19.Oct.2013
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Book: "Commodore - The Amiga Years" will be not published
Six weeks ago several, booksellers as well as the publisher did not list Brian Bagnall's book "Commodore - The Amiga Years" any longer. Now the author himself confirmed via Twitter that he has canceled the project. He plans "on returning to it someday when things are working out better."
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Oct. 2013, 23:22] [Comments: 0]
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19.Oct.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: First reports of AmiWest 2013 (Update)
There are some first reports of the AmiWest which is taking place in Sacramento, California this weekend. According to them:
- it was again confirmed that there will not be a laptop for AmigaOS 4
- A-EON Technology has invested 1,2 million in new systems
- which probably will be available at the end of 2014: AmigaOne 3041, 5020, 5040; Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden can already run AmigaOS 4 on the Cyrus-board
- the beta test of the Cyrus boards will start at the begining of the next year, 50 testers are required
- the first production will begin with 500 boards 6 months after the beta tests were started; batches of 300-500 pieces are planned
- the Cyrus board will be available separately to allow international customers an inexpensive access to A-EON-systems; this is also planned for the Nemo board of the AmigaOne X1000
- additional to Alinea Computer in Germany, A-EON is looking for a distributor in USA
- the Ethernet driver for the Onboard-port of the AmigaOne X1000 is currently beta tested and Trevor Dickinson is already using it instead of a PCI-board
- a new AmigaOS-4-kernel is currently tested, called the X-Kernel, which features multicore-support
- the port of LibreOffice is developed further: Soon a beta test programm will be started
- for Amiga computers a new soundcard will be available, which can be connected via the Zorro-slot or the clockport and which can play most of the audio formats; Michael Böhmer (E3B) is developing it, Ian Gledhill is writing the driver and the user-interface is written by Matthew Leaman; originally it should be called Prism but with regard to the spying programm it will be renamed
Update: (09:07, 20.10.13, snx)
Meanwhile further information is available directly from the A-EON Technology website. Furthermore, the information at the title link has been extended and the video of Trevor Dickinson's presentation has been uploaded. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Oct.2013
Exec.pl (Webseite)
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Video: Amiga-Hardware-Programming
Under the title link during the last four months eleven parts of a video tutorial for programming demos on an Amiga 500 in assembler were published.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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18.Oct.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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Individual Computers: ACA500-version for Amiga 2000 announced
A week ago, Jens Schönfeld announced in a forum post a version of the starter accelerator board ACA500 for the Amiga 2000 (teaser advertisement).
The board will have an IDE-port as well as CF card slot with Hotplug-support which can be installed instead of a second disk drive.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Oct. 2013, 19:27] [Comments: 0]
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18.Oct.2013
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Word Me Up XXL 1.60
The commercial arcade/puzzle game "Word Me Up XXL" developed by Boing Attitude has been updated, which fixes some minor bugs:
- Added Greek language
- Fading effects speed improvement (twice faster)
- Better scrolling with characters portraits, menu item, ... animations
- Fix a bug on fonts display that occurs with current AmigaOS 4 beta
- Slight improvement on sound management
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Oct.2013
Amigatronics
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Audio-Interview with Dino Dini (Kick Off, Goal!)
The Spanish Amiga-blog "Amigatronics" has published an English-language audio interview with Dino Dini who is the author of the Kick Off-series as well as of its successor Goal!. The Flash-player is required to play the interview.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Oct. 2013, 14:25] [Comments: 0]
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17.Oct.2013
Joel Edberg (ANF)
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Interview: Alfkil Wennermark (Qt-port)
safir.amigaos.se has published an English-language interview with Alfkil Wennermark. At the beginning of the year, Wennermark ported Qt to AmigaOS and since then he releases updates.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. Oct. 2013, 22:49] [Comments: 0]
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16.Oct.2013
German Amiga Community (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: WinFellow 0.5.2
A new version of the Windows-based Amiga-emulator "WinFellow" has been released. The most important changes of this update:
- new display configuration options for setting scale factor (1x and 2x, retaining a proper aspect ratio), and scaling strategy (solid/scanline); inclusion of higher screen resolutions to allow use of 2x windowed modes
- support for 2x mode in Amiga Forever
- support for model presets to quickly get started setting up model specific configurations (a number of presets is already included)
- automatic interlace compensation (WinFellow will automatically detect interlaced graphics and perform interlace compensation; this can be disabled in various options, but is on by default for new configurations)
- lower system requirements (an SSE capable processor is no longer required)
- Windows 8.1 added to the supported operating systems
Additionally the following bugs have been fixed:
- re-initialize the emulation session when a change of display adapter properties (color depth, different graphics adapter) is detected
- cancelling the configuration dialog no longer performs changes to the configuration
- support for sprites in hires dual playfield mode was fixed, making previously invisible objects visible on the screen
- sprite DMA was being disabled instead of waiting, causing invisible sprites
- PC -2 saved on the stack for address exception
- proper "short frame" when display is interlaced and frame is short
- fix copper list load
- failure to find valid screen mode for screens with unusual refresh rates (Microsoft VirtualPC, ...)
- fixes for several crashes to desktop caused by NULL pointer exceptions
- cancelling an undo dialog in Amiga Forever will no longer close the emulation session
- reset of Amiga Forever emulation session no longer causes input devices to no longer function
- fixed problem with Amiga Forever clipping calculations for left offsets <16 (would lead to only half the screen being visible) or one of the offset values = 0 (would ignore the offsets completely)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Oct. 2013, 18:24] [Comments: 0]
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15.Oct.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Music: "The Amiga Works" by Allister Brimble available
After the Kickstarter project (amiga-news.de reported) was successfully finished, the album "The Amiga Works" by Allister Brimble is available under the title link (with Firefox there are some problems).
The double-CD includes 27 edited tracks of games of Team 17 - among others Assassin, Superfrog, Alien Breed and Project X - as well as of other games like Zeewolf, Spellbound Dizzy and Troddlers.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Oct. 2013, 20:16] [Comments: 0]
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15.Oct.2013
Christian Zigotzky (ANF)
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X1000: Kernel 3.9.8.1 for openSUSE 12.3
Christian "xeno74" Zigotzky has adapted the openSUSE-Kernel 3.9.8.1 to the Nemo-motherboard.
Direct download: kernel-3.9.8.1-x1000-opensuse-ppc64.tar.bz2 (11 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Oct. 2013, 17:00] [Comments: 0]
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15.Oct.2013
Spectre660 (ANF)
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Sam440ep(-flex): Linux-Distribution Debian 7.1.0
For users of a Sam440ep or a Sam440ep-flex, Spectre660 has released an adaptation of the Linux-distribution Debian 7.1.0.
Direct download: Debian_7.1.0_Sam440ep_Netinstall_2i.iso (27,5 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Oct. 2013, 16:58] [Comments: 0]
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15.Oct.2013
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AmigaOS 4: Integrated development environment CodeBench 0.42
Simon "Rigo" Archer has released a new beta version of his integrated development environment CodeBench (screenshot). Codebench 0.42 requires the latest version of the official Software Development Kit.
There are two versions of the so far free edition of Codebench: One can be used with the AmigaOS 4-SDK, the other with Hollywood.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Oct. 2013, 16:54] [Comments: 0]
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15.Oct.2013
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Alinea Computer becomes X1000-distributor (update)
According to Trevor Dickinson of A-EON in his latest Blog, the PPC-computers "AmigaOne X1000" will be sold by the German trader Alinea Computer. In the Internet-shop of the company the X1000 is not listed so far. All interested users are to contact Alinea via eMail.
Additional to the well-known complete systems with preinstalled AmigaOS 4.1 there also is a dualboot-option with an installed Linux. We do not have information about prices yet. According to unconfirmed information the former distributor Amigakit listed a X1000 complete system with about 3100 Euro.
Update: (16.10.13, 14:30, cg)
In an article on a1k.org, Simon "AmigaPapst" Neumann from Alinea explained that the exact price depends on the used components - he expects a price of "about 2800 Euro". (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Oct. 2013, 16:45] [Comments: 0]
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13.Oct.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Distribution for AGA-Amigas: Real AmiKit 0.4
Real AmiKit is an AmigaOS distribution for real AGA-Amigas. Now version 0.4 has been released. A list of changes can be found under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Oct. 2013, 18:17] [Comments: 0]
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13.Oct.2013
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Aminet-Uploads until 12.10.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until October 12th, 2013:
Blitz_Ext.lha dev/basic 1K 68k revised extended float funs. ...
cc65-morphos.lha dev/cross 9.5M MOS ANSI C 6502 cross development...
supoker_68k.lha game/board 1.2M 68k a french poker card game
tongits_68k.lha game/board 607K 68k a Filipino card game
MCE.lha game/edit 1.0M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.2M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.2M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
alleytris_68k.lha game/think 142K 68k (n)curses based tetris game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.7M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
fceu_mos.lha misc/emu 537K MOS Nintendo NES / Famicom emulator
CutRateCalc.lha misc/math 163K OS4 A reaction based calculator
ADPCM_enc.lha mus/edit 21K 68k ADPCM/FDC/EDC encoder
opus_68k.lha mus/edit 3.9M 68k OGG Opus tools & libs
opus-tools-0.17_a68k.lha mus/edit 318K 68k Opus Audio Tools
opus-tools-0.17_aros.lha mus/edit 416K x86 Opus Audio Tools
playOGG.lha mus/play 5.8M 68k multi format sound player.
qpdfview.lha text/show 11M OS4 Tabbed PDF/DjVu document viewer
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[News message: 13. Oct. 2013, 07:03] [Comments: 0]
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13.Oct.2013
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.10.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until October 12th, 2013:
atunes.lha aud/mis 1Mb 4.1 manage, play your music, edit ta...
atunes_cover_aamp.lha aud/mis 2Mb 4.1 aTunes-AAmp "plugin" to display ...
perl_newlib.lha dev/lan 24Mb 4.1 The Practical Report and Extract...
basilisk2.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 Macintosh emulator runs MacOS7 a...
basilisk2_src.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 source code for Basilisk2
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 1Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
fastview.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.1 Show, crop & scale pictures ...
internetsurfboard.lha net/bro 1Mb 4.1 Qt simple WebBrowser (aka Weltwe...
xnet_greek.lha net/new 2kb 4.1 Greek catalog file for XNet-RSS
amiarc_gr.lha uti/arc 1kb 4.0 Greek catalog file for AmiArc
netdock.lha uti/doc 418kb 4.0 Docky to monitor your network ac...
cutratecalc.lha uti/mis 163kb 4.1 A reaction based calculator
amiupdate_greek.lha uti/wor 7kb 4.1 Greek catalog files for AmiUpdat...
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13.Oct.2013
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 12.10.2013
The following package has been added to AROS-Archives until October 12th, 2013:
sdlgweled.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 2Mb Bejeweled clone.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2013
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 12.10.2013
The following package has been added to MorphOS-Files until October 12th, 2013:
MOSAVR 1.0 dev/cro 31514 Complete cross-development ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2013
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WHDLoad: New packages until 12.10.2013
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 12th, 2013:
- 2013-10-12 new: Screwballs (aka Corkscrew) (Phenomena) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-12 improved: Arkanoid (Discovery Software) supports another version, keyboard and misc other things fixed, docs and more icons included (Info)
- 2013-10-11 new: Eargasm Tunes (The Silents) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-10 new: Announce (Lemon) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-10 new: Intro? Dentro? Mentro? Demo? (The Silents) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-09 improved: State of the Art (Spaceballs) support for SkidRow version added, quit problem fixed, new icons and install script (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-09 improved: Rink a Dink (Lemon) keyboard handler added for QuitKey on 68000, volume audio fixed, new icons included (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-09 new: R.O.M. 2 (Essence) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-09 new: Musical Rabbit (Carrillon & Cyberiad) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-08 new: Wave Sound (Appendix) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-07 new: New Age (Ram Jam) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2013-10-06 new: Megademo 2 (Alcatraz) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Oct.2013
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Nintendo-Emulator FCEU 1.4
Kelly Samel has released a new version of his MorphOS-port of FCE Ultra which is an emulator of the Nintendo-Entertainment-System (NES). FCE Ultra features high compatibility, sound as well as Save-RAM and Save-State support.
Changes in version 1.4:
- Improved screen display offsets
- New input configuration panel
- XBox 360 gamepad support via sensors.library
- New save state manager panel
- Many other bug fixes and improvements
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. Oct. 2013, 06:55] [Comments: 0]
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12.Oct.2013
Hacker News (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga-citations in Game Developer Magazine
After 19 years the US-American Game Developer Magazine (Wikipedia entries) was closed down in July. Meanwhile all issues of the magazine are available for free on Internet.
Under the title link the search shows the Amiga citations.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Oct. 2013, 07:09] [Comments: 0]
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12.Oct.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Software Development Kit 53.24
According to Hyperion Entertainment under the title link, for developers a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for AmigaOS 4 is available.
You can find further information in the AmigaOS Documentation Wiki, which also has a FAQ section.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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