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25.May.2018



amiga-news.de: Common login for news section and forum
Historically amiga-news.de has been developed from several program packages which are completely independent. Therefore you had to separately log in the comment section and the forum although both sections used the same user database.

In the course of adapting to the General Data Protection Regulation we have changed to a common login. Users only have to log in once and are recognized as registered on the whole website. You have to accept the new General Data Protection Regulation while your first login. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.May.2018



Aminet-Uploads until 19.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 19th, 2018:
gcc-mos2wos.lha          dev/gcc    11M   MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
HWP_Polybios.lha         dev/hwood  16M   MOS The ultimate PDF tool for Hol...
fotochop_mcc_0.10.lha    dev/mui    938K  MOS Painting and image editing
WormWars.lha             game/actio 825K  68k Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha         game/actio 1.1M  OS4 Advanced snake game
GPMark_WOS.lha           gfx/3d     1.2M  WOS SDL graphics benchmark
gifsicle-1.91-bin-aro... gfx/misc   191K  x86 Tool for manipulating GIF images
gifsicle-1.91-bin-m68... gfx/misc   147K  68k Tool for manipulating GIF images
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.2M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   4.6M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   2.9M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
lha.run                  util/arc   170K  68k Amiga LhA (self extracting ar...
DoVer.lha                util/cli   15K   68k Search version string in pack...
intuition41pch.lha       util/misc  1K    68k Patch for 40.85 intuition.lib...
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  546K  MOS Multipurpose utility
Hexaco_1.1.lha           util/wb    895K  68k Color values as hex/dec/... (...
RNOWidgets.lha           util/wb    4.0M  MOS Desktop widgets application
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20.May.2018



OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 19th, 2018:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb   4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha             gam/act 1Mb   4.0 Advanced snake game
lhx.lha                  uti/arc 172kb 4.1 Pack & unpack using XZ/LZMA ...
amiupdate_deu.lha        uti/wor 20kb  4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
smtube.lha               vid/pla 2Mb   4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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20.May.2018



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 19.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until May 19th, 2018:
lamearos-3.100.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 570kb Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder
gifsicle-1.91.i386-aros.lha  gra/edi 191kb Tool for manipulating GIF images
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20.May.2018



MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 19.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until May 19th, 2018:
mos2wos_0.7.lha           Development/GCC           Make MorphOS GCC output...
HWP_Polybios_1.0.lha      Development/Hollywood/... The ultimate PDF tool f...
RegionSet_1.2.lha         Devices/CD-DVD            Modify the region codes...
MUIMapparium_0.7.lha      Devices/GPS               An OpenStreetMap Viewer.
Giddy-3_1.5.lha           Games/Platform            Giddy-3 1.5 with source...
IHaveNoTomatoes_1.55a.lha Games/Platform            Advanced Bomberman clon...
JupiterLander_1.1.lha     Games/Platform            An exact remake of Jupi...
StuntCarRemake.lha        Games/Race                StuntCar remake, MorphO...
Barrage_1.0.4.lha         Games/Shoot 2D            Barrage is a rather des...
Formido_1.0.lha           Games/Shoot 2D            A game with static play...
GammaPatrol_1.0.lha       Games/Shoot 2D            Galaga style vertical 2...
DukeNukem3D_4.4.2.lha     Games/Shoot 3D            MorphOS port of 1996 fi...
Fotochop_mcc_0.10.lha     Graphics/Draw             A painting and image ed...
Report+_7.21.lha          Misc                      A Multipurpose utility ...
RNOWidgets_1.3.lha        System/Ambient/Commodi... Desktop widgets applica...
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20.May.2018



WHDLoad: New installers until 19.05.2018
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 May 19th, 2018:
  • 2018-05-17 updated: Cosmic Pirate (Palace) patch redone, real files used, all protections removed, highscore saving added, lots of trainer options added, 68000 quitkey support (Info)
  • 2018-05-14 improved: Alien Breed (Team 17) bugfix for pause key, switch to enable original cheat keys (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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20.May.2018
Amiga.org (Forum)


FastCache040+ 1.8
FastCache040+ is a patch for the 68040 and 68060.library, which replaces the functions CachePreDMA() and CachePostDMA(). The replacement functions are noticeably shorter and promise a more efficient management of the Copyback cache for the DMA. "While every system will have some CPU performance loss under DMA conditions, the new functions keep this performance loss to a bare minimum."

A MMU is required. Tools like GigaMEM or VMM which provide virtual memory must not be used. And as the author also wrote: "Do NOT use this patch with any code which uses the MMU to write protect or remap modified data structures!...Remapping a mirror image of the Kickstart ROM with the MMU is OK!"

Users of a Phase5-68060.library first should run FixMapP5 before starting the patch. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.May.2018
0.7 (Kommentar)


MUIMapparium 0.7 for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's OpenStreetMap viewer Mapparium now is available as version 0.7. Additional to several bug fixes (e.g. search function) you can now export maps as PNG images, routes as HTML files, trackplots as PNG images and tracks as HTML files. It is also possible to load EXIF of photos and to show the photo position on map. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.May.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland - Amiberry and 3D-Modelling
The latest podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland includes an interviews about 3D-Modelling as well as about Amiberry, which is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based one-chip-systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard produced by ASUS. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.May.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 86 (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.

This is a special issue about games their names starting with "3D" and includes articles about the Amiga games "3D Galax" and "3D World Soccer".

Download sites:
Italian
English (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.May.2018
amiga.org (Webseite)


Dungeon crawler BOH and retro arcade game Huenison on CD
In April 2009 Simone Bevilacqua released the first version his commerzial Dungeon crawler BOH. Since then 18 updates have been released - the last one dating from March of this year. Since the author considers the project complete, he released the final version on CD.


The CD contains ports of BOH for AmigaOS 4, AROS, Linux Mac OS and Windows as well as the soundtrack as audio tracks. The manuals have been reworked and the CD and DVD covers have a new design.

Simultaneously the author also released his retro arcade game Huenison, available for the first time in 2013, on CD. It contains the latest ports of AmigaOS 4 and Windows as well as reworked manual.


You can order the games for 15 (BOH) or 12 Euro from the developer via e-mail. The preorders are collected and then oictures will be sent showing the final product. Only if the user still is interested in the game(s) the money has to be paid. The exact process Bevilacqua has summarized on a poster. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.May.2018



Interview: Debbie Bestwick (Team 17)
In an interview with the British "Telegraph", Debbie Bestwick, co-founder and currently managing director of Team-17 (Worms, Alien Breed), has talked about the start of the company und the development from a successful Amiga publisher to the "Worms-Studio". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.May.2018



Kickstart campaign: "Commodore - The Final Years" successfully financed
The third and last part of Brian Bagnall's history of Commodore was successfully financed: The Kickstarter campaign has collected about 62.000 Euro. Thus "Commodore - The Final Years" will be published in the highest possible quality: 16 pages with colour photos, embossed foil cover, sewn binding and a foil stamped spine.

At the beginning of the campaign Bagnall did announce that he is going to publish the book - which has been almost completely written - this year. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.May.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Game database: The Legacy goes offline
TheLegacy, which calls itself as "nostalgic game museum, is a game database founded in 1999 providing information, scans and screenshots to over 40.000 games for several nostalgic computer systems. According to the administrators they have not sufficient time to update the website to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Therefore the website will go offline on May 24th. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.May.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Processor: MC68000 manual as PDF
From the website of the producer of semiconductors NXP, which in 2015 acquired Freescale (formerly Motorola), the manual for Motorola's MC68000 processor can be downloaded as PDF. The processor was used in the first Amiga models. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.May.2018
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood-Plugin: Polybios 1.0 creates and opens PDF documents
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present a massive new plugin release for Hollywood: Polybios - Making History in PDF. This plugin can be used to create and view PDF documents from Hollywood scripts and will thus make all PDF dreams come true for Hollywood users. Polybios has been five years in the making and is now finally ready for release exclusively for Hollywood 7.1.

Here are just some of Polybios' impressive features:
  • over 200 functions for creating and viewing PDF documents
  • support for all graphics primitives
  • full Unicode support
  • fonts can be embedded inside PDF documents
  • images and Hollywood brushes can be embedded inside PDF documents
  • password-protected PDFs can be opened and created
  • support for PDF encryption and compression
  • files can be attached to PDF documents
  • annotations can be added to PDF documents
  • support for RGB, CMYK and gray color spaces
  • transition effects can be embedded inside PDF documents
  • hypertext links can be embedded inside PDF documents
  • table of contents generation is supported
  • inbuilt PDF viewer is based on the famous fast and powerful PDF engine used in a very popular browser by a very well-known American Internet company and is thus very compatible and complete
  • PDF pages can be exported as Hollywood brushes
  • PDF pages can be accessed as vector brushes allowing for lossless scaling, rotation, and transformation
  • Polybios comes with over 150 pages of documentation to get you started quickly
  • over 25 ready-to-run examples are included in the Polybios distribution
And the best of all: Polybios is provided free of charge for all existing Hollywood users. Thus, please consider buying Hollywood to show your support for our massive development efforts.

The plugin is now available for download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), Mac OS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64) and Android (arm, arm64) are provided. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.May.2018



Aminet-Uploads until 12.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 12th, 2018:
ign-addon-ods.lha        biz/spread 202K  OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
NetStat_de.lha           comm/misc  8K        Unofficial German catalog for...
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic  11K       12 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
SDI_headers.lha          dev/c      32K       A set of C macros and defines
Mattonite.lha            game/actio 970K  68k Arkanoid like game almost fin...
RNOComics.lha            gfx/show   2.5M  MOS Comic book reader
RNOComics_OS4.lha        gfx/show   2.8M  OS4 Comic book reader
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   2.9M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
milkytracker-morphos.lha mus/edit   2.9M  MOS Multiplatform music tracker
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  516K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  654K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
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13.May.2018



OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 12th, 2018:
flashmandelng.lha        gra/mis 38Mb  4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
rnocomics.lha            gra/vie 3Mb   4.0 Comic book reader
ign-addon-ods.lha        off/spr 202kb 4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
dirscope.lha             uti/fil 73kb  4.1 File manager (formally DrawerExp...
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 654kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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13.May.2018



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 12.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until May 12th, 2018:
vice-3.1.i386-aros.tar.gz    emu/com 22Mb  Emulator of c64, c128, pet, plus...
vice-3.1.ppc-aros.lzx        emu/com 26Mb  Emulator of c64, c128, pet, plus...
vice-3.1.x86_64-aros.lzx     emu/com 26Mb  Emulator of c64, c128, pet, plus...
assaultcube1202.i386-aros... gam/fps 53Mb  AssaultCube 3D game FPS
hexen2-1.5.8a.i386-aros.lha  gam/fps 5Mb   Hexen II for AROS
hexen2-utils-1.5.8.i386-a... gam/fps 314kb Hexen II utilities for AROS
hexenworld-1.5.8a.i386-ar... gam/fps 7Mb   HexenWorld for AROS
hexenworld-utils-1.5.8.i3... gam/fps 58kb  HexenWorld utilities for AROS
webptools.i386-aros.lha      gra/con 6Mb   encode/decode images in WebP format
cookiemaster_demo.i386-ar... net/bro 6Mb   Web browser cookie cleaner
wookiechat2.11.i386-aros.lha net/cha 1Mb   IRC client
yam29p1.i386-aros.lha        net/ema 3Mb   MUI-based E-mail client
yam29p1.ppc-aros.lha         net/ema 4Mb   MUI-based E-mail client
yam29p1.x86_64-aros.lha      net/ema 4Mb   MUI-based E-mail client
aminetreadmemaker.i386-ar... uti/tex 88kb  Easy creation & upload of Am...
annotate.i386-aros.lha       uti/tex 1Mb   Text editor with advanced features.
dclock_16.i386-aros.zip      uti/wor 36kb  AROS ABIv0 compile of DClock wit...
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13.May.2018



MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 12.05.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until May 12th, 2018:
MilkyTracker_1.02.lha     Audio/Tracker             An XM/MOD tracker by th...
Hyphen_2.8.8.lha          Development/Library       A static library perfor...
Libcole_2.0.1.lha         Development/Library       Static library for read...
Libmkv_0.6.5.1.lha        Development/Library       A alternative to the of...
CaveStory_1.0.0.4.lha     Games/Action              Mixed platform and adve...
MangoQuest_0.6.4.lha      Games/Action              First person perspectiv...
Meritous_1.2.tar          Games/Action              An action-adventure dun...
Exult_1.0.lha             Games/Adventure           Engine for playing Ulti...
Flare_0.18.lha            Games/Adventure           A simple game engine bu...
Uplink_10.0.lha           Games/Adventure           Well known hacking simu...
ASCIIpOrtal_1.2a.lha      Games/Platform            A logical game with som...
Digger_1.0.lha            Games/Platform            Remake of an old 1983 M...
ForgetMeNot_1.0.lha       Games/Platform            Very fast, difficult, P...
Quake2_3.21.lha           Games/Shoot 3D            Another classic 3D game...
MirrorMagic_3.0.0.lha     Games/Think               Arcade style game in th...
RocksNDiamonds_4.1.0.0... Games/Think               Arcade style game in th...
RNOComics_1.2.lha         Graphics/Show             Comic book reader.
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13.May.2018



WHDLoad: New installers until 12.05.2018
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 May 12th, 2018:
  • 2018-05-11 updated: Bubble And Squeak (Audiogenic) reduced ocs memory requirement, controler handling improved (Info)
  • 2018-05-11 updated: Alien Breed (Team 17) added splash window options, additional joypad control (Info)
  • 2018-05-07 improved: Pod (Shaun Southern) keyboard handling fixed (Info)
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13.May.2018
Achim Pankalla (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: ignition and ODS add-on updated
Achim Pankalla writes: After more than a year of working, the beta 5 of the spreadsheet "ignitionOS4" is now available on the Sourceforge pages. The most important innovation of this version is the print routine, which now easily brings graphics and diagrams to paper. In addition, the print margins are also considered.

Furthermore, two errors in the diagram modules were corrected and some mathematical functions adapted in their behavior to those of the standard applications, so that the import of foreign formats works better. Also some minor and major errors have been removed from the program. The installation now also includes the alternative icon set and a translation into French. The revised manual is now available in English.

Parallel to the release of igntionOS4, the add-on ODS gets a functional update. Now the module takes over the positioning of the data in the cell in the horizontal and vertical when loading and storing. In addition, within the possibilities of ignition, the cell frames are also converted.

The add-on requires at least Ignition 1.0 beta 4 and AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. It can load and save documents in ODS format. This format is used by Libre and OpenOffice-Calc, but can also be exported and imported by other spreadsheets. The add-on is still a "beta" version!

The author requests to not keep bugs and wishes for functional enhancements of the programs to oneself, but to simply contact him. This is not only possible via e-mail, but also via the OS4Welt forum, where is a support page. He also wants to thank everyone who supported him with such feedback and of course his beta testers!

The new version of the add-on can be found on Aminet or OS4Depot as well as on Sourceforge at the title link. (snx)

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