02.Dec.2023
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Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.4 for all Amiga systems
At the end of August, we reported on Bernd Assenmacher's PDF2JPG tool, which can be used to convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. As the author has developed further tools, Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs) and PDF2PDF (converts PDFs into copy-protected PDFs), there was a request in the subsequent comments to the news article to bundle these tools into one. This has been realised with the present Image2PDF version 2.4, which is available for AmigaOS 3, 4, AROS and MorphOS. The author has kindly provided us with a few explanations of the new version:
"The new version can do even more, such as "PDF2Image" (i.e. convert PDF not only into JPG or PDF format, but also into other formats such as PNG, BMP, GIF or ILBM/IFF). PDF2Image" also includes options such as "scaling" and "PDF2JPG" allows you to set the compression quality of the JPG image.
As another feature I have added an image scaling function "Image2NewSize", which can scale images to the desired resolution while maintaining the aspect ratio. (The result is of course highly dependent on the source image used). All other functions known from "Image2PDF V2.3" are of course still available. With "Image2PDF", you can now also scale the images at the same time by setting "ImageSize" as the format. I am already working on "Image2PDF V2.5", where the whole thing should be a bit more intuitive and where a function for converting images into other image formats will be added.
The beta versions can be downloaded from my my website and tried out. I am well aware that there are good tools that offer such functions, but since "Image2PDF" is all about images and PDFs, I try to include as much as possible.
I hope that many people will enjoy the tool and that it can help with tasks involving scans, images and PDFs.
I would be delighted to receive feedback by e-mail. Everyone who writes to me will receive his/her personal key." (dr)
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02.Dec.2023
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.4.0 (beta version)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. With version 0.4.0 now released, his project has reached beta status: all planned features have been integrated.
Now the author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him. (dr)
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01.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Update for Amiga port of Electro Man
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch is porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). This update adds the final eighth level. (dr)
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01.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Abbey(s) of the Dead
About two weeks ago, the developer 'UltraNarwhal' released a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead" (YouTube video) which is now followed by the full version, available for about three Euro.
(dr)
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30.Nov.2023
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Preview video: Temptations port for CD32
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the first draft of the sixth level. (dr)
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29.Nov.2023
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Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness for Apollo V4
In mid-September, Sami Vehmaa released his first Visual Novel game, "Mansion of Madness" (YouTube video). He has now added a version for the Apollo V4 accelerator cards. (dr)
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29.Nov.2023
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Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas: PED81C updated
With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slowing down additional calculations by CPU or custom chips (Copper, Blitter) at all (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has added a Voxel engine to his project and demonstrates it in a YouTube video. Other changes:
- Fixed some palette values in a table in the documentation.
- Added formulas for calculating DIWSTRT, DIWSTOP, DIWHIGH, DDFSTRT and DDFSTOP to documentation.
- Replaced fixed values with the aforementioned formulas in the AMOS Professional source code example.
(dr)
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29.Nov.2023
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Video: Repairing an Amiga 2000
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he gets a non-working Amiga 2000, which he received for his birthday, up and running again. (dr)
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29.Nov.2023
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Game development: Color Palette Mixer for Aseprite
Two weeks ago, we reported on a script that converts graphics created using Aseprite into an IFF/ILBM file. In the German comments, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus pointed out that "Aseprite always works in 24 bit." As a result, "Prismatic Realms" has now published a second script with which you only have 4096 colours to choose from.
When executed, a dialogue window presents a retro colour palette and a mixer, an RGB slider known from the Amiga with 4-bit granularity (i.e. values from 0 to 15 for each colour component). The palette mixer supports 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 (Extra HalfBrite) colour palettes without alpha channels and ensures that all colours on the palette conform to the Amiga's 16-bit colour palette restrictions. There is also a button that resets the colour palette to Deluxe Paint V's default palette. (dr)
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29.Nov.2023
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Mod player: HippoPlayer 2.59
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.59. Changes:
Fixes:
- Patternscope and AHX modules: Fix bug which caused track 0 sometimes not being
displayed.
- Info window: Fix PSID song speed information sometimes showing wrong values.
- Prevent jam when receiving no results from recent stations search.
- Allow MS-DOS line changes in playlist/module program files.
- Info window: Allow mousewheel to work with scrolling the content.
- Commandline parameters: If started with "QUIT" and there is no
existing HiP instance running, do not start a new one.
- Keep list on exit: when starting HiP with commandline/icon modules
as parameters do not lose the kept list, instead append to the end.
New features:
- Scopes: When paused display the paused contents instead of the Hippo gfx.
- MED/OctaMED: Display song length and channel count for multichannel modules.
- Patternscope now supports MED and OctaMED modules, up to 18 channels visible.
"mini4" font is needed to display more than 8 channels as before.
- STIL support added for use with the High Voltage Sid Collection.
- PSID improvements with the updated playsid.library v1.6:
- SIDBlaster support upgraded by Erique, now faster and much less
likely to cause jams. A 68020 should be enough for normal
playback, previously a faster CPU was needed.
- reSID mode now supports playsid-style digisamples, as heard for
example in tunes like "Skate Or Die" and "Arkanoid".
- "Prefs/Play-2/reSID boost" can be used to boost the volume
in reSID mode.
- The library also now works on kickstart 1.3 in the original
playback mode, no need to have a separate kick1.3 lib version.
- Improved configuration with environment variables, if not using
with Hippo.
- MIDI file playback support:
- "Prefs/Play-2/MIDI mode" setting chooses which mode is active.
- Serial output mode using Alastair M. Robinson's "delimidi" player.
This will use MIDI equipment connected to the serial port for playing.
- Paula/AHI output mode using either Timidity Amiga port by Philipp
Grosswiler or GMPlay by Christian Buchner.
- Scopes, song end detection, AHI output supported.
- Console music playback support using the "vgm2wav" application
(dr)
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28.Nov.2023
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PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 97
After a break of more than six years (issue 96), the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" is back: as editor Nigel Parker reports, the original website was hacked via a PHP script and all files were deleted. "Scopperdive LTD" has restored the original website and updated it so that it is easier to read on mobile devices and smaller screens. Even though he suffered numerous strokes of fate during the long hiatus, he decided to revive the magazine, also encouraged by countless emails, and offers a colourful bouquet of topics on Commodore and Amiga computers in this issue. (dr)
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27.Nov.2023
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Frogger clone: Frogger500 v1.24
Frogger500 (YouTube-Video) is a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konami game (amiga-news.de reported). Since our last news item, an MMU error has been fixed and the highscore can now be saved and loaded in both the ADF and WHDLoad versions. (dr)
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27.Nov.2023
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.4
The "Scorpion Engine" (video of development of vertical scroll demos) by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used. Changes of version 2023.4:
- Improved copper rainbow support on Amiga, including being able to set any of the 256 colors and at 24 bit color depth
- Support for VGM music on Mega Drive (XGM driver from SGDK)
- Support for saving on Mega Drive (SRAM)
- Ability to support more than 32 active actors at one time
- Improved Cut/Paste/Undo/Redo functionality
- Support for byte arrays - this will be expanded in future with word array support
In addition, Scorpion Engine now includes the previously exclusive Bullet Hell 2 (Amiga) and Real Time Scaling (Amiga/Mega Drive) demos.
(dr)
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26.Nov.2023
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Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.4
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.4:
- Encoding problem is solved
- Some languages removed
- Fixed any icons can be moved via drag and drop on WB
- Get Days and Months from locale
- Added use or not abbreviations for days and months
- Fixed the issue of color changes using system palette
- Removed calibration setting for height of the window
- Added 'Add to Pos Y of Text' button
Direct download: AmiWeatherForecasts1.4.lha (59 KB) (dr)
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26.Nov.2023
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AROS: Poll on "Irritating bug of the month" December
After the "Irritating bug of the month" for November was fixed (amiga-news.de reported), AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has started the corresponding survey for December under the title link:
- AREXX scripts in Core show no output
- UHCTools don't work as expected
- Wanderer Rename: Cannot change size of letters in name without changing name
- DiskInfo showing OFS instead of FAT
- Wrong parsing of boot parameters in Prefs/Boot
- Contrib LHA has issues when used from ZuneARC
(dr)
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26.Nov.2023
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Aminet uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to Aminet:
wla_dx_v10.6.lha dev/cross 8.8M 68k WLA DX - Cross Macro Assemble...
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 873K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
HWP_Plananarama.lha dev/hwood 461K 68k Run Hollywood scripts on plan...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.8M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
character-sets.lha docs/hyper 13K IANA Charset MIB (Amiga catal...
drally.lha game/race 387K 68k Death Rally Amiga Port
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 54K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 35M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
NightfallMID.lha mods/midi 1K MIDI GM Nightfall Piano Balla...
file.driver.lha mus/misc 9K 68k CyberSound driver for file ou...
AmiWeatherForecasts1.... util/app 38K 68k Weather forecasting application
BootPicture.lha util/boot 87K 68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
sysvars.lha util/boot 16K 68k Put system information in env...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.8M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 659K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 771K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 830K OS4 Multipurpose utility
incase.lha util/shell 49K 68k Conditional execution of a sh...
(snx)
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26.Nov.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 35Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb 4.0 Videntium Picta is picture and a...
hwp_plananarama.lha lib/hol 461kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for planar screen
iconecta.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 A little and easy program to tes...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 830kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
(snx)
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26.Nov.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to AROS Archives:
hollywoodsp.lha dev/mis 873kb Spanish Catalog for Hollywood 10
antiryagx.zip dev/uti 359Mb Advanced 2D/3D Game Engine
videntiumpicta.lha gra/vie 2Mb Videntium Picta is picture and a...
iconecta.lha net 2Mb A little and easy program to tes...
(snx)
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26.Nov.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Arexx.lha Dependencies Library to activate Are...
libfreetype2_2.13.2.lha Development/Library LibFreetype 2.13.2 for ...
xad-7z_2.8.lha Files/Archive A client for xadmaster....
fheroes2_1.0.10.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
VidentiumPicta_3.00.lha Graphics/Tools An image viewer progra...
ReportPlus_8.44.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
YT_2.4.lha Multimedia YT.rexx is a script for...
Easy2Install_1.0b45.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
iConecta_5.10.lha Network/Wifi A little and easy progr...
(snx)
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26.Nov.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.11.2023
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 25.11.2023:
- 2023-11-25 improved: Traders (Linel) supports another version, new install script, icons added (Info)
- 2023-11-25 improved: Campaign (Empire) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-11-21 improved: Hammerfist (Vivid Image) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-11-21 fixed: Super Hang-On (Sega/Electric Dreams) problem with "Super" animation on some machines fixed (Info)
(snx)
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26.Nov.2023
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Theme set: 32se and 32se-lite v7.40 for AmigaOS 3.2
AmigaOS 32se" is a supplement of themes for AmigaOS 3.2, which is available free of charge in a "lite" version (video) or in a full version (video) for about 1,50 US Dollars. It was tested by the developer Sami Vehmaa under emulators.
Additional to some changes and bug fixes, for the first time the Vampire V4 is experimentally supported. Besides, a new Theme set 9 was added, and the lite version now has free access to four themes. (dr)
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