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08.May.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Amiga Future: Issue 97 can be read online
After issue 97 (July/August 2012) of the magazine Amiga Future is sold out, the articles of the English (title link) and German version of the magazine can be read online watching image files. You also can purchase a pdf version. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


AmigaOS 4: Free Pascal updated
In 2004 Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh ported the compiler Free Pascal to MorphOS and two years later for the first time adapted it to AmigaOS 4. Based on Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's version of Free Pascal for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x he has adapted the latest version for AmigaOS 4. Completed by Marcus Sackrow the compiler now is available for all platforms.

Karoly Balogh himself does not use the version for AmigaOS 4, therefore he asks all users to try it and give feedback. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.May.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 07.05.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 7th, 2016:
SQLMan.lha               biz/dbase  8.5M  MOS SQLite database manager
HTTX.lha                 comm/www   111K  68k HTML to formatted text conver...
NetSurf-m68k.lha         comm/www   11M   68k CSS capable web browser
NitroNobel2016Src.lha    demo/intro 89K       OldSk00l Crackers Retro intro...
Time_Zone_BBS_Intro_3... demo/intro 116K  68k Legionay's BBSIntro3^Deceit/u...
BoingCube.lha            demo/misc  2.7M  OS4 Bouncing rotating boing cube ...
FredMonReplaySrc.lha     dev/asm    7K    68k Example Source: Play A FredMo...
Amiga-Trademarks.pdf     docs/misc  1.4M      List of Amiga related trademarks
umc.lha                  driver/vid 36K   68k Calculates Picasso96 screen m...
WormWars.lha             game/actio 791K  68k Advanced snake game
WormWarsMOS.lha          game/actio 684K  MOS Advanced snake game
WormWars-OS4.lha         game/actio 1.0M  OS4 Advanced snake game
robin_hood_demo.lha      game/demo  64M   MOS Robin Hood: The Legend of She...
RedEclipse1.5.3_Aros.lha game/shoot 110M  x86 A Free, Casual Arena Shooter
cetro_del_sol.adf        game/text  880K  68k Spanish text adventure
Brikabrak.lha            game/wb    34K   68k Move all same type shapes tog...
opus-tools-0.19_a68k.lha mus/edit   329K  68k Opus Audio Tools
opus-tools-0.19_aros.lha mus/edit   436K  x86 Opus Audio Tools
abcm2ps.lha              mus/misc   484K  MOS Convert music tunes from ABC ...
z.lha                    text/edit  5.2M  68k Vi(M) like editor that works ...
WarpDTPrefs.lha          util/dtype 153K  68k WarpDT preferences program V45.9
WarpTIFFdt.lha           util/dtype 517K  WOS TIFF and BigTIFF image dataty...
IconLib_46.4.lha         util/libs  641K  68k free icon.library in optimize...
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08.May.2016



OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.05.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 7th, 2016:
warptiffdt.lha           dat/ima 517kb 4.0 TIFF and BigTIFF image datatype ...
gmap.lha                 emu/mis 45Mb  4.0 Amiga Player & Maldita Castilla
wormwars.lha             gam/act 1Mb   4.0 Advanced snake game
sqlman.lha               off/dat 8Mb   4.0 SQLite database manager
strlen.lha               uti/she 3kb   4.1 Shell command to return the leng...
amiupdate_fra.lha        uti/wor 35kb  4.0 AmiUpdate French Catalog
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08.May.2016



WHDLoad: New installers until 07.05.2016
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 May 7th, 2016:
  • 2016-05-04 new: Megademo (Possessed) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
  • 2016-05-01 updated: Hybris (Discovery Software) reverted to previous install release (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


ReWarp: Reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4 in progress
Under the title link Dennis van der Boon (well-known by his SonnetAmiga project) is working on a reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4. The goal of "ReWarp" (screenshot) is to make it possible runing WarpOS-programms under PowerPC computers which are supported by the WarpOSEmu.

A supporter of the project mentioned the PowerPC cores e500, e5500 and 4x0 - that means the processors of the AmigaOne X5000 as well as of the Sam460 and of the Tabor-board. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)


FPGA: Vampire-600/Apollo update "SILVER5"
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola which also features an emulteg) graphic chip named SAGA.

The latest update of the core which currently is used in the Vampire-600 accelerator boards togehter with the included version 0.9c of the SAGA-driver allow programmable screen solutions (screenshot of the user Marios Filos with a 8-Bit solution of 1360x768 pixels).

Changelog:
  • Bugfixes (SFS, HDToolBox, VBRControl etc.)
  • Some Core speed-ups
  • In-ROM support for big partitions (>4Gb) on internal IDE
  • SD card improvements
  • Programmable screen resolutions
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.May.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Big Book of Amiga Hardware: CD³² prototype added
Two new entries have been added to the "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" concerning the Amiga CD³². Additional to the Full-Motion-Video module, which allowed the full screen mode outpit of MPEG films, under the title link you can find the "Spellbound"-prototype of this game console, which was sold by Carl Sassenrath during the AmiWest 2010. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.May.2016



AMOS games: Mink Gold, preview to Total Pattern
Mink Gold is a version of Pacman (Youtube video) which was wriiten in AMOS. The same author supported by a graphic artist and a musician also has announced the Sokoban game "Total Pattern" (Youtube video) which is supposed to be released soon. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.May.2016



Level editor for Turrican 2
Dennis Meuwissen has developed a level editor for the Amiga classic Turrican II. The programm runs under Windows and requires the files of the CDTV version of Turrican II. So far not all elements of a level can be changed. You can get further information in the readme. In a Youtube video, Meuwissen plays the first level of the game which was changed with his editor. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.May.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Free download: Dizzy Dice
The gambling game Dizzy Dice was released in 1990 and now is available for free download. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.May.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Review of tool collection "Enhancer Software"
In his blog, Epsilon introduces the software collection Enhancer Software . (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.May.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Datatype: WarpTIFF 45.9
Again after five years, Oliver Roberts has released another update of his WarpTIFF-datatypes for AmigaOS 3.x, WarpUp, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which are sold as Shareware.

Changes in version 45.9:
  • Can now load image files conforming to the BigTIFF specification
  • Added JPEG AltiVec speed optimizations for the AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS versions making decoding speed of baseline images 1.5x faster on a G4 and 1.9x faster on a PA6T, with fancy upsampling off, on average. These optimizations can be toggled off/on using the new USE_ALTIVEC setting
  • JPEG Huffman decoder in PowerPC versions is now 5-10% faster
  • Applications may now configure the datatype settings via a local variable, overriding any global user settings present in ENV:
  • Replaced usage of old Exec and Dos AmigaOS 4 functions with the new ones
  • Updated with libtiff 4.0.6, zlib 1.2.8 and jpeglib 9b
  • AmigaOS 4 version and MorphOS AltiVec code recompiled with GCC 5.2.0
  • MorphOS and WarpOS versions recompiled with VBCC 0.9d
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.5 68k (SDL-MUI-Version)
Artur Jarosik has released an update of his SDL and MUI based AmigaOS/68k port of the web browser NetSurf. This port of Netsurg is different to the one based on ReAction provided by Chris Young (review) which additional to the version for AmigaOS-4 is available as beta version 3.5 for AmigaOS 3.5.

The update of the SDL-version (video of NetSurf 3.4 under AmiKit X) provides a MUI-based preferences. Besides, it is now possible to use TrueType and non-TrueType fonts. The libraries and source codes correspond to the latest version. This time NetSurf was compiled with GCC 3.4 instead of 4.5 which provides a better 68k output.

Download: NetSurf-m68k.lha (11 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 54 (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.

The latest version among others includes articles about the games "Darius+", "Beyond Castle Wolfenstein", "Combat Lynx" and "PHM Pegasus".

Download sites:
Italian
English (snx) (Translation: dr)

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05.May.2016



Emulation: Debian 8 for FS-UAE
If you ever have been thinking about running the latest version of the Linux distribution Debian using an Amiga emulator, you can now give it a try: Today a configuration file for the emulator FS-UAE as well as a HD-image including Debian 8 have been released. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.May.2016



Sensible World of Soccer - The official world cup in Netherlands (20./21.08.)
Since 2004 all fans of the classic Sensible World of Soccer (SWOS) meet for "Sensible Days" each year, together looking back on past times and selecting the "official" SWOS world champion. According to the website "there will be two main tournaments (PC SWOS and Amiga SWOS), two side tournaments (Classic Sensi and X-Box) and hopefully a few surprises (oranges and apples anyone?).

Ifg you want to see how strong the players are, you can watch a video of the last year's PC final. The Sensible Days 2016 will take place on August 20th and 21st in Bornerbroek (Almelo), Netherlands. The maximum possible fee (entry fee, 3 overnight stays, 8 meals, unlimited snacks and beverages) would be 120 Euro, but there are different charges. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.May.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Printed magazine: Amiga Future, issue 120
Today the English and German issue 120 (May/June 2016) of the printed magazine Amiga Future have been published can be ordered directly from the magazine's editorial office or Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. This issue includes an interview with Bert Jahn (WHDLoad) and a review of Icaros Desktop 2.1 and Hollywood 6.1. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2016
Amiga Future (website)


AmigaOS 4: Arcade emulator FinalBurn Alpha 0.2.97.37 R2
FinalBurn Alpha is an arcade emulator supporting several hardware platforms, e.g. Sega Master System and MegaDrive, Colecovision, Capcom CS-1/2/3 and Neo Geo.

The update includes OpenGL, new supported games (8449 in total now), rendering effects, new SkinFX, animated GIFs in the GUI, speed improvements, bug fixes and sample support. (snx)

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02.May.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: A week in AROS (from 25.04.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.

Week of April 25th:
  • SMB file system has been updated to version 1.102 bringing Windows 7 compatibility (Kalamatee)
  • Lodepaint is now part of AROS ports repository (mazze)
  • GCC 6.1.0 is now available as cross compiler for AROS (Kalamatee)
  • Notification on changing gl.library implementation are now correctly registered (neil)
  • ZuneArc application has been updated to version 1.4b (mazze)
  • Abcm2ps has been updated to version 8.11.4 and BWBasic has been updated to version 3.0 (mazze)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2016
fs-uae.net (Webseite)


Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.13dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Beta version 2.7.13dev fixes some minor bugs. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: "Enhancer Software" updates system files and tools
In a press release A-EON has announced the availability of the software bundle "Enhancer Software". In the late 1980s Commodore did sell OS-updates for AmigaOS 1.x - obviously A-EON tries to avoid using the name "OS-update": Enhancer Software is a collection of tools, commodities, classes, datatypes and library "with the aim of enhancing the AmigaOS experience". Included are:

Drivers and file systems:
  • Warp3D Nova: pre-release, inclusive free updates
  • RadeonHD-Treiber: Adapted for Nova in version v1 or v2, depending on the desired edition
  • SmartFilesystem 2
Tools:
  • X-Dock: A new dock
  • updated version of AmiDVD
  • MultiEdit: New text editor featuring tabs
  • MultiViewer 2.2: Among others image thumbnails added
  • updated version of the partition wizard
  • TuneNet: updated version, the user-interface now supports "4.1 FE features", the new classes InfoWindow and Progressbar (s.b.) are used. Only available as part of the Enhancer Software.
  • CANDI: Different versions, depending on the desired edition
  • InfoWindow Tool
System:
  • Updated version of the notification system Ringhio: Sound and colorwheel support, individual app configuration, several bug fixes
  • Format with SFS-support
Commodities:
  • ClipViewer: A clipboard manager
  • Exchanger: A commodity and application manager which can show, hide (iconify) or quit programms, display the Workbench information requester for the particular program or which can enable and disable commodities
C-commands:
  • RequestChooser: Shows a text - e.g. a software licence - "in a scrollable window and obtain a response via standard requester buttons"
Gadgets and classes:
  • InfoWindow class
  • Optionbutton gadget class
  • PieChart gadget class
  • ProgressBar gadget class
  • SharedImage class
Datatypes:
  • SimpleHTML Datatype
"Enhancer Software" is available in two editions. The cheaper version is delivered with a limited version of CANDI (four animated Workbench backgrounds and the first generation of the RadeonHD driver). For an additional charge the full versions of CANDI as well as the latest version of the RadeonHD driver can be purchased.

According to an user the standard version can be purchased for 51.35 Euro, the "plus"-edition is available for 62.40 Euro. If you have already purchased single parts of the bundle, you will get a discount on the Appstore. In this regard the shop system still seems to have some technical problems.

Soon Amiga Enhancer is supposed to be sold in a box. A version for AmigaOS 3 also was announced. Further information are available in A-EONs new Wiki under wiki.amiga.org. As you can see there, the logo of amiga.org now is used for commercial products like the Enhancer Software. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.May.2016
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: Password manager PastePass 1.4
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS "featuring an encrypted database and the abilty to fill in username + password at the stroke of a simple shortcut." A little tool called PassTool for encrypting the password is included as well.

In version 1.4 some bugs were fixed and user defined groups added.

Download: PastePass.lha (107 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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01.May.2016



'Amiga' no longer a registered trademark in Germany
All over the world more than 60 Amga related trademarks are still registered with various local trademark offices (overview, PDF). For the vast majority of them, the owner is listed as 'Amiga Inc., New York'. But the registration of a trademark has to be renewed in regular intervalls by its owner - usually every ten years - otherwise the mark gets deleted.

Since Amiga Inc. doesn't take care of that process anymore, Amiga trademark registrations have been deleted for several years already. So far, only superfluous registrations or marks in less relevant markets like Bulgaria had been affected. But from 2016 to 2018, all relevant trademark registrations in the important markets are about to expire, and the German marks are taking the lead: The registration period for the figurative mark 'Amiga' aswell as the word marks 'Amiga' and 'Amiga OS' ended in 2015.

As the German Trademark Office (DPMA, Deutsches Marken- und Patentamt) tells us, the actual expiry of a registration is followed by a grace period of six months, during which the original owner can reregister a trademark. After that, it takes another few weeks until the status of a registration is actually changed to 'expired' in the DPMA database. In fact, the DPMA register lists the figurative mark Amiga as 'deleted' and the word mark Amiga had already been deleted some six months ago. Amiga OS on the other hand will still be considered a registered Mark for a few more months.

Despite that, 'Amiga' isn't up for grabs yet in Germany - the European Intellectual Property Office also has a registration for an 'Amiga' trademark (file number 000815779) that only expires in 2018 and is valid in all countries of the European Union. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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01.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Amicast: Interview with Toni Wilen
In the blog of the English podcast Amicast an interview with Toni Wilen has been published. He is well-known for the development of the Amiga emulator WinUAE but has also written file manager FileMaster.

In the interview he mainly talked about the WinUAE and his future plans: Adding missing expansion cards, improving the compatibility, using of several emulated graphic cards simultaneously and emulating the micro controller 4510 (CDTV-CR) which controls the communication with the front-LCD. For the emulation of the controller he asks for ROMs. For further details please have a look at the WinUAE main page. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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01.May.2016
David Brunet (ANF)


New articles on the Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of french Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
  • March/April 2016 news
  • Old articles from Tilt 60 to 66:
    • File: games and flops
    • Report: CeBIT 1989
    • Review of Space Harrier
    • Interview with Steve Bak
    • File: joysticks from 1987-1989
    • Review of Design 3D
    • Report: Winter CES 1989
    • Review of Double Dragon
    • Interview with Brian Fargo
    • Review of Operation Wolf
    • Review of Zynaps
  • Interview with Benoît Charcosset (musican known as "Maf" on the demoscene)
  • Review of Tanks Furry
  • Review of Amiga Forever 2016
  • Review of Ludexo
  • Hardware: A2386SX
  • DIY: Mute the ventilation on an AT power supply and a BlizzardPPC
  • Tutorial: How to make MorphOS like AmigaOS 4
  • Tutorial: How to get Delitracker working on X1000 under AmigaOS 4
  • Tutorial: Use of the Nordic Power
  • Programming: AMOS - the memory
  • Special quiz about Infogrames
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01.May.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 30.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 30th, 2016:
amirc_362_68000.lha      comm/irc   637K  68k 68000 version of AmIRC
NetSurf-m68k.lha         comm/www   11M   68k CSS capable web browser
OSCRetroIntro2016.lha    demo/intro 85K   68k OldSk00l Crackers Retro Intro...
Retro2016Src.lha         demo/intro 29K       ASM source for 'Retro 2016' i...
TheWallV11Src.lha        demo/mega  1K        WHDLoad slave src: Kefrens' "...
RNIOM1.lha               demo/sound 502K  68k Retro Noises In Our Minds, Is...
ADF2FMS13Src.lha         dev/asm    2K    68k Asm Source for ADF 2 FMS
C64P00-P00C64ConvSrc.lha dev/asm    3K    68k C64 - P00 ^ P00 - C64 Convert...
LP110.lha                dev/asm    3K    68k Lamer Protection
PortablE.lha             dev/e      9.7M  MOS E compiler, r6 beta (26.04.2016)
FlexCat-2.18.lha         dev/misc   1.1M  MOS Flexible catalogs (C,Asm,Ober...
VMCISDN.lha              driver/net 370K  68k VMC-ISDN Software
Oubliette.adf            game/actio 880K  68k Find the exit. Kill the dragon.
arBar.lha                game/wb    30K   68k Make some connections!
C64P00-P00C64ConvSrc.lha misc/emu   2K    68k C64 - P00 ^ P00 - C64 Convert...
GMAP.lha                 misc/emu   45M   OS4 Game Maker Amiga Player&M...
ClassicWB3.9-MWB.lha     pix/mwb    2.7M      MWB iconset replacement for C...
Calimero_3.0.lha         text/dtp   6.6M  MOS A DTP Program
NoFastMemSrc.lha         util/boot  1K        allocate all available fast RAM
BoardsLib.lha            util/libs  74K   68k provides detailed info about ...
WebPButton_1.2.lha       util/wb    8.4M  MOS A animated Button
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 30th, 2016:
c_string.lha             dev/lan 10kb  4.0 Extended string functions for C
e_string.lha             dev/lan 7kb   4.0 Extended string functions for E
portable.lha             dev/lan 10Mb  4.1 E compiler, r6 beta (26.04.2016)
olctk.lha                dev/lib 124kb 4.1 Simple AOS4 dev toolkit
flexcat.lha              dev/mis 1Mb   4.0 Flexible catalogs (C, Asm, E, AR...
tbimageviewer.lha        gra/ais 93kb  4.1 AISS image viewer based on AISSView
boingcube.lha            uti/ben 3Mb   4.0 A bouncing rotating boing cube.
st_ships.lha             uti/mis 29Mb  4.0 Database of ships in Star Trek
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01.May.2016



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 30.04.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until April 30th, 2016:
quad-stalker.i386-aros.zip   gam/mis 1Mb   Two simple 8-bit inspired clones.
lodepaint_src_svn146.tar.bz2 gra/edi 4Mb   Source code of paint application
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01.May.2016



WHDLoad: New installers until 30.04.2016
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 April 30th, 2016:
  • 2016-04-30 updated: Z-Out (Advantec/Rainbow Arts) enabled VBL interrupt during game (Info)
  • 2016-04-30 improved: Hybris (Discovery Software) smart bomb can be triggered using second joystick button (Info)
  • 2016-04-30 improved: Badlands (Tengen) added second button, quitkey on 68000 machines, re-enabled VBL interrupt (Info)
  • 2016-04-30 new: Sounddisk (Possessed) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: Calimero 3.0
According to the author Carsten Siegner, Calimero "is a powerful DTP program" and now is available in version 3.0 for MorphOS including the following changes:
  • Texture mask (screenshot)
  • Function to insert alpha channel in pictures (screenshot)
  • Import picture directories
  • Export WebP Anims with alpha channel (if selected)
  • Load gif anims (alpha !)
Download: Calimero_3.0.lha (7 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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30.Apr.2016
AlternativeTo.net (ANF)


Software directory: AlternativeTo.net supports Amiga platforms
AlternativeTo.net helps searching for software alternatives. For instance, when you switch from Windows to Linux, you can check what is a free Microsoft Word alternative for that operating system.

Since yesterday the service also lists programs for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS. The database depends on third party submissions, thus (after registration) there is a form to add further software. (snx)

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29.Apr.2016
amigaimpact.org (Webseite)


Emulators: HAPPIGA 1.2 launches ARM computer in Amiga emulation mode
Happiga is a Debian-based Linux distribution for ARM-based, credit card-sized computers like the Raspberry Pi, which directly is booting in the Amiga emulator UAE4ARM. An AGA-Amiga with 68040-processor and sufficient RAM is emulated and Picasso96 is installed. In order to enable excahnging data wth other computers, a Samba-share already is pre-configured. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Free hardware: Atari-USB Joystick-Adapter
Stefan 'Develin' Blixth has developed an adapter which connects classic joysticks with the USB-port of modern computers. The adapter does not require any additional drivers, the included firmware can be updated directly over the USB-port.

The open source V-USB is used as firmware. His PCB-layout Blixth also has made available under the GPL. The developer is going to sell assembled adapters but asks you for some patience. All those who are going to buy such a adapter, please contact Blixth via eMail. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Meta compiler: PortablE r6-04-26-2016 (beta)
Christopher Handley's meta compiler PortablE is a "recreation of the Amiga E programming language" providing many improvements. It can be used on AmigaOS4, AROS, MorphOS and Windows.

Changes since the last release:
  • Built-in procedures can now support unlimited parameters (although only some have been updated to use this ability)
  • Improved MUI & ReAction modules to use procedures with unlimited parameters (instead of immedate tag lists). So the C/C++ code generated for GUIs is now human-readable!
  • Added the NoListOptim switch, so that the code generated for Immediate Lists can be more human-readable
  • AmigaOS4: Added the 'intuition/menuclass' module, aka "AISS menus", and the example program "Examples/Amiga/OS4_ReAction/MenuClass.e"
  • When a bug exception was thrown during compilation, it could give the wrong message. Now fixed
  • Fixed a few module bugs
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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26.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.5.0
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a trivia game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Windows) in which you have to correctly answer 1700 questions on common knowledge, each with four possible answers. You can play it for yourself or together with up to five other players (four players using a joystick, the other two sharing the keyboard). A demo version including 80 questions is available for free.

In version 2.5.0 mainly some translations have been completed (German, Swedish, Portuguese) or improved (English). (snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Apr.2016
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: WebPButton 1.2
Using Carsten Siegner's programm WebPButton, you can replace pictograms on the Ambient user-interface by motifs of your own (screenshot). As the name suggests, the format is limited to pictures or animations of the WebP-format.

Download: WebPButton_1.2.lha (8 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)


Record: Panel discussion with former "Amiga Power" editors
Last Thursday the British Guardian has invited former editors of the Amiga magazine "Amiga Power" to a panel discussion (information of the organizer).

Now some photographs of the event were published which despite a fee of 11 pound sterling was well-attended. Besides, there is also an audio record of the discussion. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)


Viva Amiga Interview: The Retro Hour Podcast
The latest issue of the podcast "The Retro Hour" includes an interview with Zach Weddington who is the initiator of the crowd funded Amiga documentation Viva Amiga. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Cinnamon Writer 0.95 beta 2
Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer is a "compact and efficient word processor" which can import simple RTF and DocX files, offers a spell check and can restore lost documents.

Now the latest beta version also is available for MorphOS and fixes some bugs:
  • Window trashing should be fixed
  • Localization should now support other charsets than the generic. Please let me know if the char set of your language is not working satisfactory (but please first see if the problem is caused by limitations of the font used)
  • Import of images now works. Feel free to send me images that are not imported correctly
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: A week in AROS (from 18.04.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.

Week of April 18th:
  • SMB file system received a 64bit fix (Kalamatee)
  • ScummVm has been updated to version 1.8.0 (mazze)
  • MilkyTracker has been added to AROS ports repository (mazze)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 53 (Italian/English)
The PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.

Download sites:
Italian
English (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Apr.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


Epsilon's Amiga Blog: Multiple CDTV Upgrades
In his latest blog entry which have been always illustrated, 'Epsilon' has described the expansion of his Amiga CDTV.

In previous entries he told how a disk drive and a SCSI harddrive can be added and now he explained how Kickstart 3.1 and Extended-ROMs provided by Cloanto, a 8-MB Fast-RAM expansion, a port for joystick and mouse as well as a CF-card can be used. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Apr.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 23.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 23th, 2016:
yWeather.lha             comm/misc  361K  MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
brittmarie.lha           dev/cross  9K    68k Serial S-RECORD loader
HollywoodSP.lha          dev/misc   637K      Hollywood 6.1 spanish catalogs
Oubliette.adf            game/actio 880K  68k Find the exit. Kill the dragon.
Oubliette_src.txt        game/actio 78K       AMOS source code for Oubliette
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.0M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   4.3M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.3M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
DontBeSoShy.lha          mods/pro   146K      Don't Be So Shy by Imany
Club_des_16_map.lha      pix/back   88K       Map of 'Club des 16' camp area
WarpDTPrefs.lha          util/dtype 152K  68k WarpDT preferences program V45.8
WarpDTPrefs_deutsch.lha  util/dtype 2K        German catalog for WarpDTPrefs
WarpJPEGdt.lha           util/dtype 323K  WOS JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.13
WarpPNGdt.lha            util/dtype 180K  WOS PNG image datatype V45.20
APoke.lha                util/shell 3K    68k Poke value to a given memory ...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 23th, 2016:
warpjpegdt.lha           dat/ima 323kb 4.0 JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.13
warppngdt.lha            dat/ima 180kb 4.0 PNG image datatype V45.20
mhe-ng.lha               dev/ide 9Mb   4.0 Hollywood IDE
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
awc.lha                  gra/mis 2Mb   4.0 A web anim tool
smbfs.lha                net/sam 211kb 4.0 SMB file system client; compleme...
yt.lha                   vid/mis 2Mb   4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
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24.Apr.2016



WHDLoad: New installers until 23.04.2016
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 April 23th, 2016: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.Apr.2016



USB: RapidRoad might be destroyed by hot plugging USB devices
In a thread on a1k.org, owners of a RapidRoad USB expansion from Individual Computers report that their hardware has been destroyed by plugging an external device into one of the USB ports while the computer was turned on. This process is referred to as 'hot plugging' and is actually a central part of the USB protocol - but in some cases seems to result in a dead RapidRoad.

Jens 'Paradroid' Schönfeld from Individual Computers explains (German) that some power supply units react to a sudden increase of the load - i.e. when the users inserts a USB device - with a voltage peak that might be fatal for the RapidRoad. Due to the low amount of known cases, the vendor is currently unable to identify problematic PSU types or additonal circumstances that might worsen the problem. He generally advises users to stay away from ATX power supplies though.

According to Schönfeld, he still has a sufficient number of RapidRoad units in stock ro replace expansions that break down during the warranty period, since so far he had to replace only 13 cards. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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21.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (ANF)


Virtual maschine for Lazarus cross compiler (AmigaOS 3/AROS/MorphOS)
Using his compiled Lazarus source and cross compilers, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released a virtual maschine for the VMWare Player for AmigaOS 3, AROS (i386) and MorphOS. On Youtube, a short video explains the development of the programm for all three platforms. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Apr.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Commodore Free issue 92 published
"Commodore Free" is free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers, which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Apr.2016



Amiga Future: Issues 95 and 96 available online, preview of issue 120 (Update)
Issue 95 (March/April 2012) and 96 (Mai/June 2012) of the printmagazine Amiga Future are sold out, the German and English editions can be read online at the magazine's website.

For the forthcoming issue 120 (May/June 2016) today a preview and some extracts has been published. The new magazine will be about Icaros Desktop 2.1 und Hollywood 6.1 and will include an interview with Bert Jahn (WHDLoad).

Update: (25.04.2016, 13:45, cg)

Issue 96 has been released online aswell. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Apr.2016
a1k.org (Webseite)


FPGA Expansion: GRETA for Amiga 500
GRETA is supposed to expand an Amiga 500 by 8 MB SDRAM, an ethernet controller as well as a port for MicroSD cards and a freely usable I/O-port. It seems that the development of the board has been finished but since 2013 obviously the programming of the FPGA was not continued: Currently GRETA only offers additional memory. All other features still have to be programmed. The documentation of the projects are available on Github under the GNU General Public License. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Apr.2016



Brian Bagnall: Information on preorders of "Commodore - The Amiga Years"
In an article on amiga.org, author Brian Bagnall has pointed out that the second part of his Commodore biography which was financed by Kickstarter has delayed a lot so that his distributor recommended to cancel the original 2015 Amiga book. If you have preordered it at a dealer you will soon got informed that "Commodore - The Amiga Years" will not be published.

According to Brian "this does not mean the actual book is cancelled". It is done "because large retailers will begin to drop their preorders when a book is delayed too much (the book was originally scheduled for late 2015 and has been pushed back to summer 2016)". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


MorphOS: yWeather.sbar 1.16
Thomas Igracki's screenbar module yWeather for Ambient "shows the current weather information for a selected location." The programm gets the data from Yahoo.

Since our last news news item the latest version provides bug fixes and the temperature in Celsius now is shown with a decimal place. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AnimWebConverter 2.50
AnimWebConverter is a little Hollywood programm for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which can convert IFF-animations from Anim or Yafa format into animated GIF and PNG files. it can also change the size.

Changes in version 2.50:
  • Added new features:
    • Change the animation speed
    • Loop playing animation
  • Fixed some bugs
  • Compiled with the lastest Hollywood™ version 6.1
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


Blog article: Making a(n Amiga) game in 1993
Under the title link Krister Karlsson has described what in 1993 it meant to develop an (Amiga) game. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: A week in AROS (from 11.04.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.

Week of April 11th:
  • MinAD application is now part of AROS contrib repository (mazze)
  • It is now possible to globally disabled lto optimization (Kalamatee)
  • ffmpeg library in version 3.0.1 is now part of AROS contrib repository (Kalamatee)
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17.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Amiga Future: Issue 94 online
Today issue 94 of the Amiga Future has been published online. It is the issue from January/February 2012. You can also purchase a pdf file of the issue which has a better quality. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Apr.2016
Stephan Dörner (E-Mail)


MNT VA2000: Open source graphic card for Amiga 2000
Lukas F. Hartmann develops a FPGA-based, open source graphic card for the Amiga 2000 which almost has been finished. Under the title link the source code is available as well as a documentation of the history of he project.

If you do not want to assemble the Zorro-II card for yourself, in future you can also buy the MNT VA2000 as well as construction kits from the developer. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Aminet-Uploads until 16.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 16th, 2016:
CamView.lha              comm/net   43K   68k Cam Viewer for Lan + Internet...
EdimaxCfg.lha            comm/net   78K   68k Configure Edimax AR-7284WnB R...
netsurf.lha              comm/www   6.2M  OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
netsurf_os3.lha          comm/www   3.0M  68k Fast CSS capable web browser
BoingCube.lha            demo/misc  2.7M  OS4 Bouncing rotating boing cube ...
NoClick.lha              disk/misc  4K    MOS Multiplatform NoClick enabler
Oubliette.adf            game/actio 880K  ppc Find the exit. Kill the dragon.
MCE.lha                  game/edit  1.5M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  1.7M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  1.7M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Krystal_Kaves.lha        game/wb    35K   68k Find some coloured crystals!
Twinine.lha              game/wb    30K   68k Make some twines!
Uppo.lha                 game/wb    30K   68k Move all coloured tiles to th...
SKemoCAD3928.lha         gfx/misc   172K  68k Electro-mechanical CAD f. ind...
SkemoCAD3928_disk.adf    gfx/misc   880K  68k Electro-mechanical CAD f. ind...
FrodoV2_4.lha            misc/emu   318K  68k C64 emulator, V2.4
Ami2K16.lha              mods/xm    6.9M      New mod by Pseudaxos
ics2csv_1.3.lha          text/misc  28K   MOS Convert iCalendar files to CSV
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 16th, 2016:
mhe-ng.lha               dev/ide 9Mb   4.0 Hollywood IDE
hwplayer.lha             dev/mis 9Mb   4.0 Run applets created by Hollywood
mce.lha                  gam/uti 2Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
netsurf.lha              net/bro 6Mb   4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
amigacloudhandlers.lha   net/mis 9Mb   4.0 Dos handler for Google Drive and...
noclick.lha              uti/mis 4kb   4.0 Multiplatform NoClick enabler
st_ships.lha             uti/mis 16Mb  4.0 Database of ships in Star Trek
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17.Apr.2016



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.04.2016
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until April 16th, 2016:
gemdrop.i386-aros.zip        gam/mis 1Mb   Based on Atari 8-bit game "Gem D...
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17.Apr.2016



WHDLoad: New installers until 16.04.2016
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 April 16th, 2016:
  • 2016-04-13 improved: Global Gladiators (Virgin) fixed lockup on checkered screen (Info)
  • 2016-04-13 improved: Cool Spot (Virgin) chipmem usage lowered, fixed spurious interrupts (Info)
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16.Apr.2016



File transfers: SMB file system smbfs 1.102 (AmigaOS 3/4)
During the last months, Olaf Barthel has released several minor updates for the SMB file system smbfs. You can find a detailed list of changes in the changelog on the download site. Several minor bugs have been fixed and the compatibility to Windows Vista/7/8 improved. Connections to Windows 10 also are possible if the new protocols SMB2/SMB3 are not used. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Apr.2016



Shoot'em Up: Playable demo version of RESHOOT
Richard Löwenstein has released a first demo version of his Shoot'em Up RESHOOT which was announced in October 2015 (Youtube-Video). An AGA-compatible Amiga is required to run the game.

Direct download: RESHOOT_Patreon_Demo.lha (329 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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16.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.12dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Among others beta version 2.7.12dev adds further keyboard emulated joysticks.

You can find a detailed list of changes under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Game: AmiBoing support for Alinearis 2
In the logic game Alinearis 2 "your goal is to remove all the balls from a level". The latest version adds support for the portal AmiBoing which makes it possible to upload and share your high scores. The update is available via the support center. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Apr.2016
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: ics2csv 1.3
Carsten Siegner's ics2csv converts files from the iCalendar format to the CSV format. Additionally the data can be sorted and single dats sets can be edited or deleted.

Download: ics2csv_1.3.lha (28 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: NetSurf 3.5
Chris Young has updated his AmigaOS-4 port of the web browser NetSurf. Version 3.5 provides bug fixes and optimizations. A new beta version for AmigaOS 3.5+ will be released during the next days. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Apr.2016



Platform game: "Bonanza Bros" as free download
In 1991 the platform game Bonanza Bros was released and now can be downloaded for free from the website of the Amiga Future. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Apr.2016
Jarno Smit (E-Mail)


Crowd funding: Another A1200 case
At Indiegogo, Jarno Smit has started a crowd funding project called "AMIGA CASE". It is a case which according to the description is "based on classic Amiga 1200" and "is meant as a replacement for the old (yellowed/damaged) Amiga 1200 case": AMIGA CASE looks like a real A1200 but is slightly larger which provides more space for any expensions or a different motherboard.

The most important features of Smit's case which is officially licenced by Amiga Inc.:
  • Original Amiga logo on the case
  • Designed for classic Amiga 1200 hardware
  • Designed for the Thin Mini-ITX form factor, Raspberry PI 1B+/2/3 and Keyrah V2 keyboard adapter
  • Designed for usage with internal and external keyboards. Can function as a keyboard stand
  • Two 3,5 inch bays to build in devices of your choice. Covers for the 3,5 inch expansion bays with pre cut USB connection holes
  • Recessed air vents for Amiga 1200 accelerators and the Thin Mini-ITX motherboard
  • Adjustable placement in height of the Amiga 1200 motherboard
  • Removable and replaceable backplates
  • High quality plastics with UV stabilizer (no more yellowing)
  • High quality screw points with blind brass inserts
A single case will cost between 60 and 70 Euro. In order to to put this project into practice, during the next two months in total preorders of 90.000 Euro have to be received.

Hint of the editorial staff: Since 2015, "AMIGA CASE" is a registered trademark of Jarno Smit in Benelux. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Video: Interview with Volker Wertich (The Settlers)
Already at the end of March, under the title link Matt Chat has released a video interview with Volker Wertich, who is the programmer of the Amiga game "The Settlers". He was also involved in the games "Emerald Mine" and "Emerald Mine 3 Professional".

Two other parts of the interview are about later projects and reflections about the future development of the games industry. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Apr.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


Event: AmiWest 2016 on October 8th and 9th
This year the AmiWest will take place in Sacramento, California on October 8th and 9th in the hotel "Holiday Inn Express", 2224 Auburn Boulevard. The programming seminar already will start on Thursday October 6th. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS-Distribution: Aros Vision PAL and Aros Vision RTG 3.1
Olaf Schönweiß' has released new versions of his AROS/68k distribution "Aros Vision". The RTG version 3.1 (mainly meant for emulators) provides updated system files and you can choose between different MUI-implementations (Zune, MUI 3.8 and MUI 4 for AmigaOS) and Workbench replacements (Wanderer, Scalos, Magellan) (screenshot).

The new PAL-version is meant for slower hardware and provides less software. Because the author cannot test it on real Amigas, any feedback is welcome. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2016
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 28.03.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.

Week of March 28th:
  • Work on being able to use Clang/LLVM to compile AROS continues (Kalamatee)
  • Find tool now uses MUI requesters and supports localization (mazze)
  • It is now possible to search for content in Find tool (mazze)
  • Possible memory overrun has been fixed in unard (mazze)
  • A fix has been implemented in MUI Process class (mazze)
  • Find tool now uses background process to do the directory scanning (mazze)
  • Various catalog files have been reviewed and updated (mazze)
  • Initiated work for supporting ARM 64-bit architecture (Kalamatee)
  • Poseidon USB stack now compiles for AROS 68k (Kalamatee)
  • Crash during initialization of MUI List class has been fixed (o1i)
  • animation.datatype behavior has been updated (Kalamatee)
  • Zip and Zoom clients of xad.library have had out of bounds access fixed (Kalamatee)
Week of April 4th:
  • Work on being able to use Clang/LLVM to compile AROS continues (Kalamatee)
  • MadMatrix game is now part of AROS Contrib repository (mazze)
  • FKey commodity received a small UI update (mazze)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2016
Aros-Exec (ANF)


Compiler: Free Pascal 3.1.1 and alpha version of Lazarus for AmigaOS 3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has ported the Pascal compiler Freepascal 3.1.1 as well as the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) to AmigaOS. Using this library it is possible to develop cross-platform applications. The port for Amiga is still an alpha version but many examples can already be built wothout any problems.

Some games and tools (BinShifter, ColorIt, FPCMines and PasteQuick) which were created with LCL, Sackrow already has compiled for AmigaOS. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood 6.1 Add-ons released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 6.1. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
  • Hollywood Player 6.1 for all supported platforms (also available for your smartphone/tablet on Google Play)
  • Hollywood SDK 6.1 for developing your own plugins (includes examples and over 350 pages of documentation in various formats)
  • Hollywood 6.1 add-on for Cubic IDE (kindly provided by Michael Jurisch)
  • Hollywood 6.1 wordfile for UltraEdit
  • Hollywood 6.1 online reference manual (over 850 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
The release of these add-ons completes the Hollywood 6.1 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ for download and more information. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Apr.2016



Aminet-Uploads until 09.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 9th, 2016:
yWeather.lha             comm/misc  360K  MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
AmigaCloudHandlers.lha   comm/tcp   9.0M  MOS Amiga Cloud Handlers
wif_info.lha             dev/src    10K       Fully commented MorphOS PPC a...
Africa.lha               game/board 278K  68k Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha            game/board 325K  MOS Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha           game/board 323K  OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
comedesert-data.zip      game/shoot 2.1M  68k Did IT come from the desert? ...
tanksfurry1-2.adf        game/shoot 880K  68k Tanks Furry
Juliet_Sea_Shell.lha     pix/3dobj  6.8M      Juliet with bikini, for Micro...
cardInfo.lha             util/cli   20K   68k Get info about PCMCIA cards f...
lzmaLoader.lha           util/pack  67K   MOS Packer and loader for executa...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 9th, 2016:
mhe.lha                  dev/ide 9Mb   4.0 Hollywood IDE
drawergad.lha            dev/lib 185kb 4.0 A gadget to display directories ...
radiobuttonxgad.lha      dev/lib 83kb  4.0 Radiobutton gadget expanded
snes9x.zip               emu/gam 167Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
africa.lha               gam/boa 323kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
ftpd.lha                 net/ser 741kb 4.1 FTPdaemon v2.2 for AmigaOS 4
boingcube.lha            uti/ben 3Mb   4.0 A bouncing rotating boing cube.
prefscenter.lha          uti/wor 113kb 4.0 Launch prefs programs from a GUI
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09.Apr.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.10dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files." Beta version 2.7.10dev adds the e.g. the options "network_card" and "freezer_cartridge". And now the proper processor is set for a certain accelearot board.

You can find a detailed list of changes under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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09.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Pictures of funeral service for Dave Needle
In February Amiga developer Dave Needle died. After the burial, some well-known persons from the Amiga scene met and some Amiga exhibits lile the prototype Lorraine were presented. The blog of retro-link.com shows some pictures of the meeting. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Apr.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)


FPGA: Vampire 600/Apollo-Update "SILVER3"
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k-series of Motorola, which also provides an (emulated) graphic chip named SAGA. The latest update of the core which currently is used in the Vampire accelerator boards provides the following improvements:
  • Flag for BFTST fixed
  • Super-Scalar improvements:
    • Allow more instructions in 2nd pipe
    • More 64Bit MMX instructions added
    • PADD, PSUB, PMUL, ... (used by videoplayers like RIVA)
  • Improved RESET behaviour (AROS)
  • Improved SAGA video out (24Bit, 32Bit, YUV422)
  • Clock-cycle register added
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Apr.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


Amiga hostory: First model had number 1000
On Internet sometimes you can read the that the first Amiga did not have any model number and only as the A500 and A2000 were produced, it would have retroactively renamed to "Amiga 1000".

Under the title link by means of a picture of the original box Blake Petterson proved that already at that time it was named "Amiga 1000 Personal Computer". Additionally the name is also used in the repair manual. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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09.Apr.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)


Photographs and videos of RJ Mical's 60th anniversary party
This year, the former Amiga developer RJ Mical has become 60 years and on this occasion he hold a big party. Additional to pictures, Robert Bernardo also has released two videos: First one shows a spontaneous speech, the second one a C64 game which was written for the him. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Apr.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)


Retrospective view: How the Amiga Powered Your Cable System in the '90s
By means of the channel "Prevue Channel", in "How the Amiga Powered Your Cable System" it is descibed how Amigas were used in the American TV industry. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Apr.2016
[missing source, SourceURL exists]


CD release: Loading... Digital edition
"Loading... Digital Edition" (teaser video) is an album with 15 tracks, which Pseudaxos has created using Milkytracker on the Amiga. According to the composer, his CD is a mixture of Trip hop, Cyber Trance, Vocal Trance, Dance / Club House and Electro Rock and is available for 9,90 Euro. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Apr.2016
Retro 7-bit (ANF)


External keyboard adapter: SumCDTV
Retro 7-bit offers a CDTV version of the keyboard adapter Sum A234/CD32. The Sum adapters have an integrated USB-stack "which enables USB HID keyboards support without the need for installing additional AmigaOS software drivers."


There are no information on the website of Retro 7-bit, if the SumCDTV differs from the original Sum adapter only by the colour. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Apr.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


AROS distribution: Icaros Desktop 2.1.1
Version 2.1.1 of Paolo Besser's AROS distribution Icaros Desktop provides a better bersion of the LiveUpdater, which now installs system updates directly after booting the computer - before any application was launched. Additionally the update includes new versions of the web browser OWB and of the emulator package VICE.
  • Updated OWB to final release 1.25
  • Updated VICE ermulators to version 2.4 (n/a on Light version)
    • Fixed crashing on exit
  • Fixed HDToolBox right panel text
  • Updated LiveUpdater
    • fixed bug with user-startup being moved to RAM: without motivation
    • Updates are now performed at startup, when no program is running
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Apr.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 52 (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. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Apr.2016
AROS-Exec (Webseite)


AROS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.25
After the previous beta versions, now Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released Odyssey 1.25 for AROS/x86. This version is based on the WebKit version 187682 from July 2015 and can play HTML5-videos. The latest version 2.1 of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop is required.

If you like the web browser and if you want to support the developer, you can do that by donating money (via PayPal under deadwood@onet.pl or by supporting a bounty project under power2people).

Changes:
  • Updated to WebKit r187682 (July 2015). (AROS)
  • Ported Odyssey directly on top of WebKit repository. (Common)
  • Enable HTML5 video feature. (AROS)
  • Bookmarks management panel has been made functional (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
  • Cookies management panel has been made functional (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
  • Fixed "second download crash". (AROS)
  • Updated to ffmpeg 2.6.2. (AROS)
  • Fixed problem with Odyssey not remembering window width after closing. (AROS)
  • Fixed problem with pressing enter not being handled in search window. (AROS)
  • Added a "graceful exit" option on crash of Odyssey allowing to close the application and free memory. (AROS)
  • It is possible to disable JavaScript Just-in-Time compiler using NO_JSC_JIT tooltype. (Common)
  • WebKit codes revision is now presented in AboutBox. (Common)
  • Browser spoofing agents are updated for Firefox and Chrome. (Common)
  • Added option to disable/enable MP4 support (enabled by default). (Common)
  • Fixed crash when closing bookmarks panel (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
  • Double-clicking on bookmarks opens it in current tab. (AROS)
  • Fixed list-related code that was trashing memory. (AROS)
  • Lists (download, mime settings, history) now have a scroll bar (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
  • Fixed "division by zero" error in Quick Links handling (Common)
  • Synchronized display of checkboxes and radioboxes (Common)
  • Updated Russian and Italian catalog (Common)
  • Provided HTML documentation (Common)
  • Messages console is enabled (AROS)
  • Fixed continuous allocations of memory when browsing (Common)
  • Made memory freeing more aggressive (Common)
  • Enabled disk cache by default (Common)
  • Fixed setting proxy users/password (Common)
  • Fixed cookie handling on numerous sites (Common)
Download: owb-1.25.i386-aros.zip (41 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Aminet-Uploads until 02.04.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 2nd, 2016:
yWeather.lha             comm/misc  359K  MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
dsm.lha                  comm/net   8.3M  WOS Synology Download Manager MUI
owb-1.25.i386-aros.zip   comm/www   41M   x86 Odyssey Web Browser
SonnetLibrary.lha        driver/oth 33K   68k Mediator driver Sonnet 7200 G...
SagaMOS.lha              game/board 427K  MOS Conversion of TSR boardgame
tanksfurry1-1.adf        game/shoot 880K  ppc Tanks Furry
GuideMaker-src.lha       text/hyper 143K      Sources for GuideMaker.
ExtraVersion.lha         util/cli   7K    OS4 Finds the extra version numbe...
AmiKick.lha              util/misc  39K   ppc Check Kickstart images under ...
speak-handler.lha        util/sys   15K   68k New replacement for the C= sp...
Preferences.lha          util/wb    1.5M  OS4 Prefs window for starting OS ...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.04.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 2nd, 2016:
reactive_lib.lha         lib/mis 70kb  4.1 A custom BOOPSI system
st_ships.lha             uti/mis 21Mb  4.0 Database of ships in Star Trek
rbroadcastwol.lha        uti/she 3kb   4.1 Send out a Magic Packet to wake ...
ripconfig.lha            uti/she 4kb   4.1 Display info about Ethernet adap...
prefscenter.lha          uti/wor 229kb 4.0 Launch prefs programs from a GUI
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.04.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until April 2nd, 2016:
owb-1.25.i386-aros.zip       net/bro 41Mb  Odyssey Web Browser
dsm.i386-aros.zip            net/ser 1Mb   Synology Download Station Manage...
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03.Apr.2016



WHDLoad: New archives until 02.04.2016
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 April 2nd, 2016: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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01.Apr.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


MUI for AmigaOS: MUI 4.0-2016R1
The team of "MUI für AmigaOS" has released new versions of MUI 4.0 for AmigaOS 4 and AmigaOS 3.x. Under AmigaOS 3.x, a graphic board and a fast processor are required. Therefore it is recommended to use an emulator instead of a real Amiga.

The update provides a native reimplementation of the MUI-class GIFAnim.mcc and fixes several bugs. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Podcast: AmiCast 11 interviewed Mike Battilana (Cloanto)
In its eleventh episode, the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed Mike Battilana of Cloanto, who is now especially well known for his preservation effort Amiga Forever, but also was an active developer in the early Commodore/Amiga days. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.9dev
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD and based on WinUAE and "includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files. For the beta version 2.7.9dev the plugins have to be updated as well - you can get further information under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Mar.2016
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: yWeather.sbar 1.14
Thomas Igracki's screenbar module yWeather "shows the current weather informations for a selected location". It is used with Ambient and gets its weather data from Yahoo. The default location is Berlin/Germany which you can change in the screenbar settings. You can also change the unit of the temperature to Celsius or Fahrenheit.


Changes Version 1.12:
  • Chg: Don't eat RMB over my sbar
  • Fix: Crash if you remove the sbar while trying to download weather infos
  • Chg: add the inputhandler after first successful download
  • Chg: if downloading of weather infos failed, try again after 10 seconds,
    if it fails 5 times in a row, deactivate auto-update!
    You have to left-click on the sbar to activate it again!
    Offline will be recognized and displayed
  • New: Recognize if yahoo sends no weather data, then "Yahoo error!" will be displayed
  • Fix: don't show the all-info-bubble, if there was no successful download!
  • Chg: If the conversion of the yahoo date failed, display the original date instead the localized22 in the bubble
    Dates like this "Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:00 AM CEST" fail, because of the "12:xx AM"
  • New: New strings to localize: msgDeactivated, msgOffline, msgYahooError


Changes Version 1.13:
  • Chg: Display "Update check..." in the sbar, if you press middle mouse button
  • Chg: The required icons are now located in Sys:Data/Screenbar/yWeather/ instead of Sys:Data/yWeather/
  • New: Added a simple installation script


Changes Version 1.14:
  • Fix: Wind-speed was always 0.00 [reported by jPV, 29-Mar-16]
  • Fix: the units for wind speed, chill, visibility and pressure were missing
  • New: added a version string in the all-info-bubble
Download: yWeather.lha (357 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Mar.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Amiga Future: Download of full version of Gravity Power available
In the download section of the Amiga Future now the game Gravity Power is available which once was on the cover disk of the magazine "Amiga Power". It is a revision of Gravity Force 2 released in 1994. Additional levels you can find on Aminet. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Mar.2016
Alexander Fritsch (ANF)


Voice output: speak-handler 39.1
Alexander 'selco' Fritsch has written a new speak-handler which is a replacement for the original one available on the Workbench disks starting with version 2.1. It is a new development and not a patch.

The new speak-handler can simultaneously use (experimentally) different versions of the translator.library and of the narrator.device. (In this way it is possible to use the retro sound of the old narrator.device provided by AmigaOS 1.3 as well as the modern sound of the device provided by AmigaOS 2.0.)

Download: speak-handler.lha (16 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Mar.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)


AROS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.25 beta (version 26.03.2016)
Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz' latest update of beta version 1.25 of Odyssey allows loading Google-spreadsheet and working with other of those applications (Draw, Drive etc. - partly some of them may need spoofing). Besides, the support of WebWorker was re-enabled and the internal threading support was changed to the POSIX-threads library of AROS. The diskcache now correctly works, so you can clean your it.

Download: owb-aros-1.25-20160326.zip (41 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Mar.2016
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 21.03.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.

Week of March 21st:
  • Autodocs documentation has been updated from source code (mazze)
  • Diffutils have been updated to version 3.3 (Kalamatee)
  • pthread.library has been extended with pthread_detach and pthread_getschedparam (deadwood)
  • MUI Colorfield, Cycle and Pendisplay classes received a fix for modifying passed parameters (Kalamatee)
  • Corrupted image in About MUI class on 64-bit has been fixed (mazze)
  • Scalos is being adapted to work on 64bit (Kalamatee)
  • Chunkyimage class has been corrected to work on 64-bit (mazze)
  • FreeGadgets function of gadtools.library has been made more compabile in regards to message handling (stegerg)
  • AROS Amiga RTG driver has received threading and VMRA<->RAM swapping improvements (stegerg)
  • A crash has been fixed in MUIMine game (mazze)
  • Initial work on adding Clang/LLVM as optional cross compiler has started (Kalamatee)
  • A bug has been fixed in textengine of muimaster.library (mazze)
  • C:Info command now works correctly under 64-bit (jmcmullan)
  • Norwegian catalog has been added and German catalog has been fixed in Yahzee game (polluks)
  • Work started on GUI file searching tool integrated with Wanderer (mazze)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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