19.May.2018
0.7 (Kommentar)
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MUIMapparium 0.7 for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's OpenStreetMap viewer Mapparium now is available as version 0.7. Additional to several bug fixes (e.g. search function) you can now export maps as PNG images, routes as HTML files, trackplots as PNG images and tracks as HTML files. It is also possible to load EXIF of photos and to show the photo position on map.
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19.May.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland - Amiberry and 3D-Modelling
The latest podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland includes an interviews about 3D-Modelling as well as about Amiberry, which is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based one-chip-systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard produced by ASUS.
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19.May.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 86 (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 on vintage computers.
This is a special issue about games their names starting with "3D" and includes articles about the Amiga games "3D Galax" and "3D World Soccer".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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18.May.2018
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Dungeon crawler BOH and retro arcade game Huenison on CD
In April 2009 Simone Bevilacqua released the first version his commerzial Dungeon crawler BOH. Since then 18 updates have been released - the last one dating from March of this year. Since the author considers the project complete, he released the final version on CD.
The CD contains ports of BOH for AmigaOS 4, AROS, Linux Mac OS and Windows as well as the soundtrack as audio tracks. The manuals have been reworked and the CD and DVD covers have a new design.
Simultaneously the author also released his retro arcade game Huenison, available for the first time in 2013, on CD. It contains the latest ports of AmigaOS 4 and Windows as well as reworked manual.
You can order the games for 15 (BOH) or 12 Euro from the developer via e-mail. The preorders are collected and then oictures will be sent showing the final product. Only if the user still is interested in the game(s) the money has to be paid. The exact process Bevilacqua has summarized on a poster.
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17.May.2018
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Interview: Debbie Bestwick (Team 17)
In an interview with the British "Telegraph", Debbie Bestwick, co-founder and currently managing director of Team-17 (Worms, Alien Breed), has talked about the start of the company und the development from a successful Amiga publisher to the "Worms-Studio".
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17.May.2018
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Kickstart campaign: "Commodore - The Final Years" successfully financed
The third and last part of Brian Bagnall's history of Commodore was successfully financed: The Kickstarter campaign has collected about 62.000 Euro. Thus "Commodore - The Final Years" will be published in the highest possible quality: 16 pages with colour photos, embossed foil cover, sewn binding and a foil stamped spine.
At the beginning of the campaign Bagnall did announce that he is going to publish the book - which has been almost completely written - this year.
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14.May.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Game database: The Legacy goes offline
TheLegacy, which calls itself as "nostalgic game museum, is a game database founded in 1999 providing information, scans and screenshots to over 40.000 games for several nostalgic computer systems. According to the administrators they have not sufficient time to update the website to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Therefore the website will go offline on May 24th.
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14.May.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Processor: MC68000 manual as PDF
From the website of the producer of semiconductors NXP, which in 2015 acquired Freescale (formerly Motorola), the manual for Motorola's MC68000 processor can be downloaded as PDF. The processor was used in the first Amiga models.
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14.May.2018
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood-Plugin: Polybios 1.0 creates and opens PDF documents
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present a massive new plugin release for Hollywood: Polybios - Making History in PDF. This plugin can be used to create and view PDF documents from Hollywood scripts and will thus make all PDF dreams come true for Hollywood users. Polybios has been five years in the making and is now finally ready for release exclusively for Hollywood 7.1.
Here are just some of Polybios' impressive features:
- over 200 functions for creating and viewing PDF documents
- support for all graphics primitives
- full Unicode support
- fonts can be embedded inside PDF documents
- images and Hollywood brushes can be embedded inside PDF documents
- password-protected PDFs can be opened and created
- support for PDF encryption and compression
- files can be attached to PDF documents
- annotations can be added to PDF documents
- support for RGB, CMYK and gray color spaces
- transition effects can be embedded inside PDF documents
- hypertext links can be embedded inside PDF documents
- table of contents generation is supported
- inbuilt PDF viewer is based on the famous fast and powerful PDF engine used in a very popular browser by a very well-known American Internet company and is thus very compatible and complete
- PDF pages can be exported as Hollywood brushes
- PDF pages can be accessed as vector brushes allowing for lossless scaling, rotation, and transformation
- Polybios comes with over 150 pages of documentation to get you started quickly
- over 25 ready-to-run examples are included in the Polybios distribution
And the best of all: Polybios is provided free of charge for all existing Hollywood users. Thus, please consider buying Hollywood to show your support for our massive development efforts.
The plugin is now available for download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), Mac OS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64) and Android (arm, arm64) are provided.
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13.May.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 12.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 12th, 2018:
ign-addon-ods.lha biz/spread 202K OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
NetStat_de.lha comm/misc 8K Unofficial German catalog for...
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 11K 12 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
SDI_headers.lha dev/c 32K A set of C macros and defines
Mattonite.lha game/actio 970K 68k Arkanoid like game almost fin...
RNOComics.lha gfx/show 2.5M MOS Comic book reader
RNOComics_OS4.lha gfx/show 2.8M OS4 Comic book reader
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 2.9M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
milkytracker-morphos.lha mus/edit 2.9M MOS Multiplatform music tracker
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 516K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 654K OS4 Multipurpose utility
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13.May.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 12th, 2018:
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 38Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
rnocomics.lha gra/vie 3Mb 4.0 Comic book reader
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 202kb 4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
dirscope.lha uti/fil 73kb 4.1 File manager (formally DrawerExp...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 654kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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13.May.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 12.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until May 12th, 2018:
vice-3.1.i386-aros.tar.gz emu/com 22Mb Emulator of c64, c128, pet, plus...
vice-3.1.ppc-aros.lzx emu/com 26Mb Emulator of c64, c128, pet, plus...
vice-3.1.x86_64-aros.lzx emu/com 26Mb Emulator of c64, c128, pet, plus...
assaultcube1202.i386-aros... gam/fps 53Mb AssaultCube 3D game FPS
hexen2-1.5.8a.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 5Mb Hexen II for AROS
hexen2-utils-1.5.8.i386-a... gam/fps 314kb Hexen II utilities for AROS
hexenworld-1.5.8a.i386-ar... gam/fps 7Mb HexenWorld for AROS
hexenworld-utils-1.5.8.i3... gam/fps 58kb HexenWorld utilities for AROS
webptools.i386-aros.lha gra/con 6Mb encode/decode images in WebP format
cookiemaster_demo.i386-ar... net/bro 6Mb Web browser cookie cleaner
wookiechat2.11.i386-aros.lha net/cha 1Mb IRC client
yam29p1.i386-aros.lha net/ema 3Mb MUI-based E-mail client
yam29p1.ppc-aros.lha net/ema 4Mb MUI-based E-mail client
yam29p1.x86_64-aros.lha net/ema 4Mb MUI-based E-mail client
aminetreadmemaker.i386-ar... uti/tex 88kb Easy creation & upload of Am...
annotate.i386-aros.lha uti/tex 1Mb Text editor with advanced features.
dclock_16.i386-aros.zip uti/wor 36kb AROS ABIv0 compile of DClock wit...
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13.May.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 12.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until May 12th, 2018:
MilkyTracker_1.02.lha Audio/Tracker An XM/MOD tracker by th...
Hyphen_2.8.8.lha Development/Library A static library perfor...
Libcole_2.0.1.lha Development/Library Static library for read...
Libmkv_0.6.5.1.lha Development/Library A alternative to the of...
CaveStory_1.0.0.4.lha Games/Action Mixed platform and adve...
MangoQuest_0.6.4.lha Games/Action First person perspectiv...
Meritous_1.2.tar Games/Action An action-adventure dun...
Exult_1.0.lha Games/Adventure Engine for playing Ulti...
Flare_0.18.lha Games/Adventure A simple game engine bu...
Uplink_10.0.lha Games/Adventure Well known hacking simu...
ASCIIpOrtal_1.2a.lha Games/Platform A logical game with som...
Digger_1.0.lha Games/Platform Remake of an old 1983 M...
ForgetMeNot_1.0.lha Games/Platform Very fast, difficult, P...
Quake2_3.21.lha Games/Shoot 3D Another classic 3D game...
MirrorMagic_3.0.0.lha Games/Think Arcade style game in th...
RocksNDiamonds_4.1.0.0... Games/Think Arcade style game in th...
RNOComics_1.2.lha Graphics/Show Comic book reader.
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13.May.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.05.2018
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 May 12th, 2018:
- 2018-05-11 updated: Bubble And Squeak (Audiogenic) reduced ocs memory requirement, controler handling improved (Info)
- 2018-05-11 updated: Alien Breed (Team 17) added splash window options, additional joypad control (Info)
- 2018-05-07 improved: Pod (Shaun Southern) keyboard handling fixed (Info)
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13.May.2018
Achim Pankalla (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: ignition and ODS add-on updated
Achim Pankalla writes: After more than a year of working, the beta 5 of the spreadsheet "ignitionOS4" is now available on the Sourceforge pages. The most important innovation of this version is the print routine, which now easily brings graphics and diagrams to paper. In addition, the print margins are also considered.
Furthermore, two errors in the diagram modules were corrected and some mathematical functions adapted in their behavior to those of the standard applications, so that the import of foreign formats works better. Also some minor and major errors have been removed from the program. The installation now also includes the alternative icon set and a translation into French. The revised manual is now available in English.
Parallel to the release of igntionOS4, the add-on ODS gets a functional update. Now the module takes over the positioning of the data in the cell in the horizontal and vertical when loading and storing. In addition, within the possibilities of ignition, the cell frames are also converted.
The add-on requires at least Ignition 1.0 beta 4 and AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. It can load and save documents in ODS format. This format is used by Libre and OpenOffice-Calc, but can also be exported and imported by other spreadsheets. The add-on is still a "beta" version!
The author requests to not keep bugs and wishes for functional enhancements of the programs to oneself, but to simply contact him. This is not only possible via e-mail, but also via the OS4Welt forum, where is a support page. He also wants to thank everyone who supported him with such feedback and of course his beta testers!
The new version of the add-on can be found on Aminet or OS4Depot as well as on Sourceforge at the title link. (snx)
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10.May.2018
(ANF)
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AmigaKit registers several trademarks, e.g. "Amiga Kit Gotek"
At the beginning of 2017 Amiga, Inc. lost the US registration of the trademark "Amiga" due to inactivity. Afterwards Hyperion and Cloanto competed to diverse Amiga trademarks and are involved in several judicial proceedings.
The British dealer and X5000 distributor Amigakit also became active: Instead of trademarks like "Amiga", "Workbench" or "Amiga Forever" the company concentrated on different ones: In Great Britain (overview) "Amigakit" and the logo "amiga.org" - for some years the website belongs to the British dealer - were registered but also "Amiga Kit" and eventually "Amiga Kit Gotek".
In den Benelux countries Leaman Computing owns the trademark Amigakit and in the Welsh hometown of the company Amiga Technology Ltd. was founded.
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10.May.2018
Floppy (Kommentar)
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MilkyTracker 1.2
In April version 1.2 of the Milkytracker was released for AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported) as well as AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS. Under the title link now an updated version for AROS is available as well - but only for ABI v1.
Milkytracker is a completely compatible clone of ProTracker resp. FastTracker II featuring a highly improved editor.
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06.May.2018
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris, Beta version 25
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the default 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.
Changes in beta version 25:
- Reduced the memory footprint when doing full folder synchronizations
- Send e-mail using aliases supported by the configured accounts
- Yahoo! Mail now works with OAuth2
- Added an X-Mailer field to outgoing messages
- Fixed: viewing messages while updating existing messages in a folder would lead to bogus unread messages count displayed in the folder tree
- Fixed: e-mail contents window would appear on Ambient screen even if Iris was open on a public screen
- Fixed: SMTP message store setting would revert back to default after applying settings
Download: iris.lha (22 MB)
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06.May.2018
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiCast: Text interview with memebers of demoscene group Nukleus
In its The thirteenth issue the podcast AmiCast had a text interview with Browallia [code^gfx] and Menthos [code^msx] who are members of the demoscene group Nukleus.
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06.May.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 05.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 5th, 2018:
Void-Evolve.lha demo/misc 81K 68k A mini-prod by Void
zlib_S1211.lha dev/c 308K WOS ZLib 1.2.11 StormGCC link lib...
adtools-8-os4.lha dev/gcc 84M OS4 GCC-based development toolchain
zlib1211_aros.lha dev/lib 175K x86 ZLib link library for Aros i386
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
webptools100_a68k.lha gfx/conv 4.2M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools100_aros.lha gfx/conv 6.4M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
AsciiMandelbrot.lha gfx/fract 22K OS4 draw a Mandelbrot set in a co...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 38M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fracta...
WWorth_fincats.lha text/dtp 47K Wordworth 3,4,5,6 and 7 Finni...
Diab2PS.lha text/misc 32K MOS Diablo 630 to PostScript Tran...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 20K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
workbenchexplorer.lha util/dir 2.1M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
AminetReadmeMaker.lha util/misc 88K MOS Easy creation & upload of...
ClipHandler.lha util/shell 7K 68k Handler to access the clipboa...
PYT-OS4.lha util/sys 1K Unofficial North Korea OS4 ti...
DClock16.lha util/time 42K 68k Users claim: Best Amiga clock...
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06.May.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 05.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 5th, 2018:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
reverteris.zip gam/adv 128Mb 4.1 another text-game / interactive ...
asciimandelbrot.lha gra/mis 22kb 4.0 Draw a Mandelbrot set in a conso...
lhx.lha uti/arc 172kb 4.1 Pack & unpack using XZ/LZMA ...
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
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06.May.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 05.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until May 5th, 2018:
amicast_player.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 6Mb Player for AMIcast podcast
supertuxkart.i386-aros.lha gam/dri 109Mb opengl arcade racer
assaultcubereloaded263.i3... gam/fps 68Mb first person shooter
cube2_ce.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 3Mb first person shooter
redeclipse1.5.3.i386-aros... gam/fps 110Mb first person shooter
warzone2100.i386-aros.lha gam/str 17Mb 3D strategy game in the future
hd_icons_os4style_aros.lha gra/ico 13kb os4 style icon
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06.May.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 05.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until May 5th, 2018:
MUIMapparium_0.6.lha Devices/GPS An OpenStreetMap Viewer.
54321.lha Games/Think 54321 is five games in ...
GrafX2_2.5_WIP.lha Graphics/Draw A quick compilation of ...
AminetReadmeMaker_1.1.lha Text Easy creation & upload ...
Diab2PS_0.9.1.lha Text/Misc Diablo 630 to PostScrip...
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06.May.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.05.2018
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 May 5th, 2018:
- 2018-05-02 improved: Z-Out (Advantec/Rainbow Arts) added automatic joypad detection, added custom option for autofire (Info)
- 2018-05-02 improved: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) joypad autodetection added (Info)
- 2018-05-02 improved: Banshee (Core Design) second button routine rewritten again (Info)
- 2018-05-01 improved: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) bug in keyboard routine fixed, movep rasterwait routine recoded, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
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04.May.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 132
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 132 (May/June 2018) have been released today, they can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include reviews of 'Spencer' and the DKB Wildfire and a special called "Vampire Diaries". (cg)
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02.May.2018
A1k.org (ANF)
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MUIMapparium 0.6 for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 0.6 of his MUI port of the OpenStreetMap viewer Mapparium. The author wrote that "the biggest changes are the Manual, the faster network speed, an about window and route calculation."
Changes in version 0.6
- BugFix: OS4 ToolType reading
- BugFix: Track plot enabling
- BugFix: Deleting Tiles
- Update checking
- AmigaGuide manual
- "About MUI"menu entry
- About window
- Reopen Statistics Window on start if left open on quit
- Set color for Tracks and Routes
- Show Route Orders jump to position
- Block redrawing when moving map (prevents map jumping)
- Faster Image Download
- Choose double click map feature lists mode
- Popup menu for all map feature lists
- ASCII Export for plot
- Calculate Routes with YOURS
- Include *.cd file for own translations
MUIMapparium is available for AmigaOS 3 (with graphic board), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (ARM, i386, x64)
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02.May.2018
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 4.0.0
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE present a short preview to the changes of the next version. WinUAE 4.0.0 is supposed to be released in May or June and will provide the following features:
New features:
- Beam Racing Lagless VSync which reduces input latency to sub-5ms. Replaces old Low Latency VSync.
- Virtual multi monitor support. Each virtual Amiga video output connector (Video port graphics adapter, RTG boards) can be “connected” to separate WinUAE window, emulating real hardware being connected to more than one physical monitor.
- Debugger supports running Amiga executables from shell, adds symbol and gcc stab debugging data support, loads executable to special reserved address space which enables detection of any illegal accesses byte accurately and more.
- Overlay graphics led (power, floppy etc) support.
- Close confirmation option added to misc panel.
- Default WASAPI audio device automatically follows Windows default audio device.
- Directory harddrives now use uaehf.device as a fake device driver (replacing non-existing uae.device), for example programs that query extra information (like SCSI Inquiry data) now get valid data.
- Directory filesystem harddrive fake block size dynamic adjustment now starts from smaller disk size, workaround for WB free space calculation overflow when partition is larger than 16G.
- Disk swapper config file data is restored from statefile.
3.6.x bug fix:
- WD33C93 based SCSI controllers hung the system if controller didn’t have any connected SCSI devices.
Older bugs fixed:
- On the fly switching from non-cycle exact to cycle-exact mode stopped emulation in certain situations.
- Fixed E-Matrix accelerator board RAM selection.
- If CD was changed and system was reset during change delay, drive become empty and new CD was never inserted. Mainly affected CD32 and CDTV.
- Code analyzer warnings fixed (uninitialized variables, buffer size checks etc..)
New emulated expansions:
- C-Ltd Kronos
- CSA Magnum 40
- DCE Typhoon MK2
- GVP A1230 Series II
- Hardital TQM
- MacroSystem Falcon 040
- Xetec FastTrak
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01.May.2018
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- March/Arpil 2018 news
- Old articles from Amiga News Tech n° 0 to 5:
- File: The IFF ILM format
- Programming: Assembleur, the art of machine code
- Tutorial: Utilization of the "List" command
- Programming: AmigaBasic, loops and jumps
- Hardware: A2630
- Programming: AmigaBasic, the variables
- Programming: Assembleur, screen and window structures
- Review: HiSoft Basic 1.0
- Interview with Francis Gradel (hardware designer)
- Interview with Hogne Titlestad (engineer at FriendUP)
- Interview with Thierry Levastre (graphist from Delphine Software)
- Review of MorphOS 3.10
- DIY: Installation of a CD Player inside an Amiga 1200 case
- Hardware: MiSTer
- File: Professional musicians on Amiga
- File: Classic Reflections - What happened to MacroSystem?
- Tutorial: Installation of MorphOS 3.10
- Programming: AMOS - the pointers
- Galleries: Unusual Amiga pictures (update)
- Special quiz about Dune
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01.May.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 28th, 2018:
smbfs-68k_1.116.lha comm/tcp 91K 68k SMB file system client; compl...
smbfs-68k_1.117.lha comm/tcp 95K 68k SMB file system client; compl...
MusicDisk01_CopperSky... demo/sound 880K 68k Music disk 01, by CopperSky
gcc-mos2wos.lha dev/gcc 17M MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
HeartOfTheAlienRdx-MO... game/actio 139K MOS Amiga version of action-adven...
View64.lha gfx/show 166K MOS View various C64 pictures
fceu_mos.lha misc/emu 630K MOS Nintendo NES / Famicom emulator
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.1M MOS Sega Genesis and MasterSystem...
hugo_mos.lha misc/emu 769K MOS PC-Engine / TurboGrafx 16 emu...
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 325K 68k MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
STP.lha mus/play 109K 68k Soundtracker player with CD-P...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 505K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 529K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 644K OS4 Multipurpose utility
ToolManager2_1bin.lha util/wb 490K 68k ToolManager 2.1 (Binaries and...
ToolManager2_1gfx.lha util/wb 175K ToolManager 2.1 (Anims, Brush...
ToolManager2_1src.lha util/wb 280K 68k ToolManager 2.1 (sources/supp...
ToolManager21a.lha util/wb 24K 68k Small update for ToolManager 2.1
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29.Apr.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 28th, 2018:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
reverteris.zip gam/adv 128Mb 4.1 another text-game / interactive ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 644kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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29.Apr.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until April 28th, 2018:
warmux.i386-aros.lha gam/pla 125Mb Worms Clone
aleonatales.i386-aros.lha gam/str 37Mb real time strategy game fantasy
boswars.i386-aros.lha gam/str 63Mb real time strategy game in the f...
zod.i386-aros.lha gam/str 44Mb Zeta Games
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29.Apr.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until April 28th, 2018:
mos2wos_0.6.lha Development/GCC Make MorphOS GCC output...
MorphOS_SDK_3.12_20180... Development/SDK MorphOS Software Develo...
FCEU_1.7.lha Emulation FCEU emulates the class...
GenesisPlus_1.9.lha Emulation Genesis-Plus emulates t...
Hu-Go!_1.5.lha Emulation A TurboGrafx16/PC Engin...
HeartOfTheAlienRedux_1... Games/Action Amiga version of action...
Davegnukem_1.00.lha Games/Shoot 2D Dave Gnukem is a retro-...
View64_1.60.lha Graphics/Show View various C64 pictures.
Report+_7.2.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
AminetReadmeMaker_1.0.lha Text Easy creation & upload ...
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29.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.04.2018
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 April 28th, 2018:
- 2018-04-26 improved: Amazing SpiderMan (Paragon/Oxford Digital/Empire) another version supported (Info, Image)
- 2018-04-25 improved: Crystal Hammer (reLINE) unlimited lives and reset hiscores added, dma wait patched, quitkey works on 68000 (Info)
- 2018-04-23 improved: Coala (Empire) copy protection screen completely skipped, caches enabled (Info)
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29.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS Software Development Kit 3.12
Press release: The MorphOS Development Team would like to announce the immediate availability of the April 2018 release of the MorphOS SDK 3.12. The new SDK introduces support for Objective-C MUI application development, adds a Clang compiler, GCC 6.4.0, updated GCC5 as well as a GIT suite, many updated libraries and components.
Please note that, at this point, the Objective-C support should be considered a demo - both ABI and API are not yet 100% stable. MorphOS 3.12 may require your applications to be recompiled to work.
The new SDK requires at least 2GB of free disk space to install and is available for download in our files section.
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29.Apr.2018
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Gary-Wafer in private American library (picture)
In the "Walker Library of Human Imagination" Arthur Steinmetz has recognized a wafer of the Amiga custom chip Gary, which in the Amiga 500, Amiga 2000 (B) and in Amiga CDTV "provides glue logic for bus control and houses supporting functions for the floppy disk drive". Under the title link he has published a picture of the exhibit.
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[News message: 29. Apr. 2018, 08:40] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: SPI controller for clockport announced
Under the title link Retro 7-bit has announced a SPI controller for the clockport. Using the "Serial Peripheral Interface" you can access SD cards. The corresponding video shows such a card with 2 GB, to which is accessed by the prototype of the controller on an Amiga 1200.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2018, 21:36] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2018
Qemu (ANF)
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Emulator: QEMU 2.12.0 emulates Sam460ex
According to the version history available under the title link, version 2.12.0 of the emulator QEMU, released three days ago, includes the feature of emulating the Sam460ex board produced by ACube Systems.
Any further details e.g. to the compatibility regarding diverse Amiga operating systems are not available. At least in September 2017, AROS and MorphOS did not work (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2018, 21:21] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FCEU 1.7, GenesisPlus 1.9, Hu-Go 1.5
Kelly Samel - formerly known as company "Emerald Games", now operating as "Realstar Software" - has released updates of three of his MorphOS ports of emulators of Japanese game consoles.
FCE Ultra emulates the Nintendo-Entertainment-System (NES), GenesisPlus the Sega consoles Mega Drive, Sega CD, Master System as well as Game Gear and Hu-Go the PC Engine. Further details are available under the title link.
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25.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: Looking for help for verifying old bugs
The bugtracker of the WHDLoad team contains more than 1500 bugs which are partly very old. Bert Jahn, the author of WHDLoad, suspects that many of the bugs can be refered to e.g. the usage of cracked versions or buggy hardware. Other bugs have not sufficient details to be able to reconstruct the bug.
Jahn is going to reduce the amount of open bug report as far as possible. Therefore he asks users of WHDLoad to check some of the open bugs listed in the database and to give a feedback if they could be reconstructed. In this way the team can recognize which bugs have priority. Very old bugs which nobody could reconstruct will be deleted.
If users should find new problems with WHDLoad versions of games then they are asked to post them in the bugtracker instead of writing them in the forum.
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25.Apr.2018
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #46 - Interview with Robert Bernardo
The 46th issue of the Scene World Podcast offers an interview with Robert Bernardo. The US-American is chairman of the "Fresno Commodore User Group", attends several Commodore nd Amiga events worldwide and publishes videos of those meetings.
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2018, 22:19] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2018
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Puzzle game: Block Off! (third preversion)
Colin Vella's Block Off! (Youtube video) is a puzzle game written in AMOS in which you have to move bricks of the same colour side by side. This preversion includes 14 levels. All users are invited to create new levels using the editor and to send them to the authors. Block Off! requires one Megabyte RAM. The game runs on an A500 but an Amiga 1200 is recommended.
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22.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Website)
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Obligement: Review of MorphOS-3.10 (French)
On the Obligement website, David Brunet has published a detailed article about version 3.10 of the operating system MorphOS in French (amiga-news.de reported). Automatic translations into other languages - e.g. English - are available by choosing the corresponding flags.
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22.Apr.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 21st, 2018:
gopherexx.lha comm/tcp 3K Gopher server for MiamiDX/AmiTCP
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 43K 68k Mediator driver for G3/G4 PCI...
gs2000AGAfix.lha game/patch 14K 68k Fixes Gunship 2000 AGA/CD32 w...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.2M MOS Sega Genesis and MasterSystem...
VICE-i386-AROS-3.1.ta... misc/emu 22M x86 Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
VICE-MorphOS-3.1.lha misc/emu 29M MOS Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
InstantZip_3.5.lha util/arc 201K MOS ZIP (un)packer + en-/decrypte...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 20K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
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22.Apr.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archive has been added to the OS4Depot until April 21st, 2018:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
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22.Apr.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until April 21st, 2018:
aiss.lha gra/ico 9Mb Toolbar images
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22.Apr.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until April 21st, 2018:
GenesisPlus_1.8.lha Emulation Genesis-Plus emulates t...
VICE_3.1.lha Emulation The Versatile Commodore...
InstantZip_3.5.lha Files/Archive A ZIP packer / unpacker...
Anagramarama_0.5.lha Games/Think Anagramarama 0.5, multi...
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22.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.04.2018
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 April 21st, 2018:
- 2018-04-17 improved: Ode to Ramon 2 (Digital Force) illegal copperlist entries fixed, keyboard interrupt fixed, decruncher optimised, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info, Image)
- 2018-04-17 improved: Ode to Ramon (Digital Force) illegal copperlist entries fixed, keyboard interrupt fixed, decruncher optimised, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info, Image)
- 2018-04-16 improved: Odyssey (Audiogenic) fixed install script, removed debug code (Info)
- 2018-04-16 fixed: Speedball 2 CD?? (Renegade) fixed button not working on most joysticks (Info)
- 2018-04-16 improved: James Pond 2 - Robocod (Millennium) AGA support rewritten, fixed joypad handling, updated installer script (Info)
- 2018-04-15 improved: Shadoworlds (Krisalis) patch works with 0.5 MB chip and 0.6 MB other memory now, 68000 quitkey support, default quitkey changed to F10, WHDLoad v17+ features used, source code included, new install script (Info)
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22.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: WicherInstaller 1.8 for accelerator board Wicher 500i
For the accelerator board Wicher 500i produced by Retro 7-bit a software update has been relesaed. Version 1.8 now supports SD cards with more than 4 GB.
Download: WicherInstallerV1_8.lha (133 KB)
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21.Apr.2018
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Crowdfunding: History of Commodore - The Final Years
Started with Commodore: A Company on the Edge and Commodore: The Amiga Years, Brian Bagnall now is working on the thirs part of his triology about the history of Commodore.
According to Bagnall "this book is mostly written and now requires extensive editing and polish". He has started a campaign for crowdfunding the third volume: The book is supposed to be available at the end of the year.
So far 24,862 Euro were pledged and thus the goal of 15,906 Euro exceeded. Similar to the previous book "stretch goals" were defined like metallic foil stamp on spine, pages of color photos or embossed title on front cover which can be implemented if the required money will be donated. In order to achieve the same product quality, about 57.000 Euro have to be pre-financed by May 16th.
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20.Apr.2018
Vinnny (ANF)
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Demo scene: The Black Lotus released final version of Starstruck
12 years after the first release of "Starstruck" at the Assembly 2006 - the demo did win the competition - the scene group The Black Lotus has released a final version of it. According to the authors, the final version fixes some display errors. Additionally some optimizations of the performance, caused by an Atari-Falcon-port by MiKRO / Mystic, were back ported to the Amiga.
Starstruck requires an AGA Amiga with a 68060 (50 Mhz) and about 50 MB Fast-RAM. Graphic boards are not supported.
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20.Apr.2018
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris, beta 24
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the default 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. Changes since our last news item:
Beta 24
- Email viewer displays some basic error on failure now, instead of just showing the loading animation forever
- Fixed: OAuth2 wouldn't always migrate to new settings correctly
- Fixed: OAuth2 could never complete in some cases
- Fixed: if the latest message in folder was removed on server, it was not removed from the local cache
Beta 23
- Reworked job priority queue to avoid situations where one has to wait for email contents for too long
- Folder full sync jobs can now be done in steps (unlocks email reading while syncing)
- Fixed email counts in the folder tree for IMAP
- Reworked autoconfiguration for OAuth2 providers
- Added Yahoo! Mail OAuth2 provider (does NOT work at the moment)
- Cut text (cmd+x) shortcut added to the email writer
- Revamped transport security settings - now a switch between TLS, STARTTLS and opportunistic STARTTLS
- When replying or forwarding mail, an appropriate flag on the source email is set
- Fixed: quick folder synchornization would call Close on a fh twice if ChangeMode() failed
- Fixed: Removing an account did not kill the entry from the settings list
- Fixed: After an account was removed but not removed from the list, collecting properties for the non-existing account threw exceptions
- Fixed: there was a rather nasty race condition in the main Session class
- Fixed: after adding a message to a folder and synchronizing the folder, each time it was synchronized, the message would duplicate in the index
Download: iris.lha (22,3 MB)
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19.Apr.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 132 - preview and extracts
A preview and extracts from issue 132 (May/June 2018) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a "special" about "CD or not CD", ein fair report from the DoReCo and a review of Golden Wing.
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18.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 85 (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 on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Bionic Commando", "Blue Max" and the educational game "Nations of the World: Australia".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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17.Apr.2018
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: InstantZip 3.5
Carsten Siegner's InstantZip (screenshot) is a graphical user-interface for PkZIP as well for the xad.library of MorphOS. In version 3.5 it is possible to create LhA archives (modifying will be added in a later version).
Download: InstantZip_3.5.lha (201 KB)
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16.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Video: Survey on MorphOS 3.10
Dan Wood has released a video which introduces some of the new features of MorphOS 3.10. Besides, he demonstrates how to change the look of MorphOS in two simple steps.
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[News message: 16. Apr. 2018, 23:02] [Comments: 0]
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16.Apr.2018
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Full version: Foundation Gold as free download
The Amiga Future offers the full version of the Siedler clone Foundation Gold for free download - but a registration is required.
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16.Apr.2018
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A4000: Two projects for original motherboard remakes
Last week two projects for the remake of A4000 motherboards (revision B) were presented:
The US-American trader and repair service Paul 'Acill' Rezendes is going to solve the problem of highly attrited A4000 motherboards he gets for repairing. Therefore he started a campaign Amiga 4000 Replica with Schematics at GoFundMe.
At the moment 4910 USD of the required 5000 USD were donated but Rezendes himself did finance the remaining sum and already tasked an US-American company with the development of an exact clone of the revision B of the A4000 motherboard. The corresponding project file will be available in different file formats ("open and public"), so interested people can produce new motherboards. The initiator of the project answers questions in a thread on amiga.org.
Another remake of the A4000 motherboard is A4000+ Alice. This design has been already finished. The developer already has assembled a working Amiga 4000 using "his" motherboard. As soon as the remaining motherboards will be sold on Amibay, the project documents will be publicly available. The Finnish developer 'hese7' plans also an ATX version of the motherboard. According to Finnish users a Prometheus-PCI solution will be included.
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