23.Apr.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Adventure-Interpreter: ScummVM ECS
With the release of version 1.2.x of the adventure interpreter ScummVM for ECS-Amigas (after versions for AGA and RTG) the project of the 68k-port was finished.
Download: ScummVM_ECS_030.lha (3 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Apr. 2011, 07:33] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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WinUAE Help File 2.2.1 (English)
Under the title link version 2.2.1 of the WinUAE help file was published. Changes:
- Corrected lots of internal and external links
- Fixed HTML validity problems
- Various content and layout updates, error corrections
- Converted changelog into HTML, included in the help itself
- Added new About screen
- Floppy: Bootblock, FFS
- Input: Test and remap
- Output: Recording section
- Misc: More new options
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2011, 11:06] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2011
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Programming contest
The Swiss Amiga trader Relec and Yannick Buchy (meta-morphos.org) have started a programming contest where a Efika-5200B with MorphOS licence computer can be won (picture).
Interested developers can send their projects which after their releases at least have to run under MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 until 31. May. Afterwards for one month you can vote for a project which will be ported.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2011, 09:12] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SabreMSN 0.76
James 'jahc' Carroll has published another update of his MUI-based MSN-Messenger SabreMSN for AmigaOS 4. Version 0.76 fixes a crash problem.
Download: sabreos4_20110422.lha (808 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2011, 08:49] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Filesystem: PFS3 5.3
After the release of version 5.1 of the Professional File System 3 under BSD-licence, Michiel Pelt has published version 5.3 from 1999 under the title link on Aminet.
Meanwhile Harry 'Piru' Sintonen is working on a new version of this filesystem. According to his latest status update he has already replaced all assembler parts by C-source code und has ported it to MorphOS.
Download: PFS3_53.lha (3 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Apr. 2011, 08:39] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New tracks added
AmigaRemix has published new remixes well-known soundtracks of Amiga games available as MP3-files for free download. The latest update includes the following track:
- Globdule (Artroo Remix)
- Golden Axe first level metal remake
- Cabal metal remake
- Test Drive 2 - 2011er CoolDown Version
- Turrican II - The Explorer Rock Band Edition
- Hybris Title (RAWk!)
- Turrican II - The Great Bath (Piano Arrangement)
- Street Fighter 2 Intro remix
- Back From Blue
- Simon the Sorcerer Main Theme (Remake-Remix)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Apr. 2011, 15:40] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: (Double)DrawerBall 1.0c
Tom 'Amigaharry' Duin has published Drawerball 1.0c which is an early version of a simple file manager. The package also includes a second version with two directory windows ("DoubleDrawerBall").
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Apr. 2011, 15:37] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2011
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Audio-Player AmigaAMP 3.2
The third generation of the audio player AmigaAMP written by Thomas Wenzel is completely PPC-nativ. Changes in version 3.2:
- Removed QUIET ToolType, added SKINPROGRESS instead.
- Reverted to loading skins and plugins from PROGDIR: by default.
- Added unicode support to ID3v2.3, added basic ID3v2.4 support.
- Fixed DSI error when starting AmigaAMP in skin mode but not all elements could be loaded.
- Added OGG support
- Implemented loading base skin from memory.
- Changed "shuffle" to "random play" behaviour.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Apr. 2011, 15:35] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2011
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IceFileSystem 2.4
Version 2.4 of the IceFileSystem was published which mainly includes bug fixes.
Changes:
- Deleting file larger than "Max recycle bytes" no longer empties recycle
dir. Max filesize in recycledir is now "Max recycle bytes" / 16 (if set)
- New (optional) environment variable: ICE_AUTORETRYIO. Set it to 1..n
for number of automatic retries of failed io requests
- Smaller bug in automatic renaming of recycledir files fixed
- action_seek() allowed seeking beyond file with internal error
requester as result, fixed
- IceSalv did not preserve file dates, fixed
- IceCheck fixes/improvements
- FSConfig got renamed to IceConfig
- VInfo got renamed to IceInfo
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Apr. 2011, 13:02] [Comments: 0]
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17.Apr.2011
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Dreamcast: UAE4All RC3
Two weeks ago the third release candidate of the Amiga emulator UAE4All for the Sega Dreamcast was published. The speed was increased and the support was added for SD-cards. At Youtube a video is available.
Changes:
- 30% speed increased: Sound and Video render improved
- Savestates support: The length of a savestate file is 200-300KB, so SD-Card is needed
- Dreamcast SD-Card support
- New option menu for screen position
- Uses latest FAME Motorola 68000 core: More stable, fast and accurate
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[News message: 17. Apr. 2011, 18:01] [Comments: 0]
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17.Apr.2011
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Blender 2.57 RC1
Guillaume 'Yomgui' Roguez has published a first "release candidate" of his MorphOS port of the 3D graphic program Blender. The littlecms.library is required.
Please note that this RC1 may crash yet. Besides, you should not have an additional Python-3.1.x-installation because the version included in the package differs (you can keep version 2.x ).
Download: blender-2.57-mos-rc1.lha (15 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 17. Apr. 2011, 11:06] [Comments: 0]
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17.Apr.2011
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Dave Haynie about his work at Metabox
Additional to his "garage sale", Dave 'hazydave' Haynie has talked about his work at Metabox under the title link.
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[News message: 17. Apr. 2011, 10:46] [Comments: 0]
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16.Apr.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser NetSurf 2.7
NetSurf is a fast browser which was originally developed for RiscOS and supports among others HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1. The changes in version 2.6 are listed in the Changelog.
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[News message: 16. Apr. 2011, 16:09] [Comments: 0]
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16.Apr.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: Firmware-Update for Sam460ex
ACube Systems has published a new version of the firmware used in the PPC-motherboard Sam460ex. Changes in this update called "UBoot 2010.06-05":
- improved Radeon X1550, X1650, X1950 setup
- fixed a bug in the PCI-E setup which cures a crash when both a gfx card and an USB3 card were used
- DDR2 boost setup is now disabled by default, to enable it, set ddr2_boost to 1 from the U-Boot prompt
- removed a debug output from ext2fs.c
The update is available as ISO-image and TFTP-updater.
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[News message: 16. Apr. 2011, 16:04] [Comments: 0]
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14.Apr.2011
Joe Maroni (ANF)
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Dave Haynie sells AAA-prototype "Nyx" on ebay
The former Commodore hardware developer Dave Haynie sells his collection of Commodore hardware, among others two old Amiga joysticks.
The most exciting piece of hardware is a Nyx-prototype which was meant for tests with the Custom Chips of the third generation ("AAA"). Unfortunately the chips are lacking on the this.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 14. Apr. 2011, 16:03] [Comments: 0]
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14.Apr.2011
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 90, preview and reading samples
Under the title link the included articles and software was listed.
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[News message: 14. Apr. 2011, 15:25] [Comments: 0]
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12.Apr.2011
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Spellchecker.library 1.0
Antoine 'Tcheko' Dubourg has published the spellchecker.library which is meant for developers since currently there are no applications available which take use of it.
The algorithms Double Metaphone and Levenshtein-distance are used.
Download: SpellChecker-1.0.lha (14 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Apr. 2011, 18:31] [Comments: 0]
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12.Apr.2011
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Audio-Player: AmigaAMP 2.25
Thomas Wenzel has published an of his audio player AmigaAMP. Contrary to the third generation which only is available for AmigaOS 4, AmigaAMP 2.25 is meant for AmigaOS 3.
Changes:
- Fixed call to xadmaster.library
- Fixed potential bugs in loading of complete directories
- Fixed mouse button message handling
- Improved playlist keyboard navigation
- Fixed UTF support in ID2v3
- Implemented basic ID2v4 support
- Added 68000 version
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Apr. 2011, 16:32] [Comments: 0]
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