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Archive 01/2022

`22.Jan.2022`	Graphics card: Presale of ZZ9000 for ninth batch In his online shop, Lukas F. Hartmann has updated the item describtion of the graphics card ZZ9000 which now says: "Parts for all cards sold so far (Batch 8) are in stock and production is in progress. We have reopened pre-sales for Batch 9 which we expect for a June 2022 shipping target. Before buying, please keep in mind that due to the global chip shortage, additional delays can happen. We will ship your card eventually, but patience is key." He also reported yesterday on Twitter that the delivery of the first batch of the ZZ9000AX sound module is slightly delayed (mid/end-February) due to the complicated manufacturing of the ZZ9000->AX cable and the manufacturer's overload before the Spring Festival. (dr) [News message: 22. Jan. 2022, 16:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jan.2022`	Free motherboard design: Rämixx500 available in shops The Rämixx500 is an open hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ motherboard, revision 8A.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the developer SukkoPera is already intensively working on the V2 of his project and thus further modifications (see also the Developer Blog), the V1 is still the last official release. For that the developer has crossed out his warnings ("THIS BOARD IS UNTESTED!!! IT MIGHT NOT WORK AT ALL! It might kill your cat or burn your house down. You have been warned."), noting now that this version of the board has been tested and works well - "apart from a couple of very minor issues". However, he could not recommend using this version of the board, even if it worked. Instead, one should download the project documents and check them for errors. If that is too much trouble for you, you can order already produced boards. Both the German pcb4diy.de and the Irish store Sordan offer the board for around 34 and 28 Euros, respectively, plus shipping. (dr) [News message: 22. Jan. 2022, 14:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jan.2022`	Motorola68k emulation: Status update on Emu68 Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon page. In yesterday's entry he reports about video driver, SD card driver, EmuControl and bug fixes. Finally he has pointed out to some tutorials he has started writing: WiP collection of information Tutorials: He described there step by step how to prepare an SD card for Emu68 which will be used as Hard drive on AmigaOS and how to set up RTG (dr) [News message: 22. Jan. 2022, 08:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`22.Jan.2022` Amigans	AmigaOS 4: Software performance profiler 'Profyler' for developers As the author Mike Steed wrote, Profyler "is a software performance profiler - or profiler for short - for AmigaOS 4. It allows the execution speed of the various functions that make up a program to be measured, facilitating optimization of the program to improve its performance. More specifically, Profyler is a deterministic profiler, which adds code to the program being profiled in order to implement the profiling functionality. It uses the -finstrument-functions feature of the GCC compiler, which means that it only works with C and C++ programs compiled with GCC. It also means that a program must be compiled and then linked with LibProfyle in order to be profiled; you can't profile a program that you can't compile." (dr) [News message: 22. Jan. 2022, 05:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jan.2022` D4XX REMIX	Game soundtrack: Jaguar XJ220 remix album released After his Turrican remix album, Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann has released the Jaguar XJ220 remix album today. The remixed soundtrack, taken from the Amiga game of the same name, can be purchased as a digital album for 2 Euros (or more). (dr) [News message: 21. Jan. 2022, 19:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jan.2022` Amiga Future (website)	Full version for download: Oktalyzer 1.57 On the Amiga Future website the full version of Armin Sander's eight-track tracker Oktalyzer is available for free download. It is the latest release, version 1.57, published in 1991. (snx) [News message: 21. Jan. 2022, 14:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Jan.2022` Twitter	Shoot'em up: Fourht demo version of Jackal NeesoGames has released the fourth demo version of its game Jackal, created with the Scorpion Engine. The shoot 'em up was also submitted as an entry for AmiGameJam 2021. Changes since third demo version: No loading times between the menu and briefing screen Intro waiting time reduced to 6 seconds Updated credits Big copter animated at mission start New type of vehicle bullets Regular POWs Powerup indicator Soldiers are thrown out of the jeep when it explodes Rescue copter flies away when all POWs are delivered Level 2 preview (playable to the end but no boss fight and some enemies are missing) Many bugfixes and improvements (dr) [News message: 20. Jan. 2022, 13:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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