12.Mar.2012
amigaworld.net (website)
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A-EON: Another X1000 production run, Xorro plug-in board, X1000 boot theme
Press release:
Wellington, 11th February 2012
Musical Tribute
To mark the release of the AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" system we commissioned free-lance music composer Rachel Dickinson (aka Rayne Leafe) to create two original soundtracks as a tribute to the ground-breaking Amiga 1000 computer.
We asked her to compose a new start-up boot sound for the AmigaONE X1000 which built on the Amigas' original diagnostic audio test. We also asked her to create a longer piece which captures the spirit of the AmigaONE X1000. The result is A-EON Starlight an atmospheric and evocative music score which evolved from her new boot theme.
According to venerable AmigaOS developer Olaf Barthel, "the Amiga 1000 audio diagnostic test (aka boot sound) is based upon the Siegfried horn motif, as used in Richard Wagner's Ring cycle. The code for the Amiga 1000 boot ROM does not contain just the Wagner snippet, but also something else: the five tone "theme of the mothership" by John Williams as used in "Close encounters of the third kind". Barthel added "The author of the audio diagnostic code appears to be Siegfried W. Bleher. The theme played by the Amiga 1000 appears to be an edited version, which plays faster than Wagner's original, and is not exactly in tune with it either. The notes played are as follows: c, g (long note), e (1/128th note), c, d, e, f, e, d, d. The playback frequencies and speed are hard-coded for an NTSC machine, which might explain why it sounds like it does. The individual sound generation code uses a sine wave and emulates an ADSR envelope with short attack time and a slightly longer release time. From what I can tell, the diagnostic code and the music as we know it today finally came together on 13 May 1985. Also (I tested the code when I discovered it), John William's five tone theme did not sound quite as good as in the film. In the film score, the cue that contains the five tone theme is called "wild signals". It is perhaps fitting that the Amiga's 1985 "Close Encounter" developed into the AmigaONE X1000's "First Contact".
Rachel commented, "I spent my childhood using an Amiga computer and it's a special privilege for me to be able to contribute to its continuing success. When I was asked to write the boot sound for the new AmigaONE X1000 I wanted to pay homage to both the simple boot theme of the original Amiga and the enhanced start-up sound created for AmigaOS 4 by Japanese electro-pop artist, composer and Amiga user Susumu Hirasawa. I've tried to remain true to the tone row of the original boot sound while adding a modern interpretation. The A-EON Starlight theme is an expansion and exploration of the new boot theme. I hope you enjoy my musical Amiga tribute. "
Links:
AmigaONE X1000 boot theme
A-EON Starlight
The Mark of Xorro!
As part of our ongoing commitment to the AmigaONE X1000, we commissioned Varisys to design a special Xorro plug-in board to take advantage of the A1-1000's onboard Xena "co-processor". The Xorro board is intended for the consummate Amiga hacker and is a practical XMOS veroboard which allows access to the Xena slot IOs and power rails. It has the added advantage of being able to be cut in half via an added dotted line, allowing it to be used in small form factor cases. To demonstrate it's use on the AmigaONE X1000, Varisys created a simple circuit with a buffer and some LEDs. A video is attached of the Xorro board performing an XMOS "walking 1" test on the Xena pins. The Xorro plug-in board will be stocked by AmigaKit and information will be posted on their website in the near future.
Link:
Xorro in action on the AmigaONE X1000 (YouTube link)
"First Contact" Update
If you missed out on an AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" system and still want to join the party we have some good news for you. Following the overwhelming success of the "First Contact" initiative, we are pleased to announce that we have authorised another production run. As before, these systems will be supplied with AmigaOS 4 Update 1.5 pre-installed and a fully paid-up license for the supply of AmigaOS 4.2 when it is commercially released by Hyperion Entertainment. Please check out the AmigaKit website for pre-order details which will be posted in the near future.
Link:
AmigaKit AmigaONE X1000 pre-order news
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11.Mar.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Digital sketches with Sketchblock 1.3
Andy Broad's "Sketchblock" is a simple paint programm, which you can use as digital sketch pad (screenshot). Layers and transparency are supported. A graphic tablet can be used as input device. The project is in it's very early stages.
New features include support for bitmap brushes, more ARexx commands, brush selection via the GUI, and support for ToolBox windows.
Additionally the author has published a short Youtube video which shows "Bitmap Brushes".
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11.Mar.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 10.03.2012
The following archives have been published until 10.03.2012 to the Aminet:
HollywoodSP.lha biz/misc 82K Hollywood 5.0 spanish catalogs
ALI-amigaos3.lha comm/irc 54K 68k ALI - AmIRC Log Inspector
ALI-morphos.lha comm/irc 92K MOS ALI - AmIRC Log Inspector
ALI-source.lha comm/irc 47K ALI - AmIRC Log Inspector
CanonToolBox-amigaos3... comm/misc 113K 68k CanonToolBox - Digital Camera...
CanonToolBox-morphos.lha comm/misc 173K MOS CanonToolBox - Digital Camera...
CanonToolBox-source.lha comm/misc 88K CanonToolBox - Digital Camera...
Relax-amigaos3.lha comm/misc 55K 68k Control program for 8-bit rea...
Relax-morphos.lha comm/misc 104K MOS Control program for 8-bit rea...
Relax-source.lha comm/misc 49K Control program for 8-bit rea...
SimpleCam-amigaos3.lha comm/misc 108K 68k SimpleCam - Digital Camera So...
SimpleCam-morphos.lha comm/misc 164K MOS SimpleCam - Digital Camera So...
SimpleCam-source.lha comm/misc 67K SimpleCam - Digital Camera So...
ESA.lha dev/asm 16K 68k Extra-Strong Assembly
ABasiC_patch.lha dev/basic 19K 68k Patch Metacomco's ABasiC to w...
libptp2-1.1.10-amigao... dev/lib 54K 68k libptp2
libptp2-1.1.10-morpho... dev/lib 67K MOS libptp2
pacdudehero_68k.lha game/actio 6.1M 68k modern pac-man clone
Africa.lha game/board 227K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 268K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 278K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
Abbo.lha game/misc 446K 68k Fixed Boulderdash Clone (+ Am...
Operation_Sirius_OS4.lha game/role 17M OS4 point and click adventure (Ge...
BOOM.lha game/shoot 2.8M 68k Amiga port of BOOM v2.02
LettersFall_68k.lha game/think 3.5M 68k letters puzzle game
PixelArtist_68k.lha game/think 2.7M 68k tiles puzzle game
TC4_68k.lha game/think 6.8M 68k modern multi player tetris clone
TetriAttack2_68k.lha game/think 1.9M 68k puzzle game
Aye_Q.lha game/wb 34K 68k My version of a peg game...
BulGom.lha game/wb 34K 68k Burst some bubbles!
Hexa_Q.lha game/wb 34K 68k Try this hexagonal shaped peg...
Multi_Q.lha game/wb 36K 68k 4 peg games in one program!
Noel_Q.lha game/wb 35K 68k A Christmas theme peg game...
Pivoto.lha game/wb 33K 68k Make alignments of same colou...
Quad_Q.lha game/wb 35K 68k A peg game with 4 board sizes
Star_Q.lha game/wb 35K 68k Try to solve these star-shape...
Totematik.lha game/wb 36K 68k Recreate all 10 totems!
Tri_Q.lha game/wb 34K 68k A triangular shaped peg game
X_Q.lha game/wb 34K 68k An 'X' shaped peg game
MovieViewer_1.0.lha gfx/show 2.3M MOS Simple Movie frame viewer
glUAE.lha misc/emu 20K Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
rhLaunch-amigaos3.lha misc/emu 66K 68k rhLaunch - GUI for E-UAE
rhLaunch-morphos.lha misc/emu 112K MOS rhLaunch - GUI for E-UAE
rhLaunch-source.lha misc/emu 64K rhLaunch - GUI for E-UAE
alaska_os3_fpu.lha misc/misc 1.0M 68k Alaska-Kanada West Multimedia...
SamplesMaster.lha mus/misc 106K 68k Creates IFF and RAW samples (...
org_68k.lha mus/play 227K 68k play & decode org music
playOGG.lha mus/play 5.1M 68k multi format sound player.
SimpleSamples.lha mus/play 44K 68k Little musical toy for Classi...
MinAD-amigaos3.lha text/show 55K 68k MinAD - Minimalistic Autodoc ...
MinAD-morphos.lha text/show 92K MOS MinAD - Minimalistic Autodoc ...
MinAD-source.lha text/show 37K MinAD - Minimalistic Autodoc ...
rhc-amigaos3.lha util/crypt 29K 68k rhc - a polymorphic cipher
libffi-morphos.lha util/libs 212K MOS MorphOS port of libffi
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 506K OS4 Multipurpose utility
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11.Mar.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 10.03.2012
The following archives have been published until 10.03.2012 to the OS4Depot:
agletm2ppc.lha dev/lan 18Mb 4.1 Modula-2 Native PPC compiler
gluae.lha emu/uti 20kb 4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
wordmeupxxl_demo.lha gam/act 26Mb 4.0 Word puzzle game
operation_sirius.lha gam/adv 17Mb 4.1 Operation Sirius - point and cli...
africa.lha gam/boa 291kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
tetricrisis4.lha gam/puz 26Mb 4.1 Tetris like battle game
iconsreworked.lha gra/ico 44Mb 4.1 Icons for 3rd party software
reportplus.lha uti/mis 1Mb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
tankampel.lha uti/wor 1Mb 4.0 tankampel
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11.Mar.2012
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 10.03.2012
The following archives have been published until 10.03.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
aspireos_1.7.zip dev/mis 28Mb AspireOS update "Let there be ro...
aspireos_v.1.7.rar dev/mis 137Mb AspireOS Codename "Let there be ...
oricutron.i386-aros.lha emu/com 1Mb Oric-1 / Atmos emulator
game.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 2Mb game - simple tetris-like game.
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11.Mar.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 10.03.2012
The following archives have been published until 10.03.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
CodeWar 1.24 gam/thi 240 A simulator environment for...
Word Me Up XXL Demo 1.53 gam/thi 26408 An educational word-game fo...
CanonToolbox 1.3 gra/mis 173 Application for controlling...
ALI 2.2 net/cha 92 AmIRC Log Inspector, a tool...
AmigaMark 1.1 sys/too 1122 A complex computer speed be...
AHIRNG 1.2 uti/sci 103 Generator of really random ...
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10.Mar.2012
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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USB-Floppy-Disk-Controller: KryoFlux writes ADF-Images
The USB-Floppy-Controller Kryoflux can read different disk formats with the help of disk drives. The control software is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
For some time it has been possible to write IPF on disks. With the latest software update now Kryoflux also can write back ADF-images.
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10.Mar.2012
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Stability issues: a cooler and a software updates for ACA 1231 processor boards
After several customers of Individual Computer's ACA 1231 accelerator boards reported stability issues, the manufacturer now supplies a cooling solution for free. All customers who already received an ACA 1231 will also receive the package detailed below without having to specifically request it.
Mario 'mfilos' Filos has supplied us with pictures of the package customers have received. It contains the cooler, a short manual and a 'Lisa' custom chip - which is used to fix a heat transfer pad during transport and can be used for other means once the cooler has been mounted on the ACA 1231:
Additionally, an update of the tool 'ACATune' is available from the web page of the official distributor Vesalia. ACATune is used under Workbench 3.0 (and only there) to add the FastRAM on the ACA 1231 to the system. The initial version had a bug which would try to add non-existant memory aswell, which would result in a system crash as soon as these memory areas were accessed.
Additionally, there's a new revision of the ACA 1231 Firmware that delays a cold start somewhat to give older harddisks enough time to spin up properly. The ACA firmware can not be updated by the user himself: customers whose harddisks are not recognised during a cold start are asked to contact Vesalia and request a firmware upgrade. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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09.Mar.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 59
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag.
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09.Mar.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOne X1000: Video of prototype of a Xorro expansion board
"Xorro" is called the slot on the motherbaord of the AmigaOne X1000. Expansion boards can be connected which have a direct access to the XMOS-chip ("Xena"). A-Eon itself is not going to develop such expansions.
A-EON's hardware compagnon Varisys now has published a video, which apparently shows a prototype of a Xorro expansion board.
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09.Mar.2012
Rob Hazelby (ANF)
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AmigaPD.com: Game reviews March 2012
Additional to the well-known interviews, AmigaPD.com also publishes game reviews. For March 2012 some test reports on Pacomix 2, Popeye and Pengo have been published.
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09.Mar.2012
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: Icaros 1.4 and AspireOS 1.7, inclusive Odyssey Web Browser 1.16
Recently the bounty for improving Zune was started and apparantly has a first benefit: The latest versions of the AROS-distributions Icaros and AspireOS include a port of the current version of Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly's web browser Odyssey (Youtube videos: Icaros 1.4, AspireOS 1.7).
This version is supposed to be an "exclusive bundle". It is the "first official version".
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08.Mar.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: MovieViewer 1.0
MovieViewer is a simple, Shell-based viewer for single frames of a film. The programm uses ffmpeg a therefore supports a lot of video formats.
Download: MovieViewer_1.0.lha ( KB)
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08.Mar.2012
Amiga PD (ANF)
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Interviews: Graham Humphrey (Tank Wars), Aaron and Adam Fothergill (Base Jumpers
In its interview serie on amigapd.com, interviews with Adam und Aaron Fothergill (Base Jumpers, Jet Strike, AMOS Tome) and Graham Humphrey (Tank Wars) have been published.
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08.Mar.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora Plugins for Hollywood
Press release: Two new plugins now are available for Hollywood 5.0: By adding the OggVorbis and the OggTheora plugin, Hollywood now can play the corresponding music and video files. The Vorbis and Theora technologies are useful because most likely they are not are subject to software patent protection and therefore most likely may be used without licence fees in commercial software.
Thanks to the cross-platform plugin-system of Hollywood 5.0, the plugins are available for AmigaOS 3 (Classic), AmigaOS 3 (FPU), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (Intel), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (Intel), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (Intel) and Windows.
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07.Mar.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video-Broadcast: Amitopia TV broadcasts around the clock
Amitopia TV is an English-language video magazine about the Amiga. The videostream can be accessed under http://77.88.121.243:30000 and since yesterday it is broadcasted around the clock.
At least a PowerPC-processor with 400MHz is required for playing the steam on an Amiga system with e.g. MPlayer.
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07.Mar.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text viewer: EvenMore 0.76
Chris Perver's EvenMore is a text viewer written with ECX in Amiga E. The changes in version 0.76 are listed in the Readme file.
Download: EvenMore.lha (500 KB)
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07.Mar.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Metacompiler: PortablE r6-05-03-2012 (Beta)
The programming language Amiga E is extended by Christopher Handley's metacompiler PortablE. It translates it into other languages.
Prepared modules for graphic, sound output and music as well as user-interface are included. Additionally there is a PortablE-forum. Mainly PortablE supports AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS and, with some limitations, AmigaOS 3.x and Windows. The changes of the latest version are listed in the history.
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07.Mar.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions (SamplitudeOpus, Sixth Sense...) for download
Some full versions were added to the download section of the Amiga Future, e.g. SamplitudeOpus, Sixth Sense Investigations and Quasar Wars.
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06.Mar.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Sirena AHIW 1.00
Sirena AHIW published by Morgue Soft is another programm for simple picture editing. It was written in Hollywood and is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows XP.
The pictures can be saved as BMP, JPG, LBM and PNG files. The languages Spanish, German, English, French and Italian are supported.
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06.Mar.2012
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: glUAE 20120304
glUAE written by Simone Bevilacqua is a collection of scripts which is supposed to make it easier to use 68k applications which are not compatible to AmigaOS4 under the PPC operating system.
With glUAE executable files, disk-images or ZIP-archives can be started with a double-click in the Amiga emulator UAE.
Download: gluae.lha (20 KB)
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06.Mar.2012
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Software-News: 20 Updates of Rupert Hausberger (AmigaOS 3/MorphOS)
Rupert "natmeg" Hausberger has published updates for 20 different tools. The following programms all are under GNU GPL now. The changes are included in each archive:
- AHIRNG: Random Number Generator via AHI
- ALI: AmIRC Log Inspector
- AmigaMark: Benchmark Suite
- asciitable: Print out the ascii-table in diffent modes
- CanonToolBox
- CloneCollect: Collect files with same conditions
- crc128: calculates 128bit crc-checksums
- dicpng: compress data into png-images
- fixdate: fix files that have a date in future
- MinAD: Minimalistic Autodoc Viewer
- passwd: Simple password protection on boot
- Relax: Control program for 8-bit realy-cards
- rhc: A polymorphic cipher
- rhErase: Secure file eraser
- rhLaunch: GUI for E-UAE
- SAB: Secure Address Book with AES encryption
- sha256ht: Hash a directory with sha256
- shapng: sha256 of file to png-image
- SimpleCam: Digital Camera Software
- sysflush: Flushes unused libs, devs and fonts
All listed programms are available for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS. For AmigaOS3 for the first time versions of AHIRNG, ALI, asciitable, CloneCollect, crc128, dicpng, fixdate, MinAD, passwd, rhc, rhErase, rhLaunch, SAB, sha256ht, shapng and sysflush are available and for MorphOS versions of crc128 and rhc.
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