06.Sep.2022
Boris Huhn (ANF)
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DTP: Pagestream 5.1.2 update for Windows and MorphOS
For users who had purchased a full version of the DTP application Pagestream 5 for said systems in the past, an update to version 5.1.2 was uploaded by Deron Kazmaier today. In addition, a demo version is also available for MorphOS, among other things, for which you must first indicate your interest with your name and mail address.
This MorphOS release contains significant contributions from MorphOS developer Frank Mariak to make version 5 working and more stable on MorphOS.
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06.Sep.2022
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.5.1
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
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06.Sep.2022
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Tool for Reverse Engineering: Amiga extension for Ghidra (update)
Ghidra is a free and open source reverse engineering tool. This framework includes a suite of software analysis tools that enable users to analyze compiled code on a variety of platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Capabilities include disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing, and scripting (GitHub page).
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05.Sep.2022
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #132 - Amiga CDTV
Issue 132 of Douglas Compton's videocast 10MARC is about the Amiga CDTV. Another video reviews the FastATA MK-V harddisk controller by Elbox for the Amiga 1200 under AmigaOS 3.2.1.
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[News message: 05. Sep. 2022, 15:31] [Comments: 0]
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05.Sep.2022
Ko-Fi
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AmigaOS 4: The Battle for the Solar System - The Pandoran War
After George 'walkero' Sokianos ported the platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" to AmigaOS 4 the other day (amiga-news.de reported), he has now ported the shoot'em up "The Battle for the Solar System: The Pandoran War" by Stephen J Sweeney and Parallel Realities using SDL.
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05.Sep.2022
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Replacement keyboards for A500/A1200: Production of Kipper2k delays
At the end of May, we reported on a status update from the American retailer "Amiga On The Lake" regarding the Kipper2k replacement keyboards: there, it was reported that all pre-orders should be fulfilled by the end of June 2022, mid-July 2022 at the latest.
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04.Sep.2022
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Aminet uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to Aminet:
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04.Sep.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to OS4Depot:
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04.Sep.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to AROS Archives:
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04.Sep.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 03.09.2022
The following files have been added until 03.09.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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04.Sep.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 158
The English and German issue 158 (September/October 2022) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes Playfield 14 as well as reviews about Vanilla Conquer and Terrible Fire 330.
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04.Sep.2022
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Point'n Click adventure: AGA version of "Athanor 2 - Legend of the Birdmen"
We had reported about the announcement of the point'n click adventure game 'Athanor 2 - The Legend Of The Birdmen', originally developed for the Amstrad CPC, also about a first preview video. The release for OCS-Amigas itself including an interview with the author we mentioned in the article about the second issue of the French print magazine Boing.
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03.Sep.2022
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Programming assistance: "AB_Template" v0.34 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 03. Sep. 2022, 05:51] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.13
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
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02.Sep.2022
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Accelerator board: Buffee developers test TF1200
In her latest blog entry, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported), reports that due to the existence of a TF1200 by Stephen Leary they are able to test Buffee on the Amiga 1200 as well. Already 2021 she had announced in a tweet that the TerribleFire turbo card supports the Buffee project.
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02.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 7
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers (amiga-news.de reported).
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02.Sep.2022
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.3
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
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[News message: 02. Sep. 2022, 05:33] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2022
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
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[News message: 02. Sep. 2022, 05:29] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2022
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Demo scene: "Nano Gems" offers selection of the best intros
The "Nano Gems" page, a subpage of the demo platform Demozoo, gives a curated selection of the best small intros from the demo scene. It aims to give a quick overview of what kind of small intros exist in different size categories and platforms. The intros are sorted by date and alphabet, which in no way reflects a ranking. The productions in this list are curated and suggested by members of the "Sizecoding Discord". Additional productions may be suggested.
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01.Sep.2022
Reddit
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Newspaper: Guardian article with Amiga 500 picture
In the Guardian article "Why Japan’s war on disks could prove to be another flop" published today, a picture of an Amiga 500 opens the report about Japan’s Minister of Digital Affairs, Taro Kono, who after abolishing the fax now wants to banish the floppy disk as well - but meets resistance from bureaucrats in the process.
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[News message: 01. Sep. 2022, 16:37] [Comments: 0]
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01.Sep.2022
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Emulator: QEMU 7.1.0 released
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need of hardware virtualization. So it is possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who gives lots of tips and info on a dedicated webseite (see also our Excursion of Amiga operating systems on non-native hardware).
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01.Sep.2022
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THEA500 Mini: Pandory500 firmware V2
"Pandory500" is a "cross-loading" firmware for the THEA500 mini that allows many other emulators and programs to run (YouTube video). It is installed in the form of a WHDLOAD package and exploits a hidden feature of the Amiberry emulator to run native code. It runs completely from the USB stick and is 100% removable.
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01.Sep.2022
Puni / AmigaOldskooler (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of month August
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published an illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of August.
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01.Sep.2022
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Self-made project: Parallel port to SPI adapter
The goal of this project initiated by Niklas Ekström is to develop a cheap and easy to build SPI adapter that can be connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. In addition, the performance of the adapter should be as fast as possible.
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31.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Visual Studio Code Ext. 0.7.0
Just a week ago we first reported about Youen Chéné's fork of the Visual Studio Code Extension of 'MickGyver', which provides support for Amiga Blitz Basic 2 (and Amiblitz). In the article the developer indicated to us that a merge of both extensions was the goal. This was put into action today with the release of version 0.7.0, integrating Chéné's fork into the 'MickGyver' extension.
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[News message: 31. Aug. 2022, 20:21] [Comments: 0]
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31.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.5
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Yesterday version 1.5.5 was released. Changes:
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31.Aug.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.0.7
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). The firmware needed for this has been updated several times in the last days.
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