15.Aug.2015
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New A1200 case: More than half of required money donated / MiST + RPi
Five days before the Kickstarter campaign for a new Amiga-1200 case will be finished (amiga-news.de reported), so far almost 52 % of the required money have been donated. The case is meant for existing A1200-boards as well as for the Amiga-Reloaded-mainboard developed by Individual Computers, the FPGA-computer MiST and for the Raspberry Pi and corresponds the original case, but is prepared for several extensions by pre-cuts.
Since our last update message two weeks ago the following updates have been added:
- Cases are now available in all colors
- The 20 Eur pledge has been revamped to supply you with new parts like trapdoors, adapters and case screws, and you'll get our new Case sticker / badge as well !
- New awesome signature embedded in our cases: David Pleasance
- Commodore: The amiga years, added to our bonuses list
- Scoopex special edition
- Raspberry-Pi support
- Keyrah-USB keyboard controller support
- MiST support
- recommendation programm
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2015
amiga30.is (ANF)
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Event: Amiga 30 Reykjavik
The, by their own account, "coolest" of the 30th Amiga Anniversary events takes place beyond the 64th degree of latitude, in the capital of Iceland. It starts at five o'clock in the afternoon at the restaurant Potturinn og Pannan at Brautarholt 22 in Reykjavik.
Other activities are planned, for whoever wishes to join. To confirm attendance, to submit ideas and for information, please send an e-mail. (snx)
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15.Aug.2015
viddi (ANF)
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Tales of Gorluth II: 75 percent of required preorders achieved
For the successor of the "Best Amiga game of 2014", Tales of Gorluth, 200 persons are required who will preorder it (amiga-news.de reported). After three weeks 150 preorders were received. Under the title link a video promotes for further ones.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Update of KryoFlux-archive
Last year version 2.61 of KryoFlux was released for AmigaOS 4. Now the archive also contains the latest version of the Disk Tool Console (DTC). The AmigaOS-4 version of DTC was created on July 8th, 2015.
Using KryoFlux you can create images of all 3,5"-disks (of different systems as well) which contains all information - including the copy protection. Using the commmand line of DTC each function is executed.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2015
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Cracker scene: Unreleased Amiga port of "Mutant League Hockey" (AGA)
In 1994 Electronic Arts released the sport simulation Mutant League Hockey on the Megadrive. An Amiga port ordered by Ocean was never released although the port was almost finished.
20 years later the cracker group Scoopex obviously has found the original game and released it as "crack". We do not know any legal source of download.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Aug.2015
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New "Commodore" trademark for Smartphones opposed (Update 2)
A few months ago, Massimo Canigiani from Italy started presenting himself as the alleged new owner of the Commodor trademark. His newly established British based "Commodore Business Machines Ltd." was going to sell Commodore Smartphones to retro enthusiasts.
But Canigiani didn't actually acquire the existing trademark, he simply tried to have a new one registered - his application is available publicly in the European trademark database. As of today, the status of his application has changed - it is now listed as "Application opposed".
The opposing party is the dutch C= Holdings, the current owner of the original Commodore trademark.
Update: (13.08.2015, 0:20, cg)
Now C= Holdings is also addressing this matter in a press release: The company announces the intention to defend its rights "vigorously".
Update 2: (16.08.2015, 17:00, cg)
Yesterday, Cloanto - owner of the copyright of most software released by Commodore and Amiga - issued a press release aswell, stating that Canigiani is not in a position to include software emulations of old Commodore computers with his smartphone since he does not have a license for the required firmware.
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12.Aug.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video-Interview with David Pleasance (Commodore UK)
Under the title link an English-language interview with David Pleasance has been published who was the last manager of Commodore UK. Among others he talked about the auction of the Amiga rights which in 1995 Escom won.
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12.Aug.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Full version of role playing game "Crystal Dragon"
In the download area of the Amiga Future the role playing game Crystal Dragon developed by Magnetic Fields in 1994 is available as full version in German and English. The game is available as ADF-file and for WHDLoad.
The last time Crystal Dragon was included on the CD Amiga Classix 3. Four years ago an English-language interview with the programmer David Makin was published.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Aug.2015
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New demos
The scene portal pouet.net has added some new Amiga demos during the last months:
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10.Aug.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: MPlayer 6.5.7
Already in July, Kjetil Hvalstrand has released the AmigaOS-4-port of version 6.5.7 of the video player MPlayer. It is available as version with or without AltiVec support.
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09.Aug.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 08.08.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until August 8th, 2015:
HollywoodSP.lha biz/misc 541K Hollywood 6.0 spanish catalogs
gTranslator.lha comm/misc 226K MOS A google translator for your ...
comedesert-data.zip game/shoot 2.1M 68k Did IT come from the desert? ...
A2Zee.lha game/wb 31K 68k Put the letters in the right ...
Knight.lha game/wb 30K 68k Move a Knight on a chess board
X_Next.lha game/wb 31K 68k Move on all the tiles of each...
cdxl_player.lha gfx/show 47K MOS CDXL player with source code
RPNScientific.lha misc/math 2.2M 68k RPN Scientific and Programmer...
ngl-KickStart.zip pix/back 1.2M Amiga 30 - Nice Set of Birthd...
qtip16.lha util/cli 13K 68k Yet another secure file delet...
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09.Aug.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 08.08.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until August 8th, 2015:
reactive_crypto.lha dri/mis 32kb 4.1 Hashing classes for Reactive
chocolate-doom.lha gam/fps 5Mb 4.0 Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife ...
ducksofapocalypse.lha gam/puz 24Mb 4.0 One more hour edition
rcube.lha gra/mis 16kb 4.1 Showing a moving GLCube
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 54kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
rtelnet.lha net/mis 70kb 4.1 Simple Telnet client
dopus4.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.0 Directory Opus 4 : legendary fil...
logexec.lzx uti/she 3kb 4.0 Executes an AmigaDOS script logg...
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 11kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
tabren.lha uti/tex 5kb 4.0 renders tabs to spaces & vic...
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09.Aug.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 08.08.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until August 8th, 2015:
rpnscientific.i386-aros.lha uti/sci 2Mb RPN Scientific and Programmer Ca...
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09.Aug.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 08.08.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until August 8th, 2015:
MAD 0.47 dev/too 10 PowerPC assembly level debu...
CDXL Player 1.0 mul/pla 47 Application for play CDXL a...
MPlayer 1.1 201 mul/pla 23170 Port of great movie player ...
cURL 7.43.0 net/too 1138 A commandline tool for retr...
AmiArcadia 24.11 uti/emu 4569 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
TabRen 1.1e uti/tex 2 Shell based tabs to spaces ...
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09.Aug.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 08.08.2015
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 August 8th, 2015:
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07.Aug.2015
Amigaforum.de (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 27.07.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of July 27th:
- Prefs/Locale no longer looses language information when reseting to default state (deadwood)
- Fat-handler is now showing an error requester when I/O error happens (neil)
- Fat-handler has now better error handling (neil)
- Formatting procedure using fat-handler is now writing immediately to disk (neil)
- MUI List and Listview classes have been updated to behave according to MUI4 specification (deadwood)
- MUI Listtree class has been aligned with changes to List and Listview classes (deadwood)
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06.Aug.2015
Amiga Spiele News (Webseite)
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Jump'n Run: Preview of "Zerosphere"
In "Zerosphere" (Youtube-video) the surroundings of the player is presented blurred. But if the player "blinks" (fire button), it can momentarily look at the real world around it.
The "Party Version" released at pouet.net has won the "Interactive" competetition of the demo party Evoke. It is a preview version. The full version will be released during this year.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2015
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.6.0beta1 (2nd Update)
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files.". Since the last stable version released in March (2.4.1), so far only developer versions have been released.
Changes in FS-UAE:
- New option floppy_drive_volume_empty
- Switched default key mapping for host backslash and insert keys
- Use GLEW instead of GLee for OpenGL extensions
- When not using FS-UAE Launcher, model A1200 defaulted to kickstart 3.0
Changes in FS-UAE-Launcher:
- Changed tab panel appearance on OS X to match other platforms
- Renamed language prefs to appearance prefs, added launcher theme option
- Close login dialog before opening database refresh dialog
- Settings UI for specifying empty floppy drive volume (or disabling it)
- Added keyboard settings to configure equals/insert/backslash/less mapping
- Added support for WHDLoad 18.1, set as default version
- Replaced some icons, added new rom/ram icon
- Fixed an issue with the new CPU selection
Update: (06.08.2015, 14:50, cg)
Meanwhile version 2.5.35dev is available.
Changes in FS-UAE:
- Fixed bug (lockup) when quitting FS-UAE from Amiga side on some platforms.
- Fixed a potential key repeat issue (could not reproduce original problem).
- Load kickstart replacement from data files instead of embedding in executable.
- Re-enabled serial port (was disabled in 2.5.31dev), fixed AROS Kickstart replacement.
- Share serial port emulation code with WinUAE.
Known bugs:
- When entering the GUI using modifier+F12, the modifier key(s) sticks in the emulated Amiga when you return to the emulation.
- Graphical flickering in Workbench with non-cycle-exact emulation.
- When starting FS-UAE from FS-UAE Launcher, accelerator flashs ROM writes are not persistent because the launcher uses a new copy every time.
Changes in FS-UAE-Launcher:
- Added All Games / All Configurations to drop-down.
- Nicer behavior when kickstart ROM for chosen model is missing.
- Moved more warnings and information to status bar.
- Fixed handling of downloadable games.
- Use Fusion QT style on all platforms by default.
- Default to Fusion Adwaita style variant when running under GNOME 3.
- Show warning icon in settings if option is overriden by configuration.
- Fixed OAGD.net locker uploader.
- New additional configuration page.
- Moved custom configuration (button) to additional config page.
- Removed some “noise” from custom configuration and advanced settings.
2nd Update: (17:55, 08.08.15, snx)
In the meantime, FS-UAE 2.6.0beta1 has been released. It is intended as a semi-stable version for new users as a replacement for the latest stable release (2.4.3).
Improvements over version 2.4.3 include:
- Updated emulation code from WinUAE 3.1.0.
- Support for PPC emulation (can run AmigaOS 4.x) via QEMU-UAE plugin
- More emulated hardware support (Toccata, A2061, Picasso IV, …)
- Better support for modern OS versions due to using SDL 2.0
- Built-in support for multiple displays, and fixes for HiDPI displays
- The Launcher supports modern OS versions better due to using QT 5.x
- Much improved FS-UAE Launcher user interface
- FS-UAE mouse integration (Workbench cursor follows host cursor)
- Updated internal kickstart replacement from AROS
- Dual joystick/mouse mode for joystick port 0
- Official builds for SteamOS (Linux + Steam runtime)
- OS X apps are now digitally signed (Apple Developer ID)
- Many bug fixes
Support for IPF disk images is now provided by a plugin which you need to download separately. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Aug.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.1
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has released version 1.1 of his MorphOS-port of the video player MPlayer which provides the changes of the Linux-versions of Mplayer and ffmpeg.
Direct download: MPlayer-1.1-svn-2015.05.21.lha (23 MB)
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05.Aug.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Trashcan-Bounty
Under the title link a bounty was established to add a trashcan to the MorphOS-Workbench Ambient.
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