08.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Warp 560/Warp 1260: Firmware Pack 1.008
CS-Lab has released an update of the firmware for the 68060-based Warp accelerator boards. Changes of 'Warp Firmware Pack 1.008':
- USB/HID keyboard support
- Composite USB devices support i.e. kbd/mouse receiver in a single USB device
- Dynamic SD card mount/unmount on insert/remove event
- Added SD card / USB drive directory reading in WarpTool
- Minor RTC fixes
- FPGA temperature added to fan regulator logic
- Hostname fix in ESP32 WiFi module
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08.Jun.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)
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sdbox: Open source SD card reader for the parallel port
'sdbox' developed by Jorgen Bilander is a self-construction board which connects a Arduino Nano V3 as well as a common SD card reader to the parallel port of an Amiga and with the helpof an AmigaOS driver allows to access SD cards. The board, the code as well as the template for a 3d printer are available on Github.
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08.Jun.2020
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AmigaOS 4: Financial management "Lüttje Bookholler" 1.80
The author Achim Pankalla wrote: "It is a easy to use personal finance program. "Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant" and that is what you are, when using my little program. The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. LB is email-ware, if you want to use it permanent, please send me an email and you will get some advantages! for examples updates...LB needs at least AOS4.1u6".
Version 1.80 now also supports importing the QIF-format; by adding this extension maybe it is possible to change from a different program to Lüttje Bookholler. Please note that files which were saved with version 1.80, cannot be opened with previous versions of the program.
The author would like to thank all the testers and users. As usual the new version is available on Aminet or OS4Depot. Lüttje Bookholler "probably has not been finished" and is developed further. Actually the author is quite satisfied with his program - therefore it is up to you to call for new features. And of course to report bugs!
Download: luettjebookholler.lha (2 MB)
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07.Jun.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 06.06.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until June 6th, 2020:
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 25K 68k 17 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
IntyBASIC.lha dev/cross 605K MOS BASIC compiler for Intellivision
libdsk-mos.lha dev/lib 4.3M MOS Link lib for manipulation of ...
Mattonite.lha game/actio 946K 68k Arkanoid like Pal game almost...
AmiQuake.lha game/shoot 264K 68k Amiga port of WinQuake v1.09
MinedField.lha game/think 30K 68k Windows alike game for the Amiga
Runaway_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.3M x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha game/wb 2.2M MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha game/wb 4.1M 68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha game/wb 2.6M OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha game/wb 2.5M WOS LCD game conversion
IconMaster.lzh misc/antiq 31K 68k Classic icon editor
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
imp.lha mus/play 79K MOS Play modules from internet, c...
ancient.lha util/arc 629K MOS Decompress ancient formats
MCAmiga.lha util/dir 1.5M MOS MyCommander for all Amiga sys...
AnalogClock.lha util/wb 38K 68k Analog transparent clock for ...
IconMaster_de.lha util/wb 1K German catalog for IconMaster
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07.Jun.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 06.06.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until June 6th, 2020:
intybasic.lha dev/mis 1005k 4.0 BASIC compiler for Intellivision
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
hle-poker.lha gam/car 1Mb 4.0 Guess the next card to appear in...
rftg.zip gam/pla 66Mb 4.1 Run, Shoot & Jump
mooamplifier.lha gra/the 41kb 4.0 16colored skin for AmigaAMP 3
shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders
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07.Jun.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 06.06.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until June 6th, 2020:
Africa_1.55.lha A conversion of 3W board game by James Jacobs.
Augustus_1.4.0.lha An open source re-implementation of Caesar III. ...
CannonBall_sdl2.lha CannonBall - An Enhanced Out Run Engine - Sdl2 P...
Iris_beta0.90.lha New email client supports IMAP, SSL, email autoc...
Julius_1.4.1.lha An open source re-implementation of Caesar III. ...
LibDsk_1.5.12.lha Link lib for manipulation of disk images
MCAmiga_0.8.lha MyCommander for Amiga
OpenSupaplex.lha OpenSupaplex 0.7.1 - reimplementation of Supaple...
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07.Jun.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.06.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until June 6th, 2020:
- 2020-06-06 fixed: Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision) fixed 'SYSTEM ERR -6', added another blitter fix (Info)
- 2020-06-05 improved: Cedric (Neo/Alcatraz) joypad controls added, fixed bug in level 5, keyboard timings fixed, trainer improved (Info)
- 2020-06-05 new: Felix - Don't You Want Me (Project A) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-06-03 new: Starlight (Mystic & TRSI) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
- 2020-06-03 new: Lost Track (Illusion) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-06-03 fixed: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) slave compatible with the latest whdload, delay for the DMA logo display added (Info)
- 2020-06-03 fixed: Chessmaster 2000 (The Software Toolworks) slave works on 68000 machine now (Info)
- 2020-06-02 new: Aural Illusions (Genocide) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-06-01 updated: Krest Mass Leftovers (Anarchy) patch redone, line drawing routines fixed, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-31 improved: Toki (Ocean) install script corrected for the Hit Squad version (Info)
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06.Jun.2020
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File manager: MCAmiga 0.8 for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's MCAmiga is a file manager inspired by Norton and Midnight Commander which can be completely used with the keyboard. Changes in version 0.8:
- Bugfix Move from archive
- lynx type movement (left,right cursor to browse)
- Bugfix initial view as drive view (“LEFT=” shows the drive list as start)
- Bugfix overwrite requester when extracting files
- Bugfix crash on double click on file in archive
- Ask to rename the icon together with the file
- Tool entry to select all info files of selected files
- Better support for german umlauts
- automatically create dir icon on request
MCAmiga is available for AmigaOS (m68k, PPC), MorphOS and AROS (x86, x64, ARM). The program at least requires 4 MB RAM, according to the author the AmigaOS-4 version does not run on a X5000.
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05.Jun.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)
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Card game: High-Low-Equal Poker Card 1.10
In the card game "High-Low-Equal Poker Card" written by Juan Carlos Herran Martin using Hollywood you have to guess if the next card is higher or lower, and earn points.
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04.Jun.2020
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Amigakit announced datatype system
Last year the British retailer Amigakit acquired the rights to the AKDatatypes developed by Andreas Kleinert. In a discussion on amiga.org, Matthew Leaman gives insights into the current stage of development. He also explained that Amigakit is not only going to rework the datatypes but also to write a datatypes.library as well as a new AddDatatypes command. For the future it is planned to work "on the datatype system in any meaningful way" which will be the foundation "for many progressive developments".
Some users remarked that the development has not been coordinated with the team of AmigaOS 3.2 and thus maybe some work will be done twice or will result in incompatibilities. Leaman has responded that due to the legal disputes regarding AmigaOS 3.1.4 a co-operation would be risky. Besides, the "professional" (quote from Leaman) developer who is writing the datatype system for Amigakit is paid for his work - but the OS developers would be not.
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03.Jun.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Game: Demo version of VergeWorld - Icarus Rising
VergeWorld: Icarus Rising is "a sci-fi shoot'em up, racer game with exploration elements" which is in development. Now a demo version is available as ADF file in which you control a spaceship through a canyon (video).
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03.Jun.2020
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Print magazine: Issue 118 of Amiga Future readable online
The English issue 118 (January/February 2016) of the print magazin "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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03.Jun.2020
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Crowdfunding: Book "Demomaker - The Amiga Years"
"Demomaker - The Amiga Years" is supposed to become a book series which will introduce the most important Amiga scene demos and groups. The first part covering the years 1984 to 1993 is now being financed via Indiegogo. For 35 Euro you would get a hardcover book with 452 pages. The funding campaign will last until 22. June. So far about 3000 Euro have been donated, 14.000 Euro are required.
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02.Jun.2020
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Backbone game: "Air Mail" - free digital version and Boxed Edition
"Air Mail" (video of a previous alpha version) is another arcade game created with Backbone and by José A. 'Jojo073' Gonzáles (e.g. Mini Zorro, Mini Swat, Brus Li) and Ricardo Vieira. As usual a "boxed edition" will be sold on amigastore.eu which currently can be ordered via e-mail from the developers. If you want to have the free digital version then you also should contact the developers.
Update: 29.06.20, 17:30, cg):
Fixed the name of the second developer: Gonzáles' partner when creating Air Mail was Ricardo Vieira. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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01.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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New interpreter for Maniac Mansion and Co.: Parrot
Another "player" for the game data of classic point'n-click adventures is developed called "Parrot". At least the SCUMM based games developed by Lucasfilm are supposed to run. In contrast to existing solutions like ScummVM, Parrot is being developed especially for the Amiga and therefore is optimized for this system and its chipset. For example before the first launch, all data are converted into typical Amiga formats to make them playable also on less powerful copmputers. At least "an ECS Amiga, running Workbench 2" is required.
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01.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Decompressing Amiga archives: Ancient Format Decompressor
The "Ancient Format Decompressor" can decompress Amiga archives which were compressed on 16-Bit home computers using common compression programs. The source code can be compiled on every modern system. The following formats are currently supported:
- CrunchMania by Thomas Schwarz: supports both new (version 2) and old stream formats:
- CrM!: Crunch-Mania standard-mode
- Crm!: Crunch-Mania standard-mode, sampled
- CrM2: Crunch-Mania LZH-mode
- Crm2: Crunch-Mania LZH-mode, sampled
- Disk Masher System a.k.a. DMS
- Supports all different compression methods (NONE,SIMPLE,QUICK,MEDIUM,DEEP,HEAVY1,HEAVY2)
- Supports password bypassing
- File Imploder (and most of its clones), specifically with following headers:
- ATN!
- BDPI
- CHFI
- EDAM
- IMP!
- M.H.
- RDC9
- FLT! (verification missing)
- Dupa (verification missing)
- PARA (verification missing)
- PowerPacker
- PP 1.1 (verification missing)
- PP 2.0
- Rob Northen compressors. supports all 3 known formats:
- RNC1: Both old and formats utilizing the same header. heuristics for detecting the current one
- RNC2: RNC version 2 stream
- Turbo Packer by Wolfgang Mayerle.
- Standard gzip
- Standard bzip2, both normal and randomized
- Zip decompressor backend (decompressor only, no Zip file format reading yet) with following methods
- Shrink
- Reduce
- Implode
- Deflate
- Deflate64
- Bzip2
- Lha/Lzh decompressor backend (decompressor only, no Lha file format reading yet) with following methods
- LH0: Null compressor
- LH1: LZRW-compressor with 4kB window
- LH2: LZRW-compressor with Dynamic Huffman Encoding (experimental)
- LH3: LZRW-compressor (experimental)
- LH4: LZRW-compressor with 4kB window
- LH5: LZRW-compressor with 8kB window
- LH6: LZRW-compressor with 32kB window
- LH7: LZRW-compressor with 64kB window
- LH8: LZRW-compressor with 64kB window (Joe Jared extension)
- LHX: LZRW-compressor with up to 512kB window (UnLHX extension)
- LZ4: Null compressor
- LZ5: LZ-compressor
- LZS: LZ-compressor
- PM0: Null compressor
- PM1: LZ-compressor
- PM2: LZ-compressor
- Supports opening XPK-encapsulated files. XPK decompressors supported are:
- ACCA: Andre's Code Compression Algorithm
- ARTM: Arithmetic encoding compressor
- BLZW: LZW-compressor
- BZP2: Bzip2 backend for XPK
- CBR0: RLE compressor
- CBR1: RLE compressor
- CRM2: CrunchMania backend for XPK
- CRMS: CrunchMania backend for XPK, sampled
- CYB2: xpkCybPrefs container
- DLTA: Delta encoding
- DUKE: NUKE with Delta encoding
- ELZX: LZX-compressor
- FAST: LZ77-compressor
- FBR2: CyberYAFA compressor
- FRHT: LZ77-compressor
- FRLE: RLE compressor
- GZIP: Deflate backend for XPK
- HUFF: Huffman modeling compressor
- HFMN: Huffman modeling compressor
- ILZR: Incremental Lempel-Ziv-Renau compressor
- IMPL: File Imploder backend for XPK
- LHLB: LZRW-compressor
- LIN1: Lino packer
- LIN2: Lino packer
- LIN3: Lino packer
- LIN4: Lino packer
- LZBS: CyberYAFA compressor
- LZCB: LZ-compressor
- LZW2: CyberYAFA compressor
- LZW3: CyberYAFA compressor
- LZW4: CyberYAFA compressor
- LZW5: CyberYAFA compressor
- MASH: LZRW-compressor
- NONE: Null compressor
- NUKE: LZ77-compressor
- PWPK: PowerPacker backend for XPK
- RAKE: LZ77-compressor
- RDCN: Ross Data Compression
- RLEN: RLE compressor
- SASC: LZ-compressor with arithmetic encoding
- SDHC: Sample delta huffman compressor
- SHR3: LZ-compressor with arithmetic encoding
- SHRI: LZ-compressor with arithmetic encoding
- SHSC: Context modeling compressor
- SLZ3: CyberYAFA compressor
- SLZX: LZX-compressor with delta encoding
- SMPL: Huffman compressor with delta encoding
- SQSH: Compressor for sampled sounds
- TDCS: LZ77-compressor
- ZENO: LZW-compressor
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01.Jun.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Remote access to Amigas: squirt
"squirt" is a server having only 5 kb which is launched on Amigas and then allows the remote access to the computer via the network. Using special command line programs you then can control the Amiga with the help of any other computer. In a text-based console also file transfers, switching directories and executing (non-active) Amiga commands are possible. Additionally squirt can be used as backup solution: A special command creates incremental backups of directories.
Currently squirt only is available as source code and has to be compiled by yourself. If the commands for the remote access only work under Unix-like systems or also under Windows, we cannot say. The system currently allows only anonymous access - therefore the author strongly recommends: do not use the tool on Amiga systems which are connected to the Internet.
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31.May.2020
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Aminet-Uploads bis 30.05.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 30th, 2020:
netsurf.lha comm/www 6.9M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 2.8M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
SP96-Fade.lha demo/sp96 3.8M 68k "Fade" by Melting Pot
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/basic 25K 68k 16 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/blitz 24K 68k 16 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
filex-2.6-morphos.lha disk/moni 550K MOS binary file editor (MorphOS v...
Africa.lha game/board 293K 68k Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-AROS.zip game/board 290K x86 Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 340K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
Africa-OS4.lha game/board 349K OS4 Conversion of 3W board game
FireAttack_AROSx86.lha game/wb 2.9M x86 LCD game conversion
FireAttack_MOS.lha game/wb 2.8M MOS LCD game conversion
FireAttack_OS3.lha game/wb 2.8M 68k LCD game conversion
FireAttack_OS4.lha game/wb 3.1M OS4 LCD game conversion
FireAttack_WOS.lha game/wb 3.1M WOS LCD game conversion
PaletteMaster263.lha gfx/misc 74K 68k Powerful Amiga palette organizer
PoligoniRegolari.lha gfx/show 21K 68k Draws regular poligon with 3-...
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 2.0M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
adt.c.gz misc/unix 23K Aminet Download Tool
opmod520.lha mus/misc 54K 68k Module optimizer (shareware, ...
Morpheus_1.76.lha text/dtp 2.7M MOS Word processor
annotate_pascal_synta... text/edit 397K Annotate Pascal Syntax
MCAmiga.lha util/dir 1.4M MOS MyCommander for all Amiga sys...
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 198K MOS WarpDT preferences program V4...
WarpDTPrefs_deutsch.lha util/dtype 2K German catalog for WarpDTPrefs
WarpWebPdt.lha util/dtype 291K WOS WebP image datatype V45.1
a3640MOD_AIBB.lha util/moni 269K 68k AIBB module of a modded A3640...
tz.lha util/time 348K 68k Timezone Database & Library
tzdata.lha util/time 368K Time Zone Database
tzutils7.lha util/time 175K 68k Date and time utilities
AnalogClock.lha util/wb 38K 68k Analog clock for all the Clas...
DockBot.lha util/wb 380K 68k A program launcher for OS 3.
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31.May.2020
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 30.05.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until May 30th, 2020:
warpdtprefs.lha dat/ima 198kb 4.0 WarpDT preferences program
warpwebpdt.lha dat/ima 291kb 4.0 WebP image datatype
africa.lha gam/boa 349kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
rftg.zip gam/pla 52Mb 4.1 Run & Jump
netsurf.lha net/bro 7Mb 4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
evenmore.lha uti/tex 431kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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31.May.2020
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 30.05.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 30th, 2020:
ACE_1.21.lha The acidulous CPC/CPC+ emulator by OffseT of Fut...
AmiArcadia_26.44.lha A Signetics-based machines emulator.
EvenMore_0.94.lha A freeware Textviewer Chris Perver.
Hi-Low-Equal Poker Car... Hi-Low-Equal Poker Card
iConecta_3.26.lha A little and easy program to test your Internet ...
Iris_beta0.89.lha New email client supports IMAP, SSL, email autoc...
Kaaris_vs_Booba_1.2.lha Kaaris vs Booba port by Ace of Pur3lam3rs with h...
MCAmiga_0.5.lha MyCommander for Amiga
Morpheus_1.76.lha Word processor with Unicode support
RocksNDiamonds_4.1.4.1... Arcade style game in the tradition of Boulder Da...
SuperMethaneBros_SDL2.lha Super Methane Bros - MorphOS version by BeWorld ...
WitchCleaner_1.10.lha A little and easy program to clean the .recycled...
ZGloom_0.3.0.lha ZGloom, A re-implementation of [Amiga FPS Gloom]...
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31.May.2020
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.05.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until May 30th, 2020:
- 2020-05-30 improved: Populous 2 (EOA/Bullfrog) speed regulation added, newer kickemu (Info)
- 2020-05-30 updated: Gulp! (ICE) fixed install script (Info)
- 2020-05-29 updated: Gulp! (ICE) install script and readme corrected (Info)
- 2020-05-28 improved: Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision) fixed graphical issues, handle disk requester, added more language selection options, reduced chipmem usage to 512k, cleaned up protection part (Info)
- 2020-05-26 improved: Gulp! (ICE) password protection removed, fixed keyboard interrupt, fixed end sequence (Info)
- 2020-05-24 fixed: Tin Toy Adventure (Mutation Software) corrected install script (Info)
- 2020-05-24 improved: Dungeon Master (FTL/Software Heaven) trainer added (Info)
- 2020-05-24 new: Astérix and the Magic Carpet / Astérix Chez Rahà zade / Astérix Im Morgenland (Cockel Vision) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2020-05-24 improved: Astérix: Operation Getafix / Astérix: El Golpe Del Menhir / Astérix: Le Coup Du Menhir / Astérix: Operation Hinkelstein (Coktel Vision) blitterwaits corrected, supports more versions, fixed sound, trainer added, uses fast memory (Info)
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31.May.2020
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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CS-Lab: First Warp accelerator boards shipped to testers / Firmware 1.007
CS-Lab has shipped the first Warp accelerator boards to beta testers. After the Warp 1260 and the Warp 560 - both versions available for 499 Euro without a processor (amiga-news.de reported) - now a Warp 4060 is planned as well. Information on purchasing the boards will be available soon. First CS-Lab is waiting for the the feedback of the testers.
Additional to the release of the new firmware version 1.007, two new videos are available: "Unboxing Warp1260" as well as "Some more testing the Warp1260".
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30.May.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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FPGA clone: Minimig-AGA-Core for Turbo Chameleon 64
For some time emulations of the Amiga-OCS/ECS chipsets from the Minimig project are available as "Core" for the FPGA-based C64 extension Turbo Chameleon 64 sold by Individual Computers which can operate as stand-alone computer - independently of a C64. Now Alastair Robinson has ported the AGA version of Minimig to the system as well.
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29.May.2020
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Amiga Source Preservation: Source texts and PDF books under free licence
The project "Amiga Source Preservation" originally was going to safeguard as many source texts of Amiga programs as possible and making them available under a free licence. Since about a year books on Amiga have been safeguarded as well which then are offered under the Creative Commons licences for free download.
The books are saved in a Gitlab repository and periodically also uploaded to the Aminet. The website of the project offers an overview about the 16 books and 110 source texts released so far.
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29.May.2020
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Modplayer: AmiModRadio 0.9995
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." A rating function is included as well. The new version includes new skins, fixes bugs and now also runs on an A4000/30, an A1200 with 68060 processor and an A600 equipped with a Vampire. The format of the program cache changed. Therefore you should delete the content of the "cache" directory if you are going to update the tool. If you want to report bugs then please use the official bugtracker.
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28.May.2020
a1k.org (Webseite)
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File manager: MCAmiga 0.5 for all Amiga systems (update)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's MCAmiga is a file manager similar to Norton and Midnight Commander which additional to the mouse interface can be also completely controlled with the keyboard. MCAmiga is available for AmigaOS (m68k, PPC), MorphOS and AROS (x86, x64, ARM). The program at least requires 4 MB RAM. According to the author the AmigaOS 4 version does not run on a X5000.
Changes in version 0.5:
- video fixes
- browse, copy, move, rename, view/edit in lha/lzx archives
- browse, extract, view files from xad supported archive types
- start executables by pressing (shift) enter
- tools menu
- now includes a build for 68000 CPUs
Hint of the editors: Obviously MCAmiga does not work with Vampire systems, due to the affinity of the Vampire team with operating system "Coffin OS" which also includes illegal copies. The corresponding error message is slightly misleading and suggests a incorrect detection of Coffin OS.
Update: (29.05.2020, 23:00, cg)
According to the author in the comments of his blog, he only forgot to remove the bloackade of the Vampire. The author wrote: "It was my try to point to a problem… seems not many people care.. so it became stupid and useless… therefore I decided a while before already to remove that." (cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.May.2020
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USB adapter for classic joystick: UJOY/1A
The US-American retailer has developed another adapter for connecting an Atari/Commodore-compatible joystick to a modern computer: UJOY/1A uses an USB micro controller "Silicon Laboratories EFM8UB1" to make old joysticks understand the USB protocol. The adapter is available for 19 USD, the schematic (but not the documents for making a board) are available for free as PDF.
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28.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version of Grand Prix 500 for download
The full version of the motorbike racing game Grand Prix 500 II can be downloaded in the download section of the Amiga Future as ADF image or WHDLoad version.
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27.May.2020
Olaf Köbnik (ANF)
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Beambender: Interview with Bernhard Aichinger / PC version downloadable
Olaf Köbnik wrote: 17 Jahre after the first release of Beambender (Amiga-Version) by Amiga Arena now with permission of Bernhard Aichinger the long missed PC version of Beambender is offered for free and legal download.
Even after 25 years, afrer the installation Beambender runs under Windows 10 without any problems. An (German) interview with Bernhard Aichinger who contributed the graphics for the Amiga and PC version you can also find under the title link.
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27.May.2020
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Arcade classic in 36 kilobytes: Tiny Galaga
After Tiny Invaders, the demo group Abyss has released its second minimalistic clone of an arcade classic called "Tiny Galaga" (video) which is less than 40 kb.
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27.May.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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SciFi shooter/racer: First demo of "Verge World Icarus Rising"
According to the authors "Verge World" is "a sci-fi shoot'em up, racer game with exploration elements." The game is being developed for diverse retro platforms. Now a first playable Amiga preview version is available.
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26.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 110 (Italian/English)
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games and programs on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes an article about the Amiga games "Cyber Kick" and "Dylan Dog: Attraverso lo Specchio".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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26.May.2020
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AmigaOS 3/4: Web browser Netsurf 3.10
The web browser Netsurf - and also Chris Young's ReAction-based Amiga port (must not be confused with the SDL version) - is available as version 3.10 for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4.
Specific AmigaOS changes:
- Added Page Info icon and window.
- Updated to improved core content scaling interface.
- Add support for scrolling core windows in response to core requests.
- Allow running JavaScript from ARexx.
- Removed login window because it's now handled by the core.
Cross-platform changes:
- Improved handling of NetSurf generated queries and errors, including:
- Timeouts.
- Authentication requests.
- Certificate problems.
- Created consistent visual style for NetSurf Core generated content.
- HTML layout fix for {min|max}-width on replaced elements.
- Improved keyboard navigation.
- Improved local history with keyboard navigation and improved display.
- Fixed mouse interaction issue when entire document had visibility:hidden.
- Refactoring of the browser window handling.
- Refactoring of the HTML content handler.
- Refactoring of SSL certificate handling.
- Refactoring of HTML, text search and selection code.
- Many improvements to JavaScript robustness.
- Many new and improved Duktape JavaScript bindings.
- Improved core/front end interface for content scaling.
- Much improved content caching, both in memory and disc caching.
- Added a generic hashmap, used by the disc cache code.
- Fetcher improvements for robustness and performance.
- Updated JavaScript engine to Duktape 2.4.0.
- Improved handling of aborted fetches.
- Improved integration testing with framework built around monkey front end.
- Improvements to monkey front end to make testing more extensive and reliable.
- Minor HTML form improvements.
- Minor HTML handler optimisations.
- Fixes to HTML handler for robustness.
- Refactoring generation of about: pages.
- Fixed save complete not to save multiple copies of the same files.
- Change how animated GIFs are rate-limited to be in line with other browsers.
- Added a page info core window.
- Clamping screen DPI to a sensible range.
- Initial work towards supporting HTML5 canvas element.
- Various treeview fixes.
- Hubbub library 0.3.7 (HTML parser):
- Minor code quality improvements.
- Fixes for some HTML5 element handling.
- LibCSS library 0.9.1 (CSS parser and selection engine):
- Fixed a problem in the parsing of invalid media blocks.
- Minor code quality improvements.
- LibDOM library 0.4.1 (Document Object Model):
- Improved HTML TextArea element handling.
- Fix SubtreeModified event to be fired after updating attribute values.
- Support finalising the namespace strings.
- Basic support for keypress events.
- Improvements to event dispatch event lifetime handling.
- Support for InnerHTML.
- Added support for HTMLCanvasElement.
- Minor code quality improvements.
- Fixed HTMLElement property setters.
- Fixed HTMLTitleElement text getter/setter.
- LibNSBMP library 0.1.6 (BMP support):
- Minor code quality improvements.
- LibNSLog library 0.1.3 (Filterable logging):
- Added support for short log level names.
- LibWapcaplet library 0.4.3 (String internment):
- Free global context if no strings leak.
- Enabled build with toolchains that don't support statement expressions.
- Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements.
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26.May.2020
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A4000 motherboard suitable for ATX cases: A4000TX
Two years ago the Finnih developer 'hese7' offered his A4000 motherboard clone A4000+ Alice and promised an ATX-compatible version. The aim of the developer was to create a version of the A4000cr motherboard including the daughterboard which is compatible to ATX cases and power supplies and additionally supports fullsize Zorro cards.
Meanwhile the clone has been finished. On Amibay you can purchase empty boards in a collective order. The latest Revision 1.1 offers the following features:
- ATX form factor (actually a hybrid ATX/EATX form factor)
- uses standard ATX power supply
- 68030 processor and 68882-FPU
- CPU slot connector for accelerator cards
- four full-length Zorro III slots
- three (inactive) ISA slots
- 3.5" IDE port
- extended video slot
- onboard Fast RAM support up to 112MB (Meutoxo)
- Kickstart ROM support up to 4MB (Romy)
- Amiga mouse and joystick ports
- PC PS/2 keyboard and PC PS/2 mouse support
- support for native Amiga and PC floppy drives
- 24-pin breakout header with full RGB port support (for external scandoublers, genlocks, SCART cables, etc..)
- power connectors for two case fans
- serial and parallel ports, 3.5mm stereo jack
- on-board RTC with battery
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26.May.2020
Scene World Magazine (ANF)
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Scene World: Video interview with Holger "Harvey Dent" Weßling (e.g. Data Becke
Holger "Harvey Dent" Weßling has written books and software for the Amiga which have been published e.g. at Data Becker. In this video interview with Scene World he has talked about Amiga publishing houses in the 90s as well as his current books for the C64 Mini and the C64 Maxi.
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25.May.2020
German Amiga Community (Webseite)
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Operating system: NetBSD 9.0 with support of PPC-boards
The free and open-source Unix-like operating system NetBSD is available in version 9.0, among others as port for Amiga computers - for the first time also for the PPC-boards made by Phase 5, although this version is called "very experimental". The global changes of NetBSD 9 are listed in the release notes, specific Amiga changelogs and downloads you can find on the project sites NetBSD/amiga and NetBSD/amigappc.
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25.May.2020
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Replica of A1200 mainboard: ReAmiga 1200 Revision 1.5
John 'Chucky' Hertell has published an updated version of his A1200 clone ReAmiga 1200. Revision 1.5 among others offers a S-Video instead of a Composite-Video port.
Changes:
- Fixed a signal shorted to VCC in Rev1.4 (C0D)
- Added a 74LS08 so now H and V sync is always buffered (this NEEDS to be installed or you will not get V and H sync out onto the monitors)
- this to allow longer monitorcables and also save Alice if something goes wrong when hotplugging monitorcable.
- Colorsignals to RGB and VGA port is now always via the PNP transistor buffers, so RGB port will not be a darker color. It is not recomended to
- attach 2 monitors at once.
- Composite out is now optional Composite OR Svideo out. (you cannot move old RCA to new board due to this) SVideo needs to be installed aprox 1mm “over” the PCB.
- Included a “Svideo” standoff for this. do that PCB as a 1mm pcb.
- Added connector for 7V fan (actually where 5V is “gnd” and 12V is plus)
- Added leds for _RST, _KB_RST, _ODD_CIA, _EVEN_CIA and _ROMEN also to Serial TXD and RXD (from the 5V level)
- TOTALLY OPTIONAL!. Resistor at bottom 470Ohm so it is not that bright this is for all leds, change to higher or lower after taste (lowest 33Ohm).
- Moved Mouseconnector and shrunk PCB some so you can have a mouse PCB like Amiga 1200 Rev 2.
- Added mousePCB compatible with Amiga 1200 Rev 2 aswell that have a optional Joysticktester (not mousedirection)
- Added jumperheaders for selectable PAL/NTSC Default start (then do not populate that 0ohm resistor, now removed from locator and pick&place data)
- Moved VGA Connector so it aligns more to other Dsubs.
- Adopted components so you can do a full socket of board (remember that sockets is a source of problems)
- Added resistor to IDE Activity so now adapters that made IDE led always bright will be handled correct.
- Moved extra powerconnector slightly to not touch BVision when installed.
- Fixed Silkscreen so all used components now have value.
- Added pads close to floppyconnector for a 0Ohm resistor if you want to do the Escom floppypatch instead of a wire.
- Added pads close to ROM socket for optional DRA0 pullup that some machines had with a 470Ohm (I think) resistor from clockport to a via. now a SMD resistor can be used.
- At bottom of board close to optional 1K resistor for zenerdiode, added a pad for possability to disable the default “sync on green” if wanted. cut and solder
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25.May.2020
os4welt.de (Webseite)
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Datatype for WebP: WarpWebP.datatype 45.1
Oliver Robert's has completed his collection of Warp datatypes by another one: The image format WebP. The datatype is based on Google's libwebp 1.1.0. Versions for AmigaOS 3/4, WarpOS and MorphOS are available, a graphic card is not required.
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24.May.2020
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Aminet-Uploads until 23.05.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 23rd, 2020:
RNOXfer.lha comm/tcp 2.2M MOS Graphical FTP/FTPS client
RNOXfer_68k.lha comm/tcp 1.9M 68k Graphical FTP/FTPS client
RNOXfer_OS4.lha comm/tcp 2.6M OS4 Graphical FTP/FTPS client
A-MagIssue2_202005.adf demo/mag 880K 68k Issue two of A-Mag disk magazine
Bin2C.lha dev/c 3K 68k Converts binary files to C so...
DesignerSP.lha dev/hwood 95K HW Designer 4/5 spanish catal...
IoTools.lha disk/misc 109K 68k Iomega tools (ZIP/JAZ) for th...
Africa-AROS.zip game/board 290K x86 Conversion of 3W board game
AfricaMOS.lha game/board 340K MOS Conversion of 3W board game
3SInstall.lha game/patch 20K 68k The Three Stooges Hard Drive ...
AB3DTrainer.lha game/patch 19K 68k Patch program for Alien Breed 3D
AmiSGE.lha game/patch 23K 68k Decode/Encode Frontier:Elite ...
GDTrainer.lha game/patch 18K 68k Cheat for Gloom Deluxe
GloomTrainer.lha game/patch 18K 68k Cheat for Classic Gloom
RTInstall.lha game/patch 21K 68k R-Type Hard Drive Installer
SetJoyPort.lha game/patch 6K 68k Allow games to use joypad con...
StarCrusaderPa.lha game/patch 20K 68k Speedup patch for Star Crusader
Greeblies.lha game/shoot 118K 68k Manic shoot'em'up written in ...
Nerdkill.lha game/shoot 98K 68k Tension relief massacre game
dtview2.lha gfx/show 59K 68k Picture viewer for public scr...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
CPCConv_v1.02.lha misc/emu 14K 68k Amstrad CPC emulator disk ima...
DOSBox_Jit.lha misc/emu 1.7M MOS MS Dos emulator with JIT
dsk2cpc10.lha misc/emu 8K 68k AMICPC disk image convertor
Morpheus_1.75.lha text/dtp 2.7M MOS Word processor
annotate_pascal_synta... text/edit 332K Annotate Pascal Syntax
EvenMore.lha text/show 349K 68k V0.93: Freeware Textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 442K MOS V0.93: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 431K OS4 V0.94: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 297K EvenMore textviewer plugins s...
JFIFdt44.lha util/dtype 821K 68k fast JFIF (JPEG) picture data...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.0M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 579K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 733K OS4 Multipurpose utility
InstallerLG.i386-aros... util/sys 112K x86 Commodore Installer replacement
InstallerLG.ppc-morph... util/sys 145K MOS Commodore Installer replacement
AppLauncher_sbar.lha util/wb 42K MOS Run apps from the screenbar
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24.May.2020
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OS4Depot: More than 4000 files uploaded / Uploads until 23.05.2020
On May 17 the 4000th file was uploaded to the OS4Depot. Uploading the last 1000 file thus took eight years and two months.
The following archives have been added until May 23rd, 2020:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
atomicbomberman_compo... gam/act 2Mb 4.1 Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
atomicbomberman_warp3... gam/act 2Mb 4.1 Atomic Bomberman Fan Rewrite
shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders
simpletransfer.lha net/ser 9Mb 4.0 Quick and Easy Transfers on a Ne...
inputeventsniffer.lha uti/mis 25kb 4.1 Check all kinds of input events
reportplus.lha uti/mis 733kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
mwait.lha uti/she 16kb 4.0 multi wait command for 1.x+.
nowinedsrc.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.0 TextEditor multipage (MDI) (sour...
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MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 23.05.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until May 23rd, 2020:
Africa_1.54.lha A conversion of 3W boar...
AppLauncher_2.5.lha Run your apps from the ...
DonkeyKong_1.5.lha LCD game conversion
DOSBox_0.74r4Jit.lha A DOS-emulator that use...
EvenMore_0.94.lha A freeware Textviewer C...
GenesisPlus_2.1b.lha Genesis-Plus emulates t...
Iris_beta0.86.lha New email client suppor...
MacMiniJedi.jpeg MacMiniJedi.jpeg
MCAmiga_0.4.lha MyCommander for Amiga
Morpheus_1.75.lha Word processor with Uni...
PegasosJedi.jpeg PegasosJedi.jpeg
SDL2_Libraries.lha All Libraries SDL2 with...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.05.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until May 23rd, 2020:
- 2020-05-22 improved: Monolith (Megawatts) crash in main part on slow machines fixed (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-19 fixed: WatchTower (OTM/Cyberarts) fixed lockup when detecting controllers (Info)
- 2020-05-19 fixed: Starray (Logotron) fixed lockup when detecting controllers (Info)
- 2020-05-19 improved: Quasar Wars (Light Designs) fixed lockup when detecting controllers, added icon (Info)
- 2020-05-19 fixed: Moktar / Titus the Fox (Titus) fixed lockup when detecting controllers (Info)
- 2020-05-19 new: Gulp! (ICE) done by JOTD (Info)
- 2020-05-19 improved: Flimbos Quest (System 3) blitter wait patches can be disabled, nice icons added (Info)
- 2020-05-19 improved: Propaganda (Zero Defects) wrong register handling in interrupts fixed (Info, Image, Image)
- 2020-05-18 new: Wicked House (Origin) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-18 improved: Magic Pockets (Renegade/Bitmap Brothers) enhanced trainer options (Info)
- 2020-05-18 fixed: Fire & Ice (Graftgold) fixed spurious fire when pressing second button for jumping (Info)
- 2020-05-17 new: Mindfield (Megawatts) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image, Image)
- 2020-05-17 new: Monolith (Megawatts) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2020-05-17 improved: Fire & Ice (Graftgold) fixed crash when saving high-score, fixed non-working 2-button joystick, added delay on "Cool Coyote" screen (Info)
- 2020-05-17 updated: Disposable Hero (Euphoria/Gremlin Graphics) Slave name corrected (Info)
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24.May.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Video: Raytracing tutorials with Lightwave on an Amiga
Under the title link "Muadib" releases YouTube Raytracing tutorials showing Lightwave on an Amiga. Each Sunday on 7 p.m. (Central European Summer Time) the presentation is broadcast via webcast on Twitch.tv.
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23.May.2020
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Portrait: The RedPill developer Carlos Peris
Besides the well-known developers like Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) or Hans de
Ruiter (ZitaFTP, Warp3D Nova) there are a number of other active developers we would like to introduce to our readers in a loose succession.
We would like to start with the Spanish programmer Carlos "trackerhero" Peris. He might be known to our readers for his Amiga game editor
RedPill which recently has been updated to version 0.7.14. Additional to Peris the Spanish graphic artist Jordi Palome belongs to the team of Redpill who also has created the logo.
Peris is a professional developer for mobile games working for Ubisoft in Barcelona. Developing software for the Amiga is nothing but a hobby. And although he prefers programming games, he uses his game editor RedPill but, as he explained, "making them in the game editor helps me a lot to put me in the user position and help to improve the tool." Although the editor provides limited features hehopes that the Amiga Fans are interested in RedPill and use it. Peris frankly admits that he finds it easier to start projects than finishing them with a final and satisfying result. Sometimes this is also reflected in his Amiga biography:
This started in 1993. At the age of 14 he got an Amiga. He was impressed: "What a machine!". Thus, as he said himself, he "arrived a bit late to the Amiga scene" using his computer mainly for games. Some years later he got an Amiga 1200 and started programming in Blitz Basic. The first results he himself described as "ugly games" e.g. Wave Run Gold, Whirlwind or Amidonkey. Many of them, as mentioned, unfinished.
Simultaneously he also joined the demo scene, especially "Ozone", writing in 68k assembler. His biggest contribution was the Intro for the "Trashcan 5" demo.
Like many others, at the beginning of the year 2000 he got a PC and learned programming in different languages. He never left the Amiga and at that time among others he released the game which name also became his "pseudonym": Tracker Hero (video). It is a music game similar to "Guitar Hero". He also wrote the game X-MasDisaster at this time.
Screenshot of the RedPill game "Mirror"
Now he completely concentrates on RedPill and games based on it. His main goal is to simplify creating 8-Bit games. Nowadays he thinks again more retro games are released. He guessed that "it took more time to the amigans to get back to its passion". Fortunately he could recriut his partner Jordi Palome for his recently started game project HappyBat so we are looking forward for updates.
One request the developer has: "What would help me the most is someone that helps me to explain Redpill to people, like doing tutorials, videos, whatever. I have no time and am not really good at it, and it is really very important!" You can contact the author via the website of RedPill but of course we also can pass on any feedback or support you would provide to him.
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22.May.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade port: Tapper, version 02A
"Tapper" (video) is a port of the arcade classic game from 1983 to the Amiga. In this new test version all gameplay features have been implemented except the sound. The author said: "Still got a fair bit of work in Dpaint to do as well as a few bits of game code to write but I think it's coming along quite nicely."
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22.May.2020
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.7.14
RedPill is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires 1 MB Chip as well as some Fast RAM.
Changes in version 0.7.14:
- New action trigger Play Anim 8 to play an animation based in the direction of
the object.
- Play Anim 8 uses 8 anims, starting with the Up/North Animation, and in
clock-wise order. It uses 8 animations.
- New action trigger Play Anim 4 to play an animation based in the direction of
the object.
- Play Anim 4 uses 4 anims, starting with the Up/North Animation, and in
click/wise order. It uses 4 animations.
- In a level, when a background image is used without any tiles placed, the
palette from the image will be used.
- For HUD bar elements, now it is possible to adjust the height of the bar.
- Extra check in Auto Slice to avoid slicing a big image by mistake.
- Level editor map now shows all available area instead of the camera limits
area.
- FIX: Tile properties display fixed when using tiles with border.
- FIX: Fix in export game routines.
- FIX: moving a livel object leaved some trash in the screen.
- FIX: Level editor now can scroll to the bottom of the level.
- FIX: Fix in edit trigger up/down controls, now last trigger is reachable.
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22.May.2020
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris, beta version 85
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. Among others Iris now display GMail threads. Besides, "the autoconfiguration of emails was significantly improved, especially for GMail-managed domains and Yahoo."
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[News message: 22. May. 2020, 08:34] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2020
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English/Danish assembler workshop from 1990
"Programmering i maskinkode på Amiga" is a Danish assembler workshop, which from 1990 on was commercially distributed in 12 lessons. Meanwhile the author has made available the workshop on his website for free. Thanks to Amiga fan 'Amix73' there is also an English-language translation.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. May. 2020, 23:24] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2020
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser Odyssey 1.23 r5_beta07
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin has released a new beta version of his AmigaOS 4 port of the web browser Odyssey. Changes:
- Fixed bug in Cairo library caused skippable DSI on some sites in cairo_clip_intersect_rectangle_box() by adding related patches from the latest version of Cairo.
- Replaced old, statically linked, Pixman library v0.32.4 by newer v0.36.0 from Salas00: https://github.com/salass00/pixman_lib
Salas00's version is a real amiga native shared library and has AOS4 native TLS (thread-local storage) implementation, which means that rendering done now not from the same thread, but from different ones => things can be faster.
New pixman-1.library coming with release archive in the LIBS directory, so no action needs, all continue to works out of the box. Thanks Salas00!
- Media player: when we in accelerated full-window playback, and mouse cursor over the video, then after 2 seconds of inactivity we hide mouse pointer. Moving mouse or clicking mouse buttons made cursor be visibly again. I.e. mimic usual video-players behavior.
- Media player: when we in accelerated full-window playback, then we disable screen blankers and enable them back once we exit from full-window playback.
- Fixed nasty bug with missing TAG_DONE in the Dtpic object creation. Before it working by pure luck: If the memory following the unterminated tag list contains 'lucky' or invalid tag values then nothing bad happens.
But a single 'unlucky' (but valid and possibly dangerous if not used correctly) tag value may cause unpredictable havoc (c) Thore.
- Rewritten DoSuperNew() function to use DoSuperMethodA() directly instead of DoSuperMethod(), as the later internally do call the same DoSuperMethodA(). So we skip that step to make DoSuperNew() be more efficient with less stack space in use.
Thanks to Thore for hint and Oliver for explaining.
- Added support for 4th and 5th mouse buttons for stepping backward (4th) and forward (5th) through the browser history. I.e same as in IBrowse.
- Major improvements in spoofing area by Javier: new Spoofing preferences. Together with inbuild (and not editable) default Odyssey's user-agent, you can now add/edit your own ones.
You also can choose what user agents you want to show on the menu and which didn't. All the user-agents saves in the 'useragents.prefs' placed in Conf , just like 'userscripts.prefs' or 'searchengines.prefs'.
The work which spends on was big, so there can be issues so plz check it carefully and report all bugs and suggestions. Everything localized as well, see bottom of OWB.cd. Thanks Javier!
- Notification titles are now localized as well, see OWB.cd for MSG_NOTIFY_DL_COMPLETED, MSG_NOTIFY_DL_CANCELLED and MSG_NOTIFY_DL_FAILED (c) Javier.
- Updated Italian catalog by samo79 and new Danish catalog by NBache.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 21. May. 2020, 23:16] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2020
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Virus Help Team Denmark: Update of VirusZ_III.Bootblocks
The "Virus Help Team Denmark" (VHT) has released an update of its bootblock collection which is used in Georg Hörmann's program VirusZ III:
- Bavarian Virus [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
- Gandalf Decoded Virus
- Guru Virus [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
- Random Access Virus [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
- Sinister Syndicate [Not really a virus, but writes GURU after $60]
- And 167 harmless bootblocks
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[News message: 21. May. 2020, 23:14] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2020
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Conversion Kits: Using A500(+), A600 or A1200 as USB keyboard
Tynemouth Software offers Conversion Kits for A500(+) and A600/A1200 which replace the mainboard of the Amiga and use the keyboard of the Amiga as well as joysticks (A500 version) as USB devices. The LEDs of the case are also used for viewing "Power" and "Numlock". The Conversion Kits do not require any additional drivers or preferences at the host computer.
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[News message: 20. May. 2020, 23:57] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2020
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Print magazine: Issue 117 of Amiga Future readable online
Issue 117 (November/December 2015) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop.
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[News message: 20. May. 2020, 23:55] [Comments: 0]
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19.May.2020
Vinnny (ANF), walkero (ANF)
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Hyperion: "Release Notes" and further translations for AmigaOS 3.1.4.1
For registered users Hyperion has released the "Locale Extras 45.315", which "includes localization materials for greek, polish and russian languages that require additional system setup to work."
Additionally Hyperion has "received numerous requests from users asking to unveil the technical developer notes, also known as "Release Notes", regarding the changes involved in those AmigaOS updates." Therefore the "Release Notes for AmigaOS-3.1.4.x" are available to all interested users in the download section of the Hyperion website.
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[News message: 19. May. 2020, 23:53] [Comments: 0]
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