06.Jun.2022
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.8
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.8 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS which, additional to a bug fix, introduces basic drag & drop of web elements of a website.
Changes:
- Implemented basic drag & drop of web elements within a page
- Fixed scrollbar positions after switching between tabs
Download: wayfarer.lha (26 MB) (dr)
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06.Jun.2022
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MorphOS: MouseSpotter 1.0
The #amigazeux team has released the Commodity MouseSpotter, which helps to find the mouse pointer again by simply pressing a hotkey if you have lost sight of it.
MouseSpotter offers a number of options for customisation, such as adjustable colour, duration, different interpolators for the animation and more. (dr)
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06.Jun.2022
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Farming simulation: Farmiga
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, which he has named 'Farmiga':
Various vegetables and cereals have to be grown, sold at the market and cows or chickens bought with the money earned. The last update on 4 June added a new graphic design, an intro and a selection screen for saving and loading, as well as German and English menu navigation. Music is still missing.
The author has tested his game on an Amiga equippd with Kickstart 3.1.4, 512kB Chip RAM and 2MB Fast RAM. (dr)
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06.Jun.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood addon: Remedios 1.2 released
Airsoft Softwair has released version 1.2 of Remedios. Remedios allows Hollywood scripts to be compiled as standalone apps for iOS and iPadOS. Remedios 1.2 is a minor update that now adds support for Hollywood 9.1 and Xcode 13. The update is available now for all customers for free in the protected download area. (dr)
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06.Jun.2022
trackerhero (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.10
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.
The new version 0.9.10 offers besides numerous improvements and fixes now support for AGA fetch modes, which allow the Amiga chips to work in bigger chunks, making graphics operations faster:
- EXPERIMENTAL: Fetch mode can be set in the Screen menu for AGA games: Normal,
Double and Quadruple fetch modes are supported.
- Increased Fetch modes can improve game speed, specially in machines without
fastram.
- With higher fetch modes, funny effects could happen when using sprites or
changing the screen width of the screen.
- Resize of the map dimensions now can automatic replace the tiles to the new
dimensions.
- Multiple WHDload slaves added:
- Workbench31_1.Slave 1 MB Chip 1 MB Fast
- Workbench31_4.Slave 2 MB Chip 4 MB Fast
- Workbench31_32.Slave 2 MB Chip 32 MB Fast
- Object drawing has been reimplemented for safer (but also slower) rendering.
- Embedded Help for trigger conditions is now more complete.
- If the Sprite layer was attached to an Object Set Sprite Pos detaches it.
- Set Sprite Pos will ignore parameters with coordinates less than -1000. This way you can set up just x or y coodinate.
- Action Set NTSC moved to General category.
- In Level Objects screen you can select snap to tile to move objects only in tile exact coordinates.
- In Level screen you can import and export maps in CVS format.
- General optimization.
- When an object is attached to mouse movement now it takes into account the scrolling area.
- Fix in camara not reaching end of the level with reduced screen widths.
- Fix in brush width and height when using the tile shortcuts.
(dr)
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05.Jun.2022
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.06.2022
The following files have been added until 04.06.2022 to the Aminet:
httphandler.lha comm/www 88K OS4 HTTP: device for accessing we...
PyPlayer.zip dev/src 1.1M 68k Audio Player for Python 1.4.0...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 44K 68k Massive release 1.22
F1GP2022Carset.lha game/data 9K 2022 Carset for F1GP
BiedronkaZuzia.lha game/misc 1.3M MOS GAME WITHOUT VIOLENCE for sma...
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 135K 68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
ScummVM_RTG.lha game/misc 6.6M 68k Amiga port of ScummVM 1.7.0
WBTicTacToe.lha game/wb 100K 68k Tic-Tac-Toe for WB, up to 4 d...
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
Viaduct-1.5.lha misc/emu 93K 68k RTG-aware PCWindow clone for ...
MasterOfPuppets.lha mods/pro 123K Protracker module by Omen
IntsyPX.lha text/bfont 4K A complete 8pt font.
avalanche.lha util/arc 74K OS4 ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
LHArchiver.lha util/arc 4.6M create lha archives intuitively
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 159K PNG image datatype V45.25
MMULib.lha util/libs 750K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 69K 68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 101K 68k External Virus Scanner Librar...
ScreamBar.lha util/wb 41K MOS Screenbar plug-in for AmiNetR...
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05.Jun.2022
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.06.2022
The following files have been added until 04.06.2022 to the OS4Depot:
warpjpegdt.lha dat/ima 331kb 4.0 JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.16
warppngdt.lha dat/ima 159kb 4.0 PNG image datatype V45.25
warppsddt.lha dat/ima 71kb 4.0 Adobe Photoshop datatype V45.7
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
avalanche.lha uti/arc 74kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
avalanche_es.lha uti/arc 3kb 4.0 Spanish translation for Avalanche
avalanche_ita.lha uti/arc 5kb 4.0 Italian translation for Avalanche
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
igame.lha uti/mis 318kb 4.0 Frontend for WHDLoad games and d...
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05.Jun.2022
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 04.06.2022
The following file has been added until 04.06.2022 to the AROS-Archives:
zunepaint.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 530kb Bitmap paint with additional eff...
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05.Jun.2022
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 04.06.2022
The following files have been added until 04.06.2022 to the MorphOS-Storage:
LHArchiver_1.2.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
Wayfarer_3.7.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
ScreamBar_1.2.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Screenbar module plug-i...
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05.Jun.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.06.2022
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 04.06.2022:
- 2022-05-30 improved: Lotus 2 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) another Lotus Trilogy (CD) version supported, new install script (Info)
- 2022-05-29 updated: Carnage (Zeppelin Games/Warped Minds) patch redone, all OS stuff patched, OSEmu no longer needed, access faults fixed, blitter waits added, 68000 quitkey support, new install script (Info)
- 2022-05-29 updated: Sharkeys Moll (Zeppelin Games) patch redone, keyboard problems fixed, CPU dependent delays fixed, more trainer options, new install script (Info, Image)
- 2022-05-29 improved: 2 Unlimited (Scoopex) stack problem that occured on some machines fixed (Info, Image)
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05.Jun.2022
Mark Olsen (ANF)
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MorphOS: Bounty for improved OpenGL support and new graphics card driver
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen offers a Bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link. Support for the R600, R700, Evergreen and Northern Island chips would open up many commonly available PCI Express graphics cards, such as those that would be usable in the Sam460, X5000 and PowerMac G5.
Completion is promised within three months at the latest after full financing. So far, almost one fifth of the required eight thousand euros has been donated. Donations can be made directly by bank transfer or via PayPal in Euros, British Pounds, US and Canadian Dollars. Those who wish to support in another currency can contact Mark Olsen - otherwise please support him by accepting the exchange fees in Euros.
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05.Jun.2022
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Shops: Announcement of AmigaOne-X5000 availability with P5040-CPU
The AmigaOne X5000 was designed for two different processors: the PowerPC CPUs P5020 (64 bit, two cores, 2.0 GHz) and P5040 (2.2 GHz). As 'Puni/Void' reports under the title link, his inquiry at various Amiga dealers about the availability of remaining stock of AmigaOS 4.x hardware revealed that the AmigaOne X5000/40 variant is or will be available there. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: AROS One 1.7 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One" based on the AROS binary branch ABI v0 is now available in version 1.7 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image under the title link, where also videos can be found.
Updates:
- System
- HDToolBox Device (fixed ToolType options)
- Update Image WHDMenu
- Update Def_MIDI
- Update Def_CDXL
- Update Def_Icons Lua, AmiLua
- Update DirectoryOpus.CFG
- Update ZuneARC Config
- New Skins for Murks
- New Datatypes BMP, TGA
- New Themes for Wanderer
- New Descriptor (Datatypes)
- 8 New Icons DualPNG Button AmiStart
- DT2GIF
- DTConv
- DTConvertGui
- BMP.datatype
- TGA.datatypes
- ICO.datatypes
- UnDeleteSFS
- UnDeletePFS
- New GRUB background
- Applications
- SidDump 1.08
- AmigaKeyRemaper v1.1
- GarshneBlanker v3.9
- RNOEffects v1.3
- DiskValid GUI v1.0
- GarshneBlanker v39.2
- TCPPrefs v1.0
- RNOPublisher v1.0
- Acuario 2020
- ViewISO v1.1
- ZapHod v1.3
- MCC TextEditor v15.56
- RNOArchive v1.0
- RapaGUI v2.1
- 4KLive v0.7
- RunInDOSBox r1
- RMan v3.2
- RTF2HTML v3.97
- GrafX2 2.7.2978
- GTuner v0.41
- AmiNote v0.1
- ZuneARC v1.6
- ModExplorer v3.81
- ModExplorerCE v3.80
- Bin2ISO
- DTConv
- Daysleeper v0.9
- AIDEa v04/03/21
- Murks vO.6
- GCC v6.3.0
- MUIBase v4.4
- IconClone v1.0.7
- PerCIMan v0.7.4
- InstallerLG v1.0
- Vim v8.2.4370
- Multiview v1.8 by Miker
- VindentiumPicta v2.50
- SilkRAW v1.3
- Aget v0.64
- HollywoodPlayer v9.1
- Crono v2.2
- Games
- Hle Poker Card
- BOH
- BlackjuanPokerCard
- Atomiks
- Breaker
- SYASokoban
- Pipewalker
- SieteYMedia
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05.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Amiga 500 Mod PCB project (HDMI, DF0/DF1, low-pass filter)
Jeremy Parker's Amiga 500 Mod PCB project provides, among other things, a Raspberry Pi used as an RGB-to-HDMI converter with an HDMI output on the back of the Amiga 500. A small switch allows access to the menu of the single-board computer.
Two further switches are used to integrate a DF0/DF1 switch or to define the low-pass filter. (snx)
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05.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: PiStorm for Amiga 600
PiStorm is the emulation of an 68k processor by the Raspberry Pi minicomputer under Linux. At the title link, 'LemaruX' presents his PiStorm600 project for replication, which, as the name suggests, now also gives the Amiga 600 a PiStorm solution. (snx)
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05.Jun.2022
Vinnny (ANF)
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Bridgeboard program: Viaduct 1.5
Karoly Balogh's Viaduct is a clone of Commodore's PCWindow for displaying PC-side graphics output on Amiga systems with a bridgecard. His replacement was written for faster Amigas equipped with graphics cards. Version 1.5 now supports ToolTypes and is localized, supported so far are Hungarian, German and English. Also the documentation has been transferred to AmigaGuide format.
Download: Viaduct-1.5.lha (93 KB) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2022
ANF
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Amigas in films: Amiga 1000 in fourth season of Stranger Things
The streaming provider Netflix currently offers a series called "Stranger Things", in whose sixth episode of the fourth season, which takes place in 1986, an Amiga 1000 is used: It is used to dial into a server and find out a location with the help of an IP address. You can see the Workbench - but the source code shown there seems to be C#, which was only introduced in 2001. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2022
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast episode #139 - David Pleasance on German version of his book
In the 139th edition of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller once again talk to former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance. This time's topic is the German edition of his book "Commodore - The Inside Story". (snx)
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05.Jun.2022
Twitter
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.1
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday George 'walkero' Sokianos (AmigaOS4 editor 'Lite XL' or MediaVault) has released version 2.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, which offers some fixes and minor improvements. (dr)
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04.Jun.2022
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Jump'n Run: Second demo version of 'Duckstroma' released
At the beginning of May a first playable demo of the Jump'n Run 'Duckstroma' was released (amiga-news.de reported). Due to the upcoming release of the full version, a second demo version is now available, which provides small improvements.
In 'Duckstroma', as duck Aura you have the order to deliver eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all sorts of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (YouTube video). The game requires 1MB of RAM. (dr)
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04.Jun.2022
Chris Young
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AmigaOS 4: http-handler 1.11
16 years ago the first version of the http-handler published by Chris Young was released, what amiga-news.de reported about. The day before yesterday the developer released the "jubilee version" 1.11 (Queen Elizabeth II) which now supports AmiSSL 5. His http-handler provides a virtual drive "HTTP:" which can be used to access resources on the Internet. Features of the handler:
- Allows access to web-hosted files via a virtual HTTP: device.
- Also supports secure sites with AmiSSL and a virtual HTTPS: device.
- Basic authentication supported using an addressing scheme like "http://user:pass()www.domain.com"
- Supports Open(), Read(), Close() and Seek().
- Implements HTTP redirects (301,302,307) as soft-links - even works with redirects that point to local files.
- Optionally supports gzip content-encoding for faster download times, if z.library is installed.
- Will work through a proxy server.
- Can connect to HTTP services running on ports other than the default.
4Shortly after the release of the first version, the developer had conducted a survey on WebDAV support. Based on the positive feedback, he started implementing it, which originally resulted in version 2 - which he initially abandoned at the time - and later 3. However, as he tells us, he lost support for the other protocols in these versions, which is why a WebDAV beta version 6 was released, which is available on Open Amiga. (dr)
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02.Jun.2022
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Virus Help Team: xvs.library V33.47
Georg Wittmann has released version 33.47 of the external virus scanner library xvs.library. Since our last news article on version 33.44, several bootblock and other virus were added to be detected (history). (dr)
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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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