24.Jun.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Video: Short interviews from Vintage Computer Festival
Last Saturday in Bletchley (Great Britain) the Vintage Computer Festival took place. An user has published a video where different participants and organizers were interviewed.
amigashow2010.avi (107 MB)
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[News message: 24. Jun. 2010, 16:54] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2010
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Audio-Tools: Normalize 0.7.7, VorbisTools 1.4.0, mp3gain 1.5.1
Michel "DMX" Bagmeijer has compiled some tools for editing audio files for AmigaOS: mp3gain and Normalize adapt the volume of different files. Vorbistools is a collection of tools for encoding, decoding and editing of Ogg-Vorbis audio files.
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[News message: 24. Jun. 2010, 16:40] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2010
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Aquaria ported (beta version)
Aquaria (screenshot) is a commercial 2d-action-adventure published by Bit Blot for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Andrea Palmatè has ported this game also to AmigaOS 4 which can be downloaded as beta version under the title link.
The archive includes the demo version of the game. The complete version must be bought from Bit Blot.
System requirements:
- An Amiga NG (SAM, micro-A1, A1, Pegasos 2)
- 512 MB of RAM (1 GB reccomended)
- A video card with at least 64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended to play the game correctly)
- Latest SDL library (included in the package)
- OpenAL (the included one does cause an error at exit of the program)
- MiniGL 2.2 (included in the package)
Known problems:
- If you have a system with 512 MB and 64 MB video RAM, it is better to close all programs before running Aquaria. Use also a 16 Bit Workbench screen with compositing effects off to save Video RAM
- You could get trashed textures in the menu (and also during the game). This means that you are out of memory (video and/or system).
The game is still playable but you should free something before continuing to play. A video card with 128 MB of RAM should cure all problems. Otherwise, if this happens you can close the game and restart from a saved location
- When you push escape key during the game the machine could freeze. I don't know why but i have nothing on the serial debug output and I don't know why it does freeze
Download: Aquaria.lha.lzh (200 MB)
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[News message: 24. Jun. 2010, 13:41] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2010
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Source code of eaudio.device published
Under the title link Emanuele Cesaroni (Nexus Development) has published the source code of his eaudio.device for MorphOS.
This is an alternative to the audio.device.
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[News message: 24. Jun. 2010, 06:09] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2010
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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NTP Commander: Open-source-release
Thanks to the initiative of Jaroslav 'Prober' Kabara, Patrick Sucansky has released his Norton-Commander-clone NTP Commander (screenshot) for free as well as its source code.
Download:
ntp_commander_1.1.dms (317 KB)
ntp_source.zip (514 KB)
dice.zip (2 MB)
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[News message: 24. Jun. 2010, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2010
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Masonicons: New icons, new website
Three new icon archives are available on the new designed Masonicons website (which is still under construction). The icons of these archives are suggestions from the 3rd Masonicons Wunschkonzert.
- Masonicons Collextion 3/2010
- Disk Icons Collection (Update)
- Drawer Icons Collecton
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23.Jun.2010
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Level-Editor: The Chaos Construct
The Chaos Construct is a level editor for the CD32-version of The Chaos Engine running under Windows. You have to install Chaos Engine manually or with the help of WHDLoad to your harddrive. Then the original level files can be replaced by the self-made ones. The documentation of the editor is included in the distribution but is also available as online guide.
Download: chaosconstruct_setup_2.5.0.2.exe (4,1 MB)
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[News message: 23. Jun. 2010, 16:20] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jun.2010
Stefan Haubenthal (ANF)
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MorphOS: GNU Robbo 0.65.6
GNU Robbo is a SDL-based reimplementation of the game Robbo for Atari XE/XL.
After the AmigaOS-version now a MorphOS-port is available, too.
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[News message: 23. Jun. 2010, 14:05] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jun.2010
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Amiga Future: Issue 68 online
The articles of issue 68 of the Amiga Future are available online.
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[News message: 22. Jun. 2010, 17:01] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jun.2010
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MorphOS: VisualBoy Advance 1.7.2, Plugin-SDK for Sketch/Scandal
VisualBoy Advance
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has compiled the Gameboy-emulator Visualboy Advance 1.7.2 to MorphOS. He did not know that Christian Rosentreter had published this version of the program some years ago. But he supposes that his version might be "much faster".
Plugin-SDK for Sketch and Scandal
With Pawel "stefko's" Stefanski's plugin-SDK you can create effect-plugins for the graphic propgram Sketch as well as for Michal Zukowski's scanner software Scandal.
Download: plugin_sdk.lha (6 KB)
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[News message: 22. Jun. 2010, 16:12] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jun.2010
emumiga.com (ANF)
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AROS: First alpha version of transparent 68k-emulator Emumiga
Magnus Öberg's Emumiga is supposed to make it possible to transparently use AmigaOS 3 applications under AROS without having to use an Amiga emulator. Additionally Emumiga is meant for being an interface between 68k-code and the native AROS system calls (currently supported system calls and structures).
Up to now only the two appliactions "Dir" and "Clock" from the AmigaOS 3-distribution were tested.
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[News message: 21. Jun. 2010, 01:09] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jun.2010
aros.org (ANF)
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AROS: Status-Update June 2010
Under the title link Paolo Besser has summarized the latest developments of the open-source operating system AROS.
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[News message: 21. Jun. 2010, 00:45] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jun.2010
Amigan Software (ANF)
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AmiArcadia 14.09
AmiArcadia emulates different game consoles like Arcadia 2001 or the only German console Interton VC4000 which are based on the Signetics 2650A.
Version 14.09 is available for AmigaOS 3.5, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. A list of the emulated consoles as well as of the features of the Amiga-port is included in the Readme-file under the title link.
Download:
AmiArcadia.lha (1 MB)
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha (2 MB)
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha (3 MB)
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[News message: 20. Jun. 2010, 18:07] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jun.2010
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Videos and pictures of VCF, AmigaOne X1000 Status
On Saturday in Bletchley (Great Britain) the 25th anniversary of the Amiga was celebrated. Meanwhile some pictures (1, 2, 3, 4) and videos (Youtube: 1, 2, 3, 4) were published which focus on Sam460 and AmigaOne X1000 computers. On both computers AmigaOS 4 was demonstrated.
According to Trevor Dickinson of A-EON during his presentation of the AmigaOne X1000 (Youtube: part 1, part 2), AmigaOS 4 runs on the computers for a while but only as of recently the computer boots from a harddrive. The price of the complete system will be about 1800 Euro.
On pictures and videos it is to be seen that the graphic output is very slow and that PCI-based model is used. According to Stéphane "sg2" Guillard from the AmigaOS 4-team on amigaworld.net this is not a general driver problem: his X1000 has a PCIe-Radeon graphic board and SATA-drives.
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[News message: 20. Jun. 2010, 01:17] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jun.2010
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AmigaOS 4: Origyn Web Browser 3.29
Jörg Strohmayer has published an update of his port of the Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS 4. You can find the list of bug fixes under the title link.
Download: owb.lha (9 MB)
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[News message: 19. Jun. 2010, 08:28] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jun.2010
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Amithlon: Kernel 4.0 Final
Today an update of the Amithlon-Kernels 4.0 was published which adds support for several SATA-controllers (the kernel was tested with Intel ICH9/9R).
The kernel supports up to 1 GB RAM (or 2 GB RAM if only one DIMM-bar is used). Currently it is not possible to create LiveCDs with this kernel.
Download Links:
kernel
driver
amithlon linux-2.4.37.9 source patch
amithlon linux-2.4.37.9 kernel tree
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[News message: 18. Jun. 2010, 16:30] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jun.2010
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Update 12 of Arcade-Game BOH
Today another update of Simone Bevilacqua's commercial arcade game BOH (AmigaOS 4, AROS and other) was published which fixes some bugs and adds some new missions as well as an additional translation.
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[News message: 18. Jun. 2010, 13:53] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jun.2010
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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A-EON Technology: Varisys hardware partner
Press release:
A-EON and Varisys announce partnership
London, 17th June 2010 - A-EON Technology CVBA and Varisys Ltd., are pleased to announce their partnership in the development of the AmigaOne X1000 hardware platform for AmigaOS.
Varisys Ltd. were identified as the ideal hardware partner for the ambitious project to create a new, genuinely modern computer system to run AmigaOS 4.x in late 2008, even before the formal creation of A-EON Technology. In early 2009, Varisys Ltd. began work on developing a new PowerPC based motherboard, codenamed Nemo, which would form the heart of the new AmigaOne X1000 computer.
After months of design and testing, Varisys delivered the first Nemo prototypes in late 2009 and have now completed a Revision 2 design, which will be supplied to beta testers under the recently announced Extended Beta Test Program.
A-EON Technology director Trevor Dickinson said: "We are very pleased to reveal Varisys as our AmigaOne X1000 hardware partner. They have a proven track record for delivering high quality products on time and to budget. Their extensive experience with PowerPC and parallel processing solutions makes them our ideal technical partners, and with their help we can revitalise the AmigaOne platform".
Varisys Managing Director Paul Gentle said: "We are equally pleased to be working with A-EON Technology and we believe our previous background and experience will prove vital in helping to make the AmigaOne X1000 a success." Adam Barnes, Varisys co-founder, added: "The Nemo motherboard design introduced some new and interesting technical challenges but we are extremely pleased with the results. Revision 2 of the Nemo board has recently been completed and will form a solid foundation for the A1-X1000 and beyond."
Visitors to the VCF Exhibition at Bletchley Park on Saturday, June the 19th, will be able to meet some of the Varisys team on the joint A-EON Technology / Hyperion Entertainment stand.
About Varisys Ltd.
Varisys is a producer of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) products and provider of bespoke hardware design and manufacturing services for industrial and embedded computing applications. The High Wycombe, UK, based company was founded in 2000 by Paul Gentle and Adam Barnes, and since then has earned a reputation for delivering high-quality products with a specialisation in PowerPC and FPGA hardware. Varisys have customers in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, military applications and telecommunications, and are perhaps best known for their development of the PowerPC G4 motherboard used in the immensely popular WholeHog III lighting control console. For more information, see the Varisys website.
About A-EON Technology CVBA
A-EON Technology is a technology start-up based in Belgium. Founded in 2009 by Trevor Dickinson, Anthony Moorley and Ben Hermans, A-EON works in very close cooperation with Hyperion Entertainment CVBA, the developers of the AmigaOS Operating System, to produce modern computer systems for AmigaOS.
About the AmigaOne X1000
The AmigaOne X1000 is a new high-end AmigaOS hardware platform scheduled for release during the summer of 2010. By providing the AmigaOS platform with a high power dual-processor CPU, modern interface standards, high-end graphics and Xcore technology, the X1000 will launch a new era of modern Amiga computing. For further information, email contact@a-eon.com.
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[News message: 18. Jun. 2010, 12:55] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jun.2010
Matthias Wilkens (ANF)
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Browser game Mythana: Beta status finished
According to Matthias Wilkens the beta status of the browser game Mythana was finished. Meanwhile the game was officially started.
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[News message: 18. Jun. 2010, 11:10] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jun.2010
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Software Development Kit 2 has no longer beta status
According to the MorphOS developer team under the title link version 2 of the Software Development Kit which was published one week ago is no longer beta.
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[News message: 18. Jun. 2010, 11:03] [Comments: 0]
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18.Jun.2010
Encore Games (ANF)
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MorphOS: 2D-Shooter Fortis (Shareware)
Fortis published by Encore Games is a 2D-Shooter similar to the Amiga classic "Super Stardust". The MorphOS-port is available as Shareware: The full version is available on the official website as free download - but if you want to play the game further after a test period you have to buy the iPhone-/iPod-original or the Apple version.
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