06.Dec.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.26.1 Release Candidate 1
At the end of October, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki had published version 2.24.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Today he has published the first release candidate for version 2.26.1 inclusing the following Amiga specific changes:
- Compile with GCC 11.2
- Fix shaped window alpha bitmap creation
- Enable virtual joysticks
- Add a workaround for game controller detection (AmigaOS 4 GUIDs are unfortunately broken)
- Add 2in1 game controller
- Update installer: delete old libSDL2.so soft links
(dr)
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06.Dec.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.8
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today version 1.6.8 has been released. Changes:
- NEW: update gcc to 12.2.0, binutils, GNU gdb (GDB) 13.0.50.20221127-git
- FIX: WinUAE/FS-UAE: don't enable "Full stack frame tracking" (caused WinUAE to crash due to stack overflow in certain situations)
- NEW: assembly: View memory for symbols in assembly
- NEW: assembly: Support other Motorola assembly language providers
- FIX: assembly: Cycle count was missing on last line of source
- NEW: assembly: Cycle decoration improvements
- FIX: assembly: Async parsing
- CHG: disassembly: New CPU cycle count implementation with improved accuracy
- NEW: disassembly: Tooltip improvements
- NEW: debugger: Disassembled memory view
- NEW: debugger: Add symbol offset labels to registers
(dr)
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06.Dec.2022
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Advent Calendar: Door 6 - Matthias Böcker
For St. Nicholas Day and the sixth door, Matthias 'UltraGelb' Böcker has something special for all MorphOS users: especially for our Advent calendar, he has written a wintry Screenblanker module.
Already in the early days of amiga-news.de Matthias was also in the headlines with his ingenious FTP client AmiTradeCenter (ATC): On March 27th 2000 we reported about his first prerelease of ATC. He continued to develop the client until version 1.4 from 2010. As an industrious developer especially for MorphOS he has published over the years for example the fun program ShapeShow, the digital clock ClockToy or from more recent times and also for AmigaOS 3 and 4 the utility for automatic updating of version, revision and build numbers RevFlex or the magnifier tool Lupe.
We say thank you for his commitment and of course for the nice surprise and hand over to Matthias:
"This is my contribution to the amiga-news.de advent calendar. In keeping with the festive theme, it is a screenblanker module for MorphOS that sprinkles the active screen with snowflakes that accumulate on windows and at the bottom of the screen.
Many thanks to the team of amiga-news.de for the good work! I wish all users a wonderful Advent season and a Merry Christmas! :-)"
Download: Snow.lha (55KB) (dr)
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06.Dec.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.5
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.1.3 of the firmware was released today. Changes since 1.1.3:
- Report proper termination on ZuluSCSI mini v1.0
- Fix reporting time of firmware version
- Dont show ROM drive log messages when platform has none - for ZuluSCSI V1.x boards
- Add compressed file suffixes to exclusion list
(dr)
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06.Dec.2022
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Floppy emulator: GoFloppy
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings had already reported about his new floppy emulator project "GoFloppy" on Twitter some time ago (Tweet 1, Tweet 2) and now also found the time to report about it in more detail on his blog: the "GoFloppy" drive is a floppy drive emulator, similar to "Gotek", in the form of a 3.5 inch floppy (short YouTube video), which uses the same FlashFloppy firmware.
However, when reverse-engineering the Gotek drive, the developer made some changes:
- An SD card is used instead of a USB stick
- A jog dial to control the device
- A 1.3" OLED display
- Much simpler hardware configuration (slide switch for drive ID selector for example)
There are many other internal differences too, but these do not affect users so much.
On his website Retro Supplies, he offers the GoFloppys for around 70 Euros plus shipping, but they usually sell out quickly, as they do currently. If they are no longer in stock, you can sign up for the list on the product page so that you will be notified as soon as new ones are available. (dr)
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05.Dec.2022
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Sokoban clone: LazSokoban for AROS, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4
During his work on the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) for AROS, in April 2016, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow had also tested some third-party LCL applications to compile for AROS. One of these was the Sokoban clone LazSokoban, written by Ukrainian programmer Vadim Vitomsky. Sackrow released an AROS version of this (amiga-news.de reported).
Now he has revised this version, backported the recent Halloween update of the game and compiled it with the latest LCL. Since this now also offers the possibility to compile programs for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4, the developer has provided versions for all three systems on his website. As he writes, it seems to work well except for a few missing button images. An implementation for AmigaOS 3 is also possible, but according to his tests it is much too slow.
(dr)
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05.Dec.2022
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Advent Calendar: Door 5 - David Brunet
Our new Advent calendar week begins with the fifth door and David Brunet.
David Brunet is inextricably linked to his French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement. The long history of this magazine starts in the mid-1990s: inspired by Christian, a friend at high school who owned an Amiga 1200, David switched from his Amiga 500 to this Amiga with hard disk and 68030 card.
Both were interested in word processing, graphics, etc. and exchanged documents created with Wordworth every week for fun. These documents were called "Obligement", a made-up word that came from one of their friends. This term, which basically means "obligatory", basically marked the birth of the magazine.
This gave rise to the idea of producing a printed Amiga magazine: the first issue left the "editorial office" on 1 January 1997. It was written with Wordworth 6 and the graphics were done with Personal Paint. It had 15 A4 pages, stapled by hand and all in colour, coming straight from Christian's printer.
As the circulation never exceeded 15 printed copies, David suggested that they discontinue the paper version (after six issues) and start a digital version produced with Scala. In the following years they then switched to Blitz Basic 2 or Blitz Basic 2 RTG and the AmigaGuide format. Obligement 37 (January/February 2003) was then the first issue in HTML.
From issue 51 onwards, the magazine exists as a direct online version. Due to time constraints, the magazine's articles were henceforth published directly on the Obligement page. The bimonthly issues were no longer produced, the magazine was from then on a purely online magazine. Instead of the traditional issues there is - and this is how we have known and reported on amiga-news.de for a very long time - a newsletter every two months to summarise new articles and updates.
Equipped with this rich history and wealth of experience, David shares a few tips on how to "successfully" run an Amiga project for such a long time. His contribution for the fifth door:
"There have been many Amiga volunteer projects in the past and some of them are still present, stronger than ever, like Obligement and Amiga-News.de.
In this cold weather and with Christmas approaching, it is always comforting to see websites like these that do not let their readership down.
I have witnessed the end of almost all Amiga fanzines/magazines. Their demise has allowed me to increase my experience so that I don't do the same
thing. There is no miracle formula to perpetuate a magazine in a voluntary activity. I can simply state these few points:
- You should neither do too much (overwork is harmful)...
- ...nor do not do enough (you get used to doing nothing and in the end, you don't move forward).
- You have to know how to surround yourself with a few reliable people.
- You should not always do the same thing and vary the subjects/activities.
- You have to be open to criticism while rejecting unconstructive negative judgments.
- Don't forget that this is only a hobby.
- Projects motivated only by money do not last in time, especially on the Amiga.
Believe in yourself and have a wonderful Advent and Christmas season!" (dr)
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05.Dec.2022
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Aiostreams V1.7.6: Scripts for Streaming Twitch.tv and Mixer.com videos
George 'walkero' Sokianos has created Python scripts and bundled them in aiostreams ("All In One Streams") for viewers of the Amiga and other retro streams on Twitch.tv and Mixer.com, so that they can also watch the videos under AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and AROS instead of on the PC.
Yesterday, version 1.7.6 was released. Changes:
Added
- Added some extra info in the amigaguide file for the youtube script
- Added pagination to youtube script with the new argument -p/--page
Changed
- Updated the scripts to work with python3
- Now the -x argument in youtube and twitch script prints out the extra info but doesn't start the video playback
Removed
- Removed the skaitv, lbry and dlive scripts as they are not working and they need a rewrite
Download: aiostreams-v1.7.6.lha (228 KB) (dr)
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04.Dec.2022
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Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 2.0
At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing Version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 2.0 (2019) with the following changes:
- Integration of BOOPSI 'scrollbar' gadgets;
- Possibility to number the lines
- Possibility to define the default size and position of the document window
- Possibility to define the scrolling speed with the wheel
- Possibility to move one page with the wheel (CTRL key)
- Optimization of 'Copy/Cut/Paste' functions
- Integration of the 'Redo' functionality
- Improved compatibility of ASE2019 with AROS
- Added 'Count occurrences' function
- Ability to repeat the last used menu item
- Improved documentation
(dr)
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04.Dec.2022
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.4
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. A few moments ago version 1.4 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- Read support for DIM, FDI, HDM, XDF, and D88 image formats: primarily used with Japanese computers
- Renamed pc98.hd and pc98.dd formats to pc98.2hd and pc98.2dd
- Fixed head count on pc98.2hd and pc98.2dd formats
- Support pc98.2d format (used e.g. by PC-88 and X1)
- Support pc98.2hs format (used primarily by late PC-98)
(dr)
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04.Dec.2022
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Hollywood: XML-Plugin 2.0 and APK Compiler 4.3 released
Pressemitteilung: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0 of the XML plugin for Hollywood. This plugin, previously known as XML Parser, was one of the first Hollywood plugins and has now received a major update with many new features.
The biggest new feature in version 2.0 of the Hollywood XML plugin is that you can now serialize Hollywood tables to XML documents with just a single function call. In the same way you can also deserialize XML documents to Hollywood tables with just a single function call. This is made possible by Hollywood 9's new serialization plugin interface which is why the XML plugin now requires at least Hollywood 9.0. Further new features include lots of new callbacks to handle advanced XML features like namespaces, entities, attlists, and more. Finally, the XML plugin now includes a comprehensive documentation that describes all features and contains many examples.
The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin systemversions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided. Note that Hollywood 9 is strictly required by the XML plugin 2.0.
Besides, Hollywood APK Compiler 4.3 has just been released. This fixes a major bug that was introduced in version 4.2 so everybody using version 4.2 should definitely update. The update is provided free of charge for all existing APK Compiler customers and can be downloaded in the restricted download section. (dr)
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04.Dec.2022
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel
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Turn-based strategy: River update for "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released a river update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de (YouTube developer video).
Compared to the playable preview from the beginning of November (amiga-news.de reported) there are many improvements:
- Rivers wind through the landscape and can be navigated by small sailing ships
- There is a new terrain type that is good for planting tobacco
- A button for unloading units from ships
- The F1 key shows an overlay in the map and city view with the most important shortcuts and explanations of icons
- Warnings when leaving a city, e.g. if no production has been set, or the city does not produce enough food
- Dozens of bugfixes
As the author explains, the game is far from finished and this update is just another small step on the way to the full version.
You can load "Save-Slot 1" in the game and see what a slightly advanced game state looks like. Furthermore, the developer recommends to save frequently and to use different save-slots, because the game still contains a lot of bugs. Some of these bugs - such as units that suddenly appear twice - could be solved by saving and reloading. Also the game music would sometimes run too fast and can then be turned off and on again via the game options.
"Settle the World" is primarily intended as a duel between human opponents, but can also be played alone. The game requires 1 megabyte of ChipRAM and 4 megabytes of FastRAM, a hard disk and at least a 68020 processor. (dr)
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04.Dec.2022
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Aminet uploads until 03.12.2022
The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to Aminet:
apccomm.lha comm/misc 196K 68k transfers files between Amiga...
brainfuck.lha dev/lang 1K "Urban, it's coming home!"
anaiis.lha driver/oth 208K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.22
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 15K 2022 Carset for F1GP
AMCommand.lha game/shoot 90K 68k Arcade Missile Command
pcexhumed.lha game/shoot 674K 68k Exhumed / Powerslave Port
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.6M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.9M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
LN4Lv9.lha mods/misc 3.1M 4ch LN4 Lv9 MED track by HKvalhe
SoftIEEE.lha util/libs 57K 68k math lib&881/882 FPU emulator...
ScreenTime.lha util/time 66K 68k Screen clock, configurable wi...
(snx)
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04.Dec.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 03.12.2022
The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
hode.lha gam/pla 2Mb 4.1 One of best cinematic platform v...
quickstarter.lha uti/wor 322kb 4.0 Quick program start menu
(snx)
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04.Dec.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 03.12.2022
The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to AROS Archives:
portable.lha dev/lan 13Mb E Compiler
aros_one_x86.zip uti/mis 232b Aros One x86
(snx)
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04.Dec.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 03.12.2022
The following files have been added until 03.12.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Iris_1.5.lha Email New email client suppor...
AmiArcadia_29.32.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
BootClock_1.30r1.lha Misc A little and easy progr...
Wayfarer_4.5.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
(snx)
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04.Dec.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 03.12.2022
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 03.12.2022:
- 2022-12-03 fixed: Flashback (Delphine Software) chipmem size increased, color text in in holocub seq can be changed (Info)
- 2022-12-03 improved: Fate: Gates Of Dawn (reLINE) slave uses fastmem, mouse buttons delay patched, manual and solution added (Info)
- 2022-11-30 improved: Killing Cloud (Vektor Grafix) fixed a crash, added an option to speed up logo (Info)
- 2022-11-30 improved: Dogs of War (Elite Systems) supports another version (Info)
- 2022-11-29 improved: Kick Off 2: The Final Whistle (Anco) support for another version added (1.9f), minor problem in keyboard patch fixed, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
- 2022-11-27 improved: Killing Cloud (Vektor Grafix) fixed keyboard fix (Info)
- 2022-11-27 new: Megademo (Brainstorm) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
(snx)
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04.Dec.2022
ANF
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Analogue Pocket: Video shows Amiga core under development
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.
According to a video at the title link, 'Ultra FP64' is working on the adaptation of an Amiga 500 core, which is currently still in the alpha stage. According to the developer on Twitter, he wants to release it as soon as he has added keyboard and mouse to the current joystick-only support, improved the speed and tidied up his program code. (snx)
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04.Dec.2022
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AROS distribution: AROS One 1.9 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One", based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 1.9 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found.
In addition to updates to the included programs and games, this version of AROS One features visual additions such as a new "white" set of drawer icons that can be switched between and the updated "blue" one, a new background image for walkers, and various design "themes".
Changes in detail:
- Update AROS One System
- AROS One English Manual in PDF, GUIDE, HTM, DOC format
- AROS One Italian Manual in PDF, GUIDE, HTM, DOC format
- New "White" Folder Icon Set (to be installed)
- Update "Blue" Folder Icon Set
- Updated Application Icons Set (better quality)
- Installer Icon Set White or Blue (Folder Extras)
- Fix "DiskInfo"
- i8042.hidd (fixes Touchpad problems on some PCs)
- Update Dopus4 Config (add Mount/Eject ADF/DMS)
- Dopus4 Preset Palette Skin (Gray,White)
- Update Wanderer (add def_Icons Mount/Eject ADF/DMS)
- Auto Mount from Icon ADF, DMS and IMG (MS-DOS Floppy) Image File
- Auto Mount from Icon ISO CD/DVD Image File
- Icon to install NTFS-Handler For Mount Disks or Partitions NTFS (Read and Write)
- New Backdrop ArosOne created by "Damir"
- Added Theme by "Damir" PixBlue (Tab resize)
- Added Theme by "Damir" Pills (Tab resize)
- Added Theme Style AfA OS
- Shell-Color (Shell-Black, Shell-White)
- CLS 1.0 (Compiled by me for AROS x86)
- libglfw.i386-aros
- libglew.i386-aros
- Added RNOTunes.catalog (Italian)
- Updated Apps
- Amitube 1.3
- PerciMan 0.7.5
- Vim 8.2.4424
- PintorWeb 3.20
- BeeBase 1.0
- uCommander
- Murks IDE 0.6.1
- WebpTools 1.2.4
- UHCTools 1.6
- HWP AVCodec 1.5
- TextMio 0.2
- AnimWebConverter 5.00
- PortablE r6b
- RNOEffects 1.4
- RNOTunes 1.0
- RNOInfoScreen 1.8
- Image2PDF 1.2
- Updated Games
- SuperMarioWar
- Beret
- Gilbert
- GianaReturn
- SuperTux
- SuperTux 2
(snx)
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04.Dec.2022
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of November
For the month of November 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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04.Dec.2022
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Advent Calendar: Door 4 - The Apollo team
For the fourth door and thus for the second Advent, the Apollo team contributes an anecdote. Their approach of FPGA-based turbo cards for Amigas represented a new alternative in terms of upgrading aged hardware besides the accelerator boards carrying a real 680x0 processor. The history started with a presentation of a NatAmi developer board in 2008. Announced in 2011, there was a first stable running version of the Vampire 600 for the Amiga of the same name in 2013. In 2016, Vampire variants for the Amiga 500 and 2000 followed, all of which used the V2 Apollo core.
In 2017, development work was already underway on the Apollo V4 FPGA accelerator board, including a standalone variant. The following versions are currently available:
Yesterday, Gunnar von Boehm announced an update of the Apollo core that provides 16 DMA Amiga audio channels instead of the four available on the standard Amiga. Each of the 16 channels provides stereo sound. In addition, one can position the sound from each individual channel to the left or right.
The anecdote for the fourth door written by the Apollo team:
"Back in the days of Silver core for V2, we used to put an Amiga video game character in the boot image. At that time, the war between the team TuKo "Simon the sorcerer is better than Monkey Island" and the team guibrush "Monkey Island is of course superior to Simon the sorcerer" already existed.
A discussion in the team took place to decide which character between Simon and guibrush should be used for, I believe the Silver 5 release (I'm not sure anymore if it was the 5 of the 6). In the end, as it was TuKo who was doing the releases, he decided to put Simon, against any democratic decision.
He was well punished, since this core was replaced in a few days by the next one because of a bug that made it unusable on several machines, which made it the core with the shortest lifespan in the history of the Vampire." (dr)
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