20.Jun.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.3 and 6.3.3 (preview)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
New versions have now been released: version 5.7.3 is recommended for ARM devices (like the Raspberry Pi) and version 6.3.3 (preview) for x86 and generally faster boards (ARM included). Both versions offer new features like resolution autoswitch option, bug fixes and improvements.
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20.Jun.2024
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Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.7 for Windows, Linux and macOS
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (new YouTube video).
The new version offers improved Live Analyser, jump table support and reduced iteration time. Besides, many bugs have been fixed in the analyser. A detailed list of all changes and the features is given in the devlog to the new version.
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19.Jun.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Utility PowerReboot V0.9
Francis G. Loch's PowerReboot is the evolution of OS4Reboot and, including version 0.8 released a few days ago, the first update in about 20 years. As the author tells us, his tool can now not only reboot AmigaOS 4, but can also switch off the computer if the hardware supports it, which is why he decided to rename it.
With regard to the history of development, he remembers: "The very first version of the program (imaginatively titled 'Reboot') was actually written on an Amiga 1200 because I wanted a program that would sit on the Workbench that I could use to reboot the system via a requester. Version 1.x was written in BlitzBasic and version 2.x was rewritten in C as I wanted to learn how to program in C.
When I got a MicroA1 I also wanted to program for AmigaOS 4. Reboot being a simple program, I thought it would be a good one to start with, so OS4Reboot was born. OS4Reboot went through a number of iterations adding features like making it a commodity amongst other things."
After a longer break and the sale of the hardware, he now owns an AmigaOne A1222 Plus and wants to get back into programming for AmigaOS 4. He discarded his first idea of reviving OS4Reboot when he realised that the functionality was already available in the last version of the operating system. However, feedback from users on the Amigans.net forum encouraged him to continue, as some people preferred the way OS4Reboot worked: for example, it is possible to drop the icon in the X-Dock and run the program from there instead of using the pull-down menu.
He has summarised for us the differences/advantages of PowerReboot compared to the built-in option in AmigaOS 4.1:
- Ability to use it from an icon on the Workbench or dock.
- Has the ability to add a user-selectable delay prior to rebooting via the icon ToolTypes.
- PowerReboot doesn't (currently) inhibit and flush the filesystems before rebooting/shutting down, but this also means that the reboot/shutdown is immediate which might be preferred by some.
- The latest developmental version 0.9, released today, has the ability to hide the softboot option which is a benefit to some as some graphics cards appear to have issues with this.
PowerReboot (and its predecessor OS4Reboot) was originally designed to run in the background and be available via the Tools menu of the Workbench: on first execution it is simply loaded into memory, on subsequent executions the requester is called unless it has been configured to bypass the requester and only perform a restart or shutdown. The current development version 0.9 now changes the behaviour and sets the default NONRESIDENT option in the Icon-ToolTypes, which means that PowerReboot does not remain in memory. This also means that it can display the requester on first startup.
PowerReboot 0.9 also includes locale support, and has been translated to a number of languages including German.
Thank you very much for the information, Francis! Have fun with the further development!
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19.Jun.2024
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Worth a read: Interview with Gary Carlston (Brøderbund)
The Norwegian video game culture magazine spillhistorie.no has published an interesting interview with Gary Carlston, co-founder of the popular game studio Brøderbund. The US company with its Nordic-sounding name has produced classics and bestsellers such as Prince of Persia, Wings of Fury, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, Myst and Shufflepuck Cafe. In the interview, Gary Carlston, who founded the company together with his brother Doug Carlston, talks about the company, his role, the Brøderbund milestones – and Bayern Munich.
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19.Jun.2024
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Petro Tyschtschenko: Brand representative for "Grundig" bicycles
Like other traditional German brands, also "Grundig" is now used by other companies. For e-bikes, for example. Former Commodore Germany manager and Amiga Technologies managing director Petro Tyschtschenko is now promoting the latter as a brand representative.
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19.Jun.2024
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Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.4 for Windows, Mac and Linux
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Amiga. Version 0.6.4, among others, provides important updates for those using macOS and those without video cards.
The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available.
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18.Jun.2024
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SCSI emulation: BlueSCSI-Toolbox V1.2c
The BlueSCSI Toolbox combines two utilities for managing a BlueSCSI V2 or ZuluSCSI in a Commodore Amiga: the CD changer makes it possible to switch between CD ISO images on the SD card during operation. The SD transfer tool can be used to transfer files from the SD card to the Amiga.
In the updated version 1.2c some utility.library functions of AmigaOS 3.2 have been removed, so that older OS versions are now supported.
Download: BlueSCSI-toolbox-Amiga_v1.2c.zip (36 Kb)
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18.Jun.2024
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Sokoban conversion: Skinny Marley
Rodrigo Vertulo's "Skinny Marley" (YouTube video) is a hommage to his dog Marley, who passed away in 2021 due to a medical error. One of the things she liked to do before sleeping was to hunt objects around the house, especially those with his scent, to bring them to her little doghouse.
As the author writes, the game is based on Sokoban, but with "entirely new levels and a very interesting dynamics.". It is available for the symbolic price of one dollar.
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18.Jun.2024
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Arcade Attack: Interview with Stoo Cambridge (Sensible Software)
Stoo Cambridge is one of the creative minds behind the highly influential British game studio Sensible Software, which has set milestones with games such as Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder. The Arcade Attack Podcast first interviewed the graphic artist and designer in 2019 and has now republished the interview with video footage of Cannon Fodder on YouTube – and even after five years, the humorous interview with Stoo Cambridge is still highly interesting and entertaining: Cambridge shares exciting anecdotes and background information about the development of Sensible Software's classic games and offers insights into his career and the design of iconic games such as Sensible Golf.
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18.Jun.2024
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Multi-purpose tool: Report+ V8.5
Report+ is a ReAction-based open-source software for Amiga systems that offers several useful functions:
- It is a friendly enhanced replacement for the official Commodore bug reporting tool (V40.2), optionally sending emails automatically.
- It can generate/edit Aminet-style and OS4Depot-style readmes.
- It can view/edit A3000/A4000-type battery-backed memory.
- It can view/edit IFF/RIFF files and their component chunks.
- It can access the official manufacturer and product ID registries.
- It can perform batch processing on icons.
- It can convert between various ASCII formats.
- It can show directory byte usage for any path, optionally also changing protection bits and/or deleting specified files.
- It can compare two paths, showing added, missing and changed files.
Report+ has been continuously updated and expanded by the developer Amigan Software for years. The new version 8.5, released on 16 June 2024, once again includes various improvements and bug fixes. The tool runs on AmigaOS 3.2/3.9 (the latter with BoingBag2) with 2 MB of free RAM, on AmigaOS 4 and on MorphOS (with ReAction). The archives include the source code of the software.
The download is available from the Aminet (AmigaOS-3.x-version, MorphOS-version, AmigaOS-4-version) or from the developer's website under the title link.
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17.Jun.2024
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Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.7 for all Amiga systems
Bernd Assenmacher's Image2PDF is a tool for converting images to PDF and vice versa. Images can also be scaled or saved in a different format (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 2.7:
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17.Jun.2024
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.39
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.99, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
All changes of updated version 0.9.39:
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16.Jun.2024
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Aminet uploads until 15.06.2024
The following files have been added until 15.06.2024 to Aminet:
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16.Jun.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.06.2024
The following files have been added until 15.06.2024 to OS4Depot:
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16.Jun.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.06.2024
The following files have been added until 15.06.2024 to AROS Archives:
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16.Jun.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.06.2024
The following files have been added until 15.06.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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16.Jun.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.06.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 15.06.2024:
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16.Jun.2024
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Twin-stick shooter: Cecconoid available (update)
In addition to the boxed edition, starting to be available from tomorrow, the download version of Cecconoid is now also available at the title link. The game is "an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate dimension where the pixels are still chunky, and the bad guys are black and white" (amiga-news.de reported).
Update: (18.06.2024, 17:14, dr)
A zip version of the game is now also available, which contains a WHDLoad version and selected tunes from the game in MOD format.
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16.Jun.2024
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Print magazine: Issue 143 of Amiga Future readable online
The German and English issue 143 (March/April 2020) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher.
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16.Jun.2024
jPV RNO (E-Mail)
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Event: "Finnish Amiga Users Group" at Vectorama 2024
Last weekend, Vectorama 2024, an online gaming event aimed at people of all ages, took place in Oulu (Finland). The Finnish Amiga Users Group was also there, organising an Amiga stand at the gaming event.
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15.Jun.2024
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Preview video: Beta versions of Gorky 17 and Heretic II
Even though George 'walkereo' Sokianos concentrates mainly on the development of AmigaOS4 software, he also has classic hardware at his disposal. In a detailed video he shows beta versions of Gorky 17 and Heretic II running on his Amiga 1200 upgraded with a PiStorm-lite.
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15.Jun.2024
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Survival game: Zombie Survivor V1.10
Sami Vehmaa continues to work on his current project "Zombie Survival", a game for Amigas with a graphics card in which you have to fight off an endless army of the undead (YouTube video). The current version 1.10 offers the following changes:
- more settings to let you tweak the game
- info window in settings
- Bottom Weapon display switch (F1)
- added max Zombie 300
- new blood animation
- after killing a zombie a body lays in ground for some seconds
- several bugs found and fixed
- new speed progress system
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14.Jun.2024
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Creating and reading disk images: Disk Jockey V3.4 for macOS
At the end of March, we reported on Jean-Michel Durand's "Disk Jockey" (DJ), with which you can easily create and analyse (Disk-O-Matic) disc images for retro computers and emulators under macOS 10.13 to macOS 14. After version 3.0, he continued to work on the programme and has now made version 3.4 available.
In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, DJ now understands HFS+ and makes it possible to extract files from it. Also, whenever possible, Disk-O-Matic now displays the file type in the file browser. It is now much easier to recognise which files are text files, which are images and which are programs, for example.
As the author points out somewhat smugly, there is still no AI in Disk Jockey. It's "aall hand-made with human fallibility, questionable design choices and, most of all, love for the craft. And coffee."
As the author kindly explained to us on request, in addition to the version for macOS, which is being actively developed, there is also a Disk Jockey for Windows, which can also be used to create empty images. However, he left it at that and did not implement the rest of the Disk Jockey, as there are already good solutions for Windows.
Finally, there is Disk Jockey Jr (djjr), Disk Jockey for the command line, which runs on macOS and Linux. It received a major update a few months ago and can now do things that the full Disk Jockey for macOS can do (such as analyse disk images, including ADF). This "branch" is also in active development.
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14.Jun.2024
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Individual Computers: Features of Indivision ECS V4
V4 of the Indivision ECS flickerfixer and scandoubler developed by Individual Computers will be available in limited quantities from 15 July. The previous version V3 is sold out. In a forum post, developer Jens Schönfeld explains new functions and details of the new version:
- the FPGA has almost twice the capacity. This lets us implement more features, yet keep the same form factor as the previous versions.
- all-new appearance in all-black. This is in line with the colour of our most successful product ever, the ACA500plus. Not that it matters much in a closed computer, but after 16 years, I felt it was time for a change from the blue that the three previous versions have used. Even the cable to the VGA connector is black!
- more sophisticated clock generation. While Indivision ECS V2 and V3 were completely async, we now have the possibility to generate precise whole-number multiples of the native Amiga pixel clock. This improves the VSync feature a lot, because the monitor's capability requirement is reduced to 50Hz for PAL or 60Hz for NTSC modes, but it doesn't have to be a specific V-Sync-capable monitor any more (like an expensive gaming monitor). Your choice of low-cost monitors with VGA input increases a lot with this - it's the same feature that Invidision AGA MK3 users already enjoy under the name "auto resolution mode".
- EDID monitor identification: The config tool can detect the monitor and read supported modes, so fiddling with monitor settings is vastly simplified
- CIA adapter for keyboard signals: This lets us implement the live-config feature, which is highly appreciated by Indivision AGA MK3 users. Bringing this to OCS/ECS machines, which are often used for gaming, was a "must" - you can pan/zoom the picture with the mouse after pressing a magic keyboard combination while the game is running.
- Graffiti false-positive avoidance: Generally, Graffiti mode is activated on a line-by-line basis using the Genlock Audio bit (GAUD). Some games set this bit without actually wanting to use Graffiti mode. We're developing a heuristic that also looks at more criteria to tell if it's really a program for the Graffiti hardware, or if it's a false positive that would otherwise result in garbled graphics.
- I have kept the amount of memory on the flickerfixer at 8MBytes. Although I'm constantly trying to reduce prices, it would not have made any sense to reduce the amount of memory to 2MBytes (whích is the next-smaller chip you can buy), because it would make double-buffering impossible. Instead, I have wired this Ram differently, so we can address it byte-by-byte. This doesn't impact the current functionality (which only uses 16-bit accesses to this memory), but will allow us to add things in the future that would be very slow to do on the previous versions of this flicker fixer.
- the OSD now has true transparency and can be positioned in any corner of the output picture. I know that many people find the OSD just annoying and always switch it off, which is of course still an option. For those of you who have the OSD visible, it can now softly fade out to complete transparency, adding a little modern "bling" to the look-and-feel.
- Improved interlace handling: If you drag sreens and you have a non-interlace screen in front of an interlace screen, the whole picture will turn to interlace if you drag the front screen down. Previously, this resulted in a screen mode change on Indivision, which may result in the monitor going into re-sync mode, showing a black screen for a few seconds. The new interlace handling can now avoid this.
As the developer goes on to explain, there are further plans. The price of Indivision ECS V4 will remain the same as that of V3 until the functions have been completed. There is no timetable for the implementation of the following features:
- change position and zoom factor in auto-resolution modes
- improve auto-resolution to support 3x and 4x pixels
- detect and support A2024 "Hedley monitor" screen modes
- make OSD auto-sizing, so readability on high-resolution monitors is improved
- inhibit Amiga's access to mouse movement data during live configuration (movement only - LMB can't be inhibited!)
- add a framebuffer mode with 256 colours out of 21 bits colour, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 pixels
- add 64x64-pixel sprite with 4 colours to framebuffer mode
- add 2D acceleration to framebuffer mode
- add second draggable screen to framebuffer mode (must have same resolution as first screen)
- implement P96 driver for framebuffer mode - don't expect wonders here! It's questionable if Picasso-II performance can be reached.
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13.Jun.2024
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Worth a read: 42 years of programming - The Amiga
Matthias Wiesmann is a Swiss computer scientist who took part in a programming camp 42 years ago, where he learned to program for the TRS-80. As he writes in his blog, programming languages have changed a lot over time, and the computer world used to be much more diverse back then:
"These days, a lot of concepts in computer science settled on one solution: there is one network stack, one type of filesystem, one low-level programming language, etc. It certainly makes things simpler, but this kind of consensus is also a big risk. What I will do is go over the various devices I interacted and explain how they were weird compared with today’s mental model."
In a previous article in English, Wiesmann took a look at the Commodore 64. Now he has turned his attention to the Amiga under the title link and describes the special features of the system from a personal perspective: chipset, planar graphics, weird graphics modes such as HAM8, interlaced graphics and sound modules.
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13.Jun.2024
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Floppy disk images: Disc Image Manager V1.47 for Linux, macOS and Windows
Gerald J Holdsworth's Disc Image Manager is an application used to load a retro disc image, read the catalogue and output any required files. In addition, it will also add files to the image, delete, and rename files and directories. On the Amiga side, reading and writing of AmigaDOS disks and hard disks with OFS and FFS formatting are supported (not fully tested with FFS). Support for directory cache and international characters is still missing (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.47 provides several new features and bug fixes.
The author also provides a detailed PDF manual.
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12.Jun.2024
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Book: AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual - Limited print run, pre-orders being taken
Press release: Following the successful release of the German edition, Look Behind You is delighted to announce the English version of "AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual". This comprehensive guide is essential for anyone using the AmigaOS in its latest and greatest version 3.2 (up to and including 3.2.2.1).
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12.Jun.2024
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Event: Interface XXXVIII in Kiel, Germany, on 22.06.2024
Sven Scheele writes: On Saturday, June 22, 2024, the second "Interface" in 2024 will take place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. This will be the 38th edition of the retro computer get-together. As always, the organizers are the Vintage Computer Club (VCC), the Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and the Computer Club Klausdorf (CCK).
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12.Jun.2024
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Developer log: Weapons for the strategy game "Ecliptic"
At the beginning of April, a new demo version of the strategy game "Ecliptic", which is currently under development, was released (amiga-news.de reported). In another detailed developer diary, the author now writes about some of the weapons that can be used to send these monsters to the afterlife (flamethrower video, grenade video)
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11.Jun.2024
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Video game history: Amiga Germany trading cards
The team behind Amiga Germany, which founded and manages the Facebook group of the same name and publishes the associated magazine, has presented a new project that should be of interest to collectors who are interested in the history of video games: the "Amiga Germany Collector's Cards" are high-quality, double-sided cards that celebrate the long history of Amiga games.
Each of the four sets currently available contains five of those high-quality cards with box artworks of popular games and logos of legendary developer studios on the front. On the back of each card, you will find additional information about the motifs, such as the year of publication and the name of the artist (for game artwork) or the year of foundation and the games published (for developer logos), as well as a star rating and the number of the issue of Amiga Germany Fanzine in which the corresponding game was discussed.
The following four sets of five cards are available initially:
- Set 1: Apidya Box Artwork, Dune Box Artwork, Kaiko Entwickler Logo, Midnight Resistance Box Artwork, Nathan Never Box Artwork
- Set 2: Monkey Island 2 Box Artwork, Psygnosis Entwickler Logo, Starglider 2 Box Artwork, Apprentice Box Artwork, Black Crypt Box Artwork
- Set 3: Turrican Box Artwork, Thalion Entwickler Logo, Lethal Xcess Box Artwork, Simon the Sorcerer Box Artwork, Defender of the Crown Box Artwork
- Set 4: Toki Box Artwork, Golden Axe Box Artwork, Turrican 2 Box Artwork, Lionheart Box Artwork, Factor 5 Entwickler Logo
Further sets are in the pipeline. Each set costs ¤2.50, while the starter pack containing all four sets is available for ¤9.50. For ¤26.50, there is a "Deluxe Supporter Pack" that contains all initial four sets and a matching collector's album.
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11.Jun.2024
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Using image files and discs in PC drives: DiskFlashback V1.0.1.0
Developer Rob Smith has written DiskFlashback, a convenient software for Windows 10/11 (64-bit) that enables PC floppy drives to read and write image files such as ADFs (Amiga Disk Files) during operation. It also allows you to process real discs in Amiga or Atari format, with the appropriate hardware extensions. To use it, you need the FloppyBridge plugin, which in turn requires additional hardware (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released version 1.0.1.0 of the software. Changes:
- Fixed disabling "auto-detect com port" being ignored
- Better support for hard disk image files larger than 4G (some partitions got ignored before)
- Upgraded to use the new ADFLib v0.9
- Changed error handling when reading from disks to include the Always Ignore option
- Added Amiga PFS3 file system support (this was a real PITA!)
Editorial update, 12 June 2024 (nba): Our original news article stated that no special hardware is required to process physical Amiga disks. That is not accurate. The FloppyBridge plug-in is required, which in turn requires DrawBridge, Greaseweazle or Supercard Pro hardware. The article has been updated accordingly.
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10.Jun.2024
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Background: The Amiga 8 sprite myth
In a recent article Edwin van den Oosterkamp corrects the misconception, which in his opinion is still widespread today, that a programmer has to resort to tricks on the Amiga in order to be able to display more than 8 sprites on the screen.
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09.Jun.2024
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Action-Adventure: 2nd June update of "Castlevania AGA"
Dante Mendes has released another June update (amiga-news.de reported) for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula", which fixes some problems:
- a problem with screen transitions after a continue in world 3
- the "hang on screen bottom edge instead of falling" glitch that happened sometimes
- a problem with Dracula going offscreen at the final battle
As the author writes, the feedback so far has been very positive. However, Castlevania is still a little too easy. He will continue to work on it.
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09.Jun.2024
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Survival game: Zombie Survivor V1.00
Sami Vehmaa's current project is a game called "Zombie Survival" for Amigas with a graphics card, in which you have to fight off an endless army of the undead (YouTube video). After several beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), he has now released version 1.00 with the following changes:
- Settings menu open
- Death weapon done, kills everyone
- Added flame throw weapon
- Added speed kick lightning pickup
- Some more speech
- Added difficulty adds per day
- Enemys stops at things like stones
- Added simple menu effect just to look cooler
- Dumped mouse support from menu
- For Menu, Settings, Upgrade menu, use arrow keys or joystick
- Pixel motion bug fixes + some other bugs
- Readme updated
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09.Jun.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 08.06.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 08.06.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.06.2024
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09.Jun.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 08.06.2024
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 08.06.2024:
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09.Jun.2024
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- Flashback from the Future
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09.Jun.2024
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Game: Ami-H.E.R.O. 1.1
"Ami-H.E.R.O.", inspired by the Atari 2600 game H.E.R.O., (amiga-news.de reported) is now available in version 1.1. New features include updated graphics and a pause function.
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08.Jun.2024
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Preview video: Game "Loony Ledges" V0.3C
Besides some other projects like "Deathmine" or "Pumpman", 'PixelPlop' is about to port a game he wrote a while ago on the PC but never published to the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). The second preview video shows the following changes:
- Rewrote/redesigned the frontend menus so they can all be operated by joystick aswell as keyboard.
- Added a checkpoint password system instead of a save file.
- Wrote a new blitter routine that can clip a sprite to any arbitary rectangle. (Needed by the later levels.)
- Fixed a ton of bugs and got everything fitting in memory.
- Optimized the screen dissolve effect.
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08.Jun.2024
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PDF magazine: Ami Tech-Gazette, Issue 10
"Ami Tech-Gazette" by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay is a 14-page retro newsletter with an Amiga focus. The current issue contains, among other things, another installment of the "Graphics Workshop", another part of the PiMiga tutorial and a review of the last US-American print magazine "The New Amigans".
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07.Jun.2024
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Java tool: ham_convert 1.10.1
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based tool ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.10.1. New in this version:
- Temporal dithering (fake rgb666 in ham6 animations, dither_temporal command line parameter) updated with flipped pattern on odd fields (similar to dither_masked).
- ICtCp set as default HAM color distance mode.
- write_pal cli parameter can be used to enable saving the calculated palette to a separate JASC pal file.
Download: ham_convert 1.10.1 (7 MB)
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07.Jun.2024
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.16 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.16 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.3.1. Detailed changes:
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07.Jun.2024
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Blog: Stupid Slow: The Perceived Speed of Computers
Swedish technology nerd and software developer Carl Svensson has published a new article on his website datagubbe.se, entitled ‘Stupid Slow: The Perceived Speed of Computers’. This article deals with the subjective perception of computer speed and examines how various factors influence this perception, with a particular focus on the Amiga. The article covers historical and technical aspects and offers interesting insights for technology fans – interesting stuff for anyone who wants to learn more about the perceived performance of their machines.
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07.Jun.2024
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Platformer: Release of "Tony Montezuma's Gold"
Monochrome Productions has published the Amiga game ‘Tony Montezuma's Gold’ (amiga-news.de reported). This new platform game lets players take on the role of Polish explorer and film-maker Tony Halik (1921-1998), whose adventures spanned continents and decades. Players will experience a journey through ancient temples and dangerous jungles in search of the legendary gold of Montezuma.
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07.Jun.2024
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Blog Epsilon's World: 1080p videos on the A1222 Plus
As usual, this time Epsilon shows in detail and with numerous pictures how it installs an RX550 graphics card in its A1222 Plus in order to be able to play videos with a 1080p resolution.
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07.Jun.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.7
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 8.7 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes:
- Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.44.2
- Implemented a targeted ReCaptcha workaround to improve its reliability on slower hardware
- Updated to latest cURL
- Fixed the busyloops on cURL thread
- Implemented various performance optimizations in cURL
- Added a workaround for cURL regression that broke video playback and/or seeking
- Fixed PayPal login page redraw issues
- Updated Safari user-agents
- Fixed editing of custom user-agents
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06.Jun.2024
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v3.2.0
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 3.2.0 among others offers a memory region viewer:
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06.Jun.2024
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.218 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels. He has now released version 5.10.218.
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06.Jun.2024
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Video: Gameplay of recent update of Doom clone "Grind"
In mid-April, we reported on the progress made in the development of the Doom clone "Grind". Now the YouTube channel "Amiga Factory" has published a gameplay showing these improvements and further developments.
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05.Jun.2024
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Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.6.3 for Windows, Linux and macOS
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (preview video). The new version now supports unlimited hunks.
In addition, the author has spent some time configuring archives remotely. This is the first release of archives built remotely with GitHub Actions - at least for Windows and Linux. As a result, he hopes to no longer have to dig out his old Linux laptop and Macbook.
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05.Jun.2024
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Programming competition: Amiga Demo Effect Jam launched
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', has started a new programming competition after the 2022 Retro Trex Game Jam: the Amiga Demo Effect Jam, which runs until 31 July 2024. The task is to create an effect for an Amiga demo. In the end, all these effects will be put together to create a complete Amiga demo (OCS/ECS).
This jam is aimed at beginner programmers who would like to take part in a demo party. The exact technical requirements are listed under the title link.
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04.Jun.2024
Krzysztof Śmiechowicz (AROS ML)
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AROS: Emulator for 32-bit software under 64-bit AROS in development
To facilitate the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture for AROS, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has now published the prototype of an emulator, which should enable the continued use of existing 32-bit software until it might get recompiled natively (video).
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04.Jun.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Using a Logitech K400 Plus Keyboard with the A1222 Plus
Kevin 'ktadd' Taddeucci has purchased an A1222 Plus in addition to his existing AmigaOS 4 hardware (MicroA1, AmigaOne X1000) and reports on his experiences in a blog (amiga-news.de reported). In the current entry he describes the challenge and possible solutions when using a PC keyboard with a touchpad using the example of a Logitech K400 Plus.
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03.Jun.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.2 and 6.3.2 (preview), (update)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
New versions have now been released: version 5.7.1 is recommended for ARM devices (like the Raspberry Pi) and Version 6.3.1 (preview) for x86 and generally faster boards (ARM included). Both versions offer numerous new features, bug fixes and improvements.
The Preview 6.x will become the new "stable" flatpak available. This will help with the limitations of the Flatpak system regarding "stable" vs "beta" versions, since you cannot use both of them at the same time (you have to switch). Having Preview as the "stable" version, will help with people trying to use it in faster boards, like the SteamDeck, with minimum hassle.
Update: (22:04, 06.06.24, dr)
Today version 5.7.2 and version 6.3.2 (preview) have been released.
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Video: Scorpion Engine game of a user
We recently reported on various ways of familiarising yourself with the Scorpion Engine game construction kit using tutorials. Now the user 'M1CK' has published a short video that shows how someone like him, who has no programming experience, can use it to create a game.
This example is mainly intended as an experiment and should not be explored further. First and foremost, it should show whether he can actually use the engine and how to add some of the features typically found in a 2D platformer.
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03.Jun.2024
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 3.1
At the beginning of 2022, the developer 'jasonsbeer' published revision 2.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in the ATX form factor, "Amiga-2000-ATX". After revision 3.0 in the middle of last year, he has now published revision 3.1 with the following changes:
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02.Jun.2024
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Amiga Kit: Final Writer 7 pre-installed on A600GS
Press release:
Final Writer has been in put back into active development over recent years (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 7 will soon will make it's debut pre-installed on the A600GS computer.
Final Writer is a famous word processor for the Amiga computer originally developed by SoftWood in the mid 1990s. It rapidly developed a significant loyal fan base amongst the Amiga community.
In 2015 it was purchased by Timothy Deters and put back into development after a 20 year hiatus. A large investment of work has been carried out implementing a new spell checker compatible with Open Office dictionaries, RTG fixes, FTP, IPP PDF and Turboprint printing.
AmigaKit Ltd and Timothy Deters are pleased to announce that a special edition of Final Writer 7 will be
pre-installed on the A600GS alongside it's other updated applications of OctaMED 8, PPaint 7.4 and
Directory Opus 4.
Final Writer can be started from AmiBench, the desktop environment and will open on a 1080P screen.
Final Writer 7 Special Edition is fully functional with the exception of the Spell Checker module which will be
offered to A600GS users as an optional paid upgrade.
Matthew Leaman, MD of AmigaKit Ltd commented on the collaboration: "We are very pleased to work with
Timothy bundling the brand new edition of Final Writer on the A600GS low cost hardware platform. Final
Writer is popular and much loved Amiga word processor. A significant amount of hard work has gone into
bringing this application back to our community to the credit of Timothy and his developers. New versions
of Final Writer complementing OctaMED and Personal Paint represents the renewal of Amiga applications."
Timothy Deters, owner of Final Writer added: "I'm happy to have come to an agreement with AmigaKit to
include Final Writer with their system. I’d like to thank the developers who worked on this project and have
been instrumental to its completion."
The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024.
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Emulator: WinUAE 5.3.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.3.0. Changes:
New emulated RTG boards
- CyberVision/BlizzardVision PPC. 2D only, 3D is not implemented. (Permedia 2)
- GVP EGS 110/24. (INMOS G364)
- Graffity. (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428)
- Merlin, includes support for configurable serial number used by ProBench (Tseng ET4000W32)
- oMniBus (Tseng ET4000AX or ET4000W32)
- Rainbow III (INMOS G360)
- Visiona (INMOS G300)
New features/updates
- Prometheus FireStorm PCI bridge emulation
- Release raw input devices when GUI is open (except during input Test/Remap) or when debugger window is active. Allows Windows shortcut keys like Win+E to work without need to unfocus the window.
- Added Misc panel option to disable default on screen keyboard gamepad button 4 mapping.
- Some uae-configuration (and other similar) debugging logging messages automatically opened the console window. Now only entering debugger will open it.
- Added “Always on (Fixed only)” sound filter option. This enables A500 fixed filter but never enables “led filter”. (A1200 does not have fixed filter, only “led” filter)
- Replaced old Windows 2000 compatible Windows clipboard handling with newer, simpler and more reliable method introduced in Vista.
- Allow also 68020+ CPUs to fetch instruction words from custom chipset space. Only if more compatible is set. If some program really wants to do something weird like execute code located in AGA palette registers.
- Lightpen/gun cursor in any edge of screen: lightpen/gun not pointing at the screen = position can’t be read by the program.
- Statefile shortcut keys now select current config file name as a base statefile name (for example, if “test1.uae” config file is loaded, SHIFT+END+0 will save statefile as “test1.uss”. Quickstart mode config still uses original default “default.uss”)
- Both “SaveImage” (automatically created ext adf when write-enabling non-writable image like ipf) file extension variants are now detected automatically when checking if file exists. Paths panel SaveImage mode option now only affects generated file name when new saveimage is created.
- Added LDP-1450 laserdisc player OSD font emulation. Fixes laserdisc arcade game Platoon (Nova) previously missing “YOU’RE HIT!!” messages. (All OSD graphics are generated by Amiga except this message!)
Bugs fixes
- Fixed XT based Bridgeboards non-working floppy drive emulation, broke during 5.1 DraCo updates (wrong density detection)
- Serial port data receive was unreliable. Loopback serial port mode didn’t work in fast CPU modes.
- CD32 FMV video image size and positioning was weird in most scaled modes.
- Exclusive fullscreen and RTG resolution switch (RTG resolution switch to another RTG resolution without switch to native mode and back) didn’t change fullscreen resolution.
- Some ECS programmed modes (for example SuperPlus) had first visible line blanked.
- Fixed corruption in some “weird” programmed modes, introduced in 5.0 betas.
- Some hardware emulated RTG boards had flickering colors during horizontal panning (>8 bit modes only)
- Fixed ECS Denise superhires mode hires sprite pointer strange odd/even horizontal movement.
- Fixed pre-KS 1.2 HDF/directory filesystem boot. Broke long time ago.
- Multi-monitor active state was not fully reset when system was hard reset. (Multimonitor window was open -> hard reset -> window didn’t open anymore again)
- If x86 bridgeboard SVGA and also other hardware emulated RTG board was active and END+F9 was used to switch monitors: both monitors’ output was drawn in same window, causing corrupted graphics and possibly also crash if monitor sizes were too different.
- It was not possible to write and read ECS/AGA genlock transparency bit in color registers. Was broken long time ago.
- Delay ALG LDP seek complete status reply slightly. Fixes laserdisc arcade game Platoon (Nova) few second hangs.
- Los Justicieros (Zorton Brothers) laserdisc arcade game left holster hooked up correctly. (Was stuck active previously)
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Hollywood goes LaTeX: hTeX 1.0 released
Press release: "Airsoft Softwair, the unstoppable coding machine, is back on your screen with a massive new Hollywood plugin release: hTeX. hTeX allows you to experience the wonderful world of LaTeX as it makes it possible to use the LaTeX markup language from Hollywood. This makes it possible to easily display mathematical formulas in your Hollywood scripts and Hollywood Designer projects. On top of that, you can also use more advanced LaTeX features like tables, boxes, and finetuned formatting. Finally, hTeX also allows you to export LaTeX formatted text as PDF documents, SVG images, and PNG images.
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Action adventure: June update of "Castlevania AGA"
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This now features a "proper" Simon Belmont, who was created especially for this version. There is now also a menu with a jukebox function, which allows you to listen to the different music.
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.06.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.06.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.06.2024
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02.Jun.2024
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Programming competition: AmiGameJam 2024 launched
Following the 2022/2023 competition on the topic of "Sword and Sorcery", the next AmiGameJam has now been launched. In this year's edition, the task for the game programmers is: "The Sequel That Never Was". If you want to take part, you have to submit a sequel to a game from the old Amiga days to the organizers by December 1st at the latest.
The participants will as usual be divided into the two categories "OCS/AGA" and "RTG/Vampire/AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS", and voting will again be carried out by both the community and a group of celebrity judges. The judges and prizes will be announced later.
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02.Jun.2024
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Amiga Future: Full version of Insanity Fight online
In the download area of Amiga Future the full version of the game Insanity Fight has been published, including data disk, construction set, manual and source code.
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02.Jun.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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German Amiga Podcast: Issue 18
Issue 18 of the "German Amiga Podcasts" (GAP) reports from the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention event (ARC) 2024, which took place on May 25 in Duisburg, Germany.
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02.Jun.2024
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Music: CD "Bleakwave" by Vogue Renege announced
As part of the "Kickstart 02" event in Nottingham on June 29/30, also Vogue Renege alias Paulee Alex Bow will be performing. The new CD "Bleakwave" is to be released there, and international sales as a physical and digital product will start a few days later.
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02.Jun.2024
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Amiga-Emulator: Activity monitors and DMA bus visualisation for vAmigaWeb
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
In this update, the developer 'mithendal' has added an activity or load display for the individual Amiga chips Blitter, Copper and Paula and the CPU. This means that you can now see which games use certain Amiga coprocessors or chips in particular. In addition, pens such as the Apple Pencil are now supported.
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02.Jun.2024
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Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.7 (update)
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.6 was released:
- SCSI-2 Emulation - Fixes compatibility with ACDPlay, OptyCDPlay, OS 3.9 PlayCD etc
- Support masterless slave devices
- Fixup channel detection on Dicke Olga Accelerator
- Various ATAPI bug fixes and performance improvements
Update: (13:50, 02.06.24, dr)
Version 40.7 has just been released and is strongly recommended for all users of the previous version 40.6.
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02.Jun.2024
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Video: Review of Amiga 2000 accelerator board "Dicke Olga"
"Dicke Olga" is a 68030 turbo card for the Amiga 2000 and a hobbyist project. The YouTube channel "Retronaut" has now taken a look at the card under the title link.
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01.Jun.2024
Spadoni Carlo (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.5 (x86)
The "AROS One" distribution, which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0 (screenshot), is now available in version 2.5 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file (1.7 GB) or as a USB flash image (3.7 GB) under the title link, where you will also find video recordings (don't be confused by the old title, the download links on the page below the screenshot are correct). The VHD image can be used as a hard drive in virtual machines such as VMware, VirtualBox and QEmu.
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31.May.2024
Jérôme Senay (Mail)
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Print magazine: Boing #8 (French)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems on 52 A4 color pages.
The eighth issue includes a big article about MicroProse, the publisher of Civilisation, an interview with Frédéric Cordier, the author of AMOS Pro Unity, and numerous game reviews.
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[News message: 31. May. 2024, 23:33] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2024
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AROS: Review of May 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of May at the title link.
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[News message: 30. May. 2024, 22:50] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2024
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: Interview with Eric Chahi (Another World)
At the title link Adrian Wallett of "Arcade Attack Retro Gaming Network" did an interview with Eric Chahi, the programmer and graphic artist of the game "Another World".
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[News message: 30. May. 2024, 20:56] [Comments: 0]
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30.May.2024
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Adventure: Geo's Quest - Gateway to Nowhere
As a sequel to "Geo's Quest: In Search of Queen Lorraine" in "Gateway to Nowhere", the hero, George Angus, is faced with the problem that Queen Lorraine, who was rescued from The Gates of Bill, has been lost by the Knights of Escom, to whom she was entrusted. George is assisted by Dave Haynie in the second rescue of the queen. The fifth chapter then follows (loosely) his path after the end of Commodore (Pios, MetaBox, Merlancia, Fortele).
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29.May.2024
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Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.6.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software. It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (preview video).
The primary goal of this project is to provide a graphical user interface on top of the excellent ira reassembler to accelerate the workflow.
Aira Force implements reassembly using the ira disassembler and the vasm assembler. Ira transforms the source executable or raw binary into assembly language source code, then vasm assembles the source code. The output binary should be identical (or equivalent) to the input binary.
This process allows the user to analyse and annotate the source code efficiently, before make any required changes to the generated disassembly and building a patched binary. It may be useful for fixing bugs, adding features, optimising the code, or academic software archeology. Features:
- Disassemble Amiga executables (hunk Load Modules)
- Disassemble raw Amiga binaries, e.g. bootblocks, non-DOS programs
- Interactively convert disassembly to code, data or text
- Rename and add labels
- Add comments and banners
- Define pointers and equates
- Efficient code navigation
- Tools to search for potential pointers, equates and code
- Live Analysis using 68000 emulator to aid understanding
- In-built Amiga documentation (custom chipset, OS)
- Menu and keyboard driven UI
- Runs on Windows, Linux and macOS (sorry, no Amiga version)
- Hex viewer
- Reassemble disassembled code and compare against source
- Dockable windows and multi-viewports (native OS windows) with Dear ImGui
The tool is currently pre-ALPHA and not all features are implemented yet.
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[News message: 29. May. 2024, 22:02] [Comments: 0]
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28.May.2024
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio: Prelude Software Bundle V4.1 now available
The updated software bundle (V4.1) for the Prelude sound card family (and derivatives) includes the prelude.library, the mixer and the MHI driver for the Amiblaster.
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28.May.2024
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Crowdfunding for new card game Amiga Trumps
Following the motto "Let's keep Amiga gaming alive... in card game form!", the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the new card game "Amiga Trumps" has been successfully launched. The funding goal of ¤ 1,762 has already been reached, but the campaign will continue until 23 July 2024.
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[News message: 28. May. 2024, 09:24] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2024
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Demoparty: Results of "68k Inside"
The "68k Inside" demoparty took place in Finland last weekend. Among other things, competitions in the "Intro" and "Demo" categories took place there. The organisers have now published the results lists. Amiga productions also made it to the top places:
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[News message: 27. May. 2024, 14:47] [Comments: 1 - 02. Jun. 2024, 09:00]
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27.May.2024
George Sokianos (ko-fi)
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AmigaOS 4: Code analysis with Cpppcheck V2.14r1
Im September 2022, George 'walkero' Sokianos made an AmigaOS 4 port of Cppcheck, a static code analysis tool for the C and C++ programming languages, available for the first time. The tool is designed to be able to analyze your C/C++ code even if it has non-standard syntax common in embedded projects. The latest official version 2.14 has now been ported (release notes).
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[News message: 27. May. 2024, 11:49] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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Zoom meeting: Dave Haynie as guest of the Toronto Users Group
The next online meeting of the Canadian Amiga users of the Toronto Users Group on May 30th via Zoom will again feature a prominent guest, Commodore developer Dave Haynie. Access information for participation can be found at the title link.
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[News message: 26. May. 2024, 18:09] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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PDF magazine: Amiga Point of View 5
Amiga Point of View is a 72-page PDF magazine. The fifth issue contains, among other things, a Magnetic Fields interview, various game reviews and the start of a series that briefly introduces 50 games that have been released exclusively for the Amiga.
A 16-page preview allows to get an idea of the magazine before buying it.
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[News message: 26. May. 2024, 18:01] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2024
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Aminet uploads until 25.05.2024
The following files have been added until 25.05.2024 to Aminet:
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26.May.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.05.2024
The following files have been added until 25.05.2024 to OS4Depot:
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26.May.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.05.2024
The following files have been added until 25.05.2024 to AROS Archives:
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[News message: 26. May. 2024, 07:05] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.05.2024
The following files have been added until 25.05.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 26. May. 2024, 07:05] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.05.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 25.05.2024:
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[News message: 26. May. 2024, 07:05] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 158 (italienisch/englisch)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue, which is dedicated to flight simulators, is about Shockwave and Moon Patrol.
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[News message: 26. May. 2024, 07:05] [Comments: 0]
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26.May.2024
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Der Schatz im Silbersee (The Treasure of Silver Lake)
On Amiga Games That Weren't, information, including a demo version, was compiled in English about the game "Der Schatz im Silbersee" (The Treasure of Silver Lake), an adventure about the fictional American Native Winnetou. Originally also announced for the Amiga for February 1993, it was actually only released for MS-DOS. (In German Amigaland.de had already presented the demo version two and a half years ago).
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[News message: 26. May. 2024, 07:05] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2024
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Video: Installing a new network printer on MorphOS
'jPV' is a very active MorphOS developer, but with his software projects such as the image processing software RNOEffects or the MUI-based SFTP/FTP(S) client RNOXFER he mostly supports all Amiga systems. As he writes, it had been quite a while since he had dealt with the printer problem under MorphOS. As he had just bought a new printer - a Xerox B230 printer - he had to deal with drivers and network support under MorphOS again and recorded his results in a video.
In it, he explains how to set up the netprinter default settings and add drivers for the new printing system (PPD) and for the old TurboPrint-based system. In order for a printer to be integrated as a network printer under MorphOS, it must currently support PostScript, PCL5, ESC/P-R or SPL2/SPLc.
As 'jPV' explained to us, the new printing system in MorphOS is great because it supports all the new printer features: the printer settings GUI is created according to the provided PPD file, so you can change all the options available in any printer in MorphOS.
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[News message: 25. May. 2024, 21:42] [Comments: 0]
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25.May.2024
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Blog: Building an Amiga PSU for upgraded Amigas
As Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings writes, many users use Meanwell power supplies as a replacement for the ones supplied with the Amiga. Usually the 50W variants like the RPT-60B would be used because it fits well into an original Amiga power supply. In the first part of his report, Hutchings investigates whether a 75W power supply can also be used for heavily upgraded Amigas.
In his second blog post, he reports on corresponding tests and some improvements.
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[News message: 25. May. 2024, 10:57] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2024
ko-fi
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Editor: Lite XL 2.1.4r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.1.4r1 of the Editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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[News message: 24. May. 2024, 16:19] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2024
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Game collection: Arcade Classics for CD32
Jean-François 'jotd' Fabre has gathered all his previous arcade ports and released them for the CD32 (YouTube video).
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[News message: 24. May. 2024, 06:14] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2024
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #25 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 25 (spring/summer) are several game reviews as well as an interview with Paolo Cattani (former interview).
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[News message: 23. May. 2024, 22:31] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2024
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Music tip: "Grogon - Hoppy Cardiocore"
'no9' has been working in the audio sector for years and occasionally composes music for games. He also regularly publishes his own compositions on his YouTube channel, such as now the track "Grogon - Hoppy Cardiocore". He uses the "ProTracker 2" clone for Windows by Olav Sorensen (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 23. May. 2024, 07:55] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2024
EAB
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Beat 'em Up: Update of Final Fight Enhanced
In late January, developer 'Prototron' released its improved version of Capcom's Final Fight written in machine language (amiga-news.de reported). Now some small fixes, a new move and a new music track have been added.
An overview of the changes:
- added new music to the elevator stage
- added guy and Maki's "off the wall jump"
- fixed a bug that crashed the game when Belger was killed with a regular punch
- removed some superfluous collision checks from Belger in an attempt to fix the stall bug
- some minor animation fixes, plus checks added to prevent some bugs that didn't halt the player during level transitions
The developer points out that the realisation is explicitly a private, non-commercial project. An ECS or AGA Amiga with 2MB Chip RAM and 512KB Fast RAM is required.
YouTube-Video: Final Fight: Enhanced - Maki (Full Game - Amiga 600 ECS)
Download: Final Fight Enhanced.rar (2,8 MB)
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[News message: 21. May. 2024, 11:24] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2024
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Video: Installation of Internet tools and game tests on a PiStorm Amiga
Even though George 'walkereo' Sokianos concentrates mainly on the development of AmigaOS4 software, he also has classic hardware at his disposal. In a detailed video he shows how he equips his Amiga 1200 equipped with a PiStorm-lite with the necessary Internet software and tests it. He also tests some WHDLoad games.
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21.May.2024
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel
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Turn-based strategy: Bugfix update May 2024 for "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes about his recently published update:
"The bugfix update is finished and is recommended for everyone who is still playing on the April 2024 version.
In addition to fixing bugs, the movement system of units has been reworked.
Units can now move a little more, and the player should now receive the message about too few movement points much less frequently.
Furthermore, Settle the World can now be played completely in the German language.
This also lays the technical basis for additional translations into other languages.
Of course, the game still contains bugs or features that do not yet work properly.
Settle the World is far from finished...but with this bugfix update it is much more playable than ever before.
I would be very happy to receive feedback from players about this update. The amount of work involved in creating this update was really enormous.
As always, Settle the World can be downloaded free of charge from the project page."
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[News message: 21. May. 2024, 06:21] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2024
ANF
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Video: Another Robin Hood port preview by Apollo team
The Apollo team is working on a port of the game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" (amiga-news.de reported) for the Apollo V4 equipped with SAGA chipset. A preview video of the second beta version has now been published under the title link.
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[News message: 20. May. 2024, 14:05] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2024
Mastodon
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Modplayer: Minimod V1.2
Harry 'piru' Sintonen has written a minimal Protracker command line modplayer using Frank Wille's ptplayer routine that runs on AmigaOS 1.3 and higher.
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