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.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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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."
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Feb. 2016, 01:43] [Comments: 0]
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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.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Feb. 2016, 19:59] [Comments: 0]
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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)
[News message: 19. Feb. 2016, 13:19] [Comments: 0]
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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)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Feb.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 3.3.0
As usual Toni Wilen has given a detailed preview to the forthcoming version of the Amiga emulator WinUAE. Version 3.3.0 will focus on AmigaOS 4-specific adaptions. Wilen thanks all donators, who have supported him to make these changes possible. He also points out that the performance of this extensions will never be the equal of the AmigaOS 3 extensions because the context switches between emulated and native code is much more complicated and therefore slower.
New features:
- New optional "indirect" UAE expansion trap system, fully compatible
with OS4.x, virtual memory and some debugging programs.
- PC Bridgeboard disk drive raw image support. (ipf, ext adf,...)
- Monochrome video out emulation, including A1000 color/mono video
out software control (BPLCON0 COLOR bit).
- Dark palette fix option to correct colors of badly ported Atari ST
games (Midnight Resistance etc..)
- Official CSPPC/BPPC flash updater can be used to install full ROM
image without having existing ROM image.
- Custom input events can execute Amiga-side commands and scripts.
UAE-extensions, now supported by OS4:
- Directory harddrives, including on the fly insertion/removal.
- CDFS CD mounting.
- Clipboard sharing.
- uaegfx RTG.
- uaehf.device hardfiles.
- Virtual mouse driver/magic mouse/tablet mode.
- uaenet.device.
- uaeserial.device.
- uaescsi.device.
- uae.resource and uaenative.library.
Updates:
- Game Ports panel input customization is finally very intuitive.
- On the fly input device insertion/removal now remembers if device
was previously inserted and autoselects previous game ports slot.
- Many input device handling updates and fixes.
Fixed bugs:
- Hardware RTG emulation rendered same frame twice in some situations causing
slow performance.
- Amithlon partition type (0x78/0x30) support works again.
- Some storage devices failed to mount as a harddrive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Feb.2016
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Preview videos: Shoot'em Ups "Ego Wings" and "Steel Hawk"
Two vertically scrolling Shoot'em Ups currently are in development for the Amiga: The author of "Ego Wings" has published a first video, but at the same time has regret that due to a lack of time the development proceeds rather slowly. Already the third video has been published of "Steel Hawk", which now shows version number 0.10.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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14.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 13th, 2016:
AmiVNC4.lha comm/tcp 160K OS4 Experimental VNC server w/ sr...
GoogleDrive_handler_O... comm/tcp 1.1M OS4 Google Drive handler for OS4
dkd-twce.lha demo/40k 38K 68k Twice by Dekadence
Minimig.lha demo/intro 38K 68k Minimig demo
ADE_Embed_C.sh.txt dev/src 1K Embed a C program inside UNIX...
Koules.lha game/actio 238K 68k Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Koules_OS4.lha game/actio 228K OS4 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
KoulesMOS.lha game/actio 235K MOS Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
Chain_Gang.lha game/wb 42K 68k Make some chains!
webptools050_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.8M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools050_aros.lha gfx/conv 5.3M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
PCxSP.lha misc/emu 13K PCx Spanish Docs
DeliTrackerSP.lha mus/play 31K DeliTracker Spanish Docs
Redit.lha text/edit 49K 68k Text editor
EvenMore.lha text/show 337K 68k V0.88: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 416K MOS V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 415K OS4 V0.88: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMoreSP.lha text/show 4K EvenMore v0.88 spanish catalog
FBlitGuideES.lha util/boot 24K Spanish translation of FBlit....
exutil_68k.lha util/wb 1.2M 68k Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_AROS.lha util/wb 1.3M x86 Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_MorphOS.lha util/wb 1.2M MOS Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_OS4.lha util/wb 1.6M OS4 Batch renames picture files b...
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14.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 13th, 2016:
drawergad.lha dev/lib 176kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
picflowgad.lha dev/lib 15kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
radiobuttonxgad.lha dev/lib 78kb 4.0 Radiobutton gadget expanded
textfont_ex.lha doc/tut 12kb 4.0 TextFont examples
hatari.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 Atari ST and STE emulator
koules.lha gam/act 228kb 4.0 Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 72Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
googledrive_handler.lha net/mis 1Mb 4.0 Google Drive handler for OS4
amivnc4.lha net/ser 160kb 4.0 VNC server for AmigaOS4
exutil.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 An exif based batch renamer
showfiles.lha uti/she 37kb 4.0 shows a sorted & text-format...
wheelrun.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.1 another program launcher written...
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14.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 13.02.2016
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 13th, 2016:
- 2016-02-09 updated: Turrican (Factor 5/Rainbow Arts) overall rework (Info)
- 2016-02-07 improved: Netherworld (Hewson) fixed for 68000, removed NTSC dependency (Info)
- 2016-02-07 improved: Bart vs. the World (Virgin) loading optimzed, more blitter waits (Info)
- 2016-02-07 improved: Ultimate Golf (Gremlin) 68000 quitkey support added (Info)
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14.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: Further prototypes added
After the Amiga 2200, now further prototypes have been added to the Big Book of Amiga Hardware:
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[News message: 14. Feb. 2016, 10:43] [Comments: 0]
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14.Feb.2016
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Short guide to Lua
The next article in the MorphOS-Library the Finnish member 'jPV' of the demo group RNO has called "Getting Started with Lua". It is a short guide to the programming language Lua and is available under the title link.
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12.Feb.2016
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Quick review: PDF magazine Amigaville, issue 4
November last year Brian Hedley started publishing his PDF magazine Amigaville, releasing a new issue every month. Having released just three issues, each downloaded "several hundred times" (Hedley), the author decided to switch to commercial distribution: Amigaville #4 needs to be purchased for 2 GBP. We had a closer look at the review copy kindly provided by Hedley.
At 36 pages, Amigaville #4 is slightly thicker than the previous issues. The design stayed pretty much the same: a mix of single column (a rather odd choice, given the A4 page size) and three column layouts as well as pages with or without background pictures or patterns. The lack of justification and hyphenation results in a slightly jagged and amateurish appearance, many of the embedded graphics seem to have a low resolution - the full page ads included for nostalgia being the worst offenders - or have clearly visible JPEG artifacts.
The design does continue to improve with every issue though. Should the remaining problems get fixed in future releases, the mag's appearance is absolutely adequate given the price asked for it.
With regard to contents, Amigaville is still covering all aspects of the Amiga scene. The current issue features news, reviews of old games (Pacmania, Prince of Persia, Heroquest, Deluxe Galaga und Castlevania), an overview over First Person Shooters on the Amiga, an indepth look at Amiga Anywhere's destiny and the cover story "Should Hyperion port OS4 to x86?". The final two features are Hedley's personal history with computers ("My Amiga experience - or lack thereof") - which eats up no less than six pages - and the "Grumpy old Git" column.
The quality of the content matches that of your average retro blog: Hedley's texts are entertaining to read and he's offering an interesting mix of topics - while research or fact checking seem to play only a minor role during the writing process. Additionally, the author's lack of Amiga experience is clearly evident in many cases. The Amiga Anywhere article is a good example: While it does provide a decent overview, several technical terms get mixed up and it gets a few historical facts wrong. Plus, its conclusion starts with "for all the good intentions that Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss had" - nobody who witnessed the whole thing would ever word it like that.
Our conclusion: If you prefer having information presented in the style of a magazine, Amigaville is not that bad of a deal: you'll get a fair amount of entertainment for your 2 GBP, even if the switch to commercial distribution came too early and should have been delayed until several minor issues had been fixed.
Comparing Amigaville to the competition doesn't do it any favours though: Every other month, you can buy one issue of Amiga Future (6.50 Euro, 50+ pages, professionally printed) or two issues of Amigaville (5.40 Euro, about 70 pages, PDF only) - and all of a sudden, the newcomer's price/performance ratio doesn't look all that good anymore. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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10.Feb.2016
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Aminet needs help: searching for freely distributable Amiga magazines
The Aminet team writes: A lot of older freely distributable software is still missing from Aminet. Some of it is preserved nicely on Public Domain disks or CD compilations easily available on the web - but a lot of it is rotting away on private hard disks, old, unmaintained ftp servers or forgotten websites. The Aminet team has been collecting dormant software and quietly adding it to the collection for nearly a decade now. Hunting down software is a rather time consuming process though, and many things can no longer be tracked down easily.
Our current focus is freely distributable magazines - diskmags, ASCII newsletters, free PDF documents - you name it, we want it. We have compiled a list of all the titles we have (note that not all of these are available for download yet), as you can see we're still missing a lot of these releases.
If any of you collectors out there can provide us with missing information or even supply some of the missing releases, we'd be very glad to hear from you. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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