22.Aug.2020
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Lemon Amiga Forum: Several user accounts hacked
In the English-language forum of "Lemon Amiga" obviously several user accounts have been hacked for advertising for certain versions of DOOM. The team of Lemon Amiga wrote:" Its going to take us a month to remove all of this crap manually, and also longer to change everybodies passwords and protect the site.
It seems this was a brute force attack on weak passwords "only". The server was not compromised. Apparently, many of these weak accounts had passwords the same as their user name. So it was not hard to open up the door. Other weak passwords included: "passsword", "123456", "pa55w0rd" etc."
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22.Aug.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.8
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes of version 0.8:
- Added action trigger Net Connect to connect to a remote machine and have a
multiplayer network game. One machine in server, the client needs to enter the server IP. In a LAN, just
need to type the internal IP. In different networks you can use external IP, probably port forwarding is
needed to find the target machine in the local LAN. REDPILL uses port 6666.
- Added condition trigger On Net Connection to detect when a connexion has been
established or if it is disconnected.
- Added condition trigger Is Net Remote to check if one player is remote or
local.
- Pong project has been updated to support two player network game
- Added action trigger Set Map Cols to activate/deactivate Object collisions.
- Added action trigger Norm Spd45 to adapt speed x and y when object is moving
in diagonal direction.
- Using Tooltype NTSC in Game icon (or -NTSC parameter in the CLI) will force
the game to be launched in NTSC mode.
- Screen width now can go from 320 to 256, to allow for fast ports from other
platforms.
- Input system has been simplified.
- Frame control redone again to avoid flickering issues and horizontal lines.
- Objects of type shot now follow better the direction of the objects
instantiating them.
- Small change in cursor color.
- Input fields for Object width and height.
- Input fields for HUD object pos X and Y.
- Speed on col trigger now works on angle motion objects.
- When Speed on col is negative does not stick the objects to the ground
anymore.
- In Settings screen, now it is possible to select the Light theme for REDPILL
user interface.
- FIX: When using grid slice the frame offsets will be assigned automatically
the grid offset.
- FIX: Follow object was always following object 0.
- FIX: Only Vars from page 1 were accessible in the HUD screen
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22.Aug.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Legal dispute: Intellivision and Cloanto seeking for settlement
After Cloanto has taken legal action to protect the brand Amiga with regard to the console "Amico" developed by Intellivision (amiga-news.de reported) "this proceeding be suspended for 90 days to allow the parties to continue their settlement efforts" (PDF file).
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22.Aug.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Adapter: SmallyMouse2 and "USB mouse module" support USB mice
Simon Inns' SmallyMouse2 uses a microcontroller to convert signals of common USB mice into a format which computers from the 1980s and early 1990s can "process". Additional to the Amiga also the Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes and BBC Micro are supported. All required data and documents for recreating the adapter, Inns has published under a free licence.
The "USB mouse module" distributed by Centurion Technologies is a commercial version of SmallyMouse2 which completely replaces the original mouse port of the A1200. Variants for the A1200 motherboard revisions 1D* and 2B are offered. The product description also explains how to install the adapter in the computer. The "USB mouse module" is available for about 34 Euro plus shipping.
Hint of the editors: Centurion explicitely has listed a version for the motherboard revision "1D*" and implies that the installation instruction in the product description - not including any soldering or mechanical changes at the A1200 motherboard - is valid for all previous revisions of the A1200. In our experience, only revision 1D4 has a seperate mechanical port (picture). In previous versions (Pictures: 1D1, 1D3) the mouse port is firmly attached to the motherboard - in our opinion soldering and machanical operations are required.
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21.Aug.2020
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Overview: List of CNet mailboxes
On amiga.org an user has published a list of C64 and Amiga mailboxes, which use the BBS software CNet. Most of the computers can only be accessed via Telnet but also three (US-American) boxes with a real telephone connection are listed.
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21.Aug.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Reworked version of Gnumeric 1.10.17
Edgar Schwan has updated the port of the spreadsheet Gnumeric (screenshot) for his X11 environment AmiCygnix. Changes:
- The program was linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. As a result, drag and drop now works among other things. Content and other things can now be moved with the mouse and much more.
- New release 5 of the Python package v2.7.2 with GTK+ 2.24.32.
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21.Aug.2020
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #16 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to the retro gamers and mainly reports about Commodore's 8-Bit computers and Amigas. The current issue among others has articles about Inviyya, Tiny Galaga and Raid over Moscow as well as the fourth part of the WinUAE experience report.
As printed variant the magazine is available for 8 Euro (plus 15 Euro shipping), the coverdisk for 5 Euro. The digital version costs 1,50 Euro. Previous issues until issue 14 published in December can be downloaded for free.
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20.Aug.2020
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Raspberry Pi and Amiga: A314 Adapter for Amiga 2000
"A314" is an adapter board which connects a Raspberry Pi to a A500 or A600. In this way it is possible to exchange data with the Linux running on the Pi or to play audio or video files under Linux. You can also use the network connectivity of the Pi out of the AmigaOS.
Using the "Amiga 2000 A314 Adapter", its documents are available under a free licence, an Amiga 2000 or an A1000 with Rejuvenator extension can be upgraded providing an trapdoor expansion typical for an A500 which makes it possible to use the A314.
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[News message: 20. Aug. 2020, 19:16] [Comments: 0]
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19.Aug.2020
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.34
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey).
Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a little donation from inside TAWS.
After launching TAWS, the "History (english)" of version 0.34 can be found in the folder "System/TAWS" on the Workbench.
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19.Aug.2020
Twitter (ANF)
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AmigaWorld.de: RTC Module V2 for Amiga 1200
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has published a new hardware extension self-assembly on AmigaWorld.de. Compared with variant "V1" which is still availalbe, now the "V2" of the clock module for the Amiga 1200 is not placed rotated any longer on the clock port.
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[News message: 19. Aug. 2020, 07:08] [Comments: 0]
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18.Aug.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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Reworked version of AbiWord 2.8.6 for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has updated his port of the word processing software AbiWord for his X11 environment AmiCygnix. Changes:
- The program was linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. As a result, drag and drop now works among other things. Content and other things can now be moved with the mouse and much more.
- The included Aspell catalogs in German and English for spell checking have been updated.
- Various libraries have been updated:
- libwpd-0.9.9: A library for reading and writing Corel WordPerfect(tm) documents.
- libwps-0.2.10: A library for reading Microsoft Works word processor documents.
- wv-1.2.9: Word Document Filter library and utilities.
- The localization code has been revised. With the new features of AmiCygnix 1.6, AbiWord can now use all available languages. Languages like "Canadian English" were not possible before.
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17.Aug.2020
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Full version for download: Super Ski 1+2
The full versions of the sports games SuperSki and Super Ski II can be downloaded from the website of the Amiga Future. ADF and IPF disk images as well as a WHDLoad version are available.
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[News message: 17. Aug. 2020, 19:19] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2020
Amigaworld (Webseite)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.3
A free update for the Workbench distribution AmiKit, meant for emulators or Vampire hardware, has been released for users of the Version XE (11.x). The changes include several Software updates as well as a reworked startup-sequence, which according to the developers "is much more robust now and takes better care of patches and ROM modules depending on your AmigaOS version."
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[News message: 16. Aug. 2020, 21:50] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Board for using a Meanwell RT50-B in power supply housing of the Amiga 600
Under the title link Dave Poo has published a board created with KiCAD, which makes it possible to put a power supply housing of the Meanwell-RT50-B into an Amiga 600. Using the board for the power supply housing of the Amiga 1200 is considered possible but has not been tested.
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16.Aug.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Self-made project: Memory expansion Minimal A501
The self-made project "Minimal A501" is another memory expansion. The gerber files can be found on GitHub. With Jonni Rainisto's memory expansion you can add 512 KB RAM to the Amiga 500(+) in a cost-effective way.
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[News message: 16. Aug. 2020, 19:13] [Comments: 0]
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16.Aug.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Claws-Mail 3.9.2 Release 2 for AmiCygnix
For his Unix environment AmiCygnix for AmigaOS 4, Edgar Schwan has released an update of the GTK+-based e-Mail program "Claws-Mail" (screenshot).
Changes:
- The program was linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. As a result, drag and drop now works among other things. Mails can now be moved with the mouse and much more.
- The program was linked with GnuTLS 3.6.13. Problems with SSL/TLS connections should now be resolved.
- Mail addresses and personal data can now be determined using LDAP. For this Claws-Mail was linked with openldap 2.4.49 (screenshot).
- New release 5 of the Python package v2.7.2 with GTK+ 2.24.32.
- The included Aspell catalogs in German and English for spell checking have been updated.
- Successfully tested with gmail.
Features of Claws-Mail:
- Support of vCalendar messages
- Receiving RSS-Newsfeeds
- Saving messages/accounts in packed achives
- spam filter with learning abilities (bogofilter)
- Printing
- spell checking. Uses the Aspell dictionaries created for AbiWord.
- Many other plugins and functions
Supported protocols:
- POP3 / APOP
- SMTP / SMTP AUTH
- SSLv23 / SSLv3 / TLSv1.0 / TLSv1.1 / TLSv1.2 / TLSv1.3 (POP3, SMTP)
Download: claws-mail.lha (56 MB)
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16.Aug.2020
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Aminet uploads until 15.08.2020
The following packages have been added to Aminet until 15.08.2020:
NetFS-revised.lha comm/net 493K MOS Remote filesys and AREXX betw...
NoMoreDiv0_Debug.lha dev/debug 5K 68k Division by Zero Debugger
Python_One_Liner.zip dev/src 821K Python-1.4 One Liner Demo for...
filex-2.6-morphos.lha disk/moni 598K binary file editor (8 catalogs)
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 7K 2020 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 2.9M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.2M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.4M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
FenetreSurMaCour.lha game/text 512K 68k A tiny interactive fiction in...
wbpong.lha game/wb 7K 68k A simple pong game running in...
img2oric.lha gfx/conv 42K MOS Convert an image to Oric Atmo...
ivdemo.lha gfx/misc 749K 68k Demo of ImageVision multimedi...
emplant_guides.lha misc/emu 203K hardware and software docs fo...
emplant_machist.lha misc/emu 55K Version history of Emplant Ma...
emplant_macsw.lha misc/emu 666K 68k Macintosh emulator for Emplan...
emplant_prosw.lha misc/emu 645K 68k Advanced Macintosh emulator f...
emplant1200_updater.lha misc/emu 93K 68k Update for Emplant 1200 Mac e...
MultiMeedio.lha mus/play 32K Script to control many media ...
NoMoreDiv0.lha util/boot 2K 68k No more Division by Zero
UAETools.lha util/cli 2K 68k UAEVersion, UAEUptime, UAEWait
UAETools15.lha util/cli 3K 68k UAEVersion, UAEUptime (FIXED!...
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 14K 68k Decompiles catalogs back into...
DOpus5Catalogs.lha util/dopus 170K Some catalogs for Directory O...
XADopus_src.lha util/dopus 179K browse XAD archives with DOpu...
ViNCEd_Boot_Shin.lha util/shell 10K 68k Use ViNCEd as boot console
newmeter.lha util/wb 16K 68k Shows free RAM and storage as...
OpenParent.lha util/wb 2K 68k Open Parent Drawer
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16.Aug.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.08.2020
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until 15.08.2020:
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
pidgin.lha net/cha 26Mb 4.1 A chat client for AmiCygnix
pidgin-src.lha net/cha 4Mb 4.1 Sources of Pidgin 2.13.0 for Ami...
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16.Aug.2020
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.08.2020
The following packages have been added to AROS Archives until 15.08.2020:
wormwars-i386-aros.zip gam/act 686kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
icebreaker.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 430kb Similar to Jezzball and Qix.
sumeria.i386-aros.lha gam/mis 133kb Classic economic game about Hamm...
silkraw_aros.lha gra/mis 2Mb GUI for Dave Coffin's progr...
mcamiga.lha uti/fil 2Mb Directory Utility
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16.Aug.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.08.2020
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 15.08.2020:
Dopus_5.92.lha Legendary file manager Directory Opus 5
img2oric.lha Convert an image to Oric Atmos colours
InstallerLG_0.1.0a51.lha Commodore Installer replacement.
MCE_12.02.lha Multi-game Character Editor by James Jacobs.
NetFS-revised_3.0.lha Network File System for Amigas (revised version)...
SDL2_Libraries.lha All Libraries SDL2 with all SDK files for MorphOS.
StarFighter_2.3.1.lha Starfighter is a space shoot 'em up game origina...
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16.Aug.2020
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WHDLoad: New packages until 15.08.2020
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 15.08.2020:
- 2020-08-13 improved: James Pond 3 - Operation Starfish (Millennium/VectorDean) extended joypad support, trainer added, manual included, merged floppy and CD32 install (Info)
- 2020-08-13 improved: Frontier (GameTEK/Konami) changed default cache settings (Info)
- 2020-08-10 updated: Crazy Cars 3 (Titus) fixed broken map display, added joypad controls, uses kickemu, trainers added, package fully reworked (Info)
- 2020-08-10 improved: Indy Heat (Sales Curve) fixes address error (Info)
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