28.May.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 27.05.2023
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 27.05.2023:
- 2023-05-23 improved: SWIV (Sales Curve) supports another version, options for weapon power/speed added (Info)
- 2023-05-23 fixed: Max Rally (Fortress) instructions in menu will be displayed now (Info)
- 2023-05-23 improved: Impact! (ASL) supports Blockbuster version, levels 1 to 128 can be edited, QuitKey works on 68000 machine (Info)
- 2023-05-23 fixed: Chuck Rock (Core Design) scrolling problem on AGA machines fixed, solution added (Info)
- 2023-05-21 improved: Suspicious Cargo (Gremlin) patch works with 0.5 MB chip memory and on 68000 now, RawDIC imager, 68000 quitkey support, manual included (Info)
(snx)
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28.May.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Full Contact Menü Remix
- Chinaware Turkey (BIT Live 2022)
- Rockstar ate my Hamster Cracktro
- Lotus 3 - Track 5 - Miami Ice (Kick me twice)
(snx)
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28.May.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Retro magazine: LOAD 3 (2017, German) also available in printed form
LOAD, a German magazine published by the "Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V." (Association for the Preservation of Classic Computers), was initially only published as a PDF file starting with the 3rd issue published in 2017 for reasons of expense.
In the meantime, however, the third issue (topic among others: "Repairing battery damage on the Amiga 2000") has also been printed and can be purchased from APC&TCP or the Restore Store. There, as well as at poly.play, the issues 5-8 are also still available. (snx)
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27.May.2023
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.5 R82 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).
Version 1.5 R82 has now been released, in which it is possible for the first time to switch between the map editor and the sprite editor without having to close the map editor window. If changes were made in the sprite editor and then switched to the map editor, all sprite changes are updated in the map editor view.
In addition, the performance of the map editor has been improved so that the tiles can now be drawn much faster. The new method also allows much larger maps to be created. (dr)
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27.May.2023
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Techno party: Boozedrome on August 5 in Helsinki, Finland
On August 5, 2023, the sixth Boozedrome will take place both locally in Finland (Boozembly Hills, Helsinki) and on Twitch. Those who want to participate in the contest must create a Gabber tune with the following specifications:
- 4 channel MOD, playable in Protracker v2.3D
- Maximum size: 500kB
- Maximum length: 3 minutes
(dr)
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26.May.2023
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Strategy game: Devlog #1 - Target platforms, supported languages
For the announced strategy game "Virtual Enemies" (amiga-news.de reported), the developers have published first information and a first interim status on the development of the game:
"Basically we are working on a version that should be playable on the Amiga38. This means that the player should be able to create a character and execute a hack. That is the minimum goal that should be achieved by then.
As target platform we aim at an Amiga 500 with 1MB memory. At the same time, the game will be developed absolutely system compliant, which will allow us to access an optional network stack. Yes, you will be able to play the game alone without any restrictions in the story. Nevertheless, we already have some cool multiplayer features on the list. More information will follow in the coming weeks once we have completed initial testing.
We are aware that not everyone understands English or that for quite a few the English vocabulary is limited. That's not a shame, Frank's English vocabulary is not the best either. Especially in terms of understanding the story present in the game, this can be problematic. At this point we can give the all-clear:
The game will support English and German at release. New languages will be included by adding translated language text files. We, that is LogicalByte, do NOT have to change anything in the game files themselves. It's up to the community to do this on their own to support people who don't know English and German very well. We are currently doing final tests and will publish a guide (and suitable tools) in due time.
We know from inquiries that you are greedy for new image material. We would like to fulfill this wish and will publish new pictures time to time in the coming weeks. Please understand that we need longer for some things. :)" (dr)
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26.May.2023
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AMOS: Eclips animation in "Projects in the attic" added
At the end of November, the game developer group "Electric Black Sheep" had published a collection of games under the name "Projects in the attic", which were created for test purposes with the programming language AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Included was the game "Eclips", in which you steer an owl through a landscape that is always the same. The group added the archive "EclipsAnim.rar" to this game, which now offers a complete animation in the sense of changing landscapes. Impressive! (dr)
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26.May.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Event: Level Up in Salzburg (Austria) with participation of Amiga Future
On July 1 and 2, 2023, the event "Level Up", a "Gaming and eSports festival", will take place for the third time at the Messezentrum Salzburg in Austria. In the retro area, the print-magazine Amiga Future will also take part with some computers. (snx)
[News message: 26. May. 2023, 09:12] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 146 (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 WAR (AMOS Strategy-War Game from 1992), Boxx 4 (2023 Game) and Death Rally (2023 PC conversion). (snx)
[News message: 26. May. 2023, 09:01] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2023
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Music video: Controlling an Akai MPC ONE with Horny (MorphOS)
In a recent video, 'Dj Collins' shows how he controls his Akai MPC ONE using Horny from the Pegasos II under MorphOS. The Akai audio output is recorded from an Amiga 4000 with a Toccata sound card and the file is transferred via the network to HD-REC for mastering. (dr)
[News message: 26. May. 2023, 06:37] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2023
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Video-Tutorial: Converting iff files into sprites in AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains how to convert IFF image files into sprites for an AMOS program. (dr)
[News message: 26. May. 2023, 05:58] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2023
nivrig (Twitter)
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Video: Polyphonic sounds and music on the Amiga
The YouTube channel "Magical Synth Adventure" shows in its latest video with the range of audio possibilities on the Amiga, with which, for example, real-time speech synthesis and simultaneous midi and audio output are possible. (dr)
[News message: 26. May. 2023, 05:42] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2023
A1k-Forum
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Compiler: Status of M68k support in LLVM
At the beginning of 2021, the first implementation of an m68k backend for the compiler LLVM had begun thanks to donation funding (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer Min-Yih "Min" Hsu reports in a blog entry about the progress of the past year. (dr)
[News message: 25. May. 2023, 21:11] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2023
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Tool for Reverse Engineering: Amiga extension for Ghidra 10.3
Ghidra is a free and open source reverse engineering tool (amiga-news.de reported).
Based on the work of Vladimir Kononovich and Martin Atkins, 'Bartman' has released an update for the Amiga extension supporting now the latest Ghidra version 10.3. It can load Amiga Hunk-Executables, Kickstart ROMs and WinUAE State File (.uss). (dr)
[News message: 25. May. 2023, 20:48] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2023
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SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.6 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsmb2 and allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 53.6:
- read_startup_args() now uses AllocDosObject() to create the RDArgs for
ReadArgs() instead of allocating it locally on the stack. Strangely this bug
didn't seem to cause any problems on AmigaOS 4 but on AmigaOS 3 it caused an
AN_BadFreeAddr (#0100000F) alert on filesystem exit (ACTION_DIE).
Requirements: newlib.library V53.40 or later (or V53.30 as included in AmigaOS 4.1 FE) and the filesysbox.library V54.4 or later for AmigaOS 4, filesysbox.library 54.3 or later for AROS and AmigaOS 3 and optional the requester.class (ClassAct/ReAction, for password requester) for AmigaOS 3.
Downloads:
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha (81 KB)
smb2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha (149 KB)
smb2fs.ppc-amigaos.lha (128 KB)
(dr)
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25.May.2023
Twitter
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Video tutorial: MUI-GUI in Blitz Basic
Rob Cranley has streamed a two-part tutorial on Twitch (part 1, part 2) showing how to create a GUI with MUI in Blitz Basic. (dr)
[News message: 25. May. 2023, 07:34] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2023
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Blog: RAM configurations on an Amiga 500 (Rev 8A)
In the latest blog entry on Retrohax.net, various RAM configurations on Amiga 500 8A motherboard are tested and documented. The 8A motherboards are the latest ones, using the 8375-AGNUS and supporting up to 2MB Chip RAM. Rev.8 was used in the A500plus and the standard A500, but with unpopulated RTC, battery, etc. (dr)
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25.May.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.05.24
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2023.05.24:
- BIN/CUE format support and more complete CD-ROM emulation
- CD-ROM: code consolidation and bugfixes
- CDROM: Table of contents and addressing improvements
- Rudimentary tape support (BETA feature)
- More tape command implementations: Erase, Seek and ReadPosition
- Improved OMTI support
- RP2040: Fix support for 2GB SD cards
- RP2040: Fix USB log corruption
The following features can not be used without additional hardware, which is not yet commercially available:
- EXPERIMENTAL SP/DIF output on expansion pins of RP2040 boards
- EXPERIMENTAL audio playback support from BIN/CUE files
(dr)
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24.May.2023
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Event: Evoke demoparty in Cologne, Germany (28.-30.07.2023)
This year's edition of the Evoke demoparty will take place at the AbenteuerHallenKALK in Cologne (Germany) from 28 to 30 July. The homepage has now been activated and it is possible for demo groups to register. As usual, various competitions will be held. (dr)
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24.May.2023
Mastodon
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Preview video: Rastan port in development
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. Now a port for the Amiga 500 is in development, using the Scorpion engine. (dr)
[News message: 24. May. 2023, 05:59] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2023
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio: Prelude Software Bundle 4.0
Thomas Wenzel writes: "This is a fork of the last release by me before Oliver Gantert took over to improve and refactor it and to include support for his new Prelude ZII+ soundcard.
I have tried to fix all the bugs which Oliver also fixed in his branch. Along the way I took the opportunity to implement a watchdog which can resume a broken and stalled data transfer on its own. This can happen during some ZZ9000 graphics operations for example. The watchdog can't prevent the sound from being interrupted for a short time but after that it will resume automatically instead of just hang.
I have set the version number back to 4 to reflect the AHI v4 support and to clearly separate it from Oliver's branch.
So if you experience unexpected hangups during playback, or if you are just adventurous, this is the version to try. :)
If you are using an Amiblaster Deluxe soundcard, this version is also the one to choose."
Download: PreludeSoftwareBundleV4.lha (116 KB) (snx)
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