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01.Jan.2022



Amiga-News.de wishes a happy new year
Amiga-News.de wishes all readers a happy new year and thanks its readers for the continuing loyalty. (dr)

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31.Dec.2021



Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.50
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, developer of the Amiga-MOD player HippoPlayer, has updated it to version 2.50. Changes: more ... (dr)

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31.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)


A570: 2 MB memory expansion for the external CD-ROM drive
The A570, a CD-ROM expansion for the Amiga 500, can itself be expanded by additional memory. Information on a corresponding 2 MB do-it-yourself PCB can be found at the title link. (snx)

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31.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)


Floppy drive emulator: Gotek Flash Floppy
Files for an alternative do-it-yourself PCB to the classic Gotek - an emulator of floppy disk drives for the usage of ADF files - can be found at the title link. Oleg Mishin's board for external or internal mounting can be equipped with an 0.96" OLED display and with push buttons or a rotary encoder. (snx)

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31.Dec.2021
Amigablogs


AROS: Text editor 'TwinsIDE 0.1' in progress
According to the developer 'serk118' under the title link, he has started developing a text editor called 'TwinsIDE' for AROS IDE. As he writes, the original plan was to either finish his work on porting AmiDE or to work on porting MurksIDE. But since the latter does not support syntax highlighting, he decided to write a text editor from scratch. (dr)

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30.Dec.2021
Amigans


AmigaOS 4: First public version of editor 'Lite XL' released
Recently George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, had announced that he is going to port the Linux editor Lite XL. Now he has released the first public version v1.16.12.3 of his port. more ... (dr)

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29.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Book: Interest in a German version of Commodore - The Inside Story? (Update)
Three years ago the English book "Commodore: The Inside Story" became available at retailers. There the former Commodore UK Managing Director David Pleasance describes the twelve years in which he worked for the company.

Currently he wants to find out interest in a German version of the book, translation would be done by Anton Preinsack. Sufficient demand given, a crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter would be started, with a price of 35 British Pounds for the hardcover book (almost 42 Euros currently). An e-book version would follow. If you are interested in it, please write an e-mail to email@davidpleasance.com with the subject "German Translation".
more ... (snx)

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29.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 129 (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 the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. (snx)

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29.Dec.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)


AROS: Update of 68k distribution Aros Vision
Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision. Changes in this update without a version number include updated ROMs and datatypes as well as the new version of WHDLoad and its graphical interface iGame.

It is recommended to copy the libraries bullet.library and rexxsyslib.library from AmigaOS 3.1 to Libs: and the command rexxmast to C: and to use the Installer 43.3 by Amiga Technologies (Aminet) for installation. WHDLoad is pre-installed using AROS ROMs; for full support, you will need original Kickstart ROMs (description). (snx)

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29.Dec.2021



THEA500 Mini: Interview with Paul Andrews
The Blog BlitterWolf has published an interview with Paul Andrews, the managing director of RetroGames which is about the announced THEA500 Mini. Among other things, a "full sized version" is promised with the 'THEA500' if sales are satisfactory, similar to the approach taken with the THEC64 Mini and the THEC64. (dr)

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29.Dec.2021
Rob Smith


Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS, part 4
Rob Smith, known for his project DrawBridge for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, has now released the last part of his YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Here he is "focusing on improving performance, music, sound effects and the finishing touches such as showing your score, and the title screen". (dr)

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28.Dec.2021



Database: MUIBase 4.4 for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS
Steffen Gutmann has released an update of his programmable relational database MUIBase for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS (and Windows and Linux). more ... (dr)

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28.Dec.2021
Amigans


AmigaOS 4.1: DvPlayer V54.8 released
In early November, version 54.7 of the DvPlayer video and audio playback program distributed by A-EON Technology was released, supporting the new hardware video acceleration standard introduced with Enhancer Software V2. Now version 54.8 is available via the updater tool which "adds a workaround for a crash on exit that occurs when Odysseys version of avformat2.libary is in memory". (dr)

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28.Dec.2021
Bartos Lisowski (ANF)


RTG driver: P96 V3.2.1 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) wrote:
"We've released P96 V3.2.0 in time for Christmas. Now some changes have now been implemented after lots of customers have used it in a large variety of configurations. Errors that were reported in our support forum have been addressed immediately. The update is already available in our shop system, so every new download is providing the latest version.

This time the list of changes is very extensive. The biggest changes have been in the area of blitter emulation, but even older cards could be persuaded via a software trick to use a hardware sprite as a mouse pointer, which brings noticeable speed gains. Perhaps the biggest change is that the ZZ9000 is supported with its dual-palette feature, so screen dragging is possible without color artifacts."

The detailed list of changes is available in the Support Forum. (dr)

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28.Dec.2021
Achim Kern (Mail)


Action game: 'Balloons' for all Amiga systems
In mid-October we reported, that Achim Kern (among others 'SmartHome') and Mars Tank Attack) had announced an action game called 'Balloons' which now is available for all Amiga systems. It is a remake written in Hollywood 9 of the original Balloons game written by Enrique Mecklenburg Serkovic. more ... (dr)

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27.Dec.2021
Günter Bartsch (Mail)


BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.1
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively.
more ... (dr)

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27.Dec.2021



Boing Attitude: Interview with Mike Parent (Metro Siege)
At the end of October Boing Attitude had published the second issue of the French Amiga print magazine Boing (since the middle of December, the third issue is available). Among others an interview with Mike Parent was included, one of the developers of the beat'em up game Metro Siege (amiga-news.de reported). This interview Boing Attitude has made available in an English-language translation under the title link. (dr)

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27.Dec.2021
Prince (Mail)


Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 5
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. The fifth episode among others is about variables, array structures and tables. (dr)

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27.Dec.2021
George Sokianos (ko-fi)


AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Odyssey script for GitHub project sites
George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, has provided a script for the browser Odyssey after which you can display GitHub project pages again:


Note that the browser must be restarted after including the script. (dr)

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26.Dec.2021
Roman Kargin (Mail)


AmigaOS 4: Test der Beta-Version des Audio-Editors 'Rave'
Two times we reported this year already about the respective current development status of the audio editor "Rave" written by Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka. Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has now been given the opportunity to test the beta version and has published a YouTube video about it. (dr)

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26.Dec.2021
Marek Duda (Mail)


Arcade game 'Jump!': Little review of the alpha version
The Polish developer Markus Duda is currently putting the finishing touches to his Yoomph implementation for the Amiga, which was originally written for the Atari (amiga-news.de reported). In the game, now called Jump!, you have to move through a three-dimensional tunnel by means of a bouncing Amiga ball and hit various (bonus) surfaces (preview video). The target platform is an Amiga 1200 with 8 MB Fast RAM. The finished game should have the following features:
  • 28 levels
  • 5 music tracks
  • resolution 320x256 with 256 colours
  • can be controlled with joystick or keyboard
more ... (dr)

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26.Dec.2021



Aminet uploads until 25.12.2021
The following files have been added until 25.12.2021 to Aminet:
more ... (snx)

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26.Dec.2021



OS4Depot uploads until 25.12.2021
The following files have been added until 25.12.2021 to OS4Depot:
more ... (snx)

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26.Dec.2021



AROS Archives uploads until 25.12.2021
The following files have been added until 25.12.2021 to AROS Archives:
more ... (snx)

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26.Dec.2021



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.12.2021
The following files have been added until 25.12.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
more ... (snx)

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26.Dec.2021



WHDLoad: New installers until 25.12.2021
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 25.12.2021: more ... (snx)

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26.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)


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: more ... (snx)

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26.Dec.2021
Uni-Joy (ANF)


Announcement: UniTHOR - A new joystick for Amigas and modern devices
Uni-Joy LLC, based in Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland, has announced a new joystick at the title link, weighing half a kilogram and promised to consist of durable microswitches. So far just existing as a 3D-printed prototype, there will be two variants of UniTHOR - either with a classic DB9 connector or for USB. Furthermore, customers will have the choice between the standard version ("Basic") and an assembly set ("Assembler"), with the latter allowing some customisation.

For the production run, a Kickstarter campaign for crowdfunding is planned. Below you can read the official press release:
more ... (snx)

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25.Dec.2021
George Sokianos


AmigaOS 4.1: SDK V53.34 released
As George Sokianos writes, he has created a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers that combines all previous versions and a lot of fixes and updates. It can be downloaded from the Hyperion Entertainment website. The changes since version 53.30 (9/5/2015): more ... (dr)

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24.Dec.2021
Discord


Game launcher: X-bEnCh 1.2 Final Public Release
Jim Neray's X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 640 colours (AGA; 128 on OCS/ECS-computers) which can replace the Workbench for launching WHDLoad-games and other applications and requires low hardware resources. An integrated command line as well as the file manager Xpl0rEr (video) are also available.
more ... (dr)

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24.Dec.2021
IndieRetroNews


Arcade shooter: 'Bean Versus The Animator' Xmas special
In mid-July we reported on the release of the arcade shooter Bean Versus The Animator. Now the developers have followed up and released an exclusive single-level episode of Bean Versus The Animator for Christmas: 'It's Snow Joke!':


An A500+ is required, 1.5MB Chip RAM is recommended if you want to run the game from Workbench. (dr)

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24.Dec.2021
Reddit


Xmas puzzle: Shuffling Around the Christmas Tree
If you still need some support to get into the right Christmas mood or maybe want to do some puzzling on the Amiga together with the family after unwrapping the presents: Shuffling Around the Christmas Tree by the demo group Desire not only reached second place at the Syntax Demopoarty at the end of November, but could also perform this little Christmas miracle.

This interactive puzzle slideshow presents artwork by Terry Redlin. After a short display time of the respective picture, the pieces are mixed up. Now you have to try to restore the picture:


You use the mouse to move the arrow at the edge of the image to the row or column that should be moved and then perform the action by pressing the mouse button. The puzzle is available as adf-version and as HD-version as exe-file. The adf version requires an Amiga 500 with 512 KB of chip RAM, while the HD version requires 1 MB of RAM for it to boot from harddisk. (dr)

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24.Dec.2021
https://blog.alb42.de (ANF)


AmiTube 0.6: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).

Now version 0.6 is available which among other adds a German localization and preview icons. Detailed changelog:
  • Localization (german included)
  • Preview Icons (need jpg Datatype)
  • All formats Download buttons on main gui
  • Check for Free space on HD, warn before downloading if not enough space
  • Icon tooltype MOVIEDIR to set directory for movies
  • smaller network buffer for low memory systems
The latest version always is available on the AmiTube website.

Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link. (dr)

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23.Dec.2021
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)


Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.30 released
Thomas Wenzel has released version 3.30 of his audio player AmigaAMP for AmigaOS 3.9 and AmigaIS 4 at the title link. Changes include ARexx macro support and automatic fallback from MHI to AHI.
more ... (snx)

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22.Dec.2021
G. Bernhardt (ANF)


WinUAE 4.90: German translation file by BlackByte
On his WinUAE mirror Webwood.de Gunnar 'gunaTM' Bernhardt released a german translation file by BlackByte updated for version 4.90 of the emulator. The file has to be copied into the WinUAE drawer. Then german language can be selected under "Host/Misc". (snx)

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22.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)


Game: Second level for "Project - Quest"
The fantasy shooter "Project - Quest" is still in development (amiga-news.de reported). Now at the title link a second level has been released (video). (snx)

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22.Dec.2021
Scene World Podcast (ANF)


Scene World Podcast Episode #130 - THEA500 Mini
In episode 130 of their Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk with Darren Melbourne and Chris Smith of Retro Games about their down-scaled Amiga replica THEA500 Mini. Interview starts at 5:55 minutes. (snx)

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22.Dec.2021



WinUAE 4.9.0: Setting up the Voodoo3 RTG emulation for AmigaOS 4.1, part 1
At the beginning of March we reported for the first time that for the Amiga emulator WinUAE the emulation of the Voodoo3 graphics card is in development. This was then already made available in the beta versions. more ... (dr)

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22.Dec.2021
Amigatronics


Retro gaming: WHDLoad 18.7
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 18.7 provides the following changes: more ... (dr)

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21.Dec.2021



Hyperion Entertainment released AmigaOS 3.2.1
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is proud to provide the first free update of AmigaOS 3.2. It demonstrates our dedication to ensure that AmigaOS 3.2 is the most capable and most stable operating system ever for the 68K based Amigas. If you have do not already own a copy of AmigaOS 3.2, there is now even more reason to get one from your favourite dealer! more ... (dr)

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21.Dec.2021



Arcade-Adventure: "PETSCII Robots" erhältlich
"PETSCII Robots" by well-known Texan Youtuber 8 Bit Guy is an arcade adventure originally developed for the Commodore PET, whose in-game "graphics" consisted entirely of PETSCII characters (video). The Amiga version (video) developed by Vesa Halttunen and announced about a month ago has been completed in the meantime and can be ordered from the Youtuber's web shop. more ... (cg)

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20.Dec.2021
George Sokianos (ko-fi)


AmigaOS 4: Port of editor 'Lite XL' announced
George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, has announced that he has started porting the editor Lite XL, which originated in the Linux world. About his motivation and the current development status he wrote the following:

more ... (dr)

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20.Dec.2021
Zoltan Balaton


Emulator: QEMU 6.2.0 released
A week ago version 6.2.0 of the emulator QEMU was released. We had described at the beginning of May in an excursion to the use of Amiga operating systems on non-native hardware how to use the operating system MorphOS under QEMU. With the release of the latest QEMU version, bugs in the USB emulation have now been fixed and some minor improvements in Pegasos2 support have been integrated:
  • Suppress warning when qtest enabled
  • Implement power-off RTAS function with VOF
  • Add constants for PCI config addresses
  • Access MV64361 registers via their memory
  • Implement get-time-of-day RTAS function
  • Warn when using VOF but no kernel is
  • Restrict memory to 2 gigabytes
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20.Dec.2021
Rob Smith


Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS, part 3
Rob Smith, known for his project DrawBridge for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, has now released the third part of his YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). In this episode he does focus on hardware sprites and collision detection. (dr)

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20.Dec.2021
Twitter (ANF)


Amigaworld.de: Amiga 500 Clockport Adapter V3
On Amigaworld.de the Amiga 500 Clockport Adapter V3 was published under the title link. While the adapter V1 provides a total of 2 buffered clock ports and the more compact Amiga 500 Clockport Adapter V2 offers exactly 1 buffered clock port, there is now for the side expansion port in the Amiga 500 and the front expansion port in the GBA A1000 also the Amiga 500 Clockport Adapter V3 with a total of 2 buffered clock ports. (dr)

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20.Dec.2021
Jochen Hoffer (ANF)


Puzzle game: Crazy Columns 1.05
Jochen Hoffer has released version 1.05 of his conversion of the Sega classic 'Columns' (video) as a small Christmas present (amiga-news.de reported). The game mode "Bad Buddy" has been revised, in which you have to compete against each other. The first to win a total of 9 rounds is the winner. Likewise, the instructions for the game have been expanded to include the game modes. (dr)

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19.Dec.2021



Aminet uploads until 18.12.2021
The following files have been added until 18.12.2021 to Aminet:
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19.Dec.2021



OS4Depot uploads until 18.12.2021
The following files have been added until 18.12.2021 to OS4Depot:
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19.Dec.2021



AROS Archives uploads until 18.12.2021
The following files have been added until 18.12.2021 to AROS Archives:
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19.Dec.2021



WHDLoad: New installers until 18.12.2021
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 18.12.2021: more ... (snx)

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19.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)


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:
  • Shadow of the Beast II level 2 (Sultry dark side of Karamoon)
  • Rings of Medusa
(snx)

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19.Dec.2021
Games.ch (ANF)


THEA500 Mini: Release date and games list
On their Facebook account RetroGames Ltd. has published the release date of their size-reduced replica "THEA500 Mini" now (amiga-news.de reported). The just 20,7 x 14,4 x 2,7 centimeters measuring device - therefore being without a working keyboard - will be available on March 25, 2022.
more ... (snx)

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19.Dec.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 154 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 154 (January/February 2022) have been published online now at the title link. Contents include an interview with Thomas Römer as well as reviews of the 68030-TK2 by 'Matze' and the games collection Ad Cosmos Ex Terra.

Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)

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19.Dec.2021
Roman Kargin (Mail)


AmigaOS 4.1: Warp3D backward compatibility with 'NovaBridge'
At this year's AmiWest it was announced that Hans De Ruiter is working on NovaBridge: This driver should allow all 3D applications written under the old Warp3D and MiniGL to work on modern graphics cards like Radeon RX and Radeon HD. As the author explained in a blog post from late October, NovaBridge came about after further discussion about how confusing Warp3D's Nova naming scheme was. The main problem with this would be the fact that the end user would need to know about this incompatibility in order to get software to work accordingly. This is now to be solved by replacing the hardware-dependent code in the W3D_SI driver with Warp3D Nova code.

In consequence, this means that end users no longer need to worry about 3D APIs. Warp3D, Warp3D Nova, MiniGL, OpenGL ES 2, GL4ES should all work as long as Warp3D Nova drivers are installed. And developers would never need to write a Warp3D driver again.

Work on this driver is still ongoing, but Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has now summarized the current state of development in a YouTube video. In it, he notes that WarpOS apps like WipeOUT2097, Heretic2, demos of Encore, MadWizzards, etc. are working. They would all run in hardware rendering mode and would not require any patches. According to his conclusion, NovaBridge is currently the most compatible Warp3D of all possible realizations on any Amiga. Because even things that previously ran on Voodoo graphics cards but not on Radeon or vice versa would now just work as expected. (dr)

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18.Dec.2021
Guenter Bartsch (Mail)


BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.0
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively.
more ... (dr)

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17.Dec.2021
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New preview video: 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night' winter update
With another preview video, Michael 'Mixel' Dawes presents the current state of development of his Scorpion Engine created platformer 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night'.

Making a demo out of the winter stage was his initial plan, but there wasn't enough time for that. And so the developer presents the completed game scenes as a video update. They are to be used in the full game later. (dr)

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17.Dec.2021
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Holly Lights: Xmas decoration for Workbench 1.3
For those who already want to give their Workbench 1.3 some Christmas glamour, Chris 'Crispy' Brenner has written a small program that conjures up a Christmas fairy lights on the screen:




Regarding how it works, the author states the following:
"When HollyLights first starts, it looks at the depth of the Workbench screen. It will then add the required number of bitplanes needed to bring the Workbench screen up to sixteen colors. It does this in such a way that is invisible to the Workbench program, so Workbench thinks it's still operating with the same number of colors it had before the program was run. This scheme has the benefit of allowing Workbench to operate faster than if it was truly in sixteen colors, but has a couple of drawbacks as well.

When the program initialization is done, and all of the graphics data is in place, then the holly and lights decorations are rendered into the main Workbench window once every couple of seconds. Rendering is suspended when the Workbench screen is not the frontmost screen.

If HollyLights was started from a four color Workbench, then the window will be decorated with lights of four different colors: red, green, orange, and blue. If started from an eight color Workbench, then only red and green lights will be shown. This is done so as to not interfere with the eight color palette."

And on the undesirable side effects, he writes the following:
"Since Workbench doesn't know about the extra bitplanes, it will not refresh any of the graphics in those bitplanes. Those extra bitplanes are refreshed by the HollyLights program when it renders its graphics once every couple of seconds, and because of this you will briefly see some leftover graphics in a window when you move it on top of any of the HollyLights decorations. This is normal.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a system friendly way to refresh the Workbench menus, so there will always be leftover graphics in the sections of the menus that intersect with the HollyLights decorations."

On weekend a version for AmigaOS 2 should also follow. (dr)

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17.Dec.2021
Amigatronics


AROS: PipeWalker game ported
PipeWalker ist a puzzle-like game, where you have to make connections to link the beginning and the end: network connections, water pipes, electrical cables, roads, etc. Versions for Linux and Wondows have been available for a while, now an implementation for AROS has been released as well.

Amigatronics has published an article on this topic (English translation), which gives a visual impression of the game by means of screenshots. (dr)

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17.Dec.2021
Prince (Mail)


Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 4
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. In the fourth episode among others it is explained how joystick support is implemented. (dr)

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15.Dec.2021
AMIGATRONICS


AmiTube 0.5: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).

Yesterday version 0.5 has been released, providing the following changes:
  • As described before, 3 different quality settings for the movies, CDXL OCS, CDXL AGA, MPEG1
  • Share your most favorite videos with other AmiTube users
  • Load list of shared videos from internett
  • type a YouTube URL to search bar to directly get a video description
  • observe clipboard for YouTube URLs
  • parameter for CDXL and MPEG Player
  • special Version for 68000 processors (normal Version needs at least a 68020)
Additionally a separate website has been set up where always the latest version of the toll can be found. The requirements for AmiTube:
  • minimum requirement: 68020 processor, OS3.0, 4MB RAM, MUI 3.8
  • minimum requirement for the 68000 version: 68000 processor, OS3.0, 4MB RAM, MUI 3.8
Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link. (dr)

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13.Dec.2021



Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #19 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 19 (autumn/winter) are game reviews on 'Turbo Tomato' and 'Metal Gear' as well as articles on AmigaOS 3.2 and WinUAE (part 2. more ... (dr)

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13.Dec.2021



Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS, part 2
Rob Smith, known for his project DrawBridge for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, has now released the second part of his YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). While the first video concentrated on the background layer, the second part focuses on the foreground layer and how to combine the two. (dr)

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12.Dec.2021



New preview video: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported) which is supposed to run on unaccelerated Amiga 1200 and CD32 with 50 fps.

Meanwhile the author has published the 22. preview video which is "mostly about visual quality improvements and first gameplay logic functionality." (dr)

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12.Dec.2021



Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.5 (update)
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive is officially supported since the recently released WinUAE 4.9.0. In addition, Smith has made other changes with the new version 2.8.4: Among other things, IPF and SCP files can now be written to floppy disks, HD disks are supported, and reading and writing in general has been improved. more ... (dr)

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Vampire 1200 V2 accelerator board: Availability, reviews
In summer the Apollo team had announced two new accelerator boards: the FireBird (A500/A1000/A2000) and the IceDrake (A1200). Meanwhile, a third card has been added, the Apollo Kraken V4 (Amiga 3000/4000). While the latter is announced for the fourth quarter of 2022 and the Firebird is already available, the IceDrake is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2022. It can currently be pre-ordered for 572 Euros (including fees, plus postage).

Currently available is (still) the Vampire 1200 V2: We want to give a brief overview of how the specifications of the Vampire 1200 V2 and the IceDrake differ:
Feature         Vampire 1200 V2                 IceDrake
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Processor       Apollo 68080, AMMX,             Apollo 68080 AMMX,
                64-bit support                  64-bit support

RAM             128 MB SDRAM                    512 MB DDR3

Video output    RTG, truecolor 32 bit,          SuperAGA, RTG, truecolor
                1280×720@60Hz                   32 bit, 1280x720@60Hz

Audio           ?                               8/16-bit, 56 kHz, 24-bit
                                                mixing, 8 DMA voices

Ethernet        Ethernet Module Connector       100Mbit Ethernet RJ45 port

Ports           44-pin FastIDE/CompactFlash     2x FastIDE/CompactFlash
                Controller (up to 14 MB/Sek)    Controller (up to 20 MB/Sek),
                                                2x USB Port

The decision whether a potential buyer should rather wait for the IceDrake or better buy the Vampire 1200 V2 now, we do not want to take away from him, but at the end we want to give a little help in the form of a test report compilation: (dr)

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12.Dec.2021



Windows: DOpus cooperation with Haage & Partner terminated
The file manager Directory Opus, originally from the Amiga and commercially continued for Windows only, which has been open source in the Amiga variant since 2012, was previously distributed by Haage & Partner (H&P) in Germany, with their support page, including a forum, still being online.
more ... (snx)

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12.Dec.2021
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)


Amigaland: Two rare CDTV games for download / PD area added
At Amigaland.de - a legal collection of games, demos and emulators - Mirko Engelhardt can now offer two rare comic adventures for free download: "The Case of the Cautious Condor" and "Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows" by Tiger Media, published for Amiga CDTV in 1991.

Furthermore a PD/freeware area has been added, listing 41 entries currently. (snx)

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12.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)


Java program: ham_convert 1.84
Java-based program ham_convert for transition of standard graphics file formats into Amiga ones, has meanwhile been updated to version 1.84. Among other changes, now the number of used palette colors can be selected when creating HAM6 and HAM8 files. (snx)

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11.Dec.2021
Prince (Mail)


Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 3
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. After the first two parts, which were mainly for introduction and preparation, the third episode now starts with the actual programming. (dr)

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10.Dec.2021
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: E-Mail-Programm Iris 1.1
Recently Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek had released version 1.0 of his email program Iris for MorphOS. Now the first update is available, which contains the following changes:
  • Added a Copy Messages... dialog that may be used to copy messages between accounts, local folders, etc
  • Drag & drop of messages into a local folder / folder of a different account will copy messages to the destination folder
  • Editing of local messages retains their original date
  • Fixed a crash in case loading a list of spelling dictionaries fails
  • Fixed a condition where the Outgoing Mail manager could send a single message more than once
  • Improved progress reports when sending mail
  • Additional heuristics when trying to determine the right extension name when saving attachments (if the sender's client did not set the correct MIME type)
  • Performing an action on a large multi-selection of messages would sometimes stall forever when trying to obtain full message identifiers to act on
  • Optimized a case where setting flags on a large selection of messages would cause the MUI list to perform very costly redraw lookups
Download: iris.lha (34 MB) (dr)

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09.Dec.2021
Reddit


Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS
Rob Smith, known for his DrawBridge project to read Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has released the first part of a YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS. (dr)

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09.Dec.2021



AmigaNG: Website lists emulation options for Raspberry Pi
The website AmigaNG is dedicated to the "next generation of Amiga computers and operating systems" in all its facets. Now with Pi Amiga Images a new category has been added, which compiles the different emulation possibilities of the AmigaOS - like AmiKit XE or Amiberry - on the single board computer Raspberry Pi with links and information. The page will be extended bit by bit. (dr)

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08.Dec.2021
Twitter


RPG: 'Briley Witch Chronicles' being ported to Amiga
Sarah Jane Avory is in the process of porting her role-playing game Briley Witch Chronicles, published for the C64, to the Amiga. It is based on her book series of the same name and is said to be playable at 50 FPS, just like the C64 version.
The story: the witch Briley is abandoned in the village of Maepole, accompanied only by her grumpy, talking cat. She can survive there only if she learns the witchcraft with the help of her spell book. Because the powerful Whitehead family hates witches. (dr)

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06.Dec.2021
Discord


Emulator: WinUAE 4.9.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE was released today in version 4.9.0. The reason for the fact that almost 1.5 years have passed after the version 4.4.0 is given by the developers as the revision of the chipset emulation, which is also the reason for this big version jump: more ... (dr)

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06.Dec.2021
Neeso Games


Platformer: X-Mas special of 'Super Delivery Boy' (update)
Neeso Games has released a Christmas version of Super Delivery Boy: 'Super Delivery Boy - The Holiday Shift'.


In this fast-paced, Christmas-themed mini-game, presents must be delivered for the missing Santa Claus. However, the kids have their own preferences about what they want to get, and the path to them is full of strange creatures. The gifts must be picked up in the color that the children want. If you deliver the wrong gifts, you get fewer points! But you can use mismatched gifts as weapons that can be thrown against the enemies. But watch out for the colors.

The game runs on all Amigas (OCS/ECS/AGA) with 1MB RAM. However, on somewhat weaker Amigas there may be slowdowns during larger action scenes.

Update: (13.12.2021, 07:14, dr)

Yesterday version 1.1 was released providing the following changes:
  • Improved performance on low end machines
  • fixed a bug where enemies randomly disappear after delivering presents
  • shooting the acorn will give you +5 seconds of time instead of points
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Game soundtrack: Turrican Remix Album released
Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann released his Turrican Remix Album Best of Turrican Remixes Vol​.​1 yesterday, which can be purchased for 1 Euro (or more). The album contains twelve new mixes of the music originally composed by Chris Hülsbeck for the Turrican games. (dr)

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05.Dec.2021



Review: 'Turbo Santa' released, 'Santa Rocks' re-released
The mid-November announced arcade action game Turbo Santa from Nivrig Games has just been released for free download. Here, the player must fill in for Santa Claus, who has fallen asleep, and try to deliver the presents in time to save Christmas. more ... (dr)

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05.Dec.2021
Scene World Podcast (ANF)


Scene World Podcast Episode #128 - Gunnar von Böhn (Apollo team)
In episode 128 of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Gunnar von Böhn of the Apollo team, programmers of the FPGA implementation of an 68k-like CPU used for the "Vampire" accelerator boards. Interview starts at 37:38 minutes. (snx)

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05.Dec.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


APC&TCP: Boxed edition of Ad Cosmos Ex Terra
"Ad Cosmos Ex Terra" is a compilation of three games that require at least an Amiga 500 with 1 MB of RAM. It has been released as download version already in summer (amiga-news.de reported) and is in addition now also available as a physical product by APC&TCP.

The set consists of the woodcutter game Lumberjack Revision, the four-players implementation of the classic table tennis game Pong in version PoNG4b, and the jump'n'run game Jump Besi Jump. (snx)

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05.Dec.2021
kas1e (Mail)


AmigaOS 4.1: Test of latest RadeonRX driver and Kernel
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin, in a YouTube video, has tested version 2.8 of the RadeonRX driver included in the recently released version 2.1 of the Enhancer software, including a not yet publicly available beta version of the kernel, in which some improvements have been made, especially for the AmigaOne X5000. more ... (dr)

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04.Dec.2021
Daniel Stenberg


Webinar: The Future of Open Source
On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 9:00 PT (Pacific Time), a 60-minute webinar with GitHub sponsors will be held on the future of open source: The Future of Open Source: Is It Sustainable?. Among others, Daniel Stenberg, the initiator and main developer of cURL, command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs, will participate there. Corresponding implementations also exist for AmigaOS-m68k (Diego Casorran) or AmigaOS 4 (Michael Trebilcock).

In this discussion, leading developers in the open source community talk about their personal successes and challenges in sustainability as well as funding approaches and what opportunities there are to get involved. Prior registration is required. (dr)

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04.Dec.2021
Pouet.net


Intro competition: The Nano Awards 2022
The Lovebyte Demoparty 2022, which will take place on Discord and Twitch from February 11-13, 2022, will also award the best intro production of 2021. The nomination process began on December 1, 2021 on demozoo.org and pouet.net and includes intros ranging from 32 bytes to 256 bytes for a variety of platforms. Nominees will be announced on January 1, 2022. (dr)

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03.Dec.2021
Amigaworld


Website lists Christmas games: Amiga Christmas Tree
To give Amiga users the opportunity to get into the Christmas mood a bit, 'Cammy' has taken the trouble to set up his own website listing all Amiga games related to Christmas. Thereby also the link for the source of supply is given. The service is rounded off with a few suitable MODs for the topic. She encourages the Amiga users to report missing games. (dr)

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03.Dec.2021



Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 2
'Prince', founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly). In another tutorial Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Yesterday episode 2 was published. (dr)

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02.Dec.2021
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.9
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's Wayfarer web browser is now available in version 2.9 and provides the following changes:
  • Implemented Proxy settings
  • Added right mouse button override settings that make it possible to open the default context menu on websites that try to block it
  • Fixed several edge cases where Wayfarer's url bar wouldn't correctly show page's url
  • Added code to handle "ContentDisposition: attachment" to trigger downloading instead of displaying the target url
  • Fixed 'Reload' to work after a failed page load
  • Downloaded filename had 1st letter truncated in some cases due to a bug in header parsing
  • Enabled USE_NEW_THEME in WebKit to change how some controls are drawn
  • Default CSS tweaks to prevent invisible checkboxes/radio buttons
Required are MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB of RAM. A CPU with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to the author, besides the integrated crash report tool and e-mails to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu also the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (dr)

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02.Dec.2021



Game soundtrack: Albums on Delphine games announced
Génération Delphine is a project to honor the game soundtracks of the French software company Delphine Software International by releasing albums of the restored tracks. The first album, dedicated to the game Future Wars, was supposed to be released in November, but has now been postponed to early 2022. However, a new preview video has been released, showcasing clips from the album. (dr)

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01.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 128 (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 the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. more ... (cg)

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01.Dec.2021
Marek Duda (Mail)


Arcade game Jump: New preview video, digital version available for pre-order
A week ago we reported about the possibility to pre-order Marek Duda's arcade game 'Jump' in the 'boxed version'. Now he has released a new preview video on YouTube. Likewise, he has now conceded the possibility to also pre-order a digital version of the game for 29 euros at the title link. (dr)

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01.Dec.2021
Kevin Saunders


Tutorial: Techniques of graphics programm 'Brilliance II'
Pretty much two years ago, graphics and game designer Kevin Saunders (including Boss Machine, RESHOOT PROXIMA 3 or Menace remake) on amigaworld.net announced a tutorial for the graphics program Brilliance II for 2020. more ... (dr)

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30.Nov.2021
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Cache management: Source code of 'HyperCache' released
In the late 1980s, early 1990s, Canadian-American programmer David Plummer wrote the cache management 'HyperCache'. Inspired by a user's request, Plummer now published the source code on GitHub and wants to give interested users, programmers and developers the opportunity to take a nostalgic look at program code of that time in general and in particular at the 'state of knowledge' of the author, who was still learning C at that time. more ... (dr)

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29.Nov.2021
AmigaImpact


ModExplorerNG 3.81 for all Amiga systems
In our last news we reported about the 'final version' 3.8 of the ModPlayer developed by Jörg Renkert. Now he has made both his announcements true and on the one hand provided his audio player sorted by target systems with their own versions: The NG variant is still available for all Amiga systems, but if you use the OS3 variant you have to reckon with it running slowly on corresponding systems. Therefore he has created a separate ModExplorerCE version for AmigaOS 3 systems, which contains all important functions as well, but some, like ARexx, have been deactivated or simplified like the search function. Furthermore, with ModExplorerME there is now also a separate version for Android systems.

On the other hand, he has cleaned up some bugs in the NG version 3.8 and released the successor 3.81. (dr)

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