19.May.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Java program: ham_convert 1.9.1
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.8.7.
New features besides bug fixes are further options for HAM6 and support for very small pictures, i.e. with less than 300 pixels in total.
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19.May.2023
a1k.org (ANF)
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Card game: Poker Nights - "Tropical Heat"
As part of the strip poker series "VTO - Poker Nights", a second data disc "Tropical Heat" was released yesterday at the title link.
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19.May.2023
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Video: The SMB2/SMB3 network filesystem under MorphOS 3.18
With the latest release of MorphOS 3.18, the new Smb2FS handler was integrated, which provides an SMB2/SMB3-capable network filesystem. The video above demonstrates the new feature.
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19.May.2023
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Floppy disk images: Disc Image Manager V1.46 for Linux, macOS and Windows
Gerald J Holdsworth's Disc Image Manager is an application used to load a retro disc image, read the catalogue and output any required files. In addition, it will also add files to the image, delete, and rename files and directories. On the Amiga side, reading and writing of AmigaDOS disks and hard disks with OFS and FFS formatting are supported (not fully tested with FFS). Support for directory cache and international characters is still missing.
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19.May.2023
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Editor: MUI-Vim V9.0.1546 for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS
MUI-Vim is a port of the editor Vim. This editor is intended for editing programs as well as plain text files. Multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, block operations and scripting are some of the features.
Ola 'sodero' Söder has now ported
version 9.0.1378 of VIM and released it for AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS. Additionally, he has updated syntax highlighting for Hollywood 10.
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18.May.2023
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Minimig: Revision 1.97itx
Revision 1.97itx of the Minimig - a reimplementation of an Amiga 500 in a FPGA - is available.
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18.May.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.15
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has pushed an update a few days after the release of version 1.14 of his e-mail program Iris for MorphOS.
Changes are mainly for a NetStack bug in MorphOS versions 3.14 to 3.18, which already led to Wayfarer 5.3, and, as there, cURL and sqlite were also updated on this occasion.
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18.May.2023
Robosaurus Spielothek (ANF)
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Video report: Amiga Ruhrpott Convention 2023 (German)
Dominic Ortmanns visited the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention in Duisburg-Rheinhausen, Germany, on May 6, 2023 and recorded his impressions in a video at the title link (Camera: Jürgen Weißenfels, Graphics: Jan Reineke). His summary of the "small but nice Amiga fair, from fans for fans":
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18.May.2023
AmigaSource (Webseite)
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Browser extension: AGuide Viewer 0.1
AGuide Viewer is an open source reader for AmigaGuide documents implemented as a browser extension. It works with Firefox and Chromium on all platforms.
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18.May.2023
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Preview videos: Temptations port for CD32
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published two further preview videos showing the complete third and first sequences of the fourth level.
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17.May.2023
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Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.05.16
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD). Not much RAM is needed, as the anim frames and audio are streamed directly from the hard disk. If there is enough RAM, the sound is streamed directly from RAM.
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17.May.2023
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Survey results regarding usage of PowerPC emulation
Hans de Ruiter has now evaluated his recently started survey about the usage of AmigaOS 4 on a PowerPC emulator. According to this, almost 55 % of the 447 participants use real hardware and a good fifth exclusively emulation. At the title link more details can be found.
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17.May.2023
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Reverse Engineering: Speedball 2
In terms of games (software), reverse engineering is the process of analysing the code and content of the game to understand how it works. A GitHub page provides software tips and learning materials for interested developers. In this case, Simon Frankau has taken on the Amiga classic Speedball 2.
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17.May.2023
itch.io
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Platformer: Tech Demo "Space Cavern Blaster" v0.13
As entry to the Retro Platform Jam #6, 'dotmos' has released a cross-system platformer for Amiga 500, Atari ST, C64, DOS and Sega Megadrive as a proof of concept (amiga-news.de reported, YouTube video). Version 0.13 now provides support for joysticks.
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17.May.2023
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Space Invaders clone: Skinvaders
Space Invaders is a 1978 shoot'em up originally programmed by Tomohiro Nishikado and distributed by Taito. The group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" - among others, the mini-game None of Us - has now published a simple variant written in AMOS, whose graphics can be exchanged in the enclosed source code independently of the programme code. The background and the enemy images can have a maximum of eight colours, but must in any case have the same colour depth.
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16.May.2023
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.2
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 13.1 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video). Today version 1.7.2 has been released. Changes:
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16.May.2023
Frank von LogicalByte (ANF)
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Strategy game: "Virtual Enemies" in development
LogicalByte, the developer of the logic game Connect, yesterday introduced the next game for the Amiga 500 (and higher). The title is "Virtual Enemies".
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16.May.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 5.3 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 5.2 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS 3.18 which is required. This version fixes high CPU load with github.com, updates easylist adblock data and introduces a user script to remove some youtube gradients (changes).
To install the user script, open User Scripts from the Debug menu. Hit Import and load the Scripts/yt-no-gradients.json file from Wayfarer's directory. Select the script, make sure Enabled is checked (it'll be off by default) and hit Apply.
Update: (18.05.2023, 05:19, dr)
Meanwhile, version 5.3 is available which fixes handling of local files, adds a workaround for a NetStack bug in MorphOS 3.14-3.18 and includes updated cURL and sqlite.
Download: wayfarer.lha (29 MB)
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15.May.2023
Markus Tillmann (Mail)
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Event: Information on the Amiga38
Markus Tillmann wrote: Yesterday, Sunday 14 May 2023, ticket sales started shortly after 8pm with a few minutes delay (amiga-news.de reported).
Amiga38 is expected to be the biggest worldwide again this year - despite several old and new Amiga events - welcoming guests and visitors from all over the world.
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14.May.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: All Amiga Joker articles online (German)
Already since the beginning of the year, all original issues of German print magazine Amiga Joker are available as PDF files at Amiga Future homepage (amiga-news.de reported). Now also all articles have been added to the database at the title link.
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14.May.2023
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Video: Pixel art using Brilliance II
In December 2021, graphic and game designer Kevin Saunders had published a video tutorial for the graphics programme Brilliance II. As he reports in his latest Patreon blog entry, he was recently asked for advice on creating pixel art on the Amiga. Under the title link he now shows how he creates a copy of an image on the Amiga with Brilliance II.
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14.May.2023
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Aminet uploads until 13.05.2023
The following files have been added until 13.05.2023 to Aminet:
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14.May.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.05.2023
The following files have been added until 13.05.2023 to OS4Depot:
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14.May.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 13.05.2023
The following files have been added until 13.05.2023 to AROS Archives:
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14.May.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.05.2023
The following files have been added until 13.05.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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14.May.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.05.2023
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 13.05.2023:
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14.May.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:
- Desert Dawn
- Details Wizball - Drabness to Splendour
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14.May.2023
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Software Development Kit 3.18
Together with MorphOS 3.18 also the corresponding version of the software development kit has been published. It updates system headers as well as various GG components.
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14.May.2023
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Video: The History of Cursor Keys
In this video, the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Guy" takes a look at the history of the cursor keys, which nowadays are mostly arranged in the shape of an inverted "T": The index, middle and ring fingers can remain on the keyboard and the middle finger can easily switch between the up and down keys.
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13.May.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.0
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.0 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
As the author explained in his latest blog entry on ko-fi, he is introducing "igame.data" with this version: a media file that stores information about the title, the year of release and the number of players for the respective game, among other things. This should make it possible to automatically categorise one's own collection of WHDLoad games. The MUI classes NList and NListviews are required. The changes in the overview:
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13.May.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.14
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.14 of his email programme Iris for MorphOS. The changes include the new "Autosave Emails" feature which will save messages as you write them and restore them in case Iris or another app have crashed. The new Iris version is already included in MorphOS 3.18, which was released today.
Download: iris.lha (21 MB)
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13.May.2023
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Operating system: MorphOS 3.18 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.18! This new release includes several new applications such as Hex - a scriptable file/RAM/disk hex editor, ArchiveIt - a ZIP archiver/unarchiver application and Thermals - an app displaying thermal and fan information and graphs.
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13.May.2023
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Mastodon client: Amidon 1.2
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.2 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). This version fixes some bugs with anonymous browsing and adds support for the latest AmiSSL version.
Failing to connect to some Mastodon servers due to certificate errors should be fixed now.
Download: Amidon_v1.2_OS3.zip (1,74 MB)
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13.May.2023
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AROS: Videos on AROS ONE 2.0
At the end of March, version 2.0 of the AROS distribution "AROS One" x86 computers was released (amiga-news.de reported). AROS user James Mattson now presents the new version in two YouTube videos: AROS ONE 2.0 AWESOME NEW LOOK! and AROS ONE 2.0 Touring Some More!.
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13.May.2023
Pierre-Alexandre (Mail)
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Lionheart Remake: Version 1.30 of Java port of Lionheart
Byron 3D Games Studio Byron 3D Games Studio has released version 1.3.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android (amiga-news.de reported). The changes:
Added
- New game menu
- New game modes (Story, Training, Speedrun, Battle, Coop)
- Local multiplayer (up to 4 players split screen)
- Stage progress save and load
- Alternative player attack gameplay with more trivial feeling
- Start game without launcher with custom configuration
- Automatic desktop resolution by default
- Portuguese language
- Italian language
- Language automatically detected
- Android left analog stick
- Android Menu navigation with dpad and x button
- Android UI overlay hidden when controller is connected
- Android automatic screen ratio
- Android 5 compatible
- In game zoom-in zoom-out
- Water flickering option
- More cheats and access to all stages set
- JAR signature
Changed
- Filters performance improved and quality increased
Fixed
- Joystick 2 buttons mode working
- Music on MacOS
- Swamp Flower explode effect position incorrect
- AncientTown executioner wall can be crossed with attack jump
- AncientTown corrupted Veteran stage 6
- Lava FloaterCube hit force too low
- Airship road invalid on zoom
- Airship catapult projectile missing respawn
- Airship wall can be crossed on top of ground
- Dragonfly monsters hit interrupts movement
- Dragonfly Dragon fire time invalid
- Dragonfly bullet destroyed on collide on bomb explode
- Dragonfly Original stage duplicated Bomb location
- Dragonfly boss invalid head
- Tower Rotating length a little bit too short
- Norka first boss body collision missing on attack
- Norka second boss wrong collision and bullet hit
- Stages and Boss not reloaded on respawn
- Weird gameplay on player Hurt transition
- RotatingPlatformControlled invalid behavior
- Monsters falling on killed must be always updated
- Bullet destroy on ground hit box not large enough
- Movement clamped to zero when changing direction on jump
- Android liana cut crash
- Sfx audio bad rendering and latency on Linux
- Antivirus detections on "Lionheart Remake.exe"
- Memory leak on State changes
A new teaser video is also available on the game's homepage.
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