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Archive 08/2020

`22.Aug.2020`	Lemon Amiga Forum: Several user accounts hacked In the English-language forum of "Lemon Amiga" obviously several user accounts have been hacked for advertising for certain versions of DOOM. The team of Lemon Amiga wrote:" Its going to take us a month to remove all of this crap manually, and also longer to change everybodies passwords and protect the site. It seems this was a brute force attack on weak passwords "only". The server was not compromised. Apparently, many of these weak accounts had passwords the same as their user name. So it was not hard to open up the door. Other weak passwords included: "passsword", "123456", "pa55w0rd" etc." (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 22. Aug. 2020, 22:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Aug.2020`	Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.8 RedPill developed by Carlos Peris 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 of version 0.8: Added action trigger Net Connect to connect to a remote machine and have a multiplayer network game. One machine in server, the client needs to enter the server IP. In a LAN, just need to type the internal IP. In different networks you can use external IP, probably port forwarding is needed to find the target machine in the local LAN. REDPILL uses port 6666. Added condition trigger On Net Connection to detect when a connexion has been established or if it is disconnected. Added condition trigger Is Net Remote to check if one player is remote or local. Pong project has been updated to support two player network game Added action trigger Set Map Cols to activate/deactivate Object collisions. Added action trigger Norm Spd45 to adapt speed x and y when object is moving in diagonal direction. Using Tooltype NTSC in Game icon (or -NTSC parameter in the CLI) will force the game to be launched in NTSC mode. Screen width now can go from 320 to 256, to allow for fast ports from other platforms. Input system has been simplified. Frame control redone again to avoid flickering issues and horizontal lines. Objects of type shot now follow better the direction of the objects instantiating them. Small change in cursor color. Input fields for Object width and height. Input fields for HUD object pos X and Y. Speed on col trigger now works on angle motion objects. When Speed on col is negative does not stick the objects to the ground anymore. In Settings screen, now it is possible to select the Light theme for REDPILL user interface. FIX: When using grid slice the frame offsets will be assigned automatically the grid offset. FIX: Follow object was always following object 0. FIX: Only Vars from page 1 were accessible in the HUD screen (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 22. Aug. 2020, 21:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Aug.2020` Amigaworld.net (Forum)	Legal dispute: Intellivision and Cloanto seeking for settlement After Cloanto has taken legal action to protect the brand Amiga with regard to the console "Amico" developed by Intellivision (amiga-news.de reported) "this proceeding be suspended for 90 days to allow the parties to continue their settlement efforts" (PDF file). (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 22. Aug. 2020, 11:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Aug.2020` a1k.org (Webseite)	Adapter: SmallyMouse2 and "USB mouse module" support USB mice Simon Inns' SmallyMouse2 uses a microcontroller to convert signals of common USB mice into a format which computers from the 1980s and early 1990s can "process". Additional to the Amiga also the Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes and BBC Micro are supported. All required data and documents for recreating the adapter, Inns has published under a free licence. The "USB mouse module" distributed by Centurion Technologies is a commercial version of SmallyMouse2 which completely replaces the original mouse port of the A1200. Variants for the A1200 motherboard revisions 1D* and 2B are offered. The product description also explains how to install the adapter in the computer. The "USB mouse module" is available for about 34 Euro plus shipping. Hint of the editors: Centurion explicitely has listed a version for the motherboard revision "1D*" and implies that the installation instruction in the product description - not including any soldering or mechanical changes at the A1200 motherboard - is valid for all previous revisions of the A1200. In our experience, only revision 1D4 has a seperate mechanical port (picture). In previous versions (Pictures: 1D1, 1D3) the mouse port is firmly attached to the motherboard - in our opinion soldering and machanical operations are required. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 22. Aug. 2020, 00:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Aug.2020`	Overview: List of CNet mailboxes On amiga.org an user has published a list of C64 and Amiga mailboxes, which use the BBS software CNet. Most of the computers can only be accessed via Telnet but also three (US-American) boxes with a real telephone connection are listed. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 21. Aug. 2020, 21:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Aug.2020` Edgar Schwan (ANF)	AmigaOS 4: Reworked version of Gnumeric 1.10.17 Edgar Schwan has updated the port of the spreadsheet Gnumeric (screenshot) for his X11 environment AmiCygnix. Changes: The program was linked with GTK+ 2.24.32. As a result, drag and drop now works among other things. Content and other things can now be moved with the mouse and much more. New release 5 of the Python package v2.7.2 with GTK+ 2.24.32. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 21. Aug. 2020, 17:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Aug.2020`	Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #16 (English/Polish) "Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to the retro gamers and mainly reports about Commodore's 8-Bit computers and Amigas. The current issue among others has articles about Inviyya, Tiny Galaga and Raid over Moscow as well as the fourth part of the WinUAE experience report. As printed variant the magazine is available for 8 Euro (plus 15 Euro shipping), the coverdisk for 5 Euro. The digital version costs 1,50 Euro. Previous issues until issue 14 published in December can be downloaded for free. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 21. Aug. 2020, 17:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2020`	Raspberry Pi and Amiga: A314 Adapter for Amiga 2000 "A314" is an adapter board which connects a Raspberry Pi to a A500 or A600. In this way it is possible to exchange data with the Linux running on the Pi or to play audio or video files under Linux. You can also use the network connectivity of the Pi out of the AmigaOS. Using the "Amiga 2000 A314 Adapter", its documents are available under a free licence, an Amiga 2000 or an A1000 with Rejuvenator extension can be upgraded providing an trapdoor expansion typical for an A500 which makes it possible to use the A314. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 20. Aug. 2020, 19:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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