22.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology and ACube Systems strengthen strategic alliance
In a press release (PDF) A-EON Technology informed that they agreed a new hardware and
software development roadmap with the Italian company ACube Systems which both companies will jointly fund and support.
As a first project the Minimig Plus was mentioned. Additionally A-EON Technology has acquired the Ringhio Messaging System which is used in AmigaOS 4 and which was announced in another press release (PDF).
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22.May.2015
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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Meeting: Pictures und a short report from Commodore-Meeting in Vienna
Stefan Egger writes: I posted a few photos from the Commodore Meeting in Vienna on Flickr. Here's a small report from the meeting:
In addition to lots of C64 computers and similar hardware (roboter arms, C116, Commodore Pong games, a Japanese VIC 1001), lots of Amiga systems were presented at the meeting: Stefan Egger ("computer collection vienna") was showing the very first and very last Amiga models: the A1000 prototype 'Velvet' and one of the few Amiga 4000T systems manufactured by Commodore.
AMike had brought his Amiga 1000 which was featuring a new motherboard ('GBA060'), Turrican had a snow white Amiga 1200 with black keys running various scene demos.
Thomas Dorn, former Commodore Austria employee, was demonstrating something very special: his Amiga 4000 was running a train control system developed by Siemens.
Reinhold Schertler was showing his Amiga 2000 equipped with a 68030 CPU, which was playing videos with a resolution of up to 320x216 pixels at 15 FPS featuring 22 kHz stereo sounnd. (snx) (Translation: cg)
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21.May.2015
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VICE: Report about Team 17
On the website of the English-language magazine Vice a report about Team 17 is available which also takes a closer look at the Amiga history of the developer team.
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21.May.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Word Me Up XXL 1.61
For the commercial arcade/puzzle mix "Word Me Up XXL" developed by Boing Attitude a free update has been released which was compiled with the latest version of SDK and fixes a bug in the "Help" and "About" menu.
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20.May.2015
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Poll: how many news items should be displayed on the amiga-news.de front page?
The Amiga scene went through a lot of change in the last decade: it used to be an alternative desktop computer system with active users, now it's a hobby for retro enthusiasts and collectors. This had effects on both the amount of news items published by amiga-news.de - it shrank from 10 to 15 items per day to just 3 or 4 per day - and the behaviour of our readers: many of them only check in every few days now.
While every reader could theoretically configure the front page to suit his needs, experience shows that most people simply use the default settings without ever changing them. That's why we would like to ask our users what their preferred configuration for the front page would be. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.May.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.3.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a puzzle game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Android, Linux and Windows) in which you have to answer correctly questions on common knowledge, each with four possible answers. In the L and XL edition there is also a two-player mode. A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.
In version 2.3.0 the "Quick Start"-mode as well as further translations (Swedish, Portuguese, Polish) have been added. Additionally the Spanish translation has been improved.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. May. 2015, 16:50] [Comments: 0]
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19.May.2015
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Commercial BIOS update for Sam460
For 9 Euro in ACube's webshop a new version of the BIOS software "UBoot" is available. The update includes the following changes:
- new redesigned GUI with an 'amiga' style, enabled via Menu->Video Options->Console->Silent
- unified support for Sam460ex and Sam460cr boards
- support for USB EHCI, now booting from a SD card is very fast
- better support for USB devices
- removed 2 GB limit for USB sticks
- better compatibility with newer Radeon HD graphic cards
- introduced a new menu entry to change the x86 gfx BIOS emulator accuracy. If your graphic card show some visual problems on startup, try increasing the x86 BIOS emulator accuracy
- new DDR2 boost settings: read, write, read + write (up to 5% speed increase on reads and up to 10% on writes)
- DDR2 boost setup done from a new menu entry
- added support for old Permedia2 graphic cards, for 'history' reasons :-)
- added 'ping' command
- corrected a bug in the serial port GPIO configuration
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18.May.2015
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PDF-Magazine: 880 Gamer, issue 6 (English)
The latest issue of the English-language PDF-magazine "880 Gamer" includes reports about the 30th birthday of the Amiga as well as reviews about Street Fighter II, Pang, Super Hang on, Silkworm and Toki.
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[News message: 18. May. 2015, 11:44] [Comments: 0]
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17.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 11.05.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of May 11th:
- Work on having higher priority tasks yield when spinning started (Kalamatee)
- Work on USB 3.0 support continues (dizzyofcrn)
- Tasks which are spinning are moved to separate list now in AROS ARM kernel (Kalamatee)
- Work on scheduler of ARM kernel continues (Kalamatee)
- Testing specification for String class added (neil)
- MUI String class now does a display-beep in case of rejected character (neil)
- MUIA_String_BufferPos attriute of MUI String class is now initializable (neil)
- MUIA_String_Format attribute of MUI String class is now gettable (neil)
- Rocks and Diamonds game is now part of ports repository of AROS (mazze)
- MUI Aboutbox custom class now displays the build information (deadwood)
- UI bug in Poseidon pop up window fixed (Kalamatee)
- Handling of scheduling flags has been made mutli-core aware (Kalamatee)
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17.May.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Password manager PastePass 0.7
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS with encrypted database which enters user name and password by clicking a special keyboard shortcut.
Download: PastePass.lha (75 KB)
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[News message: 17. May. 2015, 16:59] [Comments: 0]
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17.May.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 16th, 2015:
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 6.9M 68k The Webgallery/Onlineshop Cre...
MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 40K 68k External Prefs Editor for Max...
Crypt-2.0.lha dev/gg 66K WOS crypt v2.0 - UNIX password cr...
ColorPrint.lha dev/misc 91K 68k Print sources with syntax hig...
dt2rawimage.lha dev/mui 69K MOS Convert images to rawimage C ...
Accelerators-SP.lha docs/help 12K Accelerators Guide Spanish/Es...
FrenchCanadianKeymap.zip driver/inp 2K Keymap for French Canadian ke...
A2091RAMPatch.lha driver/med 1K 68k Move A590/A2091 driver from R...
F12015Carset.lha game/data 22K 2015 Car Set for F1GP Ed/Micr...
potrace-mos.lha gfx/conv 802K MOS Transform bitmaps into vector...
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.3M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
DezHexBin2.lha misc/math 36K 68k Convert integers <-> bi...
Emotions_Reworked.lha mods/xm 6.4M New Mod By Pseudaxos
UniScrobbler.lha mus/play 41K MOS Last.fm scrobbler script
Calimero_beta_0.13.lha text/dtp 8.8M MOS A DTP Program
Loadertune.lha util/boot 80K 68k Another boot song resident mo...
MemOptimizer.lha util/boot 210K 68k Optimize for better memory al...
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 151K 68k WarpDT preferences program V45.7
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 235K WOS JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.12
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 227K 68k Dynamic buffers (IFF streamab...
sdl2.lha util/libs 751K MOS SDL 2 audio and video library
RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 416K 68k Timer controled random WBPatt...
screenrecorder_DE.lha util/wb 1K German catalog for ScreenReco...
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17.May.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 16th, 2015:
hwplayer.lha dev/mis 9Mb 4.0 Run applets created by Hollywood
amicraft.lha gam/mis 933kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
odyssey_dan.lha net/bro 6kb 4.1 Danish catalog for Odyssey
amiupdate_swe.lha uti/wor 11kb 4.1 Swedish translation of Amiupdate
smarthome_chapter_001... uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Amiga Kurs Chapter 001
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.1 Qt Download videos from YouTube
smtube.lha vid/pla 3Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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17.May.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until May 16th, 2015:
crates.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 3Mb Find the path to clear the key c...
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17.May.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until May 16th, 2015:
ReadWMF 1.0 gra/mis 71 Analyses Windows Meta File ...
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17.May.2015
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WHDLoad: Neue Pakete until 16.05.2015
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 May 16th, 2015:
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17.May.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SDL 2.0
SDL ('Simple DirectMedia Layer') provides a platform independent API for game developers. The MorphOS port of the 1.x series of SDL has been maintained by Ilkka 'itix' Lehtoranta as powersdl.library so far.
The new 2.x generation of SDL (list of improvements) will be distributed for MorphOS as sdl2.library. The current release is based on SDL 2.0.3. It is currently lacking 3D support and some less important interfaces are not implemented yet. Additionally, only sdl2_image.library has been ported so far, sdl2_mixer.library is currently being worked on (sub libraries from powersdl.library are not compatible with sdl2.library).
SDL 2.0 requires MorphOS 3.8, so far no game ports using the new library have been released.
Download: sdl2.lha (751 KB) (snx) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 17. May. 2015, 07:41] [Comments: 0]
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17.May.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Development tool: vasm 1.7c
Frank Wille released an update of vasm, a portable assembler supporting a variety of CPU architectures. A list of changes in this release can be found on the program's website. (snx) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 17. May. 2015, 07:09] [Comments: 0]
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16.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Datatype: WarpJPEG 45.12 and WarpDTPrefs 45.7
Oliver Roberts has updated his Warp-datatype for JPEG-graphics as well as the corresponding preferences programm WarpDTPrefs. Under AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS it now offers Altivec support which makes the JPEG-decoding at least one and a half times faster compared with version 45.11.
If under MorphOS there is also a higher decoding speed compared with the original datatype of the operating system is not known yet. The original datatype also supports Altivec.
Changes:
- Added AltiVec speed optimizations for the OS4 and MorphOS versions making decoding speed of baseline images 1.5x faster on a G4 and 1.9x faster on a PA6T, with fancy upsampling off, on average. With fancy upsampling on, the AltiVec speed gain is even greater - 1.9x faster on a G4 and 2.3x faster on a PA6T. These optimizations can be toggled off/on using the new USE_ALTIVEC setting
- Huffman decoder in PowerPC versions is now 5-10% faster
- Reintegrated higher quality fancy upsampling smoothing feature from IJG jpeglib v6b which had not been present since WarpJPEG 45.5 due to its removal from IJG jpeglib v7 and higher
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9d
- Added new set of benchmarks for OS4 (benchmark updates for other platforms suspended until my A1200 motherboard has been repaired)
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