24.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Interview: Fernando 'Retrofan' Martin (Real AmiKit)
The blog of the English-language podcast Amicast has published an interview with Fernando 'Retrofan' Martin, who is the author of Real AmiKit, which is an adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for real Amigas.
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[News message: 24. Feb. 2016, 19:32] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 15.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 15th:
- A crash in TLSF memory manager has been fixed (mschulz)
- Amiga.lib no longer depends on C library (neil)
- AvailFonts function of diskfont.library now supports NULL parameter (mazze)
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24.Feb.2016
Kris (ANF)
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MiST: FPGA-AGA-Core 1.2
For the Atari/Amiga clone MiST (amiga-news.de reported) an update of the emulated Amiga with AGA-support has been released which further increases the compatibility.
Changes in version 1.2:
- Initial implementation of programmable display modes
- OSD HRTmon enable/disable switch is working (ON – F11 acts as NMI and enters HRTmon; OFF – F11 is HELP key)
- Proper handling of CPU access to Chip-RAM & custom regs – CPU waits for free slot when turbo option is disabled
- Fixed playfield 2 color LUT offset when playfield 2 has priority for OCS/ECS modes
- Some IRQ changes
- Added support for undocumented Agnus/Denise behaviour when BPL=7 in ECS/OCS mode (fixes demos like SushiBoyz by Ghostown, Sliced&Diced by Dekadence etc.)
- Blitter line mode fixed (fixes demos like SushiBoyz & Sunglasses by Ghostown, Vectorize by RSi etc.)
- Bitfield instructions fixed, barrel shifter implemented by Till Harbaum
- Fixed colortable for sprites (bplxor) – fixes Alien Breed 3D (and probably many others)
- Fixed keyboard rate
- Kickstart-ROM is also uploaded to mirror position (E0)
- Fixed reset problems & Fast-RAM disappearing
- Added CPU CACR cache control, fixed reading CACR reg
- Added scanlines for non-doublescan config
- Fixed video dithering – both spatial & random dithering weren’t working properly
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23.Feb.2016
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Kickstart switcher: A500Flash
A500Flash is a Kickstart switcher allowing Flash-memory reprogramming. The device should be installed inside the Amiga A500/A500+/A2000.
The design of the Flash memory enables loading another Kickstart image by running additional software on the same Amiga computer and subsequent switching between available ROM images by holding down CTRL+Amiga+Amiga keys.
The A500Flash is available in two versions, either for 512 KB or 1 MB ROMs:
A500Flash 5k
- Designed for Amiga A500/A500+/A2000 models
- Comes with 512kB of built-in Flash memory
- Support for 512kB ROM images – only the primary ones
- Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds
- Original ROM chip required
- PCB boards installation in place of original ROM and Gary chip
- Flash chips programming using native Amiga OS software
- Included software requires Amiga OS 1.3+
A500Flash 1M
- Designed for Amiga A500/A500+/A2000 models
- Comes with 1MB of built-in Flash memory
- Support for 1MB ROM images - standard and extended ROM images
- Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds
- Original ROM chip required
- PCB boards installation in place of original ROM and Gary chip
- Flash chips programming using native Amiga OS software
- Included software requires Amiga OS 1.3+
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23.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.4
Chris Young has updates his AmigaOS-4-port of the web browser NetSurf. Additional to improvements (websites now are better displayed) and bug fixes, now the Duktape Javascript engine is included. It is disabled by default because the support of Javascript still is incomplete.
For users of AmigaOS 3.5 or higher, there is also a new beta version. The author asks for feedback to improve this version.
Download:
netsurf.lha (6 MB)
netsurf_os3.lha (3 MB)
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[News message: 23. Feb. 2016, 18:52] [Comments: 0]
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23.Feb.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: 3D videos and pictures of 30th Amiga anniversary party in Mountain View
During the 30th anniversary party in Mountain View, Alex Carmona took stereoscopic pictures and now has published them under the title link.
The photographs are available in Multi Picture Object format, while the AVI-videos have two channels (A/B) and use the MJPG-codec.
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23.Feb.2016
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 119 - preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 119 (March/April 2016) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are previews of Spielwiese, Spice Obsession Mod for Dune 2 and Amiga Racer as well as an interview with Pascal Papara. The cover CD contains PD-software as well as some full versions.
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22.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Distribution: AEROS for Pi updated
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS is available for registered users as updated version for the ARM-based computer Raspberry Pi (video).
AmiCloud, AmigaRacer, MilkyTracker, fixed lokales, audio driver for AROS, VisualBoyAdvance and FCEUX are included.
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[News message: 22. Feb. 2016, 15:59] [Comments: 0]
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22.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.4.4
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a puzzle game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Android, Linux and Windows) in which you have to correctly answer questions on common knowledge, each with four possible answers. In the L and XL edition there is also a two-player mode. A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.
In version 2.4.4 some questions as well as the English and Greek translations have been reworked and the German, Portuguese and Swedish translations habe been completed.
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[News message: 22. Feb. 2016, 15:49] [Comments: 0]
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21.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZuneView 0.22
Yannick Erb has released version 0.22 of his picture viewer with editing functions called ZuneView for AROS.
Changes:
- GUI clean up
- Clean up the mess about Applying processing on selection or not, if a area is selected it's getting used, otherwise the whole picture is used
- Added a clear selection button and menu entry
- Live Barrel Correction is now working
- Rotation takes also last line and column into account for bilinear filter
- Added Barrel correction tool
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[News message: 21. Feb. 2016, 17:42] [Comments: 0]
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21.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Test your reaction time: R²Z 1.0
R²Z is a Hollywood programm written by Ulrich Beckers "to measure times required to motor-react (pressing a key) to different visual stimuli." R²Z is available in German and English for AmigaOS/68k, AROS and MorphOS.
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[News message: 21. Feb. 2016, 13:22] [Comments: 0]
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21.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amiga developer Dave Needle died
According to RJ Mical on his Facebook site, Dave Needle has died. After their employment at Amiga Corporation, they both worked as developers of the game consoles Atari Lynx and 3DO.
Dave Needle did belong to the original hardware developers of the Amiga. Despite of circulated love-hate relationship between him and Jay Miner's dog Mitchie he later pointed out to his relevance of the computer development. In the past year he did participate in the Amiga 30th anniversary party (picture).
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21.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 20th, 2016:
dsm.lha comm/net 7.4M WOS Synology Download Manager MUI
dnstracer.lha comm/tcp 58K 68k Trace a chain of DNS servers ...
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 3.0M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
streamer.lha comm/www 366K 68k Internet radio MPEG/RealAudio...
gathering95.lha demo/tg95 20M Introduction/results from Gat...
unixlib.lha dev/src 198K Unix compatibility library (s...
TheCrypt36.zip docs/mags 7.3M Issue 36 of "The Crypt" onlin...
TheCrypt39.zip docs/mags 14M Issue 39 of "The Crypt" onlin...
Gorky17Demo.lha game/demo 177M OS4 Demo version of the 3D strate...
Cantaloupe.lha game/misc 284K 68k 1996 Puzzle game, full version
Cantaloupe_src.lha game/misc 245K 1996 Puzzle game, AMOS source
Kumquat.lha game/misc 118K 68k 1996 'Quix' clone, full version
Kumquat_src.lha game/misc 66K 1996 'Quix' clone, AMOS/ASM s...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-1.txt mags/misc 41K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 1 (Jun...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-2.txt mags/misc 83K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 2 (Aug...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-3.tr.gz mags/misc 82K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 3 (Sep...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-3.txt mags/misc 123K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 3 (Sep...
AMIGAphile-Vol1-3ps.pdf mags/misc 289K AMIGAphile Vol 1 / Num 3 (Sep...
wirenet.lha misc/antiq 6.0M website snapshot: UK Amiga IS...
GoatTrackerStereo-mos... mus/edit 747K MOS Tracker-like C64 stereo music...
AmigaOS39.lha pix/boot 115K AmigaOS39: Rainboot Theme
InstallerGen.lha util/misc 223K 68k Installer script creation tool
R2Z_68k.lha util/wb 1.3M 68k Test your reaction times
R2Z_AROS_intel.lha util/wb 1.4M x86 Test your reaction times
R2Z_MorphOS.lha util/wb 1.4M MOS Test your reaction times
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21.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 20th, 2016:
textfont_ex.lha doc/tut 346kb 4.0 TextFont examples
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 2Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
utf8_library.lha lib/mis 199kb 4.1 Encode/Decode or manipulate UTF8...
colors.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Prints out a color table with al...
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 16kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
showfiles.lha uti/she 36kb 4.0 shows a sorted & text-format...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 416kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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21.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 20.02.2016
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 February 20th, 2016:
- 2016-02-18 updated: Darkmere (Core Design) made 68000 compatible (Info)
- 2016-02-18 improved: Eye Of The Storm (Rebellion) supports the original disks (Info, Image)
- 2016-02-15 fixed: Brian the Lion (Psygnosis) works on 68000 now, quitkey, icons, manual added (Info)
- 2016-02-14 improved: Astro Marine Corps (Dinamic) 68000 quitkey support, all blitter wait patches removed, lots of trainer options added, support for 2nd fire button (grenades) added, interrupts fixed, MoveP instructions patched, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
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21.Feb.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Accelerator board: Adding a FPU to the ACA-1233
The Amiga user Allan 'Drewlio77' Versaevel has upgraded his ACA-1233 accelerator board (55 MHz) by adding a 68882-FPU and a coresponding oscillator by himself. In his opinion, this might be the fastest 68030-board for the Amiga 1200.
Additional to his abridged report, under the title link he also has published pictures.
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20.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: Six applications added
Six applications have been added to the software collection Games-Coffer: Easycalc, Future Writer 1.2, Magicmenu, Parnet, Trevs Demomaker and VIC 20 Emulator.
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[News message: 20. Feb. 2016, 17:18] [Comments: 0]
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20.Feb.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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IBrowse developers explained usage of TLS with AmiSSL
The developers wrote: "I'm sure you are all well aware that many secure websites are normally not reachable with IBrowse 2.4 any longer, due to servers shutting off SSLv2 and SSLv3 connections due to the POODLE attack. However, there is a solution...
This is delayed advice, as I have only just realised it was possible: contrary to the previous news item, you should enable both "SSLv2 support" and "SSLv3 support" on the "Security" page of the IBrowse preferences. You must then also enter the following command in a shell:
setenv save AmiSSL/SSL_CLIENT_VERSION tls1
This will force any most applications that use AmiSSL, including IBrowse, to disable both SSLv2 and SSLv3, and use more secure TLSv1 connections instead.
This issue will be properly addressed in IBrowse 2.5 and a new version of AmiSSL."
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19.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Demo version of Gorky 17
In October Hyperion Entertainment released its AmigaOS-4 port of the game "Gorky 17" (amiga-news.de reported). Under the title link today a demo version was released which includes the first level.
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19.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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MorphOS: Amiga Racer 2.8e
While the version for AmigaOS-4.1 of the racing computer game "Amiga Racer" (amiga-news.de reported) is constantly updated in the OS4Depot-Uploads, the version for MorphOS from the end of October remained almost unnoticed. On tuesday version 2.8e was released.
As our reader "p-OS" has pointed out, updating to newer versions is possible from within the game. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 01.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 1st:
- 64-bit fixes have been applied to Urltext, BWin and TheBar MUI classes (Kalamatee)
Week of February 8th:
- Performance of part of rendering of decoration system has been improved (Kalamatee)
- Alpha blitting in IntelG45 driver in now improved (Kalamatee)
- Fixes for 68k compatibility have been added to Calculator (wawa)
- Which command has been fixed only to find files (mazze)
- Romania keymap now available in Input preferences (polluks)
- Multiview is now able to scroll with space and backspace (mazze)
- Compatibility of Which command has been improved (mazze)
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18.Feb.2016
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amiga-news.de: Downtimes due to attacks on the database
During the last two days amiga-news.de could not be accessed for a longer period: Our server was attacked by a script which succeeded several times in overloading our database. But no data got lost and the hackers could not break into our system. The problem should be fixed now. We apologize for the downtimes.
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