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29.Jan.2024



Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga v2.5
After the release of the beta version a good week ago (amiga-news.de reported), Dirk Hoffmann has now released the stable version 2.5 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS without any further changes. The minimum system requirement for his emulator is macOS 11.0. (dr)

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29.Jan.2024



Amiga Kit: Price of A600GS games console set/OctaMED update
As AmigaKit writes to us, the price of the games console has now been set at 119 euros. OctaMED v8 from A-EON Technology is to be bundled with the A600GS. In-house developers have added AHI support to the original 1996 source code for OctaMED. This is the first time this support has been added to this programme.

OctaMED_AHI

This should enable OctaMED to use the A600GS audio driver instead of Paula emulation. OctaMED was also tested with a USB-to-MIDI adapter cable connected to the A600GS: it can play MIDI devices. This could make the A600GS interesting for musicians who want to use OctaMED but don't have a lot of money to spend on old Amiga hardware.

In addition, OctaMED V8 is currently being updated to support the CAMD MIDI library, adding AHI support. As a result, OctaMED now runs on AmigaOS 4 machines with AHI and no longer requires hacks.

AmigaKit also reports that the development of AmiBench is making good progress and is ready for the project launch:

amibench

AmiBench Release V46.1 contains the latest version of
AK-Datatypes including a new Picture Datatype V46.9 and Datatypes Library V46.24 which have been optimised for the A600GS. The updates have also been ported to their PPC counterparts: Picture Datatype V54.9 and Datatypes Library V54.24 will be included in the next Enhancer Software 2.3 for PPC systems.

You can now express your interest by entering your e-mail address on the official website of the A600GS. (dr)

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28.Jan.2024



Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.6
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 13.1 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video). Changes of version 1.7.6:
  • NEW: modified template project to include -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, --gc-sections flags and changed assembly files to use unique sections so linker can better strip unused code/data
  • NEW: updated type_traits include
  • FIX: fix MacOS issue
(dr)

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28.Jan.2024
PPA (ANF)


Developer tool: Installation package for GCC with accessories
Grzegorz 'Krashan' Kraszewski provides an installation package at the title link, which facilitates the installation of the native compiler GCC 2.95.3 under AmigaOS, contains useful additions (e.g. make and diff) and also integrates it with the AmigaOS 3.2 NDK.

Required are at least an 68020 CPU and 32 MB Fast-RAM. It is planned to extend it with additional development packages (e.g. MUI, XPK, AHI and the like). (snx)

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28.Jan.2024



Beat 'em up: Final Fight Enhanced
'Prototron' has finished his improved implementation of Capcom's Final Fight written in machine language (amiga-news.de reported), which can be downloaded in the accompanying text of the YouTube video. He expressly emphasises that this is a private project, which should primarily serve to learn the machine languages. An ECS or AGA Amiga with 2MB chip RAM and 512KB Fast RAM is required. (dr)

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27.Jan.2024



Background pictures for AmigaOS 4.1: AOS-Wallpaper 1
Thomas from IconDesigner has, as he tells us, created wallpapers for various AmigaOS 4.1 computers and emulation environments in the last three months. These are:
  • AmigaOne500
  • AmigaOneA1222
  • AmigaOneX1000 AmigaOneXE
  • AmigaOS
  • Classic
  • Pegasos2
  • QEMU-A1-XE
  • QEMU-Peg2
  • QEMU-Sam460
  • Sam440
  • Sam460
  • WinUAE-Classic



The first part, which is now available, provides these background images in a screen ratio of 16:10 (1920 x 1200 pixels). Part 2 follows with 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) and part 3 with 4:3 (1920 x 1440 pixels). (dr)

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27.Jan.2024



Handheld console: "Amigo Tracker" for PlayDate
PlayDate is a handheld games console released in 2022 by the US software developer and computer games publisher Panic Inc (Wikipedia). As the operating system is kept open, external developers can also write software for the console using Lua and C (and a simulator). Outgunned Games has now published "Amigo Tracker", a retro player that can play 4-channel ProTracker modules, under the title link. (dr)

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26.Jan.2024



Preview video: "The Lost Pixel" for AGA-Amigas
"The Lost Pixel" will be a conversion of the game of the same name by bitmagine Studio for AGA-Amigas. The platformer will be created using the RedPill game construction kit and will offer the following features:
  • 64 colours
  • 4 colours background sprites
  • wonderful music based on the original songs
  • two characters: Pix Cube and Pix Slime
  • secets to be found on each level
  • funny enemies
According to the developer, who previously converted Capitan Trueno, the game "will not need much RAM or CPU". (dr)

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25.Jan.2024
Seiya (ANF)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 154 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.

Amiga-related, the current issue - a Winter Olympics special - is about "Winter Supersports 92" and "Space Cavern Blaster". (snx)

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25.Jan.2024



AmigaOS 4: Code analysis with Cpppcheck V2.13r1
In September 2022, George 'walkero' Sokianos made an AmigaOS 4 port of Cppcheck, a static code analysis tool for the C and C++ programming languages, available for the first time. The tool is designed to be able to analyze your C/C++ code even if it has non-standard syntax common in embedded projects. The latest official version 2.13 has now been ported. (dr)

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25.Jan.2024



Preview video: Aracde classic "Donkey Kong"
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre ist about to port another game to the Amiga: this time Nintendo's aracade classic Donkey Kong. (dr)

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25.Jan.2024



Programming assistance: AmiBlitz 3 templates for RTG Amigas and Apollo V4
Sami Vehmaa wants to encourage more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and to this end offers templates for the RTG version of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB3_Templates". After he had already started to publish the source codes of some games written with it last year (amiga-news.de reported), he has now not only made the complete package available free of charge, but has also published a version specially adapted for the Apollo Vampire V4 and called "Amiblitz3 Vampire!". (dr)

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25.Jan.2024



Preview video: "Trojan" for AGA-Amigas
During our advent calendar campaign, especially in the article about Erik 'earok' Hogan, we already reported on a first preview video by 'Retro Passion' about his realisation of the game Trojan for AGA-Amigas with the game construction kit "Scorpion Engine". Now a second video has been published. (dr)

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24.Jan.2024



Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.33
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill 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.

As the developer explains to us, the new version 0.9.33 now allows the special output of the game code for an A500 or similar system by using fewer resources and disabling some functions. There are also a lot of general optimisations and a new screen for editing and converting images, as can be seen in this YouTube video. The changes in detail:
  • Added a new Build Game option to target low end machines (like A500 with 1MB). This reduces the maximum number of level objects (from 64 to 32) and disables some code like CD32 audio and storage among others to reduce memory needed and increase performance of the games.
  • Multiple optimizations in all fronts reducing the CPU and memory required by games.
  • When forcing NTSC resolution the game will use less Chip memory.
  • Static objects are now updated first, I hope this do not break old games as sometimes the execution order could be different.
  • Added a new screen for Frame manipulation, copy&pasting, rotating, scaling, can be done in this screen. Find more information in the guide.
  • Default input key for Fire 1 has been changed to left caps key.
  • In Game Setup screen there is a new Mem Info section that will give an estimation of the memory used by the game. Take it with a pinch of salt.
  • Build does not copy diskfont.library anymore as it is not needed.
  • Fix in Collision Down being triggered when there was any collision.
  • Optimization in tile accessing.
  • Small optimization in palette processing.
  • Optimization in action trigger processing.
  • Compression for SFX has been deactivated as sometimes it fails and others prevent loading.
  • In Screen setup screen now you can decide if you want subpixel scrolling or not.
  • When Building a project there are warning messages if the files cannot be compressed.
  • When loading a project, this loading action now can be cancelled.
  • Files ".pal" in projects are now used in a different way.
  • Camera limits code has been simplified.
  • Fixes in the FX rendering.
  • Action trigger Frame by Angle fixes.
  • Animation frames are now cleared when starting a new project.
  • When compressing projects, if the asset is not properly compressed now it tries to load the file without compression.
  • Refactoring of level loading and tileset loading that reduces the exe size and memory usage.
  • Refactoring of the main loop camera and display system.
  • Trigger actions system optimization.
  • Small optimization in Change Tile trigger.
(dr)

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23.Jan.2024



Preview video: Platform game "Silhouette Threat" for AGA-Amigas
A girl falls into a mysterious world armed with only her raincoat and umbrella while enduring constant attacks by strange, silhouetted creatures. The only way to return to her world is by collecting pieces to eventually assemble the raindrop portal...

This is the plot for the platformer "Silhouette Threat", which 'psquaredish' is currently developing for AGA computers with the Scorpion Engine. Only recently, Erik 'earok' Hogan, author of the Game Construction Kit, pointed out in our article about Video tutorials for the Scorpion Engine that the Scorpion Engine is not only intended for developers: this is the case here. The linked video shows a first, short test level.

His soon-to-be 12-year-old daughter designed the main character and some of the other graphics. As a non-artist, he tried his best to do the rest.

His absolute goal is to write a game that uses the parallax system and to have many large, overlapping levels in the game. As the author goes on to explain, he imagines an AGA game with 6 levels in which the bit planes of the dual playing field are divided into 2,1,1,2,1,1 instead of 4,4. Currently, the Scorpion Engine would limit the number of levels in AGA to 3, with 2 having to be repeated. The game Agony already uses the dual playfield bitplane splitting technique for OCS/ECS with a 3,2,1 split (see also Codetapper's article) and the source code is available here (amiga-news.de reported), which could make it easier to implement. If anyone is interested in helping with the programming of the bitplane splitter, the author would be pleased.

And 'psquaredish' also has written: "What I think might be possible is a tool something similar to the amazing parallax tool that Daniel Stephens has created for Boss Machine (YouTube video). He's able to take graphic strips and move them independently at any speed with a slider. It blew my mind when I saw it and made me think that maybe a similar tool could be made where you can just load any image into one of 6 overlapping parallax layers. Maybe it could be done as a plugin for Scorpion Engine or Redpill or just as a standalone tool, if that fascinates any coders again please let me know."

In the meantime, he plans to continue developing the game with the Scorpion Engine with the 3 layers. One important point was that he taught himself to use Protracker for the first time. He had never known what all the numbers meant, but now he understood it a little. He's put together a simple little sampled track that isn't in the video yet, but he may use it as temporary title screen music in the playable demo he plans to release sometime next month.

As this is his first game, he would welcome any feedback and ideas. (dr)

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23.Jan.2024



Puzzle game: "TD Power Swap" for MorphOS
Rafał Zabdyr's "TD Power Swap" is a simple logic game based on the idea of the Amiga game Pure Brain (YouTube video). Your task is to put the pictures in their original order. (dr)

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