13.May.2023
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.0
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.0 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
As the author explained in his latest blog entry on ko-fi, he is introducing "igame.data" with this version: a media file that stores information about the title, the year of release and the number of players for the respective game, among other things. This should make it possible to automatically categorise one's own collection of WHDLoad games. The MUI classes NList and NListviews are required. The changes in the overview:
Added
- Added back the saving of the list after a scan of the repositories, which was removed in the previous releases
- Introduced the new igame.data files
- iGame uses NList now with extra columns that are sortable
- Added "Prefer igame.data" checkbox in preferences that let the user to set if the title is going to retrieved from the igame.data files or from the slave file or the folder name, like it used to work. This doesn't have any effect on non-WHDLoad items.
Fixed
- Fixed the status messages which was stack with saving list message and didn't show the number of games again.
Changed
- Now the MUI changes are loaded from envarc. With MUI v5 balance size and list columns are saved there and restored the next time iGame is started
Direct Download: iGame-v2.4.0-20230513.lha (427 Kb) (dr)
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13.May.2023
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.14
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.14 of his email programme Iris for MorphOS. The changes include the new "Autosave Emails" feature which will save messages as you write them and restore them in case Iris or another app have crashed. The new Iris version is already included in MorphOS 3.18, which was released today.
Download: iris.lha (21 MB) (dr)
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13.May.2023
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Operating system: MorphOS 3.18 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.18! This new release includes several new applications such as Hex - a scriptable file/RAM/disk hex editor, ArchiveIt - a ZIP archiver/unarchiver application and Thermals - an app displaying thermal and fan information and graphs.
In addition, MorphOS 3.18 supports Samba 2 and 3 network share browsing and mounting in the Ambient desktop.
Radeon drivers have been updated to better support dual monitors, more graphics card models and 3D, including updated TinyGL library and drivers. We have also improved Realtek 8168 ethernet drivers with support for more card variants and enhanced networking stability on PCI express systems like PowerMac G5 11,2. USB input device connectivity issues on supported CyrusPlus 5040 systems have been corrected.
Many other system components and libraries have also been bugfixed and improved, including MUI, Netstack, Filesysbox.
For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.18, please read our Release Notes:
Release 3.18 boot.img Changes
- Quark
- Fixed detection of some MacOF Bios R500/X19xx PCIe cards on PMac11, G5 machines
- Battery
- Workarounds to battery sensor never setting any values and not updating AC state with badly broken batteries
- Dos
- Avoid dereferencing a random pointer when unmounting file systems
- I2C
- I2CLockBus: Only set mode after locking the semaphore
- Intuition
- OpenScreen: only enable layer manager on composited screens
- WindowToFront: fixed to deiconify hidden windows
- Fixed a zero page read in menu code
- Mount
- Allocate more memory for SCSI Read Disc Information command data, since it appears that some buggy drive firmwares poke memory beyond the provided area
- P50x0_eth
- Symbios
- Fixed buffer underruns when sending some SCSI commands
- Don't attempt to send a read capacity (16) command to SCSI 2 devices or older
- USB
- EHCI register handling fixes
- Poseidon
- Worked around bugs in the USB controller in P50x0 CPUs which in return fixes some usability issues for keyboard/mouse devices on Cyrus P5040 with Poseidon's HID/HUB classes
- Powerbook
- PowerMac12,1 support (iMac) including fans, DFS and LCD brightness
- Rewritten the PowerBook/iBook fan controller
- PowerBook/iBook fan RPM is now exposed via sensors
- RamDisk
- Fixed ACTION_RENAME_OBJECT bug where renaming "directory" to "directory/" would result in the object being renamed to a random name rather than refusing the rename with ERROR_OBJECT_IN_USE
- SMU
- Fixed a race condition that could lead to incorrect communications
- Temperature
- ADT7467: read the extended temperature register and all 3 temperature registers in a row, with some additional validation. Compute sensor states with higher accuracy that the extended register provides
- USB PTP
- Fixed to initialize object comment even if there are no poi_Keywords
Release 3.18 Disk Changes
- Ambient
- Integrated Networks FS
- Unmount is now working for the same types of devices that Eject.sbar can unmount
- Blacklisted TCP: in devices list to avoid accessing it by listers
- Applications/FlowStudio
- Compiler settings for GCC11 & 12
- Fixed file compare mode
- Applications/Hex [NEW]
- Hex editor with large file, disk and memory viewing and editing support. Supports annotations and lua scripting including several examples.
- Applications/Iris
- Updated to 1.14, see https://iris-morphos.com for more information
- Applications/Jukebox
- Fixed an infinite loop on last playlist track
- Applications/MagicBeacon
- Updated to support smb2fs, netfs and various devices
- Added bubble skin icon support
- Applications/RDesktop
- Applications/RegTool
- Applications/ShowCase
- Updated to work with new TinyGL
- Applications/Synergy
- Added bounds checks to clipboard code
- Save settings on connect request
- Applications/VPDF
- Updated to libpoppler 23.05.0
- Implemented Postscript booklet printing
- Use PDF document's title in postscript output title if available
- Added active page button in printer window to select active page from the view
- Fixed a bogus memset call
- Applications/Wayfarer
- Updated to 5.1, see https://wayfarer.icu for more information
- C/Getramdebuglog
- Improved memory management
- Increased polling frequency and improved output latency in poll mode
- C/Info
- Classes/Blankers
- Updated to work with new TinyGL
- Classes/Frameworks/MUI
- Unicode handling fixes
Boopsi object wrapper fixed to handle MCCs and to use objc_lookupClass instead of getClass to avoid calling abort() on unknown classes
MUIFloattext: inherit from Area directly since Floattext isn't meant to be used as a list
- Directory selection: use fr_File if fr_Directory is empty
- Listtree issues workarounds and fixes
- Added Listtree multiselection support
- Switched to UCS2 internally to avoid issues with UTF16 surrogates
- Classes/Frameworks/OB
- Made it possible to run objc code on Slave.mui owned threads
- objc_lookupClass() fixed to call the right library function
- Fixed a memtrash in [OBString -hasPrefix]
- Fixed creation of relative URLs to retain base URLs port in OBURL
- Minor fixes in file:// handling in OBURL
- Added OBArexxServer
- Path string functions deal better with empty strings now
- Fixed edge cases in [OBString -absolutePath]
- Added support for many of clang's ObjC2.0 literals
- Switched to UCS2 internally to avoid issues with UTF16 surrogates
- Fixed OBArexxPort constructor to handle delegate correctly
- Classes/MUI/Calendar
- Reworked the entire look and feel of the calendar
- Added calendar preferences class
- Added timeline support, images and colour markings
- Now fully supports locales calendar type
- Added calendar.library support to deal with event storage
- Many internal fixes and changes
- Classes/MUI/Chart
- Fixed Chart_ReplaceInGroup to replace the correct amount of data
- Fixed to display 0 as 0
- Classes/MUI/Hex [NEW]
- Hex editor class with support for large files, memory and virtual data viewing and editing
- Classes/MUI/Keyframe [NEW]
- User interface for keyframe.library
- Classes/MUI/Piano
- Disabled unconditional debug
- Classes/MUI/Powerterm
- MUIA_PowerTerm_Scroller now isg
- Classes/MUI/Scintilla
- Classes/Reggae/Http.stream
- Fixed MMA_Http_PostData_Charset handling
- Fixed not to send POST data in clear for HTTPS connections
- Classes/Screenbar/Eject
- smb2fs and netfs handling
- Classes/Screenbar/Grabber
- Fixed a lockup when using cursor keys to scroll a full screen grab
- Audio sample is now configurable
- Classes/Screenbar/Thermal
- Clicking on sbar opens up Thermals application on supported systems
- Classes/Usb/CamdUSBMidi
- Implemented reception of System Exclusive messages
- Fixed System Exclusive transmission
- Support for multiport MIDI interface up to 16 MIDI ports
- Devs/Monitors/Radeon
- Fixed a texture format setup issue for R200 cards
- Fixed R(V)5xx dual head setup issues
- Fixed fan control for some of the MacOF X19xx cards
- Fixed graphics refresh issues after disabling output on the second head
- Added a digital link mirror mode for some dualhead R3xx/R4xx/R5x setups, enabled via new tooltype MIRRORMODE=(YES|NO)
- Auto detect AverMediaHD/CP513 capture cards to automatically enable mirror mode on the connected output
- Fixed dualhead/multimonitor setup for MacBIOS X19xx/R5xx cards which don't use AtomBIOS
- Fixed missing memory & engine clock info for MacBIOS X19xx/R5xx cards
- Use separate LUTs for dualhead R5xx setups to avoid problems with mixed palette/truecolour display
- Improved adjustment of hardware cursor to limited horizontal autoscroll capabilities of R5xx cards
- Added more FireMV cards from the supported Radeon family pool, namely FireMV 2200 (devid 0x5b65), FireMV 2250 (0x719b) and FireMV 2260 (0x95cf), also added another X1600 Pro card (0x71c3)
- Fixed a few Radeon device names based on latest pci.ids list
- Devs/Monitors/Voodoo
- Disabled unconditional debug
- Devs/Networks/Rtl8168
- Fixed lockup issues with TP-Link 3468
- Improved Renkforce RTL 8168 support
- Fixes in Netstack callback handling
- Disabled unconditional debug
- Disabled padding of packets
- L/Inet
- Implemented a separate handler process. Allows TCP: to respond to packets while waiting for network calls to complete
- L/NetworksFS [NEW]
- Samba browser with the ability to auto-mount shares on system start and an Ambient integration
- L/Smb2FS [NEW]
- SMB2/SMB3 capable filesystem based on filesysbox and libsmb2
- L/TrashFS
- Libs/Amigaguide
- OpenAmigaGuideAsyncA: fixed attrs to be read from D0 register
- Libs/Bugreport
- Send bugreports over HTTPS POST
- Libs/Calendar [NEW]
- Library to provide common date related features as well as support for entire calendar databases, which can be visualised by the updated Calendar.mcc.
- Libs/Expat
- Cherrypicked fixes for CVE-2022-40674 and other bugs
- Libs/Filesysbox
- Fixed to report the correct dostype
- Cap id_NumBlocks and id_NumBlocksUsed values to avoid returning wrapped values for applications using the old info/diskinfo API
- Limit remote statfs calls to once per 5 minutes to reduce latency
- Reworked the path charset conversion routines to go through an intermediate UTF16 conversion step. All characters that are non-printable in the system charset are converted into the \xHEXA form where HEXA is the 2 UTF16 bytes represented in hex
- Libs/Fontconfig
- Added a fallback requester when a scan is performed by 3rd party app that doesn't display scanning information on its own
- Fixes in font scanning callback handler
- Libs/Freeglut [NEW]
- The OpenGL Utility Toolkit library.
- Libs/Freetype
- Updated to FreeType 2.12.1
- Fixed uninitialised variables
- Libs/Ixemul
- fstat(): Fixed incorrect local time to UTC conversion
- Uses ptr ^ 0xdbdbdbdb as stack usage cookie
- wait()/waitpid(): Fixed a zero page reads if child process has already terminated
- readdir(): Improved to return d_type of DT_LNK for softlinks
- Libs/Keyframe [NEW]
- Keyframe.mcc support library. Keyframe interpolator.
- Libs/Locale
- Updated the timezone database to 2023c
- Fixed rounding issues in string formatting functions
- Fixed buffer underrun when converting between codesets in OpenCatalog
- Disabled %j in UTF4_FormatClockDate
- Libs/OpenSSL3
- Updated to OpenSSL 3.1.0
- Added workaround to avoid crashing applications that fail to process Ambient startup message properly
- Libs/Pixman
- Updated to libpixman 0.42.2
- Libs/PowerPC
- Libs/PPD
- Fixed epsmpGetTime and buffer overflows
- Libs/Spellchecker
- Upgraded hunspell to 1.7.2
- Libs/Sqlite
- Fixed to not leak Forbid() if out of memory
- Fixed CVE-2022-35737
- Libs/TinyGL
- Updated to use latest improvements based on the TinyGL bounty, check https://tinygl.molsen.co.za for details
- Libs/VGraphics
- Fixed a crash if CTRL-C signal was received while executing the library code
- Libs/Xadmaster
- Added minimal support for newer ZIP headers with some fields being 64-bit
- Libs/Z
- Libs/Zip [NEW]
- Allows creating and extracting ZIP archives in modern formats, including large file sizes and encryption
- MUI
- Fixed MUIA_Pendisplay_ARGB to work with a penspec using pen numbers
- MUIC_Window: Don't process menu hotkeys when MUIA_Window_NoMenus is set
for a window
- Unicode text fit fixes
- Use flags msg field of MUIM_Menustrp_Popup to specify selection of an active item in the related popup menu
- Popasl: fixed to handle UTF-8 if the popstring is Unicode
- Ignore TCP: in ASL requesters' device list
- Window resize fixes
- Active item visibility fixes for very large popup menus
- Improved debug output when failing MUI_NewObject
- Added MUIM_Open/CloseCustomFont
- Added MUIA_String_Editable, MUIA_String_Multiline
- Net
- Updated SSL root certificates
- Network/Netstack
- Increased the minimum preallocated amount of IORequests to avoid SanaII interface running out of packets during intense network I/O using TCP_NODELAY
- Prefs/iMac [NEW]
- Temperature controls for the iMac
- Prefs/Laptop
- Reworked temperature settings
- Prefs/USB
- Improved the force binding contextual menu behaviour on interfaces
- Fixed an out of bounds memory access when device window is opened and main window is closed
- UI and localization improvements
- Prefs/Printers
- Prefs/Time
- Fixed a read from address 0
- Utilities/Commodities/Expose
- Fixed a race that caused the wrong window to be set active when switching to an application on another screen
- Fixed a use-after-free resulting in Expose sometimes showing an empty window
- Fixed not to open a window at all if no apps to display were found
- Fixed a bogus read/crash if an iconified MUI app had no diskobject
- Tweaked default settings
- Don't allow iconifying Expose
- Tools/HDConfig
- Changed default system partition type for Sam460/CyrusPlus to SFS
- Tools/IWizard
- Changed default system partition type for Sam460/CyrusPlus to SFS
- Utilities/ArchiveIt [NEW]
- Archive creator and extractor application currently supporting ZIP archives.
- Utilities/MidiLogger
- Added support for SysEx message handling
- Utilities/Thermals [NEW]
- Thermals and fans monitoring utility for Apple PowerBook, iBook and iMac computers.
- Utilities/VirtualMidiKeyboard
- Added missing menu shortcuts
We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.18 is available for download in our files section. (dr)
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13.May.2023
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Mastodon client: Amidon 1.2
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.2 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). This version fixes some bugs with anonymous browsing and adds support for the latest AmiSSL version.
Failing to connect to some Mastodon servers due to certificate errors should be fixed now.
Download: Amidon_v1.2_OS3.zip (1,74 MB) (dr)
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13.May.2023
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AROS: Videos on AROS ONE 2.0
At the end of March, version 2.0 of the AROS distribution "AROS One" x86 computers was released (amiga-news.de reported). AROS user James Mattson now presents the new version in two YouTube videos: AROS ONE 2.0 AWESOME NEW LOOK! and AROS ONE 2.0 Touring Some More!. (dr)
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13.May.2023
Pierre-Alexandre (Mail)
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Lionheart Remake: Version 1.30 of Java port of Lionheart
Byron 3D Games Studio Byron 3D Games Studio has released version 1.3.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android (amiga-news.de reported). The changes:
Added
- New game menu
- New game modes (Story, Training, Speedrun, Battle, Coop)
- Local multiplayer (up to 4 players split screen)
- Stage progress save and load
- Alternative player attack gameplay with more trivial feeling
- Start game without launcher with custom configuration
- Automatic desktop resolution by default
- Portuguese language
- Italian language
- Language automatically detected
- Android left analog stick
- Android Menu navigation with dpad and x button
- Android UI overlay hidden when controller is connected
- Android automatic screen ratio
- Android 5 compatible
- In game zoom-in zoom-out
- Water flickering option
- More cheats and access to all stages set
- JAR signature
Changed
- Filters performance improved and quality increased
Fixed
- Joystick 2 buttons mode working
- Music on MacOS
- Swamp Flower explode effect position incorrect
- AncientTown executioner wall can be crossed with attack jump
- AncientTown corrupted Veteran stage 6
- Lava FloaterCube hit force too low
- Airship road invalid on zoom
- Airship catapult projectile missing respawn
- Airship wall can be crossed on top of ground
- Dragonfly monsters hit interrupts movement
- Dragonfly Dragon fire time invalid
- Dragonfly bullet destroyed on collide on bomb explode
- Dragonfly Original stage duplicated Bomb location
- Dragonfly boss invalid head
- Tower Rotating length a little bit too short
- Norka first boss body collision missing on attack
- Norka second boss wrong collision and bullet hit
- Stages and Boss not reloaded on respawn
- Weird gameplay on player Hurt transition
- RotatingPlatformControlled invalid behavior
- Monsters falling on killed must be always updated
- Bullet destroy on ground hit box not large enough
- Movement clamped to zero when changing direction on jump
- Android liana cut crash
- Sfx audio bad rendering and latency on Linux
- Antivirus detections on "Lionheart Remake.exe"
- Memory leak on State changes
A new teaser video is also available on the game's homepage. (dr)
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12.May.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.12
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 1.12 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- New disk formats:
- Commodore 1541 (C64) GCR: commodore.1541
- IBM: ibm.320
- Dragon32, Dragon64: dragon...
- Tandy CoCo: coco...
- New image format: D64 (C64 CBMDOS GCR disks)
- ibm: Improve layout of very full tracks
- ibm: Warn on oversize tracks (data too large to fit)
- ibm: Allow gapbyte value to be specified in diskdef
- d88: Remove duplicate sectors from oversize tracks
(dr)
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11.May.2023
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 3.0
At the beginning of last year, developer 'jasonsbeer' had released revision 2.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in the ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX'. After a test phase he has now published the source code of revision 3.0 with the following changes:
- Various fixes:
- Fixed the ATX 3.3V connector issue to 3.3V oscillator
- Added a pullup to _XCLKEN
- Increased the slot through hole size to 0.8mm
- Misc BOM and silkscreen updates
- Changed SRAM to 5V tolerant 3.3V part
- Removed almost all signal traces from power planes
- Swapped position of U801 and U899 and brought related components to front of board
- Updated to KiCAD 7.0
(dr)
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10.May.2023
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Skill game: "Kalle Kloakk" released
In mid-February we reported that Kåre 'Docster' Johansen was porting one of his old C64 games, "Kalle Kloakk", to the Amiga. Today he has released the finished game, which consists of eight levels.
Docster' has been a member of the C64 demo group Megastyle since 2017. The name of the game also refers to a corresponding production by the group from 1990. The C64 game was submitted as an entry to the "Reset C64 Craptastic 4KB Game Competition" in 2018, where it took seventh place.
The aim of the game is quite simple: to collect toilet paper. To do this, however, you first have to create a suitable stepping surface from quickly moving up and down floor segments, from which you have to reach both the toilet paper rolls and the exit. In the eight levels, you have a total of three opportunities to reset a level if you get into a hopeless situation. The first level is intended for "warming up": there are no toilet paper rolls and you can prove your skill in laying on the floor.
Once you have completed all eight levels, you have collected so much toilet paper that Kalle Kloakk can build a tower under his bathroom window and leave the bathroom. The music by musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' (among others, the Amiga port of Knightmare) is actually simple, but totally catchy and fits the game perfectly.
The game is a perfect pastime for in between and is great fun. Actually, there are only two things to criticise: the meagre number of eight levels and - after you have reached the end after a few futile attempts - the ending. But maybe there will be an update with a worthy finale...? (dr)
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10.May.2023
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GUI: Hollywood Compile 1.1
Yannick 'papiosaur' Buchy has recently published various graphical user interfaces he created with Hollywood at the title link. One of them is "Hollywood Compile". As the name already tells, it is a program for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS, which creates executables for the mentioned platforms after loading a Hollywood script or drawing it onto the window by drag'n'drop.
Download:
HollywoodCompile-OS3.lha (1 MB)
HollywoodCompile-OS4.lha (2 MB)
HollywoodCompile-MOS.lha (2 MB)
HollywoodCompile-AROS.lha (2 MB) (snx)
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10.May.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: RNORadio 1.4
RNORadio is a GUI-based Internet radio program for MP3 streams (video) developed with Hollywood. New features of version 1.4 include the ability to turn hardware compositing on/off and improved background rendering of GUI elements.
Changes:
- Fixed transparency issues that were introduced in the previous version
- Fixed compositing support detection (for hardware accelerated transparency)
- Added an option to force the hardware compositing On/Off manually
- Improved background rendering on GUI elements
- Removed wget dependency
- Minor tweaking
Download: RNORadio.lha (3 MB) (snx)
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09.May.2023
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v2.9.0
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported).
Changes since our last news item:
Improved documentation
- Added side menu to all documentation pages
- Added more explanations to documentation for condition codes
- Added individual condition code dependent instructions
- Improved UI of documentation pages
Negative numbers in register viewer
- Added negative numbers conversion in register viewer
- Bug fix of interpreter for directive name clash
(dr)
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09.May.2023
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.2 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. Changes:
- Visual improvements
- Added ability to use AISS images (on OS4)
- Added option to check for updates
- Fix the display of current settings in the prefs window
- Fix snapshot position and add a warning
- Fixed some Enforcer hits
Download: avalanche.lha (109 KB)
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09.May.2023
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Preview video: "Sword & Sorcerer"
'PixelPlop' - Capacitor's Revenge among others - is developing the game "Sword & Sorcerer" for the AmiGameJam 2022 and has now published a first, early preview video for it. The Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension and his Amiga/PC compatible game library, which is still in development, are used for the creation. (dr)
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09.May.2023
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Preview video: Platformer "SUPERMiniJu"
Yoz Montana has published a preview video of a new platform game developed with the Game Construction Kit RedPill: The goal is to cut grass and flowers to collect bonus points and free the rabbit sitting in a cage in each level. (dr)
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08.May.2023
itch.io
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Platformer: Tech Demo "Space Cavern Blaster" v0.12 (update)
As entry to the Retro Platform Jam #6, 'dotmos' has released a cross-system platformer for Amiga 500, Atari ST, C64, DOS and Sega Megadrive as a proof of concept (YouTube video).
On the technical implementation, the author wrotes: Game mechanics and boilerplate code is programmed in C and is the same codebase for all platforms. Each platform has custom implementations for rendering/drawing, music, sound, input, asset loading and gametime. The codebase is then cross compiled using VBCC (Amiga, Atari ST, C64), DJGPP (DOS) or SGDK (Megadrive).
Update: (09.05.2022, 05:22, dr)
Meanwhile, version 0.12 is available, in which the author fixed some bugs and added two new enemy types as well as three new levels. In total, the game now has 12 levels. (dr)
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08.May.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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PDF magazine: AMI Tech Gazette by Eric Schwartz
Eric Schwartz, known for his drawings and animations and equipped with his own Aminet category, has started publishing his own PDF magazine together with Michael Barclay at the beginning of this year. In the meantime, the third issue of AMI Tech Gazette has been published already at the title link.
The magazine is written in a personal style and thematically so broad that besides AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS even an Atari game is reviewed in the current issue ("Combat"). The AMI Tech Gazette #2 is no longer linked on the website, but still readable via Archive.org. (snx)
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08.May.2023
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.19
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill 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.
The new version 0.9.19 provides the following changes:
- Added trigger Tile on Border that checks the tiles in the border of the screen.
- 020 build of the editor has been restored by popular demand.
- A small button allows condition and action order to be changed inside a trigger.
- Tile on Screen now has a second parameter to define an area outside the screen to check.
- Advanced parameters for objects are now in Objects advanced, FX and other settings are done there.
- FX and FX Comp object types have been removed.
- Shot-em up project has been updated.
- Sprite background speed in editor now is the same as in runtime.
- Render queues have been optimized.
- Preventing a possible crash when too many tiles are changed in the same frame.
- Added sanity check when saving levels, some ghost objects will be removed.
- Fix in Stamp trigger.
- Fix in Change Tile trigger.
- Fix and optimizations in Repeat Every trigger.
- Fix for some sprite layers not showing the right palette.
- Fix in Inv Speed X trigger failing in final game in some cases.
- Small memory optimization.
- Small optimizations in some loops.
- Small reduction on the size of the data files.
- Some other small optimizations.
- AmigaGuide doc updated.
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Demoparty: Results of the "68k Inside"
Last weekend, the "68k Inside" demoparty took place in Finland. Among other things, a competition was also held there in the following categories: "Low end demo", "Combined intro", "256 byte intro", "Combined Music" and "Combined Graphics". The organisers have now published both the results and a live recording of the competition.
Amiga productions also made it to the top places: In the category "Low-end demo", HAMazing (YouTube video) by Desire took first place, and Fortocalypse (YouTube video) by The Electronic Knights came in second.
In the "Combined intro" category, Smooth Flowing (YouTube video) by Dekadence took first place and Calling For Cracktros (YouTube video) by Nah-Kolor came in second. (dr)
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08.May.2023
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Dock: QDockLE v1.31
Sami Vehmaa's start bar "QDock" works with semi-transparent backgrounds and animated icons, which requires increased memory and CPU consumption and is therefore primarily intended for emulated Amigas (YouTube video). With QDockLE, he has now also released a version for less powerful Amigas: graphics card, 2 MB RAM and a 68030 processor are required. (dr)
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Image editor: PyDPainter 1.0.10 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. Changes since our last news item:
- Make CTRL key slow down airbrush by a factor of 5
- Implement ellipse rotating
- turn off clipping for fill from center and vertical contour
- Fix outline to preserve brush BG color
- Made right-click on Area Tool bring up Fill Requestor
- Fix brush handles for built-in brushes
- Add quick reference card with keyboard shortcuts
- Fix cycle mode with airbrush for color ranges of length 5
- Fix crash while drawing lines in rare cases
- Fix palette copy to refresh sliders
- Fix cycle mode on filled shape tools
- Rubber tools now leave traces when CTRL pressed
- Add file drag and drop loading
- Fix brush BG color on shear and bend
- Add fill from center mode
- Make file requestors remember the last path
- Add 500ms delay for busy mouse pointer
- Add keyboard mouse emulation
- Added support for IFF PBM files from PC version
- Fix Screen Format requestor crash in Extra Halfbright mode
- Added Prefs/Force 1:1 Pixels
- Cycle Mode with Airbrush should change color in place
- Current Mode forgotten, goes back to Color if any brush selected
- Added new tutorial
- Prefs/Save Config - Saves current settings. These settings will be reloaded on startup.
- Fixed Brush Restore functionality
- Added relative coords when dragging in tools
- Added Prefs/Flip Coords to make origin in upper left instead of lower left (I did this because it always bugged me)
- Added Redo hotkey ctrl-shift-Z
- Changed levels of undo from 5 to 20
- Added Prefs/Hide Menus to turn off menus on hover
- fix path crash in file requestors
- Change keyboard shortcuts to work with non-US keyboards
- Make area tool able to draw single pixels and horizontal lines
- When loading non-IFF images, guess screen mode if resolution is exact match
- Load brushes from non-IFF files
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07.May.2023
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Amiga Documents: Evidence of irregularities / Statement by Mike Battilana
On the Twitter account "Amiga Documents" further documents concerning the parties in litigation Hyperion Entertainment CVBA and Amiga Corporation have been published.
Among them is especially the proof (PDF file) of financial irregularities at the original, Belgian company A-EON Technology CVBA, which led to the withdrawal of the main shareholder of Hyperion Entertainment, Ben Hermans, from the joint company A-EON Technology and to the foundation of the current, British company A-EON Technology Ltd. (amiga-news.de reported), and later already confirmed by Trevor Dickinson.
The now published evidence is the agreement, dated December 17, 2010, between the three directors at the time, Trevor Dickinson, Anthony Moorley and Ben Hermans, on how to deal with "certain financial problems and irregularities". These included the resignation and relinquishment of all banking powers of Ben Hermans relating to A-EON Technology, the reimbursement of funds unauthorizedly withdrawn from A-EON Technology's accounts as well as those raised on behalf of A-EON Technology for its beta testing via Hyperion's PayPal account, and the granting of various rights of companies in which Ben Hermans has an interest in favor of A-EON Technology. The latter included, for example, the worldwide free use of the trademarks AmigaOne, AmigaOS (and associated with it the name AmigaOS 4 including future updates) and the Boing Ball.
However, the actual repayments remaining after deduction of these non-cash assets in the form of usage rights were comparatively low. The agreed repayment plan provided for 25,000 euros plus a final payment of an estimated further 7,500 euros as well as further fees and expenses in connection with the investigation and cleanup of the irregularities.
In a further - but so far unsubstantiated, being an announcement initially - tweet Amiga Documents sets out the points on which Ben Hermans, Trevor Dickinson and Mike Battilana are said to have initially agreed in August 2019 to settle the dispute, but which were then not honored. In fact, there had been settlement negotiations at the time. Key points had allegedly been:
- Suspend legal action
- OS4 Hyperion
- Pre-OS 3.1.4 Amiga Inc.
- OS 3.1.4 5-year exclusive Hyperion
- After 5 years OS 3.1 open source potential
- Hyperion could continue to develop - Classic Plus pack?
- Possible cash payment to shorten the 5 year exclusive period
Finally, a third tweet (PDF file) originates from the legal dispute. It is a statement by Mike Battilana on the formation of his C-A Acquisition Corporation, whose inclusion in the first legal dispute, which has since been decided in favor of Hyperion, was rejected by the court in exactly the same way as that of Cloanto, which has led to further proceedings that are currently still ongoing.
The background to the above-mentioned ruling in favor of Hyperion was essentially that, in the opinion of the court, only C-A Acquisition Corp. would be entitled to sue as a result of the transfer of rights, which is why the actual points of claim in the form of the further ongoing legal proceedings remain open. Against this background, the timing of the transfer of rights from Amiga Inc. by Mike Battilana proved to be unfavorable for him.
His statement of April 24, 2023 does not contain any fundamental news, but it explains that Mike Battilana had no influence on that point in time. Since his statements represent a generally understandable course of the takeover of the rights of Amiga Inc. even without knowledge from the court proceedings - admittedly described from his personal point of view - we have translated them in our German news-item into German. Here instead we just reproduce the original text for your convenience, so that you can translate it automatically in case English is not your native language:
"I, Michele 'Mike' Console Battilana, declare under penalty of perjury pursuant to U.S. Code § 1746 as follows:
1. I make this declaration based on my personal knowledge, except where I have indicated otherwise. If called as a witness, I would testify competently and truthfully to these matters.
2. I am President and sole shareholder of Cloanto Corporation. I founded Cloanto Corporation with other partners on June 15, 1998, in Las Vegas, Nevada, where the company still has an accountant. I chose Nevada because of local information technology contacts and friends. The purpose of the company was to facilitate software development work, and sales to larger US clients. The company was immediately independent and self-sufficient. Like any other company, it has a bank account, enters into contracts, pays expenses, and files tax returns.
3. In my early years as an Amiga developer (1986-1997), I was not aware of a 'tortured history of litigation'. My relationship with all Commodore and Amiga parties was always an amicable and constructive one. We were quite successful developers. Our software was bundled with Amiga computers. Before this case started in 2017, I was never embroiled in a lawsuit but for proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (all but one of which involved Hyperion), and I knew of only two Amiga-related lawsuits. Mr. Ben Hermans was involved in both, first on the side of Amiga, Inc. then against it. Mr. Hermans describes himself as 'a member of the Antwerp Bar Association as well as an Intellectual Property litigator with over 20 years of relevant experience'. The word 'litigator' is in Mr. Herman's professional DNA, not in mine. I know that beyond being the director of Hyperion, he also owns more than 90% of the company, directly or through his law firm Ben Hermans BV.
4. I believe that the following statement in Ben Hermans' Declaration in support of Hyperion's Motion for Summary Judgment (Dkt. 106, 7) does not facilitate an understanding of the case (or the 2019 acquisition) because it is simply false: 'Since the 1980s, the parties to this lawsuit have been litigating ownership and licensing disputes related to the Amiga operating system software.' Not only did the first lawsuits start only in the 2000s (not the 1980s), but the first agreement that Hyperion's predecessor, Hyperion VOF, entered into with Amiga, Inc. was in 2001. Moreover, the 'Amiga Parties' in the 2009 Settlement Agreement were not parties to this litigation when it started in 2017.
5. I believe that the Amiga Parties indeed considered all litigation to have ended for good with the 2009 Settlement Agreement, and had no intention of seeing it all flare up again. This all changed in March 2018, when Hyperion sued the Amiga Parties again (rather than the other way around). I believe that being dragged again into litigation, and the fact that we were on the same side of the case caption, brought us closer, and facilitated acquisition talks. Our first conference call discussing acquisition ideas took place in April 2018, i.e., the month after Hyperion's complaint against the Amiga Parties.
6. As my past history shows, the acquisition had a passion and commitment for Amiga at its core, and was certainly not meant to complicate the case. I never expected that it could be construed in this way. Four years later, due to this case, Amiga trademark and copyright ownerships and contractual rights remain more fragmented than they need to be. Out of an abundance of caution, we also have not yet set up the not-for-profit entity which was explicitly mentioned in the 2019 acquisition agreement, and which I always intended to be the entity to channel the long-term preservation efforts of Commodore/Amiga history and culture.
7. I had big hopes, but no actual control over the completion of the acquisition until the very day it actually happened on February 1, 2019. The timing of negotiations, as well as consummation of the purchase, were controlled by Reed Smith, which represented Amiga, Inc.
8. To close the Asset Purchase Agreement, Cloanto Corporation agreed to pay, and did pay, a large sum of money for the Amiga assets. In addition, both Cloanto Corporation and C-A Acquisition Corp. indemnified the Amiga Parties against all lawsuits, damages, and losses, including this one.
9. Because I did not know when the acquisition might occur, I delayed forming C-A Acquisition Corp. until it became necessary. C-A Acquisition Corp. was formed specifically for the purpose of holding the transferred trademarks and related rights.
10. During the long negotiations, I could not divulge to anyone that they were happening. Any number of Amiga-interested people, some who were quite wealthy, could have outbid me. Hyperion, too, could have opened their own negotiations and outbid me. For this reason, I did not and could not divulge the negotiations to anyone but my own attomeys.
11. Since this case started, I made numerous attempts to reach a settlement, including traveling on a number of occasions to meet Hyperion sharebolders Mr. Hermans, Mr. De Groote, and Mr. Dickinson, and to discuss settlement. When Hyperion confirmed to the Court on January 20, 2021, that 'the Parties reached the terms of settlement on the main agreement' and that only ancillary matters (i.e. some exhibits) needed attending, I felt an immeasurable sense of relief. Unfortunately, several days later Mr. Hermans pulled away from our agreement, providing a string of excuses unrelated to the actual agreed-upon terms.
I hereby state under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge." (snx)
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Aminet uploads until 06.05.2023
The following files have been added until 06.05.2023 to Aminet:
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 807K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
HWP_hURL.lha dev/hwood 4.3M ALL The multi-protocol data trans...
bwbasic320.lha dev/lang 1.3M 68k ByWater BASIC Interpreter v3.20
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha disk/misc 81K x86 SMB2 file system client
smb2fs.m68k-amigaos.lha disk/misc 149K 68k SMB2 file system client
BWBasic111_Manual.zip docs/help 306K bwBASIC111 Manual.
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 81K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
rtgmaster_asmfix.lha driver/vid 173K 68k Rtgmaster Assembler-Include/E...
tankkk.lha game/2play 105K 68k 2-4 player shoot'em'up
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 9K 2023 Carset for F1GP
translatetr.lha game/patch 16K 68k Translates TurboRAKETTI to En...
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
tnzk.lha game/shoot 620K 68k The Ninja Zombie Killer
Abacus_FR.lha game/wb 6K French catalog for Abacus 2.20
NewMasterMind_FR.lha game/wb 6K French catalog for NewMasterM...
2D_ATcad_UAE.lha gfx/misc 3.6M 68k CAD mit Steppermotor-Ansteuerung
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
MagicWB800x600x8-Set2... pix/back 1.5M Set 2 of 800x600, 8 col Magic...
LHArchiver.lha util/arc 5.1M 68k create lha archives intuitively
RandomBackdrop.lha util/boot 44K 68k Up to 255 random backdrops wi...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.3M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
Gamebench.lha util/misc 52K 68k WB 1.3 Front End for WHDLoad ...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 10M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
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OS4Depot uploads until 06.05.2023
The following files have been added until 06.05.2023 to OS4Depot:
milkytracker-sdl2.lha aud/tra 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 version of an FT2 compatibl...
hwp_hurl.lha lib/hol 4Mb 4.0 The multi-protocol data transfer...
lilcalendar.lha off/mis 2Mb 4.0 Versatile calendar and reminder ...
lharchiver.lha uti/arc 5Mb 4.0 Create LhA archives intuitively
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AROS Archives uploads until 06.05.2023
The following files have been added until 06.05.2023 to AROS Archives:
smb2fs.i386-aros.lha dri/fil 81kb SMB2/3 file system client
mplayer-1.0-v6.x86_64-v11... vid/pla 9Mb Multimedia player with MUI user ...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 06.05.2023
The following files have been added until 06.05.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
HWP_hURL_2.0.lha Development/Hollywood/... A plugin for Hollywood ...
EasyRPG_Player_0.8.0.lha Emulation A program that allows t...
HollywoodCompile_1.1.lha GUI A GUI for Hollywood com...
FFMPEGui_1.0.lha GUI A GUI for FFMPEG command
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.05.2023
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 06.05.2023:
- 2023-05-06 fixed: CyberPunks 2 (Mutation Software) patch-list was not set for CD32 version (Info, Image)
- 2023-05-05 improved: Dark Castle (Three-Sixty) another version supported, manual included (Info)
- 2023-05-02 new: CyberPunks 2 (Mutation Software) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2023-05-01 improved: Total Eclipse (Incentive Software/Domark) relocated main game in fastmem for increased framerate (Info)
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07.May.2023
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Cross-Development: RADRunner
RADRunner supports the development of Amiga programs under other operating systems by waiting for the compiled programs on the Amiga side via network connection, without the requirement of a mounted file system, and then executing them.
A C++ 14 compiler is required. Besides the intended use, the reverse working direction, i.e. development on the Amiga and execution on another computer, would in itself also be possible. (snx)
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07.May.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 162
The English and German issue 162 (May/June 2023) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes previews about Boxx and Settle World as well as reviews about e.g. Hollywood X, AmigaOS 3.2.2 and "Prelude ZII recreated 2022". (snx)
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07.May.2023
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Library: Reading and writing Amiga partition tables with "Hst Amiga"
Henrik Nørfjand Stengaard's "Hst Amiga" (see also his HstWB Installer) is a library for reading and writing Amiga partition table, file systems, data types and is available as a Nuget package for .Net and a console application for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Version 0.3.156 is the first official release of Hst Amiga console focused on creating and updating Amiga icon files. It can also import, export and convert icon images supporting planar, new icon and color icon. Tool types can also be imported and exported.
Hst Amiga Nuget package contains following features:
- Datatypes
- Read, write disk objects containing icons and tool types. Supports planer, new icon and color icon images.
- Read and write Rigid Disk Block (RDB), Amiga partition table.
- File systems
- Read, write and format Fast File System (FFS) partitions. Supports DOS types DOS0-7.
- Read, write and format Professional File System 3 (PFS3) partitions. Supports DOS types PFS3, PDS3.
- Read version strings.
Hst Amiga console version comes with following features:
- Icons
- Create and update icons.
- Import and export icon images, supporting iff, png and bmp image formats.
- Convert icon images between bit plane, new icon and color icons.
(dr)
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