01.Mar.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Workbench enhancement: BetterWB 4.0
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench enhancements for AmigaOS 3.1, which are useful but rather simple and therefore require low hardware configuration.
Changes in version 4.0:
- Rebooter has now a fast performing bootable ram option
- LockDevice is a command which between other things, changes the read and write status of a drive
- Icon.library has been updated to 46.4.408
- Fat95 has been updated to 3.18
- Dir now generates a wider and more clear display mode
- ConBuffer gives scrollbars to any CLI (configured by default for Zshell)
- A new commodity, PM, a cpu/process meter
- Datatypes.library 45.4 corrects several bugs and is a little bit faster than its previous counterpart
- DOSDrivers for Jaz and Zip drives are included. If you still have one of those magnetic dinosaurs ;)
- Reduced the memory footprint just another extra bit
- A few more minor fixes and tweaks
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01.Mar.2015
Sakura (ANF)
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Preorder: New external floppy drive
Under the title link, at RetroAmi an external floppy drive developed by Sakura (producer of PCMCIA-SRAM-card for the Amiga 600/1200) can be ordered. The pictures of the drive show the non-painted prototype. The final, black Gehäuse case additionally will have included some minor changes.
The floppy drive is compatible to the external ports of all Amiga models but does not support "looping through". That means if you use other external drives of different producers, you can only use it as last drive.
The preordered model is based on a modified PC-drive but is "fully compatible with 880kB DD Amiga floppy disks". For financial reasons there will be not a HD-drive with modified 1,44-MB-PC mechanics, but the platine has been prepared for it. You can upgrade an Amiga-HD floppy drive for using HD-diskd (1,76 MB) on your own with a jumper.
As preorder, the floppy drive costs about 47 Euro (195 Złoty). Later the product will be more expensive. It will be delivered by the end of April.
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01.Mar.2015
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: Aminux 3
Aminux is a collection of Olaf Schönweiß' AROS/68k-distribution AROS Vision and the Amiga emulator FS-UAE, which is launched from an USB-stick based on the Linux distribution Mikroknoppix. An installation will be not necessary.
Aminux r3 changelog:
- Updated linux ground
- Updated to latest "stable" FS-UAE
- Updated to latest AROS Vision
- Created a 4 GB FAT32 extra partition (8 GB USB stick is required), so that people can install AmigaOS there or add ADFs
Users of bigger USB-sticks can change the size of the partition using GParted (included). A video (which was not tested by Olaf Schönweiß) shows, how to install Knoppix on harddrive.
Please note that due to download restrictions of DropBox, the archive can only be downloaded ten times a day.
Download: aminux3.img.7z (5 GB)
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27.Feb.2015
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Port of spreadsheet ignition
In 2008, Axel Dörfler released the source code of his spreadsheet ignition. Now Achim Pankallas has ported it to OS4 and made available a first version which first of all is supposed to get all functions of the 68k-version. According to the author, currently the port still is in beta status.
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27.Feb.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Playable demo: Point'nClick adventure "The Secret of Middle City"
For the first time, GDG Entertainment has released a playable demo of its point'nclick adventure "The Secret of Middle City". The game has been announced again and again for 15 years, but the current developer Gianluca "g0blin" Girelli is the first one who released a demo which can be played.
It was develoed using Hollywood. The demo version is available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Windows and OS X. A version for Linux is planned as well.
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25.Feb.2015
Moo Bunny (Forum)
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Hyperion Entertainment Blog: Multicore and Amiga (English)
Under the title link, Thomas Frieden wrote in a blog of Hyperion Entertainment about the planned support for several processor cores of AmigaOS 4.
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23.Feb.2015
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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Computer Collection Vienna: Amiga-1000-Prototype Velvet / Oldest Kickstart
Under the title link, Stefan Egger has presented a prototype of an Amiga 1000 which is part of his collection, the Computer Collection Vienna. The Kickstart version of the board called "Velvet" is supposed to be the oldest known version; it is three months older than the known version 0.7.
Stefan Egger wrote on his website: "What is special about that machine? It only comes with 128k RAM and can be expanded by another 128k on front expansion port to a maximum of 256k. This expansion is known to exist! You surely heared about stories that Commodore did want to reduce the Memory of Amiga, but the Amiga Team did not want that. That is maybe why they ended up with a standard of 256k on the A1000, that was expandable to a maximum of 512k by an A1050 RAM Expansion module.
Another thing are the names: Daphne (later "Denise"), Portia (later "Paula") and Agnus. And Daphne had a IC number of AM4705A, the others have 8364 (Paula/Portia) and 8361 (NTSC Agnus), just like their later equivalents."
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23.Feb.2015
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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MorphOS: exFAT file system
Rupert Hausberger has ported the exFAT file system (Wikipedia) to MorphOS. It is not an adaption of the version of AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported), but a direct and completely native port.
Rupert Hausberger wrote: "Due to license restrictions, the version with write-support is not included as a binary-file. For testing and private use, you may compile the version with write-support by removing __READ_ONLY__ in the makefile. See the source-code distribution of this release."
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22.Feb.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player 1.25
Version 1.25 of the Hollywood-based video and sound player V.A.M.P. (Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player) is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and WarpOS as well as Windows. The update fixes some bugs.
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22.Feb.2015
André Pfeiffer (ANF)
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P96-driver for OpenPCI
Under the title link André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer has released the trial version of an OpenPCI-based driver for Permedia2 graphic boards. It is written for users of a PCI-busboard (GRex, Prometheus or Mediator). A support of Amithlon has been announced.
If you have an accelerator board Cyberstorm PPC/MKIII or Blizzard PPC with a CyberVision-PPC or BVision-PPC graphic board using the latest firmware with GRex-support, then you can also use the P96-driver.
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22.Feb.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 6.0: Epiphany available now
Press release: Three years after the release of Hollywood 5, Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 6: Epiphany.
Hollywood 6 is a massive update with a myriad of new functions. The most important new feature is the complete abstraction of the core components display, audio and DOS. These can now be completely replaced by plugins which opens up totally new possibilities. For example, it is possible to replace Hollywood's inbuilt display driver with a custom implementation now. A plugin, which uses this new interface to make OpenGL available to Hollywood, will be released shortly.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 6:
- Complete abstraction of the display, audio and DOS core components
- Support for multiple monitors
- Support for OS-native menu bars
- ARM-Linux is now supported (e.g. for the Raspberry Pi!)
- Stand-alone versions of Hollywood for Linux and Mac OS X are now included
- Videos can be used as normal Hollywood layers now including all effects and filters
- Hardware-accelerated video playback on AmigaOS 4 with the new RadeonHD driver
- Full AmiDock support including animated dockies and context menus
- AHI driver completely rewritten: it no longer blocks the audio of other applications now
- Hollywood's IO implementation is ready for streaming now
- Script execution on AmigaOS is significantly faster now
- Support for multiple Xservers on Linux
- Massive extension of the plugin interface: its size has doubled!
- Support for HTTP upload and authentification
- Inbuilt vectorgraphics renderer for perfectly smooth antialiased shapes
- 300 kb of new documentation
- New example scripts
- Standard library set encompasses almost 700 functions now!
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood 6: Epiphany is the ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for all creative people. Hollywood is available on a CD-ROM and as a download version. Both versions include Hollywood builds for all supported platforms. If you order the download version, you will have to download an ISO image which you need to burn on CD-R then. If you already own Hollywood, you can buy a discounted upgrade version.
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different AmigaOS compatible platforms and the other three modern desktop systems, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux! Additionally, Hollywood also supports the Android platform. A truly unique feature is the ability to cross-compile native executables for many different platforms including: AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows, Mac OS X (x86 & PPC) and Linux (x86 & PPC & ARM). You don't even have to own these platforms in order to compile executables for them. It's enough to run Hollywood on one of the supported platforms and then compile programs for all the others! Only Hollywood makes it possible.
If you want to learn more about Hollywood, please visit the the official Hollywood portal at the title link, which also has a forum for all questions concerning Hollywood.
All this makes Hollywood The Cross-Platform Multimedia Application Layer. Join the Multimedia revolution and get your personal copy of Hollywood 6: Epiphany now because life begins at 6.0! (snx)
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22.Feb.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.02.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 21st, 2015:
SMBMounter.lha comm/net 129K 68k SMBFS Frontend GUI / Commodity
dasm_mos.lha dev/cross 259K MOS Multi-CPU 65xx/68xx cross ass...
dogma03.lha docs/mags 1.5M Ukrainian magazine, HTML (10....
dogma04.lha docs/mags 1.9M Ukrainian magazine, HTML (10....
dogma05.lha docs/mags 2.6M Ukrainian magazine, HTML (01....
dogma06.lha docs/mags 2.3M Ukrainian magazine, HTML (27....
dogma07.lha docs/mags 2.2M Ukrainian magazine, HTML (16....
dogma08.lha docs/mags 3.3M Ukrainian magazine, HTML (02....
dogma09.lha docs/mags 5.0M Ukrainian magazine, HTML (20....
dogma10.lha docs/mags 4.6M Ukrainian magazine, HTML (10....
BOFH.lha game/actio 1.4M OS4 An action/shooting game.
bofh_mos.lha game/actio 1.2M MOS Servers Under Siege, beta
towertoppler-mos.lha game/actio 2.3M MOS Remake of the old classic Neb...
CodeWar-MOS.lha game/misc 252K MOS CRobots-style programming game
CodeWar-OS3.lha game/misc 264K 68k CRobots-style programming game
CodeWar-OS4.lha game/misc 239K OS4 CRobots-style programming game
Handy095.lha misc/emu 160K 68k Atari Lynx emulator
Profeta_128.lha misc/misc 21M 68k Studio-Lotto, Italian Lottery
Calimero_0.8.lha text/dtp 7.3M MOS A DTP Program
EvenMore.lha text/show 426K 68k V0.85: Freeware textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 505K MOS Freeware Textviewer (MorphOS)
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 504K OS4 Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 262K EvenMore textviewer plugins s...
xad_7z.lha util/arc 237K OS4 XAD (UnArc) client for 7-Zip ...
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 179K WOS PNG image datatype V45.19
Microbe3D.lha util/libs 40M 68k micro .obj 3D engine using Wa...
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22.Feb.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.02.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 21st, 2015:
warppngdt.lha dat/ima 179kb 4.0 PNG image datatype V45.19
atari.lha emu/com 1Mb 4.0 Emulator of the Atari 8-bit and ...
hatari.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 Atari ST and STE emulator
kegs.lha emu/com 619kb 4.0 Apple IIgs emulator
xroar.lha emu/com 205kb 4.0 Dragon/Tandy computers emulator
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
codewar.lha gam/mis 239kb 4.0 CRobots-style programming game
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
dcraw.lha gra/con 3Mb 4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files
xad_7z.lha uti/arc 237kb 4.0 XAD (UnArc) client for 7-zip arc...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 504kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
amiupdate_swe.lha uti/wor 19kb 4.1 Swedish ranslation of Amiupdate
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22.Feb.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 21.02.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until February 21st, 2015:
whobecomesamigaguru.i386-... gam/mis 23Mb Game about a fictitious tv show
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22.Feb.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 21.02.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until February 21st, 2015:
Hyphen 2.8.8 dev/lib 740 A static library performing...
OpenXcom 1.0 gam/str 5950 Open clone of "UFO - Enemy ...
FCEU 1.6 uti/emu 651 Emulator of Nintendo Entert...
HuGo 1.4 uti/emu 689 Emulator of Turbografx-16 (...
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22.Feb.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 21.02.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until February 21st, 2015:
- 2015-02-20 improved: Awesome (Psygnosis) fixed sound problems on 68040 (Info)
- 2015-02-20 new: Darkroom (Stellar) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2015-02-17 updated: Chromagic (Dual-Crew Shining) patch redone, works with 512k chip memory and 512k other memory, access faults fixed, 68000 quitkey support (Info, Image)
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21.Feb.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Datatype: WarpPNG 45.19
Oliver Roberts has updated his Warp-Datatype for PNG-graphics for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS and MorphOS.
Changes:
- Updated with libpng 1.6.16
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9d
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20.Feb.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Windows: ADTWin 1.2
ADTWin is a programm which unter Windows can write Amiga disks (amiga-news.de reported) to use the content of ADF-files on real Amigas. Changes in version 1.2:
- Support for parallel port PCI cards
- Automatic deactivation of Windows' "warm polling" mechanism (which can disrupt ADTWin's write operation)
- Drag&Drop support
- Bug fix: With some floppy drives (e.g. MITSUMI D359T5) there was a problem when moving the read/write head too early after selecting the drive, resulting in corrupt disks, although no errors were reported
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20.Feb.2015
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NES-remake: "Solomon's Key 2"
"hukka" has released an remake of the NES-game Solomon's Key 2 / Fire'n Ice for classic Amigas. The game has been written in assembly and should run on any PAL-Amiga.
You can play Solomon's key using keyboard or joystick. The second fire button can be used to access the ingame menu. Some features of the NES-game have been not implemented ('Castle' levels and other levels with lava floor/scrolling/moving enemies have been replaced with custom levels), but a level editor is included.
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19.Feb.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: 8-Bit-Emulator Atari++ 1.73
Atari++ emulates Atari's 8-Bit home computer as well as the games console Atari 5200. The port for AmigaOS-4 was written by Ventzislav 'drHirudo' Tzvetkov, supports AmigaInput and can be controlled using joysticks or analog controllers.
Changes:
- Added emulation support for the tape drive, and .CAS files loaded into the
tape. Raw audio files in the .WAV format are not supported by the emulator
directly, but two external programs "wav2cas" and "cas2wav" can convert
between them.
- Added an additional rendering mode for the X11 video system of Linux
machines. Instead of drawing the emulated screen on the display rectangle by
rectangle, the "xvideo" mode uses the xv extension of X11 to render into an
off-screen memory which is then merged into the screen by the video overlay
mechanis of the hardware. This rendering mode may create a smoother display
and may improve performance on lower end hardware, but is not necessarily
available everywhere.
- A complete manual of Os++, including a memory map, is now available as
download.
- Included the Os++ system disk, including disk-based utilities around Os++
including a Dos overlay manager that relocates Dos buffers behind the
cartridge, an RS232 handler, an updated version of DISKIO, a disk-based
tape handler, a menu based DUP and a lot of tools.
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19.Feb.2015
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 113 - Preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 113 (March/April 2015) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are an interview with Cherry Darling, a workshop on Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1 as well as a review of WinUAE.
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