02.Jul.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Tables presentation: ArtBase 1.0 (for all Amiga systems)
ArtBase developed with Hollywood and MUI Royale, "transform your "dry" tables into an audiovisual experience." Mainly it is meant for collectors which manage their games lists with a spreadsheet or database. ArtBase imports those lists in CSV-format and does edit them. There are several templates for the design.
Ports of ArtBase for all Amiga systems are available. The use of the 68k-version it is only recommended together with powerful emulators.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jul.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Web-application: Amiga PCB Explorer
The "Amiga PCB Explorer" written by Christian "Scrat" Euler is supposed to support do-it-yourselfer repairing Amiga mainboards. Among others with this tool you are able to:
- Look up signal paths where physical traces have been damaged by battery acid or capacitor leakage
- Find out which components are connected to the same signal net
- Get a quick overview on chip pinouts
- Locate any part on the PCB
- Navigate around the PCB and marvel at its beauty
The author wrote: "Right now, the only available mainboard is the A4000 Desktop PCB (Rev B). Support for more boards may be added later."
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jul.2015
Amiga Spiele News (Webseite)
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Commercial "Dizzy"-clone in progress: Dylan The Spaceman
Chris Clarke (amigapd.com) is developing a Dizzy-clone named Dylen The Spaceman, which is created with the Reality Game Engine and is supposed to be released in summer.
On his Facebook website the author informs about the latest news. At the moment the game is to sold on CD.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jul.2015
Amiga Spiele News (Webseite)
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Shoot'em Up: Demo version of "Kingdoms of Steam"
Kingdoms of Steam is a Shoot'em Up game developed with the Reality Game Engine, which is inspired by the Megadrive game Steel Empire.
A "shop", in which you can trade your collected bonuses for additional weapons is started with the Space-key.
Download: KofSDemo2Levels.zip (434 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jul.2015
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
During the last two months, several new articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. Translations into other languages are very welcome. If you are interested then please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- May/June 2015 news.
- Old articles from Amiga News 72 to 74: Review of Brilliance 2.0, News: Amiga's Future from David Pleasance, Hardware: Kit ROM 3.1, Hardware: Retina BLT/Z3, Hardware: SX-1, Review of Video Creator, Review of LightWave 3D 3.5, Review of Maple V, Report: Computer '94, etc.
- Interview with Daniel Müßener and Markus Kunkel (Cherry Darling).
- Interview with Colin Proudfoot (Commodore UK) and Bernard Van Tienen (Escom).
- Review of AEROS 3.5.
- Review of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition (Classic version).
- Review of MorphOS 3.8/3.9.
- Review of Swamp Defense 2.
- Review of King's Quest 6.
- Report: Amiga, the king of interactive multimedia presentations.
- Programming: Assembleur (remake of Mortal Kombat in AGA).
- Tutorial: utilisation of the AmigaOS 4.1 dockies.
- Tutorial: cracking of Bio Challenge.
- Tutorial: installation of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on Classic Amiga.
- Tutorial: installation of MorphOS (update).
- Book: Éric Chahi - Parcours D'un Créateur De Jeux Vidéo Français.
- Special quizz about the Amiga 600.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jul.2015
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Amiga Reloaded: Information about planned Amiga-clone
On the "Amiga: 30 Years", Jens Schönfeld had announced that he is developing a Amiga-motherboard named "Amiga Reloaded". Meanwhile some more information are available in the Wiki of Individual Computers. We have summarized the essentials:
- first prototype in Q1/2016
- The target price of the main board with AGA chips is under 200,- EUR
- keyboard case will be a A500 case, second target will be the A1200 case
- Amiga Reloaded is an AGA Amiga using the original chips Alice, Lisa and Paula, along with two CIA chips, equipped with 2MByte Chipram
- The Amiga Reloaded will not have any CPU but has an A1200-compatible CPU slot; assurance that ACA12xx cards work (except for the old ACA1230 type), and we'll also do our best to make the popular Blizzard cards work. However, there will be no product support for operation with non-iComp branded CPU cards.
- only one monitor output as standard: A black&white composite output for monitors that are compatible with PAL and/or NTSC video timing; one out of two choices for colour output has to be installed: 15kHz RGB output board or Flickerfixer output board
- Two CF-card slots will be available as mass storage
- Network and USB can be added by extensions of Individual Computers (RapidRoad USB or ACA500-compatible network-module), a PCMCIA-port is not available
- Other ports: Audio (3.5mm stereo jack), floppy disk (compatible with PC and Amiga disk drives), keyboard (Amiga 500 or 1200, selecting with a jumper), parallel, serial, Mouse/Joystick.
- using a modern laptop power supply
After finishing the development, "binding orders" are supposed to to find out the actual demand of the Amiga Reloaded. The money has to be payed before mass-production has started. "The boards will be delivered about 18-20 weeks after the initial order phase."
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Jun.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Videos of presentations of "Amiga: 30 Years" in Amsterdam
The team of the "BoingsWord"-podcast has published records of most of the presentations of the "Amiga: 30 Years". Only the speech of Micheal Battilana still is not available:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Jun.2015
muidev.de (ANF)
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MUI for AmigaOS: MUI4.0-2015R2
The team of "MUI für AmigaOS" has released new versions of MUI 4.0 for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4. Additional to bug fixes and tweaks, the MUI-class Hyperlink.mcc has been added. The detailed list of changes are included in the archives.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jun.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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English PDF-magazine: REV'n'GE 35
The PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") that compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
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29.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 22.06.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of June 22nd:
- Adding a Menuitem MUI object directly to Menustrip now works as in MUI (deadwood)
- Listtree MUI class now correctly notifies about double-click and quiet state (deadwood)
- Memory is now freed in Listtree MUI class at object destruction (deadwood)
- List MUI class no longer crashes when someone tries to create an image without passing the actual image object (deadwood)
- Listtree MUI class no longer crashes when someone tries to delete an non-existing image (deadwood)
- Work on making hostgl.library work again started (Kalamatee)
- HDAudio driver now works correctly on HP Compaq nc6320 laptop (neil)
- Static switching between speakers and headphones at start-up in HDAudio driver has been removed in favor of dynamic switching (neil)
- Output volume control for multiple nodes has been improved in HDAudio driver (neil)
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS ARM kernel continue (mschulz)
- PCI subsystem now correctly handles situation when an interrupt line assignment to a device has been changed (neil)
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28.Jun.2015
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Pictures and reports of "Amiga: 30 Years" in Amsterdam
Some pictures and reports have been published of the "Amiga: 30 Years" party in Amsterdam.
The organizers have published some pictures on Facebook. Some additional videos are available as well:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Jun.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: GUI-Toolkit MUI Royale 1.3
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the immediate availability of MUI Royale 1.3. This update contains bug fixes and supports more MUI 4.0 features. Please note that MUI 4.0 is now also available for AmigaOS 3, so there is no reason to keep on using the old MUI 3.8 from 1997.
Starting with MUI Royale 1.3, the *.hwc and *.hwp files have been merged so that MUI Royale is just a single binary now. Furthermore, users of Hollywood 6.0 will be happy to see that the installer makes all MUI Royale examples available in the Hollywood GUI now automatically.
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 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC), and AROS (i386).
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!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Jun.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 27th, 2015:
SMBMounter-ITA.lha comm/net 6K Italian Catalog for SMBMounte...
jrm-a30y.lha demo/sound 269K 68k dA JoRMaS: Poing (Amiga 30 Ye...
cc65-morphos.lha dev/cross 11M MOS ANSI C 6502 cross development...
WinUAEDemoToolchain5.zip dev/cross 26M ppc WinUAE-based code/music creat...
GloomMapInfo.lha game/edit 3K Gloom maps parser
MCE.lha game/edit 1.4M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Moonbases_RUS.lha game/patch 463K 68k Moonbases Russian Update Kit
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 10M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
WBTicTacToe.lha game/wb 100K 68k WB Tic-Tac-Toe game, up to 4 ...
Ezekiel.lha gfx/misc 2.3M 68k A Trochoid Explorer and Designer
LoViewAROS.lha gfx/show 4.5M x86 LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewMOS.lha gfx/show 4.2M MOS LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewOS3.lha gfx/show 3.8M 68k LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewOS4.lha gfx/show 5.1M OS4 LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewWOS.lha gfx/show 4.9M WOS LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
anespro.lha misc/emu 100K 68k A/NES PRO - NES/FAMICOM emulator
TeXLive2012-MorphOS.t... text/tex 1587M MOS A 2013 port of Tex Live 2012
fblit_source.zip util/boot 341K ASM/Blitz sources for fblit
DOpus4-Version12.lha util/dopus 4K 68k ARexx script: get file versio...
Crabum_SP.lha util/misc 1K MOS Spanish catalog for Crabum
April_SP.lha util/time 1K Spanish Catalog for April
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28.Jun.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 27th, 2015:
bellaguesthouse.lha gam/boa 42Mb 4.0 Adventure XXX Game
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
loview.lha gra/vie 5Mb 4.0 The Easy Viewer & Thumber :)
assist.lha uti/mis 6Mb 4.1 A knowledge base for AmigaOS users
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[News message: 28. Jun. 2015, 08:55] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until June 27th, 2015:
timeless.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 472kb Sdl port of Tran's timeless MsDo...
ezekiel.i386-aros.lha gra 2Mb A Trochoid (Spirograph(TM)) Expl...
loview.i386-aros.lha gra/vie 4Mb the Easy Viewer and Thumber :)
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28.Jun.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until June 27th, 2015:
AskMeUp Demo 2.3.0 gam/thi 18950 A demo version of a "trivia...
wmf2x 1.0 gra/con 679 Converts Windows MetaFile (...
SoundBankster 1.4 mus/pla 464 Software diskjockey double ...
ACE 1.10 uti/emu 1326 Amstrad CPC family computer...
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28.Jun.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FPGA: Minimig-AGA-Core 1.0 for MiST-board
For the Atari-/Amiga clone MiST (amiga-news.de reported) the FPGA-reimplementation of the Amiga with AGA-support is available as version 1.0. It is now possible to play Slam Tilt.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Jun. 2015, 08:09] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZuneView 0.19
For AROS Yannick Erb has released version 0.19 of his picture viewer ZuneView.
Changes:
- Reworked nearest, bilinear and bicubic filters to remove artefacts at bottom and right borders
- Increased processing speed for some functions
- Added button bar for most used functions
- Added artistic filters (oil paint, edge detect, cartoon)
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27.Jun.2015
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Amiga 30 Years: announcements from A-EON, Individual Computers and Hyperion
Due to the unreliable live video feed, it is complicated to find proper sources for various announcements made at "Amiga: 30 Years" that took place today in Amsterdam. According to short reports from various visitors, the following statements have been made at the show (note that none of them has been confirmed by an official source yet):
There will be no X3500, only the X5000 will go on sale
Trevor Dickinson is said to have revealed that the cheapest version of the next AmigaOne generation will not hit the market: The price of the P3041 quadcore based X3500 would have been too close to the other, P5020/P5040 based dualcore and quadcore models.
Amiga 500 accelerator at 130 Euro, new A1200 expansions
Jens Schönfeld allegedly announced a new Amiga 500 accelerator with integrated RAM, which will cost around 130 Euros. A new A1200 expansion is said to be available in two versions: One with a 680EC20 CPU (24 bit address bus) clocked at 28 Mhz, and one with a regular 68020 CPU at 16 Mhz. At least one of the A1200 expansions will also feature a connector for an USB controller.
Amiga Reloaded
In line with his C64 Reloaded - an unpopulated, newly manufactured C64 motherboard - Jens Schönfeld is allegedly working on a "Amiga Reloaded". Several people report he kept pointing out he has a a large stock of AGA chips, so there is speculation that these new motherboards would actually be (partly) populated.
Gorky 17
Hyperion was showing Gorky 17 at their booth. A visitor reports that only hardware acceleration needs to be added before the title can get released. (cg)
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25.Jun.2015
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Patch: Source codes of FBlit released
The patch FBlit forces several operating system routines to use the blitter instead of the processor which can increase the processing speed. It was updated for the last time in 2006. Now the author has released the Assembler-sources under the MIT-licence.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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