04.Apr.2022
McGeezer
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Preview video: Kung Fu action 'Devil's Temple'
Devil's Temple features 10 stages of intense arcade kung fu action based on the classic Irem games Kung Fu Master and Vigilante. Over 300 frames of animation were packed into the game and every cycle of performance was used on the Amiga A500. The game will adapt to upgrades, so additional chip ram will result in better music, AGA will provide additional colors and a greater variety of enemies in the game.
Today a new preview video for the game was released which is in development. It can already be pre-ordered as a boxed edition. A demo version of the first stage is also available on itch.io.
(dr)
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04.Apr.2022
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MorphOS: Symmetrix Blanker V1.0
Yesterday the #amigazeux team has released the Symmetrix screenblanker for MorphOS. It draws shapes like circles, stars and ribbons across symmetry-axes all over the screen producing (most times) multicoloured art. MorphOS 2.0 or higher and TinyGL required.
Download: Symmetrix.lha (71 kB) (dr)
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04.Apr.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 29 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now episode 29 was published. (dr)
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04.Apr.2022
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AmiGameJam 2022: The winners
Last night, during a live show at AmigaBill, the winners of this year's AmiGameJam contest were chosen:
- 1. 1st place: the amiga port of Konami's vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare written by 'Hoffman' and Toni Gálvez.
- 2nd place: Jean-François Fabre's Pacman clone MsPacman 500.
- 3rd place: 'Dante's' conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name, Green Beret.
Congratulations! (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
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Pre-order: New Amiga mechanical USB keyboard
Simulant Systems Ltd is a computer hardware, software and online IT support service provider based in York, United Kingdom. Today it was announced that production of Amiga USB mechanical keyboards will be started.
Amiga Corporation's first officially licensed mechanical USB PC keyboard features Brown Cherry MX keyswitches, Amiga-style sublimation printed keycap characters, green LED status indicators and injection-molded case. With limited availability, the keyboard can be pre-ordered for around 120 Euros plus 38 Euros for the corresponding international keycaps. (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
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Video: All about MiSTer FPGA
The YouTube channel 'My Life in Gaming' has published a video that goes into detail about the MiSTer FPGA board: what is needed, how to set it up, which consoles, computers, handhelds or arcade cores are supported. Supposedly worth watching even for long-time users. (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
OSnews
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Overview: The world of non-C operating systems
As an online portal, The Register provides news and analysis from the world of technology companies. In a recent article, the authors explore the question of what current commercial operating systems exist that were written before C was invented or that do not use the C programming language at any level or layer.
They explain that the Basic Combined Programming Language (BCPL), a compiled, system-oriented programming language developed by Martin Richards in 1966 and first implemented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the spring of 1967 (cf. Wikipedia entry) , was by no means just an insignificant transitional step, since it was used in two famous operating systems: so also in the TRIPOS operating system, which was later used as the original basis of AmigaOS.
Furthermore, an overview of programming languages and OSes based on them is given, for example Lisp with the OS Mezzano, Interim or ChrysaLisp. (dr)
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03.Apr.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.1
A week ago, version 3.9.0 of the programming language AmiBlitz was released. Now version 3.9.1 fixes some bugs:
- fixed crash when no source was loaded by default
- fixed crash when trying to open a second instance of AB3 with "clone wb"-option
- fixed Enforcer hits when inserting a new source line
- fixed crash on MorphOS when loading a source
- fixed misworking FPU-detection on 68060 systems
(dr)
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03.Apr.2022
Patrick Nevian (Mail)
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Chris Hülsbeck songs: Album "Piano Collection II" released
Patrick Nevian is a hobby programmer responsible for games like Ambermoon Arcade or the 'Tales of Gorluth' series. He first combined his hobby and his profession as a music producer and pianist in 2008, when he interpreted songs from various Amiga games on the piano and released them as a free album.
The musician Chris Hülsbeck, well-known for his soundtracks for the Amiga games Apidya, Turrican or Rainbows, among others, became aware of this and released the album 'The Piano Collection' with the pianist in 2015 after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Following a survey conducted in 2020 as to which Huelsbeck titles should be included on another album, Patrick Nevian has now released Chris Huelsbeck The Piano Collection - Volume II: The Players Choice, which can be ordered as a CD for ¤29.00 free shipping. Title List:
- Apidya: War at Meadow's Edge
- The Great Giana Sisters: Ingame music
- X-Out: Main theme
- Z-Out: Main theme
- Jim Power: Main theme
- Gem'Z: Credits
- The Apprentice: Main theme
- Turrican: Victory
- Turrican II: Freedom
- Grand Monster Slam: Main theme
- Tunnel B1: opening music
- Rock N Roll: Music from level 1
- Turrican I bis III: Medley of main themes
- Turrican II: The Wall
- Turrican III: Medley from level 1 and 2
- Madness: Main theme
- The Adventures of Quik & Silva: Ingame medley
- Two bonus tracks
(dr)
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03.Apr.2022
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Aminet uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to Aminet:
Artstate-Loopback.zip demo/sound 24K 68k 32Kb executable music for GER...
vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 366K POSIX compatibility library f...
zlib_S1212.lha dev/c 1.0M WOS ZLib 1.2.12 StormGCC link lib...
BeebAsm.lha dev/cross 733K MOS Assembler with BBC Micro styl...
atto.lha dev/gg 302K MOS Atto Emacs is inspired by Mic...
MuManual.lha docs/misc 945K 68k mmu.lib: examples, includes, ...
SAGADriver.lha driver/oth 289K 68k SAGA Driver Package
spacecadetpinball-aos... game/actio 5.1M OS4 SpaceCadetPinball
spikedislike.lha game/actio 41K 68k Endless disliking of spikes
Exult_RTG.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
PrBoom.lha game/shoot 848K 68k Amiga port of PrBoom (DOOM)
webptools122_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.4M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools122_aros.lha gfx/conv 3.6M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.3M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MuEVD.lha misc/emu 150K 68k MuLib driven ShapeShifter vid...
ptplayer.lha mus/play 31K 68k ProTracker player w/ support ...
JFIFdt44.lha util/dtype 674K 68k fast JFIF (JPEG) picture data...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.1M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
MMULib.lha util/libs 747K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
exutil_68k.lha util/wb 1.3M 68k Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_AROS.lha util/wb 1.5M x86 Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_MOS.lha util/wb 1.5M MOS Batch renames picture files b...
exutil_OS4.lha util/wb 1.8M OS4 Batch renames picture files b...
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03.Apr.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to OS4Depot:
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 237kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 231kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 197kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vbcc.lha dev/cro 3Mb 4.0 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PPC/A...
vbcc_libs.lha dev/cro 188kb 4.0 Compiler target AmigaOS 4.x PowerPC
vbcc_posixlib.lha dev/lib 366kb 4.0 POSIX compatibility library for ...
spacecadetpinball.lha gam/act 5Mb 4.1 SpaceCadetPinball ported to Amig...
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 26Mb 4.0 Point and click adventure game
devinfosng.lha uti/mis 1Mb 4.1 Nearly all about the aos4.1 hard...
exutil.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 An exif based batch renamer
jasspa-memacs.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 JASSPA MicroEmacs under AmiCygni...
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03.Apr.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to AROS Archives:
breaker.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 548kb Arkanoid clone
exutil_aros.lha gra/mis 2Mb An exif based batch renamer pict...
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03.Apr.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.04.2022
The following files have been added until 02.04.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
vbcc_PosixLib_3.0.lha Development/C POSIX compatibility lib...
BeebAsm_1.09.lha Development/Cross Assembler with BBC Micr...
Atto_1.22.lha Development/GeekGadgets Atto Emacs is inspired ...
AmiArcadia_28.4.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
GrafX2_2.8.lha Graphics/Draw GrafX2 version 2.8, SDL...
Exutil_1.1.2.lha Graphics/Tools A small MUI based utili...
FFmpeg_4.4.1.lha Multimedia FFmpeg is a collection ...
MouseEyes_1.4.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Displays Mouse Eyes in ...
Uptime_1.5.lha System/Ambient/Screenbar Display Uptime in scree...
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03.Apr.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.04.2022
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 02.04.2022:
- 2022-04-01 updated: Second Samurai (Psygnosis/Vivid Image) patch redone, annoying control bug in main menu fixed, 24-bit problems fixed, lots of trainer options added, CD32 joypad support, highscore load/save, source code included (Info)
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02.Apr.2022
Twitter
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.10
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday the new firmware version 1.10 was released providing the following improvements and new features compared to version 1.9:
- Adds support for the ZZ9000AX audio expansion with native 48000Hz, Stereo s16i playback and capture. Capture is not yet supported by driver/tools.
- Adds AHI driver for ZZ9000AX. Please note that only very fast Amigas can mix 48kHz audio through AHI. If you have a 020 or 030, it's best to use 24kHz for AHI.
- Adds MP3 decoding support on an ARM core of ZZ9000 powered by minimp3.
- The tool axmp3 in the drivers package demonstrates direct MP3 playback at 48kHz, with very low Amiga CPU usage (not using AHI). The tool is Open Source.
- C code refactor splits out many modules from ZZ9000OS main.c for better maintainability
According to the developer "the plan is to ship out the bulk of ZZ9000AX batch 1 orders next week, which is supported by this firmware." (dr)
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02.Apr.2022
Discord
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.0
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.
Yesterday, version 5.0 was released, which, among other numerous bug fixes and improvements, improves the auto-crop function. The most important changes:
- Updated Display panel help, with info about Auto-Crop
- Updated version date
- Auto-Crop: Only change Height in DMX approach, to avoid possible problems with width
- Updated version date
- Auto-Crop: improved minimum width calculation, for both LowRes and HighRes modes
- Remove floppydrivebridge library from pipelines, as it's now part of Amiberry
- Updated version date
- Fixed Auto-Crop assigned to custom control
- Fixed #923: when auto-crop is enabled, auto-fix options that cause trouble
- Fixed incorrect Aspect Ratio when using Auto Crop
(dr)
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01.Apr.2022
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MorphOS: Screenbar-Plugin MouseEyes 1.4
The #amigazeux team has updated the screenbar plugin 'MouseEyes', that displays eyes in the screen title looking at and following the mouse pointer, to version 1.4 for MorphOS. Changes:
- The pupils of the eyes are now only shown on the active screen. On all other screens running an instance of Mouseeyes, the pupils are hidden. This also has the side effect that one can easily spot the active screen based on existing pupils in case of a multi-monitor setup.
- Now comes with a real Installer script courtesy of InstallerGen by Rob Cranley.
(dr)
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31.Mar.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: A500KB - a mechanical keyboard for the Amiga 500
Henryk Richter's project A500KB is a mechanical keyboard for the Amiga 500 which can be mounted with either the original keys of the Amiga 2000/3000/4000, the A1200.net replicas or keys from Mitsumi, Cherry and KailH, respectively.
For Power, Drive and Caps-Lock LEDs he uses RGB LEDs, with their colour being configurable by an AmigaOS programm. (snx)
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31.Mar.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: MicroSD interface for the Parallel Port
Based on the design concept by Niklas Ekström, 'RetroNynjah' has published his "Retroninja Amiga Parallel SD" project at the title link. It allows to use microSD cards via the Amiga's Parallel Port. Since the latter does not include a power source, this has to be supplied using a USB connector. (snx)
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31.Mar.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb 2.0 Beta 1 Update 3
The Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb is based on vAmiga for Mac OS and runs in the web-browser and as a Progressive Web App (PWA) on mobile devices, respectively (amiga-news.de reported).
Despite the rather small update suggested by its version number, its current release now also supports Amiga harddrive files (.hdf), which also works when they are compressed in a ZIP file. Besides this, bugs in ActionButtons have been fixed. (snx)
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31.Mar.2022
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Chip-Ram expansion for Amiga 500, 2000, Commodore CDTV: RAMesses
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about his latest development 'RAMesses': this board upgrades an Amiga 500, 2000 or the Commodore CDTV to 2MB chip RAM without soldering or cutting the motherboard. It is based on the board developed by Matt Harlum, which converts an 8375 Agnus to work in a normal Amiga 500, adding 2MB of chip RAM. However, this required craftsmanship and soldering experience.
So Hutchings decided to design a board that solved this problem. The RAMesses board uses a PLCC connector that plugs into the Amiga's Agnus socket, and an 8375 Agnus that plugs into the bottom of the board. Additionally, there is an adapter that fits under the Gary chip and provides some additional signals. The Gary chip overwrites all motherboard and expansion RAM, so it is easy to install regardless of the motherboard and configuration. This means that no modifications need to be made to the Amiga's motherboard.
Additionally, there is a jumper on the top of the RAMesses board. As the developer writes, some games state that they need 1 MB, but actually mean 512 KB chip and 512 KB Slow RAM. This jumper reconfigures the board to provide Slow RAM. From 2MB Chip RAM this will change to 1MB Chip and 512KB Slow RAM.
It should be noted that the board requires an 8375 2MB Agnus chip. In the first batches there was still the possibility to get the RAMesses together with an 8375, but this is now unlikely. Thus, the chip has to be purchased separately. Likewise, he recommends a PLCC extractor tool for removing the Amiga's Agnus before installing this board, specifically Piergiacomi's PLCC-84 extractor tool .
RAMesses is available in his new 'Retro Supplies' store for about 90 Euros. (dr)
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31.Mar.2022
Twitter
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Shoot'em up: Sixth demo version of Jackal
NeesoGames has released the sixth demo version (YouTube video) of its game Jackal, created with the Scorpion Engine. Changes:
- Level 1 boss has an indicator to show where the tanks will spawn
- New enemy in Level 2 (Jeep throwing 'nades)
- Level 3 preview (fully navigable but no boss fight yet)
- New explosion graphics
- Animated exploded turrets
- Fixed foreground issues with fort walls and pillars
- Enemies have been rebalanced
- Memory optimizations, bugfixes and more!
According to the developers, this version might be a bit unstable because of a lot of things have been refactored. A complete third level including the boss fight has been announced for the seventh update. (dr)
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31.Mar.2022
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)
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Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.1
After the release of A-Copy, a program similar to X-Copy for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows using the ADF drive hardware, Arne Urbaniak has now written 'G-Copy', a corresponding application for the Greaseweazle.
This is currently available in version 0.1 and is intended for testing. Unlike A-Copy, which was written using Microsoft's free and open source software platform '.NET', G-Copy, as the author writes to us, was completely new and written in Python. Basically, the two applications are to be merged as time permits, though there would be many more Arduino-based controllers, all with their own configurations and command parameters. In addition, there would be many requests for implementation of other systems and formats (Atari, Apple, TI99).
Features of version 0.1:
- Doscopy: ADF file -> disk and Disk -> ADF file
- Nibblecopy: SCP file -> disk and disk -> SCP file (incl. copy protection)
- DMS2Disk: HD-DMS file -> disk
- DMS2ADF: HD-DMS file -> HD-ADF file
- IPF2Disk: HD-IPF file -> disk
- Delete, format, QFormat
Tasks still to be done:
- Bamcopy
- Copy start-end from the hard disk to the correct place of the file
- Copying the correct part of the file to the floppy disk
- Writing to several destinations
- better troubleshooting
Download: gcopy.zip (30 MB) (dr)
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30.Mar.2022
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Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress ITX
Recently we reported about an expansion for mounting the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 1200 case, called MiSTress 1200. Now there is also a conversion kit, MiSTress ITX, for mounting the MiSTer FPGA into an ITX/Micro ITX PC case. The MiSTress ITX board offers all connectors that the official MiSTer Analog I/O 6.1 board has, plus an integrated USB hub with six available ports and a selectable I2S Audio DAC output.
The board implements also a dual function front button header to plug the front button of your case: short press access MiSTer OSD, long press calls USER button function (core dependant). Further information under the title link. (dr)
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30.Mar.2022
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MorphOS: Screenbar plugin Uptime 1.5a
The #amigazeux team has updated the Screenbar plugin 'Uptime' for displaying uptime - the time the computer system is running and functional - for MorphOS to version 1.5. Changes:
- Added a savety requester when trying to reset the uptime record.
- Uptime records can be reported via MagicBeacon now with configurable frequency.
- Now comes with a real Installer script courtesy of InstallerGen by Rob Cranley.
- Text can now be rendered off-center by specifying a pixel offset.
- It's now possible to have the gauge frame drawn around or over (default from previous versions) the gauge itself at the edges (see settings).
- Cycle gadget for adjusting the frame type now shows a small preview image.
Update: (04.04.2022, 17:48, dr)
Thanks to a hint from Guido Mersmann a bug in the installer has been fixed with version 1.5a released yesterday, which now copies the MagicBeacon images correctly to SYS:Prefs/Applications/MagicBeacon instead of MOSSYS:Data/MagicBeacon. (dr)
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29.Mar.2022
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History: Commodore's 'ChessMate'
In its latest blog entry, the 'Commodore International Historical Society' has reported on the history of Commodore's 'ChessMate'. (dr)
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29.Mar.2022
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Sound module: First batch of ZZ9000AX is delivered
The ZZ9000AX is the sound module for the multifunctional Amiga expansion card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday it was announced that the first batch is shipping now, which was originally planned for January already. Interested users who order now will be part of the second batch, which is expected to be shipped in June 2022. (dr)
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29.Mar.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: Introduction on Artificial Intelligence
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows the basics of artificial intelligence (AI) using neural networks. He elaborates on how to develop them using genetic algorithms and confronts them with various problems to see if they can solve them (see also MIT's introductory lecture on this topic). (dr)
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29.Mar.2022
Martina Hřebcová (Mail)
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Analysis: PPC architecture evolution in Amiga world (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her detailed reviews and analyses of Amiga hardware, for example about the use of graphics cards under the Sam440ep-flex or the Pegasos I. Now she takes Amiga users on a discourse about the PPC architecture used in AmigaNG systems: Czech original text, machine translation. (dr)
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