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Amiga events 11.-14.09.25 • Classic Computing 2025 • Hof (Germany) 17.-19.10.25 • Amiga40 • Mönchengladbach (Germany) 31.10.-02.11.25 • Amiga-Meeting 2025 • Neumünster (Germany) 14.-16.11.25 • Flashback-Symposium #02 • Jößnitz (Germany) 03.Jun.2024 Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.2 and 6.3.2 (preview), (update) Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. New versions have now been released: version 5.7.1 is recommended for ARM devices (like the Raspberry Pi) and Version 6.3.1 (preview) for x86 and generally faster boards (ARM included). Both versions offer numerous new features, bug fixes and improvements. The Preview 6.x will become the new "stable" flatpak available. This will help with the limitations of the Flatpak system regarding "stable" vs "beta" versions, since you cannot use both of them at the same time (you have to switch). Having Preview as the "stable" version, will help with people trying to use it in faster boards, like the SteamDeck, with minimum hassle. Update: (22:04, 06.06.24, dr) Today version 5.7.2 and version 6.3.2 (preview) have been released. (dr) [News message: 03. Jun. 2024, 20:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 03.Jun.2024 Video: Scorpion Engine game of a user We recently reported on various ways of familiarising yourself with the Scorpion Engine game construction kit using tutorials. Now the user 'M1CK' has published a short video that shows how someone like him, who has no programming experience, can use it to create a game. This example is mainly intended as an experiment and should not be explored further. First and foremost, it should show whether he can actually use the engine and how to add some of the features typically found in a 2D platformer. (dr) [News message: 03. Jun. 2024, 06:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 03.Jun.2024 A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 3.1 At the beginning of 2022, the developer 'jasonsbeer' published revision 2.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in the ATX form factor, "Amiga-2000-ATX". After revision 3.0 in the middle of last year, he has now published revision 3.1 with the following changes: more ... (dr) [News message: 03. Jun. 2024, 06:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 02.Jun.2024 Amiga Kit: Final Writer 7 pre-installed on A600GS Press release: Final Writer has been in put back into active development over recent years (amiga-news.de reported). Version 7 will soon will make it's debut pre-installed on the A600GS computer. Final Writer is a famous word processor for the Amiga computer originally developed by SoftWood in the mid 1990s. It rapidly developed a significant loyal fan base amongst the Amiga community. In 2015 it was purchased by Timothy Deters and put back into development after a 20 year hiatus. A large investment of work has been carried out implementing a new spell checker compatible with Open Office dictionaries, RTG fixes, FTP, IPP PDF and Turboprint printing. AmigaKit Ltd and Timothy Deters are pleased to announce that a special edition of Final Writer 7 will be pre-installed on the A600GS alongside it's other updated applications of OctaMED 8, PPaint 7.4 and Directory Opus 4. Final Writer can be started from AmiBench, the desktop environment and will open on a 1080P screen. Final Writer 7 Special Edition is fully functional with the exception of the Spell Checker module which will be offered to A600GS users as an optional paid upgrade. Matthew Leaman, MD of AmigaKit Ltd commented on the collaboration: "We are very pleased to work with Timothy bundling the brand new edition of Final Writer on the A600GS low cost hardware platform. Final Writer is popular and much loved Amiga word processor. A significant amount of hard work has gone into bringing this application back to our community to the credit of Timothy and his developers. New versions of Final Writer complementing OctaMED and Personal Paint represents the renewal of Amiga applications." Timothy Deters, owner of Final Writer added: "I'm happy to have come to an agreement with AmigaKit to include Final Writer with their system. I’d like to thank the developers who worked on this project and have been instrumental to its completion." The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024. (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2024, 22:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 02.Jun.2024 Emulator: WinUAE 5.3.0 The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.3.0. Changes: New emulated RTG boards CyberVision/BlizzardVision PPC. 2D only, 3D is not implemented. (Permedia 2) GVP EGS 110/24. (INMOS G364) Graffity. (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428) Merlin, includes support for configurable serial number used by ProBench (Tseng ET4000W32) oMniBus (Tseng ET4000AX or ET4000W32) Rainbow III (INMOS G360) Visiona (INMOS G300) New features/updates Prometheus FireStorm PCI bridge emulation Release raw input devices when GUI is open (except during input Test/Remap) or when debugger window is active. Allows Windows shortcut keys like Win+E to work without need to unfocus the window. Added Misc panel option to disable default on screen keyboard gamepad button 4 mapping. Some uae-configuration (and other similar) debugging logging messages automatically opened the console window. Now only entering debugger will open it. Added “Always on (Fixed only)” sound filter option. This enables A500 fixed filter but never enables “led filter”. (A1200 does not have fixed filter, only “led” filter) Replaced old Windows 2000 compatible Windows clipboard handling with newer, simpler and more reliable method introduced in Vista. Allow also 68020+ CPUs to fetch instruction words from custom chipset space. Only if more compatible is set. If some program really wants to do something weird like execute code located in AGA palette registers. Lightpen/gun cursor in any edge of screen: lightpen/gun not pointing at the screen = position can’t be read by the program. Statefile shortcut keys now select current config file name as a base statefile name (for example, if “test1.uae” config file is loaded, SHIFT+END+0 will save statefile as “test1.uss”. Quickstart mode config still uses original default “default.uss”) Both “SaveImage” (automatically created ext adf when write-enabling non-writable image like ipf) file extension variants are now detected automatically when checking if file exists. Paths panel SaveImage mode option now only affects generated file name when new saveimage is created. Added LDP-1450 laserdisc player OSD font emulation. Fixes laserdisc arcade game Platoon (Nova) previously missing “YOU’RE HIT!!” messages. (All OSD graphics are generated by Amiga except this message!) Bugs fixes Fixed XT based Bridgeboards non-working floppy drive emulation, broke during 5.1 DraCo updates (wrong density detection) Serial port data receive was unreliable. Loopback serial port mode didn’t work in fast CPU modes. CD32 FMV video image size and positioning was weird in most scaled modes. Exclusive fullscreen and RTG resolution switch (RTG resolution switch to another RTG resolution without switch to native mode and back) didn’t change fullscreen resolution. Some ECS programmed modes (for example SuperPlus) had first visible line blanked. Fixed corruption in some “weird” programmed modes, introduced in 5.0 betas. Some hardware emulated RTG boards had flickering colors during horizontal panning (>8 bit modes only) Fixed ECS Denise superhires mode hires sprite pointer strange odd/even horizontal movement. Fixed pre-KS 1.2 HDF/directory filesystem boot. Broke long time ago. Multi-monitor active state was not fully reset when system was hard reset. (Multimonitor window was open -> hard reset -> window didn’t open anymore again) If x86 bridgeboard SVGA and also other hardware emulated RTG board was active and END+F9 was used to switch monitors: both monitors’ output was drawn in same window, causing corrupted graphics and possibly also crash if monitor sizes were too different. It was not possible to write and read ECS/AGA genlock transparency bit in color registers. Was broken long time ago. Delay ALG LDP seek complete status reply slightly. Fixes laserdisc arcade game Platoon (Nova) few second hangs. Los Justicieros (Zorton Brothers) laserdisc arcade game left holster hooked up correctly. (Was stuck active previously) (dr) [News message: 02. Jun. 2024, 21:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]       1 183 360 ... <- 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 -> ... 380 3382 6390 [Archive]

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