13.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video: Interview with Volker Wertich (The Settlers)
Already at the end of March, under the title link Matt Chat has released a video interview with Volker Wertich, who is the programmer of the Amiga game "The Settlers". He was also involved in the games "Emerald Mine" and "Emerald Mine 3 Professional".
Two other parts of the interview are about later projects and reflections about the future development of the games industry.
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12.Apr.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: AmiWest 2016 on October 8th and 9th
This year the AmiWest will take place in Sacramento, California on October 8th and 9th in the hotel "Holiday Inn Express", 2224 Auburn Boulevard. The programming seminar already will start on Thursday October 6th.
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11.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Distribution: Aros Vision PAL and Aros Vision RTG 3.1
Olaf Schönweiß' has released new versions of his AROS/68k distribution "Aros Vision". The RTG version 3.1 (mainly meant for emulators) provides updated system files and you can choose between different MUI-implementations (Zune, MUI 3.8 and MUI 4 for AmigaOS) and Workbench replacements (Wanderer, Scalos, Magellan) (screenshot).
The new PAL-version is meant for slower hardware and provides less software. Because the author cannot test it on real Amigas, any feedback is welcome.
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11.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 28.03.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of March 28th:
- Work on being able to use Clang/LLVM to compile AROS continues (Kalamatee)
- Find tool now uses MUI requesters and supports localization (mazze)
- It is now possible to search for content in Find tool (mazze)
- Possible memory overrun has been fixed in unard (mazze)
- A fix has been implemented in MUI Process class (mazze)
- Find tool now uses background process to do the directory scanning (mazze)
- Various catalog files have been reviewed and updated (mazze)
- Initiated work for supporting ARM 64-bit architecture (Kalamatee)
- Poseidon USB stack now compiles for AROS 68k (Kalamatee)
- Crash during initialization of MUI List class has been fixed (o1i)
- animation.datatype behavior has been updated (Kalamatee)
- Zip and Zoom clients of xad.library have had out of bounds access fixed (Kalamatee)
Week of April 4th:
- Work on being able to use Clang/LLVM to compile AROS continues (Kalamatee)
- MadMatrix game is now part of AROS Contrib repository (mazze)
- FKey commodity received a small UI update (mazze)
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11.Apr.2016
Aros-Exec (ANF)
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Compiler: Free Pascal 3.1.1 and alpha version of Lazarus for AmigaOS 3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has ported the Pascal compiler Freepascal 3.1.1 as well as the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) to AmigaOS. Using this library it is possible to develop cross-platform applications. The port for Amiga is still an alpha version but many examples can already be built wothout any problems.
Some games and tools (BinShifter, ColorIt, FPCMines and PasteQuick) which were created with LCL, Sackrow already has compiled for AmigaOS.
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11.Apr.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 6.1 Add-ons released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 6.1. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
- Hollywood Player 6.1 for all supported platforms (also available for your smartphone/tablet on Google Play)
- Hollywood SDK 6.1 for developing your own plugins (includes examples and over 350 pages of documentation in various formats)
- Hollywood 6.1 add-on for Cubic IDE (kindly provided by Michael Jurisch)
- Hollywood 6.1 wordfile for UltraEdit
- Hollywood 6.1 online reference manual (over 850 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
The release of these add-ons completes the Hollywood 6.1 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ for download and more information.
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10.Apr.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 9th, 2016:
yWeather.lha comm/misc 360K MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
AmigaCloudHandlers.lha comm/tcp 9.0M MOS Amiga Cloud Handlers
wif_info.lha dev/src 10K Fully commented MorphOS PPC a...
Africa.lha game/board 278K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 325K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 323K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
comedesert-data.zip game/shoot 2.1M 68k Did IT come from the desert? ...
tanksfurry1-2.adf game/shoot 880K 68k Tanks Furry
Juliet_Sea_Shell.lha pix/3dobj 6.8M Juliet with bikini, for Micro...
cardInfo.lha util/cli 20K 68k Get info about PCMCIA cards f...
lzmaLoader.lha util/pack 67K MOS Packer and loader for executa...
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10.Apr.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 9th, 2016:
mhe.lha dev/ide 9Mb 4.0 Hollywood IDE
drawergad.lha dev/lib 185kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
radiobuttonxgad.lha dev/lib 83kb 4.0 Radiobutton gadget expanded
snes9x.zip emu/gam 167Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
africa.lha gam/boa 323kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
ftpd.lha net/ser 741kb 4.1 FTPdaemon v2.2 for AmigaOS 4
boingcube.lha uti/ben 3Mb 4.0 A bouncing rotating boing cube.
prefscenter.lha uti/wor 113kb 4.0 Launch prefs programs from a GUI
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09.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.10dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Beta version 2.7.10dev adds the e.g. the options "network_card" and "freezer_cartridge". And now the proper processor is set for a certain accelearot board.
You can find a detailed list of changes under the title link.
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09.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Pictures of funeral service for Dave Needle
In February Amiga developer Dave Needle died. After the burial, some well-known persons from the Amiga scene met and some Amiga exhibits lile the prototype Lorraine were presented. The blog of retro-link.com shows some pictures of the meeting.
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[News message: 09. Apr. 2016, 17:53] [Comments: 0]
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09.Apr.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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FPGA: Vampire 600/Apollo-Update "SILVER3"
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola, which also provides an (emulated) graphic chip named SAGA. The latest update of the core which currently is used in the Vampire accelerator boards provides the following improvements:
- Flag for BFTST fixed
- Super-Scalar improvements:
- Allow more instructions in 2nd pipe
- More 64Bit MMX instructions added
- PADD, PSUB, PMUL, ... (used by videoplayers like RIVA)
- Improved RESET behaviour (AROS)
- Improved SAGA video out (24Bit, 32Bit, YUV422)
- Clock-cycle register added
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09.Apr.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amiga hostory: First model had number 1000
On Internet sometimes you can read the that the first Amiga did not have any model number and only as the A500 and A2000 were produced, it would have retroactively renamed to "Amiga 1000".
Under the title link by means of a picture of the original box Blake Petterson proved that already at that time it was named "Amiga 1000 Personal Computer". Additionally the name is also used in the repair manual.
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09.Apr.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Photographs and videos of RJ Mical's 60th anniversary party
This year, the former Amiga developer RJ Mical has become 60 years and on this occasion he hold a big party. Additional to pictures, Robert Bernardo also has released two videos: First one shows a spontaneous speech, the second one a C64 game which was written for the him.
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08.Apr.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Retrospective view: How the Amiga Powered Your Cable System in the '90s
By means of the channel "Prevue Channel", in "How the Amiga Powered Your Cable System" it is descibed how Amigas were used in the American TV industry.
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07.Apr.2016
[missing source, SourceURL exists]
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CD release: Loading... Digital edition
"Loading... Digital Edition" (teaser video) is an album with 15 tracks, which Pseudaxos has created using Milkytracker on the Amiga. According to the composer, his CD is a mixture of Trip hop, Cyber Trance, Vocal Trance, Dance / Club House and Electro Rock and is available for 9,90 Euro.
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07.Apr.2016
Retro 7-bit (ANF)
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External keyboard adapter: SumCDTV
Retro 7-bit offers a CDTV version of the keyboard adapter Sum A234/CD32. The Sum adapters have an integrated USB-stack "which enables USB HID keyboards support without the need for installing additional AmigaOS software drivers."
There are no information on the website of Retro 7-bit, if the SumCDTV differs from the original Sum adapter only by the colour.
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07.Apr.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AROS distribution: Icaros Desktop 2.1.1
Version 2.1.1 of Paolo Besser's AROS distribution Icaros Desktop provides a better bersion of the LiveUpdater, which now installs system updates directly after booting the computer - before any application was launched. Additionally the update includes new versions of the web browser OWB and of the emulator package VICE.
- Updated OWB to final release 1.25
- Updated VICE ermulators to version 2.4 (n/a on Light version)
- Fixed HDToolBox right panel text
- Updated LiveUpdater
- fixed bug with user-startup being moved to RAM: without motivation
- Updates are now performed at startup, when no program is running
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07.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 52 (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.
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03.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.25
After the previous beta versions, now Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released Odyssey 1.25 for AROS/x86. This version is based on the WebKit version 187682 from July 2015 and can play HTML5-videos. The latest version 2.1 of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop is required.
If you like the web browser and if you want to support the developer, you can do that by donating money (via PayPal under deadwood@onet.pl or by supporting a bounty project under power2people).
Changes:
- Updated to WebKit r187682 (July 2015). (AROS)
- Ported Odyssey directly on top of WebKit repository. (Common)
- Enable HTML5 video feature. (AROS)
- Bookmarks management panel has been made functional (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Cookies management panel has been made functional (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Fixed "second download crash". (AROS)
- Updated to ffmpeg 2.6.2. (AROS)
- Fixed problem with Odyssey not remembering window width after closing. (AROS)
- Fixed problem with pressing enter not being handled in search window. (AROS)
- Added a "graceful exit" option on crash of Odyssey allowing to close the application and free memory. (AROS)
- It is possible to disable JavaScript Just-in-Time compiler using NO_JSC_JIT tooltype. (Common)
- WebKit codes revision is now presented in AboutBox. (Common)
- Browser spoofing agents are updated for Firefox and Chrome. (Common)
- Added option to disable/enable MP4 support (enabled by default). (Common)
- Fixed crash when closing bookmarks panel (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Double-clicking on bookmarks opens it in current tab. (AROS)
- Fixed list-related code that was trashing memory. (AROS)
- Lists (download, mime settings, history) now have a scroll bar (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Fixed "division by zero" error in Quick Links handling (Common)
- Synchronized display of checkboxes and radioboxes (Common)
- Updated Russian and Italian catalog (Common)
- Provided HTML documentation (Common)
- Messages console is enabled (AROS)
- Fixed continuous allocations of memory when browsing (Common)
- Made memory freeing more aggressive (Common)
- Enabled disk cache by default (Common)
- Fixed setting proxy users/password (Common)
- Fixed cookie handling on numerous sites (Common)
Download: owb-1.25.i386-aros.zip (41 MB)
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03.Apr.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 02.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 2nd, 2016:
yWeather.lha comm/misc 359K MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
dsm.lha comm/net 8.3M WOS Synology Download Manager MUI
owb-1.25.i386-aros.zip comm/www 41M x86 Odyssey Web Browser
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 33K 68k Mediator driver Sonnet 7200 G...
SagaMOS.lha game/board 427K MOS Conversion of TSR boardgame
tanksfurry1-1.adf game/shoot 880K ppc Tanks Furry
GuideMaker-src.lha text/hyper 143K Sources for GuideMaker.
ExtraVersion.lha util/cli 7K OS4 Finds the extra version numbe...
AmiKick.lha util/misc 39K ppc Check Kickstart images under ...
speak-handler.lha util/sys 15K 68k New replacement for the C= sp...
Preferences.lha util/wb 1.5M OS4 Prefs window for starting OS ...
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03.Apr.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 2nd, 2016:
reactive_lib.lha lib/mis 70kb 4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
st_ships.lha uti/mis 21Mb 4.0 Database of ships in Star Trek
rbroadcastwol.lha uti/she 3kb 4.1 Send out a Magic Packet to wake ...
ripconfig.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Display info about Ethernet adap...
prefscenter.lha uti/wor 229kb 4.0 Launch prefs programs from a GUI
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