27.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: SPI controller for clockport announced
Under the title link Retro 7-bit has announced a SPI controller for the clockport. Using the "Serial Peripheral Interface" you can access SD cards. The corresponding video shows such a card with 2 GB, to which is accessed by the prototype of the controller on an Amiga 1200.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2018, 21:36] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2018
Qemu (ANF)
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Emulator: QEMU 2.12.0 emulates Sam460ex
According to the version history available under the title link, version 2.12.0 of the emulator QEMU, released three days ago, includes the feature of emulating the Sam460ex board produced by ACube Systems.
Any further details e.g. to the compatibility regarding diverse Amiga operating systems are not available. At least in September 2017, AROS and MorphOS did not work (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2018, 21:21] [Comments: 0]
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27.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: FCEU 1.7, GenesisPlus 1.9, Hu-Go 1.5
Kelly Samel - formerly known as company "Emerald Games", now operating as "Realstar Software" - has released updates of three of his MorphOS ports of emulators of Japanese game consoles.
FCE Ultra emulates the Nintendo-Entertainment-System (NES), GenesisPlus the Sega consoles Mega Drive, Sega CD, Master System as well as Game Gear and Hu-Go the PC Engine. Further details are available under the title link.
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[News message: 27. Apr. 2018, 21:08] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: Looking for help for verifying old bugs
The bugtracker of the WHDLoad team contains more than 1500 bugs which are partly very old. Bert Jahn, the author of WHDLoad, suspects that many of the bugs can be refered to e.g. the usage of cracked versions or buggy hardware. Other bugs have not sufficient details to be able to reconstruct the bug.
Jahn is going to reduce the amount of open bug report as far as possible. Therefore he asks users of WHDLoad to check some of the open bugs listed in the database and to give a feedback if they could be reconstructed. In this way the team can recognize which bugs have priority. Very old bugs which nobody could reconstruct will be deleted.
If users should find new problems with WHDLoad versions of games then they are asked to post them in the bugtracker instead of writing them in the forum.
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2018, 22:49] [Comments: 0]
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25.Apr.2018
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #46 - Interview with Robert Bernardo
The 46th issue of the Scene World Podcast offers an interview with Robert Bernardo. The US-American is chairman of the "Fresno Commodore User Group", attends several Commodore nd Amiga events worldwide and publishes videos of those meetings.
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[News message: 25. Apr. 2018, 22:19] [Comments: 0]
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23.Apr.2018
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Puzzle game: Block Off! (third preversion)
Colin Vella's Block Off! (Youtube video) is a puzzle game written in AMOS in which you have to move bricks of the same colour side by side. This preversion includes 14 levels. All users are invited to create new levels using the editor and to send them to the authors. Block Off! requires one Megabyte RAM. The game runs on an A500 but an Amiga 1200 is recommended.
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[News message: 23. Apr. 2018, 23:53] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Website)
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Obligement: Review of MorphOS-3.10 (French)
On the Obligement website, David Brunet has published a detailed article about version 3.10 of the operating system MorphOS in French (amiga-news.de reported). Automatic translations into other languages - e.g. English - are available by choosing the corresponding flags.
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2018, 18:24] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2018
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 21st, 2018:
gopherexx.lha comm/tcp 3K Gopher server for MiamiDX/AmiTCP
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 43K 68k Mediator driver for G3/G4 PCI...
gs2000AGAfix.lha game/patch 14K 68k Fixes Gunship 2000 AGA/CD32 w...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.2M MOS Sega Genesis and MasterSystem...
VICE-i386-AROS-3.1.ta... misc/emu 22M x86 Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
VICE-MorphOS-3.1.lha misc/emu 29M MOS Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
InstantZip_3.5.lha util/arc 201K MOS ZIP (un)packer + en-/decrypte...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 20K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2018, 18:10] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2018
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archive has been added to the OS4Depot until April 21st, 2018:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2018, 06:45] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2018
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until April 21st, 2018:
aiss.lha gra/ico 9Mb Toolbar images
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2018, 06:45] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2018
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 21.04.2018
The following archives have been added to the MorphOS Storage until April 21st, 2018:
GenesisPlus_1.8.lha Emulation Genesis-Plus emulates t...
VICE_3.1.lha Emulation The Versatile Commodore...
InstantZip_3.5.lha Files/Archive A ZIP packer / unpacker...
Anagramarama_0.5.lha Games/Think Anagramarama 0.5, multi...
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2018, 06:45] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2018
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.04.2018
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 April 21st, 2018:
- 2018-04-17 improved: Ode to Ramon 2 (Digital Force) illegal copperlist entries fixed, keyboard interrupt fixed, decruncher optimised, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info, Image)
- 2018-04-17 improved: Ode to Ramon (Digital Force) illegal copperlist entries fixed, keyboard interrupt fixed, decruncher optimised, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info, Image)
- 2018-04-16 improved: Odyssey (Audiogenic) fixed install script, removed debug code (Info)
- 2018-04-16 fixed: Speedball 2 CD?? (Renegade) fixed button not working on most joysticks (Info)
- 2018-04-16 improved: James Pond 2 - Robocod (Millennium) AGA support rewritten, fixed joypad handling, updated installer script (Info)
- 2018-04-15 improved: Shadoworlds (Krisalis) patch works with 0.5 MB chip and 0.6 MB other memory now, 68000 quitkey support, default quitkey changed to F10, WHDLoad v17+ features used, source code included, new install script (Info)
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2018, 06:45] [Comments: 0]
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22.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: WicherInstaller 1.8 for accelerator board Wicher 500i
For the accelerator board Wicher 500i produced by Retro 7-bit a software update has been relesaed. Version 1.8 now supports SD cards with more than 4 GB.
Download: WicherInstallerV1_8.lha (133 KB)
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[News message: 22. Apr. 2018, 06:44] [Comments: 0]
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21.Apr.2018
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Crowdfunding: History of Commodore - The Final Years
Started with Commodore: A Company on the Edge and Commodore: The Amiga Years, Brian Bagnall now is working on the thirs part of his triology about the history of Commodore.
According to Bagnall "this book is mostly written and now requires extensive editing and polish". He has started a campaign for crowdfunding the third volume: The book is supposed to be available at the end of the year.
So far 24,862 Euro were pledged and thus the goal of 15,906 Euro exceeded. Similar to the previous book "stretch goals" were defined like metallic foil stamp on spine, pages of color photos or embossed title on front cover which can be implemented if the required money will be donated. In order to achieve the same product quality, about 57.000 Euro have to be pre-financed by May 16th.
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[News message: 21. Apr. 2018, 23:36] [Comments: 0]
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20.Apr.2018
Vinnny (ANF)
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Demo scene: The Black Lotus released final version of Starstruck
12 years after the first release of "Starstruck" at the Assembly 2006 - the demo did win the competition - the scene group The Black Lotus has released a final version of it. According to the authors, the final version fixes some display errors. Additionally some optimizations of the performance, caused by an Atari-Falcon-port by MiKRO / Mystic, were back ported to the Amiga.
Starstruck requires an AGA Amiga with a 68060 (50 Mhz) and about 50 MB Fast-RAM. Graphic boards are not supported.
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[News message: 20. Apr. 2018, 23:56] [Comments: 0]
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20.Apr.2018
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris, beta 24
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the default mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. The program requires MorphOS 3.10. You can give feedback to the author using the corresponding discussion on Morphzone. Changes since our last news item:
Beta 24
- Email viewer displays some basic error on failure now, instead of just showing the loading animation forever
- Fixed: OAuth2 wouldn't always migrate to new settings correctly
- Fixed: OAuth2 could never complete in some cases
- Fixed: if the latest message in folder was removed on server, it was not removed from the local cache
Beta 23
- Reworked job priority queue to avoid situations where one has to wait for email contents for too long
- Folder full sync jobs can now be done in steps (unlocks email reading while syncing)
- Fixed email counts in the folder tree for IMAP
- Reworked autoconfiguration for OAuth2 providers
- Added Yahoo! Mail OAuth2 provider (does NOT work at the moment)
- Cut text (cmd+x) shortcut added to the email writer
- Revamped transport security settings - now a switch between TLS, STARTTLS and opportunistic STARTTLS
- When replying or forwarding mail, an appropriate flag on the source email is set
- Fixed: quick folder synchornization would call Close on a fh twice if ChangeMode() failed
- Fixed: Removing an account did not kill the entry from the settings list
- Fixed: After an account was removed but not removed from the list, collecting properties for the non-existing account threw exceptions
- Fixed: there was a rather nasty race condition in the main Session class
- Fixed: after adding a message to a folder and synchronizing the folder, each time it was synchronized, the message would duplicate in the index
Download: iris.lha (22,3 MB)
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[News message: 20. Apr. 2018, 23:47] [Comments: 0]
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19.Apr.2018
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 132 - preview and extracts
A preview and extracts from issue 132 (May/June 2018) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a "special" about "CD or not CD", ein fair report from the DoReCo and a review of Golden Wing.
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[News message: 19. Apr. 2018, 23:05] [Comments: 0]
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18.Apr.2018
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 85 (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 on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Bionic Commando", "Blue Max" and the educational game "Nations of the World: Australia".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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[News message: 18. Apr. 2018, 04:40] [Comments: 0]
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17.Apr.2018
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: InstantZip 3.5
Carsten Siegner's InstantZip (screenshot) is a graphical user-interface for PkZIP as well for the xad.library of MorphOS. In version 3.5 it is possible to create LhA archives (modifying will be added in a later version).
Download: InstantZip_3.5.lha (201 KB)
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[News message: 17. Apr. 2018, 02:32] [Comments: 0]
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16.Apr.2018
MorphZone (Webseite)
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Video: Survey on MorphOS 3.10
Dan Wood has released a video which introduces some of the new features of MorphOS 3.10. Besides, he demonstrates how to change the look of MorphOS in two simple steps.
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[News message: 16. Apr. 2018, 23:02] [Comments: 0]
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16.Apr.2018
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Full version: Foundation Gold as free download
The Amiga Future offers the full version of the Siedler clone Foundation Gold for free download - but a registration is required.
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[News message: 16. Apr. 2018, 22:58] [Comments: 0]
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