Amiga disks with an out of the box PC 3.5" Floppy drive connected to the microcontroller which can be build with a few jumper wires on a breadboard with no additional component. The low level stuff is handled in the microcontroller which is controlled by a Java application." (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 1.012 provides bug fixes for users of OpenJDK - if you use the original Java then you do not need this update.
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27.Oct.2019
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AmiWest 2019: Pictures and videos (3rd Update)
In this news item, which will be updated, we are collecting links to pictures and videos documenting the AmiWest 2019 taking place this weekend in Sacramento.
Videos:
- Developer conference, Kick off: Steven Solie speaking about ExecSG for the Amiga OS 4.1, filmed by Bernardo
- Developer conference, Follow-up of Steven Solie's speech on ExecSG, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Developer conference, Mark Ritters speaking about his text editor Struct, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Developer conference, Steven Solie summarizes the first day, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Developer conference, Tony Wyatt speaking about about programming graphic drivers for Amiga OS 4.1, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Developer conference, 2nd hour of the second day, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Developer conference, 3rd hour of the second day, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Presentation of Ron Nicholson one of the original developers of the Amiga, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Doug Compton speaking about his Amiga Art Contest 2019, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Doug Compton's second speech, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Alex Perez's speech about FloppyHaus and A.L.I.C.E, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Trevor Dickinson's speech about his AmigaOne plans, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Steven Solie's speech about ExecSG, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Tony Wyatt's speech, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- ExecSG questions answered by Trevor Dickinson and Steven Solie, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Mike Battilana's speech, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- AmiWest 2019 banquet, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- AmiWest website listing the live streams of the event provided by Robert Bernardo
2nd Update: (19:50, 31.10.19, snx)
Video of questions and answers regarding ExecSG added.
3rd Update: (08:50, 17.11.19, snx)
Further videos added: Second and third hour of second day of the Developer conference, the banquet and the speech of Mike Battilana. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Oct.2019
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmiWest 2019: Further details on ExecSG kernel of AmigaOS 4
In a forum entry under the title link, 'Number6' has summarized the texts of the PowerPoint slides of speeches made on the AmiWest 2019.
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27.Oct.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 26th, 2019:
TheMurkyWoods.lha comm/cnet 32K 68k Text Adventure for C-Net BBS
AmiSpeedTest.lha comm/net 22K 68k Network speed test utility
amisynergyc.lha comm/net 109K OS4 An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
amisynergyc_src.lha comm/net 1.0M An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 18K IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs
C4P4CITOR_FINAL.lha demo/aga 2.4M 68k Invitro: Capacitor Party 4 by...
ToolShed.lha dev/cross 2.9M MOS A CoCo Cross-Development Toolset
Office_Test_1.3.lha dev/mui 681K MOS Demo program for office.mcc
AsciiMandelbrot.lha gfx/fract 75K MOS draw a Mandelbrot set in a co...
meditate.mp3 mods/kicko 33M Meditate
Vim_8.1-i386-aros.lha text/edit 9.3M x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-ppc-amigaos.lha text/edit 11M OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 11M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
aha.lha text/misc 417K MOS Ansi HTML Adapter
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 106K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 136K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
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27.Oct.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 26th, 2019:
asciimandelbrot.lha gra/mis 75kb 4.0 Bench a Mandelbrot set in a cons...
morse.zip uti/sci 5Mb 4.0 You want to learn Morse language...
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27.Oct.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 26th, 2019:
saintseiyarebirth.tgz gam/act 149Mb a game for openbor engine
quickrecord_drawer.tgz gra/ico 3kb ken's icons drawer
morse.i386-aros.zip uti/sci 5Mb You want to learn Morse language...
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27.Oct.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until October 26th, 2019:
iMac_G5_Papiosaur_2.jpeg Hardware/iMac_G5 iMac_G5_Papiosaur_2.jpeg
MPlayer_1.3.0-20181121... Multimedia Build of MPlayer 1.3.0,...
MorphOS_SDK_3.14_20191... Development/SDK The MorphOS Development...
ToolShed_2.2.lha Development/Cross A CoCo Cross-Developmen...
Vim_8.1.2146.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
InstallerLG_0.1.0a39.ha System/Shell Commodore Installer rep...
AmiSpeedTest_0.5.lha Network/Test Network speed test utility
Iris_beta68.lha Email New email client suppor...
Office_test_1.3.lha Office/WordProcessor Demo program for office...
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27.Oct.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.10.2019
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 October 26th, 2019:
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26.Oct.2019
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris, beta version 68
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. Among others this latest beta version now remembers used e-mail addresses and autocompletes them in the address line.
Meanwhile Iris requires MorphOS 3.12. If you want to provide feedback then please use the corresponding discussion on MorphZone.
Changes in beta 68:
- Fixed the HTML editor view being non-editable when opened without contents
- Fixed e-mail caching aggregating addresses with a different name but same e-mail together
- Fixed folder sorting when adding a new account
- Fixed a case where some folders wouldn't show up right after configuring a new GMail account
- Addressed a possible crash after dis/re-connecting to a store
Changes in beta 67:
- Implemented an e-mail address cache and e-mail inline completion in To/CC/BCC strings
- Added password/pin authentication to the crypto storage (where passwords and tokens are stored)
- Improved e-mail rich-text editor
- Updated Odyssey core, fixes spellchecking in the e-mail editor
- Migrated to OpenSSL 1.1.1c
- Updated VMime to the latest github state
- Switched to ObjFW runtime library
- Removed MorphOS 3.11 optimizations (enables better Unicode support in certain UI elements)
Download: iris.lha (21 MB)
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25.Oct.2019
Indie Retro News
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Playable demo version and preorder: Black Dawn Rebirth
The games of the der Black Dawn series are typical sind Dungeon Crawler similar to Dungeon Master. For the latest title "Black Dawn Rebirth" now a playable demo version is available. Additional the game which will be released on 1. December can be preordered: The download version is available for 13 Canadian Dollar (about 9 EUR) and an edition provided on six disks and printed manual in a paper box is available for 60 CAD (41 EUR).
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23.Oct.2019
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.1
An update for the web browser IBrowse has been released which fixes some minor problems introduced with version 2.5. Among others now also a native Javascript library is available for MorphOS.
- Updated Danish, Spanish and Swedish catalogs, by Niels Bache, Javier de las Rivas and Pär Boberg respectively
- Localised missing strings in spoofing preferences
- Fixed corruption in built-in MSIE User-Agent strings
- Tweaked the installer to make 2.5.x upgrades nicer
- The F5 key can now be used to reload a page
- JS: MorphOS native javascript.library available again
- 68k: Handle datatypes that expand 8-bit + transparent colour images to 32-bit RGBA (fixes our 256 colour icons having non-transparent magenta backgrounds in MorphOS)
- 68k: Full alpha channel support enabled for systems using CyberGraphX V51 or higher (MorphOS)
- OS4: Enabled 2.5 updates via AmiUpdate (exit IBrowse before performing any updates)
- Changed the default JPEG decoder swap memory limit from 1Mb to unlimited on OS4 and MorphOS
- Fixed NOTRANSPARENT tooltype being ignored for GUI images
- Fixed broken HTTPS proxy functionality, where incorrect hostname was used for SNI
- Fixed broken MUI 4/5 detection that was causing problems in TextEditField and preventing context-sensitive mouse points from working with MUI 3.x
- Added some workarounds in the install script so that it doesn't error with the MorphOS installer
- 68k: Now works again on Workbench 3.0, after incorrect requirement for keymaps.library V39 (Kickstart 3.0 has V37)
- 68k: Fixed crashes when external modules (e.g. codecs and protocols) fail to load for any reason
For owners of a license of IBrowse 2.5 the update is available for free. Users of AmigaOS 4 also can install the update using AmiUpdate.
A known problem are crashes of AmiSSL 4 on systems having a 68020 or 68030 processor without FPU. The developers hope that this bug will be fixed with the forthcoming version 4.4 of AmiSSL - but have to wait until it is done. Due to changes in the AmiSSL-API afterwards IBrowse 2.5 has to be adapted.
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23.Oct.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 141, preview and excerpts
A preview and excerpts of issue 141 (November/december 2019) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features "The Niggemann Files", ein report from the Gamescom 2019 und a review of the Vampire V4 'Standalone'. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Oct.2019
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz und andere (ANF)
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Crowdfunding: Updated 68k back-end for GCC
Currently the Gnu Compiler Collection (GCC) comverts the back-ends - this is the part of the compiler which creates the specific CPU code - to a new model (technical details in GCC-Wiki). The support for the old back-end model will be discontinued soon. This would mean that GCC 11, probably released in 2021, will not provide support for the m68k architecture.
In order to prevent it, at bountysource.com a crowdfunding campaign has been started which is supposed to encourage the developers porting the m68k back-end from GCC to the new model. Currently the funding target is nearly 3500 USD (about 3100 Euro).
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23.Oct.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Shoot'em Up: RESHOOT R Classic Disk Edition & AROS port
Press release: The development studio spielscherreiber and the publisher APC & TCP today announce the availability of the retro action game RESHOOT R in two new variants. From now on the game is also available as a floppy disk version under the name RESHOOT R Classic Disk Edition. This version is intended for all users who do not have a CD-ROM drive to their Amiga 1200 or Amiga 4000. The game can now be installed on hard disk by diskette.
In addition, a download version of RESHOOT R is now available for the AROS system. This version requires AROS with 100% AGA compatibility with 2MB of CHIP RAM. RESHOOT R AROS was also successfully tested on the Vampire V4.
In addition, the RESHOOT R mousepad and RESHOOT R poster have recently become available.
About RESHOOT R
RESHOOT R is a 2D horizontal shoot'em up in the style of the great arcade classics like Silkworm, R-Type and Gradius
Features
- developed and programmed by industry veteran Richard Löwenstein
- goes to the performance limit of Amiga CD32, 1200 and 4000
- Five themed stages in the elaborately designed retro design
- exciting attack waves and boss battles
- Extra weapons and powerups
- Multi-level scrolling, up to 100 objects on the screen
- 50 hertz refresh rate ensures a steady high speed
- more than 400 colors on the screen
- stimulating soundtrack and SFX simultaneously
- locally storable highscore list and internet ranking
- runs on standard hardware of the A1200, A4000 and CD32, no extensions necessary
- tested on Amiga systems with the following CPUs: 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060
System Requirements CD edition
- Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000 or CD32
- Joystick or CD32-compatible pad
- 2 MB Chipmemory, more memory is supported
- runs on compatible Amiga emulators under Windows, Mac and Linux
System Requirements Classic Disk edition
- Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000
- Floppy drive
- hard disk
- Joystick or CD32-compatible pad
- 2 MB Chipmemory, more memory is supported
System Requirements AROS edition
- AROS with 100% AGA compatibility with 2 MB CHIP RAM.
- Joystick or CD32-compatible pad
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22.Oct.2019
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Trevor Dickinson announces acquisition of AmigaOS 4 kernel 'Exec SG' (Update 2)
It's been an open secret for quite some time, now Trevor Dickinson officially announces the acquisition of 'Exec SG', the kernel used in AmigaOS 4. For some reason the news appeared in a blog posting on the Amiwest website, an Amiga meeting taking place in Sacramento (USA) this weekend, instead of a regular press release.
Press release: The Exec SG kernal is under development! Now the exclusive property of Trevor Dickinson, the Exec SG kernal is being extended and tested by a team of well-qualified developers.
Led by Exec SG Team Lead Steven Solie, the new kernal adds support for many features AmigaOS doesn't have. Among these are mutli-core support, GART implementation, faster speed, 64-bit support, and extending the RAM limit beyond 2 GB to 4 GB and beyond.
Even with all these advantages, the Exec SG kernal retains 100% compatibility compared to the former kernal version. This is true because these are extensions to the existing kernal incorporating the original work of Carl Sassenrath and the AmigaOS team in 1985 as well as the work of others since then.
So more Amiga magic is in store. What will it run on? Be sure you have an OS4.x machine to take advantage of these new features. Come to AmiWest to find out about when the next new machine will be introduced.
Update: (23.10.2019, 14:45, cg)
Matthew Leaman states on amigaworld.net that he's (also) the Managing Director of A-EON Technology Ltd. and as such can "can categorically state that A-EON has not acquired ExecSG and the information being referenced is not correct." The press release on the Amiwest site has not been changed or removed though, 24 hours after it went online.
Update 2: (24.10.2019, 14:15, cg)
According to a posting on amigaworld.net from Steven Solie, the claim that Exec SG was acquired by A-EON Technologies was a mistake on the part of the Amiwest blog author, Exec SG was acquired by Trevor Dickinson privately, not by A-EON. Shortly after that statement, the blog posting got updated accordingly. (cg)
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20.Oct.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 19th, 2019:
C4P4CITOR.lha demo/aga 1.9M 68k Invitro: Capacitor Party 4 by...
Python_2.lha dev/lang 7.9M MOS Python for MorphOS
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 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
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20.Oct.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 19th, 2019:
glsnoop.lha dev/uti 334kb 4.1 Trace and profile OGLES2 and W3D...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
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20.Oct.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 19th, 2019:
runaway_arosx86.lha gam/act 2Mb LCD game conversion remake
cotrpg_01.i386-aros.tgz gam/adv 137Mb Chronicol of Tusandra For EasyRP...
cotrpg_02.i386-aros.tgz gam/adv 137Mb Chronicol of Tusandra For EasyRP...
cotrpg_03.i386-aros.tgz gam/adv 93Mb Chronicol of Tusandra For EasyRP...
solarusdx.i386-aros.zip gam/adv 23Mb Zelda engine with Mystery of Sol...
whack-a-trump_arosx86.lha gam 5Mb Whack-a-mole type game
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until October 19th, 2019:
Python_2.5.4r165.lha Development/Python Python_2.5.4r165.lha
iMac_G5_Papiosaur.jpeg Hardware/iMac_G5 iMac_G5_Papiosaur.jpeg
ScummVM_2.1.0.lha Emulation A MorphOS build of Scum...
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20.Oct.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 19.10.2019
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 October 19th, 2019:
- 2019-10-19 improved: Oil Imperium / Black Gold (reLINE) more timings adjusted to better match original speed (Info)
- 2019-10-15 updated: Soccer Kid (Krisalis) several access faults fixed, decruncher moved to fast memory, less memory used, skip intro added, trainer added (Info)
- 2019-10-15 improved: Rygar (Seismic Minds) support for final version added (Info)
- 2019-10-14 new: Unjust Sentence (Appendix) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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19.Oct.2019
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Amiga Bootblock Reader 3.00 (Windows)
Jason Smith's "Amiga Bootblock Reader" recognizes, analyzes and extracts Amiga bootblocks out of ADF images. The Windows program recognizes 1716 different bootblocks and can launch disk images in WinUAE or FS-UAE.
Changes in the new version:
- now recognises 1716 Bootblocks
- Newly redesigned interface (mostly)
- Lots of little changes all over the place
- Includes boot pictures for many of the recognised bootblocks
- Can now use WinUAE / FS-UAE from any location
- Program uses PNGs generated by WinUAE screenshot function (You can create your own if needed)
- Fixed Amiga emulator setting defaulting to WinUAE
- It seems i broke .ZIP handling (containing ADF's) - fixed
- Fix: When ABR found a ADF file, the 'Boot Disk' button wasn't enabling for some reason
Known problems:
- If you add a String search that the program doesn't like it will refuse to scan correctly afterwards. Your string search contains a character that causes the scan routine to break, you will need to edit the search.brainfile file in a text editor and remove the offending line. (No blank lines)
- While i have endeavoured to make the scanning as accurate as i can, in some cases there will be some inaccurate detection
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17.Oct.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Joker 1/2019
Press release: Because 'Amiga Joker' is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the original Joker team has decided to release a jubilee edition. The Amiga Joker 1/2019 is now available in APC & TCP's online shop.
- The jubilee booklet for the 30th anniversary of the Amiga Joker
- The most beautiful retro reading by editor-in-chief Richard Löwenstein and the original Joker team
- Classics re-tested: Where was the joker wrong, which games are still top?
- AJ founder in interview: Michael Labiner and the team about faked tests and the end of the joker
- Current stuff in the test: How much fun do you have with new Amiga games?
- Post Mortem: The creators of "Lionheart" are looking back
- Also: demo gallery, mailbox and more on 48 pages, on the best paper in the world
In addition, the official Amiga Joker poster is immediately available at APC & TCP.
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15.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.3
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Mirror. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes in version 0.7.3:
- Program stack size increased to 32 KB to avoid unstability and crashes when using autoslice
- Sorting and rendering by Z has been recoded to avoid objects disappearing
- Fix: Screen Flash trigger was not working when HUD was on top
- File requesters now have a maximum size
- Fixed an issue preventing from changing Var pages when selecting a Var in the triggers
- Sound module code is now more robust to avoid memory leaks
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15.Oct.2019
Amiga.org (Forum)
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ReAmiga: John Hertell published files of his Amiga replica
Under the title link John 'Chucky' Hertell has published the files for making the ReAmiga 3000 (video recorded on the Amiga34) just like he did it before for the "ReAmiga 1200" - which is a replica of the Amiga-1200 mainboard.
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14.Oct.2019
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Amiga34: Announcements, videos and further pictures (Update)
In this news item we want to summarize all other news additional to the MorphOS for x64 as well as some further pictures completing the ones from yesterday.
In his speech Trevor Dickinson (A-Eon Technology) has announced an "Early-Adopter-Edition" of the AmigaOne 1222 which is based on the Tabor board (picture).
The price, including an "Early-Adopter" version of AmigaOS-4.1, for the Tabor board is supposed to be 400 Euro which corresponds to the announcement three years ago - but it is nether clear if this price includes VAT nor when it can be preordered. It is also not known what kind of limitations this version, compared to the final AmigaOS-4.1 version, will have. In spring the audio driver was still missing and the SATA driver had to be "polished". According to the comment of the visitor 'Skateman', all components of the Early-Adopter-AmigaOne-1222 are supposed to be working.
The new accelerator board Warp 1260 was presented together with the Warp 560 and further details explained: The board will be equipped with 256 MB Fast-RAM but which - similar to most of the 68060 extensions - operates only in the 68040 compatible bus mode, that means at half clock speed. Basically the DDR3-RAM is clocked with 800 MHz and connected to the 68060 processor via FPGA. The price will be 499 Euro, without processor. It has to be delivered by the purchaser.
Hyperion presented a beta version of Libre Office 5 which is ported by Hans-Jörg Frieden. Further information are not available so far.
Amiga34 impressions:
Update (06:11, 15.10.19, snx)
ZDF TV report video link added. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2019
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Event: Pictures of Amiga34 in Neuss (2nd Update)
This weekend the Amiga34 is taking place in Neuss, Germany. For amiga-news.de, Thomas Scheller has taken some pictures.
One of the most outstanding exhibits was the x64 version of MorphOS, presented on a MSI-B450M-Mortar-Titanium board with Ryzen-5-3600 processor made by AMD. Currently via PXE-Netboot is started (amiga-news.de reported):
Besides, there have been replica of the Amiga 500 ("Project R.E.D."), of the Amiga 2000 ("A2K Black & White Edition 2.0") and of the AGA Amiga 3000 prototype AA3000 ("AA3000+" of the Finnish developer 'Hese' [older photos])):
Other presented systems ranged from a SAGE-II system (AmigaOS was developed on a SAGE IV) to an upgraded Amiga 1000 and an AmigaOne X5000/40:
The 23 offered Vampire-V4 computer (nine others have been picked up by beta testers) was sold out within hours.
Update: (09:23, 14.10.19, snx)
In a previous version of this news-item we mistook the photos of the AA3000 with the Amiga 3000 replica ReAmiga 3000. Photos and a video of the latter you can find in our follow-up news-item instead.
2nd Update: (09:02, 18.10.19, snx):
David Brunet kindly pointed out to us that the computer shown wasn't a populated exemplar of the rare AA3000 prototypes, but the extended replica AA3000+ instead. We appologize for our mistake. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 12th, 2019:
Office_Test_1.1.lha dev/mui 557K MOS Demo program for office.mcc
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
Runaway_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.3M x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha game/wb 2.2M MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha game/wb 2.2M 68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha game/wb 2.5M OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha game/wb 2.5M WOS LCD game conversion
Whack-a-Trump_AROSx86... game/wb 5.1M x86 Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_MOS.lha game/wb 5.0M MOS Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_OS3.lha game/wb 5.0M 68k Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_OS4.lha game/wb 5.3M OS4 Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_WOS.lha game/wb 5.3M WOS Whack-a-mole type game
tine.tar.gz misc/unix 281K A clone of ED for UNIX
HotCorner.lha util/cdity 37K MOS Mouse in screen corner trigge...
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13.Oct.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 12th, 2019:
scummvm.lha gam/adv 30Mb 4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip gam/adv 44Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
freedroidrpg.lha gam/rol 226Mb 4.0 Isometric RPG influenced by Para...
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 9Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
scummvm-tools.lha uti/fil 3Mb 4.1 A collection of various tools fo...
scummvm-tools.zip uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 ScummVM Tools Source
aiostreams.lha vid/mis 248kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
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13.Oct.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 12th, 2019:
easyrpg-aros.lha gam/adv 4Mb play games created with RPG Make...
uhctools.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 39kb UHC Tools installer
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13.Oct.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until October 12th, 2019:
AIOstreams_1.4.lha Network/Streaming Stream online video fro...
MCC_TextEditor_15.53.lha System/MUI Classes TextEditor custom class...
MCC_Webp_1.0.lha System/MUI Classes A WebP MUI Class
Office_test_1.1.lha Office/WordProcessor Demo program for office...
Runaway_1.12.lha Games/Misc A LCD game conversion.
WookieChat_2.11.lha Communication IRC client
WookieChat_2.12b9.lha Communication IRC client
Whack-a-Trump_1.2.lha Games/Misc Whack-a-mole type game
MorphOS_SDK_3.12_20191... Development/SDK The MorphOS Development...
SpringMaus_0.9.lha System/Ambient/Commoditie SpringMaus_0.9.lha
MorphOS_on_AMD64.jpeg Screenshots MorphOS_on_AMD64.jpeg
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13.Oct.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.10.2019
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 October 12th, 2019:
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12.Oct.2019
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Amiga34: MorphOS on an AMD64 computer
This weekend the Amiga34 is taking place in Neuss, Germany. Here the MorphOS developer team has presented its operating system on an AMD-Ryzen-5 computer equipped with a Radeon-HD-4650 graphics board (Twitter: picture, video).
Regarding the video Károly 'chainq' Balogh has pointed out that it is a very early version with debug output handele - actually this morning Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen got it running on this new computer, for he could not bring his older system. Therefore you should not draw conclusions from the length of the booting about the future performance.
Due to a PowerPC emulation, on the AMD64 all existing PowerPC and 68k programs are working. This is based on a new kernel written by Mark Olsen, which is running on the presented system completely AMD64-nativ in 64-Bit mode, but also on PPC32 and PPC64 processors.
The presented system only is a preview what a future MorphOS NG could look like; many components still are missing. On the demonstration computer a mixture of AMD64 and PowerPC code is used.
Additionally the MorphOS team presents an Amiga 4000 with MorphOS 3.13 on a - according to the description - Cyberstorm-PPC accelerator board with 420 MHz (photo of its processor), that had already been shown at Amiga32 also. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Oct.2019
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A1200.net: Announcement of new Amiga keyboards
On the ocassion of the Amiga 34 in Neuss which is taking place this weekend, the team of A1200.net representing on table 44/45 has announced its next project, a new Amiga compatible replacement keyboard:
- 100% Mechanical
- 100% Compatible with Mitsumi Hybrid keycaps
- Versatile - can be used on A500, A1200, A2000, A3000, A4000
- USB Compatible (PC & Raspberry Pi) - Apollo Vampire support coming shortly
- Strong & sturdy keyboard with body armor
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