29.Dec.2023
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Analogue Pocket: Amiga core V0.1.2
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. Version 0.1.2 has now been published of the Amiga Core which adapts the mouse setting to the new firmware 2.0. (dr)
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29.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Santa's Workout 3 - Silent Night
After "Vector5 Games" released the first two parts only for the C64, the third part is now also available for the Amiga: in "Santa's Workout 3 - Silent Night" (YouTube video) the special feature is that the player, as Santa Claus, has to act extremely quietly so as not to wake the sleeping children. (dr)
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29.Dec.2023
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Platform game: "Super Delivery Boy - The Holiday Shift" 2023.1
The mini game "Super Delivery Boy - The Holiday Shift" (YouTube video) was updated again (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Rewritten and simplified most of the code
- Improved performance on low end machines
- More precise collision detection when delivering presents
- Some graphical improvements
- Bug fixes
(dr)
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28.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser NetSurf 3.11
After around three and a half years various test builds an update of the NetSurf browser to version 3.11 was published today, together with a version for AmigaOS 4, provided by Chris Young under the title link. NetSurf 3.11 features improved page layout with CSS flex support. It also features many other optimisations and enhancements. Changes of the Amiga port:
- Added page theme option.
- Improved bitmap handling.
- Improved and optimised Unicode handling.
- Stability improvements.
After initial tests on our part, the support for encrypted pages that had been lost in test builds is working again. Unfortunately, access to downloads from GitHub pages ("Assets") still does not work.
Officially, no conversion for AmigaOS 3 has (yet) been published, but the last test build from 28 December 2023, NetSurf-gcc-6637.lha (4,3 MB), should basically correspond to version 3.11. (dr)
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28.Dec.2023
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Java program: ham_convert 1.9.3
Sebastian Sieczko's java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats to the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.9.3. Changes:
- dded Oric mode (experimental). Oric was a British 8-bit computer powered by the 6502 cpu with 8-color graphics with no v-sync.
- Dynamic Hires: cancel option to abort conversion.
- rgbg_pal cli parameter can be used to select fixed rgbg ham pattern mode in ham6.
- Code cleanup.
(dr)
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27.Dec.2023
Gaming on AmigaOS 4 (ANF)
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Interview with Steffen Häuser (Heretic II port)
In addition to his monthly summaries of AmigaOS 4 news, 'Puni' has now also conducted an interview with Steffen 'TheMagicSN' Häuser, who is working on AmigaOS 4 ports of the games Heretic II and Sin, at the title link. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Review of December 2023
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS news for the month of December at the title link. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
Nicola Morocutti (ANF)
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 17
The seventeenth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available with 50 color pages both as a booklet and digitally, deals with the following topics:
- Games Reviews: Crimbo, STAR WARS: Dark Forces, L’Abbaye des Morts, Death Rally, Emerald Caves, Rally Cross, Project Quest, Super Bagman, Hop to the top: Bunny’s Revenge
- Reviews: IBrowse 3.0, zTools
- Interview: A man called CLOANTO
- Hardware: Greaseweazle and Waffle
- Amiga GCC – Not only Amiga…
- Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Demo Scene, Back Chat
(snx)
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27.Dec.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 153 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about 1000cc Turbo and Frogger500. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
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8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2023-12-26
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now. Changes:
- improves support for Apple II NIB images;
- thanks to @ryandesign corrects Apple II/II+/IIe floating bus issues;
- resolves a potential crash-at-startup for the Enterprise;
- resolves potential stuck-on drive motors on the Amiga;
- resolves some disk writing issues specific to the Enhanced Apple IIe;
- thanks again to @ryandesign also corrects an internal optimisation around Disk II write protection sensing, and an error to do with data bus loading
- adds emulation of the most basic form of IBM PC — an 8086 compatible with MDA or CGA graphics and a floppy drive.
(dr)
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27.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Santa and the Goblin
Havsoft' has also contributed a Christmas game: based on the Atari game Dragonfire and written in Blitz Basic 2, you have to help Father Christmas get his presents back by storming the castle and then collecting them (YouTube video) (dr)
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27.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Deck the Drones
'Amiga Cammy' decided on 23 December to write a Christmas game for my Amiga in the hope of finishing it by Christmas Day. It didn't quite work out, but she would like to share the first playable level with everyone and thus contribute to a successful Christmas. In this platform game (YouTube video), the player must retrieve the stolen Christmas presents from mysteriously reprogrammed delivery drones. (dr)
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26.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Videoplayer MPLayer 1.5RC2
A team of several developers has published a second release candidate of version 1.5 of the video player MPlayer for AmigaOS 4. This version is based on the official MPlayer 1.5 source code, merging code from LiveForIt-MPlayer, MickJT-MPlayer and Andrea Palmatè's MPlayer ports, with several additional changes and improvements. (dr)
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26.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Music tracker Protrekkr 2.6.3r1
Protrekkr (formerly marketed as "NoiseTrekker") is an SDL-based music programme that combines a software synthesiser with a traditional sample-based tracker. Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has now published a first release candidate for version 2.6.3, which is based on the official Protrekkr 2.6.3 source code and on the previous port (version 2.5.5) by Fredrik Wikström. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
Balaton
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Emulator: QEMU 8.2.0 released
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualiser. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software. It is therefore also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems such as AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who has set up a dedicated website with lots of tips and information. As already reported at the beginning of December, the now released QEMU version 8.2.0 also supports AmigaOne emulation via its BBoot bootloader. In addition, the Pegasos 2 emulation now supports the audiodev property (PowerPC changes). For Windows 64 Bit a compiled binary was made available on Christmas Eve. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Trevor's Blog: Christmas Present
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology has published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" for Christmas. In it he reports on the Amiga trade fairs he attended, AmigaKit's A600GS project and also mentions once again the "AAA Technology" alliance formed by ACube Systems, A-EON Technology and Amedia Computer, which is to deliver the long-awaited A1222 Plus.
The A1222 Plus comes with updated ExecSG and uBoot firmware from Steven Solie. Also included in the A1222 Plus package is a new version of DvPlayer (v54.11) that supports A-EON's video acceleration library, enabling smooth playback with clear DMA power audio. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Demo: "Castlevania AGA" with stages 16-18
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This adds stages 16 to 18, which now include the fight against Dracula, the final boss, in the clock tower. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Merry Xmas (beta version 0.2)
Scorpion Engine developer Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of a fast-paced puzzle platformer game that he created almost entirely in a 16-hour period on Christmas Eve 2023. The graphics are from the Holiday Expansion Set. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Preview video: Hyperborea Resurrected
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing a project that was started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime (YouTube videos): back then, he began developing a new shoot 'em up called "Hyperborea" with graphic designer Torben Bakager Larsen, who was also responsible for Battle Squadron, among other things.
Everything from the original prototype code was discarded, started from scratch and only some auxiliary functions from Souverän Soccer were adopted. Technically, the game is as good as finished and has the following features:
- 304 x 256 PAL @ 50 fps (almost always ;) )
- vertical scroller with additional horizontal scrolling (384 pixel wide levels)
- 1p and 2p simultan mode
- 100% flicker free bullets and enemies
- tons of bullets
TTorben Bakager Larsen is back on board, the strict colour restrictions of the old version have been removed. The game is mostly developed in C++ and about 10% in ASM. The video shows the current test level with some enemies and many, many bullets on an A1200 with deactivated turbo card / FastRam. (dr)
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24.Dec.2023
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Aminet uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to Aminet:
aamp.lha comm/www 149M OS4 Amiga Apache MySQL and PHP fo...
aamp-src.lha comm/www 16M Sources of AAMP server package
Kp2023-HonorYourFathe... demo/slide 3.4M 68k Honor Your Father, Slide Show...
dynamic_circle.lha dev/amos 1K circle over three points
ASMPro1.20.lha dev/asm 110K 68k ASM-Pro v1.20 (update)
ASMPro1.20src.lha dev/asm 790K ASM-Pro v1.20 source code
rasm.lha dev/cross 939K MOS Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
SegTracker.lha dev/debug 17K 68k A global SegList tracking uti...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
MeetBall.lha game/2play 193K 68k Bat & ball type of game
TerrybleKnightDemo.lha game/actio 789K 68k Demo of a Ghost`n`Goblins lik...
WhatIFF2.12.lha mags/misc 2.0M What IFF? #2.12-December-2023
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.2M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AChristmasKiss.lha mods/8voic 332K 16bit 6ch XMas Club Jazz by H...
dp_pretracker.lha mus/play 11K 68k PreTracker v1.5 deliplayer
cubic_win_keyboard.lha text/edit 3K Cubic IDE: Windows-like keybo...
aiostreams.lha util/batch 228K Stream video from major onlin...
FastExec30.lha util/boot 12K 68k Moves exec.library to fastest...
AmiSSL-5.13-OS3.lha util/libs 3.7M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.13-OS4.lha util/libs 3.3M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.13-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.8M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
MMULib.lha util/libs 787K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
Quick_1.3.lha util/wb 1.5M MOS A software launch manager
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24.Dec.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
snes9x.zip emu/gam 63Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
woof.lha gam/fps 13Mb 4.1 A continuation of Lee Killough&#...
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
aamp.lha net/ser 149Mb 4.1 Amiga Apache MySQL PHP. A develo...
aamp-src.lha net/ser 16Mb 4.1 Sources of AAMP (Amiga Apache My...
astralgame.lha uti/mis 5Mb 4.0 A little tool to know zodiac sig...
wb2filer.lha uti/wor 47kb 4.0 Hack to run Filer when dbl-click...
aiostreams.lha vid/mis 228kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
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