31.Jul.2023
PixelPlop (Mail)
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Dungeon Crawler: The Last Dungeon v0.6
In May, 'PixelPlop' had started to develop his entry for the AmiGameJam 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). Just in time before the deadline he has now published a first, playable, but still incomplete version of "The Last Dungeon" (YouTube video). If there is sufficient feedback, he intends to finish writing the game after the jam.
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31.Jul.2023
Patreon
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Motorola68k emulation: Second beta version of Emu68 (V0.16)
Developer Michal Schulz has released a second beta version of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite. As the developer writes, more than a year of hard work went into Emu68 and PiStorm, as well as thousands of hours of testing by volunteers. Stability and compatibility have improved greatly during this time. He will now return to the topic of WiFi and PiStorm.
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31.Jul.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.15.1
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)
Die Version 1.15.1 fixes a bug of version 1.14 which prevented importing Kryoflux raw files.
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31.Jul.2023
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Demoparty: Nordlicht, 08 to 10 September in Bremen (Germany)
The next edition of the 'Nordlicht' will take place in Bremen from 08 to 10 September. Tickets for the event can be purchased now via the official website.
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30.Jul.2023
OS4Welt
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AmigaOS 4.1: Spreadsheet ignition 1.22
Achim Pankalla has released version 1.22 of his spreadsheet ignition which at least requires AmigaOS 4.1 update 6. Changes:
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30.Jul.2023
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MP3 player: Reel Deck V1.06
At the beginning of February, Sami Vehmaa had released 1.00 of his MP3 player "Reel Deck" for Amigas with graphics card (amiga-news.de reported). Since then he has made minor improvements and bug fixes. The changes:
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30.Jul.2023
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Video player: Amos Anim Player v2023.07.30
The "Amos Anim Player" of the group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP" is a very simple IFF-ANIM player that runs on any Amiga. It can play compressed IFF-Anim formats synchronised with a separate IFF Audio Sample (or MOD) (amiga-news.de reported).
In the current version the Reducer has got adjustable settings (luminance sensitivity, block size, ect.).
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30.Jul.2023
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Platform game: Demo version of "Gothic Vania" (Amiten Games)
After Matteo 'Toolkitman' Trevisan had already taken on the Scorpion Engine demo Gothic Vania and released his own demo version (amiga-news.de reported), Amiten Games is now making the same attempt (YouTube video) as a contribution to AmiGameJam 2022.
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30.Jul.2023
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Aminet uploads until 29.07.2023
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30.Jul.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.07.2023
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30.Jul.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 29.07.2023
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30.Jul.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.07.2023
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30.Jul.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 29.07.2023
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 29.07.2023:
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29.Jul.2023
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Video series "Taborized": Battle Squadron Enhanced + Tower 57 adapted to A1222+
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener had already adapted some of his games to the Tabor board in the past (e.g. Tower 57). However, all of these games still lacked sound because there was no sound driver at the time. Since meanwhile the sound driver is available, he is working on these games one after the other and adapting the audio code for SPE. This has already been done for the games Battle Squadron Enhanced and Tower 57.
The respective executables will be made available free of charge.
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28.Jul.2023
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LinuxJedi blog: Restauration of an Amiga 3000, part 3 and 4
After the first two blog entries about the restoration of an Amiga 3000 bought from the USA (amiga-news.de reported), Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings continues this series with part three and part four, in which he describes various cleaning efforts and upgrades respectively.
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28.Jul.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.2
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.2 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:
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27.Jul.2023
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Video tutorial: Building a graphics editor in AMOS, part 1
After finishing his short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' has started a new video tutorial series with this first part, which aims to show in a bit more detail how to program a simple tool for creating and editing graphics with AMOS, using commands like Plot, Draw, Box and BAR.
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27.Jul.2023
itch.io
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Programming assistance: "AB_Template" 0.76 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
Sami Vehmaa wants to get more people to develop games for the Amiga platform and for this purpose offers templates for the RTG variant of AmiBlitz 3 on itch.io with "AB_Template" (YouTube video of version 0.23, amiga-news.de reported). In version 0.76 he has updated the game menu and added the source code of the games Atris, Battleship SEAHAWK (YouTube-Video), Dungeon Escape (YouTube-Video), Last Space Raider (YouTube-Video), Sky Tower (YouTube-Video) and Slendermanpages.
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27.Jul.2023
Amiga-Blogs
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Blog: Amiga 4000T Upgrade, part 1
In the first part of an article series "Epsilon's World" has descibed, how he has upgraded his Amiga 4000T with AmigaOS 3.2.2, the graphics board ZZ9000 and diverse applications.
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26.Jul.2023
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Arcade port: Wonderboy V1.2
Wonderboy is an Amiga port of the first part of the Wonder Boy saga, of which only the sequel Wonderboy in Monsterland was available for the Amiga so far (amiga-news.de reported). Changes since our news item about version 1.0:
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26.Jul.2023
Stephan Blixth (E-Mail)
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MorphOS: Screen blankers fxBlankers V1.3
Stephan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has released version 1.3 of his screen saver fxBlankers for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) which now also includes MysticLines. It is based on June Tate-Gans live stream tutorial in QBasic.
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26.Jul.2023
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Report: Swapping the CPU in MicroA1 (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware. Based on his previous article about the influence of the cache on PowerPC CPU she now reports how she swapped the G3-CPU in her MicroA1 from 750FX to 750GX and finally overclocked GX to 1200 MHz. Because of the large 1024 kB cache, speed increase especially with emulators and web browsing are great.
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25.Jul.2023
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Xbox: 201 Amiga games in stream with Antstream Arcade
Owners of the Xbox game console from Microsoft now have access to 201 Amiga games via streaming, provided by the British provider Antstream. (Or "had access", respectively, since according to today's updated FAQ, Antstream Arcade has been "temporarily" removed by Microsoft from their store.) For the usage you can choose between a 1-year and a lifetime fee.
The licensing of the games from Amiga Corporation by Antstream was announced last year at Amiga37, Evercade was mentioned as another licensee at that time. Antstream Arcade is also available for PC, Mac, Android and Amazon's Fire TV.
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25.Jul.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 148 (Italian/English)
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 Seek and Destroy, Star Crusader and Starglider.
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25.Jul.2023
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Proof of concept: Shoot 'em Up "Amiga E.D.F."
The developer 'S0Y' (among others Temptations port for the CD32) has taken a look at the Shoot 'em Up Earth Defense Force, originally released for the SNES, and tested if an implementation and continuation on Amiga-AGA computers would be possible (YouTube video). The game, which is explicitly not intended to be a pure port, should have the following features:
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24.Jul.2023
ALBs Blog
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Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.2
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's programme AmiTranslate (video) serves as a link to the translation service DeepL and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.
In version 0.2 some bugs have been fixed: the scrollbars for the text edits now work and pdf documents do now care about returns or line wrap. Additionally, an user suggestion was implemented: a context menu for both edits to copy and paste text.
Besides an SSL-secured internet connection (OpenSSL3 under MorphOS resp. AmiSSL for the other systems) the program also needs the MUI class texteditor.mcc.
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24.Jul.2023
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Video: Repairing an A590 Rev.6, part 3 and 4
In the first part of his video series on repairing an A590, Robert Smith looked at the functionality in detail and the onboard Fast RAM, the second partsecond part is all about the hard disk. In the third part (YouTube video) of the series, a Blue SCSI V2 is installed, and the fourth episode (YouTube video) deals with a modification of the A590 that gives it more speed.
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24.Jul.2023
itch.io
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Platform game: Rastan demo v0.32
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. A few days ago, we reported on the demo version of the Amiga port which is currently in development. The demo now was updated to version 0.32. Changes:
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24.Jul.2023
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Hall of Light: Relaunch of Amiga game database
For a good week now, the Amiga game database "Hall of Light" has been presented in a new design. The most important changes:
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24.Jul.2023
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LinuxJedi blog: Advantages of a 68010 processor
In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings (amiga-news.de reported) reports about advantages of a 68010 CPU compared to a 68000.
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23.Jul.2023
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Aminet uploads until 22.07.2023
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23.Jul.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.07.2023
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23.Jul.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.07.2023
The following files have been added until 22.07.2023 to AROS Archives:
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23.Jul.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.07.2023
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23.Jul.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.07.2023
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 22.07.2023:
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23.Jul.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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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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[News message: 23. Jul. 2023, 06:42] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.15 / Firmware 1.4
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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23.Jul.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: Proposals wanted for the Community Award of the Amiga38
On October 6/7 the Amiga38 will take place in Mönchengladbach (amiga-news.de reported). During this event the recipients of the "Community Award" will be voted again - this time divided into the three categories Hardware, Software/Games and Other.
Suggestions for candidates from the Amiga area for the voting starting in August, which have particularly impressed you between mid 2022 and mid 2023, can be submitted via e-mail to info@amigaevent.de. Please include the name and, if applicable, the nickname, the category and the reason for the nomination.
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23.Jul.2023
Markus Steffan (ANF)
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Game Jonathan: Research in "Kronstadt" mentioned by Memminger Zeitung (German)
In 2018/19 Markus Steffan went on a search for clues in "Kronstadt", the city of the game Jonathan (German Wikipedia entry), which is based on the city of Memmingen (Germany) and was released in 1993 for Amiga and MS-DOS (amiga-news.de reported in German).
On July 22, on "Fischertag", the German local newspaper "Memminger Zeitung" now also reported about this research as well as his intention to write a novel about the game later on - including a sequel.
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23.Jul.2023
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Platform game: Early version of "Jack In The Pit"
For the AmiGameJam 2022 and the KiwiJam 2023, "Jack In The Pit" was written in 48 hours (YouTube video): the platform game "combines a short length with a sharply increasing difficulty curve. It also features a wide variety of vertical parallax effects to create a sense of 3D depth". It runs on any Amiga with 1MB.
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2023, 06:36] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jul.2023
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.1
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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21.Jul.2023
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Developer diary: "Settle the World" 07/23
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel continus working on his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest developer diary entry he reports about changes on the graphics system und of pathfinding. Christian would be happy about users who try out his current development version for a few hours and then report to him where there are problems, ambiguities or crashes.
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20.Jul.2023
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Video tutorial: Blitz Basic
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch another part of his Blitz Basic tutorial (amiga-news.de reported), "looking at some general Blitz stuff, 3rd-party libraries, AmiBlitz includes and more".
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20.Jul.2023
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Retrohax blog: Amiga 500 upgrade #1
As Retrohax.net writes, he had restored hundreds of retro machines to their original state over the past years (sometimes with minor modifications) and he was kind of tired of it, so the time had come to try something different.
So he decided to create a new series of posts in which he will try to describe upgrades and visual modifications of the 20 remaining unrestored Amiga 500s. Each of these Amiga 500s will be unique and described in a separate blog post. As soon as such an Amiga is completed and tested, he will start an eBay auction with it. This is post number 1 of 20.
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20.Jul.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.1
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:
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19.Jul.2023
Apollo-Forum
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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update GOLD 2.17 "Bronto"
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series produced by Motorola which also provides a separate graphics driver called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards 600 V2, 500 V2+ and 1200 V2. Changes:
- Card supports now to run in one of 4 different speed mode. This allows for run old games e.g. in speed of A500 or A1200, to improve running old games that have problems running on faster CPUs.
- Support for new instruction EXTUB.L
This instruction is very useful for type conversion.
It is used by some GCC versions.
Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
- Support for new instruction EXTUW.L
This instruction is very useful for type conversion.
It is used by some GCC versions.
Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
- Support for enhanced instructions
BRA.s+ BSR.s+ BCC.s+
This instruction is supported by some compilers and assemblers.
This instruction improves code density and improves performance.
- Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.w
- Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.l
- several FPU Performance optimizations ported from V4-FPU to V2
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19.Jul.2023
Yawning Angel (E-Mail)
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Video tutorial: Writing a simple game in AMOS
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' had published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro over the past twelve months (amiga-news.de reported). Based on this, in the latest video he shows how to program a small, functional game and thus finishes his series for the time being.
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19.Jul.2023
Mastodon
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Platform game: Rastan demo v0.31
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. Now an Amiga port is in development and after a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) there are now also demo versions, which the developer still calls alpha versions. Changes in version 0.31:
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19.Jul.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Special issue of ASM (German)
German magazine ASM ("Aktueller Software-Markt", current software market) was published from March 1986 to February 1995. Now a special issue is available, which contains more than 30 reviews of current games for 8- and 16-bitters as well as numerous interviews:
On the one hand with a number of people involved at that time - Manfred Kleimann, Frank Brall, Martina Strack, Bendrik Muhs, Stefan Swiergiel, Klaus Segel, Stefan Bayer, Torsten Oppermann and Dirk Fuchser - and on the other hand also with Thomas Meiertoberens (Magic Bytes) and Steve Wilcox (Elite Systems), Roman Werner (Super Marble Boy), The Mojon Twins (Ramiro el Vampiro), Juan Manchon (Amigastore. eu), Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP) and Sebastian Bach (Polyplay).
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18.Jul.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.86
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Changes since our last news item:
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18.Jul.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.38
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. Some improvements were made to prevent endless reading and the debug outputs were removed to speedup performance.
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18.Jul.2023
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Event: "ZZAP! Live" in Kenilworth (England)
On 12 August 2023 at The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) the first "ZZAP! Live" event, organised by the South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum, among others. All Commodore computer systems including the Amiga will be represented.
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17.Jul.2023
Rafał Zabdyr (E-Mail)
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MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.9.19
Rafał Zabdyr has released a first beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS. "Git Desktop" (Aminet link) is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required.
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Arcade port: Pengo released
After the beta version (amiga-news.de reported) the developer Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released the full version of the game "Pengo", originally published for Sega's arcade machines (video). As a red penguin, you have to fight off so-called Sno-Bees in a labyrinth of ice blocks.
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16.Jul.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Guide for new A1222 users
In the course of the press release about the start of production of the A1222+ motherboards (amiga-news.de reported), A-EON also gave Eldee Stephens permission to make his guide for potential A1222 users public.
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16.Jul.2023
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Start bar: WBDock2 V2.896
Today Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.896. Changes:
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16.Jul.2023
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Aminet uploads until 15.07.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.07.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to AROS Archives:
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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16.Jul.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.07.2023
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 15.07.2023:
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16.Jul.2023
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Blog "Vintage is The New Old" is discontinued
The blog "Vintage is the New Old" (ViTNO) - formerly known as "CommodoreBlog" and then as "Commodore is Awesome" - will stop all activities at the end of the month. The blog used to report on all facets of retro computing. The operator Paulo justifies his step with the fact that despite the numerous readers, the engagement and feedback on articles and actions is close to zero. In contrast, news published on ViTNO is very often used and commented on in other media (podcasts, websites, etc.) without the site being named as a source.
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15.Jul.2023
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LinuxJedi blog: Restauration of an Amiga 3000
In two detailed blog entries Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings shows how he restores an Amiga 3000 bought from the USA. The first part is mainly about adjustments to the power supply and changing from NTSC to PAL system, in the second part he replaces the 100MB SCSI drive with a BlueSCSI-V2.
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15.Jul.2023
itch.io
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Platform game: "Boxx"-Remake v1.0
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the Scorpion Engine. The latest update to version 1.0 includes the following changes:
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15.Jul.2023
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.0 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. As the developer wrote, the WebKit core has again been rebased to the latest stable WebKitGTK tree. But that's not all, 6.0 also brings many UI improvements like Bookmark filtering, improved password management, Youtube playback fixes, additional Altivec acceleration and more.
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14.Jul.2023
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12.2 for Raspberry Pi and Windows/Mac/Linux
AmiKit has released version 12.2 of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE. Among other things, AmigaOS 3.2.2.1 is now supported and it has been updated to the latest version of the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry. Detailed change logs for Windows/Mac/Linux and for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
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14.Jul.2023
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Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 3.41
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 3.41:
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14.Jul.2023
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Review: "Finnish Amiga Users Group" at the Vectorama 2023
In mid-June, Vectorama 2023, an online gaming event aimed at people of all ages, took place in Oulu, Finland. Also present was the Finnish Amiga Users Group, which organised an Amiga stand at the gaming event.
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14.Jul.2023
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Demoparty: Results of Pågadata 2023
At the beginning of July the Pågadata 2023 took place in Kvidinge, Sweden (amiga-news.de reported). At the demo competition held there, the following Amiga results were achieved:
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Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.0.1.01 for Amigas with 68060 processor
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3: the latest version 2.0.1.01 is available for RTG-Amigas and AGA-Amigas with 68060 processor and is based on ScummVM 2.0.1 for the first time.
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MorphOS: Screen blankers fxBlankers V1.2
Stephan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has released version 1.2 of his screen saver fxBlankers for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) which now also includes DotFlag and RandomPixels.
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14.Jul.2023
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Event: Banquet ticket registration for AmiWest 2023
The banquet ticket registration form is now available for AmiWest, which will be held in Sacramento, California, from 12 to 15 October 2023. In addition, two more raffle sponsors, AmiKit and Alinea Computer, and prominent attendees, Doug Compton of 10MARC and Alex Perez of Rabbit Hole Computing (ZuluSCSI), have been secured. The speaker at the banquet will be Garry Hare, former CEO ("Chief Executive Officer") of Amiga Inc. (see also his legal dispute from 2005).
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14.Jul.2023
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Amigaland.de: Games by California Dreams added
At Amigaland.de now all games by California Dreams are available. This month the titles Street Rod, Street Rod 2: The Next Generation, Blockout, Tunnels of Armageddon, TrianGO and Vegas Gambler have been added to that collection of legally downloadable software.
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14.Jul.2023
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Start bar: WBDock2 2.877
Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.877. Changes of this program for AmigaOS 3.1 and higher include addition of an experimental separator app (only working properly in AmiDock style yet) and a change in autohide mode preventing the dock to also appear when a previously started program ends.
Download: wbdock2.lha (377 KB)
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14.Jul.2023
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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: Wibble World Giddy, Giddy 2, Operation Firestorm, and Space Ace 2 - Borfs Revenge as well as the Bauersoft releases Basket, Hotel, Imbiss, and Toon.
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Image editor: PyDPainter 1.2.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as possible (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 1.2.0:
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14.Jul.2023
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Virtual Enemies: Devlog #2 - Registration, Network, Language-Support
For the announced strategy game "Virtual Enemies" (amiga-news.de reported), the developers have published a second devlog:
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11.Jul.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 22
The 22nd issue of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" will be published on Thursday, July 13th. Among the topics are reviews of current games and especially an interview with the developers Shaun Southern and Andrew Morris about the history of Magnetic Fields (Lotus trilogy, Super Cars).
Amiga Addict is published monthly and is available as a single issue or by subscription, either in printed form or as a PDF file.
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11.Jul.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Arcade port: Pengo beta version released
At the title link, a beta version of the game "Pengo", originally published for Sega's arcade machines, has been released (video). As a red penguin, you have to fight off so-called Sno-Bees in a labyrinth of ice blocks.
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11.Jul.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.1
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's program AmiTranslate (video) serves as an ambilink to the translation service DeepL and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.
Besides an SSL-secured internet connection (OpenSSL3 under MorphOS resp. AmiSSL for the other systems) the program also needs the MUI class texteditor.mcc.
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11.Jul.2023
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AROS distribution: AROS Vision "Sunrise"
Olaf Schönweiß has uploaded a new version of his distribution Aros Vision. There is no information if and what new features there are apart from the addition of Marcus Sackrow's programs AmiDream and AmiTranslate.
Below you can read a general distribution description by its compiler.
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10.Jul.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Status update for the WebKit port
George 'walkero' Sokiano's describes the current status of the Webkit port in a forum post:
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10.Jul.2023
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Hollywood: ZIP plugin 2.0 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0 of the ZIP plugin for Hollywood. This is a major update which adds several new features exclusively for users of Hollywood 10. For example, the ZIP plugin now supports Hollywood 10's new filesystem adapter interface which means that you can use functions like DeleteFile() or Rename() directly on files or directories within zip archives. Also, the plugin now makes use of several optimizations offered by Hollywood 10.
The plugin is now available for free download under the title link. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (arm64, ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided.
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09.Jul.2023
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Aminet uploads until 08.07.2023
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09.Jul.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 08.07.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 08.07.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.07.2023
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09.Jul.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 08.07.2023
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 08.07.2023:
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09.Jul.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Settings for usage under Linux with libvirt
At the title link, MorphZone member "AA5ikkR5SQC6pJSc" reports the settings he used under Fedora Linux to run MorphOS in emulation via QEMU using libvirt. A working NIC, however, he didn't achieve to configure so far.
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09.Jul.2023
ANF
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Book: From Vultures to Vampires, Volume 2 available
Two years after volume one of the "From Vultures to Vampires" books about Amiga history by former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson, starting July 14 the second of in total three volumes will be available after some delays.
Below you will find the press release:
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09.Jul.2023
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Print magazine: Boing #6 (French)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems on 52 A4 color pages.
The sixth issue includes news about the game "Twilight of the Muses!", reviews about PiStorm32-Lite and Turrican 2 AGA as well as an interview with Chris Hülsbeck.
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09.Jul.2023
ANF
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Hardware: Funding of Immortal Joysticks secured
Crowd funding of the "Immortal Joysticks", that had been built on demand before (amiga-news.de reported), has been successful. In total more than 30,000 UKP could be collected.
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Event: DEF CON 31 with Amiga FTP client vulnerability identification
From August 10 to 13, 2023, the IT security event DEF CON 31 will take place in Las Vegas. In one of the presentations, Dr. Wesley McGrew is dedicated to the possibility for beginners to find security vulnerabilities in earlier operating systems - and will demonstrate this using an FTP client for the Amiga from 1994.
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itch.io (ANF)
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Tool: Closer closes Workbench windows
Its name tells it all: the BlitzBasic program "Closer" will take away the chore of closing the Workbench windows for you.
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08.Jul.2023
ALBs Blog (ANF)
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AI picture generator: AmiDream 0.2
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiDream generates pictures described by text using the language model Stable Diffusion. The program is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.
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07.Jul.2023
MediaMarkt advertising (ANF)
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Trademark exploitation: "Commodore" household appliances
Apparently the most recent use of the brand name "Commodore" with a logo similar to the original can currently be found in MediaMarkt's advertising in Germany and Austria: on the one hand wet mopping robots in three variants and in Austria on the other hand also a so-called "balcony power station". Both products are distributed by the Austrian company KSR Group GmbH.
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07.Jul.2023
Demozoo (ANF)
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Jump'n'Run: Absolute Zero
In "Absolute Zero", a jump'n'run game created with RedPill, one has to collect batteries for "climate reactors" in a frozen world (video).
Download: AbsoluteZero.lha (1 MB)
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06.Jul.2023
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A-EON announces that A1222+ production is underway
In a joint press release (PDF), A-EON, ACube and AAA Technology announce that production of A1222+ motherboards is underway. Pre-orders for the A1222+ are "expected to open in the coming months", with shipments said to begin shortly afterwards. Customers who committed to A-EON’s 'Early Adopter' scheme will have first choice of refusal after which orders will be accepted on a first come first served basis.
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05.Jul.2023
ANF
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Emulator of an optical drive with CD³² support
Felix Lazarev has announced that his "Phøde Universal Optical Drive Emulator" will also support the Amiga CD³² among other systems. An "Optical Drive Emulator" (short: ODE) replaces an optical drive with a board that reads CD images from e.g. an SD card instead of using real CDs. This is much more robust, since no mechanics and no laser are used anymore.
Pre-orders are currently underway, and production is planned for the end of September, with delivery starting at the end of October.
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05.Jul.2023
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 163
The English and German issue 163 (July/August 2023) 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 a preview of the ASM game, a review of the IceDrake turbo board and show reports.
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05.Jul.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Script for adjusting Browservice usage by Odyssey
In order to be able to visit more modern websites on AmigaOS 4 with the Odyssey web browser, Browservice can be used (amiga-news.de reported). However, it happens that lateral scroll bars constantly appear and disappear again.
George Sokianos has now provided a Javascript file at the title link which solves this problem by generating the images supplied by Browservice a few pixels narrower so that the scroll bars do not appear at all. Before importing the file into Odyssey, one does only have to adjust the IP address in line 12 using a text editor.
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05.Jul.2023
Patreon
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.2
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
New features in version 2023.2 include an optional sliced blitting mode for the Amiga, which greatly reduces the memory consumption of animations.
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03.Jul.2023
Nico Barbat (ANF)
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German translation of "Commodore: The Inside Story" available
The book "Commodore: The Inside Story" by David Pleasance is also available in German now. Details can be found in our German news-item.
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03.Jul.2023
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Videos of the Kickstart 01
Last weekend, after a break of several years, an event for Amiga fans took place again in Great Britain with the Kickstart 01 (amiga-news.de reported). A short walk around of the event organised by Ravi Abbott (interview with amiga-news.de) was recorded by AmigaNG, detailed live recordings can be found on the Twitch channel StudioFromTheSky.
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02.Jul.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.14
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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02.Jul.2023
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Frogger clone: RANA
Already two years ago, Lorenzo Di Gaetano from the group Phaze101 wrote his Frogger clone RANA (Reckless Amphibian New Adventures) for the "Retroprogrammers Inside Gamedev Challenge" and published the source code on GitHub.
Since there was no finished binary so far, the idea arose in a forum discussion on Amiga-News.de to create one and make it available to the general public. With the kind permission of the author and the final implementation by Josef Wegner, the game is now available on Aminet (YouTube video).
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Aminet uploads until 01.07.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.07.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.07.2023
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02.Jul.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.07.2023
The following files have been added until 01.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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02.Jul.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.07.2023
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 01.07.2023:
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[News message: 02. Jul. 2023, 08:16] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jul.2023
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 during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
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[News message: 02. Jul. 2023, 08:16] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jul.2023
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Lubricator 2.0: Receiving disk images via HTTP and writing them on disk
"Lubricator" written by Timm 'bifat' Mueller loads disk images from the World Wide Web and writes them on an Amiga disk using an Amiga with only 1 MB RAM and without harddrive. New in version 2.0:
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[News message: 02. Jul. 2023, 07:04] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jul.2023
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RTG driver: Preferences editor "P96Prefs" 47.9 for P96
With "P96Prefs" Thomas Richter has written an improved, alternative preferences editor for the RTG driver P96 (amiga-news.de reported). Version 47.9, now available on Aminet, adds support of tooltypes that are supported as of P96 3.4.0, namely the RainbowII and the CBMs only graphics card, the A2410. AmigaOS 3.2 or higher is required.
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[News message: 02. Jul. 2023, 06:21] [Comments: 0]
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02.Jul.2023
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Developer tools: Amiga SDKs adapted to GCC compilers
Cameron 'Nightfox' Armstrong, who recently published AmigaGPT, offers SDKs of AmigaOS 3.2 NDK and AmigaOS 4.1 (V54.16) adapted to the GCC compiler based on Stefan 'Bebbo' Franke's Amiga GCC Development Kit. These contain additional adaptations of AmiSSL-SDK and the translator.library.
A Dockerfile is now also included with today's update to create an AmigaOS 3 & 4 compiler development environment with everything included.
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[News message: 02. Jul. 2023, 06:04] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jul.2023
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New cross compiler/assembler: Calypsi
"Calypsi" is a collection of compilers and assemblers that run under Windows, Linux and macOS and can generate code for various retro platforms - among others, 6502 and 68000 processors are supported. Although the project is hosted on Github, the source code is not freely available and the use of the tools is only permitted for private purposes.
A runtime library for Amiga programmes is delivered with the compiler, it is described by the author as "work in progress". The associated source codes are available, cooperation of other developers is explicitly welcome here.
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[News message: 01. Jul. 2023, 22:30] [Comments: 0]
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01.Jul.2023
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Preview video 31: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). He has written about his 31. preview video:
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[News message: 01. Jul. 2023, 15:04] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2023
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Tool for Reverse Engineering: Amiga extension for Ghidra 10.3.1
Ghidra is a free and open source reverse engineering tool (amiga-news.de reported).
Based on the work of Vladimir Kononovich and Martin Atkins, 'Bartman' has released an update for the Amiga extension supporting now the latest Ghidra version 10.3.1. It can load Amiga Hunk-Executables, Kickstart ROMs and WinUAE State File (.uss).
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2023, 18:30] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.07.01
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2023.07.01:
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2023, 18:25] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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Demoscene: Morphiller from Encore wins at Decrunch party in Wroclaw
From June 23rd to 25th the demoparty "Decrunch" took place in Wroclaw, Poland. In the category "wild competition" the MorphOS demo "Morphiller" by Encore has won (video). The music titled "Revolution", found on the album "Fish and Chips", is by "XTD of Lamers".
Download: encore_morphiller.lha (11 MB)
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2023, 12:20] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jun.2023
Yoz Montana (Mail)
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Preview video: Platform game "Guardian - The legend of flaming sword"
At the end of 2021 we reported for the first time about Yoz Montana's platformer "Guardian - The legend of flaming sword", which he creates for AGA-Amigas with the help of the Game Construction Kit RedPill. In issue 15 of the magazine Amiga Addict a demo was published. The new preview video that has now been published shows stages 1 to 5, which have been further improved compared to the demo version.
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[News message: 30. Jun. 2023, 06:01] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jun.2023
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 5.5
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 5.5 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes include
among others mjpeg support in ffmpeg (enables audio playback in JellyFin) and an updated/bugfixed cURL. Therefore, the author strongly recommends upgrading to 5.5 if you are using 5.2-5.4.
Download: wayfarer.lha (29 MB)
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[News message: 29. Jun. 2023, 21:03] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jun.2023
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Platform game: Demo version of "Gothic Vania"
Matteo 'Toolkitman' Trevisan is a about writing his first platform game using the Scorpion Engine. He has released a first, early demo version of "Gothic Vania" for AGA Amigas:
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[News message: 29. Jun. 2023, 18:28] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jun.2023
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V2.0 R87 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
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[News message: 29. Jun. 2023, 06:12] [Comments: 0]
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29.Jun.2023
ALBs Blog
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Preview video: "AmiDream" generates pictures from text
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow (among others AmiFox) gives a preview of his latest project in a video under the title link: inspired by websites like getimg.ai, the tool "AmiDream" generates images from text using the AI model Stable Diffusion.
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[News message: 29. Jun. 2023, 05:48] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2023
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DIY: Firmware update for "GottaGoFaZt3r"
"GottaGoFaZt3r" developed by Matt Harlum is a memory expansion with 128MB or 256MB Z3 autoconfig FastRAM for the Amiga 3000 and 4000 (amiga-news.de reported). With today's firmware update, DTACK will be activated later during read operations to avoid problems with the A4091.
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[News message: 28. Jun. 2023, 21:00] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2023
Echtzeit (Webseite)
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Video talk: "Demoscene: From Underground Culture to UNESCO Cultural Heritage"
On 15 and 16 June, the "ICE Conference 2023" took place, dedicated to 3D environments in the most diverse fields of application. Part of the event was the video talk "Demoscene: From Underground Culture to UNESCO Cultural Heritage" held by Dr. Andre 'kudrix' Kudra, which among other things also mentions the Amiga demo Batman Rises released at the end of last year.
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[News message: 28. Jun. 2023, 12:50] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2023
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Music tip: Iraq Demo - Ending (D4XX Remix)
In addition to complete albums (for example the Jaguar XJ220 remix album), Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann also releases individual remixes: this time he has dedicated himself to the Iraq Demo, released in 1990 by Animators.
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[News message: 28. Jun. 2023, 06:36] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jun.2023
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Demoparty: Pågadata 2023 (Sweden)
Not only the demo party "Posadas" in the town of the same name in Spain will take place next weekend (amiga-news.de reported), but also the "Pågadata" in Kvidinge, Sweden. Entries for the Amiga demo competition are possible in the categories "AMOS demo", "Demo", "Music" and "GFX".
(dr)
[News message: 28. Jun. 2023, 06:34] [Comments: 0]
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