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15.Aug.2023



 AROS: Forum closes, successor recommended
Already in the middle of July Ola '4pLaY' Jensen had announced that the forum "AROS-Exec" would be closed on September 19 for health and financial reasons. Since nothing has changed since then, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz recommends to use AROSWorld as successor.

Ola Jensen's withdrawal from the AROS Archives, on the other hand, has no further consequences, since Krzysztof Śmiechowicz has already supported him here since the end of 2021 and continues this commitment. (snx)

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15.Aug.2023
MorphZone (Forum)


 MorphOS: Ninth beta version of TinyGL
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has released the ninth public beta version of his TinyGL update which mainly includes a preview of the R600 driver even though there are still plenty of known issues with the R600 driver.

As the developer explained, "in this update only Evergreen and Northern Islands based Radeons are supported. Support for R600 and R700 based Radeons will be added at a later date." Since the R600 driver is a preview driver, it must be expected that many applications and games will either be misrendered or cause the system to crash. The author asks to report any problems.

The newly supported Radeon graphics cards are all of the Radeon HD-5000 series, all of the Radeon HD-6000 series and the following cards:
  • Radeon HD 7350
  • Radeon HD 7450
  • Radeon HD 7470
  • Radeon HD 7510
  • Radeon HD 7570
  • Radeon HD 7670
  • Radeon HD 8350
  • Radeon HD 8450
  • Radeon HD 8470
  • Radeon HD 8490
  • Radeon R5 220
  • Radeon R5 230
  • Radeon R5 235
  • Radeon R5 235X
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15.Aug.2023
MorphZone (Forum)


 MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.16
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.16 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS which introduces a lot of improvements, optimizations and bug fixes, including faster message list updates and better handling of operations on big numbers of messages. This is also the first version coming with a Polish translation. Detailed changes:
  • All operations that can potentially modify a lot of messages are now done in stages to avoid timing out while server copies/deletes/etc the messages
  • Added progress to more message operations
  • Avoids reloading message list when deleting emails
  • Improved the Find Messages window's UI
  • Return key in the message editor now creates paragraphs instead of line breaks (hold shift to insert a line break)
  • Warns when trying to quit while there's still write operations running on server, etc
  • Improved CSS sanitization when viewing emails authored using Outlook
  • Implemented Auto-Update
  • Worked around a problem that caused longer subject lines with non-ASCII characters would sometimes end up with extra spaces added inside words
  • Fixed to refresh folder contents after deleting all messages in it
  • Fixed a case where Find Messages could get stuck forever when doing an advanced search
  • Fixed a case where message finder could continue working even after closing Find Messages window
  • Fixed a case where upon selecting a folder, the active message wouldn't automatically load
  • Updated WebKit and associated libraries
  • Added Polish translation
(dr)

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14.Aug.2023
Edgar Schwan (ANF)


 AmigaOS 4: Sylpheed 3.7.0 for AmiCygnix released
Edgar Schwan wrote: Version 3.7.0 of the email client Sylpheed is available for AmiCygnix (snapshot). It is based on GTK+ GUI Toolkit. The design and user interface is similar to many well-known email programs from the Windows world, such as Outlook Express.

Why another mailer? Sylpheed has a very good support of the IMAP4 protocol, which is currently only available with a few Amiga mailers. But Sylpheed also has other interesting features.

New in this release:
  • Update to the latest stable version of Sylpheed. The program was ported from scratch and some bugs were fixed that way.
  • Working remote control of Sylpheed. Sylpheed can only be started once, when started again, the options are passed to the running program.
  • Update to SQLite 3.9.3 in "bogofilter 1.2.5".
Supported protocols:
  • POP3 / APOP
  • IMAP4rev1
  • SMTP / SMTP AUTH
  • NNTP (News)
  • SSL / TLSv1 (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4rev1, NNTP)
Features:
  • multiple accounts
  • thread display
  • newsreader
  • printing
  • address book
  • templates
  • external editor (e.g. Vim, which has spell checking)
  • powerful filtering (POP3, IMAP4, local spool)
  • powerful search (query search, quick search, search folder)
  • customization of toolbar
  • mark / color label
  • and much more

(dr)

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13.Aug.2023



 Aminet uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to Aminet:
aamp.lha                 comm/www   130M  OS4 Amiga Apache MySQL and PHP fo...
aamp-src.lha             comm/www   16M       Sources of AAMP server package
lubricator.lha           comm/www   70K   68k GUI HTTP search/download + di...
batari_Basic.lha         dev/cross  321K  MOS BASIC-like language for Atari...
dasm_mos.lha             dev/cross  1.1M  68k Multi-CPU 65xx/68xx cross ass...
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha      game/misc  11M   68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 2.0...
ScummVM_ECS_030.lha      game/misc  3.9M  68k Amiga ECS port of ScummVM 1.4...
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha      game/misc  11M   68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.0...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.7M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
AudioEvolution320_bin... mus/edit   1.2M  68k Multitrack audio application ...
AudioEvolution320_src... mus/edit   351K      Multitrack audio application ...
IdentifyDev.lha          util/libs  67K   68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyLib_FR.lha       util/libs  21K       French catalog and docs for i...
IdentifyUsr.lha          util/libs  100K  68k Identify hardware and more
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  15M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)

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13.Aug.2023



 OS4Depot uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to OS4Depot:
libfreetype.lha          dev/lib 3Mb   4.1 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab...
libharfbuzz.lha          dev/lib 6Mb   4.1 HarfBuzz text shaping engine
libsdl_ttf.lha           dev/lib 2Mb   4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL
libsdl2_ttf.lha          dev/lib 4Mb   4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2
ciccioview.lha           gra/vie 656kb 4.0 A simple viewer written in Holly...
mediathek.lha            net/mis 3Mb   4.0 Downloading Movies from differen...
mediavault_script.lha    net/mis 16kb  4.0 Choose player or download stream...
aamp.lha                 net/ser 130Mb 4.1 Amiga Apache MySQL PHP. A develo...
aamp-src.lha             net/ser 16Mb  4.1 Sources of AAMP (Amiga Apache My...
cocktailsshaker.lha      uti/mis 439kb 4.0 Cocktails database
owlong.lha               uti/she 12kb  4.0 Times the duration of a command.
tubexx.lha               vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 ARexx script to play Youtube videos
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
(snx)

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13.Aug.2023



 AROS Archives uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to AROS Archives:
arosone_themes_08-07-23.zip  gra/the 310kb Aros One Colored Window Themes
vamp.lha                     vid/pla 2Mb   Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
(snx)

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13.Aug.2023



 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.08.2023
The following files have been added until 12.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Aften_0.0.8.lha           Audio/Encoder             A/52 (AC3) audio encode...
Horny_1.3.lha             Audio/Sequencer           A MIDI sequencer for Mo...
DASM_2.20.14.1.lha        Development/Cross         Multi-CPU 65xx/68xx cro...
batari-Basic_1.7.lha      Development/Cross         BASIC-like language for...
RDBrecov_1.11.lha         Devices/HD/Tools          Search lost PFS/SFS par...
Sploiner_1.01.lha         Files/Tools               Split, Join & recover t...
Sqrxz_0.9.9.6.lha         Games/Platform            A Jump'n'Run game.
Easy2Install_1.0b28.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
PDF2JPG_1.0.lha           Office/Convert            Convert PDF to JPG
TopCPU_1.19.lha           System/CPU                A small CPU monitor (MU...
(snx)

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13.Aug.2023



 WHDLoad: New installers until 12.08.2023
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 12.08.2023:
  • 2023-08-10 improved: TFX (Digital Image Design) fix max screen objects, fix glitchy mouse cursor, NTSC support (Info)
  • 2023-08-10 fixed: Killing Game Show (Psygnosis) some bugs fixed, customs options added (Info)
  • 2023-08-05 fixed: Nexus 7 (Andromeda) added a flush cache to avoid a crash under 060 before clusters part (Info, Image)
(snx)

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13.Aug.2023
Amiga Future (website)


 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:
  • Sarcophaser
  • Wings of death - Title (MadmaX StyLE)
  • Bomb Jack
  • Battle Squadron Game Over
(snx)

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13.Aug.2023
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)


 Event: Amiga-Meeting Nord 2023 in Neumünster (Germany)
From November 3-5, Amiga-Meeting Nord will take place in Neumünster in northern Germany. Space is available for about 50-60 attendees to bring their own computers. There will be demonstrations and a "Party DVD" will be created. Details can be found in our german news-item. (snx)

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13.Aug.2023
Amiga.org (forum)


 Event: World of Retro Computing 2023 (Canada)
On September 16-17, World of Retro Computing 2023 will be held in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and admission is free. In addition to lectures, the focus will be on buying and selling, as well as repairs, including amiga-related products. (snx)

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12.Aug.2023



 Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.08.12
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported). Changes since our last news item:
  • Reducer: Overal motion sensitivity is set to automatic (considering the amount of changes between frames)
  • Reducer: fine sensitivity is adjustable by user
  • Reducer: High/Normal/Low Quality option (more blocks but smaller size)
  • Reducer: Bug Fix (related to: every fourth line left some residue/arifact)
  • Player : Screen was not double buffered after reselect a new file to play.(fixed)
  • Player : Fast forward/Rew step is fixed to 100 frames, now eats less ram. Now 14 kb, previously was 720K because the program loged everey frame!
  • Reducer: Filter against noise
  • Player: Something to handle the error of Amos (when anim framesize above 40Kb)
  • Player: Fast forward/Reward is fixed, loged, saved and auto loaded if the anim is already been played. So forward is faster to use, because if the log exist.... it is a direct jump.
(dr)

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12.Aug.2023



 AMOS: Eclips animation in "Projects in the attic" updated
At the end of November, the game developer group "Electric Black Sheep" had published a collection of games under the name "Projects in the attic", which were created for test purposes with the programming language AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Included was the game "Eclips", in which you steer an owl through a landscape that is always the same. The group added the archive "EclipsAnim.rar" to this game, which offered a complete animation in the sense of changing landscapes. This was updated today and the member Sövény Imre explained us:

"By default, I can't put a blitter object on top of an iff animation, because AMOS automatically updates the surface underneath to a previous state when the blitter object is moved.

That's why so far I could only move sprites over it, because it didn't spoil it, but in that way I could move one "large" sprite over it.

In the new upload, however, there are several large blitter objects above it. It's slow, but worth a try." (dr)

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12.Aug.2023



 Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.188 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to new kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels. The new version fixes the issue with the RDB (Rigid Disk Block) of an Amiga hraddrive.

Download: linux-image-5.10.188-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71 MB) (dr)

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12.Aug.2023



 Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb - fullscreen feature
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.

Developer 'mithrendal' has added the fullscreen feature as well as a dimming lock which is supposed to prevent dimming or auto off on supported browsers. Besides, more ADF files are recognized now . (dr)

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10.Aug.2023
Janne Peräaho (Mail)


 AmigaOS 4: Amiga Game Framework
After Janne Peräaho dedicated himself to porting Python games to AmigaOS 4 among other things in the past (amiga-news.de reported), he has now started a completely new project: the "Amiga Game Framework". "Amiga Game Framework" is intended for programming 2D games under AmigaOS 4 and offers a user-friendly and intuitive C-API for 2D graphics, playing sounds, reading user input and more.

Asked about the motivation and intention of his project, Janne explains that he intends to use it in future game ports, but also hopes it will inspire other programmers to write new 2D games for AmigaOS 4. The goal is to make the programming interface so simple that anyone with basic C programming skills can write a game with it.

And he continued explaining: "The programming interface (API) is object oriented. First you create a game object by calling GetFrameworkInterface() function and then you can call the returned object's methods, like OpenWindow(), Line(), etc.

The framework is a set of include files that you include in your code like this: #include <frameworks/game/game.h> "

Janne has not yet published the source code of the framework because the event handler is still missing. Without it, you can't write real games because you can't recognise keystrokes or mouse movements, nor can you close the game window by clicking the close button. Currently, he is working on elementary geometric shapes, so-called graphic primitives. The project status picture on "OS4 Coding" shows which parts of the framework are finished and which are still in progress:


All the planned drawing functions (graphic primitives) are ready, but some of them still need to be improved. Currently, he is still thinking about how music should be integrated: should one be able to control a CD-ROM drive to play music, should there be a software synthesiser that one controls, MIDI support, or should the music be streamed from an OGG/MP3 file. On his project page, he has published a few example pictures as well as archives. (dr)

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10.Aug.2023



 AmigaOS 4: mySQLcontrol 2.12
mySQLcontrol by Michael Christoph is a database administration and editing program for the mySQL database server under AmigaOS 4. Version 2.12 has been adapted to the development environment AAMP, which is required for this and has just been updated to version 2.0 by Edgar Schwan. (dr)

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10.Aug.2023
Edgar Schwan (ANF)


 AmigaOS 4: AAMP 2.0 (Apache, MySQL and PHP)
Edgar Schwan wrote: This package offers a development environment on your Amiga, with which you can create and test your own web projects. Similar to the well-known XAMPP package for Linux and Windows, it contains the HTTP (web) server "Apache" with compiled-in support for the scripting language "PHP" (version 8.0.28 and 5.2.10) and the database server "MySQL" version 5.5.10.

AAMP is not only interesting for developers. This means that web applications can also be run locally on the Amiga. These are e.g. the database administrator "phpMyAdmin" or the image manager "Coppermine" - just to name a few.

You can create your own tools with the included "php" interpreter. "PHP" is easy to learn and with its extensions a powerful language. New in PHP 8 is the ability to use the "php" tool as a web server, so it is a simple alternative to Apache.

Last but not least, data can be managed with the "MySQL" database server, which can then also be accessed via the network. External programs (e.g. IODBC) can use this server as a database backend.

New in AAMP 2.0:
  • New version 8.0.28 of PHP. Together with the new MySQL server, the latest web applications can be used again. The old version 5.2.10 is still included to keep older projects running. You can switch between the two versions at any time using a script.
  • Updated MySQL database server from version 5.1.35 to version 5.5.10.
  • Updates of the tools "myApacheStarter" and "mySQLcontrol" - now also with Italian and Spanish localization.
  • The Subversion package including Apache's WebDAV modules is now included and enabled by default.
  • Updates of the used libraries:
    - curl 7.19.7 -> curl 7.61.1
    - libgcrypt 1.2.4 -> libgcrypt 1.8.2
    - libgpg-error 1.4 -> libgpg-error 1.27
    - libiconv 1.9.2 -> libiconv 1.17
    - libpng 1.2.13 -> libpng 1.2.49
    - libxml2 2.6.19 -> libxml2 2.9.14
    - libxslt 1.1.14 -> libxslt 1.1.34
    - openssl 1.0.0d -> openssl 1.0.2o
    - PDFlib-Lite 6.0.1 -> PDFlib-Lite 7.0.5p3 (only PHP 5)
    - tiff v3.4 -> tiff 3.8.2
    - neon 0.29.0 -> neon 0.31.1
    - sqlite 3.4.2 -> sqlite 3.9.3
    - subversion 1.6.17 -> subversion 1.6.23
  • Newly added libraries and tools:
    - cadaver 0.23.3 (WebDAV-Client)
    - coreutils 5.2.1 (utilities for the Unix shell)
    - gmp 6.2.0 (library for arbitrary precision arithmetic)
    - gnutls 3.7.3 (modern implementation of the TLS/SSL protocol)
    - libtasn1 4.9 (an ASN.1 encryption library)
    - libwebp 0.5.2 (library to encode and decode images in WebP format)
    - nettle 3.7 (a cryptographic library)
    - openldap 2.4.49 (implements LDAP directory services)
  • Now includes a customized version of the ABC shell called "ampsh". This avoids collisions with other packages that use the ABC shell, such as the AmigaOS4 SDK or AmiCygnix. With a script in the AAMP main directory you can start it on the workbench and access the AAMP tools directly.
  • This package is a complete rebuild of AAMP. This and extensive trouble- shooting eliminated many problems that were still in AAMP 1.0.
  • The base library "libaos4util" has been completely revised.

    • Homepages:

    Apache: https://httpd.apache.org/
    MySQL: https://www.mysql.com/
    PHP: https://www.php.net/

    phpMyAdmin: https://www.phpmyadmin.net/
    Coppermine: https://coppermine-gallery.net/
    Wordpress: https://wordpress.com/

    Snapshots:

(dr)

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10.Aug.2023



 Dungeon Crawler: The Last Dungeon V0.7.1C
As a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022, 'PixelPlop' had released a first, playable, but still incomplete version of "The Last Dungeon" (YouTube video). Now he has released another update, fixing several bugs:
  • Fixed multiple issues with the status panel not displaying the correct number of gold/keys/bombs.
  • Enemies can now display the item they are carrying which will hopefully make it less likely to miss the key in the first room on the right!
  • Fixed a bug where image draw offsets were getting reset to 0 when loading graphics from DAT files.
  • Fixed a bug where the auto map would sometimes not draw correctly for the first room.
  • Fixed a bug where pushable objects would sometimes draw the tile to the left when restoring background tiles.
  • Fixed a bug where the spinning sword on the title screen would draw in the wrong colours after returning from the character select screen
(dr)

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10.Aug.2023



 LinuxJedi blog: Restoration of an Amiga 4000
After the restoration of an Amiga 3000 (amiga-news.de reported) Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings now dedicates himself to an Amiga 4000 and has already published four blog entries about it: 1, 2, 3, 4. (dr)

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09.Aug.2023
Facebook


 Event: Exhibitor list of Amiga38
It's almost two months away: Amiga38 will take place in Mönchengladbach on 6 and 7 October. The exhibitors have now been published:


(dr)

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08.Aug.2023



 Video series "Taborized": Atomic Bomberman Remake + VoxelNoid adapted to A1222+
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of adapting his games to the Tabor board (amiga-news.de reported). After "Battle Squadron Enhanced" and "Tower 57" he finished Atomic Bomberman Remake and VoxelNoid.

The respective executables will be made available free of charge. (dr)

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08.Aug.2023
Frédéric Cordier (Mail)


 Programming language: Third public alpha version of "Amos Professional Unity"
By means of his "Amos Professional Unity" project, Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier is in the process of adding new features - such as AGA support - to the classic BASIC compiler AMOS Professional (YouTube video on AGA sprites). Now he has published the third public alpha version (V0.4) on his GitHub page with the following changes:
  • Removed non kept extra commands for Custom Screens modes. Rebuild all the Custom Screens system.
  • Added space in file 'configuration/APUnity_Editor_Config.s' for eXtensions registration system
  • Added new command : GFXMODE = get saga c2p screen mode( Width, Height, Depth, Scanmode ) [AmosProUnity.lib/L_L_GetSagaC2PScreenModeEx]
  • Added new command : GFXMODE = get saga c2p screen mode( Width, Height, Depth ) [AmosProUnity.lib/L_GetSagaC2PScreenMode]
  • Started new command : open custom screen ScreenID, Width, Height, GFXMODE
  • Added SAGA CPU/GFX Detection at startup to open SAGA library version when available.
  • Added SAGA Chunky screen support in copper list.
  • Reverted Aga/sprites.s file to previous version due to a bug in Aga Sprites.
  • Reverted Compiler_Shell.AMOS to Original fixed a compiler crash
  • Fix AMOSProUnity_Support.Lib functions set fixed a compiler crash
  • Fix AMOSProUnity_SpecialFX.Lib functions set fixed a compiler crash
  • Now Amos Professional Unity examples can be compiled without crash
  • Upgrade compiler to compile with AGAP Sprites/Bobs/Icons banks
  • Fixed issue with Get Bob/Sprite/Icon palette to now handle fully RGB24 bits colors
  • Update Header.s bank load to handle AGAP color mode ( 256 colors AGA ) from Bank that are inside executable (Bob/Sprite/Icon)
  • update Header.s also fix Get Bob/Sprite/Icon Palette commands when program is compiled.
  • Update CompExt.s compiler extension for squashed programs to handle AGAP color mode (Bob/Sprite/Icon)
We had first reported on Frédéric Cordier's submissions at the end of 2019, at that time still operating under the name "Amos Professional X". We took this publication as an opportunity to ask him for a summary of his efforts to date, which he kindly provided immediately:

"The Amos Professional Unity is a project I work on in my spare time, together with my other project for the Amiga called "Grimoire" (amiga-news.de reported).
Even though I don't often report about changes or news, I do a lot of work in the background (e.g. compiler problems), because the compiler source code is not documented and is a bit more complex than Amos Professional itself. A few key points about the project:
  • Amos Professional Source code was completely reorganized to fit the requirements of AGA support upgrade times ago.
  • Source code is available publicly on GitHub
  • Many changes were done to achieve support for AGA Chipsets that makes Amos Professional Unity being not compatible with older Amos Professional extensions that uses internal Amos Professional structures (the structures evoled,for example to support 8 bitplanes max instead of previously 6, 256 colors instead of previously 32, etc.)
  • Amos professional now have a good AGA support. It will be improved, but it is already interesting for AGA video game creation.
And these features are already supported by "Amos Professional Unity"
  • Support lowres AGA graphics up to 256 colors and HAM8 using 24 bits colors support
  • Support hires AGA graphics up to 256 colors and Ham8 using 24 bits colors support
  • Interlaced is supported for the two above resolutions (lowres and hires)
  • Bobs and icons also support up to 256 colors using 24 bits colors support
  • Create/Load/Save Sprites/Bobs/Icons banks with AGA colors up to 256 colors is supported.
  • AGA Sprites up to 64 pixels wide are also supported using 4 or 16 colors, and native Amos Professional sprites combination using 4 or 16 colors was improved to support AGA sprites width (you can setup a sprite up to 256 pixels wide with 16 colors using all 8 sprites for example).
  • AGA Sprites are only low resolution sprites. Hires resolution is not yet added.
  • Native commands like "Screen Open" are upgraded to support 256 Colors ( ex. Screen Open 0,320,200,256,lowres+laced )
  • Native commands like "Colour" are upgraded to support 24 bits ( ex. Colour 1,Rgb24( 255,128, 0 ) )
  • Amos Professional Unity compiled program can detect at running time if configuration run on ECS/OCS or AGA, and user can then create adaptative source code for video game ( The same compiled .exe can open ECS screen on ECS configuration and AGA screen on AGA configuration ).
"Amos Professional Unity" offers a range of new commands that were documented in the course of the releases of the first alpha version or second alpha version. Some commands are not yet documented because they are still in the development process:
  • Create Rainbow Fx Bank BANK
  • Set Rainbow Fx Color BANK, COLOR_INDEX
  • Set Rainbow Fx Color Line BANK, YLINE, RGB24ColorValue
  • Apply Rainbow Fx To Screen BANK : Apply to current screen
  • Remove Rainbow Fx From Screen
  • = Get Rainbow Fx Color Line( BANK, YLINE )
An other extension (Special FX) was also added to the project. It is a mix between my old AmosPro_Personal.lib and new commands. It bring some new commands to Amos Professional Unity (not documented on the website), and more will come in the future:
  • Set Ntsc : Push to 60Hz mode
  • Set Pal : Push to 50Hz mode
  • = Right Click()
  • = Fire( 1,BUTTONID ) : Where button ID can be 2 or 3
  • Ehb : Can be used to open screen using 64 Half Brite colors (ECS)
  • Ham6 : Can be used to open screen using Ham6 ( 4096 colors ) screens (ECS)
  • Create Memblock BANK, SIZE_IN_BYTES : Create a memory block, this command set is inspired from Dark BASIC v1 & Professional )
  • = Memblock Exist( BANK )
  • = Get Memblock Size( BANK )
  • Write Memblock Long BANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 32BITSVALE : Write a 32 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK
  • = Memblock Long( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 32 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK
  • Write Memblock WordBANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 16BITSVALE : Write a 16 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK
  • = Memblock Word( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 16 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK
  • Write Memblock ByteBANK, POSITION_IN_BYTES, 32BITSVALE : Write a 8 Bits value at POSITION_IN_BYTES of the memblock BANK
  • = Memblock Byte( BANK, POSITION ) : Will return the 8 Bits value stored at POSITION in the memblock BANK
  • Reserve F Icon BANK, SIZE : Create a custom icons bank, not blitter, CPU drawing one for fasts CPU and FastRam. Icon size is Width/Heigth same Set Current F Icon Bank BANK : Allow to have multiple Fast Icons banks
  • = Get Current F Icon Bank() : Will return the current bank used for Fast Icons
  • Get F Icon ICON, X, Y : Grab an icon ICON from the current screen
  • Paste Icon ICON, X, Y(, TRANSPARENCY ) : Will draw an icon at X,Y coordinates. X is multiple of 16 pixels.
  • = Get Fie Size( FileName$ )
  • Create Playfield from sprite HEIGHT, YSTART : Create a background playfield using sprites
  • Remove Sprite Playfield : Remove the background playfield
There are some known issues and limitations. One known issue for example is that compiler must be improved to allow compilation of source code containing Sprites/Icons banks in it. Currently, banks must not be included in .AMOS when compiling.

Amos Professional Unity is provided with some examples that show the uses of AGA Chipset and the Special FX commands sets. This simply mean you can already create AGA video games using Amos Professional Unity and compiles them as executables." (dr)

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 Video: Status update on DrawBridge for MiSTer
Since last year Robert Smith has been working on a realisation of his "DrawBridge" project - standard PC disk drives can be used to read and write Amiga disks - for the FPGA Amiga clone MISTer (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest video he summarises the current state of development. (dr)

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06.Aug.2023



 Dungeon Crawler: The Last Dungeon V0.7c
As a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022, 'PixelPlop' had released a first, playable, but still incomplete version of "The Last Dungeon" (YouTube video). Now he has made available a first update that fixes some bugs. (dr)

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 Video: Emulator E-UAE for AmigaOS4
UAE (abbreviation for Unix Amiga Emulator or Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator) is a software emulator that can be used to run Amiga programs on various operating systems. For Windows, a special variant called WinUAE was developed on the basis of UAE. Based on WinUAE, E-UAE was developed to make its special functions usable on other operating systems. The version ported and available on AmigaOS 4 dates from 2015 (amiga-news.de reported).

Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has created an extensive video about E-UAE under AmigaOS 4, in which he describes the basics and the development. He also explains how the changes made to the source code since 2015 affect it by compiling a current version and showing this using the example of the emulation of AmigaOS 3.2.2.1. (dr)

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 Aminet uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to Aminet:
ignition.lha             biz/spread 5.0M  OS4 a modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha         biz/spread 1.2M  OS4 Sourcecode ignition 1.22
fastbasic.lha            dev/cross  1.4M  MOS Compiler for the Atari 8-bit ...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   4.5M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
PreludeSoftwareBundle... driver/aud 116K  68k Software bundle for Prelude s...
anaiis.lha               driver/oth 238K  68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.23
anaiis_boot.lha          driver/oth 269K  68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
labyrinth64.lha          game/misc  137K  68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
AcesUp.lha               game/think 2.9M  68k Aces Up solitaire card game
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.7M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.9M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   5.2M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.8M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
ANSI-Draw_v097.lha       text/edit  75K   68k Advanced ANSI character&graph...
words10.lha              text/misc  6K    68k extreme fast wordcounter
deark.lha                util/arc   4.0M  68k Extracting data from various ...
lhasa.lha                util/arc   4.2M  MOS Free Software LHA implementat...
mkatr.lha                util/conv  47K   MOS ATR disk image creation tool
AmiSSL-5.10-OS3.lha      util/libs  3.4M  68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.10-OS4.lha      util/libs  3.1M  OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.10-SDK.lha      util/libs  2.3M  OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
Add_UKBankHolidays.lha   util/time  1K        Lil Calender UK Bank Holiday ...
gidatario.lha            util/time  229K  68k GI Datario 
LilCalendar.lha          util/time  3.4M  68k Versatile calender and remind...
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 OS4Depot uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha           dev/mis 2Mb   4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
siliconmotion502_chip... dri/vid 14kb  4.1 SiliconMotion 502 video driver
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
scummvm.lha              gam/mis 109Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.zip          gam/mis 178Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
blues.lha                gam/pla 3Mb   4.1 Blues Brothers games recreation
amissl.lha               lib/mis 3Mb   4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
mediavault_script.lha    net/mis 24kb  4.0 Choose player or download stream...
ignition.lha             off/spr 5Mb   4.1 A modern spreadsheet
ignition-src.lha         off/spr 1Mb   4.0 A modern spreadsheet (source)
deark.lha                uti/arc 6Mb   4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
set_get_ts.lha           uti/scr 25kb  4.0 obtain time in scripts
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 AROS Archives uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to AROS Archives:
acesup.i386-aros.lha         gam/car 3Mb   solitaire card game
watercolor_cubic_themes_0... gra/the 460kb Watercolor Cubic Window Themes
lilcalendar.i386-aros.lha    uti/wor 3Mb   Calender scheduling and reminder...
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 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.08.2023
The following files have been added until 05.08.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Flite_1.2.lha             Audio/Misc                Speech synthesis engine
Python_3.2_v2.02r176.lha  Dependencies/Python       Python_3.2_v2.02r176.lha
Python_3.4-draft.lha      Dependencies/Python       Python_3.4-draft.lha
FastBasic_4.6.lha         Development/Cross         Compiler for the Atari ...
mkatr_1.3.lha             Emulation/Misc            ATR disk image creation...
AmiArcadia_30.0.lha       Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Deark_1.6.5.lha           Files/Archive             Extracting data from va...
Lhasa_0.4.0.lha           Files/Archive             A Free Software LHA imp...
uif2iso_0.1.2.lha         Files/Convert             UIF to ISO converter
ScummVM_2.7.1.lha         Games/Adventure           2D Point-and-Click adve...
Aliens-versus-Predator... Games/Shoot3D             Aliens versus Predator ...
VidentiumPicta_2.60.lha   Graphics/Tools            An image viewer  progra...
CDXL-Player_1.1.lha       Multimedia                CDXL player with source...
VAMP_3.10.lha             Multimedia                A Multimedia Player pro...
Easy2Install_1.0b27.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
ScreamBar_1.2.lha         System/Ambient/Screenbar  Screenbar module plug-i...
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 WHDLoad: New installers until 05.08.2023
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 05.08.2023:
  • 2023-08-05 fixed: Nexus 7 (Andromeda) added a flush cache to avoid a crash under 060 before clusters part (Info, Image)
  • 2023-08-05 improved: Sword (Serio-Comic) no more 68020 required for the kickstart 3.1, 2nd button to jump supported (Info)
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 AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for July
For the month of January 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)

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Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Amiga Future: Events calendar
Amiga Future announces that it now also enters events in its calendar at the title link. Additions can be made via form by people registered there or otherwise also by e-mail. (snx)

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 Video tutorial: Episode 35 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 35 was published. (dr)

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05.Aug.2023



 Floppy disk images: Disc Image Manager V1.46.4 for Linux, macOS and Windows
Gerald J Holdsworth's Disc Image Manager is an application used to load a retro disc image, read the catalogue and output any required files. In addition, it will also add files to the image, delete, and rename files and directories. On the Amiga side, reading and writing of AmigaDOS disks and hard disks with OFS and FFS formatting are supported (not fully tested with FFS). Support for directory cache and international characters is still missing (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.46.4:

New or improved features
  • Font size on the BBC Basic Viewer can be changed.
  • Added the ability to use the mouse scroll wheel on a hex dump.
  • Can now read Acorn ROM FS images.
  • When reading UEF images, each CFS header is checked to be valid before reading.
  • Can now create blank Acorn ROM FS images.
  • Can now add files to Acorn ROM FS images.
  • Can now delete files from Acorn ROM FS images.
  • Some minor code changes (creation of new images).
  • Command line parsing has been completely removed and replaced by a command line console.
  • Attributes are now validated before applying.
  • CSV output now includes the option for MD5, per file.
  • Button added to allow loading of multiple images and outputting a CSV of each file.
Bug fixes
  • OS dark mode: most of the controls do not react to the change from light mode to dark mode. The changing of the font colour sometimes made them hard to see with the tiling selected.
  • The Hex Dump dialogue was not scaling correctly with Hi-DPI setups.
  • Not all BASIC files are terminated with 0xFF. This fooled the BASIC detector in the Hex Dump viewer.
  • If the creation of a new image fails, the application still thought that there was an image open.
  • When renaming a file, or editing the load or execution addresses, pressing the BackSpace key would attempt to delete the file, instead of deleting the text.
  • It was possible to remove the 'D' attribute of a directory, or add one to a file.
  • If the last line in a hex dump text output was less than 16 bytes, then the position of the ASCII representation would not line up with the columns above.
  • MS-DOS 6.22 failed to properly read a floppy image created by the application. Changed a few settings in the header when formatting a new image.
  • Fixed some quote placement errors in the CSV output.


The author also provides a detailed PDF manual. (dr)

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 Competition: Voting for the AmiGameJam 2022
For about 15 days, there is still the possibility to vote for the nine entries of the AmiGameJam 2022 or to give up to five points per game. The votes of the community will count for 25% of the final score, the remaining 75% will be determined by the three-member jury. (dr)

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 Tool: identify library 43.1
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 43.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
  • Added more manufacturers and boards
  • AmigaOS 3.9 wasn't detected under certain circumstances
  • Fixed a crash on ACT Apollo A620 detection
Downloads:

IdentifyDev.lha (67 kB)
IdentifyUsr.lha (100 kB) (dr)

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05.Aug.2023
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 AmigaOS 4.1: "Blues Brothers" games and "Prehistorik 2" ported
Titus Software Titus Software was a French software publisher and developer that also released numerous games for the Amiga. Among them were The Blues Brothers and Prehistorik. On GitHub, the developer 'cyxx' had published a new version of the engine on which the games "The Blues Brothers", "Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure" and "Prehistorik 2" are based and which now offers, among other things, configurable screen size and unlimited lives.

George 'walkero' Sokianos has now ported this engine for AmigaOS 4.1 and published it both on his GitHub page and under the title link in the OS4Depot. The accompanying readme explains exactly how the additionally required data of the original games (demo or full version) have to be installed. (dr)

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 Introduction: Mediathek V0.1 for all Amiga systems
For some time now Jörg Renkert (among others AmiBrixx or ModExplorer) has been working on an implementation of the programme MediathekView - a program searching the online media libraries of the German public television broadcasters - for the Amiga systems, based on Hollywood, and has now released a first version 0.1 (from left to right the versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS):



The programme ran very smoothly and flawlessly on our two test systems (Amiga 1200 with PiStorm-lite and AmigaOne X5000). After a search query, the results are displayed in the right half of the window. If you select an entry there, you get information about the file sizes for high, medium and low quality in the lower area and even lower information about the program itself. If you don't want to set everything up again for the same search each time you start it - keyword, channel, storage location, etc. - you can do this under a profile. - then you can save this under a profile. The only difference between the AmigaOS 3 and the other two versions: under AmigaOS 3 you have no possibility of sorting the result list, for example according to the length of the contributions.

When choosing the film quality, the high quality is ruled out for the test systems, as it cannot be played smoothly. Under AmigaOS 3, neither FroggerNG nor RiVA could be persuaded to play the present mp4 format (low quality), but this may also be due to the inexperience of the operator. Under AmigaOS 4, the X5000 manages to play the low quality without problems using Emotion Mediaplayer and DVPlayer. The latter also masters the medium quality, whereas with Emotion Mediaplayer V1.9 sound and picture no longer run synchronously.

Mplayer under MorphOS, on the other hand - here, however, in version 1.1 - manages both quality levels without visible problems.

In addition to the download (D), you can copy the link to the clipboard (C) or transfer it to a previously selected video player (E). However, the latter did not work on any system. In principle, it would be advantageous if not only the pure title were saved, but also the correct mp4 file extension.

Mediathek by Jörg Renkert is without doubt one of the best (Hollywood) Amiga applications of recent times, for which one likes to boot up the Amiga computer again more often. Even in the early version 0.1 the programme makes a very mature impression and one can only guess how much time was invested in the project. Hats off! (dr)

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 RTG driver: P96 V3.4.0 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.4.0 of his RTG driver P96, which can be bought or downloaded from the order history at iComp. He wrote: "Highlights of this new release are emulation of EHB mode (64-colour mode of the Amiga chipset) and support of the RainbowII card, which is identical to the BSC Framemaster. Further, the Commodore A2410 board is supported - this card is also known as the "Tiga card". This driver is still in an early development phase, and it does not yet use DMA. Further, P96Prefs (amiga-news.de reported) and P96ScreenCX are now part of the package - the latter for multi-monitor operation with a native Amiga screen alongside the GFX card's output." Detailed changelog:
  • Added emulation for Extra Half Bright mode. It is enabled along with planar emulation.
  • Planar emulation is now disabled if the board does not support a chunky mode required for planar emulation. This should be really rare, though.
  • Allocation of bitmaps failed in case the bitmap flags still contained the magic DPaint flag that CPU blitting is necessary.
  • now prevents a crash in case a driver forgot to set the pixel clock of a mode to a non-zero value.
  • The CVisionPPC card driver accepts now the MEMORYCLOCK tooltype which specifies the memory clock in MHz.
  • The graphics.library functions ClearEOL() and ClearScreen() have been broken in all versions of Amiga OS, including AmigaOs 3.2.2. Luckely, they are rarely used (and should probably be avoided altogether). P96 now includes a re-implementation of the functions that should be safe.
  • If GRANTDIRECTACCESS is set, P96 now disables the planar mode as it requires switching the Chain4 mode and thus modifies content under the feed of a potential user of the direct access. In such cases, the planar emulation can be used.
  • The installer forgot to install the Cirrus5446 driver for the PicassoIV board.
  • The S3Virge driver installed a maximum horizontal resolution of 1280 for everything beyond highcolor. This limit was increased to 1440 pixels.
  • P96Prefs will no longer accept to create modes that the P96 core would refuse to create if they are beyond the bounds registered by the driver.
  • P96 disables screen dragging on autoscroll screens because VGA chipsets cannot pan the dragged screen below the screen split positions. The current logic for determine autoscroll screens compared the bitmap width with the width of the video mode. This is not quite correct as bitmaps on some cards may be required to be wider than the mode width. On cards using VRAM, the line size must be a multiple of the VRAM shift register size.
  • The CVision3D driver now also supports horizontal resolutions wider than 1280 pixels for high-color modes.
  • P96 now supports even more graphics boards. This time, the RainbowII frame buffer and the CBM A2410 was added to the list of supported boards.
  • The RainbowII is not very exiting as it only supports 32bit TrueColor in either PAL or NTSC, interlace or progressive, thus modes cannot be freely defined.
  • RainbowII was also marketed as FrameMaster by BSC and Elaborate Bytes, the driver supports all three boards.
  • The A2410 was CBM's only graphics board, originally designed by the University of Lowell. It is based on the TI TMS34010 chipset. The chip is an oddity as it does not provide direct access to its video RAM. Thus, its driver needs to play some tricks with the MMU and requires the mmu.library. The TMS34010 chip includes blitter functionalities the driver uses when possible, though still needs to render by the CPU itself into a "mirror framebuffer". Thus, everything will be pretty slow. Again, note that you *need* the mmu.library for the A2410.
  • The physical dimensions of the monitor in millimeters can now be put into the monitor icon tooltypes as MONITORWIDTH and MONITORHEIGHT. This allows P96 to compute the resolution of all modes on the monitor. Note that the tooltypes are in millimeters, not in pixels.
  • The P96 distribution includes now additonal contributions: The P96Prefs program is the new style preferences editor. It replaces the Picasso96Mode if the target operating system is Os 3.2 or better.
  • P96Mode did not compute the monitor limit frequency correctly, fixed.
  • P96Mode did not check whether the board type as indicated in the board is correct.
  • In case more than one board was installed, P96Prefs could have shown a dummy resolution of 320x200 pixels that is only for internal use.
  • P96Prefs disabled modes if the requested clock frequency differed too much from the actual clock frequency. This is no longer the case.
  • Additonal contributions are the Native monitor driver and the P96ScreenCX commodity.
  • Updated the installer script to also install contributions and localizations.
  • Again, I want to thank Samir and Javier for updating the Italian and Spanish catalogs of P96Prefs, and most of all Thomas Richter for his continued work on P96.
(dr)

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 Event: Interface XXXV in Kiel (Germany)
On Saturday, 2 September 2023, the retro computer event "Interface" will take place in Schwentinental near Kiel (Germany) for the 35th time. Organizers are as always 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 for 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 attic offer enough space for talking and playing games on the computers and consoles you have brought along. Power strips and network cables must be brought by the participants.

Official start is at 14 o'clock, from approx. 12 o'clock the organization team begins with the structure of the tables etc. The venue is the Jugendhaus Klausdorf, Dorfstraße 101 in 24222 Schwentinental (Klausdorf district). (snx)

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 Rogue-like game: Rogue Declan Zero released
After several preview videos (amiga-news.de reported), Nivrig Games has now released the twin-stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero" (YouTube video) as a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022. A little play guide is also available. (dr)

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 Video tutorial: Building a graphics editor in AMOS, part 2
In the second part of his video tutorial series on creating a simple graphics editor (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' fixes some bugs in the original code and adds Circle functionality. The source code as well as all other programs of the series can be downloaded for free from his website. (dr)

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 USB-Stack: ANAIIS 1.23
ANAIIS ("Another Native Amiga IO Interface Stack") written by Gilles Pelletier is an USB stack which also runs on a 68000 processor. This can be used, for example, to operate the Subway 2021 from Alinea Computer. Changes:
  • Install script for FD and fdclasses
  • Automatic activation of FD drivers
  • TheMouse is ok, TheGamepad still not
  • Hub status and port status
  • Fix assembly Subway code
  • FD drivers
  • A600/A1200 Gayle clockport (not tested)
  • Fix load/update/save prefs
  • NTSC mode
  • Another mouse with epsize at 8
  • Fix a guru#3 on 68000 at start
  • callfunction, an adempt to load Sirion 1.3 drivers
  • rMouse.usbfd driver
  • First call of a Sirion 1.3 function: bootmouse.usbfd
  • Water rabbit version
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Amigaworld.net (forum)


 Event: Amiga Camping 2023 (France)
In the west of France, in the Vendée, on the outskirts of the town of La Roche-sur-Yon, Amiga Camping 2023 will take place from August 25 to 27 in a wooded area just a few kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean. Topics of discussion besides the Amiga itself will be retro gaming and alternative computing in general as well as robotics.

Among other things, Amiga, arcade, retro-gaming, virtual reality, introduction to 3D printing, games for geeks, games for non-geeks, the theft of unusual objects and of course barbecues are mentioned as program items. (snx)

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Patreon


 Preview video: Shoot'em Up "Boss Machine" (AGA)
Kevin Saunders continues to work on the graphics of the horizontally scrolling shooter for AGA computers "Boss Machine" (amiga-news.de reported). Daniel Stephens has published a short video of the new boss 'DeathStormer' on his YouTube channel. Saunders has published further designs of opponents on his Patreon website. (dr)

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GitHub


 Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.10 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.10 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.1.2 (1.8.2023). Detailed changes:
  • Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.1.2 (1.8.2023) version, which includes improvements and fixes for three low severity identified vulnerabilities:
    • Fix excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value.
    • Fix DH_check() excessive time with over sized modulus.
    • Do not ignore empty associated data entries with AES-SIV.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.10-OS3.lha (3,4 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.10-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.10-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)

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itch.io


 Action RPG: "King Arthur: Rise of the Round Table"
LateBit' have also submitted their entry to AmiGameJam 2022 just in time: "King Arthur: Rise of the Round Table" is inspired by "Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight" and requires an AGA-Amiga and currently still an 030 processor (YouTube video). The game is not yet optimised, graphics are missing, and some bugs are still included. (dr)

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itch.io


 Shoot'em Up: Caravandalf
Also shortly before the deadline, Peter & Gordon Mackay submitted their game "Caravandalf" to AmiGameJam 2022 (YouTube video). An AGA Amiga is required. (dr)

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itch.io


 Rogue-like game: Demo version of Roguecraft
In October 2022, Budger Punch announced an Amiga version of their C64 game Rogue64 with improved graphics and adapted features (amiga-news.de reported). A demo version for the AmiGameJam 2022 has now been published before the "closing date".

The developers point out that the demo version still contains some errors, especially graphical ones, and is not yet complete. It is therefore limited to four levels. An Amiga1200 or higher is recommended for a smooth game experience, the actual gameplay should run on an Amiga 500 with 1Mb RAM. Feedback is explicitly welcome. (dr)

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31.Jul.2023
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 Dungeon Crawler: The Last Dungeon v0.6
In May, 'PixelPlop' had started to develop his entry for the AmiGameJam 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). Just in time before the deadline he has now published a first, playable, but still incomplete version of "The Last Dungeon" (YouTube video). If there is sufficient feedback, he intends to finish writing the game after the jam. (dr)

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Patreon


 Motorola68k emulation: Second beta version of Emu68 (V0.16)
Developer Michal Schulz has released a second beta version of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite. As the developer writes, more than a year of hard work went into Emu68 and PiStorm, as well as thousands of hours of testing by volunteers. Stability and compatibility have improved greatly during this time. He will now return to the topic of WiFi and PiStorm. (dr)

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 Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.15.1
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)

Die Version 1.15.1 fixes a bug of version 1.14 which prevented importing Kryoflux raw files. (dr)

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 Demoparty: Nordlicht, 08 to 10 September in Bremen (Germany)
The next edition of the 'Nordlicht' will take place in Bremen from 08 to 10 September. Tickets for the event can be purchased now via the official website. (dr)

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30.Jul.2023
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 AmigaOS 4.1: Spreadsheet ignition 1.22
Achim Pankalla has released version 1.22 of his spreadsheet ignition which at least requires AmigaOS 4.1 update 6. Changes:
  • The csv addon now supports UTF8 characters on reading.
  • All addons now support filenames with more than one "." in their names.
  • The Arexx process no longer crashes, when ignition receives many Arexx commands.
  • The ARexx command Coord2Pos returns now FAIL when row or col are lower than one and no longer corrects this automatically.
  • The font manager of ignition now no longer makes a failure when searching for the bold or italic style fonts. That provides a better look of the font because now the correct font is used.
  • ignition's font manager now informs the user when a font is not found, so he can create/search for the needed one. This also results in a better look of the tables.
(dr)

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 MP3 player: Reel Deck V1.06
At the beginning of February, Sami Vehmaa had released 1.00 of his MP3 player "Reel Deck" for Amigas with graphics card (amiga-news.de reported). Since then he has made minor improvements and bug fixes. The changes:
  • removed case sensitivity in file names
  • added two more reels and analog VU
  • dbl_display.include upgraded, no jumping window to position 0,0
  • changed timing to FPS instead of timer
  • song info text colour fix
  • VU meter bug found and squashed
The player can currently be purchased for one euro or more, but is primarily intended for emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. AmigaOS 3.x and at least 20 MB RAM are required. (dr)

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 Video player: Amos Anim Player v2023.07.30
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported).
In the current version the Reducer has got adjustable settings (luminance sensitivity, block size, ect.). (dr)

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 Platform game: Demo version of "Gothic Vania" (Amiten Games)
After Matteo 'Toolkitman' Trevisan had already taken on the Scorpion Engine demo Gothic Vania and released his own demo version (amiga-news.de reported), Amiten Games is now making the same attempt (YouTube video) as a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022. (dr)

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 Aminet uploads until 29.07.2023
The following files have been added until 29.07.2023 to Aminet:
oscar64.lha              dev/cross  1.7M  MOS C Compiler Assembler + Runtim...
TankX.lha                game/2play 1.2M  68k 2-7 player tank combat (updat...
RescueLander.lha         game/actio 59K   68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
drally.lha               game/race  386K  68k Death Rally Amiga Port
RoyalMarriage.lha        game/think 2.9M  68k Royal Marriage solitaire card...
2D_ATcad_KIT.zip         gfx/misc   878K  68k 2D-CAD-Programm
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   4.9M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.8M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
2D_ATcad_AmiKIT.png      pix/misc   339K      ATcad_KIT on AmiKIT-X
2D_ATcad_HELP.jpg        pix/misc   878K      ATcad AmiKIT-Settings
2D_ATcad_RTG720.png      pix/misc   24K       ATcad_RTG in 720p
BrotherOfAmiga.png       pix/misc   1.9M      Brother of Amiga
NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B02.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B03.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
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 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip     text/bfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B11.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B12.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip     text/bfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip     text/bfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip     text/bfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B18.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B20.zip     text/bfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip     text/bfont 2.3M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      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-B26.zip     text/bfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B27.zip     text/bfont 2.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B28.zip     text/bfont 2.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-01.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-02.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-03.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-04.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-05.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-06.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-08.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-09.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-11.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-12.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-13.zip      text/pfont 1.7M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip      text/pfont 1.7M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-15.zip      text/pfont 2.1M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip      text/pfont 1.8M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-18.zip      text/pfont 1.6M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-20.zip      text/pfont 1.9M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip      text/pfont 2.2M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip      text/pfont 2.2M      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)
NAFCYI1991S1-26.zip      text/pfont 2.0M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-27.zip      text/pfont 1.4M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-28.zip      text/pfont 2.5M      NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
fxblankers.lha           util/blank 97K   MOS Effectful screenblankers for ...
FahrenHeitMUI.lha        util/conv  51K        celcius (+ source)
AmigaGPT.lha             util/misc  213K  68k App for chatting to ChatGPT
AmiKick.zip              util/misc  52K       Check Kickstart images under ...
iGame.lha                util/misc  434K  68k Front-end for WHDLoad
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  12M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
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 OS4Depot uploads until 29.07.2023
The following files have been added until 29.07.2023 to OS4Depot:
giflib.lha               dev/lib 571kb 4.1 A library for processing GIF ima...
libjpeg.lha              dev/lib 3Mb   4.1 Lib for handling JPEG images
libpng.lha               dev/lib 3Mb   4.1 Lib for handling PNG files
libsdl_image.lha         dev/lib 2Mb   4.1 SDL image file loading library
libsdl2_image.lha        dev/lib 2Mb   4.1 SDL2 image file loading library
libtiff.lha              dev/lib 5Mb   4.1 Lib for handling Tag Image File ...
libwebp.lha              dev/lib 7Mb   4.1 lib for handling WebP images
eaqne3.lzx               gam/adv 23Mb  4.0 Third and last chapter of EAQNE
baccarat.lha             gam/car 8Mb   4.0 A card game from Dr. No and Casi...
igame.lha                uti/mis 434kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
set_get_ts.lha           uti/scr 10kb  4.0 obtain time in scripts
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 AROS Archives uploads until 29.07.2023
The following files have been added until 29.07.2023 to AROS Archives:
eaqne3.lzx                   gam/adv 23Mb  Third and last chapter of EAQNE
baccarat.lha                 gam/car 7Mb   A card game from Dr. No and Casi...
royalmarriage.i386-aros.lha  gam/car 3Mb   solitaire card game
heroes.i386-aros.zip         gam/mis 5Mb   Snake game with many power-ups a...
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 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.07.2023
The following files have been added until 29.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
mod2wav_1.0.lha           Audio/Convert             mod2wav_1.0.lha
SoX_14.2.0.lha            Audio/Encoder             A sound Effects/Player-...
LAME_3.99.5.lha           Audio/Encoder             A MP3 encoder optimized...
imp3_3.413.lha            Audio/Players             Play modules from inter...
DigiRoller_1.2.lha        Audio/Players             A player and renderer f...
Printer_1.0.lha           Dependencies/Hollywood    Printer plugin for holl...
MCC-Reggae_1.0.lha        Dependencies/MUI-Classes  MUI Class to display pi...
MCC-HotkeyString_12.1.lha Dependencies/MUI-Classes  HotkeyString custom cla...
MCC-Wmf_1.0.lha           Dependencies/MUI-Classes  A Wmf MUI Class
MCC-HTMLview_13.4.lha     Dependencies/MUI-Classes  HTMLview custom class f...
MCC-GIFAnim_19.5.lha      Dependencies/MUI-Classes  GIF animation custom cl...
MCC-Webp_1.0.lha          Dependencies/MUI-Classes  A WebP MUI Class
MCC-AVcodec_1.0.lha       Dependencies/MUI-Classes  A Avcodec MUI Class.
oscar64_1.23.211.lha      Development/Cross         C Compiler Assembler + ...
AmiArcadia_30.0.lha       Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
BermudaSyndrome_0.1.7.lha Games/Action              This project reimplemen...
VoxelBird.lha             Games/Action              Flap the wings of our l...
EAQNE-3_1.0.lha           Games/Adventure           Adventure point and cli...
Baccarat_1.00.lha         Games/Card                Play in this virtual Ca...
fheroes2_1.0.6.lha        Games/Strategy            fheroes2 is a recreatio...
AmiTranslate_0.2.lha      Misc                      AmiTranslate_0.2.lha
AmiTube_1.4.lha           Multimedia                The first YouTube Clien...
VLC_0.8.6f_beta6.lha      Multimedia                Port of VLC Media Playe...
Easy2Install_1.0b22.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
fxBlankers_1.3.lha        System/Ambient/Blankers   Effectful screenblanker...
Annotate_3.0.1.lha        Text/Edit                 A text editor with adva...
FIGlet_2.2.1.lha          Text/Misc                 Makes big ASCII Charact...
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 WHDLoad: New installers until 29.07.2023
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 29.07.2023:
  • 2023-07-28 improved: Inertia Drive (Ozi Soft) supports another disk (Info)
  • 2023-07-27 improved: Detroit / Rüsselsheim (Impressions) supports ECS french version, keymap system can be used in game (Info, Image)
  • 2023-07-23 improved: Popeye 2 (Alternative) supports another version, chip memory requirements reduced to 0.5 MB, manual included (Info)
(snx)

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 Video series "Taborized": Battle Squadron Enhanced + Tower 57 adapted to A1222+
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener had already adapted some of his games to the Tabor board in the past (e.g. Tower 57). However, all of these games still lacked sound because there was no sound driver at the time. Since meanwhile the sound driver is available, he is working on these games one after the other and adapting the audio code for SPE. This has already been done for the games Battle Squadron Enhanced and Tower 57.

The respective executables will be made available free of charge. (dr)

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28.Jul.2023



 LinuxJedi blog: Restauration of an Amiga 3000, part 3 and 4
After the first two blog entries about the restoration of an Amiga 3000 bought from the USA (amiga-news.de reported), Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings continues this series with part three and part four, in which he describes various cleaning efforts and upgrades respectively. (dr)

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GitHub


 WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.2
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.2 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:

Fixed
  • Fixed the menus in MorphOS that were broken for some time now.
Changed
  • Simplified the version string and added the release date in the screen title.
Direct download: iGame-v2.4.2-20230727.lha (434 Kb) (dr)

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27.Jul.2023



 Video tutorial: Building a graphics editor in AMOS, part 1
After finishing his short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' has started a new video tutorial series with this first part, which aims to show in a bit more detail how to program a simple tool for creating and editing graphics with AMOS, using commands like Plot, Draw, Box and BAR. (dr)

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itch.io


 Programming assistance: "AB_Template" 0.76 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, amiga-news.de reported). In version 0.76 he has updated the game menu and added the source code of the games Atris, Battleship SEAHAWK (YouTube-Video), Dungeon Escape (YouTube-Video), Last Space Raider (YouTube-Video), Sky Tower (YouTube-Video) and Slendermanpages. (dr)

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 Blog: Amiga 4000T Upgrade, part 1
In the first part of an article series "Epsilon's World" has descibed, how he has upgraded his Amiga 4000T with AmigaOS 3.2.2, the graphics board ZZ9000 and diverse applications. (dr)

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26.Jul.2023



 Arcade port: Wonderboy V1.2
Wonderboy is an Amiga port of the first part of the Wonder Boy saga, of which only the sequel Wonderboy in Monsterland was available for the Amiga so far (amiga-news.de reported). Changes since our news item about version 1.0:
  • Tweaks to bosses, improved collision detection and minor change to animations.
  • Tweaks to enemy and obstacle collision detection.
  • Tweak to egg collision, does not bump quite as far.
  • Fixed ESC bonus activating after continue screen.
  • Added confirmation before QUIT.
  • Added extra lives at 30k, 100k, 170k & 240k
  • Tweaks to frog leaping mechanic (run straight at them!)
  • Fixed several minor bugs
  • Improved loading speeds
  • Added highscore saves
(dr)

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 MorphOS: Screen blankers fxBlankers V1.3
Stephan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has released version 1.3 of his screen saver fxBlankers for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) which now also includes MysticLines. It is based on June Tate-Gans live stream tutorial in QBasic. (dr)

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26.Jul.2023



 Report: Swapping the CPU in MicroA1 (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. Based on his previous article about the influence of the cache on PowerPC CPU she now reports how she swapped the G3-CPU in her MicroA1 from 750FX to 750GX and finally overclocked GX to 1200 MHz. Because of the large 1024 kB cache, speed increase especially with emulators and web browsing are great. (dr)

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25.Jul.2023
Amigaworld.net (forum)


 Xbox: 201 Amiga games in stream with Antstream Arcade
Owners of the Xbox game console from Microsoft now have access to 201 Amiga games via streaming, provided by the British provider Antstream. (Or "had access", respectively, since according to today's updated FAQ, Antstream Arcade has been "temporarily" removed by Microsoft from their store.) For the usage you can choose between a 1-year and a lifetime fee.

The licensing of the games from Amiga Corporation by Antstream was announced last year at Amiga37, Evercade was mentioned as another licensee at that time. Antstream Arcade is also available for PC, Mac, Android and Amazon's Fire TV. (snx)

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25.Jul.2023
Seiya (ANF)


 PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 148 (Italian/English)
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 Seek and Destroy, Star Crusader and Starglider. (snx)

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25.Jul.2023



 Proof of concept: Shoot 'em Up "Amiga E.D.F."
The developer 'S0Y' (among others Temptations port for the CD32) has taken a look at the Shoot 'em Up Earth Defense Force, originally released for the SNES, and tested if an implementation and continuation on Amiga-AGA computers would be possible (YouTube video). The game, which is explicitly not intended to be a pure port, should have the following features:
  • 32 colours with "AGA features"
  • 020/14 MHz
  • 25 FPS
  • CD32 audio-tracks
  • 1300 Kb RAM used so far (672 kb Chip + 628 Fast)
(dr)

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