26.Jun.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.06.2022
The following files have been added until 25.06.2022 to AROS Archives:
mpega.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 71kb include files for mpega.library
devtoolmsdos.zip dev/mis 38Mb Create with dosbox your game easily
whatiff1.05.lha doc/mis 494kb Magazine AmigaGuide Format June ...
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 26Mb Point and click adventure game
sieteymedia.lha gam/car 4Mb The Siete y Media card game.
zunepaint.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 530kb Bitmap paint with additional eff...
crono_aros.lha gra/mis 4Mb Generator of printable calendars
(snx)
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26.Jun.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.06.2022
The following files have been added until 25.06.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
VanillaConquer_TD_R1.lha Games/Strategy Vanilla Conquer is a po...
qoi.lha Graphics/Convert Quite OK Image benchmar...
Pixy_1.0_AlphaRelease_... Graphics/Draw The next generation pix...
Lupe_2.0.lha System/Ambient/Utilities The magnifying glass pr...
LiteXL_2.0.3r2.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
ne_3.3.1.lha Text/Edit The nice editor is comi...
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26.Jun.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.06.2022
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 25.06.2022:
- 2022-06-21 improved: Guardian CD³² (Acid Software) better joypad controls, trainer added (Info)
- 2022-06-19 improved: Space Hulk (Electronic Arts) fast ram support, 68000 quitkey, savegame feature restored (Info)
- 2022-06-19 improved: Sensible Golf (Sensible Software) using fast memory, 68000 quitkey, snoop bugs removed (Info)
- 2022-06-19 improved: Deep Core (ICE) 68000 quitkey, joypad/2nd-button controls, many fixes, highscore saving added (Info)
(snx)
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26.Jun.2022
Floppy (comment)
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AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop 2.3 beta 220624
Paolo Besser released a beta version of his AROS distribution Icaros Desktop which contains the recent ABIv0 backports by Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz, but also other additions, and asks users willing to support it to test it. (snx)
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26.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Clock port/Raspberry Pi interface
After the adapter board "A314" (amiga-news.de reported) Niklas Ekström now provides information under the title link for the reproduction of an interface with which communication between Amiga and Raspberry Pi is possible via the clock port.
After appropriate software adjustments, the developer hopes to be able to run services such as the file system a314fs, which enables access to directories of the Raspberry Pi, and the SANA II network driver via it. (snx)
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26.Jun.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 135 (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 the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. (snx)
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25.Jun.2022
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Music editor: MusicMaker V8 Version 3.16
As Thomas Winischhofer told us at the end of October last year, the development of his 'MusicMaker V8' was actually finished. Apparently, however, he always finds the time and inclination to fix minor bugs and to continue to maintain his sample-based music editor, which he started as a hobby project in 1986, so that since version 3.12, the fourth update to version 3.16 has now been released. Changes since our last report:
Version 3.16:
- Relocated prefs file (MM_V8.prefs) from S: to ENVARC:, if the latter exists (which is normally the case under OS2 and later). This also fixes the annoying requester when starting MM under 1.3.
- Installer: Install MM_V8.prefs to ENVARC: if available
- Installer: Ask if prefs file should be overwritten
- Installer: By default, do not install developer kit
- Add install script for AmigaDOS 1.3 since the installer needs >=2.x
Version 3.15:
- Filerequester: Fix long standing and potentially lethal sorting bug
Version 3.14:
- Filerequester:
- Make list display faster
- The path-resolving-bahavior described under the entry for 3.13 below was for OS2 and later. Now MM does the same under 1.3.
Version 3.13:
- Filerequester:
- fix race cond when typing a filename
- No longer resolve assigns when clicking "Parent"
(dr)
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25.Jun.2022
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Video: Dual boot with Amiga 500 and ACA500plus?
The musician and retro lover 'Ms Mad Lemon' got an ACA500plus expansion card for her Amiga 500 and presented it in a first video. In the latest video she now tests whether a dual boot of AmigaOS 1.3 and 3.1 is possible. (dr)
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25.Jun.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 8
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Here the eighth episode was published. (dr)
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25.Jun.2022
AB-UltraNarwhal
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Jump'n Run: Duckstroma released
After the second demo version was released at the beginning of June (amiga-news.de reported), the finished amiga version is now available and can be downloaded at a self-determined price.
In 'Duckstroma', as duck Aura you have the order to deliver eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all sorts of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (YouTube video). The game requires 1MB of RAM. (dr)
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24.Jun.2022
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Magnifier tool: Lupe 2.0 for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS
Matthias "UltraGelb" Böcker wrote: "'Lupe' continously magnifies an area of the screen and displays it in a window. The window can be resized and the scalefactor can be dynamically changed. Per default Lupe follows the mouse pointer and magnifies the area sourrounding the pointer, but it is also possible to have it magnify a freely setable fixed area. It can show colour values of the current pixel under the mouse pointer and also its coordinates. Additionally a grid can be enabled. Furthermore it can save the current window contents as IFF or PNG image."
Minimum requirements are AmigaOS 3.0 for the AmigaOS/68K version and MorphOS 3.0 for the MorphOS version. Saving images in PNG format needs additionally the zlib.library V3.2. Changes of version 2.0:
- Created MorphOS specific PNG icon and def_icon.
- Reworked the original documentation and made AmigaGuide files from it.
- Shows size of scaled area in window title now.
- The about window is now asynchronous and won't block Lupe anymore as long as it is open.
- Now has a proper $VER: version string.
- Added MagicBeacon support to the MorphOS version when an Image has been saved.
- Supports screennotify.library now and no longer blocks Workbench/Ambient when these want to reopen.
- Lupe can install a DOS notify on its icon in order to reload its tooltypes/config when the user changes some options there. Use ICONNOTIFY if you want Lupe checking its icon for changes.
- Added support for MorphOS extended window border gadgets 'Jump Screen' and 'Iconify'.
- Added GridColor argument to set the colour for the grid. The argument accepts a hexadecimal number in the format $RRGGBB or 0xRRGGBB. On MorphOS it's possible to also specify the alpha value like GC=$AARRGGBB.
- Grid rendering was completely broken on MorphOS. Fixed.
- Added PNG saver and respective menu option. PNG saver will save in 24 bit and won't save any alpha channel.
- Fixed true colour 24 bit IFF saver. Always only saved first 8 rows, failed on certain widths and didn't allocate bitmaps properly.
- Now uses wbmessage instead of Cli() to determine where it was started from.
- Added mouse wheel support to adjust scale factor.
- The Lupe window can be resized now by a fixed size step (the initial innerwidth/height is used) by pressing CTRL + cursor keys.
- Removed CurrentDir() stuff from saveiff(). Just using complete filename for Open() now.
- Some internal changes to argument parsing.
- Added IgnoreLupeWindow option. When enabled the Lupe window itself won't show up in the scaled bitmap anymore. This option requires MorphOS and Compositing enabled.
- Lupe won't try to jump to screens with no default title and no screen title anymore. Fixes the problem with JumpToActiveScreen and MorphOS blanker not being able to close its blanker screen when lupe jumped onto it.
- Added BeginRefresh()/EndRefresh() fixing the refresh problem with window borders on MorphOS after resizing the Lupe window.
- Pubscreenlist traversal could access illegal memory. Fixed.
- Ported C source code to E.
(dr)
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24.Jun.2022
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian Print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 8
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euro) or printed (7,50 Euro, Amazon) form. Its current issue consists of 36 color pages and includes the following topics:
- COVERDISK: World Premiere Playable Demo of SNAKY - The Mysterious World!
- Many videogames reviewed: Riamel Black Prophecy, Atarenium Falcon, Flappadiddle, Emotiworld, Blockman Gets, Mr Poo's Journey
- Collectibles: some useful tips
- Special: Ocean Software
- Interviews with: with Renee Cousins the vampire slayer and Luca Stradiotto
- And also: Games & Tech News, Demo scene, New Talents, Mailbox
(dr)
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24.Jun.2022
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20190416-2
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the new version 20190416-2 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-Bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). It includes about 1000 new changes added between April 2018 and April 2019 as well as upgrade of GCC to 6.5.0. This closes the 20190416 release cycle. The full change log is available under the title link. (dr)
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23.Jun.2022
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Short video tutorials: Programming with AMOS Pro (update)
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' has published two short tutorials on YouTube demonstrating basic steps of programming with AMOS Pro: In part 1, he shows how to use the 'INPUT' command to capture data entered by an user and display it on the screen. The second part is about validating the data captured in the first video and showing errors to the user if necessary.
Update: (25.06.2022, 21:48, dr)
Meanwhile, the third part has been published, showing how to save the data collected in the previous videos in a Random Access File. (dr)
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23.Jun.2022
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Announcement: 'PiStation ITX' board
The store 8bits4ever, which already offers various FPGA solutions for retro enthusiasts, plans to soon offer a board that is designed to accommodate a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 in a mini-ITX case. It features a DB15 connector for outputting VGA/RGB video signals to CRT TVs and monitors. A USB hub and two DB9 joystick ports are integrated.
The image output via the DB15 port requires a Linux distribution, such as Recalbox. Among other things, this distribution also supports AGA Amigas. Alternatively, other Raspberry Pi distributions can be run that use the HDMI output. (dr)
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22.Jun.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.1
For about a year, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has been introducing the audio editor 'Rave' in status updates on his blog, today not only the recent blog entry on Jedlicka's project was published, but also the first public version was released.
Jedlicka describes the main features of the program as follows:
- A modern, configurable graphical user interface (GUI).
- A tabbed environment for managing multiple projects from within a single program window.
- Asynchronous operation: performing a task in a project doesn't block the other projects.
- Support for multiple clipboard units.
- Modular design with an object-oriented plugin system, which makes the program easy to extend.
- A wide range of supported audio file types and formats.
Rave requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 as well as A-EON's Enhancer Core. (cg)
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22.Jun.2022
Twitter
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.2 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.2 and is now based on OpenSSL 3.0.4, which was released yesterday. (dr)
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22.Jun.2022
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AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.33
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.33 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
"I'm pleased to announce that ZitaFTP Server v1.33 is out now, and available for download. As usual, it's got one major new feature, and fixes for a bunch of niggling little issues.
Users can now get and renew their SSL certificates automatically via Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL. Both will let you create free certificates for your server, provided that it's visible over the internet (on the standard HTTP port 80).
You'll also need a domain name, and probably a Dynamic DNS (DDNS) service. Dynu is the one I used for testing, and you can get a subdomain from them for free. Other changes:
- Server settings UI wouldn't allow the maximum number of clients to be set to 0 (infinite). FIXED
- Server settings UI wasn't showing error messages immediately. FIXED
- Fixed a rare "SSL routines:ssl3_write_pending:bad write retry" error that could cause HTTP requests to be cut off
- Now recognizes HTTP proxy headers, so it won't treat proxy connections as local
- Local peer detection wasn't working properly for HTTPS connections. FIXED
- Fixed a possible SEGV fault if a receive error occurred before the start of an HTTP message (e.g., a client tries to establish an HTTPS connection on an HTTP port)
- Fixed a silly bug that flipped the HTTP port number's endianness."
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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21.Jun.2022
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Self-made project: 68060 accelerator board for Amiga 3000(T) and 4000(T)
Matthias Heinrichs has already developed several hardware projects: among others a Flickerfixer for Amiga 2000, 3000 and 4000 or Matzes graphics card for all Amigas equipped with Zorro slots. Now he has published documents for a turbo card for the Amiga A3000 and A4000(T), which can be equipped with up to 128MB SDRAM, a 68060CPU with 50/75/100MHz or a 68040 with 25MHz. (dr)
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21.Jun.2022
Robert Smith
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Video review: WinUAE & FloppyBridge
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin FloppyBridge, WinUAE is also officially supported since version 4.9.0 (amiga-news.de reported).
In a short video review, the developer looks back at the history of this project and gives an outlook on his current project. (dr)
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21.Jun.2022
Janne Peräaho
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AmigaOS 4: Creating XML files using RexXMLib
RexXMLib is an ARexx library that allows to write XML documents with ARexx scripts with minimal effort. For example, data can be converted to XML form, XML documents can be generated or a variety of XML data files, such as license keys, can be created algorithmically.
RexXMLib has support for PObjects schema (Amiga XML preferences file) allowing to easily create preferences files. RexXMLib comes with sample scripts that show how to create preferences files, license files, and XML databases. Features:
- Automatic indentation that ensures clean readble XML files
- Supports arbitrary XML element names, attributes, and attribute values
- Support for PObjects schema (Amiga XML preferences file)
- Support for fuzzy PObjects arguments
(dr)
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