29.Jan.2011
David Brunet (ANF)
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What is the best Amiga game of the year 2010?
As usually at the beginning of the year you can vote at the Obligement website for your best Amiga game of the year 2010. For the first time there will not be a total winner but instead for each platform one (AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS). The results will be published on 9th February 2011.
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[News message: 29. Jan. 2011, 20:43] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jan.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 47
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine on Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag.
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[News message: 29. Jan. 2011, 07:12] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jan.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: Sam460ex with AmigaOS 4.1 available
According to ACube Systems under the title link, the PowerPC mainboard Sam460ex with installation-CD for AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2 is now available. The Sam460ex has 1,15 GHz and among others a PCI-Express-slot, Gigabit-Ethernet and 7 USB-ports.
The developer points out that the included AmigaOS-4.1 is still a kind of beta software. The forthcoming update 3 of the operating system can be downloaded for free.
Currently an audio driver is missing which will be available on OS4Depot. Additionally the driver for the SATA-port is only available for test purposes and have to be manually mounted. Instead it is recommended to use a PCI-board (Silicon Image 3512) or an USB-SATA-PCI board with Silicon-Image-Chip.
Currently the RadeonHD driver supports the following chipsets with full 2D-hardware-acceleration and DDC:
- R500 (with Compositing support) - Radeon X1550, X1650, X1950 and others
- R600 - Radeon HD 2400, HD 3450, HD 3650 and others
- R700 - Radeon HD 4350, HD 4650
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26.Jan.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Qt bounty project
After having released the first alpha version of Alfkil Wennermark's port of the C++ class library Qt for AmigaOS 4, a bounty project was established under the title link.
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2011, 21:57] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jan.2011
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AROS: Mesa 3D 7.10
Krzysztof "deadwood" Smiechowicz has ported the latest version of the graphic library Mesa 3D to AROS. If you only want to complete your existing AROS-installation with this new Mesa 3D-version then the following files from the Nightly Builds are required:
- DEVS:Drivers/gallium.hidd
- DEVS:Drivers/softpipe.hidd
- DEVS:Drivers/nouveua.hidd
- LIBS:mesa.library
- LIBS:egl.library
- LIBS:vega.library
- LIBS:glu.library
- LIBS:gallium.library
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[News message: 26. Jan. 2011, 19:24] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2011
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood Designer 3.0 available
Press release After almost 3 years of development, Airsoft Softwair is very proud to announce the immediate availability of the long awaited third incarnation of our famous Hollywood Designer.
Hollywood Designer 3.0 is a multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia based applications; for example presentations, slide shows, simple games, and programs.
Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: MorphOS, AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, AROS (x86), Mac OS X (PPC), Mac OS X (x86), WarpOS, Windows (x86). This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world.
Hollywood Designer 3.0 is a huge update and has endless new features and improvements over the previous versions. We do not want to bore you, so here are just some of them:
- Support for global project timeline: allows scheduling of slides in millisecond precision (great for sync'ing slides and music)
- Introducing action events for much more artistic freedom
- Almost 40 different action events are supported
- Unlimited number of effects can run simultaneously
- Unlimited number of anims can run simultaneously
- Incredibly powerful effect handler: page effects can run simultaneously with object effects
- Thumbnail view of all slides in the project
- Support for hotkeys during presentation mode (pause, forward, backward...)
- Event system completely redesigned - much more powerful now
- All fonts can be linked into executables generated by Designer - no more worries about missing fonts
- Support for platform independent text rendering: TrueType text looks exactly the same now on every system
- Text objects can be rotated and distorted now, too
- Support for real layer transparency and tinting
- Inbuilt scaling engine allows promotion of projects to any screen mode
- Layer z-order is no longer tied to order of layer appearance
- On-the-fly animation of layers is possible using a special action event inspired by DPaint's "Move" functionality
- Mouse pointer can be changed during presentation
- GIF anims can be embedded in projects
- Supports cool new MUI 4.0 features (MorphOS version only)
- Added support for object anchor points
- Over 50 new transition effects
- UTF-8 support for all text objects
- Buttons are handled completely asynchronously now
- Projects can now be exported as AVI videos
- Ready for Hollywood 4
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Without a doubt, Hollywood Designer 3.0 is the definitive multimedia solution for all Amiga compatible platforms, but as a picture is worth a thousand words, we have made some screenshots of Hollywood Designer 3.0 running on MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 for you to see here.
Hollywood Designer 3.0 is a very stable and mature multimedia authoring system. We would like to emphasize that it is not only suited for personal use, but also for professional commercial customers. Ferrule Media, for instance, have created an info channel containing over 700 unique slides in a single project with Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer was designed to handle these huge projects efficiently so that they can run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week without any visible memory fragmentation!
Hollywood Designer 3.0 comes on a CD-ROM that contains versions for all supported platforms: There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS3 (m68k), WarpOS (ppc), MorphOS (ppc), and AmigaOS4 (ppc). A download version is also offered. If you order the download version, you will have to download an ISO image which you need to burn on CD-R then. If you already own a previous version of Hollywood Designer, you can buy a discounted upgrade version.
Please note that Hollywood Designer 3.0 runs on top of the Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood 4.7. Thus, Hollywood 4.7 is strictly required for Hollywood Designer 3.0. Both programs are available in a special bundle which is the ultimate package for every power Amiga user who wants to see what his system can do with Hollywood 4.7 & Hollywood Designer 3.0.
Power up your Amiga system with Hollywood 4.7 & Hollywood Designer 3.0 and order now! (snx)
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23.Jan.2011
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Broadway 0.0.2R11
Pascal Papara has published an update of his AROS-distribution Broadway. At least 1 GB virtual memory and and 2 GB of free space on the harddrive are recommended. If you are using the emulators Janus-UAE and DOSBox you should at least have a processor with Pentium 3 with 1 GHz.
In version 0.0.2R11, the programs MAME, Stella, ZuluWget and WeatherForecast were added. All AROS system files were at the latest created on 14th January. Additionally the media center AMC is included in version 1.22 with ARexx support.
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[News message: 23. Jan. 2011, 12:23] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jan.2011
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: YouTube-Upload-Client
According to Carsten Siegner he has published the first upload client in Amiga history for YouTube videos for MorphOS called "GoogleTool".
A Google-account is required.
Download: GoogleTool.lha (800 KB)
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[News message: 23. Jan. 2011, 12:04] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2011
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: BoxWorld 1.14
Ventzislav Tzvetkov's Boulderdash clone BoxWorld has been updated. New features in version 1.14 include:
- 70 new puzzles
- Rewritten to use OpenGL - fully resizable game window
- Possibility to skip already completed puzzles.
- Best solutions in moves are saved for each puzzle
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2011, 19:11] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Memory game BoingPairs 1.1 / DecBinHex 1.0
Petr 'pecaN' Kaderka's BoingPairs is a memory game written with Hollywood for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.
DecBinHex is available for both operating systems as well.
Download:
BoingPairs1.1.lha (12 MB)
DecBinHex.lha (2 MB)
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2011, 17:51] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2011
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Updated SCANdal driver for Epson and Mustek scanners
Michal 'zukow' Zukowski's SCANdal is a scanner application which supports driver in Betascan format. In this latest release threshold and halftones support were added.
A veta version for a Lexmark driver is also included which has still some limitations.
Download:
epson2.lha (125 KB)
mustek_usb.device (233 KB)
lexmark.lha (Betaversion, 45 KB)
scandal_beta.lha (Betaversion 1.5, Dez. 2010, 146 KB)
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2011, 17:26] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Screensaver: Acuario 2.07
Acuario is a screensaver written with Hollywood which is now available for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4 in version 2.07.
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2011, 16:40] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: Commodore-Show in Maarssen (Netherlands)
The next event of the Dutch Commodore Gebruikersgroep will take place on Saturday 19th February in Maarssen.
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2011, 16:37] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jan.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AnArchiver 1.61
AnArchiver is an user-interface for file compression programs. Different formats can be extracted with the xadmaster.library as well as LHA-, LZX- and
Zip-archives can be created. This update package is based on version 1.60 and mainly offers an improved support for LHA 2.15.
Download:
AnArchiver-Upd.lha (update to version 1.61, 80 KB)
AnArchiver.lha (version 1.60 from 2009, 566 KB)
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[News message: 22. Jan. 2011, 16:24] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2011
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Amiga Future: Issue 71 online
Issue 71 of the magazine Amiga Future is sold out und therefore is now online available.
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[News message: 21. Jan. 2011, 19:47] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2011
David Brunet (ANF)
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Update of Amiga Games List
David Brunet has added new Amiga games to his database. The "Amiga Games List" now includes 11476 entries.
Two additional marks in the new database inform if the games either run under a ColdFire-processor (column "ColdF") or under AROS-PPC (column "AROS-PPC") - but both categories only include one entry so far. Besides, the database knows now the programming language Python.
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[News message: 21. Jan. 2011, 19:45] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jan.2011
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.15
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a pure JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 3.x for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser. Feedback is very welcome.
Version 0.15 includes a lot of changes and improvements.
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[News message: 21. Jan. 2011, 19:40] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jan.2011
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Amiga Game Remakes Database
The "Amiga Game Remakes Database" collects information on remakes and inofficial sequels of classic Amiga games. The author described the new update in his Blog.
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[News message: 19. Jan. 2011, 16:30] [Comments: 0]
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