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`13.Dec.2014` ACube Systems (ANF)	ACube Systems: L2 cache utility for Sam460/AmigaOne 500 One week ago already ACube Systems released a small utility that may increase performance on the Sam460/AmigaOne 500. The utility works on both, Sam460ex and Sam460cr boards. To avoid incoherency between L2 cache and main memory, on Sam460 CPU the AmigaOS 4.1 kernel disables L2 cache write by default. On your own risk you can activate L2 cache write now, but it is suggested to do so only in advance of performance-intensive tasks like watching videos. Afterwards, L2 cache write should be switched off again. Please be aware that activating L2 cache write may cause system instability and/or data corruption. On the other hand, once L2 cache write is enabled, Ragemem will report around 35% speed increase in the L2 WRITE32/WRITE64 tests, and some applications may see improved performance too (for example 3-5% speed increase in MPlayer with some videos). Download: L2cache-1.0.lha (61 KB) (snx) [News message: 13. Dec. 2014, 08:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Dec.2014` amigaworld.net (Webseite)	AmigaOS 4/MorphOS bounty: MPlayer Altivec optimization Konstantinos 'feanor' Margaritis would optimize the PPC-port of MPlayer for the Altivec-unit built in G4-, G5- and PA6T-processors, if 1000 Euro will be donated. A corresponding bounty now was opened at bountysource.com. The goal of the optimization is to be able to perfectly play the h264-coded trailer of the motion picture Prometheus in a solution of 1920x1080 pixels on a X1000 - currently only 18 instead of the required 24 frames per second are achieved. If a Altivec optimization is able to increase the performance by 33% and how much influence on less powerful processors it would have, currently the software developer cannot reckon. The description of the bounty does not say for which systems the optimization has to be released. Margaritis does not own an OS4-compatible computer, but only a Powerbook G4. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Dec. 2014, 23:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Dec.2014` amigafuture.de (Webseite)	AROS: Icaros Desktop Update 2.0.1 In version 2.0.1 Paolo Besser has fixed some bugs in his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop. Changes: ntfs.handler moved to Storage/L (for new installations only) AROS system files brought to Dec 6th, 2014 Nightly Build SVN executables brought back to Development:bin Updated AntiryadIDE with a working version (see screenshot above) HDToolBox now shows drives connected to AHCI device (fixed missing icon tooltype) removed offending duplicated Datatype.info file fixed noacpi issue fixed regression: running AmiBridge at startup will work again fixed regression: Icaros will try to fall back to VESA mode first when selecting Native option in grub, like older Icaros (for new installations only) fixed Theme preferences removed offending (not working and crashing aros) themes added AmigaOS 3.1 theme fixed a bug preventing AROS68K from running, if themes were disabled in host environment updated ZuneFig and ZuneView to latest releases added "Prefs" option to Icaros menu in Magellan fixed ZuneView option in Magellan's "Programs" menu added a new version of WeatherBar (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Dec. 2014, 23:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Dec.2014` amigaworld.net (Webseite)	AmigaOS / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.2.1 Version 2.2.1 of the commercial game "Ask me Up" is available. The update of the video game about general knowledge includes some minor improvements and translations into other languages: Game: the animation speed of results can be accelerated/decelerated by [Ctrl] key Quiz: medals are now displayed as soon as they are won during the game Map: "medal" score of the player is now displayed Map: the best player in the world is displayed with its "medal" score Map: You can browse the worlds by pressing the up/down arrow keys Some questions fixed Fully translated into Spanish and Greek (in addition to French, English and Italian) New translations in Swedish, Portuguese and Polish added Spanish, Greek and Polish localizations improved Help file now also available in Spanish, Polish and Greek (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Dec. 2014, 23:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Dec.2014` amiga.org (Webseite)	AmiTCP-Bundle: EasyNet Pro EasyNet was an user-interface which should simplify the configuration of network hardware. The successor EasyNet Pro now includes a separated TCP-stack - AmiTCP 4 is used. EasyNet Pro is available in the Amigakit-webshop or in Amistore. Owners of the previous version can purchase a price-reduced update to the Pro-version. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Dec. 2014, 23:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Dec.2014` amigafuture.de (Webseite)	Creating Installer-scripts: InstallerGen 1.1 Using InstallerGen, developers can create installer scripts for their programms for the Commodore-installer. The programm has a MUI user-interface. AmigaOS 3.0 as well as the MUI-class NList.mcc are required. Changes of this version: Locale support with German and French catalogs included Variable support for paths in Version, Delete, exists and Rename step types Fixed Delete & Exists steps Context-sensitive help Improved and fixed guide Improved variables list (updates in real-time, excludes literal strings) GUI updates optimised, much faster redrawing on classics and much reduced jittering Fixed a couple of enforcer hits Lots more bug fixes and improvements... (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Dec. 2014, 23:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Dec.2014` amigafuture.de (Webseite)	Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 18.0 Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. Changes of version 18.0: fix:WHDLoad lock up happen when FullChip/S is used and exec.MaxLocMem is equal to BaseMemSize fixed fix:ExpChip/S and FullChip/S cannot be enabled together, if both are set FullChip/S will be silently disabled (Psygore) chg:option NoTrapHandler/S has been removed fix:race condition fixed which sometimes caused a 'Privilege Violation Exception' when a Resload function was called from Usermode and got interrupted during the internal switch to Supervisor mode and then trace exception was used from the installed program, seen especially in installs using kick13 emu and performing a lot of disk io, fixes issue #2094 and connected ones chg:the log file created by the FileLog/S facility has been renamed from .whdl_filelog to .whdl_log new:function resload_Log which puts custom messages into the log file .whdl_log, uses the same file as the FileLog/S facility and requires that FileLog/S option is set so that messages will be written this function is intended to make it easier to debug/follow alien code by adding trace messages to dump the execution state at useful places new:option LogBuffer/K/N to control the size of the internal buffer allocated for log messages by FileLog/S and resload_Log new:function resload_VSNPrintF implementing a exec.RawDoFmt/ sprintflike string formatting routine new:kickfs.s has new option SNOOPFS which will cause in conjunction with HDINIT all dos packets after processing to be logged using resload_Log, the supplied perl script chkunlock.pl can be used to search the log file for missing dos.UnLock and dos.Close calls new:using the function resload_Control and the tags WHDLTAG_CUST_DISABLE/READ/WRITE/STROBE the allowed custom registers for Snoop*/S can be modified now chg:ReSource support files updated to cover recent WHDLoad extensions new:added XAD support to the installer template script chg:external program SP to save pictures from dump files has been improved to better support AGA screens (ddf, fmode, bplcon) chg:on the 68030 the instruction burst is now always enabled if the instruction cache is enabled (Psygore) chg:the 68040 processor is now fully supported regarding the special mmu features (Snoop, resload_Protect), the implementation was planned since years, it was a lot of work becausethe handling is very different to the 68030 und 68060, although I'm unsure if this feature will be used much, I'm happy to have it completed now chg:option ChkAudPt/S is also supported on the 68030 and 68040 now chg:the interrupt redirect feature of ACA500/Zeus is not used when option NoVBRMove/S is set chg:PreloadSize/N will also be set by WHDLoad if ws_DontCache is used in the Slave some more end user related improvements are planned for the next release :-) (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Dec. 2014, 22:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Dec.2014` Amiga.org (Forum)	Distribution for AGA-Amigas: AmiKitReal 8 AmiKitReal is a version of AmiKit for real AGA-Amigas which now is also available in version 8 vor (screenshot). You can find a detailed list of changes under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 09. Dec. 2014, 18:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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