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Archive 03/2025

`07.Mar.2025`	Logic game: Untangle V1.2 Grzegorz Kraszewski is in the process of writing the logic game Untangle for the Amiga. The player has a number of dots in front of him, which are connected by lines and cross each other. The aim of the game is to untangle the lines by moving the dots so that no line intersects another (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.2 offers 25 new levels - 200 in total - and Polish localisation. Download: untangle-1.2.lha (36 Kb) (dr) [News message: 07. Mar. 2025, 15:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Mar.2025`	Programming competition: Developing of a RedPill game The Spanish YouTube channel Amiga Wave has organised a programming competition for the RedPill game construction kit, which runs until 28 June: The main aim of the competition is to promote the use of REDPILL. All games that have been developed with RedPill and have not yet been released may take part in the competition and will be presented at the Posadas Party 2025. Prizes include an Amiga 500 Plus with power supply and mouse or a THEA500 Mini. (dr) [News message: 07. Mar. 2025, 06:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2025`	Cross-compiler/assembler: Calypsi 5.9 "Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - 6502 and 68000 processors are supported, among others. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source code is not freely available and use of the tools is only permitted for private purposes. Changes in version 5.9: Addsupport for 68060 by omitting instructions not present on this variant. This includes 64-bit divide and multiply,movep, chk2, cmp2, cas2andcas`. A separate set of 68060 libraries is now included. Parameter numbering in inline assembly now correctly starts the input list with %0 when there is no output. Correct a code generator bug that could occur in some situations when a register variable was used twice in the same expression. 6502: Incorrect offset could be used for calculations being made of an argument to a function call. There were a series of conditions for this. 1) There were other byte sized arguments stored in the zero page area later in the argument list; 2) The expression calculation accessed a local variable on the simulated C stack; and 3) Typically the expression called a library routine such as divide and multiply. In such situation the access to the local variable on the C stack could be accessed at the wrong offset. MEGA65: Fixed an internal error with banked function pointers used as initializers. Some code generator improvements to 6502 and MEGA65. (cg) [News message: 06. Mar. 2025, 21:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2025` Amiga 40th Silicon Valley Organisatoren (ANF)	Event: Further details on "Amiga 40th Anniversary" at VCF West The "Amiga 40th anniversary" event in Silicon Valley (California) announced in December is now described in more detail by the organizers of the "Vintage Computer Festival West" in a press release. Among other things, an exhibition with "unique historical artifacts from the collection of Dale Luck" and "current innovations from the Amiga community" is announced. There will also be a series of Amiga-focused presentations, but no details have yet been announced. (cg) [News message: 06. Mar. 2025, 21:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2025`	Antivirus software: xvs.library version 33.48 Georg Wittmann provides version 33.48 of the external virus scanner library xvs.library. Changes since the last release: Fixed recognition of 'Disk-Doktors' and 'Suicide Machine' boot viruses to avoid false alarms with harmless bootblocks. The new pattern for 'Disk-Doktors' recognizes all clones too, therefore removed entries 'Disk Doktors BJH', 'Disk Doktors NoFast' and 'Magic Ultra'. Thanks to Jan Andersen of VHT-DK for the sample bootblocks. Added 'Mosh 3.0' bootvirus. Thanks to Crashdisk for sending it. Added 'Silicon Penetration' bootvirus (actually just a malicious bootblock formatting the disk). Thanks again to Crashdisk for sending that stuff. Fixed recognition of 'Xeno' linkviruses to find modified copies too. Thanks again to Crashdisk for the report and an example file. Fixed recognition of 'Traveling Jack' linkvirus, the shortest strain hasn't been detected correctly. Thanks once again to Crashdisk for the example file. Removed 'Adam Brierley' from the bootvirus brain. This bootblock actually is just some kind of boot-loader and harmless. Thanks to Jan Andersen for the report. Fixed recognition of 'VKill' bootvirus to detect damaged copies too that will crash, but at least install parts in memory. Thanks again to Jan Andersen for the example bootblock. Added 'Disk-Doktors 2' bootvirus. This is a fixed version of the original virus that works with all Kickstart releases. Thanks to Crashdisk again for the sample. Fixed recognition of 'XCopy2' bootvirus to detect modified copies too. Actually this isn't a real virus as it cannot spread, but it modifies pointers and though can be harmful for other programs. Thanks to Crashdisk once again for sending the sample. Added 'Nemesis' bootvirus. This one I got from Crashdisk too. Added 'Warhawk 1 Aniga' bootvirus, another Warhawk clone found by Crashdisk. (cg) [News message: 06. Mar. 2025, 21:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2025`	Multiplatform emulator: Clock Signal 2025-03-05 (macOS, Linux) Thomas Harte's "Clock Signal" is a multiplatform emulator for macOS and Unix-compatible systems, which aims to protect the user from the typical configuration orgies and to enable the user (quote) "to start classic software directly". In addition to various 8- and 16-bit systems, the Amiga is also emulated. In version 2025-03-05, a bug was fixed that could lead to a crash under macOS when creating a new virtual machine. (cg) [News message: 06. Mar. 2025, 21:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2025`	AmigaOS 4: SDL 3.2.8 Version 3.2.8 of the multimedia library SDL is now available, which brings the following platform-specific innovations: Fix issue with window size after SetWindowPosition Prefs: add AISS images to menus Ignore destination alpha for target textures Remove constructor / destructor workarounds Improve OS4_DebugPrintF sdl3benchmark: reset random seed before every test Support SDL_PROP_APP_METADATA_NAME_STRING and SDL_HINT_APP_NAME Improve timer resolution from milliseconds to microseconds Cleanup code and makefiles (cg) [News message: 06. Mar. 2025, 21:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2025`	Linux: Kernel 6.12.17 LTS for X1000/X5000 Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.12.17 LTS ("long-term support"), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. Newly added is the support for Renesas xHCI controllers with firmware, in return Kexec is no longer supported on the X1000, KVM is temporarily disabled on the X5000. (cg) [News message: 06. Mar. 2025, 17:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Mar.2025`	Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.48 RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial. In the new version 0.9.48, the possibility of realistically resolving circular collisions has been added, among other things (video). All changes: Includes trigger help in PDF, thanks to Andres De Pedro. First version of the thumbnail system, for screen to screen games, in Level Properties screen. Action trigger Play Anim now supports playing an animation backwards. Added new action trigger Resolve Col(lisions) for realistic circle collision behaviour. Added example ex_action_resolve to show how to use the new trigger Added actiton Set Text Image to set an image to be used in the dialogs, the face of a character or an item, for example. Updated ex_UI_bars project to show Set Text Image trigger usage. Changes in scroll to allow bigger sprites. Image to tiles improvements. Changes in file requesters to improve RTG compatibility. More safe code when parent of an object is being deleted in the editor. Fix for action trigger impact. Fix for pick frame in spritesheets bigger than zero. Fix for show tile collisions not being updated during runtime. Now particles are cleaned when moving to another level. UI improvements Code refactor Amigaguide helper corrections, thanks to Joaquin Ferrero. (dr) [News message: 06. Mar. 2025, 05:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Mar.2025` Simon Neumann (ANF)	AmigaOS 4: GemRB RPG package 0.8.8 Press release (translation): Steffen Häuser and Alinea Computer are very pleased to present the GemRB RPG package version 0.8.8 for AmigaOS 4. Steffen Häuser is responsible for the porting and the easy installation. GemRB makes it possible to play the famous PC role-playing games Baldur's Gate 1, Baldur's Gate 2 (called "the best PC role-playing game of all time" by many), Icewind Dale 1 and Planescape: Torment on an Amiga equipped with AmigaOS 4. Original data from the PC version (on CD or DVD) is required for installation. A PC is not required, the installer makes it possible to install the four games directly on the Amiga. An installation of "Gog" data is also possible as an alternative, but then a "pre-installation" on a PC is necessary - which is why the CD/DVD installation is recommended, as a PC is not required then. This version of GemRB is based on GemRB 0.8.8 and contains many bug fixes compared to the older version 0.7.2. No manual installation of libraries or editing of configuration files is necessary - the included installer takes care of everything. This new version is highly optimized and also contains executable files that are specially optimized for certain Amiga models. The following frame rates are achieved: AmigaOne x5000 2 GHz - 30 fps at 1024x768 AmigaOne x1000 1,8 GHz - 25 fps at 800x600 AmigaOne A1222 1,2 GHz - 18 fps at 640x480 Sam 440 666 MHz - 15 fps at 640x480 MicroAmigaOne 800 MHz - 10 fps at 640x480 Special versions exist for the x5000, x1000, Sam 440, Sam 460 and A1222 models, plus an executable file that runs on all systems. The minimum configuration is a Sam 440, the recommended configuration is a Sam 460 or higher. The add-ons "BG1: Tales of the Swordcoast", "BG2: Throne of Bhaal" and "IWD: Heart of Winter" are also playable (and can be installed using the installer). The games were tested with the German, English, multi-language (German, English, French, Italian, Spanish) and Polish versions. The versions of BG1, BG2 and ID1 on the Computerbild games cover DVD (bg1:12/2008, bg2:12/2008 Gold and id1:03/2009) and of Torment on the GameStar cover DVD (07/2006) can also be installed with the installer. In addition to the AmigaOS 4 version, a WarpOS version will be released soon as well, which has already been successfully tested with 25 fps (640x480) on a Ragnarök PCI-PPC card overclocked to 1 GHz. Whether it is possible to create a version for PiStorm and Vampire is still being evaluated. The game package is available as a digital download from the Alinea Computer online store at the title link. Screenshots: (snx) [News message: 05. Mar. 2025, 16:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Mar.2025`	Video: Feeding the audio signal into an RGB2HDMI adapter In the video at the title link, Robert Smith demonstrates how he installs an HDMI audio embedder in his Amiga 500 in order to output also sound via an RGB2HDMI adapter. (snx) [News message: 05. Mar. 2025, 16:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Mar.2025` Akustikrausch (E-Mail)	Podcast: Amiga's Lost Future - The Secrets Commodore Never Told You The latest episode of the Binary Beats podcast looks at Commodore's unreleased projects such as the AAA chipset, Hombre and other failed innovations. (snx) [News message: 05. Mar. 2025, 16:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Mar.2025` Andreas Magerl (ANF)	Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 173 The English and German issue 173 (March/April 2025) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Content of the current issue includes, besides several reviews, for example an interview with Richard Leinfellner and a special about the life of an AmigaOS 4 betatester. (snx) [News message: 05. Mar. 2025, 16:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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