17.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Amiga Eastern Meeting 2011 (Poland)
On 16./17. July near Włodawa the Amiga Eastern Meeting 2011 will take place, entrance free.
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17.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Ami-Lineapolis 2.9
Ami-Lineapolis is a AmigaOS-4-port of Morpion Solitaire.
Version 2.9 does still not include all of the features but according to the author is the first playable version. If the game freezes - especially on some Radeon-HD graphic boards - it is recommended to deactivate the preference "graphics sync".
Download: ami-lineapolis.lha (348 KB)
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17.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Snapshoter 1.5.1
Version 1.5.1 of Snapshoter was published. It is a Hollywood-based programm for all Amiga systema and Windows for recording screen pictures. Please note that this version only is available in English.
Changes:
- Added Video Capture, snapshoter can capture any size video from your desktop, and save it as an AVI file
- Added new text engine in the composer, now you can use any font installed in your system and use colors and text styles as bold, italic, underline, shadow
- Fixed some bugs
- Auto update snapshoter via dropbox for share clipboards and photos between devices
- Improved RGB color palette
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15.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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SMBMounter 0.2
Robert Cranley's SMBMounter is a commodity with a clear user-interface for mounting and unmounting network drives.
Version 0.2 was tested under AmigaOS 3.9 and 4.1. The author wants to know if the under MorphOS the tool works without any problems.
New features include:
- User-definable font settings
- Passwords are now stored encrypted and are only displayed as they are entered
- Support for filesystem charset translation via SMBFS
- New "automount" feature to mount shares as soon as SMBMounter starts (very useful for WBStartup use)
- User/password prompt for Quickmount shares, and as an option in normal shares
- "Unmount all" option added to Project menu
- Improved error handling and requester information
Download: SMBMounter.lha (113 KB)
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15.Jun.2011
Obligement (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with Darren Eveland
French magazine Obligement has published an interview with Darren Eveland, one of the few people involved in both AmigaOS 4 and NatAmi. The canadian user of several Amiga systems is one of the main AmigaOS 4 "Classic" betatesters - the AmigaOS 4 version that is sold the most as he confirms.
Besides the english version at the title link, the interview is also available in french. (snx)
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14.Jun.2011
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Issues 75 and 76 online
Issues 75 and 76 of the magazine Amiga Future are sold out and therefore the articles of the German and English edition of both issues are online available.
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14.Jun.2011
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Game ports of ASCIIpOrtal 1.2a and Hex-a-Hop 1.1.0
Herbert "HAK" Klackl has ported the arcade puzzle ASCIIpOrtal and the puzzle game Hex-a-Hop for MorphOS.
Downloads:
asciiportal-1.2a-morphos.lha (10 MB)
hex-a-hop-1.1.0-morphos.lha (9 MB)
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13.Jun.2011
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Commodore-Show in Maarssen, Netherlands (18.June)
On 18. June the Commodore Gebruikersgroep (CGG) will organize its "Commodore Show", according to the motto "robotics". Robots will be presented which are controled by Commodore and Amiga computers.
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13.Jun.2011
Achim Kern (ANF)
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Klix: Puzzle game for all Amiga systems
Klix is a puzzle game which in 1994 won a German Shareware award and was added to the ADDY courseware by Coktel France (Screenshot).
The author has implemented the game now with Hollywood and has published ports for all Amiga systems as well as for Windows and Mac OS X.
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12.Jun.2011
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AGWViewer 1.0 (AmigaGuide Windows Viewer)
AGWViewer (AmigaGuide Windows Viewer) shows AmigaGuide documents under Windows. The programm also can open documents which were compressed with Powerpacker or XPK (requires WinUAE), can export in HTML or text files.
The features of AmigaGuide which were introduced with AmigaOS 3.1 are still not supported.
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11.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Mailbox-Software: Excelsior! 1.23 available for free
Version 1.23 of the Mailbox-Software Excelsior! can be downloaded under the title link for free. You are only asked to distribute it further.
Additional to the programm a registered Sysop-keyfile as well as several extensions are available. A PDF-file of the original tutorial will follow.
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10.Jun.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: Broadway 0.0.5
Pascal Papara has published a new version of his AROS-distribution Broadway. A bug in the quickstarter was fixed and the performance was increased.
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09.Jun.2011
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SimpleMail 0.37
After versions for AmigaOS and AROS today version 0.37 of the MUI-based eMail programm SimpleMail was published for MorphOS.
Changes:
- Fixed config save bug introduced in 0.36 that didn't allow the charset information to be stored
- Fixed DSIs/Enforcer Hits of the folder window
- Now longer should crash, if a read window is open and the application is closed
- Retrieving new messages from huge IMAP folders should be faster now
- Selecting a IMAP mail, now downloads the mail if the preview area is displayed
- Several cleanups addressing the port for MorposOS (henes)
- Resolved some issues with the text completion of email address fields
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08.Jun.2011
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amiga-news.de: Backend scripts updated
Due to moving to a new server, our backend scripts did not work anymore. This has been solved now. Thus third party websites utilizing our services need to update their scripts accordingly. (snx)
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08.Jun.2011
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Preview: Swamp Defense for AmigaOS 4
Swamp Defense is a commercial Tower Defense-game written by Entwickler X which will be published for XBox, AmigaOS 4 and other platforms. For AmigaOS 4 the game will be published in few weeks. Three days ago a Youtube
video of the almost finished Amiga version was published.
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08.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Gurmita Singh
On amigapd.com an interview with Gurmita Singh was published who wrote the Amiga game Henry's House for the Amiga.
Additionally the already published interview with Andrew Morris was completed with twelve further questions.
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08.Jun.2011
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: AspireOS 0.95
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published an update of his AROS-distribution AspireOS (previously called ArosAspire). This distribution is meant for the Acer-netbook Aspire One but should also run on other hardware.
Version 0.95 includes updated system files and improved performance speed.
Download: aspireos-i386-june2011.tar.gz (149 MB)
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08.Jun.2011
A-EON (E-Mail)
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A-EON Technology: Update to AmigaOne X1000
Press release, London, 7th June 2011
A-EON Technology is pleased to announce that following an extensive test programme Varisys are about to commence manufacturing the full complement of Nemo 2 motherboards for the AmigaOne X1000 Beta Test Team. As part of the pre-qualification process, Varisys have ported the PowerPC version of Debian Squeeze to demonstrate that all onboard components and subsystems are working as expected. The AmigaOS4 developers have also been busy porting the latest version of AmigaOS4.1.x
Cool Running
The energy efficiency of the PA Semi CPU was fully demonstrated during the testing phase. A thermal imaging camera was used to measure the CPU and board temperatures while running Debian Squeeze in dual-core under full load conditions. A maximum CPU/Heatsink/Fan assembly temperature of 31.1C was recorded while playing a DVD on a software rendered 1920x1200 full screen display. With the CPU fan disconnected the temperature rose to meagre 34.6C with a CPU core temperature of 61C.
AmigaOne X1000 Update Article
We are also pleased to announce that the next issue of "Amiga Future" magazine will contain a Nemo 2 update article. Issue 91 (July/August) should be released in early July and can be ordered from the "Amiga Future" website or your local Amiga reseller.
A-EON Technology CVBA
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08.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Announcement: FPGA-based accelerator board
With a video under the title link, Igor Majstorovic announced his FPGA-based accelerator board for the Amiga 600. It is based on the TG68-Core which also wil be used in the next versions of the Minimig.
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07.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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DiscreetFX: New Webshop Metropolis
Metropolis is called the new webshop of DiscreetFX. After having purchased software you can there download it. Bill Panagouleas is going to offer self-developments as well as other applications.
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07.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench complement: BetterWB 2.2
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench tools for AmigaOS 3.1.
Version 2.2 adds a new Exchange commodity, the new commodity ToolAlias, a replacement of the version-command with four-digit year display and some minor bug fixes.
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05.Jun.2011
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WHDLoad: New packages until 05.06.2011
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which have been published on disks. Besides, several incompatibilities with new Amiga models are fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
- 04.06.2011 improved: D/Generation (Mindscape) rewritten CD32 version for WHDLoad v16 (Info)
- 28.05.2011 improved: Conflict: Europe (PSS) supports german version (Info)
- 21.05.2011 fixed: Misja Harolda (MarkSoft) music is played in game now (Info)
- 17.05.2011 fixed: Cannon Fodder 2 (Sensible Software) keyboard handling corrected, savegame loading fixed (Info)
- 12.05.2011 updated: Apprentice (Rainbow Arts) avoid error with newer whdload versions about low free stack (Info)
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05.Jun.2011
AmigaFan (ANF)
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List of AmigaOS 4-compatible Scene-Demos
David "Dave" Hauser has published a list of scene demos that run under AmigaOS 4. This idea was born in a discussion at a1k.org
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05.Jun.2011
Floppy (Forum)
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AROS: 3D-Shooter Cube
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz has ported the 3D-Shooter Cube to AROS. The author asks for your feedback if the port has any bugs and if you like it. You are welcome to make suggestions for further ports.
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04.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FFmpeg and FFplay: GIT-version a52f598
Piotr Bandurski has compiled the latest version of FFmpeg for AmigaOS. PLease note that the included FFplay at least requires version 62 of the ixemul.libary.
Download: ffmpeg-gita52f598-m68k.lha (19 MB)
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04.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench complement: BetterWB 2.1
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench tools for AmigaOS 3.1 which are simple and with low hardware requirements.
Version 2.1 includes some minor improvements. And the filesystems PFS3 was added.
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04.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Picture editing: iBatch 1.2
With Gero Birkenfelds iBatch it gets very simple to rename or convert a lot of picture files.
The new version 1.2 also is available on Aminet and includes many improvements. A test report as well as a workshop have been published in the Amiga Future 90.
Download: iBatch.lha (1 MB)
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04.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: fpga.resource 53.1 for Sam460ex-boards
Under the title link ACube Systems has announced the availability of fpga.resource. With this driver under the AmigaOS 4 the 80 I/O-pins of the J22-connector on the Sam460ex-board can be accessed.
The archive also includes a tutorial and the source codes of the examples. All users are reminded that already there is a driver for access to the I2C-bus gibt.
Download: fpga_res.lha (633 KB)
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03.Jun.2011
Hacker News (website)
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Website: Open Source Game Clones
The website osgameclones.com tries to gather information about open-source reimplementations of great old games in one place. (snx)
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03.Jun.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Programming competition: List of projects
Yannick Buchy (meta-morphos.org) and the Swiss Amiga trader Relec had started a programming competition (amiga-news.de reported). Now a list of selectable projects was published:
During this month you can vote for your project which is to be written. Fill in this formular and send it to papiosaur2 [at] hotmail.fr before 1st of July.
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03.Jun.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 2.3.2
Version 2.3.2 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE was published. For the first time the update uses the AROS/68k-version as Kickstart replacement if an original file ist not available.
New features:
- AROS ROM replacement development snapshot included, replaces old
very basic ROM replacement feature, used by default if official
KS ROM is not found
- New autofire option. Button released = autofire. Button pressed = normal non-autofire firebutton
- Stop the CPU and wait until blitter has finished if any blitter register is accessed while blitter is busy and CPU mode is fastest possible
- Better workaround than immediate blitter for programs that have blitter wait bugs with fast CPU
- Serial port telnet server
Updates:
- Disk emulation accuracy improved (Codertrash / Mexx, El Egg Tronic Quarts / Quadlite)
- CIA timer undocumented startup delays emulated (Risky Woods sound glitches)
- win32.floppy_path and win32.hardfile_path really works as expected
- Display panel refresh rate accepts non-integer values
Fixed bugs:
- Implemented workaround that should fix Direct3D blank screen problem
- Sample ripper crash
- 68000 exception 3 emulation fixed again. (Broke compatibility with some
very old copy protections, for example Soldier of Light and Zoom!)
- Reset bug that broke Arcadia mode, A1000 mode and Action Replay ROMs
- Automatic resolution switch interlace detection was unreliable
- CD32 early boot menu is accessible again
- Rare crash when switching from fullscreen RTG mode to native mode
- Borderblank chipset feature didn't work in ECS Denise mode
- Possible input configuration corruption due to uninitialized variable
- Color change table overflow crash that can happen when emulated program crashes really badly
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02.Jun.2011
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Hungarian PDF-magazine: Amiga Mania #1
"Amiga Mania" is a PDF-magazine with 36 pages from Hungary which is about all Amiga topics - hints for A600-users, a review of Hollywood as well as news on Sam440ep.
Amiga Mania 01_OnLine.pdf (14 MB)
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02.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 1.5
Jack is a alternative file request window for AmigaOS 4. Additional to simple file perations like deleting or renaming there are also several further features like picture editing and recording screenshots.
A detailed list of changes in version 1.5 you can find under the title link.
Download: jack.lha (2 MB)
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02.Jun.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Andrew Morris (English)
amigapd.com has interviewed Andrew Morris who is graphic artist of e.g. Lotus and Super Cars.
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02.Jun.2011
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AmigaOS 4 / AROS: ScummVM 1.3.0
After the MorphOS version, version 1.3.0 of the adventure interpreter ScummVM now is also available for AmigaOS 4 and AROS/x86. The changes are listed in the official Release Notes.
Download:
scummvm.lha (8 MB)
scummvm-1.3.0.i386-aros.lha (8 MB)
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02.Jun.2011
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS: Icaros Desktop 1.3
Paolo Besser has published an update of his AROS-distribution Icaros Desktop. Version 1.3 includes many improvements which mainly apply to 68k-integration and 3D-support.
Additionally many games as well as emulators were compiled again to use the latest SDL-libraries. The NES-emulator FCE Ultra were added. Under the title link you can find a detailed list of changes.
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31.May.2011
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amiga-news.de: Server migration finished, team changes
Meanwhile the announced server migration was finished. We would like to thank our both technicans Sven Drieling and Philippe Bourdin.
With the migration our former publisher Nico Barbat left the team of amiga-news.de. Eight years ago he had taken the responsibility from the founder Petra Struck. Without his engagement amiga-news.de would not exist in the current way. We would like to thank him for his longtime support.
We also say good bye to a second amiga-news.de member: Marc Albrecht who worked for the former Amiga dealer ACT has hosted the news for more than ten years. We would like to thank him as well.
This is the current team of amiga-news.de:
Christoph Gutjahr (cg): Editorial staff, Publisher
Martin Heine (snx): Editorial staff, Publisher
Daniel Reimann (dr): English translation
Carsten Schröder (cs): Newsticker
Philippe Bourdin (pab): Technician
Sven Drieling (sd): Technician
From now on amiga-news.de is on a server of the Aminet-team. We would like to thank Nicolas Mendoza for his support.
If you want to support our team then you are very welcome. Please send a eMail to team@amiga-news.de.
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31.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Event: Demoscene party Flashback 2011 (Sydney, Australia)
From 11.-13. June the Flashback 2011 will take place in Sydney. Amiga, C64 and PC will be presented. You can get further information under the title link.
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31.May.2011
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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Event: Pictures of Commodore-Meeting 2011
On Sunday the Commodore-Meeting 2011took place in Vienna. Several users have published pictures:
Stefan Egger, Peter Urban and Georg Fuchs
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30.May.2011
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 50
The Amiga Round Table (ART) is an English-language podcast where Amiga users and invited guests (this time Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald, Mike Blackburn, Bill P, and Jerry Withers) have duscussed the latest events.
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30.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Adventure-Interpreter ScummVM 1.3.0
Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly has ported version 1.3.0 of the adventure interpreter ScummVM to MorphOS. The changes are listed in the official Release Notes.
Direct download: scummvm-1.3.0.lha (9,5 MB)
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30.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Nintendo-Emulator A/NES Pro 1.13
The Nintendo emulator for faster Amiga systems (ab 68060/50 MHz) called A/NES Pro is available in version 1.13 which fixes minor bugs in the graphic board support and includes minor optimizations of the graphic engine.
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30.May.2011
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New webinterface for amiga-news.de chat
The IRC-channel #amiganews is one of the oldest and probably most active German chat room about the Amiga. Thanks to a hint of Christian Rosentreter now we can offer a comfortable webinterface which can be accessed by any web browser.
The webinterface does not work with IBrowse or AWeb but the channel can be used with a traditional IRC-client: irc.freenode.net, Port: 6667, Kanal: #amiganews.
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28.May.2011
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Amiga-News.de: Server migration on Monday (30th May)
Next Monday amiga-news.de will move to a new server. Therefore some parts of the website (forum, comments) will be temporarily not available during the day.
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27.May.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Sam460: Audio driver for OS4 in beta testing
ACube is happy to inform you that Ross Vumbaca in association with ACube Systems, has released an initial version of the SAM460 audio driver to the OS4 beta testing team. It is expected that this driver will then shortly be released to all other SAM460 owners.
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27.May.2011
AROS-Exec (Webseite)
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AROS: Short review of Janus-UAE 1.1 (English/French)
On the website of Obligement a short Janus-UAE review in English as well as in French was published by Niko Tomatsidis.
As a result the high performace speed was honoured (on a netbook with 1,6-GHz-Atom-processor). There were minor problems with the mouse pointer and the complicated way of the installation was criticised.
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27.May.2011
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Commercial WLAN-driver with WPA/WPA2-support (AmigaOS 3/4)
For a long time Neil Cafferkey has been working on a network driver for PCI and PCMCIA-WLAN boards with the Prism 2-chipset. All available, free versions only could handle the WEP-encryption.
According to Cafferkey on amiga.org, now he offers a commercial version of the driver for AmigaOS 3/4 which supports WPA-/WPA2-encryption as well. For 15 Euro for each board you will get a driver for AmigaOS 3 and/or 4. You can write your requests per eMail to the author.
In order to use the WLAN-board with the Amiga driver among others a firmware update is required. Cafferkey recommends version 1.7.4 and refers to an English tutorial.
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26.May.2011
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: PowerUp download website accessable again
The old version 1.4.5 of the PowerPC operating system MorphOS can be downloaded for Amiga computers with BlizzardPPC and CyberstormPPC boards under the title link.
Please note that new versions for PowerUp Amigas are not planned and that there is not any chance of a registration.
Nevertheless, in the last year Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek compiled a basic version 2.7 for himself (screenshot 1, 2, 3).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 26. May. 2011, 11:23] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Event: CommVEx 7 on 23./24. July (USA)
The seventh Commodore Vegas Expo will take place on 23. and 24. July in Las Vegas Club Hotel & Casino (Nevada, USA). (snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 25. May. 2011, 07:37] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Ron Pieket Weeserik (Silkworm)
Under the title link you can find an interview with Ron Pieket Weeserik. Among others he wrote the classic Silkworm (Screenshot).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2011, 12:53] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Jack 1.1
Jack is an advanced feature-laden ASL file-requester replacement for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot).
It could also be described as a fantastic standalone program that makes common tasks so much easier.
Download: jack.lha (2 MB)
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[News message: 24. May. 2011, 12:44] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2011
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)
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XFDguide
Lorence Lombardo's XFDguide is a text viewer for compressed AmigaGuide documents. To do so, xfdmaster.library is required.
To open a file, enter "XFDguide <file> [PUBSCREEN]". An empty string can be used for the file name to access the [PUBSCREEN] parameter with a file requestor. (snx)
[News message: 24. May. 2011, 12:34] [Comments: 1 - 24. May. 2011, 14:11]
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24.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IceFileSystem 2.5 and IceDoctor 1.0
Version 2.5 of the IceFileSystem was published which includes bug fixes and minor improvements.
The healer and rescuer of IceFS volumes was updates as well. Version 1.0 of IceDoctor also was slightly improved.
Changes IceFS:
- Write locking volume with zero key, could not be unlocked again, fixed
- A serious internal bug fixed
- Action_end() improvement
- Silly optimisation prevented error requesters to work when FS was used on boot partition; now works again
Changes IceDoctor:
- Drives were inhibited when not really needed, fixed
- Internal error requesters popping up with "recover lost extents" option enabled, fixed
- Cosmetic changes
- Recycledir scanning/repair improved
- Improved handling of broken entry names
- Quit while scanning didn't work, fixed
- Forgotten flush of meta changes, oops.. fixed
- "Resume from backup" didn't work, fixed
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2011
pegasosforum.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: IRC-Client Sermonatrix 0.6
Sermonatrix is an IRC-client written by Antoine 'Tcheko' Dubourg, which ca be completed by plugins written in the programming language Lua. Changes in version 0.6:
- added /command scripting feature. Go to menu Settings / Script Editor, Commands panel in Script Editor window.
- made url handling smarter but still dumb (supports only http). Copy pasting them is now possible.
- added some logic to show/hide userlist object
- added two new lua functions: sermonatrix.quit() and sermonatrix.userlist(). See autodoc.
Direct download: Sermonatrix-0.6.lha (279 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. May. 2011, 13:35] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 2.3.2
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE has given a preview to the next version. WinUAE 2.3.2 is supposed to be published in one or two weeks and for the first time is supposed to be used a 68k-port of AROS as Kickstart replacement if there is not an official Kickstart.
New features:
- AROS ROM replacement development snapshot included, replaces old
very basic ROM replacement feature, used by default if official
KS ROM is not found
- New autofire option. Button released = autofire. Button pressed = normal non-autofire firebutton
- Stop the CPU and wait until blitter has finished if any blitter register is accessed while blitter is busy and CPU mode is fastest possible
- Better workaround than immediate blitter for programs that have blitter wait bugs with fast CPU
- Serial port telnet server
Updates:
- Disk emulation accuracy improved (Codertrash / Mexx, El Egg Tronic Quarts / Quadlite)
- CIA timer undocumented startup delays emulated (Risky Woods sound glitches)
- win32.floppy_path and win32.hardfile_path really works as expected
- Display panel refresh rate accepts non-integer values
Bug fixes:
- Implemented workaround that should fix Direct3D blank screen problem
- Sample ripper crash
- 68000 exception 3 emulation fixed again. (Broke compatibility with some
very old copy protections, for example Soldier of Light and Zoom!)
- Reset bug that broke Arcadia mode, A1000 mode and Action Replay ROMs
- Automatic resolution switch interlace detection was unreliable
- CD32 early boot menu is accessible again
- Rare crash when switching from fullscreen RTG mode to native mode
- Borderblank chipset feature didn't work in ECS Denise mode
- Possible input configuration corruption due to uninitialized variable
- Color change table overflow crash that can happen when emulated program crashes really badly
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 23. May. 2011, 13:28] [Comments: 0]
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22.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interviews: Krzysztof Matys, Robert Szacki and David Makin
AmigaPD.com has continued its interview serie with the games authors Krzysztof 'Koyot' Matys and Robert 'Minniat' Szacki and David Makin.
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[News message: 22. May. 2011, 07:58] [Comments: 0]
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22.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Workbench complement: BetterWB 2.0
Similar to AIAB, AmiKit or AmigaSYS, BetterWB is a collection of Workbench complements for AmigaOS 3.1 with low hardware requirements.
Changes:
- New text.datatype that enables text marking and copying passages
- Bugfixed and faster serial.device
- A greatly enhanced Shell console with a ton of neat features called ZShell
- The famous LHA archiver command is installed in its latest incarnation
- Queue-Handler has been bugfixed
- An incredibly faster mathtrans.library with an extra feature is included
- Jaztools is a commandline tool to handle ZIP and JAZ drives
- A low resource and flexible filemanager is now present
- Support for FAT and FAT32 volumes is achieved with fat95
- Cosmetic fixes regarding icons and their locations
- Addtools commodity for workbench menu creation
- All floppies now come with nice printable labels, resembling old Commodore ones
- Updated xpkmaster.libary and compressors
- Modified CrossDOS mountlist to use fat95
- Speak-Handler got a bugfixed update
- Less memory usage it now eats only 14KB (version 1.x ate 29KB)
- Removed LoadMondrvs for better compatibility
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. May. 2011, 07:34] [Comments: 0]
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22.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Bootdisk-Creator: Amiga911 Maker 1.38
With version 1.38 of Amiga911 Maker you can create and manage boot disks under AmigaOS 3.x if the Amiga is equipped with at least 1 MB memory. The changes are listed under the titel link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. May. 2011, 07:21] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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FPGA-Amiga: Multiple Classic Computer (MCC)
The Multiple Classic Computer (MCC) is a FPGA computer with now three available cores: Commodore 64, Atari 2600 and now also (currently as beta version 0.9; Video) Amiga 500 (SysInfo-Screenshot). There is an English-language review of the C64-core from the last year in the Commodore-Free-Magazine, Issue 46.
The computer is delivered with C64 Forever by Cloanto (Amiga Forever is planned) and allows you to connect SD-cards as well as Competition-Pro-joysticks, PS/2-mouse and -keyboard. For the graphic output VGA as well as S-Video (NTSC or PAL) are available. It is offered in US for 149 US-Dollar.
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[News message: 20. May. 2011, 16:30] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2011
[ujb] (ANF)
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Acube announced availability of Sam460ex lite
According to Acube the lite version of the Sam460ex motherboard is available. For technical details please have a look at the press release under the title link.
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[News message: 20. May. 2011, 00:12] [Comments: 0]
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19.May.2011
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Wasted Dreams for free download
Several full versions were added to the download section of the Amiga Future, among others the point'n click adventure Wasted Dreams.
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[News message: 19. May. 2011, 20:59] [Comments: 0]
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18.May.2011
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Amiga 600: Memory extension A604
The A604 developed by Individual Computers is the successor of the Amiga 600 memory extension A603. It offers 1 MB additional Chip RAM, a battery-backed clock, a clockport for Amiga 1200 expansion modules as well as an expansion socket for the Indivision ECS.
The A604's new design allows to mount an Indivision ECS without losing the floppy disk drive (which was a problem with the A603 card). Additionally, the A604 now features a second clockport especially designed for the Subway USB controller module. This second clockport can boast a performance gain of 60% compared to a standard clockport, so the Subway's USB transfers are faster than ever before.
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[News message: 18. May. 2011, 19:02] [Comments: 0]
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18.May.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4.1 for PowerUp-Amigas available
According to Amigakit, AmigaOS 4.1 for PowerUp computers is now available. The new features in this version of the operating system recently Hyperion did explain in its press release.
Currently the PowerUp version of AmigaOS 4.1 is available at Amigakit, Alinea and ACube Systems.
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[News message: 18. May. 2011, 02:06] [Comments: 0]
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17.May.2011
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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Interview: Lee Bamber ("Relics of Deldroneye")
amigapd.com has published an English-language interview with Lee Bamber who published point'n click adventures (e.g. Relics of Deldroneye). The games also are available for download on this website.
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[News message: 17. May. 2011, 16:27] [Comments: 0]
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17.May.2011
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Word Me Up XXL 1.3 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
The game "Word Me Up XXL" published by Boing Attitude is available in version 1.3 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. The update includes new music tracks written by Anders "Boray" Persson and improved graphics in the "Shop". Besides, Word Me Up XXL now was compiled with GCC 4.2.4.
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[News message: 17. May. 2011, 15:36] [Comments: 0]
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15.May.2011
Achim Kern (ANF)
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Game: Imbiss 3.0
In this game written by Achim Kern for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS you are owner of a snack stand. You have to earn as much much money as possible.
The author thanks Oliver Schwald for the programm idea as well as Thomas Bauer.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. May. 2011, 17:34] [Comments: 0]
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15.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Interview with Ben Wright
Under the title link an interview with Ben Wright was published who wrote the 2D-shooter Scavenger in 1995.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 15. May. 2011, 17:28] [Comments: 0]
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13.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Blu Manager 0.6
Blu Manager is a database application for managing Blue-ray films for AmigaOS 4 written by Pål Ringkilen. For the online access wget in directory C is required.
Version 0.6 fixes some bugs:
- First time started it downloads 2 database.txt; has been fixed
- Files could not be deleted, in use; now finally fixed
- Removed the close button in the "search database" window
- Fixed a bug that added a empty line in the "info" listbrowser
- Fixed more typos in the database
Download: blu_manager.lha (40 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. May. 2011, 09:52] [Comments: 0]
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13.May.2011
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Update für Gimp 2.4.7
For his AmiCygnix-port of the picture editing programm Gimp, Edgar Schwan has published an update.
News:
- Support of Python-plugins (incl. several plugins)
- New plugin "print" for printing graphics
- With the help of the included Python package, external Python programms which require the GUI-modul "pyGTK" can be started
- Some bugs in AmiCygnix-code for the plugin support were fixed
You can get further information from the included ReadMe file. The following pictures demonstrates the new functions:
Download: gimp-update.lha (50 MB)
Update: (06:08, 14.05.11, snx)
Due to a buggy installation file, the author has uploaded the archive to the OS4Depot again where currently it is stored in the upload directory.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 13. May. 2011, 09:42] [Comments: 0]
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12.May.2011
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: DVI-support for Radeon-HD-4000-driver
According to Hans de Ruiter under the title link, now his AmigaOS-4-driver for graphic boards of the Radeon HD 4000 serie supports video output over DVI.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. May. 2011, 12:50] [Comments: 0]
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12.May.2011
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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WHDLoad: New packages until 11.05.2011
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were delivered on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities mit newer Amiga models were fixed.
The following installers have been added or updated since our last message:
- 11.05.2011 fixed: Moonstone (Mindscape) other games releases are working again (Info)
- 10.05.2011 new: Megademo 2 (Disorder) done by Dr Cinicus (Info,Image)
- 07.05.2011 new: Mega Motion (Extend Design/Black Legend) done by Don Adan (Info)
- 06.05.2011 improved: Moonstone (Mindscape) sound improved on faster hardware, intro skip added, uses less memory, item init fixed on uae (Info)
- 05.05.2011 new: Locomotion (KingSoft) done by Psygore (Info)
- 27.04.2011 new: Turrican demo (Rainbow Arts) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
- 27.04.2011 fixed: Lost In Mine (MarkSoft) soundfx correctly played now (Info)
- 12.04.2011 new: Lost In Mine (MarkSoft) done by Psygore (Info)
- 05.04.2011 updated: Never Ending Story 2 (Linel) keyboard routine fixed, trainer improved, blitter waits configurable (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 12. May. 2011, 11:22] [Comments: 0]
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12.May.2011
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Magazine: Commodore Free, Issue 50
"Commodore Free" is a free, English-language magazine about Commodore and Amiga computers which is available in different ways - among others as HTML-version and C64-Diskmag.
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[News message: 12. May. 2011, 10:42] [Comments: 0]
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10.May.2011
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 49
The Amiga Round Table (ART) is an English-language Podcast where Amiga users discussed the latest events. In Episode 49 a former Amiga user talked about his past.
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[News message: 10. May. 2011, 17:45] [Comments: 0]
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10.May.2011
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Amiga Future: Issues 72 and 73 online
Because issues 72 and 73 of the Amiga Future are sold out the articles are available online in English and German.
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[News message: 10. May. 2011, 06:24] [Comments: 0]
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