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15.Jul.2012
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS 3.1: Amending character length for PFS3
Different than stated in the release notes for MorphOS 3.1, the included filesystem PFS3 does not use 107 characters for file and directory names.

This can be amended by the user with the Shell command "PFSSetFileNameSize NameDesPFS3Laufwerks: 107". This issue has been fixed for 3.2 and later MorphOS releases. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Jul.2012
ANF


Puzzle-Platform-Game: Me and my Shadow 0.2
"Me and my Shadow" is a platform game. The user has to solve Aufgaben tasks to reach the exit. The SDL-based game requires AmigaOS 3.x. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Jul.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 14.07.2012
The following files have been added until 14.07.2012 to the Aminet:
timberwolf.lha           comm/www   26M   OS4 A Firefox based web browser
MIV_OS4.lha              demo/slide 2.6M  OS4 MIV Plus slideshow
ToolTypesEditorPPC_SP... dev/c      2K        ToolTypes Editor 2.1 spanish ...
abfs.lha                 docs/misc  100K      Amiga Binary File Structure
oki_68k.lha              game/jump  665K  68k A B&W platform game
xsoldier_68k.lha         game/shoot 749K  68k A fast silent action shooter
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.3M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 18.33 spanish catalog
glUAE.lha                misc/emu   14K       Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
AP49Covers.lha           pix/misc   520K      aMiGa=PoWeR n?49 Cover Recto
WarpDTPrefs.lha          util/cli     2K  68k switch for audio filter/power...
WarpDTPrefs.lha          util/dtype 151K  68k WarpDT preferences program V45.6
IconLib_46.4.lha         util/libs  152K  68k free icon.library in optimize...
QuickStarterSP.lha       util/wb    3K        QuickStarter 1.7 spanish catalog
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15.Jul.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 14.07.2012
The following files have been added until 14.07.2012 to the OS4Depot:
adripper_encoders.lha    aud/mis 574kb 4.1 An encoder plugin pack for ADRipper
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
gluae.lha                emu/uti 14kb  4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
flare.lha                gam/rol 2Mb   4.0 A free action RPG engine
freeciv-sdl.lha          gam/str 17Mb  4.0 Open source empire-building stra...
timberwolf.lha           net/bro 26Mb  4.0 Timberwolf, a Firefox based web ...
winnet.lha               net/ser 2Mb   4.1 Connect AmigaOne500 to ASPIREHOM...
homebank.lha             off/mis 11Mb  4.1 A personal accounting program fo...
homebank-src.lha         off/mis 425kb 4.1 Sources of the Homebank package
amipad.lha               uti/mis 2Mb   4.1 Website App-wrapper
assist.lha               uti/mis 3Mb   4.1 An assistant for AmigaOS users
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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15.Jul.2012



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 14.07.2012
The following files have been added until 14.07.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
duke3dw.src.lha              gam/fps 3Mb   Duke3dw source
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Jul.2012



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 14.07.2012
The following files have been added until 14.07.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
Paint                    0.63    gra/edi   1768 Advanced pixel graphics edi...
JHead                    2.96    gra/mis    120 A shell based tool for JPEG...
KwaKwa                   0.5a    net/cha    159 Instant messenger using Gad...
ezxml.library            8.7     sys/lib     55 ezXML is a C library for pa...
SCube                    1.1     uti/des    160 3D screen switcher. When ac...
SZoom                    1.1     uti/des     11 Zooms frontmost screen with...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Jul.2012
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: Ultimate Pack 3.1
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Ultimate Pack is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators. Now an updated version for MorphOS 3.1 has been published. A basic installation of the operating system is required.

Three double system files were deleted:
sys:classes/MUI/urltext.mcc
sys:classes/MUII/urltext.mcp
sys:classes/screenbar/drivelamps.sbar

Download: ultimate.iso (558 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Jul.2012
PPA (Webseite)


WarpDTPrefs 45.6
The preference program for the Warp-datatypes written by Oliver Roberts was updated. Version 45.6 fixes a bug which prevented reading the correct parameters for pens and dithering. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Jul.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


plipbox: Internet over the parallel interface
With Christian 'lallafa' Vogelgsang's plipbox Amigas which have been not extended can get access to the Internet. The Arduino-based adapter provides a connection to the Ethernet-port of the Arduino board.

The magPLIP-protocol is used but the firmware is still in development. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jul.2012
pegasosforum.de


IRC-Client: AmIRC 3.6.1 for AmigaOS 3/MorphOS
Nicolas "Henes" Sallin has published an update of his AmIRC-version (screenshot). In version 3.6.1 a crash on drag & drop of a file on a query window was fixed. Additionally the lists of the graphical user-interface all use MUI-lists as default. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jul.2012



AROS meets Linux: AEROS published
AEROS is an AROS distribution published by Pascal Papara which uses the Linux-hosted version of AROS as desktop replacement for a Linux distribution. Linux applications can be launched with a Shell command from AROS. Linux and AROS applications can be run simultaneously.

AEROS is available as DVD-image (1,9GB) which works as live-DVD - in this mode the screen solution is limited to 800x600 pixels. After the boot routine the harddrive installation can be chosen via double click on the pictogram.

AEROS at least requires 512 MB RAM, 1 GB is recommended. And you should know how a harddrive can be partitioned under Linux.

The bug fixed release published today additionally includes adapted themes, updated system files (iconify now works) as well as new versions of the web browser OWB and the game Duke Nukem 3D. As new Linux applications Worker, Pitivi and Obconf (themes changer for Linux) were added.

The distribution also is available via torrent. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jul.2012
Edgar Schwan (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Homebank 4.4 for AmiCygnix
Homebank is Freeware and can be used to manage your personal accounts.

Up to version 3.1 Homebank was developed for AmigaOS. Because the author left the Amiga community, Homebank officially is only available for Windows and Linux. Thanks to Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix the latest version of the application also can be used under AmigaOS 4 again (screenshot). Old files of the Amiga-Version can be imported.

Download: homebank.lha (11 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jul.2012
Exec.pl (Webseite)


Zeus68k: 4-in-1 accelerator board for Amiga 500/2000/CDTV
Zeus68k is a accelerator board for the Amiga 500 and 2000 as well as the CDTV which is development and performs several functions: Accelerator, memory extension, IDE-controler and Kickstart switcher as well as - maybe - an action-replay-replacement. It might be also used in different 68k-computers, e.g. the Atari ST.

Technical data:
  • 68SEC000-CPU with 7 or 50 MHz
  • 8 MB RAM
  • BootMenü (configurable)
  • 6x-Kickstart-ROM-Switcher
  • IDE-controler (Gayle Logic A600)
  • Clock-Port
Currently the board is only available as prototype. The final version might be released in winter. First pictures show the board from above, from below, the processor-, IDE- and RAM-speed as well as the prototype from above and from below.

Zeus68k is plugged in instead of the original processor. The boot menu and the FPGA-code can be changed by the user. The price has not yet been set. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jul.2012
Exec.pl (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Timberwolf 4.0.1.0182 - RC1
The AmigaOS-4-port of the web browser Firefox is available as Timberwolf version 4.0.1.0182 which is the "Release Candidate 1". According to Thomas Frieden this update fixes most of the known bugs.

In substance the bugs were fixed in the JavaScript code because the browser itself was written in JavaScript.

Download: timberwolf.lha (26 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jul.2012
Amigazeux (ANF)


MorphOS: New graphics program Paint 0.62 (beta)
Paweł 'stefkos' Stefański has published a new graphics program called "Paint" (screenshot) for MorphOS with the following features:
  • unlimited layers
  • draw and text layers
  • many blending and paint effects
  • image manipulation options
  • default set of pens
  • many shapes to paint
  • plugin system, compatybile with Sketch and SCANdal
  • gradient editor
  • palette editor (load, save)
  • manual in pdf format
  • pen and brush editor

According to the author the program still is a beta version. Feedback and bug reports are welcome. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jul.2012



Swedish magazine: Amiga Forum
For the first time since seven years in Sweden there is a magazine about Amiga again: "Amiga Forum" with 28 pages can be purchased for 39 SEK (about 4,55 Euro, incl. shipping) at the Swedish User Group of Amiga. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jul.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


NetBSD: G-REX support improved
The GRex-driver for the Amiga-ports of NetBSD which has been introduced at the beginning of this year was improved and now supports all PCI-slots which are available on the board. It has been tested with a Voodo 3 as well as NE 2000-based network boards. Bus Master DMA still is not supported. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jul.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood Player 5.1 for Android released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce that Hollywood is now also available for Android devices (ARM architecture). This makes it possible for the first time for every Hollywood user to run his Hollywood applets on smart phones and tablet computers running Android. Everything you need is the Hollywood Player for Android which is now available as a free download on Google Play. To see what Hollywood on Android looks like check out a little demo video on YouTube.

Please note that the Hollywood Player for Android requires at least Android 2.3. To get your own Hollywood project onto your Android device, simply compile it as a Hollywood applet (*.hwa) from the Hollywood GUI or Hollywood Designer and then copy it into a directory named "Hollywood" on the SD card of your Android device. Then you can easily run it using the Hollywood Player!

Featurewise the Hollywood Player for Android is pretty identical to the desktop version of Hollywood, plugins and videos are fully supported. Due to security reasons, however, certain functionality like starting external programs is currently disabled. You can find a complete list of differences between the desktop and mobile versions of Hollywood in the release notes in the Hollywood forums. Please note that the Hollywood Player for Android is a WIP snapshot from the current development version of Hollywood 5.1 which has not been released yet and is still a work-in-progress.

Due to the multitude of Android devices and the often scarcely documented native development interface of Android, it can happen that this app does not run on your Android device. If that is the case, please let us know in the Hollywood forums or via email.

Information can be found on the Airsoft Softwair Homepage or the official Hollywood portal.

Download. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Jul.2012
StrikerAUT (ANF)


Amiga 500 plays complete movies from harddrive
With the help of the converter AVI4HV video files can be converted into formats which can be played with a Amiga 500 (288x200 HAM6, 8Bit 11KHz Stereo) or Amiga 1200 (320x216). 1,5 MB RAM as well as a hraddrive are required.

Complete movies just like "Apocalypse Now" under the title link have to be divided into two files due to the limitations under AmigaOS. A short article about the topic also can be find in current issue of the PDF-magazine Lotek. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Jul.2012



Amiga Future: Issue 82 (German/English) online
Issue 81 of the magazine Amiga Future is sold out. Therefore the articles of the German and English version are available online. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Jul.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: RadeonHD driver 0.49 for Sam460 and AmigaOne 500/X1000
A-Eon has published the latest version of the RadeonHD driver for Sam460 and AmigaOne 500/X1000. Changes from the previous version are presently unknown.

Users of an AmigaOne X1000 or of an AmigaOne 500 ordered from ACube can get the driver for free. They should have been informed via eMail about a download link. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jul.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


ACube Systems: New batch of Sam440ep-flex with discounted prices
After a longer beak ACube Systems offers Sam440ep-flex motherboards. The boards only will be available for a limited time and cost 270 (667 Mhz) and 310 Euro (plus taxes, shipping and AmigaOS 4) - three years ago 733 Mhz did cost 410 Euro.

The new edition has a new version of the firmware UBoot which makes it possible to boot PATA mass storages which are connected to a VIA VT6421-controler. This Uboot update will be available for all Sam440ep-flex users during the next days. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Jul.2012
Murakami (ANF)


Printmagazin: aMiGa=PoWeR 49
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French newspaper issued by French association AFLE. 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.
  • News: MorphOS 3.0, Hollywood 5.0 Infinity
  • Articles: NG Amigas, Xorro, AmigaOS 4 browsers, From MorphOS 2.0 to MorphOS 3.0
  • Reviews: PSX adapter, NetSurf 2.8 vs. MUI-OWB 1.9, USB2/SATA Dexlan Card, Picture Overview, Project Secret Maryo Chronicles
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09.Jul.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: MazezaM 1.24
MazezaM is a little logic game similar to Sokoban. Information about the changes in version 1.24 for AmigaOS 4 is not available. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jul.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


MorphOS: Scube 1.1
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak's Scube shows the currently opened screens as sides of a dice. With the mouse or the keyboard the dice is rotated and a screen chosen. In version 1.1 the provisional solutions concerning the missing OpenGL-implementation in MorphOS 2.x were deleted.

Download: scube-1.1.lha (160 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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08.Jul.2012



MorphOS 3.1 published
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.1, which offers various enhancements and bug fixes. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.

We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshoot guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.1 is available for download in our files section. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Jul.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 07.07.2012
The following files have been added until 07.07.2012 to the Aminet:
DesignerSP.lha           biz/misc   26K       Hollywood Designer 4.0 spanis...
HollywoodSP.lha          biz/misc   163K      Hollywood 5.0 spanish catalogs
AMIGA_Peek_Mem.py.txt    dev/src    9K    68k Peeking memory from Python ONLY
theplayerconsrc.lha      dev/src    27K       Source code for The Player 6....
Amiga-Trademarks.pdf     docs/misc  58K       List of Amiga related trademarks
Fussball-EM-2012.lha     docs/misc  16K       TurboCalc Spreadsheet EM-2012...
Wazp3D.lha               driver/vid 1.3M  68k CPU only Warp3D implementation 
ASCIIpOrtal_68k.lha      game/actio 4.0M  68k A Portal clone
IR_68k.lha               game/actio 138K  68k (n)curses based dancing finge...
ErmentrudDemo.lha        game/demo  3.1M  OS4 Demo of the adventure game "E...
gocart_68k.lha           game/race  139K  68k (n)curses based racing game
RLD_68k.lha              game/role  222K  68k (n)curses based adventure game
duke3dw.i386-aros.lha    game/shoot 1.4M  x86 Duke3dw
duke3dw.ppc-mos.lha      game/shoot 1.1M  MOS Duke3dw for MorphOS
icbm3d_68k.lha           game/shoot 127K  68k very buggy x11 3d shooter
spacefighter_68k.lha     game/shoot 140K  68k (n)curses based defender like...
jhead-mos.lha            gfx/conv   120K  MOS manipulate non-image parts of...
VAMP.lha                 gfx/show   1.6M  OS4 Play video files and Shows pi...
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...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 18.31 spanish catalog
amipad1.lha              util/app   2.1M  OS4 AmiPad 1.0i
PCITool.lha              util/cli   13K   OS4 Read/Write PCI Config/IO/Memo...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 07.07.2012
The following files have been added until 07.07.2012 to the OS4Depot:
jackcharts.lha           aud/pla 3Mb   4.1 iTunes Chart Commodity for your ...
xamos-bin.lha            dev/lan 3Mb   4.1 Cross-platform AMOS BASIC reimpl...
hp_photosmart.lha        dri/pri 60kb  4.0 HP PCL3 printer driver
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
hurrican.lha             gam/act 48Mb  4.0 Hurrican is a great openGL remake
chocolate-doom.lha       gam/fps 1Mb   4.0 Aims to behave the same as the o...
nuvie.lha                gam/rol 1Mb   4.0 Nuvie Ultima 6 game engine
dcraw.lha                gra/con 3Mb   4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files
pftp.lha                 net/ftp 739kb 4.1 Advanced FTP/SFTP client
amicygnix-base.lha       net/mis 111Mb 4.1 AmiCygnix, an Unix/X11 environme...
amicygnix-tools.lha      net/mis 73Mb  4.1 Extension package for AmiCygnix,...
pcitool.lha              uti/har 13kb  4.0 Read/Write PCI Config/IO/Memory ...
amipad.lha               uti/mis 2Mb   4.0 AmiPad
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 A Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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08.Jul.2012



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 07.07.2012
The following files have been added until 07.07.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
duke3dw.i386-aros.lha        gam/fps 1Mb   Duke3dw
d98o_pack-072012.zip         gra/the 902kb decor, 2.04 style pointer and so...
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08.Jul.2012



MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 07.07.2012
The following files have been added until 07.07.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
Hurrican                 1.0.0.4 gam/pla  48606 2D platform shooter, remake...
energy.sbar              1.2     uti/des     16 Screenbar module for laptop...
AmiArcadia               18.32   uti/emu   3323 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
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07.Jul.2012



X1000: User blog
In his blog AmigaOne user "Epsilon" has published his experiences with A-Eon's PPC-hardware and the operating system AmigaOS 4.1. Additional to his personal impressions he wrote test reports on games (Swamp Defense, 1941 Extreme Deluxe 2) as well as detailed tutorials for different applications (Delitracker, MUI-OWB, MUI-Mplayer). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jul.2012
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


AmigaOS 4: AmiPad 1.0
AmiPad is a little Hollywood program for AmigaOS 4 which currently links 36 websites and HTML5-apps (screenshot, video).

Download: amipad.lha (2 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jul.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Update of Turrican-clone Hurrican (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS)
Hugues "HunoPPC" Nouvel and "SixK" have published an update of the Turrican-clone Hurrican for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. On AmigaOS 4 computers without hardware-3D-support now the game works with Wazp3D. An user has made available a Wazp3D-configuration file.

Changes:
  • New icons for levels by TommySammy
  • Fixed an allocation error of HunoJoyWrapper / Keymap (thanks to SixK)
  • Adding new commandlines for levelsPacks:
    • -- chjees
    • -- genocide
    • -- secondempire
    • -- secretplanet
    • -- valentine
    • -- volcanotemple
    • -- walkersworld
  • All levelsPacks have been fixed and added, they now work on AMIGA systems
  • Added a new commandline for loading individual level: --level [.map]

Downloads:

AmigaOS 4-Version 1.0.0.6
MorphOS-Version 1.0.0.4_R2 (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jul.2012
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


MorphOS 3.2 supports iBook
At the user meeting Geit@Home which will take place this weekend the support of Apple's iBook G4 by MorphOS 3.2 will be presented and officially announced. On the website of Guido Mersmann a video confirms it. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Jul.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: iTunes-Chart-Commodity JackCharts 0.1
JackCharts is a program for the Workbench which accesses to the charts of different countries in Apple's iTunes Store. It is possible to listen to the previews (music, music videos, audio books). Versions for AROS and MorphOS will follow.

Download: jackcharts.lha (3 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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05.Jul.2012
Edgar Schwan (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: X11-environment AmiCygnix 1.1 (Bugfix)
Edgar Schwan has published an update of his X11-environment AmiCygnix. With the help of AmiCygnix it is possible to launch Unix-applications with minor changes of the source code under AmigaOS.

This version fixes some bugs and increases the stability and can be copied over the existing installation.

The distribution consists of two parts: The base archive AmiCygnix-Base and the tool collection AmiCygnix-Tools. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Jul.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Magazine: Amiga Future, issue 97
Today the English an German issue 97 (July/August 2012) of the magazine Amiga Future has been published.

Topics of this issue:
  • MorphOS 3 test
  • Emulators tested
  • News of A-EON
  • Classic Reflection part 5
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jul.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Word Me Up XXL: Mugs and mousepads
Under the title link friends of the MorphOS and AmigaOS-4 game Word Me Up XXL can buy mugs and mousepads. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jul.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: FTP-Client pFTP 1.2
Pete's FTP written by Peter Gordon offers unlimited windows, server-to-server-transfers and SFTP-support. With version 1.2 SFTP-connections have been accelerated. Under the title link all changes are listed.

Download: pftp.lha (739 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jul.2012
Jochen Terstiege (ANF)


Crowdfunding: Remake of roguelike classic ADOM
By crowdfunding Thomas Biskup who is the author of roguelike video game Ancient Domains of Mystery tries to finance a remake of his roguelike role playing game: If 48.000 US-Dollar will be donated he will hire a second developer, a graphic artist and a musician and publish a new version of his Freeware game.

According to Biskup this update will be available for all supported platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS, BSD and Amiga. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jul.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Joypad-Adapter: Limited edition of 64JPX
The Australian Nicholas Coplin again offers a limited edition of his Joypad-adapter 64JPX which makes it possible to connect Sega-, Nintendo or PC-joypads with Commodore and Atari computers.

Four different kinds of adapters are offered which are named after colours for a better distinction:
  • Red: For Sega- (Genesis/MegaDrive) Joypads
  • Blue: For Nintendo-(S)NES-Joypads
  • Violet: A combination of the first two variations; the connected Joypad is automatically recognized. For Nintendo-Joypads an additional "Pin-Adaptor" is required.
  • Orange: For Sega- (Genesis/MegaDrive) or PC-Joypads; the connected Joypad is automatically recognized. For PC-Joypads an additional "Pin-Adaptor" is required.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jul.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Amiga flea market: AmiBench is online again
For ten years on AmiBench.org Amiga users could place classified ads and sold their hardware. Im November 2007 the webmaster Mark Wilson closed the project due to lack of time.

Now a new team - with Wilson - has republished the site. There also is a new programmer who will add some new functions during the next months and create a modern design. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jul.2012
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)


Online game database "Oregami": Open for everyone!
Sebastian Eichholz wrote: "For some one and a half years now, we 're tinkering around with some people on our new and ultimate online database for computer and video games named OReGamI (full name is "Open Registry of Game Information"). Within over 800 forum posts we've already created a large amount of the very important data model, built the foundation for the coding with Java and, now, are ready to take the next step: publishing our unfinished work.

Why that, you may ask? Because we want everyone of you to take part in the complete development process of this ambitious project. This can mean reading into our forums as often as you want, or sniffing around in our Java code base.

And when there's something you wanna tell us regarding our ways, or wanna comment on a certain issue, just do it! Register at the forums and post to the public area what's bothering you. If you'd like to join us and actively take part in the development, you should send some info about yourself to Sebastian using gene[at]oregami.org. We're always open for new people, be it gaming experts, programmers, designers or lawyers.

We're curious to meet you!

Some final words: We're German and in order to not introduce an additional language barrier, we started this project using our native language. But this is not a Sauerkraut project. It can't be, because we wanna document the global history of video games. So, we're slowly trying to switch to the English language whereever possible.

We started by offering the contents of our shiny new website bilingual. Substantial information about our project crave for readers." (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jul.2012
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)


AROS: 68k-distribution AROS Vision 1.5
Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k-distribution. It is a mix from AROS and AmigaOS software (Youtube-Video, tutorial). The author called this version 1.5 as "final".

AROS Vision 1.5 includes new keyboard shortcuts (see below), the ST-emulator Hatari and the game Pachi as well as a new version of the programming language Lua.

The added keyboard shortcuts:
  • ALT N - Processmanager of Executive
  • ALT M - Amos Pro (nocybergraphx)
  • ALT R - DOpus 4 (nocybergraphx)
  • ALT T - Ignition (nocybergraphx)
  • ALT S - Hatari (launched from Shell)
  • ALT P - Personal Paint

(cg) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jul.2012
David Brunet (ANF)


New articles on Obligement website
During the last two months some new articles have been added to the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. Translations into other languages are very welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
  • May/June 2012 news
  • Old articles from A-News 5 to 8, e.g.:
    • Focus on Workbench 1.3, 1.4 and 2.0
    • Hardware: AGA 2000
    • Review: d'Excellence!
    • Review: VideoSpace 3D 2.0
    • Report: NAMM Show 1988
    • Review: Buggy Boy
    • Hardware: The Wedge
  • Interview: Éric Cubizolle (author of "Bible Amiga")
  • Interview: Matthias Rustler (AROS developper)
  • Interview: Aaron and Adam Fothergill (Amiga games developpers)
  • Interview: Jens Schönfeld (from 2001, hardware designer)
  • Review: Sqrxz 3
  • Review: Wings Of Fury
  • Review: Moebius
  • Review: Defender Of The Crown
  • Review: Leather Goddesses Of Phobos
  • Review: Word Me Up XXL (mise à jour)
  • Report: Micro Alchimie 2010
  • Hardware: SamIGA 500
  • Amiga shoot'em ups (introdution)
  • Amiga shoot'em ups (1987)
  • Amiga shoot'em ups (1988)
  • Tutorial: installation of MorphOS 3.0
  • Tutorial: how to mount PC harddisk on AmigaOS 4
  • Special quizz about Amiga chipsets
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Jul.2012



WHDLoad: New packages until 01.07.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games, scene demos and intros on your harddrive which originally could only be used from disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with new Amiga models were fixed. The follwing installers have been added or updated since our last news message:
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Aminet-Uploads until 30.06.2012
The following archives have been uploaded until 30.06.2012 to the Aminet:
DOpus4SP.lha             biz/dopus  37K       Directory Opus 4 spanish cata...
lua_68k.lha              dev/lang   368K  68k Lua language & lib
libpng_68k.lha           dev/lib    370K  68k PNG pic lib
Boot_Uni.lha             disk/misc  2K    68k Universal Boot (+ ASM Source)
Fussball-EM-2012.lha     docs/misc  16K       TurboCalc Spreadsheet EM-2012...
scsidev4347_A4000.lha    driver/med 43K   68k scsi.device v43.47 (A4000D/T)
Ceferino_68k.lha         game/actio 2.8M  68k A fun pang like game
trackerhero_sth-03.lha   game/data  496K      Song Pack 3 for the game Trac...
MCE.lha                  game/edit  877K  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  1.0M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  1.0M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Pachi_68k.lha            game/jump  3.1M  68k Platform game inspired by Man...
Abbo.lha                 game/misc  1.0M  68k Fixed Boulderdash Clone (+ Am...
trackerheroaga.lha       game/misc  3.0M  68k "Guitar Hero" clone using mod...
AmiQuake.lha             game/shoot 251K  68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
siemu_68k.lha            game/shoot 270K  68k space invaders emulator
Hex-a-Hop_68k.lha        game/think 4.1M  68k A fun hexagonal tile-based pu...
Pushover_68k.lha         game/think 4.5M  68k Puzzle game with dominoes 
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   3.1M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.4M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.3M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
aros5_theme_v1.zip       pix/theme  155K      AROS5 Theme
retrofunk_aros_theme_... pix/theme  76K       Retrofunk AROS Theme
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.06.2012
The following archives have been added until 30.06.2012 to the OS4Depot:
longpathnames.lha        dev/exa 14kb  4.0 A way to deal with long pathname...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 4Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
hurrican.lha             gam/act 45Mb  4.0 Hurrican is a great openGL remake
mce.lha                  gam/uti 2Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
dcraw.lha                gra/con 4Mb   4.0 CLI converter for camera raw files
timberwolf.lha           net/bro 26Mb  4.0 Timberwolf, a Firefox based web ...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 30.06.2012
The following archives have been added until 30.06.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
retrofunk_aros_iconpack_v... gra/ico 8Mb   Retrofunk AROS Iconpack
aros5_theme_v1.zip           gra/the 155kb AROS5 Theme
retrofunk_aros_theme_v1.zip  gra/the 76kb  Retrofunk AROS Theme
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 30.06.2012
The following archives have been added until 30.06.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
energy.sbar              1.1     uti/des     12 Screenbar module for laptop...
FPSE                     0.10.4  uti/emu   1100 Emulator of Sony PlayStatio...
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30.Jun.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Hurrican 1.0.0.5
Based on the original MorphOS-version written by 'SixK', 'HunoPPC' now has published version 1.0.0.5 of the SDL-version of the game Hurrican which is a Turrican-clone.

Joystick, language and complete sound support were added as well as HQ-graphics.

Download: hurrican.lha (45 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jun.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Magazine: Commodore Free, issue 62
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different formats - among others as HTML-version or C64-Diskmag. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jun.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Fourth beta of Firefox-port Timberwolf
Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden have published a new beta version of their Firefox port "Timberwolf". Besides bug fixes, the new version implements some major new feature:
  • - Drag & Drop support (customizing, bookmark sorting)
  • - Clipboard support (text only at the moment)
  • - Sound support (can now play video and audio streams)
  • - Some internal changes. NSPR threads completely rewritten to cope with NSPR's pecularities of condition variables.

Thomas Frieden wrote at amigaworld: "As I said, this version is supposed to be "feature complete" to the extend what is possible on current AmigaOS. What remains to be done is bugfixing and occasional optimization, but the feature completeness was my current goal." (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Jun.2012
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MorphOS: Energy.sbar displays status of battery on laptops
The screenbar-plugin Enrergy.sbar shows the status of the battery as graphic which includes remaining battery level, state of charge, battery capacity as well as the current charging rate. The plugin has to be copied to SYS:Classes/Screenbar/. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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26.Jun.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Emulator: FPSE 0.10.4
Version 0.10.4 of the "Free Play Station Emulator" (FPSE) was published for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS/x86. Additional to minor bug fixes and improvements, the Warp3D-plugin for AROS was ported and reworked. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Jun.2012
Amiga.org (Forum)


ACube Systems: RadeonHD-driver for Sam460-boards (update)
After A-EON Technology has secured the exclusive rights to the RadeonHD graphic boards drivers for AmigaOS 4, now under the title link ACube Systems has informed that the company will pay the license fee if a Sam460-boards or the complete system AmigaOne 500 will be purchased.

Customers who have already bought an AmigaOne 500 will be contacted in the next days. They will get the driver for free as well.

Update: (26.06.2011, 23:30, cg)

In a new comment ACube explained that existing owners of a Sam460 "can order the new driver from A-eon." Obviously only existing owners of an AmigaOne 500 will get a license for free. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Jun.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: A-EON Technology secures RadeonHD driver support
According to A-EON Technology under the title link, it has signed a new development agreement with premier AmigaOS graphics specialist Hans de Ruiter which ensures the future compatibility of AmigaOS 4 with the latest RadeonHD graphics cards.

This new driver will support the RV5x0 to RV7x0-chipsets (e.g X1950, HD4000) as well as HD5000-, HD6000- and the current HD7000-graphic boards.

For purchasers of an AmigaOne-X1000 the drivers are for free. Customers of ACube Systems can buy them for 28,85 £ (about 37 Euro). According to A-EON the HD5000- and HD6000-boards will be supported at the same level like the HD4000-boards. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Aminet-Uploads until 23.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 23.06.2012 to the Aminet:
DOpus4SP.lha             biz/dopus  18K       Directory Opus 4 spanish cata...
NetSurf-m68k.lha         comm/www   6.8M  68k CSS capable web browser
sdl_configs.lha          dev/c      7K        Useful SDL configurations 
lua-mos.lha              dev/lang   564K  MOS Lua programming language
sdlclown-mos.lha         dev/lang   94K   MOS Clown Script Interpreter (SDL)
guichan_68k.lha          dev/lib    4.1M  68k SDL or SDL-GL GUI lib
GUIlib_68k.lha           dev/lib    1.3M  68k a simple GUI framework for SDL
libpdcurses_ns.lha       dev/lib    670K  68k SDL/pdcurses with no size gadget
zlib_68k.lha             dev/lib    357K  68k data compression lib
dogma01.lha              docs/mags  639K      Russian magazine, HTML vers. ...
dogma02.lha              docs/mags  2.2M      Russian magazine, HTML vers. ...
dogma03.lha              docs/mags  1.6M      Russian magazine, HTML vers. ...
Fussball-EM-2012.lha     docs/misc  16K       TurboCalc Spreadsheet EM-2012...
bvalanche-mos.lha        game/actio 33K   MOS clone of the Web game "Avalan...
thew_68k.lha             game/actio 281K  68k another ncurses based snake game
SSM_68k.lha              game/jump  259K  68k a silent amusing platform game
fop-mos.lha              game/role  119K  MOS multi-player dungeon crawling
AmiQuake.lha             game/shoot 254K  68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
duke3dw.src-aros.lha     game/shoot 1.7M      Duke3dw
ctm3d-mos.lha            game/think 34K   MOS Color matching puzzle 3D
popstar-mos.lha          game/think 7.6M  MOS use floating stars to form po...
flxplay_68k.lha          gfx/show   289K  68k FLI/FLC ANIM player
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   2.9M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.3M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.1M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
SamplesCreator.lha       mus/edit   36K   68k Samples creation and saving
org_68k.lha              mus/play   228K  68k play & decode org music
DrawerBall.lha           util/dir   2.4M  MOS Directory and files tool
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 23.06.2012 to the OS4Depot:
libode.lha               dev/lib 5Mb   4.0 ODE - Open Dynamics Engine library
libcurl.lha              dev/lib 2Mb   4.0 The multiprotocol file transfer ...
libopenssl.lha           dev/lib 10Mb  4.0 The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS
libz.lha                 dev/lib 191kb 4.0 libZ / zlib / z library (.a/.so)
hp_photosmart.lha        dri/pri 64kb  4.0 HP PCL3 printer driver
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 3Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
hurrican.lha             gam/act 43Mb  4.0 Hurrican is a great openGL remake
xmoto.lha                gam/dri 43Mb  4.1 Stunt cycle game with realistic ...
iconsreworked_2012.lha   gra/ico 112Mb 4.1 Icons for 3th party software
videothumbnailer.lha     gra/ico 2Mb   4.1 An Prog. to create thumbnail ico...
amicygnix-base.lha       net/mis 111Mb 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 73Mb  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 ...
curl.lha                 net/mis 1Mb   4.0 Command line URL file transfer
gfxbench2d.lha           uti/ben 2Mb   4.0 A 2D graphics benchmark tool
assist.lha               uti/mis 3Mb   4.1 An assistant for AmigaOS users
allocmem.lha             uti/she 5kb   4.0 A Shell command to reduce memory...
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Gothic: Virtual Amiga Multimedia...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 23.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 23.06.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
oricutron_aros_v09.lha       emu/com 1Mb   Oric-1 / Atmos emulator
duke3dw.src-aros.lha         gam/fps 2Mb   Duke3dw
klix.i386-aros.lha           gam/puz 2Mb   Klix - a small thinking game lik...
imbiss.zip                   gam/str 1Mb   Imbiss - buy and sell hamburgers
lodepaint.i386-aros.zip      gra/edi 2Mb   LodePaint
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 23.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 23.06.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
NTFS-3G                  r3      sys/lib    432 NTFS filesystem handler wit...
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24.Jun.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has published new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. The following songs have been added since our last message:
  • Chaos Engine - World 2
  • Turrican Loader Theme
  • Fury of the Furries - Mystic Remix
  • Final Fight (Remix)
  • Chambers of Shaolin - Modu Attack
  • Chambers of Shaolin - Test Of Agility
  • Interceptor Cracktro (Unit A is Back)
  • Elvira Garden
  • CZ-Tunes - A Prehistoric Tale (Highscore Remix)
  • Mad Hatter (pure restoration)
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24.Jun.2012
EAB (Forum)


EmuTOS: Atari-ST-compatible OS for Amiga
EmuTOS is a GEMDOS (in German)-compatible operating system for Atari-ST-computers which now also was ported for the Amiga. EmuTOS is available as Kickstart-replacement and with it you can launch Atari programs which do not access to ST-hardware. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)


MorphOS: Tutorial for mounting ADF-files (Polish)
Under the title link Grzegorz 'krashan' Kraszewski has published an illustrated tutorial for mounting Amiga-disk-images (ADF-files) under MorphOS. This is available in Polish but the automated translation into English is easily legible.
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Jun.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.4.3
For his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop, Paolo Besser has published a minor update which fixes problems with the developers programs and aditionally installs new system files.

The WildMidi.library, the MP3-player and LoView were updated as well. Please note that - if you use the light version of the distribution and have limited memory space - that with this update about 120 MB of developer software will be installed. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.Jun.2012



AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate SDK server temporarily offline
AmiUpdate is a simple package manager which informs the user about updates of installed applications. The server hosting the central AmiUpdate database for SDK users is temporarily offline. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)


Web-Browser NetSurf 2.9
After the release for AmigaOS 4 version 2.9 of the fast browser NetSurf now is also available for AmigaOS 3.x thanks to Artur Jarosik.

You can now save websites as PNG graphic files and new search engines were added.

Download: netsurf-m68k.lha (7 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.Jun.2012
Edgar Schwan (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: X11-environment AmiCygnix 1.1
With Edgar Schwan's X11-environment AmiCygnix (screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) it is possible to launch several Unix applications under AmigaOS. Most important changes in version 1.1:
  • Support of programs compiled for GTK+ 2.24 and GTK+ 3.x.
  • A new (experimental) display driver is included, which opens a X11 display in a workbench window.
  • The X server and the display drivers were revised. The server can now be launched several times without problems.
  • All new programs with an own directory in the AmiCygnix "Software" directory will have two start scripts: One for opening the application on the desktop (just like before) and a script, which opens the program in an own display. With a special version of the settings editor "myX11Setup" you can select the display driver and the window manager for every application, which is launched with the new start script.
  • A new icon theme in AmgaOS 4.1 style is included.
  • The workbench icons are now all in AmigaOS 4.1 style.
  • Version 1.0 of AmiCygnix could not be installed on partitions formatted with the filesystem JXFS. This is now solved.
  • Most of the programs and libraries used in this package were replaced by current versions.
AmiCygnix 1.1 can be copied over an existing installation of a previous version.

The distribution consists of two parts: The base archive AmiCygnix-Base and the tool collection AmiCygnix-Tools. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Jun.2012
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Magazine: Preview of Amiga Future 97
A preview of issue 97 (July/August 2012) of the Amiga Future is available. Highlights of the issue are the report on MorphOS 3.0 as well as tests on diverse emulators. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jun.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Event: AmiWest 2012 will last one day longer (18.-21. October, Sacramento)
This year the AmiWest will last four days: The first two days of the annual Amiga meeting in Sacramento will be about Amiga software. Further details are still not known - but it will be discussed that there are only few applications for AmigaOS 4. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)


MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0 (2012.04.18) updated
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has updated his version 1.0 (2012.04.18) of his MorphOS-port of MPlayer. He wrote:
"I just reuploaded it to fix a ffmpeg bug : it was inconditionally using altivec in sample format conversion routine. It prevented mplayer from working on non-altivec machines when the routine was used."

Download: MPlayer-1.0-svn-2012.04.18.lha (17 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Jun.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AROS: Broadway-X-Distribution for Raspberry Pi
Pascal Papara has published a SD-card-image of his AROS-distribution Broadway-X for the ARM-based Raspberry Pi (amiga-news.de reported on it).

Because he himself does not own such a computer and his distribution he can only adapt under the slow Qemu-emulation, the image boots instead of into an automatic login into the command line. In order to start AROS Broadway you have to enter "startx".

With the command "lx" Linux programms can be launched from the AROS. The next features will be automatic integration of devices, exchange of some installed applications and a upgrade to Debian Wheezy. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Jun.2012
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MorphOS: NTFS-3G-Dateisystem R3
Leif Salomonsson has updated the NTFS-3G-driver for the MorphOS-implementation of the FUSE-frameworks, Filesysbox. Version 3 now also supports partition sizes bigger than 1 TiB and more. Additionally a bug was fixed which caused a crash if a NTFS-disk was inserted before the OS was booted.

Download: ntfs3g-morphos-r3.lha (432 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Jun.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AROS: Computerworld Interview with Paolo Besser
Rohan Pearce who recently wrote about the AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported on it) has interviewed Paolo Besser and talked with him about AROS and his distribution Icaros Desktop. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Jun.2012
ANF


AROS: Video on Raspberry-Pi Website published
On the official website of the ARM single-board computer Raspberry Pi was published a video of Steve Jones which shows AROS on this computer. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Jun.2012
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)


AROS: 68k-Distribution AROS Vision 1.3
Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k-distribution. It is a mix of AROS and AmigaOS software (video, tutorial). In version 1.3 among others DOpus4 and Frying Pan were added.

The next steps will concern the sections Internet and emulators (version 1.4) as well as in the final version (1.5) Samba/network, demos, additional tools and improvements.

Changes in version 1.3:
  • Many new CLI-commands (e.g. concerning Public Screens)
  • DOpus4
  • CreativE (Amiga-E)
  • Dice
  • PowerD (latest version of the author)
  • MUIBase
  • Midi.library
  • Frying Pan (still not tested)
Download-Seite (snx) (Translation: dr)

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18.Jun.2012



PPC-Hardware: Status update for UltimatePPC
Last Saturday in Maarssen the meeting of the Commodore Gebruikersgroep took place which also was visited by the two developers of the PPC-extension UltimatePPC which was announced some weeks ago. One of the members have uploaded some pictures to amiga.org and have given a short summary of the current status of the project:
  • Hardwarewise the PPC side is working and booting. The 68040 side works, but does not yet talk to the classic hardware. The card does run, standalone. But the Amiga will not boot yet with the card inserted. [editor's note: This would mean that both processors obviously are more integrated than it seemed at the first announcement].
  • Active talks with Hyperion for supporting AmigaOS4.x.
  • Driver support: lots of help pledged for building drivers for all the hardware goodies (more help is always welcome!).
  • Support for WarpUp/WarpOS through support pledged by the original author.
  • The MicroSD card on the UltimatePPC holds the firmware/bootcode. This is indended to stay. That means upgrading/flashing the card can be done with a normal PC and a card reader... !!
Editor's note: The QorIQ P1013 Power-Processor which is used on the UltimatePPC contains a FPU which is not compatible with processors used in other Amiga-PPC-projects. According to our information this would mean that - supposed WarpOS or AmigaOS 4 would be adapted to UltimatePPC - no other existing PPC-software would run on this hardware and the PPC-programms have to be adapted to the UltimatePPC by the developers. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jun.2012
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood Designer 4.0 available
Press release: After 18 months of intense development Airsoft Softwair is very proud to announce the immediate availability of the long awaited fourth incarnation of our famous Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer 4.0 is a multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia based applications; for example presentations, slide shows, simple games, and programs.

Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86), Mac OS X (PPC & x86), and Linux (PPC & x86). This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world.

Hollywood Designer 4.0 is a huge update and has many new features and improvements over the previous version. We do not want to bore you, so here are just some of them:
  • Ready for Hollywood 5.0: Infinity!
  • Video clips can now be embedded in your projects
  • Support for vector formats like SVG
  • Over 25 filter effects for layers like blur, emboss, sharpen, gamma correction...
  • Support for real, curve-based vector graphics
  • Powerful improvements in the action events system: loops and conditions now possible!
  • Multiple languages can be embedded in a single project
  • Support for the Hollywood 5.0 plugin system: you can use all file formats that your Hollywood plugins support
  • Support for password protected presentations
  • Projects can use screen blanker pages
  • Projects can now listen to keyboard events
  • Cool new gradient types like conical, radial and multi-linear gradients
  • Shadow and border now supported for every object type
  • Much better looking drop shadows using alpha channel transparency
  • Custom user color palette can now be defined
  • Over 10 new action events (over 50 altogether!)
  • Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood Designer is no longer limited to "just" being an authoring software, it can now also be used as a flexible graphics editor because it supports many features of modern graphics editors like multiple layers with filter effects, vector graphics, image import, and text.

Without a doubt, Hollywood Designer 4.0 is the definitive multimedia solution for all Amiga compatible platforms, but as a picture is worth a thousand words, here are some screenshots of Hollywood Designer 4.0 running on MorphOS and AmigaOS 4:



Hollywood Designer 4.0 is a very stable and mature multimedia authoring system. We would like to emphasize that it is not only suited for personal use, but also for professional commercial customers. Ferrule Media, for instance, have created an info channel containing over 700 unique slides in a single project with Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer was designed to handle these huge projects efficiently so that they can run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week without any visible memory fragmentation!

Hollywood Designer 4.0 comes on a CD-ROM that contains versions for all supported platforms: There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS 3.x (m68k), WarpOS (ppc), MorphOS (ppc) and AmigaOS 4 (ppc). The CD-ROM version is delivered as a nice Digipak.

A download version is also offered. If you order the download version, you will have to download an ISO image which you need to burn on CD-R then. If you already own a previous version of Hollywood Designer, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. Have a look at the order page for special offers.

Please note that Hollywood Designer 4.0 runs on top of the Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood 5.0. Thus, Hollywood 5.0 is strictly required for Hollywood Designer 4.0. Both programs are available in a special bundle which is the ultimate package for every power Amiga user who wants to see what his system can do with Hollywood 5.0 & Hollywood Designer 4.0.

Power up your Amiga system with Hollywood 5.0 & Hollywood Designer 4.0 and order now! (snx)

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Aminet-Uploads until 16.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 16.06.2012 to the Aminet:
DOpus4SP.lha             biz/dopus  17K       Directory Opus 4 spanish cata...
HollywoodSP.lha          biz/misc   143K      Hollywood 5.0 spanish catalogs
xamos-mos.lha            dev/amos   2.5M  MOS Reimplementation of AMOS BASIC
libpdcurses_ns.lha       dev/lib    669K  68k SDL/pdcurses with no size gadget
Fussball-EM-2012.lha     docs/misc  14K       TurboCalc Spreadsheet EM-2012...
scsidev4347.lha          driver/med 43K   68k scsi v43.47 (A600 & A1200)
AmitenSoftwareFish.lha   game/actio 552K  68k A simple fish Game Freeware (...
thew_68k.lha             game/actio 240K  68k another ncurses based snake game
TurboKaca_68k.lha        game/actio 183K  68k fast ncurses based snake game
WormWarsSP.lha           game/actio 5K        Worm Wars 8.78 spanish catalog
avp.i386-aros.lha        game/shoot 11M   x86 Aliens vs Predator
avp.src-aros.lha         game/shoot 4.4M      Aliens vs Predator source
tric-tac-toe_68k.lha     game/think 671K  68k Rubik inspired puzzle game
Oslide.lha               game/wb    32K   68k Clear all the tiles from the ...
PyramiSol.lha            game/wb    34K   68k Play this pyramidal shaped ca...
S_Tiles.lha              game/wb    35K   68k Solve thiS Sliding-tile puzzle!
Totematik.lha            game/wb    36K   68k Recreate all 10 totems!
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   2.9M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha       misc/emu   3.2M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   3.1M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 18.2 spanish catalog
glUAE.lha                misc/emu   14K       Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
shed_68k.lha             text/edit  289K  68k ncurses based hex editor
IconLib_46.4.lha         util/libs  152K  68k free icon.library in optimize...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 16.06.2012 to the OS4Depot:
itunestom3u.zip          aud/mis 1Mb   4.0 Turn iTunes Music Library into M...
mixer.lha                aud/mis 208kb 4.1 Audio mixer
camdplay.lha             aud/pla 72kb  4.0 A MIDI file player
softsyn.lha              aud/pla 40kb  4.0 A Software Synthesizer for OS4
xamos-bin.lha            dev/lan 3Mb   4.1 Cross-platform AMOS BASIC reimpl...
camd.lha                 dri/mis 95kb  4.0 Camd library for OS4
camdtools.lha            dri/mis 451kb 4.0 Assorted Tools for CAMD Midi
usbmidi.lha              dri/mis 26kb  4.0 CAMD Driver for class compatible...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 3Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
gluae.lha                emu/uti 14kb  4.0 Integrates UAE into AmigaOS
iconsreworked_2012.lha   gra/ico 130Mb 4.1 Icons for 3th party software
videothumbnailer.lha     gra/ico 2Mb   4.1 An Prog. to create thumbnail ico...
codesets.lha             lib/mis 624kb 4.0 Library for handling codesets an...
openurl.lha              net/mis 495kb 4.0 OpenURL - Get that URL!
assist.lha               uti/mis 3Mb   4.1 An assistant for AmigaOS users
wordnet.lha              uti/sci 11Mb  4.1 Electronic database of the Engli...
openguide.lha            uti/she 4kb   4.0 Command to open an Amigaguide at...
sam460ex_setup.lha       uti/she 59kb  4.1 A utility to optimize your Sam46...
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 16.06.2012 to the AROS-Archives:
aceyducey.i386-aros.zip      gam/car 1Mb   Acey Ducey - a simple card game
avp.i386-aros.lha            gam/fps 11Mb  Aliens vs Predator
avp.src-aros.lha             gam/fps 4Mb   Aliens vs Predator source
crosscrabtris.i386-aros.zip  gam/puz 7Mb   CrossCrabTris - a mix of crosswo...
doors.i386-aros.zip          gam/puz 2Mb   Doors - a small thinking game
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 16.06.2012
The following files have been uploaded until 16.06.2012 to the MorphOS-Files:
XAMOS                    0.242   dev/too   2529 Reimplementation of AMOS pr...
Hurrican                 1.0.0.4 gam/pla  44050 2D platform shooter, remake...
Odyssey Web Browser, ... 1.17    net/WWW  25556 A modern, full featured web...
Odyssey Web Browser, ... 1.17    net/WWW  23130 A modern, full featured web...
Swfdec Plugin            1.3     net/WWW   2940 Flash animation player plug...
NTFS-3G                  r2      sys/lib    431 NTFS filesystem handler wit...
AmiArcadia               18.2    uti/emu   3137 Emulator of many coin-op ma...
MirrorCopy               2.2     uti/she     12 Advanced Copy command usefu...
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17.Jun.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: glUAE 20120616
glUAE is a collection of scripts which "makes the emulation experience perfectly natural by transparently integrating the emulator into the system, thanks to the AmigaOS flexibility and the UAE configurability."


Changes:
  • Added direct WHDLoad support
  • Allowed to indicate an alternative UAE executable on a per-application basis
  • Allowed to choose at startup:
    • The boot file, if no startup-sequence is found
    • A hardfile, if more than 1 is found
    • A UAE configuration, if none is found
    • The UAE executable, if the default/application-specific one is not found
  • Reworked the images mounting: when a specific image is specified for DF0:, the next 1, 2 or 3 images in the same directory are mounted to DF1:-DF3: in alphabetical order. (before DF1:-DF3: would get the first other 3 images in absolute)
  • Made the determination of the application form depend first of all on the input file type
  • Given the user more feedback in case of errors
  • Renamed the "first-run" splash screen as "first-launch"
  • Replaced the installer with a brand-new, AmigaOS-standard installer/reinstaller/uninstaller
  • Made several internal improvements
  • Extended/reworked the documentation
Download: glUAE.lha (14 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jun.2012
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MorphOS: Overview of changes in version 3.0
Under the title link you can find a short overview of the most important changes in MorphOS version 3.0. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)


MorphOS / AmigaOS 4: Hurrican 1.0.0.4 (Update)
After the AROS-port, now the SDL version of the game Hurrican is available for MorphOS.

Download: Hurrican_1.0.0.4.tar.gz (42 MB)

Update: (13:38, 17.06.2012, snx)
Meanwhile, it has also been compiled for AmigaOS 4. For now it's still in the upload queue at OS4Depot. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jun.2012
PPA (Webseite)


Event: Computer game competetion in Koszalin (Poland)
In connection with the Japanese culture festival in Koszalin an exhibition of classic computer and consoles as well as game competition will take place on 28./29. July. Among others the Amiga 1200 as well as the Amiga CD³² will be presented. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Jun.2012



MorphOS / AmigaOS 4: AMOS-Reimplementation XAMOS 0.242 (Update)
The latest alpha version of XAMOS which is an AMOS-reimplementation based on C++ and SDL is available. It supports the sub-language AMAL and is also available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.

Download: xamos-mos.lha (3 MB)
xamos-bin.lha (3 MB)

Update: (09:45, 15.06.12, snx)
AmigaOS 4 version added. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jun.2012



Sam 460ex: Setup-Utility for better performance
Max 'm3x' Tretene by ACube Systems has published Sam460ex_setup which is a little programm for improving the performance of these PowerPC-boards. It is started from WBStartup or the user-startup sequence. In the future with an AmigaOS-4.1-kernel would be not necessary any longer.

With the programm, "Store Gathering" is enabled in CCR0-register. Thereby the write performance of data for PCI-Express graphic boards is doubled (up to 320 MB/s for Radeon X1950 and up to 300 MB/s for a Radeon HD 4650). PCI-boards will get a performance increase by 50%.

Download: sam460ex_setup.lha (59 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jun.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: English dictionary WordNet 3.4
WordNet is a database of the English language. The port for AmigaOS 4 was written by Daniel Jedlicka (Screenshot). For audio output the flite.device is required.

Changes:
  • New: WordNet can now operate in two different user modes. The default "Learner" mode only displays sense overviews, providing an easier and faster access to word meanings. When in this mode, WordNet looks and works like a traditional electronic dictionary. The more advanced "Linguist" mode shows all possible linguistic information about the searched words
  • New: The Preferences window now replaces the original Settings menu
  • New: Pop-up gadget and menu in the window bar (OS4.1 Update 3 required)
  • New: WordNet can now be pushed to any currently opened public screen using the jump-to-screen feature (OS4.1 Update 3 required), accessible from the pop-up menu
  • Update: The program no longer relies on an external viewer (such as MultiView) to display its help file. Online help is now provided using AmigaGuide Library
  • Update: Optimized GUI initialization: the program now starts up a bit faster
  • Update: Major code overhaul with numerous little fixes and optimizations
Download: wordnet.lha (11 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Jun.2012
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


AROS: 68k-Distribution AROS Vision 1.2
Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k-distribution. It is a mix of AROS and AmigaOS software. In version 1.2 further games, thr browser AWeb, Scalos, the programming language Amiga-Python as well as PDF-support (aPDF) were added.

The next features which will be added are listed below. Additionally the website will be completed with information (e.g. about the compatibilities - Hollywood 5.0 works fine).
  • 1.3
    • CD-Support (MakeCD/Frying Pan)
    • Added CLI-Commands
    • Public Screen Support (mostly from CLI)
    • Sometimes Applications that are started from Wanderer also close Wanderer when they are closed (Public Screen). I will offer workarounds for that in the future
  • 1.4
    • Internet-Applications
    • Emulators
    • Audio-Applications
    • Real3D
  • 1.5
    • Samba/Network
    • Utilities for Graphic and Sound
    • Demos (AGA)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jun.2012
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MorphOS 3.0: Reports at Slashdot and OSNews
The release of version 3.0 of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS which now also supports Mac-Notebooks was announced on different websites: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jun.2012
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MorphOS: Odyssey Web Browser 1.17
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has published a new update of the WebKit-Engine based web browser Odyssey for MorphOS. Odyssey now can to memorise form entries (e.g. login data) and can complete the form the next time it is called. The function can be activated in the preferences, calltips.mcc is required which is included in MorphOS 3.0 or MorphOS SDK.

Direct download: owb-morphos-1.17.lha (25 MB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jun.2012



Interviews with Ronnie Simpson and Darren Ithell
The interview serie on amigapd.com was continued with conversations with Ronnie Simpson (Arcadia, Block Buster) and Darren Ithell (Dithell in Space, Furball). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jun.2012
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AmigaOS 4: Several MIDI-libraries and tools
Lyle Hazelwood has published an update of the camd.library, which for the first time has been completely adapted to AmigaOS 4 and therefore is 60% smaller than the previous versions which were ported from AROS. Additionally some minor bugs were fixed.

In order to complete the new version of the library, Hazelwood additionally has published new versions of the CAMD Tools and of the USB-MIDI driver. Finally he has published the MIDI-Player as well as SoftSyn which is a software synthesizer which can play MIDI-tracks without MIDI-hardware. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Jun.2012
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AROS: Gaming website "AROS Playground", Interview with Matthias Rustler
The blog "AROS Playground" introduces games for AROS and tries to provide background information. A series of interviews was started by releasing a conversation with Matthias "Mazze" Rustler who is an AROS-developer. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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