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`01.Jun.2025` ALB42 Blog (ANF)	Hunkster: Amiga and Linux versions Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has created an Amiga and a Linux version of the program Hunkster by 'RetroNick'. The Amiga version also has a MUI interface. The program can be used to load media files as hunk files into the Amiga's working memory, also specifically into the chip or fast RAM. When writing C or Pascal programs, their addresses in memory can then be transferred to a variable or an array and used for playback in order to integrate them into the executable file during compilation. The source code of Hunkster is available on GitHub. (snx) [News message: 01. Jun. 2025, 07:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2025` Reddit (forum)	Mac OS: Amiga tools Send2adf and ADF.inder With Send2adf and ADF.inder, Mac OS users are provided with two small programs at the title link with which all files in a selected directory can be written to an ADF file or the contents of an ADF file can be displayed. (snx) [News message: 28. May. 2025, 08:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.May.2025` Steffen Häuser (ANF)	RetroArch port for AmigaOS in progress Steffen Häuser is working on a port of RetroArch for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4 - this is a modular emulator system in which only the cores for the different systems are exchanged. After completion, the conversion will be available free of charge in Aminet and OS4Depot, the latter already contains a package with the first cores. He writes (translation) about his port: "I am currently in the process of porting the modular emulator system RetroArch to AmigaOS. Currently there is already a beta version for AmigaOS 4 and a beta version for AmigaOS 3.x (PiStorm 4 or at least PiStorm recommended). The WarpOS version is unfortunately not yet running, but is also being worked on. If you don't know RetroArch - it's a modular system where things like video refresh, sound, joystick etc. are done by a central program, and the emulators (like PC-Engine, NeoGeo, NES, Gameboy, ...) then only have to implement the "core". There is a very large field of emulator cores for RetroArch, which can then also be ported relatively easily (some more, some less) to AmigaOS. And you don't have to program video refresh, sound etc. for every emulator from scratch. RetroArch also offers a nice GUI. RetroArch also offers a comfortable GUI for operation. I offer the current beta version to anyone who sends (for example) 10-15 Euro to my PayPal account (tirionareonwe AT gmail.com) as a donation (in case of a donation, please provide an e-mail address to which the beta version should be sent). The final version will then be published free of charge on OS4Depot and Aminet. You can also have a look at the video here. (The NeoGeo CD core is not yet included in the video, as it has only been running for a very short time). There are already a lot of cores, but there is certainly room for improvement.I might want to take a look at a Mame core and possibly also a ScummVM core at some point, once the basic version is ready." (snx) [News message: 28. May. 2025, 08:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.May.2025`	New game engine: Sevgi Engine Sevgi Engine is a new open source video game engine which provides the required tools and generates the boilerplate code to create high performing Amiga games using only the C programming language (video). It is built around the ScrollingTricks archive by Georg Steger and has the following features: All display algorithms aim to perform at a locked 50fps on a single buffered native Amiga chipset display. It implements an optimized version of the algorithm Scroller_XYUnlimited2_64 from ScrollingTricks. Benefits highly from Fast Ram where available. System friendly: aims to work on all ROM versions (2.0+) providing a clean quit back to OS without needing WHDLoad. AGA Support: supports all features provided by the AGA chipset. No limitations: designed to support all the well known visual tricks known by the popular Amiga video game titles while not limiting more experimental effects to be implemented. Easy development A native editor program is provided to generate code, manage game assets, edit color palettes etc. called Sevgi Editor. Other elements like game logic, animation and events require programming knowledge in C. The programming and compiling can be made natively (on the Amiga OS - using native compilers) or cross platfrom (on Windows or Linux PCs - using cross development tools). Sevgi Editor can import game maps made in Tiled. Templates: generates ready to compile and run game code from template genres which aims to ease bootstrapping. The templates include test assets. ptplayer: implements the great ptplayer by Frank Wille for music and audio effects. No third party dependencies: the game executable will not require any libraries Documentation: the engine code is very well commented and documented in detail in Amigaguide format. An ECS or AGA Amiga, Kickstart 2.0+ and MUI 3.8 (for Sevgi Editor) are required. We asked the author İbrahim Alper Sönmez how this project came about: Amiga-News (AN): We have been reporting on two game construction kits for some time now: RedPill and die Scorpion Engine. Did you know about the other game engines? Alper Sönmez (AS): Yes I did know about RedPill and Scropion Engine. I never tried them though. I follow both of them from websites like yours, their facebook pages and youtube channels and I really appreciate what they’ve achieved so far. AN: Did you miss anything? AS: The first thing I miss in the engines mentioned is the unavailability of a clean quit back to OS. I try to use AmigaOS to the fullest, so I download the new games on the AmigaOS using IBrowse, unpack them and copy them to some proper drawer. But when I run them and not be able to quit back to OS, I get pretty annoyed. Another feature I miss in the games made on those other engines is the engine not being able to fade in/out the copper gradients (the color gradients used as background sky). I spent particular time on these two while developing Sevgi_Engine. AN: What was the reason for developing your game engine? AS: It was mostly educational and experimental. I've always been curious about how Amiga games were made. I’ve read so many different implementation ideas from various developers on forums and always had thought experiments inside my head for a while about what would be the best combination of these ideas to have the best performing game engine for the Amiga. I was familiar with Amos (which is very convenient, yet quite limiting on many aspects) and experimented with some ideas on that initially. One day I’ve decided to write something from scratch in C implementing all my ideas without encountering the limitations caused by the infrastructure of Amos. The most essential one among those ideas was one of the screen scroll routines demonstrated in Scrolling Tricks by Georg Steger which was also written in C. So I’ve downloaded his source code from Aminet and started implementing my version of the routine. When I saw it perform amazingly well I decided that there would be something of great value if I could turn this into a fully fledged game engine. And so the Sevgi_Engine project started. AN: Is it even possible to compare your engine with the other two? AS: It is hard to make an easy comparison because of the differences in the target groups. But I can say that Sevgi_Engine is more a "boilerplate C code generator" than a "game construction kit". But of course it has an editor to help with the management of game assets and engine features. But for a comparison on the games to be created with them, I can tell that Sevgi_Engine can outperform them both on being system friendly. Another important difference is that it is open source. It is amazing that some developers have already started contributing on GitHub. AN: What is the target group? Everyone? Or rather developers/programmers? AS: Sevgi_Engine requires great knowledge of Amiga hardware programming and C language. So the target group is C developers invested in programming Amiga hardware and AmigaOS friendly code. AN: Is it more/better suited to a certain type of game? AS: It is more suited to make high performing games that work on native Amiga display, like namely Turrican, Lionheart, Fire and Ice, Superfrog, Alien Breed etc. with an important caveat: Sevgi_Engine aims to perform as well as these games but on a single buffered display. Which means there will be more chip memory available for sound and graphics assets. (dr) [News message: 26. May. 2025, 22:53] [Comments: 1 - 27. May. 2025, 10:20] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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