20.Apr.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 18.1
Using WHDLoad you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. In version 18.1 an update check was added:
- New: update check added: when a network connection is available
WHDLoad will check via a HTTP request if a newer version
exists on the WHDLoad webpage for the used Slave and WHDLoad,
supports a proxy with optional basic authentication via option
Proxy/K, to disable any network access the option NoNetwork/S
can be used
uses sha256 implementation by Robert Leffmann, thanks!
- Changed: dumping loaded files using bit #31 set in the disk number via
resload_DiskLoad will now use the offset in ExpMem in the
created file name, also the written files will go through the
file cache to avoid recurring switches to the operating system
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20.Apr.2015
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)
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Browser games: Commodore-Quiz / Commodore Hangman
In two Browser-based games, Commodore-Fans can prove their knowledge: In the Commodore-Quiz you have to recognize 30 Commodore devices with the help of details of a photograph as fast as possible. In Hangman you have to guess terms from the world of Commodore.
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20.Apr.2015
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Interviews with diverse former games developers
Ross 'Chryssalid' Sillifant has interviewed diverse programmers and graphic artists from the heydays of the home computer era and published them on different websites:
- Peter Baron (Devious Designs)
- Paul Carruthers (Archipelagos, Hover Force, Mortal Kombat, Stormball)
- John Croudy (Indy Heat, Rod-Land, Saint Dragon, SWIV)
- Will Harbison (Batman The Movie)
- Ian Moran (Robocop 2, Midnight Resistance, Hudson Hawk)
- Frank Sauer (Agony, Unreal)
- Mick West (Lethal Weapon, U.N. Squadron, Parasol Stars, Rotox)
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19.Apr.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: PasteQuick 0.41, Lyapunov, LazSokoban
Marcus Sackrow has compiled three little Free-Pascal programmes for AROS/x86. Additional to the game LazSokoban and a representation of Ljapunow-fractals, using PasteQuick it is possible to copy text from the Clipboard to pastebin.com and to get back the generated Pastebin-link. The login function of PasteQuick is not supported by the AROS-version.
Download:
PasteQuick0.41.lha (2 MB)
LazSokoban.lha (2 MB)
Lyapunov.lha (2 MB)
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19.Apr.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 18.04.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 18th, 2015:
CongstarCfg.lha comm/net 58K 68k Config. Congstar Komplett Box...
yasm.i386-aros.zip dev/asm 3.1M x86 Yasm Modular Assembler Project
libcddb.lha dev/lib 126K OS4 A library to access data on CDDB
f12015carset.lha game/data 22K 2015 Car Set for F1GP Ed/Micr...
comedesert-data.zip game/shoot 2.4M 68k Did IT come from the desert? ...
ffmpeg.i386-aros.zip gfx/misc 17M x86 ffmpeg-2.6.1 compiled natively
Stella_MOS.lha misc/emu 5.1M MOS Atari VCS 2600 emulator
amath.i386-aros.lha misc/math 326K x86 Simple command line calculator
amath.lha misc/math 1.3M 68k Simple command line calculator
amath.src.lha misc/math 256K Simple command line calculator
amath-mos.lha misc/math 132K MOS Simple command line calculator
Calimero_beta_0.12.lha text/dtp 8.3M MOS A DTP Program
zmakebas.lha util/conv 60K OS4 Make ZX Spectrum .TAP from BA...
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19.Apr.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 18.04.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 18th, 2015:
love.lha dev/gam 4Mb 4.0 2D framework for games
libffmpeg.lha dev/mis 9Mb 4.0 Multimedia libraries
amicraft.lha gam/mis 305kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
dcraw.lha gra/con 3Mb 4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files
acuario.lha gra/scr 4Mb 4.0 A nice screen saver with beauty ...
zmakebas.lha uti/mis 60kb 4.0 Make ZX Spectrum .TAP from BASIC...
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19.Apr.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 18.04.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until April 18th, 2015:
yasm.i386-aros.zip dev/lan 3Mb yasm.tortall.net
skunks.i386-aros.zip gam/dri 1Mb Retro style 3d driving sim with ...
ffmpeg.i386-aros.zip gra/con 17Mb ffmpeg-2.6.1 compiled natively
imagemagic.i386-aros.zip gra/con 24Mb see www.imagemagick.org
libx264.i386-aros.zip gra/con 2Mb http://www.videolan.org/develope...
amath.i386-aros.lha uti/sci 326kb Simple command line calculator
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19.Apr.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 18.04.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until April 18th, 2015:
gg.module 1.0 net/cha 38 A plugin for KwaKwa instant...
gtalk.module 1.0 net/cha 53 A plugin for KwaKwa instant...
KwaKwa 1.6 net/cha 186 Multiprotocol, plugin based...
cyassl.library 0.1 sys/lib 174 Port of CyaSSL, a small fas...
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19.Apr.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 18.04.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installer has been added until April 18th, 2015:
- 2015-04-18 new: Oasis (Stellar) done by StingRay (Info)
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19.Apr.2015
MorphZone (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS / MorphOS: LÖVE 0.8.0
Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró has ported version 0.8.0 of LÖVE for all NG-systems. It is a framework for 2D-games written in the programming language Lua.
Under the title link you can also download seven games and demos written in LÖVE. Among others Mari0, a Super-Mario-clone, which was completed by the teleportation feature of the Valve-game Portal. You can read an English-language review to four of the LÖVE-games in the blog of Johannes 'Yasu' Genberg.
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19.Apr.2015
Andreas Kleinert (E-Mail)
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SView5: Source code still on sale
More than a year ago, Andreas Kleinert offered SView5 for sale (amiga-news.de reported). He did not charge a certain price for the programm. On the mailinglist of the AROS-developers the author now quote a price of ten thousand Euro.
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18.Apr.2015
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Crowd funding for 30th Amiga anniversary party successfully finished
A month ago, at Kickstart a project was started to finance a 30th Amiga anniversary party in Mountain View (California, USA). 20.000 US-Dollar was supposed to be collected for this project. Yesterday it was successfully finished - almost 21.000 US-Dollar has been donated.
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17.Apr.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Files finder HFinder 2.0
HFinder written by Fabio Falcucci is Hollywood-programm which finds files.
Information about the changes of version 2.0 are not available.
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17.Apr.2015
Floppy (Kommentare)
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AROS: Text editor EdiSyn 0.50
Marcus Sackrow's Texteditor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntax highlighting for C/C++, Pascal and HTML. Changes of version 0.50:
- ADD: Iconify Icon
- ADD: User Program Startup
- ADD: Catching Program output
- ADD: Parsing program output -> Freepascal and GCC supported
- ADD: ShortCuts for User programs
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16.Apr.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: FFmpeg 2.6.1
Version 2.6.1 of the video converter FFmpeg was compiled for AROS.
Download: ffmpeg.i386-aros.zip (17 MB)
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16.Apr.2015
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Crowd funding: Biography of Bitmap Brothers
Read-Only Memory, which published a biography of Sensible Software two years ago, is going to publish a similar book about the legendary British developer group: "The Bitmap Brothers" is financed by Kickstarter and will describe the history of the team which programmed classics like Speedball 2, The Chaos Engine or Xenon.
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15.Apr.2015
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amiga-news.de: Change on the main page
For 14 years, the homepage of amiga-news.de can be adapted to fit the needs of the users concerning presentation and number of the news. Now we moved this configuration options to a seperate subpage.
This site can be directly accessed in the menu using the link "Configure main page". There you can also find quick links which configure the presentation of the main page without using cookies.
It is planned to set the figure of the news shown on the main page to a reasonable stabdard. A survey in this respect will be carried out soon.
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14.Apr.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: KwaKwa 1.6 with GTalk-module
For his Instant Messenger KwaKwa, which supports the Gadu-Gadu-protocol, Filip 'widelec' Maryjański has released a GTalk-module. This Google service was canceled in February. The GTalk-module requires the CyaSSL.library. The Gadu-Gadu-module was updated as well.
Download:
kwakwa-1.6.lha (186 KB)
gg.module-1.0.lha (38 KB)
gtalk.module-1.1.lha (53 KB)
cyassl.library-0.1.lha (174 KB)
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14.Apr.2015
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amicast 3 (English), Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko
The third issue of the English-language podcast Amicast fetures an interview with the former Commodore and Amiga manager Petro Tyschtschenko.
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14.Apr.2015
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Linux: Kernel 4.0 for Sam440ep, Sam460ex and AmigaOne X1000
The Linux-Kernel 4.0 was adapted to all Sam4x0-boards and to the AmigaOne X1000. For the Sam440ep a tester urgently is needed. General reports to the news in version 4.0 you can find on the following websites:
Download sites:
AmigaOne X1000
Sam440ep (Flex), Sam460ex (Lite)
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13.Apr.2015
amigaforum.de (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 31 (Italian/English)
Issue 31 of the Italian PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available as well as an English-language translation. The game reviews of the REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games to releases of different former platforms.
Download sites:
Englisch
Italienisch
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13.Apr.2015
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Crowd funding: Monkey Island as stage play
The theater project "Kulturreederei e.V." in Halle (Saale) is going to perform the adventure classic game Monkey Island as stage play. The budget required for such a project cannot be collected by selling tickets - therefore the theater project tries to collect the 12.000 Euro via the crowd funding platform StartNext.
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12.Apr.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.04.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 11th, 2015:
toram.i386-aros.lha comm/tcp 1.1M x86 Remote GUI for Transmission
toram-morphos.lha comm/tcp 1.3M MOS Remote GUI for Transmission
toram-os4.lha comm/tcp 1.6M OS4 Remote GUI for Transmission
AbbayeDesMorts.lha game/actio 603K MOS Abbaye Des Morts game for Amiga
Jay_the_miner.tgz game/jump 6.3M 68k Jay the miner
mummyv1.3.tar.gz game/jump 1.2M 68k The mummys tomb
AmiRobboSource.zip game/misc 72K Amos Source of AmiRobbo game
Show_Vector_1.35.lha gfx/show 280K MOS A Vectorgraphic viewer
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.1M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AOS-GamesIcons.lha pix/picon 2.3M GamesIcons, AmigaOS 4.1 Style...
MMULib.lha util/libs 638K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
cAMIra.lha util/misc 168K 68k simple webcam software using ...
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12.Apr.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.04.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 11th, 2015:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
fceu.lha emu/gam 1Mb 4.0 NES Emulators
abbayedesmorts.lha gam/act 603kb 4.0 An old school game like Ghost'n ...
dcraw.lha gra/con 3Mb 4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files
jpegtools.lha gra/edi 250kb 4.0 Independent JPEG Group tools
aos-gamesicons.lha gra/ico 2Mb 4.0 GamesIcons, AmigaOS 4.1 Style Ic...
pooler-cpuminer.lha net/mis 1Mb 4.0 Pooler CPUMiner
toram.lha net/p2p 2Mb 4.0 Toram is a remote control of a T...
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12.Apr.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 11.04.2015
Using WHDLoad,you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until April 11th, 2015:
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12.Apr.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Screensaver: Acuario 2015
Acuario is a screensaver created with Hollywood and by Morgue Soft and now was updated. Among others the password option was removed and the keyboard shortcuts changed.
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12.Apr.2015
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MorphOS: Support of other CPU-architecture planned
Three years ago the MorphOS-team for the first time thought about a change of the CPU-architecture. During the discussion about MorphOS on the X5000, the question was asked again on Morphzone.info, which answered Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen :
"When MorphOS gets ported to AMD64, we will not be supporting Macs. AMD64 Macs have all the wrong hardware for that to make any sense. When such a time does come, expect us to support one desktop motherboard (with one family of CPUs and GPUs) and one laptop. We'll of course make sure it's hardware that's actually available one way or another."
Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen also confirmed that on a long-term basis it is planned to support different processor architectures. The only reasonable options are ARM and AMD64. Which one then finally will be support still was not decided. Olsen pointed out to his statement from November 2014. There he explained all the problems occuring when changing the CPU.
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12.Apr.2015
Hyperion Entertainment CVBA (ANF)
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Hyperion: statement about the company's current situation
In February, Hyperion was declared bankrupt by a Belgian judge, but two months later the judgement got reversed again. The company has now released a statement detailing their view on the matter and announcing an internal reorganization.
Press release: Contrary to some news items posted on certain websites, Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is not in a state of bankruptcy. Due to an unfortunate set of cirucmstances, the company was temporally listed as "bankrupt" despite the fact that the conditions for bankruptcy were never met and that in the eyes of the law, the company was never bankrupt.
Development of AmigaOS 4 (which recently culminated in the release of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition) is and has been ongoing albeit that some resources had to be directed away to support the upcoming hardware of A-EON Technology.
The company is in the process of reorganizing itself by opening up its shareholdership and appointing a new exective director. More details on that will follow when all legal formalities are behind us.
Quite a few AmigaOS 4 supporters have approached us with the question what they can do to help us accelerate development of AmigaOS 4.2.
To that we have a very simple answer: please upgrade all your AmigaOS 4 capable hardware to AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.
Not only will AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition be used as a base-line for future updates, you will also help us to accelerate AmigaOS 4.2 development!
Those of you who have other concrete ideas, we welcome to contact us.
We appreciate your support and we look forward to meet you at any of the upcoming celebrations of the Amiga's 30th birthday!
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12.Apr.2015
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PPC hardware: MorphOS port for the AmigaOne X5000 demonstrated
On the "Alternative Computer Meeting" that is currently taking place in Wolfsburg (Germany), an AmigaOne X5000 computer is shown running MorphOS, as shown on these pictures:
Guido Mersmann from the MorphOS team tells us this is merely a tech demo for now, a release of the Operating System is not planned before the release of MorphOS 3.10. (cg)
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11.Apr.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga 30th Anniversary: Charity Dinner Event (August 2nd, Peterborough)
After Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Mountain View (USA), the UK's Peterborough will be the third location hosting an anniversary event celebrating the Amiga's 30th birthday. On August 2, the organisers plan to "celebrate all things Amiga, alongside many of the key figures who made it all possible" - RJ MIcal is announced as one of the special guests. (cg)
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11.Apr.2015
(ANF)
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Java-Tutorial: Project Amiga Juggler
In an detailed tutorial, Java programmers are dmonstrated, how to implement the Amiga Juggler by themselves. All steps are programmed again: The tutorial starts with the development of a mini-raytracer rendering the frames which later will be used the animation.
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10.Apr.2015
Johannes Genberg (ANF)
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Swedish print magazine: Amiga Forum 12
The swedish print magazine "Amiga Forum" is published since 2012 and consists of 28 A5 pages, with 12 of them in color. The price is 25 kronor plus shipping. It can be ordered at the title link or at Amigastore.
In this issue you can read about:
- News - is Hyperion bankrupt?
- Other Amiga related news
- Game reviews
- Old useful programs
- Book review - The Amiga book
- Scene fiction short story
- Latest news from from Swedish User Group of Amiga, Safir and the demo scene
- Learn to program Hollywood, part 2
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10.Apr.2015
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: 68k-Distribution Aros Vision 2.9.2 / Other versions planned
Version 2.9.2 of the AROS/68k-distribution Aros Vision provided by Olaf Schönweiß (screenshot) includes updates of some programms as well as a new screensaver.
In addition, in future there will be different versions of the distribution. To this version in future a "RTG" will be added. Aros Vision ECS (for real 68k-hardware and FPGA-reconstructions) and Aros Vision X86 (screenshots: EdiSyn, Antyriad) are in development.
The last mentioned distribution is based on the Windows-hosted version of AROS which makes it easier to launch it because you do not have to install it. Disadvantage: So far network and audio support is not included. Other platforms are planned.
Changes of version 2.9.2:
- New structure
- Netsurf updated
- Free Pascal updated
- Theme can be changed in the menu
- MUI-classes updated
- Hollywood-plugins updated
- AppStore-client updated
- Should run faster now
- New: Screensaver
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09.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Tools collection zTools 1.6
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated his commercial tools collection "zTools". Version 1.6, which is exclusively distributed on the Amistore, includes updates of SysMon, WebReplay and of the zTools-installer as well as bug fixes of FastView, aTunes, FastNote and CPUDock.
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07.Apr.2015
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Platform classic: Jay the Miner
"Jay the Miner" is a clone of the 8-Bit classic game Manic Miner. The game was developed with the editor Backbone and offers 15 levels and two levels of difficulty.
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07.Apr.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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History: The 68000 Wars (English)
In his blog "The Digital Antiquarian", Jimmy Maher has started writing an article about the history of the Amiga as well as of the Atari named "The 68000 Wars" (part 2).
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07.Apr.2015
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Benchmarks: Warp 3D SI on the dem Sam460 and the X1000
During the last few days, AmigaOS 4 users started to collect benchmark results for the recently released commercial Warp 3D drivers for Radeon HD graphic cards. The results are collected and presented on amigans.net, an older result using a Sam440 and the onboard Radeon Mobility chip was provided by Alain Thellier (Wazp 3D) back in 2013.
Two benchmarks are performed, with the exception of Thelliers older test the results were all recorded using the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1.
- Quake 3 Timedemo 1: using Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvels ioquake3-Portierung (Ioquake3.lha), a resolution of 1280x1024, these Settings and MiniGL 2.20
- Cow 3D (a Warp 3D benchmark from Alain Thellier): When running this, the Buffers should be enabled using the 'b' key, to make sure the Frames don't have to be recalculated by the CPU constantly and you're only benchmarking the graphics performance.
Below you can see the benchmark results published so far, benchmarks with older Radeon graphic cards are not available currently. The listed values mean 'frames displayed per second' (FPS), so the higher the value, the better the result:
Editor's note: In some cases, the users didn't list average values, but FPS ranges. For the sake of simplicity, we used the higher value of the two - the difference is neglegible anyway. The listed values were all provided by AmigaOS 4 users, Amiga-News staff has no means of verifying them. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.Apr.2015
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Web-finding: The contract between Amiga Corp. and Atari, 1983
At atarimuseum.com, a copy as well as scans of the contract are available which concluded Amiga Corp. and Atari. The startup Amiga urgently required additional financial resources to finish its development of the prototype named "Lorraine". Atari would secure its rights to the chips developed by Amiga to use them in its next computer generation.
The published excerpts concentrates on the planned features of Amigas' computer. Some interesting details are hidden in the contract: That the computer should be able to read Apple-disks and their texts. Additionally the programming languages "Lorraine BASIC" and FORTH should be included in the delivery of the computer equipped with 128 KB.
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06.Apr.2015
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Self-made project: Wifi Joystick Adapter 1.0
A Croatian Amiga user has made an adapter which wireless transfers the input of any joystick to the computer (Youtube video, photographs: 1, 2). The receiver is powered by the computer, the transmitter has to be powered via an USB-cable (e.g. a recharger cable for a mobile phone).
For the wireless communication a microcontroller ATMega8 as well as a NRF24L01+ and as development environment Arduino were used. According to the developer there is no delay while playing. He estimates the loss of time is less than 2 milliseconds.
Vurrently the adapter does not work with mice. The author supposes that the reason is the higher amount of data transferred. He will try to solve the problem but so far does not have any approach to a solutions.
Download (source codes and circuit diagram): WiFi Joystick adapter v1.0.rar (537 KB)
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06.Apr.2015
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Trademark recycling: Android smartphones from 'Commodore Business Machines'
According to the Italian Wikipedia (automated translation) the "Commodore" trademark has been acquired by a Massimo Canigiani in 2014. If this is true or what "acquired" actually means is currently unknown to us. According to the EU trademark database, the relevant "Commodore" marks are still owned by Dutch Commodore Holdings B.V. There is a Commodore mark registered in Italy, but it's still assigned to ESCOM.
As Commodore Holdings is still defending the mark aggressively - the organisator of a Crowdfunding effort to reproduce the C64 II cases got a written warning recently - it's safe to assume the situation will become more clear soon.
At least Canigiani seems to be quite confident: He already incorporated a company called "Commodore Business Machines Ltd." in England. Using the official website and a Facebook page he's already advertising his first product: an Android based smartphone sporting a Commodore 'chickenhead' logo. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit 8.4
AmiKit, a Workbench distribution intended for emulated Amigas, is available in version 8.4 now. Changes:
- MUI4 got new pointers - hover your mouse over a link or column separator to see what we are talking about. A number of custom classes have been updated to the latest versions too
- WHDLoad, the ultimate game loader, is now able to update itself! From now on, your old games will always get a fresh support
- System libraries like OpenURL, CodeSet and IconLib have been updated too
- And last, but not least, we've improved Polish and Russian language support in AmiKit. There are more catalogs and better fonts now
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05.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Revision 2015: First Amiga demos released
Under the title link pouet.net as well as on scene.org the first productions of the demo party Revision 2015 are available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: EdiSyn 0.41 (Update)
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntax highlighting for C/C++ and Pascal. A list of changes you can find under the title link.
Download: EdiSyn_0.41.lha (3 MB)
Update: (19:30, 06.04.15, snx)
Today, version 0.41 has been released, which introduces syntax highlighting for HTML. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2015
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS: AEROS for Pi beta 10 and beta 8 (full version for Raspberry Pi 1)
Pascal Papara's Linux-based AROS-distribution AEROS for the Raspberry Pi is available for registered users as beta version 10 (changes see below , video of the previous version).
In celebration of Easter beta version 8 which was released in November is available as unlimited version for the Raspberry Pi 1 on IndieGO!-Appstore. That means, the "lx"-command for starting Linux-applications out of AROS is included.
Beta version 10 was adapted to Raspberry Pi 2. On the previous model this version only works with 512 MB RAM (but slowly). If there is less memory available, single parts of the distribution does not work.
Changelog:
- Updated UAE4all2 with AROS/68k kickstart replacement
- Added Quake 3 demo (works only on Pi with 512 MB RAM)
- Added Gimp (very very sluggish on a Pi 1)
- USB-sticks are now auto-mounted when you attach them, no need anymore to run a Linux file manager first
- Added EmulationStation (you need to boot into command line to run it)
- Changed memory split and reduced memory size for AROS (this can be modified by the user) in order to get Quake working with less swapping
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05.Apr.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.04.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 4th, 2015:
FlexCat-2.17.lha dev/misc 1.1M MOS Flexible catalogs (C,Asm,Ober...
sgit.lha dev/misc 1.1M OS4 A simple and incomplete git c...
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 714K MOS Advanced snake game
Show_Vector_1.3.lha gfx/show 1.4M MOS A Vectorgraphic viewer
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.2M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
o2em.lha misc/emu 413K MOS Odyssey^2/Videopac emulator
Icons-for-AmigaOS.lha pix/picon 6.4M AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
MMULib.lha util/libs 637K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
russian45.lha util/sys 35K 68k Russian language driver v45
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05.Apr.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.04.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 4th, 2015:
flexcat.lha dev/mis 1Mb 4.0 Flexible catalogs (C, Asm, E, AR...
sgit.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 A simple and incomplete git client
minigl.lha dri/gra 3Mb 4.0 OpenGL subset 3D API
icons-for-amigaos.lha gra/ico 6Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
dopus4.lha uti/fil 3Mb 4.0 The legendary filemanager
ffmpeg.lha vid/con 19Mb 4.0 Video and audio converter
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 1Mb 4.1 Qt Download videos from YouTube
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05.Apr.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 04.04.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until April 4th, 2015:
bomberman.i386-aros.zip gam 625kb Bomberman Lan
ffmpeg.i386-aros.zip gra/con 15Mb ffmpeg + players + miniPlayer ex...
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05.Apr.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 04.04.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until April 4th, 2015:
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05.Apr.2015
jb (ANF)
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Forum: Moo Bunny announces preliminary closure (Update)
After 18 years, Moo Bunny announced closure. The basically unmoderated forum had been appreciated especially by people who considered other websites to be biased in favour of only one of the different Amiga operating systems. Due to contuinued abuse of the granted freedom, John Shepard closed down Moo Bunny yesterday.
Update: (07:40, 06.04.15, snx)
In another message directed towards the Amiga section, John Shepard does not only repeat the final cause for the forum's closure, but also hints that Moo Bunny might be reactivated in the future:
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Update: (07:40, 06.04.15, snx)
In einer weiteren Mitteilung speziell die Amiga-Sektion betreffend wiederholt John Shepard nicht nur den Anlass, der das Fass zum Überlaufen brachte - den Betrieb eines Darknets durch Ausnutzung einer Sicherheitslücke in der Foren-Software -, sondern stellt auch in Aussicht, dass Moo Bunny nicht für immer geschlossen bleibt:
"Moo Bunny Amiga Section [...] is still valuable enough that someone just tried to steal it. I think that means it's also valuable enough to not stay down forever." (snx)
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04.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Edgar Vigdal died
Edgar Vigdal has died. On Wednesday the 51-year-old game developer who wrote Amiga classics like Deluxe Galaga and Deluxe Pacman succumbed to a cancer.
Under the name "Warblade" he had continued developing Deluxe Galaga for Windows, Mac OS X and iOS. Additionally he had planned to release a pixel perfect version of Deluxe Galaga named "Deluxe Galaga Reborn". Test versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux can be downloaded under the title link.
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04.Apr.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Easter update for Workbench CANDI
On AMIstore of A-EON Technology an update of CANDI is available which is free of charge to all customers that have bought CANDI from AMIStore. The programm creates animated Workbench backdrops using the Compositing-engine. Among others the new version features an Easter theme.
Other updates:
- Automatically switch between CANDI animations by double-clicking on a CANDI icon
- Double clicking on the same CANDI icon switches the Workbench animation off
- CANDI animation goes to sleep if the Workbench goes behind another active screen
- New tooltypes to select LOWCPU option for less capable hardware (removing the need for a LOWCPU CANDI version)
- ResetWB option now works when CANDI is running
- Each CANDI can now be controlled by an external program/utility. (coming soon)
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03.Apr.2015
AOS4 Beta Mailing List (ANF)
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Hyperion: Declaration of inability to pay quashed
According to Ben Hermans on the internal mailing list for beta testers, the decision declaring Hyperion for insolvent was quashed yesterday. According to the company database of the Belgian government, the legal sitaution of "Hyperion Entertainment" actually is "Situation normale".
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03.Apr.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga-Emulator: FS-UAE 2.5.30dev
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.
Under the title link you can find a detailed list of changes of version 2.5.30dev.
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02.Apr.2015
Amiga.org (Forum)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 30 (Italian/English)
Issue 30 of the Italian PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available as well as an English translation. The game reviews of the REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games to releases of different former platforms.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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02.Apr.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Commercial Warp3D driver for Radeon-HD cards
A-EON has announced the availability of Warp 3D drivers for für Radeon-HD graphic cards. They are not the drivers developed by the Frieden-brothers for Radeon-HD cards with Evergreen-chipset (just like the Radeon-HD 5450, built in the X1000 as standard) and announced for a long time, but the drivers developed by Hans de Ruiter and for Radeon cards with Southern Island-chipset.
The driver is named Warp 3D-SI and is ecklusively distributed via Amigakit's App-Store Amistore for 33 Euro. Additional to the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1, it requires the 2D graphic driver RadeonHD which is separately distributed as well as MiniGL 2.20.
Features of the driver:
- supports Radeon HD 7750-7970 series graphics cards (excluding the Radeon HD 7790), Radeon R7 250X/265 (excluding R7 250), Radeon R9 270/270X/280/280X
- Supports larger textures (up to 16384x16384 memory permitting)
- Performance is less dependent on resolution than previous drivers, including rendering at HD resolutions
- Submits vertices to the GPU via vertex buffers rather than directly in the command stream (one of the bottlenecks of the old Radeon drivers)
- Uses the RadeonHD_RM.resource for VRAM allocation, providing more efficient memory management than own system
- Accumulates small vertex arrays into larger buffers to provide faster performance where lots of tiny render operations are performed
- Doesn't lock the entire graphics system between 3D_LockHardware() / W3D_UnlockHardware(), so an application or game crash is less likely to freeze the entire system
Simultaneously with the new Warp3D-drivers, updates for both versions of the 2D-driver RadeonHD have been released on Amistore. The updates to version 1.4 and 2.7 are free available for registered users.
According to Amigakit, the work on "Warp3D Evergreen" driver is ongoing and making good progress.
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01.Apr.2015
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Amiga Games Inc. no longer distributing classic Amiga Games (Update)
Since September 2012 Amiga Inc. and later on Amiga Games Inc. have been distributing classic Amiga games in
Blackberrys App Store. At the start of the project, "more then 300 titles" were promised, plans to support various mobile platforms were announced.
By now, all Amiga titles have been removed from the App Store: just a few days ago, there were still several dozen games available - this was initially reduced to Impossamole being for sale, in the mentime this game has been removed aswell, the vendor "Amiga" is not listed anymore.
The reason for this change is currently unknown, though the timing - right at the beginning of a new month - might be an indication that Amiga has to fullfull contractual obligations. Back in February, Michael Battilana from Cloanto had revealed that Amiga Inc. do no longer own any rights to Kickstart or Workbench and that they had to obtain a license from Cloanto for their activities on the Blackberry platform.
Update: (02.04.2015, 19:45, cg)
In the meantime, the last remaining game has been removed from the shop, the vendor "Amiga" is not listed anymore. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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30.Mar.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: EdiSyn 0.34
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntax highlighting for C/C++ and Pascal. Since our last message mainly the search function has been improved.
Download: EdiSyn_0.34.lha (3 MB)
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30.Mar.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: 6 Amiga games added
Games-Coffer offers some old games for download: Baffle, Deadline!, Defektris, Giger Tetris, Hirnris and Parcheese.
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30.Mar.2015
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Fan proposal: Lego-Amiga
In the section "Lego Ideas", the Danish toy maker collects proposals for new products. If such a proposal is supported by 10.000 people, employees of Lego will check if it can be produced.
Under the title link an Amiga inclusive platine was suggested, which currently has 287 supporters (you have to create an account). 210 days are left to achieve the required number.
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30.Mar.2015
Murakami (ANF)
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Print magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 55 (french)
Issue 55 of aMiGa=PoWeR is available, as always in full color, containing for example reviews of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition, Tales of Gorluth and Voxelnoid. Further articles cover the AmigaOne X5000, Eric Chahi and the AmiWest event.
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French newspaper issued by AFLE (French association). Created in 1998, aMiGa=PoWeR became thanks to the experience of AFLE (created in 1994) the first French-speaking Amiga newspaper. Entirely laser printed, aMiGa=PoWeR is distributed in the whole world. (snx)
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29.Mar.2015
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood / Cubic IDE: hw4cubic 6.0
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: Michael "Clyde Radcliffe" Jurisch's Hollywood add-on for Cubic IDE has been updated to support the full Hollywood 6.0 command set now. Furthermore, there have been some bug fixes and optimizations.
The hw4cubic plugin allows you to use Cubic IDE as an IDE for Hollywood. The complete Hollywood command set is imported into Cubic IDE so you'll get syntax highlighting, quick command information, hotkey links to the documentation for command under cursor, function list, direct access to the compiler, auto complete and intellisense functionality and much more.
In addition, a Hollywood 6.0 wordfile for the popular Windows text editor UltraEdit is now also available for download on the official Hollywood portal. This wordfile allows you to conveniently edit Hollywood scripts on Windows using UltraEdit. All downloads are available from the official Hollywood portal.
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29.Mar.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 28.03.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 28th, 2015:
HollywoodSP.lha biz/misc 505K Hollywood 6.0 spanish catalogs
CamView.lha comm/net 41K 68k Cam Viewer for Lan and Intern...
LanCamTool.lha comm/net 111K 68k Lancam Tool for Edimax IC 303...
magnet2torrent.lha comm/net 22K MOS Convert magnet links to .torr...
BlitzLocale.lha dev/basic 116K 68k Use Locale in AmiBlitz Programs
pthread.lha dev/c 28K MOS POSIX Threads for AROS and Mo...
sgit.lha dev/misc 1.1M OS4 A simple and incomplete git c...
2060_rom8_5.zip driver/med 17K 68k Blizzard 2060 SCSI Rom (Phase 5)
Blizzard_1230_SCSI_IV... driver/med 10K 68k Blizzard 1230IV SCSI ROM (Pha...
CS-SCSI-Tools-31.lha driver/med 529K 68k SCSI Systemdisk (Phase 5)
scsi85mk1.lha driver/med 10K 68k cyberscsi.device (MKI) (Phase 5)
scsi86mk2.lha driver/med 16K 68k cyberscsi.device (MKII) (Phas...
040_060Libs.lha driver/oth 132K 68k 68040/68060 libraries (Phase 5)
68060-19101999.lha driver/oth 186K 68k 68060 Library (Phase 5)
68060systemdisk.lha driver/oth 272K 68k 68060 Systemdisk (Phase 5)
blizzard2060systemdis... driver/oth 272K 68k Blizzard 2060 Systemdisk (Pha...
fastlanez3.lha driver/oth 15K 68k z3scsi.device (Phase 5)
FlashUpdates-09042000... driver/oth 940K ppc-powerup CyberStorm PPC/MK3 & Bliz...
FlashUpdates-26042002... driver/oth 940K ppc-powerup CyberStorm PPC/MK3 & Bliz...
SystemDisk-431.lha driver/oth 352K 68k Cyberstorm system disk (Phase 5)
ultimate-maze-pack.zip game/shoot 2.3M 68k Ultimate Maze -Gloom mod
Show_Vector_1.2.lha gfx/show 1.3M MOS A Vectorgraphic viewer
amath.i386-aros.lha misc/math 345K x86 Simple command line calculator
amath.lha misc/math 1.3M 68k Simple command line calculator
amath.src.lha misc/math 257K Simple command line calculato...
amath-mos.lha misc/math 132K MOS Simple command line calculator
ppc-user-09042000.lha misc/os 93K 68k PPC Library - User Archive (P...
Icons-for-AmigaOS.lha pix/picon 6.3M AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
cabextract.lha util/arc 34K 68k Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.C...
cabextract_MOS.lha util/arc 40K MOS Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.C...
cabextract_OS4.lha util/arc 38K OS4 Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.C...
MuFastZero.lha util/boot 153K 68k MuLib ZeroP. remapper, replac...
barcode.lha util/conv 1.1M MOS Convert text strings to barcodes
MMULib.lha util/libs 637K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 353K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.03.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 28th, 2015:
flexcat.lha dev/mis 368kb 4.0 Flexible catalogs (C, Asm, E, AR...
sgit.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 A simple and incomplete git client
infones.lha emu/gam 3Mb 4.0 NES Emulators
banki.lha gam/boa 64Mb 4.0 Adventure XXX Game
inutilis-inga.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.0 Editor for Point'n'Click Adventures
potrace.lha gra/con 300kb 4.0 transform bitmaps into vector gr...
icons-for-amigaos.lha gra/ico 6Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
snapshoter.lha gra/mis 9Mb 4.0 Clipboard manager, collage maker...
codesets.lha lib/mis 617kb 4.0 Library for handling codesets an...
mcc_betterstring.lha lib/mui 310kb 4.0 BetterString custom class for MUI
mcc_nlist.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 NList custom classes for MUI
mcc_texteditor.lha lib/mui 811kb 4.0 TextEditor custom class for MUI
mcc_thebar.lha lib/mui 2Mb 4.0 The MUI Toolbar custom class
openurl.lha net/mis 514kb 4.0 Get that URL!
cabextract.lha uti/fil 38kb 4.0 Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB)...
gpsbabel.lha uti/sci 834kb 4.0 Convert, upload, download data f...
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 1Mb 4.0 Qt Download videos from YouTube
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29.Mar.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 28.03.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until March 28th, 2015:
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29.Mar.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Linux: Installations instructions for Ubuntu Server 15.04 on the AmigaOne X1000
Under the title link, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has written a short installations instructions for users of an AmigaOne X1000 how to install Ubuntu Server 15.04 via Netboot (downloading the files during the installation, e.g. if you do not have an optical drive).
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28.Mar.2015
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New demos
During the last month the scene portal pouet.net has added new Amiga demos:
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28.Mar.2015
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: New full versions online (again)
In the Amiga Arena three new games are available again: Fatal Heritage, PairsNG and PuzzleBOBS.
- Fatal Heritage: Fatal Heritage is a "Click and point"-adventure developed by EGO Software in 1990. Using the original disk omages of EGO Software and Bernd Gmeineder, in 2003 the Amiga Arena together with Bert Jahn could create a HD-version for the first time.
- PairsNG: PairsNG is a mix of Memory, Shanghai and similar games. Until 2009 PairsNG was distributed as Shareware. The Amiga Arena exclusively provides the full version as download.
- PuzzleBOBS: In 2001 for the first time at the fair "Amiga 2001", the Bust'n'Move-clone PuzzleBOBS developed by Nexus Development was presented for the first time. The formerly commercial game is exclusively offered by Amiga Arena as download.
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27.Mar.2015
a1k.org (ANF)
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Event: Carl Sassenrath attends "Amiga 30 Years" in Amsterdam
The organizers of the birthday party "Amiga 30 Years" (June 27th, Amsterdam) have announced that additional to Dave Haynie and David Pleasance (Commodore UK), Carl Sassenrath will be attend the event. Sassenrath is the author of the AmigaOS-kernel "Exec".
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27.Mar.2015
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Ralph Schmidt: Commercial distribution of Cyberstorm-ROMs inadmissible (update)
According to Ralph Schmidt in German comment on Amiga-News, he still owns the rights to the drivers, ROMs and utilities distributed by Phase 5 or DCE for their Amiga hardware. The company DCE never has been right holder of the software and therefore is not allowed to grant a licence for commercial sale.
Some years ago, he gave his permission to offer the software for download on phase5.a1k.org. He also agreed with the distribution on Aminet, where the drivers from now on are available as well.
With his comment, Schmidt responds to the press release of Pascal Papara, who on Tuesday announced the commercial distribution of the der ROMs in his App-Store IndieGo!. Yesterday Ralph Schmidt did express his view in an English-language forum but Papara held his view that DCE has exlcusive rights on it and therefore have a valid licence.
The archives available on phase5.a1k.org and Aminet only contains updates for the ROMs used in a Cyberstom PPC. They cannot be used as ROM-file for UAE. On request of Amiga-News, Ralph Schmidt clarified that he is not going to release full ROM-images.
Update: (26.03.2015, 18:30, cg)
Meanwhile Pascal Papara has confirmed, that he has stopped distributing the ROMs. Thus the ROMs that are required for the Cyberstorm emulation are not legally available. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.Mar.2015
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Podcast: Amicast 2 (English)
In the second issue of the English-language podcast Amicast the Australian AmigaOS 4 user and blogger Epsilon has been interviewed.
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26.Mar.2015
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AmigaOS 4.1: Updates will be only available for Final Edition
In his AmiWest presentation, Steven Solie intimated it, now other AmigaOS 4 developers confirmed it: In future updates will be only available for the "Final Edition" of AmigaOS. Therefore changes are happening within the infrastructure.
According to Simon 'Rigo' Archer the only exception are critical updates applicable to older versions of AmigaOS 4.1. As Archer and Andy 'broadblues' Broad explained, "the development team is unable to upkeep multiple versions of the OS, and test all possible scenarios".
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26.Mar.2015
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Full versions for download: Hash Animation, FMSynth, Draggy and Croco, Doktor
The Amigafuture offers the full versions of the applications "Hash Animation" and "FMSynth" as well as the Polish Jump'n Run "Draggy and Croco" and the puzzler "Doktor" for free download.
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25.Mar.2015
amiga.org (Webseite)
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WASD Keyboards: High quality keyboards with "Amiga"-key
The Californian shop WASD Keyboards offers a keyboard with Cherry MX-switch, which the customer can configure on the website of the company. Additional to keycap colors and alphanumeric layout style, you can select "OS Keys" - here you can also choose "Amiga".
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24.Mar.2015
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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Emulation: Legal source of supply for Cyberstorm-ROM-file
If you are going to use AmigaOS 4.1 "Final Edition" with an emulator, that requires this PowerPC operating system, the Kickstart-ROM and the Workbench of AmigaOS 3.1 as well as the accelerator board ROM of the CyberStorm PPC.
If you do not own a Cyberstorm PPC, nevertheless you can use AmigaOS 4 legally in the emulation: In consultation with the rightholder, DCE, the ROM-file can be purchased in the IndieGO!-Appstore for the symbolic price of EUR 1. On request, Pascal Papara will bear the costs for purchasers of the computer AresOne as well as of the distributions AEROS R3 and Aminux (USB-Stick version).
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24.Mar.2015
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Podcast: Retro Asylum - The Amiga Bonanza
The latest issue of Retro Asylum, the self-appointed "UK's number 1 retro gaming podcast", is exclusively about the Commodore Amiga. On the occasion of the forthcoming 30th birthday, the three hosts have talked for almost three hours about the history and the games, "that made the system so special".
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23.Mar.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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GUI-Toolkit for Hollywood: First demo version of cross-platform HGui
HGui is a GUI-system developed with Hollywood, which in contrast to the Amiga-specific MUI Royale would be available for all platforms supported by Hollywood. The development has been almost finished, a first demo now is available (download site).
According to the author Fabio "Allanon" Falcucci, he thinks about a commercial release. Therefore he has released this demo to get some feedback on this question. If he will get sufficient financial support, Falcucci will write tutorials and a "comprehensive developer guide".
Two different releases are planned: As applet and as source code, both versions would include tutorials and developer guide. The current level of development the author has described as "usable and stable". He needs to "complete some planned features and a couple of missing classes".
The features of his GUI-Toolkits:
General features
- Object Oriented Programming
- Flexible and multi-layered skin system
- Easy of use
- Fast
- Scalable (tuning the cache system and the theme)
- Since HGui does not depend on any system specific command/library all developed projects can be compiled for any system supported by Hollywood, your GUIs will be the same on every platform, exactly the same.
Windows system
- Each window you create supports the following events:
- OnClose
- OnMove
- OnActivate
- OnDeactivate
- OnHide
- OnShow
- OnSize
- User definable minimum and maximum sizes
- Automatic control of the window's order
- Methods to control/edit on the fly the created windows
- Various background type supported
- Special windows to build up quickly progress indicator and/or messages for long operations.
- Window's menu (not the ones available with Hollywood but a custom one that allow you to include any gadget type into it.
- Functions to find window objects by name, by Hollywood ID, and to check if a window exists or not.
- Ability to attach hotkeys to any window to execute specific tasks when a keypress occurs.
Gadgets system
- Supported gadget classes
- Box
- Vertical Divider
- Horizontal Divider
- Label
- Group (Generic, Radio, Check)
- Button
- Switch
- Scrollbar (Vertical/Horizontal)
- Slider (Vertical/Horizontal)
- ProgressBar
- Knob
- Text (for user input)
- ListView
- TreeView
- DropDown
- Image
- Virtual Area
- Planned gadget classes
- Ability to switch the cache system on or off
- On: each gadget state will be cached, faster but more memory required
- Off: each gadget state will be rendered directly, slower but with a lower memory footprint.
- Each gadget can be skinned individually
- Each gadget class can be skinned globally
- Support for icons inside gadgets with custom alignment and text adjustment
- Flying tips for some gadgets
- Sounds on some actions (OnOver, OnOut, OnPushed, OnDown)
- Supported actions:
- OnPushed
- OnDown
- OnOver
- OnOut
- OnDrop
- OnDropOut
- Some classes can have additional actions
- Functions to search buttons by their names
- Methods to control and modify on the fly existing gadgets
- Gadgets drag and drop (planned)
- Ability to attach a right-mouse action or a pop up menu (planned)
Layout system
- Gadgets can be arranged using the MUI concept, you define some gadgets that will be grouped inside another gadget, this way your GUI is represented by a tree where the tree root is a special gadget called 'rootGadget' already created for you when a window is created.
- Supported layout are:
- When you define child gadgets you can define the following properties:
- Gadget weights (percentual variable, percentual fixed, pixel variable, pixel fixed)
- Borders (top, bottom, left, right) from the father gadget
- Gap between childs in pixel
What's missing/needs more love
- Some little glitches to be fixed
- Keyboard navigation system
- Gadget's hotkeys
- Gadget's drag & drop
- ListView/TreeView column resize using the mouse
- Tabs class
- Spin class
- Documentation
- Tutorials
- Global theme management functions are not completed
- Support for XML Gui definition
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22.Mar.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: EdiSyn 0.31 - Text editor with syntax highlighting (Update)
Marcus Sackrow has released a text editor with syntax highlighting for AROS/x86 (screenshot).
Download: EdiSyn_0.31.lha (3 MB)
Update: (06:08, 24.03.15, snx)
Meanwhile version 0.31 is available. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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22.Mar.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 21.03.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 21st, 2015:
gTranslator.lha comm/misc 223K MOS A google translator for your ...
ntimed.i386-aros.lha comm/net 47K x86 Network time synchronization ...
ntimed.lha comm/net 53K 68k Network time synchronization ...
ntimed.src.lha comm/net 71K Network time synchronization ...
netsurf.lha comm/www 5.5M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
OpenURL-7.16.lha comm/www 514K MOS OpenURL - Get that URL!
c64tools_mos.lha dev/cross 1.1M MOS Covert Bitops C64 Tools
pucrunch.lha dev/cross 178K MOS A (de)cruncher for CBM execut...
openssl68k.lha dev/lib 1.3M 68k OpenSSL crypto and SSL/TLS li...
FlexCat-2.16.lha dev/misc 368K MOS Flexible catalogs (C,Asm,Ober...
sgit.lha dev/misc 1.1M OS4 A simple and incomplete git c...
MCC_BetterString-11.2... dev/mui 310K MOS BetterString custom class for...
MCC_NList-0.120.lha dev/mui 1.9M MOS NList custom classes for MUI,...
MCC_TextEditor-15.46.lha dev/mui 811K MOS TextEditor custom class for M...
MCC_TheBar-26.16.lha dev/mui 1.6M MOS TheBar.mcc - Next Generation ...
super_nibbly_source.lha game/actio 1.3M ASM sources for "Super Nibbly...
f12015carset.lha game/data 21K 2015 Car Set for F1GP Ed/Micr...
AlienBash_src.zip game/shoot 7.6M Assembly sourcecodes for "Ali...
bikerbabe_src.zip game/shoot 635K Sources for "Biker Babe from ...
wmf2x_1.1.lha gfx/conv 766K MOS A windows meta file converter
Tomas_Dahlgren_gfx.zip pix/misc 5.5M (mostly) unreleased gfx by 'U...
aget.lha util/app 5.1M MOS AGet - HTTP Protocol Tester
openssl.lha util/crypt 1.0M 68k OpenSSL command line tool
DrawerBall.lha util/dir 2.6M MOS Directory and files tool
codesets-6.19.lha util/libs 617K MOS Library handling codesets and...
HWP_AIFF.lha util/libs 14K MOS Hollywood plugin for AIFF sounds
HWP_PCX.lha util/libs 18K MOS Hollywood plugin for PCX images
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22.Mar.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 21.03.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 21st, 2015:
pucrunch.lha dev/cro 178kb 4.0 A cruncher for C64 executeables
sgit.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 A simple and incomplete git client
ermentruddemo.lha gam/adv 3Mb 4.0 Demo of the adventure game "Erme...
residualvm.lha gam/adv 5Mb 4.1 3D game interpreter
residualvm-src.zip gam/adv 7Mb 4.1 ResidualVM Source
afroggame_demo.lha gam/pla 11Mb 4.0 Catch flies !
santasmonstershootout... gam/pla 35Mb 4.0 A Christmas game
balanceblox_demo.lha gam/puz 6Mb 4.0 Blocks on the balance
tapjewelsdemo.lha gam/puz 11Mb 4.0 Demoversion of Tap Jewels
flare.lha gam/rol 2Mb 4.0 A free action RPG engine
swampdefense_demo.lha gam/str 18Mb 4.0 Demoversion of Swamp Defense
hwp_aiff.lha lib/hol 14kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for AIFF file f...
hwp_pcx.lha lib/hol 18kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for PCX file fo...
netsurf.lha net/bro 6Mb 4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
findmore.lha uti/fil 125kb 4.0 File searching tool (GUI)
aget.lha uti/mis 5Mb 4.0 HTTP Protocol Tester
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22.Mar.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 21.03.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until March 21st, 2015:
- 2015-03-17 improved: Army Moves (Imagine/Dinamic) made 68000er compatible, new install script and icons (Info)
- 2015-03-17 improved: Thunder Blade (Sega) imager corrected, manual and icons added, minor slave change (Info)
- 2015-03-16 improved: Kiros Quest (Vision) Level 49 fixed (Info, Image)
- 2015-03-15 improved: Kiros Quest (Vision) Level 34 fixed, trainer added (Info, Image)
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21.Mar.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Printed magazine: Retro Planet, issue 7 (Greek)
The Greek magazine "Retro Planet" has 52 coloured pages and is published quarterly. Issue 7 includes a review of AmigaOS 4.1 FE, a market review on Amiga accelerator boards and an interview with Laurent Zorawski (French Amiga shop Amedia Computer).
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[News message: 21. Mar. 2015, 22:30] [Comments: 0]
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21.Mar.2015
amigaforum.de (Webseite)
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Game engine Antiryad Gx 3.4.04 (AmigaOS3, AROS, MorphOS)
Antiryad Gx is an engine for 2D-/3D-games with integrated editor and available for several platforms. After registering you can use the free version developing commercial games. Changes in version 3.4:
- Enhanced video codec and tools, added new compressions
- Added support of smjpeg video codec
- Added support of Theora video codec
- Added support of Ogg sound codec
- Enhanced fastcol3d
- Optimized and enhanced dsp object
- Enhanced math object
- Enhanced megalib system
- Enhanced geom object
- Optimized OpenGL rendering
- Enhanced obj3d
- Optimized collisions
- Enhanced skin object
- Optimized and enhanced font object
- Added support of ETC1 with alpha channel support in OpenGLES2 driver
- Enhanced executablecompiler
- Added faster software rendering
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20.Mar.2015
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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App Store: Update of indieGO!-client for all systems
The Hollywood-based client for Pascal Papara's App Store "indieGO!" has been updated (screenshot). It is divided into two parts: The App Store-Browser and the download manager. Using the download manager it is possible to pause downloads and continiue them after several days.
The client now works with screen solutions less than 800x600 pixels (z.B. EEEPC701) and much faster as well. According to Papara currently there is much debug output, so this can be still improved. The speed of the download manager was doubled.
The detailed changes:
- Refactoring and optimization of the libServer module
- Submit Bug Report : now reports if there was error submitting the reports
- Change Mail Address : FIXED a bug that was not accepting the user's input
- Many optimization a faster response in many time-critical sections
This option can be disabled with the preference -> speedboost = 0
- Added preference switch
- Added pointer behaviours (busy mouse pointer for long operations)
- Added the possibility to close the category requester with the ESC key
- Font size reduced automatically in app name and app description if needed
to let it fit in its available space. (magorium)
- Now categories and items difference is more evident thanks to an overlay
image on the category icons (see picture). (magorium)
- Now the AppStore recognize if a previous session has not closed properly
and ask to the user if he wish to submit a bug report with the previous
session's log file, no additional informations from the user are required. (magorium)
- Speed up of the app details window opening
- download speed is now twice as fast
Until now developers of commercial applications have had to pay a store fee of ten percent of the selling price. Developers who have registered after March 1st 2015 have to pay twelve percent. The ten most "successful" developers - including developers of Freeware software - monthly will earn a gift coupon of 10 Euro.
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20.Mar.2015
morphzone.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Civilization clone FreeCiv 2.4.4
Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró has ported version 2.4.4 of the turn-based strategy game FreeCiv to MorphOS. Because he is not a passionate strategy player, the game has been not much tested.
Direct download: freeciv2-mos.lha (27 MB)
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20.Mar.2015
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Crowdfunding: US-American celebration for Amiga 30th anniversary via Kickstarter
On the occasion of Amiga 30th anniversary - on July 23rd 1985 it was presented for the first time - in Computer History Museum in Mountain View (California) a big party will take place.
It is planned: a panel discussion with former Amiga developers Dale Luck, RJ Mical, Dave Needle and Carl Sassenrath; a banquet with feature speakers Colin Proudfoot (ex Commodore UK), Mike Battilana (Cloanto) and Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) as well as the presentation of a new, longer trailer of Viva Amiga. Additionally there will be a little exhibition of Amiga-"artefacts", presenting the original Amiga prototype and all the following Amiga models.
In order to finance the event, the organizers are going to collect 20.000 US-Dollar via Kickstarter. If you want to support the project, you can choose between nine different payments: starting with 10 USD (the donator will be mentioned on the website and during the event) and ending with 5.000 USD (complete VIP-programm, diverse merchandising products as well as an AmigaOne X1000).
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19.Mar.2015
viddi (ANF)
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Music: Blue-Metal-Rose-Song with pure C64-sound
On March 27th the album "Farbenfrohe Welt" written by Blue Metal Rose will be released. One song was recorded with C64-sounds and can be found under the title link on YouTube.
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19.Mar.2015
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New "old" downloads at Amiga Arena and Games-Coffer
Amiga-Arena again has listed "Land of Genesis" and the German version of "Aqua" as downloads. Games-Coffer has added the games "Breakout", "Games Galore #11", "Missiles Over Xerion", "To The Death" and "Two Player Games 1200".
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