22.Sep.2023
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Motorola68k emulation: Emu68 V1.0 Release Candidate
A month ago, Developer Michal Schulz had released beta version 2.1 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture, focusing on the PiStorm and PiStorm32lite (amiga-news.de reported). Since then, many other improvements have been added. Changes of the release candidate of version 1.0:
BFxxx updated
The bitfield instructions operating on memory are not optimized to use as little memory accesses as possible. There are still corner cases which will do more traffic than necessary, but they are now very limited. The bitfield instructions will fetch byte/word/long word/quad word instead of always working on quad words.
Better write to CHIPSET registers
After a write to memory area belonging to Amiga chipset, a byte read from ROM is issued. This improves stability of some old games/demos which never assumed to be running on m68k which is that fast. A read from ROM gives Paula enough time to complete the interrupt acknowledgment properly.
IPL filter
Emu68 filters the IPL lines and recognizes an IPL change if and only if two subsequent IPL reads (which are roughly 400 nanoseconds away) give the same result. Improves many games or demos which suffered from spurious interrupts.
Write buffer removed
The write buffer was my experiment introduced quite long time ago - it featured a write combining to subsequent byte/word locations as long as they would finally result in a longword write cycle. It worked relatively well in most cases, but failed miserably in some others. Since this was just a dirty hack, it has been removed now.
CCR optimizer scan depth
The number of m68k opcodes which are scanned in-advance during m68k to arm translation for elimination of CCR flag updates is now adjustable. Use EmuControl version 1.3 for that (nightly build from 23. Sept. 2023 or newer).
The developer provides more detailed information on the changes in his new Patreon post. (dr)
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22.Sep.2023
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.4 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. Since version 2.1, simple editing of LhA/Zip archives also is possible (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. Changes of version 2.4:
- Support Deark (needs enabling by tooltype)
- This is a "beta" feature, it may be unstable and due to a bug in Deark, it is not possible to extract to the root of any device.
- Add option to select modules (MODULES tooltype)
- Fixx password caching
- Also use T: as temp by default from CLI
Download: avalanche.lha (115 KB)
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22.Sep.2023
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Event: AmiWest 2023 DevCon Survey
This year's 26th edition of Amiwest, which will be held from 12 to 15 October in Sacramento (California), will also feature a developer conference that focuses exclusively on programming topics and is aimed at both amateurs and professional programmers. Since places are limited, a survey is now being conducted to find out who would like to take part and how. (dr)
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22.Sep.2023
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Origins and evolution of texteditors Vi and Vim
Gustavo Pezzi is a university lecturer in computer science and mathematics and runs the educational platform Pikuma. At the beginning of August, the developer of the text editor Vim, Bram Moolenaar, passed away. Pezzi had already paid his last respects to the developer in his own way in August and wrote down the history of the text editor, which is closely linked to the Amiga and which is also available in current versions for AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS provided by Ola 'sodero' Söder. (dr)
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22.Sep.2023
Amigans (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: libegl_wrap 0.7.20 (beta)
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel is working on an EGL-OpenGL-Wrapper which is based on Warp 3D Nova/OpenGL-ES combination sold by A-EON. The wrapper is supposed to simplify porting modern OpenGL based games (Youtube video example for Prey 2006).
The new beta version 0.7.20 is now available. Changes:
- Now!! Support additional shaders glsl on your code (exemple: effects Scanline, CRT and others)
- Now!! all libraries are STATIC, IMPORTANT: don't forget to delete your old dynamic libraries
- New!! Added The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library 'Glew' includes and package for SDK
- Updated SDL1 and SDL2
- Now!! SDL2 as your prefs on ENVARC:egl_wrap/
- Updated Gl4ES
- Updated GUI
- 20% speedup on renderer EGL_Wrap
- Added new icons into the GUI
(dr)
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21.Sep.2023
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Blog Epsilon's World: Hardware upgrades and games
In his latest blog entry of his "Epsilon's World", Epsilon shows the installation of various games and hardware in the usual detail and with numerous pictures: among others, Alinea's Subway 2021 USB card including the power adapter or "AURA - Audible Reality", a sound sampler that does not use the parallel port but the PCMCIA port of the Amiga 600 and 1200. The game "Renegade" from the cover disc of the Amiga Addict 22 is also tested. (dr)
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20.Sep.2023
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Amiga Games That Weren't: Fatal Mission
As the website "Games That Weren't" reports, "Fatal Mission" was an ambitious project started by Ola Zandelin and Robert Hennings in 1993: "a cinematic style adventure in the lines of Another World, but with bitmap graphics instead of vector style one". On his website, Ola Zandelin has published some examples of this. The website "AmigaPD" conducted an interview with the developer in 2013. In it, he suggests that the game was playable to a certain extent, but it was never finished because there was a lack of time and experience to put everything together and plan it properly. (dr)
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20.Sep.2023
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Emulator: Denise V2.1
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. Now version 2.1 has been released. Changes:
General changes:
- add drag'n'drop overlay
- files can be inserted into additional drives faster
- files can either only be inserted or inserted and restarted
- multi file support
- fix: Wasapi didn't work on some audio hardware
Amiga specific changes:
- greatly improved accuracy
- ~15% speed up
- fix: Drive LED sometimes does not turn off
- display tracks more clearly
- add IPF, DMS, EXE and encrypted kick rom support
- add RTC
- add multi file support for any-loader (fill DF0-3 in one go)
- show power LED in status line
- colors for power and drive LEDs depend on the model
- click on power LED to select audio filter
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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20.Sep.2023
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Video: Repairing an A590, part 5
In the fifth part of his video series about the repair of an A590 (amiga-news.de reported) Robert Smith had a look at an example that he could get hold of in the original case design and that still has the original Epson hard disk. (dr)
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19.Sep.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.11 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.11 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.1.3 (19.9.2023) and thus provides various minor fixes, including removal of memory leaks. Furthermore the root certificates have been updated to latest Mozilla-based bundle dated 22.8.2023.
Downloads:
AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.11-OS3.lha (3,4 MB)
AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.11-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
SDK: AmiSSL-5.11-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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19.Sep.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.18, Contacts 1.1
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.18 of his e-mail client Iris and version 1.1 of the contact manager Contacts for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
Iris V1.18
- Updated to match changes in Contacts application
- Updated curl, mysql and other libs
Contacts V1.1
- Implemented Digest Authorization
- Implemented NICKNAME support in CardDAV
- Configurable sort by first or last name
- Fixed aspect ratio of cropped contact photos (iCloud) appearing in other applications
(dr)
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19.Sep.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Scheduler PolyOrganiser 1.21
PolyOrganiser written by Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault is a so called "PIM-Tool" (Personal Information Management) with which you can manage dates, contacts and tasks. Changes since version 1.16:
- Fix: Task edit, due date broken at creation (1970) and ignore very old due date too.
- Add: Task edit, add a context menu entry for remote due date.
- Fix: Task display, late date are bold. Fix no title display. Fix Columns weight.
- Change: Task list, use short date
- Fix: Contact diplay "no name" when name or company is blank.
- Fix: Contact/Event/Task, ask confiration for remove show "No name" when needed.
- Fix: Remove edit of task categories in main window due to a unfixable bug.
- Fix: Fix backgound & frames of popup objects (except Task type that have fixed back...)
- Fix:Task edit show wrond type
- Fix: Sort of contacts that was kind of random.
- Patch: Replace "Jabber" data type for "Title"
- Fix: DueDate broken due to stuoid datestamp copy
- Fix: Workaround some issue with duplicate ids in packed event storage which are used for both event item ids as
well as additional links (0xE1 and above)
- Change: Don't write DebugTracking.raw file to PROGDIR: any longer by default
- Fix: On New Task creation, use the current date for Due Date instead of leaving it uninitilized to 1978
- Fix: Correct backfill of sunday column weekday for locale country catalog settings which don't start on Monday
(like United States which starts on Sunday)
- Fix: Fixed a use-after-free for notification once the close window button of the search window was
hit and which caused a crash once PERMMEMTRACK kernel option was enabled
- Fix: Fixed some bug in some intermediate 1.18 version that always deleted the last record for each launch of the
program
- Fix: Icon sizes of top navigation bar back to 100% (from 80%) again after some intermediate change
- Rework: Code to create the DateIcon AppIcon uses Reggae instead of a direct PNG decoder now
- Fix: fixed some bug that triggered PERMMEMTRACK because the app tried to free some static application memory on
some string
- Fix: Fixed some incompatibility with MorphOS PERMMEMTRACK option due to some access to already freed memory
- Fix: Fixed hits caused by 2nd launch of PolyOrga
Fix: Fixed some possible illegal access when the database is opened or past events are checked on launch
(dr)
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18.Sep.2023
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Platform games: Updates for all four parts of Boxx series
The developer 'Lemming880' has released updates for the three parts of his Boxx remake series as well as for the fourth part. All four parts now use the same Scorpion engine version. The changes in the overview:
Version 1.01 of Boxx 1 remake:
- Menu: replaced quit with options.
- Menu options and jukeboxx: replaced coin with arrow.
- Menu: removed boxx splash screen.
- Music: swapped songs of levels 3 and 4.
- Sound: changed break block sound effect to original.
- In-game: turrets shoot a bit faster.
- In-game: added boss health bar.
- In-game: moving bricks explode instead of dropping a coin.
- In-game: removed alarm lights in boss arena.
- Removed unnecessary files.
Version 1.00 of Boxx 2 remake:
- In-game: turrets shoot faster.
- In-game: moving bricks explode instead of dropping a coin.
- In-game: closed a tile gap in level 2.
- Removed unnecessary files.
Version 1.00 of Boxx 3 remake:
- In-game: turrets shoot faster.
- In-game: moving bricks explode instead of dropping a coin.
- In-game: bounce blocks only in hard mode.
- In-game: closed a gap in level 2.
- In-game: flying boss pod doesn't make a shooting sound anymore after the main boss died.
- In-game: flying boss pod now drops a bomb on hard mode instead of exploding.
- Removed unnecessary files.
Version 1.04 of Boxx 4:
- In-game: reintroduced faster shooting turrets in the flying levels.
- In-game: level 2: water collision a little bit lower at the fish jump before the boss.
- In-game: level 5: fixed end boss arena for a situation where the boss could temporary get stuck.
- Menu Options: removed Performance Mode and added Default Settings option.
- Menu Info: rearranged text at the bottom.
- Menu Credits: changed text 'box art' with 'print design'.
(dr)
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18.Sep.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Voting started & further information about Amiga38
Markus Tillmann informs in our german news-item about catering at Amiga38 and other details. Also voting on the Community Award has started. (snx)
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18.Sep.2023
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Competition: Winners of AmiGameJam 2022
During a live show on Twitch, the winners of the AmiGameJam were announced (amiga-news.de reported):
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17.Sep.2023
Ko-fi
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AmigaOS 4: Platform game REminiscence 0.5.1 (Flashback)
REminiscence is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software. This program is designed as a cross-platform replacement for the original executable.
After the MorphOS version provided by Bruno 'BeWorld' Peloille, George 'walkero' Sokianos has now ported the engine to AmigaOS 4. The original files of the PC (DOS or CD), Amiga or Macintosh version are required. (dr)
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17.Sep.2023
Indie Retro News
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Preview video: Platform game "Krogharr"
In addition to the shoot'em up Hyperblaster (Inviyya 2), Michael 'Tigerskunk' Borrmann is working on the platform game Krogharr, for which he has now published a first preview video and which is to run on an Amiga 500 with 1 MB RAM. A first demo version is to be released in October. (dr)
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17.Sep.2023
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Aminet uploads until 16.09.2023
The following files have been added until 16.09.2023 to Aminet:
enc_sce_kheshkhash.lha demo/misc 22M MOS Kheshkhash by Encore & Scenic
encore_morphever.lha demo/misc 19M MOS Morphever by Encore - demo fo...
encore_morphilia.lha demo/misc 17M MOS Morphilia by Encore - demo fo...
encore_morphiller.lha demo/misc 11M MOS Morphiller by Encore - demo f...
encore_morphobia.lha demo/misc 14M MOS Morphobia by Encore - demo fo...
encore_morphoza.lha demo/misc 12M MOS Morphoza by Encore - demo for...
BareMetal.lha docs/misc 185K Examples for Bare-Metal Amiga...
anaiis_xmass.lha driver/oth 72K 68k xmass examine massstorage
ooze_the_escape.lha game/actio 209K 68k A platformer game with flippi...
tfe-darkforces.lha game/shoot 3.3M 68k Dark Forces Amiga Port
webptools132_a68k.lha gfx/conv 2.4M 68k encode/decode images in WebP ...
webptools132_aros.lha gfx/conv 3.5M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
RNOSlides.lha gfx/misc 4.8M MOS Slideshow video creator and p...
RNOSlides_68k.lha gfx/misc 4.6M 68k Slideshow video creator and p...
RNOSlides_AROS.lha gfx/misc 4.8M x86 Slideshow video creator and p...
RNOSlides_OS4.lha gfx/misc 5.2M OS4 Slideshow video creator and p...
RNOSlides_WOS.lha gfx/misc 5.0M WOS Slideshow video creator and p...
WhatIFF2.11.lha mags/misc 3.1M What IFF? #2.11-September-2023
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
GoatTracker-morphos.lha mus/edit 1.3M MOS Official tracker-like C64 mus...
GoatTrackerStereo-mos... mus/edit 892K MOS Tracker-like C64 stereo music...
a1200_wb_2023.png pix/wb 95K Commodore Amiga 1200 Workbenc...
a600_wb_2023.png pix/wb 478K Commodore Amiga 600 Workbench...
NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B02.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B03.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B04.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B05.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B06.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip text/bfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B11.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B12.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip text/bfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B18.zip text/bfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B20.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B24.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B25.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B26.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B27.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B28.zip text/bfont 2.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-01.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-02.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-03.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-04.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-05.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-06.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-08.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-09.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-11.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-12.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-13.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-15.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip text/pfont 1.7M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-18.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-20.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-24.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-25.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-26.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-27.zip text/pfont 1.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-28.zip text/pfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
dop_AutoCloseLister.zip util/dopus 3K Opens a lister, closes its pa...
iGame.lha util/misc 436K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
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17.Sep.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 16.09.2023
The following files have been added until 16.09.2023 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
rnoslides.lha gra/mis 5Mb 4.1 Slideshow video creator and player
igame.lha uti/mis 436kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
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17.Sep.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 16.09.2023
The following files have been added until 16.09.2023 to AROS Archives:
whatiff2.11.lha doc/mis 3Mb Magazine on AmigaGuide "Sep...
golfsolitaire.lha gam/car 3Mb Golf Solitaire Card Game
rnoslides.i386-aros.lha gra/mis 5Mb Slideshow video creator and player
webptools132_aros.lha gra/mis 4Mb encode/decode images in WebP format
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17.Sep.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.09.2023
The following files have been added until 16.09.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
goattrk2_2.76.lha Audio/Tracker Official tracker-like C...
gt2stereo_2.77.lha Audio/Tracker Tracker-like C64 stereo...
Morphoza_1.3.lha Demoscene/ENCORE Demo by Encore released...
Morphilia_1.3.lha Demoscene/ENCORE Morphilia_1.3.lha
Less_643.lha Development/GeekGadgets A paginator similar to ...
AmiArcadia_30.20.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
FileInfo_1.6.lha Files/Tools A tool to get infos abo...
iGame_2.4.4.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching...
AstroMenace_1.3.2.lha Games/Shoot3D Hardcore 3D space scrol...
Woof_12.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
fheroes2_1.0.8.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
RNOSlides_1.0.lha Graphics/Misc Slideshow video creator...
Easy2Install_1.0b34.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
Nextvi.lha Text/Edit Nextvi is a vi/ex edito...
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17.Sep.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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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:
- Intro Number 61
- Lotus (1:1 Remix)
- Lotus (Lichthaus Remix)
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17.Sep.2023
CommodoreBlog
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Blog: "Vintage is the New Old" returns under new domain
In mid-July we reported on the discontinuation of the blog "Vintage is the New Old". This will continue to exist under the old address, new content will be offered from now on under new stuff and without the involvement of the previous operator at https://vitno.org/. (dr)
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17.Sep.2023
jPV (E-Mail)
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Creating slideshows/Videoplayer: RNOSlides for all Amiga ystems
The developer 'jPV' has added another tool to its already extensive portfolio of RNO applications: RNOSlides is a programme for creating slideshows (MJPEG/AVI format), which can play them in real time (YouTube video). Furthermore, it can also play videos in various formats and can thus be used as a general video player. (dr)
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16.Sep.2023
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Background pictures for Amiga 1200 Workbench
Wayne Ashworth has made available free wallpapers for the Amiga 1200 Workbench (in his case version 3.1) on his itch.io website, which he plans to extend gradually to the Amiga 500, 600 and the CD32. In addition, he gives tips on how to create such images yourself in a YouTube video. (dr)
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16.Sep.2023
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Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb - Display and keyboard adjustments
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
The new update also makes full use of the notch or dynamic island area in the display of the iPhones. Furthermore, developer 'mithrendal' has redesigned the virtual joystick and keyboard layout. (dr)
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16.Sep.2023
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Demoparty: Results of the Nordlicht 2023
Last weekend the Nordlicht-Demoparty 2023 took place in Bremen (amiga-news.de reported). Now the results are available on Pouet and three Amiga productions also made it into the rankings: in the "512 Byte Compo" AttentionWhore took third place with hypotrain (YouTube video).
In the category "Realtime Demo Compo (Oldschool)", Resistance took second place with old'scool (YouTube video) and the soundtrack to the recently released ASM - Das Computer-Spiel (The Director's Cut) took eighth place (YouTube video). (dr)
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16.Sep.2023
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Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness
Sami Vehmaa has published his first Visual Novel game with AmiBlitz 3: in "Mansion of Madness", you are hired by the reporter Erica to search for the missing YouTuber Jasko. He wanted to investigate the myth of a demonic being and has now disappeared (YouTube video). According to the author, the game offers an average playtime of 15 minutes with five different exits. At least an Amiga with a 68030 processor and 30 MB RAM are required. (dr)
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16.Sep.2023
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MorphOS: ENCORE again updated several demos
Just like at the beginning of the year, the demo and game developers Encore (among other 2D shooter Fortis) has improved several MorphOS demos and adapted them to the new version of the engine: Morphever, Morphobia, Morphilia, Morphiller and Morphoza have been updated to version 1.3.0, Kheshkhash, created together with 'Scenic', to version 1.2.1. (dr)
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15.Sep.2023
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LinuxJedi blog: PiStorming
In his latest blog entry, Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports on the installation of a PiStorm32-lite (with Raspberry Pi 4) in his Amiga 1200 and clearly summarises important points to consider. (dr)
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15.Sep.2023
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 11 of "WhatIFF?" published
"WhatIFF?" is an English language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format which in his eleventh issue again offers a demo version of a game: "Aeon Legends" from BitBeam Cannon. The other topics:
Reviews:
- ImageFX 4.5
- OmniPort A1200
- AmigaKit RED LEDs
- Amiga CD32 Disc Reference Guide Book
Game Reviews:
Tutorials:
- LightWave 101 - Rendering DEMs
- ImageFX 101 - Digital Postcard
- Brilliance 101 - Dithering
- OctaMED 101 - Setting up OctaMED SoundStudio
- How to install RTG on PiStorm32-lite
- ELUDE Demos on PiStorm32-lite
- Reducing noise in 8-bit samples
- Modern Effects in Oldskool trackers
Articles:
- Amiga Magazines Yesterday Today
- Custom music vs stock music
- Revisiting Tokyo Retro Computer Users Meet
Interviews:
- Apollo Team Part 1 of 2
- Scorpion Engine - Erik Hogan
- RNO Developer
(dr)
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14.Sep.2023
Michael Kafke (ANF)
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Game: ASM - Das Computer-Spiel (The Director's Cut) released (German)
The game about the former computer game magazine "ASM - Aktueller Software Markt", published from 1986 to 1995, which was announced in May, is now available, but as German version only.
Originating from a programming competition in 1991, the graphic adventure was revised, extended and provided with new music by Roland 'Triace' Voß for twelve months with the help of editors of that time, so that it could now - "just 32 years later" - be completed as "Director's Cut".
As chief editor Manfred 'Manni' Kleimann, the player moves through the editorial building in point-and-click style from the first-person perspective as in "Die Kathedrale" or "Uninvited" and tries to track down the secret of his own memory loss. The game doesn't take itself seriously and wants to let friends of humor à la "Spaceballs", "The Naked Gun" or Monty Python get their money's worth.
In addition to a download version, the game is also available as a physical product, which contains a CD for Amigas with an appropriate drive, including CDTV and CD³², as well as a poster, three disk stickers, an ASM wooden cube and a 20-page manual (in the optical style of an ASM from 1991). Stefan Bayer has exclusively contributed a brand new "Donald Bug" comic for the manual.
"ASM - The Computer Game" runs on any Amiga from Kickstart 1.3 with at least 1 MB RAM. A hard disk installer is also included. The game is controlled by keyboard and mouse, the use of a joystick is optional. A hard disk with 3 MB free memory and 2 MB RAM are recommended. (snx)
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13.Sep.2023
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Platform game: Boxx 2 Remake 0.1
As with parts 1 and 3 already, the developer of this platform game series, 'Lemming880', has now switched "Boxx 2" from Backbone to the Scorpion Engine, while 'Koyot1222' improved the graphics. (snx)
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12.Sep.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.4
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.4 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:
- Changed: Now after the repository scans, any item that is not assigned to any genre gets the "Unknown" value by default
- Fixed the generated genre list titles after a rescan of the repository
- Fixed more memory leaks
- Fixed the load of the list of items when the side panel is hidden
Direkter Download: iGame-v2.4.4-20230911.lha (436 Kb) (dr)
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12.Sep.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Java program: ham_convert 1.9.2
Sebastian Sieczko's java-based program ham_convert converts modern graphic formats to the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.9.2.
New features include another dithering method (Ostromoukhov) and an improvement in sliced HAM6 generation. (snx)
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11.Sep.2023
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Souverän Soccer: Preview to the game box
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported). In his 33rd preview video he has presented the planned game box. (dr)
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11.Sep.2023
Yawning Angel (E-Mail)
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Video-Tutorial: Advanced Joystick Sprite Control in AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' attempts to answer a user's question about how to apply greater control over sprite animation for a sprite under joystick control: can a sprite be stationary when not being moved, but animate when the joystick is moved? This video follows on from the Writing a simple game in AMOS video. (dr)
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11.Sep.2023
GitHub
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.09.06
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2023.09.06:
- README: use truncate instead of fallocate in Linux example
- RP2040 Initiator mode: set initiator ID in selection phase
- Post UNIT_ATTENTION condition after CD medium change
- Rename files for new pcb designs using the RP2040
- New Xebec S1410 vendor command and various work
- Log Xebec vendor command and decoded data
- Set vendor / product id with image file name
- Fixes for Apple vendor modepage sending
(dr)
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11.Sep.2023
GitHub
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.4 (update)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 13.1 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video). Now version 1.7.3 has been released.
- NEW: update gcc to 13.2.0
Update: (22:09, 12.09.23, dr)
Version 1.7.4 works also again under Linux/MacOS. (dr)
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11.Sep.2023
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Programming language: Souce codes for AmiBlitz3 games
Sami Vehmaa is in the process of releasing the source codes of some of his AmiBlitz3 games. He has started with the games The Oregon Trail and Mission2Mars. (dr)
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11.Sep.2023
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8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal v2023-09-10
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.
Today, version v2023-09-10 was released. Changes:
- continues improvements to the MSX 2, especially its video chip and this emulator's automated detection of cartridge types;
- corrects the 65c02's BCD results, where they differ from a vanilla 6502;
- corrects the 65816's state after a BRK while in emulation mode; and
- resolves some timing discrepancies in some of the unofficial NOPs on the base 6502.
(dr)
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10.Sep.2023
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Aminet uploads until 09.09.2023
The following files have been added until 09.09.2023 to Aminet:
SteMarRegAMOSSources.lha dev/amos 398K 68k 10 AMOS sources+exes by Stefa...
asm-kurs_stashofcode.lha dev/asm 1.2M Assembly course, German
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 4.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
x68k2amiga.zip dev/misc 17K 68k Convert Sharp X68000 exec/dat...
bezier_3d.lha dev/src 2K Quadratic Bezier's mesh.
laffik-sources_arrays... dev/src 344K 68k Laffik's works on vector play...
laffik-sources_blitte... dev/src 3K 68k Laffik's works on vector play...
laffik-sources-01.lha dev/src 412K 68k Laffik's works on vector play...
laffik-sources-02a.lha dev/src 366K 68k Laffik's works on vector play...
laffik-sources-02b.lha dev/src 412K 68k Laffik's works on vector play...
laffik-sources-02c.lha dev/src 539K 68k Laffik's works on vector play...
laffik-sources-02d.lha dev/src 559K 68k Laffik's works on vector play...
laffik-sources-03a.lha dev/src 398K 68k Laffik's works on vector play...
laffik-sources-03b.lha dev/src 496K 68k Laffik's works on vector play...
laffik-sources-04a.lha dev/src 622K 68k Laffik's works on vector play...
laffik-sources-04b.lha dev/src 449K 68k Laffik's works on vector play...
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 10K 2023 Carset for F1GP
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 11M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 2.0...
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 11M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.0...
webptools131_aros.lha gfx/conv 3.5M x86 encode/decode images in WebP ...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Flac143_a68k.lha mus/misc 519K 68k Free Lossless Audio Codec
nextvi.lha text/edit 165K MOS Next vi clone
BubbleBlanker.lha util/blank 8K 68k P96 Blanker with fading color...
Mnemosyne.lha util/misc 78K 68k Disk usage statistics+file/fo...
Thermals_de.lha util/misc 1K Unofficial German catalog of ...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 15M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.09.2023
The following files have been added until 09.09.2023 to OS4Depot:
blackivan.lha gam/car 14Mb 4.0 A blackjack clone
koala_seasons.lha gam/pla 11Mb 4.1 Koala Seasons is a game to show ...
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AROS Archives uploads until 09.09.2023
The following files have been added until 09.09.2023 to AROS Archives:
blackivan.lha gam/car 14Mb A blackjack clone
webptools131_aros.lha gra/mis 4Mb encode/decode images in WebP format
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.09.2023
The following files have been added until 09.09.23 to MorphOS-Storage:
BillyFrontier_1.1.1.lha Games/Action Billy Frontier is an ar...
BlackIvan_1.00.lha Games/Card BlackIvan_1.00.lha
wipEout_1.0.1.lha Games/Race wipEout Rewrite - port ...
Iris_1.17.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
Easy2Install_1.0b32.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.09.2023
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 09.09.2023:
(snx)
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10.Sep.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Emulation: WinFellow 0.5.9 RC-1
After more than four years there is an update of the Amiga emulator WinFellow. Unlike its predecessor, this version no longer runs under Windows XP and Vista.
New features are the configurable pause behavior when the emulation window is no longer active and the possibility to change the state of a floppy disk regarding its write protection during operation. In addition, there are bugfixes and a few minor updates. (snx)
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09.Sep.2023
BAC (ANF)
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Event: Commodore and Amiga Meeting, Antwerpen, Belgium (30. September)
After a year's break, the Belgian Amiga Club is organising another "BAC meeting" in Antwerp on 30 September. Admission is from 1 p.m., there will be a game competition (with a previously unreleased game), workshops, talk rounds and a flea market. Admission is free, even for users with their own computers. Food and drink will be provided. (cg)
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08.Sep.2023
itch.io
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Platform game: Update for "Ooze: The Escape"
The ZX Spectrum port "Ooze: The Escape" (video), released in August, has received a minor update: The developer speaks of "game-play tweaks" to some of the screens. (cg)
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07.Sep.2023
Mirandor (comments area)
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Pop Art: Amiga pictures from Keith Haring found, sold via NFT auction
Keith Haring was a well-known member of the US Pop Art movement, who was gifted an Amiga by Timothy Leary, another famous artist, to design graphics for Leary's never completed computer version of the Science Fiction novel Neuromancer.
Learys Neuromancer project didn't go anywhere, but Haring used the Amiga anyway, apparently - to create digital illustrations in his typical style. The Amiga disks containing his creations were found in Learys residue a decade ago, but only now they will be made available to the public: artnet.com reports that NFTs for five of the images will be sold via an online auction - four of the images can be seen in artnet's article.
The auctioneer estimates the worth of the collection of Keith Haring NFTs to be around 1.65 million USD - 200,000 to 500,000 Dollar per image. A similar auction two years ago with Amiga pictures from Andy Warhol earned the auctioneer 3.4 Millionen Dollar. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.Sep.2023
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Do it yourself: Adapter board A314 for internal Raspberry Pi, version 1.2
The A314 is an FPGA-based adapter board by Niklas Ekström, which can be used to connect a Raspberry Pi in the expansion slot of the Amiga 500 (amiga-news.de reported), which among other things also allows the use of its network connection.
In the meantime the project has matured to version 1.2, details about the changes in this release are not available. (snx)
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05.Sep.2023
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade conversion: 'Karate Champ' updated
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released an update for his Amiga conversion of the 1984 Arcade game Karate Champ. The new version fixes a small graphics bug in one of the later levels. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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05.Sep.2023
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Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.4.0
'wicknix' has released version 32.4.0 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for Linux PPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix 6 on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. The new version is a major development update, further improving web compatibility.
Downloads:
sealion-32.4.0.linux-powerpc-gtk2.tar.bz2 (53 MB)
SeaLion-Extras.zip (66 MB) (dr)
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Image editor: PyDPainter 1.2.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as possible (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 1.2.1:
Issues fixed
- Frequent crashes after multiple undos
- Add variations on the Brush tool
- Smooth mode available in fill tools
- Cursor rendering problem on M1 Mac
- Coordinates indication request
- Color change / Remap
- Implement Tint drawmode
- File requestor Type button disabled when it shouldn't be
- Revert to last save
- Broken image link in plasma tutorial
(dr)
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05.Sep.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.17, Contacts 1.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.17 his e-mail client Iris and version 1.0 of the contact manager Contacts for MorphOS. The all new Contacts application supports synchronizing contacts from CardDav services, including Google Contacts, iCloud Contacts or any other compatible service like Runbox, Synology, etc. When set up, Iris will link the email addresses to Contacts in order to display any configured photos and other details. Contacts are also used to provide better matches when filling out addresses in To/CC/BCC fields.
Contacts will automatically be installed in the same directory as Iris when you auto-update to 1.17. Detailed changes:
- Iris now comes with a brand new Contacts application
- In email viewer, the gray circle with sender's initials will show his photo if you have one configured in your contacts, including remote images from Google Contacts or iCloud contacts. Clicking on the circle will bring up the contact in Contacts application or show an Add Contact window
- Email address auto-complete will perform lookups of your contacts and prioritize the results
- Right clicking on an email in the address string will let you open the associated contact
- Added a workaround for broken servers that don't handle message ID messagesets correctly in IMAP FETCH command
- Fixes in the email autocomplete string class
- Implemented support for List-Unsubscribe MIME header
- HTML text editor tweaks
(dr)
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04.Sep.2023
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Italian magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 15
The 15th issue of the Italian publication "Passione Amiga" - 48 pages in color, available as a PDF download or as a printed magazine - features the following topics:
- Videogiochi: Boxx, Rogue Declan Zero, Pengo500, Night/Shift, Pleiades 3D, Jack in the Pit, Holiday
- Recensioni: From Vultures to Vampires – volume 2, Chris Huelsbeck – The Piano Collection Volume II
- Anteprima Passione Amiga day 2023
- Speciale AmiGameJam 2022
- Tech: Alla ricerca del controller perduto, Prototipo scheda acceleratrice 68040 per Amiga 3000
- Tech: Amiga GCC, organizzazione dei progetti
- Corso di Blender, parte 7
- Interviste a: Andy Davidson e Michal Bergseth
- E inoltre: Games news, Tech news, THEA500 Mini news, Scena Demo, Nuovi Talenti, La Posta dei Lettori
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Sep.2023
viddi (ANF)
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Action RPGs: Entire Gorluth saga available from itch.io
Recently the third part of the 'Tales of Gorluth' saga was made available via itch.io, now the first two installments of the series as well as the spin-off 'Heroes of Gorluth' can be found there as well. The very first 'Gorluth' game is available for free, the other parts can be purchased for 5,55 ¤. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Sep.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 164
The English and German issue 164 (September/October 2023) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Starting with Amiga Future 163, the magazine now has 60 instead of 52 pages.
Content of the current issue:
- Interview Christian Wiegel (Settle The World) Part 2
- Show Report Retcon Gaming festival 2023
- Show Report Kickstart 01
- Amiga 38 preview
- Preview Castlevania AGA
- Preview Hamulet
- Preview Bulbmaster
- Review Night/Shift - A Cyberpunk Adventure
- Review Board game vs Amiga - Monopoly
- Review Absolute Zero
- Review Commodore: The Inside Story
- Review Amiblaster Deluxe
- Review TF 1260
- Special Trevors Soapbox
- Special A1222+ Part 1
- Special Demoscene
- Workshop Pagestream Part 2
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04.Sep.2023
Entwickler (ANF)
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Virtual Enemies Devlog #3 - Language system finished
The developers of the upcoming strategical Virtual Enemies have posted another entry to their developer's diary, this one describing the localisation of the game. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Sep.2023
Willem Drijver (Apollo Team) (ANF)
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Apollo team working on a port of "Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood"
Willem Drijver from the Apollo team informs us that the team is working on porting the Realtime Strategical Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood to the Apollo hardware. The game was published in 2002 for Windows and ported to MorphOS by e.p.i.c. / Runesoft in 2006. When approached by amiga-news.de, Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo team), who was involved in the MorphOS port back then, confirms that the team is in contact with the rightsholders and that the intention is to distribute the Apollo version of Robin Hood commercially.
Drijver has published a video showcasing the current state of the project, he describes the work done on the "experimental exercise" (Drijver) so far as follows:
"RHLOS is a great RPG game from SpellBound released in 2002 and intended for Pentium PCs (233Mhz/64Mb). Current stage of the project is that we have succeeded in getting the game somewhat up-and-running on V4. The FPS is obviously not on the level that we would like it to be, but basic gameplay is already possible...
For compiling we used the ApolloCrossDev setup for Linux which is another (beta) project from Apollo team. Graphics routines are changed from SDL based APIs to native Apollo Blit and Scroll routines, partly in Assembler. Sound routines are also rewritten and are now using Apollo Arne instead of SDL. There is still some work to be done on the mixer and effect routines, but we are confident to make that work also.
There is still a lot of work to be done to get RHLOS up to a level where it could be released in any form or shape. But we share this first results with you with the intention to raise interests within the Amiga (development) community. If you feel you have the skills and time to help us in this project, we are looking for you to join us! (please PM me on Discord @WillemDrijver)." (cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 04. Sep. 2023, 01:31] [Comments: 0]
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03.Sep.2023
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Aminet uploads until 02.09.2023
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to Aminet:
DCAPSPhonk.lha demo/aga 768K 68k Dreamolers Phonk! (Revision 2...
DCAPSIntro64kB.lha demo/intro 123K 68k Dreamolers Intro64kB (Revisio...
ADV-ITA.lha dev/amos 130K Italian adventures creator
less-mos.lha dev/gg 1.3M 68k Viewer program similar to "more"
alt-intl.lha driver/inp 2K alt-intl keymap
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 10K 2023 Carset for F1GP
tfe-darkforces.lha game/shoot 3.3M 68k Dark Forces Amiga Port
GolfSolitaire.lha game/think 2.9M 68k Golf solitaire card game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.7M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.0M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.2M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
CEB.lha misc/math 136K 68k Solves a 'Countdown' arithmet...
CrazyWorld.lha mods/misc 125K 4ch 16bit Punk Rock by HKvalhe
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 235K Some samples created by Sampl...
PDF2JPG.lha util/conv 15M 68k convert PDF to JPG
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.8M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
iGame.lha util/misc 434K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
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03.Sep.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.09.2023
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to OS4Depot:
libfdk-aac.lha dev/lib 14Mb 4.1 Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library
libspeex.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 A free codec for free speech
libxvidcore.lha dev/lib 1009k 4.1 MPEG-4 Simple and Advanced Simpl...
ahi-handler.lha dri/han 23kb 4.0 AHI-handler (AUDIO:)
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
libxml2.lha lib/xml 10Mb 4.1 The XML C parser and toolkit of ...
igame.lha uti/mis 434kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
pdf2jpg.lha uti/mis 15Mb 4.0 Convert PDF to JPG
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03.Sep.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.09.2023
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
LUA-MUI.lha Development/LUA LUA-MUI.lha
AmiArcadia_30.10.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
PDF2JPG_1.1.lha Office/Convert Convert PDF to JPG
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03.Sep.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 02.09.2023
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 02.09.2023:
- 2023-09-01 updated: Crayon Shinchan (Melon Dezign) patch rewritten, interrupt problems fixed, out of bounds blit fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, 68000 quitkey support, patch works with 0.5 MB chip memory now (Info, Image)
- 2023-08-31 updated: The Sword and the Rose (Code Masters) original game version is now supported, 68000 quitkey support, source code included (Info)
- 2023-08-31 fixed: Kingdoms of England (Incognito Software) protection track removal code fixed, game works without disk in drive now (Info)
- 2023-08-31 improved: Astro Marine Corps (Dinamic) new install script, all known versions should be supported now (Info)
- 2023-08-30 improved: Kingdoms of England (Incognito Software) slave assembled in release mode (no functional changes) (Info)
- 2023-08-30 new: Kingdoms of England (Incognito Software) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2023-08-29 fixed: Twintris (Digital Marketing) a blitwait added in game to avoid gfx bug on very fast amiga (Info)
- 2023-08-29 improved: Hole In One (Digitek) supports another version (Info)
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03.Sep.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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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:
- Syndicate Intro (F03s Junglist Remix)
- Stardust Memories
- B@TTL3 S&UDR0N - Title -TeChK0
- Battle Squadron - Etheral Aucoustic -End Game
- Street Fighter 2 Guiles Theme Rock Live Performance
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02.Sep.2023
David Brunet (ANF)
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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 July/August 2023
- Old articles from Génération 4 1 to 3:
- Story on software and graphics peripherals on the Amiga (1985-1987)
- Review of Space Quest 2
- News: What game publishers have in store for us
- Reviews of Western Games, Astérix And The Magic Carpet, Terrorpods, Tracker, Impact!
- Comparison: Console or computer? etc
- Interview with Jean-Philippe Derrien (computer graphics designer and former editor of Ami-GraphX)
- Interview with Phillip Nixon (graphist of Oscar)
- Review of Green Beret
- Hardware: RGB2HDMI for A500
- The best of Byte from August to October 1985
- Story: Andy Warhol and the Amiga
- Story: Behind the scenes of the development of Fire & Ice
- Story: The history of Genias
- Story: AAA - Advanced Amiga Architecture (update)
- Tutorial: Installation of AmigaOS 4.1 on QEMU 8.1
- Tutorial: Quick start guide for new A1222 users
- Tutorial: Using MIDI on MorphOS
- Special quiz for Amiga super beginners
(cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 02. Sep. 2023, 13:43] [Comments: 0]
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02.Sep.2023
viddi (ANF)
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Action-RPG: Digital distribution of "Tales of Gorluth III"
The Action RPG Tales of Gorluth III, which was published in December 2021, is now also available as a Download from itch.io. (cg)
[News message: 02. Sep. 2023, 13:38] [Comments: 0]
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