05.Apr.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 2.4.1
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE has provided a short preview to the next version. WinUAE 2.4.1 is supposed to be published during the next two weeks and mainly will fix minor bugs. Additionally there will be minor improvememnts like a CPU-brake for the JIT-mode.
New features and updates:
- Fastest possible CPU mode (including JIT) throttle option (-10% to -90%)
- Approximate CPU mode speed adjustment (-90% to 500%+). Replaces old CPU/Chipset adjustment
- Internal display buffering system rewritten, PAL/NTSC vertical centering, even better screen positiong in programmed modes
- Fullscreen (TV)/(Max) filter mode programmed mode and PAL/NTSC switching support
- Custom Input Event autofire support
- Switch to another monitor if multiple monitors with different resolutions and current RTG resolution is not supported by current monitor
- CDFS statefile support implemented
- Sound sync improved in approximate and cycle-exact modes
Bug fixes of version 2.4.0:
- CDFS directory listing crashed if ACTION_EXAMINE_ALL packet was used
- CDFS converted file names to lowercase even when CD included RockRidge or Joliet file names
- Fake 60Hz didn't work
- Software filters had very big slowdown in higher resolutions
- D3D overlay mask scaling artifacts in some resolutions
- D3D "CRT" filters had bad geometry
- Automatic resize resized continuously in interlaced modes
- Some USB joysticks had multiple buttons with same name
Bug fixes of older versions:
- Automatic scale/center/resize didn't work in ECS SuperPlus mode
- 68020 cycle-exact mode statefile reliability improved. (Random "CPU trace" errors)
- 0.5M Chip RAM was detected as 1M in JIT mode
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05.Apr.2012
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Plan of demo party in Zoetermeer (Netherlands)
Now an event plan is available under the title link for the demo party which will take place in Dutch Zoetermeer on Saturday before Easter.
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04.Apr.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Update 15 for arcade game BOH
Simone Bevilacqua has published the final update 15 for his commercial arcade game BOH (e.g. AmigaOS 4, AROS). The changes are listed under the title link.
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04.Apr.2012
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: CoolCow 1.0
Grzegorz 'krashan' Kraszewski's CoolCow is meant for users who want to take part in the distributed.net-competitions.
CoolCow periodically turns on and off the dnetc-client for decreasing the processor temperature. The intervals can be determined with a graphical user-interface.
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03.Apr.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Self build: Floppy-Autoloader
Archieving about 5000 Amiga disks is no fun - therefore blogger 'Dweller' has been looking for a solution to automate the process.
He used a commercial disk duplicator (CopyPro 2000) and converted it to a floppy autoloader which loads one disk after another, creates an image file and finally takes a picture if it ejects the disk (video).
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03.Apr.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Word processing Cinnamon Writer 0.801
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a word processing software which can import RTF and DocX files. Version 0.801 fixes two minor bugs, is faster and offers the feature to copy unformatted text to the Clipboard to use it later in other programms.
Download: cinnamon_writer.lha (6 MB)
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02.Apr.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS / MorphOS: 1941 DX Dual Player 2.0.4
1941 DX Dual Player 2.0 is a remake of the arcade classic 1941: Counter Attack. The SDL-based game is commercially sold, a keyfile costs 1,70 Euro. Users who have already registered can install the new version, copy the keyfile and use it.
The changes are listed under the title link.
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01.Apr.2012
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New demos
New demos have been added to the scene portal pouet.net during the last months:
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01.Apr.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 31.03.2012
The following archives have been added until 31.03.2012 to the Aminet:
STFax45Upd.lha biz/patch 693K 68k Upgrade STFax Pro from 4.1 to...
A2024_force_NTSC-PAL.lha driver/mon 16K 68k Force A2024 monitor driver to...
Mattonite.lha game/actio 892K 68k Arkanoid like game almost fin...
SosoPak.lha game/misc 513K 68k A collection of simple casual...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 2.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
EvenMore.lha text/show 446K 68k V0.76: Freeware textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 464K MOS V0.76: Freeware Textviewer (M...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 404K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 475K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 509K OS4 Multipurpose utility
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01.Apr.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 31.03.2012
The following archives have been added until 31.03.2012 to the OS4Depot:
up-ep10n.lha dem/mus 3Mb 4.0 Saturday at Joe's EP by Up Rough
up-ep11n.lha dem/mus 3Mb 4.0 Super Sharp Shuriken EP by Up Rough
up-ep1ng.lha dem/mus 2Mb 4.0 Tropic Fish EP by Up Rough
up-ep2ng.lha dem/mus 1Mb 4.0 Elektrocity EP by Up Rough
up-ep3ng.lha dem/mus 2Mb 4.0 Aggression Session EP by Up Rough
up-ep4ng.lha dem/mus 2Mb 4.0 Mixagrip EP by Up Rough
up-ep7ng.lha dem/mus 2Mb 4.0 Another Day EP by Up Rough
up-ep8ng.lha dem/mus 2Mb 4.0 Twangin' EP by Up Rough
up-ep9ng.lha dem/mus 2Mb 4.0 Jr. Francisco Inna Echochamber E...
up-lp1ng.lha dem/mus 1Mb 4.0 Hits for Kids LP by Up Rough
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 3Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
biniax2.lha gam/puz 6Mb 4.0 Remake from logical game Biniax
flowerway.lha gam/puz 410kb 4.0 sensational puzzle based on movi...
timberwolf.lha net/bro 26Mb 4.1 Timberwolf, a Firefox based web ...
sam440ep_latticexp.lha uti/har 611kb 4.1 Sam440ep_LatticeXP
bmtool.lha uti/mis 55kb 4.0 Conversion tool of web browser b...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 1Mb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
tunenetpatch.lha uti/mis 13kb 4.0 TuneNet OS4 QuickFix - Online Ra...
tlsimgesi.lha uti/tex 18kb 4.0 TTFont with new Turkish Lira Cur...
cpointer.lha uti/wor 10kb 4.0 Centers Mouse Pointer On Screen ...
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01.Apr.2012
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 31.03.2012
The following archives have been added until 31.03.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
xgalaga.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb XGalaga - Galaga clone.
glmark.i386-aros.zip uti/ben 1Mb GLMark - OpenGL 3D benchmark.
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01.Apr.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 31.03.2012
The following archives have been added until 31.03.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
Forget Me Not 1.0 gam/pla 2872 Very fast, difficult, Pacma...
AmiArcadia 17.6 uti/emu 3107 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
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01.Apr.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaKit: Interested in an AmigaOne X1000?
On the AmigaOne-X1000-website (menu "f.a.q") under the title link the distributor AmigaKit has invited potential purchasers of an AmigaOne X1000 to evince the interest via eMail.
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31.Mar.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Catweasel driver update
Ian Gledhill's driver for the disk drive controler Catweasel MK4 produced by Individual Computers has been updated for AmigaOS 4. The source code is included, so it is possible to update the MorphOS-version as well.
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31.Mar.2012
Amigascene.nl (Webseite)
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Event: RJ Mical at the demo party in Zoetermeer (Netherlands)
The demo party in Zoetermeer is also attended by Amiga legend RJ Mical. In a short video he invites to take part.
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31.Mar.2012
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AROS: Considerations on MorphOS-compatibility
The developer Jason McMullan who helped to make AROS compatible to the 68k-architecture and to create an AROS-Kickstart-ROMs, is looking for new challenge.
On the developer mailinglist (full quotes below) he asked for the interest in the executability of MorphOS applications under AROS/PPC. For that there also is a bounty project but this was started in 2005. To this time Apple was about to bring computers with Intel processors onto the market. Besides, some money of the donations was used for different AROS bounties.
Jason explained that the API of AmigaOS 4 is very different from AROS and MorphOS, but many AROS-libraries already include stubs for MorphOS-functions beyond the 3.x-API. Additionally source codes has been already shared with MorphOS.
Against this background, he would like AROS to be seen as a kind of transitional solution for MorphOS developers for the source code level. The developers could check their precompiled PowerPC-programms if AROS made available all features which they require. Then they could compile their programms for AROS/x86 as well having the certainty that they only have to fix some possible Endianess-problems.
In his opinion this could result in the option for MorphOS to use AROS as base for a MorphOS/x86 with PowerPC-compatibility with the help of a Rosetta-kind of PPC-to-x86-interface.
Staf Verhaegen complemented that it also could be possible to add the ppcmos und ppcos4 architectures to the AROS/PPC-architecture to be able to offer cpmpatible versions for both operating systems and finally to unite all Amiga systems in a single and open source operating system.
Quotes from the mailing list
Jason McMullan: "OS4's API (interfaces, etc) is very
different, structurally, from AROS/MorphOS 4. Many of our libraries already have the MorphOS function stubs for post 3.x APIs. And we already share code with MorphOS.
I would like to see AROS as a 'source level' transition for MorphOS
developers, allowing them to run their pre-compiled PPC binaries on
AROS PPC (to ensure that AROS supports the services their Application
uses), then they can recompile for x86, knowing that they should only
need to fix the inevitable endianess issues.
Who knows - maybe MorphOS could contribute a 'Rosetta' style PPC->x86
interface, then they could use AROS x86 as a kernel for a 'MorphOS
x86' (with PPC compatability)."
Staf Verhaegen: "To summarize ppc arch would use native packing for all structs and a pointer table for the LVOs without special stub code. ppcmos would apply special packing to structs that need it and provide the MOS LVO table convention for shared libraries.
In the end I would like to have then also a ppcos4 arch that would then
be targeted to be OS4 compatible with their interfaces for shared
libraries etc. One open source OS to unite them all!" (snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Mar.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.4.0
Version 2.4.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been published.
New features:
- VSync supported in fastest possible CPU and JIT modes, complete rewrite, fast, 100% jitter free
- Built-in CD filesystem. Full Amiga CD compatibility, including audio tracks and Amiga Rock Ridge extension, without need for manually installed CDFS, completely replaces old CD option that mounted CD drives as read-only harddrives. NOTE: CD device names renamed to standard CDx: (Old was WinCD_x:)
- Commodore A2024 monitor emulation (1024*1024 grayscale monitor)
- Individual Computers Graffiti emulation
- PCMCIA IDE hardfile emulation
- USB game controller low latency raw input mode is now the default. (Mouse and keyboard support was already implemented long time ago) Windows Vista and newer only. Custom input mappings may need resetting
- PC keyboard mode, keys like home, end, pageup, pagedown etc are mapped to Amiga key codes
- Input configuration qualifier key/button support. Any key or button can be configured as a qualifier and other key mappings can be configured to require one or more active qualifiers
Updates:
- Programmed screen modes (DBLPAL, Multiscan etc.) display positioning and setup greatly improved
- Performance improved in fastest possible CPU without JIT mode
- Performance greatly improved when immediate blitter and fastest possible CPU is enabled and program does lots of small blits
- Gayle IDE emulation IDE doubler mode compatibility improved
- Sound syncronization updates, much more stable with VSync (more updates planned in future)
- Fastest possible CPU mode audio glitch prevention hack updated (WHDLoad IK+, Moonstone, Uridium II, etc.)
- Added pause emulation/disable sound option to active but mouse uncaptured state
- RTG emulation optional ZorroII mode
- UAE harddrive controller RDB harddrive "Do not mount" and "Bootable" options supported
- Interlace mode handling and switching improved
- Interlaced fields are matched in vsync modes if both Amiga mode and output device mode are interlaced
- Lots more options can be modified on the fly using uae-configuration
- Multiple display adapter/multiple monitor selection and support improved
- GUI sound buffer range adjusted, non-linear scale, more smaller buffer sizes selectable
- Joystick/mouse autoswitch also enabled in Input panel non-GamePorts mode
- Native code execution disabled by default. Enable option in Miscellaneous panel
- CPU Idle automatic limit added, no more slowdowns if it is set too low
- Keyboard emulation improved, properly emulated handshake and lost sync state
Bugs fixed:
- uaenet.device crash if opened without installed winpcap
- Startup crash if more than 8 serial ports detected
- Random hangs when switching cycle-exact mode on the fly
- CD image/physical media change on the fly didn't always trigger notification correctly
- Lots of bsdsocket emulation compatibility and multi-thread stability fixes (YAM hangs fixed)
- Directory filesystem reported file size was not updated until file was closed
- Directory filesystem host-side memory leak fix
- Some Advanced Chipset options were not correctly overridden in compatibility mode
- Mouse input stopping working randomly after returning emulation from GUI
- Emulated middle mouse button got stuck in rawinput mode if middle button was set to untrap mouse
- Detect and fix bad configuration options when using uae-configuration, for example it was possible to enable both cycle-exact and JIT at the same time causing frozen emulation
- Rare cycle-exact mode interrupt timing issue. (Guardian Dragon II / Kefrens random hang)
- Some minimized/inactive/active switching issues
- Directory harddrives configured as unbootable still booted normally under KS 1.3
- Windows dialogs (not GUI or file dialogs) were invisible in fullscreen Direct3D mode
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