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01.May.2017



AROS: ZunePaint 0.11
Yannick Erb's "ZunePaint" is a simple bitmap graphics program for AROS. Changes in version 0.11:
  • added possibility to "stretch" clipboard and text objects
  • remove use of static variable in mcc_Pictdisp.c
  • added Eraser function
  • tolerance range extended to 0-255
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01.May.2017



Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.5.2 (alpha)
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Pang. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.

For the program currently there is only a closed Facebook group, but the authors also can be contacted via eMail. The latest alpha version can be downloaded using Google Drive.

Changes in version 0.5.2:
  • In Animation Menu offset of each frame can now be changed by dragging the image with the mouse
  • In game setup you can select if you want enemies to collide against other enemies to avoid them using the same space
  • Edit Level has been renamed to edit map, map now only refers to the level tilemap
  • Background image in map edit screen can now be removed using the new Remove button
  • Load map and Save map features have been added
  • Added a condition trigger to check tiles with a comparison. Old one is keep for compatibility
  • Added condition trigger to check if tile is solid. Parameters are the offset in X or Y to check adjacent tiles
  • Added condition trigger to check if tile is not solid. Parameters are the offset in X or Y to check adjacent tiles
  • Added action trigger to go to the next level (this sounded epic)
  • Added action trigger to reload trigger. Right now it does the same as restart level, but in the future reload will reset the tile status of the map
  • Added action trigger to change Display Offset of the object
  • Added action trigger to change Size of the object collision box. Use it with caution
  • Animation player in animation screen now takes into consideration the target frame rate of the game
  • Tile border parameter for the tilesets is working again
  • Fix for the issue causing past keys to be written when clicking on an edit gadget
  • Fixed a graphic glitch when changing levels both in the editor and the player
  • Fixed an issue with condition parameters not being edited correctly
  • Fixed an issue causing a crash when using a background image for the level without tileset
  • Fixed a glitch when going from animation screen to the main screen
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood: APK Compiler 2.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business - are proud to present version 2.0 of the Hollywood APK Compiler. This program allows the conversion of Hollywood applets into stand-alone APK packages that can then be published on the Google Play Store or distributed in an other way.

Once the Hollywood APK Compiler has been set up, the conversion of a Hollywood applet into an APK file takes only a few seconds. Additionally, the Hollywood APK Compiler can also install the generated APK file onto an Android device connected via USB.

Version 2.0 is a major update that adds support for the Gradle build system. A few months ago, the Android SDK build system was changed from Apache Ant to Gradle. The Hollywood APK Compiler now supports this new build system. Version 2.0 also erases the dependency on Cygwin meaning the Hollywood APK Compiler can be used without Cygwin now. Finally, version 2.0 also allows you to set the Android target version. If you set this to 3.0, your app will no longer be marked as "Designed for phones" on the Play Store.

This update is provided free of charge for all licensees of the Hollywood APK Compiler and can be downloaded from the restricted download section.

The Hollywood APK Compiler comes with a convenient GUI that allows you to convert your Hollywood applets into stand-alone APK files with just a few mouse clicks. A detailed documentation of all the program's features is also included. The APKs generated by the Hollywood APK Compiler will run on all ARM-based Android devices that run at least Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread).

The program's license also allows you to sell the apps created by the Hollywood APK Compiler without any restrictions or royalties. So there is nothing stopping you from getting rich quickly with your Hollywood applets on the Google Play Store now! Programming and publishing for Android has really never been so easy!

So get ready for Android development and purchase the Hollywood APK Compiler now on the official Hollywood portal! This release was brought to you by Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business.

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01.May.2017
David Brunet (ANF)


New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
  • March/April 2017 news
  • Old articles from Tilt 92 to 94:
    • Interview with Phlippe Ulrich
    • Review of Magic Pockets
    • Review of Elf
    • File: Conception of a game scenario
    • Interview with Stewart Gliray
    • Review of Hunter
    • Review of Gauntlet 3
    • Comparison: Platforms/action games from 1990-1991
    • Report: Summer Consumer Electronics Show 1991
    • Hardware: 1000SU
    • Review of Hero Quest
  • Interview with Olivier Plaisier and Alan Kerjean
  • Interview with Erwan Jestin (Happiga developper)
  • Review of Emotion
  • Hardware: Amiga 3000T
  • DIY: Build your Amiga arcade joystick
  • File: History of the magazine Amiga Information Online
  • File: Biography of Muriel Tramis
  • File: Classic Reflections - What happen to ASDG?
  • File: Amiga history, year 2002 (update)
  • Tutorial: Recording an LP with Audio Evolution 4
  • Galleries: Mike Dafunk's gallery
  • Special quiz about the AmigaOne X5000
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30.Apr.2017



Aminet-Uploads until 29.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 29th, 2017:
ign-addon-ods.lha        biz/spread 1.8M  OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
HWP_RapaGUI.lha          dev/hwood  6.4M  MOS Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo...
WormWarsMOS.lha          game/actio 702K  MOS Advanced snake game
abacus_src.lha           game/board 108K      Abacus source code
GloomTrainer_src.lha     game/patch 12K       Gloom trainer source code
SeaShell_src.lha         gfx/3d     221K      SeaShell source code
plplot68k-5.0.1.lha      gfx/show   3.3M  68k PLPLOT Plotting Library
Handy095.lha             misc/emu   182K  68k Atari Lynx emulator
Handy095-OS4.lha         misc/emu   228K  OS4 Atari Lynx emulator
YAG_Genesis_src.lha      misc/emu   46K       YAG_Genesis source code
acalc_src.lha            misc/math  55K       ACalc source code
convcalc_src.lha         misc/math  34K       ConvCalc source code
MathPaint_src.lha        misc/math  39K       MathPaint source code
izmirmarsi_mod.lha       mods/pro   146K      izmir marsi by emarti
BootManager_src.lha      util/boot  26K       BootManager source code
FocusWindow_src.lha      util/cdity 13K       FocusWindow source code
StringInOut_src.lha      util/cdity 15K       StringInOut source code
PCalc_src.lha            util/cli   16K       PCalc source code
RndBG_src.lha            util/wb    17K       RndBG source code
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30.Apr.2017



OS4Depot-Uploads until 29.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 29th, 2017:
drawergad.lha            dev/lib 285kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
handy-jacobs.lha         emu/gam 228kb 4.0 Atari Lynx emulator
reactive_lib.lha         lib/mis 64kb  4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
reactivetls.lha          net/mis 704kb 4.1 ReactiveTLS is a TLS lib for sec...
enewsreader.lha          net/new 2Mb   4.1 News reader for RSS, Atom, Twitt...
ign-addon-ods.lha        off/spr 2Mb   4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
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30.Apr.2017



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 29.04.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until April 29th, 2017:
jfif.i386-aros.lha           lib/mis 109kb jfif.library
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30.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)


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:
  • Atom Demo IV Soundtrack (Strange Days 2017 Refurbish)
  • Pinball Dreams (Beatbox Ingame Remix)
  • Enigma - A Final Hyperbase (Piepie Remix)
  • Return To Monkey Island Theme
  • Ecolove VS Ghost In The Shell voices
  • Hyperbased [Saturday Night Edit]
  • Apidya - Meadow's Edge (EXON 2017's REMIX)
  • SWIV (Decimation Remix)
  • Apidya - Meadow's Edge
  • Elf - Forest world [2017 Remix]
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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30.Apr.2017
Achim Pankalla (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: First upgrade for ignition-OpenDocument support
In December Achim Pankalla released an extension for the spreadsheet ignition, which added the option of reading and writing OpenDocument files (amiga-news.de reported). This format is used by LibreOffice and OpenOffice-Calc, but also can be imported and exported by any other spreadsheets.

Version 0.20 of this addon now provides a first update of the functions and some bugs fixes. ignition 1.0 beta4 and AmigaOS 4.1 FinalEdition are required.

For this addon still is a beta version, the author asks for your comments, bug reports and possible updates for functions. Please write them in the forum of OS4Welt. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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30.Apr.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Event: AmiWest 2017 from October 19th to 22nd
This year the AmiWest will take place from October 19th to 22nd in the capital city of California, Sacramento in the hotel "Holiday Inn Express", 2224 Auburn Boulevard.

Schedule of the event:
  • AmigaOS DevCon starts on Thursday Oct 19, 2017 through Friday, October 20, 2017
  • Classic Clinic starts at 5 PM on Friday Oct 20, 2017
  • Show doors open at 10 AM on Saturday Oct 21, 2017
  • Banquet starts at 7 PM on Saturday Oct 21, 2017
  • Sunday starts at 10 AM on Sunday Oct 22, 2017
  • Doors close at 4 PM Sunday Oct 22, 2017
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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30.Apr.2017
VisioRetron (Forum)


External HDMI-converter D520 in development
Thorsten Schubert is working on a device, which converts the analogue video signal of the Amiga as well as the sound into a digital signal in order to make it possible using current monitors with a HDMI-port. The external module will be connected to the video port of the Amiga.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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30.Apr.2017
AMiGA4Ever (Kommentar)


Archive.org: Software Library Amiga online again
In August Jason Scott made available an Amiga software library in the Internet archive Archive.org which only worked for few days. Now it is online again. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Apr.2017



Amiga 32: Further guests and exhibitors announced
The organizers of the "Amiga 32" which will take place on 28. October in Neuss, have completed the list of guests and exhibitors:
  • Return Magazin
  • ACube Systems
  • Dave Haynie
  • ARES Computer
  • Amedia Computer
  • Ron Nicholson
  • Mike Clark und Tim Wright (Psygnosis)
  • A1200.net
  • Hyperion
  • Individual Computers
  • Salvador Gomez
  • Dr. Tim King und Jessica King
  • A-EON Technology
  • Trevor Dickinson
  • Dr. Petter Kittel
  • Richard Löwenstein
  • Birgit Roßmöller
  • Frank Geisler
  • Perry Kivolowitz
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Apr.2017



Hollywood: Graphics library G2D 1.8
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's G2D (demo video) is a graphics library for Hollywood programmers, which provides commands, objects and methods for manipulating 2D-graphics and offers a skinning system. G2D also is used in Falcucci's GUI-system HGUI. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Apr.2017
(ANF)


AmigaOS4: eNewsReader R1
Chris Handley's commercial "eNewsReader" follows RSS and Atom feeds as well as Twitter and Facebook acounts but "you will need to give eNewsReader permission to access your Timeline posts on Facebook."

Currently you can download a "trial" version from the website of the author which is not limited. After a certain period of time and the amount of downloaded files, the author will decide how much the full version of eNewsReader will cost. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Apr.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood: RapaGUI 1.1
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present version 1.1 of one of the most popular Hollywood plugins: RapaGUI. RapaGUI is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that allows the creation of native (!) GUIs for AmigaOS- (MUI), Windows-, Linux- (GTK) and Mac OS X-based systems! GUI layouts in RapaGUI are conveniently defined in XML files which are then converted into full-blown GUIs by RapaGUI on-the-fly. It just doesn't get any easier!

RapaGUI supports all the widgets you need to create modern GUI applications, including multi-column listviews, treeviews, tabbed page widgets, toolbars, status bars, text editor widgets, menu bars, HTML views and much more. The highlight of RapaGUI, however, is certainly its inbuilt Hollywood MOAI class. This class allows dynamic embedding of complete Hollywood displays into GUIs which can be used to combine Hollywood's powerful multimedia functionality with RapaGUI's GUI abilities into one powerful application.

RapaGUI 1.1 is a major update and contains the following new features:
  • Unicode support (requires Hollywood 7)
  • 64-bit support on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (requires Hollywood 7)
  • Drag'n'drop support
  • Combobox class greatly enhanced
  • Lots of new functions for Choice class
  • Online help for the Windows IDE (requires Hollywood 7)
  • Support for high DPI monitors (requires Hollywood 7)
  • Several other smaller improvements and bug fixes
RapaGUI comes with almost 300 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide and CHM that describes the GUI programming basics in detail and provides a convenient MOAI function and class reference. A step-by-step tutorial that guides you to your first RapaGUI program is also included. On top of that, almost 20 example scripts are included in the distribution archive, including advanced scripts like a complete video player, which really show off the power of Hollywood and RapaGUI working together.

All this makes RapaGUI the ultimate cross-platform GUI toolkit, carefully crafted for you sailors of the seven GUI seas! Only RapaGUI allows rapid cross-platform GUI development on all islands - it is the ultimate fusion of all the different OS GUI toolkits into one MOAI face, carved in stone for eternity and beyond. RapaGUI is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal at hollywood-mal.com. Versions for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are provided. AmigaOS users please do note that although RapaGUI is still compatible with MUI 3.8, it is highly recommended to install MUI 4.0 to use all of RapaGUI's features.

Screenshots:
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23.Apr.2017
Pascal Papara (ANF)


Distribution: AROS Broadway 1.0 Preview 8 available
Preview 8 of Pascal Papara's AROS-distribution "AROS Broadway" includes new client versions for accessing his "AmiCloud" and "indieGO!-Appstore". Otherwise this version does not provide any other changes. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Apr.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: A week in AROS (ab 11.04.2017)
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 11th to April 17th:
  • GIT for AROS native (Kalamatee)
  • Build system improvements / fixes (Kalamatee)
  • Nouveau wait_event implemented, lock added (mschulz)
  • MUI autodocs improved (neil)
  • Moved iconv to contrib (Kalamatee)
  • Various source code cleanups for m68k/gcc-4.6 (wawa)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Apr.2017
Amiga.org (Forum)


OpenStreetMap viewer: MUIMapparium evaluation version 0.1
Currently Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow adapts his program Mapparium, which is an OpenStreetMap viewer for all Amiga systems, to MUI. He has released an early evaluation version of MUIMapparium for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS (x86/ARM) under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Apr.2017



Aminet-Uploads until 22.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 22th, 2017:
ShimmerDB_src.lha        biz/dbase  40K       ShimmerDB source code
eNewsReader.lha          comm/news  2.1M  OS4 News reader for RSS, Atom, Tw...
acc.lha                  dev/asm    20M   68k Amiga Coders Club diskset f. ...
vda68k.lha               dev/asm    70K   MOS Portable M68k disassembler w/...
vdappc-mos.lha           dev/asm    37K   MOS A PowerPC disassembler w/ Alt...
ShapeGen_src.lha         dev/basic  16K       ShapeGen source code
luaexplorador.lha        dev/debug  59K   MOS GUI based source level debugg...
WormWars.lha             game/actio 796K  68k Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha         game/actio 1.0M  OS4 Advanced snake game
GDTrainer_src.lha        game/patch 12K       GDTrainer source code
daleks_halibut.lha       game/wb    46K       Daleks (Halibut) game
daleks_halibut_src.lha   game/wb    31K       Daleks (Halibut) source code
Greedium.lha             game/wb    863K  MOS A small mui game about numbers
lw_wheel_tutorial.lha    gfx/3d     1.0M      LW tutorial for accurate rota...
PatchCompositeTags.lha   gfx/misc   648K  OS4 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
RNOAnim.lha              gfx/show   1.9M  MOS Animation player, converter, ...
RNOAnim_OS4.lha          gfx/show   2.2M  OS4 Animation player, converter, ...
ShapeShifter_src.lha     misc/emu   317K      ShapeShifter source code
mathx_src.lha            misc/math  342K      mathX source code
23Nisan_mod.lha          mods/pro   58K       23Nisan by emarti
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha   pix/picon  6.5M      Game icons in OS4.1 Update 1 ...
wpls2rtf.lha             text/misc  152K  MOS Convert First Word format to ...
KPatch_src.lha           util/boot  3K        KPatch source code
MakeHex.lha              util/conv  151K  MOS Convert an IRP file to Pronto...
ReggaeList.lha           util/rexx  18K       AmigaGuide of your multimedia...
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23.Apr.2017



OS4Depot-Uploads until 22.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 22th, 2017:
wormwars.lha             gam/act 1Mb   4.0 Advanced snake game
pythonssl.lha            lib/mis 103kb 4.1 AmiSSL 4 based Python SSL Module
amisocial.lha            uti/com 1Mb   4.1 A simple gnusocial client to upd...
rnoanim.lha              vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Animation player, converter, and...
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23.Apr.2017



WHDLoad: New installers until 22.04.2017
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 April 22th, 2017:
  • 2017-04-17 improved: Chaos Engine 2 (Bitmap Brothers) access fault fixed, 2nd joystick can be disabled, quitkey for 68000 added (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Apr.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Podcast: AmiCast 22 - Interview with new Amiga user
In its 22nd issue, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked in his podcast Amicast to 'slygon' from the forum Amiga.org. The AmigaOne X5000 is the first Amiga system to Eric at all. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Apr.2017



Trademark: Application of new "Commodore" refused
Two years ago, Italian Massimo Canigiani tried to have the mark "Commodore" registered in the European trademark registry using his UK based company "Commodore Business Machines Ltd.". Although the design of Canigiani's mark was pretty much identical to the famous original mark - which is still listed as active in the very same EU trademark registry - he hoped to get away with this by applying for registration in a different procduct area (smartphones). But this hope has been dashed: The owner of the original trademark successfully appealed against Canigiani's application last autumn. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Individual Computers: Memory extension A512 can be preordered
Under the title link Individual Computers has announced that the 512-KB memory extension will be available from 26. May. You can already order for about 25 Euro in advance. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Apr.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmiModRadio 0.998
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." Version 0.998 provides bug fixes and adds another source, "The Module Archive".

You can report other bugs using the bugtracker. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.2.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. Version 3.2.0 provides some minor improvements for updating the display and for changing the window size. Besides, minor bugs were fixed and a German and Spanish translation added. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Event: Amiga demos of Revision 2017
On Easter weekend the this year's demo scene party Revision took place. The Amiga Future has listed some videos of Amiga demos which have been released there. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Apr.2017



Amiga Inc. loses US trademark, new registrations from Cloanto and Hyperion
For years, Amiga, Inc. has been losing registered trademarks (examples: 1, 2) since expiring registrations were not renewed in time - but so far, only duplicate registrations or less important marks ("powered by Amiga") had been affected. On December 31 the final deadline for extending the registration of the only remaining US "Amiga" trademark expired: for a short period of time, the term was not a registered mark in the United States.

It looks like Italian software developer Cloanto, who acquired most of the Amiga copyrights in 2012, has been following these developments closely: On January 2 - i.e. the first working day after Amiga, Inc's trademark expired - Cloanto applied for the "Amiga" trademark. The company already owns the registered US marks "Workbench" and "Amiga Forever".

It seems that Hyperion was not as alert: It took them until February to apply for their own marks. According to the information available so far, Hyperion did not try to dispute Cloanto's application for the "Amiga" mark, the Belgium company responsible for AmigaOS 4 applied for AmigaOS, BoingBall and AmigaOne. These trademarks, which had not or no longer been registered before, were originally licensed to Hyperion in the 2009 settlement agreement with Amiga, Inc. - apparently Hyperion's management operates under the assumption that Amiga, Inc. will be unable or uninterested in defending these marks after losing the more important "Amiga" mark.

After losing the US Amiga mark, the most important trademark registration still owned by Amiga, Inc. (list of US and European Amiga marks) is probably the registration of the "AMIGA" trademark with the European Intellectual Property Office, which expires in May 2018. This registration covers all of Europe, including countries like Germany or the UK - where the local "Amiga" registrations have already expired aswell.

Note from the editor: In all public trademark databases, Amiga, Inc's original Amiga trademark is still listed as active - trademark offices usually take several months to update their databases once a mark expires. But the entry in the US Patent and Trademark Office's database (search for serial number 73571532) features a section labeled "TSDR" which has a "Documents" tab containing a list of submitted documents - the most recent one is dated 2006 - and a "Maintainance" tab offering a pretty definite statement regarding missing documents.

Update: (18.04.2017, 15:00, cg)

Hyperion has not only applied for the "AmigaOne" mark, it is also trying to register the "AmigaOS" mark and the BoingBall. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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Aminet-Uploads until 15.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 15th, 2017:
wput.lha                 comm/tcp   416K  MOS FTP-client that looks like wget
wput-0.3.4c.i386-aros... comm/tcp   75K   x86 Wput is a command-line ftp-cl...
OdysseyLauncher2.lha     comm/www   112K  OS4 Avoid starting Odyssey twice ...
FDSList.lha              dev/cross  46K   MOS .FDS File Processor
m68k-amigaos-gcc.tar.gz  dev/gcc    18M   ppc GCC based dev toolchain for A...
m68k-amigaos-gcc-setu... dev/gcc    48K       m68k-amigaos-gcc setup script...
furiatuneGUI_1.0.lha     driver/oth 151K  68k Graphical user interface for ...
MCE.lha                  game/edit  1.6M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  1.9M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
CannonBall.lha           game/race  729K  68k CannonBall - The Enhanced Out...
Greedium.lha             game/wb    863K  MOS A small mui game about numbers
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...
CPCConv_src.lha          misc/emu   4K        CPCConv source code
Easy1541_src.lha         misc/emu   182K      Easy1541 source code
spectrum-1.8wip_src.lha  misc/emu   424K      Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator...
amath.i386-aros.lha      misc/math  217K  x86 Simple command line calculator
amath.lha                misc/math  925K  68k Simple command line calculator
amath.src.lha            misc/math  650K      Simple command line calculato...
topograph11bin.lha       misc/math  48K   68k Mathematical function browser
topograph11src.lha       misc/math  516K      Mathematical function browser...
EP_MMV8.lha              mus/play   14K   68k MusicMakerV8 player for Eagle...
mmv8_deliplayer.lha      mus/play   5K    68k MusicMakerV8 Deliplayer for D...
FrexxEd_src.lha          text/edit  1.1M      FrexxEd v2 - the real thing -...
Vim_8.0-mos.lha          text/edit  8.9M  MOS The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.0-src.lha          text/edit  14M       The ubiquitous text editor (s...
ControllerTest.lha       util/misc  48K   68k Test many different types of ...
TinyLauncher.lha         util/misc  110K  68k WHDLoad frontend and more
THE3.lha                 util/wb    14K       Up / Down Entry Movement for ...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 15.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 15th, 2017:
seq.lha                  aud/mis 109kb 4.0 Simple MIDI step sequencer
amimod.lha               aud/pla 1Mb   4.1 A simple player to play mod (pro...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb   4.1 An arabic console device
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
nelipala.lha             gam/puz 435kb 4.1 SDL2-based tetris clone
mce.lha                  gam/uti 2Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
odysseylauncher2.lha     net/bro 112kb 4.0 Avoid starting Odyssey twice wit...
skeinforge.lha           uti/pri 5Mb   4.1 3D printing on AmigaOS4.x. Stl2G...
rnoanim.lha              vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Animation player, converter, and...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 15.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until April 15th, 2017:
wput-0.3.4c.i386-aros.lha    net/ftp 75kb  Wput is a command-line ftp-client.
amath.i386-aros.lha          uti/sci 217kb Simple command line calculator
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.04.2017
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 April 15th, 2017: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Apr.2017
Amigaworld (Webseite)


Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player 1.70
V.A.M.P. (Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player) is a video and sound player written with Hollywood. Version 1.70 is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and Windows and was compiled with Hollywood 7. A Greek translation was added and the Polish one improved. Besides, the archive contains some new skins created by Czesiu Mnich. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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15.Apr.2017



PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 73 (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 "Indigo", "The Three Musketeers" and "International Karate 2013". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Apr.2017
amiga.org (Webseite)


New Elbox tower case: BlackBOX 1200
Sinse the older tower cases of Elbox have not been available, the company now presents the third generation of A1200 towers: In a "BlackBOX 1200" an A1200 with accelerator board and Mediator or GRex busboard can be put and is available for 300 Euro (plus shipping).

Features of the new tower:
  • 350W ATX power supply unit
  • A microprocessor PC/Amiga keyboard interface
  • 2 bays for 5.25" drives
  • 1 bay for Amiga floppy disc drive (black fascia for A1200 floppy drive included)
  • 4 bays for 3.5" (internal) hard disc drives
  • 1 bay for 2.5" (internal) hard disc drive
  • Chassis structure: steel
  • Transparent side panel
  • 2 USB connectors on the top panel; Top panel buttons: POWER and RESET, Green-Power and Red-HDD
  • Air flow cooling system with 2 fans
  • Dimensions (LxBxH): 462mm x 190mm x 465mm
Currently there is only a detailed picture of the left, transparent side panel of the BlackBOX 1200. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Apr.2017



Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.5.0 (alpha)
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Pang. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.

For the program currently there is only a closed Facebook group, but the authors also can be contacted via eMail. The latest alpha version can be downloaded via Google Drive.

Changes in version 0.5.0:
  • Main feature of this release is that now it uses advanced scrolling implementation. This will allow RedPill games to make use of larger maps in the future v0.5.x versions. It also allows RedPill to use less ChipRam. This could lead to some bugs that will be fixed in next versions. Look at ScrollingTrick in Aminet to know more about the implementation
  • Now multiple tile changes can happen in every frame
  • Object rendering has been changed too, BBlits are no longer used
  • Projects now have a target frame rate in the Game Setup screen: 50 fps, 25 fps, 17 fps, 12 fps. Default is 25 fps
  • Angular phyics have been redone with a more robust implementation. Shot type objects now can follow the same direction of the object Instantiating them
  • Collisions have been changed again to be more optimal and perfect.A side effect is that ramp collisions are lost in this version, they will be back soon
  • Frame offsets have been added: Now you can modify the display offset by frame
  • Grid slice has been optimized, now shapes are trimmed to its visible size
  • Animations are now changed once per frame and now everytime a PlayAnim trigger is triggered
  • Stop Anim trigger does not need a parameter anymore
  • Global air friction has been added
  • Friction now works as it should, 1 means full friction and 0 means no friction at all
  • Temp files that are stored on ram: when playing from editor now use a common name
  • Debug info removed from tile properties screen
  • File names in tileset menu and sprites menu are truncated if length of name is too big
  • Fixed a bug that made not possible to modify condition parameters in lines 2-5
  • Fix in calculate map dimensions
  • RedPill(Debug).exe renamed to RedPillEditor(Debug).exe
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13.Apr.2017



Text editor: Vim 8.0.55 for AROS
Ola Söder's MUI-based port of the text editor Vim, which was released in February, now also is available for AROS. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Apr.2017



Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.5dev (beta)
Frode Solheim has released a new development version FS-UAE 2.9.5dev which provides the following changes:

Changes in FS-UAE:
  • Added some game controller configs
  • Restructuring to allow for (future) multiple video/audio/input drivers
Changes in FS-UAE-Launcher:
  • Added support for WHDLoad 18.3
  • New quick settings panel (initial version) with toggle button
  • Tweaked Fusion Adwaita theme colors to better match recent GNOME theme
  • Controller configs for 8Bitdo SFC30 and Zero gamepads
  • Controller config for DualShock 3 in bluetooth mode on Linux
  • Make configurations list wider when window width is quite large
  • Remember last selected game list on startup
  • Lots of changes for non-Amiga/CDTV/CD32 game support
  • New GUI setting to enable use of additional game platforms
  • Disable config controls when loading a non-Amiga platform game
  • Fix check for startup-sequence when determining if an archive is WHDLoad
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Apr.2017
Tobias Abt (ANF)


Picasso96 sold to Individual Computers and Hyperion Entertainment (Update)
According to Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt under the title link, they have decided "to sell the Picasso96 intellectual property to a joint ownership between Hyperion Computer Entertainment and Individual Computers GmbH (Jens Schönfeld)."

They also wrote: "Hyperion and Individual Computers have assured us that they will continue to support both the classic Amiga and next generation systems as well. They plan to integrate P96 into upcoming new OS releases."

Update: (13.04.2017, 13:00, cg)

In a statement on a1k.org (German, requires registration), Jens Schönfeld from Individual Computers explains that the Picasso96 distribution on Aminet will remain available and is still freely distributable. Users that want to register the software will be able to buy a "slightly improved" version from the Individual Computers online shop, using a "pay what you want" approach. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: A week in AROS (from 27.03.2017)
Additional to his work on AROS, since September 2014 Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week. A year later he also published monthly highlights until November 2016. On 2 April Krzysztof Śmiechowicz announced that he is going to take a break from AROS. The last entry of "A week in AROS" which he wrote was published on 3 April.

Now Oliver 'o1i' Brunner continues the summaries. We would take this opportunity to again report about the open source AmigaOS clone every week.

Week of March 27th:
  • Bugs in decoration code fixed (Kalamatee)
  • Restructured directories for developer and debug packages (Kalamatee)
  • Configure and build system improved and fixed (Kalamatee)
  • APIC work continuing (mschulz)
  • SysBase -> ThisTask replaced with FindTask(NULL) in many user code packages (Kalamatee)
  • Work for AROS native gcc-6.3 started (Kalamatee)
  • Website spring cleanup (Mazze and Kalamatee)
Week of April 3rd:
  • Website / Documentation fixes (Mazze)
  • ACPI button fixes (Kalamatee)
  • SMP fixes (Kalamatee)
  • SMP-smallpt test fixes (mschulz)
  • IEEEDPDiv / IEEEDPMul implemented (neil)
  • ATAPI device timing fixes (mschulz)
  • genmodule 64-bit fixes (mschulz)
  • stdc.library fixed (mschulz)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AmiCast: Text interview with Norbert Kett
Issue eight of the English language podcast AmiCast had an interview with Norbert Kett, who is the author of AmigaCloudHandlers available for all Amiga systems for accessing DropBox and Google Drive. Currently he is working on an implemantation of OpenGL for the Vampire accelerator boards. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Apr.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Anim player und converter: RNOAnim 1.0
RNOAnim "is a compact animation player that also has some conversion and editing functions." The program was written with Hollywood and has the following features:
  • MUI-GUI (MUI Royale)
  • Internal loaders: IFF, GIF, AVI (uncompressed/MJPEG)
  • Included plugins: APNG, FLI/FLC, YAFA
  • Can save (convert) to: GIF, APNG, and AVI (MJPEG)
  • Can export frames to PNG images
  • Animations can be resized freely by resizing the window
  • Several options to alter the playback speed
  • Animation frames can be added, inserted, or removed
  • All changes (size, speed, frames) will be saved when saving a new animation
  • Drag & drop loading
  • Extensive ARexx support
  • Keyboard and mouse controls
Further links: Discussion in the official Hollywood forum, a GIF animation created with RNOAnim.

The MorphOS version also can be installed via Grunch. In this case the corresponding Ambient MIME types are automatically configured for the different formats. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Apr.2017



Aminet-Uploads until 08.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 8th, 2017:
hey_1.0.i386-aros.zip    comm/mail  5.9M  x86 Html Enhancer for YAM
links-mos.lha            comm/www   6.3M  MOS Links text-only WWW browser w...
Overlay.tgz              dev/asm    4K        Old ASM source demonstrating ...
cc65-morphos.lha         dev/cross  12M   MOS ANSI C 6502 cross development...
HWP_AHX.lha              dev/hwood  130K  WOS Hollywood plugin for AHX/Hive...
HWP_AVCodec.lha          dev/hwood  6.4M  WOS Hollywood plugin for FFmpeg c...
HWP_HTTPStreamer.lha     dev/hwood  74K   MOS Stream HTTP files with Hollywood
HWP_SQLite3.lha          dev/hwood  952K  WOS Hollywood plugin for SQL data...
minipicolisp.i386-aro... dev/lang   137K  x86 A minimal version of PicoLisp
abackup_src.lha          disk/bakup 540K      ABackup source code
atoms_halibut.lha        game/think 70K   68k Atoms type game
atoms_halibut_src.lha    game/think 230K      Atoms (Halibut) source code
Greedium.lha             game/wb    861K  MOS A small mui game about numbers
RNOAnim_OS4.lha          gfx/show   2.2M  OS4 Animation player, converter, ...
VICE-AmigaOS4-3.0.lha    misc/emu   27M   OS4 Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
VICE-i386-AROS-3.0.ta... misc/emu   21M   x86 Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
lhasa-0.3.1.lha          util/arc   53K   68k Free Software LHA implementation
1TouchMac_src.lha        util/boot  28K       1TouchMac source code
LoadModule.lha           util/boot  19K   68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
smd2bin_src.lha          util/conv  14K       smd2bin source code
Hexaco.lha               util/wb    32K   68k Color values as hex/dec/... (...
TTManager_src.lha        util/wb    61K       TTManager source code
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 08.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 8th, 2017:
seq.lha                  aud/mis 108kb 4.0 Simple MIDI step sequencer
picflowgad.lha           dev/lib 80kb  4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
abc-shell.lha            dev/uti 182kb 4.0 Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb   4.1 An arabic console device
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha   gra/ico 6Mb   4.0 s0y gameicons 2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 08.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until April 8th, 2017:
minipicolisp.i386-aros.lha   dev/lan 137kb A minimal version of PicoLisp
hey_1.0.i386-aros.zip        net/ema 6Mb   Html Enhancer for YAM
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09.Apr.2017



WHDLoad: Version 18.3 and new installers until 08.04.2017
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously.

Three days ago version 18.3 was released now supporting the Apollo core of the Vampire accelerator boards by recognizing them as 68040 processors. Additionally the following installers have been added until April 8th, 2017:
  • 2017-04-06 improved: Chaos Engine 2 (Bitmap Brothers) access fault fixed, option to preset level code (Info)
  • 2017-04-02 new: Megademo (Vermin) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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09.Apr.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: ZunePaint 0.10, ZuneView 0.37 and ZuneFIG 1.4r345
Yannick Erb has released AROS Updates of his ZuneTools ZunePaint and ZuneView as well as of the vector graphics program ZuneFIG.

Changes in ZunePaint:
  • Do not show ILBM as a save option (it isn't working)
  • Reworked interface to allow use of smaller resolution screen
  • Magic Wand and Lasso select could crash for big regions (WORD overflow
Changes in ZuneView:
  • Merged in changes from ZunePaint
  • Magic Wand and Lasso selection mode activated
  • Reworked interface to allow new selection modes
  • Do not show ILBM as a save option (it isn't working)
Changes in ZuneFIG:
  • Rework catalog handling to be more in line with standard AROS handling
  • Rely on library auto opening
  • Empty mouse pointer reworked to cope with Windows hosted
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06.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Amiga Future: Issue 102 can be read online
Issue 102 (May/June 2013) of the printed magazine Amiga Future is sold out, you can read the German and the English edition of the magazine online (picture files). You also can buy a PDF-version. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Apr.2017
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: Brain training game Greedium
The author Thomas Igracki wrote: "This is a game running in a mui window (screenshot), where you have to collect as many numbers as possible, without walking over your own path and you have to stay within the playfield."

Download: Greedium.lha (861 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Apr.2017
amiga.org (Webseite)


Web-Browser: Release of IBrowse 2.5 might come closer
For more than ten years the website of the internet browser IBrowse as well as its programmer Oliver Roberts has been pointing out to a forthcoming version 2.5 of the programm, if any kind of problems or necessary updates were addressed. Many users gave up hope that IBrowse -which also cannot be purchased for almost ten years  - that an update will be released.

Now the website of the browser has been updated: " As we move closer towards a new IBrowse release, we've updated the FAQ a little and uploaded an unedited history log of all the changes made since IBrowse 2.4 was released (these will both be updated at various times in the future as development continues)." A precise date of a forthcoming version 2.5 is not mentioned in the FAQ, but it is said that "various stumbling blocks have been removed".

Mainly IBrowse 2.5 will provide minor improvements and adaptions to current MUI versions. Additionally, AmiSSL 4 is supported. If the update will be available for free "has yet to be decided". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Apr.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood: Several Plugin updates, 64-Bit support
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of many plugins for the x86_64 architecture. Since Hollywood 7.0: Eternity now has support for 64-bit CPUs the plugins also had to be updated for the new architecture. The following plugins have now been updated with 64-bit versions for x86_64 CPUs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux:
  • ahx.hwp
  • aiff.hwp
  • apng.hwp
  • avcodec.hwp
  • digibooster.hwp
  • flic.anim
  • httpstreamer.hwp
  • jpeg2000.hwp
  • moviesetter.hwp
  • oggtheora.hwp
  • oggvorbis.hwp
  • pcx.hwp
  • sqlite3.hwp
  • svgimage.hwp
  • tiff.hwp
  • vectorgraphics.hwp
  • xmlparser.hwp
  • yafa.hwp
Furthermore, the following plugins are available in new versions for all platforms:
  • ahx.hwp 1.2
  • avcodec.hwp 1.4
  • httpstreamer.hwp 1.1
  • sqlite3.hwp 1.2
Finally, the Android binaries of all plugins have been updated. They now no longer have text relocations which makes their binaries smaller and also avoids a warning to the debug port on Android devices.

You can download the plugins from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (Classic), AmigaOS3 (FPU), AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (x86), Linux (x64), Linux (arm), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (x86), Mac OS (x64), Windows (x86), Windows (x64) and Google's Android platform (arm) are provided. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Apr.2017



Aminet-Uploads until 01.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 1st, 2017:
IntyBASIC.lha            dev/cross  605K  MOS BASIC compiler for Intellivision
minipicolisp.i386-aro... dev/lang   129K  x86 A minimal version of PicoLisp
AB3DTrainer_src.lha      game/patch 33K       AB3DTrainer source code
AmiSGE_src.lha           game/patch 29K       AmiSGE source code
Wesnoth.m68k.lha         game/strat 48M   68k Battle for Wesnoth
RNOAnim.lha              gfx/show   1.8M  MOS Animation player, converter a...
FrodoV4_1b_src.lha       misc/emu   434K      Frodo source code
Nostalgia_src.lha        misc/emu   1.6M      Nostalgia source code
TI4Amiga_src.lha         misc/emu   16K       TI4Amiga source code
Calimero_3.91.lha        text/dtp   8.4M  MOS A DTP Program
gsar-1.21.i386-aros.lha  util/cli   109K  x86 search and replace text in files
geowrite2rtf.lha         util/conv  21K   MOS Convert C64/C128 GEOS GeoWrit...
cranker.lha              util/pack  710K  68k executable/data cruncher and ...
Hexaco.lha               util/wb    29K   68k Color values as hex/dec/... (...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 01.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 1st, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb   4.1 An arabic console device
pythonssl.lha            lib/mis 106kb 4.1 AmiSSL 4 based Python SSL Module
proaction.lha            lib/rea 645kb 4.0 GUIServer for script writers
gsar.lha                 uti/she 109kb 4.0 General Search And Replace
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02.Apr.2017



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 01.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until April 1st, 2017:
minipicolisp.i386-aros.tgz   dev/lan 129kb A minimal version of PicoLisp
gsar-1.21.i386-aros.lha      uti/tex 109kb cli utility to search and replac...
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02.Apr.2017



WHDLoad: New installers until 01.04.2017
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 April 1st, 2017: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Apr.2017
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ACA500plus: Menu update (V0.97)
An update for the menu of the accelerator board ACA500plus developed by Individual Computers is available.
  • New feature: User ROM name support, start offset changed. User ROMs must be re-flashed
  • Update: new versions of MMU libraries
  • Fix: entering HRTMon when Action Replay is active
  • Fix: launching a profile (=bypassing the menu) on power-up does not crash any more
  • New feature: Serial logging F8 option. Default is off
  • New feature: Reset to factory default erases all profiles
  • New Feature: "trapdoor max" setting for creating 1MByte "slow ram" config (not compatible with 1M Chipram option)
  • Added required patches of Action Replay for using this memory
  • Fixed memory and autoconfig problem after warm-start with ACA1220, ACA1232 and ACA1233
  • Added global option for RTC setting
  • Added global setting for background stars in menu
  • (Re-)added option "always enter menu on every reset"
  • Inhibited activating 1M Chipram option in Standard profiles menu if ChipMap is not available
  • Added shift-F7 in main menu to activate AUX slot during OS-install
  • CPU selection with ACA1233n/B1230IV is now part of a saved configuration
  • Flashing does not require a power-cycle any more
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02.Apr.2017
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.10
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. Version 3.10 provides some handling improvements and bug fixes.

As usual the update is available for free for all registered users. If you want to test it, there is demo version.

Download: DirMeUp_Demo.lha (16 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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01.Apr.2017
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AnimWebConverter 2.70
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 2.70 some bugs have been fixed. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2017



Download of full versions of Mostares and Mostares 2
Amiga Future offers the full versions of Mostares and Mostares 2 for free download. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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