03.Jun.2011
Hacker News (website)
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Website: Open Source Game Clones
The website osgameclones.com tries to gather information about open-source reimplementations of great old games in one place. (snx)
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03.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Programming competition: List of projects
Yannick Buchy (meta-morphos.org) and the Swiss Amiga trader Relec had started a programming competition (amiga-news.de reported). Now a list of selectable projects was published:
During this month you can vote for your project which is to be written. Fill in this formular and send it to papiosaur2 [at] hotmail.fr before 1st of July.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. Jun. 2011, 13:35] [Comments: 0]
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03.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.3.2
Version 2.3.2 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE was published. For the first time the update uses the AROS/68k-version as Kickstart replacement if an original file ist not available.
New features:
- AROS ROM replacement development snapshot included, replaces old
very basic ROM replacement feature, used by default if official
KS ROM is not found
- New autofire option. Button released = autofire. Button pressed = normal non-autofire firebutton
- Stop the CPU and wait until blitter has finished if any blitter register is accessed while blitter is busy and CPU mode is fastest possible
- Better workaround than immediate blitter for programs that have blitter wait bugs with fast CPU
- Serial port telnet server
Updates:
- Disk emulation accuracy improved (Codertrash / Mexx, El Egg Tronic Quarts / Quadlite)
- CIA timer undocumented startup delays emulated (Risky Woods sound glitches)
- win32.floppy_path and win32.hardfile_path really works as expected
- Display panel refresh rate accepts non-integer values
Fixed bugs:
- Implemented workaround that should fix Direct3D blank screen problem
- Sample ripper crash
- 68000 exception 3 emulation fixed again. (Broke compatibility with some
very old copy protections, for example Soldier of Light and Zoom!)
- Reset bug that broke Arcadia mode, A1000 mode and Action Replay ROMs
- Automatic resolution switch interlace detection was unreliable
- CD32 early boot menu is accessible again
- Rare crash when switching from fullscreen RTG mode to native mode
- Borderblank chipset feature didn't work in ECS Denise mode
- Possible input configuration corruption due to uninitialized variable
- Color change table overflow crash that can happen when emulated program crashes really badly
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jun.2011
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Hungarian PDF-magazine: Amiga Mania #1
"Amiga Mania" is a PDF-magazine with 36 pages from Hungary which is about all Amiga topics - hints for A600-users, a review of Hollywood as well as news on Sam440ep.
Amiga Mania 01_OnLine.pdf (14 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 1.5
Jack is a alternative file request window for AmigaOS 4. Additional to simple file perations like deleting or renaming there are also several further features like picture editing and recording screenshots.
A detailed list of changes in version 1.5 you can find under the title link.
Download: jack.lha (2 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Andrew Morris (English)
amigapd.com has interviewed Andrew Morris who is graphic artist of e.g. Lotus and Super Cars.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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02.Jun.2011
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS: ScummVM 1.3.0
After the MorphOS version, version 1.3.0 of the adventure interpreter ScummVM now is also available for AmigaOS 4 and AROS/x86. The changes are listed in the official Release Notes.
Download:
scummvm.lha (8 MB)
scummvm-1.3.0.i386-aros.lha (8 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jun. 2011, 15:50] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jun.2011
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.3
Paolo Besser has published an update of his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop. Version 1.3 includes many improvements which mainly apply to 68k-integration and 3D-support.
Additionally many games as well as emulators were compiled again to use the latest SDL-libraries. The NES-emulator FCE Ultra were added. Under the title link you can find a detailed list of changes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2011
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amiga-news.de: Server migration finished, team changes
Meanwhile the announced server migration was finished. We would like to thank our both technicans Sven Drieling and Philippe Bourdin.
With the migration our former publisher Nico Barbat left the team of amiga-news.de. Eight years ago he had taken the responsibility from the founder Petra Struck. Without his engagement amiga-news.de would not exist in the current way. We would like to thank him for his longtime support.
We also say good bye to a second amiga-news.de member: Marc Albrecht who worked for the former Amiga dealer ACT has hosted the news for more than ten years. We would like to thank him as well.
This is the current team of amiga-news.de:
Christoph Gutjahr (cg): Editorial staff, Publisher
Martin Heine (snx): Editorial staff, Publisher
Daniel Reimann (dr): English translation
Carsten Schröder (cs): Newsticker
Philippe Bourdin (pab): Technician
Sven Drieling (sd): Technician
From now on amiga-news.de is on a server of the Aminet-team. We would like to thank Nicolas Mendoza for his support.
If you want to support our team then you are very welcome. Please send a eMail to team@amiga-news.de.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. May. 2011, 18:15] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Demoscene party Flashback 2011 (Sydney, Australia)
From 11.-13. June the Flashback 2011 will take place in Sydney. Amiga, C64 and PC will be presented. You can get further information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. May. 2011, 15:08] [Comments: 0]
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31.May.2011
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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Event: Pictures of Commodore-Meeting 2011
On Sunday the Commodore-Meeting 2011took place in Vienna. Several users have published pictures:
Stefan Egger, Peter Urban and Georg Fuchs
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 31. May. 2011, 14:56] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2011
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 50
The Amiga Round Table (ART) is an English-language podcast where Amiga users and invited guests (this time Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald, Mike Blackburn, Bill P, and Jerry Withers) have duscussed the latest events.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. May. 2011, 17:34] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Adventure-Interpreter ScummVM 1.3.0
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has ported version 1.3.0 of the adventure interpreter ScummVM to MorphOS. The changes are listed in the official Release Notes.
Direct download: scummvm-1.3.0.lha (9,5 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. May. 2011, 17:23] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Nintendo-Emulator A/NES Pro 1.13
The Nintendo emulator for faster Amiga systems (ab 68060/50 MHz) called A/NES Pro is available in version 1.13 which fixes minor bugs in the graphic board support and includes minor optimizations of the graphic engine.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. May. 2011, 17:19] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2011
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New webinterface for amiga-news.de chat
The IRC-channel #amiganews is one of the oldest and probably most active German chat room about the Amiga. Thanks to a hint of Christian Rosentreter now we can offer a comfortable webinterface which can be accessed by any web browser.
The webinterface does not work with IBrowse or AWeb but the channel can be used with a traditional IRC-client: irc.freenode.net, Port: 6667, Kanal: #amiganews.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. May. 2011, 16:50] [Comments: 0]
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28.May.2011
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Amiga-News.de: Server migration on Monday (30th May)
Next Monday amiga-news.de will move to a new server. Therefore some parts of the website (forum, comments) will be temporarily not available during the day.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. May. 2011, 19:52] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Sam460: Audio driver for OS4 in beta testing
ACube is happy to inform you that Ross Vumbaca in association with ACube Systems, has released an initial version of the SAM460 audio driver to the OS4 beta testing team. It is expected that this driver will then shortly be released to all other SAM460 owners.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. May. 2011, 19:54] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2011
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Short review of Janus-UAE 1.1 (English/French)
On the website of Obligement a short Janus-UAE review in English as well as in French was published by Niko Tomatsidis.
As a result the high performace speed was honoured (on a netbook with 1,6-GHz-Atom-processor). There were minor problems with the mouse pointer and the complicated way of the installation was criticised.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. May. 2011, 15:34] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2011
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Commercial WLAN-driver with WPA/WPA2-support (AmigaOS 3/4)
For a long time Neil Cafferkey has been working on a network driver for PCI and PCMCIA-WLAN boards with the Prism 2-chipset. All available, free versions only could handle the WEP-encryption.
According to Cafferkey on amiga.org, now he offers a commercial version of the driver for AmigaOS 3/4 which supports WPA-/WPA2-encryption as well. For 15 Euro for each board you will get a driver for AmigaOS 3 and/or 4. You can write your requests per eMail to the author.
In order to use the WLAN-board with the Amiga driver among others a firmware update is required. Cafferkey recommends version 1.7.4 and refers to an English tutorial.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. May. 2011, 14:55] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2011
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: PowerUp download website accessable again
The old version 1.4.5 of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS can be downloaded for Amiga computers with BlizzardPPC and CyberstormPPC boards under the title link.
Please note that new versions for PowerUp Amigas are not planned and that there is not any chance of a registration.
Nevertheless, in the last year Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek compiled a basic version 2.7 for himself (screenshot 1, 2, 3).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. May. 2011, 11:23] [Comments: 0]
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