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`28.Oct.2020` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Developer package: "DevPack" installs diverse compilers, editors and tools The free "DevPack" provided by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is meant for Amiga users who under AmigaOS are going to develop software. The package is hosted on the Amikit website but does not have any dependencies on the commercial Workbench environment and can be installed on harddrive by extracting the lzx archive. Diverse compilers, text editors and other tools are included as listed in the Readme. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 28. Oct. 2020, 22:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Oct.2020` Amiga Future (Webseite)	PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 115 (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 Amiga articles about the classic point and click graphic adventure "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and the Formula One car race "Vroom". Download sites: English Italian (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 28. Oct. 2020, 22:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Oct.2020` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Wolfram Alpha question machine for Amiga systems: AskYourAmiga 0.2 According to the author, AskYourAmiga, in short AYA, is "a very early version of a GUI for Wolfram Alpha question machine" (Wikipedia entry). It does not find any links but right away the answer which can be also represented in e.g. graphs. In version 0.2 "related searches" as well as a history of your searches and suggestions sorted in categories have been added. As usual the program is available for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 28. Oct. 2020, 22:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Oct.2020` MorphZone (Forum)	Final Writer: New screenshots / release date is getting closer In 2015 Timothy 'terminills' Deters has acquired the rights to the word processing software "Final Writer" (amiga-news.de reported). The latest screenshots show font rendering and spelling. Final Writer will be able to save documents as a PDF. Furthermore Deters wrote: "RTF has been updated to the final spec as well. I have many future enhancements planned based on how quickly I can recover my costs. You can print to selectable devices and PDFDirect support has been started but it'll take a little bit before I would say that is feature complete." He also said that there is a "a slim possibility of releasing FW before the end of the year". (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 27. Oct. 2020, 21:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Oct.2020` Amiga Future (Webseite)	HDMI converter: D520 available again Thorsten Schubert's HDMI converter D520 is available again. A third batch of the converter which is connected to the video port was completed. The website of the project was updated as well. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 27. Oct. 2020, 21:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Oct.2020` Indie Retro News (Webseite)	Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.6 Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.6 provides the following changes: WHDLoad now disables interrupts of graphics cards under the Picasso96 software. This should solve problems with Spectrum cards and newer P96 releases (issue #2598). Thanks to Thomas Richter for providing useful information. Manual translations are in sync again for catalan and czech. Kickemu kick31.s can be instructed to load/init the custom nonvolatile.s via option INIT_NONVOLATILE. nonvolatile.s now correctly works on searching nonexistent items in a existing nvram file In kickemu kick13.s a waitblit has been added to avoid problems with the gfx.Text patch (Psygore). The provided source keyboard.s now uses cia timers instead the raster beam for the keyboard acknowledge delay. Access faults of size word to address -1 and of size long to addresses -3..-1 are now reliable detected and reported. In earlier releases: on 68030: when ExpMem was used these were undetected, on 68040: when ExpMem was used and vector base was not write protected (e.g. Freezer detected, Snoop, resload_Protect used) these were undetected, if vector base was protected a fault inside WHDLoad was reported, on 68060: these were always correctly reported To reduce the likelihood that resload functions get interrupted by other calls to resload functions, some resload functions which usually take not much execution time, have been changed to be not interruptible anymore. The following resload functions have been changed that way: Abort, SetCACR, FlushCache, Control, Protect#?, SetCPU, GetCustom, VSNPrintF and Log. In general the option NoResInt/S can be used to avoid problems with interrupted resload calls at the cost of possible sound/ graphics distortions when interrupts are disabled for a longer time. The provided source sources/whdload/savegame.s is now fully pc-relative. It contains also additional fixes for interrupt acknowledge and AGA compatibility (JOTD/ross). The inplace decruncher for the old RNC1 format has been improved to support files which need a larger distance (Heimdall/JOTD). The kick31.s now prefers a A600 kickstart image if NO68020 is set. It fails now if there is only a 68000/010 and a A1200/A4000 kickstart image was loaded (JOTD). When using kickfs.s the dos.library function Open(MODE_READWRITE) now performs correctly on Kickstart 3.1 by creating a non-existent file. On Kickstart 1.3 the old behavior remains to not create a file. If a call to resload_Examine is attempted without the flag WHDLF_Examine has been set in the Slave structure WHDLoad now terminates with an appropriate error message (JOTD). The kickemu kick12.s, kick13.s and kick31.s has been modified to automatically set the Slave flag WHDLF_Examine if HDINIT is set (JOTD). When using resload_Relocate with tags CHIPPTR/FASTPTR and the specified chip/fast memory location would result in an overlapping with base executable WHDLoad now gives a useful error message (JOTD). Instead of waiting for a long video frame WHDLoad now forces a long frame before starting the Slave. This fixes startup problems on Kickstart 3.0 and an interlace video mode (issue #4798). MMU-table creation has been reworked. It is now faster and uses less memory. Support for ACA-freezer added. if "" is specified for the Slave to load WHDLoad searchs the current directory for a file with the pattern "#?.slave" and will use the first file matching (Toni Wilen) (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Oct. 2020, 22:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Oct.2020` Indie Retro News (Webseite)	Another teaser video: Jump'n Run 'Super Metal Hero' A third teaser video of the jump'n run game 'Super Metal Hero' has been published. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Oct. 2020, 22:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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