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17.Dec.2021
AmigaLove

Holly Lights: Xmas decoration for Workbench 1.3
For those who already want to give their Workbench 1.3 some Christmas glamour, Chris 'Crispy' Brenner has written a small program that conjures up a Christmas fairy lights on the screen:

Regarding how it works, the author states the following:
"When HollyLights first starts, it looks at the depth of the Workbench screen. It will then add the required number of bitplanes needed to bring the Workbench screen up to sixteen colors. It does this in such a way that is invisible to the Workbench program, so Workbench thinks it's still operating with the same number of colors it had before the program was run. This scheme has the benefit of allowing Workbench to operate faster than if it was truly in sixteen colors, but has a couple of drawbacks as well.

When the program initialization is done, and all of the graphics data is in place, then the holly and lights decorations are rendered into the main Workbench window once every couple of seconds. Rendering is suspended when the Workbench screen is not the frontmost screen.

If HollyLights was started from a four color Workbench, then the window will be decorated with lights of four different colors: red, green, orange, and blue. If started from an eight color Workbench, then only red and green lights will be shown. This is done so as to not interfere with the eight color palette."

And on the undesirable side effects, he writes the following:
"Since Workbench doesn't know about the extra bitplanes, it will not refresh any of the graphics in those bitplanes. Those extra bitplanes are refreshed by the HollyLights program when it renders its graphics once every couple of seconds, and because of this you will briefly see some leftover graphics in a window when you move it on top of any of the HollyLights decorations. This is normal.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a system friendly way to refresh the Workbench menus, so there will always be leftover graphics in the sections of the menus that intersect with the HollyLights decorations."

On weekend a version for AmigaOS 2 should also follow. (dr)

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17.Dec.2021
Amigatronics AROS: PipeWalker game ported
PipeWalker ist a puzzle-like game, where you have to make connections to link the beginning and the end: network connections, water pipes, electrical cables, roads, etc. Versions for Linux and Wondows have been available for a while, now an implementation for AROS has been released as well.

Amigatronics has published an article on this topic (English translation), which gives a visual impression of the game by means of screenshots. (dr)

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17.Dec.2021
Prince (Mail) Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 4
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. In the fourth episode among others it is explained how joystick support is implemented. (dr)

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15.Dec.2021
AMIGATRONICS

AmiTube 0.5: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).

Yesterday version 0.5 has been released, providing the following changes:

As described before, 3 different quality settings for the movies, CDXL OCS, CDXL AGA, MPEG1
Share your most favorite videos with other AmiTube users
Load list of shared videos from internett
type a YouTube URL to search bar to directly get a video description
observe clipboard for YouTube URLs
parameter for CDXL and MPEG Player
special Version for 68000 processors (normal Version needs at least a 68020)

Additionally a separate website has been set up where always the latest version of the toll can be found. The requirements for AmiTube:

minimum requirement: 68020 processor, OS3.0, 4MB RAM, MUI 3.8
minimum requirement for the 68000 version: 68000 processor, OS3.0, 4MB RAM, MUI 3.8

Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link. (dr)

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13.Dec.2021 Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #19 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 19 (autumn/winter) are game reviews on 'Turbo Tomato' and 'Metal Gear' as well as articles on AmigaOS 3.2 and WinUAE (part 2. more ... (dr)

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