29.Dec.2017
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Retro arcade action: Roadtrip and Quasarius
On his website Rafael Lima has released ports of two classic arcade games: In Roadtrip written in only 12 days you have to find your way to the exit in time and to avoid vehicles and obstacles. Quasarius is a Space-Invaders clone.
Roadtrip requires 1 MB RAM. On computers equipped with OCS chipset it can cause graphic errors. Users of emulators should enable cycle-accurate emulation. Quasarius runs on every Amiga with at least 512 Kilobyte RAM.
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28.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: New MPlayer port MickJT-MPlayer
Michael Trebilcock has ported the latest version 1.3.0 of the movie player MPlayer to AmigaOS. All Amiga related code was taken from previous ports of afxgroup (Workbench startup code) and LiveForIt (other Amiga related code). By default MickJT-MPlayer reduces the video quality in order to reduce cpu load - you can change that by editing the included configuration file.
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28.Dec.2017
Spidi (ANF)
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A500 accelerator board: Wicher 500i (Ex) supports MP3 decoder Hardware
The accelerator boards of the Wicher 500i series now support MP3 decoder hardware based on the VS1003 chip. The decoder modules have to be bought and connected with the accelerator board with a self-made cable by the users themselves. Tutorials can be found on the product sites of the models Wicher 500i and Wicher 500i Ex.
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28.Dec.2017
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Commercial games: Playable preview of AlarCity, teaser video of "Worthy"
The developers of Pixelglass have published news for two of their upcoming, commercial games: For AlarCity, which is a top-down-view-shooter for AGA computers, a new demo version is available. The game will be distributed by amiga.net.pl. Additional to the digital download, the sale of disks (with or without a box) and diverse "Gold Editions" is planned as well. The game is supposed to be released in the second quarter of 2018 but already can be paid.
A second Pixelglass game in the "low budget" segment is supposed to be released at the beginning of Anfang 2018 despite it was announced recently: A Youtube video provides a first impression of "Worthy", which is a little arcade game. The game was written by Alex Brown known for the game Blocky Skies and is almost completed. It will be sold on CD, disk or as digital download.
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28.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Preferences 1.60
Marko Seppänen's Preferences groups the prefs programs under AmigaOS 4 in six categories. The names of the groups can be localized, the program requires ARexx.
Download: preferences.lha (2 MB)
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27.Dec.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Trademark disputes: Cloanto sued Hyperion in USA
In the dispute about the rights of the trademark "Amiga" (amiga-news.de reported), this month Cloanto, for some years owner of the Commodore and Amiga copyrights, has sued Hyperion in the USA, where in January the company applied for this trademark. Reason for the law-suit is that Hyperion did appeal against this application because in their opinion the registration could cause confusion with their own trademarks "AmigaOS" and "AmigaOne".
According to the statement of claim (PDF file), Cloanto wants to be determined by court that they are the lawful owner of the trademark "Amiga" and that therefore Hyperion is not allowed to apply for trademarks like "AmigaOS" or "AmigaOne". Furthermore the court battle is about the distribution of AmigaOS 1.3 Kickstart ROMs by Hyperion; also the document notes that Hyperion would not have been allowed to market AmigaOS 3.1. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: WicherInstaller 1.3 for accelerator board Wicher 500i
For the accelerator board Wicher 500i produced by Retro 7-bit a software update has been released. The release provides support for the variation "500i Ex" of the accelerator board.
Download:
WicherInstallerV1_3.lha (43 KB)
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27.Dec.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Amiga history: Pictures of Checkmate-1500 case
Under the title link a collector has published pictures of one of his two Checkmate 1500. This is a metal case sold around the year 1990 for the Amiga 500, which offered more space for extensions (entry in Big Book of Amiga Hardware).
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26.Dec.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hollywood-GUI: HGui 1.2
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's HGui is a GUI system developed with Hollywood, which in contrary to MUI Royale is available for all platforms which support Hollywood (amiga-news.de reported) - although currently there are some limitations under Android.
Changes:
- Fix: There was missing parameters when the callback 'OnChange' for TreeView
items was called
- New: Added flag 'selectGroups' on TreeView class(default to True):
if it is set to false the group items cannot be selected
- Fix: ListView's :set() method. When using the special tag 'selected' to pass
a single item to be selected (a numeric value), there was no check
to see if the ListView was allowing 'multi-selection'. This was
causing multiple selections on 'single-selection' ListViews using this
specific tag
- New: ListView -> Added method :Insert() to add a single record, this is
an additional way to add items (see special tag 'insert' of the :set()
method for further details)
- New: ListView -> Added event 'OnInsert' raised when an item has been added
to the ListView
- Doc: Improved the HGui.Window:InputBoxNew(params) documentation
- New: Added new method HGui.Gadget:freeChildren(refresh) to free all children
attached to a gadget. This is usefull when you have to create gadget
groups at runtime
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26.Dec.2017
Hogne Titlestad (ANF)
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Operating system: FriendUP 1.1
Hogne Titlestad's operating system FriendUP (amiga-news.de reported) was inspired by Amiga but is not compatible to it. Now version 1.1 is available. A list of changes and news can be found under the title link and you can create a demo account under friendsky.cloud.
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26.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games launcher: X-bEnCh 1.1 X-mas Public Beta Release
Jim Neray's X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 640 colours (AGA; 128 on OCS/ECS-computers) which can replace the Workbench for launching WHDLoad-games and other applications and requires low hardware resources. An integrated command line as well as the file manager Xpl0rEr (video) are also available.
In version 1.1 among others a bug concerning Vampire accelerator boards was fixed and 112 new game screenshots were added.
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24.Dec.2017
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E-Mail program: SimpleMail 0.44 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Since the year 2000, at Christmas a new version of Simplemail has been released, and this year as well. Changes:
- Added AmiSSL 4 support
- Decreased folder index storage
- Improved the e-mail address auto-completion
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24.Dec.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 23.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until December 23th, 2017:
dizzytorrent1.0b4.lha comm/tcp 1.7M 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
HWP_XAD.lha dev/hwood 62K MOS Hollywood plugin for xadmaste...
Lumberjack_Xmas.adf game/actio 880K 68k Lumberjack Xmas
Bibarr.lha game/wb 33K 68k Move all bars in the center hole
Pathos.lha game/wb 32K 68k Make a path from entry to exit
amigamad-60.pdf mags/misc 30M English PDF magazine (fka #am...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Vim_8.0-i386-aros.lha text/edit 9.5M x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.0-mos.lha text/edit 9.4M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.0-src.lha text/edit 14M The ubiquitous text editor (s...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 27K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
AmiTimeKeeper.i386-ar... util/cdity 103K x86 Keep your time right
AmiTimeKeeper.lha util/cdity 84K 68k Keep your time right
jpeg2000_dtc.lha util/dtype 476K OS4 JPEG 2000 (.j2k, .jp2) datatype
MMULib.lha util/libs 717K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 65K 68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
AmigaMARK-morphos.lha util/moni 1.1M MOS AmigaMARK - Benchmark Suite
Dev-Handler.lha util/sys 23K 68k Un*x like raw device access h...
tzdev.lha util/time 691K Time Zone Database and Librar...
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24.Dec.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until December 23th, 2017:
jpeg2000_dtc.lha dat/ima 476kb 4.1 JPEG 2000 (.j2k, .jp2) datatype
libmad.lha dev/lib 297kb 4.0 MAD: MPEG Audio Decoder
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
scummvm.lha gam/adv 23Mb 4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip gam/adv 37Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
preferences.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.1 Prefs window for starting differ...
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24.Dec.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.12.2017
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 December 23th, 2017:
- 2017-12-21 improved: Impossamole (Gremlin/Core Design) access fault (caused by a bug in the replayer) fixed (Info)
- 2017-12-21 improved: D.O.S. (Andromeda) interrupts fixed, blitter wait added, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, sine scroller code unrolled to avoid slow-downs on machines with slow chip ram access, 68000 quitkey support, default data directory changed to "data", new install script (Info, Image)
- 2017-12-20 updated: Impulse 2 (Tilt) patch redone, disk accesses disabled, blitter waits added, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info)
- 2017-12-20 updated: Desert Dream (Kefrens) patch redone, timing problems fixed, blitter waits added, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image, Image)
- 2017-12-19 improved: X-Pose (Silents DK) BPLCON2 problem fixed, interrupts fixed, illegal copperlist entries fixed, some more blitter waits added (Info, Image)
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24.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Amiga Ireland 3.0
On 19. and 20. January, Irish Amiga users will organize their third meeting. It will again take place in the hotel "The Prince of Wales" in Athlone. You can get further information under the title link.
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22.Dec.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hardware: MP3 sound card for Amiga 1200 in development
According to Matthias Münch under the Twitter title link (German), Piotr Gozdur is developing a MP3 sound card for the clock port of the Amiga 1200. It will have 128 KB memory buffer and hardware support for the formats MP3, AAC, OGG, MIDI, WMA, FLAC and WAV. Currently he is working on finishing the software.
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22.Dec.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #10.1 - Artstate Digital
For issue 10.1 of the English-language podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland, Andrzej Wilk was interviewed who is well-known as "ΛRTΣTΛTΞ DIGITΛL" in the demo scene.
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18.Dec.2017
viddi (ANF)
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Tales of Gorluth II: Official trainer version available
Purchasers of Patrick Nevian's Tales of Gorluth now can also download a trainer version of the game.
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18.Dec.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 130 - preview and extracts
A preview and extracts from issue 130 (January/February 2018) of Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features
review of "Flug der Amazon Queen", a report of the Amiga fair Amiga 32 and the first part of a FreePascal workshop.
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18.Dec.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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XAD-Plugin for Hollywood released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working elves in Christmas business, are proud to present a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: xad.hwp! This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to conveniently open and browse archives through xadmaster.library. It uses Hollywood 6.0's new file and directory adapter plugin interfaces which allow you to iterate through XAD archives as if they were normal directories. Files within XAD archives can also be accessed as if the XAD archive was a normal directory. It just doesn't get any easier! With xad.hwp it is not necessary to unpack a file stored in a XAD archive to a temporary file before it can be opened. Hollywood 6.0's file adapter plugin interface allows direct streaming from the XAD archive into the respective file handler without any temporary file overhead. This makes it even possible to stream music or video directly from a XAD file!
Airsoft Softwair wouldn't be Airsoft Softwair without some extra goodies, though: The XAD plugin is not only available for Amiga platforms but also for all other platforms supported by Hollywood. This is possible because the original xadmaster.library was open-sourced a few years ago which made it possible to port it to other platforms as well. Thus, on AmigaOS and compatibles, xad.hwp will use xadmaster.library directly whereas on all other systems like Windows, MacOS, Linux, and Android xad.hwp contains the open-source version of xadmaster.library in its binary. This makes it possible to unpack lots of archive formats like ZIP, LhA, LZX, CAB, bzip2, TAR, and RAR on Windows, MacOS, and Linux as well!
By the way, the program "The Unarchiver", which is at the time of this writing the 7th most downloaded program from Apple's App Store is also based on xadmaster.library originally developed for the Amiga by Dirk Stöcker. This is a good example of how original Amiga technologies are now very successful on other platforms.
The XAD plugin requires at least Hollywood 6.0 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. Note that it is recommended that you use at least Hollywood 7.0 because with earlier versions there is no support for archives which contain files with non-ASCII names. The XAD plugin is available in versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86,x64), Mac OS X (ppc, x86, x64), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64) and Android. On top of that, the plugin comes with 30 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM.
This release concludes Airsoft Softwair's release cycle in 2017. We wish all Hollywood users a merry XAD-Mas and a happy new year!
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