10.Nov.2015
Patrick Nevian (ANF)
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New Blue Metal Rose EP with remix by Barry Leitch
The latest EP written by Blue Metal Rose partly was composed using OctaMed Soundstudio. Additionally the new release includes a remix of the song "Drei Töne" provided by Barry Leitch, who is known from the soundtracks of several Amiga game classics. On CD the EP already is available in the shop of Blue Metal Rose, a digital download will be avaiable on 11.12.2015.
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10.Nov.2015
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Hyperion selling promotional items
Various dealers are now offering promotional items from Hyperion. Apart from a poster featuring the recently released RPG/strategy mix Gorky 17, all products are AmigaOS related:
From left to right: sticker (diameter 9.5 cm), poster (size A1), notepad (size A6) t-shirt (various sizes), poster (size A3). (cg) (Translation: cg)
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09.Nov.2015
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Batch processing: SRename 3.10 Beta 1
Using SRename you can rename a lot of files. After a break of 10 years, Constantinos Nicolakakis has started the development again. The first beta version of SRename 3.10 mainly "fixes some bugs of the previous version and improves a bit the command interface by removing a few unneeded instructions and by some other changes." AmigaOS 3.0 and at least a 68020-processor are required.
Download: srename310b1.lha (55 KB)
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08.Nov.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.11.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until November 7th, 2015:
MUIbase-3.2.lha biz/dbase 5.1M MOS Programmable relational datab...
sntp.lha comm/net 7K 68k SNTP/NTP time sync client
http_get.lha comm/tcp 25K 68k Get the contents of an http URL
http_load.lha comm/tcp 50K 68k Multiprocessing http test client
http_ping.lha comm/tcp 31K 68k Measure HTTP latency
e_mem.lha dev/e 11K 68k Extended memory functions for E
Amigaville1.pdf docs/mags 37M Amigavile Magazine Issue 1
pubcrawl.lha game/actio 21K Sources for an unfinished AMO...
Exult_AGA.lha game/role 27M 68k Amiga AGA port of Exult
E_vaz_ive.lha game/wb 33K 68k Move/change the colour of til...
TiltOtix.lha game/wb 31K 68k Move a coloured bar to the exit
Toptile.lha game/wb 35K 68k Moves shapes to the top...
Trixim.lha game/wb 29K 68k Make some symmetry!
GPS2URL.lha gfx/conv 58K Convert JPEG GPS data to Goog...
KoalaView.lha gfx/show 56K 68k View and convert C64 KoalaPai...
FastExecSPGuide.lha util/boot 6K Gu?a de FastExec en Espa?ol.
Install-PGP5.lha util/crypt 1.3M 68k Complete installer for PGP5.0i
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08.Nov.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.11.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until November 7th, 2015:
songwrangler.lha aud/pla 134kb 4.1 An iTunes like front end for Ami...
c_mem.lha dev/lan 10kb 4.0 Extended memory functions for C
e_string.lha dev/lan 6kb 4.0 Extended string functions for E
theghosthunter.lha gam/boa 2Mb 4.0 Special Halloween 2015: Tuffy
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 26Mb 4.0 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
muibase.lha off/dat 5Mb 4.0 Programmable relational database...
grunch.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.0 Application management system
installer.lha uti/fil 544kb 4.0 Installer Replacement
jack.lha uti/wor 4Mb 4.1 A fantastic AppStore for AmigaOS
jill.lha uti/wor 18Mb 4.1 A multi-purpose utility for Work...
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08.Nov.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 07.11.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until November 7th, 2015:
MUIBase 3.2 off/dat 4540 Relational, programmable da...
Calimero 1.0 off/tex 6095 DTP editor with text and ve...
DemoSim 1.0 uti/mis 8 A joke application displayi...
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08.Nov.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 07.11.2015
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 November 7th, 2015:
- 2015-11-04 new: Megademo (The Link) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2015-11-02 updated: Iraq (Animators) patch redone, timing problems fixed, self-modifying code fixed, interrupt request checks fixed, blitter waits added, decrunchers relocated (Info, Image)
- 2015-11-02 new: Dynamo (Orion) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2015-11-01 new: Acme 1991 Slideshow (Acme) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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07.Nov.2015
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Preview and pre-order: Wings Remastered Edition (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS)
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener has released the first playable preview of his Amiga port of Wings Remastered Edition, which was announced at the "Amiga 30" in Neuss.
Müßener emphasises, that it is a very early pre-version which has not been sufficiently tested. Besides, some graphics have been not completed and are replaced by placeholders. Speed and the whole quality will be improved until the final version.
Simultaneously with the release of the preview, the Amiga version can be ordered in the online shop of Cinemaware - you have to pay in advance. Cinemaware stated that the game will be released in February 2016. In order to make the Amiga port happen, according to the developer "sufficient pre-orders" are required. He guesses a figure of about 300. If there will be not sufficient pre-orders, the users will get back their money.
While "Wings Remastered Edition" can be purchased at Steam for 15 Euro, the Amiga port costs 55 US-Dollar. But for this money, the game will be delivered in a big box including a printed manual ad a poster.
Ports for AmigaOS 4 with Warp 3D, AmigaOS 4 with RadeonHD-Compositing (for users without 3D-driver), MorphOS and AROS are available. Some graphics bugs which Müßener reduces to bugs in the graphic boards are already known:
- AmigaOS 4: Warp3D creates some missing polygons in the corner of the screen
- AmigaOS 4: Compositing should not be used with SouthernIsland and R200 chipsets due to heavy graphics bugs
- MorphOS: on some systems (e.g. Powerbook Radeon 9700) the lightning of the 3D models does not properly work; the objects appear too dark, the fog has the wrong colour
Direct download:
WingsDemo_AOS4_Warp3D.lha (38 MB)
WingsDemo_AOS4_Compositing.lha (38 MB)
WingsDemo_MorphOS.lha (38 MB)
WingsDemo_AROS.zip (38 MB)
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06.Nov.2015
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PDF-Magazine: Amigaville, Issue 1
Amigaville, "The home of all things Amiga", provides news, reviews to old games, summaries to the current status of the Amiga scene or to the well-known Amiga word processing software. The magazine also includes reprintes of full-page games advertising taken from the heyday of the Amiga.
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06.Nov.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Interview with Guillaume Boesel
Instead of a podcast, under the title link AmiCast has published an interview with Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel. He has written several tools for AmigaOS 4, which since last year he has summarized in the collection "zTools".
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05.Nov.2015
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Playable Previews: Alter Ego, Chase
With the permission of the authors, 'Asman' has ported two Homebrew-NES-games for the Polish "RetroKomp GameDev Compo" to the Amiga. Originally released in 2011 for the ZX Spectrum, in "Alter Ego" the player has to toggle between his character and its second identity to collect all treasures.
"Chase" is a clone of the classic Pacman. In this version the enemies attack the player more determined. In return, the player is even faster then the enemies.
Both games can be quitted with the last mouse buttom. An Amiga 500 with 512 KB RAM is required.
Download:
AlterEgo-v1.zip (80 KB)
Chase-v1.zip (32 KB)
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05.Nov.2015
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future, Issue 117
The English and German issue 115 (November/December 2015) of the printed magazine Amiga Future has been published and can be ordered directly from the magazine's editorial office or Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
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03.Nov.2015
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Puzzle game: Update to Amijeweled 1.4, available on Amistore
In 2007 the Bejeweled clone Amijeweled has been released. Recently an update to version 1.4 has been delivered via eMail to registered users. As of now Amijeweled is available again. It can be purchased on Amistore (currently only available for AmigaOS 4) for about 5 Euro.
Users who still have been not registered or whose contact details have changed, they are invited to contact the author Wolfgang Hosemann. Each purchaser of Amijeweled (CD or download version) is allowed to update to the latest version, which completes the game by a new method of dragging the jewels.
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02.Nov.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Renaming picture files: Exutil 0.3 (MorphOS, AmigaOS 3, AROS)
The MUI-based Exutil, which was written with Hollywood, renames pictures files using their date of recording saved in the EXIF-information or the date of the file.
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02.Nov.2015
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Database: MUIbase 3.2 (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS)
Steffen Gutmann has released an update of his programmable database MUIbase. Changes in version 3.2:
- When a project has been changed, a '*' used to be prepended to the window title. This has been replaced by prepending the text 'Changed' instead. In addition, if a project has been locked by another MUIbase instance, the window title is now prepended with 'Locked'. Finally, if there is a newer version of the project on disk, the window title is prepended with 'Old'.
- Amiga: allow quick search in select-from-where lists similar to how this works in GTK.
- The programing functions MIN and MAX are now defined over arbitrary data types not just integers and reals numbers.
- The generation of the user manual has seen an overhaul and unused document formats such as PS and DVI have been removed.
- Linux: only non-deprecated functions of GTK3 are used now and the color and font choosers have been updated accordingly.
- Several bug fixes.
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02.Nov.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 26.10.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
- AtcpTraceroute has been added to the AROS contrib repository (o1i)
- Work started on application handling PS3Eye camera (DizzyOfCRN)
- USB support for Linux hosted AROS now creates separate periodic handler task (DizzyOfCRN)
- The event handler task communicates with libusb (DizzyOfCRN)
- Poseidon is notified about port changes when using Linux hosted USB support (DizzyOfCRN)
- Regression with switching screen modes has been fixed (Kalamatee)
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02.Nov.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology: Press release about Tabor-Board
A-EON Technology is going to produce a PowerPC-mainboard named "Tabor", which will be basis of a complete system called "AmigaOne A1222" (amiga-news.de reported). Now an official press release (PDF-file) is available.
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01.Nov.2015
David brunet (ANF)
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New articles on the 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.
- September/October 2015 news
- Old articles from Tilt 47 to 52 special edition:
- Review of Flight Simulator 2
- Comparison: Amiga 500 vs. Atari ST 520 for the hardware
- Review of Time Bandit
- Interview with ERE Informatique
- Report: CES Winter 1988
- Review of Rallye Master
- Interview with Elie Kénan (Atari France)
- Review of Crazy Cars
- Interview with Frank Lanne (Commodore France)
- Interview with David Pleasance (Commodore UK)
- Report: Amiga 30 à Neuss
- Report: Play It Festival
- Review of Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition
- Review of AmiCraft beta 3
- Review of Bubble Shooter DX
- Hardware: AmiVR
- Hardware: Industrial Disk On Module IDE 4 Go
- Tutorial: Utilization of VNC on MorphOS with VNC Server and TwinVNC
- Special quiz about the Amiga 500
Articles in english:
- Interview with David Pleasance
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01.Nov.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 31.10.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 31st, 2015:
http_ping.lha comm/tcp 29K 68k Measure HTTP latency
ScreenNotifyDevBas.lha dev/basic 30K 68k Using ScreenNotify lib with H...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.5M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.7M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
potrace-mos.lha gfx/conv 804K MOS Transform bitmaps into vector...
dtview2.lha gfx/show 21K 68k Datatype picture viewer for p...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
ADRipperSP.lha mus/misc 8K ADRipper 1.12 spanish catalogs
AmiKick.lha util/misc 38K ppc Check Kickstart images under ...
XoXo.zip util/misc 343K 68k Ripper, Scanner, Decruncher ....
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01.Nov.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 31.10.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 31st, 2015:
recordbox.lha aud/mis 2Mb 4.1 Add cover art to M3U playlists
hgui.lha dev/gui 2Mb 4.0 The ScuiLib successor
e_mem.lha dev/lan 11kb 4.0 Extended memory functions for E
appbuilder.lha dev/mis 42Mb 4.0 Hollywood language productivity
fpse.lha emu/gam 2Mb 4.0 Playstation emulator
sqrxz.lha gam/pla 2Mb 4.0 Better play golf!
sqrxz2.lha gam/pla 1Mb 4.0 Better play golf!
sqrxz3.lha gam/pla 2Mb 4.0 Better play golf!
sqrxz4.lha gam/pla 2Mb 4.0 Better play golf!
candy.lha gam/shm 3Mb 4.0 Censored by the order of the King
shmupacabra.lha gam/shm 34Mb 4.0 Simple bullet hell shmup for free
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
preferences.lha uti/wor 1Mb 4.0 Grouped icons for starting prefs...
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01.Nov.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 31.10.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until October 31st, 2015:
metedata.i386-aros.zip uti 59kb Personal info storage..
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01.Nov.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 31.10.2015
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 October 31st, 2015:
- 2015-10-30 new: Megademo (Acme) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2015-10-29 new: Tuneshow III (The Acoustic Revolution) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image, Image)
- 2015-10-29 fixed: Music Disk (Action Force) access fault fixed, wrong copperlist entries fixed, bplcon0 color bit fix, one more byte write to volume register fixed, decrunchers relocated (Info, Image)
- 2015-10-28 new: Tuneshow IV - Spherical Dreams (The Acoustic Revolution) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2015-10-25 new: Fantastic Pix Vol.1 (Venom) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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01.Nov.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 42 (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 pages:
Italian
English
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30.Oct.2015
amigans.net (Webseite)
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Firefox port: Source code of Timberwolf released
In July 2012, the bonus of 6700 Euro for a port of Firefox for AmigaOS 4 was paid out to the Frieden brothers, although "Release Candidate 1" of their port of Firefox 4.0 named "Timberwolf" did not run smoothly. Two other updates have been provided, then the project seemed to have been put on hold.
According to a comment of Thomas Frieden on amigans.net, both software programmers decided to releases the complete source code of the project on Github. Although the files sporadicly include copyright notices, which expressly prohibit the transfer of the source code, according to Frieden the complete source code is under the Mozilla Public License. If you change it, you are asked to add it to the original Github archive. Please contact Thomas Frieden.
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29.Oct.2015
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.6.2
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. Version 2.6.2 is the latest stable release and includes the following changes:
- Do not use built-in libmpeg2
- Fixed crash (abort) with A1200 Blizzard CPU board models
- Added more gamepad controller configurations
- Fixed non-blocking socket I/O support in bsdsocket_posix [Jens Maus]
- Imported updated translations from crowdin.com
- FS-UAE Launcher: Fixed /hostgame netplay command (server was started on wrong port)
- FS-UAE Launcher: Imported updated translations from crowdin.com
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29.Oct.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, Issue 89
"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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28.Oct.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Hollywood: Tables Lib 1.2
Fabio Falcucci's Tables Library is a Hollywood library which gives you "access to many table-related functions like reindex, sort, compare, search and many other actions you will be able to performs on tables." The library is shareware. If you are going to use it you have to pay 2 Euro.
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28.Oct.2015
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.4dev
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." Changes in beta version 2.7.4dev:
- New action_mute_floppy_sounds, mapped to MOD+N by default.
- Added support for audioprev, audionext, audiostop, audioplay keys.
- Map audioprev, audionext and audioplay to disk swapper actions by default.
- Show on-screen messages when using disk swapper prev/next/insert actions.
- New option relative_paths (see docs).
- Support for three additional custom “joystick ports” (maps to Amiga keys).
- Also recognize .ipf and .dms floppy paths as standalone parameters.
- Fixed building with ./configure –disable-drivesound –disable-slirp –disable-prowizard –disable-cdtv –disable-savestate –disable-parallel-port and others.
- Can build with many CPU emu cores disabled.
- Some cleanup in the configure script.
- Remove dependency on GLU.
- Do not use built-in libmpeg2.
- Imported updated translations from crowdin.com.
- Updated emulation core from WinUAE 3200b18.
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27.Oct.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 19.10.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of October 19th:
- Firmware used in rPi2 port has been configured to a version working with AROS kernel (mschulz)
- Zune test suite is now extended with tests of MUIA_List_Format, MUIA_List_Pool#? and MUIA_List_Title (neil)
- Race conditions during layout in datatypes.library have been fixed (neil)
- Work on USB support for Linux hosted AROS continues (DizzyOfCRN)
- Propotype hotplug handling introduced in USB support for Linux hosted AROS (DizzyOfCRN)
- Port range check in Poseidon fixed (DizzyOfCRN)
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27.Oct.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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New A1200 cases: Funding completed
Via Kickstarter.com, Philippe Lang has established a project for producing an improved replacement case for the Amiga 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). This case also can take in other boards like the Amiga Reloaded, MiST or Raspberry Pi and has pre-cut sections for extensions.
Four days before the deadline, sufficient money has been sought to finance the production of the cases. By currently 127.955 Euro also the next target could be achieved: If 130.000 Euro would be paid, the 3D-model-files will be made available to the public.
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26.Oct.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology: Amiga developers needed
According to A-EON in an English-language press release (PDF-file), the company has purchased several 68k and PowerPC programms and currently has more than 14 paid developers who are working on 23 software projects. A-EON has also created a dedicated SVN resource for all developers as well as "Mantis bug tracker together with a developer mailing list and Wiki to aid software development."
A-EON is "keen to expand and accelerate our software development effort to create new applications and utilities for the PowerPC and 68k platforms." Therefore they "are looking for experienced
Amiga developers to work on our existing applications and create new content for both the 68k and PowerPC platforms." You can access a contact form under the title link.
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26.Oct.2015
André Pfeiffer (ANF)
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Automatic monitor switcher: Connection for CR-version of Indivision MK2
André 'Ratte' Pfeiffer's automatic monitor switcher now can also be connected to the CR-version of the Flickerfixer Indivision MK2.
The developer has published the schema of a board which together with plugs from the local electronics store results in a connection cable, which owners of a MK2cr can use with the automatic monitor switcher without needing an additional adapter. André Pfeiffer thanks the user 'KneteKnut' for the lent Flickerfixer.
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25.Oct.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 24.10.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 24th, 2015:
toram.i386-aros.lha comm/tcp 1.1M x86 Remote GUI for Transmission
toram-morphos.lha comm/tcp 1.4M MOS Remote GUI for Transmission
toram-os4.lha comm/tcp 1.7M OS4 Remote GUI for Transmission
FilexSP.lha disk/moni 7K FileX 2.7a 68K spanish catalog
apov01remix.pdf docs/mags 18M Amiga Point of View #1 (12/20...
apov02.pdf docs/mags 18M Amiga Point of View #2 (07/2004)
apov03.pdf docs/mags 20M Amiga Point of View #3 (11/2008)
apov04.pdf docs/mags 18M Amiga Point of View #4 (06/2010)
jhead-mos.lha gfx/conv 166K MOS Manipulate non-image parts of...
dtview2.lha gfx/show 23K 68k Datatype picture viewer for p...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Profeta_168.lha misc/misc 1.6M 68k Studio-Lotto, Italian Lottery
distance.lha misc/sci 22K 68k calc. distance between 2 poin...
StandardMagicWB16.lha pix/mwb 2.4M Standardised MagicWB Icon Set
Calimero_1.0.lha text/dtp 6.0M MOS A DTP Program
Help.lha util/cli 122K Inline Help for *ALL* MorphOS...
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.6M MOS Directory and files tool
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 396K 68k free icon.library in optimize...
IdentifyUsrSP.lha util/libs 9K Identify lib 37.1 spanish cat...
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25.Oct.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.10.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 24th, 2015:
recordbox.lha aud/mis 2Mb 4.1 Add cover art to M3U playlists
ri_args_e.lha dev/lan 4kb 4.0 new CLI args routine for E
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amigenerator.lha emu/gam 2Mb 4.0 emulator of the Sega Genesis/Meg...
darcnes.lha emu/gam 256kb 4.0 Multi console emulator
handy_amidog.lha emu/gam 992kb 4.0 An emulator for Atari's Lynx
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 21Mb 4.0 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
amicraft.lha gam/mis 3Mb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
fruity.lha gam/puz 2Mb 4.0 Playing with edibles
battlesquadron_demo.lha gam/shm 10Mb 4.0 A classic remake (Demo)
zero.lha gam/shm 5Mb 4.0 ASCII Art Bullet Hell "Zero"
potrace.lha gra/con 299kb 4.0 transform bitmaps into vector gr...
awc.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.0 A web anim tool
toram.lha net/p2p 2Mb 4.0 Toram is a remote control of a T...
drawerexplorer.lha uti/fil 80kb 4.1 A simple file manager.
usbsound.lha uti/mis 68kb 4.1 Commodity for USB audio notifica...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 503kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
amiupdate_ita.lha uti/wor 46kb 4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
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25.Oct.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 24.10.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until October 24th, 2015:
nazghul.i386-aros.zip gam/rol 8Mb Old-school RPG engine, with the ...
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25.Oct.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 24.10.2015
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 October 24th, 2015:
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24.Oct.2015
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Calimero 1.0
Carsten Siegner's "powerfull DTP program" Calimero is available for MorphOS in version 1.0 and supports loading and saving the following formats:
- Import
- AmigaGuide
- Microsoft XML 2003
- Text
- Export
- AmigaGuide
- HTML
- PDF
- EPUB
- ODT
- Text
- Vector graphic formats
Download: Calimero_1.0.lha (6 MB)
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23.Oct.2015
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Kickstart 'ROMs': 3.X ROM chips from Cloanto
An increasing number of vendors is offering so-called "3.X ROMs" that can be built into all Amiga models except the A1000. Since a big German dealer recently started distributing these and we're receiving inquiries regarding these Kickstart ROMs, we approached Mike Battilana from copyright holder Cloanto and asked for additional information.
For quite some time, Cloanto has been offering a license to dealers for building their own Kickstart ROMs. The dealers receive ROM images and designs for the labels and then produce their own chips. To keep the costs down, PROMS or EPROMS are used instead of actual ROM chips. Smaller vendors from Poland or Spain have been the first licensees, but by now the bigger and more well known dealers are becoming interested in offering the new ROMs aswell.
Cloanto is offering this deal for an entire range of ROM versions, like all the ones highlighted in green in Cloanto's overview of all Kickstart releases, but dealers seem to be mostly interested in stocking the most recent version labeled "Kickstart 3.X".
The "3.X" moniker has been used in Amiga Forever for quite some time, it describes a Workbench 3.1 setup that has been updated with more recently released modules Cloanto licensed from various developers. The new Kickstart can easily be identified by looking at the copyright notices, which have been changed to read "Cloanto":
The other changes in Kickstart 3.X are listed in Cloanto's official FAQ:
- Patches originally released under the ESCOM and Gateway Amiga ownership (no SetPatch or reboot required)
- scsi.device and exec.library updates by Alexander Benedictov, Chris Hodges, Heinz Wrobel and Toni Wilen
- expansion.library fixes by Jeff Weeks
- FastFileSystem fixes by Etienne Vogt
- mathieeesingbas.library fixes by Harry "Piru" Sintonen
Kickstart 3.X makes it possible to use more than the first four gigabyte of a hard disk drive, but that requires a more recent release of Workbench/AmigaOS aswell - i.e. one containing FastFileSystem version 45.9 or newer, amongst other things.
To create the additional space required for the updates, the workbench.library had to be removed from the ROM - it has to be loaded from disk now. Cloanto's own Workbench distributions are prepared for this, AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9 also feature a separate workbench.library on disk. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Oct.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Business simulation: Full version of German Trucking
The Amiga Arena offers the business simulation German Trucking for free download, which used to be distributed commercially under Wolf Software & Design's "OASE" label.
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22.Oct.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has uploaded new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files which can be downloaded for free. Since our last message the following songs have been added:
- Super Twintris (Tune 3 - QUAD! Mix)
- Turbo Imploder 4.0
- ULTIMA VI - Forest Level
- Hired Guns Medley Remake
- Lotus III
- Gods (Into the Wonderful)
- Project-X - Thesmophoria (acoustic)
- Kid Chaos - The Ruined City
- Lizardking's Flying World Remix
- Virocop: Funny Old Game
- Captain Planet Intro
- Hard 'n' Heavy (Amiga FM Fever)
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22.Oct.2015
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 117 - Preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 117 (November/December 2015) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are an interview with Kurt Cotoaga (Demonware), a review of hardware for the year 2016 and the sixth part of the workshop Developing Demo Effects #6: Handling the the Glenz. Among others on the CoverCD there is PD-software and full versions of Evil Garden, Mission Andromeda.
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22.Oct.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 28.09.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of September 28th:
- Codeset of russian catalog files for Close, More and Multiview has been corrected (polluks)
- Active entries in read-only MUI Lists are no longer highlighted (neil)
- Index of developer documentation has been updated (mazze)
- Strnlen function has been added to C library (Kalamatee)
- Development of ALSA driver for linux hosted AROS ports started (deadwood)
Week of October 5th:
- MUIA_Listview_DefClickColumn attribute of MUI Listview class is now implemented (neil)
- MUIA_Listview_DoubleClick attribute is now set when the "press" key is pressed (neil)
- Index of the active entry during MUIM_List_Insert and MUIM_List_InsertSingle is now updated (neil)
- MUIA_List_InsertPosition attribute contains now correct value after using MUIM_List_Insert method (neil)
- Index of the active entry is no longer updated during MUIM_List_Move matching MUI behavior (neil)
- Zune test suite is now extended with test for MUIA_List_Visible and MUIA_Listview_DefClickColumn (neil)
- Hex-dump of disassembler in Scout has been made endianness-independent (neil)
- Skeleton of ALSA driver for linux hosted AROS is implemented (deadwood)
- Playback in ALSA driver is now working (deadwood)
- ALSA driver now correctly recovers from underrun conditions (deadwood)
Week of October 12th:
- Work on USB support for Linux-hosted AROS has been started (dizzyofcrn)
- UUID hashing is now supported in oop.library (schulz)
- A resource leak in the ALSA sound driver has been fixed (deadwood)
- The ALSA sound driver is now more careful to use the correct version of the Linux libasound shared object (deadwood)
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22.Oct.2015
Philippe Lang (E-Mail)
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New A1200 cases: More than 110.000-Euro paid, official Amiga-T-Shirts
Nine days before the end of the Kickstarter campaign, for the project for producing new, improved Amiga-1200 cases (amiga-news.de reported) over 110.000 Euro has been paid. The financial target is 125.000 Euro.
Now you can also support the project by purchasing official Amiga-T-Shirts. You can choose between three motifs.
From weekend on, there will be new special editions of the case of Lukhash. One version will be offered only once and includes a private extra of the 8-Bit musician, the other version is available, if you pay for more than ten pieces.
Additionally, the traders TheGamingWareHouse and AmigaStore support the project by offering coupons. The Polish Amiga portal PPA has invested in 60 cases with a special colour.
The latest special editions of a case is a package of the demo scene group Phenomena and of 010101 Music. The Phenomena-edition also includes an USB-stick, a T-Shirt, a mouse pad, a key fob, a cup and a surprise. The edition of 010101 Music includes four CD-albums ("Paula, Agnus, Denise", "Insert Disk 2", "Immortal 3" and "Immortal 4") as well as three cups.
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22.Oct.2015
Retroguru (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS / MorphOS: Fruit'Y 1.0
The new Retroguru game Fruit'Y is similar to the classic Gem'X released by Kaiko. Playing the tiger Sheran it is your goal to level two piles of fruit (video).
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21.Oct.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hollywood: Easing Lib 1.2
Fabio Falcucci has updated his Hollywood library "Easing Lib". There are no detailed information of changes in version 1.2. Easing Lib is distributed as shareware and allows you to "create smooth transitions between values so you can use it to animate anything you like: graphical objects, colors, values, and any value you need to be smoothly changed into another value."
Download: Easing%20Lib%20(1.2).zip (419 KB)
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21.Oct.2015
Retro.7-bit.pl (ANF)
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Keyboard adapter: Firmware update for Sum USB 1200/600
Sum is a USB adapter for connecting keyboards to the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). For the base model Sum USB (for the A1200) and its variant for the Amiga 600 a firmware update has been released now that, for example, adds support for Apple keyboards.
Firmware update v20151017 comes with following changes:
- Apple USB keyboard (USB hub-equipped models) support
- New F10 option in adapter settings that enables displaying selected keys codes
- New F12 option in adapter settings that establishes displaying device settings
- New R-Shift + F19 Mac keyboard shortcut launching adapter settings
- Improved Shift keys support for Pinball series games
Download-Seiten:
Sum USB (A1200)
Sum A600 (snx)
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20.Oct.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: News and videos from the AmiWest 2015 (Update)
Marko Seppanen has summarized the news of this year's AmiWest in Sacramento :
- A batch of 500 boards of the AmigaOne X5000/020 currently is produced and are supposed to be shipped before the end of this year using a new type of Fractal Design case. The AmigaOne X5000/040 will be shipped next year
- A batch of 1000 boards of the Tabor-board is and will be produced, their performance was good enough [Editor's note: AmigaOS 4 currently does not run on it]
- The AmiStore now has more than 700 registered users.
- There will be an update to AOS4.1 Final Edition. All existing platforms will be supported. There are no detailed plans for 4.2, adding Gallum is still a long way.
- The music programm OctaMED OctaMed now is fully OS4 native, the animation programm Take 2 was gifted to the Amiga community and an update for TuneNet will be released with broadcasting fixed and with some extra features.
Videos: Day 1, Day 2
Update: (06:33, 21.10.15, snx)
Paul Rezendes has published photos of the event. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Oct.2015
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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FS-UAE: Updated QEMU-Plugin for PPC-emulation
The QEMU-plguin, which is required by FS-UAE for the PPC-emulation, is available in a new version. It is a port of the latest QEMU 2.4.0.1. For the first time there is also a 64bit version.
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19.Oct.2015
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Download link and new information on "Amiga Racer"
In a thread on a1k.org, some screenshots of "Amiga Racer" were published. Additionally the developer justifies himself to the users there. The game explicitly is inspired by Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge and will be offered for free for AmigaOS 3 (68020), AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
A preversion for AmigaOS 4 is already available. Currently the ports for MorphOS and 68020 are developed. Within the game you can change to the full screen mode by pressing the "F"-key and you can also update to the latest version of "Amiga Racer".
Download (AmigaOS 4): AmigaRacer.lha (21 MB)
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19.Oct.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS: Distribution AROS Broadway 1.0 Preview 4
Under the title (and via the App-store) link you can download "preview 4" of version 1.0 of Pascal Papara's AROS-Distribution AROS Broadway (screenshot).
Changes:
- Added AmiCloud client
- Added OWB with HTML5 video support
- Added Hfinder 2015 (replacing the old one)
- Added some drawer icons (some were missing)
- Fixed Lbreakout2 not starting from Quickstarter (the dock)
- Fixed AROSPDF (is working again)
- Added VAN-builder (create VAN animations from SVGs -> no direct converting from Movies; this will be part of another tool)
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19.Oct.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.3dev
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."
Changes of the beta version 2.7.3dev:
- Support for multimedia keys: volume up, volume down and mute
- New shortcut Mod+K to toggle full keyboard emulation
- Using (Left) Alt (Cmd on Mac OS X) as default keyboard shortcut modifier
- Workaround to allow Alt+Tab to work on non-Windows/non-OS-X platforms
- Most built-in shortcuts are now configurable
- Actions for built-in shortcuts are now available for mapping
- Actions for F11 and F12 (release) can be customized
- Ungrab mouse and keyboard when entering the menu
- Added support for reading controller configs from fs-uae.dat
- Support for creating static / fully self-contained .exe on Windows
- JIT: Better fldcw_m_indexed fix (can use all x86-64 registers)
- Fixed RSP inc/dec for x86-64, shadow stack space on Windows / x86-64
- Fix callee-saved registers for Windows x64 ABI
- Fixed crash when using Blizzard accelerators and x86-64 JIT
- Respect cpu option when checking for Zorro III config problems
- Compile with -fno-strict-aliasing to avoid potential aliasing bugs
- Removed some SDL 1.2 code
Known issues:
- Opening the F12 menu / Using the modifier key causes FS-UAE to blink on Windows due to ungrabbing input (might have to disable this feature on Windows)
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