11.Jun.2022
Marcus Sackrow (Mail)
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AmiTube 1.1: YouTube client for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. They are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded.
With version 1.1 released today, the 'Fancy List' introduced a few days ago is integrated into the program: a new list function where title, description and thumbnail are displayed directly in the list (amiga-news.de reported). After switching to this variant, the images are loaded automatically, making it suitable only for faster Amigas/RTG or NG Amigas (YouTube video). The author tested the new feature on his Amiga 1200 with TF1260, AGA and 32 colors and found: "it’s not that bad, certainly fast enough to work with it." The changes in detail:
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11.Jun.2022
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PDF viewer: RNOPDF 1.5 for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS
The developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated the pdf viewer 'RNOPDF' to version 1.5 which belongs to some other RNO applications like e.g. the FTP(S) client RNOXFER or the DTP application RNOPublisher. Changes:
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10.Jun.2022
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MorphOS: Bounty amount for new graphics card drivers reached
After MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen offered a bounty project for better OpenGL support as well as additional graphics card drivers, the funding goal has now been reached thanks to a particularly large individual donation from Wiktor 'Pampers' Głowacki.
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10.Jun.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future "Amiga 37" edition planned
In October the "Amiga 37" will take place in Mönchengladbach, Germany. For this occasion, a special edition of the print magazine Amiga Future is planned, which will be distributed free of charge at the entrance and will contain, among other things, the hall plan, the event schedule, background reports on Amiga 37 and interviews with the organisers.
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10.Jun.2022
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 5 of 'WhatIFF?' published
'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).
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10.Jun.2022
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Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.8 / FloppyBridge 1.2
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin FloppyBridge, WinUAE is also officially supported since version 4.9.0.
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10.Jun.2022
mithrendal (Mail)
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.1 beta2
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga. After its release of the second beta version of version 2.1, the developer 'mithrendal' has not only integrated this latest vAmigaCore2.1b2 into his application, but also some other changes:
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09.Jun.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1b2
By releasing version 2.0 (amiga-news.de reported), developer Dirk Hoffmann has started the beta phase of version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and has just released the second beta version. Changes:
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09.Jun.2022
English Amiga Board
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RTG driver: P96 V3.3.1 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.3.1 of his RTG driver P96, which can be bought or downloaded from the order history at iComp. This is again a minor service release providing the following features:
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09.Jun.2022
Kevin Saunders
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Contest: Amiga Art Contest 2022
The "Amiga Art Contest 2022" (video) is organized by the Youtuber channel 10 Minute Amiga Retrocast and the graphics artist Kevin Saunders. Participants can submit their works in the categories of "Hand-drawn Artwork", "Digital Photography", "3D/Ray Tracing", "MOD/Music" and "Animation" (submissions of the previous years 2019, 2020 and 2021).
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08.Jun.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet ignition 1.20, update of OpenDocument plugins
Achim Pankalla has released version 1.20 of the spreadsheet ignition which at least requires AmigaOS 4.1 update 6. Many bugs and problems have been solved and some minor new functions added. For example:
- Zoomen with ctrl and mousewheel
- Old column/row title will be displayed if they are not standard
- 22 new functions
- correct/update some functions
- correct some error
- turbocalc add-on extend and corrected
- some changes in the manual
The ods-addon was reworked as well. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others.
Changes in ign-ods-addon 0.35:
- add new functions og ignition
- correct the problem, which appears after save a ods-file
Achim Pankalla thanks all testers, bug reporters, translators and supporters. He welcomes any feedback via email, and also refers to the official ignition support forum at os4welt.de for further information and discussion.
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07.Jun.2022
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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer with 'Mission Pack' support
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first part of the realtime strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga and named it "Vanilla Conquer" (amiga-news.de reported).
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07.Jun.2022
Patreon
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.4
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2022.4 with the following changes:
- New sample: AlarCity title screen
- New sample: Vertical Parallax AGA
- New sample: Render modes and palettes
- Rendermodes for making actors blink, flash etc
- "NoClear" option for effects requiring that BOBs aren't cleared after being blitted
- Vastly improved real time palette manipulation
- "Parallax locked" movement type for creating objects that are tied to the parallax background
- Ability to link sounds to levels (so they're loaded and unloaded with those specific levels)
- Rewrite of the codeblocks virtual machine for improved performance
- Lots of bug fixes and other minor improvements
You can support the developer on his Patreon website.
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06.Jun.2022
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.8
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.8 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS which, additional to a bug fix, introduces basic drag & drop of web elements of a website.
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06.Jun.2022
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MorphOS: MouseSpotter 1.0
The #amigazeux team has released the Commodity MouseSpotter, which helps to find the mouse pointer again by simply pressing a hotkey if you have lost sight of it.
MouseSpotter offers a number of options for customisation, such as adjustable colour, duration, different interpolators for the animation and more.
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06.Jun.2022
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Farming simulation: Farmiga
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, which he has named 'Farmiga':
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06.Jun.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood addon: Remedios 1.2 released
Airsoft Softwair has released version 1.2 of Remedios. Remedios allows Hollywood scripts to be compiled as standalone apps for iOS and iPadOS. Remedios 1.2 is a minor update that now adds support for Hollywood 9.1 and Xcode 13. The update is available now for all customers for free in the protected download area.
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06.Jun.2022
trackerhero (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.10
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.
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05.Jun.2022
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05.Jun.2022
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.06.2022
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05.Jun.2022
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 04.06.2022
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05.Jun.2022
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 04.06.2022
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05.Jun.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.06.2022
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 04.06.2022:
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05.Jun.2022
Mark Olsen (ANF)
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MorphOS: Bounty for improved OpenGL support and new graphics card driver
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen offers a Bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link. Support for the R600, R700, Evergreen and Northern Island chips would open up many commonly available PCI Express graphics cards, such as those that would be usable in the Sam460, X5000 and PowerMac G5.
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05.Jun.2022
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Shops: Announcement of AmigaOne-X5000 availability with P5040-CPU
The AmigaOne X5000 was designed for two different processors: the PowerPC CPUs P5020 (64 bit, two cores, 2.0 GHz) and P5040 (2.2 GHz). As 'Puni/Void' reports under the title link, his inquiry at various Amiga dealers about the availability of remaining stock of AmigaOS 4.x hardware revealed that the AmigaOne X5000/40 variant is or will be available there.
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05.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AROS-Distribution: AROS One 1.7 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One" based on the AROS binary branch ABI v0 is now available in version 1.7 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image under the title link, where also videos can be found.
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05.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Amiga 500 Mod PCB project (HDMI, DF0/DF1, low-pass filter)
Jeremy Parker's Amiga 500 Mod PCB project provides, among other things, a Raspberry Pi used as an RGB-to-HDMI converter with an HDMI output on the back of the Amiga 500. A small switch allows access to the menu of the single-board computer.
Two further switches are used to integrate a DF0/DF1 switch or to define the low-pass filter.
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05.Jun.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: PiStorm for Amiga 600
PiStorm is the emulation of an 68k processor by the Raspberry Pi minicomputer under Linux. At the title link, 'LemaruX' presents his PiStorm600 project for replication, which, as the name suggests, now also gives the Amiga 600 a PiStorm solution.
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05.Jun.2022
Vinnny (ANF)
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Bridgeboard program: Viaduct 1.5
Karoly Balogh's Viaduct is a clone of Commodore's PCWindow for displaying PC-side graphics output on Amiga systems with a bridgecard. His replacement was written for faster Amigas equipped with graphics cards. Version 1.5 now supports ToolTypes and is localized, supported so far are Hungarian, German and English. Also the documentation has been transferred to AmigaGuide format.
Download: Viaduct-1.5.lha (93 KB)
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05.Jun.2022
ANF
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Amigas in films: Amiga 1000 in fourth season of Stranger Things
The streaming provider Netflix currently offers a series called "Stranger Things", in whose sixth episode of the fourth season, which takes place in 1986, an Amiga 1000 is used: It is used to dial into a server and find out a location with the help of an IP address. You can see the Workbench - but the source code shown there seems to be C#, which was only introduced in 2001.
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05.Jun.2022
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast episode #139 - David Pleasance on German version of his book
In the 139th edition of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller once again talk to former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance. This time's topic is the German edition of his book "Commodore - The Inside Story".
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05.Jun.2022
Twitter
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.1
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday George 'walkero' Sokianos (AmigaOS4 editor 'Lite XL' or MediaVault) has released version 2.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, which offers some fixes and minor improvements.
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04.Jun.2022
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Jump'n Run: Second demo version of 'Duckstroma' released
At the beginning of May a first playable demo of the Jump'n Run 'Duckstroma' was released (amiga-news.de reported). Due to the upcoming release of the full version, a second demo version is now available, which provides small improvements.
In 'Duckstroma', as duck Aura you have the order to deliver eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all sorts of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (YouTube video). The game requires 1MB of RAM.
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04.Jun.2022
Chris Young
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AmigaOS 4: http-handler 1.11
16 years ago the first version of the http-handler published by Chris Young was released, what amiga-news.de reported about. The day before yesterday the developer released the "jubilee version" 1.11 (Queen Elizabeth II) which now supports AmiSSL 5. His http-handler provides a virtual drive "HTTP:" which can be used to access resources on the Internet. Features of the handler:
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02.Jun.2022
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Virus Help Team: xvs.library V33.47
Georg Wittmann has released version 33.47 of the external virus scanner library xvs.library. Since our last news article on version 33.44, several bootblock and other virus were added to be detected (history).
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01.Jun.2022
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.6 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young has released version 1.6 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2 (but it has also been tested under AmigaOS 4), because it uses a new window.class, so it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes
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01.Jun.2022
Amiga Future
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Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.8
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. Version 18.8 provides the following changes:
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01.Jun.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.7
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.7 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. This version focuses almost exclusively on media playback in various modes. Many web pages and streams should work much better with version 3.7 and watching streams should be possible for a long time without running out of RAM.
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01.Jun.2022
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Competition: 'Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam' started
Today indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (Wheel of Fortune implementation 'YAWoFFA') started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: until September 1st 2022 Amiga developers are invited to write and submit games in AmiBlitz or Blitz Basic (amiga-news.de reported).
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31.May.2022
Discord
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20180423-1
The AROS developer 'deadwood' has released a new version of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). The main feature is the migration from GCC 4.6.4 to GCC 6.3.0. The detailed changelog is available under the title link.
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31.May.2022
Reddit
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Unfinished Jump'n Run: Funky Monkey
In his latest blog entry, the artist and graphics designer Glenn Broadway has written about his first game in which he was involved as graphics designer 30 years ago. The unfinished jump'n run 'Funky Monkey' (YouTube video) was developed by DC Software. If anyone should know the name of the developer, Glenn Broadway would be grateful about a mail because he cannot remember it.
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30.May.2022
Twitter
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Email client: YAM support for AmiSSL 5 in progress
About a month ago we reported that the development of the Amiga email client YAM was discontinued by the previous developer team. Since YAM is an open source project, however, there is the possibility for every interested developer to create an own fork and thus continue the work. According to this Twitter post from yesterday, the IBrowse and AmiSSL5 developer Oliver Roberts has now taken first steps to implement support for AmiSSL 5 (amiga-news.de reported) in YAM.
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29.May.2022
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AmiTube: Preview video of 'Fancy List'
In today's blog entry, author Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow gives a small preview of a feature of the upcoming version: the 'Fancy List'. The video shows the new list feature in action, where title, description and thumbnail are displayed directly in the list. After switching to this variant, the images are loaded automatically, making it suitable only for faster Amigas/RTG or NG Amigas.
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29.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit survey on additional platforms
The Workbench distribution 'AmiKit' is currently available for the target systems Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi and Vampire V2 (amiga-news.de reported). In a current poll on Twitter the developer wants to know if more systems should be supported and suggests here THEA500 Mini and the Amiga 1200/030. The poll runs until midnight, but we are happy to pass on opinions via our website.
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29.May.2022
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29.May.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 28.05.2022
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29.May.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 28.05.2022
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29.May.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 28.05.2022
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29.May.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 28.05.2022
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29.May.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
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29.May.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: APK Compiler 4.1
Airsoft Softwair has released version 4.1 of the Hollywood APK Compiler. It is a minor update that adds support for Hollywood 9.1 and the latest Android Studio version. The update is available for all registered customers at the password-protected download area.
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27.May.2022
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Version bumper: RevFlex 1.0 for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS
The #amigazeux team has released a utility for developers to automatically update version, revision and build numbers called RevFlex. RevFlex is inspired by FlexRev, written by Daniel Kahlin, and should run from AmigaOS 2.0 on. The AmigaE source code of RevFlex is included.
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26.May.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 134 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. The game reviews of REV'n'GE compare the releases of classic games on different computer systems with each other.
The current edition features the Amiga games 'Advance Destroy Simualtor' and 'Amiga Command & Conquer' as well as the multimedia CD 'EuroCD'.
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26.May.2022
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Background: MorphOS running on a Mac Mini G4 (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is well-known for her detailed reviews and analyses of Amiga hardware, for example about Graphic cards for Sam440ep-flex, the Pegasos I or the PPC architecture evolution in Amiga world. Recently she got a Mac Mini G4 from a colleague and so in her latest article she reports how she made this Mac usable for MorphOS again which was provided without harddisk, WiFi and Bluetooth and makes several comparisons with a Pegasos II. Finally she reports that with the help of the never finished Moana project AmigaOS 4 can also be started (machine translation).
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26.May.2022
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Accelerator board project: 'Buffee' supports Big Endian
In her latest blog entry Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the accelerator board 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported) takes up the topic of Endianness and refutes the thesis that the AM335x processor installed on the Buffee did not support Big Endian.
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26.May.2022
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Puzzle game: Demo version of 'Spheroid' released
About a month ago we were already allowed to test the puzzle game 'Spheroid' written by Andrew Vaisey in Blitz Basic, where you move a metal ball through a maze of tiles to reach the exit within the given time and the maximum allowed number of moves. Different tiles have different properties and affect the ball in different ways (amiga-news.de reported).
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25.May.2022
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MorphOS: Screenbar-Plugin TopTasks 1.6
TopTasks.sbar is a Screenbar-Plugin for MorphOS that shows the task that is currently eating the most CPU time in the screen title.
When the titlebar object is clicked it opens a window displaying the top tasks (from 5 to 25) currently hogging all your precious CPU time. Furthermore it can display a history of the top tasks of the last configureable number of seconds/minutes/hours. Changes:
- The top tasks window opens now exactly below the screen title bar instead of using its own bottom border for position.
- Text displayed in the screen title can now be rendered off-center vertically by specifiying a pixel offset.
- Number of Top Tasks shown can be configured from 5, 10, 15, 20 to 25 tasks now. Previously it was fixed to 10 tasks.
- Now displays the rank of the tasks in the first column.
- Top Tasks and History Tasks CPU loads can now also be colour coded ranging from green over yellow to red (see settings).
- Comes with a real Installer script courtesy of InstallerGen by Rob Cranley now.
- Now also shows the respective task priorities in history list.
- Global task info group in the TopTask window can now be hidden (see settings).
- The TopTask window can now be made dragable (see settings).
- Width calculation has been updated to be a bit closer to the configured number of characters in settings.
- Number of entries held in History list can now be adjusted from 60 seconds up to 24 hours where 1 entry equals 1 second.
Once an entry was selected in history list it was not possible to deselect it making the list always keep the entry in the visible area scrolling the added top entries out. To deselect the entry now double click any entry in the list.
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25.May.2022
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Arcade game 'Jump!': Demo version 1.10 available
At the end of last year we had the opportunity to (test) the alpha version of 'Jump!', a conversion of the game Yoomph, originally written for the Atari. The Polish developer Markus Duda now has released a second demo version (amiga-news.de reported) which has lower chip memory usage and provides some minor bugs fixes.
An Amiga 1200 with 14MHz and 4MB FastRAM is required. The demo version offers three playable levels.
The game can be pre-ordered at the title link as a digital variant for 29 Euros or as a 'boxed version' for 45 Euros plus shipping (depending on the destination).
Download: jump_demo.zip (2,6 MB)
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25.May.2022
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Linux: Kernel 5.18 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the final Linux kernel 5.18, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered it for download in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum.
Additionally, he has compiled version 3.6.2 of the Commodore emulator VICE for the Linux distribution Void PPC, which is also available for the AmigaOne X1000 and 5000 (amiga-news.de reported).
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24.May.2022
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Replacement keyboards for A500/A1200: Update on Kipper2k project
After an abundant year, the American dealer 'Amiga On The Lake' has published new information about the status of the Kipper2k replacement keyboards for the Amiga 500 and 2000 (amiga-news.de reported):
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23.May.2022
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.2
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.
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22.May.2022
Amigans (Website)
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Shoot'em Up: SkillGrid 1.3
About three years ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua (e.g. BOH, Huenison) released his abstract vertical shoot'em up 'SkillGrid' (amiga-news.de reported).
Additional to several improvements, version 1.3 offers a new weapon (YouTube video) and for AmigaCD32 users the possibility to load and save highscores from/in NVRAM. However, since no testers were available, this feature is to be regarded as experimental. He refers to the readme.txt on the CD.
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22.May.2022
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Internet: IBrowse 2.5.6 / AmiSSL v5.1 released
Oliver Roberts not only continues to develop his web browser 'IBrowse' for AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and AmigaOS 4, but from now on also maintains the encryption protocol AmiSSL, which now supports OpenSSL 3.0 and now also has its own homepage. Please read the press release:
IBrowse 2.5.6 is now available for download (OS4 users may use AmiUpdate instead), which is the sixth free update for registered owners of IBrowse 2.5. IBrowse 2.1-2.4 and 1.x owners may upgrade to IBrowse 2.5.6 via our store at discounted rates. Please note: IBrowse 2.5.6 requires AmiSSL v5, also released today, so you are advised to download it before updating IBrowse, otherwise you will be left without HTTPS access.
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22.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 21.05.2022
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22.May.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 21.05.2022
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22.May.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 21.05.2022
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22.May.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 21.05.2022
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22.May.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 21.05.2022
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 21.05.2022:
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22.May.2022
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- Red Sector Theme (Spacemix)
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21.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5.0 for Vampire V2
Version 11.5.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit specially adapted for Vampire processor cards has just been released (amiga-news.de reported). The AmigaOS files, Kickstart ROMs and the Picasso96 graphics drivers are required. The update includes the following changes:
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21.May.2022
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Custom chips: Replacement project of Buffee developers
As Renee Cousins, one of the developers of the turbo card project 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported), explained a few days ago, she has turned back to her original Amiga project dedicated to hard-to-find custom chips and their replacements. The first one is Gary and will be called 'Gary Zander'.
At the moment this board is 100% reliably tested on an Amiga 500 and only needs a bit more time during reboot. The lack of tri-state and open-drain pins on the Xilinx chip would be the reason not to release it now. The board would be produced and tested with these supplemented pins soon.
Following this, the replacement for the Agnus will be tackled, called 'Willoe'. Currently, 3D models of the board are being printed to ensure they fit into the PLCC socket. The rough functional scope of Willoe:
- 100 pin TQFP Lattice MachXO2 core (XO2-2000)
- Near instant-on (CPLD-like) functionality
- 16MB of 133MHz, 8-bit pSRAM for AGA+ bandwidth
- 1MB, 2MB Agnus and 2MB Alice compatibility
- Jumpered NTSC/PAL default modes (will also obey pin and software changes)
- Automatic 8372 and 8375 pin detection (universal socket compatibility)
- Many optional features to come
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21.May.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.01
After several beta versions the developer Dirk Hoffmann had released the final version 2.0 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS ten days ago (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.01 was made available yesterday fixing two crash causes (DMA debugger, drive export menu).
The minimum system requirement is macOS 10.15.
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19.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.0 for Windows/Mac/Linux
An update to version 11.7.0 has been released for the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators. In addition to an emulator, AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required.
The changes primarily include updated Amiga programs:
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.1 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.11 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: guigfx.library 20.1 (FPU) by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: HippoPlayer 2.52 by Kari-Pekka Koljonen
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player (IMP) 3.379 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: JFIFdt44 44.17 by Henryk Richter and Gunther Nikl
- UPDATED: MCC_BetterString 11.36 Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_NList 0.128 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.56 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TheBar 26.22 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MysticView 1.07 by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: RapaGUI 2.1 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RNOPDF 1.4 by jPV^RNO
- UPDATED: SnoopDos 3.11 by Eddy Carroll, Thomas Richter et al.
- UPDATED: UnRAR 6.11 by Alexander Roshal, Amiga port by Marcin Labenski
- FIXED: Initialising of YAM theme works now
- FIXED: HippoPlayer uses the default AHI mode now (if enabled)
- FIXED: LoadModule was not updated last time
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19.May.2022
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Development environment: Update on 'Grimoire' project
About a month ago we reported about Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier's new project of a software development solution for Amiga computers: Grimoire. In two recent blog entries he reports about the progress on the project:
With the first entry he opens his developer diary and lists all changes he has made to the project starting in January 2020 until today. The second entry reports specifically on his progress with 'screens':
- 'getBestScreenMode' can be returned for Planar and Saga Chunky modi.
- 'OpenScreen' can open bitplanes screens (up to 256 colors).
- working on ’primitive’ copper list support for full screen view with 1 screen. This will later be replaced by a more complex system that can handle more than one screen in view and grid effects.
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18.May.2022
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Accelerator board project: Buffee partly Open Source again
At the end of March we reported that the turbo card project 'Buffee', originally started as Open Source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, is fully Closed Source. In a new blog entry from yesterday, the developers now announce that the source code for PJIT has been reopened and the private repository has been merged and closed. From now on there is only one repository for PJIT.
Closed Source on the other hand remains the firmware, which contains the boot loader, the PRU programs and the CPLD image, and the hardware design files.
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18.May.2022
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Video tutorial: Blitz Basic
The Irish Amiga user 'Daedalus2097' has started a tutorial series about Blitz Basic on Twitch. So far there have been two live streams, which you can watch again in retrospect at your leisure: part 1, part 2. AmiBlitz 3 was used as development environment.
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17.May.2022
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Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' update
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the wireless Commodore Maus 1352 (amiga-news.de reported).
In a short status update, the developer writes that he is in the process of updating the mouse firmware and finding the best solution for the USB-DB9 adapter regarding the chip shortage. Next up, he says, is the production of the injection molds. In the recent poll on which color shade to use, most votes fell on RAL 9002, which was also used for the campaign photos. However, the developer is looking into the possibility of using a second color shade: RAL 1013 (overview of RAL color shades).
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17.May.2022
Amiga Love (Forum)
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Video tutorial: Bars & Pipes Professional
As the user 'Ricebug' reports in the Amiga Love forum, he has been using Bars & Pipes Professional for many years (see also our article about BarsnPipes 1.0 for Amiga OS4.1 FE). He would like to share his experiences with it and has started a corresponding YouTube channel. Currently there are four videos showing the installation, giving an overview of the program, demonstrating the setup of the workplace as well as the MIDI export. More videos are to follow.
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16.May.2022
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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V1.0 released
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first part of the realtime strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga and named it "Vanilla Conquer" (amiga-news.de reported).
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16.May.2022
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Aracade game: 'Green Beret' May update
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine and won third place at AmiGameJam.
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16.May.2022
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Video review: LAZARUSTORM for PiStorm
In his latest video, Jan Beta has tested the LAZARUSTORM adapter for PiStorm: By the help of this adapter it is possible to externally use a PiStorm accelerator board without having to remove the internal CPU of the Amiga 500.
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16.May.2022
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Hollywood Designer 6.0 released
Press release: To celebrate Hollywood's 20th anniversary this year, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with another massive release: This time we are proud to present the brand-new version 6.0 of our famous Hollywood Designer.
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15.May.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000
The developer Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings (among other things RGBtoHDMI adapter and ChipRam extension RAMesses) describes in a new blog series how he reconditioned a recently acquired Amiga 1000: while in the first article he puts the device into operation, describes the state of preservation and the special features of the Amiga 1000, he takes a closer look at floppy drive in the second article.
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15.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 14.05.2022
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15.May.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 14.05.2022
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15.May.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 14.05.2022
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15.May.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 14.05.2022
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15.May.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.05.2022
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 14.05.2022:
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15.May.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
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14.May.2022
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ACube Systems: Fifteen years of Sam440ep
Press release: Dear customers,
It was the year 2007 when we introduced our first “baby”, the Sam440ep. Fifteen years ago. We designed and produced the Sam440ep, a lovely mini-itx motherboard that many enjoyed running AmigaOS 4, AROS and Linux.
At that time, we, a bunch of mad amigans, resolved to do our best to bring this hardware to life for all the Amiga Community because it was in dire need of a new computer platform to run AmigaOS.
Without the Sam440ep, the future of AmigaOS would have been very difficult.
After all these years, just as the latest batch of Sam460ex LE is being produced, we choose to release the electrical schematics of the Sam440ep (PDF file) to the community.
We hope many of you will be happy to see one of the first image of our first project.
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14.May.2022
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Amiga 500 HDD LED Adapter
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a simple HDD-LED adapter for the Amiga 500, which visually displays the activity of a hard disk on accesses (e.g. on a Warp 560, Vampire 500 and many other expansion cards) via the original LED board (DISK LED). The new revision C adds LED indicators for Power, Reset and Use. A YouTube video shows the adapter in action.
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14.May.2022
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Subscription: German edition of Commodore - The Inside Story
At the title link former Managing Director of Commodore UK David Pleasance offers subscription at a reduced price of a German edition of his book "Commodore: The Inside Story" (amiga-news.de reported).
Further details can also be found in the German version of this news-item.
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14.May.2022
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Preview video: Kung Fu action 'Devil's Temple'
Devil's Temple features 10 stages of intense arcade kung fu action based on the classic Irem games Kung Fu Master and Vigilante. Over 300 frames of animation were packed into the game and every cycle of performance was used on the Amiga A500. The game will adapt to upgrades, so additional chip ram will result in better music, AGA will provide additional colors and a greater variety of enemies in the game.
Yesterday, a new preview video was released for the game in development, showing levels one through six. However, the developer points out that there are still "many annoying bugs to be fixed." The game is already available for pre-order as a boxed edition. Likewise, a demo version of the first stage is available on itch.io.
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13.May.2022
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.0
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga. After the release of its final version 2.0, the developer 'mithrendal' has incorporated the current vAmigaCore2.0 into his application. He has also fixed user-reported problems in this version. Among other things, the web app now runs flawlessly on a Samsung Z3 fold (GitHub post).
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13.May.2022
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Background: Trailing dots on host names in URLs
Daniel Stenberg, initiator and main developer of cURL, regularly reports in his blog about background and developments of the World Wide Web. In his latest entry he sheds light on how a dot at the end of the host name is handled in the URL.
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13.May.2022
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THEA500 Mini: Firmware 1.1.1 released (update)
Retro Games Ltd. has released new firmware 1.1.0 for 'THEA500 Mini', its replica of an Amiga 500, which among other things now supports adf files. The changes:
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13.May.2022
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Soundbar: Sonos Ray
After we had reported about 'SonosController', the Hollywood program written by Michael Rupp for controlling Sonos speakers, one or the other finger of our readers was possibly already on the order button of such a product, but aborted the process abruptly because of the proud price: so a Sonos Beam costs 499 Euros, a Sonos Arc even 999 Euros.
According to the German t3n Magazine, the Sonos Ray is now available at a lower price of 299 Euros. Instead of Dolby Atmos and HDMI, the soundbar offers Dolby Digital 5.1 and an optical connection in contrast to the higher-priced alternatives.
When asked, Michael Rupp confirmed to us that his SonosController software should work with all Sonos products (and compatible ones) without any problems and without the need for adjustments.
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12.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.8.0 for Raspberry Pi 4/400
The update to version 11.8.0 (changelog) of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 single board computer contains updated Amiga programs as well as the recently released version 5.1 (amiga-news.de reported) of the emulator AmiBerry which AmiKit is based on. Likewise there is now the possibility to update AmiKit with AmigaOS 3.2.1.
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[News message: 12. May. 2022, 08:29] [Comments: 0]
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11.May.2022
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Web emulator: vAmiga Online 0.9
At the end of November we reported about Christian Corti's web conversion of the Mac emulator vAmiga. He has now updated his project called 'vAmiga Online' to the latest version of the Mac emulator and furthermore preconfigured some demos and games which can be selected via the 'Rocket' button (second picture). According to our small test, the web emulator currently works fine with an original 1.3 ROM as well as 3.1 ROM (A600) provided by AmigaForever. Attempts with the AROS replacement ROMs or 3.1 ROMs od A1200 failed under Windows and using Firefox or Edge.
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[News message: 11. May. 2022, 06:48] [Comments: 0]
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11.May.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.0
After several beta versions (amiga-news.de reported) the developer Dirk Hoffmann released the final version 2.0 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS yesterday.
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[News message: 11. May. 2022, 06:16] [Comments: 0]
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11.May.2022
Twitter (ANF)
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Vampire V4+ Standalone: Mini-ITX I/O Board
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a simple, modular and cost-effective I/O Board im Mini-ITX Format for the FPGA-based motherboard Vampire V4+ Standalone, which facilitates installation in standard desktop or tower cases.
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[News message: 11. May. 2022, 05:56] [Comments: 0]
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11.May.2022
PPA-Forum
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Arcade game 'Jump!': demo version available
At the end of last year we had the opportunity to (test) the alpha version of 'Jump!', a conversion of the game Yoomph, originally written for the Atari. The Polish developer Markus Duda now has released a demo version of his arcade game, so that everyone can get an impression for themselves. You need an Amiga 1200 with 14MHz and 4MB Fast RAM. The demo version offers three levels.
The game can be pre-ordered at the title link as a digital variant for 29 Euros or as a 'Boxed Version' for 45 Euros plus shipping (depending on the destination).
Download: jump_demo.zip (2,5 MB)
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[News message: 11. May. 2022, 05:39] [Comments: 0]
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10.May.2022
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Animations tool: VectorAnim Player
The group 'ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP', known among other things for the fantasy shooter Project Quest, which is currently in development, released a few days ago a simple animation playback and creation program, VectorAnim Player.
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[News message: 10. May. 2022, 08:04] [Comments: 0]
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10.May.2022
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Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.3
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz's "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as well as Linux (amiga-news.de berichtete). Examples videos show the AROS desktop Wanderer (MP4) and gmPlayer (MP4) under Linux.
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[News message: 10. May. 2022, 05:54] [Comments: 0]
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09.May.2022
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m68k assembly: 'Amiga Assembly' plugin v1.4.0 for Visual Studio Code
We just reported about an updated 'C/C++' extension for Visual Studio Code and also referred to an extension to support assembler for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. This extension, called 'Amiga Assembly' by Paul Raingeard, has been intensively developed recently, made the leap from pre-release versions to version 1.0 at the end of last year and was updated to the current version 1.4.0 yesterday (changelog).
On GitHub the author provides a detailed documentation.
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[News message: 09. May. 2022, 10:46] [Comments: 0]
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09.May.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.9
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.
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[News message: 09. May. 2022, 09:16] [Comments: 0]
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09.May.2022
Discord
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension (update)
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 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Yesterday he released the new version 1.3.3 with the following changes:
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09.May.2022
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Video interview: The Amiberry developer Dimitris Panokostas
In his latest interview, Robert Smith has talked to Dimitris Panokostas who is the developer of the Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems, Amiberry.
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[News message: 09. May. 2022, 05:40] [Comments: 0]
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