19.Jun.2021
ALBs Blog
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Sample source code: Hardware-oriented programming with Free Pascal
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has published on GitHub some examples for hardware-near programming - i.e. writing directly to chip registers - with Freepascal. The goal was to create the shortest possible compilations that recreate typical demoscene effects: the 700-byte tool 'copper' creates a copper list, while the 3-kilobyte 'sinus' uses the copper to manipulate bitplanes to create a sine effect.
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[News message: 19. Jun. 2021, 23:21] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jun.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 151 - preview and reading samples
From issue 151 (July/August 2021) of Amiga Future the readings as well as the preview are online since today. The topics include an interview with Michael Borrmann (Inviyya), a preview of AmigaOS 3.2 and a review of "Hibernated 1: Director's Cut".
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[News message: 19. Jun. 2021, 21:24] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jun.2021
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Trevor's Amiga Blog: First volume finished, beta version of DvPlayer in test
After more than 10 months Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology has written an entry in his Trevor's Amiga Blog again.
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[News message: 19. Jun. 2021, 15:31] [Comments: 0]
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19.Jun.2021
Aminet
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Icon-Library 46.4.545
Recently we introduced Peter Keunecke's icon.library which provides all functions for processing pictograms. Due to the release of AmigaOS 3.2, but obviously also inspired by our contribution and especially the numerous comments, he has now released version 46.4.545.
For the first time he has not only added a documentation in the form of an 'IconLib.guide' as requested by many, but has also made it available in English as well as in German.
Furthermore, the TrueColor (TC) version now displays OS4 and PNG icons 30-70% faster in conjunction with workbench.library v44+ or Wanderer on native screens, but not with WB 3.1 and DOpus5. As Peter Keunecke writes further, AmigaOS 3.2 now requires at least an icon.library v47. In order to be able to use his icon.library under this OS anyway, he has apparently upgraded the 'icon.library_TC020' to version 51.4.545. The other two standard versions 'icon.library_68000' and 'icon.library_68020' do not work under AmigaOS 3.2 anymore.
According to him, the new icon.library provided by AmigaOS 3.2 should be "more efficient and faster, avoiding many useless refreshes". But since he does not own the new OS, he cannot test this. At least 'FastWB' seems to have no advantage anymore. And further he writes: "The new OS 3.2 file type detection of DefIcons is only supported by my v51 libraries like TC020. I have no intention to set the 680x0 versions higher."
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[News message: 19. Jun. 2021, 06:37] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jun.2021
Artur Gadawski per Mail
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7-bit: Software update for Wicher cards
A software update for the cards developed by 7-bit has been released. Changes:
- added support for AmigaOS3.2
- WicherCfg - added support for Wicher1220EC
- WicherCfgGui - added support for Wicher1220EC
- spi.librarby - added support for Wicher1220EC
- enc28j60_w32.device - added support for Wicher1220EC
- Tools_Menu - added support for Wicher1220EC
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[News message: 17. Jun. 2021, 22:35] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jun.2021
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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Multimedia MIDI sequencer: BarsnPipes 1.0 for Amiga OS4.1 FE
At the end of October in 2009, Alfred Faust decided to stop developing his multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes due to increasing health problems (we reported). In July 2013 he released the source code of his programm. Mainly due to Corona, Alfred Faust has a lot of spare time which among others he invested in updating his AmigaOS 4 computer and its operating system to OS 4.1 FE and eventually reworking and compiling BarsnPipes for Amiga OS 4.1 FE.
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[News message: 17. Jun. 2021, 06:14] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jun.2021
AmigaLove (ANF)
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.46beta
After 21 years today Kari-Pekka Koljonen has released an update of his MOD player HippoPlayer on Github. He wrote:
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[News message: 16. Jun. 2021, 07:16] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jun.2021
Aminet
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Screen capture: SnapIT for MorphOS 2.x, AROS and AmigaOS 4.1
After more than four years, Stefan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has updated his tool for taking screenshots to version 1.5 (message about version 1.4).
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15.Jun.2021
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CS-Lab: Test of new firmware 1.10 for Warp1260
According to Greg Donner on his unofficial Warp 3060/4060 page, the YouTube channel Amiga Tests has tested the latest firmware 1.10 of the Warp 1260 for the Amiga 1200 and a video published.
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14.Jun.2021
Blog Amigaguru
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Game announcement: 'CYBERSPHERE' for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS(x86)
In his latest blog entry the 'AmigaGuru’s Gamerblog' has announced a new commercial point&click adventure developed by GDG-Entertainment among others for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS(x86). You can get some first impressions by watching a YouTube trailer.
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[News message: 14. Jun. 2021, 07:11] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jun.2021
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Contest: Amiga Art Contest 2021
The "Amiga Art Contest 2021" (video) is organized by the two Youtubers 10 Minute Amiga Retrocast and Pixel Vixen. In its third edition, participants can submit their works in the categories of "hand-drawn artwork", "digital photography", "ray tracing" and "music pieces". The submissions of the two previous years 2019 and 2020 can be viewed on the official website.
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[News message: 14. Jun. 2021, 06:25] [Comments: 0]
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14.Jun.2021
Reddit
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68k.news: Simple HTML-Google News for vintage computers
Recently we reportd about the FrogFind! search engine which simplifies search results and thus make them accessable for older browsers. Simultaneously to this project the YouTuber 'Action Retro' has created a Google News website based on SimplePie and a php port of Mozilla's Readability which displays news items without menus, ads, footers and all what it is not necessariliy needed for the message itself. So it is possible to read them for example with the Amiga browser AWeb. You can set your country as well as your favourite news section in the upper menu of the website. The source code is available on GitHub.
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[News message: 14. Jun. 2021, 05:25] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jun.2021
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Remake: Textadventure Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut)
In 2019 the commercial textadventure 'Hibernated - This Place is Death' was released as first part of a planned trilogy. His release Stefan Vogt now has ported as Director's Cut' to the Z-machine originally developed by Infocom: An development environment for textadventures.
Vogt finally "ended up completely rewriting it" adding "tons of narrative content and new riddles". The game also now is available for many platforms.
Probably on 1. August the game also will be available in a boxed edition on poly.play featuring the following content:
- 3,5" floppy disk
- Cardboard box with slipcase (23 x 18,5 x 2,5 cm)
- Mission patch
- Developer's autograph card
- MicroSD card including disk images and more
- Manual (DIN A5, English)
- Quick guide "How to Play Interactive Fiction"
- Stickers
- Din-A3 poster
- Shrink-wrapped
The game can be pre-ordered for 35 Euro.
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[News message: 13. Jun. 2021, 12:45] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jun.2021
AmigaLove
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Third part of textadventure series: Silk Dust
After Two Days to the Race and The Queen's Footsteps, Davide Bucci has released the third part of his textadventure series named 'Silk Dust'.
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[News message: 13. Jun. 2021, 08:42] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jun.2021
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Aminet uploads until 12.06.2021
The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to Aminet:
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[News message: 13. Jun. 2021, 07:17] [Comments: 0]
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13.Jun.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.06.2021
The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to OS4Depot:
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13.Jun.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.06.2021
The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
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13.Jun.2021
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology: Updates for Warp3D Nova and Copy command
As part of their Enhancer Software, A-EON Technology have updated both the graphics card driver Warp3D Nova and their own variant of the Copy command - the latter being, besides AmigaOS 4, also available for AmigaOS 3.x. The Warp3D Nova update is especially useful for owners of Radeon RX 570/580 cards, fixing a bug that caused freezes.
As always, customers can download the new versions using the Updater software.
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12.Jun.2021
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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Product announcement: 7-bit accelerator board Wicher 1220 for A1200
After developing the Wicher 508i accelerator board for the A500, Artur Gadawski from 7-bit has announced the version for the A1200, the Wicher 1220:
Currently the board is in beta test phase and will have the following features:
- CPU: MC68EC020
- CPU clock speed: 25MHz, 33MHz
- Memory: 11MB Fast Ram (16MB SDRAM)
- SPI-Controller
- Realtime clock (RTC)
- microSD card reader
- Ethernet controller
A price for the Wicher 1220 has not yet been set.
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[News message: 12. Jun. 2021, 06:55] [Comments: 0]
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