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09.Feb.2016
David Brunet (ANF)


Obligement: Interview with Christoph Gutjahr (Aminet, amiga-news.de; engl./fr.)
French magazine Obligement published an interview with Christoph Gutjahr today, administrator of the software repository Aminet and one of the two publishers of amiga-news.de since 2010.

The interview contains background information on both websites and is available in english at the title link as well as in french. (snx)

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08.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: A week in AROS (from 25.01.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.

Week of January 25th:
  • MultiView is now used for animation datatype (mazze)
  • Work on modularization of SysExplorer started (Kalamatee)
  • MultiView is now showing more details about data objects (Kalamatee)
  • Fix for accessing freed memory implemented in Listtree MUI class (deadwood)
  • MultiView is now presenting more information about images and animations (Kalamatee)
  • Animation.datatype is reworked to speed up playback (Kalamatee)
  • Intuition no longer crashes when menu name is not provided (Kalamatee)
  • Rendering of animations in EHB mode has been fixed (Kalamatee)
  • Anim.datatype now correctly supports anim-8 unpacking (Kalamatee)
  • Further fixes to anim-3 format implemented (Kalamatee)
  • Implementation of jumping to a selected frame in animation.datatype started (Kalamatee)
  • Hooks are now correctly called from within realtime.library (Kalamatee)
  • Tapedeck.gadget handles input on progress bar correctly (Kalamatee)
  • Forward/rewind is now working in animation.datatype (Kalamatee)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Text editor featuring Kickstart-1.2 compatibility: Redit 1.12
Kai Scherrer's text editor Redit works without any limitations on an Amiga equipped with Kickstart 1.2, but also is fully compatible with higher versions of the system. The editor can be also launched from an emergancy disk or used after booting without startup-sequence. Changes in version 1.12:
  • added: Undo & Redo
  • improved: more pleasent inital size and position of file request
  • improved: loading large directories in 1.3 file request was slow
  • bugfix: selecting last line with triple mouse click was broken
  • bugfix: selecting first word with double mouse click was broken.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2016
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Tutorial for mounting network drives
The Finnish member 'jPV' of the demo group RNO has added the tutorial for for mounting network drives to the MorphOS library. It is about Samba, NetFS, RDesktop and the Google-Drive-Handler. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 6th, 2016:
AFnews-68k.lha           comm/tcp   894K  68k Amiga Future Everywhere 68k
GoogleDrive_handlr_AR... comm/tcp   950K  x86 Google Drive handler for AROS
DiskImageGui.lha         disk/misc  17K   68k Mount ADF, ISO and HDF disk i...
ImageMount.lha           disk/misc  18K   68k Mount ADF, ISO and HDF disk i...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha     game/role  11M   68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AssaultCubeReloaded26... game/shoot 68M   x86 First-person shooter
Flecho.lha               game/wb    31K   68k Point arrows to the numbers!
Calimero_2.5.lha         text/dtp   6.3M  MOS A DTP Program
Redit.lha                text/edit  48K   68k Text editor
mARK.lha                 util/arc   12K   68k Simple Gui for LhA, LZX, UnZi...
PoseidonScripts.lha      util/misc  15K   68k Alternative ways of using the...
xbenchlist.lha           util/misc  28K   68k X-bEnCh List Generator
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2016



OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 6th, 2016:
mhe.lha                  dev/ide 6Mb   4.0 Hollywood IDE
reactive_crypto.lha      dri/mis 93kb  4.1 Hashing classes for Reactive
voxelbird.lha            gam/act 4Mb   4.0 Amazing Voxel Bird Saga
voxelnoid.lha            gam/act 7Mb   4.0 Duel Edition
wingsbf_rhdc.lha         gam/act 16Mb  4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
wingsbf_w3dr12.lha       gam/act 16Mb  4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
wingsbf_w3dr7.lha        gam/act 16Mb  4.0 Head-to-head 3D air combat game,...
amigaracer.lha           gam/dri 72Mb  4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
sqrxz2.lha               gam/pla 1Mb   4.0 Better play golf!
reactive_lib.lha         lib/mis 64kb  4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
rhash_cmd.lha            uti/she 13kb  4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2016



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 06.02.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until February 6th, 2016:
rebound.i386-aros.zip        gam/puz 7Mb   Brick busting puzzle game.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2016



WHDLoad: New packages until 06.02.2016
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 installer has been added until February 6th, 2016:
  • 2016-02-05 updated: Airborne Ranger (Microprose) patch redone, movep instructions patched, blitter waits disabled on 68000, trainer options added, byte write to volume register fixed, new install script (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


Big Book of Amiga Hardware: Amiga 2200 (A1000jr) added
On the Amiga hardware reference website "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" the A2200 has been added. The website wrote: "A few months after the cancellation of the A1000+ and A3000+ it was decided the company should attempt to salvage the A1000+ technology and build a lower spec ECS-based machine. The project was developed under the codename 'A1000jr', an unofficial title intended to annoy Bill Sydnes."

The Amiga 2200 had an ESC chipset, which for reasons of costs only contained Zorro-II slots. They are on a Riser card, other extension boards had to be plugged in horizontally. All in all four different versions were planned which should differ in the processor as well as in the number of Zorro-II slots: A2200 (68020, two slots), A2400 (four slots) and analogical to that the A3200 and A3400 with a 68030-processor. The case of the A2200 was similar to the case of the Amiga 4000. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2016
David Brunet (ANF)


Obligement: Results of the Amiga Games Award 2015
On February 6th 2016, french magazine Obligement announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2015 for the best Amiga games, voted by Amigans from all Amiga platforms.

AmigaOS (68k):
  1. Zerosphere (Code Red / Alexander Grupe)
  2. SQRXZ 3 (Retroguru)
  3. Solomon's Key 2 (Oookami Games)
AmigaOS 4:
  1. Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
  2. Gorky 17 (Metropolis Software)
  3. Swamp Defense 2 (AmiBoing/EntwicklerX)
MorphOS:
  1. Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
  2. Ask Me Up XXL (Boing Attitude :))
  3. Fruit'Y (Retroguru)
AROS:
  1. Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition (Cherry Darling)
  2. Fruit'Y (Retroguru)
  3. L'Abbaye Des Morts (LocoMalito)
(snx)

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05.Feb.2016
Amigaville (ANF)


English PDF magazine: Fourth issue of "Amigaville" for sale
Amigaville is an English-language PDF magazine. Ther first three issues are available on Aminet. The published decided to take 2£ for the forthcoming issue, you can pay via Paypal. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Feb.2016



Amiga Inc.-Magazine: "Club Amiga Monthly" on archive.org
After it was evident that the participants of the coupon action of Amiga Inc. would not get back their money and that the promised auxiliary services could not be realized, Amiga Inc. tried to avoid a PR desaster, which could have damaged AmigaOS 4 and the AmigaOne.

All purchasers of the coupon were rewarded with a "club" membership. All members should get an exclusive club magazine providing the latest information on AmigaOS 4/AmigaOne development. The HTML-based "Club Amiga Monthly" was published monthly on os.amiga.com/cam/ and could only be accessed by club members. After twelve issues the magazine was discontinued.

The magazines which were already thought to have been lost forever are now available again for eveybody on archive.org. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: FUSE file system exFAT 53.3 and NTFS-3G 53.4
Since November, the FUSE file system framework has been available to AROS, thanks to Fredrik Wikstrom (amiga-news.de reported). Now the drivers for the NTFS-3G and for the exFAT file system have been updated. The last mentioned "does not crash anymore when used to automount USB drive ".

Changes:
  • exFAT 53.3
    • Disk I/O layer now uses a segmented LRU for the read cache and automatically sorted block ranges for the write cache.
    • Replaced cache semaphore with a simple boolean variable that indicates to the memhandler when the cache is being accessed.
  • NTFS-3G 53.4
    • Disk I/O layer now uses a segmented LRU for the read cache and automatically sorted block ranges for the write cache.
    • Replaced cache semaphore with a simple boolean variable that indicates to the memhandler when the cache is being accessed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Feb.2016



Arcade game: Tanks Furry can be preordered
Now it is possible to preorder the tank shooter "Tanks Furry" (promotion video, (playable demo of a previous version), in the Polish Amiga shop amiga.pl.net on advance payment. In the price it is included a CD with the game - for an additional charge also a disk - as well as a printed, coloured manual, disk tags, refrigerator magnet and an A3-poster.

According to the shop the game will be delivered in a "box". The scan of the box shows that it is a DVD case. The price for Tanks Furry is 54 Złoty (about 12,50 ¤) including shipping and for an additional charge of 5 Złoty / about 1 Euro you can order an additional disk. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


Review: Accelerator board Vampire II
Since the end of the last year, the FPGA-based accelerator board Vampire II can be ordered for the Amiga 600. As one of the first users who received such a board, Renaud 'TuKo' Schweingruber, member of the Swiss user group Amiga Multitask Force, has published a first review under the title link.

The Polish blogger 'Davka' also described a first impression of his accelerator board. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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