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`02.Jun.2024`	Amiga Kit: Final Writer 7 pre-installed on A600GS Press release: Final Writer has been in put back into active development over recent years (amiga-news.de reported). Version 7 will soon will make it's debut pre-installed on the A600GS computer. Final Writer is a famous word processor for the Amiga computer originally developed by SoftWood in the mid 1990s. It rapidly developed a significant loyal fan base amongst the Amiga community. In 2015 it was purchased by Timothy Deters and put back into development after a 20 year hiatus. A large investment of work has been carried out implementing a new spell checker compatible with Open Office dictionaries, RTG fixes, FTP, IPP PDF and Turboprint printing. AmigaKit Ltd and Timothy Deters are pleased to announce that a special edition of Final Writer 7 will be pre-installed on the A600GS alongside it's other updated applications of OctaMED 8, PPaint 7.4 and Directory Opus 4. Final Writer can be started from AmiBench, the desktop environment and will open on a 1080P screen. Final Writer 7 Special Edition is fully functional with the exception of the Spell Checker module which will be offered to A600GS users as an optional paid upgrade. Matthew Leaman, MD of AmigaKit Ltd commented on the collaboration: "We are very pleased to work with Timothy bundling the brand new edition of Final Writer on the A600GS low cost hardware platform. Final Writer is popular and much loved Amiga word processor. A significant amount of hard work has gone into bringing this application back to our community to the credit of Timothy and his developers. New versions of Final Writer complementing OctaMED and Personal Paint represents the renewal of Amiga applications." Timothy Deters, owner of Final Writer added: "I'm happy to have come to an agreement with AmigaKit to include Final Writer with their system. I’d like to thank the developers who worked on this project and have been instrumental to its completion." The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024. (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2024, 22:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2024`	Emulator: WinUAE 5.3.0 The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.3.0. Changes: New emulated RTG boards CyberVision/BlizzardVision PPC. 2D only, 3D is not implemented. (Permedia 2) GVP EGS 110/24. (INMOS G364) Graffity. (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428) Merlin, includes support for configurable serial number used by ProBench (Tseng ET4000W32) oMniBus (Tseng ET4000AX or ET4000W32) Rainbow III (INMOS G360) Visiona (INMOS G300) New features/updates Prometheus FireStorm PCI bridge emulation Release raw input devices when GUI is open (except during input Test/Remap) or when debugger window is active. Allows Windows shortcut keys like Win+E to work without need to unfocus the window. Added Misc panel option to disable default on screen keyboard gamepad button 4 mapping. Some uae-configuration (and other similar) debugging logging messages automatically opened the console window. Now only entering debugger will open it. Added “Always on (Fixed only)” sound filter option. This enables A500 fixed filter but never enables “led filter”. (A1200 does not have fixed filter, only “led” filter) Replaced old Windows 2000 compatible Windows clipboard handling with newer, simpler and more reliable method introduced in Vista. Allow also 68020+ CPUs to fetch instruction words from custom chipset space. Only if more compatible is set. If some program really wants to do something weird like execute code located in AGA palette registers. Lightpen/gun cursor in any edge of screen: lightpen/gun not pointing at the screen = position can’t be read by the program. Statefile shortcut keys now select current config file name as a base statefile name (for example, if “test1.uae” config file is loaded, SHIFT+END+0 will save statefile as “test1.uss”. Quickstart mode config still uses original default “default.uss”) Both “SaveImage” (automatically created ext adf when write-enabling non-writable image like ipf) file extension variants are now detected automatically when checking if file exists. Paths panel SaveImage mode option now only affects generated file name when new saveimage is created. Added LDP-1450 laserdisc player OSD font emulation. Fixes laserdisc arcade game Platoon (Nova) previously missing “YOU’RE HIT!!” messages. (All OSD graphics are generated by Amiga except this message!) Bugs fixes Fixed XT based Bridgeboards non-working floppy drive emulation, broke during 5.1 DraCo updates (wrong density detection) Serial port data receive was unreliable. Loopback serial port mode didn’t work in fast CPU modes. CD32 FMV video image size and positioning was weird in most scaled modes. Exclusive fullscreen and RTG resolution switch (RTG resolution switch to another RTG resolution without switch to native mode and back) didn’t change fullscreen resolution. Some ECS programmed modes (for example SuperPlus) had first visible line blanked. Fixed corruption in some “weird” programmed modes, introduced in 5.0 betas. Some hardware emulated RTG boards had flickering colors during horizontal panning (>8 bit modes only) Fixed ECS Denise superhires mode hires sprite pointer strange odd/even horizontal movement. Fixed pre-KS 1.2 HDF/directory filesystem boot. Broke long time ago. Multi-monitor active state was not fully reset when system was hard reset. (Multimonitor window was open -> hard reset -> window didn’t open anymore again) If x86 bridgeboard SVGA and also other hardware emulated RTG board was active and END+F9 was used to switch monitors: both monitors’ output was drawn in same window, causing corrupted graphics and possibly also crash if monitor sizes were too different. It was not possible to write and read ECS/AGA genlock transparency bit in color registers. Was broken long time ago. Delay ALG LDP seek complete status reply slightly. Fixes laserdisc arcade game Platoon (Nova) few second hangs. Los Justicieros (Zorton Brothers) laserdisc arcade game left holster hooked up correctly. (Was stuck active previously) (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2024, 21:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2024`	Action adventure: June update of "Castlevania AGA" Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This now features a "proper" Simon Belmont, who was created especially for this version. There is now also a menu with a jukebox function, which allows you to listen to the different music. (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2024, 10:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2024`	Aminet uploads until 01.06.2024 The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to Aminet: MicroExcel_2.0a.lha biz/spread 1.6M MOS A Spreadsheed Editor Void-FB15.lha demo/sound 640K 68k Musicdisk from 68k Inside 2024 transmittances.lha dev/amos 406K transmittances PreludeSoftwareBundle... driver/aud 122K 68k Software bundle for Prelude s... 7MezzoPlusAros.zip game/board 472K x86 Popular Italian Christmas game GISequenceMemoryADF.zip game/board 304K 68k memory game GISequenceMemoryAros.zip game/board 388K x86 Sequence Memory game Jake_And_Peppy_V90.lha game/demo 28M 68k Playable demo: new Apollo V4/... sequencememory.lha game/wb 193K 68k memory game LN3Void24Prt2.lha mods/misc 3.5M 16bit 4ch LN3Void24Prt2 by HK... hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 406K 68k Updated HippoPlayer VATestprogram.zip util/misc 22M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram BaseConv.lha util/wb 63K 68k Convert numbers between bin/o... (snx) [News message: 02. Jun. 2024, 08:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2024`	OS4Depot uploads until 01.06.2024 The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to OS4Depot: cppcheck.lha dev/uti 4Mb 4.1 A static analysis tool for C/C++... arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator a1222_abstract.lha gra/mis 12Mb 4.0 Abstract backdrop for AmigaOne A... lm_calendarclock.lha uti/har 5Mb 4.0 Clock to control the time in fro... (snx) [News message: 02. Jun. 2024, 08:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2024`	AROS Archives uploads until 01.06.2024 The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to AROS Archives: vintagesongplayer.lha aud/pla 2Mb A JukeBox multiformat player gisequencememory.i386-aro... gam/boa 388kb classic memory game 7mezzoplus.i386-aros.zip gam/car 472kb Popular Italian Christmas game gipoker.i386-aros.zip gam/car 451kb video poker simulations bar mach... videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb Videntium Picta is picture and a... witchcleaner.lha net/ser 3Mb Clean temp data from OWB and tra... omanko.lha uti/fil 2Mb Tool made to get the MD5 and CRC... lm_calendarclock.lha uti/har 4Mb Clock to control the time in fro... (snx) [News message: 02. Jun. 2024, 08:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2024`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.06.2024 The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: WitchCleaner_3.20.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr... MicroExcel_2.0a.lha Office/Spreadsheet A Spreadsheed Editor (snx) [News message: 02. Jun. 2024, 08:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2024`	Amiga-Emulator: Activity monitors and DMA bus visualisation for vAmigaWeb vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS. In this update, the developer 'mithendal' has added an activity or load display for the individual Amiga chips Blitter, Copper and Paula and the CPU. This means that you can now see which games use certain Amiga coprocessors or chips in particular. In addition, pens such as the Apple Pencil are now supported. (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2024, 06:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2024`	Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.7 (update) The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.6 was released: SCSI-2 Emulation - Fixes compatibility with ACDPlay, OptyCDPlay, OS 3.9 PlayCD etc Support masterless slave devices Fixup channel detection on Dicke Olga Accelerator Various ATAPI bug fixes and performance improvements Update: (13:50, 02.06.24, dr) Version 40.7 has just been released and is strongly recommended for all users of the previous version 40.6. (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2024, 06:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2024` Thomas Wenzel (ANF)	Audio: Prelude Software Bundle V4.1 now available The updated software bundle (V4.1) for the Prelude sound card family (and derivatives) includes the prelude.library, the mixer and the MHI driver for the Amiblaster. The new features at a glance: As soon as any application opens the prelude.library, it automatically loads and sets the saved mixer settings. This means that the mixer does not have to be started each time the system is started, unless you want to mix one of the inputs to the output right at the beginning. The prelude.library now also initialises newer revisions of the MAS3507D (e.g. on newer MPEGit replicas) correctly, so that the playback speed is correct. The included MHI driver for the Amiblaster now also supports the Ultra and the CP/Mini (clockport version). The Prelude Software Bundle supports the Prelude Z2, Prelude 1200 and Amiblaster Deluxe sound cards as well as the Prelude Z2 extensions MPEGit and Arpeggiator. Under WinUAE, the bundle is compatible with the Prelude Z2 and Prelude 1200 models supported there. Download: PreludeSoftwareBundleV4.lha (122 KB) (nba) [News message: 28. May. 2024, 10:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.May.2024` George Sokianos (ko-fi)	AmigaOS 4: Code analysis with Cpppcheck V2.14r1 Im September 2022, George 'walkero' Sokianos made an AmigaOS 4 port of Cppcheck, a static code analysis tool for the C and C++ programming languages, available for the first time. The tool is designed to be able to analyze your C/C++ code even if it has non-standard syntax common in embedded projects. The latest official version 2.14 has now been ported (release notes). (dr) [News message: 27. May. 2024, 11:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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