14.May.2021
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Hyperion releases AmigaOS 3.2
Press Release: Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is pleased to announce the immediate availability of AmigaOS 3.2 for 68K-based Amigas. AmigaOS 3.2 includes well over 100 new features and dozens of updates to nearly all system components, as well as a battery of bug fixes that will undoubtedly further enhance the user experience.
AmigaOS 3.2 is the result of more than two years of intensive and tireless work by over 60 contributors to this new milestone in AmigaOS history. Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is at a loss for words to express our gratitude to this talented and resilient team for their impressive work ethic.
The most comprehensive version of AmigaOS 3.2 is now available on CD-ROM and includes floppies and Kickstart ROMs for all Amiga models ever produced, allowing customers to install AmigaOS 3.2 on different Amiga types simultaneously.
Order your CD now at a dealer of your choice!
Purely digital, but then model-specific releases of AmigaOS 3.2 will follow soon.
AmigaOS 3.2 FEATURE LIST SUMMARY
- ReAction GUI toolkit integration
- Built-in ADF (Amiga disk file image) management
- Integrated Help subsystem
- Updated Data Type system
- Workbench and other user interface improvements
- Improved Tools, Utilities and System applications
- Enhanced Shell behavior
- New and reworked command set
- Touched up Preferences
- Polished MultiView
- Revamped Commodities
- Expanded BootMenu
- Inclusion and refinement of the AmigaOS 3.1.4 feature set
- Flexible delivery media
- Many remarkable additions
1. REACTION GUI TOOLKIT INTEGRATION
- The incorporation of the ReAction GUI Toolkit not only opens up a plethora of existing applications for AmigaOS 3.2 users, it also ensures much easier portability and cross-development between different versions of AmigaOS
- No additional installation required, it just works, even on low-end 68000 systems
- A new multi-file text editor called "TextEdit" is included as a show-case
- ReAction has its own Preferences editor which lets you set backfilled patterns for ReAction based programs
- Fresh and bug fixed Classes backport from AmigaOS 4.x with many exclusive characteristics and brushed up aesthetics
2.BUILT-IN ADF (AMIGA DISK FILE IMAGE) MANAGEMENT
- DAControl & trackfile.device provide unprecedented functionality, as they enable users to create, mount, insert and eject ADF files
- ADF images are handled just like any physical floppy disk
- On "Workbench" you can mount an ADF image by double-clicking on it
- ADF handling can be accomplished via Shell through the use of an extensive set of available options
- Accessing such mounted ADF disk image files is fast and requires very little memory
- Multiple ADF disk images can be mounted at the same time
- A shared cache system is available in order to speed up ADF operations
3.INTEGRATED HELP SUBSYSTEM
- A complete "Reference Manual" covers all commands and most complex topics
- An AmigaGuide based central "Help hub" is available by simply pressing the HELP key
- The Help database can be quickly queried from the Shell/CLI
- Preferences and many other programs contain Help menu items
- In the WBStartup folder, MenuTools adds the "Help" menu item to the "Tools" menu but can be customized to add other Tools as well
4.UPDATED DATA TYPE SYSTEM
- New AIFF uncompressed audio data type
- New GIF image data type
- New WAV audio data type
- New JPEG picture data type
- New PNG multi-platform image data type
- New BMP data type for Windows/OS2 bitmap images
- New Icon.datatype enables use of ".info" files as images
- New ACBM picture data type (used in AmigaBASIC & SpectraPaint)
- The AmigaGuide data type can now display inline images
- Text data type with search functionality
- Faster and more configurable CDXL and ANIM data types
- Sound.datatype manages bit rate samples of 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit
- Picture.datatype is now stunningly fast even on low-end 68000 processors
5. AMIGAOS WORKBENCH AND OTHER USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS
- Resize windows from any border
- Window iconification
- Workbench title bar customization
- Maximize a window by holding down the SHIFT key and clicking on the window zoom gadget
- The [ESC] key quits easy requesters
- Scalable "GadTools" user interface adapting to different font sizes
- Workbench menu "Open volume"
- Menu Window -> Sort Order (Forward or Reverse)
- Off-Screen windows is a built-in default that is now configurable
- Scrollers and sliders now feature 3D-style embossed knobs and a darker container background
- Newer Look menus: Palette Prefs "Menu Bright Edges" + "Menu Dark Edges"
- Newer Look menus: sub-menu indicator changed from "»" to a black filled triangle
- Newer Look menus: checkmark glyph replaced by a black filled circle in mutually-exclusive options
- Workbench Prefs defines drawer placing in text mode
6.IMPROVED TOOLS, UTILITIES AND SYSTEM APPLICATIONS
- Interactive partition "Mounter"
- "Find" allows you to quickly search for file names or file content
- "ShowConfig" now has aesthetically pleasing user interface and displays AutoConfig hardware in a human readable form
- HDToolBox can now operate from read-only media if needed
7.ENHANCED SHELL BEHAVIOR
- Configurable TAB autocompletion
- Ability to drop icons into Shell windows
- Shell error redirection
- "Execute" is now an internal Shell command
- "History" is a new internal Shell command
- Shell operators && and || for AND plus concatenation operations
- A debug variable sends executed commands to the serial port
- Shell-startup has been adjusted for easier customization
8.NEW AND REWORKED COMMANDS
- C:Eval properly groups operations
- C:Copy gains a FORCE option to overwrite targets
- C:Protect gains USER, GROUP, OTHER, CLONE, CLEAR, FILES, and DIRS
- C:SetDate can copy the date FROM a file
- C:List provides FLAT, SORT, USERS, GROUP, LFORMATQUOTE options
- C:Mount SHUTDOWN attempts to shutdown handlers
- C:Assign incorporated DENIED and DISMOUNT switches
- C:Type supports AUTO, TEXTONLY, WIDTH and BUFFER options
- C:Reboot restarts your Amiga but waits for any ongoing write operations to prevent validation issues
- C:Group and C:Owner commands added for networked environments
- C:MD5Sum calculates and compares checksums of files and volumes
- C:MountInfo command helps in the creation of MountLists
- C:Break and C:ChangeTaskPri NAME handle wildcards options
- C:DefIcons identifies files and applies a default icon to them
- C:AssignWedge allows users to create or deny an assign on the fly
- C:LoadMonDrvs simplifies and quickly starts monitor drivers.
9.TOUCHED UP PREFERENCE EDITORS
- Custom printer output device and unit number
- WBPattern has layout options for Backdrops, Screens and Windows which include both color and dithering
- PointerPrefs has been overhauled to support 40 different pointer types
- Font Preferences comes with Shadow and Outline font options
- IControl received a massive makeover which introduced new functionality such as Window and screen border aspect ratios customization
10.POLISHED MULTIVIEW
- A new "Edit/Paste" menu item opens the contents of clipboard unit 0 (thus complementing "Edit/Copy")
- The "About" window now reports the width, height and depth of the currently displayed picture or animation
- The names of ARexx scripts for user menus can now be up to 40 characters long and may contain "spaces"
- Pressing the [Shift] key while the "Save as..." menu item is selected, forces MultiView to save the displayed document in IFF format
- Now lists pattern matching in its ASL requester that, if removed, can also display icons (useful in conjunction with the new icon.datatype)
11.REVAMPED COMMODITIES
- "RAWBInfo" is an improved replacement of the icon information tool
- "AsyncWB" is an AmigaOS Workbench enhancement Commodity with divers functionality
- "AutoPoint" KEEPSTRINGS prevents this Commodity from automatically stealing focus from a window with an active string gadget
- "ClickToFront" TOBACK_QUALIFIER selects a qualifier for sending windows back (with a single click)
- "ClickToFront" no longer brings Workbench windows to the front when double-clicking on an icon
- "NumericPad" allows numeric pad keys to be remapped to the standard keyboard
- The "AutoArrangeIcons" Commodity-like set of scripts automates the ordering and snapshot of icons in the active window
12.EXPANDED BOOTMENU
- An option to trace the Startup-sequence line by line is now available
- The user can disable ROM Module updates by clicking on a gadget
- The hardware expansion screen displays expansion board addresses and sizes
- A new option to redirect serial port output to a file is available with the "Enable System Log" option
- The "Failsafe" boot gadget starts the Amiga in a robust and safe environment to carry out maintenance and troubleshooting tasks
- More keyboard shortcuts for the majority of options
- Displays AmigaOS Kickstart version numbers
13.INCLUSION AND REFINEMENT OF THE AMIGAOS 3.1.4 FEATURE SET
- Support for storage media bigger than 4 GB
- Modernized AmigaOS Workbench
- DiskDoctor for disk diagnostic and salvage operations
- Native support for pipes, softlinks, hardlinks and long filenames
- CrossDOS supporting FAT 32 and long filenames
- CD-ROM file system that supports Rockridge and Joliet extensions as well as UDF and now also Macintosh HFS
- Both FFS (FastFileSystem) and the CD-ROM file system are now smarter, faster, and multi-threaded
- Fully reworked and bug-fixed printer drivers
- Built-in GlowIcons support as an installable option
- More than 2100 icons in GlowIcon style included on the AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM
14.FLEXIBLE DELIVERY MEDIA
- The distribution AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM contains ADF disk images that can be transferred to physical floppy disks or Gotek-type drives
- All Modules disks perform as emergency boot disks too
- The DiskDoctor disk can help users to quickly get back on their feet when facing disk failures
- The AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM content can be copied "as is" to an Amiga formatted hard drive and booted right away for installation thanks to the "Amiga Preinstallation Environment" (AmigaPE)
- All Amiga model disks and AmigaOS Kickstart ROM set images are available on the AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM
- Attractive printable labels are available for all your favorite AmigaOS 3.2 storage media variants (AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM version only)
- Experimental CD-ROM-based Amiga CDTV and Amiga CD32 support
15.MANY REMARKABLE ADDITIONS
- Wheel mouse support for scrolling on AmigaOS Workbench windows
- IPrefs stacks multiple changes and refreshes the screen only once
- IPrefs points out names of blocking windows when refreshing
- No more DF0:???? icons as disk.resource now does proper checking
- Increased ROM Modules flexibility by loading more modules from disk without requiring an additional reboot for them
- "HappyENV/ENV-Handler" functionality reimplementation incorporated
- No more MaxTransfer values required for built-in Commodore and other well-known hardware controllers from various manufacturers
- "Installer" is more compatible with previous AmigaOS versions
- Multiple input events are supported by input.device
- Two new alerts report module issues for easier system diagnosis
- New API features for developers
- Optional generic processor support libraries for 68K CPU boards
(cg) (Translation: bb)
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13.May.2021
Indie Retro News (Website)
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Arcade classic: Missile Command
'Missile Command' (video) is a port of the Atari classic of the same name. The Amiga conversion runs on any Amiga with 512 kilobytes of RAM. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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13.May.2021
Indie Retro News (Website)
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Game Announcements: Krogharr, Polar Panic, L'Abbaye des Morts
Krogharr is the new project of Inviyya developer 'Tigerskunk'. In this beat'em up you have to control the sword-wielding barbarian of the same name, the title is inspired by the SMS classic Black Belt.
The platformer 'Polar Panic' (video) is created with the Scorpion Engine. The game is still in an early stage, further details are not yet known.
'L'Abbaye des Morts' (video) is also being developed with Scorpion. The title was originally released for the PC and has since been ported to various 8- and 16-bit platforms. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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13.May.2021
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 0.117
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is going to become the standard e-mail client of MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can display as well as create HTML e-mails.
Changes in version 0.117 include removal of own e-mail addresses when replying "to all", down-scaling of large pictures when displaying e-mails, a spell-checking selector cycle gadget in the e-mail editor toolbar and a fixed bug regarding TLS that caused crashes when Iris was used alongside with Wayfarer. For feedback to the author, the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (snx)
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12.May.2021
Amigans (Website)
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ASCII-Szene: Relaunch of aSCIIaRENa
The aSCIIaRENA (opened in 2009) sees itself as a database and as an archive for the Amiga-ASCII scene. A year of development time has gone into a completely new version of the website which went online a few days ago. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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11.May.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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Print magazine: Issue 130 of Amiga Future readable free of charge
German and English issue 130 (January/February 2018) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" is available free of charge now at the magazine's website. Published as image files of the individual pages, remainders of the physical issue as well as PDF files at a higher resolution are available at the publisher. (snx)
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10.May.2021
Wayfarer Homepage
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 1.19 (Update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has updated his web browser Wayfarer to version 1.18. Changes:
- Fixed to update page's url when traversing history
- Updated ffmpeg to 4.4
- Improved player's handling of bogus stream data
- Partially mitigated a player memory leak
MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB RAM are required. A CPU with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to the author, besides the integrated crash report tool also e-mails to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu or the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used.
Update: (12:19, 11.05.21, snx)
Meanwhile version 1.19 is available, which, besides bug-fixes, reduces frame-drops and supports YouTube's video playback statistics. (dr) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2021
YouTube
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Video tutorial: Create a breakout game with RedPill
RedPill developer Carlos Peris has posted a 17-minute video tutorial on YouTube that shows an example of how to create a breakout variant using his RedPill game development environment. (dr) (Translation: bb)
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09.May.2021
OS4Depot
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AmigaOS 4: Fractal and Mandelbrot program FlashMandelNG 3.5
The developer Dino Papararo, about whom we published a detailed portrait the other day, has uploaded version 3.5 of his fractal and Mandelbrot program FlashMandelNG to OS4Depot. This version fixes bugs when starting the program from the workbench and the palette selection. Already in the previous version 3.4, the author had introduced the use of the datatype.library for loading and saving images. These operations create an additional file with the extension ".fmng" which contains the coordinates. (dr) (Translation: bb)
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09.May.2021
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Aminet uploads until 08.05.2021
The following files have been added until 08.05.2021 to Aminet:
SegTracker.lha dev/debug 13K 68k A global SegList tracking uti...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
BrainF_ck_Interpreter... dev/src 6K BrainF_ck Interpreter for Pyt...
Sensei.lha docs/hard 34K 68k Displays I2C Sensor informati...
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 7K 2021 Carset for F1GP
ItalyInLockDown.adf game/demo 880K 68k Italy in lock down
aws2c.lha game/edit 2.0M MOS Adventure Writing System to C...
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 132K 68k Port of Commodore 64 game Lab...
Chocolate_DOOM.lha game/shoot 4.2M 68k Amiga port of Chocolate DOOM
jfsw.lha game/shoot 1.6M 68k Shadow Warrior
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 12M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
Club80.lha mods/misc 64K Club 80 4ch Synth Disco by HK...
Street2021.lha mods/misc 78K Street 2021 4ch LN2 Lv2 by HK...
Inbound_Dreams_Songs_... mods/mpg 12M 4 mp3 songs made by Amiga
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.5M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
RSE-UTS.lha mus/edit 342K 68k Package of tracker tools and ...
EP_MMV8.lha mus/play 14K 68k MusicMakerV8 player for Eagle...
mmv8_deliplayer.lha mus/play 5K 68k MusicMakerV8 Deliplayer for D...
MMV8_Player.lha mus/play 33K 68k MusicMaker V8 Player
UADE_MMV8.lha mus/play 14K 68k MusicMakerV8 players for UADE
LoadModule.lha util/boot 21K 68k Install Libs/Devs reset-proof
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09.May.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 08.05.2021
The following files have been added until 08.05.2021 to OS4Depot:
wenova-roc.lha gam/fig 21Mb 4.1 Rise of Conquerors 2x2 2D fighti...
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 12Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
grimoriumpdf.lha uti/tex 3Mb 4.0 PDF viewer written in Hollywood
onscreenkeyboard.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Keyboard for Touch Screens
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09.May.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.05.2021
The following files have been added until 08.05.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.2.lha Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
NBlood.lha Games/Shoot 3D NBlood (Port of Blood) ...
OpenTTD_1.11.2.lha Games/Strategy A clone of Transport Ty...
ZoneXplorer2BETA.zip Graphics/Mathematics Modular, true color fra...
CloudDav_1.1.lha Network/Streaming A WebDav client
Wayfarer_1.17.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
GrimoriumPDF_2.20.lha Office/Show A program made with Hol...
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09.May.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 08.05.2021
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 08.05.2021:
- 2021-05-07 improved: Sensible World of Soccer (Sensible Software) uses less chip memory, using fast memory, 68000 quitkey (Info)
- 2021-05-07 improved: Captain Planet (Mindscape) supports another version, new imager, trainer added, 2nd button support, 68000 quitkey, new icon and install script (Info)
- 2021-05-06 fixed: Turbo Sprint (McGeezer) 2 more BEAMCON0 accesses disabled (no more NTSC display on exit), check for NTSC monitor added (Info)
- 2021-05-06 new: Turbo Sprint (McGeezer) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2021-05-06 new: Megalo Demos (Wild Copper) done by Psygore (Info)
- 2021-05-05 fixed: The Munsters (Tiger Developments/Teque) out of bounds blit fix corrected, no flickering characters anymore (Info)
- 2021-05-04 improved: Pro Tennis Simulator (Code Masters) install script updated, supports another version (no slave changes, only the install script has been updated) (Info)
- 2021-05-02 improved: Final Countdown (Demonware/Global Software) uses less memory (Info)
- 2021-05-02 improved: Dynamite Dux (Activision/Sega) supports another version, highscore saving, trainer added, 2nd button support (Info)
- 2021-05-02 improved: Brian the Lion (Psygnosis) added joypad controls, trainer improved, uses less chip memory (Info)
- 2021-05-02 improved: Eswat (U.S.Gold) less chip memory used, made 68000 compatible, decruncher relocated, trainer added, manual added, new install script (Info)
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08.May.2021
Indie Retro News (Website)
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Preview-Video: Port of C64-Jump'n Run 'Henry's House'
'Henry's House' is a classic single-screen platformer that was released for the C64 in 1984. The Amiga conversion (video) comes from the developer team 'MC STUDIOS', which apparently wants to port a whole series of 8-bit titles to the Amiga. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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08.May.2021
Amigans (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Video tutorial for commissioning ACube's Sam460cr
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin had purchased a Sam460cr board including various games and AmigaOS 4.1 in the course of ACube Systems' Christmas promotion. Since the Italian software and hardware company had announced the production of further boards, the developer would like to encourage other users to consider buying a board by publishing his video.
He has divided his video tutorial into seven chapters:
- Part 1: Unpack the delivery and take a closer look at the components.
- Part 2: The first trial run.
- Part 3: Installation in the tower. Vertical arrangement of the graphics card.
- Part 4: Installation of AmigaOS4 FE with the help of a USB stick with Radeon drivers.
- Part 5: Making basic settings: Network, Audio and Extras.
- Part 6: Installing Update1 and Update2.
- Part 7: Complete configuration. Evaluation of suitability for everyday use.
The video tutorial is accompanied by music. English subtitles explain his individual actions in detail. He uses a MasterBox NR200P as tower case, a RadeonHD r270 Verde (which he had originally purchased for his AmigaONE X5000) for the first test and a Radeon RX 560 graphics card as the final solution.
On amigaworld.net, the creator gives first impressions: USB on the Sam460 would be much faster than on the X5000. However, the Odyssey browser would definitely run slower, especially video rendering. Likewise, loading game data into memory would take longer. The FPS would be three times slower on all games tested compared to the X5000.den von Spieledaten in den Arbeitsspeicher länger dauern. Der FPS-Wert wäre dreimal langsamer auf allen getesteten Spielen im Vergleich zum X5000.
Conclusion: "In other words, it is sufficient for everyday use, but the X5000 is definitely better. However, for those who only want to spend $700 for a complete system, it is certainly OK and a good way to get started using AmigaOS 4. The installation is very tricky (no RadeonRX drivers included in the AmigaOS 4 installation CD, Uboot not visible, no default boot from USB in the Uboot settings) - this is quite complicated for newbies. But once that is done, everything works." (dr) (Translation: bb)
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