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09.Sep.2017

Amiga disks on PC: ADF-Drive supports Amiga filesystems
ADF-Copy is an USB adapter which, connected to a ordinary PC disk drive, can read and write Amiga disks - provided that the disks are not copy-protected. The floppy port is connected to a Teensy 3.2 micro controller by using some jumpers controlled by the firmware of the micro controller.

The latest beta version of the firmware now also supports Amiga filesystems, that means, single files can be read and written. As usual a disks is provided to the Host-PC via Media Transfer Protocol. If the disks has been formated by the Amiga filesystem, additional to the disk drive DF0: - for formating or reading/writing of ADF-Images - another drive is registered with the name of the disk:

So far the following features are offered:

Reading and writing files
Creating directories and deleting empty ones
Formating DF0:
HD Disks should work, but they are very fragile, writes might fail

Not (yet) working:

Deleting full directories
Renaming files and directories
Time and date of files
Many operations do not work under Windows XP, it simply is too old. But the separate application ADF-Copy works fine under XP
When writing an adf image with drag and drop on DF0: the Name of the filesystem drive isnt updating correctly

The author points out, that this software is a beta version. He recommends to enable write protection of the disks or zu work with test disks. And he wrote:"After a write access wait for the drive light to go off and the motor stop before removing the disk, due to avoid excessive disk access i use some methods to cache the track and write modified track only on track change or shortly before stopping the motor." (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Sep.2017

Nintendo emulator A/NES Pro 1.19
Version 1.19 of the Nintendo emulator A/NES Pro has been released. The ECS or AGA chipset and a 68020 processor is required but a faster processor is recommended. Changes:

Screenmoderequester no longer causes a guru when aborted.
Switched to AsmOne, Asm-Pro was causing issues with previous version.
Bugfixed a previous optimization that caused problems (TLOZ)
Minor cleanup

(cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Sep.2017

Status update: Web browser Netsurf under AGA (update)
In May it turned out that the current version of Artur Jarosik's SDL-based port of Netsurf could only be used with a graphics board. Daniel Reimann, an editor of amiga-news.de, has contacted Jarosik to find out how the development status is regarding a version supporting AGA - and received a current, AGA-compatible version of the browser.

In this version, which now also is available on the website of the author, about 70% of the starts of the program works fine and Netsurf can be used without any problems. The other 30% percent Netsurf can happen to start extremely slow or the screen stays black sometimes flickering blue and the lamp of the harddrive lights up continuously.

The following pictures show Netsurf with an AGA-scale of 71% (instead of the given 75%). Using this figure, most of the texts can be read without being cut. The third picture shows the MUI-based preferences which currently do not completely work: The options set in the "General" tab are not saved.

This version does not seem to be significantly faster but it is fun to look at the appearance and the typeface of Netsurf. Towards amiga-news.de Jarosik explained, that recently he has focused porting games but obviously also Netsurf is developed further occasionally. The AGA-version includes the same changes which are listed on the website of the author for the RTG-version.

Update: (21.09.2017, 06:20, dr)

Meanwhile Artur Jarosik has released two other beta versions of Netsurf 3.7 which fixes the auto-update bug under AGA as well as the problem that some options of the general preferences have not been saved. All those features now work fine. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Sep.2017

Aminet-Uploads until 02.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until September 2nd, 2017:

OSCopperlist.lha         dev/asm    4K    68k Copperlist on intuition screen
Epub_mcc.0.2.lha         dev/mui    3.6M  MOS A Epub MUI Class
Screech_src.lha          game/race  1.5M      Blitz Basic source for "Scree...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha     game/role  11M   68k Implementation of Tunnels & ...
PPT_dev.lha              gfx/conv   72K       Develop your own modules for PPT
PPT_dist.lha             gfx/conv   945K  68k A Modular Image Processing Pa...
PPT_security.lha         gfx/conv   12K   68k Cryptographic modules for PPT
PPT-source.zip           gfx/conv   870K      C source for image processing...
Apdf_de.lha              gfx/show   3K        Unofficial German catalog for...
VPDF_de.lha              gfx/show   1K        Unofficial German catalog for...
rewincy.lha              util/cdity 30K   68k Cycle through windows/screens...
zip_lib.lha              util/libs  144K  OS4 Library for reading/writing z...

(snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Sep.2017

OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until September 2nd, 2017:

coreutils.lha            dev/uti 1Mb   4.0 GNU core utilities
diffutils.lha            dev/uti 586kb 4.0 File comparison tools
sed.lha                  dev/uti 354kb 4.0 sed (stream editor)
zip_lib.lha              lib/mis 144kb 4.1 Library for reading/writing zip ...

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03.Sep.2017

AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until September 2nd, 2017:

mui_examples.i386-aros.zip   dev/exa 449kb MUI coding examples in C
clicolor-1.4-aros.zip        uti/she 23kb  AROS dos script to switch shell ...

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03.Sep.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite) Workbench distribution: AmiKit X 10.3
The Workbench distribution AmiKit is meant for emulators and has more than 390 pre-configured programs. In version 10.3 the Boxx trilogy games of 'Lemming880' and Stephan Rupprecht's replacement of the info-command were added. Besides, a lot of programs have been replaced by updated versions. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Sep.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite) AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.3
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free.

In version 3.3 a question was corrected and the Italian translation completed. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Sep.2017
Carsten Siegner (ANF) MorphOS: MUI class Epub.mcc 0.2
Carsten Siegner's Epub.mcc is a MUI class vor viewing ebooks of the EPUB format. The archive also includes two demo programs for viewing ebooks and svg files. In version 0.2 the performance was improved and hyperlinks and SVG support added. Additionally, ebooks which were created by Calimero, are fully supported.

Download: Epub_mcc.0.2.lha (4 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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