22.Jun.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: Results of user survey 2016
Under the title link Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has published the result of a survey among AROS users, who weekly use the operating system. 54 persons participated.
The results of the survey show that 20 % uses AROS more than ten hours a week, mainly for browsing, programming and multimedia. All those who "spend less time with AROS, (you) spend it mostly on OS Tinkering but also, surprisingly, on Programming!". More than 60% use a "native x86 installation of AROS, either on real or virtualized hardware."
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21.Jun.2016
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Workshop: upgrade an Amiga 'Tank' mouse with microswitches
Commodore mice - especially the famous 'Tank' model - are decades old and their switches aren't getting any better with age. Even if the mouse buttons still work, it often takes a constantly increasing amount of force to activate them or you never know if the mouse will react to your click this time. Amiga user 'Redskull' has fixed this problem by replacing the switches in his mouse with new microswitches, the following is a step by step guide showing what he had to do to upgrade is input device:
Remove the two phillips head screws near the cable end. Turn the mouse over, lift the end near the cable slightly. The top half will then slide backwards. Warning: Take care not to snap the clips at the rear of the top half.
Remove the two phillips head screws securing the PCB to the bottom half. You may find it easier to work by removing the cable - to do that, desolder the ground strap (see big red circle in next picture) and unplug the 8 pin connector.
Desolder the offending switch(es). The following pictures only show the left mouse button being replaced, but the principle is identical for the right mouse button of course.
These are the suitable PCB mount microswitches. The metal levers are not required.
If your switches have the metal lever attached, remove it by squeezing the end with a pair of needle-noze pliers.
Clip the leg furthest from the switch actuator with a pair of clippers or a side cutter.
The switch is ready to install now.
Drill two 0.7-1.0mm holes as shown. With the type of switch used here, the hole furthest from the edge of the board should be roughly inline with two existing holes, the other hole should be slightly offset. This may vary depending on the brand of switch you buy. Measure the hole distance up to match your switch.
Make two trace cuts as shown, isolating the land around the hole that you just made furthest from the board edge.
Scrape away some of the insulation around both holes.
That's what the new holes look from the top side of the board.
Insert the new microswitch into the new holes as shown.
Make sure the sitch is quite flush against the board before you solder it in. Make a link as shown by the red oval, a simple solder blob should suffice.
The actuator of the microswitch is roughly about 3mm higher than the original when installed, so the plastic stem behind the mouse button will need to be shortened to match.
Remove only so much that you can close the mouse (with screws) without activating the switch. It's better to trim in small increments and test a few times, than take too much off in one go and ruin your mouse.
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21.Jun.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Distribution: Icaros Desktop 2.1.2
Version 2.1.2 of Paolo Besser's AROS distribution Icaros Desktop (screenshot) is the first one which supports Windows 7 "shared folders" using the SMB-handler; additionally the DropBox-handler and an AmiCould client were integrated.
The AROS/68k system files including the RTG drivers were updated and the OpenStreetMap viewer Mapparium added.
Changes:
- Added DropBox cloud drive handler
- Added easy DropBox configuration to Prefs
- "Gdrive" has now been replaced by Prefs/CludDrives
- Added AmiCloud client to extras/FileSystem
- Updated SMB handler, now supporting shared folders from:
- Windows 2008 Server/R2
- Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10
- Updated AROS M68K environment
- New RTG driver with enhanced performance
- ROMs and system files updated to June 2016
- Added Mapparium to applications
- Updated SQLman in applications
- Updated IndieGO! e-shop client
- Updated FlexCat
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20.Jun.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Amiga Future: Issue 98 online
Issue 98 (September/October 2012) of the printed magazine Amiga Future is sold out, you can read the German and English edition of the magazine online.
A preview and some excerpts for the upcoming issue 121 are available as well. Topics of this issues include an interview with Matthias 'Mazze' Rustler and reviews of the USB adaptor Rys MkII and Sqrxz 4.
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20.Jun.2016
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Diagnostic tool: DiagROM 0.6
DiagROM is a diagnostic software which is meant to be burned in an EPROM by the user and replaces the regular Kickstart-ROMs of an Amiga. The software does not require any timer, IRQs or something like that and therefore can be launched on very broke computers and there can check the hardware to identify problems. DiagROM uses the serial port to export information or menus.
Currently DiagROM is available for free. Later there will be also programmed ROMs for a little fee. The source code will be released as well.
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20.Jun.2016
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Pictograms: AISS 4.21
Martin Merz has released an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS), which is a system for managing toolbar graphics under AmigaOS and alternative systems.
AISS 4.21 provides more than 8.700 graphics. Due to compatibility reasons all pictures and animations of previous versions are included as well.
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20.Jun.2016
Spidi (ANF)
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Retro 7-bit: Sum-Firmware-Update
Sum developed by Retro 7-bit is a family of USB-devices for connecting keyboards to diverse Amiga models including the CDTV (amiga-news.de reported). Due to the integrated USB-stack it "enables USB HID keyboards support without the need for installing additional AmigaOS software drivers."
Now a firmware update has been released which provides bug fixes and minor improvements. Additionally, it introduces saving LED states for Capslock, Numlock and ScrollLock keys.
Download: Sum_20160619.7z (27 KB)
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19.Jun.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 18.06.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 18th, 2016:
Legs_Intro_Colly.adz demo/disk 499K 68k Legionarys Intro Collection
cflow-mos.lha dev/c 1.3M MOS Generate a program flowgraph
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 326K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
bmp2dhr.lha gfx/conv 807K MOS Modern Graphics to Apple II G...
optipng-ppc-morphos.lha gfx/misc 161K MOS Advanced PNG optimizer
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 110K 68k ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pentagon1...
GoatTracker-morphos.lha mus/edit 1.2M MOS Official tracker-like C64 mus...
NewFilemaster.lha util/dir 610K 68k FileMaster with fixes, Filema...
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19.Jun.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 18.06.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 18th, 2016:
vsp.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.0 An easy mod, mp3, ogg and wav Vi...
snes9x.zip emu/gam 170Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
africa.lha gam/boa 326kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
mapparium.lha uti/sci 3Mb 4.0 OpenStreetMap Viewer
ffmpeg.lha vid/con 22Mb 4.0 Video and audio converter
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19.Jun.2016
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 18.06.2016
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until June 18th, 2016:
grafx2-2.4.2035.i386-aros... gra/edi 1Mb The Ultimate 256-color bitmap pa...
clockywock.i386-aros.zip uti/mis 333kb Ncurses based ASCII analog clock.
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19.Jun.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.06.2016
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 June 18th, 2016:
- 2016-06-17 updated: Curse of Ra (Rainbow Arts) fixes crash at startup (Info)
- 2016-06-15 fixed: Shadow of the Beast 3 (Psygnosis) PAL version fully supported, freezes in intro fixed, Byte writes to volume register fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixed, decruncher optimised and error check added, disk request screen disabled, intro can be skipped with CUSTOM2, disk accesses removed (Info)
- 2016-06-14 improved: Les Manley - Search For The King (Accolade) adapted for WHDLoad v17, fixed for 68000 (Info)
- 2016-06-14 updated: Faery Tale Adventure (Microillusions) reassembled with latest kickemu (Info)
- 2016-06-13 improved: Wrath of the Demon (Ready Soft) disk imaging fixed (Info)
- 2016-06-13 improved: Cruise For A Corpse / Croisi?re pour un cadavre (Delphine Software) sound fixed, division by zero fixed, supports italian version (Info)
- 2016-06-13 improved: Black Tiger (Capcom/U.S.Gold) fixed install script (Info)
- 2016-06-12 fixed: Humans / The Humans (Imagitec Design) keyboard works again (Info)
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18.Jun.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 93
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers, which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version and as C64-Diskmag.
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17.Jun.2016
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Coffee table book : "The Master of Pixel Art - Volume 1" available
Last year, "The Masters of Pixel Art" was successfully financed by crowdfunding. The coffee table book "presents a selection of the very best pixel artwork in an exclusive production." If you place your order before June 27th, you will get a discount of 10% by using the code "nicepixel".
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16.Jun.2016
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Prototype of new A1200 case, production of Amiga key caps planned
Last year Philippe Lang succeeded in financing the professional production of new A1200 cases via Kickstarter. Meanwhile a first prototype of the case was made. The blog "Indie Retro News" shows some photographs of it.
According to Indie Retro News, Lang will launch another Kickstarter project in September, which is about the production of new Amiga key caps "consisting of 101 keys with springs and 12x plastic complementary plastic holders included!" The sets will be available in different colours and compatible to all Amiga keyboards which use Mitsumi keys. The campaign will be launched on September 1st.
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16.Jun.2016
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Commodore Vegas Expo (30./31. July, Las Vegas)
In 2016, the Commodore Vegas Expo ("CommVEx") will take place for the twelfth time. The CommVEx is meant for fans of the Commodore home computer. There will be a rummage sale and some commercial distributors and software developers will also be present.
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16.Jun.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Free download: Crystal Kingdom Dizzy
The platform game Crystal Kingdom Dizzy was released in 1993 and now can be downloaded for free as ADF, IPF and WHDLoad.
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14.Jun.2016
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Crowd funding: The story of the Commodore Amiga in pixels
Nostalgia-related projects continue being very much the trend on crowd funding platforms: After The story of the Commodore 64 in pixels, the author Chris Wilkins is going to acknowledge the Amiga. The book will be published as paperback and hardcover book. Donatorrs can choose between different bonuses - among others an Amiga port of Starquake, which currently is developed by the well-known cracker Galahad and which is supposed to be delivered in a professional box with pin, poster and printed pocket guide.
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14.Jun.2016
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Browser homepage for Amiga-Fans
Under amiga-hardware.info two fans have established a homepage for Amiga enthusiasts. You can search trough diverse Amiga and retro sites and choose between different links on the foot of the website. The "Top 100 (Amiga) Links" of the authors can be opened by a click on the inconspicuous arrow at the top of the website.
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14.Jun.2016
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.26
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey).
Any kind of feedback the author would very appreciate. He still is searching for support for the French translation.
After launching TAWS, the "History (english)" of version 0.26 can be found in the folder "System/TAWS" on the Workbench.
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13.Jun.2016
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AROS: May 2016 Highlights
So far we reported about "A week in AROS" in which Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz collected information about changes of the operating system AROS. Recently only few changes could be reported therefore we will change to the monthly summaries of the same author:
"As the days finally got warmer on northern hemisphere, the activity of both users and developers of AROS reached quite low levels in May.
Krzysztof Smiechowicz made the necessary fixes to the source code and enabled again the x86_64 build of AROS, which was not available for over three months. Right now nightly build targets for all supported architectures are available.
In May first version of a new, interesting application has been made available by Marcus Sacrow. Mapparium is an OpenStreetMap client working under AROS and MorphOS. Current functionality allows for example browsing the map and searching for location.
Closing, a new survey has been launched in order to understand how AROS is used by people and how it can become even more useful. If you have not done so, please answer the survey questions in this thread."
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12.Jun.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Aminet: Separate category for Hollywood established
The software collection Aminet has established a separate category called "dev/hwood" for the cross-platform programming language Hollywood. Currntly 24 entries are listed, especially plugins.
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12.Jun.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.06.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 11th, 2016:
Void-ApplejackPack1.adf demo/disk 880K 68k "Applejack Pack #1" by Void
WeAreTheRobots.adz demo/disk 374K 68k We are the robots by Risky bu...
PD-Uebersicht.txt docs/lists 19K List of Amiga PD series, Feb ...
Africa.lha game/board 281K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 326K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
iGame_AGA_screensh-pa... game/misc 8.3M iGame WHDLOAD AGA Screenshot ...
Gringos.adz game/shoot 131K 68k Old style High Noon type duel
GPS2URL.lha gfx/conv 58K Convert JPEG GPS data to maps...
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...
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
HiFi.lha mus/misc 1K 68k Hifi low pass filter on and off
file-mos.lha util/gnu 1.2M MOS Determine file type
Tetrapack22withDocs.lha util/pack 10K 68k Tetrapack v2.2 with docs
TryItCruncher101docs.lha util/pack 10K 68k TryIt Cruncher v1.01 with doc...
AHex.lha util/shell 4K 68k Very simple Int2Hex and Hex2Int.
APeek.lha util/shell 5K 68k Peek value(s) from given memo...
APoke.lha util/shell 5K 68k Poke value to a given memory ...
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12.Jun.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.06.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 11th, 2016:
libsdl2_mixer.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.0 Mixer library for Simple DirectM...
libsdl2_gfx.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 Drawing and graphical effects ex...
libsdl2_image.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 SDL2 image file loading library
libsdl2_ttf.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.0 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2
libsmpeg2.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 SDL2 MPEG Player Library (SMPEG2)
libsdl2_net.lha dev/lib 70kb 4.0 SDL2_net portable network library
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 2Mb 4.1 An arabic console device
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
cannonball_sdl2.lha gam/dri 605kb 4.1 SDL2 version of an enhanced OutR...
nickyboum.lha gam/pla 2Mb 4.1 A cross-platform engine for the ...
fpc-icons.lha gra/ico 163kb 4.0 Free Pascal Lazarus IDE (FPC) icons
mapparium.lha uti/sci 3Mb 4.0 OpenStreetMap Viewer
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12.Jun.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 11.06.2016
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 June 11th, 2016:
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11.Jun.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 57 (talian/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 is a special edition which is mainly about games of super vintage computers like the Commodore Vic-20 ot the Oric-1.
Download site:
Italian
English
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11.Jun.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiModRadio 0.991 with rating function
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." In version 0.991 a rating function has been added (from 1 to 5). All common ratings can be looked at as well as your own ones - if it is possible, because according to the author the ratings are saved on an Amiga-Server and are connected to the IP-address.
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09.Jun.2016
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Software Development Kit 3.10 updated (June-2016-Edition)
The official Software Development Kit 3.10 for MorphOS which was released in January has been updated. The Update provides bug fixes for the compiler GCC 5, new versions of the ixemul and SSL libraries as well as revised documentations and include files.
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08.Jun.2016
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Arcade/Memory-Mix: Blocky Skies
In "Blocky Skies" you have to move your game character from the left to right side of the the screen - along a predefined route. This does not sound difficult? You can see the route only for a short while.
Blocky Skies requires a PAL-Amiga with 512 KB RAM. You can download a bootable ADF-image (packed in a LhA-archive) or the hard drive install. The game was written in assembler, the source codes as well as the C source code of all developer tools used for Blocky Skies are available on Github.
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07.Jun.2016
Roland 'Prosac' A. (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 3.3.0
Toni Wilen has released version 3.3.0 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE which mainly provides AmigaOS-4 adaptions. The developer thanks all donators who supported that. He also pointed out that "performance is not (and can't be) as fast as with m68k AmigaOS, especially with directory harddrives, due to slower, much more complex UAE to/from native code context switch trap system."
New features:
- New optional "indirect" UAE expansion trap system, fully compatible
with OS4.x, virtual memory and some debugging programs
- PC Bridgeboard disk drive raw image support. (ipf, ext adf, ...)
- Monochrome video out emulation, including A1000 color/mono video
out software control (BPLCON0 COLOR bit)
- Dark palette fix option to correct colors of badly ported Atari ST
games (Midnight Resistance etc.)
- Official CSPPC/BPPC flash updater can be used to install full ROM
image without having existing ROM image
- Custom input events can execute Amiga-side commands and scripts
- Windows clipboard to emulated Amiga keyboard paste support
- Variable refresh rate optimized vsync mode (G-Sync/FreeSync)
- Black frame injection is supported in variable refresh modes
- IVS Trumpcard Pro/GrandSlam SCSI emulation
OS4.x supported UAE expansions:
- Directory harddrives, including on the fly insertion/removal
- CDFS CD mounting
- Clipboard sharing
- uaegfx RTG
- uaehf.device hardfiles
- Virtual mouse driver/magic mouse/tablet mode
- uaenet.device
- uaeserial.device
- uaescsi.device
- uae.resource
- uaenative.library
Updates:
- Game Ports panel input customization is finally very intuitive
- On the fly input device insertion/removal improvements
- Many input device handling updates and fixes
- Faster screenshot/capture in after filtering mode
- Continuous screenshot mode
- CD³² Akiko chip low level emulation compatibility improved
- Nero .nrg CD image support
Bug fixes:
- Hardware RTG emulation rendered same frame twice in some situations causing slow performance
- Amithlon partition type (0x78/0x30) support works again
- Some storage devices failed to mount as a harddrive
- AGA subpixel scrolling glitches
- Miscellaneous custom chipset emulation fixes
- AGA mode HAM6 colors were not 100% accurate
- Some programmed custom chipset display modes crashed
- Direct3D mode DirectX9 not installed warning corrupted memory
- Fullscreen + paused + enter GUI: GUI was invisible
- Display panel gamma value calculation fixed
- CDFS automount didn't mount CDs with empty label
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05.Jun.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.06.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 4th, 2016:
nfs-handler.lha comm/net 9K 68k NFS handler using bsdsocket.l...
wif_info.lha dev/src 9K Fully commented MorphOS PPC a...
C64P00-P00C64Conv.lha misc/emu 2K 68k C642P00 P002C64 Converter (as...
UAEquit.lha misc/emu 3K 68k Wxit UAE from within the emul...
FolderSync2.lha util/cli 1.6M MOS Synchronise folders, r1 (31.0...
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05.Jun.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.06.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 4th, 2016:
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 77Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
vviewer.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 A picture Viewer
upload.lha net/ftp 29kb 4.0 File upload utility (FTP)
drawerexplorer.lha uti/fil 120kb 4.1 File manager.
mapparium.lha uti/sci 3Mb 4.0 OpenStreetMap Viewer
foldersync2.lha uti/she 2Mb 4.1 Synchronise folders, r1 (31.05.2...
preferences.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Prefs window for starting differ...
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05.Jun.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.06.2016
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 June 4th, 2016:
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04.Jun.2016
Sqrxz Homepage (ANF)
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Jump'n Run: Sqrxz 2 1.10 for AROS
Yannick Erb has updated the Retroguru game Sqrxz 2 to version 1.10. In this version "Soundcheck" has been added. Using this option you can listen to all in-game tunes without playing a single level.
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04.Jun.2016
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Amiga at the Royal Navy: WxWatch
Many fans of the Amiga know that the computer was used by the NASA. But the software provider Anticyclone now claimed that it was also used on ships of the British Royal Navy: On its website the company introduces "WxWatch", which is a "APT Weather Satellite image processing system which gave excellent results even under demanding conditions."
The Amiga is not mentioned by name, but the screenshots as well as parts of the text ("32 bit pre-emptive multitasking operating system", "ARexx scripting language") provide clear indications.
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03.Jun.2016
p-OS (Kommentar)
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OpenStreetMap viewer: Mapparium 0.2
Using Mapparium written by Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow you can watch maps of OpenStreetMap. Version 0.2 of the programm which was written with Free Pascal now is available for Amiga systems.
Changes of version 0.2:
- ADD: Show Height/Speed map of recorded tracks
- ADD: Marked position in curve mark also on the map
- ADD: Support for KML/KMZ Loading
- FIX: Optimized image keeping
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03.Jun.2016
AmigaTec (ANF)
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Event: Amiga Racer 3.3 at the Comic Convention in Phoenix, Arizona
Tomorrow version 3.3 of Michael Neitzel's clone of Lotus called "Amiga Racer" (amiga-news.de reported) will be introduced by his American copartner Kirk Shepherd at the Comic Convention in Phoenix, Arizona. About 30.000 visitors are expected.
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01.Jun.2016
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Starbreeze acquires the rights to Cinemawar (Defender of the Crown, Wings, etc.)
In a press release the Swedish Starbreeze AB has announced that the company did acquire the rights to Cinemaware's classic video game catalogue (Defender of the Crown, Wings, It came from the Desert) as well as the trade mark "Cinemaware" itself. Obviously they plan to release new versions of the games.
In a discussion on a1k.org the previous right holder explained that Starbreeze only will develop VR/IMAX-products of Cinemaware' games. He himself continues to put the games on the market. The both projects Wings Remastered for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS as well as Defender of the Crown - Extended Collectors Cut will be finished soon. Both games will be only available for payment in advance. There are some pictures of the Extended Collectors Cut of "Defender":
CDs and packing are in production. The next product which is planned is a Collectors Edition of Rocket Ranger.
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01.Jun.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 56 (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 "D-Day", "Championship Run", "Combat Lynx" and "Black Sect".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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01.Jun.2016
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Game: Preordering "Projekt: Lila" possible
Only this month the Amiga game "Projekt: Lila" (video) will be released on CD. Please read the official description of the game:
"Story:
In Projekt:Lila you play as the female Cyborgwarrior Lila, which has to fight agains a corrupt system. Once part of this system, she has been fallen into disgrace and was declared as public enemy. The reason for this are unclear to her and she wan't to learn who is behinf this and break some bones.
Gameplay:
The Game is basically a Homage at the Mega Man series but with a small twist. Lilas Exo-suite has been damaged during her initial escape from the guardians of the high order. Due to this damage she can only shoot when jumping or stay in position.. In order to repair her suite and to get informations about who is behind all this she has to collect their logic units called "eBRAIN". Every dead opponent will drop one. The handicap will cause on ore two stressing situations and maybe you destroy an oponent above a hole.. If so you may need to digg further into the level and check where it has landed : )
Graphics:
The game reessambles the 8Bit style of MegaMan (NES/Famicom) but it features also some modern elements like parallax scrolling in chasing-levels.
Sound:
The Soundtrack comes from BMR (Blue Metal Rose). They have created MOD's from their Songs as like "Listening", "Run" and "Work in Progress" , incl. Vocals.
Alle Einnahmen fließen in das nächste Spiele-Projekt namens "Oh no! More Aliens".
System requirements:
CD32, 020er Amiga or PC (AROS, Windows, Linux, OSX) or PPC-Computer (Linux, OSX, AmigaOS4, MorphOS) or an indieGO! console
CDROM-Laufwerk. 4MB RAM or more are suggested.
Every pre-ordered CDROM-Version includes also a Download-code for one operating system of your choice.
All earnings go straight into the next project "Oh no! More Aliens" which will be a hommage to Alien Breed (2D)
The CD-ROM includes different versions of the game:
- 020er/2MB (e.g. CD³²) - Version with alternative, little MOD-files
- 030er/4MB - Normal mode
- 040er/4MB - Hardcore mode (only one life, low weapon power)
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30.May.2016
Black Beard (ANF)
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amiexpress.co.uk: Download area extended
amiexpress.co.uk offers downloads and a forum for the well-known mailbox system. The download area has been extended by a lot of Amiexpress extensions - so called "doors".
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29.May.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 28.05.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 28th, 2016:
nfs-handler.lha comm/net 8K 68k NFS handler using bsdsocket.l...
floppy-youatered.zip demo/aga 202K 68k A dentro by Floppy
SCX-GradeMyWaterbear.zip demo/euro 123K 68k Grade My Waterbear by Scoopex
cncd-bingo.zip demo/intro 59K 68k Bingo by CNCD
dkd-high.lha demo/intro 63K 68k Higher State of Resolution by...
dms-griz.lha demo/intro 41K 68k Grizzlybear by Damones
nah-revolutionprt.lha demo/intro 62K 68k Revolution by Nah-Kolor
rebels-rebelina.zip demo/intro 109K 68k Rebelina by Rebels
karmelia4.adf demo/mag 880K 68k Karmelia 4 - A Polish disk ma...
eph-odd_gunnar.lha demo/misc 5.5M 68k Odd Gunnar by Ephidrena - Wil...
SCX-Frazetta.lha demo/slide 961K 68k Frazetta by Scoopex
SRename.lha util/cli 164K 68k Flexible rename application
lzip.lha util/pack 210K MOS Data (de)compressor like gzip...
lzip-1.5.lha util/pack 1.3M OS4 Data (de)compressor like gzip...
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29.May.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.05.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 28th, 2016:
vsp.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.0 An easy mod, mp3, ogg and wav Vi...
sdl2_sdk.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 for d...
scummvm.lha gam/adv 17Mb 4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip gam/adv 29Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
awc.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.0 A web anim tool
metadatalib.lha lib/mis 42kb 4.0 Read some meta data information ...
sdl2_user.lha lib/mis 2Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 for u...
lzip.lha uti/arc 1Mb 4.0 Data (de)compressor like gzip or...
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29.May.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.05.2016
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 28th, 2016:
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26.May.2016
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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PCI-Busboard: 3V-Version of Mediator 4000D
In the online shop of Elbox, from now on a 3V version of the PCI-busboard Mediator 4000D is available, which similar to the versions "PCI 1200 TX Black" and "PCI 4000 Di Black", available since December, also supports 3.3V-PCI cards.
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26.May.2016
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OpenStreetMap-Viewer: Mapparium 0.1 (MorphOS/AROS)
Using Mapparium written by Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow you can watch maps of OpenStreetMap. The programm was developed with Freepascal and currently is available for MorphOS and AROS.
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25.May.2016
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Unfinished R-Type clone: Thesius XII
In Autumn 2003 the team of Underware Design released the R-Type clone "Thesius XII" which they did not finish. According to the authors "this version is basically a 3 level edition of the game, minus the final two levels (which are no where near complete) and lots of polish" and for some time is available on their website.
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24.May.2016
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Tutorial: Raspberry Pi as PPP-server for the Amiga (Update 2)
An blog entry explains how you can use a Raspberry Pi with a cheap TTL-to-RS232-converter as a PPP server for an Amiga. The Amiga is connected to the single board computer using a regular RS 232 serial cable und is using a TCP stack - the tourial is using Miami as an example - to connect to the network.
Update: (25.05.2016, 15:20, cg)
The blog is hosted on the author's Raspbery Pi, which apparently can't handle the current amount of visitors very well. The website keeps disappearing for short periods of time.
Update: (26.05.2016, 22:15, cg)
A different Blog describes pretty much the same setup, apart from using the free AmiTCP 4.0 available from Aminet as a TCP stack on the Amiga.
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24.May.2016
Amiga.org (Forum)
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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update "Silver6"
The Apollo core is a FPGA-reimplementation of the m68k series of Motorola which also provides a separate graphic output called SAGA. Currently the accelerator boards "Vampire 600 V2" are using the core.
Already last week the latest update "Silver6" (video) was released which among others fixes a PCMCIA bug (changelog).
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24.May.2016
Constantinos Nicolakakis (ANF)
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Renaming files: SRename 3.10.0 final
Using SRename you can you can rename a lot of files. After a break of ten years, Constantinos Nicolakakis started the developement again and last year he released a first beta version of SRename 3.10. Mainly the update provides internal improvements and at least requires AmigaOS 3.0. For users of AmigaOS-4, the version for 68020 is recommended.
Download: SRename.lha (164 KB)
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24.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Book announcement: AmigaOS 4.1 Emulation (English/Polish)
Under the title link Krzysztof 'Radzik' Radzikowski, who is well-known by his podcast AmiCast, has announced the publication of his book about using an emulated AmigaOS 4.1 for August. The book will have 300 pages. Additional to the English-language issue there will be also a Polish one as well as an version for ebooks.
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23.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Workbench-Distribution: AmiKit MK2 (8.5.1) for Android devices
The Workbench distribution AmiKit now also is available for Android mobile phones and tablets providing JIT and support for touchscreens (picture). Additional to files of the operating system (AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9), at least Android 4.2 and an ARM-v7-processor are required.
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22.May.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.05.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 21st, 2016:
twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 4.5M MOS Twitter client with map view
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
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 11M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
BlitzQuake68k_150.lha game/shoot 371K 68k GLquake / GLqwcl (MiniGL/Warp...
HipBarr.lha game/wb 31K 68k Move a coloured bar to the exit
DiscFontColly1.lha text/bfont 89K Disc Font Collection 1 in var...
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.6M MOS Directory and files tool
WarpDTPrefsSP.lha util/dtype 4K WarpDTPrefs 45.9 spanish catalog
HWP_RapaGUI.lha util/libs 5.9M MOS Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo...
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 508K MOS Multipurpose utility
xfrmaster.zip util/misc 117K ppc eXternal Format Rippers maste...
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22.May.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.05.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 21st, 2016:
e_string.lha dev/lan 7kb 4.0 Extended string functions for E
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 77Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
hwp_rapagui.lha lib/hol 6Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for GUI creation
odyssey.lha net/bro 32Mb 4.1 Port of Odyssey from morphos
twittamiga.lha net/mis 5Mb 4.0 Twitter client with map view
xad_7z.lha uti/arc 240kb 4.0 XAD (UnArc) client for 7-zip arc...
evenmore.lha uti/tex 410kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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22.May.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.05.2016
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 21st, 2016:
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22.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: The Retro Hour interviewed David Pleasance (Commodore UK)
In its 20th issue, the British podcast "The Retro Hour" published by Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott interviewed David Pleasance - who was the former chief of Commodore UK. After the bankruptcy of the parent company, Commodore UK made an offer for it but was outbit by Escom.
Pleasance talked about rise and fall of Commodore and the Amiga, the plans for future of Commodore UK to that time as well as about the recently published film "From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years".
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19.May.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 12 interviewed Jim Collas (Amiga Inc.)
In its twelfth issue the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed Jim Collas, who from 1992 until 1999 worked for Gateway - in the end as CTO and Senior Vice President for the worldwide product strategy, product development and the product management. For half a year he also was president of Amiga. Today he runs a technology company for financial services, Engage Financial Technology.
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19.May.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games Coffer: Three new games added
Games-Coffer is a collection of games, applications and demos for Amiga and C64, which can be downloaded legally for free. Now three new Amiga games written by Phil Ruston have been added: Aquanaut, Giddy II and Operation Firestorm.
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19.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 55 (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 reviews about the Amiga games Black Viper, Wanderer and Flight of the Intruder.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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19.May.2016
fs-uae.net (Webseite)
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Emulator: FS-UAE 2.7.14dev
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 2.7.14dev fixes some minor bugs and some translations have been updated.
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16.May.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Virtual maschine for Lazarus crosscompiler, now with AmigaOS 4-support
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released an update of Virtual Lazarus. It is a virtual maschine, which can be used with the VMWare Player and in which Linux inluding the Freepascal crosscompilers for AmigaOS 3/4, AROS (i386) and MorphOS as well as Lazarus as RAD (Rapid Application Development) are installed.
Version 2 of the distribution for the first time supports AmigaOS 4. Additionally some minor bugs have been fixed:
- FIX: Redraw problems on AmigaOS3
- FIX: Size problems
- FIX: Mouse event crashes
- ADD: Support for AmigaOS4
- CHG: Striped image from unneeded things, reduced download size
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16.May.2016
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Arcade racing game Amiga Racer 3.1 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS)
Over the update function included in Michael Neitzel's Lotus clone "Amiga Racer", players get new features. Currently version 3.1 provides the first modules required for the multiplayer mode. Registered users also get a new Hungarian scenario, which is the 8th for Amiga Racer:
The next update is planned for May 22nd which will add the function "live weather": Then the weather conditions in the scenarios will correspond to the weather conditions in reality which means if it rains in England for real then in the corresponding scenario of the Amiga Racer game it also rains. This also applies to the time of day.
Amiga Racer is available for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS as well as for other operating systems, a version for classic Amigas also is planned.
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16.May.2016
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Driver system: OpenPCI under GPL released
The openpci.library provides an interface for drivers of PCI expansion cards which does not depend on the hardware. The PCI busboards Prometheus, GRex and Mediator as well as the emulator Amithlon are supported. With permission of the initiating author the project now was released under the GNU GPL, a corresponding repository was established at Github.
In the free version some mediator busboards of Elbox are not supported.
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16.May.2016
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: RapaGUI 1.0
Rapid Cross-Platform GUI Development On All Islands
Press release: This is the game changer you've been waiting for! Airsoft Softwair is proud to present its most ambitious Hollywood plugin yet: RapaGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit that allows the creation of native (!) GUIs for AmigaOS (MUI), Windows, Linux (GTK), and Mac OS X based systems! This is a real killer plugin and truly a world's first because RapaGUI is the first cross-platform GUI toolkit to support Amiga-based systems with MUI as well. This is surely a dream come true for many Amiga users! In fact, RapaGUI is a MUI Royale spin-off with the killer app twist. Like in MUI Royale, GUI layouts in RapaGUI are conveniently defined in XML files which are then converted into full-blown GUIs by RapaGUI on-the-fly. It just doesn't get any easier!
MUI Royale and RapaGUI are very similar in their design. Thus, porting scripts from one to another is not much of an effort. A detailed migration guide from MUI Royale to RapaGUI is included in the RapaGUI manual. Note that for Amiga-only apps MUI Royale is still the number one choice because it allows you to access almost all of MUI's features whereas RapaGUI's focus is on full portability which is why its API represents the lowest common denominator between the Amiga, Windows, Linux and Mac OS X GUI toolkits. All MUI fans will be happy to see that RapaGUI's API was heavily inspired by the MUI API so that you can now use the world-famous MUI API to write GUIs for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X as well!
RapaGUI uses an object-oriented design composed of over 40 MOAI (Magic Omnigui Architecture Interface) classes. Those MOAI classes constitute the heart of RapaGUI. All GUI elements supported by RapaGUI (windows, widgets, menu bars...) are simply objects derived from those MOAI classes. By wrapping the diverse native OS GUI APIs into platform-independent MOAI classes, those classes reduce the many faces of the different OS GUI APIs into just a single MOAI API face, carved in stone by RapaGUI!
RapaGUI supports all the widgets you need to create modern GUI applications, including multi-column listviews, treeviews, tabbed page widgets, toolbars, status bars, text editor widgets, menu bars, HTML views and much more. The highlight of RapaGUI, however, is certainly its inbuilt Hollywood MOAI class. This class allows dynamic embedding of complete Hollywood displays into GUIs which can be used to combine Hollywood's powerful multimedia functionality with RapaGUI's GUI abilities into one powerful application.
RapaGUI comes with almost 300 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that describes the GUI programming basics in detail and provides a convenient MOAI function and class reference. A step-by-step tutorial that guides you to your first RapaGUI program is also included. On top of that, almost 20 example scripts are included in the distribution archive, including advanced scripts like a complete video player which really show off the power of Hollywood and RapaGUI working together.
All this makes RapaGUI the ultimate cross-platform GUI toolkit, carefully crafted for you sailors of the seven GUI seas! Only RapaGUI allows rapid cross-platform GUI development on all islands - it is the ultimate fusion of all the different OS GUI toolkits into one MOAI face, carved in stone for eternity and beyond.
RapaGUI is the fourth plugin to bear the "Powered by Hollywood 6.0" seal of quality as it utilizes the new display adapter plugin interface introduced with Hollywood 6.0. That's why we here at Airsoft Softwair say: Life starts at 6.0. Since RapaGUI requires a few enhancements introduced in Hollywood 6.1, you need at least Hollywood 6.1 to use RapaGUI. RapaGUI is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal at the title link. Versions for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are provided. AmigaOS users please do note that although RapaGUI is still compatible with MUI 3.8, it is highly recommended to install MUI 4.0 to use all of RapaGUI's features.
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15.May.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 14.05.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 14th, 2016:
SQLManSP.lha biz/dbase 14K SQLMan spanish guide v0.4
Euroscene_1.gz demo/funet 606M 68k Euroscene 1 CD Demos, music a...
Euroscene_2.gz demo/funet 600M 68k Euroscene 2 CD Demos, music a...
BoozeIntro.adz demo/intro 50K 68k Booze Party Intro (Skitfull)
ExpPyro2.adz demo/mag 106K 68k Explosives & Pyrotechnics...
cop.lha dev/debug 162K 68k Low Level Debugger
DiskSafe.lha disk/salv 92K 68k No longer non validated disks!
Carrelage.lha game/wb 33K 68k Move a diagonal bar to the exit
FrodoSP.lha misc/emu 8K Frodo v2.4 spanish & gali...
lameA68K-3.100a2.lha mus/misc 534K 68k MP3 encoder for A68K
EvenMoreSP.lha text/show 4K EvenMore v0.90 spanish catalog
xad_7z.lha util/arc 240K OS4 XAD (UnArc) client for 7-Zip ...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 448K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 551K OS4 Multipurpose utility
PIconTools.lha util/wb 45K 68k Various GUIs for managing icons
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15.May.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.05.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 14th, 2016:
e_string.lha dev/lan 7kb 4.0 Extended string functions for E
fpc.lha dev/lan 56Mb 4.0 Free Pascal 3.1.1 including LCL ...
amigaracer.lha gam/dri 76Mb 4.1 A Lotus Turbo Challenge game alike
getpixel.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.1 Get hexadecimal colour of a pixe...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 551kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
st_ships.lha uti/mis 120Mb 4.0 Database of ships in Star Trek
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[News message: 15. May. 2016, 08:54] [Comments: 0]
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15.May.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Amiga film: "From Bedroom to Billions-The Amiga Years!" available from May 19th
Last year money was collected for another Amiga film (there is also "Viva Amiga"): "The Amiga Years", which is a sequel to the documentary report "From Bedroom to Billions" (amiga-news.de reported).
From May 19th under the title link the film will be available as stream as well as later as DVD/Blu-ray (trailer). Among others the developers of Populous, The Secret of Monkey Island, Sensible World of Soccer, Defender of the Crown, Syndicate, Alien Breed, Wings, Shadow of the Beast, Turrican II, The First Samurai, Another World and Flashback are interviewed.
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14.May.2016
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New single of Blue Metal Rose
Since yesterday a new single of Blue Metal Rose is available. For "Strange Life", Alice Schmidt is supported by Thorsten Schwesinger (vocals. Under the title link a video for this track has been released.
For its songs the Dark-Pop-Duo Blue Metal Rose also uses the Amiga programm OctaMed Soundstudio. Patrick Nevian (together with Javier Alcaniz) has developed the free game "Tales of Gorluth".
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[News message: 14. May. 2016, 06:51] [Comments: 0]
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13.May.2016
Ricardo Iglésias (E-Mail)
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USB mouse adapter: JP-Mouse
Two members of the Portuguese forum Retromania.pt, José Gonçalves and Paulo Sousa (JPRetro), have developed a space-saving low-cost adapter which can connect an USB-mouse to an Amiga or Atari ST.
Under the title link this article is introduced in Portuguese, but on the left side you can translate the website into English. The adapter supports optical mice as well as wireless ones (27 MHz). If you order an adapter, the version for Amiga is set as default. If you want to order the version for Atari, you have to specify it.
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[News message: 13. May. 2016, 14:38] [Comments: 0]
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11.May.2016
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Crowd funding: Turrican 2 - The Orchestral Album
Already in the past, Chris Hülsbeck experimented with orchestral arrangements. Now he is going to record the songs from the Amiga classic Turrican II with an orchestra. In order to be able realizing "Turrican 2: The Orchestral Album", the fans have to finance it via Kickstarter with 75.000 Euro. So far about 44.000 Euro has been donated.
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[News message: 11. May. 2016, 22:25] [Comments: 0]
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