21.Sep.2017
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Amiga disks on PC: Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer
Similar to ADF Drive, Robert Smith's project called "Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer" also uses a micro controller - in this case an Arduino board - in order to be able reading and writing Amiga disks with an ordinary PC disk drive.
All documents of Smith's project also are available under free licences. So far the Arduino Reader/Writer only can read or write whole disks. On his website there is detailed report about the history of his project.
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18.Sep.2017
generationamiga.com (ANF)
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Guest appearance: AmigaOne X5000 in an ad for hair salons
According to Trevor Dickinson in his latest blog entry, Amiga fan and filmemaker Charles Paek has asked him if A-EON could provide a X5000 for a professional advertising spot for a chain of hair salons as a prop. Of course Dickinson could and therefore the X5000 now can be seen in the latest advertising spot for the US-American "Supercuts" which has 9000 branches.
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17.Sep.2017
BackToTopic (Kommentar)
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Open source hardware: CD³² extension TerribleFire 328
TerribleFire products are open source hardware developed by Stephen Leary (e.g. accelerator board TF530). A month ago under the title link a beta version of the TF328 was published which is an extension board for the Amiga CD³² providing 8 MB RAM and IDE-controller.
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17.Sep.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: First prototype of CD³² extension Wicher CD³² working
According to Retro 7-bit under the title link, the first prototype of the CD³² extension "Wicher CD³²" is working. The card for the expansion slot of the Amiga console and for the Riser board (Retro 7-bit) has 8 MB RAM, an IDE-controller and a clock port.
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17.Sep.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until September 16th, 2017:
IBrowse1.0-1.1-68000.lha comm/www 320K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.0 to 1.1 (68000)
IBrowse1.0-1.1-68020.lha comm/www 436K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.0 to 1.1 (68020)
IBrowse1.02-1.1-68000... comm/www 288K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.02 to 1.1 (68...
IBrowse1.02-1.1-68020... comm/www 402K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.02 to 1.1 (68...
IBrowse1.1-1.11-68000... comm/www 232K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.1 to 1.11 (68...
IBrowse1.1-1.11-68020... comm/www 347K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.1 to 1.11 (68...
IBrowse1.x-1.22-68000... comm/www 596K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.1, 1.12, or 1...
IBrowse1.x-1.22-68020... comm/www 822K 68k Patch IBrowse 1.1, 1.12, or 1...
HWP_RebelSDL.lha dev/hwood 5.1M MOS SDL scripting with Hollywood
Epub_mcc.0.3.lha dev/mui 160K MOS A Epub MUI Class
Empty_HDF_files.lha disk/misc 23K Seven empty HDF image files
Africa.lha game/board 290K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 322K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 340K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
CodeWar-MOS.lha game/misc 262K MOS CRobots-style programming game
CodeWar-OS3.lha game/misc 272K 68k CRobots-style programming game
CodeWar-OS4.lha game/misc 251K OS4 CRobots-style programming game
anespro.lha misc/emu 100K 68k A/NES PRO - NES/FAMICOM emulator
R2Z_68k.lha misc/sci 1.3M 68k Test your reaction times
R2Z_AROS_intel.lha misc/sci 1.5M x86 Test your reaction times
R2Z_MorphOS.lha misc/sci 1.4M MOS Test your reaction times
sphere.zip pix/icon 776K round/transparent icon set
Daysleeper_1-0.lha util/wb 1.5M MOS Shutdown/reboot at selected time
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17.Sep.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until September 16th, 2017:
africa.lha gam/boa 340kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
alephone_sdl2.lha gam/fps 4Mb 4.1 SDL2 version of Marathon engine
ioquake3_sdl2.lha gam/fps 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 version of Quake 3 engine
codewar.lha gam/mis 251kb 4.0 CRobots-style programming game
smb_sdl2.lha gam/pla 818kb 4.1 SDL2 conversion of SMB
getversion.lha uti/she 28kb 4.1 Shell/CLI cmd to show version st...
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17.Sep.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.09.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until September 16th, 2017:
lander.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 3Mb OpenGL Lunar Lander clone.
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17.Sep.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.09.2017
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 September 16th, 2017:
- 2017-09-16 improved: Heart Of China (Dynamix) slave requires more memory for music, QuitKey added for 68000, access fault removed (Info)
- 2017-09-15 improved: The Sentinel / The Sentry (Firebird) Blitter wait added, RawDIC imager, interrupt fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2017-09-14 fixed: Amnios (Psygnosis) disk access removed, access fault in intro fixed, CIA access fixed (Info)
- 2017-09-12 improved: The Ultimate Pinball Quest (Infogrames) keyboard problems fixes, blitter waits added, illegal copperlist entries fixed, writes to DMACONR fixed, byte write to COPJMP2 fixed, writes to Beamcon0 disabled (Info)
- 2017-09-12 new: Home Alone (Capstone) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2017-09-11 improved: Megademo 2 (Darkness) another version supported (Info, Image)
- 2017-09-11 fixed: Sound of Music 7 (Cave) access fault fixed (Info, Image)
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17.Sep.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 78 (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 "Arabian Nights" and "Escape from Coldtiz" and the collection of files and documentation about scheince called "Weird Science: Out-of-the-Net".
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17.Sep.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.9.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" (video) "is a program to explore and manipulate files, links and drawers of your Amiga."
In version 3.9.0 among others it is now possible to "explore archive content, while taking advantage of Dir Me Up features: list or icon view, filter, sort, preview, thumbnails, copy" and so on.
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16.Sep.2017
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Bitmap paint program: GrafX2
Artur Jarosik has released a new version of the SDL-based bitmap paint program GrafX2 which is inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Upon the request of amiga-news.de, Artur Jarosik wrote that this version is "based on newest sources 2.5WIP. Currently only RTG is available, I'll try AGA version later. FPU not required."
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16.Sep.2017
ANF
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Music: Soundtrack of forthcoming Amiworx game "Alex Zirconstar" available
In the fourth quarter of 2017, Patrick Nevian's "Amiworx Software" (e.g. "Tales of Gorluth") will release the game "Alex Zirconstar and the Escape from Planet Sina". Already now the soundtrack is available (Amazon, Google).
On Facebook it is said that purchasers of the soundtrack will get the music as MOD-files as well. Just send a screenshot or photography via email to Amiworx.
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13.Sep.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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FriendUP: François Lionet is working on an AMOS port
FriendUP is an Amiga inspired operating system which runs in the web browser (amiga-news.de reported). In a statement on Facebook, one of the developers, the French programmer François Lionet, has told that in his spare time he is working on a port for AMOS of FriendUP.
He wrote: "AMOS code (or ascii AMOS code) will be converted into Javascript calls to AMOS library, that will render the display in a Canvas. You will also be able to program directly in Javascript and call the AMOS library. It will accept real AMOS files, and convert images into PNGs, sounds into MPG or WAV etc. opening the door to the immense collection of AMOS PD games and apps."
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13.Sep.2017
A1k.org (Forum)
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Podcast: Amiga Users Ireland Podcast #7 - Mamma Miga
In the seventh issue of the English-language podcast of the Amiga Users Ireland they have talked about the accelerator board Vampire 4.
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13.Sep.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 25 - Interview with Matthias Heinrichs
In the 25th issue of his podcast AmiCast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Matthias 'Matze' Heinrichs, who is the developer of different hardware projects , e.g. a clone of the graphics board Picasso II+ (amiga-news.de reported). On Aminet there is also a new version of the player "AmiCast player".
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10.Sep.2017
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: MUI class Epub.mcc 0.3
Carsten Siegner's Epub.mcc is a MUI class vor viewing ebooks of the EPUB format. The archive also includes two demo programs for viewing ebooks and svg files. In version 0.3 support for CSS was added which illustrates the following screenshot comparing Epub.mcc and OWB:
The CSS parser currently only interprets text styles, picture styles still are not implemented. According to Siegner pages which have been completely written SVG can be viewed without any problems.
Direct download: Epub_mcc.0.3.lha (160 KB)
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10.Sep.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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SDL support for Hollywood: RebelSDL 1.0
Press release: Summer's over and Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: RebelSDL. RebelSDL is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to use SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) from Hollywood. This makes it possible to write scripts that utilize the host system's graphics hardware to create high-performance, butter-smooth 2D animation that is produced completely in hardware by the GPU of your graphics board. This leads to a huge performance boost over the classic Hollywood graphics API which is mostly implemented in software for maximum portability and compatibility. Especially systems with slower CPUs (like the Raspberry Pi) will benefit greatly from hardware-accelerated drawing, scaling, and transformation offered by SDL.
RebelSDL transparently replaces Hollywood's inbuilt display handler with its own display handler managed by SDL. Whenever RebelSDL is activated, Hollywood displays are automatically mapped to SDL windows and hardware brushes are mapped directly to SDL textures so that they can be drawn, scaled, and transformed in an extremely quick way on all supported systems. This is especially useful on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux because Hollywood doesn't support hardware double buffers and hardware brushes on these platforms by default. With RebelSDL, however, hardware double buffers and hardware brushes can be used on these platforms now too. So RebelSDL can also act as a helper plugin here which adds this functionality to Hollywood without having you write a single line of SDL code to utilize it!
On top of that, RebelSDL offers wrapper functions for some useful commands of the SDL API, for example RebelSDL allows you to call SDL's joystick and game controller functions which are much more flexible than Hollywood's inbuilt joystick library. RebelSDL also allows you to access Hollywood hardware brushes as SDL textures and modify their properties via some dedicated SDL calls exposed by RebelSDL.
Finally, RebelSDL also replaces Hollywood's inbuilt audio driver with the audio driver offered by SDL. In contrast to the graphics driver SDL's audio driver probably doesn't have any advantage over Hollywood's inbuilt audio driver but by using it RebelSDL will turn your program into a complete SDL application which doesn't only use SDL for graphics output but also for audio output.
RebelSDL utilizes the new display adapter plugin interface introduced with Hollywood 6.0. It was actually written as a test case 3 years ago when Hollywood 6.0's display and audio adapter plugin interfaces were designed. Because RebelSDL uses these new Hollywood 6 plugin interfaces it will not work with any older versions of Hollywood. It requires at least Hollywood 6.0. Whenever RebelSDL is activated, all graphics and audio output will automatically be routed through SDL. To benefit from hardware-accelered drawing, however, Hollywood scripts have to follow some rules as described in the manual.
RebelSDL comes with extensive documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that contains information about how to use this plugin. The manual is also available online for quick access. On top of that, many example scripts are included in the distribution archive to get you started really quickly.
All of this makes RebelSDL the ultimate scripting experience for all you SDL rebels by combining the best of both worlds into one powerful plugin: Hollywood's extensive and convenient multimedia function set and SDL's raw graphics power!
Amiga users please note that currently only MorphOS is supported. There are no SDL2 ports for OS3 and AROS and the OS4 version of RebelSDL is currently on hold due to technical difficulties. The MorphOS version is also rather unstable but this is because MorphOS' SDL2 port seems to be in alpha state.
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10.Sep.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until September 9th, 2017:
irssi.lha comm/irc 2.3M MOS Terminal based IRC client
w3s_10sharp.lha comm/www 23K Small Webserver in ARexx
w3s228.lha comm/www 20K Small Webserver in ARexx
Freditor.zip dev/misc 262K 68k A graphics editor for game co...
Empty_ADF_files.lha disk/misc 11K Six empty ADF image files
amigaos40features.pdf docs/anno 498K AmigaOS 4.0 Feature List from...
GBAPIIplusplusDriver.zip driver/vid 8K 68k Driver/installer f. 2MB-GBAPI...
Freddy_Fish.zip game/actio 409K 68k Kids game: The Adventures Of ...
Magnatron.zip game/actio 345K 68k Unique physics based action game
Weasel_on_the_Go.zip game/actio 184K 68k 1989 clone of Monty on the Run!
Africa.lha game/board 290K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 334K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 338K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
Fortress.zip game/shoot 762K 68k Unfinished Fort Apocalypse clone
RNOComics.lha gfx/show 2.4M MOS Comic book reader
RNOComics_OS4.lha gfx/show 2.8M OS4 Comic book reader
CoolNESs_src.lha misc/emu 44K ASM sources for the Cool-NES-...
CoolNESs78.lha misc/emu 46K 68k Update to the Cool-NES-emulator
PeriodicTable.lha misc/sci 445K Periodic table (PageStream fo...
AMIcast_Player.lha mus/play 5.7M MOS AMIcast Player
GrabKickDisk.lha util/misc 44K 68k Disk for grabbing & savin...
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10.Sep.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until September 9th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
africa.lha gam/boa 338kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
rnocomics.lha gra/vie 3Mb 4.0 Comic book reader
metadatalib.lha lib/mis 43kb 4.0 Read some meta data information ...
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10.Sep.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.09.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until September 9th, 2017:
formido.i386-aros.zip gam/act 9Mb Topdown bug shooter.
zelda3t.i386-aros.zip gam/adv 5Mb Part of an independant SDL Zelda...
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10.Sep.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.09.2017
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 installer has been added until September 9th, 2017:
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