07.Dec.2011
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New book: The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies)
In his book "The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga" Jimmy Maher made the case that the features of the Amiga (colourful graphics, music and video editing) were the fundament for the future of the digital media.
Still it is not known when the book will be published.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Dec.2011
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Realtime strategy game: Update of Napalm-patch for AmigaOS 4/MorphOS
Today an update for the recently published Napalm-patch was published which fixes some minor bugs. Additionally an experimental driver for playing with the serial interface was added.
The patch requires the data of the original CD but all previous updates does not have to be installed.
The patch works under MorphOS as well.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Dec.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Legend of Edgar 0.94
Herbert 'HAK' Klackl has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the platform game Legend of Edgar. It fixes some minor bugs.
Download: edgar-0.94-morphos.lha (28 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Dec.2011
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MorphOS: MLDonkey 3.1.0
Kenny 'dake' Dahlroth has released an update of MLdonkey for MorphOS. MLDonkey is a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client.
Version 3.1.0 introduces support of DHT (distributed hash table), enabling the user to select which files to download from a multi file torrent. A full list of changes can be found in the changelog inside the archive.
Download: mldonkey-3.1.0-morphos.lha (6 MB) (snx)
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06.Dec.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Package manager: Grunch 1.31
The latest version of Grunch, written by Guido Mersmann, includes some bug fixes as well as several improvements. Besides, Grunch should now run under AmigaOS 4 and AmigaOS 3.x without problems.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Game: Dragon Memory
The memory game Dragon Memory was ported to AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 using SDL and OpenGL. Without an OpenGL-driver it will not work or use a software renderer if available.
Download: DragonMemory.lha (6 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2011
Relec Software & Hardware (ANF)
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MorphOS: Commercial use of a Hollywood program as an interactive terminal
Press release: Christoph and Sébastien Poelzl, two nice representatives of RMS-Communications, have made a project of interactive terminal based on Hollywood under MorphOS. It consists of a 22" touch-screen using the USB stack Poseidon under MorphOS installed on a 1,5 GHz Mac mini.
This device is in commercial service at the private hospital Bois-Cerf in Lausanne/Switzerland (Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4).
The interactive device is a sign post for patients and visitors, showing them their way through the building.
This interactive terminal project ist part of a much more important framework which will have to implement touch-sensitive screens which can go upto 42" and even beyond. They can be proposed on various markets and could be placed in luxury hotels, tourist information offices and in other private or public areas.
In parallel RMS-Communications has commissioned and collaborated with Andreas Falkenhahn of Airsoft Softwair to develop Hollywood applications on iPad.
Hollywood has recently been ported to the iPad (ARM architecture) by order of a commercial customer who needs to use it on tablet devices in clinics and hotels (amiga-news.de reported). A small demo video of Hollywood running on iPad has been uploaded to YouTube. Unfortunately, it will most likely not be possible to integrate iPad support into Hollywood's cross-compiler because of several technical and legal restrictions that iPad apps are subjected to. For commercial customers, however, several solutions to get their Hollywood projects converted into iPad apps can be offered.
Furthermore that's not all, as Christoph Poelzl of RMS-Communications works in close collaboration with Andreas Falkenhahn, Hollywood Designer's developer, thus having the privilege of betatesting his products. At Alchimie 111111 in France he was allowed to show the next version of Hollywood Designer 3.1.
About RMS-Communications:
RMS-Communications is known and recognized as an innovative agency at the level of advertising and communication in French-speaking Switzerland. It's unique feature is the work with MorphOS (on Pegasos and Apple Mac), involving a lot of software writing.
It was also already noticed by collaborating with Relec on some events. Moreover RMS-Communications received the first "Communication and offer of service Trophy" during the Multimedia Exhibition of Colmar (France) in 2009 for the development of its management software for SMEs, based on MorphOS. The jury of Colmar had been convinced by all the alternative advantages of MUIBase SME: cross-platform, portable, very friendly and a smooth graphic interface for a complete solution and sold at moderate costs to SME (small and medium-sized enterprise): Feature article (PDF, french only). (snx)
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05.Dec.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate 2.9
AmiUpdate is a simple package manager tool which informs the the user about updates of installed applications. The changes in version 2.9 are listed in the release notes.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Dec. 2011, 18:00] [Comments: 0]
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05.Dec.2011
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Magazine: Commodore Free, Issue 57
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MPlayer 1.0-SVN-r33557 (04.06.2011)
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the movie player MPlayer:
- Updated to 06.11.2011 svn (r34310)
- Added libmodplug support
- Fixed a couple issues in dvdnav support
- Reworked GUI to work with the new API
Direct download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2011.11.06.lha (16,3 MB) (Readme)
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05.Dec.2011
RhoSigma, Roland Heyder (ANF)
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MakeHTMLMap v6.000
Roland 'RhoSigma' Heyder's MakeHTMLMap supports web designers creating online galleries and simple webshops. Version 6.000 includes several minor improvements and optimisations. Additionally it was now tested if it runs under AmigaOS 4 (full changelog).
Direct download: MakeHTMLMap.lha (1,9 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2011
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Jens Schönfeld: Status update for several projects
In a thread on a1k.org, Jens Schönfeld has given an overview about the status of several projects. The thread can only be read by registerted users, therefore it follows a short summary:
1. Indivision AGA MK2
I have the last prototype since the end of October but I did not have had time for building it up. I will do it in January with the help of Michael Böhmer.
2. Indivision ECS
Occasionally there have been some delivery delays. This is due to an increased demand for this Flickerfixers during the last eight weeks. Unfortunately the store is almost empty. New Flickerfixers are being produced but I cannot guarantee they are available before Xmas. There will be not any changes.
3. ACA1231-42
I am still waiting for the delivery of Winbond. It is sure that the board has the fastest SD-Ram which is available on market. Unfortunately there have been delays. Therefore we had to put off the production again and again. In the next week we can continue. Most likely the board will be finished until Xmas.
4. Micromys V3
Simlar to Indivision ECS: The inventory is low, the demand constant and a new charge is being produced.
5. ACA520
The announced accelerator board for the A500 will have to wait until next year.
6. Nequester
The next generation router is the real reason that all the other projects are delayed. We habe been working several months on it and finally in November we succeeded in getting it working. In the next year Nequester will be also available as retail sale as requested. The router will be available at Vesalia in 2012.
Jens"
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04.Dec.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: UAE-Wii 7
The Amiga emulator UAE-Wii for the Nintendo console Wii is available in version 7.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Dec.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Battle for Wesnoth 1.8.6
The AmigaOS-4-port of the turn-based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth has been updated to version 1.8.6.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Dec.2011
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: osm_to_png 0.2
Carsten Siegner's osm_to_png converts maps data from the OSM-format used by openstreetmap.org to PNG-files.
Changes in version 0.2:
- 91 render rules (80 before)
- Rendering street names and names of buildings
- some bugs fixed
- status and bug report is listed as plain language to avoid unnecessary bug search
osm_to_png_0.2.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Dec.2011
Floppy (ANF)
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AROS: Flite Speech Synthesis Engine 1.2
In 2007 the Flite Speech Synthesis Engine was ported to AmigaOS 4. Now Fredrik Wikstrom has compiled it for AROS/x86.
Installation: Copy bin/#? C:
Use: flite -t "Hello"
Download: flite.i386-aros.tar.bz2 (21 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Dec.2011
bruZard (Forum)
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Monkey-Target 0.21
Jens Henschel's Amiga-Target (AmigaOS/AROS) for the Transpiler Monkey (amiga-news.de reported) is now available in version 0.21.
The update fixes problems with AROS/x64.
Download: AmigaTarget.zip (501 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Dec.2011
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Open Streetmap converter osm_to_png
Carsten Siegner's osm_to_png converts maps data from the OSM-format used by openstreetmap.org to PNG picture files.
Download: osm_to_png.lha (2,4 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Dec.2011
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WHDLoad: New packages until 01.12.2011
With WHDLoad you can install games, scene demos and intros on your harddrive which originally could only used on disks. Additionally several inkompatibilities with newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
- 28.11.2011 new: Spherical Worlds (Neo) done by Psygore (Info)
- 24.11.2011 new: D.I.S.C. 2 (Level 4) done by Dr Cinicus (Info,Image)
- 24.11.2011 new: D.I.S.C. 1 (Level 4) done by Dr Cinicus (Info,Image)
- 19.11.2011 fixed: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top'o Fun (Gray Matter/Mindscape) slave rewritten for whdload 17+, diving part fixed (Info)
- 16.11.2011 improved: Silkworm (Sales Curve) complete re-write, supports another version, trainer added, new icons (Info)
- 16.11.2011 new: Pixie and Dixie (Alternative) done by Abaddon (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: Crazy Cars 2 (World of Wonders) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: F/A-18 Interceptor (Unit-A) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: One Stone (Quest) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: Franco Girardelli Hockey (ICS) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: Vector Balls (Dual Crew) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 15.11.2011 new: Grand Prix Circuit (Bamiga Sector One) done by Max Headroom (Info)
- 12.11.2011 improved: Virtual Karting 2 (Islona) slave rewritten, 2nd button supported, new install script (Info)
- 11.11.2011 fixed: Fightin' Spirit (Neo) slave rewritten, snoop bug fixed, new install script (Info)
- 06.11.2011 new: Bar Games (Accolade) done by Psygore (Info)
- 03.11.2011 new: Max Rally (Fortress) done by Psygore (Info)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Let's Play
Lets Play is a colouring game for young kids (screenshots). A solution bigger than 1024x768 is required. The source code is included.
Download: letsplay.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Nov. 2011, 07:28] [Comments: 0]
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30.Nov.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 56
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computer which is available in different formats - e.g. as HTML-version or C64-Diskmag.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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30.Nov.2011
Jens Henschel (ANF)
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Developer tool: Monkey-Target (Update)
Jens Henschel wrote: Mark Sibly created Blitz Basic for the Amiga and afterwards several derivates for PC. In this way Blitz Basic, Blitz Plus, Blitz 3D and Blitz Max were created. The last Blitz-Basic variation was called Monkey and made it possible going back to the Amiga.
Monkey is not a real compiler but a so called transpiler which translates the source languages Monkey into any other. I succeeded in compiling the Monkey code for AmigaOS 3.x or AROS. MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 were already implemented but they include some exceptions which have to be solved.
Monkey is not Freeware but costs 120 US-Dollar. But Monkey allows you to compile a source code without changes for Android, iOS, GLFW, XNA, HTML5 and now for AmigaOS 3.x and AROS as well.
Please note: Currently there is not a port of the des Monkey-framework "Mojo" (graphic modul for simple 2D-games) for AmigaOS and not ports of "amigaos3" for other targets. This will happen soon. For now it was important to support AmigaOS/AROS etc. A port of Mojo is in developemnt.
Installation:
- Important: Create a backup of your Monkey-installation!
- Extract the archive and copy the contents over your Monkey-installation
- Install AmiDevCpp (Link)
- Add the AmiDevCpp-Bin-path ([AMIDEVCPP]\usr\local\amiga\bin) of your Windows-"Path"-variable
- Edit [MonkeyDir]\bin\config.winnt.txt: Set AOS3 and/or AROS to 1
- Load /bananas/Amiga/amiga.monkey
- Choose "aos3" as target. If you use JungleIDE as IDE you can choose the target as well as the kind of compilition. Take "Build". The Standard-IDE tries to start the compilat which of course causes an error. Do not worry the compilat was created yet
- Copy the executable to the target system and start it
Download: AmigaTarget.zip (460 KB)
Update: (09:23, 01.12.11, snx)
As commented by the author, the archive has been updated yesterday noon. Main feature is the usability of the Amiga target also with the demo version of Monkey. The latter is functionally unrestricted, only limitation is the non-commercial usage. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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