03.Oct.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit for Android devices 1.8.0.03
The latest version 1.8.0.03 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for phones and tablets has an higher speed performance due to an improved JIT-compiler, a new transparent keyboard and an bug fixed sound output.
Additional to the operating system files (AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9), at least Android 4.2 and an ARM-v7-processor are required.
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03.Oct.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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ModExplorer 0.9a
Similar to AmiModRadio, the Hollywood-programm ModExplorer plays music modules from the Internet but also supports the Aminet, Modland and modules.pl. The tool is available for all Amiga systems.
As the author explained on a1k.org, version 0.9a among others offers a minimalist "streamer", a (still not finished) ARexx port as well as thanks to the update of MUI Royale the possibility to use the MUI version on Amigas without having a graphic card.
Download: modexplorer.lha (8 MB)
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02.Oct.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Video player VAMP 1.60
The "Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player" written by Juan Carlos Herran Martin is avideo player implemented with Hollywood, which can show and play diverse picture and animation formats. In version 1.60 some bugs have been fixed and some new graphics and pictogramm added.
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02.Oct.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: StackMon 0.1
For his own needs, Yannick Erb has written a little stack monitor based on the source codes of SysMon to see, "how much stack my apps are actually using".
After launching the programm, "just select the task/process you want to look at. If task/process is not in the list click on Refresh button or select auto refresh (task list will be updated every second)." After choosing the tasks/processes, you get two information: The currently used stack (used in the last 20ms) as well as the maximum ("measured while the current task is selected").
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02.Oct.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 01.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until October 1st, 2016:
m68k-amigaos-gcc.tar.gz dev/gcc 17M 68k GCC based dev toolchain for A...
m68k-amigaos-gcc-src.... dev/gcc 34M GCC based dev toolchain for A...
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha dev/hwood 4.8M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
MegaMon_182.lha dev/moni 18K 68k Amiga Monitor the Original
MegaMon_32.lha dev/moni 74K 68k Amiga Monitor Final Version a...
Infect.lha disk/misc 2K 68k Infect Boot Intro Insaller
soliton_decks.lha game/data 4.7M New Soliton card sets
MCE.lha game/edit 1.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.8M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
protracker23d.i386-ar... mus/edit 3.2M x86 Music making software "ProTra...
tzdata.lha util/time 907K Time Zone Database
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02.Oct.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 01.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until October 1st, 2016:
sqlite.lha dev/lib 12Mb 4.1 SQL database engine
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
jabberwocky.lha uti/com 492kb 4.0 Jabber client
fxstr.lha uti/scr 10kb 4.0 Converts strings to ReadArgs format
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02.Oct.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 01.10.2016
The following packages have been added to the AROS-Archives until October 1st, 2016:
protracker23d.i386-aros.zip aud 3Mb Music making software "ProTracke...
csbwin.i386-aros.lha gam/rol 1Mb Engine to Play Dungeon Master/Ch...
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29.Sep.2016
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Playable previews: Bridge Strike and Small Cars Drag Race
"Bridge Strike" (Youtube video) developed by the Tanks Furry authors is a vertically scrolling Shoot'em Up. The first demo version requires an Amiga with 68020-processor and one Megabyte RAM. It is a very early beta version, the authors recommend to start the game without startup-sequence. So far Bridge Strike was successfully tested on an Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.3 and on an A600.
S.C.D.R. ("Small Cars Drag Race", Youtube video) simulates a drag racing, where two cars compete. The game was developed on an A500 with one Megabyte RAM.
Downloads:
Bride Strike: bscrunched (405 KB)
Download page for S.C.D.R. (click on "Pobierz")
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28.Sep.2016
Once Upon a Byte and 8bitchip (ANF)
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Video: Igor "Majsta" Majstorovic presents the Vampire 500
On September 10th at the "BalCCon" (Balkan Computer Congress), Igor "Majsta" Majstorovic - who is the developer of the FPGA-based accelerator board Vampire 500 - for the first time presented his board to the public. In a detailed presentation Majstorovic explained the history of the Vampire and the pitfalls, which he and the Apollo team had to avoid during the development. He also talked about the next generation of the Vampire, the Vampire 1200.
Hint of editorial staff: Majstorovic gave his presentation in his mother tongue Serbian. Forr the Youtube video there is an English-language subtitle which has to be manualy enabled in the "preferences" of the video.
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27.Sep.2016
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Preview: Run'n Gun "Blazing Guns"
"Blazing Guns" (Youtube-Video) is a platform game, in which a Western hero first has to load six bullets in the revolver and then to chase enemies.
Currently the game has the following features:
- runs with 50 frames per second
- written in assembler
- runs with 0.5 MB CHIP-Ram
- runs from both floppy drive and hard drive
- solution of 320x267 pixels with 32 colours
The following features will be added:
- running on each OCS-Amiga with 0,5 MB RAM and without accelerator board (currently a 030 processor and a harddrive are recommended)
- 15-20 enemies simultanously appearing on the screen
- music and sound effects
- Power-Ups
Direct download: guns.adf (880 KB)
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27.Sep.2016
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Full version for download: Fun racer Twin Turbos
The full version of the aracde racer Twin Turbos is available for free download. A disk image as well as a WHDLoad version are available.
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[News message: 27. Sep. 2016, 17:51] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: MUI Royale 1.4
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the immediate availability of MUI Royale 1.4. The biggest new feature in MUI Royale 1.4 is the ability to run MUI Royale 1.4 on palette-based screens. If the Plananarama plugin is installed, it is also possible to open Hollywood displays next to MUI windows managed by MUI Royale. On top of that, MUI Royale 1.4 contains various bug fixes and adds support for some more MUI classes.
MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood 5.2 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. It is available for AmigaOS 3.x (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC) and AROS (x86). The package comes with over 20 example scripts, many of which are direct ports from the MUI 3.8 SDK by Stefan Stuntz, but there are also original developments like demonstrations of how to create a video player using the combined power of Hollywood and MUI. On top of that MUI Royale comes with extensive documentation in over 300 PDF pages which are also available in the HTML, AmigaGuide and CHM formats thanks to the Hollywood documentation system.
All this makes MUI Royale the truly royal MUI experience, carefully crafted for you Kings and Queens of MUI!
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[News message: 25. Sep. 2016, 18:57] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Girls-Band extension for Ask Me Up XXL
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 16 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free. You can play the quiz alone or the cup together with up to five other players.
The "Girls-Band" add-on provides two new avatars named Maria Bella and Acid Jaimie. At least version 2.4.3 is required but the latest version 2.6.0 is recommended. Users who have already purchased the game will get the add-on for free.
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25.Sep.2016
A1k.org (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Arcade racing game Amiga Racer 3.8
Over the update function included in Michael Neitzel's Lotus clone "Amiga Racer", players get new features. Version 3.8 provides the following new features:
- New cars:
- Skoda Octavia with Amiga number plate
- Opel Manta
- Harley Davidson "Tri Glide"
- New highscores:
- Online highscore for competition races
- Animated online highscore menu with new soundtrack
- New button in main menu: View online highscore
- Other improvements:
- Competition button in main menu graphically reworked
- More detailed preview of forthcoming track
- Explanation for dropping out of the competition
- Graphics of the castle in the fairytale forerst track reworked
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25.Sep.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 24.09.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until September 24th, 2016:
MUIbase-3.3.lha biz/dbase 5.1M MOS Programmable relational datab...
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 693K MOS Advanced snake game
Apparent.lha text/bfont 121K Great looking UI text font fo...
CharMapSP.lha text/font 3K CharMap v2.0b spanish catalog
CopPack10.lha util/pack 4K 68k Cop-Pack Cruncher Final Release
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[News message: 25. Sep. 2016, 05:38] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.09.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until September 24th, 2016:
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
amicraftnova.lha gam/mis 3Mb 4.1 Minecraft style game for Warp3D ...
aos-imagefx-icons.lha gra/ico 281kb 4.0 Icons for ImageFX
aos-mainactoricons.lha gra/ico 168kb 4.0 Icons for MainActor
muibase.lha off/dat 5Mb 4.0 Programmable relational database...
jabberwocky.lha uti/com 491kb 4.0 Jabber client
colors.lha uti/she 5kb 4.1 Prints out a color table with al...
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[News message: 25. Sep. 2016, 05:38] [Comments: 0]
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25.Sep.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.09.2016
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 September 24th, 2016:
- 2016-09-19 improved: Grapevine 16 (LSD) memory requirements changed so all modules can be played (Info, Image)
- 2016-09-19 improved: Grapevine 15 (LSD) memory requirements changed so all modules can be played (Info, Image)
- 2016-09-19 improved: Grapevine 14 (LSD) memory requirements changed so all modules can be played (Info, Image)
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22.Sep.2016
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Playable demo: Alarcity - Survival Mode (AGA)
A month ago, there was a first preview video, now a playable demo for AGA-Amigas and CD32 is available: Alarcity is supposed to become a shooter with several levels and a story, but also offers a "survival mode" in which the player has to survive as long as possible.
The playable demo demonstrates this mode. Later the survival mode is supposed to be avaialbe as free download, while the actual game (inclusive survival mode) will be commercially sold.
Due to the early stage of development the demo has been not tested on many Amiga configurations. Pure AGA-computers as well as WinUAE obviously work without any problems, but according to the developers many CPU-upgrades cause graphic bugs.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Sep. 2016, 19:32] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2016
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ModExplorer plays music modules from the Internet (AmigaOS 3/4, AROS, MorphOS)
Similar to AmiModRadio, ModExplorer plays mods from the Internet, but additional to the Aminet also supports Modland and modules.pl.
The latest version of the programm which was developed Hollywood provides either a MUI-based interface, which only works on systems with a graphic card, or a skin-based interface, which also works under AGA. ModExplorer requires the guigfx.library and render.library. The MUI-interface also requires MUI, MUI-Royale and AISS. If you want to use the Skin-based version under AGA, you have to install the Hollywood-Plugin Planarama.
Direct download: modexplorer.lha (7 MB)
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[News message: 22. Sep. 2016, 18:52] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2016
MorphZone (Webseite)
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AmiCast: Survey on NG-systems
Under the title link, Krzysztof Radzikowski has started a detailed survey on NG-systems (AmigaOS 4, AROS, MorphOS).
Additional to common questions about the used system the its equipment, he asked for your wishes for the future development.
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[News message: 22. Sep. 2016, 18:13] [Comments: 0]
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22.Sep.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Assembler: vasm 1.7f
Frank Wille has released an update of the assembler vasm. As usual Wille does not provide vasm binaries except with the vbcc compiler distribution. If you are interested in, you have to compile the assembler on your own. Changes in version 1.7f:
- Print a warning when a constant is not representable using the target data type.
- Show warnings or errors when an expression overflows the backend's address data types.
- Warn about overflows caused by negative expressions in space directives.
- New option -chklabels makes vasm issue a warning when a label conflicts with a mnemonic or directive name.
- Reworked internal relocation representation.
- m68k: Base-displacement addressing modes and suppressed registers are allowed for CPU32. Just memory-indirect is illegal.
- m68k: Added FJcc mnemonics for GNU-as compatibility (-gas option).
- PPC: Added complete support for 403, 405, 440, 460, Book-E, e300 and e500 instruction sets.
- 6800: Fixed a bug which suppressed command line options for syntax- and output-modules.
- 6800: Support for 6801/6803 compatible CPUs added (contributed by Adrien Destugues).
- ARM: Thumb-mode [PC,#imm] and [SP,#imm] addressing modes were not recognized.p ARM: Fixed thumb-mode SP-adjustment instructions: ADD SP,#<9-bit unsigned> and SUB SP,#<9-bit unsigned> (missing).
- ARM: External subroutine calls in thumb-mode with BL were broken.
- x86: Fixed determining the operation size when last register is %DX.
- x86: 32-bit only instructions failed, when selecting a 32-bit cpu using the -m command line option.
- x86: Avoid Illegal Relocation error for calls and jumps in absolute mode.
- std-syntax: Data directives do no longer enforce natural alignment, for compatibility with GNU-as! Use the -align option to keep the old behaviour.
- std-syntax: '0f' is another allowed float-constant prefix for GNU-as compatibility.
- std-syntax: .stabs should support escape-characters in its string-field.
- std-syntax: Support progbits and nobits section type arguments for ELF compatibility.
- mot-syntax: Retain the possibility to use multiple ORG directives and output a real binary file, as before V1.7e. Only an ORG directive after a SECTION directive is now relocated within that section.
- mot-syntax: Added IFMI (=IFLT) and IFPL (=IFGE).
- mot-syntax: Fixed problems when macro arguments are followed by blanks and the -spaces option is given.
- mot-syntax: New directives inline and einline, to define an isolated block for local labels.
- mot-syntax: New directives ifmacrod and ifmacrond to conditionally assemble a block when a macro is defined or undefined (compatible with the same directives on the Barfly assembler).
- madmac-syntax: Make ORG behave like in mot-syntax.
- vobj-output: The byte-offset to a relocation now always defines the base for all relocation calculations (e.g. PC-relative).
- vobj-output: For little-endian the bit position in a byte of a reloc-field is now counted from right to left. You will need at least vlink V0.15b to link more complex little-endian relocations (e.g. ARM).
- hunk-output: -keepempty prevents the assembler from deleting empty sections.
- elf-output: -keepempty prevents the assembler from deleting empty sections.
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22.Sep.2016
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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DVD: Amiga Future Archive 3
The Amiga Future Archive 3 DVD was released. In fact, it has already been published at the Gamescom, but we had simply no time to announce the release. The Amiga Future Archive 3 includes the following Amiga Future releases as PDF:
- German: Amiga Future Issue 11-115
- English: Amiga Future issue 67-115
Issue 11 to 26 have been scanned. All other issues are PDFs in print quality. The issue 11 was the first German Amiga Future that was published. The issue 67 was the first English edition of the Amiga Future.
There is no upgrade path from earlier version of the Amiga Future Archive DVD. And since we were often asked this at the Gamescom: The next DVD will be released somewhere in 2018 :) (cg)
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