23.Jun.2023
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MorphOS: Platform game REminiscence 0.5.1
REminiscence is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software.
This program is designed as a cross-platform replacement for the original executable. The MorphOS version requires SDL-Library 2.28.0. Changes:
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23.Jun.2023
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.2.1
'wicknix' has released version 32.2.1 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for LinuxPPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. Among other things, the preferences dialogue has been changed, a new logo and some new extensions and themes have been added.
Download: sealion-32.2.1-linux-powerpc-gtk2.tar.bz2 (54 MB)
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23.Jun.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.28.0 Release Candidate 1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the first release candidate of version 2.28.0 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:
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23.Jun.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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PED81C: Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas (Update)
The Amiga's bitplane-based graphics, in which the color information for each pixel on a screen is captured as two-dimensional layers and, for scrolling, each layer (bitplane) is changed by the exact same value so that each pixel also gets the same color again, is memory-efficient but slow for individual changes and, with the advent of 3D graphics and fast memory on graphics cards, has fallen behind the chunky display of PCs and Macs.
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22.Jun.2023
Twitter
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Book project: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" can be pre-ordered
In March 2023, the book project "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" was successfully crowdfunded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the book can be pre-ordered at a currently reduced price of 40 euros (instead of 44.90 euros) plus shipping.
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22.Jun.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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amigafan.de: Interviews with Retro Games and BitbeamCannon
On his site amigafan.de David Schlak has published two interviews recently. One was with Retro Games Ltd. (THEA500 Mini) - according to which a maxi version is still intended, even if the sales figures of the miniature edition of an Amiga seem to have fallen short of expectations -, the other one with BitbeamCannon about the game "Metro Siege", which has been announced for four years now and for which still no completion date is foreseeable due to limited spare time.
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22.Jun.2023
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.58
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.58. Changes:
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22.Jun.2023
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Icon-Library 46.4.577
In March 2021 we introduced Peter Keunecke's icon.library in detail, which he continues to maintain and improve. In the version now published, he has added, among other things, a script "ConvertToPngIcons" in the bonus folder, which can convert Amiga icons into PNG format and optionally scale them with the help of ImageConverter.
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22.Jun.2023
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Video: RTG screen mode with Amiga 1200 and Indivision AGA MK3
In its latest video, the YouTube channel "Hold and Modify" shows how to achieve a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels with an Amiga 1200 without a graphics card but equipped with an Indivision AGA MK3.
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22.Jun.2023
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Videos: Building a ReAmiga 1200
About three years ago, revision 1.5 of John 'Chucky' Hertell's Amiga1200 clone ReAmiga 1200 was released. In a two-part video (part 1, part 2), the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Manshed" creates this clone.
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21.Jun.2023
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian print and PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 14
The 14th issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 color pages both as a booklet and as a PDF file, deals with the following topics:
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19.Jun.2023
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.0.1 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported).
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19.Jun.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 163 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 163 (July/August 2023) have been published online at the title link. Content includes a preview of the ASM game, a review of the IceDrake turbo board and show reports.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers.
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18.Jun.2023
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Video: "Browservice" under Linux and AmigaOS 4
Dave 'Skateman' Koelman, who among other things wrote the article Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000, explains in a video along with the accompanying video description how to set up Browservice - a web "proxy" server that allows surfing the internet on historical browsers - under Linux in order to then be able to use it with the Odyssey browser under AmigaOS 4. Comparable to AmiFox for AmigaOS 3 or AROS, Browservice converts the browser view window into images, which are then displayed by a JavaScript application on the client browser.
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18.Jun.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Support by editors SciTE and Notepad++ (Update)
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: The popular editors SciTE and Notepad++ now also support Hollywood by default.
SciTE supports Hollywood beginning with version 5.3.6 and Notepad++ supports Hollywood beginning with version 8.5.2. SciTE is especially interesting for Linux and macOS users, since on these platforms no Hollywood IDE is available.
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18.Jun.2023
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Aminet uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to Aminet:
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18.Jun.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to OS4Depot:
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18.Jun.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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18.Jun.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.06.2023
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 17.06.2023:
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18.Jun.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 10 of "WhatIFF?" published
"WhatIFF?" is an English language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the tenth issue include hardware (e.g. A314-CP, Commotron 2000) and game reviews (e.g. Luma, Neon Noir) as well as tutorials (e.g. Brilliance, LightWave 3D) and interviews - for example with the programmer of the demo version of Hamulet, which is exclusively included as "cover disk".
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18.Jun.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Start bar: WBDock2 2.874
Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.874. The changes of the program for AmigaOS 3.1 or higher include "autohide" mode now moving the dock above all other windows and appearing only when the mouse is on the right screen as well as taking pens from Palette prefs for drawing the frame around the dock.
Download: wbdock2.lha (374 KB)
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18.Jun.2023
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Video tutorial: MUI-GUI (part 3) and GadTools GUI (part 1) in Blitz Basic
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch both the third part Teil of his tutorial showing how to create a GUI with MUI in Blitz Basic (amiga-news.de reported) and the first part of a tutorial series on how to create a GadTools GUI in Blitz Basic.
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18.Jun.2023
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Shell extension: GoShell 4.0
GoShell is a free and simple tool for opening a shell terminal in full screen mode on a separate screen (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in the now released version 4.0 of the tool developed by Krzysztof Donat:
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17.Jun.2023
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.0
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (screenshot). Features:
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17.Jun.2023
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SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.7 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsmb2 and allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 53.7:
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17.Jun.2023
itch.io
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Adventure: "The Oregon Trail" v0.85
Sami Vehmaa had started a new game project: "The Oregon Trail" (new YouTube video of a live presentation) is set in 1847 and is a text-based adventure game (amiga-news.de reported). Version 0.85 provides the following changes:
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17.Jun.2023
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)
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Compression of executable files: Body Guard Packer 5.6
Lorence Lombardo's "bgpk" is a 68k executable file packer which, according to the developer, makes it possible to protect programs, improve compatibility with programs intended for a Unix-like operating system, and use some of the latest compression technologies.
The program requires AmigaOS 2.x. On systems with a version 1.3 Kickstart ROM, execution of programs packed in this way is prevented, so crashes are avoided. As a further difference to other packers for executable files, programs compiled with vbcc, for example, could also be compressed. In addition, bgpk does not perform hunk sorting or stripping, so that files packed with it are restored to their original state after unpacking.
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17.Jun.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Current hardware availability
After ACube Systems recently delivered the last boards to pre-orderers, including shops (amiga-news.de reported), we asked the relevant Amiga shops if they had them on sale:
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17.Jun.2023
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Preview video: Action puzzle game "Old Towers"
Already in 2020, "Amiga Retro Development" had begun to port the action puzzle game Old Towers from the Sega Mega Drive to the Amiga. The aim of the game is to dash across walls and ceilings, collecting all the coins and finding the way to the exit, past treacherous dangers and traps. The port is written in assembler and uses 32 colours. The code is almost written, the music is in progress. However, a graphic artist is still needed to take care of the level design and graphics. Anyone who wants to help, will find an e-mail address in the accompanying text of the video. If the work is completed successfully, an AGA version is planned for the future.
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16.Jun.2023
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.3 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is possible (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. In the current version, changes have been made to the user interface (screenshot):
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16.Jun.2023
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.6.1
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
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16.Jun.2023
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Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.06.14
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported).
In the current version there are now two different player variants: AnimPlayerMovie aims at 25 FPS and neglects information within the chunk, while AnimPlayerProper tries to consider as much information as possible (colour changes, sound names within the file etc). The Reducer is a stand-alone programme to reduce the data size between consecutive frames.
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16.Jun.2023
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Preview video: Temptations port for CD32
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the fifth level.
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