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WHDLoad packages July 2010
(1 vote)
Amiga news
Written by Demon Cleaner   
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.


Latest packages:

# 27.07.2010 fixed: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) install script now supports 5 disk release
# 19.07.2010 updated: Aquanaut (F1 Licenceware) rewritten, blitter waits added, docs added, new imager
# 19.07.2010 updated: Anarchy (Psygnosis) rewritten, trainer added, fixed several compatibility issues, new imager
# 13.07.2010 improved: Brian the Lion (Psygnosis) access faults removed, trainer added, decruncher in fast ram, interrupt code improved
# 13.07.2010 improved: Assassin Special Edition (Team 17) save highscore bug fixed, intro decruncher added
# 07.07.2010 updated: Lords of Chaos (Blade Software) complete rewrite, supports expansion disk, trainer and docs added
# 04.07.2010 improved: Nitro (Psygnosis) blitter waits added, highscore file optional, updated for newer WHDLoad, disk/bplcon0 accesses fixed

Homepage can be found here.
 
WHDLoad packages June 2010
(0 votes)
Amiga news
Written by Demon Cleaner   
Thursday, 01 July 2010
WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.


Latest packages:

# 27.06.2010 updated: Fantastic Dizzy  (Codemasters/Purple Haze) more copylocks removed, quitkey changed, memory setup changed
# 24.06.2010 improved: Cloud Kingdoms (Millennium) beam delay added, useless reloc code skipped, install/slave update for WHD10+
# 21.06.2010 improved: UN Squadron (U.S.Gold) german version supported too
# 21.06.2010 improved: Myth (System 3) decruncher to fast memory, blitter waits and cpu dependent delays patched, waitbutton added
# 21.06.2010 improved: Dynasty Wars (U.S.Gold/Tiertex) inserted buttonwaits for intro, sound/keyboard delays patched, better blitterwait routine
# 21.06.2010 improved: Batman the Movie (Ocean) files moved to a subdirectory, default quitkey changed, disk access removed
# 21.06.2010 improved: Arena (Psygnosis) buttonwait fixed
# 09.06.2010 new: Evil's Doom demo (Olympia Software) done by Psygore

Homepage can be found here.
 
WinUAE 2.2.0
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Amiga news
Written by Demon Cleaner   
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
This is the final version of WinUAE 2.2.0

Major Game Ports and Input GUI update


- Quick and easy Game Ports input event remapping support.
- Test mode, check built-in or custom key mappings quickly.
- Also includes simple autofire configuration.
- Game Ports mappings are always merged with Input panel configuration modes (*).
For example when configuring a game pad, you can use Game Ports GUI for basic
configuration and remap extra buttons using Input GUI.
- Input GUI also includes quick test and remap options. Press any key,
joystick or mouse axis or button and selected input target will be
instantly ready for remapping, no more slow and manual searching.
- "Windows mouse" not supported in test or remap modes.

*) Possible compatibility issue with old configuration files in Configuration

#1-3 mode. Workaround: set Game Ports mouse and joystick to none.


Other new features


- (Pointless) Max 1G Chip RAM support.
- 7zip SDK updated, XZ and PPMD decompression support added.
- Triple/Double/No buffering option added to GUI.
- NTSC checkbox added to Quickstart GUI.
- WASAPI and PortAudio volume control support.
- 68030 data cache emulated (mostly useless currently).
- Save state when emulator is quit configuration file option.
- Show information window while scanning for ROMs.
- Monitor "bezel" overlay image support (configuration file only).
- Floppy sound channel mask (configuration file only).

Bugs fixed


- CD32 on the fly CD changes, both images and real CDs.
- Autoscale top border position was incorrect in some situations.
- Directory filesystem crash in some situations when attempting
to open non-existing files or directories.
- INTREQR returned bit 15 set in some situations.
- GUI custom CPU frequency was read incorrectly.
- More 68020 "cycle exact" timing fixes (interrupts and blitter).
- 68000 cycle exact too slow CIA interrupt timing.
- Audio filter emulation didn't always follow power led state correctly.
- Amiga to Windows clipboard image sharing failed to convert some image types.

Updates


- Direct3D shader mode is more compatible with Intel integrated graphics cards.
- Custom chipset compatibility updates (for example Roots 2.0 / Sanity)
- 68020 "cycle exact" mode improvements.
- Direct3D "none" filter allows again all filter setting adjustments.
- On screen Power LED fade emulation improved.

and more, check winuaechangelog.txt for (technical) details.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 June 2010 )
 
Classicamiga Forum upgrade in progress
(3 votes)
Latest site news
Written by Harrison   
Thursday, 10 June 2010
The Classicamiga forums are currently undergoing an upgrade to the new vBulletin 4 version of the software.  Whilst this is taking place the forums are unavailable.   An update to this announcement will be posted once this upgrade is complete.

This forum upgrade is a major software release and will be adding a lot of changes, new features and functionality to the site, for both staff and members.   These will be outlined in another annnouncement once the forum upgrade is complete.

If you need to contact us whilst this is happening please use the contact us page or email me directly.

Regards,

Harrison.

 
WHDLoad packages May 2010
(0 votes)
Amiga news
Written by Demon Cleaner   
Tuesday, 01 June 2010
WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.


Latest packages:

# 31.05.2010 updated: Car Vup (Core Design) re-written, 2 button support added
# 30.05.2010 improved: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment) Tarantula access fault workaround
# 30.05.2010 improved: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games) reassembled from new kickemu, reworked package
# 30.05.2010 fixed: Sensible Soccer (Sensible Software) slave works on M68000 now
# 25.05.2010 new: 1st Division Manager (Codemasters) done by Psygore
# 22.05.2010 new: T-Zer0 demo (clickBOOM) done by Psygore
# 04.05.2010 improved: Cybernoid 2 (Hewson) many changes, joypad support
# 04.05.2010 improved: Cybernoid (Hewson) many changes, joypad support, trainer added
# 04.05.2010 fixed: Xenon (Bitmap Brothers) slowdown problem should be fixed
# 02.05.2010 new: Art Of Chess, The (SPA) done by Psygore
# 01.05.2010 improved: Extension (Pygmy Projects) loading picture displayed, small adaptions

Homepage can be found here.
 
WHDLoad packages April 2010
(1 vote)
Amiga news
Written by Demon Cleaner   
Tuesday, 04 May 2010
WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.


Latest packages:

# 30.04.2010 improved: Golden Axe (Virgin) supports 2nd button of some pads
# 30.04.2010 improved: Chess Player 2150 (Oxford Softworks) french version supported
# 20.04.2010 improved: Workbench 3.1 (CBM) added slaves with 4 and 32 MB fast memory
# 20.04.2010 new: Profezia (Genias) done by Psygore (Info)
# 07.04.2010 new: Chess Player 2150 (Oxford Softworks) done by Psygore
# 05.04.2010 new: Vyper (TopDown Development) done by Psygore

Homepage can be found here.
 
WinUAE 2.1.0
(2 votes)
Amiga news
Written by Demon Cleaner   
Tuesday, 04 May 2010
This is the final version of WinUAE 2.1.0 after again a lot of betas.

2.0.x bugs fixed


* Super Stardust level selector sprite bug.
* Directory filesystem mount failures if ISO-8859-15 character set was not installed in Windows.
* 68020 CE mode duplicate interrupts.
* Command line parser heap corruption.

Other bugs fixed


* Random Direct3D mode graphics crap is gone.
* Direct3D fullscreen ALT-TAB weird behavior.
* More than 8 CD drives crash.
* Rare dualplayfield buffer corruption. (Shadow Fighter AGA)
* CD32 pad emulation compatibility improved. (Roadkill CD32)
* Some game controller device types were ignored.
* Vista/7 file dialog multi file selection fix (Disk swapper).
* Swapped sound channels if stereo separation was enabled.
* Unreliable VSync in interlaced Direct3D mode.
* NTSC statefiles didn´t restore correctly.
* Sometimes printer always reported busy, paper out or offline.
* Directory filesystem rename operation weird behavior if file name included non-ISO-8859-1 characters.
* Directory filesystem cyrillic character set support.
* Mouse driver (tablet) mode random mouse jitter.
* Filter presets.
* Rar unpacking crashed if unrar.dll was too old.

New features


* CDTV/CD32 direct CD image file support, including audio tracks, plain iso, cue + bin, cue + bin + wav and cue + bin + mp3. Quickstart GUI support, cdimage0= in configuration file and -cdimage= in command line.
* Direct 3D rewrite, shader based (if shaders supported), overlays and RTG supported, Direct3D is now default rendering backend, configuration in Misc panel, all software filters are available in Direct3D and DirectDraw modes.
* DF3: on screen led shows internal (NV)RAM accesses (CDTV and CD32)
* Input panel Caps and Scroll Lock full remapping support.
* A1000 Agnus vblank bug emulated. (Alcatraz Megademo 2)
* Fullscreen dialogs have separate size and position settings (Vista/7), always center dialogs in fullscreen (XP)
* Multidisk image selection helper, right click on disk image select button to open quick selection menu.
* "GamePorts" "Copy From" option added to Input panel, copies Game Ports panel mouse/joystick settings to current input configuration.
* Parallel port sound sampler emulated, WIP, bad sound quality..
* Windowed mode status bar CD/HD/floppy "led" activity status improved.
* "Minimize when focus is lost" option.
* Expand environment variables in configuration and command line file paths.

Updates


* Many 68000 CPU cycle-exact mode instruction cycle counting and interrupt timing updates, A500 emulation accuracy is near-perfect now.
* More compatible CDTV/CD32 CD audio support using direct digital audio extraction. Sound panel volume control adjusts CD audio volume.
* OCS Denise horizontal position counter bug fully emulated.
* Autoscale display size detection improved.
* Support DMS files that have fake complete track zero. (BBS ads)
* Epson matrix printer emulation improved, no extra libraries or fonts required anymore, color text and graphics supported.
* OCS chipset "fake 60Hz" refresh rate support rewritten, now handles non-60Hz rates.
* Raw keyboard option is now always enabled, Input panel multiple keyboard support.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 04 May 2010 )
 
WHDLoad packages March 2010
(0 votes)
Amiga news
Written by Demon Cleaner   
Thursday, 08 April 2010
WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.


Latest packages:

# 29.03.2010 new: Planet Groove (Team Hoi) done by Graham
# 29.03.2010 new: Gloom Party Invitation (Gloom) done by Graham
# 29.03.2010 improved: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) supports another version
# 09.03.2010 improved: Lotus 2 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) halfs the scores in any mode
# 07.03.2010 improved: Vixen / She-Fox (Martech Games) color palette corrected, 2nd button supported

Homepage can be found here.
 
WHDLoad packages February 2010
(0 votes)
Amiga news
Written by Demon Cleaner   
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.


Latest packages:

# 28.02.2010 new: Star Control (Accolade) done by Psygore
# 21.02.2010 new: Ork demo (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
# 17.02.2010 fixed: Sidewinder (Arcadia Software) no longer requires a 68020
# 16.02.2010 new: Ace Ball (Tim Soft) done by Psygore
# 04.02.2010 new: Blobz (Apex Systems) done by Psygore

Homepage can be found here.
 
WinUAE 2.1.0 Preview
(1 vote)
Amiga news
Written by Demon Cleaner   
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Preview of the upcoming WinUAE release.

Major 2.0.1 bugs fixed

- Sprite bug fixed. (Super Stardust level selector)
- Directory filesystem mount errors if ISO-8859-15 character set was not installed in Windows

Other changes

- Random Direct3D filter graphics crap fixed
- Direct3D fullscreen ALT-TAB fixes
- More than 8 virtual or real CD drives crash fix
- Rare dualplayfield buffer corruption. (Shadow Fighter AGA)
- CD32 pad emulation compatibility update. (Roadkill CD32)
- Some game controller device types were ignored

New features

- CDTV/CD32 CD image support, including audio tracks, plain iso
- cue + bin, cue + bin + wav and cue + bin + mp3 supported
- Direct 3D rewrite, shader based, overlays and RTG supported
- DF3: on screen led shows internal (NV)RAM accesses (CDTV and CD32)
- Input panel Caps and Scroll Lock full remapping support
- A1000 Agnus vblank bug emulated
- Fullscreen dialogs have separate size and position settings (Vista/7), center dialogs in fullscreen (XP)

Updates

- More compatible CDTV/CD32 CD audio support using direct digital audio extraction. Sound panel volume adjusts also CD audio volume
- 68000 cycle-exact mode cycle counting updates
- OCS Denise "bug" emulation fully implemented
- Autoscale display size detection improvements
- Support DMS files that have fake complete track zero. (BBS ads)
 
Amiga Future Issue 82 is out now
(1 vote)
Amiga news
Written by Andreas Magerl   
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Amiga Future Issue 82 Cover
Amiga Future issue 82

(Jan/Feb 2010) is out now!

This means that all subscriptions, preorders and dealer supplies have now been shipped.

In issue 82 you'll find reviews about Amiga OS 4 Update 1, Maniac Mansion - Day for the Tentacle, Space Shooter, Bordo, SimuTrans, The Mana World, Open TTD, Reminiscence.


Release Date:
5 - 15. January 2010 planned - 8. January released.

Reviews:
AmigaOS 4 Update 1, Maniac Mansion - Day for the Tentacle, Space Shooter, Bordo, SimuTrans, The Mana World, Open TTD, Reminiscence.

Hardware:
AresOne, CDTV.

Workshop:
Cairo part 2.

Specials:
Law case Amiga Inc - Hyperion, AROS News, Sinclair QL, SQL, Amiga Retrospective part 16, The Girlfriend in the Office.

Others:
Interview Markus Weiß, Interview Carlos Peris, Editorial, Contents, News, Up2date, The herald of Tamar, Cheats, walk-trough Discworld, Imürint, CoverCD contet, Letters to the editor, Preview.

Extras:
Scavenger 1, Scavenger 2, Maddog, Quasar Wars, Jelly o Chelly, Shroom, Gammon, Sneech, Piles o Tiles, Peg it Classic, 6th Sense, Samplitude, Dead Metal, TrackerHero, unveröffentlichtes Bonus-Material von Bernhard Aichinger und die brandneue Demoversion von Desert Racing

Public Domain:
BDaeshXPack, biniax2.i386-aros, codesets-6.9, DisLib, ed.i386-aros, edgar-0.32-morphos, frogsofwar_os4, JoinSplitter, JumpingAround, MMULib, moleinvasion_os4, MultiRen, OpenJazz-Os3, passwd, pig-m68k-amigaos, ReportPlus, sed.i386-aros, splashlauncher, UTF-8, WarpBMPdt, WarpJPEGdt, WarpPNGdt, wizznic_os4, zoomit, zunecalc, uvm.

A more detailed description of the content can be found at: http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=3377

The Amiga Future is available as an English and German print magazine directly at the editorial office and some Amiga dealers like APC&TCP, Alinea, AmigaKit, ASB, GGS Data, Voxel, Samuli and Vesalia. Of course we look for any other dealers wanting to offer the Amiga Future.

The Amiga Future is available as a single issue and subscription each with or without a cover CD.


Amiga Future Needs Help
Currently we look for translators for the magazine. Your native language should be German or English and you should be able to read and write them very well.

Interested? Then please contact us via email at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

http://www.amigafuture.de
http://www.apc-tcp.de

Last Updated ( Saturday, 13 February 2010 )
 
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