04.Jun.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: 68k-Distribution AROS Vision 1.6.0
Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k-distribution which is a combination of AROS and AmigaOS software (screenshot, English tutorial). Additional to the changes listed below, in version 1.6.0 some software parts were removed.
Improvements:
- MMU support (boots with 68040/68060 and MMU but without 32 bit RAM)
- Extended debugging (WinuaeEnforcer works)
- Better classic hardware support (e.g. ATA for A1200/4000)
- Faster (expecially memory allocation)
- Bugs removed (e.g. Prefs work now)
- Amiblitz fully works
- System files updated
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04.Jun.2013
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force (multiplayer)
After the release of the source codes of Quake 3, a programmer tried to programm a playable version of Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force which is based on the Quake 3-engine. At least he succeeded in finishing the multiplayer mode called "Holomatch".
Szilárd 'Bszili' Biró has ported this project which is called efport to MorphOS. Data of the commercial original are required which before under Windows should be updated to version 1.2 - e.g. by installing the expansion pack.
Direct download: stvefhm-mos.lha (1,3 MB)
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04.Jun.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Chrysalis Pack 3.2.1
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis Pack is a pre-configured collection of programms, games and emulators. Now version 3.2.1 is available for MorphOS 3.2. An unchanged, basic installation of the operating system is required.
News:
- AskMeUP 1.2.2 (demo version)
- DGen 1.32
- E-UAE 0.8.29 WIP4
- Grunch 2.16
- MPlayer 1.0 r36172
- NTFS-3G r4
- Scriba 1.9.0 with French translation of the The Bucheron
- ScummVM 1.6.0
- Stellarium 0.8.2
Download: chrysalis.iso (584 MB)
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04.Jun.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: aVorbisPlayer 0.1
With the command line programm aVorbisPlayer under AROS/x86 you can play Vorbis-audio files. A graphical user-interface is in progress.
aVorbisPlayer.lha (38 KB)
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02.Jun.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: ScummVM 1.6.0
Additional to AmigaOS 4, ScummVM 1.6.0 is also available for MorphOS. The changes are listed in the official release notes.
Download: scummvm-1.6.0.lha (14 MB)
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02.Jun.2013
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Aminet-Uploads until 01.06.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until June 1st, 2013:
DesignerSP.lha biz/misc 80K Hollywood Designer spanish ca...
HollywoodSP.lha biz/misc 225K Hollywood 5.2 spanish catalogs
axel-2.4-mos.lha comm/tcp 103K MOS accelerated downloader with r...
GooglePlus.lha comm/www 95K MOS Add GooglePlus functionality ...
Boing_V1.11.lha demo/misc 2.0M 68k Boing anim for P96, CGX WB or...
Boing_V1.30.lha demo/misc 4.4M 68k Boing anims for P96, CGFX, UA...
lib3ds-1.3.0.lha dev/lib 618K MOS read/write 3DS
atheros5000.lha driver/net 271K OS4 Driver for 54Mbps wireless ne...
7eMezPaz_ita.lha game/misc 246K 68k Italian card game similar to ...
Flog.lha game/wb 34K 68k Have fun with this card game!
PyramiSol.lha game/wb 35K 68k Play this pyramidal shaped ca...
SoliTri.lha game/wb 35K 68k Have fun with this card game!
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
dgen-mos-1.32-git.lha misc/emu 6.5M MOS Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulator
DOSBox_AGA.zip misc/emu 2.2M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
PrognoTips.zip misc/misc 461K 68k New kind of Danish/Dansk Tips...
aros-orca-m68k.zip misc/os 287M 68k AROS-ORCA (m68k) Final Versio...
Scriba_1.9.0.lha text/edit 6.8M MOS Simple word processing softwa...
DevInfos.lha util/misc 643K OS4 Shows infos about devices + t...
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02.Jun.2013
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 01.06.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until June 1st, 2013:
adripper_aiff_encoder... aud/mis 24kb 4.1 AIFF encoder plugin for ADRipper
adripper_flac_encoder... aud/mis 188kb 4.1 FLAC encoder plugin for ADRipper
nykk-bootsounds.zip aud/mis 37Mb 4.0 14 AmigaOS Boot Sounds by Nykk D...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
scummvm.lha gam/adv 13Mb 4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip gam/adv 24Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
age_of_thieves.lha gam/boa 5Mb 4.0 Implementation of famous Carcass...
bourriquet.lha net/p2p 3Mb 4.0 A client for eDonkey network (al...
filer.lha uti/fil 3Mb 4.0 File manager
scummvm-tools.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 ScummVM Tools
scummvm-tools-src.zip uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 ScummVM Tools Source
assist.lha uti/mis 5Mb 4.1 Get the most out of your Amiga
ffshop.lha vid/edi 2Mb 4.0 Frames and video edit with ffmpeg.
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02.Jun.2013
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 01.06.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until June 1st, 2013:
MirrorCheck 0.8 uti/she 8 Tool for recursive comparis...
DGen 1.32 uti/emu 6 638 DGen is an emulator of Sega...
CoolCow 1.1 uti/sci 37 Reduces heating of processo...
Scriba 1.9.0 off/tex 6 944 A simple WYSIWYG wordproces...
E-UAE 0.8.29 WIP4 uti/emu 4 477 UAE (Amiga emulator) for no...
AskMeUp Demo 1.22 gam/thi 7 551 A demo version of a "trivia...
NTFS-3G r4 sys/lib 827 NTFS filesystem handler wit...
EvenMore 0.77 uti/tex 464 Versatile text viewer loadi...
ECX 2.3.0 dev/e 1 316 Enchanced E language compil...
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02.Jun.2013
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WHDLoad: New packages until 01.06.2013
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 June 1st, 2013:
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02.Jun.2013
NovaCoder (ANF)
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Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.0 for AGA-chipset (beta version)
Artur 'Arti' Jarosik has released a port of the browser NetSurf which works with the AGA-chipset (Video).
This is a first beta version which is very slow. The layout is scaled to 70% on a screen with 640 x 480 pixels. Therefore it might be necessary to adjust the size of the fonts.
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02.Jun.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Internet over parallel port: plipbox 0.4
With Christian 'lallafa' Vogelgsang's plipbox Amigas without many extensions can go online. The Arduino-based adapter can be connected to the parallel port and provides a connection to the Ethernet-port of the Arduino board. The magPLIP-protocol is used.
Version 0.4 is a hardware update. An Arduino Nano with Ethernet-Shield is used. The firmware image as well as the board design of the "plipbox nano" were updated.
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31.May.2013
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MorphOS 3.2: Panel-Objects / No Warp3D-support for R300-boards
By reworking the Ambient pictogramm menus for MorphOS 3.2 by Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich, now so called panel-objects can be used. Three of such objects have been made available in the MorphZone (Screenshot): from the left to the right you can see a time display, an animated Elephant and a monster.
Nicolas 'Henes' Sallin confirmed a bad news: The warp3d.library and therefore all Amiga games which access it, cannot benefit from the TinyGL-R300-driver since the rave3d.library is not developed further any longer.
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31.May.2013
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Trevor Dickinson explaining the failure of the AmigaOS 4 Netbook
In October 2011, Steven Solie from the OS4 team announced a netbook for AmigaOS 4 for a price "between 230 and 300 Euro". That same day Ben Hermans and Hans-Jörg Frieden from Hyperion delivered some additional information, but there were no official statements since then.
In April the British computer magazine Micro Mart published an interview with Trevor Dickinson from A-EON (PDF), during which the possibility of an AmigaOS 4 Laptop or Netbook was adressed:
Dickinson explains that they had a closer look at the LimeBook - the very same hardware many people assumed to be the base for the announced AmigaOS Netbook back in 2011. After a detailed cost analysis - hardware engineering, porting the OS, driver development, licence fees for AmigaOS and branding, importing the hardware - they realised that even when producing batches of 1000 units they wouldn't have been able to get the end user price below 580 Euro.
This, in combination with the very weak CPU, prompted A-EON to abandon the project and to look for other solutions. When the interview was discussed on amigaworld.net, Solie finally posted another statement about the project, apparently without having read the article in question: "official word from Hyperion is that the original Netbook project is on hold. Nothing has changed yet". (cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Carcassonne-port Age of Thieves 0.60
With Age of Thieves now there is a AmigaOS-4-port of the board game Carcassonne - to this moment only as single player mode.
Download: age_of_thieves.lha (5 MB)
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30.May.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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WookieChat source code released
James 'jahc' Carroll's MUI-based IRC-client for all Amiga systems, called WookieChat, is now available under the AROS Public License 1.1. Additionally interested users for the management of the MorphOS/AmigaOS-builds and/or for a further development are wanted which can contact Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz under the title link.
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30.May.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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CygnusED: Download version available
Press release: Since today CygnusED 5 is available in the online shop of APC&TCP at a discounted price. Of course CygnusED will continue as usual to be available on CD as well. CygnusED is the most famous text editor for the Amiga.
The program was developed 25 years ago (1986/1987) by Bruce Dawson, Colin Fox & Steve LaRocque (CygnusSoft software) and originally appeared by self-distribution. Since then Olaf Barthel has developed the program continuously and for some time version 5 is available. Detailed information is available on its support website at the title link.
But not only CygnusED is now available as a download version. Other products from APC&TCP such as Roadshow, Data Workbench, Gunbee, Marbelous and others are also available as a download version. Furthermore, PDF files of sold out Amiga Future issues are available from the online shop. (snx)
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30.May.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Assist 1.1
Assist is a collection of over 300 tutorials and articles for users of AmigaOS 4.1 on the operating system itself but also on important programms, websites and downloads.
In version 1.1 the AppStore-function of Jack is described. Besides, an ARexx-port as well as further articles habe been added. Existing installations will be updated over the AmiUpdate.
Download: assist.lha (5 MB)
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29.May.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up 1.2.2
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a video game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS about general knowledge (screenshot). There is also a L and XL edition with a two player mode. A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.
In version 1.2.2 several translations have been reworked.
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29.May.2013
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Scriba 1.9.0
Scriba is a simple text editing software developed by Carsten Siegner which is still in development. In version 1.9.0 the tool "LogoCreator" for creating company logos on visiting cards has been added.
Scriba itself as well as LogoCreator can import graphic files in SVG-format as you can see in the first of two screenshots. You can also save the created logos as PNG or SVG files.
Download: Scriba_1.9.0.lha (7 MB)
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29.May.2013
Exec.pl (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: JAmiga2-Bounty-Update
In the first bounty phase for releasing Java on AmigaOS 4, Joakim Nordström could demonstrate a telnet-client as first Java-application.
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29.May.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Internet over parallel port: plipbox 0.3
With Christian 'lallafa' Vogelgsang's plipbox Amigas without many extensions can go online. The Arduino-based adapter can be connected to the parallel port and provides a connection to the Ethernet-port of the Arduino board. The magPLIP-protocol is used.
Version 0.3 includes updates of the firmware and of the Amiga driver which introduces a MAC-Bridge.
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29.May.2013
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Bounty programm for Return to the Roots
On MorphOS.pl under the title link a bounty project for porting the game Return to the Roots, which is an inofficial extension to "The Settlers II", was established.
The G5-project was finished by releasing MorphOS 3.2. For the TORCS-port as well as for Speed Dreams first version are available since April.
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29.May.2013
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: WLAN-driver atheros5000.device 1.4
With the atheros5000.device a network board driver for AmigaOS 4 is available for WLAN-PCI-boards (54 Mbps, 802.11g). The WPA/WPA2-encryption as well as WEP are supported. PCI-Express-boards may also work but have not been tested.
For AROS and MorphOS this driver which was written by Neil Cafferkey is already available. A port for AmigaOS 3.x probably will not succeed due to the DMA-requirements.
Download: atheros5000.lha (271 KB)
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28.May.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: NTFS-3G filesystem R4
Leif Salomonsson has updated the NTFS-3G-driver for his MorphOS-implementation of the FUSE-framework, Filesysbox. Version 4 is based on the latest NTFS-3G source code and requires MorphOS 3.2. NTFSLabel and NTFSFix have been added.
Download: ntfs3g-morphos-r4.lha (827 KB)
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[News message: 28. May. 2013, 14:34] [Comments: 0]
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28.May.2013
Amiga.org (Forum)
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MorphOS: Power-Mac-G5-benchmarks
After the release of MorphOS 3.2 which introduced the support of Apple's Power Mac G5, there are now benchmarks provided by Harry 'Piru' Sintonen:
mplayer_benchmark.png
lame_benchmark.png
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27.May.2013
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Surprise on holiday: The Commodore Amiga-Dacia
On holiday in Turkey, André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer discovered a very special Dacia: the owner obviously is a great Amiga fan.
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27.May.2013
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System-Patch for A3000/4000: ApolloFix loads 680x0.library to OnBoard-RAM
André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer has written a patch for A3000-/A4000-users which always loads the 68040 and 68060 libraries to the virtual memory of the main board. This helps Apollo accelerator boards working without any problems with the reset-routines of some versions of the 68060.library. The author supposes that this patch improves the system stability of other accelerator boards as well.
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27.May.2013
Guido Mersmann (Kommentar)
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MorphOS 3.2 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.2, which introduces support for Power Mac G5 workstations, iBook G4 laptops and additional PowerBook G4 models.
The 3.2 release also has a strong focus on improved network support with a completely new and improved NetStack core as well as support for wireless networks. In addition, there are several new network-related tools such as VNC client, a Remote Desktop Client and a tool showing detailed network statistics.
As usual, the latest release also offers many new features and bug fixes. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.
We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.2 is available for download in our files section. (snx)
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27.May.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.77, with MorphOS-port
Chris Perver's text viewer EvenMore now is also available as MorphOS-port. Changes in version 0.77:
- Sped up scrolling by storing some commonly used values from nexted objects in variables instead. Also did the same for freeing memory for plugins.
- Updated OpenURL library code for version 7.10. Hopefully this will allow the OpenURL function to work on MorphOS.
- The VANILLAKEY event was stopping the string gadgets from working on the MorphOS port. Changed code to use MapRawKey() instead.
- Now uses ScrollRaster() function instead of ClipBlit() for scrolling window contents. ClipBlit was faster on AmigaOS 3, but did not work whenever a window was moved out of the screen on MorphOS.
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27.May.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Flickerfixer: Indivison AGA Mk2 CR A1200/4000T
From now on the Indivision AGA Mk2 is available again in different shops. Individual Computers has called its slightly reworked version "Cost Reduced" - the DVI-port now is molded and "components of the small DVI-connector board have now moved to the main flickerfixer". There are not any other changes.
Due to the changed size of the board (picture) maybe the Indivision Mk2 AGA does not collide with a Blizzard Vision any longer but this could not be tested by the developer.
Jens Schönfeld wrote: "The new version "Indivision AGA MK2cr" uses a different connector for the DVI cable. It gets in the way of electrolytic capacitor CE164C in the A4000T. If you want to use the new version in the A4000T, you need to replace that capacitor with a lower-profile ceramic type."
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27.May.2013
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Return to PowerUP-support?
Version 1.4.5 of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS, which still is available, was the last version which did support accelerator boards developed by phase 5.
Now two screenshots have been discovered which show the still unreleased version MorphOS 3.2 on an Amiga: morphos_pup3_1.jpg, morphos_pup3_2.jpg.
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