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31.Oct.2019
Icke (a1k) (ANF)


Crowdfunding: Mechanical Amiga-500/1200 keyboards
Similar to the project, announced by the A1200.net team, under the title link the Australian Liwei Guan offers a crowdfunding campaign for mechanical keyboards for the computers Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200.

They are meant as replacements for existing keyboards because the metal carrier and the controller are not included. Additional to the US/UK keycaps also German ones are planned - other languages will be offered if there is sufficient demand. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2019
Samuli Holopainen (ANF)


Real-time strategy game: AI
Samuli Holopainen writes: AI was made for Christiandevs annual Speedgame 2019 competition where it became #1 in both categories of "Best Fun Game" (shared #1) and "Most Original Concept", in which AI scored the maximum score of 5 points. Overall ending however only at #3.

In AI you are in control of an AI sending Robots to kill Humans. There's a catch however, you cant control Robots individually, but you can only control from where and when to send Robots, and what ALL Robots will be targeting at any time and then Robots will themselves decide how to achieve it.

The version sent to the competition is not the same as this release version. This release version is worked a bit further, adding such features as Save Game (autosave), Upgrades, bug fixes, other tweaks, and the possibility to actually complete the game properly.

Notice, however, that this game does need a heavy machine, and no real AmigaOS 3.x machine is able to run this, AmigaOne X1000 or equivalent is recommended. Although if you don't mind a slower speed, then you could play this with some lower spec machines. In addition, there is also a possibility to make the speed faster for slower machines, but this happens with the cost of stability. You might be able to play this with for example lower-spec Sams but prepare for bugs then.

You can check a bit about this game (the competition version) from a video about all Speedgames.

As usual with my games, to support Indiego Appstore, this game will first be available only through Indiego Appstore. But it will be released to Aminet later as well. (snx)

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31.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 103 (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 articles about the Amiga games "Heavy Metal" and "Unreal".

Download sites:
Italian
English (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Amiga floppy reader: ADF-Copy 1.012
Dominik Tonn wrote: "ADF-Copy is a small hardware i developed which uses a Teensy 3.2 microcontroller to read and write non copy protected Amiga disks with an out of the box PC 3.5" Floppy drive connected to the microcontroller which can be build with a few jumper wires on a breadboard with no additional component. The low level stuff is handled in the microcontroller which is controlled by a Java application." (amiga-news.de reported).

Version 1.012 provides bug fixes for users of OpenJDK - if you use the original Java then you do not need this update. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Oct.2019



AmiWest 2019: Pictures and videos (3rd Update)
In this news item, which will be updated, we are collecting links to pictures and videos documenting the AmiWest 2019 taking place this weekend in Sacramento.

Videos: 2nd Update: (19:50, 31.10.19, snx)
Video of questions and answers regarding ExecSG added.

3rd Update: (08:50, 17.11.19, snx)
Further videos added: Second and third hour of second day of the Developer conference, the banquet and the speech of Mike Battilana. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Oct.2019
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


AmiWest 2019: Further details on ExecSG kernel of AmigaOS 4
In a forum entry under the title link, 'Number6' has summarized the texts of the PowerPoint slides of speeches made on the AmiWest 2019. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Oct.2019



Aminet-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 26th, 2019:
TheMurkyWoods.lha        comm/cnet  32K   68k Text Adventure for C-Net BBS 
AmiSpeedTest.lha         comm/net   22K   68k Network speed test utility
amisynergyc.lha          comm/net   109K  OS4 An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
amisynergyc_src.lha      comm/net   1.0M      An Amiga OS4 Synergy Client
IBrowseSP.lha            comm/www   18K       IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs
C4P4CITOR_FINAL.lha      demo/aga   2.4M  68k Invitro: Capacitor Party 4 by...
ToolShed.lha             dev/cross  2.9M  MOS A CoCo Cross-Development Toolset
Office_Test_1.3.lha      dev/mui    681K  MOS Demo program for office.mcc
AsciiMandelbrot.lha      gfx/fract  75K   MOS draw a Mandelbrot set in a co...
meditate.mp3             mods/kicko 33M       Meditate
Vim_8.1-i386-aros.lha    text/edit  9.3M  x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-ppc-amigaos.lha  text/edit  11M   OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.1-ppc-morphos.lha  text/edit  11M   MOS The ubiquitous text editor
aha.lha                  text/misc  417K  MOS Ansi HTML Adapter
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys   106K  x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys   136K  MOS Commodore Installer replacement
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27.Oct.2019



OS4Depot-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 26th, 2019:
asciimandelbrot.lha      gra/mis 75kb  4.0 Bench a Mandelbrot set in a cons...
morse.zip                uti/sci 5Mb   4.0 You want to learn Morse language...
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27.Oct.2019



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 26th, 2019:
saintseiyarebirth.tgz        gam/act 149Mb a game for openbor engine
quickrecord_drawer.tgz       gra/ico 3kb   ken's icons drawer
morse.i386-aros.zip          uti/sci 5Mb   You want to learn Morse language...
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27.Oct.2019



MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 26.10.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until October 26th, 2019:
iMac_G5_Papiosaur_2.jpeg  Hardware/iMac_G5          iMac_G5_Papiosaur_2.jpeg
MPlayer_1.3.0-20181121... Multimedia                Build of MPlayer 1.3.0,...
MorphOS_SDK_3.14_20191... Development/SDK           The MorphOS Development...
ToolShed_2.2.lha          Development/Cross         A CoCo Cross-Developmen...
Vim_8.1.2146.lha          Text/Edit                 A highly configurable t...
InstallerLG_0.1.0a39.ha   System/Shell              Commodore Installer rep...
AmiSpeedTest_0.5.lha      Network/Test              Network speed test utility
Iris_beta68.lha           Email                     New email client suppor...
Office_test_1.3.lha       Office/WordProcessor      Demo program for office...
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27.Oct.2019



WHDLoad: New installers until 26.10.2019
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until October 26th, 2019: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Oct.2019
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris, beta version 68
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. Among others this latest beta version now remembers used e-mail addresses and autocompletes them in the address line.

Meanwhile Iris requires MorphOS 3.12. If you want to provide feedback then please use the corresponding discussion on MorphZone.

Changes in beta 68:
  • Fixed the HTML editor view being non-editable when opened without contents
  • Fixed e-mail caching aggregating addresses with a different name but same e-mail together
  • Fixed folder sorting when adding a new account
  • Fixed a case where some folders wouldn't show up right after configuring a new GMail account
  • Addressed a possible crash after dis/re-connecting to a store
Changes in beta 67:
  • Implemented an e-mail address cache and e-mail inline completion in To/CC/BCC strings
  • Added password/pin authentication to the crypto storage (where passwords and tokens are stored)
  • Improved e-mail rich-text editor
  • Updated Odyssey core, fixes spellchecking in the e-mail editor
  • Migrated to OpenSSL 1.1.1c
  • Updated VMime to the latest github state
  • Switched to ObjFW runtime library
  • Removed MorphOS 3.11 optimizations (enables better Unicode support in certain UI elements)
Download: iris.lha (21 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Oct.2019
Indie Retro News


Playable demo version and preorder: Black Dawn Rebirth
The games of the der Black Dawn series are typical sind Dungeon Crawler similar to Dungeon Master. For the latest title "Black Dawn Rebirth" now a playable demo version is available. Additional the game which will be released on 1. December can be preordered: The download version is available for 13 Canadian Dollar (about 9 EUR) and an edition provided on six disks and printed manual in a paper box is available for 60 CAD (41 EUR). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Oct.2019
os4welt.de (Webseite)


Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.1
An update for the web browser IBrowse has been released which fixes some minor problems introduced with version 2.5. Among others now also a native Javascript library is available for MorphOS.
  • Updated Danish, Spanish and Swedish catalogs, by Niels Bache, Javier de las Rivas and Pär Boberg respectively
  • Localised missing strings in spoofing preferences
  • Fixed corruption in built-in MSIE User-Agent strings
  • Tweaked the installer to make 2.5.x upgrades nicer
  • The F5 key can now be used to reload a page
  • JS: MorphOS native javascript.library available again
  • 68k: Handle datatypes that expand 8-bit + transparent colour images to 32-bit RGBA (fixes our 256 colour icons having non-transparent magenta backgrounds in MorphOS)
  • 68k: Full alpha channel support enabled for systems using CyberGraphX V51 or higher (MorphOS)
  • OS4: Enabled 2.5 updates via AmiUpdate (exit IBrowse before performing any updates)
  • Changed the default JPEG decoder swap memory limit from 1Mb to unlimited on OS4 and MorphOS
  • Fixed NOTRANSPARENT tooltype being ignored for GUI images
  • Fixed broken HTTPS proxy functionality, where incorrect hostname was used for SNI
  • Fixed broken MUI 4/5 detection that was causing problems in TextEditField and preventing context-sensitive mouse points from working with MUI 3.x
  • Added some workarounds in the install script so that it doesn't error with the MorphOS installer
  • 68k: Now works again on Workbench 3.0, after incorrect requirement for keymaps.library V39 (Kickstart 3.0 has V37)
  • 68k: Fixed crashes when external modules (e.g. codecs and protocols) fail to load for any reason
For owners of a license of IBrowse 2.5 the update is available for free. Users of AmigaOS 4 also can install the update using AmiUpdate.

A known problem are crashes of AmiSSL 4 on systems having a 68020 or 68030 processor without FPU. The developers hope that this bug will be fixed with the forthcoming version 4.4 of AmiSSL - but have to wait until it is done. Due to changes in the AmiSSL-API afterwards IBrowse 2.5 has to be adapted. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Oct.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Print magazine: Amiga Future 141, preview and excerpts
A preview and excerpts of issue 141 (November/december 2019) of the Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features "The Niggemann Files", ein report from the Gamescom 2019 und a review of the Vampire V4 'Standalone'. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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23.Oct.2019
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz und andere (ANF)


Crowdfunding: Updated 68k back-end for GCC
Currently the Gnu Compiler Collection (GCC) comverts the back-ends - this is the part of the compiler which creates the specific CPU code - to a new model (technical details in GCC-Wiki). The support for the old back-end model will be discontinued soon. This would mean that GCC 11, probably released in 2021, will not provide support for the m68k architecture.

In order to prevent it, at bountysource.com a crowdfunding campaign has been started which is supposed to encourage the developers porting the m68k back-end from GCC to the new model. Currently the funding target is nearly 3500 USD (about 3100 Euro). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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23.Oct.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Shoot'em Up: RESHOOT R Classic Disk Edition & AROS port
Press release: The development studio spielscherreiber and the publisher APC & TCP today announce the availability of the retro action game RESHOOT R in two new variants. From now on the game is also available as a floppy disk version under the name RESHOOT R Classic Disk Edition. This version is intended for all users who do not have a CD-ROM drive to their Amiga 1200 or Amiga 4000. The game can now be installed on hard disk by diskette.

In addition, a download version of RESHOOT R is now available for the AROS system. This version requires AROS with 100% AGA compatibility with 2MB of CHIP RAM. RESHOOT R AROS was also successfully tested on the Vampire V4.

In addition, the RESHOOT R mousepad and RESHOOT R poster have recently become available.

About RESHOOT R

RESHOOT R is a 2D horizontal shoot'em up in the style of the great arcade classics like Silkworm, R-Type and Gradius

Features
  • developed and programmed by industry veteran Richard Löwenstein
  • goes to the performance limit of Amiga CD32, 1200 and 4000
  • Five themed stages in the elaborately designed retro design
  • exciting attack waves and boss battles
  • Extra weapons and powerups
  • Multi-level scrolling, up to 100 objects on the screen
  • 50 hertz refresh rate ensures a steady high speed
  • more than 400 colors on the screen
  • stimulating soundtrack and SFX simultaneously
  • locally storable highscore list and internet ranking
  • runs on standard hardware of the A1200, A4000 and CD32, no extensions necessary
  • tested on Amiga systems with the following CPUs: 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060
System Requirements CD edition
  • Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000 or CD32
  • Joystick or CD32-compatible pad
  • 2 MB Chipmemory, more memory is supported
  • runs on compatible Amiga emulators under Windows, Mac and Linux
System Requirements Classic Disk edition
  • Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000
  • Floppy drive
  • hard disk
  • Joystick or CD32-compatible pad
  • 2 MB Chipmemory, more memory is supported
System Requirements AROS edition
  • AROS with 100% AGA compatibility with 2 MB CHIP RAM.
  • Joystick or CD32-compatible pad
(cg)

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22.Oct.2019
amigaworld (Webseite)


Trevor Dickinson announces acquisition of AmigaOS 4 kernel 'Exec SG' (Update 2)
It's been an open secret for quite some time, now Trevor Dickinson officially announces the acquisition of 'Exec SG', the kernel used in AmigaOS 4. For some reason the news appeared in a blog posting on the Amiwest website, an Amiga meeting taking place in Sacramento (USA) this weekend, instead of a regular press release.

Press release: The Exec SG kernal is under development! Now the exclusive property of Trevor Dickinson, the Exec SG kernal is being extended and tested by a team of well-qualified developers.

Led by Exec SG Team Lead Steven Solie, the new kernal adds support for many features AmigaOS doesn't have. Among these are mutli-core support, GART implementation, faster speed, 64-bit support, and extending the RAM limit beyond 2 GB to 4 GB and beyond.

Even with all these advantages, the Exec SG kernal retains 100% compatibility compared to the former kernal version. This is true because these are extensions to the existing kernal incorporating the original work of Carl Sassenrath and the AmigaOS team in 1985 as well as the work of others since then.

So more Amiga magic is in store. What will it run on? Be sure you have an OS4.x machine to take advantage of these new features. Come to AmiWest to find out about when the next new machine will be introduced.

Update: (23.10.2019, 14:45, cg)

Matthew Leaman states on amigaworld.net that he's (also) the Managing Director of A-EON Technology Ltd. and as such can "can categorically state that A-EON has not acquired ExecSG and the information being referenced is not correct." The press release on the Amiwest site has not been changed or removed though, 24 hours after it went online.

Update 2: (24.10.2019, 14:15, cg)

According to a posting on amigaworld.net from Steven Solie, the claim that Exec SG was acquired by A-EON Technologies was a mistake on the part of the Amiwest blog author, Exec SG was acquired by Trevor Dickinson privately, not by A-EON. Shortly after that statement, the blog posting got updated accordingly. (cg)

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20.Oct.2019



Aminet-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 19th, 2019:
C4P4CITOR.lha            demo/aga   1.9M  68k Invitro: Capacitor Party 4 by...
Python_2.lha             dev/lang   7.9M  MOS Python for MorphOS
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.3M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.6M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   4.8M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
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20.Oct.2019



OS4Depot-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 19th, 2019:
glsnoop.lha              dev/uti 334kb 4.1 Trace and profile OGLES2 and W3D...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
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20.Oct.2019



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 19th, 2019:
runaway_arosx86.lha          gam/act 2Mb   LCD game conversion remake
cotrpg_01.i386-aros.tgz      gam/adv 137Mb Chronicol of Tusandra For EasyRP...
cotrpg_02.i386-aros.tgz      gam/adv 137Mb Chronicol of Tusandra For EasyRP...
cotrpg_03.i386-aros.tgz      gam/adv 93Mb  Chronicol of Tusandra For EasyRP...
solarusdx.i386-aros.zip      gam/adv 23Mb  Zelda engine with Mystery of Sol...
whack-a-trump_arosx86.lha    gam     5Mb   Whack-a-mole type game
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20.Oct.2019



MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 19.10.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until October 19th, 2019:
Python_2.5.4r165.lha      Development/Python        Python_2.5.4r165.lha
iMac_G5_Papiosaur.jpeg    Hardware/iMac_G5          iMac_G5_Papiosaur.jpeg
ScummVM_2.1.0.lha         Emulation                 A MorphOS build of Scum...
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20.Oct.2019



WHDLoad: New installers until 19.10.2019
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until October 19th, 2019:
  • 2019-10-19 improved: Oil Imperium / Black Gold (reLINE) more timings adjusted to better match original speed (Info)
  • 2019-10-15 updated: Soccer Kid (Krisalis) several access faults fixed, decruncher moved to fast memory, less memory used, skip intro added, trainer added (Info)
  • 2019-10-15 improved: Rygar (Seismic Minds) support for final version added (Info)
  • 2019-10-14 new: Unjust Sentence (Appendix) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Oct.2019



Amiga Bootblock Reader 3.00 (Windows)
Jason Smith's "Amiga Bootblock Reader" recognizes, analyzes and extracts Amiga bootblocks out of ADF images. The Windows program recognizes 1716 different bootblocks and can launch disk images in WinUAE or FS-UAE.


Changes in the new version:
  • now recognises 1716 Bootblocks
  • Newly redesigned interface (mostly)
  • Lots of little changes all over the place
  • Includes boot pictures for many of the recognised bootblocks
  • Can now use WinUAE / FS-UAE from any location
  • Program uses PNGs generated by WinUAE screenshot function (You can create your own if needed)
  • Fixed Amiga emulator setting defaulting to WinUAE
  • It seems i broke .ZIP handling (containing ADF's) - fixed
  • Fix: When ABR found a ADF file, the 'Boot Disk' button wasn't enabling for some reason
Known problems:
  • If you add a String search that the program doesn't like it will refuse to scan correctly afterwards. Your string search contains a character that causes the scan routine to break, you will need to edit the search.brainfile file in a text editor and remove the offending line. (No blank lines)
  • While i have endeavoured to make the scanning as accurate as i can, in some cases there will be some inaccurate detection
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Print magazine: Amiga Joker 1/2019
Press release: Because 'Amiga Joker' is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the original Joker team has decided to release a jubilee edition. The Amiga Joker 1/2019 is now available in APC & TCP's online shop.
  • The jubilee booklet for the 30th anniversary of the Amiga Joker
  • The most beautiful retro reading by editor-in-chief Richard Löwenstein and the original Joker team
  • Classics re-tested: Where was the joker wrong, which games are still top?
  • AJ founder in interview: Michael Labiner and the team about faked tests and the end of the joker
  • Current stuff in the test: How much fun do you have with new Amiga games?
  • Post Mortem: The creators of "Lionheart" are looking back
  • Also: demo gallery, mailbox and more on 48 pages, on the best paper in the world
In addition, the official Amiga Joker poster is immediately available at APC & TCP. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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15.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.3
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Mirror. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.

Changes in version 0.7.3:
  • Program stack size increased to 32 KB to avoid unstability and crashes when using autoslice
  • Sorting and rendering by Z has been recoded to avoid objects disappearing
  • Fix: Screen Flash trigger was not working when HUD was on top
  • File requesters now have a maximum size
  • Fixed an issue preventing from changing Var pages when selecting a Var in the triggers
  • Sound module code is now more robust to avoid memory leaks
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Oct.2019
Amiga.org (Forum)


ReAmiga: John Hertell published files of his Amiga replica
Under the title link John 'Chucky' Hertell has published the files for making the ReAmiga 3000 (video recorded on the Amiga34) just like he did it before for the "ReAmiga 1200" - which is a replica of the Amiga-1200 mainboard. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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14.Oct.2019



Amiga34: Announcements, videos and further pictures (Update)
In this news item we want to summarize all other news additional to the MorphOS for x64 as well as some further pictures completing the ones from yesterday.

In his speech Trevor Dickinson (A-Eon Technology) has announced an "Early-Adopter-Edition" of the AmigaOne 1222 which is based on the Tabor board (picture).

The price, including an "Early-Adopter" version of AmigaOS-4.1, for the Tabor board is supposed to be 400 Euro which corresponds to the announcement three years ago - but it is nether clear if this price includes VAT nor when it can be preordered. It is also not known what kind of limitations this version, compared to the final AmigaOS-4.1 version, will have. In spring the audio driver was still missing and the SATA driver had to be "polished". According to the comment of the visitor 'Skateman', all components of the Early-Adopter-AmigaOne-1222 are supposed to be working.

The new accelerator board Warp 1260 was presented together with the Warp 560 and further details explained: The board will be equipped with 256 MB Fast-RAM but which - similar to most of the 68060 extensions - operates only in the 68040 compatible bus mode, that means at half clock speed. Basically the DDR3-RAM is clocked with 800 MHz and connected to the 68060 processor via FPGA. The price will be 499 Euro, without processor. It has to be delivered by the purchaser.


Hyperion presented a beta version of Libre Office 5 which is ported by Hans-Jörg Frieden. Further information are not available so far.

Amiga34 impressions: Update (06:11, 15.10.19, snx)
ZDF TV report video link added. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Oct.2019



Event: Pictures of Amiga34 in Neuss (2nd Update)
This weekend the Amiga34 is taking place in Neuss, Germany. For amiga-news.de, Thomas Scheller has taken some pictures.



One of the most outstanding exhibits was the x64 version of MorphOS, presented on a MSI-B450M-Mortar-Titanium board with Ryzen-5-3600 processor made by AMD. Currently via PXE-Netboot is started (amiga-news.de reported):







Besides, there have been replica of the Amiga 500 ("Project R.E.D."), of the Amiga 2000 ("A2K Black & White Edition 2.0") and of the AGA Amiga 3000 prototype AA3000 ("AA3000+" of the Finnish developer 'Hese' [older photos])):











Other presented systems ranged from a SAGE-II system (AmigaOS was developed on a SAGE IV) to an upgraded Amiga 1000 and an AmigaOne X5000/40:







The 23 offered Vampire-V4 computer (nine others have been picked up by beta testers) was sold out within hours.

Update: (09:23, 14.10.19, snx)
In a previous version of this news-item we mistook the photos of the AA3000 with the Amiga 3000 replica ReAmiga 3000. Photos and a video of the latter you can find in our follow-up news-item instead.

2nd Update: (09:02, 18.10.19, snx):
David Brunet kindly pointed out to us that the computer shown wasn't a populated exemplar of the rare AA3000 prototypes, but the extended replica AA3000+ instead. We appologize for our mistake. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Aminet-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 12th, 2019:
Office_Test_1.1.lha      dev/mui    557K  MOS Demo program for office.mcc
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha     game/role  18M   68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
Runaway_AROSx86.lha      game/wb    2.3M  x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha          game/wb    2.2M  MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha          game/wb    2.2M  68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha          game/wb    2.5M  OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha          game/wb    2.5M  WOS LCD game conversion
Whack-a-Trump_AROSx86... game/wb    5.1M  x86 Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_MOS.lha    game/wb    5.0M  MOS Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_OS3.lha    game/wb    5.0M  68k Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_OS4.lha    game/wb    5.3M  OS4 Whack-a-mole type game
Whack-a-Trump_WOS.lha    game/wb    5.3M  WOS Whack-a-mole type game
tine.tar.gz              misc/unix  281K      A clone of ED for UNIX
HotCorner.lha            util/cdity 37K   MOS Mouse in screen corner trigge...
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 12th, 2019:
scummvm.lha              gam/adv 30Mb  4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip          gam/adv 44Mb  4.1 ScummVM Source
freedroidrpg.lha         gam/rol 226Mb 4.0 Isometric RPG influenced by Para...
zitaftpserver.lha        net/ser 9Mb   4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
scummvm-tools.lha        uti/fil 3Mb   4.1 A collection of various tools fo...
scummvm-tools.zip        uti/fil 1Mb   4.1 ScummVM Tools Source
aiostreams.lha           vid/mis 248kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 12th, 2019:
easyrpg-aros.lha             gam/adv 4Mb   play games created with RPG Make...
uhctools.i386-aros.lha       uti/wor 39kb  UHC Tools installer
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 12.10.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until October 12th, 2019:
AIOstreams_1.4.lha        Network/Streaming         Stream online video fro...
MCC_TextEditor_15.53.lha  System/MUI Classes        TextEditor custom class...
MCC_Webp_1.0.lha          System/MUI Classes        A WebP MUI Class
Office_test_1.1.lha       Office/WordProcessor      Demo program for office...
Runaway_1.12.lha          Games/Misc                A LCD game conversion.
WookieChat_2.11.lha       Communication             IRC client
WookieChat_2.12b9.lha     Communication             IRC client
Whack-a-Trump_1.2.lha     Games/Misc                Whack-a-mole type game
MorphOS_SDK_3.12_20191... Development/SDK           The MorphOS Development...
SpringMaus_0.9.lha        System/Ambient/Commoditie SpringMaus_0.9.lha
MorphOS_on_AMD64.jpeg     Screenshots               MorphOS_on_AMD64.jpeg
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.10.2019
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until October 12th, 2019: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Amiga34: MorphOS on an AMD64 computer
This weekend the Amiga34 is taking place in Neuss, Germany. Here the MorphOS developer team has presented its operating system on an AMD-Ryzen-5 computer equipped with a Radeon-HD-4650 graphics board (Twitter: picture, video).

Regarding the video Károly 'chainq' Balogh has pointed out that it is a very early version with debug output handele - actually this morning Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen got it running on this new computer, for he could not bring his older system. Therefore you should not draw conclusions from the length of the booting about the future performance.

Due to a PowerPC emulation, on the AMD64 all existing PowerPC and 68k programs are working. This is based on a new kernel written by Mark Olsen, which is running on the presented system completely AMD64-nativ in 64-Bit mode, but also on PPC32 and PPC64 processors.

The presented system only is a preview what a future MorphOS NG could look like; many components still are missing. On the demonstration computer a mixture of AMD64 and PowerPC code is used.

Additionally the MorphOS team presents an Amiga 4000 with MorphOS 3.13 on a - according to the description - Cyberstorm-PPC accelerator board with 420 MHz (photo of its processor), that had already been shown at Amiga32 also. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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11.Oct.2019



A1200.net: Announcement of new Amiga keyboards
On the ocassion of the Amiga 34 in Neuss which is taking place this weekend, the team of A1200.net representing on table 44/45 has announced its next project, a new Amiga compatible replacement keyboard:
  • 100% Mechanical
  • 100% Compatible with Mitsumi Hybrid keycaps
  • Versatile - can be used on A500, A1200, A2000, A3000, A4000
  • USB Compatible (PC & Raspberry Pi) - Apollo Vampire support coming shortly
  • Strong & sturdy keyboard with body armor
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10.Oct.2019
Indie Retro News


Remake of Sierra's "Gold Rush" (1989) can be preordered
After "Cinemaware Retro", obviously Sunlight Games also is planning to remake and sell retro games. It will be started with Sierra's text adventure Gold Rush (1989) which will be released under Sunlight's new label "Retrotainment" and which currently can be preordered for 25 Euro in its webshop. Items in this Special Edition:
  • Game on 2 Disks for Amiga (Because of different types of disk-drives used in the Amiga, there may be problems reading the disks. Therefore, the CD contains the ADF-files to copy the content onto disks with a free tool.)
  • Disks with a printed color label
  • Printed manual
  • On CD: Book "California Gold" for copy protection, drawings, ADF game files
  • On DVD: PC-Remake "Gold Rush! Anniversary", playable on PC without Internet connection, DRM-free
  • A printed certificate including the serial-number of the limited Special Edition
  • A printed DIN A1 poster on a high-quality paper
  • A printed label of the game logo

Hint of the editorial: The screenshots in the webshop are slightly misleading: the bottom row of the screen was cut. There the text input line of Gold Rush is - the game uses Sierra's older AGI-engine which requires commands entered with the keyboard. Sunlight's "cut" version is supposed to suggest a more modern feeling than it really is. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Oct.2019
MorphZone (Forum)


Legal dispute: Settlement discussions
In the legal dispute between Hyperion and Cloanto the court has accepted an application of both parties for a delay of 120 days (PDF file) because they are discussing a settlement. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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09.Oct.2019
Michael Rupp (ANF)


Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.32
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a donation from inside TAWS.

Version 0.32 provides the following changes:

  • Tribute to AmiKit XE:
    • new Presets "OS 3.9 AmiKitX Dark"
    • new Presets "OS 3.9 AmiKitXE Retro"
    • accordingly adjusted boot animation
    • new window layout "3.9 AmiKit X Dark"
    • new window layout "3.9 AmiKit XE Retro"
    • new pattern "AmiKit X Backdrop Dark"
    • new pattern "AmiKit XE Backdrop Dark"
    • new pattern "AmiKit XE Backdrop Retro"
    • new pattern "AmiKit X Pattern Dark"
    • new pattern "AmiKit X Pattern Dark Reaction"
    • new pattern "AmiKit XE Pattern Retro"
    • new (blue) trashcan icon for the iconset "AmiKit X"
    Many thanks to Jan Zahurancik (AmiKit) for donating me a copy of AmiKit XE and granting the use of the graphics.
  • Complete czech localization - many thanks to Lagya Horky from guruteam.cz.
  • OS 4.0: miscellanious adjustments (incl. the requester icons) - many thanks to Carlo 'AMIGASYSTEM' Spadoni for his support.
  • Created version 2.0 of the Topaz-Fonts A500 und A1200 erstellt: added the special characters of the languages polish, czech and russian. No more need for the additional russian font.
  • Chrome: workaround for a change (or bug?) in its layout engine in one of the latest versions (+/- v77.0), which rendered all windows (except those with fuelbars) with bottom borders too large.
  • Performance increase when starting TAWS by using XMLHttpRequest() instead of img.onerror() when dynamically checking the existence of the elements of a window layout.
  • File size optimizations of some pattern images.
  • Bugfixes:
    • Firefox, Internet Explorere and MS Edge: correction of the horizontal gradients by 180° (AmiKitX's boot progress bar, vertical scrollbar of the palette's listbox).
    • smaller corrections of the window layout "OS 3.9 AmiKitX"
    • small layout correction when minimizing the prefs windows
    • DiskCopy: correction of a JavaScript error (bug since 0.30)
    • Keyboard navigation: if more than one GUI element is using the same shortcut, now only the first is executed.
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08.Oct.2019
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Event: Program of the AmiWest Developer Conference
At the title link, the program of this year's AmiWest Developer Conference has been published. There, Steven Solie will introduce his ExecSG team, the Enhancer Software Core (classes and libraries of the Enhancer Software package that will be available for developers for free) and an "Amiga Development Manifesto". Besides this, Mark Ritter will present the new text editor "struct" and Tony Wyatt talks about working on the raphics driver for the Tabor board. (snx)

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08.Oct.2019
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Event: APC&TCP with Amiga Future at the Amiga 34
At the Amiga 34, taking place next weekend in Neuss, also APC&TCP will be represented. Besides its Amiga Future magazine and the game "Reshoot R", also again a special edition of the "Amiga Joker" magazine will be available. Also an Amiga 34 Memorial DVD is planned to be produced, most of which profit will benefit the organizers of the show.

Due to taking part at the show, orders at the APC&TCP online-shop won't be processed from October 10 to 15. The full press release can be read at the title link. (snx)

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07.Oct.2019
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Developer tool: vasm 1.8g
Three days ago Frank Wille has released an update for his assembler vasm. A detailed list of changes you can find under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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07.Oct.2019
Amiga.org (Forum)


10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast: Episode 40 - The Checkmate-1500-Plus case
The 40. episode of Douglas Compton's 10-Minute-Amiga-Retro-Cast is about the computer case Checkmate 1500 Plus crowdfunded by Stephen Jones. The video shows the installation of an Amiga 500 together with a Gotek drive and the Romulator. A next batch of the case has been announced. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Oct.2019
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: Software Development Kit 3.14
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the release of the MorphOS Software Development Kit 3.14 (October 2019). Our new software development kit advances a number of key technologies enabled by updates to the latest binutils 2.32, ports of the most recent versions of the GCC7, GCC8 and GCC9 compilers as well as a newer perl.

The threading models in GCC5 and up were changed to posix, enabling better libstdc++ compatibility in std::thread, etc thanks to the new ports of libpth and libpthread. A switch to the DWARF2 Exception Handling Model improves performance of C++ code of up to 30 percent. Objective-C ARC is now supported on MorphOS thanks to the introduction of the ObjFW runtime and other advances in compiler ports.

The new SDK requires MorphOS 3.12 and about 3GB of free disk space and can be found in our files section. As always, a separate source package is available for download as well. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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06.Oct.2019



Review of browsers on an Amiga 1200 under AmigaOS 3.9 (Update)
In 2019, for the operating system AmigaOS 3.9 there are three different browsers which can be used to surf the Internet using an Amiga 1200? But how does this work? Our editor Daniel Reimann has taken a closer look.

It is hard to believe: In 2019, still it is possible to surf the Internet using my 25 years old Amiga-1200 running AmigaOS 3.9. Recently the best-known browser for the Amiga, called IBrowse, has been updated to version 2.5. Besides, there are two different versions of the browser NetSurf, which both are constantly developed: Artur Jarosik's recently updated developer version 3.10 is based on SDL, Chris Young's ReAction-based version also has been updated to developer version 3.10 in July. This version constantly is being replaced by updated builds.

The key question is: Which websites you can surf using these three browsers and an outdated, at least very slow performing computer technology? How do they manage the websites of the Internets, which nowadays are created using standards like CSS, HTML5, Javascript and a lot of pictures and clips? A first indication that this will be not quite simple is the fact, that by the release of version 3.10 both NetSurf browsers for the first time provide rudimentary support for JavaScript.

One aspect is clear: Browsing the Internet using an Amiga 1200, upgraded by a Blizzard-1230 accelerator board, it requires a lot of patience and creativity. This article is not supposed to and cannot review all aspects but maybe gives you an idea how differently the browsers display the layout and text of the websites, how much time they take and by that is supposed to encourage you to (again) browse the Internet for yourself.

Being able to load websites within a reasonable time, by default loading pictures and Javascript is disabled. In this way some sites look a little bit "amputated", but it saves a lot of time. As we shall see sometimes it cannot be avoided to load pictures. Otherwise you have not access to some functions of the website.

We start our tour with our homepage. In this case we indulge in the luxury having pictures enabled. When amiga-news.de could be accessed unencrypted, IBrowse only took a few seconds to load the website. Now, like many other sites, a "https"-connection has to be established which takes iBrowse 50 seconds to load the site (30 seconds pictures disabled). But IBrowse display the site much sooner, only some loading processes last a little bit longer without changing anything else:



Both NetSurf versions take much longer: Artur's NetSurf 240 seconds (curiously Netsurf calculates only 170s; 73 s without pictures). The result was quite good. The site is displayed compactly and clearly legible:



es Chris Young's NetSurf takes a similar time. The graphic of amiga-news.de looks blurred which might be explained by reducing my Workbench to 64 colours.



Looking at these two pictures, the different concepts of menu navigation can be explained. While Artur's Netsurf completely dispense with a menu and therefore you have not quick access to options, Chris' version offers the menu navigation known from Amiga programs. Using it you can easily and fast turn on/off loading foreground and background pictures as well as disable/enable JavaScript or scaling the view. Artur's NetSurf uses a separate MUI prefrerences window. By calling it (on the left side the first buttom under the Google search), NetSurf disappears and the preferences windows appears:



Also Chris' version offers a separate preferences window for more detailed options.

Curiously amiga-news.de is the only website (so far), where the loading time, calculated and shown by Netsurf bottom right, differs so much from the real one. Both NetSurf versions then only took about 15 seconds for loading the individual news items.

After reading about iBrowse on amiga-news.de, we want to see what the Google search else knows about the browser:



Artur's Netsurf provides the results after 31s (above). Chris' Netsurf takes 26s, IBrowse 25s (below), all with pictures enabled:



Here we notice the link to Wikipedia (https-connection!), which we adventurously open. IBrowse takes 60s for loading the website (pictures enables even though not a single one can be seen), but after 40s the website is displayed. Only some loading activities which do not change the look take another 20s:



Chris' NetSurf fails responding a software failure. Upon request Chris wrote: "I can't test the 68k version because it doesn't work on my UAE any more, but Wikipedia was fine on the OS4 build last time I checked". Artur's version takes 240s:



By releasing the developer version 3.10, Artur Jarosik's NetSurf now supports AmiSSL 4.3. Comparative tests with version 3.9 could not prove any speed advantage for encrypted connections.

Now we want to check a website which requires JavaScript. For this we dare ebay-kleinanzeigen.de. As mentioned previously sometimes you have to be creative. Which means: Do not call the main site (https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de but take the shortcut to the direct log in site, in this case https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/m-einloggen.html?targetUrl=/.

IBrowse masters the challenge after 170s:



Both NetSurf candidates failed. After some loading process both version freezed. Only one time I got Artur's Netsurf loading the website so I could have logged in:



Jumping for joy I entered my mail address when I realized that my "@" symbol was a "2". Further tests showed that it also is not possible to copy and paste because obviously the "alt" key do not work. Artur said, using Alt+2 or Shift+2 the "@" symbol should appear but I failed. I hope some of the readers can tsts it.

Finally I want to show some examples demonstrating strengths and weaknesses of the different browsers. We always want to know how the weather is. First a screenshot in which way Firefox dislay the website under Windows:



Using the direct link, Chris' NetSurf tries to load the site:



and now Artur's Netsurf:



I guess Artur wins the point.

Being a passionate train traveller, I want to check the rail links. Again we do not use the homepage bahn.de but enter the link for the travel information reiseauskunft.bahn.de. All three browser do not offer any automatic suggestions for starting and destination station. In my case I was lucky because I got the correct main stations out of my entries. IBrowse only takes 25s (all disabled). After another 20s you get a really familiar view of the travel information. Great!



Unfortunately I did not get Chris' NetSurf starting the search because although all pictures have been enabled, no "serch" field appeared. After 517s Artur's Netsurf provides the option of entering the parameters and starting a search. After another 828s(!) you get the following result:



The good new is: It works and looks pretty good although the time required by Netsurf is quite high.

Some final comments. One additional plus point IBrowse and Artur's NetSurf get for their capability of scrolling down and up websites without jerking and rebuilding the website. Chris' NetSurf always build a website top down.

Regarding the stability (on my system), I must praise all browsers: If the browsers were successfully launched, they run without any problems. IBrowse gets another plus point for its special reliability. No problems, no crashes. In contrast, Chris' NetSurf has always crashed after quitting it so I had to reboot. Artur's NetSurf sometimes stopped loading after launching the program or the welcome screen was displayed very, very slowly. Besides, the mouse pointer sometimes stucked in the scroll bar.

One detail I was surprised: Although in the prefrerences I did set the harddrive cache to "0 MB" and the RAM to "80 MB" for a better, faster performance, the HDD lamp of my Amiga-1200 flashed while loading the websites. Chris said: "Maybe there is still something in the cache from before". But I guess it could be caused by AmiSSL. The question is if the options setting obove has an influence on the loading time of the browser at all. Maybe some readers have also tested it and can provide some additional information.

Update: (12.10.2019, 16:30, dr)

Of course we have informed all three developers about the publication of this article. We want to share the statements of Chris Young and Oliver Roberts.

Chris Young (NetSurf) wrote: "Interesting! I will note that my version of NetSurf needs more work, but it really needs to be looked at by somebody who is knowledgeable about 68k code in order to track down the bugs and optimise. I don't have the time or inclination to work on it much and am reaching the limit of my ability."

And Oliver Roberts (IBrowse) noted: "Very interesting. One thing I'd like to point out: Google will look much better if you use the default IBrowse 2.5 settings. In the defaults, IBrowse will spoof as MSIE 5.5 on Google, resulting in a much better experience."

Of course I did pursue this lead. He is right. You can change the corresponding option in the preferences of IBrowse under "network" and then "spoofing". However: I did not change anything here before. By default (after installation of IBrowse 2.5) "IBrowse" was enabled here.


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06.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AROS distribution: Icaros 64 V0.0.0 pre-alpha
Paolo Besser has written under the title link about the 64-bit version of his Icaros Desktop: "Yes, you've read it right. It's time to enter the 64-bit Amiga era by the front door, taking advantage of modern x86-64 processors like Core and Ryzen. But beware: this is pre-alpha, un-stable, un-finished, un-reliable software. It's good to see it in action, to check what's working and what's not, to get familiar with latest AROS development, but it's definitely no good yet for everyday's use (which also means that if you didn't consider 32-bit Icaros Desktop ready for this scope... well, this is even worse)." (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Amiga Future (Webseite)


Distribution for AmigaOS 3.9: AfA One 1.3
Version 1.3 of the AmigaOS-3.9 distribution "AfA One" (amiga-news.de reported) based on AfA ("AROS for AmigaOS") is available under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Aminet-Uploads until 05.10.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until October 5th, 2019:
AFnews-68k.lha           comm/news  851K  68k Amiga Future Everywhere 68k
AFnews-OS4.lha           comm/news  1.2M  OS4 Amiga Future Everywhere Amiga...
MCC_TextEditor-15.53.lha dev/mui    869K  MOS TextEditor custom class for MUI
Office_Test.lha          dev/mui    231K  MOS Demo program for office.mcc
F1GP2019Carset.lha       game/data  25K       2019 Carset for F1GP
Atomulator.lha           misc/emu   3.2M  MOS Emulator of an Acorn Atom
Flac133_a68k.lha         mus/misc   429K  68k Free Lossless Audio Codec
Flac133_Aros.lha         mus/misc   1.9M  x86 Free Lossless Audio Codec
AmigaAMP3.lha            mus/play   1.7M  OS4 Multi format audio player wit...
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha        mus/play   376K  68k MPEG audio player with GUI
SysInfo.lha              util/moni  53K   68k Classic Amiga System Informat...
UserMenus.lha            util/wb    2.7M  68k User defined menus for Wanderer
WebRadio_sbar.lha        util/wb    85K   MOS A sbar plugin to listen to We...
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06.Oct.2019



OS4Depot-Uploads until 05.10.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until October 5th, 2019:
amigaamp3.lha            aud/pla 2Mb   4.1 Multi format audio player with GUI
mcc_texteditor.lha       lib/mui 869kb 4.0 TextEditor custom class for MUI
zitaftpserver.lha        net/ser 9Mb   4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
aiostreams.lha           vid/mis 248kb 4.1 Stream online video from major p...
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 05.10.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until October 5th, 2019:
flac133.i386-aros.lha        aud     2Mb   Free Lossless Audio Codec
hwp_ahx.i386-aros.lha        dev/lib 135kb Library Plugin For Hollywood App...
amifish.i386-aros.zip        gam/boa 2Mb   Chess program interface for Stoc...
mcc_texteditor-15.53.lha     lib/mui 869kb TextEditor custom class for MUI
lilcalendar.i386-aros.lha    uti/wor 3Mb   Calender scheduling and reminder...
usermenus.i386-aros.lha      uti/wor 3Mb   User defined menus for Wanderer
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 05.10.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until October 5th, 2019:
WebRadio_1.10.lha         System/Ambient/Screenbar  A sbar plugin to listen...
Wyrmsun_3.5.5.lha         Games/Strategy            Wyrmsun is an open-sour...
VintageSongPlayer_2.20... Audio/Players             A different, funny and ...
GrafX2_2.7_WIP.lha        Graphics/Draw             GrafX2 version 2.7 WIP,...
ScoutNG_beta.lha          System/Monitoring         Preview of the exec lib...
AmiArcadia_25.82.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Screenshot14.jpeg         Screenshots               Screenshot realised by ...
Cyclecounter.ACEpansio... Emulation                 ACEpansion plugin for A...
Office_test_1.0.lha       Office/WordProcessor      Demo program for office...
Atomulator_1.29.lha       Emulation                 Emulator of an Acorn Atom
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06.Oct.2019



WHDLoad: New installers until 05.10.2019
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until October 5th, 2019:
  • 2019-09-29 improved: Wizball (Ocean) random quit after some time fixed, manual added (Info)
  • 2019-09-29 improved: Crazy Cars (Titus) supports another version, uses less memory (Info)
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06.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


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:
  • Defender of the Crown (The Elf's Story)
  • Turrican II - Traps (ft. Chris Hülsbeck, from Back in Time Live 2018)
  • Turrican II - Desert Rocks (ft. Chris Hülsbeck, from Back in Time Live 2018)
  • Super Cars 2
  • Human Target (trigger happy remix)
  • Apidya (War At Meadow's Edge)
  • Mike The Magic Dragon - Crocket's Theme (Piano Live)
  • Turrican 3 - Credits
  • Turrican 1 Medley (Piano Live)
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05.Oct.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Compiler: vbcc 0.9g
vbcc is a C compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga-specific adaptions). The compiler supports AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, PowerUp as well as WarpOS. According to the developers "it supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99)."

Changes:
  • Implemented hash table with a default size of 1000. Can be controlled by -hash-size=
  • Fixed bug with recursive struct definitions
  • Fixed bug with C99 designated initializers
  • Fixed C99 initializations of const objects
  • Fixed bug with mixed dynamic initializations
  • Fixed bug with partially initialized structs (C99)
  • Addded __noinline attribute
  • m68k: General improvements of code generation
  • m68k: Use ASR-sequence for signed division with a power of two
  • m68k: Fixed peephole bug
  • m68k: New attribute __fp0ret, to force float-return in fp0, disregarding a -no-fp-return option
  • m68k: Fixed bug with unsigned short array indexes > 32767
  • m68k: Allow 16-bit multiplication
  • m68k: Fix for possible register clobbering in PUSH loops going up
  • m68k: Avoid using the same reqister for Dr:Dq in DIV?L.L instructions
  • m68k: Fixed pointer differences in 16-bit int backend (vbccm68ks)
  • m68k: Fixed bug with shiftisdiv on big-endian hosts
  • PPC: Optimized memcmp() in vclib and as assembler-inline
  • vclib: Fixed snprintf() and vsnprintf() for sizes exactly matching the source
  • vclib atari: Made gem.h compile without warning in ANSI/C89 mode
  • vclib kick13: Support for 16-bit int. New config files
  • vclib kick13: Workaround for IEEE single to double precision conversion in mathieeedoubtrans.library
  • Fixed some kick13 clib headers
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04.Oct.2019
Amiga.org (Forum)


Open source project: The world's smallest 68k FPGA turbo board
Under the title link in the forum of a1k.org the world's smallest 68k FPGA turbo board was introduced - it is "just about 5mm taller than an original 68k in its socket." For the accelerator board the TG68 core is used @50MHz which was also used for the MiST project.

Key features:
  • Artix7-FPGA (215k Logic-Cells)
  • 64 MB SD-RAM (32-Bit-Bus)
  • 16 MB Flash-ROM
  • Micro-SD-Card-Slot
  • SPI-BUS
Currently the FPGA accelerator board still is in development. The primary objective is an improved stability. At this stage the bus width of the RAM connection only is 16 Bit, but is supposed to be doubled. Then the support for the SD card, for the SPI bus and for the KickFlash will be done and finally also a MMU. The source code of the FPGA turbo board is supposed to be released. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.2
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - published videos show versions of Pacman and Mirror. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.

If you are about to update your previsous (0.6.x) version, you will notice that opening an existing project might take a longer time to load - the program is correcting a wrong calculation of the number of levels of the previous version.

Changes in version 0.7.1:
  • Export added in main screen to export the project into an encrypted .redpill file. This file can only be opened from the Redpill player.
  • Export will create a folder named export, this export folder is the distribution folder of your game.
  • Now each map can have its own tileset, the palette will be adapted to the spritesheet palette if there aren't enough colors available.
  • This also means each level now has its own palette saved in a separate file
  • Help for triggers is available inside the editor, just select a trigger and press the Help key. Sadly it is not finishing and not all triggers are documented, but it will come.
  • Condition triggers had a general optimization resulting in faster condition evaluation.
  • Level object screen has been changed to allow editing in a simpler way, several issues have been fixed.
  • Object triggers can be exported to text for easier and global visualization.
  • External text editor can be set in the icon, just like the image editor.
  • In the HUD, the icon sprite used can be set with either a number or number variable.
  • Added manual sprite cut to manually cut frames from a spritesheet.
  • Added action trigger Angle to target that sets the GO angle to point the target, useful for shots and many more.
  • Added action trigger Tiled Move to move objects in tiles.
  • Added action trigger Tiled Push to push other others away when moving objects with Tiled Move.
  • Collision boxes changed to the old (and better) routine.
  • Animation frames can now last less than 0.05.
  • Tabs added in the level editor screen for faster ediing.
  • Minimap tab added to the level editor for quick visualization of tiles and game objects, and map repositioning.
  • Sound Generator added to create new sounds inside the editor, the save feature uses DataToIff V1.1 - Sound File Conventer - Written by Janne Saarme 1990-1992.
  • Bouncing example added in the examples directory.
  • Pillman game example has been added to the projects folder.
  • Red color has been added in the editor for some menus and UI elements.
  • Dialog engine noe uses AGA colors when the game is AGA.
  • Added protection code to the custom load font, if font is not found it should not break.
  • If the background sprites cannot be loaded then level sprites are deactivated.
  • Frame has been removed from the HUD Bar element
  • HUD Bar element now can show timer variables.
  • Issue fixed with HUD texts numbers not being erased correctly.
  • Fixed issue with triggers Hit->CustomX not working properly.
  • Lumberjack platform by Lemming880 has been added to the projects.
Changes in 0.7.2:
  • Parts of the HUD were erased under certain circumstances, this has been fixed.
  • Camera Follow now doesn't follow the Object when it is not active.
  • In Grid Slice, an empty frame was considered, reducing the number of available frames, this has been fixed.
  • Set Speed C action triggers now changes the side the Object if facing.
  • Set Speed X from var now takes into account the side, if side is left speed X will be negative.
  • Some glitches removed when switching between menus.
  • Minor fixes in audio.
  • Some other minor fixes
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