30.Dec.2012
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WHDLoad: New package until 29.12.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games, demos and intros which originally had to be used from disks on your harddrive. The following installation package has been added until 29.12.2012:
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30.Dec.2012
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Another report on G5-port
Under the title link Mark Olsen's interim statement on the MorphOS-port to G5-computers developed by Apple is completed.
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[News message: 30. Dec. 2012, 09:27] [Comments: 0]
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29.Dec.2012
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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Swedish magazine: Amiga Forum Nr. 3, issue 1 as PDF-download
Since July in Sweden a printed Amiga magazine has been available again. Now the third issue of "Amiga Forum" has been published and has 28 A5-pages, 12 of them coloured. With shipping the magazine costs 39 Swedish Kronen (about 5 Euro).
Issue 1 of the magazine is available as PDF-download.
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29.Dec.2012
MorphZone (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS / AROS: Game launcher eGame
Chris Handley's eGame, "(Portabl)E Game Launcher", is a list of all installed games for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86 with which you do not have to search through the respective directories (screenshot).
Download: eGame.lha (827 KB)
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27.Dec.2012
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Text processing software Scriba 1.4.0
Scriba is a text processing software which is still in development and written by Carsten Siegner (screenshots: 1, 2). Most important changes in version 1.4.0:
- Barcode/QR-code generator
- Labels/ visiting cards print system
- Input assistance for unicode-characters, additional to the ASCII-characters
Download: Scriba_1.4.0.lha (6,3 MB)
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27.Dec.2012
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: 1941 DX Dual Players 2.0.6
1941 DX Dual Player 2.0 is a new port of the arcade classic 1941: Counter Attack. The SDL-based game is commercially sold, a licence key costs 1,70 Euro. Already registered users can copy their keys to the new version.
The changes are listed under the title link.
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27.Dec.2012
Amiga Impact (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: KeyRythMe 1.0
KeyRythMe is a music programm for AmigaOS 4 written by Tony 'Sinisrus' Canazza (Screenshot). You can add sound files, mix them, play them in loops and add some effects. The result can be exported as MP3-files.
Download: KeyRythMe_V1.0_17-12-2012.lha (13 MB)
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27.Dec.2012
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Stratagus 2.2.7
After ports have been released for different Amiga systems during the past years, Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró has ported Stratagus to AROS. The screenshot shows the realtime strategy game Aleona's Tales 2.2.7 which was released in October for this engine.
Download: stratagus.7z (1 MB)
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[News message: 27. Dec. 2012, 07:36] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: KwaKwa 1.1 and NVM 0.8
Filip 'widelec' Maryjañski has updated two of his MorphOS-programms. Version 1.1 of the Instant Messenger called KwaKwa supports the Gadu-Gadu-protocol and includes bug fixes and new keyboard commands. With NVM you can download YouTube-subtitles. In version 0.8 a bug in the graphical user-interface was fixed.
Download:
kwakwa-1.1.lha (234 KB)
NVM-0.8.lha (36 KB)
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[News message: 26. Dec. 2012, 19:53] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Digital Universe 1.7
Under the menu item "Install Files" registered customers can download the new version 1.7 of the astronomy programm Digital Universe for AmigaOS 4. The changes are listed here.
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[News message: 26. Dec. 2012, 11:01] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Linux: Debian/68k reactivated
After years of inactivity, the 68k-version of the Linux-distribution Debian is supposed to be reactivated. Automatic packages for this architecture are being already generated.
If you are interested in helping and supporting this project then under the title link you can find further information. You are invited to contact the team via mailing-list or via IRC (#debian-68k via irc.oftc.net).
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[News message: 25. Dec. 2012, 08:37] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2012
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.18
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has released another update of the WebKit-engine based web browser Odyssey for MorphOS. Among others the HTML5-compatibility was increased and uploading documents to Google Docs and Drive was improved. All changes are listed in the Readme-file. As usual there is also a version without SVG-support which uses less memory.
Please note: If you have used instead of the version 1.17 from the website of the author the one from the MorphOS-CD 3.0/3.1, so please overwrite the file conf/font/fonts.conf during the installation.
Download:
owb-morphos-1.18.lha (26 MB)
owb-morphos-1.18-nosvg.lha (24 MB)
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24.Dec.2012
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Status report on G5-port
As a result of the bounty project two G5-PowerMacs as well as money have been donated for the port von MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now there is also a first status report.
wielkastopa wrote: "I got the first G5 machine set up on the 3rd of December and I have been busy with the MorphOS port since then. Basically the work so far has consisted of two major parts: Reorganising the Quark source code so that support for a second CPU architecture could be added and writing and testing all the code required to support the PPC64 architecture, and in particular the Powermac G5s.
The G5 is incompatible to regular PowerPC CPUs in a number of, for MorphOS, important aspects, both when it comes to the supervisor mode and the user mode. Unfortunately some of the supervisor mode incompatibilities have been done in such a way that executing code written for PPC32 on the G5 will run without errors, but subtle differences in the operation of some instructions caused problems with system stability which were hard to track down. The good news is that I believe that all of these problems have now been tracked down and the system is running stable. When it comes to user mode differences, the G5 is lacking CPU instructions which are widely used throughout MorphOS' 68k emulators. Luckily Piru did some changes there and the emulators should work fine on the G5 now, although I haven't really tested it.
So the status now is that the G5 boots to MorphOS and seems to run stable, however only USB and the on-board IDE interfaces are support by MorphOS drivers right now. The next things I will focus on is getting the on-board NIC and fan control working. Hopefully neither of those two will be particularly difficult, so that will likely be done some time this week."
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24.Dec.2012
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Amiga-News wishes Merry Christmas!
The team of Amiga-News wishes all Amiga-fans a Merry Christmas, relaxing holidays and a happy New Year!
Over 900 news in the year 2012 demonstrate that the world of the Amiga is still alive which probably nobody has expected after the decline of Commodore more than 18 years ago. On behalf of our readers we would like to thank all those who keep "our" Amiga alive.
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2012, 18:11] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2012
MorphOS auf Google+ (ANF)
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MorphOS Team raffles CD-boxes on Google+
In order to advertise for the "Official MorphOS Community on Google+" the MorphOS-team raffles three MorphOS-CD-boxes with "Google+ Limited Edition"-motive. Everybody who contributes something to one of the "streams" of the MorphOS Community on Google+ until January 24th can participate. The winners will be drawn by lot and notified on January 25th.
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24.Dec.2012
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EMail-client: YAM 2.8 for all Amiga-systems
The YAM-Open-Source-Team has released version 2.8 of the MUI-based mail programm. Among others a user now can create different "identities" and assign them to different SMTP-servers and signatures. Similar to other Mail-clients YAM now also has a folder "drafts".
You can find a detailed list of changes in the Readme-file which is included in the archive. YAM 2.8 is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and several AROS-branches (x86, x64, PPC).
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24.Dec.2012
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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EMail-client: SimpleMail 0.39
For years in time for Christmas an update of the mail programm SimpleMail has been released, so in 2012 as well. Version 0.39 is available for Amiga 3/4, a MorphOS-port will be released soon. Changes:
- Enhancement: Filter rules may be created now from attributes common in multiple mails
- Enhancement: Supports ATTACHMENT/K/M argument for both the command line and the MAILWRITE ARexx command
- Enhancement: Included more translations
- Bug fix: Fixed memory leak
- Bug fix: Various multi selection problems
The SimpleMail Team wishes you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2013!
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24.Dec.2012
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Javascript: Scripted Amiga Emulator 0.7
Rupert Hausberger's Scripted Amiga Emulator is written in Javascript and thus should run under all modern web browsers, but so far its completely supported by Chrome only.
Changes in version 0.7 (24.12.2012):
- Common:
- Chaned the project-name from 'Janus' to 'SAE' (Scripted Amiga Emulator)
- Separated the GUI form the core and rewrote most of it
- Simplified the whole code. This means, that functions are called faster
- Ported new Copper-, Blitter-, Audio-, Disk- and event-handling code from WinUAE 2.5.0
- Moved all "beam-functions" to events.js, for faster access
- Added "CPU usage" to the GUI
- Added "Hall of Fame"
- CPU:
- Added support for exact cycling. The CPU have now 7.09 MHz on PAL and 7.16 MHz on NTSC respectively
- Added option for "Original" and "Maximum" speed.
- Audio:
- Added a ring-buffer before output. No more "bagpipe"-like audio
- Added a option to just emulate the hardware, but not to play any sound, e.g. "Agony" was not starting, if audio was disabled
- Display:
- Switched from RGB to the 565 texture-format-encoding in WebGL, which gives a little more speed
- Added support and a option for 4x scaling
- Fixed screen-draging in lo-hires-modes
- Added a option to disable the output. Can be used to better play music-demos
- Disk:
- Added support for different speed-modes
- Added support for extended ADF-files
- Enabled write support (to memory)
- Input:
- The F-keys do work normaly now, i.e F5 doesn't reload the emulator, backspace doesn't go to the last page, etc.
- Fixed bug in the joystick-emulation
- New games in version 0.7:
- Alien Breed Special Edition 92
- Boby Blows Galactic
- Barbarian
- Dynablaster
- North'n'South
- Prince of Persia
- Project-X
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23.Dec.2012
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Gnumeric 1.10.17 for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has ported a new version of the spreadsheet Gnumeric for his X11-environment AmiCygnix (Screenshot). Changes in this update:
- New version 1.10.17 with many changes compared to the previous version 1.8.4.
- A Python-package version 2.7.2 was added.
- Compiled with GTK+ 2.24.
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2012, 23:35] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2012
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS: Distribution Broadway 0.86 "redux"
Version 0.86 of Pascal Papara's AROS-distribution Broadway now is available and called "redux" (Screenshot, Video). 1 GB RAM is required (640 MB might be sufficient).
Changes since Broadway 0.8:
- Updated systemfiles including ABI v1 backports by Deadwood
- New Boot-Menu to choose from Live/Rescue-mode, Installation and Webinstaller
- Updated applications and games
- Added new wallpapers, video and music
- Added some c64 music disc to be used with Vice
- IconScale allows to choose from 64x64, 32x32 and 48x48 Iconssets, so you change iconsize depending on your device/screensize
- Games G.E.M.Z and BOH added
- UI changes: Renamed "otherOS" submenu in quickstater to "Emulation" and splitted it into "computers" and "consoles"
- Standard-Iconsize is now 48x48 pixels
- Removed all gory games. Up2date will offer from January some optional App/Game packs and a development Environment
- Upd2date (the live-updater of Broadway) isn't active at the moment because of server changes. It will be reactivated for the first update
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2012, 16:05] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Windows: WinUAE game management Amigula 1.5.10.2 (beta version)
The game management Amigula (Amiga Games UAE Launcher, which was iGame for Windows before) is insipred by the WHDLoad-complement iGame and allows you to directly start games with WinUAE (Screenshot).
With version 1.5 it is possible to download additional information like date of release and screenshots and to delete single games from the database.
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2012, 13:03] [Comments: 0]
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