16.Jul.2015
|
Trademark rights: "Commodore" announced PET-Smartphone
In April the Italian Massimo Canigiani announced with his company "Commodore Business Machines Ltd.", registered in Great Britain, plans for a Commodore-Smartphone. According to wired.com Canigiani alleged having "acquired" the trademark rights of the Commodore-brand for the mobile sector in 38 countries inclusive USA.
Probably it is meant that a registration was applied: At least in the database of trademark rights of the EU there is a corresponding application for the well-known Commodore-logo. It is not known if C= Holdings, the holder of the already registered original Commodore trademark, will proceed against it.
For weeks, the new smartphone namend "PET" is promoted on its website and got feedback and adequate attention:
As expected, the "PET" is not a new development, but a merchantable Android-smartphone produced in China with Commodore lettering. Meanwhile the news service 9to5Google has identified the device: The "PET" is a Orgtec WaPhone. While the original is sold for 144 US-Dollar, the Italian smartphone at least will cost 300 Dollar.
Additional to the logo, supposedly the "PET" features a second unique selling point: Emulators for C64 (VICE) and Amiga (uae4All2-SDL) are preinstalled, which the editor of Wired could not test because it was still not available. The producer said that there are talks with different software developers to get the consent to deliver some of the best games from the 1980s.
As far as we know, "Commodore Business Machines" currently does not own licences for the ROM-files which are required for an emulation.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2015, 17:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
16.Jul.2015
Spidi (ANF)
|
Keyboard adapter: Sum USB for Amiga 2000 and 3000 (and 500)
After a version for the A1200, the Sum-USB-adapter was also developed for the Amiga 2000 and 3000.
Using a suitable converter it can be also used in an Amiga 500 as a video demonstrates.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2015, 11:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
16.Jul.2015
Amiga.org (Forum)
|
Prototype found: Amiga Ranger
During the preparations for the 30th Anniversary Event in the cellar of the Amiga developer Dale Luck a prototype of the "Ranger" was found. Under the title link one of the organizers, Chris Collins, has published photographs.
After "Lorraine", which later became the Amiga 1000, Ranger was planned as extendable version with Zorro-slots similar to the Amiga 2000.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 16. Jul. 2015, 11:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
15.Jul.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
|
AROS: A week in AROS (from 06.07.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers. Among others the support of VSprites with depths more than 8 bits was introduced.
Week of July 6th:
- intuition.library/PrintIText() no longer crashes if passed a null string pointer (jmcmullan)
- VSprites with depths greater than 8 bits are now supported (jmcmullan)
- Romanian language support has been added (polluks)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Jul. 2015, 08:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
15.Jul.2015
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
|
AROS: 68k-Distribution Aros Vision 2.9.4
Olaf Schönweiß' 68-AROS-distribution AROS Vision RTG 2.9.4 now can access printers which are connected to the parallel port. Further changes in this update:
- Amiblitz updated
- Free Pascal updated
- Hollywood: MUI Royale updated + GL Galore
- InstallerGen updated
- Netsurf + Netsurf AGA updated
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Jul. 2015, 00:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
15.Jul.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
|
MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.9.1
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a pre-configured collection of programms, games and emulators (PDF-tutorial). Version 3.9.1 now is available for MorphOS 3.9. An unchanged basic installation of the operating system is required.
Changes in this update:
- choice to install pack Games and pack Emulation
- choice of the partitions for pack Games and the pack Emulation
- updated E-UAE JIT (1.0.0)
- updated SoundBankster (1.4)
- updated FCEU (1.6)
- updated Hu-Go! (1.4)
- updated yWeather (1.10)
- updated Sirena Player (3.00)
- updated VAMP (1.35)
- updated ACE (1.10)
- updated Oricutron (1.2)
- updated SimpleMail (1.1)
- updated DigiBooster (3.1)
- updated gTranslator (3.3
- updated InstallerGen (1.2)
- updated VoxelBird
- updated CodeAudio (3.12)
- updated SimpleCat (2.24)
- updated LoView (2.90)
- added exFAT filesystem (1.0)
- added DAPlayer (1.12)
- added VoxelNoid 3D
- added Wazp3D
- added Calimero 0.15b
- added TwittAmiga 4
- added AmigaMark
- added MUIBase
- added Stella
- added SMBMounter 1.4
- added NoWinED fix
- added ShowVector 1.35
- added Wings Battlefield demo
- added Toram 0.6.0
- added CRABUM SP
- added April SP
- added HollywoodPlayer 6.0
- correction of paths in E-UAE scripts
Download: chrysalis.iso (725 MB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. Jul. 2015, 00:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
12.Jul.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
|
Workbench-Distribution: AmiKit 8.5
The Workbench distribution AmiKit is meant for emulators and now is available in version 8.5. The games "Flight of the Amazon Queen" and "Beneath a Steel Sky" and the complete tutorial for Directory Opus 5 as PDF-file have been added as well as updated versions of MUI4, NetSurf, EvenMore, AISS, ScummVM and WHDLoad.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Jul. 2015, 19:47] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
12.Jul.2015
|
Aminet-Uploads until 11.07.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 11th, 2015:
ntimed.i386-aros.lha comm/net 310K x86 Network time synchronization ...
ntimed.lha comm/net 331K 68k Network time synchronization ...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.4M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ScummVM_AGA_030.lha game/misc 4.2M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.5...
StandardMagicWB10.lha pix/mwb 1.9M Standardised MagicWB Icon Set
EvenMore.lha text/show 426K 68k V0.86: Freeware textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 504K MOS V0.86: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 503K OS4 V0.86: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 296K EvenMore textviewer plugins s...
DOpus4-AddDir10.lha util/dopus 4K ARexx: add a directory for an...
DOpus4-AddInfoDummy10... util/dopus 4K ARexx: add dummy file for an ...
DOpus4Catalogs.lha util/dopus 78K All catalogs for Directory Op...
DOpus4-SeqRename10.lha util/dopus 5K ARexx script: sequence-rename...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Jul. 2015, 05:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
12.Jul.2015
|
OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.07.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until July 11th, 2015:
africa.lha gam/boa 321kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
saga.lha gam/boa 443kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR boardgame
amicraft.lha gam/mis 1Mb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
grep.lha uti/fil 593kb 4.0 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
evenmore.lha uti/tex 503kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
smtube.lha vid/pla 3Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Jul. 2015, 05:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
12.Jul.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
|
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:
- Physical Presence - Chiptune RMX
- Harlequin - TVee Wonderland (ingame tune 5)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Jul. 2015, 05:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
12.Jul.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
|
ACube Systems: New AmigaOS products for fans
ACube Systems has complete its online shop by three fan products: a sticker "30 years of emotion", a notepad "Remember when computing was fun" and a T-Shirt "Powered by AmigaOS".
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. Jul. 2015, 05:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
09.Jul.2015
|
Hyperion: Costel Mincea becomes third director
As a result of Hyperion's temporary banckruptcy earlier this year, director Ben Hermans had announced in May that the company would be restructured. There were no further statements regarding this matter, but apparently just two days later Belgium's central company register (KBO, "Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen") has been updated to list a new member of the management body.
On May 4th, Costel Mincea has been added as a third director ("Bestuurder"). Mincea, also known under his nickname 'Cyborg', has been an active member of the Amiga community for quite some time. He's a member of the AmigaOS 4 team, part of the Aminet team and had been organizing a centralised buying of AmigaOne audio chips in 2006. (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 09. Jul. 2015, 00:21] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
08.Jul.2015
Scene World Staff (ANF)
|
Scene World Podcast #9 with C64 and Amiga musician Dave Lowe
The ninth issue of the podcast of the C64 disk managzine "Scene World" has invited Dave 'Uncle Art' Lowe who scored several C64 and Amiga games.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Jul. 2015, 23:04] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
07.Jul.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
|
AROS: A week in AROS (from 29.06.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of June 29th:
- Shell no longer passes junk arguments to scripts (neil)
- Delay in SD card device decreased (mschulz)
- Initial work on storage.resource started (Kalamatee)
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS continues (Kamalatee)
- Serial and parallel ports devices now load correctly under m68k port of AROS (jmcmullan)
- Passing flags to parallel port device has been fixed (jmcmullan)
- Sorting in NListtree MUI custom class has been fixed (deadwood)
- Listtree MUI class now correctly handling sorting and remove of nodes (deadwood)
- Work on AROS ARM native kernel continues (mschulz)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 07. Jul. 2015, 07:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jul.2015
|
Aminet-Uploads until 04.07.2015 (Update)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 4th, 2015:
ScummVM_AGA_040.lha game/misc 4.9M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.5...
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 5.7M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.5...
PatchCompositeTags.lha gfx/misc 46K OS4 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
creatiVision.lha misc/emu 271K MOS VTech Creativision and clones
SoundBankster-1.4.lha mus/play 464K MOS Mix music in realtime
earth_view.jpg pix/back 344K Satellite view of Earth
poco_azul.jpg pix/back 562K Light entering a cavern
sunset_sky.jpg pix/back 700K Sunset Sky
RomanianDrawers.lha pix/mwb 4K RomanianDrawers: MagicWB Icons
base64enc.lha util/conv 1K Base64 encoding filter
DOpus4-Base6410.lha util/dopus 8K ARexx: encode + decode files ...
DOpus4-Intersect14.lha util/dopus 5K ARexx: intersect contents of ...
DOpus4-Subtract10.lha util/dopus 5K ARexx: subtract contents of t...
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha util/libs 4.7M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
InstallerGen.lha util/misc 165K 68k Installer script creation tool
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 451K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 481K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 548K OS4 Multipurpose utility
tz.lha util/time 1.0M 68k Time Zone Database
Update: (20:30, 05.07.15, snx)
Due to a change on the Aminet website, the list of files in this news-item had been too short initially; the missing entries have been added now. (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jul. 2015, 07:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jul.2015
|
OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.07.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until July 4th, 2015:
tsmc_demo.lha gam/adv 37Mb 4.0 Old-style graphic adventure
amicraft.lha gam/mis 983kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
awc.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.0 A web anim tool
patchcompositetags.lha gra/mis 46kb 4.0 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
hwp_muiroyale.lha lib/hol 5Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
artbase.lha off/dat 54Mb 4.0 Create tables and databases
diceware.lha uti/mis 18kb 4.0 Bitcoin address generator.
reportplus.lha uti/mis 548kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jul. 2015, 07:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jul.2015
|
MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 04.07.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until July 4th, 2015:
UniScrobbler 1.3 mul/pla 41 A Lua script to send Last.f...
ACE 1.10 uti/emu 1326 Amstrad CPC family computer...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jul. 2015, 07:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jul.2015
|
WHDLoad: New packages until 04.07.2015
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 July 4th, 2015:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jul. 2015, 07:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jul.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
|
AnimWebConverter 1.0
AnimWebConverter is a little Hollywood programm for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which can convert IFF-animations (Anim or Yafa format) into animated GIF and PNG files. It is also possible to resize them.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Jul. 2015, 07:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
03.Jul.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
|
Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 115
The English and German issue 115 (July/August 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.
Reviews of Wings Battlefield and "Commodore Amiga: A Visual Commpendium" as well as an interview with Paul Gardner-Stephen (MEGA65) are included.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. Jul. 2015, 10:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
03.Jul.2015
Stefan Egger (ANF)
|
Computer Collection Vienna: Videos of CDTV-CR
On the YouTube channel of the "Computer Collection Vienna" new videos of the rather unknown and seldom (less than ten pieces out of 64 are still preserved) CDTV-CR (S/N #55) are available.
Further information, pictures and videos as well as a documentation of the system will be added as soon as possible. Additional to many changes, the display was explicitly improved. The system only contains the used custom-ICs "BEAUTY" and "GRACE" as well as CD-interface similar to the CD³² (with Sony-KSS-210A-Laser).
PCMCIA-boards do not fit into the slot. The Boot ROM has v3.3 (the CDTV has v1.0 and just like the A570 v2.30). According to the developers it is said: 'The ROMs are definitely different! Some of the differences are the 4510 code for the front panel buttons and displays, and the CD controllers are all completely different as well as the 68000 code to interface to the 4510 subsystem.'"
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 03. Jul. 2015, 10:28] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
02.Jul.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
|
Tables presentation: ArtBase 1.0 (for all Amiga systems)
ArtBase developed with Hollywood and MUI Royale, "transform your "dry" tables into an audiovisual experience." Mainly it is meant for collectors which manage their games lists with a spreadsheet or database. ArtBase imports those lists in CSV-format and does edit them. There are several templates for the design.
Ports of ArtBase for all Amiga systems are available. The use of the 68k-version it is only recommended together with powerful emulators.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jul. 2015, 23:45] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
02.Jul.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
|
Web-application: Amiga PCB Explorer
The "Amiga PCB Explorer" written by Christian "Scrat" Euler is supposed to support do-it-yourselfer repairing Amiga mainboards. Among others with this tool you are able to:
- Look up signal paths where physical traces have been damaged by battery acid or capacitor leakage
- Find out which components are connected to the same signal net
- Get a quick overview on chip pinouts
- Locate any part on the PCB
- Navigate around the PCB and marvel at its beauty
The author wrote: "Right now, the only available mainboard is the A4000 Desktop PCB (Rev B). Support for more boards may be added later."
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 02. Jul. 2015, 23:32] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
01.Jul.2015
Amiga Spiele News (Webseite)
|
Commercial "Dizzy"-clone in progress: Dylan The Spaceman
Chris Clarke (amigapd.com) is developing a Dizzy-clone named Dylen The Spaceman, which is created with the Reality Game Engine and is supposed to be released in summer.
On his Facebook website the author informs about the latest news. At the moment the game is to sold on CD.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jul. 2015, 21:03] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
01.Jul.2015
Amiga Spiele News (Webseite)
|
Shoot'em Up: Demo version of "Kingdoms of Steam"
Kingdoms of Steam is a Shoot'em Up game developed with the Reality Game Engine, which is inspired by the Megadrive game Steel Empire.
A "shop", in which you can trade your collected bonuses for additional weapons is started with the Space-key.
Download: KofSDemo2Levels.zip (434 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jul. 2015, 20:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
01.Jul.2015
David Brunet (ANF)
|
New articles on Obligement website
During the last two months, several new articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. Translations into other languages are very welcome. If you are interested then please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- May/June 2015 news.
- Old articles from Amiga News 72 to 74: Review of Brilliance 2.0, News: Amiga's Future from David Pleasance, Hardware: Kit ROM 3.1, Hardware: Retina BLT/Z3, Hardware: SX-1, Review of Video Creator, Review of LightWave 3D 3.5, Review of Maple V, Report: Computer '94, etc.
- Interview with Daniel Müßener and Markus Kunkel (Cherry Darling).
- Interview with Colin Proudfoot (Commodore UK) and Bernard Van Tienen (Escom).
- Review of AEROS 3.5.
- Review of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition (Classic version).
- Review of MorphOS 3.8/3.9.
- Review of Swamp Defense 2.
- Review of King's Quest 6.
- Report: Amiga, the king of interactive multimedia presentations.
- Programming: Assembleur (remake of Mortal Kombat in AGA).
- Tutorial: utilisation of the AmigaOS 4.1 dockies.
- Tutorial: cracking of Bio Challenge.
- Tutorial: installation of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on Classic Amiga.
- Tutorial: installation of MorphOS (update).
- Book: Éric Chahi - Parcours D'un Créateur De Jeux Vidéo Français.
- Special quizz about the Amiga 600.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jul. 2015, 15:07] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
01.Jul.2015
|
Amiga Reloaded: Information about planned Amiga-clone
On the "Amiga: 30 Years", Jens Schönfeld had announced that he is developing a Amiga-motherboard named "Amiga Reloaded". Meanwhile some more information are available in the Wiki of Individual Computers. We have summarized the essentials:
- first prototype in Q1/2016
- The target price of the main board with AGA chips is under 200,- EUR
- keyboard case will be a A500 case, second target will be the A1200 case
- Amiga Reloaded is an AGA Amiga using the original chips Alice, Lisa and Paula, along with two CIA chips, equipped with 2MByte Chipram
- The Amiga Reloaded will not have any CPU but has an A1200-compatible CPU slot; assurance that ACA12xx cards work (except for the old ACA1230 type), and we'll also do our best to make the popular Blizzard cards work. However, there will be no product support for operation with non-iComp branded CPU cards.
- only one monitor output as standard: A black&white composite output for monitors that are compatible with PAL and/or NTSC video timing; one out of two choices for colour output has to be installed: 15kHz RGB output board or Flickerfixer output board
- Two CF-card slots will be available as mass storage
- Network and USB can be added by extensions of Individual Computers (RapidRoad USB or ACA500-compatible network-module), a PCMCIA-port is not available
- Other ports: Audio (3.5mm stereo jack), floppy disk (compatible with PC and Amiga disk drives), keyboard (Amiga 500 or 1200, selecting with a jumper), parallel, serial, Mouse/Joystick.
- using a modern laptop power supply
After finishing the development, "binding orders" are supposed to to find out the actual demand of the Amiga Reloaded. The money has to be payed before mass-production has started. "The boards will be delivered about 18-20 weeks after the initial order phase."
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 01. Jul. 2015, 06:06] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
30.Jun.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
|
Videos of presentations of "Amiga: 30 Years" in Amsterdam
The team of the "BoingsWord"-podcast has published records of most of the presentations of the "Amiga: 30 Years". Only the speech of Micheal Battilana still is not available:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Jun. 2015, 17:25] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
30.Jun.2015
muidev.de (ANF)
|
MUI for AmigaOS: MUI4.0-2015R2
The team of "MUI für AmigaOS" has released new versions of MUI 4.0 for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4. Additional to bug fixes and tweaks, the MUI-class Hyperlink.mcc has been added. The detailed list of changes are included in the archives.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 30. Jun. 2015, 09:47] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
29.Jun.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
|
English PDF-magazine: REV'n'GE 35
The PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") that compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Jun. 2015, 17:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
29.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
|
AROS: A week in AROS (from 22.06.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of June 22nd:
- Adding a Menuitem MUI object directly to Menustrip now works as in MUI (deadwood)
- Listtree MUI class now correctly notifies about double-click and quiet state (deadwood)
- Memory is now freed in Listtree MUI class at object destruction (deadwood)
- List MUI class no longer crashes when someone tries to create an image without passing the actual image object (deadwood)
- Listtree MUI class no longer crashes when someone tries to delete an non-existing image (deadwood)
- Work on making hostgl.library work again started (Kalamatee)
- HDAudio driver now works correctly on HP Compaq nc6320 laptop (neil)
- Static switching between speakers and headphones at start-up in HDAudio driver has been removed in favor of dynamic switching (neil)
- Output volume control for multiple nodes has been improved in HDAudio driver (neil)
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS ARM kernel continue (mschulz)
- PCI subsystem now correctly handles situation when an interrupt line assignment to a device has been changed (neil)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 29. Jun. 2015, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
28.Jun.2015
|
Pictures and reports of "Amiga: 30 Years" in Amsterdam
Some pictures and reports have been published of the "Amiga: 30 Years" party in Amsterdam.
The organizers have published some pictures on Facebook. Some additional videos are available as well:
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Jun. 2015, 22:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
28.Jun.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
|
Hollywood: GUI-Toolkit MUI Royale 1.3
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the immediate availability of MUI Royale 1.3. This update contains bug fixes and supports more MUI 4.0 features. Please note that MUI 4.0 is now also available for AmigaOS 3, so there is no reason to keep on using the old MUI 3.8 from 1997.
Starting with MUI Royale 1.3, the *.hwc and *.hwp files have been merged so that MUI Royale is just a single binary now. Furthermore, users of Hollywood 6.0 will be happy to see that the installer makes all MUI Royale examples available in the Hollywood GUI now automatically.
MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood 5.2 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. It is available for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC), and AROS (i386).
The package comes with over 20 example scripts, many of which are direct ports from the MUI 3.8 SDK by Stefan Stuntz, but there are also original developments like demonstrations of how to create a video player using the combined power of Hollywood and MUI.
On top of that MUI Royale comes with extensive documentation in over 300 PDF pages which are also available in the HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM formats thanks to the Hollywood documentation system.
All this makes MUI Royale the truly royal MUI experience, carefully crafted for you Kings and Queens of MUI!
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Jun. 2015, 18:20] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
28.Jun.2015
|
Aminet-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 27th, 2015:
SMBMounter-ITA.lha comm/net 6K Italian Catalog for SMBMounte...
jrm-a30y.lha demo/sound 269K 68k dA JoRMaS: Poing (Amiga 30 Ye...
cc65-morphos.lha dev/cross 11M MOS ANSI C 6502 cross development...
WinUAEDemoToolchain5.zip dev/cross 26M ppc WinUAE-based code/music creat...
GloomMapInfo.lha game/edit 3K Gloom maps parser
MCE.lha game/edit 1.4M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Moonbases_RUS.lha game/patch 463K 68k Moonbases Russian Update Kit
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 10M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
WBTicTacToe.lha game/wb 100K 68k WB Tic-Tac-Toe game, up to 4 ...
Ezekiel.lha gfx/misc 2.3M 68k A Trochoid Explorer and Designer
LoViewAROS.lha gfx/show 4.5M x86 LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewMOS.lha gfx/show 4.2M MOS LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewOS3.lha gfx/show 3.8M 68k LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewOS4.lha gfx/show 5.1M OS4 LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewWOS.lha gfx/show 4.9M WOS LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
anespro.lha misc/emu 100K 68k A/NES PRO - NES/FAMICOM emulator
TeXLive2012-MorphOS.t... text/tex 1587M MOS A 2013 port of Tex Live 2012
fblit_source.zip util/boot 341K ASM/Blitz sources for fblit
DOpus4-Version12.lha util/dopus 4K 68k ARexx script: get file versio...
Crabum_SP.lha util/misc 1K MOS Spanish catalog for Crabum
April_SP.lha util/time 1K Spanish Catalog for April
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Jun. 2015, 08:56] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
28.Jun.2015
|
OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 27th, 2015:
bellaguesthouse.lha gam/boa 42Mb 4.0 Adventure XXX Game
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
loview.lha gra/vie 5Mb 4.0 The Easy Viewer & Thumber :)
assist.lha uti/mis 6Mb 4.1 A knowledge base for AmigaOS users
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Jun. 2015, 08:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
28.Jun.2015
|
AROS-Archives-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until June 27th, 2015:
timeless.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 472kb Sdl port of Tran's timeless MsDo...
ezekiel.i386-aros.lha gra 2Mb A Trochoid (Spirograph(TM)) Expl...
loview.i386-aros.lha gra/vie 4Mb the Easy Viewer and Thumber :)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Jun. 2015, 08:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
28.Jun.2015
|
MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until June 27th, 2015:
AskMeUp Demo 2.3.0 gam/thi 18950 A demo version of a "trivia...
wmf2x 1.0 gra/con 679 Converts Windows MetaFile (...
SoundBankster 1.4 mus/pla 464 Software diskjockey double ...
ACE 1.10 uti/emu 1326 Amstrad CPC family computer...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Jun. 2015, 08:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
28.Jun.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
|
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.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Jun. 2015, 08:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
28.Jun.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
|
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)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 28. Jun. 2015, 07:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
27.Jun.2015
|
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)
[News message: 27. Jun. 2015, 23:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
25.Jun.2015
|
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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. Jun. 2015, 15:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
|
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.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jun. 2015, 10:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
24.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
|
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).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. Jun. 2015, 07:07] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
23.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
|
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.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. Jun. 2015, 18:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
22.Jun.2015
|
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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jun. 2015, 22:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
22.Jun.2015
|
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).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Jun. 2015, 16:07] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
21.Jun.2015
|
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
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Jun. 2015, 07:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
21.Jun.2015
|
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
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Jun. 2015, 07:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
21.Jun.2015
|
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
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Jun. 2015, 07:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
21.Jun.2015
|
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...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Jun. 2015, 07:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
21.Jun.2015
|
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:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. Jun. 2015, 07:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
19.Jun.2015
morphzone.org (Webseite)
|
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.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 19. Jun. 2015, 14:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
18.Jun.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
|
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."
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 18. Jun. 2015, 23:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
