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20.Feb.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: New full versions (Shadow Fighter, F17 Challenge) available
The download section of the Amiga Future was completed with some full versions, among others darunter Shadow Fighter, SpacewardHo! and F17 Challenge.

Hint of the editorial staff: In order to be able to download CD-images an account at the amigafuture.de must be created first. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Feb.2013
viddi (ANF)


Action roleplay game: Tales of Gorluth (preview video)
In cooperation with the graphic designer Javier Alcaniz, Patrick "viddi" Nevian (Agent Lux) is developing another game with the game vreator Backbone: "Tales of Gorluth" is an action roleplay game which is played from bird's-eye view (Youtube-Video).



At the moment there are 15 levels which are about one hour to play. The game is about 7 MB and therefore can be only played from harddrive. Additionally at least the ECS-chipset as well as 2 MB ChipRAM are required.

In order to play and enjoy Tales of Gorluth with the proper performance a 68030 is required - if you have a less powerful processor then you have to make smaller the field of view. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Feb.2013
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


MorphOS: MagicSVG 1.0
Carsten Siegner's MagicSVG is a viewer for vector graphics which was written in C and which uses the libsvg-cairo.

Download: MagicSVG_1.0.lha (217 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Feb.2013
Michael Rupp (ANF)


Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.21
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a pure JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x - 4.x for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser. Any kind of feedback is very welcome to the author.

The changes of the version 0.21 are listed in TAWS itself in the history (english) file which you can find in System/TAWS. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Feb.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Minimig: TC64-Core supports C64-Joystick-ports
With the latest update of a branch of his Minimig-development, Alastair Robinson provides users of a Turbo Chameleon 64 the feature to use the joystick ports of the C64 for the Amiga-emulation. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Feb.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 16.02.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until February, 16th:
irssi-0.8.15-morphos.lha comm/irc   839K  MOS Terminal based IRC client
libfribidi.lha           dev/lib    187K  OS4 Free Unicode Bidirectional Al...
libid3tag-morphos.lha    dev/lib    56K   MOS ID3 tag manipulation library
libjasper.lha            dev/lib    1.5M  OS4 JasPer JPEG-2000 codec library
libmad-morphos.lha       dev/lib    90K   MOS libmad - MPEG audio decoder l...
libmkv.lha               dev/lib    113K  OS4 Lightweight alternative to li...
libmxml_2.7.lha          dev/lib    416K  MOS A small XML parsing library
openjpeg.lha             dev/lib    1.0M  OS4 Open-source JPEG 2000 codec
AmigaPower.lha           docs/hyper 69K       French Amiga Magazine (16th F...
ngl-MUIMineDZ-RMX.lha    game/data  264K      Hand Dithered MUIMine DZ grap...
TVSBasketball_2012-20... game/data  13K       2012/13 Season for T.V.Sports...
MCE.lha                  game/edit  963K  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  1.1M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  1.1M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
SpaceStation.lha         game/text  9K        Interesting text adventure ga...
ColorBarr.lha            game/wb    33K   68k Line-up coloured tiles!
Labyzarre.lha            game/wb    35K   68k Find your way to the exit!
Pyramid.lha              game/wb    34K   68k Find the Pharaoh's tomb!
UkooBar.lha              game/wb    31K   68k Align bars to match various g...
dvdauthor.lha            gfx/conv   1.4M  OS4 Set of tools for authoring a DVD
optipng-0.7.4-morphos... gfx/misc   161K  MOS Advanced PNG optimizer
VAMP-AROS.lha            gfx/show   1.5M  x86 Play/show videos,animations,m...
VAMP-MOS.lha             gfx/show   1.5M  MOS Play/show videos,animations,m...
VAMP-OS4.lha             gfx/show   1.8M  OS4 Play/show videos,animations,m...
adplay_68k.lha           mus/play   463K  68k play & decode AD lib mod ...
playgsf_68k.lha          mus/play   883K  68k .gsf/.minigsf player/decoder
playOGG.lha              mus/play   5.7M  68k multi format sound player.
zxssk-morphos.lha        mus/play   171K  MOS ZX-Spectrum sound kit
Chasca.lha               pix/theme  10K       MorphOS skin
Copacati.lha             pix/theme  36K       MorphOS skin
to-do.lha                util/misc  87K   68k Simple To-Do list program
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17.Feb.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.02.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until February, 16th:
keyrythme_gr.lha         aud/edi 762b  4.0 Greek catalog file for KeyRythme
libjasper.lha            dev/lib 2Mb   4.0 JasPer JPEG-2000 codec library
openjpeg.lha             dev/lib 1Mb   4.0 Open-source JPEG 2000 codec
libfribidi.lha           dev/lib 187kb 4.0 Free Unicode Bidirectional Algor...
libmkv.lha               dev/lib 113kb 4.0 Lightweight alternative to libma...
libopenssl.lha           dev/lib 10Mb  4.0 The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS
airstrike.lha            gam/act 3Mb   4.1 2D biplane dogfight game
residualvm.lha           gam/adv 2Mb   4.1 3D game interpreter
residualvm-src.zip       gam/adv 5Mb   4.1 ResidualVM Source
mce.lha                  gam/uti 1Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
myx11setup_gr.lha        net/mis 4kb   4.1 Greek catalog file for myX11Setup
a-ftp_server.lha         net/ser 2Mb   4.0 FTP Server for AmigaOS4
cddb_editor.lha          uti/fil 20kb  4.0 A CDDB editor
ranger.lha               uti/mis 394kb 4.0 System diagnostic tool
cmeditor_se.lha          uti/wor 1kb   4.0 Swedish translation of CMEditor ...
midmouse.lha             uti/wor 31kb  4.1 Set the mousepointer to a given ...
dvdauthor.lha            vid/con 1Mb   4.1 Set of tools for authoring a DVD
ffshop.lha               vid/edi 2Mb   4.0 Frames and video edit with ffmpeg.
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17.Feb.2013



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.02.2013
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until February, 16th:
gigalomania.i386-aros.lha    gam/str 4Mb   RTS Mega-Lo-Mania-like god game
gigalomaniasrc.zip           gam/str 9Mb   Gigalomania Source
zgrub.i386-aros.zip          uti/mis 22kb  ZGrub
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17.Feb.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 16.02.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until February, 16th:
LAME G3                  3.99.5  mus/pro    313 Port of LAME MPEG audio enc...
Run in DOSBox            1.1     uti/emu    488 Program for automated start...
Multigame Character E... 8.0     uti/mis   1108 A tool for editing characte...
InstantZip               1.0.0   uti/pac    146 Simple MUI based program fo...
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17.Feb.2013
PPA (Webseite)


AROS: Gigalomania 0.25
Mark Harman has ported Gigalomania to AROS/x86. This game is an imitation of the Amiga classic Mega lo Mania. It is still in development and has over 28 different maps.

The AROS-version requires a high stack but the default value of the Shell with 1024000 should be sufficient.

Download: gigalomania.i386-aros.lha (4 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Feb.2013
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: Chrysalis (formerly: Ultimate) Pack 3.1.2
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Ultimate Pack is a preconfigured collection of software, games and emulators which now is called Chrysalis and is available in version 3.1.2 for MorphOS 3.1. An unchanged basic installation of the operating system is required.

Changes:
  • Odyssey (1.19)
  • PowerSDL (16.0)
  • YouTube.js (0.88)
  • YouTube_EZDownload.js (0.4.7)
  • AHIW (2.01)
  • Reggae (3.1.6)
  • Scriba (1.6.0) + Lector 1.0.0
  • Grunch (2.15) + french guide
  • HotCorner (1.2)
  • HotBorder (1.2)
  • VAMP (0.93)
  • wget (1.13.4)
  • LAME (3.99.5)
  • MUI classes updated
  • Grabber in PolyNet launch bar
  • Chasca skin 1.0
  • SteamDraw 2.2
  • OptiPNG 0.7.4
  • Mimetype for PNG files added (OptiPNG)
  • Sylve wallpapers and mimetypes
  • Smilla 1.1
  • Ask Me Up demo
  • VICE 2.4
  • CaveStory 1.0.0.4
Download: chrysalis.iso (541 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Feb.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Print magazine: Amiga Future 101, preview and excerpts
Today the preview and selected excerpts of issue 101 of the print magazine Amiga Future have been published at the title link. Besides the Minimig case by Thomas Koch, further examples of the content are articles about the programs Roadshow, Digital Universe and Hively Tracker. (snx)

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14.Feb.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay offers a commercial file manager called Dir Me Up for AmigaOS 4.1. You can find a detailed list of features as well as screenshots, videos and a limited demo version under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Feb.2013



FS-UAE: Game database for FS-UAE-Launcher, Game-launcher in progress
Frode Solheim is developing a game database which will complete his Amiga emulator FS-UAE. The database can be accessed under fengestad.no/games/ and users can add additional information, screenshots snd box-scans. The download section of Solheim's is already offering "development" versions of FS-UAE which can retrieve information from the database.

The games which are installed on your harddrive are recognized by its checksum and the corresponding information and pictures will be downloaded from the game database and the correct configuration options (chipset, CPU, memory...) will be chosen for the game. Additionally a new "Game Center" is in progress with which you will be able to browse existing games with a "cover-browsers" via joystick or joypad:



If you want to help adding new information to the game database or testing the functions, you can write a mail to fs-uae@fengestad.no to get an user-account. You can find further information in brief instruction written by Solheim. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Feb.2013
Phantom (ANF)


Data-files of NBA-Season 2012/13
Anthony Iliakis has created data files for the new 2012/2013 NBA Season to use with TV Sports: Basketball by Cinemaware. His update can be used with the original disks as well as with a WHDLoad-install of the game. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Feb.2013
a1k.org/forum (Webseite)


Amiga Future: Issue 85 online
Issue 85 of the magazine Amiga Future is sold out. Now the articles are available online. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Feb.2013
Bigfoot (ANF)


MorphOS: Further status update on G5 porting
Almost one and a half monthes after his latest status update, Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen reports again about his G5 porting of MorphOS at the title link. Besides smaller tasks, now only sound support remains to be implemented. While the bounty deadline is officially set to be March 3, actual release depends on the time required for other team members' components for MorphOS 3.2 to be finished and the subsequent beta-testing, he says. (snx)

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12.Feb.2013
(ANF)


Individual Computers: Pictures and information on ACA 500 prototype (Update)
Last year Individual Computers announced their ACA 500, a simple expansion for the Amiga 500 whose claim to fame is the ability to connect accelerator boards from Indivudiual Computers that were originally developed for the Amiga 1200 (ACA 1231/1232).

Jens Schönfeld from Individual Computers has now published some pictures of the current prototype and a short status report on a1k.org and posted the product specifications:
  • 68EC000 with 14,3MHz
  • external connection, A500 does not have to be opened
  • Computer gets only 3cm wider
  • two CF card slots: One for booting, the other for "exchanging data" with the PC
  • 2 MByte RAM: 1,5M can be used, 512k reserved for Maprom
  • Trapdoor memory extensions can be used
  • Chipmem extensions can be used
  • ROM for things which I will make public later
  • Extension port for local hardware, will be documented (14MHz 16-Bit = twice Zorro-speed)
  • Clockport
  • Cover made of stainless steel (no completely closed cover)
  • can be extended by ACA1231/ACA1232

Originally the ACA 500 was supposed to become an internal extension but according to Schönfeld he had to drop this approach. The Version seen on the pictures will be the form factor used in the final product, only a cover made of stainless steel will be added.

The manufacturer will only support the combination of ACA 500 and an in-house A1200 extension (ACA 12xx series, with the exception of the ACA 1230). Accelerator boards developed by different producers would be used at one's own risk. First tests indicate that the Blizzard boards produced by Phase 5 are not yet compatible with the ACA 500 but this problem may still be solved according to Schönfeld.

The current target price is about 80 Euro.

Update: (13.02.2013, 15:30, cg)

Now Jens Schönfeld presents a new approach, where the ACA 500 would be positioned flat instead of upright. Additionally, a solution for the Blizzard compatibility problem might have been found, even if it's still not clear if all issues have been solved already and how the solution will be integrated into the final product. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Feb.2013



A600 accelerator board Fúria EC020: Pictures and Benchmarks (Update)
Two years ago, Boris 'Boboo' Krizma from Slovakia presented an Amiga 600 accelerator board that was based on the SEC000AA20 - a low cost variant of Motorola's MC68000. The sources and schematics for the design had been released back then aswell.

Now Krizma is working on a follow-up project called "Fúria ECF020" that has a 68EC020 CPU (over)clocked at 28 Mhz aswell as onboard FastRAM. The developer is regularly posting status updates to a czech forum. In January, fotos of the current prototype had been posted:



Now Krizma has published some screenshots that show various Benchmark tools running on a A600 equipped with a Fúria ECF020 (currently there are 4 MB FastRAM installed, but the final product will have more memory):



Update: (13.02.2013, 16:00, cg)

Added bigger versions of the pictures to the news item, thanks to Boris Krizma for providing them. The developer also explains that this product will be commercially distributed and lists some more detailed specifications:
  • MC68EC020FG25 @ 28MHz (overclocked), FPU MC68882 with same clock speed as CPU (may be switched ON/OFF)
  • 8 MB Auto-Config FastRAM, 1,5 MB SlowRAM, 1,5 MB for other purposes
  • Auto switch between 4MB / 8MB FastRAM (depending on the PCMCIA slot being in use or not)
  • CPLD Xilinx XC95144XL
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10.Feb.2013



Sale of Indivision AGA Mk 2 temporarily stopped
At the end of April Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) has started to deliver the second generation of the Flickerfixer "Indivision AGA" . But many users reported problems with the hardware - e.g. stripes or a completely black screen.

These compatibility problems could have been solved by a setup tool which was included in the previous version of the Indivison AGA Mk2. Such a tool currently does not exist for the Mk2 yet although highly requsted by many users. On the a1k-forum Jens Schönfeld explained that several, complex parameters had to be added to an user-interface.

Apparently Schönfeld temporarily stopped the sale of the Indivison Aga Mk2 four weeks ago. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Feb.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 09.02.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until February, 9th:
curl-morphos.lha         comm/tcp   1.0M  MOS CLI Tool for getting or sendi...
S3C.lha                  comm/tcp   183K  OS4 Backup,restore+manage files o...
yfacts.lha               comm/tcp   23K   OS4 Background time synchronisati...
libmkv-0.6.5.1.lha       dev/lib    488K  MOS A alternative to the official...
libpng_S1514.lha         dev/lib    554K  WOS LibPNG 1.5.14 link library fo...
libpng1514_aros.lha      dev/lib    734K  x86 LibPNG 1.5.14
powersdl_sdk.lha         dev/misc   2.3M  MOS SDK to SDL audio and video li...
fourmaze.lha             game/actio 621K  68k Pacman Clone
cavestory.ppc-mos.lha    game/jump  1.4M  MOS Cave Story (NXEngine)
AmiQuake.lha             game/shoot 243K  68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
mpo2jpg_morphos.lha      gfx/conv   151K  MOS mpo2jpg - MPO file spliter
HollyPaint.zip           gfx/edit   5.7M  WOS Paint application
RunInDOSBox.lha          misc/emu   639K  MOS Double-clicked MS-DOS games r...
opus-tools-0.16_a68k.lha mus/edit   290K  68k Opus Audio Tools
opus-tools-0.16_aros.lha mus/edit   395K  x86 Opus Audio Tools
playOGG.lha              mus/play   5.7M  68k multi format sound player.
sexypsf_68k.lha          mus/play   658K  68k PSF1 player/decoder
Ym2ar.lha                mus/play   140K  68k play & decode YM tunes
xpdftools_303_aros.lha   text/misc  4.6M  x86 Tools to manipulate pdf docum...
xpdftools_303_m68k.lha   text/misc  3.4M  68k Tools to manipulate pdf docum...
InstantZip_1.0.0.lha     util/arc   146K  MOS InstantZip - A easy ZIP archi...
HWP_APNG.lha             util/libs  1.5M  WOS Hollywood plugin for APNG anims
HWP_FLICAnim.lha         util/libs  22K   WOS Hollywood plugin for FLI/FLC ...
HWP_MovieSetter.lha      util/libs  54K   WOS Hollywood plugin for MovieSet...
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha        util/libs  3.8M  MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
HWP_OggTheora.lha        util/libs  919K  WOS Hollywood plugin for Ogg Theora
HWP_OggVorbis.lha        util/libs  704K  WOS Hollywood plugin for Ogg Vorbis
HWP_SQLite3.lha          util/libs  945K  WOS Hollywood plugin for SQL data...
HWP_SVGImage.lha         util/libs  4.5M  WOS Hollywood plugin for loading ...
HWP_VectorGfx.lha        util/libs  1.6M  WOS Hollywood plugin for vectorgr...
HWP_XMLParser.lha        util/libs  333K  MOS Hollywood plugin for parsing ...
powersdl.lha             util/libs  1.3M  MOS SDL audio and video library f...
powersdl_src.lha         util/libs  2.9M      Source code: SDL audio and vi...
eGame.lha                util/misc  1.2M  MOS Game launcher with tagging &a...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.02.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until February, 9th:
keyrythme.lha            aud/edi 13Mb  4.0 Assign a keyboard key to a sound,
runindosbox.lha          emu/uti 639kb 4.0 Double-clicked MS-DOS games are ...
mce.lha                  gam/uti 1Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
hollypaint.zip           gra/edi 6Mb   4.0 Paint application
sketchblock.lha          gra/edi 7Mb   4.1 Digital Sketching For AmigaOS
proaction.lha            lib/rea 503kb 4.0 GUIServer for script writers
amicygnix-base.lha       net/mis 112Mb 4.1 AmiCygnix, an Unix/X11 environme...
amicygnix-base-src.lha   net/mis 11Mb  4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix base pa...
amicygnix-tools.lha      net/mis 75Mb  4.1 Extension package for AmiCygnix,...
amicygnix-tools-src.lha  net/mis 3Mb   4.1 Sources of the AmiCygnix tools p...
amicygnix-x11-src.lha    net/mis 64Mb  4.1 Sources of the basic X11 system ...
myx11setup_ita.lha       net/mis 71kb  4.0 Italian catalog for myX11Setup
s3c.lha                  net/mis 183kb 4.0 Backup restore share & manag...
a-ftp_server.lha         net/ser 2Mb   4.0 FTP Server for AmigaOS4
fastcompress.lha         uti/arc 3Mb   4.0 Quickly compress into LHA,ZIP,LZ...
netdock.lha              uti/doc 234kb 4.0 Docky to monitor your network ac...
ips-o-matic_ita.lha      uti/fil 17kb  4.0 Italian catalog for IPS-O-Matic 1.2
iso-o_matic_ita.lha      uti/fil 17kb  4.0 Italian catalog for ISO-O-Matic ...
ppf-o-matic_ita.lha      uti/fil 17kb  4.0 Italian catalog for PPF-O-Matic 1.2
egame.lha                uti/mis 1Mb   4.0 Game launcher with tagging &...
ranger.lha               uti/mis 395kb 4.0 System diagnostic tool
backupcopy.tar.gz        uti/she 5Mb   4.0 Copy, synchronise, mirror and ar...
amiupdate_ita.lha        uti/wor 46kb  4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
flipclock.lha            uti/wor 2Mb   4.1 Nice Weather-Flipclock for your ...
midmouse.lha             uti/wor 14kb  4.1 MidMouse
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10.Feb.2013



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.02.2013
The following package has been added to AROS-Archives until February, 9th:
zgrub.i386-aros.zip          uti/mis 22kb  ZGrub
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10.Feb.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 09.02.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until February, 9th:
PowerSDL SDK             16.0    dev/lib   2349 The Software Developer Kit ...
Cave Story               1.0.0.4 gam/adv   1408 Mixed platform and adventur...
cURL                     7.28.1  net/too   1050 A commandline tool for retr...
Odyssey Web Browser, ... 1.19    net/WWW  27641 A modern, full featured web...
Odyssey Web Browser, ... 1.19    net/WWW  25356 A modern, full featured web...
eGame                    1.5     off/dat    611 Simple MUI based game datab...
PowerSDL                 16.0    sys/lib   1285 A fast and powerful impleme...
Grunch                   2.15    sys/too   1936 Advanced software package m...
HotBorder                1.2     uti/des     35 System commodity which resi...
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10.Feb.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 09.02.2013
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 February 9th, 2013:
  • 2013-02-09 improved: Wreckers (Audiogenic) slave rewritten, blitter waits and trainers added, keyboard routine fixed (Info)
  • 2013-02-09 improved: Pegasus (Gremlin) snoop bug removed, trainers added, CD32 joypad supported and more (Info)
  • 2013-02-09 improved: Desert Strike (Electronic Arts) CD32 joypad supported (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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AmigaOS 4: Jump'n Run Frogatto (alpha version)
The Jump'n Run Frogatto is a mix of an open-source engine with proprietary game data. For iOS and Blackberry a fee is required for the game, ports for desktop operating systems are available for free.

Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel now has ported the game to AmigaOS 4. The author has invited everybody to carefully read the documentation: Probbaly it is still an alpha version which can have bugs. Frogatto requires the libboostyGfx.so library which was also developed by Nouvel. Due to a bug in Wazp3D, currently Warp3D is absolutely required.

According to Nouvel, Frogatto is right now his last OS4-port. The port has taken two months and in future he will neither have enough time nor motivation (he mentioned the very low feedback which he has got for all his previous projects) for similar projects.

Direct download:

Frogatto-OS4.lha (164 MB)
libboostyGFX.lha (429 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Feb.2013
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Windows: Source code of Amiga Bootblock Reader released
Under the title link Jason Smith has released the source code of version 2.0 of the Windows-programm Amiga Bootblock Reader which he has written with Visual Basic 2010 for he will not have the time to develop it further. With the programm it is possible to extract the bootblocks of disk images. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.84
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe). According to the developer the programm works on all Amigas (OCS to AGA) with 68000 up to 68060 prozessor and uses low virtual memory.

Changes in version 0.84:
  • Xinit 1.4:
    • Removed an useless file check (c:delete is no more used in xb)
    • Added an init sequence progress bar
    • The release number is no more displayed in the init sequence
    • If the init has failed, it's now reported in the xb init screen
    • The init errors reports are now more "verbose"
    • Added the support of the No init fade to black option
  • Xmenu 1.3: Key repeat delay upped
  • Xlaunch 1.5: Internal improvements to be ready for an Xb0.9x killing feature
  • Xsetup 1.3: You can now switch On/Off the init fader in the "Startup" pad
  • Xcli 0.4: Now fully fixed. Should work fine in all case
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Feb.2013
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AmigaOS 4: X11-environment AmiCygnix 1.3
Edgar Schwan has released a new version of his X11-environment AmiCygnix for AmigaOS 4. Version 1.3 includes new display drivers and fixes some bugs. Other changes are listed under the title link.

Download: amicygnix-base.lha (112 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Feb.2013
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS / AROS: Game launcher eGame 5
With Chris Handley's eGame, which is short for "(Portabl)E Game Launcher", you can keep an easily searchable list of games for playing under AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86 (screenshot).

The changes of version 5 are listed in the history.

Download: eGame.lha (1 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Feb.2013
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AmigaOS 4: AmiDARK-Engine 0.8
The AmiDARK-engine is described by Frédéric Cordier as "Game Development Kit" which is highly inspired by DarkGDK. It is a collection of macros and functions for C-programmers for a more comfortable way of developing games.

The changes in version 0.8 for AmigaOS 4 you can find under the title link. Currently a version for MorphOS is not available.

Download: AmiDark2DEngine_AOS4_Beta0.8.lha (82 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Feb.2013
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MorphOS: Printer bounty initiated
The bounty project which is to replace TurboPrint under MorphOS is currently donated with 400 Euro and was now officially assigned to Michal 'rzookol' Zukowski. It has to be finished until September.

In the MorphZone forum Michal Zukowski explained which first steps he has made. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2013
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood: APNG-Plugin
Press release: Airsoft Softwair has just released a new plugin for Hollywood 5: Infinity. This plugin enables all Hollywood scripts to load and SAVE animations in the APNG format (animated portable network graphics). The great advantage of the APNG format is that it allows you to import and create animations that use alpha channel transparency. Neither the IFF ANIM nor the GIF ANIM formats support alpha channel transparency. Furthermore, APNG can also handle true colour frame data. A rival format to APNG is the MNG format but APNG support was chosen because more applications support it.

You can download the plugin from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood 5's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (Classic), AmigaOS3 (FPU), AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (Intel), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (Intel), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (Intel), Windows and Google Android are provided. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2013
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Python-Script: S3Cmd 1.1
S3Cmd is a script for AmigaOS 4 for Python 2.5 which makes it possible to access the Amazon-online-storage S3 via the Shell.

Since for MorphOS and AROS there are also current Python versions available it should also work with them. Please remove the included, precompiled .pyc-files before. Because for AmigaOS 3.x only an alpha version 2.4.6 is available this could cause some problems.

Download: s3c.lha (183 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2013
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Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 67
"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. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2013



Amiga Inc.: more Amiga games for Blackberry planned
In September Amiga Inc. had started to offer Amiga classic for the Blackberry. On amiga.com now further games for the mobile operating system have been anounced, among others games by Bitmap Brothers, Psygnosis and Gremlin Graphics.

The "list is not 100% official as these titles still need testing and more work." In the official Blackberry-shop up to now only the old games are offered. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Feb.2013
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MorphOS: Web-Browser Odyssey 1.19
Fabien 'FAB' Coeurjuly has released a new version of his web browser Odyssey. In version 1.19 the Cookie-Handling was completely reworked. Therefore old cookies are not valid any longer. A list of all changes can be found in the Readme. Additional to the full version there is also a version without SVG support which uses less virtual memory.

Direct download:
owb-morphos-1.19.lha (27 MB)
owb-morphos-1.19-nosvg.lha (25 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Feb.2013
Obligement (ANF)


Results of the Amiga Games Award
Today the french magazine Obligement announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2012. This represents the best Amiga games voted by users on all Amiga platforms.
  • AmigaOS:
    1. Sqrxz (Retroguru)
    2. Sqrxz 2 (Retroguru)
    3. Super Sprint (State Of The Art, Philippe Guichardon)
  • AmigaOS 4:
    1. Hurrican (Poke53280)
    2. Tap Jewels (AmiBoing)
    3. Ask Me Up (Boing Attitude)
  • MorphOS:
    1. Hurrican (Poke53280)
    2. Ask Me Up (Boing Attitude)
    3. Uplink: Trust Is A Weakness (Introversion Software)
  • AROS:
    1. Return To Castle Wolfenstein (ID Software, Gray Matter Interactive, Nerve Software)
    2. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (Splash Damage, ID Software)
    3. Warzone 2100 (Pumpkin Studios, Warzone Resurection Project)
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AmigaOS 4: YoctoFacts 1.1
YoctoFacts is a commodity for AmigaOS 4 which updates the system time with the help of a NTP-server.

Download: yfacts.lha (23 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Feb.2013



Wordpress-Theme: Amigo 1985
If you are writing a blog, using the software Wordpress, then now you can present your site in Workbench 1.x-look with the "Amigo 1985"-theme. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Feb.2013



RunInDOSBox starts DOS-applications via double-click (AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS)
After RunInUAE Christopher Handley has released RunInDOSBox which makes it possible to launch DOS-applications via double-click right from the emulator. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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AmigaOS 4: SketchBlock 1.9
The latest version of Andy Broad's graphic programm SketchBlock has introduced among others layer and paint tool blend modes like "multiply" or "divide" as well as the use of ARexx-ports via scripts.

SketchBlock-macros requires ProAction. Exporting to different formats as the ILBM, the Python Imaging Library is required.

Download: sketchblock.lha (7 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Feb.2013
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AmigaOS 4: Ranger 1.54
Steven Solie's Ranger is a little "AmigaOS diagnostic tool which displays all sorts of resources." In version 1.54 the DOS/TrackedAddr-Tab was added which lists the used addresses. The dos.library 53.118 is required which soon will be available via system update.

Download: ranger.lha (395 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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05.Feb.2013



Retro-Gaming Wallpapers: How Games Used To Look
On the website "How Games Used To Look" Mike Burnett has transformed characters of classic video games (e.g. Worms, Sensible Soccer, Chuck Rock...) into modern, high-resolution desktop background pictures. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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MorphOS: Action-Adventure Cave Story ("Doukutsu Monogatari")
Szilárd Biró has ported the action adventure Cave Story (originally released in Japan as "Doukutsu Monogatari", Wikipedia, Trailer, Fan-Seite) to MorphOS. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Feb.2013



DVD-Covers for Amiga and CD32 games
Originally old games were often delivered in cardboard boxes. And if they are damaged or maybe lost, they can be replaced by DVD-sleeves or Universal Video Game Cases.

The cover inlays often are created by fans and users. One of those websites which offer such "replacement-covers" is thecoverproject.net - there are DVD-covers for 56 CD32-games as well as for 4 Amiga-games. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Feb.2013
Matthias Rustler (ANF)


Paint programm: HollyPaint 1.0 (all Amiga-systems)
HollyPaint is a simple paint programm written with Hollywood. It has a MUI-based user-interface (screenshots: 1, 2).

There are versions for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS but the author could only test the AROS-version. HollyPaint is Open-Source software. The sources are available under a BSD-licence on sourceforge.net. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Feb.2013
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MorphOS: InstantZip
Carsten Siegner's InstantZip is a Zip archive tool which can create new archives or add files to existing ones. Additionally InstantZip can delete files from Zip-archives or unzip them - but only from the main directory of the archive. Encrypted archives are not supported.

InstantZip_1.0.0.lha (146 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has uploaded new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last message the following songs have been added:
  • 3D Galax 2013
  • Turrican Traps
  • Platoon (E/Rock 2013)
  • Jumping Jackson
  • Hulk Hogan Hymne - Real American
  • Turrican 2 Title
  • RSI Megademo - Loader
  • Turrican title
  • Stormlord ingame
  • RSI Megademo - BA1
  • GODS Into the wonderfull - daxx step 2 dub Remix
  • Stormlord (intro)
  • Battle Squadron ingame
  • Wings Of Death (Discover Gravity) [Level 1] feat. Péter Nagy-Miklós
  • Pinball Illusions (Remix2012)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Feb.2013
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MorphOS: PowerSDL.library 16.0
Ilkka 'itix' Lehtoranta has released an update of his SDL-library for MorphOS. This now corresponds to SDL-version 1.2.15 and fixes Endianess-bugs in the SDL-Headers and -libraries.

Download: powersdl.lha (1 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Feb.2013
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AmigaOS 4: GUI-Server ProAction 1.5
ProAction is a GUI-server which can handle ARexx-commands of scripts to create graphical user-interfaces and to report back results to the script. Additional to ARexx itself (with the rexxsupport.library) also Python (with the module arexx.so) can be used.

In version 1.5 the support of the chooser.gadget, listbrowser.gadget and the sysiclass was added.

Download: proaction.lha (503 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2013
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AROS: Vector graphic programm ZuneFIG (beta version)
Yannick Erb has changed the GUI of his AROS port of the vector graphics program AmiFIG (Aminet), which was originally developed for AmigaOS, and now calls it ZuneFIG.

This version now has a MUI-interface and is based on xfig 3.2.5b. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2013



Official AmigaOS Plush Boingball available
Hyperion Entertainment and Costel Mincea present the "Official AmigaOS Plush Boingball".



A first dealer offers the plush boingball for about 20 Euro. Any other requests please write to info _AT_ stackswap _DOT_. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 02.02.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until February 2nd, 2013:
ToDisk2.6.lha            disk/misc  65K   68k Thomson disk/k7 manager &...
MCE.lha                  game/edit  934K  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  1.1M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  1.1M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
AmiQuake.lha             game/shoot 246K  68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
etlegacy.i386-aros.lha   game/shoot 6.0M  x86 Wolfenstein Enemy Territory: ...
etlegacy.src.tgz         game/shoot 5.1M      ET Legacy sources
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.0M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.3M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.2M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
RunInUAE.lha             misc/emu   3.9M  OS4 Double-clicked 68k games run ...
lame-morphos.lha         mus/misc   313K  MOS MP3 encoder optimized for Pow...
mtpng_68k.lha            mus/play   215K  68k MegaTracker player/decoder
playOGG.lha              mus/play   5.7M  68k multi format sound player.
Ym2ar.lha                mus/play   140K  68k play & decode YM tunes
Scriba_1.6.0.lha         text/edit  6.4M  MOS Simple word processing softwa...
AmiSystemRestore.lha     util/misc  907K  OS4 Monitors & allows undoing...
ChannelEditor.lha        util/misc  72K   68k Editor for Sogno/Opticum Sat ...
Apollo_1260_80Mhz_AGA... util/moni  1K    68k SysSpeed Module (A1200_Apollo...
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03.Feb.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 02.02.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until February 2nd, 2013:
allegro_source.zip       dev/gam 10Mb  4.0 AllegroSDK_1.1_Source
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
runinuae.lha             emu/uti 4Mb   4.0 Double-clicked 68k games/progs a...
mce.lha                  gam/uti 1Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
proaction.lha            lib/rea 503kb 4.0 GUIServer for script writers
fastcompress.lha         uti/arc 3Mb   4.0 Quickly compress into LHA,ZIP,LZ...
netdock.lha              uti/doc 50kb  4.0 Docky to monitor your network ac...
amisystemrestore.lha     uti/mis 907kb 4.0 Monitors & allows undoing ch...
showfiles.lha            uti/she 49kb  4.0 DIR command - shows a sorted &am...
attachmail.lha           uti/wor 421kb 4.0 Attach file(s) to YAM or SimpleM...
sysmon.lha               uti/wor 659kb 4.1 monitor for Process, Windows (+ ...
videoclipper.lha         vid/edi 854kb 4.0 Cut and/or join multiple format ...
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 02.02.2013
The following packages have been added to AROS-Archives until February 2nd, 2013:
etlegacy.i386-aros.lha       gam/fps 6Mb   Wolfenstein Enemy Territory: Legacy
etlegacy.src.tgz             gam/fps 5Mb   ET Legacy sources
allegrosdk_1.1_source.zip    lib     10Mb  AllegroSDK_1.1_Source
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 02.02.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until February 2nd, 2013:
MorphOS SDK              2013-01 dev/too  29728 Official MorphOS Software D...
HotBorder                1.1     uti/des     35 System commodity which resi...
AmiArcadia               19.2    uti/emu   3319 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
DMG2ISO                  0.2     uti/pac    107 Converts Apple compressed *...
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WHDLoad: New packages until 02.02.2013
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 February 2nd, 2013:
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2013
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MorphOS: Interview with Jacek Piszczek
After Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski the long-time Amiga user 'saib0t' has now interviewed Jacek 'jacaDcaps' Piszczek who is another member of the Polish MorphOS-team. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Feb.2013



Installation guide: Debian Sarge (PPC) on an Amiga 4000 PPC
Harald "Rotzlöffel" Meinzer has written a step by step tutorial for the installation of Debian PPC. In the first part he explains how to prepare the harddrive, to install the older Debian-version "Woody" as well as afterwards to upgrade to Debian Sarge.

The tutorial is meant to be read by users of an Amiga 4000 with PPC-board. Users of an A1200 do require different kernel-files and have to changes some parts. All users who are interested in a tutorial for an Amiga please contact Meinzer. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2013
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AmigaOS 4: Simple video editing with VideoClipper 1.1
VideoClipper written by Kevin 'ktadd' Taddeucci is a graphical user-interface for mencoder which provides video and picture editing functions (screenshots: 1, 2, 3).

In version 1.1 the gtaphical iuser-interface was completed by several features. Detailed changes:
  • Added buttons to read start time and end times directly from MPlayer.
  • Added abilty to add an audio file after videos are joined.
  • Added ability to add a subtitle file after videos are joined.
  • Added ability to view information about the selected file in the "Video Files List".
  • Added display of cut file names to Video Files List.
  • Added horizontal lines to video and effects lists to improve readability.
  • Added LIST_ROWS tooltype to set number of rows for title/video lists. (Valid range limited by program. 11 minimum, 25 maximum).
  • Added 'Audio Files' and 'Title Files' directories. Includes example files.
  • Changed help to run asycroniously. Thanks to AmigaGuide class provided by Trixie!
  • Amiga keyboard, "Help" key (scroll lock) opens VideoClipper guide help.
  • Changed to quit and re-start MPlayer if already running when 'Preview' or 'Play' clicked.
  • Tweaked video resolution and bitrate setting to support popular settings. (May cause saved projects to recall video settings improperly. Check setting and re-save.)
  • Added profiles to create YouTube compliant videos. (360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p)
  • Added 16:9 aspect ration DRAFT profile.
  • Added snapshot video options when mplayer is started. Ensures frame save works.
  • Changed so display does not beep when TAB or Enter are used in time entry fields.
  • Updated and enhanced the VideoClipper.guide.
  • Enhanced some gadget hints.
  • Added workaround for 'Save Frame' when paused bug in MUIMPLayer.
  • Fixed bug that prevented End Time key ']' from working all the time.
  • Fixed bug where changing playback speed did work after playing a second file.
  • Fixed bug with loading projects who's video filenames contained spaces.
  • Fixed bug with speeding up and slowing down playback with older MPlayer.
  • Fixed bug with identifying version of MPlayer.

VideoClipper requires mencoder and MPlayer or MUI-MPlayer. (cg)

(cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2013
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GAUHPIL: Database of Amiga-Homepages updated
Since 1994 Dietmar Knoll has been collecting Amiga homepages. It has been updated again and currently lists 620 users from 36 countries. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2013
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MorphOS 3.2 SDK (20130129)
The MorphOS-team has released the "final" version of the Software Development Kit for MorphOS 3.2. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2013
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.5.1
Paolo Besser has released version 1.5.1 of his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop. Now a new kernel is used which will provide more stability and fix the boot problems of some of the motherboards. The keyboard shortcut Control-Alt-Delete activates a cold start, and Control-lAros-rAROS a warm start.

Additionally the update includes the game Ri-Li, the backup tool BackupCopy and updates of several components of the Distribution.

Hint:

Originally Icaros 1.5.1 was delivered with a buggy version of the FAT-handler which could destroy the filesystems on FAT12-/FAT16 media. If you have already installed the update then check if the new version was installed: You can recognize it by looking at the name of the download archive. The name of the new version was completed by an"-1": "IcarosLive_1_5_1-1.7z.exe" instead of " IcarosLive_1_5_1.7z.exe". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jan.2013
The NetBSD Foundation (ANF)


NetBSD: Support of Mediator 4000 PCI
The Amiga-port of the NetBSD now also supports Elbox' PCI-busboard (Mediator 4000 PCI) which was developed for the Amiga 4000. The new driver em4k was tested with SATALink 3114 and NE2000-compatible network boards. The support of graphic boards is currently in development. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


ASB-Computer: Reworked Online-Shop under amigastore.eu
The Hispanic company ASB-Computer has reworked its webshop and can be now accessed under amigastore.eu. Additional to Amiga and C64 products you can also repair, configure and install your hardware and software there. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Party game: Plouf!
Aurélien Gâteau has translated his 18 years old party game Plouf! (written in AMOS) into English and released it under the GPL. Aurélien Gâteau describes Plouf! as "top-down game where players sit on floats, trying to sink the other players by throwing sea urchins at them." (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2013
PPA (Webseite)


NetBSD: Switching off the Amiga 1200 with Mediator-board via software
With the new empm(4)-driver for the Amiga-port of the operating system NetBSD it is now possible to switch off Amiga-1200-computers which are equipped with a Mediator-busboard 1200 TX or SX with the help of the command line, if an ATX power supply unit is used (video). (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Hyperion: Cinemaware classics for AmigaOS-3.1-emulation under AmigaOS 4.1
The game classics developed by Cinemaware have been available for over ten years for free and have been also offered by Amiga Inc. in its emulator package. Now Hyperion Entertainment has made an agreement with Cinemaware to make available these games registered users of AmigaOS 4.1. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Password management AmiSafe 0.9
AmiSafe for AmigaOS 4 is a ReAction-based programm for centrally collecting passwords as well as credit cards and insurance information. It is similar to BeSafe for the Palm Pilot and encrypts the data with the Rijndael-algorithm. The full version can be purchased for 5 US-Dollar.

Download: amisafedemo.lha (608 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Jan.2013
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)


AROS: 68k-Distribution AROS Vision 1.5.7
Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k-distribution. It is a mix of AROS and AmigaOS software (tutorial). In version 1.5.7 some parts have been updated or added:

Added:
  • New Amiblitz-Includes
  • Limpidclock
  • Handy095
  • Screenblanker
  • many additional CLI-commands

Updated:
  • All System-Files
  • MCC Betterstring
  • MCC OpenURL
  • MCC NList
  • MCC Texteditor
  • MCC The Bar
  • Org_68k
  • oggv_dec
  • Simplemail
  • YAM
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Jan.2013
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Real AmiKit: Distribution for AGA-Amigas (beta version)
The well-known distribution AmiKit for users of emulators now was reworked so it can be also used on real Amigas which is called "Real AmiKit".

The original AmigaOS files and Kickstart-ROM of the AGA-chipset and at least 16 MB RAM are required. An accelerator board is highly recommended. Owners of an Apollo-board should use the RemApollo-patch. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2013



USB: New edition of Thylacine canceled
In October all documents on the Zorro 2 plug-in card Thylacine were released which made it possible to recreate the low-cost USB-controller. Users on a1k.org expressed the wish to have the original design reworked and then sold the construction kit at cost price.

Actually during the first eight weeks several revisions of a reworked layout have been presented which the could have been produced as prototypes. After more than one month of silence the initiator "crasbe" explained that he has canceled the project which was called "Nova-Thylacine".

He has suspend the project in order to prevent "screwing up anybodies business". A commercial competing product which "is not or at least not much more" expensive than the Nova-Thylacine will be available "at the latest by the next quarter". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 26.01.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until January 26th, 2013:
netclip.py.gz            comm/tcp   1K        netclip client
dmg2iso-morphos.lha      disk/misc  107K  MOS Convert DMG images to ISO
Szalter.zip              game/think 471K  68k A nice logic game
AlphaQuad.lha            game/wb    32K   68k Place the letters in the righ...
BulGom.lha               game/wb    34K   68k Burst some bubbles!
Flecho.lha               game/wb    29K   68k Point the arrows to the numbers!
Numo.lha                 game/wb    31K   68k Find all pairs of correspondi...
Quetiles.lha             game/wb    32K   68k Change all tiles to one colour!
Roman_Wheel.lha          game/wb    31K   68k Place the numbers in the righ...
SevenHex.lha             game/wb    28K   68k Place 7 pawns on an hexagonal...
Tri_It.lha               game/wb    35K   68k Try to match a triangular pat...
XCenter.lha              game/wb    29K   68k Link from the center to the e...
TSFixer.lha              gfx/misc   36K   68k fix/join/cut (HD) transport s...
flite_device.lha         mus/misc   30M   OS4 Device API based on Flite Spe...
pacplay_68k.lha          mus/play   431K  68k Play & Decode PAC music m...
playOGG.lha              mus/play   5.7M  68k multi format sound player.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.01.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until January 26th, 2013:
flite_device.lha         dri/aud 30Mb  4.1 Device API based on the Flite Sp...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amifig_de.lha            gra/edi 6kb   4.0 New German Catalog for AmiFig
iconsreworked3.lha       gra/ico 10Mb  4.1 Icons for 3rd party software
showgeo.lha              gra/vec 2Mb   4.0 3D object viewer for VideoScape ...
a-ftp_server.lha         net/ser 2Mb   4.0 FTP Server for AmigaOS4
aa3-dp5_buttons.lha      uti/mis 18kb  4.1 AmigaAMP3 control buttons for Do...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2013



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 26.01.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS-Files until January 26th, 2013:
VAMP                     0.92    mul/pla   1532 VAMP is a simple Hollywood ...
eGame                    1.4     off/dat    345 Simple MUI based game datab...
EggTimer                 1.4     uti/mis     41 Software version of an egg ...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Jan.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 26.01.2013
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 January 26th, 2013: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Jan.2013
David Brunet (ANF)


Voting: Amiga Games Award 2012
David Brunet writes: Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2012! To vote for the best games, you can rate them at the title link.

There will be no "global" winner but a winner by systems (AmigaOS/68k, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS or AROS). The final results will be published on wednesday, February 6, 2013. (snx)

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25.Jan.2013
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Interview with Grzegorz Kraszewski
In the forum of MorphZone an interview with Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski was published. He told about computers who he owned until in 2002 he joined the MorphOS-team. Since then he has mainly developed his multimedia library Reggae as well as helped to integrate the programming language Lua to the operating system. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jan.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Workbench replacement: X-bEnCH 0.83
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 128 colours which replaces the Workbench for starting WHDLoad games (.slave, .exe) and requires less memory. According to the developer the programm works with all OCS and AGA Amigas.

Additional to several bug fixes, with the version 0.83 the mouse pointer can be controled with the joystick (important to Amiga CDTV and CD³²). (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jan.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Text editor: CygnusED with new website and domain
For several years the well-known text editor CygnuesED has been developed by Olaf Barthel and sold by APC&TCP. Now for the programm under cygnused.de a new website was established.

Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP) pointed out that CygnusED still is developed further. Users can post their requests in the CygnusED support forum. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jan.2013
(ANF)


Preconfigured AEROS computer: Ares M1000
Pascal Papara is offering another preconfigured system for his linux hosted AROS distribution AEROS. The Ares M1000 is also referred to as the "Ares Mini", comes with AEROS preinstalled and offers the following features:
  • AMD C60 1GHZ dualcore (turbo mode 1,33GHZ)
  • 250GB HD
  • 2GB DDR3 RAM (supports up to 8GB RAM)
  • 6xUSB2
  • DVD-writer
  • Onboard GPU/LAN/Audio support
  • DVI / VGA
  • Case and PSU
  • Software: AMC, A-Live X and the game G.E.M.Z
(cg)

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20.Jan.2013
Andreas Magerl (comment area)


MorphOS: Update of the TCP/IP stack Roadshow
The MorphOS compatible version of the AmigaOS 3 compile of TCP stack Roadshow has been updated: The MorphOS related configuration files of Roadshow 1.8 can handle static IPv4 addresses now. Additionally, configuration files for the following drivers have been added: mpc52xx_eth.device, mv6436x_eth.device und rtl_8139pci.device.

There is still no installation script provided, but MorphOS user Cato Hagen has written an ARexx script that automates the installation process (requires ARexx). (snx)

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20.Jan.2013



Aminet-Uploads until 19.01.2013
The following packages have been added to Aminet until January 19th, 2013:
viewcsv.lha              biz/dbase  392K  68k MUI based CSV file reader
tn3270.lha               comm/tcp   68K   68k A tn3270 client for Amiga com...
ZVNC_1.5.1.lha           comm/tcp   282K  MOS Fast VNC client for remote co...
Blitz_OPT.lha            dev/basic  13K   68k gcc like CPU checking for Ami...
flite.lha                dev/lib    62M   OS4 Flite speech synthesis engine
powersdl_sdk.lha         dev/misc   2.3M  MOS SDK to SDL audio and video li...
aca620rd.lha             disk/misc  3K    68k ACA620 RAM Disk
Envy24HT.zip             driver/aud 1.7M      Source code for Envy24HT AHI ...
retrobattle.ppc-mos.lha  game/jump  5.5M  MOS Retrobattle
BOOM.lha                 game/shoot 2.8M  68k Amiga port of BOOM v2.02
Tri_Q.lha                game/wb    35K   68k A triangular shaped peg game
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.0M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.4M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.2M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 19.15 spanish catalog
Handy095.lha             misc/emu   230K  68k Atari Lynx emulator
flite_device.lha         mus/misc   3.3M  OS4 Device API based on Flite Spe...
oggv_dec.lha             mus/play   233K  68k play & decode OGG vorbis
org_68k.lha              mus/play   207K  68k play & decode org music
powersdl.lha             util/libs  1.3M  MOS SDL audio and video library f...
powersdl_src.lha         util/libs  3.5M      Source code: SDL audio and vi...
eGame.lha                util/misc  882K  MOS Game launcher with tagging &a...
backupcopy.tgz           util/shell 4.8M  MOS Copy,synchronise, mirror + ar...
AmiUpdateSP.lha          util/sys   9K        AmiUpdate 2.27 spanish catalogs
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20.Jan.2013



OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.01.2013
The following packages have been added to OS4Depot until January 19th, 2013:
flite.lha                dev/lib 62Mb  4.0 Flite speech synthesis engine
flite_device.lha         dri/aud 3Mb   4.0 Device API based on the Flite Sp...
dcraw.lha                gra/con 3Mb   4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files
iconsreworked3.lha       gra/ico 11Mb  4.1 Icons for 3rd party software
a-ftp_server.lha         net/ser 2Mb   4.0 FTP Server for AmigaOS4
clipdown.lha             uti/fil 149kb 4.0 Utility to download/play URL's f...
poweroff.lha             uti/har 2kb   4.1 Shell command to turn off the X1000
assist.lha               uti/mis 3Mb   4.1 An assistant for AmigaOS users
egame.lha                uti/mis 882kb 4.0 Game launcher with tagging &...
amimagicdemo.lha         uti/wor 42kb  4.0 Adds sounds to system events
videoclipper.lha         vid/edi 115kb 4.0 Cut and/or join multiple format ...
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20.Jan.2013



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 19.01.2013
The following package has been added to AROS Archives until January 19th, 2013:
backupcopy_v1.0.i386-aros... uti/she 5Mb   BackupCopy
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 19.01.2013
The following packages have been added to MorphOS files until January 19th, 2013:
PowerSDL SDK             15.10   dev/lib   2334 The Software Developer Kit ...
Taran im Abenteuerland   3.0     gam/adv  12970 Hollywood remake of old poi...
RetroBattle              4.0     gam/pla   5657 Classic style platform game...
AHIW                     2.0     gra/edi   6344 Yet another image processin...
ShowGeo                  1.0     gra/vie   4676 Viewer for 3D objects from ...
ZVNC                     1.5.1   net/rem    282 Minimal VNC client only han...
eGame                    1.3     off/dat    303 Simple MUI based game datab...
BubbleDoc                0.5.0   off/tex   1403 Early version of MS Office ...
PowerSDL                 15.10   sys/lib   1286 A fast and powerful impleme...
EggTimer                 1.4     uti/mis     41 Software version of an egg ...
(snx) (Translation: cg)

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20.Jan.2013



WHDLoad: New packages until 19.01.2013
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 January 19th, 2013:
(snx) (Translation: cg)

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18.Jan.2013
PPA (ANF)


Thinking game: Szalter 1.0
In Benedykt Dziubałtowski und Czesław Mnichs game Szalter steuern you guide an avatar through a labyrinth full of light bulbs that switch on or off when you get close. The aim is to switch all light bulbs on.

Szalter has been tested on 68000, 68030 and 68060 CPUs. It requires 1 MB RAM and the amos.library. (snx) (Translation: cg)

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18.Jan.2013
Pascal Papara (ANF)


AROS distribution: AEROS 3.5
In version 3.5 of Pascal Paparas Linux hosted AROS distribution AEROS low level components like the Linux kernel (release 3.2.0 now) or the Nvidia driver (release 310 now) have been updated which increases the range of supported CPUs, GPUs, gfx cards and other hardware components. Additionally, AEROS now contains the Amiga emulator FS-UAE.

Users without a Nvidia graphics card can find hints for removing the related dependencies in section 4 of the manual. (snx) (Translation: cg)

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18.Jan.2013
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)


Javascript: Scripted Amiga Emulator 0.8.0
Rupert Hausberger's Scripted Amiga Emulator is written in Javascript and should run in any modern web browser, but currently the best performance can be achieved using Chrome.

Changes in version 0.8.0 (16.01.2013):
  • New online games
    • Alien Breed - Spezial Edition 92
    • Alien Breed 2
    • Lemmings
    • Pinball Fantasies
    • R-Type
    • Rubicon
    • Shadow of the Beast
    • Silkworm
    • Stunt Car Racer
  • Display
    • Ported and optimized playfield-code from WinUAE.
      This adds ECS and AGA support and fixes graphics-errors.
      The AGA part is commented out, because there is no 68020 yet.
    • Added support for drawing via 'Canvas 2D' if 'WebGL' is not avail.
    • Added support for auto-driver detection.
  • Audio
    • While disk access, audio performance is much better now.
    • Added support for the A500 lowpass-filter. Not enabled by default.
    • Added support for auto-driver detection.
  • Memory
    • To gain speed, all memory is now accessed directly and not via functions.
      So, don't care for a possible illegal memory access.
    • Fixed bug, where kickstart 1.2 failed to load.
    • Fixed incorrect extended-address bug.
  • CPU
    • Splitted address-types of ADDQ/SUBQ into separate functions for more speed.
    • Added bus-read/write cycles tables. For internal use only.
  • CIA
    • I decided to port the latest cia-code from WinUAE while i was trying to find a bug.
      Well, the bug is still there. Let's keep the code nevertheless.
  • GUI
    • Added info box of supported drivers.
    • Added a 'Chipset'-section and various options.
    • Packed the main GUI.
  • Common
    • Added support for easy URL sharing. E.g. to show the Multica-demo to a friend,
      one may send the link "http://scriptedamigaemulator.net/#Multica"
      and the demo will start immediately. (thanks mrdoob)
    • Many small optimizations.
(cg)

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18.Jan.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Major update of Amiga Software Datenbank
In the Amiga Software Datenbank (ASD) of the Amiga Future during the last weeks and months several hundreds of entries have been added or changed. Additionally there are almost 1000 new scans. Meanwhile ASD includes over 3700 entries as well as nearly 5000 pictures of packings, manuals and much more.

The next update will mainly affect CD-ROMs, (cover-) disks and magazines. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jan.2013
Moo Bunny (Forum)


Commodore USA: Barry Altman deceased
According to Leo Nigro (Amigatek), CTO of Commodore USA, under the title link the founder of the company, Barry S. Altman, who died on December 8, 2012 after a courageous, year long, battle with cancer.

Two years ago Commodore USA had purchased a licence for the name "Amiga" and had announced recently a Commodore Amiga Mini. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jan.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AROS: Super-Tirititran ported
Super-Tirititran is a classic Shoot'em-Up game which is now also available for AROS, but only in Spanish.

Download: Tirititran-Aros.lha (34 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jan.2013
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


TCP stack: Roadshow update for MorphOS
Press release: Since today there is an update available, so roadshow can also be used on MorphOS. Roadshow is much faster than the internal TCP / IP stack for MorphOS.

Please note, that with MorphOS a manual installation of roadshow is required. The supplied installation script will not run under MorphOS. The user should therefore familiar with the operating system.

The manually installed Roadshow is now directly usable and requires no further intervention to boot. New sample files for the network usage on the Pegasos/Pegasos II, and for Apple hardware are also included.

The update can be downloaded for free on the Support homepage Roadshow.

About Roadshow

Roadshow is an Amiga TCP/IP stack, that allows you to connect to the Internet, to access your e-mail, web pages, chat, etc. It can also be used to access and exchange files within your local home network.

Roadshow is one of the fastest, if not THE fastest Amiga TCP/IP stacks.

Some features include:
  • Amiga-ised configuration utilities rather than the terse and somewhat cryptic Unix legacy tools
  • DHCP configuration for Ethernet devices
  • "TCP:" device support, for use with, for example, ARexx scripts
  • Enhanced & cleaned-up software development kit, that includes the complete source code to all the configuration tools and sample programs
(cg) (Translation: cg)

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