AmigaOS 3.2.2 update is out!

AmigaOS is undoubtedly alive, as proven by Hyperion Entertainment and AmigaOS developer team, who have just released another update.

In a nutshell, this update brings improvements and fixes to IconEdit, ShowConfig, TextEdit, RAM disk, several gadgets (listbrowser, sketchboard, layout), window.class, boards.library, and a couple of other things.

Check out Hyperion's press release for full information and download:

https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news/1-latest-news/307-new-update-2-of-amigaos-32-available-for-download-now

Additional sources:
http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2023-03-00011-EN.html

AmigaOS 3.2.1 is out!

Great news from the operating system side of Amiga things: Hyperion has released AmigaOS update 3.2.1, for registered users, and for free.

In a press release published on 21st Dec. 2021 the availability of the first update to AmigaOS 3.2 was announced, along with a list of highlighted features:

• Fixes to almost every single gadget and image class
• Fix to clipboard.device that since AmigaOS 3.1.4 would not handle clips above 16KB in some cases
• Important fix to locale.library that would convert signed values to unsigned
• New IconEdit with support for colorful icons (like the “GlowIcons”)
• TextEdit has gained an ARexx port per open document
• ShowConfig had its GUI reworked, and can now make reports in AmigaGuide format
• The RAM disk linking feature have been changed a bit so it seems more like AmigaOS 3.1.4 while still being copy on read as in AmigaOS 3.2
• Dropping files on console will now activate the console window
• The screen will no longer remain black if you start up without any attached drive
• Eject menu item in Workbench 

Go to Hyperion's website to download the update:
https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/downloads?view=files&parent=42

Additional sources:
http://amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2021-12-00061-DE.html

AmigaOS 3.2 released!

There wasn't too much noise surrounding the follow-up to AmigaOS3.1.4, but the patience has paid off, and now they're breaking the silence: It's been less than 24 hours since the completion and release of AmigaOS 3.2 has been announced via facebook, and Hyperion's website!

Great news for AmigaOS users: The next updated version of official classic AmigaOS has been released. Here's a quick rundown of some of the changes and new features:

• ReAction GUI toolkit is included, with lots of bugfixes, and classes backported from AmigaOS4
• "DAControl" and trackfile.device provide near-perfect ADF handling and integration. Amiga disk files can be created, formatted, erased, ejected, etc. and mounted via double-click on Workbench icon.
• New help system and reference manual included
• Improved AIFF, GIF, JPG, WAV, PNG, BMP, CDXL and ANIM datatypes, and new datatypes for icons (.info files) and ACBM images. AmigaGuide datatype can now display inline images, picture.datatype is much faster, sound.datatype supports up to 32 bit resolution, text datatype adds search functionality.
  
• Workbench updates: title bar with date, CPU and tasks information, windows resizable from any border, windows can be iconified, window contents can be sorted increasing/decreasing, wheel mouse support
  
• a partition mounter, and "find" utility
• shell TAB autocompletion, configurable
• a "history" command
• updates to Early Startup Menu, including optional step-by-step execution of Startup-sequence

...and many more! This is really just a short excerpt from the official announcement. (Of course a new iconset is included, too.) See link below for full list.

AmigaOS3.2 is available on CD-ROM, containing ADFs for emulator use, a ready-to-run AmigaOS environment that can be copied to your harddisk, all Amiga models' disks and kickstart ROM images (oh, wow), and printable labels.

Congratulations to the developers!

Go to Hyperion's website for more details, and AmigaOS3.2 vendors:

https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news/1-latest-news/290-amigaos-42-for-all-classic-amigas-released-and-available

AmigaOS 3.2 underway

In case you've missed it (like I did): On Dec. 16th a lot of technical details about the upcoming AmigaOS 3.2 have been published.

After many websites have reported about the announcements made by the developers, and a preview screenshot has been released, now we get a lot of detail information about bug fixes and new features of release 3.2.

https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=74270.0;attach=1618;image

The above screenshot was published in September (see "Sources" below), and shows many of the new features: font sensitive GadTools GUI, shell command history (with tab completion), printer settings with arbitrary device(-name), system-window-wide "iconify"-gadget, to name just a few.

On Dec. 16th, user "4pLaY" made a series of forum posts on AmigaLife (see link below), publishing technical detail information obtained from AmigaOS developer Thomas Richter, about the various new features and the numerous bugfixes and improvements in AmigaOS 3.2. For example we learn that utility.library got a couple of new string handling functions, that the bootmenu ("Amiga Early Startup Control") got some new settings, GadTools DrawBevelBox() function can now draw another type of bevel-box design, and many, many more little or not-so-little changes. Very interesting read - for users, and maybe even more for developers, for the countless technical hints you get.

By the way, it is also rumoured that a new SDK (Software Development Kit) can be expected. (See "Sources" below for all the bits and rumours.)

Head over to AmigaLife website to get all the latest technical details:

https://www.amigalife.org/index.php?topic=165.0



Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/cz70fu/amigaos_32_preview_details/
https://vintagecomputerssociety.blogspot.com/2019/09/preview-of-amigaos-32-has-been-announced.html
http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2019-09-00004-EN.html 
https://www.amiga-classic.org/article.php?sid=15
https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=74270.0
https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=70692.0

AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 update released

Hyperion Entertainment CVBA show their commitment to AmigaOS: Today an update for AmigaOS 3.1.4 has been released, fixing some bugs, and adding some new features.

http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/images/stories/OS3.1.4/005.png

According to Hyperion's press release (see "Sources" below) this update aims to improve user experience and adds more workarounds to improve compatibility with existing software.

It's mainly a bugfix update to AmigaOS 3.1.4, but there are also a couple of new features:

• Danish and swedish translations
• Setpatch updated
• Audio.device compatibility improved
• HDToolBox improved (default blocksize for large harddrives)
• CrossDOS compatibility improved

The complete list of bug fixes is considerably longer, Hyperion says the change log is more than 260KB in size. Changes include: updates to CDFileSystem, intution support, audio device, Format, FastFileSystem, HDToolBox, Shell, several AmigaDOS commands, DiskDoctor, and more.

Go to Hyperion's download area for registered customers, and get your free update to AmigaOS 3.1.4.1:
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/downloads?view=files&parent=39


Sources:
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news/1-latest-news/280
http://amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2019-07-00016-DE.html