02.Oct.2022
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AmigaOS 4: "Otto Matic" and "Billy Frontier" ported
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has ported two other games to AmigaOS 4:
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02.Oct.2022
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Amega 32 adapter: Wireless Mega Drive gamepads are now supported
The Amega 32 is an adapter for the AmigaCD 32 to use SEGA Mega Drive gamepads (DB9) with 6 or 3 buttons (amiga-news.de reported).
Now Alinea Computer has updated the firmware of its Amega 32 adapter. Version 1.4.2 now also supports wireless Mega Drive gamepads in 6-button mode. All who want to update their adapter or want to update it themselves, please contact Alinea Computer.
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02.Oct.2022
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Tool: identify-library 40.1
At the end of last year, Richard Körber released the source code of his identify.library on GitHub. He also he took the opportunity to go through the source code again, reformatted it and translated the comments from German into English. The identify library is used to recognize Zorro cards by their manufacturer and product ID, provides information about the system (CPU, FPU, memory, clock frequency etc.) and to decode guru codes and function offsets. These functions can also be used via the included tools, as well as in ARexx and installer scripts.
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02.Oct.2022
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Aminet uploads until 01.10.2022
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02.Oct.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.10.2022
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02.Oct.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.10.2022
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02.Oct.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.10.2022
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02.Oct.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.10.2022
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 01.10.2022:
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02.Oct.2022
Erik Hogan (Twitter)
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Preview video: Shoot'em Up Hyperblaster (Inviyya 2)
At the end of last year, we reported about Michael 'Tigerskunk' Borrmann's announcement to write a successor for his shoot'em up 'Inviyya', released in spring 2021. Now he has published a new preview video of the Amiga 1200/Amiga 4000/CD32 version. As he wrote, "collisions are off, it's still a bit glitchy, no sound at the moment, but you can see where this is heading to". He is going to demonstrate the game at Amiga37.
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02.Oct.2022
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MP3 player: Reel Deck V0.60
After Atris, his Tetris clone for RTG Amigas, and AB_Template, his programming assistance for AmiBlitz 3, Sami Vehmaa has now released another project: Reel Deck is an MP3 player for Amigas with graphics card written in AmiBlitz 3 (YouTube video). You also need a fast CPU, AmigaOS3.x, AHI and at least 20 MB FastRAM. Reel Deck costs 3 Euro.
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01.Oct.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Cro-Mag Rally released
Two days ago we reported about Roman 'kas1e' Kargin's port of the racing game Cro-Mag Rally for AmigaOS 4. In the process, he and the original developer also solved some big endian issues. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky could now compile the game for Linux PowerPC (32-bit) and thus make it available for the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Linux distributions Void PPC 32-bit and MintPPC.
Download: CroMagRally_3.0.0_linux-powerpc.tar.gz (123 MB).
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01.Oct.2022
Puni / AmigaOldskooler (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of September
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published an illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of September.
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01.Oct.2022
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.4
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.
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01.Oct.2022
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DIY project: ATX power adapter for Amiga 500 tower project
'wiretap-retro' has developed an adapter for its Amiga-500 tower project, which is attached to the motherboard or another suitable place in the case via two spacers. It allows the connection of a standard ATX power supply and provides a 4-pin molex connector (for the Amiga 500 power connector) and 3 standard fan connectors for 12V fans. The project is open source and can be modified as desired.
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01.Oct.2022
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Block-oriented copying: Device Streams 2.0.0
Roc Vallès i Domènech has updated the Amiga tool "Device-Streams" for block-oriented copying, similar to UNIX command dd, which was originally developed and released by Christian E. Hopps in 1993. AmigaOS 2.04+ is required. Changes:
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30.Sep.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.0.9
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Today version 1.0.9 of the firmware was released. Changes:
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30.Sep.2022
Amigans-Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Dungeon of Chess ported
Four months ago 'MrsRina' had written a simple chess game "Dungeon of Chess" in SDL2 and OpenGL 3 (YouTube video). Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has adapted this to AmigaOS 4, added background music and made some small corrections. The source files are included and offer, as he writes, a good way to get familiar with SDL programming.
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30.Sep.2022
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Video tutorial: Configuration of DrawBridge under WinUAE
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin FloppyBridge WinUAE is also officially supported since version 4.9.0 (amiga-news.de reported).
In his latest video Robert Smith takes you step by step through the setup of the FloppyBridge plugin in WinUAE. Starting with the installation of WinUAE followed by the configuration and explanation of all FloppyBridge options.
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29.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: free AMOS interpreter AMOS Kittens 0.9
Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand is working on an interpreter which can run AMOS source code under AmigaOS 4. As the developer wrote "on the Amos command this project tries to stay 99% compatible, a few command won't work as this project use a bit more modern chunky image format instead of the planar graphic format". (amiga-news.de reported). The source code is available on GitHub. Changes of version 0.9:
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29.Sep.2022
Amigans-Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Racing game Cro-Mag Rally ported (update)
After his OpenGLES ports "Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast" and "Jedi Academy" (amiga-news.de reported), Roman 'kas1e' Kargin now has ported the racing game Cro-Mag Rally to AmigaOS 4 (YouTube video). The latest versions of OpenGLES2.library, Warp3Dnova.library and RadeonHD or RadeonRX graphics card drivers are required.
Update: (02.10.2022, 18:38, dr)
Meanwhile version 3.0.0.01 is available. Changes:
- added stack cookie of 1mb
- fixed missing bonuses/powerups on the race
- user data now saves as expected in root dir of game, and not in volume's root
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29.Sep.2022
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Retro Trex Game Jam: DRex released
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', had organized the Retro Trex Game Jam. The goal was to create an identical or improved version of the well-known browser game Google T-Rex for a retro computer.
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28.Sep.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.1
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). Today versions 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 were released. Changes:
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28.Sep.2022
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Debugging tool: PatchWork 1.0
More than ten years after the last version 0.17, Richard Körber has released version 1.0 of his debugging tool PatchWork today.
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28.Sep.2022
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Boing Attitude: Second part of interview with Apollo team
At the end of march, the first part of an interview with the Apollo team was published, which originally was printed in issue 3 of the French magazine Boing. Now the second part is available on the homepage and was originally printed in issue 4.
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28.Sep.2022
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Obligement: Interview with Jérôme Senay (Boing Attitude)
On his Obligement website, David Brunet has published an interview with the publisher of the French magazine Boing and the quiz game AskMeUp XXL, Jérôme 'Glames' Senay.
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26.Sep.2022
Ko-fi
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Editor: Lite XL 2.0.3r3 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS released
At the end of last year, George 'walkereo' Sokianos released the first version v1.16.12.3 of his port of the editor 'Lite XL' (amiga-news.de reported) for AmigaOS 4 and in June an update to version 2.0.3r2 which also included a port for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.0.3r3 released today provides the following changes:
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26.Sep.2022
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Editor: MUI-Vim V9.0.583 for AmigaOS4 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 9.0.583 of VIM and released it for AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
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25.Sep.2022
mithrendal (Mail)
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb v3.0 beta1
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga.
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25.Sep.2022
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Aminet uploads until 24.09.2022
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25.Sep.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 24.09.2022
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25.Sep.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 24.09.2022
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25.Sep.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.09.2022
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25.Sep.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.09.2022
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 24.09.2022:
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25.Sep.2022
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Floppy disk drive for WinUAE: Waffle
Based on Robert Smith's FloppyBridge, Retrogiovedi.it offers at the title link a floppy disk drive in Amiga-inspired design called Waffle for use with the emulator WinUAE, with which ADF files can be created or written.
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25.Sep.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Development tool: vlink 0.17a
Frank Wille has updated the portable linker vlink, which copes with a variety of binary formats and is part of the compiler package vbcc.
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