06.Dec.2024
George 'walkero' Sokianos
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Text editor: Lite XL 2.1.6r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has updated his port of the SDL-based text editor Lite XL. The update makes the changes from the official Lite XL 2.1.6 release available to Amiga users, and the OS4 implementation is now based on SDL 2.30.9..
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[News message: 06. Dec. 2024, 23:03] [Comments: 0]
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06.Dec.2024
hyperion-entertainment.com (ANF)
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Gorky 17: WarpOS support, minor update of AmigaOS 3 version, new demo
Steffen Häuser has now also ported the RPG/strategy mix "Gorky 17" to WarpOS after AmigaOS 3. There is also a small update for the 68k edition: the wrong language file may have been installed during the installation process, this error has been fixed.
Registered existing customers can download the archive with the combined 68k/WarpOS version in the download area, for all others there is now an updated demo version that also supports the PowerPC.
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[News message: 06. Dec. 2024, 22:54] [Comments: 0]
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06.Dec.2024
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.38
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a little donation from inside TAWS or via this link.
Version 0.38 includes a lot of changes regarding e.g. palette, menu or AmigaGuide.
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[News message: 06. Dec. 2024, 22:11] [Comments: 0]
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06.Dec.2024
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AmigaOS 4: MilkyTracker 1.05 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has again cross-compiled the source code of MilkyTracker for AmigaOS 4 with GCC 11.3.0 and linked it with the last stable version of SDL 2.30.9..
Download: MilkyTracker-SDL2.lha (2,1 MB)
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[News message: 06. Dec. 2024, 05:57] [Comments: 1 - 10. Dec. 2024, 02:38]
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05.Dec.2024
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.45 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.44 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. New features of this version include faster downloading and displaying of e-mails, replying to and canceling of calendar entries, and the option of always sending e-mails as a blind copy to a preset address.
Update: (06.12.2024, 22:04, dr)
Version 1.45 is now available to fix a memtrash that could occur under certain conditions.
Download: iris.lha (27 MB)
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[News message: 05. Dec. 2024, 22:25] [Comments: 0]
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04.Dec.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 2024.12.03
ZuluSCSI is a file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator, emulating an SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 2024.12.03 introduces support for Ultra-SCSI (Fast-20) on RP2040/RP2350-based platforms, currently still in beta. You can find more details on this and the other changes at the title link.
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[News message: 04. Dec. 2024, 11:11] [Comments: 0]
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04.Dec.2024
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AROS: Sound editor ProTrekkr 2.7.3 (update)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program that combines a software synthesizer with a traditional sample tracker. It can mainly be used to create electronic music (such as psytrance, trance, goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) for small intros, demos or games. Version 2.7.1 has now been released for AROS.
New features, besides bug fixes, are OpenGL support, the ability to draw samples and saving parts of samples as waveform files.
Update: (06.12.2024, 22:04, dr)
Version 2.7.3 is now available, which fixes a cause of a crash. In addition, a more straightforward individual tracks zooming mechanism has been implemented.
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[News message: 04. Dec. 2024, 11:11] [Comments: 0]
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04.Dec.2024
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Programming competition: Voting opened for AmiGameJam 2024
Aim of AmiGameJam 2024 was to program a successor to an existing Amiga game. After the closing date, the winner can now be voted for until Christmas. To take part, you have to be registered on the website and can then submit your rating after clicking on the individual games.
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[News message: 04. Dec. 2024, 11:11] [Comments: 0]
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04.Dec.2024
heckmeck-Blog (ANF)
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Programming competition: Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2024
For the fourth time, the Logiker website is holding a Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge. Participation in this programming competition is open until Christmas Day, and prizes include issues of PDF magazines and a book.
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04.Dec.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for November 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 in his "Old School Game Blog" at the title link.
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[News message: 04. Dec. 2024, 11:10] [Comments: 0]
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03.Dec.2024
Mastodon
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Developer log: Writing an own dialogue scripting language
Developer Dan Salvato has presented the creation of his own dialogue scripting language for his under-development game "Magicore Anomala" in a detailed blog post (amiga-news.de reported). In "Writing My Own Dialogue Scripting Language", Salvato describes the motivation and development process behind the creation of a custom language for implementing dialogues in video games. He discusses technical challenges and describes the components script, parser, bytecode and renderer. With specific script examples, he explains how his solution makes it possible to efficiently implement complex dialogue structures.
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[News message: 03. Dec. 2024, 12:06] [Comments: 0]
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03.Dec.2024
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AmiGameJam candidate: Last Battle 2
Successors to Amiga games are to be created as part of the AmiGameJam 2024 contest. Under the title link, 'msmalik681' has published his interpretation of a successor to the Sega classic "Last Battle", which has also been ported to the Amiga: "Last Battle 2" is a classic beat'em up in the arcade style of the 80s.
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[News message: 03. Dec. 2024, 11:56] [Comments: 0]
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03.Dec.2024
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PDF magazine: Ami Tech-Gazette, Issue 11
"Ami Tech-Gazette" by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay is a 12-page retro newsletter with an Amiga focus. The current issue includes another episode of the "Graphics Workshop", reviews of Datastorm and Gigawatt, and a throwback to the US print magazine "COMPUTE!".
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[News message: 03. Dec. 2024, 11:44] [Comments: 0]
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02.Dec.2024
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AROS: Review of November 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of November at the title link.
(dr)
[News message: 02. Dec. 2024, 21:17] [Comments: 0]
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02.Dec.2024
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Video: Installation of an Indivision AGA MK3 in the CD32
In part 1 of a two-part series, the YouTube channel "Amiga Retro" shows how an Indivision AGA MK3 is installed in a CD32.
(dr)
[News message: 02. Dec. 2024, 18:08] [Comments: 0]
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02.Dec.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Review of MediaVault
MediaVault is a program for AmigaOS 4 for streaming radio stations and playing podcasts, which was written by George 'walkereo' Sokianos and last updated at the end of 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). Kevin 'ktadd' Taddeucci takes a closer look at the application and its mediavault script, which can be used to save parts of streams and entire podcasts in a file on the hard drive.
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[News message: 02. Dec. 2024, 17:56] [Comments: 0]
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02.Dec.2024
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.43
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill (YouTube video) 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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[News message: 02. Dec. 2024, 06:09] [Comments: 1 - 10. Dec. 2024, 02:42]
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01.Dec.2024
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Aminet uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to Aminet:
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[News message: 01. Dec. 2024, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to OS4Depot:
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[News message: 01. Dec. 2024, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to AROS Archives:
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[News message: 01. Dec. 2024, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.11.2024
The following files have been added until 30.11.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 01. Dec. 2024, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2024
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WHD-Load: New installers until 30.11.2024
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 30.11.2024:
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[News message: 01. Dec. 2024, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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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:
- Supremacy (Encore64 V2)
- Rainbow Islands Christmas
- Ethereal Void part 1 (nightwolf 2024 remix)
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[News message: 01. Dec. 2024, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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Amiga Advent Calendar
The Australian Moya 'Cammy' Jackie has started another Christmas campaign and presents an Amiga Advent Calendar at the title link. Behind each door is a game, mod, demo, artwork or piece of software contributed by the Amiga community. Further contributions to fill the calendar are welcome.
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[News message: 01. Dec. 2024, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2024
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Game: Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut
As reported, the Electric Black Sheep team have reworked their game "Star Dust Wars". This "Director's Cut" has been published yesterday at the title link.
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[News message: 01. Dec. 2024, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
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01.Dec.2024
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Programming the Amiga 500: Spritework
Michael Martin's latest entry on his experimental programming projects on the Amiga 500 is dedicated to sprites, including a look at the continuity compared to the Atari.
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[News message: 01. Dec. 2024, 09:05] [Comments: 0]
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30.Nov.2024
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Dungeon crawler: Halloween X 1.10 (AGA)
Sami Vehmaa's dungeon crawler Halloween X (video) can be purchased for 5 USD at itch.io. The developer has released several updates since the initial release:
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[News message: 30. Nov. 2024, 13:40] [Comments: 0]
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30.Nov.2024
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 10.5 (Update)
Thomas 'Thor' Richter's universal PCI driver system "OpenPCI" supports all known PCI solutions for the Amiga without recourse to the software of the respective manufacturer. The current version 10.4 contains the following changes:
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(cg)
[News message: 30. Nov. 2024, 13:25] [Comments: 1 - 01. Dec. 2024, 16:10]
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30.Nov.2024
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Amiga 500 keyboard as a USB device: Leonardo 1.2
"Amiga 500 Keyboard - Arduino Leonardo" is a further development of Amiga500-Keyboard, it transforms an Amiga 500 keyboard into a USB input device with the help of an Arduino Leonardo. Compared to its predecessor, it offers some new functions such as the recording of macros. The new version 1.2 also offers support for multimedia keys.
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[News message: 30. Nov. 2024, 12:37] [Comments: 0]
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30.Nov.2024
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AmiGameJam: Numerous new games introduced
The deadline for this year's edition of the AmiGameJam programming competition, which has the motto "The Sequel That Never Was", is just a few hours away: Participants are to develop a sequel to a classic Amiga game. A number of new titles have been presented in the last two days, and we are currently aware of a total of 15 games intended for the jam:
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[News message: 30. Nov. 2024, 11:03] [Comments: 0]
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