10.Jan.2025
|
GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.2.1 for Windows (update)
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.2.0 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools V1.21 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes:
- Menu: New "View" "Show all arguments" (y/n)
- Options: Save selected Greaseweazle "Device/COM" & "Drive" setting
- Read/Write/Convert: Cylinders preselection "0-76"
- GUI: Remember size (height/width) of main window
- GUI: New behaviour of resizing/scrolling
- Diskdefs: Updated "diskdefs_zx.cfg" (2025-01-01)
- Sourcecode: Small cleanups
Update: (14.01.2025, 07:00, cg)
Meanwhile version 5.2.1 is available. Changes:
- Read/Write: Fixed empty format spec after changing template
- Write: Fixed Refresh/save template with format spec discdefs always "internal"
- Sourcecode: Removed "FormResize"
- Sourcecode: Resizing fixes
(dr)
[News message: 10. Jan. 2025, 16:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
10.Jan.2025
|
Preview video: WIP of an isometric arcade adventure game
Nivrig Games is working on creating an isometric arcade adventure game in the tradition of Head Over Heels and is publishing developer diaries (amiga-news.de reported).
In a preview video, he now shows the current state of his game using sequences from the second part of the first area. (dr)
[News message: 10. Jan. 2025, 05:42] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
09.Jan.2025
|
Platformer: Final version of "Tiny Pixel Adventure"
Tiny Pixel Adventure (video) is a classic platformer. A pre-release version was published back in October and the final version is now available. No system requirements are specified for the title created with the Scorpion Engine. (cg)
[News message: 09. Jan. 2025, 19:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
09.Jan.2025
MiDWaN
|
Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.0-RC3
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems such as the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which comes with some newly developed features such as a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. The current Release Candidate 3 ("RC") of version 7.0.0 is not recommended for weaker systems, for which an update of "Amiberry-Lite" will be provided shortly. (cg)
[News message: 09. Jan. 2025, 19:03] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
09.Jan.2025
|
RTG driver: P96 3.5.0
Press release: The new version 3.5.0 contains driver updates for Trio64 (Cybervision), IMSG300 (Visiona) and ET4000 (Merlin/oMNiBus) cards. In addition, there are three new drivers for Vooodoo Banshee, Voodoo 3 and Voodoo 4/5-based graphics cards. This requires a PCI daughterboard with OpenPCI.library, which is not part of the P96 package, but can be downloaded for free.
V3.5.0 also contains the first driver for the framebuffer mode of Indivision ECS V4. This driver requires a processor with MMU and an installed MMU library. Please note that your Indivision ECS V4 requires an updated FPGA core - this can be found in our Wiki and can be installed with the Indivision Configtool. Screen modes with 256 colors, 15/16-bit (Hi-colour) modes with over 65000 colors, as well as screen dragging of two screens are supported. Automatic panning is also supported for oversized screens. Please note that Indivision ECS V4 does not yet have a blitter, and therefore the speed of this driver is still comparatively low.
All changes are summarized in the wiki article about P96.
Unfortunately, we are still having problems with the store system, so we have not even tried to add the new files to the database. Even if it takes a little longer, we will send the new versions by e-mail - not only on request, but also pro-actively to customers who are in the free update phase. (cg)
[News message: 09. Jan. 2025, 19:02] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
08.Jan.2025
|
Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 3.1.1
vAmiga is an Amiga emulator for macOS, which now requires macOS 13.5 or higher. Changes since version 3.0 (amiga-news.de reported):
Enhancements
- Build-in 6-channel logic analyzer
- New dashboard window
- Multiple inspectors side by side
- New debug features "finish line" and "finish frame"
Bug fixes
- Released the handbreak
- Fixed an NTSC overscan bug
- Last line in the emulator texture is drawn again
Changes
- Removed RetroShell debugger command ? host as it listed nothing
- Added "? thread" for inspecting the current thread state
- Reworked the internal suspend / resume mechanism
(dr)
[News message: 08. Jan. 2025, 17:48] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
08.Jan.2025
|
3rd preview video: Hyper Runner - Spring Valley Route
"Hyper Runner" is an announced sci-fi racing game for the Amiga. After our last news item a good two and a half years ago, the game is still in the works and another video has now been published at the title link, showing a first race track, the "Spring Valley Route". (snx)
[News message: 08. Jan. 2025, 09:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
08.Jan.2025
|
Event: Demoparty Revision 2025 (Germany)
The Revision demo party, which traditionally takes place on the Easter weekend at the "E-Werk" in Saarbrücken, Germany, will be held again also in 2025, from April 18 to 21. (snx)
[News message: 08. Jan. 2025, 09:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
08.Jan.2025
TheOasisBBC (Webseite)
|
Game: Bunnito's Feast
Bunnito's Feast is an AGA jump-and-run game created with the Scorpion Engine, in which you have to steer a runaway rabbit safely home and make sure it eats enough food on the way. It requires 1 MB of Fast-RAM. (snx)
[News message: 08. Jan. 2025, 09:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
08.Jan.2025
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)
|
Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.6pre
Almost three years ago (amiga-news.de reported), developer Arne Urbaniak presented his copy program G-Copy for reading and writing Amiga ADF data on a Windows PC. G-Copy, which is visually similar to the popular X-Copy, supports the drive controllers Greaseweazle by Keir Fraser, ADF-Drive by D. Tonn or DrawBridge (Arduino) by Rob Smith.
In the new version 0.6pre, up to two Greaseweazle drives are now recognised and it is possible to read and write from DF0: to DF1: and vice versa. A repeat function has also been added. It is now possible to write from the HD to DF0: and DF1: at the same time. As a little treat and at the request of a user, there is also an X-MAS version of G-Copy. Finally, automatic update detection has been implemented. (dr)
[News message: 08. Jan. 2025, 06:03] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
07.Jan.2025
|
Documentary: Louis Castle talks about the history of Westwood Studios
The latest episode of the YouTube documentary series "Titans of the Industry" focuses on Louis Castle, co-founder of legendary developer studio Westwood Studios. The episode provides exciting insights into the creation of iconic games such as Dune 2, The Lion King, California Games and Command and Conquer.
Louis Castle talks about the beginnings of Westwood Studios, which was founded in 1985 as a porting studio for Amiga and Macintosh games, and how the studio developed into a real-time strategy giant of the 90s. With millions of copies of its titles sold, Westwood has had a lasting impact on the video game industry. This episode is a must for fans of classic games and those interested in retro gaming. (nba)
[News message: 07. Jan. 2025, 12:08] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
07.Jan.2025
|
SCSI for Raspberry Pi: SCSI2Pi 5 released as a pre-release
A new version of the SCSI2Pi emulation software is available as a pre-release. SCSI2Pi is an alternative to the well-known PiSCSI software for the PiSCSI/RaSCSI board, which brings SCSI technology to the Raspberry Pi. According to developer Uwe Seimet, the software offers optimised device emulation, higher transfer rates and numerous new functions, including tools for the SCSI initiator mode.
The software emulates several SCSI and SASI devices such as hard disks, CD-ROM drives, printers and network interfaces.It supports classic systems such as Amiga, Atari ST/TT/Falcon030, 68k Macs or Unix workstations and also offers a SCSI-to-USB bridge. Thanks to compatibility with the PiSCSI Web UI and the SCSI Control Android app, users can access advanced functionality.
With SCSI2Pi, users can seamlessly switch between PiSCSI and the new software by simply installing an optimised binary package – without complicated compilation steps.
The current version 4.1 of SCSI2Pi has been available since the beginning of December, and now version 5.0 has been released as a pre-release. It offers the following changes:
- New device type SCSG, with support for a SCSI-to-USB bridge. The bridge supports any SCSI command, not only those emulated by s2p. With some devices you can even burn DVDs.
- Extended streamer support, e.g. of SIMH-compatible tape image files, filemarks, spacing, variable block sizes, ...
- Tape dump/restore support. With s2pdump you can convert any tape into a SIMH-compatible image file and vice versa.
- s2p can create command scripts for s2pexec.
- The maximum number of data bytes to log can be configured with s2p and s2pexec.
- s2pexec and s2pdump now also support devices which are managed by the Linux SG driver. For these devices no Pi is required, i.e. you can use s2pexec and s2pdump on any Linux platform.
- s2psimh tool for the analysis and creation of SIMH-compatible image files. This tool runs on any Linux/BSD platform and on macOS.
- s2pformat tool for formatting floppy disks or other media, e.g. in USB drives. This tool runs on any Linux platform.
The software can be downloaded from the SCSI2Pi-website. All the latest source codes can also be found on the GitHub project page. (nba)
[News message: 07. Jan. 2025, 11:38] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
06.Jan.2025
|
GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy V5.1.1 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.1.1 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools V1.21 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes since our last news item:
- Fixes missing prefix in the diskdefs form spec selection
- Requires Greaseweazle 1.21
- Options: former location of "diskdefs.cfg" is now a folder select !
- Supports now the different "Diskdefs_.cfg" files (change options: "Diskdefs (folder)")
- Diskdefs (2024-10-23) added (change options: "Diskdefs (folder)")
- Read/Write: New disc formats: micropolis.*
- Sourcecode: Removed unused variables
(dr)
[News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 19:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
06.Jan.2025
|
Audio player: UADE-Plugin 0.12.4 for Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS)
"audacious-uade" is a plugin for the audio player Audacious (Windows, Linux, macOS), which allows the use of the Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator as an input filter. In the new Version 0.12.4, support for Scream Tracker 2 has been added, among other things. (dr)
[News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 15:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
06.Jan.2025
|
Racing game: Carmageddon 1.02
A reverse engineering project brings the PC classic Carmageddon to the Classic Amiga: the conversion of Arcziii (video) is based on the original engine, was adapted for the 68k architecture and requires the original game data of Carmageddon (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 1.02 offers a 20% improved performance, fixed graphic errors of the workbench after closing and OS3.2 compatible icons. (dr)
[News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 14:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
06.Jan.2025
|
Dungeon Crawler: Custom maps for "The Shadows of Sergoth"
The dungeon crawler "The Shadows of Sergoth" was released in 2021 (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer 'quantumcodemonk' has, as he writes, created a few custom maps for the game "just for fun". The aim was to create something "a bit harder... a lot harder" and is asking for feedback in this regard. The original game is required. (dr)
[News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 11:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
06.Jan.2025
|
Browser extension: AGuide Viewer 0.6
AGuide Viewer is an open source reader for AmigaGuide documents implemented as a browser extension. It works with Firefox and Chromium on all platforms (amiga-news.de berichtete).
As the author explains, version 0.6 adds the feature to render web links in the AmigaGuide magazine WhatIFF and a configurable theme: the page can now be rendered in OS3 style (gray background, beveled 3D-effect buttons) or using the browser's native web page settings. (dr)
[News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 11:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
06.Jan.2025
|
Christmas game: The Young Icefighter, Level 4
"The Young Icefighter" is a Christmas game for children created with the "Shoot'em Construction Kit", for which the developer's eight-year-old son drew most of the graphics (amiga-news.de reported). Now a bonus level and level 4 have been added. (dr)
[News message: 06. Jan. 2025, 09:06] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jan.2025
|
Aminet uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to Aminet:
TuneFinderMUI.lha comm/misc 66K OS3 Search+play online radi...
screennotify-E.lha dev/e 1K OS3 Amiga E modules for scr...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 6.0M OS3 Game Creator with AGA s...
CDVDFS-1.10-AmigaOS.lha disk/cdrom 182K OS3 CD/DVD filesystem:ISO-9...
SFS.lha disk/misc 439K VAR Smart Filesystem
mhimasplayer.lha driver/aud 32K OS3 MHI driver for MAS-Play...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 255K OS3 ANAIIS USB Stack Releas...
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 259K OS3 ANAIIS USB Boot disk Re...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 82K OS3 Massive release 1.25
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron gam...
WormWars.lha game/actio 857K OS3 Advanced snake/Tron gam...
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 904K MOS Advanced snake/Tron gam...
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 346K OS4 Conversion of 3W board ...
Africa.lha game/board 297K OS3 Conversion of 3W board ...
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 398K MOS Conversion of 3W board ...
Saga-OS4.lha game/board 455K OS4 Conversion of TSR board...
Saga.lha game/board 388K OS3 Conversion of TSR board...
SagaMOS.lha game/board 433K MOS Conversion of TSR board...
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 11K GEN 2024 Carset for F1GP
babeanoid_backs.lha game/misc 785K GEN BabeAnoid 2.0 babes bac...
PuzzleTiles_AROS.lha game/think 3.4M ARO Puzzle game working on ...
PuzzleTiles_MorphOS.lha game/think 3.3M MOS Puzzle game working on ...
PuzzleTiles_OS4.lha game/think 3.8M OS4 Puzzle game working on ...
ATcad-Turbo.zip gfx/edit 324K OS3 2D-CAD-Program
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 37M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia ...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 9.8M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 9.2M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 9.5M MOS Signetics-based machine...
illusion.lzh pix/anim 486K GEN motion illusion
ATcad_Turbo.png pix/misc 23K GEN ATcad-Turbo
NAFCYI1991S4-B02.zip text/bfont 1.6M GEN NAFCYI Winter 1991-92 (...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.9M OS3 free icon.library in op...
MMULib.lha util/libs 788K OS3 Library to ctrl the MC6...
GoVD.lha util/wb 28K OS3 Virtual Desktops for Wo...
StartWin.lha util/wb 105K OS3 Two bugged Workbench la...
(snx)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2025, 09:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jan.2025
|
OS4Depot uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to OS4Depot:
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 261kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 255kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 216kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vlink.lha dev/cro 199kb 4.0 A portable linker, written in AN...
sfs.lha dri/fil 370kb 4.0 Smart Filesystem
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
xircomce2.lha dri/net 90kb 4.0 Driver for Xircom PCMCIA network...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 10Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake/Tron game
africa.lha gam/boa 346kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
saga.lha gam/boa 455kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR board game
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 37Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
amigen.lha off/dat 6Mb 4.0 Genealogist program
(snx)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2025, 09:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jan.2025
|
AROS Archives uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to AROS Archives:
image2pdf.i386-aros.lha off/dtp 3Mb Convert images file to PDF
(snx)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2025, 09:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jan.2025
|
MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.01.2025
The following files have been added until 04.01.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
Frodo_4.5.lha Emulation Frodo - The free, porta...
fheroes2_1.1.5.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
PuzzleTiles_1.0.lha Games/Think Puzzle game working on ...
AmigaGPT_2.2.0.lha Misc App for chatting to Cha...
(snx)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2025, 09:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jan.2025
Amigaworld.net (forum)
|
Hyperion Entertainment: Timothy De Groote new director
After Hyperion Entertainment initially continued to be managed by a court-appointed administrator, the current register entry at the title link now lists Timothy De Groote again as director of the company. Anyway insolvency lawyer Bart De Moor remains responsible for Hyperion as the court-appointed liquidator. (snx)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2025, 09:34] [Comments: 1 - 07. Jan. 2025, 23:17]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jan.2025
|
A600GS: Video update from Proteque on the development status
After his video from summer on image and music editing with the Orange Pi-based Amiga clone A600GS from AmigaKit, in which he still had to report on various problems, 'Proteque' has now followed up and taken a look at the current status of the system.
His conclusion: A lot has happened, updates are coming regularly and the A600GS now fulfills what he had previously expected. It would therefore be an inexpensive way to try out AmigaOS or to play a game with a real joystick and a real Amiga keyboard. (snx)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2025, 09:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
05.Jan.2025
Amiga Future (Webseite)
|
Virus Help Team: 30th anniversary
Founded on January 1, 1995 and strengthened within six months by branches in Norway, the Netherlands and Canada, the Virus Help Team has shrunk to just two people today, Jan Andersen and Jan Nielsen, but thirty years later it is still active in helping Amiga users with virus problems and supporting the authors of anti-virus programs. (snx)
[News message: 05. Jan. 2025, 09:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
04.Jan.2025
Cameron Armstrong
|
Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.2.0 with ApolloOS-support
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately.
The new version now also supports ApolloOS (amiga-news.de reported). In addition, the following changes and bug fixes have been made:
- Image preview now works in MorphOS and in MUI 3 (AmigaGPT now has MCC_Guigfx as a prerequisite)
- Replace the chat output sections from MCC_TextEditor class to MCC_NFloattext for improved memory usage and compatibility with ApolloOS
- Improved encoding to and from UTF-8 with enhanced character lookalike remapping (AmigaGPT now has codesets.library as a prerequisite)
- Fix crash when the first data chunk received from OpenAI is smaller than the HTTP header
- Fix crash when OpenAI sends a blank content string
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2,1 MB) (nba)
[News message: 04. Jan. 2025, 13:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
|
