16.Oct.2024
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Development tool: vasm 2.0
After eleven months of development, Frank Wille has released the update to version 2.0 for the modular assembler vasm. The changes in version 2.0 in detail:
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16.Oct.2024
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: ADFDiskBox v2
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" reads the magnetic layer of the floppy regardless of the format used and stores as much information as possible in a so-called "flux level image" in supercard format (SCP), making it possible to read and write back copy-protected floppies. We have been reporting on FluxMyFluffyFloppy, a GUI for the Greaseweazle Tools, for some time now. In addition to GreaseweazleGUI, there is a third alternative for Windows, ADFDiskBox, which has now been released in version 2.
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16.Oct.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Tutorial for creating a USB boot stick for the AmigaOne X5000
'McFly' has published two tutorials (available in English and German) in the OS4Depot which should enable users of an AmigaOne X5000 to create a bootable USB stick either from a system backup (OS4Depot link) or with the help of the AmigaOS 4.1 installation CD and using an RX graphics card OS4Depot link).
When asked, the author kindly wrote us the following about how it came about:
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15.Oct.2024
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CLI command: sysvars V0.13
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical frame rate (PAL/NTSC), Kickstart version and revision, version and revision of bsdsocket.library as well as whether the emulator UAE is used - and if so, in which version.
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15.Oct.2024
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Demis Hassabis: Nobel prize winner with an Amiga background (Update)
Demis Hassabis was recently honoured with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his outstanding contributions in the field of artificial intelligence. In particular, the development of AlphaGo, which was the first program to beat a professional Go player, and AlphaFold, which enabled revolutionary breakthroughs in protein folding, earned him the Nobel Prize. These achievements mark significant advances in AI research and biomedicine.
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15.Oct.2024
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File system: smbfs 2.22 published for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Olaf Barthel has released the new version 2.22 of the Samba file system smbfs for AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x after a break of almost five years and four months of development (amiga-news.de reported about version 2.1).
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14.Oct.2024
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Video: How the diskspare.device stores 984KB on a DD disc
Robert Smith is currently working on an update of DiskFlashback (amiga-news.de reported) and is currently working on support for the diskspare.device (Aminet link), which is a supplement or replacement for the trackdisk.device, which can be used to format discs with 960 KB or 984 KB or, if an HD drive is available, with 1920 KB or 1968 KB. In his latest video, Smith shares his findings and results on how it works.
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14.Oct.2024
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Video series: The Amiga 1000 as a Workstation
In a nine-part journey through time, Thomas Cherryhomes attempts to categorise the Amiga 1000, which was officially launched in USA in 1985, in terms of its practical suitability as a workstation and to compare it with similar products.
At that time the Amiga 1000 was running AmigaOS 1.1, a 256KB expansion and two disk drives. Since, as the author writes, workstations were mainly used for scientific and technical tasks, with the expectation of developing customised software for a specific task, the series ultimately focused on this. The parts published so far:
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14.Oct.2024
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Print-/PDF magazine: ZZAP! Amiga, issue 18
After Patreon supporters, also the general public can now purchase the September/October issue of the “ZZAP! Amiga” magazine. It consists of 60 color pages in A5 size. A look at the table of contents can be found on Amiga Magazine RACK.
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13.Oct.2024
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Aminet uploads until 12.10.2024
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to Aminet:
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13.Oct.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.10.2024
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to OS4Depot:
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13.Oct.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 12.10.2024
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to AROS Archives:
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13.Oct.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.10.2024
The following files have been added until 12.10.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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13.Oct.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.10.2024
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 12.10.2024:
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13.Oct.2024
Krzysztof Donat (ANF)
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GoVD: Virtual desktops for the Workbench
Krzysztof Donat's program GoVD makes it possible to use the Workbench on up to eight virtual screens under AmigaOS 3.2 (and possibly also 3.1.4, but he has not tested this). You can specify which Workbench windows and programs should use which of the screens.
The program is shareware, the fee is freely selectable. Developers who have placed programs on Aminet can register the program free of charge.
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13.Oct.2024
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DIY: Two internal floppy disk drives in the Amiga 500
Rod Thomas' AmigaDualFloppyInterface allows the use of two internal floppy disk drives in the Amiga 500 (tested only with version 6A of the motherboard). In practice, one of them is a Gotek drive.
His project allows the use of two internal floppy drives without any additions to the external drive connector and without irreversible modifications to the Amiga, with the option of selecting which of the two drives can be booted from; the second drive can still be used.
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13.Oct.2024
Mastodon (ANF)
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Interview with Ian Griffiths (Amiga Addict)
For his website "Prankster101 Productions" Azfar Shah did an interview with Ian Griffiths at the title link, editor of the Amiga Addict magazine (Wikipedia).
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13.Oct.2024
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Platform game: Tiny Pixel Adventure
Tiny Pixel Adventure is a classic platformer. Development has not yet been completed, but it is already playable. No information is given on the system requirements.
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12.Oct.2024
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Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib" V0.1.4
In March 2023, we reported on Volker Schwaberow's project to convert ADFlib, written primarily in C by Laurent Clevy, into the Rust programming language. At that time, it could be used to read and write ADFs, read and write tracks and sectors in a byte array.
He has now recently released version 0.1.4 and thus also made a disc bitmap implementation available.
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12.Oct.2024
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Preview video: First level of the game "The Gate"
At the beginning of October last year , we introduced the AMOS game "The Gate" by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. The developer reports on his latest progress in a recent Patreon post and has also published a video of the first level under the title link.
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11.Oct.2024
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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APEO - AMOS Professional Executable Optimizer
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's APEO, which he originally developed for his game "Ring around the World", patches the executable files generated by the AMOS Professional Compiler 2.0 to make them faster. The technical details are included in the manual.
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11.Oct.2024
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Installing floppy disks on hard disk: JST 7.4
JST can be used to install disk-based games on hard disk using WHDLoad slaves. After a long break - our last news-item dates back to 2002 - the further development of this program, which was first released in 1996, has been resumed in 2017. Today's focus is on WHDLoad compatibility, non-upgraded Amigas (or weak emulations) and those without a keyboard, i.e. a substitution by the CD³² control pad.
This year's update 7.4, released three days ago, supports the ReadJoyPort API of WHDLoad 19 (to some extent) and fixes a potential memory cleanup bug when using the Kickstart ROM 1.3.
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11.Oct.2024
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Text editor extension: Motorola 68k assembler environment for Emacs
For those who want to program with current versions of the text editor Emacs (Wikipedia) in assembler for the Amiga, there is an open source extension for it at the title link.
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11.Oct.2024
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Interview: Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS
About a year ago, the first photos of the ARM-based "Games System and Classic 68K compatible computer" A600GS were shown at AmiWest 2023. Since August 2024, the console is officially available (amiga-news.de reported) and we regularly report on updates and new games or software that is provided for the A600GS. Time to talk to Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of A-EON and Amiga Kit, about this project and possible effects on AmigaOS 4 software such as the Enhancer Software.
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11.Oct.2024
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Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2"
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #3 under the title link as well as the corresponding developer diary (Polish), the author explains that he has now switched from the programming language Blitz Basic 2 to the game construction kit Scorpion Engine.
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09.Oct.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Malibu 1.5 published
Andreas Falkenhahn writes (translated): "Version 1.5 of Malibu, the Hollywood plugin that can display Scala scripts, has now been released. This version contains some bug fixes that were necessary to make the recently released iconic Scala games Beyond a Steel Sky and Adventure 2 by Quantum Code Monk work.
With Hollywood and Malibu you can now play these games comfortably on your nextgen Amiga, Windows, Mac OS, Linux etc. In addition, Malibu now also supports the Mac OS ARM64 platform. Malibu is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal."
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09.Oct.2024
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AVX instructions: An Amiga fan at Intel?
Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) are an instruction set extension for x86 processors introduced by Intel. Arnaud Carré's blog article at the title link is specifically about the AVX-512 instruction set published in 2013. The vpternlogd instruction it contains immediately reminded him of the Amiga's Blitter.
A frequently used minterm value for it is 0xE2, because it is suitable for masked 2D sprites: If the middle bit of three bitmaps (here: used for the mask) is set, the output value of the first bitmap is used (here: the sprite); if the middle bit is not set, the output value of the third bitmap is used (here: the background). And - coincidentally or not - in the official Intel documentation for the vpternlogd instruction, interestingly, from the 256 possible values also 0xE2 was chosen as an example.
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