18.Mar.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Modern text engine for Hollywood: Pangomonium 1.0 supports Emojis
Press Release: Airsoft Softwair is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a powerful new plugin for Hollywood: Pangomonium - the ultimate text engine for Hollywood. Pangomonium is a plugin of epic proportions and the first plugin to require Hollywood 10. Pangomonium contains an ultra-modern text engine that is at the cutting edge of technology and can draw text in almost any language in the world.
In addition, Pangomonium also supports fonts with colored characters, making it finally possible to write programs on Amigas that support colored emojis! Pangomonium is based on the established Pango and Cairo libraries and also allows Hollywood scripts to call all Pango/Cairo functions directly. Of course, there is also a simpler interface to draw text via Pangomonium without having to deal with Pango/Cairo in depth. Pangomonium has been two years in the making and is now finally ready for release, exclusively for Hollywood 10.
Here are just a few of Pangomonium's impressive features:
- Text can be drawn in almost any language in the world, including complex fonts and layouts such as bi-directional text, left-scrolling fonts, vertical layouts, etc.
- Support for fonts with color characters (finally emoji support on the Amiga!)
- Two high and low level interfaces for beginners and advanced users
- Hollywood scripts can use all Pango and Cairo functions (over 500 of them!)
- seamless integration into the text interface of Hollywood 10 allows very easy use
- the plugin can also replace Hollywood's vector graphics engine
- extensive documentation in AmigaGuide, HTML, CHM and PDF formats (over 300 pages!)
- over 30 ready-to-run example scripts
And best of all, Pangomonium is available to download for free from the official Hollywood portal. At least Hollywood 10 is required. Thanks to Hollywood's platform-independent plugin system, there are versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux, macOS and Windows.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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18.Mar.2024
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Alinea Computer will take over distribution of the next two Hyperion games
Press release: We are pleased to announce that we, as Alinea Computer, will take over the distribution of the next two games from Hyperion Entertainment. The cooperation so far has been excellent and we hope to continue it to realize further projects. Our first game as a distributor will be Heretic II for AmigaOS 4, which can be ordered at the title link. Dealers should contact us directly as a distributor. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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18.Mar.2024
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Linux: Kernel 6.8 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.8, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests.
Download: linux-image-6.8-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (61 MB) (dr)
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18.Mar.2024
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Tower defense: "Dice Masters" 1.00 for Apollo Vampire V4
In Sami Vehmaa's tower defence game "Dice Masters", the player has to fend off aliens on a spaceship (amiga-news.de reported, YouTube video of version 1.00). Now all ten levels as well as an arcade mode are available. A demo version with one level offers the opportunity to try out the game free of charge. (dr)
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17.Mar.2024
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Shaviry: DIY Amiga RGB to VGA adapter and monitor switcher
Shaviry is a new hardware project created by hobby developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo. It combines an Amiga video-to-VGA adapter and a monitor switcher, featuring an integrated RGB amplifier to minimise vertical bars and improve display quality. Shaviry is explicitly not a scandoubler, so the connected monitor(s) must support 15 kHz video signals.
The mode of operation of the adapter can be controlled using jumpers: Shaviry thus functions as a pure VGA adapter on Amigas that are not equipped with a graphics card or HDMI-to-VGA adapter, and/or as an automatic input switcher controlled by Switchcontrol via CIA or parallel port or by switch, Arduino or similar via a 5-volt signal. A built-in optocoupler component prevents overvoltage in this process. The switchover with a CRT monitor is immediate, with an LCD monitor it takes a little longer, according to the developer's description.
Tests were carried out by the developer with an AGA Amiga and THS7374 and THS7376 RGB amplifiers. Using the THS7374 with 9.5 Mhz filter bandwidth, the vertical bars are slightly visible, but the image is blurred, according to the developer. The THS7376 produces a sharp image and the bars are almost invisible.
Shavira is currently not offered commercially, but is aimed at the growing do-it-yourself community, i.e. those who are not afraid to wield a soldering iron. The developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo provides the PCB data for KiCad and Gerber files on the project page on GitHub under the title link for free download and provides a complete overview of the required components along with extensive image and video material for support. The current revision is REV23012024 from 23 January 2024. A readme about Shaviry is also available in English. (nba)
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17.Mar.2024
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Aminet uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to Aminet:
amosreg.lha dev/amos 6K 68k Edit AMOS Pro username and regno
evo.lha dev/e 673K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
c2plib.lha dev/misc 204K 68k chunky2planar as an Amiga sha...
x68k2amiga.zip dev/misc 25K 68k Convert X68000 exec/data file...
MultiJoyTest.lha driver/inp 6K 68k Test a MultiJoyAdapter (8 joy...
GIScopaAdf.zip game/board 340K 68k Italian card game
slotgameadf.zip game/board 308K 68k Slot Game
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 8K 2024 Carset for F1GP
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 55M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.3...
battaglianavaleadf.zip game/think 328K 68k GI Battaglia Navale
slotgame.lha game/wb 240K 68k Slot Game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.2M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 7.5M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 7.7M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
LN32024Theme.lha mods/misc 109K 4ch 16bit LN3 2024 New Theme ...
WHDArchiveExtractor.lha util/arc 14K 68k Automates extraction of WHDLo...
DOpus4Manual_de.lha util/dopus 120K German DOpus 4 manual
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 909K AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
WHDLoadMenu.lha util/misc 485K 68k A WHDLoad frontend
ConsumerV1.0.lha util/moni 228K 68k Memory Log Tool, to Screen & ...
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17.Mar.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
dgen-sdl.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.1 Emulator of the Sega Genesis/Meg...
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
litexl.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
ffmpeg.lha vid/con 51Mb 4.1 Video and audio converter
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17.Mar.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to AROS Archives:
bp_dev_tools_accessories.zip aud/edi 1Mb Development B&P For Tools a...
arrakis.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 3Mb port of the Arrakis demo for Ipo...
nano.i386-aros.zip dem/sce 4Mb port of the nano demo for Ipod b...
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17.Mar.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.03.2024
The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_31.0.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Iris_1.22.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
Wayfarer_7.6.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
Lite-XL_2.1.3r1.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
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17.Mar.2024
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PDF manual: DOS documentation in the works
At the title link on GitHub Thomas 'ThoR' Richter, one of the developers of AmigaOS 3.2, has started work on a PDF manual for the dos.library in the style of the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals. (snx)
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17.Mar.2024
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Amiga-Scoopex-C: Conversion of the Assembler tutorial into C
The GitHub project Amiga-Scoopex-C is a conversion of the examples of the Amiga assembler course "Amiga Hardware Programming", which can be found on YouTube, into the C programming language.
Now all 11 previously created instructions have been adapted to the current version of vscode-amiga-debug, so that functions such as INCBIN-CHIP have become available. Each episode now consists of a single source code file. In addition, the existing instructions for the Copperlist have been revised so that the data no longer has to be copied to Chip RAM at runtime. (snx)
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17.Mar.2024
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Video: Review of the PowerShark
In a detailed video report, Robert Smith tests the "PowerShark", a USB-C-based power supply for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 keyboard cases (amiga-news.de reported). (dr)
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16.Mar.2024
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YouTube: Recording of the PiStorm-presentation at FOSDEM 2024
Andrew "LinuxJedi" Hutchings, full-time CCO for the MySQL alternative MariaDB Foundation, is known as a developer of hardware and software for the Amiga. At FOSDEM 2024, an open source developer conference held on March 3rd to 4th, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium, Hutchings gave a presentation on "PiStorm - The evolution of an open source Amiga accelerator", which demonstrates the modification of the Raspberry Pi mini motherboard as an Amiga turbo card and is available on YouTube.
In the presentation, Hutchings demonstrates the use of the PiStorm32-Lite on his Amiga 1200 and talks about this and other topics:
- What the PiStorm really is, both as hardware and a community
- The history of the project, including the bumps along the road
- Directions that is intended to take the project in the future
- A demonstration of what PiStorm is capable of
The recording can be accessed via the title link. (nba)
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16.Mar.2024
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Video tutorial: Parallax scrolling in AMOS
Following on from the screens tutorials (1, 2, 3), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to achieve parallax scrolling with the dual playfild command in the latest part of his tutorial series. (dr)
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15.Mar.2024
Oliver Roberts (Mail)
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E-Mail client: New YAM Nightly Build uses TLS SNI now
IBrowse and AmiSSL5 developer Oliver Roberts has uploaded another change to the repository of the mail program YAM, which Jens Maus implemented yesterday in a new nightly build for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS: with a single line of code YAM now uses TLS SNI (Server Name Indication) for secure connections, which fixes the problem of failed certificate verification with e.g. Gmail. (dr)
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15.Mar.2024
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Trevor's Blog: On the Plus side
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" yesterday. Among other things, he explains why the delivery of the A1222 Plus motherboards, which began a week ago, has been delayed again: "The original batch of boards received over a month ago worked well but did not include the onboard USB headers and had to be sent back to the manufacturer for minor rework. Also a revision change by the MCU manufacturer meant the onboard temperature sensor was not read correctly and the CPU fan did not spin up. When designing the motherboard, Varisys, the original hardware developer, did not think a CPU fan was necessary but included one as an extra precaution." The problem was solved by modifying the MCU programming firmware.
As Trevor Dickinson further reports, other people besides AAA Technology were involved in making the release of the A1222 Plus possible: Steven Solie, for example, developed an extremely fast and simple, but very powerful recovery USB drive that ensures that all necessary OS4.1 and enhancer software files are installed correctly, and Alexandre Balaban created a fully updated AmigaOS 4.1-ISO. (dr)
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14.Mar.2024
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Java-tool: ham_convert 1.10.0
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based tool ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.10.0. New in this version:
- ability to use ICtCp colorspace for HAM error calculation
- option to exclude first palette color from DynamicHires conversion
- larger program window and fonts
- code cleanup
Download: ham_convert 1.10.0 (7 MB) (nba)
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13.Mar.2024
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On our own behalf: Changes to the team, Nico Barbat returns
Nico Barbat, a long-time demoscene member and well-known Amiga journalist, joined the amiga-news.de team back in 2000. Initially taking care of the job exchange Free Amiga Jobs, he intensified the cooperation between the print magazine "Amiga Plus", for which he was responsible as editor-in-chief, and our news service in the following years until he finally took over management of amiga-news.de at the end of 2003.
Anyone who knows Nico Barbat knows that even after his final retirement from the amiga-news.de team in 2011, the Amiga never really let go of him: There was always talk of projects, possibilities were explored or connections were made. The "official" return with the founding of the publishing house "Look Behind You" in 2022 now also has positive consequences for amiga-news.de: The ex-boss is back in the team. There is no longer a job exchange to look after, but there is still plenty of work for experienced editors ;)
We also welcome Markus 'IM_Petrow' Bonet, a long-time amiga-news.de reader, to the team: as server administrator, Markus will take care of the technical infrastructure on which our largely self-developed content management system runs. We would like to thank our two (more or less) "newcomers" for their support.
Editor's note: To ensure the independence of our reporting, articles on projects by Nico Barbat's publishing house Look Behind You or his LBY business partner Simon Neumann (including Alinea) will continue to be written exclusively by other editors. (cg)
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13.Mar.2024
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)
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Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.5
Almost two years ago (amiga-news.de reported), developer Arne Urbaniak presented his copy programme 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 0.5, Greaseweazle routines have been revised and basic support for the ADF controller and DrawBridge has been added. According to the developer, the SCP routine for the ADF controller still needs to be optimised, the content of the disc is already displayed and the checkdisk function has been completed, while the basic control of the DrawBridge now works. The user can also switch between German and English layouts and switch the sound on and off.
Visitors to the ARC (Amiga Ruhrpott Convention (25 May 2024 in Duisburg, Germany) can experience G-Copy live in combination with some controllers at the developer's stand.
Download: gcopy.zip (36,9 MB) (nba)
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13.Mar.2024
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Practical report: Using several operating systems on AmigaNG computers (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. This time (automatic translation) she looks at the pitfalls of running AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Linux on the same computer at the title link. (snx)
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12.Mar.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.6
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.6 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS which provides more video playback improvements and fixes. (dr)
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12.Mar.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.22, Contacts 1.2
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.22 of his e-mail client Iris and version 1.2 of the contact manager Contacts for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
Iris V1.22
- Search window will now show partial results while the search is pending
- Fixed search window's results to remove messages as they get deleted
- Improved timezone information sent in calendar events
- Calendar events are now attached twice to be compatible with both Outlook and Gmail
Contacts V1.2
- Improved handling of legacy VCARD formats
(dr)
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12.Mar.2024
Wolfgang Kierdorf (E-Mail)
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Video: DIY instruction to build an Arcade Stick gamepad for the Amiga CD³²
At the title link, Wolfgang Kierdorf demonstrates how a standard arcade stick gamepad can be adapted for use with the Amiga CD³² console with a little soldering work using a purchasable circuit board. (snx)
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12.Mar.2024
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WHDLoad: Running cracktros from the website
WHDLoad author Bert Jahn has updated the WHDLoad website so that all Cracktros can now be started directly using the Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb via the "Info" link. This works for all productions that do not require an AGA or a Kickstart image. There are also corresponding plans for demos and mags. (dr)
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