06.Jun.2015
Rick Thornquist (ANF)
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Company history: "Commodore - The Amiga Years" soon at Kickstarter
In October, Brian Bagnall expressed the hope, that the second part of his Commodore biography could be published. Now he has announced a Kickstarter campaign on Facebook for finishing "The Amiga Years" which will start on June 15th.
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[News message: 06. Jun. 2015, 22:30] [Comments: 0]
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06.Jun.2015
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Platformer: "The Game"
David Eriksson's "The Game" is an unfinished platformer written in AMOS. The game is fully playable, according to the author it only lacks "a title and a little bit of polish". The author explains that "there is no
real ending, you just get to a room that says Well Done and there's no real end".
Eriksson also states that "The main reason I stopped development was that when I tried the game on a clean A1200 there was some minor sprite flicker that I couldn't get rid of (and its still there) but now I decided to clean up some other parts of the game up a bit and release what I have."
"The Game" was heavily inspired by the retro platformer You have to win the game, even if work on the former started way before the latter was released.
"The Game" runs on 68000-based Amigas but according to the author "it still is a little slow". An Amiga 1200 with some FastRAM is recommended.
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[News message: 06. Jun. 2015, 19:18] [Comments: 0]
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06.Jun.2015
Geram Amiga Community (Webseite)
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PDF: The History of Psygnosis
A year ago the British podcast "Retro Asylum" released an episode named The History of Psygnosis. All the documents which the podcast is based on were visually conditioned and published as free E-Book: "Retro Asylum - The History of Psygnosis" can be downloaded as PDF-file from Google Docs.
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[News message: 06. Jun. 2015, 18:37] [Comments: 0]
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06.Jun.2015
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AISS 4.19 released
Martin Merz has released an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS) which is a system for managing toolbar images under AmigaOS and other systems.
AISS 4.19 has more than 7.900 images. Due to compatibility reasons alle pictures and animations of the previous version are included as well.
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[News message: 06. Jun. 2015, 14:50] [Comments: 0]
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06.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Forum)
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Download page: MorphOS Central
Bastiaan de Waard's "MorphOS Central" is a download page which currently has more than 1400 files. The entries have been not categorized and can be only found by searching for the file name or the short name.
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[News message: 06. Jun. 2015, 08:25] [Comments: 0]
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04.Jun.2015
(ANF)
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Sam460 customers can return AmigaOS 4.1 and get a refund
Three weeks ago, MorphOS 3.8 has been released, including support for the Sam460 motherboards from ACube. Now the Italian hardware vendor reacts to this development and offers his customers a refund if they want to return their copy of AmigaOS 4.1: If you return your AmigaOS DVD to ACube, ACube will pay you 48 Euros.
The exact conditions for the refund are listed in a PDF file that is linked to from ACube's webshop:
- The refund is only available for "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition OEM" and needs to be requested no more than 30 days after purchase of the hardware
- the DVD package is unopened and still shrinkwraped
- The customer returns the DVD to ACube at his own costs and also pays any additional paypal or bank fees required for returning the money to him
- To avoid the additional costs and the hassle of sending the DVD back to ACube, customers can request a refund immediately after ordering the hardware, bevore it's even processed at ACube
All Sam460 variants are still available only as a bundle with AmigaOS 4.1 though. The fact that ACube keeps referring to a "refund" even if it's clear new customers can pretty much buy a motherboard and request the 'refund' at the same time and that the company explains in detail why they're offering a refund - including a link to the EU guidelines on "Unfair Commercial Practices" suggests that ACube's contractually obligated to always sell a copy of AmigaOS 4.1 with their Hardware.
It's currently unknown if the refund will also be available when purchasing a Sam460 through another dealer. (cg)
[News message: 04. Jun. 2015, 19:47] [Comments: 0]
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03.Jun.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology: Announcement of MultiViewer
After Trevor Dickinson mentioned it in an interview, now the official press release (PDF) by A-EON Technology regarding the MultiViewer or MultiViewerNG is available.
Similar to MultiView developed by Commodore, the programm shows pictures but also text or AmigaGuide files, if the datatypes are available (screenshots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; video). MultiViewer for AmigaOS 3.9 and MultiViewerNG for AmigaOS 4 will be available soon in the appstore AMIStore.
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[News message: 03. Jun. 2015, 16:28] [Comments: 0]
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03.Jun.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 25.05.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of May 25th:
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS ARM kernel continue (mschulz)
- C library strtok function has been fixed (neil)
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[News message: 03. Jun. 2015, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Calimero 0.14
Carsten Siegner's word processing software Calimero is still in development. Beta version 0.14 features different levels for objects and allows you to copy them to the clipboard, to cut and to paste them.
Download: Calimero_beta_0.14.lha (9 MB)
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[News message: 02. Jun. 2015, 20:38] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Forum)
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Interview with Trevor Dickinson
Under the title link, Michal Bergseth has interviewed Trevor Dickinson (A-EON Technology). He talked about the 30-birthday-events in Amsterdam, Neuss, Mountain View and Peterborough (which he will all attend) and that he supported financially later versions of Amiga Forever.
He has announced "MultiViewer" for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4, a new software which will replace MultiView and show all kind of files which are supported by datatypes.
For the AmigaOne X5000 which is about to start production, A-EON Technology offers the prospect of a cheaper price compared to its predecessor.
Using the Cow3D demo, the latest benchmarks under Warp3D and a Southern-Island graphic board (XFX RadeonHD 7770) had demonstrated that the AmigaOne X5000 would be almost twice as fast as any other AmigaOS-4-PowerPC hardware, althouth a non-optimized OS4-version with Debug output was used. Dickinson did not mention, if this could be caused by the X-kernel.
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[News message: 02. Jun. 2015, 20:32] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Filemanager Dir Me Up 2.40
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays has released an update of his commercial filemanager "Dir Me Up".
Changes:
- Create drawers:
- Checkbox added to automatically go into new drawer after creation
- Check added on non valid characters (:,//)
- Possible input of slash (/) to create several drawers in a row
- Volumes details now displayed in "text" preview field when selected
- Quick double click comeback on files
- Prefs: .wmv and .webm suffixes added like video
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[News message: 02. Jun. 2015, 06:35] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 30.05.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 30th, 2015:
jansson-2.7.zip dev/lib 2.0M x86 encoding, decoding and manipu...
libsndfile.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 20M x86 read/write files containing s...
libzip.lha dev/lib 672K OS4 Read, create and modify zip a...
amuidiff_sp.lha dev/misc 1K Spanish/Español catalog for A...
Help_My_Cat-AOS3.lha game/misc 5.6M 68k A Platform puzzle adventure
Help_My_Cat-AOS4.lha game/misc 6.0M OS4 A Platform puzzle adventure
Help_My_Cat-AROS.lha game/misc 5.8M x86 A Platform puzzle adventure
Help_My_Cat-MorphOS.lha game/misc 5.8M MOS A Platform puzzle adventure
agassm-licence.zip gfx/show 0K 68k Licence key to for AGA Slides...
minishowpict_sp.lha gfx/show 1K Catálogo Español para MiniSho...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.6M MOS Directory and files tool
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 391K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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[News message: 31. May. 2015, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.05.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 30th, 2015:
libzip.lha dev/lib 672kb 4.0 Read, create and modify zip arch...
perception-ime.lha dri/inp 369kb 4.1 Perception Input Method Editor
help_my_cat.lha gam/pla 6Mb 4.0 A Platform puzzle adventure
loview.lha gra/vie 5Mb 4.0 The Easy Viewer & Thumber :)
x1ktemp.lha uti/doc 178kb 4.1 CPU Temp Monitor docky for the X...
comparedirs.lha uti/fil 354kb 4.1 Compare two dirs for different f...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 502kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 1Mb 4.1 Qt Download videos from YouTube
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[News message: 31. May. 2015, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 30.05.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until May 30th, 2015:
jansson-2.7.zip lib/mis 2Mb encoding, decoding and manipulat...
libsndfile.i386-aros.zip lib/mis 20Mb reading and writing files contai...
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30.May.2015
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Book review: Commodore Amiga: A Visual Commpendium
The Blog "Commodore is Awesome" has published a detailed review to the illustrated book "Commodore Amiga: A Visual Commpendium".
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[News message: 30. May. 2015, 00:35] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2015
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Platformer: PuzCat
PuzCat (Youtube video) is a platform game written with AMOS in 8-Bit style. In this game you have to collect all mice in a level and then to reach the exit. You have to avoid dogs, but you can also hit them with a block or break them with very high jumps.
The AMOS source code of the game is included in the archive.
Download: PuzCat.zip ( KB)
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[News message: 30. May. 2015, 00:26] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2015
amigaforum.de (Webseite)
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Final Writer: Development started under new owner
Some time ago Timothy "Terminills" Deters has announced that he had acquired the rights to text processing software "Final Writer". Meanwhile a programmer seems to start developing further the programm, as the screenshot released by Deters shows:
According to the file name, currenty the programm still runs under the 68k-port of AROS. Ports to AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS have been already announced. According to Deters in discussion, all interested users should expect "more of an evolution than a revolution" concerning the further development of Final Writer. Before a new release, the following improvements are absolutely necessary:
- Turboprint support for prints in 24 Bit
- RTG-support, currently Final Writer has problems with screens with more than 256 colours
- Bug fixes
- Working support for the locale.library
Additionally Deters is looking for support concerning the OpenDocument-format, although it is not clear if already in the first version this feature will be implemented.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. May. 2015, 00:03] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology acquired TuneNet
TuneNet is a programm written by Paul Heams for playing music inclusive Internet radio streams, which now was acquired by A-EON Technology (press release, PDF). The author did not have time to develop further the programm. The last version was released in 2010 (OS4Depot) and is delivered with AmigaOS 4.1.
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[News message: 29. May. 2015, 19:25] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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MorphOS: Cross-Development-Server
Developers without an own MorphOS system can compile their programms with the Debian-based server of 'Jupp3' by uploading the source code and downloading the finished programm; it is not possible to execute the software as well as having a graphical output.
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[News message: 29. May. 2015, 19:15] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2015
hjoerg (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Completely pictured installation guide for WinUAE
Under the title link there is an English-language guide created by Thomas Rapp which demonstrates all 53 steps for installing AmigaOS 4.1 under the emulator WinUAE with a screenshot.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. May. 2015, 13:06] [Comments: 0]
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