20.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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OpenSwitcher: Do-it-yourself floppy disk drive switcher
OpenSwitcher is a do-it-yourself floppy disk drive switcher for the Amiga, tested with an Amiga 500+ and 2.x as well as 3.x Kickstart ROMs. Seperately, there is also a variant for the Amiga 600 and 1200.
Aim of the project is a solution built of easily available and easily programmable parts that is easily to install as well. (snx)
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20.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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New downloads at amigaland.de
At amigaland.de Mirko Engelhardt offers software that had been commercial before with the permission of the respective copyright owners. Latest additions include the soccer manager simulation Bundesliga Manager as well as the adventures Jonathan and Die Kathedrale by Software 2000 as well as the economic simulations Mag!!! and ranTrainer by Greenwood Entertainment Software. (snx)
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20.Oct.2021
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Event: Developers and presentations at Amiga-Meeting Nord 2021 (Germany)
From November 5 to 7, 2021, the next Amiga-Meeting will take place in Neumünster, Germany. Everyone actively taking part with his own computer will receive keyfiles for Amiga Forever and C64 Forever sponsored by Mike Battilana of Cloanto. Besides 'Matze' also Entwickler-X, Arne/HavanaClub and Kai/Forgottenhero will be there and probably also Frank Mariak of the MorphOS developer team may join.
More details can be found in our german news-item or at the title link. (snx)
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20.Oct.2021
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BASIC-Compiler: AQB 0.7.3
With his compiler AQB, which is oriented to Microsoft's AmigaBASIC or QuickBASIC, but not intended as a clone, the developer Guenter Bartsch has the intention to create a modern, clean, AmigaOS-compatible and future-proof BASIC, which is tailored to modern Amiga application development.
In version 0.7.3, besides bug fixes in the compiler, various functions and modules were added. (dr)
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20.Oct.2021
Janne Peräaho (Mail)
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Review: Amiga python port of puzzle game 'Oil Worker'
In mid-July, developer Janne Peräaho had begun a series of Python conversions with the game Space Invaders. He now continued this series with the game OilWorker originally published by Wil Alvarez in 2008 as implementation for AmigaOS 4.1. Thereby he optimized the loading of the game data, created the possibility to reset the highscore and added a small manual.
The aim of the game is to lay an oil pipeline from the delivery point to the tank. The pieces to be used for this purpose must be placed next to each other in the playing field in a meaningful way, whereby a minimum number must be reached. In a preview at the upper right edge you can see the next four pieces to be processed for the pipeline. If one just doesn't fit the line you've started (the pieces can't be rotated), it can be placed anywhere on the board or built over an existing one (for a $50 deduction). The game features simple, but nice background music and also single SFX.
In our small test, 'Oil Worker' ran very smoothly and without problems on an AmigaOne X5000. Using emulated AmigaOS 4.1 (WinUAE on an Intel 2.20 GHz laptop), the game also worked, but only 1-2 FPS were achieved, which meant that setting the parts was still reasonably smooth. However, the time it took for the oil from the ground to reach the upper well and then flow through the pipe was disproportionately long, making the whole thing impossible to play sensibly.
The game is definitely recommended for all those who want to strain their grey cells a bit with a small game in between. However, it should be tested whether the game runs just as smoothly on weaker native hardware (X1000, Sam boards) or whether it can be used sensibly with a faster emulation (current PC). (dr)
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19.Oct.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 153 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 153 (November/December 2021) have been published online now at the title link. Its content includes an interview with Guido Henkel as well as reviews of Cybersphere and AmigaOS 3.2.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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18.Oct.2021
zooperdan
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Puzzle: Wheel of fortune game 'YAWoFFA'
Developer 'zooperdan' today released his BlitzBasic-written implementation of the Wheel of Fortune game called 'YAWoFFA' (Yet Another Wheel of Fortune For Amiga). The principle should be familiar: Spin the wheel of fortune, choose a letter and try to solve the word or combination of words you are looking for. The game can be played alone or with four players.
YAWoFFA requires Kickstart 2.x and 1MB chip ram. In the current version 0.4 the game supports only English terms and offers the four categories 'Amiga Games', 'Movies', 'Famous people' and 'Miscellaneous'. In future versions a computer opponent and more categories are planned. The game is available for free, a small donation is of course welcome.
Since we have accompanied the development of the game for some time and were in exchange with the developer, we asked whether a German-language variant would also be possible. The author kindly took care of it, but so far failed in the implementation of the 'umlauts' in BlitzBasic. He is happy about suggestions in this regard, but points out that the idea of reading the text file (with the words) with the correct code does not work in BlitzBasic. (dr)
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18.Oct.2021
George Sokianos
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.4.3 (update)
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations and, since Version 1.4.0, also to listen to podcasts. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. By releasing the new version 1.4.2, the author George Sokianos has adapted his program to the changed api so searching for radio stations is working again.
Update: (12:43, 21.10.21, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.4.3 is available which fixes some bugs and was compiled with openssl to 1.1.1l. (dr)
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17.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 16.10.2021
The following files have been added until 16.10.2021 to Aminet:
asm-kurs5.lha dev/asm 1.0M Assembly course, German
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 412K 68k Driver for G3/G4 PCI cards
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 19K 2021 Carset for F1GP
nblood.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Blood Amiga Port
aiostreams.lha util/batch 263K Stream video from major onlin...
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17.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 16.10.2021
The following files have been added until 16.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 18Mb 4.0 Point and click adventure game
scummvm.lha gam/adv 96Mb 4.1 2D Point-and-Click adventure int...
scummvm-src.zip gam/adv 158Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
oilworker.lha gam/puz 7Mb 4.1 An addictive and challenging arc...
mediavault.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Discover online radio stations
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 11Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
textedit.gz off/wor 12Mb 4.1 Preview of upcomming Qt6 release
scummvm-tools.lha uti/fil 3Mb 4.1 A collection of various tools fo...
scummvm-tools-src.zip uti/fil 2Mb 4.1 ScummVM Tools Source
aiostreams.lha vid/mis 263kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
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17.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.10.2021
The following files have been added until 16.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Iris_0.128.lha Email New email client suppor...
NMTM_12.10.21.lha Games/Adventure A game concept demo of ...
ScummVM_2.5.0.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
Umoria_5.7.15.lha Games/Role Robert A. Koeneke's cla...
Julius_1.7.0.lha Games/Strategy An open source re-imple...
Pixy_1.0_alpharelease_... Graphics/Draw The next generation pix...
qrcodelab_0.8.lha Misc qrcodelab_0.8.lha
Wayfarer_2.8.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
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17.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmiWest: PDF file of Emu68 speech by Michal Schulz
Michal Schulz has published the slides of his speech at AmiWest 2021 about his JIT emulator for ARM, Emu68 (amiga-news.de reported), at the title link. (snx)
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17.Oct.2021
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AmiWest: Announcements of A-EON/Amigakit
Matthew Leaman (Amigakit, A-EON), Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), and Steven Solie (ExecSG) are not attending AmiWest in person, but will be talking about A-EON and Amigakit's projects and products in a live-streamed video conference. Most of the points addressed can be seen in the screenshots of the respective presentation below, but we have briefly summarized some additional points addressed:
- New versions of Enhancer and DvPlayer are available now (see screenshots)
- Matthew Leaman talks about Enhancer Release V54 - the in-house OS project, which he consistently calls a "distribution": It is installed on its own partition without changing the AmigaOS 4 partition - many users had wished for this. The user could then choose during the boot process whether to start Enhancer Release V54 or AmigaOS 4.
- Hans de Ruiter is working on "NovaBridge", a Warp3D driver that does not access the hardware but Warp 3D Nova. This makes it possible to run old Warp3D titles - WipeOut 2097 is shown - on modern graphics cards for which no W3D driver exists.
- Dickinson shows screenshots of AmigaOS 4.1 on the latest revision of the A1222plus motherboard and describes the current state of work. He does not want to give an estimate when the motherboards might be available.
- Dickinson wanted to present a "video demo" of the long announced LibreOffice port, but due to a "hardware mishap" of the responsible developer the video did not materialize.
- Andy Broad is working on an OS4 port of ImageFX
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16.Oct.2021
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AmigaOS 4: Preview to Qt 6.2.0
In 2011, Alfkil Wennermark released a first native port of the C++ class library Qt 4.7 for AmigaOS 4.
At the end of August on amigans.net, the author reported that he is about to port Qt6. Now he has uploaded a first preview of a text editor to OS4Depot ceated with QT 6.2.0. Following the instructions of the author, we get the following impressions:
The text can be smoothly marked and formatted using the corresponding icons. The tool runs without any problems or crashes. On amigans.net the author also has introduced other applications like a clock or a calculator. He also has confirmed that at one point he will also port the Qt WebEngine. Further details he will provide in a future Twitch stream.
If you want to support the author you can do it using his PayPal address. (dr)
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16.Oct.2021
Achim Kern (Mail)
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Game announcement: 'Balloons' for all Amiga systems
Achim Kern is not only continuously working on his 'SmartHome' project for automating one's own four walls (amiga-news.de reported), but also uses the multimedia-oriented programming language Hollywood used for this purpose to develop games such as Mars Tank Attack.
In his latest game project, 'Balloons', those balloons have to be shot at a fair, with the difficulty increasing from level to level: with more balloons, shorter time and a limited number of shots. Likewise, in higher levels, certain sequences are given, such as three blue, two red, four green balloons. This sounds simple, but the player has to remember this order...If you have further ideas for levels, please contact Achim Kern. The screenshots kindly provided by the author should give a first impression. The game will be available for free for all platforms supported by Hollywood Player and is planned for the end of the year.
(dr)
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16.Oct.2021
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Commercial action game: Turbo Tomato 1.10
At the end of July, Bitmap Soft released the commercial action game , in which you have to try to remove mutated vegetables from the playground using bombs. Now an update to version 1.10 has been released introducing the different difficulty levels 'SOFT' and 'SPICY'. The other changes:
- Other improvements
- Add "No Friendly Fire" trainer
- Allow dead players to rejoin a 2P game (counts as using continue)
- Show default and most recent level codes on select level screen
- Limit damage taken from enemies exploding very close to the player
- Debounce fire button on Continue screen
- Allow more time to read text on introduction screens
- Rebalance BONUS! letter probabilities to be more evenly spread
- Fixes
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- Fix data corruption when certain enemies die by friendly fire
- Fix some enemies not exploding and dropping items when they should
- Fix player energy bar not updating after large hits
- Fix flashing of PUSH BUTTON message on Continue screen
- Fix "Max Strength" trainer not activating when selected
- Fix "Black Lagoon" creature movement getting stuck
- Fix map glitch allowing entering a wall in "Waste Dump Sinister"
- Fix spread and rendering glitches with Waste Drum radiation
- Fix cosmetic glitches with decal tiles on some levels
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15.Oct.2021
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 0.128
Today MorphOS team member Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek released an update for his e-mail client Iris. Changes in version 0.128 include OpenSSL 3 and removal of duplicate addresses when replying to all.
For feedback to the author the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (snx)
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15.Oct.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 16 of assembler coding course
'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams on Twitch the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English and after some time uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday episode 16 was published, dediacated to chapter 7 of the book and is about "Sprites / Joysticks / Tables / Bit Manipulation". (dr)
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14.Oct.2021
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.8
Today, version 2.8 of Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web browser Wayfarer has been released, consisting of several small optimisations.
Required are MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB of RAM. A CPU with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to the author, besides the integrated crash report tool and e-mails to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu also the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (snx)
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12.Oct.2021
ANF
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ComputerBase: 32-bit console Amiga CD³² & 16-bit CD player Philips CD-i (german)
At the title link, german tech magazine ComputerBase compares Commodore's Amiga CD³² as Europe's first 32-bit game console with the CD-i, the 16-bit multimedia system that was introduced by Philips in 1991 and co-developed with Sony.
The actual competing product, however, the Amiga CDTV, that had been introduced by Commodore also in 1991, is not mentioned at all. (snx)
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11.Oct.2021
ppa.ppl
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MorphOS: Adventure interpreter ScummVM 2.5.0
Press release: Twenty years ago today, on Tue Oct 9 16:30:12 2001, Ludvig Strigeus pushed the initial revision of the ScummVM code, which was version 0.0.1 of the project. Time flew quickly and, fast-forward to the present day, we are proudly releasing ScummVM 2.5.0 "Twenty years ago today…"
The list of changes is tremendous.
First of all, this is the first release that supports 2.5D games (almost 3D), thanks to the merger with ResidualVM. With this release we announce support for Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey and Myst 3: Exile. This is why we jumped straight to 2.5 in our versioning. Please note that only desktop platforms currently support these games and other platforms may or may not gain the support later depending on their capabilities.
In addition to these 3 games and engines, we officially support 10 more new engines and subengines that add compatibility with the following games:
- Little Big Adventure
- Red Comrades 1: Save the Galaxy
- Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice
- Transylvania
- Crimson Crown
- OO-Topos
- Glulx interactive fiction games
- Private Eye
- AGS Games versions 2.5+
- Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
- The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
- Crusader: No Remorse
- L-ZONE
- Spaceship Warlock
We love localized game releases and multiple platform versions, thus with this release, we enhanced the support for Lure of the Temptress Konami release, Blue Force Spanish, Ringworld Spanish, Amazon: Guardians of Eden Spanish, Mystery House French, Russian translations of Sierra AGI games, Elvira 1 Japanese PC-98, Bargon Attack Russian, Woodruff Russian, Eye of the Beholder Japanese Sega-CD, Legend of Kyrandia Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 2 Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 3 Simplified Chinese, Inherit the Earth PC-98 Japanese, Gabriel Knight 1 Macintosh, Xeen Russian to name but a few. Notably, Macintosh b/w versions of Loom and Indy 3 are now also supported.
Besides the new games and game versions, ScummVM 2.5.0 brings many notable improvements and new features. We have completed a major rework of the GUI: We now support Unicode characters everywhere. The GUI also adapts to high resolutions used in HiDPI screens. The Nintendo DS port has been significantly rewritten. We added GOG and Steam achievements to a large number of Wintermute games and enabled KeyMapper in more games. Thanks to the work of one of our GSoC students, we have now added an option for text-to-speech to the games Sfinx, Soltys and The Griffon Legend.
You may find all of this goodness available to a number of platforms on our download page or let the autoupdater kick in on Macintosh and Windows.
We wish you great adventuring, happy puzzle-solving and exciting journeys to RPG worlds, and hope to see you around in the coming years.
And by the way, GOG.com is running a special promo tied to the release and our anniversary, where you can buy many ScummVM-supported games at a discount.
(dr)
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11.Oct.2021
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 beta 4
At the End of May the developer Dirk Hoffmann released version 1.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS. He continued the development by releasing the first beta version for version 1.1. Now he has released beta version 4 providing the following changes:
- The Blitter interrupt was triggered one DMA cycle too early (High Density by Darkness, #466)
- Fixed an IPL polling issue in the CLR command (High Density by Darkness, #466)
- The emulator does no longer crash when mouse controls are accessed from keyboard window (#550)
- Merged in Rom database extensions made by @chris70c
(dr)
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11.Oct.2021
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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Alinea Computer: OmniPort - Multi port adapter for Amiga 1200
Press release: We are pleased to announce the release of the OmniPort multi port adapter for the Amiga 1200.
The OmniPort is a multi-port adapter that neatly routes various hardware interfaces on the Amiga 1200 desktop case to the outside via the expansion port. The interfaces are 2x USB, 1 x HDMI and 1x MicroSD. In order to be able to use the respective interfaces with the OmniPort, the corresponding hardware must already be installed in the Amiga 1200.
The hardware can be purchased now for 24.95 Euro in the online shop. (dr)
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10.Oct.2021
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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USB-Adapter: Firmware update for Ryś MKII
The Ryś MKII adapter can be used together with USB HID devices like mouses, joysticks and pads to connect them as input devices for Amiga computers. The latest firmware update includes a new version of the USB stack support for wheel and the 4th and 5th mouse buttons.
Downloads:
RysMKII_v0.11_beta.hex (Firmware, 27 KB)
RysWheel_Installer_v0.11b.lha (AmigaOS Software, 72 KB) (dr)
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10.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 09.10.2021
The following files have been added until 09.10.2021 to Aminet:
sedna2.lha demo/aga 1.5M 68k 'Sedna2' by Venom
speedmachine.lha demo/aga 521K 68k Speedmachine
broken_eyes.lha demo/intro 51K 68k Broken Eyes
Void-FB11-Morph.zip demo/sound 7.1M MOS Music Disk for MorphOS
exomizer.lha dev/cross 820K MOS A cruncher for 6502/Z80/6809 ...
evo.lha dev/e 602K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
Umoria.lha game/role 764K MOS Robert A. Koeneke's classic r...
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 726K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
Alltests.zip util/misc 283K 68k Automated Amiga Test Program
TestProgram.zip util/misc 131K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
usbdevs.lha util/rexx 622K Vendor and product of USB/PCI...
tabexec.lha util/wb 9K 68k Tabexec - a dmenu like launcher
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10.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.10.2021
The following files have been added until 09.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
mediavault.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Discover online radio stations
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10.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.10.2021
The following files have been added until 09.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Void-Feedback_11.zip Demoscene Music Disk for MorphOS
Exomizer_3.1.1.lha Development/Cross A cruncher for 6502/Z80...
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10.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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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:
- LowBudget Song Remix
- Hightop (Hiphop Remix)
- Just Another
- Lisbon Fever
- The Martini Effect (Very poor little demo remix)
- Falcon
- A320 Airbus
- Fighter Bomber
- Time Machine - 2021 Dance Remix
- Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
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10.Oct.2021
Amigasystem (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 1.6 (x86)
"AROS One", an AROS distribution based on ABI v0, is now available in version 1.6 for x86 computers (video, resolution of 720p recommended). It can be downloaded at the title link either as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image.
Updates:
- Applications:
- Abkviewer v0.06
- LoView v2.91
- AYA v06
- ComicOn v1.2
- Pintor Web v3.10
- Videntium Picta v2.45
- Horloge SDL
- SnapIT v1.5
- GrafX2 v2.5.1960
- Omanko v1.10
- Paste Quick v0.41
- InstallerLG v1.0.0beta2
- FontTester v1.10
- DiskImageGUI v52.34
- DosDrivers IPC0 and IPC1
- AutoActivate v1.11
- ZapperNG v1.2
- WBxCLI v0.6
- KGBArchGUI v02
- V.A.M.P. v2.30
- NTFS3G 53.4
- EXFAT v53.3
- ViewLHA v07
- Arlan v0.1
- UnRAR v6.02
- FrameBuild v.05
- PaperBox v1.1
- YAM v0.46
- Simplemail v4.6
- MCC_BetterString-11.36
- MCC_NList-0.128
- MCC_TextEditor-15.56
- MCC_TheBar-26.22
- Operating System:
- New Zune Themes White, Gray colors
- 18 New Wanderer Themes (Backdrops, Skins Windows and Pointers)
- 4 OWB Themes
- Wanderer Icons (File Directory "Detail")
- New Disk Image Device Icons
- Theme for FrameBuild v.05
- New Zune Arc Icons images
- New Def_Icon for Workbench
- New Def_Icon for Simplemail
- Update config Dopus4
- Games:
- Koules
- Soliton
- Tressette
- Amifish
- Demos:
- Acidwarp
- Jylam
- BoingDemo
- Hogwagen
(snx)
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10.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Floppy disk images reading and writing on PC or Mac: Greaseweazle 0.31
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported).
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Now released version 0.31 increases USB buffer size from 16 to 64 KB. Greaseweazle is available at various dealers. (snx)
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10.Oct.2021
Greg Donner
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware 1.9.1
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday the new firmware version 1.9.1 was released. It requires the new RTG driver 1.9 (can be downloaded under the title link) and includes the following changes:
- Fixes issues from 1.9:
- PAL/NTSC/Interlace switching was sometimes unreliable, leading to garbage states if loading monitor driver after loading Workbench
- Video formatter writes (esp. for sprites) could be interrupted with other video formatter writes by vblank/split interrupt, leading to undefined states and garbage or doubled screen when switching modes (esp. with RTG/native mode switching)
- ZZ9000Installer had a bug that would not rename the correct driver for Zorro 2 systems (A500/A2000)
- Improvements vs 1.8:
- zzusb.device now in ZZ9000 ROM (Remove Devs:ZZ9000USBStorage.device!)
- Automatic discovery and boot from USB stick partitions (currently OFS/FFS only)
- "Turbo" method of setting up drawing registers now the default (helps with CyberStorm MK1, for example)
- 2 different palettes supported for 8-bit P96 split screen (requires P96 3.1.4+)
- Support for new Multi Monitor feature of P96 by setting DISPLAYCHAIN ToolType of ZZ9000 to NO (requires P96 3.1.2+)
- Horizontal Panning support in RTG modes
- Ethernet negotiation doesn't block boot anymore
- Native Capture: Fix rare Column Swap Bug
- Native Capture: Optional "Non Standard Sync" modes that are closer to the original refresh rate, enabled by setting ENV:ZZ9000-NS-VSYNC. Needs a tolerant display
- Native Capture: Moved all switching (incl. NTSC/PAL) code to vblank interrupt, fixing some RTG/native switching bugs
- INT6/INT2 Interrupts reworked in ZZ9000Net.device to support interrupt sharing with other cards and ZZ9000AX.
- New Screen Modes: 2560x1440@30Hz, 1600x1200, 720x480
- Fixes compatibility with some displays vs 1.8
- Known Problems:
- 256 MB AutoConfig Memory enabled only after first reset
- Autoboot and AutoConfig Memory features can lead to problems with some special Amiga setups. Use alternative firmware versions to disable these. With Autoboot disabled, you can use zzusb.device from Extras drawer in the installer archive.
- USB storage can be crashy with CS MK1 accelerator
(dr)
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10.Oct.2021
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Lionheart Remake 1.10: Java port of Lionheart
Byron 3D Games Studio has released a Lionheart Java Remakeof Lionheart for its LionEngine (amiga-news.de berichtete). Source codes are available on GitHub for the LionEngine as well as for the game port.
Version 1.10 includes the following changes:
- Added
- Game launcher configuration
- Gamepad support (PC & Android)
- New stages (Swamp, Spidercave, Ancient Town, Lava, Secret, Airship, Dragonfly, Tower)
- Full editor with stage entities properties and checkpoints edition
- Original 50Hz support added with fullscreen
- Cheats menu added
- Click and touch support to menu
- Android virtual keyboard diagonal support
- Multi language support (shipped with English, French, German, Spanish)
- Sword level on hud
- Changed
- Intro and Extro reviewed with perfect original timing
- Font converted to bitmap to be rendered same on any platform
- Backdrop non flicker mode with more color
- Loading time improved
- Map tile file size reduced
- Sfx converted to mono with no loss
- Fixed
- Widescreen support
- Life lost even with cheats enabled
- No credits on last life lost when bitten
- Intro and Credits English texts
- Intro not working without music
- Bird behavior on collide
- Player camera limit lock
- Swamp stage5 Bee invalid patrol proximity
- Spider ground fall
- Liana and Grip soar hurt invalid jump
- Sfx not correctly cached
- Music on Windows 32bits
- AncientTown level rip 7 and 8 black color
(dr)
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09.Oct.2021
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Accelerator board: TerribleFire TF1230 available
Retro32 wrote on its website: "We’re delighted to announce that the mighty TerribleFire TF1230 is now available from our store.
This epic Amiga 1200 accelerator card offers both great performance and value and IMO is the best Amiga 1200 upgrade for your money. With a 50MHz at your disposal and up to a whopping 128MB of Fast Memory on tap, the TF1230 offers speeds over 7 times faster than a stock 1200.
At present, we only have very limited stock of these cards available but hope to offer more stock as availability improves."
According to the website, prices start at 170 British Pounds (about 200 Euro) for a TerribleFire TF1230 equipped with mit 64MB RAM. (dr)
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08.Oct.2021
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Video tutorial: Assembler coding course
Formerly the demo group RamJam released several Amiga demos. Between 1994 and 1996 the member Fabio 'Randy' Ciucci wrote the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi". In 2016, with Ciucci's permission, RamJam published this course as book. On the website there is also a two-disk version as well as an Italian-language pdf document of the course. 'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams it on Twitch in English and then uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday eposide 15 was published, dediacated to chapter six of the book. (dr)
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07.Oct.2021
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: New revision 2.0 announced
At the end of July the developer 'jasonsbeer' fixed revision 1.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor, 'Amiga-2000-ATX', as production candidate. Now he has recommended all users who are going to build such a board to wait for he "expects to assemble and test the next revision (2.0) of the Amiga 2000 EATX board by the middle of November. The revision 2.0 board will have additional features that many will find attractive." Detailed changes:
- Supports both Agnus 8372A and Agnus 8375 (A500+/A600 variety) on the same board
- Added external floppy drive header
- Support for two real-time clock options
- Moved Zorro bus termination
- Cleaned up the schematics
(dr)
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07.Oct.2021
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Dungeon Crawler: "The Shadows of Sergoth" available for pre-order
At the end of 2018 the Dungeon Crawler "The Shadows of Sergoth" was announced for 2019. So far only a playable demo was released. From now on the game is available for pre-order from Doublesided Games: For 14,99 Euro for the disk version or for 39,99 Euro for the boxed edition. The game is supposed to be released on 13. November. "The Shadows of Sergoth" runs on any graphics chipset (OCS, ECS, AGA), but 2MB Chip-Ram are required and a faster Amiga is recommended (A1200 or accelerated) to activate the 3D movement effects and enhance the gameplay experience. Content of the boxed edition:
- Glossy Cardboard Box
- Three 3"1/2 Floppies
- Instruction Manual
- An actual compass to find your way through the dungeons (or in real life)
- A D20 die, to make sure your rolls are perfect
- Dungeon inhabitants stickers
- Digital download (ADF)
(dr)
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06.Oct.2021
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Dock bar: WBDock V1.26
Thomas Rapp has updated his dock bar 'WBDock', similar to Toolmanager oder AmiDock, for AmigaOS 1.3. WBdock can now load custom images for icons, supporting icon and IFF ILBM files, without color remapping. (dr)
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06.Oct.2021
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.4.1 (Update)
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. For the first time now Podcasts also are supported. The author George Sokianos wrote:
"I just released the new version of MediaVault 1.4.0, which brings one of my favorite features, and I am talking about the podcasts support.
MediaVault uses PodcastIndex.org to get data for the listed podcasts and episodes. It has more than 4.2 million of podcasts in it's database, making it one of the biggest online sources. I am sure you will find your beloved podcasts in there, as well.
MediaVault is the first native application for AmigaOS 4 that brings podcasts at the tip of your fingers. And I am sure that you will love it as much as I did developing it.
For now, MediaVault returns only 100 podcasts based on your search criteria, and only the latest 100 episodes of the selected podcast, but I am sure, until you listen to all of this content, the next version will be ready, bringing unlimited access.
The new version can be downloaded from the project GitHub page. If you already use the previous version, there is a self-update process, which you can find at the application menu. This can be used to update to the latest available version automatically.
I would like to thank all of my supporters for helping me develop MediaVault, adding new features and making better and better."
Detailed changes:
- You can now search for podcasts based on their title, see info and their avatar and a list of the latest 100 episodes.
- By selecting an episode and clicking the play button the audio is loaded to the player and starts playing.
- Changed the way the avatar images are downloaded, which is now faster and solves a lot of errors with network access, which resulted connection error messages to appear.
Update: (05:01, 11.10.21, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.4.1 is available. You now can choose your favourite player. With regard to playing Podcasts it seems that the 'Emotion' media player developed by Entwickler-X is most suitable. It can be purchased directly from the developer or e.g. in the Alinea Computer Shop for 25 Euro. Detailed changes:
- Added an error message when podcast response is not a successful one
- Added scripts/start_player.sample script. This can be used to set the preferred player. This needs to be renamed as start_player to be used. The reason the file is named like that is to avoid replacements in future updates. The file includes configuration for different supported players, but more can be added.
- Added Trending Podcasts search based on category and/or language
- Added radio station bitrate and codec information in results list and at the right sidebar.
- Changed the about window to add more information.
- Fixed the error of not finding the texteditor.gadget on start
(dr)
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05.Oct.2021
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.0 Update for Raspberry Pi 4/400
Version 11.7.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 increases performance and security and provides program updates. Changes:
- Amiga side changes:
- ADDED: host-multiview 1.0 by Dimitris Panokostas. It allows you to open Amiga files with default Linux app!
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.0 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.10 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: HippoPlayer 2.47 by Kari-Pekka Koljonen
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player (IMP) 3.28 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: JFIFdt44 44.15 by Henryk Richter and Gunther Nikl
- UPDATED: MCC_BetterString 11.36 Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_NList 0.127 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.56 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TheBar 26.22 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: RapaGUI 2.0 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RNOPDF 1.4 by jPV^RNO
- UPDATED: SnoopDos 3.11 by Eddy Carroll, Thomas Richter et al.
- UPDATED: UnRAR 6.02 by Alexander Roshal, Amiga port by Marcin Labenski
- UPDATED: VirusZ 1.04Ăź by Georg Wittmann
- UPDATED: xvs.library 33.44 by Georg Wittmann
- FIXED: Initialising of YAM theme works now
- FIXED: If you're experiencing sound glitches, in new Amiberry increase the sound buffer to 8
- Linux side changes:
- UPDATED: Amiberry 4.1.5 by Dimitris Panokostas, the emulation engine of AmiKit, now with MANY bugfixes and increased performance including Fast Copper too!
- UPDATED: Game Controller and WHDLoad databases
- UPDATED: Linux updates (included with new image only; for existing installation simply run "Update Linux" from start menu)
Besides, 3 music tracks have been added in memory of Paul van der Valk who recently passed away. (dr)
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03.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 02.10.2021
The following files have been added until 02.10.2021 to Aminet:
SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.3M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3.lha comm/misc 2.0M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3fp... comm/misc 2.0M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS4.lha comm/misc 2.8M OS4 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_WOS.lha comm/misc 2.4M WOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
sedna2.lha demo/aga 1.5M 68k 'Sedna2' by Venom (AGA)
speedmachine.lha demo/aga 521K 68k Speedmachine (AGA)
vice.lha demo/ecs 189K 68k Vice
victory.lha demo/ecs 237K 68k Victory
breakdown.lha demo/intro 52K 68k Breakdown! (AGA)
broken_eyes.lha demo/intro 51K 68k Broken Eyes (AGA)
Snow_Ninja.i386-aros.lha demo/misc 16M x86 Demo from SSEP 2012
WakeUp_MOS.lha demo/misc 8.6M MOS Invitation to CAFe'2022
WakeUp_OS4.lha demo/misc 8.9M OS4 Invitation to CAFe'2022
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 18K 2021 Carset for F1GP
MunchDude.lha game/misc 6.2M x86 An OpenGL game in the style o...
AMICUBE.adf game/think 880K 68k Rubik's Cube for classic Amiga
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
UniDOS-Cartridge-68k.lha misc/emu 2.0M 68k Create Amstrad Plus UniDOS ca...
UniDOS-Cartridge-MOS.lha misc/emu 2.3M MOS Create Amstrad Plus UniDOS ca...
UniDOS-Cartridge-OS4.lha misc/emu 2.7M OS4 Create Amstrad Plus UniDOS ca...
xiffview.tgz misc/unix 32K IFF ILBM picture viewer for L...
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
MMV8_Player.lha mus/play 33K 68k MusicMaker V8 Player
RNORadio.lha mus/play 3.5M MOS Internet radio player
GF4RSID8.zip pix/misc 83K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
ASE2019_1.60.lha text/edit 143K 68k Text editor
guideml.lha text/hyper 189K OS4 HTML converter with GUI
Alltests.zip util/misc 286K 68k Automated Amiga Test Program
EjectADF11.lha util/wb 38K 68k Add Eject commmand to OS 3.2 ...
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03.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.10.2021
The following files have been added until 02.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your...
wakeup.lha dem/sce 9Mb 4.1 Invitation to CAFe'2022
oo.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
whdload-to-uae.lha emu/uti 207kb 4.1 WHDLoad to E-UAE
nmtm-solution.lha gam/mis 9kb 4.0 The solution for the game No Mor...
pixy.lha gra/edi 7Mb 4.0 Pixel editor new generation
witchcleaner.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.0 Clean temp data from OWB and IBr...
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03.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.10.2021
The following files have been added until 02.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
RNORadio_1.3.lha Audio/Players RNORadio is a GUI based...
SonosController_1.1.lha Devices/Speakers Control your Sonos spea...
AmiArcadia_28.21.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
UniDOS-Cartridge_1.1.lha Emulation Create Amstrad Plus Uni...
NMTM-solution.lha Games/Adventure This is the clues and s...
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03.Oct.2021
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 125 (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. (snx)
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02.Oct.2021
amigaworld.net
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Video tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 3.2 under AmigaOS 4.1
In his latest YouTube tutorial Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has demonstrated how to install AmigaOS 3.2 under AmigaOS 4.1 on his AmigaOne X5000 via EUAE with JIT enabled. After installation, AmigaOS 3.2 is running with a screen resolution of 1920x1080x32. Additionally he installs also diverse hacks and patches. (dr)
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01.Oct.2021
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Programming: 'Rust'-Support for Motorola 68000 announced
As Golem reports, the Rust programming language has received experimental support for the Motorola 68000 CPU architecture and processor family for the first time, thanks to a LLVM port. The associated code has been contributed to the main branch of the language's open source repository.
Golem further points out, "Currently, the Rust port to the M68k architecture is still considered experimental and is arguably not complete. In addition, the compiler test suite is not tested by default and the team makes few guarantees that the port will work. For native builds, those involved currently recommend using Debian's M68k port in the documentation, as well as old machines with the CPU such as the Atari or Amiga.
Supported and mainly supervised the work on the LLVM port to the processor architecture, which is now about 40 years old, by a small team of volunteers. The most important goal of the work here is to support the retro computing scene with the work on the compiler. So, together with the Rust port, it will be possible in the future to run other modern software written in Rust on the cherished old computers." (dr)
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01.Oct.2021
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Amiga-Emulator: Amiberry 4.1.5
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch.
After relasing several 'release candidates' (amiga-news.de reported), today version 4.1.5 was released providing several big fixes, improvements and among others also support for AmigaOS 3.2 ROMs. Detailed list of changes:
- fixed pipeline typo
- Added distro information to pre-compiled binaries
- Removed more unused code
- Speed up Fast Copper
- More removal of unused code
- Removed inactive code from custom.cpp
- Updated whdload_db to latest version
- Added RPI3 64-bit pipelines (inactive for now)
- Updated Readme to reflect Makefile changes
- Updated Azure Build pipelines with new platform names
- Split rpi3/rpi4 64-bit builds to fix -mcpu wrong flag
- #843: Don't change GUI Window size if we are in Full Screen mode
- Reverted default sound mode to Push with increased bufffer. Pull caused glitches in some cases
- Fixed bug causing full-window mode to always show as windowed
- Fixed bug where if the GUI window was maximized and emulation started afterwards, the emulator would shut down
- Fixed ShowMessage window would always change window size (it shouldn't if it was maximized)
- Merged DrawBridge and GUI updates from dev
- Added support for Kickstart 3.2 ROMs
- #782: Brought back multithreaded drawing
- VS project cleanup
- Don't resize window if it's maximized
- Changed "default_fullscreen" option to "default_fullscreen_mode" and made it into an integer. It now controls 3 states: Windowed (0), Fullscreen (1) or Full-Window (2).
- #454: Added Warp and Quick Save State functions in Custom Controls
- #501: Implemented Warp mode for SDL2 (End + Pause to trigger)
- #821: Added default option for sound pull mode in amiberry.conf
- Added copyright and license info in About panel
- #841: Added label to show timestamp of selected savestate
- #841: Increased Savestates to 15
- Updated Remote deploy/build settings
- Fixed #824: Dispmanx would show black screen if loading another config with different screen dimensions
- DMX: initialize variable
- DMX: Remove unused function
- #805: Renamed and fixed Menu to Guide button, in Custom controls
- #805: Don't hardcode the controller Guide button to open GUI always
- #822: Use menu button from mapping instead of hardcoded SDL2 "GUIDE" button
- #827: Improved navigation in HDD panels
- #827: Implemented scrolling with controller/keyboard in master
- #827: Reduced width of Serial Port group
- #827: Get rid of horizontal scrollbar in Misc panel
- Fixed #823: Controller in Mouse mode didn't trigger Retroarch Quit combo
- Fixed select button reading would pass wrong Joy ID to function
- Don't attempt to read from non-existing joysticks
- Set Input Mouse/Joystick autoswitch to disabled by default
- Added generic Cortex-A9 32-bit target
- Ensure hotkey_pressed is reset after it was triggered to enter the GUI (@mrfixit2001)
- Added CDTV as a command line option in --model
- Change default sound buffer properly
- Revert "Changed default audio buffer size to 4KB instead of 16KB"
- Retroarch: Change button mapping loop to fixed value instead of depending on external variable
- Changed default audio buffer size to 4KB instead of 16KB
- Updated pipelines from dev
- Updated build pipelines
- Removed VisualGDB solution from repo
- Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file
- Revert "Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file"
- Retroarch: Fixed crash on startup when parsing controller file
- Cherry picked recent updates from dev branch
- DMX: Don't remove blackscreen_element during subshutdown
- #825: back-ported improvements to master branch
- #827: Navigation cleanup in Floppy panel
- #827: Fixed Sound panel navigation glitches
- #812: Backported fix to master branch
- Backport fix for #825 to 4.1.4
- Retain version information in optimized builds also
(dr)
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29.Sep.2021
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m68k assembler support: Plugins for JetBrain and Visual Studio IDEs
Recently we reported, that Chris 'platon42' Hodges is developing a (e.g. USB-Stack Poseidon) Plugin for the integrated development environment (IDE) of Jetbrains (e.g. CLion and IntelliJ for Windows, Mac OS and Linux) providing support for m68k assembler. It equips the IDEs with syntax highlighting and code refactoring capability for Motorola's instruction set.
This project also is available on GitHub and meanwhile the plugin is available as version 0.7 providing the following changes:
- Bugfix: 'btst' with pc-relative and weird immediate mode was missing (courtesy of Yann).
- Bugfix: 'movem' with pc-relative mode was missing for weird immediate mode (courtesy of Yann).
- Bugfix: Special registers for address mode matching only worked with lower case register names (courtesy of Yann).
- Enhancement: Assembler syntax with implicit immediate 1 for shifts and rotations no longer cause syntax errors (courtesy of Yann).
- Enhancement: Documentation for instruction with special register shows specific register expected.
- New: Added documentation provider info for global labels. Shows directives and comments above.
- Bugfix: Fixed BNF for labels with preprocessor statements.
- Disabled: 'END' detection was breaking parsing, causing havoc.
- Full changelog available at Github project site.
There is also a second, similar approach of the JetBrains employee Yann Cébron. However, there is no public version yet.
For Microsoft's IDE Visual Studio (among other supporting Visual Basic.NET, C, C++, C++/CLI, C++/CX, C#, F#, SQL Server, TypeScript and Python as well as HTML, JavaScript and CSS), there is also an extension providing support for Amiga's assembler language. (dr)
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28.Sep.2021
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Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.1 (OS3/4, MorphOS)
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). Now he has released version 1.1 for his program written in the programming language Hollywood, which for the first time is available for AmigaOS 3 in addition to AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS and includes the following changes:
- NEW: first release for AmigaOS 3.x besides 4.1 and MorphOS
- NEW: lots of performance improvements to make it usable on a 68060 cpu, resulting in being blazingly fast on PPC-Amigas.
- NEW: MUI 3.8 compatibility (instead of 5.0)
- NEW: zones (= rooms) are now saved in the config file so when starting the app the next time no network scan is necessary, resulting in a much quicker startup.
- NEW: to save on network traffic and CPU load, loading of the current queue can now be deactivated in the Preferences.
- NEW: network scan can now be cancelled and it's no longer possible to start a second scan while one is already running (this led to speakers being listed multiple times in v1.0).
- NEW: queue lists are now cached in memory and are only reloaded if a change has been reported by the according UPNP event.
- NEW: various zone values are now cached in memory and are no longer reloaded when switching between zones.
- NEW: loading of album art for radio stations
- NEW: timeout for UPNP subscription has been increased from 10 minutes to 1 hour (same as with the original Sonos app).
- NEW: added progress in percent while loading a list in the music source
- NEW: added the possibility to cancel loading a list in the music source
- NEW: "Settings" menu to accomodate the menuitems "Preferences..." and "MUI..."
- NEW: "About MUI..." menuitem to follow the MUI styleguide
- CHANGED: shortcuts for "Next" / "Previous" from Ctrl-LEFT/RIGHT to Alt-LEFT/RIGHT because on an Amiga keyboard the Ctrl key is quite far away from the cursor keys.
- REMOVED: browsing the music library by song: it was useless and took ages, it's much better to use the search instead.
- FIXED: renewal of UPNP subscription as well as unsubscription
- FIXED: TV input is now handled correctly.
- FIXED: improved handling when clicking like mad into the track position slider.
- FIXED: disable play button if action "Play" is not available
- FIXED: lots of minor bugfixes
(dr)
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27.Sep.2021
Jörg 'Torque' Klopsch
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AmigaPortal.de: Relaunch of website
In June 2019 the blogger, YouTuber and Amiga fan Jörg 'Torque' Klopsch started the Amigaportal.de. After it was not available for quite a while due to various problems, it has now been relaunched and now offers the possibility for discussion and talks. (dr)
[News message: 27. Sep. 2021, 11:46] [Comments: 0]
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27.Sep.2021
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 Beta 3
At the end of May developer Dirk Hoffmann released version 1.0 of his Amiga emulator for macOS. With the release of the first betaversion for version 1.1 he continued the development. Now beta version 3 is available, with the following changes:
- Compatibility enhancements:
- Fixed a bug related to reading the BLTDDAT register.
- Fixed a bug related to the computation of the DDF window.
- Fixed a bug related to dropping register writes when DMA is performed at the same time.
- GUI:
- Fixed a display bug in the Denise debug panel (BPLCON2 showed wrong values)
- From now on, vAmiga distinguishes two OCS Agnus revisions (A1000 and A500/2000).
- Fixed a bug that generated erroneous bitmap blocks on disks created by importing single files or directories.
(dr)
[News message: 27. Sep. 2021, 06:48] [Comments: 0]
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