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Archive 04/2024

`27.Apr.2024`	A-EON announces new version of Personal Paint for A600GS Press rekease: Cardiff, 27 April 2024 A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce further development of Personal Paint. Latest version 7.4 will be pre-installed on the forthcoming A600GS Computer. A-EON Technology purchased rights to Personal Paint from Cloanto in 2014 (amiga-news.de reported) which has led to notable development over the last decade for both Classic Amiga systems and Next Generation systems. Personal Paint has a rich record of being bundled with home computers over the years. In 1996 PPaint 6.4 was part of the Escom's Amiga 1200 Magic Pack. Even more recently in 2016, PPaint 7.3 was bundled with A-EON's powerful X5000 computer system. In 2024 the tradition continues with a new version 7.4 being pre-installed on the forthcoming A600GS. A-EON's latest update to this famous paint package accelerates 1080P and larger high resolution screens. 1080P is the resolution that most HDMI televisions operate at and the default screen mode of the A600GS. The drawing tools at this resolution would ordinarily be very slow. However they have now been significantly accelerated by using ARM native code. The latest Personal Paint 7.4 from A-EON is ready-to-run on the A600GS and will bring a nostalgic paint package experience to modern 1080P televisions. Matthew Leaman, MD of A-EON remarked: "Personal Paint originated on Classic Amiga systems which are these days becoming rarer, more expensive and requiring on going maintenance. This fact alone does not help to expand the future use of Personal Paint outside the Amiga community. As one of A-EON most important applications, Personal Paint can now have a new lease of life on low cost ARM hardware platform such as the A600GS. We are excited by the development possibilities that this provides for this famous application. We hope we can reach a wider audience, expanding the user base and ensure the application's longevity for many years to come." Trevor Dickinson, A-EON’s co-founder added: "Personal Paint became the leading easy-to-use Amiga program for bitmapped graphics and animation and was one of the first to support AGA and RTG. We developed updated versions for both 68K and PowerPC, and it's great to see the ARM accelerated version joining the family." Personal Paint 7.4 will be launched in Q2/2024 on the A600GS computer system. (dr) [News message: 27. Apr. 2024, 18:50] [Comments: 1 - 27. Apr. 2024, 20:57] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Apr.2024`	AROS: "Irritating bug of the month" April fixed / Poll for May In the poll for the "Irritating bug of the month" for April, two tasks were selected: in Wanderer, deletion should be allowed by pressing the Del key (#116) and DiskInfo should display the correct FAT instead of the wrong OFS (#105). Both tasks were solved and the corresponding archives (#105 and #116) were made available. The poll for the "Irritating bug of the month" May has been started. (dr) [News message: 27. Apr. 2024, 14:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2024`	USB-Stack: ANAIIS 1.24 ANAIIS ("Another Native Amiga IO Interface Stack") written by Gilles Pelletier is an USB stack which also runs on a 68000 processor. This can be used, for example, to operate the Subway 2021 from Alinea Computer. Changes in version 1.24: Fix Massive for most usb keys Fix hub with more than 4 ports Add LoadRDBFS option for massive (crashy thing) Wood dragon version StartDrivers changes remove c.o for massive (bug with output, keeping the cli open with WB1.3) CDFS/AmiCDFS CD/DVD For future development steps, Gilles Pelletier mentions, among other things, the optimisation of the graphic interface and the improvement of speed and reactivity. (nba) [News message: 26. Apr. 2024, 10:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Apr.2024`	Video tutorials: Run command and IFF screens in AMOS In two more videos of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows on the one hand how to call other AMOS programs from existing AMOS programs by using the Run command (YouTube video), and on the other hand how to use an IFF file as a screen (YouTube video). (dr) [News message: 26. Apr. 2024, 06:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2024` Seiya (ANF)	PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 157 (Italian/English) Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games. Amiga-related, the current issue, which is dedicated to flight simulators, is about "Knight of the Sky" and "Duck Hunt". (snx) [News message: 25. Apr. 2024, 21:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2024`	Survey: Future focus of Kea Sigma Delta's work Hans De Ruiter's (for example FTP server ZitaFTP) company Kea Sigma Delta has written several books on programming, produced videos and spent most of his time developing his own stuff. In the future, he would like to do more justice to his own slogan "We enjoy creating awesome stuff using software & electronics, and helping others to do the same" and intends to create a membership programme. For that, he is asking for information in advance about what interested parties need and what their current level of knowledge is. He has published a short survey for this purpose. As he tells us, an "Amiga corner" is also planned based on the response so far. (dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2024, 06:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Apr.2024` Balaton	Emulator: QEMU 9.0.0 released QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualiser. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software. It is therefore also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems such as AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who has set up a dedicated website with lots of tips and information. According to him, the new version 9.0.0 contains improvements of the Sam460ex emulation (faster, support of short drive options like -cdrom & -drive media=..., SFS fixed) and Pegasos2 IRQ fixes. A ready to use binary for Windows 64 bit has already been made available. (dr) [News message: 25. Apr. 2024, 06:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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