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03.Oct.2021



Aminet uploads until 02.10.2021
The following files have been added until 02.10.2021 to Aminet:
SonosController_MOS.lha  comm/misc  2.3M  MOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3.lha  comm/misc  2.0M  68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3fp... comm/misc  2.0M  68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS4.lha  comm/misc  2.8M  OS4 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_WOS.lha  comm/misc  2.4M  WOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
sedna2.lha               demo/aga   1.5M  68k 'Sedna2' by Venom (AGA)
speedmachine.lha         demo/aga   521K  68k Speedmachine (AGA)
vice.lha                 demo/ecs   189K  68k Vice
victory.lha              demo/ecs   237K  68k Victory
breakdown.lha            demo/intro 52K   68k Breakdown! (AGA)
broken_eyes.lha          demo/intro 51K   68k Broken Eyes (AGA)
Snow_Ninja.i386-aros.lha demo/misc  16M   x86 Demo from SSEP 2012
WakeUp_MOS.lha           demo/misc  8.6M  MOS Invitation to CAFe'2022
WakeUp_OS4.lha           demo/misc  8.9M  OS4 Invitation to CAFe'2022
F1GP2021Carset.lha       game/data  18K       2021 Carset for F1GP
MunchDude.lha            game/misc  6.2M  x86 An OpenGL game in the style o...
AMICUBE.adf              game/think 880K  68k Rubik's Cube for classic Amiga
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.4M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.6M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   4.8M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
UniDOS-Cartridge-68k.lha misc/emu   2.0M  68k Create Amstrad Plus UniDOS ca...
UniDOS-Cartridge-MOS.lha misc/emu   2.3M  MOS Create Amstrad Plus UniDOS ca...
UniDOS-Cartridge-OS4.lha misc/emu   2.7M  OS4 Create Amstrad Plus UniDOS ca...
xiffview.tgz             misc/unix  32K       IFF ILBM picture viewer for L...
MMV8_Complete.lha        mus/edit   1.7M  68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
MMV8_Player.lha          mus/play   33K   68k MusicMaker V8 Player
RNORadio.lha             mus/play   3.5M  MOS Internet radio player
GF4RSID8.zip             pix/misc   83K       Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
ASE2019_1.60.lha         text/edit  143K  68k Text editor
guideml.lha              text/hyper 189K  OS4  HTML converter with GUI
Alltests.zip             util/misc  286K  68k Automated Amiga Test Program
EjectADF11.lha           util/wb    38K   68k Add Eject commmand to OS 3.2 ...
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03.Oct.2021



OS4Depot uploads until 02.10.2021
The following files have been added until 02.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha      aud/mis 3Mb   4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your...
wakeup.lha               dem/sce 9Mb   4.1 Invitation to CAFe'2022
oo.lha                   dev/lib 1Mb   4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb   4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
whdload-to-uae.lha       emu/uti 207kb 4.1 WHDLoad to E-UAE
nmtm-solution.lha        gam/mis 9kb   4.0 The solution for the game No Mor...
pixy.lha                 gra/edi 7Mb   4.0 Pixel editor new generation
witchcleaner.lha         net/mis 2Mb   4.0 Clean temp data from OWB and IBr...
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03.Oct.2021



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.10.2021
The following files have been added until 02.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
RNORadio_1.3.lha          Audio/Players             RNORadio is a GUI based...
SonosController_1.1.lha   Devices/Speakers          Control your Sonos spea...
AmiArcadia_28.21.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
UniDOS-Cartridge_1.1.lha  Emulation                 Create Amstrad Plus Uni...
NMTM-solution.lha         Games/Adventure           This is the clues and s...
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03.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (website)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 125 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. (snx)

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02.Oct.2021
amigaworld.net


Video tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 3.2 under AmigaOS 4.1
In his latest YouTube tutorial Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has demonstrated how to install AmigaOS 3.2 under AmigaOS 4.1 on his AmigaOne X5000 via EUAE with JIT enabled. After installation, AmigaOS 3.2 is running with a screen resolution of 1920x1080x32. Additionally he installs also diverse hacks and patches. (dr)

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01.Oct.2021
Technology Blog


Programming: 'Rust'-Support for Motorola 68000 announced
As Golem reports, the Rust programming language has received experimental support for the Motorola 68000 CPU architecture and processor family for the first time, thanks to a LLVM port. The associated code has been contributed to the main branch of the language's open source repository.

Golem further points out, "Currently, the Rust port to the M68k architecture is still considered experimental and is arguably not complete. In addition, the compiler test suite is not tested by default and the team makes few guarantees that the port will work. For native builds, those involved currently recommend using Debian's M68k port in the documentation, as well as old machines with the CPU such as the Atari or Amiga.

Supported and mainly supervised the work on the LLVM port to the processor architecture, which is now about 40 years old, by a small team of volunteers. The most important goal of the work here is to support the retro computing scene with the work on the compiler. So, together with the Rust port, it will be possible in the future to run other modern software written in Rust on the cherished old computers." (dr)

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01.Oct.2021



Amiga-Emulator: Amiberry 4.1.5
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch.

After relasing several 'release candidates' (amiga-news.de reported), today version 4.1.5 was released providing several big fixes, improvements and among others also support for AmigaOS 3.2 ROMs. Detailed list of changes:
  • fixed pipeline typo
  • Added distro information to pre-compiled binaries
  • Removed more unused code
  • Speed up Fast Copper
  • More removal of unused code
  • Removed inactive code from custom.cpp
  • Updated whdload_db to latest version
  • Added RPI3 64-bit pipelines (inactive for now)
  • Updated Readme to reflect Makefile changes
  • Updated Azure Build pipelines with new platform names
  • Split rpi3/rpi4 64-bit builds to fix -mcpu wrong flag
  • #843: Don't change GUI Window size if we are in Full Screen mode
  • Reverted default sound mode to Push with increased bufffer. Pull caused glitches in some cases
  • Fixed bug causing full-window mode to always show as windowed
  • Fixed bug where if the GUI window was maximized and emulation started afterwards, the emulator would shut down
  • Fixed ShowMessage window would always change window size (it shouldn't if it was maximized)
  • Merged DrawBridge and GUI updates from dev
  • Added support for Kickstart 3.2 ROMs
  • #782: Brought back multithreaded drawing
  • VS project cleanup
  • Don't resize window if it's maximized
  • Changed "default_fullscreen" option to "default_fullscreen_mode" and made it into an integer. It now controls 3 states: Windowed (0), Fullscreen (1) or Full-Window (2).
  • #454: Added Warp and Quick Save State functions in Custom Controls
  • #501: Implemented Warp mode for SDL2 (End + Pause to trigger)
  • #821: Added default option for sound pull mode in amiberry.conf
  • Added copyright and license info in About panel
  • #841: Added label to show timestamp of selected savestate
  • #841: Increased Savestates to 15
  • Updated Remote deploy/build settings
  • Fixed #824: Dispmanx would show black screen if loading another config with different screen dimensions
  • DMX: initialize variable
  • DMX: Remove unused function
  • #805: Renamed and fixed Menu to Guide button, in Custom controls
  • #805: Don't hardcode the controller Guide button to open GUI always
  • #822: Use menu button from mapping instead of hardcoded SDL2 "GUIDE" button
  • #827: Improved navigation in HDD panels
  • #827: Implemented scrolling with controller/keyboard in master
  • #827: Reduced width of Serial Port group
  • #827: Get rid of horizontal scrollbar in Misc panel
  • Fixed #823: Controller in Mouse mode didn't trigger Retroarch Quit combo
  • Fixed select button reading would pass wrong Joy ID to function
  • Don't attempt to read from non-existing joysticks
  • Set Input Mouse/Joystick autoswitch to disabled by default
  • Added generic Cortex-A9 32-bit target
  • Ensure hotkey_pressed is reset after it was triggered to enter the GUI (@mrfixit2001)
  • Added CDTV as a command line option in --model
  • Change default sound buffer properly
  • Revert "Changed default audio buffer size to 4KB instead of 16KB"
  • Retroarch: Change button mapping loop to fixed value instead of depending on external variable
  • Changed default audio buffer size to 4KB instead of 16KB
  • Updated pipelines from dev
  • Updated build pipelines
  • Removed VisualGDB solution from repo
  • Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file
  • Revert "Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file"
  • Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file
  • Cherry picked recent updates from dev branch
  • DMX: Don't remove blackscreen_element during subshutdown
  • #825: back-ported improvements to master branch
  • #827: Navigation cleanup in Floppy panel
  • #827: Fixed Sound panel navigation glitches
  • #812: Backported fix to master branch
  • Backport fix for #825 to 4.1.4
  • Retain version information in optimized builds also
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29.Sep.2021
exec.pl


m68k assembler support: Plugins for JetBrain and Visual Studio IDEs
Recently we reported, that Chris 'platon42' Hodges is developing a (e.g. USB-Stack Poseidon) Plugin for the integrated development environment (IDE) of Jetbrains (e.g. CLion and IntelliJ for Windows, Mac OS and Linux) providing support for m68k assembler. It equips the IDEs with syntax highlighting and code refactoring capability for Motorola's instruction set.

This project also is available on GitHub and meanwhile the plugin is available as version 0.7 providing the following changes:
  • Bugfix: 'btst' with pc-relative and weird immediate mode was missing (courtesy of Yann).
  • Bugfix: 'movem' with pc-relative mode was missing for weird immediate mode (courtesy of Yann).
  • Bugfix: Special registers for address mode matching only worked with lower case register names (courtesy of Yann).
  • Enhancement: Assembler syntax with implicit immediate 1 for shifts and rotations no longer cause syntax errors (courtesy of Yann).
  • Enhancement: Documentation for instruction with special register shows specific register expected.
  • New: Added documentation provider info for global labels. Shows directives and comments above.
  • Bugfix: Fixed BNF for labels with preprocessor statements.
  • Disabled: 'END' detection was breaking parsing, causing havoc.
  • Full changelog available at Github project site.
There is also a second, similar approach of the JetBrains employee Yann Cébron. However, there is no public version yet.

For Microsoft's IDE Visual Studio (among other supporting Visual Basic.NET, C, C++, C++/CLI, C++/CX, C#, F#, SQL Server, TypeScript and Python as well as HTML, JavaScript and CSS), there is also an extension providing support for Amiga's assembler language. (dr)

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28.Sep.2021



Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.1 (OS3/4, MorphOS)
Known for his workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp had released his first Amiga program at the beginning of August, which is used to control Sonos speakers: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released version 1.1 for his program written in the programming language Hollywood, which for the first time is available for AmigaOS 3 in addition to AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS and includes the following changes:
  • NEW: first release for AmigaOS 3.x besides 4.1 and MorphOS
  • NEW: lots of performance improvements to make it usable on a 68060 cpu, resulting in being blazingly fast on PPC-Amigas.
  • NEW: MUI 3.8 compatibility (instead of 5.0)
  • NEW: zones (= rooms) are now saved in the config file so when starting the app the next time no network scan is necessary, resulting in a much quicker startup.
  • NEW: to save on network traffic and CPU load, loading of the current queue can now be deactivated in the Preferences.
  • NEW: network scan can now be cancelled and it's no longer possible to start a second scan while one is already running (this led to speakers being listed multiple times in v1.0).
  • NEW: queue lists are now cached in memory and are only reloaded if a change has been reported by the according UPNP event.
  • NEW: various zone values are now cached in memory and are no longer reloaded when switching between zones.
  • NEW: loading of album art for radio stations
  • NEW: timeout for UPNP subscription has been increased from 10 minutes to 1 hour (same as with the original Sonos app).
  • NEW: added progress in percent while loading a list in the music source
  • NEW: added the possibility to cancel loading a list in the music source
  • NEW: "Settings" menu to accomodate the menuitems "Preferences..." and "MUI..."
  • NEW: "About MUI..." menuitem to follow the MUI styleguide
  • CHANGED: shortcuts for "Next" / "Previous" from Ctrl-LEFT/RIGHT to Alt-LEFT/RIGHT because on an Amiga keyboard the Ctrl key is quite far away from the cursor keys.
  • REMOVED: browsing the music library by song: it was useless and took ages, it's much better to use the search instead.
  • FIXED: renewal of UPNP subscription as well as unsubscription
  • FIXED: TV input is now handled correctly.
  • FIXED: improved handling when clicking like mad into the track position slider.
  • FIXED: disable play button if action "Play" is not available
  • FIXED: lots of minor bugfixes
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27.Sep.2021
Jörg 'Torque' Klopsch


AmigaPortal.de: Relaunch of website
In June 2019 the blogger, YouTuber and Amiga fan Jörg 'Torque' Klopsch started the Amigaportal.de. After it was not available for quite a while due to various problems, it has now been relaunched and now offers the possibility for discussion and talks. (dr)

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27.Sep.2021



Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 Beta 3
At the end of May developer Dirk Hoffmann released version 1.0 of his Amiga emulator for macOS. With the release of the first betaversion for version 1.1 he continued the development. Now beta version 3 is available, with the following changes:
  • Compatibility enhancements:
    • Fixed a bug related to reading the BLTDDAT register.
    • Fixed a bug related to the computation of the DDF window.
    • Fixed a bug related to dropping register writes when DMA is performed at the same time.
  • GUI:
    • Fixed a display bug in the Denise debug panel (BPLCON2 showed wrong values)
  • From now on, vAmiga distinguishes two OCS Agnus revisions (A1000 and A500/2000).
  • Fixed a bug that generated erroneous bitmap blocks on disks created by importing single files or directories.
(dr)

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26.Sep.2021
gooofy (comment)


BASIC compiler: AQB 0.7.2
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively.

In version 0.7.2, besides further function calls and bugfixes, an online documentation in AmigaGuide format has been added and the Auto-Format feature fine-tuned. Most formattings and spellings of identifiers are preserved now. Keywords are still recognized and turned into upper case letters, indentations are carried out automatically and folding is also still supported. (snx)

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26.Sep.2021



Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.60
By releasing version 1.2 (2019), at the end of the last year Alain Fontanin has resumed the development of his "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE) which originally started in 1989.

The author constantly develops his text editor further and now has released version 1.60 with the following changes:
  • AmigaOS version 3.2 is correctly detected at launch;
  • Taking into account of the thousands separator in the display of numbers (locale.library);
  • First version of the 'Configure PFKey' functionality: visualization of the PFKey configuration;
  • Possibility to configure the TAB key to insert spaces;
  • Ability to automatically decompress tabs when reading a file;
  • Addition of 4 new ARexx functions (PrepareCancelLines, GetSelCharLine, GetSelCharStart and GetSelCharEnd);
  • Removal of menu shortcuts using French characters (eg: é, ç, à);
  • Correction of a bug preventing the entry (except ASCII or PFKey functions) of the characters [] {} and not taking into account the numeric keypad keys associated with the SHIFT key.
  • Possibility to define the unit associated with the clipboard;
  • Management of DOS comment for files;
  • Management of recent documents (last 10 open documents).
(dr)

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26.Sep.2021



Aminet uploads until 25.09.2021
The following files have been added until 25.09.2021 to Aminet:
AmiGemini.lha            comm/net   72K   68k Gemini protocol browser
aqb.lha                  dev/basic  204K  68k A BASIC Compiler+IDE for Amig...
F1GP2021Carset.lha       game/data  18K       2021 Carset for F1GP
nblood.lha               game/shoot 1.0M  68k Blood
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.2M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MMV8_Complete.lha        mus/edit   1.7M  68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
EP_MMV8.lha              mus/play   15K   68k MusicMakerV8 player for Eagle...
imp3.lha                 mus/play   28K   MOS Do stuff on Amiga!
MMV8_2_PCM.lha           mus/play   9K    68k MusicMaker V8 to PCM converter
MMV8_Deliplayer.lha      mus/play   5K    68k MusicMakerV8 Deliplayer for D...
MMV8_Player.lha          mus/play   33K   68k MusicMaker V8 Player
UADE_MMV8.lha            mus/play   15K   68k MusicMakerV8 players for UADE
Nifty3.2.lha             pix/misc   25K       A new mouse pointer preset fo...
TestProgram.zip          util/misc  123K  68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
usbdevs.lha              util/rexx  373K      Vendor and product of USB device
VirusZ.lha               util/virus 112K  68k VirusZ III 1.04ß - Antivirus ...
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26.Sep.2021



OS4Depot uploads until 25.09.2021
The following files have been added until 25.09.2021 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
nmtm-solution.lha        gam/mis 9kb   4.0 The solution for the game No Mor...
pixy.lha                 gra/edi 4Mb   4.0 Pixel editor new generation
witchcleaner.lha         net/mis 2Mb   4.0 Clean temp data from OWB and IBr...
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26.Sep.2021



AROS Archives uploads until 25.09.2021
The following files have been added until 25.09.2021 to AROS Archives:
boingdemo.i386-aros.lha      dem/int 5Mb   A recreation of the Amiga Boing ...
dwitvs.i386-aros.lha         dem/int 162kb 4K source intro
hogwagen.i386-aros.lha       dem/int 171kb 4K source intro
jylam.i386-aros.lha          dem/int 147kb 4K source intro
newvox.i386-aros.lha         dem/mis 193kb Voxel-style landscape SDL render...
antiryadgx4_9_install_2.zip  dev/uti 290Mb 2D/3D Game Engine
nmtm.lzx                     gam/adv 16Mb  Point and click adventure game
africa.i386-aros.zip         gam/boa 299kb Conversion of 3W board game
framebuild-0.5.zip           gra/mis 39kb  Builds list of selected .jpg fil...
doboing.i386-aros.lha        gra/ray 111kb Generate Boing Ball 3D objects
simplemail-0.37-aros-i386... net/ema 842kb IMAP POP3 Client Email
arsfsdoctor_v1.zip           uti/fil 87kb  SFS Recovery Application
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26.Sep.2021



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.09.2021
The following files have been added until 25.09.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
IMP_3.28.lha              Audio/Players             Play modules from inter...
SonicCD_RSDKv3_1.3.0.lha  Games/Platform            A Full Decompilation of...
Wayfarer_2.7.lha          Network/Web               Wayfarer is the latest ...
Witchcleaner_2.10.lha     Network/Web               A little and easy progr...
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26.Sep.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)


Game: Point'n'click adventure CyberSphere available
CyberSphere is a Point'n'click-Adventure sold as boxed game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86 (as well as Windows, Mac OS and Linux; amiga-news.de reported), in which you have to traverse a city, its underground and outskirts to find out what has happened to you in the previous days after having awaken in your apartment with a headache and missing memory.

Languages of the game are Italian, English and French, required are 512 MB (2 GB for AROS) RAM and 100 MB of free space on the hard disk. (snx)

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25.Sep.2021



Puzzle game: Crazy Columns 1.03
Jochen Hoffer keeps on working on his port of the Sega classic 'Columns' (Video) and has released version 1.03 (amiga-news.de reported).

In the new version the input in the highscore has been revised. Now the input is not terminated when pressing the fire button or the corresponding keys. Only at the last position of the name, the input is completed. Once you have entered a name in the highscore and confirmed the entry, an Online Key will appear on the screen. This can now be entered in the online highscore.

Furthermore the online highscore can be downloaded now to see the rankings even on the Amiga. This file highscore.dat can be copied on the disk or HD.

Direct download: CrazyColumns.v1.03.adf (880 KB)
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24.Sep.2021



Music: C64 & Amiga Game Music Remade as Epic Film Scores
The independent video game developer Prismatic Realms has officially started its Kickstarter website for financing the very special music album 'Epic Action Vol. 1': C64 & Amiga Game Music Remade as Epic Film Scores. The following Amiga games will be used:
  • Lost Patrol
  • Dune - Ecolove
  • HeroQuest
  • Nicky Boom
  • Shadow of the Beast
  • Turrican II - The Desert Rocks
  • Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
  • Another World
A first impression you can get by listening to five samples via Soundcloud, among others 'Lost Patrol' and 'Dune'.

About the background of the project the initiators wrote:

"Epic Action is our fantasy music album project that focuses on melding two genres together that we believe are a perfect fit: Classic Video Game Music and Epic Hollywood-style Action Film Scores.

Growing up, we were blown away by some of the music that classic computer systems were able to produce. Since you are here, chances are you were too! Rob Hubbard, David Whittaker and the late Ben Daglish (among many others) were prolific composers on the C64 and Amiga scenes. So much so that their game music tracks are still listened to, remixed and remade to this very day.

At the same time, we are a big fan of Hollywood action films. John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Alan Silvestri and many others are responsible for helping turn great movies into experiences that are bigger than life by scoring riveting masterpieces that leave you on the edge of your seat.

The idea behind this album is to deftly combine those two worlds. We've brought together talented and hard-working folks to turn this concept into reality. It is our hope that you find this project as interesting and exciting as we do and we thank you for your support!" (dr)

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21.Sep.2021



MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.7
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has updated his web browser Wayfarer to version 2.7: Changes:
  • Worked around random crashes that may have been observed in 2.6
  • Significantly improved performance of various threading checks across WebKit
  • Worked around an issue in objc runtime that caused Wayfarer to stall during download notifications. Do note that notifications must be reconfigured in Magic Beacon as some keywords have changed.
  • Improved handling of websites that constatly request http auth credentials instead of caching the state
(dr)

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