16.Aug.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000
The Amiga 1000 is extremely popular right now: After Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports about the restoration, now Richard "Shred" Körber describes in two blog entries (part 1, part 2) his experiences which he made during the refurbishment of the Amiga 1000.
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16.Aug.2022
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Preview video 28: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported).
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16.Aug.2022
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R62 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
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15.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Update on "Amiga C Tutorial"
Peter John "pjhutch" Hutchison's English-language "Amiga C Tutorial" is supposed to help C newcomers to program under AmigaOS with the help of many code examples (amiga-news.de reported). Even though it has existed for more than ten years, the author still improves it selectively and corrects errors. As he told us, this is what happened in the Screens chapter: A wrong pointer was used to close screens.
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15.Aug.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: The World of Amiga Tracker Music
In his latest video, Robert Smith goes back in time to the 1980s to explore the origins of Amiga Music: the Tracker, and The MOD file.
He looks at how these mod files are put together, how a Protracker module works, and why the files are so small even though they contain such long pieces of music.
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14.Aug.2022
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Image processing: RNOEffects 1.4 for all Amiga systems
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated RNOEffects from his family of RNO applications. RNOEffects is a simple image processing program with a focus on good batch conversion options and alpha channel based effects (YouTube video). It was available in previous versions for MorphOS, OS4 and AROS, and the new version now also supports 68k and WarpOS configurations. The changes:
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14.Aug.2022
Stefan Reinauer
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ReA4091: Video and pre-order for the reconstruction of the Fast SCSI2 controller
During the Vintage Computer Festival East, which took place from April 22 to 24 at the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township in the USA (see also the video talk of former Commodore employees), Stefan Reinauer gave a talk about the project of rebuilding the Fast SCSI2 controller A4091, which he and Chris Hooper successfully accomplished. The project, christened "ReA4091", lasted four months and was accomplished with the help of an original copy purchased at an eBay auction.
The YouTube video, which has been available since the end of April and was recorded by Robert Bernardo, has been edited again by him and now has a much better sound quality (see title link).
As Stefan Reinauer explained to amiga-news.de, they are "still busy building cards and debugging". In parallel, the open source driver is being written, which will replace the original ROM. Currently, 30 cards are being built. On the corresponding project page you can not only find more information, but you can also express your interest in building a card. The price is about 225 Euro (without shipping).
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14.Aug.2022
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Aminet uploads until 13.08.2022
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14.Aug.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.08.2022
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14.Aug.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 13.08.2022
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14.Aug.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.08.2022
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14.Aug.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.08.2022
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 13.08.2022:
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14.Aug.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Plananarama 2.0 manual available in German
Helmut Haake and Dominic Widmer have translated the manual of the Plananarama plugin into German. It is available for download at the title link.
Plananarama is a plugin for Hollywood which allows to use Hollywood even on systems without a graphics card (OCS, ECS, AGA). 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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13.Aug.2022
Ko-fi
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AmigaOS 4: Platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" V1.22r1
The very busy AmigaOS 4 developer George 'walkero' Sokianos - among others aiostreams, Flawfinder, Lite XL or iGame - has ported the commercial platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" to AmigaOS 4 in the latest version of December 2019.
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13.Aug.2022
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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 5
As standard C librar, AmigaOS officially uses a variant of the Newlib C standard library implementation.
A popular alternative C standard library implementation is called clib2 and it is included as an option with the standard Amiga SDK. The clib2 library is particular well suited for porting software from the Unix world (taken from AmigaOS-Wiki).
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers. All warnings (except for a very few) generated by GCC 10 and higher have disappeared. As the developer further writes, all obsolete OS4 functions have been replaced by modern ones (except for StackSwap, for which he has not found a replacement).
Yesterday he released the fifth beta version with the following changes:
- Implemented open() and opendir() and now it is possible to open a directory like open("T:") and use some functions on the returned fd
- Changed some socket functions that now use open source code
- Implemented new funcions
- Fixed a memory leak on fstat
- Removed test on check_abort_enabled prior call since it is already checked in the function
- Moved rand* functions to prng folder
- Implemented syslog (using files)
- A lot of other fixes an improvements
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13.Aug.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1
After five beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), developer Dirk Hoffmann has just released the official version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for macOS, thus ending the beta phase. The minimum system requirement for his emulator is macOS 10.15.
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13.Aug.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 14
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding 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 reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Episode 14 is now available.
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13.Aug.2022
Alain Fontanin
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Anniversary advertising: 30 years of Cristaline mineral water with Amiga
The French mineral water brand "Cristaline" is celebrating its 30th birthday (history in French) and to mark the occasion has published a picture on its Facebook page showing a young girl playing with a Gameboy and an Amiga in the background.
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13.Aug.2022
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Linux: Update of Open Sonic
Yesterday, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has released a new version of Open Sonic for Linux PowerPC (32-bit) and thus for AmigaOne X1000/X5000. The updated version provides bug fixed graphics and sounds.
alsa-oss and allegro4.4 required. For the installation, Christian listed the commands:
Void PPC
- sudo xbps-install -S alsa-oss
- sudo xbps-install -S allegro4
Debian (MintPPC)
- apt install alsa-oss
- apt install liballegro4.4
It also works on old Linux distributions like Ubuntu 10.04 PowerPC.
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12.Aug.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Shader player Shaderjoy 1.23
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 1.86 are required. Today Juha "Capehill" Niemimaki has released version 1.23. Changes:
- Start using stb_image_write.h to save PNG screenshot.
- Add LOAD_PROJECT and SAVE_SCREENSHOT ARexx commands.
- Make About window asynchronous.
- Add BORDERLESS tooltype.
- Remove support for ogles2.library versions older than 3.0
- Disable vertical flipping of FBOs when ogles2.library version is greater than 3.1.
- Remove workarounds for older library versions.
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12.Aug.2022
Amiga.org (forum)
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AmigaKit: ZuluSCSI Mini
ZuluSCSI is a file-based hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator (amiga-news.de reported). Besides the original, AmigaKit now also offers a "mini" variant, which can be plugged directly into devices with a DB25 SCSI connector.
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12.Aug.2022
Twitter
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Preview video: Jump'n Run "L'Abbaye des Morts"
The developer 'UltraNarwhal', among others Duckstroma, has released a current snapshot of its extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead", which is currently in development (amiga-news.de reported). Like Duckstroma, the Jump'n Run is developed with the Scorpion Engine.
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12.Aug.2022
AmigaLove-Forum
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Operating system: NetBSD 9.3
Version 9.3 of the free and open-source Unix-like operating system NetBSD has been released. Ports are also available for PPC (experimental) and 68k Amiga computers. For the 68k port, wsfb(4) based X11 using amidisplaycc(4) was enabled (global changes).
The project page for 68k Amigas also lists the requirements:
- Amiga wit 68020 processor or higher with MMU
- at least 24 MB FastRAM
- at least 250 MB harddrive space
Further information on the PPC port.
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11.Aug.2022
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Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: Introduction of the game "Settle the World"
At the beginning of June, indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen had started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, which is running - deadline was extended - until November 1, 2022 (amiga-news.de reported).
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10.Aug.2022
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ACube Systems: Production of Sam460LE boards finished by the end of September
In March, ACube Systems has anounced the begin of the production of the Sam460LE boards in a press release (amiga-news.de reported).
Today the company has announced, that by the end of the September the boards are supposed to be finished. Please read the original press release:
"Dear customers,
We would like to share with you an update about the production of the new Sam460LE. Well, to be short...the boards are expected to be ready by the end of September - yes, THIS September, just in time for AMIGA37 event (HINT: ACube will be present in Mönchengladbach, Germany...so connect the dots...).
We had to overcome many issues that slowed down the production, but now - finger crossed - we managed to fix them all.
Everything is progressing well and the factory will ship the boards at the end of September. We plan to start shipping to our customers shortly after.
Thanks again everyone for your patience and interest.
See you at Amiga37 in Germany!"
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09.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.0
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 1.5.0 has been released providing the following changes:
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09.Aug.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Enhancer Software 2.2
Six years after the release of the first version of the "Enhancer Software" (amiga-news.de reported) version 2.2 for AmigaOS 4.1 by A-EON Technology has been released today. Existing customers of version 2.x can get it for free via the updater tool. For first-time customers, the digital version is available from AmiStore for about 90 Euro and on CD from AmigaKit, among others, for also 90 Euros plus shipping.
The "Enhancer Software" adds and partially replaces system components in AmigaOS 4.1 to provide more functionality: from basic 2D graphics drivers to a modern 3D graphics subsystem, more advanced utilities, tools, classes and gadgets.
In parallel with the current version 2.2, work has also already begun on the next version, V54, which will represent an even greater leap forward in development. Several components developed for it are already included in the present version 2.2. First and foremost is "Warp3D Nova V54". This upgrade reflects more than a year's worth of development work and provides important new features, speed improvements and bug fixes. It is an essential prerequisite for many new 3D game ports with full shader support, such as Doom3 (amiga-news.de reported). Also support for the soon to be released NovaBridge software has been added, which can be used to run old Warp3D games (amiga-news.de reported). This release will be chargeable.
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The OpenGL ES library has been updated to version 3.3 and contains many rewritten and optimized parts which are also required for new 3D applications like SCUMMVM, SDL2 and GL4ES.
The RadeonRX 2D graphics driver has been updated to include GART- support, which provides additional 3D performance as well as many additional optimizations.
In addition, numerous programs, datatypes, classes, preferences, commodities and commands have been updated. In the past time the sense or nonsense of new versions for commands or classes was discussed and partly ignored by the users. As Matthew Leaman from A-EON explains to us, there is a basic distinction to be made:
"The classes are mandatory to install and are crucial for running the applications like X-Dock, MultiEdit, Multiviewer, Power Prefs, etc. They are extended versions of the AmigaOS 4.1 classes. For example, the Tabbed Gadget class supports draggable tabs, while Hyperion's Clicktab does not. The Toolbar Gadget class has many advanced features that the old Speedbar Gadget does not." Since there is no reliance on Hyperion's classes being updated and released regularly, "we developed our own gadget classes. We want to be able to develop our applications independently with the building blocks (classes) that give users the most functionality."
The commands included in AmigaOS 4 are from Commodore source code that is part of the third-party legal dispute. The next version of Enhancer Software V54 will be a self-booting distribution. It will require a set of native commands to achieve self-boot. As Matthew continues, "we have spent the last 3 years developing these commands from scratch. When we intiially released them, some bugs were found and we have since rapidly resolved every bug report that users have given us. We have got to a point now where these commands are mature and work well - with the added bonus of not being tainted by legal issues."
An added advantage, he continued saying, is "that the same command code base is now running for Classic Amiga's. The commands work very well with even Kickstart 3.0. They also offer many advanced features over the standard commands. So we have achieved development Commands set for both PPC and Classic which share the same code base and provide up to date features."
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09.Aug.2022
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Aminet uploads until 06.08.2022
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09.Aug.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 06.08.2022
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09.Aug.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 06.08.2022
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09.Aug.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 06.08.2022
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09.Aug.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.08.2022
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09.Aug.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Virus Help Team: Amiga Virus Encyclopedia updated
Last week Virus Help Team made a major update of the Amiga Virus Encyclopedia.
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09.Aug.2022
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 6 of 'WhatIFF?' published
WhatIFF? is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is mainly intended for users who want to be creative with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported).
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09.Aug.2022
itch.io
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Jump'n Run: Duckstroma V1.01 released
The Amiga version of Duckstroma was released at the end of June. Here, as duck Aura, you have the task of delivering eight floppy disks to a customer. To fend off all kinds of hostile enemies, you can jump on weak opponents and lay an egg to reach higher places (YouTube video).
Version 1.01, which is now available, fixes a few bugs and also provides a manual. The game requires 1MB RAM and can be purchased for about 3 Euros (or more).
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08.Aug.2022
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Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.1 beta5
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga.
In the current version the developer 'mithrendal' has integrated the latest vAmigaCore2.1b5. Likewise, it is now possible to load the old Snapshots game saves with a new vAmigaCore version. This has been solved by the fact that vAmigaWeb can now hold several versions of the vAmigaCore in parallel. Via the settings you can now reactivate vAmigaCore versions already installed in the past and continue playing the saved games. Detailed changes:
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08.Aug.2022
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R61 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
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07.Aug.2022
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Two new OmniPort multiport adapters for Amiga 1200
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to offer two new versions of the OmniPort multiport adapter for the Amiga 1200 (amiga-news.de reported).
On the one hand, it is a version for the Vampire 2 accelerator and
on the other hand, one for the ScanPlus Scandoubler or for the BVision
graphics card.
The multiport adapters route all available interfaces of the mentioned
hardware cleanly out via the expansion port of the Amiga 1200.
Vampire 2 Version
With this version, the HDMI and the network port of the Vampire 2
to the outside. The required network module is already installed on the
OmniPort available. In addition, two USB ports can be connected to the
outside if a USB card is available.
ScanPlus/BVision Version
With this version, the VGA port of the ScanPlus/BVision is connected to the
outside In addition, two USB ports can be led to the outside if a USB card
is present.
Matching cables are partly standard and partly optional
present.
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07.Aug.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Update of ignition-OpenDocument plugin
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. In version 0.36 the handling of text attributes was bug fixed.
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07.Aug.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.84
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import.
In version 1.84, UTF characters are now converted to Amiga characters, for example umlauts. And CSV entries can also be categorized without purpose.
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07.Aug.2022
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Evoke demo party: Demo "Talking Heads" by Spreadpoint
This weekend the demo party 'Evoke' is taking place in Cologne (amiga-news.de reported). The demo group 'Spreadpoint' has now published their 'Talking Heads' 64kB intro contest entry for 'Alternative Platforms' on YouTube.
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07.Aug.2022
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Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam: Introduction of two entries
At the beginning of June, indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen had started the Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam, which will run until September 1, 2022 (amiga-news.de reported).
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06.Aug.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 30 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 30 was published.
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06.Aug.2022
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Farming simulation: Fourth beta version of Farmiga released (update)
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). A few moments ago, the fourth beta version (06.08.2022) was released. Changes:
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06.Aug.2022
MorphZone
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MorphOS: TinyGL update V2202-08-05
MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen has 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 financed (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released a first update of TinyGL which provides the following changes:
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05.Aug.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2000, part 2
At the end of July, Epsilon reported in his blog 'Epsilon's World' on the restoration of his Amiga 2000. Today he has published part two, describing the installation of the 'Picasso IV' graphics card, a real-time clock and of Picasso 96.
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05.Aug.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: M.A.C.E. Tower Defense
Entwickler X have released another game of this genre with "M.A.C.E. Tower Defense". Your mission this time is to defend your home planet against alien invaders as the "Military Alliance of Common Earth".
According to the archive name, Warp3D Nova is required, further details about the system requirements under AmigaOS 4 are not given. For Windows, a 2 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM are mentioned.
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05.Aug.2022
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXXI in Kiel (Germany) on 20.08.2022
On Saturday, August 20, 2022, retro-computing event "Interface" will take place again in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany, organized by Vintage Computer Club, Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein and Computer-Club Klausdorf. Registration by e-mail is recommended.
Details can be found in our german news-item.
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04.Aug.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Kernel 5.19 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Right after the release of the finalen Linux Kernel 5.19, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 and offered it for download in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum where also a screenshot is available.
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03.Aug.2022
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.7 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young has released version 1.7 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 it has also been tested under AmigaOS 4), because it uses a new window.class, so it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes:
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03.Aug.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Backbone game: Operacion Fallida
With "Operacion Fallida" José 'Jojo073' Gonzáles has published another game. As always, it was created using Backbone, which is at the expense of speed.
In the two levels of the current title, you have to fight your way as a soldier through a World War II bunker in which, until recently, dangerous alien technology was being researched.
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03.Aug.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Adventure interpreter ScummVM 2.6.0 (Update)
The adventure interpreter ScummVM supports nine additional games in version 2.6. Further changes include various bug fixes and a new graphical overview of the games in the launcher.
Update: (19:50, 03.08.22, snx)
Meanwhile also the MorphOS version is available at the ScummVM website.
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03.Aug.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Video: Downfall Amiga, after Commodore
With "Downfall Amiga, after Commodore" Ravi Abbott, who also writes for Amiga Addict, has created a documentary that deals with the decline of the Amiga. The video starts with the Amiga CD³² and then turns to the events around Escom and Gateway.
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02.Aug.2022
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How I rediscovered my floppy disks
What is, among many other nice things, the advantage of having a baby? You get to know your surroundings completely new! In our bookshelf in the living room, IKEA of course ;), there are two separate compartments on the bottom floor: one is filled with magazines, hiking maps and travel books, the other with my two Amiga floppy disk boxes and quite a few boxes.
Currently, my offspring has developed two preferences: to completely clear out both shelves :) He has a favorite with the hiking maps, which are unfolded with pleasure and meanwhile don't consist of only one piece, as well as with the floppy disk boxes. There are two of them: the Verbatim "Deluxe" version, which offers a small plastic cover for each disk (like boeder) and the Profex. Here is my complete collection:
Now I don't know if it's sacrilege to keep floppy disks not in professional plastic boxes and slipcases, but just in the original cardboard boxes, but it was the start for me to dig back into old memories.
Relatively vividly and well I can remember the various rummage boxes and walls in the local electronics store, in which the disks of various suppliers were presented. And every time the question: do I take the cheap no-name parts or do I treat myself to a box of the brand suppliers - as you can see from the colorful mixture, I then gladly reached for boeder & Co and treated myself to variety. Even in the 90s one was already on sustainability, see KAO. And the no-name boxes were semi-professionally glued together and thus used as a kind of big box.
Even if one or the other may not believe it, but a considerable part of the floppy disks was equipped with software from the Aminet. Of course, I ran a modem on my Amiga 1200! First a 28.8k modem, which drove me crazy, because I never managed to get a noise-free dial-up, and later finally a 56k modem. At that time, in the middle of the 90s, I was studying and where could I get fast and free - yes, at that time dial-up at home still cost something ;) - download software from the Aminet? Of course, in the computer cabinet there. It felt like there was a new version of Voyager and Co every week and you could hardly keep up...
Are floppy disks now just an outdated greeting from times long past? I have to admit, it's been a while since I put the last floppy disk into the 1200 (but that also has to do with the current "computer offspring"). On the one hand, of course, they consume a lot of space. For the little bit that's on there...On the other hand, it's very pleasant to have an antithesis to this "WLAN/streaming/'file-shuffling' world. And even if it might seem contradictory regarding the 'wild copy times' on the Amiga: doesn't such a disk better symbolize the efforts and value behind the development of the software? In any case my curiosity is aroused and I will rummage around in the boxes...
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01.Aug.2022
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.2
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
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01.Aug.2022
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Video: Data exchange between Amiga and Electronic Organizer
The video channel AmigaLove shows in its latest video how the data exchange between an Electronic Organizer, in this case a Sharp Wizard OZ-8600, and an Amiga succeeds. More information about the background can be found in the corresponding article.
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01.Aug.2022
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Jump'n Run: Demo version of NinjFeratu
The busy developers of Amiten Games - among others 'EmotiWorld' and 'CyberPunk Alien City' (amiga-news.de reported) - are in the process of writing another Jump'n Run for Amigas called 'NinjFeratu' using their 'AmiGen' game engine (YouTube video). A demo version is now available, in which you can play the first three levels. As a vampire hunter you try to avenge the loss of your family. The game should run on all ECS-Amigas with 1MB chip ram. An Amiga 1200 is recommended, but not mandatory.
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01.Aug.2022
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R58 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
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01.Aug.2022
Puni - Gaming on AmigaOS 4 admin (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of July
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of hardware and software for AmigaOS 4 in the month of Jul.
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01.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.4.9 (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). Yesterday version 1.4.6 and 1.4.7 have been released providing the following changes:
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31.Jul.2022
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Video talk: Former Commodore employees recall
During the Vintage Computer Festival East, held April 22-24 at the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township in the U.S., organizers were able to gather twelve former Commodore employees in a joint panel discussion, including former Amiga developer Dave Haynie. Also present: Andy Finkel, Al Charpentier, Benny Pruden, Bil Herd, Bob Russell, Cary Sagedy, Dave Esposito, Hedley Davis, Joe Myshko, Neil Harris, Von Ertwine.
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31.Jul.2022
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AROS-Distribution: AROS One 1.8 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One" based on the AROS binary branch ABI v0 is now available in version 1.7 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image under the title link, where also videos can be found.
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31.Jul.2022
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Aminet uploads until 30.07.2022
The following files have been added until 30.07.2022 to Aminet:
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31.Jul.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.07.2022
The following files have been added until 30.07.2022 to OS4Depot:
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31.Jul.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.07.2022
The following files have been added until 30.07.2022 to AROS Archives:
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31.Jul.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.07.2022
The following files have been added until 30.07.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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31.Jul.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.07.2022
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 30.07.2022:
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31.Jul.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Videos of the Warp 4060 turbo card prototype
Among the latest additions Greg Donner has made to his website are photos and videos taken by a visitor to CS-Lab, including two videos of the prototype of the delayed Warp 4060 turbo card.
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31.Jul.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Programming Language: Amiga Assembler Plugin 1.7.0 for Visual Studio
Paul Raingeard has provided another update of his plugin for Amiga assembler programming under Visual Studio at the title link. A webview panel for setting the BLTCON0/BLTCON1 register has been added.
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31.Jul.2022
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AmiTube 1.3: YouTube client for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. They are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded.
As the developer wrote on his website, " I tried to implement that AmiTube remembers the splitter position. Sadly I made a big error there resulting in a very small barely recognizable List on the left side of the window. I only tested it on m68k-Amiga where it did not happen, but after a bit of trying I found the culprit and fixed it."
The current version can be downloaded from the AmiTube website or installed via the update check in AmiTube.
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30.Jul.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.12
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 which he recently updated.
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30.Jul.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 13
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding 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 reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Episode 13 is now available.
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30.Jul.2022
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Pong Jam: Space Pong and Pong50 (update)
Retro Programmers Inside (RPI) (Facebook link) is a group of retro programmers and has organized a Pong Jam on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Atari's video game classic Pong. This also resulted in two new conversions for the Amiga: Mauro Antonio Radice has set his Space Pong in outer space, Giuseppe Mignognas calls his conversion Pong50.
Update: (31.07.2022, 07:03, dr)
Regarding the 'Pong Jam' the article was rewritten and the Pong50 implementation added.
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30.Jul.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Arcade game KOG updated
As already reported in the article on Blastaway, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has updated several games in parallel and thus his arcade game KOG as well (video). Changes:
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30.Jul.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Update of arena shooter 'Blastaway'
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's 'Blastaway' (video) is an arena shooter with 50 levels in five different worlds. The game principle is inspired by Wizard of Wor, the graphics by The Chaos Engine (amiga-news.de reported).
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30.Jul.2022
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Video: Upgrading an Amiga 600
In her latest video, musician and retro lover 'Ms Mad Lemon' upgrades her Amiga 600 with 1MB Chip RAM, an IDE/SD card adapter including SD card and a Furia accelerator card.
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29.Jul.2022
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DIY project: Building an Amiga 2000 (part 4)
'Drygol' is not only a member of the demoscene group Lamers, but 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. After the first three reports (1, 2, 3) he published the fourth blog post of the series yesterday which is about installing the 'mouSTer' USB mouse adapter and the Buddha flash card. His project is based on the GitHub project of 'Floppie209', a replica of the Amiga2000 motherboard with Sprint layout.
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29.Jul.2022
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Self-made project: Interface clock port/Raspberry Pi
After the adapter board "A314" (amiga-news.de reported), Niklas Ekström provides under the title link the information for the reconstruction of an interface with which a communication between Amiga and Raspberry Pi via the clock port is possible. After the project opening at the end of June, the developer updated the documentation yesterday, among other things.
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29.Jul.2022
Sascha Kirschgens (ANF)
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A-Pet - PET/CBM inspired metal case for Amiga 500
Mike, a British Amiga fan, is working on a metal case in the style of Commodore's CBM series. The "A-Pet" is supposed to be able to accommodate either a standard PC or various Amiga models, this is achieved by using different backplates (amiga-news.de reported).
The development of the Amiga prototype is finished so far, Mike explains the current state in this recent YouTube video. The site Hackaday has awarded the Hackaday Prize 2022 to this project.
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29.Jul.2022
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Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.97
At the end of 2020, author Alain Fontanin resumed the development that had originally started in 1989 by releasing Version 1.2 (2019) of his text editor "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE). The author continues to work on his editor and has now released version 1.97 with the following changes:
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29.Jul.2022
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RSS-Reader: IvoRSS 1.1.1 für AmigaOS 3, 4 und MorphOS
IvoRSS is a simple RSS reader written with Hollywood (amiga-news.de reported). The codesets.library and AmiSSL 4 are required. IvoRSS is available for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:
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28.Jul.2022
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Obligement: Interview with Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka (audio editor Rave)
The magazine 'Obligement' has interviewed the Czech developer Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka (English, (French), who recently has released his audio editor Rave for AmigaOS 4.
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[News message: 28. Jul. 2022, 12:11] [Comments: 0]
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28.Jul.2022
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Slideshow: Tron Legacy
Inspired by the movie Tron: Legacy from 2010, EcaliusSoftware has created a little slideshow written with AMOS Professional (YouTube video). It requires an Amiga equipped with 2 MB Chip-RAM, 5 MB Fast-RAM and 68020 CPU.
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27.Jul.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1b5
After the release of version 2.0 (amiga-news.de reported) developer Dirk Hoffmann has started the beta phase of version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and released the fifth beta version today. Changes:
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27.Jul.2022
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 136 (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 the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. The latest issue among others is about the Amiga games Death Trap, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Conan the Cimmerian.
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27.Jul.2022
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Blog: Introducing "Globulus" (1990)
The blog Leaderboard mainly is about the world of Amiga games and here in particular about games exclusively released for the Amiga. The latest entry introduces the game Globulus, released in 1990.
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27.Jul.2022
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Aiostreams V1.7.4: Scripts for Streaming Twitch.tv and Mixer.com videos
George 'walkero' Sokianos has created Python scripts and bundled them in aiostreams ("All In One Streams") for viewers of the Amiga and other retro streams on Twitch.tv and Mixer.com, so that they can also watch the videos under AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS instead of on the PC.
Yesterday version 1.7.4 has been released with the following changes
- Did a fix in YouTube script to avoid SB videos. This was breaking the video selection.
- Fixed the video throttle in YouTube videos. So now the videos seem to play smoothly.
Download: aiostreams.lha (263 KB)
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27.Jul.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.4.5 (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). Yesterday version 1.4.4 was released providing the following changes:
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26.Jul.2022
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Video: Installation of ROMulus dual ROM board for Amiga 500 and 2000
ROMulus is a dual ROM board for Amiga 500 and 2000 that fits under the Amiga's CPU / accelerator and provides two additional ROM slots for Kickstart or DiagROM. Andrew Hutchings shows in a recent video how to typically install and use the board he designed, which can be programmed by the Amiga itself. It is available in his Retro Supplies shop for about 53 Euros plus shipping.
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26.Jul.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 2000
In his blog 'Epsilon's World', Epsilon reports in the usual detail and with numerous pictures about the restoration of his Amiga 2000. This had become necessary because the motherboard had been irreparably damaged by the expiry of the real-time clock battery.
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Programming language: Visual Studio Code Extension for BlitzBasic 2 (update)
Youen has created a fork of the Visual Studio Code Extension written by 'MickGyver' to support Amiga Blitz Basic 2 and AmiBlitz, which no longer requires external tools (implemented by native Javascript). Also an inline help is now available. Currently version 0.3.2 is available, which was released yesterday.
Update: (27.07.2022, 16:40, dr)
A few moments ago, version 0.4.0 was released which now can manage multiple files.
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26.Jul.2022
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Introduced: The Workbench homepage
What happens when you are born in 1989 and your uncle gave you an Amiga 500 as your first computer? Logically: you can't get rid of that inside and so you try to express your attachment to your beloved Amiga. Thorn has done that in this case by creating his private Workbench homepage.
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25.Jul.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Flawfinder finds vulnerabilities in C/C++ source code
George 'walkero' Sokianos has ported Flawfinder, originally written by David A. Wheeler in Python, to AmigaOS 4 and explained:
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25.Jul.2022
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Trevor's Amiga Blog: Start of production for 'A1222 Plus' board not set
10 months after his last entry Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology has published another article in his Trevor's Amiga Blog. We summarize what we think are the most important points for our readers:
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25.Jul.2022
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R55 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
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24.Jul.2022
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Aminet uploads until 23.07.2022
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24.Jul.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.07.2022
The following files have been added until 23.07.2022 to OS4Depot:
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24.Jul.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.07.2022
The following files have been added until 23.07.2022 to AROS Archives:
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24.Jul.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.07.2022
The following files have been added until 23.07.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 24. Jul. 2022, 07:43] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jul.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.07.2022
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 23.07.2022:
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[News message: 24. Jul. 2022, 07:43] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jul.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: GotekExtensionBoard
The GotekExtensionBoard, consisting of an external and an internal side, is intended for the non-destructive installation of a Gotek disk drive emulator in an Amiga 500 - the middle part of the conductor foil can be led through the ventilation slots of the Amiga housing, so that the display and switches etc. can then be connected on the outside.
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[News message: 24. Jul. 2022, 07:43] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jul.2022
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AROS: New build of Workbench replacement Scalos
In mid-2011, Matthias 'Mazze' Rustler began porting the workbench replacement Scalos for AROS and completed this in early 2012. Since then, Scalos has been part of the AROS distributions AROS Vision and Icaros Desktop, among others.
In mid-July, Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz opened a discussion on Aros-Exec with the aim of improving the workbench replacement and ridding it of bugs after unifying the code base of Scalos for AROS x86 ABIv0, AROS x86_64 ABIv11 and AROS m68k. Only for AxRuntime there should be a separate development branch.
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[News message: 24. Jul. 2022, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jul.2022
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Farming simulation: New beta version of Farmiga released
The Polish developer 'Tukinem' is writing a farming simulation in AMOS, called 'Farmiga' (amiga-news.de reported). Two days ago, a new beta version (22.07.2022) was released. Changes:
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[News message: 24. Jul. 2022, 05:30] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2022
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Kickstarter campaign: Production of 'Tank Mouse' starts soon
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the wireless Commodore Maus 1352 ((amiga-news.de reported)).
A few days ago the developer announced in a status update that the production of the Tank Mouse as well as of the chipset of the mouse will start soon.
The preparation would take about 45 days, and another 25 days the production of the first test batch. After testing and quality-checking the first units, the production will be started - and that part should take only around 3 weeks.
But there are some problems regarding the DB9 adapter: due to COVID and supply shortages, prices of some components went up twice or even more. Therefore, it cannot be manufactured the way it was originally planned and other solutions must be found.
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 17:08] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2022
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8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-07-23 (update)
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now.
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 13:19] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2022
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m68k assembly: 'Amiga Assembly' plugin V1.6.0 for Visual Studio Code
'Amiga Assembly' is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. At the beginning of July, Paul Raingeard has released version 1.6.0. Changes:
- Use of external debugger
- Conditional breakpoints
- Log points
- Custom registers in variables list, including named sub-fields for specific bit ranges
- Additional formats for variables, including signed and size variants
- Label offset annotations for address registers
On GitHub the author provides a detailed wiki.
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 10:25] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2022
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.1 / Firmware 1.2
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). The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac.
Changes of Greaseweazle Tools 1.1:
- New IMG formats: pc98.dd, pc98.hd
- IBM FM, MFM: Fix bugs in raw track decoder
- gw info: Report MCU information (type, speed, SRAM)
Changes of Greaseweazle Firmware 1.2:
- Support AT32F403A MCU on F1 and V4 boards
- Send MCU info to host (reported by gw info)
The Greaseweazle is available from various retailers.
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 08:28] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2022
jPV^RNO (Mail)
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RNO applications: RNOPDF 1.6 and RNOArchive 1.1
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated two of his RNO applications:
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 06:51] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2022
Daniel Jedlicka (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.2
For about a year, Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has been introducing the audio editor 'Rave' in status updates on his blog. Version 1.1 he finally released in June (amiga-news.de reported). The screenshot of version 1.2 presented below shows the most important new function: files can now be auditioned ("previewed") from the file requester before they will be opened.
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 06:33] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.4.3
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). Including version 1.4.3 which was released yesterday, the following changes have been added since our last news item:
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 06:10] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 11/12
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding 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 reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Episodes eleven and twelve are now available.
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 05:57] [Comments: 0]
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23.Jul.2022
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Hardware: 'PiStation ITX' available
At the end of June, we reported about the announcement of the shop 8bits4ever to offer a board for a mini-ITX case for holding a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4. 'PiStation ITX' now is available for 80 Euro plus shipping.
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[News message: 23. Jul. 2022, 05:50] [Comments: 0]
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22.Jul.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Scorpion Engine: Pre-versions of 'Spy Hunter', 'Wonder Boy' and 'GothicVania'
Spy Hunter is an arcade classic from Midway that is currently being converted for the Amiga with the help of the Scorpion Engine (video). The pre-release version currently available for download does not yet contain any sound effects or background music.
Ryuichi Nishizawa's 'Wonder Boy' (video) is also an arcade machine conversion: it is inspired by the first part of the Wonder Boy series, for the Amiga only the successor Wonderboy in Monsterland has been available so far. An older alpha version can be obtained from the developer's website.
'GothicVania' (video) is a 'tech demo' demonstrating the features and the AGA support of the Scorpion Engine and included in the latest version of the engine. Among other things, a triple parallax scrolling is presented. It is currently unclear whether the game will ever be developed into a complete game.
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22.Jul.2022
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MorphOS: RSS reader IvoRSS 1.0
IvoRSS is a simple RSS reader written with Hollywood. The codesets.library, AmiSSL 4 as well as the Hollywood plugins XMLParser, MUIRoyale and hURL are required.
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21.Jul.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Windows: Update for the arcade games Huenison and KOG (update)
Simone Bevilacqua's game Huenison for AmigaOS 4 and Windows combines various game elements of early arcade games. The current update of the title, which was released in 2013, is intended to improve the recognition of control pads under Windows (the D-pads were occasionally recognised as thumbsticks), and the instructions have been supplemented.
Update: (16:08, 21.07.22, snx)
The same improvement has been applied to the arcade game KOG, which has been released by him 14 years ago.
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20.Jul.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Mai Logic: Research on the company history published (Update)
The PowerPC computers "AmigaOne" by Eyetech and "Pegasos (I)" by bplan used the northbridge "Articia S" by Mai Logic, whose defectiveness made it more widely known in Amiga circles. In the forum of Amigaworld.net Michael 'RTK0103' Coe has linked at the title link the results of his research on later allegations of the former Mai Logic CEO Jason Hue about Chinese industrial espionage, which according to him are not true.
Those interested in such details surrounding actual Amiga history will find there especially information about the company history of Mai Logic, formerly Mentor Arc.
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18.Jul.2022
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Amega 32: use Mega Drive gamepads on Amiga and CD32
Press release: Alinea Computer is pleased to introduce the Amega 32 adapter. The Amega 32 is an adapter for the AmigaCD 32 to use SEGA Mega Drive gamepads (DB9) with 6 or 3 buttons. The adapter supports the full CD32 gamepad assignment. Of course, the adapter can also be used with other Amigas, if games there support the gamepad assignment. In addition, it is possible to change the assignment of the adapter via the firmware.
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[News message: 18. Jul. 2022, 23:18] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.2022
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Aminet uploads until 16.07.2022
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[News message: 17. Jul. 2022, 09:22] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 16.07.2022
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[News message: 17. Jul. 2022, 09:22] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 16.07.2022
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17.Jul.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.07.2022
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[News message: 17. Jul. 2022, 09:22] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 16.07.2022
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 16.07.2022:
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[News message: 17. Jul. 2022, 09:22] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.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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[News message: 17. Jul. 2022, 09:22] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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RCross: Radio-controlled car game from developer contest ported
Last year, the developer competition #hvdosdev2021 was won by the PC game "RCross", which requires an 80486 processor with 8 MB RAM. In it, you control a radio-controlled car that has to complete a course in the best possible time.
The Amiga port by Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró requires a 68040 or 68060 processor with FPU, 8 MB Fast-RAM and either AGA or RTG.
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15.Jul.2022
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.5.0
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more.
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[News message: 15. Jul. 2022, 08:59] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jul.2022
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Event: 30th Assembly Summer 2022 in Helsinki
The demo party "Assembly" has been held since 1992 and thus celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. From August 4 to 7 at the Messukeskus exhibition center in Helsinki, there will be various demo competitions, including the Oldskool competition, in addition to various program items such as demo demonstrations, gaming and e-sports.
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[News message: 15. Jul. 2022, 07:26] [Comments: 0]
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15.Jul.2022
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.0
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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[News message: 15. Jul. 2022, 06:27] [Comments: 0]
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