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."
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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".
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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)
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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.
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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:
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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