02.Nov.2023
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Tool: SpriteSplitter V0.4
The basic idea of a spritesheet is to pack a series of images together into a single image. Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen's "SpriteSplitter" reverses this: it is a simple tool for splitting a spritesheet image into separate images that can be used in the Scorpion Engine. This allows the user to save time when updating spritesheets by automating this process.<
In version 0.4 a -file parameter was added which let you specify a text file which contains a list of command operations. This is much faster than calling SpriteSplitter multiple times.
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02.Nov.2023
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Dungeon Crawler: Shadowmage - The Cursed Village
"Shadowmage - The Cursed Village" is set in a medieval world where the player is hired by some villagers to find a sacred stone that has been stolen by an evil mage. In search of it, you have to face giant wasps, skeletons and evil spirits. Main features of the game:
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01.Nov.2023
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Competition: Deadline for "Amiga Tool Jam" extended by one week
At the beginning of May indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen started the "Amiga Tool Jam", which was originally supposed to end yesterday (amiga-news.de reported). Because of the continuing interest - we already presented some submissions - it was decided to extend the competition. Now tools written for the Amiga can be submitted in the categories "Utility", "Tool", "Commodity", "GUI interface", "Most Useless Tool" and "Other" until 08 November.
Submissions must be written explicitly for the competition, updated or modified versions of an existing utility or tool are excluded. More detailed conditions under the title link.
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01.Nov.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: Wallpapers
'grindercowboy' has published special wallpapers for the Amiga Tool Jam: famous pictures such as the Marilyn Monroe portrait by Andy Warhol are "hulkified", that is, given a green coat of paint.
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01.Nov.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: Aurora Mystica
'Amiga Cammy' has written "Aurora Mystica" in E for the Amiga Tool Jam: after starting it, a picture opens and random quotes are displayed. MUI is required.
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01.Nov.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: Colour Mapper
'LateBit' has written "Colour Mapper" for the Amiga Tool Jam: a tool for the Workbench that can reduce the number of colours in an image. It is aimed at programmers who create their graphics for Amiga games under Windows, for example with software like Pro Motion NG, and then export them. Currently, only iff images with 256 colours can be exported here.
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31.Oct.2023
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for October
For the month of October 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link.
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31.Oct.2023
PixorraGames
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Platform game: Agonman V0.99
Agonman is a platform game inspired by a picture by Edwin van den Heuvel and the Psygnosis game Agony and is supposed to be a homage to the game studio (YouTube video). It was created with the Game Construction Kit RedPill in 16 colours. A version with 32 colours is in the pipeline.
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31.Oct.2023
Christian Zigotzky (E-Mail)
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Linux: Kernel 6.6 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.6, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests.
Download: linux-image-6.6-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (60 MB)
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31.Oct.2023
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.27
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, 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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30.Oct.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: WhiteboardAGA
For the Amiga Tool Jam, Alys Medi Jones has released WhiteboardAGA for AmigaOS 3 using Hollywood: a whiteboard on which you can draw and write freely. The tool requires the AGA chipset and 4 MB RAM, the codesets.library V6.21 and the Plananarama-Plugin for Hollywood.
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30.Oct.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: SORThodontist
'Fab Dynamic' has written "SORThodontist" in E for the Amiga Tool Jam, which is used to sort lists consisting of one item per line according to personal preferences. To do this, click on the file whose contents are to be sorted and then double-click on it while holding down the Shift key to start the tool. "SORThodontist" was tested under AmigaOS 2.1 as well as 3.1.
The author has added some examples to the archive, such as the best Amiga adventure games or the best cinema films of the 80s.
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30.Oct.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: AmiAuthenticator v1.0.2 (update)
AmiAuthenticator was also written for the Amiga Tool Jam and is a 2FA (two-factor authentication) code generator for the Amiga that is compatible with many websites that use 2FA. It generates TOTP (Time based one time passwords) codes with SHA1 or SHA256. Similar (non-Amiga) applications are Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator and FreeOTP. These codes can be used to secure access to various websites, e.g. GitHub, LastPass, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram.
Depending on preference or installed GUI, the tool can be started as a MUI-, ReAction- or Gadtools-based version. All versions require at least Kickstart/Workbench 2.0. Since a UTC time source is needed, it is important that the system clock is set accurately and it is preferable to have a real-time clock installed or to synchronise the system with the internet. The source code is available on GitHub.
Update: (31.10.2023, 21:00, dr)
Version 1.02 released:
- fixed invalid memory access error on first startup causing a crash for some users
- the items saving was completely broken and was saving blank string
Direct download: AmiAuthenticator-1.0.2.lha (75 KB)
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30.Oct.2023
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Amiga Tool Jam: DrawerGenie
For the Amiga Tool Jam, which ends tomorrow, numerous contributions have been submitted recently, which we would like to present briefly in individual messages.
Originally running under the working title "Drawer Helper" (amiga-news.de reported), Rob 'daedalus2097' Cranley has released the commodity "DrawerGenie" for AmigaOS 3.5 or higher. DrawerGenie allows you to add simple toolbars to the Workbench drawer windows. These provide some simple DOpus-like Workbench functions, such as defining a target window and sending selected files to it, copying and pasting files, switching view modes, sorting files, handling archives and more. File operations show a progress bar, are asynchronous and can be cancelled.
Drawer Helper was written in AmiBlitz, the source code is available on GitHub.
Direct download: DrawerGenie.lha (158 KB)
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29.Oct.2023
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8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal v2023-10-29
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now.
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29.Oct.2023
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Weather data: AmiWeatherForecasts V1.1
AmiWeatherForecasts is a weather forecasting application that provides the latest weather information for any location. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather.
The weather forecast information is automatically updated every 15 minutes, but can be updated immediately if required via the menu Tool/Update.
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2023, 21:04] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2023
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Tool: identify-library 43.2
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 43.2 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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29.Oct.2023
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Italian Print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 16
The sixteenth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 colour pages both as a booklet and as a PDF file, deals with the following topics:
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2023, 14:28] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2023
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Platform game: Update for Amiga port of Electro Man
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch is porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Msik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). The current update adds the fourth level and improves the controls.
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2023, 14:03] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2023
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Demo: "Castlevania AGA" now with 15 stages
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally named "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). The game, now called "Castlevania AGA", has a total of 15 stages with many new enemies.
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2023, 13:55] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2023
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Aminet uploads until 28.10.2023
The following files have been added until 28.10.2023 to Aminet:
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29.Oct.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.10.2023
The following files have been added until 28.10.2023 to OS4Depot:
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29.Oct.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.10.2023
The following files have been added until 28.10.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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29.Oct.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.10.2023
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 28.10.2023:
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29.Oct.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Unsuspected Puost
- Cadaver Main Theme Music (Remake)
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29.Oct.2023
BBS Index (ANF)
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Event: Video report from Amiga38 by BBS Index (German)
Another German video report from Amiga38, which took place October 6/7 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, has been released by BBS Index at the title link.
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29.Oct.2023
Robosaurus Spielothek (ANF)
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Soundtrack of the Amiga38 report by Robosaurus Spielothek available
Dominic Ortmanns of Robosaurus Spielothek writes: "A few people had asked if one can get the song from the credits of my Amiga38 video somewhere. That is possible now! We have set up an extra page for it at the title link.
The song can be downloaded for free and listened to and used as you like. If someone likes it so much that they want to support the artist in upcoming developments, there's also a Paypal donation link there. Have fun with it!"
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29.Oct.2023
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Browser extension: AGuide Viewer 0.3
AGuide Viewer is an open source reader for AmigaGuide documents implemented as a browser extension. It works with Firefox and Chromium on all platforms (amiga-news.de reported).
The project moved from GitHub to Sourceforge. Version 0.3 handles an exception that could occur when scanning a page to determine if it is an Amigaguide document.
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2023, 08:05] [Comments: 0]
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29.Oct.2023
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Tool: Mnemosyne shows used harddisk space (update)
Mnemosyne is a tool for AmigaOS 3.x that shows how much space files and folders take up on the hard disk. It is supposed to help manage the space on the hard disk better. Mnemosyne is written in C and uses ReAction. ClassAct is required under AmigaOS 3.1 and 3.1.4.
Update: (30.10.2023, 21:40, dr)
Version 1.1.0 has been released. Changes:
- Added -g flag to open a window for scans from the shell.
- Using proper Semantic Versioning now.
- Current version moving to 1.0.2 -> 1.1.0
- Made Mnemosyne program from: 32.440B to 32.504B
- New Guide images updated to fit the version
- .guide finally has a proper icon now.
- Fixed Duplications in scanning procedure code.
- Prevent wrongful appending of file path.
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28.Oct.2023
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Floppy emulator: GoDrive600 and GoDrive1200
Already at Kickstart 01, DigitalRetroBay presented its floppy emulator GoDrive, which is available as GoDrive600 for the A600 and as GoDrive1200 for the A1200 or A500/A500+. The Flashfloppy firmware is used for operation in each case.
After installing the GoDrives (YouTube video on the 1200 installation), both the floppy drive and the floppy drive emulator can be used, but not both at the same time.
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[News message: 28. Oct. 2023, 07:49] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2023
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Rogue-like: Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge
As announced a few days ago, Robert Smith has released his game "Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge", as a follow-up to his Easter game "Hop to the Top!".
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27.Oct.2023
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.5
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.5 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. Changes:
- Updated User-Agent code, Safari is now the default user-agent on new installs
- Fixed a crash if ahi.device has failed to open
- Fixed a problem with AdBlock code blocking all requests if loading of its data has failed
This should also fix problems with accessing the PayPal website.
Download: wayfarer.lha (35 MB)
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2023, 20:32] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2023
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Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine"
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. The developer 'pixelplop' has now converted the game into C/C++ code and plans to continue working on it.
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2023, 06:01] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.10.31 (update)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2023.10.26 which only applies to the ZuluSCSI RP2040:
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