29.Jun.2011
Richie (ANF)
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aoOCS: Amiga-OCS-reimplementation based on Wishbone
With aoOCS a reimplementation of most of the functions of the Amiga original chip set (OCS) and of the computer itself was published on opencores.org.
This is compatible to Wishbone. Currently aoOCS runs on FPGA-boards of a Terasic DE2-70.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Jun. 2011, 08:11] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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ACube at CusPlay (2. and 3. July, Pisa/Italy)
On 2. and 3. July in Pisa the CusPlay will take place which is an event for retrogamer, comic fans and cosplayer. ACube will take part and present the Minimig as well as the Sam4x0-models.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Jun. 2011, 17:17] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jun.2011
Andreas Hirsing (ANF)
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Amiga-Demos as video stream
Andreas Hirsing has created a video stream with a website on which Amiga demos and Amiga mods can be played.
In the end a video stream is supposed to be created which only consists of free clips.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Jun. 2011, 22:26] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jun.2011
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet Gnumeric 1.8.4 for AmiCygnix
Edgar Schwan has ported a new version of the spreadsheet Gnumeric for his X11-environment AmiCygnix (screenshots: 1, 2). Changes:
- New version 1.8.4 with many changes.
- Support of Python-plugins. A special Python package is included.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 27. Jun. 2011, 19:57] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jun.2011
PPA (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Fortis 1.2
Fortis by Encore Games is a 2D-Shooter with 3D-background which is similar to the Amiga classic Super Stardust. The MorphOS version can be downloaded for free. If you ant to register the game you either can purchase the iPhone-/iPod-version or to advertise for the game.
In version 1.2 less processor performance is used and support of USB-joysticks was added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jun. 2011, 07:43] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jun.2011
Richie (ANF)
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Viva Amiga: Appeal for donations for documentary
Viva Amiga is a documentary film of the American Zach Weddington.
Under the title link an appeal for donations was started in order to be able to continue the filming. After meetings with Jeff Porter, Dave Haynie, Bil Herd and Andy Finkel, RJ Mical and Eric Schwartz will be interviewed as well.
Until 20. July at least 25.000 US-Dollar are required and already 62 % were donated. You need to have a credit card. (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jun. 2011, 07:16] [Comments: 0]
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26.Jun.2011
Richie (ANF)
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Retrospect: Jeri Ellsworth's "Amiga on a Chip"-project
In a clip on Youtube, Jeri Ellsworth presented her (not working any longer) "Amiga on a Chip"-prototype which similar to other projects emulates the customchips of the Amiga in a FPGA to make possible a remake of the computer.
The project is from the year 2005 and apparently was meant as successor of the C64 DTV. The interested producer canceled because of the low demand for such a toy. (cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. Jun. 2011, 03:50] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jun.2011
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Web-Browser: Netsurf 2.7
Artur Jarosik has published a new update of the AmigaOS-port of the browser NetSurf. Some features of the original project were implemented now and additionally these improvements were added:
- added dropdown Url textbox showing recently entered addreses (beta;)
- information of each button function
- linked with libpng 1.2.44
- linked with libjpeg v8c
- cookie support for ppa.pl
- restart by clicking on reload with RMB or F7
- quick play multimedia using GetVideo with F4
- proper display of scalled images (eg. amiga.org poll bars)
- possible speedup by setting incremental_reflow to 0
(needs experimenting)
- labels for bookmarks
- compiled for 060
- save page as pdf
- ffplay with gui (port by Piotr Bandurski)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Jun. 2011, 16:19] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Hyperion takes part in AmiWest 2011
According to Brian Deneen, chairman of the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club, Steven Solie who is chef of the AmigaOS-4 developer team will take part in the AmiWest as representative for Hyperion Entertainment.
The British trader AmigaKit will take part as well.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jun. 2011, 20:57] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: AssaultCube ported / Patch for Icaros 1.3
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz has ported the game AssaultCube.
Similar to Cube, AssaultCube requires version 17 of the mesa.library which is available under the title link. For version 1.3 of the AROS-distribution Icaros a patch was published which fixes some bugs as well.
Download:
cube-20050829.i386-aros.zip (31 MB)
assaultcube-1.1.0.4.i386-aros.zip (45 MB)
mesa.library-V17.zip (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jun. 2011, 07:07] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2011
Floppy (Forum)
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AROS: Emulator updates
This month the following emulators for AROS were ported or updated:
- FCEU 0.98.11:
Nintendo-Famicom/NES-emulator, ported by Yannick Erb
- FUSE 1.0.0.1: ZX-Spectrum-emulator, ported by Miloslav Martinka
- KEGS 0.64: KEGS-Apple-IIGs-emulator, ported by Yannick Erb
- VBA 1.7.2: Gameboy-Advance-emulator, ported with the latest SDL.library (with sound) by Matthias Rustler
- ZSNES 1.51: SuperNES-emulator, ported by Yannick Erb
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jun. 2011, 06:50] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2011
AROS-Mailingliste
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AROS: Integration to Amiga Forever in progress
Michael C. Battilana has announced to integrate ther open-source operating system AROS to Cloanto's complete package Amiga Forever and has published a screenshot.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jun. 2011, 06:33] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jun.2011
RJernigan/dzone (ANF)
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Free eBooks for C/C++-programmers
Under the title link six free eBooks for C/C++-programmers are available.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jun. 2011, 17:17] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jun.2011
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0 (2011.06.04)
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published an update of his MorphOS-port of the movie player MPlayer.
Download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2011.06.04.lha (15 MB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jun. 2011, 16:51] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jun.2011
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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MorphOS: Lua meets ARexx
Grzegorz Kraszewski's ipc.module is a new MorphOS-specific extension for his port of the scripting language Lua. The MorphOS port, which just reached version 0.5, is highly customized one and very well integrated with the operating system.
The purpose of ipc.module is to interface Lua with ARexx ports in applications. Sending ARexx commands and receiving results in Lua scripts is now very easy.
A proof of concept included to the archive is a Lua version of "love.rx" script from TVPaint. It may be executed with exactly the same result as the original one's, but a bit faster. It also shows that legacy 68k applications may be scripted in Lua as well as PPC native ones. (snx)
[News message: 21. Jun. 2011, 17:36] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: GfxBench2D
Hans de Ruiter's GfxBench2D is a benchmarking tool for 2D graphics and also a web-app for displaying results uploaded by the benchmarking tool, giving opportunity to see some real data on graphics card performance for a wide range of graphics cards and AmigaOS 4 systems
Some results are already available at the title link. For example the Radeon X1950 Pro, being the last high performance card to include a dedicated 2D blitter unit, is currently leading the benchmark table. (snx)
[News message: 21. Jun. 2011, 17:22] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Blender 2.48.3
Andy Broad has published an update of his AmigaOS-4 port of Blender which includes several minor bug fixes and now requires less memory. According to the author Renderer now also works on "Classic"-versions of AmigaOS 4.1.
Download: blender.lha (46 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jun. 2011, 19:41] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jun.2011
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PUAE: Snapshot of version 2.3.1 WIP for Mac OS X/x86
With PUAE Mustafa 'GnoStiC' Tufan tries to implement the features of recent WinUAE-versions to UAE. The version of PUAE is based on the actual implemented version of WinUAE.
Under the title link a beta version of PUAE for Mac OS X can be downloaded. It is "development snapshot" and therefore you will use it at your own risk.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jun. 2011, 16:56] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jun.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Nintendo-Emulator A/NES Pro 1.14
Version 1.14 of the Nintendo emulator for faster Amiga systems (starting with 68060/50 MHz) called A/NES Pro is available:
- CPU: cmp ($xx,x) bugfixed
- CPU: Stackhandler bugfixed (fixes "Slalom")
- Massive rewrite of CPU clockcycle timings (=better compability)
- Reading from CHRROM was broken. Fixed
- Mapper 3 initcode was broken (fixes Dragon Quest(J).)
- Lots of PPU compability fixes
- Mappers that are not emulated now carries a "(!)" sign in the GUI
- Added mapper 184 (95%)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jun. 2011, 16:02] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jun.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IceFileSystem 2.6
IceFS is a 64-Bit filesystem for MorphOS.
In version 2.6 some minor bugs were fixed:
- Setting file comments broke in 2.5, fixed
- A potential notification issue fixed
- A potential issue with early requesters fixed
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 20. Jun. 2011, 15:59] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (website)
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AROS: AHCI SATA Driver bounty assigned
The AHCI SATA Driver bounty has been assigned to Jason McMullan, who has already a proven track record in AROS community by working previously on m68k port of AROS and completing the Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase I) bounty.
The bounty aims at extending AROS with hot-swappable support for AHCI SATA storage devices. So far, 409 US-Dollars have been donated to this bounty project. (snx)
[News message: 19. Jun. 2011, 18:24] [Comments: 0]
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