A1200NG motherboard appears at AmigaKit

The A1200 NG and A600 GS will be demonstrated at Amiga 40 Germany this weekend.

We will be demonstrating the latest AmiBench running AmiBrowser web browser, ScummVM with it's new ScummVM GUI, the new video player and UnArchiver.

Play the new Outrun port on the A600GS.

The following software updates for the A600GS and A1200NG have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system. They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:

46.2.1289:

SystemV46: Update AmiSSL

* Add FetchURL command which allows fast downloading of URLs via the DBUS interface of the A600GS/A1200NG main menu with progress requester.

Updates to AmiBrowser:
o Add support for the Autentication requester requird fior HTTP_AUTH et al.
o Add suport for openling local HTML files. Using both file:///VOLUME:path/to/file and file:///volume/path/to/file forms
o Add handler to allow reading of files from amiga filesystems file:///RAM Disk/test.html will work!
o Add support for special file URL eg file:///AmiBrowser/about.html
o Improve file upload support, now supports multifile uploads in dropbox / google cloud etc
o Ensure initial graphics buffer is initialised to white to avoid apparent gfx corruption for download URLs etc that require no rendering
o Add splash window on startup
o Fixes to shutdown and restart of the ArmCEF library during reboot, you can now safely CTRL Right Amiga Left Amiga reset after running AmiBrowser again.

* Introduce ArmScummVMFile library to enable ARM powered ScummVM games intergrated into AmiBench.

* Add ScummVM GUI to download and launch selected freeware ScummVM games. Thanks to Guillaume Boesel.

A600GS/A1200NG:

* Add support for creating HardDisk files in the Custom Fullsystem edit menu.
* Created Hardisk files are blank but can be formatted using system software.
* Add Export Harddisk menu option to allow backup of individual harddisk files.
* Extension to private DBUS interface to support many of the above features.

AmiPDF-NG is a new modern PDF reader for AmiBench on the A600 GS and the A1200 NG.

The reader utility renders PDF douments accurately and rapidly.

It will be available to download in the next free system update.

We hope that this modern PDF tool, along with AmiBrowser and UnArchiver released in 2025 will push AmiBench towards being a useful desktop for daily computing tasks.

The following software updates for the A600GS and A1200NG have been uploaded today through the in-built live update system. They are available to download for all registered AmiSphere users:

46.2.1367:

SystemV46:

AmiPDF NG 46.15:

A fast and feature rich PDF viewer for AmiBench / OS 3.x with the following features:
* Zune / MUI 68K GUI (compatible with OS 3.x)
* Fast PDF decoding and rendering via ArmPDFium library.
* Multiwindow support.
* X Y Scrolling with keyboard arrowkeys or scrollbars.
* Simple intuitive page navigation via toolbar / menu and keyboard arrow keys.
* Zoom gadget.
* Fast and simple search via main GUI, with support for backwards and forwards searching via menus and menu keyboard shortcuts (RAmiga F activate search. RAmiga A find next. RAmiga D find previous)
* Clickable internal link support.
* Clickable external URL support via OpenURL library.

DefIcons:

* def_PDF is now associated to PDF documents and opens AmiPDF application

AmiBrowser:
* Internal fix to improve interaction with AmiPDF.

A600GS/A1200NG: Add ArmPDFIum armlibrary to interface with libpdfium.so providing custom callbacks to invoke pdfium functionality from 68k space.