10.Oct.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Download release: Exodus - The Last War
In the game "Exodus - The Last War" there are two races fighting for domination over a foreign planet. Since the CD-ROM version is out of stock meanwhile, APC&TCP are selling it now as a downloadable release at the title link. (snx)
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10.Oct.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench complement: BetterWB 3.1
Today version 3.1 of the Workbench complement BetterWB has been released. Additional to some minor bug fixes and improvements, the update includes the commodity WinToFront (replaces ClickToFront) as well as format64 which can format bigger harddrives.
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench tools for AmigaOS 3.1 which requires low resources. BetterWB may be used by "purists that believe anything beyond 3.1 is an overbloated piece of crap, low end Amiga computers and Minimig users, that are restricted to a 68000 processor".
BetterWB works with any Amiga and is provided as disk images. Additional to the original disks of Workbench 3.1 (3.0 may be sufficient but was not tested) 8 MB harddrive memory are required.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Oct.2013
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Event: Alchimie X (France)
Press release: The 10th edition of Alchimie, the biggest french Amiga event, organized by Triple A, will be held on the 9th, 10th and 11th of November this year.
As usual, Alchimie is mainly focused around the Amiga in all its flavours, but other operating systems will also be shown - such as RiscOS on Raspberry PI, Atari with the FireBee, Haiku, Linux and so on.
Robotics will also be present by the french magazine Planete Robots and many demonstrations will be made by professionals.
Conferences about AmigaOS 4 and Qt, MorphOS, Blender, FireFox OS and the Demoscene will be held on saturday and sunday.
If you happen to be near Tain l'Hermitage in south of France at theses dates, do not hesitate to drop by and join the 98 attendees already registered to take part at Alchimie X. (snx)
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09.Oct.2013
Heise (Webseite)
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Data Becker will be closed down
According to Heise online under the title link, the IT-publishing house and software developer Data Becker will be closed on March 31st, 2014.
The company was founded in 1981 and in 1983 started to publish books and to release software for the C64 and Amiga.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Oct.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS/AROS: Opus Audio Tools 0.17
Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer has updated his port of Opus Audio Tools for AmigaOS/68k and AROS/x86. It is a collection of programms for creating and converting sound files using Opus-Codecs which is a "highly versatile audio codec" and is "intended for storage and streaming applications".
Download:
opus-tools-0.17_a68k.lha (318 KB)
opus-tools-0.17_aros.lha (416 KB)
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09.Oct.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS: Shadow Warrior Classic Redux
Szilárd 'Bszili' Biró has ported the game "Shadow Warrior Classic Redux" to AROS/x86. The files of the original game released in 1997 are required. You can get further information in the forum of AROS-Exec.
Download: sw.tgz (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Oct.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmiWest Developer Award
During the AmiWest, the best developer will be honoured with the "AmiWest Developer Award". You can vote for your favourite programmers under the title link. The top five developers then will be presented during the event for the final election.
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08.Oct.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: aTunes 1.1, FastView 1.8 and NetDock 51.0
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated the following programms:
- aTunes is a MUI-programm for playing and managing music files. In version 1.1 among others a tag-cover-art-editor was added (screenshot). Additional, the aTunes-cover-AmigaAmp-plugin 1.0 was released which shows the cover of the song which is currently played
- FastView is a MUI-based picture viewer which shows the content of a directory as thumbnails. In version 1.8 among others it is now possible to copy and to scale several pictures
- Netdock is a docky which shows the network activity. With the tooltype "Minidock" version 51.0 can provide only graphical information
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Oct.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Book: Sensible Software
Financed by Kickstarter, the book "Sensible Software" tells the history of the British software company Sensible Software which developed for the Amiga games like Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Mega lo Mania and Wizkid.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Oct.2013
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AROS-Distribution: Experimental Icaros-version with Directory Opus Magellan
An "experimental" version of the AROS-distribution Icaros is available only for a limited time and includes the latest port of Directory Opus Magellan as well as several back ports from the developing branch of AROS, called "ABIv1".
The experimental Icaros-version is not compatible with the ordinary releases of the Icaros-team. It is meant to give an impression of the latest status of the development.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Oct.2013
Christian Zigotzky (ANF)
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X1000: openSUSE 12.3-1, Linux Kernel 3.10.15-1
Christian Zigotzky has adapted openSUSE 12.3-1 to the AmigaOne X1000. This version is an experimental version. You will test it at your own risk.
Besides, Zigotzky has released another bugfix update of the Linux kernel 3.10 for the X1000.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Oct.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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Workbench complement: BetterWB 3.0
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench tools for AmigaOS 3.1 which requires low resources. BetterWB may be used by "purists that believe anything beyond 3.1 is an overbloated piece of crap, low end Amiga computers and Minimig users, that are restricted to a 68000 processor".
BetterWB works with any Amiga and is provided as disk images. Additional to the original disks of Workbench 3.1 (3.0 may be sufficient but was not tested) 8 MB harddrive memory are required.
Changes in der Version 3.0:
- Added zDir which is an enhanced Dir command replacement
- Included a clone of the popular unix dd command (the data duplicator)
- KeyPressed is a usefull command for handling keypresses in scripts
- The new icon.library is active by default (Now you can see all Amiga icons)
- The powerfull BootUte replaces NoFastMem
- Incorporated a system font cache that requires no extra memory (Fontcache)
- CopyIcon is a tool that allows you to copy and replace any Amiga icons
- MultiHelp is a commodity that comfortably allows you to view manuals, docs, and AmigaGuides
- yStart is a commodity that automatically generates a Windows like startmenu
- Reworked the default Iconset
- Plus Many fixes and minor enhancements
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Oct.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.6.6
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and is now available in version 1.6.6. The new version updates the icon.library written by Peter Keunecke as well as the programms OpenURL, playOGG and YAM.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Oct.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Tracker: DigiBooster 3 Beta 26
Press release: The beta version 26 of DigiBooster 3 for Amiga/68k, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS has been published online. Since it is probably one of the last beta versions before the final release, we invite every user to test and report the version as detailed as possible and write all bug reports directly to the DigiBooster support forum.
Beta version 26 of DigiBooster 3 has all the key features in place and will be the basis of the public release of the program planned in 2014. Major features added since latest public beta 22 are:
- DSP echo engine, already demonstrated in DigiRoller. The echo is
fully compatible with DigiBooster 2.x, but this time it does not
depend on AHI settings, so it is always processed. Additionally new
effects V20 and V21 allow for independent echo parameters for each
single track
- Phase augmented stereo panorama. This has been demonstrated in
DigiRoller as well. Small phase shifts added when setting stereo
panorama improve sound positioning and overall sound space experience
- New envelope editor. Unlike DigiBooster 2.x, it is embedded in the
main window, so it is much larger and shows both volume and panning
envelopes on one diagram, so it is easier to design combined effects.
Diagram width is adjustable, so editing short envelopes is now easier
- Mixer (module renderer). AHI independent, allows for mixing
frequencies from 8 kHz to 192 kHz. Full 24-bit output available,
writes WAVE or AIFF files. Volume boost up to 48 dB (with hard
limiter) with optional autoboost calculation. Works in the background
on separate process
- 24 more fully documented ARexx commands
- Implemented missing E40 effect, fixes in Gxx effect
- Numerous small fixes and improvements, listed in the change log
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06.Oct.2013
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Aminet-Uploads until 05.10.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until October 5th, 2013:
Charset2-AmIPlug.lha comm/irc 12K MOS AmIRC-Characterconversion
apccomm.lha comm/misc 164K 68k transfers files between Amiga...
twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 3.0M MOS Twitter client with map view
ix2nix.lha dev/c 24K 68k convert from ixemul to libnix
ulsata2-morphos.lha driver/med 116K MOS Promise SATAII150/300 series ...
ulsata2-source.lha driver/med 163K MOS Promise SATAII150/300 series ...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 282K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.09
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 262K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
WormWars.lha game/actio 844K 68k Advanced snake game
WormWars-AROS.lha game/actio 640K x86 Advanced snake game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 675K MOS Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.0M OS4 Advanced snake game
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.2M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
DustDigger.adf game/misc 880K 68k Dust Digger AMIGA version
AmiSpear.lha game/shoot 3.8M 68k Amiga port of Spear of Destiny
AmiWolf.lha game/shoot 3.8M 68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
AmiWolf_ECS.lha game/shoot 3.8M 68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
Crossik.lha game/wb 34K 68k Places crosses of the same ty...
Comics.i386-aros.lha gfx/show 51K x86 The Creepy Comic Book Reader
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...
CutRateCalc.lha misc/math 162K OS4 A reaction based calculator
opus_68k.lha mus/edit 3.4M 68k OGG Opus tools & libs
PVM_in_snowstorm.jpg pix/back 248K Place Ville Marie in a snowstorm
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06.Oct.2013
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 05.10.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until October 5th, 2013:
hieronymus.lha dev/deb 11kb 4.1 Statistical profiler
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
mce.lha gam/uti 1Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
tiled.lha gam/uti 8Mb 4.1 A general purpose tile map editor.
internetsurfboard.lha net/bro 2Mb 4.0 Qt simple WebBrowser (aka Weltwe...
qtweb.lha net/bro 4Mb 4.1 Qt Web browser port of QtWeb (bi...
amiarc.lha uti/arc 451kb 4.0 Program for packing/unpacking ar...
assist.lha uti/mis 6Mb 4.1 A knowledge base for AmigaOS users
cutratecalc.lha uti/mis 162kb 4.1 A reaction based calculator
amiupdate_ita.lha uti/wor 46kb 4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
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06.Oct.2013
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 05.10.2013
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until October 5th, 2013:
jpg_dtt_install.i386-aros... dat/ima 134kb An alternative Jpeg Datatype
supoker.i386-aros.zip gam/car 1Mb Simple videopoker game (in french).
hhh.i386-aros.zip gam/chi 3Mb Cute kiddie graphics with Pacman...
sdl-gweled.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 2Mb Bejeweled clone.
comics.i386-aros.lha gra/vie 51kb The Creepy Comic Book Reader
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06.Oct.2013
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 05.10.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until October 5th, 2013:
WormWars 8.85 gam/act 675 Single and multiplayer arca...
Charset.AmIPlug 2.5 net/cha 12 A plugin for AmIRC performi...
twittAmiga 3.0 net/WWW 1623 MUI based Twitter client wi...
AmiArcadia 21.60 uti/emu 3702 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
Multigame Character E... 8.30 uti/mis 1198 A tool for editing characte...
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06.Oct.2013
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WHDLoad: New packages until 05.10.2013
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 October 5th, 2013:
- 2013-10-05 new: Megademo (Alcatraz) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-04 new: Hot Music 4 (Ram Jam) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-04 new: Experiment (Ram Jam) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-04 new: Digital Noises (Ram Jam) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-04 new: Copper Slave (Ram Jam) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-04 new: Music Disk 6 (Ram Jam) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-04 new: Talktime 1 (Essence) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-03 new: Sensenmann (United Forces) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-03 new: Circle Scroller (United Forces) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-02 new: Megademo (United Forces) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-01 new: R.O.M. 1 (Essence) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-01 new: Megademo (Humanoids) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-30 new: Subliminal Vision (Bass) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-30 new: Megademo (Bass) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-29 fixed: Amazing Tunes (Share and Enjoy) fixed problem with freezing after loading a tune (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-29 fixed: Virtual Harmony (Impact) fixed problem with freezing after intro part and level 6 interrupt problem (issue 2834) (Info, Image)
- 2013-09-29 new: Soundrevolution 6 (Celtic) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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06.Oct.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player 1.00
Version 1.00 of the Hollywood-based player V.A.M.P. (Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player; plays videos, sounds and single pictures) has been released for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and WarpOS. The update fixes bugs concerning loading and saving pictures. Additionally, with the help of the AVCodec-plugin of Hollywood, the audio format m4a now also is supported.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Oct.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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Operating system: NetBSD 6.1.2
Version 6.1.2 of the operating system NetBSD fixes major security gaps and bugs. On Amiga systems NetBSD works with computers with big Zorro-III-I/O-sections (inclusive e.g. CyberVision 64/3D or Prometheus).
Additionally versions 6.0.3 as well as 5.2.1 and 5.1.3 have been released.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Oct.2013
Finnish Amiga Users Group (ANF)
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Events: Pictures and videos of Saku 2013 (Finland)
The organizer of the Saku (21. September, Helsinki) regarded the event as a complete success: With over 200 visitors it would be the "biggest Amiga-event in Finland for ten years". Meanwhile some pictures and videos have been published:
JanneSirén, "Little Bitchard" and Anu Seilonen have published pictures. The "Saku Video-Tour" (Youtube: part 1, part 2) as well as videos of Jarkko Ikola, retrovideoclips and Robert Ciesla are available.
With the help of a projector there were presentations of Dave Haynie's "Deathbed Vigil", Mindcandy 2 and of a video report of the Saku 98. The Finnish trader Gentle Eye offered its products. Additionally there were a Stunt Car Racer competition.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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03.Oct.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Bounties for JIT Javascript Compiler and Despotify-port
On morphos.pl two new bounties have been established: The first one, about 820 Euro have been already donated for, is aimed to get a Javascript-JIT-compiler for the web browser Odyssey - presenting and editing websites with complex Javascript routines would be significantly accelerated. The second bounty is aimed to port the open-source Spotify-client Despotify.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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