17.Sep.2017
BackToTopic (Kommentar)
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Open source hardware: CD³² extension TerribleFire 328
TerribleFire products are open source hardware developed by Stephen Leary (e.g. accelerator board TF530). A month ago under the title link a beta version of the TF328 was published which is an extension board for the Amiga CD³² providing 8 MB RAM and IDE-controller.
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17.Sep.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: First prototype of CD³² extension Wicher CD³² working
According to Retro 7-bit under the title link, the first prototype of the CD³² extension "Wicher CD³²" is working. The card for the expansion slot of the Amiga console and for the Riser board (Retro 7-bit) has 8 MB RAM, an IDE-controller and a clock port.
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17.Sep.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until September 16th, 2017:
IBrowse1.0-1.1-68000.lha comm/www 320K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.0 to 1.1 (68000)
IBrowse1.0-1.1-68020.lha comm/www 436K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.0 to 1.1 (68020)
IBrowse1.02-1.1-68000... comm/www 288K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.02 to 1.1 (68...
IBrowse1.02-1.1-68020... comm/www 402K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.02 to 1.1 (68...
IBrowse1.1-1.11-68000... comm/www 232K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.1 to 1.11 (68...
IBrowse1.1-1.11-68020... comm/www 347K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.1 to 1.11 (68...
IBrowse1.x-1.22-68000... comm/www 596K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.1, 1.12, or 1...
IBrowse1.x-1.22-68020... comm/www 822K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.1, 1.12, or 1...
HWP_RebelSDL.lha dev/hwood 5.1M MOS SDL scripting with Hollywood
Epub_mcc.0.3.lha dev/mui 160K MOS A Epub MUI Class
Empty_HDF_files.lha disk/misc 23K Seven empty HDF image files
Africa.lha game/board 290K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 322K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 340K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
CodeWar-MOS.lha game/misc 262K MOS CRobots-style programming game
CodeWar-OS3.lha game/misc 272K 68k CRobots-style programming game
CodeWar-OS4.lha game/misc 251K OS4 CRobots-style programming game
anespro.lha misc/emu 100K 68k A/NES PRO - NES/FAMICOM emulator
R2Z_68k.lha misc/sci 1.3M 68k Test your reaction times
R2Z_AROS_intel.lha misc/sci 1.5M x86 Test your reaction times
R2Z_MorphOS.lha misc/sci 1.4M MOS Test your reaction times
sphere.zip pix/icon 776K round/transparent icon set
Daysleeper_1-0.lha util/wb 1.5M MOS Shutdown/reboot at selected time
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17.Sep.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until September 16th, 2017:
africa.lha gam/boa 340kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
alephone_sdl2.lha gam/fps 4Mb 4.1 SDL2 version of Marathon engine
ioquake3_sdl2.lha gam/fps 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 version of Quake 3 engine
codewar.lha gam/mis 251kb 4.0 CRobots-style programming game
smb_sdl2.lha gam/pla 818kb 4.1 SDL2 conversion of SMB
getversion.lha uti/she 28kb 4.1 Shell/CLI cmd to show version st...
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17.Sep.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.09.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until September 16th, 2017:
lander.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 3Mb OpenGL Lunar Lander clone.
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17.Sep.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.09.2017
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 September 16th, 2017:
- 2017-09-16 improved: Heart Of China (Dynamix) slave requires more memory for music, QuitKey added for 68000, access fault removed (Info)
- 2017-09-15 improved: The Sentinel / The Sentry (Firebird) Blitter wait added, RawDIC imager, interrupt fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2017-09-14 fixed: Amnios (Psygnosis) disk access removed, access fault in intro fixed, CIA access fixed (Info)
- 2017-09-12 improved: The Ultimate Pinball Quest (Infogrames) keyboard problems fixes, blitter waits added, illegal copperlist entries fixed, writes to DMACONR fixed, byte write to COPJMP2 fixed, writes to Beamcon0 disabled (Info)
- 2017-09-12 new: Home Alone (Capstone) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2017-09-11 improved: Megademo 2 (Darkness) another version supported (Info, Image)
- 2017-09-11 fixed: Sound of Music 7 (Cave) access fault fixed (Info, Image)
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17.Sep.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 78 (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 "Arabian Nights" and "Escape from Coldtiz" and the collection of files and documentation about scheince called "Weird Science: Out-of-the-Net".
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17.Sep.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.9.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) "is a program to explore and manipulate files, links and drawers of your Amiga."
In version 3.9.0 among others it is now possible to "explore archive content, while taking advantage of Dir Me Up features: list or icon view, filter, sort, preview, thumbnails, copy" and so on.
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16.Sep.2017
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Bitmap paint program: GrafX2
Artur Jarosik has released a new version of the SDL-based bitmap paint program GrafX2 which is inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Upon the request of amiga-news.de, Artur Jarosik wrote that this version is "based on newest sources 2.5WIP. Currently only RTG is available, I'll try AGA version later. FPU not required."
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16.Sep.2017
ANF
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Music: Soundtrack of forthcoming Amiworx game "Alex Zirconstar" available
In the fourth quarter of 2017, Patrick Nevian's "Amiworx Software" (e.g. "Tales of Gorluth") will release the game "Alex Zirconstar and the Escape from Planet Sina". Already now the soundtrack is available (Amazon, Google).
On Facebook it is said that purchasers of the soundtrack will get the music as MOD-files as well. Just send a screenshot or photography via email to Amiworx.
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13.Sep.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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FriendUP: François Lionet is working on an AMOS port
FriendUP is an Amiga inspired operating system which runs in the web browser (amiga-news.de reported). In a statement on Facebook, one of the developers, the French programmer François Lionet, has told that in his spare time he is working on a port for AMOS of FriendUP.
He wrote: "AMOS code (or ascii AMOS code) will be converted into Javascript calls to AMOS library, that will render the display in a Canvas. You will also be able to program directly in Javascript and call the AMOS library. It will accept real AMOS files, and convert images into PNGs, sounds into MPG or WAV etc. opening the door to the immense collection of AMOS PD games and apps."
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13.Sep.2017
A1k.org (Forum)
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Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #7 - Mamma Miga
In the seventh issue of the English-language podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland they have talked about the accelerator board Vampire 4.
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13.Sep.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 25 - Interview with Matthias Heinrichs
In the 25th issue of his podcast AmiCast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Matthias 'Matze' Heinrichs, who is the developer of different hardware projects , e.g. a clone of the graphics board Picasso II+ (amiga-news.de reported). On Aminet there is also a new version of the player "AmiCast player".
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10.Sep.2017
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: MUI class Epub.mcc 0.3
Carsten Siegner's Epub.mcc is a MUI class vor viewing ebooks of the EPUB format. The archive also includes two demo programs for viewing ebooks and svg files. In version 0.3 support for CSS was added which illustrates the following screenshot comparing Epub.mcc and OWB:
The CSS parser currently only interprets text styles, picture styles still are not implemented. According to Siegner pages which have been completely written SVG can be viewed without any problems.
Direct download: Epub_mcc.0.3.lha (160 KB)
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10.Sep.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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SDL support for Hollywood: RebelSDL 1.0
Press release: Summer's over and Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: RebelSDL. RebelSDL is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to use SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) from Hollywood. This makes it possible to write scripts that utilize the host system's graphics hardware to create high-performance, butter-smooth 2D animation that is produced completely in hardware by the GPU of your graphics board. This leads to a huge performance boost over the classic Hollywood graphics API which is mostly implemented in software for maximum portability and compatibility. Especially systems with slower CPUs (like the Raspberry Pi) will benefit greatly from hardware-accelerated drawing, scaling, and transformation offered by SDL.
RebelSDL transparently replaces Hollywood's inbuilt display handler with its own display handler managed by SDL. Whenever RebelSDL is activated, Hollywood displays are automatically mapped to SDL windows and hardware brushes are mapped directly to SDL textures so that they can be drawn, scaled, and transformed in an extremely quick way on all supported systems. This is especially useful on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux because Hollywood doesn't support hardware double buffers and hardware brushes on these platforms by default. With RebelSDL, however, hardware double buffers and hardware brushes can be used on these platforms now too. So RebelSDL can also act as a helper plugin here which adds this functionality to Hollywood without having you write a single line of SDL code to utilize it!
On top of that, RebelSDL offers wrapper functions for some useful commands of the SDL API, for example RebelSDL allows you to call SDL's joystick and game controller functions which are much more flexible than Hollywood's inbuilt joystick library. RebelSDL also allows you to access Hollywood hardware brushes as SDL textures and modify their properties via some dedicated SDL calls exposed by RebelSDL.
Finally, RebelSDL also replaces Hollywood's inbuilt audio driver with the audio driver offered by SDL. In contrast to the graphics driver SDL's audio driver probably doesn't have any advantage over Hollywood's inbuilt audio driver but by using it RebelSDL will turn your program into a complete SDL application which doesn't only use SDL for graphics output but also for audio output.
RebelSDL utilizes the new display adapter plugin interface introduced with Hollywood 6.0. It was actually written as a test case 3 years ago when Hollywood 6.0's display and audio adapter plugin interfaces were designed. Because RebelSDL uses these new Hollywood 6 plugin interfaces it will not work with any older versions of Hollywood. It requires at least Hollywood 6.0. Whenever RebelSDL is activated, all graphics and audio output will automatically be routed through SDL. To benefit from hardware-accelered drawing, however, Hollywood scripts have to follow some rules as described in the manual.
RebelSDL comes with extensive documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that contains information about how to use this plugin. The manual is also available online for quick access. On top of that, many example scripts are included in the distribution archive to get you started really quickly.
All of this makes RebelSDL the ultimate scripting experience for all you SDL rebels by combining the best of both worlds into one powerful plugin: Hollywood's extensive and convenient multimedia function set and SDL's raw graphics power!
Amiga users please note that currently only MorphOS is supported. There are no SDL2 ports for OS3 and AROS and the OS4 version of RebelSDL is currently on hold due to technical difficulties. The MorphOS version is also rather unstable but this is because MorphOS' SDL2 port seems to be in alpha state.
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10.Sep.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until September 9th, 2017:
irssi.lha comm/irc 2.3M MOS Terminal based IRC client
w3s_10sharp.lha comm/www 23K Small Webserver in ARexx
w3s228.lha comm/www 20K Small Webserver in ARexx
Freditor.zip dev/misc 262K 68k A graphics editor for game co...
Empty_ADF_files.lha disk/misc 11K Six empty ADF image files
amigaos40features.pdf docs/anno 498K AmigaOS 4.0 Feature List from...
GBAPIIplusplusDriver.zip driver/vid 8K 68k Driver/installer f. 2MB-GBAPI...
Freddy_Fish.zip game/actio 409K 68k Kids game: The Adventures Of ...
Magnatron.zip game/actio 345K 68k Unique physics based action game
Weasel_on_the_Go.zip game/actio 184K 68k 1989 clone of Monty on the Run!
Africa.lha game/board 290K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 334K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 338K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
Fortress.zip game/shoot 762K 68k Unfinished Fort Apocalypse clone
RNOComics.lha gfx/show 2.4M MOS Comic book reader
RNOComics_OS4.lha gfx/show 2.8M OS4 Comic book reader
CoolNESs_src.lha misc/emu 44K ASM sources for the Cool-NES-...
CoolNESs78.lha misc/emu 46K 68k Update to the Cool-NES-emulator
PeriodicTable.lha misc/sci 445K Periodic table (PageStream fo...
AMIcast_Player.lha mus/play 5.7M MOS AMIcast Player
GrabKickDisk.lha util/misc 44K 68k Disk for grabbing & savin...
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10.Sep.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until September 9th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
africa.lha gam/boa 338kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
rnocomics.lha gra/vie 3Mb 4.0 Comic book reader
metadatalib.lha lib/mis 43kb 4.0 Read some meta data information ...
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10.Sep.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until September 9th, 2017:
formido.i386-aros.zip gam/act 9Mb Topdown bug shooter.
zelda3t.i386-aros.zip gam/adv 5Mb Part of an independant SDL Zelda...
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10.Sep.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.09.2017
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 September 9th, 2017:
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10.Sep.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Image editor: Pintor Web 2.20
Juan Carlos Herran Martin (Morgue Soft) has released version 2.20 of Pintor Web which provides minor improvements and bug fixes. Pintor Web is a little Hollywood program providing simple picture editing functions like rotating, mirroring, inverting, sharpening or adding watermarks.
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09.Sep.2017
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Amiga disks on PC: ADF-Drive supports Amiga filesystems
ADF-Copy is an USB adapter which, connected to a ordinary PC disk drive, can read and write Amiga disks - provided that the disks are not copy-protected. The floppy port is connected to a Teensy 3.2 micro controller by using some jumpers controlled by the firmware of the micro controller.
The latest beta version of the firmware now also supports Amiga filesystems, that means, single files can be read and written. As usual a disks is provided to the Host-PC via Media Transfer Protocol. If the disks has been formated by the Amiga filesystem, additional to the disk drive DF0: - for formating or reading/writing of ADF-Images - another drive is registered with the name of the disk:
So far the following features are offered:
- Reading and writing files
- Creating directories and deleting empty ones
- Formating DF0:
- HD Disks should work, but they are very fragile, writes might fail
Not (yet) working:
- Deleting full directories
- Renaming files and directories
- Time and date of files
- Many operations do not work under Windows XP, it simply is too old. But the separate application ADF-Copy works fine under XP
- When writing an adf image with drag and drop on DF0: the Name of the filesystem drive isnt updating correctly
The author points out, that this software is a beta version. He recommends to enable write protection of the disks or zu work with test disks. And he wrote:"After a write access wait for the drive light to go off and the motor stop before removing the disk, due to avoid excessive disk access i use some methods to cache the track and write modified track only on track change or shortly before stopping the motor."
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09.Sep.2017
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Trademark disputes: yet another party wants to own "Amiga" (Update)
In the US and Germany, the registration for the "Amiga" trademark already expired. It's still a registered mark in the EU until May next year, but nobody really expects the current owner to ever do something with that registration again. As a result, Hyperion Entertainment (AmigaOS 4) and Cloanto (Amiga Forever) started fighting for various Amiga marks earlier this year.
Apparently, another competitor has entered the ring now: on August 30, somebody named Heinz-Alexander Drews applied to have the "Amiga" mark registered in his name at the German patent and trademark office. On the same day, using the same law firm, somebody -the applicant's personal details are not public yet - also filed an application for the same mark with the European Intellectual Property Office.
It's important to note that both the German and the European mark would collide with Amiga, Inc.'s existing EU trademark. In contrast to Cloanto - who only started the process to register the US "Amiga" mark in its name the day after Amiga Inc.'s original registration expired - Drews seems to count on the current owner of the mark not defending his IP - which gives him a head start, compared to other parties interested in inheriting the mark.
It's currently not clear if Heinz-Alexander Drews is connected to any companies or individuals in the Amiga market.
Update: (10.09.2017, 17:40, cg)
Another attempt at gaining control over some Amiga mark has been discovered: Back in march, Amikit-Developer Ján Zahurančík applied to have "Amiga" registered in his name in his home country Slovakia. The new application was published - i.e. approved - in early August. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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09.Sep.2017
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Nintendo emulator A/NES Pro 1.19
Version 1.19 of the Nintendo emulator A/NES Pro has been released. The ECS or AGA chipset and a 68020 processor is required but a faster processor is recommended. Changes:
- Screenmoderequester no longer causes a guru when aborted.
- Switched to AsmOne, Asm-Pro was causing issues with previous version.
- Bugfixed a previous optimization that caused problems (TLOZ)
- Minor cleanup
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08.Sep.2017
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Workbench history: Why was "Disk doctor" so spectacularly bad at its job?
In an article at auf amiga.org, Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel has explained, why "DiskDoctor" - known from the first generation of the Workbench - worked so bad and could not successfully repair disks. Since the middle of the 90ies Barthel has been working with the source codes of AmigaOS and was involved developing AmigaOS 3.5, 3.9 4.0 and 4.1.
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08.Sep.2017
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Status update: Web browser Netsurf under AGA (update)
In May it turned out that the current version of Artur Jarosik's SDL-based port of Netsurf could only be used with a graphics board. Daniel Reimann, an editor of amiga-news.de, has contacted Jarosik to find out how the development status is regarding a version supporting AGA - and received a current, AGA-compatible version of the browser.
In this version, which now also is available on the website of the author, about 70% of the starts of the program works fine and Netsurf can be used without any problems. The other 30% percent Netsurf can happen to start extremely slow or the screen stays black sometimes flickering blue and the lamp of the harddrive lights up continuously.
The following pictures show Netsurf with an AGA-scale of 71% (instead of the given 75%). Using this figure, most of the texts can be read without being cut. The third picture shows the MUI-based preferences which currently do not completely work: The options set in the "General" tab are not saved.
This version does not seem to be significantly faster but it is fun to look at the appearance and the typeface of Netsurf. Towards amiga-news.de Jarosik explained, that recently he has focused porting games but obviously also Netsurf is developed further occasionally. The AGA-version includes the same changes which are listed on the website of the author for the RTG-version.
Update: (21.09.2017, 06:20, dr)
Meanwhile Artur Jarosik has released two other beta versions of Netsurf 3.7 which fixes the auto-update bug under AGA as well as the problem that some options of the general preferences have not been saved. All those features now work fine. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Sep.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Comic archive viewer RNOComics 1.0
Like Comicami for AmigaOS 4, RNOComics is a comic book archive viewer for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 that can open almost any archive file, or a directory with unarchived images, and display the images in it in a GUI designed to read comics (screenshot).
Features:
- Supports CBR, CBZ, CBT, and any other archiving format XAD supports
- Unarchives images on the fly, no HD space or memory wasted
- Read ahead cache for the next page
- Can continue to the next archive file in a directory with a single command
- Can open directories with unarchived images and work as an image viewer
- MUI GUI with controls as buttons, menu items, and keyboard shortcuts
- Three different layout options: fit width, single page, and double page
- Fullscreen mode option
- Zoom option displays comic's pages at their intended maximum resolution
- Rotate options for portrait mode making viewing/reading easier
- History window with front page thumbnails and page memory
- Backwards reading options for manga comics
- Can save and export images
- Can create thumbnail icons for archives (MorphOS)
- Gamma correction options
- Drag & drop loading
- ARexx support
Download:
RNOComics.lha (MorphOS; 2 MB)
RNOComics_OS4.lha (3 MB) (snx)
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05.Sep.2017
AmigaFun (ANF)
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Emulation of Sam 460 using QEMU in development
According to a mail on the QEMU-PPC mailing list Zoltan Balaton is working on an emulation of a Sam-460 using QEMU. In the first status report (middle of August) he described that AROS as well as MorphOS could boot, but finally failed due to different problems. Balaton could not test AmigaOS, because he does not own a copy of AmigaOS 4.1 besitzt.
The emulator QEMU emulates or virtualizes alot of computers or processors. If the host system has a suitable processor, QEMU does not have to emulate it - so Balaton's project could succeed in emulating Sam 460 operating systems under different PPC hardware - e.g. Apple-Hardware .
On a common Windows-PC, QEMU would have to emulate the PPC-CPU, but would not have to emulate the complex custom chip emulation, which is currently required to run AmigaOS 4 "Classic" under WinUAE.
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04.Sep.2017
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Zorro 2 extension: IDE controller "IDE4"
THe French online shop Ameedia offers a new IDE-controller for Zorro-2 Amigas: To the "IDE4" up to four IDE/ATA-devices can be connected. Besides, a CompactFlash slot is on the card. The controller is compatible to Gayle, which in an A600 and A1200 controls the IDE-ports. If only one of the two IDE-ports is used, Kickstart 2.05 is required but no additional drivers. IDEfix is required for accessing the second port.
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04.Sep.2017
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Scandoubler: ScanPlus AGA
ScanPlus AGA is a simple scandoubler for AGA computers. The device has a VGA-port and a simple screensaver. The developer has published some pictures in his blog. Currently only Amedia Computer seems to offer the device.
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04.Sep.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 128
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 128 (September/October 2017) has been released today, it can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include an interview with Marcus Sackrow (MUIMapparium, FreePascal), big specials about Hollywood extensions and the demo scene as well as report about the Devcon 2.
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03.Sep.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 02.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until September 2nd, 2017:
OSCopperlist.lha dev/asm 4K 68k Copperlist on intuition screen
Epub_mcc.0.2.lha dev/mui 3.6M MOS A Epub MUI Class
Screech_src.lha game/race 1.5M Blitz Basic source for "Scree...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & ...
PPT_dev.lha gfx/conv 72K Develop your own modules for PPT
PPT_dist.lha gfx/conv 945K 68k A Modular Image Processing Pa...
PPT_security.lha gfx/conv 12K 68k Cryptographic modules for PPT
PPT-source.zip gfx/conv 870K C source for image processing...
Apdf_de.lha gfx/show 3K Unofficial German catalog for...
VPDF_de.lha gfx/show 1K Unofficial German catalog for...
rewincy.lha util/cdity 30K 68k Cycle through windows/screens...
zip_lib.lha util/libs 144K OS4 Library for reading/writing z...
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03.Sep.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until September 2nd, 2017:
coreutils.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 GNU core utilities
diffutils.lha dev/uti 586kb 4.0 File comparison tools
sed.lha dev/uti 354kb 4.0 sed (stream editor)
zip_lib.lha lib/mis 144kb 4.1 Library for reading/writing zip ...
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03.Sep.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until September 2nd, 2017:
mui_examples.i386-aros.zip dev/exa 449kb MUI coding examples in C
clicolor-1.4-aros.zip uti/she 23kb AROS dos script to switch shell ...
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[News message: 03. Sep. 2017, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
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03.Sep.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit X 10.3
The Workbench distribution AmiKit is meant for emulators and has more than 390 pre-configured programs. In version 10.3 the Boxx trilogy games of 'Lemming880' and Stephan Rupprecht's replacement of the info-command were added. Besides, a lot of programs have been replaced by updated versions.
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03.Sep.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.3
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free.
In version 3.3 a question was corrected and the Italian translation completed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. Sep. 2017, 05:46] [Comments: 0]
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03.Sep.2017
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: MUI class Epub.mcc 0.2
Carsten Siegner's Epub.mcc is a MUI class vor viewing ebooks of the EPUB format. The archive also includes two demo programs for viewing ebooks and svg files. In version 0.2 the performance was improved and hyperlinks and SVG support added. Additionally, ebooks which were created by Calimero, are fully supported.
Download: Epub_mcc.0.2.lha (4 MB)
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[News message: 03. Sep. 2017, 05:38] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.8.3
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) "is a program to explore and manipulate files, links and drawers of your Amiga." In version 3.8.3 among others an automatic update of the software was added.
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[News message: 02. Sep. 2017, 08:39] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Elbox: pci.library 12.0 and beta version 13.0
Under the title link Elbox has released two updates of his pci.library for users of the PCI-busboard Mediator.
"The pci.library ver. 12.0 allows to set the PCI space of Mediators working in the MMU mode as noncachable. It's controlled by Envarc:Mediator/NoCache variable."
Beta version 13.0 "supports additional PCI space for PCI processor cards in Mediator 1200 TX" (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 02. Sep. 2017, 08:27] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2017
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.28
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. He still is searching for support for the French translation. His work can be supported by a little donation from inside TAWS.
Changes of version 0.28:
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Tribute to AmiKit X: New preset "OS 3.9 AmiKitX" incl. boot animation. Accordingly there is a new window layout "3.9 AmiKitX" in "Preferences", a new iconset "AmiKit X", a new cursor "AmiKit X" and the new patterns "AmiKit X Backdrop". Many thanks to Jan Zahurancik (AmiKit) for granting the use of the graphics. Direct call using the url parameter "preset"
- Complete polish localisation - many thanks to 'Piana' Pianka
- Support for browser "SeaMonkey", even with about:config setting "general.useragent.compatmode.firefox" set to "false".
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ListBox:
- new look with the styles "Thin" and "Thin XEN"
- new look in "Amiga Early Startup Control / Boot Options" for OS 4.x
- scrollbar grabber with the OS4-style
- new look of arrow buttons for the "OS 3.9"-layout
- Chrome / Opera: improvement when determining the user language: it's no longer the browser language that is recognized but the actual prefered-by-user language.
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Bugfixes:
- Timberwolf stopped working since v0.25 ("Uncaught Exception" when trying to set the attribute "transform" on a CSS style). Implemented a workaround for that.
- Palette: setting the text color for inactive widows only worked once.
- Window gadgets where set to "active" on a mouse-up event issued by a drag'n'drop operation even when the window itself was inactive.
- Firefox: correction of the text padding to the color boxes in the listbox of the "Palette"
- Chrome / Opera in "Amiga Early Startup Control": correction of the border in "Expansion Board Diagnostic" and the buttons height
- Odyssey Web Browser: the boot image for OS 4.1 FE was not shown.
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[News message: 02. Sep. 2017, 08:09] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2017
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.
- July/August 2017 news
- Old articles from Tilt 100 to 103:
- Report: European Computer Trade Show 1992
- Hardware: Amiga 600
- Review of Addams Family
- Review of Ishar
- Report: CeBIT 1992
- Review of 4D Sports Driving
- Review of Space Ace 2
- Demo: Odyssey
- Review of Guerilla in Bolivia
- Review of Vroom
- Interview with Guillaume Dubail and Fernando Velez
- Review of James Pond 2
- Review of ProWrite 3.2.1
- Interview with Laurent Zorawski (Amedia Computer)
- Interview with Susumu Hirasawa (japanese musician)
- Review: Wazp3D 0.56 (on MorphOS)
- Review: Arabic Console 1.693
- Review: AmiKit X
- DIY: Create an Amstrad disk with an Amiga
- File: Classic Reflections - Whatever happened to Newtek?
- File: Official Amigas and clones (update)
- Hardware: Lorraine (update)
- Tutorial: Installation of Directory Opus Magellan II on MorphOS
- Programming: AMOS - colors management
- Tips and Tricks: solutions for adventure games
- Special quiz about Alien Breed series
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30.Aug.2017
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Interview: Artur Jarosik (NetSurf)
In the blog of the podcast AMIcast an interview with Artur Jarosik has been released. He has written the one of the ports of web browser Netsurf for AmigaOS 3.
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[News message: 30. Aug. 2017, 23:12] [Comments: 0]
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27.Aug.2017
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Daysleeper 1.0
The MorphOS user 'r-tea' has written a little program called Daysleeper, which the computer shuts down or starts to a certain time.
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[News message: 27. Aug. 2017, 16:24] [Comments: 0]
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27.Aug.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 26.08.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until August 26th, 2017:
rentp.lha comm/tcp 6K 68k Sets system time from NTP server
CS2017.lha demo/misc 110K 68k Old-school style demo
badformat.lha disk/misc 8K 68k Bad disk formatting utility
IDEFix_patches.lha driver/med 4K Allows CF cards to work with ...
WormWars.lha game/actio 817K 68k Advanced snake game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 722K MOS Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake game
InPAWS.lha game/edit 2.1M MOS Compiler/extractor for Gilsof...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
badberticon.lha pix/icon 10K 68k Bad Bert Icon
bk_rangercheck.lha util/boot 8K 68k Replace exec.library's Ranger...
MCP133b1.lha util/cdity 523K 68k THE Ultimate WB Enchancer!
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 672K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
Daysleeper_0-9-3.lha util/time 76K MOS Shutdown/reboot at specified ...
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27.Aug.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.08.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until August 26th, 2017:
coreutils.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 GNU core utilities
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
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27.Aug.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 26.08.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until August 26th, 2017:
blockattack.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 6Mb Match colors of rising blocks in...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Aug. 2017, 08:02] [Comments: 0]
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27.Aug.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.08.2017
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 August 26th, 2017:
- 2017-08-25 improved: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) adapted to WHDLoad 17, added CD32 controls (Info)
- 2017-08-25 improved: Loom (Lucasfilm Games) supports whdload v16/kickemu/kickfs (Info)
- 2017-08-25 improved: Impossible Mission 2 (Epyx) adapted to WHDLoad v16, reduced fastmem requirements (Info)
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27.Aug.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.2.1
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free.
From version 3.2.1 on now AskMeUp checks if there are updates and install them.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Aug. 2017, 08:02] [Comments: 0]
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26.Aug.2017
Bitterloop (Kommentar)
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Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 0.6.0a
FlashFloppy is an open source firmware alternative for the Gotek disk drive simulation (amiga-news.de reported).
Changes in version 0.6.0a:
- Allow PC Floppy Interface (DSKCHG on pin 34) to be selected via a
jumper at position JC. Default interface (no jumper at JC) remains
Shugart, as compatible with many non-PC systems including Amiga.
WARNING: 1.44MB (HD) disks are not yet supported. Only 720k (DD)
disks will currently work. HD support will arrive shortly
- Kingstener: Support narrower 7x16 OLED font. Allows entire display to be
visible through the 3-digit cutout in the Gotek case. This is a separate
firmware build, update file is in distribution subfolder alt/
- OLED reliability fixes
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25.Aug.2017
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MorphOS: Word processor Folio 1.0
Folio "is a word processing tool that utilizes web browser technologies to satisy basic word processing needs and to provide a user experience that is similar to long-established programs such as Microsoft WordPad and Apple TextEdit" (amiga-news.de reported).
Full list of changes:
- Added support for Odyssey Web Browser v1.24. Folio no longer requres v1.23 to run.
- Added support for locally installed fonts (including filtering of unsupported ones).
- Added User Interface Settings to enable users to adapt the application look so it can be made to fit seamlessly into anyone's personalized OS environment.
- Added ability to save a 'native' file format, which adds various application-specific properties but remains compliant with the HTML standard, thereby retaining full cross-platform compatibility.
- Added 'focus mode' to hide the application user interface during writing sessions via toolbar or repeatedly pressing F2. (Useful to remove distractions and to increase the visible content in smaller screen resolutions.)
- Added per-document settings.
- Added ability to scale down and up the document content. Note: Zooming in does degrade performance.
- Added ability to alter line heights. (Useful for moving text to the right place on a page.)
- Added ability to alter letter spacing.
- Improved printing & PDF export: Application UI should be hidden while exporting to PDF or printing via Odyssey Web Browser.
- Added HTML and MHT file export options for improved interoperability with all common office suites.
- Added (very) simple RTF file export.
- Added plain text file export.
- Added ability to run Folio from shell.
- Added ability to load native Folio documnents from shell. (folio yourdrive:yourfolder/yourfile.folio)
- Added Ambient Folio file type. (Folio checks for its presence and installs it if needed.)
- Added Ambient Folio document icon. (Folio checks for its presence and installs it if needed.)
- Replaced the program icon.
Download: folio_morphos_v1.lha (346 KB)
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23.Aug.2017
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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A600: Vampire HDMI mount/ESC VGA mount
Stefan Egger offers slf-made mounts for the HDMI port of a Vampire 600 and for the VGA port of an Indivision ECS. If you have removed the TV modulator from your Amiga 600, you can set up Egger's mount instead of it - the case has not to be changed. The Vampire version has a HDMI extension and is available for 15 Euro, but only as "limited quantity". The mount for the VGA port is available for 7,50 Euro, but according to Egger "the design has not yet been installed and therefore not tested."
For the VGA mount a STL file is available for free for printing the mount using a 3d printer.
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[News message: 23. Aug. 2017, 22:35] [Comments: 0]
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22.Aug.2017
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MUI class: Epub.mcc 0.1 (alpha)
Carsten Siegner's Epub.mcc is a MUI class vor viewing ebooks of the EPUB format. The archive also includes a demo program. The author points out that this is a very early alpha version. Features which are supported:
- Cover - pictures
- Directory
- HTML 4.01
- Authors - information (title, comments, subject,...)
Still not supported:
Direct download: Epub_mcc_0.1.lha (2,3 MB)
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21.Aug.2017
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FPGA graphics board: Driver and firmware 1.7 for the VA2000
Lukas 'mntmn' Hartmann has released another update of the firmware and driver for his FPGA-based graphics board VA2000. Additional to some bug fixes, an experimental autoconfig/autoboot function for the SD-card was added. Hartmann did it with a SanDisk SDHC 16 GB. Currently only the first 4GB are accepted as partition and there are crashes on a 68060 - slower processors work fine.
In order to integrate the card, you have to write two files on the card. This is described in autoboot/install.sh in the driver archive.
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20.Aug.2017
Heiko Schlomka (E-Mail)
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Music composed with Amiga: Calvin Harris - "I created Disco"
In an interview with musicradar.com, the Scottish DJ Calvin Harris has talked about his start as musician and descibed how he did produce electronic music with the A500 and later with the A1200. His first album, released in 2007, was called I created Disco - which among others got a top ten position in the British album charts - and was completely produced on an Amiga 1200. Quote Harris: "Why not? The Amiga did a great job!".
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20.Aug.2017
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Reading and writing Amiga disks on PC: ADF-Copy/ADF-Drive
ADF-Copy is an USB adapter which, connected to a ordinary PC disk drive, can read and write Amiga disks - provided that the disks are not copy-protected. The floppy port is connected to a Teensy 3.2 micro controller by using some jumpers controlled by the firmware of the micro controller.
In a previous version of the firmware the disk drive is controlled by a Windows application called "ADF-Copy", which can read or write back ADF-images on disks. Now a firmware update was released which is called "ADF-Drive" which registers to the PC using the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) and provides a disk drive "DF0". If the PC supports MTP, ADF-files can be created or write back via drag'n drop using the file manager of the operating system or a disk can be formatted. It is still possible to use the Windows application together with the latest version of the firmware.
The electrical diagram for connecting the floppy port to the micro controller, the windows tutorial as well as the firmware including the source code are available on the website of the developer Dominik Tonn. Currently Tonn is working on an implementation of the filesystem, which would make it possible to access single files on the disk.
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20.Aug.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.08.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until August 19th, 2017:
Bagman.lha game/jump 694K 68k Arcade "Bagman" remake
potrace-mos.lha gfx/conv 832K MOS Transform bitmaps into vector...
xroar.lha misc/emu 1.1M MOS Dragon and Tandy CoCo emulator
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 551K MOS Multipurpose utility
Hexaco_1.0.lha util/wb 842K 68k Color values as hex/dec/... (...
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[News message: 20. Aug. 2017, 09:23] [Comments: 0]
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20.Aug.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.08.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until August 19th, 2017:
awk.lha dev/lan 218kb 4.0 awk the text processing language
coreutils.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 GNU core utilities
diffutils.lha dev/uti 586kb 4.0 File comparison tools
sed.lha dev/uti 353kb 4.0 sed (stream editor)
potrace.lha gra/con 292kb 4.0 transform bitmaps into vector gr...
mpg123_lib.lha lib/aud 398kb 4.0 Library for decoding mpeg audio ...
pixman_lib.lha lib/gra 300kb 4.0 Pixman-1 as an AmigaOS shared li...
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[News message: 20. Aug. 2017, 09:23] [Comments: 0]
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20.Aug.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 19.08.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until August 19th, 2017:
fractures.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 4Mb Port of demo from Alternative '08.
greed.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 214kb Simple game to clear an ascii fi...
mindless.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 2Mb SDL "MasterMind" game with AI pl...
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20.Aug.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 19.08.2017
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 August 19th, 2017:
- 2017-08-17 improved: Odyssey (Audiogenic) trainer configurable on whdload splash screen, use kickemu instead of OSEmu, another version supported (Info)
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20.Aug.2017
Retroguru (ANF)
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Jump'n Run: Hermes - Run a la carte (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS)
Hermes developed by Retroguru is according to its own description "an extraordinary Jump'n' Run game with plenty of bad taste humour" (Youtube trailer).
Frank Wille has ported the game to AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, Yannick Erb to AROS. A version for Amiga is not planned because according to Wille the engine requires too high resources.
Hermes can be downloaded from the official website for free. If you want to support Retroguru you can purchase a CD for 15 Euro which additional to all ports of the game also includes the soundtrack and has a printed Hermes comic.
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19.Aug.2017
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AROS: Weekly progresses (since 11.07.2017)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS includes updates of some programs and bug fixes.
- Multiple compiler warnings fixed (neil)
- Use unified vapor.h header for morphos ports (wawa)
- Multiple compiler warnings fixed (wawa)
- Alternative repository for NetPBM added (neil)
- Zune test code enhanced (neil)
- VPDF fixes (neil)
- ReadArgs parameters adapted to OS3 API (neil)
- New Zunepaint port started (mazze)
- Potrace updated to v1.14 (mazze)
- ZuneView updated to v0.37 (mazze)
- BWBasic updated to v3.20 (mazze)
- Rocks'n'diamonds updated to v4.0.0.2 (mazze)
- Cflow updated to v1.5 (mazze)
- Antiword fixes (mazze)
- Zunepaint working in m68k now (wawa)
- Milkytracker for m68k fixes (wawa)
- GnuRobbo updated to v0.68 (mazze)
- Gnujump updated to v.10.8 (mazze)
- Fixed possible indefinite loop in iffparse.library (o1i)
- Grub2 configure fix (mazze)
- Doom GGC6 fixes (mazze)
- Fix for a potential division by zero crash in CoW3D (mazze)
- FryingPan fixes (mazze)
- Many Scout 64 bit fixes (mazze)
- Scout m68k fixes (wawa)
- Spout 64 bit crash fixed (mazze)
- NList GGC6 workaround (mazze)
- Cardgame 64 bit crash fixed (mazze)
- AmiChess fixes for 64 bit started (mazze)
- ISWindow, MineField, Soliton 64 bit fixes (mazze)
- Zune Toolbar class 64 bit fixes (mazze)
- Zune Prefseditr class 64 bit fixes (mazze)
- Identify.library path fix (mazze)
- DiskSpeed fixes (wawa)
- FryingPan m68k fixes (wawa)
- MuiMine ported to 64 bit (mazze)
- MuiMine m68k fix (wawa)
- PCRE updated to v8.41 (mazze)
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19.Aug.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 77 (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 "Apano Sin", "D.R.A.G.O.N. Force", "Shuffle", "Simon the Sorcerer" and "Xenon 2: Megablast".
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17.Aug.2017
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Elbox: New pictures of tower case BlackBOX 1200
According to Elbox in a post on amiga.org, the tower system "BlackBox 1200" is available again. The features have already been known since April, now some pictures have been added to the offer in the shop of Elbox.
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