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`16.Jan.2022`	Aminet uploads until 15.01.2022 The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to Aminet: HippoPlayerIR.zip docs/hard 29K 68k Wirelessly controlled HippoPl... TilesSlide.lha game/actio 82K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of the same c... bsaog.lha game/shoot 806K 68k Blake Stone Aliens of Gold bsps.lha game/shoot 209K 68k Blake Stone Planet Strike FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 18M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4 AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul... AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul... TECO-64.lha text/edit 601K MOS TECO (Text Editor and Corrector) avalanche.lha util/arc 26K 68k Simple ReAction GUI for xadma... Deark.lha util/arc 3.7M MOS Extracting data from various ... Albatros.lha util/boot 34K 68k Lock your AMIGA by a keyword TestProgram.zip util/misc 458K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program Anno.lha util/time 274K 68k Reminder and calendar utility StartWin.lha util/wb 126K 68k A bugged workbench launch bar (snx) [News message: 16. Jan. 2022, 08:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2022`	OS4Depot uploads until 15.01.2022 The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to OS4Depot: amigaamp3.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.1 Multi format audio player with GUI milkytracker-sdl2.lha aud/tra 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 version of an FT2 compatibl... sdk-53.1-gdb.lha dev/deb 2Mb 4.0 Working GDB 6.3 from SDK 53.1 reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reaction C Library arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &... amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator foundation_patch.lha gam/str 100kb 4.0 Patch for Foundation GOLD to fix... flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 18Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ... shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders amitube_ita.lha net/mis 5kb 4.0 Italian catalog for AmiTube deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil... litexl.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte... (snx) [News message: 16. Jan. 2022, 08:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2022`	AROS Archives uploads until 15.01.2022 The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to AROS Archives: iconclone.i386-aros.zip uti/wor 23kb Drag-n-Drop Icons or use FileReq... (snx) [News message: 16. Jan. 2022, 08:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2022`	MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.01.2022 The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage: dis8080.lha Development/Cross Disassembler for Intel ... SDL_2.0.20_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.2... FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.3WI... Emulation Titles and Preview pack... FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.3WI... Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula... Deark_1.6.0.lha Files/Archive Extracting data from va... (snx) [News message: 16. Jan. 2022, 08:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2022`	WHDLoad: New installers until 15.01.2022 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 15.01.2022: 2022-01-14 improved: The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Capstone) support for another version added (Info) 2022-01-14 fixed: Gloom (Black Magic) install script fixed (Info) 2022-01-14 improved: Breach 2 (Omnitrend Software) supports another version (Info) 2022-01-13 improved: Gloom (Black Magic) supports Classic version of Gloom Deluxe (Info) 2022-01-10 updated: Dogs of War (Elite Systems) new imager, enhanced controls, added splash options (Info) 2022-01-10 improved: Desert Strike (Electronic Arts) support for 3-joystick button, fixed potential sound issues (Info) 2022-01-10 improved: All Terrain Racing (Team 17) added 3-button support, fixed install script (Info, Image) (snx) [News message: 16. Jan. 2022, 08:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2022` Amiga Future (Webseite)	Event: Amiga37 announced Markus Tillmann writes (translation): "After the 2015, 2017 and 2019 events in Neuss, the fourth major German Amiga event will take place in 2022 with Amiga37 Germany. Compared to previous years, however, it will no longer be held in the Rheinisches Landestheater, but now in the Kunstwerk in Mönchengladbach. The location there offers more space, which means that both the exhibitors will have more room, and more visitor tickets can be offered. The concept remains the same and it will be a mixture of user meetings, trade fair, lectures and much more! The duration will also remain the same - so keep the weekend of 15 and 16 October 2022 in mind! Besides numerous exhibitors - such as APC&TCP, the Apollo team, Alinea, ACube and Return magazine - well-known Amiga guests from Germany and abroad are expected again. The main sponsor of the event is again A-EON/Trevor Dickinson. A webpage and further information are not yet available. But we will keep you up to date." Update: (08:40, 12.05.22, snx) Title link added, since the website has been created meanwhile. (snx) [News message: 16. Jan. 2022, 08:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2022` ANF	Looking for demand: Zorro II/III graphics card with SAGA At the title link, in the forum of a1k.org, Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo team) is looking for interest in a graphics card based on the FPGA chipset of the Vampire turbo cards for Amigas with Zorro II or Zorro III slots. In prospect are the known SAGA graphics modes including a full HD resolution at 60 hertz and the new SAGA 3D functions, video acceleration, 16-bit audio and inclusion of the Amiga video signal for HDMI output. Since the drivers (P96/AHI) were already available and practically all other components were also at hand, the project could be completed relatively quickly if there was sufficient interest to buy one - allegedly even as early as this summer. (snx) [News message: 16. Jan. 2022, 08:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2022` David Brunet (ANF)	Obligement: Update of Amiga Games List The Amiga Games List, a document created and maintained by David Brunet since April 1991, has been updated on January 13th 2022 with the publication of its 52nd edition. Among other new features and corrections, games published or updated in 2021 have been added, and games created with Project Horizon and Irrlicht Engine are now counted. In addition, the "Mozilla" and "Professional" licences have been added; the latter concerns games intended for professional use, e.g. medical. The total now reaches 13,539 entries, be it games, level editors, data disks, extensions and interpreters, which are distributed as follows: 12.910 games 347 extensions and data disks 148 game or level editors 134 interpreters (snx) [News message: 16. Jan. 2022, 08:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2022` Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)	AROS: Update of 68k distribution Aros Vision Since our previous news-item, Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision four times. Besides a new version of the Hippo Player, a CD-ROM filesystem and further programs regarding CDs, CRC checksums, encoding and decoding, virus protection as well as a font editor and viewer have been added. Furthermore, iGame is working again now. Meanwhile, also a HDF version of the distribution is available. Like users of the UAE version, also those using the HDF version can update the distribution out of itself by choosing System/Install/Update from the menu. The startup-sequence and user-startup files won't be changed. For first-time installation it is recommended to copy the libraries bullet.library and rexxsyslib.library from AmigaOS 3.1 to Libs: and the command rexxmast to C: and to use the Installer 43.3 by Amiga Technologies (Aminet) for installation. WHDLoad is pre-installed using AROS ROMs; for full support, you will need original Kickstart ROMs (description). (snx) [News message: 16. Jan. 2022, 08:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2022` Prince (Mail)	Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Debugging using the Visual Code Extension 'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly). As part of another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. In the episode Debugging using the Visual Code Extension by Paul Raingeard he shows how to set up and apply the Amiga Assembly for Visual Studio Code extension. (dr) [News message: 15. Jan. 2022, 20:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2022`	Web emulator: vAmigaWeb For quite some time we have been reporting about vAmiga, an Amiga emulator for MacOS that emulates the classic Amigas 500, 1000 and 2000. Based on this code, two web ports have been developed in the last months: vAmigaWeb and vAmiga (online). We had already mentioned both in our article Emulation: vAmiga as web port and tested the latter in more detail. The subject of today's article is the web implementation vAmigaWeb by the developer 'mithrendal'. As the author explains to us, it had already become apparent during the development and design of his predecessor project VirtualC64 Web that a desktop app must have different characteristics than one that wants to cover all device classes. These are as follows: adapts to devices with different sizes (keyword responsive design) virtual touch joystick virtual touch mouse virtual keyboard custom action buttons that let you build your own onscreen buttons these can be stored with user-defined scripts for controlling e.g. continuous fire. You can even design your own 'bot controls', which is made possible by querying and processing the enemy sprite positions in your own custom script. A corresponding script editor with syntax highlighting and intelligent code completion is built in. runs on all browsers of the last 4 years including on iPhone/iPad-Safari vAmiga (online) by Christian Corti, on the other hand, aims at a 1:1 adaptation of the Mac desktop version of Dirk Hoffmann's vAmiga, i.e. porting the elegant desktopUI of the Mac to the web. Due to its design, it does not support mobile device classes or not to the full extent. According to Corti, the purpose of vAmiga (online) is to be used on a real desktop with keyboard and mouse connected. vAmigaWeb, on the other hand, is also very usable on the go on a cell phone or with a tablet (on the couch). vAmiga (online) on the other hand will still get quite a few features of the Mac version, such as various inspectors for CPU, blitter, etc…. Both versions support the saving of snapshots, i.e. game states: At any point in a game, you can save the game state using 'take snapshot' and thus conveniently bypass loading times. This is especially useful at a very difficult part of a game, where you try tirelessly to defeat the 'final enemy'. Having saved the score shortly beforehand, you can always try your luck from there. Taking snapshots can also be assigned to keys, e.g. the key 's' can be used to save the game state and the key 'r' (reload) to restore it. These key assignments can be created using the action buttons, the '+' icon in the menu bar. Having reached this point, one or the other is surely eager to simply test the web emulator. Therefore, we do without screenshots and recommend two different variants instead: Those (experts) who would like to take a closer look at the emulator and test their favorite game are advised to use the direct start. All others who first want to get an idea and comfortably see the emulator in action are recommended to visit the website especially created for vAmigaWeb: Here you get the pleasure of seeing another feature live in action: The emulator embedded, i.e. integrated, in a website. Here done and ready configured for a demo, three games - brandnew here the Knightmare Amiga port, which was released just four days ago - and SysInfo. Our test showed that we could basically run all games smoothly with our Samsung laptop with Intel Core i3-2330M processor, but we experienced sound jitters during the demo and when we additionally moved the mouse during the Celtic Heart game. Presumably, two cores are not sufficient here. The author would be happy to receive more empirical values in this regard. Having asked the author how he actually came up with this project idea, he said: "I participated in the iAmiga project in 2016, which is a native Amiga emulator for iOS. But since it is only based on an outdated version of WinUAE, it has many compatibility issues, some of which I was able to fix (by patching back current WINUAE source code) but overall it was difficult. Then there was the possibility to take completely the current WinUAE code (like FS-UAE by Frode Solheim) but the source code is so complex and "grown" over decades. In 2019, Prof. Dirk Hoffmann started writing this completely rewritten, highly efficient vAmigaCore. He bought some real Amigas (I still had an old A1000) to have test candidates to benchmark the emulation against, if it is really accurate. I was bothered by the fact that Apple does not allow emulators in the Appstore and the 'free provisioning certificates' for developers only work for 7 days, so I came to PWAs, the ProgressiveWebApp standard from Google, with which you can build quasi native apps in HTML5. So the step to compile the source code from Dirk into a WebAssembly (binary code) was obvious. The so installed PWA on Android or iOS is executed many times faster than for example Rupert Hausberger's Scripted Amiga Emulator. First, however, the VirtualC64 Web was created in 2019. You can also integrate it into your own web pages as well as a Youtube player." (dr) [News message: 15. Jan. 2022, 09:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2022` Christian Zigotzky (Mail)	Linux: Kernel 5.16 für AmigaOne X1000/X5000 The final Linux kernel 5.16 is available. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The Image can be downloaded in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum. (dr) [News message: 14. Jan. 2022, 05:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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