04.Jun.2017
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop 2.2
On Christmas a preview version of Icaros Desktop 2.2 was released. Now the official main version 2.2 is available which provides "little and bigger enhancements like a complete new look, which involves both Magellan toolbars and decoration theme, and a completely new feature called HostBridge, which allows people running Icaros Desktop in a hosted environment to launch host applications along with (or instead of) AROS ones."
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[News message: 04. Jun. 2017, 07:49] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jun.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.6dev (beta)
Frode Solheim has released a new developer version 2.9.6 of the emulator FS-UAE providing the following changes:
Changes in FS-UAE 2.9.6dev:
- Changed default fade in/out duration, only fade in fullscreen
- FS-UAE default is now to show a 692×540 image, not stretched to fill screen
- Use scale = legacy to revert to old default behavior (can put in Host.fs-uae or use FS-UAE Launcher set set globally)
- New option scale (choose between full, integer, legacy and no scaling)
- New option stretch (replaces keep_aspect, though it still works)
- F11 is now a dedicated toggle auto zoom function, Alt/Cmd+Z cycles through zoom modes as before
- Render a frame around the view when not stretched (frame = 0 to disable)
- Cartridge freeze shortcut is now Alt/Cmd+C
- Alt/Cmd+A now toggles stretch mode (aspect correction)
- Imported updated translations from crowdin.com
In short, the default scaling/cropping behaviour has changed (though you may not see the change if you have specified certain scaling options). Also, the FS-UAE menu itself is being changed so it will work better on non-16:9 displays (not complete yet).
Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.9.6dev:
- Imported updated translations from crowdin.com
- Moved additional game databases to a separate settings page
Changes in FS-UAE Arcade 2.9.6dev:
- FS-UAE Arcade now defaults to fullscreen
- Run FS-UAE with window_border = 0 to reduce flickering on launch
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 03.06.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until June 3rd, 2017:
AFile_src.lha biz/misc 180K AFile source code
AGraph_src.lha biz/misc 70K AGraph source code
LiquidMIG.lha demo/intro 565K 68k LiquidMIG demo
ACCSources.lha dev/asm 8.9M 68k tutorial source file coll...
ARes_src.lha dev/lib 73K ARes source code
AFont_src.lha disk/bakup 82K AFont source code
AZap_src.lha disk/moni 105K AZap source code
AD516-AHI_src.lha driver/aud 39K AD516-AHI source code
anaiis.lha driver/oth 274K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.12
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 243K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ZeldaROTH.lha game/role 34M 68k Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire E...
FastECS_src.lha misc/emu 26K FastECS source code
ADoc_src.lha text/hyper 486K ADoc source code
ARoff_src.lha text/print 48K ARoff source code
ShellUpdate.lha util/boot 131K 68k Update Os 3.9 BB2 Shell to 45...
ClipRdWr.lha util/cli 8K 68k read+write text from/to any c...
ClipRdWr_src.lha util/cli 17K ClipRdWr source code
HideWBTitle.lha util/cli 11K 68k toggle Workbench's titlebar o...
HideWBTitle_src.lha util/cli 11K HideWBTitle source code
UnixCmd_src.lha util/cli 69K UnixCmd source code
ATbl_src.lha util/misc 53K ATbl source code
CatScan.lha util/misc 8K 68k CatScan - .ct creation utility
NoDelete_src.lha util/misc 303K NoDelete source code
ProtectGUI.lha util/misc 24K 68k GUI for setting a file's prot...
ProtectGUI_src.lha util/misc 47K ProtectGUI source code
lzip.lha util/pack 224K MOS Data (de)compressor like gzip...
AUSH_src.lha util/shell 104K AUSH source code
ohac.lha util/time 50K 68k OHAC - Oh Heck, Another Calen...
ohac_src.lha util/time 54K OHAC source code
RepetitaIuvant.lha util/wb 1.6M OS4 Cycles messages in a window p...
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04.Jun.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 03.06.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until June 3rd, 2017:
sdl2_sdk.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 for d...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
sdl2_user.lha lib/mis 2Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 for u...
repetitaiuvant.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Cycles messages in a window peri...
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04.Jun.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 03.06.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until June 3rd, 2017:
r2z.i386-aros.lha gam/mis 1Mb with online highscore
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04.Jun.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 03.06.2017
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 June 3rd, 2017:
- 2017-05-30 updated: Blood Money (Psygnosis) RawDIC imager, PAL/NTSC detection fixed (music should always play at correct speed now), 68000 quitkey support, high score load/save added, trainers added, intro can be skipped with CUSTOM1, blitter wait patches can be disabled with CUSTOM3, new install script, source code included (Info)
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01.Jun.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Gotek/HxC: Adapter for using a floppy emulator as external drive
If you want to use a floppy emulator just like Gotek or HxC as external drive ;- thus avoiding changes on the Amiga case;- you need a corresponding adapter. The Polish developers of Sakura IT has made available documents for constructing such an adapter at Github. The adapter is used in the external disk drives of the developers.
In a Youtube video an user has recorded, how such an adapter could look like - including a self-made 23-Pin-Sub-D plug.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jun. 2017, 23:43] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jun.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.22 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The latest version of Thomas Wenzel's audio player AmigaAMP provides some minor improvements:
- Added URLIdentifier and Description to Application info
- Show requester when ReAction classes can't be opened
- Fixed broken plugin menu in ReAction mode after rescanning
- Added support for multimedia keys
- Updated spanish catalog
- Adapted code for AmigaOS 4.1 FE SDK 53.30
- Added full path to current file to streaminfo/trackinfo structure so that plugins can make use of it
- Fixed greyed out menus for info and playlist
- Fixed bug when loading skins with missing equalizer and playlist bitmaps
- Replaced connection popup window with info in title bar (reaction) or info line (skin mode)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jun.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 3.5.0
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE present a short preview to the changes of the next version. WinUAE 3.5.0 is supposed to be released in the middle of June and will provide the following improvements:
New features:
- Softfloat FPU emulation mode. Bit perfect FPU emulation (except transcendental functions), including full arithmetic exception support. (Co-operation with Previous emulator author)
- Lightpen emulation absolute coordinate HID (USB light guns) and touch screen device support.
- American Laser Games second player and Actionware dual light gun adapter emulation.
- Real harddrive mount lock option. Enables full exclusive access even if drive has Windows mounted FAT partition(s).
- winlaunch.lib is now built-in feature and is also 64-bit compatible.
- Show [Paused] in windowed mode title bar when in pause mode.
- If statefile is loaded with one or more floppy images that can’t be opened: keep fake disk in drive (like previously) and ask for new disk path when missing disk is accessed for the first time.
New emulated features of the chipset:
- AGA FMODE>0 unaligned bitplane and sprite pointer behavior is now accurate.
- BPLCON4 XOR mask special case in HAM6/8 or EHB modes.
- Loading blitter B-DAT manually when B-shift was nonzero.
- Lightpen hardware is now cycle-exactly emulated.
- Sprite special case when DMA mode sprite’s start X-coordinate is less than sprite’s DMA slot position.
- Audio interrupts are delayed by 2 cycles.
Improvements of existing features:
- 68020+ T0 trace mode is now fully emulated.
- 68020 cycle exact mode adjustments.
- Memory cycle exact mode mode accuracy improved
- Implemented previously unimplemented bsdsocket.library emulation sendmsg() and recvmsg().
- Recursive mode ROM scanner now skips directories starting with dot.
- MMU emulation can be now switched on/off on the fly.
- Release all currently pressed keys when emulation pauses.
- Added memory cycle-exact Quickstart step for A1200 and CD32 configurations. Less CPU heavy than full cycle-exact and usually not much more worse (or better). At least not until 68020 CE gets better.
Fixed bugs:
- FM801 16-bit audio corruption.
- A2090 ST-506 emulation.
- Possible crash when display was very wide with bitplane DMA overrun condition.
- Fixed crash when sound card audio play started and channel mode was mono and “Include CD and FMV audio” was ticked.
- Fixed crash when accessing accelerator board SCSI IO region without any added SCSI device(s).
- Fixed crash if Blizzard accelerator on board memory size was set to zero.
- JIT was not 512k or 1M Chip RAM compatible.
- Manual RAM configuration GUI didn’t accept smaller end address than current board size.
- Manually configured but disabled (size zero) Z2/Z3 banks were added to system.
- Apollo 1240/1260 memory address space fixed
- PC bridgeboard NE2000 boot crash fix.
- Windowed mode mouse does not anymore hit hidden barriers if window is partially outside of desktop or uncaptured if window is on top of task bar.
- If Custom autoconfig board order was enabled, expansion devices custom config setting(s) was not saved correctly.
- 68000 address error stacked PC was not correct in some read-modify-write instructions
- Untrap middle mouse button option was stuck.
- GUI listview column width calculation used default font size, not selected font.
- 68030 CE/prefetch mode cache access bug fixed.
- G-REX and Cirrus Logic graphics board state was reset if RAM or HW Info GUI panels were opened after emulation was started.
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31.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video interview with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON)
During the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 2017, the Youtube channel "TheGuruMeditation" has recorded an interview with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON). In the video, which lasts about 23 minutes, Dickinson has talked about the AmigaOne computers and the A.L.I.C.E. laptop, which he presented at the festival, about his goals with A-EON and his passion about the Amiga.
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[News message: 31. May. 2017, 22:08] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2017
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US trader stopped cooperation with A-EON/Amigakit
A message on the homepage of the webshop of the US trader "Amiga On The Lake" (AOTL), which was opened in September last year, informs, that they will "no longer support A-EON or AmigaKit in any way, shape or form."
This step is not justified by the maintainer of the shop in any way. It is only refered to "experience during the last 8 months in regards to both companies." In many forums it is speculated, that the sudden termination of cooperation is related to the price setting of Amigakit: Actually three days ago before the publication of the message of AOTL, AmigaKit did offer X5000 full systems for the first time - this offer was not gone public by Amigakit itself but was reported by users.
While Amigakit explained in a thread on amiga.org, that they will not comment any discussions with partner in public, at Amitopia some lines from a statement of Trevor Dicksinson were quoted: According to that, all traders - including Amigakit - are delivered by A-EON offering same conditions to all. Amigakit sells the systems for the price which A-EON recommends in adverts since last October for a basic system. Any webshop is free to offer systems to a higher price which are better equipped.
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30.May.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Weekly progress (since 23.05.2017)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS includes improvements of the processor type detection and of the lowlevel.library under AROS/68k.
- .dbg files are now ignored by AROS (Kalamatee)
- Lowlevel.library m68k work continues (Kalamatee)
- GFX Bitmap-Class optimization (Kalamatee)
- M68k type detection / optimizations (Kalamatee)
- Fix undefined Locale's loc_MeasuringSystem (pollux)
- Intuition Screen fixes (Kalamatee)
- Apollo'080 detection (Kalamatee, twilen)
- MUI window class compatibility enhanced (neil)
- Run setpatch from startup-sequence (Kalamatee)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2017
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FPGA accelerator board: Vampire available in shops
Since about a year the Vampire accelerator boards have been no longer manually put together which made it more expensible but also enabled mass production. Therefore meanwhile diverse shops can be delivered: Relec (Switzerland) and Amigakit (Great Britain) offers the accelerator board - although AmigaKit has announced that the "initial batch quickly sold out within a few hours."
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30.May.2017
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Beat'em Up: Else we get mad! (playable preview)
"Else we get mad" (video) is a Beat'em Up developed by Amiga Wave (e.g. Retro Wars) which is an homage to the actors Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.
Else we get Mad! runs on each Amiga with 512 KB memory, a single and two player mode is offered. Recently a playable preview was released which shows a complete level.
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[News message: 30. May. 2017, 16:48] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Graphics ripping: Maptapper 0.8.4
Maptapper is a Windows application "used to rip graphics and maps from Amiga games". WinUAE saves a so called "save state" of a game, which Maptapper can browse. There is a detailed online and video tutorial on the website of the developers which explains the usage of the program.
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[News message: 30. May. 2017, 16:34] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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3D print: Vampire mount for Amiga 600
An user of a Vampire has created a mount, which fixes the FPGA accelerator board within an A600. It consists of two frames:
Both frames can be printed with a 3D printer. Corresponding templates are available at Thingiverse.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. May. 2017, 16:27] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2017
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.4.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. Version 3.4.0 provides a lot of improvements:
- Arexx, Shell or Python scripts run with a simple double-click (no parameter used). If you want to use files or drawers as a parameter, use the "Apply a script" button.
- Rename / Renamed items remain selected. A new positioning is done if needed.
- List view / When calculating the size of a drawer, the size is now also displayed in the list.
- List view / Commented or managed items remain selected after processing.
- Icon view / Preview area updated if the comment or attributes of an element change.
- Bookmarks / Drawer creation is now also possible when the bookmarks are displayed.
- About / Information added about the Amiga used (processor, installed memory, ...).
- Preview / When one or more drawers are selected, the preview image is a drawer (generic image before).
- "Error" or "Question" windows / Image added to show the type of request.
- Copy - Move / Copied or moved items are selected after processing.
- Location / If the last location visited was no longer accessible, an information message appeared many times: fixed.
AmigaOS 4.1 FE specific:
- "Location" menu - Bookmarks / "Create link" and "Create text file" options enabled, even when the list of bookmarks is displayed.
- "Location" menu / "Copy path to clipboard" option added to copy the current path to the clipboard.
- "Location" menu / "Print tree view" option added to build the tree view of current location in a text file.
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28.May.2017
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #34 - The Bolo Museum's Yves Bolognini
Scene World Podcast #34 interviews Yves Bolognini, founder of the Bolo Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. The museum's staff are working to preserve and display the history of computers. (snx)
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28.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Shadow Of The Beast II - Title (Chillout Edit)
- Blue Berry (Cover) Darkman007
- Turrican II - The Desert Rocks (Trance/Dance Remix)
- SLL1 Remix v2
- Lizardking's Theme (Epic Transition)
- A Final Hyperbase
- Leander - World One
- Once in a life (Turrican3 End Theme) (Psyria Reconstruction Edit)
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28.May.2017
A1k.org (Forum)
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OpenStreetMap viewer: MUIMapparium 0.4
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 0.4 of his MUI port of the OpenStreetMap viewer Mapparium. MUIMapparium is available for all Amiga systems, but the version for AmigaOS-4 has not been tested.
New:
- Basic Plot module for Trackcurves (Height, slope, speed)
- Plot popupmenu, Zoom, Data Readout
- Support for imperial units
- in-map GUI (Zoom In/Out, Side Panel)
- OS4 mouse wheel
- Keybinding for map (+,-, cursor keys)
- Bugfix: AROS disabled Edit
- BugFix: Amiga redrawing error
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28.May.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 27th, 2017:
irssi.lha comm/irc 2.3M MOS Terminal based IRC client
nfs-handler.lha comm/net 9K 68k NFS handler using bsdsocket.l...
LiquidMIG.lha demo/intro 548K 68k LiquidMIG demo
CubicIDE_HW70.lha dev/hwood 787K 68k Hollywood add-on for Cubic IDE
Hollywood_SDK.lha dev/hwood 2.3M Plugin development kit for Ho...
HWP_GLGalore.lha dev/hwood 3.3M MOS Allows OpenGL scripting with ...
KeepPrivate.lha dev/misc 15K 68k KeepPrivate - header/autodocs...
KeepPrivate_src.lha dev/misc 4K KeepPrivate source code
MUI2HTML.lha dev/mui 11K 68k MUI2HTML converter program
MUI2HTML_src.lha dev/mui 2K MUI2HTML source code
AmigaPower.lha docs/lists 75K aMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Mag ...
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 40K 68k Mediator driver Sonnet 7200 G...
HungryHarry.adf game/actio 880K 68k A 1992 pacman clone with five...
OpenTyrian.lha game/actio 49M 68k Reimplementation of DOS game ...
bsaog.lha game/shoot 792K 68k Blake Stone Aliens of Gold
bsps.lha game/shoot 199K 68k Blake Stone Planet Strike
chocolate-doom.lha game/shoot 2.0M MOS Chocolate Doom
crispy-doom.lha game/shoot 988K MOS Crispy Doom
eduke32.lha game/shoot 2.1M MOS EDuke32
gloom-cd32xmen-adf.zip game/shoot 744K 68k CD32X-men: Mind Games - Gloom...
berusky.lha game/think 8.1M 68k Sokoban-style puzzle game
vicV0.65_src.lha misc/emu 48K Vic 20 Emulator source code
flac.lha mus/misc 724K MOS Free Lossless Audio Codec - C...
A4000Diob.lha pix/3dobj 1.9M Imagine: Amiga 4000D model w/...
AP58Covers.lha pix/misc 280K aMiGa=PoWeR n?58 Cover Recto
WWorth_fincats.lha text/dtp 27K Wordworth 3SE,4SE & 7 Fin...
EvenMore.lha text/show 340K 68k V0.91: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 428K MOS V0.91: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 421K OS4 V0.91: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
TextSee.lha text/show 26K 68k Text Viewer for AmigaOS 1.x
p7zip.lha util/arc 759K MOS 7za file archiver with high c...
SWitch_src.lha util/boot 8K SWitch source code
WindowDirect_src.lha util/cdity 5K WindowDirect source code
uaemremover.lha util/dir 15K 68k Remove junk files created by ...
workbenchexplorer.lha util/dir 1.6M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
TinyLauncher.lha util/misc 110K 68k WHDLoad frontend and more
listwindows.lha util/wb 7K 68k lists open screens/windows fr...
R2Z_68k.lha util/wb 1.3M 68k Test your reaction times
R2Z_AROS.lha util/wb 1.5M x86 Test your reaction times
R2Z_MOS.lha util/wb 1.4M MOS Test your reaction times
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28.May.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 27th, 2017:
resrc4_cmd.lha dev/mis 33kb 4.1 MC680x0 Disassembler
freespacedemo.lha gam/act 29Mb 4.1 Demo of the amazing space-combat...
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 64kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
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28.May.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 27.05.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until May 27th, 2017:
blockattack.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 6Mb Match colors of rising blocks in...
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28.May.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 27.05.2017
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 May 27th, 2017:
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25.May.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Weekly progress (since 16.05.2017)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS includes work on 68k components and another update of the Autodocs.
- Gifanim datatype descriptor added (Kalamatee)
- Autodocs updated (mazze)
- AddDataTypes target CPU awareness added (Kalamatee)
- Cia.h defines added (Kalamatee)
- Lowlevel.library m68k timer support added (Kalamatee)
- KrnIsSuper m68k optimized (twilen)
- m68k workarounds for bad software (Oktagon controller) added (twillen)
- m68k rom init fixes (twilen)
- Developer files for InstallAROS fixed (neil)
- New mirrors for third party code added (neil)
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25.May.2017
Project Paula (ANF)
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Music: Project Paula - A synthwave/cyberpunk tribute to the Amiga
Project Paula released a new album of remixes from classic Amiga games by various Synthwave producers (e.g. Volkor X, Fixions, Master Boot Record) is now available on Bandcamp. Titles are Apydia, Flashback, Speedball 2, Shadow of the Beast, Jim Power, Hybris, Lotus III, Battle Squadron, Turrican 3, Unreal, One Step Beyond and Dune. The album has a pay-what-you-want policy with no minimum price. (snx)
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24.May.2017
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AnimWebConverter 2.75
AnimWebConverter is a little tool for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS written with Hollywood, which can convert IFF animations of the Anim or Yafa format into animated GIF and PNG files. Changing the size of the pictures is possible as well. In version 2.75 some bugs have been fixed.
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[News message: 24. May. 2017, 23:25] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2017
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Interview: Glenn Keller, Amiga Paula Chip Designer
On the ocassion of the last "Vintage Computer Festivals", the Youtube channel "TheGuruMediation" has interviewed the former Amiga developer Glenn Keller. Keller has designed the Amiga-Custom-Chip "Paula", which controls audio playback, floppy disk drive control, serial port input/output and joystick.
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24.May.2017
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Amiga Future: Issue 103 can be read online
Issue 103 (July/August 2013) of the printed magazine Amiga Future is sold out, you can read the German and English edition of the magazine online (picture files). You also can buy a PDF-version.
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24.May.2017
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AmigaOS 4: File browser Workbench Explorer 1.2
Mark Ritter's Workbench Explorer (WEx) is a file browser for AmigaOS 4. Its preview function can show pictures, GIF-animations and read texts but also can play music files of the mp3 format. Version 1.2 provides bug fixes and some minor improvements.
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24.May.2017
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Compiler: vbcc 0.9f, sponsored by Individual Computers
vbcc ist ein C-compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific adaptions). The compiler supports AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, PowerUp as well as WarpOS. "It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99)." Frank Wille gave thank to Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers), who now sponsors the m68k-AmigaOS port of the compiler. He wrote: "This does not only help us to continue supporting and improving this port but it also allows us to relax the terms of use for the Amiga-68k community. Everyone may now freely use vbcc to develop 68k-AmigaOS code for commercial as well as non-commercial usage."
News in vbcc 0.9f:
- Changed licenses concerning commercial usage for AmigaOS/68k
- Power-of-two optimizations
- Warn when truncating constants
- Warn on hexadecimal escape sequence overflow
- Fixed some shortcut-optimzations that were calculating an expression in the target type even if that was larger due to casts
- Fixed -deps dependency generation for including local header files
- New option -no-cpp-warn to turn off all preprocessor warnings
- Fixed gcc-compatibility of #pragma pack() and documented it
- Fixed bug with CSE trying on non-scalars
- New config files for residentable programs and minimal startup codes (e.g. aos68kr and aos68km)
- m68k: Struct copy was using byte-copy also for aligned data
- m68k: Some addressing mode fixes with Dn.W displacement
- m68k: Constants in -sd mode are put into the code section by default and into the small data section when -const-in-data is specified
- vclib/atari: Fixed problem with receiving a trash-character on stdin
- vclib/amiga: Include missing cia protos and inlines
- vclib/amiga: New startup code and linker support for residentable programs
- vclib/amiga: More C99 math functions
- vclib: New target m68k-kick13 (Kickstart 1.x with 1.x OS headers)
- vclib: New target m68k-jaguar (Atari Jaguar)
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24.May.2017
Murakami (ANF)
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Printed magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 58 (French)
Since 1998 the French printed magazine aMiGa=PoWer has been published by the Association Française du Libre Essai (AFLE). Among others issue issue 58 offers reviews of the video player Emotion, the Enhancer Software Pack and Flower Pot. There are also reports about Gmail with Odyssey, UAE under MorphOS as well as Mist versus Minimig.
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22.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: GL Galore 1.1
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present GL Galore 1.1, the ultimate OpenGL® scripting solution for Hollywood! This is a major update which introduces Unicode support (requires at least Hollywood 7), support for the Raspberry Pi (needs at least a Raspberry Pi 2), and support for 64-bit architectures on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. On top of that, GL Galore 1.1 also introduces a modern joystick API which allows you to query joysticks with more than two buttons and axes. Finally, GL Galore also contains direct online help now for people using the Hollywood 7 IDE on Windows.
GL Galore is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to access the OpenGL 1.1 command set directly from Hollywood. This makes it possible to write scripts that utilize the host system's 3D hardware to create high-performance, butter-smooth 2D and 3D animation that is computed 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 will benefit greatly from hardware-accelerated drawing offered by OpenGL.
OpenGL is a portable software interface to graphics hardware. It is available for almost every platform in a variety of flavours. On AmigaOS and compatibles, OpenGL is available as MiniGL on AmigaOS 4, TinyGL on MorphOS, StormMesa on AmigaOS 3, and Mesa 3D on AROS. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems are usually shipped with an OpenGL driver already installed.
GL Galore offers wrapper functions for most commands of the OpenGL 1.1 API including many GLU functions. Additionally, GL Galore also offers bridging functions that allow you to convert Hollywood brushes into OpenGL textures and vice versa. Furthermore, when GL Galore is activated, Hollywood's hardware brushes and hardware double-buffers are mapped directly to OpenGL so that you can even benefit from hardware accelerated drawing and transformation without writing a single line of GL code. Whenever GL Galore is activated, all graphics output will automatically be routed through OpenGL.
GL Galore can also be useful for rapidly prototyping software in OpenGL. People who used to program OpenGL using C will greatly appreciate Hollywood's convenient multimedia API which offers functions for almost all common tasks. For example, by using GL Galore to write OpenGL programs you can avoid all the hassle of managing a GL window using one of the many different toolkits out there. Also, jobs like image loading, sound or video playback, font handling and image manipulation will become ridiculously easy thanks to Hollywood's powerful command set which covers over 700 functions. And of course, there aren't 14 different versions of commands like glColor, but just one version because sometimes less is more.
GL Galore is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ Versions for AmigaOS 3 (FPU required), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86,x64), Mac OS X (ppc, x86, x64) and Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64) are provided. On top of that, GL Galore comes with over 250 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM. Finally, many impressive example scripts are included in the distribution archive to get you started really quickly.
All of this makes GL Galore the ultimate OpenGL scripting experience combining the best of both worlds into one powerful plugin: Hollywood's extensive and convenient multimedia function set and OpenGL's raw graphics power!
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21.May.2017
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit X
The Workbench distribution AmiKit, which is meant for emulators, now is available as version 10 ("X") for the notebook "A.L.I.C.E." (A-EON Technology) which was announced two years ago and introduced in a preview video last year but still is not available.
Among others the performance was sped up, stability improved and a new version 4.8 of AfA_OS added.
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21.May.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 20th, 2017:
SMBMounter.lha comm/net 261K 68k SMBFS Frontend GUI / Commodity
vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 343K WOS POSIX compatibility library f...
Koules.lha game/actio 240K 68k Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Koules_OS4.lha game/actio 221K OS4 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
KoulesMOS.lha game/actio 234K MOS Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 420K MOS V0.91: Freeware Textviewer (M...
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 537K MOS Multipurpose utility
listwindows.lha util/wb 6K 68k lists open screens/windows fr...
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21.May.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 20th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
koules.lha gam/act 221kb 4.0 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
aos-iconsupdate.lha gra/ico 5Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
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19.May.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.3.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. Version 3.3.0 provides a lot of improvements:
- Last visited location saved to automatically load it the next run
- Soft or hard links creation ("refresh volumes" button used, [Amiga]+[K])
- The list of volumes and the current location are refreshed when uniconifying Dir Me Up
- Bookmarks / When a bookmark is added, a notification is now displayed rather than a window (except for the first one)
- Bookmarks / The "remove" button is no longer displayed when the list is empty
- Filter / If only one item results from the filter, it is automatically selected (and previewed if necessary)
- Filter / If the filter did not produce any results and the "Home" or "End" keys were pressed, a run-time error occurred: fixed
- Link preview / the type (soft or hard) is now displayed
- Soft link to a drawer did not work: fixed
- Hard link did not work: fixed
- Location / Italian translation fixed
The following new features require AmigaOS 4.1 FE:
- "Location" menu:
- "Remove bookmark" option has been added
- "Create link" option added
- "Create Text File" option added to create a text file in the current location
- "Add to bookmarks" and "Create drawer(s)" options inverted
- "File" menu:
- "File/Send to" sub menu:
- "Editor" option added: opens the selected file(s) under the defined editor
- "Multiview" option added: opens the selected file(s) under Multiview
- "E-mail" option added: opens your e-mail client (YAM or SimpleMail) and creates a message with the selected file(s) as an attachment
- Bookmarks / When adding a favorite via the keyboard shortcut ([Amiga]+[B]), the action was done twice and generated an information message: fixed
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19.May.2017
Amigafuture (ANF)
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Descent: Freespace as download / Update for AmigaOS 4.1
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the space-combat simulation Descent: Freespace (also known as "Descent: Freespace - The Great War", "Conflict: Freespace - The Great War", "Freespace - The Great War") for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition from the direct downloads section of our website.
Customers can now choose between two formats of this amazing game:
- a purely digital version at a price of only EUR 14.95 incl. VAT (may very depending on your local taxes) for download in our restricted download area,
- or buy a boxed version (boxed version only includes AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS version, the AmigaOS 4.1 version is available for download after registration on our website) at their preferred Amiga dealer.
The downloadable content consists of an image of the original CD for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and an archived game drawer for AmigaOS 4.1 including all languages and manual.
Purchasers get a serial number inside their box or by email to register their purchase at our website in order to get access to our restricted download area for the game archive, the original ISO image as well as potential future updates. For a first look, free demo versions are available from the public download area.
The updated version for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition includes among others:
- compatibility with Southern Islands based Radeon cards
- uses MiniGL texture compression if available
- tons of game bugfixes including a fully playable tutorial
For existing customers of Descent: Freespace the updated AmigaOS 4.1 version is available free of charge after registering their genuine copy with their free Hyperion account on our website.
Descent: Freespace - The Great War is the highly acclaimed space-combat simulator from Volition/Interplay and offers an unparalleled mix of top-notch graphics for its time, plot and game-play. It is widely considered one of the best space-combat simulators ever and gained lots of kudos from all important game magazines. The game was originally released in 2001 for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and in December 2004 for AmigaOS 4 by Hyperion Entertainment CVBA. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.May.2017
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Hyperion attacking Cloanto's Amiga trademarks on a broad front (update 2)
It looks as if Cloanto's registration of the 'Amiga' mark filed in January in the USA will be contested by Hyperion: After the Belgium based company's attempts to register its own trademarks 'AmigaOS' and 'AmigaOne' failed, Hyperion now filed a request for extension of time to file opposition against Cloanto's mark. This is usually the initial step when trying to file opposition, so the United States Patent and Trademark Office is now listing Hyperion as a potential opposer.
Hyperion's application for registration of the trademarks 'AmigaOne' and 'AmigaOS' was primarily rejected due to 'likelihood of confusion' with Cloanto's recently registered Amiga trademark. It's possible that Hyperion is going to turn that argument around by trying to declare Cloanto's trademark illegitimate for being too similar to Hyperion's marks 'AmigaOne' and 'AmigaOS' - which are not registered but have been commercially used for years.
Update: (19.5.2017, 16:45, cg)
Yesterday, Hyperion went one step further: The EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) received an application for registration of the 'Amiga Forever' mark - not from Cloanto though, who's been using that mark in commerce for two decades, but from Monard Law, the law firm Ben Hermans works for. Hermans had created an account on amiga-news.de just recently, to point out (German) that use in commerce does not neccessarily equal ownership of the mark in all areas of this world.
Update 2: (19.5.2017, 23:00, cg)
Apparently Hyperion is also trying to attack Cloantos 'Workbench' mark: The Italian company had registered said mark - the US version of which they own since 2011 - with the EUIPO earlier this year. Just a few days ago, Hyperion - or rather, Ben Hermans employer Monard Law - has applied for the very same 'Workbench' trademark. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 09.05.2017)
Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week:
- Adapt code for const TagItem changes (neil)
- Network card improvements (neil)
- Debug build now stores debug info in .dbg files (Kalamatee)
- InitKickMemDiag fixed (twilen)
- ROM image size check added (Kalamatee)
- Amiga-m68k ROM fixes, A1200 should boot again (twilen)
- M68k ROM size optimization (Kalamatee)
- CD-startup improvements (Kalamatee)
- Add separate gifanim datatype descriptor)
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15.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.2
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 3.2 diverse translations have been completed and updated and some questions reworked.
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15.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 7.0 Addons
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 7.0. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
- Hollywood Player 7.0 for all supported platforms (also available for your smartphone/tablet on Google Play)
- Hollywood SDK 7.0 for developing your own plugins (includes examples and over 350 pages of documentation in various formats)
- Hollywood 7.0 add-on for Cubic IDE (kindly provided by Michael Jurisch)
- Hollywood 7.0 wordfile for UltraEdit
- Hollywood 7.0 online reference manual (over 900 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
- Hollywood SDK 7.0 online reference manual (over 350 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
The release of these add-ons completes the Hollywood 7.0 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal for download and more information.
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15.May.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP stack: bugfixed version of the ping command for Roadshow
Earlier this month Roadshow 1.13 was released. The updated "ping" command to ship in this release was found to contain a serious bug which could cause it to crash. The demonstration and retail versions of Roadshow 1.13 as well as the update archive that upgrades version 1.12 to 1.13 have been updated and now contain the repaired "ping" command. (cg)
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14.May.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 13th, 2017:
PhxAss_src.lha dev/asm 380K PhxAss 4.46 source code
PhxLnk_src.lha dev/asm 49K PhxLnk 4.32 source code
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha dev/hwood 4.7M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
regina.pdf dev/lang 3.5M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
gcp_device.lha driver/pri 1.4M OS4 Google Cloud Print driver (gc...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
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 4.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Apple2000v13_src.lha misc/emu 119K Apple2000v1.3 source code
Liisa1.adf misc/math 880K 68k determine prime factors + mis...
Liisa2.adf misc/math 880K 68k miscancellous programs
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha pix/picon 8.8M Game icons in OS4.1 Update 1 ...
WorkbenchExplorer.lha util/dir 1.5M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
cranker.lha util/pack 341K 68k Amiga executable and data cru...
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14.May.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 13th, 2017:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha gra/ico 9Mb 4.0 s0y gameicons 2017
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 581kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
wex_ita.lha uti/wor 15kb 4.0 italian catalog for WorkbenchExp...
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14.May.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until May 13th, 2017:
bs.i386-aros.lha gam/adv 667kb Bermuda Syndrome executable
icon_game.lha gra/ico 76kb Icon and script for many game
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13.May.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Printer driver for Google Cloud Print
For AmigaOS 4 Chris Young has released the printer driver gcp.device which makes it possible to use Google's Cloud-Print service. "gcp.device enables the Amiga to print directly to any of these cloud-
connected printers, using the PostScript printer driver."
Download: gcp_device.lha (1 MB)
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13.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire Edition 0.99
Artur 'Arti' Jarosik has updated his Amiga port of "The Legend of Zelda - Return of the Hylian" which is a fan continued sequel of Nintendo's adventure series. Additional to some new sounds, the game now is available as m68k-version as well as version for the Vampire accelerator boards. This one supports the AMMX commands of the Apollo cores.
System requirements:
- AmigaOS 3.x with fast 020+ no FPU (UAE/Vampire)
- RTG P96/CGX
- AHI 4.20+
- 70 MB free hard disk space
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13.May.2017
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Story of Commodore: Separating the current manuscript into two books?
Originally Brian Bagnall had split the second issue of his story of Commodore called "On The Edge" into two volumes - the first volume was published in 2010 and finished the story before the company Amiga was took over. The publication of the second volume called "The Amiga Years" has delayed again and again. In 2015 finally it was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign.
Now Bagnall has written in his Kickstarter blog, that there is so much to tell that it would be impossible to do this by using 500 pages.
Therefore he has suggested to seperate "The Amiga Years" into two volumes. The first one would start in 1982 with the foundation of Hi Toro/Amiga Inc. and end in 1987. The second one called "The final Years" would describe the time between 1987 until the bankruptcy.
Supporters of the Kickstarter campaign would get ebook editions of "The Amiga Years" and "The Final Years" as soon as possible. The printed edition of the first volume would follow. In order to be able to publish "The Final Years" also as printed edition, another Kickstarter campaign would be required.
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11.May.2017
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Hyperion: problems with the registration of new trademarks
Due to Amiga, Inc's inactivity, the registration for the US trademark "Amiga" expired at the end of last year. Immediately afterwards, Cloanto applied to have the mark registered in their name, while Hyperion took a while longer to notice what was going on and filed for "AmigaOS", "AmigaOne" and the boingball logo roughly four weeks later.
By now, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reacted to Hyperion's filings: All registrations have been refused. The application for the BoingBall logo was denied because it wasn't signed or dated - the Belgium based company has six months to correct that error. The other two applications - "AmigaOS" and "AmigaOne" - were not signed either, but were addtionally refused (1, 2). due to a "likelihood of confusion": the USPTO deems them too close to Cloanto's "Amiga" mark. Again, Hyperion has six months to react to the refusal, by either objecting and argueing for a withdrawal of the refusal or by trying to register the mark for a class of products not related to computer hardware or software - which wouldn't make much sense in this particular case, obviously.
In contrast to that, Cloanto's "Amiga" mark was published in the USPTO's "Trademark Official Gazette" yesterday. If no other party files an opposition or extension request within the next thirty days, the mark will be assigned to Cloanto for good. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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10.May.2017
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast 33: Interview with Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion)
Issue 33 of the podcast Scene World offers an interview with Ron Gilbert, who was also responsible for the adventure classics like Maniac Mansion and recently released the point'n click adventure Thimbleweed Park.
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10.May.2017
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Preview: First issue of English magazine "Amiga User"
In March the Polish publisher amiga.net.pl had released a new English-language magazine. Meanwhile some first reading extracts of the first issue have been published. The complete magazine will be published in July as ebook and printed issue.
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10.May.2017
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Web browser: Netsurf 3.7 (SDL version) with Youtube streaming
Artur Jarosik has released an update of his Amiga port of the web browser NetSurf. His version is based on SDL, only the preferences use MUI, and should not be confused with Chris Young's native, Reaction-based version. Additional to some bug fixes, version 3.7 now offers Youtube streaming.
Upon request of amiga.news.de, Artur Jarosik explained: "This is RTG classic version, I may compile AGA version and put it on my website soon." That means that for the current version a graphics card is required.
Changes:
- reduce cpu usage by 7-10mips
- hide annoying console windows when playing modules.pl mods
- fixed and improved youtube playback.
- Better video quality (uses ffmpeg now), shorter conversion time
- New API key needed from cloudconvert.com
- fixed cda.pl playback
- fixed youtube playback
- NEW autoupdate
- NEW youtube streaming
- NEW information about convertion status
- faster htpps loading with asm optimised libssl (Chris Young)
- fix compatability on FPU systems
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08.May.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Interview with Timothy de Groote (Hyperion Entertainment)
Under the title link, Generation Amiga has interviewed Timothy de Groote Hyperion Entertainment). He talked about the end of the trademark "Amiga" in Europe as well as about the shopping tour of Cloanto, acquiring former parts of Commodore (amiga-news.de reported). But Hyperion is not "worried by this" because they "expect that Amiga Inc. or its shareholders will renew the trademarks".
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08.May.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 23 - Interview with Jarlath Reidy
In its 23th issue, Krzysztof Radzikowski has interviewed in his podcast Amicast Jarlath Reidy, who is one of the organizers of the Amiga Ireland Meetup. They also talked about the history of the Amiga, NG computers, Odyssey and Vampire-exclusive software as well as the Amiga Ireland Podcast.
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08.May.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 02.05.2017)
Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week:
- autodocs/webpage updated/fixed (mazze)
- Posixc.library enhancements (Kalamatee)
- work on native GIT continues (Kalamatee)
- adapt network driver code to recent utility.library changes (neil)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. May. 2017, 18:34] [Comments: 0]
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08.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: MUI Royale 1.5
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the immediate availability of MUI Royale 1.5. The biggest new feature in MUI Royale 1.5 is Unicode support if Hollywood 7 is available. On top of that, MUI Royale 1.5 has its executable size reduced by about 80kb, contains various bug fixes and adds support for some more MUI features.
MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood 5.2 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. It is available for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC), and AROS (x86).
The package comes with over 20 example scripts, many of which are direct ports from the MUI 3.8 SDK by Stefan Stuntz, but there are also original developments like demonstrations of how to create a video player using the combined power of Hollywood and MUI. On top of that MUI Royale comes with extensive documentation in over 300 PDF pages which are also available in the HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM formats thanks to the Hollywood documentation system.
All this makes MUI Royale the truly royal MUI experience, carefully crafted for you Kings and Queens of MUI!
Screenshots:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. May. 2017, 18:27] [Comments: 0]
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07.May.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 6th, 2017:
CCNCatabasisSrc.lha demo/aga 666K 68k Sources for the cocoon demo C...
Cocoon_Catabasis.lha demo/aga 305K 68k Cocoon AGA Demo Catabasis (HD)
CocoonCatabasisD.adf demo/aga 880K 68k Cocoon Demo Catabasis Adf ver...
COP.lha dev/debug 163K 68k Low Level Debugger
ZeldaROTH.lha game/role 32M 68k Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire E...
Gloom_src.lha game/shoot 6.8M The first-person shooter sour...
68020iob.lha pix/3dobj 1.7M Imagine: Motorola 68020 objec...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 19K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
MuProtectModules.lha util/boot 134K 68k MuLib ROM Modules Write Prote...
icoutils.i386-aros.lha util/conv 1.1M x86 Extract resources from Window...
WorkbenchExplorer.lha util/dir 1.5M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
MMULib.lha util/libs 716K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
ReggaeList.lha util/rexx 18K AmigaGuide of your multimedia...
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 370K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. May. 2017, 06:35] [Comments: 0]
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07.May.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 6th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
nostromo.lha gam/act 8Mb 4.1 9 games in 1
starsmap.lha gam/mis 6Mb 4.1 Wordguess: Hungarian and Latin n...
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
simonsays.lha uti/mis 476kb 4.1 Utility for HTML, Info, HAM, MOD
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. May. 2017, 06:35] [Comments: 0]
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07.May.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 06.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until May 6th, 2017:
icoutils.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 1Mb Extract resources from Microsoft...
umc.i386-aros.lha vid/mis 48kb Calculates Picasso96 screen modes
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. May. 2017, 06:35] [Comments: 0]
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07.May.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP celebrates 25 years
Press release: APC&TCP will be 25 years old in May. Since 25 years, the APC&TCP distribution exists. In its origin APC&TCP was founded to publish the software of computer club members on fair terms. However, the offer was expanded very quickly and non-members can also distribute their software via APC&TCP.
The computer club has not been around for a long time, but APC&TCP is still active. There are still new software titles such as Roadshow, CygnusEd or DigiBooster released and also new updates are being worked on.
APC&TCP is also present in the merchandising market and has been publishing stickers, mousepads, posters and more for years. And, of course, there is also the print magazine Amiga Future, which is almost 20 years old.
In the meantime, APC&TCP has published more than 200 products for the Amiga and hopefully they will become much more in the next few years. We can not really celebrate. We simply lack of time. Nevertheless, a small draw. The price is a one-year subscription of Amiga Future:
What was APC&TCP's first commercial product released nearly 25 years ago?
- a) CygnusEd
- b) Databench
- c) Crossfire II
Send the correct answer by e-mail to Andreas@apc-tcp.de with the subject: "Raffle" until May 30, 2017 at the latest. The winner will be raffled among all correct entries. The legal process is of course excluded as usual.
You can find out more about the history of APC & TCP and the published products by visiting the title link. (snx)
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04.May.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 18.04.2017)
As successor of Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' (amiga-news.de reported), Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week.
Week of April 18th to April 24th:
- Build fixes (Kalamatee)
- Vpdf compiler warnings fixed (wawa)
- Vpdf German catalog added (pollux)
- MuiMine fixed for SMP builds (Kalamatee)
- Amosaic/TinyIrc build fixes (wawa)
Week of April 25th to May 1st:
- Build fixes / improvements (Kalamatee)
- 68k semaphore fix (Kalamatee)
- FFmpeg fixes (Kalamtee)
- Posix enhancements (Kalamatee)
- Work on native GIT continues (Kalamatee)
- Pthreads/bsdsocket conflict solved (Kalamatee)
- Autodocs updated (mazze)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. May. 2017, 20:00] [Comments: 0]
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04.May.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 126
The English and German editions of Amiga Future 126 (May/June 2017) has been released today, it can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include a preview of 'Reshoot R' and Reviews of the Vampire 600 V2 and the Viper 530/E-Matrix 530. (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 04. May. 2017, 15:14] [Comments: 0]
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04.May.2017
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OpenStreetMap viewer: MUIMapparium 0.2 (alpha)
Currently Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow adapts his program Mapparium, which is an OpenStreetMap viewer for all Amiga systems, to MUI. Version 0.2 now can handle way points and tracks and can save and load them.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 04. May. 2017, 00:08] [Comments: 0]
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03.May.2017
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Source codes of Gloom released on Github
The source codes of the 3D shooter Gloom has been released on Github. Obviously Gloom was written in Assembler and BlitzBasic 2.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. May. 2017, 23:57] [Comments: 0]
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03.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Workbench Explorer 1.1
Mark Ritter's Workbench Explorer (WEx) is a file browser for AmigaOS 4. Its preview function can show pictures, GIF-animations and read texts but also can play music files of the mp3 format which since last month in USA is off-patent (Screenshot).
There are different styles for WEx, it has tabs and shortcut menus and can download files via FTP. Some addons also are available - using the PicFlow.gadget the preview function then also can play movies.
In the commodity mode, WEx can be automatically started after the computer has booted (WBStartup) and then runs in background. Using the hotkey (standard LAmiga + E) the file browser opens.
Download: WorkbenchExplorer.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. May. 2017, 20:05] [Comments: 0]
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02.May.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP stack: free update to Roadshow 1.13
The Roadshow TCP/IP stack for the Amiga has been updated to version 1.13 and is available immediately. An updated demonstration version is available, too, as well as the updated software development kit.
A free update is available for customers who are using Roadshow version 1.12, upgrading it to version 1.13. Note: if you are still using Roadshow versions 1.8 or 1.11 then you will need to upgrade to version 1.12 first before you can upgrade it to version 1.13.
The changes in Roadshow 1.13 are as follows:
- Polish localization files were contributed by Tomasz Potrykus,
which can be installed as part of the update process.
- The "ping" command has been updated to support new options, which can
be used limit the number of test packets sent, either by
time or count. The time interval measurements taken and displayed
were upgraded and are now much more accurate than they were before.
- The "traceroute" command shares the same time interval measurement
improvements with the "ping" command.
- The "wget" command no longer crashes if too little stack memory
is available in the shell. Also, the data throughput rate calculation
now works correctly, which both affects the display of the estimated
remaining transmission time and the data rate limiting feature of
the "wget" command. Finally, the short form command line options (e.g.
"-q" for "--quiet") never worked correctly. This has been fixed.
- Several related bugs were fixed within "bsdsocket.library",
the "SampleNetSpeed" and "ppp_sample" programs, which could
lead to memory corruption or seemingly random crashes.
- The "ConfigureNetInterface" did not process the DHCPUNICAST
parameter correctly. This has been fixed.
- The specially optimized versions of "bsdsocket.library",
"ppp-serial.device" and "ppp-ethernet.device" for use on Amigas with
CPUs other than the MC68000 and MC68010 can no longer result in crashes
if they are used on systems for which they are not suited.
- The "TCP:" handler leaked memory whenever it was opened. This
has been fixed.
- How much memory "bsdsocket.library" will use for incoming network traffic
can now be tweaked. This is helpful for applications which keep
running for day or weeks on end. Previously, "bsdsocket.library" could
end up allocating much more memory than strictly necessary, causing other
active software to run out of free memory. Because the choice to
spend as little memory as possible comes with a cost (slightly lower
data throughput), this option is not enabled by default.
- The software development kit has been updated, fixing bugs in the example
source code, the "wget" command, as well as replacing the inline header
files for the GCC 68k compiler.
- The reference documentation has been updated.
The "ReadMe" file of the "Roadshow" update archive contains more detailed information about the contributors who helped to make this update possible, as well as more detailed descriptions of the changes.
The update archive does not contain the updated documentation or source code. Please download the demonstration version and/or the software development kit, respectively, to find the new material.
(cg)
[News message: 02. May. 2017, 14:37] [Comments: 0]
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