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08.May.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Legend of Edgar 1.01, Open Jazz
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has ported the Jump'n Run Legend of Edgar 1.01 (screenshots: 1, 2, 3) as well as the engine Open Jazz, with which the commercial Sonic-clone Jazz Jackrabbit can be played (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4) to AmigaOS 4.

Download:

Legend of Edgar: edgar.lha (31,5 MB)
Open Jazz: openjazz.lha (1,2 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.May.2012
PPA (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Article on screen-programming
Under the title link 'trixie' has publishe a short article on programming screens under AmigaOS 4. Among others it is about the possibility of changing screens in ReAction-based programms which was introduced in update 3. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.May.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 05.05.2012
The following archives have been added until 05.05.2012 to the Aminet:
Colours.py.txt           dev/src    4K    68k Terminal colour control using...
MissDriller_68k.lha      game/actio 403K  68k A remake of Mr.Driller
WormWars.lha             game/actio 777K  68k Advanced snake game
WormWarsMOS.lha          game/actio 624K  MOS Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha         game/actio 984K  OS4 Advanced snake game
edgar-1.0-morphos.lha    game/jump  29M   MOS SDL based classic plattform game
PrimatePlunge_68k.lha    game/jump  7.3M  68k Interesting platform game
ScummVM_AGA_030.lha      game/misc  3.9M  68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.3...
ScummVM_ECS_030.lha      game/misc  3.9M  68k Amiga ECS port of ScummVM 1.3...
uqm.i386-aros.tar.bz2    game/misc  1.1M  x86 Port of Ur-Quan Masters
uqm.src-aros.tar.bz2     game/misc  1.2M      Source for Ur-Quan Masters port
BOOM.lha                 game/shoot 2.8M  68k Amiga port of BOOM v2.02
imbiss_os3.lha           game/strat 1.0M  68k Buy and sell hamburgers
Tail-Tale_68k.lha        game/think 3.8M  68k Arcade puzzler with Manga theme
klix_os3.lha             game/wb    3.4M  68k A small game similar to Sokoban
wet_update.lha           util/wb    58K   OS4 Wet weather software v6.3 patch
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.May.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 05.05.2012
The following archives have been added until 05.05.2012 to the OS4Depot:
tutorial_1.lha           doc/tut 53kb  4.0 A little tutorial
wormwars.lha             gam/act 999kb 4.0 Advanced snake game
netsurf.lha              net/bro 6Mb   4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
assist.lha               uti/mis 3Mb   4.1 An 'assistant' for AmigaOS users
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.May.2012



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 05.05.2012
The following archives have been added until 05.05.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
aspireos_v.1.89-i386.zip     dev/mis 51Mb  AspireOS update
aspire_games_1.1-i386.zip    gam     144Mb Games package
uqm.i386-aros.tar.bz2        gam/mis 1Mb   Port of Ur-Quan Masters
uqm.src-aros.tar.bz2         gam/mis 1Mb   Source for Ur-Quan Masters port
jabberwocky_v1_9b1.i386-a... net/cha 294kb Jabber Instant Messaging Client
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.May.2012



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 05.05.2012
The following archives have been added until 05.05.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
The Legend of Edgar      1.0     gam/pla  29189 The Legend of Edgar is 2D p...
AmiArcadia               18.02   uti/emu   3129 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.May.2012



Retro computer case: X500 Plus
Loriano 'TheDaddy' Pagni, who some years ago offered self-developed Minimig cases, now presented an all-in-one-case called "X500 Plus" which is inspired by Amiga 500 (Youtube-video).

Pagni's case originally was developed for his Sam 460 but can be used with each Mini-ITX or Flex-ATX motherboard which is up to 58 millimeters high. Due to the use of an internal power supply unit ("PicoPSU"), the power of the included hardware should be lower than 160 W.

In the case additional to the motherboard and the power supply unit, two or three 2,5"-harddrives or Solid State Drives, a 3,5" multi card reader as well as a Slimline DVD drive can be used.

Pagni at least needs 50 advance bookings to be able to produce the cases. He points out that for the assembling a certain accurateness and experience is required to to guarantee sufficient ventilation.

If you are interested in the case you can write to the developer under amigarulez@hotmail.com. Currently minor change requests can be taken into account.

Soon some pictures will be added to Pagni's private website. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.May.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AROS-Distribution AspireOS 1.89
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published a new version of his AROS-distribution AspireOS. This is meant to be used with the Acer-Netbook Aspire One and also supports the Toshiba-Notebook Satellite Pro A200 but should in general run on more hardware which officially is not supported.

Version 1.89 is an update to version 1.85 which among others includes the latest version of the web browser Odysey. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.May.2012
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: 68k-Distribution AROS Vision
Olaf Schönweiß has published AROS Vision which is an AROS/68k-distribution and includes AROS and AmigaOS software. The AROS-Nightly-Builds as well as additional libraries, AMOS and Personal Paint are included.

Additional to the distribution under the title link there is a configuration file for users of WinUAE. You can find further information on the manual-site. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.May.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Magazine: Amiga Future Ausgabe 96
Today the English and German issue 96 (May/June 2012) of the magazine Amiga Future has been published.

Topics of this issue:
  • Review: AresOne XL
  • Review: Audio Evolution
  • Review: Hollywood 5
  • Review: Cinnamon Writer
  • Interview: Jens Henschel
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.May.2012
Amiga.org (Forum)


AmigaOne X1000: Processor-Benchmarks
Under the recently published Linux port benchmark programms were run on an AmigaOne X1000 .

Harry 'Piru' Sintonen has completed these results with the one of his PowerBook (G4-Prozessor mit 1,67 GHz) and posted under the title link. This comparison generally confirms earlier results and demonstrates the most outstanding advantage of the PA6T-computer, its fast Fourier transform (FFT). Another user has added his results of a Power Mac G5.

Meanwhile also benchmark results of a rendering with the 3D-graphic programm Blender are available. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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01.May.2012



WHDLoad: New packages until 01.05.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games, scene demos and intros to your harddrive which were originally delivered on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with new Amiga models are fixed. The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.May.2012
David Brunet (ANF)


New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
  • March/April 2012 news
  • Articles from A-News 1 to 4, e.g.:
    • Report: AmiExpo '88 Los Angeles
    • Review of Sculpt 3D
    • Review of Pro Page
    • Interview with Eric Graham
    • Report: Comdex 1988
    • Hardware: Digi-View 2.0
  • Interview with Paul Gentle (Varisys)
  • Interview with Martin Steinbach (from 1999)
  • Review: C64 Forever 2012
  • Review: NetSurf 2.6
  • Review: Alien Breed
  • Review: Bargon Attack
  • Review: Conflict Europe
  • Review: Beach Volley
  • Review: Zaz ain't Z*** (ZAZ)
  • Review: GNU FreeDink 1.08r5
  • Hardware: Encore/MDX G4 Duet 1,83 GHz
  • Hardware: Floppy drive replacement
  • Hardware: Modification of the Amiga 500 in order to insert of floppy drive with front
  • Hardware: LimeBook Z9
  • Hardware: Commodore 64 (update)
  • File: Amiga 500 chips under a microscope
  • File: MorphOS easter eggs
  • File: Tripos, the roots of AmigaDOS
  • Tutorial: MEncoder, basic use (update)
  • Programming: Shared objects on AmigaOS 4 - presentation and use
  • Special quizz about the AmigaOne X1000
(snx)

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01.May.2012
EAB (Forum)


FS-UAE 1.2.0
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X 10.6+ and Linux (i386, AMD64) is based on WinUAE and aims at playing disk and CD-ROM based Amiga games on the PC. The user-interface can be operated by controlpads entirely (screenshot). Therefore this version of UAE is especially useful for HTPCs.

In der Version 1.2 (Release Notes) wurden insbesondere folgende Neuerungen vorgenommen:
  • Great rendering performance improvements, especially on slower hardware
  • OpenGL renderer compatible with older GPUs (only requires OpenGL 1.1 now)
  • Input devices and options can be changed in the menu while running FS-UAE
  • UAEGFX card (Picasso 96) is implemented
  • Added A4000/040 model, running in fastest possible mode
  • Support for mounting CD images for all Amiga models (built-in CDFS and CD image switcher in menu)
  • Fullscreen/window mode switching with Alt+Enter, better fullscreen handling
  • Better net play support (show dialog while connecting, will retry connecting until successful, continue in offline mode if connection to server is broken)
  • A1200 model can be used in net play mode with accuracy < 1
  • UAE core code updated from WinUAE 2.4.0
  • Advanced options for tweaking vsync method
  • Common host options can be specified once in Host.fs-uae config file
  • Many other fixes and improvements
(snx)

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29.Apr.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


MorphOS: Legend of Edgar 1.0
Herbert 'HAK' Klackl has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the game Legend of Edgar. Information about changes are not available.

Download: edgar-1.0-morphos.lha (29 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 28.04.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 28.04.2012 to the Aminet:
timberwolf.lha           comm/www   26M   OS4 A Firefox based web browser
Blitz_Huf.lha            dev/basic  11K   68k Huffman (de)compression for B...
Blitz_RLE.lha            dev/basic  7K    68k RLE (de)compression for Blitz
gimmearos.zip            dev/cross  3K        Script: build AROS from the s...
libmikmod.lha            dev/lib    818K  OS4 Portable sound library (music...
sdl_mixer.lha            dev/lib    216K  OS4 SDL mixer library
WormWars.lha             game/actio 775K  68k Advanced snake game
WormWarsMOS.lha          game/actio 820K  MOS Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha         game/actio 985K  OS4 Advanced snake game
WormWarsSP.lha           game/actio 6K        Worm Wars 8.73 spanish catalog
MCE.lha                  game/edit  874K  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  1.0M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  1.0M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
CodeWar-OS4.lha          game/misc  233K  OS4 CRobots-style programming game
ScummVM_AGA_030.lha      game/misc  3.9M  68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.3...
uqm.lha                  game/misc  1.6M  OS4 Port of Ur-Quan Masters
uqm-src.lha              game/misc  2.2M      Source for Ur-Quan Masters port
sdlroids_68k.lha         game/shoot 311K  68k Asteroids clone with sound
ppm2fli_68k.lha          gfx/conv   74K   68k convert images to FLI/FLC &am...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   2.9M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.2M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.1M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 18.0 spanish catalog
ADPCM_enc.lha            mus/edit   21K   68k ADPCM/FDC/EDC encoder
DigiRollerSP.lha         mus/play   5K        DigiRoller 1.1 spanish catalo...
farosenza_v1.zip         pix/picon  648K      "fAROSenza" Faenza Icon Pack ...
devinfos.lha             util/misc  257K  OS4 Shows many infos about a device
StartBar-ITA.lha         util/wb    164K  68k Italian version of StartBar
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.04.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 28.04.2012 to the OS4Depot:
libmikmod.lha            dev/lib 818kb 4.0 Portable music module library
sdl_mixer.lha            dev/lib 216kb 4.0 SDL mixer library
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 3Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha             gam/act 997kb 4.0 Advanced snake game
codewar.lha              gam/mis 238kb 4.0 CRobots-style programming game
uqm.lha                  gam/mis 2Mb   4.0 Port of Ur-Quan Masters
uqm-src.lha              gam/mis 2Mb   4.0 Source for Ur-Quan Masters port
mce.lha                  gam/uti 2Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
frankdrops.lha           gra/mis 7Mb   4.1 AmigaOS 4.1 System Backdrops
jack.zip                 uti/wor 24Mb  4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2012



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 28.04.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 28.04.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
gimmearos.zip                dev/cro 3kb   Script for building AROS from th...
farosenza_v1.zip             gra/ico 648kb "fAROSenza" Faenza Icon Pack
mplayer-1.0-v4.i386-aros.zip vid/pla 6Mb   MPlayer 1.0
mplayer-1.0-v4.src-aros.t... vid/pla 32Mb  MPlayer 1.0 sources
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2012



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 28.04.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 28.04.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
WormWars                 8.75    gam/act    820 Single and multiplayer arca...
MPlayer                  1.0 201 mul/pla  16944 Port of great movie player ...
Multigame Character E... 7.2     uti/mis   1032 A tool for editing characte...
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29.Apr.2012
PPA (Webseite)


Interview with George Allan
Under the title link "Amiga Lore" has published an interview with George Allan. He has written Venus: The Flytrap, Zool, Switchblade II and Chrome. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Sirena AHIW 1.02
Sirena AHIW is a programm for editing pictures for AmigaOS 3.5, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows and was now updated.

With version 1.02 the software also can read vector graphics (SVG-format) thanks to the Hollywood libraries vectorgraphics.hwp and xmlparser.hwp. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Event: Winners of demo party Revision 2012
Under the title link you can download the following winners of the Revision 2012.

Amiga-Demo:
  1. Kioea by MadWizards (MorphOS- & AmigaOS-4-compatible)
  2. Kakao by Elude (MorphOS-compatible, AmigaOS-4-compatible?)
  3. Teobstrrofarfeia by Focus Design
  4. Resetkání 2012 invitation by AmiGanS
  5. Bramborak by Artway & Horizontal Lamerz
  6. Panda power by Desire
Amiga-64Kb-Intro:
  1. Hot dots by Focus Design & Unstable Label
  2. Quotation marks by Dekadence
  3. Leap of faith by Moods Plateau
  4. Freeloader by depth
Amiga-500 demos: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Apr.2012
Michael C: Battilana (E-Mail)


Cloanto: Amiga Forever and C64 Forever 2012 "R2"
Press release: April 27, 2012 - Cloanto released today the long-awaited "R2" updates of its Amiga Forever 2012 and C64 Forever 2012 preservation, emulation and support packages for Windows.

The new "R2" versions include hundreds of refinements that took more than eight months to develop, also taking into account user feedback received since the initial 2012 release last August. The new versions feature social and sharing functionality, improved content authoring, pervasive Unicode support and faster loading times.

On the social side, the software allows for manual posts and automatic status updates on Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Messenger (screenshots). Facebook and Twitter further support screenshot sharing. The "now playing" functionality for Facebook uses the latest Open Graph features to aggregate posts without "spamming" a user's wall. Amiga Forever and C64 Forever were among the very first Facebook clients for Windows approved to use the latest Open Graph and Timeline functionality.

RP9 files can now not only be played back, but also be edited directly from the Windows desktop. This brings more freedom to organize and access content without going through the player interface, and new possibilities like comparing configurations side by side.

New Amiga platform features for content curators include better support for floppy and hard disk images, with media editor options to quickly embed blank disks and system disks into an RP9 package. Features include recognition of RDB disk images and automatic conversion of ADZ, DMS and HDZ images to the more popular and faster ADF and HDF formats (while the RP9 layer takes care of compression).

C64-specific improvements include better keyboard translation, mouse support and the addition of GEOS, the amazing graphical 8-bit desktop suite, to the list of preconfigured systems. Special thanks to Brian Dougherty and his team for this contribution.

By including officially licensed system ROM and OS content, Amiga Forever 2012 and C64 Forever 2012 embody a form of continuity with the original machines sold by Commodore, whose founder Jack Tramiel passed away earlier this month. As it has been doing since 1997, Cloanto keeps working full time on its RetroPlatform family of preservation software, also thanks to its generous supporters and contributor friends. Because of their ease of use, packages like Amiga Forever and C64 Forever have the potential to go beyond preservation and access continuity, by providing inspiration and a well-documented learning environment for future generations.

Amiga Forever is available now in three editions:
  • Value Edition (downloadable installer for Windows systems)
  • Plus Edition (downloadable ISO image with additional Windows and platform-neutral content)
  • Premium Edition (physical Plus Edition content plus additional videos on 3 DVDs - photos)

C64 Forever is available now in three editions:

Thanks to a new logistics platform and partners, since December 2011 physical packages ordered from amigaforever.com and c64forever.com have been shipping in almost real time from either California or Germany. This has resulted in reduced delivery times and increased customer satisfaction.

Amiga Forever and C64 Forever passed official Windows 7 logo tests on both x86 and x64 systems, and have also shown to run well on pre-release versions of Windows 8.

Prices for both Amiga Forever and C64 Forever start from $9.95 (special upgrade offers). The "R2" updates are free for existing 2012 version customers (select Check for Updates from the Help menu). (snx)

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