02.Jan.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tools: vasm 1.8b and vlink 0.16b
Frank Wille has released updates for the modular assembler vasm and the corresponding linker vlink.
Changes:
vasm 1.8b:
- Option -noialign disables the automatic instruction alignment.
- m68k: New Apollo Core instructions (core >=4035.jic), provided by Henryk Richter.
- m68k: Referencing absolute-short labels and optimizing labels into absolute short addressing mode is allowed, when the label resides in an absolute ORG section.
- jagrisc: Fixed MOVE PC,Rn instruction.
- oldstyle-syntax: Internal symbol __RPTCNT can be used as iteration counter in the inner repeat loop.
- oldstyle-syntax: Numeric absolute symbol expansion is supported for macro parameters of the form \<symbol>.
- vobj-output: Ignoring internal/local symbols does not work. Now we create and use section symbols as a relocation reference.
vlink 0.16b:
- New option -mtype: merge all sections of the same type (code, data, bss), ignoring name and attributes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jan.2018
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Puzzle game KingPin released
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's "KingPin" is a little puzzle game with so far only two levels in which you have to guide the "KingPin" to the middle of the game board.
Download: KingPin.lha (26 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jan.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.
- November/December 2017 news
- Old articles from Tilt 109 to 117:
- News: Next games from Team 17
- Review of Whale's Voyage
- Review of Genesia
- Interview with Andy Blazdell
- Reports European Computer Trade Show April 1993
- News: Goal!, the worthy successor of Kick Off
- Review of Sleepwalker
- File: video games and epilepsy
- Report: Consumer Electronics Show 1993 Winter
- Review of Alien Breed Special Edition 1992
- etc
- Interview with Hugues Nouvel (AmigaOS 4 developer)
- Interview with Susumu Hirasawa (musician on Amiga)
- Interview with Ronald Pieket (Silkworm and SWIV developper)
- Hardware: Amiga 2000
- File: Classic Reflections - Whatever happened to DCE?
- File: 10 years of Icaros Desktop
- File: Why was DiskDoctor so spectacularly bad at its job?
- File: Amiga History (year 2003)
- Tutorial: Make the Workbench more beautiful
- Programmation: AMOS (the conditions)
- Special quizz about AMOS
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2017
(ANF)
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Legal dispute: a Statement by Hyperion and an open letter from two developers
At the end of 2016, Amiga Inc.'s US registration of the "Amiga" trademark expired, which ultimately led to Hyperion and Cloanto competing for various Amiga marks on two different continents. The conflict resulted in Cloanto suing Hyperion in the US for trademark infringement and copyright violations recently.
Hyperion now reacts to the lawsuit becoming public with a press release, expressing regret that Cloanto decided to go that way, forcing Hyperion to "once again redirect substantial resources away from development to litigation" and claiming to be "perplexed" by Cloantos litigation, given that the Italian Company distributed AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition "for many months". Hyperion states it still maintains that all their actions are covered by their settlement agreement with Amiga, Inc.
Meanwhile, Thomas 'Thor' Richter and Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel, who are working on a recently announced update to AmigaOS 3.1 on behalf of Hyperion, released an open letter addressing both parties. On behalf of "your fellow Amiga community", they're aksing both companies to rethink their strategies, since it does irreparable harm to their biggest assets - the enthusiastic Amiga fans:
Open Letter to Cloanto Italy SRL Udine,
and Hyperion Entertainment CVBA, Brussels
Fellow Amiga copyright owners and licence holders,
we recently became aware of another lawsuit concerning potential trademark and copyright violations between your two companies, and we are distressed to witness another round of legal action in the aftermath of the Amiga’s slow decline as a business. It is understood that both of you want to protect your assets and secure your corresponding business models, but at what cost?
May we invite you, however, to take a step back as we provide our analysis of what establishes your assets? While you may be certain that you have control over the Amiga trademarks, the AmigaOS source code, the ROM images and the contents of the Workbench disks, these assets only establish the respective legal and technical grounds on which you can run your businesses.
The reason why your companies are able to do Amiga-business is due to us, the users, the fans, the software and hardware developers and Amiga experts - the few who are still around and who keep driving the system, by buying your products, by developing software and hardware in our own spare time, by providing support in our spare time, and by keeping the community alive. Your products, copyrights and trademarks would be void if it were not for the countless people who support a product which, from a purely technical perspective, has long lost its shine and appeal.
We, the users, developers and fans, are also your customers. And as such, we are very concerned to witness how you invest time and effort into lawsuits, which would be much better spent on your users and your products. The market is still sufficiently diverse to support more than one company caring for the Amiga, but this would call for coexistance rather than a prolonged struggle for control. From the very beginning, “Amiga” stood for creativity and passion, but always in conjunction with both a wonderful machine and a fascinating operating system. These issues never had to be settled in court.
We kindly ask you to consider the ramifications of each party having just enough legal leverage to frustrate the other party’s means to conduct its Amiga-business. The resulting stalemate has repercussions beyond this legal stand-off. The goodwill and the passion which sustain the Amiga are not bottomless. We are weary of having to witness how the results of our efforts, the countless hours of spare time we devoted, are diverted into lawsuits rather than productive work.
We would ask of you to find the common ground which allows the both of you to do Amiga-business and not step on each other’s toes. You share more than what currently brings you into conflict, you certainly share the need for a sustainable Amiga market and the community which enables it.
Your fellow Amiga Community (cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Dec.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 81 (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 "Mega Phoenix", "Santa's Xmas Caper", "Xmas Lemmings 1991" and the demo maker "Demo Maniac V1.17".
Download sites:
Italian
English
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2017, 15:33] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Game: The Dream of Rowan (Update)
After a developmental period of two years, the AMOS game "The Dream of Rowan" financed by crowdfunding is available as digital download. The disk version already is sold out.
The jump'n'run game for ECS-Amigas equipped with 2 MB Chip-RAM requires a 68030 processor with at least 16 MHz as well as a harddrive.
Update: (10:37, 04.01.17, snx)
As the developers rectify, the game has been paid by themselves since the crowdfunding campaign did not succeed. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Dec.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 30.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until December 30th, 2017:
dizzytorrent1.0b5.lha comm/tcp 1.8M 68k Amiga 68k BitTorrent client
gopher.lha comm/tcp 27K 68k Gopher client for AmiTCP
gcc-mos2wos.lha dev/gcc 4.6M MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
ElseWeGetMad.lha game/2play 1.2M 68k new fight Amiga game for 1 or...
ARLB.lha game/race 2.5M MOS Show AmigaRacer highscores in...
CustJo2Songs.lha mods/cust 12K 2 Modules composed by Jesper ...
CustJoAcon.lha mods/cust 12K A Module composed by Jesper O...
CustJoScrooge.lha mods/cust 12K A Module composed by Jesper O...
backupsongs.zip mods/kicko 1.2M Backup of my hdrec and TnF tunes
DeliTracker234.lha mus/play 39K 68k module player, minor update
AmiTimeKeeper.i386-ar... util/cdity 103K x86 Keep your time right
pixman_lib.lha util/libs 294K OS4 Pixman-1 as an AmigaOS shared...
tzdev.lha util/time 691K Time Zone Database and Librar...
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31.Dec.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until December 30th, 2017:
amos2ascii.lha dev/lan 60kb 4.1 Convert AMOS token files to ASCII
amosextension2ascii.lha dev/uti 60kb 4.1 This command designed to extract...
pixman_lib.lha lib/gra 294kb 4.0 Pixman-1 as an AmigaOS shared li...
amosextension.library... lib/mis 376kb 4.1 AmosExtension.library load AMOS ...
mplayer-mickjt.lha vid/pla 28Mb 4.1 A powerful multimedia video and ...
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31.Dec.2017
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 30.12.2017
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until December 30th, 2017:
Envy24HT_5.15.lha Audio/Drivers Binary for Envy24HT AHI...
BeebAsm_1.08.lha Development/Cross Assembler with BBC Micr...
mos2wos_0.2.lha Development/GCC Make MorphOS GCC output...
HWP_XAD_1.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... Hollywood plugin for xa...
HWP_ZIP_1.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... Read and write ZIP arch...
Vim_8.0.1422-src.lha Development/Sources A highly configurable t...
AmiArcadia_24.66.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
UAEmremover_1.2.lha Emulation Remove junk files creat...
Vim_8.0.1422.lha Files/Editor A highly configurable t...
MCE_10.09.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
StoWaSta_0.8.lha Games/Misc A stop watch software.
AmigaRacerLeaderBoard_... Games/Race Show AmigaRacer highsco...
Chromium_0.9.16.1.zip Games/Shoot 2D A vertical scrolling Sh...
CrispyDoom_4.3.lha Games/Shoot 3D Crispy Doom is a limit-...
PushOver_0.0.5.lha Games/Think Port of PushOver 0.0.5 ...
SlotMachineSAGA_WArMUp... Games/Think A slot machine game to ...
GrafX2_2.5_WIP.lha Graphics/Draw A quick compilation of ...
SacrificioPagano_1.30.lha Misc A special app to people...
RNOWidgets_1.1.lha System/Ambient/Commodi... Desktop widgets applica...
AutoVisible_1.2.lha System/Ambient/Screenb... All sbars visible on Au...
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31.Dec.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.12.2017
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 installer has been added until December 30th, 2017:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Dec.2017
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Upcoming games: Alco-Copter (demo) and Green Beret (video)
In Alco-Copter developed by "Flashtro" you have to control a little helicopter. Now a playable demo version with six levels is available. The game requires 1 MB Chip-RAM.
Another developer team called "Megastyle" currently is working on its first Amiga game: Green Beret (Youtube video) is supposed to become a port of the same-titled C64 classic game.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Dec. 2017, 21:19] [Comments: 0]
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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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Dec. 2017, 23:33] [Comments: 0]
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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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Dec. 2017, 23:21] [Comments: 0]
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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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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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)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Dec. 2017, 12:24] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 27. Dec. 2017, 09:22] [Comments: 0]
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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)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Dec. 2017, 08:28] [Comments: 0]
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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).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Dec. 2017, 08:21] [Comments: 0]
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