17.Mar.2024
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Shaviry: DIY Amiga RGB to VGA adapter and monitor switcher
Shaviry is a new hardware project created by hobby developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo. It combines an Amiga video-to-VGA adapter and a monitor switcher, featuring an integrated RGB amplifier to minimise vertical bars and improve display quality. Shaviry is explicitly not a scandoubler, so the connected monitor(s) must support 15 kHz video signals.
The mode of operation of the adapter can be controlled using jumpers: Shaviry thus functions as a pure VGA adapter on Amigas that are not equipped with a graphics card or HDMI-to-VGA adapter, and/or as an automatic input switcher controlled by Switchcontrol via CIA or parallel port or by switch, Arduino or similar via a 5-volt signal. A built-in optocoupler component prevents overvoltage in this process. The switchover with a CRT monitor is immediate, with an LCD monitor it takes a little longer, according to the developer's description.
Tests were carried out by the developer with an AGA Amiga and THS7374 and THS7376 RGB amplifiers. Using the THS7374 with 9.5 Mhz filter bandwidth, the vertical bars are slightly visible, but the image is blurred, according to the developer. The THS7376 produces a sharp image and the bars are almost invisible.
Shavira is currently not offered commercially, but is aimed at the growing do-it-yourself community, i.e. those who are not afraid to wield a soldering iron. The developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo provides the PCB data for KiCad and Gerber files on the project page on GitHub under the title link for free download and provides a complete overview of the required components along with extensive image and video material for support. The current revision is REV23012024 from 23 January 2024. A readme about Shaviry is also available in English. (nba)
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17.Mar.2024
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Aminet uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to Aminet:
amosreg.lha dev/amos 6K 68k Edit AMOS Pro username and regno
evo.lha dev/e 673K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
c2plib.lha dev/misc 204K 68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha...
x68k2amiga.zip dev/misc 25K 68k Convert X68000 exec/data file...
MultiJoyTest.lha driver/inp 6K 68k Test a MultiJoyAdapter (8 joy...
GIScopaAdf.zip game/board 340K 68k Italian card game
slotgameadf.zip game/board 308K 68k Slot Game
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 8K 2024 Carset for F1GP
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 55M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.3...
battaglianavaleadf.zip game/think 328K 68k GI Battaglia Navale
slotgame.lha game/wb 240K 68k Slot Game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 7.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 7.7M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
LN32024Theme.lha mods/misc 109K 4ch 16bit LN3 2024 New Theme ...
WHDArchiveExtractor.lha util/arc 14K 68k Automates extraction of WHDLo...
DOpus4Manual_de.lha util/dopus 120K German DOpus 4 manual
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 909K AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
WHDLoadMenu.lha util/misc 485K 68k A WHDLoad frontend
ConsumerV1.0.lha util/moni 228K 68k Memory Log Tool, to Screen & ...
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17.Mar.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
dgen-sdl.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.1 Emulator of the Sega Genesis/Meg...
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
litexl.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
ffmpeg.lha vid/con 51Mb 4.1 Video and audio converter
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17.Mar.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to AROS Archives:
bp_dev_tools_accessories.zip aud/edi 1Mb Development B&P For Tools a...
arrakis.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 3Mb port of the Arrakis demo for Ipo...
nano.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 4Mb port of the nano demo for Ipod b...
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17.Mar.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_31.0.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Iris_1.22.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
Wayfarer_7.6.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
Lite-XL_2.1.3r1.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
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17.Mar.2024
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PDF manual: DOS documentation in the works
At the title link on GitHub Thomas 'ThoR' Richter, one of the developers of AmigaOS 3.2, has started work on a PDF manual for the dos.library in the style of the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals. (snx)
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17.Mar.2024
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Amiga-Scoopex-C: Conversion of the Assembler tutorial into C
The GitHub project Amiga-Scoopex-C is a conversion of the examples of the Amiga assembler course "Amiga Hardware Programming", which can be found on YouTube, into the C programming language.
Now all 11 previously created instructions have been adapted to the current version of vscode-amiga-debug, so that functions such as INCBIN-CHIP have become available. Each episode now consists of a single source code file. In addition, the existing instructions for the Copperlist have been revised so that the data no longer has to be copied to Chip RAM at runtime. (snx)
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17.Mar.2024
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Video: Review of the PowerShark
In a detailed video report, Robert Smith tests the "PowerShark", a USB-C-based power supply for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 keyboard cases (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
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16.Mar.2024
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YouTube: Recording of the PiStorm-presentation at FOSDEM 2024
Andrew "LinuxJedi" Hutchings, full-time CCO for the MySQL alternative MariaDB Foundation, is known as a developer of hardware and software for the Amiga. At FOSDEM 2024, an open source developer conference held on March 3rd to 4th, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium, Hutchings gave a presentation on "PiStorm - The evolution of an open source Amiga accelerator", which demonstrates the modification of the Raspberry Pi mini motherboard as an Amiga turbo card and is available on YouTube.
In the presentation, Hutchings demonstrates the use of the PiStorm32-Lite on his Amiga 1200 and talks about this and other topics:
- What the PiStorm really is, both as hardware and a community
- The history of the project, including the bumps along the road
- Directions that is intended to take the project in the future
- A demonstration of what PiStorm is capable of
The recording can be accessed via the title link. (nba)
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16.Mar.2024
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Video tutorial: Parallax scrolling in AMOS
Following on from the screens tutorials (1, 2, 3), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to achieve parallax scrolling with the dual playfild command in the latest part of his tutorial series. (dr)
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15.Mar.2024
Oliver Roberts (Mail)
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E-Mail client: New YAM Nightly Build uses TLS SNI now
IBrowse and AmiSSL5 developer Oliver Roberts has uploaded another change to the repository of the mail program YAM, which Jens Maus implemented yesterday in a new nightly build for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS: with a single line of code YAM now uses TLS SNI (Server Name Indication) for secure connections, which fixes the problem of failed certificate verification with e.g. Gmail. (dr)
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15.Mar.2024
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Trevor's Blog: On the Plus side
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" yesterday. Among other things, he explains why the delivery of the A1222 Plus motherboards, which began a week ago, has been delayed again: "The original batch of boards received over a month ago worked well but did not include the onboard USB headers and had to be sent back to the manufacturer for minor rework. Also a revision change by the MCU manufacturer meant the onboard temperature sensor was not read correctly and the CPU fan did not spin up. When designing the motherboard, Varisys, the original hardware developer, did not think a CPU fan was necessary but included one as an extra precaution." The problem was solved by modifying the MCU programming firmware.
As Trevor Dickinson further reports, other people besides AAA Technology were involved in making the release of the A1222 Plus possible: Steven Solie, for example, developed an extremely fast and simple, but very powerful recovery USB drive that ensures that all necessary OS4.1 and enhancer software files are installed correctly, and Alexandre Balaban created a fully updated AmigaOS 4.1-ISO. (dr)
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14.Mar.2024
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Java-tool: ham_convert 1.10.0
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based tool ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.10.0. New in this version:
- ability to use ICtCp colorspace for HAM error calculation
- option to exclude first palette color from DynamicHires conversion
- larger program window and fonts
- code cleanup
Download: ham_convert 1.10.0 (7 MB) (nba)
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13.Mar.2024
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On our own behalf: Changes to the team, Nico Barbat returns
Nico Barbat, a long-time demoscene member and well-known Amiga journalist, joined the amiga-news.de team back in 2000. Initially taking care of the job exchange Free Amiga Jobs, he intensified the cooperation between the print magazine "Amiga Plus", for which he was responsible as editor-in-chief, and our news service in the following years until he finally took over management of amiga-news.de at the end of 2003.
Anyone who knows Nico Barbat knows that even after his final retirement from the amiga-news.de team in 2011, the Amiga never really let go of him: There was always talk of projects, possibilities were explored or connections were made. The "official" return with the founding of the publishing house "Look Behind You" in 2022 now also has positive consequences for amiga-news.de: The ex-boss is back in the team. There is no longer a job exchange to look after, but there is still plenty of work for experienced editors ;)
We also welcome Markus 'IM_Petrow' Bonet, a long-time amiga-news.de reader, to the team: as server administrator, Markus will take care of the technical infrastructure on which our largely self-developed content management system runs. We would like to thank our two (more or less) "newcomers" for their support.
Editor's note: To ensure the independence of our reporting, articles on projects by Nico Barbat's publishing house Look Behind You or his LBY business partner Simon Neumann (including Alinea) will continue to be written exclusively by other editors. (cg)
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13.Mar.2024
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)
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Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.5
Almost two years ago (amiga-news.de reported), developer Arne Urbaniak presented his copy programme G-Copy for reading and writing Amiga ADF data on a Windows PC. G-Copy, which is visually similar to the popular X-Copy, supports the drive controllers Greaseweazle by Keir Fraser, ADF-Drive by D. Tonn or DrawBridge (Arduino) by Rob Smith.
In the new version 0.5, Greaseweazle routines have been revised and basic support for the ADF controller and DrawBridge has been added. According to the developer, the SCP routine for the ADF controller still needs to be optimised, the content of the disc is already displayed and the checkdisk function has been completed, while the basic control of the DrawBridge now works. The user can also switch between German and English layouts and switch the sound on and off.
Visitors to the ARC (Amiga Ruhrpott Convention (25 May 2024 in Duisburg, Germany) can experience G-Copy live in combination with some controllers at the developer's stand.
Download: gcopy.zip (36,9 MB) (nba)
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13.Mar.2024
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Practical report: Using several operating systems on AmigaNG computers (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. This time (automatic translation) she looks at the pitfalls of running AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Linux on the same computer at the title link. (snx)
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12.Mar.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.6
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.6 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS which provides more video playback improvements and fixes. (dr)
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12.Mar.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.22, Contacts 1.2
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.22 of his e-mail client Iris and version 1.2 of the contact manager Contacts for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
Iris V1.22
- Search window will now show partial results while the search is pending
- Fixed search window's results to remove messages as they get deleted
- Improved timezone information sent in calendar events
- Calendar events are now attached twice to be compatible with both Outlook and Gmail
Contacts V1.2
- Improved handling of legacy VCARD formats
(dr)
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12.Mar.2024
Wolfgang Kierdorf (E-Mail)
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Video: DIY instruction to build an Arcade Stick gamepad for the Amiga CD³²
At the title link, Wolfgang Kierdorf demonstrates how a standard arcade stick gamepad can be adapted for use with the Amiga CD³² console with a little soldering work using a purchasable circuit board. (snx)
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12.Mar.2024
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WHDLoad: Running cracktros from the website
WHDLoad author Bert Jahn has updated the WHDLoad website so that all Cracktros can now be started directly using the Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb via the "Info" link. This works for all productions that do not require an AGA or a Kickstart image. There are also corresponding plans for demos and mags. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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MIDI sequencer: BarsnPipes for AROS
Now that AROS developer Franck Charlet has published a driver for the MIDI system 'camd.library' that closes the gap between camd.library and Poseidon's camdusbmidi.class (amiga-news.de reported), Alfred Faust made good on his promise to finish the suspended AROS port of the MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes and adapt it to this new environment. (cg)
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11.Mar.2024
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Event: AmiWest 2024 (25.-27. October in Sacramento, USA)
The organisers have announced that the 27th AmiWest show will take place as usual at the Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California, from 25 to 27 October 2024. Further information will be published in near future. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Editor: Lite XL 2.1.3r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.1.3r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 (OS4Depot link) and MorphOS. The developer has introduced a new feature in LiteXL that allows switching between ISO and Unicode files while preserving the text. Users can also enter any text in their own language, including umlauts. All changes:
Added:
- Added AmiUpdate support
- Added the Tetris plugin
Updated:
- Updated the code to the upstream 2.1.3 release
- Compiled with SDL 2.30.0 that supports editing with ISO encodings, other
than English. Now the editor should be able to support any language
and in conjuction with the codesets plugin be able to make text
encodings conversions
- Now the codesets plugin supports MorphOS 3.18 and above
Changed:
- Changed the way the "Open in system" option executes the WBRun command
in AmigaOS 4, with a more secure way
- Did a lot of code cleanup in sync with the upstream, and parts of code
that were left over
- Compiled with pcre2 10.42 (MorphOS version only)
Fixed:
- I did a lot of changes on path manipulation and usage, fixing scanning
the root of a partition or an assign path
- Fixed an error with the codesets plugin, where an empty file could
not be opened
- Improved the folder suggestions when opening projects or changing paths.
Now even the root folders of a partition are presented
- Fixed ghmarkdown plugin, but now requires a GitHub token to be provided
If you want to follow George 'walkero' Sokiano's work on Amiga projects, you can visit his Ko-fi page. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Blog Epsilon's World: AmigaOne A1222, part 1
This time, Epsilon devotes himself to the A1222 Plus, which has been officially available since the end of last week (amiga-news.de reported), in his usual detail and with numerous pictures. As a beta tester, he has been working with the system since 2016 and introduces the programs and tools supplied with AmigaOS 4 in the first part. He also gives his personal buying advice for people who want to buy an A1222 or Sam460LE. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Video: Internet-enabled without PlipBox adapter
In his last video, Robert Smith showed how he builds his own PlipBox adapter for his Amiga 2000 in order to make the Amiga Internet-capable with its help. In the current video this adapter is removed again, but surprisingly the Amiga can still access the Internet. He then explains why. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Puzzle game: AmiWordle 1.1
Following conversions of the puzzle letter game Wordle by Robert Smith in AMOS and Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow in Pascal, 'Macetze' has now named his version AmiWordle and written it with Blitz Basic. It can be played with German and English words. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Turn-based strategy game: Demo version of "Ecliptic"
Ecliptic is described by the author as a mixture of turn-based tactical combat and role-playing. Visually, it is reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. The player's task is to regain control of a spaceship drifting in space and occupied by aliens. A first demo has now been released.
The game is currently under development and has no sound at the moment. It requires 1MB RAM, recommended is an Amiga 1200 with HD and Fast RAM. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
Glames (BOING)
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Boing Attitude: Interview with Ján Zahurančík (AmiKit)
Boing Attitude published the seventh issue of the French print magazine "BOING" in October 2023. Among other things, it included an interview with Ján Zahurančík, the publisher of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE, which is now publicly available at the title link. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Arcade port: Moon Patrol
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released another arcade classic for the Amiga: in Moon Patrol, the player controls a moon car with which he has to avoid obstacles such as craters or mines (YouTube video). You are also attacked by UFOs and tanks at the same time. Moon Patrol was one of the first video games to introduce side-scrolling into the gameplay. (dr)
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10.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Another World, Intro (Vandahlia Special Remix)
- Dune - Ecolove's Pauls Theme
- Dune Ecolove (Vandahlia Special Remix)
- Elvira MotD Upstairs Music (Vandahlia Special Remix)
- Rambo III Stage 2 Music (Vandahlia Special Remix)
- Stardust Memories - Nebula Falling
(snx)
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10.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 28
Issue 28 of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" will be published on March 21. The lead article is about the multimedia program Scala.
Amiga Addict is published monthly and is available as a single issue or as a subscription, either in printed form or as a PDF file. (snx)
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10.Mar.2024
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Italian Print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 18
Issue 18 of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which consists of 48 colour pages and is available either in printed form or as a PDF file, contains the following topics:
- Games: Karate Champ, Super Delivery Boy: The Holiday Shift 2023, AMI H.E.R.O., BreakThru, Final Fight Enhanced, Duck Hunt, Ninjaferatu, Spheroid, Tetris1200, Santa’s Workout III - Silent Night
- Review: RNO Effects
- Preview: A600GS e A1222Plus
- Interview: ACube Systems
- Amiga GCC - Probabilità
- And also: Games news, Tech news, Readers mail, Demo Sene, Back Chat etc.
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10.Mar.2024
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Zoom meeting: Chris Hülsbeck guest at the Toronto Users Group
The next meeting of the Canadian Amiga users of the Toronto Users Group on March 21 will only take place online via Zoom - but with a prominent guest, the musician Chris Huelsbeck. The access data for participation can be found at the title link. (snx)
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10.Mar.2024
Micromiga.com (ANF)
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Amiga 500 case available in stores
The licensed new Amiga 500 case from A1200.net is now also available in stores. So far only the French dealer MicroMiga is known to us (see title link), should other suppliers also stock it, this news-item will be updated.
The following advantages are mentioned:
- Made from a more UV-resistant plastic
- New hatch on the right-hand side (HDMI, USB and MicroSD)
- A single hatch for the right-hand side is also included for mounting more in line with the original)
- Additional rear hatch for RJ45 adapters
- Bottom hatch with additional cooling
- Robust metal threads for screws
- Additional threaded metal brackets for Raspberry Pi and Apollo Vampire V4 Standalone
(snx)
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10.Mar.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further full versions of Amiga games have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Jonathan and The Puzzle Gallery: At the Carnival.
A lot of further games, which are also marked as being new, are just re-uploads. (snx)
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10.Mar.2024
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Aminet uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to Aminet:
ellipse_algorhytms.lha dev/amos 7K ellipse algorhytms
Rebuild.lha dev/gui 160K 68k Amiga Reaction GUI Builder
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 899K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
7mezzoadf.zip game/board 344K 68k Popular Italian Christmas game
gimineadf.zip game/board 312K 68k classic game of mines
GIPoker.zip game/board 307K 68k Poker game
AmiWordle.lha game/think 119K 68k Wordle clone for OCS Amiga - ...
2nd-Albireo.ACEpansio... misc/emu 23K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
Albireo.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 45K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 7.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Dandanator.ACEpansion... misc/emu 682K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
MirageImager.ACEpansi... misc/emu 18K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 19M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
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10.Mar.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 7Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amigagpt.lha net/cha 909kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
dnetc.lha net/mis 783kb 4.0 A distributed.net client
rvncd.lha net/ser 115kb 4.1 Amiga VNC Server
amienvmon.lha uti/mis 34kb 4.0 Calls homemade Pico environment ...
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10.Mar.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to AROS-Archiven:
glfw3_4.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 635kb GLFW is an Open Source, multi-pl...
raylib5.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 21Mb A simple and easy-to-use library...
hollywoodsp.lha dev/mis 899kb Spanish Catalog for Hollywood 10
icarosfix.lha uti/mis 87Mb Little fix for icaros v2.3
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10.Mar.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Albireo_1.6.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Dandanator_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Dandanator_1.1.lha
MirageImager_1.2.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Fallout1-ce_1.1.lha Games/RPG Fallout for modern oper...
Woof_14.2.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
SuDokuL_1.3.lha Games/Think Sudoku game for Switch/...
Easy2Install_1.0b50.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
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10.Mar.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.03.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 09.03.2024:
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10.Mar.2024
Dietmar Planitzer (Mail)
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Operating system for Amiga 3000/4000: First alpha version of "Serena OS"
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. After another status update at the end of last year, the developer has now renamed his project "Serena OS" and released a first alpha version, about which he kindly wrote us the following:
"Let's start with the most obvious change: Apollo is now called Serena OS.
A few other things have changed over the last few months. Serena now has an API which makes it possible to write (simple) programmes. Dispatch queues, files, directories, pipes as well as clock and timer functions are currently supported. In addition, there is an advanced C standard library (libc) and the beginnings of a C maths library (libm). There is now also a simple shell and a RAM-based file system. The VT52 and VT100 terminal emulation is now also largely complete and the VT52 emulation now also supports the Atari ST extensions. Both VT100 and VT52 emulation now also support multiple colours (in VT52 emulation mode the corresponding Atari ST ESC codes must be used).
At the moment, however, the system still has a very significant limitation: neither floppy disc nor hard disc is currently supported. However, achieving this is the plan for the next stage of the project. It will then be possible to create a programme for Serena on a Windows or Linux computer and then run it on the Amiga under Serena.
I suspect that some of you are wondering what these ominous dispatch queues are?
Dispatch queues are used to run programme parts in parallel. The original Amiga OS provided tasks for this purpose and other operating systems provide threads. Apple's macOS implements dispatch queues on the basis of traditional threads.
The problem with threads and tasks is that programs allocate them, then use them intermittently, then spend most of their time just sitting passively on the thing without actually using it (threads spend a lot of time sleeping). However, a thread always uses memory and kernel resources - whether it's sleeping or actually doing work makes no difference.
Serena is instead built entirely around dispatch queues: Processes manage dispatch queues and dispatch queues do their work with the help of "virtual processors". You can think of a virtual processor as a highly dynamic thread that is not tied to a specific process. Virtual processors are moved back and forth between dispatch queues and processes as required. If a dispatch queue needs to do more work, it gets an additional virtual processor. However, if it does less work, it gives up a virtual processor, which can then be used by another queue in another process." (dr)
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09.Mar.2024
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.7.0
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
Darren 'dmcoles' Coles has now released version 3.7.0. Changes:
- Compiler sometimes produced garbage error message with an error at the very
end of the file.
- Reformatted the Amigaguide document to better fit in 80 columns.
- added Arexx compile scripts
- allow creating a new object directly into an object member,
eg. self.a:=NEW self.a.method()
- method table was not correctly initialised for objects declared as
eg. DEF a:b OR DEF a[5]:ARRAY OF b
- heap in compiler is allocated with MEMF_CLEAR in compiler to ensure all
data in the exe is initialised to 0 and not contain random data from
memory
- calling a method on an array element of an object did did not calculate
the correct address for the method.
- compiler was creating 020 opcodes when accessing an array of objects
- added NIL pointer checks when calling methods on array of objects
- self variable was set incorrectly for methods declared with an exception
handler
- fix issue with wrong opcode being generated in this code
DEF a
DEF b:PTR TO LONG
a:=[0,b[0]:=5]
resulting in the value not being stored correctly
- include textfield module
- fix bug in reaction_lib with the freeClickTabs, freeChooserLabels and
freeRadioButtons functions not looping through the list correctly.
- add support for long branch 020 instruction.
- fix invalid memory access when casting the result of a procedure call
to an object
- fix inconsistencies with SIZEOF command
- fix error in branching code for the == operator
- add missing listview module
- add some extra functions in reaction_lib (openClass, openLibs,
closeLibs, libDoGadgetMethodA)
- added PSIZEOF operator
- added ARRAYSIZE operator
- added SelectFirst function
- added debug symbols for methods
- allow CONT and EXIT within SELECT statement
- updated Rnd() function to be pure
- flagged openw, opwns, boolgad, settopaz, sets, gets functions as not pure
- added WARN TRUE/FALSE to enable/disable warnings
- added Rol() and Ror() functions
- the 020 variant of Mod() was not correctly used by the compiler and
was also taking the parameters the wrong way around
- added 020 variant of ListItem function
- track line numbers for warnings
- NOREGS option was not correctly parsed on methods
- taking a reference to a method {obj.method} did not return the
correct address
- 1.3 startup code now updates stack pointers to allow stack space
functions to return the correct values.
- skip NameFromFH call on kick 1.3 meaning the compiler now works
on that OS again
- NOT operator was very broken (inconsistently applied and in some cases
not applied at all)
- Added EVO_3_7_0 define
- casting and PTR TO PTR handling is improved and should now work in all
use cases.
Direct download: evo.lha (673 KB) (dr)
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09.Mar.2024
Amiga Kit
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Amiga Kit: ARM Graphics library for A600GS computer
Press release: AmigaKit Ltd is pleased to announce an important software development for
the forthcoming A600GS computer system (amiga-news.de reported). The new ARM Graphics Library is pre-installed accelerating the performance of AmiBench and 68K applications.
The ARMgraphics.library was created by AmigaKit's in-
house developer to bypass the bottleneck of the 68K graphics
functions. It accelerates graphics rendering performance in
applications.
AmiBench is pre-installed on the A600GS computer system. It
opens the desktop environment in high resolution 1080p with
True Colour icons. Now it can use the new ARM Graphics
Library for various purposes including faster rendering of
windows, icons and backgrounds.
Third party developers can take advantage of this library by using
it's powerful functions from their 68K application. It also offers an
opportunity for 68K games developers to enhance their games
with faster graphics rendering.
The library provides a link between 68K programs and the native
ARM processor.
Further work is underway to patch 68K system graphics functions
so older applications that are not written to use the ARM
Graphics Library can benefit.
AmigaKit has developed AK-Datatypes, Picture Datatype and Datatypes Library over the many years for
the Enhancer Software on X5000, X1000 and A1222+. These have been compiled for 68K to run on the
A600GS, In addition these system components can also be accelerated by the ARM Graphics Library for
extra performance.
The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024. (dr)
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09.Mar.2024
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.3 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.4.3:
- Updated to the latest OpenAI chat models
- Fix crash when config.json doesn't exist
- Fix crash when selecting the root menu items
- Adjust screen colours to enhance visibility
- Improved error handling for connection errors
- Use a stack cookie to set minimum stack size to 32768 bytes (AmigaOS 3.1.4 or higher required)
- Shows a warning if the stack size is smaller than 32768 bytes (AmigaOS 3 only)
- Send button no longer appears in corner of screen on image mode in 3.X after an error message is dismissed
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (909 KB) (dr)
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08.Mar.2024
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Crowdfunding: Book "The Graftgold Story"
"Fusion Retro Books" has launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance a book about the video game company Graftgold, which is responsible for Amiga classics such as Fire and Ice or Uridium 2, among others. The campaign is still running for 13 days, and around 14,300 of the required 17,551 euros have already been raised. (dr)
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08.Mar.2024
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Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine" (V0.05C)
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. At the end of October, the developer 'pixelplop' had converted the game into C/C++ code and has now published a new preview video, showing the following new features and changes:
- The flame on the HUD lantern gets smaller as the lantern oil depletes.
- The map graphics slowly get darker as the lantern oil depletes.
- Changed the throwable flares to dynamite.
- Added dynamite sticks to the HUD so you can see how many you are carrying.
- When the dynamite explodes it briefly lights up the screen revealing the map.
- Added an Oil can and Dynamite pickup.
- When you die you leave a grave stone behind as a permanent marker.
- Hardware sprites now clip correctly with the top of the screen.
- Hardware sprite data fixed so it ends in a blank line which prevents glitches.
- Added sfx for the toxic drip and other misc sfx.
- Improved character movement.
- Improved character collision and ladder logic.
(dr)
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07.Mar.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.03.07
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.03.07:
- Added Apple CD-ROM digital audio over SCSI
- Added Xebec Support
- Added Plextor d8h vendor cmd
- Initiator improvements from BSv2 fork
- Fix SCSI-1 check in initiator mode
- Fix for ZuluSCSI v1.0 mini logging debug with default settings
(dr)
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07.Mar.2024
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A1222 Plus: Production finished, available in shop
AAA Technology, a joint venture between Amedia France, A-Eon Technology and AmigaKit in co-operation with ACube Systems, informs us that the production and subsequent testing of the A1222-Plus boards (formerly "Tabor") has been completed and can now be ordered via the title link:
In addition to the board from ¤1,199.00, a complete system is also available for ¤1,599.00. Around 80% of all participants in A-EON's "Early Adopter" programme have already been contacted within the last three months, and the rest are now gradually following suit. Potential buyers are recommended to read Eldee Stephens The QuickStart Guide for New A1222+ Users (amiga-news.de reported), which is still being updated. (dr)
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07.Mar.2024
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PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 98
After a break of more than six years, the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" returned at the end of November (amiga-news.de reported). The latest issue 98 offers, among other things, a brief overview of the history of Commodore. (dr)
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07.Mar.2024
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Tool: Consumer 1.0 shows memory consumption
lifeschool' wanted to find out how much memory its recently released game prototype Dizzy 1 consumes and has written the "Consumer" tool for this purpose. Among other things, this is intended to enable developers to estimate the system requirements for newly written software.
The results are printed on the screen and also saved in a text file on S:. Kickstart 3.0+ is required. (dr)
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07.Mar.2024
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Cross development: amitools 0.8.0 for macOS
Christian Vogelgsang has published amitools, a collection of Python 3 tools that should make it possible to work with Amiga OS binaries and files on macOS and all other *nix-like platforms that support Python. The author has not tested it on Windows, but it should work just as well.
The developer focusses his tools on classic Amiga setups, i.e. a 680x0-based system running Amiga OS 1.x - 3.x. However, as this is an open project, other Amiga configurations can also be supported. However, as this is an open project, other Amiga configurations can also be supported. The tools are mostly developer orientated, so a background in Amiga programming will be very helpful. A documentation is available on GitHub.
Now the new version 0.8.0 is available. (dr)
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05.Mar.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 167
The English and German issue 167 (March/April 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes, besides various reviews, a show report from Passione Amiga Day 2023, an interview with Michael Kafke (ASM game) and a preview of Jari-Matti Rally. (snx)
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05.Mar.2024
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Developer log: Amiga Isometric Scrolling
Nivrig Games is working on porting an isometric arcade adventure game to Amiga. Under the title link a corresponding developer log was published (YouTube video). (dr)
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05.Mar.2024
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.1.0
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, which is intended to make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (for example EmptyADF). Changes of version 1.1.0:
- Creating a virtual gadget could cause crashes (due to a bug
in the version of E-VO used to compile 1.0.0)
- About dialog changed 'Rebuilder' To 'Rebuild'
- Loading a bitmap with no image selected reported an incorrect error
- Added option to generate code that does not use macros in the object
definitions (for better GCC compatibility).
- add GA_TabCycle property to click tab
- code generated for fuel gauge now uses GA_Text instead child label
- fuel gauge used incorrect default number of ticks
- GetScreenMode did not include child label in generated code
- Glyph did not include child label in generated code
- Glyph used incorrect default type
- Added USEMACROS tooltype
- Sketchboard was missing many of the settings in the generated code
- SizeBRight and SizeBBottom did not work correctly in preview window
Download: Rebuild1.1.0.lha (160 KB) (dr)
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04.Mar.2024
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXXVII in Kiel (germany) on 16.03.2024
Press release: On Saturday, March 16, 2024, the first "Interface" in 2024 will take place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. This will be the 37th edition of the retro computer get-together. As always, the organizers are the Vintage Computer Club (VCC), the Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and the Computer Club Klausdorf (CCK).
Registration by e-mail to interface@jugendhaus-klausdorf.de is recommended. Without registration there is no guarantee of a free place.
There are again two large rooms available. The café on the first floor (as a "workshop" for hardware projects, repairs, etc.) and the top floor offer enough space to talk and play on the computers and consoles you have brought with you. Participants must bring their own power strips and network cables.
The official start is at 2 p.m., the organization team will begin setting up the tables etc. at around 12 noon. The venue is the Jugendhaus Klausdorf, Dorfstraße 101 in Klausdorf, which is part of 24222 Schwentinental. (snx)
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03.Mar.2024
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Aminet uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to Aminet:
Amix561.lha comm/amiex 1.1M 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel...
amigassh.lha comm/net 32K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga
ellipse_xct_npt_drggb... dev/amos 6K Dragable ellipse with input
lwtools.lha dev/cross 899K MOS Cross-development system targ...
GitDesktop.lha dev/misc 1.6M MOS Graphical frontend for git
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.4M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
AmiWordle.lha game/think 84K 68k German-only Wordle clone for ...
Albireo.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 28K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.3M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
4_Colour_Backdrops.zip pix/back 2.8M Backdrops for a 4 Colour Work...
codesets-6.22.lha util/libs 639K ALL handle codesets + character c...
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 812K MOS Multipurpose utility
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03.Mar.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
rave.lha aud/edi 3Mb 4.1 An editor for mono/stereo audio ...
resrc4.lha dev/mis 127kb 4.1 MC680x0 Disassembler
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
codesets.lha lib/mis 639kb 4.0 Library for handling codesets an...
(snx)
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03.Mar.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to AROS Archives:
pana_sx-kc600.lha aud/mis 5Mb Piano Music MP3
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb Control Sonos speakers with your...
ptk_v2.6.6.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 23Mb Tracker program with advance fea...
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03.Mar.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
codesets_6.22.lha Dependencies/Library/Misc Library handling codese...
lwtools-4.22.lha Development/Cross Cross-development syste...
GitDesktop_0.13.22.lha Development/Tools A graphical git fronten...
Albireo_1.6.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
AmiArcadia_30.81.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
MCE_14.61.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
ReportPlus_8.48.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Iris_1.21.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
Wayfarer_7.5.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
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03.Mar.2024
Fredrik Rambris (ANF)
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Programming: AMOS Professional Manual - HTML version modernized
Fredrik Rambris has adapted the "AMOS Professional Manual" compiled by 'Asymetrix' in 2008 to modern web browsers at the title link so that it is easier to navigate and can also be used on mobile devices.
His revision is also available on GitHub, so that easy collaboration with other interested parties would be possible. (snx)
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03.Mar.2024
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- News from January/February 2024
- Old articles from Generation 4 10 to 12:
- News: The race for arcade game licences 1989
- Interview with Gary Bracey
- Review of Zork Zero
- Review of Space Quest 3
- News: Transputers and new architectures
- Report: Imagina 1989
- Review of Cybernoid 2
- Review of Gold Rush!
- Review of The Games: Winter Edition
- Interview with Brian Hartley (graphic designer of Micro Machines)
- Review of Reshoot Proxima 3
- The best of Byte in September 1986
- File: The tools included in MorphOS
- File: The history of Lemmings
- File: Uridium 2 graphics
- File: Amiga Games List (updated)
- File: The "Juggler" animation (updated)
- Hardware: FastATA 1200 MK-V
- Hardware: Tank Mouse
- Tutorial: Data transfer between Amiga and Linux with APCComm
- Programming: Creating a demo - chapter 2, part 2, bit plans
- Special quiz on the year 2023 on the Amiga
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03.Mar.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for February 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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03.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Character set conversion: codesets.library 6.22
The codesets.library allows applications to access codeset/charset tables via a standardized interface or to perform conversions between different character sets.
With version 6.22, the strlen() function is only called if CSA_SourceLen is not set. (snx)
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02.Mar.2024
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MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.13.22
Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required.
Besides bug fixes the new version provides the following changes:
- add .gitignore from templates when creating new repository
- edit .gitignore and reload from templates for existing repository
- add LICENSE file from templates when creating new repository
- preview/compare image files via datatypes (for untracked files, current changes and history/logs)
- better integration with GitLab/Bitbucket repositories (via url links)
(dr)
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02.Mar.2024
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Tower defense: Demo version of "Dice Masters" for Apollo Vampire V4 (update)
Sami Vehmaa's latest project is a tower defence game in which you have to fend off aliens on a spaceship (YouTube video). The demo version offers two of the planned ten levels.
Update: (05.03.2024, 06:10, dr)
A new demo version 0.91 is available which offers a third level and improved game input logic as well as a more clean gameplay. (dr)
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02.Mar.2024
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Musik track: "199X" by LukHash
'LukHash' is a musician living in Edinburgh (Scotland). He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics."
His current chiptune "199X" takes you back to the 90s: just out of school, you fire up your (Amiga) computer and start playing. Connoisseurs will recognise various references to classic games. The track can not only be listened to as a YouTube video under the title link, but can also be bought on iTunes or bandcamp. (dr)
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01.Mar.2024
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.3
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Version 1.16.3 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:
- FDI: Fix import of FDI image files
- gw read, write: --dd option renamed to --densel
- --dd remains valid for now
- gw write: Option --gen-tg43 generates 8-inch /TG43 signal on pin 2
(dr)
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01.Mar.2024
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Mailbox: AmiExpress 5.6.1
AmiExpress is a rewrite by Darren Coles of the original Joe Hodge/LightSpeed Technologies mailbox program in Amiga E. It is open source and includes most of the features of the previous version as well as new features and bug fixes. Version 5.6.1 offers some fixes to resolve issues when running on 68000, support for conf NDIRS setting in the configuration editor and the option to move mail messages to another conference.
Direct download: Amix561.lha (1,1 MB) (dr)
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01.Mar.2024
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Video tutorial: Further screen commands in AMOS
Following on from his last two videos about screen commands and especially the "Screen Copy" command, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows more screen commands in the current part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, in particular how to scroll a screen, or rather part of a screen. As always, the source file for the programme shown in the video can be downloaded free of charge from his website. (dr)
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01.Mar.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.8
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. Changes in version 5.6.8:
Bugfixes
- GUI Hardware sprite checkbox wouldn't enable when needed
- some RTG options were not changed on-the-fly
- fix mouse drift when using RTG hardware sprite
- absolute mouse movement did not scale correctly in single line mode
- fix offset for button indicators in ControllerMap GUI
- Fix absolute mouse positioning for RTG modes as well
- Fixed crash when using Restart after previous updates
- Fixed crash/freeze when trying to access FloppyDriveBridge devices under macOS
- Ensure changes in virtual mouse and magic mouse are applied immediately
- Removed some buggy Fast copper experimental code
Improvements
- When emulating, disable RTG settings that cannot be changed on-the-fly
- added always on top options to Misc panel in GUI, fixed navigation
- Partial merge of GFX updates from Preview
- improve WHDBooter prefs changes
- implement floppydatapullup option
- more WHDBooter improvements
(dr)
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29.Feb.2024
Jeroen Knoester
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SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.6
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500) (amiga-news.de reported). Version 3.6 has several new features, such as a high quality mixing option that exchanges CPU time for higher quality sound, a plugin system so that effects can be added to samples that are being played (such as pitch changes), the ability to loop from any point in the sample rather than only the start and more. (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.21
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.21 his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
- Added an option to block loading of any external assets (images, css, etc) used in HTML emails. When enabled, Iris will only show images attached to the email itself. External content may still be loaded using context menu
- Double-clicking a message in Drafts will now open it in Edit mode
- Right mouse click on the messages list selects the clicked email
- Added a help bubble to the messages list
- Extended the AREXX WRITE command
- It's now possible to create and send calendar invitations in emails
- Updated WebKit & co
(dr)
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28.Feb.2024
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.5 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.4 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. This update introduces a reworked settings UI, possibility to fine-tune browser settings per 1st component of a URL path as well as fixes of reported crashes.
Update: (01.03.2024, 20:50, dr)
Meanwhile version 7.5 is available which fixes reported crashes and HLS Live video playback (live Youtube streams on mobile frontend). (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
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Demo party: Ticket sales for Revision 2024 launched
Ticket sales have now started for the Revision demo party (amiga-news.de reported), which traditionally takes place on the Easter weekend in Saarbrücken, Germany. (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
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Video series: Restoration of an Amiga 4000
In a six-part video series, the YouTube channel "Retronaut" shows how an Amiga 4000, which was part of a whole conglomerate of items used by a commercial television station in the British Midlands in the 1990s and which no longer worked, is brought back to life. (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
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AROS: "Irritating bug of the month" February fixed / Poll for March
In the "Irritating bug of the month" poll for February, the addition of an easy way to enable tethering in the network settings was chosen. AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has added this feature, which will be available in the next update.
The "Irritating bug of the month" survey for March has also begun. Please vote. (dr)
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27.Feb.2024
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Preview video: Dungeon Crawler "The Cthulhu Project"
At the end of last year, we introduced Maurice Doerr's dungeon crawler "The Cthulhu Project". In another preview video, he now shows interactions with computer-controlled characters (NPCs) for the first time. (dr)
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27.Feb.2024
Cameron Armstrong (Mail)
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AI assistant for Amiga development: "Amiga Guru"
Cameron Armstrong, author of the chat program AmigaGPT (amiga-news.de reported), has created a custom GPT based on the Amiga documentation so that it is much more accurate for Amiga development than the standard ChatGPT.
Since ChatGPT sometimes knows quite little about Amiga development (and therefore often gives wrong, albeit convincing, answers), he has created a custom GPT tailored to Amiga development.
It has been trained on the entire contents of all current editions of the official reference manuals, some third-party Amiga development books and all current documentation autodocs for AmigaOS 3.2 and 4.1.
Chatting with custom GPTs requires a ChatGPT Plus subscription. (dr)
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26.Feb.2024
Puni/Void (ANF)
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Diskmagazine: Voting on Amiga demoscene charts for Versus #10
Issue 10 of Versus, the disk magazine of the demo groups Nukleus and Void with the Amiga demoscene charts, is in preparation and the voting has started. At the title link you can name your favorites for AmigaOS (OCS/ECS) and AmigaOS 4, whereby not all fields in the corresponding tables have to be filled in. (snx)
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26.Feb.2024
ANF
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.7
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.7 of his audio editor "Rave". The program requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 and the Enhancer-Core classes from A-EON Technology.
Die Änderungen in der Version 1.7:
- The program now keeps a list of recently opened files, and has an associated item in the Project menu for quickly opening these files again
- Reworked the file requester, which now features a more flexible Access Panel with a user-definable Favourites section
- Another addition to the file requester is the Browsing History pop-up for selecting recently used paths
- Fixed a playback-related bug that would make Rave unresponsive, waiting for a signal that never arrives
- Updated documentation
Download: rave.lha (3 MB) (snx)
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26.Feb.2024
Amitopia (ANF)
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.6
AmiFox, first released a year ago, displays modern web pages on an Amiga or under AROS by downloading and displaying the pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server").
New features of version 0.6 include the ability to set the preferred language so that Google and other sites do not always appear in Finnish (the public AmiFox server is located in Finland), and a history of the websites visited. (snx)
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26.Feb.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 155 (Italian/English) - 10th anniversary
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about the games Roach Motel and Spheroid as well as the program PageSetter 3. (snx)
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25.Feb.2024
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Aminet uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to Aminet:
SonosController_AROS.lha comm/misc 2.6M x86 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.6M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3.lha comm/misc 2.2M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3fp... comm/misc 2.1M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS4.lha comm/misc 3.0M OS4 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_WOS.lha comm/misc 2.5M WOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
amigassh.lha comm/net 32K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 342K AOS Gemini/Spartan/Gopher/Finger/...
BSDSocket-Extension.lha dev/amos 35K 68k Use bsdsocket.library in AMOS...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
escribed_ellipse.pdf docs/misc 107K ellipse targetted through 5 p...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 241K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.24
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 268K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 46K 68k Massive release 1.24
RescueLander.lha game/actio 118K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
MCE.lha game/edit 4.0M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Chocolate_DOOM.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Chocolate DOOM
Pana_SX-KC600.lha mods/mpg 4.5M Music played by Panasonic SX-...
hippoplayerSource.lha mus/play 2.0M HippoPlayer source code
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 402K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
GF4RSID1.zip pix/misc 76K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID2.zip pix/misc 81K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID3.zip pix/misc 78K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID4.zip pix/misc 83K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID5.zip pix/misc 81K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID6.zip pix/misc 85K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID7.zip pix/misc 77K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID8.zip pix/misc 75K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID9.zip pix/misc 78K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSIDA.zip pix/misc 79K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDB.zip pix/misc 79K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDC.zip pix/misc 80K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDD.zip pix/misc 76K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
NAFCYI1991S1-B04.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B05.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B06.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B11.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B12.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip text/bfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip text/bfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B24.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B25.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-04.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-05.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-06.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-08.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-09.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-11.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-12.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-13.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-15.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-24.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-25.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
gcr1.1.lha util/cli 5K 68k Show console window resolutio...
HexSee_OS4.lha util/misc 399K OS4 Hex File Viewer (OS4 version)
iGame.lha util/misc 438K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 662K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 834K OS4 Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 18M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AppLauncher_sbar.lha util/wb 43K MOS Run apps from the screenbar
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25.Feb.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your...
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
amigemini.lha net/bro 342kb 4.0 Gemini/Spartan/Gopher/Finger/Nex...
rvncd.lha net/ser 115kb 4.1 Amiga VNC Server
hexsee.lha uti/fil 399kb 4.1 Hex File Viewer
igame.lha uti/mis 438kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
reportplus.lha uti/mis 834kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_deu.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_fra.lha uti/wor 21kb 4.0 AmiUpdate French Catalog
amiupdate_ita.lha uti/wor 47kb 4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_spa.lha uti/wor 19kb 4.1 Spanish catalog files for AmiUpdate
wb2filer.lha uti/wor 48kb 4.0 Hack to run Filer when dbl-click...
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25.Feb.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to AROS Archives:
usbmidi.i386-aros.lha dri/aud 66kb MidiDriver with source
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25.Feb.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
AppLauncher_2.6.lha Ambient/Screenbar Run your apps from the ...
Protrekkr_2.6.5.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
SonosController_1.4.lha Devices/Speakers Control your Sonos spea...
iGame_2.4.6.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching...
Woof_14.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
Easy2Install_1.0b49.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
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25.Feb.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.02.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 24.02.2024:
- 2024-02-23 new: Spectral (The Black Lotus) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2024-02-21 new: Panacea (The Black Lotus) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2024-02-21 improved: Darkside (The Black Lotus) caches are enabled on 68020/030 without MMU system too now (Info, Image)
(snx)
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25.Feb.2024
Forum 64 (Webseite)
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DIY: "Joystick Reanimator" repairs micro switches using electric impulses
C64 fan 'GI-Joe' - a service technician in real life - has come across many faulty microswitches in his professional life. The silver-plated switching contacts of switches that only have to switch very low currents were often oxidized: the arcing that occurs at higher currents, which "cleans" the oxidizing contacts in a kind of self-cleaning function, does not occur at lower currents. Sooner or later, the electrical resistances become too high due to the oxidizing switching contacts, even though the switch switches mechanically perfectly.
To solve this problem with the microswitches built into many joysticks, GI-Joe invented the "Joystick Reanimator": A joystick that no longer works is connected to the device. When the stick is moved or a fire button is pressed, the associated switch is then activated with a current high enough to generate the "self-cleaning" arc. The circuit board also contains connection sockets for a multimeter so that the electrical resistances of the microswitches built into the joystick can be easily tested.
German and English instructions as well as all documents required for reproduction (including circuit diagram, assembly list and KiCad project files) are available for download. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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