02.Dec.2014
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.24
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser. The author would be pleased about any kind of feedback.
Version 0.24 includes the following changes:
- Preferences:
- New style «OS4»: GUI elements (TextBox, CheckBox, ListBox, Cycle, Button and Slider) are drawn in an OS4-style.
- New: Background pattern for preferences dialogs
- New iconset: BetterWB
- Requesters for OS versions >= 4.0 now have a XEN look, icons are centred on the screen.
The font of the first button is now bold.
- For OS versions >= 4.0 «Verdana» is now the default font (used for the labels on the preferences dialogs, buttons, etc.)
which is quite close to «DejaVu Sans».
- Clock: Colors are now corresponding for OS versions >= 4.0.
- New poosibility to use «random» as value for the URL parameter «preset», which will chosse a preset by random. Example:
http://www.taws.ch/WB.html?preset=random
- Optional parameter «noforce» instead of «force»: The new default is that the preset of the URL parameter has higher priority
than the user settings in the cookie. If «noforce» is stated the priority is witched. Example:
http://www.taws.ch/WB.html?preset=OS_1.3&noforce
- New Preset: «OS 1.0»
- Palette: New entry «GUI Elements background»
- Text color of selected text in TextBoxes is now set corresponding the «Palette» settings.
- Adjusted the text in «About» for OS version 4.1.
- Bugfixes:
- Some Chrome versions have wrongly been detected as touch devices.
- In case of an invalid URL preset parameter value now the default preset is used and no longer some stoneaged TAWS default values.
- In case of loading a Preset by URL parameter, GadTools style was not correctly applied.
- Correction of the cycles height in MedRes mode.
- Correction in the startup checks, so TAWS now runs on Firefox 3.6.28 again (the last version for PPC-Macs).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Dec.2014
amiga68k.de (Webseite)
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Preview video: Amiga Games Creator
Already in September a video was published on Youtube introducing a new "Amiga Games Creator" which can be used for creating games without having to have programming knowledge. According to the author a first preview version is planned for the next months.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Dec.2014
Michael Jurisch (ANF)
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Crowdfunding: Rocket Ranger Reloaded (update)
The current holder of the Cinemawares rights is going to release again the classic action-adventure Rocket Ranger as a "reloaded"-version and has established a crowdfunding-project at Kickstarter.
According to the publisher's own information he is going to "bring the game to as many platforms as possible" and to "make the project freely available for porting to Linux and AmigaOS by any team interested in undertaking these conversions."
Hint of the editorial staff: We do not know, if "freely" means "for free" or "free" (within the meaning of "troublefree" and so on). The last meaning would imply to make payment of licence fees which would make an Amiga-port unlikely.
Update: (04.12.2014, 18:15, cg)
In the German thread for this news item, a Cinemaware representative announces that all required materials for porting the Game to the Amiga will be made available free of charge. since Cinemaware does not expect a potential Amiga version to generate any revenue. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
Pascal Papara
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Hollywood essentials: Libraries for Hollywood developers
The "Hollywood essentials" are five libraries written by Fabio Falcucci which are supposed to provide useful functions for Hollywood developers.
The libraries in detail:
- HELPERS Library: A collection of functions to speed up common and repetitive tasks
- EASING Library: The easing library can be used to achieve smooth transitions between values. With it you can animate objects, fade colors and change values smoothly using one of the provided 41 transition functions.
- TABLES Library: This library exposes common functions to manipulate and convert tables
- DEBUG Library: With this library you can easily manage debug output to the console or to a log file. The console log system allow you to define channels and message types you can easily filter during the debug of your programs.
- FILESYSTEM Library: This library exposes common functions to manipulate files and check the file system.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
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Graphics software: PersonalPaint 7.3 for AmigaOS 3 available
On the new website ppaint.com, the m68k-port of Personal Paint 7.3 is available which does not require an Amistore log-in. Paypal is used for payment. If you have already purchased the version for AmigaOS 4, you can get a low-priced "cross-platform-licence" in the Amistore.
Changes in version 7.3:
- Totally integrated with the AmigaOS Workbench
- True colour animation frame thumbs in the StoryBoard window
- High resolution gadget imagery and thin borders style GUI option for a more modern look
- 9 new built in brush shapes
- 100 new Custom Brushes
- Pressure sensitive drawing
- Dithered transparency
- New Airbrush Linemode
- Extended paint functionality with image processing tool
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)
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Chris Hülsbeck starts Kickstarter-project "The Piano Collection"
After releasing the Turrican Soundtrack Anthology, Chris Hülsbeck has started his second project at Kickstarter: "Chris Huelsbeck - The Piano Collection & Limited Score Book". If you are going to support the project, then you can buy an album with well-known songs played with the pinao and written by Chris Hülsbeck.
Pianist will be Patrick Nevian who was also involved in both online albums Amiga Meets Piano. For all included songs there will be also the scores, which will be printed as limited edition and available for an additional charge.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Workbench-Distribution for UAE: AmiKit 8 with MUI4 and new Netsurf
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and was now updated to version 8. Currently it is sold on a bootable USB-stick. A free download will be available later.
The latest version exclusively includes the new version of the graphical user-interface MUI as well as a special version of web browser Netsurf with a specific design of Amikit created by Ken Lester. The latest beta version of Directory Opus Magellan 5.91 also is part of Amikit 8.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Graphics software: Candy Factory Pro available for free
Amigafuture.de offers the CD-image of Candy Factory Pro for free download. Due to the size of the the file, the download only is available for registered users.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 29th, 2014:
zlib-source.lha dev/lib 859K 68k General purpose data compress...
clr.py.txt dev/src 4K 68k Clear-Screen and Beep for Pyt...
sinebeep.py.txt dev/src 1K 68k Create a WAVE format Beep for...
savED121.lha disk/moni 80K 68k Hex editor, esp. for editing ...
f1champ.lha docs/misc 67K Statistics of Formula One '50...
SCANdalSP.lha driver/oth 4K SCANdal spanish catalog and r...
F12014Carset.lha game/data 30K 2014 Car Set for F1GP Ed/Micr...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 9.7M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
DAplayerSP.lha mus/play 2K Spanish catalog for DAplayer ...
EvenMore.lha text/show 413K 68k V0.82: Freeware textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 437K MOS V0.82: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 180K V0.82: EvenMore textviewer pl...
KlipsSP.lha util/cdity 7K Klips spanish catalog and doc...
sha256.lha util/cli 9K 68k Calculate SHA-256 hashes of f...
hashc.lha util/misc 23K 68k Calculates various hash algor...
wet_update.lha util/wb 325K OS4 Wet weather info v6.4 patch
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 29th, 2014:
evenmore.lha uti/tex 440kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
wet_update.lha uti/wor 325kb 4.0 Wet weather software v6.4 patch
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until November 29th, 2014:
lander.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 3Mb OpenGL Lunar Lander clone.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 29.11.2014
The following archive has been added to MorphOS-Files until November 29th, 2014:
gTranslator 3.0 uti/des 195 A screenbar module for lang...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2014
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WHDLoad: New packages until 29.11.2014
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 29th, 2014:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2014
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New demos
The scene portal pouet.net has released some new Amiga demos in the last months:
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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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[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:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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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
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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