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16.Feb.2012



Accelerator board: ACA 1231 with 68030 incl. MMU and RTC
The ACA 1231 developed by Individual Computers is a accelerator board for the Amiga 1200. Compared with the previous model ACA 1230, now a full-value 68030-CPU inclusive MMU was used.

The ACA-1231/42 comes with 64 MB RAM, 1 MB of which are reserved to map the Kickstart into the fast memory. Kickstart 3.0 users must add the memory with the ACATune software. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Feb.2012



AmigaOS 4: Firefox-port Timberwolf 4.0.1 (Beta)
Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden have published a new beta version of their Firefox-port "Timberwolf". Currently hardware-based rendering is still not implemented. Print routines, sound support, WebGL as well as Drag&Drop are missing, too.

Timberwolf requires AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4. The authors points out that the user is recommended to look at the Readme which is included in the archive before Timberwolf is started. It includes important hints among others to Font-Caches. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Feb.2012



Demo scene: Results and releases of Datastorm 2012
Last weekend the "Datastorm 2012" took place in Göteborg (Sweden). You can find the results of the different competitions on the website of the organizers.

The productions Revision 2012 Invitation (Focus Design) and the 1KB Bootblock-Intro Wayne Bars (TV Noise bootblock 2) (Loonies&Darklite) you can find on pouet.net. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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15.Feb.2012
David Brunet (ANF)


Interview: Paul Gentle (Varisys, X1000-Project)
"Obligement" has interviewed Paul Gentle who is one of the founder of Varisys. By order of A-EON the British company had developed and produced the X1000. The interview is available in English and French. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Feb.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Magazine: Preview of Amiga Future 95
The preview of issue 95 (March/April 2012) of the Amiga Future is online. Issue 95 will include reviews of the AmigaOne X1000 ("First Contact") and of the FPGA Arcade. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Feb.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate 2.13
AmiUpdate keeps track of the current versions of software that it knows about, and this tool will query that database and compare those new files with which you have installed on your system. This will inform you of any files installed on your computer which are currently in need of updating. The changes in this version are listed in the Release Notes. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Feb.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Document viewer OpenOfficeViewer 0.0.5
Carsten Siegner's OpenOfficeViewer displays texts and graphics which are available in the OpenDocument-format and among others is used by OpenOffice. Changes in version 0.0.5:
  • Pictures within OpenDocumentText now are correctly recognized and displayed
  • Horizontal tabulators now are correctly interpreted
  • Soft Pagebreaks and Hard Pagebreaks in OpenDocumentText now are interpreted
  • Print routine for native filetransfer (Postscript) finished and works
  • Tentative routine for Turboprint-support works
  • The GUI was slightly changed (and now looks better...)
  • A guide was written
  • A localization of the GUI is available in four languages (German, English, Turkish and French)
  • A bug in the picture routine (OpenDocumentText) was fixed
  • A new icon was added

Download: OpenOfficeViewer_0.0.5.lha (10,2 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Feb.2012
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Gribouillis 3.1.500 and PyMUI 0.6.254
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez' graphic programm Gribouillis as well as PyMUI were updated. Most of the notified bugs were fixed and an improved interface for managing layers integrated. Selecting colours were improved as well. Saving in PNG- (and ORA-) format was accelerated by using the png.library. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Feb.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Audio Evolution 4 becomes Freeware, source code release announced
Davy Wentzler has published a Freeware version of his so far commercially sold harddisk recording and editing software Audio Evolution 4 on OS4depot. In the Readme file the author also has announced the release of the source code. Half a year ago the sources of the older version were published on Aminet. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Feb.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Event: Commodore-Show in Maarssen, Netherlands (18. February)
On 18. February the Commodore Gebruikersgroep (CGG) will organize its "Commodore-Show". Ruud Baltissen will offer a do-it-yourselfer workshop.

The meeting will take place in "Trefpunt" in Kerkweg 21 in Maarssen. Start 10 o'clock. Admission is free. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Feb.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 11.02.2012
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until 11.02.2012:
NetPrinter.lha           comm/tcp   84K   MOS V1.15 Driver for network prin...
IFT_Dataworld2.lha       demo/aga   131M  68k Dataworld 2 by Infect/WK-Artw...
UF_RoadMovie.lha         demo/aga   287M  68k Road Movie By United Force
ABasiC_patch.lha         dev/basic  18K   68k Patch Metacomco's ABasiC for ...
cc65-morphos.lha         dev/cross  6.3M  MOS ANSI C 6502 cross development...
libpdcurses.lha          dev/lib    2.2M  68k SDL implementation of ncurses
libpdcurses_ns.lha       dev/lib    666K  68k SDL/pdcurses with no size gadget
SDL_Mixer-Amiga-1_2_1... dev/lib    985K  68k minimalist SDL mixer build
Window.lha               dev/src    9K    68k Attach CON: to existing windo...
MCE.lha                  game/edit  762K  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  904K  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  911K  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ffmpeg-git7df9937-m68... gfx/conv   22M   68k FFmpeg + FFplay video player
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   2.6M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   2.8M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   2.8M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
mp3info85a_sdl.lha       mus/edit   167K  68k MP3 info & tag edit.
CodeAudio.lha            mus/misc   841K  68k GUI for Lame,Ogg,Flac,Faad + ...
EP_PaulTonge.lha         mus/play   11K   68k EaglePlayer "Paul Tonge" exte...
mikmod_sdl.lha           mus/play   397K  68k Play & convert various mo...
playOGG.lha              mus/play   4.8M  68k multi format sound player.
Classic_WB_Icons_UP1.... pix/picon  23M       Classic WB PNG icon set
xad_rar.lha              util/arc   315K  OS4 XAD (UnArc) client for RAR3 a...
Grunch.lha               util/misc  1.8M  MOS V1.34 Application management ...
TinyLauncher.lha         util/misc  247K  68k WHDLoad frontend and more
chkpic.lha               util/rexx  1K        Check consistence of JFIF/PNG...
Identify.lha             util/shell 8K    MOS Datatype-based file identifier
modifyle.lha             util/wb    124K  68k stylish ASL filerequester rep...
wet_update.lha           util/wb    52K   OS4 Wet weather software v6.2 patch
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12.Feb.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.02.2012
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until 11.02.2012:
qt-sdk.lha               dev/cro 51Mb  4.1 Qt 4.7 SDK for AmigaOS 4 native
qt-user.lha              dev/cro 41Mb  4.1 Qt 4.7 user archive for AmigaOS ...
amidarkengine.lha        dev/lan 8Mb   4.1 AmiDARK Engine Alpha/Test demo
uclogictablet.lha        dri/inp 52kb  4.0 USB Driver for UCLogic based Gra...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha                  gam/uti 2Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
sketchblock.lha          gra/edi 771kb 4.1 SketchBlock - Digital Sketching ...
clwbpisup.lha            gra/ico 23Mb  4.0 PNG Icons for Amiga OS
flasq.lha                gra/vec 544kb 4.1 FlasQ - flash animation editor f...
sam440ep_setup.lha       uti/she 52kb  4.1 A utility to optimize your Sam44...
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12.Feb.2012



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 11.02.2012 / Now more than 500 archives available
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS-Files:
AmiDARK Engine           0.5c    dev/lib   6014 Advanced Game Development K...
FPSE                     0.10.3  uti/emu   1094 Emulator of Sony PlayStatio...
Thus since yesterday on MorphOS-files more than 500 archives are available. In the last three years over 93.000 files have been downloaded. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Feb.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Text viewer: EvenMore 0.75
EvenMore developed by Chris Perver is a text viewer written with ECX in Amiga E. The changes in version 0.75 are listed in the Readme-file.

Download: EvenMore.lha (500 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Feb.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


UAE: AmiKit 1.6.1
AmiKit is a full distribution for UAE users and is now available in version 1.6.1. The update will be automatically installed if there is a previous version on the harddrive and includes the following changes:
  • Added: XAD RAR 2.4 by Chris Young
  • Updated: AmiKit Install Patches 1.9
  • Updated: CodeAudio 3.10
  • Updated: EvenMore 0.74
  • Updated: FFmpeg + FFplay (29-Jan-2012, 040 FPU version)
  • Updated: IconLib 46.4.255 (run "Install Patches" to install it)
  • Updated: playOGG 120209
  • Updated: Wet 6.2
  • Updated: WHDLoad 17.1 beta (29-Jan-2012)
This update was supported by donations of Arnljot A., AmyZamp, Per Iversen, The Walrus, Anthony Becker, Peter Stĺhlberg, J-Golden, jochen, Kevin Sambell, Korhan Adilin, Per Iversen, Costantino Damilakis, FaTBoB, TheAlmogaver, noXLar, oddmario, Lighting Tower, JHaybarn, Ade B., JanL, Sergio Ciotti, Kerzoul and others. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Feb.2012
Blackbird (Forum)


Sequencer: HD-Rec 0.10 Beta
Thilo "Der_Wanderer" Köhler has published a new version of his MIDI and audio sequencer HD-Rec:
  • made AISS images work correctly with HD-Rec
  • added some more key-shortcuts to the wave editor (SPACE)
  • improved denoiser with graphical feedback
  • added "invert" operator to invert phase of wave samples
  • mono wave samples are rendered mono now instead of stereo, if the dsp effect allows this
  • fixed: sometimes changes in wave samples were not stored
  • added new splash screen
  • added ulradc and exciter dsp effect
  • improved ultracomp dsp effect
  • improved range handling in Waveeditor
  • bugfixes when cutting/applying FX to wavesamples
  • added multi band compressor (ultra band) and improved denoiser DSP effect
  • bugfixes in TUI GUI engine (sliders with negative values were broken, huge speedup for listviews)
  • improved installer (recorvers exe bit)
  • adjustment of most DSP effects to 24bit
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10.Feb.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 58
"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. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Feb.2012
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


NetPrinter 1.15
With Guido Mersmann's NetPrinter you can print with a printer in the network. The driver supports printing via RAW- (direct) and LPR-protocol. Additionally a preference-tool is included with which you can easily configure your printer. The MorphOS-version will be automatically added to the system preferences.

The author points out that NetPrinter does not replace the printer driver but only provides a connection to the USB and serial port. If a printer does not print via the USB-, parallel or serial port then the printer will also not print with NetPrinter.

Additional to the direct download under the title link, NetPrinter also is available via Grunch.

Changes in version 1.15:
  • New name for the 68K preference programm
  • Multi printer support fixed.
  • NETPAR-Mount-script for classic systems added by Ernest Unrau. Thanks!
  • NETPAR-Mount-script for MorphOS added
  • Many optimisations
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09.Feb.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Amiga-Emulator: fs-uae
The emulator fs-uae is based on WinUAE and was written for playing disks and CD-ROM based Amiga games on the PC. The user-interface can be completely controled via controlpad (screenshot). Therefore this version of UAE especially is meant for HTPCs. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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09.Feb.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


OnyxSoft: CodeAudio 3.10
CodeAudio is a graphical user-interface for MP3 and other encoders (flac, faad, ogg, A8) which makes it more easy to convert CDs into MP3-files.

All changes of this version are listed in the Readme-file. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Feb.2012
PPA (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Qt 4.7 (0.8.4) / FlasQ 0.2
Alfkil Wennermark has updated his AmigaOS-4-port of the C++-library Qt. Now it is possible to use FlasQ, which is a vector animation programm which saves its files among others in Flash-Player format SWF.

Download:
qt-user.lha (41 MB)
qt-sdk.lha (51 MB)
flasq.lha (544 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Feb.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Amiga Future: Issue 80 online
The articles of the German and English version of issue 80 of the Amiga Future are online available. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Feb.2012
Mequa (Kommentarbereich)


AMOS emulation package for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
After the releases for Windows, AROS and Linux, versions for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS of the emulation package have been published which allows you start AMOS via mouse click - with UAE and AROS-Kickstart-ROMs.

The package is completely untested because the author does not use AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS. So any kind of feedback or questions are very welcome.

Download: amos4os4.zip (17 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Feb.2012
A-EON Technology (E-Mail)


AmigaOS 4: Composite3DDemo incl. source code
As test programm for his AmigaOS-4-drivers for graphic baords Radeon X1300, RadeonHD 4890 and others, Hans de Ruiter has written Composite3DDemo (screenshot, video) which is inspired by the original Boingball demo.

His interactive 3D-programm which already is included in AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 in the media drawer renders graphics with hardware-accelerated 2D-graphic without using 3D-drivers.

The source code of Version 0.32 is also available under the title link.

Version 0.32 mainly includes big fixes as well as the support of the homogeneous form of texture coordinates. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2012



AmigaOS 4: AmiTV-Testversion 20120207
After a longer break Ian Gledhill has published an update of his Tv-software AmiTV. The chipsets Brooktree Bt848/Bt878 and Conexant Cx23881/Cx23882/Cx23883 are supported. Using overlay can crash the system occasionally when compositing is turned on.

The author recommends to save your work first before you use this program. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2012
Rob Hazelby (ANF)


Event: Meeting of the Lincs Amiga Group (Lincolnshire, England)
LAG 26 will be held on Saturday the 7th of April 2012 from 12 PM - 5 PM in the Welton Village Hall (Google Maps), Welton-by-Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.

There is a bus stop outside which the buses from/to Lincoln use. Cost will be 4 UKP approx WiFi included. (snx)

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07.Feb.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


ACube Systems: Sam440ep_setup 1.3
With version 1.3 of ACube System's Sam440ep_setup the performance of Sam440ep-boards (Mini-ITX and Flex) can be increased by using more "aggressive" preferences of the instruction cache speculative prefetching.

This allows a faster execution for some software, for example Blender with an increased performance by 10%-20%. You can find an example command line under the title link.

Please note that some values returned by Ragemem are incorrect (MIPS) or lower (L2 cache read64/write64) when this setting is enabled. To disable this setting, add NOCCR argument to the command line. AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4 is required.

Download: sam440ep_setup.lha (52 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Feb.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Emulator: FPSE 0.10.3
Version 0.10.3 of the "Free Play Station Emulator" (FPSE) was published for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86.

The update fixes some problems with the link-mode-emulation on 68k and x86 systems. Additionally a new plugin for the lowlevel.library was added which makes it now possible using controlpads on all systems. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Feb.2012



Point and Click Adventure: Goldmedaillon
The point and click adventure "Goldmedaillon" ("Zloty Medaillon", Youtube video of the demo version) was originally published as Shareware and is now available as free version in German, English and Polish.

The game can be played only from harddrive. Before you start the game you have to edit the text file ZM.pref and to enter the path of the directory where the game is. Besides, the game cannot deal with FastRAM, so you have to swich it off or use the system tool "NoFastMem". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Feb.2012
MorphZone (Forum)


AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: AmiDARK-Engine 0.5
Frédéric Cordier describes the AmiDARK-Engine as "Game Development Kit" inspired by DarkGDK. It is a collection of macros and functions for C-programmers which is supposed to make it easier developing games.

Version 0.5 also is available for MorphOS. Before the author won an Efika inclusive MorphOS licence. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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05.Feb.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Interview: Bjørn Lynne ("Dr. Awesome/Crusaders")
Bjørn Lynne is responsible for a lot of soundtracks of several Amiga games and also is well-known in the Amiga demo scene as "Dr. Awesome/Crusaders". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Feb.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 04.02.2012
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until 4th February 2012:
XBazeSP.lha              biz/dbase  13K       XBaze v7.3.1 spanish catalog
CLI2WB.lha               dev/gui    41K   68k Run CLI prg from WB,define lo...
SDL_Mixer-Amiga-1_2_1... dev/lib    772K  68k minimalist SDL mixer build
Compatibility3.py.txt    dev/src    2K    68k Backwards Compatibility Python.
eurochamp.lha            docs/misc  153K      Statistics of soccer Euro Cha...
f1champ.lha              docs/misc  66K       Statistics of Formula One '50...
worldcup.lha             docs/misc  515K      Statistics of soccer World Cu...
QuarkTex.zip             driver/vid 96K   68k Warp3D for WinUAE
WormWars.lha             game/actio 758K  68k Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha         game/actio 962K  OS4 Advanced snake game
abrick-ix48.lha          game/think 476K  68k 1 or 2 player tetris clone
crosscrabtris_morphos... game/wb    7.9M  MOS A mix of crossword scrabble a...
ffmpeg-git7df9937-m68... gfx/conv   22M   68k FFmpeg + FFplay video player
ACE-MorphOS.lha          misc/emu   458K  MOS Amstrad CPC Emulator
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   2.9M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   2.8M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
oricutron.lha            misc/emu   1.3M  MOS Oric-1 / Atmos emulator
mp3info85a_sdl.lha       mus/edit   167K  68k MP3 info & tag edit.
mikmod_sdl.lha           mus/play   387K  68k Play & convert various mo...
uade.tar.bz2             mus/play   5.7M  OS4 Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
EvenMore_MOS.lha         text/show  535K  MOS Freeware Textviewer (MorphOS ...
IconLib_46.4.lha         util/libs  249K  68k icon.library patch in optimiz...
modifyle.lha             util/wb    112K  68k stylish ASL filerequester rep...
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05.Feb.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.02.2012
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until 4th February 2012:
uade.tar.bz2             aud/pla 6Mb   4.1 Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
libming.lha              dev/lib 1Mb   4.0 libming - library tool for creat...
wordmeupxxl_demo.lha     gam/act 26Mb  4.0 Word puzzle game
wormwars.lha             gam/act 977kb 4.0 Advanced snake game
hueflow.lha              gam/puz 370kb 4.0 popular and very fun color puzzl...
netpbm.lha               gra/con 12Mb  4.0 NetPBM - collection of Image Pro...
movieicons.lha           gra/ico 619kb 4.0 Icon collection for DVD movies
getpixel.lha             gra/mis 1Mb   4.1 Get hexadecimal colour of a pixe...
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05.Feb.2012



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 04.02.2012
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until 4th February 2012:
aspireos_v.1.6.rar           dev/mis 132Mb AspireOS Codename "Let there be ...
hueflow.i386-aros.zip        gam/puz 310kb popular and very fun color puzzl...
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 04.02.2012
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS-Files until 4th February 2012:
ScummVM                  1.4.1   gam/adv  12302 ScummVM is an engine for pl...
ACE                      1.2     uti/emu    458 Amstrad CPC family computer...
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04.Feb.2012
Rob Hazelby (ANF)


AmigaPD.com: Game reviews February 2012
For their February 2012 reviews, the website AmigaPD.com focusses on games beginning with the letter O: Ork Attack, Operation Firestorm and Og!, the latter being their game of the month. (snx)

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04.Feb.2012
MorphZone (Webseite)


Event: Belgian Amiga Club Meeting
Simon Vergauwen writes: The Belgian Amiga Club's first club meeting for 2012 will be on 10/03/12. From 18:00 till at least 24:00 you can find us at the following address: John Tulpinckstraat 15, 2070 Zwijndrecht, Belgium.

AROS, MorphOS or AmigaOS - you are all welcome with or without your machine and meet up with fellow Amiga survivors. As always we try to give you a good reason to visit us:
  • A key for WHDload can be purchased at a very special price (thank you WEPL)
  • There will be a soldering workshop, so don't forget your soldering iron
  • One if not two AmigaONE X1000 will be shown and also a Sam460ex
  • Classic gaming on the big screen
(snx)

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04.Feb.2012
Obligement (Webseite)


Amiga Games Award 2011
On February 4th 2011, the magazine Obligement have announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2010. This represents the best Amiga games voted by amigans on all Amiga platforms.

AmigaOS/68k:
  1. Mr Beanbag (Jigsaw Lounge)
  2. Bermuda Syndrome (Century Interactive)
  3. Barrage (Michael Speck)
AmigaOS 4:
  1. 1941 Extreme Deluxe Dual Players 2.0 (Badblocks, Hugues Nouvel)
  2. Swamp Defense (EntwicklerX)
  3. River Pirate (EntwicklerX)
MorphOS:
  1. Return To Castle Wolfenstein (ID Software, Gray Matter Interactive)
  2. 1941 Extreme Deluxe Dual Players 2.0 (Badblocks, Hugues Nouvel)
  3. Simutrans (Hansjoerg Malthaner, Simutrans team)
AROS:
  1. UFO: Alien Invasion (UFO: Alien Invasion Team)
  2. Assault Cube (Rabid Viper Productions)
  3. Cube 2: Sauerbraten (Wouter Van Oortmerssen)
(snx)

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04.Feb.2012



Benchmarks: AmigaOne X1000 compared with other PPC-hardware (Update)
The first benchmarks of the AmigaOne X1000 have been posted on various forums (sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). The following graphics were created by MorphOS developer Harry 'Piru' Sintonen, used here with kind permission from Mr. Sintonen.

LAME

With the MP3 encoder LAME the file AKsack.wav was converted into the MP3 format without using any parameters. All systems used LAME builds with Altivec support. The value for the X1000 was confirmed by OS4-developer Hans de Ruiter.



Blender

With the raytracer Blender the included example bricks_and_water_plugin.blend was rendered with the following command line:

blender_binary -b projects/bricks_and_water_plugin.blend -o ram:pool -F JPEG -f 0

The value for the X1000 was reported by AmigaOne tester sundown, the value for the Sam440ep by the developer who ported Blender to AmigaOS 4, Andy "broadblues" Broad.



MPlayer: H264-decoding

With the MorphOS MPlayer (and the corresponding AmigaOS 4 port MUI-Mplayer) and the parameters specified below the graphic the H264-encoded video file prometheus-trailer.zip was decoded without showing the result on the screen. The value for the X1000 was reported by X1000-tester Stephen "stevieu" Umney.



dnetc

Using the distributed.net client, keys for the OGR-NG and RC5-72 projects were calculated (source). All Systems are using the Altivec unit of their processor for these tests - with the exception of the Sam460, which doesn't have Altivec.



Copying file

A 46 Mb file (AKsack.wav) was copied from one partition to another and then from a partition to the Ram Disk. The results of this test are affected by many external factors like the filesystem used or the mass storage device the partitions reside on. The value for the X1000 was reported by X1000 owner Mufa.



RageMem

The benchmark tool RageMem tests the access time for various memory types. Due to a missing MorphOS version, the test on a PowerMac was performed running the AmigaOS 4 build on OS4Emu:

RAGEMEM v0.37 - compiled 11/06/2010                                        

PowerMac G4@2Ghz           A1 X1000 PA6T@1.8Ghz       Pegasos 2 G4@1133 Mhz

L1: 16 KB                  L1: 64 KB                  L1: 32 KB            
L2: 1024 KB                L2: 2048 KB                L2: 512 KB           
L3: none                   L3: none                   L3: none             
Cache Line: 0              Cache Line: 64             Cache Line: 32       

--- CPU ---                --- CPU ---                --- CPU ---          
MAX MIPS: 5982             MAX MIPS: 3084             MAX MIPS: 3398       

--- L1 ---                 --- L1 ---                 --- L1 ---           
READ32: 7606 MB/Sec        READ32: 6851 MB/Sec        READ32: 4318 MB/Sec  
READ64: 15209 MB/Sec       READ64: 13682 MB/Sec       READ64: 8634 MB/Sec  
WRITE32: 6518 MB/Sec       WRITE32: 6851 MB/Sec       WRITE32: 3701 MB/Sec 
WRITE64: 5072 MB/Sec       WRITE64: 13681 MB/Sec      WRITE64: 2880 MB/Sec 

--- L2 ---                 --- L2 ---                 --- L2 ---           
READ32: 2166 MB/Sec        READ32: 3276 MB/Sec        READ32: 1942 MB/Sec  
READ64: 2560 MB/Sec        READ64: 4784 MB/Sec        READ64: 2529 MB/Sec  
WRITE32: 2445 MB/Sec       WRITE32: 2531 MB/Sec       WRITE32: 1745 MB/Sec 
WRITE64: 3348 MB/Sec       WRITE64: 4090 MB/Sec       WRITE64: 2193 MB/Sec 

--- RAM ---                --- RAM ---                --- RAM ---          
READ32: 276 MB/Sec         READ32: 2857 MB/Sec        READ32: 144 MB/Sec   
READ64: 276 MB/Sec         READ64: 4000 MB/Sec        READ64: 144 MB/Sec   
WRITE32: 804 MB/Sec        WRITE32: 2732 MB/Sec       WRITE32: 197 MB/Sec  
WRITE64: 810 MB/Sec        WRITE64: 3383 MB/Sec       WRITE64: 425 MB/Sec  
WRITE: 752 MB/Sec (*)      WRITE: 352 MB/Sec (*)      WRITE: 795 MB/Sec (*)

--- VIDEO BUS ---          --- VIDEO BUS ---          --- VIDEO BUS ---    
READ: 32 MB/Sec            READ: 15 MB/Sec            READ: 51 MB/Sec      
WRITE: 180 MB/Sec          WRITE: 161 MB/Sec          WRITE: 221 MB/Sec    

(*) "Tricky"


Update: (04.02.2012, 15:30, cg)

Added the dnetc benchmark. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Text viewer: EvenMore 0.74
Chris Perver's EvenMore is a text viewer written in Amiga E with ECX. The changes of the version 0.74 are listed in the Readme-file.

Download: EvenMore.lha (515 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2012
a1k.org (Forum)


Indivision ECS: Core 1.10 (beta version) / SuperPlus monitor driver 40.5
For the Flickerfixer Indivision ECS a new beta version of the core was published. Additionally the SuperPlus monitor driver was updated.

With the Core-version 1.10 the Indivision ECS now can view a solution of 800x600 pixels - compared with the Super72-mode without the limitation of the ECS chipset to four of 64 colours. The user 'mfilos' has published a test with screenshots in a Blog. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4 / AROS: HueFlow 0.3
HueFlow is the port of a well-known game for the cell phone: The player has to "flood" a colourful screen step by step with a single colour by selecting the next colour to be flooded (screenshot).

HueFlow now was released under the GPL. In version 0.3 you can now also play against the computer.

Download:
hueflow.lha (OS4-Version, 370 KB)
hueflow.i386-aros.zip (310 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Feb.2012



WHDLoad: New archives until 02.02.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were published on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with new Amiga models were fixed. The following installers have been added or updated:
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)


Bounty: Purchase of source codes of Directory Opus Magellan
Olaf Schönweiß and Dr. Greg Perry (GPSoft) agreed a possible release of the source code of the well-known file manager Directory Opus Magellan II (version 5.82). For 5600 US-Dollar Perry would release the sources under the AROS Public License, which is a derivative of Mozilla Public License.

The purchase will also a include a limited license for the trademark "Directory Opus Magellan" that will grant the right to use it for software running on Amigoid platforms. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012



ScummVM 1.4.1 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS)
ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games and is available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 in version 1.4.1. The changes are listed in the official Release Notes. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Compiler-Distribution: Bugfix for vbcc 0.9b
The 68k-version of the tool fd2pragma had a bug in version 0.9b which caused a crash. The author has published an update which includes an improved version of fd2pragma and has to be extracted to vbcc:.

Download: vbcc_bin_amigaos68k_upd.lha (84 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012



Image editing: iBatch 1.4
With Gero Birkenfeld's iBatch you can rename or edit images. Version 1.4 currently is only available on the website of the Boingsworld-Podcast.
Download: iBatch_BoingsWorld.lha (2,5 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012
amiga.org (Webseite)


Amithlon: Kernel-Update with hardware-accelerated graphic drivers
For Amithlon a new Kernel-update is available which supports hardware-accelerated graphic operations on AGP and PCIe graphic boards like ATI Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 or GeForce PCX 5300, PCX 5750 and PCX 5900.

The kernel is available in three different versions: As IDE driver (kernel4.rar), IDE and SATA driver (kernel4sata.rar) and IDE, SATA and SCSI driver (kernel4scsi.rar). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AROS: Tester for 68k-distribution
Olaf Schönweiß is about to publish a distribution for AROS/68k (screenshots). In order to be able to improve the package the author is looking for testers.

Interested users please send an eMail to olaf.schoenweiss at innovatronic.de and will then get a download link (ca. 500 MB). A CD also is possible. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


jAMOS: AMOS-Reimplementation in Java
jAMOS is a Java-based reimplementation for the Basic dialect AMOS. Alpha version 0.1 now is available.

The same author published before with jAMAL the AMOS Animation Language under Java.

The available alpha version 0.1 only support parts of the AMOS-commands. jAMOS is open source.

Features:
  • BASIC-like interpreter based on MequaScript
  • AMAL interpreter from jAMAL written in Java
  • Script editor utilising Java Swing
  • AMAL-to-Java code translator and compiler
  • Source is buildable in Eclipse and NetBeans IDE out of the box
  • Runnable from a single JAR file
  • Reimplemented AMAL Environment Generator
  • Rudimentary Amiga-style screen and scrolling engine
  • Integrated AMOS sprite bank viewer (AbkViewer)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 17.1 (Beta 2)
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were published on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with new Amiga models were fixed. In version 17.1 beta 2 the Instruction Cache on 68020-processors is not activated any longer.

WHDLoad 17.1 is a beta version which has to be installed over an existing installation of version 17.0.

Download:

WHDLoad-Usr: whd171.lha (177 KB)
WHDLoad-Dev: whd171dev.lha (202 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jan.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Word Me Up XXL 1.52
Version 1.52 of the commercial game "Word Me Up XXL" published by Boing Attitude is available for AmigaOS 4. The demo version was updated as well.

Changes:
  • Visual effects not enabled by default
  • Improved handling of the sound system
  • Better management of the joystick/joypad
  • A few German translations were fixed
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jan.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AROS-Distribution AspireOS 1.6
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published a new version of his AROS-distribution AspireOS. This mainly is meant to be used with an Acer-netbook Aspire One but should work with different hardware, too.

AspireOS 1.6 is not an update for existing versions, it is distributed as ISO-image and has to be installed over the existing AspireOS-system. This new version mainly includes improvements of the graphical user-interface.

A package with games is distributed separately. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jan.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 53
The Amiga Round Table (ART) is an English-language podcast. Amiga users and guests have duscussed the latest events of the Amiga scene. Episode 53 includes an interview with the supposed owner of Amiga.org, "Tedd Gallion", after the sale in 2009. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 28.01.2012
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 28th 2012:
TA1_26.lha               comm/bbs   1.1M  68k TransAmiga BBS v1.26 freeware...
sdl_configs.lha          dev/c      4K        Useful SDL configurations 
modifyle.lha             dev/gui    116K  68k new ASL filerequester replace...
jbigkit.tar.bz2          dev/lib    96K   OS4 JBIG-KIT lossless image compr...
libao.i386-aros.tar.bz2  dev/lib    392K  x86 Cross-platform Audio Library
libao.m68k-aos.tar.bz2   dev/lib    390K  68k Cross-platform Audio Library
libao.tar.bz2            dev/lib    414K  OS4 Cross-platform Audio Library
libbinio.i386-aros.ta... dev/lib    75K   x86 A Binary I/O stream class lib...
libexif-m68k.lha         dev/lib    674K  68k Parsing, editing, and saving ...
libpac.i386-aros.tar.bz2 dev/lib    130K  x86 Decode PAC music modules
libpac.tar.bz2           dev/lib    64K   OS4 Decode PAC music modules
libspeex.i386-aros.ta... dev/lib    1.1M  x86 A Free Codec For Free Speech
libxml2-m68k.lha         dev/lib    3.9M  68k The XML C parser and toolkit ...
popt-m68k.lha            dev/lib    77K   68k A C library for parsing comma...
nc_invaders_68k.lha      game/shoot 348K  68k ncurses based space invaders ...
meandmyshadow-68k.lha    game/think 6.6M  68k Me and My Shadow, a puzzle/pl...
crosscrabtris_os4.lha    game/wb    7.5M  OS4 A mix of crossword scrabble a...
fracplanet.lha           gfx/fract  579K  OS4 Random planet generator (beta...
pngcrush-m68k.lha        gfx/misc   131K  68k An optimizer for PNG files
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   2.6M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 17.42 spanish catalog
pacplay_68k.lha          mus/play   426K  68k Play & Decode PAC music m...
uade.tar.bz2             mus/play   5.7M  OS4 Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
xad_rar.lha              util/arc   365K  OS4 XAD (UnArc) client for RAR3 a...
xad_xz.lha               util/arc   28K   OS4 XZ client for xadmaster/UnArc
xpkTDCS.lha              util/pack  2K    68k Improved xpkTDCS.library
xpkZENO.lha              util/pack  2K    68k Improved xpkZENO.library
AlignWindowsSP.lha       util/wb    2K        AlignWindows v1.6 spanish cat...
WBKillWinSP.lha          util/wb    3K        WBKillWin 1.0 spanish catalog
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29.Jan.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.01.2012
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 28th 2012:
sirenaplayer.lha         aud/pla 2Mb   4.0 An easy mod, mp3 and wav Vintage...
uade.tar.bz2             aud/pla 6Mb   4.1 Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
libao.tar.bz2            dev/lib 414kb 4.0 Cross-platform Audio Library
libpac.tar.bz2           dev/lib 64kb  4.0 Decode PAC music modules
jbigkit.tar.bz2          dev/lib 96kb  4.0 JBIG-KIT lossless image compress...
camd_nemo.lha            dri/mis 22kb  4.1 X1000 onboard UART CAMD driver
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
scummvm.lha              gam/adv 10Mb  4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip          gam/adv 20Mb  4.1 ScummVM Source
crosscrabtris.lha        gam/puz 7Mb   4.1 A mix of crossword scrabble and ...
imbiss_os4.lha           gam/str 1Mb   4.0 Imbiss - buy and sell hamburgers
ssbuilder.lha            gra/con 105Mb 4.0 SSBuilder
iconsreworked.lha        gra/ico 29Mb  4.1 Icons for 3rd party software
gfxbench2d.lha           uti/ben 2Mb   4.0 A 2D graphics benchmark tool
jack.zip                 uti/wor 9Mb   4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
wbkillwin.lha            uti/wor 17kb  4.0 An interactive program to kill w...
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29.Jan.2012



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 28.01.2012
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until January 28th 2012:
libao.i386-aros.tar.bz2      dev/lib 392kb Cross-platform Audio Library
libbinio.i386-aros.tar.bz2   dev/lib 75kb  A Binary I/O stream class library
libpac.i386-aros.tar.bz2     dev/lib 130kb Decode PAC music modules
libspeex.i386-aros.tar.bz2   dev/lib 1Mb   A Free Codec For Free Speech
aspireos_games_v1.zip        gam     115Mb AspireOS Game Package
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28.Jan.2012



Hired Guns-/Dungeon Master-clone: Cyber Blast 2
Cyber Blast 2 (screenshots: 1, 2) is a "Dungeon Crawler" similar to Dungeon Master or Hired Guns. For the first time the game was published on Aminet as Shareware 12 years ago. Now the full version is available on the Polish Amiga website PPA.

The archive includes an installation script with which you can install Cyber Blast 2 on harddrive or disks.

Download: cyberblast2.lha (1 MB)

Hint of the editorial staff: This weekend ppa.pl moves to a new server. So until Sunday there might be some problems accessing the website. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Jan.2012
A-EON (E-Mail)


A-EON Technology: AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" systems now shipping
As A-EON Technology announces in the press release below, the First Contact systems of the AmigaONE X1000 with AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 are shipping to regular customers now.

The latter will receive AmigaOS 4.2 for free once available, while work on Update 5 for other platforms starts now. The price of the system, if three additional GB of RAM and twice the size of the harddisk compared to the default configuration are chosen, is 1915 pound sterling excluding VAT and shipping.

AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 CD for the AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" system has gone GOLD!

Wellington, 25th January 2012. A-EON Technology and Hyperion Entertainment are pleased to announce that the AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 CD, exclusively created for the AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" system has gone gold. The professionally re-mastered CD will be supplied in a printed boxed set along with copies of the AmigaONE X1000 and AmigaOS 4.1 "Quick Start" guides.

Steven Solie, Hyperion Entertainment's AmigaOS Development Team Lead said, "The team worked hard to reach this important milestone in the development of the Amiga Operating System. With AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 completed for the AmigaONE X1000 we can concentrate on versions for all the other supported hardware platforms as we continue to push towards the future release of AmigaOS 4.2."

Trevor Dickinson added, "I would like to thank the AmigaOS developers and the whole AmigaONE X1000 betatest team who have worked so tirelessly behinds the scenes to make this a reality. I would also like to give special thanks to a few key members of the team who went above and beyond the "call of duty" to ensure the success of this project. You know who you are."

The AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 boxed set will be supplied to all AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" customers who will also receive a free update to AmigaOS 4.2 when it is commercially released by Hyperion Entertainment.

AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" systems now shipping

A-EON Technology and AmigaKit are pleased to announced that the deliveries of AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" systems have commenced. Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of AmigaKit commented, "we are pleased to finally supply this eagerly awaited AmigaONE computer system to our customers".

Trevor Dickinson added, "I have just received my own AmigaONE X1000 system and I hope "First Contact" owners will have as much fun as I'm having with my new "Amiga". All that remains to be said is let's "keep this part going!"

A-EON Technology

About AmigaKit: AmigaKit is a trading division of Leaman Computing Ltd based in Cardiff, UK. It acquired the stock of Eyetech Group Ltd in 2006 and quickly established itself as a world-wide market leader in the retail and distribution of Amiga hardware and software. A-EON Technology appointed AmigaKit as its primary distributor for all its AmigaONE products.

About A-EON Technology and the AmigaONE X1000: A-EON Technology is the developer of the AmigaONE X1000 computer system designed by Varisys Ltd for running the AmigaOS. The AmigaOne X1000 is not like other computers. It is a culmination of efforts by real Amiga enthusiasts and developers to create powerful, modern desktop hardware for the Amiga Operating System. It is the natural evolution of the Amiga's PowerPC lineage and is based on the PA-Semi Dual-core PA6T-1682M CPU and includes Xena, a "Software Defined Silicon" co-processor. Above all it runs the latest version of the AmigaOS.

About Hyperion Entertainment: Hyperion Entertainment is the developer of the AmigaOS. (snx)

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28.Jan.2012
Abime (Webseite)


AROS: AMOS emulation package for AROS and Linux
First a Windows-installer-package and now versions for AROS/x86 and Linux have been published with which you can start AMOS based on the emulator UAE and the AROS-Kickstart-ROM.

Download:
amos4aros.zip (18 MB)
amos4linux.zip (16 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2012
amigans.net (Webseite)


Firefox-Port: Status-Update for Timberwolf
Thomas Frieden has published a new status update for the Firefox port "Timberwolf". He wrote:

"I haven't posted a progress report for a few weeks. This is not because there was nothing new, but the news are mostly "boring": Fixing bugs, implementing some missing features and so on.
One feature worth mentioning is that Timberwolf will now adapt to the color scheme of your workbench. That means it will use the GUI prefs colors for it's user interface drawing and this will be a big step towards making it feel more like an Amiga application.
Stay tuned for more news in the coming days." (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2012



MorphOS: 3D-Shooter "Cube 2: Sauerbraten"
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has ported the 3D-Shooter Cube 2: Sauerbraten to MorphOS. The PowerSDL 14 as well as the original files of the game are required which are available on the official website.

In order to start the game in a window on a Ambient screen you have to put in the options "-t -w640 -h480" (for a 640x480 window) at the start. The author is looking for an older version of PowerSDL because v14 has some stability problems. Additionally the server was not tested and the client has still some bugs. Currently the most stable client is the RPG-client.

Downloads:

rpg_client (628 KB)
sauer_server (179 KB)
sauer_client (796 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2012
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AROS: printer.device in development
Jason McMullan has started developing a printer.device for AROS. The device is supposed to print Postscript Level 2 - either in a file or with the help of Pipe into another programm. According to the author the device may be finished at the beginning of April. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2012



Jump'n Run: Bonus level for Mr. Beanbag
For Amy Worthington's Jump'n Run game Mr. Beanbag now a first bonus level was published (Youtube video). Because currently the game does not offer the option to load additional levels the bonus level is available as separate executable.

Download: BurnsBag.lha (121 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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