27.Feb.2013
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Web-Browser NetSurf 3.0 (alpha)
Artur "Arti" Jarosik is about to port the latest alpha version of the web browser NetSurf to AmigaOS ("Development Plan" for Netsurf 3.0). He releases test versions in his blog.
Amiga-related changes in this release:
- selectable, copyable text
- scrollbar works in frames
- added caret
- updated:
- libpng 1.5.13
- libsdl_image 1.2.12
- libturbojpeg 1.2.1
- libcurl 7.28
- updated getvideo 0.32
- works on Aros m68k now
- fixed closing of program
- 16 bit work again
On 24bit screens, websites are displayed with false colours but on 16Bit screens the bug was fixed. Besides, the status status line occasionally has some useless characters.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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26.Feb.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 2.6.0
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE habe given a preview to the forthcoming version. WinUAE 2.6.0 is supposed to be released in Spring 2013 with the following changes:
New features:
- SCSI and ATAPI (IDE) CD drive emulation.
- Full 68030, 68040 and 68060 MMU emulation. Amix, Linux, NetBSD, Enforcer,
WHDLoad MMU option and more fully working.
- Built-in full CHD CD and HD image support. HD image support is read-only.
- Partial partition hardfile on the fly eject/replacement support, requires
filesystem that has removable drive support.
- Multiple Direct3D shader filters can be enabled simultaneously, optionally
shader can be now run after scaling and filtering.
- Directory filesystem shortcut (.lnk) and symbolic links are mapped to
Amiga soft links.
- Added support for mountlist-like hardfile configuration files.
Updates:
- A590/A2091/A3000 SCSI emulation compatibility improved. (Amix, NetBSD etc..)
- A2065 network adapter compatibility improved. (Early NetBSD versions)
- 68040 MMU emulation compatibility improved.
- Multithreaded IDE and SCSI emulation, slow read or write operations won't
temporarily pause the emulation anymore.
- When CPU double faults, emulated CPU is halted instead of forcing instant
emulated hardware reset.
- Custom chipset emulation improved (Subtle Shades / Nuance).
- Full Amiga file timestamp resolution (1/50s) support on FAT directory
filesystems.
Fixed bugs:
- If display mode switched from RTG to native (or vice versa) and WinUAE window
had no focus: emulation incorrectly started receiving keyboard input.
- 1.5M chip ram option didn't work.
- GamePorts panel Swap Ports button cleared custom mappings.
- 68060 + more compatible checked was unreliable.
- 68040/68060 no FPU/FPU disabled exception stack frame fixed.
- A2024 and Graffiti emulation memory leak fixed.
- FPU rounding mode was reset when using filters.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Feb.2013
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.1.28 (Beta)
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5+ (i386, PPC) and Linux (i386, AMD64) is based on WinUAE and can be completely controlled with a joypad. Changes in the latest beta version:
- For directory hard drives, save file attributes in .uaem files (permissions, timestamp, file note).
- Fix for directory hard drives so correct case is reported back to the Amiga when the Amiga opens a file with another case than what’s stored.
- Report local time for files in directory hard drive.
- Use re-entrant / thread-safe variants of time functions.
- Reverted the scanline function to its older / simpler behavior, use the shader “scanlines-nonlinear” instead.
- New shaders included: scanlines-classic (same as scanline CPU filter), and scanlines-nonlinear (a scanline filter which varies with pixel intensity and also introduces some pixel blending).
- Text cache texture size is now 2048×2048 (was 1024×1024).
- For automatic directory hard drive volume label, only use the part before an opening parenthesis (if it exists).
- New options to configure what screenshots to save and where to save them.
- A bit more compact naming of screenshots, and reset sub-minute counter for each minute (makes sorted names always cronological even with large number of screenshots).
- Can now bind keys to action_screenshot, notification replaces previous notification (of same type).
- Lua scripts can be used to read/write Amiga memory, position the output video rectangle, change shader (experimental feature).
- Support /dev/tty as the serial output [Jason S. McMullan].
- Patch for Linux CD ioctl support [Jason S. McMullan].
- Removed a some useless stubs printed to stdout, removed several printf statements logging stuff to stdout.
- Updated translations: fi [GoingDown], cs [spajdr].
- (Launcher) Make sure the nickname is a valid IRC nickname (net play).
- (Launcher) Fixed problem where .fs-uae configurations could in some cases disappear from the configuration list when refreshing the online database.
- (Launcher) Fixed a bug where config name was saved in config file if based on a config from online database.
- (Launcher) Automatically set screenshots_output_prefix based on floppy name.
- (Launcher) If A500 kickstart is not found on startup, look for Amiga Forever in default location and add kickstarts to database if found (Windows).
- (Launcher) Add Amiga Forever shared documents directory to search path.
- (Launcher) Index files in .rp9 archives, contained disk images can be used with the online database (when match is found).
- (Launcher) Support file comments for WHDLoad slave files when using the online database, comments are stored in .uaem files. Fixes Embryo.
- (Launcher) Allowing selecting .lha files as hard drives.
- (Launcher) Fixed an issue with selecting Amiga 1000 (2.1.26).
- (Launcher) Updated translations: cs [spajdr].
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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25.Feb.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Digital Universe 1.7 for new customers
After existing customers (amiga-news.de reported), now new customers can purchase the latest version 1.7 of the astronomy programm Digital Universe for AmigaOS 4.1 as well.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Feb.2013
Trevor's Amiga Blog
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Accelerator board: Vampire 600 is stable
Two years ago Igor Majstorovic announced the FPGA-based accelerator board Vampire 600 for the Amiga 600. According to the developer in the VooDoo-Amiga forum this board is stable and is currently tweaked. He then is going to produce (after the revision) 50 boards with 8 MB memory, and then with 64 MB.
Compared with accelerator boards which have a proper 680x0-processor, like the Fúria EC020, currently the Vampire has a lower performance speed (checked by Sysinfo): With a 72 MHz clocked FPGA, 1332 Dhrystone-instructions per second, compared with the Fúria, which features 4846 on its 28 MHz MC68EC020FG25. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Feb.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AttachMail 1.1, FastCompress 1.4, NetDock 50.2, SysMon 2.8
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated four of his AmigaOS-4 programms: AttachMail, FastCompress, NetDock and SysMon.
- AttachMail allows to add attachments to eMails per context menu (YAM and SimpleMail). In version 1.1 among others a Ringhio-notification was integrated
- FastCompress allows to pack files and drawers with two mouse clicks (LHA, LZX, ZIP, 7z). In version 1.4 the Ringhio-notification was added as well as the name of the archive specified by taking the biggest, included file/drawer - if no other name was specified
- NetDock is a docky which displays the network activity and now in version 50.2 can be also to miniaturized. Additionally three ToolTypes as well as AmiUpdate-support were added
- SysMon is MUI-based and allows to identify and remove frozen windows, to change priorities of tasks and processes and to watch drives, assigns and system information. Additional to the Ringhio-notification, in version 2.8 bubble help for different IDETool-gadgets were added
Download:
attachmail.lha (424 KB)
fastcompress.lha (3 MB)
netdock.lha (239 KB)
sysmon.lha (687 KB)
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