25.Jun.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 159 (English/Italian)
The free PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available not only in the original Italian edition but also in an English translation (cover on the right-hand page). The new issue 159 contains many comparing reviews of old and new games for retro systems as well as reviews of two Amiga-games, "Moonwalker" and "Tank X".
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25.Jun.2024
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WHDLoad: Manage archives with WHDLoad-Download-Tool v1.4
With WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros from cracker groups that were only intended for disc usage can be installed on the hard disk. The WHDLoad packages basically only contain the installer function, but not the games themselves. The WHDLoad-Download-Tool, which has just been released in version 1.4, can be used to download and conveniently manage complete packages.
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[News message: 25. Jun. 2024, 11:17] [Comments: 0]
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25.Jun.2024
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 10 updates R2 and R3
Over the past few months, updates have been released for Cloanto's official emulation and support suites "Amiga Forever" and "C64 Forever", which we would like to report on due to some rather promising new features. The current, free update 10 "R3" can be obtained from the Help/About dialogue in Amiga Forever or C64 Forever, alternatively the complete packages and ISO image are available for download from the Help sub-item "My Downloads and Keys".
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25.Jun.2024
Matthew Leaman (Mail)
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Amiga Kit: Updates and videos for the A600GS games console
Pre-orders for the A600GS computer are currently being dispatched. It has already been available to purchase at individual events such as the RetCon Retro Gaming Festival. The first updates for registered AmiSphere users have now been released before the official sales launch:
- Add display of hard disk file details to HDFGame class.
- Extended HardDisk class to display the filename when a drive is a drawer or hard disk file.
- Improve layout and fone size of hard disk details rows.
- Add an implement the Replace Hard Disk button in the HDFGame edit menu.
- Reorder Add File Chooser filters to put HDF second.
- Add startup sound service
- Update click sound
- Add display of CD32 disk image and replace Disk Image functionality.
- Fix issue where setting up cutomise memory widgets would trigger the game edited state and enable the USE SAVE buttons
- Add Turbo CD to CD32
- Add custom memory options to all classes that need them.
- Add HDFGame class.
- Add HDF Filter to Add Game File Chooser.
- AmiBerry: Adapt WHDBoot code in Amiberry and in AMOS GamebootLoader to use JST
- SystemV46: Add text.datatype and ascii.datatype
Two recently published YouTube videos also show the HDF import and how to save the state of a game.
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24.Jun.2024
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v3.3.0
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 3.3.0 among others offers testcases and base index addressing:
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[News message: 24. Jun. 2024, 20:29] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2024
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Video: Building a disc cleaning station, part 1
Developer Rob Smith has a special idea for the Kickstart event taking place next weekend: he wants to develop a station for cleaning floppy discs. Some floppy discs cannot be read because the magnetic material has become detached from the disc or a layer of mould has formed.
The first part, compressed into 20 minutes, actually contains several hours of construction work.
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[News message: 24. Jun. 2024, 20:26] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jun.2024
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Text adventure: "Adventure 2" v1.12
After "Adventure 1" (amiga-news.de reported), 'grindercowboy' has also updated his second text adventure (amiga-news.de reported): visible exits have been added to the room descriptions. Bugs had already been fixed and more verbs added in previous updates.
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[News message: 24. Jun. 2024, 15:52] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jun.2024
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Aminet uploads until 22.06.2024
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to Aminet:
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23.Jun.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.06.2024
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to OS4Depot:
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23.Jun.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.06.2024
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to AROS Archives:
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23.Jun.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.06.2024
The following files have been added until 22.06.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 23. Jun. 2024, 07:59] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jun.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.06.2024
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 22.06.2024:
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22.Jun.2024
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Text adventure: "Adventure 1" v0.9
At the beginning of January, 'grindercowboy' published his text adventure "Adventure 1" as a feasibility study (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has made a finished version of this game available, which is based on a short story he wrote about 30 years ago: as a private detective you have to return a stolen painting.
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[News message: 22. Jun. 2024, 21:50] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jun.2024
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.17.1
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
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[News message: 22. Jun. 2024, 07:13] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jun.2024
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy V5.0.5 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.5 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes:
- Requires Greaseweazle 1.17
- New disc formats: apple2.appledos.140, apple2.prodos.140
- New image formats: DO, PO
- Small bugfixes
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[News message: 22. Jun. 2024, 07:09] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jun.2024
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Video: Modernising a standard A1200
In two videos, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how he modernise a standard A1200 to some degree. In the first video, the following is installed:
- A1200.net case
- A1200.net keycaps
- OS 3.2 ROMs
- Internal CF card with OS 3.2 on it
- Real time clock module
- 8Mb RAM expansion
In the second video the Amiga 1200 is equipped with a GoDrive floppy emulator (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 21. Jun. 2024, 10:21] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jun.2024
Mastodon
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Event: Commodore Pacific Expo Nordwest (June 22-23)
This weekend, the fifth Commodore Pacific Expo Northwest will take place in Seattle, located in the US state of Washington. The organisers have now published the presentation and guest list: Robert Bernardo will be showing his A1222 Plus and reporting on his first experiences.
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[News message: 21. Jun. 2024, 07:25] [Comments: 0]
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21.Jun.2024
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AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.30.4 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published a first release candidate of version 2.30.4 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes: Änderungen:
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[News message: 21. Jun. 2024, 07:15] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jun.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.3 and 6.3.3 (preview)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
New versions have now been released: version 5.7.3 is recommended for ARM devices (like the Raspberry Pi) and version 6.3.3 (preview) for x86 and generally faster boards (ARM included). Both versions offer new features like resolution autoswitch option, bug fixes and improvements.
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[News message: 20. Jun. 2024, 07:09] [Comments: 0]
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20.Jun.2024
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Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.7 for Windows, Linux and macOS
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (new YouTube video).
The new version offers improved Live Analyser, jump table support and reduced iteration time. Besides, many bugs have been fixed in the analyser. A detailed list of all changes and the features is given in the devlog to the new version.
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[News message: 20. Jun. 2024, 06:24] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jun.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Utility PowerReboot V0.9
Francis G. Loch's PowerReboot is the evolution of OS4Reboot and, including version 0.8 released a few days ago, the first update in about 20 years. As the author tells us, his tool can now not only reboot AmigaOS 4, but can also switch off the computer if the hardware supports it, which is why he decided to rename it.
With regard to the history of development, he remembers: "The very first version of the program (imaginatively titled 'Reboot') was actually written on an Amiga 1200 because I wanted a program that would sit on the Workbench that I could use to reboot the system via a requester. Version 1.x was written in BlitzBasic and version 2.x was rewritten in C as I wanted to learn how to program in C.
When I got a MicroA1 I also wanted to program for AmigaOS 4. Reboot being a simple program, I thought it would be a good one to start with, so OS4Reboot was born. OS4Reboot went through a number of iterations adding features like making it a commodity amongst other things."
After a longer break and the sale of the hardware, he now owns an AmigaOne A1222 Plus and wants to get back into programming for AmigaOS 4. He discarded his first idea of reviving OS4Reboot when he realised that the functionality was already available in the last version of the operating system. However, feedback from users on the Amigans.net forum encouraged him to continue, as some people preferred the way OS4Reboot worked: for example, it is possible to drop the icon in the X-Dock and run the program from there instead of using the pull-down menu.
He has summarised for us the differences/advantages of PowerReboot compared to the built-in option in AmigaOS 4.1:
- Ability to use it from an icon on the Workbench or dock.
- Has the ability to add a user-selectable delay prior to rebooting via the icon ToolTypes.
- PowerReboot doesn't (currently) inhibit and flush the filesystems before rebooting/shutting down, but this also means that the reboot/shutdown is immediate which might be preferred by some.
- The latest developmental version 0.9, released today, has the ability to hide the softboot option which is a benefit to some as some graphics cards appear to have issues with this.
PowerReboot (and its predecessor OS4Reboot) was originally designed to run in the background and be available via the Tools menu of the Workbench: on first execution it is simply loaded into memory, on subsequent executions the requester is called unless it has been configured to bypass the requester and only perform a restart or shutdown. The current development version 0.9 now changes the behaviour and sets the default NONRESIDENT option in the Icon-ToolTypes, which means that PowerReboot does not remain in memory. This also means that it can display the requester on first startup.
PowerReboot 0.9 also includes locale support, and has been translated to a number of languages including German.
Thank you very much for the information, Francis! Have fun with the further development!
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19.Jun.2024
Reddit
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Worth a read: Interview with Gary Carlston (Brøderbund)
The Norwegian video game culture magazine spillhistorie.no has published an interesting interview with Gary Carlston, co-founder of the popular game studio Brøderbund. The US company with its Nordic-sounding name has produced classics and bestsellers such as Prince of Persia, Wings of Fury, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, Myst and Shufflepuck Cafe. In the interview, Gary Carlston, who founded the company together with his brother Doug Carlston, talks about the company, his role, the Brøderbund milestones – and Bayern Munich.
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19.Jun.2024
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Petro Tyschtschenko: Brand representative for "Grundig" bicycles
Like other traditional German brands, also "Grundig" is now used by other companies. For e-bikes, for example. Former Commodore Germany manager and Amiga Technologies managing director Petro Tyschtschenko is now promoting the latter as a brand representative.
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[News message: 19. Jun. 2024, 19:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jun.2024
GitHub
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Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.4 for Windows, Mac and Linux
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Amiga. Version 0.6.4, among others, provides important updates for those using macOS and those without video cards.
The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available.
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