28.Apr.2012
Michael C: Battilana (E-Mail)
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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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27.Apr.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Mark Knight
Under the title link Kultboy.com has interviewed Mark Knight. Knight e.g. adapted the music of the PC-version of Wing Commander to the Amiga.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Apr. 2012, 18:02] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has published new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. The following songs have been added since our last message:
- Elvira Loader Darkstyle
- Hybris (NewAgeMix)
- Flashback
- Leisure Suit Larry 3
- Lotus 3 Metalmachine daXX RMX
- Amberstar (Title Remix)
- SHINOBI - Ninjas never die
- Project-X (XPlod Remix)
- Wings Of Death (Level 2)
- Memories of a Turbo Challenge
- A cembalo on Monkey Island
- Elvira.Mistress.Of.The.Dark.Garden.Remix.mp3
- The Great Bath (of the Seven Seas)
- Turrican II - The Desert Rocks Remix
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Apr. 2012, 17:56] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0 (2012.04.18)
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of MPlayer which includes the latest changes in the official MPlayer source code.
Download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2012.04.18.lha (17 MB, Readme.txt)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Apr. 2012, 17:49] [Comments: 0]
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26.Apr.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: The Ur-Quan Masters 0.7.0
After a long time the AmigaOS-4-port of the space game The Ur-Quan Masters which is based on Star Control 2 has been updated. Please note that the netplay mode is not supported.
Download: uqm.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Apr. 2012, 13:00] [Comments: 0]
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24.Apr.2012
AbyCodes / Hacker News (ANF)
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Link collection: Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms
"Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms" is a collection of links on programming demos.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Apr. 2012, 17:49] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2012
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: MPlayer 1.0-V4
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz released an update of his MPlayer port for AROS/x86. It is based on Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly's current MorphOS version of the video player.
Download: mplayer-1.0-v4.i386-aros.zip (6 MB) (snx)
[News message: 23. Apr. 2012, 06:16] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: UAE-Wii 9
The Amiga emulator UAE-Wii for the Nintendo console is available in version 9. The support of DMS and ZIP archives as well as the sound of the drive were added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2012, 17:26] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.04.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 21.04.2012 to the Aminet:
Ctz_AirCombat_multi.lha demo/tg96 42M Aircombat By Contraz, Wild!
anaiis.lha driver/oth 202K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.05
anaiis_lowlevel.lha driver/oth 16K 68k Anaiis lowlevel release 0.01
CodeWar-MOS.lha game/misc 275K MOS CRobots-style programming game
CodeWar-OS3.lha game/misc 286K 68k CRobots-style programming game
Operation_Sirius_OS3.lha game/role 17M 68k Point and click adventure
image_to_odg_1.0.lha gfx/conv 71K MOS Convert PNG/JPEG to OpenDocum...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 2.9M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
ADPCM_enc.lha mus/edit 21K 68k ADPCM/FDC/EDC encoder
X-Arc_deutsch.lha util/arc 8K German catalog for X-Arc
FText_v18.lha util/boot 6K 68k New version of FText for all ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2012, 09:01] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.04.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 21.04.2012 to the OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 3Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
sabremsn.lha net/cha 771kb 4.0 MSN client
netspeedometer.lha net/mis 23kb 4.0 A network monitor and bandwidth ...
assist.lha uti/mis 4Mb 4.1 An 'assistant' or helper for Ami...
excalibur.lha uti/wor 542kb 4.1 Excalibur, a workbench start menu
jack.zip uti/wor 24Mb 4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
avcodec.lha vid/mis 5Mb 4.1 Audio and Video decoding library...
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2012, 09:01] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 21.04.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 21.04.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
CodeWar 1.4 gam/thi 275 A simulator environment for...
Image To ODG 1.0 gra/con 71 A shell tool generating Ope...
AmiArcadia 18.0 uti/emu 3126 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2012, 09:01] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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FLI/FLC-Anim Plugin for Hollywood 5, Move Setter-Plugin Version 1.1
Press release: Airsoft Softwair has published a new plugin for Hollywood 5: Infinity which makes it possible to play FLI and FLC animations.
Due to the platform-crossing plugin system of Hollywood 5.0, the plugin is available 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.
Additionally the Movie Setter-plugin is available in version 1.1.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2012, 00:52] [Comments: 0]
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21.Apr.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Individual Computers: Indivision AGA Mk2 ready to delivery
The announced next generation of the Flickerfixer Indivision AGA produced by Individual Computers will be delivered at the end of the month. Two models can be chosen.
The Flickerfixer Indivision AGA Mk2 A1200/4000T is the follow-up model of the Indivision AGA 1200 which is not available any longer and can now also be used in the Amiga 4000T. For users of the desktop version of the Amiga 4000 as well as of the Amiga CD³² the Indivision AGA Mk2 A4000/CD32 is available.
The Mk2-generation now has a monitor output and provides an improved performance. Instead of the VGA-port it has a DVI-I-port.
Currently only to experts it is recommended to buy it because the configuration programm as well as the flash-software is still in development. At the moment the Indivision AGA Mk2 can only display PAL and NTSC-screen modes without problems. You should be able to download updates from the Internet and to transfer them to the Amiga.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Apr. 2012, 07:26] [Comments: 0]
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