Software updates (2024-03-14)
A round of notifications about updates to well-known and widely used software titles, that popped up over roughly the last twelve months - just in case you missed something.
AmiSSL 5.14
At the end of Jan. 2024, the latest version of network encryption package AmiSSL was uploaded to aminet.
http://aminet.net/search?query=amissl
https://github.com/jens-maus/amissl/
ANAIIS
TCP/IP network stack ANAIIS' version 1.24 was uploaded to aminet in Feb. 2024.
http://aminet.net/package/driver/other/anaiis
Denise 2.1 and 2.2
In Sep. 2023, C64 and - since version 2.0 - Amiga 500/1000 emulator "Denise" got updated to version 2.1, and in Dec. to version 2.2, adding RTC emulation, improvements in accuracy, speed, file handling, and GUI usability, improved video drivers, screen rotation, and more.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/deniseemu/
http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2023-09-00072-EN.html
E-VO 3.7
In March 2024, Amiga E compiler E-VO version 3.7 was released, fixing many bugs.
https://github.com/dmcoles/EVO/releases
http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2024-03-00029-EN.html
FlashFloppy 3.42
In Jan. 2024, floppy-emulator firmware FlashFloppy was updated to version 3.42. As with previous version 3.41, released around July 2023, it contains mostly minor improvements.
https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy
http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2024-01-00047-EN.html
G-Copy
Arne Urbaniak's Amiga-disk-on-PC copy program "G-Copy" was updated to v0.5 in March 2024. "G-Copy" supports Greaseweazle ADF-Drive and DrawBridge floppy controllers.
amiga-news' article provides a download link:
http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2024-03-00057-EN.html
IBrowse 3.0a
Wow, veteran Amiga webbrowser IBrowse has made a major version leap in Nov. 2023, and received an update in Dec. 2023. AmiSSL 5.12 is now required for secure connections, program stability has been improved, a bug in webpage rendering was fixed, and there are a couple of other enhancements.
icon.library / IconLib
icon.library replacement "IconLib" got updated in June and Dec. 2023, bringing it to version 46.4.581. The updates contain some bugfixes/workarounds for better compatibility, and a icon-to-PNG conversion script for ImageConverter.
https://aminet.net/package/util/libs/IconLib_46.4
http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2023-06-00085-EN.html
PED81C
Meanwhile, Simone Bevilacqua has made a couple of updates to his pretty cool pseudo-chunky AGA graphics system "PED81C", the latest having been published on New Year's Day 2024. Skimming over the changelogs, there is a number improvements regarding the system code, and some 68030/68040/68060 CPU specific optimizations.
https://retream.itch.io/ped81c
P96 and P96Prefs
After P96 version 3.4.0 was released in Aug. 2023, version 3.4.1 followed in Feb. 2024.
New features include EHB screen mode emulation, support for Rainbow II / BSC Framemaster cards, support for Commodore A2410 cards, new drivers for GBA-PII++ and VA2000 cards, and updates to Picasso IV and Draco Altais card drivers.
P96Prefs also got updated, the latest version being 47.15.1, which was uploaded to aminet in Jan. 2024.
https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/de/newsreader/items/p96-v3-4-1-herausgegeben.html
http://aminet.net/package/driver/video/P96Prefs
WBDock2
WBDock2 (for AmigaOS 3.1 - not to be confused with "WBDock" for AmigaOS 1.3) was updated a couple of times in July 2023, the latest version being 2.907. Changes include a different background configuration behaviour, slight change in autohide behaviour, auto-refresh when changing WBPattern, a typo fix, and an experimental "seperator" app.
https://thomas-rapp.hier-im-netz.de/amiga/wbdock.html
http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2023-07-00063-EN.html
WinFellow
In Sept. 2023, after a long period of silence, Amiga emulator WinFellow got updated to version 0.5.9, and shortly after to 0.5.10. The updates fix numerous bugs, contain some improvements in usability, drop Windows XP and Vista support, meaning a later version of Windows is required, and now a native ARM build is included in the release archive.
http://petschau.github.io/WinFellow/
https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/newsportal/?start=0&ulg=de&news_id=41173