22.Jul.2021
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A2000-Motherboard using the EATX standard: Revision 1.2 is production candidate
After the developer 'jasonsbeer' has tested the prototpye of his rebuild of the A2000 motherboard called 'Amiga-2000-ATX', he has set revision 1.2 as production candidate. He wrote:
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22.Jul.2021
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Game announcement: 'Jump!'
Polish developer Markus Duda is in the process of converting Yoomph, originally written for the Atari, for the Amiga. You have to move in a three-dimensional tunnel by means of a bouncing Amigaball and hit various (bonus) areas. This YouTube video shows the gameplay on the target platform: An Amiga 1200 with 4 MB Fast RAM.
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21.Jul.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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Retailer: Relec changing ownership
Swiss Amiga retailer Relec has been founded in 1996 to fill a gap in the French speaking part of Switzerland as well as other countries of the same language. Now co-founder Emmanuel Rey is handing the company over to Benoît Wiblé. Connected to this is a change of location: the reseller moves from Payerne in the canton of Vaud to Fully in Valais.
Below you can read the official press release by Relec:
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21.Jul.2021
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Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons: Game conversion technical details
In his blog Cracking Stones one of the developers of the game Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons (amiga-news.de reported) gives detailed information about how it was technically implemented
So far four blog entries have been published:
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21.Jul.2021
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Project announcement: Universal Commodore power supply
The website 'RavenWolf' is generally dedicated to the research and restoration of all kinds of retro technology. In the latest project, a universal Commodore power supply is to be developed in the next few months. It is intended to be built by any hobbyist and will therefore mainly use commonly available components.
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19.Jul.2021
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood-Plugin: RapaGUI 2.0 released
Press release: After almost 4 years of development Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the long awaited release of RapaGUI 2.0. RapaGUI is the cross-platform GUI toolkit for Hollywood that allows you to create GUIs with native widgets for AmigaOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. GUI layouts in RapaGUI are conveniently defined in XML files which are then converted into full-blown GUIs by RapaGUI on-the-fly. It just doesn't get any easier!
RapaGUI 2.0 is a major update with lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes. Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in RapaGUI 2.0:
- support for Android!
- high-DPI monitors are now supported
- support for GTK3 on Linux
- core event handler completely rewritten
- convenient internationalization (i18n) support
- inter-process communication is now supported
- online help support
- dark mode support
- different fonts and font styles are now supported
- new Splitter, Finddialog and Hyperlink classes
- many new features for existing classes
- support for several new Hollywood 9 features
- over 50 pages of new documentation
- lots of other improvements and bug fixes
RapaGUI 2.0 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x64) and Windows (x86, x64) are provided. RapaGUI comes with almost 350 pages of documentation in various formats like PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that describe the GUI programming basics in detail and provide a convenient function and class reference.
Note that Hollywood 9 is strictly required by RapaGUI 2.0. It won't work with older Hollywood versions. Also note that there are a few minor incompatibilities between RapaGUI 2.0 and 1.x so it might be necessary to adapt your scripts. See the documentation for details.
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18.Jul.2021
Amiga Documents (Twitter)
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Lawsuit: Evert Carton on the settlement agreement from 2009
As requested by Cloanto and the Amiga parties, Evert Carton made a deposition in their lawsuit with Hyperion, the company he was a co-founder of. Plaintiffs' aim is to clarify the original intention of the settlement agreement (PDF file) signed in 2009 by Amiga Inc. and Hyperion.
The agreement's interpretation on the usage of trademarks and the source code of AmigaOS 3.1 is disputed (amiga-news.de reported), especially its further development for Motorola 680x0-based Commodore Amiga computers in the form of AmigaOS 3.1.4 and meanwhile also AmigaOS 3.2, respectively. Going by the plaintiffs point of view, Hyperion is cashing in on it unlawfully; a preliminary agreement to tolerate the distribution of AmigaOS 3.2 if it was made available for free was withdrawn in January.
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18.Jul.2021
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Aminet uploads until 17.07.2021
The following files have been added until 17.07.2021 to Aminet:
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18.Jul.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.07.2021
The following files have been added until 17.07.2021 to OS4Depot:
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18.Jul.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 17.07.2021
The following files have been added until 17.07.2021 to AROS Archives:
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18.Jul.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.07.2021
The following files have been added until 17.07.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
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18.Jul.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.07.2021
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 17.07.2021:
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17.Jul.2021
PPA
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Arcade shooter: Bean Versus The Animator
'17BitRetro' has released the arcade shooter 'Bean Versus The Animator' which can be purchased for 5 Dollar. The archive includes a lguide as well as five adf files. According to the developers they "wrote it originally back in 1994 and finished it off this year".
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17.Jul.2021
PPA
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Shell extension: Go Shell 3.0
The developer Krzysztof Donat wrote: "GoShell is free and easy tool to open Shell terminal in fullscreen on separate screen. You can choose any screen mode, set the colors and fonts, change the terminal window settings, and more. GoShell also has several predefined color sets, e.g. classic OS 3.x or OS 1.3, dark, green, orange etc."
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17.Jul.2021
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Amiga disks on PC: Pre-orders and name change for Smith's project
Robert Smith has renamed his project for reading Amiga disks using a PC disk drive from 'Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer' to 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge).
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16.Jul.2021
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A2000-Motherboard im E-ATX-Formfaktor: Tests des Amiga-2000-ATX-Prototypen
After developer 'jasonsbeer' received the commissioned prototype of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX', a few days ago, he is now testing it for functionality and possible bugs. He writes:
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15.Jul.2021
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PDF Magazine: Lotek64, Issue 62
The magazine "Lotek64" is dedicated to old or alternative computer systems. The 62nd issue contains, among other things, a report on the Anaglyph 3D process used in the demoscene for about 30 years and its applications, including the example of the Amiga. This article can also be read on the website 'tarnkappe.info', where it is supplemented by some videos.
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15.Jul.2021
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: Version 6.8 des Audio-Treibers für Intel HD Audio
An update of the new AHI driver for AmigaOS 4 has been released (amiga-news.de reported) which includes the following changes:
- Output options added (ALL, Line, Front HP, S/PDIF)
- Added support for S/PDIF output (both RCA and optical)
- Added support for output muting (mutes Line, Front HP and S/PDIF)
- Added support for line-in and microphone preamplifier. (From the CODEC perspective, Line-In and MIC are equivalent. Therefore, preamps can also be enabled for Line-In).
- Speed improvements
- Small bug fixes
Explaining, the developer adds:
"With AHIRecord you can select a monitor output. This is a strange implementation becauseese actually makes an AHI request to change the playback output. This would require a digital loop. But this is not implemented in AHIrecord.
Now that the playback output selection is implemented, this is how you control the playback output for the next playback cycle. So be careful.
The internal monitor hardware provides an analog loopback to a small selection of outputs. The Sound Blaster Audigy FX is limited to the Front HP and Line outputs.
The CM8828+CM9882 cards are limited to the Line output only. So you cannot use the HD audio front panel output as a monitor output
AHI has no way to switch to monitor input. Only to monitor volume. So all monitor outputs are enabled. But if there is a need for a single monitor output, I can add a mute option for the other single outputs."
Supported Soundcards:
- Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy FX (24bit/192kHz 5.1)
- Startech PEXSOUND7CH (24bit/192kHz 7.1) -> available under many different names
- Fransande 411944 (24bit/192kHz 7.1) -> available under many different names
- Terratec AUREON 7.1 PCIe (24bit/192kHz 7.1)
Sound cards that should work:
- Basically any combination of HDaudio controller and HD Audio multichannel codec (e.g. CA0113, CM8828, CM9882A ALC898 etc.)
Sound cards that do not work (yet):
- Asus Xonar Phoebus solo (CM8888 in combination with Discrete DACs in high quality)
- Powercolor Devil HDX (CM8888 in combination mit Discrete DAC)
Sound cards that will never work:
- "Sound Core3D" (CA0132) based sound blasters (Eg. Z, AE-5, AE-7, AE-9 etc). These cards have a DSP (ca0132) instead of an audio codec. They initially appear to be HD audio cards but after the DSP is booted they behave totally differently. Therefore, such cards must be supported with other drivers.
- PCIe Asus sound cards that are currently on sale. These cards are either AV100 (converted CMI8788), CM8786 or C-media 6632AX (USB chip) based. None of these chips comply with the Intel HD Audio standard.
- Sound Blaster Audigy RX and all other EMU-based or X-FI-based sound blasters. (do not comply with the Intel HD Audio Standard).
- Non-PCIe sound cards in general like external USB cards or old PCI cards.
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