19.Feb.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: 8-Bit-Emulator Atari++ 1.73
Atari++ emulates Atari's 8-Bit home computer as well as the games console Atari 5200. The port for AmigaOS-4 was written by Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkov, supports AmigaInput and can be controlled using joysticks or analog controllers.
Changes:
- Added emulation support for the tape drive, and .CAS files loaded into the
tape. Raw audio files in the .WAV format are not supported by the emulator
directly, but two external programs "wav2cas" and "cas2wav" can convert
between them.
- Added an additional rendering mode for the X11 video system of Linux
machines. Instead of drawing the emulated screen on the display rectangle by
rectangle, the "xvideo" mode uses the xv extension of X11 to render into an
off-screen memory which is then merged into the screen by the video overlay
mechanis of the hardware. This rendering mode may create a smoother display
and may improve performance on lower end hardware, but is not necessarily
available everywhere.
- A complete manual of Os++, including a memory map, is now available as
download.
- Included the Os++ system disk, including disk-based utilities around Os++
including a Dos overlay manager that relocates Dos buffers behind the
cartridge, an RS232 handler, an updated version of DISKIO, a disk-based
tape handler, a menu based DUP and a lot of tools.
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19.Feb.2015
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 113 - Preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 113 (March/April 2015) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are an interview with Cherry Darling, a workshop on Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1 as well as a review of WinUAE.
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19.Feb.2015
Gunnar von Boehn (ANF)
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FPGA: Phoenix-Core, Apollo-Core with 68020-support
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA-reimplementierung of the m68k-series of Motorola. The new version, which is called Phoenix-Core by the developer, offers now support for the features of the 68020-processor. Beta testers already have access to Phoenix.
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19.Feb.2015
Stefan Haubenthal (ANF)
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MorphOS: Bastard Operator From Hell
Stefan Haubenthal has ported Lasse Öörni's "Bastard Operator From Hell - Servers under Siege" to MorphOS. The port still is in a beta stadium, but at least there are no problems regarding saving the highscores. By pressing F12, you can change to a predefined Hires-screen.
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19.Feb.2015
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS: Bounty for creating a 64-Bit AROS-distribution
On Power2People, a bounty was established for creating a 64-Bit-distribution of AROS. Pascal Papara is going to release it by the end of June. So far 315 US-Dollars were donated.
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19.Feb.2015
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Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights
In the last few months, Cloanto started distributing Amiga System Software - the publisher traditionally refers to it as "Workbench" instead of "AmigaOS" - on CF cards, Floppy Disks and as a downloadable Workbench Disk Image Pack. Approached by Amiga-News, Cloanto's Michael Battilana confirmed that the company owns the copyrights for all works created by the Commodore/Amiga companies up to 1993.
The deal was finished in 2012, as Battilana states: "We already had licenses from some older agreements with various parties, including Gateway and Amiga Inc., which in part were exclusive. The transfer of these copyrights to Cloanto was then completed with new agreements a few years ago."
The combination of the multiple agreements makes Cloanto the rights holder of not just any Amiga related products and media, but also the system software, documentation, Commodore-owned publications, videos and advertisements for Commodore's various product lines.
As it turns out, back in 1997, ESCOM
had assigned all former Commodore/Amiga copyrights to Gateway - not just the Amiga-related ones - and they were handed over to every new IP owner since then. Only the "Commodore" trademarks (but not
any patents, nor any copyrights) were sold to Tulip Computers in 1997.
A look at the database of the US Copyright Office confirms Battilana's statements: The items in the list of titles are now assigned to Cloanto.
Note from the editor: While Cloanto's agreements, according to Battilana, cover everything created by Commodore/Amiga up to 1993, not all of
the copyrighted works are listed in the public database. Like most publishers, Commodore did not deposit everything with every new release. As the US Copyright Office explains, registration is voluntary, and not required for protection. Advantages that
come with registration include the availability to copyright owners of statutory damages and attorney's fees in case of court actions.
An overview of the ownership of the Amiga-related IP
Ownership of Amiga-related intellectual property became more fragmented
in the last few years. As far as we know, this is the current list of parties owning parts of it:
Amiga Inc. owns the domain name amiga.com as well as all remaining Amiga-related trademarks (partial list, PDF). They do have a license from
Cloanto for their activities on the BlackBerry platform, but no license for any other platforms.
Hyperion Entertainment, recently declared bankrupt, has a license to modify and distribute AmigaOS 3.1, an exlusive license for the AmigaOS and AmigaOne trademarks (limited for use with AmigaOS 4 or higher) and a non-exclusive license for the BoingBall trademark (limited for use with AmigaOS 4 or higher). Hyperion's license can only be transferred to a third party with Amiga Inc.'s consent.
Cloanto owns the Amiga Forever and Workbench trademarks and the copyrights to the Commodore/Amiga works as described above.
The status of AmigaOS 3.5/3.9
AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 were developed and distributed by Haage&Partner, under
license from Amiga. As far as we know, said license has expired by now (and
was even revoked prematurely in OS 3.9's case), meaning that there's no party holding the complete rights to these releases at the moment.
Individual modules that were part of OS 3.5 or 3.9 have been rereleased in the meantime as part of both Cloanto's Workbench 3.X distribution (included with Amiga Forever) and AmigaOS 4.
Small Updates for AmigaOS 3.1
In the latter half of the nineties, Heinz Wrobel and Olaf Barthel released several Updates for AmigaOS 3.1 via Amiga's website. These updates have been made available in Cloanto's download area a while ago. (cg)
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16.Feb.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.8.0
An update has been released for the Atari-ST/STE/Falcon emulator Hatari. According to the developer, the emulation of the Atari ST and STE on an AmigaOne X1000 "works finde". The emulation of the Falcon requires Frameskip 5, "but the DSP sound is working good as seen on this video".
The changes are listed in the release notes.
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16.Feb.2015
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A-EON acquires OctaMED Soundstudio
In a press release, A-EON has announced to acquire the soundtracker OctaMED Soundstudio as already mentioned on the AmiWest. The company purchased the source code and exclusive rights for the AmigaOS and Amiga-inspired operating systems.
The press release does not go into details concerning the development. On the AmiWest a port to AmigaOS 4 was held out in prospect.
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15.Feb.2015
muidev.de (ANF)
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MUI for AmigaOS: MUI4.0-2015R1 and MUI3.9-2015R1
The team of "MUI for AmigaOS" has released new versions of MUI 4.0 (AmigaOS 4 and AmigaOS 3.x) and MUI 3.9 (AmigaOS 3.x).
For MUI 3.9 this is a first public version of MUI4 for AmigaOS 3.x (after AmiKit 8) but it is also the last version of MUI 3.9 for AmigaOS 3.x. In future only MUI4 will be developed further.
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15.Feb.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.02.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 14th, 2015:
PPaintRUS.lha biz/cloan 50K Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c+ ...
bc.lha dev/gg 446K MOS GNU bc and dc calculators (no...
dogma01.lha docs/mags 622K Ukrainian magazine, HTML (28....
dogma02.lha docs/mags 2.1M Ukrainian magazine, HTML (09....
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 312K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
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
WhoBecomesAmigaGuru_A... game/misc 23M x86 A fictitious tv quiz show
WhoBecomesAmigaGuru_m... game/misc 23M MOS A fictitious tv quiz show
WhoBecomesAmigaGuru_O... game/misc 15M 68k A fictitious tv quiz show
WhoBecomesAmigaGuru_O... game/misc 23M OS4 A fictitious tv quiz show
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
fceu_mos.lha misc/emu 651K MOS Nintendo NES / Famicom emulator
68060iob.lha pix/3dobj 2.3M Imagine: Motorola 68060 objec...
68EC020iob.lha pix/3dobj 598K Imagine: Motorola 68EC020 object
ToolsMenu.lha util/cdity 40K 68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
minipro_20150206.lha util/misc 265K 68k programming utility for MiniP...
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15.Feb.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.02.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 14th, 2015:
exfatfs.lha dri/fil 178kb 4.1 Free exFAT file system implement...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
africa.lha gam/boa 393kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
whobecomesamigaguru.lha gam/mis 23Mb 4.1 Game about a fictitious tv show
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
vmeter.lha uti/har 229kb 4.1 An editor for the VMeter USB tou...
brewtarget.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.1 Brewtarget Beer Software
nqueens.lha uti/she 196kb 4.1 A N Queens puzzle solver
poff_swe.lha uti/she 1kb 4.1 Swedish translation of Poff
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15.Feb.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 14.02.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until February 14th, 2015:
- 2015-02-13 improved: Rick Dangerous (Core Design) blitwaits added for faster machines, highscore saving fixed (Info)
- 2015-02-11 updated: Double Dragon 3 - The Rosetta Stone (Sales Curve) patch redone, uses real files, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, trainers added, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
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15.Feb.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiDARK: Bounty project canceled
The bounty project for releasing the game engine AmiDARK (amiga-news.de reported) was canceled because a donator did reverse his financial contribution and thus the minimum amount has not been achieved.
Before the source code was made available to the donators which proved some problems. After canceling the project, the donators have been informed by power2people.org via e-mail.
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13.Feb.2015
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Hyperion declared bankrupt
According to the Belgian bankruptcy register faillissementsdossier.be, Hyperion has been declared bankrupt by a court in Brussels on January 27, 2015. There is no further information available about the proceedings at this point.
Hyperion was established in 1999 to port commercial games to smaller systems like AmigaOS and Linux. In 2001, the company became responsible for the further development of AmigaOS. According to our information, the last directors of Hyperion were Ben Hermans and Timothy DeGroote. (cg)
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13.Feb.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: exFATFileSystem 53.7
The file system exFAT requires the "Final Edition" of AmigaOS 4.1. Some input and output operations are supposed to be faster than NTFS3G. Besides, the file system uses case insensitive file names. The source code is included.
Download: exfatfs.lha (178 KB)
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13.Feb.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: English-language issue of REV'n'GE 27
Under the title link, issue 27 of the Italian PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") has been published in an English-language translation.
The game reviews compare the releases of classic games between different former platforms.
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11.Feb.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Nintendo-Emulator FCEU 1.6
Kelly Samel has released a new version of his MorphOS-port of FCE Ultra, which is an emulator of the Nintendo-Entertainment-Systems (NES). The author wrote about it: "FCEU currently has great compatibility, sound support, save ram and save state support."
Version 1.6 includes a new emulation core, which now works with the ROM-hack "Zelda: The Legend Of Link". You can get further information under the title link.
Changes in version 1.6:
- Updated emulation core to fceu_mm latest svn build
- Updated all mappers to latest fceux versions
- Fixed mmc5 register $5130 emulation
- Legend Of Link rom hack now works
- Doubled sound output
- Fixed a file requestor crash
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10.Feb.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKitReal 8.2
AmiKitReal is a version of the Workbench distribution AmiKit meant for real Amigas and now is available as version 8.2.
Additional to the new features of AmiKit, MacLikeDock and updates of RandomFile and MMULib are included which have been integrated into MorpheuZ. THe global MUI-preferences, Better Config and BDSlide have been reworked as well.
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08.Feb.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.02.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 7th, 2015:
PowerAmiga5.zip demo/mag 733K 68k Russian Amiga E-Magazine, iss...
Kaleidoscopycus.lha demo/misc 309K 68k Psychedelic Quatrtals and Cyc...
ADE.zip dev/gcc 18M 68k GCC based Amiga Development E...
hyphen-2.8.8.lha dev/lib 746K MOS use converted TeX hyphenation...
libmikmod-morphos.lha dev/lib 1.3M MOS Module player library: mod,s3...
dogma13.lha docs/mags 50M Ukrainian magazine, HTML (10....
foo2zjs.lha driver/pri 3.4M MOS Convert images to ZJ-stream f...
WormWars.lha game/actio 788K 68k Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.0M OS4 Advanced snake game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 314K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
AssaultCubeReloaded26... game/shoot 68M x86 First-person shooter
ODAMEX_AGA.lha game/shoot 8.2M 68k Amiga port of Odamex v0.6.4
ODAMEX_RTG.lha game/shoot 8.2M 68k Amiga port of Odamex v0.6.4
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Becomes_the_Mix.lha mods/xm 6.5M New Mod By Pseudaxos
68010iob.lha pix/3dobj 500K Imagine: Motorola 68010 Gold ...
6888xiob.lha pix/3dobj 1.8M Imagine: Motorola FPUs w/socket
ToolsMenu.lha util/cdity 40K 68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
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08.Feb.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.02.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 7th, 2015:
reactive_crypto.lha dri/mis 33kb 4.1 Hashing classes for Reactive
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
rcube.lha gra/mis 18kb 4.1 Showing a moving GLCube
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 202kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
d_cmd.lha uti/she 3kb 4.1 D is a small shell util for list...
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 13kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
contextmenus_4.1fe_it... uti/wor 16kb 4.1 Italian catalog for ContextMenus
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08.Feb.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 1
The new podcast "AmiCast" held an interview with Jan Zahurancik (Workbench distribution AmiKit). (snx)
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08.Feb.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Collection of tools zTools 1.4
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated his commercial collection of tools "zTools". Version 1.4, which exclusively is distributed via the Amistore, includes updates of aTunes, NetDock, WebReplay, FastView and FlipPaper.
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08.Feb.2015
Amiga.org (website)
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PDF magazine: English translation of REV'n'GE 26
Issue 26 of the italian PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") has been translated into english and can be downloaded at the title link.
The game reviews do also compare the releases for different platforms of the 1980s and 1990s. (snx)
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08.Feb.2015
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Results of the Amiga Games Award 2014
On February 7th 2015, the french magazine Obligement announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2014. This represents the best Amiga games voted by Amigans from all Amiga platforms.
AmigaOS (68k):
- Tales Of Gorluth: The Tear Stone Saga (Amiworx Software, Patrick Nevian)
- Renegade Deluxe 2014 (Kevin Darbyshire, Wayne Ashworth)
- Smurf Rescue (Mikael Persson)
AmigaOS 4:
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Raven Software/LucasArts)
- Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast (Raven Software/LucasArts)
- Ace Of Hearts (Cherry Darling)
MorphOS:
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Raven Software/LucasArts)
- Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast (Raven Software/LucasArts)
- Amazing Voxel Bird Saga (Cherry Darling)
AROS:
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Raven Software/LucasArts)
- Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast (Raven Software/LucasArts)
- Amazing Voxel Bird Saga (Cherry Darling)
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