16.Jun.2015
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Book: Brian Bagnall's "Commodore: The Amiga Years" at Kickstarter
Within 24 hours, after the Kickstarter campaign for the second part of Brian Bagnall's book "Commodore: The Amiga Years" was started, the financing target has been achieved: 15.000 Canadian Dollar were required, 25.000 have been donated so far. The book is supposed to be published in December.
For 22 or 40 Canadian Dollar a digital (in a desired format, DRM-free) or printed version of the book can be preordered. Besides, some additional packages are available, e.g. the so far unpublished ebook "Commodore: The Early Years" which is about the years 1954 till 1974.
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16.Jun.2015
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DeliCate Linux: New distribution for Amigas in progress
DeLicate is a Linux distribution which is meant for old computers with very little RAM and low processor performance. At least an i386 or 68020 processor (FPU and MMU are required) is required but a 586 with 233 Mhz or a 68060 with 60 Mhz are recommended. If you want to use a graphical user-interface, your computer should have more than 16 MB RAM (68 MB are recommended).
According to the maintainer in its forum, currently the m68k-port is developed running under ARAnyM emulator. The aim is to port the distribution which is based on the Linux-kernel 2.4 and uClibc to Atari and Amiga computers.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Jun. 2015, 16:36] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jun.2015
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amiga 2000 controls air conditioning in 19 schools
For 30 years, a Commodore Amiga controls the heat and air conditioning at 19 Grand Rapids Public Schools in Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA).
Under the title link there is TV-report about it.
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16.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir attending US Amiga 30th anniversary
Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir will attend the US Amiga 30th anniversary. The two former developers of the custom chips will tell about the work with Jay Miner (Amiga-Patent from 19. July 1985).
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15.Jun.2015
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 08.06.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of June 8th:
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS ARM kernel continue (mschulz)
- fat-handler has been updated to work as ROMable module (jmcmullan)
- MUI Listtree custom class now has more functionality and compatibility (deadwood)
- fat-handler no longer leaks memory in case one of the blocks can't be read (neil)
- Renaming disks is further improved in fat-handler (neil)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 2.50
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays has released an update of his commercial file manager "Dir Me Up".
Changes:
- Window resizing improved to avoid multiple refreshes
- View by icons:
- The preview image doesn't flicker any longer
- Display speed improved
- Image Viewer:
- Window resizing improved to avoid multiple refreshes
- If only one image is selected, the checkbox "Show only selected files" is automatically unchecked
- Automatic cropping if window is "out" of the screen
- Swedish Translation completed
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15.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology: DvPlayer acquired / MultiViewerNG available
A year after becoming the sole distributor of the video and audio player DvPlayer, A-EON Technology now acquired the rights from its developer Stephen Fellner (Press release, PDF-file).
Additionally, the announced MultiViewerNG now is available for 8,40 Euro plus VAT and fees on AmiStore. The version for AmigaOS 3.x still is in development.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Jun. 2015, 14:15] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AISS Helper 1.1
A week ago, version 4.19 of the "Amiga Image Storage Systems" was released. Now the AISS Helper was updated as well. With the help of the programm thousands of pictogramms created by Martin Merz can be viewed and browsed through.
Download: aisshelper.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Jun. 2015, 13:32] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Music: Amiga-Remix-CD "Insert Disk 2"
On June 20th, "Insert Disk 2" will be released which is another album featuring Amiga remixes, e.g. Lotus, Turrican and Pinball Dreams. You can find the complete list under the title link.
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[News message: 14. Jun. 2015, 13:25] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jun.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.06.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 13th, 2015:
SMBMounter.lha comm/net 261K 68k SMBFS Frontend GUI / Commodity
toram.i386-aros.lha comm/tcp 1.1M x86 Remote GUI for Transmission
toram-morphos.lha comm/tcp 1.4M MOS Remote GUI for Transmission
toram-os4.lha comm/tcp 1.7M OS4 Remote GUI for Transmission
NetSurf-m68k.lha comm/www 10M 68k CSS capable web browser
Xenopew.adf game/shoot 880K 68k Xenopew Shoot-em-up (Bootable...
XenopewHDD.lha game/shoot 350K 68k Xenopew Shoot-em-up (HD Install)
sha.i386-aros.lha util/crypt 105K x86 File hashing utility
sha.lha util/crypt 474K 68k File hashing utility
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.6M MOS Directory and files tool
HWP_GLGalore.lha util/libs 3.0M MOS Allows OpenGL scripting with ...
chronovox.lha util/wb 9.3M OS4 A voice clock utility for wor...
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14.Jun.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.06.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 13th, 2015:
dcraw.lha gra/con 3Mb 4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files
hwp_glgalore.lha lib/hol 3Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for OpenGL
smbmounter.lha net/sam 261kb 4.0 SMBFS Frontend GUI / Commodity
assist.lha uti/mis 6Mb 4.1 A knowledge base for AmigaOS users
evenmore.lha uti/tex 502kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
chronovox.lha uti/wor 9Mb 4.1 A voice clock utility for workbench
videoclipper.lha vid/edi 312kb 4.0 Cut and/or join multiple format ...
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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14.Jun.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 13.06.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until June 13th, 2015:
metadiary.i386-aros.zip off/mis 221kb Color-coded activity log.
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13.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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SMBMounter 1.4
Robert Cranley's SMBMounter is a commodity with well arranged user-interface for connecting, disconnecting and configuring network drives for AmigaOS 3.x, which also works under AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS.
In version 1.4 a MUI-user-interface was added, for FTP-entries FTPMount can be used and many languages have been added (among others German, Danish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Spanish and Czech).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Jun. 2015, 17:54] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.5.32dev (Update)
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD is 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 - excepted a bug fix version for Linux.
A list of changes in version 2.5.31dev you can find under the title link. Please note that this includes a "temporarily disabled serial port emulation (need code update)".
Update: (09:21, 14.06.15, snx)
Meanwhile version 2.5.32dev is available. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Compiler: vbcc 0.9d, patch 1
vbcc is a C-compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga-specific adaptions). The compiler supports AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, PowerUp and WarpOS and meets ISO-C (ISO/IEC 9899:1989) as well as a part of the new standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99)).
Under the title link the patch for the latest version 0.9d includes an archive with FPU maths libraries which deliver floating-point figures similar to the Unix-System-V.4-ABI. It is for example necessary to write Hollywood-plugins.
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12.Jun.2015
Spidi (ANF)
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USB-adapter for input devices: Ryś MK II
In March the second version of the USB-adapter Ryś was announced und now is available. The Ryś MKII "provides built-in USB stack which enables USB HID devices (like a mouse, a joystick or a pad) support without the need for installing additional software drivers."
Features of Ryś MKII:
- ready for use with every Amiga (although some models may require additional adapters)
- support for mouses using both USB HID and USB-PS/2
- 3 mouse emulation modes
- built-in USB stack
- "Bootloader" function facilitating future firmware upgrades
- "Status" indicator LED providing information about device's state
- built-in EEPROM memory enabling user preferences storage
The product is sold by Amedia Computer France,
AMIGAstore,
RELEC and
RetroAmi.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Jun.2015
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Jump'n Run: Sqrxz 1.3
As announced, Frank Wille has adapted the first part of the Sqrxz series to the new engine which the forthcoming release of Sqrxz 3 will be based as well. Now the game runs with 50 frames per second.
Download: sqrxz-v.latest-amigaocs.adf (880 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS / MorphOS: "Wings Battlefield" available
After the release of the demo version a month ago, Cherry Darling's "Wings Battlefield" now is available. The game emulates the air fight sequences of the Cinemaware classic Wings - now with up to four players (screenshots).
Due to the small number of test computers it is recommended to give the updated demo version a try before purchasing the game. "Wings Battlefield" is offered for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (but not on Amiga computers) as well as for AROS/x86 by Alinea, Amedia and Amigastore. Later it will be also available by GoldenCode. A version for Windows is available as well.
Eigenschaften:
- 1 to 4 players battle
- split screen or LAN*
- human or CPU opponents
- adjustable CPU intelligence
- player profiles
- adapts to all screen-modes / window sizes
- Tate mode (pivot monitor support)
- best played with your digital joysticks
- procedural level editor
- three different landscape styles
- online high scores
- lots of graphics options to get the perfect balance between performance / quality
- localized to English, German, French, Hungarian, Greek, Spanish and Swedish
- automatic updates (actually the first update that adds another gfx option just arrived)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jun.2015
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Updates of commercial graphic board drivers for AmigaOS 4
Amigakit announces (1, 2) that free updates for the commercial RadeonHD and Warp3D-RadeonHD drivers are available on Amistore. Changes in the 2D drivers (currently versions 1.7 and 2.10) aren't explained, the "Warp3D/Southern Islands" driver (version 1.14) is said to "deliver greater performance on most games".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 10. Jun. 2015, 16:02] [Comments: 0]
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