12.Dec.2020
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Fix for incorrect date of real-time clock on Starboard 2
The memory expansion Microbotics Starboard 2 also provides a real-time clock. But at the end of 2017 it leaped back to 1. January 1978 refusing to display a correct date. Now a user has writen a little program which is launched by the startup-sequence and which pushes forward the date by 40 years.
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[News message: 12. Dec. 2020, 23:58] [Comments: 2 - 13. Dec. 2020, 19:26]
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12.Dec.2020
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Patch: Kickstart 1.3 with support of HD drives
An user has written a patch which provides support of HD drives for Kickstart 1.3 (version 34.5). The patch program generates either a new Kickstart disk (for A1000) or writes the patched Kickstart image in a file. The HD drive - the developer uses a Chinon FZ-357A - is a replacement for an existing drive and is connected to the motherboard or put into a case of an old, external drive.
In order to add the new code into the Kickstart, the support of 5,25 inch drive was removed. Additionally, the trackdisk.device no longer warns if some of the required system ressources are not available for initializing it.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Dec. 2020, 23:50] [Comments: 0]
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12.Dec.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: Lotek64, issue 61 (German)
The German magazione "Lotek64" covers old and alternative computer systems. Amongst other things. Among other things, issue 61 includes a review on the multi platform adventure "Curse of Rabenstein".
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[News message: 12. Dec. 2020, 22:09] [Comments: 0]
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11.Dec.2020
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Quiz for AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: "Robotics" add-on for AskMeUp XXL
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's "Ask Me Up" is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring now 2226 questions. The free add-on "Robotics" provides 50 new questions, such like: "Who used the word "robot" for the first time ?" and "What is the world's best-selling humanoid robot ?". This add-on was done in partnership with the magazine Planète Robots and his publication editor, Frédéric Boisdron!
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[News message: 11. Dec. 2020, 20:26] [Comments: 0]
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11.Dec.2020
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: Own hardware extensions and spare parts for Amigas
German Amiga dealer Alinea Computer now also offers smaller hardware and spare parts from its own production. Items sold at the title link include replacement capacitors, clockport expanders and a remake of the Amiga B2000 Rev. 6.2 board. (cg) (Translation: snx)
[News message: 11. Dec. 2020, 15:55] [Comments: 0]
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11.Dec.2020
RELEC (ANF)
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Vampire 1200 also available in RELEC shop
The Swiss trader RELEC has announced that the first batch of Vampire-1200 accelerator boards will be delivered to purchasers around the turn of the year. The first purchasers should have been informed to confirm their orders. RELEC will offer V1200 and V500(+) boards as well as V600 (soon).
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[News message: 11. Dec. 2020, 00:51] [Comments: 0]
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10.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Network port and SD card reader for Amigas with SPI interface
7-Bit offers a combined Ethernet controller (MINI ENC28J60) and MicroSD card reader which can be used with all devices equipped with a SPI bus - and thus mainly with RAM expansions and "Wicher" accelerator boards.
There are no detailed information about drivers available. The products of 7-bit can be ordered from diverse traders.
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[News message: 10. Dec. 2020, 22:00] [Comments: 0]
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10.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Wicher 1211: 11 MB memory expansion for A1200
7-bit offers a memory expansion providing up to 11 MB RAM for an Amiga 1200. Additionally the card has a real time clock and a SPI port:
- 11MB FAST RAM for AmigaOS (used 16MB SDRAM memory)
- RTC clock
- SPI controller
- PCMCIA compatible (4MB + 1,5MB)
- MAPROM and BootROM function
Kickstart 3.1 is recommended. The products of 7-bit can be ordered from diverse traders.
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[News message: 10. Dec. 2020, 21:54] [Comments: 0]
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10.Dec.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview video: 'Putter' - a Jump'n Run like 'Soccer Kid'
In August for the first time the Jump'n Run game developed by Third_Knight / Czorny was introduced and now was named 'Putter'. A new preview video of the game which was inspired by Soccer Kid shows the title screen as well as the first five levels. A release date for the game which is developed with RedPill is not yet set.
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[News message: 10. Dec. 2020, 21:47] [Comments: 0]
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09.Dec.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview videos: 'Scourge of the Underkind' and Doom clone 'Dread'
"Scourge of the Underkind" is a tribute to games like Gods, Chaos Engine and Alien Breed, is developed in assembler and will offer 16 levels devided into four worlds. A new video shows latest level of development. 'Scourge' will be available in two different versions: A "Special Edition" will be sold together with the Amiga 500 cases announced by a1200.net. Shortly afterwards the standard version - providing different levels and bosses - will be also sold.
Dread" is a Doom clone written for an Amiga 500 equipped with 1 MB RAM. In the latest preview video the developer shows the creation of the ingame menu as well as of the title screen and the problems which had to be solved for it.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 09. Dec. 2020, 23:30] [Comments: 0]
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09.Dec.2020
Pär Boberg (ANF)
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Liste of "Famous Amiga Uses" updated
"Famous Amiga Uses" is a list of well-known companies and institutions which used an Amiga. Now the list has been updated again. By updating the list, "Famous Amiga Uses" celebrates its 20. anniversary.
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[News message: 09. Dec. 2020, 22:04] [Comments: 0]
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09.Dec.2020
Diverse (ANF)
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Kickstarter campaign for Amiga inspired case in MiniITX format
In 2018, Stephen Jones financed a case inspired by an A3000 by crowdfunding and revived his brand "Checkmate" for that which he used 30 years ago for an A500 desktop case. In late summer the "Checkmate Mini" was announced which is much smaller and is meant for motherboards with mini-ITX form factor. Using an adapter kit, the case can also host the FPGA emulators "UnAmiga" and "MIster" und since yesterday it is crowdfunded by Kickstarter.
For about 180 Euro you get the standard case. There are also a "Deluxes" version available for 220 Euro which e.g. includes additional panels for disk and DVD drives as well as diverse combined offers. So far about 37.000 of 55.000 Euro has been financed.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 09. Dec. 2020, 21:59] [Comments: 0]
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08.Dec.2020
amiga.org (Webseite)
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ACube: Firmware update for Sam 440ep (flex) - U-boot 1.3.1g
For its PPC motherboards Sam 440ep and Sam 440ep-flex ACube Systems has released a firmware update which can be downloaded for free from the corresponding website. Radeon-HD and Radeon-RX- cards now can be used with a PCIe adapter:
- Improved support for Radeon HD and Radeon RX graphic cards.
Now you can use a Radeon HD / RX via a PCI to PCI Express adapter. On the Sam440ep flex motherboard, it is recommended to use PCI slot #1 for maximum performance. Please note that full support for Radeon RX is still under development and for this reason, with many models of gfx cards, U-Boot does not show any output, but the card works fine once the operating system is loaded.
- Introduced a new menu entry to change the x86 gfx BIOS emulator accuracy.
If your graphic card show some visual problems on startup, try increasing the x86 BIOS emulator accuracy.
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[News message: 08. Dec. 2020, 00:02] [Comments: 0]
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07.Dec.2020
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Polybios 1.3: Hollywood Designer 5.0 can import PDF pages
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working elves in snow business, are proud to present Polybios 1.3. This is a major update which makes it possible to import PDF pages into Hollywood Designer 5.0. Furthermore, it also adds full support for treating PDFs as vector animations in Hollywood and there are some bug fixes as well.
The plugin Polybios 1.3 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (arm, arm64), and iOS (arm, arm64) are provided.
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[News message: 07. Dec. 2020, 23:37] [Comments: 0]
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07.Dec.2020
Amiga Ireland (ANF)
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Online competition: Commodore Creative Competition 2021
The "Commodore Creative Competition" is organized by the "Amiga Users Ireland" every year. In January in a meeting of the group the winners of the categories "Mod/AHX", "Pixel Art" and "Raytracing" will be elected. This time it is going to be a virtual meeting. You can send a competition entry using the upload website as well as take part in the vote. You can reserve tickets for the virtual meeting on Eventbrite.
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[News message: 07. Dec. 2020, 23:36] [Comments: 0]
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06.Dec.2020
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Aminet uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to Aminet until 05.12.2020:
twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 5.2M MOS Twitter client
ddns_check_v2.2_web.lha comm/tcp 318K retrieve public IP and web se...
streamer.lha comm/www 356K 68k Play MPEG/RealAudio internet ...
asm-kurs4.lha dev/asm 780K Assembly course, German
vbcc_bin_amigaosppc.lha dev/c 2.6M OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_bin_powerup.lha dev/c 1.1M OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_bin_warpos.lha dev/c 933K OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_target_m68k-kick... dev/c 474K ISO C compiler, AmigaOS 1.2/1...
vbcc_target_ppc-amiga... dev/c 186K ISO C compiler, PPC-AmigaOS T...
vbcc_target_ppc-power... dev/c 351K ISO C compiler, PPC-Powerup T...
vbcc_target_ppc-warpo... dev/c 221K ISO C compiler, PPC-WarpOS Ta...
A09-1.45.lha dev/cross 275K OS4 6800/6801/6809/6301/6309 Asse...
cazm-1.27.lha dev/cross 154K OS4 Z80 Cross Assembler
F9DASM-1.80.lha dev/cross 348K OS4 6800/6801/6809/6309 Disassembler
rasm_os4.lha dev/cross 1.5M OS4 Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
less-mos.lha dev/gg 764K MOS Viewer program similar to "more"
regina-doc.pdf dev/lang 1.2M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
sdl_sprite-1.2b.i386.lha dev/lib 168K x86 Display animated sprites
GoADF.lha disk/misc 468K 68k AIO software to handle ADF/AD...
Square_Destroy.adf game/board 880K 68k special version of classic re...
DeluxePacman_A.lha game/misc 388K 68k PacMan clone with lots of fea...
DeluxePacman_E.lha game/misc 315K 68k PacMan clone with lots of fea...
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 123K 68k Port of Commodore 64 game Lab...
dMagnetic.lha game/role 260K MOS Interpreter for Magnetic Scro...
dMagnetic.lha game/text 316K MOS Interpreter for Magnetic Scro...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 49K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
trx2x.i386-aros.lha misc/emu 362K x86 ZX Spectrum floppy image conv...
HexShow.lha util/cli 5K 68k shows files as Hex
SysInfoFix.lha util/libs 5K 68k 68040/060-Loadlib fix for Sys...
mousemeter.sbar.lha util/misc 101K MOS A mousemeter screenbar module.
SysinfoBoards.lha util/moni 13K 68k More Boardinfos for Sysinfo
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[News message: 06. Dec. 2020, 07:03] [Comments: 0]
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06.Dec.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to OS4Depot until 05.12.2020:
rasm.lha dev/cro 1Mb 4.0 Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
vbcc.lha dev/cro 3Mb 4.0 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PPC/A...
vbcc_libs.lha dev/cro 186kb 4.0 Compiler target AmigaOS 4.x PowerPC
starpusher.lha gam/puz 7Mb 4.1 A cute Sokoban clone
deficons_dump.lha uti/she 5kb 4.0 show what project tools is assoc...
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06.Dec.2020
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to AROS Archives until 05.12.2020:
a09-1.45.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 169kb 6800/6801/6809/6301/6309 Assembler
cazm-1.27.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 111kb Z80 Cross Assembler
dasm-2.20.14.1.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 1Mb Macroassembler with support for ...
f9dasm-1.80.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 246kb 6800/6801/6809/6309 Disassembler
sdl_image-1.2.12.i386-aro... dev/lib 939kb library to load images of var. f...
sdl_net-1.2.8.i386-aros.lha dev/lib 28kb portable network library
sdl_sprite-1.2b.i386-aros... dev/lib 168kb Display animated sprites
trx2x.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 362kb ZX Spectrum floppy image converter
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06.Dec.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 05.12.2020:
twittAmiga_4.4.2.lha Communication A Twitter client with m...
Less_563.lha Development/GeekGadgets A paginator similar to ...
dMagnetic_0.28.lha Games/Role Interpreter for Magneti...
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06.Dec.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.12.2020
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 05.12.2020:
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06.Dec.2020
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Beast III - As A New Day Dawns (Neil Mix)
- Grave Yard (Finally Out Of My Mind Mix)
- Red Sector Theme - Spatial remix
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