09.Jun.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Arcade Racer: Amiga Redpill Racing
"Redpill Racing" is a top-down-view racer, which was created using the Game Construction Kit Redpill. In this release, choosing the cars and the game mode does not seem to correctly work.
Amiga Redpill Racing can be downloaded via mediafire.com.
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08.Jun.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Issue 104 can be read online
Issue 104 (September/October 2013) of the printed magazine Amiga Future is sold out, you can read the German and English edition of the magazine online (picture files). You also can buy a PDF-version.
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08.Jun.2017
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Hollywood application: "Hurra, ich wachse!" 2.2
The application "Hurra, ich wachse!" ("Hurray, I am growing") written by Ulrich Beckers is meant for parents who want to document how fast their children grow. Version 2.2 of the program also is available for AmigaOS 3. Additionally a bug on saving data was fixed.
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07.Jun.2017
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AmigaOS 4: Commercial calendar software AOrganiser gets Sync function
According to Andy Broad he has invested more than 300 hours updating the calendar software AOrganiser. Now it is possible to "sync your AmigaOS diary with your phone or other mobile device via Google Calendar". Additionally "a suite of python and ARexx scripts offer import and export of iCal / VCal formatted events and invitations as well as syncing to a remote server via CalDAV."
Currently only Google is supported as CalDAV server, but other servers will be added if there is a demand. AOrganiser is available for 11 British pound (about 11,40 Euro) on A-EON's Amistore.
Most important changes in AOrganiser 2.1:
- The Event window features an extended range of options for entering information, the single line title and notes section have been expanded to:
- Title
- Multiline Notes
- Organiser
- Location
- Alarms can now be set to trigger at arbitrary offsets from the start or end of the event, notifying via RingHIO, requester, sound or executing a command.
- Custom gadget to display the events in the main diary window, with cutomisable colours and fonts.
- Optimisations to the time entry gadget.
- Extended features in the built in calendar gadget, with a new choose date requester utilising the same gadget as you see in the main window.
- Fully customisable pen colours, allowing a diary look that suits your own preferences.
- Keyboard navigation in the diary window using arrow keys.
- The ability to select days or events and operate on them via arexx scripts.
- Massively extended ARexx interface.
- Extended but fully backwards compatible IFF diary file format.
- Extensive time zone support for event that take place in different parts of the country (or world) to the diary's primary locale.
- ICal and vCal import / export options.
- The ability to sync with Google Calendar via the CalDAV API.
- Advanced searching using AmigaDOS patterns.
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05.Jun.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Games competition: Winners of AmiGameJam 2016 announced
From six games which were sent in to the games competition "AmiGameJam 2016" the winners have been choosen with an online voting.
In the category "Next Generation" the jump'n'run game "Santa Run" has won for AmigaOS 4, in the "Classic"-category the arcade game "Bridge Strike". In the last category the shoot-'em-up "The Last Starfighter" got second and the platform game "Max Knight" third place.
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04.Jun.2017
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop 2.2
On Christmas a preview version of Icaros Desktop 2.2 was released. Now the official main version 2.2 is available which provides "little and bigger enhancements like a complete new look, which involves both Magellan toolbars and decoration theme, and a completely new feature called HostBridge, which allows people running Icaros Desktop in a hosted environment to launch host applications along with (or instead of) AROS ones."
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04.Jun.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.6dev (beta)
Frode Solheim has released a new developer version 2.9.6 of the emulator FS-UAE providing the following changes:
Changes in FS-UAE 2.9.6dev:
- Changed default fade in/out duration, only fade in fullscreen
- FS-UAE default is now to show a 692×540 image, not stretched to fill screen
- Use scale = legacy to revert to old default behavior (can put in Host.fs-uae or use FS-UAE Launcher set set globally)
- New option scale (choose between full, integer, legacy and no scaling)
- New option stretch (replaces keep_aspect, though it still works)
- F11 is now a dedicated toggle auto zoom function, Alt/Cmd+Z cycles through zoom modes as before
- Render a frame around the view when not stretched (frame = 0 to disable)
- Cartridge freeze shortcut is now Alt/Cmd+C
- Alt/Cmd+A now toggles stretch mode (aspect correction)
- Imported updated translations from crowdin.com
In short, the default scaling/cropping behaviour has changed (though you may not see the change if you have specified certain scaling options). Also, the FS-UAE menu itself is being changed so it will work better on non-16:9 displays (not complete yet).
Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.9.6dev:
- Imported updated translations from crowdin.com
- Moved additional game databases to a separate settings page
Changes in FS-UAE Arcade 2.9.6dev:
- FS-UAE Arcade now defaults to fullscreen
- Run FS-UAE with window_border = 0 to reduce flickering on launch
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04.Jun.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 03.06.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until June 3rd, 2017:
AFile_src.lha biz/misc 180K AFile source code
AGraph_src.lha biz/misc 70K AGraph source code
LiquidMIG.lha demo/intro 565K 68k LiquidMIG demo
ACCSources.lha dev/asm 8.9M 68k tutorial source file coll...
ARes_src.lha dev/lib 73K ARes source code
AFont_src.lha disk/bakup 82K AFont source code
AZap_src.lha disk/moni 105K AZap source code
AD516-AHI_src.lha driver/aud 39K AD516-AHI source code
anaiis.lha driver/oth 274K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.12
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 243K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ZeldaROTH.lha game/role 34M 68k Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire E...
FastECS_src.lha misc/emu 26K FastECS source code
ADoc_src.lha text/hyper 486K ADoc source code
ARoff_src.lha text/print 48K ARoff source code
ShellUpdate.lha util/boot 131K 68k Update Os 3.9 BB2 Shell to 45...
ClipRdWr.lha util/cli 8K 68k read+write text from/to any c...
ClipRdWr_src.lha util/cli 17K ClipRdWr source code
HideWBTitle.lha util/cli 11K 68k toggle Workbench's titlebar o...
HideWBTitle_src.lha util/cli 11K HideWBTitle source code
UnixCmd_src.lha util/cli 69K UnixCmd source code
ATbl_src.lha util/misc 53K ATbl source code
CatScan.lha util/misc 8K 68k CatScan - .ct creation utility
NoDelete_src.lha util/misc 303K NoDelete source code
ProtectGUI.lha util/misc 24K 68k GUI for setting a file's prot...
ProtectGUI_src.lha util/misc 47K ProtectGUI source code
lzip.lha util/pack 224K MOS Data (de)compressor like gzip...
AUSH_src.lha util/shell 104K AUSH source code
ohac.lha util/time 50K 68k OHAC - Oh Heck, Another Calen...
ohac_src.lha util/time 54K OHAC source code
RepetitaIuvant.lha util/wb 1.6M OS4 Cycles messages in a window p...
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04.Jun.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 03.06.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until June 3rd, 2017:
sdl2_sdk.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 for d...
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
sdl2_user.lha lib/mis 2Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 for u...
repetitaiuvant.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Cycles messages in a window peri...
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04.Jun.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 03.06.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until June 3rd, 2017:
r2z.i386-aros.lha gam/mis 1Mb with online highscore
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04.Jun.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 03.06.2017
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 June 3rd, 2017:
- 2017-05-30 updated: Blood Money (Psygnosis) RawDIC imager, PAL/NTSC detection fixed (music should always play at correct speed now), 68000 quitkey support, high score load/save added, trainers added, intro can be skipped with CUSTOM1, blitter wait patches can be disabled with CUSTOM3, new install script, source code included (Info)
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01.Jun.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Gotek/HxC: Adapter for using a floppy emulator as external drive
If you want to use a floppy emulator just like Gotek or HxC as external drive ;- thus avoiding changes on the Amiga case;- you need a corresponding adapter. The Polish developers of Sakura IT has made available documents for constructing such an adapter at Github. The adapter is used in the external disk drives of the developers.
In a Youtube video an user has recorded, how such an adapter could look like - including a self-made 23-Pin-Sub-D plug.
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01.Jun.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.22 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The latest version of Thomas Wenzel's audio player AmigaAMP provides some minor improvements:
- Added URLIdentifier and Description to Application info
- Show requester when ReAction classes can't be opened
- Fixed broken plugin menu in ReAction mode after rescanning
- Added support for multimedia keys
- Updated spanish catalog
- Adapted code for AmigaOS 4.1 FE SDK 53.30
- Added full path to current file to streaminfo/trackinfo structure so that plugins can make use of it
- Fixed greyed out menus for info and playlist
- Fixed bug when loading skins with missing equalizer and playlist bitmaps
- Replaced connection popup window with info in title bar (reaction) or info line (skin mode)
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01.Jun.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 3.5.0
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE present a short preview to the changes of the next version. WinUAE 3.5.0 is supposed to be released in the middle of June and will provide the following improvements:
New features:
- Softfloat FPU emulation mode. Bit perfect FPU emulation (except transcendental functions), including full arithmetic exception support. (Co-operation with Previous emulator author)
- Lightpen emulation absolute coordinate HID (USB light guns) and touch screen device support.
- American Laser Games second player and Actionware dual light gun adapter emulation.
- Real harddrive mount lock option. Enables full exclusive access even if drive has Windows mounted FAT partition(s).
- winlaunch.lib is now built-in feature and is also 64-bit compatible.
- Show [Paused] in windowed mode title bar when in pause mode.
- If statefile is loaded with one or more floppy images that can’t be opened: keep fake disk in drive (like previously) and ask for new disk path when missing disk is accessed for the first time.
New emulated features of the chipset:
- AGA FMODE>0 unaligned bitplane and sprite pointer behavior is now accurate.
- BPLCON4 XOR mask special case in HAM6/8 or EHB modes.
- Loading blitter B-DAT manually when B-shift was nonzero.
- Lightpen hardware is now cycle-exactly emulated.
- Sprite special case when DMA mode sprite’s start X-coordinate is less than sprite’s DMA slot position.
- Audio interrupts are delayed by 2 cycles.
Improvements of existing features:
- 68020+ T0 trace mode is now fully emulated.
- 68020 cycle exact mode adjustments.
- Memory cycle exact mode mode accuracy improved
- Implemented previously unimplemented bsdsocket.library emulation sendmsg() and recvmsg().
- Recursive mode ROM scanner now skips directories starting with dot.
- MMU emulation can be now switched on/off on the fly.
- Release all currently pressed keys when emulation pauses.
- Added memory cycle-exact Quickstart step for A1200 and CD32 configurations. Less CPU heavy than full cycle-exact and usually not much more worse (or better). At least not until 68020 CE gets better.
Fixed bugs:
- FM801 16-bit audio corruption.
- A2090 ST-506 emulation.
- Possible crash when display was very wide with bitplane DMA overrun condition.
- Fixed crash when sound card audio play started and channel mode was mono and “Include CD and FMV audio” was ticked.
- Fixed crash when accessing accelerator board SCSI IO region without any added SCSI device(s).
- Fixed crash if Blizzard accelerator on board memory size was set to zero.
- JIT was not 512k or 1M Chip RAM compatible.
- Manual RAM configuration GUI didn’t accept smaller end address than current board size.
- Manually configured but disabled (size zero) Z2/Z3 banks were added to system.
- Apollo 1240/1260 memory address space fixed
- PC bridgeboard NE2000 boot crash fix.
- Windowed mode mouse does not anymore hit hidden barriers if window is partially outside of desktop or uncaptured if window is on top of task bar.
- If Custom autoconfig board order was enabled, expansion devices custom config setting(s) was not saved correctly.
- 68000 address error stacked PC was not correct in some read-modify-write instructions
- Untrap middle mouse button option was stuck.
- GUI listview column width calculation used default font size, not selected font.
- 68030 CE/prefetch mode cache access bug fixed.
- G-REX and Cirrus Logic graphics board state was reset if RAM or HW Info GUI panels were opened after emulation was started.
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31.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video interview with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON)
During the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 2017, the Youtube channel "TheGuruMeditation" has recorded an interview with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON). In the video, which lasts about 23 minutes, Dickinson has talked about the AmigaOne computers and the A.L.I.C.E. laptop, which he presented at the festival, about his goals with A-EON and his passion about the Amiga.
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31.May.2017
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US trader stopped cooperation with A-EON/Amigakit
A message on the homepage of the webshop of the US trader "Amiga On The Lake" (AOTL), which was opened in September last year, informs, that they will "no longer support A-EON or AmigaKit in any way, shape or form."
This step is not justified by the maintainer of the shop in any way. It is only refered to "experience during the last 8 months in regards to both companies." In many forums it is speculated, that the sudden termination of cooperation is related to the price setting of Amigakit: Actually three days ago before the publication of the message of AOTL, AmigaKit did offer X5000 full systems for the first time - this offer was not gone public by Amigakit itself but was reported by users.
While Amigakit explained in a thread on amiga.org, that they will not comment any discussions with partner in public, at Amitopia some lines from a statement of Trevor Dicksinson were quoted: According to that, all traders - including Amigakit - are delivered by A-EON offering same conditions to all. Amigakit sells the systems for the price which A-EON recommends in adverts since last October for a basic system. Any webshop is free to offer systems to a higher price which are better equipped.
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30.May.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Weekly progress (since 23.05.2017)
Last week's progress in development of the open-source AmigaOS clone AROS includes improvements of the processor type detection and of the lowlevel.library under AROS/68k.
- .dbg files are now ignored by AROS (Kalamatee)
- Lowlevel.library m68k work continues (Kalamatee)
- GFX Bitmap-Class optimization (Kalamatee)
- M68k type detection / optimizations (Kalamatee)
- Fix undefined Locale's loc_MeasuringSystem (pollux)
- Intuition Screen fixes (Kalamatee)
- Apollo'080 detection (Kalamatee, twilen)
- MUI window class compatibility enhanced (neil)
- Run setpatch from startup-sequence (Kalamatee)
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30.May.2017
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FPGA accelerator board: Vampire available in shops
Since about a year the Vampire accelerator boards have been no longer manually put together which made it more expensible but also enabled mass production. Therefore meanwhile diverse shops can be delivered: Relec (Switzerland) and Amigakit (Great Britain) offers the accelerator board - although AmigaKit has announced that the "initial batch quickly sold out within a few hours."
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30.May.2017
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Beat'em Up: Else we get mad! (playable preview)
"Else we get mad" (video) is a Beat'em Up developed by Amiga Wave (e.g. Retro Wars) which is an homage to the actors Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.
Else we get Mad! runs on each Amiga with 512 KB memory, a single and two player mode is offered. Recently a playable preview was released which shows a complete level.
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[News message: 30. May. 2017, 16:48] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Graphics ripping: Maptapper 0.8.4
Maptapper is a Windows application "used to rip graphics and maps from Amiga games". WinUAE saves a so called "save state" of a game, which Maptapper can browse. There is a detailed online and video tutorial on the website of the developers which explains the usage of the program.
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[News message: 30. May. 2017, 16:34] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2017
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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3D print: Vampire mount for Amiga 600
An user of a Vampire has created a mount, which fixes the FPGA accelerator board within an A600. It consists of two frames:
Both frames can be printed with a 3D printer. Corresponding templates are available at Thingiverse.
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