29.Oct.2024
deadwood (E-Mail)
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AROS/x86: Update of the ABI v0 version
In February Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz ported version 20220318-1 of AROS/x86 for 32-bit systems back to the original binary interface ABIv0. Now at the title link as well as on GitHub a second update for it has been published (release notes).
The archive contains just the updated components which can be copied directly onto an existing installation of the operating system. (snx)
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29.Oct.2024
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Do it yourself: Action Replay III cartridge with case
The ar3 project is a remake of the Action Replay III cartridge for the Amiga and offers modern features to use the legendary hardware module for the expansion port on original hardware. The replica provides the original functions of the module. With the open-source approach, ar3 enables expansion and adaptation to current needs. The GitHub project initiated by Nicola Avanzi provides the data (including Kicad and JED files), ROM binaries and component lists required for the replica in the ar3 repository.
The user fongo2k has provided a template for a 3D-printable case for the Action Replay III replica. The required STL or STEP files can be downloaded for free from the Amiga Action Replay 3 Replica – Case project website.
About the Action Replay Cartridge
The Action Replay III cartridge was a popular add-on for the Amiga 500, 1000 and 2000 that offered developers and gamers various functions for accessing the system's hardware more deeply. The main function was to use the hardware as a cheat module, with which the Amiga could be "slowed down" using a potentiometer to successfully complete tricky game situations. Game data stored in the main memory of a game that was currently running could be changed, for example to give yourself more lives. But the Action Replay III and its predecessors on the Amiga also allowed you to bypass copy protection mechanisms or "rip" music, samples or images, as well as many other functions.
Current lawsuit between Datel and Sony
Just two weeks ago, the “Action Replay” brand from the manufacturer Datel was in the spotlight: on October 17, 2024, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that offering cheat software such as Action Replay for consoles does not necessarily violate copyright law (case C-159/23).The plaintiff, Sony, thus lost a legal dispute against the British company Datel, which offers cheat software for PlayStation. With this ruling, the ECJ clarifies that the use of such software does not violate copyright protection provisions under certain circumstances. (nba)
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29.Oct.2024
McFly
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Documentary: The Making of Worms (1995)
The documentary "The Making of Worms (1995)" on YouTube provides a comprehensive insight into the creation of the cult game Worms by Team 17. The one-hour film shows the history of the game, starting with developer Andy Davidson's idea and ending with its implementation and release in 1995.
In addition to game designer Andy Davidson, who recently announced a free new edition of "Worms: The Director's Cut" to mark the game's 30th birthday (amiga-news.de reported), producer Martyn Brown, graphic artist Cris Blyth and musician Bjørn Lynne also have their say in the documentary. The creators provide special insights into the mechanics, music and legacy of Worms, which has become one of the most famous classics in video game history. (nba)
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29.Oct.2024
Amiga Kit
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A600GS: Update 46.1.864 with floppy drive support
With the new update v46.1.864 for the A600GS computer, manufacturer Amiga Kit is introducing, among other things, support for floppy drives via Drawbridge (amiga-news.de reported). The changes in detail:
System-v46-updates:
- ARM Graphics Library: Add Text backend function to support generate to the antialiased text alpha template. Give 10% additional speedup on text rendering. BugFix: RGB src image with no mask was not handled correctly, resulting in no rendering at all in some cases or incorrect alpha in others.
- ShowSlide v46.1 added to C directory.
- AmiBench: Migrate to using an intermediate AmiBench-Startup script before the traditional User-Startup and filter the latter from update archives. Now the user can edit and customise this without having customistions overwritten
- AmiSSL v5.18 updated
- Icon Library v51.4.589 updated
- Version command v46.21 updated
- CLI v46.10 updated
- Add def_DF0.info et al and snapshot the lower half of screen under current disks.
- AB-Dock: Use custom rendering to draw IntuiText based lables, cacheing the font etc to try and reduce text flicker.
- SetGadgetAttrs( node, GA_Selected,....) caused TWO refreshes under AROS (and none under OS3.x); Replace with SetAttrs() followed by RefreshGList()
A600GS-updates:
- Add support for Floppy disk drives through Drawbridge.
- Add note about pressing fire button to enable DB9 joysticks
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29.Oct.2024
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #201 - Charles Cecil (Revolution Software)
In the 201st episode of the Scene World podcast, the team welcomes Charles Cecil, founder of Revolution Software and an icon of British video game development. Cecil, known for some classic adventure games that are still popular today, talks about his career and the development of these influential games. Revolution Software brought many point-and-click adventures to the Amiga, including "Lure of the Temptress" (1992) and "Beneath a Steel Sky" (1994), and also ported the Sierra classic "King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow" to the Amiga. The interview starts at 1:03:08. (nba)
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29.Oct.2024
itch.io
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Educational game: Simons Siffror / Simon's Numbers (Swedish)
A playful introduction to numbers and math is provided by the new educational game "Simons Siffror" ("Simon's Numbers") for the Amiga - but only in Swedish text and speech. Players can solve various simple math problems designed especially for children. The user interface is tailored to a young audience, making learning easy and fun.
Simon Siffror was originally programmed by Sami Vehmaa in 1998 for his then two-year-old son. The educational game is currently available in version 1.11 and requires AmigaOS 3.x, 2 MB RAM and a resolution of at least 640x256 pixels with 32 colors (640x480 pixels RTG with 8 colors are recommended). It can be purchased for a small fee of $0.99 from the project website under the title link. (nba)
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29.Oct.2024
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Print magazine: Boing #9 (French)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems on 52 A4 color pages.
The ninth issue includes, among other things, the cover story on "Amiga and the Internet" ("Amiga et Internet"), an interview with Oliver Roberts (IBrowse), a preliminary report on Dune AGA, reviews of "Tony - Montezuma's Gold" and "Glubble", a workshop on developing cracktros and a presentation of the A1K SimpleClock, a real-time clock for the Amiga 1000. (nba)
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28.Oct.2024
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Hyperion continues to be managed by court-appointed administrator
“Ben Hermans BV” (hereinafter: BHBV) was a private company with limited
liability owned by Ben Hermans, which has held
97% of the shares in Hyperion
since 2019 and subsequently also acted as a ‘director’ of Hyperion. In March,
bankruptcy proceedings were
opened against BHBV for the second time and
shortly afterwards, at the request of BHBV's liquidator, a “provisional
administrator” was appointed for Hyperion to manage the company's business
until further notice.
According to a decision by the Commercial Court of Brussels
(automated translation), the provisional
administrator's mandate, which was due to expire at the end of September,
will be extended indefinitely: he will remain in office until any
uncertainties surrounding Hyperion's ownership have been resolved and a new
official director has been appointed. Hyperion will have to bear the costs of
the administrator for this period, as BHBV does not have any funds that could
be used for this purpose.
The BHBV liquidators had requested this extension because, on the one hand,
the shares in Hyperion are the only property of BHBV worth mentioning and, on
the other hand, the intangible assets of Hyperion Entertainment BV continue
to generate income and the interests of the company, its (other) shareholders
and creditors must be protected.
For his part, the administrator has already received assurances from the
other Hyperion shareholders that they do not want to collect outstanding
payments for the time being in order to prevent the company from going
bankrupt and are themselves interested in taking over BHBV's Hyperion shares.
BHBV, on the other hand, is finally bankrupt: Ben Hermans had lodged two
objections to this, but did not appear at the first hearing and withdrew his
objection at the second hearing. The decision is therefore legally binding.
But Ben Hermans is contesting the sale of the Hyperion shares which, according to
the bankruptcy trustees (and the latest available BHBV annual report from 2021),
were owned by BHBV. According to his account, the 2165 shares have since been returned to
his private ownership. The bankruptcy trustees had then initiated proceedings
to legally clarify the ownership of said Hyperion shares.
Editor's note: We have contacted both the liquidator Charlotte Piers
and Ben Hermans to clarify some points that are unclear to us and to give the
parties involved the opportunity to comment. We will provide any feedback as
soon as we receive it. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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28.Oct.2024
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master v4.9 R116 für Windows 10/11
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
After our last news item, bugs have been fixed and the program "Sprite Animation" can now export C/Pascal/Basic code of all animation frames. In a recent YouTube video he shows how he created a simple platform game with the help of Raster Master and raylib (GitHub). (dr)
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28.Oct.2024
ALBs Blog
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Video: Client for chatbot "Ollama"
In a short video, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow presents his client for the chatbot Ollama (German), which he wrote at an Amiga meeting in Berlin. You can install this model on your own server using a Docker container and then access it from a small Amiga programme. He wrote this client with FreePascal. (dr)
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27.Oct.2024
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News from AmiWest 2024, AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 3 announced
At AmiWest, which took place this weekend in Sacramento (USA), Steven Solie
and Trevor Dickinson were again present to give presentations and answer
questions about AmigaOS 4 related products. Just like last year, no Hyperion representative was
attending. Instead Bill Borsari from the organizing team announced
during the opening speech that Hyperion “plans” to release an update 3 for
AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition.
According to Borsari's announcement,
Update 3 includes the following improvements:
- Updated version of AmigaInput which fixes some bugs with certain types of controllers
- Latest and stable single core kernel for all hardware platforms including CyberstormPPC/BlizzardPPC for Classic Amigas.
- New set of backgrounds from Martin Merz (Mason Icons).
- Updated versions of several C commands
- Updated datatypes (AIFF, JPG & PNG)
- Several updated system libraries
- Several Prefs updates (such as URL, Time, Font and Workbench)
- Renewed USB stack including:
- USB Stack is more stable and handles "quirky" & "stubborn" USB devices better
- Support for gamers (now a lot of multiple keys at once are supported)
- Bootkeyboard & bootmouse drivers
- HID drivers
- Improved EHCI Asynchronous hardware driver
- Improved OHCI hardware driver with improved cache handling
- Updated USBInspector
- A lot of bugfixes and improvements in general.
- Other system components updates i.e. SObjs, Find system tool, Utilities
Dickinson and Solie were very cautious with other statements. According to
the A-EON owner, a second batch of A1222+ motherboards will be produced,
Solie announced an updated A1222+ kernel with “faster CPU cache”, and an
updated version of the boot media (a USB stick) will be released.
In the subsequent Q&A session, the audience asked about LibreOffice and the
multicore support in the AmigaOS kernel that was announced years ago. The
port of the office suite - which was announced in 2012 - “mostly” works, but there are "a couple of major problems" with C++ exceptions and the rendering of the graphical user
interface. The team consists of Hans-Jörg Frieden, Dickinson and “maybe”
Solie (“I don't do much...”) and they are looking for volunteers who want to
work on the project. The source code is available in a private Github
repository.
The multicore support in ExecSG, which Solie had already stopped mentioning
last year, is “not functional”, but the team is “getting closer every day”.
The plan is to write a kernel-level debugger to get to the bottom of the
problem: Multicore support is running, according to Solie - but they are having problems
getting it to "stay running". (cg)
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27.Oct.2024
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Aminet uploads until 26.10.2024
The following files have been added until 26.10.2024 to Aminet:
AmigAtari.zip demo/sound 882K 68k 12+ hours of Atari Demoscene ...
ATasm.lha dev/cross 180K 68k Mac65 compatible 6502 cross-a...
Amiga_500_Guide_V1.2.pdf docs/help 3.5M Amiga 500 beginners guide (Ge...
anaiis_lowlevel.lha driver/oth 34K 68k Anaiis lowlevel release 0.03
HalloweenX_Demo.lha game/demo 655K 68k HalloweenX AGA Game, Demo
untangle.lha game/wb 32K 68k Untangle set of dots joined b...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
kg97-4ch.zip mods/sets 4.7M All 4-channel mods from KG97
TonyMontezumasGold.lha pix/icon 69K 4 colour icons: Tony Montezum...
WorldClassLeaderboard... pix/icon 93K 4 colour icons: World Class L...
univers-font.lha text/bfont 9K Univers font
AmiSSL-v5-OS3.lha util/libs 3.8M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-v5-OS4.lha util/libs 3.5M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-v5-SDK.lha util/libs 2.4M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.8M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
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27.Oct.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.10.2024
The following files have been added until 26.10.2024 to OS4Depot:
libcuefile.lha dev/lib 41kb 4.1 part of the musepack suite
libmpcdec.lha dev/lib 63kb 4.1 Musepack decoder library
libreplaygain.lha dev/lib 8kb 4.1 part of the musepack suite
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
nblood.lha gam/fps 27Mb 4.0 Reverse-engineered ports of Blood
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
legadon.lha uti/tex 280kb 4.0 A simple ePub reader (Text only ...
edilana.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.1 Interactive anagram generator
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27.Oct.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.10.2024
The following files have been added until 26.10.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Cnake_1.0.lha Games/Misc Port of Cnake
EkoScape_2.0.lha Games/Misc Port of EkoScape
PekkaKana2_0.190.lha Games/Platform Pekka Kana 2, a platfor...
SDL-Platformer_1.0.lha Games/Platform Port of SDL-Platformer
fheroes2_1.1.3.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
Legadon_0.2.lha Office/Show A new simple ePub Reader
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27.Oct.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.10.2024
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 26.10.2024:
- 2024-10-24 fixed: Wiz'n'Liz (Psygnosis) graphics glitches in two-player mode fixed (Info)
- 2024-10-24 improved: Ghost Battle (Thalion) hiscores are not used anymore to check game version, CD32 buttons and trainers added (Info)
- 2024-10-24 improved: Commando (Elite) adapted for whdload v19 (Info)
- 2024-10-24 improved: Cadaver (Imageworks/Bitmap Brothers) adapted for whdload v19 (Info)
- 2024-10-24 improved: All Terrain Racing (Team 17) adapted for whdload v19 (Info)
- 2024-10-23 improved: Nicky II (Microïds) graphics bugs, music speed and keyboard fixed, second version supported, CD32 controls added (Info)
- 2024-10-23 improved: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-10-23 improved: Turrican II: The Final Fight (Factor 5/Rainbow Arts) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info)
- 2024-10-23 improved: Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons (Eero Tunkelo) adapted for WHDLoad 19 (Info, Image)
- 2024-10-20 improved: RoboCop (Ocean) supports Data East disk version, detect corrupted packed data while depacking (Info)
- 2024-10-20 improved: Animatunes (NGC) restore current screen display when quit, slave rewritten (Info, Image)
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27.Oct.2024
Mastodon (ANF)
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Do it yourself: Video adapter Spite Sprite and mouse adapter Toxoplasma Gondii
Spite Sprite is an Amiga RGB to composite/S-Video adapter, while Toxoplasma gondii is not just a parasite that also infects mice as an intermediate host, but in this case an adapter that converts the analog signals from PC mice into digital signals for the Amiga and thus makes them usable there as well. (snx)
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27.Oct.2024
ANF
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File manager: New test build of Directory Opus 5.92
After eight years a new test build of version 5.92 of the file manager Directory Opus 5 (previously: "Magellan") is available at the title link. Directory Opus 5 became open source in 2012. (snx)
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27.Oct.2024
spillhistorie.no (ANF)
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Interview with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson
At the title link Jon Håvard Gundersen has conducted another interview for the Norwegian site Spillhistorie, this time with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson. The Swede is known for numerous demos and music disks for the Amiga and the C64 and probably above all for the conversion of Commodore hardware into musical instruments (amiga-news.de reported). (snx)
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27.Oct.2024
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Proof of concept: Image display without RAM
With his proof of concept "Amiga CPU Blit Read-Only" 'nicodex' shows how to display an image on the Amiga without write access to the RAM. His ROM requires a PAL Amiga with a 68000 or 68010 processor clocked at 7 MHz. (snx)
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27.Oct.2024
Look Behind You (ANF)
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Pre-order sale: Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual - AmigaDOS as a printed book
Press release: The "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: AmigaDOS" by Thomas Richter will be published in a strictly limited print run - a project that does not pursue any commercial purpose, but aims to offer the PDF reference manual created by Thomas 'ThoR' Richter as a high-quality, printed book at an affordable price.
Interested buyers can pre-order the English-language paperback book (exp. 392 pages) until 18 November 2024 - the print run is strictly limited and there will be no reprints. The price is ¤29.90 plus shipping (worldwide delivery is offered). Delivery is scheduled around Christmas time.
For the serious programmer who wants to take full advantage of the Amiga's impressive features, the "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: AmigaDOS" is an indispensable source of information on how to use the AmigaDOS file system, how to interact and implement handlers and file systems and how to make productive use of the AmigaDOS Shell. This volume covers the latest version of Amiga's operating system.
Preorder and further information at the title link. (snx)
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27.Oct.2024
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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer Red Alert 1.7.2
Artur Jarosik's port of "Command & Conquer: Red Alert", designed for Amigas with powerful turbo cards such as PiStorm/Emu68, Apollo/Vampire V4 or Warp1260, is now available in version 1.7.2.
The new features since version 1.5 include bug fixes, a reduction of the CPU load during video playback, accelerated movement of the map when the right mouse button is pressed and an SDL-less CGX/AGA variant. (snx)
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27.Oct.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 171 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 171 (November/December 2024) have been published online at the title link. Content includes interviews with Simon Phipps, Carlo Pastore and Achim Pankalla, several reviews, e.g. of ignition and X-bEnCh, and various specials, for example about MacroSystem, usergroups and the history of the demo scene.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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26.Oct.2024
ALB-Blog
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ePub reader: Legadon v0.2 for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released Legadon, a simple ePub reader for all Amiga systems (YouTube video), which makes reading e-books on the Amiga possible for the first time. (dr)
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26.Oct.2024
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Platform game: 2tinycowboys now with single-player mode (update)
2tinycowboys (YouTube video) is a game developed with the Scorpion Engine for the Amiga 500, in which two players compete against each other on a single screen in arcade platformer style. Since our last news item, numerous changes and improvements have been made, including the addition of a single-player mode.
Update: (14:16, 28.10.24, dr)
With version 28 released yesterday, some bugs have been fixed. It is now possible to start a single player mode with both characters. (dr)
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26.Oct.2024
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Dungeon Crawler: Halloween X released
After a demo version (amiga-news.de reported), Sami Vehmaa has now released the full version of his dungeon crawler "Halloween X" (neues Twitch video), which can currently be purchased for around 4.60 euros. A fast AGA Amiga and AmigaOS3.x are required.
At the same time, he also updated the demo version. Version 1.06 offers bug fixes, a better user interface, adjusted difficulty levels and timing for traps, etc. (dr)
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25.Oct.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE! 163 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE! ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in both the Italian original and an English translation (right-hand side). The current issue 163 also contains three reviews of Amiga titles: the classic "Crystal Dragon", the new release "Dr. Dangerous" and the CDTV title "Gardenfax: Trees & Shrubs". (nba)
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25.Oct.2024
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Emulator: Denise v2.4
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64 (German YouTube video). Numerous amiga-specific changes have been made since our last report on version 2.21: among other things, emulation has been improved, especially the disk drive, and a 4-player adapter is now supported. Detailed changes:
Version 2.4
- support macOS Metal graphics driver with shaders
- added Cocoa as a keyboard driver for macOS (avoid the system dialog to allow input)
- added BSD UHID joypad driver, supported on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
- reworked on-screen status messages
- separated(C64/Amiga) file dialog preview options and moved to Software UI
- improved openGL shader cache
- improved handling of shader UI
- added possibility to assign a different floppy sound profile for external drives
- Amiga: added new floppy sound profile
- Amiga: emulate Blitter<>Copper conflict
Version 2.3
- added RetroArch Shader support
- Amiga: improved emulation, especially the disk drive
- Amiga: emulated Bitplane <> Refresh conflicts
- Amiga: Final Fight Enhanced supported by temporary option to fake ECS Denise
- Amiga: written floppy disks are now saved in a second file (this does not apply to uncompressed ADF (don't worry, emulator asks if ADF can be changed)
- Amiga: added 4-player adapter
- Amiga: added copy protection dongle support
- fixed a bug not finishing Drag'n'Drop in Linux GTK
- fixed some OSX bugs/crashes [looking for tester]
- improved mouse capture handling for all OSes
- UI changes (volume slider has moved to status bar, added option to capture pointer by left mouse button)
- changed BuildSystem to CMAKE
- added Linux/BSD XCB input driver for keyboard/mouse
- improved GTK window resizing in some desktop environments
Version 2.2
- added D3D11 driver
- added italian translation (thanks to Luigi)
- added an option to rotate the screen (90°/180°/270°)
- added an option to force a single instance when opening another instance from frontend loader or file explorer
- fixed Amiga basic volume (louder)
- added a more easy way to set stereo separation (Audio -> DSP)
Denise is available cross platform for Windows 32/64 XP and higher, macOS (from version 10.9 on, Intel and Arm) and Linux (Ubuntu).
(dr)
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24.Oct.2024
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PDF document: The Amiga 500 beginner's guide (German)
In a 46-page German PDF document, Patrick Schwedt has written both his personal Amiga story and, above all, lots of tips and hints for those who have bought an Amiga 500 for the first time or after a long time. There are chapters on drives, memory expansions, turbo cards, operating systems, mice and software, among other things. (dr)
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24.Oct.2024
Mastodon
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Arananet: Accelerator Trinity 1240-60 can be pre-ordered
After four years of development and extensive testing, "best accelerator ever built for the Amiga A1200" has been finalised. The Trinity 1240-60 supports 68040-68060 CPUs and is compatible with all A1200 revisions. According to the developer, great care has been taken to optimise access to the chip memory, regardless of whether it is equipped with a 68040 or 68060 processor. It can now be pre-ordered for 369 euros.
According to the developers, numerous tests were carried out in which the Trinity was compared with the Blizzard 1260. The Trinity performed better in all the demos tested. The Trinity can be used with any MC68060/040 CPU (EC, LC or Full). When using a 68040 processor with 25MHz, please note that the Trinity automatically overclocks it to 33MHz. The use of a heat sink is recommended. The exact specifications:
- 128MB SDRAM Fast memory
- Optimized chip memory access at any CPU clock speed
- 68040/68060 compatible (via jumper)
- Onboard I2S 16-bit stereo sound card compatible with AHI
- Includes a 3.5mm jack Paula PassThrough
- Software interface for changing speed (MHz)
- Expansion connector for future upgrades
- Compatible with any A1200 motherboard revision
- Compatible with PCMCIA
- Compatible with Kickstart 3.1 (recommended 3.1.4 / 3.2)
- Black PCB color on this batch
- Fits in your old or new old stock A1200 case!!!
- A1100 friendly, of course.
(dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2024, 21:32] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2024
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Blog: Different versions of Amiga Topaz font
In his latest article, Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, reports on his journey of discovery regarding the different Amiga Topaz fonts of the respective Kickstart ROMs: while browsing through Cloanto's collection of Kickstart ROMs and looking at the screenshots, he noticed that Topaz font of the Kickstart intermediate version 1.4 Alpha 18 was already a sans serif, but would not look quite like the 2.0 version of Topaz.
Incidentally, when trying to load the Workbench under Kickstart 1.4, he discovered that a green "Recoverable Alert" with a "Guru Meditation" message appeared. (dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2024, 04:13] [Comments: 0]
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24.Oct.2024
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Blog: Installing a TF1260
Under the title link, Didier Malenfant describes his findings and experiences with the installation of a TerribleFire 1260 turbo card (see also turbo card comparison (German)). The article will be continuously updated. (dr)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2024, 04:01] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2024
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.21
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks.
Version 1.21 of the Greaseweazle Tools provides the following changes:
- micropolis: Codec for Micropolis hard-sectored MFM disks
- gw reset: By default do not reset configured "gw delays"
- Fix setup.py installation: Require bitarray earlier than v3
(dr)
[News message: 23. Oct. 2024, 22:26] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2024
GitHub
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.18 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.18 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version 3.4.0 (22.10.2024) of OpenSSL. Changes:
- Switched to OpenSSL 3.4, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.4.0 (22.10.2024) version, which includes new features, improvements and bug fixes.
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle, dated 24.9.2024.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.18-OS3.lha (3,8 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.18-OS4.lha (3,46 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.18-SDK.lha (2,4 MB) (dr)
[News message: 23. Oct. 2024, 21:37] [Comments: 0]
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