31.Jul.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Programming Language: Amiga Assembler Plugin 1.7.0 for Visual Studio
Paul Raingeard has provided another update of his plugin for Amiga assembler programming under Visual Studio at the title link. A webview panel for setting the BLTCON0/BLTCON1 register has been added. (snx)
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31.Jul.2022
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AmiTube 1.3: 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, " I tried to implement that AmiTube remembers the splitter position. Sadly I made a big error there resulting in a very small barely recognizable List on the left side of the window. I only tested it on m68k-Amiga where it did not happen, but after a bit of trying I found the culprit and fixed it."
The current version can be downloaded from the AmiTube website or installed via the update check in AmiTube. (dr)
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30.Jul.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.12
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial which he recently updated.
Version 0.9.12 includes, among other things, a new project, a 2018 game called 'Bad Ninjas VS Rick & Joe' (YouTube video) and now uses the AmiBlitz 3.9.4 compiler. Changes:
- Bad Ninjas game is now included in the projects folder by courtesy of Ricky Place.
- Hud refresh speed can be set in the HUD screen.
- Added action trigger Reset Vars that allows to reset a range of variables to its initial value.
- In HUD screen the background image can now be edited or deleted.
- When editing a trigger if it instantiates something it will show the instantiated object in position in the preview screen.
- Switched to Amiblitz 3.9.4 compiler.
- Less strict asset processing when Building a game.
- Improved compatibility with old game projects.
- Improved calculation when setting Line Width now allows bigger maps.
- Fix for objects of type Shot not being automatically destroyed.
- Fix for compressed 16 sprite backgrounds not showing properly.
- Fix in vertical scroll leaving one empty line under certain conditions.
- Fix for some glitch in object rendering for multiscreen games.
- Fix for camera centering when using smaller displays.
- Fix for spritesheet screen always asking about palette reload even if it was the same.
- Small optimizations.
(dr)
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30.Jul.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 13
'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. Episode 13 is now available. (dr)
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30.Jul.2022
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Pong Jam: Space Pong and Pong50 (update)
Retro Programmers Inside (RPI) (Facebook link) is a group of retro programmers and has organized a Pong Jam on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Atari's video game classic Pong. This also resulted in two new conversions for the Amiga: Mauro Antonio Radice has set his Space Pong in outer space, Giuseppe Mignognas calls his conversion Pong50.
Update: (31.07.2022, 07:03, dr)
Regarding the 'Pong Jam' the article was rewritten and the Pong50 implementation added. (dr)
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30.Jul.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Arcade game KOG updated
As already reported in the article on Blastaway, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has updated several games in parallel and thus his arcade game KOG as well (video). Changes:
July 29, 2022
- Added screenshots of internal graphics (now [F1] grab a screenshot of the internal graphics and [F2] of the visible graphics).
- Added [ALT]+[F4] quit option.
- Simplified data files access code.
- Set savedata directory to the game's own data directory also for the Windows installed version (which now is thus identical to the portable version).
- Moved configuration file to the program directory.
- Added to installers code to import previous savedata and clean up leftovers.
- Improved/extended manual.
July 24, 2022
- Reworked assignments of the kind *p++ = ... *p ... (as they are miscompiled by some versions of gcc).
- Removed assignment of function "back" to joypad first button (as that was confusing).
- Added Windows portable version.
- Worked on Windows installer: removed unused data directory; added logo to graphics.
(dr)
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30.Jul.2022
amiga.org
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AmigaOS 4: Update of arena shooter 'Blastaway'
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's 'Blastaway' (video) is an arena shooter with 50 levels in five different worlds. The game principle is inspired by Wizard of Wor, the graphics by The Chaos Engine (amiga-news.de reported).
As Simone wrote, "lately work has been done in parallel on all the RETREAM games. It began with the objective of aligning the technically similar ones for PC so that they would handle data saving the same way, but it soon went out of control and brought uniformity and improvements to the installers, the documentation, the web pages and even to code and internal files -and, just as importantly, it brought new features as well!" Changes:
29. July 2022
- Worked on MILESTONE bonus: made notification more prominent by displaying the number of soldiers and/or the points awarded, both in-game and in the arena report screen; fixed handling of multiple milestones reached at the same time (the points awarded were considered by the very same check that decides whether to award those kind of points, thus potentially awarding too many points).
- Moved the ALIVE SOLDIERS bonus notification from the last arena end screen to the game end screen.
- Changed the design of the DOUBLE and TRIPLE bonuses marks from "x2" and "x3" to "2x" and "3x".
- Added glowing to Czywor's eyes.
- Simplified data files access code.
- Set savedata directory to the game's own data directory also for the Windows installed version (which now is thus identical to the portable version).
- Moved configuration file to the program directory.
- Renamed savedata file (safe.raw -> safe.dat).
- Added to installers code to import previous savedata and clean up leftovers.
- Improved/extended manual.
24. July 2022
- Reworked assignments of the kind *p++ = ... *p ... (as they are miscompiled by some versions of gcc).
- Embedded AmigaOS version string in executable.
18. July 2022
- Added support for thumbsticks, as at times Windows treats D-pads as thumbsticks (this is just to support as many joypads as possible: using real thumbsticks is not a good idea anyway).
- Added journey map (at the beginning of each stage, a screen shows the previous stages, the current stage and, darkened, the next stages).
- Added FULL GAME bonus (completing the game starting it from the first arena of the first stage awards 50000 extra points).
- Added final score in game completion screen.
- Touched up instruments volumes and effects in tunes.
- Removed the "commercials" showing the other RETREAM games between stages.
- Removed donation message from title screen.
- Fixed handling of joypad presses and releases (under some circumstances outside of the game, a release could be handled as a consequence of a previous, unrelated press).
- Improved/extended manual.
(dr)
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30.Jul.2022
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Video: Upgrading an Amiga 600
In her latest video, musician and retro lover 'Ms Mad Lemon' upgrades her Amiga 600 with 1MB Chip RAM, an IDE/SD card adapter including SD card and a Furia accelerator card. (dr)
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29.Jul.2022
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DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 4)
'Drygol' is not only a member of the demoscene group Lamers, but basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describes there his project 'Tesseract', the building of an Amiga 2000 from scratch with all maximum modifications. After the first three reports (1, 2, 3) he published the fourth blog post of the series yesterday which is about installing the 'mouSTer' USB mouse adapter and the Buddha flash card. His project is based on the GitHub project of 'Floppie209', a replica of the Amiga2000 motherboard with Sprint layout. (dr)
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29.Jul.2022
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Self-made project: Interface clock port/Raspberry Pi
After the adapter board "A314" (amiga-news.de reported), Niklas Ekström provides under the title link the information for the reconstruction of an interface with which a communication between Amiga and Raspberry Pi via the clock port is possible. After the project opening at the end of June, the developer updated the documentation yesterday, among other things. (dr)
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29.Jul.2022
Sascha Kirschgens (ANF)
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A-Pet - PET/CBM inspired metal case for Amiga 500
Mike, a British Amiga fan, is working on a metal case in the style of Commodore's CBM series. The "A-Pet" is supposed to be able to accommodate either a standard PC or various Amiga models, this is achieved by using different backplates (amiga-news.de reported).
The development of the Amiga prototype is finished so far, Mike explains the current state in this recent YouTube video. The site Hackaday has awarded the Hackaday Prize 2022 to this project. (dr)
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29.Jul.2022
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Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.97
At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing Version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 1.97 with the following changes:
- Fixed many bugs and 'Hit Enforcer': I'm confused to have done wrong the tests of ASE2019 1.95 (shame on me)
- Simplified window management
- Improvement of the windows reorganization function (horizontal/vertical mosaic and borders)
- Possibility to configure (or not) a horizontal scrollbar
- Possibility to choose the icon of the documents
- Possibility to use the device name (e.g. DH0) or the volume name in the access path of the documents
- Integration of a first version of the session management.
(dr)
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29.Jul.2022
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RSS-Reader: IvoRSS 1.1.1 für AmigaOS 3, 4 und MorphOS
IvoRSS is a simple RSS reader written with Hollywood (amiga-news.de reported). The codesets.library and AmiSSL 4 are required. IvoRSS is available for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:
Version 1.1.1
- Fixed crash for uncovered HTML characters
- Finally, any smallest change of "article" will trigger IvoRSS to show it as unread. But at least left and rigth sides of application will be consistent.
- Changed a little bit layout to look a little bit better under AmigaOS4
- Added glow icon for AmigaOS3
- Created kind of glow icon for AmigaOS4
Version 1.1
- Reworked parsing in Explore window
- Downloading is reworked, IvoRSS tracks modified time on server
- Changed New/Read identification, there are still false positives, but should be less of them
- Now MUI&MUIRoyale set up to not let labels to explode and break layout
- More &HtMl_characters; are covered
- More Amiga related feeds out of the box
(dr)
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28.Jul.2022
David Brunet (Twitter)
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Obligement: Interview with Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka (audio editor Rave)
The magazine 'Obligement' has interviewed the Czech developer Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka (English, (French), who recently has released his audio editor Rave for AmigaOS 4. (dr)
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28.Jul.2022
RetroWiki
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Slideshow: Tron Legacy
Inspired by the movie Tron: Legacy from 2010, EcaliusSoftware has created a little slideshow written with AMOS Professional (YouTube video). It requires an Amiga equipped with 2 MB Chip-RAM, 5 MB Fast-RAM and 68020 CPU. (dr)
[News message: 28. Jul. 2022, 06:15] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jul.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1b5
After the release of version 2.0 (amiga-news.de reported) developer Dirk Hoffmann has started the beta phase of version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and released the fifth beta version today. Changes:
Bug fixes
- Added support for ECS register DIWHIGH
- Option "Disconnect keys from keyboard" was broken
- Fixed a dot mask setting issue
- The built-in trackpad is no longer recognized as an external USB device
- Added more FFmpeg default search paths
- Fixed some resizing issues in the inspector window
macOS 10.15 or higher is required. (dr)
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27.Jul.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 136 (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. The latest issue among others is about the Amiga games Death Trap, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Conan the Cimmerian. (dr)
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27.Jul.2022
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Blog: Introducing "Globulus" (1990)
The blog Leaderboard mainly is about the world of Amiga games and here in particular about games exclusively released for the Amiga. The latest entry introduces the game Globulus, released in 1990. (dr)
[News message: 27. Jul. 2022, 12:38] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jul.2022
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Aiostreams V1.7.4: Scripts for Streaming Twitch.tv and Mixer.com videos
George 'walkero' Sokianos has created Python scripts and bundled them in aiostreams ("All In One Streams") for viewers of the Amiga and other retro streams on Twitch.tv and Mixer.com, so that they can also watch the videos under AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS instead of on the PC.
Yesterday version 1.7.4 has been released with the following changes
- Did a fix in YouTube script to avoid SB videos. This was breaking the video selection.
- Fixed the video throttle in YouTube videos. So now the videos seem to play smoothly.
Download: aiostreams.lha (263 KB) (dr)
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27.Jul.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.4.5 (update)
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). Yesterday version 1.4.4 was released providing the following changes:
- custom registers view: tooltip help for registers
- Denise emulator ("Screen (Beta)" tab), enable/disable specific bitplanes, sprites, with DMA overlay; click in screen to set time
- blitter tooltips show blit duration, minterm
- Profiler saves screenshots even for single-frame profiles (PNG, better quality)
- Fix screenshot delay (screenshots were always one frame too old)
- updated to latest WinUAE. fixes sprite DMA not showing SPRxDATA, SPRxDATB
- removed avail in startup-sequence (commited by mistake)
Update: (30.07.2022, 06:33, dr)
A few moments ago, version 1.4.5 was released. Changes:
- FIX: scrolling in copperlist no longer shifts whole profiler up
- FIX: dragging time in profiler flame-graph no longer stops working once reaching the outside of the profiler
- NEW: memory heatmap/viewer
- CHG: update WinUAE
(dr)
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26.Jul.2022
Andrew Hutchings (Twitter)
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Video: Installation of ROMulus dual ROM board for Amiga 500 and 2000
ROMulus is a dual ROM board for Amiga 500 and 2000 that fits under the Amiga's CPU / accelerator and provides two additional ROM slots for Kickstart or DiagROM. Andrew Hutchings shows in a recent video how to typically install and use the board he designed, which can be programmed by the Amiga itself. It is available in his Retro Supplies shop for about 53 Euros plus shipping. (dr)
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