• Commodore Free Magazine, Issue 83 - Part 5

    From Stephen Walsh@39:901/280 to All on Tue Oct 7 14:19:16 2014
    as the ZorRAM and
    MAS Player evolution. Most recently AmigaKit have diversified into manufacturing Amiga joysticks such as the Arcade Evolution joystick.

    In 2009, they took on another full-time technician so that there was more capacity for Amiga repairs, servicing, and in-house hardware projects. One
    of the first tasks of the year was to prepare for the AmigaONE X1000
    project, involved only from a reseller point of view. Later on in late
    2010, the role changed, as AmigaKit had to help get the project back on
    track.

    By 2012, it was clear a large building was needed, and the opportunity came around to buy a property a mile away from the main offices. It required a
    lot of renovation to meet requirements and the building work presented many challenges during the six months. Once this was complete AmigaKit slowly migrated their operations and inventory from the old building to the new
    during the summer months

    www.amigakit.com/


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    SOUNDBANKSTER FOR MORPHOS 3.6
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    SoundBankster, an audio mixing application for DJ enthusiast is available
    for download here:

    tcheko.binaryriot.org/SoundBankster.lha

    SoundBankster takes advantage of many native and exclusive components of
    the operating system like the new HID sensors API provided with the 3.6
    release of MorphOS. The HID sensors API allows many USB devices like DJ
    decks to directly drive the application. An internal event mapping editor
    is provided for easy wiring of the DJ deck controller to the user interface components of SoundBankster. Further using Reggae to load and play audio.
    Its efficient design allows stutter-less playback even under the worst load conditions.

    SOUNDBANKSTER FEATURES:

    * Support for the new HID Sensors API of MorphOS 3.62

    * Waveform rendering with TinyGL

    * Reggae support for decoding and rendering audio

    * Memory playback for stutter-less audio rendering

    * 20ms audio buffer for real-time effects

    * Beat detection algorithm

    * Accurate track pitch

    * Filters

    * Loops

    * Playlist import/export with ranking and BPM databases

    * Unlimited recording in WAVE format

    * Heavily threaded for non blocking user interface

    * Supports dual audio output via AHI units

    * MUI interface

    * All this in a packed 100KB executable

    * and a lot more...


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    LOS CHINOS
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    Morgue Soft has released a new game for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, and MorphOS
    created using Hollywood, and called Los Chinos. This is a classic Spanish
    game with "guessing" fingers.

    Its available in English, Spanish, and Italian language:

    www.morguesoft.eu/Paginas/Downloads.htm


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    HOLLYWOOD PLAYER 5.3 RELEASED
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    Airsoft Softwair announce that the Hollywood Player is now also available
    for all desktop platforms supported by Hollywood (AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS, Windows, Mac OS PPC & x86, Linux PPC & x86).
    Although it was originally scheduled for release on June 3, 2006 (and even finished back then) its final publication for desktop systems was postponed again and again, limiting the availability of the Hollywood Player to the Android platform for several years.

    But now that the Hollywood Player is finally available for desktop
    platforms as well, software authors can choose to distribute their programs
    as Hollywood applets instead of stand-alone executables. The Hollywood
    Player is now available for free download from the official Hollywood
    portal for a wide range of architectures and comes with three demo applets
    to show its capabilities.

    www.hollywood-mal.com/


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    GENESISPLUS V1.7 FOR MORPHOS RELEASED
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    A new version GenesisPlus, the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator is available
    for download. Additions include a preview picture in the main window and thumbnails for the save-state manager .

    Also - filters employed to only show valid ROM file names (.cue|.bin|.smd||.sms|.gg) - auto detect of PAL and NTSC ROMs and set audio/video timings accordingly - preview pics in startup window added - thumbnails added to save-state manager.

    Download here: members.shaw.ca/realstar/genplus/genindex.html


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    BOINGS WORLD EPISODE #53 IS OUT
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    Something for German readers... Boings World podcast episode 53 was
    released recently and is available for download.

    boingsworld.de/


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    AROS VISION 2.7
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    A new version of AROS Vision is now available. AROS is based on concepts
    and ideas from the Amiga with 68000. AROS supports X86, ARM, PPC and 68k. Changes in this version: Updates:. MUI generous, ROMs, IBrowse, Simple
    Mail, Digi Booster, Audio Software, File Types and AMOS

    www.aros-platform.de/




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    ACCESS THE INTERNET USING THE
    VICE EMULATOR
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    A number of people have asked me about this, and because the emulation is
    now so stable and because it tied in with a feature we looked at a couple
    of issues ago about using Contiki, and because I was asked how I managed to
    get such clean screen shots (heck that's a lot of ANDS in one sentence), I decided I would write up a feature about Vice and internet access (and how
    I get the screen shots for the magazine).

    I am using Windows and will cover the Windows versions, but the process
    should be similar for other operating systems.

    For some time VICE has supported cartridges, and although some are a little more complicated to get running than others, network-capability is a
    relatively new feature . You can see a list of supported cartridges by clicking on "File"...

    Then click "Attach cartridge image"....

    Of course you need an image file to attach, but this isn't about that
    feature, so I will leave you to play with this yourself. If you want to experiment I found some CRT files or images here:

    www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A// www.lemon64.com/apps/list.php%3FGenre%3Dcarts

    The first part of using VICE with networking is to download the latest
    version, although any version from 2.2 onwards supports RR net (as this is
    what I will focus on - of course the TFE card is also supported). It's
    still best to get the latest version, just so you know the bugs have been ironed out, so head over to

    vice-emu.sourceforge.net/

    Click on the downloads tab and download the newest version to your machine.

    For this feature to work VICE will require a "promiscuous mode" network
    driver. This isn't part of Windows (the operating system I am using for
    the tutorial) so we need to download a driver. Head over to www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm in order to find an installer for
    Windows. The software states this is experimental and as always you use
    this advice at your own risk!

    Supported platforms:

    * Windows NT4/2000

    * Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/Win7/2008R2/Win8 (x86 and x64)

    I don't know about Apple Mac and Linux systems.

    After the software has installed reboot your machine before continuing.

    SO WHAT IS PROMISCUOUS MODE?

    This causes the Network controller or card to pass all traffic it receives
    to the central processing unit (CPU) rather than passing only the frames
    that the controller is intended to receive. Normally the packets or information not intended for the computer would be dropped or ignored. So
    in this mode all information is processed.

    WE NOW NEED TO CONFIGURE VICE'S ETHERNET SETTINGS

    So with VICE emulator running click on "Settings"...

    Then click "Cartridge I/O settings"...

    Then click "Ethernet settings"...

    Set the Ethernet settings to RR-NET and then select your Ethernet Adapter. WinPcap is fussy about what Wi-Fi adapters it will support, so it's best to hardwire.

    First, select the emulation you want to use. In this case it's RR Net so select this from the list. Then on the Interface input select your network card

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