17.Feb.2023
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Unofficial successor: "It Returned From The Desert" for Windows
Tim Rachor's "It returned from the desert" (official release trailer) is an unofficial successor of the Amiga game It came from the desert for Windows (amiga-news.de reported), which now was released on Steam for 8,99 Euro. (dr)
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17.Feb.2023
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Video: Hidden developer messages
Piracy was rife on the Amiga, and almost every game was cracked by various scene groups. In his latest video, Kim Justice presents the messages and rants left in the code by developers for these crackers, which were sometimes angry but mostly hilarious. (dr)
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17.Feb.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.2.1
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.2.1 of the firmware has been released. Changes:
- Reinsert CD-ROM image when receiving Inquiry command
- Open image as read-only if attribute set
- RP2040: Reduce delay between phase signal changes
(dr)
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16.Feb.2023
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.9
A few moments ago, version 3.9.9 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been released. Changes:
changes in project::
- updated documentation
- updated examples drawer
- re-added serveral resident sourcefiles of BB2 for later improvement
- added disassembled source code for blitzlibs animlib, iffiolib, ilbmifflib
- added several StormWizard-demos made by @mdbergmann
changed:
- moved commands GetD0, PutD0, GetRegD0, PushD0 from wzlib to environlib (wzlib needs at least OS2 so use of these commands prevented the executable to be working with an older OS
- reduced memory consumption for string in PED
- changed scroll size to 1 character when scrolling left or right
- changed behaviour of marked blocks, they behave now like blocks in other editors
- removed dependency of fontlib for diskfontlib when using ROM-font, so diskfont.library is not needed anymore if topaz is used!
added:
- new function win windowslib: WindowIsOpen(win#) returns True if the window with given number is opened
fixed:
- fixed several broken OS-functioncalls in PED and compiler that could lead to a crash
- fixed crash of PED when source code contains TAB-characters
- fixed crash when using HELP-key on certain macro names
- fixed some display problems with cursor when blinking is turned off
- fixed some display problems when scrolling source from outside the window
- fixed seldom display problems with highlighting of statement names
- fixed multiple redraws of source window at resize of window
- fixed configuration: state of intellisense option was not parsed correctly
- fixed: if a source file was "saved as", the new filename was not shown in tab title
- fixed: crash when saving as plain text
Download: AmiBlitz399.lha (10 MB) (dr)
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16.Feb.2023
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.167 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 offers support for PCI-Express SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) host adapters.
Download: linux-image-5.10.167-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71 MB)
(dr)
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16.Feb.2023
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Video tutorial: The AMOS command "Limit Mouse"
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains, how you can limit your mouse movements on screen by using the AMOS "Limit Mouse" command. (dr)
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15.Feb.2023
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Demoparty: MountainBytes 2023 (Switzerland)
After a six-year hiatus and another three years of involuntary postponements by Covid, from 24 to 26 February 2023, the "MountainBytes" demo party will take place in Cham, Switzerland, organized by Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur. In addition to various workshops and competitions (timetable), the nominees for The Meteoriks Award will be presented during a show on Friday. The award ceremony will then take place at the Revision demo party in Saarbrücken at the beginning of April. (dr)
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15.Feb.2023
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.56
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.56 which among others provides improved MP3 support and PSID playback. (dr)
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14.Feb.2023
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Blog: The Colorful Charm of Amiga Utility Disks
In his latest, richly illustrated blog entry, Carl Svensson looks at Amiga utility disks and their often creative CLI menus: Utility disks were especially popular in the demo scene, and included editors, crunchers, graphics tools, trackers for composing music, or tools for displaying or playing text, graphics and music files. To create a demo, you only needed a handful of these disks. (dr)
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14.Feb.2023
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Review: ZuluSCSI
Already in mid-January, 'Jaruzel' had reported in his blog about his experiences with the file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator ZuluSCSI. (dr)
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13.Feb.2023
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Video: Chemical Free Retrobrighting Alternatives
In his latest video, Robert Smith uses theoretical considerations and practical experiments to address the question of how to brighten up yellowed keyboards and cases of retro computers without the usual hydrogen peroxide. He has found two successful alternatives. (dr)
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13.Feb.2023
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Article on Amiga use in film productions by Digital Domain
Befores & Afters is a (primarily online) magazine on visual effects and animation. At the title link, it dedicates a current article to the use of the Amiga in the film industry - to be more precise, it is simply a reproduction of memories of Digital Domain graphic artist Sean Cunningham, which he published as a comment on the YouTube channel of Retro Recipes after an Amiga 4000 apparently used for the films "Apollo 13" and "Titanic" turned up three years ago. (snx)
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12.Feb.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Status of Qt 6.2.0
In October 2021, developer Alfkil Wennermark had published a first preview of a text editor created with Qt6 (amiga-news.de reported).
Now he shows in a current YouTube video how he edits text in this editor and then exports it to a pdf file. The special thing about it:
Until now, there was only a static link version of Qt6, which means that all library objects are collected in the executable file at build time. In the dynamic link now, they use shared objects that are all loaded and linked at runtime. Since most complex programs from other platforms need dynamic links (shared objects) for their build systems to work, this is another development step regarding the creation of such programs for AmigaOS 4. (dr)
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12.Feb.2023
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Aminet uploads until 11.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to Aminet:
fe.lha dev/lang 45K MOS A tiny, embeddable language
TinyInvaders.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k SPACE INVADERS poor clone in ...
LazyMines_FR.lha game/think 6K French catalog for LazyMines 3.x
RPNScientific.lha misc/math 2.7M x86 RPN scientific and programmer...
AmigaKlangSamples.lha mods/smpl 664K Samples & Instruments for Ami...
UADE_MMV8.lha mus/play 15K 68k MusicMakerV8 players for UADE
NAFCYI1991S1-B28.zip text/bfont 2.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-28.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
cabextract.lha util/arc 54K 68k Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc...
cabextract_MOS.lha util/arc 51K MOS Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc...
cabextract_OS4.lha util/arc 44K OS4 Extract MS Cabinet (.CAB) arc...
deark.lha util/arc 2.9M 68k Extract data from various fil...
MousePressed.lha util/batch 8K 68k Check if mouse buttons are pr...
Image2PDF.lha util/conv 8.9M ALL convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
AmiSSL-5.7-OS3.lha util/libs 3.3M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.7-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.7-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
eflashutil.lha util/misc 41K 68k GUI for eFlasher utility for ...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 3.9M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AnalogClock.lha util/time 39K 68k Resizeable analog transparent...
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12.Feb.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 11.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to OS4Depot:
void-fb14.zip dem/mus 5Mb 4.0 A music-pack by Void
cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 3Mb 4.0 This is a SDK to make your decks...
afnews.lha net/new 1Mb 4.0 Amiga Future Everywhere AmigaOS 4
afa-viewer.lha uti/arc 4Mb 4.1 Browse AmigaFuture Archive-DVD
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
cabextract.lha uti/fil 44kb 4.0 Extract Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB)...
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12.Feb.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 11.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to AROS Archives:
cardsmakingkit.lha gam/uti 2Mb This is a SDK to make your decks...
image2pdf.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 9Mb convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
rpnscientific.i-386-aros.lha uti/sci 3Mb RPN Scientific and Programmer Ca...
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12.Feb.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Fallout2_manual_FR.pdf Documentation/Games Fallout2_manual_FR.pdf
Fallout2_manual_EN.pdf Documentation/Games Fallout2_manual_EN.pdf
fheroes2_1.0.1.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
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12.Feb.2023
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WHDLoad: Neue Pakete bis 11.02.2023
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 11.02.2023:
- 2023-02-07 new: Rocket Attack (Softgang) done by Psygore (Info)
- 2023-02-07 improved: Magica (Andy Noble) made 68000 compatible (Info, Image)
- 2023-02-06 improved: Walker (DMA Design/Psygnosis) fixed potential crash on Terrible Fire hardware (Info)
- 2023-02-06 new: Regent (Linel) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2023-02-06 new: Magica (Andy Noble) done by DJ Mike (Info, Image)
(snx)
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12.Feb.2023
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:
- Test Drive 2 The Duel Intro Live Performance
- LedStorm Ambient Cover
- Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
- The Sentinel Intro cover
- Cybernoid 2 (Reboot 2023)
- Rise Up
- Hard
- Turrican - Tower of M.O.R.G.U.L. (Extended remix)
- Twintris Song 2 (Intense REMiX)
(snx)
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12.Feb.2023
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Report: Amiga PowerPC hardware in Mini-ITX format (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware.
Now she has published a series of articles dealing with Amiga PowerPC hardware in Mini-ITX size or smaller:
In a concluding fourth part, she compares the three boards, adds the Mac Mini G4 for this purpose and makes recommendations as to which board is best for which operating system in her opinion. (dr)
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12.Feb.2023
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Top-Down action game: "Mighty Mike" for MorphOS and Linux
A few days ago, the developer 'jorio' published version 3.0.2 of the top-down action game "Mighty Mike" for Windows, Mac and Linux (64 bit), originally published by "Pangea Software", including the source code, on itch.io.
Analogous to "Otto Matic", 'BeWorld' has now compiled it for MorphOS and Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky for Linux PPC 32-Bit (direct download, 8 MB). (dr)
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12.Feb.2023
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Jump'n Run: Maria Renard's Revenge released
"Maria Renard's Revenge" (video) is a Jump'n Run inspired by Castlevania which was developed using the Scorpion Engine. Today the final version has been released.
An Amiga 1200 or an Amiga CD32 with 1 MB FastRam are required. (dr)
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11.Feb.2023
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.11 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young has released version 1.11 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2, but has also been tested under AmigaOS 4. Since it uses a new window.class, it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes:
- Improve window handling:
- Can now open new window from the GUI
- Can select to ask/hide/quit when last window closed (NB: CONFIRMQUIT tooltype no longer used)
- Can now specify an archive on the command line
Download: avalanche.lha (84 Kb) (dr)
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11.Feb.2023
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Turn-based strategy: Intro update for "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released an intro update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de - which now tells the background story with a slideshow (YouTube video).
Compared to the version from the beginning of December (amiga-news.de reported), there are also a number of improvements that make "Settle the World" even more playable:
- Pioneers can build mines on hills or mountains to increase the iron yield
- In the cities, once a certain number of inhabitants has been reached, you can see exactly what needs have to be met for the inhabitants to move up to the next class (a lot of time and work went into this)
- There are now master carpenters to speed up the construction of buildings
- Intermediate images for special events
- more small animations, especially on water (CPU >= 68030)
- Cities now have their own view radius
- Horses multiply faster in cities
- ...and many more little things
Thus, it is now much easier to reach a large working class city and easier for the player to understand what is needed to do so. As the developer writes to us, there are still no natives or computer opponents, but some work in this direction has already been initiated with this update.
A Quick Start Guide in PDF format should also make it even easier to get started with the game.
"Settle the World" is primarily intended as a duel between human opponents, but can also be played alone. The game requires 1 megabyte of ChipRAM and 4 megabytes of FastRAM, a hard disk and at least a 68020 processor. (dr)
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10.Feb.2023
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20201110-1
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the new version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-Bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). Over 1400 changes have been integrated, with 1700 still to come to match the main branch. The full list of changes can be seen under the title link. (dr)
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10.Feb.2023
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Tech demo: 3D engine for Amiga 1200
In a little tech demo, 'Rst7/CBSIE' presents his 3D engine "SDDDE" for the Amiga 1200. The corresponding project is maintained on GitHub. (dr)
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10.Feb.2023
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User Report: The PiStorm32-lite, part 1
I never really planned to get a PiStorm for my Amiga 1200. Firstly, the project - the PiStorm32 - didn't seem to be finished in the near future and then, of course, there was the question of its sense and usefulness.
Since the 90s, a Blizzard 1230 has been working reliably and seemingly for eternity in my Amiga 1200. In the 2000s, I had given it 128 MB Fast RAM and an SD hard disk so that I could also "play around" with resource-hungry software such as the browser Netsurf (see the corresponding browser test). I never had any problems with the speed, since it is 30 years old hardware. But there was one thing I had always wished for, which was denied me in the desktop version of the 1200: a graphics card. For example, I ran the mail programme YAM under AGA for many, many years, but it was really no feast for the eyes.
When, relatively spontaneously and surprisingly, the PiStorm32-lite project was not only announced at the beginning of October last year, but also completed at the end of last year, and this made it possible to run my Workbench with graphics card resolution, my thoughts also became more concrete. Especially as it is obviously possible to deactivate the card and then run the old games via diskette. I am attached to my Blizzard, but it was decided: a PiStorm32-lite should be purchased.
We published a news item the other day about the current availability of the adapter (with and without the required Raspberry Pi), although Amiga Kit now also offers the PiStorm32-lite at a fair price. I ordered the adapter and the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A separately, which arrived as follows:
Having never held a Raspberry Pi in my hands before, I was amazed at how small this single-board computer is. Especially when you had just looked into the tower of the X5000 ;) I have to admit, I'm not a born hobbyist and haven't messed around with the 1200 for ages, but assembling the adapter with the Pi and then installing it in the 1200 is doable.
First, the thermal pad is put onto the square surface provided for it:
Then place the three spacers on the holes:
Now put on the Raspberry Pi and also fix the insulation rail with the three screws:
The assembled card must now be installed in the trapdoor expansion slot on the underside of the housing. In my case, the Blizzard 1230 turbo card was in there together with the memory bar, which first has to be removed:
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At the top left you can still see the SCSI cable, which I had also removed. Possibly it is meant to be inserted this way now, but with my two clumsy hands it did not work well. Since I had to open the case in such and such a way to remove the cable, I didn't try for long and was able to install the card well this way:
Incidentally, the HDMI connection can be seen in the top centre, and the USB connection in the centre right. In contrast to the Raspberry Pi 4, the 3 version has a normal HDMI connection and not a micro HDMI connection. As you can see from my standard HDMI cable: that's going to be tight!
At first I could only connect it by disconnecting the floppy drive completely:
And even then, the plug pushed the whole card up a bit by resting on the metal sheet. Anyway. I wanted to at least start a test run to see if it basically worked. Switched on and I saw:
a black screen!
As the attentive reader may have noticed, the microSD card was missing from the designated slot ;)
It was still in my discarded Nokia Lumia mobile phone. Why is that? Because my card reader doesn't have a microSD slot. I had fished out an adapter from my stock, into which the microSD card could be inserted and then read as an SD card, but unfortunately that didn't work. But I had to prepare the card somehow and so I came up with the temporary solution with the mobile phone.
The preparation of the map needs to be dealt with more intensively, but basically there are two good places to go to get information and read up:
As far as I have noticed, most users use an AmigaOS 3.x installed on the card to take full advantage of the speed benefits when accessing the card. I primarily want to use and test my software installed on the Amiga 1200 first and therefore accept the slower IDE interface. For this, one only has to install two things on the card:
The unpacked Emu68 archive looks like this:
In addition to the "bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb" file, the archive also contains other versions for the Pi 4 etc.. However, it is sufficient to keep only the version that suits you and delete the others. The exact name of the Amiga1200 kickstart ROM file must now be entered into the "config.txt" in the last line. So "initramfs kick.rom" becomes "initramfs a1200_kick_32.rom" for me.
Okay, card is now in, second try. Ahhhhh....
After all! :) However, my eyes then discover this error message in the upper left corner of the screen when I take a closer look:
The "BUPtest" is a tool that tests the communication Pi <-> PiStorm <-> Amiga Chip RAM.
After consulting Claude and Michal - thank you very much - it is possible that the card pushed up by the HDMI connector is not seated correctly. In order to exclude or confirm this, the first part ends here and will be continued with a second one as soon as the hopefully better fitting cable (UltraThin HDMI cable) has arrived at my place. (dr)
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10.Feb.2023
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Demoparty: Lovebyte 2023 / Call to Amiga programmers
From 8pm tonight until Sunday, the Lovebyte Demoparty 2023 will take place on Discord and Twitch, where there will again be intro competitions in various categories. However, until just before the closing date, not a single Amiga demo has been submitted for this, which is why the organisers explicitly encourage programmers to submit for example at least a small 1k bootblock intro. (dr)
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10.Feb.2023
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MorphOS 3.17: openssl3.library February Hotfix
The MorphOS developer team has announced: "Another round of vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Eight discovered issues, namely CVE-2023-0286, CVE-2022-4304, CVE-2022-4203, CVE-2023-0215, CVE-2022-4450, CVE-2023-0216, CVE-2023-0217 and CVE-2023-0401, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.
A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can download (1,7 MB) the replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17. To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot." (dr)
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09.Feb.2023
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.1 (update)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today version 1.7.0 has been released. Changes:
- CHG: update to latest WinUAE (41010)
- FIX: Only write m68k settings for Amiga projects
- NEW: Emulator config improvements
- NEW: profiler: get AGA colors from WinUAE
- NEW: launch.json: new configuration attribute "stack" to override the default stack size (in bytes)
Update: (10.02.2023, 19:05, dr)
Meanwhile, a bug fixed version 1.7.1 is available: 1.7.0 would not start debugging if launch.json was missing. (dr)
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09.Feb.2023
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Programming contest: 12th Edition of BASIC 10Liner Contest
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some sound or colorful lines by writing little BASIC programs.
The organizers wrote: "The BASIC 10Liner Contest started 2011 as a party fun at the NOMAM meeting in Northern Germany. NOMAM means 'Not only marvelous Atari machinery' and is an annual meeting from classic computer enthusiasts. The visitors of the meeting decided to hold a little contest: Write a program in 10 lines of BASIC on Atari Computers! We had loads of fun with programming the whole weekend. 2013 we decided to repeat the contest. This time only games were allowed. In 2014 we opened the 10Liner contest also for programmers who did not visit to the meeting. Owners of other 8 bit computer requested to open the contest for their machines. We met the wish and opened it for all 8 bit computers."
This year marks the twelfth edition of the competition. And even if Amiga computers belong to the 16-bit systems and thus do not fulfil the competition conditions, corresponding entries are included in the category "Wild". This year 'Toolkitman' has already submitted two Amiga projects. These and all other submitted programmes can be found in the overview at bunsen.itch.io.
The deadline for entries is Saturday, 25 March 2023, 18.00 CET. The award ceremony will take place at NOMAM on Saturday, 1 April 2023. (dr)
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09.Feb.2023
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Event: AMIGA Ruhrpott Convention in Duisburg (Germany)
On Saturday, 6 May 2023, the first AMIGA Ruhrpott Convention will take place in Duisburg-Rheinhausen (Germany) at the Area 51 youth centre, starting at 10 am. The event is intended as a meeting for Commodore AMIGA fans from the Ruhr region, but is open to everyone. Tickets are available for 18.31 euros. (dr)
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09.Feb.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 136 of Amiga Future readable online
The German and English issue 136 (January/February 2019) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher. (snx)
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08.Feb.2023
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Odyssey script for GitHub websites v1.6
On our hint that you can't see download links on the GitHub page for version 5.7 of the encryption protocol AmiSSL, released today (amiga-news.de reported), with the browser Odyssey, George 'walkero' Sokianos has again adapted his script for the correct display of GitHub pages and made it available under the title link. (dr)
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08.Feb.2023
Twitter
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HxC floppy emulator: Software V2.14.4.1
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, launched in 2006, is basically available in two versions:
There is also special firmware for the Gotek disk drive emulator.
A new version of the HxC Floppy Emulator software has now been released, which contains numerous improvements and corrections and is used to configure the emulator or create the image files. (dr)
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08.Feb.2023
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for January
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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08.Feb.2023
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Obligement: Interview with DJ Nick (Nikola Tomic)
The French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement has conducted an English-language interview with the musician and artist Nikola Tomic alias DJ Nick. (dr)
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08.Feb.2023
Void
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AmigaOS 4: FeeDBack #14 - 4-channel tracks of Gerp demo party
The demo group 'Void' has published the 4-channel tracks of the demo party "Gerp 2023", which took place from 20. until 22. January in Sweden, as music pack. (dr)
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08.Feb.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.7 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.7 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.0.8, with updated root certificates and some improvements. The changes in detail:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.0.8 (7.2.2023) version, which includes one high, seven moderate and one low severity fixes for newly identified vulnerabilities:
- Fixed NULL dereference during PKCS7 data verification.
- Fixed X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName.
- Fixed NULL dereference validating DSA public key.
- Fixed Invalid pointer dereference in d2i_PKCS7 functions.
- Fixed Use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF.
- Fixed Double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex.
- Fixed Timing Oracle in RSA Decryption.
- Fixed X.509 Name Constraints Read Buffer Overflow.
- Fixed X.509 Policy Constraints Double Locking security issue.
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 10.1.2023.
- Correctly clear thread locks before using InitSemaphore() on OS3.
- Prevent OS4 load time emulation corrupting the data in the PPC ASM optimised routines by moving data from .text section to .rodata.
- Removed redundant code in PPC ASM optimised routines.
- Removed unused PPC POWER8 specific ASM optimised routines.
Download AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.7-OS3.lha (3,3 MB)
Download AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.7-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
Download SDK: AmiSSL-5.7-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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06.Feb.2023
Amiga WARP Organization (ANF)
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Amiga WARP Calendar 2023
Continuing their tradition from 1997, members of Croatian Amiga WARP organization have published two new calendars for year 2023 that are available in PDF format in English and Croatian language at the title link.
Download:
WARP_Calendar_2023.pdf (2 MB)
WARP_Calendar_2023_ENG.pdf (2 MB)
WARP_Calendar_2023_Line_ENG.pdf (2 MB) (snx)
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06.Feb.2023
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MP3 player: Reel Deck V1.00
In October 2022 Sami Vehmaa had released a first version 0.60 of his MP3 player "Reel Deck" for Amigas with graphics card (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 1.0 has been released with four more GUI variants and an integrated volume control including various visualization options.
The player currently costs two Euros and 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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06.Feb.2023
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Text adventure: Developer log to "Pacuvia the Sheep"
In a recent developer log entry, Domenico 'Diduz' Misciagna, author of the text adventure "The Daring Rescue of Pacuvia the Sheep" (amiga-news.de reported), explains which problems and peculiarities he encountered when creating the Amiga version in AMOS Pro 2.0: for example, the handling of nested conditions (IF / THEN / ELSE / ENDIF) in general QuickBasic code on the one hand and AMOS on the other hand differed. And even though he didn't need any of the features of AMOS Pro 2.0, he was forced to upgrade from his preferred version 1.3 because the sample bank editor it contained didn't play his sound files without problems. (dr)
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05.Feb.2023
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Aminet uploads until 04.02.2023
The following files have been added until 04.02.2023 to Aminet:
Golem.lha biz/misc 505K 68k Business management software ...
Envoy_FR.lha comm/net 5K French catalog for Envoy 3
parForth.lha dev/lang 426K x86 pForth compiled with AROS fun...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.9M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
dMagnetic.lha game/text 361K 68k Interpreter for Magnetic Scro...
AmiMineSweeper.lha game/think 42K 68k Minesweeper for Amiga
RoyaltyAround.lha game/think 2.8M 68k Royalty Around solitaire card...
png2bbc.lha gfx/conv 613K MOS BBC Micro sprites from PNG im...
fxPAINT_FR.lha gfx/edit 16K French catalog for fxPAINT 2.02
PoligoniRegolari.lha gfx/show 21K 68k 99 sides regular poligon
AmiModRadio.lha mus/play 2.8M 68k Play modules from Internet so...
mhimdev.lha mus/play 12K 68k MHI driver for mpeg.device
ltx-cb12.lha util/boot 4K 68k CBoot v1.2 - Ultimate Boot Se...
NDos.lha util/boot 20K 68k Boot menu 4 games on floppies
iGame.lha util/misc 318K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
pasfetch.lha util/moni 195K MOS Pascal fetch for MorphOS (PoC)
ScreenTime.lha util/time 66K 68k Screen clock with calendar
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05.Feb.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 04.02.2023
The following files have been added until 04.02.2023 to OS4Depot:
thewidowii_e-card.lha dem/mis 5Mb 4.0 This is e-Card with the advertis...
igame.lha uti/mis 318kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
litexl.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
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AROS Archives uploads until 04.02.2023
The following files have been added until 04.02.2023 to AROS Archives:
thewidowii_e-card.lha dem/mis 5Mb This is e-Card with the advertis...
parforth.i386-aros.lha dev/lan 426kb pForth v27 compiled with AROS fu...
royaltyaround.i386-aros.lha gam/car 3Mb solitaire card game
mcc_thebar-26.15fix1.i386... lib/mui 337kb Mui Custom Class
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.02.2023
The following files have been added until 04.02.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
NewRulesForTools.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes NewRulesForTools.lha
CatalogTranslation.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes CatalogTranslation.lha
BarsnPipes_1.3.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes A high-end MIDI sequenc...
BarsnPipes-EasyStart.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes Two small scripts: one ...
RulesforSkins.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes RulesforSkins.lha
SDK_MichaelRees.lha Audio/MIDI/BarsnPipes SDK_MichaelRees.lha
WildMIDI_0.4.5.lha Development/Library WildMIDI is a simple so...
pasfetch.lha Development/Monitoring Pascal fetch for MorphO...
OttoMatic_4.0.1.lha Games/Action 3D OttoMatic for modern sy...
MightyMike_3.0.2.lha Games/Action Pangea Software's Might...
TheWidowII-eCard.lha Games/Adventure The Widow II: Evil's Re...
iGame_2.2.1_FR.lha Games/Launcher French catalog for iGam...
iGame_2.2.1.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching...
Fallout2-ce_1.2_R0.lha Games/RPG Open source Fallout 2
dMagnetic_0.35.lha Games/Text Interpreter for Magneti...
png2bbc_1.14.lha Graphics/Convert BBC Micro sprites from ...
LiteXL_2.1.1r1.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
PageStream5_FR_1.1.lha Translations French translation of P...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.02.2023
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 04.02.2023:
- 2023-01-30 improved: Manix (Millennium) protection bug fixed, uses real files, 68000 quit key, highscore saving, trainers added (Info)
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05.Feb.2023
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.16
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
The new version 0.9.16 offers seveal fixes, improvements and optimisations. (dr)
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05.Feb.2023
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DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 7)
'Drygol' is a member of the demoscene group Lamers and basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describes there his project 'Tesseract', the building of an Amiga 2000 from scratch with all maximum modifications. His project is based on the GitHub project of 'Floppie209', a replica of the Amiga2000 motherboard with Sprint layout. After six reports (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), now he has published the last part of the blog series which summarizes the project and shows a lot of pictures. (dr)
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05.Feb.2023
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky (Mail)
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Action adventure: "Otto Matic" 4.0.1 for MorphOS and Linux
The developer 'jorio' had published a few days ago on GitHub the version 4.0.1 of the action adventure "Otto Matic" for Windows, Mac and Linux, originally published by "Pangea Software", as well as the corresponding source code (changelog).
This has now been compiled by 'BeWorld' for MorphOS and Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky for Linux PPC 32-Bit (direct download, 137 MB). (dr)
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05.Feb.2023
nivrig (Twitter)
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Music album: "Amiga Collection" by Stamen
'ST Arts' is an amateur musician from Finland who likes to compose melodic electronic music, mainly synthpop and space synth music with influences from the mod/demo scene. Thereby 'ST Arts' stands as a generic term for all his musical work, regardless of genres (interview from 2008). When he bought an Amiga 500 in 1992 and started making music with ProTracker, he gave himself the artist name 'Stamen' and published tracks on Aminet and The Mod Archive.
Now he has released the album "Amiga Collection" on the online music service "Bandcamp", which contains tracks from 1994 to 1999 and can be downloaded for a price to be determined by the user. (dr)
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04.Feb.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.8
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. Today version 1.8 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- IMD: Read & write IMD image files
- IMG, diskdef: Allow sector padding in IMG files
- gw read: No seeking to cyl 0 on retry, by default
- HFE: Fix data rate of FM tracks
- SCP: Fix checksum calculation, and verify on import
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Preview video: Temptations port for CD32
The developer 'S0Y' is continuing to work on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video, he now gives a taste of the second level of the game. (dr)
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03.Feb.2023
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Tech demo of an arcade game: RemGame
'RemGame' (video) is the author's first C/ASM project on the Amiga. He describes it as a "tech demo", and he has yet to come up with a game design to go with it. RemGame uses a sprite multiplexer and can thus display up to 104 moving sprites. The colours of the sprites are changed via copper list in each grid line. Together with the scrolling background displayed in HAM mode, up to 1400 colours are displayed on the screen simultaneously, even on an A500. In a forum discussion, the author answers users' questions and offers the current version for download. (cg)
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02.Feb.2023
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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MIDI sequencer: BarsnPipes 1.3 for MorphOS
In January, Alfred Faust made available a MorphOS port of the MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes, which he maintains. A now released update was created with the support of Frank Mariak and Antoine Dubourg from the MorphOS team, it eliminates some critical bugs and optimises the MIDI transmission. In addition, the user interface has been better adapted to MorphOS, for example, all screen modes of MorphOS can now be used.
Furthermore, new MIDI tools have been created to manage up to 16 USB MIDI interfaces of BarsnPipes - i.e. each MIDI interface transmits 16 MIDI channels (instruments). Thus, theoretically, up to 256 independent MIDI channels (instruments) could be used in BarsnPipes.
According to the author, the programme now runs much more stable on the various MorphOS systems and has become more user-friendly. In addition, the latest version now starts even if no MIDI interfaces are connected. (cg)
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31.Jan.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.2.1
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). Recently George 'walkero' Sokianos (editor 'Lite XL' or MediaVault) has released version 2.2.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, providing the following changes:
- Added
- Turkish catalog contributed by Serkan Dursun
- Fixed
- Now the 68K cpu specific versions are included in the archive. In v2.2.0 all versions where the same 68000 binary because of a missing flag in compilation
- Willem Drijver contributed with a fix on Execute tooltype, which was not working well.
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30.Jan.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 142 (Italian/English) / Interview with the publisher
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.
The latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Encounter" and "NEONnoir". 'Seiya', the editor of REV'n'GE, was available for a short interview. Many thanks!
Amiga-News (AN): Hello 'Seiya'. Thank you for taking the time and of course for your magazine. How did you come to publish this fanzine/magazine?
Seiya: I always liked writing game reviews, but I didn't know how to write them, I didn't even know what software to use. I originally wrote the reviews for a forum (text and pictures) with some videos I had made specifically for the Amiga. In 2012 or 2013 I was contacted by a group that did online reviews only in Italian with a professional layout system and I was enchanted. There was a team with a chief editor and other people writing reviews. Not quite what I was looking for, but better than nothing.
AN: What happened after that?
Seiya: After not being very happy with a second, similar attempt either, I decided to start my own fanzine: the first issue will be published in February 2014, and I will bring out three more issues in the same month. The goal was to publish at least four issues every month, 48 issues per year.
After the first month I realised that it was not feasible because there was no time to correct, check for errors and then review something interesting. The first issues were written in a hurry, without checking for mistakes, with a lot of hardware articles. And it was all about Amiga and PC because those were the systems I knew best, so I knew which games I wanted to try.
AN: How many issues per month were there then?
Seiya: There was a problem with the name, because it was REVenGE! and, as written, had a meaning that hardly suited a retro games publication.
The name casually suggested to me "Retro Emulation Video and Game", but the "and" was not in the name because it was spelled "en". Then I had the idea to say that "en" is the Italian pronunciation of "and". A group of users on an Italian hardware and retro gaming forum suggested I call it REV'n'GE! because "Retro Emulation Video & Game" was more credible, and so REV'n'GE! was born, as it is today.
From this issue 17 onwards, the magazine/fanzine changed its mentality and finally became what it should have been since its first issue, and issue after issue I try to improve it both in text and in spelling and grammar mistakes.
AN: Why also in English?
Seiya: The fanzine/magazine is read more abroad than in Italy and although it was translated into English by Google and manually corrected by me, it was and is very understandable and therefore very popular in the countries where the language is not English.
AN: And what is the situation today?
Seiya: Today, one issue is published per month, on the 25th of each month, including summer and Christmas. Each issue is written in the previous month in order to be able to write both the Italian and English editions.
AN: How do you choose the games you present?
Seiya: The games I review are actually chosen quite randomly. Sometimes I look at screenshots, other times when reading the forums I see that some users have problems with a game or are talking about it for various reasons and I decide to review it.
As the name of the fanzine has de facto become "Retro Emulator Vision and Game", the various systems are all emulated and I try to review games whose emulation is closest to the original hardware.
For the Amiga, for example, I choose games for the Amiga 500, which the emulator emulates perfectly, or in any case the basic A1200, which can be emulated well. For Atari ST games, those that run well on the basic model. For DOS games, I usually use PCeM, which emulates their chosen hardware well, and I also choose titles that run on an 8086 between 4 and 10 Mhz. 8-bit computers are emulated just as well as the current systems and so the reviews are comparable even on real hardware.
AN: How exactly is an issue created?
Seiya: I do one test a day and in total it takes about 15 days. Then I create the videos, put them online and copy the links to the videos into the fanzine. Then I read through everything again to prepare the translation into English. I read the Italian version and the English translation again to make the last corrections. Then about 18 days have passed. I usually start on the 5th of each month and try to finish around the 23rd or 24th of each month.
AN: When do you take time for the tests and reviews?
Seiya: I write the fanzine in the morning, and spend about an hour or two on the reviews. Sometimes the emulator doesn't work or the game doesn't start. Then I have to look for another game. I look for information if I don't have the manuals or discover something on the net that gives me the idea to write something. Then I play on one computer in real time and write reviews on another computer at the same time.
The reviews are not as detailed as in commercial magazines because I decided to talk about it a bit and then leave the reader with the desire to play it for themselves and see if what I wrote is correct and shares my opinion. (dr)
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29.Jan.2023
Kofi
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Editor: Lite XL 2.1.1r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has just released version 2.1.0r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) and explained:
"Today I released a new version of LiteXL for both AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS 3. This includes the latest code from the upstream repository, with all the changes up to the 8th of January 2023. This brings our port in sync with the latest available versions in other systems.
In this release, a bug reported by one user is fixed, which had to do with the OS4 version and the system locale. This was pretty much the same reason as with the MorphOS version which was fixed a couple of releases back.
Other than that, a few more plugins were added in the add-ons folder adding extra features to the editor. My beloved is the one that makes LiteXL utilise the .editorconfig files. This way the editor keeps on having a consistent coding style per project. Especially useful if you work on projects with different programming languages. You can find more information about the .editorconfig files at editorconfig.org.
Also, the binary now is named lite-xl, to be aligned with the naming of other system releases. Not a big difference, but you might need to update your system to use this new name in docks etc.
I'd like to thank all of my supporters for the donations and for keeping me motivated, to continue working on my Amiga projects. That's a great community to be part of."
(dr)
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29.Jan.2023
Amigans-Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Version 6.11 of audio driver for Intel HD Audio
The AHI driver for AmigaOS 4 written by Harald Kanning supports PCIe cards with sound chips that meet the HD Audio specification (amiga-news.de reported). The archive also contains a simple "mixer" which can be used to control the volume. With the update to version 6.11, the driver also supports the AmigaOne X1000 for the first time. The other changes:
- Added autoswitch between 16bit and 24bit recording buffer
- Removed Mixer option to limit Recording resolution to 16bit.
- Created User Manual
- Small optimizations
For use on the X1000, the developer explained: "The IDT 92HD700 codec on X1000 works completely different compared to other CODECs. Most noticeable is the missing monitor hardware.
Instead there's a karaoke mode which will mix the input of the ADC to out Line output. Therefore the Monitor volume slider has been replaced with a mute checkbox. The monitor/karaoke volume is equal to the ADC volume and therefore controlled with the input volume slider.
If you want to use this driver on your X1000 than make sure that the original ahi driver (HDAUDIO) is removed and the X1000 mixer program and docky is not running/started (be aware that the Enhancer updater utility likes to reinstall this driver)."
AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 2 (the author has not tested it under previous versions) and AHI 6.6 are required. (dr)
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29.Jan.2023
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Blog: Benchmarks for "Lightwave 3D 5" for several hardware configurations
The developer George 'walkereo' Sokianos reports in his latest blog entry on Ko-fi about benchmarks and findings to be drawn from them for the 3D graphics software LightWave 3D, which is also available for AmigaOS 3 until the release. The following hardware and operating systems were tested:
- A4000 with 68060
- Vampire V4 standalone (AmigaOS 3.2)
- Pi400 with Amiberry 5.5.1
- Powermac with PowerPC 7451 (G4) CPU at 1.6 GHz (MorphOS)
- X5000/40 at 2.2 GHz with AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
- Powerbook A1052 with PowerPC 7447 (G4) at 1.33 GHz (MorphOS)
- microA1 with PowerPC G3 at 800 MHz (AmigaOS 4)
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29.Jan.2023
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The Amiga as a musical instrument: Paulimba
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' or 'lft'. Last year he built "The Commodordion": an 8-bit accordion consisting mainly of two C64 keyboards, floppy disks and gaffer tape. As he says himself, he has started programming for the Amiga again after more than 20 years and has now written "Paulimba", a program to play live music on the keyboard of an Amiga (600).
"Paulimba" is a portmanteau of "Paula", the sound chip of the Amiga, and "Kalimba", a musical instrument from Africa that belongs to the lamellophones: the music produced on the keyboard sounds like a kalimba. In his blog entry under the title link as well as in the accompanying YouTube video, he explains in detail how he achieved this. (dr)
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Aminet uploads until 28.01.2023
The following files have been added until 28.01.2023 to Aminet:
apccomm.lha comm/misc 205K 68k transfers files between Amiga...
Forest.lha demo/ecs 120K 68k Forest demo for GERP2023/Sweden
bin2iso_mos.lha disk/misc 29K MOS bin2iso - Convert BIN files t...
Cadius.lha disk/misc 148K MOS BD's ProDOS disk imaging utility
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha disk/misc 79K x86 SMB2 file system client
smb2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha disk/misc 148K 68k SMB2 file system client
PcmciaCD.lha driver/med 10K 68k ATAPI PCMCIA CD driver Sony Vaio
anaiis_lowlevel.lha driver/oth 25K 68k Anaiis lowlevel release 0.02
jfduke3d.lha game/shoot 1.3M 68k JFDuke3D Amiga Port
Inform6.lha game/text 845K 68k Compiler of Infocom-format st...
webptools130_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.4M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools130_aros.lha gfx/conv 3.7M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
FrodoItaCat.lha misc/emu 12K Italian catalog for Frodo v2.4
Tipografia_AROS.lha text/dtp 2.3M x86 Create printable signs using ...
avalanche_de.lha util/arc 7K German catalog for Avalanche ...
Avalanche_FR.lha util/arc 7K French catalog for Avalanche ...
avalanche_guide_de.lha util/arc 7K German translation of Avalanc...
LHArchiver.lha util/arc 4.8M 68k create lha archives intuitively
filesysbox.i386-aros.lha util/libs 52K x86 A FUSE compatible file system...
filesysbox.m68k-amiga... util/libs 72K 68k A FUSE compatible file system...
SoftIEEE.lha util/libs 59K 68k math lib&881/882 FPU emulator...
CurrencyConverter.lha util/misc 12K 68k convert one currency type to ...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 3.9M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AnalogClock.lha util/time 39K 68k Resizeable analog transparent...
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.01.2023
The following files have been added until 28.01.2023 to OS4Depot:
hdaudio_ahi.lha dri/aud 972kb 4.1 Generic HD audio driver for Amig...
loschinos.lha gam/chi 5Mb 4.0 This is the classic spanish game...
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
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AROS Archives uploads until 28.01.2023
The following files have been added until 28.01.2023 to AROS Archives:
loschinos.lha gam/chi 5Mb This is the classic spanish game...
webptools130_aros.lha gra/mis 4Mb encode/decode images in WebP format
tipografia.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 2Mb Generator of printable signs usi...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.01.2023
The following files have been added until 28.01.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
LHArchiver_1.8.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
bin2iso_1.1.lha Files/Convert bin2iso - Convert BIN f...
Bugdom_1.3.3.lha Games/Action 3D Pangea Software's Bugdo...
Inform_6.41.lha Games/Text Compiler of Infocom-for...
LosChinos_Finalversion... Games/Think This is the classic Spa...
Cadius_1.4.5.lha Misc BD's ProDOS disk imagin...
PageStream5-Tips_FR_1.... Translations French translation of P...
PageStream5_FR_1.4.lha Translations French translation of P...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.01.2023
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 28.01.2023:
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28.Jan.2023
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3D action adventure: Bugdom for Linux and MorphOS
After, among others, "Cro-Mag Rally" and "Otto Matic" and "Billy Frontier", another game originally published by Pangea Software has made it to Amiga platforms: Bugdom is described as "an incredibly diverse 3D action/adventure for the entire family".
Three days ago, the developer 'jorio' published version 1.3.3 on GitHub for Windows, Mac and Linux, as well as the corresponding source code. BeWorld' has now compiled this for MorphOS. The current SDL archive as well as the latest TinyGL beta version are required.
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the source code for LinuxPPC-32Bit (screenshot), the game runs on the Linux PowerPC distributions Void PPC, MintPPC, Fienix.
Download: Bugdom_1.3.3-linux-powerpc.tar.gz (47 MB) (dr)
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.9
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today version 1.6.9 has been released. Changes:
- FIX: debugger: fixed crash on launch when using encrypted Kickstart #199
- FIX: screen: don't overwrite OCS colors with AGA colors from different banks
- NEW: screen: support AGA colors, show BPLCON3 (TODO: get AGA colors from .profile file)
- FIX: Builds using MacOS 11 for better compatibility; Includes updated binaries for GCC, binutils and FS-UAE
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.7 (update)
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. A few moments ago version 1.6 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- diskdefs: Fix atari.90 and zx.trdos.640
- DCP image read support (obscure PC98 image format)
- Fix discontinuity at index mark when writing perfect flux images
- Emit a write-splice (WRSP) block when writing SCP images
- read, convert: Fix off-by-one error when printing summary
Update: (30.01.2023, 16:05, dr)
Version 1.7 fixes reading IPF images with weak tracks. (dr)
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28.Jan.2023
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Platform game: "Boxx" remake V0.4
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The latest update to version 0.4 includes the following changes:
- Upgraded to Scorpion Engine v2022.8.
- Player now moves more like Mario. Down is faster than up.
- Some coin and actor positions adjusted to new player movement.
- Boss phase 3: less damage when overlapping player in easy mode.
- Boss phase 3: boss has more health.
- Boss arena: added invisible block to prevent player from entering arena too soon.
- UI top panel: replaced 5 separate coin bars by 1 universal bar for slightly better performance.
- Falling coins disappear faster for better performance.
- Added performance mode for A500 to the 'Controls' screen. This disables the falling coins. So there's no slow down when multiple coins are picked at once. Also event collision check is set lower.
- Added "loading" text in UI top panel when loading next level.
- UI top panel keeps visible while loading next level.
- Levels and music load at the same time for faster loading times.
- Main menu panel moved up for NTSC stretched.
- Level 1: a turret now only spawns in hard mode and AGA only for better performance.
- Level 4: fixed wide teleport pipe graphics at the bottom of the water pit.
Minimum requirement is an Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM. (dr)
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PiStorm32-lite: Availability
Since one month the building instructions and documentation for the PiStorm32-lite are available (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga-News.de has looked around where you can currently and potentially purchase the Raspberry Pi-based accelerator card for the Amiga A1200 fully assembled.
- RetroPassion (UK):
- Retro Ready (UK): 133 Euro plus shipping - currently sold out
- Archi-TECH (Poland): 130 Euro inclusive Raspberry-Pi 3A+ and 32GB SD card, plus shipping - Pre-order, will be shipped within the next 14 days
- MicroMiga (France):
- exclusive Raspberry-Pi: 130 Euro plus shipping - next batch third week of February
- inclusive Raspberry-Pi 3A+ and 32GB SD card: 174 Euro plus shipping - next batch third week of February
- Ultimate MiSTer (Portugal): currently not yet in stock, but planned
Furthermore, it's always worth keeping an eye on the tindie marketplace, especially RetroFletch's store, which has announced the PiStorm32-lite to us in the near future. (dr)
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27.Jan.2023
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Blog: Review of "Desert Dream" demo
Microzeit is an independent publisher focusing on digital culture and computer history publishes books about the pioneering days of the game industry in the 80s from 8 to 16 bit. In their latest blog entry they take a look back at a classic of the demoscene: Desert Dream by the Danish group Kefrens. On pouët.net, the production is currently ranked 49th on the alltime top list. (dr)
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27.Jan.2023
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Overview: Comparison of Operating Systems
Eylenburg's Tech Website is a truly amazing project in which a lot of hard work has gone into it: in several overviews and histories 'Eylenburg' offers, for example, Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree, Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix or Comparison of Instant Messengers - always presented with large-format tables and graphics. Of particular interest to Amiga users is the Comparison of Operating Systems, where AmigaOS and MorphOS have been listed for some time and now AROS has been added. But it is also worth taking a look at the above-mentioned Family Tree or History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today, in which IBrowse is also listed.
As 'Eylenburg' tells us when asked, this pure hobby project started a few years ago: first on Blogspot and later on Github. The first topic was comparing browsers. As he reports, he gets his data from Wikipedia, Github, the websites of developers and forums, etc., but as with the browser comparison, he also determines data himself. He has always had an interest in technology and especially in alternative operating systems and even though he himself did not experience the heyday of the Amiga, for example, he is fascinated that after all these years all three Amiga operating systems (AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS) are still being developed.
Suggestions or corrections are always welcome! (dr)
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Website: Search Engine for AmigaOS-NDK3.2 documentation
The Amiga developer Aris has set up a website for searching the autodocs of Hyperion Entertainment's AmigaOS 3.2 Native Developer Kit (NDK). He describes his motives for doing so in a recent blog entry. (dr)
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26.Jan.2023
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported). As the developer told us when asked, he continues to work on the project, focusing mainly on bug fixes and updates to the interpreter at the moment.
Since our last message, he has also added the stack tracer and the visual history, which shows the last N changes to the interpreter's state. (dr)
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Event: "Kickstart" in Nottingham (England)
On July 1st and 2nd, 2023, the digital culture festival "Kickstart" will be held in Nottingham, England. Currently planned are meetings of British Amiga user groups, presentations of various dealers, live music and talks with developers like Core Designs, DMA, Team 17 and Psygnosis. (dr)
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MorphOS: Using GitHub (Polish)
Rafal Zabdyr - Minesweeper clone MegaSaperPL, among others - wrote an article in Polish on ppa.pl at the end of last year describing how to use GitHub as a service for managing repositories under MorphOS and with Wayfarer. (dr)
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