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Archive 10/2022

13.Oct.2022 ACube Systems: Delivery of Sam460LE boards in November
Press release: We would like to thank all our customers for their support and patience. Despite all our efforts to deliver the new Sam460LE by the end of September, we suffered some delay in the production and, unfortunately, the boards are still not ready for delivery.

Unfortunately, we had to make a last-minute change of some components (connectors) that are no more available and this has delayed (again) the production as we had to test the pre-production boards one more time.

After this last-minute modification, pre-production boards passed every test and are ready to go. We are expecting to be able to ship all the boards to our customers in November.

At Amiga37 in Mönchengladbach we will show the pre-production boards on which are based the final boards we will send to customers. We will update our customer as soon as we have news. See you in Mönchengladbach! (dr)

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13.Oct.2022 Linux: Browser Artic Fox V40.0
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled version 40.0 of the web browser Artic Fox for Linux PowerPC (32 Bit). Basically it runs under the Linux PowerPC distributions Void PPC, MintPPC, Fienix and Ubuntu 10.04 (which are also available for AmigaOne X1000 and 5000. Mainly, the browser is meant for older resp. slow systems (e.g. G3 with Ubuntu 10.04) because it is using an older version of the Goanna engine which has a good performance on slower systems. As a result, certain pages like GitHub cannot be fully displayed.

Download: arcticfox-40.0.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2 (40 MB) (dr)

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12.Oct.2022

SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.0
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Today version 1.1.0 of the firmware was released. Changes:

Removed Apple quirks from defaulting to right-aligned strings
Akai S1000/3000 read delay in SCSI-1 mode
Limit drive capacity to actual file size
Initiator compatibility fixes (RP2040 specific)

(dr)

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12.Oct.2022 Tetris clone for RTG Amigas: Atris V0.50
A month ago, Sami Vehmaa released a Tetris clone called Atris for Amigas equipped with graphics cards (amiga-news.de reported). This update to version 0.50 adds an easy and a hard mode, each of both with highscore. Additionally, the game now can be completely controlled with the keyboard. (dr)

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12.Oct.2022

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 7 of 'WhatIFF?' released
WhatIFF? is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is mainly intended for users who want to be creative with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported).

Now issue 7 is available providing these topics among others:

Reviews:

Classic Amiga Programming Book
FastATA 4000 MK-VII
AmiKit 8MB Expansion
AGAClouds
AmyTree 2022

Tutorials:

Installing AmigaOS3.2 on AmigaOS4.1 via E-UAE
Lightwave 101 - Editing MOD config file
Brilliance 101 - Morphing
Bringing IFFs over to PC/Mac

Interviews:

AmigaLove.com - Eric Hill
Last year`s Amiga Art Contest Winner - Hernain

(dr)

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12.Oct.2022

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.4 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.4 and is now based on the latest OpenSSL 3.0.6, which was also released yesterday. The changes:

Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.0.6 (11.10.2022) version, which brings security and other bug fixes.
Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 11.10.2022.
Added a proper Amiga-specific ossl_sleep() function, replacing the default fallback busy wait function.
Consolidated all routines that individually open timer.device to instead use a single unified thread-safe solution.
File locks on the OS4 libraries are released during initialisation and no longer held until reboot or expunged from memory.
Handle setting of Roadshow TCP/IP stack type on OS3.
Removed unnecessary multiple openings of dos.library, some of which were mistakenly never closed.
Reworked SDK macros for split API functions to better handle when __USE_INLINE__ is not defined.

Download AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.4-OS3.lha (3,3 MB)
Download AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.4-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
Download SDK: AmiSSL-5.4-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)

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12.Oct.2022 DIY: Remake of audio digitiser AP420
The AP420, released by Phoenix Microtechnologies in 1991, is an audio digitiser that can take a microphone or line-level input and is connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. 'wiretap-retro' has posted an updated schematic on GitHub that matches the one in the official PDF manual, with the addition of a second RCA jack so you can connect stereo audio. Likewise, he has upgraded the microphone jack, which now features a 3.5mm TRS jack. The selector switch on the board can be used to switch between the RCA input and the microphone input. (dr)

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12.Oct.2022
English Amiga Board (Webseite)

Commercial puzzle game: Connect
In the puzzle game "Connect", you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. The game offers over 4 billion possible board variations and can be played alone, in cooperation or against each other.

A physical version of Connect can be purchased exclusively next weekend at the "Amiga 37" in Mönchengladbach. From next week, a digital version can then also be obtained from the developer's itch.io site. (cg)

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11.Oct.2022 MP3 player: Reel Deck V0.71 (update)
After Atris, his Tetris clone for RTG Amigas, and AB_Template, his programming assistance for AmiBlitz 3, Sami Vehmaa had released Reel Deck, an MP3 player for Amigas with graphics card, a few days ago (amiga-news.de reported). With his update to version 0.63 he made some corrections, so that you can now move the window without problems, among other things. Required are a graphics card, a faster CPU, AmigaOS3.x, AHI and at least 20 MB FastRAM. Reel Deck costs at least 3 Euro.

Update: (12.10.2022, 18:22, dr)

In the meantime, version 0.71 is available, which should now use less CPU power: 80% less when idle and 20% less when playing. Likewise, the control keys have been revised, which should now be closer to reality. (dr)

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