21.Mar.2018
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Ethernet driver for Tabor reaching beta status (update)
A-EON has been pointing out for quite a while that the Tabor motherboard is finished and the only thing preventing sales to end users is a port of AmigaOS 4 to the hardware. The biggest roadblocks usually listed are the FPU emulation and a driver for the onboard ethernet chip.
Earlier this month in a posting on amigaworld.net, the distributor adressed this problem more blatantly than usual by pointing out that Costel Mincea from Hyperion Entertainment had been contracted in August 2015 and paid in full in September 2015 to develop and/or finish ethernet drivers for X1000, X5000 and Tabor. Today, the 'Updater' component of A-EON's commercial Enhancer bundle started offering an 'a1222eth.device' to users (Screenshot).
According to our information, this is not the driver Mincea has been working on, A-EON contracted another developer to write a driver instead. This has not been confirmed in public yet, but A-EON betatesters and external developers are also referring to the newly released driver as "A-EON's own driver" in a discussion on os4welt.de (German).
Update: (22.3.2018, 13:00, cg)
In a posting on os4welt.de (German) Mincea reacts to Amigakit's claims by vehemently denying that he was "ever paid any money" for the ethernet driver: According to him, his payment for the driver was a tabor motherboard and nothing else. Since Mincea was busy with a multitude of other tasks related to the development and distribution of AmigaOS 4, finishing the network driver simply got delayed.
Since ethernet could also be accessed using a USB to ethernet converter, Mincea had to take care of other, more pressing issues first. Payment for the X1000 ethernet driver was also just a X1000 motherboard, that driver hasn't been finished yet for the same reason as the Tabor driver: lack of time and relatively low priority. (cg)
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20.Mar.2018
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Emulator: A/NES PRO 1.20
A/NES Pro is a NES emulator written in assembler, which requires ECS or AGA, at least a 68020 processor and some megabyte FastRAM. In version 1.20 some minor optimizations of the CPU and PPU emulation are included.
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19.Mar.2018
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hyperion sued Amiga Inc., Amino, Itec and Cloanto
In the legal dispute about Amiga trademarks in USA and Europe, on 13th March in USA Hyperion sued all parties which are directly or indirectly involved. A request which still is not publicly available named "Complaint for Declaratory Judgement and Breach of Contract" (etwa: "Feststellungsklage wegen Vertragsbruch") the following companies are listed as defendant:
Currently it is not clear to which this lawsuit relates. According to the title and the time of the filing it can be speculated that Hyperion considers his rights being infringed by the inactivity ofItec/Amiga with regard to the protection of the US trademark.
We are going to publish a summary of the situation.
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18.Mar.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 17.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until March 17th, 2018:
cc65-morphos.lha dev/cross 13M MOS ANSI C 6502 cross development...
PatchCompositeTags.lha driver/vid 114K OS4 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
MCE.lha game/edit 1.7M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 2.1M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.5M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
RNOInfoScreen.lha mus/play 8.4M WOS Music player front-end and in...
UADE_MMV8.lha mus/play 14K 68k MusicMakerV8 players for UADE
lw_LEGO_TIE-Fighter.lha pix/3dobj 399K LEGO TIE-Fighter scene for Li...
InstantZip_3.2.lha util/arc 139K MOS (un)pack, encrypt+decrypt ZIP...
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18.Mar.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 17.03.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until March 17th, 2018:
rnoinfoscreen.lha aud/pla 8Mb 4.0 Music player front-end and info ...
dtdescrip.lha dev/uti 61kb 4.1 Tools for creating datatype desc...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 71kb 4.1 A Custom BOOPSI System
ripconfig_cmd.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Display info about Ethernet adap...
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18.Mar.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 17.03.2018
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until March 17th, 2018:
milkytracker.i386-aros.lha aud/tra 2Mb Music Tracker
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18.Mar.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 17.03.2018 (Update)
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS-Storage until March 17th, 2018:
RNOInfoScreen_1.5.lha Audio/Players RNOInfoScreen works as ...
IRA_2.09.lha Development/ASM MC68000/10/20/30/40 rea...
cc65_2.17.lha Development/Cross ANSI C 6502 cross devel...
duktape_v2.20.lha Development/Tools Duktape is a small and ...
InstantZip_3.2.lha Files/Archive A ZIP packer / unpacker...
freedroid-rpg_0.16.1.lha Games/Action FreedroidRPG is an open...
YouTube_URL_Extractor_... Network/Web no description
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18.Mar.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.03.2018
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 March 17th, 2018:
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18.Mar.2018
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 26 - Interview with Steve Jones
In Issue 26, Krzysztof Radzikowski has interviewed Steve 'ClusterUK' Jones (YouTube channel) in his podcast. Topics are the A1500, the Siamese system, Gateway, the Vampire accelerator boards and AROS.
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18.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vasm 1.8c
Frank Wille has released an update for the modular assembler vasm.
Changes:
- Relocated ORG blocks within a section were not recognized, when their start address was 0
- The count in repeat-directives is always unsigned, even when given as a negative value
- Check for target address space overflows
- Fixed crash when undefining non-existing register symbols
- A redefined label is no longer a warning, but an error
- arm: Fixed compile-error from last release
- vobj-output: Fixed uninitialized symbol index for internal/local symbols
- oldstyle-syntax: New directive ROFFS to set the program counter relative to the start of the current section
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16.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 84 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Backstage", "Castle of Dr. Brain", "Fields of Glory", "Operation Stealth: Speech version", "Super Sport Challenge" and a little congratulation on the "Amiga Future".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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16.Mar.2018
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Puzzle game: Block Off! (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 only contains three levels but a level editor is included.
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15.Mar.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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RNOInfoScreen 1.5
According to the author "RNOInfoScreen works as a front-end to various music and media players by displaying the "now playing" information with cover art images, and by providing basic media control options for the user."
Changes in version 1.5:
- Support for embedded images in MP3 files (ID3v2.3.0)
- Doesn't crash when iconified
- On-screen volume level indicator
- The invisible depth gadget now switches the screen to the back in the standard way
- UTF-8 support
- Option to launch an external script with the tab key
- ARexx support
Download: RNOInfoScreen.lha (8 MB)
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15.Mar.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #12.1 - Interview with Łukasz Kucharuk
Issue 12.1 of the English-language podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland includes an interview with Łukasz Kucharuk who is the founder of the Chelm Amiga Legion which organizes the "AmiParty" in Poland.
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15.Mar.2018
Kai Scherrer (ANF)
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Text editor: Redit 2.0
Version 2.0 of the AmigaOS-1.2-compatible text editor Redit was released under the title link and on Aminet including the sources.
In this latest version the search dialog now has a result list and you can search and replace on all open documents.
You also now can "Save all" and "Save all + quit" documents and the support for a mouse wheel (NewMouse) was added. All other changes are listed in the Changelog.
Download:
Redit.lha (55 KB)
Redit_src.lha (87 KB)
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15.Mar.2018
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Hyperion forcibly deleted from Belgium's company register
Belgium-based companies are required to register in Belgium's official company register (KBO, Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen)
and to update their entry in that database if the company's address or key personnel changes. To keep the registration active,
a company also has to file annual reports for each fiscal year with the "Central Balance Sheet Office" of the Belgian National Bank.
Hyperion Entertainment - the company responsible for the development of AmigaOS 4, that had temporarily been declared bankrupt
in early 2015 - apparently failed to comply with the latter requirement by not filing any reports for the last three years. As a result, they were forcibly deleted
from the KBO back in October. The change was announced in one of the October issues of
Belgium's legal newsletter and can be verified in the
online database
of the KBO.
Hyperion still exists as an entity, but according to our research
(automated translation of a Dutch
explanation), having no active registration with the KBO severely restricts a company's ability to do business:
- the company is banned from any commercial activities, i.e. selling goods or services
- the company is currently unable to file any claims in a Belgian court: claims from unregistered entities are
not admissible in Belgian courts
Hyperion can have the deletion from the registry annulled by supplying the missing annual reports to the Belgian National Bank.
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14.Mar.2018
Benitosub (ANF)
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Tower 57 for Amiga systems released
In summer of 2015 the arcade shooter "Tower 57" was crowdfunded and released in November 2017. Now also the Amiga port has been finished. The versions for AmigaOS 4 (builds for regular systems as well as for the Tabor motherboard), MorphOS and AROS have been developed by Daniel 'Daytona' Müßener and are distributed in a single archive. First videos of the game played on a X5000 and on Tabor can be found on Youtube.
Because the Amiga version could not be separately donated during the Kickstarter campaign, the developer asks all supporters who are interested in the Amiga port to contact him. New customers can purchase the game for about 12 Euro.
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