03.Aug.2018
Helga Hansen (ANF)
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Replica of Amiga-4000 mainboard: First Boards being delivered
In spring Paul Rezendes started the crowdfunding of a reverse engineering of the Amiga-4000 revision-B mainboard (amiga-news.de reported), the first boards are being shipped to the initiator as some pictures document under the title link.
All layout files and schematics for reproducing the mainboard he has published in a Github repository.
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03.Aug.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: WHDLOpener
WHDLOpener integrates WHDLoad based on E-UAE under MorphOS in its Workbench Ambient. WHDLoad games can be started by clicking the game icon or the its slave file. Under MorphOS, ADF images are mounted and executed using E-UAE.
AmigaOS 3.1 and the corresponding Kickstart-ROM file resp. the 1.3-ROM are required. More details are listed in the news item in the MorphZone.
Download: WHDLOpener.lha.xz (21 KB)
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30.Jul.2018
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World: Video interview with Mike Clarke (Psygnosis)
The composer Mike Clark has worked for Psygnosis and has written some famous soundtracks e.g. for Last Ninja 2 (Amiga) or the SNES port of Lemmings 2. In the interview with Scene World he talked about his experiences in the 8 and 16 bit gaming industry, as composer, programmer and manager.
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25.Jul.2018
Amiga Future (website)
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FPGA: Apollo core update Gold 2.10 / SAGA driver 1.4
Apollo core is an FPGA reimplementation of Motorola's m68k series that includes its own graphics called SAGA. The latter is available in version 1.4 now. The core is currently being used by Vampire turboboards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+).
Among other changes, version "Gold 2.10" of the core adds four different IDE speeds (V500) and improves CIA timings (V600). (snx)
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22.Jul.2018
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Aminet uploads till 21.07.2018
Following packages have been uploaded to Aminet till 21.07.2018:
dizzytorrent1.05.lha comm/tcp 484K 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
YCrew-RoyalPalms.zip demo/euro 402K 68k A dentro for Solskogen 2018
BitplaneSurfer.zip demo/intro 541K 68k 4KB intro for Solskogen 2018
Void-WeLoveC.zip demo/intro 50K 68k 64KB intro for Solskogen 2018
fotochop_mcc_0.15.lha dev/mui 6.8M MOS Painting and image editing
worldcup.lha docs/misc 603K Soccer World Cup statistics 1...
MapEditorV150.lha game/hint 20K 68k MechForce+Combat Map Editor
MechCombatBot.lha game/hint 587K 68k IS+CLAN Mech's for MC
MechCombatCLA.lha game/hint 184K 68k CLAN Mech's for MC
MechCombatIS.lha game/hint 419K 68k IS Mech's for MC
MechCombatV4.zip game/hint 574K 68k MechCombat Battletech like ta...
MechXMapsOrd.lzh game/hint 24K 68k MechForce+Combat orders+Maps
RNOEffects.lha gfx/edit 5.5M MOS Image processing program
RNOEffects_OS4.lha gfx/edit 6.2M OS4 Image processing program
SilkRAW.lha gfx/misc 1.7M OS4 GUI for Dave Coffin's program...
GetExternalIP.lha util/cli 1K 68k Get your external IP
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 533K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 687K OS4 Multipurpose utility
Clock_Standard.png util/time 34K Alternative clock face for Mo...
Clock_Standard_2.png util/time 32K Alternative clock face for Mo...
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22.Jul.2018
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OS4Depot uploads till 21.07.2018
Following packages have been uploaded to OS4Depot till 21.07.2018:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
rnoeffects.lha gra/edi 6Mb 4.1 Image processing program
silkraw.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.1 GUI for Dave Coffin's program dcRAW
mountsmbfs.lha net/ser 37kb 4.1 GUI for SMBFS
mycatalog.zip off/dat 9Mb 4.0 Manage your favorite collections
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22.Jul.2018
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MorphOS Storage uploads till 21.07.2018
Following packages have been uploaded to MorphOS Storage till 21.07.2018:
RNOEffects_1.0.lha Graphics/Tools Image processing program.
Odyssey_1.25_JavaScrip... Network/Web Public Beta of JIT Java...
myCatalog_3.0.lha Office/Database Manage your favorite co...
TextEngine_5.3.lha Text/Edit Word processor with spe...
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22.Jul.2018
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WHDLoad: New packages till 21.07.2018
Following packages have been uploaded to WHDLoad till 21.07.2018:
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22.Jul.2018
Martin 'DaFreak' Rebentisch (ANF)
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4Players.de: History of "Back to the Roots" (german)
At the title link, 4Players.de reports on "Back to the Roots" - which website may have been the main source of legal game downloads till 2005. (snx)
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22.Jul.2018
Amiga Future (website)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 88 (italian/english)
REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is a PDF magazine available in italian language as well as english translation. Its game reviews compare the respective implementation of the same game on various platforms back then.
Download sites:
italienisch
englisch (snx)
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18.Jul.2018
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Test version of a Javascript JIT compiler for Odyssey
Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen released the test version of a PowerPC JIT compiler for Javascript to be used for Odyssey web browser. There is not much of a speed gain, though, since only the first level of the JIT is active for now. Instead the release is intended to test if there are any cases that do not work with the JIT while working without it. (snx)
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18.Jul.2018
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Andy Warhol museum shows Amiga 1000 mockups
Following discovery of 28 then-unknown computer graphics by Andy Warhol on his Amiga floppy disks four years ago (amiga-news.de reported), The Andy Warhol Museum commissioned the design studio Iontank to create an interactive exhibition of these pictures.
At the title link there is a description how they just re-used the cases of Amiga 1000 computers and monitors, utilising emulation instead. (snx)
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17.Jul.2018
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Hardware: Gayle reset fix for Amiga 1200
RastPort's KA21 is a hardware Gayle reset fix for Amiga 1200. Features:
- Generates missing PCMCIA reset signal during reboot. It is needed by many PCMCIA cards to be detected by the system after reboot.
- Pins for connecting optional reset button.
- Pins for 2-way and 4-way clockport expanders. These devices need A15 (and A14 for 4-way units) signal, which is usually taken from Kickstart ROM by inserting additional socket. With KA21 these signals can be connected to two pins on the unit.
KA21 should be available from RastPort distributors at half of August. (snx)
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17.Jul.2018
Samuli Holopainen (ANF)
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Game: AIBOT
Press release: AIBOT is a test game of an educational game idea aimed at teaching coding principles to a player. It was made for Christiandevs Speedgame 2018 competition and received a honorable mention.
In AIBOT you are controlling a robot through coding its movement, mainly with an aim of getting to a certain location at a level. Completing a level will open up new levels and give money to buy more commands for your robot to use.
You can save your robot's code that you have created, or if you are stuck, you can even load pre-existing code to see how to beat the level. As it is in coding for real, so in this game too: there are multiple ways to reach the goal, and it is limited only upon player's imagination to figure out which exact way to complete them.
You can see a bit about the game from the video Apostolic Game Designers: Christian Speedgame Competition 2018 - 8 new games.
At start, AIBOT is available through Indiego Appstore. It will at later point also be uploaded to Aminet, but in effort to show support to Indiego Appstore, it is available from there for now. AIBOT is available to all main Amiga platforms (AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, AROS, MorphOS) and also Windows.
Notice that this was made with Hollywood using power-heavy ways for graphics, so you need very powered-up machine to have a chance for this to work on Amiga computers. (snx)
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17.Jul.2018
WinUAE Homepage (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 4.0.1 released
Since yesterday, version 4.0.1 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE is available. Mainly fixing bugs, among other new features now also the Amiga 4000T turboboard Quikpak 4060 can be emulated.
4.0.0 bugs fixed:
- Enabled “Minimize when focus is lost” option caused crash in some situations.
- 64-bit FPU mode always changed back to 80-bit if config file was loaded.
- 80-bit native FPU mode FREM and FMOD returned wrong results.
- RTG statefile restore didn’t restore screen state completely.
Other bugs fixed:
- “Minimize when focus is lost” incorrectly activated when switching modes in some situations.
- “Minimize when focus is lost” minimized main emulation window when GUI was open and main window lost focus.
- If CPU panel FPU mode select menu was active and then some other panel was opened: JIT was switched off.
- CD audio play from real/virtual CD (not from directly mounted image file) didn’t restart correctly if audio settings changed.
- Only some emulated SCSI controllers flashed CD led when emulating a CD drive.
- input.keyboard_type was always read as Amiga keyboard. If PC layout was set as default, keyboard layout was read incorrectly from config file.
- Amiga reset during active RTG rendering in RTG Multithread mode could have caused a crash.
- RTG Multithread mode display refreshing was unreliable in 8-bit modes when palette changed.
- Finally fixed corrupted drag and drop graphics in Harddrives and Disk Swapper panel.
- When inserting previously connected USB input device, previous device type (Gamepad, CD32 pad etc) and autofire mode (if any) was not restored.
- Clipboard sharing could have attempted to transfer data to Amiga side after program had taken over the system, possibly overwriting memory.
New features:
- Environmental variables (%variable%) in paths are not anymore resolved immediately when config is loaded but only when needed without modifying original path, preserving original path if config file is saved again.
- Added full statefile absolute/relative path support. Loading statefile will restore correct paths even if absolute/relative path mode was changed after saving the statefile.
- D3D9 and D3D11 VSync mode (both lagless and standard) 100/120Hz support with optional black frame insertion.
- 68060 FPU was not disabled after soft reset if 68060 was configured without emulated 68060 accelerator board, causing reset loop.
New emulated expansions:
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15.Jul.2018
MorphZone (Forum)
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Video: MorphOS 3.11 on emulated computer
Under the title link, Luigi Burdo has published a video on YouTube of MorphOS 3.11 which under QEMU 3.0 (amiga-news.de reported) runs on a PC with AMD-Threadripper-1950X-processor.
The video does not show applications demanding high processing power but only the operating system itself: Utilities, little games, the web browser Odyssey, preferences and diverse screen savers.
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15.Jul.2018
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Graphics board: Advance order of ZZ9000 (successor of VA2000)
The ZZ9000 is the successor of the FPGA-based and open source Zorro II/III compatible graphics board MNT VA2000 developed two years ago by Lukas F. Hartmann and now can be preordered.
The ZZ9000 combines a RTG graphics board, AGA scandoubler and network card equipped with two 666-MHz-ARM coprocessors for applications demanding high processing power like accelerated graphic rendering or JPEG and MP3 decoding. Besides, some of the improvements will also benefit the VA2000. The delivery is scheduled for the end of October.
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15.Jul.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland - Stupid Sexy Floppies
The latest podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland among others is dedicated to a preview of the Enhancer software package 1.4, an update of the MMULib considering the graphics board VA2000 and the ACA accelerator boards, WinUAE 4.0 and MorphOS 3.11.
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15.Jul.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.07.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until July 14th, 2018:
make421.lha dev/c 1K 68k controls the generation of ex...
scsiquicker.lha disk/optim 8K 68k Speeds up IDE
CFD133.lha driver/med 153K 68k use CompactFlash cards in PCM...
kcmunchkin.adf game/actio 880K 68k Port of G7000 game K C Munchkin
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 12M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
Kaizokuban.adf game/think 880K 68k sokoban clone, Posadas 2018 g...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.6M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
kon.lha text/font 9K 68k polish font converter (19 old...
CopyFix.lha util/cli 3K 68k Patch for C:Copy 40.1 memory ...
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15.Jul.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.07.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until July 14th, 2018:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mountsmbfs.lha net/ser 34kb 4.1 GUI for SMBFS
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15.Jul.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 14.07.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until July 14th, 2018:
Fotochop_mcc_0.14.lha Development/MUI A painting and image ed...
myCatalog_3.0.zip Office/Database Manage your favorite co...
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15.Jul.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers 14.07.2018
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 July 14th, 2018:
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