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08.Sep.2021
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.3.0
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. Changes in version 1.3.0:

Added

Added right sidebar with station info and avatar image, wherever the image is available
Added a new menu item to check for newer versions and start a selfupdate, if the user approves it. There is a way to see the latest changes before update.
Added a new message in case the "Discover More" button is clicked and no more stations were found

Fixed

Now the radio list is cleared if the search criteria change and no radio stations are found
Now the list is not cleared if the "Discover More" button is clicked and no more stations were found
Fixed a possible crash on window closing

Changed

Dropped oo.library network support for libcurl, which more mature and has a lot more options and features. Unfortunately that increased the executable size a lot.
Now oo.library and AmiSSL are not required
Fixed the version string to include the application name
Added a play button at the right sidebar which is enabled as soon as the user selects a radio station. By clicking it the radio will be loaded at the default player. The double click on the radio list was disabled.
On every request of radio stations, a list of 100 stations are returned and listed

(dr)

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07.Sep.2021
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RxEnv: Tools for the ARexx development environment (update)
Already for a longer time Carl Svensson has been dealing with ARexx programming language and for example had released a minimaltic GUI 'mp3Play' for the MP3 player "MPEGA" or a little WWW server 'gW3S'. Meanwhile these tools are not available any longer since, according to the author, he had to rewrite them and the required hardware - e.g. a network card - is not available anymore.

Now he has released tools for the ARexx development environment called RxEnv. He has written:

"Coding in ARexx on the Amiga can be great fun. It's a quirky little language by modern standards, nevertheless I find it to be a highly enjoyable experience. Still, ARexx was born in 1987, and it lacks many of the comforts we take for granted when working with younger scripting languages.

I've always felt that it's suffered greatly from the inability to include other scripts, allowing the programmer to build a small library of functions that can complement the built-ins. I also frequently miss a Read, Eval, Print Loop.

The best way to remedy this is of course to solve the problem yourself: A preprocessor and a REPL.

The preprocessor allows for the inclusion of ARexx "modules" - collections of native ARexx functions - in other ARexx scripts.

The REPL supports multi-line statements (so called "buffers"), will automatically print the result of any single statement returning a value and traps errors without touching the current variable scope. The REPL itself is written in ARexx and should run on any Amiga capable of running ARexx."

Version 1.0 of RxEnv was released under the 3.0 license.
Download: RxEnv10.lha (35kByte)

Update: (12:03, 09.09.21, dr)
The author has added some explanations:

"The main difference between rxpp and external functions is that with rxpp, the included functions will keep the scope of the including script. This means that included functions will have access to stems/compounds and other global variables, and that they will share SIGNAL, OPTIONS, NUMERIC, ADDRESS etc." (dr)

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07.Sep.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF) Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 152
The English and German issue 152 (September/October 2021) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.

Content of the current issue includes reviews of "Bean versus the Animator", "Turbo Tomato" and "Silk Dust". (snx)

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06.Sep.2021 Dread: First public demo version of Doom clone
For a while the developer and demoscene member Krzysztof Kluczek is working in his spare time on the Doom clone 'Dread'. So far only several videos were published showing the latest progresses (1, 2, amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday he has published a new video on YouTube which demonstrates how the game runs on a native Amiga 500 and 1200 but also a first public demo version for Amiga and Atari ST. The corresponding links are listed in the description of the video. You can support the author on his Patreon site. (dr)

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