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Archive 01/2025

`08.Jan.2025`	Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 3.1.1 vAmiga is an Amiga emulator for macOS, which now requires macOS 13.5 or higher. Changes since version 3.0 (amiga-news.de reported): Enhancements Build-in 6-channel logic analyzer New dashboard window Multiple inspectors side by side New debug features "finish line" and "finish frame" Bug fixes Released the handbreak Fixed an NTSC overscan bug Last line in the emulator texture is drawn again Changes Removed RetroShell debugger command ? host as it listed nothing Added "? thread" for inspecting the current thread state Reworked the internal suspend / resume mechanism (dr) [News message: 08. Jan. 2025, 17:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jan.2025`	3rd preview video: Hyper Runner - Spring Valley Route "Hyper Runner" is an announced sci-fi racing game for the Amiga. After our last news item a good two and a half years ago, the game is still in the works and another video has now been published at the title link, showing a first race track, the "Spring Valley Route". (snx) [News message: 08. Jan. 2025, 09:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jan.2025`	Event: Demoparty Revision 2025 (Germany) The Revision demo party, which traditionally takes place on the Easter weekend at the "E-Werk" in Saarbrücken, Germany, will be held again also in 2025, from April 18 to 21. (snx) [News message: 08. Jan. 2025, 09:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jan.2025` TheOasisBBC (Webseite)	Game: Bunnito's Feast Bunnito's Feast is an AGA jump-and-run game created with the Scorpion Engine, in which you have to steer a runaway rabbit safely home and make sure it eats enough food on the way. It requires 1 MB of Fast-RAM. (snx) [News message: 08. Jan. 2025, 09:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jan.2025` Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)	Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.6pre Almost three years ago (amiga-news.de reported), developer Arne Urbaniak presented his copy program G-Copy for reading and writing Amiga ADF data on a Windows PC. G-Copy, which is visually similar to the popular X-Copy, supports the drive controllers Greaseweazle by Keir Fraser, ADF-Drive by D. Tonn or DrawBridge (Arduino) by Rob Smith. In the new version 0.6pre, up to two Greaseweazle drives are now recognised and it is possible to read and write from DF0: to DF1: and vice versa. A repeat function has also been added. It is now possible to write from the HD to DF0: and DF1: at the same time. As a little treat and at the request of a user, there is also an X-MAS version of G-Copy. Finally, automatic update detection has been implemented. (dr) [News message: 08. Jan. 2025, 06:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jan.2025`	Documentary: Louis Castle talks about the history of Westwood Studios The latest episode of the YouTube documentary series "Titans of the Industry" focuses on Louis Castle, co-founder of legendary developer studio Westwood Studios. The episode provides exciting insights into the creation of iconic games such as Dune 2, The Lion King, California Games and Command and Conquer. Louis Castle talks about the beginnings of Westwood Studios, which was founded in 1985 as a porting studio for Amiga and Macintosh games, and how the studio developed into a real-time strategy giant of the 90s. With millions of copies of its titles sold, Westwood has had a lasting impact on the video game industry. This episode is a must for fans of classic games and those interested in retro gaming. (nba) [News message: 07. Jan. 2025, 12:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jan.2025`	SCSI for Raspberry Pi: SCSI2Pi 5 released as a pre-release A new version of the SCSI2Pi emulation software is available as a pre-release. SCSI2Pi is an alternative to the well-known PiSCSI software for the PiSCSI/RaSCSI board, which brings SCSI technology to the Raspberry Pi. According to developer Uwe Seimet, the software offers optimised device emulation, higher transfer rates and numerous new functions, including tools for the SCSI initiator mode. The software emulates several SCSI and SASI devices such as hard disks, CD-ROM drives, printers and network interfaces.It supports classic systems such as Amiga, Atari ST/TT/Falcon030, 68k Macs or Unix workstations and also offers a SCSI-to-USB bridge. Thanks to compatibility with the PiSCSI Web UI and the SCSI Control Android app, users can access advanced functionality. With SCSI2Pi, users can seamlessly switch between PiSCSI and the new software by simply installing an optimised binary package – without complicated compilation steps. The current version 4.1 of SCSI2Pi has been available since the beginning of December, and now version 5.0 has been released as a pre-release. It offers the following changes: New device type SCSG, with support for a SCSI-to-USB bridge. The bridge supports any SCSI command, not only those emulated by s2p. With some devices you can even burn DVDs. Extended streamer support, e.g. of SIMH-compatible tape image files, filemarks, spacing, variable block sizes, ... Tape dump/restore support. With s2pdump you can convert any tape into a SIMH-compatible image file and vice versa. s2p can create command scripts for s2pexec. The maximum number of data bytes to log can be configured with s2p and s2pexec. s2pexec and s2pdump now also support devices which are managed by the Linux SG driver. For these devices no Pi is required, i.e. you can use s2pexec and s2pdump on any Linux platform. s2psimh tool for the analysis and creation of SIMH-compatible image files. This tool runs on any Linux/BSD platform and on macOS. s2pformat tool for formatting floppy disks or other media, e.g. in USB drives. This tool runs on any Linux platform. The software can be downloaded from the SCSI2Pi-website. All the latest source codes can also be found on the GitHub project page. (nba) [News message: 07. Jan. 2025, 11:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jan.2025`	GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy V5.1.1 for Windows 'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.1.1 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools V1.21 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes since our last news item: Fixes missing prefix in the diskdefs form spec selection Requires Greaseweazle 1.21 Options: former location of "diskdefs.cfg" is now a folder select ! Supports now the different "Diskdefs_.cfg" files (change options: "Diskdefs (folder)") Diskdefs (2024-10-23) added (change options: "Diskdefs (folder)") Read/Write: New disc formats: micropolis.* Sourcecode: Removed unused variables (dr) [News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 19:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jan.2025`	Audio player: UADE-Plugin 0.12.4 for Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS) "audacious-uade" is a plugin for the audio player Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS), which allows the use of the Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator as an input filter. In the new Version 0.12.4, support for Scream Tracker 2 has been added, among other things. (dr) [News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 15:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jan.2025`	Racing game: Carmageddon 1.02 A reverse engineering project brings the PC classic Carmageddon to the Classic Amiga: the conversion of Arcziii (video) is based on the original engine, was adapted for the 68k architecture and requires the original game data of Carmageddon (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.02 offers a 20% improved performance, fixed graphic errors of the workbench after closing and OS3.2 compatible icons. (dr) [News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 14:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jan.2025`	Dungeon Crawler: Custom maps for "The Shadows of Sergoth" The dungeon crawler "The Shadows of Sergoth" was released in 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer 'quantumcodemonk' has, as he writes, created a few custom maps for the game "just for fun". The aim was to create something "a bit harder... a lot harder" and is asking for feedback in this regard. The original game is required. (dr) [News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 11:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jan.2025`	Browser extension: AGuide Viewer 0.6 AGuide Viewer is an open source reader for AmigaGuide documents implemented as a browser extension. It works with Firefox and Chromium on all platforms (amiga-news.de berichtete). As the author explains, version 0.6 adds the feature to render web links in the AmigaGuide magazine WhatIFF and a configurable theme: the page can now be rendered in OS3 style (gray background, beveled 3D-effect buttons) or using the browser's native web page settings. (dr) [News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 11:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jan.2025`	Christmas game: The Young Icefighter, Level 4 "The Young Icefighter" is a Christmas game for children created with the "Shoot'em Construction Kit", for which the developer's eight-year-old son drew most of the graphics (amiga-news.de reported). Now a bonus level and level 4 have been added. (dr) [News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 09:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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