25.Dec.2018
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Amiga-News wishes Merry Christmas - for the 20th time
Already for the 20th time the editorial staff of amiga-news.de wishes Merry Christmas to their readers - which probably nobody had guessed. But despite all disappointments and numerous prophecies of doom the Amiga survived another year in its niche - with new products, meetings and again about 800 Aminet uploads and almost 700 news items on amiga-news.de.
We wish you a wonderful and peaceful time which you could use for some Amiga projects or trying to play through Turrican - once again!
P.S.: During the next days we are going to celebrate our anniversary with a separate news item and a little competition.
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23.Dec.2018
iComp (website)
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Individual Computers confirms ownership of Picasso96 software
Press release: 22.12.2018 - After making the money transfer in december 2016 and signing the software acquisition agreement on January 30th, 2017, we have bought the P96 RTG software from Tobias Abt and Alexander Kneer. A prior license agreement with Hyperion entertainment for use of P96 in OS4.1 is part of the agreement, and will of course be continued under ownership of iComp. There is no other license agreement with any other party besides this.
In the following months, we have cleaned up the source code and made small improvements to the software. Over the course of development of OS 3.1.4, further improvements have been made, which we are now offering as a download product. Please log in to your member account to also view download products in the shop.
While the authors Tobias Abt and Alexander Kneer have only given access to the API for graphics cards to paying customers after signing a non-disclosure agreement, we are now documenting the API for free for anyone in our Wiki. We'd like to support community projects like the VA2000 graphics card with this, but also take other drivers out of a legal grey zone that resulted from the previous licensing model that Abt and Kneer have chosen. By publishing the hardware manufacturer's API, we are delivering on a promise that we've made even before purchasing this software package.
Unfortunately, there is a market actor that claims to have a perpetual license for P96, without having any written proof for this claim. We were even summoned to not advertise what the agreement clearly says: iComp GmbH is the only legal source for a P96 software registration. We believe that a claim of a software product or bundle containing a "registered version" of P96 is false advertising.
The legal status of the shareware archive of P96, which has been available on Aminet for years is not changed: It stays legal to distribute this archive free of charge.
This download product is the first to use a new pricing model in our shop system: "Pay what you want". As opposed to other fields where this model is used (for example in selected restaurants), we have set a lowest price, as otherwise the administrative cost would be higher than the chosen price. We are hoping for the fairness of Amiga users to register each installation of P96. This is targeting especially the users of emulators, PCI bus boards and new FPGA graphics cards, which would be almost useless without P96.
Hint of the editors: "Market actor" probably refers to Cloanto (amiga-news.de reported). The abbreviated expression of Hyperion's products AmigaOS 3.1.4 and AmigaOS 4.1 in the press release we have also used in our news item.
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23.Dec.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop 2.2.5
Paolo Besser has released an update of his AROS distribution Icaros Desktop. Additional to revised versions of some components, version 2.2.5 now has an icon editor, the web browser OWB supports the latest AmiSSL encryption and Magellan shows the IP addresses as well as MD5 check sums.
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23.Dec.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 22.12.2018
The following archives have been added to Aminet until December 22nd, 2018:
dizzytorrent2.lha comm/tcp 630K 68k Amiga BitTorrent client with ...
7800basic.lha dev/cross 5.7M MOS BASIC-like language for Atari...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 278K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.18
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 241K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
anaiis_hostusb.lha driver/oth 199K 68k ANAIIS libusb support for Win...
AsciiMandelbrot.lha gfx/fract 48K OS4 draw a Mandelbrot set in a co...
SilkRAW.lha gfx/misc 1.8M OS4 GUI for Dave Coffin's program...
p7zip_os4.lha util/arc 8.8M OS4 Archiver with a high compress...
workbenchexplorer.lha util/dir 2.7M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
pixman_lib.lha util/libs 302K OS4 Pixman-1 as an AmigaOS shared...
WHDLoad-TinyIconFix.lha util/wb 173K 68k Replaces tiny WHDLoad icon im...
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23.Dec.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 22.12.2018
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until December 22nd, 2018:
grimps.lha gam/puz 79Mb 4.1 A wonderful action adventure puz...
rsudoku.lha gam/puz 23kb 4.1 A small Sudoku clone
asciimandelbrot.lha gra/mis 48kb 4.0 Bench a Mandelbrot set in a cons...
crono.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.1 Generator of printable annual ca...
silkraw.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.1 GUI for Dave Coffin's program dcRAW
pixman_lib.lha lib/gra 302kb 4.0 Pixman-1 as an AmigaOS shared li...
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 162kb 4.1 A Custom BOOPSI System
deark.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
p7zip.lha uti/arc 9Mb 4.0 Archiver with a high compression...
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 3Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
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23.Dec.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 22.12.2018
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until December 22nd, 2018:
pxdrum.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 10Mb Drum machine
quickcdripper.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 691kb Estract tracks from cd
tb-303.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 504kb Generates TB-303 like sounds
quickrecord.i386-aros.zip aud/rec 633kb A little but pwerfull tools for ...
schismtracker.i386-aros.lha aud/tra 5Mb Reimplementation of Impulse Tracker
wormwars-9.14.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 705kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
faroenza_extra.lha gra/ico 50kb extra icon set
amicloud-v2.0_final.i386-... net/mis 4Mb Cloud Storage like dropbox ec..
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23.Dec.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 22.12.2018
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until December 22nd, 2018:
7800basic_0.6beta.lha Development/Cross A BASIC-like language f...
AmiArcadia_24.93.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
AstralGame_2.40.lha Games/Misc This esoteric app you c...
Dizzytorrent_2.11.lha Network/Torrent client Amiga BitTorrent client...
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23.Dec.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.12.2018
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until December 22nd, 2018:
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23.Dec.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Spiel: Santa Chaos
Santa Chaos (video) is a game for OCS Amigas equipped with 512 KB chip RAM in which you have to grab the presents of the drunken Santa Claus.
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21.Dec.2018
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Backbone game: "Zing", also available as commercial edition
"Zing" (Youtube video) is a little action game with three levels which was created as finger exercise by the graphic artist of "AmigaWave" who also was involved into Retro Wars and Furtum Sacrum. The game can be downloaded for free but you can also purchase a boxed edition from the developer.
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20.Dec.2018
Diverse (ANF)
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Special offer: Amiga Forever, 2x "Gorluth" and more at Groupees
At "Groupees" games bundles are available for an advertising price, currently with a special offer for Amiga users as well: For 4,99 USD you will get Amiga Forever (Plus Edition), Heroes of Gorluth and Tales of Gorluth as well as two audio tracks written by the Hamburger "techno artist" Remute. According to our reader Frostwork, he has already purchased a few similar bundles from this shop and so far was very happy with it.
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18.Dec.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 136 - preview and excerpts
A preview and excerpts of issue 136 (January/February 2019) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features reviews to AmigaOS 3.1.4 and AmiCygnix as well as an interview with Artur Gadawski of 7-bit.
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16.Dec.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 15.12.2018
The following archives have been added to Aminet until December 15th, 2018:
Crono.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Generator of printable annual...
PLATOTermAmiga.adf comm/term 880K 68k Terminal program to access PL...
A-MagIssue1_201811.adf demo/mag 880K 68k Issue one of A-Mag disk magazine
Devices.lha dev/misc 4K 68k Get all infos about DOS devices
SCSIQuery.lha disk/misc 19K 68k Prints internal infos of SCSI...
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 53K 68k Mediator driver for G3/G4 PCI...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 13M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AmiQuake.lha game/shoot 254K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
Puzzle2.lha game/think 1.1M 68k Game based on the classic gam...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.6M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 2.9M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
NRArmakuni.lha mods/8voic 204K 7-ch MMD3 MOD of Armakuni Nin...
harmonics.lha mus/edit 72K 68k A simple additive synthesizer
unrar_os4.lha util/arc 1.6M OS4 Extract RAR archives
TRTrueMultis.lha util/cli 4K 68k True Multi-Directory Assigns....
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16.Dec.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 15.12.2018
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until December 15th, 2018:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
flare.lha gam/rol 7Mb 4.1 A free action RPG
aos-iconsupdate4.lha gra/ico 1Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
deark.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
unrar.lha uti/arc 2Mb 4.0 Extract RAR archives
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16.Dec.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 15.12.2018
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until December 15th, 2018:
modexplorer.i386-aros.lha aud/pla 6Mb Streaming mod file from aminet, ...
aspireosupdate.lha dev/mis 29Mb Update to AspireOS codename "Obi...
loschinos.i386-aros.lzx gam/chi 4Mb Geme For Kids
awc.i386-aros.lha vid/con 2Mb easy web tool to convert your...
vamp.i386-aros.lha vid/pla 2Mb Multimedia Player
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16.Dec.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 15.12.2018
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until December 15th, 2018:
HFinder_2.3.zip Files/Search A little tool to search...
TecnoBallZ.lha Games/BrickBreaker A Brick Breaker with 50...
AstralGame_2.30.lha Games/Misc This esoteric app you c...
AskMeUp_XXL_GirlsBand_... Games/Think 2 new avatars, Maria Be...
JeudeDames.lha Games/Think Simple Jeu de dames 100...
LosChinos_3.30.lha Games/Think This is the classic Spa...
VidentiumPicta_1.10.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
iConecta_3.0.lha Network/Wifi A little and easy tool ...
DateTime_1.2_FR.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar French catalog for Date...
DateTime_sbar.catalog System/Ambient/Screenbar Catalogue pour le modul...
MouseCoords_1.1_FR.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar French catalog for Mous...
PixelPicker_1.1_FR.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar French catalog for Pixe...
TopTasks_1.1_FR.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar French catalog for TopT...
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16.Dec.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.12.2018
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until December 15th, 2018:
- 2018-12-14 improved: F-19 Stealth Fighter (Microprose) another version supported, manual and other documents included (Info)
- 2018-12-10 improved: Skaut Kwatermaster (Avalon) game solution files and icons added (Info)
- 2018-12-10 improved: Heimdall (Core Design) more icons added (Info)
- 2018-12-09 updated: F-19 Stealth Fighter (Microprose) patch redone, RawDIC imager, DMA waits in sample players fixed, blitter waits added, interrupts fixed, timing fixed, all known versions supported (Info)
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16.Dec.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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amiga68k.de online again
Christian Giehsing's website amiga68k.de mainly is dedicated to reviews and tutorials about the Commodore Amiga. Due to the General Data Protection Regulation in spring the website went offline but since the beginning of December it is online again.
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15.Dec.2018
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Commercial "Bruce Lee" clone: Tiger Claw available
Tiger Claw developed by Matthias 'Lazycow' Bock is a clone of the 8-Bit classic Bruce Lee. You can order the game from the British publisher RGCD. It will be delivered at the beginning of 2019.
Tiger Claw requires an Amiga with at least one MB RAM. It is available as download (about 3,30 Euro) or on CD (16,70 Euro). The CD edition is delivered in a "plastic clam shell box" including the "auto-booting jewel-cased CD complete with a professionally printed 20-page A6 manual, large weather-proof vinyl RGCD and Lazycow stickers, RGCD and Lazycow pin buttons, postcards, practice throwing-star and a rolled 170gsm matt-coated A3 poster (with the game map on the reverse)." For additional 1,10 Euro you can also get a disk version.
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15.Dec.2018
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Commercial Run'n Gun: Powerglove Reloaded available
Powerglove Reloaded developed by Matthias 'Lazycow' Bock is an extended Amiga port of his original game written for the C64. The game can be ordered from British publisher RGCD and will be delivered at the beginning of 2019.
Powerglove Reloaded requires an Amiga with at least one MB RAM. It is available as download (about 3,30 Euro) or on CD (16,70 Euro). The CD edition will be delivered in a "plastic clam shell box" including the "auto-booting jewel-cased CD complete with a professionally printed 16-page A6 manual, large weather-proof vinyl RGCD and Lazycow stickers, RGCD and Lazycow pin buttons, postcards and a rolled 170gsm matt-coated A3 poster (with the game map on the reverse)." For additional 1,10 Euro you can also get a disk version.
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14.Dec.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Picture viewer: Videntium Picta 1.10
Videntium Picta is a picture viewer featuring simple picture editing and file manager functions which was written with Hollywood. In version 1.10 according to the developers "you can choose the quality for Special Mouse Zoom and the picture showed inside the program's window (to slow CPUs cans show the picture)."
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14.Dec.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SDK Browser 2.1.5.0
Jamie Krueger has released an update of his SDK-Browser which fixes a bug "in the rarely used "Clear Text" method for the main text display area".
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13.Dec.2018
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Powerplay Eishockey Manager for free download
The Amiga Future offers the full version of the "Powerplay Eishockey Manager" for free download.
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09.Dec.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 08.12.2018
The following archives have been added to Aminet until December 8th, 2018:
PLATOTermAmiga.adf comm/term 880K 68k Terminal program to access PL...
LTX-ASA2.lha demo/40k 29K 68k 40KB intro from Compusphere 2018
ffp_rb_demo.adf demo/disk 880K 68k A demo from Compusphere 2018
befehl.zip demo/euro 7.9M 68k Vampire demo from Evoke 2018
ins-flshbks.lha demo/euro 181K 68k A demo from Compusphere 2018
LackOfInspiration.zip demo/euro 172K 68k Lack of Inspiration
lemonade-deadline.zip demo/euro 185K 68k Demo from Deadline 2018 in Be...
LoffTro.zip demo/euro 17K 68k Lofftro - Fastdemo
nat-invit.lha demo/euro 496K 68k A demo from Compusphere 2018
Void-GreenHeat.zip demo/euro 240K 68k A demo from Compusphere 2018
Ins-Tiny.zip demo/intro 15K 68k 16KB intro from Compusphere 2018
scxstarquake.zip demo/intro 58K 68k Cracktro from November 2018
at-303.adf demo/misc 880K 68k Released at Deadline 2018
blackscarlett.zip demo/misc 8K 68k Black Scarlett
glitchmybitsup.zip demo/misc 11K 68k A 256 byte intro from Deadlin...
aYS_Preschool_No1.zip demo/sound 46K 68k Preschool #1 - Music-pack
chiperia9.lha demo/sound 548K 68k Music-disk from Compusphere 2018
chiperiax.lha demo/sound 401K 68k Music-disk from Compusphere 2018
tinyscheme.lha dev/lang 100K 68k TinyScheme Embeddable Interpr...
AmiQuake.lha game/shoot 250K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
Compusphere18-Chiptun... mods/sets 94K 68k Chiptunes from Compusphere 2018
SetFileSize64.lha util/cli 5K MOS Change a file's size (64bit s...
CestinoGlobale.lha util/wb 51K 68k Global trashcan under Blitz d...
DateTime_sbar_fr.lha util/wb 2K French catalog for DateTime s...
MouseCoords_sbar_fr.lha util/wb 1K French catalog for MouseCoord...
PixelPicker_sbar_fr.lha util/wb 1K French catalog for PixelPicke...
TopTasks_sbar_fr.lha util/wb 1K French catalog for TopTasks s...
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09.Dec.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 08.12.2018
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until December 8th, 2018:
amigaamp3.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.1 Multi format audio player with GUI
smtube.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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09.Dec.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 08.12.2018
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until December 8th, 2018:
aibot.i386-aros.zip gam/chi 17Mb Educational game to teach coding
lpairs.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb match tiles.
vim_8.1.i386-aros.lha uti/tex 10Mb The ubiquitous text editor
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09.Dec.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 08.12.2018
The following archive has been added to MorphOS-Storage until December 8th, 2018:
SetFileSize64_1.1.lha System/Shell Change a file's size (6...
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09.Dec.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 08.12.2018
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until December 8th, 2018:
- 2018-12-04 fixed: Dyna Blaster (Hudson Soft) fix player sprite trash when start from level 2-2 (Info)
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09.Dec.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Battle Valley (Fire Power)
- Lizardking's Theme (Armandox Rework)
- Turrican
- Flashback [Options Menu]
- Fantasy Flyer - Level 1
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07.Dec.2018
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PCI busboard: VHDL firmware for Prometheus released under free licence
Some years ago Michael Böhmer (e3b) did re-implement the firmware of the PCI busboard "Prometheus" in VHDL. Now he has released the source codes of this implementation under a free licence. The documents for the original design already were released in 2012, but were based on an outdated standard of Altera for describing the logic of the PLDs used on the Prometheus.
A bug in the original Prometheus firmware also was fixed: Compared with the commercial version the new VHDL firmware can work with PCI cards which require DMA (like most of the network or USB controller).
Additionally a board design for a Prometheus replica was released which uses a Xilinx XC95144Xl CPLD - on which the available VHDL code now can be used.
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06.Dec.2018
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Emulator: WinUAE 4.1.0
Version 4.1.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released which again provides several new features:
PC Bridgeboard (A1060 Sidecar, A2088, A2088T, A2286 and A2386SX) emulation rewrite
- Emulation core replaced with PCem. Compatibility has improved greatly, for example Windows 3.x enhanced mode, DOS extenders and Windows 95 are now fully working.
- Bridgeboard built-in CGA emulation graphics corruption fixed.
- A2386SX VLSI chipset memory remapping, shadowing and EMS fully supported.
- Cirrus Logic emulation PC compatibility improved, 2M VRAM, linear frame buffer and blitter support.
- PC Speaker emulation (PCem)
- Sound Blaster emulation (PCem, various models)
- Serial mouse emulation (PCem)
- SCSI adapter emulation (Rancho Technology RT1000B)
Other updates
- AGA hires/superhires horizontal pixel positioning and borderblank horizontal single hires pixel offset fully emulated. Optional because it requires much more CPU power and it is rarely needed. DIWHIGH H0/H1 AGA-only bits emulated.
- AGA FMODE>0 undocumented features implemented (BPLxDAT, SPRxDAT CPU/copper accesses, bitplane modulos that are not integer divisible by fetch size)
- Added new misc option which captures mouse immediately when windowed/full-window winuae window is activated.
- 68030 MMU emulation compatibility improved.
- Paula disk emulation GCR MSBSYNC support added (Alternate Reality protection track).
- Added quick search and quick directory select to Configurations panel. Link and autoload moved to Advanced information panel.
- Added history list to config file name edit box and to statefile path string box.
- Added vertical offset option to D3D scanlines.
- 64-bit version didn't support 64-bit unrar.dll.
- 68030/040/060 with data cache emulation but without enabled MMU emulation: force Chip RAM as non-data cacheable.
- Magic mouse Windows cursor to Amiga mouse sync partially fixed.
- Window corners now work as drag'n'drop hot spots for different floppy drives. (top/left=0, top/right=1, bottom/left=2, bottom/right=3).
Bug fixes
- 68020 + memory cycle exact hung the emulator in some situations.
- Reading CIA interrupt status register in a very tight loop generated spurious interrupt(s) in certain situations.
- Softfloat mode with unimplemented FPU emu ticked didn't disable 68040/060 unmasked interrupts, confusing 68040/68060.library and possibly causing it to return incorrect values.
- Some CHD CD images didn't mount correctly.
- uaehf.device HD_SCSICMD didn't set scsi_SenseActual. Also set io_Actual=30 (=sizeof(struct SCSICmd))
- If config file had KS ROM path/file that didn't exist, it was replaced with non-existing ../system/rom/kick.rom path or was not correctly fixed with valid path.
- NCR53F94 SCSI chip emulation DMA counter fix (affected for example Blizzard SCSI Kit)
- Very large directory harddrives returned halved used/free space.
- Fixed multiple problems with screenshots and video recording from hardware emulated RTG board.
- Filter panel scanlines work now correctly in multimonitor mode.
- Crash fixed if more than one non-Paula audio stream was active. Included emulated sound cards, also CD audio if "include" option ticked.
- NE2000 PCMCIA and NE2000 bridgeboard didn't support custom MAC and network mode selection.
- Fixed hardware emulated graphics board hang with Picasso96 if board supported vblank interrupts and RTG board refresh rate mode was not Chipset.
- Fixed statefile crash when saving statefile while disk operation was active and disk image included bit cell timing information.
Bug fixes (Introduced in 4.0.0/4.0.1):
- Display port adapters that needed genlock transparency data (FireCracker, HAM-E, OpalVision, ColorBurst) didn't work correctly since 4.0.0.
- Display port adapters didn't work in multimonitor mode.
- Blitter statesave with blitter active: log window opened and listed few lines of blitter debug information.
- Some programs caused continuous flood of "blitter is active, forcing immediate finish" log messages.
- CTRL+F11 quit ignored new "Warn when attempting to close window" option.
- 68020/030 more compatible/cycle-exact mode statefiles didn't always restore properly.
New emulated hardware:
- CSA Twelwe Gauge (A1200 68030 accelerator + SCSI controller)
- AccessX/Acetec IDE controller.
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06.Dec.2018
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Cross-Development: Atom package for Amiga Syntax Highlighting
The package "language-amigaos-c" for the text editor Atom provides syntax highlighting for the AmigaOS-API.
The update which was released adds a new menu item "New project" with a ready to compile makefile and Hello World code as well as "a requester where you can create a generic new subclass code for any superclass of your choice". Additional to "a shortcut to package settings", "auto-complete now also suggests specific values and identifiers for each API function, when your cursor is on the argument that requires one (including functions that get varrag tag items)."
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05.Dec.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hollywood application: Videntium Picta 1.00
Videntium Picta is a picture viewer featuring simple picture editing and file manager functions which was written with Hollywood.
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05.Dec.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Sensible World of Soccer Hanse Cup 2019
On 9. February in Hamburg the SWOS Hanse Cup 2019 will take place. The Sensible-World-of-Soccer-96/97 competition will be played on real Amigas, admission is free.
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04.Dec.2018
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Dungeon Crawler: "The Shadows of Sergoth" announced
The Shadows of Sergoth is a Dungeon Crawler similar to Dungeon Master, which this year was released for the Armstrad/Schneider CPC. The game is supposed to be ported to the Amiga. A release is planned for the end of 2019. Some early screenshots of the 16-Bit version you can look at on Twitter and Indie Retro News.
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04.Dec.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit X 10.5.2
Version 10.5.2 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit meant for emulators is available and can be downloaded via the included update function. Additional to 35 new functions, updates and bug fixes the "Dark Mode" was added, which gives the Workbench a dark theme. Changes of this version:
- FIXED: HALT3 freeze and Recoverable alerts on reboot (on systems with Amiga Forever or AmigaOS 3.9 w/BB2) are finally gone! Please shut down and restart AmiKit after update.
- FIXED: HDToolBox now works in AmigaOS 3.1.4
- FIXED: If you switch to old MUI 3.8 (via MorpheuZ), it shows images right now.
- FIXED: RAWBInfo was not corretly activated on OS3.9 systems with Boing Bag 2.
- AMIKIT: Optimized Startup-Sequences for all flavours make AmiKit even more stable.
- AMIKIT: MorpheuZ 10.5.2 now handles AmigaOS 3.9 patches better. We've also fine-tuned Startup Control.
- AMIKIT: LiveUpdate 1.7 by Daniel Westerberg
- AMIKIT: AmiKitReset 1.2 (reflects the above mentioned changes)
- AMIKIT: Various minor improvements here and there.
- UPDATED: IconLib 46.4.506 by P.Keunecke http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/IconLib_46.4
- UPDATED: MathLibsUAE 45.881 r14 by P.Keunecke http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/MathLibsUAE
- REMOVED: HTMLview.mcc from MUI 3.8 (because of 'beta expired' requester)
- OPTIONAL: Update your AmiKit installation with the latest WinUAE v4: Quick Guide (page 11)
- OPTIONAL: Mac users might update to the latest Wine: Quick Guide (page 11)
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03.Dec.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Multiplayer via Internet: AmigaLive 0.97
AmigaLive is a "Netplay" client which uses the network support of the Amiga emulator FS-UAE to enable multiplayer games via the Internet. Both players connect to an AmigaLive server and then can play an Amiga game with or against each other. AmigaLive offers also a simple chat function.
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03.Dec.2018
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.6.8 (alpha)
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 of version 0.6.8 which as usual is available on Dropbox:
- About and Settings sections have been merged in Settings
- New Project now asks for confirmation
- Only used gameobjects are saved, decreasing the size of the .pill file significantly
- New cursor design
- Added a Clear Map button to clear the current map
- In Level menu, you can specify the exits of the map in the 4 directions. The exits point to other level numbers, use -1 to assign no exit
- Added action trigger Keep on Map to avoid an object getting out of map dimensions
- Added action trigger Check Exits to check current object against map dimensions and it will trigger the change of level
- Added 4 action triggers Set Exit to modify the level exits
- Added Impact action trigger to transmit motion impact from one object to the impacted one
- Flash Object trigger no longer makes the object blink, it stays in the same color for the length of the flash
- Change between levels has been modified to avoid a frame with incorrect render at the start of the change
- Added checks to avoid a crash when the system cannot find the tileset file in the project
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03.Dec.2018
Aged Code (ANF)
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Teaser video: OCS game "Aquabyss"
An effective trailer which however does not show any scenes from the game itself announces the first game "Aquabyss" of the developer team "Aged Code". The game is to be released "soon" and will not be made using Backbone. It will run on each Amiga with at least 3 MB RAM and a harddrive but benefits from faster processors and more RAM.
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02.Dec.2018
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.30
TAWS
("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey).
Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a donation from inside TAWS.
Changes of version 0.30:
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TAWS Early Preset Selection:
- New menu to select a preset upon starting and booting directly into its configration.
- By checking «Remember Selection» the selection can be saved (Cookie).
- By checking «Skip This Next Time» the selection will be be skipped from now on (Cookie).
- The corresponding setting in «Preferences» is «Skip preset selection on startup» and can be reset there.
- The menu can fully be controlled by keyboard (cursor keys and shortcuts according to the underlined characters).
- Clicking «Cancel» will get you to the kickstart image.
- New Preset: «BetterWB»
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OS 4.1: keyboard shortcuts for the prefs programs. The following gadgets can be controlled by keyboard pressing the key that's underlined in the corresponding label:
- Checkbox: check/uncheck
- Textbox: set focus while «Return»/«Enter» removes focus
- Cycle: cycle forwards or backwards if shift key is pressed
- Slider: increase value or decrease value if shift key is pressed
- Button: click (supported since OS 3.5 and higher)
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Preferences:
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Moving settings to their own preferences:
- Font
- Workbench, new option: No volume gauge
- «PowerWindows patch» has been relabled to «Off-screen window dragging»
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«SolidWindows patch» has been split to:
- Drag window with contents
- Resize window with contents
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Prefs programs: positioning according to OS version:
- up to OS 2.0: upper left corner
- up to OS 3.1: upper left corner, but below the menubar
- ab OS 3.5: centered
- Prefs programs: from OS 2.0 and higher the labels have colons.
- Palette: separator added above the buttons
- AmigaGuide: missing AmigaGuide help files added (for the languages french, spanish, and polish), updated files for all other languages.
- Amiga Early Startup Control: prevent browsers from blurring the Topaz font.
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Bugfixes:
- Improved positioning of the drive icons
- After «putting away» an icon the scrollbars of its window is recalculated.
- Presets/Reset to last saved: the color of the active window is now correctly reset to its saved value.
- Presets: minor color corrections
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Preferences:
- Style «OS1» removed for this is not implemented yet (bug since v0.29)
- Changing the transparency of inactive windows was not set to windows that have been moved previously.
- After loading icon's style and size from the cookie at startup, the values were only set to drawer icons and not to Workbench icons as well.
- Deactivated the browser's autocompletion and spellchecking on textboxes
- Font: changing the default font doesn't affect already opened AmigaShell windows anymore.
- MagicMenuPrefs: improved position of the %-character
- Chrome / Firefox / Opera: fixed menu shortcuts
- MS Edge: fixed gradients in OS4-style (menubar, buttons, cycles)
- Firefox & AmigaShell: correction of the word wrapping (not yet fixed for Internet Explorer and MS Edge)
- Odyssey & AmigaShell: workaround for a bug: the character «zero width space» should actually be invisible but is rendered as a square.
- NetSurf: «JavaScript support is not sufficient» guru is displayed as intended.
- Safari (Windows): fixed button click that is invoked by a keyboard shortcut (f.e. when creating a new drawer).
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02.Dec.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 01.12.2018
The following archives have been added to Aminet until December 1st, 2018:
dizzytorrent2.lha comm/tcp 625K 68k Amiga BitTorrent client with ...
SFL-ObsoleteAndHappy.lha demo/intro 58K 68k Intro by Software Failure
Void-Hole_in_Space.lha demo/intro 50K 68k 64k intro released at Compusp...
f1champ.lha docs/misc 70K Statistics of Formula One 195...
WormWars.lha game/actio 855K 68k Advanced snake game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 925K MOS Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake game
Viaduct-1.2.lha misc/emu 38K 68k RTG-aware PCWindow clone for ...
NRLinFen.lha mods/8voic 67K Lin Fen Brand New 6-ch Ninja ...
AmigaAMP3.lha mus/play 1.7M OS4 Multi format audio player wit...
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha mus/play 311K 68k Multi format audio player wit...
ToolsMenu.lha util/cdity 57K 68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
AalandMOS.lha util/sys 2K Aaland Islands for MorphOS an...
IconSnap.lha util/wb 9K 68k Snap Workbench icons to a vir...
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02.Dec.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 01.12.2018
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until December 1st, 2018:
seq.lha aud/mis 205kb 4.0 MIDI sequencer
oo.lha dev/lib 1009k 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
amicygnix-base.lha net/mis 120Mb 4.1 An Unix/X11 environment for Amig...
amicygnix-base-src.lha net/mis 15Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix base pa...
amicygnix-tools.lha net/mis 75Mb 4.1 Extension package for AmiCygnix,...
amicygnix-tools-src.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix tools p...
amicygnix-x11-src.lha net/mis 64Mb 4.1 Sources of the basic X11 system ...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 01.12.2018
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until December 1st, 2018:
aspireos_v.2.22.rar dev/mis 146Mb AspireOS codename "Obitus"
glmark.i386-aros.zip uti/ben 1Mb OpenGL 3D benchmark.
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 01.12.2018
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until December 1st, 2018:
Iris_beta44.lha Email New email client suppor...
WormWars_9.14.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ...
Wetter_2.2.lha Misc Displays weather inform...
DizzyTorrent_2.10.lha Network/Torrent client Amiga BitTorrent client...
DateTime_1.2.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar A screenbar clock and c...
MouseCoords_1.1.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Mouse coordinat...
Notch_1.0.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Gives you a popular Not...
PixelPicker_1.1.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display ARGB value of a...
TopTasks_1.1.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Top Tasks in sc...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.12.2018
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until December 1st, 2018:
- 2018-12-01 improved: Flashback (Delphine Software) supports another french version, display missing dialog in level 5 intro seq, music speed fixed in level 4 & 5 intro seq (Info)
- 2018-11-29 fixed: Full Contact (Team 17) interrupt fix corrected (Info)
- 2018-11-29 improved: Full Contact (Team 17) another version supported, long write to Bplcon0 fixed, interrupts fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, blitter waits added, DMA wait in sample player fixed, timing fixed, high score load/save added, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info)
- 2018-11-26 new: Fraction Action (Unicorn Software) done by StingRay (Info)
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02.Dec.2018
Spiegel.de (Webseite)
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New-Art edition of Amiga 500: Stefanie Tücking died
The television and radio presenter Stefanie Tücking who died on Saturday also had a relation to the Amiga: In 1989 she created a New-Art edition of the A500 with leopard and ball pattern in a limited edition of 10.000 pieces.
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01.Dec.2018
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Web application: Amiga PCB Explorer now supports A386SX
The "Amiga PCB Explorer" written by Christian 'Scrat' Euler is supposed to support hobbyists repairing Amiga boards. Additional to different revisions of A4000, A1200 and CD32 main bords, A500 (rev. 8A) and A600 (rev. 2A) motherboards and now also boards of the "Bridge Board" A2386SX are supported as well.
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01.Dec.2018
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Advance booking for Amiga 34 (12./13. October 2019, Neuss) started
On 12. and 13. Oktober in Neuss the Amiga 34 will take place. Now the advance booking has started. There are tickets for Saturday or Sunday as well as two-day ticktes (200). Tickets for Sunday are a little bit cheaper because most of the VIP guests will attend the event only on Saturday while on Sunday mainly the exhibitors are in focus.
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30.Nov.2018
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Patch and commodity collection: MCP 1.49c
MCP 1.49c already has been available for two years but only as part of Amikit. The update fixes a bug if MCP is used with an emulator with "Virtual Mouse Driver" enabled: This function now is compatible with the MCP patch "Solid Window Moving & Sizing". The MCP patch CycleToMenu does not work with Virtual Mouse Driver enabled: According to the MCP author this problem must be fixed in the emulator.
MCP 1.49c only is distributed as update for existing MCP installations. If you still have not MCP installed first you have to download and install the archive MCP 1.48.
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30.Nov.2018
morphos-forum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS-Tools: DateTime, Mousecoords, PixelPicker, TopTasks and Notch
The team of #amigazeux has released some new screenbar plugins for MorphOS:
- DateTime is a configurable replacement for MorphOS titlebar clock and shows the date and time.
- Mousecoords will show current X and Y mouse coordinates on the screen.
- PixelPicker reveals the information about a pixel (or at least its colour) in a neat display in the screen's titlebar.
- While clicking TopTasks it opens a window showing the top 10 tasks currently hogging all your precious CPU time.
- Notch basically displays a very popular and configurable Notch in the screen title.
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29.Nov.2018
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Action-RPG: Heroes of Gorluth starts being delivered
Last year the spin-off of Tales of Gorluth called Heroes of Gorluth was announced and now is delivered. Customers who ordered the game in davance already received their CDs. The game which was created with Backbone can be ordered for 19,99 Euro.
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27.Nov.2018
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris, beta version 44
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczeks "Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. The program requires MorphOS 3.10. You can give feedback to the author using the corresponding discussion on Morphzone.
Among others beta version 44 detects URLs in non-HTML emails and allows Signatures in account settings.
Download: iris.lha (23 MB)
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27.Nov.2018
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AmigaOS 4: X11 environment AmiCygnix 1.4
Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix is an Unix environment for AmigaOS 4. It is not an emulation but all programms are nativly compiled for AmigaOS 4. AmiCygnix provides a directory and data structure which is similar to a Unix installation.
After a long break of development now new versions of the basic archives have been released. Mainly bugs were fixed which did prevent X-Servers from correctly working on new Amiga systems.
New in AmiCygnix-Base:
- All display drivers and the X server binary were revised to fix the following problems:
- With newer graphics cards like the Radeon HD 7xxx the colours of the
display were wrong. This was completely fixed in the drivers picasso96clonewbdb and picasso96wb.
- Since AmigaOS 4.1 final Update 1 it came to program crashes, if the graphic driver picasso96clonewbdb was used. Is fixed now.
- The display driver picasso96clonewbdb can now also open 32 bit screens internally, however, the data is still processed in 16 bits.
- The print command "lpr" now supports the printout via Turboprint whereby the print quality is increased.
- Updated SSL support over OpenSSL and GnuTLS. The included Trusted Certificates have been updated.
- Many minor improvements and bug fixes.
New in AmiCygnix tools:
- The browser NetSurf has been relinked with OpenSSl 1.01o. Many SSL keyed pages could not be opened anymore. The problem is now largely eliminated.
- The image viewer GPicView is now available in the latest version 0.2.5.
Download:
amicygnix-base.lha (120 MB)
amicygnix-tools.lha (75 MB)
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27.Nov.2018
Olaf Barthel (ANF)
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File system: smbfs 2.1 released after two years of development
In last two years smbfs was comprehensively revised and rewritten for the SMBv1/CIFS protocol based on the historical and official documents.
The new smbfs 2.1 improves the robustness and compatibilty of the file system which e.g. can access NAS systems and corresponding computers. The support of Unicode, big files (> 4 GB) and resuming of interrupted connections to the data server were added. A lot of bug fixes were done as well.
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26.Nov.2018
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Demo scene: Haujobb provides self-developed demo framework
For the development of their demos, the demo group Haujobb uses a self-developed framework including a cross-platform, vbcc-based development environment. The framework is called "WickedOS" and offers programmers of assembler e.g. access to 20 different chunky-To-planer screen modes, several music playback routines and interrupt entry points. Additional to a traditional "Multi Tasking Killer" mode, there is also multitasking environment including hardware abstraction layer.
As target architecture for the framework upgraded Amigas are specified, AGA, a 68020 and a FPU are minimum required. The framework itself will be released little by little on Github as well as the corresponding documents completed.
Already in August both Haujobb programmers 'Hellfire' and 'Noname' did introduce their ihre method of cross-platform demo development in a speech.
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