12.Apr.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hungarian PDF-magazine: Amiga Mania #4
"Amiga Mania" is an elaborately designed PDF-magazine from Hungary with 36 pages which is about Amiga. It is likely that soon there also will be an English-language issue of the magazine.
Download: Amiga Mania 04_OnLine.pdf (59 MB)
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12.Apr.2012
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AROS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.16.1
Although the bounty for improving the MUI-clone Zune is still not done, there is another update for the AROS-port of the MUI-based web-browser Odyssey.
Changes:
- enabled JavaScript JIT engine -> from 300% to 1000% score increase in JavaScript benchmarks
- enabled IconDatabase (web site icons presentation)
- fixed transfer animation images and web site icons rendering
- using latest Cairo 1.12.0 for rendering
- enabled SVG image processing filters
Odyssey Web Browser now requires the pixman.library. The update for the distribution Icaros which was published today already includes the latest version of the browser. An update for the distribution AspireOS will follow soon.
Download: odyssey-1.16.1.i386-aros.zip (17 MB)
Source codes: odyssey-1.16.1.src-aros.zip (57 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Apr.2012
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AROS-Distribution: Icaros Desktop 1.4.1
The first minor update for the AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop 1.4 has been published:
- system files updated to Avril 1st nightly build and later
- added initial SMB support for file servers
- updated OWB to latest version (use it today!!!)
- added GLmark 08 to benchmarks
- added SchismTracker to media editors
- added PForth to programming languages
- added Duke Nukem 3D to games (shareware episodes)
- added Sqrxz 3 to games
- fixed ghost tool on AmiStart's full behavior
- fixed PoorARC
- fixed a bug that lead to a crash when printing images
- updated PortablE and fpc to latest versions
- updated Intel GMA driver to latest version
- updated Theme manager in preferences
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12.Apr.2012
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AmigaOS 4: Graphic programm SketchBlock 1.4
The latest version of Andy Broad's graphic programm "Sketchblock" (screenshot) includes several new functions for manipulating the graphic layers. Additionally the ARexx-scripts can now respond to user inputs like mouse clicks.
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10.Apr.2012
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS-Distribution: Broadway 2012-002
Pascal Papara has updated his AROS-distribution Broadway which among others includes a full version of Audio Evolution 4 and the latest OWB-port. The update is installed by the tool up2date.
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10.Apr.2012
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Arcade game: Downfall
In the game Downfall (screenshots: 1, 2, 3) you're a mouse and are trying to make sure you land on platforms that are constantly moving upwards forever.
The game was written in BlitzBasic and is available as disk image or LhA-archive. If you want to play Downfall from the harddrive you first have to copy the included fonts to FONTS:.
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09.Apr.2012
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Commodore-founder Jack Tramiel died
As announced today, on Sunday the founder of Commodore Jack Tramiel has died. Under the leadership of Tramiel, Commodore was growing to the second biggest supplier of computers worldwide. The founder of a company had to leave the it due to conflicts with his longtime investor Irving Gould and changed to the competitor Atari.
Finally Tramiel came into contact with Amiga: After the takeover of Atari he found an existing contract with a little startup-company which developed a powerful, m68000-based computer. Tramiel who always said "business is war" insisted on the immediate repayment of a credit granted by Atari although he knew that the little startup-company was not able to do that.
Just before he could buy the company for a ridiculous price, his former company Commodore thwarted his plans and bought the startup "Amiga" of four times what Tramiel offered.
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09.Apr.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution AspireOS 1.8
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published a new version of his AROS-distribution AspireOS. This distribution is best configured for the Acer-netbook Aspire One and does also completely support the Toshiba-notebook Satellite Pro A200; the distribution should work with all other hardware but this is not officially supported.
Additional to updated system files (e.g. IntelGMA graphic driver), AspireOS 1.8 now includes music programm Audio Evolution and the unarchiver Unarc as well as a new theme (screenshot).
A video tutorial is also available. An update package for exsiting AspireOS installations will follow soon.
Download: aspireos_v.1.8.rar (141 MB)
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09.Apr.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: First videos and downloads of Revision-Party 2012
The first videos and downloads which have been taken at the demo scene event Revision-Party 2012 in Saarbrücken are available.
Amiga - 64k
Amiga - Intro
Amiga - Oldskool-Demo
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08.Apr.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.04.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 07.04.2012 to the Aminet:
HollywoodSP.lha biz/misc 110K Hollywood 5.0 spanish catalogs
SpeedwayManager.zip demo/intro 17K 68k Speedway Manager cracking int...
AsmPro1.18src.zip dev/asm 720K 68k Asm-Pro mc680x0 macro assembl...
pForth.lha dev/lang 255K MOS Portable ANS-like Forth writt...
pforth_v24.i386.lha dev/lang 426K x86 PForth Forth compiler
neon.lha dev/lib 835K OS4 HTTP and WebDAV client library
Wazp3D.lha driver/vid 628K 68k CPU only Warp3D implementation
bumprace_68k.lha game/actio 1.0M 68k race to the exit
aceyducey_keho.lha game/wb 1.3M 68k Simulation of the Acey Ducey ...
bageln_os3.lha game/wb 1.3M 68k A small numbers game
abkviewer_aros.zip gfx/show 127K x86 AMOS sprite and icon bank vie...
aw2m.lha mus/edit 19K 68k Converts AIF/WAV Audio to IFF...
aw2sv.lha mus/edit 16K 68k Converts AIF/WAV Audio to IFF...
awm2m.lha mus/edit 16K 68k Converts AIF/WAV/MAUD to the ...
bonk_enc.lha mus/misc 20K 68k Encode raw of unknown size to...
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.4M MOS Directory and files tool
hubbub.lha util/libs 1.4M OS4 HTML5 parser library
parserutils.lha util/libs 538K OS4 utility library for parser bu...
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08.Apr.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.04.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 07.04.2012 to the OS4Depot:
hugi37.lha dem/mag 58Mb 4.1 Diskmag "HUGI", issue 37.
qt-sdk.lha dev/cro 53Mb 4.1 Qt 4.7 SDK for AmigaOS 4 native
qt-user.lha dev/cro 43Mb 4.1 Qt 4.7 user archive for AmigaOS ...
openbor.lha gam/act 2Mb 4.0 OpenBOR, Beats of Rage Engine
introcadconverter.tar.gz gra/con 110kb 4.0 IntroCAD file reader/converter
amicygnixiconset.lha gra/ico 53Mb 4.1 Iconset for Amicygnix
iconsreworked_2012.lha gra/ico 100Mb 4.1 Icons for 3th party software
flasq.lha gra/vec 556kb 4.1 FlasQ - flash animation editor f...
cinnamon_writer.lha off/wor 6Mb 4.0 Compact and efficient word proce...
switcher3d.lha uti/wor 77kb 4.0 Window and screen switcher
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08.Apr.2012
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 07.04.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 07.04.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
pforth_v24.i386-aros.lha dev/lan 426kb PForth Forth compiler
wildmidi-0.2.3.5-i386-aro... dev/lib 91kb WildMIDI Open Source Midi Synthe...
abkviewer.i386-aros.zip gra/vie 127kb AMOS sprite and icon bank viewer...
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08.Apr.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 07.04.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 07.04.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
Sqrxz 3 1.0 gam/pla 1069 Another sequel of Sqrxz - a...
Alaska Kanada West Mu... 2.1 mul/pre 125215 A remake made in Hollywood ...
CoolCow 1.0 uti/sci 34 Reduces heating of processo...
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07.Apr.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Demo scene: Diskmag HUGI #37 (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS)
Issue 37 of the diskmagazine HUGI (screenshots: 1,
2,
3,
4)
was published some days ago and today ported to AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS on the Viva Amiga-demoparty.
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07.Apr.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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MovieSetter-Plugin for Hollywood
Press release: Airsoft Softwair has just released a very special Easter egg for all Hollywood users: A Hollywood plugin for videos created with Gold Disk's famous MovieSetter tool.
MovieSetter (photo) is renowned in the Amiga community because it is the tool which Eric W. Schwartz used to create his legendary clips like the Aerotoons (screenshot), Flip the Frog and Clarisse Cat, Sabrina, the intro of Team17's Superfrog (screenshot), the very funny Anti Lemmin' Demo (screenshot) and of course the Juggette clips.
Unfortunately, the original player written by Gold Disk bangs the hardware quite a lot and thus doesn't run on modern systems. But with the MovieSetter for Hollywood plugin you can now for the very first time experience Eric W. Schwartz's great animations in all their glory on your AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS system - fully PPC native with retargetable audio through AHI and RTG graphics as well! Only Hollywood makes it possible!
You can download the plugin from the official Hollywood portal at the title link. Thanks to Hollywood 5.0's cross-platform plugin system, versions for AmigaOS 3.x (Classic), AmigaOS 3.x (FPU), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (Intel), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (Intel), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (Intel) and Windows are provided.
As a special convenience service we have also created a single archive that contains most of Eric's animations in just one file. Airsoft Softwair wishes all Amiga users a Happy Easter!
Download: esanims.lha (13 MB) (snx)
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07.Apr.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Switcher3D 4.1
The AmigaOS-4-programm Switcher3D written by Tuomas Hokka shows all opened windows in a 3D view and changes between screens with an animation (screenshot).
Additional to new and reworked ARexx-commands, now Wazp3D is supported. Users of RadeonHD have to use this library instead of Warp3D and additionally have to set "Compositing2D" in the Wazp3D preferences.
Download: switcher3d.lha (77 KB)
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06.Apr.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Indivision ECS: Picasso96 driver (alpha version) (update)
'Symplex' has published an alpha version of a Picasso96 driver for the Flickerfixer Indivision ECS. If you are going to test this version it is strongly recommended to backup your system first.
A 68030 with MMU, Kickstart 3.x and 4 MB Fast-RAM are required. With the driver a solution of 800x600 pixels with up to 256 colours is possible (video). Please note the hints in the included Readme-file.
Update: (08:04, 07.04.12, snx)
Meanwhile version 0.2 is available as well as an official thread about this driver, which can be found now at our title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Apr.2012
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AmigaOS 4: Pictogramms for AmiCygnix / IconsReworked 2012 1.1
Additional to an update of his pictogramm collection IconsReworked, Thomas 'tommysammy' also has published icons for AmiCygnix.
Download:
amicygnixiconset.lha (53 MB)
iconsreworked_2012.lha (100 MB)
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06.Apr.2012
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AmigaOS 4: Zelda - Mystery of Solarus DX 1.5
The AmigaOS-4-port of the adventure Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX now is available in the latest version 1.5 which provides English language in the game.
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05.Apr.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 2.4.1
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE has provided a short preview to the next version. WinUAE 2.4.1 is supposed to be published during the next two weeks and mainly will fix minor bugs. Additionally there will be minor improvememnts like a CPU-brake for the JIT-mode.
New features and updates:
- Fastest possible CPU mode (including JIT) throttle option (-10% to -90%)
- Approximate CPU mode speed adjustment (-90% to 500%+). Replaces old CPU/Chipset adjustment
- Internal display buffering system rewritten, PAL/NTSC vertical centering, even better screen positiong in programmed modes
- Fullscreen (TV)/(Max) filter mode programmed mode and PAL/NTSC switching support
- Custom Input Event autofire support
- Switch to another monitor if multiple monitors with different resolutions and current RTG resolution is not supported by current monitor
- CDFS statefile support implemented
- Sound sync improved in approximate and cycle-exact modes
Bug fixes of version 2.4.0:
- CDFS directory listing crashed if ACTION_EXAMINE_ALL packet was used
- CDFS converted file names to lowercase even when CD included RockRidge or Joliet file names
- Fake 60Hz didn't work
- Software filters had very big slowdown in higher resolutions
- D3D overlay mask scaling artifacts in some resolutions
- D3D "CRT" filters had bad geometry
- Automatic resize resized continuously in interlaced modes
- Some USB joysticks had multiple buttons with same name
Bug fixes of older versions:
- Automatic scale/center/resize didn't work in ECS SuperPlus mode
- 68020 cycle-exact mode statefile reliability improved. (Random "CPU trace" errors)
- 0.5M Chip RAM was detected as 1M in JIT mode
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05.Apr.2012
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Event: Plan of demo party in Zoetermeer (Netherlands)
Now an event plan is available under the title link for the demo party which will take place in Dutch Zoetermeer on Saturday before Easter.
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