17.Nov.2022
Thomas Claus (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: FTP client AmiFTP 1.953
At the beginning of 2010, for the last time amiga-news.de reported on the FTP client AmiFTP. Ten years later, Matthias 'djBase' Münch (maintainer of Amigaworld) started a discussion about the further development of the client on OS4Welt. A source code was found but not of the OS4 version. After requesting, Frank Menzel (Entwickler-X) agreed to examine the source code.
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17.Nov.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.2b1
After developer Dirk Hoffmann released version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for macOS in mid-August (amiga-news.de reported), he has now started the new cycle of pre-releases for version 2.2 with the first beta release. Changes:
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17.Nov.2022
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Arcade port: Wonderboy released
Wonderboy is an Amiga port of the first part of the Wonder Boy saga, of which only the sequel Wonderboy in Monsterland was available for the Amiga so far. The Amiga version was created with the help of the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). Now 'acidbottle' has released the final version 1.0, which already runs on an Amiga 500 with 1 MB ChipRam and 1 MB FastRAM.
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17.Nov.2022
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Competition: Winner of the Amiga Art Contest 2022
A few days ago the winners of the "Amiga Art Contest 2022" were announced in a live stream. Under the title link the award winning artworks and productions in the categories "hand drawn artworks", "photo", "music" and "animation" for this and also the past years are clearly listed.
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16.Nov.2022
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Experimental operating system for the Amiga 4000: Apollo
Dietmar Planitzers unfortunately named "Apollo" project is an experimental operating system for the Amiga 4000. It is incompatible to existing systems, but tries to implement modern concepts on the Commodore computer - the author mentions
a process management built around dispatch queues similar to Apple's Grand Central Dispatch as one example.
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16.Nov.2022
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Video: 68k programs under MorphOS
Ravi Abbott, known for his documentary "Downfall Amiga, after Commodore" (amiga-news.de reported), shows in his latest video how to install the operating system MorphOS and then set it up so that you can use 68k applications and games.
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16.Nov.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Retailer: EU source of supply for Checkmate products
After Stephen Jones' Checkmate products became more difficult to purchase in the EU as a result of the Brexit, the German mail order company DragonBox now offers a source of supply within this economic area at the title link.
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16.Nov.2022
BBSindex (ANF)
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Amiga 37: Video report with interviews
The 58-minute video report by 'BBSindex' about the Amiga37 event contains various interviews, for example with the former Commodore employees Gerald Lang, Karina Härtel and Ettore Caurla or with the musician Chris Hülsbeck, who also tells personal details.
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16.Nov.2022
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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Video: Scalos as Linux desktop
The Workbench replacement Scalos, which was ported for AROS ten years ago, is now also running under the runtime environment AxRuntime under Linux in a still very early state.
A video of it can be watched at the title link, in a forum post Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz describes how to proceed if you want to try it out yourself.
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16.Nov.2022
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Accelerator board projekt: Buffee developer on the advantages of PJIT
In her blog Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee" (amiga-news.de reported), reports about theoretical and practical basics of the project. In two previous blog entries she had compared her emulation solution of the 68k processor under ARM microprocessors, Pseudo-JIT (PJIT), with solutions like Emu68 or UAE (part 1, part 2). In the now published third part of the series, she explains why she thinks PJIT is better than either of the other two strategies.
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15.Nov.2022
Chris Hülsbeck (Twtter)
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Podcast interview: In conversation with Chris Hülsbeck
Every Monday, the podcast Pop: The History Makers presents a new interview with an icon of popular culture. This time, musician and composer Chris Hülsbeck is the guest.
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15.Nov.2022
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Metacompiler: Portabl E r6a
Christopher Handley's metacompiler "Portabl E" works by translating your code written with the programming language Amiga E into C++, and then using GCC to compile it into an executable. This needs an installation of GCC. This update fixes some bugs of version r6, released a few days ago (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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15.Nov.2022
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Feature test in AMOS: Update for mingame None Of Us
The group 'ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP', known among other things for the fantasy shooter Project Quest, which is currently in development, had released a minigame called "None Of Us" three weeks ago, which is intended to test how to obscure the player's opponents with light and shadow in AMOS Pro (YouTube video).
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14.Nov.2022
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXXII in Kiel, Germany, on 26.11.2022
On Saturday, November 26, retro computing event "Interface" will take place again in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. More information can be found in our German news-item.
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14.Nov.2022
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Video: Capacitor replacement on Amiga 1200
The YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) is dedicated to repairing and building retro hardware. The latest video shows how to change the capacitors on the motherboard of an Amiga 1200.
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14.Nov.2022
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Preview video: Super Metal Hero
"Raster Wizards" have published another preview video of the Jump'n Run "Super Metal Hero" developed with BlitzBasic showing the sentinel enemy of the fourth world.
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13.Nov.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.7
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 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). A few moments ago, version 1.6.7 has been released. Changes:
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(dr)
[News message: 13. Nov. 2022, 18:55] [Comments: 0]
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13.Nov.2022
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Kung Fu action: "Devil's Temple" V3.5
About three weeks ago, Geezer Games had released "Devil's Temple (amiga-news.de reported). By releasing another update, the following bugs were fixed:
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(dr)
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13.Nov.2022
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Aminet uploads until 12.11.2022
The following files have been added until 12.11.2022 to Aminet:
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13.Nov.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.11.2022
The following files have been added until 12.11.2022 to OS4Depot:
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13.Nov.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 12.11.2022
The following files have been added until 12.11.2022 to AROS Archives:
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13.Nov.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.11.2022
The following files have been added until 12.11.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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13.Nov.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.11.2022
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 12.11.2022:
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12.Nov.2022
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Blog: Developer of "Rave" about Amiga37
In his latest blog entry Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka, developer of the audio editor "Rave", reports about his experiences and impressions of the Amiga37.
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[News message: 12. Nov. 2022, 17:22] [Comments: 0]
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12.Nov.2022
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MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.17r2
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators and now is available in version 3.17r2 for MorphOS 3.17, this time dedicated to the microAlchimie VI which took place last weekend.
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12.Nov.2022
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Do it yourself: Drivers for clockport/Raspberry Pi interface
At the end of June Niklas Ekström had provided the information for the reconstruction of an interface with which a communication between Amiga and Raspberry Pi via the clockport is possible (amiga-news.de reported). The goal is to be able to run services like the filesystem a314fs which allows access to directories of the Raspbery Pi and the SANA-II network driver over it.
After he published the source files of the necessary software adaptations a month ago, the pre-compiled Amiga files followed yesterday.
(dr)
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11.Nov.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Sound card Prelude replica (Update)
The Zorro II sound card Prelude supported recording and playing in full-duplex mode at a resolution of 16 bit and a frequency of upto 64 kHz. Those who are interested in building a replica themselves can find a corresponding project - inluding the expansion module MPEGit - at the title link.
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11.Nov.2022
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Video: The history of the British video game developer "Magnetic Scrolls"
In his latest video, Kim Justice takes a look at the British computer game company "Magnetic Scrolls", which from 1984 onwards became known mainly for their text adventures like THE PAWN, Myth or Fish!. On the page "Magnetic Scrolls Memorial" you can find more information about the developers and other games.
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[News message: 11. Nov. 2022, 09:25] [Comments: 0]
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11.Nov.2022
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Puzzle game: LUMA
Indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (among others Wheel of Fortune implementation YAWoFFA or Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam) has released the Amiga port of the puzzle game LUMA, originally written for the Commodore 64.
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[News message: 11. Nov. 2022, 05:34] [Comments: 0]
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