10.Feb.2022
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Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress 1200
After a currently sold out version for the installation of the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 500 case, there is now with the MiSTress 1200 under the title link also a corresponding extension for the case of the Amiga 1200 (original or replica).
The MiSTress is used to install the FPGA computer into the Amiga case, whereby the original keyboard can still be used. The rear openings for the original connections are used to make the sockets for the network, USB, SD card, joystick, audio, HDMI and analog VGA/RGB connections, among others, accessible. (snx)
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10.Feb.2022
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AROS distribution: The 100% Useless AROS Distribution 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has released version 0.3 of his "The 100% Useless AROS Distribution" at the title link. The reason for this is the version AROS ABIv11 for 64-bit Intel and AMD processors released by the developer 'deadwood' at the beginning of January (official GitHub page).
This new AROS version doesn't support symmetric multiprocessing anymore, which makes the compilation of his programs easier. Included are some of his programs like MUIMapparium, LEU, AYA, AmiTube or MCAmiga. The distribution serves the developer primarily as a test environment for his FreePascal AROS64 development, which is why it can neither be called finished nor stable. However, the applications work "reasonably well", only with the calculation of the font size there would be problems.
This new version can be downloaded from the corresponding website. (dr)
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10.Feb.2022
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Video: Installation of AmiKit XE under Windows 11
Appropriate to yesterday's release of AmiKit 11.5+ Jörg "Torque" Klopsch shows in a video how to install the new version under Windows 11 and using WinUAE. (dr)
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09.Feb.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5+ for Windows/Mac/Linux
For the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators, an update to version 11.5 (followed by a live update to version 11.6) has been released. In addition to an emulator, AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required.
Users who purchased AmiKit XE last year or this year will get the update for free. Those who purchased AmiKit XE in 2019/2020 will need a subscription to the existing AmiKit 11.4.3 to upgrade to the new version 11.5 and above.
The most important changes:
- New software, games, updates, features and design too
- AmiKit is now in FullHD with enhanced dark look & feel
- It's 64bit ready now, also faster and less CPU demanding
- All AmiStart menus have been refreshed with nicer and bigger icons
- New state-of-the-art installation of AmigaOS - just click 'n g
- New MorpheuZ provides better design and functionality
- Enhanced Startup-Sequence including Startup-Scripts for better stability
- Newer emulation engine (WinUAE) now provides faster and even more precise job
Last but not least, the new AmiKit includes HUNDREDS of improvements under the hood!
(dr)
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09.Feb.2022
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RTG driver: P96 V3.2.3 released
At the beginning of January, Individual Computers had updated its graphics card driver P96 to version 3.2.2. Not on the official homepage, but in the support forum, Jens Schönfeld announced that he had uploaded version 3.2.3 with the following changes:
- P96 no longer attempts to set the beamcon0 register and the vtotal register of the custom chips in case the active video mode is on an RTG board that is not in the display chain.
- Even though bitmaps were locked, memory management could have migrated them off the board if memory was getting tight. This may have caused quite some issues on "close-to-zero" memory situations.
- As BlitMaskBitMap was potentially allocating memory for the mask buffer, it could have migrated the bitmaps it was actually supposed to render, causing all kinds of havocs. To avoid this problem, source and target bitmap for a two-bitmap operation are now locked on the board. This is actually a very old bug that goes back to the 2.x release cycle.
- A possible memory inconsistency in P96Mode was fixed where an incorrect memory pointer was released.
- The Altais and RetinaBLT drivers did not record the state of the monitor switch correctly. As a result of this defect, the SetDPMS() function to enable power saving may have failed, keeping the monitor on all the time.
- The rtg.library may have attempted to switch of the Altais display on a Draco system without ever turning it on again.
- Fixed a very old bug on adjusting the line pattern shift upon drawing into multiple cliprects. This bug was apparently introduced while merging my own P96 version with the last official version by the authors. This bug could have introduced artefacts when drawing "marquee" effects for selecting multiple files in alternative file managers.
- When switching buffers on a double-buffered screens, P96 forcibly reloaded the sprite image, which caused flicker on some RTG boards. This version now avoids reloading the sprite unless absolutely necessary.
(dr)
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09.Feb.2022
Michael Rupp (Mail)
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Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.2 (OS3/4, MorphOS)
Well-known for his workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp had released his first Amiga program at the beginning of August, which is used to control Sonos speakers: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). After a first update, he has released version 1.2 today for his program written in the Hollywood programming language, which is again available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3 and 4 (screenshots in that order):
Highlights of the new version are room grouping functionality, better handling when Sonos devices are switched on or off and localization including German, Italian and Dutch translation. Michael Rupp was able to intensively test and use the updated RapaGUI plugin during the development of the new version. Regardless of the availability of a Sonos speaker, the author is happy if users basically test the program on the different platforms and give him feedback.
Detailed changelog:
- NEW: support for grouping and ungrouping devices. When grouped, volume and muting can either be set for the whole group or for each device individually.
- NEW: support for devices that suddenly appear or disappear from the Sonos system, for example when turned on or off.
- NEW: timeout for devices to respond can be configured in the Preferences. On slower Amigas it might be necessary to increase the timeout (default is 5s).
- NEW: implemented localization
- NEW: german catalog: feel free to use it as a template to create catalog files for other languages. Check out the following link for info on how to do it: https://hollywood-mal.com/docs/html/hollywood/CatalogFormatNote.html
- NEW: italian catalog by Samir Hawamdeh. Thanks for this!
- NEW: dutch catalog by Dave "Skateman" Koelman. Thanks for this, too!
- NEW: if no devices can be found by the network scan, it's now enough to add just one single device by its IP address. This one will then be queried to return all the others.
- NEW: added a "Cancel" button to the requester that pops up if the network scan couldn't find anything (requested by Steve Harrison).
- NEW: added a version check of reqtools.library where needed (on AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS) when adding devices manually and letting the user know, if the version installed is not sufficient (v39 or higher is needed). After confirming with "OK", the URL of the download page on Aminet is automatically opened.
- NEW: displaying the loading's progress when browsing the music library incl. the possibility to cancel it by pressing the [<] button.
- NEW: button "Clear Queue" is disabled for an empty queue.
- IMPROVED: quicker network scan because now it's enough to find one single device to connect to.
- CHANGED: for the non-AmigaOS 3.x versions the shortcuts for "Next" / "Previous" are changed from Alt-LEFT/RIGHT back to Ctrl-LEFT/RIGHT (as it was in v1.0), because only on an Amiga keyboard the Alt key is the closest qualifier key to the cursor keys, but on keyboards used on NG-Amigas it's usually the Ctrl key.
- FIXED: nasty networking bug that caused SonosController to freeze after a while, especially on AmigaOS 3.x.
- FIXED: possible crash when searching something without results, searching some more and going back again.
- FIXED: switching between "Pause" and "Play" sometimes made the button move a pixel.
- FIXED: as long a no Sonos devices are found, all controls are now disabled by default, avoiding possible crashes.
- FIXED: Control menu items are now disabled according to the corresponding buttons.
- FIXED: suppressing shortcuts for "Next" and "Previous" while the search field is focused, because Ctrl/Alt-Left/Right is used to navigate inside the textentry.
- FIXED: MUI 5 column widths in the Music Library browser listview.
- FIXED: display of room's names with MUI 4.0
- FIXED: replaced calls to "OpenURL" with "URLOpen" in the AmigaGuide for AmigaOS 4.x.
(dr)
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08.Feb.2022
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Shooter: Playable demo version of 'Cyberpunk Alien City'
Cyberpunk Alien City (video) is a mixture of Run'n Gun and Space Invaders: The player has to defend a city against attacking aliens. Various weapon systems, horizontal scrolling (dual playfield with four bitplanes each) and 50 frames per second are offered. The game runs on any Amiga with two megabytes of RAM, an A1200 with some Fast RAM is recommended. (cg)
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07.Feb.2022
Roland Wintgen (E-Mail)
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Conversion instructions: Joystick Competition Pro Extra USB on Amiga
At the title link, Michael Steil has updated his conversion instructions by which you can connect the Competition Pro Extra USB joystick with a standard DB9 connector to the Amiga - optionally even without giving up the USB interface. (snx)
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06.Feb.2022
Artur Jarosik
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Real-time strategy: Command & Conquer is ported to the Amiga
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness, besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. Now, as a contribution to the AmiGameJam, he has started to port the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga and named it "Vanilla Conquer".
The video published the day before yesterday shows the beta version of his game. As Artur Jarosik explained to us, the game is primarily intended for Amigas upgraded with an Apollo processor. However, it could also be playable on a 68060 processor with a grafics card with the music and sound effects turned off. Since the audio code is very resource hungry, it is explicitly written for V4 SAGA audio.
If you want to support the author, you can do so on his Patreon website. (dr)
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06.Feb.2022
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.6
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.
This new version 0.9.6 provides many changes. Among other things, some games can now run on an Amiga with only 0.5MB chip RAM (Fast RAM still required). Also the loading of levels has been optimized and it is now much faster to switch between levels during the game. (dr)
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06.Feb.2022
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Aminet uploads until 05.02.2022
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to Aminet:
mrwolf.lha comm/tcp 32K OS4 Pool-friendly SNTP time sync ...
googoo1_2022.lha demo/sound 48K 68k Chip-music pack by Zenon
gcc3210.lha dev/gcc 3.8M Compiler for DSP3210 chips
MCE.lha game/edit 3.3M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.6M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 22M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
WhatIFF1.02.lha mags/misc 162K What IFF? #1.02 - January-2022
genplus_mos.lha misc/emu 1.4M MOS Sega Genesis and MasterSystem...
MED.RainyDays.lha mods/techn 373K MED.RainyDays
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
MMV8_Player.lha mus/play 34K 68k MusicMaker V8 Player
Pacman_Joy_C4D.lha pix/3dobj 25M Pacman Greek Joystick C4D Object
amigangwallpaper.lha pix/back 13M AmigaNG Wallpapers
ASE2019_1.90.lha text/edit 169K 68k Text editor
AmiLion.lha util/app 6.1M 68k AmiLion, a Rabbit Hole App
CompareDirs_OS4.lha util/cli 417K OS4 Compare two dirs for diff. fi...
CompareDirsItaCat.lha util/cli 62K Italian catalog for CompareDi...
AFortune.lha util/shell 9.3M OS4 AFortune write random sentenc...
perciman_68k.lha util/wb 1.5M 68k manage contact and other info...
perciman_AROS.lha util/wb 1.7M x86 manage contact and other info...
perciman_MOS.lha util/wb 1.6M MOS manage contact and other info...
perciman_OS4.lha util/wb 2.0M OS4 manage contact and other info...
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06.Feb.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.02.2022
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to OS4Depot:
frozenat.lha dev/deb 4kb 4.0 find out where a program is hang...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
openurl.lha net/mis 531kb 4.0 Get that URL!
comparedirs.lha uti/fil 417kb 4.1 Compare two dirs for different f...
amigattext.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 Shows German ARD/ZDF Teletext fr...
perciman.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 Person Contact and Information M...
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06.Feb.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.02.2022
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to AROS Archives:
perciman.i386-aros.lha off/mis 2Mb manage contact and other informa...
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06.Feb.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.02.2022
The following files have been added until 05.02.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_2.0.20_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.2...
MCE_13.5.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
PerCIMan_0.7.4.lha Office/Organizer A program to manage con...
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06.Feb.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.02.2022
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 05.02.2022:
- 2022-02-05 updated: Hawkeye (Thalamus) patch redone, new imager (game has to be reinstalled), access fault fixed, CD32 joypad support, high score load/save, more trainer options, source code included (Info)
- 2022-02-02 new: Lemmings - More! (AmigaJay) done by Psygore (Info)
- 2022-02-02 new: Knightmare (Konami) (Hoffman) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
(snx)
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06.Feb.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: internal keyboard adapter PS2toAmiga
Jari Tulilahti from Finland has published his project at the title link for using a PS/2 keyboard for the Amiga. The adapter, based on the ATTiny85 microcontroller, is placed within the keyboard. (snx)
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06.Feb.2022
Amiga WARP Organization (ANF)
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Amiga WARP calendar for 2022
As every year, also for 2022 Croatian Amiga WARP Organization published a calendar in English and Croatian language as PDF files. The calendar is made completely on Amiga with Amiga software. This year Amiga WARP Organization celebrate their 25th birthday.
Download:
WARP_Calendar_2022_ENG.pdf (2 MB)
WARP_Calendar_2022.pdf (2 MB) (snx)
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06.Feb.2022
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World: Video interview with Andreas Escher (Rainbow Arts)
Scene World has published a video interview with Andreas Escher of Rainbow Arts. There the computer graphic artist (e.g. Turrican) tells that in the past he always drew the graphics for all platforms on the Amiga. (snx)
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06.Feb.2022
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Apollo-Team: Apollo V2 Accelerators Support Statement
Press release:
Dear V2 users,
Apollo V2-series have been an extremely successful and hugely loved Amiga accelerator since 2014.
Vast amounts of Amiga’s were resurrected from a lonely existence in the attic by “Vampirising” with the V2-600, V2-500 and V2-1200 cards featuring the powerful AMMX 68080 CPU.
Last year the Apollo Team declared the V2 accelerators End-of-Sale and introduced the new V4 range for Amiga 500/1000/2000 (Firebird), Amiga 1200 (Icedrake) and Amiga 4000 (Kraken) (amiga-news.de reported).
In this Support Statement we want to give full clarity to our Apollo Vampire V2 user base about the end of the Roadmap for the Apollo V2 accelerators.
Fixes:
Apollo Team has always been and will always be 100% focused on compatibility, giving our users the best Amiga experience.
We continue to collect, analyse and mitigate reported issues from our users, specifically any experiences in game & demo incompatibilities. The recent maintenance v2.15 ApolloCore release for all V2-series shows our commitment and loyalty to V2 community.
For the foreseeable future the Apollo Team will keep bringing new “maintenance” ApolloCore release to V2 accelerators.
Features:
The physical limits of the possibilities in the V2-Series FPGA have been reached. This means the current functionality will be frozen, including the support for targeted OS platforms.
In practice, this means there are no new features to be expected. The V2 range will NOT support any other OS than Amiga OS3.x. Users that want to experience all new developments in ApolloOS, including the ApolloBoot multi-OS solution running up to 10 operating systems, are encouraged to look at the new Apollo V4 accelerators.
We hope that this Support Statement gives the needed clarity on the remaining Roadmap for the V2 accelerators. Please give us your feedback or tips for bug-fixes on the Apollo Discord channel: v2-series. (dr)
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05.Feb.2022
Twitter
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Shoot'em up: Fifth demo version of Jackal
NeesoGames has released the fifth demo version (YouTube video) of its game a href="https://neesogames.itch.io/jackal-amiga-port">Jackal, created with the Scorpion Engine. The shoot 'em up was also submitted as an entry for AmiGameJam 2021. Changes since fourth demo version:
- Game Over screen and music
- Bomber plane dropping bombs (Level 2)
- Golden statues shoot missiles (Level 2)
- Level 2 boss fight
- Credits after level2 result screen (to complete the game loop)
- Bugfixes and improvements
(dr)
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05.Feb.2022
Discord
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Video interview with AmigaDOS creators
The YouTube channel The Digital Orphanage has done an interview with Dr Tim King and his wife Jessica about their important contribution to the release of the Amiga 1000 computer. Without the TRIPOS operating system, the release of the Amiga would have been significantly delayed. The interview was recorded on 1 October 2021. (dr)
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05.Feb.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 25 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now the episode 25 was published, which is also about sprites and its collision detection.
(dr)
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04.Feb.2022
Twitter
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Emulator: WinUAE 4.9.1
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been updated to version 4.9.1. Changes:
Bug fixes of version 4.9.0
- JIT indirect was unstable.
- JIT enabled + emulated (not uaegfx) RTG board corruption was possible in certain situations.
- Direct 3D 11 mode shader buffer leak.
- x86 AT bridgeboard (A2286 and A2386SX) boot crash.
- PCem RTG board 15 and 16-bit lores modes didn’t horizontally double correctly.
- Remove interlace artifact option added 1 scanline offset to bitplanes and sprites.
- Custom chipset and programmed display mode updates and fixes.
Older bug fixes
- Mouse would start moving erratically if emulator has been running continuously more than 10 hours.
- Integer scaling only worked correctly if horizontal (lores, hires, superhires) and vertical resolution (non-doubled, doubled) matched.Filtered lores had wrong colors if host graphics mode was 16-bit.
- NTSC mode and software switch to PAL: display was incorrectly vertically stretched.
- Software YUV based filters had bad colors (32-bit only)
- Paula configured for 4us (GCR) mode but normal 2us MFM disk in drive: disk index reporting was unreliable.
Updates
- Programmed display mode improvements (positioning, blanking etc)
- uaegfx Picasso96 overlay now works correctly with screen dragging.
New features
- It is now possible to type (almost) normally in warp mode. Keyboard key (if non-qualifier key) presses are released immediately in warp mode.
- Epson printer emulation does not anymore print each page as a separate document.
- Added IDE scsi.device disable hack. Makes booting noticeably quicker on OS39 and newer KS versions if mainboard IDE is not needed.
- PCem Cirrus Logic SVGA emulation planar support enabled. Picasso96 supports 4bit/16 color planar mode.
- "Default" filter and integer scale filters now automatically double horizontal or vertically if horizontal and vertical resolutions are different (for example lores + vertical doubling)
(dr)
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04.Feb.2022
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 2.2
At the beginning of October, developer 'jasonsbeer' had announced revision 2.0 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX'. Now he has released revision 2.2 on his GitHub website, which adds a TICK header with three options for generating a TICK signal. (dr)
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04.Feb.2022
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Mini-game: Demo version of EmotiWorld
Although Amiten Games continues to devote most of their time to their main project CyberPunk Alien City, there is still time for smaller side projects: In the course of a Spanish-language AMOS tutorial on the use of tiles, a mini-game called EmotiWorld was created, which is currently available in a demo version 0.3 and already contains three levels (YouTube video). (dr)
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04.Feb.2022
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Unsatisfactory Software: Updates of tools
In the last few days Unsatisfactory Software has updated some of its tools:
FACTS is the first GUI-based clock synchronization program for the Amiga. It logs on to any NTP server and uses either the time of day, time (tcp/udp) or SNTP services to keep the Amiga clock accurate. The tool has been updated to version 5.10 for AmigaOS as of Kickstart 2.0.4, which includes improvements to keep NTP pool usage as well as a complete overhaul of the time calculation to improve accuracy.
Mr.Wolf is the official successor of the clock synchronisation program YoctoFacts (yfacts) for AmigaOS 4 and now offers an built-in SNTP client.
With Avalanche Unsatisfactory Software has released a simple, graphical ReAction GUI for the unarchiving system XAD. Version 1.3 of this has already been released, which now also allows multiple files to be selected. (dr)
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03.Feb.2022
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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7-bit: Firmware update for Wicher 1211
7-bit has released a firmware update for the Wicher 1211 memory expansion card for the Amiga 1200 today, which includes fixes for the RAM controller and adds an SPI controller to the ZorroII card chain. (dr)
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03.Feb.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Void-Update für den AmigaOne X1000/5000
In the corresponding post in the Hyperion forum from the end of last week Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky reports about a new image of the Linux distribution Void Linux for the AmigaOne X1000 and 5000. (dr)
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02.Feb.2022
Gunnar Kanold
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Programming contest: BASIC 10Liner Contest
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some sound or colorful lines by writing little BASIC programs.
The organizers wrote: "The BASIC 10Liner Contest started 2011 as a party fun at the NOMAM meeting in Northern Germany. NOMAM means 'Not only marvelous Atari machinery' and is an annual meeting from classic computer enthusiasts. The visitors of the meeting decided to hold a little contest: Write a program in 10 lines of BASIC on Atari Computers! We had loads of fun with programming the whole weekend. 2013 we decided to repeat the contest. This time only games were allowed. In 2014 we opened the 10Liner contest also for programmers who did not visit to the meeting. Owners of other 8 bit computer requested to open the contest for their machines. We met the wish and opened it for all 8 bit computers."
This year the 11th Edition of BASIC 10 Liner Contest takes place. And also Amigas as 16 bit computers can partiticipate: In the category "Wild" those contributions can be sent in. You can get some inspiration from contributions of the previous years. Additional to many little games, two programs for the Amiga were also written: In 2018 Matteo Trevisan wrote an "Amiga BASIC Login" (fourth post) and in 2019 an "Amiga 500 Chatbot", listet as first post.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 26, 2022, 6 p.m. CET. Award ceremony: Saturday, April 9, 2022 at NOMAM. A detailed overview of the submitted programs can be found at bunsen.itch.io. (dr)
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02.Feb.2022
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Text viewer: NEXT 4.1
In 2002 Jürgen Klawitter reported us for the last time a new version of his text viewer NEXT (version 3.5), the last public version 4.0 was from May 31, 2011. But as the author writes, NEXT is much more than a pure text viewer: it is also Amigaguide replacement, HTML offline browser, DataTypes viewer, uncruncher, unpacker of archives, file converter, print utility and some more. This versatility is also the reason why the program was installed from the beginning on my Amiga 1200, integrated via ToolsMenu. Next also has a very powerful search function, which marks all occurrences of a searched term at the same time and allows searching with wildcards and in binary files.
As the author explains to us when asked, he has not been involved with programming and the Amiga since 2011 and has devoted himself to other hobbies. His Amiga hardware, an A3000 and a second floppy drive, were given away. Only a Zip drive, which was never used before, is in the depot. His turning away from the Amiga at that time had among other things to do with the fact that he couldn't read or use PDFs and other files that were common in the PC world.
The return to programming, Jürgen Klawitter continues, came in this winter of 2021/22, which also limited him in his leisure activities and caused boredom. So he came up with the idea to install WinUAE on his laptop:
"After this was successful, I tried out how much of my former programming knowledge was still left. Surprisingly much, actually everything was still there! Nevertheless, there were difficulties to understand the source code of the more extensive programs again. Next has about 20000 lines, Anno (calendar) and OMon (system monitor) about 6000 lines each.
Parts of it are quite complicated. I then started to implement small improvements, first with Anno, later with Next. With Next, I was particularly annoyed by the fact that I had not managed to get the converted text from docx files into a reasonable form. I finally found details of the format on the internet and a tag () that was responsible for the outline in paragraphs. That was the breakthrough."
NEXT formats loaded text before it is displayed. In the process, lines that are too long are wrapped at word boundaries and characters that cannot be displayed are replaced by spaces. Color, style, and print control sequences are preserved.
Finally, a small test shall show how Word files are loaded, for which the following example poem - written and saved in Word 2010 - shall serve us:
To load a Word document either UnZip is needed or the XAD system. For the use of the latter one goes either over the menu option "Use XAD" or creates itself a "next.prefs" text file under Prefs/Env-Archive with the contents "XAD". In this configuration file you can also define window dimensions, font and colors for the text display.
As Jürgen Klawitter writes, from files of the Microsoft word processors Word and Write (extensions .doc or .docx and .wri) the plain text is extracted and formatted. For Word documents with the extension .doc, references to footnotes and the footnotes themselves are numbered ([1],[2]...). The same applies to annotations, recognizable by the preceding "A"([A1],[A2]...). Since a docx file is always a zip archive, it takes two steps to get to the text: Next, after selecting a docx file, presents the contents in a small window. Each archive contains 10 or more xml files, which contain stylesheets, images, comments and footnotes, but only one of them contains the text:
By selecting "word/document.xml" you can now see the text:
As you can see, the conversion of .docx files results in pure continuous text, without styles. The information about them is in stylesheets, which are hidden in the other files. As the author writes, "taking stylesheets into account would require a disproportionate amount of extra work, which I do not want to do – if at all possible." (dr)
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02.Feb.2022
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AmiKit XE: Preconfigured front end AmiLion 1.3
AmiLion is a front end with wallpaper backgrounds for the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE, written in Hollywood for quickly accessing Rabbit Hole programs like Firefox, VLC or Steam as well as website links like Aminet, Wikipedia or YouTube. Besides Windows 10, the Raspberry Pi also is fully supported.
Changes of version 1.3 of the application, written by Vincent Perkins:
- Raspberry Version Completed (Amikit XE 11.7 or Amiberry 4.1.6 or Higher)
- LionGUI now working On RapaGUI 2.0
- Three New Wallpapers
- Taskbar Start Icon Added
- Beta Version Removed Due to being part of the Main App now
- Updated Source codes and guides
- Free Open sourced version
- Wallpapers Removed (Many will be made freely available on AmigaNG Website)
- Updated Guide
(dr)
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01.Feb.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 9
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new beta version of his Amiga emulator for macOS which is currently under development. The changes version 1.1 beta version 9 are as follows:
- Enhancements:
- The hardware config panel has been split into a separate chipset panel and a memory panel.
- Compatibility:
- The DDF logic has been reworked from scratch based on the Agnus schematics.
- The HBLANK area has been shortened and moved (#637, #584, #575).
- Bug fixes:
- The Copper can’t trigger at cycle $E3 any more.
- Fixed a bug in the LINK command that had been introduced recently.
- Fixed some Sanitizer warnings.
(dr)
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01.Feb.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary of January
The blog Gaming on AmigaOS 4 has published a richly illustrated summary of the developments and releases from the areas of applications and games for AmigaOS 4 in the month of January. (dr)
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01.Feb.2022
Alexandre Balaban (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4.1: CompareDirs compares directories
Using CompareDirs the directory structure of two directories can be compared, including all files. The result window shows the files with size and date. Alexandre Balaban's tool can be controlled either from the shell or via Reaction GUI.
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed incorrect file size displayed in GUI during file copy
- Added German guide translation and catalog by Helmut Haake
- Added entry update after context menu operation (Elwood)
- Fixed bad copyright year in about dialog (Corto)
- Fixed French translation typo in about dialog (Corto)
- Added ability to show file in WB (Origin, Issue#50)
- Added support for icon drop on new comparison window
- Fixed possible crash in new comparison code due to random memory access
(dr)
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31.Jan.2022
Twitter
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ACube Systems: Appeal for reporting AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware
ACube Systems asks in their Twitter message today to report AmigaOS 4.1 compatible hardware so that the AmigaOS 4.1 Hardware Compatibility List can be completed. (dr)
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31.Jan.2022
Twitter
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Aracade game: Green Beret released (update)
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine.
Basically, the game is not meant to be a 1:1 port. The player is much more "agile", as he can stab from ladders, for exampl). It also brings some advantages, such as permanently dropped items and more colors (due to the use of the Amiga Copper chip, which adds additional screen colors). Also, there is newly arranged music by DJ Metune instead of the simple military march (more tracks will be added through ongoing updates).
The game runs on any Amiga with 512KB Chip RAM and 512KB Fast RAM.
Update: (06.02.2022, 07:02, dr)
As the developer reports on its Twitter channel, it has updated the game several times since its release: for example, an initial update that allowed the player to jump higher has been withdrawn. Many players had complained that this higher jump ruined the game, as it defeated the purpose of ladders: you could simply jump to reach another floor. The developer has now adjusted the jump so that the player can still jump from truck to truck or over land mines in the first level, but just not reach a higher floor with it.
In the update released today, a new music track was added, which will be played in stages 2 and 4. (dr)
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31.Jan.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: How Data is Encoded and Stored on Floppy Disks
Robert Smith, known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has now published the first part of a two-part series on floppies, following his tutorial on porting a Christmas game from HTML5 to AMOS. In it, he takes a look at how data is stored on a floppy disk, both physically and computer-wise. The second part will be about different copy protection methods. (dr)
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30.Jan.2022
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Developer blog: Status update on RGBtoHDMI board
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about the latest progress and developments of projects he is involved in.
In his latest entry Amiga RGBtoHDMI Boards Update – January 2022 he summarizes the state of development regarding his version of the RGBtoHDMI adapter, which is based on the RGBtoHDMI project and is a further development of the Amiga VideoSlot RGBtoHDMI adapter for the Amiga2000 by 'Bloodmosher': The goal of the RGBtoHDMI project is to feed raw digital RGB data into a Raspberry Pi Zero, which then outputs it via HDMI to produce a pixel-perfect display of the image with low latency.
Among other things, he reports that he has developed an RGBtoHDMI tester so that homemade RGBtoHDMI adapters do not have to be tried out on a real Amiga and possibly damage it (can also be purchased). Furthermore he describes the changes he has made in the meantime to the respective versions for Amiga 500, Amiga 1000 and Amiga 2000. Also here he shows possibilities where these can be purchased. The possession of a Raspberry Pi Zero is assumed in each case. (dr)
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30.Jan.2022
Reddit
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Preview: Eleven upcoming Amiga games for 68k Amigas
The YouTube channel it's a P/XEL thing gives a playful preview of eleven Amiga games announced for 2022. (dr)
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30.Jan.2022
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Aminet uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to Aminet:
facts.lha comm/tcp 249K 68k NTP clock time synchroniser A...
FactsItaCat.lha comm/tcp 16K Italian catalog for Facts v5.10
asm3210.lha dev/asm 156K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c...
aqb-0.8.2.lha dev/basic 435K 68k A BASIC Compiler+IDE for Amig...
progress.lha dev/c 27K 68k Simple progress bar display f...
dis8080.i386-aros.lha dev/cross 68K x86 Disassembler for Intel 8080 p...
dis8080_OS4.lha dev/cross 67K OS4 Disassembler for Intel 8080 p...
HWP_Iconic.lha dev/hwood 109K Load and save various icon fo...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Compute.lha misc/math 11K 68k Command line calculator
SpeedPDF_1.0.lha text/dtp 5.3M MOS Fast PDF viewer
P96ScreenCx.lha util/cdity 8K 68k P96 Multi-Monitor Mouse Movement
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 627K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 718K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 795K OS4 Multipurpose utility
ScriptSpeed.lha util/misc 11K 68k Test script execution speed
TestProgram.zip util/misc 450K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
AIBB_Emu68.lha util/moni 2K 68k AIBB 6.5 module f. A500 w/ Em...
PM.lha util/moni 20K 68k Lightweight+accurate CPU usag...
TaiwanMOS.lha util/sys 1K Taiwan country for MorphOS an...
dintwm.lha util/wb 27K 68k Dynamic Intuition Window Manager
StartWin.lha util/wb 108K 68k A bugged workbench launch bar
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
dis8080.lha dev/cro 67kb 4.0 Disassembler for Intel 8080 proc...
reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reaction C Library
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
freegemas.lha gam/puz 6Mb 4.1 Tile-matching puzzle video game
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 22Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
hwp_iconic.lha lib/hol 109kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for icon loader
gfxbench2d.lha uti/ben 2Mb 4.0 A 2D graphics benchmark tool
amigattext.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 Shows German ARD/ZDF Teletext fr...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 795kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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AROS Archives uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
dis8080.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 68kb Disassembler for Intel 8080 proc...
regina-doc.pdf doc/dev 1Mb The Regina Rexx Interpreter doc
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30.Jan.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Blues_R2.lha Games/Platform Blues Brothers,Jukebox ...
SpeedPDF_1.0.lha Office/Show A fast PDF viewer
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29.Jan.2022
ALB42 Blog (ANF)
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AmiTube 0.8: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).
Today version 0.8 has been released which provides an improved download speed and a lot of bug fixes. Besides, now there is an AmigaGuide help. Detailed changes:
- Faster download speed
- bugfix download speed display
- bugfix invalid moviedir
- bugfix load icon when a download is running
- bugfix start a download when one is already running
- bugfix clipboard device
- sort results in list by name, duration or size
- choice to ask for a path everytime a conversation job is started, if canceled the default moviedir is used
- Italian and Polish translation
- alternative more colorful icons for AmiTube and folder
- AmigaGuide Help
The latest version always is available on the AmiTube website or via update check in the application.
Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link. (dr)
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29.Jan.2022
Pierre-Alexandre (Mail)
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Lionheart Remake: Version 1.20 of Java port of Lionheart released
After Byron 3D Games Studio started with the development of 1.2.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart in November (amiga-news.de reported), this version has been released today.
Both the settings program and the game itself are localized in German, French, Spanish and English:
When restarting via the *.bat file, the settings program seems to have remembered the last language set, but the output is still in English. Only by switching back and forth does the setting also take effect. Version 1.2.0 contains a new underworld theme, beginner stages and many fixes:
A teaser video is available on the game's homepage.
Update: (30.01.2022, 06:39, dr)
As the developer Pierre-Alexandre informs us, the bug in the settings program has been fixed in the meantime. (dr)
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28.Jan.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 24 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now the episode 24 was published, which is also about sprites and its collision detection. (dr)
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28.Jan.2022
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RMC Retro Amiga Demo
In addition to his various YouTube videos, Neil aka RMC has set up a hands-on exhibition of retro microcomputers, consoles and games called The Cave. It is located in Chalford in Gloucestershire and is about to open to the public. To mark the occasion, he has brushed up on his assembly programming skills and written and released an "old school" Amiga demo. (dr)
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28.Jan.2022
Günter Bartsch (Mail)
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BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.2
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively (amiga-news.de reported).
About the new version 0.8.2 (detailed changelog) the author stated:
"The new features and changes correspond to a colorful hodgepodge, because I have essentially worked through the wishes and especially the bug reports of the users, which came in large numbers since the last release. New features were mainly in the runtime: for example, there are now instructions and functions for the sound output. There are also new tutorials and a simple music demo program:
The input/output system has undergone a significant overhaul, the runtime now provides the complete set of instructions and commands for text input and output both on the screen and in files (though support for direct access and binary files is still missing). Furthermore I added some functions for string processing, also here the runtime is now much more complete than before.
The bug fixes run through all areas, but central are the numerous bug fixes in the compiler, which should significantly improve both the stability of the compiler itself and the quality of the generated code." (dr)
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27.Jan.2022
Indie Retro News (Website)
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Tetris variant: Drag & Drop
'Drag & Drop' (Video) is a Tetris variant where blocks aren't falling down from the top of the screen, instead the player has to put them on on the playfield using Drag'Drop himself. The game can be downloaded for free, it is possible to pay a user-defined fee to the author before starting the download. (cg)
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26.Jan.2022
Twitter
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.1
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
Yesterday version 2022.1 has been released adding screen size settings, new movement types and more (teaser video). (dr)
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26.Jan.2022
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 130 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time.
Among others the latest issue includes articles on the Amiga games "Victory", "Dune II", "GFL Championship Football" and "Jack the Ripper". (dr)
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26.Jan.2022
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #132 - Netlabels with Simon Carless
Simon Carless is a former Amiga musician and founder/owner of the Monotonik netlabel, which rose to prominence in the late '90s and early '00s. Jörg Dröge and guest co-host Martin Wisniowski pick his brain about this unique time in the development of the internet, independent labels, and music distribution (interview begins at 19:15). (dr)
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26.Jan.2022
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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Amigaland: 324 games online
At the beginning of the new year, Mirko Engelhardt writes about achievements and future plans:
"We now have 324 games online, of which 28 games are also available on CD 32 or CD, plus 86 PD games. We've never had this many games online before. That was a real feat in 2021 and also already in January 2022. We will continue to expand that: Promise! The goal is to have at least 600 downloads in total this year. This includes the PD stuff. For apps, we want to increase to at least 10 (currently 4), and for demos to 40 (currently 18). Also in focus are the books, which we want to give to the respective history offers. Just rummage around and you will increasingly find what you are looking for. A goal for 2022 is also the presentation of all companies that support Amigaland so far (that will be hard :)) If you have any other wishes, please let us know. We will then also do that :)" (dr)
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26.Jan.2022
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Hyperion blog apparently hacked by spammers
At the end of 2010, Hyperion had introduced a "developer blog" to inform users about current events around AmigaOS 4. The last official contributions date back to 2017, from then technical director Costel Mincea. Then in November, The Ultimate Guide To Online Dating was the first entry that had a recognizably unofficial character. Since the beginning of the year, there has been an update on Windows and related topics every few days, each with links to download portals and similar offers well hidden in the text. (cg)
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25.Jan.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 23 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now the episode 23 was published, which is about sprites and its collision detection. (dr)
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24.Jan.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Tile-matching puzzle game 'Freegemas'
Based on the original by Jose Tomas Tocino, developer 'IamSONIC' has ported the tile-matching puzzle game Freegemas to AmigaOS 4, adding a low CPU mode (useful for ~800 MHz systems) and Tooltype support.
With the help of PatchCompositeTags the game runs under WinUAE without problems. (dr)
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24.Jan.2022
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AmiTube: Setting up a docker server
In his latest blog post with accompanying YouTube video, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow describes how to set up your own AmiTube server using a docker container. (dr)
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24.Jan.2022
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Platformer: Status update on 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night'
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes continues to work on his jump'n run Creeping Me Out: Hex Night, created with the Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine. Following his Winter update, the developer reports in today's entry on how he's improving much of the current project from its unofficial predecessor, Zombie Holiday (OSX), and has also released a new preview video of the frog boss. (dr)
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23.Jan.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: Iconic 1.0 released
Press release:: In 2022 Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood, the cross-platform multimedia application layer. To kick off the celebrations we are proud to present a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: Iconic. Iconic is the ultimate icon loader and saver plugin for Hollywood. It will make all your icon dreams come true because it can load and save icons in pretty much all of the most common icon formats. The following formats are currently supported:
- AmigaOS 1.x style icons
- AmigaOS 2.x/3.x style icons
- AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 icons (aka GlowIcons)
- AmigaOS 4.x Icons
- macOS Icons (*.icns-Format)
- MagicWB icons
- MorphOS/PowerIcons icons (PNG)
- NewIcons
- Windows icons (*.ico-Format)
Of course, Iconic also supports loading and saving of the metadata found in the Amiga icon formats like tooltypes, icon position, drawer view mode, icon type and so on. Thanks to Hollywood 9's new support for palette images it is also possible to load the icon palette, set a transparent pen and access the raw palette pens used in the icon image data. Of course, Iconic doesn't only support palette-based icon images but also icons that contain true colour images with alpha channel. Several of the icon formats listed above also support palette and true colour images within the same icon file and several different icon sizes within the same icon file. All of this is supported by Iconic as well!
This is why Iconic is the ultimate icon plugin for Hollywood and a must-have for every Hollywood user. The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided. Note that Hollywood 9 is strictly required by Iconic.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood we also offer a special 20 euros discount on the full version of Hollywood for a limited time only. This is the perfect chance for all people who don't own Hollywood yet to grab their own copy and to explore the wonderful world of Hollywood and be fascinated by the gigantic functionality of this unique piece of software and all of the plugins that come with it! (dr)
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23.Jan.2022
Olaf Schönweiß (comment)
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AROS: Update 6 of 68k distribution Aros Vision
Since our previous news-item, Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision two times. New are some Shell commands, GUIs for searching, splitting and joining files, extended support for packers, two additional window-related commodities, updated ROMs, a bugfixed reqtools.library, VirusZ III and a number of small improvements.
Furthermore there is a short description of the window options.
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)
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23.Jan.2022
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Aminet uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to Aminet:
apccomm.lha comm/misc 196K 68k transfers files between Amiga...
asm3210.lha dev/asm 156K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c...
Profyler.lha dev/debug 1.1M OS4 Software performance profiler...
regina-doc.pdf dev/lang 1.3M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
DFT_DWT_FFT.zip dev/src 95K 68k DFT, DWT and FFT for an A1200...
pi400_keymap_esp.lha driver/inp 5K Raspberry Pi400 spanish keymap
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 81K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of the same c...
bsaog.lha game/shoot 799K 68k Blake Stone Aliens of Gold
bsps.lha game/shoot 205K 68k Blake Stone Planet Strike
jfduke3d.lha game/shoot 1.3M 68k JFDuke3D Amiga Port
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
mame030_0.26a.lha misc/emu 326K 68k Multiple Arcade Machine Emula...
mame040_0.26a.lha misc/emu 326K 68k Multiple Arcade Machine Emula...
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 186K Some samples created by Sampl...
Next.lha text/show 147K 68k Viewer for text/guides/html/d...
avalanche.lha util/arc 31K 68k Simple ReAction GUI for xadma...
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
profyler.lha dev/deb 1Mb 4.1 Software performance profiler
exodus_patch.lha gam/str 70kb 4.0 Exodus: The Last War patch to fi...
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
rawread.lha uti/mis 22kb 4.1 Reads raw blocks from a device
rawwrite.lha uti/mis 24kb 4.1 Writes raw blocks to a device
afortune.lha uti/she 9Mb 4.0 Write random sentences in shell
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
muibase-4.4.1.lha off/dat 8Mb Programmable relational database...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
MilkyTracker_1.03.lha Audio/Tracker An XM/MOD tracker by th...
AmiArcadia_28.32.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.01.2022
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 22.01.2022:
- 2022-01-18 improved: Logo (Starbyte) supports another version, DMA wait inserted, slave is 68000 compatible now (Info)
- 2022-01-18 fixed: Gloom (Black Magic) install script copies gloomgame file too, slave doesn't lock if it can not find gloomgame (Info)
- 2022-01-18 improved: D.O.S. (Andromeda) graphics problems in greetings part fixed (Info, Image)
- 2022-01-17 improved: Street Rod 2 (California Dreams) access fault fixed (Info)
- 2022-01-16 improved: Harmagedon (Infect) possible freezes fixed, all line drawing routines fixed, lots of Bplcon0 color bit fixes, illegal copperlist enries fixed, access faults fixed (Info, Image)
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22.Jan.2022
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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)
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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)
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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:
(dr)
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22.Jan.2022
Amigans
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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."
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21.Jan.2022
D4XX REMIX
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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)
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Amiga Future (website)
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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)
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