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28.Nov.2013
Pascal Papara (ANF)


Project Synergy: App-store for all Amiga systems
Pascal Papara is going to develop an App-store for all Amiga systems, called "Project Synergy". The web-interface for developers was finished and Papara asks interested developers to create an account and to check out the system. If you want to have screenshots of the store then please contact Pascal Papara. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2013
Heise (gemeldet von Holger) (ANF)


Amiga Forever 2013 Value Edition on the next DVD of magazine c't
In the actual preview of the magazine (German), it is not listed but in a report about the Raspberry Pi as Floppy-emulator (German), the author mentioned that the next magazine-DVD of issue 26/2013 (published on December 2nd, 2013) will include the "Amiga Forever 2013 Value Edition with 40 games and about 30 demos". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2013
(ANF)


Floppy-Emulator: Raspberry pi as disk drive replacement
The Italian Maurizo Ramondo has replaced the disk drive of his Amiga 500 by a Raspberry Pi: The single-board computer was connceted to the internal floppy port of the Amiga with a simple adapter developed by Ramondo and in this way emulates two disk drives.

As data medium the SD-card of the Raspberry Pi is used - the credit-card-sized computer was put in the A500, so it is accessable through the original disk drive slot. The emulated floppy is ready seven seconds after booting the Amiga because Ramondo did not want to use Linux and instead of it uses a self developed programm, which has 240 KB.

After a reset, the Amiga boots a setup programm. There you can assign one or several ADF-images to the emulated drives. While operating you can switch between the ADF-files with a key.

The developer made available all documents as well as the software on his website for free. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Nov.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 23.11.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until November 23th, 2013:
Opus5.82Final.zip        biz/dopus  5.4M      Directory Opus 5.82 source code
SAF_BBStro.lha           demo/intro 81K   68k SAF BBStro - NoAGA
mlw-ricktro.adf          demo/misc  880K  68k MELLOW - RICKTRO demo (disk v...
mlw-ricktrof.lha         demo/misc  152K  68k MELLOW - RICKTRO demo (HD ver...
AmigaPower.lha           docs/hyper 76K       French Amiga Magazine (17th N...
PAS.lha                  driver/aud 28K   68k portable audio system
TVSBasketball_2013-20... game/data  14K       2013/14 Season for TV Sports ...
AssaultCube1202_Aros.lha game/shoot 53M   x86 First-person shooter
DatatypeToHam.lha        gfx/conv   31K   68k Convert any picture to HAM6/H...
DJNick-MODs_1990-1999... mods/techn 98M       All Music MODules Pack - 1990...
asapconv.lha             mus/edit   586K  68k Play & convert Atari 8-bi...
playOGG.lha              mus/play   5.8M  68k multi format sound player.
AP52Covers.lha           pix/misc   920K      aMiGa=PoWeR n?52 Cover Recto
Icons-4-AmigaOS.lha      pix/picon  1.5M      AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons... (D...
Scriba_1.9.9.lha         text/edit  6.8M  MOS Simple word processing software
CTLG2CT.lha              util/conv  19K   OS4 Decompiles catalogs back into...
snapit.lha               util/misc  510K  MOS A screen grabber with MUI-Int...
Daysleeper.lha           util/time  64K   MOS Shutdown/reboot at a selected...
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24.Nov.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.11.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until November 23th, 2013:
line6pod.lha             aud/mis 16kb  4.1 Edit and create amp sounds on vi...
mixer.lha                aud/mis 490kb 4.1 Audio mixer
textedit.lha             dev/edi 2Mb   4.1 Text editor being written in Hol...
perl_newlib.lha          dev/lan 24Mb  4.1 The Practical Report and Extract...
perl_amiga_camd.lha      dev/lib 131kb 4.0 Perl module to allow midi contro...
fastview.lha             gra/vie 3Mb   4.1 Show, crop & scale pictures ...
internetsurfboard.lha    net/bro 1Mb   4.1 Qt simple WebBrowser (aka Weltwe...
qtweb.lha                net/bro 4Mb   4.1 Qt Web browser port of QtWeb (bi...
blu_manager.lha          off/dat 41kb  4.0 Blu ray movie database program
datenbank.lha            off/dat 43Mb  4.0 Simple offline Database done wit...
netdock.lha              uti/doc 512kb 4.0 Docky to monitor your network ac...
snapit.lha               uti/mis 510kb 4.1 Powerful MUI-based Screen Grabber
zoomnote.lha             uti/mis 38kb  4.1 Screen zooming and note drawing ...
ctlg2ct.lha              uti/tex 41kb  4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
clipgrab.lha             vid/mis 3Mb   4.0 Qt Download videos from YouTube
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24.Nov.2013



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 23.11.2013
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until November 23th, 2013:
dangen.i386-aros.zip         gam/act 559kb Abstract top-down shooter.
snapit.i386-aros.lha         uti/mis 510kb Powerful MUI-based Screen Grabber
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24.Nov.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 23.11.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until November 23th, 2013:
Sqrxz2                   1.0     gam/pla    730 A sequel of jump and run pl...
Scriba                   1.9.9   off/tex   7007 A simple WYSIWYG wordproces...
Daysleeper               0.9     sys/too     65 Small MUI based tool for re...
SnapIt                   1.2     uti/des    121 A screengrabber. Grabs scre...
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24.Nov.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 23.11.2013
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 November 23th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Nov.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AROS: AEROS beta version 5 for Raspberry Pi
The fifth beta version of Pascal Papara's Debian-Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS for the Raspberry Pi now also is available for unregistered users - as usual without the lx-command which can launch Linux-applications out of AROS.

In this version AROS-ARHMfh-components of Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz were updated, clicking on AHI pref icon doesn't crash it anymore and the icons are "not as ugly as" in the last release. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Nov.2013
Jim Neray (ANF)


Game launcher: X-bEnCH 0.91F
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface for launching WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe) with up to 272 colors (AGA; 128 with OCS/ECS). It requires very few ressouces and is compatible with all Amiga setups.

Version 0.91F is the first stable release of X-bEnCh. Please note that from this version on, registered users will have access to internal versions of X-bEnCH to minimize bugs in the release versions. (snx)

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23.Nov.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: AmigaAMP 3.12 (build 209)
Thomas Wenzel has updated his music play programm AmigaAMP to version 3.12. The version from the beginning of the month had a bug (loading directories). (snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Nov.2013
Retroguru Facebook (ANF)


Sqrxz 2: Version 1.00 for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS
The Jump'n'Run-game Sqrxz 2 was updated for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (by Frank Wille) as well as (by Yannick Erb) and is now available in version 1.00. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Nov.2013
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Islands Mini-Golf 1.5
In 2008 the game Islands Mini-Golf was released for Mac OS X as Shareware and now is also available for free for MorphOS. A French review you can find at Obligement.

Islands Mini-Golf requires a 3D video card as well as 128 MB RAM and features 5 themes with 90 tracks for up to four players. In the MorphOS-version there are some graphics bug (missing textures) and the online hiscores does not work. The game uses the full power of the processor, possibly caused by using PowerSDL.

Download: islandsminigolf15.lha (10 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2013
Anthony Iliakis (ANF)


T.V. Sports Basketball: Patch for season 2013/2014
A patch for the new 2013-2014 season has been released for the NBA basketball simulation game "T.V. Sports Basketball" by Cinemaware.

Download: TVSBasketball_2013-2014.lha (14 KB) (snx)

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20.Nov.2013



AmigaOS 4: ACube's Game-DVD available as download
Recently ACube introduced a game-DVD with more than 70 ports for AmigaOS 4 which now also is available as digital download. After purchasing the user will get a download link for an ISO-file via email which then has to be burned on DVD. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Nov.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Screenshot-Utility: SnapIt 1.2 for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS
The author describes SnapIt as "powerful screen grabber". For the first time version 1.2 also is available for AmigaOS 4. Changes:
  • AmigaOS4 support
  • AROS support
  • Updated JPEG/PNG save routines
  • Workaround for missing ScalePixelArray()-function in AROS
  • Filtered out backdrop windows to avoid crashes
  • Fix to erase old preview data when new one is overlapping
  • New icon set from Thomas Blatt (found in icons-drawer)
  • Italian translation by Samir Hawamdeh
  • Added keyfile support, functionality is not crippled (don't worry) =)
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Nov.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Tutorials: Roadshow on the Minimig/Turbo Chameleon 64
The "Turbo Chameleon 64" is a FPGA-based C64 accelerator board which can be also used in the stand-alone mode. On the board a RS-232-port can be upgraded as Amiga extension using the clockport.

Christian "Lallafa" Vogelsang shows in his English-language blog how he uses the clockport with the help of a simple hardware-mods for an emulated Amiga and how he integrates the computer with Roadshow and PPP into a home network. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Nov.2013



Game launcher: X-bEnCH 0.91 Beta 5
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface for launching WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe) with up to 128 colours. It requires few resources (Youtube-video of version 0.8). The update fixes some minor bugs:
  • The bad display of the longs names for registered users
  • The "CD Mode" crash when switching On/Off in the setup
  • The strange month/year bug with the Setclock in the setup
  • The "Esc" key in the launcher in some cases
  • ...
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Nov.2013



Interview: Jérôme 'Glames' Senays (Boing Attitude)
The Swedish website "Safir" has published an English-language interview with Jérôme 'Glames' Senay from Boing Attitude (Dir Me Up, Ask me Up). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Nov.2013
amiga68k.de (ANF)


Jump and Run: Frank Wille announces "Solid Gold" for Amiga 500
Frank "phx" Wille (among others Sqrxz, vbcc) has announced another jump'n run game for the end of the year. "Solid Gold" is created in cooperation with the brother of Wille who is the graphic artist:



Wille describes Solid Gold as "a mix of Turrican, Giana Sisters and Rick Dangerous". The game was developed in assembler and features smooth 8-way-scrolling with 50 pictures per second. An Amiga with at least one megabyte RAM (512 KB Chip, 512 KB Fast) is required.

Currently the highscore list and the final sequence are written. Apart from "some fine-tuning" (Wille) all other work was completed. Solid Gold will be released as ADF-image. The source code will be available for free. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Nov.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


PDF-Newsletter: "Best of MorphOS September/October 2013"
Best of MorphOS (PDF) is a short newsletter which summarizes the most important news around MorphOS on a A4-page. It is published by WArMUp (PDF), which is the "World Association of MorphOS Users". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Nov.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Magazine: Commodore Free, Issue 74 and 75
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and C64-Diskmag. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Nov.2013



AmigaOS 4: RadeonHD driver 1.0 RC2 (0.57)
A-EON has released an update of the commercial graphic board driver for RadeonHD, which is developed by Hans de Ruiter. Changes in this version:
  • Golden register initialisation code added (golden registers are a table of registers supplied by AMD's hardware engineers to be initialised on startup)
  • Improved the VGA (UBOOT/CFE screen) shutdown code for Evergreen+ chipsets. This solves the intermittent boot problems which affected some Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 cards. (and possibly others)
The driver supports 2D-operations and compositing and among others works with the following RadeonHD-types:
  • X1300-X1950 Serie
  • HD4000 Serie
  • "Evergreen" HD5000 Serie
  • "Northern Islands" HD6000 Serie
  • "Southern Island" HD7000 Serie
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Nov.2013
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Scriba 1.9.9
Version 1.9.9 of Carsten Siegnes text processing software Scriba now can save spreadsheets in the following formats: PDF, SVG, CSV, XML, HTML, XMLSS and ODS. Additionally the spreadsheets can also include hyperlinks.

XMLSS-files are saved in the sub-format of Microsoft Excel 2003 which can be opened by Excel 2010 or OpenOffice. The file format OpenDocumentSpreadsheet (ODS) can be opened by e.g. OpenOffice or Google Docs.

Besides, Scriba can create websites with the following features:
  • background
  • text
  • lists
  • pictures
  • spreadsheets
Download: Scriba_1.9.9.lha (7 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Nov.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 16.11.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until November 16th, 2013:
DesignerSP.lha           biz/misc   81K       Hollywood Designer 4.0 spanis...
HollywoodSP.lha          biz/misc   417K      Hollywood 5.3 spanish catalogs
DXP_4kb_Intro2_AGA.lha   demo/intro 6K    68k DXP 4KB Intro 2 - AGA
SAF_4KB_Intro.lha        demo/intro 4K    68k SAF 4KB Intro - NoAGA
prjmegaranfix.lha        demo/track 1K    68k Picture fix for 'Project Mega...
CW-Keyboard.lha          driver/inp 11K   MOS OpenPCI/Zorro Catweasel MK3 k...
KOG.lha                  game/actio 781K  OS4 Innovative objects-catching game
DustDigger.adf           game/misc  880K  68k Dust Digger AMIGA version
ADOM_Guide.lha           game/role  77K       ADOM Guide
Dodecagon.lha            game/wb    32K   68k Connect all tiles!
Iarrow.lha               game/wb    31K   68k Move or rotate some arrows
X_marks.lha              game/wb    31K   68k Spot the 'X' marks!
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.3M  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...
asapconv.lha             mus/edit   341K  68k Play & convert Atari 8-bi...
playOGG.lha              mus/play   5.8M  68k multi format sound player.
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  428K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  500K  MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  553K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
MT_ADPCM.lha             util/pack  8K        (De-)Cruncher for FP_ADPCM (C...
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17.Nov.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.11.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until November 16th, 2013:
atunes_cover_aamp.lha    aud/mis 2Mb   4.1 aTunes-AAmp "plugin" to display ...
mixer.lha                aud/mis 696kb 4.1 Audio mixer
universe-thetrip.lha     dem/sce 10Mb  4.1 Alchimie 2013 winner demo.
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
kog.lha                  gam/act 781kb 4.0 Innovative objects-catching game
freeserf.lha             gam/str 31Mb  4.1 Faithful clone of classic simula...
datetime_docky.lha       uti/doc 99kb  4.1 Displays the current time/date/w...
netdock.lha              uti/doc 420kb 4.0 Docky to monitor your network ac...
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 586kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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17.Nov.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 16.11.2013
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 November 16th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Nov.2013
Amiga.org (Forum)


Z3SDRAM: Development of Zorro-II/III memory extension and network card
In the forum of Amiga.org, Tim 'tnt23' Taschpulatow has introduced version 1.2 of his Z3SDRAM-project. The memory extension was originally developed for Zorro-III-slots but now can also be used with Zorro II and additionally has an ethernet-controller based on the DM9000-chip by Davicom. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Nov.2013
Murakami (ANF)


Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 52 (French)
Since 1998 the French magazine aMiGa=PoWer has been published by the Association Française du Libre Essai (AFLE) and sold worldwide.

Issue 52 includes among others reviews on MorphOS 3.3, Qt and Strife as well as tutorials about Basilisk 2 and the serial interface. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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