18.Sep.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.09.2022
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 17.09.2022:
(snx)
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18.Sep.2022
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 4.1
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 4.1 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. This is now based on WebKitGTK 2.36.7 and thus fixes various errors within WebKit itself. Therefore, the update is recommended despite the fact that due to yesterday's release of WebKitGTK 2.36.8, version 4.2 can already be expected in the next few days.
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (snx)
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18.Sep.2022
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Programming assistance: "AB_Template" 0.40 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, amiga-news.de reported).
In version 0.40 he has added 16/9 Parallax side scroller with a warrior, a slot machine update and fixed some bugs. (dr)
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17.Sep.2022
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #21 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 21 (summer/autumn) are an article about Amiga in NASA service, the second part about the situation of Amiga in 2022 and several game reviews.
The magazine is available as printed issue inclusive Commodore 64/128 coverdisk for 9,54 Euro plus shipping (about 5 Euro) or as digital issue for 2,12 Euro. (dr)
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17.Sep.2022
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Floppy disks, part two: Who got them? Tom Persky!
Recently, the offspring discovered the almost criminally forgotten floppy disks as a game object, which not only our one, but also many readers were drawn into many fond memories. However, there is someone who never lost interest and passion for collecting floppy disks and even made a business out of it: Tom Persky.
He is the founder and operator of floppydisk.com. I stumbled across an Interview with him the other days, which is included in the book Floppy Disk Fever - greetings to Joerg Doege :) and now published by "Eye on Design", the editorial platform around design issues.
He bought the domain in the early 1990s and was originally involved in duplicating floppy disks. As he says, he "never in a million years thought I would ever sell blank floppy disks." His business, which used to be 90% duplicating CDs and DVDs, is now 90% selling blank floppy disks. Which he finds shocking. Currently, he has about half a million floppy disks in inventory, but also offers a disk recycling service.
Of course I asked him if he also had experience with Amiga users...As he writes, this is limited to the duplication of floppy disks. He has one or two Amiga customers who order duplications of a few hundred disks. He can still do that, since he still has some duplicators that recognize and support the Amiga format. Unfortunately, since he no longer has any original Amiga equipment, he does the duplication, but the final quality control has to be done by the customer. Even though his equipment is very reliable, there is always some nervousness when he sends disks that he cannot test.
Now it's great that his business still exists, but I wanted to at least see if there was a local alternative to America. I thought I had found one, but the offer to sell blank floppy disks is currently not available. And I was asked not to mention the site either, lest I get a flood of inquiries...;).
So if you are in the process of writing your own text adventure, with umpteen high-resolution background graphics, and want to put it on the market on 10 disks per slipcase, you will have to look elsewhere... ;)
Have a nice weekend! (dr)
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17.Sep.2022
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8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-09-16
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now.
Yesterday version V2022-09-16 was released. Changes:
- fixes an error in Apple II disk image handling that caused corruption upon save
- adds emulation of the Apple II SCSI card
(dr)
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16.Sep.2022
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Real-time strategy: Update of Vanilla Conquer
Artur Jarosik had released version 1.0 of his port of the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga in May (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released a separate version ("vanillatd_no_vamp.zip") for Amigas without Vampire accelerator card, which offers a twice optimized rendering speed. Also, the custom cursor is now enabled in the game. (dr)
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16.Sep.2022
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Video: What is DMA?
In his latest video Robert Smith explains Direct Memory Access (DMA) and among other things also the interleaved mode of the Amiga. (dr)
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16.Sep.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI-Firmware 1.0.8
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). Today version 1.0.8 of the firmware was released. Changes:
- Enable PHY_MODE_DMA_TIMER by default if no GreenPAK is present on V1.1 hardware
- Initial implementation of synchronous mode for RP2040
- Add device type autoconfiguration for more filename prefixes: MO, RE, TP
- Relocate Apple default drive IDs to shared code
- Add platform support for upcoming RP2040-based ZuluSCSI
- RP2040: custom bootloader & performance improvements
- RP2040: Fix SCSI-2 mode not getting enabled due to ATN handlinghttps://github.com//pull/64
- RP2040: Add support for SCSI-1 single initiator mode
(dr)
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15.Sep.2022
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Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress 600
After the currently sold out versions for the installation of the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 or ITX/Micro ITX PC-, 8bits4ever today officially introduced a conversion kit for the Amiga 600 as well.
As with other MiSTress models, the original Amiga 600 keyboard can be used as a regular USB HID device, and the case LEDs light up just like the MiSTer's. As the site writes, this first batch will take about 5-6 weeks to be ready for shipping. The introductory price is 135 Euros plus shipping.
Among other features, the MiSTress 600 has a hub with five USB ports, RGB/VGA DB15 connector, RCA stereo audio (with selectable I2S DAC), two DB9 joystick connectors (SEGA Megadrive compatible), and an internal 2.5-inch drive bay. The keyboard controller has an extended keyboard layout, which gives access to most of the keys you would find on a normal 104-key keyboard, and which are otherwise missing on the Amiga 600 key set. (dr)
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15.Sep.2022
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video: Amiga Alive and Kicking also at Amazon Prime in the USA
The crowd-funded documentary "Amiga Alive and Kicking", which has been available for download since the end of June (amiga-news.de reported), is now also available on Amazon Prime - but currently only in the USA. (snx)
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14.Sep.2022
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Text adventure: Pre-order of Collector's Edition of "Silk Dust"
In the middle of the last year, Davide Bucci had released the third part of his text adventures series called "Silk Dust" (amiga-news.de reported. "poly.play" now offers a collector's edition for 27 Euro plus shipping. It includes:
- 3.5" floppy disk
- Cardboard box
- MicroSD card including disk images and more
- Compass in linen bag
- 8-page DIN A5 manual (English)
- Stickers
- Poster (Din A3)
- Shrink-wrapped
The box will be available from 03. October 2022 and can be pre-ordered now. (dr)
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14.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.3
For more than a year Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka presented the audio editor 'Rave' developed by him in status updates on his blog, at the end of June he released the first version 1.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The now released version 1.3 includes the following changes:
- Unlimited Undo, with an option to use the Extended Memory Objects framework.
- Added support for WAV files containing IMA ADPCM-encoded data.
- Faster processing, loading and saving of long samples thanks to optimizations in the sndeditor.gadget.
- Fixed: The list of assigns in the file requester got improperly sorted under certain conditions.
- Fixe: Applying Mute didn't change the project status to modified, so the Save function remained unavailable.
- Fixed: Pasting mono data from the clipboard into a stereo project didn't work.
- Fixed: Auditioning a right-channel selection always played left-channel data by mistake.
- Fixed: The channel mixing code in Convert Channels was broken and produced some distortion.
- Updated program documentation.
Rave requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 as well as A-EON's Enhancer Core. (dr)
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13.Sep.2022
Amiga.org (forum)
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AmigaKit: Switchless floppy boot selector
British dealer AmigaKit offers a switchless boot-selector for the Amiga 500 or 2000 floppy drives at the title link: Pressing Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga for five seconds makes DF1 the boot drive, while the original DF0 is switched off. Pressing the key again reverses this. (snx)
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13.Sep.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Spreadsheet ignition 1.21
Achim Pankalla has released version 1.21 of his spreadsheet ignition, which requires at least AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6. The new version corrects bugs in some functions, now allows file suffixes with more than three characters and offers a revised manual.
The ods-addon has also been updated. The extension allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc, among others. Changes in ign-ods-addon 0.37:
- now some more functions are converted
- solve a problem with ms ods-files
- corrects a failure in calculation of column and row size
A new addition is the xlsx-AddOn for reading MS Excel files. This is a first, early version of the extension, the integration in ignition must still be done manually. Here tested with a calendar file (left ignition, right Excel):
Achim Pankalla thanks all testers, bug reporters, translators and supporters. He welcomes any feedback via email, and also refers to the official ignition support forum (German) at os4welt.de for further information and discussion. (dr)
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13.Sep.2022
Hans de Ruiter
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AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.34
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.34 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
"ZitaFTP Server v1.34 has just been released, and can be downloaded. This version marks a major milestone: it's no longer a pre-release.
No, this doesn't mean it's perfect. I have plenty more features and enhancements to add. ZitaFTP Server has matured to the point that the pre-release label can be removed. It's a solid product.
The ZitaFTP Server logo has been refreshed, and is looking nice. It's been incorporated into the installers too, so the generic banners are gone. In brief, here are the (cross-platform) enhancements and bug fixes:
- UI sidebar menu now only shows the pages that a user has access to
- Enabled Link-Time-Optimization (LTO) for release builds. This reduces the compiled binary size by removing unused library code (and other optimizations)
- Fixed timer event removal to eliminate a SEGV fault on exit when the ACME autorenewal client is active
- Fixed a potential hang in the event loop with slow tasks (such as ACME certificate renewal tasks)
- Fixed thread pool so more than one thread can run at once
The AmigaOS version got some special attention this time round. Here's what AmigaOS users have to look forward to:
- Added an AREXX port
- Installer now has upgrade and maintenance modes when an existing installation is detected. Upgrading just got easier
- Added AutoInstall script
- Updated libcurl to use AmiSSL, and deleted the statically linked OpenSSL that was there only for libcurl (reduces the binary size by several megabytes)"
A single license of 'ZitaFTP Server' costs around 47 Euros. The program can be tested free of charge for 30 days. (dr)
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12.Sep.2022
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Tetris clone for RTG Amigas: Atris
Yesterday, Sami Vehmaa - also AB_Template - has released a Tetris clone called Atris for Amigas with gfx board (YouTube video).
The game was written in AmiBlitz 3 and requires AmigaOS3.x, AHI, RTG 960x540 16-bit for full screen mode and 35MB RAM. The game can be also started from Workbench in 800x600x16, but then you cannot change to full screen mode. Atris can be purchased for at least 3 Euro on itch.io. (dr)
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11.Sep.2022
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Image processing: FPU version of RNOEffects 1.4
In the middle of August, developer 'jPV^RNO' had released version 1.4 of his image processing program "RNOEffects" (amiga-news.de reported). Now he additionally compiled and released a FPU version which according to him is much faster for certain functions. (dr)
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11.Sep.2022
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Aminet uploads until 10.09.2022
The following files have been added until 10.09.2022 to Aminet:
ign-AddOn-ODS.lha biz/spread 212K OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
ign-AddOn-XLSX.lha biz/spread 301K OS4 ignition addon for access xls...
ignition.lha biz/spread 4.9M OS4 a modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha biz/spread 1.2M Sourcecode ignition 1.21
NewsCoaster_FR.lha comm/news 20K French catalogs for NewsCoast...
evo.lha dev/e 648K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
mhi_dev.lha driver/aud 62K 68k MHI Dev - The new standard in...
croaker.lha game/actio 120K 68k Amphibian survival game.
sormelus.adf game/misc 880K 68k Finnish game for testing typi...
jfsw.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k Shadow Warrior Amiga Port
nblood.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Blood Amiga Port
RNOEffects_68k_FPU.lha gfx/edit 5.6M 68k Image processing program
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.6M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
LHArchiver.lha util/arc 4.6M create lha archives intuitively
(snx)
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11.Sep.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 10.09.2022
The following files have been added until 10.09.2022 to OS4Depot:
amoskittens.lha dev/lan 2Mb 4.1 Amos the kitten is amos basic in...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
ciagent.lha emu/mis 171kb 4.0 Minimal CIA resources and hardwa...
tbftss.lha gam/shm 2Mb 4.1 The Battle for the Solar System ...
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
(snx)
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11.Sep.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 10.09.2022
The following files have been added until 10.09.2022 to AROS Archives:
icaros23_fix.tar uti/mis 161Mb Little fix for icaros desktop v2.3
(snx)
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