28.Nov.2014
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Hardware-Review: USB-card RapidRoad
In an article on amiga.org, "Oldsmobile_Mike" has described his experiences with the RapidRoad USB-card developed by Individual Computers.
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[News message: 28. Nov. 2014, 21:48] [Comments: 0]
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28.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Old instructional videos (in German) for Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000 digitized
With the kind permission of the executive producer Bernd Weyrauch, the Amiga user AmigaGTI could digitize two old instructional videos about the AGA-Amigas and publish them on Youtube:
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[News message: 28. Nov. 2014, 18:09] [Comments: 0]
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27.Nov.2014
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A-EON buys Personal Paint, full version removed from Aminet (2nd Update)
In a joint press release, A-EON and Cloanto announce that A-EON will exclusively develop and distribute all future versions of Cloanto's paint program Personal Paint. PPaint 7.3 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 is currently available through Amistore, the press release also mentions potential ports to AROS and MorphOS. Cloanto will continue to distribute version 7.2 with Amiga Forever.
At the request of the copyright holders, the full version of Personal Paint, which had been released on Aminet 17 years ago, has been removed from the archive yesterday. Approached by Amiga-News, Trevor Dickinson from A-EON states that they "plan to offer free downloads of historical Classic versions in the future".
Update: (28.11.2014, 19:10, cg)
While at least one administrator of an Aminet mirror who hadn't removed the file yet, has apparently been contacted individually in the meantime, A-EON has now created a download page for the old Personal Paint 7.1c at ppaint.amistore.net.
2nd Update: (30.11.14, 09:22, snx)
Also at Cloanto version 7.1c of PPaint can be downloaded. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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25.Nov.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Mediator driver: Mediator Multimedia CD UP 2.3
For registered users of the PCI-busboards Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 TX, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200LT4, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI 1200LT and Mediator PCI ZIV, version 2.3 of the MM CD 2.0 update is available.
Changes in this update:
- pci.library 9.10: includes new procedures for allocation of the DMA buffers for PCI cards working in the busmaster mode.
- pci.library 9.10: New software improves timings of the PCI busmaster cards (Spider, SB4.1, SB128, FM801, TV tuner, FastEthernet) during their acesses to the DMA buffers located in the SDRAM/SGRAM memory of the PCI gfx card.
- pci.library 9.10: should solve issues of same SB128 cards in the Radeon based configurations.
- MedConfig 2.0: support for RadeonMemOS, VoodooMemOS and SpiderBuf variables has been added. New RadeonMemOS and VoodooMemOS variables allow to control the function which adds a part of gfx card SDRAM/SGRAM memory to the Amiga system memory.
- Radeon.card 2.20, Voodoo.card 4.34: support for RadeonMemOS/VoodooMemOS variables
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24.Nov.2014
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Linux: Kernel 3.18 RC6 for AmigaOne X1000
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled "release candidate 6" (RC6) of the Linux kernel 3.18 for the X1000 (changelog).
Download: vmlinux-3.18.0-rc6-KVM-PR-OVERLAYFS-AMIGA_one_X1000.tar.bz2 (8 MB)
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24.Nov.2014
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Fractal generator Fractals For SketchBlock 1.5
Andy Broad has released version 1.5 of his commercial fractal generator plugin for Sketchblock. Changes in this update:
- Themeing: if SketchBlock Lite has been purchased from AmiStore, Fractals For SketchBlock will adopt the current theme
- Smoothing: Iteration based colouring modes can now be smoothed, given even transition between colours
- Repeating Palette Mode: This new colouring mode uses one colour from the palette for each iteration step, giving greater control by allowing the user to create there own colour transitions. Works best with longer palettes with gradual colour changes (unless you want a stripey look :-)
Users who have already purchased a previous version can download the update for free from the website or the Amistore. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Nov.2014
amiga.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Text processor Calimero 0.2
Carsten Siegner is about to develop a new text processor for MorphOS. Now another alpha version of "Calimero" has been released (screenshot).
Neu in version 0.2:
- TextEdit-MUI-Class 100 % finished
- Memory-management system 100% finished
- Pagehandler + window 100% finished
- Support of Hyperlinks 100% finished
- Meta-Data Handler + window 100% finished
- AmigaGuide Exportmodul 100% finished
- MUI-GUI 99% finished
- Clipboard handler 100% finished
- Add contextmenu to textedit class
Download: Calimero_0.2.lha (123 KB)
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23.Nov.2014
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Shoot'em Up: SuperTed - The Search for Spot
SuperTed developed by Mikael 'Hipoonios' Persson using Backbone is a side scroller shooter with five levels (Youtube video). The game requires a 68030-processor, 2 MB Chip-RAM as well as 4 MB Fast-RAM.
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[News message: 23. Nov. 2014, 21:30] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2014
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS: AEROS beta version 8 for Raspberry Pi (free version)
Pascal Papara's Linux-based AROS-distribution AEROS for the small computer Raspberry Pi now is available as public beta version 8 (video). Registered users can download the new version under the title link. As usual the free version does not include the lx-command for launching Linux-programms from the Shell or the Wanderer and is available in the indieGO!-Appstore.
Changes:
- Better compatibility with different SD-cards (8 GB or more is required)
- Supports now Raspberry Pi model B+ and A
- Changed theme for Linux app to one with less hunger for ressources
- Epiphany webbrowser with HW-accelerated HTML5 (YouTube is working, HTML5 games as well)
- Latest Debian Wheezy system files
- Enabled AROS network stack at boot so games and software requiring this will work now (for example Abuse)
- Removed old unnecessary stuff
Pascal Papara has changed his Ebay offer for the new Raspberry-Pi models. He ships MicroSD-cards with adapters for the old models.
If there are any problems concerning the speed of downloads from his Appstore, he recommends to edit the chunk size in the file "app-dlm.prefs" using a text editor. Instead of using the default setting of 64, the figures 128, 256, 512 and so on can be checked out.
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[News message: 23. Nov. 2014, 18:11] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 22.11.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 22nd, 2014:
SQLMan.lha biz/dbase 7.6M MOS SQLite database manager
gTranslator.lha comm/misc 197K MOS A google translator for your ...
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.2M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
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...
xroar.lha misc/emu 775K MOS Dragon and Tandy CoCo emulator
apg.lha util/crypt 56K 68k An automated password generator
apg-source.lha util/crypt 184K An automated password generat...
sha.lha util/crypt 152K 68k File hashing utility
Click_Wit.lha util/misc 564K OS4 A fortune cookie program
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[News message: 23. Nov. 2014, 07:25] [Comments: 0]
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23.Nov.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 22.11.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 22nd, 2014:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
firefox2like_theme.lha gra/the 2Mb 4.0 Mozilla Firefox 2.x like Theme f...
hottiesview.lha gra/vie 169kb 4.1 A modern image viewer
sqlman.lha off/dat 8Mb 4.0 SQLite database manager
click_wit.lha uti/mis 564kb 4.1 A fortune cookie program for wor...
mplayer-gui.lha vid/mis 207kb 4.0 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
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23.Nov.2014
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 22.11.2014
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until November 22nd, 2014:
cblocks.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 239kb Sliding-block puzzles with ascii...
xorgramana.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 776kb Block pushing maze game.
activatewin.i386-aros.tar.gz uti/she 13kb Gives Shell some Intuition's han...
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23.Nov.2014
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WHDLoad: New packages until 22.11.2014
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 November 22nd, 2014:
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23.Nov.2014
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.82 (22.11.14)
EvenMore is a text viewer written with ECX in Amiga E developed by Chris Perver. Version 0.82 includes some bug fixes as well as improvements concerning viewing .docx-files.
Download:
EvenMore.lha (410 KB)
EvenMore_OS4.lha (440 KB)
EvenMore_MOS.lha (436 KB)
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[News message: 23. Nov. 2014, 07:20] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Database: SQLite Manager 0.2
Lázár Zoltán has released a second alpha version of his SQLite Manager (screenshot). Using this Hollywood-programm it is possible to create, open and edit databases. It is also possible to convert Open-XML spreadsheet files. The programm is available for all Amiga systems (under AROS only for x86).
"Main new feature is the ability to create queries by the SQL Select command or by interactively select corresponding items. The queries can transfer to new separate windows in any quantity."
Download: SQLMan.lha (8 MB)
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[News message: 22. Nov. 2014, 07:17] [Comments: 0]
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22.Nov.2014
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Meta compiler: PortablE r6-14-07-2013b (beta)
An update for PortablE has been released which is a fix for the latest Software Development Kit (SDK) of AmigaOS 4.1. Most likely AmiDevCpp will not compile programms for AmigaOS 4 until this compiler is also adapated to the new SDK.
Christopher Handley's meta compiler PortablE is an enhancement for the programming language Amiga E and translate it into other ones with "the aim of being portable across many platforms."
In this release 6, graphics, sound, music & GUI modules have been added. Additionally there is a PortablE-forum. First of all PortablE supports AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS, partly AmigaOS 3.x and rudimentarily Windows.
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[News message: 22. Nov. 2014, 07:07] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Clockport Expander II
Matthias Münch's "Clockport Expander II" is an adapter which can connect two clockport extensions to the clockport of an Amiga 1200. The second generation of the adapter is compatible with current busboards and other extensions, e.g. a BlizzardVision or a GRex-busboard.
On the website of the project (in German) there is a list with compatible hardware. If you are interested in the adapter then please contact Münch.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2014, 17:31] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Workbench enhancement: BetterWB 3.9
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench enhancements for AmigaOS 3.1, which are useful but rather simple and therefore require low hardware configuration.
Changes in version 3.9:
- Disksalv and pfsdoctor are now integrated as salvage options
- Addmem command allows you to configure non autoconfig friendly ram expansions
- Icon.library has been updated to 46.4.399
- Prism2v2 has been updated to 2.6
- PrepCard+ has been updated to v0.2
- SmartWin is no longer needed. CleverWIN replaces it, and doesnt require a workbench reset
- TextEngine crashed under some RTG systems. It has been replaced by Redit
- SwazInfo is suggested when switching to GlowIcons
- Reduced memory footprint a bit more
- A few more minor fixes and tweaks
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Nov. 2014, 17:23] [Comments: 0]
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20.Nov.2014
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.5.20dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD is based on WinUAE and can be completely controlled with a joypad. Since the last stable version released in March (2.4.1), so far only developer versions have been released.
Changes in FS-UAE 2.5.20dev:
- Use qemu-uae for slirp support
- Added support for softfloat library (not tested)
- Enabled support for prowizard module ripper
- New action “action_module_ripper” available for custom input mapping
- A few other bugfixes
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[News message: 20. Nov. 2014, 17:03] [Comments: 0]
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