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Archive 09/2024

`27.Sep.2024` Entwickler	Turn-based strategy game: New demo version of "Ecliptic" Ecliptic is described by the author as "a mixture of turn based tactical combat and role playing" (amiga-news.de reported) being a visually reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Now a fourth demo has been released for the game as lha archive. As the developer reports, the game now makes full use of EHB mode (in German). The chip RAM management has also been changed so that the game should no longer slow down on an A500 with 512 chip RAM. In addition, the "combat rules" of the game have been revised: the hit points and damage caused by weapons have been simplified and are hopefully better balanced. The robots should also feel different now. The game requires 1MB RAM, recommended is an Amiga 1200 with HD and Fast RAM. (dr) [News message: 27. Sep. 2024, 19:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Sep.2024`	Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master v4.3 R110 for Windows 10/11 Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC. Numerous changes have been made since our last news item. For example, a sound generator (SFXR) has been added to Raster Master, which allows users to create simple sounds for their games. Sprites can now also be exported to the clipboard and as PNG files. With the current version 4.3, the Sprite Animation entry has been added to the Tools menu. This allows you to create a sequence of sprites in the Sprite Editor and arrange them in the Sprite Animation sub program to see how they look. The animation can also be exported to a series of PNG files. Many sprite sheets contain animated characters that can be imported into RM using Sprite Sheet Import and previewed using Sprite Animation (YouTube video). According to the developer, this was the last major component to be finalised. RM is now "useable program to create/import assets for simple 2D games". (dr) [News message: 27. Sep. 2024, 06:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Sep.2024` LinuxJedi	Retro Supplies: Four new hardware products After Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutching presented updates for existing hardware projects at the beginning of July (amiga-news.de reported), he is now presenting four new developments: ZonKEY is a replacement for the 6570 keyboard controller IC used in all models of Amiga 500 keyboards. It contains firmware that Hutching rewrote from scratch using the Amiga hardware manuals and reverse engineering the original chip. DoohicKEY is a complete keyboard controller replacement board for the Amiga 500 Mitsumi keyboards, which is the most common type of keyboard for the Amiga 500. It uses the same base firmware as ZonKEY and offers additional features such as a two-colour LED (orange/green) for drive indication: orange for FDD activity and optional green for HDD activity. It uses 100% new parts, even the LEDs are new, with specially designed 3D printed lenses that fit into the Amiga case. Zinc is the 30pin SIMM version of the 72pin Hafnium diagnostic board which he launched earlier this year: it can be used to determine which RAM tracks on a motherboard have been damaged by a battery. RGBtoHDMI board for the Amiga 500 enables pixel-perfect HDMI output from the Amiga 500 using a Raspberry Pi Zero (not included). This new version is low enough to keep the HDMI connector and board far away from the accelerator. (dr) [News message: 26. Sep. 2024, 20:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Sep.2024`	Tutorials for AmigaOS 4: Setting up an IDE, transferring software With Kea Campus, Hans De Ruiter has started a membership programme in which software and electronics tasks are to be discussed and solved (amiga-news.de reported). As announced, he has also set up an Amiga corner on YouTube, in which instructions etc. are published at different times. After his first article about setting up a cross-compiler for AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported), he has deepened this topic: In the following article, he explains how to set up a code editor or integrated development environment (IDE) for cross-compiling to AmigaOS using Visual Studio Code as an example (YouTube video). In the third part published yesterday, he shows how to copy the software created with it quickly and efficiently to an Amiga (YouTube video). (dr) [News message: 26. Sep. 2024, 06:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Sep.2024`	Programming: Assembler development environment ASMotor 1.3.1 ASMotor is a portable and generic assembler engine and development system, consisting of a number of ISA specific assemblers, the librarian and the linker. The package can be used as either a cross or native development system. Output formats include Amiga linker objects and Amiga executables. (snx) [News message: 25. Sep. 2024, 11:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Sep.2024` Thorsten Mampel (ANF)	Event: Developers and dealers at 25th Amiga-Meeting Nord (Germany) At its 25th anniversary (amiga-news.de reported) the Amiga-Meeting Nord event in Germany will be joined by the developers Frank Roeger and Michal Schulz as well as the dealers Alinea Computer and HobbyRaum. Details can be found in our German news-item. (snx) [News message: 25. Sep. 2024, 11:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Sep.2024`	iOS app: 4champ v3.8.0 for accessing Amiga Music Preservation The iOS program 4champ is a user interface for corresponding mobile devices to access the Amiga Music Preservation database. The new version 3.8.0 offers a visualisation of the amplitudes and an updated Portuguese localisation. (dr) [News message: 25. Sep. 2024, 06:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Sep.2024`	Commodity: DrawerGenie V0.8 Originally written for the Amiga Tool Jam (amiga-news.de reported), Rob 'daedalus2097' Cranley continues to work on his commodity "DrawerGenie", which among other things adds simple toolbars to the drawer windows of the Workbench. The now released version 0.8 fixes a crash when starting with some old prefs files and removes the dependencies for the jpeg.library and zlib.library. Direct download: DrawerGenie.lha (325 KB) (dr) [News message: 25. Sep. 2024, 06:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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