07.May.2023
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Aminet uploads until 06.05.2023
The following files have been added until 06.05.2023 to Aminet:
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 807K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
HWP_hURL.lha dev/hwood 4.3M ALL The multi-protocol data trans...
bwbasic320.lha dev/lang 1.3M 68k ByWater BASIC Interpreter v3.20
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha disk/misc 81K x86 SMB2 file system client
smb2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha disk/misc 149K 68k SMB2 file system client
BWBasic111_Manual.zip docs/help 306K bwBASIC111 Manual.
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 81K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
rtgmaster_asmfix.lha driver/vid 173K 68k Rtgmaster Assembler-Include/E...
tankkk.lha game/2play 105K 68k 2-4 player shoot'em'up
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 9K 2023 Carset for F1GP
translatetr.lha game/patch 16K 68k Translates TurboRAKETTI to En...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
tnzk.lha game/shoot 620K 68k The Ninja Zombie Killer
Abacus_FR.lha game/wb 6K French catalog for Abacus 2.20
NewMasterMind_FR.lha game/wb 6K French catalog for NewMasterM...
2D_ATcad_UAE.lha gfx/misc 3.6M 68k CAD mit Steppermotor-Ansteuerung
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MagicWB800x600x8-Set2... pix/back 1.5M Set 2 of 800x600, 8 col Magic...
LHArchiver.lha util/arc 5.1M 68k create lha archives intuitively
RandomBackdrop.lha util/boot 44K 68k Up to 255 random backdrops wi...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.3M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
Gamebench.lha util/misc 52K 68k WB 1.3 Front End for WHDLoad ...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 10M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)
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07.May.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 06.05.2023
The following files have been added until 06.05.2023 to OS4Depot:
milkytracker-sdl2.lha aud/tra 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 version of an FT2 compatibl...
hwp_hurl.lha lib/hol 4Mb 4.0 The multi-protocol data transfer...
lilcalendar.lha off/mis 2Mb 4.0 Versatile calendar and reminder ...
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
(snx)
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07.May.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 06.05.2023
The following files have been added until 06.05.2023 to AROS Archives:
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha dri/fil 81kb SMB2/3 file system client
mplayer-1.0-v6.x86_64-v11... vid/pla 9Mb Multimedia player with MUI user ...
(snx)
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07.May.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 06.05.2023
The following files have been added until 06.05.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
HWP_hURL_2.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... A plugin for Hollywood ...
EasyRPG_Player_0.8.0.lha Emulation A program that allows t...
HollywoodCompile_1.1.lha GUI A GUI for Hollywood com...
FFMPEGui_1.0.lha GUI A GUI for FFMPEG command
(snx)
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07.May.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.05.2023
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 06.05.2023:
- 2023-05-06 fixed: CyberPunks 2 (Mutation Software) patch-list was not set for CD32 version (Info, Image)
- 2023-05-05 improved: Dark Castle (Three-Sixty) another version supported, manual included (Info)
- 2023-05-02 new: CyberPunks 2 (Mutation Software) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2023-05-01 improved: Total Eclipse (Incentive Software/Domark) relocated main game in fastmem for increased framerate (Info)
(snx)
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07.May.2023
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Cross-Development: RADRunner
RADRunner supports the development of Amiga programs under other operating systems by waiting for the compiled programs on the Amiga side via network connection, without the requirement of a mounted file system, and then executing them.
A C++ 14 compiler is required. Besides the intended use, the reverse working direction, i.e. development on the Amiga and execution on another computer, would in itself also be possible. (snx)
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07.May.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 162
The English and German issue 162 (May/June 2023) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes previews about Boxx and Settle World as well as reviews about e.g. Hollywood X, AmigaOS 3.2.2 and "Prelude ZII recreated 2022". (snx)
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07.May.2023
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Library: Reading and writing Amiga partition tables with "Hst Amiga"
Henrik Nørfjand Stengaard's "Hst Amiga" (see also his HstWB Installer) is a library for reading and writing Amiga partition table, file systems, data types and is available as a Nuget package for .Net and a console application for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Version 0.3.156 is the first official release of Hst Amiga console focused on creating and updating Amiga icon files. It can also import, export and convert icon images supporting planar, new icon and color icon. Tool types can also be imported and exported.
Hst Amiga Nuget package contains following features:
- Datatypes
- Read, write disk objects containing icons and tool types. Supports planer, new icon and color icon images.
- Read and write Rigid Disk Block (RDB), Amiga partition table.
- File systems
- Read, write and format Fast File System (FFS) partitions. Supports DOS types DOS0-7.
- Read, write and format Professional File System 3 (PFS3) partitions. Supports DOS types PFS3, PDS3.
- Read version strings.
Hst Amiga console version comes with following features:
- Icons
- Create and update icons.
- Import and export icon images, supporting iff, png and bmp image formats.
- Convert icon images between bit plane, new icon and color icons.
(dr)
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06.May.2023
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Linux: Using Amiga software and imitating an Amiga desktop
Some time ago the hobby YouTube channel "Proteque - Classic Beige Nostalgia" showed in a video Experiencing that Amiga nostalgia on a modern Linux system, how on a computer with Debian installation an Amiga emulation is integrated into the desktop to use Amiga programs. In addition, the interface was adapted to the appearance of the Workbench. Many users then wanted to know how all this was done.
This is now explained in two further videos: part 1 shows how to integrate the Amiga software using FS-UAE and shared folders. Part 2, on the other hand, explains how to imitate the Amiga desktop. (dr)
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05.May.2023
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Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.9
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.9 provides the following changes:
- fix: fixed possible race condition when using XPK compressed files
and multiple data directories, if a compressed file with the
same name was contained in two consecutive data dirs and was
the last compressed in the first dir and the first compressed
one in the subsequent dir it was preloaded two times and the
second one got visible to the installed program, this has been
corrected now
- fix: the Slave structure flag EmulDivZero now also works on 68010,
in previous version it always faulted (missing support for
different stack frame format on the 68010)
- fix: DIC option SkipTrack was broken in version 1.2, now fixed with
version 1.3 (CFou!)
- new: new local option ExecuteArgs to supply arguments to the
scripts/programs called via the ExecuteCleanup/Startup/...
options, using this it becomes possible to control the
behavior of the scripts in single install without the need to
have many different Execute* scripts
- new: if started from Workbench WHDLoad now opens a window
CON:////WHDLoad .../AUTO/CLOSE/WAIT for the ExecuteCleanup and
ExecuteStartup scripts which opens if there is any output
- chg: option Cache/S can also be specified in the global
configuration file (Tomaz)
- new: the kick13 emulation now also supports the WHDCtrl resident
command which can be used to quit WHDLoad, because the boot
CLI under 1.3 does not run resident commands a patch has been
implemented to add this feature (Hexaae)
- fix: now resload_ListFiles is able to list the install root
directory also when listing from cached files, this was broken
since the introduction of the feature to list cached files in
release 18.7, which broke for example Gauntlet3
- fix: depending on the already used chip memory WHDLoad has
corrupted read/write data (all io related Resload functions),
if the file cache feature wasn't used (NoWriteCache or
NoFileCache set), this may have corrupted saved data! this bug
has been introduced in WHDLoad release 18.4, thanks to DJ Mike
for reporting/testing
- chg: the options ExecutePostDisk and ExecutePreDisk are now working
as intended/documented, previously they were called only once
- fix: RawDIC has been updated to version 6.1 which fixes
compatibility with imager slaves which used DoubleInc and one
track too much in the tracklist (e.g. Beast)
- fix: made EmulChk working on 68010
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05.May.2023
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Mutation Software: CyberPunks 2 released
Mutation Software has released the second part of their top-down shooter Cyberpunks (YouTube video of the pre-release). The game requires an AGA Amiga. A first review was published yesterday on Amigaguru.
The download version is available for around 15.60 euros, a demo version is available under the title link. Mutation Software also sells a Physical Box for around 19.50 euros plus shipping and a Big Glossy Box for 46 euros via their eBay store. (dr)
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05.May.2023
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Video tutorial: Detecting BOB collisions 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 detect collisions between one or more Blitter Objects (BOBs). This is done by making use of the Make Mask and Bob Col(x) commands. (dr)
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04.May.2023
mnemo (discord)
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Event: Ticket information for Amiga38
As the organisers of Amiga38, which will take place on 7 October 2023, announce on their Facebook page, ticket sales for the event will start the Sunday after next, 14 May, at 18:00 GMT on the event homepage (currently still informing about Amiga37). (dr)
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04.May.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.11
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Today version 1.11 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- New disk formats:
- Macintosh GCR: mac.400, mac.800
- DEC: dec.rx01, dec.rx02
- MSX: msx.1d, msx.1dd, msx.2d, msx.2dd
- Osborne 1: occ1.sd, occ1.dd
- HFE: Support interface= and encoding= header bytes
- TRS-80: Support FA DAM mark for directory sectors
- Applesauce: Support decoding *.a2r Applesauce image files
(dr)
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04.May.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.05.04
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 2023.05.04:
- Improve debug logging
- Feature for generating image files
- Save debug log even when no SCSI requests are coming in
- Implement supply voltage monitoring
- Add windows line ending to log output
- SCSI2SD: Add support for lead-out track in CDROM READTOC
- SCSI2SD: Set Inquiry standard version based on EnableSCSI2 setting
- RP2040 Initiator mode: Fix error recovery after watchdog aborts command
- Add platform_poll() function
(dr)
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04.May.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Mutation Software: Poll about the next release
At the title link Mutation Software has started a poll which game should be released next. (snx)
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03.May.2023
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MorphOS: FFMPEGGui 1.0
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy has written a graphical user-interface for FFmpeg called FFMPEGGui using Hollywood. The RapaGUI plugin is required (dr)
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03.May.2023
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AmigaOS 4: MilkyTracker 1.03 release 2
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has again compiled the source code of the MilkyTracker for AmigaOS 4 and linked it with his latest beta version of SDL 2.26.5. This should fix some problems like wrong colours under emulation environments such as QEMU. (dr)
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02.May.2023
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Competition: "Amiga Tool Jam" started
Yesterday, indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen launched the "Amiga Tool Jam": tools developed for the Amiga can be submitted in the categories "Utility", "Tool", "Commodity", "GUI interface", "Most Useless Tool" and "Other" until 31 October.
Entries must be written explicitly for the competition, updated or modified versions of an existing utility or tool are excluded. More detailed conditions under the title link. (dr)
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02.May.2023
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SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.2
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500) (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 3.2:
- fixes the XREF problem on vasm 1.9d (and presumably other assemblers)
- fixes several issues in the mixer.h file
(dr)
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02.May.2023
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- March/April 2023 news.
- Old articles from Ami-GrafX 1 to 4 : Tutorial: Imagine 2 - Use of paths, Misc: Realization of a computer room in a college, Tutorial: Scenery Animator 4.0 - Mount St Helens, Tutorial: LightWave 3D - The diving suit, Misc: Realization of a 3D simulation of the LCI TV channel, Tutorial: Imagine 2 - The "Skin" function, Tutorial: Aladdin 4D - Getting started and managing your project, Misc: Realization of a local TV channel (C9 Info-Service), Tutorial: ProControl/MorphPlus - Virtual Rain, File: Kamel Ikhlef and CTV Productions, Tutorial: Art Department Pro - The alpha channel, Tutorial: Panorama - Amazon, etc.
- Interview with Kristi-Louise Herd (graphic designer of Fiendish Freddy).
- File: The history of Simulmondo (part one).
- File: How are displayed images of a PAL Amiga on a monitor ?
- File: The sad episode of Cannon Fodder's poppy.
- Hardware: TerribleFire 328/330.
- Point of view: The development of Rave (part six).
- Tutorial: Running two graphics cards in an AmigaOne X5000.
- DIY: Installing an Amiga 1200 in an Evo X500 case.
- DIY: Icarus 1, building a tower for AROS.
- Programming: Articles from the GuruMed.net site.
- Special quiz about ACube Systems.
(dr)
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