14.Feb.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay offers a commercial file manager called Dir Me Up for AmigaOS 4.1. You can find a detailed list of features as well as screenshots, videos and a limited demo version under the title link.
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14.Feb.2013
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FS-UAE: Game database for FS-UAE-Launcher, Game-launcher in progress
Frode Solheim is developing a game database which will complete his Amiga emulator FS-UAE. The database can be accessed under fengestad.no/games/ and users can add additional information, screenshots snd box-scans. The download section of Solheim's is already offering "development" versions of FS-UAE which can retrieve information from the database.
The games which are installed on your harddrive are recognized by its checksum and the corresponding information and pictures will be downloaded from the game database and the correct configuration options (chipset, CPU, memory...) will be chosen for the game. Additionally a new "Game Center" is in progress with which you will be able to browse existing games with a "cover-browsers" via joystick or joypad:
If you want to help adding new information to the game database or testing the functions, you can write a mail to fs-uae@fengestad.no to get an user-account. You can find further information in brief instruction written by Solheim.
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13.Feb.2013
Phantom (ANF)
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Data-files of NBA-Season 2012/13
Anthony Iliakis has created data files for the new 2012/2013 NBA Season to use with TV Sports: Basketball by Cinemaware. His update can be used with the original disks as well as with a WHDLoad-install of the game.
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13.Feb.2013
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Issue 85 online
Issue 85 of the magazine Amiga Future is sold out. Now the articles are available online.
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12.Feb.2013
Bigfoot (ANF)
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MorphOS: Further status update on G5 porting
Almost one and a half monthes after his latest status update, Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen reports again about his G5 porting of MorphOS at the title link. Besides smaller tasks, now only sound support remains to be implemented. While the bounty deadline is officially set to be March 3, actual release depends on the time required for other team members' components for MorphOS 3.2 to be finished and the subsequent beta-testing, he says. (snx)
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12.Feb.2013
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Individual Computers: Pictures and information on ACA 500 prototype (Update)
Last year Individual Computers announced their ACA 500, a simple expansion for the Amiga 500 whose claim to fame is the ability to connect accelerator boards from Indivudiual Computers that were originally developed for the Amiga 1200 (ACA 1231/1232).
Jens Schönfeld from Individual Computers has now published some pictures of the current prototype and a short status report on a1k.org and posted the product specifications:
- 68EC000 with 14,3MHz
- external connection, A500 does not have to be opened
- Computer gets only 3cm wider
- two CF card slots: One for booting, the other for "exchanging data" with the PC
- 2 MByte RAM: 1,5M can be used, 512k reserved for Maprom
- Trapdoor memory extensions can be used
- Chipmem extensions can be used
- ROM for things which I will make public later
- Extension port for local hardware, will be documented (14MHz 16-Bit = twice Zorro-speed)
- Clockport
- Cover made of stainless steel (no completely closed cover)
- can be extended by ACA1231/ACA1232
Originally the ACA 500 was supposed to become an internal extension but according to Schönfeld he had to drop this approach. The Version seen on the pictures will be the form factor used in the final product, only a cover made of stainless steel will be added.
The manufacturer will only support the combination of ACA 500 and an in-house A1200 extension (ACA 12xx series, with the exception of the ACA 1230). Accelerator boards developed by different producers would be used at one's own risk. First tests indicate that the Blizzard boards produced by Phase 5 are not yet compatible with the ACA 500 but this problem may still be solved according to Schönfeld.
The current target price is about 80 Euro.
Update: (13.02.2013, 15:30, cg)
Now Jens Schönfeld presents a new approach, where the ACA 500 would be positioned flat instead of upright. Additionally, a solution for the Blizzard compatibility problem might have been found, even if it's still not clear if all issues have been solved already and how the solution will be integrated into the final product. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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11.Feb.2013
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A600 accelerator board Fúria EC020: Pictures and Benchmarks (Update)
Two years ago, Boris 'Boboo' Krizma from Slovakia presented an Amiga 600 accelerator board that was based on the SEC000AA20 - a low cost variant of Motorola's MC68000. The sources and schematics for the design had been released back then aswell.
Now Krizma is working on a follow-up project called "Fúria ECF020" that has a 68EC020 CPU (over)clocked at 28 Mhz aswell as onboard FastRAM. The developer is regularly posting status updates to a czech forum. In January, fotos of the current prototype had been posted:
Now Krizma has published some screenshots that show various Benchmark tools running on a A600 equipped with a Fúria ECF020 (currently there are 4 MB FastRAM installed, but the final product will have more memory):
Update: (13.02.2013, 16:00, cg)
Added bigger versions of the pictures to the news item, thanks to Boris Krizma for providing them. The developer also
explains that this product will be commercially distributed and lists some more detailed specifications:
- MC68EC020FG25 @ 28MHz (overclocked), FPU MC68882 with same clock speed as CPU (may be switched ON/OFF)
- 8 MB Auto-Config FastRAM, 1,5 MB SlowRAM, 1,5 MB for other purposes
- Auto switch between 4MB / 8MB FastRAM (depending on the PCMCIA slot being in use or not)
- CPLD Xilinx XC95144XL
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10.Feb.2013
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Sale of Indivision AGA Mk 2 temporarily stopped
At the end of April Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) has started to deliver the second generation of the Flickerfixer "Indivision AGA" . But many users reported problems with the hardware - e.g. stripes or a completely black screen.
These compatibility problems could have been solved by a setup tool which was included in the previous version of the Indivison AGA Mk2. Such a tool currently does not exist for the Mk2 yet although highly requsted by many users. On the a1k-forum Jens Schönfeld explained that several, complex parameters had to be added to an user-interface.
Apparently Schönfeld temporarily stopped the sale of the Indivison Aga Mk2 four weeks ago.
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10.Feb.2013
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.02.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until February, 9th:
curl-morphos.lha comm/tcp 1.0M MOS CLI Tool for getting or sendi...
S3C.lha comm/tcp 183K OS4 Backup,restore+manage files o...
yfacts.lha comm/tcp 23K OS4 Background time synchronisati...
libmkv-0.6.5.1.lha dev/lib 488K MOS A alternative to the official...
libpng_S1514.lha dev/lib 554K WOS LibPNG 1.5.14 link library fo...
libpng1514_aros.lha dev/lib 734K x86 LibPNG 1.5.14
powersdl_sdk.lha dev/misc 2.3M MOS SDK to SDL audio and video li...
fourmaze.lha game/actio 621K 68k Pacman Clone
cavestory.ppc-mos.lha game/jump 1.4M MOS Cave Story (NXEngine)
AmiQuake.lha game/shoot 243K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
mpo2jpg_morphos.lha gfx/conv 151K MOS mpo2jpg - MPO file spliter
HollyPaint.zip gfx/edit 5.7M WOS Paint application
RunInDOSBox.lha misc/emu 639K MOS Double-clicked MS-DOS games r...
opus-tools-0.16_a68k.lha mus/edit 290K 68k Opus Audio Tools
opus-tools-0.16_aros.lha mus/edit 395K x86 Opus Audio Tools
playOGG.lha mus/play 5.7M 68k multi format sound player.
sexypsf_68k.lha mus/play 658K 68k PSF1 player/decoder
Ym2ar.lha mus/play 140K 68k play & decode YM tunes
xpdftools_303_aros.lha text/misc 4.6M x86 Tools to manipulate pdf docum...
xpdftools_303_m68k.lha text/misc 3.4M 68k Tools to manipulate pdf docum...
InstantZip_1.0.0.lha util/arc 146K MOS InstantZip - A easy ZIP archi...
HWP_APNG.lha util/libs 1.5M WOS Hollywood plugin for APNG anims
HWP_FLICAnim.lha util/libs 22K WOS Hollywood plugin for FLI/FLC ...
HWP_MovieSetter.lha util/libs 54K WOS Hollywood plugin for MovieSet...
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha util/libs 3.8M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
HWP_OggTheora.lha util/libs 919K WOS Hollywood plugin for Ogg Theora
HWP_OggVorbis.lha util/libs 704K WOS Hollywood plugin for Ogg Vorbis
HWP_SQLite3.lha util/libs 945K WOS Hollywood plugin for SQL data...
HWP_SVGImage.lha util/libs 4.5M WOS Hollywood plugin for loading ...
HWP_VectorGfx.lha util/libs 1.6M WOS Hollywood plugin for vectorgr...
HWP_XMLParser.lha util/libs 333K MOS Hollywood plugin for parsing ...
powersdl.lha util/libs 1.3M MOS SDL audio and video library f...
powersdl_src.lha util/libs 2.9M Source code: SDL audio and vi...
eGame.lha util/misc 1.2M MOS Game launcher with tagging &a...
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10.Feb.2013
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.02.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until February, 9th:
keyrythme.lha aud/edi 13Mb 4.0 Assign a keyboard key to a sound,
runindosbox.lha emu/uti 639kb 4.0 Double-clicked MS-DOS games are ...
mce.lha gam/uti 1Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
hollypaint.zip gra/edi 6Mb 4.0 Paint application
sketchblock.lha gra/edi 7Mb 4.1 Digital Sketching For AmigaOS
proaction.lha lib/rea 503kb 4.0 GUIServer for script writers
amicygnix-base.lha net/mis 112Mb 4.1 AmiCygnix, an Unix/X11 environme...
amicygnix-base-src.lha net/mis 11Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix base pa...
amicygnix-tools.lha net/mis 75Mb 4.1 Extension package for AmiCygnix,...
amicygnix-tools-src.lha net/mis 3Mb 4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix tools p...
amicygnix-x11-src.lha net/mis 64Mb 4.1 Sources of the basic X11 system ...
myx11setup_ita.lha net/mis 71kb 4.0 Italian catalog for myX11Setup
s3c.lha net/mis 183kb 4.0 Backup restore share & manag...
a-ftp_server.lha net/ser 2Mb 4.0 FTP Server for AmigaOS4
fastcompress.lha uti/arc 3Mb 4.0 Quickly compress into LHA,ZIP,LZ...
netdock.lha uti/doc 234kb 4.0 Docky to monitor your network ac...
ips-o-matic_ita.lha uti/fil 17kb 4.0 Italian catalog for IPS-O-Matic 1.2
iso-o_matic_ita.lha uti/fil 17kb 4.0 Italian catalog for ISO-O-Matic ...
ppf-o-matic_ita.lha uti/fil 17kb 4.0 Italian catalog for PPF-O-Matic 1.2
egame.lha uti/mis 1Mb 4.0 Game launcher with tagging &...
ranger.lha uti/mis 395kb 4.0 System diagnostic tool
backupcopy.tar.gz uti/she 5Mb 4.0 Copy, synchronise, mirror and ar...
amiupdate_ita.lha uti/wor 46kb 4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
flipclock.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.1 Nice Weather-Flipclock for your ...
midmouse.lha uti/wor 14kb 4.1 MidMouse
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10.Feb.2013
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.02.2013
The following package has been added to AROS-Archives until February, 9th:
zgrub.i386-aros.zip uti/mis 22kb ZGrub
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10.Feb.2013
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 09.02.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until February, 9th:
PowerSDL SDK 16.0 dev/lib 2349 The Software Developer Kit ...
Cave Story 1.0.0.4 gam/adv 1408 Mixed platform and adventur...
cURL 7.28.1 net/too 1050 A commandline tool for retr...
Odyssey Web Browser, ... 1.19 net/WWW 27641 A modern, full featured web...
Odyssey Web Browser, ... 1.19 net/WWW 25356 A modern, full featured web...
eGame 1.5 off/dat 611 Simple MUI based game datab...
PowerSDL 16.0 sys/lib 1285 A fast and powerful impleme...
Grunch 2.15 sys/too 1936 Advanced software package m...
HotBorder 1.2 uti/des 35 System commodity which resi...
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10.Feb.2013
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WHDLoad: New packages until 09.02.2013
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 February 9th, 2013:
- 2013-02-09 improved: Wreckers (Audiogenic) slave rewritten, blitter waits and trainers added, keyboard routine fixed (Info)
- 2013-02-09 improved: Pegasus (Gremlin) snoop bug removed, trainers added, CD32 joypad supported and more (Info)
- 2013-02-09 improved: Desert Strike (Electronic Arts) CD32 joypad supported (Info)
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09.Feb.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jump'n Run Frogatto (alpha version)
The Jump'n Run Frogatto is a mix of an open-source engine with proprietary game data. For iOS and Blackberry a fee is required for the game, ports for desktop operating systems are available for free.
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel now has ported the game to AmigaOS 4. The author has invited everybody to carefully read the documentation: Probbaly it is still an alpha version which can have bugs. Frogatto requires the libboostyGfx.so library which was also developed by Nouvel. Due to a bug in Wazp3D, currently Warp3D is absolutely required.
According to Nouvel, Frogatto is right now his last OS4-port. The port has taken two months and in future he will neither have enough time nor motivation (he mentioned the very low feedback which he has got for all his previous projects) for similar projects.
Direct download:
Frogatto-OS4.lha (164 MB)
libboostyGFX.lha (429 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Feb.2013
EAB (Forum)
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Windows: Source code of Amiga Bootblock Reader released
Under the title link Jason Smith has released the source code of version 2.0 of the Windows-programm Amiga Bootblock Reader which he has written with Visual Basic 2010 for he will not have the time to develop it further. With the programm it is possible to extract the bootblocks of disk images.
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09.Feb.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.84
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe). According to the developer the programm works on all Amigas (OCS to AGA) with 68000 up to 68060 prozessor and uses low virtual memory.
Changes in version 0.84:
- Xinit 1.4:
- Removed an useless file check (c:delete is no more used in xb)
- Added an init sequence progress bar
- The release number is no more displayed in the init sequence
- If the init has failed, it's now reported in the xb init screen
- The init errors reports are now more "verbose"
- Added the support of the No init fade to black option
- Xmenu 1.3: Key repeat delay upped
- Xlaunch 1.5: Internal improvements to be ready for an Xb0.9x killing feature
- Xsetup 1.3: You can now switch On/Off the init fader in the "Startup" pad
- Xcli 0.4: Now fully fixed. Should work fine in all case
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08.Feb.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: X11-environment AmiCygnix 1.3
Edgar Schwan has released a new version of his X11-environment AmiCygnix for AmigaOS 4. Version 1.3 includes new display drivers and fixes some bugs. Other changes are listed under the title link.
Download: amicygnix-base.lha (112 MB)
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08.Feb.2013
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS / AROS: Game launcher eGame 5
With Chris Handley's eGame, which is short for "(Portabl)E Game Launcher", you can keep an easily searchable list of games for playing under AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86 (screenshot).
The changes of version 5 are listed in the history.
Download: eGame.lha (1 MB)
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08.Feb.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiDARK-Engine 0.8
The AmiDARK-engine is described by Frédéric Cordier as "Game Development Kit" which is highly inspired by DarkGDK. It is a collection of macros and functions for C-programmers for a more comfortable way of developing games.
The changes in version 0.8 for AmigaOS 4 you can find under the title link. Currently a version for MorphOS is not available.
Download: AmiDark2DEngine_AOS4_Beta0.8.lha (82 MB)
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08.Feb.2013
Pegasosforum (Forum)
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MorphOS: Printer bounty initiated
The bounty project which is to replace TurboPrint under MorphOS is currently donated with 400 Euro and was now officially assigned to Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski. It has to be finished until September.
In the MorphZone forum Michal Zukowski explained which first steps he has made.
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