27.May.2020
Olaf Köbnik (ANF)
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Beambender: Interview with Bernhard Aichinger / PC version downloadable
Olaf Köbnik wrote: 17 Jahre after the first release of Beambender (Amiga-Version) by Amiga Arena now with permission of Bernhard Aichinger the long missed PC version of Beambender is offered for free and legal download.
Even after 25 years, afrer the installation Beambender runs under Windows 10 without any problems. An (German) interview with Bernhard Aichinger who contributed the graphics for the Amiga and PC version you can also find under the title link.
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[News message: 27. May. 2020, 19:04] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Arcade classic in 36 kilobytes: Tiny Galaga
After Tiny Invaders, the demo group Abyss has released its second minimalistic clone of an arcade classic called "Tiny Galaga" (video) which is less than 40 kb.
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27.May.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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SciFi shooter/racer: First demo of "Verge World Icarus Rising"
According to the authors "Verge World" is "a sci-fi shoot'em up, racer game with exploration elements." The game is being developed for diverse retro platforms. Now a first playable Amiga preview version is available.
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26.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 110 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes an article about the Amiga games "Cyber Kick" and "Dylan Dog: Attraverso lo Specchio".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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[News message: 26. May. 2020, 22:00] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2020
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AmigaOS 3/4: Web browser Netsurf 3.10
The web browser Netsurf - and also Chris Young's ReAction-based Amiga port (must not be confused with the SDL version) - is available as version 3.10 for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4.
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[News message: 26. May. 2020, 01:21] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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A4000 motherboard suitable for ATX cases: A4000TX
Two years ago the Finnih developer 'hese7' offered his A4000 motherboard clone A4000+ Alice and promised an ATX-compatible version. The aim of the developer was to create a version of the A4000cr motherboard including the daughterboard which is compatible to ATX cases and power supplies and additionally supports fullsize Zorro cards.
Meanwhile the clone has been finished. On Amibay you can purchase empty boards in a collective order. The latest Revision 1.1 offers the following features:
- ATX form factor (actually a hybrid ATX/EATX form factor)
- uses standard ATX power supply
- 68030 processor and 68882-FPU
- CPU slot connector for accelerator cards
- four full-length Zorro III slots
- three (inactive) ISA slots
- 3.5" IDE port
- extended video slot
- onboard Fast RAM support up to 112MB (Meutoxo)
- Kickstart ROM support up to 4MB (Romy)
- Amiga mouse and joystick ports
- PC PS/2 keyboard and PC PS/2 mouse support
- support for native Amiga and PC floppy drives
- 24-pin breakout header with full RGB port support (for external scandoublers, genlocks, SCART cables, etc..)
- power connectors for two case fans
- serial and parallel ports, 3.5mm stereo jack
- on-board RTC with battery
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26.May.2020
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World: Video interview with Holger "Harvey Dent" Weßling (e.g. Data Becke
Holger "Harvey Dent" Weßling has written books and software for the Amiga which have been published e.g. at Data Becker. In this video interview with Scene World he has talked about Amiga publishing houses in the 90s as well as his current books for the C64 Mini and the C64 Maxi.
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25.May.2020
German Amiga Community (Webseite)
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Operating system: NetBSD 9.0 with support of PPC-boards
The free and open-source Unix-like operating system NetBSD is available in version 9.0, among others as port for Amiga computers - for the first time also for the PPC-boards made by Phase 5, although this version is called "very experimental". The global changes of NetBSD 9 are listed in the release notes, specific Amiga changelogs and downloads you can find on the project sites NetBSD/amiga and NetBSD/amigappc.
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[News message: 25. May. 2020, 00:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2020
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Replica of A1200 mainboard: ReAmiga 1200 Revision 1.5
John 'Chucky' Hertell has published an updated version of his A1200 clone ReAmiga 1200. Revision 1.5 among others offers a S-Video instead of a Composite-Video port.
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25.May.2020
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Datatype for WebP: WarpWebP.datatype 45.1
Oliver Robert's has completed his collection of Warp datatypes by another one: The image format WebP. The datatype is based on Google's libwebp 1.1.0. Versions for AmigaOS 3/4, WarpOS and MorphOS are available, a graphic card is not required.
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[News message: 25. May. 2020, 00:18] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 23.05.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 23rd, 2020:
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24.May.2020
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OS4Depot: More than 4000 files uploaded / Uploads until 23.05.2020
On May 17 the 4000th file was uploaded to the OS4Depot. Uploading the last 1000 file thus took eight years and two months.
The following archives have been added until May 23rd, 2020:
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24.May.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 23.05.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 23rd, 2020:
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24.May.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.05.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until May 23rd, 2020:
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24.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video: Raytracing tutorials with Lightwave on an Amiga
Under the title link "Muadib" releases YouTube Raytracing tutorials showing Lightwave on an Amiga. Each Sunday on 7 p.m. (Central European Summer Time) the presentation is broadcast via webcast on Twitch.tv.
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[News message: 24. May. 2020, 07:31] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2020
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Portrait: The RedPill developer Carlos Peris
Besides the well-known developers like Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) or Hans de
Ruiter (ZitaFTP, Warp3D Nova) there are a number of other active developers we would like to introduce to our readers in a loose succession.
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22.May.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade port: Tapper, version 02A
"Tapper" (video) is a port of the arcade classic game from 1983 to the Amiga. In this new test version all gameplay features have been implemented except the sound. The author said: "Still got a fair bit of work in Dpaint to do as well as a few bits of game code to write but I think it's coming along quite nicely."
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[News message: 22. May. 2020, 23:28] [Comments: 0]
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22.May.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.14
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
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[News message: 22. May. 2020, 10:40] [Comments: 0]
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22.May.2020
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris, beta version 85
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. Among others Iris now display GMail threads. Besides, "the autoconfiguration of emails was significantly improved, especially for GMail-managed domains and Yahoo."
The author appreciates any feedback. Please use the corresponding MorphZone discussion.
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[News message: 22. May. 2020, 08:34] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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English/Danish assembler workshop from 1990
"Programmering i maskinkode på Amiga" is a Danish assembler workshop, which from 1990 on was commercially distributed in 12 lessons. Meanwhile the author has made available the workshop on his website for free. Thanks to Amiga fan 'Amix73' there is also an English-language translation.
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[News message: 21. May. 2020, 23:24] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser Odyssey 1.23 r5_beta07
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has released a new beta version of his AmigaOS 4 port of the web browser Odyssey. Changes:
- Fixed bug in Cairo library caused skippable DSI on some sites in cairo_clip_intersect_rectangle_box() by adding related patches from the latest version of Cairo.
- Replaced old, statically linked, Pixman library v0.32.4 by newer v0.36.0 from Salas00: https://github.com/salass00/pixman_lib
Salas00's version is a real amiga native shared library and has AOS4 native TLS (thread-local storage) implementation, which means that rendering done now not from the same thread, but from different ones => things can be faster.
New pixman-1.library coming with release archive in the LIBS directory, so no action needs, all continue to works out of the box. Thanks Salas00!
- Media player: when we in accelerated full-window playback, and mouse cursor over the video, then after 2 seconds of inactivity we hide mouse pointer. Moving mouse or clicking mouse buttons made cursor be visibly again. I.e. mimic usual video-players behavior.
- Media player: when we in accelerated full-window playback, then we disable screen blankers and enable them back once we exit from full-window playback.
- Fixed nasty bug with missing TAG_DONE in the Dtpic object creation. Before it working by pure luck: If the memory following the unterminated tag list contains 'lucky' or invalid tag values then nothing bad happens.
But a single 'unlucky' (but valid and possibly dangerous if not used correctly) tag value may cause unpredictable havoc (c) Thore.
- Rewritten DoSuperNew() function to use DoSuperMethodA() directly instead of DoSuperMethod(), as the later internally do call the same DoSuperMethodA(). So we skip that step to make DoSuperNew() be more efficient with less stack space in use.
Thanks to Thore for hint and Oliver for explaining.
- Added support for 4th and 5th mouse buttons for stepping backward (4th) and forward (5th) through the browser history. I.e same as in IBrowse.
- Major improvements in spoofing area by Javier: new Spoofing preferences. Together with inbuild (and not editable) default Odyssey's user-agent, you can now add/edit your own ones.
You also can choose what user agents you want to show on the menu and which didn't. All the user-agents saves in the 'useragents.prefs' placed in Conf , just like 'userscripts.prefs' or 'searchengines.prefs'.
The work which spends on was big, so there can be issues so plz check it carefully and report all bugs and suggestions. Everything localized as well, see bottom of OWB.cd. Thanks Javier!
- Notification titles are now localized as well, see OWB.cd for MSG_NOTIFY_DL_COMPLETED, MSG_NOTIFY_DL_CANCELLED and MSG_NOTIFY_DL_FAILED (c) Javier.
- Updated Italian catalog by samo79 and new Danish catalog by NBache.
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21.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Virus Help Team Denmark: Update of VirusZ_III.Bootblocks
The "Virus Help Team Denmark" (VHT) has released an update of its bootblock collection which is used in Georg Hörmann's program VirusZ III:
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[News message: 21. May. 2020, 23:14] [Comments: 0]
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