15.Nov.2022
Chris Hülsbeck (Twtter)
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Podcast interview: In conversation with Chris Hülsbeck
Every Monday, the podcast Pop: The History Makers presents a new interview with an icon of popular culture. This time, musician and composer Chris Hülsbeck is the guest.
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15.Nov.2022
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Metacompiler: Portabl E r6a
Christopher Handley's metacompiler "Portabl E" works by translating your code written with the programming language Amiga E into C++, and then using GCC to compile it into an executable. This needs an installation of GCC. This update fixes some bugs of version r6, released a few days ago (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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15.Nov.2022
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Feature test in AMOS: Update for mingame None Of Us
The group 'ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP', known among other things for the fantasy shooter Project Quest, which is currently in development, had released a minigame called "None Of Us" three weeks ago, which is intended to test how to obscure the player's opponents with light and shadow in AMOS Pro (YouTube video).
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14.Nov.2022
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXXII in Kiel, Germany, on 26.11.2022
On Saturday, November 26, retro computing event "Interface" will take place again in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. More information can be found in our German news-item.
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14.Nov.2022
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Video: Capacitor replacement on Amiga 1200
The YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) is dedicated to repairing and building retro hardware. The latest video shows how to change the capacitors on the motherboard of an Amiga 1200.
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14.Nov.2022
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Preview video: Super Metal Hero
"Raster Wizards" have published another preview video of the Jump'n Run "Super Metal Hero" developed with BlitzBasic showing the sentinel enemy of the fourth world.
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13.Nov.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.7
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 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). A few moments ago, version 1.6.7 has been released. Changes:
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13.Nov.2022
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Kung Fu action: "Devil's Temple" V3.5
About three weeks ago, Geezer Games had released "Devil's Temple (amiga-news.de reported). By releasing another update, the following bugs were fixed:
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13.Nov.2022
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Aminet uploads until 12.11.2022
The following files have been added until 12.11.2022 to Aminet:
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13.Nov.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.11.2022
The following files have been added until 12.11.2022 to OS4Depot:
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13.Nov.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 12.11.2022
The following files have been added until 12.11.2022 to AROS Archives:
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13.Nov.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.11.2022
The following files have been added until 12.11.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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13.Nov.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.11.2022
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 12.11.2022:
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12.Nov.2022
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Blog: Developer of "Rave" about Amiga37
In his latest blog entry Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka, developer of the audio editor "Rave", reports about his experiences and impressions of the Amiga37.
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12.Nov.2022
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MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.17r2
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators and now is available in version 3.17r2 for MorphOS 3.17, this time dedicated to the microAlchimie VI which took place last weekend.
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12.Nov.2022
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Do it yourself: Drivers for clockport/Raspberry Pi interface
At the end of June Niklas Ekström had provided the information for the reconstruction of an interface with which a communication between Amiga and Raspberry Pi via the clockport is possible (amiga-news.de reported). The goal is to be able to run services like the filesystem a314fs which allows access to directories of the Raspbery Pi and the SANA-II network driver over it.
After he published the source files of the necessary software adaptations a month ago, the pre-compiled Amiga files followed yesterday.
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11.Nov.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Sound card Prelude replica (Update)
The Zorro II sound card Prelude supported recording and playing in full-duplex mode at a resolution of 16 bit and a frequency of upto 64 kHz. Those who are interested in building a replica themselves can find a corresponding project - inluding the expansion module MPEGit - at the title link.
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11.Nov.2022
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Video: The history of the British video game developer "Magnetic Scrolls"
In his latest video, Kim Justice takes a look at the British computer game company "Magnetic Scrolls", which from 1984 onwards became known mainly for their text adventures like THE PAWN, Myth or Fish!. On the page "Magnetic Scrolls Memorial" you can find more information about the developers and other games.
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11.Nov.2022
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Puzzle game: LUMA
Indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (among others Wheel of Fortune implementation YAWoFFA or Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam) has released the Amiga port of the puzzle game LUMA, originally written for the Commodore 64.
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10.Nov.2022
Vinnny (ANF)
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Distributed.net: OGR-28 completed, Distributed Amiga in second place
Around the turn of the millennium, various initiatives were started to make unused computing time available for projects, which also led to the formation of teams in the Amiga area that competed with others - be it against other operating systems or among each other (amiga-news.de reported).
With OGR, for example, the task is to search for an optimal Golomb ruler. More than eight years after finding the 27th-order one, when the Distributed Amiga team came in third, the optimal 28th-order Golomb ruler has now been found: The Distributed Amiga team even achieved second place this time, the MorphOS team twelfth.
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10.Nov.2022
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.2.0
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). Recently George 'walkero' Sokianos (editor 'Lite XL' or MediaVault) has released version 2.2.0 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, providing the following changes:
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09.Nov.2022
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Jump'n Run: Minky V1.3
Minky (Video) is a Jump'n Run similar to Super Mario or Giana Sisters, which requires an Amiga 500 with one Megabyte RAM (amiga-news.de reported). In version 1.3 "strange crashes were removed when throwing a ball and jumping at same time".
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09.Nov.2022
Twitter
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RastPort: KA02 - Improved version of external PCMCIA adapter
Grzegorz Kraszewski's RastPort designs and manufactures accesories and expansions for Amiga computers. At the end of 2018, he had presented his project "KA02": a PCMCIA adapter for the Amiga 1200 in a standard desktop case. With the adapter, the PCMCIA card is placed vertically on the side of the Amiga and thus takes up much less space on the desk. Now he has published on Twitter a first photo of a variant that has an improved plug-in part. Inserting it into the slot is much easier that way, he says.
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09.Nov.2022
Amigans
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Metacompiler: Portabl E r6
Christopher Handley's metacompiler "Portabl E" - now written with spaces - works by translating your code written with the programming language Amiga E into C++, and then using GCC to compile it into an executable. This needs an installation of GCC. Please read his official press release:
Portabl E is my recreation of the AmigaE programming language, along with most of the improvements I have wanted. Portabl E works on AmigaOS4, AROS, MorphOS, as well as even Linux & Windows! (It should also work on AmigaOS3, but compiling needs a powerful machine like WinUAE.)
This is the finished r6 release, with the "beta" tag removed (amiga-news.de reported), although it hasn't really been beta since the last couple of release.
See the main manual for what has changed since r5. The biggest changes since the last r6 beta release include:
- Added basic Linux support (64bit x86 only), to the same level as Windows, i.e. Shell-only, with no graphics or internet access. This was a major effort, partly due to all the differences (64-bit pointers, case-sensitive filing system, mount-points anywhere, etc), and partly due to all the C headers that needed to be converted.
- Linux: PEGCC now supports cross-compilation (for Amiga & Windows) using the TargetOS parameter, as long as an appropriate GCC cross-compiler is installed.
- Programs will now compile using the latest SDK of AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS.
- All OS procedures that can support unlimited parameters now do so, including the Amiga's SystemTags().
- AmigaOS3: No-longer needs a modified "intuition/classusr.h" file.
- Added the 'std/pUnsigned' module, to provide basic support for unsigned number types, and the example program "Examples/std/Shell/crc32.e". Useful for porting certain C algorithms.
- Added the procedures InStrNoCase(), BigMax(), BigMin(), BigFastMod(), IsBigEndian() & IsLittleEndian().
- In 'std/pTime', improved CurrentTime() to take a timezone parameter.
- Fixed FastNew() (and so NEW) which would trash memory, instead of raising the "MEM" exception, if it failed to allocate memory. Thanks to Dimitris Panokostas for reporting symptoms of this long-standing bug, especially as I don't see out-of-memory errors on the OSes I normally use.
- Amiga: The installer would fail at "Copying executables..." if the user-specified path for executables did not contain any (sub) folders, such as "C:" (which sadly was the default). Many thanks to "Zendarion" for the bug report.
- Windows: In 'std/pTime', CurrentTime() now returns the correct time when DST is in effect.
- I've renamed the language from "PortablE" to "Portabl E" with a space, in the hope of making it more easily searchable on the internet (as well as clarifying how to pronounce it). But the "PortablE" command name itself is unchanged.
The new version can be downloaded under the title link or via OS4Depot.
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