30.Jan.2022
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Developer blog: Status update on RGBtoHDMI board
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about the latest progress and developments of projects he is involved in.
In his latest entry Amiga RGBtoHDMI Boards Update – January 2022 he summarizes the state of development regarding his version of the RGBtoHDMI adapter, which is based on the RGBtoHDMI project and is a further development of the Amiga VideoSlot RGBtoHDMI adapter for the Amiga2000 by 'Bloodmosher': The goal of the RGBtoHDMI project is to feed raw digital RGB data into a Raspberry Pi Zero, which then outputs it via HDMI to produce a pixel-perfect display of the image with low latency.
Among other things, he reports that he has developed an RGBtoHDMI tester so that homemade RGBtoHDMI adapters do not have to be tried out on a real Amiga and possibly damage it (can also be purchased). Furthermore he describes the changes he has made in the meantime to the respective versions for Amiga 500, Amiga 1000 and Amiga 2000. Also here he shows possibilities where these can be purchased. The possession of a Raspberry Pi Zero is assumed in each case. (dr)
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30.Jan.2022
Reddit
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Preview: Eleven upcoming Amiga games for 68k Amigas
The YouTube channel it's a P/XEL thing gives a playful preview of eleven Amiga games announced for 2022. (dr)
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30.Jan.2022
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Aminet uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to Aminet:
facts.lha comm/tcp 249K 68k NTP clock time synchroniser A...
FactsItaCat.lha comm/tcp 16K Italian catalog for Facts v5.10
asm3210.lha dev/asm 156K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c...
aqb-0.8.2.lha dev/basic 435K 68k A BASIC Compiler+IDE for Amig...
progress.lha dev/c 27K 68k Simple progress bar display f...
dis8080.i386-aros.lha dev/cross 68K x86 Disassembler for Intel 8080 p...
dis8080_OS4.lha dev/cross 67K OS4 Disassembler for Intel 8080 p...
HWP_Iconic.lha dev/hwood 109K Load and save various icon fo...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Compute.lha misc/math 11K 68k Command line calculator
SpeedPDF_1.0.lha text/dtp 5.3M MOS Fast PDF viewer
P96ScreenCx.lha util/cdity 8K 68k P96 Multi-Monitor Mouse Movement
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 627K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 718K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 795K OS4 Multipurpose utility
ScriptSpeed.lha util/misc 11K 68k Test script execution speed
TestProgram.zip util/misc 450K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
AIBB_Emu68.lha util/moni 2K 68k AIBB 6.5 module f. A500 w/ Em...
PM.lha util/moni 20K 68k Lightweight+accurate CPU usag...
TaiwanMOS.lha util/sys 1K Taiwan country for MorphOS an...
dintwm.lha util/wb 27K 68k Dynamic Intuition Window Manager
StartWin.lha util/wb 108K 68k A bugged workbench launch bar
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30.Jan.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
dis8080.lha dev/cro 67kb 4.0 Disassembler for Intel 8080 proc...
reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reaction C Library
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
freegemas.lha gam/puz 6Mb 4.1 Tile-matching puzzle video game
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 22Mb 4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
hwp_iconic.lha lib/hol 109kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for icon loader
gfxbench2d.lha uti/ben 2Mb 4.0 A 2D graphics benchmark tool
amigattext.lha uti/mis 3Mb 4.1 Shows German ARD/ZDF Teletext fr...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 795kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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30.Jan.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
dis8080.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 68kb Disassembler for Intel 8080 proc...
regina-doc.pdf doc/dev 1Mb The Regina Rexx Interpreter doc
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30.Jan.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.01.2022
The following files have been added until 29.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
Blues_R2.lha Games/Platform Blues Brothers,Jukebox ...
SpeedPDF_1.0.lha Office/Show A fast PDF viewer
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29.Jan.2022
ALB42 Blog (ANF)
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AmiTube 0.8: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).
Today version 0.8 has been released which provides an improved download speed and a lot of bug fixes. Besides, now there is an AmigaGuide help. Detailed changes:
- Faster download speed
- bugfix download speed display
- bugfix invalid moviedir
- bugfix load icon when a download is running
- bugfix start a download when one is already running
- bugfix clipboard device
- sort results in list by name, duration or size
- choice to ask for a path everytime a conversation job is started, if canceled the default moviedir is used
- Italian and Polish translation
- alternative more colorful icons for AmiTube and folder
- AmigaGuide Help
The latest version always is available on the AmiTube website or via update check in the application.
Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link. (dr)
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29.Jan.2022
Pierre-Alexandre (Mail)
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Lionheart Remake: Version 1.20 of Java port of Lionheart released
After Byron 3D Games Studio started with the development of 1.2.0 of the Java version of the Amiga game Lionheart in November (amiga-news.de reported), this version has been released today.
Both the settings program and the game itself are localized in German, French, Spanish and English:
When restarting via the *.bat file, the settings program seems to have remembered the last language set, but the output is still in English. Only by switching back and forth does the setting also take effect. Version 1.2.0 contains a new underworld theme, beginner stages and many fixes:
A teaser video is available on the game's homepage.
Update: (30.01.2022, 06:39, dr)
As the developer Pierre-Alexandre informs us, the bug in the settings program has been fixed in the meantime. (dr)
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28.Jan.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 24 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now the episode 24 was published, which is also about sprites and its collision detection. (dr)
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28.Jan.2022
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RMC Retro Amiga Demo
In addition to his various YouTube videos, Neil aka RMC has set up a hands-on exhibition of retro microcomputers, consoles and games called The Cave. It is located in Chalford in Gloucestershire and is about to open to the public. To mark the occasion, he has brushed up on his assembly programming skills and written and released an "old school" Amiga demo. (dr)
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28.Jan.2022
Günter Bartsch (Mail)
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BASIC compiler: AQB 0.8.2
By his compiler AQB, Günter Bartsch aims to implement a modern, clean, Amiga compatible and future-proof BASIC that is geared to, but no clone of Microsoft's AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC, respectively (amiga-news.de reported).
About the new version 0.8.2 (detailed changelog) the author stated:
"The new features and changes correspond to a colorful hodgepodge, because I have essentially worked through the wishes and especially the bug reports of the users, which came in large numbers since the last release. New features were mainly in the runtime: for example, there are now instructions and functions for the sound output. There are also new tutorials and a simple music demo program:
The input/output system has undergone a significant overhaul, the runtime now provides the complete set of instructions and commands for text input and output both on the screen and in files (though support for direct access and binary files is still missing). Furthermore I added some functions for string processing, also here the runtime is now much more complete than before.
The bug fixes run through all areas, but central are the numerous bug fixes in the compiler, which should significantly improve both the stability of the compiler itself and the quality of the generated code." (dr)
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27.Jan.2022
Indie Retro News (Website)
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Tetris variant: Drag & Drop
'Drag & Drop' (Video) is a Tetris variant where blocks aren't falling down from the top of the screen, instead the player has to put them on on the playfield using Drag'Drop himself. The game can be downloaded for free, it is possible to pay a user-defined fee to the author before starting the download. (cg)
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26.Jan.2022
Twitter
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.1
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
Yesterday version 2022.1 has been released adding screen size settings, new movement types and more (teaser video). (dr)
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26.Jan.2022
VITN
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 130 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time.
Among others the latest issue includes articles on the Amiga games "Victory", "Dune II", "GFL Championship Football" and "Jack the Ripper". (dr)
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26.Jan.2022
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #132 - Netlabels with Simon Carless
Simon Carless is a former Amiga musician and founder/owner of the Monotonik netlabel, which rose to prominence in the late '90s and early '00s. Jörg Dröge and guest co-host Martin Wisniowski pick his brain about this unique time in the development of the internet, independent labels, and music distribution (interview begins at 19:15). (dr)
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26.Jan.2022
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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Amigaland: 324 games online
At the beginning of the new year, Mirko Engelhardt writes about achievements and future plans:
"We now have 324 games online, of which 28 games are also available on CD 32 or CD, plus 86 PD games. We've never had this many games online before. That was a real feat in 2021 and also already in January 2022. We will continue to expand that: Promise! The goal is to have at least 600 downloads in total this year. This includes the PD stuff. For apps, we want to increase to at least 10 (currently 4), and for demos to 40 (currently 18). Also in focus are the books, which we want to give to the respective history offers. Just rummage around and you will increasingly find what you are looking for. A goal for 2022 is also the presentation of all companies that support Amigaland so far (that will be hard :)) If you have any other wishes, please let us know. We will then also do that :)" (dr)
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26.Jan.2022
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Hyperion blog apparently hacked by spammers
At the end of 2010, Hyperion had introduced a "developer blog" to inform users about current events around AmigaOS 4. The last official contributions date back to 2017, from then technical director Costel Mincea. Then in November, The Ultimate Guide To Online Dating was the first entry that had a recognizably unofficial character. Since the beginning of the year, there has been an update on Windows and related topics every few days, each with links to download portals and similar offers well hidden in the text. (cg)
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25.Jan.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 23 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now the episode 23 was published, which is about sprites and its collision detection. (dr)
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24.Jan.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Tile-matching puzzle game 'Freegemas'
Based on the original by Jose Tomas Tocino, developer 'IamSONIC' has ported the tile-matching puzzle game Freegemas to AmigaOS 4, adding a low CPU mode (useful for ~800 MHz systems) and Tooltype support.
With the help of PatchCompositeTags the game runs under WinUAE without problems. (dr)
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24.Jan.2022
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AmiTube: Setting up a docker server
In his latest blog post with accompanying YouTube video, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow describes how to set up your own AmiTube server using a docker container. (dr)
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24.Jan.2022
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Platformer: Status update on 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night'
Michael 'Mixel' Dawes continues to work on his jump'n run Creeping Me Out: Hex Night, created with the Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine. Following his Winter update, the developer reports in today's entry on how he's improving much of the current project from its unofficial predecessor, Zombie Holiday (OSX), and has also released a new preview video of the frog boss. (dr)
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23.Jan.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: Iconic 1.0 released
Press release:: In 2022 Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood, the cross-platform multimedia application layer. To kick off the celebrations we are proud to present a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: Iconic. Iconic is the ultimate icon loader and saver plugin for Hollywood. It will make all your icon dreams come true because it can load and save icons in pretty much all of the most common icon formats. The following formats are currently supported:
- AmigaOS 1.x style icons
- AmigaOS 2.x/3.x style icons
- AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 icons (aka GlowIcons)
- AmigaOS 4.x Icons
- macOS Icons (*.icns-Format)
- MagicWB icons
- MorphOS/PowerIcons icons (PNG)
- NewIcons
- Windows icons (*.ico-Format)
Of course, Iconic also supports loading and saving of the metadata found in the Amiga icon formats like tooltypes, icon position, drawer view mode, icon type and so on. Thanks to Hollywood 9's new support for palette images it is also possible to load the icon palette, set a transparent pen and access the raw palette pens used in the icon image data. Of course, Iconic doesn't only support palette-based icon images but also icons that contain true colour images with alpha channel. Several of the icon formats listed above also support palette and true colour images within the same icon file and several different icon sizes within the same icon file. All of this is supported by Iconic as well!
This is why Iconic is the ultimate icon plugin for Hollywood and a must-have for every Hollywood user. The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided. Note that Hollywood 9 is strictly required by Iconic.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hollywood we also offer a special 20 euros discount on the full version of Hollywood for a limited time only. This is the perfect chance for all people who don't own Hollywood yet to grab their own copy and to explore the wonderful world of Hollywood and be fascinated by the gigantic functionality of this unique piece of software and all of the plugins that come with it! (dr)
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23.Jan.2022
Olaf Schönweiß (comment)
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AROS: Update 6 of 68k distribution Aros Vision
Since our previous news-item, Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision two times. New are some Shell commands, GUIs for searching, splitting and joining files, extended support for packers, two additional window-related commodities, updated ROMs, a bugfixed reqtools.library, VirusZ III and a number of small improvements.
Furthermore there is a short description of the window options.
For first-time installation it is recommended to copy the libraries bullet.library and rexxsyslib.library from AmigaOS 3.1 to Libs: and the command rexxmast to C: and to use the Installer 43.3 by Amiga Technologies (Aminet) for installation. WHDLoad is pre-installed using AROS ROMs; for full support, you will need original Kickstart ROMs (description). (snx)
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23.Jan.2022
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Aminet uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to Aminet:
apccomm.lha comm/misc 196K 68k transfers files between Amiga...
asm3210.lha dev/asm 156K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c...
Profyler.lha dev/debug 1.1M OS4 Software performance profiler...
regina-doc.pdf dev/lang 1.3M Alternative REXX interpreter doc
DFT_DWT_FFT.zip dev/src 95K 68k DFT, DWT and FFT for an A1200...
pi400_keymap_esp.lha driver/inp 5K Raspberry Pi400 spanish keymap
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 81K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of the same c...
bsaog.lha game/shoot 799K 68k Blake Stone Aliens of Gold
bsps.lha game/shoot 205K 68k Blake Stone Planet Strike
jfduke3d.lha game/shoot 1.3M 68k JFDuke3D Amiga Port
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
mame030_0.26a.lha misc/emu 326K 68k Multiple Arcade Machine Emula...
mame040_0.26a.lha misc/emu 326K 68k Multiple Arcade Machine Emula...
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 186K Some samples created by Sampl...
Next.lha text/show 147K 68k Viewer for text/guides/html/d...
avalanche.lha util/arc 31K 68k Simple ReAction GUI for xadma...
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23.Jan.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
profyler.lha dev/deb 1Mb 4.1 Software performance profiler
exodus_patch.lha gam/str 70kb 4.0 Exodus: The Last War patch to fi...
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
rawread.lha uti/mis 22kb 4.1 Reads raw blocks from a device
rawwrite.lha uti/mis 24kb 4.1 Writes raw blocks to a device
afortune.lha uti/she 9Mb 4.0 Write random sentences in shell
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23.Jan.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
muibase-4.4.1.lha off/dat 8Mb Programmable relational database...
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23.Jan.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.01.2022
The following files have been added until 22.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
MilkyTracker_1.03.lha Audio/Tracker An XM/MOD tracker by th...
AmiArcadia_28.32.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
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23.Jan.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.01.2022
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 22.01.2022:
- 2022-01-18 improved: Logo (Starbyte) supports another version, DMA wait inserted, slave is 68000 compatible now (Info)
- 2022-01-18 fixed: Gloom (Black Magic) install script copies gloomgame file too, slave doesn't lock if it can not find gloomgame (Info)
- 2022-01-18 improved: D.O.S. (Andromeda) graphics problems in greetings part fixed (Info, Image)
- 2022-01-17 improved: Street Rod 2 (California Dreams) access fault fixed (Info)
- 2022-01-16 improved: Harmagedon (Infect) possible freezes fixed, all line drawing routines fixed, lots of Bplcon0 color bit fixes, illegal copperlist enries fixed, access faults fixed (Info, Image)
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22.Jan.2022
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Graphics card: Presale of ZZ9000 for ninth batch
In his online shop, Lukas F. Hartmann has updated the item describtion of the graphics card ZZ9000 which now says: "Parts for all cards sold so far (Batch 8) are in stock and production is in progress. We have reopened pre-sales for Batch 9 which we expect for a June 2022 shipping target. Before buying, please keep in mind that due to the global chip shortage, additional delays can happen. We will ship your card eventually, but patience is key."
He also reported yesterday on Twitter that the delivery of the first batch of the ZZ9000AX sound module is slightly delayed (mid/end-February) due to the complicated manufacturing of the ZZ9000->AX cable and the manufacturer's overload before the Spring Festival. (dr)
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22.Jan.2022
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Free motherboard design: Rämixx500 available in shops
The Rämixx500 is an open hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ motherboard, revision 8A.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Although the developer SukkoPera is already intensively working on the V2 of his project and thus further modifications (see also the Developer Blog), the V1 is still the last official release.
For that the developer has crossed out his warnings ("THIS BOARD IS UNTESTED!!! IT MIGHT NOT WORK AT ALL! It might kill your cat or burn your house down. You have been warned."), noting now that this version of the board has been tested and works well - "apart from a couple of very minor issues". However, he could not recommend using this version of the board, even if it worked. Instead, one should download the project documents and check them for errors.
If that is too much trouble for you, you can order already produced boards. Both the German pcb4diy.de and the Irish store Sordan offer the board for around 34 and 28 Euros, respectively, plus shipping. (dr)
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22.Jan.2022
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Motorola68k emulation: Status update on Emu68
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon page. In yesterday's entry he reports about video driver, SD card driver, EmuControl and bug fixes. Finally he has pointed out to some tutorials he has started writing:
(dr)
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22.Jan.2022
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: Software performance profiler 'Profyler' for developers
As the author Mike Steed wrote, Profyler "is a software performance profiler - or profiler for short - for AmigaOS 4. It allows the execution speed of the various functions that make up a program to be measured, facilitating optimization of the program to improve its performance.
More specifically, Profyler is a deterministic profiler, which adds code to the program being profiled in order to implement the profiling functionality. It uses the -finstrument-functions feature of the GCC compiler, which means that it only works with C and C++ programs compiled with GCC. It also means that a program must be compiled and then linked with LibProfyle in order to be profiled; you can't profile a program that you can't compile."
(dr)
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21.Jan.2022
D4XX REMIX
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Game soundtrack: Jaguar XJ220 remix album released
After his Turrican remix album, Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann has released the Jaguar XJ220 remix album today. The remixed soundtrack, taken from the Amiga game of the same name, can be purchased as a digital album for 2 Euros (or more). (dr)
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21.Jan.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Full version for download: Oktalyzer 1.57
On the Amiga Future website the full version of Armin Sander's eight-track tracker Oktalyzer is available for free download. It is the latest release, version 1.57, published in 1991. (snx)
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20.Jan.2022
Twitter
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Shoot'em up: Fourht demo version of Jackal
NeesoGames has released the fourth demo version of its game Jackal, created with the Scorpion Engine. The shoot 'em up was also submitted as an entry for AmiGameJam 2021. Changes since third demo version:
- No loading times between the menu and briefing screen
- Intro waiting time reduced to 6 seconds
- Updated credits
- Big copter animated at mission start
- New type of vehicle bullets
- Regular POWs
- Powerup indicator
- Soldiers are thrown out of the jeep when it explodes
- Rescue copter flies away when all POWs are delivered
- Level 2 preview (playable to the end but no boss fight and some enemies are missing)
- Many bugfixes and improvements
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19.Jan.2022
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Overview: Bulletin board system of demo scene
Demozoo is a website dedicated to collecting and organizing the history of the demoscene. As the maintainers now announced, it was already started some time ago to catalog Bulletin board systems (BBS) with scene reference. The result is a list of over 7500 mailboxes, complete with sysops, affiliated groups, BBS intros, text ads, etc. The list continues to be updated.
These BBS can be browsed through an alphabetical list or searched by tags. In addition, you can display the locations on a world map. (dr)
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18.Jan.2022
Richard Löwenstein (Mail)
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RESHOOT PROXIMA 3: Preview of Stage 1
In August last year we reported about a new preview video of the third part of the shoot'em up series RESHOOT PROXIMA 3, which is currently in development. Shortly before Christmas 'AmigaBill' invited the three developers of the game Richard Löwenstein, Martin Ahman and Kevin Saunders to its Twitch channel to present the prototype of Stage 1. This demonstration is also available as a Video (game start from minute 33).
As Richard Löwenstein explained to us when asked, a prototype of the first stage was shown, "still far from complete. There are quite a few attack waves missing, the boss is conspicuous by its complete absence." Likewise, exciting attack patterns, boss designs and fine-tuning of the music would still have to be tackled. On the other hand, 90% of the graphics for all five stages have been drawn, and the visual designs for all stages have been defined and technically implemented. (dr)
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17.Jan.2022
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Retro gaming: Ziggurat Interactive acquires the rights to Rainbow-Arts games
Five years ago, Julian Eggebrecht, founder of the legendary development studio Factor 5, explained in interviews (German) that the games company had not only secured the name of the former German publisher Rainbow Arts from the THQ bankruptcy estate, but also the rights to the titles published by the Gütersloh-based company in the 1980s and 1990s. A short time later, Factor 5, which also went bankrupt in 2009, was re-established in Germany as a GmbH.
The retro publisher Ziggurat Interactive now announces in a press release that they have acquired the rights to over 80 titles from the Rainbow Arts catalog. Rendering Ranger R2 (SNES), Logical, Lollypop, X-Out, and M.U.D.S. are listed as examples. However, the best-known title published in Gütersloh is not mentioned: the "Turrican" series Factor 5 had still marketed in the fall of 2020 as limited new editions. (cg)
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17.Jan.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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880 kilobyte on 5.25 inch floppy disks: TEAC FD-55GFR 7193-U running on Amiga
The Iranian Siamak Habibzadeh has published a conversion manual at Github, which allows the operation of a 5.25 inch floppy from TEAC on the Amiga. The drive, originally intended for the PC, then stores 880 kilobytes in Amiga format on a 5.25-inch floppy. (cg)
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17.Jan.2022
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Arcade ports: Demo version of 'Wonderboy', preview video of 'Final Fight'
Wonderboy is to be an Amiga conversion of Sega's arcade classic of the same name. The Amiga version is created with the help of the Scorpion Engine. A now available first demo version, which is called alpha by the developer, runs smoothly from an Amiga 1200. Eine für den A500 optimierte Variante soll in Kürze folgen.
There is already an Amiga implementation of Capcom's Acrade machine Final Fight from 1991, but it is not very popular with friends of the beat-em-up genre. A fan of the automaton is now working on a new implementation developed in machine language, which currently requires a 68020 processor. A video shows the current status, one level and two different opponents have been implemented so far. (cg)
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16.Jan.2022
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Aminet uploads until 15.01.2022
The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to Aminet:
HippoPlayerIR.zip docs/hard 29K 68k Wirelessly controlled HippoPl...
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 82K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of the same c...
bsaog.lha game/shoot 806K 68k Blake Stone Aliens of Gold
bsps.lha game/shoot 209K 68k Blake Stone Planet Strike
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 18M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.9M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
TECO-64.lha text/edit 601K MOS TECO (Text Editor and Corrector)
avalanche.lha util/arc 26K 68k Simple ReAction GUI for xadma...
Deark.lha util/arc 3.7M MOS Extracting data from various ...
Albatros.lha util/boot 34K 68k Lock your AMIGA by a keyword
TestProgram.zip util/misc 458K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
Anno.lha util/time 274K 68k Reminder and calendar utility
StartWin.lha util/wb 126K 68k A bugged workbench launch bar
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16.Jan.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.01.2022
The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
amigaamp3.lha aud/pla 2Mb 4.1 Multi format audio player with GUI
milkytracker-sdl2.lha aud/tra 2Mb 4.1 SDL2 version of an FT2 compatibl...
sdk-53.1-gdb.lha dev/deb 2Mb 4.0 Working GDB 6.3 from SDK 53.1
reactivec_lib.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.1 Reaction C Library
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
foundation_patch.lha gam/str 100kb 4.0 Patch for Foundation GOLD to fix...
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 18Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders
amitube_ita.lha net/mis 5kb 4.0 Italian catalog for AmiTube
deark.lha uti/arc 6Mb 4.0 Extracting data from various fil...
litexl.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
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16.Jan.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.01.2022
The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
iconclone.i386-aros.zip uti/wor 23kb Drag-n-Drop Icons or use FileReq...
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16.Jan.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.01.2022
The following files have been added until 15.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
dis8080.lha Development/Cross Disassembler for Intel ...
SDL_2.0.20_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.2...
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.3WI... Emulation Titles and Preview pack...
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.3WI... Emulation FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
Deark_1.6.0.lha Files/Archive Extracting data from va...
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16.Jan.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.01.2022
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 15.01.2022:
- 2022-01-14 improved: The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Capstone) support for another version added (Info)
- 2022-01-14 fixed: Gloom (Black Magic) install script fixed (Info)
- 2022-01-14 improved: Breach 2 (Omnitrend Software) supports another version (Info)
- 2022-01-13 improved: Gloom (Black Magic) supports Classic version of Gloom Deluxe (Info)
- 2022-01-10 updated: Dogs of War (Elite Systems) new imager, enhanced controls, added splash options (Info)
- 2022-01-10 improved: Desert Strike (Electronic Arts) support for 3-joystick button, fixed potential sound issues (Info)
- 2022-01-10 improved: All Terrain Racing (Team 17) added 3-button support, fixed install script (Info, Image)
(snx)
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16.Jan.2022
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Event: Amiga37 announced
Markus Tillmann writes (translation): "After the 2015, 2017 and 2019 events in Neuss, the fourth major German Amiga event will take place in 2022 with Amiga37 Germany. Compared to previous years, however, it will no longer be held in the Rheinisches Landestheater, but now in the Kunstwerk in Mönchengladbach.
The location there offers more space, which means that both the exhibitors will have more room, and more visitor tickets can be offered.
The concept remains the same and it will be a mixture of user meetings, trade fair, lectures and much more! The duration will also remain the same - so keep the weekend of 15 and 16 October 2022 in mind!
Besides numerous exhibitors - such as APC&TCP, the Apollo team, Alinea, ACube and Return magazine - well-known Amiga guests from Germany and abroad are expected again. The main sponsor of the event is again A-EON/Trevor Dickinson.
A webpage and further information are not yet available. But we will keep you up to date."
Update: (08:40, 12.05.22, snx)
Title link added, since the website has been created meanwhile. (snx)
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16.Jan.2022
ANF
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Looking for demand: Zorro II/III graphics card with SAGA
At the title link, in the forum of a1k.org, Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo team) is looking for interest in a graphics card based on the FPGA chipset of the Vampire turbo cards for Amigas with Zorro II or Zorro III slots. In prospect are the known SAGA graphics modes including a full HD resolution at 60 hertz and the new SAGA 3D functions, video acceleration, 16-bit audio and inclusion of the Amiga video signal for HDMI output.
Since the drivers (P96/AHI) were already available and practically all other components were also at hand, the project could be completed relatively quickly if there was sufficient interest to buy one - allegedly even as early as this summer. (snx)
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16.Jan.2022
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, has been updated on January 13th 2022 with the publication of its 52nd edition. Among other new features and corrections, games published or updated in 2021 have been added, and games created with Project Horizon and Irrlicht Engine are now counted. In addition, the "Mozilla" and "Professional" licences have been added; the latter concerns games intended for professional use, e.g. medical. The total now reaches 13,539 entries, be it games, level editors, data disks, extensions and interpreters, which are distributed as follows:
- 12.910 games
- 347 extensions and data disks
- 148 game or level editors
- 134 interpreters
(snx)
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16.Jan.2022
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: Update of 68k distribution Aros Vision
Since our previous news-item, Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision four times. Besides a new version of the Hippo Player, a CD-ROM filesystem and further programs regarding CDs, CRC checksums, encoding and decoding, virus protection as well as a font editor and viewer have been added. Furthermore, iGame is working again now.
Meanwhile, also a HDF version of the distribution is available. Like users of the UAE version, also those using the HDF version can update the distribution out of itself by choosing System/Install/Update from the menu. The startup-sequence and user-startup files won't be changed.
For first-time installation it is recommended to copy the libraries bullet.library and rexxsyslib.library from AmigaOS 3.1 to Libs: and the command rexxmast to C: and to use the Installer 43.3 by Amiga Technologies (Aminet) for installation. WHDLoad is pre-installed using AROS ROMs; for full support, you will need original Kickstart ROMs (description). (snx)
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15.Jan.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Debugging using the Visual Code Extension
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
As part of another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. In the episode Debugging using the Visual Code Extension by Paul Raingeard he shows how to set up and apply the Amiga Assembly for Visual Studio Code extension. (dr)
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15.Jan.2022
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Web emulator: vAmigaWeb
For quite some time we have been reporting about vAmiga, an Amiga emulator for MacOS that emulates the classic Amigas 500, 1000 and 2000. Based on this code, two web ports have been developed in the last months: vAmigaWeb and vAmiga (online). We had already mentioned both in our article Emulation: vAmiga as web port and tested the latter in more detail.
The subject of today's article is the web implementation vAmigaWeb by the developer 'mithrendal'. As the author explains to us, it had already become apparent during the development and design of his predecessor project VirtualC64 Web that a desktop app must have different characteristics than one that wants to cover all device classes. These are as follows:
- adapts to devices with different sizes (keyword responsive design)
- virtual touch joystick
- virtual touch mouse
- virtual keyboard
- custom action buttons that let you build your own onscreen buttons
- these can be stored with user-defined scripts for controlling e.g. continuous fire. You can even design your own 'bot controls', which is made possible by querying and processing the enemy sprite positions in your own custom script. A corresponding script editor with syntax highlighting and intelligent code completion is built in.
- runs on all browsers of the last 4 years including on iPhone/iPad-Safari
vAmiga (online) by Christian Corti, on the other hand, aims at a 1:1 adaptation of the Mac desktop version of Dirk Hoffmann's vAmiga, i.e. porting the elegant desktopUI of the Mac to the web. Due to its design, it does not support mobile device classes or not to the full extent. According to Corti, the purpose of vAmiga (online) is to be used on a real desktop with keyboard and mouse connected. vAmigaWeb, on the other hand, is also very usable on the go on a cell phone or with a tablet (on the couch).
vAmiga (online) on the other hand will still get quite a few features of the Mac version, such as various inspectors for CPU, blitter, etc…. Both versions support the saving of snapshots, i.e. game states: At any point in a game, you can save the game state using 'take snapshot' and thus conveniently bypass loading times. This is especially useful at a very difficult part of a game, where you try tirelessly to defeat the 'final enemy'. Having saved the score shortly beforehand, you can always try your luck from there. Taking snapshots can also be assigned to keys, e.g. the key 's' can be used to save the game state and the key 'r' (reload) to restore it. These key assignments can be created using the action buttons, the '+' icon in the menu bar.
Having reached this point, one or the other is surely eager to simply test the web emulator. Therefore, we do without screenshots and recommend two different variants instead:
Those (experts) who would like to take a closer look at the emulator and test their favorite game are advised to use the direct start. All others who first want to get an idea and comfortably see the emulator in action are recommended to visit the website especially created for vAmigaWeb:
Here you get the pleasure of seeing another feature live in action: The emulator embedded, i.e. integrated, in a website. Here done and ready configured for a demo, three games - brandnew here the Knightmare Amiga port, which was released just four days ago - and SysInfo.
Our test showed that we could basically run all games smoothly with our Samsung laptop with Intel Core i3-2330M processor, but we experienced sound jitters during the demo and when we additionally moved the mouse during the Celtic Heart game. Presumably, two cores are not sufficient here. The author would be happy to receive more empirical values in this regard.
Having asked the author how he actually came up with this project idea, he said:
"I participated in the iAmiga project in 2016, which is a native Amiga emulator for iOS. But since it is only based on an outdated version of WinUAE, it has many compatibility issues, some of which I was able to fix (by patching back current WINUAE source code) but overall it was difficult. Then there was the possibility to take completely the current WinUAE code (like FS-UAE by Frode Solheim) but the source code is so complex and "grown" over decades. In 2019, Prof. Dirk Hoffmann started writing this completely rewritten, highly efficient vAmigaCore. He bought some real Amigas (I still had an old A1000) to have test candidates to benchmark the emulation against, if it is really accurate.
I was bothered by the fact that Apple does not allow emulators in the Appstore and the 'free provisioning certificates' for developers only work for 7 days, so I came to PWAs, the ProgressiveWebApp standard from Google, with which you can build quasi native apps in HTML5. So the step to compile the source code from Dirk into a WebAssembly (binary code) was obvious.
The so installed PWA on Android or iOS is executed many times faster than for example Rupert Hausberger's Scripted Amiga Emulator. First, however, the VirtualC64 Web was created in 2019. You can also integrate it into your own web pages as well as a Youtube player." (dr)
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14.Jan.2022
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Kernel 5.16 für AmigaOne X1000/X5000
The final Linux kernel 5.16 is available. Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has compiled the kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. The Image can be downloaded in the corresponding thread of the Hyperion forum. (dr)
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13.Jan.2022
Trevor Dickinson
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Trevor Dickinson on: A1222+/Enhancer V2.x/From Vultures to Vampires Vol 2
In response to our inquiry, Trevor Dickinson (A-EON) provided a brief summary of the current status of some projects:
- A1222plus motherboard
- Hardware works as expected, including network and audio
- DVD drive support still problematic at the moment
- Board now can boot Workbench
- Performance like the original beta board: all popular software (e.g. Odyssey and IBrowse, but also the latest DVDPlayer version) as well as A-EON's 2D and 3D graphics drivers including the latest Enhancer 2.1 release are supported.
- The A1222+ uses the latest uboot firmware written by Mark Olsen, which provides additional variables such as reduction in the number of Boing Ball animation and generally faster boot time.
- production start and planned availability not set yet: currently preparing early adopter production depending on component availability
- Enhancer Software V54
- further updates are in progress after the release of version 2.1 (e.g. integration of AmiSSL 4.11, improved Warp2D library). The 14th alpha build of V54 was released to beta testers on January 4. Release in the course of the year
- Two installation variants possible:
- over the existing OS4 installation (similar to current version 2.1)
- on a separate Enhancer partition, from which can be booted by default (the OS4 installation CD is required once for this purpose). It is unclear which components are used or copied temporarily or permanently.
- LibreOffice
- Trevor speaks of "a long and expensive journey which I am hoping is coming to a satisfactory conclusion".
- record a video of Libre Office in action planned.
- Soon: widen the beta test programme to accelerate the the first release.
- From Vultures to Vampires, volume 2
- at the moment Kickstarter campaign for financing the second volume until 24. Januar 2022
- Initiated by David John Pleasance, who also focuses on all administration, including contacting printers
- Trevor Dickinson is not involved in the Kickstarter campaign and is not accepting any funds from the Kickstarter campaign or future book sales. He is 3/4 finished writing volume 2
- covering the years 2005 to 2021
- currently about 6.400 Euro are given from required 18.000
- E-Books available from the end of February
- with signature if desiredr
- ubsidizing shipping costs for buyers outside GB
(dr)
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12.Jan.2022
Ko-fi
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AmigaOS 4: 'Lite XL' editor 1.16.12.7
At the end of last year, George Sokianos had announced with the release of version v1.16.12.3 that he had started porting the editor 'Lite XL', which originates from the Linux world (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday he released the for the time being last update to v1.16.12.7 for this version branch and writes the following about it:
"Today I did the last release of Lite XL for AmigaOS 4.1. Don't worry, I am not stopping working on this fine editor. On the contrary. I will stop working on the v1.16.12 source branch so to focus on the latest available version.
The last few days I managed to port Lua 5.3 and Lua 5.4, as well as the PCRE2. Although the newer versions of Lua are not necessary yet, the PCRE2 is one of the mandatory libraries needed. All of them are highly experimental, and not tested thoroughly, but I am happy I managed to finish them.
In the new v1.16.12.7 release, which is already available to be downloaded from my Git repository and OS4Depot, I did a few changes that might help with the SDL to use the Gfx Card in a better way, which will increase the overall speed. Also, I included a few plugins and colour schemas that are tested and working fine with this version, in case you would like to add some extra features or make it look better for you.
I updated the README_OS4 file where you can find more information about all these additions, how to use them and a couple of tips 'n tricks that might help you.
I hope it will keep you occupied until the next major release, which is going to be epic.
If you want to track the progress of Lite XL v2 development, you can always check https://git.walkero.gr/walkero/lite-xl/issues/12 or make sure to watch this page, since I am going to update you frequently.
Finally, I would like to thank you once more for your generous support. The motivation I get from you all is inexpressible." (dr)
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11.Jan.2022
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RTG driver: P96 V3.2.2 released
Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) wrote:
"The RTG driver P96 enjoys growing popularity: More then 40 paid downloads (more than a third of them for the full price or more) during the weeks since version V3.2.0 has been published, have taken us over the threshold of 30% cost coverage since we've taken ownership of the software in 2016. We'd like to send a big thank-you to the Amiga community for strong support and detailed bug reports in our support forum, which help us improve the software on a regular basis." Changes:
- Version 3.2.2 attempts one more time to deal with broken software: If a program like Descent opens a planar screen mode, but combines it with chunky rendering routines, the new version 3.2.2 can display a correct picture despite this evident software error.
- Sprite colours are now switched if the sprite travels from one screen to another in a split-screen environment. This fixes the colour of the mouse pointer during screen dragging.
- masked blitting of planar bitmaps has been fixed: This fixes the "Palette"-preferences program.
- If a split-screen (dragged screen) is used on a PIV-card, the video-window will not be disabled, but will pan together with the front screen. Note that P96 currently does not support video or memory windows on the back screen.
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11.Jan.2022
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Vertical shooter: Amiga port of 'Knightmare' released (update)
The musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' had released the final version of his amiga version of the game 'Metal Gear' last year (amiga-news.de reported). Also originally written for the MSX and published by Konami was the vertically scrolling shooter Knightmare, of which he released his amiga port today (official video). He wrote:
"Originally released in 1986, Knightmare is one of the many classic games produced by Konami for the MSX. It’s the first in a trilogy of games with each edition opting for a different style of gameplay throughout the series. You play as Popolon and your Mission is to rescue Aphrodite from the clutches of the evil Prince of Darkness. You have to fight your way through 8 levels of enemies and bosses along the way to rescue the Goddess of Love and Beauty. The action takes place in the form of a top-down vertical scrolling shoot’em up style including various power-ups along the way".
The Amiga port contains the follow features:
- Original game fully disassembled to ensure accurate gameplay
- All graphics remastered by Toni Galvez
- Brand new title and loading screens
- High quality Amiga Enhanced Sound Effects
- All levels and bosses have unique Amiga Enhanced soundtracks
- All new Hi-score table with automatic saving to disk
- 50hz / 60hz gameplay option
- Built-in auto-fire
- Additional secret bonus power-up added ( can you find it? )
- Compatible with all Amigas running 512k chip and 512k other ram
Download Knightmare v1.1: knightmare-v1.1.zip (9 MB)
(9 MB)
Download Soundtrack ProTracker: knightmare-soundtrack-mod.zip (1,3 MB)
Update: (19.01.2022, 06:39, dr)
Meanwhile a bug fixed version 1.1 is available. The download link has been updated. (dr)
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10.Jan.2022
Project R3D (ANF)
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Sokoban clone: Astro Blox Revisited downloadable for free
Astro Blox Revisited, a variant of Sokoban and basically a 'deluxe' edition of Robert Szacki's Astro Blox, had been released in 2020 at the Polish retro event Decrunch 2020 as a demo version (amiga-news.de reported), which still had - according to the developer - a lot of errors and was impossible to pass. Later commercial distribution as a boxed edition followed.
Since yesterday now also the full version is available for free download at the title link. System requirements are 512 KB of RAM. The game was written by Paweł 'Juen' Nowak, graphics and music are from Zbigniew 'PPILL' Pożoga and Jakub 'Aceman' Szeląg, respectively. (snx)
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10.Jan.2022
Prince (Mail)
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 6
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Here the sixth episode was published. (dr)
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09.Jan.2022
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Aminet uploads until 08.01.2022
The following files have been added until 08.01.2022 to Aminet:
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 117K 68k Gemini protocol browser
void-dreams36.zip demo/misc 497K 68k Demopack - January 2022
SteMarRegBlitzSources... dev/blitz 37K 68k 21 Stefano Maria Regattin Bli...
dis8080.lha dev/cross 21K MOS Disassembler for Intel 8080 p...
WormWars.lha game/actio 906K 68k Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-AROS.zip game/actio 700K x86 Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 963K MOS Advanced snake/Tron game
WormWars-OS4.lha game/actio 1.1M OS4 Advanced snake/Tron game
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
Oshogatsu_Breaks_2021... mods/techn 389K Oshogatsu Breaks 2021
AmigaAMP3-68k.lha mus/play 384K 68k MPEG audio player with GUI
GF4RSID9.zip pix/misc 79K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSIDA.zip pix/misc 80K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
MMULib.lha util/libs 750K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 73K 68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 626K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 742K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 795K OS4 Multipurpose utility
zencheckerboard.lha util/misc 38K 68k Display checkerboard for vide...
ScreenTime.lha util/time 63K 68k Screen clock, configurable wi...
WBDirShell.lha util/wb 2K Open shell to current WB drawer
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OS4Depot uploads until 08.01.2022
The following files have been added until 08.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
os4weltweihnachtsdemo... dem/mis 4Mb 4.0 Little demo for Christmas 2021 m...
ext2e.lha dev/lan 14kb 4.0 extended IEEE modules for E
oo.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
wormwars.lha gam/act 1Mb 4.0 Advanced snake/Tron game
odyssey.lha net/bro 38Mb 4.1 Port of Odyssey from morphos
reportplus.lha uti/mis 795kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
litexl.lha uti/tex 1Mb 4.1 A lightweight text editor writte...
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_deu.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
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AROS Archives uploads until 08.01.2022
The following files have been added until 08.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
wormwars.i386-aros.zip gam/act 700kb Advanced Tron/Snake-style arcade...
mplayer-1.0-v5.x86_64-v11... vid/pla 8Mb Multimedia player with MUI user ...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.01.2022
The following files have been added until 08.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
WormWars_9.25.lha Games/Action Advanced snake game by ...
ScummVM_2.5.1.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
MCE_13.4.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
ReportPlus_8.24.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
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09.Jan.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 08.01.2022
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 08.01.2022:
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09.Jan.2022
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:
- Blitzremix
- Classic Tunes
- Grand Monster Slam (Menu)
- A Prehistoric Tale - Main Theme [Atari inspired version]
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09.Jan.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Full version for download: Time
On the Amiga Future website the full version of the 2D adventure Time can be downloaded for free. Besides ADF and IPF disk images, also WHDLoad files in German, English and French are available. (snx)
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09.Jan.2022
BitFellas
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Intro competition: Nominees of 'Nano Awards 2022'
At the beginning of December, we reported on the intro competition The Nano Awards 2022. Now the nominations have been announced, without Amiga participation:
- Best Oldschool Tiny Intro
- Quarter Express, by ilmenit / agenda (256b, Atari XE/XL)
- Gleest, by Bfox (256b, ZX Spectrum)
- Metro, by Xeen / Agenda (256b, Atari XE/XL)
- VIFI Videoram Filler by Busy / BusySoft (256b, ZX Spectrum)
- Sapere Aude, by Ilmenit / agenda (256b, Commodore 64)
- Best Hi-End Tiny Intro
- Lightcrypt, by Gopher / Alcatraz (256b, DOS)
- Mems, by Digimind (256b, DOS)
- Sseraf, by Rrrola (256b, DOS)
- Blake32, by Superogue / Marquee Design (32b, DOS)
- Up up Down, by Sensenstahl (256b, DOS)
A video summary of the productions is available on the official website of the competition. (dr)
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09.Jan.2022
Retro Commodore
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PDF manual: 'ROM Kernel Reference Manual' for AmigaOS 3.2
The 'ROM Kernel Reference Manual' for AmigaOS 3.2, written by Camilla Boemann and Jason Stead, is updated continuously and is oriented to the 'Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals' from the 80s written by Robert Peck.
This book aims to represent all programming topics of the Amiga operating system since release 2 up to 3.2. The challenge is to cover features that are 30 years old as well as things that would only be added in the last few years. The authors write the following about this:
"This book is initially published as a PDF as it is more important to get the information out quickly than for it to be complete. Over time it will be improved and more information will be added. Thus initially you may find several topics lacking, but please keep an eye out for updates. This book is meant to help you expand your knowledge of programming the Amiga. It assumes you have previous experience with programming the Amiga, and it all but assumes you have all the books in the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual series. Like the books in that series a knowledge of the C programming language is not required, but will make it much easier to understand the material in this book." (dr)
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08.Jan.2022
IndieRetroNews
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New preview video: Remake of Rick Dangerous
Already at the end of last year a new preview video of the remake of the game 'Rick Dangeous', developed by 'Z-Team', was released, which is registered as an entry for the current AmiGameJam (amiga-news.de reported). The new video features some cut scenes, some corrections, dynamite, the beginning of the second level and background music. (dr)
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08.Jan.2022
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Philosophy: The Amiga as "a computer built to last 50 years"
In early 2021, engineer, writer and lecturer at the École Polytechnique de Louvain, Lionel Dricot, wrote an essay titled 'The computer built to last 50 years' in which he ponders how a long-lasting computer could be developed to save both one's finances, but also resources, and thus the planet.
Carl Svensson, well-known our readers by his ARexx-Tools 'RxEnv', Carl Svensson has now written a rebuttal: 'The Amiga as "a computer built to last 50 years"'. In it, he claims that the '50-year-old computer' already exists - in various forms and designs - and that we just need to find it in attics and restore it: the Amiga.
A computer that has been in use for around 30 years would literally stand for sustainability. Its longevity makes up for what it lacks in energy efficiency. (dr)
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08.Jan.2022
https://blog.alb42.de (ANF)
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AmiTube 0.7: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas (update)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).
Now version 0.7 is available which among others allows you to download the original video from YouTube in different resolutions or as audio file. Detailed changes:
- New CDXL Option 320px and AGA colors
- direct download from youtube without conversation
- select resolution on direct download
- Update checking
- Download latest version
- Question before delete movie
The latest version always is available on the AmiTube website.
Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link.
Update: (09.01.2022, 06:39, dr)
In his new blog entry, yesterday Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow pointed out that an (untested) guide published on the official AmiTube website now describes how to set up your own 'converter server'. (dr)
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07.Jan.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 154
The English and German editions of issue 154 (January/February 2022) of the rpint magazine Amiga Future have been published today and can be ordered from the staff or from Amiga dealers. This issue's topics include review of the Terrible Fire 1230, RGB-to-HDMI (RGB2HDMI) and 'The Shadows of Sergoth'. (cg)
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06.Jan.2022
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Preview video: 'Scourge of the Underkind'
At the end of 2020, we reported for the last time about "Scourge of the Underkind", which was actually announced for 2021 and which sees itself as a tribute to games like Gods, Chaos Engine and Alien Breed. On the project's Facebook page, there have been regular reports about the development status over the last year: at the end of September it was reported that the music was finished and the last level was started, while at the beginning of October the game instructions were proofread.
oday, a new preview video was released on YouTube, showing the first 13 minutes of the game, including the loading screen and intro. The authir pointed out that he "was using a bezel in WinUAE and a screen filter which has caused some noise in this video." The game would look much better for real.
There would still be a few small changes made to the game, but basically the finished version would be shown.
Additionally, an other video shows how the intro screen was drawn, with Scourge's music. (dr)
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06.Jan.2022
Discord
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Video documentary on Trackers: 'The Sound of 16-Bit'
Stuart Brow regularly posts documentary-style videos on his YouTube channel Ahoy about video games and their impact on culture. As a one-man team, he is responsible for all aspects of production: script, graphics, voiceover, gameplay recording, editing, and music.
In his last video documentary he takes the audience back to around 1984 - the dawn of 16-bit computing, and the emergence of a new style of computer music. And he also wrote:
"Ever since I did 'A Brief History of Graphics', I wanted to do a similar treatment for sound & music - but rather than attempt to cover everything in a single video, I thought it would be better to focus on a single topic. This time it's trackers - a format dear to me as it was my introduction to computer music."
And so his tracker time travel touches among other things also the Amiga programs "The Ultimate Soundtracker", "OctaMED Soundstudio" or "Digibooster".
Whereas he had previously financed his productions with advertising revenue, he now relies entirely on his audience and is happy to receive financial support on his Patreon page. (dr)
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03.Jan.2022
FS-UAE Webseite
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Emulation: FS-UAE & Launcher 3.1.66 for Windows
Frode Solheim's Amiga emulator FS-UAE makes the innovations from WinUAE available in a platform-independent UAE variant for Windows, Mac OS X and numerous Linux or BSD variants. The "FS-UAE Launcher" is responsible for the configuration and the start of the Amiga emulator. The maintenance update of the 3.1.x series already released in December for Windows (possibly the last one) contains the updated SDL version 2.0.18 as well as updated controller mappings. (dr)
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03.Jan.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 Beta 7
Dirk Hoffmann has released a new beta version of his Amiga emulator for macOS which is currently under development. The changes of beta version 7 are as follows:
- Features:
- Added support for remote connections. Three remote servers have been implemented:
- A serial port server emulating a null modem cable on the serial port of the Amiga.
- A retro shell server that allows the user to connect to retro shell via telnet.
- An experimental GDB server implementing parts of the GDB serial remote protocol.
- Compatibility:
- Writes to DMA pointer registers are sometimes dropped on a real Amiga. The old code for checking if a write has to be dropped didn’t work correctly in all cases.
- Bug fixes:
- In the video configuration panel, the color palette couldn’t be changed any more. This has been fixed.
- OCS detection failed in some scenarios.
- On startup, some CPU registers were initialised with wrong values.
- Code quality:
- The code has been migrated to Cmake and is now compatible with all three major C++ compilers (clang, gcc, msvc).
(dr)
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03.Jan.2022
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio player: AmigaAMP 3.31 for AmigaOS 3.9 released
Thomas Wenzel wrote:
Unfortunately, a piece of old code was left over in 3.30 when the MHI handling was revised. This leftover caused the playback not to recover after a dropout due to briefly high system load (e.g. CVPPC screen switching at very high resolution).
This should now be fixed in 3.31. There are no other changes. The PPC version is not affected and remains at version 3.30 for now.
The next update will then carry the version number 3.32 for both architectures. (dr)
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02.Jan.2022
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AmigaOS 4: New version 53.15 of Updates preferences
Today the new version 53.15 of the update preconfiguration program for AmigaOS 4.1 was released. This fixed a bug which made it impossible to basically set a directory for the updates - saving caused a crash - and moreover in a readable way:
Likewise, you can now specify separately where the update archive should be permanently stored and which directory should be used to unpack it
In our test, in contrast to AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 2 Classic under WinUAE, a peculiarity occurred with the AmigaOne X5000: Here, a directory could be selected and saved using the 'Updates' tool in the 'Prefs' folder (left image). However, if you then start the AmiUpdate tool and choose the preferences from the menu, you get an incorrect display of the directory (right window):
It is only displayed incorrectly. The directory is still stored correctly. An initial assumption that a "_" in the directory name or a second directory level is the cause could not be confirmed. (dr)
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02.Jan.2022
A1K / Facebook (ANF)
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German Amiga Podcast: First issue published
By GAP, the "German Amiga Podcast", 'McFly' wants to start a series of own productions. The first issue that has been released yesterday looks back to major Amiga news in 2021. (snx)
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02.Jan.2022
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: Web browser Odyssey 1.23 r5 (update)
In the middle of 2020 Roman 'kas1e' Kargin had made available the last beta version of his AmigaOS 4 port of the Odyssey web browser. Now he has published the first release candidate (RC) for version 1.23 r5 and states the following:
"Rebuild was done with the latest GCC 11.1 and latest OS4 SDk (so new MUI, DOS, EXec, pthreads and co). As one of the positive results is the size of the binary start to be smaller on 3MB (60MB instead of 63MB). There is also a new YouTube script from MorphOS's devs (ASiegel), so to make accelerated video player works with changed youtube. To activate it, the following steps are required:
- Delete in your scripts Youtube Fullscreen Fix and Youtube HTML5 Converter. Restart Odyssey and add again but this time new scripts (so allowed sites and stuff will be new ones).
- Add to URL preferences http://youtube.com with spoof as Ipad 13.2.3. So it will always switch to the mobile version.
- Now on any video when you click on any part of the video, you will have in the right/bottom area gadget to expand the video: clicking on it will bring our accelerated media player back."
Changes of this version:
- Updated curl-ca-bundle.crt (https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem , 26 Oct 2021)
- Updated to Curl 7.80.0 (10th of November 2021)
- Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.1m (14-Dec-2021) (thanks MickJT for tips)
- Updated to SQLite 3.34.0 (2020-12-01) instead of old v3.7.5 (2011-02-01). Port done by Steffen Gutmann
- Updated to libFreeType2 2.11.1 (02-Dec-2021)
- Updated to libXML2 2.9.12 (13-May-2021)
- Updated to libWebP v1.2.2-rc1 (18-Dec-2021)
Update: (03.01.2022, 07:09, dr)
Meanwhile the official version 1.23 r5 was released on OS4Depot. (dr)
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Aminet uploads until 01.01.2022
The following files have been added until 01.01.2022 to Aminet:
MUIbase-4.4.lha biz/dbase 6.8M Programmable relational datab...
sqlite-3.34.0-amiga.lha biz/dbase 20M SQL database engine
2021XmasIntro.lha demo/intro 51K 68k Genuine Xmas 2021 Axel's Intro
aqb-0.8.1.lha dev/basic 314K 68k BASIC Compiler+IDE for Amiga ...
adfZ.lha disk/misc 2K 68k read / write ADF files from /...
newscripts_adf.lha disk/misc 31K new scripts for adf.device
Jake_and_Peppy_v0.85.lha game/demo 28M 68k Playable demo: new Apollo V4/...
MCE.lha game/edit 3.2M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.8M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
l-ile-tristam-demo.lha game/text 682K 68k text adventure in French (demo)
MegaSaperPL.lha game/think 653K 68k Minesweeper game clone
WhatIFF1.01.lha mags/misc 24K What IFF? #1.01 Dec 2021
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
SOS_change.lha mods/anaki 473K Spare Change - OctaMED module
SOS_control.lha mods/anaki 391K Outer Control - OctaMED module
SOS_itation.lha mods/anaki 247K Med It 8 On - OctaMED module
SOS_longneck.lha mods/anaki 370K Longneck - OctaMED module
SOS_nothing.lha mods/anaki 554K Nothing Left Outside - OctaME...
SOS_reality.lha mods/anaki 292K Escape From Reality - OctaMED...
SOS_u4er.lha mods/anaki 441K U 4 E R - OctaMED module
Amiga_Breaks_Vol.1.zip mods/techn 1.1M Amiga Breaks Vol.1 - OctaMED ...
StrangerBreaks.lha mods/techn 108K Stranger Breaks - OctaMED module
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 304K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
ASE2019_1.80.lha text/edit 167K 68k Text editor
UnZIP552.lha util/arc 145K 68k UnZip v5.52 final 68K version
ZIP232.lha util/arc 151K 68k Zip v2.32 archiver final 68K ...
fxblankers.lha util/blank 54K MOS Effectful screenblankers for ...
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 66K 68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 91K 68k Identify hardware and more
ACA500P_28MHz.lha util/moni 1K 68k AIBB 6.5 Module for ACA500Plu...
WH_RANDOM_AMIGA.zip util/shell 219K Random Number Gen, AMIGA-Shel...
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.01.2022
The following files have been added until 01.01.2022 to OS4Depot:
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
sacrificiopagano.lha gam/mis 5Mb 4.0 Magic Tool
scummvm.lha gam/mis 96Mb 4.1 Run supported classic adventure/...
scummvm-src.zip gam/mis 160Mb 4.1 ScummVM Source
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
pixy.lha gra/edi 7Mb 4.0 Pixel editor new generation
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.01.2022
The following files have been added until 01.01.2022 to AROS Archives:
muibase-4.4.lha off/dat 7Mb Programmable relational database...
sqlite-3.34.0-amiga.lha off/dat 20Mb SQL database engine
sacrificiopagano.lha uti/mis 5Mb Magic Tool
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.01.2022
The following files have been added until 01.01.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
PanelPop.lha Games/BrickBreaker A Panel de Pon / Tetris...
MCE_13.31.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Pixy_1.0_AlphaRelease_... Graphics/Draw The next generation pix...
SacrificioPagano_1.70.lha Misc A special app to people...
SQLite_3.34.0.lha Office/Database SQL database engine
fxBlankers_1.1.lha System/Ambient/Blankers Effectful screenblanker...
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02.Jan.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.01.2022
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 01.01.2022:
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02.Jan.2022
ANF
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Windows: Alternative Amiga GUI available again (Update)
At the title link, tech magazine computerbase.de reports briefly on the project of its forum member 'Silvester72', who has written his own "Amiga Workbench" implementation for Windows 10 and 11 that can be either used as a separate application or as a replacement of the File Explorer.
Once another forum member pointed out, though, that Amiga and AmigaOS as well as the Boingball logo would still be registered trademarks, the author withdrew his program that had been available for free download before.
Update: (18:11, 03.01.22, snx)
Under its new name myWorkspace! the program is now available again. (snx)
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02.Jan.2022
ANF
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Video: De-yellowing of an Amiga 1000 (The 8-Bit Guy)
In preparation of his planned Amiga documentation, David 'The 8-Bit Guy' Murray restores an Amiga 1000 donated to him in a video at the title link. Since it is still working and technically in a good condition, the work consists basically just of cleaning and de-yellowing the case by peroxide and UV light. (snx)
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02.Jan.2022
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 during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
- November/December 2021 news
- Old articles from Joystick 33 to 36:
- News: Future successes of 1993 (part one and two)
- Interview with Dino Dini
- Review of Walker
- Review of Lemmings 2
- News: Psygnosis piles on the heroes
- Review of Best Of The Best
- Review of Historyline 1914-1918
- Interview with Johan Robson
- Review of Street Fighter 2
- Review of Piracy On The High Seas
- News: Body Blows and Super Frog
- Team 17's two future hits
- Interview with Geoff Heath and Ann Jacobs
- Review of Caesar, review of Coolworld
- Special quiz about the pseudonyms of the Amiga world
- Interview with David Pleasance and Colin Proudfoot (directors of Commodore UK)
- Interview with Amy Worthington (designer of Mr Beanbag)
- Interview with Graeme Boxall (co-founder of Renegade)
- Review of eNewsReader r2
- File: The Checkmate A1500 controversy
- File: Pinball games from 21th Century
- Point of view: The development of Rave (part 2)
- DIY: Project AmiPi - the quintessence of retro-computing in a pure vintage computer
- DIY: Development of the Arduino Amiga floppy drive, aka DrawBridge
- Tutorial: Setting up the Indivision AGA MK3
- Special quiz about the pseudonyms on the Amiga community
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02.Jan.2022
Alain Fontanin (Mail)
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Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.80
By releasing version 1.2 (2019), at the end of the last year Alain Fontanin has resumed the development of his "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE) which originally started in 1989.
The author constantly develops his text editor further and now has released version 1.80 with the following changes:
- Possibility to cancel the closing of a document or even of ASE2019
- Fixed some 'hit enforcer'
- Ability to record and execute macros
- Improvement of the positioning of windows on large screens
- New ARexx functions: WakeDocument, SleepDocument, CloseAllDocuments and ExecuteMacro
(dr)
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02.Jan.2022
Daniel Müßener (Mail)
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Preview video 24: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported) which is supposed to run on unaccelerated Amiga 1200 and CD32 with 50 fps.
In his 24. preview video the author presents a lot of changes, among others:
- Highlight: Null modem support. The playing field is then shown from the perspective of the respective team. Of course, the serial link still runs at 50Hz on unaccelerated A1200.
- Optimization of player drawing by exploiting frame coherence: only what is not painted over anyway is erased.
- Turf distance shading now much smoother.
- Marking for active players, usually the figures closest to the ball, inside. Realized with hardware sprites. It wasn't easy, because all 5 existing ones are already in use elsewhere.
- simple player control (running and simple shooting), ball sticks to the player for now, real ball physics with correct acceleration, gravity and friction.
(dr)
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01.Jan.2022
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Amiga-News.de wishes a happy new year
Amiga-News.de wishes all readers a happy new year and thanks its readers for the continuing loyalty. (dr)
[News message: 01. Jan. 2022, 16:27] [Comments: 3 - 09. Jan. 2022, 01:52]
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31.Dec.2021
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.50
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, developer of the Amiga-MOD player HippoPlayer, has updated it to version 2.50. Changes:
- New fixes:
- There was a bug in the sample player (which also plays MP3) in AHI compatibility. It could hang when playback was stopped. This happened especially when using AHI with the Toccata driver. Should work now.
- Another different possible AHI related hang bug fixed which could happen when pausing playback.
- When the play mode was set to "List repeatedly" and the list was full of dividers (a.k.a. directories), Hippo could get stuck trying to find a module to be played. This should be fixed now.
- Possible hang/crash bug (related to a stray audio interrupt) fixed in Ben Daglish and Kris Hatlelid formats.
- New supported music formats:
- Impulse Tracker, using the "Impulse" deliplayer, written by the Delirium team for DeliTracker.
- Impulse plays IT formats v1.00 and v2.00. Newer formats are not supported.
- Impulse supports pattern skip forwards and back, along with song end detection. Song position display is not supported.
- 32 channels are in use in all modules. This is due to the way IT modules work, channels are used dynamically according to whatever is needed at the moment.
- Modules can be played using the PS3M mixing engine or AHI.
- Stereo scope works with PS3M.
- Channel panning is not supported, each channel has a fixed stereo position.
- Requires 68020 or better.
- Impulse is not included in the HippoPlayer.group file, so Hippo will look for it in the following places: "PROGDIR:", "PROGDIR:eagleplayers", "eagleplayer2:eagleplayers". Here "PROGDIR:" is the directory where the Hippo binary is installed.
- Impulse can be found in the Aminet DeliTracker archive.
- New features:
- There is a new list mode which can be toggled by the button on top of the file slider: file browser. The list modes now are:
- Playlist (list icon)
- Favorites (heart icon)
- File browser (disk icon)
- File browser mode:
- In this mode the list displays contents of directories.
- Directories are entered by the "Play" button, return/enter key, or LMB double click. (Note that double click can be enabled/disabled in Prefs.)
- The topmost list item shows the name of the displayed directory. Activating it goes back to the parent directory.
- Files are filtered using the configured match pattern, see "Prefs/Loading/File Match Pattern" (kick2.0+ only).
- If you have enabled "Keep list on exit", Hippo will return to the directory where you left off if you were in the file browser mode when exiting.
- New keyboard shortcuts:
- List mode toggle: [SHIFT+M]
- Navigate to parent in file browser: [BACKSPACE]
- New ARexx commands (for HippoPlayerIR support):
- TOGGLEMODE: change between list modes
- FAVORITE: toggle chosen module favorite status
(dr)
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31.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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A570: 2 MB memory expansion for the external CD-ROM drive
The A570, a CD-ROM expansion for the Amiga 500, can itself be expanded by additional memory. Information on a corresponding 2 MB do-it-yourself PCB can be found at the title link. (snx)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2021, 08:04] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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Floppy drive emulator: Gotek Flash Floppy
Files for an alternative do-it-yourself PCB to the classic Gotek - an emulator of floppy disk drives for the usage of ADF files - can be found at the title link. Oleg Mishin's board for external or internal mounting can be equipped with an 0.96" OLED display and with push buttons or a rotary encoder. (snx)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2021, 08:03] [Comments: 0]
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31.Dec.2021
Amigablogs
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AROS: Text editor 'TwinsIDE 0.1' in progress
According to the developer 'serk118' under the title link, he has started developing a text editor called 'TwinsIDE' for AROS IDE. As he writes, the original plan was to either finish his work on porting AmiDE or to work on porting MurksIDE. But since the latter does not support syntax highlighting, he decided to write a text editor from scratch. (dr)
[News message: 31. Dec. 2021, 06:46] [Comments: 0]
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30.Dec.2021
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4: First public version of editor 'Lite XL' released
Recently George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, had announced that he is going to port the Linux editor Lite XL. Now he has released the first public version v1.16.12.3 of his port.
According to the author "LiteXL for AmigaOS 4 is still experimental and there are some known issues, but it is quite usable. It is recommended to use it on a fast AmigaOne, although it was tested on microAmiga1 and works pretty good, but slow."
Using an AmigaOne X5000, the editor could be started without problems (screenshots see above). Under WinUAE and AmigaOS 4.1 it runs with the help of the PatchCompositeTags, which gives the following result:
(dr)
[News message: 30. Dec. 2021, 17:53] [Comments: 0]
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29.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Book: Interest in a German version of Commodore - The Inside Story? (Update)
Three years ago the English book "Commodore: The Inside Story" became available at retailers. There the former Commodore UK Managing Director David Pleasance describes the twelve years in which he worked for the company.
Currently he wants to find out interest in a German version of the book, translation would be done by Anton Preinsack. Sufficient demand given, a crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter would be started, with a price of 35 British Pounds for the hardcover book (almost 42 Euros currently). An e-book version would follow. If you are interested in it, please write an e-mail to email@davidpleasance.com with the subject "German Translation".
Update: (02.02.22, 09:01, snx)
In a posting to our comments section, Anton Preinsack points out that his German translation would be basically finished already and that an e-book version would be published in any case. (snx)
[News message: 29. Dec. 2021, 08:32] [Comments: 1 - 02. Jan. 2022, 09:08]
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29.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 129 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. (snx)
[News message: 29. Dec. 2021, 08:20] [Comments: 0]
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29.Dec.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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AROS: Update of 68k distribution Aros Vision
Olaf Schönweiß has updated his AROS/68k distribution Aros Vision. Changes in this update without a version number include updated ROMs and datatypes as well as the new version of WHDLoad and its graphical interface iGame.
It is recommended to copy the libraries bullet.library and rexxsyslib.library from AmigaOS 3.1 to Libs: and the command rexxmast to C: and to use the Installer 43.3 by Amiga Technologies (Aminet) for installation. WHDLoad is pre-installed using AROS ROMs; for full support, you will need original Kickstart ROMs (description). (snx)
[News message: 29. Dec. 2021, 08:17] [Comments: 0]
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29.Dec.2021
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THEA500 Mini: Interview with Paul Andrews
The Blog BlitterWolf has published an interview with Paul Andrews, the managing director of RetroGames which is about the announced THEA500 Mini. Among other things, a "full sized version" is promised with the 'THEA500' if sales are satisfactory, similar to the approach taken with the THEC64 Mini and the THEC64. (dr)
[News message: 29. Dec. 2021, 08:06] [Comments: 0]
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29.Dec.2021
Rob Smith
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Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS, part 4
Rob Smith, known for his project DrawBridge for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, has now released the last part of his YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). Here he is "focusing on improving performance, music, sound effects and the finishing touches such as showing your score, and the title screen". (dr)
[News message: 29. Dec. 2021, 07:32] [Comments: 0]
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