19.Aug.2017
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AROS: Weekly progresses (since 11.07.2017)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS includes updates of some programs and bug fixes.
- Multiple compiler warnings fixed (neil)
- Use unified vapor.h header for morphos ports (wawa)
- Multiple compiler warnings fixed (wawa)
- Alternative repository for NetPBM added (neil)
- Zune test code enhanced (neil)
- VPDF fixes (neil)
- ReadArgs parameters adapted to OS3 API (neil)
- New Zunepaint port started (mazze)
- Potrace updated to v1.14 (mazze)
- ZuneView updated to v0.37 (mazze)
- BWBasic updated to v3.20 (mazze)
- Rocks'n'diamonds updated to v4.0.0.2 (mazze)
- Cflow updated to v1.5 (mazze)
- Antiword fixes (mazze)
- Zunepaint working in m68k now (wawa)
- Milkytracker for m68k fixes (wawa)
- GnuRobbo updated to v0.68 (mazze)
- Gnujump updated to v.10.8 (mazze)
- Fixed possible indefinite loop in iffparse.library (o1i)
- Grub2 configure fix (mazze)
- Doom GGC6 fixes (mazze)
- Fix for a potential division by zero crash in CoW3D (mazze)
- FryingPan fixes (mazze)
- Many Scout 64 bit fixes (mazze)
- Scout m68k fixes (wawa)
- Spout 64 bit crash fixed (mazze)
- NList GGC6 workaround (mazze)
- Cardgame 64 bit crash fixed (mazze)
- AmiChess fixes for 64 bit started (mazze)
- ISWindow, MineField, Soliton 64 bit fixes (mazze)
- Zune Toolbar class 64 bit fixes (mazze)
- Zune Prefseditr class 64 bit fixes (mazze)
- Identify.library path fix (mazze)
- DiskSpeed fixes (wawa)
- FryingPan m68k fixes (wawa)
- MuiMine ported to 64 bit (mazze)
- MuiMine m68k fix (wawa)
- PCRE updated to v8.41 (mazze)
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19.Aug.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 77 (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 "Apano Sin", "D.R.A.G.O.N. Force", "Shuffle", "Simon the Sorcerer" and "Xenon 2: Megablast".
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17.Aug.2017
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Elbox: New pictures of tower case BlackBOX 1200
According to Elbox in a post on amiga.org, the tower system "BlackBox 1200" is available again. The features have already been known since April, now some pictures have been added to the offer in the shop of Elbox.
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16.Aug.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tools: vasm 1.8a and vlink 0.16a
Frank Wille has released updates of the portable and retargetable assembler vasm and of its corresponding linker vlink.
Changes in vasm 1.8a:
- Increased number of fast-optimization passes from 50 to 200, as very large sources (> 60000 lines), with lots of branches to optimize, may still have optimization possibilities left after 50 passes.
- Repeat loops with an iterator symbol over an arbitrary sequence of values.
- m68k: New option -sd and directive OPT ON to enable optimizations of absolute references to the small data section into a base register relative addressing mode.
- m68k: New option -opt-jbra and directive OPT OB to convert all absolute jumps to external labels into 32-bit PC-relative branches (68020 and up).
- m68k: OPT O+ in Devpac compatibilty mode does not enable PC-relative optimizations (an explicit OPT A+ is needed).
- m68k: New Apollo Core instructions: PMULA, PMULH, STOREC, UNPACK1632.
- m68k: -m68020up option no longer includes Apollo Core.
- m68k: Devpac OPT Ln (with n=0,1,2,etc. for Atari) is recognized, although it has no effect at the moment.
- m68k: Suppressed index registers ZRn, which are explicitely written in the source, are no longer optimized away.
- PPC: -m option to select the CPU model starts working. By default the instruction set of a 32-bit PPC (G2, G3, G4) with AltiVec is supported.
- x86: Floating point constants (.float, .double) are supported.
- mot-syntax: Optional offset and length arguments for INCBIN (contributed by Andreas Larsson).
- std-syntax: New directives for gas compatibility: .irp and .irpc.
- bin-output: Fixed another sign-problem while padding between sections.
- hunk-output: Print source line for undefined symbols, when generating an executable.
- vobj-output: Ignore all internal/local symbols, except "*tmpNNNNNNNN*", which is required for certain relocations.
Changes in vlink 0.16a:
- New linker script commands: BYTE, SHORT, LONG, QUAD, SQUAD.
- New option -k: keep original section order from the objects.
- Fixed crash with -gc-all and unreferenced symbols.
- Fixed crash with unresolved weak symbols.
- (ados/ehf) _INIT/_EXIT functions with register arguments (prefixed by '@' instead of '_' for SAS/C-compatibility) are also detected, and their pointers inserted into the proper con-/destructor tables.
- (elf) Provide __CTOR_LIST_END, __DTOR_LIST_END.
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13.Aug.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 128 - preview and extracts
A preview and extracts from issue 128 (September/October 2017) of Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a review of the VA 2000, a special on Free Pascal and part 2 of the workshop on Blitz Basic.
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13.Aug.2017
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Hyperion has AmigaOS 3.1 updates removed from the web (Update)
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch was hosting the various updates for AmigaOS 3.1, 3.5 and 3.9 on his site os.amigaworld.de after H&P switched off the official support websites for these products after their withdrawal from the Amiga market. Münch now announces (German) on his website that after twelve years, he has been contacted by Hyperion and was asked to remove some of the downloads, since they contained code to which Hyperion holds some rights. In response, Münch decided to take the entire site offline.
Note from staff: In the 2009 settlement agreement with Amiga, Inc., Hyperion was granted a rather broad license for AmigaOS 3.1 that also gives the Belgium company the option to enforce the IP rights in question. The fact that it took them eight years to actually disable Münch's rather well known download site suggests a connection to the ongoing Trademark wars against Cloanto.
Update: (13.08.2017, 18:00, cg)
In the meantime, Costel Mincea from Hyperion replied to (requires registration) Münch's statement explaining that Hyperion only asked for the removal of four AmigaOS 3.1 updates, taking the entire site including all BoingBags offline was Münch's personal decision. The archives Mincea lists are small Beta releases published by Amiga Technologies in the mid-nineties:
- Datatypes-45-4.lha (datatypes.library 45.4)
- FFS-43-20.lha (FastFileSystem 43.20)
- SCSI-IDE-43-24.lha (scsi.device 43.24)
- SetPatch-43-6b.lha (SetPatch 43.6b)
But these archives, in the exact same versions, have been available for (legal) download from Cloantos website for years. Removing them from Münch's website does not affect their availability at all. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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13.Aug.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 12.08.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until August 12th, 2017:
impvcfsm.lha comm/mail 1K Import vCard files into Simpl...
Nah-ProphecyReturns.zip demo/aga 63K 68k The Prophecy Returns
VNom-SilentWinds.zip demo/aga 2.3M 68k Silent winds
Void-Fudged.dms demo/aga 248K 68k Fudged
Zenon-WhereWeAreGoing... demo/aga 378K 68k Where we are going
dajormas-kanaalin.zip demo/euro 187K 68k Kanaalin arvoitus
Void-Delirium.lha demo/euro 72K 68k Delirium State of Mind
Saga.lha game/board 394K 68k Conversion of TSR boardgame
SagaMOS.lha game/board 436K MOS Conversion of TSR boardgame
Saga-OS4.lha game/board 460K OS4 Conversion of TSR boardgame
RNOAnim.lha gfx/show 1.9M MOS Animation player, converter, ...
RNOAnim_OS4.lha gfx/show 2.2M OS4 Animation player, converter, ...
RNOInfoScreen.lha mus/play 8.2M WOS Music player front-end and in...
workbenchexplorer.lha util/dir 1.9M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 493K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 630K OS4 Multipurpose utility
espeak.lha util/sys 1.3M 68k amiga-port of espeak speech s...
madcomic.lha util/wb 18K 68k Reads and tells jokes.
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13.Aug.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.08.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until August 12th, 2017:
rnoinfoscreen.lha aud/pla 8Mb 4.0 Music player front-end and info ...
coreutils-bin.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 GNU core utilities
coreutils-src.lha dev/uti 14Mb 4.0 GNU core utilities (source)
saga.lha gam/boa 460kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR boardgame
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 630kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
rnoanim.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Animation player, converter, and...
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13.Aug.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 12.08.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until August 12th, 2017:
vtractors.i386-aros.zip gam/boa 987kb Make the longest tractor path.
cblocks.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 188kb Sliding-block puzzles with ascii...
gpmark-i386-aros.zip uti/ben 1Mb SDL based Gp2x benchmark by Opti...
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13.Aug.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.08.2017
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 August 12th, 2017:
- 2017-08-08 improved: Crossbow (Screen 7/Intelligent Games) fixed for 68000, added manual (Info)
- 2017-08-07 improved: Knightmare (Mindscape) fix crash & added quitkey on 68000 (Info)
- 2017-08-07 improved: Crossbow (Screen 7/Intelligent Games) fixed for 68000, added manual (Info)
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13.Aug.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:
- Cousin's Song
- Yo! Joe! - Haunted House
- Stranger Sisters Edit
- FlashBack (Ending)
- Toki - Caverns of Fire
- Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon (The Village)
- Awesome - Planet Music 1 (Level 5)
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10.Aug.2017
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Amiga-MOD tracker in Javascript: Bassoontracker 0.1.22
Bassoontracker is a classic 4-Channel-MOD tracker written in Javascript which runs in a web browser - there you can load, edit and save MOD-files. The tracker can be directly used on stef.be/bassoontracker/. The source code is available on Github.
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09.Aug.2017
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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Amiga Impact: Further pictures of FPGA accelerator board Vampire V4
For the fourth quarter of 2017 version 4 of the FPGA accelerator board Vampire was announced (amiga-news.de reported). Under the title link today Amiga Impact has published further pictures which show the standalone version and a bare board in a aluminium case.
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09.Aug.2017
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MorphOS: Word processing software Folio (beta version)
"Folio is a technical proof of concept that leverages the sophisticated Webkit layout engine included in the Odyssey Web Browser to provide a modern word processing tool that fulfills most common needs. Its current feature set and capabilities are comparable to those found in Microsoft WordPad and Apple TextEdit." Due to a bug of version 1.24 of Odyssey, version 1.23 has to be installed as well and Folio to be opened there. An Internet connection is not required.
Known problems:
- Saving files opens a blank window hiding the editor, which needs to be closed manually.
- File names need to be entered inside the MorphOS file requester every time you save a document regardless of whether you previously entered a file name or not.
- Dragging images around inside the document can duplicate images. For moving around images, it is recommended to cut out images and then paste them after you position the text cursor via mouse or keyboard.
- When you use the "pop up" button in the toolbar to run Folio in its own window, you will still see a tab bar even though it is technically redundant.
Download:
folio_morphos.zip (435 KB)
owb-morphos-1.23.lha (26 MB)
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09.Aug.2017
MorphZone (Webseite)
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RNOAnim 1.2 and RNOInfoScreen 1.4
"RNOAnim is a compact animation player that also has some conversion and editing functions." In version 1.2 of the program which was written with Hollywood "animations get scaled if they don't fit within the screen size" and "support for transparency in GIF anims" was added.
"RNOInfoScreen works as a front-end to various music and media players by displaying the "now playing" information with cover art images, and by providing basic media control options for the user." In version 1.4 among others more options for background images were added and the volume goes quicker up and down on MorphOS when a shift key is pressed.
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07.Aug.2017
Amigaworld (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.8.1
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) "is a program to explore and manipulate files, links and drawers of your Amiga." Changes in version 3.8.1:
- Software / "Upgrade" item added in the "Project" menu to download the latest version available.
- GUI / You can now choose to not display the buttons panel.
- GUI - Buttons Panel / You can now choose buttons you want to display and their sizes.
- GUI / You can now choose to not display the preview panel.
- GUI / Spacing between different parts increased .
- Drawer browsing / If several drawers are selected, the first one is scanned in the current window and the next ones in other "Dir Me Up" windows.
- Drawer browsing / If the [Ctrl] key is pressed while browsing, the selected drawer is opened in another "Dir Me Up" window.
- Drawer creation / The drawer(s) created are now automatically selected.
- Bookmarks / Notification modified if the volume panel is not display.
- Browsing / If a "path" button that no longer existed was clicked, an error window was displayed over and over: fixed.
- Browsing / If a Bookmark that no longer existed was clicked, an error window was displayed over and over: fixed.
- Browsing / Update was always done on the last level of the path, even if an intermediate "path" button was clicked: fixed.
- Browsing / Volumes Update created a single "path" button with all included levels: fixed.
- List view / The following informations are now centered: size, date, type and extension.
- Icon view / Better use of the width of the window.
- Icon view / If a partially visible element is selected, a repositioning is now performed to see it completely.
- Icon view / Astride thumbnails of the last visible line were sometimes not displayed: fixed.
- View without panel volumes / If you clicked on the parent of an assign, "path" buttons click did not work then: fixed.
- "Workbench" view / If several volumes, assigns or bookmarks are selected, the first one is explored in the current window and the next ones in other "Dir Me Up" windows.
- "Workbench" view / If the [Ctrl] key is pressed while scanning volumes, assigns or bookmarks, they are opened in other "Dir Me Up" windows.
- "Workbench" view / If the selected bookmark had a "multi-levels" path , the path buttons were not all drawn: fixed.
- Script running / If a script "shortcut" button was unchecked, the button was not removed from the buttons pannel: fixed.
- Script running / When removing the first script, the following script was not selected: fixed.
- Internal viewer / After deleting an image, the displayed image rank was no longer the correct one: fixed.
- Internal viewer / When copying several images and then examining under the viewer, only one image was counted in the total indicated: fixed.
- AmigaOS 4.1 FE specific / If the mouse pointer is over the list of elements without any selection, the "Location" pop-up menu is displayed (previously the main menu) when right-clicking.
- AmigaOS 4.1 FE specific / The size of menu icons can now be set.
- AmigaOS 4.1 FE specific / "Wb" menu was displayed at the same time as the "Paste" one: fixed.
- Localization / Swedish translations added.
- Localization / Italian and Spanish translations improved.
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