05.Jul.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 151
The German and English issue 151 (July/August 2021) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been published today and can be ordered directly from the editorial office and from Amiga retailers. Among the topics are test reports on Inviyya, ApolloOS Release 6 and Turbo Spint. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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05.Jul.2021
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Apollo team: change in staff, new accelerator boards annouced
As announced by Apollo team at the title link, Igor Majstorovic, developer of the Vampire accelerator boards, has left the group. On the other hand, Thomas Hirsch returned, the original developer of the former Natami project.
The press release mentions the high workload Igor Majstorovic suffered from manufacturing the Vampire boards. Despite his withdrawal, he will still assume warranties for the cards he sold, though, while obviously the new board "Raptor" is affected. The latter was intended as a reduced version of the Vampire and should have been available in May already.
Instead, Apollo team announced two new accelerator boards. FireBird (for Amiga models 500, 1000 and 2000) and IceDrake (for Amiga 1200), which are based on the Vampire 4 core. At the same time, the Vampire 2 boards have reached their end of sale, remaining PCB and FPGA stock is currently being sold.
The new accelerator boards are announced for Q4 2021/Q1 2022, beginning with FireBird being available first, followed closely by IceDrake - a third board, then for Amiga 4000, would be planned as well. Production will be taking place in Germany and in high volume, thus a quick clearing of waiting lists is expected by the team. Estimated prices have not been mentioned yet.
Features of FireBird and IceDrake:
- Cyclone 5 (FPGA chip of Vampire 4)
- 512 MB DDR3 RAM
- 68080 CPU implementation
- SAGA chipset implementation
- 64-bit AMMX instruction set (accelerated multi media output)
- 165 MIPS
- 16-bit audio
- 100 MBit Ethernet adapter
- two IDE ports for CompactFlash and CD-ROM
- USB joypad support
- real-time clock
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05.Jul.2021
Reddit
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Reimplementation of 'Frontier: Elite II'-Intros with browser playback
Mark Watson has reverse engineered the Frontier: Elite II game intro. It implements the full 3d renderer and music playback code from the original in C. The source code is available on GitHub. Features:
- Compiler & decompiler for the game's 3d model format
- Updated 3d models (e.g. added planet sky to intro)
- Engine / sound effects playback
- SDL support (for non-Amiga platforms)
- Support for 2x and 4x times the original display resolution
Mark Watson explained: "DooM is ported to pretty much every platform due to be having a reference implementation in C. I wanted something simalr for FE2 and have always been curious about how the renderer worked. The whole game is not ported because, well.. that would require a ton more work, and maybe Frontier will want to re-release it at some point."
The result of his development now can be also watched in a browser playback: It offers double resolution, scaled up to fit the browser window. (dr)
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05.Jul.2021
Amigans
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ALS 1.95: Screen overlay
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has provided "ALS", the AMOS Layers System, a way to layer individual screens of AMOS Professional, specifying the order, colors and degree of translucency (video). The whole thing is written in AMOS and is therefore available as a source code library.
About this version Bevilacqua wrote: "This is the last version that supports also OCS and ECS. ALS v2 will be AGA-only. The reason is that supporting all the chipset requires lots of additional code and also slows down execution in many places, while functionality is still very limited on OCS and ECS due to the fact that they offer only 6 bitplanes and 32 color registers. ALS is much more useful on AGA, so it makes sense to have a leaner and faster version for that chipset. Also, I decided to postpone the release of Follix to after ALS v2 is done, so that the game can benefit from it." Changes:
- Optimized ALS_SET_DISPLAY_COLORS_RANGE_FROM_PALETTE[] and ALS_SET_DISPLAY_COLORS_RANGE_FROM_PALETTE_RANGE[] a little bit.
- Removed wrong comment from ALS_SET_DISPLAY_COLORS_RANGE_FROM_PALETTE[].
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04.Jul.2021
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Aminet uploads until 03.07.2021
The following files have been added until 03.07.2021 to Aminet:
crash.i386-aros.lha dev/debug 44K x86 "Safely" crashes with purpose
DiskMimic.lha disk/misc 97K 68k Mount disk image files e.g., ...
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 282K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 13K 2021 Carset for F1GP
Chocolate_DOOM.lha game/shoot 4.2M 68k Amiga port of Chocolate DOOM
D1X_Rebirth_RTG.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Descent (DXX-Re...
ODAMEX_RTG.lha game/shoot 19M 68k Amiga port of ODAMEX
FreeSynd_RTG.lha game/strat 3.4M 68k Amiga port of Syndicate (Free...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
SampleZ.lha mus/edit 133K 68k 16Bit HD-Edit Sample Editor
abcm2ps.i386-aros.lha mus/misc 547K x86 Convert music from ABC format...
abcm2ps.lha mus/misc 554K MOS Convert music tunes from ABC ...
ViNCEd.lha util/shell 837K 68k ViNCEd, the CON: with ^Z & TA...
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04.Jul.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 03.07.2021
The following files have been added until 03.07.2021 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
ppm2bbc.lha gra/edi 50kb 4.0 24-bit PPM6 into BBC Micro scree...
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04.Jul.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 03.07.2021
The following files have been added until 03.07.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Iris_0.122.lha Email New email client suppor...
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04.Jul.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 03.07.2021
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 03.07.2021:
- 2021-07-01 improved: Pinball Dreams (Digital Illusions) fixed ignition table original bug (Info)
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04.Jul.2021
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology: Further updates of replacement commands for AmigaOS
For their reimplementation of AmigaOS commands within their Enhancer Software, A-EON Technology have released further updates of their own commands for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4: AddBuffers*, AddDatatypes*, Assign*, Copy, List and MakeDir*.
As usual, the new versions can be downloaded by registered customers of Enhancer Software using the Updater software.
Changes:
- AddBuffers 46.3/54.3
- Now temporarily turns off system requesters when using the LIST option
- AddDataTypes 46.6/54.6
- Added NOREPLACE option to prevent one datatype from replacing another added
datatype with the same name when using the REFRESH option
- Now also reports the number of datatypes that were added when the REFRESH
option is used
- Bugfix: A structure that was freed too soon could cause an illegal memory
access
- Added more checks for out of memory error
- Assign 46.4/54.4
- Improved INHIBIT option: only dos device names with filesystems can now be
inhibited. Also it is no longer possible to make nested inhibits.
Also added messages when a device is successfully inhibited or uninhibited
- Copy 46.8/54.8
- Fixed bug when printing "object not found" error messages for filenames that
don't contain a path
- List 46.8/54.8
- Bugfix: The %S LFORMAT operator was only substituting the filename and not
also the path as it should in case of multiple %S occurrences
- Bugfix: Only lowercase LFORMAT operators were recognised
- MakeDir 46.8/54.8
- Added FORCE option to ignore "object already exists" error
[* = Editor's note: When this news-item was released, those links from A-EON Technology's press release still had no Wiki entries.] (snx)
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03.Jul.2021
amigaworld (Webseite)
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New French print magazine: "Boing" can be pre-ordered
'Boing' is a new French print magazine whose first issue is to be published in mid-July. For five Euros, 52 color printed glossy pages are offered. The main topics of the first issue are the Vampire V4+ with ApolloOS as well as AmigaOS 3.2. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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03.Jul.2021
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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Point'n Click Adventure: First trailer of "Ermentrud"
Timo Kloss writes: "The point'n'click adventure game 'Ermentrud' has a first trailer. It is not final yet, so criticism is very welcome. 'Ermentrud' was originally developed between 2001 and 2004 for Amigas with a graphics card, but then abandoned. It was set in a medieval world and featured an absurd plot with absurd humor. And the hero had a cardboard marche horse.
This year it will be released after all, though not to the extent planned at the time. It will contain all the original graphics, sounds and music, but the plot will be reworked and "rounded". So far only a German version is planned. It is not yet clear if there will be other languages. The game will be available for free." (cg) (Translation: bb)
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02.Jul.2021
(ANF)
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A-EON is already internally testing Alpha releases of their own operating system
Allegedly, A-EON's OS4 licenses expired quite some time ago and sources
claim the company is not trying to apply for a new one. amiga-news.de has now
received screenshots from an anonymous source that seem to be from a private
forum A-EON is running for their betatesters. The screenshots show a posting
from late May, in which Matthew 'Amigakit' Leaman announces the availability
of the first Alpha release of "Enhancer Software Release V54". The term
"Operating System" is never used, but Leaman's description clearly refers to
a standalone system.
Leaman refers to the download available to Betatesters as a "Distribution".
It's said to be a bootable ISO image, although the installation instructions
explain how to use an existing AmigaOS 4.1 installation to set the new system
up. The OS modules not yet reimplemented for the Enhancer project need to be
copied from an existing AmigaOS installation into a drawer of the Enhancer
system called 'Legacy:' - the distribution's installer apparently takes
care of that. Leaman's description of the process is like this: "We are no
longer installing the Enhancer Software over the OS 4.1.The OS 4.1 files are
complementing the main Enhancer Software system".
In his announcement, Leaman lists the developers who have contributed to the
project so far (surnames added by amiga-news.de staff where known):
- Classes, Commodities: Daniel, Massimo [Tantignone], Thomas [Frieden?]
- Datatypes-System: Kevin
- Multiview, MultiEdit, X-Dock: Andy [Broad]
- Utilities, preferences, system tools: Fredrik [Wikstrom], Javier, Guillaume [Boesel]
- Neue Sensor-API, rejuvenated Mediatoolbox: Andrea Vallinotto
- Updated versions of Ringhio: Max [Tretene]
- Warp 3D Nova, (upcoming) modernised 2D graphics: Hans [de Ruiter]
- Shell commands: Constantinos
- Icons, other artwork: Martin [Merz]
Other components owned by A-EON such as MediaToolbox, DVPlayer and the
original Warp3D will "of course" (Leaman) also be included in the distribution.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Jul.2021
Twitter
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Demo version for platform game 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night'
'Creeping Me Out Hex Night' written by Michael Dawes using the Construction Kit Scorpion Engine is supposed to become a new jump'n run game. On the website of the developer the demo version 1.0j is available which fixes some bugs. According to the developer "it should have slightly lower memory requirements now, making it safer to load from WB. Please read the readme.txt before playing." (dr)
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02.Jul.2021
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on the Obligement website
In the last two months the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement has been extended by the contributions below. Translations into other languages are always welcome, interested parties please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- May/June 2021 news.
- Old articles from Joystick 22 to 25:
- News: Ocean's five future stars
- News: Software Business tries to stand out
- Review of Alcatraz
- Interview with Ian Hadley
- Review of Mercenary 3: The Dion Crisis
- News: Electronic Arts prepares titles for 1992
- Review of Devious Design
- Review of Volfied
- News: Origin, the expansion
- Interview with Laurant Weill
- Review of Final Fight, etc.
- Interview with Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc (developer of AmiModRadio).
- Interview with Vojin Vidanovic (Vampire user).
- Interview with Hugo Pereira (Vampire user).
- Interview with José Gonzáles (graphic designer).
- Interview with Sam Dyer (publisher Bitmap Books).
- Test of Me And My Shadow.
- File: What happened to RBM Digitaltechnik?
- File: Behind the scenes of the development of Globulus.
- Point of view: Rave and gadget ToolBar, the synergy of projects.
- Tutorial: Frequently asked questions for AmigaOS 3.2.
- Tutorial: Mounting network drives on MorphOS.
- Gallery: La Satire du Jet D'Ail (updated).
- Special quiz about DKB.
(dr)
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02.Jul.2021
Amigaworld.net (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.6.0 update for Raspberry Pi 4/400
Version 11.6.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 now also supports AHI and Bluetooth and provides many other improvements, updates and bug fixes. Changes:
- Amiga side changelog:
- ADDED: AHI audio support - Apps & games using AHI work now! (Paula 8bit stereo++)
- ADDED: Be Kool Fool demo by Focus Design: 1st at Gerp 2015
- ADDED: GMPlay 1.3 by Christian Buchner
- ADDED: GMPlayMUI 1.2 by Charlie/Stipey
- ADDED: GMTones 1&2 by Martin Caspersson
- ADDED: Minor cleanups here and there
- UPDATED: AmigaAMP 3.29 by Thomas Wenzel
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.9 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: AmiStart menus include AHI apps games now (your current menu config is backuped first: AmiKit:Utilities/EXPANSION/AmiStart/sm.prefs.bak1150)
- UPDATED: Ask Your Amiga (AYA) 0.5 by ALB42
- UPDATED: Hollywood Player 9.0 by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: iGame 2.1b2 (15-Mar-2021) by Emmanuel Vasilakis and Contributors
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player 1.21 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: LoadModule 45.18 by Thomas Richter and Etienne Vogt
- UPDATED: MorpheuZ 11.6 (internal part of AmiKit) by Jan Zahurancik
- UPDATED: VisualPrefs 1.5m by Massimo Tantignone
- FIXED: AmiStart taskbar menu in HD mode does not scale anymore with each task icon displayed.
- FIXED: MIDI songs work now! Simply double-click any .mid file, eg. in AmiKit:Utilities/GMPlay/MIDI-Files folder.
- FIXED: VisualPrefs (and Birdie) theme works again if enabled in MorpheuZ (and AfA_OS is disabled at the same time)
- FIXED: Switching from DOpus to Workbench and back (via MorpheuZ) should work now again.
- FIXED: Matrix screen blanker disabled as it interfered with IMP and resulted in system lock.
- NOTE: If DOpus Aminet FTP doesn't work for you, check the passive box in FTPOptions > Misc settings.
- Linux side changelog:
- UPDATED: Amiberry 4.1.4 by Dimitris Panokostas
- UPDATED: Linux updates (included with new image; for existing installation simply run "Update Linux" from start menu)
- FIXED: Linux Bluetooth Adapter works now so you can connect all your Bluetooth devices, finally! If your Bluetooth audio is distorted, install brcm-patchram-plus package.
- ENDCLI: Oh, and now you can close any Linux terminal window with EndCLI command :)
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01.Jul.2021
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AmigaOS 3.2: Updated Native Developer Kit NDK 3.2 R3
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce another update for the Native Developer Kit for AmigaOS 3.2.
This NDK update contains further reviewed contents to ensure developers using several different compilers will be able to harness all the new features AmigaOS 3.2 brings.
This release also paves the way for a continued flow of updates to the Native Developer Kit for AmigaOS 3.2 which will also be accessible in other venues to pursue greater adoption and wider availability.
Hyperion is committed to AmigaOS development support, so stay tuned for further NDK updates!
AmigaOS NDK 3.2 R3 is available for free from our download area for any interested party.
We thank all of you who have rushed Amiga dealers worldwide to get their hands on a copy of AmigaOS 3.2.
If you want to support our efforts further, please head over to our AmigaOS merchandise store. (dr)
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30.Jun.2021
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New preview videos: Beat'em Up 'Metro Siege', Run'n Gun 'DaemonClaw'
Metro Siege is a side-scrolling beat'em up for up to two players that requires 512 KB of chip and Fast RAM each. DaemonClaw: Origins of Nnar is supposed to be a side-scrolling run and gun (amiga-news.de reported).
In the latest video update for Metro Siege, several designs for new enemies and the rough mock-up of one of the up-coming levels are shown. The video update for DaemonClaw shows the Ice magic powers the player gets in the Gargoyle cave level and a widescreen full-screen mode with simulated CRT monitor options is introduced. (dr)
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30.Jun.2021
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AdAstra3000: Cases and keycaps for the do-it-yourself Amiga
Dennis Pauler from Virtual Dimension shows how to assemble an A500+ himself with several videos on his YouTube channel in the tinkering corner. The first two episodes show in detail how to solder and assemble the 344 components. In a third video it is explained how to create a memory expansion to 2 MB chip RAM from a SMD kit (amiga-news.de reported).
In the fourth part of his project, the DIY Amiga now gets a Checkmate 1500 (plus) case and new keycaps from the A1200.net project.
(dr) (Translation: bb)
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28.Jun.2021
Amigans
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Memory game: MeMO 3.13
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update of his memory game MeMO. His game is based on the classic memory card game but in his port two payers can simultaneously play for getting the best highscore. MeMO requires a 68020 processor and the ECS graphic chip. Changes of this release:
- Fixed a (seemingly innocuous) bug (an OR instruction in place of a MOVE instruction) in card matching code.
- Improved card matching policy by considering it a mistake also when the second card flipped had already been flipped before, even if the first card has been flipped just once and/or its twin card has not been flipped yet.
- Made a couple of tiny optimizations.
- Changed design of 'M' and 'N' letters (they were basically lowercase, which was inconsistent, as the only lowercase letter was supposed to be the 'e' in "MeMO").
- Changed alignment of logo in menu screen by 1 pixel right/down.
- Adapted to and recompiled against further improved custom framework.
- Reworked game icon.
- Added floppy disk and manual icons.
- Improved/extended manual.
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27.Jun.2021
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Aminet uploads until 26.06.2021
The following files have been added until 26.06.2021 to Aminet:
wla_dx_v10.0.lha dev/cross 4.5M 68k 8-bit CPU Cross Macro Assembl...
TRSaferPtch.lha dev/debug 24K 68k Safer Setfunctions Debug/Cont...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 273K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
ppm2bbc.lha gfx/pbm 31K MOS 24-bit PPM6 into BBC Micro sc...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
TIKY.lha mods/8voic 261K TIKY 6ch Synth Pop by HKvalhe
MMULib.lha util/libs 733K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 68K 68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 379K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
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27.Jun.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.06.2021
The following files have been added until 26.06.2021 to OS4Depot:
crash.lha dev/uti 3kb 4.0 C source included
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
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