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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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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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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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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2017, 23:11] [Comments: 0]
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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!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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21.May.2017
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit X
The Workbench distribution AmiKit, which is meant for emulators, now is available as version 10 ("X") for the notebook "A.L.I.C.E." (A-EON Technology) which was announced two years ago and introduced in a preview video last year but still is not available.
Among others the performance was sped up, stability improved and a new version 4.8 of AfA_OS added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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21.May.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 20th, 2017:
SMBMounter.lha comm/net 261K 68k SMBFS Frontend GUI / Commodity
vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 343K WOS POSIX compatibility library f...
Koules.lha game/actio 240K 68k Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Koules_OS4.lha game/actio 221K OS4 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
KoulesMOS.lha game/actio 234K MOS Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 420K MOS V0.91: Freeware Textviewer (M...
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 537K MOS Multipurpose utility
listwindows.lha util/wb 6K 68k lists open screens/windows fr...
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21.May.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 20th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
koules.lha gam/act 221kb 4.0 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
aos-iconsupdate.lha gra/ico 5Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
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19.May.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.3.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. Version 3.3.0 provides a lot of improvements:
- Last visited location saved to automatically load it the next run
- Soft or hard links creation ("refresh volumes" button used, [Amiga]+[K])
- The list of volumes and the current location are refreshed when uniconifying Dir Me Up
- Bookmarks / When a bookmark is added, a notification is now displayed rather than a window (except for the first one)
- Bookmarks / The "remove" button is no longer displayed when the list is empty
- Filter / If only one item results from the filter, it is automatically selected (and previewed if necessary)
- Filter / If the filter did not produce any results and the "Home" or "End" keys were pressed, a run-time error occurred: fixed
- Link preview / the type (soft or hard) is now displayed
- Soft link to a drawer did not work: fixed
- Hard link did not work: fixed
- Location / Italian translation fixed
The following new features require AmigaOS 4.1 FE:
- "Location" menu:
- "Remove bookmark" option has been added
- "Create link" option added
- "Create Text File" option added to create a text file in the current location
- "Add to bookmarks" and "Create drawer(s)" options inverted
- "File" menu:
- "File/Send to" sub menu:
- "Editor" option added: opens the selected file(s) under the defined editor
- "Multiview" option added: opens the selected file(s) under Multiview
- "E-mail" option added: opens your e-mail client (YAM or SimpleMail) and creates a message with the selected file(s) as an attachment
- Bookmarks / When adding a favorite via the keyboard shortcut ([Amiga]+[B]), the action was done twice and generated an information message: fixed
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.May.2017
Amigafuture (ANF)
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Descent: Freespace as download / Update for AmigaOS 4.1
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the space-combat simulation Descent: Freespace (also known as "Descent: Freespace - The Great War", "Conflict: Freespace - The Great War", "Freespace - The Great War") for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition from the direct downloads section of our website.
Customers can now choose between two formats of this amazing game:
- a purely digital version at a price of only EUR 14.95 incl. VAT (may very depending on your local taxes) for download in our restricted download area,
- or buy a boxed version (boxed version only includes AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS version, the AmigaOS 4.1 version is available for download after registration on our website) at their preferred Amiga dealer.
The downloadable content consists of an image of the original CD for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and an archived game drawer for AmigaOS 4.1 including all languages and manual.
Purchasers get a serial number inside their box or by email to register their purchase at our website in order to get access to our restricted download area for the game archive, the original ISO image as well as potential future updates. For a first look, free demo versions are available from the public download area.
The updated version for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition includes among others:
- compatibility with Southern Islands based Radeon cards
- uses MiniGL texture compression if available
- tons of game bugfixes including a fully playable tutorial
For existing customers of Descent: Freespace the updated AmigaOS 4.1 version is available free of charge after registering their genuine copy with their free Hyperion account on our website.
Descent: Freespace - The Great War is the highly acclaimed space-combat simulator from Volition/Interplay and offers an unparalleled mix of top-notch graphics for its time, plot and game-play. It is widely considered one of the best space-combat simulators ever and gained lots of kudos from all important game magazines. The game was originally released in 2001 for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and in December 2004 for AmigaOS 4 by Hyperion Entertainment CVBA. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.May.2017
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Hyperion attacking Cloanto's Amiga trademarks on a broad front (update 2)
It looks as if Cloanto's registration of the 'Amiga' mark filed in January in the USA will be contested by Hyperion: After the Belgium based company's attempts to register its own trademarks 'AmigaOS' and 'AmigaOne' failed, Hyperion now filed a request for extension of time to file opposition against Cloanto's mark. This is usually the initial step when trying to file opposition, so the United States Patent and Trademark Office is now listing Hyperion as a potential opposer.
Hyperion's application for registration of the trademarks 'AmigaOne' and 'AmigaOS' was primarily rejected due to 'likelihood of confusion' with Cloanto's recently registered Amiga trademark. It's possible that Hyperion is going to turn that argument around by trying to declare Cloanto's trademark illegitimate for being too similar to Hyperion's marks 'AmigaOne' and 'AmigaOS' - which are not registered but have been commercially used for years.
Update: (19.5.2017, 16:45, cg)
Yesterday, Hyperion went one step further: The EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) received an application for registration of the 'Amiga Forever' mark - not from Cloanto though, who's been using that mark in commerce for two decades, but from Monard Law, the law firm Ben Hermans works for. Hermans had created an account on amiga-news.de just recently, to point out (German) that use in commerce does not neccessarily equal ownership of the mark in all areas of this world.
Update 2: (19.5.2017, 23:00, cg)
Apparently Hyperion is also trying to attack Cloantos 'Workbench' mark: The Italian company had registered said mark - the US version of which they own since 2011 - with the EUIPO earlier this year. Just a few days ago, Hyperion - or rather, Ben Hermans employer Monard Law - has applied for the very same 'Workbench' trademark. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 09.05.2017)
Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week:
- Adapt code for const TagItem changes (neil)
- Network card improvements (neil)
- Debug build now stores debug info in .dbg files (Kalamatee)
- InitKickMemDiag fixed (twilen)
- ROM image size check added (Kalamatee)
- Amiga-m68k ROM fixes, A1200 should boot again (twilen)
- M68k ROM size optimization (Kalamatee)
- CD-startup improvements (Kalamatee)
- Add separate gifanim datatype descriptor)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.2
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free.
In Version 3.2 diverse translations have been completed and updated and some questions reworked.
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15.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 7.0 Addons
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 7.0. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
- Hollywood Player 7.0 for all supported platforms (also available for your smartphone/tablet on Google Play)
- Hollywood SDK 7.0 for developing your own plugins (includes examples and over 350 pages of documentation in various formats)
- Hollywood 7.0 add-on for Cubic IDE (kindly provided by Michael Jurisch)
- Hollywood 7.0 wordfile for UltraEdit
- Hollywood 7.0 online reference manual (over 900 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
- Hollywood SDK 7.0 online reference manual (over 350 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
The release of these add-ons completes the Hollywood 7.0 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal for download and more information.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. May. 2017, 23:42] [Comments: 0]
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15.May.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP stack: bugfixed version of the ping command for Roadshow
Earlier this month Roadshow 1.13 was released. The updated "ping" command to ship in this release was found to contain a serious bug which could cause it to crash. The demonstration and retail versions of Roadshow 1.13 as well as the update archive that upgrades version 1.12 to 1.13 have been updated and now contain the repaired "ping" command. (cg)
[News message: 15. May. 2017, 23:38] [Comments: 0]
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