19.Jan.2023
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ACube Systems: First batch of Sam460LE boards shipped - second delayed
Press release - January 29, 2023
Dear customers,
We have sent out as many boards as we could prepare.
Unfortunately, we received from our suppliers some faulty Ethernet controllers and therefore some boards failed the stress tests.
This will create a delay in the delivery of the remaining Sam460LE. :-(
The replacement Ethernet controllers will arrive in mid-February, after Chinese New Year.
Again, we will perform our extensive testing because we would rather not release a poor product.
We apologize for yet another delay caused by companies that do not play fair.
We will keep you informed.
Thank you.
The ACube Systems Team
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18.Jan.2023
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Email client Iris 1.7 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.6 of his email client Iris for MorphOS. Changes:
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18.Jan.2023
Floppy (Kommentar)
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AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop Live 1.31 beta 20230118
Paolo Besser released a beta version of his AROS distribution Icaros Desktop live which contains the recent ABIv0 backports by Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz, but also other additions, and asks users willing to support it to test it.
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18.Jan.2023
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SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.4 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsmb2 and allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols (amiga-news.de reported). Version 53.4 is now not only available for AmigaOS 4, but also for AROS and thanks to Szilard Biro for AmigaOS 3. Changes:
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18.Jan.2023
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.8
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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17.Jan.2023
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Website launch: retro.directory
Robert Smith, previously known for his DrawBridge or FloppyBridge project and various video releases, has put online "retro.directory", a first version of his website for searching and finding museums, magazines, clubs and groups, events, podcasts, Youtubers, arcades, shops or cafés, all of which have a connection to Retro (YouTube video).
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17.Jan.2023
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Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.2.0
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3 for a long time: while there are current implementations of version 1.9 for RTG Amigas and AGA Amigas with 68060 processor, the version for AGA Amigas with 68030 processor (and up) is based on version 1.5 and dates from 2015.
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16.Jan.2023
CS-Lab (ANF)
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CS-Lab: Warp firmware pack 1.400
CS-Lab released a firmware update for their 68060-based Warp accelerator boards. Changes in version 1.400 include:
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16.Jan.2023
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXXIII in Kiel (Germany) on 28.01.2023
Sven Scheele writes: "On Saturday, January 28, 2023, the retro computer event "Interface" will take place again in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. As usual, organizers are the Vintage Computer Club (VCC), the Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and the Computer Club Klausdorf (CCK).
Registration by e-mail at the address interface@jugendhaus-klausdorf.de is recommended. Without registration there is no guarantee for a free place.
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16.Jan.2023
ANF
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Event: Retro meeting at indoor swimming pool Wolfsburg (Germany) on 04.03.2023
Not an Amiga event, but theoretically the favorite computer of our younger days could also be represented: The city of Wolfsburg, Germany, wants to further expand the topic of gaming and is therefore organizing a gaming event in a disused indoor swimming pool on March 4, 2023.
For a retro-meeting as a part of that event, 30 seats of 1.2 by 0.7 meters each will be provided free of charge, the setup will start at 9 am, the event at 10 am. If you want to participate with retro hardware, please register exclusively via the e-mail address bloekchen@gmx.de.
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16.Jan.2023
David Plesance (Twitter)
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Book: Message to subscribers of German version of "Commodore - The Inside Story"
David Pleasance, author of the book "Commodore - The Inside Story" addresses via Twitter the subscribers of the German edition of his work, especially those of the printed edition.
Due to e-mail losses, he asks for the current delivery address for sending the printed version to amiga@lookbehindyou.de with the subject: "INSIDE STORY GERMAN VERSION". Subscribers of the e-book version, on the other hand, should send their current e-mail address to info@cbmamiga.com with the subject: "COMMODORE INSIDE STORY GERMAN VERSION EBOOK".
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16.Jan.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.5
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.5 of the audio editor "Rave" (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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16.Jan.2023
Mixel
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Jump'n Run: new demo version V1.4 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. According to the developer, this new playable demo version provides "a few little changes here and there". The biggest change: Game performance is much better now, and it also works on A1200s with no fast RAM (which he doesn't recommend, it is just a preparation for future CD32 version). Basically the game requires 2 MB Chip and 1 MB Fast RAM as well as a 68020-processor.
As the developer explained to us, the game is about 70% finished, and he will continue to expand and improve the game after its release. You can support the developer via his Patreon website.
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15.Jan.2023
Glames (Boing Attitude)
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Quiz for AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: "2022 FIFA World Cup" add-on for AskMeUp XXL
Press release: The "2022 FIFA World Cup" add-on, which includes 96 new questions about the lastest World Cup of soccer, is now freely downloadable from our website. Intended for Ask Me Up XXL buyers, the game offers you more than 2300 questions of general knowledge for your AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows computers!
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15.Jan.2023
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: Shader player Shaderjoy 1.24
Shaderjoy allows displaying and creating Shadertoy compatible fragment shaders. Fragment shaders, also called pixel shaders, are programs that are executed per fragment (pixel) on the GPU.The ogles2.library 3.2 and Warp3D Nova 54.16 are required. Now Juha "Capehill" Niemimaki has released version 1.24. Changes:
- Add GLSL Help button: a URL (khronos.org) will be opened.
- Add PUBSCREEN tooltype.
- Add editor toggle menu option in window mode.
- Disable blanker using application.library.
- Fix some CppCheck findings.
- Fix "GetAttr fail" issue which happened when user dropped a file without editor view.
- Compile with GCC 11 - thanks to all people working on the SDK!
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15.Jan.2023
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Aminet uploads until 14.01.2023
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15.Jan.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 14.01.2023
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15.Jan.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 14.01.2023
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15.Jan.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.01.2023
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 14.01.2023:
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15.Jan.2023
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Update of Amiga Games List
The Amiga Games List, a document created and maintained by David Brunet since April 1991, has been updated on January 13th 2023 with the publication of its 53rd edition. Among other new features and corrections, games published or updated in 2022 have been added, and games created with CONK, AmiGen Engine and in Objective-C are now counted. In addition, the "The 2-Clause BSD License" (BSD2) licence have been added. The total now reaches 13,869 entries, be it games, level editors, data disks, extensions and interpreters, which are distributed as follows:
- 13.206 games
- 370 extensions and data disks
- 152 game or level editors
- 141 interpreters
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15.Jan.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Old Amiga Joker issues online as PDF files
At the title link Amiga Future provides all issues of the German games magazine "Amiga Joker" as PDF files - with the exception of the two own revivals from 2017 and 2019 which are still available for purchase. The scanning of the issues was started in 2009 in the A1k forum, its members Amipeguser, echo, evil, Lomaxx and Tracer participated.
Currently Amiga Future are looking for someone who can create an index of all articles of the Amiga Joker issues. In addition, all articles are to be added to the Amiga Future article database in the course of the year. The latter currently contains about 5,000 entries.
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14.Jan.2023
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Puzzle game: Kulki
The developer 'Mirq' has released a conversion of the Windows game Kulki for Amiga (YouTube video). The game runs on any Amiga with Kickstart 1.3 and 512 KB Chip-RAM.
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14.Jan.2023
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Video tutorial: Episode 34 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reported). Now episode 34 was published.
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14.Jan.2023
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Video tutorial: Programming functional buttons with AMOS Pro
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time shows how to program functional buttons using the function "ZONE$", which creates a screen section around a text.
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13.Jan.2023
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Kickstarter campaign: Delivery of "Tank Mouse" delayed
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the Commodore mouse 1352 (amiga-news.de reported).
In a recent status update, the developer writes that due to the current COVID situation in China, over 60% of the factory's employees are on sick leave. His suppliers are also affected. He hopes that the Tank Mouse can be delivered in the second half of February. For those who want to bridge the time until they receive the mouse: AmigaBill tested the new Tank Mouse a fortnight ago in a Twitch show (YouTube video).
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13.Jan.2023
VintageIsTheNewOld
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Competition: Results of Logiker's Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2022
For the second time after 2021, the Logiker website organised a Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge, in which a specific Christmas symbol is to be created using multiplication signs in a freely chosen programming language. In this year's edition, a Christmas star had to be formed. Almost 200 participants took on the task using a wide variety of retro systems. There were also two Amiga entries (1, 2), both of which used ARexx.
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12.Jan.2023
GitHub
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.10 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young has released version 1.10 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2, but has also been tested under AmigaOS 4. Since it uses a new window.class, it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes:
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12.Jan.2023
itch.io
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Dock: QDock V1.63
At the end of October, Sami Vehmaa published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he continues to develop (YouTube video). Since our last news item the developer has fixed several minor bugs and did some fine tuning. Furthermore now it is now possible to drop an icon on the dock. Vehmaa recommends to completely re-install this version and to delete all old files. His dock works well with a 68030 processor when the reflections are deactivated or a 68060 when activated. In addition, AmigaOS 3.1 or higher, graphics card and 22 MB RAM are required.
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12.Jan.2023
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Tutorial: Using two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000
Dutch AmigaOS 4 user Dave 'Skateman' Koelman has been connected to the Amiga since the 1990s, when he bought an Amiga 500 to replace the Commodore VIC20 and later C64. When the AmigaOne X1000 was introduced many years later, he considered taking another leap onto new hardware, which he finally did in 2017 after the release of the AmigaOne X5000 by ordering it.
Since the interest and curiosity in the new PowerPC Amigas was aroused, Dave has been intensively involved with their hardware and software and has also been running his blog SkateMansWorld since that time. With so much expertise it was obvious that Amiga-News.de asked him to discuss the problem of how to run two graphics cards in the AmigaOne X5000 so that you get optimal solutions for using AmigaOS 4 as well as MorphOS and Linux. At the same time he gives one or two more tips on how to work with the X5000 in the best possible way. Many thanks, Dave!
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11.Jan.2023
Planet m68k
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor
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. The project has a GitHub respository which lists the following features:
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11.Jan.2023
Amigans-Forum
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AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonRX V2.12
The graphics card driver "RadeonRX.chip" is written especially for selected Radeon RX graphics cards with the Polaris graphics chip. These include Radeon RX 550, 560, 570, 580. Version 2.11 included in Enhancer Software 2.2 has now been updated to version 2.12 and can be installed using A-EON's Updater tool. The update fixes copy routine errors. This should fix the black screen problem in the game "Spencer" on Sam460 boards.
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10.Jan.2023
Twitter
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Game Soundtrack: Albums "The Holocube" and "Time Travellers" released
Génération Delphine is a project to honor the game soundtracks of the French software company Delphine Software International by releasing albums of the restored tracks (amiga-news.de reported). Originally a first album should be released in November 2021, but now two albums has been released at the same time:
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10.Jan.2023
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Accelerator board projekt: Buffee developer on ARM GCC
In her blog, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the "Buffee" turbo card project (amiga-news.de reported), reports on the theoretical and practical basics of the project. In the latest blog entry, she explains with examples that the ARM GCC sometimes delivers problematic results.
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09.Jan.2023
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Editor: MUI-Vim V9.0.1158 for AmigaOS4 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 9.0.1158 of VIM and released it for AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. He has also updated syntax highlighting for Hollywood 9.1.
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09.Jan.2023
Chris Young (Mail)
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AmigaGuide to HTML converter: GuideML 3.17 for AmigaOS 3/4
GuideML is an AmigaGuide to HTML converter which can convert most AmigaGuides and since v3.1 also has a GUI (amiga-news.de reported). The tool was originally written by Richard Körber and now is available in version 3.17. Changes:
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09.Jan.2023
Amigans-Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Version 6.10 of audio driver for Intel HD Audio
The AHI driver for AmigaOS 4 written by Harald Kanning supports PCIe cards with sound chips that meet the HD Audio specification (amiga-news.de reported). The archive also contains a simple "mixer" which can be used to control the volume. Now the developer has released an update to version 6.10 with the following changes:
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08.Jan.2023
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AmigaOS 4: SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.3
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsmb2 and allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols (amiga-news.de reported). Version 53.3, released a few momentsa go, includes the following changes:
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08.Jan.2023
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MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.17r4
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators and now is available in version 3.17r4 for MorphOS 3.17. Changes:
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08.Jan.2023
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Aminet uploads until 07.01.2023
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08.Jan.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.01.2023
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08.Jan.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 07.01.2023
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08.Jan.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.01.2023
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08.Jan.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.01.2023
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 07.01.2023:
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08.Jan.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: XLSX plugin manual in German
Andreas Falkenhahn writes: Dominic Widmer and Helmut Haake have been busy again and translated the manual of the XLSX plugin for Hollywood into German. It is available for download at the title link.
With the XLSX plugin for Hollywood you can easily load, modify and save Excel spreadsheets with Hollywood. Thanks to Airsoft Softwair's MetaDoc system, the translation is not only available as PDF file but also in AmigaGuide, HTML and CHM format.
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08.Jan.2023
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Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.3
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga.
Based on the latest version 2.3 of vAmiga, the developer 'mithrendal' has also updated his application. Changes:
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[News message: 08. Jan. 2023, 07:34] [Comments: 0]
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08.Jan.2023
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Point'n Click adventure: NEONnoir V1.1.1
The English point'n click adventure game "NEONnoir" (video) was developed with AmiBlitz for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. As a down-and-out private detective, the player has to track down a drug-addicted daughter from a good family (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has released a new version with some bug fixes.
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07.Jan.2023
itch.io
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RTG Solitaire: "Solitare match" V0.93
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitaire conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo version contains five levels. With this update, the paid version now provides the targeted 100 levels. Besides, the two difficulty levels easy and hard, a level editor and an Easter egg have been added.
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07.Jan.2023
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.3
At Christmas Dirk Hoffmann had published the first beta version of version 2.3 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS (amiga-news.de reportedberichtete). Today already the final version 2.3 has been released. Changes:
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that causes the GPU pipeline to occasionally update the wrong texture in interlace mode
- Fixed a bug that caused the CPU to crash on address error double-faults
Enhancements:
- Improved emulation of mechanical floppy drive delays
The minimum system requirement for his emulator is macOS 10.15.
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06.Jan.2023
Edgar Schwan (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: X11 environment AmiCygnix 1.7
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 1.7 contains some innovations around the topic "start of external programs" (remote start), furthermore a Unix and an Amiga shell is now available for the display drivers for the Workbench (screenshot). Besides that some bugs have been fixed by completely reworking the utility library "libaos4util" for AmiCygnix and by adding the coreutils package also some dependencies to the AmigaOS 4 SDK have been removed.
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06.Jan.2023
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 160 - 25th anniversary
The English and German issue 160 (January/February 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 about Aquabyss and the Warp 1240 as well as the first part of a special about Amiga Future's 25th anniversary.
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06.Jan.2023
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Action game: Santa Claus Xmas Season 2022
Amiten Games - among others, platformer game Inca Man, mini-game EmotiWorld or jump'n run NinjFeratu - thanks everyone with the free game "Santa Claus Xmas Season 2022" (YouTube video) for the continued support they have received since founding as Amiten Software in 2011. The game requires an Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM.
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05.Jan.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.26.1 Release Candidate 2
At the beginning of December, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki had published the first release candidate of version 2.26.1 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Today he has published the second release candidate providing the following changes:
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05.Jan.2023
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Tool: Image2PDF for all Amiga systems
Bernd Assenmacher has released version 1.3 of his tool Image2PDF, which converts PNG or JPG images into a PDF file. Among other things, A3, A4 or A5 can be selected as the target format. Image2PDF is available for all Amiga systems and requires the Polybios-Plugin. It is sufficient to copy the files "polybios.ext" and "polybios.hwp" to "Libs/Hollywood" (for AROS only the file "polybios.hwp" exists). Changes in version 1.3:
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05.Jan.2023
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Action adventure: Anniversary Edition of Enemy 1 and 2
At Christmas 2013, the action adventure Enemy 2 - Missing In Action was released as freeware. Technically identical to its commercial predecessor Enemy - Tempest Of Violence, the title offered completely new levels and brought the story begun in the first part to a conclusion. At the end of 2016, there was a Collectors Edition of Enemy 2. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Enemy 1, Anachronia released an Anniversary Edition for Enemy 1 and Enemy 2.
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04.Jan.2023
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MorphOS: BarsnPipes 1.2
Alfred Faust wrote: "After several weeks of intensive programming, a new version of BarsnPipes for MorphOS 3.17 has been completed and is available for download at the title link.
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04.Jan.2023
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CDXL video player: AGABlaster 0.9.91
AGABlaster plays Commodore's CDXL video format. According to the author, it uses a customized version of the CDXL format supporting the AGA chipset with 24 bit colors and variable length frames. Customized CDXL files can be generated with AGAConv. AGABlaster is written in 68K Assembly and runs on native Amiga hardware (no gfx card or sound card required). In version 0.9.91 support for PAUSE on startup was added which allows to wait for modern monitors to synchronize at first frame.
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04.Jan.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.5
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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04.Jan.2023
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Video: Amiga 500 with serial number 190
In his latest video, Jan Beta takes a look at what he believes to be one of the first Amiga 500s, as it bears the serial number 190.
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04.Jan.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Payback ported
After a long development period - announced in V - Apex Designs released their Grand Theft Auto clone Payback in February 2001, including a demo version for 68k and PPC processors (WarpUP). In this, the player slips into the role of a young getaway driver while trying to become a big gangster boss. Seven updates and several new and updated maps were released afterwards. Roman 'kas1e' Kargin had received permission from Apex Designs to port the game to AmigaOS 4, which is now available at OS4Depot under the title link.
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03.Jan.2023
MorphZone
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MorphOS: ENCORE updated several demos
At the end of October, the demo and game developers Encore (among other 2D shooter Fortis) released its new demo "Morphever", a few days ago the demo "KHESHKHASH" has been updated. Now the developers have updated Morphever, as well as the three other older demos Morphobia, Morphilia and Morphoza to version 1.2.0, which mainly fixes bugs, and features the latest engine and some minor improvements.
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03.Jan.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Accessing the ARexx ports of applications on remote PCs
In a recent blog entry, Andy Broad (among other things, graphics programme SketchBlock) reports on his current project, currently still called "NetRexx", with which one can write Arexx scripts to control applications on remote computers (YouTube video).
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03.Jan.2023
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.5.1
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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03.Jan.2023
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Blog: Displaying 24-bit images optimally in HAM mode
For more than 25 years, Arnaud Carré has been programming and as a member of the demo group Oxygene also demos. In his newly established blog, he deals with the problem of displaying 24-bit images correctly and as best as possible on current PC hardware in the Amiga's HAM mode in order to use them in demos, for example. For this, he gives code examples and insights into his converter, which he will publish soon.
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02.Jan.2023
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RTG Solitaire: "Solitare match" V0.89
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitaire conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo version contains five levels. With this update, the paid version now has 75 levels. Besides, the game engine was improved.
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02.Jan.2023
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Dock: QDock V1.49
At the end of October, Sami Vehmaa published the first version of his start bar "QDock" (amiga-news.de reported), which he continues to develop (YouTube video). This update fixes several minor bugs. The tool is currently available for 1 Euro or more. The originally high CPU requirements have been lowered so that the dock can also be used with a 68030 processor when the reflections are deactivated or with a 68060 when activated. In addition, AmigaOS 3.2 (the author could not test under AmigaOS 3.1), graphics card and 22 MB RAM are required.
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02.Jan.2023
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Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.5
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as well as Linux (amiga-news.de reported). Under Windows it is possible to use it by the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which has been generally available for Windows 10 and 11 in the Microsoft Store since the end of November (amiga-news.de reported). The new version is based on the recently released version 20221221-1 of the ABI v11 developer branch and provides minor bug fixes and changes (latest YouTube video).
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02.Jan.2023
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Aracade-Spiel: "Green Beret" update
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine and won third place at AmiGameJam (amiga-news.de reported).
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02.Jan.2023
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Linux: Browser Artic Fox V40.1
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled version 40.1 of the web browser Artic Fox (screenshot) for Linux PowerPC (32 Bit). Basically it runs under the Linux PowerPC distributions Void PPC, MintPPC, Fienix and Ubuntu 10.04 (which are also available for AmigaOne X1000 and 5000. Mainly, the browser is meant for older resp. slow systems (e.g. G3 with Ubuntu 10.04) because it is using an older version of the Goanna engine which has a good performance on slower systems. As a result, certain pages like GitHub cannot be fully displayed.
Download: arcticfox-40.1.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2 (37 MB)
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02.Jan.2023
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Action game: Elf Spirit Hunters released
For the TOY BOX JAM 4, the developer Erik 'earok' Hogan has written the action game "Elf Spirit Hunters" using his Scorpion Engine and released it today. It is inspired by David Crane's Ghostbusters game.
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01.Jan.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Update for Heretic II in development
According to Roman 'kas1e' Kargin, Steffen Häuser is working on updates for the games published by Hyerion Entertainment such as Heretic II and Quake II for AmigaOS 4. He had already worked on the beta test for the original version (amiga-news.de reported). Kargin has now published a first preview video for Heretic II. Among other things, the new version should support HD modes like 1920x1080. In addition, all movies will be scaled and filtered so that there will no longer be 320×240 windows as in the original Warp OS version.
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01.Jan.2023
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New articles on Obligement
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.Jan.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Version 6.9 of audio driver for Intel HD Audio
The AHI driver for AmigaOS 4 written by Harald Kanning supports PCIe cards with sound chips that meet the HD Audio specification (amiga-news.de reported). The archive also contains a simple "mixer" which can be used to control the volume. Now the developer has released an update to version 6.9 with the following changes:
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01.Jan.2023
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Aminet uploads until 31.12.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 31.12.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 31.12.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 31.12.2022
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01.Jan.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 31.12.2022
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 31.12.2022:
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31.Dec.2022
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.5
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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31.Dec.2022
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Blog: How authentic is the Amiga 1000 in "Stranger Things"?
Carl Svensson always reports in his blog in detail and philosophically profound about various Amiga topics. In his latest article he explores the question of how authentic the shown workbench pictures of the Amiga 1000 are, appearing in the series "Stranger Things" are (amiga-news.de reported).
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31.Dec.2022
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Video: Status update on BitBeamCannon projects
In a short video BitBeamCannon has informed about the current status of their projects (Metro Siege, DaemonClaw).
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31.Dec.2022
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Video: 25 popular demos
For all those who want to spend New Year's Eve comfortably at home, a little video tip: the YouTube channel "Casual Retro Gamer" (CRG) (among other things Building a new Amiga 2000) had asked a few weeks ago via its Twitter account what the users think are the most popular demos. The result is a list of 25 demos, which are shown in a video of about 1,5h length. More than half of them are Amiga demos (for example Enigma, Desert Dream or World of Commodore).
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31.Dec.2022
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 4.8 (2nd Update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 4.6 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS, which primarily fixes bugs but also improves image dragging alongside updated libraries (cURL, png, webp, sqlite).
Please note that the current openssl3.library is required.
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31.Dec.2022
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of December
For the month of November 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link.
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31.Dec.2022
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Video review: Junior's Great Adventure
At the title link, Amigatronics has published a short review video of the game Junior's Great Adventure, which was released by Amigamers in spring.
The platform game, created with Backbone, is inspired by the silent movie era in terms of its sepia colours, fits on a single floppy disk and requires 1 MB of RAM as well as at least Kickstart 2.1.
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30.Dec.2022
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Rediscovered: Unfinished Blitz Basic 2 projects
Jake Birkett is the head of indie game developers Grey Alien Games, which has been releasing downloadable games for PC and Mac since 2004. These have included the popular Regency Solitaire, which combines a Jane Austen-style story with various solitaire levels and special powerups that you get by upgrading your ballroom. Or Ancient Enemy, a turn-based battle card game based on solitaire, or from last year T-Minus 30: a 30-minute city builder where you have to save as many people as possible by building rockets before the planet blows up.
And what is this enthusiasm for computer game development based on? Exactly, before this time, Birkett was a passionate Amiga user and programmer.
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30.Dec.2022
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Motorola68k emulation: Nightly Build von Emu68 für PiStorm32-lite veröffentlicht
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon page. After the beta version 0.10 released at the beginning of March (amiga-news.de reported) he has now released a correspondingly adapted version of Emu68 as a nightly build for PiStorm32-lite (amiga-news.de reported) published the day before yesterday and reports about it in his current entry.
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29.Dec.2022
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AmigaOS 4: SMB2 handler smb2fs V53.2
The Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer (Wikipedia entry). Fredrik Wikstrom's SMB2 handler is based on libsmb2 and allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols (amiga-news.de reported). Version 53.2, released today, includes the following changes:
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29.Dec.2022
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MorphOS: ENCORE & SCENIC released KHESHKHASH demo
At the end of October, the game and demo developers from Encore (2D shooter Fortis, among others) released their demo Morphever. Before they now devote themselves to game development again and want to tackle some projects that have been put on hold, they have updated one of their older demos: KHESHKHASH was originally released in 2002 with demo group Scenic, which required an Amiga with PPC and 3D accelerator. Since it was difficult to find hardware capable of playing this demo with high resolution and acceptable frame rate, it was decided to recreate it for a wider range of current MorphOS hardware (YouTube video).
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29.Dec.2022
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68k hardware emulation: PiStorm32-lite with firmware released
Claude Schwarz' PiStorm connects a Raspberry Pi to the CPU socket of an Amiga using an adapter and uses the British single-board computer to emulate a fast m68k processor. The variant for the Amiga 1200 is called "PiStorm32". Yesterday the developer published on GitHub the repository for the PiStorm32-lite variant, which contains all hardware design and manufacturing files including ordering instructions for JLCPCB and the firmware. The lite variant is supposed to take into account the current difficult situation in the procurement of components and in principle be cheaper (amiga-news.de reported).
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28.Dec.2022
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Video: Programming demos with "AProcessing" framework
With the seventh episode, the video series in which 'Prince' (founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', assembler coding course) talks in detail with developer and Resistance member Alessio 'OzzyBoshi' Garzi about his "AProcessing" framework for creating demos and intros is finished.
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28.Dec.2022
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.3 b1
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga.
Based on the latest version 2.3 b1 of vAmiga, the developer 'mithrendal' has also updated his application. Changes:
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27.Dec.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Eighth beta version of TinyGL
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen had offered a bounty project for improved OpenGL support as well as drivers for more Radeon graphics cards under the title link, which has been successfully funded (amiga-news.de reported). Now the developer has released the eighth public beta version of his TinyGL update. Changes:
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26.Dec.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.9.0 for Raspberry Pi 4/400 and Windows
AmiKit has released an update to version 11.9.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 (changes) as well as for Windows/Mac/Linux (changes) and wished a merry Christmas.
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26.Dec.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.4
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.4 of the audio editor "Rave" (amiga-news.de reported) and reports in detail about the development of this current version in his new blog entry. Changes of version 1.4:
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26.Dec.2022
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 141 (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.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about "Akira" and "Luma".
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25.Dec.2022
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A-EON Technology: Enhancer Software Core Release 2 / Delay of A1222
According to Trevor Dickinson in his latest blog entry, the production of the A1222 Plus continues to delay due to the "ongoing worldwide lack of integrated circuits and other electronic supply chain issues". As he explained: "One small micro-controller which costs $6.83 each in batches of 100+ is only available for delivery at the end of 2023. Although it can be purchased now from another trade supplier for the extortionate price of ~$420 each." ACube and A-EON are therefore still looking for alternative suppliers.
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25.Dec.2022
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Aminet uploads until 24.12.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 24.12.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 24.12.2022
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25.Dec.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.12.2022
The following files have been added until 24.12.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 25. Dec. 2022, 07:46] [Comments: 0]
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25.Dec.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.12.2022
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 24.12.2022:
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[News message: 25. Dec. 2022, 07:45] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2022
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Video: Digitising printed AMOS source files
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time takes on the task of how to get AMOS code he wrote in the 90s and printed out on a dot matrix printer back into his Amiga A1200 to run the code.
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2022, 14:46] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.21 and 2.3b1
With the release of version 2.21 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS, its developer Dirk Hoffmann fixes two small bugs of version 2.2 released in early December:
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2022, 14:27] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2022
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ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.b for Sam460EX/Sam460CR/Sam460LE boards (update)
Press release Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 23 December 2022
ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the U-Boot firmware for its Sam460 line of motherboards. New in this version
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2022, 14:07] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2022
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Advent Calendar: Door 24 - Michael Rupp / Amiga-News.de wishes Merry Xmas
The Christmas door and thus the conclusion of our Advent calendar premiere is Michael Rupp.
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24.Dec.2022
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.35
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey).
Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a little donation from inside TAWS.
Version 0.35 includes among others the following changes:
- HippoPlayer (in Work):
Thanks a lot to (www.wothke.ch) for his open source
player routines.
Features:
- The following playback routines (https://bitbucket.org/wothke) are implemented,
each of them supporting many tracker formats:
- adplug
- asap
- ds
- snes
- nez
- psx
- sid
- sc68
- uade
- vgm
- xmp
- zxtune
- And besides: A Christmas surprise! Many thanks to Daniel Reimann from amiga-news.de who persuaded me to do this. The effort was... um... bigger than expected, but it was worth it!
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2022, 07:03] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2022
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RTG Solitare: "Solitare match" V0.85
At the beginning of December, Sami Vehmaa had published a demo version of his graphics card Solitare conversion "Solitare match" (YouTube video), which is primarily intended for Amiga emulators or Apollo cards due to the high CPU requirements. The demo version contains five levels. The paid version has meanwhile grown from ten levels to 50 and is currently available for 1.50 Euro.
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2022, 06:09] [Comments: 0]
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24.Dec.2022
Hans de Ruiter
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AmigaOS 4: FTP server ZitaFTP 1.36
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.36 of his commercial FTP server "ZitaFTP". He wrote:
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[News message: 24. Dec. 2022, 05:41] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.15
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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[News message: 23. Dec. 2022, 16:13] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Status update on WebKit port
In keeping with today's Advent calendar door, George 'walkero' Sokianos has just given a status update on the work on the WebKit port for AmigaOS 4 which started at the beginning of November (amiga-news.de reported):
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2022, 14:44] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2022
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Porting Amiga applications to Linux: AxRuntime 41.4
Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz' "AxRuntime" is a runtime environment for Linux which emulates the AmigaOS-API and therefore enables porting Amiga applications on Linux and developing applications which can be compiled for AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS as well as Linux (amiga-news.de reported). Under Windows it is possible to use it by the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which has been generally available for Windows 10 and 11 in the Microsoft Store since the end of November (amiga-news.de reported). The new version is based on the recently released version 20221221-1 of the ABI v11 developer branch and introduces, among other things, the Zune prefs V0.2 and the editor V1.1 (YouTube video).
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2022, 12:55] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2022
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Tool: identify-library 41.0
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 41.0 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2022, 11:23] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: Amiga37 DVD
A DVD of Amiga37, which took place in October 2022 in Mönchengladbach, is now available at APC&TCP at the title link. More precisely, it is two pressed data DVDs in DVD-9 format with a total playing time of over 5 hours. The majority of the proceeds is intended to go to the organisers for a follow-up event.
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2022, 11:02] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2022
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Advent Calendar: Door 23 - George Sokianos
One more time we will be awake...;) George 'walkero' Sokianos will shorten the time until Christmas Eve with his story for our 23rd door.
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2022, 08:37] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.2.0
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.2.0 of the firmware was released yesterday. Changes:
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2022, 06:25] [Comments: 0]
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23.Dec.2022
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AmigaOS 4: SMB2-Handler ported
Server Message Block (SMB) is a network protocol for file, print and other server services in computer networks and allows access to files and directories located on another computer. The SMB2 handler ported by Fredrik Wikstrom for AmigaOS 4 is based on libsmb2 and allows remote access to files via the SMB2/3 protocols. The newlib.library V53.40 or newer (or the V53.30 as included in 4.1 FE) and the filesysbox.library V54.4 or newer are required.
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[News message: 23. Dec. 2022, 06:08] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2022
deadwood
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AROS x86_64: Update of ABI-v11 developer branch
The AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz had given his stable branch of AROS for 64-bit Intel and AMD processors the code name 'ABIv11' to distinguish it from the in-progress ABIv1 version in the main AROS repository. It has now updated this to version "20221221-1". The new release includes improvements and fixes made since March 2022. Among improvements is the major work done on Scalos during summer to fix multiple compatibility, stability and 64-bit problems.
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2022, 21:04] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2022
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Blog: Amiga Kit's Christmas entry
At the beginning of October, Amiga Kit had started its own blog. In the new entry published yesterday, one remembers games suitable for the Christmas season and takes a look at various Amiga specials.
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2022, 20:51] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2022
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ReAction-GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.9 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young has released version 1.9 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2, but has also been tested under AmigaOS 4. Since it uses a new window.class, it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes:
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2022, 19:28] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2022
Mike Battilana (E-Mail)
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Amiga Forever 10: Update 10.0.10.0
The emulator package Amiga Forever 10 (amiga-news.de reported) was updated on December 20 with version 10.0.10.0. By including WinUAE 4.10.0, the integration of a virtual modem was rounded off on the Amiga side, so that it can also be used with the programs NComm and Term.
Those who already use Amiga Forever 10 can carry out the update under "Help/About" or download the installation program again.
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2022, 13:02] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2022
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AmigaOS 4: BreakHack released
According to George 'walkero' Sokianos in his latest Ko-Fi blog entry, he started working on porting a game called BreakHack some time ago and finally decided to release it. It is a Roguelike game developed by Linus Probert. The latter describes the game as "a casual roguelike intended to provide entertainment for 10-30 minutes when you are taking a break from anything else in your life. It's easy to learn but hard to beat, no extra lives no fuss. Just enter the dungeon kill the monsters and get the loot."
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[News message: 22. Dec. 2022, 11:48] [Comments: 0]
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22.Dec.2022
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Advent Calendar: Door 22 - Jacek Piszczek
Willkommen zum 22. Türchen, für das Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek eine kleine Anekdote verfasst hat.
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21.Dec.2022
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Advent Calendar: Door 21 - Frank Wille
The 21st door goes online and for this one Frank Wille has taken time out with an anecdote.
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20.Dec.2022
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.33 released
Thomas Wenzel wrote: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :)
Bug fixes:
- Fixed repeat track/all functionality.
Corrected error message for unsupported stream format.
Fixed wrong memory deallocation when closing the about requester.
Revised automatic runtime switching between AHI and MHI output.
New features:
- Added pulldown menu items for repeat track/all and shuffle.
Better handling of AHI modes with different limitations.
AHI has some peculiarities in that the maximum volume depends on the mode used (stereo++ or not) and the number of mixing channels. Until now, you always had to be careful not to turn it up too loud, because otherwise it would suddenly get quieter again, and with a bit of bad luck you wouldn't hear anything at all. The aim is that you don't have to worry about this any more because AmigaAMP determines the necessary limits itself. Hopefully it works for everyone. :)
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[News message: 20. Dec. 2022, 21:43] [Comments: 0]
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20.Dec.2022
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Advent Calendar: Door 20 - Robert Smith
It's getting close to Christmas and we open the 20th door with an anecdote from Robert Smith.
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