• Commodore Free Magazine, Issue 73 - Part 8

    From Stephen Walsh@39:901/280 to All on Sat Dec 14 22:28:40 2013
    g and Retro Gaming.


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    SIRENA PLAYER V2.20
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    Sirena Player is a music player for AmigaOS and MorphOS. The program can play the following music files mp3, wav and mod files .

    CHANGES IN THIS VERSION:

    * Compiled with Hollywood 5.2.

    * Rewind and Forward the song with the mouse wheel.

    * New music time routines.

    * MorphOS Butterfly animation available.

    * The program is available in the following languages: English, Spanish,
    Italian, French, Greek, German, Czech and Polish.

    For more information check out the website here www.morguesoft.eu/


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    KAPOOKA - AMIGAOS
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    KaPooka is a logic or if you prefer puzzle game for AmigaOS (SDL). In the game you must try to move the red balls to the exit. You have to push the green balls out of the way to make a way through to the exit. However you can only push a ball when there is an empty space behind it. the game can be played via the keyboard, mouse or joystick.

    You can download the game from here www1.datafilehost.com/d/2b671c3d


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    AMIGAAMP 3.10
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    Download via AmiUpdate or from www.amigaamp.de/

    FEATURES

    Amiga OS4 native

    AmigaAMP 3 is completely AmigaOS4 native giving you the performance you'd expect from a fast PowerPC system. In addition to MPEG audio and AIFF/WAVE support it can play FLAC as well. OGG support is in the works. AHI compatible.

    PowerUP and WarpUP Compatible

    As well as the 68k decoder AmigaAMP 2 comes with two PPC native decoding engines one for PowerUP and one for WarpUP. Both engines feature high quality real-time decoding of Layer2 and Layer3 streams, graphic equalizer settings
    and full visualisation.

    On a PPC604e-200 you can play two 128kbps Layer3 streams with equalizer switched on and crossfade between the two without taking much CPU load! The real-time analysers will continue to run smoothly without any latency problems at all.

    Light my Fire

    WarpUP compatible AHI Compatible

    AmigaAMP uses the widespread AHI Audio System at device access level. You can use it with any AHI compatible soundcard as well as with the original Amiga audio chipset. AHI compatible

    CURRENT FEATURES (V3.10)

    * MPEG Layer-2, Layer-3, OGG, M4A, FLAC, AIFF, WAV and MOD/S3M/XM/IT playback

    * TuneNet plugin support

    * Visualisation plugin system

    * GadTools based font sensitive user interface

    * Alternatively WinAMP compatible user interface

    * Workbench application (you can drop icons on its window)

    * AHI device-level access (uses default audio mode automatically)

    * Native AmigaOS4 executable

    * ID3v1 tag editor (artist, title, album, etc.) and ID3v2 display

    * Playlists and Repeat mode

    * Volume, panning and crossfading

    * Editable playlists and shuffle mode with skin support

    * Graphic equalizer

    * Shoutcast/Icecast internet radio support with recording option


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    MULTIMILLIONAIRE DJ CALVIN HARRIS
    STARTED HIS MUSIC CAREER WITH THE
    AMIGA
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    Apparently the DJ "Calvin Harris" started his music career on the supremely elegant Amiga computer. Its reported the 29-year-old had made 30million this year alone and made him one of the richest celebrities under 30 in the world,

    Read the rest of the story linked below:

    www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/music/5036456/story-of-dj-calvin-har ris-rise-to-fame-and-fortune.html#ixzz2aSwUT9R8

    You can should you so with Purchase Calvin Harris albums on iTunes or Amazon, apparently the remixes sound Amiga like in form

    itunes.apple.com/us/artist/calvin-harris/id201955086

    www.amazon.com/Calvin-Harris/e/B00197I6EK


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    AMI JACKPOT V1.11
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    The rather addictive slot machines or one arm bandit that adorns modern
    casinos and bingo halls is now available for the Amiga computer system, although many version sexist this one has been programmed with Hollywood. At least you won't lose any real money (unlike the casinos version)

    IMPROVEMENTS FROM THIS NEW VERSION:

    * Fix some graphics positions and a bug with the three HOLD buttons.

    * Compiled with the last Hollywood version 5.3

    Available to download to AmigaOS4 in: www.morguesoft.info


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    INTERVIEW WITH A-EON'S TREVOR
    DICKINSON
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    The magazine Obligement has recently published an interview with Trevor Dickinson, Director of A-EON Technology.

    In the interview Trevor speaks about the A-EON company, the assessment of the whole AmigaOne X1000 adventure and new projects like Cyrus, AmigaOS 4 netbook, LibreOffice amongst other Amiga related items.

    Link : obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwdickinson2_en.php


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    FFMPEG V2.0 AND FFMPEGGUI V3.1
    RELEASED
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    A new release of FFmpeg v2.0 for the AmigaOS4 has been uploaded to OS4Depot. www.os4depot.net/ Featuring several new filters and includes an AltiVec
    enabled version. Also FFmpegGUI v3.1 has been released to support FFmpeg v2.0. It supports additional codecs/formats, has enhanced padding and cropping, and includes expanded setup files to take advantage of FFmpeg's filter capability.

    Read more to see a more complete list of enhancement and changes.

    FFMPEG V2.0 CHANGES:

    Support for FTP URLs, Opus audio, WebP images, and an enormous range of new video and audio filters, including 3D side-by-side to anaglyph, audio
    equalizer and more. The full list can be seen in the Changelog file included with the program.

    FFMPEGGUI V3.1 CHANGES:

    * Updated to support version 2.0 of ffmpeg. (OLDER VERSION NO LONGER
    SUPPORTED!).

    * Updated settings files as required to make compatible with version 2.0.

    * Changed cropping to work with v2.0. (NOT BACKWARD COMPATABLE!). See
    FFmpegGUI Docs.

    * Changed padding to work with v2.0. (NOT BACKWARD COMPATABLE!). See
    FFmpegGUI Docs.

    * Added ability to toggle crop & pad width & height between relative and
    absolute values.

    * Changed help to run asynchronously. Thanks to AmigaGuide class provided
    by Trixie!

    * Change '-sameq' option to '-qscale 0' since '-sameq' is no longer a valid
    option.

    * Added 64x32 and 96x64 selections to video size settings to create icon size
    pictures.

    * Added 960x640 and 800x480 video size selections to support newer cell phones.

    * Changed Movie->mp4 quick setup frame rate from 25 to 29.97.

    * Select setup file requesters now remember the last entry.

    * Fixed "Preview" to add file extension to "Output File" if needed before
    playing.

    * Added support for MUIMPlayer to video player controls.

    * Added AREXX interface to control MPlayer and MUIMPlayer.

    * Added "Mute" audio to MPlayer controls.

    * Added '[' gadget to read start offset time from MPlayer.

    * Moved Start Offset (-ss) option after input file. Slower but more accurate.

    * Added video codecs: x264 (mpeg4), xvid (mpeg4), vpx (webm).

    * Added video graphics codecs: bmp, jpgls (lossless), j2k, tiff, gif.

    * Added audio codecs: opus (ogg), speek (ogg).

    * Added container format: webm

    * Created new setup files to use various filters: (See ffmpegGUI.guide)
    * (Dir=Audio) - "Mix 2 Audiofile-->1 Audio file.ffmp"
    * (Dir=Audio) - "Fade in first 8 sec of audio.ffmp"
    * (Dir=Audio) - "Boost Bass by plus 10.ffmp"
    * (Dir=Audio) - "Boost Treble by plus 10.ffmp"
    * (Dir=Audio) - "Boost Bass and Treble by plus 10.ffmp"
    * (Dir=Video) - "Rotate 90 degrees clickwise.ffmp"
    * (Dir=Video) - "Rotate 90 degrees counter clockwise.ffmp"
    * (Dir-Video) - "Rotate 180 degrees.ffmp"
    * (Dir-Graphic) - "Add_25_pixel_frame-->png_picture.ffmp"
    * (Dir=Audio) - "Mix 2 Audio file-->1 Audio file.ffmp"
    * (Dir=Audio) - "Fade in first 8 sec of audio.ffmp"
    * (Dir=Audio) - "Boost Bass by plus 10.ffmp"
    * (Dir=Audio) - "Boost Treble by plus 10.ffmp"
    * (Dir=Au

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