09.Oct.2011
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Finished graphic sets for arcade games
On amigaworld.net a graphic designer offers graphics which stand under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported-licence and can be used for different projects.
The graphics (examples) are devided into two archives:
kfs_4GameArtPacks_Sprites.zip (5 MB - full graphic sets):
- Tetris
- Pacman
- Breakout / Arkanoid
- Asteroids
Amiga_GameSprites.zip (10 MB, incomplete graphics):
- Adrenalin Racer (top down version of wipeout/spyhunter)
- Brutal Sports (speedball clone)
- misc (icometric bits)
- Morph (platform game with morphing ball character)
- Uridzone (Uridium Clone)
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09.Oct.2011
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WHDLoad-Launcher: Tiny Launcher 1.3
Lionel 'Gibs' Deri's Tiny Launcher searches for directories defined by the user which includes ECS or AGA games and demos (YouTube-video).
WHDLoad games and files with the ending ".exe" are recognized automatically. For other games the user must create little AmigaDOS scripts.
Download: TinyLauncher131.lzh (121 KB)
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[News message: 09. Oct. 2011, 18:48] [Comments: 0]
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09.Oct.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Peter Hutchisons "Amiga C Tutorial"
Peter John "pjhutch" Hutchison's English-language "Amiga C Tutorial" is supposed to help C newcomers to program under AmigaOS with the help of many code examples.
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[News message: 09. Oct. 2011, 17:28] [Comments: 0]
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09.Oct.2011
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WHDLoad: New packages until 09.10.2011
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which were originally puzblished on disks. Additional several incompatibilities with new Amiga models are fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
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[News message: 09. Oct. 2011, 17:16] [Comments: 0]
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09.Oct.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Picture viewer : PictureAlbum Preview 08-10-2011 for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS
With Christopher Handley's PictureAlbum you can search for picture directories. The included pictures are viewed as thumbnails. With a double-click you can view any number of pictures and place them on the screen (screenshots: 1, 2). PictureAlbum to memorises the opened pictures and its positions for each directory.
Download: PictureAlbum_preview_111008.lha ( MB)
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[News message: 09. Oct. 2011, 17:12] [Comments: 0]
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09.Oct.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Kalle Marjola
The interview serie on amigapd.com now was continued with a conversation with Kalle Marjola who wrote Knights and Fantasy Forces.
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[News message: 09. Oct. 2011, 08:29] [Comments: 0]
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07.Oct.2011
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Nouveau and Mesa-3D update for Fermi graphic boards
With new versions of the Mesa-3D library and of the Nouveau video driver, AROS now supports some of the current GeForce graphic boards of the 400er and 500er series completely in 2D and 3D.
The updates are part of the Nightly Builds but can be downloaded under the title link as well.
Other features, improvements and known problems:
- Improved 3D rendering for NV50 series (GeForce 8 and up)
- Reporting VRAM and GART sizes and free space via SysMon utility
- Corrected memory allocation problems
- Improved VRAM->RAM swapping on low memory conditions
- Known problem: Rendering regression with Cube/AssaultCube for GeForce 6200 users
Download: Mesa-V19-2011-10-06.zip (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Oct. 2011, 14:17] [Comments: 0]
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06.Oct.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 2.0
The author wrote: "Jack could be described as an advanced feature-laden ASL
file-requester replacement, it could also be described as a fantastic
standalone program that makes common tasks so much easier."
Version 2.0 now includes a Google Currency Converter and numerous bug fixes across the board and code optimisations.
Download: jack.lha (8 MB)
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[News message: 06. Oct. 2011, 16:27] [Comments: 0]
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06.Oct.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Text processing software Cinnamon Writer 0.75
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a text processing software. Version 0.75 now is compatible with Microsoft's docx-format. New "layout-options" as well as a reworked graphical user-interface were added.
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04.Oct.2011
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 54
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazin about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different fomats - among others as HTML-version and C64-diskmag.
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[News message: 04. Oct. 2011, 23:57] [Comments: 0]
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02.Oct.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview with Gabriele Greco
On amigapd.com an interview with Gabriele Greco was published who is the author of the soccer simulation Eat The Whistle.
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[News message: 02. Oct. 2011, 17:10] [Comments: 0]
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02.Oct.2011
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Windows: "Amiga Conversion Kit" 1.1
The "Amiga Conversion Kit" tries to adapt Look and Feel of Windows to AmigaOS 4 (Screenshot).
Among others Amiga Icons (Ken's Icons, Source Icons), an AmigaOS 4-skin as well as Amiga mouse pointer are used. Additionally the package patches an entry in the registry which deletes the toolbars from the Windows-Explorer.
The author does not describe which versions of Windows are supported.
Download: AmigaConversionKit.zip (9 MB)
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[News message: 02. Oct. 2011, 16:06] [Comments: 0]
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02.Oct.2011
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video: Legends do not die - All star
With his video under the title link Stefanos 'Cool_amigaN' Karousos reminds of some of the greatest Amiga games.
He also has published a HD-version of "Legends do not die - All star" (Link, 395 MB).
A sequel will follow and include all those games which were left out in the first part but not in this year.
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[News message: 02. Oct. 2011, 07:44] [Comments: 0]
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01.Oct.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Ranger 1.52
Steven Solie's Ranger is a little diagnostic routines for AmigaOS 4 which visualises process trees and delivers additional information. The update now supports the AmigaOne X1000 (processor, PCI-devices).
Download: ranger.lha (371 KB)
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[News message: 01. Oct. 2011, 12:32] [Comments: 0]
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01.Oct.2011
EAB (Forum)
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Event: Datastorm 2012 (Sweden)
From 10. until 12. Februar 2012 in Göteborg (Sweden) the Datastorm 2012 will take place. In 2010 the event was organized as winterly counterpart to the Little Computer People and is a scene party for "oldskool"- and retro systems like C64 or Amiga.
The demo scene competition will be organized by the groups Up Rough Soundsystem, Genesis Project, Divine Stylers and SceneSat.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Oct. 2011, 07:02] [Comments: 0]
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01.Oct.2011
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amiga-news.de: Server failure due to supposed hardware problems
Yesterday amiga-news.de could not be accessed for about 13 hours: our server did set the filesystem to pure read function which actually is indicative of a problem with the connected drives. Under the title link you can comprehend the efforts of the technician of our hoster Dreamhost to find and solve the problem.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
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[News message: 01. Oct. 2011, 03:32] [Comments: 0]
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28.Sep.2011
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: PowerBook purchase advice
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has written an English-language purchase advice for users who want to buy an Apple PowerBook to use it with MorphOS.
Grzegorz 'krashan' Kraszewski has translated the text into Polish.
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[News message: 28. Sep. 2011, 17:06] [Comments: 0]
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28.Sep.2011
Cloanto (RSS)
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Amiga Forever 2012.0.16.0
Cloanto has published two new updates for its emulator package Amiga Forever 2012. The "player" and the RP9-editor were updated and additional to minor bug fixes, the performance of booting the computer was improved.
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[News message: 28. Sep. 2011, 16:17] [Comments: 0]
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