18.Jul.2014
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Game development: "Chaos Guns"-project needs new programmer
Recently a playable demo of the multiplayer coop-shooter "Chaos Guns" was released - now the developers have informed that the only programmer left and a new one is needed.
Chaos Guns is written in PowerD which is a very obscure further development of Amiga E which obciously is very similar to it. Therefore it is necessary to write the engine of the game right from the beginning or to translate the 10.000 lines of the PowerD source code into regular Amiga E and then to work in this language.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Jul. 2014, 16:04] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jul.2014
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Apollo-Core: Photograph of Phoenix prototype (Update)
Under the title link the developers of the Apollo-Core, which also is tested in the Vampire-600 accelerator board (amiga-news.de reported), have published a photograph of Rev. A of the Apollo-Phoenix-board.
Probably in the third quarter of this year this extension for existing systems with a 68000-processor will be available. It is put on the mainboard and is supposed to provide a higher speed and complete code-compatibility.
Additional to the Cyclone-V-FPGA, the Phoenix-board has 128 MB (DDR3, 800 MHz). The operating system can be copied into the RAM using the corresponding MapROM-functions. Further features are a SD-card as IDE-harddrive, HDMI video output (Truecolor) and a network port.
In Future an included flickerfixer/scandoubler (to connect an Amiga to a HDMI-TV), a Chip-RAM-extension and an AGA- (and later Super-AGA-) extension as well as Picasso96-drivers will be added.
Update: (18:32, 19.07.14, snx)
The complete extension consists of two cards. The FPGA module is shown on a second photo (below the Amiga 600 mainboard); how it is mounted on the Phoenix board is illustrated by an animation. (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Jul. 2014, 12:30] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.2014
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Amiga Forever 2014.0.3.0
This little update for the emulator package Amiga Forever 2014 released in June includes among others minor improvements concerning the "jump lists" introduced in Windows 7.
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[News message: 17. Jul. 2014, 22:10] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2014
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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twittAmiga 4.0
twittAmiga written by Oliver 'ciVic' Urbann is a MUI-client for Twitter. Additional to versions for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS, this latest release also is available for AmigaOS 4.
Download: twittAmiga.lha (4 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2014, 19:44] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS: PictureAlbum r1
After the "preview"-version (amiga-news.de reported), now version 1 of PictureAlbum written by Christopher Handley is available. By fixing a bug in PortablE the memory consumption of the graphic boards was lowered. The included MorphOS version creates buggy thumbnails. The author would be grateful for every hint which could solve the problem.
PictureAlbum can search picture directories which then are presented as thumbnails. By double-clicking the pictures can be viewed (screenshot). The programm saves the position of each opened picture of a directory.
Download: PictureAlbum.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2014, 19:37] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jul.2014
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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New games: "Flappy Bird" and "Donkey Downfall"
Last weekend in Norwegian Solskogen, the eleventh scene party took place. In the "Wild"-competition two little games were released:
Flappy Bird is a port of the well-known Smartphone game. In Donkey Downfall (Youtube-video) you have to jump down platforms as fast as possible with a gorilla - a donkey does not appear in the game. The game requires 1 MB Chip-RAM.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Jul. 2014, 15:47] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jul.2014
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AROS: 68k-Distribution AROS Vision 2.7
Olaf Schönweiß has released version 2.7 of the AROS/68k-distribution AROS Vision which among others has updated ROM-files.
Changes:
- ROMs updated
- MUI Royale updated
- IBrowse optimized (recommendations for SSL included)
- Simplemail now english by default
- Digibooster Demo added
- Audio software added (new Trackers)
- Filetypes added or improved (f.e. new filetypes for PowerD and Amiga-E sources)
- On AMOS (menu prefs) you can change between Intuition and Game extension (both use same slot)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Jul. 2014, 18:46] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jul.2014
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: GenesisPlus 1.7
GenesisPlus emulates the Sega-consoles Mega Drive, Sega CD, Master System and Game Gear.
Version 1.7 only shows ROM-files with a valid type (.cue|.bin|.smd|.sms|.gg), automatically sets the audio and video timing using the version of the ROM (PAL or NTSC) and offers preview pictures in the startup window as well as in the savestate manager.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Jul. 2014, 18:40] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jul.2014
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AppStore: First screenshots of "AMIStore"
In October, the British trader Amigakit announced an "AppStore" called "AMIStore". The address amistore.net now is available, but without any functions. On amiga.org now some screenshots of the AmigaOS application have been published which later will be used for searching and purchasing software in the store.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Jul. 2014, 18:08] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jul.2014
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AmigaOS 3: SSL-connection to 1&1, GMX, web.de might fail
According to Jens 'damato' Maus (YAM-Team) in the Amiga-News-forum, currently problems could occur if YAM or SimpleMail are trying to establish a SSL-connection to the mail servers of 1&1, GMX or web.de.
Some weeks ago, the configuration of the mail servers have been changed: The mail programms have only little time (few seconds) to establish a SSL-connection. For computer systems which are buzy or slow - like real Amiga hardware - the time could be not long enough and the connections cannot be established.
According to Jens Maus, an update for AmiSSL is being developed which is supposed to speed up the initialization of SSL-connections.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Jul. 2014, 16:58] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jul.2014
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Aminet-Uploads until 12.07.2014
The following packages have been added to Aminet until July 12th, 2014:
BackUp.lha disk/bakup 61K 68k A simple backup tool.. v1.80
Fussball-WM-2014.lha docs/misc 10K TurboCalc Spreadsheet WM-2014...
anotherworld_os4.lha game/actio 329K OS4 Game engine for Another World
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
Xenomorph_1.0.lha gfx/conv 52K MOS A bitmap to vector tracing tool
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.5M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.8M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
amath.lha misc/math 86K 68k Simple command line calculator.
InstantZip_2.1.3.lha util/arc 180K MOS InstantZip - A easy ZIP archi...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 337K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
MPlayer-GUI.lha util/misc 206K OS4 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
xoxo.zip util/misc 182K 68k new ripper and monitor with GUI
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Jul. 2014, 06:07] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jul.2014
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.07.2014
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until July 12th, 2014:
libgmp.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 OS4 port of GMP ( GNU Multiple P...
e-uae.lha emu/com 3Mb 4.0 E-UAE with EasyUAE GUI
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
lix.lha gam/puz 6Mb 4.0 Interactive Rodent Simulator (Le...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
dcraw.lha gra/con 3Mb 4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files
fastview.lha gra/vie 3Mb 4.1 Show, crop & scale pictures ...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 452kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
mplayer-gui.lha vid/mis 206kb 4.0 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
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12.Jul.2014
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Xenomorph 1.0
Carsten Siegner's Xenomorph is a MUI-programm based on potrace, which can convert black-and-white pictures into vector graphics. Among others the file formats PNG, JPG, GIF and BMP are supported.
Download: Xenomorph_1.0.lha (52 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Jul. 2014, 10:19] [Comments: 0]
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12.Jul.2014
(ANF)
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Project: Graphic board as partly equipped platine for A500 and Zorro-slot
Currently Amiga-user Matthias "Matze" Heinrichs is reworking the design of a clone of a 20 years old graphic board Picasso II+ developed by Georg Braun. The final product is supposed to be working in a Zorro-Slot as well as (after removing a part of the connector block) in the expansion port of an Amiga 500:
In order to to be suitable with different cases, the VGA-port is on a separate platine which is connected with the graphic board by cable. This second platine also also can be connected with the Scandoubler Indivision. An integrated switcher automatically provides the required signal (graphic board or Indivision) to the VGA-port.
Heinrichs is going to sell the board as partly equipped construction kit: RAM-chips, VGA-chip, video switcher and the CPLD have been already soldered up. The other parts (resistors, condensers, wired parts) the user has to assemble by himself.
Currently it is not possible to say when the board will be available. Due to the sale as construction kit, a private sale without a trade intermediary is possible. Currently the CPLD is programmed: Autoconfig is largely implemented, according to Heinrichs programming the memory/IO-statemachine and the monitor switcher is still missing.
For the moment the well-known Picasso driver of the Picasso96 distribution can be used. It is planned to adapt this RTG-system, which currently requires at least a 68020-processor, to the 68000: the planned accelerator board Zeus contains a 50 Mhz 68000 which would be fast enough to supply the graphic board with data.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Jul. 2014, 06:31] [Comments: 0]
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