28.Dec.2024
Cameron Armstrong
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.1.0 (update)
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately.
The new update adds support of proxy servers to AmigaGPT.
Update: (30.12.2024, 14:21, dr)
Version 2.1.1 has just been released, which contains a clearer error message if the AmiSSL version installed by the user is too old.
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2,1 MB) (nba)
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28.Dec.2024
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Operating system for the Amiga: Third alpha version of "Serena OS"
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. The developer has since renamed his project "Serena OS" (amiga-news.de reported) and released a third alpha version, which is available as a fully compiled ROM. Basically, all Amigas with a 68030 (or faster) processor are supported. The developer writes about the new version:
"The biggest change in this release is the introduction of the disk subsystem and significant improvements to the driver architecture. Booting off and working with double-density floppy disks is now supported.
The diskimage tool has also seen significant improvements: it now allows you to format an Amiga disk image (adf) with SerenaFS, list existing files, push files to a disk image, pull a file off a disk image, create directories, delete files, get and overwrite individual disk blocks and generate a diff of the disk blocks of two disk image files.
Thus you can now use the diskimage tool to create, list and manipulate SerenaFS formatted Amiga disk images on your host system.
Another significant enhancement is that Serena OS now supports a device filesystem (devfs). This filesystem is mounted at /System/Devices and lists all active drivers. An application may open a driver and use the read/write system calls to interact with it. Note however, that disk drivers are the only drivers in this release that actually support read/write operations from user space.
Serena OS implements a disk cache that caches data read from a (floppy) disk. Note that right now all writes are implemented as synchronous writes. The data is cached but the application is still forced to wait until the data has been written to disk. A future version will change this behavior such that an application will not have to wait for a write to finish.
Here is a more detailed list of changes since the previous release:
- more complete C library. Ie added qsort(), itoa() family of functions, etc
- many bug fixes across libc and the kernel
- a number of kernel optimizations
- significantly improved the reliability and performance of in-kernel dispatch queues
- worked out more details of the kernel driver architecture
- added support for disk drivers to the kernel
- added a disk cache to the kernel
- added a device filesystem to the kernel
- FileManager and FileHierarchy are now the kernel components that handle file operations and path resolution
- complete rework of the diskimage tool
- added support for building libtool, makerom and keymap on POSIX (Linux, macOS) systems
(dr)
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26.Dec.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.0-RC2
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which comes with some newly developed features such as a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. The current Release Candidate 2 ("RC") of version 7.0.0 is not recommended for weaker systems, for which an update of "Amiberry-Lite" will be provided shortly. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Plattformer: Rastan demo 0.33
Rastan was released to the Arcades in 1987 by Taito. Version 0.33 of the Amiga port being developed with Scorpion is now available, in which level 1-1 has been revised: The background images are more closely based on those of the arcade machine, there are also proper "checkpoint" pictograms and the flow of the level has been improved. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Video: Doom clone "Grind" 0.5
The Doom clone "Grind" should run on any Amiga with at least one and a half megabytes of RAM and a hard disk. The "DevArena" level shown in the video was originally created as a test area for new enemies and functions and actually serves as a stress test for the grind engine. For this reason, at least an A1200 with Fast RAM is recommended for DevArena. (cg)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2024, 22:42] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2024
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Game: Dogi Xmas Demo
Dogi Xmas Demo (video) by Amiten is a vertically scrolling platform game in which the player has to collect all the sweets and fruits to complete a level. (cg)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2024, 22:33] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2024
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.6 LTS for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled Linux kernel 6.12.6, which comes with long-term support (“LTS”), for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. This version introduces support for EFI "GUID Partition Tables" (GPT). (cg)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2024, 22:12] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2024
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Video: Porting a ZX Spectrum BASIC game to AMOS
In a 43-minute video, a Youtuber shows how he turns a type-in listing from an old ZX Spectrum magazine into an Amiga game written in AMOS. The AMOS source code and all other game assets are available for download. (cg)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2024, 22:10] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2024
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 3.0
vAmiga is an Amiga emulator for macOS 11 or newer. After several beta versions, the final version 3.0 is now available. Compared to the beta releases, the emulation of the PCI extension Prometheus has been added and a bug when switching between PAL and NTSC has been fixed. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Christmas game: The Young Icefighter 0.1
"The Young Icefighter" is a Christmas game for children created with the 'Shoot'em Construction Kit'; the developer's eight-year-old son is responsible for most of the graphics. Three levels are playable in the pre-release version - but the balance is still being worked on and there is no sound yet. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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Crossfire II: Soundtrack released on Spotify/Apple Music
Just over 20 years after the release of the Amiga game Crossfire II, the soundtrack has now been released on Spotify and Apple Music. It contains both the in-game music by Timo Kloss and the background music for the video sequences by Markus Holler.
The music by Timo Kloss was composed on an Amiga 4000T with the Camouflage program and recorded via MIDI with external audio hardware. Unfortunately, only the 8-bit mono recordings still exist, so it sounds exactly the same now as it did in the game.
Markus Holler's music was composed on an Atari ST with Cubase and played back via MIDI. In the end, however, the audio was recorded again with an Amiga. Recordings in CD quality still exist here, which were used for the soundtrack that has now been released. Timo Kloss was not involved in the production of Markus Holler's tracks, the Spotify/Apple interface unfortunately implies otherwise.
Timo Kloss would like to thank the developers of the game (Thomas and Stefan Schulze from Dreamworlds) for the permission to officially publish the soundtrack. Incidentally, the game was also ported to Windows a few years ago and is available on Steam now.
(cg)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2024, 21:52] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2024
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Emulated Amiga: a review of the A600GS
In a detailed blog entry, Amiga user "Puni" describes his experiences with the Orange Pi-based Amiga clone A600GS. (cg)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2024, 21:40] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2024
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AROS: Bounties planned for EFI adaptation
At the title link, Timothy 'terminills' Deters has started to create a list of bounty projects for AROS, which are currently being detailed and will then be published for donation and implementation. The aim of these bounties is to adapt AROS to the BIOS successor EFI. (snx)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2024, 13:26] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 165 (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, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about Pumpkin, Fast Food 2 and Cyber Force. (snx)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2024, 13:26] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2024
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit 11 now freely available
Version 11 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for Windows 7 or newer is now freely available with all of its updates until version 11.9. The current commercial version is 12.6. (snx)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2024, 13:26] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Mahjong games Lopan and Shisen-Seki
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has created two Mahjong games for AmigaOS 4, Lopan and Shisen-Seki. In his blog the author describes his motivation.
Download:
lopan.lha (536 KB)
shisen-seki.lha (36 MB) (snx)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2024, 13:25] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2024
Amigatronics (ANF)
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Video: Amigatronics interview with Trevor Dickinson
At the title link, Amigatronics has conducted an almost half-hour video interview with Trevor Dickinson of A-EON Technology, in which he talks about what he considers the most important events in the Amiga world in recent years, the current state of the platform and his expectations for the future. (snx)
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24.Dec.2024
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Merry Christmas!
Dear Amiga friends,
as the festive season gets into full swing, we look back on the past year – a year full of nostalgia and creative projects in the Amiga world. From refreshing games and practical hardware to lively events, the Amiga has continued to inspire us in 2024.
Thank you for being part of this great community. We look forward to getting off to a flying start with you again in 2025 – with daily news, exciting projects and a never-ending enthusiasm for the Amiga!
We wish you a Merry Christmas full of colourful pixels, contemplative Paula sounds and a high-score chase or two with your family and friends.
Merry Christmas!
Your team at amiga-news.de (nba)
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24.Dec.2024
GitHub
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin v1.8.12 for Visual Studio Code
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. The stable version 1.8.12 fixes a bug in vasm console output on MacOS. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available. (nba)
[News message: 24. Dec. 2024, 12:05] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2024
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Assembler: ASM-Pro 1.21 released
ASM-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler for the Amiga with an integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor. The program offers full MC680x0, FPU and MMU support. About a year after the last update, ASM-Pro has now been brought up to version 1.21. The changes:
ADDITIONS
- ASM: Optional multi-line scroll (8 lines instead of only 1) to speed up assembly when output is verbose (e.g. large number of included files or print directives). Check Multiscroll in the assembler preferences.
- ASM: New integer operator: modulo // (e.g. 123//20 returns 3).
BUGFIXES
- ASM: REM/EREM block was not allowed in BSS sections.
- CMDLN: RB (read binary) causes a crash if begin address is unparsable.
- UI: Bevel box is slightly off for the top parameter groups in the environment preferences.
- CMDLN: @-prefixed dump commands incorrectly check for odd address and cpu version, causing a crash on 68000/010 systems.
- ASM: Directives and instructions in the first line of a REPT 0 block starting with either @ or A cause internal error.
- ASM: Incorrectly parsed number of bitplanes while including an IFF colormap causes memory list corruption.
- ASM: Whitespace lines in a macro could cause the Unexpected end of file error and consequent editor freeze.
(nba)
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24.Dec.2024
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 9.0
Jacek ‘jacadcaps’ Piszczek has published version 9.0 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, which is based on the stable WebKitGTK 2.46.5 (amiga-news.de reported). In addition, several libraries (cURL, tasn, xml2, nghttp2) have been updated for this update. (nba)
[News message: 24. Dec. 2024, 11:55] [Comments: 0]
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