07.Mar.2025
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Programming competition: Developing of a RedPill game
The Spanish YouTube channel Amiga Wave has organised a programming competition for the RedPill game construction kit, which runs until 28 June: The main aim of the competition is to promote the use of REDPILL.
All games that have been developed with RedPill and have not yet been released may take part in the competition and will be presented at the Posadas Party 2025. Prizes include an Amiga 500 Plus with power supply and mouse or a THEA500 Mini.
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[News message: 07. Mar. 2025, 06:11] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2025
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Cross-compiler/assembler: Calypsi 5.9
"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - 6502 and 68000 processors are supported, among others. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source code is not freely available and use of the tools is only permitted for private purposes. Changes in version 5.9:
- Addsupport for 68060 by omitting instructions not present on this variant. This includes 64-bit divide and multiply,movep, chk2, cmp2, cas2andcas`. A separate set of 68060 libraries is now included.
- Parameter numbering in inline assembly now correctly starts the input list with %0 when there is no output.
- Correct a code generator bug that could occur in some situations when a register variable was used twice in the same expression.
- 6502: Incorrect offset could be used for calculations being made of an argument to a function call. There were a series of conditions for this. 1) There were other byte sized arguments stored in the zero page area later in the argument list; 2) The expression calculation accessed a local variable on the simulated C stack; and 3) Typically the expression called a library routine such as divide and multiply. In such situation the access to the local variable on the C stack could be accessed at the wrong offset.
- MEGA65: Fixed an internal error with banked function pointers used as initializers.
- Some code generator improvements to 6502 and MEGA65.
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[News message: 06. Mar. 2025, 21:51] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2025
Amiga 40th Silicon Valley Organisatoren (ANF)
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Event: Further details on "Amiga 40th Anniversary" at VCF West
The "Amiga 40th anniversary" event in Silicon Valley (California) announced in December is now described in more detail by the organizers of the "Vintage Computer Festival West" in a press release. Among other things, an exhibition with "unique historical artifacts from the collection of Dale Luck" and "current innovations from the Amiga community" is announced. There will also be a series of Amiga-focused presentations, but no details have yet been announced.
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[News message: 06. Mar. 2025, 21:48] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2025
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Antivirus software: xvs.library version 33.48
Georg Wittmann provides version 33.48 of the external virus scanner library xvs.library. Changes since the last release:
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[News message: 06. Mar. 2025, 21:42] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2025
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Multiplatform emulator: Clock Signal 2025-03-05 (macOS, Linux)
Thomas Harte's "Clock Signal" is a multiplatform emulator for macOS and Unix-compatible systems, which aims to protect the user from the typical configuration orgies and to enable the user (quote) "to start classic software directly". In addition to various 8- and 16-bit systems, the Amiga is also emulated. In version 2025-03-05, a bug was fixed that could lead to a crash under macOS when creating a new virtual machine.
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[News message: 06. Mar. 2025, 21:12] [Comments: 0]
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