11.Mar.2016
AROS-EXEC.org (ANF)
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AROS: Text editor EdiSyn 0.54
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntax highlighting for C/C++, Pascal, HTML and Hollywood. Version 0.54 fixes bugs. Additionally the content of the window is redrawed faster:
- FIX: Restored default highlighter colors
- FIX: Hint marker for freepascal output
- FIX: Faster redrawing
- FIX: Message window buttons
- ADD: Basic Printing
- FIX: Menu in experimental Icaros
Direct download: EdiSyn_0.54.lha (3 MB)
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09.Mar.2016
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amiga-news.de: Server problems, relocation in progress
Currently amiga-news.de is located on a server of a friendly web presence. Obviously the (virtual) server cannot handle the additional traffic so we were going to move to a new server.
During the last days, amiga-news.de could not be accessed for several days. Therefore our technicians are trying to establish the new server - at the same time we are about to update our technical infrastructure. For our technicians are very buzy, the relocation will still take some time.
We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may has caused.
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09.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 29.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 29th:
- Hooks in Lunapaint have been corrected to work under 68k (wawa)
- Hebrew keymap extended with right-to-left and left-to-right marks (polluks)
- BoingIconBar now correctly detaches from shell (mazze)
- Menu handling in FryingPan corrected (Kalamatee)
- Scalos now better handles situation when preferences.library is missing (neil)
- BoingIconBar has been updated to newer version (mazze)
- BoingIconBar has been extended with Quit menu option (mazze)
- UAE AROS driver has had its mode definitions corrected (wawa)
- BoingIconBar can now open drawers if they have an icon (mazze)
- Reading hunk executable in AROS 68k is now faster (twilen)
- TextEditor, NList and BetterString preferences are now correctly showing images under any endianess (mazze)
- Names of external classes in Zune preferences are now more readable (mazze)
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07.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Dutch Kick-Off-2 championship 2016 in Amsterdam
On April 2nd, the this year's Dutch Kick-Off-2 championship will take place in Amsterdam. "The games will be 2 halves of 5 minutes each, and it will be a round-robin format. The entry fee will be about 20 - 25 euros."
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07.Mar.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.25 Beta (Version 6.3.2016)
The latest update of Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz' beta version of Odyssey 1.25 supports the disk cache for contents and fixes the bug of the Proxy settings for users and password. Additionally a Russian catalog file was added.
Download: owb-aros-1.25-20160306.zip (40 MB)
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07.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Amiga Racer 2.9
Michael Neitzel's racing game "Amiga Racer" is inspired by Lotus and is available in version 2.9 (video). Now you can configure the controller settings.
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07.Mar.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 50 (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.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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07.Mar.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 05.03.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 5th, 2016:
c-ares.lha comm/tcp 418K 68k Command line DNS tools and de...
dnstracer.i386-aros.lha comm/tcp 52K x86 Trace a chain of DNS servers ...
fping.i386-aros.lha comm/tcp 81K x86 Show which network hosts are ...
QuadrigaChessBoardInt... demo/intro 880K 68k Quadriga - ChessBoard Intro
Quadriga-Revolution.adf demo/misc 880K 68k Quadriga - Revolution
Quadriga-Void.adf demo/misc 880K 68k Quadriga - Void
Quadriga-ComicSlideSh... demo/slide 880K 68k Quadriga - Comic SlideShow
QuadrigaAcousticSilen... demo/sound 880K 68k Quadriga - Acoustic Silence
libgd-2.1.1_a68k.lha dev/lib 5.3M 68k library for dynamic image cre...
OMFAnalyzer.lha dev/moni 84K MOS Analyzer of the Object Module...
AmigaPower.lha docs/mags 77K aMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Maga...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 287K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.11
gnuplot-5.0.3_a68k.lha gfx/misc 6.3M 68k Portable graphing utility
gnuplot-MOS.lha gfx/misc 1.0M MOS Interactive function and data...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
EvenMore.lha text/show 343K 68k V0.89: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 408K MOS V0.89: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 408K OS4 V0.89: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 288K V0.89: EvenMore textviewer pl...
EvenMoreSP.lha text/show 4K EvenMore v0.89 spanish catalog
ControllerTest.lha util/misc 52K 68k Test different types of contr...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 447K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 507K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 551K OS4 Multipurpose utility
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07.Mar.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 05.03.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 5th, 2016:
drawergad.lha dev/lib 183kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
picflowgad.lha dev/lib 63kb 4.0 Display picture strips in a GUI
radiobuttonxgad.lha dev/lib 78kb 4.0 Radiobutton gadget expanded
reportplus.lha uti/mis 551kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
vuremote.lha uti/mis 698kb 4.1 Remote control for Vu+ Receivers
ctlg2ct.lha uti/tex 19kb 4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 420kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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07.Mar.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 05.03.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until March 5th, 2016:
amph.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb 2D-Jump'n run shooter.
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07.Mar.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 05.03.2016
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 March 5th, 2016:
- 2016-03-05 new: Kefmania (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2016-03-04 improved: Side Arms (Probe) patch is NTSC compatible now (Info)
- 2016-03-04 new: Vector Dance 2 (Cult) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-03-01 updated: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) fixed wrong keyboard interrupt (Info)
- 2016-02-29 improved: Archon (Electronic Arts) adapted to WHDLoad v16 (Info)
- 2016-02-29 improved: Archon 2: Adept (Electronic Arts) adapted for WHDLoad 16, reworked readme & install script (Info)
- 2016-02-29 new: Musical Secrets (Zite) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-02-28 improved: Sound Disk (Zenith) unitialised copperlist problem fixed, wrong write to INTENA fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes added, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info, Image)
- 2016-02-28 improved: Megademo (Zeus) illegal copperlist entry fixed, one more blitter wait and Bplcon0 fix added, intro part random generator recoded and included random data removed (Info, Image)
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04.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Distribution: Latest AEROS for Pi available to all
One and a half week ago, Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS was made available for the Raspberry Pi (models 1 & 2) to registered customers. Now it is available to all users in his indieGO!-Appstore called "AEROS Premium 3" (2,54 GB).
The successor "AEROS 4.0 for Pi 1/2/3" which is based on Debian 8 instead of 7 is supposed to be available to registered customers this weekend and among other things include an Amiga emulation with JIT-compiler.
Changes in AEROS 4.0 for Pi:
- Updated to Debian 8.0
- Updated Exagear to version 1.4.1 which takes less RAM and is much faster
- Boots in under 4 seconds on a Pi2
- AmiCloud beta 5
- Updated indieGO!-Appstore
- Updated Spotify
- Ubuntu 14.04 is used for i386 compatibility
- UAE4ARM with JIT
- Broadway 68K
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02.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 22.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 22nd:
- AROS x86_64 is now using large memory model and allows putting executable above 2GB barier (mschulz)
- Skip command will no longer enter infinite loop when a matching Lab/EndSkip can't be found (neil)
- AROS x86_64 now allocates more than 4GB of RAM (mschulz)
- Wanderer now correctly displays available memory when > 4GB (mschulz)
- Avail command has been corrected to work on x86_64 AROS (Kalamatee)
- FormatString function of locale.library now supports displaying of IPTR type (mschulz)
- AROS monitor drivers are now correctly detected during boot on AROS linux hosted (Kalamatee)
- Autodocs documentation has been updated from source code (mazze)
- Lunapaint is now part of AROS Contrib repository (mazze)
- Hebrew keymap has been added (polluks)
- More utility now correctly handles files with more than 32768 lines (mazze)
- Dir command now allows interactive directory walking (mazze)
- FryingPan has been corrected to work on X86_64 AROS (Kalamatee)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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01.Mar.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- January/February 2016 news.
- Old articles from Tilt 56 to 59:
- Interview with John Phillips
- Review of Summer Olympiad
- Report: Personal Computer Show 1988
- Interview with Franck Lanne
- Review of Cybernoid
- Report: Summer Consumer Electronics Show 1988
- File: flight simulators in 1988
- Review of Enlightenment: Druid 2
- File: women and computers
- Interview with Bruno Bonnell, etc.
- Interview with Christoph Gutjahr (Aminet, amiganews.de).
- Hardware: MIST (update).
- Hardware: presentation of AmigaOne 1222 (betatester).
- DIY: connect and use an ACA 500 on an Amiga 1000.
- File: Amiga Games List (update).
- File: virus (update).
- Tutorial: share files with NetFS revised on MorphOS.
- Tutorial: Wi-Fi on Amiga 1200 (with Prism2 V2 and MiamiDX).
- Programmation: AMOS - loops.
- Special quizz about the year 2015 on Amiga.
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28.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 27th, 2016:
fping.lha comm/tcp 91K 68k Show which network hosts are ...
netsurf.lha comm/www 6.2M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 3.0M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
Addicts-Kifftro.adf demo/intro 880K 68k Demo
gui4cli-update.lha dev/gui 100K 68k Easy, event driven GUI langua...
Xix.lha game/wb 33K 68k Rotate shapes so they connect...
WebPButton_0.5.lha gfx/show 543K MOS A animated Button
sidid.lha mus/misc 43K MOS HVSC playroutine identity sca...
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 19K OS4 Decompiles catalogs back into...
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28.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 27th, 2016:
universe-thetrip.lha dem/sce 9Mb 4.1 Alchimie 2013 winner demo.
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
gorky17.lha gam/str 177Mb 4.0 Demo version of the 3D strategy RPG
netsurf.lha net/bro 6Mb 4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
extraversion.lha uti/she 7kb 4.0 Finds the extra version number (...
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 16kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
rrandom.lha uti/she 2kb 4.1 31bit Random Generator
evenmore.lha uti/tex 420kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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28.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 27.02.2016
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 February 27th, 2016:
- 2016-02-25 improved: Final Fight (Capcom) now works on 68000, files can be crunched (Info)
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28.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: Six applications addedd
Six applications have been added to the software collection Games-Coffer: BBase II, Deskbench 1.3, Direct Action, Future Composer, Giant Utilities 3, Giant Utilities 4, Noisetracker 2.0 and Text Plus V3/X-Spell.
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28.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 10 interviewed Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo-Core)
In its tenth issue, the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed the developer Gunnar von Boehn who is working on the Apollo-Core as well as on the accelerator board Vampire II.
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27.Feb.2016
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File manager: Tasko (update)
"Tasko" written by Andreas G. Szabo offers any number of directory windows you like. Between them, you can copy files with drag&drop - for each new directory window, just start Tasko once again. The current release is called a "release candidate", which probably includes bugs. So far you cannot delete empty directories.
Tasko requires AmigaOS 3.0 or higher. The author recommends at least AmigaOS 3.5. The screennotify.library is supported, that means if the Workbench is supposed to be closed or opened, Tasko immediately responds.
Download: Tasko_v1.0rc6.zip (176 KB)
Update: (03.03.2016, 06:00, cg)
Meanwhile the sixth "release candidate" is available. According to Andreas G. Szabo "now the files list is only refreshed when the dir reading is ready. However you can turn back on the live-refresh in the menu settings. I also changed the live-refresh method and it perhaps now performs better." Additional changes:
- Only one lister is read/refreshed at a time.
- Initial bookmarks feature added, drag dirs or volumes into the bookmarks list (turn it on in the settings menu).
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26.Feb.2016
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Review: Netsurf under AmigaOS 3 (Update)
If nowadays users of classic Amiga hardware are going to surf the Internet, until recently they could only choose between iBrowse and A-Web. But both web browsers have not been updated since 2006 and 2011, respectively. As long as you are only intending to browse websites like amiga-news.de or the Aminet, then these two are sufficient - but it is quite impossible to access more complex websites like yahoo.de. Our editor Daniel Reimann has examined the new alternative called Netsurf:
In recent times, almost unnoticed a third option for surfing the Internet has been added: Netsurf. More precisely you would have to say a third and a fourth option, because there are two different versions of this browser that was originally ported to AmigaOS 4. Almost unnoticed, because these ports were only early alpha versions. Now both ports have been released in version 3.4.
Netsurf is a free, open source web browser, which is available for different platforms. The project was established in 2002, the first public version 1.0 of Netsurf was released in 2007. Already in August 2008 a port for the operating system AmigaOS 4 was added. Since that time, the browser has been uninterruptedly developed and now is available in version 3.4.
Since about a year, Chris Young is also working on a ReAction-based port for AmigaOS 3. According to Chris, Artur Jarosik has been developing a version for OS3 for a longer time, but which so far required the ixemul-environment. Today we are going to have a closer look at the port of Chris Young and find out if this version can be launched, is working or even is suitable for daily use. Test system was an Amiga 1200, extended with a Blizzard 1230/50 and 32 MB RAM, which is connected to the scart port of a TV set.
The readme states explicitly that AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9 with 32 MB RAM are required. Besides it is pointed out that "this is early beta quality software for testing only". Chris also wrote, that "it *will* crash!". Well, this I can already tell you: Netsurf did not crash a single time - this is quite an unusual quality concerning Amiga software: Hats off! The archive also contains a detailed tutorial in AmigaGuide format.
While earlier versions of Netsurf could not be unpacked under OS3, this is no longer a problem with the latest Lha archive. It contains an installer, which simply copies Netsurf to the desired destination and finally runs FixFonts. Afterwards you can launch Netsurf without installing any other additional Software.
After a few seconds, a first welcome screen is opened which tells you that Netsurf is "The Open Source Web Browser for AmigaOS 4". After that, the browser window is opened. The first time you start the program, a locally saved home page is loaded:
Of course this default home page can be changed.
Chris Young has uninterruptedly developed his port of Netsurf. While in earlier versions the preferences window did not work, the latest version even has added Tabs - which so far cannot be closed, though.
As you can see looking at the screenshot, the buttons for "forward", "backward" und "reload" currently do not work. According to Chris, this bug crept into the latest release while implementing the tabs.
Before we are going to load some more complex websites using Netsurf, two facts: Javascript is still disabled. And which perhaps is some more disappointing and because this considerably limits Netsurf: HTTPS connections do not work using this version of the browser. According to Chris Young it should work, but when accessing howsmyssl.com, after a few seconds a message pops up: "Timeout was reached" - therefore at the moment you cannot access websites like yahoo.com which use HTTPS.
But what Netsurf can load: www.tagesschau.de
As you can see (by the way, in the background the Workbench works using 256 colours) sometimes there are some graphic bugs if you use the "normal" presentation. The horizontal scroll bar also is missing. But the browser has a real nice and handy feature: It can scale.
According to Chris Young, this function still does not work as it should, because the website should not be cut off at the side, but either there should be the horizontal scroll bar or the whole website should be seen. For me, this feature was very helpful, because often the fonts are displayed much better when the website is scaled.
I want to mention two issues: Speed and memory consumption. As you can see on the lower left corner of the last screenshot, Netsurf always informs you about the time it takes for loading a website. In this case it took Netsurf 266 seconds to load tagesschau.de, while amiga-news.de is loaded in about 42 seconds. This is a lot of time but compared with its previous version, which makes me watching the monitore for about 70 seconds, it loads it much faster.
According to the author, all preferences are set by default to values which speed up the browser as much as possible. Only in respect to the memory he recommends to try out to set the value of the disc cache to 0. In my case, this had not any influence to the speed of Netsurf. However I did increase and decrease the value for the memory cache: For my computer, the value of 20 MB was found to be best. Higher values did slow down my system again.
As usual for Amiga browsers you can disable loading pictures, which saves a lot of loading time. Everyone has to decide for himself if and when pictures should be loaded ot not. For example loading the website www.spiegel.de took Netsurf 874 seconds to load with pictures and only 292 seconds without loading of pictures.
The number of colours set for the Workbench screen did not have an explicit influence to the loading time of the browser.
By the way, I did not have any issues with missing free memory at any point. The lowest available free memory which I had was about 11 MB. On average I had 19 MB of free RAM.
What conclusions can we draw from our tests? Actually I can recommend to give this early version of Chris' Netsurf a try! Of course the missing features like disabled Javascript or still not working HTTPS support are limiting the potential of the browser - and compared with iBrowse and AWeb, loading times sometimes are extremely high. But already at this early stage, Netsurf reliably works and gives you the option to access websites, which until now were not available to the classic Amiga user. Chris Young asks to report bugs to chris@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk. You can have a very nice and personal contact to him and he actually does answer to your questions and problems. So it depends on all of us, the users of OS3, to provide feedback to him and demonstrate our interest so he keeps looking forward to develop Netsurf with energy and enthusiasm.
Update: (04.03.2016, 00:30, cg)
In the meantime, we figured out how the SSL problem can be solved: The configuration file Netsurf/users/default/choices contains a "curl_fetch_timeout" that determines how many seconds Netsurf will wait until it displays the timeout error message. Increasing that value to 60 we managed to loadebay's classifieds (just to hit the next stumbling block, due to the lack of Javascript):
Loading howmyssl.com worked fine aswell now. Why it describes our SSL client as "bad" instead of "imrovable" - Chris Young tells us it should be the latter - is currently being investigated.
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