06.Dec.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Package manager: Grunch 1.31
The latest version of Grunch, written by Guido Mersmann, includes some bug fixes as well as several improvements. Besides, Grunch should now run under AmigaOS 4 and AmigaOS 3.x without problems.
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06.Dec.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Game: Dragon Memory
The memory game Dragon Memory was ported to AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 using SDL and OpenGL. Without an OpenGL-driver it will not work or use a software renderer if available.
Download: DragonMemory.lha (6 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2011
Relec Software & Hardware (ANF)
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MorphOS: Commercial use of a Hollywood program as an interactive terminal
Press release: Christoph and Sébastien Poelzl, two nice representatives of RMS-Communications, have made a project of interactive terminal based on Hollywood under MorphOS. It consists of a 22" touch-screen using the USB stack Poseidon under MorphOS installed on a 1,5 GHz Mac mini.
This device is in commercial service at the private hospital Bois-Cerf in Lausanne/Switzerland (Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4).
The interactive device is a sign post for patients and visitors, showing them their way through the building.
This interactive terminal project ist part of a much more important framework which will have to implement touch-sensitive screens which can go upto 42" and even beyond. They can be proposed on various markets and could be placed in luxury hotels, tourist information offices and in other private or public areas.
In parallel RMS-Communications has commissioned and collaborated with Andreas Falkenhahn of Airsoft Softwair to develop Hollywood applications on iPad.
Hollywood has recently been ported to the iPad (ARM architecture) by order of a commercial customer who needs to use it on tablet devices in clinics and hotels (amiga-news.de reported). A small demo video of Hollywood running on iPad has been uploaded to YouTube. Unfortunately, it will most likely not be possible to integrate iPad support into Hollywood's cross-compiler because of several technical and legal restrictions that iPad apps are subjected to. For commercial customers, however, several solutions to get their Hollywood projects converted into iPad apps can be offered.
Furthermore that's not all, as Christoph Poelzl of RMS-Communications works in close collaboration with Andreas Falkenhahn, Hollywood Designer's developer, thus having the privilege of betatesting his products. At Alchimie 111111 in France he was allowed to show the next version of Hollywood Designer 3.1.
About RMS-Communications:
RMS-Communications is known and recognized as an innovative agency at the level of advertising and communication in French-speaking Switzerland. It's unique feature is the work with MorphOS (on Pegasos and Apple Mac), involving a lot of software writing.
It was also already noticed by collaborating with Relec on some events. Moreover RMS-Communications received the first "Communication and offer of service Trophy" during the Multimedia Exhibition of Colmar (France) in 2009 for the development of its management software for SMEs, based on MorphOS. The jury of Colmar had been convinced by all the alternative advantages of MUIBase SME: cross-platform, portable, very friendly and a smooth graphic interface for a complete solution and sold at moderate costs to SME (small and medium-sized enterprise): Feature article (PDF, french only). (snx)
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05.Dec.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate 2.9
AmiUpdate is a simple package manager tool which informs the the user about updates of installed applications. The changes in version 2.9 are listed in the release notes.
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05.Dec.2011
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Magazine: Commodore Free, Issue 57
"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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05.Dec.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MPlayer 1.0-SVN-r33557 (04.06.2011)
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the movie player MPlayer:
- Updated to 06.11.2011 svn (r34310)
- Added libmodplug support
- Fixed a couple issues in dvdnav support
- Reworked GUI to work with the new API
Direct download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2011.11.06.lha (16,3 MB) (Readme)
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05.Dec.2011
RhoSigma, Roland Heyder (ANF)
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MakeHTMLMap v6.000
Roland 'RhoSigma' Heyder's MakeHTMLMap supports web designers creating online galleries and simple webshops. Version 6.000 includes several minor improvements and optimisations. Additionally it was now tested if it runs under AmigaOS 4 (full changelog).
Direct download: MakeHTMLMap.lha (1,9 MB)
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05.Dec.2011
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Jens Schönfeld: Status update for several projects
In a thread on a1k.org, Jens Schönfeld has given an overview about the status of several projects. The thread can only be read by registerted users, therefore it follows a short summary:
1. Indivision AGA MK2
I have the last prototype since the end of October but I did not have had time for building it up. I will do it in January with the help of Michael Böhmer.
2. Indivision ECS
Occasionally there have been some delivery delays. This is due to an increased demand for this Flickerfixers during the last eight weeks. Unfortunately the store is almost empty. New Flickerfixers are being produced but I cannot guarantee they are available before Xmas. There will be not any changes.
3. ACA1231-42
I am still waiting for the delivery of Winbond. It is sure that the board has the fastest SD-Ram which is available on market. Unfortunately there have been delays. Therefore we had to put off the production again and again. In the next week we can continue. Most likely the board will be finished until Xmas.
4. Micromys V3
Simlar to Indivision ECS: The inventory is low, the demand constant and a new charge is being produced.
5. ACA520
The announced accelerator board for the A500 will have to wait until next year.
6. Nequester
The next generation router is the real reason that all the other projects are delayed. We habe been working several months on it and finally in November we succeeded in getting it working. In the next year Nequester will be also available as retail sale as requested. The router will be available at Vesalia in 2012.
Jens"
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04.Dec.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: UAE-Wii 7
The Amiga emulator UAE-Wii for the Nintendo console Wii is available in version 7.
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04.Dec.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.8.6
The AmigaOS-4-port of the turn-based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth has been updated to version 1.8.6.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Dec.2011
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: osm_to_png 0.2
Carsten Siegner's osm_to_png converts maps data from the OSM-format used by openstreetmap.org to PNG-files.
Changes in version 0.2:
- 91 render rules (80 before)
- Rendering street names and names of buildings
- some bugs fixed
- status and bug report is listed as plain language to avoid unnecessary bug search
osm_to_png_0.2.lha (2 MB)
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04.Dec.2011
Floppy (ANF)
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AROS: Flite Speech Synthesis Engine 1.2
In 2007 the Flite Speech Synthesis Engine was ported to AmigaOS 4. Now Fredrik Wikstrom has compiled it for AROS/x86.
Installation: Copy bin/#? C:
Use: flite -t "Hello"
Download: flite.i386-aros.tar.bz2 (21 MB)
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03.Dec.2011
bruZard (Forum)
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Monkey-Target 0.21
Jens Henschel's Amiga-Target (AmigaOS/AROS) for the Transpiler Monkey (amiga-news.de reported) is now available in version 0.21.
The update fixes problems with AROS/x64.
Download: AmigaTarget.zip (501 KB)
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01.Dec.2011
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Open Streetmap converter osm_to_png
Carsten Siegner's osm_to_png converts maps data from the OSM-format used by openstreetmap.org to PNG picture files.
Download: osm_to_png.lha (2,4 MB)
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01.Dec.2011
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WHDLoad: New packages until 01.12.2011
With WHDLoad you can install games, scene demos and intros on your harddrive which originally could only used on disks. Additionally several inkompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
- 28.11.2011 new: Spherical Worlds (Neo) done by Psygore (Info)
- 24.11.2011 new: D.I.S.C. 2 (Level 4) done by Dr Cinicus (Info,Image)
- 24.11.2011 new: D.I.S.C. 1 (Level 4) done by Dr Cinicus (Info,Image)
- 19.11.2011 fixed: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top'o Fun (Gray Matter/Mindscape) slave rewritten for whdload 17+, diving part fixed (Info)
- 16.11.2011 improved: Silkworm (Sales Curve) complete re-write, supports another version, trainer added, new icons (Info)
- 16.11.2011 new: Pixie and Dixie (Alternative) done by Abaddon (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: Crazy Cars 2 (World of Wonders) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: F/A-18 Interceptor (Unit-A) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: One Stone (Quest) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: Franco Girardelli Hockey (ICS) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: Vector Balls (Dual Crew) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: Grand Prix Circuit (Bamiga Sector One) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 12.11.2011 improved: Virtual Karting 2 (Islona) slave rewritten, 2nd button supported, new install script (Info)
- 11.11.2011 fixed: Fightin' Spirit (Neo) slave rewritten, snoop bug fixed, new install script (Info)
- 06.11.2011 new: Bar Games (Accolade) done by Psygore (Info)
- 03.11.2011 new: Max Rally (Fortress) done by Psygore (Info)
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30.Nov.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Let's Play
Lets Play is a colouring game for young kids (screenshots). A solution bigger than 1024x768 is required. The source code is included.
Download: letsplay.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 56
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computer which is available in different formats - e.g. as HTML-version or C64-Diskmag.
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30.Nov.2011
Jens Henschel (ANF)
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Developer tool: Monkey-Target (Update)
Jens Henschel wrote: Mark Sibly created Blitz Basic for the Amiga and afterwards several derivates for PC. In this way Blitz Basic, Blitz Plus, Blitz 3D and Blitz Max were created. The last Blitz-Basic variation was called Monkey and made it possible going back to the Amiga.
Monkey is not a real compiler but a so called transpiler which translates the source languages Monkey into any other. I succeeded in compiling the Monkey code for AmigaOS 3.x or AROS. MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 were already implemented but they include some exceptions which have to be solved.
Monkey is not Freeware but costs 120 US-Dollar. But Monkey allows you to compile a source code without changes for Android, iOS, GLFW, XNA, HTML5 and now for AmigaOS 3.x and AROS as well.
Please note: Currently there is not a port of the des Monkey-framework "Mojo" (graphic modul for simple 2D-games) for AmigaOS and not ports of "amigaos3" for other targets. This will happen soon. For now it was important to support AmigaOS/AROS etc. A port of Mojo is in developemnt.
Installation:
- Important: Create a backup of your Monkey-installation!
- Extract the archive and copy the contents over your Monkey-installation
- Install AmiDevCpp (Link)
- Add the AmiDevCpp-Bin-path ([AMIDEVCPP]\usr\local\amiga\bin) of your Windows-"Path"-variable
- Edit [MonkeyDir]\bin\config.winnt.txt: Set AOS3 and/or AROS to 1
- Load /bananas/Amiga/amiga.monkey
- Choose "aos3" as target. If you use JungleIDE as IDE you can choose the target as well as the kind of compilition. Take "Build". The Standard-IDE tries to start the compilat which of course causes an error. Do not worry the compilat was created yet
- Copy the executable to the target system and start it
Download: AmigaTarget.zip (460 KB)
Update: (09:23, 01.12.11, snx)
As commented by the author, the archive has been updated yesterday noon. Main feature is the usability of the Amiga target also with the demo version of Monkey. The latter is functionally unrestricted, only limitation is the non-commercial usage. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2011
Reth (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Patch for realtime strategy game Napalm
Alfkil Wennermark has written a patch for the realtime strategy game Napalm. After running the patch the game should also run under AmigaOS 4. The recently published replacement for the cdplayer.library is required.
Hint: There is an update which fixes a minor bug and which is avaialble in the upload queue of os4depot.net. Soon this update should replace the download of the title link.
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29.Nov.2011
Niels Schapke (ANF)
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MorphOS: Flipclock 1.1
Niels Schapke wrote: Incited by ideal cooperation of MUI-OWB for AmigaOS 4, Flipclock now was adapted to MorphOS as well.
Flipclock is an attractive application for your AmigaOS workbench that shows the weather for your location along with the local time (screenshot). Currently the programm is available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS 2.7.
A special thank to my beta testers of the Amiga-Club Münster and Thomas Igracki.
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29.Nov.2011
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Simutrans 110.0.1 and REminiscence 0.2.1
Paweł 'stefkos' Stefański and Filip 'widelec' Maryjański have compiled versions 110.0.1 and 0.2.1 of Simutrans and REminiscence for MorphOS.
Simutrans is an open source transportation simulation game. Version 111.0 recently was published for AmigaOS 4 here. REminiscence is a new engine for the game Flashback developed by Delphine Software. Earlier versions also are available for AROS as well as for AmigaOS 4.
Download:
simutrans.lha (13 MB)
rem.lha (631 KB)
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29.Nov.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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OpenGL under AROS/68k
Jason McMullan succeeded in compiling Mesa 3D for AROS/68k.
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28.Nov.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Neo-Geo-Emulator: GngeoNG 0.8.1 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel has published an update of his AmigaOS-port of the Neo-Geo-emulator GnGeo. Additional to the AmigaOS 4-port for the first time there is also a version for MorphOS.
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28.Nov.2011
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AmigaOS 4: DevInfos 16.02 - Information about drives and media
A. Pankalla's tool DevInfos shows information about connected devices and inserted media.
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28.Nov.2011
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: FreeCiv 2.3.1
Freeciv is an open source clone of Sid Meier's strategy classic "Civilisation" which among others offers network support. The changes in version 2.3.1 improve the the performance. Additionally FreeCiv now also runs under AmigaOS 4.0.
Download: freeciv-sdl.lha (18 MB)
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28.Nov.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Ami-bootguard 0.50
Ami-bootguard is a kind of graphical password prompt under AmigaOS 4 while the system boots. Only if 18 circles are correctly connected with lines the operating system will boot.
Download: ami-bootguard.lha (630 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Nov.2011
Floppy
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FlexCat2.9 for AmigaOS2+, MOS, AROS and Linux
FlexCat creates catalogs and the source to handle them. Several programming languages are supported. Most important changes in version 2.9:
- polish.ct and french.ct updated
- Non-ASCII-figures in .cd-files cause a hint because they should not be included in .cd-files, e. g. the copyright sign '©' which instead is displayed with '(c)' .
- Bug fixes at double backslashes in catcomp-blocks
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27.Nov.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IceDoctor 1.2
IceDoctor is a programm for repairing the damaged IceFS-filesystem. In version 1.2 files bigger than 4 GB no longer are recognized as damaged.
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27.Nov.2011
PPA (Webseite)
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Application management system: Grunch 1.29
Guido 'geit' Mersmann's "Grunch" is an application management system for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which keeps downloading, installing, updating
and uninstalling away from the user.
With version 1.29 the databases of Herbert Klackl and Thomas Igracki were integrated. Additionally the IceFileSystem was added to the database.
Please note that the listed programms download pictures. If you want to prevent that you can edit the NoImages-tooltype before starting Grunch.
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27.Nov.2011
PPA (Webseite)
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MUI-classes TheBar 26.8, TextEditor 15.37 and BetterString 11.21
The MUI-classes TheBar, TextEditor and BetterString were updated. They are available for all four systems: AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4 und MorphOS as well as AROS/x86, AROS/PPC and AROS/x64.
Download:
MCC_BetterString-11.21.lha (316 KB)
MCC_TextEditor-15.37.lha (834 KB)
MCC_TheBar-26.8.lha (2 MB)
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27.Nov.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: Convierteme 2.10
Convierteme is a Hollywood programm with which you can edit pictures. After the version for AmigaOS 4 it is now also available for AROS/x86.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Nov.2011
PPA (Webseite)
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Game Engine of Bermuda Syndrome ported
Lorence Lombardo has ported the SDL-reimplementation of the game engine of the game Bermuda Syndrome for AmigaOS. The PC-game was published in 1995 and is a jump'n'run adventure.
The original or demo files are required. The author asks for your feedback because he could ot test the Amiga version. For AmigaOS 4 version 0.1.4 was published in February.
Download: BS_68k.lha (545 KB)
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26.Nov.2011
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Vamos: Running Amiga-CLI programms on an Intel-Mac
vamos (Virtual AMiga OS emulator) is a project which still is in development and which, similar to Wine, is supposed to run CLI-programms of the Amiga on an Intel-based Apple Macintosh. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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26.Nov.2011
exec.pl (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Transportation simulation game Simutrans 111.0
Simutrans is an open source transportation simulation game. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company.
Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship and air.
Download: simutrans.lha (13 MB)
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25.Nov.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 51
The Amiga Round Table (ART) is an English-language Podcast. Amiga users and invited guests talked about recent events in the Amiga scene. Issue 51 includes an interview with Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz about the operating system Betriebssystem AROS.
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25.Nov.2011
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: AudioToClip 1.1
Grzegorz Kraszewski's AudioToClip is supposed to be a programming example for Reggae and the use of the Clipboard: It copies any audio file identified by Reggae to the Clipboard. The source code is included in the archive.
In version 1.1 a bug was fixed. Additionally the archive also includes the required libvstring.
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25.Nov.2011
whose (Kommentar)
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AmigaOS 4: InsanePlaya 53.3
InsanePlaya published by Insane-Software for AmigaOS 4 is a CD player with graphical user-interface and AHI-output. This version is supposed to be a test version for getting feedback and suggestions.
Now the currently played song is highlighted in the listbrowser and the program can be iconified.
Download: insaneplaya.lha (34 KB)
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24.Nov.2011
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WHDLoad-Launcher: Tiny Launcher 1.8 Beta 5 (Update)
Lionel 'Gibs' Deris Tiny Launcher searches for ECS and AGA games and demos in user defined directories and can then be started (YouTube video). WHDLoad games and files with the ending ".exe" are automatically recognized. For all other files the user has to write a little AmigaDOS-script.
Changes in version 1.8 Beta:
- 1st I haven't changed the speed but improved the display routine.
you can slow down by pressing "+" if it's too fast.
- Then you can use to "P" to switch to PAL/NTSC (320x200/320x256 to be exact)
- Added Vicky samples
Update: (26.11.2011, 18:45, cg)
By now Beta is available, which fixes several small bugs that turned up in earlier versions.
Download: TinyLauncher18b5.exe (225 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Nov.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: AmigaOS-4-Pictograms usable
With the latest Nightly Builds the operating system AROS now also supports AmigaOS-4-Pictograms (screenshot) - currently in the ABI-V1-version.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Nov.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Distribution AspireOS 1.4
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published an update of his AROS-distribution AspireOS. Mainly this should be used with the Acer netbook Aspire One but should also work with other hardware.
The update requires an exisiting 1.x-installation. It includes many bug fixes, new and updated applications and games and much more.
Download: aspireos_update_1.4.zip (98 MB)
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22.Nov.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 2.6
Jack could be described as an advanced feature-laden ASL file-requester replacement as well as a fantastic standalone program that makes common tasks so much easier.
Among others Jack offers an image editor as well as a music player, basic file management and from version 2.6 on you can now add events to the native application AOrganiser or Google Calendar.
Download: jack.lha (8 MB)
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21.Nov.2011
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Amiga Future: Issue 79 online
Issue 79 of the magazine Amiga Future is sold out. Now the articles of this issue can be read online.
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21.Nov.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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diskimage.device 52.28
Fredrik Wikström has updated his diskimage.device for AmigaOS 3.x and AROS/x86. Additionally the author wants to know if users are interested in an AROS/PPC-version.
With the diskimage.device you can mount different image files of volumes. Currently more than 20 formats are supported, e.g. adf, dms, hdf, iso and img. The user-interface called DiskImageGUI still has some bugs.
Download:
diskimage.m68k-aos.tar.bz2 (148 KB)
diskimage.i386-aros.tar.bz2 (243 KB)
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[News message: 21. Nov. 2011, 12:59] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Al and Ed Mackey
On amigapd.com Al and Ed Mackey were interviewed. They have written the breakout games called Megaball.
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[News message: 20. Nov. 2011, 20:45] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: InsanePlaya 53.2 (public beta test)
InsanePlaya published by Insane-Software is a CD player for AmigaOS 4 with graphical user-interface and AHI-output. A version with more features is planned and therefore this version is meant for getting feedback and suggestions.
Download: insaneplaya.lha (50 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2011, 20:36] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.2 (alpha version)
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface (64 colours) for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe).
According to the developer the programm works on all Amigas from OCS to AGA as well as from 68000 to 68060 processors and requires less than 1 KB virtual memory. Alpha version 0.2 no longer requires assigns. All other changes are listed under the title link. Besides, translators are wanted.
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20.Nov.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: 3D puzzle game Phlipple ported
Phlipple is a unique puzzle game. The goal of every level is to reduce a 3D shape to a single square. Elimination of squares is done by flipping edges around just like in a cardboard box. Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has ported the SDL-game to AROS/x86.
Download: phlipple.zip (4 MB)
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19.Nov.2011
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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Database: amigamap.com also lists MorphOS and AROS computers
amigamap.com is a database for all Amiga computers which already exist worldwide. Now also MorphOS and AROS computers can be entered. Additionally each user has now a site which lists his computers (which requires Javascript and therefore some CPU-power and a modern browser).
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[News message: 19. Nov. 2011, 17:52] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text viewerx: EvenMore 0.72 (17.11.11)
Chris Perver's EvenMore is a text viewer written in Amiga E. Among others the latest update improves the HTML2Text-plugin. This now also searches within archives for HTML-files.
Additionally version 1.03 of the datatype-plugin is available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Nov. 2011, 17:42] [Comments: 0]
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19.Nov.2011
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Filesystem: Kickstart 1.x-compatible version of PFS3 (beta)
The author of WinUAE, Toni Wilen, has created a version of the open source filesystem PFS3 which works with 68000-processors and under Kickstart 1.x.
Booting PFS3-devices is only possible starting with Kickstarts 1.3. Currently all dialog boxes of the filesystem were deactivated because Kickstart 1 only offers few requester functions.
Apart from that all functions of the filesystem were implemented, inclusive DirectSCSI if the used controller does support it. Wilen warns of "the usual problems like loss of data" because the filesystem is still beta. The version was tested under WinUAE and on an Amiga 500 with Supradrive. The source codes will be given later soon.
Download: pfs3ks13.zip (72 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Nov.2011
EAB (Forum)
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Amiga emulator: WinFellow 0.4.4 build 4
The Windows-based Amiga emulator WinFellow now is available in version 0.4.4 build 4. With the latest update now current AROS-ADF-Bootimages can be started.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Nov.2011
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IceFileSystem 2.8
IceFS is a 64bit filesystem for MorphOS.
Version 2.8 fixes a bug with partitions bigger than one terabyte. Additionally a keyfile is no longer required.
Dowmnload: icefs208.lha (270 KB)
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18.Nov.2011
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: DOSBox 0.74
DOSBox is a SDL-based MS-DOS-emulator which mainly is meant for emulating old games. Version 0.74 fixes all known bugs.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Nov. 2011, 13:05] [Comments: 0]
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18.Nov.2011
David Brunet (ANF)
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Alchimie: Report about AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (french)
Obligement magazine has published a report about future versions of AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS today as seen at the Alchimie 111111 show that took place in Tain l'Hermitage, France, November 11-13.
The article is in french and presents some of the news about next versions of these operating systems. The author thanks Alexandre Balaban, Fabien Coeurjoly and Philippe Ferrucci for their help. (snx)
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17.Nov.2011
Floppy (ANF)
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AROS: ACPI-Bounty (Phase I) finished
The bounty project for the ACPI-implementation under AROS was finished by Pavel 'Sonic' Fedin.
Users still cannot profit from it because it was written for ABI V1.
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16.Nov.2011
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Video: AmigaOne X1000-presentation at Alchimie
At the Alchimie 111111 (Tain l'Hermitage, France) also the AmigaOne X1000 was presented. "LTAC" has published a video of the presentation at Youtube.
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16.Nov.2011
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Further pictures of Alchimie 111111
Amiga user "LTAC" kindly provided us some further pictures of the Alchimie which took place last weekend in Tain l'Hermitage (France):
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16.Nov.2011
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Amiga-Emulator: UAE 0.8.29
Today the Amiga emulator UAE written by Bernd Schmidt was updated to version 0.8.29 and is available as source code. The changes are listed in the changelog.
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16.Nov.2011
fingus (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Flipclock 1.1 / Beta testers for MorphOS & AROS wanted
Flipclock is a commodity for the Workbench which was written with Hollywood and shows the current time and a weather forecast (screenshot). Currently the programm only is available for AmigaOS 4.
Interested beta testers can request a version for AROS and MorphOS under the eMail fingus/scienide.de. The beta versions will be sent during the next days.
Changes in version 1.0:
- Can be now quit with the ESC-key
- Weather data were not loaded after the first launch
- DONOTWAIT-tooltype added (prevents a delayed start of the Workbench)
- The buggy autostart script was removed
Download: flipclock.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Pictures and video of Alchimie 111111
Additional to the MorphOS presentation (slides of presentation) on the this year's Alchimie in France, also another video (392 MB) and pictures are available.
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14.Nov.2011
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MorphOS: Change to new CPU-architecture planned
In his MorphOS presentation at the Alchimie, Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has mentioned a planned change of the CPU-architecture:
At first the available PPC-based Mac computers (Powerbook and Power Mac G5) will be used. Then - according to Coeurjoly "in some years" - a change to a new CPU-architecture will follow. Either X64 or ARM.
68k and PPC compatibility at least temporarily would be lost. Coeurjoly said that emulators have to be developed.
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