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Archive 05/2020


22.May.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)


Arcade port: Tapper, version 02A
"Tapper" (video) is a port of the arcade classic game from 1983 to the Amiga. In this new test version all gameplay features have been implemented except the sound. The author said: "Still got a fair bit of work in Dpaint to do as well as a few bits of game code to write but I think it's coming along quite nicely." (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.May.2020



Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.14
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.

Changes in version 0.7.14:
  • New action trigger Play Anim 8 to play an animation based in the direction of the object.
  • Play Anim 8 uses 8 anims, starting with the Up/North Animation, and in clock-wise order. It uses 8 animations.
  • New action trigger Play Anim 4 to play an animation based in the direction of the object.
  • Play Anim 4 uses 4 anims, starting with the Up/North Animation, and in click/wise order. It uses 4 animations.
  • In a level, when a background image is used without any tiles placed, the palette from the image will be used.
  • For HUD bar elements, now it is possible to adjust the height of the bar.
  • Extra check in Auto Slice to avoid slicing a big image by mistake.
  • Level editor map now shows all available area instead of the camera limits area.
  • FIX: Tile properties display fixed when using tiles with border.
  • FIX: Fix in export game routines.
  • FIX: moving a livel object leaved some trash in the screen.
  • FIX: Level editor now can scroll to the bottom of the level.
  • FIX: Fix in edit trigger up/down controls, now last trigger is reachable.
(dr) (Translation: dr)

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22.May.2020
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: E-mail client Iris, beta version 85
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. Among others Iris now display GMail threads. Besides, "the autoconfiguration of emails was significantly improved, especially for GMail-managed domains and Yahoo."

The author appreciates any feedback. Please use the corresponding MorphZone discussion. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


English/Danish assembler workshop from 1990
"Programmering i maskinkode på Amiga" is a Danish assembler workshop, which from 1990 on was commercially distributed in 12 lessons. Meanwhile the author has made available the workshop on his website for free. Thanks to Amiga fan 'Amix73' there is also an English-language translation. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Web browser Odyssey 1.23 r5_beta07
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has released a new beta version of his AmigaOS 4 port of the web browser Odyssey. Changes:
  • Fixed bug in Cairo library caused skippable DSI on some sites in cairo_clip_intersect_rectangle_box() by adding related patches from the latest version of Cairo.
  • Replaced old, statically linked, Pixman library v0.32.4 by newer v0.36.0 from Salas00: https://github.com/salass00/pixman_lib Salas00's version is a real amiga native shared library and has AOS4 native TLS (thread-local storage) implementation, which means that rendering done now not from the same thread, but from different ones => things can be faster. New pixman-1.library coming with release archive in the LIBS directory, so no action needs, all continue to works out of the box. Thanks Salas00!
  • Media player: when we in accelerated full-window playback, and mouse cursor over the video, then after 2 seconds of inactivity we hide mouse pointer. Moving mouse or clicking mouse buttons made cursor be visibly again. I.e. mimic usual video-players behavior.
  • Media player: when we in accelerated full-window playback, then we disable screen blankers and enable them back once we exit from full-window playback.
  • Fixed nasty bug with missing TAG_DONE in the Dtpic object creation. Before it working by pure luck: If the memory following the unterminated tag list contains 'lucky' or invalid tag values then nothing bad happens. But a single 'unlucky' (but valid and possibly dangerous if not used correctly) tag value may cause unpredictable havoc (c) Thore.
  • Rewritten DoSuperNew() function to use DoSuperMethodA() directly instead of DoSuperMethod(), as the later internally do call the same DoSuperMethodA(). So we skip that step to make DoSuperNew() be more efficient with less stack space in use. Thanks to Thore for hint and Oliver for explaining.
  • Added support for 4th and 5th mouse buttons for stepping backward (4th) and forward (5th) through the browser history. I.e same as in IBrowse.
  • Major improvements in spoofing area by Javier: new Spoofing preferences. Together with inbuild (and not editable) default Odyssey's user-agent, you can now add/edit your own ones. You also can choose what user agents you want to show on the menu and which didn't. All the user-agents saves in the 'useragents.prefs' placed in Conf , just like 'userscripts.prefs' or 'searchengines.prefs'. The work which spends on was big, so there can be issues so plz check it carefully and report all bugs and suggestions. Everything localized as well, see bottom of OWB.cd. Thanks Javier!
  • Notification titles are now localized as well, see OWB.cd for MSG_NOTIFY_DL_COMPLETED, MSG_NOTIFY_DL_CANCELLED and MSG_NOTIFY_DL_FAILED (c) Javier.
  • Updated Italian catalog by samo79 and new Danish catalog by NBache.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Virus Help Team Denmark: Update of VirusZ_III.Bootblocks
The "Virus Help Team Denmark" (VHT) has released an update of its bootblock collection which is used in Georg Hörmann's program VirusZ III:
  • Bavarian Virus [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
  • Gandalf Decoded Virus
  • Guru Virus [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
  • Random Access Virus [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
  • Sinister Syndicate [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
  • And 167 harmless bootblocks
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.May.2020



Conversion Kits: Using A500(+), A600 or A1200 as USB keyboard
Tynemouth Software offers Conversion Kits for A500(+) and A600/A1200 which replace the mainboard of the Amiga and use the keyboard of the Amiga as well as joysticks (A500 version) as USB devices. The LEDs of the case are also used for viewing "Power" and "Numlock". The Conversion Kits do not require any additional drivers or preferences at the host computer. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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20.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Print magazine: Issue 117 of Amiga Future readable online
Issue 117 (November/December 2015) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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