28.Jan.2017
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: "Hurra, ich wachse!" 2.0
The MorphOS programm "Hurra, ich wachse!" written by Ulrich Beckers "is an app to monitor and manage all body sizes/measures of children during their growth phase (age of 0-18 years) and includes data for height, weight, head girth, skinfolds, hip and waist circumference as well as for blood pressure. Additionally the body mass index (BMI), waist/hip relation, waist/height relation and body fat get automatically calculated."
Version 2.0 of the programm now is available in German and English. Additionally a responsive graphic interface and a new menu were added.
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28.Jan.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Text editor featuring Kickstart-1.2 compatibility: Redit 1.14
Kai Scherrer's text editor Redit works without any limitations on an Amiga equipped with Kickstart 1.2, but also is fully compatible with higher versions of the system. The editor can be also launched from an emergancy disk or used after booting without startup-sequence.
Changes of version 1.14:
- Bugfix: new documents could thrash file lock - fixed
- Improved: library loading is now done by own routines, decreasing binary size
- Stackwarning message removed
- Increased stacksize to 16k
Download: Redit1.14.lha (49 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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28.Jan.2017
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Vote for the Amiga Games Award 2016
David Brunet writes: Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2016!
To vote for the best AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, or AROS games, you can rate them at the title link. There will be no "global" winner, but a winner by systems. The final results will be published on monday, February 6, 2017.
Wie jedes Jahr lässt David Brunet auch für 2016 auf der Obligement-Webseite über das beste Spiel unter AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS bzw. AROS abstimmen. Die Wahl erfolgt für das jeweilige Betriebssystem.
Das Ergebnis wird am Montag, dem 6. Februar, bekanntgegeben. (snx)
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28.Jan.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 20 - Interview with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON Technology)
In the 20th issue of his podcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Trevor Dickinson of A-EON Technology. Additionally a record of his speech on the "Amiga Ireland 2017" is included, which also is available as video.
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27.Jan.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS / MorphOS: SnapIT 1.4
SnapIT written by Stefan Blixth (OnyxSoft) is a "powerful screen grabber" for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86 (screenshot).
The version of MorphOS can save the screenshots as different formats by using Reggae. Generally version 1.4 now can be used without a user-interface.
Changes:
- Reggae-support for saving data which includes a lot more formats to save to (MorphOS only)
- Missed to apply translation to the ASL-window (save file as...)
- Fixed that the free grab works as intended if the program was started iconified
- Added Greek translation by Anthony Iliakis
- Using latest MUI4 on OS4 to set the "aiming" pointer when using freegrab mode
- Now possible to grab a screen and save it without using the GUI (cli argument)
- Added CX_POPKEY / CX_POPUP handling
- Modified SnapIT so it can only be started in one instance, run it twice, uniconifies the first instance
- Included a updated Spanish guide file by Victor Gutiérrez
- Removed the requester when starting the program without a keyfile
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26.Jan.2017
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Calendar for printing
The Croatian website amigawarp.org has published a year 2017 calender with Amiga motifs. The calendar was created in A4 landscape format and can be printed in English (PDF) or Croatian (PDF).
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24.Jan.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update "Gold2"
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of Motorolas m68k-series, which also provides a separate graphic output called SAGA. Currently the core is used in the accelerator boards 600 V2 and 500 V2(+). Changes in the latest core "Gold2":
- AMMX greatly improved
- Added CPU counters
- Added TURTLE mode
- Modified PCR register: 68080 now acts as a 060
- Modified MOVEC Rc,Rn (reads in User mode and Writes in Supervisor mode)
- Improved some loops patterns
- Improved self-modifying code support
- Improved memory controller to be full 32-bit
- Improved HDMI core
The SAGA driver was also updated and now is available in version 0.11.
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24.Jan.2017
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Calimero 3.82
Carsten Siegner's Calimero "is a powerfull DTP program" which can handle spreedsheets (screenshot) now of the formats EPUB (photo 1) and ODT (photo 2).
The comic picture shown in the document is a WMF image format file which can be converted by Calimero into other formats. The spreedsheets in the ODT-documents for example in OpenOffice can be moved without limitations, thus do not depend on lines.
Download: Calimero_3.82.lha (8 MB)
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24.Jan.2017
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A500 accelerator board: HC508 in progress
Another accelerator board for the Amiga 500 is in development called HC508 which is based on a 68HC000 processor clocked with 50 Mhz and according to the developer is fully compatible to the 68000. The hardware has been tested for a loner time, the layout is final.
The HC508 has the following features:
- 68HC000 CPU with 50 MHz, 100% MC68000 compatible
- IDE-port (40 pin) for HD and CD-ROM
- integrated port for CF-cards
- 8 MB FastRAM (1 wait state)
- 512k FlashROM for Kickstart (1 wait state)
- Tool for disabling/enabling of all moduls (CPU, RAM, ROM, IDE)
It is still not clear how the board will be sold.
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24.Jan.2017
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PCMCIA driver: CFD 1.33 (Update)
CFD ("CompactFlashDevice") supports using CompactFlash memory cards on the PCMCIA-Port of an A600 or A1200. Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski has released an update of the driver which improves compatibility with SD-cards (inserted via SD-CF-adapter). The updated driver also could provide support of a higher number of CF memory cards.
Update: (08:05, 27.08.17, snx)
As Grzegorz Kraszewski points out in a comment, this driver update has been created by Paul Carter and not by himself. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2017
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New PCMCIA angle connector: KA37 (Update)
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski offers another angle connector for the PCMCIA port of the A1200 or A600 called "KA37" which is mostly required if the Amiga was put into a tower. The "KA37" is available for about 21 Euro and thus cheaper than similar products of Amigakit or
Elbox. However, Krashan only accepts Bitcoin (0.0249 Bitcoin). You can order the connector via email from the developer.
Update: (09:25, 30.01.2017, snx)
Grzegorz Kraszewski mentions in a comment that PayPal and SEPA transfers are also accepted, although they are not advertised on the webpage. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2017
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview with Patrick Nevian (Tales of Gorluth, Blue Metal Rose)
generationamiga.com has published an interview with Patrick Nevian who among others is the developer of the Tales of Gorluth series and founder of the Indie Pop band project Blue Metal Rose.
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24.Jan.2017
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Platform game: Slackskin & Flint for free download
The full version of the platform game Slackskin & Flint which was released in 1992 can be downloaded for free.
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24.Jan.2017
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Ars Technica: A history of the Amiga, part 10
The tenth part of the series "A history of the Amiga", since 2007 released on Ars Technica, is about the decline of the Amiga.
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23.Jan.2017
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Subtitle editor: Slarti (all Amiga platforms)
"Slarti" is written in Hollywood and can "help making or modifying video subtitles" in the SubRip format. Using the avcodec-plugin, Slarti loads the video into its user-interface (which was created with RapaGUI) and offers rich editing modes.
Obviously other ports of the program are only available as free downloads if a certain amount of donations has been achieved. This is explained on the website under "Donations":
"If you send any amount of donation you will get an email with the download link of your chosen platform and the release target counter will be added by one point.
If the counter hit one of the goals then a release of the program will happen as a free download as described below."
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23.Jan.2017
(ANF)
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Ben Hermans resigns his position as director of Hyperion
During the afternoon a hint was published on amiga.org that in the Belgisch Staatsblad an application of Hyperion (PDF) was published for removing the rank of the director ("Bestuurder") for Ben Hermans because he did resign this position on December 16th. This has been certified since January 12th because the KBO ("Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen") lists only founding member Timothy de Groote as well as the German Costel Mincea, joined in May 2015 as directors of Hyperion.
A few hours later Hyperion's website also announced the change:
"Hyperion Entertainment CVBA wishes to announce that Mr. Ben Hermans has resigned as a director of the company to allow him to concentrate on his practice as legal counsel. He remains committed to Hyperion Entertainment and will continue representing its legal interests in the best possible way. Ben of course also remains a shareholder in the Hyperion Entertainment business."
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22.Jan.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.01.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 21st, 2017:
DiskSafe.lha disk/salv 92K 68k No longer non validated disks!
Boxx3.adf game/jump 880K 68k Boxx 3 Platform game (Bootabl...
Boxx3HDD.lha game/jump 304K 68k Boxx 3 Platform game (HD Inst...
PatchCompositeTags.lha gfx/misc 625K OS4 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
Dina.lha text/bfont 72K Dina Programming Font
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22.Jan.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.01.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until January 21st, 2017:
amitransformator_ita.lha dev/lan 479b 4.1 italian catalog for Amitransform...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
qt-minimal.lha lib/mis 72Mb 4.1 Multiplatform Gui Toolkit (Minimal)
vmt.lha off/dat 7Mb 4.1 Vehicles costs management tool
screengrab.lha uti/mis 358kb 4.1 Simple screengrab app for Qt4
rbroadcastwol.lha uti/she 4kb 4.1 Send out a Magic Packet to wake ...
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 18kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
juffed.lha uti/tex 6Mb 4.1 Advanced text editor for Qt4
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22.Jan.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 21.01.2017
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until January 21st, 2017:
ogg-dec-enc.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 2Mb ogg format decoder and encoder
protrekkr.i386-aros.lha aud 10Mb tracker program with advance fea...
audioevolution3_src.lha aud/rec 317kb source code of version 3 the hd ...
audioevolution4.i386-aros... aud/rec 27Mb hd recording
eternal.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 7Mb Port of OpenGL demo from ReAct 2004
vmt.i386-aros.lha uti/mis 7Mb Vehicles costs management tool
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22.Jan.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.01.2017
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 21st, 2017:
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19.Jan.2017
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Emulator: FS-UAE Wrapper simplifies access to archives
The FS-UAE Wrapper, written in Python, is supposed to simplify the access to archives, so for example you can compress ISO-images together with configuration files into an archive.
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19.Jan.2017
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MorphOS: Harry "Piru" Sintonen hacks QNap network
Harry Sintonen, who is programmer in the MorphOS team, works as Senior Security Consultant at the Finnish security specialist F-Secure. In Helsinki he recently did "teach the audience a lesson in how attackers take advantage of insecure devices. Harry created the demonstration after he discovered several vulnerabilities in a QNAP network attached storage (NAS) device."
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16.Jan.2017
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Update of Amiga Games List
Since 1991 David Brunet has updated "Amiga Games List". Now all releases of the year 2016 have been added, so the database includes 12632 games, level editors, data disks, extensions and interpreters, which divide like that:
- 12076 games
- 320 extensions and data disks
- 143 game or level editors
- 84 interpreters
According to Brunet the Amiga Games List is the most extensive games list on Internet.
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15.Jan.2017
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AEROS for indieGO! available
Purchasers of Pascal Papara's "indieGO!", which is an ARM-based system combining several games consoles by using different emulators, now also can use his Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS. Using the online update function, AEROS can be added at the start of indieGO!. A video shows AEROS starting on the system and later the game AmigaRacer.
According to Pascal Papara "it is the first time AROS hosted on ARM runs with a 32bit color depth and so hand in hand with the 3D accelerated drivers or the console." AROS itself includes al system files which recently were back ported by Krzysztof Śmiechowicz for the ABIv0 and are also used in the distribution Icaros Desktop.
Additional to AEROS, version 1.7.0 of the Linux-based operating system "indieGO! OS" also offers FS-UAE as well as the latest version of the Amiga emulator uae4arm, compiled on and for the Odroid-XU4, supporting JIT, full screen mode and sound (actually uae4arm is optimized for Raspberry Pi2/3).
Pascal Papara also wrote: "Besides this preparations are made to allow the execution of IcAROS desktop utilizing the commercial i386 to ARM wrapper ExaGear. Performance wise it feels similar to my macbook pro late 2009 and running it in Virtualbox. This is possible because it used the wrapper only for the CPU translation and else it relies on native ARM API's.
There are much more updates like a new launcher menu done by Fabio and fixes to other system emulation but since they are not Amiga Related I would like to invite you to have an eye on the AMC-Support-Forum."
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15.Jan.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.01.2017
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 14th, 2017:
ign-addon-ods.lha biz/misc 1.8M OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
Amiga30Years.lha demo/euro 45K 68k OCS Demo for High Coast Hack ...
YouMustObey.lha demo/euro 82K 68k OCS Demo for High Coast Hack ...
boingball.lha demo/intro 56K 68k OCS intro for High Coast Hack...
hch_2016_xmas.lha demo/slide 69K 68k OCS Demo for High Coast Hack ...
K-War_TreasurePattern... demo/track 642K 68k Musicdisk "Treasure Patterns"...
PointerDevBas.lha dev/basic 34K 68k Using Pointer lib with HBasic
Cow3D.lha dev/src 722K ppc Draw a textured 3D cow with W...
LosingMyBestFriend.mp3 mods/mpg 2.4M A slow sad tune by pecaN
unzip_6.0-21.lha util/arc 186K MOS De-archiver for .zip files
ShellUpdate.lha util/boot 130K 68k Update Os 3.9 BB2 Shell to 45.36
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15.Jan.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.01.2017
The following archives have been added to the OS4Depot until January 14th, 2017:
versus7.lha dem/mag 2Mb 4.0 Chartmag (AOS4 version).
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 2Mb 4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
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15.Jan.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 14.01.2017
The following archive has been added to the AROS-Archives until January 14th, 2017:
bubbletrain.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 3Mb Bubble shooter.
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15.Jan.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.01.2017
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 14th, 2017:
- 2017-01-14 new: Lovesongs (Crime Devils) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-13 new: Music Disk (Cryptic) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-12 new: Audio Dreams (Chaos) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2017-01-12 new: Sound of Music 7 (Cave) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-11 new: Music Collection 4 (Zarch) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-11 new: Music Collection (Exocet) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-10 new: One Day on Mars (Exile) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-09 new: Music Disk (Escape) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-08 new: Music Disk 1 (Vega) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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13.Jan.2017
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Dave Haynie: Entire "Deathbed Vigil" video at Youtube
In spring 1994 with his own camera hardware developer Dave Haynie recorded the almost deserted Commodore production facility in West Chester, a mass dismissal as well as a party of former employees ("wake") on the day after the announcement of the companys bankrupt.
The video which resulted from that was sold as "The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst": First of all by Haynie himself, finally as part of the premium edition of the emulator distribution Amiga Forever. Now Haynie has made available the video at Youtube for free.
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13.Jan.2017
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Bounty project for new system monitor
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, member of the MorphOS-Team, has suggested a bounty project in the forum of the MorphZone for a replacement of "Scout".
Unlike the former system monitor, "Scout NG" should not depend on external MUI-classes but will provide some MorphOS information. Besides, certain system lists should be shown in context (processes/tasks/windows as a tree).
On the website of the WArMUp ("World Association of MorphOS Users") you can donate for that project, which requires 200 Euro.
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10.Jan.2017
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AnimWebConverter v2.65
AnimWebConverter is a little Hollywood programm for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS, which can convert IFF-animations of the Anim or Yafa format into animated GIF and PNG files. It is also possible to change the size of the picture. In version 2.65 some bugs have been fixed and "minor improvements" implemented.
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10.Jan.2017
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 124
The English and German issue 124 (Januar/Februar 2017) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today, and can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. The current issue includes the first part of e WHDLoad workshop, Demoscene News and a introduction to 'Matze's 030er turboboard'. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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10.Jan.2017
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.3dev (Beta)
Frode Solheim has released a new development version FS-UAE 2.9.3dev. Changes:
- Updated FS-UAE icon
- Allow specifying sub_title = 0 to disable the sub title
Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.9.3dev:
- Fix for published/unpublished status of variants
- Extract WHDLoad arguments from .info file when loading a WHDLoad archive
- Set floppy drive volume (empty) to 0 when starting with a WHDLoad archive
- Show error message when version started is too old (cannot read databases)
- New option whdload_quit_key to set global quit key, added to settings UI
- Renamed “Joystick” to “Controller” in settings dialog
- Improved look on Windows 10
- Updated look for the settings dialog
- Updated button links to option docs
- Updated FS-UAE Launcher icon
- CDTV games (from database) did not set CDTV model
Changes in FS-UAE Arcade 2.9.3dev:
- Add application icon to the Arcade window
- Added new icon for FS-UAE Arcade (instead of the Launcher icon)
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08.Jan.2017
Patric Klöter (ANF)
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Video: Documentation "Viva Amiga" available worldwide
The long awaited documentation "Viva Amiga" produced by Zach Weddington now is available worldwide:
Zach Weddington's history of the Amiga tells the story right from the development of the first prototype to the latest Amiga computers AmigaOne X1000/X5000. Developers like RJ Mical, Glenn Keller, David Needle and others are interviewed.
There is a trailer on YouTube.
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08.Jan.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 07.01.2017
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until January 7th, 2017:
CD32toUSB.zip docs/hard 8K CD32 Gamepad to USB Adapter
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 37K 68k Mediator driver Sonnet 7200 G...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.9M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 529K MOS Multipurpose utility
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08.Jan.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.01.2017
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until January 7th, 2017:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
postal.lha gam/shm 2Mb 4.1 Amiga OS4.1 Port of Postal Plus
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
aorganiser.lha off/mis 838kb 4.0 Diary
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08.Jan.2017
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 07.01.2017
The following packages have been added to the AROS-Archives until January 7th, 2017:
janus-uae.i386-aros.tar.gz emu/com 4Mb v 1.4 e-uae port for aros x86
hurrican-src-svn281.tar.bz2 gam/act 38Mb Source Code for Game 'Hurrican'
koules-src-1.19.tar.bz2 gam/act 158kb Port of Linux+OS/2 arcade game (...
tuxtype.i386-aros.zip gam/chi 8Mb Typing tutorial styled like 'Mis...
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08.Jan.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.01.2017
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 7th, 2017:
- 2017-01-07 new: Music Disk 4 (Vega) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-06 new: Sound Highlights 1 (Timex) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-05 new: Mean Break Machine 2 (Tetragon) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-04 new: Creamy Cranium 1 (Strangers) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-04 new: Odeon (Solution) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2017-01-03 fixed: Bob's Bad Day (Psygnosis/Dome Development) the fast ram support added in v1.2 was broken and has been fixed to work with all memory configurations (Info)
- 2017-01-03 new: Rolling (OMD & Ringard) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2017-01-02 fixed: Reunion (Grandslam) some read accesses to low memory removed (Info)
- 2017-01-02 new: Excess (Reflex) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2017-01-01 new: Zillion Dreams (Reflex) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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06.Jan.2017
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Blitterwolf: Interviews with Jamie Krueger and Niko Tomatsidis
For the English-language Amiga blog "Blitterwolf", 'Micknish' has interviewed Niko Tomatsidis, from 2011 to 2014 maintaining an AROS distribution called AspireOS, and Jamie Krueger, who a month ago has released an update of his SDK-Browser for AmigaOS 4. But the Interview is not about his work for Amiga Inc..
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06.Jan.2017
4Sceners.de (ANF)
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4Sceners.de: The best (Amiga-) Demos 2016
Every year the German-language scene portal 4Sceners.de rewards the best demos. In 2016 altogether 28 have been awarded, among others the best Amiga demo: The first place took "e255" produced by Bomb & Sanity & Dreamdealers (Video). This demo also won the first price in the competition for the best demo soundtracks.
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04.Jan.2017
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Firmware: Updated installer for UBoot 1.3.1f for Sam440ep mini-itx
In October 2016 the firmware update UBoot 1.3.1f was released but obviously could not be correctly installed on the Sam440ep mini-itx. Now the bug was fixed. For there are not any other changes, the version number keeps the same.
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04.Jan.2017
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.9.2dev (beta)
Frode Solheim has released a new development version FS-UAE 2.9.2dev. Changes:
- New boolean option warp_mode (warp_mode = 1 to start in warp mode)
- Try ralphschmidt-cyberstorm-ppc-4471.rom if cyberstormppc.rom is not found
- Imported updated translations from crowdin.com
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04.Jan.2017
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Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.20 (AmigaOS 3/4)
In the lates version of the audio player AmigaAMP the support for AAC-streaming was added (AmigaOS 4). Besides, in both versions some bugs were fixed:
- OS4/PPC Version: Added AAC streaming support
- OS3/68k Version: Fixed AHI reopen leak which led to lockups after playing some files in a row
- OS3/68k Version: Improved mpega support
- Fixed crash when trying to change buffer sizes on the fly. This feature is no longer available, AmigaAMP has to be restarted.
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03.Jan.2017
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Bounty project for window overview
In the forum of the MorphZone, MorphOS developer Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has proposed a bounty project, which similar to "Expose" under Mac OS X (video) shows all opened windows on a screen.
On the website of WArMUp ("World Association of MorphOS Users") you can donate for this bounty. 1000 Euro are required.
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03.Jan.2017
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: Calimero 3.81
Carsten Siegner's Calimero "is a powerfull DTP program" which now also can handle spreedsheets (screenshot).
Calimero also can import (XLS beta) and export Excel files (as modern XLSX file) (screenshot) or save and open whole workbooks in CALS format (screenshot).
Download: Calimero_3.81.lha (7 MB)
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02.Jan.2017
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website / 20th anniversary
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement, which started 20 years ago, during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- November/December 2016 news
- Old articles from Tilt 83 to 87:
- Review of Buck Rogers
- Comparison: Top down racing games of 1990
- The point of view of an Atarian about the Amiga 500
- Review of Elvira 3
- Review of Jupiter's Masterdrive
- Report: SICOB Micro 1990
- Review of Captive
- Review of Prince Of Persia
- Interview with Gilles Breuil
- Hardware: SuperPic
- Review of Powermonger
- Interview with Carlo Pirri (Hall Of Light, Amiga Magazine Rack)
- Interview with Graeme Anderson (Hired Guns, Lemmings)
- Hardware: Prisma Megamix
- Hardware: BigRAMPlus
- File: Classic Reflections - What happen to SoftWood, Inc.?
- File: W Industries And The Virtual Reality On Amiga
- Tutorial: Utilization and configuration of Dir Me Up 3
- Tutorial: Presentation and utilization of the Screenbar Modules on MorphOS
- Tutorial: Wi-Fi on Amiga 1200 (with Prism2 V2 and MiamiDX) (update)
- DIY: Fixation of the Indivision AGA 1200 (update)
- Programming: C - create a commodity (ScreenMenu)
- Special quiz about Electronic Arts
Article in English:
- Interview with Carlo Pirri (Hall Of Light, Amiga Magazine Rack)
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01.Jan.2017
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Aminet-Uploads until 31.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until December 31st, 2016:
yWeather.lha comm/misc 364K MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
amiget.lha comm/www 5K Fetch from Aminet in a shell ...
FrenchAxel.lha demo/intro 78K 68k simple intro to thanks French...
Dh73_20th.lha demo/misc 302K 68k Demo with various Gfx effects
libpng1627_a68k.lha dev/lib 1.6M 68k Lib for reading/writing PNG
libpng1627_aros.lha dev/lib 1.8M x86 Lib for reading/writing PNG
libgen.lha dev/misc 81K OS4 A tool to automate building l...
sdkbrowser.lha dev/misc 122K OS4 AmigaOS 4 SDK Browsing Utilit...
webptools052_a68k.lha gfx/conv 3.2M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools052_aros.lha gfx/conv 4.1M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
gnuplot-5.0.5_a68k.lha gfx/misc 6.6M 68k Portable graphing utility
gnuplot-5.0.5_aros.lha gfx/misc 5.0M x86 Portable graphing utility
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Calimero_3.81.lha text/dtp 7.2M MOS A DTP Program
LoadModule.lha util/boot 19K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
pwdGen.lzh util/misc 8K 68k pwdGen
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 469K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 577K OS4 Multipurpose utility
UtilityTester212.lha util/misc 55K 68k semi-pro tests for ports/vide...
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01.Jan.2017
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 31.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until December 31st, 2016:
libgen.lha dev/uti 81kb 4.0 A tool to automate building libr...
sdkbrowser.lha dev/uti 122kb 4.0 AmigaOS4 SDK Browsing Utility [v...
reactive_crypto.lha dri/mis 153kb 4.1 Hashing classes for Reactive
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
aiss.lha gra/ais 9Mb 4.1 Amiga Image Storage System
aiss.pdf gra/ais 5Mb 4.1 Documentation
qt-minimal.lha lib/mis 69Mb 4.1 Multiplatform Gui Toolkit (Minimal)
vacuum.lha uti/com 11Mb 4.1 Jabber chat client for Qt4
reportplus.lha uti/mis 577kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
showfiles.lha uti/she 38kb 4.0 shows a sorted & text-format...
juffed.lha uti/tex 16Mb 4.1 Advanced text editor for Qt4
amiupdate_swe.lha uti/wor 19kb 4.1 Swedish translation of Amiupdate
caboom.lha uti/wor 39kb 4.1 OS 4 Port of CaBoom
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01.Jan.2017
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WHDLoad: New installers until 31.12.2016
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 December 31st, 2016:
- 2016-12-31 new: Songs Rack (Ram Jam) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-12-30 new: Musabox (Falcons) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-12-29 new: Musabox 2 (Falcons) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-12-29 improved: SWIV (Sales Curve) control selection screen with Forward button fixed, another version supported (Info)
- 2016-12-28 improved: Ikari Warriors (Elite) timing fixed, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config), blitter wait patches can be disabled with CUSTOM2 (Info)
- 2016-12-27 fixed: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) keyboard handler in intro was broken (Info)
- 2016-12-27 fixed: New Zealand Story (Taito/Ocean) broken menu patch fixed, copperlist problems fixed (Info)
- 2016-12-27 fixed: Ilyad (UBI-Soft) bug in patch code fixes which could cause graphics corruption and other problems, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info)
- 2016-12-27 improved: Titan Trax (Titanics) graphics problems (after loading songs 3/7) fixed, RawDIC imager updated to save all files, install script updated (Info, Image)
- 2016-12-26 improved: Badlands (Tengen) lap times are loaded/saved now, NTSC support added, decruncher relocated, another version supported, new install script (Info)
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01.Jan.2017
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Chambers Of Shaolin - Test Of Balance
- Kohinoor (future version)
- Kohinoor (guitar version)
- Pinball Dreams Intro Remix
- Twintris - Audiokraft Sbiriguda Remix
- Defloration Antanix
- Twintris - We are the Devils of Antani
- Twintris - Those AntaNine
- Second Samurai -EMX Remix-
- Another World [Rework]
- Turrican 2 (Freedom)
- Lords of the Rising Sun - Antanux
- Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
- Speedball 2 - Brutal Antanux
- Gods - Into the antanifull
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01.Jan.2017
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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History of development: CDTV-ROM from August 1990 discovered
According to 'christopherpm' under the title link, he has discovered the so far earliest developer version of the CDTV-Extended-ROMs. Previously it was version B2.9 from February 1991, now he has discovered version B1 from August 1990 on a developer board.
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31.Dec.2016
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Trashcan released
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek, member of the MorphOS team, has released the first version of his TrashFileSystem, which provides a trashcan under Ambient.
Attention: Beta testers of MorphOS 3.10 should not install it, for "you downgrade vital components of the system to 3.9, which causes other parts to fail. Wait for the next beta iso."
Features:
- Can trash files and directories on any writable volume
- Collects all trashed files/dirs into a virtual Trashcan volume
- Files in Trashcan are read-only; directories can only be restored (no read access)
- Has two virtual disk.infos for empty/full state - the only file that can be written
- Supports removable volumes
Ambient integration:
- Trashcan icon on desktop - can be emptied with the context menu, supports dropping files
- Regular listers/icon views - files can be trashed with a hotkey or context menu
- Lister/icon view inside Trashcan - files can be restored to their original location
Download: trashcan.lha (1 MB)
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31.Dec.2016
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS: AEROS for Odroid U2/U3 and CuBox-i available for free
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS distribution AEROS is available for free for Odroid U2 and U3 (but not for XU3) as well as for CuBox-i under the title link.
In future, Pascal Papara will not support the CuBox-i platform. Bug reports and similar ones are not requested any longer. Instead he will focus on the Odroid models XU3/XU4 as well as the Raspberry Pi and the Orange Pi. For the U2 and U3 there will be only available AROS updates, but no ones for the Linux part.
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31.Dec.2016
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Hyperion Entertainment: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 available (Update)
Press release: Brussels, December 31, 2016 - Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce the immediate release of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 for all supported systems including PowerPC equipped 68k Amiga machines.
Building on the existing AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition platform, Update 1 is the culmination of many man-months of work by our dedicated team of AmigaOS developers, translators and beta testers. It delivers a selection of new features and a host of bug fixes and best of all, it is available as a free digital download, from the restricted download area of the Hyperion Entertainment website and via AmiUpdate, for all registered AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition customers. Details about all changes can be found in the included AmigaGuide changelog document.
AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 prerequisites:
- Operating system: installed AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition (*)
- Hardware compatibility: AmigaOne XE, SE and micro, AmigaOne 500, AmigaOne X1000, Sam440, Sam460, Pegasos 2, Amiga Classic PPC; the AmigaOne X5000 line of computers is already equipped with Update 1 and does therefore not need this update
- Price: free to registered users of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition
(* = AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition can be purchased as CD boxed set from participating Amiga retailers)
Update: (18:02, 31.12.16, snx)
Meanwhile the changes have also been published at the forum of Amigaworld.net. (snx)
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31.Dec.2016
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS: SimpleMail 0.43
On Christmas version 0.43 of the email programm SimpleMail has been released for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4. Now Miloslav Martinka has also compiled this version for AROS. The archive only includes the main programm.
Download-Seite
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31.Dec.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: 68k-Distribution Aros Vision RTG 3.2
Version 3.2 of Olaf Schönweiß' AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision now also includes Mapparium and AmiModRadio. Besides, the AROS system files, the libraries boards.library, icon.library and guigfx.library as well as the programms AmigaAMP, Eagleplayer, Free Pascal, Netsurf, ScummVM and Simplemail has been updated. This is only an update for the RTG version, the PAL version has been not updated yet.
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31.Dec.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Hardware: Open source accelerator board TerribleFire for Amiga 500
Stephen Leary is developing a 68020 accelerator board for the Amiga 500 called "TerribleFire". Under the title link the files for producing the TF520 are available under the licence of GPLv2. The Scotsman also shows his progresses on YouTube. There you can find information about its usage in the Atari ST as well as about his next goal, the TF530.
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30.Dec.2016
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AROS: November 2016 Highlights
Based on his weekly news on the progresses of the operating system AROS, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz also summarizes the results for a month under the title link.
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30.Dec.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Updated ABIv0-branch
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released an updated ABIv0-branch, which also version 2.2 of the distribution Icaros Desktop is based on. It will be also used for the Nightly-Builds. All improvements and bug fixes of the last two years are made available to the users by this updade.
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30.Dec.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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Commodore emulator: VICE 3.0
VICE emulates almost all 8-Bit systems of Commodore. Ports of version 3.0 are available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, PPC, AMD64) and MorphOS. The SourceForge website of the program lists all the changes of this version.
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29.Dec.2016
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: Bug fixes for FS-UAE 2.8.2
A minor update of the emulator FS-UAE has been released, which fixes some bugs: Version 2.8.2u1 for MacOS "fixes FS-UAE Arcade not starting as well as gamepad config issues. Version 2.8.2u2 for Windows fixes the built-in config for XInput gamepads."
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29.Dec.2016
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Video reviews: Music card Prism Megamix
On Youtube some reviews of Prism Magamix customers have been published. "lantus360" shows the card in his A1200 and demonstrates an adapted version of the first person shooter Heretic. Dan Wood has installed the card in his Amiga 4000.
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28.Dec.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Enhancer Software 1.2
According to A-EON Technology in a press release (PDF file), a second update for the tool collection "Enhancer Software" has been released. Registered customers can download it for free on Amistore.
By installing the update, now the RadeonHD graphic card driver supports the Oland chips and updates of Warp3D Nova (version 1.34) and OpenGL ES 2.0 (version 1.12) as well as two new preferences (Sound Prefs, Time Prefs) are provided.
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28.Dec.2016
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Toolbar images: AISS 4.22
Martin Merz has released an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS) which "offers a photo-illustrative icon style for toolbar images" and "is an environment to store, access and maintain this toolbar images" under AmigaOS and other systems.
AISS 4.22 provides more than 8.800 graphics for the pictograms of AmigaOS 4. Due to compatibility reasons, all pictures and animations of the previous version are included as well.
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28.Dec.2016
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with Carlo Pirri (english, french)
The magazine Obligement has published an interview with Carlo Pirri today, a member of the well known websites "Hall Of Light" and "Amiga Magazine Rack". Carlo Pirri does also own one of the biggest Amiga original games collections.
Besides the english version of the interview at the title link there is also a french one. (snx)
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27.Dec.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Picture viewer: Vintage Viewer 2.25
Vintage Viewer written by Juan Carlos Herran Martin (AnimWebConverter, Acuario, VAMP) is a simple picture viewer written with Hollywood. Versions for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and Windows are available.
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27.Dec.2016
Morphzone (Webseite)
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Report of AmiCamp (10. and 11. December, Athens)
At the beginning of December the "Amicamp" took place in Athens for the fifth time. retroplanet.gr has published an English-language report of the event.
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27.Dec.2016
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World #29 - Interview with Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers
The guest of the latest issue of the podcast of the C64-Diskmag "Scene World" is Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) who was talking about future (C64-) products and his company in general.
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26.Dec.2016
Philippe Lang (E-Mail)
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Crowdfunding: Keycaps can be produced
Philippe Lang's Kickstarter project for producing new keycaps for Amiga keyboards (amiga-news.de reported) has been successful. Seventeen days before the deadline the goal of 102.000 Singapore-Dollar (about 67.400 Euro) was exceeded by more than 108.000 Singapore-Dollar that was pledged. (snx)
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26.Dec.2016
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Web browser: Short review on SDL/MUI-version of NetSurf
At the beginning of this year, editor Daniel Reimann of amiga-news.de has written a detailed review on Chris Young's Reaction-based port of Netsurf, but the SDL-port provided by Artur 'Arti' Jarosik he is testing as well:
On his blog, Jarosik has released new versions of his browsers during the last weeks. On my Amiga1200 these versions did not run very stable and a special FPU-version I could not start at all. Meanwhile there is only one version for AGA and RTG, a seperate FPU version was dropped.
The last AGA-version of Netsurf, which was released on Aminet on December 23, runs quite stable and fast on my Amiga1200.
It is a little bit unusual how you have to enter a web address into the address bar of the browser: Nothing happens by clicking with the left mouse button in the bar. After clicking with the right mouse button, Netsurf does vanish and a little window appears on the Workbench. There you can enter your web address.
Foreground and background picture loading disabled, Netsurf does take about 30 seconds for loading the main website of amiga-news.de on my Amiga1200 with Blizzard 1230 and for loading the Aminet site about 52 seconds. (cg)
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26.Dec.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Game launcher: X-bEnCh 1.00 X-mas Public pre Release
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 272 colours (AGA; 128 on OCS/ECS-computers) which can replace the Workbench for launching WHDLoad-games and other applications and requires low hardware resources. An integrated command line as well as the file manager Xpl0rEr are also available.
Changes in the pre release of X-bEnCh 1.0 (the rework of the manual has not been completed):
Xinit 3.8
- Added the Display Mode switch support
- DisplayMode fix
- Fixed the 501 countdown freez bug. (In some rare case the countdown
of the regscreen was not working and stay freezed at 501)
Xmenu 3.4
- Added the Display Mode switch support
- Display is no more forced to 60Hz until you've chosen this option.
(This was the case in some internals previous release)
- DisplayMode fix
- Code optimisation (near 10% lighter). Need less memory
Xlaunch 4.2
- Games screenshots implementation (100 availables in this release,
more to come asap!)
- DisplayMode fix
- Version number fixed in debug mode
- Loading an audio playlist recorded at the root of a drive (not in a
subdir) was failing (No sound). Fixed
- Position error in the audio playlist. Fixed
- Added the Display Mode switch support
Checkerboard 1.6
- DisplayMode fix
- Fixed the checkerboard loader for the Display Mode switch
Xpl0rEr 1.7
- Fixed the useless permanent refresh of each track Volume Oscillo
- Now you can quit Xpl0rEr with the "Esc" Key
- DisplayMode fix
- Version number fixed in debug mode
- Fixed the bug that was adding a blank entry at the end of each xpl
- Fixed the display bug in the Mod player if you load a playlist
shorter than the previous one
- Release number and date fixeds
- When deleting a file on one side, the other side was mistackenly
refreshed too. Fixed
- The buffers of the listings were not properly cleared. fixed
- Added the Display Mode switch support
Xcli 1.7
- New Xbench cLi logo made by "sns"
Xsetup 4.0
- Audio playlist path bug fixed again .. and working this time
- DisplayMode switch Fix
- The Select a path to scan requester in the launcher tab was not using
the previously selected path saved in the launchers.prf. Fixed
- The Select a playlist requester in the launcher tab was not using
the previously selected playlist saved in the launchers.prf. Fixed
- Fixed the format of the playlist path in the prefs file
- Selecting a playlist saved in the ram disk was going to guru. Fixed
- Added the Display Mode switch support
Direct download: xbench1.00x.lha (866 KB)
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25.Dec.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 24.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until December 24th, 2016:
irssi-0.8.20-ppc-mos.lha comm/irc 1.5M MOS Terminal based IRC client
netsurf-m68k.lha comm/www 8.5M 68k CSS capable web browser
VOID-XmasLights.lha demo/intro 97K 68k 2016 Xmas intro by Void
easteregg.lha game/jump 787K 68k Easter Egg - platform game 68k
MaxKnightXmasFDD.adf game/jump 880K 68k Max Knight Xmas Edition (ADF ...
ultimate-maze-pack.zip game/shoot 2.3M 68k Ultimate Maze - Gloom mod
mathomatic-mos.lha misc/math 651K MOS Computer Algebra System Matho...
Psyber_Christmas.lha mods/tranc 7.4M New mod by Pseudaxos
Calimero_3.8.lha text/dtp 9.2M MOS A DTP Program
LoadModule.lha util/boot 18K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
BoardsLib.lha util/libs 74K 68k provides detailed info about ...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 24.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until December 24th, 2016:
libgen.lha dev/uti 40kb 4.0 A tool to automate building libr...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 4Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
glcrackberg_bl.lha gra/scr 63kb 4.1 OpenGL Screen Blanker
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25.Dec.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 24.12.2016
The following package has been added to the AROS-Archives until December 24th, 2016:
modexplorer.i386-aros.zip aud 2Mb Streaming mod file from aminet, ...
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25.Dec.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.12.2016
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 December 24th, 2016:
- 2016-12-23 fixed: Bob's Bad Day (Psygnosis/Dome Development) crash after intro fixed when blitter waits were disabled, DMA waits in sample player and MED replayer fixed, 68000 quitkey support, manual included, new install script (Info)
- 2016-12-23 updated: Bionic Commando (Go!/Software Creations) patch redone, all OS stuff patched, timing fixed, high score load/save added, trainers added (Info)
- 2016-12-22 improved: Bob's Bad Day (Psygnosis/Dome Development) blitter wait patches can be disabled with CUSTOM1, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config) (Info)
- 2016-12-22 new: Non Stop Music (Jungle Command) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-12-22 fixed: Miami Chase (Code Masters/Team 17) install script was broken (probably since V1.1) and only installed disk 1 of the game, install script redone using latest template from the WHDLoad package (Info)
- 2016-12-22 improved: Aquaventura (Psygnosis) 68000 quitkey support, default quitkey changed to Del, WHDLoad v17+ features used (config), new install script (Info)
- 2016-12-21 improved: Miami Chase (Code Masters/Team 17) Bplcon0 color bit fixes, invalid copperlist entries fixed, interrupts fixed, 68000 quitkey support, CPU dependent delays fixed, WHDLoad v17+ features used, CD32 joypad support added (Info)
- 2016-12-20 improved: Exolon (Hewson) timing fixed, wrong DDFSTOP in one version fixed, new install script (Info)
- 2016-12-20 improved: Espa?a The Games '92 (Ocean/Creative Materials) load/save support added, 68000 quitkey support, manual included (Info)
- 2016-12-19 fixed: Match of the Day (Zeppelin Games) crash when using ButtonWait fixed, DMA wait in replayer fixed, byte write to volume register fixed, 68000 quitkey support, WHDLoad v17+ features used, new install script (Info, Image)
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25.Dec.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 69 (Italian/English)
The PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes an article about the Amiga game "Maupiti Island".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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24.Dec.2016
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amiga-news.de wishes Merry Christmas
The team of amiga-news.de wishes all Amiga fans a Merry Christmas as well as a Happy New Year 2017!
In 2016 so far we have published 727 news on amiga-news.de which are again some less compared to the last year but apart from that, a lot is going on about Amiga - for example there is the Vampire accelerator board, the availability of the X5000 or community projects like Matzes Graka.
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24.Dec.2016
amigaimpact.org (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulation on ARM: HAPPIGA 1.4.1
Happiga is a Debian-based Linux distribution for ARM-based computers like the Raspberry Pi which directly boot into the Amiga emulator UAE4ARM. An AGA-Amiga with 68040-processor and sufficient RAM is emulated, Picasso96 is installed as well. A Samba-Share is preconfigured for exchanging data with other systems.
You cannot update Happiga to version 1.4, you have to completely reinstall the application. Changes in version 1.4.1:
- A last minute bugfix which greatly slowed the raspberry
- New image based on Rapsbian Pixel
- Update the firmware of the raspberry
- Updated uae4arm
- Button to turn happiga off from the menu
- Integration of KODI with launch from the menu
- Removal of the gamepad menu, because most people use the program with pixel raspbian
- Even more stable
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24.Dec.2016
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eBook: Special edition of "Commodore - The Amiga Years" for supporters
According to a user on Amigaworld, supporters of the second part of Brian Bagnall's Commodore chronicle which was financed by Kickstarter will get a chapter of the book as a special ebook edition.
The eBook has 371 pages and is about the history of the Amiga 1000, which in this special edition is explained more detailed than in the forthcoming final version of "Commodore - The Amiga Years".
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24.Dec.2016
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Jump'n Run: Easter Egg
"Easter Egg" is a Jump'n Run created with Backbone. In this game you have to collect all eggs and make your way to the exit. Easter egg offers 31 levels and a "cheat mode" for beginners. You can also gain an extra life by collecting a big gold egg.
Easter Egg requires an Amiga with 1 MB RAM and 512 KB Chip-RAM. You can play the game using a joystick or the keyboard.
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24.Dec.2016
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eMail: SimpleMail 0.43
At Christmas 2000 the first alpha version of SimpleMail was released. At each following Christmas an update has been released. In 2016 version 0.43 is under the Christmas tree, which fixes some minor bugs and uses a new version of OpenSSL:
- OpenSSL to 1.0.1u updated
- Building mail index no longer blocks user-interface
- Replaced Error window by more general Logging window
- Several bug fixes
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24.Dec.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZuneView 0.31
Yannick Erb has released version 0.31 of his picture viewer ZuneView for AROS which also provides some editing functions.
Changes:
- Icon generation feature added
- ZuneView should now work again on Linux / Windows hosted
- Selection area is limited to picture dimension (I watched my kid doing some weird stuff with ZuneView to find this bug)
- Updated (already outdated now) czech catalog
- Corrected bilinear filtering creating shift to right and down
- Improvement of some effect windows
- Added brightness, Contrast and Gamma correction
- Correction in Statistical filter (out of array access)
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23.Dec.2016
Prosac (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 3.4.0
Toni Wilen has released version 3.4.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE. Besides, the website has got a new layout.
New emulated hardware:
- Graphics adapters:
- ColorBurst
- Harlequin
- OpalVision (OpalPaint, King of Karate)
- Accelerator boards:
- Blizzard 1230 MK II and III
- IVS Vector 68030
- HD controllers:
- Blizzard 1230 MK II and III SCSI Kit
- Buddha
- Expansion Systems Dataflyer Plus
- FileCard 2000/OSSI 500
- Mainhattan A-Team
- Microbotics HardFrame
- SCRAM 500/2000
- Network adapters:
- AmigaNet
- Ariadne
- Ariadne II
- LAN Rover/EB920
- NE2000 compatible PCMCIA
- NE2000 compatible ISA (x86 bridgeboard compatible)
- X-Surf and X-Surf 100 (Partial)
- American Laser Games arcade game hardware:
- LaserDisc player (video file)
- Genlock (using video file genlock mode)
- Light gun and buttons
New features:
- RAM/RTG RAM handling updated, all size combinations are now supported
- Autoconfig board GUI list with custom sorting support
- RAM Z2/Z3 board full autoconfig data customization support
- Up to 4 Z2 and Z3 RAM boards can be enabled simultaneously
- Multiple display and sound boards can be now enabled simultaneously
- Genlock realtime custom image, video file or capture stream overlay
- Genlock mode screenshot/video alpha channel support
- Accelerator board 68000 fallback mode supported
- Game Ports panel custom mapping autofire support
- Network access on screen led
- Single step (emulate one frame + pause) input event
- MIDI and Genlock video volume control
Updates:
- Reduced input latency
- Reduced WASAPI sound mode latency
- WinPCap network mode now uses generated local MAC address, no more MAC conflicts between Windows and emulated Amiga
- If some RAM board is not JIT Direct capable, only board’s access mode changes to JIT Indirect. Global JIT Direct option is not switched off
- Most RAM size/position related JIT Direct restrictions are gone
- Environment variables in file paths (%VAR%) are now always expanded
- Implemented AGA only bitplane DMA overrun emulation (Moon Child)
- Host path 260 character limit removed (Windows 10 v1607+ only)
Bug fixes:
- Shortcuts with Shift key work again
- Custom Game Port remapping does not disappear mysteriously anymore
- Mounting file with size less than 512 bytes as a harddrive work again
- CDTV statefiles fixed
- On the fly directory/archive mounting only worked once under OS4.x
- Worms DC and ACSYS (possibly others) graphics glitch fixed
- Bad sprite collision optimization fixed (Jumpman Junior)
- Stop PPC emulation first, before freeing any emulation resources to prevent random crashes at exit
- FPS.Adj config file handling fixed
- ATAPI CD emulation odd data size fix (HDToolbox hang)
- default.uae with unplugged device: set to none, not layout A
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22.Dec.2016
amigaworld.net (ANF)
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Icaros Desktop 2.2 X-Mas with AROS port of Final Writer
From today on a pre-version of Icaros Desktop 2.2 is available, which additional to many improvements for the first time also includes a demo version of the word processing software Final Writer, meanwhile maintained by Timothy 'Terminills' Deters.
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21.Dec.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Podcast: AMIcast 19 - Interview with Hans de Ruiter
In issue 19 of his podcast AMIcast, Krzysztof Radzikowski has talked to Hans de Ruiter who writes "Amiga OS 4.x graphics drivers for R5xx and higher graphics cards."
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21.Dec.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: SDK-Browser 2.1.1.0
After the a first version a week ago, now version 2.1.1.0 of Jamie Krueger's SDK Browser for developing software under AmigaOS 4 is available. Additional to the commercial one, also a Freeware version is available.
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21.Dec.2016
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Individual Computers: ACA500plus can be ordered, delivery from January 3rd on
The ACA500plus is the successor version of the accelerator board ACA500, which was introduced three years ago, and now can be preordered under the title link. While some first customers will have their boards on Christmas, all others will not get them before January 3rd due to a high demand.
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18.Dec.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 17.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until December 17th, 2016:
netsurf-m68k.lha comm/www 8.4M 68k CSS capable web browser
Supreme-TheDemoDisk.zip demo/disk 452K 68k The Demo Disk of Supreme
MuForce.lha dev/debug 288K 68k V40 Enforcer,detect illegal R...
MuGuardianAngl.lha dev/debug 316K 68k detect accesses to non-alloca...
ThorLib.lha dev/lib 38K 68k link library w/ useful suppor...
MuScan.lha dev/misc 135K 68k Print the MMU tree layout.
character-sets.lha docs/hyper 13K IANA Charset MIB (Amiga catal...
AmigaPower.lha docs/lists 68K aMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Mag ...
MuManual.lha docs/misc 929K 68k mmu.lib: Tutorial, includes, ...
DQK_HexCodes.lha game/hint 1K Hex Offsets for Dark Queen of...
MaxKnightXmas_v2.lha game/jump 284K 68k Max Knight Xmas Edition (demo...
MaxKnightXmasHDD.lha game/jump 283K 68k Max Knight Xmas Edition (HDD ...
PyAGLaunchGC.tar.gz game/misc 22K AmigaGuide launcher generatio...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AP57Covers.lha pix/misc 352K aMiGa=PoWeR n?57 Cover Recto
LoadModule.lha util/boot 18K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
MuFastChip.lha util/boot 134K 68k Chip memory cache mode fine t...
MuFastRom.lha util/boot 134K 68k MuLib conformal ROM to RAM re...
MuFastZero.lha util/boot 151K 68k MuLib ZeroP. remapper, replac...
MuLockLib.lha util/boot 127K 68k Lock mmu.library in memory on...
MuMapRom.lha util/boot 122K 68k MuLib based ROM Replacement Hack
MuOmniSCSIPatc.lha util/boot 132K 68k Make the omniscsi.device MMUL...
MuProtectModule.lha util/boot 133K 68k MuLib ROM Modules Write Prote...
MuRedox.lha util/boot 117K 68k MuLib based math speedup for ...
MuSetCacheMode.lha util/boot 137K 68k MMU tree adjustment tool for ...
diceware-amiga.lha util/crypt 82K MOS Bitcoin & Zcash keypair g...
MMULib.lha util/libs 658K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 64K 68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 310K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 17.12.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until December 17th, 2016:
seq.lha aud/mis 100kb 4.0 Simple MIDI step sequencer
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 2Mb 4.1 ignition addon for access ods-files
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18.Dec.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 17.12.2016
The following package has been added to the AROS-Archives until December 17th, 2016:
astromenace.i386-aros.zip gam/act 58Mb OpenGl scrolling space shooter.
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16.Dec.2016
hjoerg (ANF)
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PDF Magazine: Raspberry Pi Magazine MagPi with Amiga tutorial
The latest issue of the official Raspberry Pi Magazine MagPi describes how to turn your Pi into an Amiga emulator by using the UAE4ARM distribution Amibian.
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15.Dec.2016
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 124 - preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 124 (January/February 2017) of the Amiga Future. This issue among others includes an
interview with EntwicklerX, a workshop on Frying Pan as well as a review of "Enemy 2 - Missing in Action".
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