19.Feb.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 137 - preview and excerpts
A preview and excerpts of issue 137 (March/April 2019) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a preview to the "Amiga 34" and a report about the AmiWest.
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18.Feb.2019
Amigaworld (Webseite)
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3D print: Several printed replacement parts for Amiga computers
On 3dpintserviceshop.com several replacement parts for Amiga computers are offered, e.g. the front-cover of a Commodore-1084s monitor, "Trapdoors" for the A1200 or a power button of an A4000. The parts are printed by the Dutch shop using a 3d printer and are available for 5 to 20 Euro.
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18.Feb.2019
Mike Battilana (E-Mail)
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Picasso96: Cloanto replies Jens Schönfeld's allegations
For years (German), first Thomas Richter - who is now working on Jens Schönfeld's commercial P96 distribution - and later Jens Schönfeld himself have criticized Cloanto's distribution of Picasso96 as part of Amiga Forever. In a 2001 press release, Cloanto had announced that the company licenced P96 from its original authors Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt for use in the Amiga Forever distribution.
Jens Schönfeld denies that, recently he attacked the Italian company in a press release and claimed (German) in a discussion on amiga-news.de that he had only seen "blackened account statements and vague e-mails" as evidence for the alleged licence to Cloanto.
Apparently, Cloanto now released these exact emails and a transfer receipt to the public. The old Picasso announcement on the company's website has been supplemented with a small note and a PDF document.
The PDF contains two e-mails which are apparently part of a longer conversation between Mike Battilana (Cloanto) and Alexander Kneer (Picasso96).
Basically, Battilana is having Kneer confirm various details of the license agreement. The core points the two are addressing, seem to be the following items:
- Battilana suggests the following copyright notice: "Amiga Forever includes a licensed copy of the Picasso96 software. This means that no additional shareware fees are due for this copy of the software, which is licensed for use only in the Amiga Forever emulation environment, and without upgrade privileges." Alexander Kneers reply to the suggestion: "Perfect."
- Battilana asks: "Do you think we need a contract, or is our exchange of email sufficient? For me it is enough, if you confirm so." Kneer answers: "Sufficient for me."
- Battilana then summarizes older agreements that are not part of the mails included in the PDF: "The fee for using Picasso96 in Amiga Forever as agreed, in place of the current shareware status, would be DM 2000.00 (in addition to past shareware contributions). If you could confirm that the data I used one year ago is still OK, I will wire it there." Kneer: "Nothing has changed. ;-)"
The last item in the PDF is a scan of a transfer receipt: On December 4th, 2001 Cloanto Italia SRL transfered 1022,58 Euro (i.e. 2000 DM) to an account at the Sparkasse Ulm. Recipient: Abt&Kneer GbR. Reason for payment: "Picasso96".
Approached by amiga-news.de, Jens Schönfeld did not question the authenticity of the mails published by Cloanto, but states that these mails have been "taken out ouf context" to make people "draw wrong conclusions". He didn't want to elaborate any further, stating that both parties' lawyers were currently working on this issue. (cg)
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18.Feb.2019
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Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 1.0
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 1.0:
- Game/demo AutoSwap-disks feature
- No manual disk swapping, at all!
- Requires patching of host software titles
- Amiga titles so far (github:keirf/FF_AutoSwap):
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- The Secret of Monkey Island
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
- FF.CFG: New OLED display-type sib-option "-narrower"
- 16-character-wide display (c.w. "-narrow" 18-char-wide)
- PC98: Direct support for HDM image files
- HxC Compat: Small fixes to Amiga file selector
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18.Feb.2019
viddi (ANF)
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Action-RPG: Playable demo of Tales of Gorluth III
For the third and last part of Patrick Nevian's action RPG "Tales of Gorluth" announced for for the end of this year a first playable preview is available. The author has pointed out that it is a very early version and a lot of details have to be solved, e.g. dialogues which can be skipped and further animations. But the demo would give a very good impression of start of the game.
Download: TOGIII-DEMO.zip (1 MB)
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17.Feb.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.02.2018
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 16th, 2019:
GTS-BD2A.lha demo/mag 178K 68k Braindamage Issue #2 AGAFIX -...
BBlock0x.lha disk/misc 3K 68k Bootblock with beta Kickstart...
BootWB1x.lha disk/misc 18K 68k Minimal boot into Workbench 1...
SmartInfoItaCat.lha disk/misc 8K Italian catalog for SmatrInfo...
ScanQuix5ItaCat.lha driver/oth 18K Italian catalog for ScanQuix5
Frontiera.lha game/misc 171K 68k Frontier alike game WIP for i...
StrifeV1.2.lha game/misc 3.8M 68k Amiga AGA and RTG port of Strife
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 14M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
DoomSndLibs373.lha game/shoot 30K 68k New Sound & Music Librari...
Kunitoki.lha mods/misc 128K 4ch Ninja Remix Kunitoki The ...
SoundBoxItaCat.lha mus/misc 11K Italian catalog for SoundBox ...
Vim_8.1-i386-aros.lha text/edit 9.8M x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 9.6M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-src.lha text/edit 15M The ubiquitous text editor (s...
DMS2HDItaCat.lha util/arc 7K Italian catalog for DMS2HD v1.6
Albatros.lha util/boot 34K 68k Lock your AMIGA by a keyword
AmiTimeKeeper.lha util/cdity 201K 68k Keep your time right
ToolsMenu.lha util/cdity 63K 68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
JpegLibraryPrefsItaCa... util/libs 8K Italian catalog for JpegLibra...
DevInfosItaCat.lha util/misc 9K OS4 Italian catalog for DevInfos ...
InstallerGenItaCat.lha util/misc 13K Italian catalog for Installer...
P96SpeedItaCat.lha util/misc 9K Italian catalog for P96Speed ...
rexcat.lha util/rexx 62K Localization support for ARex...
AnalogClock.lha util/wb 34K 68k Analog clock for all the Clas...
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17.Feb.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.02.2019
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until February 16th, 2019:
pcx_datatype.i386-aros.lha dat/ima 18kb PCX (.pcx) picture datatype
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17.Feb.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 16.02.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until February 16th, 2019:
Iris_beta48.lha Email New email client suppor...
Bomns_for_Linux.lha Games/Think Bomns for Linux, Port b...
Image2icon_1.20.lha Graphics/Convert Creates thumbnail icons.
Screenshot4.jpeg Screenshots Screenshot realised by ...
Screenshot5.jpeg Screenshots Screenshot realised by ...
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17.Feb.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.02.2019
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until February 16th, 2019:
- 2019-02-12 new: Music for the Lost (Abyss) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2019-02-11 updated: North & South (Infogrames) fixed patch error in standard mouse mode (Info)
- 2019-02-11 improved: Beneath A Steel Sky (Virtual Theatre/Virgin) sound replay fixed, memory cleared and new kickemu for floppy version (Info)
- 2019-02-11 fixed: Project X (Team 17) pressing keys works always, CD32 joypad buttons supported (Info)
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17.Feb.2019
Vinnny (ANF)
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Files released: Memory expansion for the Amiga 600
Under the title link, 'LVD' has released the files for his 8-MB memory expansion for the Amiga 600 developed in 2008 under the GPL-V3 licence.
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13.Feb.2019
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Interview with Volker Wertich (The Settlers)
Amiga Ireland has interviewed Volker Wertich who created The Settlers series and has been a long-term developer. Wertich talked about his start as a programmer and the history of "The Settlers".
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12.Feb.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Shoot'em up: Reshoot R website online
The shoot'em up game Reshoot R is expecxted to be available during the second quarter of 2019. Almost one year agao, APC&TCP took over the distribution of this game and its predecessor. Below you can read the press release for the official Reshoot R website that is online at the title link now.
"Reshoot R website online. From now on the support page of Reshoot R can be accessed at http://reshootr.apc-tcp.de. Reshoot R is the successor of Reshoot and is a horizontal scrolling shoot'em up for the Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000 or Amiga CD³².
The game is expected to be available at APC&TCP in Q2 2019 as:
- Digital Download
- Pure Edition
- Signature Edition
(includes Audio Soundtrack CD & Pure Edition CD & Making-of Booklet)
Already in the first quarter of 2019, the Audio Soundtrack CD of Reshoot R will be available from APC&TCP and Amiga retailers. If you are interested in offering the Reshoot R Audio Soundtrack CD to your customers, please contact APC&TCP by e-mail." (snx)
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10.Feb.2019
Floppy (Forum)
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AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop 2.2.6
Paolo Besser has released an update of his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop. In version 2.2.6 the muimaster.library written by Neil Cefferkey was added providing "support for ESC-A method of embedding images into strings, which basically allows rapagui-based applications to show images into buttons and other GUI gadgets". Besides, now it is possible to record debug logs and updates of DCRaw, VIM and AmiCast Player were added as well as the ZuPaPlayer. Adding EasyRPG Player, "a great interpreter a la ScummVM for games created with RPG Maker 2000 and 2003" is supposed to be one of the highlights of the new version. Finally, for players the games "Kidnapping of Princess Pri" and "Grimps: Squeaking of the Dead" are now included.
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10.Feb.2019
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 8 - Supremacy released
Press release: After 12 months of development, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present the best Hollywood ever: Hollywood 8 - Supremacy.
Version 8.0 is a massive update with many new features and bug fixes. The most important new feature is full RapaGUI support on Android, which allows you to create GUIs for Android devices using Hollywood. As always with RapaGUI, only native widgets are used, so the GUIs look and feel completely native. This is a truly unique feature because no other software allows you to create native GUIs for Amiga (MUI), Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (GTK+), and Android! On top of that, there are tons of other new features, bug fixes, and improvements.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 8.0:
- Android core completely rewritten
- New network adapter plugin interface
- Ready for powerful new soon-to-be-released SSL/TLS plugin
- Support for IPv6 in the network library
- Serial port support on all platforms including Android
- Multiple displays now supported on Android
- System notifications are now supported
- Icon support
- Action Bar now supported on Android
- Menu bars are now supported on Android
- Better support for HiDPI monitors
- Full RapaGUI support on Android
- Ready for RapaGUI 2.0
- Hardware-accelerated drawing, scaling, and transformation on Android
- Camera support on Android
- Directories can be monitored from script code
- Hollywood scripts can call into Java code on Android
- Device vibration support on Android
- Whole directories can be linked to executables
- Gyroscope and accelerometer support on Android
- Ready for Hollywood APK Compiler 3.0
- 80 new pages of PDF documentation, now 1034 altogether
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood 8 is the ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for all creative people. Hollywood is available on CD and as a download version. Both versions include Hollywood for all supported platforms. Buying Hollywood gives you a single-user license for all 15 platforms supported by Hollywood. If you already own Hollywood, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. People who bought Hollywood 7.1 in 2019 can request a free upgrade.
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different AmigaOS compatible platforms and the other three modern desktop systems, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux! Additionally, Hollywood also supports the Android platform. A truly unique feature is the ability to cross-compile native executables for many different platforms including: AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86, x64), Mac OS X (x86, x64, PPC), and Linux (x86, x64, PPC, ARM). You don't even have to own these platforms in order to compile executables for them. It's enough to run Hollywood on one of the supported platforms and then compile programs for all the others! Only Hollywood makes it possible.
If you want to learn more about Hollywood, please visit the the official Hollywood portal at the title link which also has a forum for all questions concerning Hollywood. (snx)
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10.Feb.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.02.2018
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 9th, 2019:
irssi.lha comm/irc 3.0M MOS Terminal based IRC client
SFL-Antiglitcher.lha demo/aga 111K 68k Antiglitcher - Dentro by Soft...
GTS-BD1A.lha demo/mag 100K 68k Braindamage Issue #1 - Chipma...
MuForce.lha dev/debug 312K 68k V40 Enforcer, detect illegal ...
gcc-mos2wos-lite.lha dev/gcc 8.3M MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
SmartInfoItaCat.lha disk/misc 10K Italian catalog for SmartInfo...
ScanQuix5ItaCat.lha driver/oth 17K Italian catalog for ScanQuix 5
HeartOfTheAlienRedux.lha game/actio 269K 68k Amiga version of action-adven...
MCE.lha game/edit 2.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 2.3M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.5M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
StrifeAGA-1.1.lha game/misc 3.8M 68k Amiga AGA port of Strife
StrifeV1.2.lha game/misc 3.8M 68k Amiga AGA and RTG port of Strife
Exult_AGA.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga AGA port of Exult
Exult_RTG.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga RTG port of Exult
Puzzle2.lha game/think 1.1M 68k WB game based on the classic ...
ezaMaze.lha game/wb 36K 68k Get to the exit of the labyri...
Flog.lha game/wb 34K 68k Have fun with this card game!
LFTPalace.lha mods/8voic 234K Ninja Remix Lin Fen The Palac...
SoundBoxItaCat.lha mus/misc 12K Italian catalog for SoundBox ...
NECprefs_23.adf text/print 880K 68k Config Tool for NEC printers ...
AmiTimeKeeper.lha util/cdity 92K 68k Keep your time right
ToolsMenu.lha util/cdity 58K 68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 994K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
InstallerGenItaCat.lha util/misc 13K InstallerGenItaCat
HorizWheel.lha util/mouse 4K MOS Use the mousewheel for horiz....
AnalogClock.lha util/wb 33K 68k Analog clock for all the Clas...
wet_update.lha util/wb 500K OS4 Wet weather info v6.7 patch
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10.Feb.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.02.2019
The following archive has been added to OS4Depot until February 9th, 2019:
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
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10.Feb.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.02.2019
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until February 9th, 2019:
krystaldrop.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 18Mb GPL-clone of NeoGeo's 'Magical D...
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10.Feb.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 09.02.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until February 9th, 2019:
irssi_1.1.2.lha Communication Terminal based IRC client.
mos2wos-lite_1.2.lha Development/GCC Make MorphOS GCC output...
Iris_beta47.lha Email New email client suppor...
WHDLOpener_1.2.lha Emulation E-UAE/WHDLoad integrati...
MCE_10.9.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Screenshot1.jpeg Screenshots Screenshot realised by ...
Screenshot2.jpeg Screenshots Screenshot realised by ...
Screenshot3.jpeg Screenshots Screenshot realised by ...
Screenshot4.jpeg Screenshots Screenshot realised by ...
Shutdown.lha Scripts/Shell A shell script to give ...
HorizWheel_1.0.lha System/Ambient/Commoditie Use the mousewheel for ...
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10.Feb.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.02.2019
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until February 9th, 2019:
- 2019-02-08 new: Sun Tracker 2 (Analog, Powerlords, Demons) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2019-02-04 fixed: Dyna Blaster (Hudson Soft) ESC to quit in game works always now, set Custom5=2 for fast blinking text (Info)
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10.Feb.2019
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Personal Paint: Update to version 7.3c for registered customers (Update)
For registered customers of version 7.3 of the 8-bit paint program Personal Paint, originally developed by Cloanto, A-EON Technology will release a free update named PPaint 7.3c for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4 soon, written by Andy Broad.
Changes:
- Add polygon mode to grab brush tool
- Update Itialian translation (contributed Luca Longone)
- Fix long filename support
- Fix buffer overflows in brush scaling
- Fix buffer overflows in brush shearing
- Extend internal brush structure to include shear status values so that when shearing brush twice in a row is starts from the current sheared state and not the original brush state
- Fix incorrect calculation of visble files in builtin requester resulting in an occasional corrupt looking filename at end of file list. (personal_req.library 1.6)
Update: (21:45, 12.02.19, snx)
As AmigaKit clarified meanwhile, the release of PPaint 7.3c is not imminent since the update is still being betatested for now. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Feb.2019
MorphZone (Forum)
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Legal dispute: Amiga Inc. transferred rights to company of Mike Battilana
In the legal dispute between the Amiga and parties and Cloanto, recently Hyperion doubted the legality of Cloanto's involvement. According to the latest court documents (PDF file), on February 1, 2019, Amiga Inc. transferred "all worldwide rights, title and interest in and to all AMIGA-formative trademarks, including but not limited to the "Exclusive Licensed Marks" as that term is defined
in the 2009 "Settlement Agreement", and the "Boing Ball" design mark" to C-A Acquisition Corporation" which with its only director Mike Battilana has the same owner as Cloanto.
For several years Cloanto has collected the heritage of Commodore (amiga-news.de reported) in order - according to Cloanto - to preserve it. To the the "Exclusive Licensed Marks" also belong the trademarks "AmigaOS", "Amiga OS", "AmigaOne" and "Amiga One".
Therefore Cloanto will apply for admission of C-A Acquisition Corporation as another plaintiff. Besides, Cloanto as sucessor of Amiga Inc. again reasserted to have the right to sue Hyperion for breach of contract. The former transfer of the copyrights from Amiga Inc. to Cloanto again is documented in court (PDF files: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Furthermore Hyperion tries to prove some of the claims of the Amiga parties and Cloanto as void because they interfere into other countries' jurisdiction. This is countered by the statement that Hyperion explicitly got the worldwide license rights and therefore is internationally bound to respect the settlement agreement - which would have been broken by the attempt to register Amiga related trademarks in other countries.
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