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`16.Jan.2024`	Preview video: Platform game "Robot Jet Action 2" Almost two years ago, Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik released the platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the C64. Now he is working on porting the game to the Amiga and has called it "Robot Jet Action 2". The author has listed the new features: Level screen scrolling in 4 directions Initial boss level implementation Initial implementation of the worldmap / level selection screen A lot of implementation and bug fixes what you see is going to be World #1 and Gfx for World #1 is almost done. Initial implementation of bigger enemies (wider that 16 pixels sprites) (dr) [News message: 16. Jan. 2024, 21:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2024`	Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.5 for all Amiga systems Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.5: rearranged GUI to make it more intuitive melted the target requesters to one single target requester added source PDF-file requester to GUI for PDF2Image and PDF2PDF added function "Image2Image" to change the format of images added function "scan file(s)" to determine the attributes of the image(s) added function "rem (dup)" to remove duplicate entries from the listview added function "check" to check the given images if they are valid to process and to clean the listview from unvalid image files added possibility to scale images to a fixed size added more formats for Image2PDF (B4, B5, US, Executive, Comm10) installer now sets the OS automatically (thanks Daniel ;-)) key F1 now opens the guide file as help too updated tooltips optimized output messages fixed a bug where "read source" did not work correctly sometimes many improvements done "under the hood" ... ;-) (dr) [News message: 16. Jan. 2024, 21:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2024`	Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.2.0 for Windows NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2.2.0: Updated to .NET 8. Can now show sample information from TFMX modules. Because the TFMX format does not have a sample list structure like other module formats, it is hard to find out how many and where the samples are stored. Therefore sometimes you will see that a sample may be splitted into several samples or other small glitches. SidPlay will now show the right number of channels used to play the module in Module Information window. Normally, this will be 3, but for multiple SID chips module, it will be higher. Oktalyzer player will now convert 7-bit samples to 8-bit when loading a module. Will now be able to start playing on systems which has more than 2 speakers setup. Thanks to Raph99-Thanys and 7zxkv for reporting this. Removed the latency option again from the CoreAudio agent. It is now hardcoded to 200 ms, since it gave problems when it was too low when playing e.g. SidPlay modules. The sample visualizers now show the whole buffer and not only the last 20 ms. Now the module information updating also uses the mixer latency settings. The module information window will not switch tab back to the default one anymore, when changing sub-song. Added close button in message boxes. It's now possible to press the F1 key in any window to open the relevant help page. When you press the next module button, the end of module list settings will be used to find out what to do. Updated mpg123 to version 1.32.4. Updated SharpCompress to version 0.35.0. Updated Krypton.Toolkit and Krypton.Navigator to version 80.23.11.321. Updated libsidplayfp to version 2.6.0. Renamed Atari Octalyser to just Octalyser. Moved MultiTracker, FastTracker, Mod's Grave, Digital Tracker MOD and Octalyser formats from ModPlayer to Xmp. Added new TakeTracker format, since LibXmp can detect the difference between FastTracker and TakeTracker. Added Scream Tracker 3 MOD, OpenMPT MOD and FlexTrax formats. An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr) [News message: 16. Jan. 2024, 21:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2024`	ACube Systems: Guides for Radeon driver and USB/SD boot on Sam4x0 Press release: Dear valued customers, We have received numerous inquiries regarding the appropriate Radeon driver to use and how to go about it. We understand that using AmigaOS 4.1 can be a bit challenging in this regard, so we would like to provide you with some helpful information to make the process easier. Please take a moment to read this PDF Radeon QuickGuide, which discusses the various versions of Radeon drivers and provides instructions on how to install them on AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. It is crucial to carefully go through the article to ensure a smooth installation. Additionally, with the Make Bootable USB-SD QuickGuide we have prepared an article on utilizing an USB key or SD card that contains an AmigaOS 4.1 system, allowing for easy booting on Sam4x0 systems. We understand that working with an USB key / SD card may not be as straightforward as it should be, so we are here to assist all our customers and fellow Amigans in the Community. We genuinely hope that you find these details invaluable and that they enable you to utilize AmigaOS 4.1 on Sam4x0 at its best. (dr) [News message: 16. Jan. 2024, 06:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2024`	Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.2 ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC with Windows, Linux or MacOS to connect to the Amiga and browse the local hard drives. Changes in version 1.1.2: Hopefully the Amiga server shouldn't crash anymore on any machines. Please let me know if it does for you. The annoying bug on MacOS where the folder contents (not the folder) were copied when dragging a folder is fixed. Finally! Fixes for the blinking drive icons The browser window should remember the user's selection of list or icon mode (dr) [News message: 15. Jan. 2024, 21:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2024`	Tool: Mnemosyne V1.2.0 Mnemosyne is a tool for AmigaOS 3.x that shows how much space files and folders take up on the hard disk. It is supposed to help manage the space on the hard disk better. Mnemosyne is written in C and uses ReAction. ClassAct is required under AmigaOS 3.1 and 3.1.4. Version 1.2.0 provides the following changes: Added ability for ToolType usage. Added feature for Rounding numbers. Added NOROUND ToolType to prevent Rounding if chosen. Added Menu Toggles for Tooltypes. Updated Images to represent new Version. Added Tooltypes information to Wiki and Guide. Making Tooltypes available for CLI Use as well. ReImplemented -g flag to GUI flag. Fixed Incorrect overflow handling. You can get further information from the Wiki. Direct download: Mnemosyne-1.2.0.lha (80 KB) (dr) [News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 21:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2024`	Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.6 Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. Changes in version 5.6.6: Bugfixes WHDBooter would default to 020 CPU in cases it should use 68000 WHDBooter should detect AGA/CD32 games and use 020 CPU for them don't exclude the fps counter calculation switch back to normal vsync Revert timing changes, as some users reported problems don't keep native window size when opening an RTG screen Fix zero length disk dma not finishing when dsksync is detected. Do not generate Fat Gary delay/exception if Z2/Z3 board unmapped space access. floppy sounds did not load on macOS fix floppy sounds dir name should be lowercase on macOS as well dlopen was broken on macOS after previous changes changing the value of capture_always on the fly didn't work don't enable RTG hardware sprite by default Improvements Updated WHDLoad to latest version remember window position and size merge recent updates from preview improve DrawBridge functionality merge statusline updates from preview implemented multithreaded RTG rendering fix background color for main window selectors allow higher V.Offset values allow more values in joy-mouse settings Do not force key release if mouse capture was requested but mouse was already captured. (dr) [News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 17:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2024`	Tool: identify-library 44.1 A week ago Richard Körber released version 44.0 of his identify.library. This update mainly is a bug fix release: Bugfix: Emu68 MMU was not detected correctly Bugfix: OCS Denise was not detected Bugfix: Apollo 2030 was not detected 68EC030 is recognized now (if mmu.library is present) Added Emu68 Unicam Board Downloads: IdentifyDev.lha (67 kB) IdentifyUsr.lha (101 kB) (dr) [News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 13:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2024`	Aminet uploads until 13.01.2024 The following files have been added until 13.01.2024 to Aminet: JP20.lha demo/mag 1.4M 68k Jurassic Pack #20 P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 88K 68k P96 Preferences Editor VA2000.card.lha driver/vid 5K 68k Alternative VA2000 P96 driver TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T... IcePrincess.lha mods/8voic 486K 16bit 6ch Wiener Royal Waltz ... WarpWebPdt.lha util/dtype 285K 68k WebP image datatype V45.5 IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 67K 68k Identify hardware and more IdentifyLib_FR.lha util/libs 21K French catalog and docs for i... IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 101K 68k Identify hardware and more VATestprogram.zip util/misc 16M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram (snx) [News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 08:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2024`	OS4Depot uploads until 13.01.2024 The following files have been added until 13.01.2024 to OS4Depot: seq.lha aud/mis 427kb 4.1 MIDI sequencer warpwebpdt.lha dat/ima 285kb 4.0 WebP image datatype V45.5 fuppes.lha net/ser 15Mb 4.1 Free UPnP Entertainment Service (snx) [News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 08:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2024`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.01.2024 The following files have been added until 13.01.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: WarpWebPdt_45.5.lha Dependencies/Datatypes WebP image datatype V45.2 MCE_14.40.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed... Easy2Install_1.0b48.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do... (snx) [News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 08:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2024`	WHDLoad: New installers until 13.01.2024 Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 13.01.2024: 2024-01-07 improved: Graham Gooch World Class Cricket (Audiogenic) supports another version, defaults to a T20 match (Info) (snx) [News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 08:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2024`	Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V3.2 R99 for Windows 10/11 Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video). Since our last last news item several changes have been made, among others: new fill option for paint tool in sprite edit mode. Hold shift key to paint selected pixel with same color in entire sprite Cloning of Sprites and Maps added Added new RGBA Custom option for gcc and freebasic (dr) [News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2024` Michal Schulz (Mail)	Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 v1.0 Release Candidate 3 Developer Michal Schulz has released Release Candidate 3 of version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Emu68 1.0 Release Candidate 3 is the last release candidate before final version 1.0. It includes all fixes from RC1 and RC2. Additionally it contains several changes and fixes improving performance of old games and demos: BlitWait The BlitWait option allows the user to force Emu68 to do more fine-grained waits before writting several blitter-sensitive registers. Normally, the software which is using blitter should wait until it completed the operation, but in some cases the demo coders assumed that m68k is slow enough to not waist time for waiting. Such games and/or demos require the blitwait option activated either through cmdline.txt or with help of EmuControl to operate properly. Ability to add EmuControl parameters to Emu68 globally With this release user can pass the EmuControl command line options, like e.g. DBF ICNT=1 CCRD=0 directly to cmdline.txt file and thus making them global. This, in combination with eventually disabled CPU caches, allows one to run demos like the "State of the Art" directly from floppy, without WHDLoad. RGB to HDMI Passthrough This feature requires small external hardware (work in Progress or A500, A600, A1200, A2000) which sends the digital RGB data through the camera interface to raspberry directly. IN combination with new unicam.resource (embedded in kernel) and new VideoCore/Emu68-VC4 driver (available in new nightly build of Emu68-tools) this allows to display the RGB signal from Amiga on the HDMI. The unicam.resource allows one to enable this feature on boot already, new VideoCore driver allows one to easily switch between RGB and RTG modes on the same screen. The developer provides more detailed information on the changes in his new Patreon post. (dr) [News message: 14. Jan. 2024, 07:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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