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17.Dec.2021
Discord New preview video: 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night' winter update
With another preview video, Michael 'Mixel' Dawes presents the current state of development of his Scorpion Engine created platformer 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night'.

Making a demo out of the winter stage was his initial plan, but there wasn't enough time for that. And so the developer presents the completed game scenes as a video update. They are to be used in the full game later. (dr)

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17.Dec.2021
AmigaLove

Holly Lights: Xmas decoration for Workbench 1.3
For those who already want to give their Workbench 1.3 some Christmas glamour, Chris 'Crispy' Brenner has written a small program that conjures up a Christmas fairy lights on the screen:

Regarding how it works, the author states the following:
"When HollyLights first starts, it looks at the depth of the Workbench screen. It will then add the required number of bitplanes needed to bring the Workbench screen up to sixteen colors. It does this in such a way that is invisible to the Workbench program, so Workbench thinks it's still operating with the same number of colors it had before the program was run. This scheme has the benefit of allowing Workbench to operate faster than if it was truly in sixteen colors, but has a couple of drawbacks as well.

When the program initialization is done, and all of the graphics data is in place, then the holly and lights decorations are rendered into the main Workbench window once every couple of seconds. Rendering is suspended when the Workbench screen is not the frontmost screen.

If HollyLights was started from a four color Workbench, then the window will be decorated with lights of four different colors: red, green, orange, and blue. If started from an eight color Workbench, then only red and green lights will be shown. This is done so as to not interfere with the eight color palette."

And on the undesirable side effects, he writes the following:
"Since Workbench doesn't know about the extra bitplanes, it will not refresh any of the graphics in those bitplanes. Those extra bitplanes are refreshed by the HollyLights program when it renders its graphics once every couple of seconds, and because of this you will briefly see some leftover graphics in a window when you move it on top of any of the HollyLights decorations. This is normal.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a system friendly way to refresh the Workbench menus, so there will always be leftover graphics in the sections of the menus that intersect with the HollyLights decorations."

On weekend a version for AmigaOS 2 should also follow. (dr)

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17.Dec.2021
Amigatronics AROS: PipeWalker game ported
PipeWalker ist a puzzle-like game, where you have to make connections to link the beginning and the end: network connections, water pipes, electrical cables, roads, etc. Versions for Linux and Wondows have been available for a while, now an implementation for AROS has been released as well.

Amigatronics has published an article on this topic (English translation), which gives a visual impression of the game by means of screenshots. (dr)

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17.Dec.2021
Prince (Mail) Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 4
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. In the fourth episode among others it is explained how joystick support is implemented. (dr)

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15.Dec.2021
AMIGATRONICS

AmiTube 0.5: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).

Yesterday version 0.5 has been released, providing the following changes:

As described before, 3 different quality settings for the movies, CDXL OCS, CDXL AGA, MPEG1
Share your most favorite videos with other AmiTube users
Load list of shared videos from internett
type a YouTube URL to search bar to directly get a video description
observe clipboard for YouTube URLs
parameter for CDXL and MPEG Player
special Version for 68000 processors (normal Version needs at least a 68020)

Additionally a separate website has been set up where always the latest version of the toll can be found. The requirements for AmiTube:

minimum requirement: 68020 processor, OS3.0, 4MB RAM, MUI 3.8
minimum requirement for the 68000 version: 68000 processor, OS3.0, 4MB RAM, MUI 3.8

Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link. (dr)

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13.Dec.2021 Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #19 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 19 (autumn/winter) are game reviews on 'Turbo Tomato' and 'Metal Gear' as well as articles on AmigaOS 3.2 and WinUAE (part 2. more ... (dr)

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13.Dec.2021 Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS, part 2
Rob Smith, known for his project DrawBridge for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, has now released the second part of his YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). While the first video concentrated on the background layer, the second part focuses on the foreground layer and how to combine the two. (dr)

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12.Dec.2021 New preview video: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported) which is supposed to run on unaccelerated Amiga 1200 and CD32 with 50 fps.

Meanwhile the author has published the 22. preview video which is "mostly about visual quality improvements and first gameplay logic functionality." (dr)

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12.Dec.2021 Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.5 (update)
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive is officially supported since the recently released WinUAE 4.9.0. In addition, Smith has made other changes with the new version 2.8.4: Among other things, IPF and SCP files can now be written to floppy disks, HD disks are supported, and reading and writing in general has been improved. more ... (dr)

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12.Dec.2021

Vampire 1200 V2 accelerator board: Availability, reviews
In summer the Apollo team had announced two new accelerator boards: the FireBird (A500/A1000/A2000) and the IceDrake (A1200). Meanwhile, a third card has been added, the Apollo Kraken V4 (Amiga 3000/4000). While the latter is announced for the fourth quarter of 2022 and the Firebird is already available, the IceDrake is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2022. It can currently be pre-ordered for 572 Euros (including fees, plus postage).

Currently available is (still) the Vampire 1200 V2:

Alinea Computer-Shop (Germany) for 559 Euro (incl. taxes)
AMIGAstore.eu (Spain) for 560,23 Euro (incl. taxes)
RELEC (Switzerland) for 432 Euro (basic, incl. taxes)

We want to give a brief overview of how the specifications of the Vampire 1200 V2 and the IceDrake differ:

Feature         Vampire 1200 V2                 IceDrake
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Processor       Apollo 68080, AMMX,             Apollo 68080 AMMX,
                64-bit support                  64-bit support

RAM             128 MB SDRAM                    512 MB DDR3

Video output    RTG, truecolor 32 bit,          SuperAGA, RTG, truecolor
                1280×720@60Hz                   32 bit, 1280x720@60Hz

Audio           ?                               8/16-bit, 56 kHz, 24-bit
                                                mixing, 8 DMA voices

Ethernet        Ethernet Module Connector       100Mbit Ethernet RJ45 port

Ports           44-pin FastIDE/CompactFlash     2x FastIDE/CompactFlash
                Controller (up to 14 MB/Sek)    Controller (up to 20 MB/Sek),
                                                2x USB Port

The decision whether a potential buyer should rather wait for the IceDrake or better buy the Vampire 1200 V2 now, we do not want to take away from him, but at the end we want to give a little help in the form of a test report compilation:

Blog reviews

Video reviews

(dr)

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12.Dec.2021 Aminet uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to Aminet:
more ... (snx)

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12.Dec.2021 OS4Depot uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to OS4Depot:
more ... (snx)

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12.Dec.2021 AROS Archives uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to AROS Archives:
more ... (snx)

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12.Dec.2021 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
more ... (snx)

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12.Dec.2021 Windows: DOpus cooperation with Haage & Partner terminated
The file manager Directory Opus, originally from the Amiga and commercially continued for Windows only, which has been open source in the Amiga variant since 2012, was previously distributed by Haage & Partner (H&P) in Germany, with their support page, including a forum, still being online.
more ... (snx)

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12.Dec.2021
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF) Amigaland: Two rare CDTV games for download / PD area added
At Amigaland.de - a legal collection of games, demos and emulators - Mirko Engelhardt can now offer two rare comic adventures for free download: "The Case of the Cautious Condor" and "Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows" by Tiger Media, published for Amiga CDTV in 1991.

Furthermore a PD/freeware area has been added, listing 41 entries currently. (snx)

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12.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website) Java program: ham_convert 1.84
Java-based program ham_convert for transition of standard graphics file formats into Amiga ones, has meanwhile been updated to version 1.84. Among other changes, now the number of used palette colors can be selected when creating HAM6 and HAM8 files. (snx)

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11.Dec.2021
Prince (Mail) Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 3
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. After the first two parts, which were mainly for introduction and preparation, the third episode now starts with the actual programming. (dr)

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10.Dec.2021
MorphZone (Webseite)

MorphOS: E-Mail-Programm Iris 1.1
Recently Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek had released version 1.0 of his email program Iris for MorphOS. Now the first update is available, which contains the following changes:

Added a Copy Messages... dialog that may be used to copy messages between accounts, local folders, etc
Drag & drop of messages into a local folder / folder of a different account will copy messages to the destination folder
Editing of local messages retains their original date
Fixed a crash in case loading a list of spelling dictionaries fails
Fixed a condition where the Outgoing Mail manager could send a single message more than once
Improved progress reports when sending mail
Additional heuristics when trying to determine the right extension name when saving attachments (if the sender's client did not set the correct MIME type)
Performing an action on a large multi-selection of messages would sometimes stall forever when trying to obtain full message identifiers to act on
Optimized a case where setting flags on a large selection of messages would cause the MUI list to perform very costly redraw lookups

Download: iris.lha (34 MB) (dr)

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09.Dec.2021
Reddit Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS
Rob Smith, known for his DrawBridge project to read Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has released the first part of a YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS. (dr)

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09.Dec.2021 AmigaNG: Website lists emulation options for Raspberry Pi
The website AmigaNG is dedicated to the "next generation of Amiga computers and operating systems" in all its facets. Now with Pi Amiga Images a new category has been added, which compiles the different emulation possibilities of the AmigaOS - like AmiKit XE or Amiberry - on the single board computer Raspberry Pi with links and information. The page will be extended bit by bit. (dr)

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