01.Mar.2022
Robert Smith
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Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.7 / FloppyBridge 1.1
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.
DrawBridge has been updated to version 2.8.7 and uses a new algorithm for reading the hard disk, which ensures better compatibility with games under WinUAE. FloppyBridge version 1.1 also improves compatibility due to changes in PLL and "Rotation Extractor" handling. Robert Smith encourages retesting games that have not previously booted. Prior installation of DrawBridge firmware 1.9.24 is required.
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01.Mar.2022
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Developer tools: vasm 1.9 and vlink 0.17
Frank Wille hat released updates for portable and retargetable assembler vasm and the corresponding portable linker vlink. AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS are supported. A list of the changes can be found on the respective websites.
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01.Mar.2022
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Compiler: vbcc 0.9h
vbcc is a highly optimizing portable and retargetable ISO C compiler written by Volker Barthelmann (compiler core) and Frank Wille (Amiga specific code). It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99).
Yesterday, version 0.9h was released, which contains numerous changes. Detailed documentation is available in the form of a pdf file on the homepage, as are the binaries for the individual target platforms.
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01.Mar.2022
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of February
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of February.
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28.Feb.2022
Amigans
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Video: Amiga game classics under AmigaOS 4
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin shows in his latest YouTube video how some old great Amiga classic games (released around the 2000s) work natively (without UAE, but with Petunia) under today's AmigaOS4 and on today's AmigaOS4 hardware. This test was done with his beta version of AmigaOS4 with all beta drivers from AEON and beta components of the operating system from Hyperion. The hardware used is an AmigaONEX5000/020 with Radeon RX 560.
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28.Feb.2022
Discord
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Video: How easy is it to make your own joystick using a 3D printer?
In his latest video, Robert Smith attempts to 3D print and build his own retro-style joystick for his Amiga. He takes you through all the steps from design to build in his tutorial. Below the video is all the information needed so anyone can build their own joystick.
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27.Feb.2022
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Aminet uploads until 26.02.2022
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27.Feb.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.02.2022
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27.Feb.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 26.02.2022
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27.Feb.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.02.2022
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27.Feb.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.02.2022
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 26.02.2022:
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27.Feb.2022
Apollo-Forum
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Apollo V4: Ultimate Expansion Board
The developers 'Quetzal' and 'Owl' have developed a board in mini-ITX format that can accommodate an Apollo V4 standalone and offers a variety of additional features and inputs and outputs. A detailed description of the specifications can be found on the project page. Now a new video has been released showing the final prototype. The first boards are expected in mid-2022.
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27.Feb.2022
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Music: Amiga-DJ-Video
In this YouTube video, musician and DJ 'Fast Ram' presents the broader spectrum of old and new rave sound, which he mixes and plays using Amiga computers and software he developed himself. His equipment:
- 2x Amiga 600 running PT-1210 v1.1 (DJ-Decks)
- 1x Amiga 1200 running XSD v0.5b (Sample-Start)
- 1x mixer, two hands, 100% Amiga tunes
Those who want to support the musician have the opportunity to do so on his Bandcamp page.
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26.Feb.2022
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Arcade port: 'Scramble 500' released
A few days ago we already reported about Jean-François Fabre's new project: the port of the shoot'em-up classic Scramble (video). Now the developer has released his game (adf file) on itch.io. Since, as he explained to us, he was able to fix the last bugs, it is basically ready. If users still find bugs, he asks to report them.
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26.Feb.2022
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Italian print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 5
The Italian print magazine 'Passione Amiga' is only available as an annual subscription: you have to pay 16 euros for four issues per year. The fifth issue offers the following topics, among others:
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26.Feb.2022
commodore.news
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French print magazine: "Boing" Nr. 3
'Boing' is a French print magazine published by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL). The third issue has 52 pages in A4 format and includes a report from AmiWest, a review of the use of the Amiga in video production and tests of 'The Shadows of Sergoth', 'Turbo Tomato' and the 'Lotus' trilogy.
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26.Feb.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Puzzle game: Adam is me
'Adam is me' (video) is a conversion of Baba Is You for the Amiga: by moving and joining tiles on the playing field, on which nouns and verbs are noted, the rules of the respective level are changed in such a way that the game character can finish the section. According to a discussion at ppa.pl (machine translation) , this is an early version of the title written in C, which is still being worked on.
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26.Feb.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Tetris clone with CD32/CDTV support: Choctris
Choctris (video) is a Tetris clone with background music and sound effects. If the game is running on a CDTV or CD32, an inserted CD can also provide the background music; on a CDTV, the high scores are also stored in the bookmark memory. Choctris requires Kickstart 2.0 or higher.
Direct download:
Choctris.adf (880 KB)
Choctris.lha (320 KB)
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25.Feb.2022
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Kickstarter campaign: Bluetooth remake of Amiga mouse
The Polish designer Lukas Remis has started a Kickstarter campaign for a wireless remaking of the Commodore Maus 1352. His 'Tank Mouse' is outwardly based on the original, but incorporates modern technology: the Tank Mouse is a wireless optical mouse that has been given a touch panel between the two buttons for scrolling. It works with Bluetooth or 2.4 GHz and can also be used with the Amiga computer. A small USB receiver is to be included in the package for this purpose. A prototype has already been built in cooperation with a renowned electronics manufacturer, extensively tested and is now ready for mass production. The specifications:
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25.Feb.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Preview videos: Jump'n Run 'Maria Renard's Revenge', Beat'em Up 'Double Dragon'
'Maria Renard's Revenge' (Video) is a Jump'n Run inspired by Castlevania, is developed using the Scorpion Engine. It comes from the same team that has announced a remake of 'Rick Dangerous' recently.
The Beat'em Up 'Double Dragon' (Video) is also done with the Scorpion Engine. It's a port of Taito's Arcade classic from 1987, which is aiming to be a better Amiga conversion than the official Amiga port from 1989.
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24.Feb.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable prototype: Castlevania clone 'Akumajou Dracula' (AGA)
'Akumajou Dracula' (Video) is going to be a port of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania. The game is developed using the Scorpion Engine, a newly released prototype contains the entire first world right up to the end of level boss.
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23.Feb.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Music disk: Cheesy Listening
'Cheesy Listening' (Video) released by Alcatraz, Rebels & Offence is a traditional 'music disk' featuring 12 tracks and a total run-time of about 40 minutes.
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23.Feb.2022
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Game previews: New teaser videos for 'Boss Machine' (AGA) and 'Target Renegade'
Two previously announced games for the Amiga had new teaser videos released recently: The horizontally scrolling AGA Shoot'em Up 'Boss Machine' (Video) has been under development for two years now, it's inspired by the Genesis/MegaDrive title Thunder Force IV. 'Target Renegade' (Video) is written in BlitzBasic and is also a port of a classic game.
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23.Feb.2022
Twitter
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CDXL video player: AGABlaster 0.9.90
AGABlaster plays Commodore's CDXL video format. According to the author, it uses a customized version of the CDXL format supporting the AGA chipset with 24 bit colors and variable length frames. Customized CDXL files can be generated with AGAConv. AGABlaster is written in 68K Assembly and runs on native Amiga hardware (no gfx card or sound card required). Changes of version 0.9.90:
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23.Feb.2022
Twitter
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Aracade game: 'Green Beret' update
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported).
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23.Feb.2022
Daniel Müßener (Mail)
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Preview video 26: 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). According to the developer, "the game still runs on a standard A1200 without turbo card and without Fast RAM in PAL lowres with 50 frames per second."
In his 26. preview video he shows the following changes:
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22.Feb.2022
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MorphOS: PDF-Anzeiger 'SpeedPDF'
Recently Carsten Siegner had released the first public version of his Hollywood-written PDF viewer 'SpeedPDF', which handles meta information (title, subject, author etc.), hyperlinks and bookmarks among other things. Now version 1.1 is available adding other important features:
- Support encrypted pdf's
- Save and load settings
- Print pdf
- Export pages from pdf
- use cairo to display pdf
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22.Feb.2022
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AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.31
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.31 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
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21.Feb.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade conversions: Amidar500 and MsPacman 500, Preview video of Scramble 500
After his Pacman port released in September, Jean-François Fabre seems to have taken a liking to the conversion of old Aracde games: In the meantime, with Amidar500 (video) and MsPacman 500 (video) further Amiga versions of Pacman clones from the early eighties have been released.
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21.Feb.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 155 - preview and excerpts
Previews and excerpts of Amiga Future 155 (March/April 2022) have been published today. This issue includes reviews of 'Attack of the PETSCII Robots' and 'Checkmate A1500' as well as a "Special" about AmigaOS 3.2.1. 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.
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21.Feb.2022
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Commercial Jump'n Run: The Dream of Rowan 1.2
The Jump'n Run 'Dream of Rowan' (Video), originally released in 2017, was now updated to version 1.2 which improves the jump routine and "removes any CPU restrictions".
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20.Feb.2022
Martina Hřebcová (Mail)
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Detailed review (Czech): The Pegasos I from bPlan
In June last year Martina Hřebcová had published a detailed review and test on the Czech Amiga portal about the use of graphics cards under the Sam440ep-flex. Now she got her hands on a Pegasos I computer, which she not only reviews in detail (Czech), but also tries to exploit its performance as much as possible by overclocking and installing suitable graphics cards, memory and USB 2.0 card.
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20.Feb.2022
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Aminet uploads until 19.02.2022
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20.Feb.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.02.2022
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20.Feb.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 19.02.2022
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20.Feb.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.02.2022
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20.Feb.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 19.02.2022
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20.Feb.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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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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20.Feb.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Amiga 3000 daughterboard
At the title link, Ian Bremner has released the files for his recreation of the revision 9 daughterboard for the Amiga 3000.
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20.Feb.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Using PC floppy disk drives on Amiga with EZ-FD
Graham Thomson's EZ-FD is based on the same idea as Eyetech's EZ-DF0, which they used in their EZ-Tower cases for the Amiga 1200 to use standard PC floppy disk drives. At the title link he released the KiCAD files for the circuit board.
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20.Feb.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now.
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19.Feb.2022
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Video: The history of the Amiga 1000
In his eighth eposide on Commodore's history, the well-known Texan YouTuber The 8-Bit Guy has recorded a video explaining the Amiga 1000.
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18.Feb.2022
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Text adventure: Updates for Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut)
In mid-June 2021 we reported about the remake of the text adventure Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), which was released for numerous platforms. In the meantime, several updates have been released, which also affect the Amiga version: Release 8 mainly corrected spelling errors, while Release 9 helped to improve the overall performance of the Amiga version, since it uses a new "Z-Machine Version 5"-enabled interpreter. The presumably last update 12, released three weeks ago, "fixes an issue with the PunyInform library that caused a few of the interpreters to throw warnings when playing, particuarly the Amiga and Atari ST version of the game."
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18.Feb.2022
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Fundraiser: Preserving Commodore documents
Two days ago Dave McMurtrie of the Commodore International Historical Society and Brian Bagnall, known for his books about Commodore's company history, started a fundraising campaign to finance the retrieval of Commodore documents from a basement archive in Toronto. Brian Bagnall writes about this:
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17.Feb.2022
Gotek-Retro
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RaSCSI: SCSI adapter for Raspberry Pi
In 2015, we reported about SCSI2SD, a SCSI adapter that allows SD cards to be used as SCSI hard drives. The firmware is still being maintained and the adapter is also still available, but it costs just under 90 Euros converted. As Gotek-Retro reports, there is also a solution for Raspberry Pi users: RaSCSI is a virtual SCSI device emulator that can emulate multiple SCSI devices at once. Likewise, there is a control interface to attach/detach drives on the fly, as well as insert and eject removable media. It works with a variety of Amiga models. The adapter is available for about 50 Euro for example at SamplerSpa or AmigaKit.
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16.Feb.2022
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Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.6
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. The changes of the current version:
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15.Feb.2022
ACube Systems (Mail)
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ACube Systems: Sam460LE boards announced / Pre-order campaign
Press release: After many months, we are so happy to announce we are very close to a production start for a new batch of Sam460 boards.
Well, these will not be Sam460 but Sam460LE, i.e. Limited Edition.
Due to the pandemic time and huge delays in delivering hardware components, we had to spend a lot more time than planned to find all components for a production run. Finally, we reached a point where we need your help to start this production.
We are now taking pre-orders for these Sam460LE boards. You can find a pre-order product right now in our online shop.
All Sam460LE bundles are made of:
- Sam460LE board running up to 1.1 Ghz
- Micro-ATX form factor with enough space for double slot graphic cards ;-)
- MicroSD Slot at the rear of the board, so it can operated from the back.
- 1 backplate
- AmigaOS 4.1 FE
- final price is 735 Euros VAT excluded (european countries should add 22% VAT).
Pre-orders will be processed as follows:
- you can pay now 240 Euros (VAT excluded, see above), for a Sam460 package
- we'll announce on all social media when the production starts
- we'll also announce when the production has been completed
- you will be asked one by one, to complete your payment (basically, the total cost minus what you paid as the pre-order)
- first payment, first served. We'll ship in the same order we receive the remaining payments.
- in case you decide to ask for a refund, we'll send your money back without condition.
Note: people that will purchase outside the scope of this pre-order offer will have to pay a final price of 785 Euros for the same product.
We are happy to work with you on this effort to bring more Sam460 boards on the market and we hope you will join us in this project!
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15.Feb.2022
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Commercial RPG: Glamorous Zombie Flakes (OCS/AGA/RTG)
The developers of 'Glamorous Zombie Flakes' describe it as an "oldschool, console-style RPG", where the player must guide a group of models to cure zombies of their bizarre affliction and chase UFOs. The title features more than 30 different zombie types, more than 100 items and a turn-based strategy "intervention" system.
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14.Feb.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: How Floppy Disk Copy Protection Worked
In the first episode of his two-part series on floppy disks, Robert Smith, best known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, explained how data is stored on a floppy disk, both physically and computer-wise. In the second episode, he goes into some of the physical copy protection methods used to prevent hard disk duplicates from working.
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13.Feb.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, continue Hollywood's 20th anniversary celebrations with yet another major new release: Plananarama 2.0. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run on classic Amiga hardware without any graphics board. Once Plananarama is installed, all Hollywood scripts will 'automagically' run on palette screens as well! All resolutions are supported - from 8-bit LowRes to 1-bit productivity SuperHighRes Interlace.
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13.Feb.2022
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13.Feb.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 12.02.2022
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to AROS Archives:
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13.Feb.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.02.2022
The following files have been added until 12.02.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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13.Feb.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.02.2022
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 12.02.2022:
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13.Feb.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Kultmags.com: All issues of Amiga DOS magazine archived
At kultmags.com, german computer and video game magazines of the 80s, 90s and early 2000 years are digitized and preserved for posterity with permission of the respective copyright holders. Recently, the final eight issues missing to complete the Amiga DOS collection ("The magazine for active Amiga users") could be added.
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12.Feb.2022
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Board game featuring a computer opponent: Castle Danger
'Castle Danger' (Video) ist a virtual, 2-player board game that was initially released as Freeware for Windows. The Amiga version can also be played against the computer, the AI is described as "kind of working" and planned to be improved in subsequent releases.
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[News message: 12. Feb. 2022, 23:15] [Comments: 0]
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12.Feb.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Dungeon Crawler: playable demo version of 'Black Dawn Technomage' (AGA)
'Black Dawn: Technomage' (Video) is the sequel to Black Dawn Rebirth and developed by the same team. The game was initially announced as Black Dawn Rogue and is the first title in the Black Dawn series requiring AGA. A playable demo has been released a few days ago.
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12.Feb.2022
IBrowse website
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.12 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 4.12 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL provides the latest root-certificates as well as some bug fixes. Detailed changelog:
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11.Feb.2022
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Word processing: FinalWriter update status
Just about a year ago, we last reported on the update for Finalwriter first announced by new rights owner Timothy "Terminills" Deters in 2015. Yesterday, the developer briefly outlined the current status on Amigans and MorphZone respectively:
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10.Feb.2022
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Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress 1200
After a currently sold out version for the installation of the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 500 case, there is now with the MiSTress 1200 under the title link also a corresponding extension for the case of the Amiga 1200 (original or replica).
The MiSTress is used to install the FPGA computer into the Amiga case, whereby the original keyboard can still be used. The rear openings for the original connections are used to make the sockets for the network, USB, SD card, joystick, audio, HDMI and analog VGA/RGB connections, among others, accessible.
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10.Feb.2022
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AROS distribution: The 100% Useless AROS Distribution 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 0.3 of his "The 100% Useless AROS Distribution" at the title link. The reason for this is the version AROS ABIv11 for 64-bit Intel and AMD processors released by the developer 'deadwood' at the beginning of January (official GitHub page).
This new AROS version doesn't support symmetric multiprocessing anymore, which makes the compilation of his programs easier. Included are some of his programs like MUIMapparium, LEU, AYA, AmiTube or MCAmiga. The distribution serves the developer primarily as a test environment for his FreePascal AROS64 development, which is why it can neither be called finished nor stable. However, the applications work "reasonably well", only with the calculation of the font size there would be problems.
This new version can be downloaded from the corresponding website.
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10.Feb.2022
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Video: Installation of AmiKit XE under Windows 11
Appropriate to yesterday's release of AmiKit 11.5+ Jörg "Torque" Klopsch shows in a video how to install the new version under Windows 11 and using WinUAE.
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[News message: 10. Feb. 2022, 09:43] [Comments: 0]
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09.Feb.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5+ for Windows/Mac/Linux
For the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators, an update to version 11.5 (followed by a live update to version 11.6) has been released. In addition to an emulator, AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required.
Users who purchased AmiKit XE last year or this year will get the update for free. Those who purchased AmiKit XE in 2019/2020 will need a subscription to the existing AmiKit 11.4.3 to upgrade to the new version 11.5 and above.
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[News message: 09. Feb. 2022, 21:43] [Comments: 0]
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09.Feb.2022
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RTG driver: P96 V3.2.3 released
At the beginning of January, Individual Computers had updated its graphics card driver P96 to version 3.2.2. Not on the official homepage, but in the support forum, Jens Schönfeld announced that he had uploaded version 3.2.3 with the following changes:
- P96 no longer attempts to set the beamcon0 register and the vtotal register of the custom chips in case the active video mode is on an RTG board that is not in the display chain.
- Even though bitmaps were locked, memory management could have migrated them off the board if memory was getting tight. This may have caused quite some issues on "close-to-zero" memory situations.
- As BlitMaskBitMap was potentially allocating memory for the mask buffer, it could have migrated the bitmaps it was actually supposed to render, causing all kinds of havocs. To avoid this problem, source and target bitmap for a two-bitmap operation are now locked on the board. This is actually a very old bug that goes back to the 2.x release cycle.
- A possible memory inconsistency in P96Mode was fixed where an incorrect memory pointer was released.
- The Altais and RetinaBLT drivers did not record the state of the monitor switch correctly. As a result of this defect, the SetDPMS() function to enable power saving may have failed, keeping the monitor on all the time.
- The rtg.library may have attempted to switch of the Altais display on a Draco system without ever turning it on again.
- Fixed a very old bug on adjusting the line pattern shift upon drawing into multiple cliprects. This bug was apparently introduced while merging my own P96 version with the last official version by the authors. This bug could have introduced artefacts when drawing "marquee" effects for selecting multiple files in alternative file managers.
- When switching buffers on a double-buffered screens, P96 forcibly reloaded the sprite image, which caused flicker on some RTG boards. This version now avoids reloading the sprite unless absolutely necessary.
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[News message: 09. Feb. 2022, 06:59] [Comments: 0]
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09.Feb.2022
Michael Rupp (Mail)
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Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.2 (OS3/4, MorphOS)
Well-known for his workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp had released his first Amiga program at the beginning of August, which is used to control Sonos speakers: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). After a first update, he has released version 1.2 today for his program written in the Hollywood programming language, which is again available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3 and 4 (screenshots in that order):
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[News message: 09. Feb. 2022, 06:44] [Comments: 0]
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08.Feb.2022
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Shooter: Playable demo version of 'Cyberpunk Alien City'
Cyberpunk Alien City (video) is a mixture of Run'n Gun and Space Invaders: The player has to defend a city against attacking aliens. Various weapon systems, horizontal scrolling (dual playfield with four bitplanes each) and 50 frames per second are offered. The game runs on any Amiga with two megabytes of RAM, an A1200 with some Fast RAM is recommended.
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[News message: 08. Feb. 2022, 16:47] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2022
Roland Wintgen (E-Mail)
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Conversion instructions: Joystick Competition Pro Extra USB on Amiga
At the title link, Michael Steil has updated his conversion instructions by which you can connect the Competition Pro Extra USB joystick with a standard DB9 connector to the Amiga - optionally even without giving up the USB interface.
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[News message: 07. Feb. 2022, 20:16] [Comments: 0]
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06.Feb.2022
Artur Jarosik
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Real-time strategy: Command & Conquer is ported to the Amiga
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. Now, as a contribution to the AmiGameJam, he has started to port the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga and named it "Vanilla Conquer".
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[News message: 06. Feb. 2022, 21:18] [Comments: 0]
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06.Feb.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.6
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, 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: 06. Feb. 2022, 18:00] [Comments: 0]
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06.Feb.2022
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Aminet uploads until 05.02.2022
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to Aminet:
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[News message: 06. Feb. 2022, 09:27] [Comments: 0]
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06.Feb.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.02.2022
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06.Feb.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.02.2022
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to AROS Archives:
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06.Feb.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.02.2022
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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06.Feb.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.02.2022
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 05.02.2022:
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[News message: 06. Feb. 2022, 09:26] [Comments: 0]
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06.Feb.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: internal keyboard adapter PS2toAmiga
Jari Tulilahti from Finland has published his project at the title link for using a PS/2 keyboard for the Amiga. The adapter, based on the ATTiny85 microcontroller, is placed within the keyboard.
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[News message: 06. Feb. 2022, 09:26] [Comments: 0]
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06.Feb.2022
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Amiga WARP calendar for 2022
As every year, also for 2022 Croatian Amiga WARP Organization published a calendar in English and Croatian language as PDF files. The calendar is made completely on Amiga with Amiga software. This year Amiga WARP Organization celebrate their 25th birthday.
Download:
WARP_Calendar_2022_ENG.pdf (2 MB)
WARP_Calendar_2022.pdf (2 MB)
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[News message: 06. Feb. 2022, 09:26] [Comments: 0]
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06.Feb.2022
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World: Video interview with Andreas Escher (Rainbow Arts)
Scene World has published a video interview with Andreas Escher of Rainbow Arts. There the computer graphic artist (e.g. Turrican) tells that in the past he always drew the graphics for all platforms on the Amiga.
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[News message: 06. Feb. 2022, 09:26] [Comments: 0]
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06.Feb.2022
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Apollo-Team: Apollo V2 Accelerators Support Statement
Press release:
Dear V2 users,
Apollo V2-series have been an extremely successful and hugely loved Amiga accelerator since 2014.
Vast amounts of Amiga’s were resurrected from a lonely existence in the attic by “Vampirising” with the V2-600, V2-500 and V2-1200 cards featuring the powerful AMMX 68080 CPU.
Last year the Apollo Team declared the V2 accelerators End-of-Sale and introduced the new V4 range for Amiga 500/1000/2000 (Firebird), Amiga 1200 (Icedrake) and Amiga 4000 (Kraken) (amiga-news.de reported).
In this Support Statement we want to give full clarity to our Apollo Vampire V2 user base about the end of the Roadmap for the Apollo V2 accelerators.
Fixes:
Apollo Team has always been and will always be 100% focused on compatibility, giving our users the best Amiga experience.
We continue to collect, analyse and mitigate reported issues from our users, specifically any experiences in game & demo incompatibilities. The recent maintenance v2.15 ApolloCore release for all V2-series shows our commitment and loyalty to V2 community.
For the foreseeable future the Apollo Team will keep bringing new “maintenance” ApolloCore release to V2 accelerators.
Features:
The physical limits of the possibilities in the V2-Series FPGA have been reached. This means the current functionality will be frozen, including the support for targeted OS platforms.
In practice, this means there are no new features to be expected. The V2 range will NOT support any other OS than Amiga OS3.x. Users that want to experience all new developments in ApolloOS, including the ApolloBoot multi-OS solution running up to 10 operating systems, are encouraged to look at the new Apollo V4 accelerators.
We hope that this Support Statement gives the needed clarity on the remaining Roadmap for the V2 accelerators. Please give us your feedback or tips for bug-fixes on the Apollo Discord channel: v2-series.
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05.Feb.2022
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Shoot'em up: Fifth demo version of Jackal
NeesoGames has released the fifth demo version (YouTube video) of its game a href="https://neesogames.itch.io/jackal-amiga-port">Jackal, created with the Scorpion Engine. The shoot 'em up was also submitted as an entry for AmiGameJam 2021. Changes since fourth demo version:
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05.Feb.2022
Discord
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Video interview with AmigaDOS creators
The YouTube channel The Digital Orphanage has done an interview with Dr Tim King and his wife Jessica about their important contribution to the release of the Amiga 1000 computer. Without the TRIPOS operating system, the release of the Amiga would have been significantly delayed. The interview was recorded on 1 October 2021.
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05.Feb.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 25 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming 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. Now the episode 25 was published, which is also about sprites and its collision detection.
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04.Feb.2022
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Emulator: WinUAE 4.9.1
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been updated to version 4.9.1. Changes:
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04.Feb.2022
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 2.2
At the beginning of October, developer 'jasonsbeer' had announced revision 2.0 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX'. Now he has released revision 2.2 on his GitHub website, which adds a TICK header with three options for generating a TICK signal.
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[News message: 04. Feb. 2022, 21:17] [Comments: 0]
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04.Feb.2022
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Mini-game: Demo version of EmotiWorld
Although Amiten Games continues to devote most of their time to their main project CyberPunk Alien City, there is still time for smaller side projects: In the course of a Spanish-language AMOS tutorial on the use of tiles, a mini-game called EmotiWorld was created, which is currently available in a demo version 0.3 and already contains three levels (YouTube video).
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04.Feb.2022
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Unsatisfactory Software: Updates of tools
In the last few days Unsatisfactory Software has updated some of its tools:
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03.Feb.2022
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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7-bit: Firmware update for Wicher 1211
7-bit has released a firmware update for the Wicher 1211 memory expansion card for the Amiga 1200 today, which includes fixes for the RAM controller and adds an SPI controller to the ZorroII card chain.
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[News message: 03. Feb. 2022, 18:14] [Comments: 0]
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03.Feb.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Void-Update für den AmigaOne X1000/5000
In the corresponding post in the Hyperion forum from the end of last week Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky reports about a new image of the Linux distribution Void Linux for the AmigaOne X1000 and 5000.
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[News message: 03. Feb. 2022, 06:06] [Comments: 0]
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02.Feb.2022
Gunnar Kanold
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Programming contest: BASIC 10Liner Contest
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some sound or colorful lines by writing little BASIC programs.
The organizers wrote: "The BASIC 10Liner Contest started 2011 as a party fun at the NOMAM meeting in Northern Germany. NOMAM means 'Not only marvelous Atari machinery' and is an annual meeting from classic computer enthusiasts. The visitors of the meeting decided to hold a little contest: Write a program in 10 lines of BASIC on Atari Computers! We had loads of fun with programming the whole weekend. 2013 we decided to repeat the contest. This time only games were allowed. In 2014 we opened the 10Liner contest also for programmers who did not visit to the meeting. Owners of other 8 bit computer requested to open the contest for their machines. We met the wish and opened it for all 8 bit computers."
This year the 11th Edition of BASIC 10 Liner Contest takes place. And also Amigas as 16 bit computers can partiticipate: In the category "Wild" those contributions can be sent in. You can get some inspiration from contributions of the previous years. Additional to many little games, two programs for the Amiga were also written: In 2018 Matteo Trevisan wrote an "Amiga BASIC Login" (fourth post) and in 2019 an "Amiga 500 Chatbot", listet as first post.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 26, 2022, 6 p.m. CET. Award ceremony: Saturday, April 9, 2022 at NOMAM. A detailed overview of the submitted programs can be found at bunsen.itch.io.
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02.Feb.2022
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Text viewer: NEXT 4.1
In 2002 Jürgen Klawitter reported us for the last time a new version of his text viewer NEXT (version 3.5), the last public version 4.0 was from May 31, 2011. But as the author writes, NEXT is much more than a pure text viewer: it is also Amigaguide replacement, HTML offline browser, DataTypes viewer, uncruncher, unpacker of archives, file converter, print utility and some more. This versatility is also the reason why the program was installed from the beginning on my Amiga 1200, integrated via ToolsMenu. Next also has a very powerful search function, which marks all occurrences of a searched term at the same time and allows searching with wildcards and in binary files.
As the author explains to us when asked, he has not been involved with programming and the Amiga since 2011 and has devoted himself to other hobbies. His Amiga hardware, an A3000 and a second floppy drive, were given away. Only a Zip drive, which was never used before, is in the depot. His turning away from the Amiga at that time had among other things to do with the fact that he couldn't read or use PDFs and other files that were common in the PC world.
The return to programming, Jürgen Klawitter continues, came in this winter of 2021/22, which also limited him in his leisure activities and caused boredom. So he came up with the idea to install WinUAE on his laptop:
"After this was successful, I tried out how much of my former programming knowledge was still left. Surprisingly much, actually everything was still there! Nevertheless, there were difficulties to understand the source code of the more extensive programs again. Next has about 20000 lines, Anno (calendar) and OMon (system monitor) about 6000 lines each.
Parts of it are quite complicated. I then started to implement small improvements, first with Anno, later with Next. With Next, I was particularly annoyed by the fact that I had not managed to get the converted text from docx files into a reasonable form. I finally found details of the format on the internet and a tag () that was responsible for the outline in paragraphs. That was the breakthrough."
NEXT formats loaded text before it is displayed. In the process, lines that are too long are wrapped at word boundaries and characters that cannot be displayed are replaced by spaces. Color, style, and print control sequences are preserved.
Finally, a small test shall show how Word files are loaded, for which the following example poem - written and saved in Word 2010 - shall serve us:
To load a Word document either UnZip is needed or the XAD system. For the use of the latter one goes either over the menu option "Use XAD" or creates itself a "next.prefs" text file under Prefs/Env-Archive with the contents "XAD". In this configuration file you can also define window dimensions, font and colors for the text display.
As Jürgen Klawitter writes, from files of the Microsoft word processors Word and Write (extensions .doc or .docx and .wri) the plain text is extracted and formatted. For Word documents with the extension .doc, references to footnotes and the footnotes themselves are numbered ([1],[2]...). The same applies to annotations, recognizable by the preceding "A"([A1],[A2]...). Since a docx file is always a zip archive, it takes two steps to get to the text: Next, after selecting a docx file, presents the contents in a small window. Each archive contains 10 or more xml files, which contain stylesheets, images, comments and footnotes, but only one of them contains the text:
By selecting "word/document.xml" you can now see the text:
As you can see, the conversion of .docx files results in pure continuous text, without styles. The information about them is in stylesheets, which are hidden in the other files. As the author writes, "taking stylesheets into account would require a disproportionate amount of extra work, which I do not want to do – if at all possible."
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02.Feb.2022
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AmiKit XE: Preconfigured front end AmiLion 1.3
AmiLion is a front end with wallpaper backgrounds for the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE, written in Hollywood for quickly accessing Rabbit Hole programs like Firefox, VLC or Steam as well as website links like Aminet, Wikipedia or YouTube. Besides Windows 10, the Raspberry Pi also is fully supported.
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[News message: 02. Feb. 2022, 07:21] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 9
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new beta version of his Amiga emulator for macOS which is currently under development. The changes version 1.1 beta version 9 are as follows:
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01.Feb.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of January
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of applications and games for AmigaOS 4 in the month of January.
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01.Feb.2022
Alexandre Balaban (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4.1: CompareDirs compares directories
Using CompareDirs the directory structure of two directories can be compared, including all files. The result window shows the files with size and date. Alexandre Balaban's tool can be controlled either from the shell or via Reaction GUI.
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31.Jan.2022
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ACube Systems: Appeal for reporting AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware
ACube Systems asks in their Twitter message today to report AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware so that the AmigaOS 4.1 Hardware Compatibility List can be completed.
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[News message: 31. Jan. 2022, 10:24] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2022
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Aracade game: Green Beret released (update)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine.
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[News message: 31. Jan. 2022, 07:09] [Comments: 1 - 06. Feb. 2022, 07:33]
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31.Jan.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: How Data is Encoded and Stored on Floppy Disks
Robert Smith, known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has now published the first part of a two-part series on floppies, following his tutorial on porting a Christmas game from HTML5 to AMOS. In it, he takes a look at how data is stored on a floppy disk, both physically and computer-wise. The second part will be about different copy protection methods.
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Developer blog: Status update on RGBtoHDMI board
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about the latest progress and developments of projects he is involved in.
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Preview: Eleven upcoming Amiga games for 68k Amigas
The YouTube channel it's a P/XEL thing gives a playful preview of eleven Amiga games announced for 2022.
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AROS Archives uploads until 29.01.2022
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