16.Oct.2022
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Aminet uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to Aminet:
HWP_AVCodec.lha dev/hwood 5.9M ALL Hollywood plugin for FFmpeg c...
WhatIFF1.07.lha mags/misc 48K What IFF? #1.07-October-2022
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.4M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 328K 68k JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.17
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 160K 68k PNG image datatype V45.26
WarpWebPdt.lha util/dtype 298K 68k WebP image datatype V45.3
AmiSSL-5.4-OS3.lha util/libs 3.3M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.4-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.4-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 2.4M 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
UHCGUI-Current.lha util/wb 58K 68k GUI frontend for the UHC-Tool...
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16.Oct.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to OS4Depot:
warpjpegdt.lha dat/ima 328kb 4.0 JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.17
warppngdt.lha dat/ima 160kb 4.0 PNG image datatype V45.26
warpwebpdt.lha dat/ima 298kb 4.0 WebP image datatype V45.3
ced_pro.lha dev/ide 1Mb 4.0 Professional IDE for AmigaOS
ced_pro_demo.lha dev/ide 528kb 4.0 Professional IDE for AmigaOS
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
hwp_avcodec.lha lib/hol 6Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for AVCodec
hwp_rapagui.lha lib/hol 7Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for GUI creation
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
litexl.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
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16.Oct.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to AROS Archives:
hwp_avcodec.lha dev/lib 6Mb Library Plugin For Hollywood App...
whatiff1.07.lha doc/mis 48kb Magazine in AmigaGuide
snakeme.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 3Mb Snake game with many options.
blobwars-1.19-i386-aros.zip gam/pla 65Mb Platform shooter. Rescue blobs. ...
kens_icons_v2.lha gra/ico 3Mb Glow Icons Style By Ken Lester
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16.Oct.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.10.2022
The following files have been added until 15.10.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
IMP_3.382.lha Audio/Players Play modules from inter...
DAPlayer_1.14.lha Audio/Players Digital audio player mp...
HWP_AVCodec_1.5.lha Development/Hollywood/... Hollywood plugin for FF...
MCE_14.02.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Lupe_2.1.lha System/Ambient/Utilities The magnifying glass pr...
LiteXL_2.1.0r1.lha Text/Edit Lite XL is a lightweigh...
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16.Oct.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.10.2022
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 15.10.2022:
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16.Oct.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Java program: ham_convert 1.8.6
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based ham_convert converts modern graphics files into the Amiga's HAM format. Meanwhile version 1.8.6 has been released, featuring improved multithreading that should work better with big.little configurations. (snx)
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15.Oct.2022
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Tool: identify-library 40.2
At the beginning of October Richard Körber published version 40.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). He has just updated to version 40.2 with the following changes:
- Added more boards
- Added French translation
- Reduced file size of library and tools by using short relocation tables
- Alert strings can now be up to 100 bytes long. The previous limit of 50 bytes was too short for some detailed strings. IdAlert() still uses a default limit of 50 characters, to maintain compatibility. Use the IDTAG_StrLength tag to extend the strings to full 100 bytes. Identify's own Guru tool uses the new limit already
Downloads:
IdentifyDev.lha (67 kB)
IdentifyUsr.lha (98 kB) (dr)
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15.Oct.2022
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Obligement: Review of game "Wrong Way Driver"
The Obligement news site published a review of the arcade game Wrong Way Driver, which was released in 2021. The original is in French, but machine translations are provided. (dr)
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15.Oct.2022
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Scorpion Engine: Introduction of the new positioning feature
In a recent video, Erik Hogan, developer of the Scorpion Engine, introduces a new, innovative feature of the Scorpion Engine that allows exact X/Y positioning of actors in the map as well as overriding actor variables, events and control ports.
The feature will be included in the upcoming stable version 2022.8 and is already available in the experimental branch of the Scorpion Engine. (dr)
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14.Oct.2022
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Developer diary: Inspired by Powermonger, part 1
Developer Daniel Bratton had been "fascinated with what appeared to be a living breathing world – and that world looked like a gaming tabletop", ever since the game Powermonger came out in 1990. Since then, he said, he's always wondered how that was programmed. That eventually motivated him to learn how to program the Amiga so he could recreate it.
In the first part of his developer diary, Daniel Bratton now reports on how he reprogrammed the game board with the intersecting lines - with the help of the Visual Studio Code Extension, which he will discuss in more detail in later entries. (dr)
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13.Oct.2022
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ACube Systems: Delivery of Sam460LE boards in November
Press release: We would like to thank all our customers for their support and patience.
Despite all our efforts to deliver the new Sam460LE by the end of September, we suffered some delay in the production and, unfortunately, the boards are still not ready for delivery.
Unfortunately, we had to make a last-minute change of some components (connectors) that are no more available and this has delayed (again) the production as we had to test the pre-production boards one more time.
After this last-minute modification, pre-production boards passed every test and are ready to go. We are expecting to be able to ship all the boards to our customers in November.
At Amiga37 in Mönchengladbach we will show the pre-production boards on which are based the final boards we will send to customers. We will update our customer as soon as we have news. See you in Mönchengladbach! (dr)
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13.Oct.2022
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Linux: Browser Artic Fox V40.0
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled version 40.0 of the web browser Artic Fox for Linux PowerPC (32 Bit). Basically it runs under the Linux PowerPC distributions Void PPC, MintPPC, Fienix and Ubuntu 10.04 (which are also available for AmigaOne X1000 and 5000. Mainly, the browser is meant for older resp. slow systems (e.g. G3 with Ubuntu 10.04) because it is using an older version of the Goanna engine which has a good performance on slower systems. As a result, certain pages like GitHub cannot be fully displayed.
Download: arcticfox-40.0.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2 (40 MB) (dr)
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12.Oct.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.0
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Today version 1.1.0 of the firmware was released. Changes:
- Removed Apple quirks from defaulting to right-aligned strings
- Akai S1000/3000 read delay in SCSI-1 mode
- Limit drive capacity to actual file size
- Initiator compatibility fixes (RP2040 specific)
(dr)
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12.Oct.2022
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Tetris clone for RTG Amigas: Atris V0.50
A month ago, Sami Vehmaa released a Tetris clone called Atris for Amigas equipped with graphics cards (amiga-news.de reported). This update to version 0.50 adds an easy and a hard mode, each of both with highscore. Additionally, the game now can be completely controlled with the keyboard. (dr)
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12.Oct.2022
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 7 of 'WhatIFF?' released
WhatIFF? is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is mainly intended for users who want to be creative with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported).
Now issue 7 is available providing these topics among others:
Reviews:
- Classic Amiga Programming Book
- FastATA 4000 MK-VII
- AmiKit 8MB Expansion
- AGAClouds
- AmyTree 2022
Tutorials:
- Installing AmigaOS3.2 on AmigaOS4.1 via E-UAE
- Lightwave 101 - Editing MOD config file
- Brilliance 101 - Morphing
- Bringing IFFs over to PC/Mac
Interviews:
- AmigaLove.com - Eric Hill
- Last year`s Amiga Art Contest Winner - Hernain
(dr)
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12.Oct.2022
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.4 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.4 and is now based on the latest OpenSSL 3.0.6, which was also released yesterday. The changes:
- Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.0.6 (11.10.2022) version, which brings security and other bug fixes.
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 11.10.2022.
- Added a proper Amiga-specific ossl_sleep() function, replacing the default fallback busy wait function.
- Consolidated all routines that individually open timer.device to instead use a single unified thread-safe solution.
- File locks on the OS4 libraries are released during initialisation and no longer held until reboot or expunged from memory.
- Handle setting of Roadshow TCP/IP stack type on OS3.
- Removed unnecessary multiple openings of dos.library, some of which were mistakenly never closed.
- Reworked SDK macros for split API functions to better handle when __USE_INLINE__ is not defined.
Download AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.4-OS3.lha (3,3 MB)
Download AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.4-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
Download SDK: AmiSSL-5.4-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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12.Oct.2022
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DIY: Remake of audio digitiser AP420
The AP420, released by Phoenix Microtechnologies in 1991, is an audio digitiser that can take a microphone or line-level input and is connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. 'wiretap-retro' has posted an updated schematic on GitHub that matches the one in the official PDF manual, with the addition of a second RCA jack so you can connect stereo audio. Likewise, he has upgraded the microphone jack, which now features a 3.5mm TRS jack. The selector switch on the board can be used to switch between the RCA input and the microphone input. (dr)
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12.Oct.2022
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Commercial puzzle game: Connect
In the puzzle game "Connect", 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. The game offers over 4 billion possible board variations and can be played alone, in cooperation or against each other.
A physical version of Connect can be purchased exclusively next weekend at the "Amiga 37" in Mönchengladbach. From next week, a digital version can then also be obtained from the developer's itch.io site. (cg)
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11.Oct.2022
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MP3 player: Reel Deck V0.71 (update)
After Atris, his Tetris clone for RTG Amigas, and AB_Template, his programming assistance for AmiBlitz 3, Sami Vehmaa had released Reel Deck, an MP3 player for Amigas with graphics card, a few days ago (amiga-news.de reported). With his update to version 0.63 he made some corrections, so that you can now move the window without problems, among other things. Required are a graphics card, a faster CPU, AmigaOS3.x, AHI and at least 20 MB FastRAM. Reel Deck costs at least 3 Euro.
Update: (12.10.2022, 18:22, dr)
In the meantime, version 0.71 is available, which should now use less CPU power: 80% less when idle and 20% less when playing. Likewise, the control keys have been revised, which should now be closer to reality. (dr)
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10.Oct.2022
Ko-fi
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Editor: Lite XL 2.1.0r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS released
George 'walkero' Sokianos has just released version 2.1.0r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) and explained:
"Hope you are all ready for one more release of LiteXL editor, for both AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. This release is one of the best I made because there are a lot of new features and fixes.
This release brings the code more up-to-date with the official repository and closer to the v2.1 release, which is still in development. This means that we have the latest code as it is created by the original team, which will make future releases easier to be ported unless a huge change will happen.
Some of the included fixes are the locale problem on MorphOS, which I thought I fixed in the previous release, but I didn't. But now I hope I nailed it, but it remains to be proven. Also, fixed issues with regex selections and with some plugins that used it to recognise parts of the code, like the Markdown and PHP files.
Now, if the user right click on a folder or file at the treeview on the left side of the editor, and selects the "Open in System" option this opens at the Workbench or Ambient screen. If it is a folder a new window opens showing the contents of that folder, but if a file is selected this opens with the default tool. Even binaries can be executed that way.
Since it is the latest available code, all the plugins were updated with the latest versions, something that is necessary because the supported version changed. That means that the old plugins are not working with this one anymore. I also added extra plugins in the add-ons folder, which are tested and working fine.
One of the features I enjoy in this version is the filesystem synchronisation, which means that if a file changes outside the LiteXL, i.e. a file/folder is added/deleted/renamed, this will be reflected in LiteXL as soon as it gets the focus. Even if you change the contents of a file, a requester in LiteXL will inform the user about it. That is really useful, but it is still experimental, although it seems to work quite well.
A lot of people complained about the scrollbar at the side, that it is too small. Now, when the mouse pointer goes close to the edge of the window, the scrollbar gets bigger and it is easier to grab and move it. Hope you people like it.
This ninth release of the editor for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS is one of my beloved and possibly the best to give you. You definitely need to try it out, if you haven't done that yet. And if you love it and find it useful please consider supporting my work here in ko-fi, as my Top Supporters do.
I highly recommend you do a new installation and do not use old configuration files, since a lot changed and this might not work well for you. Also, please read the readme file that comes in the archive for more information." (dr)
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10.Oct.2022
Bartos Lisowski (ANF)
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C64 music emulation: PlaySid.library updated
SID (short for Sound Interface Device) is the name of the sound chip used in the VC 10, C64 and C128. (see C64-Wiki). The Playsid.library allows music players like HippoPlayer and DeliTracker to emulate this chip under AmigaOS 3.
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, developer of HippoPlayer, has forked the GitHub repo of the Playsid.library published a few days ago and modified it, so that the PlaySid.library now uses the very accurate reSID instead of the original SID emulation. A minimum of a 68060 processor is required, although the 68040 has not been tested. An FPU is not needed.
Download: playsid.library (28 kB)
(dr)
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10.Oct.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Programming language: AVCodec plugin 1.5 for Hollywood
Press release: Airsoft Softwair are proud to announce that version 1.5 of the AVCodec plugin for Hollywood has just been released. This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to load all kinds of video and audio formats supported by FFmpeg. Version 1.5 is a minor update which introduces support for parametric stereo and contains some fixes.
Version 1.5 of the AVCodec plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (arm, arm64), and iOS (arm, arm64) are provided. (cg)
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