27.Nov.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 26.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 26th, 2016:
yWeather.lha comm/misc 362K MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
netsurf.lha comm/www 6.2M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 3.4M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
RobotGang.lha demo/intro 194K 68k Robot Gang
renderlib301.lha dev/misc 259K ppc image processing kernel 060NO...
amiga-assembler-buch.pdf docs/misc 1.3M Das endliche Assemblerbuch (N...
Chocolate-Heretic-1.0... game/shoot 884K 68k Amiga port of Chocolate-Heretic
emutos.lha misc/emu 396K ppc EmuTOS - Amiga version
Eagleplayer_2.05.lha mus/play 2.0M 68k comprehensive modular sound p...
ControllerTest.lha util/misc 56K 68k Test many different types of ...
ExtractHere.lha util/wb 37K 68k Simple LhA wrapper for Workbench
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.11.2016
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seq.lha aud/mis 100kb 4.0 Simple MIDI step sequencer
netsurf.lha net/bro 6Mb 4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
amiupdate_ell.lha uti/wor 7kb 4.1 Greek catalog files for AmiUpdat...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 26.11.2016
The following package has been added to the AROS-Archives until November 26th, 2016:
tuxmath.i386-aros.zip gam/chi 5Mb Math game styled like 'Missle Co...
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27.Nov.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Accelerator board: Photo and speed tests of Wicher 500
In August, Retro 7-Bit announced an accelerator board for the Amiga 500. Under the title link now photos of this Wicher board have been published as well as some speed tests released.
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25.Nov.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Video: AmigaOS 4.1 booting on the Tabor-Board
Under the title link, Hyperion Entertainment has released a video of an early development version of a port of AmigaOS 4.1 to the Tabor board ("AmigaOne 1222").
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25.Nov.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: EdiSyn 0.55 and Mapparium 0.7 for ARM
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS offers tabs and syntax highlighting for C/C++, Pascal, HTML and Hollywood. Version 0.55 for the first time and exclusively is available for ARM-based AROS-systems, which now remebers recently opened files.
The OpenStreetMap viewer Mapparium has been also released for ARM.
Download:
EdiSyn_0.55_ARM.lha (3 MB)
Mapparium_0.7.arm-aros.lha (4 MB)
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24.Nov.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Visual effects Pioneer: Ron Thornton died
"After a short battle with liver disease" Ron Thornton died on 21. November 2016. He was 59. Together with Paul Beigle-Bryant, he was one of the pioneers using computers for creating visual effects for space films.
His animations created on an Amiga with the videotoaster and Newteks LightWave 3D have had a formative influence on the TV serie "Babylon 5". For the pilot of this serie, "The Gathering", in 1993 he received the Emmy, the most important award for TV in USA.
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23.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Podcast: AMIcast 18 - Amibian (Amiga on the Raspberry Pi)
In the latest issue of his podcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Gunnar Kristjánsson and Thomas Navarro Garcia, members of the project
Amibian, which directly boots a Raspberry Pi into the Amiga emulator UAE4All.
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23.Nov.2016
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.4.4 (alpha)
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which is supposed to help developing games of diverse genres - released videos show ports of Pacman and Pang. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" for running the finished games requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast-RAM.
On Internet so far there only is a closed Facebook group, but you can contact the authors via eMail. The latest alpha version can be downloaded via Google Drive.
Now the RedPill editor tries not to use a FPU. More changes of version 0.4.4:
- Tiles can have 3 shapes: Normal, Ramp Up and Ramp Down. Define them in the Tiles screen.
- Audio: Amiga Mods can be played. Define them in the audio menu and use Play Mod trigger to play them. They are loaded at play moment, it is better to play them once at the start of the level.
- Audio: Amiga IFF sounds can be played. Define them in the audio menu and use Play Sound trigger to play them.
- Sprite color Remap now gives an error message when failing.
- Sprite generation from sprite sheets is more robust.
- Physics and platform code has been redone (again) to support the new tile shapes.
- GameObjects process has been slightly optimized.
- When editting values the previous value is not lost anymore.
- When editing levels now you can use F to flood fill the current tile.
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22.Nov.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Game: BOH-Update 17, new website
There is a free update for Simone Bevilacqua's commercial "Dungeon-crawler" BOH (among others available for AmigaOS 4, AROS). Besides, the website moved and can be now found under the title link.
Changes:
- Adds 17 new missions (5 very easy, 8 easy, 4 average)
- Improves 43 missions by means of new/revised hints, little changes to the layouts, and other changes
- Marks training missions with a dedicated icon
- Adds the remote control icon to the HUD
- Adds graphics interpolation to enemy sprites
- Improves some graphics and shooting sound effects
- Adds specific sound effects to the theme "C64"
- Renames some missions and most themes
- Reworks the manuals entirely
- Reworks the soundtrack artwork entirely
- Allows to run the game on Windows 10 as a normal user (due to changes in the Windows files handling policy, it had become necessary to run the game as administrator)
- Fixes the resetting of the timer due to the focus loss auto-pause when the game was already paused
- Applies various other changes/optimizations
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22.Nov.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Web browser: NetSurf 3.6 for AmigaOS 3/4
Chris Young has updated his ports of the web browser Netsurf. In version 3.6 some bugs have been fixed and the GUI-code cleared up. Besides, supercookies now can be refused and handling certificates was improved.
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22.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 95
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers, which is available in different formats - among others as HTML version and as C64-Diskmag.
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22.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Full version of "Gadget: Lost in Time" as free download
The full version of the puzzler and platform game Gadget: Lost in Time is available as free download.
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20.Nov.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 19th, 2016:
BlitzISOtoFloppy.lha dev/basic 1K Make floppy from Ultimate Bli...
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 36K 68k Mediator driver Sonnet 7200 G...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
srec.lha gfx/misc 149K OS4 Screen Recorder
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha mus/play 334K 68k MPEG audio player with GUI (A...
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 14K 68k Decompiles catalogs back into...
pwdGen.lzh util/misc 8K 68k password generator
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 455K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 517K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 567K OS4 Multipurpose utility
tz.lha util/time 1.0M 68k Time Zone Database and Library
tzdev.lha util/time 743K Time Zone Database and Librar...
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20.Nov.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until November 19th, 2016:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
reportplus.lha uti/mis 567kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
ctlg2ct.lha uti/tex 39kb 4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
amiupdate_rus.lha uti/wor 7kb 4.1 Russian catalogs for AmiUpdate
srec.lha vid/rec 149kb 4.1 Screen Recorder
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20.Nov.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hyperion Entertainment: Facebook website
For all the little "in between" news, Hyperion Entertainment has established a Facebook website under the title link.
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18.Nov.2016
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Catacomb 3D: Delivery has started
Since the beginning of this week, the game Catacomb 3D (amiga-news.de reported) has been delievered. Purchaser of Projekt Lila can apply for a "VIP-Status" in Pascal Papara's Ares-shop and then will get a discount for the game.
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16.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Kickstarter: New keycaps for Amiga keyboards
Last year, Philipp Lang and his team achieved the production of new A1200 cases via Kickstarter. The production just has started. As completion now new keycaps are supoposed to be produced which are compatible with existing Amiga keyboards.
About 67.000 Euro has to be collected cia Kickstarter to start the production. One set of keycaps consist of all necessary keys Tasten (some of them in different sizes to be compatible with as many as possible Amiga computers), new springs as well as plastic clips for sticking some of the bigger keys like SPACE or ENTER. The sets will be available with German, British and American layout. Additionally a lot of different colours will be offered, some of them as limited editions.
A single set will cost 49 Euro in the Kickstarter campaign, but there also will be diverse special editions for a higher sum of money. Please note, that all Dollar prices - unless otherwise specified - on the project website are not in US but in Singapore-Dollar ("SGD"). At the beginning of the project website, the maintainers give information how to convert the prices into USD or Euro
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16.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Audio-Player: AmigaAMP 3.18 (AmigaOS 3/4)
In the latest version of the audio player AmigaAMP a bug was fixed, which could cause crashes if the preferences are changed while playing.
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14.Nov.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video-Review: ARMIGA, ARM-based Amiga emulating microconsole
"The Game Show" has released a video review of the ARM-based Amiga emulating microconsole ARMIGA. In March the ARMIGA-project was started via crowdfunding, meanwhile you can buy the devices in a webshop. A special feature of the ARMIGA is the built-in disk drive which can read Amiga disks.
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13.Nov.2016
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CD1200 prototype in Retro-Computer-Museum in Leicester
The CD-drive CD1200, which was introduced by Commodore at the CeBIT 1994, should make the Amiga 1200 compatible with the CD³² by using the integrated Akiko-chip. There are two prototypes, a gray one which Ryan Czerwinski ("Merlancia") own and the white one, which was presented at the CeBIT.
During the last months, readers of Amiga.org discussed where the white CD1200 could be located. The producer of the podcast "The Retro Hour", Ravi Abbott, has found it in the Retro-Computer-Museum in Leicester, proved by photos under the title link.
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13.Nov.2016
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)
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Crowdfunding: First Amiga pictures of the game Tower 57
In summer last year, the development of the game "Tower 57" was crowdfunded. As an additional goal also it was given so much money to develop an Amiga version, which Daniel Müßener does. Under the title link some first screenshots show the current level of development.
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13.Nov.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 12.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 12th, 2016:
ntimed.lha comm/net 266K 68k Network time synchronization ...
streamer.lha comm/www 355K 68k Internet radio MPEG/RealAudio...
AmigaProgramming-1.0.lha docs/help 286K Guide to Amiga Compatible Pro...
RiVA-src.lha gfx/show 89K 68k RiVA MPEG player source code
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.4M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
Travel_Around_Earth.lha mods/xm 731K New mod by Pseudaxos
cranker.lha util/pack 730K 68k Amiga exe cruncher/loader,dat...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until November 12th, 2016:
pypdf2.lha dev/lib 86kb 4.1 Manipulate PDFs from python code
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
sortbench.lha uti/she 8kb 4.0 a CPU benchmark that stresses CP...
pdf_maker.lha uti/tex 26kb 4.1 Convert postscript to PDF with s...
amiupdate_fin.lha uti/wor 32kb 4.1 Finnish catalogs for AmiUpdate
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12.Nov.2016
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Video: Production of new Amiga-1200 cases has started
Yesterday the mass production of the new Amiga-1200 cases has started by producing the trapdoors, like the video proves which is available under the title link. Next week more videos and photos will be added.
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10.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Podcast: AMIcast, Special Episode 4
In the fourth special episode of the English-language podcast AMIcast the Pole Adam Zalepa was invited, who is distributing books and games for the Amiga under amiga.net.pl. The host Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked with him about his projects but also about the AmiWest 2016 and the news which was announced at the event.
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10.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Hollywood: Date&Time Lib 1.3 offers date functions
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci has released a new library for developers of Hollywood: The Date&Time Lib provides diverse functions regarding the date. It is distributed as Shareware, the Shareware Fee is three Euro.
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10.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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World of Commodore 2016: 3./4. December, Toronto (Canada)
On December 3rd and 4th in Toronto (Canada) the "World of Commodore" will take place. Additional to a peddlers market and stalls of official dealers there will also be presentations of diverse hardware and software projects of different Commodore computers.
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10.Nov.2016
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Documentation: "Viva Amiga" - International Release on January 6th
The website of the crowdfunded Amiga documentation Viva Amiga has announced the official release date: From January 6th 2017, Zach Weddington's six years lasting project will be available. Pre-Orders will begin in December.
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10.Nov.2016
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.8.1
After several beta versions, now Frode Solheim has released a "stable" one of the Amiga emulator FS-UAE. There are ports for Windows, Mac OS and different Linux and BSD versions. Changes since the last release:
- Alt+F4 and Cmd+Q will no longer quit FS-UAE (in full keyboard emulation mode)
- Use raw input on Windows again (allows grabbing of Windows keys, etc)
- New option raw_input = 0 will disable use of raw input for keyboard
- Fixed loading shaders from fs-uae.dat
- Updated Xbox 360 configs for Linux
Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.8.1:
- Fixed problem where rating could be reset for first loaded game/variant
- New experimental option: relative_temp_feature
Changes in FS-UAE Arcade 2.8.1:
- Added stretch / keep aspect toggle button to top right menu
- Added V-Sync toggle button to top right menu
- Ability to see and change variant before starting the game
- Make menu rendering conformant to FS-UAE style
- More transition animations
- New cover rendering for non-portrait covers
- Use --platform= to start with a given platform filter, e.g. --platform=cd32
- Variant sort order fixed to be same as in FS-UAE Launcher
- Fixed arrow keys for FS-UAE Arcade on MacOS
- Reversed position of platform and publisher names
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10.Nov.2016
Max Mustermann (ANF)
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New Amiga video of Eric Schwartz
For a while, Eric Schwartz, well-known by his Cartoon characters like "Amy" or "Rachel Racoon", creates music videos for existing songs, in which animated Amiga computers play the leading role. At the beginning of 2008 Still Alive was released, for the 25th anniversary Only Amiga was presented and a few days ago, Schwartz has released The (Amiga) Song.
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06.Nov.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 05.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until November 5th, 2016:
librhash.lha dev/lib 326K 68k C library for computing hash ...
HeartOfTheAlienRedux.lha game/actio 269K 68k Amiga version of action-adven...
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.8M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
scummvm-1.8.1-rtg.lha game/misc 29M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 1.8.1
mebt.lha misc/misc 31K 68k Psychological test (Turkish)
AmigaAMP3-68k_3.17.lha mus/play 329K 68k MPEG audio player with GUI (A...
armodplugplayer02.aro... mus/play 1.8M x86 Plays 22 different mod formats
rhash.lha util/crypt 155K 68k Recursive Hasher
tzdata.lha util/time 367K Time Zone Database
tzdata2015g.tar.gz util/time 293K Time Zone Database
tzdata2015g-all.lha util/time 1.6M Time Zone Database
tzdata2015g-zones.lha util/time 371K Time Zone Database
tzdata2016g.tar.gz util/time 309K Time Zone Database
tzdata2016g-all.lha util/time 1.6M Time Zone Database
tzdata2016g-zones.lha util/time 375K Time Zone Database
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 05.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until November 5th, 2016:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
reactive_crypto.lha dri/mis 96kb 4.1 Hashing classes for Reactive
sf.lha gam/shm 47Mb 4.0 Space Game
winpointers.lha gra/mis 48kb 4.1 Set of 32-bit PNG pointers based...
glblocktube_bl.lha gra/scr 538kb 4.1 OpenGL Screen Blanker
glboing_bl.lha gra/scr 58kb 4.1 OpenGL Screen Blanker
glboxed_bl.lha gra/scr 201kb 4.1 OpenGL Screen Blanker
knobgad.lha lib/rea 57kb 4.0 Round knob gadget
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_deu.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_fin.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.1 Finnish catalogs for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_fra.lha uti/wor 7kb 4.0 AmiUpdate French Catalog
amiupdate_ita.lha uti/wor 47kb 4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
srec_fra.lha vid/rec 828b 4.1 SRec french catalog
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 05.11.2016
The following packages have been added to the AROS-Archives until November 5th, 2016:
armodplugplayer02.i386-ar... aud 2Mb Plays 22 different mod formats ,...
mame.i386-aros.zip emu/gam 24Mb mame 0.113 complete
tomatoes.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 9Mb 10 mazes. 10 minutes. Bomb all t...
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04.Nov.2016
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 123
The English and German issue 123 (November/December 2016) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today, and can also be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future as well as other Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. The current issue includes a report from Evoke 2016, an Amiga Waves interview and a test of the game "Reshoot". (snx)
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02.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Developer tools: vlink 0.15c and vasm 1.7g (update)
Frank Wille has updated the portable linker vlink which can handle a lot of binary formats and is part of the compiler package vbcc.
Update: (19:43, 04.11.16, snx)
Also an update has been released for the modular assembler vasm. As usual, only the source code has been released and has to be compiled by oneself. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Nov.2016
Foxman (ANF)
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Audio-Player: AmigaAMP 3.17 with support of Prisma Megamix
According to Thomas "TomSoniq" Wenzel in the German comment section of amiga-news.de, he has ported version 3 of AmigaAMP which so far was only available for AmigaOS 4 to AmigaOS 3. AmigaAMP 3.17 plays MP3-files as well as the formats M4A, OGG and FLAC. In order to be able to play that formats, the hardware decoder "Prisma Megamix" is supported which was recently released. MHI-drivers are used to control it.
According Wenzel the codec on the decoder card is considered to be a little bit unstable. Therefore the player and decoder may happen to stop running synchronously, if the user does fast-forward and rewind within a track.
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01.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Hyperion: ISO-Images of "Heretic II" for registered customers
According to the Amiga Future, for registered customers for two weeks Hyperion offers ISO-images of its action-adventure Heretic II which was released in 2000.
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01.Nov.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- September/October 2016 news
- Old artticles from Tilt 78 to 82
- Interview with Stuart Bonn
- Comparative: Tennis simulations of 1989-1990
- Review of Gold Of The Aztecs
- Interview with Alexey Pajitnov
- Review of Damocles
- Review of Flimbo's Quest
- Report: Amiga on a TF1 studio
- File: The software protections
- Review of Dynasty Wars
- File: The profession of graphist
- Review of F29 Retaliator
- Report: ECTS European Awards 1990, etc
- Report: Adelaide Retro Computing (september 2016)
- Interview with Steve Hammond (graphist of Hired Guns and Lemmings 2)
- Interview with Crashdisk (member of TOSEC)
- Review: Dir Me Up 3.02
- Review: Enhancer Software 1.1
- Review: MultiRacer 1.0.4
- File: Classic Reflections - What happen to Electronic Arts?
- Tutorial: utilization et configuration of SCANdal
- DIY: overclock PowerPC 603e and 68060 of a BlizzardPPC
- Programming: AMOS - manage keyboard commands for a game
- Special quizz about the Amiga 4000
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01.Nov.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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ModExplorer 0.9b for all Amiga systems
Similar to AmiModRadio, the Hollywood-programm ModExplorer plays music modules from the Internet but also supports the Aminet, Modland and modules.pl.
- Some bugs have been fixed
- The GUI was slightly changed. Now it should fit (with the corresponding MUI options) on a screen with simple PAL solution. The author himself even could handle a solution of 390*241.
- The ARexx-port was expanded and a little Doc explains the commands
- A button "last" was added. If you should forget pressing the button in time while streaming (the playlist is not updated with new songs utomatically), you can get to the "last" mod which was downloaded.
- Skin-GUI was completely removed
- In order to reduce the download time, the archive does not contain any executables any more.
Downloads:
Main archive: modexplorer.lha (1 MB)
OS3-Executable: me_os3.exe (2,3 MB)
OS4-Executable: me_os4.exe (3,1 MB)
MOS-Executable: me_mos.exe (2,4 MB)
AROS-Executable: me_aros.exe (2,8 MB)
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31.Oct.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hardware-Audio-Player: Prisma Megamix Music Card available
The "Prisma Megamix Music Card", which was originally advertised using the slightly misleading term 'sound card', is now available at Amigakit. Thanks to a built-in hardware decoder, the card plays various music formats (e.g. MP2, MP3, WMA, OGG) without putting stress on the Amiga's CPU.. It has both a Zorro and a Clockport interface. A properly isolated version that can be used in the original Amiga 1200 desktop case is said to be "coming soon".
Features:
- Clockport and Zorro II interfaces (if operated in Zorro II slot, clockport can be used for compatible add-on cards)
- Compatible with Amiga A1200 T, A2000, A3000, A4000, A4000T
- Based on VS1063 chip
- Playback of wide range of formats: MP2, MP3, WMA, OGG, LC-AAC, HE-AAC, FLAC, ALAC, IMA ADPCM, G.711 u-law, G.711 a-law, G.722, and WAV PCM formats
- Pass through port for Paula mixing. Paula mixing is automatically activated by hardware, no software interaction needed
- CDDA header
- MHI support for use with MHI compatible software such as AmigaAmp
- can be expanded by optional digital module S/PDIF
You can get further information in wiki.amiga.org/prisma.
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31.Oct.2016
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 3.4.0
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE present a short preview to the changes of the next version. The main focus of version 3.4.0 is the emulation of further hardware extensions as well as the improvement of already emulated extensions. WinUAE 3.4.0 is supposed to be released in December.
New emulated expansion hardware:
- Graphics adapters:
- ColorBurst
- Harlequin
- OpalVision
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Accelerator boards:
- Blizzard 1230 MK II and III.
- IVS Vector 68030
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HD controllers:
- Blizzard 1230 MK II and III SCSI Kit.
- Buddha.
- Expansion Systems Dataflyer Plus.
- FileCard 2000/OSSI 500
- SCRAM 500/2000
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Network adapters:
- AmigaNet.
- Ariadne.
- Ariadne II.
- LAN Rover/EB920.
- NE2000 compatible PCMCIA.
- NE2000 compatible ISA (x86 bridgeboard compatible).
- X-Surf and X-Surf 100 (Partial)
New features:
- RAM/RTG RAM handling updated, all size combinations are now supported.
- Autoconfig board GUI list with custom sorting support.
- RAM Z2/Z3 board full autoconfig data customization support.
- Up to 4 Z2 and Z3 RAM boards can be enabled simultaneously.
- Multiple display and sound boards can be now enabled simultaneously.
- Genlock realtime custom image, video file or capture stream overlay.
- Genlock mode screenshot/video alpha channel support.
- Accelerator board 68000 fallback mode supported.
- Game Ports panel custom mapping autofire support.
- Network access on screen led.
- Single step (emulate one frame + pause) input event
Updates:
- Reduced input latency.
- Reduced WASAPI sound mode latency.
- WinPCap network mode now uses generated local MAC address, no more
MAC conflicts between Windows and emulated Amiga.
- If some RAM board is not JIT Direct capable, only board's access mode
changes to JIT Indirect. Global JIT Direct option is not switched off.
- Most RAM size/position related JIT Direct restrictions are gone.
- Environment variables in file paths (%VAR%) are now always expanded.
- Implemented AGA only bitplane DMA overrun emulation (Moon Child).
- Host path 260 character limit removed (Windows 10 v1607+ only)
Bug fixes:
- Shortcuts with Shift key work again.
- Custom Game Port remapping does not disappear mysteriously.
- Mounting file with size less than 512 bytes as a harddrive work again.
- CDTV statefiles fixed.
- On the fly directory/archive mounting only worked once under OS4.x.
- Worms DC and ACSYS (possibly others) graphics glitch fixed.
- Bad sprite collision optimization fixed (Jumpman Junior).
- Stop PPC emulation first, before freeing any emulation resources
to prevent random crashes at exit.
- FPS.Adj config file handling fixed.
- ATAPI CD emulation odd data size fix (HDToolbox hang)
- default.uae with unplugged device: set to none, not layout A
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31.Oct.2016
Foxman (ANF)
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Dune II: "Spice Obsession"-Mod 0.6
"Spice Obsession" is a mod of the realtime strategy classic Dune II. In version 0.6 a new level was added to the campaign. Five of nine planned levels have been finished with it.
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30.Oct.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 29.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until October 29th, 2016:
DateLibDevBas.lha dev/basic 42K 68k Using DateLib from Hisoft Basic
berm.zip dev/debug 1K 68k switch DSack/BERR on A4000
rngstreams.lha dev/gcc 244K 68k uniform random number generator
guigfxlib_nofpu.lha dev/misc 24K 68k application layer for pixel g...
Amiga_C_MUI_Examples.lha dev/mui 627K Amiga C MUI Examples
MCE.lha game/edit 1.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
SCACOM_Aktuell_01.pdf mags/germa 1.1M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_02.pdf mags/germa 1.5M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_03.pdf mags/germa 2.7M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_04.pdf mags/germa 3.4M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_05.pdf mags/germa 3.8M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_06.pdf mags/germa 7.9M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_07.pdf mags/germa 3.9M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_08.pdf mags/germa 6.4M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_09.pdf mags/germa 7.8M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_10.pdf mags/germa 2.1M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_11.pdf mags/germa 2.3M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_12.pdf mags/germa 3.7M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_13.pdf mags/germa 2.2M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_14.pdf mags/germa 4.9M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_15.pdf mags/germa 6.0M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_16.pdf mags/germa 2.3M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_17.pdf mags/germa 3.6M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_18_19.pdf mags/germa 3.9M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_20_21.pdf mags/germa 4.3M German magazine for CBM fans ...
SCACOM_Aktuell_22.pdf mags/germa 13M German magazine for CBM fans ...
English_SCACOM_1.pdf mags/misc 1.9M A magazine for Commodore fans...
English_SCACOM_2.pdf mags/misc 1.0M A magazine for Commodore fans...
English_SCACOM_3.pdf mags/misc 3.4M A magazine for Commodore fans...
English_SCACOM_4.pdf mags/misc 3.2M A magazine for Commodore fans...
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...
Just_House.lha mods/xm 712K New mod by Pseudaxos
RNOInfoScreen.lha mus/play 7.9M WOS Music player front-end and in...
WWorth_fincats.lha text/dtp 27K Wordworth 3SE,4SE & 7 Fin...
EvenMoreSP.lha text/show 4K EvenMore v0.90 spanish catalog
Chelp.lha util/batch 120K Online help for MorphOS shell...
SysInfo40_noFPU.lha util/moni 1K 68k No FPU version of SysInfo 4.0
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 29.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until October 29th, 2016:
evolve.lha dev/gui 2Mb 4.1 Rapid GUI Development
qcodeedit.lha dev/uti 10Mb 4.1 A text editor with syntax highli...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
comicami_free.lha gra/vie 212kb 4.1 A comic book viewer
qt-minimal.lha lib/mis 70Mb 4.1 Multiplatform Gui Toolkit (Minimal)
searchln.lha uti/scr 8kb 4.0 A search command alternative
juffed.lha uti/tex 3Mb 4.1 Advanced text editor for Qt4
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30.Oct.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 29.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the AROS-Archives until October 29th, 2016:
formido.i386-aros.zip gam/act 9Mb Topdown bug shooter.
zeldansq.i386-aros.zip gam/adv 17Mb Fan made SDL game in Zelda style...
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30.Oct.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 29.10.2016
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 October 29th, 2016:
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30.Oct.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Battle Squadron - Game Over (Christmas Edit)
- Shadow of the Beast - The Well
- Turrican II - The Desert Rocks
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29.Oct.2016
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Training version of RESHOOT shows level of complexity of the game
Richard Löwenstein's (e.g. 'Amiga Joker') shoot'em up RESHOOT can be purchased on CD for some months. A few days ago the scene group Flashtro released a "training version", which provides a training mode as well as an autofire function requested by many users.
The archive released by Flashtro only contains the modified executable file. The original game data were required in order to play the game - therefore Löwenstein did not raise objections regarding the distribution - on one condition: The training mode had to be removed (it spoils the fun) which Flashtro met.
At first glance this condition seems to be strange - but a video, also published by Flashtro, which shows a "longplay" of RESHOOT with atraining mode enabled, might explain that: The game, which is sold for 36 Euro, only has one single level which can be completed in less than 10 minutes. Afterwards the level restarts with an increased difficulty ("insane").
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29.Oct.2016
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New Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.4.3 (alpha)
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which shall enable the development of games of different genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Pang. RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS. The "player" requires 1MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Currently there is only a closed Facebook group but no proper homepage, but the authors can be also contacted via email. The latest alpha version can be downloaded via Google Drive.
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29.Oct.2016
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Action adventure: "Boxed-Edition" of Enemy 2 can be purchased
A while ago a boxed edition of Enemy 2 was announced which has been produced by now. The Enemy 2-Team is announcing the immediate release with a promotional poster:
The title will go on sale at the 'Amiga meeting', which is taking place in Bad Bramstedt (Germany) this weekend. Starting next week, regular orders via e-mail will be accepted, further details will be provided soon. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Oct.2016
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AROS: September 2016 Highlights
Based on his weekly summaries, under the title link Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz also publishes an article which summarizes the progresses of the operating system AROS for the last month.
So, in September the distribution AEROS was updated to version 4.0.1 for the Raspberry Pi 1/2/3 and Odroid XU3/XU4 as well as the first version released of the an AROS-distribution for the Orange Pi. Paolo Besser's distribution Icaros Desktop was updated to version 2.1.3.
Furthermore, Neil Cafferkey is working on an improved implementation of MUI and Miloslav Martinka added Czech localization to a number of applications as well as implemented localization in Appearance preferences.
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28.Oct.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZuneView 0.28
Yannick Erb has released version 0.28 of his picture viewer named ZuneView for AROS.
Changes:
- Added Polar Effects
- Correct implementation of checkmarks (remove workaround)
- Replaced color picker hack by final implementation (spent some time on a color changing mouse pointer for this one)
- Added possibility to make rotation by defining angle
- Added negative picture effect
- Some code refactoring
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27.Oct.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hyperion Entertainment: Bugfix update for Workbench 3.1 (40.43)
For the version 40.43 of the Workbench 3.1 (amiga-news.de reported), which is distributed by Hyperion Entertainment, an update has been released which fixes the following two bugs:
- The Workbench disk image was not bootable
- The installation script could wrongly copy the contents of the Install disk into FONTS:
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27.Oct.2016
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS-Team: Price reduction for PowerBook, iBook and PowerMac G5
According to Frank Mariak, member of the MorphOS developer team, in the MorphZone, from today the price for the Licemce of MorphOS for the PowerBook G4, the iBook G4 and for the PowerMac G5 was reduced. There are only two price categories: 49 Euro for the Efika as well as for the Sam460 board and 79 Euro for all other systems.
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