16.Mar.2024
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YouTube: Recording of the PiStorm-presentation at FOSDEM 2024
Andrew "LinuxJedi" Hutchings, full-time CCO for the MySQL alternative MariaDB Foundation, is known as a developer of hardware and software for the Amiga. At FOSDEM 2024, an open source developer conference held on March 3rd to 4th, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium, Hutchings gave a presentation on "PiStorm - The evolution of an open source Amiga accelerator", which demonstrates the modification of the Raspberry Pi mini motherboard as an Amiga turbo card and is available on YouTube.
In the presentation, Hutchings demonstrates the use of the PiStorm32-Lite on his Amiga 1200 and talks about this and other topics:
- What the PiStorm really is, both as hardware and a community
- The history of the project, including the bumps along the road
- Directions that is intended to take the project in the future
- A demonstration of what PiStorm is capable of
The recording can be accessed via the title link.
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16.Mar.2024
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Video tutorial: Parallax scrolling in AMOS
Following on from the screens tutorials (1, 2, 3), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to achieve parallax scrolling with the dual playfild command in the latest part of his tutorial series.
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15.Mar.2024
Oliver Roberts (Mail)
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E-Mail client: New YAM Nightly Build uses TLS SNI now
IBrowse and AmiSSL5 developer Oliver Roberts has uploaded another change to the repository of the mail program YAM, which Jens Maus implemented yesterday in a new nightly build for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS: with a single line of code YAM now uses TLS SNI (Server Name Indication) for secure connections, which fixes the problem of failed certificate verification with e.g. Gmail.
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15.Mar.2024
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Trevor's Blog: On the Plus side
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" yesterday. Among other things, he explains why the delivery of the A1222 Plus motherboards, which began a week ago, has been delayed again: "The original batch of boards received over a month ago worked well but did not include the onboard USB headers and had to be sent back to the manufacturer for minor rework. Also a revision change by the MCU manufacturer meant the onboard temperature sensor was not read correctly and the CPU fan did not spin up. When designing the motherboard, Varisys, the original hardware developer, did not think a CPU fan was necessary but included one as an extra precaution." The problem was solved by modifying the MCU programming firmware.
As Trevor Dickinson further reports, other people besides AAA Technology were involved in making the release of the A1222 Plus possible: Steven Solie, for example, developed an extremely fast and simple, but very powerful recovery USB drive that ensures that all necessary OS4.1 and enhancer software files are installed correctly, and Alexandre Balaban created a fully updated AmigaOS 4.1-ISO.
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14.Mar.2024
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Java-tool: ham_convert 1.10.0
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based tool ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.10.0. New in this version:
- ability to use ICtCp colorspace for HAM error calculation
- option to exclude first palette color from DynamicHires conversion
- larger program window and fonts
- code cleanup
Download: ham_convert 1.10.0 (7 MB)
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13.Mar.2024
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On our own behalf: Changes to the team, Nico Barbat returns
Nico Barbat, a long-time demoscene member and well-known Amiga journalist, joined the amiga-news.de team back in 2000. Initially taking care of the job exchange Free Amiga Jobs, he intensified the cooperation between the print magazine "Amiga Plus", for which he was responsible as editor-in-chief, and our news service in the following years until he finally took over management of amiga-news.de at the end of 2003.
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13.Mar.2024
Arne Urbaniak (E-Mail)
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Amiga disks on PC: Copy program G-Copy 0.5
Almost two years ago (amiga-news.de reported), developer Arne Urbaniak presented his copy programme G-Copy for reading and writing Amiga ADF data on a Windows PC. G-Copy, which is visually similar to the popular X-Copy, supports the drive controllers Greaseweazle by Keir Fraser, ADF-Drive by D. Tonn or DrawBridge (Arduino) by Rob Smith.
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13.Mar.2024
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Practical report: Using several operating systems on AmigaNG computers (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. This time (automatic translation) she looks at the pitfalls of running AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Linux on the same computer at the title link.
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12.Mar.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.6
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.6 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS which provides more video playback improvements and fixes.
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12.Mar.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.22, Contacts 1.2
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.22 of his e-mail client Iris and version 1.2 of the contact manager Contacts for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
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12.Mar.2024
Wolfgang Kierdorf (E-Mail)
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Video: DIY instruction to build an Arcade Stick gamepad for the Amiga CD³²
At the title link, Wolfgang Kierdorf demonstrates how a standard arcade stick gamepad can be adapted for use with the Amiga CD³² console with a little soldering work using a purchasable circuit board.
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12.Mar.2024
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WHDLoad: Running cracktros from the website
WHDLoad author Bert Jahn has updated the WHDLoad website so that all Cracktros can now be started directly using the Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb via the "Info" link. This works for all productions that do not require an AGA or a Kickstart image. There are also corresponding plans for demos and mags.
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11.Mar.2024
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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MIDI sequencer: BarsnPipes for AROS
Now that AROS developer Franck Charlet has published a driver for the MIDI system 'camd.library' that closes the gap between camd.library and Poseidon's camdusbmidi.class (amiga-news.de reported), Alfred Faust made good on his promise to finish the suspended AROS port of the MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes and adapt it to this new environment.
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11.Mar.2024
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Event: AmiWest 2024 (25.-27. October in Sacramento, USA)
The organisers have announced that the 27th AmiWest show will take place as usual at the Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California, from 25 to 27 October 2024. Further information will be published in near future.
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11.Mar.2024
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Editor: Lite XL 2.1.3r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.1.3r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 (OS4Depot link) and MorphOS. The developer has introduced a new feature in LiteXL that allows switching between ISO and Unicode files while preserving the text. Users can also enter any text in their own language, including umlauts. All changes:
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11.Mar.2024
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Blog Epsilon's World: AmigaOne A1222, part 1
This time, Epsilon devotes himself to the A1222 Plus, which has been officially available since the end of last week (amiga-news.de reported), in his usual detail and with numerous pictures. As a beta tester, he has been working with the system since 2016 and introduces the programs and tools supplied with AmigaOS 4 in the first part. He also gives his personal buying advice for people who want to buy an A1222 or Sam460LE.
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11.Mar.2024
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Video: Internet-enabled without PlipBox adapter
In his last video, Robert Smith showed how he builds his own PlipBox adapter for his Amiga 2000 in order to make the Amiga Internet-capable with its help. In the current video this adapter is removed again, but surprisingly the Amiga can still access the Internet. He then explains why.
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11.Mar.2024
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Puzzle game: AmiWordle 1.1
Following conversions of the puzzle letter game Wordle by Robert Smith in AMOS and Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow in Pascal, 'Macetze' has now named his version AmiWordle and written it with Blitz Basic. It can be played with German and English words.
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11.Mar.2024
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Turn-based strategy game: Demo version of "Ecliptic"
Ecliptic is described by the author as a mixture of turn-based tactical combat and role-playing. Visually, it is reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. The player's task is to regain control of a spaceship drifting in space and occupied by aliens. A first demo has now been released.
The game is currently under development and has no sound at the moment. It requires 1MB RAM, recommended is an Amiga 1200 with HD and Fast RAM.
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11.Mar.2024
Glames (BOING)
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Boing Attitude: Interview with Ján Zahurančík (AmiKit)
Boing Attitude published the seventh issue of the French print magazine "BOING" in October 2023. Among other things, it included an interview with Ján Zahurančík, the publisher of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE, which is now publicly available at the title link.
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11.Mar.2024
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Arcade port: Moon Patrol
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released another arcade classic for the Amiga: in Moon Patrol, the player controls a moon car with which he has to avoid obstacles such as craters or mines (YouTube video). You are also attacked by UFOs and tanks at the same time. Moon Patrol was one of the first video games to introduce side-scrolling into the gameplay.
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10.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
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10.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 28
Issue 28 of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" will be published on March 21. The lead article is about the multimedia program Scala.
Amiga Addict is published monthly and is available as a single issue or as a subscription, either in printed form or as a PDF file.
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10.Mar.2024
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Italian Print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 18
Issue 18 of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which consists of 48 colour pages and is available either in printed form or as a PDF file, contains the following topics:
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10.Mar.2024
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Zoom meeting: Chris Hülsbeck guest at the Toronto Users Group
The next meeting of the Canadian Amiga users of the Toronto Users Group on March 21 will only take place online via Zoom - but with a prominent guest, the musician Chris Huelsbeck. The access data for participation can be found at the title link.
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10.Mar.2024
Micromiga.com (ANF)
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Amiga 500 case available in stores
The licensed new Amiga 500 case from A1200.net is now also available in stores. So far only the French dealer MicroMiga is known to us (see title link), should other suppliers also stock it, this news-item will be updated.
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10.Mar.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further full versions of Amiga games have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Jonathan and The Puzzle Gallery: At the Carnival.
A lot of further games, which are also marked as being new, are just re-uploads.
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10.Mar.2024
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Aminet uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to Aminet:
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10.Mar.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
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10.Mar.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to AROS-Archiven:
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10.Mar.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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10.Mar.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.03.2024
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 09.03.2024:
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10.Mar.2024
Dietmar Planitzer (Mail)
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Operating system for Amiga 3000/4000: First alpha version of "Serena OS"
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. After another status update at the end of last year, the developer has now renamed his project "Serena OS" and released a first alpha version, about which he kindly wrote us the following:
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09.Mar.2024
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.7.0
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
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09.Mar.2024
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Amiga Kit: ARM Graphics library for A600GS computer
Press release: AmigaKit Ltd is pleased to announce an important software development for
the forthcoming A600GS computer system (amiga-news.de reported). The new ARM Graphics Library is pre-installed accelerating the performance of AmiBench and 68K applications.
The ARMgraphics.library was created by AmigaKit's in-
house developer to bypass the bottleneck of the 68K graphics
functions. It accelerates graphics rendering performance in
applications.
AmiBench is pre-installed on the A600GS computer system. It
opens the desktop environment in high resolution 1080p with
True Colour icons. Now it can use the new ARM Graphics
Library for various purposes including faster rendering of
windows, icons and backgrounds.
Third party developers can take advantage of this library by using
it's powerful functions from their 68K application. It also offers an
opportunity for 68K games developers to enhance their games
with faster graphics rendering.
The library provides a link between 68K programs and the native
ARM processor.
Further work is underway to patch 68K system graphics functions
so older applications that are not written to use the ARM
Graphics Library can benefit.
AmigaKit has developed AK-Datatypes, Picture Datatype and Datatypes Library over the many years for
the Enhancer Software on X5000, X1000 and A1222+. These have been compiled for 68K to run on the
A600GS, In addition these system components can also be accelerated by the ARM Graphics Library for
extra performance.
The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024.
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09.Mar.2024
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.3 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.4.3:
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08.Mar.2024
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Crowdfunding: Book "The Graftgold Story"
"Fusion Retro Books" has launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance a book about the video game company Graftgold, which is responsible for Amiga classics such as Fire and Ice or Uridium 2, among others. The campaign is still running for 13 days, and around 14,300 of the required 17,551 euros have already been raised.
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08.Mar.2024
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Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine" (V0.05C)
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. At the end of October, the developer 'pixelplop' had converted the game into C/C++ code and has now published a new preview video, showing the following new features and changes:
- The flame on the HUD lantern gets smaller as the lantern oil depletes.
- The map graphics slowly get darker as the lantern oil depletes.
- Changed the throwable flares to dynamite.
- Added dynamite sticks to the HUD so you can see how many you are carrying.
- When the dynamite explodes it briefly lights up the screen revealing the map.
- Added an Oil can and Dynamite pickup.
- When you die you leave a grave stone behind as a permanent marker.
- Hardware sprites now clip correctly with the top of the screen.
- Hardware sprite data fixed so it ends in a blank line which prevents glitches.
- Added sfx for the toxic drip and other misc sfx.
- Improved character movement.
- Improved character collision and ladder logic.
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07.Mar.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.03.07
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.03.07:
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07.Mar.2024
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A1222 Plus: Production finished, available in shop
AAA Technology, a joint venture between Amedia France, A-Eon Technology and AmigaKit in co-operation with ACube Systems, informs us that the production and subsequent testing of the A1222-Plus boards (formerly "Tabor") has been completed and can now be ordered via the title link:
In addition to the board from ¤1,199.00, a complete system is also available for ¤1,599.00. Around 80% of all participants in A-EON's "Early Adopter" programme have already been contacted within the last three months, and the rest are now gradually following suit. Potential buyers are recommended to read Eldee Stephens The QuickStart Guide for New A1222+ Users (amiga-news.de reported), which is still being updated.
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07.Mar.2024
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PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 98
After a break of more than six years, the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" returned at the end of November (amiga-news.de reported). The latest issue 98 offers, among other things, a brief overview of the history of Commodore.
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07.Mar.2024
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Tool: Consumer 1.0 shows memory consumption
lifeschool' wanted to find out how much memory its recently released game prototype Dizzy 1 consumes and has written the "Consumer" tool for this purpose. Among other things, this is intended to enable developers to estimate the system requirements for newly written software.
The results are printed on the screen and also saved in a text file on S:. Kickstart 3.0+ is required.
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07.Mar.2024
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Cross development: amitools 0.8.0 for macOS
Christian Vogelgsang has published amitools, a collection of Python 3 tools that should make it possible to work with Amiga OS binaries and files on macOS and all other *nix-like platforms that support Python. The author has not tested it on Windows, but it should work just as well.
The developer focusses his tools on classic Amiga setups, i.e. a 680x0-based system running Amiga OS 1.x - 3.x. However, as this is an open project, other Amiga configurations can also be supported. However, as this is an open project, other Amiga configurations can also be supported. The tools are mostly developer orientated, so a background in Amiga programming will be very helpful. A documentation is available on GitHub.
Now the new version 0.8.0 is available.
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05.Mar.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 167
The English and German issue 167 (March/April 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes, besides various reviews, a show report from Passione Amiga Day 2023, an interview with Michael Kafke (ASM game) and a preview of Jari-Matti Rally.
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05.Mar.2024
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Developer log: Amiga Isometric Scrolling
Nivrig Games is working on porting an isometric arcade adventure game to Amiga. Under the title link a corresponding developer log was published (YouTube video).
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05.Mar.2024
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.1.0
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, which is intended to make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (for example EmptyADF). Changes of version 1.1.0:
- Creating a virtual gadget could cause crashes (due to a bug
in the version of E-VO used to compile 1.0.0)
- About dialog changed 'Rebuilder' To 'Rebuild'
- Loading a bitmap with no image selected reported an incorrect error
- Added option to generate code that does not use macros in the object
definitions (for better GCC compatibility).
- add GA_TabCycle property to click tab
- code generated for fuel gauge now uses GA_Text instead child label
- fuel gauge used incorrect default number of ticks
- GetScreenMode did not include child label in generated code
- Glyph did not include child label in generated code
- Glyph used incorrect default type
- Added USEMACROS tooltype
- Sketchboard was missing many of the settings in the generated code
- SizeBRight and SizeBBottom did not work correctly in preview window
Download: Rebuild1.1.0.lha (160 KB)
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04.Mar.2024
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXXVII in Kiel (germany) on 16.03.2024
Press release: On Saturday, March 16, 2024, the first "Interface" in 2024 will take place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. This will be the 37th 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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03.Mar.2024
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Aminet uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to Aminet:
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03.Mar.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.03.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.03.2024
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03.Mar.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.03.2024
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03.Mar.2024
Fredrik Rambris (ANF)
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Programming: AMOS Professional Manual - HTML version modernized
Fredrik Rambris has adapted the "AMOS Professional Manual" compiled by 'Asymetrix' in 2008 to modern web browsers at the title link so that it is easier to navigate and can also be used on mobile devices.
His revision is also available on GitHub, so that easy collaboration with other interested parties would be possible.
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03.Mar.2024
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
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03.Mar.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for February 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link.
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03.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Character set conversion: codesets.library 6.22
The codesets.library allows applications to access codeset/charset tables via a standardized interface or to perform conversions between different character sets.
With version 6.22, the strlen() function is only called if CSA_SourceLen is not set.
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02.Mar.2024
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MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.13.22
Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required.
Besides bug fixes the new version provides the following changes:
- add .gitignore from templates when creating new repository
- edit .gitignore and reload from templates for existing repository
- add LICENSE file from templates when creating new repository
- preview/compare image files via datatypes (for untracked files, current changes and history/logs)
- better integration with GitLab/Bitbucket repositories (via url links)
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02.Mar.2024
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Tower defense: Demo version of "Dice Masters" for Apollo Vampire V4 (update)
Sami Vehmaa's latest project is a tower defence game in which you have to fend off aliens on a spaceship (YouTube video). The demo version offers two of the planned ten levels.
Update: (05.03.2024, 06:10, dr)
A new demo version 0.91 is available which offers a third level and improved game input logic as well as a more clean gameplay.
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02.Mar.2024
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Musik track: "199X" by LukHash
'LukHash' is a musician living in Edinburgh (Scotland). He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics."
His current chiptune "199X" takes you back to the 90s: just out of school, you fire up your (Amiga) computer and start playing. Connoisseurs will recognise various references to classic games. The track can not only be listened to as a YouTube video under the title link, but can also be bought on iTunes or bandcamp.
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01.Mar.2024
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.3
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
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01.Mar.2024
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Mailbox: AmiExpress 5.6.1
AmiExpress is a rewrite by Darren Coles of the original Joe Hodge/LightSpeed Technologies mailbox program in Amiga E. It is open source and includes most of the features of the previous version as well as new features and bug fixes. Version 5.6.1 offers some fixes to resolve issues when running on 68000, support for conf NDIRS setting in the configuration editor and the option to move mail messages to another conference.
Direct download: Amix561.lha (1,1 MB)
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01.Mar.2024
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Video tutorial: Further screen commands in AMOS
Following on from his last two videos about screen commands and especially the "Screen Copy" command, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows more screen commands in the current part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, in particular how to scroll a screen, or rather part of a screen. As always, the source file for the programme shown in the video can be downloaded free of charge from his website.
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01.Mar.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.8
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. Changes in version 5.6.8:
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29.Feb.2024
Jeroen Knoester
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SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.6
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500) (amiga-news.de reported). Version 3.6 has several new features, such as a high quality mixing option that exchanges CPU time for higher quality sound, a plugin system so that effects can be added to samples that are being played (such as pitch changes), the ability to loop from any point in the sample rather than only the start and more.
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28.Feb.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.21
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.21 his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
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28.Feb.2024
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.5 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.4 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. This update introduces a reworked settings UI, possibility to fine-tune browser settings per 1st component of a URL path as well as fixes of reported crashes.
Update: (01.03.2024, 20:50, dr)
Meanwhile version 7.5 is available which fixes reported crashes and HLS Live video playback (live Youtube streams on mobile frontend).
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28.Feb.2024
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Demo party: Ticket sales for Revision 2024 launched
Ticket sales have now started for the Revision demo party (amiga-news.de reported), which traditionally takes place on the Easter weekend in Saarbrücken, Germany.
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[News message: 28. Feb. 2024, 06:27] [Comments: 0]
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28.Feb.2024
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Video series: Restoration of an Amiga 4000
In a six-part video series, the YouTube channel "Retronaut" shows how an Amiga 4000, which was part of a whole conglomerate of items used by a commercial television station in the British Midlands in the 1990s and which no longer worked, is brought back to life.
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[News message: 28. Feb. 2024, 06:10] [Comments: 0]
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28.Feb.2024
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AROS: "Irritating bug of the month" February fixed / Poll for March
In the "Irritating bug of the month" poll for February, the addition of an easy way to enable tethering in the network settings was chosen. AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has added this feature, which will be available in the next update.
The "Irritating bug of the month" survey for March has also begun. Please vote.
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27.Feb.2024
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Preview video: Dungeon Crawler "The Cthulhu Project"
At the end of last year, we introduced Maurice Doerr's dungeon crawler "The Cthulhu Project". In another preview video, he now shows interactions with computer-controlled characters (NPCs) for the first time.
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27.Feb.2024
Cameron Armstrong (Mail)
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AI assistant for Amiga development: "Amiga Guru"
Cameron Armstrong, author of the chat program AmigaGPT (amiga-news.de reported), has created a custom GPT based on the Amiga documentation so that it is much more accurate for Amiga development than the standard ChatGPT.
Since ChatGPT sometimes knows quite little about Amiga development (and therefore often gives wrong, albeit convincing, answers), he has created a custom GPT tailored to Amiga development.
It has been trained on the entire contents of all current editions of the official reference manuals, some third-party Amiga development books and all current documentation autodocs for AmigaOS 3.2 and 4.1.
Chatting with custom GPTs requires a ChatGPT Plus subscription.
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[News message: 27. Feb. 2024, 06:22] [Comments: 0]
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26.Feb.2024
Puni/Void (ANF)
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Diskmagazine: Voting on Amiga demoscene charts for Versus #10
Issue 10 of Versus, the disk magazine of the demo groups Nukleus and Void with the Amiga demoscene charts, is in preparation and the voting has started. At the title link you can name your favorites for AmigaOS (OCS/ECS) and AmigaOS 4, whereby not all fields in the corresponding tables have to be filled in.
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26.Feb.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.7
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.7 of his audio editor "Rave". The program requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 and the Enhancer-Core classes from A-EON Technology.
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[News message: 26. Feb. 2024, 12:25] [Comments: 0]
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26.Feb.2024
Amitopia (ANF)
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.6
AmiFox, first released a year ago, displays modern web pages on an Amiga or under AROS by downloading and displaying the pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server").
New features of version 0.6 include the ability to set the preferred language so that Google and other sites do not always appear in Finnish (the public AmiFox server is located in Finland), and a history of the websites visited.
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26.Feb.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 155 (Italian/English) - 10th anniversary
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 is about the games Roach Motel and Spheroid as well as the program PageSetter 3.
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25.Feb.2024
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Aminet uploads until 24.02.2024
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25.Feb.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 24.02.2024
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25.Feb.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 24.02.2024
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25.Feb.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.02.2024
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[News message: 25. Feb. 2024, 08:34] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.02.2024
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 24.02.2024:
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[News message: 25. Feb. 2024, 08:34] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2024
Forum 64 (Webseite)
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DIY: "Joystick Reanimator" repairs micro switches using electric impulses
C64 fan 'GI-Joe' - a service technician in real life - has come across many faulty microswitches in his professional life. The silver-plated switching contacts of switches that only have to switch very low currents were often oxidized: the arcing that occurs at higher currents, which "cleans" the oxidizing contacts in a kind of self-cleaning function, does not occur at lower currents. Sooner or later, the electrical resistances become too high due to the oxidizing switching contacts, even though the switch switches mechanically perfectly.
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24.Feb.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 167 - preview and excerpts
Previews and excerpts from Amiga Future 167 (March/April 2024) have been published on the magazine's website. Amongst other things, this issue features the following topics:
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[News message: 24. Feb. 2024, 23:58] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2024
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Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.4 for all Amiga systems
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga program for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.4, for the first time also for AROS and thus for all Amiga systems, written in the Hollywood 10.
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23.Feb.2024
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Power supply adaptor: STL files for 3D printing a 'PowerShark' case
On printables.com, 'Shred' has released designs for a 3D printable case for the USB power supply adaptor Powershark.
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23.Feb.2024
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TCP networking on Kickstart 1.3: AmigaNOS tutorial
KA9Q aka "NOS" is an early TCP stack designed for Packet Radio or computers with serial connections. The existing Amiga port is compatible with Kickstart 1.3 and supports both SLIP as well as PPP.
In his tutorial, 'neongod' describes - in authentic 90's internet visual design - how he installed and configured AmigaNOS on his Amiga 500 and networked it to a Raspberry Pi using a serial cable.
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[News message: 23. Feb. 2024, 22:14] [Comments: 0]
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23.Feb.2024
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Book: "68000 - The Flame Wars" available, sales discount
The German-French coproduction "68000: The Flame Wars" (initially: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars") covers the competition between Amiga and Atari ST in the second half of the 1980ies combining factual and opinion-based approaches. Starting last June, the book could be preordered, now it is in stock and can be purchased regularly from the Germen publisher Microzeit.
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22.Feb.2024
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Book: "AmigaOS 3.2 – Das Handbuch" available, English version announced
The German book "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" ("AmigaOS 3.2 - The Reference Manual") has been published by Look Behind You. It has 512 pages and is available both as a hardcover book and as a PDF file.
The official press release can be found in our corresponding German news-item. Also an English version of the book has been announced.
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22.Feb.2024
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Coders wanted for an AGA remake of Cryos 'Dune'
Graphic designer 'barjack' is designing a remake of Cryo's classic adventure Dune for AGA based Amiga computers. The new version will preserve the original story, but expand it with new locations, characters and storylines. On top of that it is intended to look a lot better, given that it targets AGA and uses the full PAL resolution - a few example illustrations are supposed to showcase the improved visuals:
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21.Feb.2024
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amiga-news.de: Server update on Friday evening
This Friday evening, amiga-news.de's server will be upgraded to a newer version of Debian Linux resulting in a short period of downtime for the website. Since the update was tested several times in a test environment, we're confident update will be painless and expect the job to take less than half an hour.
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20.Feb.2024
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Article on the advertising games of the 90s (German)
In a (German) GamersGlobal article at the title link, 'Nischenliebhaber' looks back at the advertising games of the 1990s. These include the games "BiFi 2 - Action in Hollywood", "Das Telekommando kehrt zurück", "Victor Loomes" and "Der rasende Reporter", which were also released for the Amiga.
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20.Feb.2024
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Accelerator: PiStorm16 for the Amiga 600 in development
At the title link Michal Schulz describes the PiStorm16 turbocard currently under development. In contrast to the classic PiStorm, an Efinix FPGA chip is used here as with the PiStorm32-lite. This means that no external devices are required for configuration, which is loaded as soon as the Emu68 emulation starts.
A first prototype is currently being manufactured, and separate connections for HDMI and network are planned for the future.
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19.Feb.2024
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Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.2.0. Changes:
New features/updates
- MacroSystem DraCo emulation. Full emulation except V-Lab Motion video board which is totally undocumented. Amiga clone without Amiga custom chips.
- Picmatic Marbella Vice light gun laser disc arcade game is now fully working.
- American Laser Games and PicMatic statefile support.
- Genlock emulation display positioning/scaling updates.
- Retina Z2 and Z3/Altais RTG board emulation. (NCR 77C22E+ and 77C32BLT SVGA chips)
- S3 Trio64 PCI RTG board.
- On screen led font is now configurable, settings in GUI Miscellaneous panel.
- A2410 updates (Latest Picasso96 driver with DMA mode enabled graphics corruption)
- All emulated RTG boards now autoswitch (Automatic switch between chipset mode and RTG mode). Previously only RTG boards that have built-in switcher and PCI RTG boards autoswitched.
- Do not emulate special cases in native chipset screen mode last and first line(s) unless Overscan mode is Overscan+ or higher. (For example OCS Denise top and bottom line mismatched blanking start and end)
- NTSC mode screen vertical positioning improved.
- Disk swapper insert/remove cursor position now works as expected. Same image can be inserted in multiple slots.
5.1.0 Bugs fixes
- Fast 68020+ mode interrupt timing fix. (Some games hung or had missing or badly playing sound)
- Copper timing was unreliable in non-CE modes (Mainly affected horizontally multiplexed sprites)
- Dark mode was not initialized if config file was started directly (for example from command line), without opening GUI. Some sub-dialogs didn’t support dark mode.
- Zero length disk DMA with enabled disk word sync never finished (some copy protections failed to work).
- Game Ports panel default config overrode button 4 with on screen keyboard enable/disable option even if it was already configured in Input panel.
Older bug fixes
- Any TV overscan option + NTSC mode: few pixel grapohics corruption was visible in right edge of screen.
- Many hardware emulated RTG boards had problems with horizontal panning.
- 68040 MMU emulation fix. (MOVEM restart didn’t work correctly in all situations and MOVES 68040-only special case bus fault behavior was wrong)
- CyberVision 64/3D and Picasso IV overlay fixes. P96PipDemo is now working correctly.
- Ateo Pixel 64 had BGR/RGB swapped colors in most color depths.
- UAE AHI ignored AHI volume slider setting.
- Fixed mouse cursor jumping randomly when in tablet mode and clicking mouse button(s).
- Game Ports panel input device type getting stuck or entering Test/Remap window crashing in some situations.
- Some config file and registry/ini paths were always written in absolute format even if WinUAE was configured to relative path mode.
- "AVI output enabled" (and few similar on/off buttons) button type changed, previously they worked unexpectedly in some situations, visible state was not always matching internal state.
- Some sub dialogs (for example Gameports input mapping autofire) had old style and no high DPI support.
- 256 color screenshot mode created wrong colors in some situations, usually when AGA and almost all palette entries were allocated.
- Changing some native display settings (Filter/Display panel) settings didn’t reset all required display parameters until full display reset (for example window was resized)
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19.Feb.2024
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Video: Building a PlipBox adapter
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he builds his own PlipBox adapter for his Amiga 2000 in order to use it to get connected to the Internet.
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19.Feb.2024
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Blog: Restauration of an A1060 Sidecar, part 2
A few months ago, Richard Körber was very lucky to acquire an A1060 Sidecar on eBay and reports in a three-part series on how he restored it. In the first part he disassembled it, in the second part now available under the title link all the broken parts are repaired and the Sidecar is restored to its original condition.
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19.Feb.2024
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.6
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.6 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Some optimisation in list loading reduces the time needed more than 42%.
Direct download: iGame-v2.4.6-20240218.lha (438 Kb)
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18.Feb.2024
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.54
After AmiUpdate was recently updated several times (amiga-news.de reported), another update has been released today with version 2.54. Changes:
- Changed the main list to include a "Last Changed" column. This now allows you to sort updates
according to date.
- Improved the log output for clarity when connecting to WWW realms and using login credentials.
- Prefs_Updates 53.18 (12.2.2024):
Missed yet another application interface conflict. Hopefully this should be it now.
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18.Feb.2024
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Aminet uploads until 17.02.2024
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18.Feb.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.02.2024
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18.Feb.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 17.02.2024
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to AROS Archives:
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.02.2024
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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18.Feb.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.02.2024
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 17.02.2024:
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18.Feb.2024
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Poormouth
- Shadow Fighter BGM09
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18.Feb.2024
Simon Adolf (ANF)
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Event: Report and video from AmigaWinterTreffen in Großensee (Germany)
From February 9-11 2024 this year's "AmigaWinterTreffen" event took place in Großensee, Germany. A show report by Simon Adolf can be found in our German news-item, also there is a video on YouTube.
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18.Feb.2024
Amitopia (ANF)
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.5 with Itch.io downloads
AmiFox displays modern websites on an Amiga by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server").
New features of version 0.5 include the ability to download files directly from Itch.io and the display of the URL as a QR code, for example to continue surfing on a cell phone. The browser is available for AmigaOS and AROS (x86, x64, ARM).
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17.Feb.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.7
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. Changes in version 5.6.7:
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17.Feb.2024
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Demoparty: The nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards
This weekend, the demo party "MountainBytes 2024" will take place in Switzerland (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday evening, the nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards were determined, which will then be presented during Revision 2024, which takes place from 29 March to 1 April in Saarbrücken. Among the candidates are also some Amiga entries in three categories:
Best Midschool Production
Best Soundtrack
Outstanding Technical Achievement
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17.Feb.2024
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Emulation: BBoot bootloader V0.6 for QEMU
BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan (amiga-news.de reported). It replaces amigaboot.of on Pegasos2 and slb_v2 on AmigaOne and simplifies the booting of AmigaOS 4 under QEMU. A firmware ROM is no longer required. The current version 0.6 solves problems when booting the AmigaOne machine with the latest QEMU 9 version.
As Balaton Zoltan kindly explains to us, this new version is currently only required for those users who compile QEMU themselves from the current Git master repository, from which version 9.0 will later emerge.
The developer has also provided a tutorial Booting AmigaOS 4.1 on QEMU with BBoot.
However, as Alinea, for example, has informed us, the AmigaOne version of AmigaOS 4 has not been available for some time despite ordering from Hyperion Entertainment. The company could not be reached for comment.
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17.Feb.2024
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AROS: Music program ProTrekkr v2.6.6 (update)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can (mainly) be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) targeting small sized intros, demos or games. Now version 2.6.5 was released for AROS (and FreeBSD, macOS and Windows). Changes:
- Added handling for 512 midi patches via bank selection.
- Fixed a couple of bugs in the standalone replay.
- Added effects 3F & 40 to set the scale of the two 303 units.
- The file keyboards.txt was missing from the repository.
- Added effects 29, 2A & 2B to turn tracks compressor on/off, set compression threshold & ratio respectively.
- Fixed the audio bug on Intel Macs.
Download: ptk_v2.6.6_aros.zip (23 MB)
Update (21.02.2024, 06:05):
Version 2.6.6 is available and the download link above was adapted. Changes:
- Doesn't actualize UI from audio thread anymore (which fixed a few issues).
- Fixed the 303 units note off bug.
- Added a function to swap two instruments in the patterns.
- Refactored a lot of the code
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16.Feb.2024
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Platformer: Jump'n Bump (beta version)
Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of his port of the game Jump'n Bump using his Scorpion Engine, which essentially contains the core functions of the original game, but has not yet been extensively tested, so there may still be a few bugs here and there. New features:
- Title screen (eg, player select)
- Players at same height repel each other
- Butterflies
- Score screen, including breakdown of each player's kills vs other players
Still to come:
- Title screen text loop
- Performance mode build for smooth gameplay on A500
- Mega Drive conversion
- Maybe additional levels derived from the original game's map packs?
- AI and/or some form of single player mode
Download: jump_n_bump_LATEST.adf
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16.Feb.2024
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Tool: EmptyADF 1.0
After several beta versions, Darren 'dmcoles' Cole released the first stable version of "ReBuild" about a week ago, which should make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (amiga-news.de reported). Krzysztof Donat (bitplan) has now used ReBuild to create the EmptyADF tool, which can be used to generate empty ADF files. Main features:
- creating DD (880 KB) or HD (1.76 MB) disk images
- creating OFS or FFS disk images
- creating images with or without system bootblock
- creating disk images with your own label
- completing system disk dates:
- last root alteration date
- last disk alteration date
- filesystem creation date
He tested it under AmigaOS 3.2, but it should run on any Amiga with Kickstart 3.0+ and installed ReAction libraries.
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16.Feb.2024
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Twin-Stick-Shooter: Pre-Order of boxed editions of Cecconoid
At the end of 2022, the musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' - for example the Amiga port of Knightmare - began porting the game "Cecconoid", originally published by "Triple Eh?": "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. Except for their dangly red bits..." (YouTube video).
Now Thalamus Digital, an independent video game developer and publisher, is offering the game for pre-order in various boxed versions, which should be available in April 2024. As the developer explained to us when asked, the game has now been finalised and the digital version should also be available when the physical versions start shipping.
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15.Feb.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP/IP stack: Roadshow 1.15 released
Press release: "Slightly delayed by only 18 months (we are getting faster), the free Roadshow TCP/IP stack 1.15 update is now available to all customers.
This update is focused on improving installation and maintenance tasks, as well as making the installation documentation more useful and accessible. The single documentation file, still small in 2014, became increasingly unwieldy and has become a set of shorter files, each focused on one single aspect of Roadshow. By request, new documentation has been added which details all the files which will be installed for Roadshow.
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15.Feb.2024
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Event: 10th Alternative Computer Meeting in Wolfsburg (Germany)
The 10th meeting for alternative operating systems and computers in the Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Flechtorf near Wolfsburg, Germany, will take place from June 28 to 30, 2024. All fans of home computers and consoles from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, as well as their clones and successors, are welcome.
According to the organizers, the Alternative Computer Meeting will remain mainly an Amiga event. For years, regular guests have included Entwickler X, Alinea Computer, Frank Mariak and members of A1K.org, and also further developers like Daniel Müßener, Costel Mincea and Martin Schüler have been there already.
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14.Feb.2024
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Video tutorial: "Screen Copy" command in AMOS
Following on from his last video about screen commands, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at the screen commands "Screen Copy", "Screen Hide" and "Screen Show" in another part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro. As always, the source file for the program shown in the video can be downloaded free of charge from his website.
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14.Feb.2024
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Blog: Restauration of an A1060 Sidecar, part 1
The A1060 Sidecar is an expansion hardware device developed by Commodore and released in 1986 for the Amiga 1000 computer. It features a complete PC XT-clone system mounted in an expansion case which connected to the expansion bus on the right side of the Amiga 1000 computer.
A few months ago, Richard Körber was very lucky to acquire such a sidecar on eBay and reports on how he restores it in a three-part series. The first part is available at the title link.
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14.Feb.2024
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Platformer: Playable demo of "Silhouette Threat" for AGA Amigas
Three weeks ago, we introduced the platformer "Silhouette Threat", which 'psquaredish' is developing together with his daughter for AGA computers with the Scorpion Engine. Now he has released a playable demo version of the first level (YouTube video).
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