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`13.Jan.2022` Trevor Dickinson	Trevor Dickinson on: A1222+/Enhancer V2.x/From Vultures to Vampires Vol 2 In response to our inquiry, Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) provided a brief summary of the current status of some projects: A1222plus motherboard Hardware works as expected, including network and audio DVD drive support still problematic at the moment Board now can boot Workbench Performance like the original beta board: all popular software (e.g. Odyssey and IBrowse, but also the latest DVDPlayer version) as well as A-EON's 2D and 3D graphics drivers including the latest Enhancer 2.1 release are supported. The A1222+ uses the latest uboot firmware written by Mark Olsen, which provides additional variables such as reduction in the number of Boing Ball animation and generally faster boot time. production start and planned availability not set yet: currently preparing early adopter production depending on component availability Enhancer Software V54 further updates are in progress after the release of version 2.1 (e.g. integration of AmiSSL 4.11, improved Warp2D library). The 14th alpha build of V54 was released to beta testers on January 4. Release in the course of the year Two installation variants possible: over the existing OS4 installation (similar to current version 2.1) on a separate Enhancer partition, from which can be booted by default (the OS4 installation CD is required once for this purpose). It is unclear which components are used or copied temporarily or permanently. LibreOffice Trevor speaks of "a long and expensive journey which I am hoping is coming to a satisfactory conclusion". record a video of Libre Office in action planned. Soon: widen the beta test programme to accelerate the the first release. From Vultures to Vampires, volume 2 at the moment Kickstarter campaign for financing the second volume until 24. Januar 2022 Initiated by David John Pleasance, who also focuses on all administration, including contacting printers Trevor Dickinson is not involved in the Kickstarter campaign and is not accepting any funds from the Kickstarter campaign or future book sales. He is 3/4 finished writing volume 2 covering the years 2005 to 2021 currently about 6.400 Euro are given from required 18.000 E-Books available from the end of February with signature if desiredr ubsidizing shipping costs for buyers outside GB (dr) [News message: 13. Jan. 2022, 06:39] [Comments: 2 - 18. Jan. 2022, 11:50] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jan.2022` Ko-fi	AmigaOS 4: 'Lite XL' editor 1.16.12.7 At the end of last year, George Sokianos had announced with the release of version v1.16.12.3 that he had started porting the editor 'Lite XL', which originates from the Linux world (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday he released the for the time being last update to v1.16.12.7 for this version branch and writes the following about it: "Today I did the last release of Lite XL for AmigaOS 4.1. Don't worry, I am not stopping working on this fine editor. On the contrary. I will stop working on the v1.16.12 source branch so to focus on the latest available version. The last few days I managed to port Lua 5.3 and Lua 5.4, as well as the PCRE2. Although the newer versions of Lua are not necessary yet, the PCRE2 is one of the mandatory libraries needed. All of them are highly experimental, and not tested thoroughly, but I am happy I managed to finish them. In the new v1.16.12.7 release, which is already available to be downloaded from my Git repository and OS4Depot, I did a few changes that might help with the SDL to use the Gfx Card in a better way, which will increase the overall speed. Also, I included a few plugins and colour schemas that are tested and working fine with this version, in case you would like to add some extra features or make it look better for you. I updated the README_OS4 file where you can find more information about all these additions, how to use them and a couple of tips 'n tricks that might help you. I hope it will keep you occupied until the next major release, which is going to be epic. If you want to track the progress of Lite XL v2 development, you can always check https://git.walkero.gr/walkero/lite-xl/issues/12 or make sure to watch this page, since I am going to update you frequently. Finally, I would like to thank you once more for your generous support. The motivation I get from you all is inexpressible." (dr) [News message: 12. Jan. 2022, 05:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jan.2022`	RTG driver: P96 V3.2.2 released Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) wrote: "The RTG driver P96 enjoys growing popularity: More then 40 paid downloads (more than a third of them for the full price or more) during the weeks since version V3.2.0 has been published, have taken us over the threshold of 30% cost coverage since we've taken ownership of the software in 2016. We'd like to send a big thank-you to the Amiga community for strong support and detailed bug reports in our support forum, which help us improve the software on a regular basis." Changes: Version 3.2.2 attempts one more time to deal with broken software: If a program like Descent opens a planar screen mode, but combines it with chunky rendering routines, the new version 3.2.2 can display a correct picture despite this evident software error. Sprite colours are now switched if the sprite travels from one screen to another in a split-screen environment. This fixes the colour of the mouse pointer during screen dragging. masked blitting of planar bitmaps has been fixed: This fixes the "Palette"-preferences program. If a split-screen (dragged screen) is used on a PIV-card, the video-window will not be disabled, but will pan together with the front screen. Note that P96 currently does not support video or memory windows on the back screen. (dr) [News message: 11. Jan. 2022, 22:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Jan.2022` Twitter	Vertical shooter: Amiga port of 'Knightmare' released (update) The musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' had released the final version of his amiga version of the game 'Metal Gear' last year (amiga-news.de reported). Also originally written for the MSX and published by Konami was the vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare, of which he released his amiga port today (official video). He wrote: "Originally released in 1986, Knightmare is one of the many classic games produced by Konami for the MSX. It’s the first in a trilogy of games with each edition opting for a different style of gameplay throughout the series. You play as Popolon and your Mission is to rescue Aphrodite from the clutches of the evil Prince of Darkness. You have to fight your way through 8 levels of enemies and bosses along the way to rescue the Goddess of Love and Beauty. The action takes place in the form of a top-down vertical scrolling shoot’em up style including various power-ups along the way". The Amiga port contains the follow features: Original game fully disassembled to ensure accurate gameplay All graphics remastered by Toni Galvez Brand new title and loading screens High quality Amiga Enhanced Sound Effects All levels and bosses have unique Amiga Enhanced soundtracks All new Hi-score table with automatic saving to disk 50hz / 60hz gameplay option Built-in auto-fire Additional secret bonus power-up added ( can you find it? ) Compatible with all Amigas running 512k chip and 512k other ram Download Knightmare v1.1: knightmare-v1.1.zip (9 MB) (9 MB) Download Soundtrack ProTracker: knightmare-soundtrack-mod.zip (1,3 MB) Update: (19.01.2022, 06:39, dr) Meanwhile a bug fixed version 1.1 is available. The download link has been updated. (dr) [News message: 11. Jan. 2022, 19:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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