21.Nov.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 20.11.2021
The following files have been added until 20.11.2021 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 17Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
datenbank.lha off/dat 51Mb 4.1 Simple offline Database done wit...
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21.Nov.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 20.11.2021
The following files have been added until 20.11.2021 to AROS Archives:
barspipes.zip aud 5Mb Port of Amiga 68k Best Midi Sequ...
4klive.i386-aros.zip aud/mis 491kb Simple synth toy.
a1kstartup_remix.zip aud/mis 42kb Aros startup sound
dt42.lha aud/mis 814kb DT-42 DrumToy
flac133.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 2Mb Free Lossless Audio Codec
gtuner.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 5Mb a Guitar Tuner
muitronome.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 83kb a Mui Ahi Metronome
armodplugplayer02.i386-ar... aud/pla 2Mb Plays 22 different mod formats ,...
harmonyplayer.i386-aros.zip aud/pla 1Mb multi format music player
modexplorer_aros.zip aud/pla 2Mb Streaming mod file from Internet...
protracker23d.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 3Mb Music making software "ProT...
protrekkr.i386-aros.lha aud/tra 10Mb Protrekkr
siddump.i386-aros.lha aud/tra 106kb C64 music debug output utility
snow_ninja.i386-aros.lha dem/sce 16Mb Demo from SSEP 2012
z-nexx.i386-aros.lha dem/sce 23Mb Demo from SSSP 2013
aidea.lha dev/ide 11Mb IDE Enviroment
bas2tap.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 111kb Sinclair BASIC file to TAP tape ...
bin2tap.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 107kb Sinclair CODE file to TAP converter
z802tzx.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 183kb Spectrum Z80 Snapshot to TZX Tap...
bumprace.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb Avoid obstacles in top-down spac...
darkest-hour.i386-aros.lha gam/adv 88kb Old-fashioned text adventure game
nmtm1.lzx gam/adv 20Mb Point and click adventure game
nmtm-solution.lha gam/mis 9kb The solution for the game No Mor...
brickshoot.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 3Mb Shoot to clear colored blocks (6...
football-manager.i386-aro... gam/spo 138kb Relive the Sinclair Speccy footb...
grafx2-2.7.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 1Mb The Ultimate 256-color bitmap pa...
68k_datatypes.zip gra/mis 24kb new datatype for aros m68k
hwp_rapagui-2.1.i386-aros... lib/mis 7Mb Cross-platform GUI toolkit for H...
toolbar_mcc.zip lib/mui 4kb Toolbar custom class for MUI
simplemail_0.43.zip net/ema 1Mb IMAP POP3 Client Email
hbecard.lha uti/mis 4Mb This little happy birthday elect...
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21.Nov.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 20.11.2021
The following files have been added until 20.11.2021 to MorphOS Storage:
MaestrixReloaded_2.0.lha Audio/Drivers The Maestrix 2: Reloade...
abcm2ps_8.14.12.lha Audio/Misc Convert music tunes fro...
HivelyTracker_1.8.lha Audio/Tracker HivelyTracker 1.8 writt...
AmiArcadia_28.22.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
REminiscence_data.lha Games/Adventure REminiscence_data.lha
REminiscence_0.4.9.lha Games/Adventure REminiscence is a re-im...
NMTM_14.11.21.lha Games/Adventure A game concept demo of ...
Woof_8.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
dsda-doom_0.22.lha Games/Shoot3D This is a fork of prboo...
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21.Nov.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.11.2021
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 20.11.2021:
- 2021-11-15 improved: Workbench 3.1 (CBM) reassembled with latest kickemu, WHDCtrl enabled (Info)
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21.Nov.2021
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: Videos of AmiWest 2021
October 16 and 17, the 24th AmiWest took place in Sacramento, California (amiga-news.de reported), and as usual Robert Bernardo prepared videos of the show, with the final one published today:
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21.Nov.2021
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FPGA: First Playstation1 game for MISTer
In mid-August we reported that Robert 'FPGAzumSpass' Peip had announced a Playstation1 emulation for the MISTer. In mid-October he announced via YouTube video that first games would basically run. Now yesterday via Twitter announced that with RidgeRacer the first PlayStation game is now playable on MiSTer: Some bugs are still present, but encourage testing. Unfortunately, those who do not have a second SDRAM available will have to wait a few more days.
He has documented his efforts in a GitHub project. (dr)
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20.Nov.2021
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Accelerator board: Last Buffee status update for 2021
In our last new item we reported that the Buffee accelerator boards had to be sent back for revision. Now the developers have published a last bog entry for this year (pictures available under the title link):
"I have many words for the last year, none of which I can really express here. Suffice to say that this “chip shortage” has pushed back retail production run into January – at least at this point – I believe nothing anyone’s saying until I have boards physically in hand. Despite the delays, our beta testing is going along well, but very, very slowly. We’re still waiting for the last of the beta boards to come in before we begin shipping, and I absolutely appreciate everyone’s patience with this. Software is coming along nicely and we have good timing on the bus and can read and write, so that’s progress!
Debugging the bus aside, we’re well along testing PJIT and the C (slow) emulator. But I wanted to take a small step aside and talk about what we’ve been developing ON. Say hello to the DIP-64 version of the MiniMig currently under development!
While I’d love to say that this is just for Buffee, this opens the MiniMig up to running basically any 68000 accelerator, fast RAM or IDE expansion, adding a ton of utility it never had before. Want a 68030? Ok. Maybe an 8MB+IDE board? Sure. How about a Vampire? Hey, sometimes Buffee gets along with Vampires too. Anyway, this is an amazing bit of kit and of course, can still run the SEC000 at 50MHz giving it near Amiga 3000 speeds.
I’m also taking a stab at fixing up some of the old MiniMig Verilog code to add real Amiga mouse support (quadrature decode) as well as proper scanlines that don’t darken the screen along with aspect-correct scaling. Wait, what’s that, you haven’t heard of this? Well, most scanline implementations just black-out or dim alternating lines which dims the screen. Given that LCD’s already have a horrid dynamic range compared to CRTs, it’s not great makign the screen dimmer than it has to. The magic is in using what is basically an overlay filter, combined with some horizontal (but no vertical) smoothing. I think the look is fantastic.
We’re also looking at updating some other aspects like removing the antiquated PS/2 ports and supporting the 50MHz mode with Buffee to have a 50MHz bus to chip RAM. Fun times ahead, we just need to be a little more patient." (dr)
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20.Nov.2021
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The Amiga video memory: Amigavideo.net
Amigavideo.net collects on its site any videotapes dedicated to the Amiga. Amigavideo wants to make available hours of videos to the Amiga community, "from TV commercials to boring 2-hour long tutorials, without forgetting the institutional films selling the machine as the 'most amazing' computer ever."
The first goal of this website is to gather as many Amiga related videos as possible, preferably in the best available quality. As Thierry further reports, many of the videos can also be found elsewhere. With Amigavideo.net one simply wants to increase the chances for the Amiga fan to find and watch the video he is looking for. Besides, so many websites have disappeared without a trace, Commodore Billboard or Back2roots come to mind.
Thierry was kind enough to tell us the following about the history of the project:
"The website has been officially launched on Oct 2017 (quick panel during AmigaON, an Amiga reunion that took place in Ontario, Canada)
The first idea of this website surfaced around 2015 when my pile of Amiga VHS tapes was getting bigger and bigger. I'm a big Amiga fan/user (since...1990) and also Cinema/AudioVisual enthusiast, the reason of my "attraction" to everything involving Amiga and Video.
The main reason was to "share" those tapes instead of just keeping it in a storage and with a "better" interface than YouTube or etc (where pretty much all the videos already are...but good luck to find anything if you don't know the exact name of the video...
Recently, the whole collection has been upscaled to 720/60p with noise reduction....insanely long process but I'm very happy with the result."
A future step would be to obtain master copies (also on loan) and preserve them (at least digitally) in as future-proof a state as possible. (dr)
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20.Nov.2021
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Emulation: vAmiga as web port
Christian Corti has obviously specialized in web conversions of emulators and programs with his web presence NEOART Costa Rica: Thus, besides the web conversion of the C64 emulator "VirtualC64" and the music tracker "Future Composer" in the form of a remake, he also offers the web conversion of the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga developed by Dirk Hoffmann. All that is needed is a current browser such as Chrome, Edge or Firefox. The required ROMs are provided in the form of an 'AROS Replacement Kickstart ROM'. It is also possible to use your own ROMs, but tests in this regard have failed on our part. Corti explicitly points out the beta status of the project, but we wanted to see how applicable this already is and chose as a test object the game Crazy Columns, which the author Jochen Hoffer provides in the form of an adf file.
After calling the title link, we are greeted as follows:
After a "Continue", the settings page awaits us:
We decide for "Install AROS" and thus for the "AROS Kickstart Replacement ROM". In the tab "Hardware" you can load pre-configured preferences. Since 'Crazy Columns' was written for the Amiga 500, we decide to use it. After an "OK" the emulator starts:
Since no action is triggered by pressing the icons, we simply drag the ADF file of the game into the window and the game is loaded. However, the first attempt is still slowed down by the message 'too little memory'. We increase the Fast RAM from the default 0 kB to 512 kB and start again. This time with success:
Furthermore, there is a second web implementation of the vAmiga emulator, vAmigaWeb. This is maintained by GitHub user "Mithrendal" and can be reached at this direct link. As vAmiga developer Dirk Hoffmann tells us, "this emulator is also in beta. At the moment important features like the keyboard are still missing. A mouse support is available since yesterday. This webport should run later mainly on mobile devices." (dr)
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19.Nov.2021
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.3
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, 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.
This new version 0.9.3 provides the following changes:
- Profiler update: Trigger conditions and actions are displayed. Also added extra cathegories in the main bar.
- Code for global variables has been optimized.
- Code for input has been optimized.
- Render code has been optimized.
- New action Trigger Sprite Layer to enabled or disable the Level Sprite Layer.
- New action Trigger Sprite Spd X to set up the Level Sprite Layer Speed in X.
- Removed HUD Enabled/Top/Bottom from HUD screen as now the setup is done in Level Properties.
- Audio routines for player and the editor have been unified.
- Code has been converted to ASCII, this is just better for me but could have some unknown implications.
- Some internal code refactoring.
- In Game Setup screen Target FPS has been renamed to Max FPS.
- FIX: Sprite setup not being seen in the Level Properties screeb.
- FIX: When entering the level screen some old projects could crash the editor.
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18.Nov.2021
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Javascript: Scripted Amiga Emulator 0.9.13
Rupert Hausberger's "Scripted Amiga Emulator" is written in Javascript and HTML5. The goal of his project is to make the 'Amiga Classic' emulation available for browsers. This should not require any browser plugins or third-party scripts, but only HTML5 and Javascript. Finally, it should be possible to play demos, intros or mods, play games or benchmark the browser. After a small break, he has now brought version 0.9.13 online, which brings the following changes:
- Fixed bug in CLXDAT in combination with full-collision-detection. (Thanks 'dirkwhoffmann' for info)
- Fixed Semi-Colon-Key under Firefox. (Thanks 'goldnchild' for info)
- Enabled HTTPS. It should fix the Gamepad-API secure-context problem. (Thanks 'goldnchild' for info)
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18.Nov.2021
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.1 for Raspberry Pi 4/400
Besides new versions of some Amiga programs, minor update 11.7.1 (changelog) of Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the single-board computer Raspberry Pi 4/400 also includes version 4.1.6 of the underlying emulator AmiBerry that was released last month. (snx)
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17.Nov.2021
Discord
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Preview video: Remake of Rick Dangerous
'Z-Team' has announced a remake of the game Rick Dangeous with enhanced graphics for the Amiga 1200 or CD32 as their entry for this year's AmiGameJam. Now a first preview video of the game developed with the Scorpion Engine has been released. (dr)
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17.Nov.2021
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Video tutorial: Episode 20 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now the episode 20 was published, which continues in chapter 7 and is dedicated to the topic 'Sprites'. (dr)
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17.Nov.2021
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Amiga Art Contest 2021: Announcement of the winners
In a video show the winners of the this year's Amiga Art Contest (amiga-news.de reported) have been announced.
The "Animation" category was won by Hernán 'Hache' Beroldo with his Pink Panther production. The "3D Raytrace Images" category was won by Kevin Quattro with Sub Gate.
The "Mod and Music" category was won by Paulee Alex Bow with 'WIcked Game Remix' (found at the title link). Amiga Bill won the photography category with his Face image. Finally, the winner for the Hand Drawn Artwork category was announced: Kevin Saunders with Flower Planet. (dr)
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16.Nov.2021
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AmigaOS 3/4: New Netsurf test build
In May 2020 the version 3.10 of the ReAction-based Amiga port of the web browser Netsurf was released. Until the next official release 3.11, so-called test builds are published by the developers, which already include changes but may still contain bugs.
After a longer break, Chris Young has now updated the build version #5314 with the root certificates, which are included in the currently current version #5318. When asked, Chris Young explained to us that especially the OS3 version has to be considered as a pure test version - 'very alpha/beta quality'. Furthermore, he holds out the prospect of a possible special AmigaOS 3.2 version, should it prove true that the ReAction gadgets and his workarounds for the old versions are the cause of the instability.
A short test of the OS4 version first takes us to our main page, which loads without problems. When selecting a single message, three or four seconds pass:
Now the message about Ben Hermans is selected and the source on amigaworld.net is called. The page loads quickly, but an additional window opens with a list of JavaScript errors. At least it becomes clear that the page obviously does not work without the infamous tracking tool..:
Well remembered is that GitHub pages often cause difficulties (under previous Wayfarer versions sometimes no text was visible), so we test the link to Dirk Hoffmann's MacOS emulator vAmiga:
The page itself loads very quickly, but the warning messages increase again. Furthermore, logging in is not possible because the corresponding link is missing. Basically, JavaScript can be disabled in the settings. Furthermore Chris Young gave us the tip to add "log_filter:level:CRITICAL" to the choice file under NetSurf/Users/Default to stop the display of the errors. Finally, we allow ourselves to type a big name into the input field: heise.de:
Apart from the fact that you are overwhelmed by JavaScript errors, this was probably a bit too big. But NetSurf ran stable and one can only hope that the development will be continued to have another alternative especially under AmigaOS 4.
Downloads:
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16.Nov.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version of "Zeewolf" available as free download
Amiga Future offers the full version of the shooter Zeewolf for free download. ADF and IPF disk images are offered, as well as a ready WHDLoad install. (cg)
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16.Nov.2021
FS-UAE (Webseite)
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Emulation: FS-UAE Lanucher 3.1.48
The "FS-UAE Launcher" is responsible for configuring and launching the Amiga emulator FS-UAE. The now released update includes some translations that were forgotten in the original release. The author points out that due to changes in the SDL library used by FS-UAE, the controller configuration in FS-UAE Lanucher may need to be updated to make the emulator respond to all joystick or joypad buttons again. (cg)
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15.Nov.2021
Nivrig Games
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Game announcement: Arcade action game 'Turbo Santa'
After the huge success of Turbo Tomato, John Girvin of Nivrig Games has announced his next game for the 68k Amigas: In Turbo Santa, the player must fill in for Santa Claus, who has fallen asleep, and try to deliver presents in time to save Christmas.
The story: "Christmas Day has come to The Garden. The children are starting to wake up and wander around, still half-asleep, looking for the presents Santa has left them. But none are to be found!
Gather magical gifts as they appear and toss them to the dreaming children. Don't miss, and watch out for the GRONCH dashing around stealing presents! Take too long and the children will wake up to no presents and Christmas will be ruined!"
Turbo Santa (video) has been announced for December and will be available for free. It will require 1Mb Chip Ram and Kickstart 2.04. Music is by DJ METUNE. (dr)
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14.Nov.2021
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Aminet uploads until 13.11.2021
The following files have been added until 13.11.2021 to Aminet:
MAXsTelnet.lha comm/maxs 330K How to use MAXsBBS with telnet
Andy_and_Blondie.lha demo/intro 61K 64K intro
Mattonite.lha game/actio 972K 68k Arkanoid like PAL game almost...
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 71K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of the same c...
Abu_Simbel_Profan_-TF... game/misc 7.9M 68k Abu Simbel Profanation The Fu...
Umoria.lha game/role 765K MOS Robert A. Koeneke's classic r...
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 726K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
jfsw.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k Shadow Warrior Amiga Port
darkest-hour.i386-aro... game/text 88K x86 Old-fashioned text adventure ...
bas2tap-mos.lha misc/emu 100K MOS Sinclair BASIC file to TAP co...
Euro-Update.lha misc/os 424K Official Euro-Update for Amig...
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
SamplesCreator.lha mus/edit 40K 68k Samples creation and saving
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 172K Some samples created by Sampl...
MMV8_Player.lha mus/play 34K 68k MusicMaker V8 Player
Tama_Backdrops.lha pix/back 249K AOS 3.2 dark themed WB backdrop
StandardMagicWB.lha pix/mwb 2.4M Standardised MagicWB Icon Set
BNumsRTGPack.lha pix/theme 26M 68k Birdie Num Nums RTG Themes Pa...
MCP133b1.lha util/cdity 517K 68k THE Ultimate WB Enchancer!
RxEnv.lha util/rexx 36K 68k ARexx development tools
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 100K 68k External Virus Scanner Librar...
GTPropPatch.lha util/wb 4K 68k Enables PROPNEWLOOK knobs/scr...
RandomBackdrop.lha util/wb 8.2M 68k Up to 255 random backdrops wi...
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14.Nov.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.11.2021
The following files have been added until 13.11.2021 to OS4Depot:
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 20Mb 4.0 Point and click adventure game
chwiloka.lha gam/puz 8Mb 4.1 Memory game
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