10.May.2015
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: Aros Vision X86 1.0
As announced, there are now different versions of Olaf Schönweiß' AROS/68k-distribution "Aros Vision". Aros Vision X86 is based on the Windows-hosted version of AROS, that means it can be started as application under Windows without using VMware or having some special hardware (screenshot). The disadvantage: So far sound or network are not supported.
The distribution is based on Magellan featuring some major improvements, supports Mesa/Gallium and includes the game engine Antiryad (a debug-requester will appear but it does work), Free Pascal, many emulators, some games and many applications like AmiFIG or Lunapaint.
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10.May.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood Player 6.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce that the Hollywood Player is now also available in version 6.0 for all platforms supported by Hollywood (AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS PPC & x86, Linux PPC & x86 & ARM, Android).
With the Hollywood Player software authors can choose to distribute their programs as Hollywood applets instead of stand-alone executables. In contrast to stand-alone executables, Hollywood applets are universally executable which has the advantage that you don't have to compile your programs for as much as almost a dozen of different platforms but just one Hollywood applet is already sufficient. The end-user then simply has to install the Hollywood Player compatible with his platform and can run the Hollywood applet with it. Another advantage is that applets are much smaller than stand-alone executables compiled by Hollywood. While stand-alone executables often take up as much as 2 MB for only very few lines of code, Hollywood applets are very compact and often consist of only a few kilobytes. A last advantage is that programs distributed as Hollywood applets will automatically profit from improvements and bug fixes in newer versions of the Hollywood Player while programs distributed as stand-alone executables would have to be completely recompiled with each new Hollywood update in order to profit from improvements and bug fixes.
As its very name implies, the Hollywood Player can only be used to run applets compiled by Hollywood. It obviously cannot be used to create your own programs. You will still need the full version of Hollywood to create your own programs, of course.
On all Amiga compatibles, Hollywood Player installs itself to SYS:Utilities to be globally available as a default tool for Hollywood applets. Software authors choosing to distribute their programs as Hollywood applets can then simply set the default tool for their applets to "HollywoodPlayer" and inform the user to install the Hollywood Player before attempting to run the program.
The Hollywood Player is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal for a wide range of architectures and comes with three demo applets to show its capabilities.
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10.May.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.05.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 9th, 2015:
APX-Reborn_final.lha demo/intro 65K ppc REBORN by APPENDIX
jrm-hc72.lha demo/sound 512K ppc dA JoRMaS: H?pyCarva #72
LeakWatch.lha dev/debug 7K MOS Show deltas of resources usage
AbbayeDesMorts.lha game/actio 558K MOS Abbaye Des Morts game for Amiga
webptools_aros.lha gfx/conv 2.8M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
26letters.lha mods/jorma 220K 26 Letters by Vesuri (from JR...
Fear.lha mods/xm 4.9M New Mod By Pseudaxos
The_Intruder.lha mods/xm 5.2M New Mod By Pseudaxos
U_re_too_close.lha mods/xm 8.1M New Mod By Pseudaxos
U_re_too_close_Rework... mods/xm 8.1M New mod by Pseudaxos
engrus.hash.lha text/misc 2.4M iSpell English-Russian Dictio...
EvenMore_DE.lha text/show 4K Unofficial German catalog for...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 437K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 462K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 531K OS4 Multipurpose utility
Daywatch.lha util/time 153K 68k Powerful MUI calendar & r...
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10.May.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.05.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 9th, 2015:
abbayedesmorts.lha gam/act 558kb 4.0 An old school game like Ghost'n ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 531kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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10.May.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.05.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until May 9th, 2015:
xkoch.i386-aros.zip gra/mis 184kb Create koch fractals.
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10.May.2015
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WHDLoad: New archives until 09.05.2015
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 installer has been added until May 9th, 2015:
- 2015-05-04 improved: A-Train (Maxis) OS swap reduced a lot, custom3 option added (Info)
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10.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Another bounty project for developing free software
Under the title link, Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy has established another bounty project which is supposed to provide money to developers of free MorphOS software. The names of the developers are listed under the title link.
If you are going to donate you can do that using the PayPal-link on the home page of the user group WArMUp. So far 57 Euro have been donated.
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10.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Game: Meteor Defender
Meteor Defender is a little arcade game written in AMOS. In this game you have to shoot a meteorites before they have damaged the protective shield of a town so that it will be destroyed (screenshot).
Download
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10.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ABIv1 Snapshots
Under the title link, Matthias 'mazze' Rustler has provided ABIv1 snapshots for 68k and x86 from external sources. Programmes which are maintained or ported by other developers are not included.
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10.May.2015
Achim Kern (ANF)
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Hollywood: Programming course SmartHome
Under the title link, Achim Kern has started a project for controlling a SmartHome. As software Hollywood 6 is used. As hardware, an Amiga as well as a Arduino Mega 2560, LEDs and resistors are required.
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07.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Linux: openSUSE 13.2 for AmigaOne X1000
For users of the AmigaOne X1000, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has ported the Linux distribution openSuSE. He wrote: "Be aware, that openSUSE is experimental and isn't supported. openSUSE for the X1000 is alpha software! It's only for testing!" English-language installation hints you can find under the title link.
Download: openSUSE-13.2-1-x1000-ppc64.tar.gz (1 GB)
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05.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: AmiWest 2015 (16.-18. October)
This year the AmiWest will take place in Sacramento (California) from October 16 to 18 in the hotel "Holiday Inn Express", 2224 Auburn Boulevard. On October 15, Steven Solie will organize a seminar on programming C with AmigaOS-4.
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05.May.2015
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Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 114
Today the German and English issue 114 (May/June 2015) of the magazine Amiga Future has been published and can be ordered directly from the magazine's editorial office or Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Among other articles the current issue contains the second part of the interview with Cherry Darling, a review of Swamp Defense 2 and a report from the demo scene.
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05.May.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix releases mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last message the following songs have been added:
- Shadow of the Beast 3 - Intro (Jungle Mix)
- Turrican Medley (1-3 Main Theme)
- Bubble Bobble - Theme Remix
- Agony - Loading Sea (Trip Hop Mix)
- Lotus III Theme
- Galactic: The Xmas Edition - Ingame
- Battle Squadron title screen
- Chambers of Shaolin - Trapped in China
- Lemmings Medley Remix
- Flashback Holocube Slaygon
- Clairvoyance by Absolute! - Just A Dream
- The Town With No Name (country mix)
- Apidya - Meadows Edge 1-3
- Weird Dreams (2015 dark mix)
- Treasures of the Savage Frontier
- Bubba'N'Stix Part 2 Remix
- Xenon2 2010 Remix
- Shadow of the Beast
- Shadow of the Beast III
- STATIX - Against Time
- Shadow of the Beast - Death Scene
- Hymn To Aurora
- Turrican - Techno Dungeon
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05.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (since 27.04.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of April 27th:
- Development of AROS kernel for Raspberry Pi port continues (mschulz, Kalamatee)
- Work on per CPU core of handling of SysBase for AROS ARM kernel started (Kalamatee)
- Work on task scheduler for AROS ARM kernel started (Kalamatee)
- Accessing the current task has been cleaned up in exec.library codes (mschulz)
- task.resource module has been introduced to allow access to AROS-specific task information (Kalamatee)
- C:TaskList has been updated to use task.resource (Kalamatee)
- task.resource has been extended with functionality of querying task lists (Kalamatee)
- AROS ARM kernel now records start time and running time of task (Kalamatee)
- Support for spinlock primitive has been added to AROS kernel (Kalamatee)
- Basic support for Inter-processor Interrupts implemented in AROS ARM kernel (mschulz)
- AMR-specific implementation of spinlocks has been added to AROS kernel (mschulz)
- AHCI driver no longer constantly mounts/unmounts the medium (dizzyofcrn)
- Crashes and memory leaks have been fixed in AROS Vim port (mazze)
- xxd tool is now build together with Vim (mazze)
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04.May.2015
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: Aros Vision 2.9.3 RTG
Major changes in version 2.9.3 of Olaf Schönweiß's AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision RTG are that MESA/Gallium is activated by default and that it uses Zune instead of MUI (MUI can be activated if necessary).
MESA/Gallum needs 256 MB RAM, works only with more than 16 Bit colour depth and is still slow - but it works. The maintainer hopes this will motivate 68k developers to help with further work. Since Zune now is used as standard, more and more AROS applications can be integrated in future.
Changes:
- All system files updated
- Zune and MESA/Gallium activated
- Netsurf updated (much faster)
- Themes added
- Development (GCC) updated
- Most files from contrib/ports (Aros) integrated
- ZuneView added
- OWB (old AROS port) works again
- FlashMandelNG added
- Free Pascal updated (to version 3.1)
- AmiBlitz updated (newest snapshot)
- WHDLoad updated
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04.May.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hollywood: APPBuilder 1.1
The programm APPBuilder written by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci simplifies it compiling Hollywood-programms (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.1 now also works if there is a space in the source or destination path.
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04.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: MPlayer-Bounty
Under the title link a bounty project was established to optimize the MPlayer-port of Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate (amiga-news.de reported) for AmigaOS 4.1. Some functions are supposed to be added which the AmigaOS-4-port of MUI-MPlayer written by Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly and originally developed for MorphOS already have - except some OS4-specific video drivers.
Among others the picture-in-picture bug of Picasso96 is supposed to be fixed, FFmpeg integrated and menus and drag and drop implemented. 1.600 US-Dollar is required, currently so far 1.380 Dollar has been donated.
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04.May.2015
Amiga-Arena (ANF)
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Amiga-Arena: Ali Baba (full version)
Olaf Köbnik wrote: In the year 2000, the developer Nabil Gonem released his low-bugdet game Ali Baba. In 2001 the Amiga-Arena got the permission to offer Ali Baba as full version for download. Unfortunately at that moment the developer had sold his Amiga and did not own his game.
Amiga-Arena could not find the full version of the game because the game hardly was sold. Only now the disk version was found and now is available for download.
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03.May.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 02.05.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 2nd, 2015:
AbbayeDesMorts.lha game/actio 555K 68k Abbaye Des Morts game for Amiga
webptools_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.3M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
DezHexBin2.lha misc/math 36K 68k Convert integers <-> bi...
PDFToolkit.lha text/dtp 861K MOS split, merge and overlay pdf ...
Dev-Handler.lha util/sys 22K 68k Un*x like raw device access h...
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03.May.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.05.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 2nd, 2015:
adripper.lha aud/mis 911kb 4.1 Audio CD grabber and encoder
adripper_ell.lha aud/mis 3kb 4.1 Greek catalog file for ADRipper
libcddb.lha dev/lib 126kb 4.0 A library to access data on CDDB
bintoc.lha dev/mis 21kb 4.0 Binary to C source converter
mmkeyboard.lha dri/inp 630kb 4.0 Multimedia keyboard driver
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
abbayedesmorts.lha gam/act 555kb 4.0 An old school game like Ghost'n ...
amicraft.lha gam/mis 316kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
loview.lha gra/vie 5Mb 4.0 The Easy Viewer & Thumber :)
dopus4.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.0 Directory Opus 4 : legendary fil...
ejecttool.lha uti/mis 17kb 4.0 Load/Eject/Toggle drive tray com...
meridian.lha uti/mis 366kb 4.0 PDA like input system
r.lha uti/mis 193kb 4.0 Just in time GUIs for nearly any...
pdftoolkit.lha uti/tex 861kb 4.1 Pdf toolkit to split, merge and ...
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03.May.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.05.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until May 2nd, 2015:
vor.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 728kb Dodge space rocks until you die.
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03.May.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 02.05.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until May 2nd, 2015:
gtalk.module 1.1 net/cha 53 A plugin for KwaKwa instant...
jabber.module 1.1 net/cha 42 A module for KwaKwa instant...
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03.May.2015
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WHDLoad: New archives until 02.05.2015
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 May 2nd, 2015:
- 2015-04-29 improved: Golden Axe (Virgin) supports Arcade SEGA Hits version, better CD³² buttons read routine (Info)
- 2015-04-26 improved: Colossus Chess X (CDS) supports another version (Info)
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02.May.2015
amiga.org (Webseite)
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English interview with Cherry Darling
The latest issue of the Hungarian magazine Amiga Mania also includes an interview with the developer team Cherry Darling. The editorial staff has published the original, English-language interview as a preview to the forthcoming English-language issue of the Amiga Mania.
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02.May.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 32 (Italian/English)
Issue 32 of the Italian PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian and English. The game reviews of the REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games between different former platforms.
Download sites:
Englich
Italian
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02.May.2015
amiga.org (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: Amiga Mania #9 (Hungarian)
"Amiga Mania" is an elaborately designed Hungarian PDF-magazine with 36 pages concentrating on all topics around the Amiga. The ninth issue among others includes reports about Wings Battlefield, AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and the FPGA-computer MIST.
Download: Amiga Mania 09_OnLine.pdf (113 MB)
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01.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hollywood: APPBuilder 1.0
The APPBuilder simplifies it compiling Hollywood-programs. Using its user-interface you can e.g. choose the target platform or the required plugins with a mouse click (screenshot). You can also choose non-Hollywood components which are supposed to be added - e.g. readme files - in this way.
Besides, the finished project can be compressed as archive if 7-Zip is installed on the computer. APPBuilder is shareware, but fully usable without registration, and can be downloaded under the title link as well as from the IndieGO!-appstore.
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01.May.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.
- March/April 2015 news.
- Old articles from Amiga News 69 to 71: Review of DICE Pro 3.0, Hardware: Warp Engine 4028, Review of SAS C 6.50, Review of Scala MM300, Review of TVPaint 3.0, Report: Amiga at CERN, Hardware: Amiga 4000/040LC, Review of Imagine 3.0, File: History of computer science, etc.
- Interview with Laurent Parisot (founder of Amiga Rescue Team).
- Interview with Gary Peake (member of Amiga Inc., from 2000).
- Review of Duck Tales: The Quest for Gold.
- Review of Shell 53.15 from AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.
- Review of SMTube.
- Review of Flight Of The Amazon Queen.
- Report: Amiga in north american schools.
- Programmation: Assembleur (remake of Shadow Of The Beast).
- DIY: plug an external screen on PowerBook G4.
- Tutorial: how to crack the game Deliverance.
- Tutorial: how to crack the game Rick Dangerous 2.
- Tutorial: configuration of X-bEnCh.
- Special quizz about RPG.
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01.May.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Free downloads: Sharks!, Beneath a Steel Sky, Danger Dogg, Fussball Total
On the Amiga Arena website, the games Sharks!, Beneath a Steel Sky (HD-version with English voice output), Danger Dogg and Fussball Total are available as free downloads again.
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01.May.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 87
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers, which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag.
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01.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Text editor EdiSyn 0.52
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntax highlighting for C/C++, Pascal and HTML. From version 0.52 on, different fonts can be chosen (screenshot). Highlighting all search results have been already introduced in version 0.51.
Download: EdiSyn_0.52.lha (3 MB)
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