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06.Apr.2019
Nico Barbat (ANF)


Point'n click adventure: CPC port "Athanor 2" in progress
"Athanor 2 - The Legend Of The Birdmen" is a point'n click adventure which originally was developed for the Amstrad CPC. Currently ports for Atari-ST and Amiga are in progress (video of ST port). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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05.Apr.2019
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: E-mail client Iris, beta version 54
"Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. The program requires MorphOS 3.10. You can give feedback to the author using the corresponding discussion on MorphZone.

Changes of beta version 54:

Features:
  • Improvements in the email editor; added default font (can be changed in settings)
  • Connected servers will periodically poll for new messages
  • Rewritten connection handling to improve performance and fix connection issues over time
Bugfixes:
  • Switching between several displayable email compontents only worked once per component due to a bug in tmp file lookup
  • Fixed an issue related to saving attachments from an email open in a separate window after the active folder has changed in the main window
  • Improved server disconnection handling
  • Fixed a crash in vmime related to IMAP folder access
  • Unread messages count could sometimes be negative due to an overflow
  • Fixed a long-standing reconnection problem where internal exception routing would skip over the actual reconnection routine
  • Fixed an OAuth2 issue which caused servers to reject authentication if they weren't used for a long time (days) so that the refresh token expired - this delegates login back to the web browser as required by OAuth2
  • Worked around an imap.wp.pl issue where the server returns messages in a random order instead of sorting them by uid
  • Fixed a Sent folder refresh issue after sending an email
  • Fixed a wrong UID count in folder issue causing server commands to fail after emptying a folder
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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05.Apr.2019



ASCII art: Interview with sk!n/DeZign
On his website Lars 'Ghandi' Sobiraj has published an interview with Michael Hischer formerly known as sk!n/DeZign involved in the illegal Amiga mailbox scene. He also has created several ASCII artworks. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Apr.2019



Shoot'em Up: Port of "Kobo Deluxe"
Artur Jarosik has ported the shooter Kobo Deluxe (screenshot) to AmigaOS 3. At least an Amiga with 68060 processor and graphic board are required, a Vampire is recommended. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Apr.2019
Olaf Schönweiß (E-Mail)


Lawsuit: Court denies Cloanto's motion for preliminary injunction
In the lawsuit between Cloanto and Hyperion yesterday the court has denied the motion for preliminary injunction against the sale of AmigaOS 3.1.4 (PDF file). After the futile attempt of registering the trademark "Workbench" also in the EU, this is the second setback for Cloanto in a row.

The court found that Cloanto could not provide sufficient evidence for the claimed irreparable harm. This decision does not affect the judgment of the principal proceedings: Was the sale of AmigaOS 3.1.4 lawful? (snx) (Translation: dr)

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03.Apr.2019
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


MorphOS: Internet radio player RNORadio
RNORadio (screenshot) "is a GUI based internet radio player program for MP3 streams" which provides the following features:
  • Two GUI options: MUI or custom skin(s)
  • Displays stream titles in real-time from the MP3 metadata
  • Comprehensive station editor with an option to download station logos from a local drive or Internet
  • Supports multiple streams per station
  • Can import streams from PLS, M3U, Extended M3U, and XSPF playlist files
  • Has a Shoutcast search window
  • Animation support for custom skin elements, including a station's logo
  • Alpha transparency support in custom skins with images and animations
  • Can display extra information from stations, but currently it only shows the "OneLiner" chat from Nectarine in the MUI GUI
  • ARexx, command line, and tooltypes support
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Apr.2019



Tutorial: Using a Linux box as a Proxy for SSL connections
While AmiSSL 4 makes a modern version of SSL available for AmigaOS 3, software that supports it is still hard to find. And given its slow CPU, an Amiga is barely able to decode modern SSL cyphers anyway. amiga-news.de reader 'Cego' solved this problem by using a PC running Linux - you could also use a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian - as a proxy:

In this scenario the Amiga is sending all of its HTTP request to the Linux box, which handles all communication with the Internet. Since the connection between the Amiga and the Linux box is never encrypted, the ancient Commodore computer is no longer burdened with encrypting and decrypting packages and its user doesn't have to worry about protocol compatability or certificates.

Requirements

To get started, we need to have the following things available:
  • a computer running Linux (e.g. Debian, Raspbian) and an account with Root privileges
  • sslstrip for Linux
  • the IP address of the Linux box. This can be determined by entering hostname -I in a terminal
  • IBrowse
1. activate IP forwarding

First we have to activate IP forwarding on the Linux box, by entering the following in a terminal:

echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

2. install and activate SSLStrip

Now we have to install sslstrip by invoking the following command with Root privileges:

apt-get install sslstrip

Then we start the program from the terminal:

sslstrip

3. configure IBrowse's proxy settings

Now we run IBrowse on the Amiga and tell it to use a proxy by enabling it in Preferences -> Network -> Proxy. Make sure you configure a proxy for "HTTP" (not "HTTPS") and enter the IP address of the Linux box here. sslstrip is using port 10000 by default, so that's what we need to enter here.

How it works

As far as IBrowse is concerned, the entire Internet is now available without encryption. Should a website enforce an SSL connection, the Linux proxy will take care of that and remove any encryption before forwarding the content to the Amiga - which frees the latter from the ressource-heavy process of decryption.

Thanks to IBrowse's "URL Prefs" functionality, you could selectively enable or disable the use of the proxy for certain sites, but it's just as convenient to simply enable/disable the proxy using the Preferences -> Proxy menu or via the global configuration. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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02.Apr.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


TCP/IP-Stack: SDK update 1.4 for Roadshow
For developers now version 1.4 of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for the TCP/IP stack Roadshow is available. The update became necessary because of the Amiga port of NetSurf that makes use of the SDK.

download site (snx)

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01.Apr.2019



Preview video: Super Star Blast (Entwickler-X)
The latest project of Entwickler-X (e.g. Emotion, M.A.C.E., Tap Jewels, Bubble Shooter DX) obviously is a remake of the Amiga classic Transplant. On YouTube a video was published which shows some scenes from the game announcing releases for modern platforms as well as for AmigaOS-4.1. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Apr.2019



Canceled game project: Street-Fighter-2 clone "World Warrior"
"World Warrior" was the attempt of a programmer to overcome his disappointment about the moderate quality of the Amiga port of "Street Fighter 2". In his blog the author described how the project started and explained some of his decisions regarding the game design. Besides, an unfinished version is available for download. The auhor remarked: "The option screen doesn't work and you can only play against another human player...and the round goes on forever as there's no health system." (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Apr.2019



Source codes of VirusExecutor, ABBS and PlayItPro released
With permission of the author Jan Erik Olausen, "4play" has released the source codes of VirusExecutor, the mailbox software ABBS and of the 8SVX sample players PlayItPro at Github. It is also planned to release the sources of VirusZ V2. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Apr.2019
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood: hURL 1.0 released

Press release: Yes, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, did it again! This time we proudly present hURL - the ultimate multi-protocol data transfer plugin for Hollywood. Based on curl, hURL supports an incredibly wide range of transfer protocols, e.g. DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. Furthermore, hURL supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Plain, Digest, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and more. It really is the ultimate data transfer engine for Hollywood, leaving nothing to be desired!

There are two ways of using hURL: There is a high-level interface that can directly hook itself into Hollywood's network library, enhancing it with hURL functionality like SSL/TLS support. This makes it possible to use Hollywood commands like DownloadFile() to download files using custom protocols that Hollywood itself doesn't support, e.g. SSL/TLS.

Another way of using hURL is the low-level interface: This interface allows you to access the curl API directly from Hollywood scripts. This is extremely powerful because it allows you to access hundreds of different curl options, making it possible to fine-tune hURL to your specific needs. Just to give you an idea of how powerful hURL is: it contains over 500 (!) commands to fulfil all your data transfer needs!

Finally, hURL comes, as usual for Hollywood plugins, with extensive documentation in various formats like PDF (over 300 pages!), HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that contains detailed descriptions about all functions and methods offered by the plugin.

All of this makes hURL the ultimate data transfer tool for Hollywood that contains everything you need to send and receive data via almost any transfer protocol on the planet.

hURL is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS 3.x (m68k), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), Mac OS X (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64) and Android (arm, arm64) are provided.

Note that on AmigaOS and compatibles, AmiSSL 4.x is required by hURL. Since this isn't available in a native MorphOS version yet, you can just use the 68k version of AmiSSL 4 on MorphOS. It has been verified to work fine with hURL. (snx)

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31.Mar.2019



Aminet-Uploads until 30.03.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 30th, 2019:
F1GP2019Carset.lha       game/data  23K       2019 Carset for F1GP
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha     game/role  16M   68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
D1X_Rebirth_RTG.lha      game/shoot 1.9M  68k Amiga RTG port of Descent
MiniKonnex.lha           game/wb    31K   68k Connect all tiles!
MixTiles.lha             game/wb    33K   68k Place tiles of same colour to...
Passage.lha              game/wb    35K   68k Move gates and get to the exit
ViewLHA.lha              gfx/show   11K   68k View graphics files compresse...
Novalight.lha            misc/emu   85K   68k Very fast tape loader for Oric
xpdftools_401_m68k.lha   text/misc  5.0M  68k Tools to manipulate pdf docum...
MMULib.lha               util/libs  718K  68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys   99K   x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys   130K  MOS Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.src.lha      util/sys   2.1M      Commodore Installer replacement
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31.Mar.2019



OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.03.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 30th, 2019:
bermudasyndrome.lha      gam/act 1Mb   4.1 Bermuda Syndrome
five.lha                 gam/boa 10Mb  4.0 Gobang game (aka. Gomoku, Five-i...
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31.Mar.2019



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 30.03.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until March 30th, 2019:
rdesktop-1.6.0.i386-aros.zip aud     404kb rdp protocol server and client w...
zolb.i386-aros.zip           gam/adv 3Mb   Fan made Zelda style SDL game.
zroth.i386-aros.zip          gam/adv 2Mb   Fan made Zelda style SDL game.
viewlha.i386-aros.lha        uti/arc 19kb  Cli tool to show image(s) includ...
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31.Mar.2019



MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 30.03.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until March 30th, 2019:
montreal_hd.zip           Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks montreal_hd.zip
melbourne_hd.zip          Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks melbourne_hd.zip
monza_hd.zip              Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks monza_hd.zip
hockenheim_hd.zip         Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks hockenheim_hd.zip
hungaroring_hd.zip        Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks hungaroring_hd.zip
indianapolis_hd.zip       Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks indianapolis_hd.zip
imola_hd.zip              Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks imola_hd.zip
interlagos_hd.zip         Games/Race/VGP2/HD-Tracks interlagos_hd.zip
VGP2-Monaco.zip           Games/Race/VGP2/Tracks    Additional Track for VGP2.
VGP2-Sepang.zip           Games/Race/VGP2/Tracks    Additional Track for VGP2.
InstallerLG_0.1.0a35.lha  System/Shell              Commodore Installer rep...
menu_graphics.zip         Games/Race/VGP2           menu_graphics.zip
ShogoLauncherUpd.lha      Games/Shoot 3D/Shogo      ShogoLauncherUpd.lha
ShogoDemoUpd.lha          Games/Shoot 3D/Shogo      ShogoDemoUpd.lha
ShogoDemo.lha             Games/Shoot 3D/Shogo      ShogoDemo.lha
2007_Carset_and_Driver... Games/Race/VGP2           2007_Carset_and_Driver_...
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31.Mar.2019



WHDLoad: New installers until 30.03.2019
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 installer has been added until March 30th, 2019:
  • 2019-03-25 improved: Premiere (Core Design) reduced chip memory requirement, fixes intro sound issue/crash (Info)
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.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:
  • Apydia - Game Over (Memorial)
  • Varanen
  • Turrican 2 (The Final Challenge)
  • Turrican 2 - Freedom Rocks (Freedom vs. Desert Rocks)
  • Echoing (2019 Metal Version)
  • Cream of the Earth (Firefox Dirty Drummer Remake vs. Romeo Knight)
  • Lost Patrol (Interlude)
  • Turrican - Cyborg Dragon Remix
  • Turrican - Victory Dr.Future
  • Turrican II - The Great Bath (World Instruments Rendition)
  • Enchanted Land - The Cave
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2019
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Interview with Paolo Cattani (Virtual Grand Prix)
For the Spanish website Amigatronics, Paolo Cattani was interviewed. Among others he wrote the racing game "Virtual Grand Prix" released in 1999 as well as its MorphOS successor released in 2005. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 96 (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 on vintage computers.

Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Genetic Species", "Myst", "Sub Simulator" and "Sturmtruppen".

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

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31.Mar.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Crowdfunding: Double-CD collection with remix music of Amiga games
Under the title link you are invited to spend money for releasing two remix CDs called "Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude". So far 10785 of 18597 Euro were pledged and still 28 days are left. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2019
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)


3D print: A590 replacement cases
The Dutch website 3dpintserviceshop.com meanwhile also offers a replacement case for the harddrive SCSI controller A590. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Mar.2019



Game prototypes: AlarCity and Blask
AlarCity Dungeon Prototype (video) is an early prototype of Erik 'earok' Hogan's top-down-view-shooter AlarCity which still is in development. According to the developer the prototype "no longer represents our vision for the game" offers 55 playable rooms and "there is a final objective to reach". Blask is a first person shooter written in AMOS for A500 (1 MB RAM) in which the player can move into eight different directions.

Download

AlarCityDungeonPrototype.lha (512 KB)
Download website for Blask (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Mar.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Game: Bridge Strike
Bridge Strike developed by Project R3D is a River-Raid clone. Two and half year after the pre-release, meanwhile the shoot'em up has been completed and is available as commercial download or CD version under the title link.

At the RetroKomp in Gdansk the game won the second prize. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Mar.2019



Emulator: Preview to WinUAE 4.2.0
As usual the developers of the well-known Amiga emulator WinUAE present a short preview to the changes of the next version. WinUAE 4.2.0 is supposed to be released at the beginning of April and will provide the following features:

New features:

  • uaegfx and Picasso IV Overlay/PIP support.
  • All GUI listviews support column order and column width customization.
  • Custom ROM selection (4 slots) added.
  • Direct3D 9/11 shader embedded config entry support.
  • 68030 MMU instruction disassembler support and other disassembler fixes.
  • 68030 MMU emulation will now also create short type bus error stack frames when possible, matching real 68030 behavior.
  • Windowed mode keeps aspect ratio if CTRL is pressed while resizing.
  • Added debugger invalid access logger (memwatch l).
  • Reject Alt+<some key> Windows system menu key shortcuts. Invalid short cut combinations can generate annoying Windows alert sounds.
  • KS ROM selection supports loading and relocation of hunk and m68k elf executables.

Bug fixes:

  • Direct3D 11 shader support fixes.
  • CDTV CD drive read/play startup delays adjusted. Fixes Town without no name speech audio track stopping too early.
  • Accelerator board CPU fallback (to mainboard CPU mode) works again.
  • Many video port adapters (which includes grayscale mode and genlock) didn’t support all doubling modes.
  • Minor custom chipset fixes (Small graphics corruption in certain special situations)
  • Moving mouse outside and back to WinUAE window in Magic mouse activated WinUAE window even if some other window was already active.
  • AVI recording with non-standard refresh rate was reset to default if GUI was entered and exited during recording.
  • uae-configuration returned return code 10 even when matching config entry was found.
  • “Add PC drives at startup” enabled and same drive’s root directory also mounted manually: drive was mounted twice. (Introduced in 4.1.0)
  • Genlock transparency didn’t always activate even when genlock emulation was enabled.

New emulated hardware:

  • Pacific Peripherals Overdrive
  • IVS Trumpcard
  • IVS Trumpcard 500AT
  • ICD Trifecta
  • BSC Tandem
  • ACT Prelude and Prelude 1200
  • Harms Professional 3000
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26.Mar.2019



Full version for download: Populous clone Genesia
The Amiga Future offers the Populous clone Genesia released in 1993 for free download. ADF or IPF images as well as WHDLoad installation are available. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Mar.2019
Amigatronics (ANF)


Interview: Paolo Cattani (Virtual GP)
The blog Amigatronics has published an interview with Paolo Cattani who among others released the Formel-1 simulations Virtual GP and Virtual GP 2 for Amiga and MorphOS. As bonus a video of Cattani's shoot'em up Thunderhell is presented which was never released. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Mar.2019



Aminet-Uploads until 23.03.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 23rd, 2019:
jrm-hc73.lha             demo/sound 329K  68k dA JoRMaS: HyggeCeminaari #73
gcc-mos2wos-lite.lha     dev/gcc    8.3M  MOS Make MorphOS GCC output WarpO...
CubicIDE_HW80.lha        dev/hwood  805K  68k Hollywood add-on for Cubic IDE
Hollywood_SDK.lha        dev/hwood  2.5M      Plugin development kit for Ho...
Exult_AGA.lha            game/role  49M   68k Amiga AGA port of Exult
Exult_RTG.lha            game/role  49M   68k Amiga RTG port of Exult
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha     game/role  16M   68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
ViewLHA.lha              gfx/show   12K   68k View graphics files compresse...
ACE-MorphOS.lha          misc/emu   1.6M  MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
DOSBox_AGA.lha           misc/emu   1.9M  68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
DOSBox_RTG.lha           misc/emu   1.9M  68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
Viagra.lha               mods/8voic 134K      6ch Viagra Overdose Jazz Swin...
25yearsajorma.lha        mods/jorma 189K      Mod by Pekka Pou (from HyggeC...
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24.Mar.2019



OS4Depot-Uploads until 23.03.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 23rd, 2019:
hwplayer.lha             dev/mis 9Mb   4.0 Run applets created by Hollywood
knightghosts.lha         gam/pla 26Mb  4.1 Jump'n Run
serialthing.lha          uti/com 3Mb   4.1 Serial Terminal and Control Thing
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24.Mar.2019



MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 23.03.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until March 23rd, 2019:
NoClick_1.2.lha           Devices/Floppy            A very small and extrem...
VAMP_2.15.lha             Multimedia                A Multimedia Player pro...
ACE_1.18.lha              Emulation                 The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
Hollywood_SDK_8.0.lha     Development/Hollywood     Plugin development kit ...
CubicIDE_HW80_8.0.lha     Development/Hollywood     Hollywood add-on for Cu...
PerCIMan_0.5.lha          Office/Organizer          A program to manage con...
mos2wos-lite_1.3.lha      Development/GCC           Make MorphOS GCC output...
Knight_and_Ghosts_1.0.lha Games/Action              Knight_and_Ghosts_1.0.lha
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24.Mar.2019



WHDLoad: New installers until 23.03.2019
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 March 23rd, 2019: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Mar.2019



Cloanto: Registration of "Workbench" trademark in EU rejected
Following the long-time ownership of the "Workbench" trademark in the USA, two years ago Cloanto also tried to register it at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). This application was opposed by Hyperion Entertainment (amiga-news.de reported). As published yesterday, EUIPO sustained the opposition and decided to refuse Cloanto's application for protection of this word mark in respect of the European Union (PDF file).

Reason for the rejection is Hyperion's existing registration (PDF file) of this trademark at the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP). By this, Hyperion preempted Cloanto by 17 days. (snx)

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18.Mar.2019
amigaworld.net (Webseite)


Hyperion: Download version of Shogo: MAD for AmigaOS 3/4
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the first-person shooter game Shogo: Mobile Armor Division for AmigaOS 3 (WarpOS) and AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition from the direct downloads section of our website. Customers can now buy this amazing game as a purely digital version at a price of only EUR 14.95 incl. VAT* for download from our restricted download area. The downloadable content consists of an image of the original CD for AmigaOS 3 (WarpOS) and an archived game drawer for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.

The excellent port to AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition was done by Frank Menzel, who was already responsible for the just as excellent ports of Gorky 17 and Descent: Freespace. Customers who already bought the boxed version will be able to download the AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition version free of charge after registration of their copy. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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17.Mar.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Interview with demoscene member StingRay
Under the title link AmigaLife has interviewed the demoscene member StingRay who is founding member of Scarab and released hundreds of patches for WHDLoad. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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17.Mar.2019
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood 8.0 add-ons released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 8.0. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
  • Hollywood Player 8.0 for all supported platforms (also available for your smartphone/tablet on Google Play)
  • Hollywood SDK 8.0 for developing your own plugins (includes examples and over 400 pages of documentation in various formats)
  • Hollywood 8.0 add-on for Cubic IDE (kindly provided by Michael Jurisch)
  • Hollywood 8.0 wordfile for UltraEdit
  • Hollywood 8.0 online reference manual (over 1000 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
  • Hollywood SDK 8.0 online reference manual (over 400 PDF pages, alternatively available as HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide)
The release of these add-ons completes the Hollywood 8.0 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal at the titlelink for download and more information. (snx)

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17.Mar.2019



Aminet-Uploads until 16.03.2018
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 16th, 2019:
MUIbase-4.1.lha          biz/dbase  5.1M  MOS Programmable relational datab...
myCatalog.zip            biz/dbase  8.6M  MOS Manage your favorite collections
yWeather.lha             comm/misc  230K  MOS Show weather infos in screenbar
netio.lha                comm/tcp   46K   68k Simple network benchmarking tool
SerialThing.lha          comm/term  3.5M  OS4 Serial Terminal and Control T...
libmspack.lha            dev/lib    1.3M  MOS Microsoft packing library (CA...
NoClick.lha              disk/misc  4K    MOS Multiplatform NoClick enabler
F1GP2019Carset.lha       game/data  22K       2019 Carset for F1GP
Coque_MOS.lha            game/misc  11M   MOS A minigame for small kids
DustDigger.adf           game/misc  880K  68k Dust Digger AMIGA version
AmiSpear_AGA.lha         game/shoot 1.4M  68k Amiga port of Spear of Destiny
AmiSpear_ECS.lha         game/shoot 1.4M  68k Amiga port of Spear of Destiny
AmiSpear_RTG.lha         game/shoot 1.4M  68k Amiga port of Spear of Destiny
AmiWolf_AGA.lha          game/shoot 1.4M  68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
AmiWolf_ECS.lha          game/shoot 1.4M  68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
AmiWolf_RTG.lha          game/shoot 1.4M  68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
MasterOfOrion_WOS.lha    game/strat 1.1M  WOS Master Of Orion remake
ViewLHA.lha              gfx/show   8K    68k View a graphics file compress...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.2M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.5M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   4.6M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Family.lha               mods/misc  63K       Family 4ch Soul/R&B-Ballad By...
cabextract_MOS.lha       util/arc   47K   MOS Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.C...
Deark.lha                util/arc   1.4M  MOS Extract data from various fil...
ADiffView.lha            util/misc  38K   68k A graphical file compare / di...
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17.Mar.2019



OS4Depot-Uploads until 16.03.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 16th, 2019:
ira.lha                  dev/mis 334kb 4.0 MC68000/10/20/30/40 reassembler
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
patchcompositetags.lha   gra/mis 114kb 4.0 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
rewarp.lha               lib/mis 17kb  4.0 WarpOS/3DPPC wrapper for AmigaOS4
uuid_lib.lha             lib/mis 12kb  4.0 Unique ID (UUID/GUID) generating...
netsurf.lha              net/bro 7Mb   4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
mycatalog.zip            off/dat 9Mb   4.0 Manage your favorite collections
lhx.lha                  uti/arc 172kb 4.1 Pack & unpack using XZ/LZMA ...
cabextract.lha           uti/fil 44kb  4.0 Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB)...
siddump.lha              uti/mis 46kb  4.0 C64 music debug output utility
guideml.lha              uti/tex 193kb 4.0 AmigaGuide -> HTML converter ...
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 16.03.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until March 16th, 2019:
Grimorum_1.9.lha          Games/Role/EasyRPG games  Game for EasyRPG Player
TheKidnappingOfPrinces... Games/Role/EasyRPG games  Game for EasyRPG Player
GrimpsSqueakingOfTheDe... Games/Role/EasyRPG games  A funny action adventur...
Deark_1.5.0.lha           Files/Archive             Extracting data from va...
yWeather_1.21.lha         System/Ambient/Screenbar  Show weather infos in s...
Coque_1.0.0.lha           Games/Misc                A minigame for small kids.
GrimoriumPDF_2.0.lha      Office/Show               A program made with Hol...
cabextract_1.9.1.lha      Files/Archive             Tool to extract Microso...
myCatalog_3.3.zip         Office/Database           Manage your favorite co...
AmiArcadia_25.12.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Libmspack_1.10.1a.lha     Development/Library       Microsoft packing libra...
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17.Mar.2019



AROS-Archives-Uploads until 16.03.2019
The following archive has been added to AROS-Archives until March 16th, 2019:
zaz.i386-aros.zip            gam/mis 21Mb  Snatch & match rolling balls in ...
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17.Mar.2019



WHDLoad: New installers until 16.03.2019
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 March 16th, 2019: (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Mar.2019
MorphZone (Forum)


AmigaOS 4 speaker fired / confirmation regarding A-EON's 2012 restructuring
Since 2011, the Canadian developer Steven Solie was employed as head of the AmigaOS 4 developer team for Hyperion Entertainment ("team lead") - a title which, according to Solie, was self-given and later qualified by him to be the "spokesman" of the team. Still in last autumn he organized the AmigasOS DevCon as part of the AmiWest, although this time he didn't give a speech for Hyperion at the actual event anymore.

As Solie himself now confirmed, he was "fired" by Hyperion as "team lead" as well as "core developer". In Hyperion's support forum he now is listed only as beta tester. Three days ago he was still called "AmigaOS Core Developer" and "AmigaOS Development Team Lead".

Interestingly on his LinkedIn profile under work experience he states now to be "Team Lead" of the "AmigaOS ExecSG Development" since january. According to rumours (German), since at least 2018 the AmigaOS 4 core ExecSG is owned by Trevor Dickinson (A-EON Technology), which Mike Battilana, meanwhile owner of the Amiga rights and of the website of Amiga Inc. via C-A Acquisition Corporation, confirmed to the video podcast "10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast".

Additionally the reasons for the withdrawal of the Hyperion shareholder Ben Herman from the original A-EON company and its relocation to Great Britain were confirmed (amiga-news.de reported):

In the third part of Trevor Dickinson's background report on the development of the AmigaOne X1000 in the lastest issue 137 of the print magazine Amiga Future, he did not only mention more concrete costs (cf. the first page of the advertisement) but also describe that money which A-EON was going to use for the AmigaOne instead was used to keep Hyperion afloat after the financial burden due to the legal dispute with Amiga Inc. without the knowledge of the two other directors. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Mar.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Apecat: Hobby project requesting advisory support
Since the end of January the Norwegian developer Stian Søreng has introduced his Apecat project under the title link. The abbreviation stands for "Amiga Processor Expansion Card for Application Transfer" and is an extension which is plugged between the mainboard and 68000 processor of an Amiga 500. In this way data are supposed to be transferred from one computer directly into the memory of the Amiga.

Similarly Søreng did develop a C64 extension called C64FC which makes it possible to write C64 programs on a modern system and to test it on a real C64 using an USB connection. Exactly in this way programs are supposed to be executed on an Amiga without diskdrive or harddrive - Apecat is tested as caseless board without keyboard and mouse.

In his blog entry Søreng also described technical problems and asks experienced Amiga developers for help. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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16.Mar.2019
Relec Hard- & Software (ANF)


Dealer: Relec reworked website
The Swiss dealer Relec has reworked its website. Relec was founded in 1996 to close a gap in the French speaking part of Switzerland and countries of the same language. An English-language version of the website will follow.

Official press release:

"On March 15, 2019 we put online the new version of the site, completely redesigned with the precious help of our graphic designer Tcherno. From the beginning, our objective was to facilitate and simplify navigation, provide better visibility of our product range and simplify ordering operations. On the other hand, the migration of the Joomla site to Wordpress has made it easier and more efficient. We hope you will find this new version more modern and user-friendly. We wish you a lot of fun using our new tool and thank you for your trust and loyalty. We are doing everything we can to improve this tool but we are not free from errors and other defects. We are therefore staying tuned and thank you for reporting bugs!

About Relec:
Created in early 1996, Relec was born from the difficulties faced by the Amiga at that time, combined with the cruel lack of suppliers for this machine in French-speaking Switzerland and in French-speaking countries. With a minimal infrastructure, RELEC tries to provide current and "offline" products.

Soon an english version will be available!
Tank you, Team Relec" (snx) (Translation: dr)

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15.Mar.2019
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Collector's edition of Trap Runner
Since today APC&TCP offers the collector's edition of Trap Runner. Additional to the disk and the booklet the box also includes an A3 poster. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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14.Mar.2019



Commercial text adventure: Hibernated 1 - This Place is Death
The text adventure "Hibernated - This Place is Death" is the first part of a planned trilogy and is available for a lot of 8 and 16 bit systems. Since last year a digital version is available. The customer can choose what he wants to pay for it. Polyplay now also sells a Collector's Edition wit box, gimmicks and bonus adventure.


The Amiga version requires 512 KB Fast RAM and a disk drive. Collector's Edition features:
  • 3.5" floppy disk
  • incl. bonus game "Eight Feet Under"
  • cardboard box
  • Mission patch
  • MicroSD card including disk images and more
  • 8-page DIN A5 manual (English)
  • Stickers
  • Din-A3-Poster
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13.Mar.2019



Dungeon Crawler: Videos of "The Shadows of Sergoth" and "Black Dawn Rebirth"
On Double Sided Games two dungeon crawler similar to Dungeon Master are in development: For the announced Amstrad port "The Shadows of Sergoth" a first gameplay video was published. For the planned seventh part of the in-house Black Dawn series there are also two videos of an alpha version (1, 2). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Mar.2019



Full version and source codes of GadToolsBox 3 (update)
On the website of amigafuture.de the full version of the GUI designer GadToolsBox 3 and its source codes can be downloaded.

Update: (13.03.2019, 20:00, cg)

Obviously the source codes included in the archive on amigafuture.de are not complete. A reader pointed out that already for a while the latest version of Gadtoolsbox has been available on Aminet including the source codes of the application. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Mar.2019
Amigaworld.net (Forum)


Video podcast: Amiga Retro Cast on plans of the new Amiga entity
Episode 24 of the Amiga Retro Cast is about the latest events concerning the licence to use Picasso96 in Amiga Forever (amiga-news.de reported). For this Douglas Compton exchanged e-mails with Mike Battilana of Cloanto, who recently acquired further pieces of the Commodore-Amiga heritage via the newly-founded C-A Acquisition Corporation (amiga-news.de reported) - which transfer of rights has been confirmed meanwhile by the European Union Intellectual Property Office with regard to the marks "Amiga" and "powered by Amiga" that had been previously owned by Amiga Inc.

Based on that e-mail exchange Douglas Compton describes that Individual Computers and Hyperion would share the same lawyer and that the first cease and desist order regarding AmigaOS 3.1.4 had been issued by Amino Corporation following a previous law-suit by Hyperion against the Amiga parties. Furthermore he explains that Cloanto has given licences for the C64 mini and that an official announcement would be expected in the upcoming weeks.

The most interesting part is the end of the video, though. Here parts of Mike Battilana's latest e-mail are presented as written text, since it reached the podcast's author only when the video itself had been finished already. In this part - that is transcribed below - some plans of the new Amiga entity are revealed:
  • Douglas Compton (DC): If possible, will there be an official way forward with the new AmigaOS 3.1.4?

    Mike Battilana (MB): There must be one, don't you think so? But it also may require some patience, for the court case to be resolved. It is now emerging that some developers may have "overcommitted" themselves, and are now entangled in contracts they didn't even intend to be bound by and/or that were incompatible with other prior work done for the Amiga companies. That's another matter which will need to be resolved.

  • DC: Does the new Amiga intend on continuing support and development of Amiga OS 4.1?

    MB: Not only that, but we feel that it is important that OS4 remains available at fair terms to a diversity of hardware suppliers. (This is in response to concerns being raised after the OS kernel was acquired by Trevor/A-EON.) The new Amiga entity wants both 3.x and 4.x to move forward. The new Amiga entity wants both Classic and New Generation hardware platforms to move forward. One of the first steps of the new entity will be to make original hardware schematics and related code open source.

  • DC: Does the new Amiga company intend on simply licensing the name or actually developing products yourselves?

    MB: I am a software developer. We are software developers. Software work allowed us to make this acquisition (and may I stress, not a cent of Amiga Forever or similar revenues was spent in the acquisition or in lawsuits, etc.: that is all invested back in Amiga Forever development...) - What is your guess? :)

  • DC: How would new hardware like the standalone Vampire 4 fit in? Can you license the ROMS and software to them and let handle the hardware without too many issues?

    MB: That is something that Cloanto already could have done. We were actually in talks about that. Apparently, it felt appealing to others too ; )
In the end the video mentions that the amiga.com website would be controlled by Mike Battilana. For several monthes already a secret message is hidden in the HTML code that changes sometimes. This message is a quote of Friedrich Nietzsche now: "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind." (snx)

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10.Mar.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Workbench enhencement: BestWB 1.1 for AmigaOS 3.1.4
Similar to BetterWB, BestWB is a collection of Workbench tools for, in this case, AmigaOS 3.1.4 without bloating the whole system. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Mar.2019
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaLife: Interviews with Francois Lionet and demoscene members
Under the title link in the forum of AmigaLife Francois Lionet was interviewed who is the developer programming language AMOS. Furthermore the demoscene members Dan (Lemon) and Woober (Resistance) were interviewed as well. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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10.Mar.2019



Aminet-Uploads until 09.03.2019
The following archives have been added to Aminet until March 9th, 2019:
MCC_TextInput.lha        dev/mui    81K   68k TextInput custom class for MUI
ShellInternals.lha       docs/misc  15K       Amiga Shell internal workings
battlesquadron_demo_N... game/demo  10M   MOS BattleSquadron for MOS/OS4 (o...
BattleSquadron-Demo_O... game/demo  8.3M  OS4 BattleSquadron for OS 4 (Demo...
MCE.lha                  game/edit  2.3M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  2.5M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  2.7M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
modsurfer.lha            game/misc  260K  68k 3D rhythm game for your MOD c...
Exult_AGA.lha            game/role  50M   68k Amiga AGA port of Exult
Exult_RTG.lha            game/role  50M   68k Amiga RTG port of Exult
AmiSpear_AGA.lha         game/shoot 3.7M  68k Amiga port of Spear of Destiny
AmiSpear_RTG.lha         game/shoot 3.7M  68k Amiga port of Spear of Destiny
AmiWolf_AGA.lha          game/shoot 3.8M  68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
AmiWolf_ECS.lha          game/shoot 3.8M  68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
AmiWolf_RTG.lha          game/shoot 3.8M  68k Amiga port of Wolfenstein 3D
Puzzle2.lha              game/think 1.0M  68k Game-WB based on the classic ...
01.lha                   game/wb    30K   68k Fill the game board with '0's...
Angliant.lha             game/wb    33K   68k Move an X-shape by rotating a...
Batonnade.lha            game/wb    31K   68k Make series of sets of bars
Beadit.lha               game/wb    36K   68k Link all same type tiles!
cHEXx.lha                game/wb    32K   68k Link all tiles
Coulisso.lha             game/wb    34K   68k Remove bars by moving 'em tog...
Flechino.lha             game/wb    30K   68k Move all the arrows on the ga...
Geodesik.lha             game/wb    33K   68k Grow crystals so they are all...
Hexarrow.lha             game/wb    31K   68k Move all arrows toward the exit
Imito.lha                game/wb    33K   68k Match various background patt...
Inconnect.lha            game/wb    33K   68k Link identical tiles together
Interferium.lha          game/wb    33K   68k Connect all tiles of the same...
IsoGate.lha              game/wb    33K   68k Move gates so 'X' can go to t...
Ixo.lha                  game/wb    34K   68k Align 8 bars of same colour...
Ixty.lha                 game/wb    30K   68k Place 64 shapes on the board
JackTrap.lha             game/wb    31K   68k Move the Jack out of the trap
Konnex.lha               game/wb    32K   68k Connect all tiles!
Lightit.lha              game/wb    33K   68k Light up this hexagonal-shape...
Lights.lha               game/wb    33K   68k Switch on the lights!
Neutrix.lha              game/wb    33K   68k Make some tiles fall down...
Obliks.lha               game/wb    33K   68k Place mirrors to reflect rays
Quador.lha               game/wb    34K   68k Line-up-same-type-tiles-game ...
Squarrow.lha             game/wb    31K   68k Move all arrows toward the exit
Sunmaze.lha              game/wb    32K   68k Play with the sun's ray!
Ti_Coune.lha             game/wb    31K   68k Help Ti_Coune get to the exit
Triangwa.lha             game/wb    33K   68k Move some triangles...
TriLights.lha            game/wb    33K   68k Light-up this triangular shap...
TriOtix.lha              game/wb    32K   68k Move a coloured bar to the exit
Vetex.lha                game/wb    33K   68k Move two 'X' shapes on the sa...
Webly.lha                game/wb    32K   68k Link all tiles!
X_Lights.lha             game/wb    32K   68k Light-up this X-shaped board!
Xaround.lha              game/wb    33K   68k Fill all squares surrounded b...
Xphere.lha               game/wb    35K   68k Move a coloured sphere to the...
Zeeconn.lha              game/wb    33K   68k Link together as many tiles a...
DOSBox_AGA.lha           misc/emu   1.9M  68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
DOSBox_RTG.lha           misc/emu   1.9M  68k Amiga port of DOSBox v0.74
concalc.zip              misc/math  28K   68k Calculator for coders
InstallerGenSP.lha       util/misc  32K       InstallerGen 1.5 spanish cata...
DisplayInfo.lha          util/moni  133K  MOS Show info about available dis...
exutil_68k.lha           util/wb    1.3M  68k Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_AROS.lha          util/wb    1.4M  x86 Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_MOS.lha           util/wb    1.3M  MOS Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_OS4.lha           util/wb    1.7M  OS4 Batch renames picture files b...
wet.lha                  util/wb    1.9M  OS4 Weather conditions on WB, App...
wet_update.lha           util/wb    568K  OS4 Wet weather info v6.7 patch
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 09.03.2019
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until March 9th, 2019:
warppngdt.lha            dat/ima 181kb 4.0 PNG image datatype V45.21
oo.lha                   dev/lib 1Mb   4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
hwplayer.lha             dev/mis 9Mb   4.0 Run applets created by Hollywood
battlesquadron-demo.lha  gam/shm 8Mb   4.1 Updated Version
mce.lha                  gam/uti 3Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
hwp_aiff.lha             lib/hol 17kb  4.0 Hollywood plugin for AIFF file f...
hwp_polybios.lha         lib/hol 22Mb  4.1 plugin for Hollywood to easily c...
hwp_sid.lha              lib/hol 203kb 4.0 This plugin allows Hollywood to ...
hwp_svgimage.lha         lib/hol 4Mb   4.0 Hollywood plugin for loading SVG...
hwp_vectorgfx.lha        lib/hol 1Mb   4.0 Hollywood plugin for vectorgraphics
reactive_lib.lha         lib/mis 172kb 4.1 A Custom BOOPSI System
mcc_nlist.lha            lib/mui 2Mb   4.0 NList custom classes for MUI
dtftpclient.zip          net/ftp 33Mb  4.0 little TFTP client
dcsta-tester.zip         net/mis 29Mb  4.0 CSTA-tester
xad_7z.lha               uti/arc 240kb 4.0 XAD (UnArc) client for 7-zip arc...
displayinfo.lha          uti/har 133kb 4.1 Show info about available displa...
rflush_cmd.lha           uti/she 3kb   4.1 Flush unused classes
wet.lha                  uti/wor 2Mb   4.0 Weather conditions on WB, AppIco...
wet_update.lha           uti/wor 568kb 4.0 Wet weather software v6.7 patch
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 09.03.2019
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until March 9th, 2019:
digger.i386-aros.zip         gam/mis 215kb Remake of the PC game Digger (Wi...
led-20190304.tar.gz          uti/tex 12kb  A simple line-oriented text editor.
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 09.03.2019
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until March 9th, 2019:
DisplayInfo_1.1.lha       System/Monitoring         Show info about availab...
MCE_11.1.lha              Games/Editor              Multi-game Character Ed...
Exutil_1.1.lha            Graphics/Tools            A small MUI based utili...
EasyRPG_Player_0.6.0.lha  Games/Role                A program that allows t...
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10.Mar.2019



WHDLoad: Version 18.5 released / new installers until 09.03.2019
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.5 fixes a bug of the previous version which caused a crash if WHDLoad was quitted.

Additionally the following installer was reworked:
  • 2019-03-06 improved: Premiere (Core Design) option to jump with second/blue button, added key to quit current game, joypad support, level select (Info)
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10.Mar.2019
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Scene World: Video interview with Christian Spanik on working at Data Becker
In part 5 of Scene World's interview series with computer media pioneer Christian Spanik, they talk about how it was to work for Data Becker. A lot of stories are to be heard of how it was to work for one of the biggest publishers in Germany and the first for computer books. They do also talk about the expansion of Data Becker abroad like e.g. in UK or USA.

Christian Spanik also tells how he convinced Data Becker to move from only supporting Atari with books, to also focus on the Amiga, including a release party with Commodore in Data Becker Buildings selling the first Amigas in Germany. (snx)

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09.Mar.2019



Construction manual: Connecting Amiga joysticks via USB to the PC
Using an Arduino board of the type Pro Micro the Dutch Amiga fan Martijn has constructed an adapter for connecting two Atari/Commodore joysticks to current computers via USB. His solution emulates an USB joystick and therefore should work without any additional driver.

Since the microcontroller board already is equipped with an USB port and sufficient digital input and output ports, soldering operations are restricted to connecting some ports on the controller with the joystick ports. The hobbyist also provides a control program which is compiled by the Arduino IDE and then transferred to the adapter. The first picture shows his adapter in action:


Martijn has used an old 25-pin Sub-D connector for hosting his adapter - the middle pins were removed for they are not required. In this way the complete switch could be hosted in the connector but you can also use two 9-pin Sub-D connectors:


On the next picture you can see the internal wiring. If you are going to recreate the adapter then youu have to connect the required pins on the joystick port to any digital input/output ports on the Arduino.


Finally there is the control program written by Martijn which interprets the joystick movements and sends corresponding joystick results via USB to the computer. It is important that the query of the digital input ports - "digitalread(n)", "n" standing for the number of the queried port - corresponds with the wiring. Maybe the queries in the control program have to be adapted.

The program is transferred via Arduino IDE to the microcontroller board. For compiling it the Arduino Joystick Library is required.

#include <Joystick2.h>

void setup() {
for (int i = 5; i<=9; i++) {
pinMode(i, INPUT_PULLUP);
}
pinMode(10, INPUT_PULLUP);
pinMode(16, INPUT_PULLUP);
pinMode(14, INPUT_PULLUP);
pinMode(15, INPUT_PULLUP);
pinMode(18, INPUT_PULLUP);
Joystick[0].begin(true);
Joystick[1].begin(true);
}

void loop() {
// joystick 1 as HID joystick

if (digitalRead(6) == 0) {
// up
Joystick[0].setYAxis(-127);
} else if (digitalRead(7) == 0) {
// down
Joystick[0].setYAxis(127);
} else {
Joystick[0].setYAxis(0);
}

if (digitalRead(8) == 0) {
// left
Joystick[0].setXAxis(-127);
} else if (digitalRead(9) == 0) {
// right
Joystick[0].setXAxis(127);
} else {
Joystick[0].setXAxis(0);
}

if (digitalRead(5) == 0) {
Joystick[0].pressButton(0);
} else {
Joystick[0].releaseButton(0);
}


// joystick 2 as HID joystick
if (digitalRead(14) == 0) {
// up
Joystick[1].setYAxis(-127);
} else if (digitalRead(16) == 0) {
// down
Joystick[1].setYAxis(127);
} else {
Joystick[1].setYAxis(0);
}

if (digitalRead(15) == 0) {
// left
Joystick[1].setXAxis(-127);
} else if (digitalRead(18) == 0) {
// right
Joystick[1].setXAxis(127);
} else {
Joystick[1].setXAxis(0);
}

if (digitalRead(10) == 0) {
Joystick[1].pressButton(0);
} else {
Joystick[1].releaseButton(0);
}
}
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