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`03.Feb.2022` Artur Gadawski (Mail)	7-bit: Firmware update for Wicher 1211 7-bit has released a firmware update for the Wicher 1211 memory expansion card for the Amiga 1200 today, which includes fixes for the RAM controller and adds an SPI controller to the ZorroII card chain. (dr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2022, 18:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2022` Christian Zigotzky (Mail)	Linux: Void-Update für den AmigaOne X1000/5000 In the corresponding post in the Hyperion forum from the end of last week Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky reports about a new image of the Linux distribution Void Linux for the AmigaOne X1000 and 5000. (dr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2022, 06:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2022` Gunnar Kanold	Programming contest: BASIC 10Liner Contest Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some sound or colorful lines by writing little BASIC programs. The organizers wrote: "The BASIC 10Liner Contest started 2011 as a party fun at the NOMAM meeting in Northern Germany. NOMAM means 'Not only marvelous Atari machinery' and is an annual meeting from classic computer enthusiasts. The visitors of the meeting decided to hold a little contest: Write a program in 10 lines of BASIC on Atari Computers! We had loads of fun with programming the whole weekend. 2013 we decided to repeat the contest. This time only games were allowed. In 2014 we opened the 10Liner contest also for programmers who did not visit to the meeting. Owners of other 8 bit computer requested to open the contest for their machines. We met the wish and opened it for all 8 bit computers." This year the 11th Edition of BASIC 10 Liner Contest takes place. And also Amigas as 16 bit computers can partiticipate: In the category "Wild" those contributions can be sent in. You can get some inspiration from contributions of the previous years. Additional to many little games, two programs for the Amiga were also written: In 2018 Matteo Trevisan wrote an "Amiga BASIC Login" (fourth post) and in 2019 an "Amiga 500 Chatbot", listet as first post. Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 26, 2022, 6 p.m. CET. Award ceremony: Saturday, April 9, 2022 at NOMAM. A detailed overview of the submitted programs can be found at bunsen.itch.io. (dr) [News message: 02. Feb. 2022, 08:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2022`	Text viewer: NEXT 4.1 In 2002 Jürgen Klawitter reported us for the last time a new version of his text viewer NEXT (version 3.5), the last public version 4.0 was from May 31, 2011. But as the author writes, NEXT is much more than a pure text viewer: it is also Amigaguide replacement, HTML offline browser, DataTypes viewer, uncruncher, unpacker of archives, file converter, print utility and some more. This versatility is also the reason why the program was installed from the beginning on my Amiga 1200, integrated via ToolsMenu. Next also has a very powerful search function, which marks all occurrences of a searched term at the same time and allows searching with wildcards and in binary files. As the author explains to us when asked, he has not been involved with programming and the Amiga since 2011 and has devoted himself to other hobbies. His Amiga hardware, an A3000 and a second floppy drive, were given away. Only a Zip drive, which was never used before, is in the depot. His turning away from the Amiga at that time had among other things to do with the fact that he couldn't read or use PDFs and other files that were common in the PC world. The return to programming, Jürgen Klawitter continues, came in this winter of 2021/22, which also limited him in his leisure activities and caused boredom. So he came up with the idea to install WinUAE on his laptop: "After this was successful, I tried out how much of my former programming knowledge was still left. Surprisingly much, actually everything was still there! Nevertheless, there were difficulties to understand the source code of the more extensive programs again. Next has about 20000 lines, Anno (calendar) and OMon (system monitor) about 6000 lines each. Parts of it are quite complicated. I then started to implement small improvements, first with Anno, later with Next. With Next, I was particularly annoyed by the fact that I had not managed to get the converted text from docx files into a reasonable form. I finally found details of the format on the internet and a tag () that was responsible for the outline in paragraphs. That was the breakthrough." NEXT formats loaded text before it is displayed. In the process, lines that are too long are wrapped at word boundaries and characters that cannot be displayed are replaced by spaces. Color, style, and print control sequences are preserved. Finally, a small test shall show how Word files are loaded, for which the following example poem - written and saved in Word 2010 - shall serve us: To load a Word document either UnZip is needed or the XAD system. For the use of the latter one goes either over the menu option "Use XAD" or creates itself a "next.prefs" text file under Prefs/Env-Archive with the contents "XAD". In this configuration file you can also define window dimensions, font and colors for the text display. As Jürgen Klawitter writes, from files of the Microsoft word processors Word and Write (extensions .doc or .docx and .wri) the plain text is extracted and formatted. For Word documents with the extension .doc, references to footnotes and the footnotes themselves are numbered ([1],[2]...). The same applies to annotations, recognizable by the preceding "A"([A1],[A2]...). Since a docx file is always a zip archive, it takes two steps to get to the text: Next, after selecting a docx file, presents the contents in a small window. Each archive contains 10 or more xml files, which contain stylesheets, images, comments and footnotes, but only one of them contains the text: By selecting "word/document.xml" you can now see the text: As you can see, the conversion of .docx files results in pure continuous text, without styles. The information about them is in stylesheets, which are hidden in the other files. As the author writes, "taking stylesheets into account would require a disproportionate amount of extra work, which I do not want to do – if at all possible." (dr) [News message: 02. Feb. 2022, 07:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2022`	AmiKit XE: Preconfigured front end AmiLion 1.3 AmiLion is a front end with wallpaper backgrounds for the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE, written in Hollywood for quickly accessing Rabbit Hole programs like Firefox, VLC or Steam as well as website links like Aminet, Wikipedia or YouTube. Besides Windows 10, the Raspberry Pi also is fully supported. more ... (dr) [News message: 02. Feb. 2022, 07:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2022`	Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 9 Dirk Hoffmann has released a new beta version of his Amiga emulator for macOS which is currently under development. The changes version 1.1 beta version 9 are as follows: more ... (dr) [News message: 01. Feb. 2022, 16:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2022`	AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of January The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of applications and games for AmigaOS 4 in the month of January. (dr) [News message: 01. Feb. 2022, 09:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2022` Alexandre Balaban (Mail)	AmigaOS 4.1: CompareDirs compares directories Using CompareDirs the directory structure of two directories can be compared, including all files. The result window shows the files with size and date. Alexandre Balaban's tool can be controlled either from the shell or via Reaction GUI. more ... (dr) [News message: 01. Feb. 2022, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2022` Twitter	ACube Systems: Appeal for reporting AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware ACube Systems asks in their Twitter message today to report AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware so that the AmigaOS 4.1 Hardware Compatibility List can be completed. (dr) [News message: 31. Jan. 2022, 10:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2022` Twitter	Aracade game: Green Beret released (update) Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine. more ... (dr) [News message: 31. Jan. 2022, 07:09] [Comments: 1 - 06. Feb. 2022, 07:33] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2022` Robert Smith	Video: How Data is Encoded and Stored on Floppy Disks Robert Smith, known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has now published the first part of a two-part series on floppies, following his tutorial on porting a Christmas game from HTML5 to AMOS. In it, he takes a look at how data is stored on a floppy disk, both physically and computer-wise. The second part will be about different copy protection methods. (dr) [News message: 31. Jan. 2022, 06:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2022`	Developer blog: Status update on RGBtoHDMI board Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about the latest progress and developments of projects he is involved in. more ... (dr) [News message: 30. Jan. 2022, 08:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2022` Reddit	Preview: Eleven upcoming Amiga games for 68k Amigas The YouTube channel it's a P/XEL thing gives a playful preview of eleven Amiga games announced for 2022. (dr) [News message: 30. Jan. 2022, 07:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2022`	Aminet uploads until 29.01.2022 The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to Aminet: more ... (snx) [News message: 30. Jan. 2022, 07:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2022`	OS4Depot uploads until 29.01.2022 The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to OS4Depot: more ... (snx) [News message: 30. Jan. 2022, 07:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2022`	AROS Archives uploads until 29.01.2022 The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to AROS Archives: more ... (snx) [News message: 30. Jan. 2022, 07:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2022`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.01.2022 The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: more ... (snx) [News message: 30. Jan. 2022, 07:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2022` ALB42 Blog (ANF)	AmiTube 0.8: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video). Today version 0.8 has been released which provides an improved download speed and a lot of bug fixes. Besides, now there is an AmigaGuide help. Detailed changes: Faster download speed bugfix download speed display bugfix invalid moviedir bugfix load icon when a download is running bugfix start a download when one is already running bugfix clipboard device sort results in list by name, duration or size choice to ask for a path everytime a conversation job is started, if canceled the default moviedir is used Italian and Polish translation alternative more colorful icons for AmiTube and folder AmigaGuide Help The latest version always is available on the AmiTube website or via update check in the application. Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link. (dr) [News message: 29. Jan. 2022, 19:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2022` Pierre-Alexandre (Mail)	Lionheart Remake: Version 1.20 of Java port of Lionheart released After Byron 3D Games Studio started with the development of 1.2.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart in November (amiga-news.de reported), this version has been released today. Both the settings program and the game itself are localized in German, French, Spanish and English: When restarting via the .bat file, the settings program seems to have remembered the last language set, but the output is still in English. Only by switching back and forth does the setting also take effect. Version 1.2.0 contains a new underworld theme, beginner stages and many fixes: A teaser video is available on the game's homepage. Update:* (30.01.2022, 06:39, dr) As the developer Pierre-Alexandre informs us, the bug in the settings program has been fixed in the meantime. (dr) [News message: 29. Jan. 2022, 18:59] [Comments: 1 - 29. Jan. 2022, 21:48] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2022` Prince (Mail)	Video tutorial: Episode 24 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. Now the episode 24 was published, which is also about sprites and its collision detection. (dr) [News message: 28. Jan. 2022, 21:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2022`	RMC Retro Amiga Demo In addition to his various YouTube videos, Neil aka RMC has set up a hands-on exhibition of retro microcomputers, consoles and games called The Cave. It is located in Chalford in Gloucestershire and is about to open to the public. To mark the occasion, he has brushed up on his assembly programming skills and written and released an "old school" Amiga demo. (dr) [News message: 28. Jan. 2022, 20:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2022` Günter Bartsch (Mail)	BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.2 By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively (amiga-news.de reported). more ... (dr) [News message: 28. Jan. 2022, 12:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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