25.Feb.2012
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Twitter-Client: Beta testers for twittAmiga wanted
twittAmiga is a MUI-based AmigaOS-client for Twitter.
Currently only few functions are implemented. Oliver 'ciVic' Urbann is grateful for any test reports of the latest version 1.25. 6 MB of virtual memory are required.
Download: twittAmiga.lha (2 MB)
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25.Feb.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: iODBC-Update
Andrea Palmatč's iODBC-port for AmigaOS 4 was updated. SQLite ODBC was updated to version 0.94 and a new NNTP-driver is available as well.
iODBC means "Independent Open DataBase Connectivity". It is a platform independent implementation of the standardized database interface ODBC and its X/Open-specification.
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[News message: 25. Feb. 2012, 10:48] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2012
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Vector graphic programm AmiFIG 0.9
For AROS Yannick Erb has published a new update of the Vector graphic programm AmiFIG which was originally developed for AmigaOS. Version 0.9 fixes a bug which prevented under Nouveau the AntiAlias output.
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[News message: 25. Feb. 2012, 10:39] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology supports RadeonHD driver development
Press release: Wellington, 23rd February 2012. Following the recent release of the RadeonHD graphics driver for AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5, which made it's official debut on the AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" system, we are pleased to reveal that we have now concluded a further agreement with Hans de Ruiter for the continued development of his RadeonHD drivers for the AmigaOS.
In a statement de Ruiter commented, "I am currently working to get the driver fully ready for 3D, and to release quality. Thanks to the support of Trevor Dickinson (A-EON Technology), I will be able to devote more time to RadeonHD driver development over the next few months, and achieve this goal much sooner than would otherwise have been the case.
The features being worked on include: Vertical blanking interrupt support for RadeonHD cards (no more wasting CPU cycles when double-buffering); Video RAM (VRAM) management for the RadeonHD_RM.resource (intelligent VRAM buffer paging)."
De Ruiter added: "The last feature is essential for stable 3D operation. I look forward to delivering RadeonHD.chip version 1.x and, of course, to be able to run modern 3D applications using RadeonHD cards and AmigaOS."
Dickinson said in reply: "I am really pleased to help fund Hans' RadeonHD driver work. This is excellent news for all AmigaONE X1000 owners, including myself ;-) and hopefully should benefit all AmigaOS 4 users in the future."
About Hans de Ruiter & HDRLab: Hans de Ruiter is an electrical & electronic engineer and leading AmigaOS developer and Amiga enthusiast. His website - HDRLab - details various projects, many of which are AmigaOS related. The biggest of these is the RadeonHD driver for AmigaOS, an ambitious project that aims to deliver modern graphics capabilities for the AmigaOS platform.
About AmigaOS: The AmigaOS dates back to 1985 with the introduction of the landmark Amiga 1000. Today, under the guidance and control of Hyperion Entertainment, AmigaOS has evolved into a modern operating system without losing that intrinsic "Amiga" look and feel.
About the AmigaONE X1000: The AmigaONE X1000 is not like other computers. It is a culmination of efforts by real Amiga enthusiasts and developers to create powerful, modern desktop hardware for the AmigaOS. It is the natural evolution of the Amiga's PowerPC lineage and is based on the PA-Semi Dual-core PA6T-1682M CPU and includes Xena, a "Software Defined Silicon" co-processor. Above all it runs the latest version of the AmigaOS.
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25.Feb.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Malibu 1.3
Press release: The Malibu plugin, which enables Hollywood to run Scala scripts on your Workbench, is now available in version 1.3. This version is enhanced for Hollywood 5.0 and brings some improvements and bug fixes over the old version.
It is available as a free download for all registered Malibu users from the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Please visit the Malibu product page at the title link for more information and a download link for the update.
The big news in this version is that Malibu is now also available for AROS (i386) and Microsoft Windows. Users who have bought Malibu can request the AROS and Windows version via e-mail for free.
Here are some screenshots of Malibu 1.3 running Scala scripts on Windows from the Hollywood 5.0 IDE: #1, #2, #3. (snx)
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24.Feb.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Blu Manager 0.7
Blu Manager is a database programm for AmigaOS 4 written by Pĺl Ringkilen for managing Blu-ray-films. wget is required to be installed in directory C. Changes:
- Have fixed the system freeze when resizing the main window
- Added a new logo in the about window. Thanks to Svenn Ove for the nice picture
- Added check for WGet. If not found then it will quit
- Have centered the text in the about window
- Have added fancy composition fading on about and search window
- The saved list is now sorted in alphabetical order
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23.Feb.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Programming language: Preliminary version of Hollywood 5 SDK
Users can publish plugins for the recently released Hollywood 5. The preliminary Hollywood SDK is required to build plugins. A full SDK with documentation of the different plugin types will be released soon.
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20.Feb.2012
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Linux: whdrunner starts WHDLoad-games under fs-uae
With whdrunner written by Marcel "frostwork" Unbehaun you can start zip-compressed WHDLoad-games: The programm extracts the archive, recognizes the game with the help of an included database, creates an user-startup on-the-fly and starts the setup in the emulator fs-uae.
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19.Feb.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 5: Infinity released
Press release: After two years of development, Airsoft Softwair is proud to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 5: Infinity for AmigaOS and compatibles and Microsoft Windows. This is a massive update which boasts over 120 new functions in comparison to Hollywood 4.8 and brings along many new features and general improvements. Highlights include the ability to play video streams, full Internet and network support (you could even run a server with Hollywood now!), support for real vector graphics and vector image formats like SVG, hardware accelerated double-buffering, inbuilt synthesizer functions and much much more.
Hollywood 5: Infinity is undoubtedly the most advanced Amiga multimedia application and on Windows it is a fresh Indie alternative to bloated authoring systems that need tons of DLLs, memory, and hard-drive space. Hollywood is highly stable, extremely easy to use and flexible, and used by many creative people around the globe. A totally unique feature is the ability to cross-compile native executables for many different platforms including: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86 & PPC), and Linux (x86 & PPC).
Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 5:
- Video playback support
- Full Internet and network support
- Support for vector images like SVG
- Real vector graphics can now be used (Bézier curves etc)
- Tons of new image manipulating functions (blur, sharpen, gamma, oil paint...)
- Hardware accelerated double-buffering for 500% faster drawing
- Inbuilt synthesizer for generating sounds on-the-fly
- Many functions for brush distortion (perspective, arc, polar...)
- New requester functions (font, color, lister...)
- Hollywood can now compile for PowerPC Linux too!
- Many new functions for dealing with samples
- Great improvements to the layers system
- Real drop shadow and border support for layers
- Over 20 image filters that can be applied to layers
- Hardware accelerated image transformations
- Real time calculated effects for layers with filters
- New gradient types (radial, conical and multicolor)
- IPC functions for talking to other programs
- Platform independent localization support
- FPU support for 68k Amigas (improves speed dramatically also on WinUAE!)
- Platform independent pattern matching
- Many new utility functions (MD5 checksum, string functions etc.)
- Cross-platform public plugin interface for 3rd party extensions
- More than 500kb of new documentation
- Manual is also available as a professionally typeset PDF now (over 700 pages!)
- 14 new example scripts (over 80 in total)
- Standard library set encompasses over 600 functions now!
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood 5: Infinity is the ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for all creative people. Hollywood is available on a CD-ROM and as a download version for AmigaOS compatible systems and for Microsoft Windows. The CD-ROM version is delivered in a nice Digipak (picture). If you order the download version, you will have to download an ISO image which you need to burn on CD-R then. If you already own Hollywood, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. Customers, who have bought Hollywood 4.8 after January 1st, 2012, can apply for a free upgrade. On the Airsoft Softwair Homepage there are some screenshots of Hollywood 5 in action.
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different AmigaOS compatible platforms and the other three modern desktop systems, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux! With Hollywood, you can save programs for all those platforms. You do not have to own AmigaOS4 or AROS, you can save programs for these platforms also from your AmigaOS3 installation! You do not need to have Mac OS X, you can still compile your programs for it using your AmigaOS or MorphOS installation. Only Hollywood makes it possible. If you want to learn more about Hollywood, please visit the Hollywood product information which also contains a full feature list of Hollywood or the official Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ which also has a forum for all questions concerning Hollywood.
All this makes Hollywood The Cross-Platform Multimedia Application Layer. Join the Multimedia revolution and get your personal copy of Hollywood 5: Infinity now! (cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Feb.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 18.02.2012
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until 18.02.2012:
XBazeSP.lha biz/dbase 13K XBaze v7.3.1 spanish catalog
DOpus4SP.lha biz/dopus 5K Directory Opus 4 spanish cata...
SMBMounter.lha comm/net 125K 68k SMBFS Frontend GUI / Commodity
MSV_TwistedMinds.lha demo/aga 241M 68k Twisted Minds by Massive
Paradize10.lha demo/aga 48K 68k Real Paradize By PH-Ent
Real_Paradize.lha demo/aga 64K 68k Real Paradize By PH-Ent
DD_AllSquare.lha demo/ecs 412K 68k All Square demo by Digital Da...
ABasiC.lha dev/basic 1K Some lists for ABasiC
WinUAEDemoToolChain_4... dev/cross 10M build asm/c code on Win+run i...
BCPL.lha dev/misc 20K 68k calling BCPL DOS routines from C
Compatibility4.py.txt dev/src 2K 68k Backwards Compatibility Python.
CenturionEditor.lha game/edit 10K 68k Cheating tool for Centurion
MCE.lha game/edit 820K 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 972K MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 981K OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
iBatch.lha gfx/conv 2.1M 68k batch rename, renumber and co...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 2.6M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 2.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mods/smpl 101K 68k Some samples created by Sampl...
mp3info85a_sdl.lha mus/edit 176K 68k MP3 info & tag edit.
lameA68K-3.99.4.lha mus/misc 514K 68k MP3 encoder for A68K
playOGG.lha mus/play 4.8M 68k multi format sound player.
Cl_Wb_Wallp_n_Pattern... pix/back 67M Classic WB Wallpaper & Pa...
Cl_Wb_Wallp_n_Pattern... pix/back 67M Classic WB Wallpaper & Pa...
EvenMore.lha text/show 447K 68k V0.75: Freeware textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 466K MOS V0.75: Freeware Textviewer (M...
OpenOfficeViewer_0.0.... text/show 10M MOS OpenDocument Viewer
CranuSP.lha util/arc 9K Cranu spanish catalog & g...
HSMathLibs_040.lha util/libs 71K 68k replacement for all math libr...
HSMathLibs_060.lha util/libs 72K 68k replacement for all math libr...
HSMathLibs_881.lha util/libs 49K 68k replacement for all math libr...
modifyle.lha util/wb 132K 68k Multiwindow filemanager &...
RememberOpenDrawers.lha util/wb 38K Remembers open drawers for ne...
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19.Feb.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 18.02.2012
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until 18.02.2012:
timidity_setup.lha aud/pla 76kb 4.0 Help Installing Timidity
audioevolution4.lha aud/rec 1Mb 4.0 Audio Evolution 4 FULL version
uclogictablet.lha dri/inp 52kb 4.0 USB Driver for UCLogic based Gra...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
ibatch.lha gra/con 3Mb 4.0 Process lots of images in one go
sketchblock.lha gra/edi 771kb 4.1 SketchBlock - Digital Sketching ...
clwbwppatt-l.lha gra/ico 67Mb 4.0 Wallpapers & Pattern for Cl ...
clwbwppatt-r.lha gra/ico 67Mb 4.0 Wallpapers & Pattern for Cla...
timberwolf.lha net/bro 26Mb 4.1 Timberwolf 4.0.1, Firefox based ...
jack.zip uti/wor 11Mb 4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
taskview.lha uti/wor 9kb 4.1 View currently running tasks
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19.Feb.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 18.02.2012
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS-Files until 18.02.2012:
CC65 2.13.3 dev/C 6462 The complete C language sui...
AmiDARK Engine 0.5c dev/lib 6014 Advanced Game Development K...
PyMUI 0.6.254 dev/pyt 844 A Python module allowing fo...
Python 2.5 2.5.4-1 dev/pyt 6141 MorphOS port of Python 2.5,...
IRA 2.06 dev/too 116 M68k disassembler. Programm...
ScummVM 1.4.1 gam/adv 12302 ScummVM is an engine for pl...
GLTron 0.70 gam/spo 2008 An arcade game based on mot...
Gribouillis 3.1.500 gra/edi 1553 Simple paint program writte...
Aften 0.0.8 mus/pro 73 Audio encoder for ATSC A/52...
cimon 0.9.6 net/rem 15 Shell based tool for remote...
Open Office Viewer 0.0.5 off/tex 10408 Application for viewing Ope...
NetPrinter 1.15 sys/too 84 Transport layer driver for ...
AmiArcadia 17.43 uti/emu 2822 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
FPSE 0.10.3 uti/emu 1094 Emulator of Sony PlayStatio...
Multigame Character E... 7.0 uti/mis 972 A tool for editing characte...
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19.Feb.2012
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RememberOpenDrawers 1.0
RememberOpenDrawers for AmigaOS 3.5+ (tested under AmigaOS 4.1 as well) is a collection of ARexx-scripts with which it is possible to find some Workbench-drawers open after having rebooted the computer.
Download: RememberOpenDrawers.lha (38 KB)
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18.Feb.2012
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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AMOS-Reimplementation: jAMOS 0.13
jAMOS is a Java version of AMOS (amiga-news.de reported about it) which offers additional features.
Changes:
- A text output console is now spawned on creation (for HelloWorld.jamos, etc.)
- Default example changed to jAMOSOut (original still available under AMAL examples)
- AMAL examples now default to the first AMAL program in the editor when opened (as with jAMAL)
- More examples were added demonstrating dynamic types, concurrent jAMOS programs and hybrid syntax
- jAMAL's startup sound is playable from the menu alongside jAMOS's
- Some minor bug-fixes
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18.Feb.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Book announcement: The Future Was Here - The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies)
As reported the US-publishing house "The MIT Press" will publish a book called "The Future Was Here" on 27. April.
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[News message: 18. Feb. 2012, 06:01] [Comments: 0]
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16.Feb.2012
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Accelerator board: ACA 1231 with 68030 incl. MMU and RTC
The ACA 1231 developed by Individual Computers is a accelerator board for the Amiga 1200. Compared with the previous model ACA 1230, now a full-value 68030-CPU inclusive MMU was used.
The ACA-1231/42 comes with 64 MB RAM, 1 MB of which are reserved to map the Kickstart into the fast memory. Kickstart 3.0 users must add the memory with the ACATune software.
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[News message: 16. Feb. 2012, 21:33] [Comments: 0]
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16.Feb.2012
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AmigaOS 4: Firefox-port Timberwolf 4.0.1 (Beta)
Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden have published a new beta version of their Firefox-port "Timberwolf". Currently hardware-based rendering is still not implemented. Print routines, sound support, WebGL as well as Drag&Drop are missing, too.
Timberwolf requires AmigaOS 4.1 Update 4. The authors points out that the user is recommended to look at the Readme which is included in the archive before Timberwolf is started. It includes important hints among others to Font-Caches. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Feb.2012
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Demo scene: Results and releases of Datastorm 2012
Last weekend the "Datastorm 2012" took place in Göteborg (Sweden). You can find the results of the different competitions on the website of the organizers.
The productions Revision 2012 Invitation (Focus Design) and the 1KB Bootblock-Intro Wayne Bars (TV Noise bootblock 2) (Loonies&Darklite) you can find on pouet.net.
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