19.Aug.2022
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Video review: BFG9060 accelerator board for Amiga 3000/4000
'Wrangler Amiga' tests in a YouTube video the accelerator board designed by Matthias Heinrichs for the Amiga A3000 and A4000(T) (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
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19.Aug.2022
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Boot Selector for Amiga 600 / 1200 (update)
With a boot selector it is possible to use an externally connected floppy drive (or Gotek Floppy Drive Emulator) as boot floppy. This is made possible by making the Amiga believe that the external drive is DF0:. To avoid soldering and fiddling with wires, there are ready-made solutions of various kinds, but they basically all do the same thing: swap two address lines.
Gotek Retro has now designed its own solution for the Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200 respectively: According to Ed, "the traditional boot selectors for the old(er) generation Amiga's do not fit as they still used a CIA on a socket where they would be installed between the socket and the chip. The Amiga 600 and the Amiga 1200 have exchanged that socket version for an SMD version that requires much less space, but is also not easy to remove / replace.
The principle is very simple , you don't change the data lines ON the CIA itself but on a different location. The bootselector for the Amiga 1200 (And A600) consists of 2 interfaces , one internally between the internal floppy drive and the floppy cable, and the other one externally, connected to the floppy port on the back of your Amiga. The only thing you need to do is bring 2 wires from the internal interface to the external interface."
The boot selector is available in the store for 25 Euro plus shipping. (dr)
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19.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.3 (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 versions 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 have been released. Changes:
Version 1.5.1
- FIX: profiler: Custom registers at start of frame
- FIX: screen: display window when not set during frame
- FIX: DMA: ignore fake copper DMA after COPJMP
Version 1.5.2
- FIX: copper: don't crash when hovering over NO-OP instruction
- NEW: display BPL1MOD, BPL2MOD as signed values
- NEW: screen: support FMODE (AGA) for bitplanes
- NEW: profiler now shows 32 and 64 bit wide DMA transfers
- NEW: resources: support FMODE (AGA)
Version 1.5.3
- FIX: fix missing cycle timings in assembly view (was broken since 1.4.7)
- NEW: memory: switch between byte .B, word .W and longword .L display
- NEW: smooth scrolling for custom register/CPU opcode tooltip windows
- FIX: assembly: handle 0-cycle trace instructions
- FIX: kickstart symbols now include mathieeesingbas.library
- NEW: disassembler: support FPU (68881/68882/68040/68060)
- NEW: profiler: blitter-tooltip: show BLT*DAT if DMA for channel is disabled but is used in minterm
- CHG: BPL1MOD, BPL2MOD as decimals
Update: (20.08.2022, 21:09, dr)
Version 1.5.3 has been released today, changes added. (dr)
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18.Aug.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 158 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 158 (September/October 2022) have been published online now at the title link. Contents include reviews of Duckstroma and AmiBlitz as well as a preliminary report about the Amiga37 event.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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18.Aug.2022
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Editor: MUI-Vim V8.2.4424 for AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS
MUI-Vim is a port of the editor Vim for AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS. This editor is intended for editing programs as well as plain text files. Multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, block operations and scripting are some of the features. Ola 'sodero' Söder has now ported VIM 8.2.4424, fixing the following bugs:
- AROS graphical glitch fixed
- MorphOS DOS script filetype detection fixed
(dr)
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18.Aug.2022
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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 6
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday he has released the sixth beta version with the following changes:
- Added scandir to dirent
- Fixed with some hacks termios functions and now ncurses works correctly
- Fixed a problem on CTRL-C that was not stopping the program anymore
- Some small internal changes
(dr)
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18.Aug.2022
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Programming help: Creating demos with AProcessing (video)
The very busy 'Phaze101' - among other things Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game or Assembler Coding Course - has started a new video series: together with its developer Alessio 'Ozzyboshi' Garzi, he explains AProcessing, assembler routines for creating Amiga demos. (dr)
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18.Aug.2022
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MorphOS: Starfield Blanker V1.0
Das #amigazeux team has released version 1.0 of the Starfield blanker. It draws a zooming, moving, rotating and spinning star field with and without warp speed like effects. TinyGL and at least MorphOS 2.0.0 are required. (dr)
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17.Aug.2022
Reddit
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Interview: Alfred Faust (BarsnPipes)
The news service tarnkappe.info has re-published an interview with BarsnPipes developer Alfred Faust from the year 2007. (dr)
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16.Aug.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000
The Amiga 1000 is extremely popular right now: After Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports about the restoration, now Richard "Shred" Körber describes in two blog entries (part 1, part 2) his experiences which he made during the refurbishment of the Amiga 1000. (dr)
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16.Aug.2022
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Preview video 28: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported).
About his 28th preview video, the developer writes:
"This time you can see how the current CPU player plays against himself :) By the way, for the video the CPU player was artificially dumbed down, especially he shoots quite often much too firm. Without this little hack, the video would be a bit too boring, because the CPU player practically never provokes a throw-in or a corner by himself at the moment :P
The AI is already sufficient (there is still room for improvement, of course) to take care of the control of the team members that are not being controlled by the player himself in a human vs human match. Most importantly, the AI is also fast enough: we're still at 50 fps even in CPU vs CPU on a bare Amiga 1200.
Besides many details (e.g. the ball is now animated quite nicely) and many internal improvements, there is now also a neat free kick and throw-in system, which is based on Goal!: by means of a dotted line you can parameterize the direction, strength, height of the shot / throw..." (dr)
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16.Aug.2022
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R62 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
Today version 1.2 R62 was released with the following changes:
- Mask Export option ABQ - Trans Mask &HE0
- Save IFF/BBM Amiga brushes - not compressed
- ILBM decompression bug fixed
- 256 color ILBM files were not being saved correctly - these are pc pbm format
(dr)
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15.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Update on "Amiga C Tutorial"
Peter John "pjhutch" Hutchison's English-language "Amiga C Tutorial" is supposed to help C newcomers to program under AmigaOS with the help of many code examples (amiga-news.de reported). Even though it has existed for more than ten years, the author still improves it selectively and corrects errors. As he told us, this is what happened in the Screens chapter: A wrong pointer was used to close screens. (dr)
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15.Aug.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: The World of Amiga Tracker Music
In his latest video, Robert Smith goes back in time to the 1980s to explore the origins of Amiga Music: the Tracker, and The MOD file.
He looks at how these mod files are put together, how a Protracker module works, and why the files are so small even though they contain such long pieces of music. (dr)
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14.Aug.2022
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Image processing: RNOEffects 1.4 for all Amiga systems
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated RNOEffects from his family of RNO applications. RNOEffects is a simple image processing program with a focus on good batch conversion options and alpha channel based effects (YouTube video). It was available in previous versions for MorphOS, OS4 and AROS, and the new version now also supports 68k and WarpOS configurations. The changes:
- Images can be saved as AmigaOS, NewIcons, GlowIcons, OS4, PNG, and DualPNG
- icons with configurable properties that include icon type, tooltypes,
- selected image, default tool, stack, position, drawer properties, etc.
- Added the "Freehand" drawing mode
- Added the "Opacity map" effect for creating and inserting B&W opacity map images of alpha channels
- Added the "ARexx" effect to launch ARexx scripts within the program
- Added an example ARexx script
- Better text editing/importing/exporting options for the text drawing effect
- Draw and crop effects can be positioned with the mouse
- Re-designed the line effect and added an arrowhead option
- Added buttons and keys to load next and previous pictures in the directory
- Added the undo levels setting
- Added the redo option
- Removed overlapping keyboard shortcuts for copy/cut/paste operations
- Fixed pathless file arguments
- Safer error handling
- Other changes and fixes
Downloads:
(dr)
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14.Aug.2022
Stefan Reinauer
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ReA4091: Video and pre-order for the reconstruction of the Fast SCSI2 controller
During the Vintage Computer Festival East, which took place from April 22 to 24 at the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township in the USA (see also the video talk of former Commodore employees), Stefan Reinauer gave a talk about the project of rebuilding the Fast SCSI2 controller A4091, which he and Chris Hooper successfully accomplished. The project, christened "ReA4091", lasted four months and was accomplished with the help of an original copy purchased at an eBay auction.
The YouTube video, which has been available since the end of April and was recorded by Robert Bernardo, has been edited again by him and now has a much better sound quality (see title link).
As Stefan Reinauer explained to amiga-news.de, they are "still busy building cards and debugging". In parallel, the open source driver is being written, which will replace the original ROM. Currently, 30 cards are being built. On the corresponding project page you can not only find more information, but you can also express your interest in building a card. The price is about 225 Euro (without shipping). (dr)
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14.Aug.2022
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Aminet uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to Aminet:
DFT_IDFT_DWT_FFT.zip dev/src 147K 68k DFT, IDFT, DWT and FFT for A1...
PyPlayer.zip dev/src 1.1M 68k Audio Player for Python 1.4.0...
CCOS-disk-utils.lha disk/misc 73K MOS Manipulate GRiD OS floppy images
Sensei.lha driver/oth 35K 68k Displays I2C Sensor informati...
dynAMIte_v24.lha game/2play 2.0M 68k Internet (only) Bomberman/Dyn...
RescueLander.lha game/actio 45K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
StefADV2.lha game/text 65K 68k 2nd little italian text adven...
WhatIFF1.06.lha mags/misc 55K What IFF? #1.06-August-2022
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.5M 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...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
emutos.lha misc/emu 338K EmuTOS - Amiga version
NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip text/bfont 2.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-01.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip text/pfont 1.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
avalanche_ger.lha util/arc 11K german catalog for Avalanche
(snx)
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14.Aug.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to OS4Depot:
kittymusicraft.librar... dev/lib 67kb 4.1 Reimplementation of the MusiCraf...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
blobwarsattrition.lha gam/act 2Mb 4.1 A 2D mission and and objective-b...
amosextension.library... lib/mis 375kb 4.1 AmosExtension.library load AMOS ...
(snx)
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14.Aug.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to AROS Archives:
whatiff1.06.lha doc/mis 55kb Magazine on amigaguide format
myman.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 3Mb A Pacman style game, done with t...
games.tar gra/ico 350kb Collection of Drawer Icons Goril...
icone_drawer.tar gra/ico 170kb Collection of Drawer Icons Goril...
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14.Aug.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_29.04.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
SilverNightsCrusaders_... Games/Action SilverNightsCrusaders_O...
SFFGPLNS_OpenBOR.lha Games/Action FINAL FIGHT LNS GOLD SU...
GoldenAxeMyth_OpenBOR.lha Games/Action GoldenAxeMyth_OpenBOR.lha
ATaleOfVeangeance_Open... Games/Action ATaleOfVeangeance_OpenB...
MCE_13.8.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
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14.Aug.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.08.2022
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 13.08.2022:
(snx)
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