03.Nov.2019
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Computer case: Second batch of Checkmate 1500 Plus can be preordered
As announced, Stephen Jones will produce another batch of maximal 500 pieces. From the first batch, still 100 cases have to be delivered. These cases for the keyboard Amigas A500, A600 and A1200 now can be preordered. The delivery time is three up to six months. In a video Jones provides further details.
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03.Nov.2019
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.12
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's "Chrysalis" is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators and now is available in version 3.12 for MorphOS 3.12. An unchanged basic installation of the operating system is required.
Updates:
- Iris-Betaversion 69
- MPlayer 1.3.0
- WebRadio 1.10
- VidentiumPicta 2.0
- RNOTags 1.0
- RNOPDF 1.3
- ScummVM 2.1.0
- ACE 1.19
- WHDLOpener 1.3
- ModernArt 3.0
- Polybios 1.2
- HollywoodPlayer 8.0
- RNOInfoScreen 1.7
- AHX-1.3 plugin for Hollywood
Download: Chrysalis_3.12.iso (710 MB)
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01.Nov.2019
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Acquisition of Amiga: Summary of Mike Battilana's speech at Amiga34 (Update)
At the "Amiga 34" in Neuss, Mike Battilana spoke at last. On the timetable he was not announced as "Cloanto" but due to his acquisition of the rights from Amiga Inc. as "Amiga". We want to summarize the most important facts of his speech:
Mike Battilana underlined his efforts of collecting the whole Commodore heritage to establish a reunited company "Commodore-Amiga". Again he suggested the idea of a foundation as a possible legal form for a new "Amiga" parent company as well as to release the source codes of software developed by Commodore.
About all other plans he has to remain discret but probably he could help developers by providing free licences. To be on the safe side, he acquired the domain amiga.com twice - for the first time in the course of Amiga, Inc.'s acquisition but also for the second time from Vince Pfeifer.
He is not offended by AmigaOS 3.1.4 at all but he would have preferred to be released after the lawsuit. Besides, he thinks that it should be available for free because the developers also have not get any money. Finally it should lead to an open source project.
With regard to the legal dispute he has emphasized his interest of coming to an agreement and that he commnunicates with Hyperion's CEO Timothy de Groote daily and meets him on a monthly basis. They were on good terms.
With regard to P96 he explained that in his conversation with Jens Schönfeld a settlement has not been reached but he is glad that they talked and at least could clarify some details. Furthermore he pointed out that he himself would have never spoken about lawsuits. Instead, he would prefer to solve problems quietly.
He has also told how interesting it was having a look at the Commodore documents because the business processes in many ways were ahead of the times. His company has a large archive of internal, electronial Commodore documentation and communication but having an eye to the privacy of the parties involved it would be difficult to make it available. Maybe step by step the archive can be partly published.
Update: (18:23, 02.11.19, snx)
Correction of the final sentence about P96, which had been interpreted more liberally before. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Nov.2019
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- September/October 2019 news
- Old articles from Joystick Hedbo 16 to 33
- News: Deluxe Paint 3, the pixels masters
- News: Behind The Scene of Drakkhen
- Reviews: Hollywood Poker Pro, Circus Attractions, The Kristal, Robocop, Wrangler, Steve Davis World Snooker, F-16 Combat Pilot, News: Philippe Agripnidis manage Infogrames' products, Super Hang-On, Cosmic Pirate, etc.
- Interview with Matt Furniss (musician of Mortal Kombat and Speedball 2)
- Interview with Mark Ritter (developer of Workbench Explorer)
- Review of MorphOS 3.12
- Review of Spencer
- Review of OSMoSe 0.9.2
- Tutorial: installation of MorphOS (update)
- Tutorial: utilization of Flacapella
- File: the Amiga history of Team 17
- File: the Amiga on TV and cinema
- Point of view: my job at Commodore as Regional Product Demonstrator
- Special quizz about Aegis Development
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31.Oct.2019
Icke (a1k) (ANF)
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Crowdfunding: Mechanical Amiga-500/1200 keyboards
Similar to the project, announced by the A1200.net team, under the title link the Australian Liwei Guan offers a crowdfunding campaign for mechanical keyboards for the computers Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200.
They are meant as replacements for existing keyboards because the metal carrier and the controller are not included. Additional to the US/UK keycaps also German ones are planned - other languages will be offered if there is sufficient demand.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2019
Samuli Holopainen (ANF)
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Real-time strategy game: AI
Samuli Holopainen writes: AI was made for Christiandevs annual Speedgame 2019 competition where it became #1 in both categories of "Best Fun Game" (shared #1) and "Most Original Concept", in which AI scored the maximum score of 5 points. Overall ending however only at #3.
In AI you are in control of an AI sending Robots to kill Humans. There's a catch however, you cant control Robots individually, but you can only control from where and when to send Robots, and what ALL Robots will be targeting at any time and then Robots will themselves decide how to achieve it.
The version sent to the competition is not the same as this release version. This release version is worked a bit further, adding such features as Save Game (autosave), Upgrades, bug fixes, other tweaks, and the possibility to actually complete the game properly.
Notice, however, that this game does need a heavy machine, and no real AmigaOS 3.x machine is able to run this, AmigaOne X1000 or equivalent is recommended. Although if you don't mind a slower speed, then you could play this with some lower spec machines. In addition, there is also a possibility to make the speed faster for slower machines, but this happens with the cost of stability. You might be able to play this with for example lower-spec Sams but prepare for bugs then.
You can check a bit about this game (the competition version) from a video about all Speedgames.
As usual with my games, to support Indiego Appstore, this game will first be available only through Indiego Appstore. But it will be released to Aminet later as well. (snx)
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31.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 103 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Heavy Metal" and "Unreal".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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31.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga floppy reader: ADF-Copy 1.012
Dominik Tonn wrote: "ADF-Copy is a small hardware i developed which uses a Teensy 3.2 microcontroller to read and write non copy protected Amiga disks with an out of the box PC 3.5" Floppy drive connected to the microcontroller which can be build with a few jumper wires on a breadboard with no additional component. The low level stuff is handled in the microcontroller which is controlled by a Java application." (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 1.012 provides bug fixes for users of OpenJDK - if you use the original Java then you do not need this update.
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27.Oct.2019
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AmiWest 2019: Pictures and videos (3rd Update)
In this news item, which will be updated, we are collecting links to pictures and videos documenting the AmiWest 2019 taking place this weekend in Sacramento.
Videos:
- Developer conference, Kick off: Steven Solie speaking about ExecSG for the Amiga OS 4.1, filmed by Bernardo
- Developer conference, Follow-up of Steven Solie's speech on ExecSG, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Developer conference, Mark Ritters speaking about his text editor Struct, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Developer conference, Steven Solie summarizes the first day, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Developer conference, Tony Wyatt speaking about about programming graphic drivers for Amiga OS 4.1, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Developer conference, 2nd hour of the second day, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Developer conference, 3rd hour of the second day, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Presentation of Ron Nicholson one of the original developers of the Amiga, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Doug Compton speaking about his Amiga Art Contest 2019, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Doug Compton's second speech, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Alex Perez's speech about FloppyHaus and A.L.I.C.E, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Trevor Dickinson's speech about his AmigaOne plans, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Steven Solie's speech about ExecSG, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Tony Wyatt's speech, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- ExecSG questions answered by Trevor Dickinson and Steven Solie, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- Mike Battilana's speech, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- AmiWest 2019 banquet, filmed by Robert Bernardo
- AmiWest website listing the live streams of the event provided by Robert Bernardo
2nd Update: (19:50, 31.10.19, snx)
Video of questions and answers regarding ExecSG added.
3rd Update: (08:50, 17.11.19, snx)
Further videos added: Second and third hour of second day of the Developer conference, the banquet and the speech of Mike Battilana. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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27.Oct.2019
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmiWest 2019: Further details on ExecSG kernel of AmigaOS 4
In a forum entry under the title link, 'Number6' has summarized the texts of the PowerPoint slides of speeches made on the AmiWest 2019.
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27.Oct.2019
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Aminet-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 26th, 2019:
TheMurkyWoods.lha comm/cnet 32K 68k Text Adventure for C-Net BBS
AmiSpeedTest.lha comm/net 22K 68k Network speed test utility
amisynergyc.lha comm/net 109K OS4 An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
amisynergyc_src.lha comm/net 1.0M An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 18K IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs
C4P4CITOR_FINAL.lha demo/aga 2.4M 68k Invitro: Capacitor Party 4 by...
ToolShed.lha dev/cross 2.9M MOS A CoCo Cross-Development Toolset
Office_Test_1.3.lha dev/mui 681K MOS Demo program for office.mcc
AsciiMandelbrot.lha gfx/fract 75K MOS draw a Mandelbrot set in a co...
meditate.mp3 mods/kicko 33M Meditate
Vim_8.1-i386-aros.lha text/edit 9.3M x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-ppc-amigaos.lha text/edit 11M OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 11M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
aha.lha text/misc 417K MOS Ansi HTML Adapter
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 106K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 136K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
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27.Oct.2019
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 26th, 2019:
asciimandelbrot.lha gra/mis 75kb 4.0 Bench a Mandelbrot set in a cons...
morse.zip uti/sci 5Mb 4.0 You want to learn Morse language...
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27.Oct.2019
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 26th, 2019:
saintseiyarebirth.tgz gam/act 149Mb a game for openbor engine
quickrecord_drawer.tgz gra/ico 3kb ken's icons drawer
morse.i386-aros.zip uti/sci 5Mb You want to learn Morse language...
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27.Oct.2019
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until October 26th, 2019:
iMac_G5_Papiosaur_2.jpeg Hardware/iMac_G5 iMac_G5_Papiosaur_2.jpeg
MPlayer_1.3.0-20181121... Multimedia Build of MPlayer 1.3.0,...
MorphOS_SDK_3.14_20191... Development/SDK The MorphOS Development...
ToolShed_2.2.lha Development/Cross A CoCo Cross-Developmen...
Vim_8.1.2146.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
InstallerLG_0.1.0a39.ha System/Shell Commodore Installer rep...
AmiSpeedTest_0.5.lha Network/Test Network speed test utility
Iris_beta68.lha Email New email client suppor...
Office_test_1.3.lha Office/WordProcessor Demo program for office...
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27.Oct.2019
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.10.2019
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until October 26th, 2019:
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26.Oct.2019
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris, beta version 68
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. Among others this latest beta version now remembers used e-mail addresses and autocompletes them in the address line.
Meanwhile Iris requires MorphOS 3.12. If you want to provide feedback then please use the corresponding discussion on MorphZone.
Changes in beta 68:
- Fixed the HTML editor view being non-editable when opened without contents
- Fixed e-mail caching aggregating addresses with a different name but same e-mail together
- Fixed folder sorting when adding a new account
- Fixed a case where some folders wouldn't show up right after configuring a new GMail account
- Addressed a possible crash after dis/re-connecting to a store
Changes in beta 67:
- Implemented an e-mail address cache and e-mail inline completion in To/CC/BCC strings
- Added password/pin authentication to the crypto storage (where passwords and tokens are stored)
- Improved e-mail rich-text editor
- Updated Odyssey core, fixes spellchecking in the e-mail editor
- Migrated to OpenSSL 1.1.1c
- Updated VMime to the latest github state
- Switched to ObjFW runtime library
- Removed MorphOS 3.11 optimizations (enables better Unicode support in certain UI elements)
Download: iris.lha (21 MB)
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25.Oct.2019
Indie Retro News
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Playable demo version and preorder: Black Dawn Rebirth
The games of the der Black Dawn series are typical sind Dungeon Crawler similar to Dungeon Master. For the latest title "Black Dawn Rebirth" now a playable demo version is available. Additional the game which will be released on 1. December can be preordered: The download version is available for 13 Canadian Dollar (about 9 EUR) and an edition provided on six disks and printed manual in a paper box is available for 60 CAD (41 EUR).
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23.Oct.2019
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.1
An update for the web browser IBrowse has been released which fixes some minor problems introduced with version 2.5. Among others now also a native Javascript library is available for MorphOS.
- Updated Danish, Spanish and Swedish catalogs, by Niels Bache, Javier de las Rivas and Pär Boberg respectively
- Localised missing strings in spoofing preferences
- Fixed corruption in built-in MSIE User-Agent strings
- Tweaked the installer to make 2.5.x upgrades nicer
- The F5 key can now be used to reload a page
- JS: MorphOS native javascript.library available again
- 68k: Handle datatypes that expand 8-bit + transparent colour images to 32-bit RGBA (fixes our 256 colour icons having non-transparent magenta backgrounds in MorphOS)
- 68k: Full alpha channel support enabled for systems using CyberGraphX V51 or higher (MorphOS)
- OS4: Enabled 2.5 updates via AmiUpdate (exit IBrowse before performing any updates)
- Changed the default JPEG decoder swap memory limit from 1Mb to unlimited on OS4 and MorphOS
- Fixed NOTRANSPARENT tooltype being ignored for GUI images
- Fixed broken HTTPS proxy functionality, where incorrect hostname was used for SNI
- Fixed broken MUI 4/5 detection that was causing problems in TextEditField and preventing context-sensitive mouse points from working with MUI 3.x
- Added some workarounds in the install script so that it doesn't error with the MorphOS installer
- 68k: Now works again on Workbench 3.0, after incorrect requirement for keymaps.library V39 (Kickstart 3.0 has V37)
- 68k: Fixed crashes when external modules (e.g. codecs and protocols) fail to load for any reason
For owners of a license of IBrowse 2.5 the update is available for free. Users of AmigaOS 4 also can install the update using AmiUpdate.
A known problem are crashes of AmiSSL 4 on systems having a 68020 or 68030 processor without FPU. The developers hope that this bug will be fixed with the forthcoming version 4.4 of AmiSSL - but have to wait until it is done. Due to changes in the AmiSSL-API afterwards IBrowse 2.5 has to be adapted.
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23.Oct.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 141, preview and excerpts
A preview and excerpts of issue 141 (November/december 2019) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features "The Niggemann Files", ein report from the Gamescom 2019 und a review of the Vampire V4 'Standalone'. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Oct.2019
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz und andere (ANF)
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Crowdfunding: Updated 68k back-end for GCC
Currently the Gnu Compiler Collection (GCC) comverts the back-ends - this is the part of the compiler which creates the specific CPU code - to a new model (technical details in GCC-Wiki). The support for the old back-end model will be discontinued soon. This would mean that GCC 11, probably released in 2021, will not provide support for the m68k architecture.
In order to prevent it, at bountysource.com a crowdfunding campaign has been started which is supposed to encourage the developers porting the m68k back-end from GCC to the new model. Currently the funding target is nearly 3500 USD (about 3100 Euro).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Shoot'em Up: RESHOOT R Classic Disk Edition & AROS port
Press release: The development studio spielscherreiber and the publisher APC & TCP today announce the availability of the retro action game RESHOOT R in two new variants. From now on the game is also available as a floppy disk version under the name RESHOOT R Classic Disk Edition. This version is intended for all users who do not have a CD-ROM drive to their Amiga 1200 or Amiga 4000. The game can now be installed on hard disk by diskette.
In addition, a download version of RESHOOT R is now available for the AROS system. This version requires AROS with 100% AGA compatibility with 2MB of CHIP RAM. RESHOOT R AROS was also successfully tested on the Vampire V4.
In addition, the RESHOOT R mousepad and RESHOOT R poster have recently become available.
About RESHOOT R
RESHOOT R is a 2D horizontal shoot'em up in the style of the great arcade classics like Silkworm, R-Type and Gradius
Features
- developed and programmed by industry veteran Richard Löwenstein
- goes to the performance limit of Amiga CD32, 1200 and 4000
- Five themed stages in the elaborately designed retro design
- exciting attack waves and boss battles
- Extra weapons and powerups
- Multi-level scrolling, up to 100 objects on the screen
- 50 hertz refresh rate ensures a steady high speed
- more than 400 colors on the screen
- stimulating soundtrack and SFX simultaneously
- locally storable highscore list and internet ranking
- runs on standard hardware of the A1200, A4000 and CD32, no extensions necessary
- tested on Amiga systems with the following CPUs: 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060
System Requirements CD edition
- Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000 or CD32
- Joystick or CD32-compatible pad
- 2 MB Chipmemory, more memory is supported
- runs on compatible Amiga emulators under Windows, Mac and Linux
System Requirements Classic Disk edition
- Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000
- Floppy drive
- hard disk
- Joystick or CD32-compatible pad
- 2 MB Chipmemory, more memory is supported
System Requirements AROS edition
- AROS with 100% AGA compatibility with 2 MB CHIP RAM.
- Joystick or CD32-compatible pad
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