23.Nov.2021
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail-Programm Iris 1.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.0 of his email program Iris today, ending its beta status. On this occasion the author has published a separate statement:
"After about 5 years of development, the first non-beta release of Iris is now available for download!
Iris is the most advanced and modern mail client among all of the clients available on MorphOS and Amiga. It's the only client to support OAuth2 for GMail, Yahoo and Outlook. It's the only client to support full html viewing and editing of emails, thanks to the inclusion of a stripped down WebKit. Iris is the application that has sparked off countless innovations in other parts of the OS, including adding ObjectiveC support and Unicode support into MUI.
Getting to the 1.0 version would not have been possible without the support of all of the betatesters, translators and users who either donated to the project or sent me bugreports and logs. I would also like to single out Christoph Poelzl of https://rms-communications.ch for all of his contributions and pushing me to add features to meet his business use cases. Iris would not have been what it is now without your input. Thank you!
There's still a long TODO for Iris, so keep looking out for future updates."
Among the new features of version 1.0 is the long awaited keyword search in email body.
For feedback to the author, the corresponding MorphZone-discussion on the topic can be used. (dr)
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23.Nov.2021
Prince (Phaze 101)
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial
Prince', founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-shifted to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
Among other things stimulated by our inquiry, to what extent the newly acquired knowledge is practically applied by his participants, Prince has now decided to give further assistance and to show the conversion into assembler for the Amiga step by step on the basis of the small C64 game 'Poop's Journey'. The episode 1 has now been uploaded to YouTube. (dr)
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22.Nov.2021
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Texteditor: Amiga Source Editor 1.70
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 1.70 with the following changes:
- Documentation in Amiguide format
- Correction of the German localization (thanks Andreas and Daniel)
- Fixed ARexx functioning under MorphOS
- Processing screens with a resolution greater than 800x600
- Possibility of positioning the status bar in the upper or lower part of the window
- Improved text selection
- Improved management of the active window
- Removal of single-window mode
- Possibility to configure the default clipboard
- Added 'drag & drop' functionality to document windows
- Possibility to use an icon for standby documents
(dr)
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21.Nov.2021
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood plugin: hURL 1.2 for several data transfer protocols
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with a major update of hURL - the ultimate multi-protocol data transfer plugin for Hollywood, which allows Hollywood scripts to transfer data using all kinds of different network protocols including full SSL support.
Version 1.2 is a major update that now supports Hollywood 9's extended network adapter so that Hollywood's DownloadFile() and UploadFile() functions can now handle all protocols supported by hURL instead of just HTTP. This makes it much easier to use hURL because you often don't have to use hURL's lowlevel interface any longer but can just use DownloadFile() or UploadFile().
hURL supports an incredibly wide range of transfer protocols, e.g. DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. As with all Hollywood plugins, hURL comes with extensive documentation in various formats like PDF (over 300 pages!), HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that contains detailed descriptions about all functions and methods offered by the plugin.
All of this makes hURL the ultimate data transfer tool for Hollywood that contains everything you need to send and receive data via almost any transfer protocol on the planet.
hURL is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS 3.x (m68k), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (PPC, ARM, x86, x64), Mac OS (PPC, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (ARM, ARM64), and iOS (ARM, ARM64) are provided.
Note that on AmigaOS and compatibles, AmiSSL 4.x is required by hURL for SSL transfers. Since this isn't available in a native MorphOS version yet, you can just use the 68k version of AmiSSL 4.x on MorphOS. It has been verified to work fine with hURL. (snx)
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21.Nov.2021
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Aminet uploads until 20.11.2021
The following files have been added until 20.11.2021 to Aminet:
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.2M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
MaestrixReloaded.lha driver/aud 163K MOS The Maestrix 2: Reloaded on P...
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 407K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 17M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
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...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
abcm2ps.lha mus/misc 554K MOS Convert music tunes from ABC ...
HuntnGather.lha util/dir 102K 68k File indexing and search util...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 431K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
AnalogClock.lha util/time 38K 68k Analog transparent clock for ...
(snx)
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21.Nov.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 20.11.2021
The following files have been added until 20.11.2021 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 17Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
datenbank.lha off/dat 51Mb 4.1 Simple offline Database done wit...
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21.Nov.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 20.11.2021
The following files have been added until 20.11.2021 to AROS Archives:
barspipes.zip aud 5Mb Port of Amiga 68k Best Midi Sequ...
4klive.i386-aros.zip aud/mis 491kb Simple synth toy.
a1kstartup_remix.zip aud/mis 42kb Aros startup sound
dt42.lha aud/mis 814kb DT-42 DrumToy
flac133.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 2Mb Free Lossless Audio Codec
gtuner.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 5Mb a Guitar Tuner
muitronome.i386-aros.lha aud/mis 83kb a Mui Ahi Metronome
armodplugplayer02.i386-ar... aud/pla 2Mb Plays 22 different mod formats ,...
harmonyplayer.i386-aros.zip aud/pla 1Mb multi format music player
modexplorer_aros.zip aud/pla 2Mb Streaming mod file from Internet...
protracker23d.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 3Mb Music making software "ProT...
protrekkr.i386-aros.lha aud/tra 10Mb Protrekkr
siddump.i386-aros.lha aud/tra 106kb C64 music debug output utility
snow_ninja.i386-aros.lha dem/sce 16Mb Demo from SSEP 2012
z-nexx.i386-aros.lha dem/sce 23Mb Demo from SSSP 2013
aidea.lha dev/ide 11Mb IDE Enviroment
bas2tap.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 111kb Sinclair BASIC file to TAP tape ...
bin2tap.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 107kb Sinclair CODE file to TAP converter
z802tzx.i386-aros.lha emu/uti 183kb Spectrum Z80 Snapshot to TZX Tap...
bumprace.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb Avoid obstacles in top-down spac...
darkest-hour.i386-aros.lha gam/adv 88kb Old-fashioned text adventure game
nmtm1.lzx gam/adv 20Mb Point and click adventure game
nmtm-solution.lha gam/mis 9kb The solution for the game No Mor...
brickshoot.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 3Mb Shoot to clear colored blocks (6...
football-manager.i386-aro... gam/spo 138kb Relive the Sinclair Speccy footb...
grafx2-2.7.i386-aros.zip gra/edi 1Mb The Ultimate 256-color bitmap pa...
68k_datatypes.zip gra/mis 24kb new datatype for aros m68k
hwp_rapagui-2.1.i386-aros... lib/mis 7Mb Cross-platform GUI toolkit for H...
toolbar_mcc.zip lib/mui 4kb Toolbar custom class for MUI
simplemail_0.43.zip net/ema 1Mb IMAP POP3 Client Email
hbecard.lha uti/mis 4Mb This little happy birthday elect...
(snx)
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21.Nov.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 20.11.2021
The following files have been added until 20.11.2021 to MorphOS Storage:
MaestrixReloaded_2.0.lha Audio/Drivers The Maestrix 2: Reloade...
abcm2ps_8.14.12.lha Audio/Misc Convert music tunes fro...
HivelyTracker_1.8.lha Audio/Tracker HivelyTracker 1.8 writt...
AmiArcadia_28.22.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
REminiscence_data.lha Games/Adventure REminiscence_data.lha
REminiscence_0.4.9.lha Games/Adventure REminiscence is a re-im...
NMTM_14.11.21.lha Games/Adventure A game concept demo of ...
Woof_8.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
dsda-doom_0.22.lha Games/Shoot3D This is a fork of prboo...
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21.Nov.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.11.2021
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 20.11.2021:
- 2021-11-15 improved: Workbench 3.1 (CBM) reassembled with latest kickemu, WHDCtrl enabled (Info)
(snx)
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21.Nov.2021
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Event: Videos of AmiWest 2021
October 16 and 17, the 24th AmiWest took place in Sacramento, California (amiga-news.de reported), and as usual Robert Bernardo prepared videos of the show, with the final one published today:
(snx)
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21.Nov.2021
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FPGA: First Playstation1 game for MISTer
In mid-August we reported that Robert 'FPGAzumSpass' Peip had announced a Playstation1 emulation for the MISTer. In mid-October he announced via YouTube video that first games would basically run. Now yesterday via Twitter announced that with RidgeRacer the first PlayStation game is now playable on MiSTer: Some bugs are still present, but encourage testing. Unfortunately, those who do not have a second SDRAM available will have to wait a few more days.
He has documented his efforts in a GitHub project. (dr)
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20.Nov.2021
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Accelerator board: Last Buffee status update for 2021
In our last new item we reported that the Buffee accelerator boards had to be sent back for revision. Now the developers have published a last bog entry for this year (pictures available under the title link):
"I have many words for the last year, none of which I can really express here. Suffice to say that this “chip shortage” has pushed back retail production run into January – at least at this point – I believe nothing anyone’s saying until I have boards physically in hand. Despite the delays, our beta testing is going along well, but very, very slowly. We’re still waiting for the last of the beta boards to come in before we begin shipping, and I absolutely appreciate everyone’s patience with this. Software is coming along nicely and we have good timing on the bus and can read and write, so that’s progress!
Debugging the bus aside, we’re well along testing PJIT and the C (slow) emulator. But I wanted to take a small step aside and talk about what we’ve been developing ON. Say hello to the DIP-64 version of the MiniMig currently under development!
While I’d love to say that this is just for Buffee, this opens the MiniMig up to running basically any 68000 accelerator, fast RAM or IDE expansion, adding a ton of utility it never had before. Want a 68030? Ok. Maybe an 8MB+IDE board? Sure. How about a Vampire? Hey, sometimes Buffee gets along with Vampires too. Anyway, this is an amazing bit of kit and of course, can still run the SEC000 at 50MHz giving it near Amiga 3000 speeds.
I’m also taking a stab at fixing up some of the old MiniMig Verilog code to add real Amiga mouse support (quadrature decode) as well as proper scanlines that don’t darken the screen along with aspect-correct scaling. Wait, what’s that, you haven’t heard of this? Well, most scanline implementations just black-out or dim alternating lines which dims the screen. Given that LCD’s already have a horrid dynamic range compared to CRTs, it’s not great makign the screen dimmer than it has to. The magic is in using what is basically an overlay filter, combined with some horizontal (but no vertical) smoothing. I think the look is fantastic.
We’re also looking at updating some other aspects like removing the antiquated PS/2 ports and supporting the 50MHz mode with Buffee to have a 50MHz bus to chip RAM. Fun times ahead, we just need to be a little more patient." (dr)
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20.Nov.2021
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The Amiga video memory: Amigavideo.net
Amigavideo.net collects on its site any videotapes dedicated to the Amiga. Amigavideo wants to make available hours of videos to the Amiga community, "from TV commercials to boring 2-hour long tutorials, without forgetting the institutional films selling the machine as the 'most amazing' computer ever."
The first goal of this website is to gather as many Amiga related videos as possible, preferably in the best available quality. As Thierry further reports, many of the videos can also be found elsewhere. With Amigavideo.net one simply wants to increase the chances for the Amiga fan to find and watch the video he is looking for. Besides, so many websites have disappeared without a trace, Commodore Billboard or Back2roots come to mind.
Thierry was kind enough to tell us the following about the history of the project:
"The website has been officially launched on Oct 2017 (quick panel during AmigaON, an Amiga reunion that took place in Ontario, Canada)
The first idea of this website surfaced around 2015 when my pile of Amiga VHS tapes was getting bigger and bigger. I'm a big Amiga fan/user (since...1990) and also Cinema/AudioVisual enthusiast, the reason of my "attraction" to everything involving Amiga and Video.
The main reason was to "share" those tapes instead of just keeping it in a storage and with a "better" interface than YouTube or etc (where pretty much all the videos already are...but good luck to find anything if you don't know the exact name of the video...
Recently, the whole collection has been upscaled to 720/60p with noise reduction....insanely long process but I'm very happy with the result."
A future step would be to obtain master copies (also on loan) and preserve them (at least digitally) in as future-proof a state as possible. (dr)
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20.Nov.2021
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Emulation: vAmiga as web port
Christian Corti has obviously specialized in web conversions of emulators and programs with his web presence NEOART Costa Rica: Thus, besides the web conversion of the C64 emulator "VirtualC64" and the music tracker "Future Composer" in the form of a remake, he also offers the web conversion of the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga developed by Dirk Hoffmann. All that is needed is a current browser such as Chrome, Edge or Firefox. The required ROMs are provided in the form of an 'AROS Replacement Kickstart ROM'. It is also possible to use your own ROMs, but tests in this regard have failed on our part. Corti explicitly points out the beta status of the project, but we wanted to see how applicable this already is and chose as a test object the game Crazy Columns, which the author Jochen Hoffer provides in the form of an adf file.
After calling the title link, we are greeted as follows:
After a "Continue", the settings page awaits us:
We decide for "Install AROS" and thus for the "AROS Kickstart Replacement ROM". In the tab "Hardware" you can load pre-configured preferences. Since 'Crazy Columns' was written for the Amiga 500, we decide to use it. After an "OK" the emulator starts:
Since no action is triggered by pressing the icons, we simply drag the ADF file of the game into the window and the game is loaded. However, the first attempt is still slowed down by the message 'too little memory'. We increase the Fast RAM from the default 0 kB to 512 kB and start again. This time with success:
Furthermore, there is a second web implementation of the vAmiga emulator, vAmigaWeb. This is maintained by GitHub user "Mithrendal" and can be reached at this direct link. As vAmiga developer Dirk Hoffmann tells us, "this emulator is also in beta. At the moment important features like the keyboard are still missing. A mouse support is available since yesterday. This webport should run later mainly on mobile devices." (dr)
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19.Nov.2021
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.3
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.
This new version 0.9.3 provides the following changes:
- Profiler update: Trigger conditions and actions are displayed. Also added extra cathegories in the main bar.
- Code for global variables has been optimized.
- Code for input has been optimized.
- Render code has been optimized.
- New action Trigger Sprite Layer to enabled or disable the Level Sprite Layer.
- New action Trigger Sprite Spd X to set up the Level Sprite Layer Speed in X.
- Removed HUD Enabled/Top/Bottom from HUD screen as now the setup is done in Level Properties.
- Audio routines for player and the editor have been unified.
- Code has been converted to ASCII, this is just better for me but could have some unknown implications.
- Some internal code refactoring.
- In Game Setup screen Target FPS has been renamed to Max FPS.
- FIX: Sprite setup not being seen in the Level Properties screeb.
- FIX: When entering the level screen some old projects could crash the editor.
(dr)
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18.Nov.2021
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Javascript: Scripted Amiga Emulator 0.9.13
Rupert Hausberger's "Scripted Amiga Emulator" is written in Javascript and HTML5. The goal of his project is to make the 'Amiga Classic' emulation available for browsers. This should not require any browser plugins or third-party scripts, but only HTML5 and Javascript. Finally, it should be possible to play demos, intros or mods, play games or benchmark the browser. After a small break, he has now brought version 0.9.13 online, which brings the following changes:
- Fixed bug in CLXDAT in combination with full-collision-detection. (Thanks 'dirkwhoffmann' for info)
- Fixed Semi-Colon-Key under Firefox. (Thanks 'goldnchild' for info)
- Enabled HTTPS. It should fix the Gamepad-API secure-context problem. (Thanks 'goldnchild' for info)
(dr)
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18.Nov.2021
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.1 for Raspberry Pi 4/400
Besides new versions of some Amiga programs, minor update 11.7.1 (changelog) of Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the single-board computer Raspberry Pi 4/400 also includes version 4.1.6 of the underlying emulator AmiBerry that was released last month. (snx)
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17.Nov.2021
Discord
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Preview video: Remake of Rick Dangerous
'Z-Team' has announced a remake of the game Rick Dangeous with enhanced graphics for the Amiga 1200 or CD32 as their entry for this year's AmiGameJam. Now a first preview video of the game developed with the Scorpion Engine has been released. (dr)
[News message: 17. Nov. 2021, 06:44] [Comments: 0]
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17.Nov.2021
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Video tutorial: Episode 20 of assembler coding course
'Prince', founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', is currently streaming the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. Now the episode 20 was published, which continues in chapter 7 and is dedicated to the topic 'Sprites'. (dr)
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17.Nov.2021
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Amiga Art Contest 2021: Announcement of the winners
In a video show the winners of the this year's Amiga Art Contest (amiga-news.de reported) have been announced.
The "Animation" category was won by Hernán 'Hache' Beroldo with his Pink Panther production. The "3D Raytrace Images" category was won by Kevin Quattro with Sub Gate.
The "Mod and Music" category was won by Paulee Alex Bow with 'WIcked Game Remix' (found at the title link). Amiga Bill won the photography category with his Face image. Finally, the winner for the Hand Drawn Artwork category was announced: Kevin Saunders with Flower Planet. (dr)
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16.Nov.2021
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AmigaOS 3/4: New Netsurf test build
In May 2020 the version 3.10 of the ReAction-based Amiga port of the web browser Netsurf was released. Until the next official release 3.11, so-called test builds are published by the developers, which already include changes but may still contain bugs.
After a longer break, Chris Young has now updated the build version #5314 with the root certificates, which are included in the currently current version #5318. When asked, Chris Young explained to us that especially the OS3 version has to be considered as a pure test version - 'very alpha/beta quality'. Furthermore, he holds out the prospect of a possible special AmigaOS 3.2 version, should it prove true that the ReAction gadgets and his workarounds for the old versions are the cause of the instability.
A short test of the OS4 version first takes us to our main page, which loads without problems. When selecting a single message, three or four seconds pass:
Now the message about Ben Hermans is selected and the source on amigaworld.net is called. The page loads quickly, but an additional window opens with a list of JavaScript errors. At least it becomes clear that the page obviously does not work without the infamous tracking tool..:
Well remembered is that GitHub pages often cause difficulties (under previous Wayfarer versions sometimes no text was visible), so we test the link to Dirk Hoffmann's MacOS emulator vAmiga:
The page itself loads very quickly, but the warning messages increase again. Furthermore, logging in is not possible because the corresponding link is missing. Basically, JavaScript can be disabled in the settings. Furthermore Chris Young gave us the tip to add "log_filter:level:CRITICAL" to the choice file under NetSurf/Users/Default to stop the display of the errors. Finally, we allow ourselves to type a big name into the input field: heise.de:
Apart from the fact that you are overwhelmed by JavaScript errors, this was probably a bit too big. But NetSurf ran stable and one can only hope that the development will be continued to have another alternative especially under AmigaOS 4.
Downloads:
(dr)
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16.Nov.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Full version of "Zeewolf" available as free download
Amiga Future offers the full version of the shooter Zeewolf for free download. ADF and IPF disk images are offered, as well as a ready WHDLoad install. (cg)
[News message: 16. Nov. 2021, 17:18] [Comments: 0]
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16.Nov.2021
FS-UAE (Webseite)
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Emulation: FS-UAE Lanucher 3.1.48
The "FS-UAE Launcher" is responsible for configuring and launching the Amiga emulator FS-UAE. The now released update includes some translations that were forgotten in the original release. The author points out that due to changes in the SDL library used by FS-UAE, the controller configuration in FS-UAE Lanucher may need to be updated to make the emulator respond to all joystick or joypad buttons again. (cg)
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15.Nov.2021
Nivrig Games
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Game announcement: Arcade action game 'Turbo Santa'
After the huge success of Turbo Tomato, John Girvin of Nivrig Games has announced his next game for the 68k Amigas: In Turbo Santa, the player must fill in for Santa Claus, who has fallen asleep, and try to deliver presents in time to save Christmas.
The story: "Christmas Day has come to The Garden. The children are starting to wake up and wander around, still half-asleep, looking for the presents Santa has left them. But none are to be found!
Gather magical gifts as they appear and toss them to the dreaming children. Don't miss, and watch out for the GRONCH dashing around stealing presents! Take too long and the children will wake up to no presents and Christmas will be ruined!"
Turbo Santa (video) has been announced for December and will be available for free. It will require 1Mb Chip Ram and Kickstart 2.04. Music is by DJ METUNE. (dr)
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14.Nov.2021
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Aminet uploads until 13.11.2021
The following files have been added until 13.11.2021 to Aminet:
MAXsTelnet.lha comm/maxs 330K How to use MAXsBBS with telnet
Andy_and_Blondie.lha demo/intro 61K 64K intro
Mattonite.lha game/actio 972K 68k Arkanoid like PAL game almost...
TilesSlide.lha game/actio 71K 68k Align 3-4 tiles of the same c...
Abu_Simbel_Profan_-TF... game/misc 7.9M 68k Abu Simbel Profanation The Fu...
Umoria.lha game/role 765K MOS Robert A. Koeneke's classic r...
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 726K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
jfsw.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k Shadow Warrior Amiga Port
darkest-hour.i386-aro... game/text 88K x86 Old-fashioned text adventure ...
bas2tap-mos.lha misc/emu 100K MOS Sinclair BASIC file to TAP co...
Euro-Update.lha misc/os 424K Official Euro-Update for Amig...
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
SamplesCreator.lha mus/edit 40K 68k Samples creation and saving
SamplesCreatorDemos.lha mus/misc 172K Some samples created by Sampl...
MMV8_Player.lha mus/play 34K 68k MusicMaker V8 Player
Tama_Backdrops.lha pix/back 249K AOS 3.2 dark themed WB backdrop
StandardMagicWB.lha pix/mwb 2.4M Standardised MagicWB Icon Set
BNumsRTGPack.lha pix/theme 26M 68k Birdie Num Nums RTG Themes Pa...
MCP133b1.lha util/cdity 517K 68k THE Ultimate WB Enchancer!
RxEnv.lha util/rexx 36K 68k ARexx development tools
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 100K 68k External Virus Scanner Librar...
GTPropPatch.lha util/wb 4K 68k Enables PROPNEWLOOK knobs/scr...
RandomBackdrop.lha util/wb 8.2M 68k Up to 255 random backdrops wi...
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.11.2021
The following files have been added until 13.11.2021 to OS4Depot:
nmtm.lzx gam/adv 20Mb 4.0 Point and click adventure game
chwiloka.lha gam/puz 8Mb 4.1 Memory game
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.11.2021
The following files have been added until 13.11.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
ModExplorerNG.lha Audio/Players A module player by J?rg.
RxEnv_1.2.lha Development/Arexx ARexx development tools
SDL_2.0.16_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL 2.0.1...
bas2tap_2.6.lha Emulation/Misc Sinclair BASIC file to ...
EasyRPG_Player_0.7.0.lha Emulation A program that allows t...
REminiscence_0.4.9.lha Games/Adventure REminiscence is a re-im...
ScummVM_2.6.0GIT.lha Games/Adventure 2D Point-and-Click adve...
SpaceCadetPinball.lha Games/Misc Decompilation of 3D Pin...
Umoria_5.7.15.lha Games/Role Robert A. Koeneke's cla...
PassPocket_1.1.lha Misc Password manager utility
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14.Nov.2021
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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Adventure: Release date and final trailer for Ermentrud - Hero with Horse
More than twenty years after its first announcement, release date of the point-and-click adventure "Ermentrud - Held mit Pferd" (Ermentrud - Hero with Horse) has been set: In about four weeks, on December 10, 2021, the game will be available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Windows, Mac OS and iOS). A video introduces the game. (snx)
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14.Nov.2021
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Graphics card: Status update on the ZZ9000
In 2018 the ZZ9000 as the successor of the FPGA-based and open source Zorro II/III compatible graphics board MNT VA2000 could be preordered. The ZZ9000 combines a RTG graphics board, AGA scandoubler and network card equipped with two 666-MHz-ARM coprocessors for applications demanding high processing power like accelerated graphic rendering or JPEG and MP3 decoding. Besides, an USB port provides support for USB mass storages.
Now on the product site the following statement was published: "Due to the global chip shortage, we have decided to stop selling ZZ9000 temporarily. We have preordered all necessary parts to build and ship all existing orders. The current shipping target for 92% of existing orders is January 2022 and the rest in March 2022. Thank you for your patience and support." (dr)
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13.Nov.2021
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Tools for ARexx development: RxEnv V1.2
At the beginning of September we reported on Carl Svensson's project RxEnv which is supposed to add a 'REPL' to the ARexx development environment.
REPL is for 'Read, Eval, Print, Loop' and offers the option to enter any ARexx code in an interactive window and get immediately response. This might be helpful to find bugs in the code (see this article).
His intension and the story of his project, Svensson has explained in his article The Joy Of Limitations: Writing an ARexx REPL in ARexx. Now he has released version 1.2 of RxEnv with the following changes:
- Implemented immediate mode in the REPL.
- If an error occurs, rxpp now exits with return code 20 instead of return code 1.
- Added malloc() checks to rxpp.
- Added the pprx script.
- Minor cleanups in REPL code.
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12.Nov.2021
Youtube / 8-Bit Guy (ANF)
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8-BitArcade-Adventure: "PETSCII Robots" announced for Amiga
PETSCII Robots by popular Texas youtuber 8 Bit Guy is an arcade adventure game originally developed for the Commodore PET, whose in-game "graphics" consisted entirely of PETSCII characters (video).
Since then the commercially distributed title has been made available for various retro platforms (including VIC 20, C64, C128, Plus/4, Apple II, Atari), with each port attempting to exploit the graphical and sound capabilities of the target system as much as possible. In his most recent Youtube release the "8 Bit Guy" now announces further ports, including one for the Amiga 500 - moving pictures of this version can be seen starting at minute 16:50. (cg)
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11.Nov.2021
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #127 - Nicola and Anthony Caulfield
In their new podcast episode, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Nicola and Anthony Caulfield, a filmmaking team from London. They are responsible for documentaries like "From Bedrooms To Billions" and its sequel "The Amiga Years" . Their current project, called "The Rubber-Keyed Wonder", is about the ZX Spectrum. Interview starts at 9:47 minutes. (snx)
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11.Nov.2021
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXIX in Kiel (Germany) on November 27, 2021
On saturday, November 27, 2021, the next "Interface" retrocomputing event takes place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. Details can be found in our german news-item. (snx)
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11.Nov.2021
amigaworld.net
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Anniversary: 20 years AmigaSource
For 20 years now Scott Pistorino collects on his site AmigaSource all information around the Amiga. On October 19, 2001 he introduced his project on amiga-news.de. Beside several interviews with Ben Hermans or Fleecy Moss from 2002 there are numerous categories like software, hardware, demos etc. Because Pistorino changed to a new database some time ago, some articles are not yet available again. In the future he plans to add links to all official Amiga systems like X1000, A1222 etc. as well as systems of external developers like MiSTer, Vampire, Raspberry Pi etc. We say congratulations! (dr)
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10.Nov.2021
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AmigaOS 4.1: Start of video and discussion series
Each Friday on 19:30 Uhr CET George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, explains on Twitch the AmigaOS and had so far focused on version 3.2. Those videos he also has uploaded to YouTube. Since last Friday now he talks about AmigaOS 4.1 and explains among others in the first episode the AmigaOS 4.1 FE file structure, the different Prefs utilities and what can be done with them and why the WBStartup folder is removed and what took its place. (dr)
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09.Nov.2021
AmigaImpact
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New preview video: 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.
Meanwhile the author has published the 20. preview video from which here two screenshots have been taken:
The crowd asset is a temporary placeholder, taken from Super Soccer (SNES). About the history of the game the author wrote:
"Around 1994 or so, when I lived in Ecuador, my friend Patricio Maldo and I were pretty much the only Amiga users all around, everybody else was into PC. Therefore software supply was pretty bad and we usually had to wait until the next trip to Germany to stock up.
Although I actually hate soccer, we both spent hours over hours with the soccer management simulations "Starbyte Super Soccer" and "Bundesliga Manager Pro" (and he constantly beating me ;) ).
Our verdict was clear: Starbyte had the more interesting features whereas Bundesliga Manager had the superior presentation with its great goal sequences.
What we wanted was a mixture of both, so I started coding one. I'm pretty sure it was Patricio who came up with the name "Souverän!".
Back then I used GFA Basic on my A500 with 1MB. By the time it was pretty cool, had lots of advanced features, but the primary reason for using it was: I simply had nothing else ;)
For the goal sequences I came up with something special: SNES Super Formation Soccer like 3D view! I had seen this in an issue of the german games mag "VideoGames", used those mags a lot for inspiration. Well, it was not fullscreen, of course, limited to 4 color IIRC, consisting out of some 10 precalculated base pictures (thanks to DeluxePaint's 3D functions) and parallax scrolling chunks of 5 rows of pixels or so. Was actually pretty cool nevertheless :)
Unfortunately I ran into some RAM limitations at some point, IIRC it was some issue with GFA Basic itself, something like no more arrays available or so, so the project died when it was already fairly advanced.
So, this here is a tribute to this project from ~25 years ago :)." (dr)
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09.Nov.2021
AmigaImpact
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Emulator: FS-UAE 3.1
The author Frode Solheim wrote:
"While I'm primarily working on FS-UAE & Launcher 4, I've seen the need to do some updates to version 3 as well. Especially for macOS users where 3.0.5 is not working very well on the latest macOS releases. But it has useful fixes for other platforms as well, including a fix for using .lha archives on Windows and a compatibility fix for using QEMU-UAE on recent Linux distros. I haven't announced version 3.1 on fs-uae.net yet, among other things because I don't have installers prepared yet, and I also haven't had time to make sure that FS-UAE Arcade runs correctly. Apologies for not having a more smooth upgrade path, but I simply haven't had time.
I have made a post over at the English Amiga Board with links to FS-UAE & Launcher version 3.1. I recommend that most users using 3.0.5 upgrade to this version." (dr)
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07.Nov.2021
George Sokianos (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.5.1
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations and, since Version 1.4.0, also to listen to podcasts. An external player like the free AmigaAmp or the commercial Emotion and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. About the latest version 1.5.0 the author George Sokianos has written:
"When I started working on MediaVault I was thinking that I would be very happy to release new versions every two weeks. And here we are, with releases every few days, not even two weeks. Sure, some of them were small or bug fixes only, but the majority had one or two changes that make the user experience better.
Like the way the podcast episodes are shown in this version and the new updates auto check every time you start MediaVault. The latter will keep you updated, without the need to learn about a new release from a blog post or check for that manually.
From v1.5.1 when you select a podcast, either from your favourites list or from the discovery ones, the podcasts list appears at the middle of the MediaVault window. This way it is easier to read their titles and the date they were released, with the need to make the window bigger. You can always return to the search results by selecting the section from the left sidebar.
There were some extra changes and fixes to make the application better all the way and a lot of code cleanup, to keep it readable for other developers.
I would like to thank all of my supporters for helping me develop MediaVault, adding new features and making it better and better." (dr)
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07.Nov.2021
OS4Depot
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Little review: Password management "PassPocket"
Yesterday version 1.1 of the password manager 'PasspPocket' was released in the OS4Depot. However, the archive includes versions for both AmigaOS 3 and 4. We took a look at the version for AmigaOS 4 and daringly left the instructions (in German and English) aside (for now) and started the program directly - hoping to be able to dive intuitively into the world of password management...
After starting the program, we are greeted by the following small window:
Hm, our expectations were dashed right at the beginning: Logically (?) I assumed that some window opens and you are asked whether you want to create a new password database or open an existing one. Since one is asked directly for a password, this can only mean: First start of the program, so a new database is created and I give the password. Which of the readers goes along with this train of thought...? I try to be creative, not to use simply "test" and decide for "OhneAmigaistdieWeltfade" ;) I could have saved myself this labor of love, though, as immediately a window grumbles, "The main password does not match a database". Well, the menu of 'PassPocket' only allows an "Quit". So, with my intuition I didn't get far and now I'll have a look at the manual after all. "Getting Started - Test driving PassPocket." The author probably guessed that there would be questions. There I read that 'PassPocket' always automatically searches for databases in the folder "Database" and in this first case finds the sample database. Aha. The password would be "AmigaRulez!". Let's try, works:
I learn further that pressing the pen (AISS package required!) starts the edit mode of the entry. I try with the "Sample Account":
Oh dear, also caught Google...;) With the magnifying glass the password can be shown, here "Password" is used sensibly. I cancel and want to create my own database now, of course. Using the menu item "Database" and the entry "New", a window like the first one shown above is generated, now with the text:" Enter a master password to create a new database." After so much mental work already done, I now make it easy and use: "Amiga". Thereupon a selection window opens for the assignment of a name for the database. I stay with "Amiga".
I'll do it!
So, how can you use this in a meaningful way? Again a look into the manual. One learns: If an entry is activated (left mouse button), you can use CTRL+Alt+u to enter the web page, for example, in the browser at the top. Works! The username can be inserted with CTRL+Alt+n and the password finally with CTRL+Alt+p. Works.
I am now still interested in what happens after closing and restarting the program. Will I be offered different databases? No, I am simply asked for the main password of the database. Hm, okay, then, I think, it will simply compare all existing databases with my entered password and open them if they match. So I type in "Amiga" and get the disappointing message: password does not match any database. Hmm...Consult the manual again. Oha: I have to change the tooltypes of the program myself and add to my newly created database...:
So I add: 'DATABASE2=Amiga' and 'BACKUP2=Amiga_Backup'. So, now I start the program again and type in 'Amiga' and behold, my "Forum Amiga News" entry appears...But there shouldn't be a more user-friendly solution...? What is also not clear to me: Why is it only possible to delete all account entries of a database and not a single one? It is more likely that I have deleted my access data of a single site, so I don't need them anymore and only want to have this entry deleted...
Since not only IBrowse, but under OS4 also Odyssey Web Browser offers a password management, the question remains: What for and when do I use 'PassPocket'? Since surfing the internet with an Amiga is an exciting and challenging task, which sometimes works better with one browser, sometimes with the other, it would make sense not to create the passwords again with every browser, but to use 'PassPocket'. By the way, the program is free and open source, the source code is included in the archive. (dr)
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Amiga-Emulator für MacOS: vAmiga 1.1 Beta 6
At the End of May the developer Dirk Hoffmann released version 1.0 of his Amiga emulator for MacOS. He continued the development by releasing the first beta version for version 1.1. Now he has released beta version 6 providing the following changes since version 4:
- CPU IPL polling is more accurate now (Phenomena Spectre Party Demo)
- Fixed a bug in the implementation of the LINK command that was able to crash the emulator
- a vastly improved Line Blitter and various smaller compatibility improvements
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Aminet uploads until 06.11.2021
The following files have been added until 06.11.2021 to Aminet:
Roadie.lha comm/net 123K 68k Commodity/GUI App for Roadsho...
8stars.lha demo/intro 4K 68k Simple intro 4k (+AmigaE src)
guigfxlib.lha dev/misc 257K OS4 Application layer for pixel g...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.2M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
DAControlGUI.lha disk/misc 159K 68k GUI for DAControl on Amiga OS...
pcexhumed.lha game/shoot 666K 68k Exhumed / Powerslave
darkest-hour.i386-aro... game/text 88K x86 Old-fashioned text adventure ...
darkest-hour.lha game/text 41K MOS Old-fashioned text adventure ...
darkest-hour_OS4.lha game/text 92K OS4 Old-fashioned text adventure ...
stoppa.lha game/wb 281K 68k Stoppa game
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
bin2tap.i386-aros.lha misc/emu 107K x86 Sinclair CODE file to TAP con...
bin2tap_OS4.lha misc/emu 105K OS4 Sinclair CODE file to TAP con...
bin2tap-mos.lha misc/emu 36K MOS Sinclair CODE file to TAP con...
HuntnGather.lha util/dir 97K 68k File indexing and search util...
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.0M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
PassPocket.lha util/misc 505K OS4 Password manager utility
Starlist2.98.lha util/misc 94K 68k A datasheet-like utility
TestProgram.zip util/misc 314K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
AnalogClock.lha util/time 38K 68k Analog transparent clock for ...
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OS4Depot uploads until 06.11.2021
The following files have been added until 06.11.2021 to OS4Depot:
bin2tap.lha emu/con 105kb 4.0 Sinclair CODE file to TAP converter
darkest-hour.lha gam/adv 92kb 4.0 Old-fashioned text adventure game
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 12Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
passpocket.lha uti/mis 505kb 4.0 Password manager utility
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 06.11.2021
The following files have been added until 06.11.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
bin2tap_1.3.lha Emulation/Misc bin2tap_1.3.lha
Darkest-hour.lha Games/Adventure Old-fashioned text adve...
AmiSSL_4.11_68k.lha System/Library/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
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07.Nov.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 06.11.2021
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 06.11.2021:
- 2021-10-28 improved: Inviyya (Tigerskunk) supports 7th level version, saves hiscores without trainers enabled now (Info, Image)
- 2021-10-28 fixed: Aladdin (Virgin) left border in game fixed, 3rd button joystick can be changed to throw apples (Info)
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07.Nov.2021
Spiegel 45/2021 (ANF)
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Famous Amiga users: Horst Seehofer (german politician)
That the parting home secretary of Germany and former prime minister of the german state Bavaria enjoys a model railway in his spare time has been publicly known for quite some time already. Now, however, in an interview with german news magazine "Der Spiegel" (issue 45/2021), Horst Seehofer revealed another, at least former, hobby as well.
Asked what exactly he would like about model making, he answered: "In the past I always unscrewed every Amiga computer because I wanted to understand how it works. Today it's different, most people don't know what a circuit board is today, some can't even fix a bicycle tire. On the model railway you do it all at once: You build with wood. You deal with electrics. You can program." (snx)
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07.Nov.2021
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New downloads on amigaland.de
At amigaland.de Mirko Engelhardt offers software that had been commercial before with the permission of the respective copyright owners. Latest additions include games published by Software 2000 or its branch Magic Soft: Backgammon, Charly and Ditris. (dr)
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06.Nov.2021
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ModExplorer 3.8 FE for all Amiga systems
As author Jörg Renkert writes on his homepage, the point of ModPlayer is not to be just another audio player (there are already enough good ones) with which to listen to your music archives. Instead, it offers users mods that they have never heard before. To do this, ModExplorer randomly downloads modules from the Internet (including Aminet, Modland and modules.pl) and plays them. These mods are also not stored permanently. Instead, ModExplorer creates a playlist that contains Internet links to these music files. This way they can be played again later.
The new version 3.8 now also offers a visual plugin that graphically represents the tracks by patterns and equalizers. Likewise, the author has integrated a small Trailblazer game as a gimmick. Besides some bug fixes, the program can now be controlled with the joystick.
The version name has received the appendix 'FE', because according to the author ModExplorer now includes all feature requested from users and also from himself. Therefore, this will be the final version (FE) of ModExplorer. But bug fixes would be made. However, he plans a special version for 68k Amigas for some of the functions of ModExplorer these Amigas so far overload. (dr)
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06.Nov.2021
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Lionheart Remake: Version 1.20 of Java por of Lionheart in development
After Byron 3D Games Studio had released the amiga game Lionheart for the LionEngine developed by them as Lionheart Java Remake in mid-October in version 1.10, the development of version 1.20 has now been started with the release of first screenshots of the underwater world.
Pierre-Alexandre, one of the developers, told us that the boss is finished. Now there is still some cleanup to do to complete the 'Underworld' tasks. Then he wants to add support for CRT filters and a launchable level editor. Having seen some videos of the remake on YouTube where none of the players could finish the first stage, he now is going to to simplify it.
The source codes for both the LionEngine and the game implementation are available on GitHub. (dr)
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05.Nov.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 19 of assembler coding course
'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams on Twitch the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English and after some time uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday episode 18 was published, continuing running through chapter 7 of the book teaching about 'Attached Sprites'. Furthermore the group 'Phaze101' has announced to publish an English-language version of the original Italian book. (dr)
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05.Nov.2021
amigaworld (Webseite)
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Ben Hermans listed as Hyperion's director again
In early May, Ben Hermans was delisted as Hyperion's director and presumably replaced by a judicial liquidator for Ben Hermans B.V. - the company that held the actual director position, while the person Ben Hermans acted as its permanent representative. According to an entry in Belgium's legal newsletter (local copy), Hermans was already reinstated as a director at the end of June (automated translation):
"With judgment of the Dutch-speaking business court of Brussels from June 18, 2021 [...] the judgment of May 7, 2021 where Mr. Jean Louis de Chaffoy de Courcelles was appointed as judicial liquidator, has been overruled. The judicial dissolution of Ben Hermens [B.V.] was revoked and the judicial liquidator was released from his assignment."
This week, Belgium's company register has been updated as well and now lists Ben Hermans' company as a director and Hermans himself as the company's permanent representative in that role again.
In a statement included in our previous news item, Mr. Hermans had announced that his private company had only got in trouble because it failed to file the yearly account for 2019 in time and that he was working on solving that.
Said yearly account is also available online now (local copy). The last page of the PDF file is - in contrast to the Rest of the document - made up of a picture containing scanned text instead of actual text and is therefore not readable for translation software. We OCR'd the document and fed the resulting Dutch text to a translation program. The result tells us the following:
On November 4, 2019 Ben Hermans sold 2165 Hyperion shares he personally owned to his company Ben Hermans B.V, for a price of 402,690 Euro (186 Euro per share). These are likely all of Hermans' shares: After a capital increase just a few months before the transaction in question, Hermans owned about 97% of the total of 2245 Hyperion shares. The transfer of shares from Ben Hermans to Ben Hermans B.V. has to be reported in the latter's yearly account due to a potential conflict of interest: Hermans sold shares of the company he runs to another company, while permantently representing the latter in the former's board of directors.
(cg)
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05.Nov.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 153
The English and German editions of Amiga Future issue 153 (November/December 2021) has been published yesterday and can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include an interview with Frank Röchter and a "Making Of" of his release 'Falconia', a review of 'Athanor 2 - Legend of the Birdmen' as well as 'Trevors Soapbox'.
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04.Nov.2021
Miguel Fides (Mail)
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Accelerator board: First batch of 'Tsunami 1230' delivered
At the beginning of August the developer Miguel Fides had announced a new accelerator board called 'Tsunami 1230' for the A1200. At the beginning of September then a first production run was started. As Miguel announces on the 'The Tsunami Project website, these boards have now been sent not only to the first pre-order customers, but also to selected stores. These include Relec (Switzerland) and Retropassion (UK) as well as Alinea in Germany. When asked, Simon Neumann from Alinea told us that currently, however, no cards have arrived yet.
Those who missed the pre-order campaign for the first production run can still express their interest in the card via Mail. (dr)
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04.Nov.2021
Amiga Love
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Self-made project: Amiga 2000/3000 keyboard
The developer 'grahamshaw1972' has started the project 'A2000 Serotina' which is a build it yourself Open Source hardware mechanical keyboard for the Amiga A2000 and A3000 computers. Features are:
- Uses standard PC keyboard parts, case + keycaps
- Allows the use of the WASD keycap printing service for Amiga specific keycaps
- All soldering is Through Hole - no SMD soldering required (see Wikipedia article)
- No original A2000 keyboard parts required
- All electronic components are still available to buy
- Uses an Arduino micro-controller
- Uses Cherry MX type switches
- Uses QMK firmware ( with Amiga specific code added )
- Multiple QMK keymaps supported for regional key variations
- Plugs directly in to an A2000 or A3000 using the 5 pin Din connector - no USB required
(dr)
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04.Nov.2021
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Shoot'em up: Third demo version of Jackal
NeesoGames had recently announced an amiga version of the game Jackal originally published by Konami in 1986 and had already released two demo versions.
Now a third demo version of the game created with the Scorpion Engine is available. The changes:
- MENU, SCREENS ETC
- fully working menu including intro with music (wait 7 seconds to see the intro)
- updated credits
- 2 mission complete screens (depends on the powerup you have at the end of the level)
- mission results screen
- loading indicator
- updated music (THANKS JMD!)
- IN GAME
- fixed collisions with rocks
- tileset dept (can drive behind palms or walls)
- animated shooting turrets
- all powerups implemented ('nade > missile > side explosions > cross explosions)
- deploy pows to copter
- complete basic boss fight (still a bit buggy but fully playable)
- a lot of optimizations and bug fixes
- STILL MISSING BUT MOSTLY COSMETIC/li>
- proper score/highscore calculation and display
- regular pows
- copter fly away when all pows are saved
(dr)
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04.Nov.2021
OS4Depot
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AmigaOS 4: FTP-Server 'ZitaFTP' 1.30
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.30 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
"I have a new ZitaFTP Server update for you. This one has a major new feature that's almost invisible (and that's by design). The new feature is: countermeasures against password cracking. It's designed to keep hackers out of your server and your machine, keeping your files safe.
More specifically, it protects against brute-force and dictionary type password cracking attempts. These attempts involve repeatedly trying different username and password combinations until they finally stumble on one that gets them in. It may sound impractical, but remember that these attacks are automated. Without any countermeasures, many password combinations could be attempted automatically per-second. ZitaFTP Server's password cracking prevention slows down and locks out would-be hackers, thereby keeping your files safe.
ZitaFTP Server is currently designed to be an easy to use private network server. It's perfectly capable of being an internet facing FTP server, but deliberately haven't added that ability to the UI. That's because the internet is a risky neighbourhood.
In the physical world, thieves can rattle windows and doors at night, looking for one that's loose (had that happen in Toronto one night). If they find a loose one, they sneak in. Well, on the internet the entire globe is your neighbourhood. Every single computer on the internet could potentially communicate with your internet facing server, meaning that good, bad, and downright evil people could all potentially come knocking, or rattling your server's virtual windows.
I simply wasn't comfortable adding internet server features to the UI without some kind of countermeasures against hacking attempts. The countermeasures are now here, so adding UI features to make setting up a full internet facing FTP server will be next (e.g., handling an external domain & TLS certificate)."
A single license of 'ZitaFTP Server' is available for about 47 Euro. The program can be tested for free for 30 days. (dr)
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03.Nov.2021
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement website reach now 7000 articles
David Brunet wrote: "The magazine Obligement is active on the Amiga scene since 1997. New articles of all kind are regulary added on its website. And the number of articles has now passed the 7000 mark! To celebrate this big number, the 6999e and 7000e articles published are the original review of the Amiga 1000 PAL and NTSC.
Unfortunatly, the translation engine of the website is no more functional (thanks Google :-(). We are searching an alternative solution for our non-french speaking readers.
The following articles have been added to the website of the Amiga magazine Obligement during the last two months:
- September/October 2021 news
- Old articles from Joystick 29 to 32: News: Street Fighter 2 an eventful arrival, Interview with Thierry Magnaldi, Review of Ween The Prophecy, Review of Sim Life, Review of The Aquatic Games, News: Accolade in American time, Interview with David Braben, Review of The Carl Lewis Challenge, Review of Civilization, News: Silmarils' new products for summer 1992, Review of Winter Supersports 92, Review of G-LOC R360, etc.
- Interview with Benoît Wiblé (crazy manager of Relec)
- Review of Inviyya
- File: Monkey Island, or how Ron Gilbert created an adventure game that didn't suck
- File: What happen to Eyetech Group? (second part)
- File: Amiga history, years 1984-2003 (update)
- File: Zool Arcade
- File: History of ERBE Software/Topo Soft
- Hardware: Amiga 1000 PAL and Amiga 1000 NTSC
- Programming: Introduction to MUI programming on MorphOS
- Tutorial: Printing on AmigaOS 4 via GoogleCloudPrint
- Special quiz about Xtreme Racing
Feel free to contribute. Please contact David "Daff" Brunet for more info."
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01.Nov.2021
Amigans
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AmigaOS 4.1: DvPlayer V54.7 released
Already for the AmiWest 2021 a new version of the video and audio playback program DvPlayer distributed by A-EON Technology should be available. As of today, version 54.7 is indeed available:
According to the description, the new version supports the new hardware video acceleration standard introduced with Enhancer Software V2. (dr)
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31.Oct.2021
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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Product announcement: 7-bit accelerator board 'Wicher 520EC' for Amiga 500/500+
After announcing the Wicher 1220 turbo card for the A1200, Artur Gadawski of the retro hardware company 7-bit now takes aim at the A500/500+ with the Wicher 520EC turbo card:
Wicher 520EC turbo card has been designed for installation inside Amiga A500/A500+ computer. It supports 68EC020 CPU, up to 11 MB of Fast RAM and IDE 2,5” hard drives. CPU clock speed can be set up to 33 MHz.
Specification
- AmigaA500/A500+ compatibility
- CPU support: MC68EC020 (recycled processor)
- supported CPU clock speeds: 25, 33 MHz
- guaranteed to run at 25 MHz
- RAM memory: 16MB SDRAM (AmigaOS uses 11MB)
- Amiga A600-compatible IDE controller (required Kickstart >= 2.05 (37.350))
- MapRom, BootRom function
- SPI controller, RTC
- Kickstart: recommended Kickstart 3.1 or up
SPI BusBoard
- MINI ENC28J60 Ethernet module
- microSD card slot
Driver
- SD Card
- DS1306 RTC
- ENC28J60 Ethernet
According to Artur Gadawski the first boards will be available at the first retailers in early November.
(dr)
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31.Oct.2021
IBrowse-Website
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.11 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 4.11 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL provides the latest root-certificates as well as some bug fixes. Detailed changelog:
- Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html dated 26.10.2021
- Legacy entropy generation is now faster on OS3 machines, with the removal of delays caused by using the vblank timer, which typically causes AmiSSL to initialise 2 seconds faster
- Fixed legacy entropy generation to correctly use an entropy factor of 4, as originally intended, which was broken since AmiSSL 4.3
- Entropy generation now uses SHA-256 instead of SHA-1
- Tweaked OS4 memory allocations to not be locked
- Fixed issues when redirecting OpenSSL tool output to a file
- Added Ctrl-C break detection to the OpenSSL tool
- OS4 binaries now stripped further with --strip-unneeded-rel-relocs
(dr)
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31.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Video: 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast #111 - Report from AmiWest
In episode 111 of his videocast 10MARC, Douglas Compton is talking about his visit of this year's AmiWest in Sacramento. (snx)
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31.Oct.2021
Twitter
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Music: Rave album 'Breaking Even'
Yesterday gwEm has released the album 'Breaking Even' featuring "authentic 1992 style breakbeat hardcore rave, produced 100% on a Commodore Amiga 600". The eight tracks are available in different formats, e.g. as MP3 and FLAC. for a price which you choose. (dr)
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31.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 30.10.2021
The following files have been added until 30.10.2021 to Aminet:
asm3210.lha dev/asm 154K Cross assembler for DSP3210 c...
evo.lha dev/e 603K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
HWP_RapaGUI.lha dev/hwood 7.2M MOS Cross-platform GUI toolkit fo...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.2M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
Maestix.lha driver/aud 96K 68k MaestroPro driver + AHI driver
SonnetLibrary.lha driver/oth 412K 68k Driver for G3/G4 PCI cards
jfsw.lha game/shoot 1.7M 68k Shadow Warrior Amiga Port
nblood.lha game/shoot 1.0M 68k Blood Amiga Port
darkest-hour.lha game/text 44K MOS Old-fashioned text adventure ...
impiccatogame.lha game/wb 262K 68k Impiccato game
BackdPattGener.lha gfx/edit 51K 68k Create your own backdrop patt...
mandel_dsp.lha gfx/fract 23K 68k Mandelbrot generator for DSP3...
MysticView.lha gfx/show 311K 68k RTG datatype picture viewer
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
bas2tap.i386-aros.lha misc/emu 111K x86 Sinclair BASIC file to TAP co...
shorttunes.lha mods/pro 37K Protracker modules by Omen
sweet_reggae.lha mods/pro 97K Protracker module by Omen
Venomen.lha mods/pro 95K Protracker module by Omen
MMV8_Complete.lha mus/edit 1.7M 68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
siddump.i386-aros.lha mus/misc 106K x86 C64 music debug output utility
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 280K 68k Updated HippoPlayer, a module...
MMV8_Player.lha mus/play 33K 68k MusicMaker V8 Player
z802tzx.i386-aros.lha util/conv 183K x86 TZX Tape
HuntnGather.lha util/dir 171K 68k File indexing and search util...
PicDTBench.lha util/dtype 26K MOS Benchmark picture.datatype im...
WarpPSDdt.lha util/dtype 71K WOS Adobe Photoshop® datatype V45.7
AmiSSL-4.11.lha util/libs 5.7M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
fpu512.lha util/moni 16K 68k FPU 'benchmark' for fast systems
AnalogClock.lha util/time 38K 68k Analog transparent clock for ...
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31.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.10.2021
The following files have been added until 30.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
libcurl.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 The multiprotocol file transfer ...
curl.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Command line URL file transfer
mediavault.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Discover online radio stations a...
hbecard.lha uti/mis 4Mb 4.0 This little happy birthday elect...
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31.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.10.2021
The following files have been added until 30.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Multimediatags.lha Audio/Misc Dump meta data from sou...
HWP_RapaGUI_2.1.lha Development/Hollywood/... A cross-platform GUI to...
HappyBirthday_eCard_1.... Misc Little happy birthday e...
PicDTBench_1.2.lha System/Benchmark Benchmark picture.datat...
WarpPSDdt_45.7.lha System/Datatypes Adobe Photoshop? dataty...
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31.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further file added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 file has been added:
- Hired Guns (Awesome Megablast)
(snx)
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31.Oct.2021
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Trademark protection: Cloanto withdraws opposition against Intellivision's Amico
After being forced by third party to defend the Amiga trademarks against Intellivision's "Amico" game console, Cloanto now filed a motion to withdraw their opposition at USPTO with prejudice, meaning that the opposition is replaced by a separate agreement between the parties, which prevails (PDF file).
On Twitter Amiga Corporation commented: "Amiga and Amico both mean friend. To stop any speculation: we had a productive exchange about coexistence, and concerns were resolved. Amiga wishes Intellivision all the best for its entertainment project." (snx)
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31.Oct.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 127 (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.
Download pages:
Italian (Schlüssel: DrdBPIPM8WFERqI5_4EmunyBTL4LjwTmvKi1-PHVvIM)
English (Schlüssel: OyoO3QZtiOz4GzRYsb-gu3vjCTmZSm8oxE_pYjcniAg) (snx)
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31.Oct.2021
Carlos Peris (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.2
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM.
Regarding the major jump from the previous version 0.8.13 to the latest 0.9.1, we have asked the author for some additional information which he kindly provided:
"Version 0.9 is a big step forward in the game creator progress, not just for the number of features that have been added but because it makes game development easier than before which is why Redpill exists in the first place. For each level you can define the music to play, the transition effects, the background to use and a lot more things. Before you had to use some triggers to set up these values per level as they were set up only for the project. Adding and browsing objects and tiles is much easier with the shortcuts added in the screens, editing levels if faster now (YouTube video).
The performance has also improved as has the compatibility with 68000 cpus (older versions required a 68020). The audio engine now uses PHX library which means that you have music and sounds at the same time without using a 3 channels mod.The sprite layer support is much better now, supporting 16 colors layer (instead of 4 color) and setting it up in the background or the foreground of the screen (YouTube video). When running in AGA, games use 24bit color precission and gradients even if the game is ECS. There are many other fixes and improvements thanks to the feedback from users.
These are two YouTube example tutorials showing how to do some type of games, and how fast is to get results:
Currently some games are in developemnt:
A lot of effort has been put into this rekease, I hope the Amigans enjoy it".
Update: (04.11.21, 20:40, dr)
Meanwhile version 0.9.2 is available on Aminet which mainly fixes bugs. (dr)
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30.Oct.2021
George Sokianos (Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.5.0
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations and, since Version 1.4.0, also to listen to podcasts. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. About the latest version 1.5.0 the author George Sokianos has written:
"I just released a new version of MediaVault for everyone to play with this weekend. With this version, a couple of new features arrived and a few fixes as well. With MediaVault v1.5.0 you will be able to mark online radio stations and podcasts as your favourite ones and have them listed in a separate list. This way you will be able to find and start listening to them much faster, without the need to search all the time for them.
To do that, above the play button, there is now a small yellow star with a plus sign, which you can use to add the radio station or podcast to the favourite list. This then changes to a star with a red minus sign, so to remove it from the favourite list. To enable those buttons you have first to find in the lists the one you want, select it and then the buttons will be enabled.
While we are on that, there is also one more button available, whenever you select a podcast episode, which can be found beside the little star, above the play button. By clicking on that when an episode is selected, the episode is added at the "Listen Later" list, under the Podcast section at the left sidebar. This way you can mark episodes you would like to listen to when you have more time.
If you already use the previous version, please use the self-update process, which you can find in the application menu. This can be used to update to the latest available version automatically, and before you do that, the whole changelog is shown.
I would like to thank all of my supporters for helping me develop MediaVault, adding new features and making it better and better." (dr)
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30.Oct.2021
Polnisches Amiga Forum
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AmigaOS 4: Comparison of video players (Polish)
In a detailed article - Polish original bzw. automatic translation - the author 'MUFA' has reviewed the different video players available for AmigaOS 4: Tested with an AmigaOne X1000 equipped with a Radeon HD R9 270 graphics card and an AmigaOne X5000 equipped with a Radeon RX 560 graphics card. Test candidates has been on the one hand the free MPlayer and FFPlay as well as the two commercial players DvPlayer and Emotion. He also has include in his consideration the support of the Unified Video Decoder (UVD).
Verdict: As of now, he recommends Emotion for overall performance. He awards second place to MPlayer for the best player without UVD support as well as its exemplary stability and free availability. Only in third place he sees DvPlayer, whereby he points out that with Hans De Ruiter a proven expert is entrusted with the further development and he therefore expects a lot from future versions. (dr)
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29.Oct.2021
Commodore 64 Forum
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Text adventure: "Darkest Hour" released
Darkest Hour is an old-fashioned text adventure game, available for several platforms and also for AmigaOS 3.
Die Story: "Halloween is almost here, but something is happening that's much scarier than the annual haunted house at the fire hall. There are rumors of a vampire - a real one - attacking people at night. Of course most people think it's just silly; who wouldn't? But people are going missing, and others swear they've seen it. It's up to you to track down this vampire, stop it if possible. The question is, will you even survive the night?" (dr)
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29.Oct.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 18 of assembler coding course
'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams on Twitch the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English and after some time uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday episode 18 was published, continuing running through chapter 7 of the book teaching about sprites and tables. (dr)
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28.Oct.2021
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French print magazine: "Boing" Nr. 2 available
Following the successful first issue of the French-language print magazine "Boing," Boing Attitude (known for the file manager Dir Me Up and the quiz game Word Me Up XXL, among others) has announced the release of the second issue.
The magazine is dedicated to Amiga in all its diversity (AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS and Aros) and offers in the second issue among other things an exclusive interview with Romain Canonge, one of the co-founders of Amiga Dream magazine and a test of the game Athanor 2 including the interview with its author Eric Safar. Also included are tests of the games Wrong Way Driver, Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons and the multimedia application Mediavault. (dr)
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28.Oct.2021
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USB-Adapter: Firmware update v.012 for Ryś MKII
The Ryś MKII adapter can be used together with USB HID devices like mouses, joysticks and pads to connect them as input devices for Amiga computers. The latest firmware update includes support for new mouse models. RysWheel driver has been given option to turn off the wheel driver operation (Stop option).
Added support for models:
- Logitech M-BT83
- Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse
- LogiLink ID0010
- Acer SM-9023
- Logitech RX 250
- Logitech RX 300
- A-EON MX 1000-4
Downloads:
RysMKII_v0.12_beta.hex (Firmware, 123 KB)
RysWheel_Installer_v0.12.lha (AmigaOS Software, 72 KB) (dr)
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27.Oct.2021
reddit
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Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.7
Robert Smith has updated his project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge)for read Amiga disks using a common PC disk drive. According to the author, additional to improved diagnostics, improved reading/writing, extra features and new UI version 2.7 mainly offers HD floppy disk support. All this work has fed back into WinUAE meaning that WinUAE (and soon Amiberry) will also support real HD disks in real-time.
As he stated, "the official WinUAE will support this in v4.9 when it’s released via a plug-in (FloppyBridge) from my site. That plug-in gives you a few more options to increase speed."
Besides, it is possible to be placed on a waiting list: Smith sells his little board for USB Slimline disk drives for 25 British Pound plus shipping. The boards are fully compatible to Arduino Software (IDE) which enables future firmware updates.
All documents of Smith's project are available on GitHub under a free license. (dr)
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26.Oct.2021
AMIGAworld (Twitter)
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GitHub project: Amiga 4000 accelerator board 'Z3660'
On GitHub the developer 'shanshe' has started a project for the Amiga 4000 accelerator board 'Z3660' which is based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board as well as the Z-turn Board. In contrast to the A3660 (currently) only 060 CPU are supported. If Z-turn FPGA is not used, then you get a simple A3660. The only difference is that all A3660 PLDs are replaced by a XC95144XL-TQ144 CPLD. If you use a Z-turn FPGA, then you can add 128 MB of CPU RAM (more RAM, RTG, AHI, USB, SCSI are planned in the future). (dr)
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25.Oct.2021
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MorphOS: QR-Code generator 'QRCodeLab'
MorphOS developer Frank Mariak has released a MUI tool called 'QRCodeLab' which can be used to easily create QR codes and afterwards copying them to the Clipboard or saving them as pictures. We have tested the tool using our Amiga-News website: Working!
As the author wrote, "currently, it only supported encoding to UTF8 and non of the other compressed formats like numeric and/or alphanumeric are supported to reduce the code size. It dynamically adjusts the QRCode version based on the length of string."
If you have any suggestions or ideas for improvement, please feel free to contact the author via mail. (dr)
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25.Oct.2021
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: RapaGUI 2.1 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of RapaGUI 2.1. This release contains several minor bug fixes and one major bug fix for the Amiga compatible platforms. Because of a major bug in the Amiga versions of RapaGUI 2.0, everybody should upgrade to RapaGUI 2.1. RapaGUI 2.1 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. (dr)
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25.Oct.2021
Twitter
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Reprint: 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium'
In 2014, the book 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. In a reprint available from 22. November "over the course of some 420 pages, 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' showcases more than 140 of the biggest titles, bringing them vividly to life with a double-page screen grab or loading page. Each is accompanied by quotes and commentary from renowned Amiga artists, developers and publishers, including R.J. Mical, David Braben, Sid Meier, Ron Gilbert, Julian Eggebrecht, Tobias Richter, Dave Gibbons and many more. In this latest reprint of Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium, we’ve added a handful of new game reviews, as well as including a spread for Dune. Contributor entries now include their role in the game or profession, in line with more recent visual compendiums." (dr)
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24.Oct.2021
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Aminet uploads until 23.10.2021
The following files have been added until 23.10.2021 to Aminet:
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 80K 68k Gemini protocol browser
FTPMount1.4_Fixed.lha comm/tcp 246K 68k Fixed Installer for FTPMount 1.4
AGAInside.lha demo/aga 26K 68k AGA Inside - legendary russia...
aqb-0.7.3.lha dev/basic 250K 68k A BASIC Compiler+IDE for Amig...
AMICUBE_NTSC.adf game/think 880K 68k Rubik's Cube for classic Amiga
gipoker.lha game/wb 314K 68k Poker game
puzzleballs.lha game/wb 203K 68k PuzzleBalls game
skyballs.lha game/wb 198K 68k SkyBalls game
tressette.lha game/wb 334K 68k Tressette a Perdere card game
xiffview.tgz misc/unix 39K IFF ILBM picture viewer for L...
siddump.lha mus/misc 73K MOS C64 music debug output utility
MMV8_2_PCM.lha mus/play 9K 68k MusicMaker V8 to PCM converter
HuntnGather.lha util/dir 202K 68k File indexing and search util...
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 331K WOS JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.16
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 160K WOS PNG image datatype V45.24
multimediatags.lha util/misc 11K MOS Dump meta data from sound fil...
TestProgram.zip util/misc 137K 68k Versatile Amiga Test Program
lvl.pointers.lha util/mouse 12K mouse pointer presets for RTG...
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24.Oct.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 23.10.2021
The following files have been added until 23.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
hp_deskjet_cmyk.lha dev/exa 65kb 4.0 HP PCL printer driver example so...
libopenssl.lha dev/lib 8Mb 4.0 The open source toolkit for SSL/TLS
mediavault.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Discover online radio stations a...
mediavault_script.lha net/mis 12kb 4.0 Choose player or download stream...
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24.Oct.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.10.2021
The following files have been added until 23.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Multimediatags.lha Audio/Misc Dump meta data from sou...
SIDDump_1.08.lha Audio/Misc C64 music debug output ...
Void-Feedback_11.lha Demoscene Music Disk for MorphOS
OpenTTD_1.12.0.lha Games/Strategy A clone of Transport Ty...
Pixy_1.0_alpharelease_... Graphics/Draw The next generation pix...
QRCodeLab_0.8.lha Misc A simple MUI tool to cr...
WarpJPEGdt_45.16.lha System/Datatypes JFIF-JPEG datatype
WarpPNGdt_45.24.lha System/Datatypes PNG image datatype V45.22
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24.Oct.2021
Twitter (ANF)
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Amigaworld.de: Do-it-yourself Amiga 600/1200 CF-IDE adapter
At the title link Amigaworld.de published an - in revision D now also buffered - do-it-yourself CompactFlash to IDE adapter for the Amiga 600/1200 including an HD-LED fix and a second port for another drive. (snx)
[News message: 24. Oct. 2021, 08:28] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2021
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Tech-Demo: Update for 'Street Fighter 2' game with Scorpion Engine
'Street Fighter 2' is the attempt to recreate the well-known beat'm up on the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine in a better way. The author is not going to develop a full game but hopes to inspire other developers. The update for the playable demo version includes the following changes:
- Added (fake) character selection, (cursor moves and has some sounds)
- Improved palette for HUD, VS screen and win screen
- Added Ken walking towards Ryu if he's too far away (buggy)
- Added small knockback when Ken gets hit
- Added P1 score with correct font and KO sfx
(dr)
[News message: 23. Oct. 2021, 10:19] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2021
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Countdown: C64 & Amiga game music remade as epic film scores
Running until Sunday, 24. October 00:39 CEST, a Kickstarter campaign tries to finance the C64 & Amiga game music album 'Epic Action Vol1' (amiga-news.de reported). So far 13.000 Euro from the required 23.000 Euro were payed. On our request a member of Prismatic Realms told that a failure of the financing also definitely mean the end for the project. But in any case the group will continue to develop retro games. (dr)
[News message: 23. Oct. 2021, 08:14] [Comments: 0]
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23.Oct.2021
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AmigaGuide to HTML converter: GuideML 3.16 for AmigaOS 3/4
GuideML is an AmigaGuide to HTML converter which can convert most AmigaGuides and since v3.1 also has a GUI. After 13 years the author Chris Young has updated the tool, which originally was started by Richard Körber. Additional to some bug fixes, now the tool uses the locale.library v38+ which should remove accents from characters for better compatibility. And version 3.16 introduces basic support for the '@{img' command of AmigaOS 3.2.
The command line version now requires OS2.1 (but no longer tested by the author) while the GUI version at least requires AmigaOS 3.2. The archive includes also a version for Amiga OS4 (screenshots).
In our little test the conversion worked fine with different AmigaGuide files. But the tool does not create a protocol file so you do not know what maybe went wrong. A 'main.html' file always is created as well as seperate html files and for the other chapters.
The program is open source, the source code available on GitHub. (dr)
[News message: 23. Oct. 2021, 07:40] [Comments: 0]
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21.Oct.2021
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Music editor: MusicMaker V8 Version 3.12 (update)
Thomas Winischhofer's 'MusicMaker V8' ('MMV8') is a sample-based music editor which the author started back in 1986 as hobby project. As the author wrote, "much later it published in France and the German speaking parts of Europe by Data Becker (V1.76) and by Wolf Software (V2.358, Germany only)."
This version 3 dates back to late 1992 and was never published as a commercial product.
In the readme it is explained, that MMV8 uses "macros" which - unlike "patterns" in trackers - apply to a single channel only. Those "macros" are then put in a playing order, which is called a track. As MMV8 provides up to eight audio channels, up to eight tracks can be set up.
As Thomas Winischhofer told us some time ago, he "doesn't really want to do anything more on the MM except occasionally fix bugs that stand out." That would not be worth reporting. However, this has turned into a few updates in recent times, each of which has been published on Aminet. As the developer writes, he has small windows of time at the moment, which, unlike the DSP drivers - his
other Amiga project of the recent past) he can use sitting at the emulator to fix bugs and improve the source code from 1986 and the following years. But he definitely doesn't want to take away the character and charm of the 80s from the program.
In the latest versions the author mainly worked on the GUI and fixed several minor bugs.
Who of our readers had or has used the music editor?
Update: (07:43, 24.10.21, dr)
Meanwhile version 3.12 is available. Now "m" now shows instrument paths and minor inconvenience in the install script were fixed. (dr)
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21.Oct.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Video tutorial: Episode 17 of assembler coding course
'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams on Twitch the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English and after some time uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday episode 17 was published, continuing running through chapter 7 of the book which is about "Sprites / Joysticks / Tables / Bit Manipulation". (dr)
[News message: 21. Oct. 2021, 06:25] [Comments: 0]
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