15.Feb.2020
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Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.2
An update for the web browser IBrowse 2.5 has been released which mainly provides support for AmiSSL 4.4 and fixes some enforcer hits:
- AmiSSL 4.4 now required for HTTPS connections, which brings the latest OpenSSL 1.1.1d with improved TLSv1.3 support, improved performance on 68k (particularly 68060) and no longer crashes on 68020/030 without FPU (see full list of AmiSSL 4.4 changes)
- OS4: AmiUpdate will update installed catalog files
- Attempts to clean the disk cache now correctly ignored when the disk cache is completely off, fixing possible enforcer hits
- Fixed disk cache from only ever caching small files
- 68k: Fixed enforcer hits in PNG decoder when CyberGraphX is not in use
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15.Feb.2020
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Encryption: AmiSSL 4.4 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The AmiSSL library has been updated and now is compatible to the latest OpenSSL version 1.1.1d. Additionally the root certificates has been updated and diverse bug fixes and optimizations provided. The developer ask for support for porting AmiSSL to MorphOS and AROS - programmers are needed for those platforms. That's the reason AmiSSL currently is only available for AmigaOS.
Changes:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility to latest OpenSSL 1.1.1d (10.09.2019) version.
- Applications compiled with the AmiSSL 4.3 SDK will need to be recompiled to use this release (if the AmiSSL 4.0-4.2 SDK was used, those applications do not need recompiling and will automatically use AmiSSL 4.4).
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.haxx.se/ca/
- Now includes separate 68020-40 and 68060 optimised versions.
- Fixed poor 64-bit integer math performance (including erratic mouse movement) specific to 68060 processors, caused by software emulation of instructions not present on 68060 processors.
- Added 68060 optimised 64-bit multiplication routine from vbcc with permission by Frank Wille.
- Improved BN performance for 68060 (disabled m68k asm replacement as it's slower due to the above).
- Improved elliptic curve performance for all m68k processors.
- Fixed the OS3 target from crashing on systems with a 68020/030, but without an FPU (#37).
- Disabled Poly1305 FPU algorithm on Tabor A1222 (#38).
- Fixed TLS 1.3 cipher lookup failures on OS4, caused by compiler bug (#35).
- OpenSSL.doc not updated for the last 14 years, but now automatically updated for each new release.
- Fixed crashing OpenSSL command on OS3 (#28).
- Fixed OpenSSL command not making path to openssl.cnf correctly (#34).
- Fixed OpenSSL command -out parameter (#33).
- OpenSSL s_server command can now be interrupted with Ctrl-C.
- Install script fixes for MorphOS (#41).
- Fixed include files for vbcc/m68k compilation (#20).
- Minor improvements/fixes.
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13.Feb.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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New orders in legal dispute between Cloanto and Hyperion
In the last two trials between (among others) Cloanto and Hyperion, which both are tried by the same judge, new orders have been given. Die the action for infringement of trade mark rights C-A Acquisition Corp and Cloanto against Hyperion, in which both plaintiffs could obtain a default judgement due to Hyperion's inactivity, is suspended until a previous dispute has been solved.
In the previous dispute, between Amino, Itec, Amiga Inc. and Cloanto on the one hand and Hyperion on ther other hand, Cloanto obviously has requested the court - the relevant document is not publicly available - for an alternative dispute resolution. But the judge denied: "The Court does not believe that such is required at this point, as the parties have recently participated in settlement discussions (we reported) and can continue to do so voluntarily."
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12.Feb.2020
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Text adventure: Eight Feet Under
The text adventure "Eight Feet Under", previously been a free addon for purchasers of Hibernated Collector's Edition, now is available for free download. According to the developers "t's essential to complete the main game first. The addon takes a less narrative and more puzzle-oriented approach."
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12.Feb.2020
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AmigaOS-4-Cross compiler: GCC 8.3.0 for MacOS X
Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea has compiled GCC 8.3.0 as AmigaOS-4-Cross compiler for MacOS. After extracting the archive you have to edit the PATH so Mac OS will find binary file in /usr/local/amiga/bin. The SDK-53.30 includes have to be copied to /usr/local/amiga/ppc-amigaos/SDK. Mincea did successfully a short test but a proper practical test is still pending.
Linking C++ code is a little bit special due to the beta status of the used compiler from the adtools project.
Direct download: ppc-amigaos-gcc-8.3.0-macosx-20200210.tar.bz2 (57 MB)
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11.Feb.2020
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.2 (gaming update)
Press release: Today's update brings a number of legendary games to your AmiKit! One of them is premiering on Amiga, actually. It's an action role-playing hack and slash game called Diablo (shareware). Yes, that's right! And you can play it in a window on your Workbench too!
The same with Dune II - you can play it in a window thanks to OpenDUNE port which enhances the original version as well (note that you need the original 1.07eu game files). We've also included a DOS emulator called DOSBox with several shareware games pre-installed like Prince of Persia 1 & 2, Wolfenstein3D and SuperMario. Nice, right? If you have kids, they will love Elfie the Unicorn! We've also included a special easy peasy version for them :-)
The update also contains a handful of important software updates and fixes. Enjoy! The complete changelog. (snx)
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11.Feb.2020
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Settlement discussions between Cloanto and Hyperion aborted
As amiga-news.de has been told by several sources, the settlement discussions between Cloanto and Hyperion regarding a settlement agreement have been aborted without tangible results last week. As far as we know, the next step to avoid a lengthy and costly trial would be mediation involving a neutral mediator - but we don't know if both parties are actually working towards that option right now. (cg)
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11.Feb.2020
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Leu 0.08: Opening Excel and ODS files
Version 0.08 of Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's FreePascal program for loading and editing Excel- (xlsx), Open- and LibreOffice- (ods) as well as TurboCalc- (tcd) and ASCII files (csv), called Leu, has been released for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (ARM, x86, x64).
Regarding the chnages the author wrote: "Implemented basic sorting and search function including replace, very basic but working, also the sorting close to the LibreOffice sorting, multi key sorting (up to 3 but in principle could make more, but is more than 3 really useful?)."
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10.Feb.2020
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Advance booking: Flashback 20/20 featuring Amiga 35 (Netherlands)
It has been announced that in 2020 again there will be an Amiga event in the Netherlands. Meanwhile information are available on the planned concept. Additionally advance booking has been started for a few days. The "Amiga 35" (27. and 28. June, Hilversum) will be embedded in a major event called "Flashback 20/20".
Flashback 20/20 is going to celebrate computer systems of the 80s and 90s, arcade and flipper machines will be presented as well. Additionally a major 35th anniversary party is planned. Among others speakers will be Dave Haynie, RJ Mical as well as game developers like Annie and David Fox (Lucasfilm) or Al Lowe (Leisure Suit Larry) and famous Youtuber like "The 8-bit guy" or "Modern Vintage Gamer".
A day ticket is available for 35 Euro, an entrance pass for both days costs 60 Euro. You can also reserve a "VIP Event" which is available for 100 to 350 Euro.
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10.Feb.2020
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Commercial puzzle game: MATCHIC Collector's Edition (Update)
In the puzzle game MATCHIC you have to place tokens of the same colour next to each other to make them disappear. The game was already commercially released in 1991 but only available only for a short time due to the bankruptcy of the publisher. The British publisher Psytronik is going to relaunch the game in a big box.
The box contains the following items:
- MATCHIC game on 3.5" disk presented with a vinyl disk label.
- A3 game artwork poster.
- Glossy instruction manual.
- Glossy art card.
- Badges.
- Stickers.
- Keyring.
The game will be delivered in March. Everyone who pays in advance will get a discount of 10 percent on the selling price of about 47 Euro.
Update: (16.02.20, 00:00, cg)
In addition to the Collector's Edition, there's also a Premium+ Edition (disk and booklet in a plastic case with a professionally printed inlay for 13 GBP or 15.70 EUR) as well as a Budget Edition (just disk and booklet for 6.30 GBP or 7.60 EURO) available. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Feb.2020
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Demo source code: "Sax Offender" (Planet Jazz)
The programmer of the scene demo Sax Offender has released the assembler source code of it on Github.
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10.Feb.2020
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SSHTerm 1.2
Fredrik 'salass00' Wikstrom has released version 1.2 of an Amiga spezific SSH solution called SSHTerm.
It requires AmiSSL 4.3.
Changes in version 1.2:
- Specifying the KEYFILE argument now implies that public key authentication should be used instead of any other method (same as in ssh2-handler).
- Now uses an offscreen buffer for text rendering which should speed up anti-aliased text rendering on most platforms.
- Increased read and write buffers in main loop from 256 to 1024 bytes.
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09.Feb.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 08.02.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 8th, 2020:
MechSink_V9.9.lha comm/misc 223K 68k Mechassault and Sink! full ve...
bgdbserver.lha dev/debug 37K 68k A gdbserver for remote debugg...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
LastCowboy.lha mods/misc 74K Last Cowboy 4ch Country Blues
led-20200202.tgz text/edit 14K A simple line-oriented text e...
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 110K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 142K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
DockBot.lha util/wb 341K 68k A program launcher for OS 3.
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09.Feb.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 08.02.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 8th, 2020:
libopus.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 codec for interactive speech and...
libopusenc.lha dev/lib 304kb 4.0 provide a high-level API for enc...
libopusfile.lha dev/lib 368kb 4.0 an API for decoding and seeking ...
libsdl2_sound.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 abstract soundfile decoder
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
dosbox_ita.lha emu/com 78kb 4.0 Italian translation for DOSBox 0.74
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
atomicbomberman_compo... gam/act 2Mb 4.1 Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
atomicbomberman_warp3... gam/act 2Mb 4.1 Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
vindentiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Picture Viewer written in Hollywood
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09.Feb.2020
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 08.02.2020
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until February 8th, 2020:
atomicbomberman.i386-aros... gam/act 1Mb Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
chromium.i386-aros.rar gam/act 3Mb Chromium port
criticalmass.i386-aros.rar gam/act 4Mb Critical Mass port
frogatto.i386-aros.zip gam/adv 189Mb Platform Gl
pentagram.i386-aros.tgz gam/adv 3Mb Ultima VIII engine
beleagueredcastle.i386-ar... gam/boa 3Mb solitaire card game
bingo.i386-aros.lha gam/boa 6Mb Bingo Machine
speeddreams2.i386-aros.tgz gam/dri 178Mb racing game gl
supermodel3.i386-aros.tgz gam/dri 1Mb engine for sega car games
d1x-rebirth.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 2Mb Descent Engine
d2x-rebirth.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 2Mb Descent II engine
odamex.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 6Mb open source engine for doom, doo...
openjk-ja.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 5Mb Jedy Accademy Port Open Source E...
openjk-jo.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 2Mb Jedy Outcast Port Open Source En...
stvoyhm.i386-aros.lha gam/fps 1Mb Elite Force Holomatch "Mult...
jumpman.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 886kb OpenGL platform game with rotation.
soulride.i386-aros.lha gam/spo 15Mb soulraide opensource snowboard s...
ufoai-2.3.1-data.tar gam/str 508Mb ufoai data files
amicloud_drawer.tgz gra/ico 3kb drawer icon style ken's
harmonyplayer_drawer.tgz gra/ico 3kb drawer icon style ken's
lilcalendar_drawer.tgz gra/ico 3kb drawer icon style ken's
openbor_drawer.tgz gra/ico 3kb drawer icon style ken's
fonttester.i386-aros.lha gra/mis 2Mb test the fonts installed in your...
vp.i386-aros.lha gra/vie 2Mb Picture Viewer
pgp5.i386-aros.tgz uti/arc 222kb PGP With Gui
unrar.i386-aros.lha uti/arc 2Mb Unpack RAR files
led-20200202.tar.gz uti/tex 14kb A simple line-oriented text editor.
figlet.i386-aros.zip uti/tex 210kb Creates large text from ordinary...
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09.Feb.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 08.02.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until February 8th, 2020:
AtomicBomberMan_1.2.lha Games/Action A fan rewrite of the Wi...
MorphOS_1.4.5_PowerUp.lha ISO Old version of MorphOS.
LosChinos_3.41.lha Games/Think This is the classic Spa...
VidentiumPicta_2.20.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
AmiArcadia_26.2.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
bchunk_1.2.2.lha Files/Convert CD image conv. from bin...
eDuke32_20190829-8064.lha Games/Shoot 3D EDuke32 is an awesome, ...
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09.Feb.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 08.02.2020
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 February 8th, 2020:
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08.Feb.2020
viddi (ANF)
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Game soundtrack: Tales Of Gorluth 1 & 2 on Amazon, Google Play and iTunes
The soundtrack of Patrick Nevian's commercial RPGs "Tales of Gorluth 1" and "Tales of Gorluth 2" now can be separately purchased on Amazon, Google Play or iTunes.
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08.Feb.2020
#amigazeux (ANF)
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Screenshot screenbar-plugin 1.1
Screenshot.sbar for Ambient written by #amigazeux can save screenshots and offers a lot of options - e.g. the tool "can grab windows, entire screens or just a freely selectable portion of the screen", "can grab the mouse pointer too" and "can superimpose an editable text over taken screenshots".
Changes in version 1.1:
- Fixed a serious bug that freed hotkeys twice and led to crashes when changing f.e. the MUI theme.
- Images are saved using Reggae now, so screenshots can be saved in either PNG, JPEG, TIFF, IFF, IFFDEEP, SunRaster and RAW.
- Added %x keyword which gets replaced by the suffix of the set image format (without the dot) for building the filename of a screenshot.
- Added a corresponding menu item to "Quick Options" menu to select the image format for saving.
- Added flat icons for Prefs and title bar to distribution. They can be found in Copy_To_Sys/Data/Screenbar/Screenshot.
- Added an option to resize a taken screenshots using selectable image filters.
- Will not block the audio hardware any longer in case some other program needs exclusive access to it.
- AHI-Unit for playing sound is now configurable.
- The iris effect will center on the selected grab area/window now.
- Opacity of grabbed mouse-pointer is setable now.
- Success/Error window now has a title.
- Displays the dimension of the screen in "Grab Screen" menu item for the screen.
- Displays positions and dimensions of windows in the corresponding menu for windows of a screen.
- TestPaint: Fixed a bug in Dot tool that only drew the first mouse down event.
- TestPaint: Added image loading/saving/resizing.
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08.Feb.2020
MorphOS Team (ANF)
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Operating system: MorphOS 3.13
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.13. This new version offers more sophisticated text rendering including new font hinting and anti-aliasing modes to choose from. These include subpixel anti-aliasing for sharper and more detailed text on most LCD displays for any applications that allow text output via TTEngine. For those interested in testing this new feature, go to the Fonts section of System Preferences, enable "LCD" anti-aliasing, save your changes and then reboot. Next, run our integrated development environment Flow Studio, go to Editor Settings and switch on TTEngine mode.
In addition to general stability, performance, and security improvements, MorphOS 3.13 also brings important bug fixes for Pegasos I, Pegasos II, and Sam 460 systems as well as a driver for the on-board Gigabit ethernet controller found on A-EON P50x0 mainboards. For owners of Apple PowerMac7.x computers, there is a new shell tool for controlling the fan speed along with inspecting fan status and system sensor temperatures on these systems.
Existing users who have kept the built-in 'Default' choice for window skins will notice an altered appearance after upgrading. Anybody who prefers the previous look is advised to switch from "Default" to "Ferox" in the Screens section of System Preferences. Likewise, if your window skin was changed and you would like the rest of the user interface to look similar, please open MUI Preferences, click on the Settings button and choose the "Origo" theme. Please note that this step may overwrite personalized settings unless you choose to save them as a custom theme beforehand.
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 3.13 is available for download in our files section.
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07.Feb.2020
Ursprung Facebook (ANF)
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French webshop Amedia sells personalized WHDLoad keyfiles
Amedia sells keyfiles for WHDLoad. The WHDLoad system has been freeware for four years and does not require any keyfile - the Amedia keyfiles obviously are personalized having the name of the customer in the WHDLoad requester.
We have asked Bernd Jahn if the offer is valid which he confirmed. Requesting if there has not been any option for donating money he points out to the official donation site of WHDLoad, which is not promoted.
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06.Feb.2020
nördli (ANF)
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Amiga comeback: Game developer and mailorder publisher 'Mutation Software'
The programmer Adrian Cummings is going to reactivate his old label 'Mutation Software' which in the 90ies he used to release and sell some games for the Amiga and PC. Now new editions of three former games are planned.
Tin Toy Adventure, Tommy Gun and Castle Kingdoms will be available again in spring - all of them in a box in a limited edition inclusive an autograph of the developer. For autumn a new platform game "Wiz" has been announced.
At the beginning of the year Cummings has released the assembler sourcecode of his game Cyberpunks originally published by Core Design as well as an archive with several graphics. Due to a hard disk failure the source code is slightly damaged at two points. Besides some informationen on level data are missing.
Downloads:
CyberPunks_src.zip (100 KB)
MutationGfxDump.zip (1 MB)
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06.Feb.2020
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Working with adf images: GoADF! 2.2
The shareware programm (7 Euro) "GoADF!" can read and write ADF files and, among others, can mount them as virtual drives. New in version 2.2:
- a new Antivirus module - now GoADF! will detect any virus hidden in the image bootblock that is in the XVS library database.
- added full support for HFE files, now you can create images for your HxC Floppy Emulator.
- A lot of patches, improvements and optimizations, like when you create a new image from diskette, GoADF! now can use the name of the source volume as default filename and checks if the file extension '.adf' is present, if not it automatically append.
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05.Feb.2020
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New demo version of Wings Remastered for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS
In autumn of 2015 the rights holder Cinemaware Retro announced an Amiga port of its Wings remake "Wings Remastered". A first playable preview was released in November of 2015. As a condition for completing the game was to get sufficient preorders (55 Euro) - approximately about 300 preorders were placed. After releasing a pre-version of the game at the Amiga 32 in 2017, nothing has happened about Wings Remastered.
What about Cinemaware Retro at all? The appearances in the social media have not been maintained, several paid orders of the "Collector's Editions" of 'Defender of the Crown' and 'Rocket Ranger' have been only delivered after the process was outsourced to another shop.
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener, who was originally in charge of writing the Amiga port, is occasionally working on the game. About a year ago a short status report was published. In a post on amigans.net he now has announced the release of new demo versions for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS (x86).
The developer who according to his own statement has not been paid at all is asking for your patience. He is going to complete the game in any case even if there will be problems regarding the payment because he has invested so much work in the project. His motivation is low because the mount of work is much higher than expected and he is also working on other projects.
Direct download:
Wings Demo AOS4 Warp3D (95 MB)
Wings Demo AOS4 Warp3D Tabor SPE (95 MB)
Wings Demo AOS4 MiniGL for MiniGL4GL4ES (95 MB)
Wings Demo MorphOS (95 MB)
Wings Demo AROS x86 (94 MB)
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05.Feb.2020
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Review of "Black Dawn Rebirth"
The blog "Amiga Guru" has published a little review of the commercial Dungeon Crawler "Black Dawn Rebirth" released at the end of October.
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05.Feb.2020
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Full version for download: Iron Tracker
The Amiga Future website offers disk images and WHDLoad installers of the racing game Iron Trackers released in 1989 for free download.
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04.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SSHTerm 1.1
Fredrik 'salass00' Wikstrom has released version 1.1 of an Amiga spezific SSH solution called SSHTerm. It requires AmiSSL 4.3.
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04.Feb.2020
Indie Retro News
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Shoot'em Up: Playable demo of Inviyya
In October 2018 preview videos of the shoot'em up game 'Inviyya' were available. At this time it was said that the engine was completed and the final release would be supposed to be available before Christmas 2018. Meanwhile a playable demo version has been released for the first time.
The "world premiere" of the game which the developer still classifies as "pre beta" took place in a live video stream on twitch.tv last Sunday. Inviyya was inspired by the classic game R-Type, requires an Amiga 500 and according to the developer "features 6 levels, couple of special weapons, 3 layer parallax scrolling and nice music and sfx". A commercial release will be available at Poly.play.
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03.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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ZGloom - open source Gloom engine for Windows and Linux
ZGloom is a reimplementation of the Gloom engine for Windows and Linux which seems to be compatible to all the level data of the series. So far only a very early version is available and currently the program has to be compiled by yourself.
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03.Feb.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Free Gotek clone: OpenFlops emulates classic disk drives
OpenFlops is a hardware-based floppy emulator, similar to the Gotek drives. In comparision to them, OpenFlops is available under a free licence and therefore can be built by everybody. As firmware the free FlashFloppy is used which originally should be also used for Gotek.
Improvements of OpenFlops compared to Gotek:
- Can be installed on many different platforms
- Directly supports a wide range of image formats
- Flexible track layout for Raw Sector Images
- Extremely configurable
- Supports AutoSwap for games with a large number of disks
- Easily accessible pin headers for connection of a i2c display (either OLED or LCD), rotary encoder (including power)
- Built-in amplified speaker, or easily-accessible pin header for an external one
- USB connector can either be soldered on the board or connected to a pin header
- Connected Motor signal
- Emulates two drives at the same time (Not yet supported by the firmware, but it will come)
- Has additional 3.3V, 5V and GND power pins
- And hey, it's Open Hardware!
According to the developer "all of this comes in the same form factor (and mounting holes) as the board installed in the original Gotek, hence it can be easily installed in any shell or enclosure designed for it."
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03.Feb.2020
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New Amiga emulator for MacOS in progress: vAmiga
Dirk Hoffmann's "vAmiga" is supposed to become a new, "user-friendly" Amiga emulator for MacOS computers which can emulate an A500, A1000 or A2000. According the developer the programming has been started 12 months ago - and the basic features of the emulator implemented yet. Now he is concentrating on improving the compatibility. So far official releases are not available but new alpha versions are regularly released on Github.
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02.Feb.2020
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Hyperion and Cloanto allegedly close to finalizing settlement
In one of the two remaining lawsuits between - amongst others - Hyperion and Cloanto, all involved parties submitted a joint request last Friday, asking to extend a deadline set by the Judge for one week, since (quote) "Business representatives of Hyperion, Cloanto, and C-A Acquisitions, Inc. have been engaged in several days of intensive face-to-face settlement discussions in Europe geared toward a global resolution of all claims [...]. Hyperion, Cloanto, and C-A Acquisitions, Inc. are finalizing changes to a negotiated term sheet, which they anticipate will soon be executed."
The motion was signed by the judge the same day, so the parties involved now have until next Friday to finish the settlement negotiations they started last fall or ask for another extension. (cg)
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02.Feb.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 01.02.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 1st, 2020:
sana2-tftpclient.lha comm/tcp 70K 68k TFTP client using only the SA...
amrss_src.lha comm/www 243K amrss - MorphOS RSS client, s...
Bingo_AROSx86.lha game/board 6.2M x86 Bingo Machine
Bingo_MOS.lha game/board 5.9M MOS Bingo Machine
Bingo_OS3.lha game/board 5.8M 68k Bingo Machine
Bingo_OS4.lha game/board 7.0M OS4 Bingo Machine
Bingo_WOS.lha game/board 8.7M WOS Bingo Machine
OpenDune_RTG.lha game/strat 278K 68k Amiga RTG port of OpenDUNE
BeleagueredCastle.lha game/think 2.8M 68k Beleaguered Castle solitaire ...
anaglyph3d.lha gfx/conv 605K MOS Create anaglyphs for r/b glasses
webptools110_a68k.lha gfx/conv 4.3M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
uae4all_rc3_032.lha misc/emu 537K MOS UAE4All port to MorphOS (Balr...
uae4all_rc3_032_src.lha misc/emu 1.1M UAE4All source port to MorphOS
TimeToGo.lha mods/misc 189K Time To Go 4ch Rocky Protest ...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 568K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 633K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 719K OS4 Multipurpose utility
DockBot.lha util/wb 340K 68k A program launcher for OS 3.
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02.Feb.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 01.02.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 1st, 2020:
app.lha dev/lib 642kb 4.0 C++ classes for basic Amiga prog...
oo.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
adtools.lha dev/mis 84Mb 4.1 GCC-based development toolchain ...
adtools-clib2.lha dev/mis 1Mb 4.1 GCC-based development toolchain ...
dosbox.lha emu/com 3Mb 4.1 an x86 emulator
hode.lha gam/pla 2Mb 4.1 One of best cinematic platform v...
vindentiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Picture Viewer written in Hollywood
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 9Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
bzip2.lha uti/arc 1Mb 4.0 Bzip2 file compressor/de-compressor
unrar_ml.lha uti/arc 2Mb 4.1 Unpak RAR files
reportplus.lha uti/mis 719kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
preferences.lha uti/wor 1Mb 4.1 Window with Icons for starting d...
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 01.02.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until February 1st, 2020:
ScummVM_2.1.1.lha Emulation A MorphOS build of Scum...
ReportPlus_7.7.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Anaglyph3D_0.2.lha Graphics/Convert Create anaglyphs for r/...
UAE4ALL_rc3_0.32.lha Emulation UAE4ALL release candida...
Hode_0.2.8.lha Games/Adventure Hode is a re-implementa...
UAE4ALL_rc3_0.32-src.lha Development/Sources UAE4ALL release candida...
LosChinos_3.40.lha Games/Think This is the classic Spa...
Bingo_1.43.lha Games/Board Bingo Machine is progra...
HydraCastleLabyrinth.lha Games/Platform A platform game, "metro...
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02.Feb.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.02.2020
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 February 1st, 2020:
- 2020-01-29 improved: Sol Negro (Opera Soft) freeze on several configurations fixed (Info)
- 2020-01-27 new: Rolling Thunder (U.S. Gold) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2020-01-26 improved: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) fixed 68000 incompatibility and joypad detection (Info)
- 2020-01-26 improved: B.A.T. (UBI-Soft) support for italian version added (Info)
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01.Feb.2020
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Text/graphic dventure: The Curse of Rabenstein
The interactive graphic horror adventure game "The Curse of Rabenstein" was written by the same author as Hibernated. Originally it was created with the HTML-based adventure kit Adventuron and now ported to several retro platforms.
"Rabenstein" uses a two-word-parser and it is recommended creating own maps but you cannot come into a hopeless situation or die. A digital download still is not available, but a collector's edition is available on poly.play with the following content:
- 3,5"-Disk
- Cardboard box
- MicroSD card including disk images and more
- 8-page DIN A5 manual
- Stickers
- Din-A3-Poster
- Shrink-wrapped
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01.Feb.2020
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Arcade game: Rotator
In Rotator developed by Psytronik you control a vehicle and have to "carefully manoeuvre it through the varied challenging landscapes collecting diamonds whilst trying to stay above the ever-rising flood level!". The physical edition of Rotator is available to pre-order while the download version can be purchased yet.
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01.Feb.2020
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Cross development: Atom packages for Amiga-Syntax-Highlighting 1.3.2
The Amiga syntax highlighting extension for the Windows text editor Atom is available in version 1.3.2. Since our last news item among others a new dialog box for Amiga libraries has been added.
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01.Feb.2020
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.7.3
Since the end of 2019, the Basic development environment AmiBlitz has been available in version 3.7.3. Among others this new version provides bug fixes and an updated Italian catalog.
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01.Feb.2020
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CDXL play: AGABlaster 0.9.70
AGABlaster can play Commodore's CDXL video files (amiga-news.de reported). This version provides automatic video centering and keyboard video controls.
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01.Feb.2020
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Open source flicker fixer for Amiga 500/2000
Niklas Ekström is working on an open source flicker fixer for the Amiga 500 and 2000. His concept is based on a FPGA connected to the custom chip Denise.
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30.Jan.2020
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Free hardware: 1 MB Chip RAM expansion for Amiga 500+
On Github you can find documents for a 1 MB chip RAM expansion for the Amiga 500+ "using only a 40 pin (2x20) female 2.54mm connector. The remaining pins are for the RTC which is on-board the A500+, so they are unecessary for RAM expansion. This makes it possible to use a 40 pin connector, which is cheaper and easier to find."
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30.Jan.2020
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3d model: Enclosure for Vampire V4 Standalone
Jorgen Bilander has created a 3d model for a Vampire enclosure inspired by classic Commodore keyboard cases. Hints and a lot of pictures he has also provided.
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30.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench mouse pointers for Windows 10
On github you can find Workbench mouse pointer for Windows 10.
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30.Jan.2020
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New French Amiga online retailer: MicroMiga
MicroMiga is the third French online retailer with Amiga articles (after Amedia and Voxel). So far almost exclusively hardware expansions and replacements parts are available.
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30.Jan.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Video report on Amiga Ireland (17./18. January, Athlone)
Dan Wood has published a detailed video report on the "Amiga Ireland" which took place about two weeks ago in Athlone (Ireland).
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29.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 106 (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 and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes an article about the Amiga game "Fatal Heritage".
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27.Jan.2020
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Available documents from the lawsuits between Cloanto and Hyperion
Since the documents from the three lawsuits between Cloanto, the Amiga parties and C-A Acquisition Corporation on one side and Hyperion on the other side are not available free of charge, the few documents that made it onto the net are hosted on various places all over the web - depending on who acquired them and made them available to the public.
We have collected all the documents we know about and created an overview for each of the three cases, listing all submissions so far and offering links to the PDF files available to us:
- Cloanto Corporation v. Hyperion Entertainment
- Hyperion Entertainment v. Amino, Itec, Amiga Inc. und Cloanto
- C-A Acquisition Corporation and Cloanto Corporation v. Hyperion Entertainment
We would be grateful for any additions our readers might have - be it documents we missed or new material that hasn't been made available so far. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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26.Jan.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 25.01.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 25th, 2020:
amrss_src.lha comm/www 243K amrss - MorphOS RSS client, s...
WormWars-AROS.zip game/actio 688K x86 Advanced snake/Tron game
bingoboards.lha game/board 26K Bingo datafiles, 3D-printable...
wbpong.lha game/wb 7K 68k A simple pong game running in...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 44M OS4 Best Mandelbrot&Julia fractal...
UnRAR-5.80.lha util/arc 2.3M MOS UnRAR 5.80
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 109K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 138K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
ScreenTime.lha util/time 52K 68k Screen clock, configurable wi...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 25.01.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 25th, 2020:
seq.lha aud/mis 391kb 4.0 MIDI sequencer
sgit.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 A simple and incomplete git client
scummvm.lha gam/adv 29Mb 4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip gam/adv 44Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
hode.lha gam/pla 2Mb 4.1 One of best cinematic platform v...
q3keygen.lha gam/uti 10kb 4.0 Generates valid CD Key's fo...
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 44Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
fonttester.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.0 Tool to test the fonts installed...
smtube.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 25.01.2020
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until January 25th, 2020:
gimmearos.zip dev/cro 6kb Script for building AROS from th...
wormwars.i386-aros.zip gam/act 688kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
installerlg.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 109kb Commodore Installer replacement ...
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 25.01.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until January 25th, 2020:
TopTasks_1.3.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Top Tasks in sc...
Hode_0.2.6.lha Games/Adventure Hode is a re-implementa...
ScummVM_2.1.1.lha Emulation A MorphOS build of Scum...
FontTester_1.0.lha Office/Show Font Tester
Unrar_5.80.lha Files/Archive UnRAR 5.80
imacg5_20_isight.pdf Documentation/Apple imacg5_20_isight.pdf
AmRSS_5.42-src.lha Development/Sources amrss - MorphOS RSS cli...
RxMUI_guides_32.0.lha Development/MUI RxMUI_guides_32.0.lha
VidentiumPicta_2.10.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
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26.Jan.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.01.2020
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 January 25th, 2020:
- 2020-01-25 improved: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) fixed 68000 incompatibility (Info)
- 2020-01-23 improved: Global Trek / Evil Dawn (ECP) trainer added, timing fixed (Info)
- 2020-01-20 new: Sol Negro (Opera Soft) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 2020-01-20 improved: Lorna (Topo Soft) uses less chip memory, stack relocated, manual included (Info)
- 2020-01-20 improved: B.A.T. (UBI-Soft) crash with parallel port fixed, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
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23.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Issue 113 online available
Issue 113 (March/April 2015) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on the website of the magazine. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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22.Jan.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Amigakit offers "A1200" case badges
Amigakit offers "A1200" case budges. For 2,23 Euro you get a case badge which is self-adhesive in colours of black/silver, silver or white/silver.
If you have a closer look at the badge you can see a superscript, encircled "R" meaning a trademark. Actually the British merchant did register (among others) the "A1200" two years ago.
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22.Jan.2020
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Amigakit: Status update on A1222 Early Adopter Programme (update)
In two entries in two different forums, Matthew Leaman from Amigakit has provided some information on the lastest status of the A1222 Early Adopter Programme. Contrary to the original announcements and to the wording still used on a1222plus.com, this first batch is not limited to 100 boards: "Anyone who orders the AAA bundle will be guaranteed an option to buy the A1222 Plus Early Adopter board. If we have to make a few more boards to ensure every AAA bundle customer has opportunity, then so be it."
And on amigaworld.net he stated: "We are currently on 97x AAA Bundles sold so sales will be closing soon." Additionally the website of the project was completed by a FAQ which are supposed to clarify some open questions. The second option which was originally offered - a binding order by advance payment of 20% - Leaman or the FAQ did not mention.
Hint of the editors: In press release at Christmas it was said that the "Early Adopter boards are expected to ship around the end of the first quarter of 2020". Now the FAQ says that "the main batch will be put into production in Quarter 2/2020".
Update: (22.01.2020, 19:15, cg)
Meanwhile the AAA Bundle is now sold out.
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22.Jan.2020
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Status update on SimpleMail
Traditionally at Christmas there has been always the usual update of the mail programme SimpleMail but at Christmas 2019 it was missing. We hasve asked the two original developers Hynek Schlawack and Sebastian Bauer.
Schlawack stated that for years he has not been involved neither in SimpleMail nor in the Amiga market at all. According to his website his current "day job is writing software that keeps a hosting provider and domain registrar running". In his spare time he has "been involved with open source software in general and the Python community in particular for a long while and I’m a proud fellow of the Python Software Foundation."
Sebastian Bauer answered that he still is working on SimpleMail. Each day he would do some minor coding but currently not Amiga specific. Furthermore he said that the changes made on the Amiga code would have not justified a Christmas update. He does not have the time to add major changes but he is going to use SimpleMail for himself which benefits the Amiga version.
Finally he said that currently he is the only developer working on the code but nobody has to fear that the development will stop. It is only proceeding at a snail's pace so he cannot tell when the next update will be released.
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21.Jan.2020
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Video preview: Arcade game Jump!
Jump! is an Amiga port of the game Yoomp! which was released 2007 for Atari's 8-Bit computer. The Amiga port is supposed to be sold in the third quarter of 2020 by RGCD. Now a teaser video obviously shows the AGA version of the engine. The game can be also played on an Amiga 500 but then with reduced colours and a smaller tunnel. An record from December shows a previous engine which might look like the coming ECS version.
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19.Jan.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 18.01.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 18th, 2020:
xa-mos.lha dev/cross 280K MOS Cross-assembler for 65xx/R65C...
Prism2SP.lha driver/net 16K Prism2.device 2.7 spanish guide
CoqueAndKieaguaRally.lha game/misc 1.0M 68k A racing game for kids
Montana.lha game/think 2.8M 68k Montana solitaire card game
gnuplot-5.2.8_a68k.lha gfx/misc 5.8M 68k Portable graphing utility
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Australia.lha mods/8voic 2.8M 6ch Pray For Australia by HKv...
RNOTags.lha mus/misc 2.1M MOS ID3 tag editor for MP3 files
ScreenTime.lha util/time 50K 68k Screen clock, configurable wi...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 18.01.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 18th, 2020:
vsp.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.0 An easy mod, mp3, ogg and wav Vi...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
clusterlist.lha dri/mis 32kb 4.0 Shell Command to watch CAMD clus...
atomicbomberman_compo... gam/act 2Mb 4.1 Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
atomicbomberman_warp3... gam/act 2Mb 4.1 Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
hode.lha gam/pla 2Mb 4.1 One of best cinematic platform v...
awc.lha gra/mis 3Mb 4.0 A web anim tool
preferences.lha uti/wor 1Mb 4.1 Prefs window for starting differ...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 18.01.2020
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until January 18th, 2020:
atomicbomberman.i386-aros... gam/act 1Mb Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
montana.i386-aros.lha gam/boa 3Mb solitaire card game
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 18.01.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until January 18th, 2020:
Horny_1.3.lha Audio/Sequencer A MIDI sequencer for Mo...
AtomicBomberMan_1.1.lha Games/Action A fan rewrite of the Wi...
ScoutNG_1.5.lha System/Monitoring ScoutNG, the exec libra...
RNOTags_1.1.lha Audio/Editor RNOTags is an advanced ...
XA_2.3.10.lha Development/Cross Cross-assembler for 65x...
AmiArcadia_26.1.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
MorphOS_screenshots_1.... Screenshots MorphOS 3.12 screenshot...
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19.Jan.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.01.2020
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 January 18th, 2020:
- 2020-01-15 improved: Fire and Forget (Titus) uses files instead diskimage, trainer added, timing fixed (Info)
- 2020-01-15 improved: Fire And Forget 2 (Titus) uses files instead diskimage, trainer added, timing fixed, quitkey on 68000 (Info)
- 2020-01-12 improved: Limes & Napoleon (EAS) graphics bugs fixed, trainer added (Info)
- 2020-01-12 improved: Thunder Jaws (Tengen/Domark) game over screen fixed, level skip added (Info)
- 2020-01-12 improved: Streetfighter 2 (Capcom/U.S.Gold) option added to replace player with boss fighters (Info)
- 2020-01-12 improved: Skærmtrolden Hugo (SilverRock) quitkey 68000 added, uses less memory (Info)
- 2020-01-12 improved: Hugo (Silverrock/ITE) support for swedish version added, quitkey 68000 added, trainer added (Info)
- 2020-01-12 improved: Hugo - PÃ¥ Nye Eventyr 2 (SilverRock) quitkey 68000 added, trainer added (Info)
- 2020-01-12 improved: Hugo - PÃ¥ Nye Eventyr (SilverRock) support for danish version added, quitkey 68000 added, trainer added (Info)
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19.Jan.2020
#amigazeux (ANF)
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MorphOS: TopTasks Screenbar plugin 1.3
TopTasks.sbar is a screenbar plugin for MorphOS showing the task which at that very moment uses most of the cpu time.
The developer wrote: "When clicked it opens a window showing the top 10 tasks currently hogging all your precious CPU time. Furthermode it can display a history of the top tasks of the last 100 seconds."
New in this version:
- Added a second list that displays the top tasks of the last 100 seconds in the PopWindow.
- Now also displays the time a task has hogged the cpu in total in an extra column in the Top10 list.
- The CPU load percentage of displayed Top10 tasks is now shown in the list title of the column.
- Added help bubbles to all prefs gadgets.
Download link
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17.Jan.2020
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Interview announcement: Livestream with Trevor Dickinson, Saturday afternoon
On Friday and Saturday in Athlone (Ireland) the Amiga meeting "Amiga Ireland" will take place, which also Trevor Dickinson from A-EON will attend. Douglas Compton from the video podcast 10MARC ("10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast") has announced that he will stream his interview with Dicksinson on Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. talking about the Tabor A1222. Via Youtube chat you can ask questions during the stream.
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16.Jan.2020
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Future Sports: 'Killerball' for free download
The video sports game Killerball is inspired by the SciFi classic 'Rollerball' (1974) and can be downloaded from the website of the Amiga Future as ADF and IPF image as well as WHDLoad archive.
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15.Jan.2020
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Event: Amiga 35 in Amsterdam (27. and 28. June)
Five years ago on the occassion of the 30th anniversary of the Amiga the Amiga: 30 Years in Amsterdam (Netherlands). For some time there are more and more indicators that in 2020 another event will take place. On amiga35.com now a precise date is given: on 27. and 28. June it will take place.
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14.Jan.2020
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New Amiga forums: 'Amiga Retro Brisbane' and 'Amiga Raytracing Society'
During the last days two new Amiga forums have gone online: Amiga Retro Brisbane is "an (Australian) based community of Commodore Amiga users, gamers and lovers of all things retro technology." The Amiga Raytracing Society is "the home of Amiga Raytracing enthusiasts".
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14.Jan.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.8
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Mirror. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes of version 0.7.8:
- All new games will be created in the projects folder. When starting the editor the main things you can do are creating a new project or loading an old one.
- Examples folder has been removed.
- Fast loading options have been added to access quickly your last loaded games.
- Mulipalette example has been added, it shows how to use two different 16 colors tilesets and 16 color sprites in a 32 color game.
- Side X behaviour has been refactored, behaviour could be slightly different.
- Anim Comp condition trigger has been implemented, it can replace Anim is and Anim is not triggers.
- Anims with loop now allow a Next Anim to be filled, when the looping anim is stopped it will play the specified next animation.
- Level being edited can now be changed in the Edit Level screen.
- If foreground and background colors chosen in the dialogs are the same the text color chosen will change.
- An issue when going back from Tiles screen has been fixed.
- Issue with Text Dialogs rendering has been fixed.
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14.Jan.2020
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Update of Amiga Games List
Since April 1991 David Brunet has been maintaining the "Amiga Games List". The latest update provides releases of 2019 and now has listed 13.027 games, level editors, data disks, extensions and interpreters:
- 12 448 games
- 330 extensions and data disks
- 146 game and level editors
- 103 interpreters
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13.Jan.2020
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Amiga Future: Issue 112 online
Issue 112 (January/February 2015) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on the website of the magazine. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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12.Jan.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.01.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until January 11th, 2020:
Arduino_RS232_AMIGA.zip docs/hard 1.3M Arduino Diecimila and similar...
Prism2SP.lha driver/net 16K Prism2.device 2.7 spanish guide
WormWars.lha game/actio 859K 68k Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 929K MOS Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron game
Montana.lha game/think 2.8M 68k Montana solitaire card game
gnuplot-5.2.8_a68k.lha gfx/misc 5.8M 68k Portable graphing utility
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
MorphOS_screenshots.lha pix/wb 2.7M MorphOS 3.12 screenshots "dark"
AminetReadmeMaker.lha util/misc 91K MOS Easy creation & upload of Ami...
DevInfosNG.lha util/misc 1.1M OS4 All about the aos4.1 hardware
List-ROM.lha util/moni 2K 68k Shows names of resident modul...
perciman_68k.lha util/wb 1.4M 68k manage contact and other info...
perciman_MOS.lha util/wb 1.4M MOS manage contact and other info...
perciman_OS4.lha util/wb 1.8M OS4 manage contact and other info...
WebRadio_sbar.lha util/wb 86K MOS A sbar plugin to listen to We...
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12.Jan.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.01.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 11th, 2020:
libffmpeg.lha dev/mis 16Mb 4.0 Multimedia libraries
minigl4gl4es.lha dri/gra 1002k 4.1 MiniGL / GLUT replacement librar...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
d1x-rebirth.lha gam/act 2Mb 4.0 Port of the Descent and Descent ...
freespace2.lha gam/act 5Mb 4.0 Space combat simulation game
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake game
aquaria.lha gam/adv 200Mb 4.1 An Underwater Fantasy World to E...
hode.lha gam/pla 2Mb 4.1 One of best cinematic platform v...
equilibrio.lha gam/puz 27Mb 4.1 gyrating ball puzzle solving and...
ufo-ai.lha gam/str 339Mb 4.0 A strategy game in which the pla...
ufo-ai_data.tar gam/str 372Mb 4.0 Data files for ufo, alien invasion
grimoriumpdf.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 PDF viewer written in Hollywood
smbfs.lha net/sam 519kb 4.0 SMB file system client; compleme...
devinfosng.lha uti/mis 1Mb 4.1 Nearly all about the aos4.1 hard...
ffmpeg.lha vid/con 31Mb 4.0 Video and audio converter
videoclipper.lha vid/edi 355kb 4.0 Cut and/or join multiple format ...
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 11.01.2020
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until January 11th, 2020:
rnoeffects_icons_final.lha gra/ico 11kb Drawer and program icons
aminetreadmemaker.lha net/ser 91kb Easy creation & upload of Am...
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 11.01.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until January 11th, 2020:
AminetReadmeMaker_1.5.lha Text/Edit Easy creation & upload ...
ADiffView_1.2.lha Text/Compare A graphical file compar...
PerCIMan_0.7.lha Office/Organizer A program to manage con...
AIOstreams_1.5.lha Network/Streaming Stream online video fro...
Screenshot_1.0.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Screenshot Screenbar-Pl...
ScoutNG_1.4.lha System/Monitoring ScoutNG, the exec libra...
WebRadio_1.11.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar A sbar plugin to listen...
Hode_0.2.5.lha Games/Adventure Hode is a re-implementa...
GrimoriumPDF_2.10.lha Office/Show A program made with Hol...
WormWars_9.22.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ...
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12.Jan.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 11.01.2020
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 January 11th, 2020:
- 2020-01-10 improved: Thunder Jaws (Tengen/Domark) random bugs removed, trainer added, uses extended memory instead of chip memory, DMA timings inserted in replayer (Info)
- 2020-01-10 fixed: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) F-keys and ECS in game fixed (Info)
- 2020-01-10 improved: Déjà Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!! (Mindscape) another german version supported, manual and hints included (Info)
- 2020-01-10 fixed: Alien Breed 3D (Team 17) an access fault removed (level 13) (Info)
- 2020-01-06 improved: Ghosts'N'Goblins (Elite) handling of JoyUp improved (Info)
- 2020-01-05 improved: Black Crypt (Raven Software) in game keys for trainer added (Info)
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11.Jan.2020
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A-EON: A1222 Early Adopter Programme started
At Christmas, A-EON had announced pre-order registration for the limited edition A1222 Plus Early Adopter motherboard would be possible soon, now it's happening: The announced 'AAA Bundle' can now be ordered at Amigakit for 115 Euros (99 GBP) -
customers of this bundle can optionally request to be enrolled in the A1222 Plus Early Adopter programme and purchase one of the 100 motherboards available. The other initially described option - ordering an 'Early Adopter' motherboard via a 20% deposit - does not seem to be available yet.
Note from the staff: A-EON's Christmas press release lists "Enhancer Software 2.0" as part of the AAA Bundle. But the actual product description at the Amigakit store implies that (only) customers that qualify for the A1222 Early Adopter Programme will recieve a boxed edition of Enhancer 2.0. This way, the contents of the bundle would change depending on the time of purchase, and a customer would have no way of determining if he will recieve Enhancer 2.0 as part of his purchase or not. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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10.Jan.2020
Nico Barbat (ANF)
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Great Britain: Classic video games stamps
According to the Spiegel (in German), the Royal Mail has published the Video Games Presentation Pack which depicts scenes from landmark UK-designed titles of classic video games from the 1980s and '90s - among others Lemmings, Populous, Sensible Soccer and Worms. The pack will be available from January 21 for £14.25 plus shipping.
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10.Jan.2020
Aminet
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Person Contact and Information Manager PerCIMan 0.7
Ulrich Beckers has updated his person contact and information manager PerCIMan which is available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Windows). In version 0.7 a birthday reminder was added.
Editor's note (dr): Please note that the AmigaOS 3.x version requires a graphics card. This is not mentioned in the Aminet readme and on the website of the author you can only conclude it from his line "Other requirements are low: A screen resolution of at least 820x820". In a previous mail to his program to measure times required to motor-react, R²Z, Ulrich Beckers stated that Hollywood programs requires a graphics card by default - except the Plananarame plugin is used. We have asked the author if he still tries to release versions supporting the AGA chipset as well.
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10.Jan.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Amiga-Ireland-Meeting 2020
Again this January the Irish Amiga users will meet in Sheraton hotel in Athlone. Dave Haynie and David Pleasance will participate.
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10.Jan.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 142
The English and German issue 142 (January/February 2020) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today and can be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future as well as Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content includes a special about FPGA Amiga clones as well as reviews of Blastaway and DiskPrint. More information and previews can be found at the title link. (snx)
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07.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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FPGA accelerator board: Vampire 1200 V2 can be ordered
Already before Christmas it was announced, that the first 100 of the Vampire-1200-V2 accelerator board produced by Igor Majstorovic can be ordered under the title link. According to the developers, "there will be another batch of 100 cards very shortly." Detailed specifications still are not available in the Wiki of the Apollo team.
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07.Jan.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Retro 7-bit: Amiga-500 accelerator board Wicher 508i announced
Already before Christmas Retro 7-bit has announced the accelerator board Wicher 508i for the Amiga 500 and 500+. Among others the board has 16 MB SD-RAM (11 MB can be used by the operating system) and an Amiga-600 compatible IDE controller (requires Kickstart >= 2.05). The MC68HC000 processor is not part of the card.
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07.Jan.2020
Micromiga.com (ANF)
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French new Amiga webshop: Micromiga.com
Press release: We are pleased to announce the opening of "micromiga.com", a new French online reseller specialized in Amiga and retro-computing, which sells and ships all over Europe. This is a project we have been working on for a long time and which will have taken a long time to launch.
This webshop has been created above all by passion for the Amiga, with the objective to present you the best possible offer with a large number of references, stock, but also and above all, prices among the most competitives.
We already propose you more than fifty references and are still negotiating with many suppliers and partners to expand this catalog. If a reference of interest to you is not yet available, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are also at your disposal if you have a comment or a suggestion that would allow us to improve ourself.
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