05.Apr.2013
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Odyssey 1.20 and Flash-Plugin swfdec 2.0
Fabien 'FAB' Coeurjuly has released a new version of the web browser Odyssey. A version without SVG-support is not offered any longer because. The most important changes in Odyssey 1.20:
- Updated to WebKit r144529 (March 2013). Amongst many other fixes, it cures an issue with some asp sites
- Added copy image URL location in image contextmenu
- Now uses MorphOS cairo/pixman/fontconfig shared libraries
- Plugins are now expected to have version 2 or later
- With spellchecker.library 50.1+ (MorphOS 3.2+), word learning feature is now functional
- More bugfixes in websockets handling
- Don't crash when HTML5 desktop notifications are invoked
Additionally a new version of the swfdec-based Flash-plugin was released which supports the Flash-standard up to version 8.
Direct download:
owb-morphos-1.20.lha (27 MB) (Readme)
swfdec_plugin-2.0.lha (4 MB)
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05.Apr.2013
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MultiPlay 1.0
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski's MultiPlay is the first program which uses the new function of Reggae 3.1.7 to play more than one audio file as seamless data stream.
The source code of this Shell-command was published under the BSD-licence which at the same time is a programming example.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Apr. 2013, 09:51] [Comments: 0]
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04.Apr.2013
AROSWorld (Webseite)
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AROS: Distribution AspireOS 1.97 Update 5
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has released the fifth update for version 1.97 of his AROS-distribution AspireOS. This includes a patch written by Neil Cafferkey which fixes a problem with VirtualBox.
AspireOS was written for the Acer-netbook Aspire One and can be also completely used on the Toshiba-notebook Satellite Pro A200. It is not officially supported on other hardware but should work on it.
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04.Apr.2013
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: VecxGL
After AROS, VecxGL which is an emulator of the 8-Bit-console Vectrex is now also available for MorphOS (screenshot). Juha-Pekka 'Jupp3' Jokela has added a joystick support. If the emulator is started without a defined game-ROM, the included asteroids-clone "Minestorm" is started.
Download: vecxgl.lha (96 KB)
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[News message: 04. Apr. 2013, 19:02] [Comments: 0]
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04.Apr.2013
HAZ (Webseite)
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Disney closed down LucasArts
In 1982 the video game developer company LucasArts was founded which also on the Amiga released famous games like Maniac Manson, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and Zak McKracken. A half year ago the Disney-company took over LucasArts and now has closed down it.
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04.Apr.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RadeonHD driver 1.0 RC1 (0.55)
A-EON Technology has released the first release candidate of version 1.0 of Hans de Ruiter's RadeonHD-driver for registered and new users. Changes:
- Fixed a bug that could cause minor graphics corruption that occurred on a few graphics cards when switching between GPU and CPU based rendering (f.e. the arrow buttons in Directory Opus 4)
- Forces the OS to wait for the GPU to be idle before a soft reboot so that some Radeon HD 5xxx cards don't lock up if the soft-reboot occurs while they're still busy (requiring a hard reset)
- Re-enabled using timer device for longish delays when switching screenmodes (no busy waiting means more CPU time for other tasks). Added a workaround so that this doesn't prevent soft reboots
- In addition, there have also been minor miscellaneous fixes
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03.Apr.2013
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Reggae 3.1.7
An update for Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski's multimedia framework Reggae is now available. The key features of this update are two new classes. The first, clipboard.stream, provides read access to the system clipboard for the rest of Reggae, thus media files can be now automatically decoded from the clipboard.
The second class, gapless.filter, is a base building block for audio players featuring gapless playback. The first, very simple, shell based player using this feature will be released this week. Three other classes, file.output, audio.output and the base multimedia.class have been also updated with improvements and bugfixes. Users speaking Swedish or Turkish will also get some locale files.
All new features are documented in updated compiler headers and autodocs. The package can be automatically installed with Grunch or downloaded from the title link. In both cases the MorphOS SDK is updated automatically if detected. (snx)
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02.Apr.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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Event: Results of Revision 2013
Under the title link you can find the results of the demo party Revision 2013.
Videos: Amiga-Intro, Amiga-Demo, Oldskool-Demo
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[News message: 02. Apr. 2013, 19:06] [Comments: 0]
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02.Apr.2013
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Gimp 2.6.11 for AmiCygnix
For his AmiCygnix-port of the picture editing program Gimp, Edgar Schwan has released an update (screenshot).
Due to the size of the data, most of the plugins are available as separate packages. Among others this applies to two packages for loading and saving files. The first of this package is optional. All formats included in this package can be loaded with internal plugins. You can get further informationen in the readme-file.
Changes:
- New version 2.6.11 with many improvements, for example the new GEGL graphics system.
- The internal loaders were enhanced and two new formats were added. While saving in JPEG, PNG or TIFF format you can choose now the compression rate.
- Some of the Script-Fu scripts are now available as python plug-ins.
- Compiled with GTK+ 2.24.
- New version 2.7.2 of the Python package for Gimp python plug-ins.
- Keyboard layouts that do not conform to ISO-8859-1 standard (eg Polish or Greek keyboards) are now better supported.
- Support for dead keys. For a complete support of dead keys, the installation of AmiCygnix 1.3 (or better) is mandatory!
Download: gimp.lha (143 MB)
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[News message: 02. Apr. 2013, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
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01.Apr.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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GAUHPIL: Database of Amiga-homepages updated
Since 1994 Dietmar Knoll has collected Amiga homepages. Today it has been updated again and currently lists 615 users from 36 countries. Changes since our last message:
- New: Georg Braun (hardware) - Germany
- New: Frédéric Cordier (AmiDARK Engine SDK for games) - France
- New: Andrew Fisher (The SEUCK vault page, Planet of Balls game) - United Kingdom
- New: Steffen Gutmann (MUI Base database) - Germany
- New: Holger Jakob "heureka" (PowerUp programs via Ixemul: ADescent, MPG123, Timidity...) - Germany
- New: Nicolas Sallin (Taquin, Goa3D libs, LowLevel lib reimplementation, SimpleMail port...) - France
- Changed: Patrick Jung "Patbest" (MorphOS Wallpapers, icons, MIME types for Ambient...) - France
- Changed: Christian Kummerow (LanCam, Picture Overview, Amiga RFID Control, Start script for older games, A1200/3.1 Floppy Fix...) - Germany
- Changed: Walid Moghrabi "-Hybrid-" (Nostalgia! emulators GUI, SpiderWeb global server and "Suburban Species" blog) - France
- Changed: Massimo Perfini "MAX" (MiraPLOT, MiraMP3GUI, nice gallery of Amiga photos...) - Italy
- Changed: Angelo Theodorou "Encelo" (Ministats, PerfNum & NetShare) - Italy
- Changed: Nicola Trani (SIMULA - Multimedia Kiosk) - Italy
- Changed: Etienne Vogt (ErrorLog, Sysmon, VDisk, muFS,...) - France
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31.Mar.2013
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Scandoubler: Configuration tool for Indivision AGA Mk2
Almost a year after Individual Computer has started to deliver its scandoubler Indivision AGA Mk2, now a configuration tool is available which the users have eagerly awaited.
Jens Schönfeld from Individual Computers points out that it is an early beta version of the program. He asks any user to read the included "readme" carefully. The used example configuration "converts" each Amiga screen mode to a VESA-mode with about 60 Hz display refresh rate. It has been tested on a Dell monitor with a solution of 1280x1024 pixels.
For all screen modes, DVI as well as VGA are activated - if vertical stripes appear on the display, the DVI-signals have to be deactivated (for each single screen mode).
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[News message: 31. Mar. 2013, 21:12] [Comments: 0]
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31.Mar.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Status-Update of Hyperion
In a blog of Hyperion Entertainment, Hans-Jörg Frieden has released a status update on the latest developments of AmigaOS 4.2:
- Exec SG : kernel development has been forked off into an experimental and stable branch, to facilitate field testing of potentially drastically new features such as the scheduler, separate address spaces, 64 bit address space awareness etc.
- The task scheduler was completely rewritten in C and now implements the long planned "pluggable" scheduler functionality : the scheduling algorithm can be changed on the fly, during runtime depending on factors like task's preference and CPU load, different CPU cores using different scheduling algorithms. The re-write of the scheduler also allows for load balancing which is required for proper multicore support.
- Work is in progress on yet another Power ISA implementation.
- Gallium : bumped to Mesa 9.1, i.e. OpenGL 3.1. Software renderer already implemented, work on hardware accelerated drivers within the framework of Gallium will benefit substantially by the experience gained developing Warp3D drivers for the AMD Radeon Evergreen range (Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx).
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[News message: 31. Mar. 2013, 16:23] [Comments: 0]
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31.Mar.2013
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Aminet-Uploads until 30.03.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until March 30th, 2013:
DesignerSP.lha biz/misc 78K Hollywood Designer 4.0 spanis...
libzip_0.11.lha dev/lib 1.3M MOS Zip oriented link lib
pengobrain_aros.lha game/think 4.1M x86 PengoBrain - a memory game fo...
ppsei_1.4.lha gfx/conv 1.4M MOS Extract images from PPS/PPT f...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.0M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.3M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.2M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Scriba_1.7.6.lha text/edit 6.6M MOS Simple word processing softwa...
BoardsLib.lha util/libs 37K 68k provides detailed info about ...
HWP_JPEG2000.lha util/libs 409K WOS Hollywood plugin for JPEG2000...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 407K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 479K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 538K OS4 Multipurpose utility
FreeWheel.lha util/mouse 107K 68k Use WheelMice/trackballs/3-bu...
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31.Mar.2013
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.03.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until March 30th, 2013:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
sketchblock.lha gra/edi 6Mb 4.1 Digital Sketching For AmigaOS
themeedit.lha gra/the 1Mb 4.1 OS4 Theme Editor v. 0.1 (viewer ...
proaction.lha lib/rea 511kb 4.0 GUIServer for script writers
reportplus.lha uti/mis 563kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
maclikedock.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.1 A Visually Impressive Program La...
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31.Mar.2013
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 30.03.2013
The following package has been added to AROS-Archives until March 30th, 2013:
pengobrain_aros.lha gam/puz 4Mb PengoBrain - a memory game for kids
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31.Mar.2013
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 30.03.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until March 30th, 2013:
libharu 2.3.0.2 dev/lib 2039 Statically linked library f...
libmkv 0.6.5.1 dev/lib 472 Small and portable parser o...
librtf 0.0.3 dev/lib 425 Statically linked library f...
DVDAuthor 0.7.1 mul/pro 2694 Set of commandline tools fo...
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31.Mar.2013
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WHDLoad: New packages until 30.03.2013
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 March 30th, 2013:
- 2013-03-29 improved: Ishar 3 (Silmarils) memory manager fixed for fast memory support (AGA), custom trainer added, crack improved (Info)
- 2013-03-29 improved: Robinson's Requiem (Silmarils) Memory manager fixed for fast memory support (AGA), speed problem fixed (ECS) (Info)
- 2013-03-29 improved: Transarctica (Silmarils) memory manager fixed for fast memory support, 3 manual protections removed (Info)
- 2013-03-29 new: Reflex (Liquid) done by BlackWine (Info, Image)
- 2013-03-24 updated: X-Out (Rainbow Arts) redone, trainers added, intro skip, high score load/save (Info)
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30.Mar.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: M.A.C.E. by Entwickler X (preview video)
M.A.C.E. developed by Entwickler X is vertically scrolling shoot'em up game. A video at Youtube demonstrates a first OS4-compilat - without any sound.
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[News message: 30. Mar. 2013, 23:39] [Comments: 0]
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30.Mar.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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A-EON Technology: New batch of AmigaOne X1000 boards
As A-EON Technology have announced at their Facebook website at the title link, they have commissioned Varisys to manufacture a new batch of Nemo motherboards.
Update: (08:25, 31.03.13, snx)
As AmigaKit have announced meanwhile, the batch will commence production in April, with delivery in Q3 2013 until end of year. (snx)
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