21.Aug.2014
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future 110 - preview and excerpts online
A preview and some excerpts of the upcoming issue 110 (September/August 2014) of Amiga Future magazine have been released. Highlights of this issue are an interview with Pascal Pappara, a review of Tales of Gorluth and the eighth part of the about the AmigaOS 4 programming course.
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20.Aug.2014
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.5.12dev
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. The changes of this version you can find under the title link.
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19.Aug.2014
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New poll: What do you think about WinUAE's PPC emulation and AmigaOS 4?
WinUAE maintainer Toni Wilen has recently implemented a working emulation of Phase 5's PPC accelerator cards. The current version is just a proof of concept, but Wilen is already working on integrating the much faster CPU emulation core from QEMU to WinUAE.
This brings up an interesting question, which is already debated all over the forums: what effect would a reasonable fast PPC emulation in Amiga emulators have on AmigaOS 4? With our latest poll, we would like to determine what our readers think about this issue - you can vote here or just view the results. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.Aug.2014
MUI for AmigaOS development team (ANF)
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AmigaOS 3/4: MUI4.0-2014R4 and MUI3.9-2014R2
The team of "MUI for AmigaOS" has released new versions of MUI 4.0 (AmigaOS 4) and MUI 3.9 (AmigaOS 3).
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18.Aug.2014
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Network configuration: EasyNet 0.178
With its user-interface, EasyNet simplifies the configuration of a network. AmigaKit encloses the programm for different network hardware just like the X-Surf 100 but it also can be purchased. It is updated by the live-update-function but also is provided on disk.
Changes:
- Program restructured ready for EasyNet Pro release
- Added DownloadBuffer tooltype
- Additional DNS settings user checks and notices added to help users
- Wireless manager now refreshes when stack is goes online
- Network Configuration Help window updated
- GUI bug fixes: Query device and Scan Wireless Networks
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17.Aug.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.08.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until August 16th, 2014:
Sayontsheck.lha demo/aga 14M WOS Sayontsheck PPC AGA Demo by L...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.3M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.5M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
BubbleHeroesUpdate.lha game/patch 227K 68k Final update for "Bubble Heroes"
Flog.lha game/wb 33K 68k Have fun with this card game!
PyramiSol.lha game/wb 34K 68k Play this pyramidal shaped ca...
SoliTri.lha game/wb 33K 68k Have fun with this card game!
amath.lha misc/math 173K 68k Simple command line calculator
WWorth_fincats.lha text/dtp 27K Wordworth 3SE,4SE & 7 Fin...
Spreedy_1.0.lha text/edit 2.6M MOS Spreedsheet editor
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 354K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
XoXo.zip util/misc 217K 68k nice OX-GUI for XFD/XAD/XFR a...
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17.Aug.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.08.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until August 16th, 2014:
openbor.lha gam/act 2Mb 4.1 OpenBOR, new Beats of Rage Engine
gemgem.lha gam/puz 5Mb 4.0 Gemgem is a classic logic puzzle
lgeneral-bin.lha gam/str 2Mb 4.0 Strategy game influenced by Panz...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
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17.Aug.2014
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 16.08.2014
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until August 16th, 2014:
Spreedy 1.0 off/dat 2631 A table editor and spreadsh...
Psamathe Font 1.1 sys/gra 71 MorphOS version of monospac...
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17.Aug.2014
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WHDLoad: New archives until 16.08.2014
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 installer has been added until August 16th, 2014:
- 2014-08-12 updated: Copper Master (Angels) reworked, bplcon2 bug (SOGEN bit set) fixed, bplcon0 color bit fixes, 68000 compatible quit option, external replayer removed, source included (Info, Image)
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17.Aug.2014
EAB (Forum)
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WinUAE: Proof of concept for PowerPC emulation
By its latest beta version, Toni Wilen enabled the Amiga emulator WinUAE 2.9.0 in principle to also emulate the Amiga PowerPC processor boards by phase 5 and run the "classic" flavor of AmigaOS 4.
This proof of concept has been done intentionally utilizing the processor core of PearPC for a quick check of feasibility. Due to its incompleteness and bugs, the author has to change for QEMU now, though. He writes:
"PearPC CPU emulator is a dead-end. Missing instructions, only partially emulated instructions, no support for integer overflows, division by zero, illegal instruction exceptions and so on... (Which means any buggy or badly behaving program can crash the emulator or hang or crash the emulated operating system.) It did its job, allowed easy and quick PPC emulation test. It would not have happened with any other more complex cores.
It seems most compatible PPC CPU emulation is in QEMU. Dolphin only has experimental MMU support which is not supported in JIT modes. But QEMU is complex, very complex...
What does this mean? It means all PPC CPU related bugs will be ignored until PPC CPU emulator core is replaced (timeframe: unknown); the only exception are bugs that didn't exist in beta version 10."
Download: winuae_2900b11.zip (4 MB) (snx)
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17.Aug.2014
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Epub-Reader 0.1
Carsten Siegner's Epub-Reader has still alpha status, therefore several fonts are not supported. EPUB is a free and open e-book standard.
Download: Epub-Reader_0.1.lha (1 MB)
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14.Aug.2014
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Linux: Kernel 3.13.14 with "Longterm Support" and 3.15.10 for X1000 (Update)
The kernel series 3.13 will be updated until 2016 by Canonical. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled version 3.13.14 for the X1000, which among others can be used with the Linux Live-DVD.
The version for the AmigaOne does not include support for CPU frequency scaling any longer due to a lack of precise work of the regulator.
Download: kernel-3.13.14-1-x1000-ubuntu-ppc64.tar.bz2 (7,2 MB) (Changelog)
Update: (07:38, 16.08.14, snx)
Now also kernel 3.15.10 is available. This is the last kernel of the 3.15 series (EOL).
New: Removed CPU frequency scaling support. For further changes see official changelogs: ChangeLog-3.15.9, ChangeLog-3.15.10.
Additional kernel modules:
- KVM_BOOK3S_64_PR
- Supports running guest kernels in virtual machines on processors
without using hypervisor mode in the host, by running the
guest in user mode (problem state) and emulating all
privileged instructions and registers.
- This is not as fast as using hypervisor mode, but works on
machines where hypervisor mode is not available or not usable,
and can emulate processors that are different from the host
processor, including emulating 32-bit processors on a 64-bit
host.
- 3dfx Voodoo graphics card support
- Network support for AROS hosted
- Support for four serial ports
- Bluetooth USB dongle support
- Kernel tracing with ftrace
- Linux kernel icon for AmigaOS 4.1 by Tommysammy
Download: vmlinux-3.15.10-KVM-PR-FTRACE-AmigaOneX1000.tar.bz2 (7 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Aug.2014
Amiga Impact
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CD32-extensions: Project Hermes, CD32 Expansion Board
In his blog, Ian Stedman logs the development of "Project Hermes", which is an extension for the CD32-console. The hardware will have the following specifications:
- mainly internal solutions (s.b.)
- 8 MB SRAM
- Parallel ATA (IDE) and Compact Flash port
- Floppy-port for Amiga or PC disk drives or Floppy emulators
- possibly a real-time clock
- clock port for connecting additional extensions
- may be totally disabled
According to Stedman, the price for one new board will be approximately 120 pound sterling (about 150 Euro).
The actual Hermes-platine is in the CD32-case - for that it must be connected to a adapter board developed by "kipper" which also has to be bought and which rotates the extension port of the console by 180 degrees. This "CD32 expansion board" can also be used without Hermes and provides ports for the Amiga-RGB-cable and PS/2-keyboards:
The actual date of completion of both projects are not yet known. There are already prototypes of the "Expansion Board".
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