20.Jul.2011
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Linux: AmigaOS-4.1-Icon-Theme for Gnome
Under the title link an icon theme for Gnome was published which makes the Linux-desktop looks like AmigaOS-4.1 (screenshot).
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20.Jul.2011
EAB (Forum)
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AMOS-Pro-Installer for Windows
Due to the possibility of running WinUAE under AROS, an installation package for Windows was published with which AMOS can be started with one click.
The archive includes:
- AMOS Professional Compiler
- AMOS 3D (not yet working under AROS-68k)
- CRAFT extension
- TOME 4.24+ extension (map editor/tiling)
- AMCAF 1.5
- LDos Pro
- LSerial Pro
- Intuition Extension 1.3b
Download:
AMOS for Windows.exe (16 MB)
AMOS for Windows.zip (18 MB)
AbkViewer.jar (11 KB)
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19.Jul.2011
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: SDK Update
Press release The MorphOS development team would like to announce that a new version of the MorphOS Software Development Kit 2 is now available. All developers who are interested to upgrade their existing MorphOS development infrastructure will need a computer running MorphOS 2.7 and at least 300 MB of free disk space.
The July 2011 release of the MorphOS SDK 2 includes the following changes:
- GCC 4.4.5, 2.95.4
- Fixed GCC 2.95.3 not to generate AltiVec code in C++ exceptions handling
You can download the MorphOS SDK 2 in our files section. (snx)
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19.Jul.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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MorphOS/AROS: Fodquake 0.3 (trial version)
Under the title link trial versions of Fodquake 0.3 are available. Aditional to the MorphOS version, Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen has ported the game to AROS (x86/PPC) as well. A server browser also is included (can be accessed with the Escape-key).
Fodquake is a further development of the Quakeworld client Fuhquake. Because Mark Olsen himself could not test the PPC-AROS-version, feedback is asked for this version in particular. The developer also is working on an AROS-version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Screenshot 1, 2).
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19.Jul.2011
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AROS: Bounty-project for CM8738 audio driver
Under the title link an AROS bounty project was started which should make available an AHI-driver for sound boards with CM8738-chip.
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18.Jul.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview: Andrew Haywood
amigapd.com has interviewed Andrew Haywood who was involved developing the game Electrek.
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18.Jul.2011
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AROS-Distribution: AspireOS 1.0
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published an update of his AROS-distribution AspireOS. This is meant for the Acer-Netbook Aspire One.
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17.Jul.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RunInUAE r5
With Christopher Handley's RunInUAE it is possible to start installed m68k-Amiga-software or ADF disk images in an UAE-environment. New in version r5:
- If you don't have an Amiga Forever CD, you no-longer have to supply files from a Workbench 3.1 disk (as a suitable fake WB3.1 will be created - although compatibility is lower).
- Fixed an r4 installation bug where RunInUAE might not run right automatically until it had been run once manually. Many thanks to DAX for reporting this bug.
- Changed E-UAE's priority from -1 to 0, to improve emulation performance. Thanks to DAX for his suggestion.
- Various tweaks to E-UAE's configuration to improve emulation compatibility, accuracy & performance. Heavily based upon DAX's suggestions.
- The installer will create the "kick34005.A500" & (with the AF 2008+ CD) "kick40068.A1200" files, which are needed by some WHDLoad games (such as Lucas Arts adventures). Thanks to DAX for help.
- Improved patching of Workbench, to hopefully work on all versions of OS4, including Update 3 for OS4.1. Thanks to Colin Wenzel for his help, and Philippe Ferrucci for testing.
- Added support for DMS disk images. Also the Insert disk requester now only shows files of the right type.
- Added option to not change Workbench 3.1's screenmode prefs. Requested by Philippe Ferrucci.
- Add a Help menu item, and the main window also reacts to the Help key. Added after many requests for this!
- Would wrongly open an empty Notepad when answering No to creating a per-game config file.
- When using a pre-existing Workbench 3.1 installation, it now ensures that the correct WbRun command is installed. Thanks to Philippe Ferrucci for reporting this bug.
- Added Mason's pretty icons for RunInUAE's folder, plus UAE's folder & program. Thanks to DAX for pointing them out.
- The installer's "Select ROM" file requester now starts in E-UAE's folder, for convenience. Thanks to Philippe Ferrucci for suggesting this.
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17.Jul.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video-Preview: Shoot'em Up 1941 DX Dual Player 2.0
Hugues "HunoPPC" Nouvel is working on a new version of the shoot'em up 1941 Extreme Deluxe which is an adaption of the arcade classic 1941: Counter Attack.
Version 2.0 features a faster, SDL-based engine, a two players mode as well as automatic updates.
Shoot'em Up 1941 DX Dual Player 2.0 is supposed to become Shareware and will be sold for 1,70 Euro. Ports for several systems like AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS are planned. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Jul.2011
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS4: xchm published for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has ported xchm to his X11-environment Amicygnix (screenshots: 1, 2). With you can dosplay files of the CHM-format. This was originally developed for Windows-help files. On Internet many documentations are available in this format. You can find examples in the readme-file.
As the first application xchm uses AmiCygnix's GUI-Toolkit wxWidgets.
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13.Jul.2011
BitWorld (ANF)
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Demoscene: BitWorld-Archive with over 27.000 entries
The demoscene collection BitWorld has collected over 27.000 Amiga files. The archive has been managed since 1994.
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13.Jul.2011
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Broadway in the Linux Action Show
The latest issue of the video podcast "The Linux Action Show" is about the open-source AmigaOS-clone AROS.
From minute 29 the podcast is about the distribution Broadway.
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13.Jul.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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Viva Amiga: Minimum subscription achieved
The minimum subscription of 25.000 US-Dollar for the follow-up of the documentary film Viva Amiga was achieved. Until 20th July you can donate.
According to Stephen 'clusteruk' Jones, AROS will be part of the film.
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13.Jul.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Jens Andersson and Jan Kronquis
amigapd.com has interviewed Jens Andersson and Jan Kronquis who have developed the game Gravity Power.
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13.Jul.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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WinUAE addition AmiGame 2.1
AmiGame is an addition for the Amiga emulator WinUAE which includes a database of 2118 preconfigured games. Version 2.1 is available in French, English, Italian, Spanish and Polish.
Changes:
- Upd: Database update: 2118 games fully configured and playable with one click
- Upd: 821 YouTube videos are available
- Upd: WHD scanner update to 1570 games
- Upd: ADF/ZIP scanner updated
- Upd: Partnerships links updated (French and English reviews, downloading links)
- Upd: Language files (Fr, En, It, Es, Pl)
- Upd: Functionalities have been improved and optimized
- Upd: Configurations have been corrected and enhanced: OCS/OCS (1.2), ECS, AGA
- Upd: Enhanced configuration for many ADF and WHD games (Memory: fast, chip, slow)
- Upd: Configuration backup has been improved
- New: Favorites game are saved and presented in a special screen
- New: Notification for available music which can be played through internal player
- New: Special help button for recalcitrant games in main window
- New: Support for some WinUAE 2.3.2 functionalities (e.g. Cloned Stereo 5.1)
- New: Backup and restoration for personnal settings
- Upd: French and English help updated + Troubleshooting section added
- Upd: Skins update: Original and CryoStasie
- Upd: Audio Directories and audio files updated
- Upd: Edition windows improved (WHD and ADF edition)
- Upd: New data: audio files, covers, screenshots, logos
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12.Jul.2011
cracktros.org Team (ANF)
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Relaunch: cracktros.org with new team
Since 2006 www.cracktros.org has been online. It is a website maintained by the a1k.org-forum which collects and archives historical cracktros. Additionally to detailed information with screenshots, the cracktros are available as Amiga programms. For those users who no longer own an Amiga the cracktros are available as flashtro for the browser or as video stream.
Due to private reasons the original team has changed and a new team will take care of the site in future. Several cracktros were added to the site and many more are in progress!
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10.Jul.2011
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Screenshot: Minimig AGA 060 RTG
Jakub 'yaqube' Bednarski has published a screenshot which shows the latest stage of development of the Picasso96-RTG-driver for the graphic board of the Minimig.
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10.Jul.2011
Jürgen Beck (ANF)
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Immortal 4: Podcast with music of the CDs
Immortal 4 enriches the world of computer game music, featuring remixes of the music from 35 Amiga games in newly arranged studio productions. BitFellas pays tribute to the fantastic Immortal project and presents a selection of fine music from the Immortal CDs in BitJam Podcast #136, including a previously unreleased track.
The acclaimed "Immortal" project started to take shape in the mind of Portuguese game music composer Ruben Monteiro in 1997. The idea behind this project was (and still is) to release the greatest soundtracks from games released for the Commodore Amiga computer on CD - newly arranged and recorded in the studio, but not necessarily in a chart-compatible way. Instead, the "Immortal" producers aim to work with the original artists whenever possible: Chris Hülsbeck, Allister Brimble, Bjorn Lynne, Barry Leitch, Jason Page, Tim Wright and many others contributed exclusive tracks in the past. As of April 2011, four volumes have been released in the "Immortal" series, featuring music from classic games such as Shadow of the Beast, Turrican, Speedball 2, Pinball Dreams, Wing Commander, Alien Breed, Lemmings, or Cannon Fodder.
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10.Jul.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ClipDown 3.2
ClipDown is an addition of the browser OWB for AmigaOS-4. For downloading, playing and printing files the URL is copied to wget over the Clipboard.
In version 3.2 MPlayer can be finished over the project menu. Additionally the screen can be printed with the tool GraphicDump. Under the title link you can find a detailed list of changes.
Download: clipdown.lha (98 KB)
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10.Jul.2011
Nicolas Sallin (E-Mail)
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IRC-client: AmIRC 3.5.31 for AmigaOS 3/MorphOS
Nicolas "Henes" Sallin has published an update of his AmIRC-version which now also is available for AmigaOS 3. In version 3.5.31 another bug in the user-interface was fixed (Changelog).
Editor's note: This version is without reference to the recently published beta version AmIRC 3.12 developed by Costel Mincea, Jens Langner and Thore Böckelmann which probably also is available for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS in future.
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10.Jul.2011
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: IceDoctor 1.1
IceDoctor is a tool for repairing damaged IceFS-filesystems.
Changes:
- Cosmetic and cleanup of log output, less redudant/irrellevant info, added some helpful info
- Fixed and improved some repair routines
- A short-key in browser mode was wrong, fixed
Downloads: IceDoctor-1.1.lha (105 KB)
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10.Jul.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Ami-Lineapolis 2.94
Ami-Lineapolis is a AmigaOS-4 port of Morpion Solitaire. Version 2.94 now includes a search algorithm.
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08.Jul.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: 3D-Shooter Cube 2 ported
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz has ported the 3D-Shooter Cube 2: Sauerbraten to AROS/x86. It is the first game that truly uses the advanced capabilities and features of AROS 3D sub-system (Video).
By utilizing those capabilities, Cube 2 provides level of 3D effects not seen before on AROS but for best graphic output requires graphic board with 512 MB VRAM.
The AROS-port includes the programm file as well as a configuration programm. The data files of the game have to be downloaded. The game requires updates of some of the AROS-components. You can obtain further information from the Readme-file.
Download: cube2-20100719.i386-aros.zip (2 MB)
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07.Jul.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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IDE-Interface: FastATA 1200 available again
Thanks to the British Amiga trader Amigakit, Elbox has produced another edition of his sold out IDE-interface FastATA for the Amiga 1200 which can be booked under the title link.
Now the interface is called MK-IV and seems to have the same features like the previous edition. But it will be delivered with updated software which supports all AmigaOS-3.x-versions as well as the new AmigaOS 4.1 "Classic". Version 10 of the the ATA3-driver as well as version 3.6 of the filesystem AllegroCDFS are included.
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07.Jul.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Ghostscript-Installer 1.12
Guido 'Geit' Mersmann has written an installation programm for Ghostscript 8.60. An Internet connection is required to download the necessary files.
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07.Jul.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview: Shareware programmer Matthias Bock (Poweroids, Minerunner)
amigapd.com has published an interview with Matthias Bock who published some shareware games for the Amiga.
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07.Jul.2011
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Floppy-Controller: Kryoflux archives and copies protected disks
The USB-Floppy-Controller Kryoflux can read diverse disk formats of classic computers. In this way complete images of the disk are created which include all information of the disks - inclusive the copy protection.
Meanwhile the free firmware was developed further so it also is possible to write back such disk-images to real disks.
In a short Youtube-video the developers show how to write a disk and announce that the new firmware will be available soon.
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07.Jul.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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OnyxSoft: ZoomIt 1.2
ZoomIt is a MUI-based screen magnifier for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS.
Changes:
- Added screenbar object, independent of the main window (MorphOS 2.x only)
- Added options to select window behaviour (Normal, Frontmost or Backdrop)
- Added option to make windows draggable or not
- Added français translation (thanks to Antoine 'Czeko' Dubourg)
- Added deutsch translation (thanks to Ingo 'analogkid' Schmitz)
- Compiled with GCC 4.4.5 (MorphOS only)
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06.Jul.2011
pegasosforum.de (ANF)
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MorphOS: Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Mark "Bigfoot" Olsen has ported the Ego-Shooter Return to Castle Wolfenstein to MorphOS. The port requires the data of the commercial version.
The MorphOS-version supports single and multi player mode. Under tunkki.dk Olsen has established a seperate server for Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Downloads:
morphosrtcw.lha (3,3 MB) (Readme)
morphosrtcw-src.tar.bz2 (4,5 MB) (Readme)
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06.Jul.2011
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IRC-Client: AmIRC 3.5.29 für AmigaOS 3/MorphOS
Nicolas "Henes" Sallin has published an update of his AmIRC-version which now also is available for AmigaOS 3 which does not a keyfile any longer (Changelog).
This version does not depend on the recently published beta version AmIRC 3.12 developed by Costel Mincea, Jens Langner and Thore Böckelmann.
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06.Jul.2011
Codetapper (ANF)
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Interview: Martin Pedersen (Hybris, Battle Squadron)
Martin Pedersen is well-known for his classic shoot'em ups
Hybris and Battle Squadron. Codetapper talked with him about the technial details of the games.
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06.Jul.2011
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Sudoku-Solver Sudominator 1.0
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewskis Sudominator solves Sudoku-puzzles. New in version 1.0:
- Visual cue of hinted random field (field blinking)
- Visual cue of detected sudoku incorectness (fields blinking)
- Copying a sudoku to the system clipboard as text
Sudominator is available for free. The source code is available under simplified BSD-licence.
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06.Jul.2011
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Programming contest: MorphOS port of AmiDARK-Engine
For the contest "Best Project", programmers filed some projects.
35 users voted for Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier who now will develop a MorphOS-port of his Game Development Kit's AmiDARK. After finishing the project he will get an Efika-5200B with MorphOS-licence.
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05.Jul.2011
Krzysztof Smiechowicz (AROS-ML)
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AROS: Status update July 2011
On the AROS-website Neil Cafferkey has summarized the last year.
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05.Jul.2011
Floppy (Forum)
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AROS: Port of Scalos in progress
Few days ago Matthias 'Mazze' Rustler has accepted the bounty project to port the Workbench replacement Scalos to AROS. A screenshot of the "about"-window ist available yet.
But this software is not open-source: It only was allowed to transfer binary files to the AROS-archive as well as distributions. According to the developer of the port it may become open source later on.
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05.Jul.2011
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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iBatch: Further pictures of AmigaOne X1000
In the archive of the AddSlideshow-Plugin of iBatch there is a "Easter egg": Further pictures of tests of the AmigaOne X1000.
The pictures also were published on exec.pl.
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05.Jul.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future issue 91
Press release: The German and English issue 91 (July/August 2011) of the Amiga Future was published today.
Topics:
- Test of AmigaOS 4.1 CLassic
- Test of BlueManager
- Test of Alien Fish Finger
- Interview ACube
- Status Report AmigaOne X1000
- Special Amiga Timeline 2
- and much more
By the way, issue 94 of the Amiga Future will be available completely coloured.
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04.Jul.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Polish Magazine: Polskie Pismo Amigowe 5
The fifth issue of the Polish magazine PPA is available. It has 28 coloured pages and can be purchased for 5,25 Euro (incl. shipping). The topics of this issue:
- Review: Blizzard SCSI kit
- Review: iGame
- Review: Full Throttle
- Review: Aquaria
- Review: Dune: Legacy
- Tutorial: mounting a CF card in an A600
- Tutorial: the secrets of YAM
- Tutorial: Python under MorphOS
- Tutorial: AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS dual boot
Two older issues are available as free PDF-files: PPA #1, PPA #2.
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04.Jul.2011
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: IRC-Client AmIRC 3.12 (beta)
Costel "Cyborg" Mincea has undertaken the task of the development of the IRC-client AmIRC. The program is Freeware now. The changes of the updates are available in the Readme.
The published beta version is an update for the last published version 3.5 by Vapor which has to be installed first.
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03.Jul.2011
PPA (website)
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Interview with Richard Costello (english/polish)
Benedykt Dziubałtowski had an interview with Richard Costello - a coder of Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2, Primal Rage, Terminator 2, Golden Axe and Gauntlet 2.
The chat is mostly focused on the work concerning the Mortal Kombat series. The interview is available in english at the title link as well as in polish. (snx)
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03.Jul.2011
Gero Birkenfeld (ANF)
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iBatch: Slideshow Builder / Addslideshow-Plugin
Gero Birkenfeld wrote: With Slideshow Builder you can create slideshows for any picture direcdtory. Slideshow Builder works as programm (standalone) as well as plugin for iBatch from version 1.1 (Screenshot).
The wizard.library is requzired und therefore I recommend to download all files via the iBatch-website under the title link.
Example for AmigaOS 4 or Winodws: Unpack the archive and start the programm "slideshow" in directory SSBuilder/Example.
Quickstart for your slideshow:
0) Possibly install wizard.library
1) Unpack the archive and start the programm "addslideshow-plugin" in directory SSBuilder/SlideshowBuilder
2) Choose your directory of pictures (e.g. SSBuilder/Example)
3) In listview choose e.g. "staticshow"
4) Choose your solution, e.g. 640x480
5) Choose your destination system(s)
6) Confirm the requester with OK
7) Go to the destination directory and start the Slideshow-progamm
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02.Jul.2011
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Hyperion: Information on AmigaOS-4.1-Update 3
Under the title link Steven Solie has posted a short report on the update 3 of AmigaOS 4.1 which currently is in progress.
The update mainly will improve the dependability of the system and include bug fixes. New functions will be introduced in version 4.2.
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01.Jul.2011
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WHDLoad: New packages until 01.07.2011
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which were originally published on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with new Amiga models are fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
- 26.06.2011 improved: Alien Breed 3D (Team 17) slave rewritten, CD32 version supported and more (Info)
- 20.06.2011 improved: Dennis (Ocean) complete re-write, supports ocs version, blitter waits added, joypad support, supports cd32 version (Info)
- 18.06.2011 fixed: Puzznic (Ocean) now works with WHDLoad 16.9+ (Info)
- 16.06.2011 new: S (Skarla) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
- 16.06.2011 new: When We Ride On Our Enemies (Skarla) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
- 08.06.2011 improved: Shaft 7 (Bomb) slave rewritten, supports the 3 revisions (Info,Image)
- 07.06.2011 new: Web of Terror (Impressions) done by Abaddon (Info)
- 07.06.2011 new: Legacy (Hexodus) done by Abaddon (Info,Image)
- 07.06.2011 improved: Demon Blue (MicroValue) complete re-write, trainer, joypad support, buttonwait added (Info)
- 07.06.2011 improved: Creatures (Thalamus) complete re-write, added blitter waits, load/save high scores, trainer, joypad support (Info)
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[News message: 01. Jul. 2011, 16:19] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jul.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Magazin: Commodore Free, Issue 51
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which among others is available as HTML-version and C64-Diskmag.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jul. 2011, 15:53] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jul.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS/AROS: GrafX2 2.3
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly's MorphOS-port of the graphic programm GrafX2 is available in version 2.3.
Originally Grafx2 is a paint programm for MS-DOS similar to Deluxe Paint which now is based on SDL.
Download: grafx2-2.3.lha (749 KB)
At the beginning of the last month a version for AROS was published. Additionally a port of the SVN-version 1749 of version 2.3 for AmigaOS 4 is available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jul. 2011, 15:51] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jul.2011
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement-website
The articles below have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. Contributors of translations are welcome to contact David 'Daff' Brunet for further information.
- May/June 2011 news
- Articles from Amiga News 97 (January 1997) to 100 (April 1997): Thinking about the A\Box, Review of TypeSmith 2.5, Review of X-DVE 2.50, Review of Wordworth 6, Review of TurboPrint 5, Hardware: Improve GVP Combo cards, Hardware: DracoMotion, File: The packet-radio, Report: Imagina 1997, etc.
- Interview with Darren Eveland
- Old interviews with Andrzej Bugajny (from Sland Media, February 2001) and Andrea Morolli (d'Arcadia Development, September 2000)
- Review: Janus-UAE 1.1
- Review: IceFileSystem 2.4
- Review: UAE4Droid
- Review: Giddy 3
- File: The Amiga on TV and cinema
- Hardware: Efika MX Smartbook
- Hardware: A603
- Hardware: ACA 630
- Hardware: Reflash a PC graphic card to run it on Mac PowerPC
- Tutorial: Installation and use of WHDLoad
- Special quiz about Lemmings
English articles:
- Review: Janus-UAE 1.1
- Interview: Darren Eveland
Polish article:
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[News message: 01. Jul. 2011, 09:41] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: XRoar 0.25.1
XRoar ported by Ventzislav Tzvetkov emulates the 8-Bit-systems Dragon and Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer.
For the emulation a ROM-image of the computer is required which is not part of the distribution ist. The archive includes a free minimal firmware which is not very compatible but should work with some of the games.
Changes:
- New GTK+2 user-interface
- New GtkGLExt video module
- Fixed initial TV type bug
- Handle >1 channel in tape audio files
- New audio options: -ao-rate, -ao-buffer-ms, -ao-buffer-samples, -volume
- New options: -kbd-translate, -disk-write-back
- New PulseAudio sound module
- New Linux joystick module
- CPU emulation accuracy improved [from doc by Darren Atkinson]
- Tape audio feedback while loading CAS files (AUDIO ON)
- Tape reattach bug fixed
- Fixed some CPU timings
- Dragon 64 IRQ vector fix
- Added ability to print to file or pipe
- Ability to define new machines or cartridges
- Fixed crash bug accessing non-existent disk side 2
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2011, 15:06] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Article on Shared Objects
Under the title link Hans-Jörg Frieden has written a article in the Hyperion-blog which compares Shared Objects and the classical libraries of the Amiga.
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2011, 14:59] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jun.2011
Richie (ANF)
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aoOCS: Amiga-OCS-reimplementation based on Wishbone
With aoOCS a reimplementation of most of the functions of the Amiga original chip set (OCS) and of the computer itself was published on opencores.org.
This is compatible to Wishbone. Currently aoOCS runs on FPGA-boards of a Terasic DE2-70.
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[News message: 29. Jun. 2011, 08:11] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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ACube at CusPlay (2. and 3. July, Pisa/Italy)
On 2. and 3. July in Pisa the CusPlay will take place which is an event for retrogamer, comic fans and cosplayer. ACube will take part and present the Minimig as well as the Sam4x0-models.
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[News message: 28. Jun. 2011, 17:17] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jun.2011
Andreas Hirsing (ANF)
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Amiga-Demos as video stream
Andreas Hirsing has created a video stream with a website on which Amiga demos and Amiga mods can be played.
In the end a video stream is supposed to be created which only consists of free clips.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Jun. 2011, 22:26] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jun.2011
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet Gnumeric 1.8.4 for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has ported a new version of the spreadsheet Gnumeric for his X11-environment AmiCygnix (screenshots: 1, 2). Changes:
- New version 1.8.4 with many changes.
- Support of Python-plugins. A special Python package is included.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Jun. 2011, 19:57] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jun.2011
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Fortis 1.2
Fortis by Encore Games is a 2D-Shooter with 3D-background which is similar to the Amiga classic Super Stardust. The MorphOS version can be downloaded for free. If you ant to register the game you either can purchase the iPhone-/iPod-version or to advertise for the game.
In version 1.2 less processor performance is used and support of USB-joysticks was added.
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[News message: 26. Jun. 2011, 07:43] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jun.2011
Richie (ANF)
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Viva Amiga: Appeal for donations for documentary
Viva Amiga is a documentary film of the American Zach Weddington.
Under the title link an appeal for donations was started in order to be able to continue the filming. After meetings with Jeff Porter, Dave Haynie, Bil Herd and Andy Finkel, RJ Mical and Eric Schwartz will be interviewed as well.
Until 20. July at least 25.000 US-Dollar are required and already 62 % were donated. You need to have a credit card. (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jun. 2011, 07:16] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jun.2011
Richie (ANF)
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Retrospect: Jeri Ellsworth's "Amiga on a Chip"-project
In a clip on Youtube, Jeri Ellsworth presented her (not working any longer) "Amiga on a Chip"-prototype which similar to other projects emulates the customchips of the Amiga in a FPGA to make possible a remake of the computer.
The project is from the year 2005 and apparently was meant as successor of the C64 DTV. The interested producer canceled because of the low demand for such a toy. (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jun. 2011, 03:50] [Comments: 0]
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