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Archive 12/2021

`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) [News message: 15. Dec. 2021, 11:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`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. The magazine is available in a printed edition including the Commodore 64/128 cover disc for 7,42 Euro (plus approx. 5 Euro shipping costs), the price for the digital edition is 1,48 Euro. (dr) [News message: 13. Dec. 2021, 14:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`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) [News message: 13. Dec. 2021, 08:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`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) [News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 17:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`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. Besides, it is possible to be placed on a waiting list: Smith sells his little board for USB Slimline disk drives for 25 British Pound plus shipping. The boards are fully compatible to Arduino Software (IDE) which enables future firmware updates. All documents of Smith's project are available on GitHub under a free license. Update: (21.12.2021, 05:45, dr) Meanwhile version 2.8.5 is available which adds a warning if known applications are running that may be using the serial port. (dr) [News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 15:34] [Comments: 1 - 21. Dec. 2021, 05:52] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`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 Current and very detailed report on Epsilon's World Detailed review on markround.com Video reviews Review by 'Retro Box Room' Review by 'Ronnie Beck' Review by 'RetroBytes' (dr) [News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 12:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Dec.2021`	Aminet uploads until 11.12.2021 The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to Aminet: IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 19K IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs hpdinrto.lha demo/intro 211K 68k Intro by Hippopotamus Design,... CubicIDE-FreePascal.lha dev/misc 69K Cubic IDE FreePascal Plugin REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.2M 68k Game Creator with AGA support ADF_Device.lha disk/misc 14K 68k Insert and remove ADF Files TilesSlide.lha game/actio 81K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of same colou... MCE.lha game/edit 3.3M 68k Multi-game Character Editor MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 17M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4 hippogen.lha gfx/fract 25K 68k Small generator for 16 fracta... AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands KorgDS8PatchRem.lha mus/misc 132K 68k Banks memory for the Korg DS8... SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 186K Some samples created by Sampl... HuntnGather.lha util/dir 110K 68k File indexing and search util... DOpus4-OpenWindow.lha util/dopus 4K ARexx: open a WB window for d... IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 65K 68k Identify hardware and more IdentifyLib_FR.lha util/libs 11K French catalogs for identify.... IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 87K 68k Identify hardware and more ADiffView.lha util/misc 160K 68k Graphical ASCII file compare/... AnalogClock.lha util/time 39K 68k Resizeable analog transparent... (snx) [News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Dec.2021`	OS4Depot uploads until 11.12.2021 The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to OS4Depot: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator camp_uncanny.lha gam/mis 12Mb 4.1 Demo of basic game operation mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 17Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ... fortunes-ita.lha uti/she 1Mb 4.0 Update fortune cookies (snx) [News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Dec.2021`	AROS Archives uploads until 11.12.2021 The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to AROS Archives: pipewalker.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb OpenGL pipe connecting game. (snx) [News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Dec.2021`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 11.12.2021 The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to MorphOS-Storage: Iris_1.1.lha Email New email client suppor... AmiArcadia_28.31.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... MCE_13.31.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed... OmniSpeak.lha Games/Platform Omnispeak is an open-so... ArLan_0.1.lha Network/Tools Simple Gopher client ADiffView_2.1.lha Text/Compare A graphical file compar... (snx) [News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`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. The company, which was responsible for AmigaOS 3.5 as well as 3.9 and had been entrusted with the original AmigaOS 4.0 development as well as bringing Bernd Meyer's emulator Amithlon in a package as Amiga OS XL to the market in 2001, had given up the distribution of its Amiga products in 2006. The German DOpus support was managed by Markus Nerding, who was co-founder of H&P in 1995 along with Jürgen Haage and Jochen Becher. Now, however, he runs his own website under directory-opus.de, which is named the official German support site. In addition, all registered Directory Opus users are supposed to have received an e-mail, which we document below, stating that H&P is no longer allowed to sell the program. In fact, on the website of the Australian manufacturer of DOpus, GPSoftware, H&P is no longer linked, as a comparison of the current product page with the August version reveals (right column, upper part). The email text reads (translated from the German original): "Dear DOpus customers, today we would like to introduce the new German support website at www.directory-opus.de and www.dopus.de. It is run by Markus Nerding, who has been taking care of the German translation of Directory Opus since the beginning of the Windows release. He and his team will take care of your questions about Directory Opus. Unfortunately we had to end the partnership with our longtime German distributor Haage & Partner. They are no longer allowed to sell Directory Opus and we hope that they will also discontinue the former Directory Opus website and forum. We are very happy about the new German support website, where you can already find first tutorials and tips. More content will follow bit by bit. Please have a look at www.directory-opus.de. Many greetings the DOpus team GP Software" (snx) [News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`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) [News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`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) [News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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