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Archive 07/2021

`11.Jul.2021`	A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Amiga-2000-ATX The developer 'jasonsbeer' continues to work on his project 'Amiga-2000-ATX' (amiga-news.de reported). 'Amiga-2000-ATX' is a replica of the A2000 motherboard which, unlike the original, uses the E-ATX form factor and thus fits into standard PC cases. Another goal in development is to replace components that are no longer available with newer alternatives wherever possible. In the meantime, the developer was able to test the commissioned prototype and give a first success message: "I have a video output via a Pi-HDMI card and Diagrom is running. There are still some problems to solve." All documentation needed for production is available on Github under free license. (dr) (Translation: bb) [News message: 11. Jul. 2021, 09:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2021`	Aminet uploads until 10.07.2021 The following files have been added until 10.07.2021 to Aminet: Spread.lha biz/spread 41K 68k Spreadsheet (1988-01-30) amigaXfer_win32.zip comm/misc 12M Easy GUI for Serial file/flop... psxport-dev.lha dev/misc 19K 68k PSXPort - developer kit REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support MaxReplayTest.lha driver/aud 10K 68k Determine Paula's max. replay... psxport-src.zip driver/inp 221K PSXPort - source code psxport-user.lha driver/inp 27K 68k PSXPort - user software dsp3210.lha driver/oth 284K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 13K 2021 Carset for F1GP DTView2.lha gfx/show 132K 68k Picture viewer for public scr... AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands R2Z_68k.lha misc/sci 1.6M 68k Test your reaction times R2Z_AROS_intel.lha misc/sci 1.9M x86 Test your reaction times R2Z_MorphOS.lha misc/sci 1.8M MOS Test your reaction times R2Z_OS4.lha misc/sci 2.1M OS4 Test your reaction times Lofoten.lha mods/8voic 3.9M Lofoten redone 16bit 5ch Road... Riodejaneiro.lha mods/8voic 3.6M True 16-bit 6ch Brazilian Samba! TextPaint098.lha text/edit 40K 68k ANSI Screen Editor (1990-08-25) Textra111.lha text/edit 78K 68k GUI Text Editor w/ ARexx (199... drawing_dt.lha util/dtype 380K OS4 Vector superclass + DR2D/SVG ... ILBMdt.lha util/dtype 51K 68k IFF ILBM picture datatype 47.4 GoShell.lha util/shell 19K 68k tool for open Shell in full s... perciman_68k.lha util/wb 1.5M 68k manage contact and other info... perciman_AROS.lha util/wb 1.7M x86 manage contact and other info... perciman_MOS.lha util/wb 1.6M MOS manage contact and other info... perciman_OS4.lha util/wb 2.0M OS4 manage contact and other info... (snx) [News message: 11. Jul. 2021, 06:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2021`	OS4Depot uploads until 10.07.2021 The following files have been added until 10.07.2021 to OS4Depot: amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator r2z.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 Test your reaction times perciman.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Person Contact and Information M... (snx) [News message: 11. Jul. 2021, 06:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2021`	AROS Archives uploads until 10.07.2021 The following files have been added until 10.07.2021 to AROS Archives: abcm2ps.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 547kb Converts music tunes from ABC fo... crash.i386-aros.lha dev/uti 44kb "Safely" crashes with ... loschinos.lha gam/chi 4Mb This is the classic spanish game... thewidow.lha gam/mis 18Mb Game Terror Paranormal Adventure perciman_aros.lha off/mis 2Mb manage contact and other informa... rnoarchive.i386-aros.lha uti/arc 2Mb Graphical archive manager. snapit.lha uti/mis 507kb Powerful MUI-based Screen Grabber (snx) [News message: 11. Jul. 2021, 06:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2021`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 10.07.2021 The following files have been added until 10.07.2021 to MorphOS-Storage: SDLPoP_1.22.lha Games/Adventure SDLPoP is an open-sourc... R2Z_1.6.lha Games/Misc A software to measure t... Wayfarer_2.3.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ... PerCIMan_0.7.3.lha Office/Organizer A program to manage con... (snx) [News message: 11. Jul. 2021, 06:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2021`	WHDLoad: New installers until 10.07.2021 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 10.07.2021: 2021-07-08 improved: The Secret of Monkey Island / Monkey Island (Lucasfilm Games) fixed music going too fast for some machines (Info) 2021-07-07 improved: Simon The Sorcerer (Adventure Soft) supports italian version and can be run with ntsc option, install script updated (Info) 2021-07-07 improved: Incredible Shrinking Sphere (Electric Dreams) slave doesn't need kickstart anymore, trainers added, QuitKey support on 68000 (Info) 2021-07-04 improved: Dizzy Prince of the Yolkfolk (Code Masters) 68000 quitkey, uses less memory, music fixed, joypad controls added, skip intro (Info) 2021-07-04 improved: Shadow of the Beast 3 (Psygnosis) joypad controls improved (Info) (snx) [News message: 11. Jul. 2021, 06:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jul.2021` Sven Scheele (ANF)	Event: Interface XXVIII in Kiel (Germany) on 07.08.2021 On saturday, August 7 2021, the retro computer event "Interface" is taking place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. Organised as usual by Vintage Computer Club (VCC), Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and Computer-Club Klausdorf (CCK), further information can be found in the german version of this news-item. (snx) [News message: 11. Jul. 2021, 06:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jul.2021` AmigaLove	ADF support for AmigaOS 1.3: DiskMimic Chris Brenner writes: "This software was created to fill in a missing feature of OS 1.3: the ability to mount ADF images. It allows you to directly read and write ADF images stored on your hard drive. Although it was intended to work with ADF images, there is no reason why this software shouldn't work with other types of disk images as well, as long as you have a suitable file system and enough space on your hard drive. The main idea behind this software is to create soft drives that work just like any other Amiga drive that supports removable media. The drive is mounted, usually at startup, and then disk images can be inserted and ejected as if they were real physical disks. Up to thirty-two drives are supported." System requirements: Amiga with OS 1.3 reqtools.library 37.600 (attached) den.font 6 point (attached) Hard disk or other form of mass storage The Amiga user 'intric8' has published a detailed and illustrated report including a video for the Amiga site 'AmigaLove'. Among other things he specifies that the diskmimic.device supports up to 32 drives, but the Disk Mimic GUI can handle "only" 8. (dr) (Translation: bb) [News message: 10. Jul. 2021, 09:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jul.2021` Aminet	Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.8.12 / Shot'em up in 33 Minutes (Video) RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, 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. YouTuber 'kerrichal' demonstrates in a video how to create a shot'em up game within 33 minutes using RedPill. Changes since version 0.8.10: FIX: When camera position moves abruptly, it was causing graphical corruption. FIX: Fix in Level Editor screen, some buttons not working when a lot of objects were used. FIX: Fix in Square Grid Slice in Spritesheet screen. Added shortcuts for Level objects in the object editor, to easily see the used ones and navigate quickly to one of them. Objects have two internal variables Custom 1 and 2, now their name can be changed and the trigger name will change too for readability. Added action trigger Tile Type is that checks the collision type of the tile where the object is. Added exception handling that will exit the editor or game when low on chip ram or other exceptions. Level exits have been moved to the Level Properties tab. Change in scrolling routine when processing the left part of the map. Added Shotemup example in the projects folder. FIX: In Change Type trigger, not working as expected. FIX: In Change Tile trigger, now working fine when the tile was not on screen. FIX: In Change Icon trigger, it was not working properly. (dr) (Translation: bb) [News message: 10. Jul. 2021, 07:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jul.2021` Amigans	Puzzle game: ArtPazz 1.1 (AGA) In ArtPazz, the goal is to put the jumbled pieces of each classic painting back in their original place by moving them around (video). The puzzle game was created with AMOS Professional for AGA-Amigas and is free, but the author also allows you to pay a voluntary price. Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has now released version 1.1, which includes the following changes: Changed keyboard handling so that the system keyboard speed is not altered after quitting the game. Improved font handling. Recompiled against ALS v2.0. Touched up music (in particular, removed the A#3 and B3 notes crackling, and lots of pops). Improved icons. Revised manual. (dr) (Translation: bb) [News message: 10. Jul. 2021, 07:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jul.2021`	ALS 1.96/2.0: Screen overlay Recently Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua announced an AGA specialized version of his AMOS Layers system, which he has now released as version 2.0. He also updated the previous version supporting OCS and ECS. He writes: "As recently announced, here is ALS v2, whose main difference from the previous versions is that it is AGA-only and therefore can benefit from faster and smaller code (the compiled binary is about 3.5 kB smaller). Besides the work done to switch to AGA-only, there are a few more improvements, many of which also made it into the new v1 library (v1 was supposed to be the end of the line, but I still couldn't resist fixing/improving what issues came up during development). The changelogs below show the changes in detail: v2.0 (6.7.2021) Removed useless code from ALS_COPY_PALETTE_SEGMENT[]. Removed OCS/ECS code. Removed OCS/ECS palettes support. Removed ALS_CHIPSETID, ALS_MAXLAYERCOLORSNUMBER, ALS_MAXPLANESNUMBER, ALS_PALETTECOLORSNUMBER, ALS_ADDRESSABLECOLORSNUMBER. Optimized code for AGA. Optimized ALS_SET_DISPLAY_COLORS_FROM_PALETTE[], ALS_SET_DISPLAY_COLORS_RANGE_FROM_PALETTE[] and ALS_SET_DISPLAY_COLORS_RANGE_FROM_PALETTE_SEGMENT[] a lot. Added ALS_BUILD_DISPLAY_COPPERLIST_HEAD[] and ALS_BUILD_DISPLAY_COPPERLIST_TAIL[]. Made various other improvements. Revised/extended manual. v1.96 (6.7.2021) Removed useless code from ALS_COPY_PALETTE_SEGMENT[]. Optimized ALS_SET_DISPLAY_COLORS_FROM_PALETTE[] a little bit. Added ALS_BUILD_DISPLAY_COPPERLIST_HEAD[] and ALS_BUILD_DISPLAY_COPPERLIST_TAIL[]. Made various other improvements. Revised/extended manual. I tested both versions extensively through their test/demo programs and with the help of ArtPazz and Follix. All tests were done on a real Amiga 1200 (with and without accelerator card) and in UAE and ran both as interpreted and compiled programs. No problems were found, so it looks like the massive work didn't break anything." (dr) [News message: 09. Jul. 2021, 09:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jul.2021` Amigaworld.net (forum)	U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Database entry for Amiga mark updated Already earlier this year, the "Amiga" trademark had been transferred to Amiga Corporation by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with regard to the USA (amiga-news.de reported). However, the USPTO trademarks database still had to be updated. This has been done meanwhile at the title link. Also for two further Amiga marks finalisation is imminent: the checkmark as well as the boing ball are to be published end of this month (at the websites linked, please click on "Status"; further information can be found at the "Prosecution History" entry). (snx) [News message: 09. Jul. 2021, 08:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jul.2021`	RTG-Driver: P96 v3.1.0 The graphics card driver P96 has been updated to version 3.1.0. The update is available free of charge for existing customers who have purchased the driver in the last 12 months. Jens Schönfeld writes about this new version: "The new version of P96 is available for download for all existing customers - just download the file again from the order history. New customers please log in to the store, because download products are only visible for logged in users. In this version, for the first time, the Amiga chipset remains active, even when the focus is on an RTG screen. This gives the appearance of a multi-monitor system, even though you cannot move windows from one monitor to the other, as is common with more modern systems. The Pixel64 driver has been corrected: Older drivers from unknown sources on the net did not allocate enough memory, so the mouse pointer appeared broken. Also, the ateobus.library is now used if it is available. However, the driver also works without this library. The CV643D driver has been completely rewritten. Display problems in high resolutions no longer exist, and all modes are activated in Z2 mode. The 24-bit BGR mode is active again, even if screendragging is not possible with it. However, there is a new (!) planar mode, hardware-assisted line drawing is corrected, IRQs in Z2 mode are possible, and many other little things are corrected or implemented. The CVisionPPC driver had a small bug when drawing lines, which has been corrected. For the changes in detail, please refer to the English version that we have published in our support forum." (dr) (Translation: bb) [News message: 09. Jul. 2021, 06:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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