29.Mar.2022
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History: Commodore's 'ChessMate'
In its latest blog entry, the 'Commodore International Historical Society' has reported on the history of Commodore's 'ChessMate'.
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29.Mar.2022
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Sound module: First batch of ZZ9000AX is delivered
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday it was announced that the first batch is shipping now, which was originally planned for January already. Interested users who order now will be part of the second batch, which is expected to be shipped in June 2022.
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29.Mar.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: Introduction on Artificial Intelligence
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows the basics of artificial intelligence (AI) using neural networks. He elaborates on how to develop them using genetic algorithms and confronts them with various problems to see if they can solve them (see also MIT's introductory lecture on this topic).
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29.Mar.2022
Martina Hřebcová (Mail)
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Analysis: PPC architecture evolution in Amiga world (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her detailed reviews and analyses of Amiga hardware, for example about the use of graphics cards under the Sam440ep-flex or the Pegasos I. Now she takes Amiga users on a discourse about the PPC architecture used in AmigaNG systems: Czech original text, machine translation.
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[News message: 29. Mar. 2022, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2022
Apollo Team (ANF)
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Apollo-Team: Maggie 3D Chip - preview video
The Apollo team shows a preview of the Apollo Maggie 3D chip, which is already included in all V4 models, in a short YouTube video. This Maggie chip is also intended to make the Amiga 3D capable. This first early preview video demonstrates basic 3D modeling as dungeon demo.
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28.Mar.2022
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Blog: Installation of AmiKit on Windows/macOS and Raspberry Pi
The blog Epsilon's World shows in its latest entry how to install the recently released AmiKit XE 11.6.1 on Windows 11 and macOS Monterey. In a previous article the author already described how to install AmiKit XE 11.5 on a Raspberry Pi 4 and Pi 400.
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[News message: 28. Mar. 2022, 06:23] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2022
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Aminet uploads until 26.03.2022
The following files have been added until 26.03.2022 to Aminet:
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27.Mar.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.03.2022
The following files have been added until 26.03.2022 to OS4Depot:
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27.Mar.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.03.2022
The following files have been added until 26.03.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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27.Mar.2022
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Web-browser Wayfarer 3.2
By version 3.2 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web-browser Wayfarer, support of WOFF/WOFF2 fonts has been implemented and, besides fixes of a few minor quirks, the support of ligatures has been improved. Wayfarer requires MorphOS 3.16 and at least 1 GB of RAM. A CPU with 1.5 GHz or more with Altivec is recommended.
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB)
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27.Mar.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 28 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming 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. Now episode 28 was published.
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[News message: 27. Mar. 2022, 08:38] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2022
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ReAction-GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.5
In the course of reporting on updates of various tools from Unsatisfactory Software, we had also mentioned Avalanche for the first time, a graphical user interface created with ReAction for the unarchiving tool XAD. Now Chris Young has released version 1.5. Changes:
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26.Mar.2022
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Amiga Addict available from newsagents in England, Irland, USA, Australia soon
Print magazine Amiga Addict is anouncing on Twitter that the English publication will soon be available from more than 300 newsagents in the United Kingdom as well as in selected stores in the USA, Irland, and Australia.
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[News message: 26. Mar. 2022, 23:49] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2022
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THEA500 Mini: 'Citadel' and user manual available
Starting April 08, interested users can purchase the THEA500 Mini (in North America only on May 31).
If you want to shorten the time until then, you can already study the user manual. Furthermore, the first game of the Bonus USB Games Pack has been released with Citadel, which we reported about a year ago, and can already be downloaded. According to Saberman's YouTube video, this is version 1.3, in which some bugs have been fixed, gameplay and player controls have been improved, and the game's graphics and level design have been updated. The game is basically intended for the THEA500 Mini, but was here tested on an A1200 with 8MB FAST-Ram.
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[News message: 26. Mar. 2022, 21:34] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2022
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A-EON confirms lack of an AmigaOS 4 license
A few days ago, Alinea announced that the X5000 was back in stock. Their listing of a complete system includes a digital copy of AmigaOS 4, but according to a former Hyperion manager, A-EON no longer has a valid AmigaOS 4 license - which brings up the question where Alinea is purchasing X5000 motherboards bundled with an AmigaOS 4 license. Approached by amiga-news.de, Matthew Leaman from A-EON and Amigakit confirms that "there are no active OEM agreements for A-EON hardware". According to him each reseller makes "his own arrangements for any third party software they resell".
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25.Mar.2022
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Blog: 'Tables' and 'Strings' in programming language COBOL
Carl Svensson, author of the ARexx tools RxEnv, deals in his latest blog entry with 'Tables' and 'Strings' in the COBOL programming language in response to a corresponding article on The Craft of Coding.
A (no longer maintained) compiler is also available for AmigaOS, along with syntax parsers for GoldEd 4.7 and GoldEd 5.0.
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2022, 07:30] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.0
The latest version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz contains some major changes and a few optimizations:
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2022, 06:16] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Retream: all games available for free download, new beta version of 'Skillgrid'
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua is currently offering all of his retro games for free download, including the commercial titles Skillgrid und BOH Advanced. He asks players who like the games to
make a donation to any organisation supporting the people of Ukraine. His game Skillgrid actually got updated a few days ago, the many changes are documented in the dem Changelog.
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24.Mar.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview videos: Robocop (AGA), Metro Siege
Daniel Allsopp is working on a port of Data East's classic Arcade game 'Robocop', he's trying create a better Amiga version than the official port from 1989. Allsopp has released a few preview videos (1, 2) of his AGA game which is developed in 68k assembler.
Metro Siege is a side-scrolling Beat'em Up for up to two simultanous players requiring 1 Megabyte of RAM. The game has been in development for 2.5 years, a recently released video recording demonstrates the current state.
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24.Mar.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 132 (English/Italian)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. The game reviews of REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games on different computer systems with each other. The current edition also features an extensive review of the Amiga Strategical 'Exodus' and presents the ZX SpectrumArcade Adventure 'Terramex'.
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2022, 21:57] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2022
deadwood
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AROS x86_64: Update of ABI-v11 developer branch
The AROS developer 'deadwood' had given his stable branch of AROS for 64-bit Intel and AMD processors the code name 'ABIv11' to distinguish it from the in-progress ABIv1 version in the main AROS repository. It has now updated this to version '20220318-1'. The changes can be seen at the title link.
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2022, 13:17] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2022
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Accelerator board project: Buffee now Closed Source
According to the developers of the turbo card 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) in their latest blog entry, the project which started as open source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license will now be continued completely closed source.
Up to about version 0.4 of the Buffee project, both the hardware and the newly developed Buffee-PJIT firmware were completely accessible online. The developers had clearly indicated that under the existing license, the project could be studied and ported to one's own hobby boards, but could not be used commercially under any circumstances. There were obvious violations of this, so the developers decided to stop publishing details. They are aware that this does not prevent cloning, but at least makes it more difficult.
The Buffee hardware would remain closed source until the design was abandoned. The corresponding page on 'Open Source Hardware Lab' is no longer available
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23.Mar.2022
Frank Wille (ANF)
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Compiler: vbcc V0.9h patch 2
After the release of version 0.9h of the C compiler vbcc and a first patch at the beginning of March (amiga-news.de reported), the second patch has now been released, which fixes three optimizer bugs, as well as an old bug in fopen() and a new one in strncat().
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2022, 18:38] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2022
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Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' with wireless DB9 receiver
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had started a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of a wireless re-release of the Commodore mouse 1352 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the campaign is still running for three days, 150% (about 120,000 Euro) of the funding goal has already been reached and thus the condition set for the development and production of a wireless DB9 receiver for the Amiga. This will be included with every 'Tank Mouse'.
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2022, 11:00] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2022
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MorphOS: Screenbar plugin MouseCoords 1.4
The #amigazeux team has updated the screenbar plugin 'Mousecoords' for displaying the current mouse coordinates for MorphOS to version 1.4. Changes:
- Window titles of the window currently under the mouse pointer weren't shown anymore in the info window. Fixed.
- Also shows information about the screen, the monitor and the skin in the info window. See pull open button at the bottom of info window to access these informations.
- Shows more details for the window under the mouse pointer in the info window like shadows and current pointer type.
- Now only displays and updates coords for the instance running on the screen the mouse pointer is on.
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2022, 09:19] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2022
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Blog: Considerations to the AmigaOne X1000
Vincent Perkins dedicates his website AmigaNG to the "next generation and new Amigas computers and operating systems." Over 10 years ago he bought his AmigaOne X1000, which he writes had a lot of promise to take the Amiga platform to the next level: Dual-Core support, 64Bit, CPU and the Xmos custom chip. What happened to this initial euphoria he describes in a new blog entry AmigaONE X1000 10 Year Anniversary Thoughts.
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2022, 07:23] [Comments: 0]
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