26.Feb.2023
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Aminet uploads until 25.02.2023
The following files have been added until 25.02.2023 to Aminet:
mrwolf.lha comm/tcp 32K OS4 Pool-friendly SNTP time sync ...
aweb_3_5_091.lha comm/www 2.6M 68k AWeb APL Lite 3.5.091
GQ2.lha game/role 8.8M 68k Point & Click Adventure
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...
cc1541.lha misc/emu 155K 68k Create Commodore 1541 floppy ...
Centurion.lha misc/emu 132K MOS Centurion CPU6 based minicomp...
AmyStromWiFiSwitch.lha misc/misc 7.4M ALL Control and query the myStrom...
tedplay.lha mus/play 869K MOS Commodore 264 family media pl...
cabextract.lha util/arc 54K 68k Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc...
cabextract_OS4.lha util/arc 44K OS4 Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 3.9M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
ScreenTime.lha util/time 69K 68k Screen clock with calendar
Turkish_Packs.lha util/wb 47K Turkish Catalog packs some ap...
UserMenus.lha util/wb 2.8M 68k User defined menus for Wanderer
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26.Feb.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.02.2023
The following files have been added until 25.02.2023 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
fallout2-ce.lha gam/rol 5Mb 4.1 Fallout2 Community Port for Amig...
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
mrwolf.lha net/mis 32kb 4.0 Pool-friendly SNTP time sync client
avalanche.lha uti/arc 84kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
avalanche_ita.lha uti/arc 6kb 4.0 Italian translation for Avalanche
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
cabextract.lha uti/fil 44kb 4.0 Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB)...
amystromwifiswitch.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 Control and query the myStrom Wi...
image2pdf.lha uti/tex 9Mb 4.0 Convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
animplayer.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 Anim player with playlist support
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26.Feb.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.02.2023
The following files have been added until 25.02.2023 to AROS Archives:
gltron.i386-aros.zip gam/dri 6Mb a 3d lightcycle racing game usin...
amissl.i386-aros.zip lib 3Mb AmiSSL is a port of OpenSSL for ...
usermenus.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 3Mb User defined menus for Wanderer
animplayer.i386-aros.lha vid/mis 2Mb Anim player with playlist support
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26.Feb.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.02.2023
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 25.02.2023:
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26.Feb.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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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:
- Stuck in Snow Chip (hyperunknown remix)
- 4mat´s l.f.f. 2023 remake
- Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road Medley
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26.Feb.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 143 (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 "Brides of Dracula" and "Operación Fallida". (snx)
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25.Feb.2023
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AmigaOne X5000: Why AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS tick differently
What is one of the advantages of an AmigaOne X5000? You can use AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS in parallel on it (and Linux). But what drives you crazy on a regular basis? The obviously out-of-sync clocks!
Naturally, at first one doubts one's own inability to use the two OS correctly. But if you ask around, even experienced developers feel the same way: If you set the clock correctly under AmigaOS 4 at the moment, at winter/standard time, it will show one hour later when you boot MorphOS afterwards. Conversely, after setting the correct time under MorphOS, the hour hand goes forward one hour. How?
The solution to the riddle was not only profoundly but also very helpfully led by the MorphOS developer Frank Mariak and the AmigaOS developer Olaf Barthel: As Mariak explains, "MorphOS sets the time in the RTC hardware clock to Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) - just like Linux and also MacOS. Everything that is then set in the operating system in terms of times is the local time, which is derived from UTC".
AmigaOS works differently, which is due to its history, to which Olaf Barthels explains: "In 1985/1986 one could not yet look far enough into the future. The operating system interfaces for reading and setting the current system time were not designed to take time zones into account back then.
So when you call up what time it is and what date is current, you always get back the "local time". When setting, it is the same (the local time is expected).
With AmigaOS4, it is assumed that the time information for files, etc. always represents the local time. The local time is then automatically changed if necessary. This time change issue has even been present in AmigaOS for a very long time (late 1980's/early 1990's)."
And Frank Mariak adds: "The problem also existed for a long time with MorphOS because of the legacy compatibility to AmigaOS, until with MorphOS 3.10 a usable, compatible way was found to store the time in UTC in the hardware, but still realise the possibility of the automatic summer/winter time change under MorphOS".
Conclusion: either you continue to set the clock manually in the future, or you use a possibility to automate this via Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. A simple but elegant option for this is the commodity Mr. Wolf: placed in the appropriate folder under Utilities and permanently integrated via WBStartup, the time is adjusted automatically when an internet connection is available. However, two things need to be taken into account:
Obviously, the network connection on the X5000 is activated a little later than the WBStartup programmes are started. Therefore, it is important to set a "DELAY", i.e. a delay of a few seconds. By the way, during testing it turned out that after the elapsed ten seconds the time was still not adjusted. When asked about this, the developer Chris Young checked this and found that in the previous version 2.1 - regardless of the delay set - at least 15 minutes had to elapse. However, this has been fixed in version 2.2, which he has just released, and the delay entered does indeed take effect in this way.
Secondly, it is important that the time is not stored in the hardware. Otherwise you will have the problem of the shifted time again. Therefore, only set "SAVE=SYSTEM". (dr)
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25.Feb.2023
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Video tutorials: Download of the source codes
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' has so far published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has published the corresponding source codes on his website as text and AMOS files and explains this in a current YouTube video. (dr)
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24.Feb.2023
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Video: Development of the MiniMig
The developer Ranko Rodic reported at the World of Commodore 2022 about the MiniMig project (amiga-news.de reported), of which he had published revision 1.91 at the end of 2022. (dr)
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24.Feb.2023
Commodore News
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Paint program: Multipaint 2023 for Windows/Linux/Mac
Multipaint is designed to be able to draw pictures with the colour limitations of some typical 8-bit and 16-bit computer platforms. In the now released version 2023, the Amiga mode is now also an official part of the painting programme (see also the corresponding blog entry on this):
n Amiga screen with variable size and 2-32 colours, adjustable palette with 16 levels each for red, green and blue. Multipaint can only handle larger bitmaps to a limited extent, so it is recommended to limit the size to the usual resolutions, e.g. 320 x 200 or 320 x 256.
There is an export for IFF files that can be loaded e.g. in Deluxe Paint, but currently no IFF import. (dr)
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23.Feb.2023
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Event: AmiWest 2023 (12.-15. October in Sacramento, USA)
According to the organizers, the 26th edition of the AmiWest will be held at the Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California, from October 12 to 15, 2023. More information will be released as time goes on. (dr)
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22.Feb.2023
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian print and PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 12
The twelfth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 color pages both as a booklet and as a PDF file and this time features an exclusive cover picture by Eric Schwartz, deals with the following topics:
- Ring around the World, new graphic adventure reviewed in world premiere!
- Video games reviewed: Turrican II AGA, Abu Simbel, Crimbo, AmiBlock, Agonman, Maria Renard's Revenge, Kulki
- Reportage Amiga Ireland 2023
- Reportage Press Start 2022
- Museums with Amiga in Italy
- Archer MacLean
- AmigaGCC - introduction
- Corso di Blender, part 4
- Commodore CD32 FMV
- Interview with Eric Schwartz
- And also: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Tricks and Solutions, Demo Scene, New Talents, Mailbox
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22.Feb.2023
Floppy (forum)
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AROS: amisslmaster.library 4.12
Following the release for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4, version 4.12 of the open source encryption library AmiSSL is now also available for AROS/x86.
Download: amissl.i386-aros.zip (3 MB) (snx)
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22.Feb.2023
'S0Y' (Mail)
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Temptations port for CD32: Second demo version available
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported), and now has released a second demo version which additional to the CD32 version also is available as adf file for the Amiga 1200 and as WHDLoad (2 MB ChipRAM + 4 MB FastRAM required). (dr)
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22.Feb.2023
Patreon (Webseite)
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2023.0
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2023.0 (YouTube video). Changes:
- Major performance optimisations make this by far the fastest release of the Scorpion Engine to date.
- New features like "maskless blit" and draw clipping, and the new "Big Ship" demo shows how these can be used to render massive actors with relatively minimal performance overhead.
- New "line of sight" demo shows how an enemy can be made to chase the player only if there's no walls between them.
- Filters in the editor allow you to quickly search through long lists of actors, animation, code and blocks.
- Powerful new randomizer based on the XORSHIFT* algorithm.
- Improvement for the "foreach" command, actors can be filtered by more than just the type of actor.
- Channels can now be reserved specifically for music or SFX.
- Various other fixes and improvements.
You can support the developer on his Patreon website. (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Arcade game: C64 port "Kalle Kloakk" in development
Kåre Johansen is in the process of porting one of his old C64 games, "Kalle Kloakk", to the Amiga and has already published three developer videos for it (1, 2, 3). (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Puzzle game: Follix 1.3 (AGA)
Besides his puzzle game ArtPazz, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has also updated his second puzzle game Follix:
- Fixed endless floppy drive motor spinning.
- Fixed graphical glitch that could happen in the transition between the game and information screens.
- Made disappearance of game area when passing to the pause screen happen in a single frame instead of two.
- Added clearing of CPU caches after the loading of the data file (as that contains also a couple of machine code routines).
- Changed the conditions of many If, Until and While statements and turned For ... Next loops into Repeat ... Until loops to have the AMOS Professional Compiler produce shorter and faster code.
- Sharpened the top/bottom sides of the menu buttons.
- Recompiled against ALS v2.3.
- Optimized executable with custom tool.
- Touched up manual.
(dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Puzzle game: ArtPazz 1.4 (AGA)
In ArtPazz, the goal is to put the jumbled pieces of each classic painting back in their original place by moving them around (video). The puzzle game was created with AMOS Professional for AGA-Amigas and is free, but the author also allows you to pay a voluntary price.
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has now released version 1.4, which includes the following changes:
- Fixed endless floppy drive motor spinning
- Recompiled against ALS v2.3.
- Optimized executable with custom tool.
- Touched up manual.
- Changed the conditions of many If, Until and While statements and turned For ... Next loops into Repeat ... Until loops to have the AMOS Professional Compiler produce shorter and faster code.
(dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Web browser: AWeb APL Lite 3.5.091
The AWeb APL Development Team and Mirek Michalak have compiled the latest version 3.5.09 of the web browser AWeb APL Lite with the latest AmiSSL SDK to give the browser better compatibility regarding encrypted https web pages. (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Game soundtrack: "Turrican II - Secret Dungeons" remix
In addition to complete albums (for example Jaguar XJ220 Remix album), Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann releases single remixes: now happened with an extended remix of Chris Hülsbeck's "Turrican II - Secret Dungeons". (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Linux: Kernel 6.2 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the Linux kernel 6.2, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered the kernel for download in the associated discussion topic of the Hyperion forum. (dr)
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