27.Jan.2021
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E-Mail client: YAM supports AmiSSL 4.7 / moved to GitHub
About seven years ago we reported about an update of the e-Mail program YAM last time. At the beginning of the year 2019 by updating AmiSSL to version 4.3 it was possible again to check e-mails from diverse providers. For that you have to switch to the developer version of YAM which has been monthly updated by Nightly Builds. After a month you had to install the new version since each version was limited for a period of one month. Apart from that, the changelog always stayed the same: "This is only a rebuild of YAM with no functionaly changes but updated expiration date."
By releasing the last Nightly Build, this limitation has been removed. And if you try to access the YAM homepage yam.ch you are forwarded to the GitHub site.
Apart from that YAM can use the latest version 4.7 of AmiSSL. Since version 4.4 the encryption software for network and internet communication is maintained by a team of the IBrowse developer Oliver Roberts and ensures that even at the Amiga encrypted Internet connection can be established. Mainly 68k Amigas generally benefit from optimized versions for 68020-40 and 68060 processors, but 68060 processors in particular (amiga-news.de reported).
We could not figure out how intensively YAM is being developed. For example it is not clear if the target set in 2016 to implement a IMAP download is continued to pursue. The source code of YAM is available on GitHub so everybode who is able and interested in developing further YAM can help.
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27.Jan.2021
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Product announcement: A500 replacement board 'MiSS FGPA'
8bits4ever already is offering some FPGA solutions for retro fans. Soon also a FPGA-based replacement boards for A500 cases will be available. This 'MiSS FPGA' fit inside a Commodore A500 case and uses the original A500 keyboard as input device.
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27.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 118 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") compares the ports of classic games on different systems available back then. Besides the Italian version of the magazine there is also an English one.
Among others the latest issue includes Amiga articles about Maniac Mansion and Project Battlefield.
Downloads:
English
Italian
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26.Jan.2021
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Podcast: Scene World Episode 106 - Retro music on floppy disks
The musician 'Remute' does not olny release his productions on vinyl or as download but also on Amiga and C64 floppy disks. 'Scene World' talks to him about why he chose this medium, and the unique challenges associated with releasing music on such unusual platforms (interview begins at 22:40).
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26.Jan.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview videos: Jump'n Run 'Minkey', Super-Sprint clone 'Turbo Sprint'
'Minkey' (video) is a classic jump'n run for Amigas equipped with at least 1 MB RAM. The author describes the engine as "90% finished". So far 11 levels can be played. And he has added: "There are also more colorful levels ready with nice copper'ed backgrounds, I will post them soon." The game is supposed to be released this year.
'Turbo Sprint' (video) becomes a original port of the Atari classic Super Sprint. Improved sound as well as a port for the CD32 has been announced. The author hopes to provide the best homecomputer port of Super Sprint.
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26.Jan.2021
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Database: MUIBase 4.3 and SQLite 3.34.0
Steffen Gutmann has released an update of his programmable relational database MUIBase for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS (and Windows and Linux). For SQLite is used as engine he has also updated his port of this SQL database.
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25.Jan.2021
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Tetris clone: Crazy Columns (demo) 0.93
Jochen Hoffer has released a new demo version of his port of the Sega classic 'Columns'. German as well as English versions are available now and the update fixes a few minor bugs. The developer tells us that the last thing holding back the release of the full version is the completion of the sound effects.
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24.Jan.2021
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: e-mail client Iris 0.104
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is going to be the standard e-mail client for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and is able to display as well as create HTML e-mails.
With this latest release you can now add e-mail archives of other programs. Several bugs have been also fixed. For feedback to the author, the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used.
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24.Jan.2021
Aminet
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Console replacement: ViNCEd 3.98
"ViNCEd" written by Thomas Richter is a replacement for the console program CON:. You can run the Shell in it but also other programs.
The full screen console handler has many additional features. For example "the whole window content is kept in memory, so you may use the cursor keys to move upwards on the screen and may re-execute commands you typed some time ago by pressing the return key". Furthermore yYou can cut, copy and paste text to and from the clipboard, as with the standard handler."
By adding parameters, many programs support the debugging mode. If you use the ordinary Shell for it you can only read and copy this text which fits in the current window. Using ViNCEd you can read and copy the whole debug output by selecting the text with the helpof the cursor keys or the scroll bars.
According to Thomas Richter, "the first version of ViNCEd appeared years ago (even before 1990). In lack of a better name, I called it VeryNewCon - as
opposed to the NEWCON: developed by Commodore for the 1.3 Workbench which was the latest clue at this time. VeryNewCon was short VNC: - but since this
name is really boring, I decided to fill in some vowels - and add an "Ed". Well, it's an editor which runs, apparently, a shell in it."
Changes in version 3.98: "If ViNCEd became active before ENV: and LOCALE: were setup, the localization wasn't updated for new windows even after ENV: became mounted. ViNCEd now also pulls all new system preferences once it becomes aware that the preferences system becomes active. Also, a new swedish locale is included."
ViNCEd requires OS 2.0 or higher.
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24.Jan.2021
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Aminet uploads until 23.01.2021
The following files have been added until 23.01.2021 to Aminet:
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24.Jan.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.01.2021
The following files have been added until 23.01.2021 to OS4Depot:
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24.Jan.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.01.2021
The following files have been added until 23.01.2021 to AROS Archives:
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24.Jan.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.01.2021
The following files have been added until 23.01.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
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24.Jan.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.01.2021
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 installer has been added until 23.01.2021:
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23.Jan.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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CDXL play: AGABlaster 0.9.82
AGABlaster plays Commodore's CDXL videos. In version 0.9.82 support for standard 12-bit AGA6-8 and HAM8 videos (used in several games in the late 90s) was added. Additionally optimized versions for all 68k processors inclusive Vampire are available.
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23.Jan.2021
Aminet
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Spaceship vs Asteroids Game: SPOD
After more than 20 years Marten Wobst has reactivated his Amiga 500. In celebration of the day he has written a little game called SPOD (Space Pilot of Death).
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22.Jan.2021
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Videos of virtual meeting of "Amiga Ireland"
This year the annual meeting of "Amiga Ireland" has been virtually organized. On YouTube you now can watch the videos which were shown on the meeting last Saturday. Among others the results of the Creative Competition, tutorials on Lightwave and BlitzBasic and interviews with Trevor Dickinson and David Pleasance.
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22.Jan.2021
amiga ireland 2021 online youtube channel (ANF)
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Prototype: New 2-Stick controller for Amiga or C64 introduced
"Abstraction Games" has developed a new joypad for C64 and Amiga which has four fire buttons but also two sticks - working on the joystick port without having to change something on the computer. In the past dual-stick-controllers often were used in slot machines but so far has been not available for Commodore home computers.
Two games have been also introduced which the developers have adapted to the new joysticks: Chaos Engine and Commando (C64). Probably the games will be commercially distributed, maybe as Kickstarter campaign.
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22.Jan.2021
Amiga Documents (Twitter)
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Lawsuit: Hyperion und Cloanto allegedly close to a settlement again
A year ago, Hyperion and Cloanto asked the judge presiding their lawsuit to extend a deadline because they were allegedly close to finalizing a settlement. A few days later, the negotiations were aborted.
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21.Jan.2021
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Book announcement:'From Vultures to Vampires' splitted into two parts
Last summer the second book of the former Commodore-UK manager David Pleasance, written together with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. According to Pleasance in two updates (1, 2), they "seriously underestimated the amount of enthralling material our research has uncovered, added to which as Trevor and I reached out to many of the people who feature in these stories, to our surprise (and sheer delight) many have responded and added even more intriguing content than we could have ever wished for."
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21.Jan.2021
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MicroTouch driver: Full version of GPTouch available
The Amiga Future offers the full version of 'GPTouch' for free download. GPTouch is a driver for touch screens produced by MicroTouch in 1991.
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