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11.Mar.2024



Editor: Lite XL 2.1.3r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.1.3r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 (OS4Depot link) and MorphOS. The developer has introduced a new feature in LiteXL that allows switching between ISO and Unicode files while preserving the text. Users can also enter any text in their own language, including umlauts. All changes:

Added:
  • Added AmiUpdate support
  • Added the Tetris plugin
Updated:
  • Updated the code to the upstream 2.1.3 release
  • Compiled with SDL 2.30.0 that supports editing with ISO encodings, other than English. Now the editor should be able to support any language and in conjuction with the codesets plugin be able to make text encodings conversions
  • Now the codesets plugin supports MorphOS 3.18 and above
Changed:
  • Changed the way the "Open in system" option executes the WBRun command in AmigaOS 4, with a more secure way
  • Did a lot of code cleanup in sync with the upstream, and parts of code that were left over
  • Compiled with pcre2 10.42 (MorphOS version only)
Fixed:
  • I did a lot of changes on path manipulation and usage, fixing scanning the root of a partition or an assign path
  • Fixed an error with the codesets plugin, where an empty file could not be opened
  • Improved the folder suggestions when opening projects or changing paths. Now even the root folders of a partition are presented
  • Fixed ghmarkdown plugin, but now requires a GitHub token to be provided
If you want to follow George 'walkero' Sokiano's work on Amiga projects, you can visit his Ko-fi page. (dr)

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11.Mar.2024



Turn-based strategy game: Demo version of "Ecliptic"
Ecliptic is described by the author as a mixture of turn-based tactical combat and role-playing. Visually, it is reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. The player's task is to regain control of a spaceship drifting in space and occupied by aliens. A first demo has now been released.

The game is currently under development and has no sound at the moment. It requires 1MB RAM, recommended is an Amiga 1200 with HD and Fast RAM. (dr)

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10.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (website)


AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
  • Another World, Intro (Vandahlia Special Remix)
  • Dune - Ecolove's Pauls Theme
  • Dune Ecolove (Vandahlia Special Remix)
  • Elvira MotD Upstairs Music (Vandahlia Special Remix)
  • Rambo III Stage 2 Music (Vandahlia Special Remix)
  • Stardust Memories - Nebula Falling
(snx)

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10.Mar.2024



Aminet uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to Aminet:
ellipse_algorhytms.lha   dev/amos   7K        ellipse algorhytms
Rebuild.lha              dev/gui    160K  68k Amiga Reaction GUI Builder
HollywoodSP.lha          dev/hwood  899K      Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
7mezzoadf.zip            game/board 344K  68k Popular Italian Christmas game
gimineadf.zip            game/board 312K  68k classic game of mines 
GIPoker.zip              game/board 307K  68k Poker game 
AmiWordle.lha            game/think 119K  68k Wordle clone for OCS Amiga - ...
2nd-Albireo.ACEpansio... misc/emu   23K   MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
Albireo.ACEpansion.lha   misc/emu   45K   MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   7.0M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Dandanator.ACEpansion... misc/emu   682K  MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
MirageImager.ACEpansi... misc/emu   18K   MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  19M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)

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10.Mar.2024



OS4Depot uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 7Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amigagpt.lha             net/cha 909kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
dnetc.lha                net/mis 783kb 4.0 A distributed.net client
rvncd.lha                net/ser 115kb 4.1 Amiga VNC Server
amienvmon.lha            uti/mis 34kb  4.0 Calls homemade Pico environment ...
(snx)

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10.Mar.2024



AROS Archives uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to AROS-Archiven:
glfw3_4.i386-aros.zip        dev/lib 635kb GLFW is an Open Source, multi-pl...
raylib5.i386-aros.zip        dev/lib 21Mb  A simple and easy-to-use library...
hollywoodsp.lha              dev/mis 899kb Spanish Catalog for Hollywood 10
icarosfix.lha                uti/mis 87Mb  Little fix for icaros v2.3
(snx)

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10.Mar.2024



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Albireo_1.6.lha           Emulation/ACEpansion      Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Dandanator_1.1.lha        Emulation/ACEpansion      Dandanator_1.1.lha
MirageImager_1.2.lha      Emulation/ACEpansion      Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Fallout1-ce_1.1.lha       Games/RPG                 Fallout for modern oper...
Woof_14.2.0.lha           Games/Shoot3D             Woof! is a continuation...
SuDokuL_1.3.lha           Games/Think               Sudoku game for Switch/...
Easy2Install_1.0b50.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
(snx)

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10.Mar.2024



WHDLoad: New installers until 09.03.2024
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 09.03.2024: (snx)

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10.Mar.2024
Dietmar Planitzer (Mail)


Operating system for Amiga 3000/4000: First alpha version of "Serena OS"
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. After another status update at the end of last year, the developer has now renamed his project "Serena OS" and released a first alpha version, about which he kindly wrote us the following:

"Let's start with the most obvious change: Apollo is now called Serena OS.

A few other things have changed over the last few months. Serena now has an API which makes it possible to write (simple) programmes. Dispatch queues, files, directories, pipes as well as clock and timer functions are currently supported. In addition, there is an advanced C standard library (libc) and the beginnings of a C maths library (libm). There is now also a simple shell and a RAM-based file system. The VT52 and VT100 terminal emulation is now also largely complete and the VT52 emulation now also supports the Atari ST extensions. Both VT100 and VT52 emulation now also support multiple colours (in VT52 emulation mode the corresponding Atari ST ESC codes must be used).

At the moment, however, the system still has a very significant limitation: neither floppy disc nor hard disc is currently supported. However, achieving this is the plan for the next stage of the project. It will then be possible to create a programme for Serena on a Windows or Linux computer and then run it on the Amiga under Serena.

I suspect that some of you are wondering what these ominous dispatch queues are?

Dispatch queues are used to run programme parts in parallel. The original Amiga OS provided tasks for this purpose and other operating systems provide threads. Apple's macOS implements dispatch queues on the basis of traditional threads.

The problem with threads and tasks is that programs allocate them, then use them intermittently, then spend most of their time just sitting passively on the thing without actually using it (threads spend a lot of time sleeping). However, a thread always uses memory and kernel resources - whether it's sleeping or actually doing work makes no difference.

Serena is instead built entirely around dispatch queues: Processes manage dispatch queues and dispatch queues do their work with the help of "virtual processors". You can think of a virtual processor as a highly dynamic thread that is not tied to a specific process. Virtual processors are moved back and forth between dispatch queues and processes as required. If a dispatch queue needs to do more work, it gets an additional virtual processor. However, if it does less work, it gives up a virtual processor, which can then be used by another queue in another process." (dr)

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09.Mar.2024



Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.7.0
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).

Darren 'dmcoles' Coles has now released version 3.7.0. Changes:
  • Compiler sometimes produced garbage error message with an error at the very end of the file.
  • Reformatted the Amigaguide document to better fit in 80 columns.
  • added Arexx compile scripts
  • allow creating a new object directly into an object member, eg. self.a:=NEW self.a.method()
  • method table was not correctly initialised for objects declared as eg. DEF a:b OR DEF a[5]:ARRAY OF b
  • heap in compiler is allocated with MEMF_CLEAR in compiler to ensure all data in the exe is initialised to 0 and not contain random data from memory
  • calling a method on an array element of an object did did not calculate the correct address for the method.
  • compiler was creating 020 opcodes when accessing an array of objects
  • added NIL pointer checks when calling methods on array of objects
  • self variable was set incorrectly for methods declared with an exception handler
  • fix issue with wrong opcode being generated in this code DEF a DEF b:PTR TO LONG a:=[0,b[0]:=5] resulting in the value not being stored correctly
  • include textfield module
  • fix bug in reaction_lib with the freeClickTabs, freeChooserLabels and freeRadioButtons functions not looping through the list correctly.
  • add support for long branch 020 instruction.
  • fix invalid memory access when casting the result of a procedure call to an object
  • fix inconsistencies with SIZEOF command
  • fix error in branching code for the == operator
  • add missing listview module
  • add some extra functions in reaction_lib (openClass, openLibs, closeLibs, libDoGadgetMethodA)
  • added PSIZEOF operator
  • added ARRAYSIZE operator
  • added SelectFirst function
  • added debug symbols for methods
  • allow CONT and EXIT within SELECT statement
  • updated Rnd() function to be pure
  • flagged openw, opwns, boolgad, settopaz, sets, gets functions as not pure
  • added WARN TRUE/FALSE to enable/disable warnings
  • added Rol() and Ror() functions
  • the 020 variant of Mod() was not correctly used by the compiler and was also taking the parameters the wrong way around
  • added 020 variant of ListItem function
  • track line numbers for warnings
  • NOREGS option was not correctly parsed on methods
  • taking a reference to a method {obj.method} did not return the correct address
  • 1.3 startup code now updates stack pointers to allow stack space functions to return the correct values.
  • skip NameFromFH call on kick 1.3 meaning the compiler now works on that OS again
  • NOT operator was very broken (inconsistently applied and in some cases not applied at all)
  • Added EVO_3_7_0 define
  • casting and PTR TO PTR handling is improved and should now work in all use cases.
Direct download: evo.lha (673 KB) (dr)

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09.Mar.2024
Amiga Kit


Amiga Kit: ARM Graphics library for A600GS computer
Press release: AmigaKit Ltd is pleased to announce an important software development for the forthcoming A600GS computer system (amiga-news.de reported). The new ARM Graphics Library is pre-installed accelerating the performance of AmiBench and 68K applications.

The ARMgraphics.library was created by AmigaKit's in- house developer to bypass the bottleneck of the 68K graphics functions. It accelerates graphics rendering performance in applications.

AmiBench is pre-installed on the A600GS computer system. It opens the desktop environment in high resolution 1080p with True Colour icons. Now it can use the new ARM Graphics Library for various purposes including faster rendering of windows, icons and backgrounds.

Third party developers can take advantage of this library by using it's powerful functions from their 68K application. It also offers an opportunity for 68K games developers to enhance their games with faster graphics rendering.

The library provides a link between 68K programs and the native ARM processor. Further work is underway to patch 68K system graphics functions so older applications that are not written to use the ARM Graphics Library can benefit.

AmigaKit has developed AK-Datatypes, Picture Datatype and Datatypes Library over the many years for the Enhancer Software on X5000, X1000 and A1222+. These have been compiled for 68K to run on the A600GS, In addition these system components can also be accelerated by the ARM Graphics Library for extra performance.

The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024. (dr)

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09.Mar.2024



Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.3 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.4.3:
  • Updated to the latest OpenAI chat models
  • Fix crash when config.json doesn't exist
  • Fix crash when selecting the root menu items
  • Adjust screen colours to enhance visibility
  • Improved error handling for connection errors
  • Use a stack cookie to set minimum stack size to 32768 bytes (AmigaOS 3.1.4 or higher required)
  • Shows a warning if the stack size is smaller than 32768 bytes (AmigaOS 3 only)
  • Send button no longer appears in corner of screen on image mode in 3.X after an error message is dismissed
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (909 KB) (dr)

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