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`20.Jan.2025` Games That Weren't	Amiga Games That Weren't: Joy of Killing "Joy of Killing" was a shoot'em up started in 1996 by the Polish development team S-Crew. The site "Amiga Games That Weren't", which collects information on unreleased Amiga titles, has now restored the demo produced at the time in co-operation with 'Rygar'. (dr) [News message: 20. Jan. 2025, 18:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jan.2025`	Linux: Kernel 6.13.0 for X1000/X5000 Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.13.0, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled a version for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The new kernel fixes, among others, bugs around network, sound and SCSI. (dr) [News message: 20. Jan. 2025, 17:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jan.2025` Mixel	Multiplayer arcade game: "WiZONK!" 1.0.4 "WiZONK!" (Video) is a single-screen platformer developed with the Scorpion Engine, in which up to four combatants try to kill each other. In version 1.0.4, a few bugs have been fixed and some changes have been made to the functionality: More menu controls are now Player 1 exclusive. Fixed a lockup if you quit the game in a particular way. Made Player 1 mandatory Fixed bug where sometimes 2 players were invisible! Optimised the Menu Screen (ongoing) Improved multitap icon Added ability to cycle characters by clicking beside the portraits In particular, the optimisation of the main menu has not yet been completed and will only improve over the course of the next updates. (dr) [News message: 20. Jan. 2025, 06:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jan.2025` Kobold_Eduard	Christmas game: The Young Icefighter, Level 5 and bonus level "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 another bonus level and level 5 have been released. (dr) [News message: 20. Jan. 2025, 06:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jan.2025` Marcel Stritzelberger	Article: Amiga-Memory - A computer that shaped us (German) Christian Spanik is an Austrian presenter, film producer and author who has written books about the Commodore 64 and Amiga. He also runs the website Der Digisaurier, where he looks at current topics with the knowledge of the past. In the recently published German article "Amiga Memory: A computer that shaped us", he takes readers "on a journey through personal memories, quirky details and special moments that make the Amiga an unforgotten classic. And my favourite computer to this day." (dr) [News message: 20. Jan. 2025, 06:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025`	Aminet uploads until 18.01.2025 The following files have been added until 18.01.2025 to Aminet: TuneFinderMUI.lha comm/misc 66K OS3 Search+play online radi... AFG.sh.zip dev/gg 636K VAR Audio Function Generato... REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 6.2M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s... E-ROMATO.lha dev/src 2K GEN A python script to swap... anaiis.lha driver/oth 256K OS3 ANAIIS USB Stack Releas... anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 259K OS3 ANAIIS USB Boot disk Re... anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 82K OS3 Massive release 1.25 HappyBat.lha game/jump 244K OS3 A flappy bird clone for... 3doc_m68020_v1.10.lha gfx/3d 2.2M OS3 3D Object Converter for... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.5M MOS Signetics-based machine... AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma... MuEVD.lha misc/emu 152K OS3 MuLib driven ShapeShift... ZXLive.lha misc/emu 127K OS3 ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pen... Felicidad.lha mods/midi 59K GEN Felicidad, General MIDI... NoJob.mp3 mods/mpg 4.1M GEN A motif made by Stefano... AmySequencer.lha mus/midi 564K OS3 MIDI sequencer for the ... AMIGA-SCARTRGBcable.jpg pix/illu 26K GEN Schematic for generic A... AmiTranslateItaCat.lha text/misc 17K GEN Italian catalog for Ami... MMULib.lha util/libs 789K OS3 Library to ctrl the MC6... AnalogClock.lha util/time 42K OS3 Resizeable analog trans... (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025`	OS4Depot uploads until 18.01.2025 The following files have been added until 18.01.2025 to OS4Depot: resrc4.lha dev/mis 128kb 4.1 MC680x0 Disassembler amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 10Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator openjazz.lha gam/pla 883kb 4.1 open-source version of the class... afa-viewer.lha uti/arc 4Mb 4.1 Browse AmigaFuture Archive-DVD amitranslate.lha uti/tex 5Mb 4.0 Translate text with DeepL litexl2.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte... (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025`	AROS Archives uploads until 18.01.2025 The following files have been added until 18.01.2025 to AROS Archives: alac.x86_64-aros-v11.zip aud/mis 71kb Apple Lossless Audio Codec decoder tinysid.x86_64-aros-v11.zip aud/pla 66kb A small, multiplatform SID player gorillaz_drawer.lha gra/ico 188kb Collection of Drawer Icons for A... nomarch.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/arc 80kb extract old .arc and .ark archives zunearc.x86-64-aros-v11.zip uti/arc 301kb a zune front end for archivers bin2iso.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/fil 45kb convert Bin File to ISO 9660 dirtree.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/mis 49kb Shell command displaying directo... joytest.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/mis 45kb joypad test prints lowlevel data... rescode.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/mis 87kb Calculates resistor values (4 an... diskusage.x86_64-aros-v11... uti/she 49kb Estimates file space usage timeit.x86_64-aros-v11.zip uti/she 46kb Shell command for timing other c... dclock.x86_64-aros-v11.lha uti/wor 31kb Utilities Clock for wanderer skandalfoclock.x86_64-aro... uti/wor 173kb Advanced Analog Clock (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.01.2025 The following files have been added until 18.01.2025 to MorphOS-Storage: Physfs-3.3.0.lha Development/Library MorphOS port of Physics... boost-1.87.0.lha Development/Library Boost 1.87.0 for MorphOS Freetype-2.13.3.lha Development/Library MorphOS port of LibFree... AmiArcadia_33.80.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... AmiTranslate_0.5.lha Misc A DeepL interface for A... Lite-XL_2.1.7r1.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh... (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025` Amiga Boing (website)	Amiga Boing Blog: Successor wanted The "Amiga Boing Blog" offers tests of numerous games from the PD/freeware area. In addition, game collections with freely distributable games or games licensed to the operator are compiled, which are already delivered with a fully prepared WinUAE - the user only has to add a Kickstart ROM. There are also collections in RP9 format, which therefore work optimally with Cloanto's "Amiga Forever" emulator package, and a collection of games that work with the AROS-based Kickstart ROM supplied with WinUAE. As the blogger will not be able to continue his work in the foreseeable future, a successor will be sought from 2026 on. Plenty of work is available, as there are 3,000 more games ready to be added. (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025`	Do it yourself: CompactFlash adapter AmigaCF for Amiga 600 and 1200 The CompactFlash adapter AmigaCF for the Amiga 600 and 1200 is connected to the internal IDE port not by cable like other variants, but is plugged directly into it instead. In addition, noises are made during access, as a substitute for those made when accessing a real 2.5" hard disk inside the computer. The AmigaCF is intended for use directly on the mainboard - as it is unbuffered, it is not suitable for use on the IDE port of some turbo boards, i.e. those which require a buffered adapter instead. (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025` Steffen Haeuser at A1K.org (ANF)	Financing of a Warp3D driver for the PiStorm32 (PI4/CM4) on IndieGoGo Steffen Haeuser writes at A1K.org (translated): "Warp3D for PiStorm! Until now, 3D games on Amiga computers with PiStorm were limited to software-only rendering solutions, even though a Pi4/CM4 has a powerful 3D chip (Videocore VI). The aim of this project is to change this. Developer Dennis Boon has offered to create a Warp3D.library for PiStorm systems with Pi4 and Pi CM4 for a fee. With 3D hardware acceleration, you get higher resolutions, faster FPS and more impressive visuals for 3D gaming on PiStorm-equipped Amiga systems. Additionally, it enables porting of games that require 3D hardware acceleration or games that would be too slow in software-only rendering on a PiStorm Amiga." (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025` spillhistorie.no (ANF)	Spillhistorie: Interview with Michael Haire (Microprose) Hans Arne Jacobsen and Joachim Froholt have conducted another interview for the Norwegian website Spillhistorie - this time with Michael Haire, the former head of Microprose's graphics department. Michael Haire worked on classics such as Sid Meier's Pirates! and Civilization. He entered the games industry in 1981 when he created cover art for a series of games for the TRS-80 8-bit computer. He quickly began to create game graphics and worked for the legendary game publisher and developer MicroProse from the mid-1980s. (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025`	Video: Data recovery from an Amiga 1000 (German) In the video at the title link, the home computer and games console museum Yesterchips in Lützelbach (Hessen, Germany) deals with data recovery from the hard disk of an Amiga 1000. As this is not a SCSI or IDE hard disk, but one of the MFM hard disks used previously, the task was somewhat more complex. (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025` MiDWaN	Amiga emulator: Amiberry-Lite 5.8.1 As announced, Amiberry 7.0 has now been followed by the release of the slimmed-down version 5.8 of Amiberry-Lite. This version, which is still based on WinUAE 4.4, has now also received selected cherry-picked features from its big brother, insofar as they are still useful on less powerful systems up to and including the Raspberry Pi 4. (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025` Mastodon (ANF)	Game: Tank in a Dungeon 1.1 (update) In "Tank in a Dungeon" you have to drive a tank through a labyrinth exposed by an earthquake in order to free researchers held captive by alien robots. An Amiga with at least 1.5 MB RAM and Workbench 2.0 is required, an Amiga 1200 is recommended. Update: (19.01.2025, 21:27, dr) Version 1.1 is now available, which fixes a bug (flickering numbers in the score and player ammo have been removed) and also assigns the player a rank based on accuracy after completing all missions. (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jan.2025`	AmigaOS 4: New port of the game engine OpenJazz for Jazz Jackrabbit OpenJazz is an engine that can be used to play the commercial Sonic clone Jazz Jackrabbit (the original files are required accordingly). It was ported for AmigaOS 4 back in 2012 already by Roman 'kas1e' Kargin. Since then, OpenJazz has undergone several additions and has been converted to SDL2 though. However, in the current version by George Sokianos, the bonus stages are switched off as they lead to crashes. A problem that also occurs on other platforms. (snx) [News message: 19. Jan. 2025, 13:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jan.2025`	Operating system: MorphOS 3.19 released Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.19. This release includes numerous important stability and security improvements. For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.19, please read our release notes: MorphOS 3.19 boot.img Changes Quark Fixed the MAC address reading on dual core PowerMac G5 machines Prefer the loader-supplied CPU frequency, if available When accessing the regular PCI bus, do a type 1 configuration transaction (Sam460LE) Fixed time being off by couple of seconds on Mac systems Dos Improved the ExAll emulation Removed unnecessary current directory change in MatchEnd Intuition Corrected the gamma channel handling for copy operation in GetDefaultGammaTables Fixed a regression when uncovering hidden windows with Enhanced Display being off MarvellDMA IDMAWaitCopyASync: fixed a race condition Poseidon Fixed a language array overflow error Ram Disk ACTION_END: Improved compatibility USB Improved display of special rawkeys in the keyboard tab Fixed initial state of event tracking, action enable/disable buttons Fixed a possible illegal access issue for certain HID mouse devices MorphOS 3.19 Disk Changes Ambient Fixed snapshot/unsnapshot to properly retain metadata for SVG icons Fixed snapshot/unsnapshot for dualpng icons Added multiple new filetype definitions Disabled unconditional debug Fixed root view icon unsnapshot issues Fixed not to show bogus data in the Information window if a disk icon is missing Fixed incorrect logic when locating icon Default Tool Applications/Flacapella Added GnuDB UniqueCode support Disabled defunct cover search services Applications/Hex Search is now abortable Added Recent Files menu and other UI improvements Viewing RAM now starts in read-only mode Applications/Jalapeno Made it possible to ignore a failing disc capacity check on P5020 Applications/RemoteShell Updated OpenSSH to 9.3p2 Applications/Transfer Fixed local path handling when navigating to parent directory Applications/VPDF Updated to latest libpoppler 25.01.0 Fixed C++ locale support Fixed an exception/exit issue with specific PDFs related to outlines Fixed some issue with opening document internal and external links when outline view was enabled C/HDWrite Fixed Start Offset to handle 64bit values C/Installer Fixed memory corruption issue with some scripts C/Newer Added a FILE/S argument to explicitly disable resident and library searches C/Version Improved compatibility parsing content between revision and date Classes/Frameworks/MUI Re-worked separator settings in the ASL requesters Use [self new] instead of [class new] in helper constructors to aid with overriding MUIList active would return 0 (instead of -1) even if the list was empty early on Fixed the MUIA_Poplist_Object getter Classes/Frameworks/OB Added several missing methods to OBQueue Reworked all error handling to go through common handlers and provide more data Arexx messaging between two ObjectiveC apps bypasses rexx's baked in string length limits and uses UTF-8 Fixed a memory leak in OBArexxPort Classes/Mui/Hex Exposed 'isediting' state Classes/Mui/VGraphics Don't redraw on mouse moves when MUIA_VGraphics_LightenOnMouse is off Classes/Reggae/Http_stream Fixed memory leaks and other bugs in error code paths NetThreadSendRequest: improved handling of network errors Classes/Reggae/MediaLogger Fixed a buffer overflow when rendering long event descriptions Classes/Screenbar/Netlamps Fixed incorrect network traffic statistics in certain conditions Classes/Usb/Camdusbmidi Fixed a bug with SysEx reception handling for multiple in/out DIN interface Classes/Usb/Xbox360 Added support for GameSir-G7 SE Controller for Xbox L/NetworksFS Fixed connection error requester message Store volume names in bookmarks when using the Connect window Added missing MUIA_CycleChains L/Smb2FS Fixed to return error when setting date for a non-existing object smb2_futimens: use mtime not atime for last_write_time L/TrashFS Respect DefIcon_Path when loading Trashcan icons Hide .mtrash directories as they're created (SFS only) Libs/Filesysbox FbxSetupSystemStart: use GetUTCSysTime to get systemstart time FbxDS2Timespec: Fixed tv_nsec overflow when ds_Tick was past the first second in minute FbxTimeSpec2DS: Take tv_nsec into account when calculating ds_Tick Libs/Icon Fixed problem with classic icons Libs/Ixemul getcwd: Fixed signal locking Libs/Lzma Updated to liblzma 5.2.12 Libs/OpenSSL3 Updated to OpenSSL 3.1.7 Libs/Random Improved random seeding Libs/Thumbnail Updated to ffmpeg 4.4.5 Data/SSL/Curl-ca-bundle.crt Updated root certificates Devs/Monitors/Radeon Modified debug output MUI Added the Unicode collection to Fontpanel Context menus will now open right-of mouse pointer Check whether MUIA_Coloradjust_ShowAlpha is TRUE before adding the alpha slider Fixed fixed-width font support in ASL requesters Fixed dereferenced submenu edge case after some scroll/move operations Network/Netstack Improved errno/h_errno handling Prefs/OpenURL Updated Iris' defaults Prefs/Printers Fixed paper size units from cm to mm Tools/HDConfig Improved stability Tools/IWizard Don't overwrite Wayfarer/Iris when updating MorphOS and a newer version is already installed Preserve newer Radeon and TinyGL, if installed Fixed a bug in path filtering Tools/Scout Improved stability Improved task UID display Utilities/Commodities/Expose Improved stability Utilities/Multiview Improved detection of text documents Fixed a crash when rendering colored AmigaGuide text (dr) [News message: 18. 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