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15.May.2014
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)

AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up 1.4.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a guessing game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Android, Linux and Windows). You have to answer questions on the general knowledge having four different answers to choose. The L- and XL-edition also have a two player mode. There is a demo version with 80 questions.

Version 1.4.0 provides the following changes:

The Demo edition is now fully translated into Swedish and Polish
The L edition is now fully translated into Portuguese, Spanish and German
Fix of a few questions
Improved English, Polish, Spanish and Italian translations
New German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Polish and Greek translations added
New alternative drawer icon (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS specific)

The translators have achieved the following level:

German

Demo: 100 %
L: 100 %
XL: 57 %

English

Demo: 100 %
L: 100 %
XL: 100 %

Spanish

Demo: 100 %
L: 100 %
XL: 64 %

Greek

Demo: 100 %
L: 100 %
XL: 63 %

Italian

Demo: 100 %
L: 100 %
XL: 100 %

Polish

Demo: 100 %
L: 24 %
XL: 9 %

Portuguese

Demo: 100 %
L: 100 %
XL: 56 %

Swedish

Demo: 100 %
L: 61 %
XL: 27 %

Download of the demo version:
AskMeUp_Demo.lha oder AskMeUp_Demo.lha (AmigaOS-4-Version, 8 MB)
AskMeUp_Demo_Mos.lha oder AskMeUp_Demo_Mos.lha (MorphOS-Version, 7 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.May.2014
Carsten Siegner (ANF)

MorphOS: Software Development Kit 3.5 (Update)
On May 8th the MorphOS developer team has released an updated software development package.

Download: sdk-20140508.lha (29 MB)

Update: (19:49, 15.05.14, snx)
Meanwhile three of the included changes have been published:

LogTool no longer allows multiple ramdebug sessions running at once
Updated includes, better SDK indexing for Scribble
Updated OpenSSL and dependencies

(snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.May.2014

Preview-Videos: Point'n Click-Adventure "The Secret of Middle City"
"The Secret of Middle City" (TSMC) developed by the Italian team GDG Entertainment is a Point'n Click adventure written with Hollywood, which is supposed to be released for AmigaOS and Android. The programmer Gianluca "g0blin" Girelli has released some screenshots of the latest level of development of the game:

On Youtube during the last months videos of some "Tech Demos" (1, 2, 3) have been released, which do not show the latest graphic level of development but diverse technical aspects.

Since the year 2000, TSMC was anounced time and again (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), but meanwhile, according to Girelli, now the game is being developed further - a first alpha version was sent to testers. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.May.2014
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68k-Core for FPGA: The "Apollo-Core" in use
The "Apollo-Core" is the reimplementation of a m68k-CPU in a FPGA, which was originally developed for the Natami.

Because instead of a CPU the Vampire 600 has a FPGA-unit, it can be used as test environment for the Apollo-Core. Now the developers (group shot) have released a first video (AVI-file), which shows a Vampire together with an Apollo-Core, running Amiga demos.

In order to be able to compare the demonstrated speed with different computers, the used demo is available for download (Executable, 70 KB). It shows the calculated frames per second: three figures in orange are integers, the fourth blue figure shows a tenth of a whole frame.

The Core is supposed to be made available as a free update to all owners of a Vampire, as soon as all software tests have been passed. According to Boehn other accelerator boards are in development, which have more powerful FPGAs and therefore are able to use other ALUs.

According to Gunnar von Boehn on a1k.org, the Apollo-Core is not a complete m68k-implementation. Currently it has the following features integrated:

+ the major part of the 68060 instruction sets
- Bitfields are deactivated in the build
+ 68020 EA-modes are activated - if they use the Brief-Extension Format
+ indirect jumps are activated in the memory
- indirect EA with Inner/outer displacement are deactivated in double memory
The caches are coherent.
- Memory stream detection and automatic prefetching are deactivated
+ Out of order memory access is activated

Hint of the editorial team: We do not kno how this limitations affect the compatibility or speed of different software. Because the used demo was offered by the Apollo developers themselves, it must be assumned that it is adapted to the features of the Apollo-Core at best. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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