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Archive 10/2024

`19.Oct.2024` Reddit	Preview video: PAC-MAN conversion using operating system calls (1) After his nine-part video series on the practicality of the Amiga 1000 as a workstation (amiga-news.de reported), Thomas Cherryhomes' latest project is a PAC-MAN conversion that uses nothing other than operating system calls for graphics and sound. He also wants to design the game so that it will run on any Amiga, from an Amiga 1000 with 256 KB Ram and KickStart 1.1 to the fastest Amiga with 3.x. (dr) [News message: 19. Oct. 2024, 19:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Oct.2024`	Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2" Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #4 under the title link, the author shows his work on the new theme "Forest". (dr) [News message: 18. Oct. 2024, 17:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Oct.2024`	Developer log: What can be expected from the final 64-bit version of Odyssey? At the end of August, we reported on an initial test version of the Odyssey browser for AROS version 2.0, which is being continuously updated (the latest version of the 32-bit variant was released yesterday). In a short article, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz describes various ways in which the upcoming 64-bit version Odyssey 2.0 can execute JavaScript code and what impact this has on performance. Some of the results are quite interesting and come very close to today's (October 2024) Firefox performance. This is all the more surprising given that the WebKit engine Odyssey 2.0 was released in February 2019. (dr) [News message: 18. Oct. 2024, 09:12] [Comments: 1 - 18. Oct. 2024, 13:52] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Oct.2024`	Dungeon Crawler: Demo version of Halloween X released (update) After a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) Sami Vehmaa has now released a demo version of his dungeon crawler "Halloween X" (new Twitch video). A fast AGA-Amiga and AmigaOS3.x are required. Update: (06:17, 21.10.24, dr) Demovesion V1.04 is now available. Since the first version, numerous bugs have been fixed, the "M" key can now be used to switch the music on and off and the CPU load should now be lower. (dr) [News message: 17. Oct. 2024, 21:31] [Comments: 1 - 21. Oct. 2024, 06:22] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Oct.2024`	AROS distribution: TinyAros 3.4.1 The AROS distribution TinyAros is aimed more at users, which is why no developer tools are included (but can be downloaded optionally), which makes it leaner and therefore quicker to install and ready for use. The now released version 3.4.1 (video) is based on the current ABIv0 backport and also contains updated libraries and programmes, additional included software and bug fixes. (snx) [News message: 17. Oct. 2024, 08:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Oct.2024`	Cowboy/shootout game: Demo version of Duel In "Duel", two cowboys (or so far a cowboy and an alien) that can be controlled up or down shoot at each other, with various obstacles providing cover (video). In the finalised version, you will be able to choose from over 20 characters and the weather will influence the battle. (snx) [News message: 17. Oct. 2024, 08:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Oct.2024`	AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.55 AmiUpdate is an update system for AmigaOS 4 and helps to keep system components and applications up to date. There are currently 241 entries in the database. Version 2.55 has now been released with the following changes: Fixed an error in the main list helphint where the date of the update was not shown correctly. Made some changes to the routines that handle the Ignore Manager, and saving the list back to disk. An apparent crash appeared to be located there, although it was unreproducible here. Fixed a memory leak that occurred each time a scan was started. Reworked the "Abort" logic. It is no longer possible to abort the scan, but aborting updating works as originally expected. Whether this fixes the unreproducible crashes or not remains to be seen. Following a successfull login, users were complaining the details were not saved. The call to save the details was commented out. No idea why, or how long it's been like that, but it should work as expected again! Added support for double-clicking items to expand them in the Path Manager. Changed the way the notifications are handled when the preferences change. Prefs_Updates 53.19: Prefs change notifications are now handled differently to suit the new mechanism. (dr) [News message: 17. Oct. 2024, 04:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Oct.2024`	SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.10.16 ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.10.16: Reset watchdog while data transfer is progressing CD-ROM: Support PREGAP in .cue files SD card speed class warning, update to SdFat Library initiator: Fix overflow in percentage calculation (dr) [News message: 17. Oct. 2024, 04:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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