02.Nov.2022
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.
- September/October 2022 news.
- Old articles from Joystick 55 to 65:
- Interview with Jérôme Bonaldi and David Gonner
- Review of All New World Of Lemmings
- Review of Flink CD32
- Interview with Stéphane Picq
- File: And if piracy was essential
- Review of Pinball Illusions
- Review of Sim City 2000
- File: Music in video games
- Review of Alien Breed Tower Assault
- Review of Cannon Fodder 2
- News: Atried Concept my new name is Pearson
- Review of Fields Of Glory
- Review of Super Stardust, etc.
- Report: Amiga 37.
- Interview with Jérôme Senay (editor of Boing magazine).
- Interview with Matt Gray (musician).
- Review: Wrong Way Driver.
- Review: BePlayer 1.4.
- Hardware: Furia EC020.
- File: History of Trecision (part 2).
- Tutorial: Building an AmigaOS 4 cross compiler (Binutils 2.23.2 & GCC 8.3.0) on MSYS2.
- Tutorial: Installing MorphOS (update).
- DIY: Mounting an HxC SD and a floppy drive in an Amiga 600.
- Misc: Irving Gould's villa.
- Special quiz on MUI.
(cg)
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02.Nov.2022
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Top-Down-Racer: Zebra 3
'Zebra 3' (video) is a top-down racer with four different courses. The title was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, Kickstart 2 and a "fast Amiga" are given as minimum requirements. (cg)
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02.Nov.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable preview: Capacitor's Revenge
In the shooter 'Capacitor's Revenge' (video) you have to defend the Amiga's m68k processor against attacking capacitors (amiga-news.de reported). The title is being developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, the author now provides a first playable preview version. (cg)
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02.Nov.2022
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Platformer: Daredevil Dennis Remix
'Daredevil Dennis Remix' (video) is a conversion of the 8-bit title Daredevil Dennis for the Amiga, developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. The game features 25 with increasing difficulty. (cg)
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02.Nov.2022
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Vertical Scrolling Shoot'em Up: ACE Battle Over The Sea
The vertically scrolling shooter 'ACE Battle Over The Sea' (video) was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. The title, inspired by classics like 1942, offers four missions and runs on any Amiga with at least one megabyte of Chip RAM. The download is free, but if you wish you can give the author a small obolus during the download. (cg)
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02.Nov.2022
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Arena shooter: Blower
'Blower' (video) - developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam - is an arena shooter in which up to four human players use firearms and flamethrowers to get at each other. Computer-controlled "bots" are also available for training purposes, but the developer says they are "pretty dumb".
'Blower' runs on all Amigas with at least one megabyte of Chip RAM, it supports a parallel port adapter for connecting two additional joysticks and offers seven different levels, various bonus items. The download is free, but if you wish you can pay the author a small fee. (cg)
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02.Nov.2022
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MorphOS 3.17: openssl3.library November Hotfix
The MorphOS developer team has announced: "New vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Two discovered issues, namely CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.
A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can download the following replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17. To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot." (dr)
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01.Nov.2022
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.5 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.5 and is now based on the latest OpenSSL 3.0.7, which was also released today. This fixes a security problem that has existed since OpenSSL 3.0.0 and is now classified as high: a buffer overflow could be triggered when checking X.509 certificates. Thus, all users who have installed a version 5 of AmiSSL (based on OpenSSL 3) are recommended to update. The changes:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.0.7 (1.11.2022) version, which includes:
- Added RIPEMD160 to the default provider.
- Fixed regressions introduced in 3.0.6 version.
- Fixed two buffer overflows in punycode decoding functions. ([CVE-2022-3786]) and ([CVE-2022-3602])
- Improved and simplified random number seeding routines.
- The AMISSL_NO_STATIC_FUNCTIONS preprocessor symbol has been added to the SDK, mainly for use with VBCC
Download AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.5-OS3.lha (3,3 MB)
Download AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.5-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
Download SDK: AmiSSL-5.5-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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01.Nov.2022
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Point'n Click adventure: NEONnoir
The Point'n Click adventure 'NEONnoir' (Video) was developed with AmiBlitz for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. As a down-and-out private eye, the player has to track down a drug addicted daughter from a wealthy family.
'NEONnoir' requires at least an Amiga 1200 with a harddisk. The game can be downloaded for free, but users can name their own price before downloading. A walkthrough is offered on the official website and the game's BASIC sourcecode is available as well: Either as a LhA download from the official website, or in the author's Github repository. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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01.Nov.2022
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Turn based strategy: playable preview for "Settle the World" (update)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released a first playable preview of his turn-based building and trading game 'Settle the World' - refer to our extensive preview for more information. The author points out that this is an early development version and many gameplay elements are not implemented yet: For example, the happiness of your citizen currently has no effect at all on game progress.
'Settle the World' is primarily intended to be played with multiple human opponents, but it does include a single player campaign. The game requires 1 Megabyte ChipRAM and 4 Megabyte FastRAM, a harddisk and at least a 68020 CPU. A version that should run on Kickstart 1.x is provided as well, but is untested as of now.
Update: (05.11.2022, 14:05, dr)
The developer has published a short tutorial on YouTube on how to start his game. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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01.Nov.2022
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Games for RTG systems: Sky Tower, Last Space Raider, Dungeon Escape, Börd
Sami Vehmaa has written several Arcade games for Amiga systems that have a graphics card installed:
The games were written using AmiBlitz, they require a fast Amiga with a graphics card and AHI installed. Each game can be purchased for one Euro, the AmiBlitz sourcecode for each game is included in the download. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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01.Nov.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000, part 3
In the third part of his documentation about the restoration of an Amiga 1000 (amiga-news.de reported), Richard "Shred" Körber explains how he replaced the floppy drive with a Centuriontech "GOEX on pills" floppy simulator. (dr)
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01.Nov.2022
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Password manager PastePass 1.9
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS.
Version 1.9 is a complete reimplementation using the cryptostorage.library. The code has been reworked, many security checks added, and the entire GUI and program flow streamlined. The author's initial tests went well, but he requests further testing and explicitly marks this release as a pre-release. The changes in detail:
- changed databas to use cryptostorage.library
- entries will always be part of a group
- a group can be protected by a 2nd password
- PassTool functionality has been intregated into PastePass, allowing you to store your password in a seperate databae which will be opened by the name you used for registering MorphOS
- added the option to set a default user name
Download: PastePass.lha (77 KB) (dr)
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01.Nov.2022
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Linux tutorial: Using the Fienix distribution on the X5000, part 2
In the first part of the instructions for using the Linux distribution "Fienix" on the X5000, Amiga-News.de editor Daniel Reimann reported how to prepare a USB stick under Windows for this purpose. Here now the continuation:
Starting Fienix
After the USB stick has been plugged into a free USB port, we can boot up the X5000. As soon as the Boing Ball starts spinning, it is best to press the "M" key twice. With the first press we get into the "AmigaOne Early Startup Control" menu...
...and with the second keystroke into the command line menu. Now, we the following line:
usb reset
Among other things, it is searched for storage media. I have the following (special?) case: my tower has several USB ports at the front, but only two can be used. In order to have one free for the USB stick, I have connected my Mac keyboard to the other one and my USB mouse to it. But I have to disconnect it before running "usb reset", otherwise it will be recognized as another storage medium. Now enter the following lines:
setenv bootargs root=LABEL=FIENIX-DISK
fatload usb 0:1 1000000 uImage-6.0
fatload usb 0:1 1c00000 cyrus-p5020.dtb
fatload usb 0:1 2000000 uInitrd-5.10
bootm 1000000 2000000 1c00000
The kernel is loaded and Fienix is started. After the input, several columns of numbers rattle across the screen, but finally the login window should appear:
Here's what we enter:
Username: fienix
Password: fienixPW
Looks good! Let's see if there is a tool for capturing screenshots. Yes, there it is, "Accessories"...:
Synaptic Package Manager
By default, no word processor is included. You have to install that, and of course many other software, via the package manager "Synaptic Package Manager". It can be found under "Administration":
Right-click on the first AbiWord entry and select "Mark for installation":
You will then be asked if you want to install any other package dependencies associated with it. We do, which also marks the two entries below:
Now go to "Apply" at the top and the packages will be installed. Before we reboot, we want to see if it worked and look under "Office" for the corresponding entry. Perfectly: "AbiWord" is listed:
After restarting, we test AbiWord briefly: works!
In the third part of the tutorial, we will look at how to make the printer ready for use and how to configure the Linux button in the "AmigaOne Early Startup Control" menu so that we can save ourselves typing the instructions in the future. (dr)
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01.Nov.2022
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Platformer: Ami-Tower
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' (farm simulation "Farmiga") has ported Icy Tower in Blitz Basic 2 to the Amiga. The game principle is to let the main character climb a tower by jumping to different heights.
The levels are created randomly. You can jump over two platforms and then have more points and bonus jumps. After every 50 platforms, the time to the end of the game is restored, so you have to jump up as quickly as possible.
The game requires a standard Amiga 500 with Kick 1.3 and 500 KB. The game is still in development, the end of the game and the game menu (options and highscore) are missing. (dr)
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31.Oct.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.5
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). Three days ago, version 1.6.4 was released and today version 1.6.5. Changes:
- FIX: libintl issue in ARM-based Macs #145
- FIX: 'Profile File Size' broken since last version
- FIX: Vasm fixes
- CHG: Better stack unwinding for assembly code
- FIX: GDB Mac exe without libintl dylib dependency
(dr)
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31.Oct.2022
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Doom clone: "Dread" becomes "Grind"
The developer and demoscene member Krzysztof Kluczek had worked on the Doom clone "Dread" in his spare time and so far regularly published videos documenting the progress of his work (amiga-news.de reported). As he now reports in a Patreon post, he hands over the project to John 'Tsak' Tsakiris, who will continue it under the new name "Grind" (introduction on the new Patreon page). Kluczek will continue to work on "Dread" alone, as long as his new commitments allow him to do so: as non-commercial project.
(dr)
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31.Oct.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.8.2 for Raspberry Pi 4/400
The update to version 11.8.2 (changelog) of the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 includes the recently released version 5.4 of the Amiga emulator AmiBerry. In addition, the WHDLoad database and the Linux system has been updated. (dr)
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31.Oct.2022
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CPU and RAM monitor: NewMeter 1.332
Thomas Rapp's "NewMeter" is a monitor showing on the Workbench screen the utilization of CPU, RAM and several partitions with a bar chart. The program is configured using tooltypes, (amiga-news.de reported).
In the latest version 1.332 configurable custom gauges have been added, whose values are read from env variables. This allows now to display the values of AmigaKit's Real Time Clock und Sensors Module. Also support for i2cs sensors has been added. (dr)
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30.Oct.2022
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Aminet uploads until 29.10.2022
The following files have been added until 29.10.2022 to Aminet:
CloudDav_1.71.lha comm/net 559K MOS A WebDav client
nfs3.lha comm/net 10K 68k Mount NFS3 shares using bsdso...
ApolloExplorer.zip comm/tcp 32M 68k Apollo Explorer
COP.lha dev/debug 165K 68k Low Level Debugger
RawIO2Parallel.lha dev/debug 9K 68k Redirect debug output to para...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 205K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.22
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 255K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
OlivettiJP.lha driver/pri 14K 68k Olivetti JP WB Driver 40.5
OlivettiJP790.lha driver/pri 13K 68k Olivetti JP 790 (HPDJ560C) WB...
AmiQuake_AGA.lha game/shoot 6.0M 68k Amiga port of WinQuake
AmiQuake_RTG.lha game/shoot 6.0M 68k Amiga port of WinQuake
2nd-Albireo.ACEpansio... misc/emu 21K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
Albireo.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 43K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
ptripper.lha mus/misc 18K 68k Protracker module ripper
AmigaAMP3.lha mus/play 1.9M OS4 Multi format audio player wit...
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha mus/play 406K 68k MPEG audio player with GUI
gwimport.lha util/conv 5K 68k GeoWriteImport
DisLib.lha util/libs 19K 68k A library based MC68K disasse...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.1M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 796K MOS Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 2.4M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
newmeter.lha util/wb 27K 68k Shows free RAM and storage as...
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30.Oct.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.10.2022
The following files have been added until 29.10.2022 to OS4Depot:
ht.lha aud/edi 964kb 4.0 Multichannel chiptune tracker, b...
amigaamp3.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.1 Multi format audio player with GUI
drawing_dt.lha dat/ima 380kb 4.0 Vector superclass + DR2D/SVG Dat...
spotless.lha dev/deb 9Mb 4.1 Your favorite debugging tool
mednafen.lha emu/gam 10Mb 4.1 Mednafen Emulator
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
sacrificiopagano.lha uti/mis 6Mb 4.0 Magic Tool
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