11.Jan.2024
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Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 3.42
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 3.42:
- HFEv3: Various read/write improvements
- WDATA: Merge short write pulses, and apply de-jitter/precomp
- IMG, EDSK: Stream large sector writes to flash
(dr)
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11.Jan.2024
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Preview video: Hyperborea (Resurrected) #3
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing "Hyperborea", a project started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime (YouTube videos) (amiga-news.de reported). Technically, the game is as good as finished. Changes of the third preview video:
- fat laser shot: this is your secondary weapon. It's stronger than the spread-shot, but - guess what - doesn't spread. Also, your ship moves at half speed when this is fired. Very good to dodge dense bullet curtains.
A double-click toggles between the two weapon types. Don't worry: your gun will still continue firing when you shortly lift your thumb for this action.
- sprite priorities: in 2p mode the player / player-shot sprites' priorities are alternating each frame now. So in even frames all the stuff of player 1 is drawn on top of player 2 and in odd frames player 2 and its shots occlude player 1. This effectively results in both player-ships and -shots being visible all the time.
Before this change player 1 and its shots always overpainted all the 2nd player's stuff.
- a logo screen ;)
- main menu (not fully functional as of yet)
(dr)
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11.Jan.2024
Commotron (ANF)
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Wireless Gamepad: Turbo 2000 Super V2
The Turbo 2000 Super gamepad from Commotron is wireless and has a fourth fire button for jumping (amiga-news.de reported). Now the manufacturer is showing a revised and, with a recommended retail price of 29.90 euros, cheaper version 2 of the pad on Facebook, which is said to have already arrived at the first dealers and is also available in two additional designs: Commodore Cream and Sinclair Spectrum.
The Turbo 2000 Super V2 offers an additional two-pin connector header on the dongle, so that one can solder a two wire cable into the computer or gaming console and connect two independent buttons to the dongle. For example one can connect buttons from Gotek Drive selectors, Reset button and Game-Select buttons, or turbo-module buttons to the dongle. With a new mapping selection one can trigger those two buttons wirelessly from the gamepad by pressing Fire 2 or 3 for one of the two pins. Pin 1 or Pin 2 on the header connector will deliver Ground (GND) signal when pressing Fire Button 2 or 3. (snx)
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11.Jan.2024
Lars Sobiraj (ANF)
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Diskmag: Last issue of Jurassic Pack released
Lars Sobiraj wrote: Today, after almost two years, the 20th and probably last issue of the Jurassic Pack was published (amiga-news.de reported). This demoscene discmag looks back on a long history. The pre-issue appeared 18.5 years ago at a French demo party called Gasp.
A few highlights: Interview with Peter Baustaedter, a scene graphic designer who managed to go from Austria to Hollywood with Arnold Schwarzenegger's help. He was involved in the creation of the films "Avatar", "Jumper", "The Fifth Element" and many more.
Interview with Amiga graphic artist Danny Geurtsen, who is also successful in the games and film industry. Geurtsen has worked on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Passengers", "The Martian", "Maleficent", "Gravity", "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", "Underworld", "Space Odyssey" and "The Avengers", to name but a few.
Alexander Scheel transported the popular demo Odyssey from Alcatraz from 1991 into the present with the help of the ray tracing tool Blender.
However, there are numerous other items to discover in the Amiga version.
Direct download: jp20_final.lha (1,4 MB) (dr)
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11.Jan.2024
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Do it yourself: 3D case printing templates for the Amiga 1200
Dennis Busch has made various 3D case printing templates for the Amiga 1200 available on his itch.io page:
(dr)
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11.Jan.2024
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Flappy Bird clone: Amiga Flappy Ace v1.02 (update)
After Amiga conversions of the game Flappy Bird using RedPill (Happy Bat), the Scorpion Engine (Flighty Fox) and AmiBlitz3 (Börd), Jose has now written "Amiga Flappy Ace" using the Amiga C Engine (ACE), which should also run quickly on an A500. The game serves the developer as a tech demo for a planned, larger project. The source code is available on GitHub.
Update: (12.01.2024, 21:49, dr)
Version 1.02 is now available, which fixes a memory leak and the menu text bug. (dr)
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10.Jan.2024
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.9.0 (beta version)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. Changes of version 0.9.0:
- bitmap object did not generate code for height property correctly
- add enums for ids as well as indexes in generated code
- use enums for ids and indexes in the in generated code object definitions
- enable full code setting in example files
The author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him.
Download: rebuild0.9.0-beta.lha (149 KB) (dr)
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10.Jan.2024
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- News from November/December 2023
- Old articles from Génération 4 7 to 9:
- Hardware: AMAS, Review of Bio Challenge, Review of The President Is Missing
- Programming: scrolling with pointer movements
- News: Les 4 d'Or 1988
- Report: COMDEX Fall 1988
- Review: Review of Zoetrope 1.1, Review of After Burner, Review of Maria's Xmas Box
- Interview: Régis Loisel, Review of Puffy's Saga, Review of Mini Golf
- Interview with Laurent Zorawski (Amedia Computer/AAA Technology)
- Interview with Steve Meretzky (game designer)
- Review of Amidon 1.2
- The best of Byte from February to May 1986
- File: The story of Anti Gravity
- File: The Boing Ball
- Tutorial: Setting up network drives on MorphOS (update)
- DIY: Restoring a CD³²
- Programming: Creating a demo - chapter 2, part 1, bitplanes
- Book: Amiga Retro-Mag Hard Mode!
- Miscellaneous: Amiga links (updated)
- Special quiz on Hollywood
Article in English:
Interview with Laurent Zorawski (Amedia Computer/AAA Technology) (snx)
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10.Jan.2024
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Babylon 5: Easter Egg in episode 22 of season 2?
Luke Miller is an indie developer at Classyk Games and has not only developed the space game Liberation, but also seems to be interested in the science fiction genre in general: in a Mastodon post under the title link he probably found an Amiga-Easter-Egg in the 22nd episode of the second season of Babylon 5, where you can see an Amiga boing ball in a scene in the background. (dr)
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10.Jan.2024
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Update of Amiga Games List
The Amiga Games List, a document created and maintained by David Brunet since April 1991, was updated on January 8, 2024 with the publication of its 54th edition. Among other new features and corrections, games published or updated in 2023 have been added (194), and games created in HyperBook and PowerD are now accounted for.
In addition, two new licences have been added: 'Hack' (which refers to games derived from other games or published illegally, for example without the consent of the original author), and "Sustainable Use License", a new open licence. In addition, where possible, the name of the publisher of public domain games (CAM, Spielekiste, itch.io...) has been added.
The total now stands at 14258 entries, including games, level editors, data disks, extensions and interpreters, distributed as follows:
- 13521 games
- 432 extensions and data disks
- 154 game or level editors
- 151 interpreters
For the record, the number of native AmigaOS 4 games has now passed the 1000 mark. (snx)
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09.Jan.2024
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Linux: Kernel 6.7 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the release of the Linux kernel 6.7, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has finally compiled it for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 after numerous tests.
Download: linux-image-6.7-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (60 MB) (dr)
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09.Jan.2024
Patreon
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.5
The "Scorpion Engine" (video of development of vertical scroll demos) by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used. Changes of version 2023.5:
- Animation editor has been updated to make it much easier to trigger custom events on frames, including audio, shooting other actors, setting direction and speed - as well as the ability to have numerous melee collision boxes on every frame.
- "Intellibox" allows you to type in a number of code commands directly into the code tab.
- Dynamic Patterns allows levels on Mega Drive to have massive tilesets.
- Ability to freeze and unfreeze actors.
- Many bug fixes and performance enhancements.
- New game: Merry Xmas
(dr)
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09.Jan.2024
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AmiFox: Download of itch.io archives
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's "AmiFox" displays modern web pages on an Amiga by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). Besides Aminet, itch.io is one of the central sources for current Amiga software. Following our tip, the developer has now dealt with the problem that it is not possible to download software from there with currently available browsers under AmigaOS 3, and shows in a YouTube video a first possibility to do this via AmiFox. (dr)
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09.Jan.2024
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HxC Floppy emulator: Software V2.15.2.3
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- New Applesauce WOZ file image loader.
- Track viewer : Fix MFM sectors CRC values.
- 2.15.1.2 Regression fix : Random crashes with HxC stream (Pauline) files fixed.
- Some memory related fixes.
(dr)
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08.Jan.2024
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MorphOS: 3D Action adventure Bugdom V1.3.4
A year ago, 'BeWorld' compiled version 1.3.3 of the game Bugdom for MorphOS, originally published by Pangea Software and customised by 'jorio' for current operating system versions. Version 1.3.4 is now available. Changes:
- Fixed framerate-dependent inconsistencies that were apparent at high framerates (100+ fps), including:
- level 3: fish speed (after eating Rollie)
- level 4: feet speed
- level 5: fire effect on beehive
- level 7: player speed when trapped in a ball of honey
- level 8: tumbling boulder damage condition
- More fitting cyclorama color in level 9 and 10 intros
The latest SDL archive and TinyGL beta version are required. (dr)
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07.Jan.2024
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Tool: identify-library 44.0
Today Richard Körber has released version 44.0 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Added a few more boards
- Emu68 (PiStorm light) is now detected and properly shown as CPU/FPU/MMU.
- Until now, identify only estimated the MMU depending on the system's CPU, and was wrong with 68EC030 machines and some accelerator boards. 68851 MMU chips were not detected at all. Starting with v44, the mmu.library is used now. If it is present, identify will return an accuate result.
Downloads:
IdentifyDev.lha (67 kB)
IdentifyUsr.lha (101 kB) (dr)
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07.Jan.2024
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Aminet uploads until 06.01.2024
The following files have been added until 06.01.2024 to Aminet:
Amix560.lha comm/amiex 1.1M 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel...
netsurf.lha comm/www 8.1M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 3.0M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
clouds_motion.lha dev/amos 5K points coordinates extrapolation
weirdo_synth.lha dev/amos 219K simple synth for amos pro
EasyRapa.lha dev/hwood 9.6M 68k generate RapaGui simple app s...
xlink.lha dev/misc 33K 68k Virtual linking of AmigaDOS m...
xlist.lha dev/misc 20K 68k Analyze AmigaDOS modules + li...
MCE.lha game/edit 3.8M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.1M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.3M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 2.0M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.3M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
morsconv.lha text/misc 6K 68k Conv. text 2 various forms of...
PWGen.lha util/cli 5K OS4 Passwort Generator
ExportOrga.lha util/misc 1K Export your PolyOrga contacts...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 661K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 772K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 832K OS4 Multipurpose utility
(snx)
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07.Jan.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 06.01.2024
The following files have been added until 06.01.2024 to OS4Depot:
vumeter.lha aud/mis 246kb 4.0 Audio VUMeter display
libffmpeg.lha dev/mis 28Mb 4.1 Multimedia libraries
snes9x.zip emu/gam 121Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
scummvm.lha gam/mis 95Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.zip gam/mis 244Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
easyrapa.lha lib/hol 10Mb 4.0 Generate RapaGui simple app stru...
netsurf.lha net/bro 8Mb 4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
pwgen.lha uti/mis 5kb 4.0 Passwort Generator
reportplus.lha uti/mis 832kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
sacrificiopagano.lha uti/mis 7Mb 4.0 Magic Tool
compression.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.0 A PDF generator
deepl.lha uti/tex 3Mb 4.0 DeepL tool / incl. sourcecode
litexl.lha uti/tex 2Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
(snx)
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AROS Archives uploads until 06.01.2024
The following files have been added until 06.01.2024 to AROS Archives:
wormwars.i386-aros.zip gam/act 645kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
icondropx_12-29-23.i386-a... gra/ico 68kb Icon Maker to make PNG Icons fro...
new_colored_disks.zip gra/ico 306kb Set of Colored Removable Disk Icons
new_flash_disk_icons.zip gra/ico 39kb Set of Colored Flash Disk Icons
new_floppy_icons.zip gra/ico 143kb Set of Colored Floppy Disk Icons
new_ram_disk_icons.zip gra/ico 204kb Set of Colored PNG Ram Disk Icons
sacrificiopagano.lha uti/mis 7Mb Magic Tool
(snx)
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07.Jan.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 06.01.2024
The following files have been added until 06.01.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_30.72.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
ACE_1.26.lha Emulation The acidulous CPC/CPC+ ...
OpenBor_4.0.7533.lha Emulation OpenBOR is the ultimate...
Bugdom_1.3.4.lha Games/Action Pangea Software's Bugdo...
ScummVM_2.8.0.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
SacrificioPagano_2.10.lha Misc A special app to people...
ReportPlus_8.45.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
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07.Jan.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.01.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 06.01.2024:
- 2024-01-04 new: Subconscious (Dimension X) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2024-01-02 fixed: Challenger (Anco) missing copying the ram-handler file during the install process (Info)
- 2024-01-02 new: Challenger (Anco) done by Psygore (Info)
- 2024-01-01 improved: Summer Games (U.S.Gold) smc removed, manual & source included (Info)
(snx)
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07.Jan.2024
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:
- Turrican II Freedom Live Performance
- WAR (Never been so much fun!)
- Electric City
(snx)
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07.Jan.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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AmiFox: Server update
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's "AmiFox" displays modern web pages on an Amiga by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). On the server side, there have now been some minor improvements, which the author describes at the title link - but the program itself does not need to be downloaded again.
Note for users who run the Docker on their own server: The version number 0.3 of the server version has remained the same despite these adjustments. (snx)
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07.Jan.2024
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Preview video: Pumpman v0.002
In addition to several other projects such as "Deathmine", 'PixelPlop' is also working on the game "Pumpman", for which he has now published a preview video. (dr)
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07.Jan.2024
Amigans
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Shoot'em Up: "Skillgrid" V1.4
In early 2019, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released his abstract, vertical shoot'em up SkillGrid (YouTube video). Changes to version 1.4:
- Added cells field flashing when these cells (are about to) appear:
- ASTEROIDS cell (bright colors);
- BEAM/* cells, if their exit from the bottom of the screen would reduce the number of beams shot by the spaceship (bright colors);
- MOTHERSHIP, MUSIC MODE, SKULL (same colors of the cells field when the associated boss/mode is active).
- Made the spaceship flash red when its shield is low.
- Made the spaceship glow red for half a second when its shield gets damaged.
- Made the middle layer appear progressively at the beginning of a game.
- Made the cells layer populate with empty cells progressively.
- Changed a few pixels of the title screen spaceship icon and of the Skull.
- Improved the handling of audio channels.
- Made sure no sprite tearing occurs when switching between screens.
- Made sure that the system MMU setup does not interfere.
- Fixed crash when a tune was started while another tune was playing (e.g. when the MUSIC MODE cell was caught while missiles were active).
- Fixed the stopping of the music mode music (it inhibited the restart of the spaceship afterburner sound).
- Fixed the X position of specifically-requested cells (it was equal to the type of the cell removed at the same time).
- Fixed the lengths of some sounds samples (they were odd).
- Made various speed and memory optimizations.
- Made the startup and cleanup code more robust.
- Worked on the cells:
- improved the handling of the TURN cell (now it is randomized and it ensures that the speeds of the UFOs will always change);
- increased the frequency of the MUSIC MODE cells;
- decoupled the randomization of the cells types and positions;
- created the BOSSES (virtual) class of cells, grouping the BOLTSPITTER and SKULL cells (previously MALUSES) and the MOTHERSHIP cell (previously UNDEFINED) into it;
- made the template of the BOLTSPITTER and SKULL cells striped;
- made the template of the TURN cell fringed;
- made the template of the BEAM/DOUBLE cell equal to that of the other BEAM/* cells.
- Worked on the audio channels allocation priorities of the sound effects:
- given the Boltspitter bolt shooting and the hitting of the spaceship by the Mothership beam priority over the milestone notification;
- assigned the speech warnings specific priorities (from lowest to highest: "charge low", "shield low", "approaching asteroids", "escapes critical", "danger", "time running out").
- Updated/improved the documentation.
19. Updated the artwork to reflect the new cells graphics.
(dr)
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07.Jan.2024
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Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.1 (update)
ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC with Windows, Linux or MacOS to connect to the Amiga and browse the local hard drives. Changes in version 1.1.0:
- Supports displaying of Amiga icons
- Icon mode is back in the file lister
- A new command line utility "acp" (works like scp on linux).
Update: (07.01.2024, 18:49, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.1.1 is available which fixes a crash that happens with corrupted .info files and restores the disk usage gauges. (dr)
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06.Jan.2024
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Platform game: Ami-H.E.R.O.
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch's latest game is an Amiga conversion of the game Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation (H.E.R.O.) from the US games company Activision from 1984, originally programmed for the Atari 2600. The aim of the game is to fly into the depths of an underground cave with the character, who has a helicopter backpack, in order to rescue lost miners and avoid various dangers. As Paweł explains to us, the music and sounds were created by Marcin 'Eightbm' Białobrzewski, who also created the music for the final version of Tony and for Farmiga. (dr)
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06.Jan.2024
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Source code editor: Hollywood 10 support for Visual Studio Code
For Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (Windows, Mac OS, Linux), "hw4vsc" is an extension that enables the development of Hollywood programmes with the free source code editor. The developer Micha J. has adapted his extension for the latest Hollywood 10 version and released hw4vsc v10.0.0 today. The extension can be installed from the extension manager of Visual Studio Code, simply filter for the keyword "Hollywood". The author asks you to use the Github bug tracker in case of problems. (dr)
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06.Jan.2024
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Text adventure: "Adventure 2" v0.8
After "Adventure 1" (amiga-news.de reported) 'grindercowboy' has published a second text adventure created with the ADMS (Amiga Dungeon Mastering System): in "Adventure 2" you play a space cadet who has the goal of getting back home. (dr)
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06.Jan.2024
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Rally game: Jari-Matti Rally (prototype)
In mid-December, 'lifeschool22' published a prototype with "MonkeyEye", with which he wanted to test whether CanDo could be used to create a point'n'click adventure game (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has published another prototype with the racing game "Jari-Matti Rally": it is a Full-motion video (FMV) racing game that he also wrote with CanDo. A 68030 processor (or faster), 2MB chip RAM, 4MB fast RAM and 117 MB free space for the hard disc installation are recommended. (dr)
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06.Jan.2024
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Video tutorial: Transferring Spectrum-Basic code to Amiga-AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how he first enters a printed Basic program from a Sinclair magazine from October 1984 into his 48k ZX Spectrum and then converts it to AMOS Pro on his Amiga. (dr)
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06.Jan.2024
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Preview video: Hyperborea (Resurrected) #2
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing "Hyperborea", a project started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime (YouTube videos) (amiga-news.de reported). Technically, the game is as good as finished. Changes compared to the first preview video:
- spread shot: fully loaded :) Each player can now throw up to 36 laser-streaks on the enemies.
- muzzle flash
- collision handling player vs. bullets and floating enemies
- smart bomb: if you're about to die it will be activated automatically, unless your bomb stock is empty, of course.
While the bomb is active, enemy hitpoints are constantly drained, bullets are canceled and you're invulnerable.
Note: for the video I always keep the 2nd player's bomb stock at 0. This is simply because otherwise it would constantly bomb if hit and make the video much less interesting :P
- removed dummy test explosions on enemy hit: instead a dedicated hit sound is played. Maybe I'll add some sparks later.
- optional bullet canceling on enemy hit: when the enemy is destroyed then all of the bullets that were spawned by it are canceled.
- extremely optimized player-gun vs. enemies algorithm
- optional craters for ground enemies and test turrets: those craters got their own dedicated rendering system.
- some well-known floating popcorn enemies ;)
Many enemies are taken from Torben's earlier work "Battle Squadron" for the time being. There are also a few placeholders (e.g. for the music or crater gfx). (dr)
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06.Jan.2024
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Amiga-Emulator: vAmigaWeb - reworked virtual keyboard
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
In this update, the virtual keyboard has been restyled and technically reworked. It is now css-grid-based, which enables automatic scaling to different screen sizes. In addition to a scaling factor, the user can now also add a border at the bottom of the screen. This is particularly useful to prevent the keyboard from conflicting with the home indicator (the thin bar at the bottom of the iPhone screen).
All analogue sticks on a external controller should be recognized and work properly now. Tested with wireless Xbox controller on iPad. (dr)
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06.Jan.2024
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Web browser: NetSurf 3.12 (beta version)
About a week ago the official version 3.11 of the web browser NetSurf for AmigaOS 4 was released (amiga-news.de reported). In the article we also reported about a corresponding version for AmigaOS 3, which, however, did not provide working support for encrypted websites (https connections). Chris Young has now fixed that and released this version on Aminet. (dr)
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05.Jan.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 166 - preview and excerpts
Previews and excerpts from Amiga Future 166 (January/February 2024) have been published on the magazine's website. Amongst other things this issue features an interview with Richard Löwenstein, two meeting reports as well as reviews of GothicVania, Ooze, Diplomacy, Bunny's Revenge, AstroMenace, El Capitan Trueno, C64 - The Mysterious Cassette, AmigaGPT, RNOSlides, WarpVision AGA, AmiKit PiStorm and IBrowse 3.0.
Amiga Future is a printed magazine available in English and German editions. It can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (cg)
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04.Jan.2024
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Emulator: Denise V2.21
Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64 (German YouTube video). Three weeks ago version 2.21 has been released. Changes:
- fixed spanish translation
- added D3D11 driver
- openGL has bad VSYNC/VRR behavior on Windows 11 (replace it with D3D11: Options->Video->Driver)
- ported internal and external openGL shader to D3D11
- added italian translation (thanks to Luigi)
- added an option to rotate the screen (90°/180°/270°)
- added an option to force a single instance when opening another instance from frontend loader or file explorer
- fixed Amiga basic volume (louder)
- improved 1571 emulation
- added C64 cartridges: Comal-80, Silverrock, RGCD
- added a more easy way to set stereo separation (Audio -> DSP)
- added tapes to swapper (mixed disc/tape swapper)
- added option to decide if manual warping stops automatic warping until next restart
- added more options to control the screen aspect ratio
- added button/hotkey to crop the outer frame after resizing or changing "aspect ratio" or emulated border
Denise is available cross platform for Windows 32/64 XP and higher, macOS (from version 10.9 on, Intel and Arm), Linux and BSD.
(dr)
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04.Jan.2024
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Blog: An ode to Deluxe Paint
Carl Svensson's latest blog entry is an ode to the bitmap graphics editor Deluxe Paint (DPaint), the first version of which was developed for the Commodore Amiga 1000 and released in November 1985. (dr)
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03.Jan.2024
Mastodon
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Recovered: Early music programs "Computer Composer" and "Magic Harp"
Josh Renaud's blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences also manages a curated collection of software believed to be lost by Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen. The collection comprises ten games, demos and experiments on artificial personality and artificial creativity, which also includes the two music programs "Computer Composer" (1986) and "Magic Harp" (1986/87) for the Amiga.
Perhaps Kirschen's most ambitious idea was to make software that could generate music autonomously using "artificial creativity". Early versions of the project, called "Magic Harp", were developed for the Amiga 1000, using digital sound samples. The Amiga software was never published commercially, but was profiled in several large newspapers in 1988 under the name "JFY Box" or "Jiffy Box" after it was used to score a BBC TV documentary.
"Computer Composer" (demo version) is a colorful early demo of Kirschen's process to generate new music by recombining patterns extracted from existing music. Unlike the later "Magic Harp", which featured large (silent) animated "artificial personalities", this demo uses speech synthesis to announce when it is "writing an original composition". It was probably intended to be shown by Kirschen at technology and music trade shows in summer 1986. This software was created on an Amiga 1000.
This demo allows the user to create or play music in four styles: "Maharishi Madness", "Saxman Rock", "Peruvian Indian" and "Bugle Boy Blues".
In "Magic Harp" Kirschen arranged the production of two themed music discs ("Pop" and "Baroque") with Irving Gould, which were to be included with the Amiga 1000. Only a beta version of the Baroque version has survived. (dr)
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03.Jan.2024
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Mailbox: AmiExpress 5.6.0
AmiExpress is a rewrite by Darren Coles of the original Joe Hodge/LightSpeed Technologies mailbox program in Amiga E. It is open source and includes most of the features of the previous version as well as new features and bug fixes. Version 5.6.0 offers improved password encryption, a complete setup editor and installer. (dr)
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03.Jan.2024
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Individual Computers: Buddha Plus One can be preordered
Press release: The new Buddha Plus One IDE controller adds new features to a 27-year old design that has been extremely successful over the decades. We're proud to say that even after 38 years of Amiga history, we've introduced novel design ideas how to make installation easier, less error-prone and much friendlier in terms of preservation of the original cases. Read all about the new features and ideas on the Buddha Plus One product page.
Shipments will start in late January 2024. If you order a Buddha Plus One and an X-Surf-100 networking card during the pre-order phase, we'll give you 15,- EUR off the total(*). Unfortunately, this shop system can't do that automatically or with a voucher code. If you pay with a wire transfer, just deduct 15,- EUR from the total quoted by the shop, and if you pay with PayPal, we'll make a 15,- EUR refund on the next business day. (dr)
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03.Jan.2024
Amigans
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Demo: THE CURE v1.5 for AGA-Amigas
Some time ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released a demo called 'THE CURE' (YouTube video) which placed first at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 in the category Oldskool (amiga-news.de reported).
This demo he keeps on developing and meanwhile has released version 1.5:
- Improved CPU data cache handling on 68040 and 68060.
- Ensured the system MMU setup does not affect performance.
- Ensured the 68060 susperscalar dispatch is enabled.
- Made some small optimizations.
- Made startup and cleanup code more robust.
Additional to an AGA Amiga the demo requires a 68030 processor with 50 MHz and about 15 MB FAST-RAM. (dr)
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02.Jan.2024
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Puzzle game: Spheroid
In April 2022, we introduced the puzzle game, which was still in development at the time, in detail, and now Andrew Vaisey has published "Spheroid" (YouTube video).
He had already started writing Spheroid in AMOS in the mid-90s. When he restored all the data from his old HD some time ago, the AMOS version no longer ran. However, he liked the idea of the game and so he rewrote it from scratch in Blitz Basic 2. It offers 50 levels and requires at least 1MB of RAM. (dr)
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02.Jan.2024
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Text adventure: Adventure 1
grindercowboy' has published a text adventure created with the ADMS (Amiga Dungeon Mastering System) in which you have to return a stolen painting as a private detective. The author describes the game as a proof of concept that can be solved in 20 to 30 minutes with the appropriate experience. (dr)
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02.Jan.2024
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Platform game: Dogi (demo version)
After NinjFeratu, the next project from Amiten Games is another platform game: in Dogi (YouTube video), the aim is to collect various fruits and avoid obstacles and enemies. A first, early demo version of the game currently in development is now available. (dr)
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02.Jan.2024
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Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter v1.3 for Aseprite
Recently We introduced a script written by Prismatic Realms for the image editor Aseprite that converts graphics into an IFF/ILBM file. Version 1.3 has now been released with the following changes:
- Aseprite documents where the cel image size is larger than the sprite size are now exported correctly to IFF.
- Transparent colour index is now handled properly. You can now draw your sprites using a transparent background if you wish. Those transparent pixels will be translated to the colour index that you've defined as your transparent colour (which you can see/alter in Aseprite by selecting the "Sprite" --> "Properties" menu option.)
(dr)
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31.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Tool for the DeepL translation service
In addition to AmiTranslate, there is another option for AmigaOS 4 users to use the DeepL translation service: the tool of the same name is now available in version 0.92. The changes:
- added Ukraine language
- little improvements in copy function
- aouth keys now check correctly
- small gui improvements, wordwrapping is now enabled
- removed an UTF8 character from the readme file
- updated to hULR version 2.0 with AmiSSL5 support
The author has included his DeepL access key, but recommends registering and using your own access key. (dr)
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31.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Creating PDFs with "Compression" V0.30 (beta version)
In addition to the ignition spreadsheet and the LüttjeBookholler financial management software, Achim Pankalla is also working on a third project: similar to a DTP programme, Compression allows text and graphics to be set and the document, for example a manual, then output in PDF format (amiga-news.de reported). A German manual is included in the "Extra" folder, the tools ZIP and UnZIP are required. Changes since version 0.20:
- fixed a layout-problem in block-layout
- faster and optimised pdf generation
- now recognize changing the headline-props
and warning at leaving the project
- optimised spelling-correction, now it is
possible to add a word to database and
reduce the the number of requests
- fixed and updated manual
- fixed a problem with different screen
resulotion beside FullHD
(dr)
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31.Dec.2023
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.8.0 (beta version)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. Changes of version 0.8.0:
- change ActivateGadget to ActivateLayoutGadet as the old call was causing lockups on tab key
- add hint info on code gen form, list manager form, menu editing form, arexx editor form and the main window
- force number of ticks on fuelgauge to 2 if set to 1 as 1 causes a crash
- fix spelling error of Backdrop on window properties form
- fix enabling/disabling of certain buttons/menus on the main form
- add tutorial files created by Michael Bergmann
The author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him.
Download: rebuild0.8.0-beta.lha (2,6 MB) (dr)
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31.Dec.2023
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Aminet uploads until 30.12.2023
The following files have been added until 30.12.2023 to Aminet:
dyn_kwadraty_4th_deg.lha dev/amos 3K example of least squares method
dyn_kwadraty_5th_deg.lha dev/amos 3K example of least squares method
heart_knog_life.lha dev/amos 3K coordinates interpolation
targetting_6th_deg.lha dev/amos 4K targetting 6th degree polynomial
json-c.lha dev/lib 272K AOS C library for processing JSON
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 85K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
LAbbayeDesMorts.adf game/actio 880K 68k L'Abbaye Des Morts
WormWars-AROS.zip game/actio 645K x86 Advanced snake/Tron game
Nothingness.lha game/demo 6.6M Myst like adenture (AGA) from...
mariaconv.lha gfx/conv 41K 68k Convert images to/from Maria'...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.9M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
CompressionOS4.lha text/dtp 2.2M OS4 A PDF generator
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 16M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)
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31.Dec.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.12.2023
The following files have been added until 30.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
protrekkr.lha aud/edi 23Mb 4.1 Music tracker formerly known as ...
json-c.lha dev/lib 272kb 4.0 C library for processing JSON
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
astralgame.lha uti/mis 5Mb 4.0 A little tool to know zodiac sig...
mplayer.lha vid/pla 26Mb 4.1 A powerful multimedia video and ...
(snx)
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31.Dec.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.12.2023
The following files have been added until 30.12.2023 to AROS Archives:
astralgame.lha uti/mis 5Mb A little tool to know zodiac sig...
(snx)
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31.Dec.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.12.2023
The following files have been added until 30.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
MUI-Examples-1.1.lha Development/C MUI C Examples for MorphOS
Easy2Compile_1.2.lha Development/C A GUI to compile C sour...
LBreakoutHD_1.1.5.lha Games/BrickBreaker A scaleable 16:9 remake...
AstralGame_4.10.lha Games/Misc This esoteric app you c...
fheroes2_1.0.11.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
FFmpeg_6.1.0.lha Multimedia FFmpeg is a collection ...
Easy2Install_1.0b47.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
AIOstreams_1.7.7.lha Network/Streaming Stream online video fro...
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31.Dec.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.12.2023
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 30.12.2023:
(snx)
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31.Dec.2023
Frank Abbing (ANF)
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Game: Re-release of Weltendämmerung (german)
"Weltendämmerung" is a real-time strategy game by Frank Abbing (UAC Design, Risk implementation "Riskful"), which he had already written at the beginning of the 90s in AmigaE and Assembler (DevPac) as his first Amiga game, but only published in 2001. Now the author has made it available again as an ADF file on archive.org.
In the game, you take on the role of Robert Ungar. He must try to defeat the creatures of Dr. Coypu. In order to accomplish this task, he must succeed in getting an army of mutants under his control.
Download: Weltendaemmerung.adf (880 KB) (snx)
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31.Dec.2023
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for December
For the month of December 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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31.Dec.2023
Puni (ANF)
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Demoscene: Diskmagazine Versus #9 from 2019 as online edition
Issue 9 of Versus, the disk magazine from Nucleus and Void with Amiga demoscene charts, was released in 2019 and has been made accessible now by 'Browallia' as an online edition. (snx)
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31.Dec.2023
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Video: Transfer of the RGB signal from the Amiga to the PiStorm
Following a video published three weeks ago by PiStorm developer Claude Schwarz (amiga-news.de reported), Emu68 developer Michal Schulz now shows the RGB video pass-through from the Amiga to the Pi's HDMI output in more detailed preview. The pass-through is almost latency-free, works with the Pi's DMA engine and thus consumes 0% CPU time. He also provides further information in his new Patreon-Post. (dr)
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29.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Editor Lite XL 2.1.2r1
George 'walkero' Sokianos has just released version 2.1.2r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 (amiga-news.de reported). He wrote:
"Today, Lite XL 2.1.2 was released for every system by the official development team, as they usually do after Christmas. So, it is the perfect time to release a new version for AmigaOS 4 as well.
During December, I was working to synchronise the code from the official repository with my personal one, making it compile and work on my system. I was also experimenting with a way to convert ISO text to Unicode, as a way to load correctly files that include characters with umlauts or from other languages, like Greek.
I was based on another plugin and the codesets library to do this conversion, which seems to work quite well. To enable it, the user needs to enable the codesets plugin, like any other plugin. After that, and when lite-xl is running, two new menu options are available to open and save a file with a specific encoding. By default, this new plugin reads the system encoding and uses that to open the files. Based on my tests, this is enough, but as it is an experimental plugin, I am curious to see how it works for others.
Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the typing in other encodings issue. I tracked it down to a specific SDL2 function that seems not to work when the keymap is changed. So, some specific event is not triggered, which is necessary for the print of the characters. It might be a limitation of the SDL2 itself. I will keep on looking into that.
The codesets plugin is only available for AmigaOS 4 for now. I am working on the MorphOS version. That's why I didn't release a new version of Lite XL for the MorphOS, which is in development.
The new release of Lite XL 2.1.2 got numerous performance improvements and fixes from the official team, which can be read on GitHub.
The AmigaOS4 version can be downloaded from my Git repository and soon from OS4Depot."
You can support the developer on ko-fi. (dr)
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29.Dec.2023
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Analogue Pocket: Amiga core V0.1.2
The handheld game console Analogue Pocket (Wikipedia) is FPGA-based and as such supports modules from Nintendo, Sega, the PC Engine or the Atari Lynx. Version 0.1.2 has now been published of the Amiga Core which adapts the mouse setting to the new firmware 2.0. (dr)
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29.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Santa's Workout 3 - Silent Night
After "Vector5 Games" released the first two parts only for the C64, the third part is now also available for the Amiga: in "Santa's Workout 3 - Silent Night" (YouTube video) the special feature is that the player, as Santa Claus, has to act extremely quietly so as not to wake the sleeping children. (dr)
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29.Dec.2023
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Platform game: "Super Delivery Boy - The Holiday Shift" 2023.1
The mini game "Super Delivery Boy - The Holiday Shift" (YouTube video) was updated again (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Rewritten and simplified most of the code
- Improved performance on low end machines
- More precise collision detection when delivering presents
- Some graphical improvements
- Bug fixes
(dr)
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28.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser NetSurf 3.11
After around three and a half years various test builds an update of the NetSurf browser to version 3.11 was published today, together with a version for AmigaOS 4, provided by Chris Young under the title link. NetSurf 3.11 features improved page layout with CSS flex support. It also features many other optimisations and enhancements. Changes of the Amiga port:
- Added page theme option.
- Improved bitmap handling.
- Improved and optimised Unicode handling.
- Stability improvements.
After initial tests on our part, the support for encrypted pages that had been lost in test builds is working again. Unfortunately, access to downloads from GitHub pages ("Assets") still does not work.
Officially, no conversion for AmigaOS 3 has (yet) been published, but the last test build from 28 December 2023, NetSurf-gcc-6637.lha (4,3 MB), should basically correspond to version 3.11. (dr)
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28.Dec.2023
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Java program: ham_convert 1.9.3
Sebastian Sieczko's java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats to the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.9.3. Changes:
- dded Oric mode (experimental). Oric was a British 8-bit computer powered by the 6502 cpu with 8-color graphics with no v-sync.
- Dynamic Hires: cancel option to abort conversion.
- rgbg_pal cli parameter can be used to select fixed rgbg ham pattern mode in ham6.
- Code cleanup.
(dr)
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27.Dec.2023
Gaming on AmigaOS 4 (ANF)
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Interview with Steffen Häuser (Heretic II port)
In addition to his monthly summaries of AmigaOS 4 news, 'Puni' has now also conducted an interview with Steffen 'TheMagicSN' Häuser, who is working on AmigaOS 4 ports of the games Heretic II and Sin, at the title link. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Review of December 2023
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS news for the month of December at the title link. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
Nicola Morocutti (ANF)
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 17
The seventeenth issue of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which is available with 50 color pages both as a booklet and digitally, deals with the following topics:
- Games Reviews: Crimbo, STAR WARS: Dark Forces, L’Abbaye des Morts, Death Rally, Emerald Caves, Rally Cross, Project Quest, Super Bagman, Hop to the top: Bunny’s Revenge
- Reviews: IBrowse 3.0, zTools
- Interview: A man called CLOANTO
- Hardware: Greaseweazle and Waffle
- Amiga GCC – Not only Amiga…
- Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Demo Scene, Back Chat
(snx)
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27.Dec.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 153 (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, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about 1000cc Turbo and Frogger500. (snx)
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27.Dec.2023
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8/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2023-12-26
Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now. Changes:
- improves support for Apple II NIB images;
- thanks to @ryandesign corrects Apple II/II+/IIe floating bus issues;
- resolves a potential crash-at-startup for the Enterprise;
- resolves potential stuck-on drive motors on the Amiga;
- resolves some disk writing issues specific to the Enhanced Apple IIe;
- thanks again to @ryandesign also corrects an internal optimisation around Disk II write protection sensing, and an error to do with data bus loading
- adds emulation of the most basic form of IBM PC — an 8086 compatible with MDA or CGA graphics and a floppy drive.
(dr)
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27.Dec.2023
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Christmas game: Santa and the Goblin
Havsoft' has also contributed a Christmas game: based on the Atari game Dragonfire and written in Blitz Basic 2, you have to help Father Christmas get his presents back by storming the castle and then collecting them (YouTube video) (dr)
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Christmas game: Deck the Drones
'Amiga Cammy' decided on 23 December to write a Christmas game for my Amiga in the hope of finishing it by Christmas Day. It didn't quite work out, but she would like to share the first playable level with everyone and thus contribute to a successful Christmas. In this platform game (YouTube video), the player must retrieve the stolen Christmas presents from mysteriously reprogrammed delivery drones. (dr)
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26.Dec.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Videoplayer MPLayer 1.5RC2
A team of several developers has published a second release candidate of version 1.5 of the video player MPlayer for AmigaOS 4. This version is based on the official MPlayer 1.5 source code, merging code from LiveForIt-MPlayer, MickJT-MPlayer and Andrea Palmatè's MPlayer ports, with several additional changes and improvements. (dr)
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AmigaOS 4: Music tracker Protrekkr 2.6.3r1
Protrekkr (formerly marketed as "NoiseTrekker") is an SDL-based music programme that combines a software synthesiser with a traditional sample-based tracker. Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has now published a first release candidate for version 2.6.3, which is based on the official Protrekkr 2.6.3 source code and on the previous port (version 2.5.5) by Fredrik Wikström. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Emulator: QEMU 8.2.0 released
QEMU is an open source computer emulator and virtualiser. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software. It is therefore also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems such as AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This support is provided by QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton, who has set up a dedicated website with lots of tips and information. As already reported at the beginning of December, the now released QEMU version 8.2.0 also supports AmigaOne emulation via its BBoot bootloader. In addition, the Pegasos 2 emulation now supports the audiodev property (PowerPC changes). For Windows 64 Bit a compiled binary was made available on Christmas Eve. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Trevor's Blog: Christmas Present
Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology has published a new article in his "Trevor's Blog" for Christmas. In it he reports on the Amiga trade fairs he attended, AmigaKit's A600GS project and also mentions once again the "AAA Technology" alliance formed by ACube Systems, A-EON Technology and Amedia Computer, which is to deliver the long-awaited A1222 Plus.
The A1222 Plus comes with updated ExecSG and uBoot firmware from Steven Solie. Also included in the A1222 Plus package is a new version of DvPlayer (v54.11) that supports A-EON's video acceleration library, enabling smooth playback with clear DMA power audio. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Demo: "Castlevania AGA" with stages 16-18
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This adds stages 16 to 18, which now include the fight against Dracula, the final boss, in the clock tower. (dr)
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Christmas game: Merry Xmas (beta version 0.2)
Scorpion Engine developer Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of a fast-paced puzzle platformer game that he created almost entirely in a 16-hour period on Christmas Eve 2023. The graphics are from the Holiday Expansion Set. (dr)
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25.Dec.2023
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Preview video: Hyperborea Resurrected
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener is in the process of continuing a project that was started four years ago and interrupted in the meantime (YouTube videos): back then, he began developing a new shoot 'em up called "Hyperborea" with graphic designer Torben Bakager Larsen, who was also responsible for Battle Squadron, among other things.
Everything from the original prototype code was discarded, started from scratch and only some auxiliary functions from Souverän Soccer were adopted. Technically, the game is as good as finished and has the following features:
- 304 x 256 PAL @ 50 fps (almost always ;) )
- vertical scroller with additional horizontal scrolling (384 pixel wide levels)
- 1p and 2p simultan mode
- 100% flicker free bullets and enemies
- tons of bullets
TTorben Bakager Larsen is back on board, the strict colour restrictions of the old version have been removed. The game is mostly developed in C++ and about 10% in ASM. The video shows the current test level with some enemies and many, many bullets on an A1200 with deactivated turbo card / FastRam. (dr)
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24.Dec.2023
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Aminet uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to Aminet:
aamp.lha comm/www 149M OS4 Amiga Apache MySQL and PHP fo...
aamp-src.lha comm/www 16M Sources of AAMP server package
Kp2023-HonorYourFathe... demo/slide 3.4M 68k Honor Your Father, Slide Show...
dynamic_circle.lha dev/amos 1K circle over three points
ASMPro1.20.lha dev/asm 110K 68k ASM-Pro v1.20 (update)
ASMPro1.20src.lha dev/asm 790K ASM-Pro v1.20 source code
rasm.lha dev/cross 939K MOS Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
SegTracker.lha dev/debug 17K 68k A global SegList tracking uti...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
MeetBall.lha game/2play 193K 68k Bat & ball type of game
TerrybleKnightDemo.lha game/actio 789K 68k Demo of a Ghost`n`Goblins lik...
WhatIFF2.12.lha mags/misc 2.0M What IFF? #2.12-December-2023
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.2M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AChristmasKiss.lha mods/8voic 332K 16bit 6ch XMas Club Jazz by H...
dp_pretracker.lha mus/play 11K 68k PreTracker v1.5 deliplayer
cubic_win_keyboard.lha text/edit 3K Cubic IDE: Windows-like keybo...
aiostreams.lha util/batch 228K Stream video from major onlin...
FastExec30.lha util/boot 12K 68k Moves exec.library to fastest...
AmiSSL-5.13-OS3.lha util/libs 3.7M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.13-OS4.lha util/libs 3.3M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.13-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.8M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
MMULib.lha util/libs 787K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
Quick_1.3.lha util/wb 1.5M MOS A software launch manager
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
snes9x.zip emu/gam 63Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
woof.lha gam/fps 13Mb 4.1 A continuation of Lee Killough&#...
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
aamp.lha net/ser 149Mb 4.1 Amiga Apache MySQL PHP. A develo...
aamp-src.lha net/ser 16Mb 4.1 Sources of AAMP (Amiga Apache My...
astralgame.lha uti/mis 5Mb 4.0 A little tool to know zodiac sig...
wb2filer.lha uti/wor 47kb 4.0 Hack to run Filer when dbl-click...
aiostreams.lha vid/mis 228kb 4.1 Stream video from major online p...
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AROS Archives uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to AROS Archives:
AROS-One doc 6kb AROS One x86 ABIv0
black_white_drawers.zip gra/ico 83kb Set of Black & White Icons w...
drawer_games_unofficial_k... gra/ico 258kb Unofficial Drawer Games Icons Ke...
icondrop_12-18-23.i386-ar... gra/ico 70kb Icon Make to make PNG Icons from...
astralgame.lha uti/mis 5Mb A little tool to know zodiac sig...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.12.2023
The following files have been added until 23.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Quick_1.3.lha Ambient/Launchbar A software launch manager
RASM_2.1.lha Development/Cross Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
AmiArcadia_30.71.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
HomeWorld.lha Games/Strategy Full version of Homewor...
Wayfarer_7.2.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
Scriba_1.9.9.lha Office/WordProcessor Simple word processing ...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 23.12.2023
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 23.12.2023:
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Memory game: MeMO 3.20
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update to his memory game MeMO. It is based on the classic memory card game, but in his implementation two players can compete against each other at the same time and compete for the best score.
MeMO requires a 68020 processor and the ECS chipset.
Changes in version 3.20:
- Replaced Nebulus' card with Ring around the World's
- Fixed a stray pixel in Bubble Dizzy's card
- Built against latest custom framework (which ensures that the system MMU setup does not interfere)
- Touched up manual
(snx)
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24.Dec.2023
Puni (ANF)
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Amiga musik database AMP: MP3 mix "December Feelings"
The music database "Amiga Music Preservation" (AMP) has selected 20 tracks to create the right mood for Christmas and compiled them into an MP3 file. (snx)
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24.Dec.2023
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Demoscene review: "Tint" by The Black Lotus (video)
The video by Amigatronics at the title link reviews the demo "Tint" by The Black Lotus from 1996. (snx)
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Merry Christmas!
Dear readers, dear Amiga friends,
As Christmas draws to a close, so does the year and we would like to take this opportunity to thank our loyal readers, for whom we have endeavoured over the past twelve months not only to collect news, but also to provide background reports, tutorials, anecdotes and so on. It is fascinating how many private, but also professional projects still exist around the Amiga.
Therefore, on the other hand, thanks should also go to all the people who develop these small and large software and hardware projects and sacrifice time for them: without them there would be nothing for us to report on and nothing for the many Amiga users to be happy about, test, complain about... ;)
For this reason, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year together with a few randomly selected people who represent all the projects we have reported on over the past year! Stay in touch with the developers, the creatives, support them, also by actively participating in discussions in the corresponding news items here: Feedback is always welcome! A big thank you to the graphic designer 'jojo073', who provided us with the Christmas pixel art.
Merry Christmas!
(dr)
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23.Dec.2023
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Developer tools: Amiga SDKs adapted to GCC compilers, Release 1
Cameron 'Nightfox' Armstrong (AmigaGPT) offers SDKs of AmigaOS 3.2 NDK and AmigaOS 4.1 (V54.16) adapted to the GCC compiler based on Stefan 'Bebbo' Franke's Amiga GCC Development Kit (amiga-news.de reported). Changes to the current version:
- Added json-c
- Updated AmiSSL to version 5.13
- Moved AmiSSL libs and includes out of SDK folder
- Add symlinks for /opt/amiga incase you use a Makefile that allows you to build natively
(dr)
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23.Dec.2023
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HxC floppy emulator: Software V2.15.1.2
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- Many fixes and improvements into the flux stream management :
- One revolution only / 2 indexes support fixed.
- Fix stream files formats export : No more glitch after the first revolution index. (Fix SCP and KF export).
- Sectors recovery support - Can be disabled/enabled with the FLUXSTREAM_SECTORS_RECOVERY variable.
This feature try to automatically recover/fix bad sectors with copies present in others stream revolutions.
- Default pulses timing jitter tolerance increased from 10% to 14% (Config file).
- Kryoflux writer : stream to stream conversion : Don't align output stream to the next index.
- SCP writer : stream to stream conversion : Don't align output stream to the next index.
- SCP loader : Fix singled-sided images support (Fix the number of tracks/cylinder).
- SCP loader : Fix broken support of SCP images with more than 5 revolutions.
- SCP loader : Fix odd number of tracks + double step mode issue (Last track missing).
- Logic analyzer capture loader : nameTT.S.logicbin8bits file name convention support. (TT=track S=side)
- New XML format : MC50/MC300/MC500 formats and empty data disk.
- New XML format : Sharp X68000 2HD disk.
- Track display : Fix possible infinite loop : check the bitrate value and stop + report if needed.
- HFEv3 loader : Support RAND_OPCODE right after SKIPBITS_OPCODE.
- New X68000 DIM file image loader.
- New Apple II 2MG file image loader. (WIP - To be completed)
- XML raw loader : Fix images last sector loading.
- Track editor : New "insert" and "remove" track operations.
- HFE writers : New "HFE_WRITER_WRITENOTALLOWED" parameter : Set it to 1 to write protect the exported hfe files.
- HxC stream (Pauline) : Auto detect and load properly hard-sectored dumps.
- D88 loader : Fix possible infinite loop with corrupted image.
- Batch converter : New BATCHCONVERT_KEEP_SOURCE_FILE_NAME_EXTENSION setting to enable/disable the source file extension to the output file name.
- BMP export : New Stream tracks mode export.
- User interface : Save and restore previous state (WIP, Done : batch converter window)
- NSI Northstar : Some index timings and formats fixes.
- macOS : Better CAPSlib/ipf lib support. (Renaud Guérin)
- New track format : Centurion MFM. (Rick Altherr)
- Code : gcc's -fanalyzer used against the libhxcfe library : Many possible issues fixed !
- Many internal code improvements and fixes.
(dr)
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23.Dec.2023
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Platform game: Demo version of "Terryble Knight"
The author of the RedPill game construction kit, Carlos 'Zener' Peris, started this game project because he wanted to test the slope system in RedPill. With RedPill version 0.9.32, also released today, this slope system has been greatly improved. "Terryble Knight" (YouTube video) uses the assets of Ansimuz, a very good and productive pixel artist. The music was provided by 'Fireb0y'. (dr)
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23.Dec.2023
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Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.0.4)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world". This early demo version now has its first opponents, even if the score is not yet calculated correctly. The game uses the free graphics set "NEONworld", which Kevin Saunders made available as part of the Amiga Art Contest 2020 (amiga-news.de reported). The game should run on an Amiga 500.
Direct download: NeonWorld.adf.zip (70 KB) (dr)
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22.Dec.2023
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Web browser: IBrowse 3.0a
One month after the release of version 3.0 of his web browser "IBrowse" (amiga-news.de reported), Oliver Roberts has made an update available. Although, as he writes, "things have gone pretty smoothly", one problem in particular went largely unnoticed: a bug in the HTTP(S) module could trash memory, which could result in either instant crashes or seemingly random crashes at a later stage. For this reason, all users are advised to update their IBrowse 3.0 installation using the supplied installer. See the History log page for full details of the changes in this update. (dr)
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22.Dec.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.13 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.13 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.2 including important security related fixes, a built-in HTTP(S) client and comes with new encryption ciphers. Detailed changes:
- Switched to OpenSSL 3.2, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.2.0 (23.11.2023) version, which includes the following new features:
- Support for client side QUIC (RFC 9000)
- Support for Ed25519ctx, Ed25519ph and Ed448ph in addition to existing support for Ed25519 and Ed448 (RFC 8032)
- Support for deterministic ECDSA signatures (RFC 6979)
- Support for AES-GCM-SIV, a nonce-misuse-resistant AEAD (RFC 8452)
- Support for the Argon2 KDF (RFC 9106)
- Support for Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE) (RFC 9180)
- Support for SM4-XTS
- Support for Brainpool curves in TLS 1.3
- Support for TLS Raw Public Keys (RFC 7250)
- Support for using the IANA standard names in TLS ciphersuite configuration
- Multiple new features and improvements to CMP protocol support
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 12.12.2023.
- Use Exec mutexes instead of semaphores on AmigaOS 4.x, decreasing system overhead.
- Use ASOPOOL_Protected instead of our own semaphore protected memory pool on AmigaOS 4.x.
- Improved error handling should failures occur early in library initialisation.
- The installer now properly handles any certificates that may have been disabled by the user and will update them, but leave them disabled.
- The installer on AmigaOS 4.x can now install the libraries whilst AmiSSL is still in use, provided elf.library 53.35+ is installed and no instances prior to AmiSSL 5.6 are still in memory.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.13-OS3.lha (3,7 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.13-OS4.lha (3,4 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.13-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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21.Dec.2023
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Sprite Tricks: Stunt Car Racer
On Codetapper's Amiga Site there are interviews and various articles as well as a Sprite Tricks section, in which the author tries to find out what tricks the programmers use to master tricky or demanding graphic tasks. In the linked article he takes a look at how the tops of tyres are displayed with sprites. (dr)
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21.Dec.2023
WinUAE Homepage (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 5.1.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.1.0. Changes:
New features/updates: UI
- On screen keyboard. Default mapped to pad button 4.
- Gamepad GUI control. Use game pad to control WinUAE GUI with some limits.
- Optional dark mode (Windows 10 or newer required)
- Emulation window dragging and resize does not anymore pause emulation.
New features/updates: emulation
- Built-in Munt MT-32/CM-32L emulation. Emulated devices listed in MIDI out setting. ROM images should be in \mt32-roms. or c:\mt32-rom-data\.
- AT&T DSP3210 emulation (AA3000 prototype). Not complete.
- More programmed chipset screen mode emulation improvements.
- Disk emulation improved, undocumented disk read DMA “last word may not come in” bug emulated.
- Chipset emulation updates and fixes.
- “Autoclip screenshots” option now supports programmed native screen modes.
- Native<>RTG and RTG<>RTG mode switching optimizations.
- A2410 display card emulation updates, works now with new Picasso96 driver.
- Input panel Backslash/F11 option now has third option that restores pre-5.0 keymap behavior.
- Do not list GPT partitioned harddrives in “Add Harddrives” panel.
- Football Director 2 dongle emulation.
- Quickstart Host Configuration menu first option renamed, “Default configuration” -> “Current host configuration”. Added new option “Default host configuration” that resets host configuration to defaults.
- Hard reset now randomizes CPU reset start up delay and initial floppy motor position.
Bugs fixes
- DMS brute force decryption failed to work with some encrypted DMS files.
- Alt-Tab from D3D11 fullscreen RTG mode made hardware mouse cursor invisible.
- Some configurations crashed when GUI Reset or Restart button was clicked.
- Enter GUI, eject disk, insert new disk, exit GUI: Disk was inserted immediately which is physically impossible and can confuse programs. Inserting disk without manually ejecting it first worked correctly.
- GUI Restart button didn’t fully restore GUI position/size if “Restarting” from fullscreen or full-window mode.
- Some configs crashed when GUI Restart button or Reset was pressed.
- WASAPI sound was disabled if sound driver only supported 8 channel audio.
- Some configurations opened multiple tiny inactive multi-monitor mode emulation windows without enabled multiple monitors.
- Workbench programmed screen mode (DBLPAL etc) positioning was not always correct when switching from other native mode.
- None serial port emulation mode and fast CPU configuration: serial port driver hung if serial data transmit was attempted.
- Integer scale + full window: Display panel windowed width and height was used instead of full window size (desktop size) when calculating scaling values.
- Screen might have flickered when starting Picasso96 RTG screen dragging.
- Multiple 0x76 partitions per HD/card can be mounted now, previously only first was mounted and the rest become zero size non-existing drives.
- USB HID input device usage page check fixed, it accepted devices that had nothing to do with being input device.
Gamepad GUI control details
- A = select (pad mode)/left mouse click (mouse mode)
- B = right mouse click (mouse mode).
- Y = change active GUI area (pad mode)/TAB UI element change (mouse mode).
- D-pad = select UI elements, “pad mode”.
- Left stick = move mouse, “mouse mode”.
Currently requires XInput compatible gamepad.
Onscreen keyboard details
- Pad button 4 is default mapped to open/close on screen keyboard input event (if loaded config has button 4 mapped to something else, button is not mapped to OSK)
- Pad button/d-pad that normally controls Amiga joystick moves keyboard selection. Joystick movements and button presses are not sent to Amiga side as long as OSK is open.
- Fire button press = send selected key’s press
- Fire button release = send selected key’s release
- Second button press = toggle state of selected key. Keep shift or control or other qualifier key pressed.
- Second button release = does nothing.
- Keyboard layout is US layout + 2 keys that are used in international layout variants + few bonus “keys”.
- If GUI is entered when OSK is open, GUI pad control is automatically enabled.
(dr)
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AmigaOS 4: AAMP 2.1 (Apache, MySQL and PHP)
AAMP offers a development environment on your Amiga, with which you
can create and test your own web projects. Similar to the well-known XAMPP
package for Linux and Windows, it contains the HTTP (web) server "Apache"
with compiled-in support for the scripting language "PHP" (version 8.0.28 and
5.2.10) and the database server "MySQL" version 5.5.10. (amiga-news.de reported).
The new version 2.1 contains many improvements and also some bug fixes. The main innovation is a new control centre that can be used to manage all servers:
Detailed changes:
- The "AAMP-Control" tool is now available for the central administration of
all servers and settings. In addition to Apache and MySQL, it can also be
used to manage the PHP development server and the Subversion server
"svnserve". The scripts "Start_AAMP.bat" and "Stop_AAMP.bat" are now
obsolete and no longer included.
All other start and stop scripts are still included, but the use of
"AAMP-Control" is recommended.
- Update of the Apache web server from version 2.2.11 to version 2.2.34.
- The configuration of the Apache SSL module is now complete and working. So
that clients can work with it without problems, there is a selection of
CA root certificate collections in the Contrib folder, which also contain
the server's certificate. Simply replace the required file of the client or
browser.
- The package now also includes a complete package of "phpMyAdmin" in version
5.0.4. This has been patched for better compatibility with PHP 8 and is
already preconfigured. The package will be installed automatically during
the installation of AAMP.
- Optimized autostart at system start or when starting "AAMP-Control".
- Update of the CA root certificates (Mozilla certificates as of 20.11.2023).
- The default WebDAV directory is now "AAMP:Apache/uploads" and no longer
"AAMP:Apache/htdocs/dav".
- The Subversion package has been recompiled using the new Apache 2.2.34
libraries.
- Various bug fixes. For existing errors please read the section "Problems"!
(dr)
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Aiostreams V1.7.7: Scripts for streaming videos (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS)
"All In One streams" (aiostreams) is a pack of scripts, written in Python, that can be used to stream and watch videos from different online networks, like Twitch.tv, YouTube and Vimeo.com. All the scripts are developed and fully tested under AmigaOS 4.1 FE and MorphOS 3.x. which are the target systems of George 'walkero' Sokiano's project. Changes of version 1.7.7:
Added
- The youtube script supports now the urls of shorts videos
- Added video resolutions at the youtube script, when the -x argument is used
- Added more resolutions selection in the vqw.py for Vimeo and twitch
Changed
- The youtube script supports more urls, to cover more Invidious servers
As a companion to these scripts, he created the website AIOstreams which can be a fast way to discover Twitch and YouTube videos. It is really fast and can be used on older browsers that do not support Javascript and CSS. This is a proxy website. No data is stored in any database, there is no tracking and no authentication is required. You can read more about it in his latest ko-fi article.
Download: aiostreams-v1.7.7.lha (228 KB) (dr)
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Assembler: ASM-Pro 1.20 released
ASM-Pro is a MC680x0 macro assembler for the Amiga with integrated editor, debugger, linker and monitor. The programme offers complete MC680x0, FPU and MMU support. ASM-Pro has now been updated to version 1.20. The changes:
ADDITIONS
- ASM: New symbol REPTN, value is set to 0 to (N-1) while inside a
REPT block and -1 while outside.
- ASM: New predefined symbol ASMPRO, value contains ASMPro version
in the following format: major*256+minor.
- ASM: New directive EQUA, intended for post-processing. Do not use
if unsure how it works and what it does. It works similar to EQU
but the value is absolute (it also "relocates" and can be used to
access relocatable data from absolute sections).
- ASM/DISASM: Added support for PLPA instruction (68060).
MODIFICATIONS
- UI: reqtools.library v38+ is required instead of any version.
- DISASM: FNOP is now displayed instead of a 0 displacement FBF.W.
- ASM: Macro parameter \@ reimplemented to work correctly with
system includes (pass1/2 conflicts with conditional assembly).
- ASM: Trailing / is appended to INCDIR path if needed.
- ASM: Current source directory is used as fallback to find include
files, and finally the INCLUDE: assign as well.
- ASM: Both CMP and CMPM with (Ax)+,(Ay)+ are now allowed.
- ASM: Allow MOVEM and FMOVEM descending register lists.
- ASM: Allow longword size for FMOVEM with control registers.
- UI: The ancient prefs toggles and closewb code removed from the
menu event handler.
- Over 900 additional micro optimizations, 21KB reduction of the
executable size compared to v1.18.
BUGFIXES
- UI-1.19: File pattern in the read/write source file requester is
incorrect if Source .ASM is enabled in the general preferences.
- UI: Crash if diskfont.library couldn't be opened.
- DISASM: Crash on 68000/010 systems if DBcc.L (Apollo) has a 2-char
conditional code.
- EDIT: Continuously pressing page up to reach the top of the source
code after unsuccessful assembly (and similar variations), would
freeze the editor.
- DISASM: CALLM absolute and pc-relative modes don't work, immediate
mode's hex operand is missing a leading $.
- DISASM: Several CHK2 and CMP2 modes don't work.
- ASM: Incorrect opcodes generated or not supported for CHK2 and CMP2.
- DISASM: CINV and CPUSH specifier NC (neither cache) is displayed as
BC (both caches).
- ASM: CINV and CPUSH specifier NC (neither cache) is not implemented.
- DISASM: MOVES destination absolute long mode doesn't work.
- DISASM: PMOVE (68030 variant) mixes up registers TT0 and TT1.
- ASM: FMOVEM and some FMOVE variants allow destination pc-relative
modes.
- UI: The changed source prompts are brought up at the end of restart
instead of right away.
- ASM: No CPU warning for CALLM (68020 only) if the selected CPU is
68030 or higher.
- ASM: INCDIR path is not reset when starting a new assembly.
- ASM: Including a directory prints out random trash characters.
- MONI: Scrolling left/right (alt-left/right arrow) hides the cursor.
- ASM: PMOVE with MMUSR outputs incorrect register.
- DBG: Debugged program's user and supervisor stacks (and corresponding
USP/SSP registers) are switched.
- DISASM: FMOVEM has a trailing "/" in some scenarios.
- ASM: FMOVEM allows size .X with control registers.
- DISASM: Infinite loop with some 68040 specific FPU opcodes.
- ASM: Watchpoints and breakpoints are kept after switching to a
different source.
- Public port's name and type are not initialized.
- ASM: PRINTV doesn't flush the print buffer properly causing the next
line to be truncated (for example, if followed by INCLUDE or INCBIN
the path is not printed).
- UI: System freeze and/or crash if multiple hotkeys are pressed at the
same time, and the first one is causing the menu strip change (for
example, pressing amiga-AS in the editor).
- ASM: Numerous FPU instructions with source immediate longword operand
are generated as byte, resulting either in the out of 8-bit range error
or incorrect opcode.
- DISASM: FSINCOS prints only one destination FPU register.
- DISASM: Absolute and pc-relative modes don't work with all bitfield
instructions (68020+).
- DISASM: CMPI pc-relative index mode (68020+) doesn't work.
- DISASM: CAS allows several invalid and non-existing modes, absolute
modes don't work.
- DISASM: LPSTOP (68060) is not implemented.
- DISASM: Typos in FPU ROM constant names (appended as a comment to the
MOVECR instruction), probably due to the same typos in the M68K manual.
Additionally, TAB changed to a space if Printer Dump is not enabled in
the preferences to avoid weird characters on the screen.
- ASM: PFLUSHR doesn't allow address register indirect mode.
- ASM: MMU register PCSR is not recognized (PCR is checked twice instead).
(dr)
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Workbench distribution: AKReal 9.2
AKReal can already works with 16 colours and is the inofficial adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit to real Amigas (AGA/RTG). The update from the previous version 9.1 is for free and can be installed via LiveUpdate. New users have to pay 9.99 Euro for the download. Changes:
- ADDED: Freeware PowerWindows 1.3 by by Georg Steger, 10/11/2000.
- ADDED: Some existing RTG 1024x768 wallpapers saved now in iff format.
- ADDED: UAEgfx by Toni Willen in Sys:Devs/Monitors to be used with RTG when needed.
- ADDED: New option in Morpheuz to change the pointer or also the wallpapers/backdrops/skins used if you are already using some RTG option in your Amiga.
- ADDED: AmigaGPT version 1.2.0 by Cameron Armstrong. Now backwards compatible with OS3.9.
- ADDED: Spanish "esRadio", "Flower Power radio", "Love Radio Florida" and "CGM UKScene Radio*". You can find them in Sys:Utilities/Expansion/RadioStations/Scripts.
- ADDED: Filesize v40.1, 1998-02-22 by Msi Software, http://home.sol.no/~msi/
- UPDATED: WHDLoad to version 18.9.6601
- UPDATED: HippoPlayer v2.58 - kpk@iki.fi. K-P Koljonen 2023-06-21.
- UPDATED: AmigaAMP v3.33 -Thomas Wenzel (www.toms-home.de). 2022-12-20.
- UPDATED: IMP v3.411 - Pawel Nowak. 2023-06-29.
- UPDATED: TextEditor.mcc v15.56. Jens Maus (mail jens-maus de). 2021-08-31.
- UPDATED: BetterString.mcc v11.36. Jens Maus (mail jens-maus de). 2021-08-31.
- UPDATED: NList.mcc v0.128. Jens Maus (mail jens-maus de). 2021-08-31.
- UPDATED: TheBar.mcc v26.22. Jens Maus (mail jens-maus de). 2021-08-31 .
- UPDATED: AmiSSL v5.11. AmiSSL Open Source Team. 2023-09-19.
- UPDATED: OpenURL 7.18. Jens Maus 2016-09-07.
- UPDATED: MMULib v47.6. Thomas.richter at alumni.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter) 2023-07-01.
- UPDATED: WBDock by Thomas Rapp. Version 2.896. 16-Jul-2023.
- UPDATED: MUI v5.0. 2021-08-31 by Thore Böckelmann and changed MUI prefs for iGame.
- UPDATED: iGame V2.4.1 2023-07-19 by mrzammler at freemail.gr (Emmanuel Vasilakis).
- UPDATED: TinyMeter 3.56 by gibs2b gmail com (Michael GIBS).
- UPDATED: iBrowse to 2.5.8 and TextHistory.mcc to 11.8 version for the installation.
- CHANGED: Magellan Start menus. Now in Sys:Utilities/Expansion/Opus5/Buttons we have a shorter version. There are three drawers with different versions to try if you wish.
- CHANGED: SID Station Radio stream changed as suggested by @bjdcleary at the EAB site.
- CHANGED: "Disable_CGXAga&Birdie" is now "Change_CGXAga&Birdie" with more options.
- CHANGED: Femu by Jari has been exchanged by SoftIEEE, developed by Thomas Richter. Version 40.6.1 from 2023-01-23.
- CHANGED: Cinemix radio station to use Amplifier and a new script.
- FIXED: SceneSat radio
- DELETED: Nostalgia, XPD and WNMC48 radios, no longer working.
(dr)
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Preview video: Platform game "SUPERMiniJu"
Yoz Montana has published another preview video (amiga-news.de reported) of "SUPERMiniJu" which is being developed with the Game Construction Kit RedPill. This video shows the end boss of the first level. (dr)
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.7.0 (beta version)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. Changes:
- ensure copy/move buttons are disabled for window objects
- add GA_ID properties for layouts
- fix a couple of compile issues with vbcc
- add warning to user when using TextField gadget
- add weightbar capability
The author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him.
Download: rebuild0.7.0-beta.lha (135 Kb) (dr)
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