31.Dec.2024
Matthias Rustler (ANF)
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IFF file browser: IFF Master for Linux
"IFF Master" displays the structures of IFF files. In the first published version, there is a detailed representation of the chunk contents only for ILBM, 8SVX and ANIM. It is a partial reimplementation of IFF Master by Kay Drangmeister. Developer Matthias rustler provides the source code of the new development for separate download.
The programme was written in the Go programming language and uses the Fyne GUI toolkit. For technical reasons, only a Linux version has been released so far. This can be downloaded via the title link under "Releases". Versions for Windows, Darwin and WebAssembly are planned. The latter would run in web browsers.
Download: iffmaster-linux.tar.xz (13,5 MB) (nba)
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31.Dec.2024
Cameron Armstrong
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.1.2
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 contains two bug fixes. An error has been fixed where not all messages were saved in a new conversation. In addition, menu items that could not be selected have been corrected.
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2,1 MB) (nba)
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30.Dec.2024
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amiga-news.de: A half-year review
Every website lives from the interest of its users. We therefore wanted to know which news trigger particular interest and what the general situation is regarding visits to one of the best-known German-language sites about the Amiga. In the following, our server administrator Markus Bonet looks back on the past six months and explains his approach to the analysis.
There are countless tools and frameworks for professionally analyzing the use of a website. With a proper database to evaluate the data historically if necessary. This allows one to build great dashboards and put all kinds of information that a typical web server reveals into perspective. As we didn't want to take a sledgehammer to crack a nut here, we opted for a simplified approach. The following requirements were decisive:
- How often are specific news items retrieved?
- Are they retrieved by real users or by one of the many bots?
- What does a ranking of the news items look like in a continuous 14-day time frame?
- What are the most clicked news items in a year and how often were they accessed?
- There doesn't have to be a special way of analyzing the data retrospectively. A simple overview is sufficient for orientation.
In order to determine this by simple means, we have modified the configuration of the Apache web server slightly so that calls to the start page and specific messages are saved separately in a special log file. A distinction is made in advance as to whether the call is made by a known bot. Of course, the source addresses also play a role, as not every automated call is carried out fairly with a correct user agent. This enabled us to integrate a tool that is useful for us, which continuously records the "top news" on the page and reports the hits.
Of course, there is a methodological limitation in that the main page can be configured by the reader, but we can only evaluate the clicked news items. However, we believe that only a minority still use the original look of the main page with complete news items, while most readers are likely to view the titles only according to the current default setting, and that the ranking of the news items is nevertheless representative, even if the absolute figures would be higher.
For yesterday (29.12.2024), for example, the statistics looked like this (always referring to the corresponding German news-items):
( 12.3 days old) AROS archives uploads until 14.12.2024
( 8.8 days old) Programming course: A500 programming - Finishing the Shooting Gallery Project
( 7.3 days old) Operating system-compliant Pac-Man implementation: 8th/9th part of the video series
( 8.4 days old) Sensible World of Soccer: Teams of the 24/25 season
( 8.8 days old) Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 172 - preview and excerpts
( 7.1 days old) Dogfights in Asteroids style: Hyper Wings 1.666
( 15.9 days old) Developer documentation: Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual - AmigaDOS
( 12.3 days old) MorphOS-Storage uploads until 14.12.2024
( 15.9 days old) Mark Sibly (Blitz Basic) deceased
( 12.3 days old) Christmas game: Santas Present Drop 4
( 6.3 days old) Assembler: ASM-Pro 1.21 released
( 8.4 days old) Image collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive
( 14.5 days old) MOD-Player: rePlayer V0.16.8 for Windows
( 15.9 days old) AROS distribution: AROS One 2.7 (x86)
( 12.3 days old) OS4Depot uploads until 14.12.2024
( 8.4 days old) WHDLoad: New installers until 21.12.2024
( 11.1 days old) Scene World Podcast episode #204 - ScummVM with Eugene Sandulenko
( 13.3 days old) Demoparty: MountainBytes 2025 (Switzerland, 14.-16.02.)
( 13.3 days old) Arcade-Game: Santatron 2024
( 12.3 days old) Boing Attitude interview with Oliver Roberts now in English
(132.3 days old) Retro Games: New Amiga "console" to be released in Q1 2025
( 15.0 days old) Epsilon's World: Amiga games from 2024
( 15.0 days old) Appreciation: Sam460 - The PCIe pioneer (Czech)
( 8.4 days old) Video: Preview of Worms DC 1.5 levels by Eric W. Schwartz
( 1.8 days old) SSL library: wolfSSL for Amiga HotHotHot!
( 7.1 days old) Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 3.0b3
( 12.3 days old) WHDLoad: New installers until 14.12.2024
( 14.5 days old) Audio player: UADE plugin 0.12.3 for Audacious (Windows, Linux, Mac OS)
( 5.2 days old) AROS: Bounty projects for EFI customization in planning
( 7.0 days old) Train simulator: Trans-Pennine Express
( 8.4 days old) Aminet uploads until 21.12.2024
( 7.0 days old) Action game: Amiga Yoomp!
( 10.9 days old) Sokoban variant: Ami Robbo 2, physical edition
( 13.9 days old) Shooting game new edition: Extreme Violence 2 V0.10
( 1.4 days old) Team 17: Martyn Brown deceased HotHotHot!
( 3.8 days old) Video: Doom clone Grind 0.5 HotHotHot!
( 13.3 days old) Game: Update for Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut
( 8.4 days old) Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.0.2 with MorphOS version
( 3.9 days old) Emulated Amiga: Field report on the A600GS HotHotHot!
( 8.7 days old) Event: Amiga 40 on October 18/19 2025
( 11.0 days old) Print magazine: ASM (Aktueller Software Markt), issue 12/24 (German)
( 2.5 days old) Operating system for the Amiga: Third alpha version of Serena OS HotHotHot!
( 11.1 days old) Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 11.2
( 3.8 days old) Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.0-RC2 HotHotHot!
( 12.3 days old) Aminet uploads until 14.12.2024
( 6.2 days old) Merry christmas!
( 5.2 days old) Workbench distribution: AmiKit 11 now freely available HotHotHot!
( 13.3 days old) Case study: Using the Scorpion engine for porting Ghosts'n'Goblins to the Amiga
( 10.5 days old) Trevor's Blog: Another one bites the Dust!
( 12.3 days old) AmigaKit: Apparently modified A1200 mainboard planned HotHotHot!
Increasing from top to bottom, you can see the articles that have been clicked on most frequently in the last 14 days. The label "HotHotHot!" marks those messages that had a particularly high number of clicks on a single day - as of yesterday, the front-runner was the one about the A1200GS from AmigaKit, the planned counterpart to the Organge Pi-based Amiga replacement A600GS, in which the AmiBerry emulator ensures the compatibility of the ARM-based mini-computer.
After a few days, interest wanes noticeably, so that a longer time window than the 14 days mentioned is not relevant for us. The example of the aforementioned news item shows that half of all hits occurred in the first two days:
Dec. 18 29 %
Dec. 19 23 %
Dec. 20 11 %
Dec. 21 12 %
Dec. 22 8 %
Dec. 23 7 %
Dec. 24 3 %
Dec. 25 2 %
Dec. 26 1 %
Dec. 27 1 %
Dec. 28 1 %
Dec. 29 1 %
Total: 100 %
We can call up the evaluation live at any time, but snapshots of the evaluation are also created daily. From 18 to 19 December, for example, we were able to clearly see that the aforementioned news item triggered particular interest.
What else have we learned about visits to our website?
By far the most visits are made by bots. The following figures were obtained based on visits over the last 14 days (main page and news pages only, no comments/forum etc.):
85.18 % bots
14.82 % users
28.71 % of users accessed the homepage
2.18 % of users used an Amiga browser
The proportion of calls that we identify as users always fluctuates between 10 and 15 percent. It is also interesting to note that the number of hits by Amiga browsers is between 2 and 2.5 percent. The clear leader here is IBrowse on a - real or emulated - 68k processor. This user agent often makes it into the top 20 of those user agents that we assign to users:
- IBrowse/3.8 (Amiga; Amiga0S 3.2; Build 38.8 68K)
- Mozilla/5.8 (Macintosh; PowerPC AmigaOS 4.2; Odyssey Web Browser; rv:1.23 r5) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) OWB/1.23 r5 Safari/538.1
- Mozilla/5.8 (Macintosh; PowerPC MorphOS 3.18; Odyssey Web Browser; rv:1.26) AppleWebKit/538.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) OWB/1.26 Safari/538.18
- IBrowse/3.8 (Amiga; AmigaOS 3.9; Build 38.8 68K)
- OWB/3.32 (Amiga0S 4.1)
Of course, this can only serve as a rough guide. We know that detection via user agents is not always reliable. Incidentally, conspicuous IP addresses that do not originate from the providers' CGNAT pools also trigger detection as bot calls. We are currently concerned about the frequent calls by the user agent "NextCloud-News/1.0". Since we see actual users behind it, we leave its calls with the users, even if it is pushing their numbers strongly. Perhaps the NextCloud users would like to reveal themselves in the comments. ;-)
By the way, amiga-news.de is not only frequently visited in German-speaking countries. The English news items do reach an average of 25 to 40 percent of the volume of their German counterparts.
Since we only implemented our analysis in the course of the year, let's take at last a look at the figures for the second half of 2024: Which news items were our top performers that attracted particular attention? The figure in brackets indicates the overall ranking.
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30.Dec.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for December 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 in his "Old School Game Blog" at the title link. (snx)
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30.Dec.2024
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Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.8 for all Amiga systems
Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). In version 2.8, the German language as well as English and German catalogue files have been added for translation purposes and minor bugs have been fixed. (dr)
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30.Dec.2024
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.44
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill (YouTube video) is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
Detailed changes of version 0.9.44:
- Wav files can now easily imported, just load them and they will be converted
using Wav28svx.
- When slicing sprites, more options are given to adapt the images to the
current palette.
- In Game setup screen, Camera follow now hows the object name it is following.
- In Level Propertines now we can specify if a background image is a Cover. In
this case the game will show the image with its number of colors and palette,
independently of the game number of colors setup.
- Small change in audio handling.
- Print Text and Print Var triggers have been renamed to Stamp Text and Stamp
Text.
- Added Print Text and Print var triggers that print text using a font sheet.
This type of text is attached to the object and can be moved around.
- Fixes in profiler.
- Higher fetch modes can now be selected even if the game is ECS. If the
machine where the game is running is AGA they will be used.
- Added Color Pulse trigger to allow a color 'pulse' from black to the color it
has in the palette.
- In spritesheet screen if the filename is not found now text is displayed in
red.
- Fix when creating objects, could bring issues when using many of them.
- More checks when handling objects to avoid weird issues.
- Excel font added, now it is the editor font.
- Fix for particles when using games with scroll.
- Small optimization in object processing.
- Ex_particles has been updated following the released game Cosmic Blaster (video).
(dr)
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30.Dec.2024
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AmigaOS 4: MPlayer-GUI 1.62
Daniel Westerberg's MPlayer-GUI is a Reaction-based user-interface for diverse MPlayer ports, which among others supports drag'n'drop.
New extensions for the file requester have been added in version 1.62, as the current MPlayer recognises more formats. In addition, peg2ide.device, p1022sata.device and p50x0sata.device have been added as options. (dr)
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30.Dec.2024
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Action game: Amiga Yoomp! 1.02
The aim of Zbigniew Ross' Amiga conversion of Yoomph!, originally written for the Atari, was to see how the game could be made to run on an Amiga 500 (amiga-news.de reported).
In version 1.02, the option to quit the game has been added and a problem when playing on 060 CPUs has been fixed. (dr)
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30.Dec.2024
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Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995. According to the operator, quite a number of remarkable images were created during this period, which he believes should not be gathering dust on some hard drive, hidden in an extra level in a game that is never played, or on a PD collection disk that is almost unknown. These graphics should be accessible to all by presenting them on his website.
Somewhat deviating from its own credo and following on from a first set of images published in October 2023 (amiga-news.de reported), this year's works by Danish graphic designer Facet have now been added. (dr)
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29.Dec.2024
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Aminet uploads until 28.12.2024
The following files have been added until 28.12.2024 to Aminet:
TuneFinderMUI.lha comm/misc 63K OS3 Search+play online radi...
ASMPro1.21.lha dev/asm 110K OS3 ASM-Pro v1.21 (update)
ASMPro1.21src.lha dev/asm 791K GEN ASM-Pro v1.21 source co...
COP.lha dev/debug 167K OS3 Low Level Debugger
xmdump.lha dev/misc 554K OS3 Analyze AmigaDOS progra...
xircomce2.lha driver/net 90K VAR Driver for Xircom PCMCI...
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 89K OS3 P96 Preferences Editor
CosmicBlaster.lha game/shoot 779K OS3 Fast action shooter gam...
G-WARS.lha game/shoot 789K OS3 Geometry Wars inspired ...
aminesweeper.lha game/wb 38K OS3 A classic Minesweeper g...
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 64K OS3 Create your own backdro...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 37M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia ...
MPlayer-GUI.lha gfx/show 222K OS4 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
Mame106MiniMix1.1.lha misc/emu 6.7M OS3 MAME 0.106 MiniMix1.1
SantaZombie.lha mods/misc 2.5M GEN 16bit 4ch Metal Blues R...
AmiModRadio.lha mus/play 3.1M OS3 Play modules from Inter...
2D_ATcad_RTG720.png pix/misc 24K GEN ATcad_RTG - DXF einlese...
2D_ATcad_UAE720.png pix/misc 30K GEN ATcad_UAE - Plotfile re...
EsseEmmeErreVisPre.lha pix/theme 85K OS3 New buttons for VisualP...
NAFCYI1991S4-B01.zip text/bfont 1.0M GEN NAFCYI Winter 1991-92 (...
LHArchiver_MOS.lha util/arc 1.6M MOS create lha archives int...
LHArchiver_OS3.lha util/arc 1.4M OS3 create lha archives int...
LHArchiver_OS4.lha util/arc 1.9M OS4 create lha archives int...
IFF2rexx.lha util/conv 1K GEN Convert IFF data to rex...
Image2PDF_AK.lha util/conv 1.7M OS3 convert images to PDF a...
Image2PDF_AROS.lha util/conv 2.5M ARO convert images to PDF a...
Image2PDF_MOS.lha util/conv 6.6M MOS convert images to PDF a...
Image2PDF_OS3.lha util/conv 4.9M OS3 convert images to PDF a...
Image2PDF_OS4.lha util/conv 6.2M OS4 convert images to PDF a...
pccard.lha util/libs 56K OS3 Library to parse PCMCIA...
AllKeys.lha util/misc 86K OS4 Use ALL rawkeys incl. M...
PCCardInfo.lha util/misc 32K OS3 Display details about P...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.5M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
FreeSyriaMOS.lha util/sys 1K GEN Syria country for Morph...
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.12.2024
The following files have been added until 28.12.2024 to OS4Depot:
xircomce2.lha dri/net 90kb 4.1 Driver for Xircom PC
lopan.lha gam/boa 536kb 4.1 A solitaire game similar to Mahjong
shisen-seki.lha gam/boa 36Mb 4.1 A classic Japanese logic game si...
scummvm.lha gam/mis 112Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.tar.xz gam/mis 210Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
puzzletiles.lha gam/puz 4Mb 4.1 Puzzle game working on any user&...
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 37Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
amigagpt.lha net/cha 2Mb 4.1 App for chatting to ChatGPT
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 2Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
scummvm-tools.lha uti/fil 4Mb 4.1 A collection of various tools fo...
scummvm-tools-src.tar.xz uti/fil 1Mb 4.1 ScummVM Tools Source
image2pdf.lha uti/tex 6Mb 4.1 Convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
mplayer-gui.lha vid/mis 222kb 4.1 GUI for MPlayer for OS4
yt.lha vid/mis 872kb 4.1 YouTube URL Extractor script
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29.Dec.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 28.12.2024
The following files have been added until 28.12.2024 to AROS Archives:
protrekkr-2.7.6.x86_64-ar... aud/tra 19Mb Advance Tracker Program
antedominum.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 2Mb Ante Dominum Intro by Traction
fiathomo.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 2Mb Fiat Homo Intro by Traction
ssri.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 2Mb SSRI Intro by Traction
stars.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 2Mb It's Full of Stars Intro by...
puzzletiles_aros.lha gam/puz 3Mb Puzzle game working on any user&...
zunepaint.x86_64-aros-v11... gra/edi 3Mb Bitmap Paint With Additional Effect
zunebrot.x86_64-aros-v11.tar gra/mis 500kb Little Fractal Program
zuneview.x86_64-aros-v11.tar gra/vie 3Mb Picture Viewer With Effect
iconecta.lha net/mis 3Mb A little and easy program to tes...
wgetgui.x86_64-aros-v11.zip net/mis 95kb Gui for Wget
zunecalc.x86_64-aros-v11.zip off/mis 44kb Simple Calculator
zunearc.x86-64-aros-v11.zip uti/arc 301kb a zune front end for archivers
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29.Dec.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.12.2024
The following files have been added until 28.12.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL2Wiki_0.8.lha Development/SDL2 An amigaguide document ...
LHArchiver_1.12.lha Files/Archive Create lha archives int...
ScummVM_2.9.0.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
OpenGW_1.0.lha Games/Shoot2D Port of OpenGW by Papio...
OceanPop_2.00.lha Games/Think OceanPop - A relaxing m...
Shisen-Seki_0.2.1.lha Games/Think Port of Shisen-Seki by ...
Image2PDF_2.8.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
AmigaGPT_2.0.2.lha Misc App for chatting to Cha...
Wayfarer_9.0.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
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29.Dec.2024
Reddit (Webseite)
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Team 17: Martyn Brown deceased
According to various forums, probably all based on a message on X, Martyn Brown, co-founder of game developer Team 17, has died at the age of 57.
British computer graphics veteran Shaun McClure reported on Facebook that Brown had been very ill for a long time following a series of strokes. The last time he spoke to him would have been via a voice emulator. (snx)
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29.Dec.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: 10th alpha version of PanelApp
For one and a half years, Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich has been working on his resumed project to revise the operating system's panels, which have remained virtually unchanged since MorphOS 1.4.
Public testing of the alpha versions is accompanied in the corresponding MorphZone thread. With its now published number 10, the point has been reached where Ambient itself needs to be revised, which is why future tests will no longer be possible with a generally available version of the MorphOS workbench.
Download: PanelApp.lha (271 KB) (snx)
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29.Dec.2024
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Diskmag: Amiga Rulez 24-03
The fourth issue of the diskette magazine "Amiga Rulez", which is published in German and English, offers various articles about the Amiga, interviews and game tests as well as, for the first time, a small competition this time. (snx)
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29.Dec.2024
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SSL library: wolfSSL for the Amiga
wolfSSL is an open source C library that is primarily intended to provide devices and applications in the embedded sector with an SSL solution. One of the developers involved has now adapted the library to the Amiga: He describes the implementation in a detailed blog, the source code is available on Github.
The author himself would like to try to implement the wolfSSL-based Secure Shell wolfSSH for the Amiga next. It is also possible - although not necessarily planned by him - to use it as a replacement for AmiSSL, to port other tools from the wolfSSL suite or to adapt it to one of the ARM cores in a ZZ9000 graphics card in order to relieve the 68k processor of the complex SSL calculations.
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28.Dec.2024
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Network driver for PCMCIA cards from Xircom
Neil Cafferkey has developed a SANA-II-compatible network card driver for PCMCIA cards from the manufacturer Xircom, which can be used with an A600 or A1200. A list of compatible cards is included in the archive. (cg)
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28.Dec.2024
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Free memory log: Consumer 1.1
"Consumer" logs the free memory every few seconds, both in its own program window and in a text file in S:, the program requires at least Kickstart 3.0. New in version 1.1 are buttons for deleting the log file and the window contents. (cg)
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28.Dec.2024
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Minesweeper clone: Sapermania
"Sapermania" by the Master of Minefields author is a clone of the Windows classic "Minesweeper" written in AMOS.
Sapermania is available free of charge or for a small donation, it runs on any PAL or NTSC Amiga with at least 512 KB chip RAM and Kickstart 1.2. (cg)
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28.Dec.2024
Cameron Armstrong
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.1.0 (update)
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 update adds support of proxy servers to AmigaGPT.
Update: (30.12.2024, 14:21, dr)
Version 2.1.1 has just been released, which contains a clearer error message if the AmiSSL version installed by the user is too old.
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2,1 MB) (nba)
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28.Dec.2024
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Operating system for the Amiga: Third alpha version of "Serena OS"
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. The developer has since renamed his project "Serena OS" (amiga-news.de reported) and released a third alpha version, which is available as a fully compiled ROM. Basically, all Amigas with a 68030 (or faster) processor are supported. The developer writes about the new version:
"The biggest change in this release is the introduction of the disk subsystem and significant improvements to the driver architecture. Booting off and working with double-density floppy disks is now supported.
The diskimage tool has also seen significant improvements: it now allows you to format an Amiga disk image (adf) with SerenaFS, list existing files, push files to a disk image, pull a file off a disk image, create directories, delete files, get and overwrite individual disk blocks and generate a diff of the disk blocks of two disk image files.
Thus you can now use the diskimage tool to create, list and manipulate SerenaFS formatted Amiga disk images on your host system.
Another significant enhancement is that Serena OS now supports a device filesystem (devfs). This filesystem is mounted at /System/Devices and lists all active drivers. An application may open a driver and use the read/write system calls to interact with it. Note however, that disk drivers are the only drivers in this release that actually support read/write operations from user space.
Serena OS implements a disk cache that caches data read from a (floppy) disk. Note that right now all writes are implemented as synchronous writes. The data is cached but the application is still forced to wait until the data has been written to disk. A future version will change this behavior such that an application will not have to wait for a write to finish.
Here is a more detailed list of changes since the previous release:
- more complete C library. Ie added qsort(), itoa() family of functions, etc
- many bug fixes across libc and the kernel
- a number of kernel optimizations
- significantly improved the reliability and performance of in-kernel dispatch queues
- worked out more details of the kernel driver architecture
- added support for disk drivers to the kernel
- added a disk cache to the kernel
- added a device filesystem to the kernel
- FileManager and FileHierarchy are now the kernel components that handle file operations and path resolution
- complete rework of the diskimage tool
- added support for building libtool, makerom and keymap on POSIX (Linux, macOS) systems
(dr)
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26.Dec.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.0-RC2
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 2 ("RC") of version 7.0.0 is not recommended for weaker systems, for which an update of "Amiberry-Lite" will be provided shortly. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Plattformer: Rastan demo 0.33
Rastan was released to the Arcades in 1987 by Taito. Version 0.33 of the Amiga port being developed with Scorpion is now available, in which level 1-1 has been revised: The background images are more closely based on those of the arcade machine, there are also proper "checkpoint" pictograms and the flow of the level has been improved. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Video: Doom clone "Grind" 0.5
The Doom clone "Grind" should run on any Amiga with at least one and a half megabytes of RAM and a hard disk. The "DevArena" level shown in the video was originally created as a test area for new enemies and functions and actually serves as a stress test for the grind engine. For this reason, at least an A1200 with Fast RAM is recommended for DevArena. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Game: Dogi Xmas Demo
Dogi Xmas Demo (video) by Amiten is a vertically scrolling platform game in which the player has to collect all the sweets and fruits to complete a level. (cg)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2024, 22:33] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2024
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Linux: Kernel 6.12.6 LTS for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled Linux kernel 6.12.6, which comes with long-term support (“LTS”), for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. This version introduces support for EFI "GUID Partition Tables" (GPT). (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Video: Porting a ZX Spectrum BASIC game to AMOS
In a 43-minute video, a Youtuber shows how he turns a type-in listing from an old ZX Spectrum magazine into an Amiga game written in AMOS. The AMOS source code and all other game assets are available for download. (cg)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2024, 22:10] [Comments: 0]
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26.Dec.2024
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Amiga emulator for macOS: vAmiga 3.0
vAmiga is an Amiga emulator for macOS 11 or newer. After several beta versions, the final version 3.0 is now available. Compared to the beta releases, the emulation of the PCI extension Prometheus has been added and a bug when switching between PAL and NTSC has been fixed. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Christmas game: The Young Icefighter 0.1
"The Young Icefighter" is a Christmas game for children created with the 'Shoot'em Construction Kit'; the developer's eight-year-old son is responsible for most of the graphics. Three levels are playable in the pre-release version - but the balance is still being worked on and there is no sound yet. (cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Crossfire II: Soundtrack released on Spotify/Apple Music
Just over 20 years after the release of the Amiga game Crossfire II, the soundtrack has now been released on Spotify and Apple Music. It contains both the in-game music by Timo Kloss and the background music for the video sequences by Markus Holler.
The music by Timo Kloss was composed on an Amiga 4000T with the Camouflage program and recorded via MIDI with external audio hardware. Unfortunately, only the 8-bit mono recordings still exist, so it sounds exactly the same now as it did in the game.
Markus Holler's music was composed on an Atari ST with Cubase and played back via MIDI. In the end, however, the audio was recorded again with an Amiga. Recordings in CD quality still exist here, which were used for the soundtrack that has now been released. Timo Kloss was not involved in the production of Markus Holler's tracks, the Spotify/Apple interface unfortunately implies otherwise.
Timo Kloss would like to thank the developers of the game (Thomas and Stefan Schulze from Dreamworlds) for the permission to officially publish the soundtrack. Incidentally, the game was also ported to Windows a few years ago and is available on Steam now.
(cg)
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26.Dec.2024
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Emulated Amiga: a review of the A600GS
In a detailed blog entry, Amiga user "Puni" describes his experiences with the Orange Pi-based Amiga clone A600GS. (cg)
[News message: 26. Dec. 2024, 21:40] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2024
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AROS: Bounties planned for EFI adaptation
At the title link, Timothy 'terminills' Deters has started to create a list of bounty projects for AROS, which are currently being detailed and will then be published for donation and implementation. The aim of these bounties is to adapt AROS to the BIOS successor EFI. (snx)
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25.Dec.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 165 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about Pumpkin, Fast Food 2 and Cyber Force. (snx)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2024, 13:26] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2024
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit 11 now freely available
Version 11 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for Windows 7 or newer is now freely available with all of its updates until version 11.9. The current commercial version is 12.6. (snx)
[News message: 25. Dec. 2024, 13:26] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Mahjong games Lopan and Shisen-Seki
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has created two Mahjong games for AmigaOS 4, Lopan and Shisen-Seki. In a blog entry the author describes his motivation.
Download:
lopan.lha (536 KB)
shisen-seki.lha (36 MB) (snx)
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25.Dec.2024
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Video: Amigatronics interview with Trevor Dickinson
At the title link, Amigatronics has conducted an almost half-hour video interview with Trevor Dickinson of A-EON Technology, in which he talks about what he considers the most important events in the Amiga world in recent years, the current state of the platform and his expectations for the future. (snx)
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24.Dec.2024
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Merry Christmas!
Dear Amiga friends,
as the festive season gets into full swing, we look back on the past year – a year full of nostalgia and creative projects in the Amiga world. From refreshing games and practical hardware to lively events, the Amiga has continued to inspire us in 2024.
Thank you for being part of this great community. We look forward to getting off to a flying start with you again in 2025 – with daily news, exciting projects and a never-ending enthusiasm for the Amiga!
We wish you a Merry Christmas full of colourful pixels, contemplative Paula sounds and a high-score chase or two with your family and friends.
Merry Christmas!
Your team at amiga-news.de (nba)
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24.Dec.2024
GitHub
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin v1.8.12 for Visual Studio Code
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. The stable version 1.8.12 fixes a bug in vasm console output on MacOS. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available. (nba)
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24.Dec.2024
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Assembler: ASM-Pro 1.21 released
ASM-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler for the Amiga with an integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor. The program offers full MC680x0, FPU and MMU support. About a year after the last update, ASM-Pro has now been brought up to version 1.21. The changes:
ADDITIONS
- ASM: Optional multi-line scroll (8 lines instead of only 1) to speed up assembly when output is verbose (e.g. large number of included files or print directives). Check Multiscroll in the assembler preferences.
- ASM: New integer operator: modulo // (e.g. 123//20 returns 3).
BUGFIXES
- ASM: REM/EREM block was not allowed in BSS sections.
- CMDLN: RB (read binary) causes a crash if begin address is unparsable.
- UI: Bevel box is slightly off for the top parameter groups in the environment preferences.
- CMDLN: @-prefixed dump commands incorrectly check for odd address and cpu version, causing a crash on 68000/010 systems.
- ASM: Directives and instructions in the first line of a REPT 0 block starting with either @ or A cause internal error.
- ASM: Incorrectly parsed number of bitplanes while including an IFF colormap causes memory list corruption.
- ASM: Whitespace lines in a macro could cause the Unexpected end of file error and consequent editor freeze.
(nba)
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24.Dec.2024
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 9.0
Jacek ‘jacadcaps’ Piszczek has published version 9.0 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, which is based on the stable WebKitGTK 2.46.5 (amiga-news.de reported). In addition, several libraries (cURL, tasn, xml2, nghttp2) have been updated for this update. (nba)
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