07.Feb.2024
|
Video: Upgrading a A2000 to 2MB Chip RAM and ECS
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he not only added 1MB of Chip RAM to his Amiga 2000, but also completed the upgrade to a full ECS system.
(dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2024, 09:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
07.Feb.2024
|
AROS: Tutorial for working under Windows
Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a tutorial on how to work and develop with AROS under Windows using WSL2 under the title link.
(dr)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2024, 08:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
06.Feb.2024
|
Video tutorial: Writing a simple IFF ILBM reader for DOS
John Bintz has been a software developer for over 20 years and runs the website The Industrious Rabbit. Originally to share his experiences as a developer with others, but more recently to explore some of the more unusual areas of technology and find ways to explain them in an interesting and entertaining way. In a new post he now explains how to write a simple DOS program on a Windows PC to read the IFF-ILBM image format commonly used on the Amiga.
(dr)
[News message: 06. Feb. 2024, 22:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
06.Feb.2024
|
Video tutorial: Screen commands in AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at the commands available for using screens in AMOS programs. As always, the source file for the programme shown in the video can be downloaded free of charge from his website.
(dr)
[News message: 06. Feb. 2024, 22:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
06.Feb.2024
|
Aracde classic: "Donkey Kong"
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has ported another game to the Amiga: this time Nintendo's aracade classic Donkey Kong. The game is running on a Amiga 500 (YouTube video).
(dr)
[News message: 06. Feb. 2024, 06:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
06.Feb.2024
|
SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.02.06
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.02.06:
more ...
(dr)
[News message: 06. Feb. 2024, 06:13] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Feb.2024
|
Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.3 (AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS)
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga programme for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.3 of his programme, written in the Hollywood 10 programming language, which is available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3 and 4.
more ...
(dr)
[News message: 05. Feb. 2024, 21:31] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Feb.2024
individual Computers Jens Schönfeld GmbH (ANF)
|
RTG driver: P96 V3.4.1 released
Press release: The new version V3.4.1 contains new drivers for the GBA-PII++ and VA2000 cards, and it makes installation on UAE a lot easier. Further, the driver for the A2410 "Tiga" card has been updated and overlays for the Picasso IV card have been fixed. Support for the Altais card for Draco machines has been improved, and P96Prefs also got an update.
You can get all information on this update in the Wiki article about P96.
Unfortunately, this current shop system has been giving us a hard time lately, with lots of problems during the order process, and even more problems when we tried to update the downloadable files. In order not to delay the release of this version any longer, we kindly ask all customers to be patient, as we're rolling out this version via eMail.
(dr)
[News message: 05. Feb. 2024, 20:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Feb.2024
|
USB-C power supply: PowerShark available (update)
The "PowerShark" a USB-C-based power supply for the keyboard case Amigas 500, 600 and 1200 (amiga-news.de reported). It is now available for about 70 Euro under the title link. Furthermore the developers have published a FAQ page as well as a list of tested power supplies.
Update: (06.02.2024, 22:18, dr)
The "PowerShark" is currently sold out. As the developers told us on request, a next batch is definitely planned. At the moment, however, the focus is on processing the orders. This could take some time due to the large quantity.
(dr)
[News message: 05. Feb. 2024, 20:11] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
04.Feb.2024
|
Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.34
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. Changes of version 0.9.34:
more ...
(dr)
[News message: 04. Feb. 2024, 07:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
04.Feb.2024
|
Aminet uploads until 03.02.2024
The following files have been added until 03.02.2024 to Aminet:
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 04. Feb. 2024, 07:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
04.Feb.2024
|
OS4Depot uploads until 03.02.2024
The following files have been added until 03.02.2024 to OS4Depot:
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 04. Feb. 2024, 07:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
04.Feb.2024
|
MorphOS-Storage uploads until 03.02.2024
The following files have been added until 03.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
more ...
(snx)
[News message: 04. Feb. 2024, 07:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
04.Feb.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite)
|
AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- Emax/TRSI - Def.loration (Nightwolf 2024 remix)
(snx)
[News message: 04. Feb. 2024, 07:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
04.Feb.2024
AROSWorld (Forum)
|
AROS distribution: TinyAros 3.1b
The AROS distribution TinyAros is aimed more at users, which is why no developer tools are included (but can be downloaded optionally), which makes it leaner and therefore quicker to install and ready for use.
(snx)
[News message: 04. Feb. 2024, 07:36] [Comments: 1 - 17. Feb. 2024, 13:58]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
04.Feb.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
|
Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further full versions of Amiga software have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Font Machine and XDVE CD.
The following games, which are also marked as being new, are just re-uploads: A320 Airbus, Alien Drug Lords, Alien Fish Finger, Anstoss, Antz, Apano Sin, Aquanaut, Archon, Archon 2, Atoms and Aunt Artic Adventure.
(snx)
[News message: 04. Feb. 2024, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
03.Feb.2024
|
Diving game: "The Deep" V1.01 for Apollo Vampire V4 and RTG Amigas
This version 1.01 of Sami Vehmaa's diving game "The Deep" (YouTube video) not only offers a slight speed improvement for the Vampire V4, but also support for RTG Amigas for the first time.
(dr)
[News message: 03. Feb. 2024, 22:20] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
03.Feb.2024
|
AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.30.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1. The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes:
more ...
(dr)
[News message: 03. Feb. 2024, 19:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
03.Feb.2024
|
m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.7 for Visual Studio Code
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. Preversion 1.8.7 fixes a compatibility issue with Vscode 1.86.0. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available.
(dr)
[News message: 03. Feb. 2024, 14:48] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
03.Feb.2024
|
Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Amiga. Version 0.6.1 released today contains many bug fixes and improvements for the chiptune tracker, including MIDI corrections, three new OPL emulation cores, two new chips and much more. The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available.
(dr)
[News message: 03. Feb. 2024, 14:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
02.Feb.2024
|
Blog: Limitations of the HAM mode explained on the Hamulet engine
Recently, the developer of the game Hamulet - a demo version was included in issue 10 of the English-language Amiga magazine "WhatIFF?" - published a YouTube video that is intended to demonstrate as a proof-of-concept whether a puzzle or platform game could be feasible using the Hamulet engine in HAM and has the following features:
- Large 8-way scrollable HAM screen with no visible fringing
- Massive animated bobs (Blitter objects), the largest one being 144x170 pixels
- Copper list to create a parallax effect of a "transparent" HAM screen, where the background sky gradient is visible and scrolls at a lower speed
- Multiple animated sprites
- Music by Virgill
- Runs on Amiga 500, requires 1MB of chip
Appunti Digitali is an Italian website that deals with technology issues that the operators know or can judge from their own (professional) experience. The article now published under the title link deals with this video and the limitations of HAM.
(dr)
[News message: 02. Feb. 2024, 09:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
02.Feb.2024
|
Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2500UX (AMIX)
In the past we have reported several times (1, 2, 3) about Commodore's Unix derivative AMIX. The two "official" Amigas on which Amix could run were the Amiga models 2500UX and 3000UX. Bo Zimmerman has bought an Amiga 2500UX on eBay, since it had been on his wish list for a long time. In his blog post under the title link, he now reports on his impressions and the restoration.
(dr)
[News message: 02. Feb. 2024, 09:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
02.Feb.2024
Puni (ANF)
|
AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for January 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link.
(snx)
[News message: 02. Feb. 2024, 07:31] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
01.Feb.2024
|
Java program: ham_convert 1.9.4
Sebastian Sieczko's java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats to the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.9.4. Changes:
- Added DynamicHires variant with an AGA palette. To enable select mode=Amiga AGA Dynamic HiRes/PCHG software mode.
- Implemented PCHGF_32BIT format to be used by DynamicHires AGA and Atari 8-bit ILBM IFF files (using BigLineChanges). DynamicHires OCS uses PCHGF_4BIT (SmallLineChanges) format IFF limited to RGB444. https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/ILBM_IFF_Interleaved_Bitmap#ILBM.PCHG was uses as a reference. This enabled accurate encoding of the Atari 8-bit palette in the iff files.
- Extra EHB palette optimization was renamed extra OCS palette optimization and extended to support also 2/4/8/16/32-color modes (to be extended later).
- Acorn Archimedes VIDC1 256-color mode (out of 4096).
(dr)
[News message: 01. Feb. 2024, 22:03] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
01.Feb.2024
|
Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.0
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the Amiga conversion of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally published by Data East in 1986: the player controls an armed military vehicle and must make his way through enemy forces - consisting of soldiers, flamethrowers, helicopters, tanks, jeeps etc. - to ultimately retrieve a stolen fighter plane. - The player must make his way through enemy forces - consisting of soldiers, flamethrowers, tanks, jeeps, etc. - to ultimately retrieve a stolen fighter plane (YouTube video).
He has now released version 1.0, which requires a 2-button controller and an Amiga with at least 1MB chip RAM, 1MB additional RAM and a CPU with 14MHz or better. A hard disc is also recommended.
(dr)
[News message: 01. Feb. 2024, 18:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
01.Feb.2024
|
Developer diary: Update on the game "The Gate" #1
At the beginning of October last year , we introduced the AMOS game "The Gate" by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. We asked the developer to tell us about the current state of development. Here is his report, illustrated by his latest YouTube video:
"I still don't have a list of requirements but I'm targeting stock Amiga 1200 for this project, fingers crossed :)
I'm still writing the engine but I've made big progresses adding new features, fixing bugs and optimizing the code to make it as smooth as possible.
Here is a list of what's new since my last progress report:
- Doors
- Doors can be operated with the [action key], a pop up screen will appear to allow the user to operate the door.
- Unlocked doors can be operated freely
- Some of them may require a key to be opened
- Some of them may require a terminal to be opened
- Some of them may require to complete an event to be opened, in this case the hero will say something about it to give an hint to the user.
- Furnitures
- Furnitures are essentially containers and they hold items: the hero search them (like already seen in Impossible Mission) and when the furniture is searched an auto-pick screen is displayed to let the user know what items has been picked and what will be leaved into the container, not picked items can be picked later.
- Furnitures may require a terminal to be unlocked
- Furnitures may require a dialog option to be selected to be unlocked
- Terminals: I've developed a simple scripting language for this for maximum flexibility.
Terminals graphics is also nice because I've reproduced old monitor color glitches and out-of-sync effects.
Terminals that require keys can be hacked by the player using a special hacking tool that will be available in the game.
Each terminal can be tuned by the script that is run (colors, effects, print speed, etc...).
I'm very proud of how I implemented terminals: they run script programs that allow me to simulate terminals with text interfaces.
From terminals the user is able to:
- Operate doors (open/close/unlock)
- Operate furnitures (unlock)
- Display informative text to help the hero with its quest
- Minigames
- An many more actions and nice things
- Dialogs
- Like I've done for terminals, I've used scripts to run dialogs between characters but also when the hero express a thought.
Dialogs use almost the same scripting language developed for the terminals but with more commands for certain situations and to display the portrait (and the needed expressions) of the character that is talking.
This system is very flexible and you may be able to unlock a door after having talked to an NPC for example
- Game menu, which let the user access the following functions:
- Documents : You can read here all the docs the hero has gathered (implemented)
- Tools : From here the hero can review and equip special tools he found during the adventure (implemented), these tools are unique and can be used with the right mouse button once equipped (implemented).
- Map : A simple automap system, not yet implemented. I'd like to let the player to type map notes.
- Diary : This is a personal diary, the player can freely take notes here. Not yet implemented and not sure if it is nice or not.
- System : From here the player can load and save the game. Not yet implemented.
- Settings : Game settings. Not yet implemented.
About the tools
I've already designed the tools that the player will find during its adventure, they are 8 in total and the hero can equip them, once at a time, from the game menu.
Once equipped some tools can be triggered automatically, some manually (with the right mouse button) and some have both the functionalities.
For example there is a device called "Relife" that has two functions when equipped:
- 1: If the hero is suddenly killed the device tranfers its energy into the hero body and regenerate some of his life points.
- 2: Pushing the right mouse button (and holding it down) the device's energy refill the hero hit points.
The "Relife" device regenerates its energy over time, very slowly.
Another example is the "Hacking Device" which I'm currently working on: when equipped the hero will be able to hack any locked terminal, the hacking will be completed if the player will be able to resolve a mini-game. We all know Fallout 3/4 terminals & Mass Effect ones right? :)
What has to be done?
- Game menu
- Tools/Special devices (2 of 8 implemented)
- Traps
- NPCs
- Enemies
Those will complete the engine and I will focus on the maps and the story, which is already on my desk :)
"
You can support the developer via his Patreon page.
(dr)
[News message: 01. Feb. 2024, 08:57] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
| | |
| | |
