28.Jun.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FPGA: Minimig-AGA-Core 1.0 for MiST-board
For the Atari-/Amiga clone MiST (amiga-news.de reported) the FPGA-reimplementation of the Amiga with AGA-support is available as version 1.0. It is now possible to play Slam Tilt.
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28.Jun.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZuneView 0.19
For AROS Yannick Erb has released version 0.19 of his picture viewer ZuneView.
Changes:
- Reworked nearest, bilinear and bicubic filters to remove artefacts at bottom and right borders
- Increased processing speed for some functions
- Added button bar for most used functions
- Added artistic filters (oil paint, edge detect, cartoon)
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27.Jun.2015
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Amiga 30 Years: announcements from A-EON, Individual Computers and Hyperion
Due to the unreliable live video feed, it is complicated to find proper sources for various announcements made at "Amiga: 30 Years" that took place today in Amsterdam. According to short reports from various visitors, the following statements have been made at the show (note that none of them has been confirmed by an official source yet):
There will be no X3500, only the X5000 will go on sale
Trevor Dickinson is said to have revealed that the cheapest version of the next AmigaOne generation will not hit the market: The price of the P3041 quadcore based X3500 would have been too close to the other, P5020/P5040 based dualcore and quadcore models.
Amiga 500 accelerator at 130 Euro, new A1200 expansions
Jens Schönfeld allegedly announced a new Amiga 500 accelerator with integrated RAM, which will cost around 130 Euros. A new A1200 expansion is said to be available in two versions: One with a 680EC20 CPU (24 bit address bus) clocked at 28 Mhz, and one with a regular 68020 CPU at 16 Mhz. At least one of the A1200 expansions will also feature a connector for an USB controller.
Amiga Reloaded
In line with his C64 Reloaded - an unpopulated, newly manufactured C64 motherboard - Jens Schönfeld is allegedly working on a "Amiga Reloaded". Several people report he kept pointing out he has a a large stock of AGA chips, so there is speculation that these new motherboards would actually be (partly) populated.
Gorky 17
Hyperion was showing Gorky 17 at their booth. A visitor reports that only hardware acceleration needs to be added before the title can get released. (cg)
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25.Jun.2015
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Patch: Source codes of FBlit released
The patch FBlit forces several operating system routines to use the blitter instead of the processor which can increase the processing speed. It was updated for the last time in 2006. Now the author has released the Assembler-sources under the MIT-licence.
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24.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Presentation of "Viva Amiga" at US Amiga 30th anniversary event
According to the organizers under the title link, at the US Amiga 30th anniversary event the world's first public screening of the "Viva Amiga" which is in progress for five years will be presented.
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24.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: CYMTV streams "Amiga: 30 Years" from Amsterdam
On next weekend the anniversary event "Amiga: 30 Years" in Amsterdam will take place. According to the Dutch sponsor CYMTV under the title link, the entire event will be streamed. You can only watch it using an Android App.
CYMTV is a company with connections to the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported) which spesialized in broadcasting videos via the Internet. Executive Director is Ron van Herk (Computer City, AHT Europe).
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23.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 88
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag.
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22.Jun.2015
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Graphics collection: Amiga Graphics Archive
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is a website which "is dedicated to graphics made with or for the Commodore Amiga home computer." The archive can be search using categories like colors, mode or year.
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22.Jun.2015
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 115 - Preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 115 (July/August 2015) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are a review to Wings Battlefield and "Commodore Amiga: A Visual Commpendium" as well as an interview with Paul Gardner-Stephen (MEGA65).
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21.Jun.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.06.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 20th, 2015:
FritzCfg.lha comm/net 77K 68k Configure the Fritzbox (7330)...
BBoAH-Magazin_1.pdf docs/mags 2.9M Old German PDF magazine (Marc...
SoundBankster_SP.lha mus/misc 5K SoundBankster 1.4 Spanish cat...
Calimero_beta_0.15.lha text/dtp 8.8M MOS A DTP Program
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 19K OS4 Decompiles catalogs back into...
DOpus4-Version10.lha util/dopus 4K ARexx script: get file versio...
tz.lha util/time 563K 68k Time Zone Database
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21.Jun.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.06.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 20th, 2015:
aisshelper.lha dev/uti 2Mb 4.1 An advanced browser for AISS icons
dirmeup_demo.lha uti/fil 975kb 4.1 Amiga Files Explorer
assist.lha uti/mis 6Mb 4.1 A knowledge base for AmigaOS users
ctlg2ct.lha uti/tex 38kb 4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
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21.Jun.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 20.06.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until June 20th, 2015:
sha.i386-aros.lha uti/fil 105kb File hashing utility
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21.Jun.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 20.06.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until June 20th, 2015:
MorphOS SDK 2015-06 dev/too 35298 Official MorphOS Software D...
gTranslator 3.3 uti/des 224 A screenbar module for lang...
Räuber & Beute 1.2.1 uti/sci 1308 Scientific simulator of pre...
PastePass 1.0 uti/tex 90 A simple password manager w...
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21.Jun.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 20.06.2015
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 June 20th, 2015:
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19.Jun.2015
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS 3.9 and MorphOS SDK 3.9 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.9, which is primarily a stability and security update, and MorphOS SDK 3.9, which features updated system includes, OpenSSL, ixemul (50.10) and an integrated Scintilla documentation file. For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.9, please read our release notes.
We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.9 is available for download in our files section.
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18.Jun.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Point'n Click Adventure: The Secret of Middle City finished, new demo
After 15 years, GDG Entertainment's Point'n Click Adventure "The Secret of Middle City" has been finished. The programmer guesses that about 2000 working hours were spent for graphics, programming and tests. "The final version of the game has been handed over to the distributors
for the post-production phase."
Today a new demo version was released which demonstrates the lates and final version of the game engine. "The demo sports improved visuals, reworked dialogs, new background animations
and new enviromental sound effects. TSMC demo is currently available for AmigaOS4, MorphOS, Windows and MacOS X (both i386 and PowerPC) versions."
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17.Jun.2015
Amiga Spiele News (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Quake II with HD-textures
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel has ported a version of the Quake II-engine to AmigaOS 4 which features HD-textures (video). A 3D card with Warp3D support is required.
For old Radeon models (9000, 9200, 9250, R9 etc.), VSYNC should be disabled in the video options. On slow computers the author recommends a solution of 640x480.
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17.Jun.2015
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Text adventure: Star Wars - Escape from Mos Eisley
The English text and graphic adventure "Star Wars - Escape from Mos Eisley" was written in AMOS and is the first game of the developer. 1 MB Chip-RAM as well as some additional RAM are required. The game was developed and tested on a computer with 2 MB Chip-RAM, 8 MB Fast-RAM and a 68030-processor. The author recommends to "use 'help' command if you're lost."
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17.Jun.2015
Pegasosforum (Forum)
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MorphOS: SoundBankster 1.4
Antoine 'tchecko' Dubourg's SoundBankster (screenshot) is an application for DJs which can be completely controled with an USB-DJ-deck. A computer with at least 512 MB RAM is resommended.
The programm was written for MorphOS and uses e.g. the HID-Sensor-API which was introduced with version 3.6. Reggae (loading and playing music), AHI and TinyGL (rendering the graphics of the audio signals) are used as well.
Changes:
- Made the beat detection feature working. It seems the 1.3 release is
totally broken here
- Added right mouse button handling when dragging track
- Added some triangle to current position vertical bar to make it more
visible
- Added a marker to see the Cue point in the waveform navigator
- Fixed the Sync function. A missing notification made the whole stuff
not working straight as it should. Sync was working only if the track
had been previously processed and BPM/Cue point saved
- Added some helper for finding the track BPM. x2, /2, +1, -1 BPM and a
rounding function to the closed integer
- Added 1/32 and 1/16 loop size
- Optimized the display of the remaining time by only updating the
display when time changes. Saved 1% CPU from main SoundBankster task
- Fixed beat detector feedback on UI that wasn't working at all
- Fixed display issue for beat bars not being displayed when moving
the cue point with cue left/right buttons
- Cue point can't be negative. Cue point position capped >= 0
- Removed some mostly useless text fields in deck controller (loading
time, track tempo, pitch %, computed tempo) by a single 'Playing Tempo'
field which displays 'Track tempo * pitch value' ie. Track tempo is 120,
pitch is set to 5%, Playing Tempo will be 120 * 1.05 = 126 BPM
- Reworked the time left to play text area. Updates when seeking in the
track
Download: SoundBankster.lha (464 KB)
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16.Jun.2015
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Book: Brian Bagnall's "Commodore: The Amiga Years" at Kickstarter
Within 24 hours, after the Kickstarter campaign for the second part of Brian Bagnall's book "Commodore: The Amiga Years" was started, the financing target has been achieved: 15.000 Canadian Dollar were required, 25.000 have been donated so far. The book is supposed to be published in December.
For 22 or 40 Canadian Dollar a digital (in a desired format, DRM-free) or printed version of the book can be preordered. Besides, some additional packages are available, e.g. the so far unpublished ebook "Commodore: The Early Years" which is about the years 1954 till 1974.
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16.Jun.2015
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DeliCate Linux: New distribution for Amigas in progress
DeLicate is a Linux distribution which is meant for old computers with very little RAM and low processor performance. At least an i386 or 68020 processor (FPU and MMU are required) is required but a 586 with 233 Mhz or a 68060 with 60 Mhz are recommended. If you want to use a graphical user-interface, your computer should have more than 16 MB RAM (68 MB are recommended).
According to the maintainer in its forum, currently the m68k-port is developed running under ARAnyM emulator. The aim is to port the distribution which is based on the Linux-kernel 2.4 and uClibc to Atari and Amiga computers.
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