23.May.2015
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Arcade adventure: Help My Cat!
"Help My Cat!" (Youtube video) is a little arcade adventure in cartoon style. In this game you have to save the cat of an old lady from the roof of a house. Thanks to Hollywood the adventure is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2015
Scene World Magazine staff (ANF)
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Music: Video interview with Jeroen Tel and Tess Fries (English)
For issue 7 of the "Scene World Podcast" the computer game composer Jeroen Tel as well as the singer and dancer Tess Fries have been interviewed.
Additional to many C64 and console games, Jeroen Tel composed music for some Amiga games like Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op!.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology and ACube Systems strengthen strategic alliance
In a press release (PDF) A-EON Technology informed that they agreed a new hardware and
software development roadmap with the Italian company ACube Systems which both companies will jointly fund and support.
As a first project the Minimig Plus was mentioned. Additionally A-EON Technology has acquired the Ringhio Messaging System which is used in AmigaOS 4 and which was announced in another press release (PDF).
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22.May.2015
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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Meeting: Pictures und a short report from Commodore-Meeting in Vienna
Stefan Egger writes: I posted a few photos from the Commodore Meeting in Vienna on Flickr. Here's a small report from the meeting:
In addition to lots of C64 computers and similar hardware (roboter arms, C116, Commodore Pong games, a Japanese VIC 1001), lots of Amiga systems were presented at the meeting: Stefan Egger ("computer collection vienna") was showing the very first and very last Amiga models: the A1000 prototype 'Velvet' and one of the few Amiga 4000T systems manufactured by Commodore.
AMike had brought his Amiga 1000 which was featuring a new motherboard ('GBA060'), Turrican had a snow white Amiga 1200 with black keys running various scene demos.
Thomas Dorn, former Commodore Austria employee, was demonstrating something very special: his Amiga 4000 was running a train control system developed by Siemens.
Reinhold Schertler was showing his Amiga 2000 equipped with a 68030 CPU, which was playing videos with a resolution of up to 320x216 pixels at 15 FPS featuring 22 kHz stereo sounnd. (snx) (Translation: cg)
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21.May.2015
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VICE: Report about Team 17
On the website of the English-language magazine Vice a report about Team 17 is available which also takes a closer look at the Amiga history of the developer team.
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21.May.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Word Me Up XXL 1.61
For the commercial arcade/puzzle mix "Word Me Up XXL" developed by Boing Attitude a free update has been released which was compiled with the latest version of SDK and fixes a bug in the "Help" and "About" menu.
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20.May.2015
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Poll: how many news items should be displayed on the amiga-news.de front page?
The Amiga scene went through a lot of change in the last decade: it used to be an alternative desktop computer system with active users, now it's a hobby for retro enthusiasts and collectors. This had effects on both the amount of news items published by amiga-news.de - it shrank from 10 to 15 items per day to just 3 or 4 per day - and the behaviour of our readers: many of them only check in every few days now.
While every reader could theoretically configure the front page to suit his needs, experience shows that most people simply use the default settings without ever changing them. That's why we would like to ask our users what their preferred configuration for the front page would be. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.May.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.3.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a puzzle game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Android, Linux and Windows) in which you have to answer correctly questions on common knowledge, each with four possible answers. In the L and XL edition there is also a two-player mode. A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.
In version 2.3.0 the "Quick Start"-mode as well as further translations (Swedish, Portuguese, Polish) have been added. Additionally the Spanish translation has been improved.
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19.May.2015
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Commercial BIOS update for Sam460
For 9 Euro in ACube's webshop a new version of the BIOS software "UBoot" is available. The update includes the following changes:
- new redesigned GUI with an 'amiga' style, enabled via Menu->Video Options->Console->Silent
- unified support for Sam460ex and Sam460cr boards
- support for USB EHCI, now booting from a SD card is very fast
- better support for USB devices
- removed 2 GB limit for USB sticks
- better compatibility with newer Radeon HD graphic cards
- introduced a new menu entry to change the x86 gfx BIOS emulator accuracy. If your graphic card show some visual problems on startup, try increasing the x86 BIOS emulator accuracy
- new DDR2 boost settings: read, write, read + write (up to 5% speed increase on reads and up to 10% on writes)
- DDR2 boost setup done from a new menu entry
- added support for old Permedia2 graphic cards, for 'history' reasons :-)
- added 'ping' command
- corrected a bug in the serial port GPIO configuration
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18.May.2015
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PDF-Magazine: 880 Gamer, issue 6 (English)
The latest issue of the English-language PDF-magazine "880 Gamer" includes reports about the 30th birthday of the Amiga as well as reviews about Street Fighter II, Pang, Super Hang on, Silkworm and Toki.
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17.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 11.05.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of May 11th:
- Work on having higher priority tasks yield when spinning started (Kalamatee)
- Work on USB 3.0 support continues (dizzyofcrn)
- Tasks which are spinning are moved to separate list now in AROS ARM kernel (Kalamatee)
- Work on scheduler of ARM kernel continues (Kalamatee)
- Testing specification for String class added (neil)
- MUI String class now does a display-beep in case of rejected character (neil)
- MUIA_String_BufferPos attriute of MUI String class is now initializable (neil)
- MUIA_String_Format attribute of MUI String class is now gettable (neil)
- Rocks and Diamonds game is now part of ports repository of AROS (mazze)
- MUI Aboutbox custom class now displays the build information (deadwood)
- UI bug in Poseidon pop up window fixed (Kalamatee)
- Handling of scheduling flags has been made mutli-core aware (Kalamatee)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Password manager PastePass 0.7
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS with encrypted database which enters user name and password by clicking a special keyboard shortcut.
Download: PastePass.lha (75 KB)
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17.May.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 16th, 2015:
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 6.9M 68k The Webgallery/Onlineshop Cre...
MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 40K 68k External Prefs Editor for Max...
Crypt-2.0.lha dev/gg 66K WOS crypt v2.0 - UNIX password cr...
ColorPrint.lha dev/misc 91K 68k Print sources with syntax hig...
dt2rawimage.lha dev/mui 69K MOS Convert images to rawimage C ...
Accelerators-SP.lha docs/help 12K Accelerators Guide Spanish/Es...
FrenchCanadianKeymap.zip driver/inp 2K Keymap for French Canadian ke...
A2091RAMPatch.lha driver/med 1K 68k Move A590/A2091 driver from R...
F12015Carset.lha game/data 22K 2015 Car Set for F1GP Ed/Micr...
potrace-mos.lha gfx/conv 802K MOS Transform bitmaps into vector...
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.3M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
DezHexBin2.lha misc/math 36K 68k Convert integers <-> bi...
Emotions_Reworked.lha mods/xm 6.4M New Mod By Pseudaxos
UniScrobbler.lha mus/play 41K MOS Last.fm scrobbler script
Calimero_beta_0.13.lha text/dtp 8.8M MOS A DTP Program
Loadertune.lha util/boot 80K 68k Another boot song resident mo...
MemOptimizer.lha util/boot 210K 68k Optimize for better memory al...
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 151K 68k WarpDT preferences program V45.7
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 235K WOS JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.12
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 227K 68k Dynamic buffers (IFF streamab...
sdl2.lha util/libs 751K MOS SDL 2 audio and video library
RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 416K 68k Timer controled random WBPatt...
screenrecorder_DE.lha util/wb 1K German catalog for ScreenReco...
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17.May.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 16th, 2015:
hwplayer.lha dev/mis 9Mb 4.0 Run applets created by Hollywood
amicraft.lha gam/mis 933kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
odyssey_dan.lha net/bro 6kb 4.1 Danish catalog for Odyssey
amiupdate_swe.lha uti/wor 11kb 4.1 Swedish translation of Amiupdate
smarthome_chapter_001... uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Amiga Kurs Chapter 001
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.1 Qt Download videos from YouTube
smtube.lha vid/pla 3Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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17.May.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until May 16th, 2015:
crates.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 3Mb Find the path to clear the key c...
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17.May.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 16.05.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until May 16th, 2015:
ReadWMF 1.0 gra/mis 71 Analyses Windows Meta File ...
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17.May.2015
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WHDLoad: Neue Pakete until 16.05.2015
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 May 16th, 2015:
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17.May.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SDL 2.0
SDL ('Simple DirectMedia Layer') provides a platform independent API for game developers. The MorphOS port of the 1.x series of SDL has been maintained by Ilkka 'itix' Lehtoranta as powersdl.library so far.
The new 2.x generation of SDL (list of improvements) will be distributed for MorphOS as sdl2.library. The current release is based on SDL 2.0.3. It is currently lacking 3D support and some less important interfaces are not implemented yet. Additionally, only sdl2_image.library has been ported so far, sdl2_mixer.library is currently being worked on (sub libraries from powersdl.library are not compatible with sdl2.library).
SDL 2.0 requires MorphOS 3.8, so far no game ports using the new library have been released.
Download: sdl2.lha (751 KB) (snx) (Translation: cg)
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17.May.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Development tool: vasm 1.7c
Frank Wille released an update of vasm, a portable assembler supporting a variety of CPU architectures. A list of changes in this release can be found on the program's website. (snx) (Translation: cg)
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16.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Datatype: WarpJPEG 45.12 and WarpDTPrefs 45.7
Oliver Roberts has updated his Warp-datatype for JPEG-graphics as well as the corresponding preferences programm WarpDTPrefs. Under AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS it now offers Altivec support which makes the JPEG-decoding at least one and a half times faster compared with version 45.11.
If under MorphOS there is also a higher decoding speed compared with the original datatype of the operating system is not known yet. The original datatype also supports Altivec.
Changes:
- Added AltiVec speed optimizations for the OS4 and MorphOS versions making decoding speed of baseline images 1.5x faster on a G4 and 1.9x faster on a PA6T, with fancy upsampling off, on average. With fancy upsampling on, the AltiVec speed gain is even greater - 1.9x faster on a G4 and 2.3x faster on a PA6T. These optimizations can be toggled off/on using the new USE_ALTIVEC setting
- Huffman decoder in PowerPC versions is now 5-10% faster
- Reintegrated higher quality fancy upsampling smoothing feature from IJG jpeglib v6b which had not been present since WarpJPEG 45.5 due to its removal from IJG jpeglib v7 and higher
- MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9d
- Added new set of benchmarks for OS4 (benchmark updates for other platforms suspended until my A1200 motherboard has been repaired)
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15.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Text editor EdiSyn 0.53
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntaxhighlighting for C/C++, Pascal and HTML. Version 0.53 now is also available for Hollywood-programms.
Download: EdiSyn_0.53.lha (3 MB)
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[News message: 15. May. 2015, 17:29] [Comments: 0]
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15.May.2015
amiga.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS 3.8 public release with Sam460 and 4K support
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.8, which introduces support for ACube´s Sam460 series of mainboards and numerous Radeon graphics cards from AMD´s X1000 and HD series. In addition to various performance improvements related to the Quark kernel, Exec, 3D graphics and video playback, MorphOS 3.8 also adds the ability to use state-of-the-art 4K displays in their native resolution. For a more extensive overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.
As usual, existing MorphOS users can update to the latest release entirely for free. Sam460 owners who are interested to register MorphOS for their system will be able to do so for 49 EUR.
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 3.8 is available for download in our files section.
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15.May.2015
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AmigaOS 4.1: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition ISO images for download
Press release: Brussels, May 14, 2015
We at Hyperion Entertainment CVBA are more than thrilled about the overwhelming success our customers made out of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition! Thank you!
Actually the success is so great, causing especially the supply of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition for Classic to dry up during the last weeks and some of your preferred dealers even ran out of stock already, which is of course unacceptable!
In order to remedy this drawback, Hyperion Entertainment CVBA commissioned the production of another batch of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition for Classic, which will be available to and from dealers before the end of May - yes, 2015 ;) So if you did not get a copy yet or want another one for your shelf, place your preorder at your favorite dealer now!
Good news for interested A3000 owners: of course we took advantage of this opportunity and fixed the Kicklayout to allow proper booting on A3000 machines without the need for a special bootdisk.
And also some good news for all existing AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition owners: with immediate effect the CD images of your registered AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition version(s) are available in the restricted download area. If not done already, please log in yourself and register your copies by entering the serial numbers in the registration form. We hope we eliminated in this way the fear of a broken CD some of you expressed.
In closing, thank you all again for making the huge success of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition possible in the first place! This is the best support you can give us for developing AmigaOS, so let's continue to stick together :-)
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14.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: FUSE file system bounty project in progress again
Already in December, instead of Leif Salomonsson, Fredrik 'salass00' Wikstrom started working on implementing the FUSE-framework to AROS. It is a complete adaption of the filesysbox.library and not only a recompilation of the version of AmigaOS-4.
According to a statement, the time schedule (May 31st) cannot be achieved. Currently so far 202 US-Dollar has been donated. Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has offered to double each donation until 500 Dollar has been achieved.
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14.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 33 (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. The game reviews of the REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games between different former platforms.
Some screenshots are linked with the retro trailer site of Amigapage.it. If you have a browser which supports Flash then there you can watch little videos of the described games.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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13.May.2015
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Full versions for download: Cybernetix, Bangboo, kleine Gilde, Alien Fish Finger
Amiga Arena has made available the full versions of the shooter Cybernetix as well as of the puzzle game Bangboo for free download again. Additionally the last two versions of the realtime economy simulation die kleine Gilde is available again. Amiga Future offers the shoot'n run Alien Fish Finger as download.
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13.May.2015
Pegasosforum (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS / MorphOS: Demo version of "Wings Battlefield"
After the release of the preview video in December, under the title link Cherry Darling has released a demo version of "Wings Battlefield". The game emulates the air fight sequences of the Cinemaware classic Wings - now with up to four players.
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12.May.2015
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AROS: A week in AROS (since 04.05.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of May 4th:
- Work on Inter-processor Interrupts in AROS ARM kernel continues (Kalamatee)
- Memory pool semaphore protection now works correctly when using TLSF mememory manager (deadwood)
- Task scheduler in ARM kernel updated to correctly move running/ready tasks (Kalamatee)
- Idle tasks are now started on additional CPU cores in ARM kernel (Kalamatee)
- Work on USB 3.0 support continues (dizzyofcrn)
- SDL application will no longer exit with unfreed signals (mazze)
- ScreenRecorder tool now has german catalog (polluks)
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10.May.2015
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: Aros Vision X86 1.0
As announced, there are now different versions of Olaf Schönweiß' AROS/68k-distribution "Aros Vision". Aros Vision X86 is based on the Windows-hosted version of AROS, that means it can be started as application under Windows without using VMware or having some special hardware (screenshot). The disadvantage: So far sound or network are not supported.
The distribution is based on Magellan featuring some major improvements, supports Mesa/Gallium and includes the game engine Antiryad (a debug-requester will appear but it does work), Free Pascal, many emulators, some games and many applications like AmiFIG or Lunapaint.
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10.May.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood Player 6.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce that the Hollywood Player is now also available in version 6.0 for all platforms supported by Hollywood (AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS PPC & x86, Linux PPC & x86 & ARM, Android).
With the Hollywood Player software authors can choose to distribute their programs as Hollywood applets instead of stand-alone executables. In contrast to stand-alone executables, Hollywood applets are universally executable which has the advantage that you don't have to compile your programs for as much as almost a dozen of different platforms but just one Hollywood applet is already sufficient. The end-user then simply has to install the Hollywood Player compatible with his platform and can run the Hollywood applet with it. Another advantage is that applets are much smaller than stand-alone executables compiled by Hollywood. While stand-alone executables often take up as much as 2 MB for only very few lines of code, Hollywood applets are very compact and often consist of only a few kilobytes. A last advantage is that programs distributed as Hollywood applets will automatically profit from improvements and bug fixes in newer versions of the Hollywood Player while programs distributed as stand-alone executables would have to be completely recompiled with each new Hollywood update in order to profit from improvements and bug fixes.
As its very name implies, the Hollywood Player can only be used to run applets compiled by Hollywood. It obviously cannot be used to create your own programs. You will still need the full version of Hollywood to create your own programs, of course.
On all Amiga compatibles, Hollywood Player installs itself to SYS:Utilities to be globally available as a default tool for Hollywood applets. Software authors choosing to distribute their programs as Hollywood applets can then simply set the default tool for their applets to "HollywoodPlayer" and inform the user to install the Hollywood Player before attempting to run the program.
The Hollywood Player is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal for a wide range of architectures and comes with three demo applets to show its capabilities.
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10.May.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 09.05.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 9th, 2015:
APX-Reborn_final.lha demo/intro 65K ppc REBORN by APPENDIX
jrm-hc72.lha demo/sound 512K ppc dA JoRMaS: H?pyCarva #72
LeakWatch.lha dev/debug 7K MOS Show deltas of resources usage
AbbayeDesMorts.lha game/actio 558K MOS Abbaye Des Morts game for Amiga
webptools_aros.lha gfx/conv 2.8M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
26letters.lha mods/jorma 220K 26 Letters by Vesuri (from JR...
Fear.lha mods/xm 4.9M New Mod By Pseudaxos
The_Intruder.lha mods/xm 5.2M New Mod By Pseudaxos
U_re_too_close.lha mods/xm 8.1M New Mod By Pseudaxos
U_re_too_close_Rework... mods/xm 8.1M New mod by Pseudaxos
engrus.hash.lha text/misc 2.4M iSpell English-Russian Dictio...
EvenMore_DE.lha text/show 4K Unofficial German catalog for...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 437K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 462K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 531K OS4 Multipurpose utility
Daywatch.lha util/time 153K 68k Powerful MUI calendar & r...
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10.May.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.05.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 9th, 2015:
abbayedesmorts.lha gam/act 558kb 4.0 An old school game like Ghost'n ...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 531kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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10.May.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.05.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until May 9th, 2015:
xkoch.i386-aros.zip gra/mis 184kb Create koch fractals.
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10.May.2015
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WHDLoad: New archives until 09.05.2015
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 installer has been added until May 9th, 2015:
- 2015-05-04 improved: A-Train (Maxis) OS swap reduced a lot, custom3 option added (Info)
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10.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Another bounty project for developing free software
Under the title link, Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy has established another bounty project which is supposed to provide money to developers of free MorphOS software. The names of the developers are listed under the title link.
If you are going to donate you can do that using the PayPal-link on the home page of the user group WArMUp. So far 57 Euro have been donated.
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10.May.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Game: Meteor Defender
Meteor Defender is a little arcade game written in AMOS. In this game you have to shoot a meteorites before they have damaged the protective shield of a town so that it will be destroyed (screenshot).
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10.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ABIv1 Snapshots
Under the title link, Matthias 'mazze' Rustler has provided ABIv1 snapshots for 68k and x86 from external sources. Programmes which are maintained or ported by other developers are not included.
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10.May.2015
Achim Kern (ANF)
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Hollywood: Programming course SmartHome
Under the title link, Achim Kern has started a project for controlling a SmartHome. As software Hollywood 6 is used. As hardware, an Amiga as well as a Arduino Mega 2560, LEDs and resistors are required.
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07.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Linux: openSUSE 13.2 for AmigaOne X1000
For users of the AmigaOne X1000, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has ported the Linux distribution openSuSE. He wrote: "Be aware, that openSUSE is experimental and isn't supported. openSUSE for the X1000 is alpha software! It's only for testing!" English-language installation hints you can find under the title link.
Download: openSUSE-13.2-1-x1000-ppc64.tar.gz (1 GB)
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05.May.2015
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Event: AmiWest 2015 (16.-18. October)
This year the AmiWest will take place in Sacramento (California) from October 16 to 18 in the hotel "Holiday Inn Express", 2224 Auburn Boulevard. On October 15, Steven Solie will organize a seminar on programming C with AmigaOS-4.
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05.May.2015
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Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 114
Today the German and English issue 114 (May/June 2015) of the magazine Amiga Future has been published and can be ordered directly from the magazine's editorial office or Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Among other articles the current issue contains the second part of the interview with Cherry Darling, a review of Swamp Defense 2 and a report from the demo scene.
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05.May.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix releases mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last message the following songs have been added:
- Shadow of the Beast 3 - Intro (Jungle Mix)
- Turrican Medley (1-3 Main Theme)
- Bubble Bobble - Theme Remix
- Agony - Loading Sea (Trip Hop Mix)
- Lotus III Theme
- Galactic: The Xmas Edition - Ingame
- Battle Squadron title screen
- Chambers of Shaolin - Trapped in China
- Lemmings Medley Remix
- Flashback Holocube Slaygon
- Clairvoyance by Absolute! - Just A Dream
- The Town With No Name (country mix)
- Apidya - Meadows Edge 1-3
- Weird Dreams (2015 dark mix)
- Treasures of the Savage Frontier
- Bubba'N'Stix Part 2 Remix
- Xenon2 2010 Remix
- Shadow of the Beast
- Shadow of the Beast III
- STATIX - Against Time
- Shadow of the Beast - Death Scene
- Hymn To Aurora
- Turrican - Techno Dungeon
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05.May.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (since 27.04.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of April 27th:
- Development of AROS kernel for Raspberry Pi port continues (mschulz, Kalamatee)
- Work on per CPU core of handling of SysBase for AROS ARM kernel started (Kalamatee)
- Work on task scheduler for AROS ARM kernel started (Kalamatee)
- Accessing the current task has been cleaned up in exec.library codes (mschulz)
- task.resource module has been introduced to allow access to AROS-specific task information (Kalamatee)
- C:TaskList has been updated to use task.resource (Kalamatee)
- task.resource has been extended with functionality of querying task lists (Kalamatee)
- AROS ARM kernel now records start time and running time of task (Kalamatee)
- Support for spinlock primitive has been added to AROS kernel (Kalamatee)
- Basic support for Inter-processor Interrupts implemented in AROS ARM kernel (mschulz)
- AMR-specific implementation of spinlocks has been added to AROS kernel (mschulz)
- AHCI driver no longer constantly mounts/unmounts the medium (dizzyofcrn)
- Crashes and memory leaks have been fixed in AROS Vim port (mazze)
- xxd tool is now build together with Vim (mazze)
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04.May.2015
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: Aros Vision 2.9.3 RTG
Major changes in version 2.9.3 of Olaf Schönweiß's AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision RTG are that MESA/Gallium is activated by default and that it uses Zune instead of MUI (MUI can be activated if necessary).
MESA/Gallum needs 256 MB RAM, works only with more than 16 Bit colour depth and is still slow - but it works. The maintainer hopes this will motivate 68k developers to help with further work. Since Zune now is used as standard, more and more AROS applications can be integrated in future.
Changes:
- All system files updated
- Zune and MESA/Gallium activated
- Netsurf updated (much faster)
- Themes added
- Development (GCC) updated
- Most files from contrib/ports (Aros) integrated
- ZuneView added
- OWB (old AROS port) works again
- FlashMandelNG added
- Free Pascal updated (to version 3.1)
- AmiBlitz updated (newest snapshot)
- WHDLoad updated
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04.May.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hollywood: APPBuilder 1.1
The programm APPBuilder written by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci simplifies it compiling Hollywood-programms (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.1 now also works if there is a space in the source or destination path.
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04.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: MPlayer-Bounty
Under the title link a bounty project was established to optimize the MPlayer-port of Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate (amiga-news.de reported) for AmigaOS 4.1. Some functions are supposed to be added which the AmigaOS-4-port of MUI-MPlayer written by Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly and originally developed for MorphOS already have - except some OS4-specific video drivers.
Among others the picture-in-picture bug of Picasso96 is supposed to be fixed, FFmpeg integrated and menus and drag and drop implemented. 1.600 US-Dollar is required, currently so far 1.380 Dollar has been donated.
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04.May.2015
Amiga-Arena (ANF)
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Amiga-Arena: Ali Baba (full version)
Olaf Köbnik wrote: In the year 2000, the developer Nabil Gonem released his low-bugdet game Ali Baba. In 2001 the Amiga-Arena got the permission to offer Ali Baba as full version for download. Unfortunately at that moment the developer had sold his Amiga and did not own his game.
Amiga-Arena could not find the full version of the game because the game hardly was sold. Only now the disk version was found and now is available for download.
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03.May.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 02.05.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 2nd, 2015:
AbbayeDesMorts.lha game/actio 555K 68k Abbaye Des Morts game for Amiga
webptools_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.3M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
DezHexBin2.lha misc/math 36K 68k Convert integers <-> bi...
PDFToolkit.lha text/dtp 861K MOS split, merge and overlay pdf ...
Dev-Handler.lha util/sys 22K 68k Un*x like raw device access h...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.05.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 2nd, 2015:
adripper.lha aud/mis 911kb 4.1 Audio CD grabber and encoder
adripper_ell.lha aud/mis 3kb 4.1 Greek catalog file for ADRipper
libcddb.lha dev/lib 126kb 4.0 A library to access data on CDDB
bintoc.lha dev/mis 21kb 4.0 Binary to C source converter
mmkeyboard.lha dri/inp 630kb 4.0 Multimedia keyboard driver
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
abbayedesmorts.lha gam/act 555kb 4.0 An old school game like Ghost'n ...
amicraft.lha gam/mis 316kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
loview.lha gra/vie 5Mb 4.0 The Easy Viewer & Thumber :)
dopus4.lha uti/fil 2Mb 4.0 Directory Opus 4 : legendary fil...
ejecttool.lha uti/mis 17kb 4.0 Load/Eject/Toggle drive tray com...
meridian.lha uti/mis 366kb 4.0 PDA like input system
r.lha uti/mis 193kb 4.0 Just in time GUIs for nearly any...
pdftoolkit.lha uti/tex 861kb 4.1 Pdf toolkit to split, merge and ...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.05.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until May 2nd, 2015:
vor.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 728kb Dodge space rocks until you die.
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03.May.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 02.05.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until May 2nd, 2015:
gtalk.module 1.1 net/cha 53 A plugin for KwaKwa instant...
jabber.module 1.1 net/cha 42 A module for KwaKwa instant...
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03.May.2015
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WHDLoad: New archives until 02.05.2015
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 May 2nd, 2015:
- 2015-04-29 improved: Golden Axe (Virgin) supports Arcade SEGA Hits version, better CD³² buttons read routine (Info)
- 2015-04-26 improved: Colossus Chess X (CDS) supports another version (Info)
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02.May.2015
amiga.org (Webseite)
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English interview with Cherry Darling
The latest issue of the Hungarian magazine Amiga Mania also includes an interview with the developer team Cherry Darling. The editorial staff has published the original, English-language interview as a preview to the forthcoming English-language issue of the Amiga Mania.
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02.May.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 32 (Italian/English)
Issue 32 of the Italian PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian and English. The game reviews of the REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games between different former platforms.
Download sites:
Englich
Italian
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02.May.2015
amiga.org (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: Amiga Mania #9 (Hungarian)
"Amiga Mania" is an elaborately designed Hungarian PDF-magazine with 36 pages concentrating on all topics around the Amiga. The ninth issue among others includes reports about Wings Battlefield, AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and the FPGA-computer MIST.
Download: Amiga Mania 09_OnLine.pdf (113 MB)
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01.May.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Hollywood: APPBuilder 1.0
The APPBuilder simplifies it compiling Hollywood-programs. Using its user-interface you can e.g. choose the target platform or the required plugins with a mouse click (screenshot). You can also choose non-Hollywood components which are supposed to be added - e.g. readme files - in this way.
Besides, the finished project can be compressed as archive if 7-Zip is installed on the computer. APPBuilder is shareware, but fully usable without registration, and can be downloaded under the title link as well as from the IndieGO!-appstore.
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01.May.2015
David Brunet (ANF)
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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.
- March/April 2015 news.
- Old articles from Amiga News 69 to 71: Review of DICE Pro 3.0, Hardware: Warp Engine 4028, Review of SAS C 6.50, Review of Scala MM300, Review of TVPaint 3.0, Report: Amiga at CERN, Hardware: Amiga 4000/040LC, Review of Imagine 3.0, File: History of computer science, etc.
- Interview with Laurent Parisot (founder of Amiga Rescue Team).
- Interview with Gary Peake (member of Amiga Inc., from 2000).
- Review of Duck Tales: The Quest for Gold.
- Review of Shell 53.15 from AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.
- Review of SMTube.
- Review of Flight Of The Amazon Queen.
- Report: Amiga in north american schools.
- Programmation: Assembleur (remake of Shadow Of The Beast).
- DIY: plug an external screen on PowerBook G4.
- Tutorial: how to crack the game Deliverance.
- Tutorial: how to crack the game Rick Dangerous 2.
- Tutorial: configuration of X-bEnCh.
- Special quizz about RPG.
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01.May.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Free downloads: Sharks!, Beneath a Steel Sky, Danger Dogg, Fussball Total
On the Amiga Arena website, the games Sharks!, Beneath a Steel Sky (HD-version with English voice output), Danger Dogg and Fussball Total are available as free downloads again.
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01.May.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 87
"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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01.May.2015
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AROS: Text editor EdiSyn 0.52
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntax highlighting for C/C++, Pascal and HTML. From version 0.52 on, different fonts can be chosen (screenshot). Highlighting all search results have been already introduced in version 0.51.
Download: EdiSyn_0.52.lha (3 MB)
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29.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ADRipper 1.12
ADRipper can "rip" audio-CDs and convert them into MP3- or OGG-format as well as using version 1.12 now also into AAC-format.
Additionally updated memory allocation routines to use OS4's new memory system and updated GUI initialization routines to use new Intuition features have been added.
Since this new version 1.12 Daniel 'Trixie' Jedlicka has taken over the development and maintenance which involves further changes. All plugins now are included in the programm archive. Due to a change of the API, the previous encoder versions cannot be used any longer.
The program window snapshotting was removed because it was buggy. Besides, the programm icon is no longer added to AmiDock automatically at startup and the documentation has been assembled in a single AmigaGuide file.
Download: adripper.lha (911 KB)
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28.Apr.2015
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: PDFToolkit 1.1
Lazar Zoltan's PDFToolkit - not to be confused with pdftk from the Linux-world - can add PDF-documents or devide them into single pages. Additionally it is possible to overlay pages to add page numbers or toplines and footers into a document afterwards. In version 1.1 single pages now also can be rotated.
PDFToolkit was created with Python and is available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Additional to the basic installation of Python, the pyPDF-module developed by Mathieu Fenniak are required and is automatically downloaded with an existing network connection. Under MorphOS additionally PyMUI is required. The software was not tested under AmigaOS/68k.
Download: pdftoolkit.lha (861 KB)
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28.Apr.2015
Esbit (ANF)
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Museum of Electronic Games & Art: MEGA65 8-bit computer
Under the title link the Museum of Electronic Games & Art has announced the MEGA65, which is a FPGA-based 8-bit computer inspired by the Commodore 65 which never was mass-produced.
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28.Apr.2015
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AROS: A week in AROS (since 20.04.15)
Since September Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz has summarized the weekly progresses of the AROS developer under the category "A week in AROS". In future amiga-news.de is going to publish them here as well.
Week of April 20th:
- Pendisplay MUI class now correctly handles pen data and issues notifications when needed (neil)
- Development of AROS kernel for Raspberry Pi port continues (mschulz, Kalamatee)
- AROS website now contains section on testing specification (neil)
- Additional Raspberry Pi 2 CPU cores are now woken up and await for interrupts (mschulz)
- Colorfield MUI class now correctly initializes and sends notifications (neil)
- MUI_PenSpec structure is now corrected to be source compatible (neil)
- 64 bit integer to double conversion for ARM platform is now available (mschulz)
- Work on porting APDF continues (mazze)
- "Ignore Workbench/Shell" option in Snoopy now works correctly (mazze)
- State of VFP registers is now correctly saved and restored on ARM platform (mschulz)
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