10.Sep.2012
deadwait / HackerNews (ANF)
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Carl Sassenrath on the future of REBOL
In a blog entry Carl Sassenrath - who also is the author of "Exec" - has announced that he will probably finish the development of his programming language REBOL.
Originally the language has been a commercial product. But the "old model of how proprietary software products make money has been turned inside-out." He also said that "I also need to tell you that I don't have much time to help out with whatever the REBOL future may be. I can help a little from time to time, but generally I'm very busy these days."
Sassenrath has invited all users to post comments on how the future of REBOL is supposed to look like.
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09.Sep.2012
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Jump and Run: Sqrxz for OCS-Amigas available as download
The recently released port of Sqrxz for OCS Amigas is now available as free download in the form of an ADF image. The game requires at least Kickstart 1.2 as well one megabyte of memory, of which at least 512 KB should be ChipRAM. A version of the game which can be installed to a harddrive has already been announced.
Direct download: sqrxz-v.latest-amigaocs.adf.gz (265 KB)
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09.Sep.2012
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Atari-Emulator Hatari 1.6.2
For the Atari-ST/STE/Falcon-emulator Hatari a new update has been published. Additional to the new version 1.6.2 older versions are available as well which might be less accurate but faster. But on an Micro-A1 games run without breaks (video).
The changes are listed in the release notes.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Sep.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Scriba 0.6.0
Scriba is a simple text processing softare which is still in development written by Carsten Siegner. With version 0.6.0 all limitations of importing OpenDocument text files of the previous version (amiga-news.de reported on it) were lifted. Additionally the TurboPrint print module was reworked.
Download: Scriba_0.6.0.lha (7 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Sep.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 1.3.26
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE (screenshot) 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 version 1.3.26:
- Fix window manager icon lookup on Linux [grimi]
- (Launcher) Associate .fs-uae files with FS-UAE (windows installer)
- (Launcher) Expand ~/ and $HOME/ in paths from config files
- (Launcher) Fixed joystick matching when joystick name contains multiple adjacent spaces
- (Launcher) Set window icon for Linux also, in case the desktop environment does not pick up the .desktop file icon
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09.Sep.2012
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: AmiDARK-Engine 0.6
The AmiDARK-Engine written by Frédéric Cordier is a "Game Development Kit" inspired by DarkGDK. It is a collection of macros and functions for C-programmer which aims to simplify developing games. The changes of the (limited in time) demo version 0.6 are listed under the title link. Donators will get a full version.
Download:
AmiDARK_Engine_AOS4_Beta06.lzh (21 MB)
AmiDARK_Engine_MOS_Beta06.lzh (6 MB)
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09.Sep.2012
Jim Neray (ANF)
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Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.6 (beta)
X-bEnCh is an Amiga game launcher & more. In a 128 colors display (ECS compatible), this frontend can autoscan your hard-drive to find your WHDLoad games or your .exe files and organize them in launching listings. X-bEnCh also has an integrated CLI fully compatible with the Workbench CLI feature.
Changes:
- A New Amigaguide full doc.
- Fixed some files check on startup that were wrongs.
- Now pressing the "Del" Key when startup will cancel the X-bEnCh loading.
- Now display the release number under the X-bEnCh startup logo.
- Now working with a temp dir to leave the Ram free.
- New scroll text "Credits screen".
- Launcher Reactivity optimisations and lighter code.
- FastJump added. Now simply use your keyboard's key to jump where you want.
- MegaRam option Added. Can save from 34kb up to 136 kb of ram.
- Now return where you was before, after leaving a game.
- Now before loading a .slave/.exe, check if exist a .xbs script and use it if exist.
- Now autoscan the tool types of WhdLoad. If none found, use the default tooltypes you've set in the setup screen.
- Now display the number of files in the listing, right to the listing name in the launcher.
- Now in the launcher, a short push on the 2nd joy button will switch between your listings and a long push will escape to the main menu.
- Now the game name in the loading screen is truncated and centered.
- Big fail fixed in the cLi.
- Added the "help" command to the cLi to list all the extra X-bEnCh cLi commands availables.
- Added the "resetxset" command to the cLi. Really useful to clean up a buggy install of X-bEnCh.
- Now the subdirectorys level scan is unlimited.
- Now the listings are 3 time lighters than with the previous release.
- Now listings are of real unlimited size.
- Now ending a path with a "/" in the setup will work as same as without.
- Now display the number of files added to a listing when updating in the setup.
- No more create a bugged list when there's nothing to add to the list in the choosed path.
- Xsetup executable is 25% lighter.
- Fixed a small palette bug when leaving the setup.
- Sometime the setup exit on a black screen.. Fixed.
- Preload switch added as a whdload global option.
- Display switch added as a whdload global option (Switch PAL/NTSC).
- Cache switch added as a whdload global option.
- MMU switch added as a whdload global option.
- AutoVec switch added as a whdload global option.
- Music switch added as a Launchers global option (Switch On/Off).
- MegaRam switch added as a Launcher global option.
Update: (20:56, 10.09.12, snx)
Meanwhile also a video of version 0.6 has been released. (snx)
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09.Sep.2012
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Aminet-Uploads until 08.09.2012
The following archives have been added until 08.09.2012 to the Aminet:
A71Mail.lha comm/www 244K Email Form multilanguage writ...
beatZombieEP.dms demo/sound 250K 68k ahx music disk by 303bcn
num2str.lha dev/basic 32K 68k number to string functions fo...
ValF_NG.lha dev/basic 21K 68k Blitz: multi base string to v...
GameX.lha dev/c 14K 68k Small game development link l...
hexen2demo.i386-aros.lha game/demo 13M x86 Hexen II demo
neverball.i386-aros.lha game/misc 54M x86 Neverball and Neverputt
neverball.src-aros.lha game/misc 26M Neverball and Neverputt sources
qstat.i386-aros.lha game/misc 288K x86 Get statistics from on-line g...
qstat.src-aros.lha game/misc 519K qstat sources
rtcw.i386-aros.lha game/shoot 2.8M x86 Return to Castle Wolfenstein
rtcw.src-aros.lha game/shoot 7.0M Return to Castle Wolfenstein ...
glulxe.i386-aros.lha game/text 360K x86 Glulxe, a Glulx text adventur...
Crates_68k.lha game/think 2.0M 68k 3D puzzle game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 3.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 3.3M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
zxssk.lha mus/play 456K OS4 ZX-Spectrum sound kit
zxssk_tnplug.lha mus/play 112K OS4 ZX-SSK (PT2, PT3, VTX) TuneNe...
AmiSystemRestore.lha util/misc 771K OS4 Monitors&allows undoing c...
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09.Sep.2012
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 08.09.2012
The following archives have been added until 08.09.2012 to the OS4Depot:
zxssk_tnplug.lha aud/pla 112kb 4.0 ZX-SSK (PT2, PT3, VTX) TuneNet p...
zxssk.lha aud/pla 456kb 4.0 ZX-Spectrum sound kit
xamos-bin.lha dev/lan 4Mb 4.1 Cross-platform AMOS BASIC reimpl...
libfreetype.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab...
libsdl_ttf.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 SDL_TTF a Freetype 2.0 wrapper f...
some_german_catalogs.lha doc 518kb 4.1 Some german catalogs
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
ami-ingenious.lha gam/boa 1Mb 4.0 Great strategy game with easy to...
candycrisis.lha gam/puz 9Mb 4.0 Candy Crisis pure action and puz...
iconsreworked3.lha gra/ico 12Mb 4.1 Icons for 3rd party software
timberwolf.lha net/bro 24Mb 4.1 Timberwolf, a Firefox based web ...
amisystemrestore.lha uti/mis 771kb 4.0 Monitors & allows undoing ch...
noyellow.lha uti/she 49kb 4.1 Redirect yellow gurumediations t...
sysmon.lha uti/wor 128kb 4.1 monitor for Process, Windows (+ ...
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09.Sep.2012
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 08.09.2012
The following archives have been added until 08.09.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
glulxe.i386-aros.lha gam/adv 360kb Glulxe, a Glulx text adventure i...
ami-ingenious.i386-aros.zip gam/boa 617kb Great strategy game with easy to...
hexen2demo.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 13Mb Hexen II demo
rtcw.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 3Mb Return to Castle Wolfenstein
rtcw.src-aros.lha gam/fps 7Mb Return to Castle Wolfenstein sou...
neverball.i386-aros.lha gam/mis 54Mb Neverball and Neverputt
neverball.src-aros.lha gam/mis 26Mb Neverball and Neverputt sources
qstat.i386-aros.lha gam/uti 288kb qstat - Get statistics from on-l...
qstat.src-aros.lha gam/uti 519kb qstat sources
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09.Sep.2012
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 08.09.2012
The following archives have been added until 08.09.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
XAMOS 0.28 dev/too 2673 Reimplementation of AMOS pr...
The Legend of Edgar 1.03 gam/pla 29314 The Legend of Edgar is 2D p...
Scriba 0.5.0 off/tex 7993 A simple WYSIWYG wordproces...
Grunch 1.38 sys/too 1777 Advanced software package m...
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09.Sep.2012
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WHDLoad: New packages until 08.09.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games, demos and intros which originally had to be used from disks on your harddrive. The following installation packages have been added until 08.09.2012:
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08.Sep.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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UAE: AmiKit 1.6.2
AmiKit is a complete distribution for UAE-users and now is available as version 1.6.2. The update which is automatically installed if there is a previous version includes bug fixed audio file types for Magellan II as well as updated versions of 20 programms and components, e.g. AmIRC, NetSurf and Scalos. You can find the complete list under the title link.
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07.Sep.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: NoYellow 2.0
Kjetil Hvalstrand has published version 2.0 of his programm NoYellow which stops yellow guru mediations. It now consists of two hacks nodisplayalert and noalert.
noalert stops exec.library/alert from displaying, nodisplayalert stops intuition.library/displayalert from displaying.
noalert does not recover errors it only intercept the exec.library alert function.
Download: noyellow.lha (49 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Sep.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS / AROS: XAMOS 0.28
The latest alpha version 0.28 of the AMOS-reimplementation XAMOS now is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86.
The update adds an experimental hardware-accelerated OpenGL frontend. "This is currently disabled by default and not yet working correctly with all examples, or on all platforms." It can be set with the command line flag "-useopengl". "Background rainbows are now operational. The rainbows example has been updated."
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07.Sep.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: IntuitionBase updated
The website IntuitionBase offers an overview of AmigaOS-4-compatible software and hardware and now was updated with 140 applications, new hardware and articles. IntuitionBase will also be represented with an exhibition stand on the AmiWest.
Furthermore users have been asked to report their devices and programms which successfully work under AmigaOS 4 if they are not listed yet. Any tips and tricks are welcome which push the system to its best.
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07.Sep.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hollywood: SQLite3-Plugin
Under the title link Andreas Falkenhahn has published a SQLite3-plugin for his multimedia programming language. With it SQL-databases can be created and edited by Hollywood scripts to add them to other projects. Example scripts also are availble.
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05.Sep.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 1.3.25
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE (screenshot) for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5+ (i386, PPC) and Linux (i386, AMD64) is based on WinUAE and can be controlled with a joypad.
Changes in version 1.3.25:
- Properly close OpenAL device on shutdown (avoids error on shutdown on Windows with OpenAL Soft implementation)
- Bundle oal_soft.dll as OpenAL32.dll on Windows (no OpenAL installation needed, but will not use HW-specific drivers unless OpenAL32.dll is deleted from app dir)
- New shortcuts (soft/hard reset, freeze, debugger) [lallafa]
- Initial FreeBSD support (tested to compile and run on FreeBSD 8.2)
- Automatically choose best texture format for new video_format rgb565
- Added config for Speed-Link Competition Pro Gold [Régis Patroix]
- Added support for RTG modes with native 16-bit buffers
- Copy RTG video row data without pixel conversion when possible
- Added support for PPC / Mac OS 10.5 [Tobias Netzel]
- Added support for 16-bit video and texture formats (new value video_format = rgb565)
- Fixes to allow for compilation with clang
- Replaced deprecated valloc, getpagesize with posix equivalents
- (Launcher) Bundle local Microsoft.VC90.CRT on Windows
- (Launcher) Workaround to make translations work on Mac OS X
- (Launcher) Fixed bug when setting hard_drive_x folders options from config files
- (Launcher) Remove information panels when running on small resolutions
- (Launcher) Updated translations: fr [Foul], de [nexusle], it [Speedvicio]
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05.Sep.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Timberwolf 4.0.1.0252 - RC3
The third "Release Candidate" of the Firefox-port Timberwolf is to solve problems with slowdowns, crashes of the Cairo-library on computers without Altivec-support and with other minor problems.
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05.Sep.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiSystemRestore Release 1 beta version 2
Chris Handley's AmiSystemRestore adds the possibility of a system restore to AmigaOS 4 similar to Windows. If a new programm is installed AmiSystemRestore backs up the system files (SYS:).
The second public beta version fixes several bugs, has a pictogramm. File names are no longer limited to 50 characters.
Download: amisystemrestore.lha (771 KB)
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04.Sep.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 98
The German and English issue 98 (September/October 2012) of the magazine Amiga Future has been published today. Topics of this issue are MorphOS 3.1, Homebank, Paint, C-Workshop part 15 and Classic Reflection part 6.
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