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11.Mar.2024
Alfred Faust (ANF) 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. (cg)

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11.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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11.Mar.2024 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: more ... (dr)

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11.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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11.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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11.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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11.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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11.Mar.2024
Glames (BOING) 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. (dr)

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11.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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10.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (website) AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added: more ... (snx)

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10.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (website) 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. (snx)

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10.Mar.2024
Amigaworld.net (website) 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: more ... (snx)

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10.Mar.2024 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. (snx)

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10.Mar.2024
Micromiga.com (ANF) 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.
more ... (snx)

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10.Mar.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF) 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. (snx)

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10.Mar.2024 Aminet uploads until 09.03.2024
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10.Mar.2024 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 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 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 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: more ... (snx)

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10.Mar.2024
Dietmar Planitzer (Mail) 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: more ... (dr)

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09.Mar.2024 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). more ... (dr)

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09.Mar.2024
Amiga Kit 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. (dr)

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09.Mar.2024 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: more ... (dr)

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08.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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08.Mar.2024

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 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: more ... (dr)

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07.Mar.2024

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. (dr)

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07.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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07.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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07.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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05.Mar.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF) 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. (snx)

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05.Mar.2024 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). (dr)

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05.Mar.2024

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) (dr)

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04.Mar.2024
Sven Scheele (ANF) 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 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 OS4Depot uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
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03.Mar.2024 AROS Archives uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to AROS Archives:
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03.Mar.2024 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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03.Mar.2024
Fredrik Rambris (ANF) 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. (snx)

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03.Mar.2024
David Brunet (ANF) 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. more ... (snx)

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03.Mar.2024
Puni (ANF) 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. (snx)

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03.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite) 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. (snx)

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02.Mar.2024

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 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. (dr)

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02.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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01.Mar.2024 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) more ... (dr)

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01.Mar.2024 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) (dr)

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01.Mar.2024 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. (dr)

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01.Mar.2024 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: more ... (dr)

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29.Feb.2024
Jeroen Knoester 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. (dr)

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28.Feb.2024
MorphZone (Forum) MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.21
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.21 his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. Detailed changes: more ... (dr)

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28.Feb.2024
MorphZone 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). (dr)

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28.Feb.2024 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. (dr)

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28.Feb.2024 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. (dr)

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28.Feb.2024 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. (dr)

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27.Feb.2024 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. (dr)

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27.Feb.2024
Cameron Armstrong (Mail) 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. (dr)

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26.Feb.2024
Puni/Void (ANF) 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. (snx)

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26.Feb.2024
ANF 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.
more ... (snx)

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26.Feb.2024
Amitopia (ANF) 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. (snx)

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26.Feb.2024
Seiya (ANF) 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. (snx)

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25.Feb.2024 Aminet uploads until 24.02.2024
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25.Feb.2024 OS4Depot uploads until 24.02.2024
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25.Feb.2024 AROS Archives uploads until 24.02.2024
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25.Feb.2024 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.02.2024
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25.Feb.2024 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: more ... (snx)

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25.Feb.2024
Forum 64 (Webseite) 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. more ... (cg) (Translation: cg)

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24.Feb.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF) 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: more ... (cg) (Translation: cg)

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24.Feb.2024 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. more ... (dr)

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23.Feb.2024 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. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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23.Feb.2024 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. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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23.Feb.2024 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. more ... (cg) (Translation: cg)

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22.Feb.2024 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. (cg) (Translation: snx)

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22.Feb.2024
AmigaPortal.de (ANF) 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: more ... (cg)

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21.Feb.2024 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. (cg)

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20.Feb.2024
ANF 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. (snx)

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20.Feb.2024 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. (snx)

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19.Feb.2024

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)

(dr)

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19.Feb.2024 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. (dr)

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19.Feb.2024 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. (dr)

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19.Feb.2024 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) (dr)

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18.Feb.2024

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.

(dr)

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18.Feb.2024 Aminet uploads until 17.02.2024
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to Aminet:
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18.Feb.2024 OS4Depot uploads until 17.02.2024
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18.Feb.2024 AROS Archives uploads until 17.02.2024
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18.Feb.2024 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.02.2024
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18.Feb.2024 WHDLoad: New installers until 17.02.2024
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18.Feb.2024

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

(snx)

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18.Feb.2024
Simon Adolf (ANF) 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. (snx)

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18.Feb.2024
Amitopia (ANF) 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). (snx)

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17.Feb.2024 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: more ... (dr)

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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

The Loop by Ghostown and Haujobb
D-Funk by Desire

Best Soundtrack

Neocolora by Darkage and Lemon

Outstanding Technical Achievement

HAMazing by Desire
Worms VBI by AttentionWhore
Cycle-Op by Oxygene

(dr)

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17.Feb.2024 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. (dr)

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17.Feb.2024

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

(dr)

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16.Feb.2024

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 (dr)

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16.Feb.2024

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. (dr)

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16.Feb.2024 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. (dr)

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15.Feb.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF) 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.
more ... (snx)

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15.Feb.2024
Kymon Zonias (E-Mail) 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. (snx)

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14.Feb.2024 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. (dr)

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14.Feb.2024 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. (dr)

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14.Feb.2024
'psquaredish' 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). (dr)

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13.Feb.2024 AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 2
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the second release candidate of version 2.30.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes: more ... (dr)

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13.Feb.2024
ANF AROS distribution: AROS One 2.4 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One" (screenshot), which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.4 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found.

This is the most stable AROS x86 version to date, with many bug fixes relating to Wanderer and hardware compatibility, the list of which has since been further revised. Above all, however, the distribution has now been compiled with the C library, which makes porting and compiling easier for developers, but requires to be installed from scratch because it is no longer compatible with the old core and the old software included in the contrib archive. Thus own configurations of the included software must therefore be saved and reinstalled manually.
more ... (snx)

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13.Feb.2024

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb V2.6
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 mainly file usage was improved. Changes:

import previously unmountable files on a disk (DD/HD 880KB/1.76MB), e.g. single files such as demo.lha (YouTube video), todos.txt, space_ship.iff, blitter_force.asm
extended ADF files are recognized by header bytes regardless of its file extension
select files from zip folders, improved zip file support
upgraded to most recent vAmigaCore v2.6 for increased machine compatibility

(dr)

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13.Feb.2024 Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.1)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). This second early demo version he calls "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) having more than 80 enemies in less than a minute playtime. The game should run on an Amiga 500. more ... (dr)

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12.Feb.2024

Demoparty: Results of Lovebyte 2024 (update)
Last weekend, Lovebyte 2024 took place on Discord and Twitch (amiga-news.de reported). Three Amiga productions were among the first-placed ones in the various categories:

1st place for Glenz 1k by gigabates / Desire in the category "1k Intro Oldschool"
2nd place for strss by Losso / AttentionWhore in the category "512 Byte Intro Oldschool"
6th place for Tiny Squares by gigabates / Desire in the category "64 Byte Intro Oldschool"

Update: (13.02.2024, 22:01, dr)

Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, has explained on his website "heckmeck!" about the creation of the demo "strss". (dr)

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12.Feb.2024

Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.3 (update)
ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC with Windows, Linux or MacOS to connect to the Amiga and browse the local hard drives. This is the first stable version, while previous ones were still considered as beta versions. Changes:

A problem where certain Apollo Accelerator targeted distributions used an icon for the SD Card that didn't appear in the PC client browser has been fixed.
Similarly, FAT filesystems (SD Cards are formated such) will get the default def_SD0.info icon if this available on the Amiga.

Update: (12.02.2024, 20:18, dr)

The developer has pointed out that his application should basically run on all Amigas that are equipped with sufficient CPU and RAM to run a web browser. For example, ApolloExplorer should work on PiStorm Amigas or 68030 Amigas. (dr)

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12.Feb.2024 Blog: The Infocom logo
The blog "Zarf Updates" deals with the design and history of the Infocom logo in an article. (dr)

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12.Feb.2024

Music: Piano arrangements of Amiga game music
Grazia Pizzuto is a church musician in Bonn and teaches piano and improvisation. She also runs a YouTube channel where she presents piano arrangements of game music, including Amiga games. She has recently published the following songs:

When asked how she came to arrange and play Amiga game music, Grazia kindly replied:
"I have never had an Amiga myself. It all started when my husband introduced me to Chris Hülsbeck's Piano Collection. These are sheet music and CD/mp3s that we had supported as a Kickstarter project. When I heard this music for the first time, it immediately appealed to me and since then I've always been looking for good music in (retro) computer games.

Several factors play a role in the selection of the pieces: First and foremost, I consider the recommendations/tips from my viewers. Another decisive factor is how much the pieces appeal to me personally. I also talk to my husband about how much a piece of music evokes nostalgia in him (he had a C64 and knew the Amiga from friends). Next, I check whether there is already sheet music available, for example on Musescore, or whether I have to arrange the piece myself.

For the Amiga songs I often work with MOD files in an MOD file tracker. If I have neither notes nor MODs, I often listen to the originals and then write the notes from what I hear. Of course, I also have a look at longplays to get an idea of the game. Occasionally I play one or two games on emulators (Vice, WinUAE, RetroArch) to get a feel for the gameplay."

Thank you very much, Grazia. We look forward to many more Amiga titles! (dr)

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11.Feb.2024 Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.7
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 13.1 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video). Changes of version 1.7.7: more ... (dr)

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11.Feb.2024

Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.1
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the amiga version of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally released by Data East in 1986 (YouTube video). Following the release at the beginning of March, there is now a first update

Tweaks to fire tank, flame vanishes immediately when destroyed.
Fixed occasional crashing when helicopter is onscreen.
Fixed scores now register if game beaten on 2nd loop.
Fixed powerup properly deactivating after game over.
Added sound effects.

(dr)

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11.Feb.2024

AROS: CAMD MIDI driver (update)
In our (German) news item on the release of version 1.0 of the multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes for Amiga OS4.1, Alfred Faust stated: "Before I made the OS4.1 FE version, I worked intensively on the AROS version. Unfortunately, AROS lacks a usable MIDI transfer. Without this, BarsnPipes is NOT usable. I had tried very hard to write a CAMD driver for USB MIDI transmission. Unfortunately, this did not lead to the success I had hoped for."

In a thread on AROS World, help was sought in this regard, which Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has now provided using his CAMD-MIDI driver under the title link.

Regarding the installtion he has written:

Delete any file present in the devs:midi directory (probably just "debugdriver")
Copy the file "mididriver" into devs:midi directory.
Reboot.

In the archive there are two tools:

"ShowClusters" will show the midi ports of the driver.
"MidiWatch" will monitor a given port as argument (usually mididriver.in.0 or mididriver.out.0).

Update: (16.02.2024, 06:18, dr)

A new version is available on Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet's website: it fixes a bug that caused AROS to crash. He has also added the shell commands MidiThru (forwards messages from one port to another) and MidiSendC (sends a middle C to a specific port).

Charlet also found out that there are two bugs in camdusbmidi.class.c that prevent the sending of multiple midi messages in the nParseMidiOut() function. A corrected version is now also included in the archive. The following must therefore be installed:

Copy "mididriver" into devs:midi (and remove any file that may be there before).
Replace "camdusbmidi.class" from SYS:Classes/USB with the one included in the archive.
Reboot.

(dr)

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11.Feb.2024 Aminet uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to Aminet:
more ... (snx)

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11.Feb.2024 OS4Depot uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to OS4Depot:
more ... (snx)

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11.Feb.2024 AROS Archives uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to AROS Archives:
more ... (snx)

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11.Feb.2024 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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11.Feb.2024 WHDLoad: New installers until 10.02.2024
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 10.02.2024: more ... (snx)

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11.Feb.2024
Alisha Stutz (ANF) Event: AUGS meeting 2024 in Zurich (Switzerland)
The Amiga User Group Switzerland is hosting this year's meeting on March 16 and 17, 2024 at the Centrum Čechů a Slováků in Zurich.

Admission is free for visitors, but registration is mandatory for participation with hardware and subject to a stand fee for non-members of AUGS. Further information can be found at the title link. (snx)

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11.Feb.2024

AmigaOS 4: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.87
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Now Achim Pankalla has released version 1.87. Changes:

Bug: Report account-flow has not offer the last years, only last 12 month.
Bug: Long catogory names are not shown in ignition tables.
Changes: Now also the values are shown in ignition pie-graphics.
Bug: Corrects some little bugs in ignition-sheets.

(dr)

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10.Feb.2024 Blog: Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS
As Carl Svenssons writes in his blog entry "Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS", most consumer models of the Amiga series were shipped with heavily watered-down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception to this rule, but owners of later machines - such as the A1200 - may not have received any documentation for the command line portion of AmigaOS at all.

Furthermore, the normal end user had no access to the official developer documentation. His present essay is dedicated to hidden or even completely undocumented or unfinished features of AmigaDOS versions 2 and 3. (dr)

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10.Feb.2024 Terrain models: World Construction Set 2.031 (Emerald-Berta), AmigaOS 3 and AROS
As can be read in the history of the development of their software products, Gary Huber of Questar Productions recognized the potential of the graphics capabilities of the personal computers of the time in the late 1980s and began researching and developing software for his Amiga computer to combine 3D terrain data and landscape/vegetation information into a computer-generated synthetic 3D view with colored trees (coniferous and deciduous), ground cover patterns, sky and haze.

Other software companies had developed similar software for the Amiga, including VistaPro from Virtual Reality Labs and the "Scenery Generator" (later "Scenery Animator") from Naturalgfx and Panorama. All included a basic method of automatically placing one or more types of vegetation based on local terrain criteria, usually using elevation and slope. However, none of the available commercial tools could handle large, detailed regions, making them unusable for commercial and industrial terrain mapping.

In 1992, Huber began developing algorithms and programs to meet the requirements he had predicted. Originally written in an advanced BASIC language and later rewritten in C for speed reasons. Chris Hanson joined Questar and Huber and helped develop the user interface, language conversion, optimization and graphics. The result, announced in August 1994, was World Construction Set 1 (WCS) for the Amiga with a host of advanced features (and a name inspired by the popular Electronic Arts audio tool of the time, "Deluxe Music Construction Set"). WCS V1 extended the land cover and vegetation placement techniques of earlier software to include the placement of so-called "ecosystems".

WCS V2 (video) for the Amiga was released in late 1995, followed by a Windows version in January 1996. Version 2 introduced oceans with waves and reflections, DEM buildings, realistic looking clouds, sun and moon, better vegetation and OpenGL support.

Both versions 1.25 and 2.04 are available as packed ADF files on the 3DNature.com website. The corresponding source files were published on GitHub some nine years ago. Alexander Fritsch began working on the source files containing the penultimate version 2.03 ("Emerald") in 2017. As he tells us, the project first had to be made gcc-compatible. The aim of his new compilation using Bebbo's gcc was and is to achieve the highest possible speed. This required very extensive tests with various compiler options and lengthy test calculations on a real Amiga, always under the same boundary conditions. As Bebbo also continued to work on gcc, it had to be tested again and again to see whether a new compiler version with new optimizations would bring a speed advantage. Since WCS as a complex program is also a test case for the compiler itself, Alexander reports, WCS also revealed errors in the compiler over time, especially with various optimizations and floating point calculations.

As a result, the new version of WCS now available on Aminet on a 25MHz 68040 Amiga only needs 4 hours instead of 5 hours for a "Canyon Sunset" example image. A nice result that would not have been possible without Bebbo's work, as Alexander says, and his gcc. An AROS version is also included in the archive. (dr)

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10.Feb.2024 Podcast: The Retro Hour talked to Matthew Leaman (AmigaKit)
The podcast The Retro Hour spoke to Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of AmigaKit, about his latest project, the A600GS gaming computer, among other things. (dr)

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10.Feb.2024

Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.208 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. PowerPC-relevant changes:

powerpc: update ppc_save_regs to save current r1 in pt_reg
powerpc/ftrace: Fix stack teardown in ftrace_no_trace
powerpc/ftrace: Create a dummy stackframe to fix stack unwind
powerpc: Don't clobber f0/vs0 during fp|altivec register save
powerpc/perf: Fix disabling BHRB and instruction sampling
powerpc/pseries: fix potential memory leak in init_cpu_associativity()
powerpc/imc-pmu: Use the correct spinlock initializer
powerpc/xive: Fix endian conversion size
powerpc/40x: Remove stale PTE_ATOMIC_UPDATES macro
powerpc/mm: Fix boot crash with FLATMEM
powerpc/64e: Fix wrong test in __ptep_test_and_clear_young()
powerpc/8xx: Fix pte_access_permitted() for PAGE_NONE
powerpc/watchpoints: Disable preemption in thread_change_pc()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Update domain value check
powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()
powerpc/iommu: Fix notifiers being shared by PCI and VIO buses
powerpc: Don't include lppaca.h in paca.h
powerpc/perf: Convert fsl_emb notifier to state machine callbacks
powerpc/fadump: reset dump area size if fadump memory reserve fails
powerpc/kasan: Disable KCOV in KASAN code
powerpc/rtas_flash: allow user copy to flash block cache objects
powerpc/mm/altmap: Fix altmap boundary check
drm/radeon: possible buffer overflow
drm/radeon: Use RMW accessors for changing LNKCT
drm/radeon: Fix integer overflow in radeon_cs_parser_init
Support for Microsoft devices that are not fully compliant with HID standard (CONFIG_HID_MICROSOFT=y)

Download: linux-image-5.10.208-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71,5 MB) (dr)

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09.Feb.2024

AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.53 (update 2)
AmiUpdate, the update programme for system components and programmes, was first updated to version 2.50 on 04/02/2024 and then, after some problems, to version 2.51. The changes:

AmiUpdate 2.50

The http transfer routines did not consider a filename with spaces in it. All filenames are now run through an encoder prior to the HTTP request being sent. This fixes issues like the MUI update failing to download.
update.library 53.19: Added more internal vectors.
RebootDeamon 2.4:
- Reworked the source to avoid some duplication of code.
- Changed the timer.device handling to avoid memory leaks.
- Removed the pointless cancel button from the countdown requester.
- If update.library could not be loaded, it tried to open an intuition requester for notification, but intuition had not been opened yet!

AmiUpdate 2.51

Some internal changes, but nothing functional (unless I added some bugs, of course).
It seems the http request headers did NOT include the version info in the User-Agent field, which the server uses. I could have sworn it was included ages ago!
Added better logging in the case of [405] errors.
The status bar will now show correctly if no servers are selected.
RebootDeamon 2.5: Seems there was a long standing bug which just popped up, which could lead to a crash dealing with the time requests.

Update: (11.02.2024, 14:18, dr)

Meanwhile the author Simon Archer has released version 2.52, which currently cannot be downloaded from the program itself, but from "Downloads" under the title link. Many users had reported problems when they used the program iconified in the background. This now should be fixed. Changes:

Unfortunately, trying to keep compatibility with OS 4.0 led to problems with the docky part of application.library, as it always opens V2 of the library interface. As the program is using the old V1 tags, this threw up an error reported by multiple users. As it is highly unlikely anyone is still using 4.0, it should not be a problem a huge problem. My aplologies to any 4.0 users, but now is the time to upgrade!.
As the ongoing saga with connections to "amiupdate.net" is still ongoing, despite my best efforts to resolve it, I have now added a simple NSLookup to AmiUpdate in order to put rest to this issue once and for all. Accesses to "amiupdate.net" and "wwww.amiupdate.net" are now registered on "my" lookup server and are now redirected to the correct place without any intervention from the great wide internet.

Update 2: (13.02.2024, 22:01, dr)

And once again AmiUpdate has been updated, now to version 2.53. Users had tried to search for updates from within the prefs program, which caused errors. However, the new AmiUpdate V2.53 only updates the update prefs to version 53.17. The final version 53.18 can then be accessed via a separate update of the prefs program. (dr)

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09.Feb.2024 Demoparty: Lovebyte 2024
This year's edition of the Lovebyte demo party will take place on Discord and Twitch from Friday to Sunday. In addition to various intro competitions, seminars, intro shows and many other events are also planned (timetable). (dr)

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09.Feb.2024 Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor 1.2
Stefan Vogt has released another update to his text adventure with graphics, "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (amiga-news.de reported). It contains minor bug fixes and improvements as well as a comprehensive hint system in the game that does not spoil anything. (dr)

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09.Feb.2024 Blog: Modding the Amiga boot hand
Alexander Grupe recently discovered the Amiga start screen redesigned by AndroidArts on X and wondered whether the standard screen designed by Sheryl Knowles could actually be changed or replaced. In a current article on his website heckmeck! he shows that it works and how it works. (dr)

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09.Feb.2024
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch and Odyssey Web Browser
Press release: This new version 20220318-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems introduces updates to a few libraries as well as multiple bugixes. If you are a developer, please take note of switch to new C library and update your SDK installation. The download of binary packages and full changelog is available on GitHub.

Additionally, with this release the list of recommended hardware has been extended with two inexpensive motherboards: ASUS P8Z68V LX and Gigabyte GA-MA770T UD3P.
As a reminder, the above list includes hardware that is well supported, easily obtainable second hand, cheap and will be re-tested for each future release to maintain compatibility.

And to make things ever better, Odyssey Web Browser for 32-bit x86 AROS has also been refreshed. It was last released in 2016 and this new version 1.26 brings re-compilation with newer SDK and a number of bugfixes. It requires this release of AROS base system to work.

If you enjoy AROS and would like to get in touch with wider AROS community, be sure to visit new AROS community forum. (dr)

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09.Feb.2024
mithrendal Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb runs on Apple Vision Pro
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.

In a blog entry, the developer 'mithendal' has now published images that show that and how his emulator works with the Apple Vision Pro. (dr)

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