28.Jan.2012
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Hired Guns-/Dungeon Master-clone: Cyber Blast 2
Cyber Blast 2 (screenshots: 1, 2) is a "Dungeon Crawler" similar to Dungeon Master or Hired Guns. For the first time the game was published on Aminet as Shareware 12 years ago. Now the full version is available on the Polish Amiga website PPA.
The archive includes an installation script with which you can install Cyber Blast 2 on harddrive or disks.
Download: cyberblast2.lha (1 MB)
Hint of the editorial staff: This weekend ppa.pl moves to a new server. So until Sunday there might be some problems accessing the website.
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28.Jan.2012
A-EON (E-Mail)
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A-EON Technology: AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" systems now shipping
As A-EON Technology announces in the press release below, the First Contact systems of the AmigaONE X1000 with AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 are shipping to regular customers now.
The latter will receive AmigaOS 4.2 for free once available, while work on Update 5 for other platforms starts now. The price of the system, if three additional GB of RAM and twice the size of the harddisk compared to the default configuration are chosen, is 1915 pound sterling excluding VAT and shipping.
AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 CD for the AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" system has gone GOLD!
Wellington, 25th January 2012. A-EON Technology and Hyperion Entertainment are pleased to announce that the AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 CD, exclusively created for the AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" system has gone gold. The professionally re-mastered CD will be supplied in a printed boxed set along with copies of the AmigaONE X1000 and AmigaOS 4.1 "Quick Start" guides.
Steven Solie, Hyperion Entertainment's AmigaOS Development Team Lead said, "The team worked hard to reach this important milestone in the development of the Amiga Operating System. With AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 completed for the AmigaONE X1000 we can concentrate on versions for all the other supported hardware platforms as we continue to push towards the future release of AmigaOS 4.2."
Trevor Dickinson added, "I would like to thank the AmigaOS developers and the whole AmigaONE X1000 betatest team who have worked so tirelessly behinds the scenes to make this a reality. I would also like to give special thanks to a few key members of the team who went above and beyond the "call of duty" to ensure the success of this project. You know who you are."
The AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 boxed set will be supplied to all AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" customers who will also receive a free update to AmigaOS 4.2 when it is commercially released by Hyperion Entertainment.
AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" systems now shipping
A-EON Technology and AmigaKit are pleased to announced that the deliveries of AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" systems have commenced. Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of AmigaKit commented, "we are pleased to finally supply this eagerly awaited AmigaONE computer system to our customers".
Trevor Dickinson added, "I have just received my own AmigaONE X1000 system and I hope "First Contact" owners will have as much fun as I'm having with my new "Amiga". All that remains to be said is let's "keep this part going!"
A-EON Technology
About AmigaKit: AmigaKit is a trading division of Leaman Computing Ltd based in Cardiff, UK. It acquired the stock of Eyetech Group Ltd in 2006 and quickly established itself as a world-wide market leader in the retail and distribution of Amiga hardware and software. A-EON Technology appointed AmigaKit as its primary distributor for all its AmigaONE products.
About A-EON Technology and the AmigaONE X1000: A-EON Technology is the developer of the AmigaONE X1000 computer system designed by Varisys Ltd for running the AmigaOS. The AmigaOne X1000 is not like other computers. It is a culmination of efforts by real Amiga enthusiasts and developers to create powerful, modern desktop hardware for the Amiga Operating System. It is the natural evolution of the Amiga's PowerPC lineage and is based on the PA-Semi Dual-core PA6T-1682M CPU and includes Xena, a "Software Defined Silicon" co-processor. Above all it runs the latest version of the AmigaOS.
About Hyperion Entertainment: Hyperion Entertainment is the developer of the AmigaOS. (snx)
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28.Jan.2012
Abime (Webseite)
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AROS: AMOS emulation package for AROS and Linux
First a Windows-installer-package and now versions for AROS/x86 and Linux have been published with which you can start AMOS based on the emulator UAE and the AROS-Kickstart-ROM.
Download:
amos4aros.zip (18 MB)
amos4linux.zip (16 MB)
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27.Jan.2012
amigans.net (Webseite)
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Firefox-Port: Status-Update for Timberwolf
Thomas Frieden has published a new status update for the Firefox port "Timberwolf". He wrote:
"I haven't posted a progress report for a few weeks. This is not because there was nothing new, but the news are mostly "boring": Fixing bugs, implementing some missing features and so on.
One feature worth mentioning is that Timberwolf will now adapt to the color scheme of your workbench. That means it will use the GUI prefs colors for it's user interface drawing and this will be a big step towards making it feel more like an Amiga application.
Stay tuned for more news in the coming days."
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27.Jan.2012
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MorphOS: 3D-Shooter "Cube 2: Sauerbraten"
Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has ported the 3D-Shooter Cube 2: Sauerbraten to MorphOS. The PowerSDL 14 as well as the original files of the game are required which are available on the official website.
In order to start the game in a window on a Ambient screen you have to put in the options "-t -w640 -h480" (for a 640x480 window) at the start. The author is looking for an older version of PowerSDL because v14 has some stability problems. Additionally the server was not tested and the client has still some bugs. Currently the most stable client is the RPG-client.
Downloads:
rpg_client (628 KB)
sauer_server (179 KB)
sauer_client (796 KB)
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27.Jan.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: printer.device in development
Jason McMullan has started developing a printer.device for AROS. The device is supposed to print Postscript Level 2 - either in a file or with the help of Pipe into another programm. According to the author the device may be finished at the beginning of April.
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27.Jan.2012
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Jump'n Run: Bonus level for Mr. Beanbag
For Amy Worthington's Jump'n Run game Mr. Beanbag now a first bonus level was published (Youtube video). Because currently the game does not offer the option to load additional levels the bonus level is available as separate executable.
Download: BurnsBag.lha (121 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jan.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: Patch 04 for Icaros Desktop 1.3.3
For version 1.3.3 of his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop, Paolo Besser has published a new update which fixes some bugs.
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26.Jan.2012
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Convierteme 2.10 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS)
Convertieme is a simple picture editing programm written with Hollywood which can convert and rotate pictures or put watermarks on them.
Additionally the author has published MorphOS-ports of Sirena Player (audio player) and Bed Games.
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26.Jan.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenOfficeViewer 0.01
Carsten Siegner's OpenOfficeViewer views texts and graphics which are used by a OpenDocument. A detailed list which parts of the document are supported you can find in the Readme included in the archive.
Download: OpenOfficeViewer_0.0.1.lha (9 MB)
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26.Jan.2012
Floppy (ANF)
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AROS: Bounty for adapting Zune to MUI 3.8
Neil Cafferkey has accepted the bounty project (currently donated with 1020 US-Dollar) for adapting and improving Zune. The goal is to adapt the open source clone of MUI to version 3.8 of it by adding all missing features and deleting all difference.
With this step porting software to AROS or developing cross-platform applications (AmigaOS, AROS, MorphOS) is supposed to be facilitated. Cafferkey will try to finish the project until the end of July.
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24.Jan.2012
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Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.3 (alpha version)
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface (64 colours) which replaces the Workbench for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe) and only requires few resources.
According to the developer the programm runs on all Amigas (OCS to AGA) as well as from 68000 to 68060 processors and requires very little RAM. The changes in alpha version 0.3 can be found under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Interview: Jan Zahurancik (Amikit)
Amiga user "CritAnime" has published a short interview with Jan Zahurancik. Zahurancik is the author of Amikit which is a full distribution for UAE.
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24.Jan.2012
David Brunet (ANF)
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Voting: Amiga Games Award 2011
As last year from today on you can vote for the best Amiga game of the last twelve month on the website of Obligement. The results of the voting will be published on February 4th.
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22.Jan.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 21.01.2012
The following packages have been added since the January 1st 2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
Chocolate Doom 1.6.0 gam/act 451 Chocolate Doom is a re-impl...
Uplink 10.0 gam/adv 2982 Well known hacking simulato...
The Legend of Edgar 0.96 gam/pla 29765 The Legend of Edgar is 2D p...
Predateur 2.2 gam/thi 146 A chess engine compatible w...
Blender 2.61.16 gra/3D 9223 Modern version of the power...
LoView 2.35 gra/edi 3258 Simple image viewer and pro...
MPlayer 1.0 201 mul/pla 16563 Port of great movie player ...
SimpleMail 0.38 net/mai 1015 Very good e-mail client. MU...
ShowOffice 1.1 off/tex 29 A console tool for viewing ...
Glace Skin sys/gra 511 Very simple old-school insp...
Grunch 1.34 sys/too 1848 Advanced software package m...
Keymap.sbar 20.15 uti/des 129 A screenbar plugin for fast...
Oricutron 0.8 uti/emu 1101 Emulator of 6502 based Oric...
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22.Jan.2012
exec.pl (Webseite)
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Event: AmigaX-Party in Warszawa
On February 25th in Warszawa the AmigaX-Party will take place which is the first official presentation of the AmigaOne X1000 in Poland. The event will take place in the Klubie Kultury Anin.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jan.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.01.2012
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until 21.01.2012:
HTTPResumeSP.lha comm/www 4K HTTPResume v1.9 spanish catalog
nc2sdl.lha dev/c 173K 68k convert from Ncurses to SDL
modifyle.lha dev/gui 90K 68k brand new filerequester library
openxui.lha dev/gui 168K 68k open source GUI-Library in/fo...
libaiff.lha dev/lib 147K OS4 Read/write aiff files
libbme_68k.lha dev/lib 869K 68k SDL MULTIMEDIA ENGINE lib
libfaac.i386-aros.tar... dev/lib 159K x86 Freeware Advanced Audio Coder
libfaad2.i386-aros.ta... dev/lib 1.0M x86 Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder
libogg.i386-aros.tar.bz2 dev/lib 82K x86 Library for handling OGG files
libsge_68k.lha dev/lib 4.0M 68k SDL Graphics Extension
libsge2d.lha dev/lib 6.9M 68k SDL game engine
libvorbis.i386-aros.t... dev/lib 866K x86 Libraries for handling Ogg Vo...
FlexCatSP.lha dev/misc 3K FlexCat v2.9 spanish catalog
diskimage.i386-aros.t... disk/misc 342K x86 Disk image device (adf,dms,is...
diskimage.m68k-aos.ta... disk/misc 149K 68k Disk image device (adf,dms,ip...
bofh-68k.lha game/actio 1.3M 68k reclaim control of the hostag...
amigang.lha game/misc 1.7M 68k four amiga games
alienblaster-68k.lha game/shoot 3.2M 68k blast the aliens
imbiss_os4.lha game/wb 1.3M OS4 Buy and sell hamburgers
GSGuiSP.lha gfx/conv 4K GSGui v0.38 spanish catalog
exif-m68k.lha gfx/misc 106K 68k shows EXIF information inside...
oricutron.lha misc/emu 1.1M MOS Oric-1 / Atmos emulator
DigiBooster3_DE.lha mus/edit 2K Unofficial German catalog for...
GoatTracker_68k.lha mus/edit 1.1M 68k c64 music editor
EvenMore.lha text/show 515K 68k V0.73: Proportional font text...
TinyLauncher.lzh util/misc 237K 68k WHDLoad frontend and more
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22.Jan.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.01.2012
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until 22.01.2012:
awk.lha dev/lan 220kb 4.0 awk the text processing language
gui4cli.lha dev/lan 311kb 4.0 Interpreted script language for ...
libaiff.lha dev/lib 147kb 4.0 Read/write aiff files
libcurl.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 The multiprotocol file transfer ...
ab_power8.lha gra/ico 2Mb 4.0 Icons in png format
yam_greek.lha net/ema 44kb 4.0 Greek locale catalog file for YAM
curl.lha net/mis 1Mb 4.0 Command line URL file transfer
alignwindows.lha uti/wor 1Mb 4.1 Workbench tool to stack windows
jack.zip uti/wor 8Mb 4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
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22.Jan.2012
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 21.01.2012
The following packages have been added to the AROS-Archives until 21.01.2012:
libfaac.i386-aros.tar.bz2 dev/lib 159kb Freeware Advanced Audio Coder
libfaad2.i386-aros.tar.bz2 dev/lib 1Mb Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder
libogg.i386-aros.tar.bz2 dev/lib 82kb Library for handling OGG files
libvorbis.i386-aros.tar.bz2 dev/lib 866kb Libraries for handling Ogg Vorbi...
diskimage.i386-aros.tar.bz2 dri/sto 342kb Disk image device (adf,dms,iso,...)
flipbook_v1.0.i386-aros.zip uti/sci 7Mb Flipbook
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22.Jan.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Sirena Player 2.00
Sirena Player is an audio player for AmigaOS 4 and Windows written with Hollywood which can play MP3-, WAV- and MOD-files.
New features:
- New Rewind and Forward options with step choose among 10-20-30 seconds
- New Rosalia skin, now the mermaid has covered the breast
- New design button for loop option
- New button and option for settings
- New redesign the position for the buttons
- Corrected any bug in the drag&drop option
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22.Jan.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: RadeonHD driver 0.32 for Sam460 / AmigaOne 500
ACube Systems has published a new version of the RadeonHD driver for PCIe- graphic boards written by Hans de Ruiter. If you did not get the update via eMail then please use the ACube-contact formular.
Bug fixes in version 0.32:
- Some R700 GPUs were locking up when compositing "large" vertex arrays. FIXED
- Screens that were larger than the display resolution were garbled. FIXED
- R500 vertex array clipping was one pixel larger than it was supposed to be (could cause the right-hand edge to spill over to the left most column of pixels). FIXED
- Fixed an R500 compositing bug that could cause corruption if one compositing operation rapidly draws directly over the previous one
- WaitTOF() and similar functions could cause the machine to lockup when called from a task with a priority >= 1. FIXED
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21.Jan.2012
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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Megaupload closed: UAE-author Mathias Ortmann arrested
The Department of Justice of the Uninated States charges leaders of Megaupload with widespread online copyright infringement (Wikipedia). The charge was brought against Kim 'kimble' Schmitz and Mathias 'scuz' Ortmann (PDF, 974 KB).
Ortmann is known as one of the original authors of the Amiga emulator UAE who ported it to Windows. At Megaupload he was supposed to be engineering manager and co-founder of the company.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Jan. 2012, 09:07] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2012
AROS-Exec (ANF)
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AROS: Workbench replacement Scalos ported
Matthias Rustler has ported the Workbench replacement Scalos to AROS. Because Scalos requires DOS-packages, the port is only available for AROS-systems with the ABI-V1 binary interface.
In a statement on aros-exec.org the author explained the problems which still exists: Drag'n Drop as well as the "Lasso" for choosing several icons do not work. The AROS-icons do not look very nice because the format of the pictogramm is still not supported. Additionally the content of a directory is not listed. Then simply choose "update" from the menu list.
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[News message: 21. Jan. 2012, 01:41] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview with Amy Worthington (Mr. Beanbag)
amigapd.com has continued its interviews by conducting a conversation with Amy Worthington who resently has published Jump'n Run Mr. Beanbag.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Jan. 2012, 20:34] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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DVD: Amiga Future Archive 2
Press release: The Amiga Future Magazine Archive 2 DVD contains the German issues 11 to 90 and English issues 67 to 90 in PDF format. To be able to read the PDF files you need a PDF reader capable of viewing at least PDF version 1.5. The Amiga Future Archive DVD is available directly from the editorial office for just 19,- Euro plus shipping and handling. (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 19. Jan. 2012, 17:24] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2012
NetBSD (ANF)
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NetBSD: G-REX support implemented
The NetBSD operating system now includes support for G-REX 1200 and G-REX 4000 bus boards. The driver is experimental, currently only top PCI slot is supported. Work on improving the driver continues, progress can be observed in the Amibay forum. (snx)
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19.Jan.2012
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Uplink - Trust is a weakness
Paweł 'stefkos' Stefański and Filip 'widelec' Maryjański have compiled the game Uplink - Trust is a weakness (Wikipedia) to MorphOS.
The original files of the game as well as working 3D-acceleration and the PowerSDL.library are required.
Download: uplink_mos.lha (3 MB)
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