01.Jun.2022
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.6 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young has released version 1.6 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 it has also been tested under AmigaOS 4), because it uses a new window.class, so it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes
- Add ability to extract disk archives to images
- Add ability to extract files from disk images/archives
- Double-clicking now extracts the clicked file to a temporary location and opens it. NB: This has required the previous "single click to select/deselect" to be disabled, as the functionality was incompatible.
- Add option to enable/disable the quit confirmation requester
- Localisaton support
- Improved progress display - now shows current file progress and total
- Fix loading/saving of virusscan pref on OS4
- Fix unchecking of files in archive
(dr)
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01.Jun.2022
Amiga Future
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Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.8
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.8 provides the following changes:
- fix: new created files in sub directories which are cached are now correctly reported via Examine (issue #5536)
- fix: when new created cached files are deleted WHDLoad no longer tries to delete them on disk
- chg: the memory of detected freezers is now cachable if MMU is used
- new: the gadgets in the splash window can be controlled via keyboard and joystick now, up/down selects the gadgets via mouse move and left/right switches the gadgets
(dr)
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01.Jun.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.7
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.7 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. This version focuses almost exclusively on media playback in various modes. Many web pages and streams should work much better with version 3.7 and watching streams should be possible for a long time without running out of RAM.
Changes:
- Rewritten MediaSource player state machines to improve seeking, end-of-stream handling
- Fixed a bug that caused a/v decoders to keep increasing the read-ahead decoded frame buffers infinitely (causing out-of-memory sooner or later during playback)
- Fixed a memory leak in a/v de-multiplexer
- Refactored the HLS player to enable seeking in terminated playlists
- Reduced the memory footprint of MediaSource playback
- Fixed video position reporting for MediaStreams w/o an audio track
- Rewritten the right mouse button handling
- Improved the media popup, added stream information
- Fixed input handling in fullscreen mode
- Updated OpenJPEG
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (dr)
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01.Jun.2022
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Competition: 'Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam' started
Today indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (Wheel of Fortune implementation 'YAWoFFA') started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: until September 1st 2022 Amiga developers are invited to write and submit games in AmiBlitz or Blitz Basic (amiga-news.de reported).
The idea behind this contest is to increase the number of programmers and the knowledge around the Amiga and the use of Blitz Basic and AmiBlitz to create games. This means that all games submitted must include the source code so that beginners have examples to study and learn from.
Only games for 68k Amigas with AmigaOS are admitted, MorphOS, AmigaOS 4 and AROS are excluded. Likewise, submissions requiring Vampire cards, graphics cards or other special hardware will not be accepted. The game of the winner determined by a jury will be published on CD by Bitmap Soft. Public winners will receive a THEA500 Mini, a Deluxe Mini Monster Retro Gaming Joystick Kit, or a Tales of Gortluth III CD-ROM, among other prizes. More details under the title link. (dr)
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31.May.2022
Discord
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20180423-1
The AROS developer 'deadwood' has released a new version of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). The main feature is the migration from GCC 4.6.4 to GCC 6.3.0. The detailed changelog is available under the title link. (dr)
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31.May.2022
Reddit
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Unfinished Jump'n Run: Funky Monkey
In his latest blog entry, the artist and graphics designer Glenn Broadway has written about his first game in which he was involved as graphics designer 30 years ago. The unfinished jump'n run 'Funky Monkey' (YouTube video) was developed by DC Software. If anyone should know the name of the developer, Glenn Broadway would be grateful about a mail because he cannot remember it. (dr)
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30.May.2022
Twitter
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Email client: YAM support for AmiSSL 5 in progress
About a month ago we reported that the development of the Amiga email client YAM was discontinued by the previous developer team. Since YAM is an open source project, however, there is the possibility for every interested developer to create an own fork and thus continue the work. According to this Twitter post from yesterday, the IBrowse and AmiSSL5 developer Oliver Roberts has now taken first steps to implement support for AmiSSL 5 (amiga-news.de reported) in YAM. (dr)
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29.May.2022
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AmiTube: Preview video of 'Fancy List'
In today's blog entry, author Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow gives a small preview of a feature of the upcoming version: the 'Fancy List'. The video shows the new list feature in action, where title, description and thumbnail are displayed directly in the list. After switching to this variant, the images are loaded automatically, making it suitable only for faster Amigas/RTG or NG Amigas. (dr)
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29.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit survey on additional platforms
The Workbench distribution 'AmiKit' is currently available for the target systems Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi and Vampire V2 (amiga-news.de reported). In a current poll on Twitter the developer wants to know if more systems should be supported and suggests here THEA500 Mini and the Amiga 1200/030. The poll runs until midnight, but we are happy to pass on opinions via our website. (dr)
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29.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 28.05.2022
The following files have been added until 28.05.2022 to Aminet:
Crono_AROS.lha biz/misc 3.9M x86 Generator of printable calendars
Crono_MorphOS.lha biz/misc 3.8M MOS Generator of printable calendars
Crono_OS4.lha biz/misc 4.3M OS4 Generator of printable calendars
KONEY_KETAMUSKOLAR.lha demo/sound 236K 68k 40k Hardcore Music intro
7800basic.lha dev/cross 4.1M MOS BASIC-like language for Atari...
RevFlex.lha dev/misc 34K Flexible Version Bumper for a...
FixDisk_18.lha disk/salv 40K 68k Disk Recovery Tool (1993)
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 9K 2022 Carset for F1GP
AbuSimbelProfanTFA_es... game/misc 1.4M 68k Abu Simbel Profanation - TFA ...
ScummVM_RTG.lha game/misc 6.1M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 1.7.0
D1X_Rebirth_RTG.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Descent (D1X-Re...
AmiNonogramPackEditor... game/think 76K AmiNonogramPackEditor
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MrR_ranthom.lha mods/anaki 510K Ranthom - OctaMED module
MrR_rotterdamn.lha mods/anaki 416K Rotterdamn - ProTracker module
MrR_thehouse.lha mods/anaki 369K The Hardcore House - OctaMED ...
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 160K Some samples created by Sampl...
nextvi.lha text/edit 155K MOS Next vi clone
AmiSSL-5.1-OS3.lha util/libs 3.3M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.1-OS4.lha util/libs 3.0M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.1-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 672K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
WHDLoadMenu.lha util/misc 485K 68k A WHDLoad frontend
(snx)
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29.May.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.05.2022
The following files have been added until 28.05.2022 to OS4Depot:
oo.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
revflex.lha dev/mis 34kb 4.0 Flexible Version Bumper for any ...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
sieteymedia.lha gam/car 4Mb 4.0 The Siete y Media card game.
aminonogram.lha gam/puz 121kb 4.0 Open source Workbench Nonogram game
aminonogrampackeditor... gam/puz 76kb 4.0 Pack Editor for AmiNonogram
crono.lha gra/mis 4Mb 4.1 Generator of printable calendars
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
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29.May.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 28.05.2022
The following files have been added until 28.05.2022 to AROS Archives:
sieteymedia.lha gam/car 4Mb The Siete y Media card game.
crono_aros.lha gra/mis 4Mb Generator of printable calendars
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29.May.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.05.2022
The following files have been added until 28.05.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
RevFlex_1.0.lha Development/Tools A flexible version bump...
Siete-y-Media_1.0.lha Games/Card Play in this virtual Ca...
Crono_2.2.lha Office/Organizer Generator of printable ...
TopTasks_1.6.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Top Tasks in sc...
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29.May.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.05.2022
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 28.05.2022:
- 2022-05-28 improved: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment) full joypad control, running from fast memory (Info)
- 2022-05-27 improved: PGA Tour Golf (Electronic Arts) patch now supports NTSC mode (Info)
- 2022-05-27 improved: Space Quest Enhanced (Sierra) removed copy protection (Info)
- 2022-05-26 updated: 2 Unlimited (Scoopex) patch redone, works with 0.5 MB chip memory, blitter waits added, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image)
- 2022-05-22 improved: Space Crusade (Gremlin) 68000 quitkey, fixed sound replay, added hints (Info)
- 2022-05-22 fixed: Mortal Kombat 2 (Acclaim) access fault removed (Info)
- 2022-05-22 updated: Extemporized (Digital) patch redone, works with 512k chip memory, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image)
(snx)
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29.May.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
(snx)
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29.May.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: APK Compiler 4.1
Airsoft Softwair has released version 4.1 of the Hollywood APK Compiler. It is a minor update that adds support for Hollywood 9.1 and the latest Android Studio version. The update is available for all registered customers at the password-protected download area. (snx)
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27.May.2022
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Version bumper: RevFlex 1.0 for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS
The #amigazeux team has released a utility for developers to automatically update version, revision and build numbers called RevFlex. RevFlex is inspired by FlexRev, written by Daniel Kahlin, and should run from AmigaOS 2.0 on. The AmigaE source code of RevFlex is included. (dr)
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26.May.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 134 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. The game reviews of REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games on different computer systems with each other.
The current edition features the Amiga games 'Advance Destroy Simualtor' and 'Amiga Command & Conquer' as well as the multimedia CD 'EuroCD'. (dr)
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26.May.2022
Martina Hřebcová (Mail)
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Background: MorphOS running on a Mac Mini G4 (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is well-known for her detailed reviews and analyses of Amiga hardware, for example about Graphic cards for Sam440ep-flex, the Pegasos I or the PPC architecture evolution in Amiga world. Recently she got a Mac Mini G4 from a colleague and so in her latest article she reports how she made this Mac usable for MorphOS again which was provided without harddisk, WiFi and Bluetooth and makes several comparisons with a Pegasos II. Finally she reports that with the help of the never finished Moana project AmigaOS 4 can also be started (machine translation). (dr)
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26.May.2022
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Accelerator board project: 'Buffee' supports Big Endian
In her latest blog entry Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the accelerator board 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) takes up the topic of Endianness and refutes the thesis that the AM335x processor installed on the Buffee did not support Big Endian.
As Renee wrote, "big endian is working. It works for DRAM. It works with the GPMC. The only exception is that the registers need byte swapping if you’re reading/writing in 16- or 32-bit because those remain in little-endian mode. And of course, there’s the matter of making a GCC big-endian C standard library and IO programming, but knowing that this actually works means proceeding."
For testers with an Alpha or Beta board, this means that there will be a 'Buffee Swapper' that will swap the external data bus bytes. This board will be a small shim that sits between Buffee and the motherboard, allowing Buffee to run in proper big-endian mode. The swapper will be shipped free of charge to any alpha and beta tester. Future Buffee boards will not need this shim. (dr)
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26.May.2022
Andrew Vaisey (Mail)
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Puzzle game: Demo version of 'Spheroid' released
About a month ago we were already allowed to test the puzzle game 'Spheroid' written by Andrew Vaisey in Blitz Basic, where you move a metal ball through a maze of tiles to reach the exit within the given time and the maximum allowed number of moves. Different tiles have different properties and affect the ball in different ways (amiga-news.de reported).
After a demo version was already available to the readers of Amiga Addict magazine for a few days, the developer has now released a ten-level demo version for everyone.
Download: SpheroidDemo.zip (342 kB) (dr)
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25.May.2022
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MorphOS: Screenbar-Plugin TopTasks 1.6
TopTasks.sbar is a Screenbar-Plugin for MorphOS that shows the task that is currently eating the most CPU time in the screen title.
When the titlebar object is clicked it opens a window displaying the top tasks (from 5 to 25) currently hogging all your precious CPU time. Furthermore it can display a history of the top tasks of the last configureable number of seconds/minutes/hours. Changes:
- The top tasks window opens now exactly below the screen title bar instead of using its own bottom border for position.
- Text displayed in the screen title can now be rendered off-center vertically by specifiying a pixel offset.
- Number of Top Tasks shown can be configured from 5, 10, 15, 20 to 25 tasks now. Previously it was fixed to 10 tasks.
- Now displays the rank of the tasks in the first column.
- Top Tasks and History Tasks CPU loads can now also be colour coded ranging from green over yellow to red (see settings).
- Comes with a real Installer script courtesy of InstallerGen by Rob Cranley now.
- Now also shows the respective task priorities in history list.
- Global task info group in the TopTask window can now be hidden (see settings).
- The TopTask window can now be made dragable (see settings).
- Width calculation has been updated to be a bit closer to the configured number of characters in settings.
- Number of entries held in History list can now be adjusted from 60 seconds up to 24 hours where 1 entry equals 1 second.
Once an entry was selected in history list it was not possible to deselect it making the list always keep the entry in the visible area scrolling the added top entries out. To deselect the entry now double click any entry in the list.
(dr)
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25.May.2022
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Arcade game 'Jump!': Demo version 1.10 available
At the end of last year we had the opportunity to (test) the alpha version of 'Jump!', a conversion of the game Yoomph, originally written for the Atari. The Polish developer Markus Duda now has released a second demo version (amiga-news.de reported) which has lower chip memory usage and provides some minor bugs fixes.
An Amiga 1200 with 14MHz and 4MB FastRAM is required. The demo version offers three playable levels.
The game can be pre-ordered at the title link as a digital variant for 29 Euros or as a 'boxed version' for 45 Euros plus shipping (depending on the destination).
Download: jump_demo.zip (2,6 MB) (dr)
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25.May.2022
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Linux: Kernel 5.18 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the final Linux kernel 5.18, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered it for download in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum.
Additionally, he has compiled version 3.6.2 of the Commodore emulator VICE for the Linux distribution Void PPC, which is also available for the AmigaOne X1000 and 5000 (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
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