29.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Editor Lite XL 2.1.2r1
George 'walkero' Sokianos has just released version 2.1.2r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). He wrote:
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29.Dec.2023
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Analogue Pocket: Amiga core V0.1.2
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. Version 0.1.2 has now been published of the Amiga Core which adapts the mouse setting to the new firmware 2.0.
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29.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Santa's Workout 3 - Silent Night
After "Vector5 Games" released the first two parts only for the C64, the third part is now also available for the Amiga: in "Santa's Workout 3 - Silent Night" (YouTube video) the special feature is that the player, as Santa Claus, has to act extremely quietly so as not to wake the sleeping children.
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29.Dec.2023
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Platform game: "Super Delivery Boy - The Holiday Shift" 2023.1
The mini game "Super Delivery Boy - The Holiday Shift" (YouTube video) was updated again (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Rewritten and simplified most of the code
- Improved performance on low end machines
- More precise collision detection when delivering presents
- Some graphical improvements
- Bug fixes
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28.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser NetSurf 3.11
After around three and a half years various test builds an update of the NetSurf browser to version 3.11 was published today, together with a version for AmigaOS 4, provided by Chris Young under the title link. NetSurf 3.11 features improved page layout with CSS flex support. It also features many other optimisations and enhancements. Changes of the Amiga port:
- Added page theme option.
- Improved bitmap handling.
- Improved and optimised Unicode handling.
- Stability improvements.
After initial tests on our part, the support for encrypted pages that had been lost in test builds is working again. Unfortunately, access to downloads from GitHub pages ("Assets") still does not work.
Officially, no conversion for AmigaOS 3 has (yet) been published, but the last test build from 28 December 2023, NetSurf-gcc-6637.lha (4,3 MB), should basically correspond to version 3.11.
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28.Dec.2023
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Java program: ham_convert 1.9.3
Sebastian Sieczko's java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats to the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.9.3. Changes:
- dded Oric mode (experimental). Oric was a British 8-bit computer powered by the 6502 cpu with 8-color graphics with no v-sync.
- Dynamic Hires: cancel option to abort conversion.
- rgbg_pal cli parameter can be used to select fixed rgbg ham pattern mode in ham6.
- Code cleanup.
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27.Dec.2023
Gaming on AmigaOS 4 (ANF)
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Interview with Steffen Häuser (Heretic II port)
In addition to his monthly summaries of AmigaOS 4 news, 'Puni' has now also conducted an interview with Steffen 'TheMagicSN' Häuser, who is working on AmigaOS 4 ports of the games Heretic II and Sin, at the title link.
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27.Dec.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Review of December 2023
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS news for the month of December at the title link.
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27.Dec.2023
Nicola Morocutti (ANF)
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 17
The seventeenth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available with 50 color pages both as a booklet and digitally, deals with the following topics:
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27.Dec.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 153 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about 1000cc Turbo and Frogger500.
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27.Dec.2023
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8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2023-12-26
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. Changes:
- improves support for Apple II NIB images;
- thanks to @ryandesign corrects Apple II/II+/IIe floating bus issues;
- resolves a potential crash-at-startup for the Enterprise;
- resolves potential stuck-on drive motors on the Amiga;
- resolves some disk writing issues specific to the Enhanced Apple IIe;
- thanks again to @ryandesign also corrects an internal optimisation around Disk II write protection sensing, and an error to do with data bus loading
- adds emulation of the most basic form of IBM PC — an 8086 compatible with MDA or CGA graphics and a floppy drive.
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27.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Santa and the Goblin
Havsoft' has also contributed a Christmas game: based on the Atari game Dragonfire and written in Blitz Basic 2, you have to help Father Christmas get his presents back by storming the castle and then collecting them (YouTube video)
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27.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Deck the Drones
'Amiga Cammy' decided on 23 December to write a Christmas game for my Amiga in the hope of finishing it by Christmas Day. It didn't quite work out, but she would like to share the first playable level with everyone and thus contribute to a successful Christmas. In this platform game (YouTube video), the player must retrieve the stolen Christmas presents from mysteriously reprogrammed delivery drones.
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26.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Videoplayer MPLayer 1.5RC2
A team of several developers has published a second release candidate of version 1.5 of the video player MPlayer for AmigaOS 4. This version is based on the official MPlayer 1.5 source code, merging code from LiveForIt-MPlayer, MickJT-MPlayer and Andrea Palmatè's MPlayer ports, with several additional changes and improvements.
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26.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Music tracker Protrekkr 2.6.3r1
Protrekkr (formerly marketed as "NoiseTrekker") is an SDL-based music programme that combines a software synthesiser with a traditional sample-based tracker. Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has now published a first release candidate for version 2.6.3, which is based on the official Protrekkr 2.6.3 source code and on the previous port (version 2.5.5) by Fredrik Wikström.
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25.Dec.2023
Balaton
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Emulator: QEMU 8.2.0 released
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualiser. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software. It is therefore also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems such as AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who has set up a dedicated website with lots of tips and information. As already reported at the beginning of December, the now released QEMU version 8.2.0 also supports AmigaOne emulation via its BBoot bootloader. In addition, the Pegasos 2 emulation now supports the audiodev property (PowerPC changes). For Windows 64 Bit a compiled binary was made available on Christmas Eve.
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25.Dec.2023
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Trevor's Blog: Christmas Present
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology has published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" for Christmas. In it he reports on the Amiga trade fairs he attended, AmigaKit's A600GS project and also mentions once again the "AAA Technology" alliance formed by ACube Systems, A-EON Technology and Amedia Computer, which is to deliver the long-awaited A1222 Plus.
The A1222 Plus comes with updated ExecSG and uBoot firmware from Steven Solie. Also included in the A1222 Plus package is a new version of DvPlayer (v54.11) that supports A-EON's video acceleration library, enabling smooth playback with clear DMA power audio.
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25.Dec.2023
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Demo: "Castlevania AGA" with stages 16-18
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This adds stages 16 to 18, which now include the fight against Dracula, the final boss, in the clock tower.
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25.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Merry Xmas (beta version 0.2)
Scorpion Engine developer Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of a fast-paced puzzle platformer game that he created almost entirely in a 16-hour period on Christmas Eve 2023. The graphics are from the Holiday Expansion Set.
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25.Dec.2023
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Preview video: Hyperborea Resurrected
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing a project that was started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime (YouTube videos): back then, he began developing a new shoot 'em up called "Hyperborea" with graphic designer Torben Bakager Larsen, who was also responsible for Battle Squadron, among other things.
Everything from the original prototype code was discarded, started from scratch and only some auxiliary functions from Souverän Soccer were adopted. Technically, the game is as good as finished and has the following features:
- 304 x 256 PAL @ 50 fps (almost always ;) )
- vertical scroller with additional horizontal scrolling (384 pixel wide levels)
- 1p and 2p simultan mode
- 100% flicker free bullets and enemies
- tons of bullets
TTorben Bakager Larsen is back on board, the strict colour restrictions of the old version have been removed. The game is mostly developed in C++ and about 10% in ASM. The video shows the current test level with some enemies and many, many bullets on an A1200 with deactivated turbo card / FastRam.
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24.Dec.2023
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Aminet uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to Aminet:
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24.Dec.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
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24.Dec.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to AROS Archives:
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24.Dec.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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24.Dec.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.12.2023
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 23.12.2023:
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24.Dec.2023
MeMo History (ANF)
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Memory game: MeMO 3.20
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update to his memory game MeMO. It is based on the classic memory card game, but in his implementation two players can compete against each other at the same time and compete for the best score.
MeMO requires a 68020 processor and the ECS chipset.
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24.Dec.2023
Puni (ANF)
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Amiga musik database AMP: MP3 mix "December Feelings"
The music database "Amiga Music Preservation" (AMP) has selected 20 tracks to create the right mood for Christmas and compiled them into an MP3 file.
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24.Dec.2023
Amigatronics (ANF)
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Demoscene review: "Tint" by The Black Lotus (video)
The video by Amigatronics at the title link reviews the demo "Tint" by The Black Lotus from 1996.
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24.Dec.2023
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Merry Christmas!
Dear readers, dear Amiga friends,
As Christmas draws to a close, so does the year and we would like to take this opportunity to thank our loyal readers, for whom we have endeavoured over the past twelve months not only to collect news, but also to provide background reports, tutorials, anecdotes and so on. It is fascinating how many private, but also professional projects still exist around the Amiga.
Therefore, on the other hand, thanks should also go to all the people who develop these small and large software and hardware projects and sacrifice time for them: without them there would be nothing for us to report on and nothing for the many Amiga users to be happy about, test, complain about... ;)
For this reason, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year together with a few randomly selected people who represent all the projects we have reported on over the past year! Stay in touch with the developers, the creatives, support them, also by actively participating in discussions in the corresponding news items here: Feedback is always welcome! A big thank you to the graphic designer 'jojo073', who provided us with the Christmas pixel art.
Merry Christmas!
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23.Dec.2023
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Developer tools: Amiga SDKs adapted to GCC compilers, Release 1
Cameron 'Nightfox' Armstrong (AmigaGPT) offers SDKs of AmigaOS 3.2 NDK and AmigaOS 4.1 (V54.16) adapted to the GCC compiler based on Stefan 'Bebbo' Franke's Amiga GCC Development Kit (amiga-news.de reported). Changes to the current version:
- Added json-c
- Updated AmiSSL to version 5.13
- Moved AmiSSL libs and includes out of SDK folder
- Add symlinks for /opt/amiga incase you use a Makefile that allows you to build natively
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23.Dec.2023
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HxC floppy emulator: Software V2.15.1.2
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- Many fixes and improvements into the flux stream management :
- One revolution only / 2 indexes support fixed.
- Fix stream files formats export : No more glitch after the first revolution index. (Fix SCP and KF export).
- Sectors recovery support - Can be disabled/enabled with the FLUXSTREAM_SECTORS_RECOVERY variable.
This feature try to automatically recover/fix bad sectors with copies present in others stream revolutions.
- Default pulses timing jitter tolerance increased from 10% to 14% (Config file).
- Kryoflux writer : stream to stream conversion : Don't align output stream to the next index.
- SCP writer : stream to stream conversion : Don't align output stream to the next index.
- SCP loader : Fix singled-sided images support (Fix the number of tracks/cylinder).
- SCP loader : Fix broken support of SCP images with more than 5 revolutions.
- SCP loader : Fix odd number of tracks + double step mode issue (Last track missing).
- Logic analyzer capture loader : nameTT.S.logicbin8bits file name convention support. (TT=track S=side)
- New XML format : MC50/MC300/MC500 formats and empty data disk.
- New XML format : Sharp X68000 2HD disk.
- Track display : Fix possible infinite loop : check the bitrate value and stop + report if needed.
- HFEv3 loader : Support RAND_OPCODE right after SKIPBITS_OPCODE.
- New X68000 DIM file image loader.
- New Apple II 2MG file image loader. (WIP - To be completed)
- XML raw loader : Fix images last sector loading.
- Track editor : New "insert" and "remove" track operations.
- HFE writers : New "HFE_WRITER_WRITENOTALLOWED" parameter : Set it to 1 to write protect the exported hfe files.
- HxC stream (Pauline) : Auto detect and load properly hard-sectored dumps.
- D88 loader : Fix possible infinite loop with corrupted image.
- Batch converter : New BATCHCONVERT_KEEP_SOURCE_FILE_NAME_EXTENSION setting to enable/disable the source file extension to the output file name.
- BMP export : New Stream tracks mode export.
- User interface : Save and restore previous state (WIP, Done : batch converter window)
- NSI Northstar : Some index timings and formats fixes.
- macOS : Better CAPSlib/ipf lib support. (Renaud Guérin)
- New track format : Centurion MFM. (Rick Altherr)
- Code : gcc's -fanalyzer used against the libhxcfe library : Many possible issues fixed !
- Many internal code improvements and fixes.
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23.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Demo version of "Terryble Knight"
The author of the RedPill game construction kit, Carlos 'Zener' Peris, started this game project because he wanted to test the slope system in RedPill. With RedPill version 0.9.32, also released today, this slope system has been greatly improved. "Terryble Knight" (YouTube video) uses the assets of Ansimuz, a very good and productive pixel artist. The music was provided by 'Fireb0y'.
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23.Dec.2023
Mastodon
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Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.0.4)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world". This early demo version now has its first opponents, even if the score is not yet calculated correctly. The game uses the free graphics set "NEONworld", which Kevin Saunders made available as part of the Amiga Art Contest 2020 (amiga-news.de reported). The game should run on an Amiga 500.
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