16.May.2023
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.2
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 13.1 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video). Today version 1.7.2 has been released. Changes:
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16.May.2023
Frank von LogicalByte (ANF)
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Strategy game: "Virtual Enemies" in development
LogicalByte, the developer of the logic game Connect, yesterday introduced the next game for the Amiga 500 (and higher). The title is "Virtual Enemies".
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16.May.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 5.3 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 5.2 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS 3.18 which is required. This version fixes high CPU load with github.com, updates easylist adblock data and introduces a user script to remove some youtube gradients (changes).
To install the user script, open User Scripts from the Debug menu. Hit Import and load the Scripts/yt-no-gradients.json file from Wayfarer's directory. Select the script, make sure Enabled is checked (it'll be off by default) and hit Apply.
Update: (18.05.2023, 05:19, dr)
Meanwhile, version 5.3 is available which fixes handling of local files, adds a workaround for a NetStack bug in MorphOS 3.14-3.18 and includes updated cURL and sqlite.
Download: wayfarer.lha (29 MB)
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15.May.2023
Markus Tillmann (Mail)
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Event: Information on the Amiga38
Markus Tillmann wrote: Yesterday, Sunday 14 May 2023, ticket sales started shortly after 8pm with a few minutes delay (amiga-news.de reported).
Amiga38 is expected to be the biggest worldwide again this year - despite several old and new Amiga events - welcoming guests and visitors from all over the world.
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14.May.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: All Amiga Joker articles online (German)
Already since the beginning of the year, all original issues of German print magazine Amiga Joker are available as PDF files at Amiga Future homepage (amiga-news.de reported). Now also all articles have been added to the database at the title link.
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14.May.2023
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Video: Pixel art using Brilliance II
In December 2021, graphic and game designer Kevin Saunders had published a video tutorial for the graphics programme Brilliance II. As he reports in his latest Patreon blog entry, he was recently asked for advice on creating pixel art on the Amiga. Under the title link he now shows how he creates a copy of an image on the Amiga with Brilliance II.
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14.May.2023
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Aminet uploads until 13.05.2023
The following files have been added until 13.05.2023 to Aminet:
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14.May.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.05.2023
The following files have been added until 13.05.2023 to OS4Depot:
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14.May.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 13.05.2023
The following files have been added until 13.05.2023 to AROS Archives:
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14.May.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.05.2023
The following files have been added until 13.05.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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14.May.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.05.2023
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 13.05.2023:
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14.May.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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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:
- Desert Dawn
- Details Wizball - Drabness to Splendour
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14.May.2023
MorphZone (website)
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MorphOS: Software Development Kit 3.18
Together with MorphOS 3.18 also the corresponding version of the software development kit has been published. It updates system headers as well as various GG components.
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14.May.2023
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Video: The History of Cursor Keys
In this video, the YouTube channel "The 8-Bit Guy" takes a look at the history of the cursor keys, which nowadays are mostly arranged in the shape of an inverted "T": The index, middle and ring fingers can remain on the keyboard and the middle finger can easily switch between the up and down keys.
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13.May.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.0
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.0 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
As the author explained in his latest blog entry on ko-fi, he is introducing "igame.data" with this version: a media file that stores information about the title, the year of release and the number of players for the respective game, among other things. This should make it possible to automatically categorise one's own collection of WHDLoad games. The MUI classes NList and NListviews are required. The changes in the overview:
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13.May.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.14
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.14 of his email programme Iris for MorphOS. The changes include the new "Autosave Emails" feature which will save messages as you write them and restore them in case Iris or another app have crashed. The new Iris version is already included in MorphOS 3.18, which was released today.
Download: iris.lha (21 MB)
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13.May.2023
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Operating system: MorphOS 3.18 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.18! This new release includes several new applications such as Hex - a scriptable file/RAM/disk hex editor, ArchiveIt - a ZIP archiver/unarchiver application and Thermals - an app displaying thermal and fan information and graphs.
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13.May.2023
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Mastodon client: Amidon 1.2
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.2 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). This version fixes some bugs with anonymous browsing and adds support for the latest AmiSSL version.
Failing to connect to some Mastodon servers due to certificate errors should be fixed now.
Download: Amidon_v1.2_OS3.zip (1,74 MB)
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13.May.2023
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AROS: Videos on AROS ONE 2.0
At the end of March, version 2.0 of the AROS distribution "AROS One" x86 computers was released (amiga-news.de reported). AROS user James Mattson now presents the new version in two YouTube videos: AROS ONE 2.0 AWESOME NEW LOOK! and AROS ONE 2.0 Touring Some More!.
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13.May.2023
Pierre-Alexandre (Mail)
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Lionheart Remake: Version 1.30 of Java port of Lionheart
Byron 3D Games Studio Byron 3D Games Studio has released version 1.3.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android (amiga-news.de reported). The changes:
Added
- New game menu
- New game modes (Story, Training, Speedrun, Battle, Coop)
- Local multiplayer (up to 4 players split screen)
- Stage progress save and load
- Alternative player attack gameplay with more trivial feeling
- Start game without launcher with custom configuration
- Automatic desktop resolution by default
- Portuguese language
- Italian language
- Language automatically detected
- Android left analog stick
- Android Menu navigation with dpad and x button
- Android UI overlay hidden when controller is connected
- Android automatic screen ratio
- Android 5 compatible
- In game zoom-in zoom-out
- Water flickering option
- More cheats and access to all stages set
- JAR signature
Changed
- Filters performance improved and quality increased
Fixed
- Joystick 2 buttons mode working
- Music on MacOS
- Swamp Flower explode effect position incorrect
- AncientTown executioner wall can be crossed with attack jump
- AncientTown corrupted Veteran stage 6
- Lava FloaterCube hit force too low
- Airship road invalid on zoom
- Airship catapult projectile missing respawn
- Airship wall can be crossed on top of ground
- Dragonfly monsters hit interrupts movement
- Dragonfly Dragon fire time invalid
- Dragonfly bullet destroyed on collide on bomb explode
- Dragonfly Original stage duplicated Bomb location
- Dragonfly boss invalid head
- Tower Rotating length a little bit too short
- Norka first boss body collision missing on attack
- Norka second boss wrong collision and bullet hit
- Stages and Boss not reloaded on respawn
- Weird gameplay on player Hurt transition
- RotatingPlatformControlled invalid behavior
- Monsters falling on killed must be always updated
- Bullet destroy on ground hit box not large enough
- Movement clamped to zero when changing direction on jump
- Android liana cut crash
- Sfx audio bad rendering and latency on Linux
- Antivirus detections on "Lionheart Remake.exe"
- Memory leak on State changes
A new teaser video is also available on the game's homepage.
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12.May.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.12
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
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11.May.2023
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 3.0
At the beginning of last year, developer 'jasonsbeer' had released revision 2.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in the ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX'. After a test phase he has now published the source code of revision 3.0 with the following changes:
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10.May.2023
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Skill game: "Kalle Kloakk" released
In mid-February we reported that Kåre 'Docster' Johansen was porting one of his old C64 games, "Kalle Kloakk", to the Amiga. Today he has released the finished game, which consists of eight levels.
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10.May.2023
Amigaworld.net (website)
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GUI: Hollywood Compile 1.1
Yannick 'papiosaur' Buchy has recently published various graphical user interfaces he created with Hollywood at the title link. One of them is "Hollywood Compile". As the name already tells, it is a program for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS, which creates executables for the mentioned platforms after loading a Hollywood script or drawing it onto the window by drag'n'drop.
Download:
HollywoodCompile-OS3.lha (1 MB)
HollywoodCompile-OS4.lha (2 MB)
HollywoodCompile-MOS.lha (2 MB)
HollywoodCompile-AROS.lha (2 MB)
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10.May.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: RNORadio 1.4
RNORadio is a GUI-based Internet radio program for MP3 streams (video) developed with Hollywood. New features of version 1.4 include the ability to turn hardware compositing on/off and improved background rendering of GUI elements.
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