• Commodore Free Magazine, Issue 79 - Part 6

    From Stephen Walsh@39:901/280 to All on Tue Apr 15 19:48:57 2014
    fraction is really used, don't worry; ) )
    * Cooler Master Case
    * AMD Dualcore e350
    * 32GB SATA II SSD
    * GeForce 8400GS with 512MB VRAM
    * 8GB USB-Stick for OS-recovery


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    HOW TO GET AMIGA GAMES ON IPAD
    AND IPHONE LEGALLY
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    If you are an iOS users and don't want to risk the effort, and time
    involved in jail breaking your device but want to play retro Amiga games on
    it where can you go? This website has ports of Amiga Games by the original developers or third party programmers, and also the games for sale in the
    App store

    voxelarcade.com/opinion/get-amiga-games-ipad-iphone-legally/



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    THE KING OF CHICAGO IS OUT NOW
    FOR IOS AND ANDROID
    Classic Amiga point-and-click game
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    The game is a direct port of the Amiga classic, with the developers making
    a few tweaks to ensure its suitability for touch screen devices.

    www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPad/The+King+of+Chicago/news.asp?c=57482



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    AROS VISION 2.3
    with full version of Wildfire 7
    and Games Master System
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    OlafS3 has uploaded the newest version of AROS Vision. It includes the
    full version of Wildfire 7 and the newest version of AMOS Pro (bug fixes). Additionally it includes the "Game Master System", a developer kit for programming games. The program is now freeware!

    www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=758727#post758727



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    NEW ACA500 PACKS AVAILABLE
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    Two news packs for the ACA500 accelerator boards are available for your
    Amiga 500 / 500+ :

    * The Crystal ACA500 Pack including the ACA500 board and its dedicated Transparent Crystal case for 129,90 euros instead of 138,90 euros,

    * The Translucent ACA500 Pack including the ACA500 board and its dedicated Translucent Crystal case for 103,90 euros instead of 108,90 euros.

    With Workbench 3.1 floppy disk sets, they can now be supplied with the
    ACA500 Crystal Ready to Run Pack and ACA500 Translucent Ready to Run Pack !

    These packs include the ACA500 board for your Amiga 500 / 500+ in its
    dedicated protection case and a 4GB memory card on which the Workbench 3.1 software is pre-installed and ready to Run (the original floppy disks are
    also included)

    N.B. : all prices include the French VAT and exclude the shipping costs.

    * Mail: contact@amedia-computer.com

    * Site: amiga.amedia-computer.com



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    NEW ARTICLES ON OBLIGEMENT
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    The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement (obligement.free.fr) during the last few months:

    * November/December 2013 news.

    * Anciens articles d'Amiga News 41 à 44 : Reportage%&$#?@!: AmiExpo
    Cologne 1991, Test de Maxiplan Plus 2.7, Matériel : MultiStart 2, Test
    d'Art Department Professional 2.0.0, Matériel%&$#?@!: Kit ROM 2.0, Matériel%&$#?@!: DCTV, Dossier : La presse en Italie en 1991, Reportage%&$#?@!: World Of Commodore Show 1991, Comparatif%&$#?@!: HAM-E+ contre AVideo 24, etc.

    * Interview with Jérome Senay.

    * Interview with Martin Blom (from 2002).

    * Review of Islands Mini-Golf 1.5.

    * Review of CygnusEd 5.0.

    * Review of Amiga Forever 2013.

    * Review of FPSE 0.10.4.

    * Review of Qt 4.7 0.9.0 sur AmigaOS 4.

    * Review of Project-X Special Edition '93.

    * File: graphic modes on Amiga.

    * File: container formats.

    * Tutorial: installation of MorphOS 3.x (update).

    * Tutorial: format the AmigaOS 4 Sys: partition without a reboot.

    * Tutorial: data transfer between a PC and an Amiga via USB with ANAIIS.

    * Special quiz about emulators...



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    AEROS FOR PI BETA7 AVAILABLE FOR
    REGISTERED USERS
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    Now with 2D HW accelerated X11, so no more tearing if you move windows and accelerated scrolling.

    Here you can find new screenshots from latest beta:

    www.aeros-os.org/photos/files...1034-full.html

    CHANGELOG FOR BETA7:

    * 2D accelerated window movement and scrolling (no black tearing anymore, faster)

    * added XBMC

    * Access rPi GPU directly - after Exiting you need to press ctrl+alt+f2 and then ctrl+alt+f7 to get back to Wanderer-Screen

    * Fixed disordered icons

    * removed empty folders

    * removed ._-files

    * removed crashing stuff

    * fixed ejecting external media from Linux-file manager which was broken

    * added scrot command to take screenshots from shell

    * cleaned some icons (fragments from nightly)

    Registered users can get it from download page on
    www.aeros-os.org



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    HOLLYWOOD AVAILABLE AGAIN FOR
    PURCHASE
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    (Hollywood is a multimedia-oriented programming language that can be used
    to create graphical applications very easily)

    Airsoft Software is happy to announce that Hollywood 5 and Hollywood
    Designer 4 are available again for purchase www.hollywood-mal.com. New customers who buy the Amiga full version of Hollywood 5.3 will also get the Windows full version free of charge (or vice versa) for a limited period of time.



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    AMIGATRONICS 1X02 PODCAST
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    Amigatronics announce their second podcast (Spanish) with news, hardware, software, games, demos, events ... and dedicate a space to other machines
    and retro video games, the usual dose of their unique humour

    amigatronics.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/audio-amigatronics-1x02/



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    HYPERON FUSE AND NTFS FOR AMIGAOS
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    blog.hyperion-entertainment.biz/?p=1044

    COMMODORE FREE: Information taken directly from the Hyperon Blog

    FUSE is short for File system in Userspace. FUSE was created to enable non-privileged users to run file systems outside of the kernel which is a
    big deal for Unix-like operating systems. In AmigaOS, everything runs in userspace so FUSE is not nearly as important for Amiga users. What makes
    FUSE valuable is all the file system implementations which use FUSE such as NTFS, ext2, ZFS, etc.

    The Amiga Operating System implementation of FUSE has been realized via a project called Filesysbox by Leif Salomonsson. A special thanks goes out
    to Leif for allowing his hard work to be utilized.

    Amiga programmer extraordinaire Fredrik Wikström was then commissioned to
    port Filesysbox over to AmigaOS. Fredrik took the original code and
    updated it to AmigaOS 4.1 standards. This work included utilizing advanced
    DOS features such as object notification and the new file system API which seeks to completely avoid the esoteric DOS packet interface. Colin Wenzel
    is the main man behind the advanced DOS features.

    In order to test whether Filesysbox was working properly we needed a file system to go with it. NTFS-3G by Tuxera was chosen for this purpose.
    Fredrik also ported a full suite of tools to go along with NTFS itself.

    Both Filesysbox and NTFS-3G are contributions being offered to registered AmigaOS users via AmiUpdate. The software licenses require that the source code be made available so registered users can download the matching source code from Hyperion's web site in the downloads section.

    It is hoped that 3rd party developers will become interested in porting
    more file systems in the near future whether they are via the FUSE API or
    the new DOS file system API. The upcoming SDK will include everything you need. In the mean time, please feel free to utilize the provided source
    code and the AmigaOS support forum for assistance.

    Finally, a big thanks needs to go out to the AmigaOS beta testing team for risking their hard drive partitions while testing NTFS-3G and Filesysbox.
    It is demanding and potentially destructive work that should not be taken
    for granted.



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