01.Sep.2013
David Brunet (ANF)
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100th issue of Obligement magazine
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- July/August 2013 news
- Old articles from Amiga News 23 to 36
- Report: AmiExpo 1991 Berlin
- Review of Excellence! 2.0
- Review of Scala
- File: Amiga mouses
- Review: Bars & Pipes Professional
- Report: CeBIT 1991
- Hardware: A2088XT
- Interview with Trevor Dickinson (manager of A-Eon Technology)
- Interview with David Taddei
- Hardware: Mediator PCI 1200 TX
- Review of NetSpeedometer et NetDock
- Review of Silly Putty
- Review of Amiga Revisited 2011
- Review of Tracker Hero
- Review of Lure Of The Temptress
- File: Roger Dean and his Psygnosis productions
- Tutorial: How to draw watermarks with Art Effect 4
- Tutorial: Network share with SMBFS under MorphOS
- Misc: Book "101 Jeux Amiga"
- Special quiz about The Settlers
Articles in english:
- Interview with Trevor Dickinson (manager of A-Eon Technology)
By this, David Brunet has issued the 50th online issue and the 100th in total of Obligement, which has been available in different forms since its
birth:
- 6 issues in paper (1997)
- 7 issues in Scala (1998-1999)
- 7 issues in Blitz Basic AGA (1999-2000)
- 2 issues in AmigaGuide (2000)
- 14 issues in Blitz Basic RTG (2000-2002)
- 14 issues in HTML (2003-2005)
- 50 issues online (2005-2013)
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01.Sep.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vlink 0.14b
Yesterday Frank Wille has released version 0.14b of vlink. A list of changes you can find under the title link. vlink is a portable linker which can handle many binary formats and which is part of the compiler package vbcc.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2013
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Aminet-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until August 31st, 2013:
atheros5000.lha driver/net 265K OS4 Driver for 54Mbps wireless ne...
prism2v2.lha driver/net 308K OS4 Driver for 11Mbps wireless ne...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 6.0M 68k Tunnels & Trolls implemen...
AmiQuake2.lha game/shoot 2.0M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II...
AssaultCubeReloaded25... game/shoot 59M x86 First-person shooter
Aye_Q.lha game/wb 34K 68k My version of a peg game...
Blokop.lha game/wb 33K 68k Move a coloured box to the exit!
Eclairium.lha game/wb 35K 68k Play with lightning!
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.6M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
stellarium.lha misc/sci 45M OS4 Planetarium
qpdfview.lha text/show 11M OS4 Tabbed PDF/DjVu document viewer
romboot44_3.lha util/boot 18K 68k romboot replacement for 68k h...
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 17K OS4 Decompiles catalogs back into...
zoomit.lha util/misc 152K MOS A MUI-based magnify/zoom appl...
zoomit.pobj.lha util/misc 33K MOS A magnify/zoom panel object f...
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01.Sep.2013
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until August 31st, 2013:
atheros5000.lha dri/net 265kb 4.0 Driver for 54Mbps wireless netwo...
prism2.lha dri/net 308kb 4.0 Driver for 11Mbps wireless netwo...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
whdload-to-uae.lha emu/uti 212kb 4.0 WHDLoad to E-UAE
melite.lha gam/mis 543kb 4.1 A remake of the classic Amiga ga...
sketchblock.lha gra/edi 9Mb 4.1 Digital Sketching For AmigaOS
ab_power10.lha gra/ico 3Mb 4.0 Icons in png format
qt-drawer.lha gra/ico 5Mb 4.0 Icons for Qt4.7
blender.lha gra/ray 46Mb 4.1 The free open source 3D content ...
mihphoto.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.1 Touch-friendly image viewer.
qpdfview.lha gra/vie 11Mb 4.1 Tabbed PDF/DjVu document viewer
netup.lha net/mis 1Mb 4.1 App for testing roadshows connec...
cutereport.lha off/dat 11Mb 4.1 Report designer and solutiontabl...
stellarium.lha uti/sci 45Mb 4.1 An open source planetarium (Qt)
ctlg2ct.lha uti/tex 36kb 4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
ascii_design.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.0 Qt : ascii-art program based on ...
jack.lha uti/wor 14Mb 4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
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01.Sep.2013
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until August 31st, 2013:
wakkabox.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 252kb Difficult Klotski sliding block ...
metadiary.i386-aros.zip off/mis 206kb Color-coded activity log.
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01.Sep.2013
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 31.08.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until August 31st, 2013:
ZoomIt 1.3 uti/des 83 A screen magnifying glass t...
ZoomIt.pobj 1.0 uti/des 33 Screen zoom as an Ambient p...
distributed.net client 2.9111. uti/sci 715 An official client for dist...
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01.Sep.2013
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WHDLoad: New packages until 31.08.2013
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 August 31th, 2013:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Aug.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has released new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last messsage the following songs have been added:
- Turrican II - Desert Rocks (metal version 1.1) Aki Järvinen Chris Hülsbeck
- Beyond The Ice Palace (metal version) Aki Järvinen David Whittaker
- Goldrunner (Maccie Pimp Me Up Remix) Scyphe Rob Hubbard
- Aeromute (multi-platform-remix).mp3 Scyphe Modesty
- Turrican II - Traps Hache Chris Hülsbeck
- Stardust Memories chabee Volker Tripp (Jester) of Sanity
- Pirates - Retromix DerDiener Microprose
- Turrican - Freedom Titanic Remix ThOMber Chris Hülsbeck
- Logical Green AarbronBeast Rudolf Stember
- Apprentice Title Remix (Short Edit) CZ Tunes Chris Hülsbeck
- Echoing remix moonove Banana
- Turrican 2 - Level 1 remix moonove Chris Hülsbeck
- Turrican 2 - Traps (Turricano Dos - El Trapo) Mahrellon Chris Hülsbeck
- Elvira (The Frozen Earth) Isacco Garcia Peveri Phillip Nixon
- Bubble Bobble Title Gigatron David Whittaker
- Agony Medley SunSpire Various Artists: Jeroen Tel, Martin Iveson, Martin Wall, Robert Ling, Tim Wright
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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31.Aug.2013
Finnish Amiga Users Group (ANF)
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Event: Saku 2013 in Vantaa (Finland)
Saku 2013 will take place on September 21 at the Finnish Science Center Heureka in Vantaa near Helsinki, Finland. According to the event poster it is planned to become the country's biggest Amiga event in over ten years. (snx)
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30.Aug.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Magnifying glass: ZoomIT 1.3 for all Amiga systems, ZoomIT.pobj 1.0 (MorphOS)
ZoomIT is a MUI-based screen magnifier for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS.
ZoomIT.pobj is an implementation of ZoomIt as MorphOS-panel-object.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Aug. 2013, 22:38] [Comments: 0]
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30.Aug.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Graphic program SketchBlock 2.2
The latest version of Andy Broad's graphic program SketchBlock now can use selected areas as mask for a graphic operation. You can mark rectangles, ellipses and areas with identical colour. "It's also possible to create a selection mask from the alpha channel of a layer". Other changes:
- There now a thumbnail in the layers list
- Pixel transforms are now true plugins. Also added SaturationAdjust and GradientFill, RadialFill, and Ripples filters.
- Martin "Mason" Mertz has contributed some great new toolbar images and a splash logo. Thanks Mason!
- All (well nearly all) actions can be recorded into a macro, which can then be run or edited as needed
- Some bug fixes
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Aug.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiSystemRestore release 1 beta version 7
Chris Handley's AmiSystemRestore "aims to give AmigaOS4 a similar ability to Window's very useful system restore" by saving the systems files (SYS:) if new programms are installed. In beta 7 a bug was fixed which could can result in loss of data if softlinks were used.
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30.Aug.2013
Boris Krizma (E-Mail)
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A600-accelerator board Fúria EC020 finished, production started
As Boris 'Boboo' Krizma reported, the development of his accelerator board "Fúria EC020" has finished and the production was started. First boards will be delivered to users who supported the development financially.
Likely the delivery will start at the end of September. One board costs 90 Euro. The number of the boards is limited by the number of available CPUs. A MC68EC020FG25 processor is used as well as FPU MC68882FN40. The processor has 28Mhz but can be overclocked by the user up to 37,8 Mhz.
With the help of included tools "Furiatune" provided by Martin Kuchinka you can configure some of the features of the Fúria:
- Set FPU and CPU-caches on/off
- (De)activate IDE-Speedup
- ShadowROM (copy Kickstart ROM to RAM)
- MapROM (load and use ROM-images from harddrive with up to 1 MB)
- integration of additional 1,5 MB of virtual memory [probably at the expense of ShadowROM-/MapROM-functions, editor's note]
- Rebbot of the computer
- Display or reset of all Fúria-paramters
If you are interested in this board then please contact Boris Krizma via email.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Aug.2013
jolo (ANF)
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Developer tools: vasm 1.6c and vlink 1.4c
Frank Wille has updated vasm and vlink. Currently both uopdates are only available as source codes.
Vasm is a portable assembler which supports several CPU-families, vlink is a portable linker which can handle a lot of binary formats. Both are part of the compiler package vbcc.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Aug. 2013, 14:57] [Comments: 0]
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27.Aug.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Quickfix 5 and installation tutorial for Qt 4.7
Under the title link an illustrated tutorial for installing C++-class libraries Qt 4.7 under AmigaOS 4 was published. Additionally Alfkil Wennermark has released a bug fix update for his Qt-port.
Download: qt-quickfix5.lha (10 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Aug. 2013, 20:59] [Comments: 0]
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27.Aug.2013
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)
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Arcade game: Port of XGalaga
Lorence Lombardo has ported the Galaga-remake XGalaga to AmigaOS. The game requires SDL as well as a FPU. Some further details are listed in the readme.
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25.Aug.2013
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Scriba 1.9.5 with spreadsheet editor
Scriba is a simple text processing software written by Carsten Siegner. In version 1.9.5 you can now create spreadsheet which is still an early version.
You can write entries and format them but you cannot export or import data or insert spreadsheets in a document.
Download: Scriba_1.9.5.lha (7 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2013, 16:14] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2013
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Aminet-Uploads until 24.08.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until August 24th, 2013:
twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 2.8M MOS Twitter client
NASS2013cracked.lha demo/intro 200K 68k OCS/ECS old school intro style
binutils-m1-bin-m68k.lha dev/gg 1.9M 68k GNU binutils (debug gen. fixed)
GG-Lite-bin-m68k.lha dev/gg 11M 68k Compact Developer Environment...
GG-Lite-doc-m68k.lha dev/gg 9.7M 68k Compact Developer Environment...
GG-Lite-net-m68k.lha dev/gg 1.1M 68k Compact Dev Environment (TCP/...
libqdev-bin-m68k.lha dev/lib 1.8M 68k Quick Development Suite and U...
Format64-m1.lha disk/misc 46K 68k Format replacement w/ >4GB...
MCE.lha game/edit 969K 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.1M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.1M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Bloksters.lha game/wb 35K 68k Align 4 blocks of the same co...
netpbm-10.26.63-bin.lha gfx/pbm 2.6M 68k Graphics manipulation toolkit
PuzznicST.lha mods/cust 13K 68k Custom module from "Puzznic ST"
RoadRunnerST.lha mods/cust 12K 68k Custom module from "Road Runn...
SolomonsKeyST.lha mods/cust 12K 68k Custom module from "Solomon's...
WhereTimeStoodST.lha mods/cust 12K 68k module from "Where Time Stood...
X-OutST.lha mods/cust 50K 68k Custom modules from "X-Out" (...
EP_SpecialFXST.lha mus/play 14K 68k EaglePlayer "Special FX ST" e...
qpdfview.lha text/show 12M OS4 Tabbed PDF/DjVu document viewer
qboot.lha util/boot 209K 68k Visual/verbose startup-sequen...
AmiSystemRestore.lha util/misc 909K OS4 Monitors & allows undoing...
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 347K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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25.Aug.2013
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.08.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until August 24th, 2013:
mixer.lha aud/mis 326kb 4.1 Audio mixer
hunspell.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 Spell checker and morphological ...
mce.lha gam/uti 1Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
winpointers.lha gra/mis 40kb 4.1 Set of 32-bit PNG pointers based...
fastview.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.1 Show, crop & scale pictures ...
mihphoto.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.1 Touch-friendly image viewer.
poppler.lha gra/vie 11Mb 4.1 PDF reading and rendering facili...
fastcompress.lha uti/arc 4Mb 4.0 Quickly compress into LHA,ZIP,LZ...
netdock.lha uti/doc 247kb 4.0 Docky to monitor your network ac...
os4depotgui.lha uti/fil 47kb 4.0 Easy access to the OS4Depot files
amisystemrestore.lha uti/mis 909kb 4.0 Monitors & allows undoing ch...
quicky.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.1 Wiki style editor.
ascii_design.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.0 Qt : ascii-art program based on ...
flippaper.lha uti/wor 725kb 4.1 Manages and auto-change your wal...
sysmon.lha uti/wor 1Mb 4.1 monitor for Process, Windows (+ ...
qflv2avi.lha vid/con 485kb 4.0 Qt Convert flv files (youtube fo...
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 Qt Download videos from YouTube
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25.Aug.2013
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 24.08.2013
The following package has been added to AROS-Archives until August 24th, 2013:
vtractors.i386-aros.zip gam/boa 1Mb Make the longest tractor path.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Aug.2013
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 24.08.2013
The following package has been added to MorphOS-Files until August 24th, 2013:
Multigame Character Editor 8.12 uti/mis 1 148 A tool for editing charact...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Aug.2013
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WHDLoad: New packages until 24.08.2013
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 August 24th, 2013:
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[News message: 25. Aug. 2013, 07:33] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2013
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)
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Game: Hexgem_68k
Lorence Lombardo has adapted the Zookeper-clone Hexgem for AmigaOS/68k (readme-file) which recently was ported to AmigaOS 4. In this game you must try to get two or three gems in a line by changing them to make them disappear.
Download site
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Aug. 2013, 07:32] [Comments: 0]
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25.Aug.2013
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: IRC-chat with Jason McMullan
For this Sunday the team of the English-language IRC-channel "Ashachat" has invited Jason McMullan. As member of the AROS developer team, he has concentrated on the m68k-branch of the operating system and the AmigaOS-compatibility.
As usual the the channel #team*amiga on irc.superhosts.net is used, port 6667. The chat will start at 3 PM EDT.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Aug.2013
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Game: Bugfix update for "Asgard Met Vikings"
For the recently released party game "Asgard Met Vikings", an update is available which fixes some minor bugs:
- Cracktro: Jerky scroller on fast machines
- If you start the Game from Workbench, the Highscores are saved in SYS: Now in the same directory as the game
- Sometimes the sprites were corrupt
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2013, 21:42] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2013
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AmigaOS 4: Port of new edition of Battle Squadron announced
Torben Larsen of Cope-com has announced that the new edition of his Shoot'em Up classic Battle Squadron soon will be ported to AmigaOS4. For some time the game has already been sold for Android and iOS. Currently the game is tested in a solution of 1024x768.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2013, 21:36] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Hyperion member at AmiWest 2013
According to the organizer under the title link, this year Steven Solie as a member of Hyperion will be on the AmiWest.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2013, 17:39] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2013
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Text processing: Rashumon source code offered
Under the title link Michael Haephrati who is the author of Rashumon has contacted the users because the Wikipedia entry might be deleted. Possibly Rashumon, which was written in 1989, was the first Amiga text processing software which supported multiple languages. Also, he offers the source code, if anybody is interested in developing it further.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2013, 07:58] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Workbench complement: BetterWB 2.9
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench tools for AmigaOS 3.1 which are simple and require low hardware resources.
BetterWB works on all Amigas, is available as disk images and requires the original Workbench 3.1 disks (3.0 might work as well but was not tested) and 8 MB harddrive memory.
Changes:
- CAMD.library and Midiports preferences for midi supported programs
- DMS command writes and reads its floppy images from CLI
- Gzip, the very popular multiplatform compressor is now included
- LZX is yet another compressor
- PFS3 All in one (now requires less memory for usage and autodetects large drives)
- SuperPlus has been updated and no longer shows the infamuos beta warning message
- TSGUI lets you read and write adf and dms floppy images with an easy to use interface
- WBStartup preferences enables you to select the commodities you want to run when workbench loads
- New commodities: DontShowIBorder (removes icon borders), ModePro (screen promotion) and MagicMenu (flying menus)
- Printfiles tool has been updated with plenty of features and an arexx port
- TagLiFE is a simple patch for the utility.library to install a
new set of optimized assembler routines to get a faster TagList support
- Now boot in CLI mode with maximum ram to run memory demanding games and demos by booting without startup sequence and running add44k from CLI
- Text datatype was rolled back, due to printing bugs
- Lha can now adequately work under low memory condition
- Boards.library allows proper identification of Amiga hardware
- WhichAmiga replaces showconfig, as it has plenty more features
- PatchWB solves many workbench bugs
- Many minor tweaks and bugfixes
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[News message: 24. Aug. 2013, 07:34] [Comments: 0]
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24.Aug.2013
Stefan Pietzonke (ANF)
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AROS: Nano VM 3.1.0
Today Stefan Pietzonke has released version 3.1.0 of his virtual maschine Nano (amiga-news.de reported). Compared with the Linux version, Nano under AROS/x86 still has not included the JIT-compiler.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Aug. 2013, 07:22] [Comments: 0]
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