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Archive 07/2022

28.Jul.2022
David Brunet (Twitter) Obligement: Interview with Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka (audio editor Rave)
The magazine 'Obligement' has interviewed the Czech developer Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka (English, (French), who recently has released his audio editor Rave for AmigaOS 4. (dr)

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28.Jul.2022
RetroWiki Slideshow: Tron Legacy
Inspired by the movie Tron: Legacy from 2010, EcaliusSoftware has created a little slideshow written with AMOS Professional (YouTube video). It requires an Amiga equipped with 2 MB Chip-RAM, 5 MB Fast-RAM and 68020 CPU. (dr)

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27.Jul.2022

Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1b5
After the release of version 2.0 (amiga-news.de reported) developer Dirk Hoffmann has started the beta phase of version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and released the fifth beta version today. Changes:

Bug fixes

Added support for ECS register DIWHIGH
Option "Disconnect keys from keyboard" was broken
Fixed a dot mask setting issue
The built-in trackpad is no longer recognized as an external USB device
Added more FFmpeg default search paths
Fixed some resizing issues in the inspector window

macOS 10.15 or higher is required. (dr)

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27.Jul.2022
Seiya (ANF) PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 136 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. The latest issue among others is about the Amiga games Death Trap, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Conan the Cimmerian. (dr)

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27.Jul.2022 Blog: Introducing "Globulus" (1990)
The blog Leaderboard mainly is about the world of Amiga games and here in particular about games exclusively released for the Amiga. The latest entry introduces the game Globulus, released in 1990. (dr)

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27.Jul.2022

Aiostreams V1.7.4: Scripts for Streaming Twitch.tv and Mixer.com videos
George 'walkero' Sokianos has created Python scripts and bundled them in aiostreams ("All In One Streams") for viewers of the Amiga and other retro streams on Twitch.tv and Mixer.com, so that they can also watch the videos under AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS instead of on the PC.

Yesterday version 1.7.4 has been released with the following changes

Did a fix in YouTube script to avoid SB videos. This was breaking the video selection.
Fixed the video throttle in YouTube videos. So now the videos seem to play smoothly.

Download: aiostreams.lha (263 KB) (dr)

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27.Jul.2022

Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.4.5 (update)
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). Yesterday version 1.4.4 was released providing the following changes:

custom registers view: tooltip help for registers
Denise emulator ("Screen (Beta)" tab), enable/disable specific bitplanes, sprites, with DMA overlay; click in screen to set time
blitter tooltips show blit duration, minterm
Profiler saves screenshots even for single-frame profiles (PNG, better quality)
Fix screenshot delay (screenshots were always one frame too old)
updated to latest WinUAE. fixes sprite DMA not showing SPRxDATA, SPRxDATB
removed avail in startup-sequence (commited by mistake)

Update: (30.07.2022, 06:33, dr)

A few moments ago, version 1.4.5 was released. Changes:

FIX: scrolling in copperlist no longer shifts whole profiler up
FIX: dragging time in profiler flame-graph no longer stops working once reaching the outside of the profiler
NEW: memory heatmap/viewer
CHG: update WinUAE

(dr)

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26.Jul.2022
Andrew Hutchings (Twitter) Video: Installation of ROMulus dual ROM board for Amiga 500 and 2000
ROMulus is a dual ROM board for Amiga 500 and 2000 that fits under the Amiga's CPU / accelerator and provides two additional ROM slots for Kickstart or DiagROM. Andrew Hutchings shows in a recent video how to typically install and use the board he designed, which can be programmed by the Amiga itself. It is available in his Retro Supplies shop for about 53 Euros plus shipping. (dr)

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26.Jul.2022 Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2000
In his blog 'Epsilon's World', Epsilon reports in the usual detail and with numerous pictures about the restoration of his Amiga 2000. This had become necessary because the motherboard had been irreparably damaged by the expiry of the real-time clock battery. (dr)

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26.Jul.2022 Programming language: Visual Studio Code Extension for BlitzBasic 2 (update)
Youen has created a fork of the Visual Studio Code Extension written by 'MickGyver' to support Amiga Blitz Basic 2 and AmiBlitz, which no longer requires external tools (implemented by native Javascript). Also an inline help is now available. Currently version 0.3.2 is available, which was released yesterday.

Update: (27.07.2022, 16:40, dr)

A few moments ago, version 0.4.0 was released which now can manage multiple files. (dr)

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26.Jul.2022

Introduced: The Workbench homepage
What happens when you are born in 1989 and your uncle gave you an Amiga 500 as your first computer? Logically: you can't get rid of that inside and so you try to express your attachment to your beloved Amiga. Thorn has done that in this case by creating his private Workbench homepage.

The basic idea for this kind of homepage design came to him when he thought about what he as a developer would like to present on his website and how. To simply introduce himself textually, as usual, or to build something from which one can immediately see where the private interest (among others) lies. He decided to go for the second option: a website as an interface with minimal content, but small gimmicks.

Why he named this site 'Lammpee', he doesn't know anymore himself. The project itself is open source, the source code is available on GitHub, and is built on the Nuxt framework.

The links to Nuxt modules contained on the homepage in the folder 'Nuxt Stuff' are mostly privately created and further developed projects, which are also open source. Short info about the modules:

nuxt-custom-elements is used if you want to offer components of your homepage as widgets
nuxt-speedkit is a comparison module to determine the loading speed of a website
gp-vue-boilerplate is a construction kit to create a homepage

The entire web workbench is basically a Vue component made up of many small ones. Nuxt helps here, because it can be used to generate HTML, which is used when there is no Javascript.

But the homepage has even more to offer: for example a Basic web editor that can parse Basic code in real time. It is strongly oriented to the examples on the Extras disk. Other things the reader may explore on his own.

By the way, Thorn's favorite game is Moon City, for which you can also find a branch in the project. As he says, he first has to "put it together" again. (dr)

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