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15.Feb.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)

TCP/IP stack: Roadshow 1.15 released
Press release: "Slightly delayed by only 18 months (we are getting faster), the free Roadshow TCP/IP stack 1.15 update is now available to all customers.

This update is focused on improving installation and maintenance tasks, as well as making the installation documentation more useful and accessible. The single documentation file, still small in 2014, became increasingly unwieldy and has become a set of shorter files, each focused on one single aspect of Roadshow. By request, new documentation has been added which details all the files which will be installed for Roadshow.

The single installation script, which combined several tasks, became a set of scripts, each with its own task. The new update script will take care of upgrading an older Roadshow installation (versions 1.9-1.14) as well of upgrading a currently installed demo version to the commercial version.

New commands have been added to automatically find and install network device configuration files and fix errors & defects in the many configuration files Roadshow uses. You may no longer need to find and install the network device configuration files to match your network devices all by yourself.

By request, a 'compact' Roadshow installation disk image (1.76 MByte high-density) is available for the first time, containing a 'reduced' version of the full installation archive. The 'compact' installation is restricted to software built for all Amigas (68000 CPU or better) and omits the large reference documentation.

As before, bug fixes and smaller enhancements have been made, which are detailed in the installation documentation. Some of the bugs resisted detection for more than 20 years... Starting with this Roadshow version, all the commands (in particular ftp, wget and tcpdump) consistently work under Kickstart 2.04, assuming that sufficient memory is available.

The new Roadshow software development kit (SDK), version 1.8, is also available for download. It contains much more example source code than before, including source code for all the new Roadshow commands. The vbcc compiler is fully supported for the first time and the existing gcc compiler support has been significantly improved.

Our thanks go to the beta testers and forum members who helped to make this update possible and to spark the ideas which led to the creation of the new Roadshow commands, the 'compact' installation and the reworked installation documentation!

Roadshow ist available in three formats:

as a digital download
on CD-ROM
on USB card (FAT32-formatted medium)

The CD-ROM and USB card versions include a digital download for Roadshow.

If you already bought the digital download, you can upgrade to the CD ROM or the USB card version for 4,90 €, plus shipping, in our online shop.

If you bought the CD-ROM version, you can 'upgrade' to the USB card version for 4,90 €, plus shipping, in our online shop. The same holds true if you bought the USB card version and wish to 'upgrade' to the CD-ROM version.

Careful: In order to order an upgrade, you need to do so with the same online shop account which you previously bought Roadshow with.

Roadshow update: To receive the free update from Roadshow, simply log into your account at snx)

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14.Feb.2024
'psquaredish' Platformer: Playable demo of "Silhouette Threat" for AGA Amigas
Three weeks ago, we introduced the platformer "Silhouette Threat", which 'psquaredish' is developing together with his daughter for AGA computers with the Scorpion Engine. Now he has released a playable demo version of the first level (YouTube video). (dr)

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13.Feb.2024

AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 2
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the second release candidate of version 2.30.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes:

Add "dead key" support.
Add checkkeys test program.
Improve installer.
Update documentation.

Download: SDL2.lha (7,0 MB) (dr)

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13.Feb.2024
ANF

AROS distribution: AROS One 2.4 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One" (screenshot), which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.4 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found.

This is the most stable AROS x86 version to date, with many bug fixes relating to Wanderer and hardware compatibility, the list of which has since been further revised. Above all, however, the distribution has now been compiled with the C library, which makes porting and compiling easier for developers, but requires to be installed from scratch because it is no longer compatible with the old core and the old software included in the contrib archive. Thus own configurations of the included software must therefore be saved and reinstalled manually.

Changes:

Update AROS One OS System:

Update Descriptor Datatypes (Image File)
Update Dopus4 Config
Update ZuneARC (Fixated LZH Archive)
New BootSound (Presets/BootSounds)
Add Menu GRUB "Early Startup Control"
Update OWB Config (fixed Fonts)

Update AROS One Apps:

Icondrop 1.1.0 (Creating DualPNG icons)
SCANdal 1.4
VorbisTools 1.4.0
JCalc 0.4
IconDropx86 1.2
Image2PDF 2.5
Potrace 1.16
Dcraw 8.89
Memeter 2.2
WorldTime 1.31
RNOEffects 2.0
Demos Mindlapse
Sacrificio Pagano 2.10
MCC_Thebar 26.22
Protrekkr 2.6.4
Sonos Controller 1.3
LoView 2024
World Construction Set 2.031

Update AROS One Games:

Abbaye Des Morts
WormWars
AstralGame

Updates Core ABIv0:

Functionalities:

Introduce new C library, synchronized with 64-bit AROS (deadwood)
Allow linux hosted AROS to work under WSL (Kalamatee)
Better default mouse cursor image (JuanDoble07)
Early Boot Menu made more functional (JuanDoble07, Kalamatee)

Updates:

AROS build system (deadwood)
Italian and Polish translations (AMIGASYSTEM, subocz)
Prefs/Boot 1.4 (deadwood)

Functional fixes:

Wanderer (bugs: #107) (deadwood)
fat-handler (bugs: #107) (deadwood)
intuition.library (bugs: no auto scroll up screen) (JuanDoble07)
dos.library (bugs: NOMOUNT partitions are automounted, wrong path copying) (JuanDoble07, Ronnie Beck)
exec.library (bugs: infinite crash loop) (deadwood)
dos.library (bugs: #60) (deadwood)
utility.library (bugs: #63) (deadwood)
stdlib.library (bugs: wrong support for '*' in sscanf) (deadwood)

Stability fixes:

muimaster.library (deadwood)
debug-handler (deadwood)

(snx)

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13.Feb.2024

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb V2.6
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.

In this update mainly file usage was improved. Changes:

import previously unmountable files on a disk (DD/HD 880KB/1.76MB), e.g. single files such as demo.lha (YouTube video), todos.txt, space_ship.iff, blitter_force.asm
extended ADF files are recognized by header bytes regardless of its file extension
select files from zip folders, improved zip file support
upgraded to most recent vAmigaCore v2.6 for increased machine compatibility

(dr)

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13.Feb.2024

Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.1)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). This second early demo version he calls "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) having more than 80 enemies in less than a minute playtime. The game should run on an Amiga 500.

Direct download: NeonWorld.adf.zip (93 KB) (dr)

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