09.Sep.2013
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Book: "Commodore - The Amiga Years" discontinued?
The publication of Brian Bagnall's Commodore: The Amiga Years has been suspended since about a year for several weeks or months. The publication of the first part of the Commodore biography, Commodore - A Company On The Edge was also delayed but there is some indication that problems exist:
The publisher Variant Press has removed the product page from its website and online trader like Amazon or Waterstones has informed customers that the preorders unfortunately must be rejected due to a lack of availability. Currently there is no official statement of the author or his publishing house.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 09. Sep. 2013, 21:44] [Comments: 0]
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08.Sep.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: Game-Engine Antiryad Gx
Antiryad Gx is an engine for 2D-/3D-games with an integrated editor. After a registration with the free version also commercial games can be developed. The AROS-port supports 68k-, x86- and PPC-processors and is available on the website of the developer.
Hint of the editorial staff: Obviously the port for AmigasOS which is announced on the website up to now seems still not available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Sep. 2013, 22:49] [Comments: 0]
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08.Sep.2013
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.09.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until September 7th, 2013:
HollywoodSP.lha biz/misc 337K Hollywood 5.3 spanish catalogs
Blitz_CtrlC.lha dev/basic 16K 68k 4 Ctrl-C checking methods for...
Blitz_Dub.lha dev/basic 13K 68k Experimental doubles for Blitz
Blitz_IEEED.lha dev/basic 2K 68k EZ double float functions for...
Blitz_mem.lha dev/basic 7K 68k Extended memory functions for...
Blitz_Nano.lha dev/basic 12K 68k AmiBlitz syntax parser for Na...
Blitz_thread.lha dev/basic 13K 68k thread lib dev kit for Blitz
num2str.lha dev/basic 31K 68k number to string functions fo...
ValF_NG.lha dev/basic 23K 68k multi base string to val func...
libjpeg9_a68k.lha dev/lib 941K 68k JPEG encoding/decoding library
libjpeg9_aros.lha dev/lib 1.4M x86 JPEG encoding/decoding library
libpng163_a68k.lha dev/lib 1.3M 68k Lib for reading/writing PNG
libpng163_aros.lha dev/lib 1.5M x86 Lib for reading/writing PNG
sdl_image1.2.12_aros.lha dev/lib 940K x86 library to load images of var...
SDL_image-1_2_12-png.lha dev/lib 372K 68k minimalist SDL image build
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.0M OS4 Advanced snake game
ronda_68k.lha game/board 1.4M 68k a fishing card game
AssaultCubeReloaded25... game/shoot 59M x86 First-person shooter
exobius0_68k.lha game/shoot 15M 68k amusing space shooter
xgalaga_68k.lha game/shoot 739K 68k excellent galaga like game
hexgem_68k.lha game/think 1.1M 68k action puzzle game
kapooka_68k.lha game/think 720K 68k A silent puzzler to the exit
syasokoban_68k.lha game/think 456K 68k A silent sokoban clone
GridBlock.lha game/wb 34K 68k Unlock all corners!
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.7M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.1M MOS Emulate various classic Sega ...
afsp_68k.lha mus/edit 1.2M 68k Audio manipulation tools &...
lame_68k.lha mus/edit 1.3M 68k MP3 Audio encoder/decoder
playOGG.lha mus/play 5.8M 68k multi format sound player.
nano_231_68k.lha text/edit 1.5M 68k ncurses based text editor
nano_232_68k.lha text/edit 1.5M 68k ncurses based text editor
shed_68k.lha text/edit 223K 68k ncurses based hex editor
Conspiracy-Deutsch.lha text/misc 135K 68k German gag-program, creates c...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 425K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 496K MOS Multipurpose utility
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08.Sep.2013
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.09.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until September 7th, 2013:
mixer.lha aud/mis 366kb 4.1 Audio mixer
ira.lha dev/mis 231kb 4.0 MC68000/10/20/30/40 reassembler
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
zoomit.lha gra/mis 152kb 4.0 A simple MUI-based magnify/zoom-...
zoomit_ita.lha gra/mis 4kb 4.0 Italian catalog file for ZoomIT
netclipper.lha net/mis 50kb 4.0 Share the Amiga clipboard on the...
winbar_docky_src.zip uti/doc 127kb 4.0 Sources of winbar docky
nemo_led_p31.lha uti/har 18kb 4.0 Control the spare LED header on ...
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 Qt Download videos from YouTube
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08.Sep.2013
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 07.09.2013
The following package has been added to AROS-Archives until September 7th, 2013:
syasokoban.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 480kb Still Yet Another Sokoban clone
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08.Sep.2013
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 07.09.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until September 7th, 2013:
IRA 2.07 dev/too 121 M68k disassembler. Programm...
WormWars 8.83 gam/act 674 Single and multiplayer arca...
CgmRadio 1.0 mus/pla 13 Minimal, shell based shoutc...
AmiArcadia 21.5 uti/emu 3711 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
GenesisPlus 1.5 uti/emu 1152 Emulator of Sega Genesis an...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Sep.2013
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WHDLoad: New packages until 07.09.2013
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 September 7th, 2013:
- 2013-09-07 new: Mini Soundbox 3 (Shadow Light & Level 4) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-07 new: Mini Soundbox 2 (Shadow Light & Level 4) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-07 new: Mini Soundbox 1 (Shadow Light & Level 4) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-06 new: The Simpsons (Decay) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-06 new: Hinch Demo (Decay) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2013-09-06 new: Steve Vizard (Decay) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-06 new: Sound De Light (Software of Sweden) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-05 new: Megademo (Software of Sweden) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-05 new: Demo Disk (Quest) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-05 new: Sound Quest 2 (Quest) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-04 new: Sound Quest 1 (Quest) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-04 new: Sound Disk 2 (Mygon) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-04 new: Sound Disk 1 (Mygon) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-03 new: World's Wave 2 (Subway & Dream Team) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-03 new: World's Wave (Subway) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-03 new: Demo Disk (Subway) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-01 new: Megademo (Joy, Magnificient Force, The Jungle Command) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Sep.2013
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Amiga-News celebrates 15th anniversary
In late summer of 1998 Petra Struck began to publish news about the Amiga on here private website. The oldest news message is from August 13th - the regular news then started to be published in September.
Right from the beginning a whole team was involved in editing the news: From August 1998 Christoph Dietz has been responsible for the technical issues, the first translator joined the team in February 1999. The member who has been for the longest time part of the team and still active, is Sven Drieling, who in June 1999 started as an editor and for several years has developed the software of Amiga-News as programmer.
There was a time, the access figures of the website could compete with those of other platforms, a seperate server could be financed by the adverts of different Amiga traders placed on the start page. More than 20 persons joined the team - among others a cartoonist, a reader as well as a lot of translators: For a while Amiga-News was available not only in German and English, but also in French, Polish, Japanese or Turkish and Flemish.
10 years ago we all hoped that the Amiga market would recover but it has not - for fifteen years Amiga-News has documented the transformation of an actual market - with companies and its press releases, proper fairs, commercial product as well as differnt developers - to a hobby, which basically is kept alive by fans who support the platform in the spare time.
This transformation also affected Amiga-News: The team now consists of seven persons and for a very long time the maintenance of the website is underfunded. If you want to support us then you are very welcome to make a little donation which is linked on the start page of the website. At the best of times, more than 300 news have been reported per month. Today averagely 70 news per month are published.
But we all still enjoy the Amiga and we are a happy to continue to provide you with the latest news. Therefore we want to thank all our loyal readers so much and wish you a happy reading with Amiga-News during the next fifteen years. ;-)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Sep. 2013, 20:04] [Comments: 0]
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07.Sep.2013
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AmigaOS 4: Programming competition for best Qt-ports finished
At the beginning of July, Alfkil Wennermark called for a competition: The programmer who developed or ported the most Qt-applications until 30th August will get an award of him.
Today Wennermark has published the winners:
- zzd10h - Award: a completely equipped Minmig
- spotUP - Competition Pro USB and a "special award"
- Chris Young - Competition Pro USB
- cha05e90 - AmigaOne coffee mug
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Sep.2013
a1k.org (Forum)
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Elbox: Announcement of a PCI-board for the Amiga 3000D
According to a post at the a1k.org forum under the title, Elbox has started developing a desktop version of a PCI-extension for the Amiga 3000. Compared with the version for the Amiga 4000, the Mediator-A3000Di-busboard has three PCI-slots instead of four.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Sep. 2013, 06:55] [Comments: 0]
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06.Sep.2013
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MorphOS-Team: 2000 Registrations, hardware statistics
Press release: In order to celebrate the 2000th MorphOS registration, we'd like to thank our users for their support since the introduction of the MorphOS 2.0 in 2008. Since MorphOS 2.4, we've been expanding our hardware base to a variety of Apple PowerPC computers, including their excellent portables. The adoption rate of the Mac mini quickly surpassed the bPlan machines, and the Mini still remains the most popular MorphOS platform.
- 37% - Mac Mini
- 25% - Pegasos 2
- 12% - Powerbooks
- 9% - PowerMac G4
- 8% - Efika
- 4% - Pegasos 1
- 3% - PowerMac G5
- 2% - Others
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2013
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Sales figures: Entwickler-X satisfied with M.A.C.E. sales
During a discussion on os4welt.de, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus of Entwickler-X has revealed some sales numbers for the recently released shooter M.A.C.E.: About 50 people purchased the download version which is available from the developers - this is about the same amount of sales they had with earlier projects.
Additionally M.A.C.E. was the first Entwickler-X release distributed on CD, about 130 copies at 10 Euros each were sold to various dealers. Claus can't say how many of these copies have already been sold on to end users, but he mentions "positive feedback from dealers". He describes the sales numbers as "pretty good, considering the size of the Amiga scene". (cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Initiative: Restart of OpenAmiga project
Under the title link the OpenAmiga initiative was relaunched. "The OpenAmiga standard is intended to minimize the programming effort needed to port between the four current Amiga platforms, Amiga OS 3.x, AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4."
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Sep. 2013, 17:15] [Comments: 0]
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05.Sep.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 104
Today the Enghlish and German issue 104 (September/October 2013) of the magazine Amiga Future has been released and can be ordered from the editorial staff or in Amiga shops. The topics of the this latest issue as well as reading extracts can be found at the website of the magazine.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Sep. 2013, 16:22] [Comments: 0]
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03.Sep.2013
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Sega-Emulator GenesisPlus 1.5
GenesisPlus is an emulator of the Sega game console MegaDrive (Genesis). Version 1.5 provides a completely new emulation engine and now can also emulates SegaCD, MasterSystem and GameGear:
- Major update complete overhaul of emulation core to
new based on the latest GenesisPlus Wii version
- Sega CD, MasterSystem and GameGear emulation
- Better window size handling
- Seperate rom dirs for each supported console
- New input configuration panel
- XBox 360 gamepad support via sensors.library
- New save state manager panel
- Many other bug fixes and improvements
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. Sep. 2013, 19:03] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2013
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100-Mbit network interface card: X-Surf 100 available
Three months ago, Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) announced a 100-Mbit network interface card which now is available.
For about 130 Euro it provides the following features:
- 100 Mbit physical connection
- 32-bit Zorro-III-interface for maximum performance
- Sana-II-Device for Amiga OS 2.0 up to Amiga OS 3.9
- Linux-driver in progress
- power-saving 3,3V-technology with 1,8V core voltage
- space-saving design
- gold-plated Zorro contact strip and stainless stell faceplate
- Extension interface for (still not available) USB-modul
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS: Star Trek Voyager - Elite Force
After the version for MorphOS, Szilárd 'Bszili' Biró has ported Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force which is based on the Quake-3-engine to AROS/x86. So far the so called efport project only supports the "Holomatch" multiplayer mode. The original files of the game are required.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Sep. 2013, 20:57] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Distribution AROS Vision 2.0
Olaf Schönweiß has released version 2.0 of his AROS/68k-distribution AROS Vision which now is based on Directory Opus Magellan II (screenshot). The following features are included:
- Directory Opus Magellan II (SAS-Version)
- ARexx (Regina)
- Snapshoter
- OWB (AROS-Version), Netsurf and AWeb
- Updated system files
- Hotkeys (description on the download site)
- Filetypes for the most important picture and sound formats incl. AVI
- Packer-support
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Sep. 2013, 20:45] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AROS: AEROS-Betaversion 4 for Raspberry Pi
For registered users and purchasers via eBay the fourth beta version on Pascal Papara's Debian-Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS for the Raspberry Pi is available. "The difference to the "supporter" version is that you can't launch Linux apps from inside AROS." But beta version 3 inclusive lx now is avaialble for all.
Beta version 4 now is based on the stable ARMhf-ABI written by Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz. It is now possible to compile programs which should also work with future versions. A cross-compiler for the i586-architecture is included as well as other software, demos, games, screenrecorder and Wazp3D.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Sep. 2013, 20:36] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2013
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TCP-Stack: AmigaKit sells AmiTCP 4
Accordung to a press release, the British trader Amigakit will sell the full version of the TCP-stack AmiTCP 4. AmiTCP was the first common TCP-stack under AmigaOS. Later version 4.0 was part of the "Netconnect"-bundle and together with the graphical user-interface "Genesis" is under AmigaOS 3.9 handles the network connection.
AmigaKit will sell AmiTCP 4 together with its graphical user-interface EasyNet as "EasyNet Professional Edition".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Sep. 2013, 20:10] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2013
Jens 'bruzard' Henschel (ANF)
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AmiBlitz³: New website and forum
Jens Henschel wrote: "Because amiforce.de cannot be accessed for several months and the maintainer does not response, some weeks ago I have reserved the domain amiblitz.de and now have copied the official site.
Still a forum is missing, therefore I have established a Bulletin Board and linked it on the official site. The temporary forum can be accessed under www.amiblitz.de/community. I hope to be aböe to transfer new entries to the original forum as soon as it is online again.
Unfortunately the forum cannot be accessed with classic Amiga browsers. But if there will be sufficient interest I will provide such a theme.
Additional to the website and the forum I have linked the Blitzbasic2 tutorial in the new formats PDF and HTML." (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Sep. 2013, 18:15] [Comments: 0]
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