22.Oct.2019
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Trevor Dickinson announces acquisition of AmigaOS 4 kernel 'Exec SG' (Update 2)
It's been an open secret for quite some time, now Trevor Dickinson officially announces the acquisition of 'Exec SG', the kernel used in AmigaOS 4. For some reason the news appeared in a blog posting on the Amiwest website, an Amiga meeting taking place in Sacramento (USA) this weekend, instead of a regular press release.
Press release: The Exec SG kernal is under development! Now the exclusive property of Trevor Dickinson, the Exec SG kernal is being extended and tested by a team of well-qualified developers.
Led by Exec SG Team Lead Steven Solie, the new kernal adds support for many features AmigaOS doesn't have. Among these are mutli-core support, GART implementation, faster speed, 64-bit support, and extending the RAM limit beyond 2 GB to 4 GB and beyond.
Even with all these advantages, the Exec SG kernal retains 100% compatibility compared to the former kernal version. This is true because these are extensions to the existing kernal incorporating the original work of Carl Sassenrath and the AmigaOS team in 1985 as well as the work of others since then.
So more Amiga magic is in store. What will it run on? Be sure you have an OS4.x machine to take advantage of these new features. Come to AmiWest to find out about when the next new machine will be introduced.
Update: (23.10.2019, 14:45, cg)
Matthew Leaman states on amigaworld.net that he's (also) the Managing Director of A-EON Technology Ltd. and as such can "can categorically state that A-EON has not acquired ExecSG and the information being referenced is not correct." The press release on the Amiwest site has not been changed or removed though, 24 hours after it went online.
Update 2: (24.10.2019, 14:15, cg)
According to a posting on amigaworld.net from Steven Solie, the claim that Exec SG was acquired by A-EON Technologies was a mistake on the part of the Amiwest blog author, Exec SG was acquired by Trevor Dickinson privately, not by A-EON. Shortly after that statement, the blog posting got updated accordingly. (cg)
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20.Oct.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 19th, 2019:
C4P4CITOR.lha demo/aga 1.9M 68k Invitro: Capacitor Party 4 by...
Python_2.lha dev/lang 7.9M MOS Python for MorphOS
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...
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20.Oct.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 19th, 2019:
glsnoop.lha dev/uti 334kb 4.1 Trace and profile OGLES2 and W3D...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
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20.Oct.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 19th, 2019:
runaway_arosx86.lha gam/act 2Mb LCD game conversion remake
cotrpg_01.i386-aros.tgz gam/adv 137Mb Chronicol of Tusandra For EasyRP...
cotrpg_02.i386-aros.tgz gam/adv 137Mb Chronicol of Tusandra For EasyRP...
cotrpg_03.i386-aros.tgz gam/adv 93Mb Chronicol of Tusandra For EasyRP...
solarusdx.i386-aros.zip gam/adv 23Mb Zelda engine with Mystery of Sol...
whack-a-trump_arosx86.lha gam 5Mb Whack-a-mole type game
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20.Oct.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until October 19th, 2019:
Python_2.5.4r165.lha Development/Python Python_2.5.4r165.lha
iMac_G5_Papiosaur.jpeg Hardware/iMac_G5 iMac_G5_Papiosaur.jpeg
ScummVM_2.1.0.lha Emulation A MorphOS build of Scum...
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20.Oct.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 19.10.2019
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 October 19th, 2019:
- 2019-10-19 improved: Oil Imperium / Black Gold (reLINE) more timings adjusted to better match original speed (Info)
- 2019-10-15 updated: Soccer Kid (Krisalis) several access faults fixed, decruncher moved to fast memory, less memory used, skip intro added, trainer added (Info)
- 2019-10-15 improved: Rygar (Seismic Minds) support for final version added (Info)
- 2019-10-14 new: Unjust Sentence (Appendix) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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19.Oct.2019
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Amiga Bootblock Reader 3.00 (Windows)
Jason Smith's "Amiga Bootblock Reader" recognizes, analyzes and extracts Amiga bootblocks out of ADF images. The Windows program recognizes 1716 different bootblocks and can launch disk images in WinUAE or FS-UAE.
Changes in the new version:
- now recognises 1716 Bootblocks
- Newly redesigned interface (mostly)
- Lots of little changes all over the place
- Includes boot pictures for many of the recognised bootblocks
- Can now use WinUAE / FS-UAE from any location
- Program uses PNGs generated by WinUAE screenshot function (You can create your own if needed)
- Fixed Amiga emulator setting defaulting to WinUAE
- It seems i broke .ZIP handling (containing ADF's) - fixed
- Fix: When ABR found a ADF file, the 'Boot Disk' button wasn't enabling for some reason
Known problems:
- If you add a String search that the program doesn't like it will refuse to scan correctly afterwards. Your string search contains a character that causes the scan routine to break, you will need to edit the search.brainfile file in a text editor and remove the offending line. (No blank lines)
- While i have endeavoured to make the scanning as accurate as i can, in some cases there will be some inaccurate detection
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17.Oct.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Joker 1/2019
Press release: Because 'Amiga Joker' is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the original Joker team has decided to release a jubilee edition. The Amiga Joker 1/2019 is now available in APC & TCP's online shop.
- The jubilee booklet for the 30th anniversary of the Amiga Joker
- The most beautiful retro reading by editor-in-chief Richard Löwenstein and the original Joker team
- Classics re-tested: Where was the joker wrong, which games are still top?
- AJ founder in interview: Michael Labiner and the team about faked tests and the end of the joker
- Current stuff in the test: How much fun do you have with new Amiga games?
- Post Mortem: The creators of "Lionheart" are looking back
- Also: demo gallery, mailbox and more on 48 pages, on the best paper in the world
In addition, the official Amiga Joker poster is immediately available at APC & TCP.
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15.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.3
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Mirror. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes in version 0.7.3:
- Program stack size increased to 32 KB to avoid unstability and crashes when using autoslice
- Sorting and rendering by Z has been recoded to avoid objects disappearing
- Fix: Screen Flash trigger was not working when HUD was on top
- File requesters now have a maximum size
- Fixed an issue preventing from changing Var pages when selecting a Var in the triggers
- Sound module code is now more robust to avoid memory leaks
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15.Oct.2019
Amiga.org (Forum)
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ReAmiga: John Hertell published files of his Amiga replica
Under the title link John 'Chucky' Hertell has published the files for making the ReAmiga 3000 (video recorded on the Amiga34) just like he did it before for the "ReAmiga 1200" - which is a replica of the Amiga-1200 mainboard.
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14.Oct.2019
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Amiga34: Announcements, videos and further pictures (Update)
In this news item we want to summarize all other news additional to the MorphOS for x64 as well as some further pictures completing the ones from yesterday.
In his speech Trevor Dickinson (A-Eon Technology) has announced an "Early-Adopter-Edition" of the AmigaOne 1222 which is based on the Tabor board (picture).
The price, including an "Early-Adopter" version of AmigaOS-4.1, for the Tabor board is supposed to be 400 Euro which corresponds to the announcement three years ago - but it is nether clear if this price includes VAT nor when it can be preordered. It is also not known what kind of limitations this version, compared to the final AmigaOS-4.1 version, will have. In spring the audio driver was still missing and the SATA driver had to be "polished". According to the comment of the visitor 'Skateman', all components of the Early-Adopter-AmigaOne-1222 are supposed to be working.
The new accelerator board Warp 1260 was presented together with the Warp 560 and further details explained: The board will be equipped with 256 MB Fast-RAM but which - similar to most of the 68060 extensions - operates only in the 68040 compatible bus mode, that means at half clock speed. Basically the DDR3-RAM is clocked with 800 MHz and connected to the 68060 processor via FPGA. The price will be 499 Euro, without processor. It has to be delivered by the purchaser.
Hyperion presented a beta version of Libre Office 5 which is ported by Hans-Jörg Frieden. Further information are not available so far.
Amiga34 impressions:
Update (06:11, 15.10.19, snx)
ZDF TV report video link added. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2019
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Event: Pictures of Amiga34 in Neuss (2nd Update)
This weekend the Amiga34 is taking place in Neuss, Germany. For amiga-news.de, Thomas Scheller has taken some pictures.
One of the most outstanding exhibits was the x64 version of MorphOS, presented on a MSI-B450M-Mortar-Titanium board with Ryzen-5-3600 processor made by AMD. Currently via PXE-Netboot is started (amiga-news.de reported):
Besides, there have been replica of the Amiga 500 ("Project R.E.D."), of the Amiga 2000 ("A2K Black & White Edition 2.0") and of the AGA Amiga 3000 prototype AA3000 ("AA3000+" of the Finnish developer 'Hese' [older photos])):
Other presented systems ranged from a SAGE-II system (AmigaOS was developed on a SAGE IV) to an upgraded Amiga 1000 and an AmigaOne X5000/40:
The 23 offered Vampire-V4 computer (nine others have been picked up by beta testers) was sold out within hours.
Update: (09:23, 14.10.19, snx)
In a previous version of this news-item we mistook the photos of the AA3000 with the Amiga 3000 replica ReAmiga 3000. Photos and a video of the latter you can find in our follow-up news-item instead.
2nd Update: (09:02, 18.10.19, snx):
David Brunet kindly pointed out to us that the computer shown wasn't a populated exemplar of the rare AA3000 prototypes, but the extended replica AA3000+ instead. We appologize for our mistake. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 12th, 2019:
Office_Test_1.1.lha dev/mui 557K MOS Demo program for office.mcc
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
Runaway_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.3M x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha game/wb 2.2M MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha game/wb 2.2M 68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha game/wb 2.5M OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha game/wb 2.5M WOS LCD game conversion
Whack-a-Trump_AROSx86... game/wb 5.1M x86 Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_MOS.lha game/wb 5.0M MOS Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_OS3.lha game/wb 5.0M 68k Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_OS4.lha game/wb 5.3M OS4 Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_WOS.lha game/wb 5.3M WOS Whack-a-mole type game
tine.tar.gz misc/unix 281K A clone of ED for UNIX
HotCorner.lha util/cdity 37K MOS Mouse in screen corner trigge...
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13.Oct.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 12th, 2019:
scummvm.lha gam/adv 30Mb 4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip gam/adv 44Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
freedroidrpg.lha gam/rol 226Mb 4.0 Isometric RPG influenced by Para...
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 9Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
scummvm-tools.lha uti/fil 3Mb 4.1 A collection of various tools fo...
scummvm-tools.zip uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 ScummVM Tools Source
aiostreams.lha vid/mis 248kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
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13.Oct.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 12th, 2019:
easyrpg-aros.lha gam/adv 4Mb play games created with RPG Make...
uhctools.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 39kb UHC Tools installer
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13.Oct.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until October 12th, 2019:
AIOstreams_1.4.lha Network/Streaming Stream online video fro...
MCC_TextEditor_15.53.lha System/MUI Classes TextEditor custom class...
MCC_Webp_1.0.lha System/MUI Classes A WebP MUI Class
Office_test_1.1.lha Office/WordProcessor Demo program for office...
Runaway_1.12.lha Games/Misc A LCD game conversion.
WookieChat_2.11.lha Communication IRC client
WookieChat_2.12b9.lha Communication IRC client
Whack-a-Trump_1.2.lha Games/Misc Whack-a-mole type game
MorphOS_SDK_3.12_20191... Development/SDK The MorphOS Development...
SpringMaus_0.9.lha System/Ambient/Commoditie SpringMaus_0.9.lha
MorphOS_on_AMD64.jpeg Screenshots MorphOS_on_AMD64.jpeg
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13.Oct.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.10.2019
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 October 12th, 2019:
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