11.Jan.2020
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A-EON: A1222 Early Adopter Programme started
At Christmas, A-EON had announced pre-order registration for the limited edition A1222 Plus Early Adopter motherboard would be possible soon, now it's happening: The announced 'AAA Bundle' can now be ordered at Amigakit for 115 Euros (99 GBP) -
customers of this bundle can optionally request to be enrolled in the A1222 Plus Early Adopter programme and purchase one of the 100 motherboards available. The other initially described option - ordering an 'Early Adopter' motherboard via a 20% deposit - does not seem to be available yet.
Note from the staff: A-EON's Christmas press release lists "Enhancer Software 2.0" as part of the AAA Bundle. But the actual product description at the Amigakit store implies that (only) customers that qualify for the A1222 Early Adopter Programme will recieve a boxed edition of Enhancer 2.0. This way, the contents of the bundle would change depending on the time of purchase, and a customer would have no way of determining if he will recieve Enhancer 2.0 as part of his purchase or not. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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10.Jan.2020
Nico Barbat (ANF)
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Great Britain: Classic video games stamps
According to the Spiegel (in German), the Royal Mail has published the Video Games Presentation Pack which depicts scenes from landmark UK-designed titles of classic video games from the 1980s and '90s - among others Lemmings, Populous, Sensible Soccer and Worms. The pack will be available from January 21 for £14.25 plus shipping.
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10.Jan.2020
Aminet
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Person Contact and Information Manager PerCIMan 0.7
Ulrich Beckers has updated his person contact and information manager PerCIMan which is available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Windows). In version 0.7 a birthday reminder was added.
Editor's note (dr): Please note that the AmigaOS 3.x version requires a graphics card. This is not mentioned in the Aminet readme and on the website of the author you can only conclude it from his line "Other requirements are low: A screen resolution of at least 820x820". In a previous mail to his program to measure times required to motor-react, R²Z, Ulrich Beckers stated that Hollywood programs requires a graphics card by default - except the Plananarame plugin is used. We have asked the author if he still tries to release versions supporting the AGA chipset as well.
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10.Jan.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Amiga-Ireland-Meeting 2020
Again this January the Irish Amiga users will meet in Sheraton hotel in Athlone. Dave Haynie and David Pleasance will participate.
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10.Jan.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 142
The English and German issue 142 (January/February 2020) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today and can be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future as well as Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content includes a special about FPGA Amiga clones as well as reviews of Blastaway and DiskPrint. More information and previews can be found at the title link. (snx)
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07.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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FPGA accelerator board: Vampire 1200 V2 can be ordered
Already before Christmas it was announced, that the first 100 of the Vampire-1200-V2 accelerator board produced by Igor Majstorovic can be ordered under the title link. According to the developers, "there will be another batch of 100 cards very shortly." Detailed specifications still are not available in the Wiki of the Apollo team.
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07.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: Amiga-500 accelerator board Wicher 508i announced
Already before Christmas Retro 7-bit has announced the accelerator board Wicher 508i for the Amiga 500 and 500+. Among others the board has 16 MB SD-RAM (11 MB can be used by the operating system) and an Amiga-600 compatible IDE controller (requires Kickstart >= 2.05). The MC68HC000 processor is not part of the card.
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07.Jan.2020
Micromiga.com (ANF)
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French new Amiga webshop: Micromiga.com
Press release: We are pleased to announce the opening of "micromiga.com", a new French online reseller specialized in Amiga and retro-computing, which sells and ships all over Europe. This is a project we have been working on for a long time and which will have taken a long time to launch.
This webshop has been created above all by passion for the Amiga, with the objective to present you the best possible offer with a large number of references, stock, but also and above all, prices among the most competitives.
We already propose you more than fifty references and are still negotiating with many suppliers and partners to expand this catalog. If a reference of interest to you is not yet available, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are also at your disposal if you have a comment or a suggestion that would allow us to improve ourself.
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05.Jan.2020
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Screenshot-Screenbar plugin 1.0
The latest Screenbar plugin for Ambient written by #amigazeux can save screenshots and offers a lot of options - e.g. the tool "can grab windows, entire screens or just a freely selectable portion of the screen", "can grab the mouse pointer too" and "can superimpose an editable text over taken screenshots". Additionally the tool includes "a built in paint program" for e.g. "drawing arrows pointing at different things."
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05.Jan.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.01.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 4th, 2020:
Amix520.lha comm/amiex 962K 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel...
Nostalgia_Dentro.lha demo/misc 129K 68k Funny Dentro by Axel Software
MorphOS_PRINTING.lha docs/help 1.6M Printing with MorphOS (Englis...
prism2v2.lha driver/net 410K OS4 Driver for 11Mbps wireless ne...
cvt12.lha driver/vid 62K 68k Generate mode timings using C...
Intro-Kreation-002_mo... gfx/show 8.6M MOS Show scoll Text different co...
Intro-Kreation-002_OS... gfx/show 10M OS4 Show scoll Text different co...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Morpheus_1.61.lha text/dtp 2.3M MOS Word processor
led-20200101.tar.gz text/edit 13K A simple line-oriented text e...
ADiffView.lha util/misc 39K 68k A graphical file compare / di...
AminetReadmeMaker.lha util/misc 91K MOS Easy creation & upload of Ami...
perciman_68k.lha util/wb 1.4M 68k manage contact and other info...
perciman_MOS.lha util/wb 1.4M MOS manage contact and other info...
perciman_OS4.lha util/wb 1.8M OS4 manage contact and other info...
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05.Jan.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.01.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 4th, 2020:
minigl4gl4es.lha dri/gra 995kb 4.1 MiniGL / GLUT replacement librar...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
hcraft.lha gam/dri 50Mb 4.1 H-Craft Championship is fun to p...
supertuxkart.lha gam/dri 221Mb 4.1 A quality 3d kart racing game
q3keygen.lha gam/uti 11kb 4.0 Generates valid CD Key's fo...
hwp_ahx.lha lib/hol 135kb 4.1 Hollywood plugin for Abyss'...
hwp_polybios.lha lib/hol 22Mb 4.1 plugin for Hollywood to easily c...
qftpserv.lha net/ser 1Mb 4.1 Ftp/ftps server for Qt4
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 9Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
qtelnetserver.lha net/ser 103kb 4.1 Simple telnet server for Qt4
lhx.lha uti/arc 190kb 4.1 Pack & unpack using XZ/LZMA ...
vim_mui.lha uti/tex 11Mb 4.1 The ubiquitous text editor
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_deu.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_ita.lha uti/wor 47kb 4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
videoclipper.lha vid/edi 348kb 4.0 Cut and/or join multiple format ...
aiostreams.lha vid/mis 284kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
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05.Jan.2020
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 04.01.2020
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until January 4th, 2020:
vim_8.2.i386-aros.lha dev/edi 9Mb Vim
amipad31fe.i386-aros.lha net/mis 24Mb useful HMTL5 apps and web site
led-20200101.tar.gz uti/tex 13kb A simple line-oriented text editor.
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05.Jan.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 04.01.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until January 4th, 2020:
Hatari_2.2.1.lha Emulation Hatari Version 2.2.1, a...
REminiscence_0.4.6.lha Games/Adventure REminiscence is a re-im...
Morpheus_1.61.lha Office/WordProcessor Word processor with Uni...
Printing_with_MorphOS_... Documentation/Tutorials Printing_with_MorphOS_1...
Drucken_mit_MorphOS_1.... Documentation/Tutorials Drucken_mit_MorphOS_1.4...
ScoutNG_1.3.lha System/Monitoring ScoutNG, the exec libra...
AmiArcadia_26.02.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
ADiffView_1.2.lha Files/Compare A graphical file compar...
DeadCold.lha Games/Misc Joseph Hewitt's old sci...
Hode_0.2.4.lha Games/Adventure Hode is a re-implementa...
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05.Jan.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.01.2020
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 January 4th, 2020:
- 2020-01-04 improved: Ghosts'N'Goblins (Elite) Second button & CD32 Pad fixed (Info)
- 2020-01-04 improved: Liquid Kids (Ocean) file imager fixed, file sizes optimized, quit key added for 68000 (Info)
- 2020-01-04 improved: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) imager fixes, joypad support added (Info, Image)
- 2020-01-02 improved: Obitus (Psygnosis) new images, another version supported, additional translations added, trainer added (Info)
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05.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Summary of development from 2017 to 2019
Under the title link, Nick Andrews and Matthias Rustler have summarized the development of the open source operating system AROS during the past three years.
Keywords are the move to GitHub, the experimental support for several cores, the accelerated development of the m68k version due to the availability of the accelerator boatd Vampire, the USB driver and the Big-Endian-Target for the Raspberry Pi and much more.
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05.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Mailbox: AmiExpress 5.2.0
Version 5 of AmiExpress provided by Darren Coles written in Amiga E is a rewrite of the original mailbox program published by Joe Hodge/LightSpeed Technologies. Additional to bug fixes, version 5.2.0 adds support for Telnet and FTP file transfers.
Download: Amix520.lha (962 KB)
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04.Jan.2020
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Arcade classic: Bagman
Jean-François Fabre ported his SDL-based clone of the arcade classic Bagman to the Amiga, which required SDL libraries and thus a graphics card. Now a port is available which directly uses the chipset graphics of the Amiga.
Bagman requires 2 MB RAM, ECS and at least a 68020 processor. The source codes of the game which was written in C++ are available on Github.
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03.Jan.2020
Kea Sigma Delta Limited (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: FTP-Server ZitaFTP 1.10
According to Hans de Ruiter, his commercial FTP server ZitaFTP includes "the first part of the planned GUI": A "Docky" "shows status information, and has a popup menu that makes editing the configuration, restarting the server, and server shutdown easy. No more sending Ctrl+C to the server to shut it down." (video). Until January 20th you can purchase ZitaFTP 15% off the standard price.
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03.Jan.2020
lavago.de (ANF)
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USB stick/key ring in A500 design
On the German website lavago.de you can purchase an USB stick/key ring with 16 GB which has an "Amiga 500" look. According to the vendor the stick is produced by an injection moulding process from silicone and a Samsung branded product is used for the memory. The stick is delivered with preinstalled Amikit 8.1 and is available for about 19 Euro (incl. shipping). You have to place your order via email.
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02.Jan.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: MiniGL for GL4ES
Daniel Müßener's MiniGL for GL4ES ("MiniGL4GL4ES"), which is available in a first alpha version, allows also users of Polaris graphics cards to play a lot of the MiniGL games under AmigaOS 4.
MiniGL is based on Warp3D which has never been adapted for Polaris graphics cards while the OpenGL implementation GL4ES is based on OpenGLES2 - written by the same author - which uses Warp3D Novas. Thanks to Hans de Ruiter it supports Polaris graphics cards.
But currently there is an important limitation: You should not run more than one MiniGL application simultaneously. You can find notes on known errors under the title link.
Download: minigl4gl4es.lha (993 KB)
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02.Jan.2020
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. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- November/December 2019 news.
- Old articles from Joystick Hedbo 34 to 43:
- Review of DragonScape
- Report: Personal Computer Show 1989
- Review of Chicago 90
- Review of Carrier Command
- Review of Stormlord
- News: The demo of Shadow Of The Beast
- Review of Bloodwych
- News: The deception of Tintin On The Moon
- Review of Total Eclipse
- Review of RVF Honda
- Interview with Henk Nieborg (graphic artist of Lionheart, Flink and Xeno Crisis)
- Interview with Andreas Magerl (editor of Amiga Future)
- Interview with Stéphane Pitteloud (Apollo team)
- Comparative: IBrowse 2.5 vs. NetSurf 3.10, based on our review
- Review of Tower 57
- Review of Reshoot
- Tutorial: Print with MorphOS 3.12+
- Hardware: Amiga 500++
- Point of view: The delivery difficulties of the Amiga 4000
- File: The new MorphOS memory system
- Gallery: Amiga hardware adds
- Special quiz about Vampire V4
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02.Jan.2020
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast 81: Kick-Off-II-World-Cup players F. Fuhrmann and O. Stender
In issue 81 of the Scene-World podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller are talking to the Kick-Off-II-World-Cup players Oliver Stender and Frank Fuhrmann.
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