26.Mar.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 144 (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 "Enemy: Tempest of Violence (V2)", "Frontier: Elite II" and "OnEscapee". (snx)
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26.Mar.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 137 of Amiga Future readable online
The German and English issue 137 (March/April 2019) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher. (snx)
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25.Mar.2023
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Music tip: Track "Amiga" by LukHash
'LukHash' is a musician from Edinburgh in Scottland. He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." His latest track "Amiga" can be listened and bought under the title link from a supplier of choice. He hopes to take the audience "on a magical journey back to the golden age of home video gaming". (dr)
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25.Mar.2023
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AmiTube 1.4: YouTube client for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. They are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded.
As the developer wrote on his website, "the biggest enhancement is the Search by ID window for easier handling of YouTube URLs (YouTube video).
A second improvement is the self made AREXX Port for AROS which make it possible to send URLs from AmiFox to AmiTube when you are on a Youtube Video page. (all other platforms had it before already."
The current version can be downloaded from the AmiTube website or installed via the update check in AmiTube. (dr)
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25.Mar.2023
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Website application: The virtual Hippoplayer
It all started at the end of 2009, when Spot created aSCIIaRENa as a website for the ASCII scene, which underwent a complete relaunch in 2021 with the help of 'Burps', 'Nicomen', 'Phantasm' and 'Ziphoid'.
Later came other ideas, they wanted to clone the number one ASCII tool, CygnusED, as CED for the web as a way to co-op on ASCII collys similar to how google docs works, but in a CED environment, Fred and Phiwer was brought into the team to write CED. It is available in alpha state now.
When making ASCII you need to listen to Amiga music of course, a prototype clone of Hippoplayer (HiP) was written by Stalvik, but it got scrapped early on.
In a next step of this exciting journey of the project, TAWS developer Michael Rupp was asked to use his Amiga Workbench simulation for browsers for the project. At that time HippoPlayer used the Bassoon tracker's playback routine as backend, work-in-progress was the conversion to a better backend by Jürgen Wothke based on UADE, which supports a variety of Amiga formats (some of them very exotic) due to the Paula emulation included in it. The graphical user interface was already very close to the original HiP 68k, the behavior of the windows was still quite rudimentary compared to TAWS.
It soon became apparent that it was more expedient to not only use Michael Rupp's assistance, but to completely hand over the implementation in TAWS to him, since the GUI was completely rewritten based on his TAWS classes.
Parallel to this it happened that K-P Koljonen had resumed the further development of HippoPlayer for Amiga in 2021 (amiga-news.de reported) and it was agreed that their webclone should become official with K-P Koljonen’s blessing.
In close cooperation between the author of the mod player and Michael Rupp, the original GUI was studied and rebuilt down to the smallest detail for the web implementation. Care was taken to ensure that the two HippoPlayers are compatible, i.e. that playlists can be exchanged. No matter which version created the playlist, the other one can read it.
Thanks to the UHC tools by Patrik Axelsson and David Eriksson, HiP can now access Internet sources directly. The UHC server and its search API is also used for searching in HiP-TAWS. This makes compatible playlists possible, because if local files on the Amiga hard disk were referenced, this would not be possible otherwise.
In this context, one of the new features is the published playlists, which can be found in the "Playlists" folder. Through the Amiga remix search it should then also be possible to play MP3s, but the existing backend was only for the various tracker formats, but not for normal audio files like MP3, WAV, etc.. So Michael Rupp developed this himself. Now it is possible to play all formats including all audio files via this one player class. When HiP finally supported internet radio streaming, a streaming backend was added.
The scopes (graphical representation of what was heard) were also quite elaborate. In addition to the original HippoScope, RuppScope was created as a separate scope option by reverse-engineering.
The site was first published at workbench.asciiarena.se/, and the other existing projects were integrated as iFrame applications by the "aSCIIaRENa" people: AmIRC, NComm and the demos under Work:Demos. AmIRC and NComm is in early alpha stage and their names will probably be changed later on.
The IBrowse implementation was done by Michael Rupp himself and is intended as a homage to the Amiga browser, which its author, Oliver Roberts, took good note of when we pointed it out. In contrast to the original, the online version of course only handles a fraction.
aSCIIaRENA can still be reached through https://www.asciiarena.se if you prefer that instead of viewing it in the iBrowse clone at https://www.hippoplayer.se.
When HippoPlayer became more and more central, the alias address hippoplayer.se/ was added. The UADE backend alone already supports about 300 formats, as Wothke had developed (and continues to develop) more backends, and made them available as open source. So more were integrated, whereby currently about 500 formats are supported. More will follow. (dr)
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25.Mar.2023
mnemo (ANF)
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.13
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be ordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday, the new firmware version 1.13 was released, which mainly provides stability improvements. In addition to the firmware, the driver package (LHA) must also be updated. The changes:
- Fix Z3 autoconfig issues incl. RAM on first boot
- Improve ethernet to amiga irq
- Fix ethernet freeze on NetShutdown
- Fix scaled sprite and split position
- Fix split panning
- Fix 320x200 mode
- Fix 15bit mode for real (remove hack)
- Add 1920x800 video mode
- MHI/AHI mutually exclusive checks by Tom W.
(dr)
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24.Mar.2023
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.0
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
A few moments ago, version 5.6.0 has been released. Changes:
Bugfixes
- Fix "default" button setting not fully enabling CD32 pad mode when CD32 was configured.
- Detection of hotplug controllers didn't work after 5.4
- Restart would cause crashes sometimes
- fixed controller axis should be separate from joystick axis handling
- memory pattern would cause graphics glitches in some cases
- virtual keyboard now works with CD32 mode as well
- fixed crash if something triggered a CPU HALT3
- fixed various compiler warnings
- revert custom, blitter and drawing to WinUAE 4.4.0 standard
- 50Hz scroll was not smooth
- improve scrolling smoothness under 50Hz
- Don't use SDL_Quit until we actually quit Amiberry
Improvements
- Implemented On-Screen Virtual Keyboard
- Added VKBD default toggle key
- added VKBD retroarch mapping support
- updated game controllers db to latest version
- Clean up filesystem and bsdsocket emulation earlier.
- cherry picked recent updates from dev
- add SDL2 version in logfile
- Rewrite Serial port support, using libserialport - this also adds a new build requirement
- Disk - Check raw write buffer index, removed debugging.
- refactored input event handling to minimize latency
- removed unreachable code
- decrease mouse map sensitivity on joystick handling
- added more logging during retroarch event handling
- refactored controller input logic
- refactored atomic operations, moved byteswap functions
- added new default options in amiberry.conf
- GUI improvements
- added Warp reset option in Misc Panel
- implemented turbo boot option
- added 1024x600 RTG resolution
- minimize diffs from dev branch
- allow on-the-fly change of virtual mouse driver
- add RK3588 platform in Makefile
- increased width of dropdowns in Input Panel
- minor speedup improvements after recent changes
- a few more minor speed optimizations
- automatically center GUI window when opening
- Updated WHDLoad XML to latest version
Build System
- renamed zip archive from ubuntu to debian
- trigger builds on dev branch and pull requests also
- add automated builds for RK3399 Manjaro platform
- added missing parser.cpp in Android and CMakeLists
- switch from Docker to self-hosted builds again
- added missing Virtual Keyboard file in CMakeLists also
(dr)
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24.Mar.2023
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga V2.4 beta 1
Dirk Hoffmann continues working on his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and now has released the first beta version of v2.4. Changes:
Enhancements:
- Improved thread synchronization (Adaptive sync)
- Warp boot support
- Code cleanup
The minimum system requirement for his emulator has been raised to macOS 11.0. Since the developer has left the "Apple Developer Program" ("too expensive"), the app is no longer certified. This means that from now on a warning will be displayed when the app is started. (dr)
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24.Mar.2023
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20201110-2
In mid-February AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz released version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). Today's second release contains some changes and bug fixes (release notes). (dr)
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24.Mar.2023
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Video tutorial: The AMOS commands Load IFF, Get Icon and Paste Icon
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 the AMOS commands Load IFF, Get Icon and Paste Icon, which he uses to load in graphics for buttons from an IFF file, and use those buttons in a program. (dr)
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24.Mar.2023
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.3 for Visual Studio Code (update)
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. After Paul Raingeard had already corrected a bug of version 1.8.0 under macOS with version 1.8.1, further problems are solved with the now available version 1.8.2.
On GitHub a detailed documentation is available.
Update: (25.03.2023, 07:20, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.8.3 is available, which partly fixes the bug that the link order could not be set. (dr)
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24.Mar.2023
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Event: Geit@Home #1 2023
From Friday, April 14, till Sunday, April 16 2023, members of the Amiga clubs Osnabrück and Steinfurt meet once again at Guido 'geit' Mersmann's home in Hörstel, Germany. Details can be found in our German news-item or at the title link. (dr)
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23.Mar.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.8 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.8 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.1.0. The detailed changes:
- Switched to OpenSSL 3.1, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.1.0 (14.3.2023) version, which includes:
- SSL 3, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and DTLS 1.0 only work at security level 0.
- Performance enhancements and new platform support including new assembler code algorithm implementations.
- Deprecated LHASH statistics functions.
- FIPS 140-3 compliance changes.
- Replaced many common Exec semaphore protected OpenSSL operations with atomic inline assembly code on both OS3 and OS4, decreasing overhead and increasing performance.
- Fixed bug in the 5.7 SDK (applications built with it should be recompiled using the 5.8 SDK).
Download AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.8-OS3.lha (3,3 MB)
Download AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.8-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
Download SDK: AmiSSL-5.8-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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23.Mar.2023
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Video: March update on BitBeamCannon projects
In a short video BitBeamCannon has informed about the current status of their projects (Metro Siege, DaemonClaw, Scorpion Boy). (dr)
[News message: 23. Mar. 2023, 06:27] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2023
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Maze game: Cube V0.30
Sami Vehmaa is in the process of writing another game with AmiBlitz3 for fast Amigas with graphics cards or emulators: in "Cube" (YouTube video), the player has to find his way out of a kind of labyrinth (amiga-news.de reported). He has updated to version 0.30, which now features both an intro and an ending scene, as well as adding random lights and sounds (closing doors etc.). (dr)
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21.Mar.2023
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Block-oriented copying: Device-Streams 2.2.1
At the beginning of October, Roc Vallès i Domènech had updated the Amiga tool "Device-Streams" for block-oriented copying, similar to UNIX command dd, which was originally developed and released by Christian E. Hopps in 1993 (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2.2.1:
- Minor documentation update.
- Minor Makefile update.
- Built with current toolchain.
- No functional changes.
Two builds are availables: the main build was done with bebbo/amiga-gcc, the second one vbcc.
Download:
device-streams.lha (88 kB)
device-streams_vbcc.lha (86 kB) (dr)
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21.Mar.2023
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Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib"
Volker Schwaberow is in the process of converting ADFlib, written by Laurent Clevy mainly in C, into the programming language Rust. As he explained to us when asked, the library is still in a very early stage and still very minimalistic. At the moment it can read and write ADF, it can read and write tracks and sectors in a byte array. There is no support yet for file systems, compression, etc.
However, that is the goal. In addition, there will be a command line tool that will allow these operations to be performed on the command line without the need for programming knowledge. The author is happy about support, code commits from third parties are welcome. (dr)
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21.Mar.2023
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Shooter: New demo version of "Cyberpunk Alien City"
"Cyberpunk Alien City" (video) is a mixture of Run'n Gun and Space Invaders: the player must defend a city against attacking aliens (amiga-news.de reported). Now the demo version for OCS Amigas has been updated. According to Amiten Games a small demo of the shooter part of the game, there "is still a lot to do". (dr)
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20.Mar.2023
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Preview video: Twin-Stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero"
Nivrig Games - among others Turbo Santa Deluxe Edition 2022 - have been working for some time on a twin-stick shooter which is also supposed to be a test game for the Twin-Stick controller developed by "Abstraction Games" (amiga-news.de reported). A new preview video shows the first level of the game, which has alpha status now. (dr)
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20.Mar.2023
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Remake: Rick Dangerous released
"Z-Team" has released its remake of the game Rick Dangeous with enhanced graphics for the Amiga 1200 or CD32 (and Windows, Mac and THEA500 Mini) (YouTube video of beta version 0.4). The game was written with the Scorpion Engine, but in contrast to the original plan there is no graphics card version, because the responsible programmer had left the team during development. (dr)
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19.Mar.2023
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v2.6.0
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported).
Since our last message, the developer has improved the interactive documentation:
- Changed documentation layout to have future more languages
- Added an interactive documentation for each instruction
- Bug fixes for some instructions (rod, asd, lsd)
- Other bug fixes and improvements
(dr)
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