21.Feb.2023
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Arcade game: C64 port "Kalle Kloakk" in development
Kåre Johansen is in the process of porting one of his old C64 games, "Kalle Kloakk", to the Amiga and has already published three developer videos for it (1, 2, 3). (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Puzzle game: Follix 1.3 (AGA)
Besides his puzzle game ArtPazz, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has also updated his second puzzle game Follix:
- Fixed endless floppy drive motor spinning.
- Fixed graphical glitch that could happen in the transition between the game and information screens.
- Made disappearance of game area when passing to the pause screen happen in a single frame instead of two.
- Added clearing of CPU caches after the loading of the data file (as that contains also a couple of machine code routines).
- Changed the conditions of many If, Until and While statements and turned For ... Next loops into Repeat ... Until loops to have the AMOS Professional Compiler produce shorter and faster code.
- Sharpened the top/bottom sides of the menu buttons.
- Recompiled against ALS v2.3.
- Optimized executable with custom tool.
- Touched up manual.
(dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Puzzle game: ArtPazz 1.4 (AGA)
In ArtPazz, the goal is to put the jumbled pieces of each classic painting back in their original place by moving them around (video). The puzzle game was created with AMOS Professional for AGA-Amigas and is free, but the author also allows you to pay a voluntary price.
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has now released version 1.4, which includes the following changes:
- Fixed endless floppy drive motor spinning
- Recompiled against ALS v2.3.
- Optimized executable with custom tool.
- Touched up manual.
- Changed the conditions of many If, Until and While statements and turned For ... Next loops into Repeat ... Until loops to have the AMOS Professional Compiler produce shorter and faster code.
(dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Web browser: AWeb APL Lite 3.5.091
The AWeb APL Development Team and Mirek Michalak have compiled the latest version 3.5.09 of the web browser AWeb APL Lite with the latest AmiSSL SDK to give the browser better compatibility regarding encrypted https web pages. (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Game soundtrack: "Turrican II - Secret Dungeons" remix
In addition to complete albums (for example Jaguar XJ220 Remix album), Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann releases single remixes: now happened with an extended remix of Chris Hülsbeck's "Turrican II - Secret Dungeons". (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Linux: Kernel 6.2 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the Linux kernel 6.2, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered the kernel for download in the associated discussion topic of the Hyperion forum. (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
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Video: "Tunnel" animation recovered
As an user reports on his YouTube channel "Elpis Is Hope", he happened to have in his old CD backups an old "tunnel" animation that he had originally created for the advertising agency "Propaganda".
It is a low-resolution HAM8-ANIM8 format recorded directly from his old A4000 onto a VHS tape. He said that the playback in the video was not smooth because he did not have time to properly record and time the 50/60 fps conversion. (dr)
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21.Feb.2023
Hackaday (website)
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Do it yourself: Another solution for using an external HDMI upscaler
At the title link, 'c0pperdragon' describes ways to achieve pixel-precise HDMI output of Amiga video signals instead of upconverting the final analog output signal. Besides solutions that move the RGBtoHDMI system completely into the computer, internal modifications make it possible to connect the former alternately to several computers.
One possibility for this is an adapter board that is placed under the Denise chip (amiga-news.de reported). In the meantime, a second variant was added: With the DB23 hack, eight less used of the 23 pins of the Amiga video connector are re-purposed by re-soldering, to make all 12 color bits directly available without changing anything on the case. Using an adapted cable with the required pinout, the RGBtoHDMI system, that can thus be connected externally, can then upscale the picture with comparatively lower latency. (snx)
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20.Feb.2023
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Report from AmigaWinterTreffen 2023 (Germany)
From February 10 to 12, 2023 the "AmigaWinterTreffen" took place in Großensee near Hamburg, Germany. Simon Adolf from the organizing team sent us a report from the event, which can be read in German in our corresponding news-item. Pictures from the meeting can be found on Facebook. (snx)
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20.Feb.2023
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R75 for 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).
Today version 1.2 R75 has been released with the following changes:
- New 8 bit Palette Mode. With the new palette mode we can import all the available art packs/sprite images without losing quality. This benefits mostly modern languages and libraries. Anything using raylib and RGB/RGBA output options
- New Palette mode is found in Palette Menu under Palette XGA and Palette XGA 256
- Sprite Import Utility also has new Palette Modes as Import options
- Fix Open Palette menu item. Small typo was causing palette to be loaded incorrectly
(dr)
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20.Feb.2023
Amigans (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 8
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday he has released the eighth beta version with the following changes:
- Added internal pthreads library
- Added new missing math functions
- Added dprintf
- Fixed a memory leak when using posix_memalign
- Some constructors/destructors changes
- Fixed ncurses/termios problems. Now ncurses can be used without any problem
- Added stdio_ext functions (except __freadptr)
- Some test progams makefile changes. Now it is possible to compile tests using GNUMakefile
- Many other internal changes
(dr)
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20.Feb.2023
Marco A. Breddin (Microzeit)
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Crowdfunding: Book "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars"
Microzeit from Germany and Editions64K from France are going to publish "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars", a book that is supposed to illuminate the competition for the number 1 home computer between the Amiga and the Atari ST in the mid and late 1980s, with the following key data:
- English Hardback Edition
- ca. 400 colour pages
- High-quality offset print
- 170 × 230 mm portrait format
- Special cover refinement
- 135 gr/m² silk-matt illustration paper
- Finest print raster (120)
- Surface sealing (varnished pages)
- Made in Germany
The book aims to combine a fact- and opinion-based approach by providing a collection of newly written background articles, comparing hypotheses with facts, including eyewitness accounts, and presenting analyses of historical media. The crowdfunding, which still has 21 days to go, has already raised about 7000 Euros of the 22,000 needed. (dr)
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19.Feb.2023
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Puzzle game: Connect 1.2
In the puzzle game "Connect" (screenshots), you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. Developer Frank Röger has written about the now released version 1.2:
"Our visit to the Amiga Wintertreffen (Germany) brought some fun as well as some insights: Connect still has some minor bugs.
For example, we found that on a Recalbox (Raspberry Pi + emulation) Connect runs rather suboptimal. The problem is that the game controllers support more than one fire button, which leads to the joystick for the Amiga being configured as a 2-button joystick. We were not able to change this and had to live with it at the meeting. However, that doesn't mean we have to live with it forever and have summarily added support for the 2-button joystick. So now it shouldn't matter which fire button is pressed.
Next point of criticism was (once again) the installation routine. The moment Connect was installed into a subfolder, there was no longer an icon for the Connect folder. We were surprised that we didn't notice this during testing, but have corrected it with the new version. Thanks to Gothor for pointing this out!
The user Afebriwyn has taken the initiative and created a WHDLoad slave for Connect. The special thing about it is that you can run the game without graphic errors even with loaded P96 drivers or very fast CPUs. Thanks to Afebriwyn for this work.
However, we have 2 notes about this:
1. If you use a 68060, you have to use NOMMU in the ToolTypes. The same applies to other CPUs, which are emulated by any FPGAs or the like. If you don't do this, the game will abort with an error message at startup.
2. Because the slave is provided by a third party developer LogicalByte does not support the slave. If you encounter any problems, please contact the e-mail address given in the readme. Thank you for your understanding.
We wish you a lot of fun!" (dr)
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19.Feb.2023
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Aminet uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to Aminet:
Void-Dreams39.zip demo/misc 698K 68k Demopack - February 2023
Void-FB14-AmigaOS4.zip demo/sound 4.6M OS4 Musicdisk with mods from GERP...
Void-FB14-Classic.lha demo/sound 2.5M 68k Musicdisk with mods from GERP...
libogg.lha dev/lib 325K OS4 Library for handling OGG files
libvorbis.lha dev/lib 1.0M OS4 Libraries for handling Ogg Vo...
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 81K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of the same c...
Space_Travel.lha game/misc 59K MOS C port of Ken Thompson's Spac...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.5M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 386K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
avalanche.lha util/arc 84K AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
avalanche_de.lha util/arc 8K German catalog for Avalanche ...
Avalanche_FR.lha util/arc 7K French catalog for Avalanche ...
avalanche_guide_de.lha util/arc 7K German translation of Avalanc...
ChangeExp.lha util/misc 2K 68k Change Expansion-Devices, esp...
FlipSide_v2.2.lha util/misc 16K 68k Switch screens via the Mouse-...
SniffEmu.lha util/sys 12K 68k check if system is running in...
AnalogClock.lha util/time 40K 68k Resizeable analog transparent...
StartWin.lha util/wb 104K 68k Two bugged workbench launchba...
(snx)
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19.Feb.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to OS4Depot:
libogg.lha dev/lib 325kb 4.0 Library for handling OGG files
libvorbis.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.0 Libraries for handling Ogg Vorbi...
drally.lha gam/dri 3Mb 4.1 AmigaOS4/SDL2 Port of Open Sourc...
amystromwifiswitch.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 Control and query the myStrom Wi...
(snx)
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19.Feb.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to AROS Archives:
chocolatekeen.i386-aros.zip gam/pla 427kb Game engine for Commander Keen (...
beastieworker.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 1Mb OpenGL sokoban game in 3d (10 le...
lunapaint.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 756kb Updated Lunapaint with better da...
animplayer.i386-aros.zip vid/mis 2Mb Anim player with playlist support
(snx)
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19.Feb.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.02.2023
The following files have been added until 18.02.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.3GI... Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
dRally.lha Games/Race Open Source Engine / De...
Fallout2-ce_1.2_R2.lha Games/RPG Open source Fallout 2
Image2PDF_1.4.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
(snx)
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19.Feb.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.02.2023
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 18.02.2023:
(snx)
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19.Feb.2023
Cizar via Discord/CS-Lab Warp#general (ANF)
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CS-Lab: Further Warp 1260 and/or Warp 1240 boards can be assembled
As Greg Donner reports at the title link, CS-Lab will soon receive 50 more FPGAs that were ordered a year ago. So the production of Warp 1260 and Warp 1240 turbo boards can be resumed. Potential buyers therefore can contact CS-Lab now or already send in processors for testing. (snx)
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19.Feb.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 161 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 161 (March/April 2023) have been published online meanwhile at the title link. Contents include an interview with Colin Vella and a review of AmiCygnix 1.7.
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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18.Feb.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Firmware 1.3
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 (amiga-news.de reported)
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Today version 1.8 of the Greaseweazle firmware has been released providing the following changes:
- AT32F403A: Run this MCU at 216MHz in main firmware
- USB: Implement GET_STATUS(DEVICE) as required by USB spec
- This fixes repeated USB resets on some Linux hosts
- Blinky test: Fix serial baud rate (115200)
(dr)
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18.Feb.2023
TheoTheoderich
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Developer log: Single player mode in "Settle the World"?
A week ago, Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel published an intro update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In the feedback, the wish was expressed to integrate a single-player mode including at least one computer opponent into the game.
In a recent developer log, the programmer now outlines how this could be implemented:
"To say it in front...this will not be easy.
Settle the World was an entry for BlitzBasic Jam 2022 and was supposed to be finished within six months.
It was designed as a purely local multiplayer game due to the tight time constraints of the competition.
Unfortunately, this ensures that visual feedback for players is actually stored everywhere in the programme code.
This means, for example, that a window appears when a unit has no more movement points, or a window appears when a Pioneer has no more tools, etc.
The calls to these information windows are built into the programme parts of the units and may of course not be called up during movements of computer-controlled units.
Either all program parts will now be rewritten for universal use by players and computer opponents, or the computer opponents will receive their own program parts, which will, however, massively increase the file size of Settle the World (and with it the Fast RAM requirement).
Unfortunately, I realised yesterday that many Statements and Functions cannot simply be rewritten for shared use.
That would be equivalent to a complete rewrite in many parts and so I won't be doing that.
It would probably lead to a mess in the code that I wouldn't understand after a few weeks and so I would stop the project.
Like dozens of projects on Amiga and PC in the last 20 years.
Settle the World should be saved from this "fate", however, because the game is really close to my heart!
So I will include the part of the computer opponents as additional program code, which is mostly separate from the actual code.
This won't be easy, I've never done anything like this before.
To get a feel for what work is needed, I just started over the last two days and marked one of the players as a computer opponent. This opponent doesn't start with loaded ships like the player, but directly with a first city.
So I wrote a function that determines a "perfect" position for a city.
The basis is the starting position of the respective player, i.e. the position where the player's ships normally spawn.
Now all fields in a radius of 12 fields are checked for a suitable position.
For this purpose, the surrounding fields of each land field are rated according to certain criteria.
How it works:
- Each type of terrain gets points for its relevance. Fertile farmland gets a lot of points, tundra or desert give no points. Bonus and river fields give extra points.
- There are three additional criteria:
- Does the checked position on the map have access to wheat, wood and/or ocean?
- If yes, the first field that fulfils one of these criteria gives extra points.
- If it is the first city of a player, access to the ocean gives a lot of extra points to make sure that the first city is built by the sea.
Then a city is built at the position with the most points.
After that a Pioneer is created at the position of this first city, placed into the city and used as a farmer on a field.
So far, this works quite reliably on all the maps I have tested.
However, it has already taken me two evenings...
It's going to be a very, very lengthy project to integrate a computer opponent..." (dr)
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17.Feb.2023
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Unofficial successor: "It Returned From The Desert" for Windows
Tim Rachor's "It returned from the desert" (official release trailer) is an unofficial successor of the Amiga game It came from the desert for Windows (amiga-news.de reported), which now was released on Steam for 8,99 Euro. (dr)
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17.Feb.2023
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Video: Hidden developer messages
Piracy was rife on the Amiga, and almost every game was cracked by various scene groups. In his latest video, Kim Justice presents the messages and rants left in the code by developers for these crackers, which were sometimes angry but mostly hilarious. (dr)
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17.Feb.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.2.1
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.2.1 of the firmware has been released. Changes:
- Reinsert CD-ROM image when receiving Inquiry command
- Open image as read-only if attribute set
- RP2040: Reduce delay between phase signal changes
(dr)
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16.Feb.2023
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.9
A few moments ago, version 3.9.9 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been released. Changes:
changes in project::
- updated documentation
- updated examples drawer
- re-added serveral resident sourcefiles of BB2 for later improvement
- added disassembled source code for blitzlibs animlib, iffiolib, ilbmifflib
- added several StormWizard-demos made by @mdbergmann
changed:
- moved commands GetD0, PutD0, GetRegD0, PushD0 from wzlib to environlib (wzlib needs at least OS2 so use of these commands prevented the executable to be working with an older OS
- reduced memory consumption for string in PED
- changed scroll size to 1 character when scrolling left or right
- changed behaviour of marked blocks, they behave now like blocks in other editors
- removed dependency of fontlib for diskfontlib when using ROM-font, so diskfont.library is not needed anymore if topaz is used!
added:
- new function win windowslib: WindowIsOpen(win#) returns True if the window with given number is opened
fixed:
- fixed several broken OS-functioncalls in PED and compiler that could lead to a crash
- fixed crash of PED when source code contains TAB-characters
- fixed crash when using HELP-key on certain macro names
- fixed some display problems with cursor when blinking is turned off
- fixed some display problems when scrolling source from outside the window
- fixed seldom display problems with highlighting of statement names
- fixed multiple redraws of source window at resize of window
- fixed configuration: state of intellisense option was not parsed correctly
- fixed: if a source file was "saved as", the new filename was not shown in tab title
- fixed: crash when saving as plain text
Download: AmiBlitz399.lha (10 MB) (dr)
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16.Feb.2023
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.167 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to new kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels. The new version offers support for PCI-Express SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) host adapters.
Download: linux-image-5.10.167-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71 MB)
(dr)
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16.Feb.2023
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Video tutorial: The AMOS command "Limit Mouse"
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains, how you can limit your mouse movements on screen by using the AMOS "Limit Mouse" command. (dr)
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15.Feb.2023
BBSIndex
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Demoparty: MountainBytes 2023 (Switzerland)
After a six-year hiatus and another three years of involuntary postponements by Covid, from 24 to 26 February 2023, the "MountainBytes" demo party will take place in Cham, Switzerland, organized by Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur. In addition to various workshops and competitions (timetable), the nominees for The Meteoriks Award will be presented during a show on Friday. The award ceremony will then take place at the Revision demo party in Saarbrücken at the beginning of April. (dr)
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15.Feb.2023
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.56
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.56 which among others provides improved MP3 support and PSID playback. (dr)
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