08.Jun.2012
geit (comment)
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MorphOS: Tweaks for improving speed and reducing memory usage (german)
At the title link, Guido 'geit' Mersmann has published some tips how to reduce the amount of RAM used by MorphOS and gain some speed - especially with regard to the comparatively limited Efika boards.
While the text is in German only for now, automated translation nevertheless might give some hints. (snx)
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08.Jun.2012
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MorphOS 3.0 released: PowerBook support & special pricing
Today, version 3.0 of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS has been released, which does also support notebooks for the first time. Additionally, from now on - among others - those source codes derived from AROS can be downloaded directly from the MorphOS homepage.
The update is free for owners of MorphOS 2.x keyfiles and includes the CD/DVD authoring application Jalapeno, the FTP/SFTP client Transfer, an updated Odyssey Web Browser, new Reggae classes and the Reggae-based music player Jukebox.
Below you can read the official press release:
"The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.0, the first ever public version to install on portable computers, specifically PowerBook G4 machines. In addition to the extended hardware support, users will benefit from various new features, enhancements and bug fixes. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.
To celebrate the much anticipated release of MorphOS 3.0, we are furthermore offering special three-tier pricing. The prices for a keyfile are 111.11 EUR for one PowerBook G4 system, 79 EUR for one eMac, Mac mini G4, Pegasos I, Pegasos II or PowerMac G4, and 49 EUR for one EfikaPPC system.
We strongly urge owners of PowerBook G4 computers to carefully read our installation and troubleshoot guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.0 is available for download in our files section." (snx)
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08.Jun.2012
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Python 2.7.3 and Mercurial 2.2.2
At the title link, Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez released version 2.7.3 of the programming language Python as a shared library for MorphOS. Also available is his port of the Python-based source code management tool Mercurial.
For now, the latter supports HTTP(S) communication only, SSH will follow once the corresponding Python module is available. (snx)
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08.Jun.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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AVCodec-Plugin 1.1 published
Press release: An update of the AVCodec plugin for Hollywood 5: Infinity has just been released. This update fixes some problems with WMV video files. A new feature is that the plugin now establishes a gateway to Hollywood's sound stream interface so that Hollywood can now play audio files supported by the FFMPEG codec collection as well, for example M4A/AAC (used by iTunes). This is especially useful on systems like AROS and Linux because Hollywood doesn't support MP3 playback on these platforms by default.
You can download the plugin from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood 5.0's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (Classic), AmigaOS3 (FPU), AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (Intel), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (Intel), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (Intel) and Windows are provided.
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05.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS: Janus-UAE 1.2
With Oliver 'o1i' Brunner's Janus-UAE for AROS/x86 you can start AmigaOS programms under AROS. The original Kickstart-3.1-files are required.
Version 1.2 fixes four bugs of the previous version and is also included in the AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop 1.4.2.
Download: janus-uae.i386.tar.gz (21 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Platform shooter: Land of Genesis as free download
10 years ago the platform shooter Land of Genesis was published and now released as free download. You have to register at amigafuture.de to be able downloading the CD-image.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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YAM: Planned changes in version 2.8 and next versions
Four days ago the main developers of the eMail programm YAM, Thore Böckelmann and Jens Langner, met to discuss the further development of this software. Under the title link you can find the results of this meeting.
As a result version 2.8 is making good progress and therefore could be be published before this Christmas. But they complained that developers for the MorphOS version as well as for all AROS versions are missing. More translators would be welcome as well.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2012
Floppy (Forum)
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AROS: Turrican clone Hurrican
Hurrican is a clone of the well-known Turrican. Georg Steger has ported the SDL-version of the game to AROS.
The AROS-port currently is a debug version. Additionally Hurrican requires hardware accelerated OpenGL.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Apollo accelerator boards: Purchase of Mach-131-Chips possible
On request by a petition Individual Computers offers all interested users Mach-131- and EPROM-Chips for Apollo-1260 accelerator boards for 150 Euro each plus shipping as spare parts.
Yet Jens Schönfeld emphasized that he would prefer that the existing Apollo boards may little by little be taken out of service because they to impact negatively the system stability. His offer therefore means that there will be no support for Amigas with an Apollo board any longer.
After 267 sold chip upgrades Jens Schönfeld offers the opportunity to release the Jedec-file of the Mach-131 of the Apollo 1260 for non-commercial purposes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jun.2012
André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer (ANF)
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Pictures: Amiga 4000/060 with 100 MHz
After André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer succeeded in overclocking an Amiga 4000 with 68060-processor to 90 MHz (amiga-news.de reported) he now succeeded in overclocking an Apollo-4060 accelerator board to 100 MHz.
According to him the CPUs of revision 6 have a dispersion of 90-115 MHz. You can find some pictures of the computer and some information under the title link as well as links to overclocking hints for Apollo-4060- and -1260 accelerator boards. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jun.2012
EAB (Forum)
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AMOS-Reimplementation: jAMOS and XAMOS 0.24
jAMOS and XAMOS are now available in version 0.24 vor.
Changes (jAMOS):
- Various more bug fixes and code refactoring in line with XAMOS 0.24
- Can now translate AMAL and AMAL EnvGen code into C++ as well as Java, in line with XAMOS's new AMAL support
Changes (XAMOS):
- AMAL is now implemented in line with jAMOS 0.24, including AMAL Environment Generator. All AMAL examples from jAMOS are added and runnable in XAMOS
- Can translate AMAL (and EnvGen) code into both C++ and Java
- Much code refactoring and debugging
- Removed default startup sound for run-only version (too irritating)
- A console-based launcher is added for launching all 40 included examples, along with a batch file
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jun.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 02.06.2012
The following files have been added until 02.06.2012 to the Aminet:
lua-mos.lha dev/lang 557K MOS Lua programming language
SDL_image-68k-1_2_12.lha dev/lib 690K 68k minimalist SDL image build
SDL_term.lha dev/lib 1.1M 68k ansi color terminal implement...
MCC_BetterString-11.2... dev/mui 295K MOS BetterString custom class for...
MCC_NList-0.112.lha dev/mui 1.8M MOS NList custom classes for MUI,...
MCC_TextEditor-15.38.lha dev/mui 783K MOS TextEditor custom class for M...
MCC_TheBar-26.9.lha dev/mui 1.5M MOS Next Generation Toolbar MUI C...
MCC_TheBarSP.lha dev/mui 5K MCC TheBar 26.9 spanish catalog
anaiis.lha driver/oth 203K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.05
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 195K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
aop_68k.lha game/actio 150K 68k A tiny ncurses based action game
gnurobbo_68k.lha game/actio 4.1M 68k remake of Atari XE/XL Robbo
myman_68k.lha game/actio 1.2M 68k ncurses based pacman clone
nc_pacman_68k.lha game/actio 276K 68k ncurses based pacman game
nsnake_68k.lha game/actio 192K 68k ncurses based snake game
osgg_68k.lha game/actio 921K 68k Old school gravity game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 626K MOS Advanced snake game
WormWarsSP.lha game/actio 5K Worm Wars 8.77 spanish catalog
nuclearchess-mos.lha game/board 1.4M MOS a chess variant
AMRWolf.lha game/misc 1.2M 68k Texturemap game engine/editor...
DustDigger.adf game/misc 880K 68k Dust Digger AMIGA version
simcar_68k.lha game/misc 7.1M 68k 3D car simulation
crawl_68k.lha game/role 1.6M 68k ncurses based adventure
kusemono_68k.lha game/role 223K 68k ncurses based adventure
psttrl_68k.lha game/role 283K 68k ncurses based adventure
dangen_68k.lha game/shoot 808K 68k A silent geometric shooter
darkplaces.i386-aros.lha game/shoot 4.4M x86 Darkplaces
depth_68k.lha game/shoot 303K 68k Bomb subs with your ship
duke3dw.i386-aros.lha game/shoot 1.4M x86 Duke3dw
fuhquake.aros-src.lha game/shoot 825K Fuhquake for AROS (sources)
fuhquake.i386-aros.lha game/shoot 4.3M x86 Fuhquake for AROS
sinflators_68k.lha game/shoot 141K 68k Galaxian like ncurses based s...
tenmado_68k.lha game/shoot 604K 68k A silent action shooter
blockrage_68k.lha game/think 201K 68k Arcade tetris like, but diffe...
tric-tac-toe-mos.lha game/think 363K MOS Rubik inspired puzzle game
jhead-mos.lha gfx/conv 122K MOS manipulate non-image parts of...
mo5_sdk-mos.lha gfx/conv 88K MOS Thomson MO5 graphic converters
ptrans-mos.lha gfx/pbm 18K MOS Image scaling and dithering tool
glUAE.lha misc/emu 17K Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
pom1-mos.lha misc/emu 80K MOS Apple I emulator
aspireos_upd_v1.9-i38... misc/os 84M x86 AspireOS update Codename:Apoc...
vorbistools140_68k.lha mus/edit 859K 68k Tools to manipulate Vorbis fi...
vorbistools140_wos.lha mus/edit 934K WOS Tools to manipulate Vorbis fi...
SSW_Ottawa2012.lha pix/back 4.7M Photos of the S Scale Worksho...
Cl_WB_Drawer_V2.0.lha pix/picon 34M PNG Icons for Amiga OS
BootMonFix.lha util/boot 2K 68k BlizKick module:disable PPC m...
cdplayer_lib_ahi.lha util/libs 128K MOS Modern replacement for cdplay...
PinkAlert.lha util/misc 43K 68k Pink Guru Mediation (PinkAlert)
Jack_Classic.zip util/wb 11M 68k Multi-purpose utility for Wor...
Jack_WarpOS.zip util/wb 11M WOS Multi-purpose utility for Wor...
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03.Jun.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.06.2012
The following files have been added until 02.06.2012 to the OS4Depot:
sprite_dt.lha dat/ima 88kb 4.0 Datatype for RISC OS (Acorn) Spr...
warpbmpdt.lha dat/ima 70kb 4.0 Windows BMP datatype V45.7
warpjpegdt.lha dat/ima 209kb 4.0 JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.9
warppcxdt.lha dat/ima 64kb 4.0 ZSoft PCX datatype V45.5
warppngdt.lha dat/ima 207kb 4.0 PNG image datatype V45.16
warppsddt.lha dat/ima 67kb 4.0 Adobe Photoshop® datatype V45.5
warptiffdt.lha dat/ima 441kb 4.0 TIFF datatype V45.8
muibuilder.lha dev/gui 1Mb 4.1 MUIBuilder is a user interface d...
libmodplug.lha dev/lib 945kb 4.0 Add support for a lot of mod for...
psgayemu.lha dev/lib 571kb 4.0 libayemu + PSG (Spectrum AY) sup...
glib.lha dev/lib 19Mb 4.1 GNU utility library (GLib)
gstreamer.lha dev/lib 14Mb 4.1 Media streaming library
libconfig.lha dev/lib 218kb 4.0 processing structured configurat...
neon.lha dev/lib 835kb 4.0 HTTP and WebDAV client library
flexcat.lha dev/mis 320kb 4.0 Flexible catalogs (C, Asm, E, AR...
fuse.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.0 Spectrum emulator with advanced ...
sz81.lha emu/com 569kb 4.0 Sinclair ZX80/ZX81/TS1000 emulator
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 3Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
gluae.lha emu/uti 17kb 4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
wormwars.lha gam/act 1008k 4.0 Advanced snake game
edgar.lha gam/pla 31Mb 4.1 The Legend of Edgar
openjazz.lha gam/pla 1Mb 4.1 A Jazz Jack Rabbit interpreter
icontoiff.lha gra/con 23kb 4.0 .info to IFF ILBM/DataType conve...
amiscratch.lha gra/mis 640kb 4.0 scratch picture to see what hide...
bi.lha gra/mis 55kb 4.1 Alternative boot picture for Sam...
zbar.lha lib/gra 898kb 4.0 Barcode scanner library + CLI tool
hubbub.lha lib/mis 1Mb 4.0 HTML5 parser library
parserutils.lha lib/mis 538kb 4.0 utility library for parser building
mcc_betterstring.lha lib/mui 295kb 4.0 BetterString custom class for MUI
mcc_nlist.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 NList custom classes for MUI
mcc_texteditor.lha lib/mui 783kb 4.0 TextEditor custom class for MUI
mcc_thebar.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 TheBar.mcc - The MUI Toolbar cus...
yam.lha net/ema 4Mb 4.0 MUI-based E-mail client
perch.lha net/ftp 156kb 4.0 Permissions/CHMOD extension for ...
transfer.lha net/mis 148kb 4.0 Serial file transfers between 2 ...
twinvnc.lha net/mis 820kb 4.0 VNC Client
muiunarc.lha uti/arc 123kb 4.1 Clone of unarc done on MUI
nspark.lha uti/arc 140kb 4.0 Decompress Spark/ArcFS archives
xad_rar.lha uti/arc 315kb 4.0 XAD (UnArc) client for RAR3 arch...
xad_xz.lha uti/arc 28kb 4.0 XZ client for xadmaster/UnArc
grunch.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.0 Application management system
installer.lha uti/fil 542kb 4.0 V1.37, Installer Replacement
devinfos.lha uti/mis 257kb 4.0 Shows many infos about a device
wet_update.lha uti/wor 58kb 4.0 Wet weather software v6.3 patch
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03.Jun.2012
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.06.2012
The following files have been added until 02.06.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
aspireos_update_v.1.9-i38... dev/mis 84Mb AspireOS update Codename:Apocalypse
darkplaces.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 4Mb Darkplaces
duke3dw.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 1Mb Duke3dw
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03.Jun.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 02.06.2012
The following files have been added until 02.06.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
WormWars 8.78 gam/act 626 Single and multiplayer arca...
LoView 2.51 gra/edi 4268 Simple image viewer and pro...
JHead 2.95 gra/mis 122 A shell based tool for JPEG...
Grunch 1.37 sys/too 1774 Advanced software package m...
AmiArcadia 18.04 uti/emu 3129 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
FCrackZip 1.0 uti/pac 183 Password cracker for encryp...
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03.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution AspireOS 1.9
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published an update archive of a new version of his AROS-distribution AspireOS. Mainly this distribution was written for the Acer-netbook Aspire One and does completely support the Toshiba-notebook Satellite Pro A200. It should also run on other hardware but this is not officially supported.
Additional to updated system files the distribution includes now the word processing Cinnamon Writer as well as the MIDI-player Timidity. The sound output of the games Duke Nukem and Hexen 2 does only work with the updated files from the AROS-Archives because the AspireOS game archive was still not updated.
The media center AMC, an update of LoView as well as up2date are included as well. Additional to new wallpapers and other graphics AspireOS 1.9 can now play Youtube videos by clicking the little numbers which are below the videos.
Download: aspireos_upd_v1.9-i386.zip (84 MB)
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02.Jun.2012
Foxman (ANF)
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A-Eon has been restructured and moved to Wales
A-Eon Technology, the company behind the AmigaOne X1000, was founded in 2009 as a CVBA ("Coöperatieve Vennootschap met Beperkte Aansprakelijkheid") - a cooperative company with limited liability. The company's main offices are located in Brussels, the main shareholders are Trevor Dickinson, Anthony Moorley and Ben Hermans (Hyperion).
For quite a while, there have been rumours that the company headquarters were about to be moved to Great Britain and that Ben Hermans and Anthony Moorley were no longer shareholders. On its recently redesigned website the company refers to itself as "A-Eon Technology Ltd.", according to Great Britian's company database it was founded two months ago and is headquartered in Cardiff, Wales.
The names of the shareholders are only available for a fee, but another well-known Amiga company is located in Cardiff: Leaman Computing Ltd., better known as Amigakit - the official X1000-distributor.
At director-check.co.uk, Matthew Leaman (Amigakit) is indeed listed as a director of A-Eon Technology, which indicates partnership in the company aswell. Trevor Dickinson's blog on A-Eon's website aswell as his behaviour on English Amiga portals suggest that he is still involved in A-Eon aswell. If the other founding members Anthony Moorley and Ben Hermans are still involved with the company is not known at the time of writing. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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Polish magazine: Polskie Pismo Amigowe 8
The eighth issue of the Polish magazine PPA is available. It contains 28 colourful pages and is avaialble for 5,25 Euro (incl. shipping). Older issues are available for free download as PDF-files.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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Interview with John Croudy
Under the title link Ian 'Codetapper' Lightbody has interviewed John Croudy which was involved in the following games:
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02.Jun.2012
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New demos
Additional to the demos published on the Revision, the scene portal pouet.net has published some new new demos:
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02.Jun.2012
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WHDLoad: New packages until 01.06.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games, demos and intros to your harddrive which before could only be used on disks. Additionally some incompatibilities with new Amiga models were fixed. The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jun.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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ComputerWorld: Interview with Steven Solie
On the website of the Australian ComputerWorld an interview with Steven Solie was published who is the team leader of the AmigaOS-4 developers.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jun.2012
jochen22 (Forum)
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A-EON Technology: Redesigned website online
After a long break today the redisigned website of A-EON Technology went online.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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NetBSD: Mediator driver in development
The NetBSD port for Amiga computers has now a first support of the PCI-busboard of the model Mediator 1200.
Network boards based on NE2000 (e.g. Realtek 8029, pictureo) already can be used. Usage of the PCI mem-space and therefore graphics cards are in development. NetBSD is adapted to the hardware with reverse engineering. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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