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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09.Dec.2014
Exec.pl (ANF)
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Ego-Shooter: 8bit Killer
The first three levels of the PC-game 8bit Killer now have been ported by Czesław 'Leon' Mnich to the Amiga using the Gloom-Deluxe-engine.
Download:
8bitkiller.lha (452 KB)
8bitkilleradf.lha (521 KB)
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09.Dec.2014
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Distribution for AGA-Amigas: AmiKitReal 8
AmiKitReal is a version of AmiKit for real AGA-Amigas which now is also available in version 8 vor (screenshot). You can find a detailed list of changes under the title link.
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07.Dec.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.12.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until December 6th, 2014:
PPaintRUS.lha biz/cloan 22K Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c R...
FindModule.lha dev/e 36K 68k Find the module that holds a ...
libopenssl68k.lha dev/lib 23M 68k OpenSSL crypto and SSL/TLS li...
LineBloks.lha game/wb 36K 68k Line up 8 tiles of same pattern!
PenDenTive.lha game/wb 36K 68k Align tiles but don't let 'em...
Simplix.lha game/wb 31K 68k Move a shape to the upper left!
Togglo.lha game/wb 31K 68k Make alignments of same colou...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.3M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Liisa2.adf misc/math 880K 68k miscancellous programs
DigiboosterSP.lha mus/play 19K Spanish catalog for DigiBooster
wallpapers.lha pix/back 1.3M Big collection of 4 color bac...
openssl.lha util/crypt 14M 68k OpenSSL command line tool
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 393K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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07.Dec.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.12.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until December 6th, 2014:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
rcube.lha gra/mis 46kb 4.1 Showing a moving GLCube
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 42kb 4.0 A custom BOOPSI system
netstat.lha net/mis 69kb 4.1 CLI tool to display network acti...
showcomputer.lha uti/she 86kb 4.0 Display informations about your ...
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07.Dec.2014
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Workbench distribution for UAE: AmiKit 8 available as download
Recently version 8 of AmiKit was released which is a Workbench distribution for Amiga emulators (amiga-news.de reported). Now this release also is available as free download.
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07.Dec.2014
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: Live Updater 1.8 for Icaros Desktop
For the update of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop from version 2.0 to 2.0.1 under the title link version 1.8 of the live updater can be downloaded.
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07.Dec.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: zTools 1.1
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated his collection of programms called "zTools". Version 1.1 includes updates for SysMon, aTunes, FlipPaper, FastView, FastCompress,
WebReplay, CPUDock, RAMDock, GFXDock, NetDock, LittleBrother and FastHide.
The update of zTools to version 1.1 is available for free in the Amistore.
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07.Dec.2014
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: Amiga Mania #8 (Hungarian)
"Amiga Mania" is a Hungarian pdf-magazine about all aspects of the Amiga which was very elaborately designed on 36 pages. Issue 8 (front page) is about the CD³² as well as WLAN using an Amiga.
Download: Amiga%20Mania%2008_OnLine.pdf (95 MB)
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05.Dec.2014
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Hardware review: MCC-TV - Multiple Classic Computer
The English-language blog "Indie Retro News" has got a MCC for reviewing it. The FPGA-based, small-sized computer emulates an Amiga and a C64 and is meant for connecting it to a modern TV.
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