19.Jun.2023
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.0.1 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 2.0.1 mainly fixes bugs of the previous version:
- Made Future Composer player more robust for empty modules.
- If you have set up Windows to use more than 2 channels, NostalgicPlayer crashed when trying to play a module. Big thanks to Robert Konrad (RobDangerous) for the fix.
- If the very first line is selected in the module list, then the page-down key didn't work.
- In some rare situations the Piano visualizer crashes when fast-forwarding with an invalid argument error.
- Some mp3 files was not recognized as so.
- Fixed different bugs when double-clicking a file to open it in NostalgicPlayer.
An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr)
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19.Jun.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 163 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 163 (July/August 2023) have been published online at the title link. Content includes a preview of the ASM game, a review of the IceDrake turbo board and show reports.
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.Jun.2023
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Video: "Browservice" under Linux and AmigaOS 4
Dave 'Skateman' Koelman, who among other things wrote the article Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000, explains in a video along with the accompanying video description how to set up Browservice - a web "proxy" server that allows surfing the internet on historical browsers - under Linux in order to then be able to use it with the Odyssey browser under AmigaOS 4. Comparable to AmiFox for AmigaOS 3 or AROS, Browservice converts the browser view window into images, which are then displayed by a JavaScript application on the client browser. (dr)
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18.Jun.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Support by editors SciTE and Notepad++ (Update)
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: The popular editors SciTE and Notepad++ now also support Hollywood by default.
SciTE supports Hollywood beginning with version 5.3.6 and Notepad++ supports Hollywood beginning with version 8.5.2. SciTE is especially interesting for Linux and macOS users, since on these platforms no Hollywood IDE is available.
Update: (16:50, 19.06.23, snx)
Our reader Michael Jurisch rectifies: By his Hollywood extension for Visual Studio Code there is an alternative editor available for Linux and macOS. (snx)
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18.Jun.2023
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Aminet uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to Aminet:
links-mos.lha comm/www 7.2M MOS Links text-only WWW browser w...
evo.lha dev/e 652K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha disk/misc 82K x86 SMB2 file system client
smb2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha disk/misc 149K 68k SMB2 file system client
MCE.lha game/edit 3.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.2M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
2D_ATcad_RTG.lha gfx/misc 740K 68k 2D-CAD-Programm
WhatIFF2.10.lha mags/misc 1.4M What IFF? #2.10-June-2023
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
opus-tools-0.2_a68k.lha mus/edit 389K 68k Opus Audio Tools
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip text/bfont 2.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B18.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B20.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-13.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-15.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-18.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-20.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
avalanche.lha util/arc 110K AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 67K 68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 100K 68k Identify hardware and more
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 11M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
GoShell.lha util/shell 25K 68k tool for open Shell in full s...
GoShell_pl.lha util/shell 3K polish catalog for GoShell
RNOWidgets.lha util/wb 4.9M MOS Desktop widgets application
RNOWidgets_OS4.lha util/wb 4.5M OS4 Desktop widgets application
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18.Jun.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to OS4Depot:
nanosaur.lha gam/act 14Mb 4.1 A science fiction third-person s...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
smb2fs.lha net/sam 128kb 4.1 Filesystem for accessing files u...
avalanche.lha uti/arc 110kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
tequila.lha uti/wor 33kb 4.1 Task monitor / CPU profiler / to...
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18.Jun.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.06.2023
The following files have been added until 17.06.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
MCE_14.15.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
fheroes2_1.0.5.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
Links_2.29.lha Network/Web Links text-only WWW bro...
QuickLaunch_1.0.lha System/Ambient/Launchbar A software launch manager
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18.Jun.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.06.2023
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 17.06.2023:
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18.Jun.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 10 of "WhatIFF?" published
"WhatIFF?" is an English language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the tenth issue include hardware (e.g. A314-CP, Commotron 2000) and game reviews (e.g. Luma, Neon Noir) as well as tutorials (e.g. Brilliance, LightWave 3D) and interviews - for example with the programmer of the demo version of Hamulet, which is exclusively included as "cover disk". (snx)
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18.Jun.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Start bar: WBDock2 2.874
Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.874. The changes of the program for AmigaOS 3.1 or higher include "autohide" mode now moving the dock above all other windows and appearing only when the mouse is on the right screen as well as taking pens from Palette prefs for drawing the frame around the dock.
Download: wbdock2.lha (374 KB) (snx)
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18.Jun.2023
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Video tutorial: MUI-GUI (part 3) and GadTools GUI (part 1) in Blitz Basic
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch both the third part Teil of his tutorial showing how to create a GUI with MUI in Blitz Basic (amiga-news.de reported) and the first part of a tutorial series on how to create a GadTools GUI in Blitz Basic. (dr)
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18.Jun.2023
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Shell extension: GoShell 4.0
GoShell is a free and simple tool for opening a shell terminal in full screen mode on a separate screen (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in the now released version 4.0 of the tool developed by Krzysztof Donat:
- added locale support for GoShell configuration tool (English GoShell.cd and GoShell.ct included. If you want a catalog for your language, feel free
to translate)
- added new predefined color set (yellow)
GoShell (Aminet link) runs on any Amiga with Kickstart 3.0+ and is freeware, but the author would appreciate a small donation. (dr)
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17.Jun.2023
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.0
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (screenshot). Features:
- AmigaGPT uses the GPT-4 architecture developed by OpenAI to generate coherent, context-aware responses to your input.
- AmigaGPT takes full advantage of the latest AmigaOS 3.2 API and does not require any third-party frameworks.
- AmigaGPT can use the Amiga's speech synthesis capability to read the generated text aloud, using either narrator.device V34 (Workbench 1.x) or narrator.device V37 (Workbench 2.0).
The programme has the following requirements:
- OCS/ECS/AGA Amiga
- AmigaOS 3.2 or higher
- 68020 processor or faster
- TCP/IP stack for Internet access
- AmiSSL 5.9
- an OpenAI account with an active API key
- optional: narrator.device V34 and/or narrator.device V37
Direct download: AmigaGPT.lha (196 KB) (dr)
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17.Jun.2023
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SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.7 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsmb2 and allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 53.7:
- Merged latest changes from libsmb2 git repository.
- AmigaOS 3 version now uses ReqTools for the password requester.
- Now uses an empty string instead of a NULL pointer when connecting to a share without a password.
- AROS version no longer gets SysBase by reading it from AbsExecBase.
- AROS version: Replaced fcntl() and close() calls with IoctlSocket() and CloseSocket().
Requirements: newlib.library V53.40 or later (or V53.30 as included in AmigaOS 4.1 FE) and the filesysbox.library V54.4 or later for AmigaOS 4, filesysbox.library 54.3 or later for AROS and AmigaOS 3 and optional the requester.class (ClassAct/ReAction, for password requester) for AmigaOS 3.
For all three operating systems there is a GUI on Aminet for creating a DOSDriver.
Downloads:
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha (82 KB)
smb2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha (149 KB)
smb2fs.ppc-amigaos.lha (128 KB)
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17.Jun.2023
itch.io
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Adventure: "The Oregon Trail" v0.85
Sami Vehmaa had started a new game project: "The Oregon Trail" (new YouTube video of a live presentation) is set in 1847 and is a text-based adventure game (amiga-news.de reported). Version 0.85 provides the following changes:
- Menu updated
- Amiga Guide in place
- Known bug fixes done
- Many audio effects added
- Trading added
- Full screen color fix
- Death enhanced
- Game is more personal, names instead of wife/daughter etc
- Map updated
- Memory optimization
- Gun Draw Duel
- Background events, things just there to make game more alive, input no longer is locked/waiting for your input something
- Game time (days) runs by it self, looks like 40-50min game play
(dr)
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17.Jun.2023
Lorence Lombardo (ANF)
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Compression of executable files: Body Guard Packer 5.6
Lorence Lombardo's "bgpk" is a 68k executable file packer which, according to the developer, makes it possible to protect programs, improve compatibility with programs intended for a Unix-like operating system, and use some of the latest compression technologies.
The program requires AmigaOS 2.x. On systems with a version 1.3 Kickstart ROM, execution of programs packed in this way is prevented, so crashes are avoided. As a further difference to other packers for executable files, programs compiled with vbcc, for example, could also be compressed. In addition, bgpk does not perform hunk sorting or stripping, so that files packed with it are restored to their original state after unpacking. (snx)
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17.Jun.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Current hardware availability
After ACube Systems recently delivered the last boards to pre-orderers, including shops (amiga-news.de reported), we asked the relevant Amiga shops if they had them on sale:
Alinea Computer offers a Sam460LE complete system for 1299 euros (plus shipping) with the following specifications:
- Sam460LE board
- Uboot
- Cover
- AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition included (OEM licence)
- Kingston KVR667D2S5/2G DDR2 memory 2GB quality memory
- Fractal Design Core 1000 Tower
- High quality 550 Watt power supply with cable management
- 4port SATA PCI controller
- 240GB SanDisk SSD hard drive
- DVD burner
- Radeon HD 77xx 2 GB Gfx board
- Soundblaster Live Audigy FX
As the item can only be ordered against prepayment, there is no direct purchase link in the shop, but must be ordered by enquiry. AmigaOne X5000 are currently not in stock.
For 1269 euro, but in the meantime sold out, Amedia Computer France had the Sam460LE on offer as a complete system. As the maintainers informed us, however, these will be available again during the next week and can thus be ordered:
- a little Micro ATX slim case,
- the Sam460LE 1,10GHz motherboard,
- 1GB memory module,
- 1x 240GB SSD 2.5 harddisk,
- 1x Radeon HD5450 2GB graphic's card,
- 1x Audio PCI Express card,
- 1x PCI Sata card,
- the AmigaOS 4.1 software.
As a specialist in assembling computers, other special configurations with many tower, Ram, hard disk, graphics card, sound card and Sata card variants can also be ordered on request.
Amedia Computer France also continues to offer the AmigaOne X5000/40, which can be ordered on request. When ordering a complete system, an AmigaOS 4 game and a recovery USB stick are included free of charge.
Amedia Computer France is not only maintaining an online but two physical shops as well which are located in France, in Courcelles-Chaussy, and in Luxembourg, in Differdange, where they also sell AmigaOne X5040 towers.
ACube Systems itself does not offer a complete system, but the pure Sam460LE board for around 963 euros.
As the maintainer of the RELEC shop told us, he is in the process of restructuring his shop. He is currently working on offering new items for the Amiga, among others a new design for the X5000, called "the red D", a desktop case. Sam460 boards are also to be offered. We will report when this will be the case.
The American shop Amiga On The Lake does not currently offer any PPC systems.
(dr)
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17.Jun.2023
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Preview video: Action puzzle game "Old Towers"
Already in 2020, "Amiga Retro Development" had begun to port the action puzzle game Old Towers from the Sega Mega Drive to the Amiga. The aim of the game is to dash across walls and ceilings, collecting all the coins and finding the way to the exit, past treacherous dangers and traps. The port is written in assembler and uses 32 colours. The code is almost written, the music is in progress. However, a graphic artist is still needed to take care of the level design and graphics. Anyone who wants to help, will find an e-mail address in the accompanying text of the video. If the work is completed successfully, an AGA version is planned for the future. (dr)
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16.Jun.2023
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.3 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is possible (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. In the current version, changes have been made to the user interface (screenshot):
- Fix setting of list mode
- Remove tree in list mode view
Download: avalanche.lha (110 KB)
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16.Jun.2023
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.6.1
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
A few moments ago, version 3.6.1 has been released. Changes:
- add checks for object going over 64k
- fix 020 optimised address calculation for array of object (or ptr to object) indexing
- added EXENAME and DESTDIR command line arguments to override the output file name
- EDBG: Setting breakpoint caused crashes on certain versions of graphics.library
- fix casing for IeeeDPFloor and IeeeDPCeil
- Extend lists to handle 64k items instead of 32k
- Fix #else preprocessor parsing issues
Direct download: evo361.lha (652 KB) (dr)
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16.Jun.2023
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Video player: Amos Anim Player V2023.06.14
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported).
In the current version there are now two different player variants: AnimPlayerMovie aims at 25 FPS and neglects information within the chunk, while AnimPlayerProper tries to consider as much information as possible (colour changes, sound names within the file etc). The Reducer is a stand-alone programme to reduce the data size between consecutive frames. (dr)
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16.Jun.2023
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Preview video: Temptations port for CD32
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the fifth level. (dr)
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15.Jun.2023
HanSOLO (e-mail)
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Amiga-Look.org: VisualPrefs themes by HanSOLO
Amiga-Look is inspired by offerings like KDE-Look and Gnome-Look and is supposed to offer the user a one-stop source for everything he needs to beautify his Workbench: Pictograms, themes and background images, but also MUI settings or mouse pointers.
Already at the end of May Roger Andre Lassen published four VisualPrefs themes there. These were created on an Amiga with PerfectPaint and require FullPalette and in one case, the Concept theme, also Birdie. (snx)
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15.Jun.2023
Docki (ANF)
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Event: Retrobörse Oberhausen (Germany) on June 17, 2023
For friends of classic video games and home computers, the next Retro-Börse will take place at the Altenberg Center in Oberhausen on June 17, 2023. (snx)
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15.Jun.2023
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Blog: The best hardware to play Amiga games?
John Novak programs in his spare time and runs a blog that reports on his various activities. Already at the beginning of the year he published the first part of a very detailed article in which he investigates the question of which hardware is best suited for playing Amiga games. He contradicts the opinion that an upgraded Amiga 1200 using WHDLoad is the best solution. (dr)
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15.Jun.2023
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Video: Accelerator board TF1260 in Amiga 1200
Musician and retro lover 'Ms Mad Lemon' shows off the Terrible Fire 1260 turbo card in her Amiga 1200 in her latest video. (dr)
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15.Jun.2023
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Background: Influence of the cache on PowerPC CPU (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. This time she looks at how big the influence of cache is on the speed of PowerPC CPUs, here in particular the G3 to G5 processors. The starting point for the article was her research on how she could best upgrade her Powermac G4 1.42. She came across a post in the Macrumors forum by user 'Ervus' who had found out that the G4 7457 / 1.6 GHz with a 2 MB L3 cache is faster than the G4 7447 / 2.0 GHz without the L3 cache. Inspired by this, she looked at the other processors and their cache and wrote this article. (dr)
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15.Jun.2023
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Demoparty: Flashparty 2023 in Argentinia
On 28 October, Flashparty 2023 will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The demo party consists of two events: from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. the demo competition will take place at the San Martin Cultural Center with free admission, while tickets must be purchased for the evening party at Tacheles. Demos for the Amiga can also be submitted to the demo competition in the category "Oldschool / Alternative Platform Demo". (dr)
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14.Jun.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.06.13
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). Changes of version 2023.06.13:
- Fix CD-ROM leadout LBA with BIN/CUE images
- CDROM: Mode page 0x2A, READ TRACK INFORMATION, and GET CONFIGURATION
- Akai MPC3000 compatibility fix: Add the ability to delay boot. Set System=MPC3000 in your zuluscsi.ini file. This is only necessary on ZuluSCSI RP2040 hardware, and not with ZuluSCSI V1.
(dr)
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14.Jun.2023
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.1
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
Yesterday, version 5.6.1 has been released. Changes:
Bugfixes
- Hardfile properties were always set to default
- cycle exact was incorrect enabled sometimes
- Fix foreign disk image support when drive is standard Amiga 3.5" DD
- hsync events should be before misc events
- fixed uaegfx board parameters
- uaegfx board name is UAE, not uaegfx.card
- Fix helptext formatting in CPU panel
- use double-quotes to denote inches in GUI
- when using --autoload with a filename in the current path, Amiberry would crash
- fix build errors with GCC 13.1
- savestate cmd line option would not use filename
- second controller buttons would not be registered in retroarch
- Fullscreen toggle would no longer work since v5.3
- reverted copying of prefs on hard reset
Improvements
- P96 minor fixes
- Removed unnecessary casting in scsi.cpp
- VGA mode resolution autoswitch update
- VGA autoswitch update to support new OS 3.2 monitors
- Upgraded FloppyDriveBridge to v1.4
- refresh GUI when hidden behind other windows
- improve message when Main ROM is not found
- improve Floppy GUI panel
- use BGR888 for 32-bit modes
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14.Jun.2023
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AmigaOS 4: CPU profiler "Tequila" 1.1
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki's "Tequila" is a simple CPU profiler that samples currently running tasks (screenshot). Changes of version 1.1:
- Add custom rendering.
- Add locale support.
- Add Finnish and Italian catalogs.
- Display task switches / second.
- Display Forbid percentage.
- Display "(task)" instead of PID 0 for pure tasks.
- Fix occasional issue with unfreed signals at exit.
- Fix occasional freeze during listbrowser.gadget update.
- Reduce heap memory usage.
- Optimize string handling.
- Use Forbid() instead of Disable() when reading task lists.
Direct download: Tequila-1.1.lha (33 KB) (dr)
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13.Jun.2023
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CDXL tools: AGABlaster 0.9.92 and AGAConv 1.0.2
Markus Schordan's AGAConv is a CDXL video converter. It combines some existing tools to convert videos (MP4, etc.) into the CDXL format that can be played on an AGA Amiga with its AGABlaster or other CDXL players (amiga-news.de reported). Both tools have been updated and now support overscan. (dr)
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13.Jun.2023
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Image editor: PyDPainter 1.1.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as possible (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 1.1.1:
- Fix stencil undo bugs
- Don't disable stencil on palette requestor
- Added coords and Center buttons to Symmetry Requestor
- Added filepath to config file
- Added --config option to load a different config file
- Added fill mode indicator to title bar
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