20.Jun.2020
MorphZone (ANF)
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MorphOS: Video player MPlayer 1.4.0 with HTTPS support
The MorphOS port of the video player MPlayer has been updated. MPlayer 1.4.0 now supports SSL and thus for the first time can play HTTPS streams. According to the developer this version still is a beta one.
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20.Jun.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Pre-orders for "Golden Wing - Deluxe Collectors Edition"
"Golden Wing" is a 2D shooter written by Fernando Cabrera (code), Toni Galvez (graphic) and METUNE & Estrayk (sound) which runs on every Amiga equipped with at least 1 MB RAM. The "Deluxe Collectors Edition" now can be pre-ordered for 25 British pound (about 28 Euro) plus shipping and includes the 3,5 inch disk, a printed manual, a glossy A4 single-sided poster as well as stickers and badges.
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19.Jun.2020
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New keyboard membranes for A500, A1200 and A600
The Polish user Marcin Weglewski has created new keyboard membranes for the Amiga keyboard computers which replace a defective membrane or a membrane with defective foil connector. Both versions - one for A500 and A1200, the other for the A600 - e.g. are available on sordan.ie or Retro Ready. A little review on the membrane for the A1200 you can find in the last issue of "10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast" on Youtube.
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19.Jun.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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AmiWest 2020: 25. and 25. October in Sacramento (California)
According to the organizers, the "local conditions here have stabilized" and the hotel which has been used by the AmiWest event every year also is open again. Therefore it was decided to organize an AmiWest this year. Due to the restrictions in tourism, only local speakers and sponsors will be invited.
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18.Jun.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Multiplayer via Internet: AmigaLive 0.983 (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
AmigaLive is a "Netplay" client which uses the network support of the Amiga emulator FS-UAE providing multiplayer games via the Internet. Both players contact the AmigaLive server and then can play an Amiga game together or against each other as if they were sitting in front of the same computer. AmigaLive also offers simple chat functions.
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18.Jun.2020
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.7.4
The latest version of the programming language AmiBlitz only contains changes in the integrated development environment which is included in AmiBlitz:
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17.Jun.2020
ALB42 Blog (ANF)
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Source codes of MUIMapparium and Leu released, development abandoned
Marcus "ALB42" Sackrow has released the source code of some of his Amiga applications on Github, among others his spreadsheet Leu as well as the OpenStreetMap viewer MUIMapparium. In an entry in his blog Sackrow explained that he discontiniued developing the software:
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16.Jun.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable preview: Tactical shooter "Project Horizon"
Project Horizon (video) is a "top-view tactical action game that obviously takes place on the dark side of the moon". It requires 2 MB Chip-RAM and a harddrive. The game is supposed to distributed for free including source code and level editor.
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16.Jun.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 145 - preview and excerpts
A preview and extracts from issue 145 (July/August 2020) of Amiga Future have been released today. Among other things, this issue features a review of "Fred's Journey", the sixth part of the AmigaOS 3.1.4 special and an interview with Andre Zeps (Tiny Little Slug).
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15.Jun.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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Arcade racer: Developer diary on "Super Sprint"
The British developer Graeme Cowie is working on a port of Atari's racing video game Super Sprint to the Amiga. In short "development updates" on Youtube he gives insights into the latest state of the project.
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15.Jun.2020
LemonAmiga (Webseite)
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Arcade games: Bad Ninjas, Blain Home, Lord Vader, Super Capacitor
José A. 'Jojo073' Gonzáles (e.g. Retro Wars, Mini Zorro, Mini Swat) is a very active graphic artist who in co-operation with different developers and using different Game Construction Kits like Backbone or GRAC creates little games distributing them half-commercially. During the last one and a half year obviously we missed some of his releases:
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14.Jun.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.06.2020
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14.Jun.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 13.06.2020
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14.Jun.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 13.06.2020
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14.Jun.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.06.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until June 13th, 2020:
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13.Jun.2020
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C source codes for unreleased Amiga games: "Magic Miner" and "Sea Trade"
Magic Miner and Sea Trade are two Amiga games written in C, which the author Joona Palaste started developing around the turn of the millennium but never finished. Palaste describes the status of the games which were compiled using DICE as "almost completed". He has released the source codes under the GNU GPL on Github.
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13.Jun.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Text adventure: "The Queen's Footsteps", collector's edition
"The Queen's Footsteps" is a text adventure available for a lot of platforms. The "collector's edition" which can be purchased on poly.play includes the game as disk image on a microSD card, a printed manual, a DINA3 poster as well as a pocket mirror in linen bag. As bonus the adventure "Two days to the Race" featuring the same actor is also included.
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13.Jun.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.15
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
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12.Jun.2020
Gregory Donner (E-Mail)
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Graphics card: Firmware and driver update for ZZ9000
For his graphics card ZZ9000 (amiga-news.de reported) Lukas F. Hartmann has released updates of the firmware and the driver. Version 1.6.2 among others offers improved stability and performance.
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12.Jun.2020
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Full version for download: Nicky 2
After the platform game Nicky Boom, now the successor released in 1993, "Nicky 2", can be downloaded for free from the website of the Amiga Future. An ADF disk image as well as WHDLoad installer are available.
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12.Jun.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Crowdfunding: A book from David Pleasance and Trevor Dickinson
After Commodore - The Inside Story, the former "managing director" of Commodore UK, David Pleasance, is working on a second book, this time in co-operation with Trevor Dickinson from A-EON. The book with the subtitle "From Vultures to Vampires" will tell the Amiga history "starting from the day when Escom were the highest bidder at Commodore's liquidator’s auction in New York (I was there), how their attempts to relaunch the Amiga spectacularly failed, then the troublesome years when our beloved computer bounced around from company to company, Viscorp, Quickpack, Gateway 2000, etc. and beyond."
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12.Jun.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Arcade classic: Missile Command
Kevin Gallagher's "Missile Command" (video) is a remake of Ataris' arcade classic having the same name. The game runs on each Amiga having at least 512 KB RAM. The developer is already working on another arcade remake, the shooter Phoenix.
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11.Jun.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Video: Hans de Ruiter about his stagnant laptop project
For a long time there has not been any news about Hans de Ruiter's plans of creating a laptop case for the Tabor board (amiga-news.de reported). In a video now the developer, well-known for his RadeonHD graphics card drivers, spoke about this project: According to him it has not been cancelled but is only stagnating.
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11.Jun.2020
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Self-made project: USB joystick adapter with support for three fire buttons
With Volker Oth's "C64 Joystick Adapter" you can connect Atari and Commodore compatible joysticks to modern computers having an USB port. The adapter supports up to three fire buttons, the mode for additional fire buttons (Amiga or C64) is set by a click on the button and displayed with a status LED.
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10.Jun.2020
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Web browser: IBrowse 2.5.3
Press release: IBrowse 2.5.3 has been released and can now be downloaded to update your existing IBrowse 2.5 installation (OS4 users can also upgrade using AmiUpdate). This is a free update for registered owners of IBrowse 2.5. IBrowse 2.4 and 1.x users can upgrade to IBrowse 2.5.3 via our store at discounted rates. We hope you are all well in these strange times - stay safe!
The main target for this new version was to improve performance on HTTPS connections, given that SSL is relatively slow on 68k processors. Despite the performance enhancements that came in AmiSSL 4.4 (4.6 is available now, by the way), there is not much more that can be done in AmiSSL unless someone is able to write 68k assembly optimised versions of some of the modules (as is the case for PowerPC). Therefore, some other options have been exploited to enhance performance, which have been in beta testing over the past 3 months, due to the major changes required to the HTTP engine...
SSL Session Caching:
IBrowse 2.5.3 now implements a SSL session cache for all HTTPS connections, supporting all the differing session/ticket methods use from TLSv1.0 to TLSv1.3. This allows the slow initial handshaking to be bypassed on subsequent connections to the same host, thus increasing performance noticably on OS3, and even on OS4 too. Most websites support this feature universally.
Persistent Connections:
This is an older HTTP feature that was never implemented in IBrowse until now, partly because IBrowse has always relied on opening multiple connections to websites, which didn't really make this feature worthwhile. However, it can be useful for HTTPS connections as it allows them to be left open and reused, without having spend CPU time renegotiating the SSL connection at all. HTTP(S) persistent connections support is now available in IBrowse 2.5.3 (can be disabled in the settings). Not all websites support persistent connections and, some of those that do, do not keep connections open long enough (e.g. 1 second) to make a difference.
We advise that 68k users pay additional attention to the Max. number of connections and Max. number of secure connections settings in the network preferences. These settings may need retuning because of the two new features described above. Probably, you should not set the number of secure connections to above 4, otherwise multiple connections can battle for CPU time and may well end up timing out. Fewer connections can turn out to be faster, but we suggest that you experiment with these settings to see what feels the best on your particular system.
A number of other improvements and fixes have also been made and are listed in the history log and newly updated changes summary. We would also love to hear your experience of the new features on our mailing list which is still working and hosted by Yahoo! Groups.
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09.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version for download: Nicky Boom
The full version of the platform game Nicky Boom released in 1992 can be downloaded from the website of the Amiga Future for free. ADF and IPF images as well as WHDLoad installers are available. Additionally a PDF version of the manual can be downloaded as well.
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09.Jun.2020
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #68 - AGABlaster
In issue 68 of the videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton has introduced the programs AGABlaster (amiga-news.de reported) and AGAConv written by Markus Schordan. AGAConv can convert video files into Commodore's CDXL video format and AGABlaster can then play them.
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09.Jun.2020
Github
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.6 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 4.6.
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09.Jun.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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Tutorial: The game contruction kit "RedPill"
Jens Henschel is working on a German tutorial on the game construction kit RedPill. According to the author text is still in a very early stage but is permanently reworked and completed, also based on the feedback of the RedPill developer Peris who in our portrait asked for such a supoort.
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08.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Warp 560/Warp 1260: Firmware Pack 1.008
CS-Lab has released an update of the firmware for the 68060-based Warp accelerator boards. Changes of 'Warp Firmware Pack 1.008':
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08.Jun.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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sdbox: Open source SD card reader for the parallel port
'sdbox' developed by Jorgen Bilander is a self-construction board which connects a Arduino Nano V3 as well as a common SD card reader to the parallel port of an Amiga and with the helpof an AmigaOS driver allows to access SD cards. The board, the code as well as the template for a 3d printer are available on Github.
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08.Jun.2020
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AmigaOS 4: Financial management "Lüttje Bookholler" 1.80
The author Achim Pankalla wrote: "It is a easy to use personal finance program. "Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant" and that is what you are, when using my little program. The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. LB is email-ware, if you want to use it permanent, please send me an email and you will get some advantages! for examples updates...LB needs at least AOS4.1u6".
Version 1.80 now also supports importing the QIF-format; by adding this extension maybe it is possible to change from a different program to Lüttje Bookholler. Please note that files which were saved with version 1.80, cannot be opened with previous versions of the program.
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07.Jun.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.06.2020
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07.Jun.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.06.2020
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07.Jun.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 06.06.2020
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07.Jun.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.06.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until June 6th, 2020:
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06.Jun.2020
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File manager: MCAmiga 0.8 for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's MCAmiga is a file manager inspired by Norton and Midnight Commander which can be completely used with the keyboard. Changes in version 0.8:
- Bugfix Move from archive
- lynx type movement (left,right cursor to browse)
- Bugfix initial view as drive view (“LEFT=” shows the drive list as start)
- Bugfix overwrite requester when extracting files
- Bugfix crash on double click on file in archive
- Ask to rename the icon together with the file
- Tool entry to select all info files of selected files
- Better support for german umlauts
- automatically create dir icon on request
MCAmiga is available for AmigaOS (m68k, PPC), MorphOS and AROS (x86, x64, ARM). The program at least requires 4 MB RAM, according to the author the AmigaOS-4 version does not run on a X5000.
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05.Jun.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Card game: High-Low-Equal Poker Card 1.10
In the card game "High-Low-Equal Poker Card" written by Juan Carlos Herran Martin using Hollywood you have to guess if the next card is higher or lower, and earn points.
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04.Jun.2020
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Amigakit announced datatype system
Last year the British retailer Amigakit acquired the rights to the AKDatatypes developed by Andreas Kleinert. In a discussion on amiga.org, Matthew Leaman gives insights into the current stage of development. He also explained that Amigakit is not only going to rework the datatypes but also to write a datatypes.library as well as a new AddDatatypes command. For the future it is planned to work "on the datatype system in any meaningful way" which will be the foundation "for many progressive developments".
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03.Jun.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Game: Demo version of VergeWorld - Icarus Rising
VergeWorld: Icarus Rising is "a sci-fi shoot'em up, racer game with exploration elements" which is in development. Now a demo version is available as ADF file in which you control a spaceship through a canyon (video).
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03.Jun.2020
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Print magazine: Issue 118 of Amiga Future readable online
The English issue 118 (January/February 2016) of the print magazin "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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03.Jun.2020
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Crowdfunding: Book "Demomaker - The Amiga Years"
"Demomaker - The Amiga Years" is supposed to become a book series which will introduce the most important Amiga scene demos and groups. The first part covering the years 1984 to 1993 is now being financed via Indiegogo. For 35 Euro you would get a hardcover book with 452 pages. The funding campaign will last until 22. June. So far about 3000 Euro have been donated, 14.000 Euro are required.
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02.Jun.2020
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Backbone game: "Air Mail" - free digital version and Boxed Edition
"Air Mail" (video of a previous alpha version) is another arcade game created with Backbone and by José A. 'Jojo073' Gonzáles (e.g. Mini Zorro, Mini Swat, Brus Li) and Ricardo Vieira. As usual a "boxed edition" will be sold on amigastore.eu which currently can be ordered via e-mail from the developers. If you want to have the free digital version then you also should contact the developers.
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01.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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New interpreter for Maniac Mansion and Co.: Parrot
Another "player" for the game data of classic point'n-click adventures is developed called "Parrot". At least the SCUMM based games developed by Lucasfilm are supposed to run. In contrast to existing solutions like ScummVM, Parrot is being developed especially for the Amiga and therefore is optimized for this system and its chipset. For example before the first launch, all data are converted into typical Amiga formats to make them playable also on less powerful copmputers. At least "an ECS Amiga, running Workbench 2" is required.
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01.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Decompressing Amiga archives: Ancient Format Decompressor
The "Ancient Format Decompressor" can decompress Amiga archives which were compressed on 16-Bit home computers using common compression programs. The source code can be compiled on every modern system. The following formats are currently supported:
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01.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Remote access to Amigas: squirt
"squirt" is a server having only 5 kb which is launched on Amigas and then allows the remote access to the computer via the network. Using special command line programs you then can control the Amiga with the help of any other computer. In a text-based console also file transfers, switching directories and executing (non-active) Amiga commands are possible. Additionally squirt can be used as backup solution: A special command creates incremental backups of directories.
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31.May.2020
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Aminet-Uploads bis 30.05.2020
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31.May.2020
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31.May.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 30.05.2020
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31.May.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.05.2020
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31.May.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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CS-Lab: First Warp accelerator boards shipped to testers / Firmware 1.007
CS-Lab has shipped the first Warp accelerator boards to beta testers. After the Warp 1260 and the Warp 560 - both versions available for 499 Euro without a processor (amiga-news.de reported) - now a Warp 4060 is planned as well. Information on purchasing the boards will be available soon. First CS-Lab is waiting for the the feedback of the testers.
Additional to the release of the new firmware version 1.007, two new videos are available: "Unboxing Warp1260" as well as "Some more testing the Warp1260".
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30.May.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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FPGA clone: Minimig-AGA-Core for Turbo Chameleon 64
For some time emulations of the Amiga-OCS/ECS chipsets from the Minimig project are available as "Core" for the FPGA-based C64 extension Turbo Chameleon 64 sold by Individual Computers which can operate as stand-alone computer - independently of a C64. Now Alastair Robinson has ported the AGA version of Minimig to the system as well.
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[News message: 30. May. 2020, 22:35] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2020
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Amiga Source Preservation: Source texts and PDF books under free licence
The project "Amiga Source Preservation" originally was going to safeguard as many source texts of Amiga programs as possible and making them available under a free licence. Since about a year books on Amiga have been safeguarded as well which then are offered under the Creative Commons licences for free download.
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29.May.2020
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Modplayer: AmiModRadio 0.9995
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." A rating function is included as well. The new version includes new skins, fixes bugs and now also runs on an A4000/30, an A1200 with 68060 processor and an A600 equipped with a Vampire. The format of the program cache changed. Therefore you should delete the content of the "cache" directory if you are going to update the tool. If you want to report bugs then please use the official bugtracker.
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28.May.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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File manager: MCAmiga 0.5 for all Amiga systems (update)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's MCAmiga is a file manager similar to Norton and Midnight Commander which additional to the mouse interface can be also completely controlled with the keyboard. MCAmiga is available for AmigaOS (m68k, PPC), MorphOS and AROS (x86, x64, ARM). The program at least requires 4 MB RAM. According to the author the AmigaOS 4 version does not run on a X5000.
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28.May.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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USB adapter for classic joystick: UJOY/1A
The US-American retailer has developed another adapter for connecting an Atari/Commodore-compatible joystick to a modern computer: UJOY/1A uses an USB micro controller "Silicon Laboratories EFM8UB1" to make old joysticks understand the USB protocol. The adapter is available for 19 USD, the schematic (but not the documents for making a board) are available for free as PDF.
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28.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version of Grand Prix 500 for download
The full version of the motorbike racing game Grand Prix 500 II can be downloaded in the download section of the Amiga Future as ADF image or WHDLoad version.
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[News message: 28. May. 2020, 00:21] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2020
Olaf Köbnik (ANF)
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Beambender: Interview with Bernhard Aichinger / PC version downloadable
Olaf Köbnik wrote: 17 Jahre after the first release of Beambender (Amiga-Version) by Amiga Arena now with permission of Bernhard Aichinger the long missed PC version of Beambender is offered for free and legal download.
Even after 25 years, afrer the installation Beambender runs under Windows 10 without any problems. An (German) interview with Bernhard Aichinger who contributed the graphics for the Amiga and PC version you can also find under the title link.
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[News message: 27. May. 2020, 19:04] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Arcade classic in 36 kilobytes: Tiny Galaga
After Tiny Invaders, the demo group Abyss has released its second minimalistic clone of an arcade classic called "Tiny Galaga" (video) which is less than 40 kb.
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27.May.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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SciFi shooter/racer: First demo of "Verge World Icarus Rising"
According to the authors "Verge World" is "a sci-fi shoot'em up, racer game with exploration elements." The game is being developed for diverse retro platforms. Now a first playable Amiga preview version is available.
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26.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 110 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes an article about the Amiga games "Cyber Kick" and "Dylan Dog: Attraverso lo Specchio".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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26.May.2020
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AmigaOS 3/4: Web browser Netsurf 3.10
The web browser Netsurf - and also Chris Young's ReAction-based Amiga port (must not be confused with the SDL version) - is available as version 3.10 for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4.
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[News message: 26. May. 2020, 01:21] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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A4000 motherboard suitable for ATX cases: A4000TX
Two years ago the Finnih developer 'hese7' offered his A4000 motherboard clone A4000+ Alice and promised an ATX-compatible version. The aim of the developer was to create a version of the A4000cr motherboard including the daughterboard which is compatible to ATX cases and power supplies and additionally supports fullsize Zorro cards.
Meanwhile the clone has been finished. On Amibay you can purchase empty boards in a collective order. The latest Revision 1.1 offers the following features:
- ATX form factor (actually a hybrid ATX/EATX form factor)
- uses standard ATX power supply
- 68030 processor and 68882-FPU
- CPU slot connector for accelerator cards
- four full-length Zorro III slots
- three (inactive) ISA slots
- 3.5" IDE port
- extended video slot
- onboard Fast RAM support up to 112MB (Meutoxo)
- Kickstart ROM support up to 4MB (Romy)
- Amiga mouse and joystick ports
- PC PS/2 keyboard and PC PS/2 mouse support
- support for native Amiga and PC floppy drives
- 24-pin breakout header with full RGB port support (for external scandoublers, genlocks, SCART cables, etc..)
- power connectors for two case fans
- serial and parallel ports, 3.5mm stereo jack
- on-board RTC with battery
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26.May.2020
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World: Video interview with Holger "Harvey Dent" Weßling (e.g. Data Becke
Holger "Harvey Dent" Weßling has written books and software for the Amiga which have been published e.g. at Data Becker. In this video interview with Scene World he has talked about Amiga publishing houses in the 90s as well as his current books for the C64 Mini and the C64 Maxi.
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25.May.2020
German Amiga Community (Webseite)
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Operating system: NetBSD 9.0 with support of PPC-boards
The free and open-source Unix-like operating system NetBSD is available in version 9.0, among others as port for Amiga computers - for the first time also for the PPC-boards made by Phase 5, although this version is called "very experimental". The global changes of NetBSD 9 are listed in the release notes, specific Amiga changelogs and downloads you can find on the project sites NetBSD/amiga and NetBSD/amigappc.
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[News message: 25. May. 2020, 00:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2020
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Replica of A1200 mainboard: ReAmiga 1200 Revision 1.5
John 'Chucky' Hertell has published an updated version of his A1200 clone ReAmiga 1200. Revision 1.5 among others offers a S-Video instead of a Composite-Video port.
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[News message: 25. May. 2020, 00:18] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2020
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Datatype for WebP: WarpWebP.datatype 45.1
Oliver Robert's has completed his collection of Warp datatypes by another one: The image format WebP. The datatype is based on Google's libwebp 1.1.0. Versions for AmigaOS 3/4, WarpOS and MorphOS are available, a graphic card is not required.
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[News message: 25. May. 2020, 00:18] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 23.05.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 23rd, 2020:
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[News message: 24. May. 2020, 07:31] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2020
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OS4Depot: More than 4000 files uploaded / Uploads until 23.05.2020
On May 17 the 4000th file was uploaded to the OS4Depot. Uploading the last 1000 file thus took eight years and two months.
The following archives have been added until May 23rd, 2020:
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24.May.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 23.05.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 23rd, 2020:
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24.May.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.05.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until May 23rd, 2020:
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24.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video: Raytracing tutorials with Lightwave on an Amiga
Under the title link "Muadib" releases YouTube Raytracing tutorials showing Lightwave on an Amiga. Each Sunday on 7 p.m. (Central European Summer Time) the presentation is broadcast via webcast on Twitch.tv.
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23.May.2020
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Portrait: The RedPill developer Carlos Peris
Besides the well-known developers like Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) or Hans de
Ruiter (ZitaFTP, Warp3D Nova) there are a number of other active developers we would like to introduce to our readers in a loose succession.
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22.May.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade port: Tapper, version 02A
"Tapper" (video) is a port of the arcade classic game from 1983 to the Amiga. In this new test version all gameplay features have been implemented except the sound. The author said: "Still got a fair bit of work in Dpaint to do as well as a few bits of game code to write but I think it's coming along quite nicely."
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22.May.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.14
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
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[News message: 22. May. 2020, 10:40] [Comments: 0]
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22.May.2020
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris, beta version 85
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. Among others Iris now display GMail threads. Besides, "the autoconfiguration of emails was significantly improved, especially for GMail-managed domains and Yahoo."
The author appreciates any feedback. Please use the corresponding MorphZone discussion.
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[News message: 22. May. 2020, 08:34] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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English/Danish assembler workshop from 1990
"Programmering i maskinkode på Amiga" is a Danish assembler workshop, which from 1990 on was commercially distributed in 12 lessons. Meanwhile the author has made available the workshop on his website for free. Thanks to Amiga fan 'Amix73' there is also an English-language translation.
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[News message: 21. May. 2020, 23:24] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser Odyssey 1.23 r5_beta07
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has released a new beta version of his AmigaOS 4 port of the web browser Odyssey. Changes:
- Fixed bug in Cairo library caused skippable DSI on some sites in cairo_clip_intersect_rectangle_box() by adding related patches from the latest version of Cairo.
- Replaced old, statically linked, Pixman library v0.32.4 by newer v0.36.0 from Salas00: https://github.com/salass00/pixman_lib
Salas00's version is a real amiga native shared library and has AOS4 native TLS (thread-local storage) implementation, which means that rendering done now not from the same thread, but from different ones => things can be faster.
New pixman-1.library coming with release archive in the LIBS directory, so no action needs, all continue to works out of the box. Thanks Salas00!
- Media player: when we in accelerated full-window playback, and mouse cursor over the video, then after 2 seconds of inactivity we hide mouse pointer. Moving mouse or clicking mouse buttons made cursor be visibly again. I.e. mimic usual video-players behavior.
- Media player: when we in accelerated full-window playback, then we disable screen blankers and enable them back once we exit from full-window playback.
- Fixed nasty bug with missing TAG_DONE in the Dtpic object creation. Before it working by pure luck: If the memory following the unterminated tag list contains 'lucky' or invalid tag values then nothing bad happens.
But a single 'unlucky' (but valid and possibly dangerous if not used correctly) tag value may cause unpredictable havoc (c) Thore.
- Rewritten DoSuperNew() function to use DoSuperMethodA() directly instead of DoSuperMethod(), as the later internally do call the same DoSuperMethodA(). So we skip that step to make DoSuperNew() be more efficient with less stack space in use.
Thanks to Thore for hint and Oliver for explaining.
- Added support for 4th and 5th mouse buttons for stepping backward (4th) and forward (5th) through the browser history. I.e same as in IBrowse.
- Major improvements in spoofing area by Javier: new Spoofing preferences. Together with inbuild (and not editable) default Odyssey's user-agent, you can now add/edit your own ones.
You also can choose what user agents you want to show on the menu and which didn't. All the user-agents saves in the 'useragents.prefs' placed in Conf , just like 'userscripts.prefs' or 'searchengines.prefs'.
The work which spends on was big, so there can be issues so plz check it carefully and report all bugs and suggestions. Everything localized as well, see bottom of OWB.cd. Thanks Javier!
- Notification titles are now localized as well, see OWB.cd for MSG_NOTIFY_DL_COMPLETED, MSG_NOTIFY_DL_CANCELLED and MSG_NOTIFY_DL_FAILED (c) Javier.
- Updated Italian catalog by samo79 and new Danish catalog by NBache.
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21.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Virus Help Team Denmark: Update of VirusZ_III.Bootblocks
The "Virus Help Team Denmark" (VHT) has released an update of its bootblock collection which is used in Georg Hörmann's program VirusZ III:
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