08.Jul.2015
Scene World Staff (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast #9 with C64 and Amiga musician Dave Lowe
The ninth issue of the podcast of the C64 disk managzine "Scene World" has invited Dave 'Uncle Art' Lowe who scored several C64 and Amiga games.
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07.Jul.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 29.06.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of June 29th:
- Shell no longer passes junk arguments to scripts (neil)
- Delay in SD card device decreased (mschulz)
- Initial work on storage.resource started (Kalamatee)
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS continues (Kamalatee)
- Serial and parallel ports devices now load correctly under m68k port of AROS (jmcmullan)
- Passing flags to parallel port device has been fixed (jmcmullan)
- Sorting in NListtree MUI custom class has been fixed (deadwood)
- Listtree MUI class now correctly handling sorting and remove of nodes (deadwood)
- Work on AROS ARM native kernel continues (mschulz)
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05.Jul.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.07.2015 (Update)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 4th, 2015:
ScummVM_AGA_040.lha game/misc 4.9M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.5...
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 5.7M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.5...
PatchCompositeTags.lha gfx/misc 46K OS4 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
creatiVision.lha misc/emu 271K MOS VTech Creativision and clones
SoundBankster-1.4.lha mus/play 464K MOS Mix music in realtime
earth_view.jpg pix/back 344K Satellite view of Earth
poco_azul.jpg pix/back 562K Light entering a cavern
sunset_sky.jpg pix/back 700K Sunset Sky
RomanianDrawers.lha pix/mwb 4K RomanianDrawers: MagicWB Icons
base64enc.lha util/conv 1K Base64 encoding filter
DOpus4-Base6410.lha util/dopus 8K ARexx: encode + decode files ...
DOpus4-Intersect14.lha util/dopus 5K ARexx: intersect contents of ...
DOpus4-Subtract10.lha util/dopus 5K ARexx: subtract contents of t...
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha util/libs 4.7M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
InstallerGen.lha util/misc 165K 68k Installer script creation tool
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 451K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 481K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 548K OS4 Multipurpose utility
tz.lha util/time 1.0M 68k Time Zone Database
Update: (20:30, 05.07.15, snx)
Due to a change on the Aminet website, the list of files in this news-item had been too short initially; the missing entries have been added now. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jul.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.07.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until July 4th, 2015:
tsmc_demo.lha gam/adv 37Mb 4.0 Old-style graphic adventure
amicraft.lha gam/mis 983kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
awc.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.0 A web anim tool
patchcompositetags.lha gra/mis 46kb 4.0 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
hwp_muiroyale.lha lib/hol 5Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
artbase.lha off/dat 54Mb 4.0 Create tables and databases
diceware.lha uti/mis 18kb 4.0 Bitcoin address generator.
reportplus.lha uti/mis 548kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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05.Jul.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 04.07.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until July 4th, 2015:
UniScrobbler 1.3 mul/pla 41 A Lua script to send Last.f...
ACE 1.10 uti/emu 1326 Amstrad CPC family computer...
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05.Jul.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 04.07.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until July 4th, 2015:
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05.Jul.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AnimWebConverter 1.0
AnimWebConverter is a little Hollywood programm for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which can convert IFF-animations (Anim or Yafa format) into animated GIF and PNG files. It is also possible to resize them.
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03.Jul.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 115
The English and German issue 115 (July/August 2015) of the printed magazine Amiga Future has been published and can be ordered directly from the magazine's editorial office or Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Reviews of Wings Battlefield and "Commodore Amiga: A Visual Commpendium" as well as an interview with Paul Gardner-Stephen (MEGA65) are included.
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03.Jul.2015
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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Computer Collection Vienna: Videos of CDTV-CR
On the YouTube channel of the "Computer Collection Vienna" new videos of the rather unknown and seldom (less than ten pieces out of 64 are still preserved) CDTV-CR (S/N #55) are available.
Further information, pictures and videos as well as a documentation of the system will be added as soon as possible. Additional to many changes, the display was explicitly improved. The system only contains the used custom-ICs "BEAUTY" and "GRACE" as well as CD-interface similar to the CD³² (with Sony-KSS-210A-Laser).
PCMCIA-boards do not fit into the slot. The Boot ROM has v3.3 (the CDTV has v1.0 and just like the A570 v2.30). According to the developers it is said: 'The ROMs are definitely different! Some of the differences are the 4510 code for the front panel buttons and displays, and the CD controllers are all completely different as well as the 68000 code to interface to the 4510 subsystem.'"
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02.Jul.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Tables presentation: ArtBase 1.0 (for all Amiga systems)
ArtBase developed with Hollywood and MUI Royale, "transform your "dry" tables into an audiovisual experience." Mainly it is meant for collectors which manage their games lists with a spreadsheet or database. ArtBase imports those lists in CSV-format and does edit them. There are several templates for the design.
Ports of ArtBase for all Amiga systems are available. The use of the 68k-version it is only recommended together with powerful emulators.
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02.Jul.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Web-application: Amiga PCB Explorer
The "Amiga PCB Explorer" written by Christian "Scrat" Euler is supposed to support do-it-yourselfer repairing Amiga mainboards. Among others with this tool you are able to:
- Look up signal paths where physical traces have been damaged by battery acid or capacitor leakage
- Find out which components are connected to the same signal net
- Get a quick overview on chip pinouts
- Locate any part on the PCB
- Navigate around the PCB and marvel at its beauty
The author wrote: "Right now, the only available mainboard is the A4000 Desktop PCB (Rev B). Support for more boards may be added later."
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01.Jul.2015
Amiga Spiele News (Webseite)
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Commercial "Dizzy"-clone in progress: Dylan The Spaceman
Chris Clarke (amigapd.com) is developing a Dizzy-clone named Dylen The Spaceman, which is created with the Reality Game Engine and is supposed to be released in summer.
On his Facebook website the author informs about the latest news. At the moment the game is to sold on CD.
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01.Jul.2015
Amiga Spiele News (Webseite)
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Shoot'em Up: Demo version of "Kingdoms of Steam"
Kingdoms of Steam is a Shoot'em Up game developed with the Reality Game Engine, which is inspired by the Megadrive game Steel Empire.
A "shop", in which you can trade your collected bonuses for additional weapons is started with the Space-key.
Download: KofSDemo2Levels.zip (434 KB)
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01.Jul.2015
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
During the last two months, several new articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. Translations into other languages are very welcome. If you are interested then please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- May/June 2015 news.
- Old articles from Amiga News 72 to 74: Review of Brilliance 2.0, News: Amiga's Future from David Pleasance, Hardware: Kit ROM 3.1, Hardware: Retina BLT/Z3, Hardware: SX-1, Review of Video Creator, Review of LightWave 3D 3.5, Review of Maple V, Report: Computer '94, etc.
- Interview with Daniel Müßener and Markus Kunkel (Cherry Darling).
- Interview with Colin Proudfoot (Commodore UK) and Bernard Van Tienen (Escom).
- Review of AEROS 3.5.
- Review of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition (Classic version).
- Review of MorphOS 3.8/3.9.
- Review of Swamp Defense 2.
- Review of King's Quest 6.
- Report: Amiga, the king of interactive multimedia presentations.
- Programming: Assembleur (remake of Mortal Kombat in AGA).
- Tutorial: utilisation of the AmigaOS 4.1 dockies.
- Tutorial: cracking of Bio Challenge.
- Tutorial: installation of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on Classic Amiga.
- Tutorial: installation of MorphOS (update).
- Book: Éric Chahi - Parcours D'un Créateur De Jeux Vidéo Français.
- Special quizz about the Amiga 600.
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01.Jul.2015
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Amiga Reloaded: Information about planned Amiga-clone
On the "Amiga: 30 Years", Jens Schönfeld had announced that he is developing a Amiga-motherboard named "Amiga Reloaded". Meanwhile some more information are available in the Wiki of Individual Computers. We have summarized the essentials:
- first prototype in Q1/2016
- The target price of the main board with AGA chips is under 200,- EUR
- keyboard case will be a A500 case, second target will be the A1200 case
- Amiga Reloaded is an AGA Amiga using the original chips Alice, Lisa and Paula, along with two CIA chips, equipped with 2MByte Chipram
- The Amiga Reloaded will not have any CPU but has an A1200-compatible CPU slot; assurance that ACA12xx cards work (except for the old ACA1230 type), and we'll also do our best to make the popular Blizzard cards work. However, there will be no product support for operation with non-iComp branded CPU cards.
- only one monitor output as standard: A black&white composite output for monitors that are compatible with PAL and/or NTSC video timing; one out of two choices for colour output has to be installed: 15kHz RGB output board or Flickerfixer output board
- Two CF-card slots will be available as mass storage
- Network and USB can be added by extensions of Individual Computers (RapidRoad USB or ACA500-compatible network-module), a PCMCIA-port is not available
- Other ports: Audio (3.5mm stereo jack), floppy disk (compatible with PC and Amiga disk drives), keyboard (Amiga 500 or 1200, selecting with a jumper), parallel, serial, Mouse/Joystick.
- using a modern laptop power supply
After finishing the development, "binding orders" are supposed to to find out the actual demand of the Amiga Reloaded. The money has to be payed before mass-production has started. "The boards will be delivered about 18-20 weeks after the initial order phase."
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30.Jun.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Videos of presentations of "Amiga: 30 Years" in Amsterdam
The team of the "BoingsWord"-podcast has published records of most of the presentations of the "Amiga: 30 Years". Only the speech of Micheal Battilana still is not available:
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30.Jun.2015
muidev.de (ANF)
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MUI for AmigaOS: MUI4.0-2015R2
The team of "MUI für AmigaOS" has released new versions of MUI 4.0 for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4. Additional to bug fixes and tweaks, the MUI-class Hyperlink.mcc has been added. The detailed list of changes are included in the archives.
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29.Jun.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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English PDF-magazine: REV'n'GE 35
The PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") that compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
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29.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 22.06.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of June 22nd:
- Adding a Menuitem MUI object directly to Menustrip now works as in MUI (deadwood)
- Listtree MUI class now correctly notifies about double-click and quiet state (deadwood)
- Memory is now freed in Listtree MUI class at object destruction (deadwood)
- List MUI class no longer crashes when someone tries to create an image without passing the actual image object (deadwood)
- Listtree MUI class no longer crashes when someone tries to delete an non-existing image (deadwood)
- Work on making hostgl.library work again started (Kalamatee)
- HDAudio driver now works correctly on HP Compaq nc6320 laptop (neil)
- Static switching between speakers and headphones at start-up in HDAudio driver has been removed in favor of dynamic switching (neil)
- Output volume control for multiple nodes has been improved in HDAudio driver (neil)
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS ARM kernel continue (mschulz)
- PCI subsystem now correctly handles situation when an interrupt line assignment to a device has been changed (neil)
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28.Jun.2015
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Pictures and reports of "Amiga: 30 Years" in Amsterdam
Some pictures and reports have been published of the "Amiga: 30 Years" party in Amsterdam.
The organizers have published some pictures on Facebook. Some additional videos are available as well:
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28.Jun.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: GUI-Toolkit MUI Royale 1.3
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the immediate availability of MUI Royale 1.3. This update contains bug fixes and supports more MUI 4.0 features. Please note that MUI 4.0 is now also available for AmigaOS 3, so there is no reason to keep on using the old MUI 3.8 from 1997.
Starting with MUI Royale 1.3, the *.hwc and *.hwp files have been merged so that MUI Royale is just a single binary now. Furthermore, users of Hollywood 6.0 will be happy to see that the installer makes all MUI Royale examples available in the Hollywood GUI now automatically.
MUI Royale requires at least Hollywood 5.2 and is provided free of charge for all users of Hollywood. It is available for AmigaOS 3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC), and AROS (i386).
The package comes with over 20 example scripts, many of which are direct ports from the MUI 3.8 SDK by Stefan Stuntz, but there are also original developments like demonstrations of how to create a video player using the combined power of Hollywood and MUI.
On top of that MUI Royale comes with extensive documentation in over 300 PDF pages which are also available in the HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM formats thanks to the Hollywood documentation system.
All this makes MUI Royale the truly royal MUI experience, carefully crafted for you Kings and Queens of MUI!
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28.Jun.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 27th, 2015:
SMBMounter-ITA.lha comm/net 6K Italian Catalog for SMBMounte...
jrm-a30y.lha demo/sound 269K 68k dA JoRMaS: Poing (Amiga 30 Ye...
cc65-morphos.lha dev/cross 11M MOS ANSI C 6502 cross development...
WinUAEDemoToolchain5.zip dev/cross 26M ppc WinUAE-based code/music creat...
GloomMapInfo.lha game/edit 3K Gloom maps parser
MCE.lha game/edit 1.4M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Moonbases_RUS.lha game/patch 463K 68k Moonbases Russian Update Kit
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 10M 68k Implementation of Tunnels &am...
WBTicTacToe.lha game/wb 100K 68k WB Tic-Tac-Toe game, up to 4 ...
Ezekiel.lha gfx/misc 2.3M 68k A Trochoid Explorer and Designer
LoViewAROS.lha gfx/show 4.5M x86 LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewMOS.lha gfx/show 4.2M MOS LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewOS3.lha gfx/show 3.8M 68k LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewOS4.lha gfx/show 5.1M OS4 LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
LoViewWOS.lha gfx/show 4.9M WOS LoView - the Easy Viewer and ...
anespro.lha misc/emu 100K 68k A/NES PRO - NES/FAMICOM emulator
TeXLive2012-MorphOS.t... text/tex 1587M MOS A 2013 port of Tex Live 2012
fblit_source.zip util/boot 341K ASM/Blitz sources for fblit
DOpus4-Version12.lha util/dopus 4K 68k ARexx script: get file versio...
Crabum_SP.lha util/misc 1K MOS Spanish catalog for Crabum
April_SP.lha util/time 1K Spanish Catalog for April
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28.Jun.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 27th, 2015:
bellaguesthouse.lha gam/boa 42Mb 4.0 Adventure XXX Game
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
loview.lha gra/vie 5Mb 4.0 The Easy Viewer & Thumber :)
assist.lha uti/mis 6Mb 4.1 A knowledge base for AmigaOS users
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28.Jun.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until June 27th, 2015:
timeless.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 472kb Sdl port of Tran's timeless MsDo...
ezekiel.i386-aros.lha gra 2Mb A Trochoid (Spirograph(TM)) Expl...
loview.i386-aros.lha gra/vie 4Mb the Easy Viewer and Thumber :)
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28.Jun.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 27.06.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until June 27th, 2015:
AskMeUp Demo 2.3.0 gam/thi 18950 A demo version of a "trivia...
wmf2x 1.0 gra/con 679 Converts Windows MetaFile (...
SoundBankster 1.4 mus/pla 464 Software diskjockey double ...
ACE 1.10 uti/emu 1326 Amstrad CPC family computer...
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28.Jun.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FPGA: Minimig-AGA-Core 1.0 for MiST-board
For the Atari-/Amiga clone MiST (amiga-news.de reported) the FPGA-reimplementation of the Amiga with AGA-support is available as version 1.0. It is now possible to play Slam Tilt.
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28.Jun.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: ZuneView 0.19
For AROS Yannick Erb has released version 0.19 of his picture viewer ZuneView.
Changes:
- Reworked nearest, bilinear and bicubic filters to remove artefacts at bottom and right borders
- Increased processing speed for some functions
- Added button bar for most used functions
- Added artistic filters (oil paint, edge detect, cartoon)
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27.Jun.2015
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Amiga 30 Years: announcements from A-EON, Individual Computers and Hyperion
Due to the unreliable live video feed, it is complicated to find proper sources for various announcements made at "Amiga: 30 Years" that took place today in Amsterdam. According to short reports from various visitors, the following statements have been made at the show (note that none of them has been confirmed by an official source yet):
There will be no X3500, only the X5000 will go on sale
Trevor Dickinson is said to have revealed that the cheapest version of the next AmigaOne generation will not hit the market: The price of the P3041 quadcore based X3500 would have been too close to the other, P5020/P5040 based dualcore and quadcore models.
Amiga 500 accelerator at 130 Euro, new A1200 expansions
Jens Schönfeld allegedly announced a new Amiga 500 accelerator with integrated RAM, which will cost around 130 Euros. A new A1200 expansion is said to be available in two versions: One with a 680EC20 CPU (24 bit address bus) clocked at 28 Mhz, and one with a regular 68020 CPU at 16 Mhz. At least one of the A1200 expansions will also feature a connector for an USB controller.
Amiga Reloaded
In line with his C64 Reloaded - an unpopulated, newly manufactured C64 motherboard - Jens Schönfeld is allegedly working on a "Amiga Reloaded". Several people report he kept pointing out he has a a large stock of AGA chips, so there is speculation that these new motherboards would actually be (partly) populated.
Gorky 17
Hyperion was showing Gorky 17 at their booth. A visitor reports that only hardware acceleration needs to be added before the title can get released. (cg)
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25.Jun.2015
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Patch: Source codes of FBlit released
The patch FBlit forces several operating system routines to use the blitter instead of the processor which can increase the processing speed. It was updated for the last time in 2006. Now the author has released the Assembler-sources under the MIT-licence.
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24.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Presentation of "Viva Amiga" at US Amiga 30th anniversary event
According to the organizers under the title link, at the US Amiga 30th anniversary event the world's first public screening of the "Viva Amiga" which is in progress for five years will be presented.
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24.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: CYMTV streams "Amiga: 30 Years" from Amsterdam
On next weekend the anniversary event "Amiga: 30 Years" in Amsterdam will take place. According to the Dutch sponsor CYMTV under the title link, the entire event will be streamed. You can only watch it using an Android App.
CYMTV is a company with connections to the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported) which spesialized in broadcasting videos via the Internet. Executive Director is Ron van Herk (Computer City, AHT Europe).
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23.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 88
"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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22.Jun.2015
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Graphics collection: Amiga Graphics Archive
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is a website which "is dedicated to graphics made with or for the Commodore Amiga home computer." The archive can be search using categories like colors, mode or year.
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22.Jun.2015
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 115 - Preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 115 (July/August 2015) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are a review to Wings Battlefield and "Commodore Amiga: A Visual Commpendium" as well as an interview with Paul Gardner-Stephen (MEGA65).
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21.Jun.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.06.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 20th, 2015:
FritzCfg.lha comm/net 77K 68k Configure the Fritzbox (7330)...
BBoAH-Magazin_1.pdf docs/mags 2.9M Old German PDF magazine (Marc...
SoundBankster_SP.lha mus/misc 5K SoundBankster 1.4 Spanish cat...
Calimero_beta_0.15.lha text/dtp 8.8M MOS A DTP Program
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 19K OS4 Decompiles catalogs back into...
DOpus4-Version10.lha util/dopus 4K ARexx script: get file versio...
tz.lha util/time 563K 68k Time Zone Database
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.06.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 20th, 2015:
aisshelper.lha dev/uti 2Mb 4.1 An advanced browser for AISS icons
dirmeup_demo.lha uti/fil 975kb 4.1 Amiga Files Explorer
assist.lha uti/mis 6Mb 4.1 A knowledge base for AmigaOS users
ctlg2ct.lha uti/tex 38kb 4.0 Decompiles catalogs back into .c...
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
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21.Jun.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 20.06.2015
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until June 20th, 2015:
sha.i386-aros.lha uti/fil 105kb File hashing utility
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21.Jun.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 20.06.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until June 20th, 2015:
MorphOS SDK 2015-06 dev/too 35298 Official MorphOS Software D...
gTranslator 3.3 uti/des 224 A screenbar module for lang...
Räuber & Beute 1.2.1 uti/sci 1308 Scientific simulator of pre...
PastePass 1.0 uti/tex 90 A simple password manager w...
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21.Jun.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 20.06.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until June 20th, 2015:
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19.Jun.2015
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS 3.9 and MorphOS SDK 3.9 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.9, which is primarily a stability and security update, and MorphOS SDK 3.9, which features updated system includes, OpenSSL, ixemul (50.10) and an integrated Scintilla documentation file. For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.9, please read our release notes.
We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.9 is available for download in our files section.
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18.Jun.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Point'n Click Adventure: The Secret of Middle City finished, new demo
After 15 years, GDG Entertainment's Point'n Click Adventure "The Secret of Middle City" has been finished. The programmer guesses that about 2000 working hours were spent for graphics, programming and tests. "The final version of the game has been handed over to the distributors
for the post-production phase."
Today a new demo version was released which demonstrates the lates and final version of the game engine. "The demo sports improved visuals, reworked dialogs, new background animations
and new enviromental sound effects. TSMC demo is currently available for AmigaOS4, MorphOS, Windows and MacOS X (both i386 and PowerPC) versions."
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17.Jun.2015
Amiga Spiele News (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Quake II with HD-textures
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel has ported a version of the Quake II-engine to AmigaOS 4 which features HD-textures (video). A 3D card with Warp3D support is required.
For old Radeon models (9000, 9200, 9250, R9 etc.), VSYNC should be disabled in the video options. On slow computers the author recommends a solution of 640x480.
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17.Jun.2015
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Text adventure: Star Wars - Escape from Mos Eisley
The English text and graphic adventure "Star Wars - Escape from Mos Eisley" was written in AMOS and is the first game of the developer. 1 MB Chip-RAM as well as some additional RAM are required. The game was developed and tested on a computer with 2 MB Chip-RAM, 8 MB Fast-RAM and a 68030-processor. The author recommends to "use 'help' command if you're lost."
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17.Jun.2015
Pegasosforum (Forum)
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MorphOS: SoundBankster 1.4
Antoine 'tchecko' Dubourg's SoundBankster (screenshot) is an application for DJs which can be completely controled with an USB-DJ-deck. A computer with at least 512 MB RAM is resommended.
The programm was written for MorphOS and uses e.g. the HID-Sensor-API which was introduced with version 3.6. Reggae (loading and playing music), AHI and TinyGL (rendering the graphics of the audio signals) are used as well.
Changes:
- Made the beat detection feature working. It seems the 1.3 release is
totally broken here
- Added right mouse button handling when dragging track
- Added some triangle to current position vertical bar to make it more
visible
- Added a marker to see the Cue point in the waveform navigator
- Fixed the Sync function. A missing notification made the whole stuff
not working straight as it should. Sync was working only if the track
had been previously processed and BPM/Cue point saved
- Added some helper for finding the track BPM. x2, /2, +1, -1 BPM and a
rounding function to the closed integer
- Added 1/32 and 1/16 loop size
- Optimized the display of the remaining time by only updating the
display when time changes. Saved 1% CPU from main SoundBankster task
- Fixed beat detector feedback on UI that wasn't working at all
- Fixed display issue for beat bars not being displayed when moving
the cue point with cue left/right buttons
- Cue point can't be negative. Cue point position capped >= 0
- Removed some mostly useless text fields in deck controller (loading
time, track tempo, pitch %, computed tempo) by a single 'Playing Tempo'
field which displays 'Track tempo * pitch value' ie. Track tempo is 120,
pitch is set to 5%, Playing Tempo will be 120 * 1.05 = 126 BPM
- Reworked the time left to play text area. Updates when seeking in the
track
Download: SoundBankster.lha (464 KB)
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16.Jun.2015
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Book: Brian Bagnall's "Commodore: The Amiga Years" at Kickstarter
Within 24 hours, after the Kickstarter campaign for the second part of Brian Bagnall's book "Commodore: The Amiga Years" was started, the financing target has been achieved: 15.000 Canadian Dollar were required, 25.000 have been donated so far. The book is supposed to be published in December.
For 22 or 40 Canadian Dollar a digital (in a desired format, DRM-free) or printed version of the book can be preordered. Besides, some additional packages are available, e.g. the so far unpublished ebook "Commodore: The Early Years" which is about the years 1954 till 1974.
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16.Jun.2015
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DeliCate Linux: New distribution for Amigas in progress
DeLicate is a Linux distribution which is meant for old computers with very little RAM and low processor performance. At least an i386 or 68020 processor (FPU and MMU are required) is required but a 586 with 233 Mhz or a 68060 with 60 Mhz are recommended. If you want to use a graphical user-interface, your computer should have more than 16 MB RAM (68 MB are recommended).
According to the maintainer in its forum, currently the m68k-port is developed running under ARAnyM emulator. The aim is to port the distribution which is based on the Linux-kernel 2.4 and uClibc to Atari and Amiga computers.
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16.Jun.2015
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Amiga 2000 controls air conditioning in 19 schools
For 30 years, a Commodore Amiga controls the heat and air conditioning at 19 Grand Rapids Public Schools in Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA).
Under the title link there is TV-report about it.
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16.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir attending US Amiga 30th anniversary
Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir will attend the US Amiga 30th anniversary. The two former developers of the custom chips will tell about the work with Jay Miner (Amiga-Patent from 19. July 1985).
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15.Jun.2015
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 08.06.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of June 8th:
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS ARM kernel continue (mschulz)
- fat-handler has been updated to work as ROMable module (jmcmullan)
- MUI Listtree custom class now has more functionality and compatibility (deadwood)
- fat-handler no longer leaks memory in case one of the blocks can't be read (neil)
- Renaming disks is further improved in fat-handler (neil)
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15.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 2.50
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays has released an update of his commercial file manager "Dir Me Up".
Changes:
- Window resizing improved to avoid multiple refreshes
- View by icons:
- The preview image doesn't flicker any longer
- Display speed improved
- Image Viewer:
- Window resizing improved to avoid multiple refreshes
- If only one image is selected, the checkbox "Show only selected files" is automatically unchecked
- Automatic cropping if window is "out" of the screen
- Swedish Translation completed
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15.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology: DvPlayer acquired / MultiViewerNG available
A year after becoming the sole distributor of the video and audio player DvPlayer, A-EON Technology now acquired the rights from its developer Stephen Fellner (Press release, PDF-file).
Additionally, the announced MultiViewerNG now is available for 8,40 Euro plus VAT and fees on AmiStore. The version for AmigaOS 3.x still is in development.
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14.Jun.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: AISS Helper 1.1
A week ago, version 4.19 of the "Amiga Image Storage Systems" was released. Now the AISS Helper was updated as well. With the help of the programm thousands of pictogramms created by Martin Merz can be viewed and browsed through.
Download: aisshelper.lha (2 MB)
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14.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Music: Amiga-Remix-CD "Insert Disk 2"
On June 20th, "Insert Disk 2" will be released which is another album featuring Amiga remixes, e.g. Lotus, Turrican and Pinball Dreams. You can find the complete list under the title link.
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14.Jun.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.06.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 13th, 2015:
SMBMounter.lha comm/net 261K 68k SMBFS Frontend GUI / Commodity
toram.i386-aros.lha comm/tcp 1.1M x86 Remote GUI for Transmission
toram-morphos.lha comm/tcp 1.4M MOS Remote GUI for Transmission
toram-os4.lha comm/tcp 1.7M OS4 Remote GUI for Transmission
NetSurf-m68k.lha comm/www 10M 68k CSS capable web browser
Xenopew.adf game/shoot 880K 68k Xenopew Shoot-em-up (Bootable...
XenopewHDD.lha game/shoot 350K 68k Xenopew Shoot-em-up (HD Install)
sha.i386-aros.lha util/crypt 105K x86 File hashing utility
sha.lha util/crypt 474K 68k File hashing utility
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.6M MOS Directory and files tool
HWP_GLGalore.lha util/libs 3.0M MOS Allows OpenGL scripting with ...
chronovox.lha util/wb 9.3M OS4 A voice clock utility for wor...
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14.Jun.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.06.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 13th, 2015:
dcraw.lha gra/con 3Mb 4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files
hwp_glgalore.lha lib/hol 3Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for OpenGL
smbmounter.lha net/sam 261kb 4.0 SMBFS Frontend GUI / Commodity
assist.lha uti/mis 6Mb 4.1 A knowledge base for AmigaOS users
evenmore.lha uti/tex 502kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
chronovox.lha uti/wor 9Mb 4.1 A voice clock utility for workbench
videoclipper.lha vid/edi 312kb 4.0 Cut and/or join multiple format ...
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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14.Jun.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 13.06.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until June 13th, 2015:
metadiary.i386-aros.zip off/mis 221kb Color-coded activity log.
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13.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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SMBMounter 1.4
Robert Cranley's SMBMounter is a commodity with well arranged user-interface for connecting, disconnecting and configuring network drives for AmigaOS 3.x, which also works under AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS.
In version 1.4 a MUI-user-interface was added, for FTP-entries FTPMount can be used and many languages have been added (among others German, Danish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Spanish and Czech).
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13.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.5.32dev (Update)
Frode Solheim's FS-UAE for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD is 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." Since the last stable version released in March (2.4.1), so far only developer versions have been released - excepted a bug fix version for Linux.
A list of changes in version 2.5.31dev you can find under the title link. Please note that this includes a "temporarily disabled serial port emulation (need code update)".
Update: (09:21, 14.06.15, snx)
Meanwhile version 2.5.32dev is available. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Compiler: vbcc 0.9d, patch 1
vbcc is a C-compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga-specific adaptions). The compiler supports AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, PowerUp and WarpOS and meets ISO-C (ISO/IEC 9899:1989) as well as a part of the new standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99)).
Under the title link the patch for the latest version 0.9d includes an archive with FPU maths libraries which deliver floating-point figures similar to the Unix-System-V.4-ABI. It is for example necessary to write Hollywood-plugins.
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12.Jun.2015
Spidi (ANF)
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USB-adapter for input devices: Ryś MK II
In March the second version of the USB-adapter Ryś was announced und now is available. The Ryś MKII "provides built-in USB stack which enables USB HID devices (like a mouse, a joystick or a pad) support without the need for installing additional software drivers."
Features of Ryś MKII:
- ready for use with every Amiga (although some models may require additional adapters)
- support for mouses using both USB HID and USB-PS/2
- 3 mouse emulation modes
- built-in USB stack
- "Bootloader" function facilitating future firmware upgrades
- "Status" indicator LED providing information about device's state
- built-in EEPROM memory enabling user preferences storage
The product is sold by Amedia Computer France,
AMIGAstore,
RELEC and
RetroAmi.
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12.Jun.2015
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Jump'n Run: Sqrxz 1.3
As announced, Frank Wille has adapted the first part of the Sqrxz series to the new engine which the forthcoming release of Sqrxz 3 will be based as well. Now the game runs with 50 frames per second.
Download: sqrxz-v.latest-amigaocs.adf (880 KB)
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11.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS / MorphOS: "Wings Battlefield" available
After the release of the demo version a month ago, Cherry Darling's "Wings Battlefield" now is available. The game emulates the air fight sequences of the Cinemaware classic Wings - now with up to four players (screenshots).
Due to the small number of test computers it is recommended to give the updated demo version a try before purchasing the game. "Wings Battlefield" is offered for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (but not on Amiga computers) as well as for AROS/x86 by Alinea, Amedia and Amigastore. Later it will be also available by GoldenCode. A version for Windows is available as well.
Eigenschaften:
- 1 to 4 players battle
- split screen or LAN*
- human or CPU opponents
- adjustable CPU intelligence
- player profiles
- adapts to all screen-modes / window sizes
- Tate mode (pivot monitor support)
- best played with your digital joysticks
- procedural level editor
- three different landscape styles
- online high scores
- lots of graphics options to get the perfect balance between performance / quality
- localized to English, German, French, Hungarian, Greek, Spanish and Swedish
- automatic updates (actually the first update that adds another gfx option just arrived)
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10.Jun.2015
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Updates of commercial graphic board drivers for AmigaOS 4
Amigakit announces (1, 2) that free updates for the commercial RadeonHD and Warp3D-RadeonHD drivers are available on Amistore. Changes in the 2D drivers (currently versions 1.7 and 2.10) aren't explained, the "Warp3D/Southern Islands" driver (version 1.14) is said to "deliver greater performance on most games".
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09.Jun.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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Printed magazine: Retro Planet, issue 8 (Greek)
The Greek printed magazine "Retro Planet" has 52 coloured pages and is quarterly published. The eighth issue (front page) includes an interview with Pascal Papara.
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09.Jun.2015
Antony Mo (ANF)
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Event: Amiga meeting in Maarssen, Netherlands (20. June)
On June 20th the "Commodore Ineteressegroep" will invite to an event in Maarssen. As usual the meeting will take place in "Trefpunt", in Kerkweg 21 in Maarssen. Admission is free..
The meeting will take place on the occasion of the 30th Amiga birthday: some computers will be sold (e.g. A1200 with Blizzard accelerator board and a Pegasos). Demo presentations are also planned. Besides, it is possible to play old games on A1200 and CD32.
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09.Jun.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has uploaded new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files which can be downloaded for free. Since our last message the following songs have been added:
- Cream of the Earth
- Super Twintris "Those 3" Tunes Up-Mix
- Risky Woods - "El Pueblo" Cover Version
- Kid Gloves [ Castle ] The Toe-tapper's Up-Mix
- Hyperbased 2015
- Lethal Xcess - Ruins of Methallycha
- Einstein 2d6 - Wings of Victory (Spacetrip Mix)
- Total Eclipse (Main Theme Remix)
- MegaLoMania title
- Agony - Loading Forest (TITAN Deep Blue Mix)
- Defender Of The Crown (title)
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08.Jun.2015
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slengpung.com: Pictures of (partly very old) demoscene meetings
On slengpung.com there are pictures of meetings of the demoscene. The archive includes pictures which are also from the eighties: Recently pictures of the meeting
Ikari & Zargon Party (1989), Jewels/Danish Gold/Dominators/Upfront Party (1988) and Furuland Hacker Conference (1989) have been published.
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08.Jun.2015
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Amiga-Emulator: WinUAE 3.1
Version 3.1 of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE emulates a lot of additional hardware extensions for the first time. Besides, the sound of Paula can be mixed with other sound sources (CD, CD32 FMV, Toccate) and many other improvements have been implemented:
First emulated hardware extensions
- SCSI-Hosts:
- A2090/A2090a (ST-506 not supported)
- AdSCSI Advantage 2000
- Archos ADD-500
- C-Ltd A1000/A2000
- GVP Series I (Three models)
- GVP Series II
- Expansion Systems DataFlyer 1200/4000 SCSI+
- HK-Computer Vector Falcon 8000
- J.Kommos A500
- Kupke Golem
- Masoboshi MC-702 (Incomplete)
- Microbotics StarDrive (Clock not emulated)
- Preferred Technologies Nexus
- Protar A500
- RocTec RocHard RH800C (SCSI+IDE)
- SupraDrive (All five models)
- IDE-Controller:
- ICD AdIDE
- AlfaPower/AT-BUS 508/2008/AlfaPower Plus
- M-Tec AT 500
- Masoboshi MC-302/MC-702 (Incomplete)
- RocTec RocHard RH800C
- CPU-boards:
- ACT Apollo 1240/1260
- DKB 1230/1240
- RCS Fusion Forty
- GVP A3001
- GVP A530
- GVP G-Force 030
- Kupke Golem 030 A500
- Video-Hardware:
- Archos AVideo 12
- Archos AVideo 24 (Animation features not implemented)
- Black Belt Systems HAM-E and HAM-E Plus
- Newtronic Technologies Video DAC 18
- Impulse FireCracker 24
- Other extension:
- Toccata Zorro II sound card
- Nordic Power v3.2 freezer cartridge
- Pro Access v2.17 freezer cartridge
New features
- CD, CD32 FMV and Toccata audio are now optionally mixed with Paula audio stream. Sound sync is not lost even when emulation speed changes and sound is included with audio recording.
- Multiple SCSI/IDE expansion boards can be enabled at the same time.
- Floppy sound per-drive empty/disk inserted volume control.
- Added partial A1000 Velvet prototype support. Unfortunately currently no known Velvet boot disks exist.
- GUI Filter panel configurable overscan region blanking.
- Hardfile ATA and SCSI version configuration option.
- Fullscreen GUI option.
- If system has touch screen (Windows tablet for example), touching top of screen more than 2 seconds will open GUI.
- GUI Paths panel portable mode checkbox enabled.
- Configured but disconnected game controller is remembered.
Updates
- Custom chipset display emulation partially rewritten, many A1000 vs OCS vs ECS chipset undocumented edge cases are now fully emulated.
- AMAX ROM dongle emulation improved.
- CD and disk image volume label is shown in status message bar.
- CPU Idle feature rewritten, lower CPU usage.
- More reliable simultaneous on the fly media insertions/removals.
- Action Replay 2/3 emulation improved.
- Added 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 filter panel "integer" scaling options.
- Audio master volume is now real master volume control. Paula, CD and AHI are sub-volume controls.
- Optionally disk saveimages can use same directory as parent image.
- More accurate 68000 bus/address error stack frame undocumented fields.
Fixed bugs of WinUAE 3.0
- Some CPU halted conditions caused emulator hang.
- Chip RAM/Slow RAM size change on the fly crash.
- Multiple other crash bugs fixed.
Other fixed bugs
- Low level SCSI emulation fixes and updates.
- RTG mode screenshots in 16-bit host color depth mode had wrong colors.
- Real CD drive as emulated ATAPI or SCSI returned wrong last block.
- Graffiti corrupted display in non-AGA modes.
- Some programs had shifted display in some configurations (For example Gloom AGA, Worms Directors Cut title screens)
- Picasso IV graphics corruption in OS4 16-bit modes.
- Picasso IV mode switch out of bounds memory access crash (OS41FE).
- Serial port emulation lost characters in some situations.
- Branch FPU instructions didn't work in more accurate CPU modes.
- AVI recording audio/video sync problems fixed.
- Stuck key if "Mouse captured: emulation paused" was ticked.
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08.Jun.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 01.06.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of June 1st:
- Keymaps have been updated for non breaking space support (polluks)
- Countries have been updated for first day of week support (polluks)
- 64-bit AROS again loads Amiga format fonts correctly (jmcmullan)
- fat-handler is now correctly stopping at end of root directory (neil)
- Formatting is now possible with fat-handler (neil)
- Renaming disk is now working correctly in fat-handler (neil)
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08.Jun.2015
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Epsilons Blog: Software presentation "MultiviewerNG"
'Epsilon' has got a pre-version of A-EON's recently announced MultiviewerNG and introduces the programm and its range of functions in detail.
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08.Jun.2015
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New demos
The scene portal pouet.net has been added a lot of new Amiga demos during the last months:
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08.Jun.2015
amigaimpact.org (Webseite)
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French review to MorphOS 3.8
David Brunet working for the magazine Obligement has written a detailed and illustrated review (in French) to the recently released MorphOS 3.8.
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08.Jun.2015
Pegasosforum (Forum)
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MorphOS: PastePass 1.0
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS with encrypted database which enters user name and password by pressing a special keyboard shortcut.
Changes:
- All reported bugs and questions concerning the use of the software fixed
- Can be launched via tooltypes iconified
- Hotkey for deiconifying added
- Use of keyboard (Cyclechain and Controlchar)
- Import of text files
- All data in memory encrypted
- GUI for Passtool added
- adequate icons added
Download: PastePass.lha (90 KB)
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07.Jun.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood-Plugin: GL Galore 1.0 for hardware-accelerated 2D-/3D-graphics
Press release: This is the game changer you've been waiting for! Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the next big thing: GL Galore, the ultimate OpenGL® scripting solution for Hollywood! GL Galore is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to access the OpenGL 1.1 command set directly from Hollywood. This makes it possible to write scripts that utilize the host system's 3D hardware to create high-performance, butter-smooth 2D and 3D animation that is computed completely in hardware by the GPU of your graphics board. This leads to a huge performance boost over the classic Hollywood graphics API which is mostly implemented in software. Especially systems with slower CPUs will benefit greatly from hardware-accelerated drawing offered by OpenGL.
OpenGL is a portable software interface to graphics hardware. It is available for almost every platform in a variety of flavours. On AmigaOS and compatibles, OpenGL is available as MiniGL on AmigaOS 4, TinyGL on MorphOS, StormMesa on AmigaOS 3, and Mesa 3D on AROS. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems are usually shipped with an OpenGL driver already installed.
GL Galore offers wrapper functions for most commands of the OpenGL 1.1 API including many GLU functions. Additionally, GL Galore also offers bridging functions that allow you to convert Hollywood brushes into OpenGL textures and vice versa. Furthermore, when GL Galore is activated, Hollywood's hardware brushes and hardware double-buffers are mapped directly to OpenGL so that you can even benefit from hardware accelerated drawing and transformation without writing a single line of GL code. Whenever GL Galore is activated, all graphics output will automatically be routed through OpenGL.
GL Galore can also be useful for rapidly prototyping software in OpenGL. People who used to program OpenGL using C will greatly appreciate Hollywood's convenient multimedia API which offers functions for almost all common tasks. For example, by using GL Galore to write OpenGL programs you can avoid all the hassle of managing a GL window using one of the many different toolkits out there. Also, jobs like image loading, sound or video playback, font handling and image manipulation will become ridiculously easy thanks to Hollywood's powerful command set which covers almost 700 functions. And of course, there aren't 14 different versions of commands like glColor, but just one version because sometimes less is more.
GL Galore is the first 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. The plugin will not work with older versions of Hollywood. It is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ Versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (i386), Windows, Mac OS X (PowerPC and i386) and Linux (PowerPC and i386) are provided. On top of that, GL Galore comes with over 250 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM. Finally, many impressive example scripts are included in the distribution archive to get you started really quickly.
All of this makes GL Galore the ultimate OpenGL scripting experience combining the best of both worlds into one powerful plugin: Hollywood's extensive and convenient multimedia function set and OpenGL's raw graphics power!
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07.Jun.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 6th, 2015:
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
windsurf.lha mods/demo 120K A Module composed by Pete/Eni...
Calimero_beta_0.14.lha text/dtp 8.8M MOS A DTP Program
StormMesa_Libs68K.lha util/libs 515K 68k MESA/OpenGL implementation fo...
StormMesa_LibsPPC.lha util/libs 531K WOS MESA/OpenGL implementation fo...
cAMIra.lha util/misc 168K 68k simple webcam software using ...
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07.Jun.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 6th, 2015:
screentitleformat.lha doc/mis 252b 4.0 Set alternative Screen Title on ...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amicraft.lha gam/mis 950kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
aiss.lha gra/ais 8Mb 4.1 Amiga Image Storage System
aiss.pdf gra/ais 5Mb 4.1 Documentation
x1ktemp.lha uti/doc 179kb 4.1 CPU Temp Monitor docky for the X...
dirmeup_demo.lha uti/fil 977kb 4.1 Amiga Files Explorer
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL extractor script
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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07.Jun.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 06.06.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until June 6th, 2015:
PyMUI for Python 2.7 0.7.0 dev/pyt 1142 A Python module allowing fo...
ExFAT File System 1.1 sys/lib 193 Port of exFAT filesystem ba...
AmigaMark 1.2 sys/too 1119 A complex computer speed be...
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07.Jun.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 06.06.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until June 6th, 2015:
- 2015-06-01 improved: Lorna (Topo Soft) supports another disk version (Info)
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07.Jun.2015
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS-Distribution: Aeros for Raspberry Pi 2 Premium with ExaGear
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution Aeros now exclusively is available for the Raspberry Pi 2 as premium version (screenshot), which includes the lx-command for launching Linux-programms out of AROS as well as the commercial programm ExaGear.
Using this emulator it is possible to execute x86-applications on the ARM-processor of the Raspberry. Therefore programms like Skype (Linux/x86) and Wine (Linux/x86) as well as, based on them, Amiga emulators WinUAE (Windows/x86) and WinFellow (Windows/x86) can be used with this distribution (Video: WinFellow).
Some of the x86-programms only runs with limitations: For instance Skype has not a sound output because the required soundserver PulseAudio was left out due to problems with other apllications. Without ExaGear and the programms which use it, the distribution can be also used on a Raspberry Pi 1.
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07.Jun.2015
Forum-64 (Webseite)
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Petro Tyschtschenko obviously sells his Walker prototype
According to rumours in several forums, Petro Tyschtschenko offers the last Walker prototype - the other model he sold to Nicholas Blachford long ago - for sale via Facebook. The entry on Facebook is not generally accessible. Therefore currently there are only some screenshots:
If these screenshots prove themselves true, then Tyschtschenko obviously hopes to get 25.000 Euro by selling this rare prototype - which recently could be booted at a retro meeting for the first time (the IDE-cable was connected incorrectly).
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06.Jun.2015
Rick Thornquist (ANF)
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Company history: "Commodore - The Amiga Years" soon at Kickstarter
In October, Brian Bagnall expressed the hope, that the second part of his Commodore biography could be published. Now he has announced a Kickstarter campaign on Facebook for finishing "The Amiga Years" which will start on June 15th.
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06.Jun.2015
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Platformer: "The Game"
David Eriksson's "The Game" is an unfinished platformer written in AMOS. The game is fully playable, according to the author it only lacks "a title and a little bit of polish". The author explains that "there is no
real ending, you just get to a room that says Well Done and there's no real end".
Eriksson also states that "The main reason I stopped development was that when I tried the game on a clean A1200 there was some minor sprite flicker that I couldn't get rid of (and its still there) but now I decided to clean up some other parts of the game up a bit and release what I have."
"The Game" was heavily inspired by the retro platformer You have to win the game, even if work on the former started way before the latter was released.
"The Game" runs on 68000-based Amigas but according to the author "it still is a little slow". An Amiga 1200 with some FastRAM is recommended.
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06.Jun.2015
Geram Amiga Community (Webseite)
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PDF: The History of Psygnosis
A year ago the British podcast "Retro Asylum" released an episode named The History of Psygnosis. All the documents which the podcast is based on were visually conditioned and published as free E-Book: "Retro Asylum - The History of Psygnosis" can be downloaded as PDF-file from Google Docs.
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06.Jun.2015
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AISS 4.19 released
Martin Merz has released an update of his "Amiga Image Storage System" (AISS) which is a system for managing toolbar images under AmigaOS and other systems.
AISS 4.19 has more than 7.900 images. Due to compatibility reasons alle pictures and animations of the previous version are included as well.
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06.Jun.2015
MorphZone (Forum)
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Download page: MorphOS Central
Bastiaan de Waard's "MorphOS Central" is a download page which currently has more than 1400 files. The entries have been not categorized and can be only found by searching for the file name or the short name.
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04.Jun.2015
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Sam460 customers can return AmigaOS 4.1 and get a refund
Three weeks ago, MorphOS 3.8 has been released, including support for the Sam460 motherboards from ACube. Now the Italian hardware vendor reacts to this development and offers his customers a refund if they want to return their copy of AmigaOS 4.1: If you return your AmigaOS DVD to ACube, ACube will pay you 48 Euros.
The exact conditions for the refund are listed in a PDF file that is linked to from ACube's webshop:
- The refund is only available for "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition OEM" and needs to be requested no more than 30 days after purchase of the hardware
- the DVD package is unopened and still shrinkwraped
- The customer returns the DVD to ACube at his own costs and also pays any additional paypal or bank fees required for returning the money to him
- To avoid the additional costs and the hassle of sending the DVD back to ACube, customers can request a refund immediately after ordering the hardware, bevore it's even processed at ACube
All Sam460 variants are still available only as a bundle with AmigaOS 4.1 though. The fact that ACube keeps referring to a "refund" even if it's clear new customers can pretty much buy a motherboard and request the 'refund' at the same time and that the company explains in detail why they're offering a refund - including a link to the EU guidelines on "Unfair Commercial Practices" suggests that ACube's contractually obligated to always sell a copy of AmigaOS 4.1 with their Hardware.
It's currently unknown if the refund will also be available when purchasing a Sam460 through another dealer. (cg)
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03.Jun.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology: Announcement of MultiViewer
After Trevor Dickinson mentioned it in an interview, now the official press release (PDF) by A-EON Technology regarding the MultiViewer or MultiViewerNG is available.
Similar to MultiView developed by Commodore, the programm shows pictures but also text or AmigaGuide files, if the datatypes are available (screenshots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; video). MultiViewer for AmigaOS 3.9 and MultiViewerNG for AmigaOS 4 will be available soon in the appstore AMIStore.
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03.Jun.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 25.05.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of May 25th:
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS ARM kernel continue (mschulz)
- C library strtok function has been fixed (neil)
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