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14.-16.06.24 • Flashback-Symposium #01 • Plauen-Jößnitz (Germany) 28.-30.06.24 • Alternatives Computer-Meeting 2024 • Wolfsburg (Germany) 17.08.24 • ZZAP! Live 2024 • Kenilwort (England) 21.Mar.2024 Emulator: WinFellow 0.5.11 Release candiate 1 of version 0.5.11 of the Amiga emulator WinFellow has been released. The default display driver has been changed from DirectDraw to Direct3D 11, where supported. In addition, keyboard-initiated reset in Amiga Forever has been implemented. Besides, there are numerous bug fixes and code improvements. Update: (30.03.2024, 06:56, dr) The release originally named as RC1 is now listed as version 0.5.11 (official news). (dr) [News message: 21. Mar. 2024, 18:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 21.Mar.2024 MorphZone (Forum) MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.8 (update) Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.7 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes: fixed WebAnimations support fixed several issues with the internal refresh loop fixed taking screenshots of scrolled-down pages file:// handling fixes updated libxml2 Update: (23.03.2024, 08:02, dr) Meanwhile version 7.8 (changelog) is available which fixes a regression in OpenURL support and improves handling of Open File and OpenURL to allow loading of files with non-ascii characters. (dr) [News message: 21. Mar. 2024, 11:25] [Comments: 1 - 23. Mar. 2024, 08:08] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 21.Mar.2024 Article series: The history of software soundtrackers (parts 1-3) 30 years ago, Xavier Borderie had fun making music on his Amiga with the help of Protracker. This was the reason for him to take a look behind the scenes in a series of articles and write about those who made soundtracking possible: Soundtracker origins, part 1: Where in the World is Karsten Obarski? Here the author wants to find out when the way music is composed made the leap from a physical hardware product to a software product. Who was the first person to come up with the programming of this interface? Is it really Karsten Obarski, the father of The Ultimate Soundtracker? Soundtracker origins, part 2: Welcome to Turrican, aah hahahaha Karsten Obarski apparently got the inspiration for "The Ultimate Soundtracker" from a tool called SoundMonitor, which the developer and musician Chris Hülsbeck released for the Commodore 64 in 1986 - a year before Obarski's own Ultimate Soundtracker. Hülsbeck was 18 years old at the time. Was this the beginning of software trackers? Soundtracker origins, part 3: Facing a stone mountain The history of software sound trackers seems to go back even further: in the second of the series, Chris Hülsbeck told the author that he remembers using Steinberg's MIDI Multitrack Sequencer tool on the Commodore 64 computer, around the time he was writing his own tool, Soundmonitor. Soundtracker Origins, interlude: The coders behind the Cambrian explosion In this somewhat off-topic article, Xavier Borderie spoke to the developers of the various Soundtracker clones, including the developers of Protracker and NoiseTracker. (dr) [News message: 21. Mar. 2024, 10:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 21.Mar.2024 demoparty.net Demoparty: Posadas Party 2024 (Posadas/ES, 28.6.-30.6.) In the very south of Europe, the demoscene has been celebrating occasionally for many years, since 1995, at the Posadas party in the town of the same name north-east of Seville. The Posadas has its origins in the Amiga demoscene, and this is also reflected in the current competitions: entries in the demo, intro and cracktro competitions are only permitted for Amiga OCS or Amiga AGA. The best-known release on the Posadas to date is most likely the 1995 demo Batman Vuelve by the Batman Group. In addition to the competitions, there will also be two concerts this year by electro music artists KHROME and Narcisound. According to the organisers, pre-sales for the party will begin in a few days. (nba) [News message: 21. Mar. 2024, 10:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 21.Mar.2024 Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.3.0 for Amigas with 68060 processor The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3: the latest version 2.0.1.01 is available for RTG-Amigas and AGA-Amigas with 68060 processor and is based on ScummVM 2.3.0 for the first time. (dr) [News message: 21. Mar. 2024, 09:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 21.Mar.2024 Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 Developer Michal Schulz has released the first stable version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Emu68 1.0 contains all the changes from 1.0 RC1, RC2 and RC3 plus some additional fixes and improvements. Starting with Emu68 1.0 all users are encouraged to use official releases only and do not use nightly builds unless really necessary. About this release and the changes, Michal Schulz has written in detail on his Patreon website and also recommends this YouTube-Video by Tomaz. (dr) [News message: 21. Mar. 2024, 06:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 20.Mar.2024 Shoot 'em up: R-Squadron Developer Monster's Legs has made a name for himself in the scene with games for the ZX Spectrum. Recently, he has released a previously unpublished shoot 'em up for the Amiga, which he designed as a 16-year-old in the 1990s: "R-Squadron" was created using the legendary SEUCK ("Shoot 'em up Construction Kit") and deals in a humorous style with resurrected arcade games from the 70s and 80s that attack the earth - and, of course, only the player can stop them! R-Squadron can be downloaded free of charge in ADF format from the website at the title link. (nba) [News message: 20. Mar. 2024, 11:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 20.Mar.2024 Bitfellas Demoparty: Outline 2024 (Ommen/NL, 9.5.-12.5.) Since 2004, Outline has been an important part of the demo scene, attracting creatives from Benelux, Germany and other European countries. This year, the demoparty will take place during the extended weekend around Ascension Day, from 9 to 12 May 2024, in Ommen, Netherlands - tickets are still available. Although the Outline is an Atari party at heart, all platforms are welcome, as the open competitions show: the demo, intro, graphics and music competitions are open to so-called oldskool and newskool systems, but with a focus on 8-bit computers and PCs. (nba) [News message: 20. Mar. 2024, 10:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 20.Mar.2024 Handheld console: "Amigo Tracker" 1.15 for PlayDate PlayDate is a handheld games console released in 2022 by the US software developer and computer games publisher Panic Inc (Wikipedia). As the operating system is kept open, external developers can also write software for the console using Lua and C (and a simulator). At the end of January, Outgunned Games released a first version of his "Amigo Tracker": a retro player that can play 4-channel ProTracker modules. Since then, he has corrected numerous errors and made improvements (dev log) and released version 1.15 yesterday. (dr) [News message: 20. Mar. 2024, 08:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 19.Mar.2024 Snake conversion: "Letter-Worm" for AmigaOS 3 and 4 For fun, 'tickBit' has released a Snake implementation with letters for the Workbench for AmigaOS 3 and 4. The game requires the respective background graphics in a "gfx" folder. Downloads: Letter-worm-OS4-exe.lha (7 Kb) Background picture OS4 Letter-worm-exe.lha (11 Kb) Background picture OS3 (dr) [News message: 19. Mar. 2024, 06:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 18.Mar.2024 Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF) Modern text engine for Hollywood: Pangomonium 1.0 supports Emojis Press Release: Airsoft Softwair is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a powerful new plugin for Hollywood: Pangomonium - the ultimate text engine for Hollywood. Pangomonium is a plugin of epic proportions and the first plugin to require Hollywood 10. Pangomonium contains an ultra-modern text engine that is at the cutting edge of technology and can draw text in almost any language in the world. more ... (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 18. Mar. 2024, 19:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 18.Mar.2024 Simon Neumann (ANF) Alinea Computer will take over distribution of the next two Hyperion games Press release: We are pleased to announce that we, as Alinea Computer, will take over the distribution of the next two games from Hyperion Entertainment. The cooperation so far has been excellent and we hope to continue it to realize further projects. Our first game as a distributor will be Heretic II for AmigaOS 4, which can be ordered at the title link. Dealers should contact us directly as a distributor. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 18. Mar. 2024, 19:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 18.Mar.2024 Linux: Kernel 6.8 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.8, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests. Download: linux-image-6.8-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (61 MB) (dr) [News message: 18. Mar. 2024, 17:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 18.Mar.2024 Tower defense: "Dice Masters" 1.00 for Apollo Vampire V4 In Sami Vehmaa's tower defence game "Dice Masters", the player has to fend off aliens on a spaceship (amiga-news.de reported, YouTube video of version 1.00). Now all ten levels as well as an arcade mode are available. A demo version with one level offers the opportunity to try out the game free of charge. (dr) [News message: 18. Mar. 2024, 06:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 17.Mar.2024 Shaviry: DIY Amiga RGB to VGA adapter and monitor switcher Shaviry is a new hardware project created by hobby developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo. It combines an Amiga video-to-VGA adapter and a monitor switcher, featuring an integrated RGB amplifier to minimise vertical bars and improve display quality. Shaviry is explicitly not a scandoubler, so the connected monitor(s) must support 15 kHz video signals. The mode of operation of the adapter can be controlled using jumpers: Shaviry thus functions as a pure VGA adapter on Amigas that are not equipped with a graphics card or HDMI-to-VGA adapter, and/or as an automatic input switcher controlled by Switchcontrol via CIA or parallel port or by switch, Arduino or similar via a 5-volt signal. A built-in optocoupler component prevents overvoltage in this process. The switchover with a CRT monitor is immediate, with an LCD monitor it takes a little longer, according to the developer's description. Tests were carried out by the developer with an AGA Amiga and THS7374 and THS7376 RGB amplifiers. Using the THS7374 with 9.5 Mhz filter bandwidth, the vertical bars are slightly visible, but the image is blurred, according to the developer. The THS7376 produces a sharp image and the bars are almost invisible. Shavira is currently not offered commercially, but is aimed at the growing do-it-yourself community, i.e. those who are not afraid to wield a soldering iron. The developer Enrique Ferrari Lorenzo provides the PCB data for KiCad and Gerber files on the project page on GitHub under the title link for free download and provides a complete overview of the required components along with extensive image and video material for support. The current revision is REV23012024 from 23 January 2024. A readme about Shaviry is also available in English. (nba) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 16:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 17.Mar.2024 Aminet uploads until 16.03.2024 The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to Aminet: more ... (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 17.Mar.2024 OS4Depot uploads until 16.03.2024 The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to OS4Depot: more ... (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 17.Mar.2024 AROS Archives uploads until 16.03.2024 The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to AROS Archives: more ... (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 17.Mar.2024 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.03.2024 The following files have been added until 16.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage: more ... (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 17.Mar.2024 PDF manual: DOS documentation in the works At the title link on GitHub Thomas 'ThoR' Richter, one of the developers of AmigaOS 3.2, has started work on a PDF manual for the dos.library in the style of the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals. (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 17.Mar.2024 Amiga-Scoopex-C: Conversion of the Assembler tutorial into C The GitHub project Amiga-Scoopex-C is a conversion of the examples of the Amiga assembler course "Amiga Hardware Programming", which can be found on YouTube, into the C programming language. Now all 11 previously created instructions have been adapted to the current version of vscode-amiga-debug, so that functions such as INCBIN-CHIP have become available. Each episode now consists of a single source code file. In addition, the existing instructions for the Copperlist have been revised so that the data no longer has to be copied to Chip RAM at runtime. (snx) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 17.Mar.2024 Video: Review of the PowerShark In a detailed video report, Robert Smith tests the "PowerShark", a USB-C-based power supply for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 keyboard cases (amiga-news.de reported). (dr) [News message: 17. Mar. 2024, 06:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 16.Mar.2024 YouTube: Recording of the PiStorm-presentation at FOSDEM 2024 Andrew "LinuxJedi" Hutchings, full-time CCO for the MySQL alternative MariaDB Foundation, is known as a developer of hardware and software for the Amiga. At FOSDEM 2024, an open source developer conference held on March 3rd to 4th, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium, Hutchings gave a presentation on "PiStorm - The evolution of an open source Amiga accelerator", which demonstrates the modification of the Raspberry Pi mini motherboard as an Amiga turbo card and is available on YouTube. In the presentation, Hutchings demonstrates the use of the PiStorm32-Lite on his Amiga 1200 and talks about this and other topics: What the PiStorm really is, both as hardware and a community The history of the project, including the bumps along the road Directions that is intended to take the project in the future A demonstration of what PiStorm is capable of The recording can be accessed via the title link. (nba) [News message: 16. Mar. 2024, 11:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 16.Mar.2024 Video tutorial: Parallax scrolling in AMOS Following on from the screens tutorials (1, 2, 3), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to achieve parallax scrolling with the dual playfild command in the latest part of his tutorial series. (dr) [News message: 16. Mar. 2024, 06:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 15.Mar.2024 Oliver Roberts (Mail) E-Mail client: New YAM Nightly Build uses TLS SNI now IBrowse and AmiSSL5 developer Oliver Roberts has uploaded another change to the repository of the mail program YAM, which Jens Maus implemented yesterday in a new nightly build for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS: with a single line of code YAM now uses TLS SNI (Server Name Indication) for secure connections, which fixes the problem of failed certificate verification with e.g. Gmail. (dr) [News message: 15. Mar. 2024, 06:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version] 15.Mar.2024 Trevor's Blog: On the Plus side Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" yesterday. Among other things, he explains why the delivery of the A1222 Plus motherboards, which began a week ago, has been delayed again: "The original batch of boards received over a month ago worked well but did not include the onboard USB headers and had to be sent back to the manufacturer for minor rework. Also a revision change by the MCU manufacturer meant the onboard temperature sensor was not read correctly and the CPU fan did not spin up. When designing the motherboard, Varisys, the original hardware developer, did not think a CPU fan was necessary but included one as an extra precaution." The problem was solved by modifying the MCU programming firmware. As Trevor Dickinson further reports, other people besides AAA Technology were involved in making the release of the A1222 Plus possible: Steven Solie, for example, developed an extremely fast and simple, but very powerful recovery USB drive that ensures that all necessary OS4.1 and enhancer software files are installed correctly, and Alexandre Balaban created a fully updated AmigaOS 4.1-ISO. (dr) [News message: 15. Mar. 2024, 06:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]       <- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -> ... 15 534 1059 [Archive]

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