01.May.2018
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement's website during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- March/Arpil 2018 news
- Old articles from Amiga News Tech n° 0 to 5:
- File: The IFF ILM format
- Programming: Assembleur, the art of machine code
- Tutorial: Utilization of the "List" command
- Programming: AmigaBasic, loops and jumps
- Hardware: A2630
- Programming: AmigaBasic, the variables
- Programming: Assembleur, screen and window structures
- Review: HiSoft Basic 1.0
- Interview with Francis Gradel (hardware designer)
- Interview with Hogne Titlestad (engineer at FriendUP)
- Interview with Thierry Levastre (graphist from Delphine Software)
- Review of MorphOS 3.10
- DIY: Installation of a CD Player inside an Amiga 1200 case
- Hardware: MiSTer
- File: Professional musicians on Amiga
- File: Classic Reflections - What happened to MacroSystem?
- Tutorial: Installation of MorphOS 3.10
- Programming: AMOS - the pointers
- Galleries: Unusual Amiga pictures (update)
- Special quiz about Dune
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01.May.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 28th, 2018:
smbfs-68k_1.116.lha comm/tcp 91K 68k SMB file system client; compl...
smbfs-68k_1.117.lha comm/tcp 95K 68k SMB file system client; compl...
MusicDisk01_CopperSky... demo/sound 880K 68k Music disk 01, by CopperSky
gcc-mos2wos.lha dev/gcc 17M MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
HeartOfTheAlienRdx-MO... game/actio 139K MOS Amiga version of action-adven...
View64.lha gfx/show 166K MOS View various C64 pictures
fceu_mos.lha misc/emu 630K MOS Nintendo NES / Famicom emulator
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.1M MOS Sega Genesis and MasterSystem...
hugo_mos.lha misc/emu 769K MOS PC-Engine / TurboGrafx 16 emu...
AmySequencer.lha mus/edit 325K 68k MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
STP.lha mus/play 109K 68k Soundtracker player with CD-P...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 505K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 529K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 644K OS4 Multipurpose utility
ToolManager2_1bin.lha util/wb 490K 68k ToolManager 2.1 (Binaries and...
ToolManager2_1gfx.lha util/wb 175K ToolManager 2.1 (Anims, Brush...
ToolManager2_1src.lha util/wb 280K 68k ToolManager 2.1 (sources/supp...
ToolManager21a.lha util/wb 24K 68k Small update for ToolManager 2.1
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29.Apr.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 28th, 2018:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
reverteris.zip gam/adv 128Mb 4.1 another text-game / interactive ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 644kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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29.Apr.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until April 28th, 2018:
warmux.i386-aros.lha gam/pla 125Mb Worms Clone
aleonatales.i386-aros.lha gam/str 37Mb real time strategy game fantasy
boswars.i386-aros.lha gam/str 63Mb real time strategy game in the f...
zod.i386-aros.lha gam/str 44Mb Zeta Games
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29.Apr.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 28.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until April 28th, 2018:
mos2wos_0.6.lha Development/GCC Make MorphOS GCC output...
MorphOS_SDK_3.12_20180... Development/SDK MorphOS Software Develo...
FCEU_1.7.lha Emulation FCEU emulates the class...
GenesisPlus_1.9.lha Emulation Genesis-Plus emulates t...
Hu-Go!_1.5.lha Emulation A TurboGrafx16/PC Engin...
HeartOfTheAlienRedux_1... Games/Action Amiga version of action...
Davegnukem_1.00.lha Games/Shoot 2D Dave Gnukem is a retro-...
View64_1.60.lha Graphics/Show View various C64 pictures.
Report+_7.2.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
AminetReadmeMaker_1.0.lha Text Easy creation & upload ...
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29.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.04.2018
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 April 28th, 2018:
- 2018-04-26 improved: Amazing SpiderMan (Paragon/Oxford Digital/Empire) another version supported (Info, Image)
- 2018-04-25 improved: Crystal Hammer (reLINE) unlimited lives and reset hiscores added, dma wait patched, quitkey works on 68000 (Info)
- 2018-04-23 improved: Coala (Empire) copy protection screen completely skipped, caches enabled (Info)
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29.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS Software Development Kit 3.12
Press release: The MorphOS Development Team would like to announce the immediate availability of the April 2018 release of the MorphOS SDK 3.12. The new SDK introduces support for Objective-C MUI application development, adds a Clang compiler, GCC 6.4.0, updated GCC5 as well as a GIT suite, many updated libraries and components.
Please note that, at this point, the Objective-C support should be considered a demo - both ABI and API are not yet 100% stable. MorphOS 3.12 may require your applications to be recompiled to work.
The new SDK requires at least 2GB of free disk space to install and is available for download in our files section.
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29.Apr.2018
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Gary-Wafer in private American library (picture)
In the "Walker Library of Human Imagination" Arthur Steinmetz has recognized a wafer of the Amiga custom chip Gary, which in the Amiga 500, Amiga 2000 (B) and in Amiga CDTV "provides glue logic for bus control and houses supporting functions for the floppy disk drive". Under the title link he has published a picture of the exhibit.
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27.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: SPI controller for clockport announced
Under the title link Retro 7-bit has announced a SPI controller for the clockport. Using the "Serial Peripheral Interface" you can access SD cards. The corresponding video shows such a card with 2 GB, to which is accessed by the prototype of the controller on an Amiga 1200.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2018, 21:36] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2018
Qemu (ANF)
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Emulator: QEMU 2.12.0 emulates Sam460ex
According to the version history available under the title link, version 2.12.0 of the emulator QEMU, released three days ago, includes the feature of emulating the Sam460ex board produced by ACube Systems.
Any further details e.g. to the compatibility regarding diverse Amiga operating systems are not available. At least in September 2017, AROS and MorphOS did not work (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2018, 21:21] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FCEU 1.7, GenesisPlus 1.9, Hu-Go 1.5
Kelly Samel - formerly known as company "Emerald Games", now operating as "Realstar Software" - has released updates of three of his MorphOS ports of emulators of Japanese game consoles.
FCE Ultra emulates the Nintendo-Entertainment-System (NES), GenesisPlus the Sega consoles Mega Drive, Sega CD, Master System as well as Game Gear and Hu-Go the PC Engine. Further details are available under the title link.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2018, 21:08] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: Looking for help for verifying old bugs
The bugtracker of the WHDLoad team contains more than 1500 bugs which are partly very old. Bert Jahn, the author of WHDLoad, suspects that many of the bugs can be refered to e.g. the usage of cracked versions or buggy hardware. Other bugs have not sufficient details to be able to reconstruct the bug.
Jahn is going to reduce the amount of open bug report as far as possible. Therefore he asks users of WHDLoad to check some of the open bugs listed in the database and to give a feedback if they could be reconstructed. In this way the team can recognize which bugs have priority. Very old bugs which nobody could reconstruct will be deleted.
If users should find new problems with WHDLoad versions of games then they are asked to post them in the bugtracker instead of writing them in the forum.
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2018, 22:49] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2018
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #46 - Interview with Robert Bernardo
The 46th issue of the Scene World Podcast offers an interview with Robert Bernardo. The US-American is chairman of the "Fresno Commodore User Group", attends several Commodore nd Amiga events worldwide and publishes videos of those meetings.
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23.Apr.2018
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Puzzle game: Block Off! (third preversion)
Colin Vella's Block Off! (Youtube video) is a puzzle game written in AMOS in which you have to move bricks of the same colour side by side. This preversion includes 14 levels. All users are invited to create new levels using the editor and to send them to the authors. Block Off! requires one Megabyte RAM. The game runs on an A500 but an Amiga 1200 is recommended.
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22.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Website)
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Obligement: Review of MorphOS-3.10 (French)
On the Obligement website, David Brunet has published a detailed article about version 3.10 of the operating system MorphOS in French (amiga-news.de reported). Automatic translations into other languages - e.g. English - are available by choosing the corresponding flags.
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22.Apr.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 21st, 2018:
gopherexx.lha comm/tcp 3K Gopher server for MiamiDX/AmiTCP
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 43K 68k Mediator driver for G3/G4 PCI...
gs2000AGAfix.lha game/patch 14K 68k Fixes Gunship 2000 AGA/CD32 w...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.2M MOS Sega Genesis and MasterSystem...
VICE-i386-AROS-3.1.ta... misc/emu 22M x86 Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
VICE-MorphOS-3.1.lha misc/emu 29M MOS Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
InstantZip_3.5.lha util/arc 201K MOS ZIP (un)packer + en-/decrypte...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 20K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
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22.Apr.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archive has been added to the OS4Depot until April 21st, 2018:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
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22.Apr.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until April 21st, 2018:
aiss.lha gra/ico 9Mb Toolbar images
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2018, 06:45] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until April 21st, 2018:
GenesisPlus_1.8.lha Emulation Genesis-Plus emulates t...
VICE_3.1.lha Emulation The Versatile Commodore...
InstantZip_3.5.lha Files/Archive A ZIP packer / unpacker...
Anagramarama_0.5.lha Games/Think Anagramarama 0.5, multi...
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22.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.04.2018
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 April 21st, 2018:
- 2018-04-17 improved: Ode to Ramon 2 (Digital Force) illegal copperlist entries fixed, keyboard interrupt fixed, decruncher optimised, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info, Image)
- 2018-04-17 improved: Ode to Ramon (Digital Force) illegal copperlist entries fixed, keyboard interrupt fixed, decruncher optimised, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info, Image)
- 2018-04-16 improved: Odyssey (Audiogenic) fixed install script, removed debug code (Info)
- 2018-04-16 fixed: Speedball 2 CD?? (Renegade) fixed button not working on most joysticks (Info)
- 2018-04-16 improved: James Pond 2 - Robocod (Millennium) AGA support rewritten, fixed joypad handling, updated installer script (Info)
- 2018-04-15 improved: Shadoworlds (Krisalis) patch works with 0.5 MB chip and 0.6 MB other memory now, 68000 quitkey support, default quitkey changed to F10, WHDLoad v17+ features used, source code included, new install script (Info)
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22.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: WicherInstaller 1.8 for accelerator board Wicher 500i
For the accelerator board Wicher 500i produced by Retro 7-bit a software update has been relesaed. Version 1.8 now supports SD cards with more than 4 GB.
Download: WicherInstallerV1_8.lha (133 KB)
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21.Apr.2018
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Crowdfunding: History of Commodore - The Final Years
Started with Commodore: A Company on the Edge and Commodore: The Amiga Years, Brian Bagnall now is working on the thirs part of his triology about the history of Commodore.
According to Bagnall "this book is mostly written and now requires extensive editing and polish". He has started a campaign for crowdfunding the third volume: The book is supposed to be available at the end of the year.
So far 24,862 Euro were pledged and thus the goal of 15,906 Euro exceeded. Similar to the previous book "stretch goals" were defined like metallic foil stamp on spine, pages of color photos or embossed title on front cover which can be implemented if the required money will be donated. In order to achieve the same product quality, about 57.000 Euro have to be pre-financed by May 16th.
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[News message: 21. Apr. 2018, 23:36] [Comments: 0]
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