19.Dec.2020
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AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop 2.3 for patrons and beta testers
After a longer beta phase, Paolo Besser has released an update of his AROS distribution Icaros Desktop. As main new feature the developer has mentioned a highly reworked "HostBridge" (allowing to start Windows or Linux applications from a hosted AROS). Additionally diverse included applications have been added or updated, e.g. the spreadsheet application "Leu 0.08" or "SilkRAW", a RapaGUI-based front-end for dcraw. If you are going to support Besser on patreon.com, you will get immediately access to this new version 2.3. Otherwise the new version will be available for everyone after a while.
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18.Dec.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future 148 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 148 (January/February 2021) have been published online now at the title link. Its contents include reviews of "Wiz: Quest For The Magic Lantern" and "vAmiga" as well as an interview with Jacek "jacadcaps" Piszczek (Wayfarer).
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.
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18.Dec.2020
Github
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Encryption protocol:: AmiSSL 4.7 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 4.7 and is fully compatible to IBrowse 2.5.3.
Changes:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility to latest OpenSSL 1.1.1i (08.12.2020) version, which brings security and bug fixes.
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle
- Fixed OpenSSL command and https developer example not having execute file permission bit set on OS3
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16.Dec.2020
Aminet
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Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.2 (2019)
The "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE) is a text editor written by Alain Fontanin. He started to develop it in 1989 but stopped it in 1991. When Fontanin watched the documentary "Viva Amiga" last year, he was reminded "of this beautiful time". Since he no longer develops anything on Mac, he decided to "carry out this personal project and redevelop ASE".
Unfortunately he could not find any of the source codes except the "linked list manager (GLC) which had been published in 1991 in "le Petit Amiga Illustré". Additional to the source codes, he also lost the ASE distribution disks which he is looking for. They were distributed in France at Free Distribution SoftWare (FDS) with the number SH 1064. If anyone finds or has it please write the author.
ASE is a "multi-document" text editor: "You can open as many documents as your activity requires or your machine allows (especially in terms of memory and CPU power). The theoretical limit of the number of lines per document is 4.2 billion! The theoretical limit of the number of characters per line is 4.2 billion! ASE2019 has 1 level 'undo' function and Select / Copy / Cut / Paste editing functions." According to the author the editor runs on Amigas equipped with Kickstart zwischen 2.04 until 3.1, higher versions he could not test under FS-UAE. But we can confirm that ASE2019 also runs fine under OS3.9
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16.Dec.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.84
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. Recently a preview video of the forthcoming game "Putter" has been released being also developed with RedPill. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires a total of 1,5 MB RAM.
Changes in version 0.84:
- Pipeline fully moved to Amiblitz 3.8. Libs are now from this version.
- Input key functions replaced to be compatible with ApolloOs.
- Auto slice fixes to allow bigger sprite areas, stack reviewed.
- In Sprite Sheet screen now the start frame and end frame of the sheet is displayed.
- Added some more checks to auto slice.
- FIX: Start shape was badly calculated for sprite sheets bigger than 2.
- FIX: Only first sprite sheet was exported.
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15.Dec.2020
Twitter (ANF)
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Self-made projects: New Gayle adapter for Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200
On amigaworld.de new layouts of the Gayle adapter for A600 and A1200 have been published which now also have a buffered clockport requiring adapted drivers. The board layouts are published under a Creative-Commons licence.
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13.Dec.2020
ANF
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FreePascal: Docker container for developing software on Amiga systems
Docker (Wikipedia entry) provides containers which "are a standardized unit of software that allows developers to isolate their app from its environment".
Such a container for Docker, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow now has created for the Pascal compiler FreePascal as well as for the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) in order to being able to develop programms for AmigaOS 3.x, MorphOS and AROS. A VNC server is used for accessing the container. Due to some problems occuring if LCL is tried to compile for AmigaOS 4, this operating system currently is not supported.
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13.Dec.2020
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 1.8
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.8 of his web browser Wayfarer.
MorphOS 3.14 and 1 GB RAM are required. A processor with at least 1,5 GHz is recommended. For giving feedback please use the corresponding discussion on morphzone, the integrated crash reporter or send an eMail to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu.
Changes:
- Added jpeg2k support via OpenJPEG
- Reports browser locale based on system locales
- Added a Translation service support w/ settings
- Added session quicksave hotkeys
- Improved wheel scrolling and mouse cursor code
- Adjusted page/wheel scrolling deltas to be in-line with WebCore's suggested values
- Scrolling page content is now possible with mmb pressed
- Esc key deactivates the WebKit container, instead of being swallowed
- Improved the cURL thread loop
- Various UI improvements in the Printing Mode
- Improved shutdown times
- Linked against latest OpenSSL 1.1.1i and cURL 7.74.0
- Fixed RMB to not select word under cursor if there already is a selection in editable components
- Fixed pasting text into editors handling paste via JS/DOM Events
- Fixed a crash in FavIcon loader
- Fixed a crash when logging into AppleID
- Fixed a crash when closing a window with tabs that are pending website load
- Fixed early startup issues where OpenURL could send OPEN commands before Wayfarer fully initializes
- Fixed a race condition in curl cache handling
- Fixed a use-after-free when closing a window or loading a session
- Worked around a bug causing some localized strings to be empty
- Download name scheme is stored when a download begins, so subsequent settings changes won't affect it
- Page reload actually skips curl caches now
- Command keys are no longer eaten by webkit
- Loader now catches all ObjC terminal errors
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13.Dec.2020
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Aminet uploads until 12.12.2020
The following files have been added to Aminet until 12.12.2020:
AmIRC_FR.lha comm/irc 22K French catalog for AmIRC 3.62
NewsCoaster_FR.lha comm/news 21K French catalogs for NewsCoast...
AmiTradeCenter_FR.lha comm/tcp 16K French catalogs for AmiTradeC...
NetPrinter_FR.lha comm/tcp 8K French catalogs for NetPrinte...
TankGL.lha demo/misc 346K MOS TankGL - simple OpenGL Demo
KONEY_CRIPPLED_CYBORG... demo/sound 240K 68k CRIPPLED CYBORG Hardcore Musi...
HWP_Polybios.lha dev/hwood 22M MOS The ultimate PDF tool for Hol...
libpsockets.i386-aros... dev/lib 150K x86 The part of AROS-stuff (POSIX...
libpsockets.mos.lha dev/lib 69K MOS The part of AROS-stuff (POSIX...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
QuickBackup.lha disk/bakup 5K Simple Backup Script
SWSyncTool_FR.lha disk/bakup 6K French catalog for SW-SyncToo...
LSEGSave.lha disk/misc 6K 68k Saves Executables from RDB
VieIII.lha game/misc 95K 68k A GUI Game of Life
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 49K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
MathX_FR.lha misc/math 14K French catalog for MathX 1.32
MUIMapparium_FR.lha misc/sci 7K French catalog for MUIMappari...
SoundBox_FR.lha mus/misc 9K French catalog for SoundBox 2.9
AmiModRadio.lha mus/play 2.7M 68k Play modules from Internet so...
DAPlayer_68k.lha mus/play 541K 68k Digital audio player mp3, cdd...
Vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha text/edit 12M x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-amigaos.lha text/edit 14M OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-morphos.lha text/edit 13M MOS The ubiquitous text editor
UnRAR_FR.lha util/arc 11K French catalog for UnRAR 5.90
AssignManager.lha util/boot 59K 68k GUI for making assigns. V1.24
ToolsMenu_FR.lha util/cdity 6K French catalog for ToolsMenu ...
FileMaster2.2.lha util/dir 59K 68k Powerful file manager, free v...
SysSpeed_FR.lha util/moni 9K French catalog for SysSpeed 2.6
OpenParent.lha util/wb 7K 68k Open Parent Drawer
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13.Dec.2020
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.12.2020
The following files have been added to OS4Depot until 12.12.2020:
basiliskii.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 Macintosh emulator runs MacOS7 a...
hwp_polybios.lha lib/hol 22Mb 4.1 plugin for Hollywood to easily c...
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 11Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
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13.Dec.2020
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AROS Archives uploads until 12.12.2020
The following files have been added to AROS Archives until 12.12.2020:
libpsockets.i386-aros.lha dev/lib 150kb the part of AROS-stuff (POSIX So...
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13.Dec.2020
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.12.2020
The following files have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 12.12.2020:
DAPlayer_1.13.lha Audio/Players Digital audio player mp...
HWP_Polybios_1.3.lha Development/Hollywood/... The ultimate PDF tool f...
libpsockets.lha Development/Library The part of AROS-stuff ...
FileMaster_3.1.lha Files/Manager Multitasking directory ...
AskMeUp_XXL_Robotics.zip Games/Think AskMeUp_XXL_Robotics.zip
TankGL_1.0.lha Graphics/3D TankGL - simple OpenGL ...
Wayfarer_1.8.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
Vim_8.2.2121.lha Text/Edit A highly configurable t...
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13.Dec.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.12.2020
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 12.12.2020:
- 2020-12-08 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) re-added support for an AGA version, corrected skip intro custom option (Info)
- 2020-12-07 improved: Final Assault (Epyx) supports another version (Info)
- 2020-12-06 improved: Treasure Island Dizzy (Code Masters) joypad and 2-button joysticks controls improved (Info)
- 2020-12-06 updated: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) fixed crash introduced in 3.0, fixed possible froze, skip intro added (Info)
- 2020-12-06 improved: Globdule (Psygnosis) added quitkey for 68000 machines (Info)
- 2020-12-06 improved: Elite (Mr. Micro) supports another version, more compatible blitter wait routine, fixed music replay (Info)
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12.Dec.2020
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Fix for incorrect date of real-time clock on Starboard 2
The memory expansion Microbotics Starboard 2 also provides a real-time clock. But at the end of 2017 it leaped back to 1. January 1978 refusing to display a correct date. Now a user has writen a little program which is launched by the startup-sequence and which pushes forward the date by 40 years.
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12.Dec.2020
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Patch: Kickstart 1.3 with support of HD drives
An user has written a patch which provides support of HD drives for Kickstart 1.3 (version 34.5). The patch program generates either a new Kickstart disk (for A1000) or writes the patched Kickstart image in a file. The HD drive - the developer uses a Chinon FZ-357A - is a replacement for an existing drive and is connected to the motherboard or put into a case of an old, external drive.
In order to add the new code into the Kickstart, the support of 5,25 inch drive was removed. Additionally, the trackdisk.device no longer warns if some of the required system ressources are not available for initializing it.
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12.Dec.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: Lotek64, issue 61 (German)
The German magazione "Lotek64" covers old and alternative computer systems. Amongst other things. Among other things, issue 61 includes a review on the multi platform adventure "Curse of Rabenstein".
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11.Dec.2020
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Quiz for AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: "Robotics" add-on for AskMeUp XXL
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's "Ask Me Up" is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring now 2226 questions. The free add-on "Robotics" provides 50 new questions, such like: "Who used the word "robot" for the first time ?" and "What is the world's best-selling humanoid robot ?". This add-on was done in partnership with the magazine Planète Robots and his publication editor, Frédéric Boisdron!
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11.Dec.2020
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: Own hardware extensions and spare parts for Amigas
German Amiga dealer Alinea Computer now also offers smaller hardware and spare parts from its own production. Items sold at the title link include replacement capacitors, clockport expanders and a remake of the Amiga B2000 Rev. 6.2 board. (cg) (Translation: snx)
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11.Dec.2020
RELEC (ANF)
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Vampire 1200 also available in RELEC shop
The Swiss trader RELEC has announced that the first batch of Vampire-1200 accelerator boards will be delivered to purchasers around the turn of the year. The first purchasers should have been informed to confirm their orders. RELEC will offer V1200 and V500(+) boards as well as V600 (soon).
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10.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Network port and SD card reader for Amigas with SPI interface
7-Bit offers a combined Ethernet controller (MINI ENC28J60) and MicroSD card reader which can be used with all devices equipped with a SPI bus - and thus mainly with RAM expansions and "Wicher" accelerator boards.
There are no detailed information about drivers available. The products of 7-bit can be ordered from diverse traders.
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10.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Wicher 1211: 11 MB memory expansion for A1200
7-bit offers a memory expansion providing up to 11 MB RAM for an Amiga 1200. Additionally the card has a real time clock and a SPI port:
- 11MB FAST RAM for AmigaOS (used 16MB SDRAM memory)
- RTC clock
- SPI controller
- PCMCIA compatible (4MB + 1,5MB)
- MAPROM and BootROM function
Kickstart 3.1 is recommended. The products of 7-bit can be ordered from diverse traders.
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10.Dec.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview video: 'Putter' - a Jump'n Run like 'Soccer Kid'
In August for the first time the Jump'n Run game developed by Third_Knight / Czorny was introduced and now was named 'Putter'. A new preview video of the game which was inspired by Soccer Kid shows the title screen as well as the first five levels. A release date for the game which is developed with RedPill is not yet set.
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09.Dec.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview videos: 'Scourge of the Underkind' and Doom clone 'Dread'
"Scourge of the Underkind" is a tribute to games like Gods, Chaos Engine and Alien Breed, is developed in assembler and will offer 16 levels devided into four worlds. A new video shows latest level of development. 'Scourge' will be available in two different versions: A "Special Edition" will be sold together with the Amiga 500 cases announced by a1200.net. Shortly afterwards the standard version - providing different levels and bosses - will be also sold.
Dread" is a Doom clone written for an Amiga 500 equipped with 1 MB RAM. In the latest preview video the developer shows the creation of the ingame menu as well as of the title screen and the problems which had to be solved for it.
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09.Dec.2020
Pär Boberg (ANF)
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Liste of "Famous Amiga Uses" updated
"Famous Amiga Uses" is a list of well-known companies and institutions which used an Amiga. Now the list has been updated again. By updating the list, "Famous Amiga Uses" celebrates its 20. anniversary.
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09.Dec.2020
Diverse (ANF)
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Kickstarter campaign for Amiga inspired case in MiniITX format
In 2018, Stephen Jones financed a case inspired by an A3000 by crowdfunding and revived his brand "Checkmate" for that which he used 30 years ago for an A500 desktop case. In late summer the "Checkmate Mini" was announced which is much smaller and is meant for motherboards with mini-ITX form factor. Using an adapter kit, the case can also host the FPGA emulators "UnAmiga" and "MIster" und since yesterday it is crowdfunded by Kickstarter.
For about 180 Euro you get the standard case. There are also a "Deluxes" version available for 220 Euro which e.g. includes additional panels for disk and DVD drives as well as diverse combined offers. So far about 37.000 of 55.000 Euro has been financed.
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08.Dec.2020
amiga.org (Webseite)
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ACube: Firmware update for Sam 440ep (flex) - U-boot 1.3.1g
For its PPC motherboards Sam 440ep and Sam 440ep-flex ACube Systems has released a firmware update which can be downloaded for free from the corresponding website. Radeon-HD and Radeon-RX- cards now can be used with a PCIe adapter:
- Improved support for Radeon HD and Radeon RX graphic cards.
Now you can use a Radeon HD / RX via a PCI to PCI Express adapter. On the Sam440ep flex motherboard, it is recommended to use PCI slot #1 for maximum performance. Please note that full support for Radeon RX is still under development and for this reason, with many models of gfx cards, U-Boot does not show any output, but the card works fine once the operating system is loaded.
- Introduced a new menu entry to change the x86 gfx BIOS emulator accuracy.
If your graphic card show some visual problems on startup, try increasing the x86 BIOS emulator accuracy.
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07.Dec.2020
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Polybios 1.3: Hollywood Designer 5.0 can import PDF pages
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working elves in snow business, are proud to present Polybios 1.3. This is a major update which makes it possible to import PDF pages into Hollywood Designer 5.0. Furthermore, it also adds full support for treating PDFs as vector animations in Hollywood and there are some bug fixes as well.
The plugin Polybios 1.3 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (arm, arm64), and iOS (arm, arm64) are provided.
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07.Dec.2020
Amiga Ireland (ANF)
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Online competition: Commodore Creative Competition 2021
The "Commodore Creative Competition" is organized by the "Amiga Users Ireland" every year. In January in a meeting of the group the winners of the categories "Mod/AHX", "Pixel Art" and "Raytracing" will be elected. This time it is going to be a virtual meeting. You can send a competition entry using the upload website as well as take part in the vote. You can reserve tickets for the virtual meeting on Eventbrite.
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06.Dec.2020
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Aminet uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to Aminet until 05.12.2020:
twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 5.2M MOS Twitter client
ddns_check_v2.2_web.lha comm/tcp 318K retrieve public IP and web se...
streamer.lha comm/www 356K 68k Play MPEG/RealAudio internet ...
asm-kurs4.lha dev/asm 780K Assembly course, German
vbcc_bin_amigaosppc.lha dev/c 2.6M OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_bin_powerup.lha dev/c 1.1M OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_bin_warpos.lha dev/c 933K OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_target_m68k-kick... dev/c 474K ISO C compiler, AmigaOS 1.2/1...
vbcc_target_ppc-amiga... dev/c 186K ISO C compiler, PPC-AmigaOS T...
vbcc_target_ppc-power... dev/c 351K ISO C compiler, PPC-Powerup T...
vbcc_target_ppc-warpo... dev/c 221K ISO C compiler, PPC-WarpOS Ta...
A09-1.45.lha dev/cross 275K OS4 6800/6801/6809/6301/6309 Asse...
cazm-1.27.lha dev/cross 154K OS4 Z80 Cross Assembler
F9DASM-1.80.lha dev/cross 348K OS4 6800/6801/6809/6309 Disassembler
rasm_os4.lha dev/cross 1.5M OS4 Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
less-mos.lha dev/gg 764K MOS Viewer program similar to "more"
regina-doc.pdf dev/lang 1.2M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
sdl_sprite-1.2b.i386.lha dev/lib 168K x86 Display animated sprites
GoADF.lha disk/misc 468K 68k AIO software to handle ADF/AD...
Square_Destroy.adf game/board 880K 68k special version of classic re...
DeluxePacman_A.lha game/misc 388K 68k PacMan clone with lots of fea...
DeluxePacman_E.lha game/misc 315K 68k PacMan clone with lots of fea...
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 123K 68k Port of Commodore 64 game Lab...
dMagnetic.lha game/role 260K MOS Interpreter for Magnetic Scro...
dMagnetic.lha game/text 316K MOS Interpreter for Magnetic Scro...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 49K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
trx2x.i386-aros.lha misc/emu 362K x86 ZX Spectrum floppy image conv...
HexShow.lha util/cli 5K 68k shows files as Hex
SysInfoFix.lha util/libs 5K 68k 68040/060-Loadlib fix for Sys...
mousemeter.sbar.lha util/misc 101K MOS A mousemeter screenbar module.
SysinfoBoards.lha util/moni 13K 68k More Boardinfos for Sysinfo
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to OS4Depot until 05.12.2020:
rasm.lha dev/cro 1Mb 4.0 Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
vbcc.lha dev/cro 3Mb 4.0 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PPC/A...
vbcc_libs.lha dev/cro 186kb 4.0 Compiler target AmigaOS 4.x PowerPC
starpusher.lha gam/puz 7Mb 4.1 A cute Sokoban clone
deficons_dump.lha uti/she 5kb 4.0 show what project tools is assoc...
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to AROS Archives until 05.12.2020:
a09-1.45.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 169kb 6800/6801/6809/6301/6309 Assembler
cazm-1.27.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 111kb Z80 Cross Assembler
dasm-2.20.14.1.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 1Mb Macroassembler with support for ...
f9dasm-1.80.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 246kb 6800/6801/6809/6309 Disassembler
sdl_image-1.2.12.i386-aro... dev/lib 939kb library to load images of var. f...
sdl_net-1.2.8.i386-aros.lha dev/lib 28kb portable network library
sdl_sprite-1.2b.i386-aros... dev/lib 168kb Display animated sprites
trx2x.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 362kb ZX Spectrum floppy image converter
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 05.12.2020:
twittAmiga_4.4.2.lha Communication A Twitter client with m...
Less_563.lha Development/GeekGadgets A paginator similar to ...
dMagnetic_0.28.lha Games/Role Interpreter for Magneti...
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06.Dec.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.12.2020
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 05.12.2020:
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06.Dec.2020
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Beast III - As A New Day Dawns (Neil Mix)
- Grave Yard (Finally Out Of My Mind Mix)
- Red Sector Theme - Spatial remix
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05.Dec.2020
Forum64 (Webseite)
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PDF retro magazine: Paleotronic
According to its website, the Australian PDF magazine Paleotronic "takes an enthusiastic look back at the history of electronics, including computers, videogames and media, as well as its use professionally, in business and in industry. Along the way, we trace the roots of the devices and technologies which define our modern world. It's education meets entertainment." The final issue was published in October 2019, most of them are available on archive.org.
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04.Dec.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Modplayer: AmiModRadio 0.9998
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." A rating function is included as well. The new version provides bug fixes. If you want to report bugs then please use the official bugtracker.
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04.Dec.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 0.9.15
Dirk Hoffmann's "vAmiga" is a new Amiga emulator for MacOS computers emulating an A500, A1000 or A2000. Changes in version 0.9.15:
- Added support for 3.5“ HD diskettes (Kickstart 2.0 required).
- 'Export disk' opens a new dialog which lets the user view and check all disk sectors prior to exporting.
- Added 'DIR' as new export format. All files on a disk will be saved in a regular folder on the Mac.
- Some configuration panels have been cleaned up and restructured.
- Blitter register values are no longer cached at the beginning of a Blitter operation (Hostages).
- Hold-B is updated when BLTBDAT is written and keeps the original value if B channel DMA is off (Sanity Arte).
- Invalid BP2 priorities don’t affect HAM mode any more (Rocklobster).
- Fixed a bug in the ADF exporter that made it impossible to export newly formatted disks.
- Fixed a bug in the devices pref panel (clicking a trashcan icon deleted the wrong entries).
- The core emulator can be compiled with gcc (macOS uses clang by default).
- Most of the larger data structures are now created on the heap instead of the stack.
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03.Dec.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Crowdfunding: New, Amiga compatible joypad 'Protopad'
Protovision - a group of develolpers and graphic artists for developeing games for the C64 - is going to pre-finance new joypads which will be developed explicitly for the C64. The pads have eight buttons, one button emulating 'up'. The pad is described as "also compatible with Atari and Amiga". But it is not clear how many of the seven buttons the Amiga can control.
The crowdfunding campaign was started on the Protovision website and does not run on one of the well-known donation portals. The money you give always is described as donations but it is promised to pay back the money if until January 2025 no joypad will have been delivered. You can donate via Paypal or bank transfer. If you donate 50 Euro or more you will get a 'Protopad' as soosn as the production was started.
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03.Dec.2020
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Jump'n Run: Boxed Edition of Sqrxz 4 released
Press release: APC&TCP is proud to announce that after Trap Runner and Fred's Journey, Sqrxz 4 is now also available as a boxed edition. As usual with Retroguru, the game was published in a DVD case with floppy disk, booklet and A3 poster. ATTENTION! Be warned! This game requires very good and very quick reflexes. The level of difficulty is above average.System requirements: Kickstart ab 1.2 and 1 MByte RAM.
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02.Dec.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Adding a HDMI port using a Raspberry Pi: Amiga-Digital-Video
The goal of the Github project Amiga-Digital-Video is to add a HDMI port to an Amiga 500, 1000 or 2000 or to a CDTV. A small adapter board is put under the Denise chip. With the help of a ribbon cable, the Raspberry Pi can extract the RGB signals of the Amigas and convert them into a digital video signal using the RGBtoHDMI software.
The software runs directly on the Pi - without requiring an operating system. According to the developer the "HDMI picture has a very low latency (a few milliseconds at most)". Therefore this solution can be also used for games. By watching some videos (1, 2) you can get an idea of the qualitiy.
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01.Dec.2020
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Commodore's DSP software running on a prototype of an A3000+
After Commodore's software support for the AA3000/A3000+, which was never placed on market, showed up, fans tried to make it running on a replica of the AA3000. Obviously they succeeded now: the DSP response to commands of the controlling software.
Hint of the editors: Fotos of the linked thread only are available to registered users.
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01.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Free hardware: GottaGoFastRAM provides 8 Mb RAM for A500/1000/2000 and CDTV
'GottaGoFastRAM' provides 8 MB autoconfig RAM for older Amiga models. The expansion is deliberately kept small for allowing to combine it with other expansions - e.g. an IDE controller -.
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01.Dec.2020
Amigaworld (Webseite)
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Amigakit: RAM-/Flash-ROM expansion for A1200
A new expansion for the A1200 developed by AmigaKit does not only provide 8 MB Fast-RAM (configurable via jumper or "Early Boot Menu" as 4, 5.5 or 8 MB) but additional to FPU socket and clockport also 4 MB FlashRAM which is writeable using the included configuration tool. How the memory is mounted while booting the computer, the website of AmigaKit does not exactly explain: On one hand they are taking about " Kickstart modules or even full Kickstart images" but on the other hand also about software "instantly available on power on". Additionally the card also emulates the non-volatile Flash memory of the CD32, in which games can save e.g. highscores and scores.
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01.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Free hardware: Gotek Floppy Disk Emulator V2
Gotek Floppy Disk Emulator V2 is a replica of the well-known Gotek drives, running with the free firmware FlashFloppy. The website of the project currently only is available in Czech (Google translation).
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01.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Platform game: Looty v2
'Looty' (video) is a single screen platform game inspired by an old Spectrum game. Originally the game was released in the mid-90s as Freeware and now was updated providing some bug fixes and optional cursor control. The background music can be turned off. The developer is looking for a graphic artist for his game.
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30.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Amiga 500 as paper modeling sheet
On his website, Rocky Bergen offers modeling sheets for classic computers, among others also for an Amiga 500 - inclusive mouse and mousepad. There are different screen contents for the monitor as well as the famous special editions crerated by the moderator Stefanie Tücking.
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29.Nov.2020
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Aminet uploads until 28.11.2020
The following files have been added to Aminet until 28.11.2020:
Crono_AROS.lha biz/misc 7.1M x86 Generator of printable calendars
Crono_MorphOS.lha biz/misc 7.0M MOS Generator of printable calendars
Crono_OS4.lha biz/misc 7.5M OS4 Generator of printable calendars
twittAmiga.lha comm/misc 6.6M MOS Twitter client
nfs3.lha comm/net 9K 68k Mount NFS3 shares using bsdso...
curl-7.74.0.lha comm/tcp 659K 68k File and data transfer tool a...
ALS.lha dev/amos 542K 68k AMOS Layers System
batari_Basic.lha dev/cross 326K MOS BASIC-like language for Atari...
dasm.i386-aros.lha dev/cross 1.1M x86 Assembler supporting various ...
dasm_mos.lha dev/cross 1.0M MOS Multi-CPU 65xx/68xx cross ass...
dasm_os4.lha dev/cross 1.1M OS4 Assembler supporting various ...
audio_in_e.lha dev/e 17K 68k examples for using audio and ...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
QuickBackup.lha disk/bakup 4K Simple Backup Script
HippoPlayerIR.zip docs/hard 27K 68k Wirelessly controlled HippoPl...
MaxReplayTest.lha driver/aud 10K 68k Determine Paula's max. replay...
F1GP2020Carset.lha game/data 9K 2020 Carset for F1GP
a2tools.i386-aros.lha misc/emu 253K x86 Move data to/from Apple DOS d...
emutools.i386-aros.lha misc/emu 424K x86 12 marvelous tools for emulators
SinEDkey.lha mus/edit 1K Public keyfile for SinED
CopyMemAIO.lha util/boot 47K 68k Speedup your programs & workb...
WhetDhryStone.lha util/cli 1.8M MOS AmigaOS3/OS4/MorphOS benchmarks
SysInfoFix.lha util/libs 5K 68k 68040/060-Loadlib fix for Sys...
amigaohm_rus.lha util/misc 41K Russian catalog file for Amig...
SysinfoBoards.lha util/moni 14K 68k More Boardinfos for Sysinfo
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.11.2020
The following files have been added to OS4Depot until 28.11.2020:
a09.lha dev/cro 183kb 4.0 6800/6801/6809/6301/6309 Assembler
cazm.lha dev/cro 114kb 4.0 Z80 Cross Assembler
dasm.lha dev/cro 1Mb 4.0 Macroassembler with support for ...
f9dasm.lha dev/cro 251kb 4.0 6800/6801/6809/6309 Disassembler
basiliskii.lha emu/com 2Mb 4.1 Macintosh emulator runs MacOS7 a...
crono.lha gra/mis 8Mb 4.1 Generator of printable calendars
witchcleaner.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Clean temp data from OWB and Way...
whetdhrystone.lha uti/ben 2Mb 4.0 Whetstone, Dhrystone, Sieve, Bog...
amigaohm_rus.lha uti/mis 41kb 4.0 Russian catalog for AmigaOhm
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AROS Archives uploads until 28.11.2020
The following files have been added to AROS Archives until 28.11.2020:
vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha dev/edi 12Mb Vim
a2tools.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 253kb Move data to and from Apple DOS ...
afid.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 236kb Apple ][ DOS 3.3 disk image utility
emutools.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 424kb 12 marvelous tools for emulators
griffon.i386-aros.zip gam/rol 9Mb RPG style game of the SNES/GENES...
crono_aros.lha gra/mis 7Mb Generator of printable calendars
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.11.2020
The following files have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 28.11.2020:
twittAmiga_4.4.1.lha Communication A Twitter client with m...
cc65_2.19.lha Development/Cross ANSI C 6502 cross devel...
DASM_2.20.14.1.lha Development/Cross Multi-CPU 65xx/68xx cro...
batari_Basic_1.5.lha Development/Cross BASIC-like language for...
WitchCleaner_1.50.lha Network/Web A little and easy progr...
Crono_2.1.lha Office/Organizer Generator of printable ...
MouseMeter_1.3.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar A mousemeter screenbar ...
WhetDhryStone_1.4.lha System/Benchmark AmigaDOS commands for M...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.11.2020
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 28.11.2020:
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27.Nov.2020
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Puzzle game: "Boxed Edition" of Astro Blox Revisited
In summer the puzzle game 'Astro Blox Revisited' has been released at the "Decrunch 2020" in Poland. Meanwhile there is also a "boxed edition" which can be purchased via two online shops worldwide or in Poland. In this edition a DVD case, a CD, a disk as well as a poster are included.
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27.Nov.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Another preview video: Jump'n Run 'Super Metal Hero'
A new Video of the jump'n run game 'Super Metal Hero' developed in BlitzBasic shows the different weapons.
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26.Nov.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 116 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes Amiga articles about the Pac-Man clone "Cruncher Factory" and the multidirectional shooter "Spherical Worlds" as well as a comparision of MOTOROLA and INTEL processors.
Download sites: English / Italian
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26.Nov.2020
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Action adventure: Port of Heart of Darkness (1998)
Heart of Darkness, released in the late 1990s, is inspired by Chahi's classic Another World but was delivered on CD and therefore offered more animations. Now Artur "Arti" Jarosik has ported the game to AmigaOS. Additionasl to the original files of the game an upgraded Amiga are required - a 68060 or Apollo processor is recommended.
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