13.Nov.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.7
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). A few moments ago, version 1.6.7 has been released. Changes:
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13.Nov.2022
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Kung Fu action: "Devil's Temple" V3.5
About three weeks ago, Geezer Games had released "Devil's Temple (amiga-news.de reported). By releasing another update, the following bugs were fixed:
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13.Nov.2022
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Aminet uploads until 12.11.2022
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13.Nov.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.11.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 12.11.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.11.2022
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13.Nov.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 12.11.2022
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 12.11.2022:
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12.Nov.2022
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Blog: Developer of "Rave" about Amiga37
In his latest blog entry Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka, developer of the audio editor "Rave", reports about his experiences and impressions of the Amiga37.
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12.Nov.2022
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MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.17r2
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a preconfigured collection of programs, games and emulators and now is available in version 3.17r2 for MorphOS 3.17, this time dedicated to the microAlchimie VI which took place last weekend.
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12.Nov.2022
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Do it yourself: Drivers for clockport/Raspberry Pi interface
At the end of June Niklas Ekström had provided the information for the reconstruction of an interface with which a communication between Amiga and Raspberry Pi via the clockport is possible (amiga-news.de reported). The goal is to be able to run services like the filesystem a314fs which allows access to directories of the Raspbery Pi and the SANA-II network driver over it.
After he published the source files of the necessary software adaptations a month ago, the pre-compiled Amiga files followed yesterday.
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11.Nov.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Sound card Prelude replica (Update)
The Zorro II sound card Prelude supported recording and playing in full-duplex mode at a resolution of 16 bit and a frequency of upto 64 kHz. Those who are interested in building a replica themselves can find a corresponding project - inluding the expansion module MPEGit - at the title link.
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11.Nov.2022
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Video: The history of the British video game developer "Magnetic Scrolls"
In his latest video, Kim Justice takes a look at the British computer game company "Magnetic Scrolls", which from 1984 onwards became known mainly for their text adventures like THE PAWN, Myth or Fish!. On the page "Magnetic Scrolls Memorial" you can find more information about the developers and other games.
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11.Nov.2022
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Puzzle game: LUMA
Indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (among others Wheel of Fortune implementation YAWoFFA or Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam) has released the Amiga port of the puzzle game LUMA, originally written for the Commodore 64.
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10.Nov.2022
Vinnny (ANF)
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Distributed.net: OGR-28 completed, Distributed Amiga in second place
Around the turn of the millennium, various initiatives were started to make unused computing time available for projects, which also led to the formation of teams in the Amiga area that competed with others - be it against other operating systems or among each other (amiga-news.de reported).
With OGR, for example, the task is to search for an optimal Golomb ruler. More than eight years after finding the 27th-order one, when the Distributed Amiga team came in third, the optimal 28th-order Golomb ruler has now been found: The Distributed Amiga team even achieved second place this time, the MorphOS team twelfth.
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10.Nov.2022
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.2.0
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). Recently George 'walkero' Sokianos (editor 'Lite XL' or MediaVault) has released version 2.2.0 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, providing the following changes:
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09.Nov.2022
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Jump'n Run: Minky V1.3
Minky (Video) is a Jump'n Run similar to Super Mario or Giana Sisters, which requires an Amiga 500 with one Megabyte RAM (amiga-news.de reported). In version 1.3 "strange crashes were removed when throwing a ball and jumping at same time".
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09.Nov.2022
Twitter
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RastPort: KA02 - Improved version of external PCMCIA adapter
Grzegorz Kraszewski's RastPort designs and manufactures accesories and expansions for Amiga computers. At the end of 2018, he had presented his project "KA02": a PCMCIA adapter for the Amiga 1200 in a standard desktop case. With the adapter, the PCMCIA card is placed vertically on the side of the Amiga and thus takes up much less space on the desk. Now he has published on Twitter a first photo of a variant that has an improved plug-in part. Inserting it into the slot is much easier that way, he says.
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09.Nov.2022
Amigans
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Metacompiler: Portabl E r6
Christopher Handley's metacompiler "Portabl E" - now written with spaces - works by translating your code written with the programming language Amiga E into C++, and then using GCC to compile it into an executable. This needs an installation of GCC. Please read his official press release:
Portabl E is my recreation of the AmigaE programming language, along with most of the improvements I have wanted. Portabl E works on AmigaOS4, AROS, MorphOS, as well as even Linux & Windows! (It should also work on AmigaOS3, but compiling needs a powerful machine like WinUAE.)
This is the finished r6 release, with the "beta" tag removed (amiga-news.de reported), although it hasn't really been beta since the last couple of release.
See the main manual for what has changed since r5. The biggest changes since the last r6 beta release include:
- Added basic Linux support (64bit x86 only), to the same level as Windows, i.e. Shell-only, with no graphics or internet access. This was a major effort, partly due to all the differences (64-bit pointers, case-sensitive filing system, mount-points anywhere, etc), and partly due to all the C headers that needed to be converted.
- Linux: PEGCC now supports cross-compilation (for Amiga & Windows) using the TargetOS parameter, as long as an appropriate GCC cross-compiler is installed.
- Programs will now compile using the latest SDK of AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS.
- All OS procedures that can support unlimited parameters now do so, including the Amiga's SystemTags().
- AmigaOS3: No-longer needs a modified "intuition/classusr.h" file.
- Added the 'std/pUnsigned' module, to provide basic support for unsigned number types, and the example program "Examples/std/Shell/crc32.e". Useful for porting certain C algorithms.
- Added the procedures InStrNoCase(), BigMax(), BigMin(), BigFastMod(), IsBigEndian() & IsLittleEndian().
- In 'std/pTime', improved CurrentTime() to take a timezone parameter.
- Fixed FastNew() (and so NEW) which would trash memory, instead of raising the "MEM" exception, if it failed to allocate memory. Thanks to Dimitris Panokostas for reporting symptoms of this long-standing bug, especially as I don't see out-of-memory errors on the OSes I normally use.
- Amiga: The installer would fail at "Copying executables..." if the user-specified path for executables did not contain any (sub) folders, such as "C:" (which sadly was the default). Many thanks to "Zendarion" for the bug report.
- Windows: In 'std/pTime', CurrentTime() now returns the correct time when DST is in effect.
- I've renamed the language from "PortablE" to "Portabl E" with a space, in the hope of making it more easily searchable on the internet (as well as clarifying how to pronounce it). But the "PortablE" command name itself is unchanged.
The new version can be downloaded under the title link or via OS4Depot.
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08.Nov.2022
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Preview video: Amiga port of "Cecconoid"
Earlier this year, musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' had released the vertical-scrolling shooter Knightmare, originally written for the MSX and published by Konami, as an Amiga port (amiga-news.de reported). His new project is the port of the game "Cecconoid", originally released by "Triple Eh?": "an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate dimension where the pixels are still chunky, and the bad guys are black and white." A Twitch recording now gives an impression of the game. As the author tells us when asked, about 85% of the game is finished. First and foremost, an integrated sub game "Eugatron" and the game's soundtrack are still missing.
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08.Nov.2022
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Video interview: Jens Schönfeld talked about acceletator board projects
At this year's AmiWest among other things an interview between Bill Borsari and Jens Schönfeld was planned, which couldn't take place due to technical difficulties. This has now been made up for via Jitsi and published on YouTube. The two mainly talked about the ACA1240/1260 turbo cards first announced by Individual Computers at the end of December 2018, of which the first pictures of the cooling system were shown a year later.
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07.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Porting WebKit started
According to George 'walkero' Sokianos in his recent Ko-Fi blog entry, he has frozen most of his projects to devote himself entirely to porting WebKit to AmigaOS 4. The goal, he said, is to provide WebKit as a dynamic or static library that can be used in any kind of application such as a new web browser or email client.
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07.Nov.2022
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Dungeon Crawler: "Black Dawn Technomage" (AGA) released
"Black Dawn: Technomage" (video) is the sequel to Black Dawn Rebirth, developed by the same team, and now available. The game requires an AGA Amiga and can be purchased for at least about 11,40 Euro.
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07.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: HiRes set of mouse pointers
On Amiga-Look (amiga-news.de reported),'levellord' has released "a modern hires set of pointer presets for Amiga 4.1 operating system loosely based on a DMZ-White and Quintom pointers for Linux. Pointers are optimized for 1080p and there are three different sizes of 18px, 20px and 24px all in red, white and black base colors with white/black outlines."
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07.Nov.2022
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Puzzle game: Connect 1.1
In the puzzle game "Connect" (screenshots), you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. Now version 1.1 is available providing the following changes:
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06.Nov.2022
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Dock: QDock V1.17
Sami Vehmaa had released the first version of his start bar "QDock" almost two weeks ago (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 1.17, as the developer writes to us, "has gone trough a big transformation and is now working more like it was intended." A new YouTube video explains the changes: among other things, there is now a second row with space for another 25 icons. Likewise, drives can be added to the dock.
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06.Nov.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.6
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). A few moments ago, version 1.6.6 has been released. Changes:
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06.Nov.2022
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Aminet uploads until 05.11.2022
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06.Nov.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.11.2022
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06.Nov.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.11.2022
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06.Nov.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.11.2022
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 05.11.2022:
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06.Nov.2022
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Video: Not even scammers want to support AmigaOS
Fraudsters who pretend to be Microsoft support on the phone, for example, in order to get computer users to download and run malware, are one of the unpleasant side effects of the internet age. As an Amiga user, however, you are excluded even from this nowadays, as the video at the title link documents.
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06.Nov.2022
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Hollywood: 20th anniversary - XLSX plugin 1.0 released
Press release:On November 4th 2002, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released Hollywood 1.0 for 68k AmigaOS. Originally advertised as a multimedia authoring solution, nobody would have expected back then that this software would turn into a cross-platform programming language for lots of platforms with dozens of plugins for all kinds of tasks. Now, 20 years later, Hollywood is still going strong, receives regular updates and new plugins, and is used by many people around the globe. All of this would not have been possible without the continued support of many Hollywood enthusiasts in the past 20 years. Only the positive feedback we received right from the start made us continue developing Hollywood into what it is today.
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06.Nov.2022
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Amiga37: Music title for download / Music video online
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr writes: "Wow, how time has passed so quickly again! The Amiga37 event is now already three weeks ago... In this context I would like to point out that the official Amiga37 music title is available for free download for everyone who is interested.
Likewise, a video has now made it onto Youtube at the title link to introduce itself to the world, for the inclined listeners. :-)"
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05.Nov.2022
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 159
The English and German issue 159 (November/December 2022) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes a report about the demo scene as well as reviews on Pagestream and the "Dynatech 30th Anniversary Edition".
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05.Nov.2022
a1k.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 3/4: Web browser IBrowse 2.5.7
The team of Oliver Roberts has released version 2.5.7 of the web browser IBrowse. Most important changes (detailed changelog) of this update:
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05.Nov.2022
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MorphOS: GUI for Snes9x emulator - SnesMUI released
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has released a GUI named SnesMUI for the Snes9x emulator providing the following features:
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05.Nov.2022
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Kung Fu action: "Devil's Temple" V3.4
About two weeks ago, Geezer Games had released "Devil's Temple (amiga-news.de reported). Now an update to version 3.4 is available which fixes some bugs. Changes:
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04.Nov.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.8
After two pre-releases, today version 3.9.8 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been released. Changes:
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04.Nov.2022
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AROS: Further development of the emulator Janus-UAE 2
Blitter Studio, which is also responsible for the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has started to continue the development of the emulator Janus-UAE 2.
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04.Nov.2022
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Music tip: Protracker track "much"
'no9' has been working in the audio section for years and also occasionally composes music for games. On his YouTube channel, he also publishes his own compositions from time to time, like the piece "much" most recently. He uses the ProTracker 2 clone for Windows by Olav Sorensen for this. As 'no9' writes, he would have tried to use the original Amiga for it, but the constant data exchange between Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and Amiga would have been very time consuming, as there would sometimes be a lot of copying back and forth for sample data. The Amiga Protracker compatibility was mandatory for him, though.
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03.Nov.2022
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Video: Often unknown Amiga operating systems
Ravi Abbott, known for his documentary "Downfall Amiga, after Commodore" (amiga-news.de reported), introduces often unknown Amiga operating systems for 68k Amigas, such as p.OS or UNIX.
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03.Nov.2022
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Workbench distribution: AKReal 9.1
AKReal can already works with 16 colours and is the inofficial adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit to real Amigas (video). After five years, the distribution was updated and now version 9.1 is available. The changes are listed in the changelog.
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03.Nov.2022
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Developer tool: GNU Make will drop support for AmigaOS (Update)
GNU Make is the implementation of the in the Unix world often used program make for the operating system GNU. It automatically builds executable programs and libraries from source code by reading files called Makefiles which specify how to derive the target program. (Wikipedia).
As OSNews now reports, support for OS/2 (EMX), Xenix, Cray and also AmigaOS will be removed in GNU Make starting with the upcoming version.
Update: (03.11.2022, 19:30, dr)
Obviously triggered by our article, discussions have developed especially in various Discord servers which have led to some "protest mails". The maintainer of GNU Make, Paul Smith, responded to one of the mails and asked to stop writing mails:
"While it's good that AmigaOS as an operating system is still under
active development, what I care about is whether anyone is maintaining *GNU make* on AmigaOS. I have not received a single patch for an AmigaOS problem with GNU make since 1996. I haven't received a single response from anyone on AmigaOS to any request for anyone to test a release candidate, or a new release, in I don't know how many releases....But if AmigaOS is not updating to newer versions of GNU make, then I don't want to maintain the (not insignificant amount of) special-case code currently existing to (not really) support it, in future releases. Fundamentally, for non-traditional operating systems it's not enough to just ask for it to be maintained. Someone has to volunteer to actively participate in the maintenance effort."
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03.Nov.2022
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Programming assistance: "AB_Template II" V0.58 offers templates for AmiBlitz 3
In contrast to "AB_Template" which is meant to support the development of games, "AB_Template II" is meant to help developing applications with AmiBlitz3. Here Sami Vehmaa published now the first version 0.58.
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03.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Video about history and usage of AmigaOne X1000 (Update)
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has published an extensive video about the AmigaOne X1000, which was officially announced by A-EON at the beginning of 2010. Kargin informs - with English subtitles and background music - about the history of the board, the installation in an unusual case, the installation of AmigaOS 4.1 and much more.
Update: (10.11.2022, 15:00, cg)
After the video had to be taken offline due to a copyright complaint, Kargin now provides an updated version with the disputed parts replaced with new footage.
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03.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Tutorial on installation of 3D graphics driver
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has published a detailed tutorial on Amigans.net in which he describes the correct installation of Warp3DNova, NovaBridge, MiniGL, Ogles2, and WarpOS-Emu so that everything that has to do with 3D runs best with RadeonHD or RadeonRX graphics cards. Eventually, you should be able to run games, applications and demos written for WarpOS or 68k.
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03.Nov.2022
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DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 5)
'Drygol' is a member of the demoscene group Lamers and basically deals with retro computers in the form of restorations, upgrades etc. On his site Retrohax.net he not only offers various retro articles, but also runs a blog. Among other things he describes there his project 'Tesseract', the building of an Amiga 2000 from scratch with all maximum modifications. His project is based on the GitHub project of 'Floppie209', a replica of the Amiga2000 motherboard with Sprint layout. After the first four reports (1, 2, 3, 4) he published the fifth blog post of the series yesterday which amongst others is about adding a DVD drive.
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03.Nov.2022
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Programming contest: AmiGameJam 2022 launched
After the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, which just ended with numerous entries, the next contest for game programmers is already starting: At this year's edition of the "AmiGameJam" the motto is "Sword and Sorcery". Those who want to participate must submit a newly developed game with this theme to the organizers by April 30 at the latest.
The participants will again be divided into the two categories "OCS/AGA" and "AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS", voting will again be done by both the community and a group of official judges. The jurors and prizes will be announced as soon as last details are clarified.
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03.Nov.2022
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Tutorial: Wake on LAN Client under AmigaOS 3
Matthias Münch describes in a short tutorial how an Amiga can "wake up" other devices in the network from wait mode with the help of the Wake on LAN client hpwake.
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03.Nov.2022
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Playable previews: 'My Life Sucks' and 'My First Shooting Game'
Two more games developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam are not yet finished, but the developers already provide playable pre-release versions. To what extent the titles will be developed further is currently unclear.
My Life Sucks (video) was supposed to be a dungeon crawler in the style of Dungeon Master, with the difference that the player controls an autonomous vacuum cleaner whose AI has taken on a life of its own. The game is described by the developer as a "tech demo", as it was not finished in time for the contest deadline. They say it is solvable, but still has plenty of bugs. Main reason for the release them the disclosure of the source code for interested Blitz-Basic programmers.
My First Shooting Game is an "experimental project" according to the author - the vertical shooter is his first Amiga and Blitz Basic project. The game currently runs only on NTSC computers and must be controlled with the keyboard. It is distributed as source code, which has to be compiled by the user himself with Blitz Basic.
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03.Nov.2022
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Flip-Screen-Shooter: Shuriken
Phil Grenways 'Shuriken' (video) is a Berzerk-inspired flip-screen shooter with a ninja theme. The title was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, the Blitz Basic source code can be found on bitbucket.org.
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[News message: 03. Nov. 2022, 00:33] [Comments: 0]
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03.Nov.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Simulated pub crawl: Weegie Nights
In 'Weegie Nights' (video) you have to wander through Glasgow by night and maintain the right alcohol level, in addition the consumption of food and alcoholic beverages as well as various "sources of income" want to be well organized. The title was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam and requires an Amiga with 2 Megabyte Chip RAM and a 68020 processor.
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03.Nov.2022
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Arcade clone: Megafrog
'Megafrog' (video) is a variant of the arcade classic Frogger, in which the playing field is significantly larger than the current screen section. The frog here can mutate into the titular Megafrog by eating a certain amount of dragonflies, which can then also attack cars. The gAME was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam and requires an Amiga whose processor is clocked with at least 14 Mhz.
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[News message: 03. Nov. 2022, 00:27] [Comments: 0]
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02.Nov.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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SimCity for animals: Microtopia
'Microtopia' (video) is described by the developer as a "prototype of a city-building simulation", in which a city for crows, beavers and moths is to be built on randomly generated maps. Numerous features that are still missing are to be added in later versions. The title was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam and requires an Amiga with one megabyte of RAM. The game also runs on a 68000 processor, but here it occasionally runs a bit halting.
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[News message: 02. Nov. 2022, 23:40] [Comments: 0]
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02.Nov.2022
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
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[News message: 02. Nov. 2022, 22:59] [Comments: 0]
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02.Nov.2022
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Top-Down-Racer: Zebra 3
'Zebra 3' (video) is a top-down racer with four different courses. The title was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, Kickstart 2 and a "fast Amiga" are given as minimum requirements.
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[News message: 02. Nov. 2022, 22:36] [Comments: 0]
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02.Nov.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Playable preview: Capacitor's Revenge
In the shooter 'Capacitor's Revenge' (video) you have to defend the Amiga's m68k processor against attacking capacitors (amiga-news.de reported). The title is being developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, the author now provides a first playable preview version.
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[News message: 02. Nov. 2022, 22:31] [Comments: 0]
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02.Nov.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Platformer: Daredevil Dennis Remix
'Daredevil Dennis Remix' (video) is a conversion of the 8-bit title Daredevil Dennis for the Amiga, developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. The game features 25 with increasing difficulty.
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[News message: 02. Nov. 2022, 22:24] [Comments: 0]
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02.Nov.2022
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Vertical Scrolling Shoot'em Up: ACE Battle Over The Sea
The vertically scrolling shooter 'ACE Battle Over The Sea' (video) was developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. The title, inspired by classics like 1942, offers four missions and runs on any Amiga with at least one megabyte of Chip RAM. The download is free, but if you wish you can give the author a small obolus during the download.
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02.Nov.2022
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Arena shooter: Blower
'Blower' (video) - developed for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam - is an arena shooter in which up to four human players use firearms and flamethrowers to get at each other. Computer-controlled "bots" are also available for training purposes, but the developer says they are "pretty dumb".
'Blower' runs on all Amigas with at least one megabyte of Chip RAM, it supports a parallel port adapter for connecting two additional joysticks and offers seven different levels, various bonus items. The download is free, but if you wish you can pay the author a small fee.
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[News message: 02. Nov. 2022, 22:06] [Comments: 0]
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02.Nov.2022
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MorphOS 3.17: openssl3.library November Hotfix
The MorphOS developer team has announced: "New vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Two discovered issues, namely CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.
A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can download the following replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17. To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot."
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[News message: 02. Nov. 2022, 06:39] [Comments: 0]
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01.Nov.2022
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.5 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 5.5 and is now based on the latest OpenSSL 3.0.7, which was also released today. This fixes a security problem that has existed since OpenSSL 3.0.0 and is now classified as high: a buffer overflow could be triggered when checking X.509 certificates. Thus, all users who have installed a version 5 of AmiSSL (based on OpenSSL 3) are recommended to update. The changes:
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01.Nov.2022
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Point'n Click adventure: NEONnoir
The Point'n Click adventure 'NEONnoir' (Video) was developed with AmiBlitz for the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam. As a down-and-out private eye, the player has to track down a drug addicted daughter from a wealthy family.
'NEONnoir' requires at least an Amiga 1200 with a harddisk. The game can be downloaded for free, but users can name their own price before downloading. A walkthrough is offered on the official website and the game's BASIC sourcecode is available as well: Either as a LhA download from the official website, or in the author's Github repository.
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[News message: 01. Nov. 2022, 18:56] [Comments: 0]
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01.Nov.2022
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Turn based strategy: playable preview for "Settle the World" (update)
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released a first playable preview of his turn-based building and trading game 'Settle the World' - refer to our extensive preview for more information. The author points out that this is an early development version and many gameplay elements are not implemented yet: For example, the happiness of your citizen currently has no effect at all on game progress.
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[News message: 01. Nov. 2022, 16:21] [Comments: 0]
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01.Nov.2022
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Games for RTG systems: Sky Tower, Last Space Raider, Dungeon Escape, Börd
Sami Vehmaa has written several Arcade games for Amiga systems that have a graphics card installed:
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[News message: 01. Nov. 2022, 15:31] [Comments: 0]
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01.Nov.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000, part 3
In the third part of his documentation about the restoration of an Amiga 1000 (amiga-news.de reported), Richard "Shred" Körber explains how he replaced the floppy drive with a Centuriontech "GOEX on pills" floppy simulator.
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[News message: 01. Nov. 2022, 08:54] [Comments: 0]
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01.Nov.2022
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Password manager PastePass 1.9
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's PastePass is a password manager for MorphOS.
Version 1.9 is a complete reimplementation using the cryptostorage.library. The code has been reworked, many security checks added, and the entire GUI and program flow streamlined. The author's initial tests went well, but he requests further testing and explicitly marks this release as a pre-release. The changes in detail:
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[News message: 01. Nov. 2022, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
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01.Nov.2022
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Linux tutorial: Using the Fienix distribution on the X5000, part 2
In the first part of the instructions for using the Linux distribution "Fienix" on the X5000, Amiga-News.de editor Daniel Reimann reported how to prepare a USB stick under Windows for this purpose. Here now the continuation:
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[News message: 01. Nov. 2022, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
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01.Nov.2022
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Platformer: Ami-Tower
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' (farm simulation "Farmiga") has ported Icy Tower in Blitz Basic 2 to the Amiga. The game principle is to let the main character climb a tower by jumping to different heights.
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[News message: 01. Nov. 2022, 05:47] [Comments: 0]
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31.Oct.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.5
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Three days ago, version 1.6.4 was released and today version 1.6.5. Changes:
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[News message: 31. Oct. 2022, 06:20] [Comments: 0]
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31.Oct.2022
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Doom clone: "Dread" becomes "Grind"
The developer and demoscene member Krzysztof Kluczek had worked on the Doom clone "Dread" in his spare time and so far regularly published videos documenting the progress of his work (amiga-news.de reported). As he now reports in a Patreon post, he hands over the project to John 'Tsak' Tsakiris, who will continue it under the new name "Grind" (introduction on the new Patreon page). Kluczek will continue to work on "Dread" alone, as long as his new commitments allow him to do so: as non-commercial project.
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[News message: 31. Oct. 2022, 06:07] [Comments: 0]
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31.Oct.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.8.2 for Raspberry Pi 4/400
The update to version 11.8.2 (changelog) of the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 includes the recently released version 5.4 of the Amiga emulator AmiBerry. In addition, the WHDLoad database and the Linux system has been updated.
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[News message: 31. Oct. 2022, 05:49] [Comments: 0]
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31.Oct.2022
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CPU and RAM monitor: NewMeter 1.332
Thomas Rapp's "NewMeter" is a monitor showing on the Workbench screen the utilization of CPU, RAM and several partitions with a bar chart. The program is configured using tooltypes, (amiga-news.de reported).
In the latest version 1.332 configurable custom gauges have been added, whose values are read from env variables. This allows now to display the values of AmigaKit's Real Time Clock und Sensors Module. Also support for i2cs sensors has been added.
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[News message: 31. Oct. 2022, 05:42] [Comments: 0]
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30.Oct.2022
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Aminet uploads until 29.10.2022
The following files have been added until 29.10.2022 to Aminet:
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[News message: 30. Oct. 2022, 08:06] [Comments: 0]
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30.Oct.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.10.2022
The following files have been added until 29.10.2022 to OS4Depot:
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30.Oct.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 29.10.2022
The following files have been added until 29.10.2022 to AROS Archives:
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30.Oct.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.10.2022
The following files have been added until 29.10.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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30.Oct.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 29.10.2022
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 29.10.2022:
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[News message: 30. Oct. 2022, 08:06] [Comments: 0]
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30.Oct.2022
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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30.Oct.2022
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MorphOS: U-Boot warning regarding AmigaOne X5000 still valid
Two years ago Mark Olsen, who maintains the official firmware for the distribution of the AmigaOne X5000 by A-EON Technology, had pointed out in great detail that the work of Steven Solie's team on their own U-Boot version could lead to unpredictable problems and thus also to data loss, which is why especially users of operating systems other than AmigaOS 4 are strongly advised not to install newer firmware versions on the X5000 unless they originate from him.
After it was stated again on the occasion of this year's AmiWest that Solie had created his own U-Boot versions for the AmigaOne X5000, among others, which would be distributed "soon", Andreas Wolf inquired at the title link with Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen whether that warning from 2020 would still be valid. This was confirmed.
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[News message: 30. Oct. 2022, 08:06] [Comments: 0]
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30.Oct.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaOS 4: HivelyTracker 1.9
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX format. AHX was developed in the nineties to be able to write music tracks that resemble the typical chip sound of the SID (sound chip of the C64).
In the update released after a good nine and a half years, several improvements were made to the original fidelity, details can be found in the changelog.
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[News message: 30. Oct. 2022, 08:06] [Comments: 0]
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30.Oct.2022
McFly (ANF)
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German Amiga Podcast: Issue 9
The ninth edition of the "German Amiga Podcast" (GAP) reports what moved visitors and exhibitors at the Amiga37 fair in Mönchengladbach.
The episodes of the podcast initiated in January by the former Boingsworld presenter 'McFly' can now be found not only at the title link but also at Apple podcasts.
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[News message: 30. Oct. 2022, 08:06] [Comments: 0]
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30.Oct.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Shoot'em Up: Reshoot Proxima 3 to be released in March
The next version of the Reshoot series by ex-"Amiga Joker" editor Richard Löwenstein, Proxima 3 (amiga-news.de reported), is to be released on March 15, 2023, as APC&TCP informs at the title link. Users who don't want to miss the release date can also register for an e-mail notification.
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[News message: 30. Oct. 2022, 08:06] [Comments: 0]
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30.Oct.2022
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Guest article: Trevor's personal review of the Amiga37
Trevor Dickinson traveled from New Zealand to present A-EON and AAA Technology at Amiga37, which took place two weeks ago. We asked him for his impressions of his stay in Germany and the event, which he has described to us below. Many thanks to Trevor.
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[News message: 30. Oct. 2022, 05:27] [Comments: 2 - 21. Nov. 2022, 05:05]
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29.Oct.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Introduction to Software Development Kit V54.16, part 2 (update)
Tree weeks ago we had published the first part of the introduction to Hyperion Entertainment's recently updated Software Development Kit (SDK) V54.16 written by Josef Wegner. Now the second part:
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2022, 06:59] [Comments: 1 - 29. Oct. 2022, 20:10]
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29.Oct.2022
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Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 tests and driver development for Compute Module 4
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon page. In his latest entry he not only reports about the experiences on the Amiga37, but also announces that due to the still to be developed firmware for the PiStorm32-lite variant he will use the time to make all necessary improvements and corrections to Emu68 and the low-level drivers, which are necessary to make them work properly with Compute Module 4. These are specifically intended for use in proprietary electronic hardware (see heise.de article). If successful, this would give us another variant that could be used in the A500 or A600.
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[News message: 29. Oct. 2022, 05:47] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE for Raspberry Pi 4/400 as Amiga37 edition
As AmiKit had announced in advance (amiga-news.de reported), the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 is now available as a physical product in the Amiga37 Limited Edition: it contains a bootable 64GB microSD card with preinstalled AmiKit (and DevPack) in a branded case (with slots for up to 24 microSD cards).
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[News message: 28. Oct. 2022, 20:27] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2022
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 4.3
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 4.3 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS, which now includes the full WebKit WebInspector. Detailed changes:
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[News message: 28. Oct. 2022, 07:56] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 139 (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 "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior" and "Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun".
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[News message: 28. Oct. 2022, 07:32] [Comments: 0]
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28.Oct.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.3 (update)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today version 1.6.2 has been released. Changes:
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[News message: 28. Oct. 2022, 05:31] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2022
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Feature test in AMOS: Update for mingame None Of Us
The group 'ELECTRIC BLACK SHEEP', known among other things for the fantasy shooter Project Quest, which is currently in development, had released a minigame called "None Of Us" three weeks ago, which is intended to test how to obscure the player's opponents with light and shadow in AMOS Pro (YouTube video).
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2022, 21:08] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2022
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Tech-Demo: Last update for "Street Fighter 2" port
"Street Fighter 2" is the attempt to recreate the well-known beat'm up on the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine in a better way. The author is not going to develop a full game but hopes to inspire other developers. Now he has released a last update. The source code is supposed to be released soon on the Scorpion Engine Unofficial Demos repository. Changes:
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2022, 20:36] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2022
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Report: The AmigaOne XE, second part (Czech)
In the first part, Martina Hřebcová devoted herself to the AmigaOne XE in its entirety and subjected it to various tests. In the now published sequel she deals in detail with the use of various graphics cards and prepares test results and correlations in this very detailed article with elaborate graphics and screenshots.
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2022, 14:42] [Comments: 1 - 27. Oct. 2022, 14:49]
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27.Oct.2022
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Event: Amiga Apollo Meetup in Alkmaar (NL)
On November 19, the "Amiga Apollo Meetup" will take place in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. Hosted by the Dutch Apollo Vampire user group, all other Amiga and AmigaOne systems are also welcome. Social exchange is the main focus, but there is also enough space and tables to bring your own devices. Several Vampire cards will be on display and the current release 9 of ApolloOS will be shown.
The entrance fee of 15 Euros includes the cost of food and drinks, registration is by e-mail to party@amigascene.nl. More information in Dutch can be found at the title link.
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2022, 11:27] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2022
Thomas Wenzel (ANF) (ANF)
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Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.32 released
Thomas Wenzel wrote: After the code has been developed for a long time, I dared to release AmigaAMP 3.32 into the wild. With the 68k version, the use of decoder plugins (so-called "engines") specially adapted to AmigaAMP is possible again. So far, however, there is only one engine for WarpOS. Here is the complete list:
- Bug fixes:
- Loading whole directories now automatically expands playlists found in these directories.
- Fixed wrong behaviour when double clicking on a playlist stream entry while another stream is still in connecting status.
- Fixed handling older visualisation plugins which use an early version of the API.
- New Features:
- Each playlist entry now has its own error status.
- More detailed documentation about AmigaAMP's settings.
- 68k: Support for coprocessor plugins a.k.a. "engines". The .engine files go into the Plugins directory and can be enabled in the Decoder tab of AmigaAMP Preferences.
- 68k: Support for 10-band equalizer settings according to MHI spec v1.2
However, according to initial findings, this new version probably unfortunately triggers a still unknown bug in the ZZ9000AX MHI driver on some systems, so that playback simply never starts but stops at 0 seconds. Prisma Megamix and other MHI drivers do not seem to be affected.
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2022, 10:59] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2022
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Video review: "Apollo Icedrake - The fastest Amiga accelerator ever made?"
In a video, the YouTube channel 'Odd & Obsolete' presents the Apollo Icedrake accelerator card for the Amiga 1200 and describes his experiences and impressions.
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[News message: 27. Oct. 2022, 07:56] [Comments: 0]
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27.Oct.2022
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.149 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to new kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels.
Download: linux-image-5.10.149-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71 MB)
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27.Oct.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: NovaBridge V54 available
As announced at last weekend's AmiWest 2022 (see our summary of the event), Nova Bridge is now available separately via the AMIStore for about 50 Euros (plus taxes and fees).
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26.Oct.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.24.0 Release Candidate 2
At the end of August, Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki had published the first release candidate for version 2.24.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Today he has published the second release candidate with the following changes:
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26.Oct.2022
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Dock: QDock V0.98 released
Sami Vehmaa not only tries to simplify programming in AmiBlitz 3 for others using his programming aid AB_Template, he also develops various applications and games himself like his Tetris clone for RTG-Amiga's Atris or his MP3 player Reel Deck. His latest project: a dock similar to WBDock 2 or AmiDock, which he named QDock and released the first version 0.98 of it today (YouTube video).
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25.Oct.2022
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Programming language: AmiBlitz Pre-Release 3.9.7
A few moments ago, Pre-Release 3.9.7 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been released. Changes:
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25.Oct.2022
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.1.1
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 1.1.1 of the firmware was released today. Changes:
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25.Oct.2022
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Video: Lets Make a Halloween Game in AMOS
In his latest video, Robert Smith explains how to program a fun Halloween themed puzzle game in AMOS.
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25.Oct.2022
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Linux: "Pale Moon" browser V31.2.0
After Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky recently compiled version 40.0 of the Artic Fox browser for Linux PowerPC (32 bit), which is based on the Pale Moon browser (amiga-news.de reported), he could now compile version 31.2.0 of the "Pale Moon" browser for Linux PowerPC (32 bit), which was released in August 2022, and make it available for the AmigaOne Linux distributions MintPPC, Debian Sid, Fienix, and Void. He also recommends installing the Palefill add-on to improve compatibility with many websites such as GitHub.
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25.Oct.2022
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Module player: NostalgicPlayer 1.8.0 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows. Besides numerous improvements, version 1.8.0 now includes a ProWizard agent that can convert numerous formats.
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[News message: 25. Oct. 2022, 05:56] [Comments: 0]
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25.Oct.2022
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Bitmap graphics program: GrafX2 V2.8
Artur Jarosik has updated his port of the DPaint and Brilliance-inspired, SDL-based pixel graphics program GrafX2. This version 2.8 includes the following changes:
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25.Oct.2022
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Action adventure: Demo version of "SNAKY - The Mysterious World" available
Yoz Montana is developing a new action adventure called "SNAKY - The Mysterious World" (YouTube video). As part of an "Early Access" promotion, you can support this and other game developments of the studio by buying the demo version for the equivalent of about five Euros or more. An Amiga with 030 processor and AGA are required.
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24.Oct.2022
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Trading simulation with RPG elements: download version of 'Aquabyss' available
The trading simulation 'Aquabyss' (screenshots, video), which was released at Amiga 37 a week ago, is now also available in the developer's web shop for just under 30 euros . The one-week delay was caused by problems with payment provider Paypal, which have not yet been completely resolved.
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24.Oct.2022
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Print / PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 16
The sixteenth issue of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" is available. The current issue contains the following topics:
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23.Oct.2022
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Amiwest: A-EON, Amigakit and ExecSG presentations
Traditionally, representatives of the AmigaOS 4/AmigaOne camp are attending AmiWest to give presentations about the current state of affairs and announce the next releases being worked on. This year, Trevor Dickinson and Matthew Leaman from A-EON/Amigakit were videoconferencing into the show while Steven Solie from the ExecSG team gave a presentation on site. We have briefly summarized the most important points from both presentations; the associated slides can be found at the end of this news item. A recording of the entire first day of AmiWest - including the presentations discussed here - is already available online.
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23.Oct.2022
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Aminet uploads until 22.10.2022
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23.Oct.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.10.2022
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23.Oct.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.10.2022
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23.Oct.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.10.2022
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23.Oct.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.10.2022
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 22.10.2022:
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23.Oct.2022
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Handheld console: Blaze Entertainment announces Amiga games
Evercade (Wikipedia entry) is an ARM-based handheld console from the British manufacturer Blaze Entertainment. According to Mike Battilana's announcement at Amiga37 (video), also Blaze now announces at the title link that they have entered into an agreement with Amiga Corporation to bring Amiga games from various publishers, which have not yet been named, to the Evercade starting next year.
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23.Oct.2022
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 159 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 159 (November/December 2022) have been published online meanwhile at the title link. Contents include Playfield as well as reviews of "Riamel - Black Prophecy" and the Freeway clockport version.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers.
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23.Oct.2022
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 10
The Italian magazine "Passione Amiga" is available in digital (3 Euro) or printed (7,50 Euro) form. Its current issue consists of 48 A4 color pages and includes the following topics:
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23.Oct.2022
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Updated MHI drivers for MAS-Player (standard/pro)
Thomas Wenzel writes (translated): Some time ago, in the course of the MHI revision, I also fixed a bug in the MAS player driver. At that time, however, I had only published the new driver in the developer archive mhi_dev.lha, which meant that it could hardly be found on Aminet and the old archives mhi_MASPro.lha and mhi_MASStd.lha still appeared in the search. Therefore, I have now uploaded the new drivers - both versions together - in the archive mhimasplayer.lha.
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23.Oct.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP: IncaMan & Emotiworld as boxed version available
APC&TCP offers the games IncaMan and Emotiworld (amiga-news.de reported) now also as boxed version, consisting of the floppy disk, a booklet and an A3 poster.
While IncaMan is about collecting diamonds, EmotiWorld is about collecting hearts. Both games require at least an Amiga 500 with 512 KB Chip- and as much Fast-RAM, the latter one also includes an AGA version.
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23.Oct.2022
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #150 - Floppy Totaal
In the 150th edition of the Scene World Podcast, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Niek Hilkmann and Thomas Walskaar from "Floppy Totaal", the authors of the recently mentioned book "Floppy Disk Fever". The interview starts at minute 19:08.
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22.Oct.2022
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Linux tutorial: Using the Fienix distribution on the X5000, part 1
Amiga-News.de editor Daniel Reimann has taken on the topic of Linux on his AmigaOne X5000 and reports:
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21.Oct.2022
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Programming language: Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Visual Studio Code Ext. 0.8.0
At the end of August we reported on the merging of Youen Chéné's fork of the Visual Studio Code Extension created by 'MickGyver', which adds support for Amiga Blitz Basic 2 (and Amiblitz), and the first joint release of version 0.7.0. Today version 0.8.0 has been released, adding experimental support for CDTV and CD32 and fixing a bug that prevented the file from opening in the BB2 editor.
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21.Oct.2022
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Kung Fu action: "Devil's Temple" released
After numerous preview videos (amiga-news.de reported), Geezer Games has just released "Devil's Temple.
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21.Oct.2022
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Block-oriented copying: Device-Streams 2.2.0
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). In the meantime, versions 2.1.0 and 2.2.0 have been released adding support for Trackdisk 64 and NSD.
Download: device-streams.lha (88 kB)
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20.Oct.2022
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Event: AmiWest 2022 starts / Question submission
AmiWest 2022 starts today at the Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California, as a combined online and on-place event. The highlights should certainly include the question and answer session with Trevor Dickenson, Matthew Leaman and Steven Solie (A-EON). Interviews with David Pleasance, Jens Schönfeld, Hans De Ruiter and Jacek Piszczek are also planned, all of which will take place on Saturday and Sunday respectively (see schedule).
As in previous years, there will be a live stream via Youtube, which will again be hosted by Bill Borsari. He will also conduct the interviews and has invited the readers of Amiga-News.de to submit questions for the interviews in the comments section.
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20.Oct.2022
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Video: Short tutorial for AMOS Pro
In another part of his series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported) the retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explores if it is possible for an AMOS program to open and read from a Text file created in a text editor under Workbench, treating it as a Random Access file.
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19.Oct.2022
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.12.1 (update)
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
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19.Oct.2022
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Temptations port for CD32: First demo version available
The developer 'S0Y' is primarily dedicated to converting games to the Amiga platform using the game construction kit RedPill. After his Abu Simbel Profanation project, he had begun converting the Jump'n Run Temptations, originally published for MSX-1 in 1988. The basis for his conversion is a port for Android, which graphics he uses with the author's permission, but modifies some of them (amiga-news.de reported).
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19.Oct.2022
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Jump'n Run: Minky V1.2
Minky (video) is a Jump'n Run in the style of Super Mario or Giana Sisters, which requires an Amiga 500 with one megabyte RAM (amiga-news.de reported). With the now released update to version 1.2, the sound should be heard on all ACA turbo cards. The author has also removed some code glitches.
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19.Oct.2022
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Fantasy shooter: Third level for "Project - Quest"
A third level for the fantasy shooter "Project - Quest", which is currently in development (amiga-news.de reported), has now been published under the title link (video).
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19.Oct.2022
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Tech-Demo: Update for "Street Fighter 2" port
"Street Fighter 2" is the attempt to recreate the well-known beat'm up on the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine in a better way. The author is not going to develop a full game but hopes to inspire other developers. The update for the playable demo version includes the following changes:
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18.Oct.2022
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Event: Review of Amiga37
Last weekend the Amiga37 took place in Mönchengladbach. We would like to summarize here for our readers what there was to see for news, but also interesting observations at the fair:
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18.Oct.2022
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Developer diary: Inspired by Powermonger, part 2
n the first part of his developer diary Daniel Bratton reported how he started to reprogram the board of the game Powermonger with the intersecting lines (amiga-news.de reported). In the second part he now publishes the complete code for generating the map and the polygon, which is also available on GitHub.
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17.Oct.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood APK Compiler 4.2 released
Press release: Hollywood APK Compiler 4.2 has just been released. This is a minor update which adds support for the latest target API requirement for uploading apps to the Google Play Store. This update is provided free of charge for all existing APK Compiler customers and can be downloaded in the restricted download section.
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17.Oct.2022
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Trading simulation with RPG elements: Aquabyss
The game 'Aquabyss', first announced in 2018 with a teaser video, was released on Amiga 37 last weekend in a pre-release version. The game is a trading simulation in the style of Elite - without 3D sequences, but with various RPG elements. The game is set in a steampunk underwater world at the beginning of the 19th century.
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17.Oct.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 33 of assembler coding course / Racing Cars Game Jam
'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 33 was published.
Furthermore he started the Racing Cars Game Jam. As with the Retro Trex Game Jam (amiga-news.de reported), the idea behind this jam is to expand the knowledge and awareness of retro computers. This time consoles are also allowed. The challenge is to create an identical, cloned or original version of a car racing game. Some examples are listed on the website. At the end of the contest, there will be a live stream showing all the games. The contest will run until December 18, 2022.
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17.Oct.2022
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Magnifier tool: Lupe 2.1 for AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS
At the end of June Matthias "UltraGelb" Böcker released version 2.0 of his magnifier tool for MorphOS and AmigaOS (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released version 2.1, which also supports AmigaOS 4. The changes:
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16.Oct.2022
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Aminet uploads until 15.10.2022
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16.Oct.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.10.2022
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16.Oct.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.10.2022
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16.Oct.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.10.2022
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16.Oct.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.10.2022
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 15.10.2022:
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16.Oct.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Java program: ham_convert 1.8.6
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based ham_convert converts modern graphics files into the Amiga's HAM format. Meanwhile version 1.8.6 has been released, featuring improved multithreading that should work better with big.little configurations.
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15.Oct.2022
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Tool: identify-library 40.2
At the beginning of October Richard Körber published version 40.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). He has just updated to version 40.2 with the following changes:
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15.Oct.2022
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Obligement: Review of game "Wrong Way Driver"
The Obligement news site published a review of the arcade game Wrong Way Driver, which was released in 2021. The original is in French, but machine translations are provided.
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15.Oct.2022
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Scorpion Engine: Introduction of the new positioning feature
In a recent video, Erik Hogan, developer of the Scorpion Engine, introduces a new, innovative feature of the Scorpion Engine that allows exact X/Y positioning of actors in the map as well as overriding actor variables, events and control ports.
The feature will be included in the upcoming stable version 2022.8 and is already available in the experimental branch of the Scorpion Engine.
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14.Oct.2022
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Developer diary: Inspired by Powermonger, part 1
Developer Daniel Bratton had been "fascinated with what appeared to be a living breathing world – and that world looked like a gaming tabletop", ever since the game Powermonger came out in 1990. Since then, he said, he's always wondered how that was programmed. That eventually motivated him to learn how to program the Amiga so he could recreate it.
In the first part of his developer diary, Daniel Bratton now reports on how he reprogrammed the game board with the intersecting lines - with the help of the Visual Studio Code Extension, which he will discuss in more detail in later entries.
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