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04.Feb.2012
Rob Hazelby (ANF)


AmigaPD.com: Game reviews February 2012
For their February 2012 reviews, the website AmigaPD.com focusses on games beginning with the letter O: Ork Attack, Operation Firestorm and Og!, the latter being their game of the month. (snx)

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04.Feb.2012
MorphZone (Webseite)


Event: Belgian Amiga Club Meeting
Simon Vergauwen writes: The Belgian Amiga Club's first club meeting for 2012 will be on 10/03/12. From 18:00 till at least 24:00 you can find us at the following address: John Tulpinckstraat 15, 2070 Zwijndrecht, Belgium.

AROS, MorphOS or AmigaOS - you are all welcome with or without your machine and meet up with fellow Amiga survivors. As always we try to give you a good reason to visit us:
  • A key for WHDload can be purchased at a very special price (thank you WEPL)
  • There will be a soldering workshop, so don't forget your soldering iron
  • One if not two AmigaONE X1000 will be shown and also a Sam460ex
  • Classic gaming on the big screen
(snx)

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04.Feb.2012
Obligement (Webseite)


Amiga Games Award 2011
On February 4th 2011, the magazine Obligement have announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2010. This represents the best Amiga games voted by amigans on all Amiga platforms.

AmigaOS/68k:
  1. Mr Beanbag (Jigsaw Lounge)
  2. Bermuda Syndrome (Century Interactive)
  3. Barrage (Michael Speck)
AmigaOS 4:
  1. 1941 Extreme Deluxe Dual Players 2.0 (Badblocks, Hugues Nouvel)
  2. Swamp Defense (EntwicklerX)
  3. River Pirate (EntwicklerX)
MorphOS:
  1. Return To Castle Wolfenstein (ID Software, Gray Matter Interactive)
  2. 1941 Extreme Deluxe Dual Players 2.0 (Badblocks, Hugues Nouvel)
  3. Simutrans (Hansjoerg Malthaner, Simutrans team)
AROS:
  1. UFO: Alien Invasion (UFO: Alien Invasion Team)
  2. Assault Cube (Rabid Viper Productions)
  3. Cube 2: Sauerbraten (Wouter Van Oortmerssen)
(snx)

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04.Feb.2012



Benchmarks: AmigaOne X1000 compared with other PPC-hardware (Update)
The first benchmarks of the AmigaOne X1000 have been posted on various forums (sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). The following graphics were created by MorphOS developer Harry 'Piru' Sintonen, used here with kind permission from Mr. Sintonen.

LAME

With the MP3 encoder LAME the file AKsack.wav was converted into the MP3 format without using any parameters. All systems used LAME builds with Altivec support. The value for the X1000 was confirmed by OS4-developer Hans de Ruiter.



Blender

With the raytracer Blender the included example bricks_and_water_plugin.blend was rendered with the following command line:

blender_binary -b projects/bricks_and_water_plugin.blend -o ram:pool -F JPEG -f 0

The value for the X1000 was reported by AmigaOne tester sundown, the value for the Sam440ep by the developer who ported Blender to AmigaOS 4, Andy "broadblues" Broad.



MPlayer: H264-decoding

With the MorphOS MPlayer (and the corresponding AmigaOS 4 port MUI-Mplayer) and the parameters specified below the graphic the H264-encoded video file prometheus-trailer.zip was decoded without showing the result on the screen. The value for the X1000 was reported by X1000-tester Stephen "stevieu" Umney.



dnetc

Using the distributed.net client, keys for the OGR-NG and RC5-72 projects were calculated (source). All Systems are using the Altivec unit of their processor for these tests - with the exception of the Sam460, which doesn't have Altivec.



Copying file

A 46 Mb file (AKsack.wav) was copied from one partition to another and then from a partition to the Ram Disk. The results of this test are affected by many external factors like the filesystem used or the mass storage device the partitions reside on. The value for the X1000 was reported by X1000 owner Mufa.



RageMem

The benchmark tool RageMem tests the access time for various memory types. Due to a missing MorphOS version, the test on a PowerMac was performed running the AmigaOS 4 build on OS4Emu:

RAGEMEM v0.37 - compiled 11/06/2010                                        

PowerMac G4@2Ghz           A1 X1000 PA6T@1.8Ghz       Pegasos 2 G4@1133 Mhz

L1: 16 KB                  L1: 64 KB                  L1: 32 KB            
L2: 1024 KB                L2: 2048 KB                L2: 512 KB           
L3: none                   L3: none                   L3: none             
Cache Line: 0              Cache Line: 64             Cache Line: 32       

--- CPU ---                --- CPU ---                --- CPU ---          
MAX MIPS: 5982             MAX MIPS: 3084             MAX MIPS: 3398       

--- L1 ---                 --- L1 ---                 --- L1 ---           
READ32: 7606 MB/Sec        READ32: 6851 MB/Sec        READ32: 4318 MB/Sec  
READ64: 15209 MB/Sec       READ64: 13682 MB/Sec       READ64: 8634 MB/Sec  
WRITE32: 6518 MB/Sec       WRITE32: 6851 MB/Sec       WRITE32: 3701 MB/Sec 
WRITE64: 5072 MB/Sec       WRITE64: 13681 MB/Sec      WRITE64: 2880 MB/Sec 

--- L2 ---                 --- L2 ---                 --- L2 ---           
READ32: 2166 MB/Sec        READ32: 3276 MB/Sec        READ32: 1942 MB/Sec  
READ64: 2560 MB/Sec        READ64: 4784 MB/Sec        READ64: 2529 MB/Sec  
WRITE32: 2445 MB/Sec       WRITE32: 2531 MB/Sec       WRITE32: 1745 MB/Sec 
WRITE64: 3348 MB/Sec       WRITE64: 4090 MB/Sec       WRITE64: 2193 MB/Sec 

--- RAM ---                --- RAM ---                --- RAM ---          
READ32: 276 MB/Sec         READ32: 2857 MB/Sec        READ32: 144 MB/Sec   
READ64: 276 MB/Sec         READ64: 4000 MB/Sec        READ64: 144 MB/Sec   
WRITE32: 804 MB/Sec        WRITE32: 2732 MB/Sec       WRITE32: 197 MB/Sec  
WRITE64: 810 MB/Sec        WRITE64: 3383 MB/Sec       WRITE64: 425 MB/Sec  
WRITE: 752 MB/Sec (*)      WRITE: 352 MB/Sec (*)      WRITE: 795 MB/Sec (*)

--- VIDEO BUS ---          --- VIDEO BUS ---          --- VIDEO BUS ---    
READ: 32 MB/Sec            READ: 15 MB/Sec            READ: 51 MB/Sec      
WRITE: 180 MB/Sec          WRITE: 161 MB/Sec          WRITE: 221 MB/Sec    

(*) "Tricky"


Update: (04.02.2012, 15:30, cg)

Added the dnetc benchmark. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Text viewer: EvenMore 0.74
Chris Perver's EvenMore is a text viewer written in Amiga E with ECX. The changes of the version 0.74 are listed in the Readme-file.

Download: EvenMore.lha (515 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2012
a1k.org (Forum)


Indivision ECS: Core 1.10 (beta version) / SuperPlus monitor driver 40.5
For the Flickerfixer Indivision ECS a new beta version of the core was published. Additionally the SuperPlus monitor driver was updated.

With the Core-version 1.10 the Indivision ECS now can view a solution of 800x600 pixels - compared with the Super72-mode without the limitation of the ECS chipset to four of 64 colours. The user 'mfilos' has published a test with screenshots in a Blog. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4 / AROS: HueFlow 0.3
HueFlow is the port of a well-known game for the cell phone: The player has to "flood" a colourful screen step by step with a single colour by selecting the next colour to be flooded (screenshot).

HueFlow now was released under the GPL. In version 0.3 you can now also play against the computer.

Download:
hueflow.lha (OS4-Version, 370 KB)
hueflow.i386-aros.zip (310 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Feb.2012



WHDLoad: New archives until 02.02.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were published on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with new Amiga models were fixed. The following installers have been added or updated:
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)


Bounty: Purchase of source codes of Directory Opus Magellan
Olaf Schönweiß and Dr. Greg Perry (GPSoft) agreed a possible release of the source code of the well-known file manager Directory Opus Magellan II (version 5.82). For 5600 US-Dollar Perry would release the sources under the AROS Public License, which is a derivative of Mozilla Public License.

The purchase will also a include a limited license for the trademark "Directory Opus Magellan" that will grant the right to use it for software running on Amigoid platforms. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012



ScummVM 1.4.1 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS)
ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games and is available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 in version 1.4.1. The changes are listed in the official Release Notes. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Compiler-Distribution: Bugfix for vbcc 0.9b
The 68k-version of the tool fd2pragma had a bug in version 0.9b which caused a crash. The author has published an update which includes an improved version of fd2pragma and has to be extracted to vbcc:.

Download: vbcc_bin_amigaos68k_upd.lha (84 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012



Image editing: iBatch 1.4
With Gero Birkenfeld's iBatch you can rename or edit images. Version 1.4 currently is only available on the website of the Boingsworld-Podcast.
Download: iBatch_BoingsWorld.lha (2,5 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012
amiga.org (Webseite)


Amithlon: Kernel-Update with hardware-accelerated graphic drivers
For Amithlon a new Kernel-update is available which supports hardware-accelerated graphic operations on AGP and PCIe graphic boards like ATI Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 or GeForce PCX 5300, PCX 5750 and PCX 5900.

The kernel is available in three different versions: As IDE driver (kernel4.rar), IDE and SATA driver (kernel4sata.rar) and IDE, SATA and SCSI driver (kernel4scsi.rar). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AROS: Tester for 68k-distribution
Olaf Schönweiß is about to publish a distribution for AROS/68k (screenshots). In order to be able to improve the package the author is looking for testers.

Interested users please send an eMail to olaf.schoenweiss at innovatronic.de and will then get a download link (ca. 500 MB). A CD also is possible. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


jAMOS: AMOS-Reimplementation in Java
jAMOS is a Java-based reimplementation for the Basic dialect AMOS. Alpha version 0.1 now is available.

The same author published before with jAMAL the AMOS Animation Language under Java.

The available alpha version 0.1 only support parts of the AMOS-commands. jAMOS is open source.

Features:
  • BASIC-like interpreter based on MequaScript
  • AMAL interpreter from jAMAL written in Java
  • Script editor utilising Java Swing
  • AMAL-to-Java code translator and compiler
  • Source is buildable in Eclipse and NetBeans IDE out of the box
  • Runnable from a single JAR file
  • Reimplemented AMAL Environment Generator
  • Rudimentary Amiga-style screen and scrolling engine
  • Integrated AMOS sprite bank viewer (AbkViewer)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 17.1 (Beta 2)
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were published on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with new Amiga models were fixed. In version 17.1 beta 2 the Instruction Cache on 68020-processors is not activated any longer.

WHDLoad 17.1 is a beta version which has to be installed over an existing installation of version 17.0.

Download:

WHDLoad-Usr: whd171.lha (177 KB)
WHDLoad-Dev: whd171dev.lha (202 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jan.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Word Me Up XXL 1.52
Version 1.52 of the commercial game "Word Me Up XXL" published by Boing Attitude is available for AmigaOS 4. The demo version was updated as well.

Changes:
  • Visual effects not enabled by default
  • Improved handling of the sound system
  • Better management of the joystick/joypad
  • A few German translations were fixed
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jan.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AROS-Distribution AspireOS 1.6
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published a new version of his AROS-distribution AspireOS. This mainly is meant to be used with an Acer-netbook Aspire One but should work with different hardware, too.

AspireOS 1.6 is not an update for existing versions, it is distributed as ISO-image and has to be installed over the existing AspireOS-system. This new version mainly includes improvements of the graphical user-interface.

A package with games is distributed separately. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jan.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 53
The Amiga Round Table (ART) is an English-language podcast. Amiga users and guests have duscussed the latest events of the Amiga scene. Episode 53 includes an interview with the supposed owner of Amiga.org, "Tedd Gallion", after the sale in 2009. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 28.01.2012
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 28th 2012:
TA1_26.lha               comm/bbs   1.1M  68k TransAmiga BBS v1.26 freeware...
sdl_configs.lha          dev/c      4K        Useful SDL configurations 
modifyle.lha             dev/gui    116K  68k new ASL filerequester replace...
jbigkit.tar.bz2          dev/lib    96K   OS4 JBIG-KIT lossless image compr...
libao.i386-aros.tar.bz2  dev/lib    392K  x86 Cross-platform Audio Library
libao.m68k-aos.tar.bz2   dev/lib    390K  68k Cross-platform Audio Library
libao.tar.bz2            dev/lib    414K  OS4 Cross-platform Audio Library
libbinio.i386-aros.ta... dev/lib    75K   x86 A Binary I/O stream class lib...
libexif-m68k.lha         dev/lib    674K  68k Parsing, editing, and saving ...
libpac.i386-aros.tar.bz2 dev/lib    130K  x86 Decode PAC music modules
libpac.tar.bz2           dev/lib    64K   OS4 Decode PAC music modules
libspeex.i386-aros.ta... dev/lib    1.1M  x86 A Free Codec For Free Speech
libxml2-m68k.lha         dev/lib    3.9M  68k The XML C parser and toolkit ...
popt-m68k.lha            dev/lib    77K   68k A C library for parsing comma...
nc_invaders_68k.lha      game/shoot 348K  68k ncurses based space invaders ...
meandmyshadow-68k.lha    game/think 6.6M  68k Me and My Shadow, a puzzle/pl...
crosscrabtris_os4.lha    game/wb    7.5M  OS4 A mix of crossword scrabble a...
fracplanet.lha           gfx/fract  579K  OS4 Random planet generator (beta...
pngcrush-m68k.lha        gfx/misc   131K  68k An optimizer for PNG files
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   2.6M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 17.42 spanish catalog
pacplay_68k.lha          mus/play   426K  68k Play & Decode PAC music m...
uade.tar.bz2             mus/play   5.7M  OS4 Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
xad_rar.lha              util/arc   365K  OS4 XAD (UnArc) client for RAR3 a...
xad_xz.lha               util/arc   28K   OS4 XZ client for xadmaster/UnArc
xpkTDCS.lha              util/pack  2K    68k Improved xpkTDCS.library
xpkZENO.lha              util/pack  2K    68k Improved xpkZENO.library
AlignWindowsSP.lha       util/wb    2K        AlignWindows v1.6 spanish cat...
WBKillWinSP.lha          util/wb    3K        WBKillWin 1.0 spanish catalog
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.01.2012
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 28th 2012:
sirenaplayer.lha         aud/pla 2Mb   4.0 An easy mod, mp3 and wav Vintage...
uade.tar.bz2             aud/pla 6Mb   4.1 Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
libao.tar.bz2            dev/lib 414kb 4.0 Cross-platform Audio Library
libpac.tar.bz2           dev/lib 64kb  4.0 Decode PAC music modules
jbigkit.tar.bz2          dev/lib 96kb  4.0 JBIG-KIT lossless image compress...
camd_nemo.lha            dri/mis 22kb  4.1 X1000 onboard UART CAMD driver
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
scummvm.lha              gam/adv 10Mb  4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip          gam/adv 20Mb  4.1 ScummVM Source
crosscrabtris.lha        gam/puz 7Mb   4.1 A mix of crossword scrabble and ...
imbiss_os4.lha           gam/str 1Mb   4.0 Imbiss - buy and sell hamburgers
ssbuilder.lha            gra/con 105Mb 4.0 SSBuilder
iconsreworked.lha        gra/ico 29Mb  4.1 Icons for 3rd party software
gfxbench2d.lha           uti/ben 2Mb   4.0 A 2D graphics benchmark tool
jack.zip                 uti/wor 9Mb   4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
wbkillwin.lha            uti/wor 17kb  4.0 An interactive program to kill w...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 28.01.2012
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until January 28th 2012:
libao.i386-aros.tar.bz2      dev/lib 392kb Cross-platform Audio Library
libbinio.i386-aros.tar.bz2   dev/lib 75kb  A Binary I/O stream class library
libpac.i386-aros.tar.bz2     dev/lib 130kb Decode PAC music modules
libspeex.i386-aros.tar.bz2   dev/lib 1Mb   A Free Codec For Free Speech
aspireos_games_v1.zip        gam     115Mb AspireOS Game Package
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