16.Mar.2022
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Book: Status update and ordering option for 'From Vultures to Vampires', Volume
The first book of the two-volume "From Vultures to Vampires" by former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson on Amiga history was delivered in the middle of last year. The Kickstarter campaign to fund the second volume, which Trevor Dickinson told us about in mid-January, failed. In the last update of the Kickstarter campaign David Pleasance admitted that the goal was a bit too ambitious (7.707 Euro out of 17.853 were reached), but at the same time he assured that "producing Volume 2 is most certainly still going ahead full steam".
Depending on the printer's workload, he estimated in the January 21 post that finished hardcovers would be delivered in bulk by mid-March. Since that time has arrived, we checked with David Pleasance to see what the current status of the project is:
They had unfortunately fallen behind schedule with Volume 2 - the task of researching and communicating with so many people and companies, all of whom are part of the book, had become an enormous project that could not have been foreseen before. All the information would have been enough for 3 volumes.
This delay also meant that the deadline originally booked at a print shop in Turkey could not be met. This was compounded by the heavy snowfall, which prevented the workers from getting to the factory. He therefore asks all readers and interested parties for their understanding. He is now waiting for information from the print shop as to the extent to which printing will be delayed.
An "agreement in principal" had been reached with a company based in Germany, he said, which would take delivery of Volume 2 directly from Turkey and individually pack, address and ship each book. This company would deliver to all countries except the United Kingdom. Since the company is based in Germany and is therefore part of the EU, there would also be no problems with EU customs as there were with Volume 1.
Finally, he told how to pre-order Volume 2 currently:
- If you have been a supporter of the Kickstarter campaign, just send him an email and he will explain how to order.
- All others can pre-order directly on his website.
He asks that orders be placed as soon as possible so that he can place the print order with a better knowledge of the quantities needed.
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16.Mar.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS 3.16 openssl3.library hotfix
The MorphOS development team has announced: "A vulnerability has been identified and fixed in the OpenSSL 3.0.1 included in MorphOS 3.16.
The vulnerability (CVE-2022-0778) allows malicious attackers to create TLS certificates that when connected to result in the client application hanging indefinitely.
A fixed openssl3.library (based on OpenSSL 3.0.2) will be released as the part of the future MorphOS 3.17 release. Meanwhile you can install the following replacement openssl3.library (1,6 MB) that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.16."
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15.Mar.2022
Reddit
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Hardware test: Building a serial/parallel loopback adapter
Adam Wilson is an electrical engineer who reworks old electronics in his spare time. In his blog he reports about his work with old computers, about the expansion of his collection and the repairs or restorations he has carried out.
In the latest blog entry, he documents building some serial/parallel loopback adapters for easy diagnostics using Keir Fraser's Amiga Test Kit Software. "Loopback testing" involves sending transmitted electrical signals back to the transmitter so that the transmitter can check its own output. In communication (e.g. parallel and serial modems) the output of the transceiver must be connected to its own input - if the device gets its own output signal back, this proves that it works.
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15.Mar.2022
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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AmigaOS Development BLOG
The AmigaOS3.2 development team has set up the AmigaOS Development BLOG, the goal of which is not to provide insights into the current development of the OS, but rather to assist in getting started with AmigaOS programming. This blog is intended to provide a series of articles that will cover installation of development tools, programming examples, debugging issues, and other helpful tips.
The first two posts will deal with installing/using the NDK with the SAS/C and VBCC compilers. Guest articles are explicitly welcome!
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14.Mar.2022
Robert Smith
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Do-it-yourself: Adapter for connecting DB9 joysticks
Two weeks ago, we reported on Robert Smith's video showing how to 3D print your own retro-style joystick. In the new video that followed, he now shows how easy it is to build an adapter to connect vintage and retro joysticks to a modern system via USB.
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14.Mar.2022
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Review: The UniThor Joystick (video)
Just a few days ago, YouTuber 'Madija' aka 'Ms Mad Lemon' released her new album, and now she has published a test of the UniThor joystick on YouTube.
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14.Mar.2022
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RastPort: Mechanical keyboard replacement for Amiga 1200
Grzegorz Kraszewski's RastPort designs and manufactures accesories and expansions for Amiga computers. His current project KA 59 is a mechanical keyboard replacement for the Amiga 1200. It is a complete replacement, no parts of the original keyboard are needed. KA59 has been tested with original A1200 cases and those from the a1200.net project. Details:
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13.Mar.2022
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Selfmade project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 3)
'Drygol' is not only a member of the demoscene group Lamers, but basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describes there his project 'Tesseract', the building of an Amiga 2000 from scratch with all maximum modifications. After the first two reports (1, 2, he published the third blog post of the series the day before yesterday. His project is based on the GitHub project of 'Floppie209', a replica of the Amiga2000 motherboard with Sprint layout.
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13.Mar.2022
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History: As Gateway owned Amiga (video)
Ravi Abbott is one of the hosts of the YouTube channel The Retro Hour. In his YouTube series Amiga The Next Generation Documentary he deals with the history of the Amiga brand after Commodore filed for bankruptcy in 1994.
In his last episode, he covers the time when Gateway, Inc. owned the Amiga brand.
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13.Mar.2022
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Aminet uploads until 12.03.2022
The following files have been added until 12.03.2022 to Aminet:
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13.Mar.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.03.2022
The following files have been added until 12.03.2022 to OS4Depot:
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13.Mar.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 12.03.2022
The following files have been added until 12.03.2022 to AROS Archives:
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13.Mar.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.03.2022
The following files have been added until 12.03.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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13.Mar.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.03.2022
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 12.03.2022:
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12.Mar.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.7
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, 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.
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12.Mar.2022
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Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.95
At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 1.95 with the following changes:
- New search window with options (case and full word)
- Added menu item 'Goto column'
- Possibility to move the current line to the top or bottom of the document
- Moved 'Read only' menu item from 'Document options' to 'Edit mode'
- Improved word count function (document and selection)
- Improved the use of the scroll wheel
- Fixed the bug that prevented the Workbench from closing if ASE2019 was iconified
- Use of the ASE2019 icon for iconification
- Integration (first version) of snippets
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11.Mar.2022
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History: Commodore's hardware plans
The Commodore International Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the history of Commodore International. Recently, they published photos provided by Robert Miranda on their Twitter channel, which once again show the planned further development of the hardware:
According to these documents, an updated version of the Amiga 1200 was to be shipped with a 68030 processor in 1994, while the Amiga 4000 was to be replaced by a machine equipped with a PA-RISC microprocessor architecture from Hewlett-Packard. The joint venture project with HP, planned under the name Hombre, was apparently planned in two versions: As a "single chip" with 57 MHz and 32 bit and with 2 chips and 3D support with 135 MHZ and 64 bit.
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10.Mar.2022
Reddit
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YouTube playlist: 300 Amiga demos
'rtiainen' has published a playlist on his YouTube channel that contains Amiga demo scene productions especially from groups that were not so famous or well known in the community. Most of these demos were released between 1988 and 1992, but there are also some earlier and also later releases included. Most of these demos use a standard Amiga 500 with ECS chipset, but some later ones were recorded with an Amiga 1200 and AGA chipset.
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