15.Aug.2021
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Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.5
Press release: IBrowse 2.5.5 is now available for download (OS4 users may use AmiUpdate instead). This is a maintenance release with an important fix for a crash bug introduced in 2.5.4, along with performance improvements, the addition of third-party cookie blocking and a few other fixes. The full list of changes follows:
- Updated Danish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish catalog translations, by Niels Bache, Samir Hawamdeh, Kolbjørn Barmen, Mariusz Danilewicz, Javier de las Rivas and Pär Boberg respectively
- Tweaked the installer to work around the broken Version command in A-EON's Enhancer Software
- OS4: Fixed truncated multipart form submission, when any file upload elements were left blank (e.g. Gmail)
- Fixed problems with the accept/reject from this server buttons not always working correctly in cookie action requesters
- Added third-party and first-party cookie types to the information shown in cookie action requesters
- Added AmigaOS 3.2 detection
- Third-party cookies now detected and can be blocked using the security and/or URL prefs settings
- Resumed downloads in the download manager didn't show the size, but now show the total expected complete size
- Fixed corruption of auto resumed incomplete HTTP gzip encoded downloaded files
- Fixed
- Improved parsing speed of huge inline JavaScript sections
- Don't bother to copy inline JavaScript into a buffer, if JavaScript is disabled, improving performance
- Tweaked puddle size of one of the main memory pools, to improve performance
This is the fifth free update for registered users of IBrowse 2.5. IBrowse 2.1-2.4 and 1.x users may upgrade to IBrowse 2.5.5 via our store at discounted rates. (dr)
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15.Aug.2021
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Aminet uploads until 14.08.2021
The following files have been added until 14.08.2021 to Aminet:
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 60K 68k Gemini protocol browser
RawIO2Parallel.lha dev/debug 5K 68k Redirect debug output to para...
Parallel2Serial.lha docs/hard 6K Make the parallel port a seri...
Jake_and_Peppy_0.80B.lha game/demo 31M 68k Playable demo of new Apollo V...
labyrinth64.lha game/misc 135K 68k Remake of Commodore 64 game L...
gimine.lha game/wb 110K 68k classic game of mines
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
ToolsMenu.lha util/cdity 75K 68k Add tools to the Workbench To...
Iconverter.lha util/conv 115K 68k Convert WB 1/MagicWB icons to...
Iconverter_mos.lha util/conv 97K MOS Convert WB 1/MagicWB icons to...
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15.Aug.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 14.08.2021
The following files have been added until 14.08.2021 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
nmtm-demo.lha gam/adv 8Mb 4.0 Point and click adventure game
cookiemaster.lha net/bro 2Mb 4.1 Web browser (currently Odyssey) ...
witchcleaner.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Clean temp data from OWB and IBr...
bibvision.lha uti/tex 388kb 4.1 Bible text viewer for OS4
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15.Aug.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 14.08.2021
The following files have been added until 14.08.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_27.81.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Deark_1.5.9.lha Files/Archive Extracting data from va...
UnRAR_6.02.lha Files/Archive UnRAR port for MorphOS,...
Iconverter_1.0.lha Files/Convert Convert WB 1/MagicWB ic...
ScummVM_2.3.0git.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
NMTM_demo.lha Games/Demo A game concept demo of ...
FResample_2.0.lha System/Library/Audio Fast altivec-capable re...
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14.Aug.2021
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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Developer package: DevPack 1.11
The free "DevPack" by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is intended for Amiga users who want to develop their own software under AmigaOS. The new version 1.11 contains updated versions of RedPill and vasm/vlink, also a link to the AmigaOS 3.2-NDK has been added. AmiPython 2.3.3 has been removed from the distribution because the author apparently did not agree with the distribution as part of DevPack. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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14.Aug.2021
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Jetbrain IDEs: Plugin upgrades support for MC68000 syntax
Chris 'platon42' Hodges (USB stack Poseidon, among others) has released a plugin on Github for Jetbrains' integrated development environments (CLion and IntelliJ for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, among others) that retrofits support for m68k assembler. It equips the IDEs with syntax highlighting and refactoring capability for Motorola's instruction set. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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14.Aug.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Magazine archive: Amiga Future Archive DVD #5
Press release: The Amiga Future Archive DVD #5 has been released. It is a pressed DVD9 with over 6 GByte of data. Even if it should be no problem in principle, make sure that your drive can read a DVD9. Of course you also need a PDF viewer.
On the Amiga Future Archive DVD #5 you can find the following issues of Amiga Future as PDF:
- Deutsch: Amiga Future Issue 11-142
- Englisch: Amiga Future Issue 67-142
Issues 11 to 26 have been scanned. Unfortunately, the quality here is not exactly perfect. All other issues are PDFs in very high quality. Issue 11 was the first German Amiga Future issue that was published. Issue 67 was the first English issue of Amiga Future. So there are over 20 years of Amiga Future history on the DVD.
There is no update possibility from previous version of the Amiga Future Archive DVD. Please have understanding for this.
(cg) (Translation: bb)
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14.Aug.2021
Pretty Old Pixel (ANF)
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Interview: Damon Slye (Dynamix)
The Pretty Old Pixel YouTube channel has conducted an interview with Damon Slye, one of the founders of Dynamix, who is responsible for countless classics, such as Mechwarrior, A-10 Tank Killer, Aces of the Pacific and Aces of the Deep. In the interview, Damon talks about how he got into computer game programming and goes into detail about individual games. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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10.Aug.2021
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New edition of the Amiga 500: THEA500 Mini
In October 2020 Retro Games Ltd. had hinted at the replica of an Amiga 500 with a picture. Today, concrete details were announced: In early 2022, the replica of the Amiga 500, named THEA500 Mini and distributed by Koch Media, will be available for a recommended retail price of EUR¤129.99 (product video).
Not only the OSC and ECS chipset, but also the Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) are to be emulated. 25 games are to be included, of which the following have been listed so far: Alien Breed 3D, Another World, ATR: All Terrain Racing, Battle Chess, Cadaver, Kick Off 2, Pinball Dreams, Simon The Sorcerer, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, The Chaos Engine, Worms: The Director's Cut, Zool: Ninja Of The "Nth" Dimension. All other titles will be announced at a later date. However, it is also possible to load your own games using a USB stick and WHDLoad support. The games can be saved and continued at any time.
The following products are to be included in the scope of delivery:
- THEA500 Mini Computer
- 25 Games
- 2-Button-USB-Mouse in original design
- 8-Button-USB-Gamepad
- HDMI Cable
- USB-C power cable
- Quick Start Guide
THEA500 Mini will have the following specifications:
- Emulates A500, A600 & A1200 (ECS/OCS/AGA)
- Games can be saved and resumed at any time
- Own games can be added
- 720p HD resolution at 50 Hz (Europe) or 60 Hz (USA)
- Various scaling options and CRT filters
- Virtual keyboard and USB keyboard support
- upgradeable firmware
So far, there is no information about which hardware or software this replica is based on. (dr)
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10.Aug.2021
Amigablogs
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Game announcement: 'Menace' remake for Vampire
Kevin Saunders, graphic designer, artist and game designer for Amiga projects (among others Boss Machine and RESHOOT PROXIMA 3), has announced a remake of the game Menace for Vampire Amigas by presenting an animated end level boss. He also encourages Amiga users to support his work by becoming a Patreon. (dr)
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09.Aug.2021
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Platformer: Radical Moves
'ScattergoodStudios' has rereleased its game "Radical Rob" originally written in 1992 as Radical Moves. In this platform game, offering 99 levels, the player Rob "has to rid the world of evil fluffies, collect drink cans and work your way through each level." (YouTube-Video).
Rob has an unlimited supply of plasma bombs to clobber baddies with. Once hit, a meanie will remain stunned for a few seconds. This gives Rob enough time to run over them and finish them off.
The game can be purchased for at least about 2,50 Euro as adf file. (dr)
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08.Aug.2021
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AmiWest 2021: Registration of presentations
As already reported, this years's AmiWest will take place on 16. and 17. October 2021 in Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California. In its latest blog entry the organizers call all companies, users and developers to register planned presentations - online or on site - via eMail. (dr)
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08.Aug.2021
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Amiga disks on PC: Update to copy program A-Copy
A-Copy is a program for reading and writing ADF disk images under Windows. It requires the ADF drive hardware, which uses a Teensy USB Development Board as an adapter between PC and floppy drive
In the latest version additional to minor bug fixes, Arne Urbaniak has updated the controller detections as well as finished the Bamcopy of ADFImage2Disk. As he reported, there are many suggestions and ideas he have received which he now examines. (dr)
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08.Aug.2021
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Update of Shoot'em Up 'Inviyya'
'Tigerskunk' has released an update for the digital version of his shoot'em up 'Inviyya' providing an additional level. For users who have already purchased the game the update is available after logging in. (dr)
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08.Aug.2021
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Preview video: Jump'n Run 'Boxx 4'
The developer 'Lemming880' is working on the fourth part of his 'Boxx' series developed with the Scorpion Engine. You can get some impressions of the third part on amigafrance.com. There you will also find download links for all previously released parts. In a YouTube preview video, 'Lemming880' shows a short walk through the first level of the fourth part of the series.
(dr)
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08.Aug.2021
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Aminet uploads until 07.08.2021
The following files have been added until 07.08.2021 to Aminet:
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 297K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
AxelPong.lha game/misc 264K 68k classic pong game revisited b...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
ASE2019_1.52.lha text/edit 134K 68k Text editor
Deark.lha util/arc 3.6M MOS Extract data from various fil...
UnRAR-6.02.lha util/arc 2.3M MOS UnRAR 6.02
JFIFdt44.lha util/dtype 877K 68k fast JFIF (JPEG) picture data...
FResample.lha util/libs 88K MOS Fast altivec-capable resample...
Alltests.zip util/misc 14K 68k Automated Amiga Test Program
Testprogram.zip util/misc 385K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
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08.Aug.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.08.2021
The following files have been added until 07.08.2021 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
astralgame.lha gam/mis 3Mb 4.0 A little tool to know your zodia...
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08.Aug.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.08.2021
The following files have been added until 07.08.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.0.14_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.1...
SDLPoP_1.22.lha Games/Adventure SDLPoP is an open-sourc...
MCE_13.1.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
AstralGame_3.0.lha Games/Misc This esoteric app you c...
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08.Aug.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.08.2021
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 07.08.2021:
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07.Aug.2021
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Raspberry Pi: Dev Diary on Emu68
Michal Schulz is working on his Motorola-68000 emulation for the Raspberry Pi (amiga-news.de reported). In two Dev Diary entries Emu68 meets PiStorm and A little bit more of PiStorming he has now reported on his latest efforts of get his emulation running on an A500 and a Raspberry Pi3. Furthermore he provides Nightly Builds on the corresponding GitHub website. (dr)
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07.Aug.2021
Amitopia
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UnRAR 6.02 for all Amiga systems
Marcin Labenski has ported the source code of UnRAR 6.0.7 to all Amiga systems and provides the following features:
- support all the basic unrar commands and switches, including listing, unpacking (all or selected items), printing and testing archive files
- support national characters in archive name, names of files and directories in the archive, passwords, comments and list files
- support restoring information about file modification date, owner and group
- support unpacking symbolic links and hard links stored in archives
- support unpacking multi-volume and SFX archives
- can read switches from configuration file s:rar.conf or RAR environment variable
- large files support (>4GiB) on MorphOS and AmigsOS4
- support AmigaOS localization via locale.library
As the author wrote, "there are no special requirements for MorphOS and AmigaOS4. It should work on any system provided that it has a relatively fresh version of the operating system (I test on MorphOS 3.12 and AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 1). AROS version requires i386 and ABI-v0. Classic AmigaOS version requires a system with:
- CPU Motorola 68000 - FPU is not required
- Kickstart 2.04 or higher
- ixemul V48 (http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/ixemul-48.0)
- 4MB RAM (UnRAR requires 2.6MB on its own)
Exact memory utilization depends on the size of compressed files. For instance my test archive with one 2.0GB file in it needs 32MB of RAM to unpack."
The source code of his port is available on GitHub. (dr)
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07.Aug.2021
amigaportal.cz
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Final Amiga port of 'Metal Gear' (MSX)
In February 2021 announced by a videos, musician, DJ and coder 'Hoffman' has released his final version of his Amiga port of 'Metal Gear', originally developed for MSX home computers. Version 1.1 fixes some bugs and compatibility issues and has the following features:
- Code ported from Z80 to 68000 assembly by Hoffman
- Gameplay adjusted to work at full 50hz/60hz
- No slow-downs or sprite flicker
- Multiple game modes
- English Remix Fan Translation
- Original European Version
- Original Japanese Version
- New Spanish Translation by Akira
- Enhanced Amiga Soundtrack and SFX by Hoffman
- Optional emulated MSX / PSG Music and SFX
- Full support for CD32 gamepad for keyboard-less gameplay
- Additional character graphics by Toni Galvez
- All new ending / credits section
- For any Amiga with 512kb Chip Ram + 512k Other Ram
- Bootable disk image for low spec Amigas
- WHDLoad installer by Psygore
The original ProTracker modules can be also downloaded from his website. About the history of his project he wrote:
"This project started out as a curiosity which got WAY out of hand. Back in November 2020, after 8 months of coronavirus lock-down, I found myself looking at a GitHub repo by Manual Pazos and wondering really just how hard would it be to port this to the Amiga. As a test, I looked at converting some of the tile graphics and within a couple of days built some tools in C# to deal with that. Next I moved onto the map / room data and quickly built a renderer on the Amiga which could draw every room from the game. By now I was done for, I couldn't stop, I had to see just how far I could take the project. Each completed step kept pushing me to do the next and now here we are, a complete and full port of Metal Gear running on all Amigas!
There is more to be said about the development process (like spending weeks building a fully dynamic Amiga sprite multiplexer only to throw it all away) but I think I'll save that for a series of blog posts. For now, I hope you enjoy this game as much as I've enjoyed, and endured, putting it
together."
Download: MetalGear-v1.1.zip (914 KB)
Download: MetalGear-mods.zip (914 KB) (dr)
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07.Aug.2021
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Accelerator board for A1200: Tsunami 1230
Additional to his 'A1100' project, Miguel Fides has built a new accelerator board for the A1200 called Tsunami 1230. According to the his own statement "most compatible acelerator for the A1200 since the Blizzard serie" can be plugged in without any modification of the A1200 case and has the following specifications:
- 68EC030 QFP CPU at 42MHZ.
- 64MByte FastRAM.
- 68882 FPU footprint ready and also selectable clock for overclocking the FPU.
- External expansion port for future upgrades (secret stuff, can’t tell)
- Clockport port (RTC only).
- Compatible with any A1200 motherboard revision.
- A1100 friendly of course.
A recently published YouTube video compares the Tsuanami 1230 with the Blizzard 1230 by means of benchmarks and games. This is a non-commercial project and you can express your interest for a first batch. (dr)
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06.Aug.2021
Amigans
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Memory game: MeMO 3.14
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update of his memory game MeMO. His game is based on the classic memory card game but in his port two payers can simultaneously play for getting the best highscore. MeMO requires a 68020 processor and the ECS graphic chip. Changes of this release:
- Adapted to Amiga CD³²: added saving through nonvolatile.library when writing to disk fails; allowed pausing, aborting and name entering by means of the joypad; added CD ISO image to distro packages.
- Reworked controls (see manual).
- Added controls information to pause screen.
- Added cards numbers to the back of face down cards (which helps with matching cards).
- Straightened cards corners, to match better the overall sharp look of graphics.
- Fixed bug that caused the EXTRA JOYSTICK option to be highlighted shortly after returning from the "about" screen.
- Made several optimizations.
- Adapted to and built against latest custom framework (which makes startup and cleanup more robust and has a couple of bugfixes).
- Fixed/improved/added outer antialiasing of graphics on all cards (trying to stay faithful to the original design).
- Touched up a few cards.
- Reduced and partly eliminated bass notes clicking.
- Made various other minor changes.
- Improved manual.
(dr)
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