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14.-16.06.24 • Flashback-Symposium #01 • Plauen-Jößnitz (Germany) 28.-30.06.24 • Alternatives Computer-Meeting 2024 • Wolfsburg (Germany) 17.08.24 • ZZAP! Live 2024 • Kenilwort (England) 16.Apr.2024 IndieRetroNews Grind: Progress in development of a new Doom clone Grind is a first-person shooter (FPS) currently in development for the Amiga, which should even be able to run on small Amigas, appears extremely smooth in the preview videos shown and makes you want to try out more. The game is being developed with the so-called Dread Engine (amiga-news.de reported). Tsak, one of the developers of Grind, recently announced news in the EAB forum: Grind has not only been enhanced with two new music tracks for menus and in-game, composed by Tsak and newly joined Christoffer Magdalus, but has also achieved key development milestones. These include improved particle effects for blood and explosions and the full implementation of the arsenal of weapons, with the secondary weapon being triggered with the right mouse button as known from other FPS shooters. For those interested, a playable demo and further information are available on the Patreon page of Grind. For those who want to dig deeper into the development, the official Discord server offers a platform for discussions and updates directly from the developers. Grind will be commercially distributed after its completion. (nba) [News message: 16. Apr. 2024, 19:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 16.Apr.2024 Emulation: BBoot bootloader v0.7 for QEMU BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan (amiga-news.de reported). It replaces amigaboot.of on Pegasos2 and slb_v2 on AmigaOne and simplifies the booting of AmigaOS 4 under QEMU. A firmware ROM is no longer required. The current Version 0.7 adds file name to error message to help finding wrong path and fixes a kernel bug in the Pegasos2 emulation, which should improve stability. The developer has also provided a tutorial Booting AmigaOS 4.1 on QEMU with BBoot. (dr) [News message: 16. Apr. 2024, 18:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 16.Apr.2024 Amiga on the big stage: Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding at the BRIT Awards Scottish DJ Calvin Harris has been one of the driving forces in the world of electronic music for years. Back in 2017, the Scottish DJ revealed his enthusiasm for the Amiga and the music production of his albums on an Amiga 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). Now he brought his Amiga 1200, freshly upgraded by English Amiga specialist RetroPassion, live to the big stage: At this year's legendary BRIT Awards, which are comparable to the US Grammy Awards, Harris performed together with pop icon Ellie Goulding. His Amiga 1200 with OctaMED SoundStudio made for an unmistakable sound. A recording of the performance can be seen on YouTube and a "Behind the Scenes" clip on Instagram. (nba) [News message: 16. Apr. 2024, 01:56] [Comments: 2 - 16. Apr. 2024, 18:29] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 16.Apr.2024 WinFellow: Developers call for support in preserving old versions WinFellow is one of the most popular Amiga emulators for Windows systems. In order to preserve the digital heritage, the developers are currently compiling an overview of all versions of Fellow for DOS and WinFellow that have ever been released. In addition to the option to download all old versions, a historical retrospective is also being created for documentation purposes. As the developers do not have access to all versions, they are asking users for help. If you hold Fellow versions that are listed as missing, please contact the developers so that the collection can be completed and thus permanently preserved. (nba) [News message: 16. Apr. 2024, 01:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 15.Apr.2024 AmiKit (ANF) Workbench distribution: AmiKit for PiStorm using a Wi-Fi driver (alpha version) Since October 2023, the AmiKit workbench distribution has also been available for the PiStorm and PiStorm-liteaccelerator boards (amiga-news.de reported), which use a Raspberry Pi minicomputer as a processor replacement. Emu68, the Motorola68K emulation developed by Michal Schulz, is also part of the AmiKit package. Following the recent presentation of the alpha version of the Wi-Fi driver for Emu68k (amiga-news.de reported), there is now also a package with the Wi-Fi driver for AmiKit for PiStorm. Once the content of the package is copied to AmiKit: and the system restarted, a Network Wizard will appear. By selecting the WiFiPi, the Amiga will use the Wi-Fi module on Raspberry Pi itself to connect to the internet. The alpha version of the driver package can be downloaded from the AmiKit website under the title link. (nba) [News message: 15. Apr. 2024, 11:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 15.Apr.2024 CLI command: sysvars V0.12 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. more ... (dr) [News message: 15. Apr. 2024, 07:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 14.Apr.2024 Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF) Hollywood Designer 7.0 released Press release:20 years ago, on April 14th 2004, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released the very first version of Hollywood Designer, the ultimate multimedia authoring system for Hollywood. In the following years Hollywood Designer quickly became the must-have software for all users seriously interested in creating state-of-the-art multimedia applications, be it presentations, slide shows, games, or applications. Now, 20 years later, Airsoft Softwair is proud to present Hollywood Designer 7.0, an epic update with lots and lots of new features to properly celebrate the 20th birthday of this marvellous piece of software. more ... (snx) [News message: 14. Apr. 2024, 18:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 14.Apr.2024 Motorola68k emulation: First alpha version of WLAN driver for Emu68 (update) Michal Schulz continues to work intensively on a WLAN driver for his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 (amiga-news.de reported) and has now released the first public alpha version. The driver consists of two parts - the firmware files for the WiFi module itself and the SANA-II device. In the archive attached to the linked Patreon post, these can be found in the Firmware and Networks folders. The firmware files must be copied to the DEVS:Firmware folder (or simply copy the folder to DEVS) and the wifipi.device must be copied to DEVS:Networks. Additionally, a tool is required that tells the driver which wireless network it should use. The tool is called WirelessManager and can be found, for example, in the prism2 driver from Neil Cafferkey. The manager must be copied to the C: directory. It is either started manually if required or called up in the user startup as follows: ;BEGIN WirelessManager C:RUN <>NIL: C:WirelessManager wifipi.device ;END WirelessManager Before the Amiga is restarted, the wireless.prefs file must be created. Use a text editor to write down the following lines and save them in ENVARC:SYS/: network={ ssid="Your Network name" key_mgmt=NONE scan_ssid=1 } The line "scan_ssid=1" is only important if the network has a hidden SSID. If not, this line can be omitted. Currently, the network is still unencrypted. As soon as Wireless Manager has established a connection, the network stack can be started. What works: open networks. Another function that is not yet correctly recognised by WirelessManager is 5GHz networks. These already work, but the WM reports the band and frequency incorrectly. At the moment, the driver only supports unencrypted networks. Work on supporting WPA/WPA2/WPA3 is in full swing. Currently, a mix of approx. 42 MBit download and 40 MBit upload is achieved. This can still be improved. The Wifi driver will be part of the next nightly build of the Emu68 tools. Update (17.04.2024, 19:40): In another Patreon post that has just been published, the developer points out once again that the driver currently only supports open networks and warns emphatically against opening networks without security precautions. In case of doubt, he recommends waiting until encrypted networks are also supported. Apparently, there had already been some initial misuse by third parties during a test phase. (dr) [News message: 14. Apr. 2024, 09:57] [Comments: 1 - 17. Apr. 2024, 19:54] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 14.Apr.2024 Aminet uploads until 13.04.2024 The following files have been added until 13.04.2024 to Aminet: more ... (snx) [News message: 14. Apr. 2024, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 14.Apr.2024 OS4Depot uploads until 13.04.2024 The following files have been added until 13.04.2024 to OS4Depot: more ... (snx) [News message: 14. Apr. 2024, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 14.Apr.2024 AROS Archives uploads until 13.04.2024 The following files have been added until 13.04.2024 to AROS Archives: more ... (snx) [News message: 14. Apr. 2024, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 14.Apr.2024 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.04.2024 The following files have been added until 13.04.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: more ... (snx) [News message: 14. Apr. 2024, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 14.Apr.2024 WHDLoad: New installers until 13.04.2024 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 13.04.2024: more ... (snx) [News message: 14. Apr. 2024, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 14.Apr.2024 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: Panza Kick Boxing - Interpol Crack Intro Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 End Tune (snx) [News message: 14. Apr. 2024, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 14.Apr.2024 Andreas Magerl (ANF) Amiga Future: New full versions online Further full versions of Amiga programs have been added to Amiga Future's download area: DiskPrint AdressMaster (ADM) (snx) [News message: 14. Apr. 2024, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 14.Apr.2024 Carlos Peris Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.37 RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial. The new version 0.9.37 offers optimisations and a lot of bug fixes as well as improved copper effects for ECS Amigas. Here is a before and after comparison: more ... (dr) [News message: 14. Apr. 2024, 07:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 13.Apr.2024 MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.15.18 Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required. The new version includes the following changes: improved "Status Bar" + configuration for it added option to "Scan Path for Local Repositories" in sub directories Pull /Push buttons shows number of behind/ahead commits improved "Bottom Panel" (Output Tab) added "Last Commit Monit" improved stash preview improved gitignore template selection (added preview) many other improvements many bug fixes (dr) [News message: 13. Apr. 2024, 22:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 13.Apr.2024 Open source projects: IDE driver lide.device and CDTV extension CIDER The Amiga community is full of projects that initially go largely unnoticed despite their innovative power. The "lide.device" along with the so-called "CIDER" board were both developed by New Zealander Matt "LIV2" Harlum. Just about a year ago, in January 2023, Harlum presented the open source-based hardware project CIDER on GitHub in collaboration with Stefan Reinauer. The combined expansion card for the Amiga CDTV is plugged into the diagnostic interface and adds three innovative features to the machine. The centrepiece is an autoboot-capable IDE interface that is compatible with KickROM 1.3. The CDTV also gains 11.37 MB of additional Fast RAM memory and a practical, programmable Dual Kickstart Flash-ROM function. The board can be rebuilt for private use using the Gerber data provided if you have the appropriate skills and expertise. Matt Harlum was looking for a suitable IDE driver for this CIDER board and decided against the existing solutions "scsi.device" and "oktapus.device" due to their limitations in terms of speed, compatibility with Kickstart 1.3, as found in CDTV, and the legal situation regarding redistribution. This led to the development of lide.device, which was also published as open source under the GPL 2.0 licence for the first time in July 2023. The current version 40.5 is dated 20 December 2023 and can be downloaded free of charge from GitHub. The lide.device allows the use of drives up to 2 TB in size (when using a suitable file system, such as FFS from AmigaOS 3.2, SFS or PFS). The system can boot from various media such as CD, LS-120 or ZIP, an autoboot function is provided. The driver also supports a second IDE channel. What is interesting about the lide driver is not only its functionality and its open source aspect, but also the fact that the driver is not only suitable for the CDTV and the CIDER originally designed for it. Matt Harlum developed the RIPPLE board with the aim of making the effort and innovation behind "lide.device" available to more than just a small number of CDTV owners. This board broadens the application possibilities of the driver and supports the two-channel IDE mode. On the GitHub page of the lide.device under the title link, in addition to the source codes, three builds of the lide ROMs are also available for download, in addition to the CIDER version also a ROM for AT-Bus devices such as AT-Bus 2008 or AT-Bus Clone IDE Interface by Matze. When asked by amiga-news.de, Matt Harlum explains: "Of course the board ends up looking similar to the Buddha (Buddha IDE, editor's note) but this is only because the form factor makes a lot of sense for a small, 2-channel IDE board - similar layouts have even been used for PCI IDE interfaces." We will keep an eye on the further development of CIDER, lide.device and RIPPLE and report on progress for you as usual. (nba) [News message: 13. Apr. 2024, 20:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 13.Apr.2024 Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.6 for AmigaOS 3 and 4 Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.4.6 since our last news report: Send button no longer appears in top left corner after closing a generated image for Amiga 3.X Fixes the stack size calculation so it will no longer warn you that the stack size is too small if it really isn't Download: AmigaGPT.lha (910 KB) (nba) [News message: 13. Apr. 2024, 19:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 12.Apr.2024 Passione Amiga & Amiga Documents (ANF) Trevor Dickinson has already acquired co-ownership of AmigaOS 4 in 2019 Amiga Documents, the documentation of the recent Amiga company history, which has been continuously expanded by an anonymous author for 15 years, has been supplemented by a completely new section: The article Hyperion Entertainment's Silent Puppeteer attempts to prove that Robert Trevor Dickinson of A-EON has been financing the legal disputes with which Ben Hermans (Hyperion) has been trying to secure ever more extensive rights to AmigaOS for a decade and a half. more ... (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 12. Apr. 2024, 22:40] [Comments: 1 - 13. Apr. 2024, 14:58] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 12.Apr.2024 AROS: Music program ProTrekkr v2.6.7 ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can (mainly) be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) targeting small sized intros, demos or games. Now version 2.6.7 was released for AROS (and FreeBSD, macOS and Windows). Changes: Fixed a crash when using rand functions on synth oscs & lfos under Linux. Added a replay routine for the PlayStation Vita. Fixed a crash when loading older NoiseTrekker modules. Startup splash screen is now optional. Download: ptk_v2.6.7_aros.zip (23 MB) (dr) [News message: 12. Apr. 2024, 20:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 12.Apr.2024 Music: Breakcore album "Get Out Of My House" Mr. Roboto is a member of the Australian demo group System Of Sound. After releasing his best-of album Goat Cuts at the end of 2023, which covers the years from 2007 to 2023, a new album with three fresh tracks is now available on Bandcamp for around 60 cents, which the artist himself assigns to the Breakcore genre. He used an Amiga 600 and FS-UAE, which emulates the A1200/030. On the software side, OctaMED SoundStudio as well as ProTracker 2.3d and Hippoplayer were used to test whether the tracks were played correctly. In the mid-90s, he bought his own A500 with A590 and began to familiarise himself more intensively with the operating system. He had been interested in punk rock since his early teens. He not only listened to it, but also played it himself. He recalls to us: "So in mid-highschool I was able to convince my parents that me having some guitar lessons might be a worthwhile investment, and after a few lessons my teacher suggested to me that my progress would really benefit from me getting myself a drum machine. And I thought to myself for one thing I am a young teenager with no job and limited income and for another, I do have a computer in my bedroom, and a copy of OctaMED version 5 which I got free on the cover of CU Amiga magazine, so I could just use that instead. And when one composes a drum beat and a bassline then logically one might find themselves with something that bears at least a passing resemblance to drum'n'bass music, which I did, despite having had no real exposure to the genre at this point in time." His first collection of songs, which he released in limited numbers on burnt CDs, was at the end of 1998, when he used the then rare and expensive CD burner at his secondary college to burn about two dozen copies: "I cannot recall the exact title of this collection, nor do I have a copy myself, it was rather, shall we say, "experimental" in style. Somebody might even have a copy of it buried deep in their personal collection, but otherwise I would have to say that these are lost to time. The next releases on CD would have come in 2001, when I purchased an 8x speed CD burner of my own. I was performing punk-jazz-electronic fusion with a group called The D.Z's and released a collection of the less awful bits from our many jam sessions on a CD entitled Music For Pleasure Classics - this collection of songs is also sadly lost to time. Also in that year, around the same time I released a collection of songs made with a friend on their Pentium II PC using Buzz under the group name Dead Punx. This collection of songs can be found online today on the System of Sound Bandcamp page..." (dr) [News message: 12. Apr. 2024, 12:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 11.Apr.2024 Video: MorphOS 3.18 on a Power Macintosh G5 In his latest video, Chris Edwards shows how MorphOS 3.18 runs on a Power Macintosh G5 Dual Core (2.0), equipped with an ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition graphics card, on two screens. By using this graphics card, you can run both MacOS and MorphOS on the computer, giving you access to the Mac's firmware, among other things. (dr) [News message: 11. Apr. 2024, 12:21] [Comments: 1 - 11. Apr. 2024, 21:25] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 10.Apr.2024 Practical report: Comparison between A1222 Plus and Sam460LE (Czech) Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. This time (automatic translation) she has compared currently available hardware for AmigaOS 4 under the title link: the A1222-Plus and Sam460LE board. In this article, she looks first at the theory; a further report with practical tests will follow. (dr) [News message: 10. Apr. 2024, 19:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]       <- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -> ... 15 534 1059 [Archive]

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