19.May.2017
Amigafuture (ANF)
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Descent: Freespace as download / Update for AmigaOS 4.1
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the space-combat simulation Descent: Freespace (also known as "Descent: Freespace - The Great War", "Conflict: Freespace - The Great War", "Freespace - The Great War") for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition from the direct downloads section of our website.
Customers can now choose between two formats of this amazing game:
- a purely digital version at a price of only EUR 14.95 incl. VAT (may very depending on your local taxes) for download in our restricted download area,
- or buy a boxed version (boxed version only includes AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS version, the AmigaOS 4.1 version is available for download after registration on our website) at their preferred Amiga dealer.
The downloadable content consists of an image of the original CD for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and an archived game drawer for AmigaOS 4.1 including all languages and manual.
Purchasers get a serial number inside their box or by email to register their purchase at our website in order to get access to our restricted download area for the game archive, the original ISO image as well as potential future updates. For a first look, free demo versions are available from the public download area.
The updated version for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition includes among others:
- compatibility with Southern Islands based Radeon cards
- uses MiniGL texture compression if available
- tons of game bugfixes including a fully playable tutorial
For existing customers of Descent: Freespace the updated AmigaOS 4.1 version is available free of charge after registering their genuine copy with their free Hyperion account on our website.
Descent: Freespace - The Great War is the highly acclaimed space-combat simulator from Volition/Interplay and offers an unparalleled mix of top-notch graphics for its time, plot and game-play. It is widely considered one of the best space-combat simulators ever and gained lots of kudos from all important game magazines. The game was originally released in 2001 for AmigaOS 68k/WarpOS and in December 2004 for AmigaOS 4 by Hyperion Entertainment CVBA. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.May.2017
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Hyperion attacking Cloanto's Amiga trademarks on a broad front (update 2)
It looks as if Cloanto's registration of the 'Amiga' mark filed in January in the USA will be contested by Hyperion: After the Belgium based company's attempts to register its own trademarks 'AmigaOS' and 'AmigaOne' failed, Hyperion now filed a request for extension of time to file opposition against Cloanto's mark. This is usually the initial step when trying to file opposition, so the United States Patent and Trademark Office is now listing Hyperion as a potential opposer.
Hyperion's application for registration of the trademarks 'AmigaOne' and 'AmigaOS' was primarily rejected due to 'likelihood of confusion' with Cloanto's recently registered Amiga trademark. It's possible that Hyperion is going to turn that argument around by trying to declare Cloanto's trademark illegitimate for being too similar to Hyperion's marks 'AmigaOne' and 'AmigaOS' - which are not registered but have been commercially used for years.
Update: (19.5.2017, 16:45, cg)
Yesterday, Hyperion went one step further: The EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) received an application for registration of the 'Amiga Forever' mark - not from Cloanto though, who's been using that mark in commerce for two decades, but from Monard Law, the law firm Ben Hermans works for. Hermans had created an account on amiga-news.de just recently, to point out (German) that use in commerce does not neccessarily equal ownership of the mark in all areas of this world.
Update 2: (19.5.2017, 23:00, cg)
Apparently Hyperion is also trying to attack Cloantos 'Workbench' mark: The Italian company had registered said mark - the US version of which they own since 2011 - with the EUIPO earlier this year. Just a few days ago, Hyperion - or rather, Ben Hermans employer Monard Law - has applied for the very same 'Workbench' trademark. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 09.05.2017)
Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week:
- Adapt code for const TagItem changes (neil)
- Network card improvements (neil)
- Debug build now stores debug info in .dbg files (Kalamatee)
- InitKickMemDiag fixed (twilen)
- ROM image size check added (Kalamatee)
- Amiga-m68k ROM fixes, A1200 should boot again (twilen)
- M68k ROM size optimization (Kalamatee)
- CD-startup improvements (Kalamatee)
- Add separate gifanim datatype descriptor)
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15.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 3.2
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring 17000 questions in 17 categories. A demo version containing 80 questions is available for free.
In Version 3.2 diverse translations have been completed and updated and some questions reworked.
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15.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 7.0 Addons
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 7.0. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
- Hollywood Player 7.0 for all supported platforms (also available for your smartphone/tablet on Google Play)
- Hollywood SDK 7.0 for developing your own plugins (includes examples and over 350 pages of documentation in various formats)
- Hollywood 7.0 add-on for Cubic IDE (kindly provided by Michael Jurisch)
- Hollywood 7.0 wordfile for UltraEdit
- Hollywood 7.0 online reference manual (over 900 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
- Hollywood SDK 7.0 online reference manual (over 350 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
The release of these add-ons completes the Hollywood 7.0 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal for download and more information.
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15.May.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP stack: bugfixed version of the ping command for Roadshow
Earlier this month Roadshow 1.13 was released. The updated "ping" command to ship in this release was found to contain a serious bug which could cause it to crash. The demonstration and retail versions of Roadshow 1.13 as well as the update archive that upgrades version 1.12 to 1.13 have been updated and now contain the repaired "ping" command. (cg)
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14.May.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 13th, 2017:
PhxAss_src.lha dev/asm 380K PhxAss 4.46 source code
PhxLnk_src.lha dev/asm 49K PhxLnk 4.32 source code
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha dev/hwood 4.7M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
regina.pdf dev/lang 3.5M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
gcp_device.lha driver/pri 1.4M OS4 Google Cloud Print driver (gc...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Apple2000v13_src.lha misc/emu 119K Apple2000v1.3 source code
Liisa1.adf misc/math 880K 68k determine prime factors + mis...
Liisa2.adf misc/math 880K 68k miscancellous programs
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha pix/picon 8.8M Game icons in OS4.1 Update 1 ...
WorkbenchExplorer.lha util/dir 1.5M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
cranker.lha util/pack 341K 68k Amiga executable and data cru...
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14.May.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until May 13th, 2017:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha gra/ico 9Mb 4.0 s0y gameicons 2017
workbenchexplorer.lha uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 Modern file browser loaded with ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 581kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
wex_ita.lha uti/wor 15kb 4.0 italian catalog for WorkbenchExp...
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14.May.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 13.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until May 13th, 2017:
bs.i386-aros.lha gam/adv 667kb Bermuda Syndrome executable
icon_game.lha gra/ico 76kb Icon and script for many game
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13.May.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Printer driver for Google Cloud Print
For AmigaOS 4 Chris Young has released the printer driver gcp.device which makes it possible to use Google's Cloud-Print service. "gcp.device enables the Amiga to print directly to any of these cloud-
connected printers, using the PostScript printer driver."
Download: gcp_device.lha (1 MB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire Edition 0.99
Artur 'Arti' Jarosik has updated his Amiga port of "The Legend of Zelda - Return of the Hylian" which is a fan continued sequel of Nintendo's adventure series. Additional to some new sounds, the game now is available as m68k-version as well as version for the Vampire accelerator boards. This one supports the AMMX commands of the Apollo cores.
System requirements:
- AmigaOS 3.x with fast 020+ no FPU (UAE/Vampire)
- RTG P96/CGX
- AHI 4.20+
- 70 MB free hard disk space
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2017
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Story of Commodore: Separating the current manuscript into two books?
Originally Brian Bagnall had split the second issue of his story of Commodore called "On The Edge" into two volumes - the first volume was published in 2010 and finished the story before the company Amiga was took over. The publication of the second volume called "The Amiga Years" has delayed again and again. In 2015 finally it was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign.
Now Bagnall has written in his Kickstarter blog, that there is so much to tell that it would be impossible to do this by using 500 pages.
Therefore he has suggested to seperate "The Amiga Years" into two volumes. The first one would start in 1982 with the foundation of Hi Toro/Amiga Inc. and end in 1987. The second one called "The final Years" would describe the time between 1987 until the bankruptcy.
Supporters of the Kickstarter campaign would get ebook editions of "The Amiga Years" and "The Final Years" as soon as possible. The printed edition of the first volume would follow. In order to be able to publish "The Final Years" also as printed edition, another Kickstarter campaign would be required.
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11.May.2017
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Hyperion: problems with the registration of new trademarks
Due to Amiga, Inc's inactivity, the registration for the US trademark "Amiga" expired at the end of last year. Immediately afterwards, Cloanto applied to have the mark registered in their name, while Hyperion took a while longer to notice what was going on and filed for "AmigaOS", "AmigaOne" and the boingball logo roughly four weeks later.
By now, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reacted to Hyperion's filings: All registrations have been refused. The application for the BoingBall logo was denied because it wasn't signed or dated - the Belgium based company has six months to correct that error. The other two applications - "AmigaOS" and "AmigaOne" - were not signed either, but were addtionally refused (1, 2). due to a "likelihood of confusion": the USPTO deems them too close to Cloanto's "Amiga" mark. Again, Hyperion has six months to react to the refusal, by either objecting and argueing for a withdrawal of the refusal or by trying to register the mark for a class of products not related to computer hardware or software - which wouldn't make much sense in this particular case, obviously.
In contrast to that, Cloanto's "Amiga" mark was published in the USPTO's "Trademark Official Gazette" yesterday. If no other party files an opposition or extension request within the next thirty days, the mark will be assigned to Cloanto for good. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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10.May.2017
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast 33: Interview with Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion)
Issue 33 of the podcast Scene World offers an interview with Ron Gilbert, who was also responsible for the adventure classics like Maniac Mansion and recently released the point'n click adventure Thimbleweed Park.
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10.May.2017
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Preview: First issue of English magazine "Amiga User"
In March the Polish publisher amiga.net.pl had released a new English-language magazine. Meanwhile some first reading extracts of the first issue have been published. The complete magazine will be published in July as ebook and printed issue.
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10.May.2017
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Web browser: Netsurf 3.7 (SDL version) with Youtube streaming
Artur Jarosik has released an update of his Amiga port of the web browser NetSurf. His version is based on SDL, only the preferences use MUI, and should not be confused with Chris Young's native, Reaction-based version. Additional to some bug fixes, version 3.7 now offers Youtube streaming.
Upon request of amiga.news.de, Artur Jarosik explained: "This is RTG classic version, I may compile AGA version and put it on my website soon." That means that for the current version a graphics card is required.
Changes:
- reduce cpu usage by 7-10mips
- hide annoying console windows when playing modules.pl mods
- fixed and improved youtube playback.
- Better video quality (uses ffmpeg now), shorter conversion time
- New API key needed from cloudconvert.com
- fixed cda.pl playback
- fixed youtube playback
- NEW autoupdate
- NEW youtube streaming
- NEW information about convertion status
- faster htpps loading with asm optimised libssl (Chris Young)
- fix compatability on FPU systems
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08.May.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Interview with Timothy de Groote (Hyperion Entertainment)
Under the title link, Generation Amiga has interviewed Timothy de Groote Hyperion Entertainment). He talked about the end of the trademark "Amiga" in Europe as well as about the shopping tour of Cloanto, acquiring former parts of Commodore (amiga-news.de reported). But Hyperion is not "worried by this" because they "expect that Amiga Inc. or its shareholders will renew the trademarks".
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08.May.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 23 - Interview with Jarlath Reidy
In its 23th issue, Krzysztof Radzikowski has interviewed in his podcast Amicast Jarlath Reidy, who is one of the organizers of the Amiga Ireland Meetup. They also talked about the history of the Amiga, NG computers, Odyssey and Vampire-exclusive software as well as the Amiga Ireland Podcast.
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08.May.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 02.05.2017)
Oliver 'o1i' Brunner summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week:
- autodocs/webpage updated/fixed (mazze)
- Posixc.library enhancements (Kalamatee)
- work on native GIT continues (Kalamatee)
- adapt network driver code to recent utility.library changes (neil)
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08.May.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: MUI Royale 1.5
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the immediate availability of MUI Royale 1.5. The biggest new feature in MUI Royale 1.5 is Unicode support if Hollywood 7 is available. On top of that, MUI Royale 1.5 has its executable size reduced by about 80kb, contains various bug fixes and adds support for some more MUI features.
MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood 5.2 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. It is available for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC), and AROS (x86).
The package comes with over 20 example scripts, many of which are direct ports from the MUI 3.8 SDK by Stefan Stuntz, but there are also original developments like demonstrations of how to create a video player using the combined power of Hollywood and MUI. On top of that MUI Royale comes with extensive documentation in over 300 PDF pages which are also available in the HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM formats thanks to the Hollywood documentation system.
All this makes MUI Royale the truly royal MUI experience, carefully crafted for you Kings and Queens of MUI!
Screenshots:
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07.May.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.05.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until May 6th, 2017:
CCNCatabasisSrc.lha demo/aga 666K 68k Sources for the cocoon demo C...
Cocoon_Catabasis.lha demo/aga 305K 68k Cocoon AGA Demo Catabasis (HD)
CocoonCatabasisD.adf demo/aga 880K 68k Cocoon Demo Catabasis Adf ver...
COP.lha dev/debug 163K 68k Low Level Debugger
ZeldaROTH.lha game/role 32M 68k Zelda ROTH Enhanced Vampire E...
Gloom_src.lha game/shoot 6.8M The first-person shooter sour...
68020iob.lha pix/3dobj 1.7M Imagine: Motorola 68020 objec...
LoadModule.lha util/boot 19K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
MuProtectModules.lha util/boot 134K 68k MuLib ROM Modules Write Prote...
icoutils.i386-aros.lha util/conv 1.1M x86 Extract resources from Window...
WorkbenchExplorer.lha util/dir 1.5M OS4 Modern file browser loaded wi...
MMULib.lha util/libs 716K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
ReggaeList.lha util/rexx 18K AmigaGuide of your multimedia...
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 370K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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