16.Jul.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Hardware preview: "mouSTer" - USB mice and joypads for vintage computers
The Polish shop retrohax.net has announced an adapter called "mouSTer" which can connect any USB mice or joypads to vintage computers. Among others the following features are offered:
- it works with every mouse and with every Game USB pad
- PS4 pad support - USB
- config via USB flash drive - INI file + default config
- config transfer via USB flash drive
- firmware upgrade via USB flash drive (takes 3 seconds, of which 2 seconds is the time the bootloader needs to recognize the flash drive)
- tested with flash drives from 32MB to 32GB
- mouse emulation mode defaults - Amiga, Atari ST, joystick/gamepad
First of all a minor batch of the adapters will be produced for test purposes. Besides, the adapter is supposed to be work with other vintage computer systems as well. Retrohax has not announced any date for availability.
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16.Jul.2020
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Competition: Amiga Art Contest 2020
The "Amiga Art Contest 2020" (video) is organized by the Youtuber 10 Minute Amiga Retrocast and Pixel Vixen. In this second issue you can participate in the categories "original hand drawn artwork", "creative photo editing", "3d rendering/raytracing" and "original Amiga music". All artwork of the previous year can be seen in a gallery.
All artwork and music must be created on an Amiga in one way or another. Deadline is October 11. The winners will be announced in an episode of the Youtube show "10 Minute Amiga Retrocast".
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15.Jul.2020
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C-A Acquisition Corp. renamed to Amiga Corporation
In 2019 Mike Battilana (Cloanto) founded the C-A Acquisition Corp. and transferred the trademarks, copyrights and Internet domains he had acquired from Amiga, Inc. to this company. So far, amiga.com didn't show anything worth mentioning, but now several Amiga-related logos and a note that these brands are registered trademarks of "Amiga Corporation" have been added to the site.
Approached by amiga-news.de, Mike Battilana confirms that "C-A Acquisition Corp." was renamed to "Amiga Corporation" but that it would remain discreet ("low profile will continue") until the [legal] issues are sorted out. He says the company is not completely inactive though, amongst other things it has been placing full-page advertisements in Amiga Future for more than a year.
Battilana pointed out to a Twitter thread which can be used for directly asking him questions about Amiga Corporation or his plans for the Amiga.
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15.Jul.2020
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Changes in Hyperion's Management
Last summer, distribution of Hyperion's shares drastically changed when the
company issued a capital
increase: New shares were issued to pay debts of nearly 400000 Euros owed
to Ben Hermans - allegedly for the latter's work as the company lawyer.
As a result of this, the other shareholders - in additon to Timothy de
Groote, who is mentioned in public documentation, Trevor Dickinson, Costel
Mincea and the Frieden Brothers are said to own shares - now
collectively own less then three percent of the company.
Shortly after that, Costel Mincea handed
over (German) his AmigaOS 4 centric forum
os4welt.de to a third party and resigned from his post as a director
("besturder") of Hyperion. The latter was not communicated publicly by either
Mincea or Hyperion at the time, but with quite a bit of a delay the change in
management is now recorded in Belgium's official company register (KBO,
Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen): Only Timothy de Groote is listed
as a "Besturder" for Hyperion now, the request
to have Costel Mincea removed as a director (PDF, Dutch) is available as well.
de Groote himself had increased his number of shares during the 2019 capital
increase - albeit only by a very tiny amount, compared to Hermans' mass
of additional shares. Now the author of the
Amiga documents report claims
on Twitter that Ben Hermans sued de Groote last November, a claim that is
confirmed to amiga-news.de by a second source.
The results of this legal battle are currently unknown. There are unconfirmed
rumours that Timothy de Groote, who was still representing Hyperion at the
Amiga 34 last October, resigned from his post as a director in the
meantime and is only listed in that position until a replacement is found. So far
we were unable to either verify or dispel these rumours.
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15.Jul.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Asteroids clone for Vampire: Preview videos for 'Jake and Peppy'
"Jake and Peppy" is a clone of the classic game Asteroids and Super Stardust which is written for the Vampire architecture and therefore requires its Fast-RAM access as well as the extended command set AMMX. On Youtube some preview videos are available which shows the engine.
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14.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Print magazine: Issue 120 of Amiga Future readable online
The English issue 120 (May/June 2016) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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13.Jul.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Jump'n Run: "Fred's Journey" now also available as a Boxed Edition
Press release: APC&TCP is proud to release the new Amiga game Fred's Journey in a physical version for collectors. A digital copy is provided free of charge. After Trap Runner, Fred's Journey is Retroguru's second Amiga title released on APC&TCP.
About Fred's Journey:
Fred fondly remembers his past journeys on the Commodore 64. Deciding to relive his adventures he heads out again!
Features:
- Runs on any OCS/ECS Amiga, with 1MB RAM from Kickstart 1.2 onwards
- Written in 100% 68k Assembler
- 50fps, soft parallax scrolling, more than 50 colours
- Oldschool pixels
- 20 levels
- 7 chiptunes
- Hidden cheats
- Highscore
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12.Jul.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.07.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 11th, 2020:
Amix530.lha comm/amiex 998K 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel...
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 8K 2020 Carset for F1GP
AmiQuake_AGA.lha game/shoot 231K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
AmiQuake_RTG.lha game/shoot 231K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
AmiQuake2_AGA.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II...
AmiQuake2_RTG.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Amiga port of Yamagi Quake II...
YvesGrolet-sources.zip game/shoot 20M sourcecode for Psygnosis' Ago...
VideoEasel.lha gfx/misc 1.8M 68k THE flexible Cellular Automaton
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 2.0M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
GrabPrefsPointer13.lha util/cli 17K 68k Extracts WB1.3 Pointer images...
MMULib.lha util/libs 723K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
ViNCEd.lha util/shell 768K 68k the final CON: solution. ^Z, ...
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 113K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 145K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
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12.Jul.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.07.2020
The following archive has been added to OS4Depot until July 11th, 2020:
mce.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
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12.Jul.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 11.07.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until July 11th, 2020:
InvidiousPlayer_1_1.lha A little script to play videos from https://www....
MCC_BetterString_11.34... BetterString custom class for MUI by BetterStrin...
MCC_NList_0.126.lha NList custom classes for MUI by NList Open Sourc...
MCC_TextEditor_15.54.lha TextEditor custom class for MUI by TextEditor.mc...
MCC_TheBar_26.20.lha Next Generation Toolbar MUI Custom Class by Alfo...
OpenSupaplex.lha OpenSupaplex - reimplementation of Supaplex (Clo...
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12.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following songs have been added:
- Stormlord (Ingame Music)
- Turrican II (The Final Fight)
- Elvira - Garden Level (Metal Tribute)
- Carrier Command (2020 Edit)
- Christmas at the Mall
- Christmas Heartland
- Speedweeder
- Xmas Carol In The Nude
- Guitar Slinger Plus
- Apprentice Title (Dream Dancer)
- Cyberpunks World 1
- Occ-San-Geen
- Turrican 2 - The Great Bath (Piano Live)
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12.Jul.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaKit: 8MB memory expansion for the Amiga 1200, version 1.5
The "8MB Fast RAM Memory Expansion (FPU Upgradable)" for the Amiga 1200 provided by AmigaKit was reworked. By version 1.5 the second production run was started featuring a reduced size of the card.
Functions:
- 8 MB 32-bit Fast RAM to boost total system memory to 10 MB
- Memory auto configures with no drivers required
- Second clockport header to give computer more expandability
- Floating Point Unit socket accepting optional 68882 PLCC FPU up to 40 MHz
- Memory can be configured to 4 MB, 5.5 MB or 8 MB Fast RAM using on-board jumpers
- PCMCIA compatible in 4 MB or 5.5 MB mode
(5.5 MB PCMCIA compatiblity mode requires downloadable software patch added to startup-sequence)
- Header for optional Real Time Clock module: available installed at special price
- New version 1.5 design (July 2020)
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11.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Developer tool: vlink 0.16e
Frank Wille has updated his portable linker vlink featuring the following changes:
- Changing the address within an output section in a linker script didn't work correctly when the destination memory region (load-address) differs from the relocation memory region (execution-address).
- Data commands in linker scripts didn't work when there was nothing else in the output section.
- Fixed a segfault when a linker script moves the address counter backwards inside an output section.
- Fixed uninitialized pointer when loading input files via a linker-script INPUT command.
- New linker-script command: RESERVE(n) to reserve n bytes of memory and fill it with the current FILL value.
- FILL-pattern should always be written in big-endian.
- Replaced FILL command by FILL8 and FILL16.
- New option -mall to merge everything into a single output section.
- Weak symbols must only be resolved in executables.
- (rawbin) Motorola S-Records: Fixed start address in S8 and S9 trailer.
- (vobj) Fixed reference to a defined weak symbol in an object.
- (elf) Fixed reference to a defined weak symbol in an object.
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09.Jul.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview video: Bubble Story
"New Bubble Story" (video) is a clone of the Accolade classic Bubble Ghost. The game is supposed to be run on an A500 and among others offers two different worlds each consisting of 16 levels. The game is to be released in 2021.
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08.Jul.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: ignition 1.08
Achim Pankalla has added further features to the AmigaOS 4 version of Axel Dörflers' open source spreadsheet sofware "ignition".
Changes:
- Reworked gtdrag.library
- ignition can be started multiple times now
- Error corrections in many settings dialogs
- Reworked font and font attribute handling
- Fixed bug in cell handling
- Visual feedback for the toolbar buttons
- Consistent keyboard control, and shortcuts
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07.Jul.2020
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood Designer 5.0 manual online available
Press release: Airsoft Softwair has just released the manual for the brand-new Hollywood Designer 5.0. Hollywood Designer 5.0 is a multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia-based applications, for example presentations, slide shows, games, and applications. After 8 years of development, version 5.0 was released a few weeks ago.
The full manual of Hollywood Designer 5.0 is now available for everybody to read on the official Hollywood portal in both HTML and PDF versions. Both documents contain lots of screenshots to illustrate the use of Hollywood Designer 5.0 better. It also contains a detailed changelog of what has changed between Designer 4.0 (2012) and Designer 5.0 (2020).
Finally, the full manual of Hollywood Designer 5.0 is also available in German now thanks to the incredible translation efforts by Dominic Widmer and Helmut Haake. Besides HTML and PDF versions there is also a zip archive you can download which contains the manual as an AmigaGuide document that can be used as a drop-in replacement so that Hollywood Designer's live help system is in German too. The German version is available in the German section of the official Hollywood portal.
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07.Jul.2020
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Assembler source codes for Psygnosis' shooter 'Agony' released
According to the developer Yves Grolet on Facebook, with the help of a third party he has transferred the complete content of his last Amiga harddrive to a PC and has made available all source codes of projects founded there for non-commercial use. Among others the archive includes the source codes of the shooter Agony released in 1992 by Psygnosis as well as some minor projects and prototypes developed by Grolet.
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07.Jul.2020
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Mailbox: AmiExpress 5.3.0
AmiExpress 5 written by Darren Coles is a rewrite in Amiga E of the original mailbox program developed by Joe Hodge/LightSpeed Technologies. Version 5.3.0 offers an internal implementation of the Zmodem protocol, HTTP transfers and QWK and FTN support.
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06.Jul.2020
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Individual Computers: New power supply units can be preordered
From now on it is possible to preorder new power supply units from Individual Computers for the keyboard Amigas A500, A600 and A1200. The delivery is planned for 10th August. The offered solution consists of a common laptop power supply unit as well as a second unit put between the power supply unit and the computer which is in a C64 module case featuring additional Amiga specific elektronics and the power switch.
According to the developer the "CA-PSU", available for 75 Euro, "is the first power supply on the market that fully complies with the original Commodore specifications, introducing cable drop compensation for best regulation that even settles the voltage drop in the input filter of the target computers. This means that the voltage on the main 5V rail will never deviate more then 0.9%, measured inside the computer - no matter if the computer is in vanilla configuration or heavily expanded. Conventional power supplies will either supply too-high voltage to a vanilla machine, or too-low voltage to an expanded machine, causing malfunction or even defects."
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06.Jul.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable demo: Shoot'em Up 'Ftype'
'Ftype' written in AmiBlitz 3 (video) is a classic, vertically scrolling shooter including a bonus system. The game is still at a relatively early stage of development which the author describes as "stress-test". Destination platform in an non-expanded A1200. The game is supposed to be run also on an A500 provided a compatibility problem with the Amiblitz compiler will be fixed.
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06.Jul.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Emulator: WinUAE 4.4.0
Version 4.4.0 of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released.
New features/improvements:
- 68000 address and bus error (bus errors are not used in Amiga) stack frames are now 100% accurate, including all undefined behavior like partially updated flags or registers. Last missing part that wasn’t fully accurate previously.
- 68010 emulation is now cycle-accurate. Including loop mode.
- 68030 MMU emulation simplified and optimized.
- CPU tester detected rare CPU/FPU bugs fixed.
- Multiple CPU tester detected undocumented CPU and FPU (all models) behavior emulated, mainly edge cases that almost never happen normally. More information in detailed changelogs.
- Debugger assembler and disassembler updates and fixes.
- 1x-8x CPU multipliers are now also supported in prefetch (more compatible) CPU mode.
- Implemented Paula serial port emulation receive break condition detection support.
- “diskchange rdh0:” can be now used to eject drag&drop mounted directory/file/archive harddrive.
- On screen led floppy leds have brighter border if inserted disk is write protected.
- If 2 light pens/guns enabled and if gun 2 moves, enable only gun 2 crosshair. Previously gun 1 move enabled both crosshairs.
- “Default” filter mode now enables aspect ratio correction and scales to window/screen size only when display size is too large or too small.
- Ignore ncap/winpcap dll version because recent ncap versions have smaller version number than old winpcap versions.
- GUI Reset button now copies current full GUI config to active config, including options that normally can’t be changed on the fly.
- FPU default is back to 64-bit. Very few programs require 80-bit accuracy, it wasn’t worth the speed loss.
- Black borders are not anymore enabled in autoscale center mode.
- Few custom chipset and CIA emulation updates.
- Added easy to use and transparent printf()-like debug logging method for developers.
Fixed bugs:
- If disk read DMA was started without any selected drive(s), it was always emulated in turbo mode.
- Screen capture to clipboard created blank image if 256 color or less RTG mode and capture before filtering was set.
- When ejecting directory filesystem that points to plain file or archive, not all host file handles were closed properly.
- Switching GUI panels left stale entry in internal array, possibly causing random crash after switching panels many times.
- Config file (*.uae) icon is now correct again.
4.3.0 bugs fixed:
- Some RTG to RTG mode resolution switches didn’t resize windowed mode correctly.
- CD32 pad red button didn’t always work as a normal fire button, depending on how it was configured.
- CD32 ROM delay loop patch was skipped. Broke CD32 CD if CPU speed was too fast.
New emulated hardware:
- Hardital Dotto (clone of ICD AdIDE)
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