01.Jun.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Gotek/HxC: Adapter for using a floppy emulator as external drive
If you want to use a floppy emulator just like Gotek or HxC as external drive ;- thus avoiding changes on the Amiga case;- you need a corresponding adapter. The Polish developers of Sakura IT has made available documents for constructing such an adapter at Github. The adapter is used in the external disk drives of the developers.
In a Youtube video an user has recorded, how such an adapter could look like - including a self-made 23-Pin-Sub-D plug.
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01.Jun.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.22 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The latest version of Thomas Wenzel's audio player AmigaAMP provides some minor improvements:
- Added URLIdentifier and Description to Application info
- Show requester when ReAction classes can't be opened
- Fixed broken plugin menu in ReAction mode after rescanning
- Added support for multimedia keys
- Updated spanish catalog
- Adapted code for AmigaOS 4.1 FE SDK 53.30
- Added full path to current file to streaminfo/trackinfo structure so that plugins can make use of it
- Fixed greyed out menus for info and playlist
- Fixed bug when loading skins with missing equalizer and playlist bitmaps
- Replaced connection popup window with info in title bar (reaction) or info line (skin mode)
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01.Jun.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 3.5.0
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE present a short preview to the changes of the next version. WinUAE 3.5.0 is supposed to be released in the middle of June and will provide the following improvements:
New features:
- Softfloat FPU emulation mode. Bit perfect FPU emulation (except transcendental functions), including full arithmetic exception support. (Co-operation with Previous emulator author)
- Lightpen emulation absolute coordinate HID (USB light guns) and touch screen device support.
- American Laser Games second player and Actionware dual light gun adapter emulation.
- Real harddrive mount lock option. Enables full exclusive access even if drive has Windows mounted FAT partition(s).
- winlaunch.lib is now built-in feature and is also 64-bit compatible.
- Show [Paused] in windowed mode title bar when in pause mode.
- If statefile is loaded with one or more floppy images that can’t be opened: keep fake disk in drive (like previously) and ask for new disk path when missing disk is accessed for the first time.
New emulated features of the chipset:
- AGA FMODE>0 unaligned bitplane and sprite pointer behavior is now accurate.
- BPLCON4 XOR mask special case in HAM6/8 or EHB modes.
- Loading blitter B-DAT manually when B-shift was nonzero.
- Lightpen hardware is now cycle-exactly emulated.
- Sprite special case when DMA mode sprite’s start X-coordinate is less than sprite’s DMA slot position.
- Audio interrupts are delayed by 2 cycles.
Improvements of existing features:
- 68020+ T0 trace mode is now fully emulated.
- 68020 cycle exact mode adjustments.
- Memory cycle exact mode mode accuracy improved
- Implemented previously unimplemented bsdsocket.library emulation sendmsg() and recvmsg().
- Recursive mode ROM scanner now skips directories starting with dot.
- MMU emulation can be now switched on/off on the fly.
- Release all currently pressed keys when emulation pauses.
- Added memory cycle-exact Quickstart step for A1200 and CD32 configurations. Less CPU heavy than full cycle-exact and usually not much more worse (or better). At least not until 68020 CE gets better.
Fixed bugs:
- FM801 16-bit audio corruption.
- A2090 ST-506 emulation.
- Possible crash when display was very wide with bitplane DMA overrun condition.
- Fixed crash when sound card audio play started and channel mode was mono and “Include CD and FMV audio” was ticked.
- Fixed crash when accessing accelerator board SCSI IO region without any added SCSI device(s).
- Fixed crash if Blizzard accelerator on board memory size was set to zero.
- JIT was not 512k or 1M Chip RAM compatible.
- Manual RAM configuration GUI didn’t accept smaller end address than current board size.
- Manually configured but disabled (size zero) Z2/Z3 banks were added to system.
- Apollo 1240/1260 memory address space fixed
- PC bridgeboard NE2000 boot crash fix.
- Windowed mode mouse does not anymore hit hidden barriers if window is partially outside of desktop or uncaptured if window is on top of task bar.
- If Custom autoconfig board order was enabled, expansion devices custom config setting(s) was not saved correctly.
- 68000 address error stacked PC was not correct in some read-modify-write instructions
- Untrap middle mouse button option was stuck.
- GUI listview column width calculation used default font size, not selected font.
- 68030 CE/prefetch mode cache access bug fixed.
- G-REX and Cirrus Logic graphics board state was reset if RAM or HW Info GUI panels were opened after emulation was started.
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31.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video interview with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON)
During the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 2017, the Youtube channel "TheGuruMeditation" has recorded an interview with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON). In the video, which lasts about 23 minutes, Dickinson has talked about the AmigaOne computers and the A.L.I.C.E. laptop, which he presented at the festival, about his goals with A-EON and his passion about the Amiga.
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31.May.2017
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US trader stopped cooperation with A-EON/Amigakit
A message on the homepage of the webshop of the US trader "Amiga On The Lake" (AOTL), which was opened in September last year, informs, that they will "no longer support A-EON or AmigaKit in any way, shape or form."
This step is not justified by the maintainer of the shop in any way. It is only refered to "experience during the last 8 months in regards to both companies." In many forums it is speculated, that the sudden termination of cooperation is related to the price setting of Amigakit: Actually three days ago before the publication of the message of AOTL, AmigaKit did offer X5000 full systems for the first time - this offer was not gone public by Amigakit itself but was reported by users.
While Amigakit explained in a thread on amiga.org, that they will not comment any discussions with partner in public, at Amitopia some lines from a statement of Trevor Dicksinson were quoted: According to that, all traders - including Amigakit - are delivered by A-EON offering same conditions to all. Amigakit sells the systems for the price which A-EON recommends in adverts since last October for a basic system. Any webshop is free to offer systems to a higher price which are better equipped.
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30.May.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Weekly progress (since 23.05.2017)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS includes improvements of the processor type detection and of the lowlevel.library under AROS/68k.
- .dbg files are now ignored by AROS (Kalamatee)
- Lowlevel.library m68k work continues (Kalamatee)
- GFX Bitmap-Class optimization (Kalamatee)
- M68k type detection / optimizations (Kalamatee)
- Fix undefined Locale's loc_MeasuringSystem (pollux)
- Intuition Screen fixes (Kalamatee)
- Apollo'080 detection (Kalamatee, twilen)
- MUI window class compatibility enhanced (neil)
- Run setpatch from startup-sequence (Kalamatee)
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30.May.2017
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FPGA accelerator board: Vampire available in shops
Since about a year the Vampire accelerator boards have been no longer manually put together which made it more expensible but also enabled mass production. Therefore meanwhile diverse shops can be delivered: Relec (Switzerland) and Amigakit (Great Britain) offers the accelerator board - although AmigaKit has announced that the "initial batch quickly sold out within a few hours."
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30.May.2017
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Beat'em Up: Else we get mad! (playable preview)
"Else we get mad" (video) is a Beat'em Up developed by Amiga Wave (e.g. Retro Wars) which is an homage to the actors Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.
Else we get Mad! runs on each Amiga with 512 KB memory, a single and two player mode is offered. Recently a playable preview was released which shows a complete level.
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30.May.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Graphics ripping: Maptapper 0.8.4
Maptapper is a Windows application "used to rip graphics and maps from Amiga games". WinUAE saves a so called "save state" of a game, which Maptapper can browse. There is a detailed online and video tutorial on the website of the developers which explains the usage of the program.
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[News message: 30. May. 2017, 16:34] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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3D print: Vampire mount for Amiga 600
An user of a Vampire has created a mount, which fixes the FPGA accelerator board within an A600. It consists of two frames:
Both frames can be printed with a 3D printer. Corresponding templates are available at Thingiverse.
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30.May.2017
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.4.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. Version 3.4.0 provides a lot of improvements:
- Arexx, Shell or Python scripts run with a simple double-click (no parameter used). If you want to use files or drawers as a parameter, use the "Apply a script" button.
- Rename / Renamed items remain selected. A new positioning is done if needed.
- List view / When calculating the size of a drawer, the size is now also displayed in the list.
- List view / Commented or managed items remain selected after processing.
- Icon view / Preview area updated if the comment or attributes of an element change.
- Bookmarks / Drawer creation is now also possible when the bookmarks are displayed.
- About / Information added about the Amiga used (processor, installed memory, ...).
- Preview / When one or more drawers are selected, the preview image is a drawer (generic image before).
- "Error" or "Question" windows / Image added to show the type of request.
- Copy - Move / Copied or moved items are selected after processing.
- Location / If the last location visited was no longer accessible, an information message appeared many times: fixed.
AmigaOS 4.1 FE specific:
- "Location" menu - Bookmarks / "Create link" and "Create text file" options enabled, even when the list of bookmarks is displayed.
- "Location" menu / "Copy path to clipboard" option added to copy the current path to the clipboard.
- "Location" menu / "Print tree view" option added to build the tree view of current location in a text file.
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28.May.2017
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #34 - The Bolo Museum's Yves Bolognini
Scene World Podcast #34 interviews Yves Bolognini, founder of the Bolo Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. The museum's staff are working to preserve and display the history of computers. (snx)
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28.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Shadow Of The Beast II - Title (Chillout Edit)
- Blue Berry (Cover) Darkman007
- Turrican II - The Desert Rocks (Trance/Dance Remix)
- SLL1 Remix v2
- Lizardking's Theme (Epic Transition)
- A Final Hyperbase
- Leander - World One
- Once in a life (Turrican3 End Theme) (Psyria Reconstruction Edit)
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28.May.2017
A1k.org (Forum)
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OpenStreetMap viewer: MUIMapparium 0.4
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 0.4 of his MUI port of the OpenStreetMap viewer Mapparium. MUIMapparium is available for all Amiga systems, but the version for AmigaOS-4 has not been tested.
New:
- Basic Plot module for Trackcurves (Height, slope, speed)
- Plot popupmenu, Zoom, Data Readout
- Support for imperial units
- in-map GUI (Zoom In/Out, Side Panel)
- OS4 mouse wheel
- Keybinding for map (+,-, cursor keys)
- Bugfix: AROS disabled Edit
- BugFix: Amiga redrawing error
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28.May.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 27th, 2017:
irssi.lha comm/irc 2.3M MOS Terminal based IRC client
nfs-handler.lha comm/net 9K 68k NFS handler using bsdsocket.l...
LiquidMIG.lha demo/intro 548K 68k LiquidMIG demo
CubicIDE_HW70.lha dev/hwood 787K 68k Hollywood add-on for Cubic IDE
Hollywood_SDK.lha dev/hwood 2.3M Plugin development kit for Ho...
HWP_GLGalore.lha dev/hwood 3.3M MOS Allows OpenGL scripting with ...
KeepPrivate.lha dev/misc 15K 68k KeepPrivate - header/autodocs...
KeepPrivate_src.lha dev/misc 4K KeepPrivate source code
MUI2HTML.lha dev/mui 11K 68k MUI2HTML converter program
MUI2HTML_src.lha dev/mui 2K MUI2HTML source code
AmigaPower.lha docs/lists 75K aMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Mag ...
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 40K 68k Mediator driver Sonnet 7200 G...
HungryHarry.adf game/actio 880K 68k A 1992 pacman clone with five...
OpenTyrian.lha game/actio 49M 68k Reimplementation of DOS game ...
bsaog.lha game/shoot 792K 68k Blake Stone Aliens of Gold
bsps.lha game/shoot 199K 68k Blake Stone Planet Strike
chocolate-doom.lha game/shoot 2.0M MOS Chocolate Doom
crispy-doom.lha game/shoot 988K MOS Crispy Doom
eduke32.lha game/shoot 2.1M MOS EDuke32
gloom-cd32xmen-adf.zip game/shoot 744K 68k CD32X-men: Mind Games - Gloom...
berusky.lha game/think 8.1M 68k Sokoban-style puzzle game
vicV0.65_src.lha misc/emu 48K Vic 20 Emulator source code
flac.lha mus/misc 724K MOS Free Lossless Audio Codec - C...
A4000Diob.lha pix/3dobj 1.9M Imagine: Amiga 4000D model w/...
AP58Covers.lha pix/misc 280K aMiGa=PoWeR n?58 Cover Recto
WWorth_fincats.lha text/dtp 27K Wordworth 3SE,4SE & 7 Fin...
EvenMore.lha text/show 340K 68k V0.91: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 428K MOS V0.91: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 421K OS4 V0.91: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
TextSee.lha text/show 26K 68k Text Viewer for AmigaOS 1.x
p7zip.lha util/arc 759K MOS 7za file archiver with high c...
SWitch_src.lha util/boot 8K SWitch source code
WindowDirect_src.lha util/cdity 5K WindowDirect source code
uaemremover.lha util/dir 15K 68k Remove junk files created by ...
workbenchexplorer.lha util/dir 1.6M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
TinyLauncher.lha util/misc 110K 68k WHDLoad frontend and more
listwindows.lha util/wb 7K 68k lists open screens/windows fr...
R2Z_68k.lha util/wb 1.3M 68k Test your reaction times
R2Z_AROS.lha util/wb 1.5M x86 Test your reaction times
R2Z_MOS.lha util/wb 1.4M MOS Test your reaction times
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28.May.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 27th, 2017:
resrc4_cmd.lha dev/mis 33kb 4.1 MC680x0 Disassembler
freespacedemo.lha gam/act 29Mb 4.1 Demo of the amazing space-combat...
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 64kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
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28.May.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 27.05.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until May 27th, 2017:
blockattack.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 6Mb Match colors of rising blocks in...
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28.May.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 27.05.2017
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 May 27th, 2017:
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25.May.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Weekly progress (since 16.05.2017)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS includes work on 68k components and another update of the Autodocs.
- Gifanim datatype descriptor added (Kalamatee)
- Autodocs updated (mazze)
- AddDataTypes target CPU awareness added (Kalamatee)
- Cia.h defines added (Kalamatee)
- Lowlevel.library m68k timer support added (Kalamatee)
- KrnIsSuper m68k optimized (twilen)
- m68k workarounds for bad software (Oktagon controller) added (twillen)
- m68k rom init fixes (twilen)
- Developer files for InstallAROS fixed (neil)
- New mirrors for third party code added (neil)
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25.May.2017
Project Paula (ANF)
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Music: Project Paula - A synthwave/cyberpunk tribute to the Amiga
Project Paula released a new album of remixes from classic Amiga games by various Synthwave producers (e.g. Volkor X, Fixions, Master Boot Record) is now available on Bandcamp. Titles are Apydia, Flashback, Speedball 2, Shadow of the Beast, Jim Power, Hybris, Lotus III, Battle Squadron, Turrican 3, Unreal, One Step Beyond and Dune. The album has a pay-what-you-want policy with no minimum price. (snx)
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24.May.2017
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AnimWebConverter 2.75
AnimWebConverter is a little tool for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS written with Hollywood, which can convert IFF animations of the Anim or Yafa format into animated GIF and PNG files. Changing the size of the pictures is possible as well. In version 2.75 some bugs have been fixed.
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[News message: 24. May. 2017, 23:25] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2017
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Interview: Glenn Keller, Amiga Paula Chip Designer
On the ocassion of the last "Vintage Computer Festivals", the Youtube channel "TheGuruMediation" has interviewed the former Amiga developer Glenn Keller. Keller has designed the Amiga-Custom-Chip "Paula", which controls audio playback, floppy disk drive control, serial port input/output and joystick.
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[News message: 24. May. 2017, 23:23] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2017
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Amiga Future: Issue 103 can be read online
Issue 103 (July/August 2013) of the printed magazine Amiga Future is sold out, you can read the German and English edition of the magazine online (picture files). You also can buy a PDF-version.
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[News message: 24. May. 2017, 23:17] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2017
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AmigaOS 4: File browser Workbench Explorer 1.2
Mark Ritter's Workbench Explorer (WEx) is a file browser for AmigaOS 4. Its preview function can show pictures, GIF-animations and read texts but also can play music files of the mp3 format. Version 1.2 provides bug fixes and some minor improvements.
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24.May.2017
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Compiler: vbcc 0.9f, sponsored by Individual Computers
vbcc ist ein C-compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific adaptions). The compiler supports AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, PowerUp as well as WarpOS. "It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99)." Frank Wille gave thank to Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers), who now sponsors the m68k-AmigaOS port of the compiler. He wrote: "This does not only help us to continue supporting and improving this port but it also allows us to relax the terms of use for the Amiga-68k community. Everyone may now freely use vbcc to develop 68k-AmigaOS code for commercial as well as non-commercial usage."
News in vbcc 0.9f:
- Changed licenses concerning commercial usage for AmigaOS/68k
- Power-of-two optimizations
- Warn when truncating constants
- Warn on hexadecimal escape sequence overflow
- Fixed some shortcut-optimzations that were calculating an expression in the target type even if that was larger due to casts
- Fixed -deps dependency generation for including local header files
- New option -no-cpp-warn to turn off all preprocessor warnings
- Fixed gcc-compatibility of #pragma pack() and documented it
- Fixed bug with CSE trying on non-scalars
- New config files for residentable programs and minimal startup codes (e.g. aos68kr and aos68km)
- m68k: Struct copy was using byte-copy also for aligned data
- m68k: Some addressing mode fixes with Dn.W displacement
- m68k: Constants in -sd mode are put into the code section by default and into the small data section when -const-in-data is specified
- vclib/atari: Fixed problem with receiving a trash-character on stdin
- vclib/amiga: Include missing cia protos and inlines
- vclib/amiga: New startup code and linker support for residentable programs
- vclib/amiga: More C99 math functions
- vclib: New target m68k-kick13 (Kickstart 1.x with 1.x OS headers)
- vclib: New target m68k-jaguar (Atari Jaguar)
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24.May.2017
Murakami (ANF)
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Printed magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 58 (French)
Since 1998 the French printed magazine aMiGa=PoWer has been published by the Association Française du Libre Essai (AFLE). Among others issue issue 58 offers reviews of the video player Emotion, the Enhancer Software Pack and Flower Pot. There are also reports about Gmail with Odyssey, UAE under MorphOS as well as Mist versus Minimig.
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22.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: GL Galore 1.1
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present GL Galore 1.1, the ultimate OpenGL® scripting solution for Hollywood! This is a major update which introduces Unicode support (requires at least Hollywood 7), support for the Raspberry Pi (needs at least a Raspberry Pi 2), and support for 64-bit architectures on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. On top of that, GL Galore 1.1 also introduces a modern joystick API which allows you to query joysticks with more than two buttons and axes. Finally, GL Galore also contains direct online help now for people using the Hollywood 7 IDE on Windows.
GL Galore is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to access the OpenGL 1.1 command set directly from Hollywood. This makes it possible to write scripts that utilize the host system's 3D hardware to create high-performance, butter-smooth 2D and 3D animation that is computed completely in hardware by the GPU of your graphics board. This leads to a huge performance boost over the classic Hollywood graphics API which is mostly implemented in software for maximum portability and compatibility. Especially systems with slower CPUs will benefit greatly from hardware-accelerated drawing offered by OpenGL.
OpenGL is a portable software interface to graphics hardware. It is available for almost every platform in a variety of flavours. On AmigaOS and compatibles, OpenGL is available as MiniGL on AmigaOS 4, TinyGL on MorphOS, StormMesa on AmigaOS 3, and Mesa 3D on AROS. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems are usually shipped with an OpenGL driver already installed.
GL Galore offers wrapper functions for most commands of the OpenGL 1.1 API including many GLU functions. Additionally, GL Galore also offers bridging functions that allow you to convert Hollywood brushes into OpenGL textures and vice versa. Furthermore, when GL Galore is activated, Hollywood's hardware brushes and hardware double-buffers are mapped directly to OpenGL so that you can even benefit from hardware accelerated drawing and transformation without writing a single line of GL code. Whenever GL Galore is activated, all graphics output will automatically be routed through OpenGL.
GL Galore can also be useful for rapidly prototyping software in OpenGL. People who used to program OpenGL using C will greatly appreciate Hollywood's convenient multimedia API which offers functions for almost all common tasks. For example, by using GL Galore to write OpenGL programs you can avoid all the hassle of managing a GL window using one of the many different toolkits out there. Also, jobs like image loading, sound or video playback, font handling and image manipulation will become ridiculously easy thanks to Hollywood's powerful command set which covers over 700 functions. And of course, there aren't 14 different versions of commands like glColor, but just one version because sometimes less is more.
GL Galore is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ Versions for AmigaOS 3 (FPU required), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86,x64), Mac OS X (ppc, x86, x64) and Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64) are provided. On top of that, GL Galore comes with over 250 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM. Finally, many impressive example scripts are included in the distribution archive to get you started really quickly.
All of this makes GL Galore the ultimate OpenGL scripting experience combining the best of both worlds into one powerful plugin: Hollywood's extensive and convenient multimedia function set and OpenGL's raw graphics power!
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