07.Sep.2011
morphos-team.net (ANF)
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MorphOS: SDK-Update with new editor "Scribble"
The team of MorphOS has published a new version of the software development kit for MorphOS. For the installation a computer with installed MorphOS 2.7 and at least 300 MB HD are required. Of course a new installation is possible as well.
This latest version also includes a new editor called Scribble.
MorphOS SDK 2 is available for download. Additionally there is a little video which demonstrates the text editor Scribble.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Sep.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Firefox-Port: Timberwolf Status-Update
Thomas Frieden has given an overview about the latest status of the Firefox port: The code which puts the results of the rendering engine to the screen now correctly works (screenshot) but mouse and keyboard inputs does not.
The completely new written routines are supposed to be more effective and 40% smaller than the previous version.
A new public trial version could be published soon.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS: Network monitor NetworkSnoopAROS
NetworkSnoop is a network monitor which similar to SnoopDOS patches a system library, the bsdsocket.library. So it can log all requests of this library.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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IRC-Client: AmIRC 3.6 for AmigaOS 3/MorphOS
Nicolas "Henes" Sallin has published an update of his AmIRC-version (screenshots). Version 3.6 now supports DCC port transmission with UPnP (Universal Plug'n Play), "Turbo DCC send" (detailed changelog).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2011
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WHDLoad: New packages until 05.09.2011
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which were published on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
- 04.09.2011 new: Rings Of Medusa Gold (Starbyte) done by Psygore (Info)
- 01.09.2011 fixed: Five-A-Side Soccer (Croteam) slave requires whdload v17, manual included (Info)
- 01.09.2011 improved: Castle Master (Incentive Software/Domark) supports another version (Info)
- 21.08.2011 fixed: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) crash problem on 060/PPC board fixed, new install script, icon added (Info)
- 21.08.2011 new: Virtual Karting 2 demo (Fabio Bizzetti) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
- 03.08.2011 new: Gloom (Black Magic) done by Psygore (Info)
- 03.08.2011 fixed: Battle Squadron (Innerprise) unused data in ws_config removed (Info,Image)
- 25.07.2011 improved: Misja Harolda (MarkSoft) supports another version (Info)
- 25.07.2011 fixed: Battle Squadron (Innerprise) slave requires whdload 17, gfx flickering fixed, CD32 joypad supported (Info,Image)
- 14.07.2011 improved: Turrican 3 (Factor 5/Rainbow Arts) intro music speed fixed on 68000, slave supports files now (Info)
- 09.07.2011 improved: Leavin Teramis (Thalion) imager fixed, blitter waits added, cheat discovered, default quitkey changed (Info)
- 07.07.2011 fixed: When We Ride On Our Enemies (Skarla) wrong cpu detection fixed (Info,Image)
- 04.07.2011 new: Mysterious Worlds (Playstone Design) done by Harry (Info)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 17.0
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which were published on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed. Changes since the last version:
- chg: documentation about Snoop feature now explains in detail which
cia registers are checked in which way (StingRay)
- chg: the install script template function P_AskDisk is additional
able to check for disks which contain a named file instead
only by volume name
- chg: the joypad emulation in kickemu 3.1 now supports a force
option to disable the auto sensing of lowlevel.library
- fix: kickfs.s now properly supports reading and writing to the same
file handle if IOCACHE is used
- new: support/detection of special HRTmon builtin WinUAE added
(monitor must be entered one time before WHDLoad can see it!)
- fix: when file for PreLoad was larger than the largest free memory
block this could lead to an DOS error #205 after all remaining
files have been preloaded, this bug has been introduced in
version 16.9, issue #2154
- chg: on option NoResInt/S WHDLoad checks and terminates if blitter
is active on entering via a resload function
- chg: trap hook now checks if vector is odd and aborts then
- chg: if option NoMMU/S is active WHDLoad now more correctly checks
the actual MMU setup and warns about translations of 0..3000
- chg: amount of disassembled code lines increased (Psygore)
- fix: output for disassembling of some instructions were corrected
by Psygore, (moveq #-x; cmp/add/and/move/bset/bchg/... #$nnxx;
bitfield with offset 0)
- fix: crashes on M-Tec 630 boards without FPU fitted caused by the
FPU detection inside WHDLoad fixed, board causes 'coprocessor
protocol violation's instead of 'line-f emulator', thanks to
Die BORG for lending the hardware
- chg: there are separate Resload versions for 00-20/30/40/60 now,
which enlarges the WHDLoad executable but saves memory at
runtime (overlayed)
- new: progress bar for Preload operation added, WHDLoad will
remember PreloadSize itself as ToolType if started from the
Workbench
- fix: cache clear in MMU configuration routine added, should fix
problems with issue #2094 and issue #2182 (Psygore)
- new: dutch translation of documentation, thanks to Harold van der
Waaij
- chg: resload_Relocate now accepts upto 512 hunks (Don Adan)
- chg: emulation of 'move sr,ea' in usermode on 68010+ is now also
working if flag WHDLF_EmulPriv is active, this fixes problems
with RoadwarsArcadia and FastBreakArcadia
- chg: support for Cloantos AmigaForever 2011 kickstart 1.2 and
3.1-a500/a1200 roms added (Jan Zahurancik)
- new: WHDLoad supports the compression file formats of CrunchMania
with the resload functions resload_Decrunch and resload_Load-
FileDecrunch (Psygore)
- chg: the way WHDLoad checks for keyboard strokes (QuitKey,
FreezeKey, ...) has been slightly modified, in earlier
versions it has checked for keydown strokes, now it only
reacts on keyup events; if the Slave checks itself for
keyboard events the installed program may still quit on
keydowns
- chg: the ws_keydebug entry in the Slave structure is now ignored,
the debug key must be explictly set via arguments
- fix: it's now possible to use QuitKey/DebugKey=0 (Psygore)
- chg: as long as the splash window is open pressing Esc will break
the Preload process and quit WHDLoad
- chg: pressing Space/Return/Enter will close the splash window and
start the installed program immediate after completion of
Preload
- new: in Expert/S mode the splash window now contains some buttons
to switch debugging related options of WHDLoad which gets
saved/deleted in the icon if started from the Workbench
- new: the Slave structure has been extended to allow configuration
of buttons to be displayed on the splash window to control
the ButtonWait/S and Custom1-5/K/N options
to be able to configure existing Slaves the option Config/K
has been added
- new: using the option ConfigDelay/K/N the time can be specified
howlong the splash window is displayed if there are buttons
on it (Config/Expert)
- chg: if SplashDelay/K/N is -1 a start button is added to the splash
window and the window remains open until pressed
- chg: the kickstart images will be searched also in the alternative
path WHDCOMMON: (M.C.Battilana)
The code for the support of the MMU of a 68040 does not completely work in this version because it is reworked to support all MMU-features. THe function "resload_Protect" should work but "Snoop" will crash the computer.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Psygnosis-music: Chipfest 6 - The Rehearsal Tapes von Tim Wright
Several compositions for Psygnosis games were written by Tim Wright, e.g. for "Shadow of the Beast" part II and III or WipEout.
Additional to the video of his live performance on 29. August, under the title link he has published again a little album with variations of previous tracks.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2011
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amiga-news.de with two new members
Uwe Lauke has taken take care of the Amiga Link Directory and Ingo "analogkid" Schmitz will maintain the official IRC-channel of amiga-news.de. Welcome!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Release Candidate 1 of Cross-Compiler LLVM
Based on the bounty project, under the title link Michael Ness and Samuel Crow have published a first release candidate called "AROS Clang" of the cross-compiler LLVM for Windows (MinGW, 32 Bit), Linux (32 Bit) and Mac OS X (Leopard, 64 Bit).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: Patch for Icaros Desktop 1.3.1
For his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop 1.3.1, Paolo Besser has published a patch. The "patch 01" completes the audio support for SB128/ES137x and CM8738boards as well as missing pictogramms and updated Janus-UAE, the Intel-GMA-driver and the MilkyTracker.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2011
Pascal Papara (Kommentar)
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AROS: Linux-OpenGL-Bounty started
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has accepted bounty project of a Linux-based AROS-version for which currently 205 US-Dollar were donated.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Audiotreiber for SB128/ES137x and CM8738 boards
Nick 'Kalamatee' Andrews has ported the drivers for sound boards based on SB128/ES137x an CM8738 to AROS and published trial versions under the title link.
Please note that the CM8738-driver still has a bug in the Hifi-modes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2011
AROS-ML
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AROS: FUSE bounty project started
After having reimplemented the FUSE-framework Filesysbox to MorphOS, Leif Salomonsson now has started the corresponding bounty project for AROS. Currently 70 US-Dollar were donated for it. Further donations are welcome.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser MUI-OWB 1.9
Roman "kas1e" Kargin, Thore Böckelmann and Daniel Westerberg have ported the MUI-based web browser OWB 1.9, developed by Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly, to AmigaOS4. This browser which for MorphOS is called "Odyssey" has nothing to do with the port of the Origyn web browser which also is available for AmigaOS 4. MUIOWB/Odyssey is based on Webkit and has a completely different graphical user-interface.
MUI-OWB 1.9 (screenshot, Youtube video) requires AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3. The first launch of the programm takes some more time since all necessary character set lists must be generated.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2011
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
In the last zwo months several articles were added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. Translations to other languages are very welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
English articles:
- Interview with Jason McMullan (AROS 68k developer).
French articles:
- July/August 2011 news.
- Articles from Amiga News 101 (May 1997) to 104 (September 1997): review of PC-Task 4.1, review of MBench, review of Personal Paint 7.1, review of Directory Opus 5.6, hardware: SyJet, hardware: Surf Squirrel, report: The Amiga at Satellite et Télévision, etc.
- Report: NASS 2011.
- Interview with Jason McMullan (AROS 68k developer).
- Interview with Edgar Vigdal (Deluxe Galaga developer).
- Interview with Massimiliano Tretene (from 2000, Maim & Mangle developer).
- Interview with Bill Buck, Raquel Velasco and Petro Tyschtschenko (from 2002).
- Review of Sqrxz 2.
- Review of Classic Workbench.
- File: the ordered dither in printing on AmigaOS 68k.
- Hardware: cooling a Radeon 9800 Pro.
- Tutorial: presentation and configuration of ANAIIS 1.02.
- Tutorial: recover files from a damaged SFS partition.
- Tutorial: utilization of Kryptos.
- Tutorial: presentation and utilization of Amiga911 Maker.
- Special quizz about the Efika 5200B.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Sep.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 92
Press release: The English and German issue 92 (September/October 2011) of the
print magazine Amiga Future has been released today and can be ordered directly at the
editorial office and Amiga dealers.
Mag contents:
- Test Worms: The Director's Cut Conversion Level Set #1
- Test Grim Fandango
- Test 604
- Interview George Allan
- Interview FPGA Arcade/Replay
- DIY: Soldering a VGA monitor switch part 1
and many, many more...
A more detailed description of content and excerpts can be found at the Amiga Future hompepage.
Btw.: Issue 94 are the first issue in full-color. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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