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06.May.2021
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Print/PDF Magazine: Amiga Addict, Issue 5
Fifth issue of British magazine "Amiga Addict" is expected to be shipped mid of May, content includes "UFO: Enemy Unknown", "Slayers of High Toro" and OctaMED. Amiga Addict is a monthly magazine printed in full colour A4 and available in both print and digital download versions. (snx)

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06.May.2021
Aminet


Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.89
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz 3.8, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. Recently the boxed edition of the platform game "Putter" has been released which also has been developed with RedPill. An ADF image of the game is available as well. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires a total of 1,5 MB RAM.

Changes of version 0.89:
  • Profiler menu is here to help to find out any performance problem in your games.
  • Profiler data can be seen after playing a game, it only takes into account what happened during the playing time.
  • Sounds can loop if that option is selected in the Audio menu.
  • OS version is displayed in settings menu.
  • In Settings menu you can choose if you want the profiler screen to be shown after each Play.
  • In Settings menu you can disable Network to test multiplayer games without the need of a network connection.
  • Keyboard read routines have been reworked.
  • Fix for the keyboard image display in Input Screen.
  • Fix in export triggers to text, some triggers were incorrectly exported.
(dr) (Translation: dr)

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05.May.2021
Indie Retro News (Website)


Plattformer: Second playable alpha version of 'Super Delivery Boy'
A second alpha version (video) of platformer 'Super Delivery Boy' developed with the Scorpion Engine can be downloaded from the developer's website. Besides new graphics, new enemies and checkpoints were implemented. Also, the stability has been improved. (cg) (Translation: bb)

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04.May.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 150
The German and English issue 150 (May/June 2021) of print magazine Amiga Future has been published today and can be ordered directly from the editorial staff and from Amiga retailers. The topics of the issue include an interview with Hubo Labrande (Tristam Island) and test reports on the Raspberry Pi 400 and 'Dodgy Rocks'.

The editor points out that issue 150 does not yet mark the 25th anniversary, since the very first Amiga Future issue was issue 11 - nevertheless a URL has already been set up under 150.amigafuture.de, where information about the upcoming anniversary will be published. (cg) (Translation: bb)

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04.May.2021
MorphZone


MorphOS: New webstore for hardware and software
Yannick Buchy has opened "an online sales site offering new and refurbished equipment to users of the MorphOS system. This site is not affiliated with the MorphOS development team." Additional to hardware he is going to sell software and currently is contacting different retailers, publisher and developers but is also grateful for suggestions. So far the quiz game Ask Me Up XXL is the first listed game. (dr) (Translation: dr)

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02.May.2021



QEMU: Excursion of Amiga operating systems on non-native hardware
What do you do if you want to test and use a new Amiga operating systems like AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS, but you don't want to or can't buy the necessary hardware like a Sam-Board, PowerBook or a Pegasos-II? For AmigaOS 4 there are various emulators like WinUAE or FS-UAE. But for MorphOS? QEMU could help.

QEMU, version 6.0 has just been released, is an open source computer emulator and virtualizer. This means you can functionally simulate computers or provide virtual systems that replicate the functionality of a real system. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need of hardware virtualization. QEMU is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (cf. corresponding explanations on the QEMU Gitlab page).

So it is possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who gives lots of tips and info on a dedicated website. Since it is not a commercial project with a roadmap or the like, for which donations are neither expected nor solicited, the author asks for appropriate consideration that not everything is perfect and may never be. It is a pure hobby project.

For the use and installation of AmigaOS 4.1 FE only the emulation of a Sam460 was available until now. This still has some bugs and problems like an initial wrong graphics mode, random crashes of some programs or slow graphics operations. The advantage of emulating a Sam460EX is that both AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS support it. Likewise, the emulation of most of its components was already available in QEMU or relatively easy to implement.

The disadvantage of Sam460EX is that it is slow. However, emulation speed and speed of the emulated hardware are not related. The more complex the hardware, the slower its emulation because the additional complexity has to be processed. However, there could be speed advantages if a computer with a G4 CPU is emulated, because AltiVec instructions could be used as well. Therefore the Pegasos2 emulation was considered, which is especially interesting for AmigaOS 4, because MorphOS already runs over "mac99". A separate Pegasos2 subpage was created especially for this. As the author writes, always willingly and extensively answering our questions, the provision of the Pegasos2 emulation is planned for version 6.1. It should be noted, however, that "the emulation might be slightly better than that of the Sam460ex, but AmigaOS 4 does not provide a graphics driver for it, so that this OS cannot be booted so easily and thus (currently) is not intended for end users".

He continues, "First and foremost, more developers are needed to join the project and improve it, as I'm currently working on it alone and in my spare time, which is why it's progressing very slowly. I have created a project for it but so far the interest in it has been very low."

In the practical test, we now want to see whether MorphOS can be installed and whether it is usable. The target platform in this case is Windows 10 running on a somewhat outdated laptop.

For the installation there is no better illustrated and clearer guide than the one on Mambo's Amiga Blog, regardless of the fact that MorphOS 3.15 and QEMU 6.0 are now available. The latest versions can be used accordingly. I would refrain from installing the Chrysalis package for a new installation, because (for my purposes) a lot of unnecessary software and games will be installed. In addition, there are already new versions for a large number of programs.

The installation went without problems, but I didn't feel like switching to the Windows command prompt every time I started the program and copying the long startup command into it. My original idea to save and call this in a batch file was certainly not bad, but failed during execution. I got a very helpful tip from a programmer - thanks, Jörg! Create a shortcut of 'qemu-system-ppc.exe' in the program directory of 'QEMU' and drag it to the desktop. Then call the properties with the right mouse button and copy the start command into it:

"C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-ppc.exe" -machine mac99,via=pmu -m 2048 -vga none -device sm501 -hda mos.img -prom-env "boot-device=hd:,\boot.img" -bios openbios-qemu.elf -serial stdio"

If you want to learn more about the options, you can read about them here. QEMU starts and you will get the following picture after about 15 to 20 seconds:

The current version of the browser Wayfarer can be installed and used without problems (without having performed deeper tests):

In my tests, it turned out that using the "sm501" device worked in the most reliable way. If I used "ati-vga" instead, "graphics losses" occurred permanently: Folders and windows were only partially displayed and were only fully visible when I hovered over them with the mouse. With both variants, I also had to deal with the problem that a window opening from an existing window/program always disappeared in the background:

Overall, I did not have any crashes during my tests. In this respect: For a first acquaintance with MorphOS a comparatively simple, inexpensive and above all space-saving possibility.

Update: (19:05, 03.05.21, dr)

The developer Zoltan Balaton has made some remarks regarding the sound support, which we like to pass on:

"Maybe it would worth mentioning that sound is not working yet for MorphOS because the sound part of neither the sm501 nor the pegasos2 are emulated yet. This is not too hard to do, would just take reading the chip docs and implement it in QEMU like done for similar devices that are already emulated (these are AC'97 compatible just with different register mappings) but I haven't had time for it. This may be a simple project for somebody who wants to help and learn about it and can already program in C and not frightened by a lot of code in QEMU but no need to understand all those, only the part about sound which is not that much.

Alternative would be to use some other sound device already emulated and AmigaOS4 does work somewhat with -device ES1370 but MorphOS has no driver for it. It may work with usb-audio but due to some problem with either USB or device emulation that does not seem to work either so best would be to emulate sm501 audio part or the via-audio on pegasos2. (I've briefly tested usb-audio on pegasos2 now which has different USB to see if it's a problem with USB or the audio device itself but on pegasos2 the USB prefs freezes while on mac99 it detects the device but cannot open it when trying to play sound. Maybe I should try with AROS on sam460ex that I can sources for so I could debug it but if eventually we can get via-audio then it's not that important.) Also when using ES1370 with AmigaOS I've found it has some dropouts which may be due to default sound parameters in QEMU is not optimal but I don't know how to tune them. If you want to find out, you can contact people who know about audio who can be found in Git history.

Of those who should know are Gerd Hoffman who is the maintainer of that part and Volker Rümelin who did the last cleanup to improve audio backends. The optimal parameters to use may depend on audio backend though (ALSA, pulseaudio or others)." (dr) (Translation: bb)

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02.May.2021



Aminet uploads until 01.05.2021
The following files have been added until 01.05.2021 to Aminet:
unixODBC.lha             biz/dbase  3.0M  MOS An Open Source ODBC sub-syste...
CloudDav_1.0.lha         comm/net   1.7M  MOS A WebDav client
amigaterm_enh.lha        comm/term  31K   68k 1985 serial port ANSI Termina...
less-mos.lha             dev/gg     664K  MOS Viewer program similar to "more"
Helios_0.5-svn_r622.lha  driver/oth 108K  MOS IEEE1394 (FireWire) driver, t...
MCE.lha                  game/edit  3.1M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha              game/edit  3.3M  MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  3.6M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Putter.adf               game/jump  880K  68k Platformer/mini golf
DonkeyKong_Net_AROSx8... game/wb    3.4M  x86 LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_Net_MOS.lha   game/wb    3.4M  MOS LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_Net_OS3.lha   game/wb    3.2M  68k LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_Net_OS4.lha   game/wb    3.8M  OS4 LCD game conversion
DonkeyKong_Net_WOS.lha   game/wb    3.6M  WOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_Net_AROSx86.lha  game/wb    2.8M  x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_Net_MOS.lha      game/wb    2.8M  MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_Net_OS3.lha      game/wb    2.6M  68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_Net_OS4.lha      game/wb    3.2M  OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_Net_WOS.lha      game/wb    3.0M  WOS LCD game conversion
ACE-MorphOS.lha          misc/emu   1.9M  MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.1M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
xiffview.tgz             misc/unix  23K       IFF ILBM picture viewer for L...
Casablanca.lha           pix/gicon  43K       MacroSystem Casablanca GlowIcons
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  614K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  729K  MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  779K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
ShellBanner.lha          util/shell 106K      Make your Shell/CLI less boring
DateVar.lha              util/wb    59K       Displays date and time on WB ...
dintwm.lha               util/wb    19K   68k Dynamic Intuition Window Manager
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02.May.2021



OS4Depot uploads until 01.05.2021
The following files have been added until 01.05.2021 to OS4Depot:
shaderjoy_pack.lha       dem/mis 3Mb   4.1 A big pack of quality and tested...
oo.lha                   dev/lib 1Mb   4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
translocale.lha          dev/mis 2Mb   4.0 Localize your Hollywood program
hdaudio_ahi.lha          dri/aud 116kb 4.1 Generic HD audio driver for Amig...
bingo.lha                gam/boa 7Mb   4.0 Bingo Machine
desertedhouse.lha        gam/mis 4Mb   4.0 Text adventure with GUI
donkeykong.lha           gam/mis 4Mb   4.0 LCD game conversion
fireattack.lha           gam/mis 3Mb   4.0 LCD game conversion
maluva.lha               gam/mis 228kb 4.0 DAAD extension
runaway.lha              gam/mis 3Mb   4.0 LCD game conversion
whack-a-trump.lha        gam/mis 5Mb   4.0 Whack-a-mole type game
mce.lha                  gam/uti 4Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
flashmandelng.lha        gra/mis 12Mb  4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
shaderjoy.lha            gra/vie 4Mb   4.1 Display fragment shaders
mediavault.lha           net/mis 363kb 4.1 Discover online radio stations
kmailtombox.lha          net/ser 1kb   4.0 Creates a MBox file from Kmail (...
zitaftpserver.lha        net/ser 11Mb  4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
datevar.lha              uti/mis 59kb  4.0 Displays date and time on WB tit...
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 779kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.05.2021
The following files have been added until 01.05.2021 to AROS Archives:
donkeykong_net_arosx86.lha   aud/mis 3Mb   is a remake of a LCD game in the...
acidwarp.i386-aros.zip       dem/mis 156kb Colour cycling eye-candy
runaway_net_arosx86.lha      gam/mis 3Mb   LCD game conversion remake
pintorweb.lha                gra/con 7Mb   Handle your pictures to use on y...
videntiumpicta.lha           gra/con 2Mb   Videntium Picta is picture viewer
comicon_aros.lha             gra/vie 2Mb   simply downloads the comic-strip...
aya06.lha                    net/mis 2Mb   access wolfram alpha answer mach...
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02.May.2021



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.05.2021
The following files have been added until 01.05.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
bePlayer_1.1.lha          Audio/Players             bePlayer 1.0 - Simple m...
Less_583.lha              Development/GeekGadgets   A paginator similar to ...
ACE_1.23.lha              Emulation                 The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
ScummVM_2.3.0git.lha      Games/Adventure           A collection of various...
MCE_12.7.lha              Games/Editor              Multi-game Character Ed...
DonkeyKong_Net_1.76.lha   Games/Misc                LCD game conversion
Runaway_Net_1.23.lha      Games/Misc                LCD game conversion
ComicOn_1.2.lha           Graphics/Show             ComicOn downloads the s...
FFmpeg_n4.4.lha           Multimedia                FFmpeg is a collection ...
CloudDav_1.0.lha          Network/Streaming         A WebDav client
WitchCleaner_1.80.lha     Network/Web               A little and easy progr...
Wayfarer_1.16.lha         Network/Web               Wayfarer is the latest ...
unixODBC_2.3.9.lha        Office/Database           An Open Source ODBC sub...
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02.May.2021



WHDLoad: New installers until 01.05.2021
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 01.05.2021: (snx)

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01.May.2021
commodore.news (Webseite)


Amiga-Emulator: Amiberry 4.1.2
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. (cg)

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01.May.2021
Indie Retro News (Websitee)


Preview videos: nameless platformer, Turbo Sprint, 3D shooter 'Exhumed'.
The programmer 'DomKid' has published a first video of another platformer developed with the Scorpion Engine. The release of the Super Sprint clone 'Turbo Sprint' is apparently imminent, a promotional video should whet the appetite for the title.

Besides Shadow Warrior, Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró works on another shooter based on the 'Build' engine from 'Duke Nukem 3D': Exhumed, distributed in the USA as 'PowerSlave'. According to the author, the Amiga version (video) is still in a very early stage and still has various serious bugs. (cg) (Translation: bb)

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01.May.2021
David Brunet (ANF)


New articles on the Obligement website
In the last two months the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement has been extended by the contributions below. Translations into other languages are always welcome, interested parties please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
  • March/April 2021 news.
  • Old articles from Joystick 19 to 21:
    • Reviews of Adrenalynn, Mad TV, Pit-Fighter, The Blues Brothers, Wildwheels, Death Knights Of Krynn, The Light Brigade
    • Report: Computer Entertainment Show 1991
    • Interview with David Jones,
    • News: Two new future hits from Bullfrog
  • Interview with Claude Schwarz (PiStorm).
  • Interview with Dan Dodge (QNX, from 2000).
  • Interview with Darren Doyle (Greyfox Books).
  • Review of Amiga Forever 9.
  • Review of Dale Hardshovel And The Bloomstone Mystery.
  • Hardware: D520.
  • Hardware: Video Converter.
  • File: Classic Reflections - Whatever happened to ICD?
  • File: History and presentation of AmigaMagic.
  • Tutorial: the multi-screens mode on MorphOS.
  • Misc: Demoscene: The Amiga Years, Volume 1.
  • Special quizz about the Bitmap Brothers.
(cg) (Translation: bb)

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30.Apr.2021
MorphZone (website)


MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 1.16 (update)
Version 1.15 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web browser Wayfarer brings multiple media playback improvements, including seeking, stream quality changes and HLS video support fixes. Furthermore it is possible now to play videos on machines not equipped with Altivec.

Required are MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB RAM. A CPU with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to the author, besides the integrated crash report tool also e-mails to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu or the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used.

Update: (15:25, 01.05.21, dr)

Meanwhile already version 1.16 is available which disables screensaver while playing video and fixes a crash when shutting down the video decode. (snx)

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30.Apr.2021
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CDTV: Installation of CDTV OS ROMs/Extended ROMs 2.7/2.30
The website CDTV Land deals with Commodore's game console and multimedia player CDTV, which was released in 1991. In his latest >blog entry, the author goes into detail about installing and using the publicly available 2.7 and 2.30 versions of the CDTV OS ROMs/Extended ROMs, which are often used to upgrade the CDTV player. The website CDTV Land deals catchily with Commodore's game console and multimedia player CDTV, which was released in 1991. In his latest blog entry, the author discusses how to install and use the publicly available 2.7 and 2.30 versions of the CDTV OS ROMs/Extended ROMs, which are often used to upgrade the CDTV player. The website CDTV Land deals with Commodore's game console and multimedia player CDTV, which was released in 1991. In his latest >blog entry, the author goes into detail about installing and using the publicly available 2.7 and 2.30 versions of the CDTV OS ROMs/Extended ROMs, which are often used to upgrade the CDTV player. (dr) (Translation: bb)

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28.Apr.2021
a1k.org (Website)


ComicOn 1.2 (all Amiga systems)
Developed with Hollywood, ComicOn downloads short comic strips from the publishers' websites and displays them locally. Numerous English strips such as Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts are supported. ComicOn is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS, it requires some additional Hollywood plugins to be installed before using the program. New features in version 1.2:
  • Changed GUI from RapaGUI to MUI. This adds better support for Imagebuttons with MUI3.x
  • Some GUI-optimisation to get a little more space for the images themselves
  • The scalemode is now selectable. Especially on smaller Screens the comics are better readable now
  • Added verions for WarpOS and 68k-FPU
  • emoved the Requirement of Plananarama
  • And, as usual... Some bugfixing...
(cg) (Translation: bb)

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28.Apr.2021



Plattformer: Update of the MSX implementation 'King's Valley'
King's Valley' (video) is the conversion of the same named platformer for MSX computers from 1985. The Amiga version developed with BlitzBasic has been updated, a small bug has been fixed. (cg) (Translation: bb)

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