15.Apr.2017
Amigaworld (Webseite)
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Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player 1.70
V.A.M.P. (Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player) is a video and sound player written with Hollywood. Version 1.70 is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and Windows and was compiled with Hollywood 7. A Greek translation was added and the Polish one improved. Besides, the archive contains some new skins created by Czesiu Mnich.
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15.Apr.2017
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 73 (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 "Indigo", "The Three Musketeers" and "International Karate 2013".
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14.Apr.2017
amiga.org (Webseite)
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New Elbox tower case: BlackBOX 1200
Sinse the older tower cases of Elbox have not been available, the company now presents the third generation of A1200 towers: In a "BlackBOX 1200" an A1200 with accelerator board and Mediator or GRex busboard can be put and is available for 300 Euro (plus shipping).
Features of the new tower:
- 350W ATX power supply unit
- A microprocessor PC/Amiga keyboard interface
- 2 bays for 5.25" drives
- 1 bay for Amiga floppy disc drive (black fascia for A1200 floppy drive included)
- 4 bays for 3.5" (internal) hard disc drives
- 1 bay for 2.5" (internal) hard disc drive
- Chassis structure: steel
- Transparent side panel
- 2 USB connectors on the top panel; Top panel buttons: POWER and RESET, Green-Power and Red-HDD
- Air flow cooling system with 2 fans
- Dimensions (LxBxH): 462mm x 190mm x 465mm
Currently there is only a detailed picture of the left, transparent side panel of the BlackBOX 1200.
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13.Apr.2017
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.5.0 (alpha)
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Pang. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
For the program currently there is only a closed Facebook group, but the authors also can be contacted via eMail. The latest alpha version can be downloaded via Google Drive.
Changes in version 0.5.0:
- Main feature of this release is that now it uses advanced scrolling implementation. This will allow RedPill games to make use of larger maps in the future v0.5.x versions. It also allows RedPill to use less ChipRam. This could lead to some bugs that will be fixed in next versions. Look at ScrollingTrick in Aminet to know more about the implementation
- Now multiple tile changes can happen in every frame
- Object rendering has been changed too, BBlits are no longer used
- Projects now have a target frame rate in the Game Setup screen: 50 fps, 25 fps, 17 fps, 12 fps. Default is 25 fps
- Angular phyics have been redone with a more robust implementation. Shot type objects now can follow the same direction of the object Instantiating them
- Collisions have been changed again to be more optimal and perfect.A side effect is that ramp collisions are lost in this version, they will be back soon
- Frame offsets have been added: Now you can modify the display offset by frame
- Grid slice has been optimized, now shapes are trimmed to its visible size
- Animations are now changed once per frame and now everytime a PlayAnim trigger is triggered
- Stop Anim trigger does not need a parameter anymore
- Global air friction has been added
- Friction now works as it should, 1 means full friction and 0 means no friction at all
- Temp files that are stored on ram: when playing from editor now use a common name
- Debug info removed from tile properties screen
- File names in tileset menu and sprites menu are truncated if length of name is too big
- Fixed a bug that made not possible to modify condition parameters in lines 2-5
- Fix in calculate map dimensions
- RedPill(Debug).exe renamed to RedPillEditor(Debug).exe
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13.Apr.2017
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Text editor: Vim 8.0.55 for AROS
Ola Söder's MUI-based port of the text editor Vim, which was released in February, now also is available for AROS.
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13.Apr.2017
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.5dev (beta)
Frode Solheim has released a new development version FS-UAE 2.9.5dev which provides the following changes:
Changes in FS-UAE:
- Added some game controller configs
- Restructuring to allow for (future) multiple video/audio/input drivers
Changes in FS-UAE-Launcher:
- Added support for WHDLoad 18.3
- New quick settings panel (initial version) with toggle button
- Tweaked Fusion Adwaita theme colors to better match recent GNOME theme
- Controller configs for 8Bitdo SFC30 and Zero gamepads
- Controller config for DualShock 3 in bluetooth mode on Linux
- Make configurations list wider when window width is quite large
- Remember last selected game list on startup
- Lots of changes for non-Amiga/CDTV/CD32 game support
- New GUI setting to enable use of additional game platforms
- Disable config controls when loading a non-Amiga platform game
- Fix check for startup-sequence when determining if an archive is WHDLoad
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12.Apr.2017
Tobias Abt (ANF)
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Picasso96 sold to Individual Computers and Hyperion Entertainment (Update)
According to Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt under the title link, they have decided "to sell the Picasso96 intellectual property to a joint ownership between Hyperion Computer Entertainment and Individual Computers GmbH (Jens Schönfeld)."
They also wrote: "Hyperion and Individual Computers have assured us that they will continue to support both the classic Amiga and next generation systems as well. They plan to integrate P96 into upcoming new OS releases."
Update: (13.04.2017, 13:00, cg)
In a statement on a1k.org (German, requires registration), Jens Schönfeld from Individual Computers explains that the Picasso96 distribution on Aminet will remain available and is still freely distributable. Users that want to register the software will be able to buy a "slightly improved" version from the Individual Computers online shop, using a "pay what you want" approach. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 27.03.2017)
Additional to his work on AROS, since September 2014 Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers for every week. A year later he also published monthly highlights until November 2016. On 2 April Krzysztof Śmiechowicz announced that he is going to take a break from AROS. The last entry of "A week in AROS" which he wrote was published on 3 April.
Now Oliver 'o1i' Brunner continues the summaries. We would take this opportunity to again report about the open source AmigaOS clone every week.
Week of March 27th:
- Bugs in decoration code fixed (Kalamatee)
- Restructured directories for developer and debug packages (Kalamatee)
- Configure and build system improved and fixed (Kalamatee)
- APIC work continuing (mschulz)
- SysBase -> ThisTask replaced with FindTask(NULL) in many user code packages (Kalamatee)
- Work for AROS native gcc-6.3 started (Kalamatee)
- Website spring cleanup (Mazze and Kalamatee)
Week of April 3rd:
- Website / Documentation fixes (Mazze)
- ACPI button fixes (Kalamatee)
- SMP fixes (Kalamatee)
- SMP-smallpt test fixes (mschulz)
- IEEEDPDiv / IEEEDPMul implemented (neil)
- ATAPI device timing fixes (mschulz)
- genmodule 64-bit fixes (mschulz)
- stdc.library fixed (mschulz)
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11.Apr.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiCast: Text interview with Norbert Kett
Issue eight of the English language podcast AmiCast had an interview with Norbert Kett, who is the author of AmigaCloudHandlers available for all Amiga systems for accessing DropBox and Google Drive. Currently he is working on an implemantation of OpenGL for the Vampire accelerator boards.
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10.Apr.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Anim player und converter: RNOAnim 1.0
RNOAnim "is a compact animation player that also has some conversion and editing functions." The program was written with Hollywood and has the following features:
- MUI-GUI (MUI Royale)
- Internal loaders: IFF, GIF, AVI (uncompressed/MJPEG)
- Included plugins: APNG, FLI/FLC, YAFA
- Can save (convert) to: GIF, APNG, and AVI (MJPEG)
- Can export frames to PNG images
- Animations can be resized freely by resizing the window
- Several options to alter the playback speed
- Animation frames can be added, inserted, or removed
- All changes (size, speed, frames) will be saved when saving a new animation
- Drag & drop loading
- Extensive ARexx support
- Keyboard and mouse controls
Further links: Discussion in the official Hollywood forum, a GIF animation created with RNOAnim.
The MorphOS version also can be installed via Grunch. In this case the corresponding Ambient MIME types are automatically configured for the different formats.
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09.Apr.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 08.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 8th, 2017:
hey_1.0.i386-aros.zip comm/mail 5.9M x86 Html Enhancer for YAM
links-mos.lha comm/www 6.3M MOS Links text-only WWW browser w...
Overlay.tgz dev/asm 4K Old ASM source demonstrating ...
cc65-morphos.lha dev/cross 12M MOS ANSI C 6502 cross development...
HWP_AHX.lha dev/hwood 130K WOS Hollywood plugin for AHX/Hive...
HWP_AVCodec.lha dev/hwood 6.4M WOS Hollywood plugin for FFmpeg c...
HWP_HTTPStreamer.lha dev/hwood 74K MOS Stream HTTP files with Hollywood
HWP_SQLite3.lha dev/hwood 952K WOS Hollywood plugin for SQL data...
minipicolisp.i386-aro... dev/lang 137K x86 A minimal version of PicoLisp
abackup_src.lha disk/bakup 540K ABackup source code
atoms_halibut.lha game/think 70K 68k Atoms type game
atoms_halibut_src.lha game/think 230K Atoms (Halibut) source code
Greedium.lha game/wb 861K MOS A small mui game about numbers
RNOAnim_OS4.lha gfx/show 2.2M OS4 Animation player, converter, ...
VICE-AmigaOS4-3.0.lha misc/emu 27M OS4 Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
VICE-i386-AROS-3.0.ta... misc/emu 21M x86 Emul. c64(dtv),c128,pet,cbm2,...
lhasa-0.3.1.lha util/arc 53K 68k Free Software LHA implementation
1TouchMac_src.lha util/boot 28K 1TouchMac source code
LoadModule.lha util/boot 19K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
smd2bin_src.lha util/conv 14K smd2bin source code
Hexaco.lha util/wb 32K 68k Color values as hex/dec/... (...
TTManager_src.lha util/wb 61K TTManager source code
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09.Apr.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 08.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 8th, 2017:
seq.lha aud/mis 108kb 4.0 Simple MIDI step sequencer
picflowgad.lha dev/lib 80kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
abc-shell.lha dev/uti 182kb 4.0 Amiga Bourne Compatible Shell
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
s0y_gameicons_2017.lha gra/ico 6Mb 4.0 s0y gameicons 2017
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09.Apr.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 08.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until April 8th, 2017:
minipicolisp.i386-aros.lha dev/lan 137kb A minimal version of PicoLisp
hey_1.0.i386-aros.zip net/ema 6Mb Html Enhancer for YAM
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09.Apr.2017
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WHDLoad: Version 18.3 and new installers until 08.04.2017
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously.
Three days ago version 18.3 was released now supporting the Apollo core of the Vampire accelerator boards by recognizing them as 68040 processors. Additionally the following installers have been added until April 8th, 2017:
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09.Apr.2017
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZunePaint 0.10, ZuneView 0.37 and ZuneFIG 1.4r345
Yannick Erb has released AROS Updates of his ZuneTools ZunePaint and ZuneView as well as of the vector graphics program ZuneFIG.
Changes in ZunePaint:
- Do not show ILBM as a save option (it isn't working)
- Reworked interface to allow use of smaller resolution screen
- Magic Wand and Lasso select could crash for big regions (WORD overflow
Changes in ZuneView:
- Merged in changes from ZunePaint
- Magic Wand and Lasso selection mode activated
- Reworked interface to allow new selection modes
- Do not show ILBM as a save option (it isn't working)
Changes in ZuneFIG:
- Rework catalog handling to be more in line with standard AROS handling
- Rely on library auto opening
- Empty mouse pointer reworked to cope with Windows hosted
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06.Apr.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Issue 102 can be read online
Issue 102 (May/June 2013) of the printed magazine Amiga Future is sold out, you can read the German and the English edition of the magazine online (picture files). You also can buy a PDF-version.
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[News message: 06. Apr. 2017, 18:03] [Comments: 0]
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05.Apr.2017
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Brain training game Greedium
The author Thomas Igracki wrote: "This is a game running in a mui window (screenshot), where you have to collect as many numbers as possible, without walking over your own path and you have to stay within the playfield."
Download: Greedium.lha (861 KB)
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[News message: 05. Apr. 2017, 21:10] [Comments: 0]
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04.Apr.2017
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Web-Browser: Release of IBrowse 2.5 might come closer
For more than ten years the website of the internet browser IBrowse as well as its programmer Oliver Roberts has been pointing out to a forthcoming version 2.5 of the programm, if any kind of problems or necessary updates were addressed. Many users gave up hope that IBrowse -which also cannot be purchased for almost ten years - that an update will be released.
Now the website of the browser has been updated: " As we move closer towards a new IBrowse release, we've updated the FAQ a little and uploaded an unedited history log of all the changes made since IBrowse 2.4 was released (these will both be updated at various times in the future as development continues)." A precise date of a forthcoming version 2.5 is not mentioned in the FAQ, but it is said that "various stumbling blocks have been removed".
Mainly IBrowse 2.5 will provide minor improvements and adaptions to current MUI versions. Additionally, AmiSSL 4 is supported. If the update will be available for free "has yet to be decided".
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04.Apr.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Several Plugin updates, 64-Bit support
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of many plugins for the x86_64 architecture. Since Hollywood 7.0: Eternity now has support for 64-bit CPUs the plugins also had to be updated for the new architecture. The following plugins have now been updated with 64-bit versions for x86_64 CPUs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux:
- ahx.hwp
- aiff.hwp
- apng.hwp
- avcodec.hwp
- digibooster.hwp
- flic.anim
- httpstreamer.hwp
- jpeg2000.hwp
- moviesetter.hwp
- oggtheora.hwp
- oggvorbis.hwp
- pcx.hwp
- sqlite3.hwp
- svgimage.hwp
- tiff.hwp
- vectorgraphics.hwp
- xmlparser.hwp
- yafa.hwp
Furthermore, the following plugins are available in new versions for all platforms:
- ahx.hwp 1.2
- avcodec.hwp 1.4
- httpstreamer.hwp 1.1
- sqlite3.hwp 1.2
Finally, the Android binaries of all plugins have been updated. They now no longer have text relocations which makes their binaries smaller and also avoids a warning to the debug port on Android devices.
You can download the plugins from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (Classic), AmigaOS3 (FPU), AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (x86), Linux (x64), Linux (arm), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (x86), Mac OS (x64), Windows (x86), Windows (x64) and Google's Android platform (arm) are provided.
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02.Apr.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 01.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until April 1st, 2017:
IntyBASIC.lha dev/cross 605K MOS BASIC compiler for Intellivision
minipicolisp.i386-aro... dev/lang 129K x86 A minimal version of PicoLisp
AB3DTrainer_src.lha game/patch 33K AB3DTrainer source code
AmiSGE_src.lha game/patch 29K AmiSGE source code
Wesnoth.m68k.lha game/strat 48M 68k Battle for Wesnoth
RNOAnim.lha gfx/show 1.8M MOS Animation player, converter a...
FrodoV4_1b_src.lha misc/emu 434K Frodo source code
Nostalgia_src.lha misc/emu 1.6M Nostalgia source code
TI4Amiga_src.lha misc/emu 16K TI4Amiga source code
Calimero_3.91.lha text/dtp 8.4M MOS A DTP Program
gsar-1.21.i386-aros.lha util/cli 109K x86 search and replace text in files
geowrite2rtf.lha util/conv 21K MOS Convert C64/C128 GEOS GeoWrit...
cranker.lha util/pack 710K 68k executable/data cruncher and ...
Hexaco.lha util/wb 29K 68k Color values as hex/dec/... (...
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[News message: 02. Apr. 2017, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
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02.Apr.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 01.04.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until April 1st, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
pythonssl.lha lib/mis 106kb 4.1 AmiSSL 4 based Python SSL Module
proaction.lha lib/rea 645kb 4.0 GUIServer for script writers
gsar.lha uti/she 109kb 4.0 General Search And Replace
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