26.Mar.2023
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Tutorial: Installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU 8
QEMU is an open-source computer emulator and virtualiser. This means you can functionally simulate computers or provide virtual systems that replicate the functionality of a real system. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need to support hardware virtualisation. So it is also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This is provided by the developer Zoltan Balaton who shares many information and tips on his webeite. In the middle of 2021, Amiga-News.de had a closer look at the installation of MorphOS under QEMU 6.
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26.Mar.2023
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Aminet uploads until 25.03.2023
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26.Mar.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.03.2023
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26.Mar.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.03.2023
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26.Mar.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.03.2023
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26.Mar.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.03.2023
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 25.03.2023:
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[News message: 26. Mar. 2023, 08:52] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
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[News message: 26. Mar. 2023, 08:52] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Elbox: pci.library 13.14
At the title link Elbox have released an update of their pci.library for owners of the PCI busboard Mediator. Information on changes in version 13.14 is not available.
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[News message: 26. Mar. 2023, 08:52] [Comments: 1 - 03. May. 2023, 06:37]
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26.Mar.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 144 (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 "Enemy: Tempest of Violence (V2)", "Frontier: Elite II" and "OnEscapee".
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[News message: 26. Mar. 2023, 08:52] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 137 of Amiga Future readable online
The German and English issue 137 (March/April 2019) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher.
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25.Mar.2023
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Music tip: Track "Amiga" by LukHash
'LukHash' is a musician from Edinburgh in Scottland. He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." His latest track "Amiga" can be listened and bought under the title link from a supplier of choice. He hopes to take the audience "on a magical journey back to the golden age of home video gaming".
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2023, 13:06] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2023
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AmiTube 1.4: YouTube client for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. They are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded.
As the developer wrote on his website, "the biggest enhancement is the Search by ID window for easier handling of YouTube URLs (YouTube video).
A second improvement is the self made AREXX Port for AROS which make it possible to send URLs from AmiFox to AmiTube when you are on a Youtube Video page. (all other platforms had it before already."
The current version can be downloaded from the AmiTube website or installed via the update check in AmiTube.
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2023, 07:30] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2023
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Website application: The virtual Hippoplayer
It all started at the end of 2009, when Spot created aSCIIaRENa as a website for the ASCII scene, which underwent a complete relaunch in 2021 with the help of 'Burps', 'Nicomen', 'Phantasm' and 'Ziphoid'.
Later came other ideas, they wanted to clone the number one ASCII tool, CygnusED, as CED for the web as a way to co-op on ASCII collys similar to how google docs works, but in a CED environment, Fred and Phiwer was brought into the team to write CED. It is available in alpha state now.
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2023, 06:40] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2023
mnemo (ANF)
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.13
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be ordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 25. Mar. 2023, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.0
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.
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 20:17] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga V2.4 beta 1
Dirk Hoffmann continues working on his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and now has released the first beta version of v2.4. Changes:
Enhancements:
- Improved thread synchronization (Adaptive sync)
- Warp boot support
- Code cleanup
The minimum system requirement for his emulator has been raised to macOS 11.0. Since the developer has left the "Apple Developer Program" ("too expensive"), the app is no longer certified. This means that from now on a warning will be displayed when the app is started.
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 17:59] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20201110-2
In mid-February AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz released version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). Today's second release contains some changes and bug fixes (release notes).
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 16:15] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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Video tutorial: The AMOS commands Load IFF, Get Icon and Paste Icon
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains the AMOS commands Load IFF, Get Icon and Paste Icon, which he uses to load in graphics for buttons from an IFF file, and use those buttons in a program.
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 06:17] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.3 for Visual Studio Code (update)
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. After Paul Raingeard had already corrected a bug of version 1.8.0 under macOS with version 1.8.1, further problems are solved with the now available version 1.8.2.
On GitHub a detailed documentation is available.
Update: (25.03.2023, 07:20, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.8.3 is available, which partly fixes the bug that the link order could not be set.
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 05:44] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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Event: Geit@Home #1 2023
From Friday, April 14, till Sunday, April 16 2023, members of the Amiga clubs Osnabrück and Steinfurt meet once again at Guido 'geit' Mersmann's home in Hörstel, Germany. Details can be found in our German news-item or at the title link.
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[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 04:50] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.8 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.8 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.1.0. The detailed changes:
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2023, 19:02] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2023
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Video: March update on BitBeamCannon projects
In a short video BitBeamCannon has informed about the current status of their projects (Metro Siege, DaemonClaw, Scorpion Boy).
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2023, 06:27] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2023
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Maze game: Cube V0.30
Sami Vehmaa is in the process of writing another game with AmiBlitz3 for fast Amigas with graphics cards or emulators: in "Cube" (YouTube video), the player has to find his way out of a kind of labyrinth (amiga-news.de reported). He has updated to version 0.30, which now features both an intro and an ending scene, as well as adding random lights and sounds (closing doors etc.).
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2023, 04:24] [Comments: 0]
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21.Mar.2023
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Block-oriented copying: Device-Streams 2.2.1
At the beginning of October, Roc Vallès i Domènech had updated the Amiga tool "Device-Streams" for block-oriented copying, similar to UNIX command dd, which was originally developed and released by Christian E. Hopps in 1993 (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2.2.1:
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[News message: 21. Mar. 2023, 19:09] [Comments: 0]
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21.Mar.2023
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Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib"
Volker Schwaberow is in the process of converting ADFlib, written by Laurent Clevy mainly in C, into the programming language Rust. As he explained to us when asked, the library is still in a very early stage and still very minimalistic. At the moment it can read and write ADF, it can read and write tracks and sectors in a byte array. There is no support yet for file systems, compression, etc.
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[News message: 21. Mar. 2023, 17:43] [Comments: 0]
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21.Mar.2023
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Shooter: New demo version of "Cyberpunk Alien City"
"Cyberpunk Alien City" (video) is a mixture of Run'n Gun and Space Invaders: the player must defend a city against attacking aliens (amiga-news.de reported). Now the demo version for OCS Amigas has been updated. According to Amiten Games a small demo of the shooter part of the game, there "is still a lot to do".
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[News message: 21. Mar. 2023, 05:32] [Comments: 0]
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20.Mar.2023
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Preview video: Twin-Stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero"
Nivrig Games - among others Turbo Santa Deluxe Edition 2022 - have been working for some time on a twin-stick shooter which is also supposed to be a test game for the Twin-Stick controller developed by "Abstraction Games" (amiga-news.de reported). A new preview video shows the first level of the game, which has alpha status now.
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[News message: 20. Mar. 2023, 08:55] [Comments: 0]
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20.Mar.2023
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Remake: Rick Dangerous released
"Z-Team" has released its remake of the game Rick Dangeous with enhanced graphics for the Amiga 1200 or CD32 (and Windows, Mac and THEA500 Mini) (YouTube video of beta version 0.4). The game was written with the Scorpion Engine, but in contrast to the original plan there is no graphics card version, because the responsible programmer had left the team during development.
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[News message: 20. Mar. 2023, 06:10] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2023
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v2.6.0
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported).
Since our last message, the developer has improved the interactive documentation:
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2023, 13:10] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Full version download: Ntimed, Evil Garden, Mission Andromeda, Pacific Islands
At Amiga Future full versions of the application Ntimed as well as the games Evil Garden, Mission Andromeda and Pacific Islands can be downloaded free of charge.
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2023, 08:15] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2023
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Aminet uploads until 18.03.2023
The following files have been added until 18.03.2023 to Aminet:
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2023, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.03.2023
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2023, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.03.2023
The following files have been added until 18.03.2023 to AROS Archives:
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2023, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.03.2023
The following files have been added until 18.03.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2023, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 18.03.2023
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 18.03.2023:
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2023, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2023
Amiga.org (Forum)
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AMOS Layers System 1.100 & 2.4
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's "AMOS Layers System" (amiga-news.de reported) makes it possible to overlay several of its screens when programming under AMOS, specifying the order, colors and opaqueness.
Since our last report, minor optimizations have been made, resulting in more compact, faster program code and ending the dependency on the mathtrans.library. This did benefit the author's recent game updates.
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2023, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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Game updates: ArtPazz 1.7, Follix 1.5, Ring around the World 1.1
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has updated his games ArtPazz (puzzle game where jumbled pieces of a classic painting have to be pushed back), Follix (a puzzle game inspired by Atomix, only here letters have to be lined up) and Ring around the World (point'n'click adventure about a supposedly drowned man with memory loss).
The changes since our respective last news-items only concern program optimizations and bug fixes.
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2023, 08:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.Mar.2023
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Interview: Ravi Abbott (Kickstart - UK Amiga Expo, The Retro Hour)
Ravi Abbott is known for his various documentaries and videos such as "Downfall Amiga, after Commodore" or Amiga Computer Buyers Guide 2022, runs the podcast The Retro Hour together with Dan Wood, writes for the Amiga Addict, is a DJ and has as his latest project to bring back a combination of user meeting and fair for Amiga fans to the UK after several years with "Kickstart" (amiga-news.de reported). We asked Ravi Abbott about his motives and motivation for all these projects:
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[News message: 19. Mar. 2023, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2023
AmiKit (Twitter)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12 for Raspberry Pi and Windows/Mac/Linux
AmiKit has released version 12.0 of its Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for Raspberry Pi 4/400 (changes) as well as for Windows/Mac/Linux (changes).
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2023, 20:25] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2023
Amigafrance (Forum)
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Preview video: Game "Loony Ledges"
After his game Capacitor's Revenge (amiga-news.de reported), 'PixelPlop' is now porting a game he wrote a while ago on the PC but never released to the Amiga. The video shows a first state of the game, which is written in C.
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2023, 07:47] [Comments: 0]
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18.Mar.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Email client Sylpheed 3.0.3r3 for AmiCygnix released
In mid-2020 Edgar Schwan had released the first version 3.0.3 of the email client Sylpheed for AmiCygnix.
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[News message: 18. Mar. 2023, 07:12] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2023
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Mastodon client: Video presentation to Amidon development status
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, is developing a Mastodon client for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). During the last meeting of the Commodore Users Europe he has presented the latest development status of Amidon. Currently the requirements are:
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[News message: 17. Mar. 2023, 20:54] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2023
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Game soundtrack: TETRIS - Extended Mix
In addition to complete albums (for example Jaguar XJ220 Remix album), Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann releases single remixes: yesterday he has published the extended remix of the Tetris theme (YouTube-Video), on Bandcamp available for two euro (or more).
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[News message: 17. Mar. 2023, 08:44] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2023
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Maze game: Early version of Cube
Sami Vehmaa is in the process of writing another game with AmiBlitz3 for fast Amigas with graphics cards or emulators: in "Cube" (YouTube video), the player has to find his way out of a kind of labyrinth. In the present early version 0.10, the demo version is identical to the commercial version.
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[News message: 17. Mar. 2023, 05:53] [Comments: 0]
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17.Mar.2023
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AROS: Devlogs to AmiFox
About a week ago we reported that Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow is also working on an AROS version of his browser AmiFox in addition to AmigaOS 3. In two new blog entries he now reports about the further development: thanks to a new version of the AmiSSL library AmiFox runs on AROS ABIv0 with encrypted https connections to the server.
And he reported how he sets up an AREXX port under the MUI equivalent Zune so that AmiFox can work with one of his other programmes such as AmiTube or MUIMapparium (YouTube video).
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[News message: 17. Mar. 2023, 05:38] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2023
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MorphOS: Real-time strategy games Vanilla Conquer RA and TD V1.1
A week ago Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen released his port of the second part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer, Red Alert (RA), for MorphOS based on the open source project Vanilla Conquer. Now he has not only made version 1.1 available, which contains a bug fix for users playing on 4:3 or 5:4 monitors, but has also released version 1.1 of his port of the first part of the Vanilla Conquer project, Tiberian Dawn (TD). This now also offers TinyGL support and thus the same improvements as his RA port.
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[News message: 16. Mar. 2023, 05:52] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Parallel Realities SDL2 Tutorials
The SDL2 tutorials of Parallel Realities demonstrate how to program different game types with SDL2 (e.g. Shoot'em'up, Jump'n'run etc.) Hollywood user Dwayne Jarvis has now ported these tutorials for the RebelSDL plugin for Hollywood. The video linked under the title link shows how the shoot'em'up from the SDL2 tutorials runs on an X5000 with Hollywood.
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[News message: 16. Mar. 2023, 05:27] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2023
WhatIFF? (ANF)
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 9 of "WhatIFF?" published
"WhatIFF?" is an English Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is primarily intended for users who want to work creatively with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 16. Mar. 2023, 05:24] [Comments: 0]
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16.Mar.2023
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.1 for Visual Studio Code
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. Today Paul Raingeard has released version 1.8.1 which now mark binaries as executable on macOS again and thus fixes a bug of the recently published version 1.8.0 (amiga-news.de reported).
On GitHub a detailed documentation is available.
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[News message: 16. Mar. 2023, 05:10] [Comments: 0]
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15.Mar.2023
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Amiga emulator: vAmiga.net
In 2019, developer Dirk Hoffmann started to develop vAmiga, a new, user-friendly Amiga emulator for MacOS machines that emulates an A500, A1000 or A2000. This is available in the current version 2.3. Based on this, two WebAssembly implementations were created directly for the browser:
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[News message: 15. Mar. 2023, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
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13.Mar.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 5.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 5.0 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, a major update that introduces the WebKit engine WebKitGTK 2.38.5, which was only released in the middle of last month. Wayfarer 5 also introduces the User Scripts Manager known from Odyssey. Furthermore, it is now also possible to relocate the cookies database to RAM while running, to reduce the amount of writes to SSD drives and improve performance.
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[News message: 13. Mar. 2023, 19:07] [Comments: 0]
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13.Mar.2023
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AmigaOS 4: X11 environment AmiCygnix 1.7r2
Edgar Schwan's AmiCygnix is a Unix environment for AmigaOS 4. It is not an emulation, but all programs are compiled natively for AmigaOS 4 (screenshot). AmiCygnix provides a directory and data structure similar to that of a Unix installation.
Version 1.7r2 fixes some bugs of version 1.7 which was released at the beginning of 2023 (amiga-news.de reported):
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[News message: 13. Mar. 2023, 11:35] [Comments: 0]
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13.Mar.2023
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Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb - support for real mouse on iPad
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
Just a week ago, the developer 'mithrendal' had updated his emulator - we reported yesterday - to now add another feature: support for real mice on the iPad.
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[News message: 13. Mar. 2023, 06:18] [Comments: 0]
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13.Mar.2023
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.0 for Visual Studio Code
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. Today Paul Raingeard has released the new version 1.8.0. Changes:
- new FS-UAE / WINUAE versions
- BLTCON Helper
- binaries are embedded in the extension
- Bug fixes
On GitHub the author provides a detailed wiki.
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12.Mar.2023
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Crowdfunding: Book "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars" funded
Microzeit from Germany and Editions64K from France are going to publish "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars", a book that is supposed to illuminate the competition for the number 1 home computer between the Amiga and the Atari ST in the mid and late 1980s (amiga-news.de reported). Before the deadline on Monday morning, the required amount has been reached so that the book project will be realised. Delivery is planned for December 2023, and discounted offers are currently still available.
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12.Mar.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood X: Add-ons released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood X. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:
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12.Mar.2023
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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MorphOS: MIDI-Tools 1.4 for BarsnPipes 1.3
Alfred Faust writes: Antoine 'tcheko' Dubourg has thankfully improved and developed the camdusbmidi.class for MorphOS in a very short time to such an extent that it now also manages MIDI data transmission with the so-called multiport USB MIDI interfaces without any restrictions.
For this I have adapted the MIDI-In and MIDI-Out tools in BarsnPipes. Now it is possible to manage up to 256 (16x16) separate MIDI channels (instruments) in BarsnPipes with a multiport USB MIDI interface. However, these multiport USB MIDI interfaces must be built according to the USB MIDI standard. They are available in good music stores and also online (e.g. Thomann).
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12.Mar.2023
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PiStorm32-lite: Assembly instructions of CM4 adapter published
Claude Schwarz' PiStorm connects a Raspberry Pi to the CPU socket of an Amiga via an adapter and uses the British single-board computer to emulate a fast m68k processor. The lite version is supposed to take into account the current difficult situation in the procurement of components and in principle be cheaper (amiga-news.de reported). Basically, the adapter is intended for use with a PI3A, PI3B, PI4B or PiZero2. But for some time now, Emu68 developer Michal Schulz had been working on the development of an additional adapter that would allow the operation of a Compute Module 4 instead of a Raspberry Pi (amiga-news.de reported).
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12.Mar.2023
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AROS: Web browser AmiFox in development
AmiFox is a kind of web browser which outsources the actual rendering via WRP (Web Rendering Proxy), so that the finished rendering is sent back to the Amiga just as an image (amiga-news.de reported). Now there have been single enquiries as to whether a conversion for AROS is also possible, whereupon developer Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow created a first internal beta version and reported on it both in his blog entry published yesterday and in a YouTube video.
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12.Mar.2023
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Aminet uploads until 11.03.2023
The following files have been added until 11.03.2023 to Aminet:
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12.Mar.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 11.03.2023
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12.Mar.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 11.03.2023
The following files have been added until 11.03.2023 to AROS Archives:
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12.Mar.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 11.03.2023
The following files have been added until 11.03.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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12.Mar.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 11.03.2023
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 11.03.2023:
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12.Mar.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:
- Physical Presence
- Mobyle
- Archipelagos
- Lizardking's Theme (Paid In Full)
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[News message: 12. Mar. 2023, 08:17] [Comments: 0]
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12.Mar.2023
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Text adventure: Memory Lane
The developer 'ComSha' has released a classic text adventure called "Memory Lane" in which you can explore a city and discover mysterious places. You have to collect various objects and interact with other citizens. The catch: they don't seem to be able to remember you.
Depending on the player's actions, six different endings to the game are possible. The developer created his text adventure during an internship, which he updated again on a larger scale a year later.
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12.Mar.2023
mithrendal (Mail)
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Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb - support for iPad Pro ProMotion displays
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
In the now updated version, developer 'mithrendal' has added support for Apple's iPad Pro with ProMotion display, according to the manufacturer a technology that delivers frame rates of up to 120Hz for smooth scrolling, greater responsiveness and smoother movements. In the previous version of vAmigaWeb, frame rates were limited to 30fps. In addition, the update offers iPadOS/iOS-16-specific bug fixes for muting, among other things.
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11.Mar.2023
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DIY: Parallel port to SPI adapter, SD card driver 2.2
The goal of this project initiated by Niklas Ekström is to develop a cheap and easy to build SPI adapter that can be connected to the parallel port of an Amiga. In addition, the performance of the adapter should be as fast as possible (amiga-news.de reported).
Today version 2.2 of the SD card driver has been released which now also supports large SD cards (> 2GB).
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11.Mar.2023
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Adventure: Geo's Quest "In Search of Queen Lorraine"
Paul Golian started writing his graphic adventure Geo's Quest "In Search of Queen Lorraine" in 2000, interrupted work on it in 2002 and was only able to continue it last year in retirement. The game is created in hand-drawn Low Res-32 colours and is intended to be a 9-chapter parody of the Commodore story, of which this game forms the first three.
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11.Mar.2023
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Preview video: Super Metal Hero
At the beginning of 2020, Raster Wizards announced its game "Super Metal Hero". After development was initially frozen in favour of the game Hyper Runner, work on the Jump'N Run has been underway again for some time. A short new preview video shows the mini boss "Krogz Mech".
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10.Mar.2023
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #22 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 22 (Winter/Spring) are several game reviews as well as articles on how transferring files from PC to Amiga and Amiga as a Linux terminal.
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10.Mar.2023
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Preview video: Final Fight Enhanced
More than a year ago, 'Prototron' had published a first preview video of his improved implementation of Capcom's Final Fight written in machine language (amiga-news.de reported). Now that he has almost completely rewritten the game code, he published a new video a few days ago, which presents the 2-player mode as well as new music.
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09.Mar.2023
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RTG driver: P96 V3.3.3 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.3.3 of his RTG driver P96, which can be bought or downloaded from the order history at iComp. As developer Thomas Richter writes, the major feature of this release is that it offers the emulation of planar bitplanes, even if the graphics card does not support them or if a program requests more than the maximum 4 bitplanes VGA offers. That should help to promote even more legacy applications to the graphics card. To do this, "ENV:Picasso96/EmulatePlanar" must be set to "Yes" and restarted. A detailed description of the changes can be found in the English section of the iComp support forum.
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09.Mar.2023
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MorphOS: Real-time strategy game Vanilla Conquer V1.0 (TinyGL-Version)
After Bruno "BeWorld" Peloille's SDL implementation of the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, which has the open-source name "Vanilla Conquer" and is based on Artur Jarosik's release for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported), Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen has now ported the second part, the prequel Command & Conquer: Red Alert to MorphOS.
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09.Mar.2023
HunoPPC (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Public beta version 1.55 of "Doom 3" port
At the beginning of July last year (amiga-news.de reported) Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel released a first, non-public beta version of Dhewm3 for AmigaOS 4.1 - a Doom port based on the Doom 3 GPL source code. He has further optimised this so that the game can now be played at 30 frames per second on an AmigaOne X5000 with a resolution of 1920x1080 (YouTube video) and is now available for testing by the general public.
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08.Mar.2023
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.17
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.9, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial.
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08.Mar.2023
Amigans (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 9
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 08. Mar. 2023, 06:22] [Comments: 0]
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08.Mar.2023
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Boing Attitude: Interview with Barry Leitch
In its fifth issue of the print magazine BOING, Boing Attitude published an interview with the musician Barry Leitch, who is responsible for the music of Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, TFX, The Humans or Silkworm, among others. This interview is now generally available under the title link.
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07.Mar.2023
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Point'n Click adventure: Ring around the World
"Ring around the World" (video) by Simone Bevilacqua (KOG, Huenison, Blastaway, among others) is described by the author as a "short, open world, point'n'click adventure from the top view". The player wakes up on the shore of an unknown world and can only remember two things - one of the two memories is his drowning in a stormy sea.
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[News message: 07. Mar. 2023, 00:17] [Comments: 0]
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06.Mar.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Amiga38 in Mönchengladbach (Germany)
As the organizer Markus Tillmann informs, already this year with the Amiga38 another event of this series will take place. Venue is like last year the "Kunstwerk" in Mönchengladbach, Germany, the date the 7th of October 2023, thus one week before AmiWest.
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05.Mar.2023
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Editor: MUI-Vim V9.0.1378 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
MUI-Vim is a port of the editor Vim. This editor is intended for editing programs as well as plain text files. Multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, block operations and scripting are some of the features. Ola 'sodero' Söder has now ported
version 9.0.1378 of VIM and released it for AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
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05.Mar.2023
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Tool: identify-library 42.0
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 42.0 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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05.Mar.2023
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Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 3.39
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 3.39:
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05.Mar.2023
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ACube Systems: Shipping of remaining Sam460LE boards
According to a press release under the title link, ACube Systems will probably ship the remaining Sam460LE boards at the end of next week, after the stress tests will have been completed.
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05.Mar.2023
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Videos on release of AmigaOS 3.2.2
On YouTube, first videos have been published taking a look at the recently released AmigaOS 3.2.2:
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05.Mar.2023
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Aminet uploads until 04.03.2023
The following files have been added until 04.03.2023 to Aminet:
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05.Mar.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 04.03.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 04.03.2023
The following files have been added until 04.03.2023 to AROS Archives:
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.03.2023
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05.Mar.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 04.03.2023
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 04.03.2023:
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05.Mar.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Guitar Slinger - Second Part Remix
- X-OUT Loading (Mellow Dance Remix)
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05.Mar.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 161
The English and German issue 161 (March/April 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 reviews of Black Dawn Technomage, Triton USB Card and Commotron Turbo 2000 Super Wireless Gamepad.
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05.Mar.2023
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Video: Installation of MorphOS on a Power Mac G4 Cube
In its latest video the YouTube channel "Michael MJD" shows how to install MorphOS on a Power Mac G4 Cube and later explains some parts of the operating system and some applications.
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04.Mar.2023
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Preview video: Twin-Stick shooter "Rogue Declan: Zero"
Nivrig Games - among others Turbo Santa Deluxe Edition 2022 - have been working for some time on a twin-stick shooter, which he assigns to the rogue-like genre and for which he has now published a first early preview video.
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04.Mar.2023
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Music album: NORULEZ
Besides his various Amiga projects, such as the start bar QDock or the MP3 player Reel Deck, Sami Vehmaa also has a musical talent and has now released his first album "NORULEZ" (YouTube video), which can be purchased for a minimum price of two Euros.
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04.Mar.2023
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Installer replacement: InstallerLG 1.0.2 for AROS, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
Ola 'sodero' Söder's InstallerLG is a reimplementation of the "Installer"! utility included with AmigaOS as of version 2.1. InstallerLG aims to be fully compatible with the original as described in the V44.10 documentation. Most resource limitations found in the Commodore implementation are gone, and the GUI has been replaced by a MUI / Zune based one.
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03.Mar.2023
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Hyperion Entertainment released AmigaOS 3.2.2
Press release Hyperion Entertainment CVBA is proud to provide the second free update of AmigaOS 3.2.
This new update demonstrates the developers' continued dedication to ensure that AmigaOS 3.2 is the most capable and most stable operating system ever for 68K based Amigas.
If you do not already own a copy of AmigaOS 3.2, there is now even more reason to get one from your favourite dealer!
The team of developers and testers have worked tirelessly ever since the release of AmigaOS 3.2.1 on fixing bugs and implementing a number of new features.
The highlights of the new features and fixes of AmigaOS 3.2.2 are as follows:
- TextEdit has seen several improvements to its extension interface, and has gained an "About" menu item;
- "Showconfig" now shows 68060 revision;
- "IconEdit" now notifies the user if someone else modifies the icon file that is being edited. And pressing the help key brings up help. The whole color handling of colorful icons has been improved so icons can no longer degrade. Users may end up in a situation wherein it will look worse than on a perfect display, but it will not degrade the icon. As such the dreaded "downgrade" dialog doesn't happen anymore, but in some cases "IconEdit" will open on a separate screen
- "Kickstart" can now boot with earlier Workbench and icon library versions if they are present on the boot volume. This allows for installation of the ROM whilst retaining the ability to boot any AmigaOS version from 3.1 to 3.9, before installation of AmigaOS 3.2 on a volume
- The sketchboard.gadget has seen some speed improvements, that should be noticeable when using IconEdit
- The listbrowser.gadget has had a complete overhaul, making the file much smaller, and a bit faster
- The layout.gadget has had a complete overhaul
- The window.class has had a complete overhaul
- The RAM disk has had a complete overhaul so it is much less likely to cause issues.
- Improved "Locale" support
- Updated version of boards.library
Update 2 for AmigaOS 3.2 is available for download.
Hyperion wishes to extend its heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the AmigaOS 3.x development team as well as the beta-testers for their ceaseless efforts.
If YOU want to support our efforts further, please head over to our AmigaOS merchandise store.
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03.Mar.2023
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Tutorial: Amiga Demoscene for Beginners, part 1
Spook' has published the first part of a tutorial on their Workbench-like website that basically explains how to create demos on Amigas with Original Chip Set (OCS). The first part covers theoretical basics, gives an overview of the system architecture and information on video generation.
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02.Mar.2023
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IRC client: AmIRC 3.9 for AmigaOS 3/MorphOS
An update to version 3.9 has been released for the AmIRC development maintained by Nicolas 'Henes' Sallin and Harry 'Piru' Sintonen: the MorphOS version now uses the openssl3.library.
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02.Mar.2023
Amitopia (ANF)
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.2 released
AmiFox is a kind of web browser for original Amigas. Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has been reporting about its development since mid-February and after a short beta test phase version 0.2 is now generally available.
The principle of this browser is to outsource the actual rendering via WRP (Web Rendering Proxy), so that the finished rendering is sent back to the Amiga just as an image. In return, however, it is possible to display modern web pages containing CSS and Javascript. Interactions with the web page are then reported back to the server.
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02.Mar.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: HGui 1.7 at GitHub
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's HGui is a GUI system for Hollywood which, in contrast to the Amiga-specific MUI Royale, is in principle available for all platforms supported by Hollywood (amiga-news.de reported) - even if there are still limitations on Android so far.
The toolkit created with Hollywood only needs the Includes provided in the archive, plugins are not required. The current version 1.7 has now been published on GitHub including the source code, donations to the author via Patreon are welcome.
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02.Mar.2023
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS Distribution: New version of Aros Vision
Olaf Schönweiß has uploaded a new version of his distribution Aros Vision (screenshot, video). Besides updates of included programs and partially updated system files, the visual appearance has been revised; among other things by replacing icons. Newly added were AmigaAMP and LimpidClock.
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02.Mar.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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01.Mar.2023
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Video player: Amos Video Player
The group "ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP", known among other things for the fantasy shooter Project Quest, which is currently in development, or the mini-game None of Us, updated their "AMOS Video Player", which has been in development since 2020, a few days ago and fixed some bugs
According to the developers, it is "a very simple video player that runs on any Amiga." The playback and encoding target is fixed at 320x256 25 fps, but changeable in the source code (2 colours up to HAM6 is possible, but then much slower). The loading time is not parallel to the playback time due to the non-optimised code, so the result is terrible on real hardware, but looks pretty good under WinUAE. Everybody is invited to play with the source code.
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01.Mar.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.9
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
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01.Mar.2023
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Linux: Distribution Finiex 6.0.1 for AmigaOne X1000/5000
The creator and maintainer of the Fienix distribution, Casey Cullen, has announced the availability of the new version 6.0.1 in a post on the Hyperion forums and has provided an installer for the new version for the first time. Features:
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01.Mar.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.6
As announced two days ago, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.6 of the audio editor "Rave" (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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28.Feb.2023
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.9 and web browser Wayfarer 4.9 (Update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.8 of his e-mail client Iris as well as version 4.9 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes include usage of the dedicated image viewer when editing e-mail attachments and workarounds for video playback, respectively.
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iris.lha (21 MB)
wayfarer.lha (29 MB)
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28.Feb.2023
Mixel
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Jump'n Run: Demo version V1.5 of "Creeping Me Out Hex Night"
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes provides another demo version of his jump'n run 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night', created with the game construction kit Scorpion Engine. This new preview is functionally the same as version 1.4 apart from a few bug fixes, but there is now a separate AGA version with some optimisations and new backgrounds and effects.
As Dawes shows with examples, the ECS version sometimes has more colours on the screen than the AGA version, which in turn makes up for this with the greater depth in the background with the full-screen parallax.
You can support the developer via his Patreon page.
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27.Feb.2023
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Audio editor Rave: Preview to version 1.6
In his latest blog entry, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka describes why he opted for a single programme module that handles loading and saving in all file formats in his audio editor Rave and gives a preview of what changes users can expect in the upcoming version 1.6.
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[News message: 27. Feb. 2023, 21:17] [Comments: 0]
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27.Feb.2023
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User report: The PiStorm32-lite, part 2
The first part of my report ended with the "BUPtest" giving an error message after switching on the Amiga 1200. When I plugged in the HDMI cable, I noticed that the large plug of the HDMI cable bent the card upwards by quite a bit. So I suspected that this might have caused contact problems.
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26.Feb.2023
itch.io
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Platform game: "Boxx" remake V0.5
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 (amiga-news.de reported). The latest update to version 0.5 includes the following changes:
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[News message: 26. Feb. 2023, 21:22] [Comments: 0]
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26.Feb.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood 10: Xcelicious available now
Press release: After 2 years of development, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 10: Xcelicious. Hollywood is a programming language that can be used to create a wide variety of programs, ranging from games and GUI-based applications for desktop systems to mobile apps for Android and iOS. Hollywood's special feature is its support for retro platforms (e.g. AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS) and modern operating systems (e.g. Windows, macOS, Linux) alike. It comes with a library of over 1000 commands and its functionality can be extended further through over 30 plugins which are available for free download.
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[News message: 26. Feb. 2023, 20:23] [Comments: 0]
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26.Feb.2023
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Aminet uploads until 25.02.2023
The following files have been added until 25.02.2023 to Aminet:
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26.Feb.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.02.2023
The following files have been added until 25.02.2023 to OS4Depot:
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26.Feb.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.02.2023
The following files have been added until 25.02.2023 to AROS Archives:
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26.Feb.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.02.2023
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 25.02.2023:
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[News message: 26. Feb. 2023, 08:16] [Comments: 0]
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26.Feb.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: 26. Feb. 2023, 08:16] [Comments: 0]
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26.Feb.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 143 (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 "Brides of Dracula" and "Operación Fallida".
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[News message: 26. Feb. 2023, 08:16] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2023
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AmigaOne X5000: Why AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS tick differently
What is one of the advantages of an AmigaOne X5000? You can use AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS in parallel on it (and Linux). But what drives you crazy on a regular basis? The obviously out-of-sync clocks!
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[News message: 25. Feb. 2023, 05:33] [Comments: 0]
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25.Feb.2023
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Video tutorials: Download of the source codes
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' has so far published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has published the corresponding source codes on his website as text and AMOS files and explains this in a current YouTube video.
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[News message: 25. Feb. 2023, 05:29] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2023
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Video: Development of the MiniMig
The developer Ranko Rodic reported at the World of Commodore 2022 about the MiniMig project (amiga-news.de reported), of which he had published revision 1.91 at the end of 2022.
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[News message: 24. Feb. 2023, 15:10] [Comments: 0]
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24.Feb.2023
Commodore News
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Paint program: Multipaint 2023 for Windows/Linux/Mac
Multipaint is designed to be able to draw pictures with the colour limitations of some typical 8-bit and 16-bit computer platforms. In the now released version 2023, the Amiga mode is now also an official part of the painting programme (see also the corresponding blog entry on this):
n Amiga screen with variable size and 2-32 colours, adjustable palette with 16 levels each for red, green and blue. Multipaint can only handle larger bitmaps to a limited extent, so it is recommended to limit the size to the usual resolutions, e.g. 320 x 200 or 320 x 256.
There is an export for IFF files that can be loaded e.g. in Deluxe Paint, but currently no IFF import.
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[News message: 24. Feb. 2023, 14:36] [Comments: 0]
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23.Feb.2023
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Event: AmiWest 2023 (12.-15. October in Sacramento, USA)
According to the organizers, the 26th edition of the AmiWest will be held at the Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California, from October 12 to 15, 2023. More information will be released as time goes on.
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22.Feb.2023
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian print and PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 12
The twelfth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available as usual with 48 color pages both as a booklet and as a PDF file and this time features an exclusive cover picture by Eric Schwartz, deals with the following topics:
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22.Feb.2023
Floppy (forum)
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AROS: amisslmaster.library 4.12
Following the release for AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4, version 4.12 of the open source encryption library AmiSSL is now also available for AROS/x86.
Download: amissl.i386-aros.zip (3 MB)
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[News message: 22. Feb. 2023, 12:48] [Comments: 0]
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22.Feb.2023
'S0Y' (Mail)
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Temptations port for CD32: Second demo version available
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported), and now has released a second demo version which additional to the CD32 version also is available as adf file for the Amiga 1200 and as WHDLoad (2 MB ChipRAM + 4 MB FastRAM required).
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[News message: 22. Feb. 2023, 06:48] [Comments: 0]
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22.Feb.2023
Patreon (Webseite)
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2023.0
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
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