21.Dec.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amigakit: A4 calendar 2015 with Amiga(One)-theme
Amigakit offers a calendar, format A4 (spiral bound), which has different Amiga and AmigaOne themes.
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21.Dec.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.12.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until December 20th, 2014:
ADE.zip dev/gcc 19M 68k Complete GCC 2.95.3 Amiga Dev...
LoveDungeon_1.0_disk.adf game/actio 880K 68k Mini-game, Bruce Lee spin-off
LoveDungeon_1.0_exe.lha game/actio 30K 68k Mini-game, Bruce Lee spin-off
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 10M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 108K 68k ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pentagon1...
68030.lha pix/3dobj 1.0M Motorola 68030 object for Ima...
EvenMore.lha text/show 426K 68k V0.83: Freeware textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 458K MOS V0.83: Freeware Textviewer (M...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 437K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 490K MOS Multipurpose utility
layers.lha util/sys 206K 68k Layers Library V45 for Os 3.9
HexViewSP.lha util/wb 2K HexView spanish catalog v1.1
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21.Dec.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.12.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until December 20th, 2014:
4096live.lha aud/mis 966kb 4.1 Software synth interface for liv...
arteffect4_icons.lha gra/ico 25kb 4.0 AISS based replacement for AE4 T...
hottiesview.lha gra/vie 180kb 4.1 A modern image viewer
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21.Dec.2014
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 20.12.2014
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archiven until December 20th, 2014:
cadog.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 6Mb OpenGL platform game.
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21.Dec.2014
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WHDLoad: New archives until 20.12.2014
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 December 20th, 2014:
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19.Dec.2014
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit 8.1 and AmiKitReal 8.1
The Workbench distribution for emulators, called AmiKit, as well as its version AmiKitReal for real Amigas, now are available in version 8.1. Among others MUI, AHI, IconLib and WHDLoad have been updated.
Changes:
- UPDATED: MUI 4.0 (r4283) by Stefan Stuntz, Thore Böckelmann and Jens Maus
- UPDATED: AHI Prefs 6.2
- UPDATED: AmiKit Android application
- UPDATED: AmiKit AmiPUP ISO 8.1
- UPDATED: AmiKit MorpheuZ 2.1, now displays BETA message if DOpus 5.91 is active
- UPDATED: Icon images are now stored in FastMem instead of ChipMem (Prefs/Workbench)
- UPDATED: IconLib 46.4.404 by Peter Keunecke
- UPDATED: Wet 6.4 by Chris Young
- UPDATED: WHDLoad 18.0 by Bert Jahn
- FIXED: BDSlide doesn't appear any more if screen mode is changed
- FIXED: Minor bug in NetSurf options fixed
- FIXED: Polish font error requester won't complain again
- FIXED: AmiTradeCenter icon works with icon.library now
- FIXED: Internal error if installing AmiKit on Android is fixed, again :)
- FIXED: WHDLoad is no more overwritten with older version if AmigaForever is used to install AmiKit
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19.Dec.2014
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.84
EvenMore is a text viewer written with ECX, in Amiga E and by Chris Perver. In version 0.84 now the text is rendered in true colour on computer systems with a graphic board which speeds them up.
Download:
EvenMore.lha (426 KB)
EvenMore_MOS.lha (461 KB)
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19.Dec.2014
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 112 - Preview and excerpts online
A preview and some excerpts of the upcoming issue 112 (January/February 2015) of Amiga Future magazine have been released. Highlights of this issue are a review of the "Final Edition" of AmigaOS 4.1 as well as an interview on it. Additionally there is a review of the USB controller RapidRoad.
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19.Dec.2014
Hyperion Entertainment CVBA (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition now shipping
Press release: Brussels, December 18, 2014 - Hyperion Entertainment is thrilled to announce shipment of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition to dealers has been started. This means that the first customers will get their own copy of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition right before christmas, just in time to put it underneath the christmas tree.
Since the initial release of AmigaOS 4.1 more than six years ago, functionality and user experience have been steadily improved by six free major updates and over 88 free smaller ones through AmiUpdate. AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition defines the new baseline by consolidating all previous updates, bringing new long awaited features and stability improvements and last but not least enabling the user to make a clean installation in one go. Additionally it comes professionally produced as full version on physical media in a nice DVD box, together with a booklet containing installation instruction as well as a little extra for only EUR 29.95 suggested retail price (incl. VAT, may very on your location).
AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition is currently available for:
- AmigaOne XE, SE und MicroA1
- AmigaOne X1000
- AmigaOne 500/Sam460
- Sam440
- Pegasos 2
- Amiga 1200/3000/4000
Customers can find a list of possible dealers at amigaos.net. Interested dealers can register themselves and order AmigaOS by writing to orders@hyperion-entertainment.biz.
Hyperion Entertainment and the whole team behind AmigaOS wish a merry christmas, happy new year and lots of fun with AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition! (snx)
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18.Dec.2014
Djprosac (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 3.0.0 with PowerPC emulation
Version 3.0.0 of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released. The main new feature is the PowerPC emulation of a PowerPC accelerator board which first was introduced in the beta versions.
New emulated hardware:
- PPC CPU emulation. CyberStorm PPC and Blizzard PPC boards emulated
using QEMU PPC core, on-board SCSI supported
- Other accelerator boards emulated (Blizzards, CyberStorms, Warp
Engine, TekMagic, A2630), including on-board SCSI if available
- More SCSI expansion boards emulated (Fastlane, Oktagon, Blizzard Kit IV)
- CD32 Full Motion Video cartridge emulation
- CDTV-CR emulation
- A590 XT hard drive emulation
New features:
- Show on screen message when disk or CD is inserted or ejected or input
device is autoswitched
- Added null serial port mode that connects two WinUAE instances running
on same PC
- Fastest possible CPU speed mode is now available with cycle-exact mode,
CPU is fastest possibly, only chip memory and chipset is cycle-exact
- Immediate blitter is available in cycle-exact modes
- 68040/060 with more compatible emulates instruction cache, MMU supported
- 68000/68010 + 32-bit address space is supported
- Optionally game controllers can be kept active when WinUAE does not have focus
- Implemented secondary Z2 RAM board, for example 6M Z2 RAM + 2M Z2 RTG board combination is now possible
- Added "history" menu to filesystem, hardfile and tape drive path selection
- Added CDTV/CDTV-CR/CD32 turbo CD read mode
- Multiple SCSI controllers can be active simultaneously
Updates:
- Programmed chipset display modes accuracy improved
- Uncompressed CHD harddrive image write support
- Implemented previously unavailable small Z2 RAM board sizes (64k to 512k)
- Z3 board emulation supports official autoconfig space, required when using PPC-only operating systems
- 68000 cycle exact mode updates
- Improved cycle counting in 68000 more compatible mode
Bugs fixed:
- 68060 with "Unimplemented CPU emu" checkbox ticked: 68060 only unimplemented instructions were not emulated normally
- Screenshot with D3D shader filter enabled always took filtered screenshot
- SCSI CD READ CD command only worked if audio track was first track of CD
- Hard reset didn't reset map rom loaded KS ROM data
- AGA sprites in borders were clipped incorrectly in some situations (2.8.0)
- Autofire always on mode crashed
- PCMCIA IDE emulation was broken long time ago
- uanet.device + slirp combination was unusable
- Directory filesystem statesave support open file path handling fixed
- AVI audio recording always used PCM mode
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14.Dec.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.12.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until December 13th, 2014:
PPaintRUS.lha biz/cloan 50K Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c+ ...
jrm-dulu.lha demo/sound 47K 68k dA JoRMaS: Dunne Lul
libaiff.lha dev/lib 147K OS4 Read/write aiff files
AB3Dedit_src.lha dev/src 149K Alien Breed 3D II LevelEditor...
AntiPC.lha game/shoot 295K 68k Destroy the Amiga worst enemy!
harmonyplayer.i386-ar... mus/play 1.3M x86 multi format music player
CL_WB_Wallp_16.9.lha pix/back 5.4M ppc Classic_WB_Wallp_16.9
InstallerGen.lha util/misc 167K 68k Installer script creation tool
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14.Dec.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.12.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until December 13th, 2014:
libaiff.lha dev/lib 147kb 4.0 Read/write aiff files
askmeup_demo.lha gam/mis 18Mb 4.1 A video game about general knowl...
l2cache.lha uti/she 61kb 4.1 A utility to increase performanc...
smtube.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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14.Dec.2014
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 13.12.2014
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archiven until December 13th, 2014:
harmonyplayer.i386-aros.zip aud 1Mb multi format music player
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14.Dec.2014
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS: AEROS for Amiqube available
For the amiqube, the Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS now is available - either under the title link (Amiqube) or in the indieGO!-Appstore.
amiqube is the CuBox-i (Wikipedia), which is an ARM-based, small-sized computer. The processor is an i.MX6 Dual Lite. According to their own statements, the amiqube is put on the market by Amidore Inc. and also is available in three stores in Florida, USA. This is an Italian company belonging to Formato Media SRL based in Rome.
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14.Dec.2014
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #3 - The Peruvian Scene
Also in Peru there has been an Amiga scene. The C64 podcast Scene World talks to Lobsang 'Mr. Byte' Alvites, who had been involved in establishing it. (snx)
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13.Dec.2014
ACube Systems (ANF)
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ACube Systems: L2 cache utility for Sam460/AmigaOne 500
One week ago already ACube Systems released a small utility that may increase performance on the Sam460/AmigaOne 500. The utility works on both, Sam460ex and Sam460cr boards.
To avoid incoherency between L2 cache and main memory, on Sam460 CPU the AmigaOS 4.1 kernel disables L2 cache write by default. On your own risk you can activate L2 cache write now, but it is suggested to do so only in advance of performance-intensive tasks like watching videos. Afterwards, L2 cache write should be switched off again.
Please be aware that activating L2 cache write may cause system instability and/or data corruption. On the other hand, once L2 cache write is enabled, Ragemem will report around 35% speed increase in the L2 WRITE32/WRITE64 tests, and some applications may see improved performance too (for example 3-5% speed increase in MPlayer with some videos).
Download: L2cache-1.0.lha (61 KB) (snx)
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11.Dec.2014
MorphZone (Forum)
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A-EON Technology acquires Aladdin 4D
A-EON Technology has purchased the AmigaOS source code and development rights for the raytracing and animation programm Aladdin 4D from DiscreetFX. Versions for MorphOS and AROS might be also possible. DiscreetFX will retain the rights for non-Amiga related operating systems.
Aladdin 4D "was originally created by Greg Gorby before being acquired by DiscreetFX in December 2007."
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10.Dec.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS bounty: MPlayer Altivec optimization
Konstantinos 'feanor' Margaritis would optimize the PPC-port of MPlayer for the Altivec-unit built in G4-, G5- and PA6T-processors, if 1000 Euro will be donated. A corresponding bounty now was opened at bountysource.com.
The goal of the optimization is to be able to perfectly play the h264-coded trailer of the motion picture Prometheus in a solution of 1920x1080 pixels on a X1000 - currently only 18 instead of the required 24 frames per second are achieved. If a Altivec optimization is able to increase the performance by 33% and how much influence on less powerful processors it would have, currently the software developer cannot reckon.
The description of the bounty does not say for which systems the optimization has to be released. Margaritis does not own an OS4-compatible computer, but only a Powerbook G4.
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10.Dec.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop Update 2.0.1
In version 2.0.1 Paolo Besser has fixed some bugs in his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop.
Changes:
- ntfs.handler moved to Storage/L (for new installations only)
- AROS system files brought to Dec 6th, 2014 Nightly Build
- SVN executables brought back to Development:bin
- Updated AntiryadIDE with a working version (see screenshot above)
- HDToolBox now shows drives connected to AHCI device (fixed missing icon tooltype)
- removed offending duplicated Datatype.info file
- fixed noacpi issue
- fixed regression: running AmiBridge at startup will work again
- fixed regression: Icaros will try to fall back to VESA mode first when selecting Native option in grub, like older Icaros (for new installations only)
- fixed Theme preferences
- removed offending (not working and crashing aros) themes
- added AmigaOS 3.1 theme
- fixed a bug preventing AROS68K from running, if themes were disabled in host environment
- updated ZuneFig and ZuneView to latest releases
- added "Prefs" option to Icaros menu in Magellan
- fixed ZuneView option in Magellan's "Programs" menu
- added a new version of WeatherBar
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10.Dec.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.2.1
Version 2.2.1 of the commercial game "Ask me Up" is available. The update of the video game about general knowledge includes some minor improvements and translations into other languages:
- Game: the animation speed of results can be accelerated/decelerated by [Ctrl] key
- Quiz: medals are now displayed as soon as they are won during the game
- Map: "medal" score of the player is now displayed
- Map: the best player in the world is displayed with its "medal" score
- Map: You can browse the worlds by pressing the up/down arrow keys
- Some questions fixed
- Fully translated into Spanish and Greek (in addition to French, English and Italian)
- New translations in Swedish, Portuguese and Polish added
- Spanish, Greek and Polish localizations improved
- Help file now also available in Spanish, Polish and Greek
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10.Dec.2014
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiTCP-Bundle: EasyNet Pro
EasyNet was an user-interface which should simplify the configuration of network hardware. The successor EasyNet Pro now includes a separated TCP-stack - AmiTCP 4 is used.
EasyNet Pro is available in the Amigakit-webshop or in Amistore. Owners of the previous version can purchase a price-reduced update to the Pro-version.
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10.Dec.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Creating Installer-scripts: InstallerGen 1.1
Using InstallerGen, developers can create installer scripts for their programms for the Commodore-installer. The programm has a MUI user-interface. AmigaOS 3.0 as well as the MUI-class NList.mcc are required.
Changes of this version:
- Locale support with German and French catalogs included
- Variable support for paths in Version, Delete, exists and Rename step types
- Fixed Delete & Exists steps
- Context-sensitive help
- Improved and fixed guide
- Improved variables list (updates in real-time, excludes literal strings)
- GUI updates optimised, much faster redrawing on classics and much reduced jittering
- Fixed a couple of enforcer hits
- Lots more bug fixes and improvements...
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10.Dec.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 18.0
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.
Changes of version 18.0:
- fix:WHDLoad lock up happen when FullChip/S is used and
exec.MaxLocMem is equal to BaseMemSize fixed
- fix:ExpChip/S and FullChip/S cannot be enabled together, if both
are set FullChip/S will be silently disabled (Psygore)
- chg:option NoTrapHandler/S has been removed
- fix:race condition fixed which sometimes caused a 'Privilege
Violation Exception' when a Resload function was called from
Usermode and got interrupted during the internal switch to
Supervisor mode and then trace exception was used from the
installed program, seen especially in installs using kick13
emu and performing a lot of disk io, fixes issue #2094 and
connected ones
- chg:the log file created by the FileLog/S facility has been
renamed from .whdl_filelog to .whdl_log
- new:function resload_Log which puts custom messages into the log
file .whdl_log, uses the same file as the FileLog/S facility
and requires that FileLog/S option is set so that messages
will be written
this function is intended to make it easier to debug/follow
alien code by adding trace messages to dump the execution
state at useful places
- new:option LogBuffer/K/N to control the size of the internal
buffer allocated for log messages by FileLog/S and
resload_Log
- new:function resload_VSNPrintF implementing a exec.RawDoFmt/
sprintflike string formatting routine
- new:kickfs.s has new option SNOOPFS which will cause in
conjunction with HDINIT all dos packets after processing to
be logged using resload_Log, the supplied perl script
chkunlock.pl can be used to search the log file for missing
dos.UnLock and dos.Close calls
- new:using the function resload_Control and the tags
WHDLTAG_CUST_DISABLE/READ/WRITE/STROBE the allowed custom
registers for Snoop*/S can be modified now
- chg:ReSource support files updated to cover recent WHDLoad
extensions
- new:added XAD support to the installer template script
- chg:external program SP to save pictures from dump files has been
improved to better support AGA screens (ddf, fmode, bplcon)
- chg:on the 68030 the instruction burst is now always enabled if
the instruction cache is enabled (Psygore)
- chg:the 68040 processor is now fully supported regarding the
special mmu features (Snoop, resload_Protect), the
implementation was planned since years, it was a lot of work
becausethe handling is very different to the 68030 und 68060,
although I'm unsure if this feature will be used much, I'm
happy to have it completed now
- chg:option ChkAudPt/S is also supported on the 68030 and 68040 now
- chg:the interrupt redirect feature of ACA500/Zeus is not used when
option NoVBRMove/S is set
- chg:PreloadSize/N will also be set by WHDLoad if ws_DontCache is
used in the Slave
some more end user related improvements are planned for the next
release :-)
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