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03.Feb.2012
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Text viewer: EvenMore 0.74
Chris Perver's EvenMore is a text viewer written in Amiga E with ECX. The changes of the version 0.74 are listed in the Readme-file.

Download: EvenMore.lha (515 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2012
a1k.org (Forum)


Indivision ECS: Core 1.10 (beta version) / SuperPlus monitor driver 40.5
For the Flickerfixer Indivision ECS a new beta version of the core was published. Additionally the SuperPlus monitor driver was updated.

With the Core-version 1.10 the Indivision ECS now can view a solution of 800x600 pixels - compared with the Super72-mode without the limitation of the ECS chipset to four of 64 colours. The user 'mfilos' has published a test with screenshots in a Blog. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Feb.2012
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4 / AROS: HueFlow 0.3
HueFlow is the port of a well-known game for the cell phone: The player has to "flood" a colourful screen step by step with a single colour by selecting the next colour to be flooded (screenshot).

HueFlow now was released under the GPL. In version 0.3 you can now also play against the computer.

Download:
hueflow.lha (OS4-Version, 370 KB)
hueflow.i386-aros.zip (310 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Feb.2012



WHDLoad: New archives until 02.02.2012
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were published on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with new Amiga models were fixed. The following installers have been added or updated:
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)


Bounty: Purchase of source codes of Directory Opus Magellan
Olaf Schönweiß and Dr. Greg Perry (GPSoft) agreed a possible release of the source code of the well-known file manager Directory Opus Magellan II (version 5.82). For 5600 US-Dollar Perry would release the sources under the AROS Public License, which is a derivative of Mozilla Public License.

The purchase will also a include a limited license for the trademark "Directory Opus Magellan" that will grant the right to use it for software running on Amigoid platforms. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012



ScummVM 1.4.1 (AmigaOS 4/MorphOS)
ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games and is available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 in version 1.4.1. The changes are listed in the official Release Notes. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Compiler-Distribution: Bugfix for vbcc 0.9b
The 68k-version of the tool fd2pragma had a bug in version 0.9b which caused a crash. The author has published an update which includes an improved version of fd2pragma and has to be extracted to vbcc:.

Download: vbcc_bin_amigaos68k_upd.lha (84 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012



Image editing: iBatch 1.4
With Gero Birkenfeld's iBatch you can rename or edit images. Version 1.4 currently is only available on the website of the Boingsworld-Podcast.
Download: iBatch_BoingsWorld.lha (2,5 MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Feb.2012
amiga.org (Webseite)


Amithlon: Kernel-Update with hardware-accelerated graphic drivers
For Amithlon a new Kernel-update is available which supports hardware-accelerated graphic operations on AGP and PCIe graphic boards like ATI Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 or GeForce PCX 5300, PCX 5750 and PCX 5900.

The kernel is available in three different versions: As IDE driver (kernel4.rar), IDE and SATA driver (kernel4sata.rar) and IDE, SATA and SCSI driver (kernel4scsi.rar). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


AROS: Tester for 68k-distribution
Olaf Schönweiß is about to publish a distribution for AROS/68k (screenshots). In order to be able to improve the package the author is looking for testers.

Interested users please send an eMail to olaf.schoenweiss at innovatronic.de and will then get a download link (ca. 500 MB). A CD also is possible. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


jAMOS: AMOS-Reimplementation in Java
jAMOS is a Java-based reimplementation for the Basic dialect AMOS. Alpha version 0.1 now is available.

The same author published before with jAMAL the AMOS Animation Language under Java.

The available alpha version 0.1 only support parts of the AMOS-commands. jAMOS is open source.

Features:
  • BASIC-like interpreter based on MequaScript
  • AMAL interpreter from jAMAL written in Java
  • Script editor utilising Java Swing
  • AMAL-to-Java code translator and compiler
  • Source is buildable in Eclipse and NetBeans IDE out of the box
  • Runnable from a single JAR file
  • Reimplemented AMAL Environment Generator
  • Rudimentary Amiga-style screen and scrolling engine
  • Integrated AMOS sprite bank viewer (AbkViewer)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Jan.2012
amigafuture.de (Webseite)


Retro-Gaming: WHDLoad 17.1 (Beta 2)
With WHDLoad you can install games and scene demos on your harddrive which originally were published on disks. Additionally several incompatibilities with new Amiga models were fixed. In version 17.1 beta 2 the Instruction Cache on 68020-processors is not activated any longer.

WHDLoad 17.1 is a beta version which has to be installed over an existing installation of version 17.0.

Download:

WHDLoad-Usr: whd171.lha (177 KB)
WHDLoad-Dev: whd171dev.lha (202 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jan.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Word Me Up XXL 1.52
Version 1.52 of the commercial game "Word Me Up XXL" published by Boing Attitude is available for AmigaOS 4. The demo version was updated as well.

Changes:
  • Visual effects not enabled by default
  • Improved handling of the sound system
  • Better management of the joystick/joypad
  • A few German translations were fixed
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jan.2012
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


AROS-Distribution AspireOS 1.6
Nikolaos Tomatsidis has published a new version of his AROS-distribution AspireOS. This mainly is meant to be used with an Acer-netbook Aspire One but should work with different hardware, too.

AspireOS 1.6 is not an update for existing versions, it is distributed as ISO-image and has to be installed over the existing AspireOS-system. This new version mainly includes improvements of the graphical user-interface.

A package with games is distributed separately. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Jan.2012
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 53
The Amiga Round Table (ART) is an English-language podcast. Amiga users and guests have duscussed the latest events of the Amiga scene. Episode 53 includes an interview with the supposed owner of Amiga.org, "Tedd Gallion", after the sale in 2009. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2012



Aminet-Uploads until 28.01.2012
The following archives have been added to the Aminet until January 28th 2012:
TA1_26.lha               comm/bbs   1.1M  68k TransAmiga BBS v1.26 freeware...
sdl_configs.lha          dev/c      4K        Useful SDL configurations 
modifyle.lha             dev/gui    116K  68k new ASL filerequester replace...
jbigkit.tar.bz2          dev/lib    96K   OS4 JBIG-KIT lossless image compr...
libao.i386-aros.tar.bz2  dev/lib    392K  x86 Cross-platform Audio Library
libao.m68k-aos.tar.bz2   dev/lib    390K  68k Cross-platform Audio Library
libao.tar.bz2            dev/lib    414K  OS4 Cross-platform Audio Library
libbinio.i386-aros.ta... dev/lib    75K   x86 A Binary I/O stream class lib...
libexif-m68k.lha         dev/lib    674K  68k Parsing, editing, and saving ...
libpac.i386-aros.tar.bz2 dev/lib    130K  x86 Decode PAC music modules
libpac.tar.bz2           dev/lib    64K   OS4 Decode PAC music modules
libspeex.i386-aros.ta... dev/lib    1.1M  x86 A Free Codec For Free Speech
libxml2-m68k.lha         dev/lib    3.9M  68k The XML C parser and toolkit ...
popt-m68k.lha            dev/lib    77K   68k A C library for parsing comma...
nc_invaders_68k.lha      game/shoot 348K  68k ncurses based space invaders ...
meandmyshadow-68k.lha    game/think 6.6M  68k Me and My Shadow, a puzzle/pl...
crosscrabtris_os4.lha    game/wb    7.5M  OS4 A mix of crossword scrabble a...
fracplanet.lha           gfx/fract  579K  OS4 Random planet generator (beta...
pngcrush-m68k.lha        gfx/misc   131K  68k An optimizer for PNG files
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   2.6M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaSP.lha         misc/emu   14K       AmiArcadia 17.42 spanish catalog
pacplay_68k.lha          mus/play   426K  68k Play & Decode PAC music m...
uade.tar.bz2             mus/play   5.7M  OS4 Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
xad_rar.lha              util/arc   365K  OS4 XAD (UnArc) client for RAR3 a...
xad_xz.lha               util/arc   28K   OS4 XZ client for xadmaster/UnArc
xpkTDCS.lha              util/pack  2K    68k Improved xpkTDCS.library
xpkZENO.lha              util/pack  2K    68k Improved xpkZENO.library
AlignWindowsSP.lha       util/wb    2K        AlignWindows v1.6 spanish cat...
WBKillWinSP.lha          util/wb    3K        WBKillWin 1.0 spanish catalog
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2012



OS4Depot-Uploads until 28.01.2012
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until January 28th 2012:
sirenaplayer.lha         aud/pla 2Mb   4.0 An easy mod, mp3 and wav Vintage...
uade.tar.bz2             aud/pla 6Mb   4.1 Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
libao.tar.bz2            dev/lib 414kb 4.0 Cross-platform Audio Library
libpac.tar.bz2           dev/lib 64kb  4.0 Decode PAC music modules
jbigkit.tar.bz2          dev/lib 96kb  4.0 JBIG-KIT lossless image compress...
camd_nemo.lha            dri/mis 22kb  4.1 X1000 onboard UART CAMD driver
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
scummvm.lha              gam/adv 10Mb  4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip          gam/adv 20Mb  4.1 ScummVM Source
crosscrabtris.lha        gam/puz 7Mb   4.1 A mix of crossword scrabble and ...
imbiss_os4.lha           gam/str 1Mb   4.0 Imbiss - buy and sell hamburgers
ssbuilder.lha            gra/con 105Mb 4.0 SSBuilder
iconsreworked.lha        gra/ico 29Mb  4.1 Icons for 3rd party software
gfxbench2d.lha           uti/ben 2Mb   4.0 A 2D graphics benchmark tool
jack.zip                 uti/wor 9Mb   4.1 Multi-purpose utility for Workbench
wbkillwin.lha            uti/wor 17kb  4.0 An interactive program to kill w...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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29.Jan.2012



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 28.01.2012
The following archives have been added to the AROS-Archives until January 28th 2012:
libao.i386-aros.tar.bz2      dev/lib 392kb Cross-platform Audio Library
libbinio.i386-aros.tar.bz2   dev/lib 75kb  A Binary I/O stream class library
libpac.i386-aros.tar.bz2     dev/lib 130kb Decode PAC music modules
libspeex.i386-aros.tar.bz2   dev/lib 1Mb   A Free Codec For Free Speech
aspireos_games_v1.zip        gam     115Mb AspireOS Game Package
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Jan.2012



Hired Guns-/Dungeon Master-clone: Cyber Blast 2
Cyber Blast 2 (screenshots: 1, 2) is a "Dungeon Crawler" similar to Dungeon Master or Hired Guns. For the first time the game was published on Aminet as Shareware 12 years ago. Now the full version is available on the Polish Amiga website PPA.

The archive includes an installation script with which you can install Cyber Blast 2 on harddrive or disks.

Download: cyberblast2.lha (1 MB)

Hint of the editorial staff: This weekend ppa.pl moves to a new server. So until Sunday there might be some problems accessing the website. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Jan.2012
A-EON (E-Mail)


A-EON Technology: AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" systems now shipping
As A-EON Technology announces in the press release below, the First Contact systems of the AmigaONE X1000 with AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 are shipping to regular customers now.

The latter will receive AmigaOS 4.2 for free once available, while work on Update 5 for other platforms starts now. The price of the system, if three additional GB of RAM and twice the size of the harddisk compared to the default configuration are chosen, is 1915 pound sterling excluding VAT and shipping.

AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 CD for the AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" system has gone GOLD!

Wellington, 25th January 2012. A-EON Technology and Hyperion Entertainment are pleased to announce that the AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 CD, exclusively created for the AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" system has gone gold. The professionally re-mastered CD will be supplied in a printed boxed set along with copies of the AmigaONE X1000 and AmigaOS 4.1 "Quick Start" guides.

Steven Solie, Hyperion Entertainment's AmigaOS Development Team Lead said, "The team worked hard to reach this important milestone in the development of the Amiga Operating System. With AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 completed for the AmigaONE X1000 we can concentrate on versions for all the other supported hardware platforms as we continue to push towards the future release of AmigaOS 4.2."

Trevor Dickinson added, "I would like to thank the AmigaOS developers and the whole AmigaONE X1000 betatest team who have worked so tirelessly behinds the scenes to make this a reality. I would also like to give special thanks to a few key members of the team who went above and beyond the "call of duty" to ensure the success of this project. You know who you are."

The AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 boxed set will be supplied to all AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" customers who will also receive a free update to AmigaOS 4.2 when it is commercially released by Hyperion Entertainment.

AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" systems now shipping

A-EON Technology and AmigaKit are pleased to announced that the deliveries of AmigaONE X1000 "First Contact" systems have commenced. Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of AmigaKit commented, "we are pleased to finally supply this eagerly awaited AmigaONE computer system to our customers".

Trevor Dickinson added, "I have just received my own AmigaONE X1000 system and I hope "First Contact" owners will have as much fun as I'm having with my new "Amiga". All that remains to be said is let's "keep this part going!"

A-EON Technology

About AmigaKit: AmigaKit is a trading division of Leaman Computing Ltd based in Cardiff, UK. It acquired the stock of Eyetech Group Ltd in 2006 and quickly established itself as a world-wide market leader in the retail and distribution of Amiga hardware and software. A-EON Technology appointed AmigaKit as its primary distributor for all its AmigaONE products.

About A-EON Technology and the AmigaONE X1000: A-EON Technology is the developer of the AmigaONE X1000 computer system designed by Varisys Ltd for running the AmigaOS. The AmigaOne X1000 is not like other computers. It is a culmination of efforts by real Amiga enthusiasts and developers to create powerful, modern desktop hardware for the Amiga Operating System. It is the natural evolution of the Amiga's PowerPC lineage and is based on the PA-Semi Dual-core PA6T-1682M CPU and includes Xena, a "Software Defined Silicon" co-processor. Above all it runs the latest version of the AmigaOS.

About Hyperion Entertainment: Hyperion Entertainment is the developer of the AmigaOS. (snx)

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28.Jan.2012
Abime (Webseite)


AROS: AMOS emulation package for AROS and Linux
First a Windows-installer-package and now versions for AROS/x86 and Linux have been published with which you can start AMOS based on the emulator UAE and the AROS-Kickstart-ROM.

Download:
amos4aros.zip (18 MB)
amos4linux.zip (16 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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