02.Jul.2021
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A-EON is already internally testing Alpha releases of their own operating system
Allegedly, A-EON's OS4 licenses expired quite some time ago and sources
claim the company is not trying to apply for a new one. amiga-news.de has now
received screenshots from an anonymous source that seem to be from a private
forum A-EON is running for their betatesters. The screenshots show a posting
from late May, in which Matthew 'Amigakit' Leaman announces the availability
of the first Alpha release of "Enhancer Software Release V54". The term
"Operating System" is never used, but Leaman's description clearly refers to
a standalone system.
Leaman refers to the download available to Betatesters as a "Distribution".
It's said to be a bootable ISO image, although the installation instructions
explain how to use an existing AmigaOS 4.1 installation to set the new system
up. The OS modules not yet reimplemented for the Enhancer project need to be
copied from an existing AmigaOS installation into a drawer of the Enhancer
system called 'Legacy:' - the distribution's installer apparently takes
care of that. Leaman's description of the process is like this: "We are no
longer installing the Enhancer Software over the OS 4.1.The OS 4.1 files are
complementing the main Enhancer Software system".
In his announcement, Leaman lists the developers who have contributed to the
project so far (surnames added by amiga-news.de staff where known):
- Classes, Commodities: Daniel, Massimo [Tantignone], Thomas [Frieden?]
- Datatypes-System: Kevin
- Multiview, MultiEdit, X-Dock: Andy [Broad]
- Utilities, preferences, system tools: Fredrik [Wikstrom], Javier, Guillaume [Boesel]
- Neue Sensor-API, rejuvenated Mediatoolbox: Andrea Vallinotto
- Updated versions of Ringhio: Max [Tretene]
- Warp 3D Nova, (upcoming) modernised 2D graphics: Hans [de Ruiter]
- Shell commands: Constantinos
- Icons, other artwork: Martin [Merz]
Other components owned by A-EON such as MediaToolbox, DVPlayer and the
original Warp3D will "of course" (Leaman) also be included in the distribution.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Jul.2021
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Demo version for platform game 'Creeping Me Out Hex Night'
'Creeping Me Out Hex Night' written by Michael Dawes using the Construction Kit Scorpion Engine is supposed to become a new jump'n run game. On the website of the developer the demo version 1.0j is available which fixes some bugs. According to the developer "it should have slightly lower memory requirements now, making it safer to load from WB. Please read the readme.txt before playing." (dr)
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02.Jul.2021
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on the Obligement website
In the last two months the website of the French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement has been extended by the contributions below. Translations into other languages are always welcome, interested parties please contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- May/June 2021 news.
- Old articles from Joystick 22 to 25:
- News: Ocean's five future stars
- News: Software Business tries to stand out
- Review of Alcatraz
- Interview with Ian Hadley
- Review of Mercenary 3: The Dion Crisis
- News: Electronic Arts prepares titles for 1992
- Review of Devious Design
- Review of Volfied
- News: Origin, the expansion
- Interview with Laurant Weill
- Review of Final Fight, etc.
- Interview with Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc (developer of AmiModRadio).
- Interview with Vojin Vidanovic (Vampire user).
- Interview with Hugo Pereira (Vampire user).
- Interview with José Gonzáles (graphic designer).
- Interview with Sam Dyer (publisher Bitmap Books).
- Test of Me And My Shadow.
- File: What happened to RBM Digitaltechnik?
- File: Behind the scenes of the development of Globulus.
- Point of view: Rave and gadget ToolBar, the synergy of projects.
- Tutorial: Frequently asked questions for AmigaOS 3.2.
- Tutorial: Mounting network drives on MorphOS.
- Gallery: La Satire du Jet D'Ail (updated).
- Special quiz about DKB.
(dr)
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02.Jul.2021
Amigaworld.net (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.6.0 update for Raspberry Pi 4/400
Version 11.6.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE for the Raspberry Pi 4/400 now also supports AHI and Bluetooth and provides many other improvements, updates and bug fixes. Changes:
- Amiga side changelog:
- ADDED: AHI audio support - Apps & games using AHI work now! (Paula 8bit stereo++)
- ADDED: Be Kool Fool demo by Focus Design: 1st at Gerp 2015
- ADDED: GMPlay 1.3 by Christian Buchner
- ADDED: GMPlayMUI 1.2 by Charlie/Stipey
- ADDED: GMTones 1&2 by Martin Caspersson
- ADDED: Minor cleanups here and there
- UPDATED: AmigaAMP 3.29 by Thomas Wenzel
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.9 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: AmiStart menus include AHI apps games now (your current menu config is backuped first: AmiKit:Utilities/EXPANSION/AmiStart/sm.prefs.bak1150)
- UPDATED: Ask Your Amiga (AYA) 0.5 by ALB42
- UPDATED: Hollywood Player 9.0 by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: iGame 2.1b2 (15-Mar-2021) by Emmanuel Vasilakis and Contributors
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player 1.21 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: LoadModule 45.18 by Thomas Richter and Etienne Vogt
- UPDATED: MorpheuZ 11.6 (internal part of AmiKit) by Jan Zahurancik
- UPDATED: VisualPrefs 1.5m by Massimo Tantignone
- FIXED: AmiStart taskbar menu in HD mode does not scale anymore with each task icon displayed.
- FIXED: MIDI songs work now! Simply double-click any .mid file, eg. in AmiKit:Utilities/GMPlay/MIDI-Files folder.
- FIXED: VisualPrefs (and Birdie) theme works again if enabled in MorpheuZ (and AfA_OS is disabled at the same time)
- FIXED: Switching from DOpus to Workbench and back (via MorpheuZ) should work now again.
- FIXED: Matrix screen blanker disabled as it interfered with IMP and resulted in system lock.
- NOTE: If DOpus Aminet FTP doesn't work for you, check the passive box in FTPOptions > Misc settings.
- Linux side changelog:
- UPDATED: Amiberry 4.1.4 by Dimitris Panokostas
- UPDATED: Linux updates (included with new image; for existing installation simply run "Update Linux" from start menu)
- FIXED: Linux Bluetooth Adapter works now so you can connect all your Bluetooth devices, finally! If your Bluetooth audio is distorted, install brcm-patchram-plus package.
- ENDCLI: Oh, and now you can close any Linux terminal window with EndCLI command :)
(dr)
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01.Jul.2021
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AmigaOS 3.2: Updated Native Developer Kit NDK 3.2 R3
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce another update for the Native Developer Kit for AmigaOS 3.2.
This NDK update contains further reviewed contents to ensure developers using several different compilers will be able to harness all the new features AmigaOS 3.2 brings.
This release also paves the way for a continued flow of updates to the Native Developer Kit for AmigaOS 3.2 which will also be accessible in other venues to pursue greater adoption and wider availability.
Hyperion is committed to AmigaOS development support, so stay tuned for further NDK updates!
AmigaOS NDK 3.2 R3 is available for free from our download area for any interested party.
We thank all of you who have rushed Amiga dealers worldwide to get their hands on a copy of AmigaOS 3.2.
If you want to support our efforts further, please head over to our AmigaOS merchandise store. (dr)
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30.Jun.2021
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New preview videos: Beat'em Up 'Metro Siege', Run'n Gun 'DaemonClaw'
Metro Siege is a side-scrolling beat'em up for up to two players that requires 512 KB of chip and Fast RAM each. DaemonClaw: Origins of Nnar is supposed to be a side-scrolling run and gun (amiga-news.de reported).
In the latest video update for Metro Siege, several designs for new enemies and the rough mock-up of one of the up-coming levels are shown. The video update for DaemonClaw shows the Ice magic powers the player gets in the Gargoyle cave level and a widescreen full-screen mode with simulated CRT monitor options is introduced. (dr)
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30.Jun.2021
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AdAstra3000: Cases and keycaps for the do-it-yourself Amiga
Dennis Pauler from Virtual Dimension shows how to assemble an A500+ himself with several videos on his YouTube channel in the tinkering corner. The first two episodes show in detail how to solder and assemble the 344 components. In a third video it is explained how to create a memory expansion to 2 MB chip RAM from a SMD kit (amiga-news.de reported).
In the fourth part of his project, the DIY Amiga now gets a Checkmate 1500 (plus) case and new keycaps from the A1200.net project.
(dr) (Translation: bb)
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28.Jun.2021
Amigans
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Memory game: MeMO 3.13
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update of his memory game MeMO. His game is based on the classic memory card game but in his port two payers can simultaneously play for getting the best highscore. MeMO requires a 68020 processor and the ECS graphic chip. Changes of this release:
- Fixed a (seemingly innocuous) bug (an OR instruction in place of a MOVE instruction) in card matching code.
- Improved card matching policy by considering it a mistake also when the second card flipped had already been flipped before, even if the first card has been flipped just once and/or its twin card has not been flipped yet.
- Made a couple of tiny optimizations.
- Changed design of 'M' and 'N' letters (they were basically lowercase, which was inconsistent, as the only lowercase letter was supposed to be the 'e' in "MeMO").
- Changed alignment of logo in menu screen by 1 pixel right/down.
- Adapted to and recompiled against further improved custom framework.
- Reworked game icon.
- Added floppy disk and manual icons.
- Improved/extended manual.
(dr)
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27.Jun.2021
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Aminet uploads until 26.06.2021
The following files have been added until 26.06.2021 to Aminet:
wla_dx_v10.0.lha dev/cross 4.5M 68k 8-bit CPU Cross Macro Assembl...
TRSaferPtch.lha dev/debug 24K 68k Safer Setfunctions Debug/Cont...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 273K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
ppm2bbc.lha gfx/pbm 31K MOS 24-bit PPM6 into BBC Micro sc...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.2M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
TIKY.lha mods/8voic 261K TIKY 6ch Synth Pop by HKvalhe
MMULib.lha util/libs 733K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 68K 68k Minimal MuLib archive for red...
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 379K 68k MuLib aware 680x0 libraries
(snx)
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27.Jun.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 26.06.2021
The following files have been added until 26.06.2021 to OS4Depot:
crash.lha dev/uti 3kb 4.0 C source included
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
(snx)
[News message: 27. Jun. 2021, 06:44] [Comments: 0]
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27.Jun.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.06.2021
The following files have been added until 26.06.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_27.5.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Wayfarer_2.1.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
Screenshot15.jpeg Screenshots Screenshot15.jpeg
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27.Jun.2021
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WHDLoad: New installers until 26.06.2021
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 26.06.2021:
- 2021-06-24 fixed: Theme Park (Bullfrog) avoid crash when quitting (Info)
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27.Jun.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Space Debris
- The Chaos Engine - The Forest remix
- FA-18 Interceptor
- Final Assault (New Age Climber)
- Turrican 3 - Air Combat
- Act Of Impulse (The Bernard Sumner-LSD Piano Feast)
- Super Hang-On (RMX a l'ancienne)
- Strider (Intro n Ingame)
- Bubble & Squeak
- Mean Arenas
(snx)
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27.Jun.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 123 (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:
italienisch (Key: CTLAl7XBbFV2Ht9EgEvxLCcCiIpdXaa7WgzwplSz4fE)
englisch (Key: WHqz1Y8xH5ORprbAN18sIc3mWy8mjb8mNrfGAeCcRkY) (snx)
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27.Jun.2021
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 0.122 / Web browser Wayfarer 2.2
Today, Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has updated his web browser Wayfarer and his e-mail client Iris. While changes of the browser consist of several bugfixes, the e-mail program now also utilizes the new WebKit core. (snx)
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26.Jun.2021
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AmigaOS 4: 'PowerSelect 3' tool only available until 10. July
The developer Janne Peräaho will close his online shop on 10th July because he "can't cover the shopping cart provider's new monthly fee". Therefore his PowerSelect 3 tool for AmigaOS 4.1 for selecting icons in Workbench by using search patterns can be purchased for 3,99 Euro only until then. (dr)
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24.Jun.2021
Twitter
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Amigakit threatening to oppose registration of 'Amiga Addict' mark in the UK
British print magazine Amiga Addict started publishing half a year ago on a mostly monthly schedule. Back in February, publisher Simulant Systems Ltd. filed a trademark application for the magazine's name and logo with the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO). As Simulant is now announcing on Twitter, British Amiga dealer AmigaKit is trying to oppose that registration.
AmigaKit's reaction to the announcement was also posted on Twitter: According to them, the notice the publisher received is not opposition, it's (quote) "simply a formal standard mechanism to give us up to a month to communicate with Simulant Systems Ltd."
Note from staff: According UK IPO, the process used by AmigaKit does indeed extend the registration process by a month automatically. But it is actually referred to as "Notice of threatened opposition", and Simulant's answer to the Amigakit statement makes it clear that so far, there have been no attempts to communicate.
(cg)
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23.Jun.2021
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Amiga disks on PC: Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer V2.6
Similar to ADF Drive, Robert Smith's project "Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer" uses a a micro controller - an Arduino board - for enabling a common PC disk drive reading and writing Amiga disks.
In version 2.5 recently the direct access to a disk, inserted into a disk drive of a PC, from the emulator WinUAE was introduced. Version 2.6 now improves disgnostics and reading disks. Additionally SCP (Supercard Pro) files for backing up non-AmigaDOS disks can be created. A WinUAE preversion which demonstrates the direct access to disks can be downloaded.
All documents of Smith's project are available on GitHub under a free license. (dr)
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21.Jun.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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C64 conversion: Plattformer 'Henry's House'
'Henry's House' (video) is a classic single-screen platformer released for the C64 in 1984. The Amiga conversion comes from the developer team 'MC STUDIOS', which apparently wants to port a whole series of 8-bit titles to the Amiga. The title requires Kickstart 1.2 and 1 megabyte RAM. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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21.Jun.2021
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Plattformer: new alpha version of Mario clone 'Amigo the Fox'
Erik 'earok' Hogan's 'Amigo The Fox' (video) is a sample project for the Scorpion Engine from the same developer. A first alpha version of the Mario clone was already released a year ago, meanwhile the game has its own web presence and is fully playable.
(cg) (Translation: bb)
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21.Jun.2021
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Hyperion: Updates for AmigaOS 4
Hyperion provides registered users with updated versions of the CLI command 'date' as well as the prefs program 'Time', which bring adaptations to the recently released update of timesync.library. The update can be obtained via the AmiUpdate server update.amigaos.net. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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20.Jun.2021
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 2.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's web browser Wayfarer is now available in version 2.0. Reason for the version leap is change of the browser's core: Now Wayfarer is based on the latest stable implementation of WebKitGTK (2.32.1), which is about one year newer than the one Wayfarer 1.x used, proving this project's sustainability.
Most visible feature introduced by this is support of the so-called "dark mode" offered by some websites (example video). Furthermore some bugs have been fixed - in the past, checkmarks were not rendered at some websites for example. Please note that the ICU files included in the archive must be moved to MOSSYS: in order to run latest Wayfarer.
Changes in detail:
- Rebased to latest stable WebKitGTK (2.32.1)
- Implemented Dark Mode
- Fixed a crash in HLS video playback
- Worked around an issue preventing sites from loading, etc after quit confirmation requester got cancelled
- Fixed webkit message log functionality that crashed if the resulting message contained formatting sequences
- Changed rendering of elements like checkmarks that were missing on some websites
- Out-of-RAM crashes no longer bring up the Send Bugreport messagebox
Required are MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB of RAM. A CPU with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to the author, besides the integrated crash report tool also e-mails to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu or the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used. (snx)
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20.Jun.2021
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Aminet uploads until 19.06.2021
The following files have been added until 19.06.2021 to Aminet:
Birthtro36.lha demo/intro 70K 68k Birthtro 36 intro (Outline 2021)
D1X_Rebirth_RTG.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Descent (DXX-Re...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.7M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 1.5M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox
xiffview.tgz misc/unix 23K IFF ILBM picture viewer for L...
Wecandothis.lha mods/8voic 459K We Can Do This 5ch Road Rock
hippoplayerSource.lha mus/play 768K HippoPlayer source code
RNOArchive_68k.lha util/arc 3.0M 68k Graphical archive manager
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.1M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
snapit.lha util/misc 507K MOS A screen grabber with MUI-Int...
ViNCEd.lha util/shell 852K 68k ViNCEd, the CON: with ^Z & TA...
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20.Jun.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.06.2021
The following files have been added until 19.06.2021 to OS4Depot:
gtk-mui.lha dev/lib 5Mb 4.0 A wrapper lib to wrap GTK+ calls...
oo.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
ppm2bbc.lha gra/edi 37kb 4.0 24-bit PPM6 into BBC Micro scree...
snapit.lha uti/mis 507kb 4.1 Powerful MUI-based Screen Grabber
jumble.lha uti/tex 124kb 4.1 Jumble solver
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20.Jun.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.06.2021
The following files have been added until 19.06.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_27.4.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
SnapIt_1.5.lha System/Ambient/Utilities A screen grabber with M...
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19.Jun.2021
ALBs Blog
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Sample source code: Hardware-oriented programming with Free Pascal
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has published on GitHub some examples for hardware-near programming - i.e. writing directly to chip registers - with Freepascal. The goal was to create the shortest possible compilations that recreate typical demoscene effects: the 700-byte tool 'copper' creates a copper list, while the 3-kilobyte 'sinus' uses the copper to manipulate bitplanes to create a sine effect. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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19.Jun.2021
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 151 - preview and reading samples
From issue 151 (July/August 2021) of Amiga Future the readings as well as the preview are online since today. The topics include an interview with Michael Borrmann (Inviyya), a preview of AmigaOS 3.2 and a review of "Hibernated 1: Director's Cut".
(cg) (Translation: bb)
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19.Jun.2021
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Trevor's Amiga Blog: First volume finished, beta version of DvPlayer in test
After more than 10 months Trevor Dickinson from A-EON Technology has written an entry in his Trevor's Amiga Blog again.
A large part of it is his report about the work on the two volume book 'From Vultures to Vampires' about the Amiga history, which is to be written by him and David Pleasance, starting with the takeover of the Commodore rights by ESCOM. He says the first volume has been completed and is now being proofread.
In a second section he gives a brief history of the movie player 'DvPlayer', starting with the first version developed by Stephen Fellner in 2005, through the acquisition of the rights from A-EON Technology (2015) and their work on hardware accelerated video playback support for the A-EON RadeonHD v2 driver using the graphics card's own GPU, to the creation of a new beta version that Hans der Ruiter has developed and is currently testing.
The new version allows high-resolution video files to be played either in full-screen mode or in scalable windows that can be resized during playback. To that end, he uploaded a screenshot to his blog page showing DvPlayer playing an HD and a 1080p video in parallel on an AmigaOne X5000/40. Matthew Leaman would have informed him that, if all went well, the new version would be released in the AmiStore next month. (dr) (Translation: bb)
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19.Jun.2021
Aminet
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Icon-Library 46.4.545
Recently we introduced Peter Keunecke's icon.library which provides all functions for processing pictograms. Due to the release of AmigaOS 3.2, but obviously also inspired by our contribution and especially the numerous comments, he has now released version 46.4.545.
For the first time he has not only added a documentation in the form of an 'IconLib.guide' as requested by many, but has also made it available in English as well as in German.
Furthermore, the TrueColor (TC) version now displays OS4 and PNG icons 30-70% faster in conjunction with workbench.library v44+ or Wanderer on native screens, but not with WB 3.1 and DOpus5. As Peter Keunecke writes further, AmigaOS 3.2 now requires at least an icon.library v47. In order to be able to use his icon.library under this OS anyway, he has apparently upgraded the 'icon.library_TC020' to version 51.4.545. The other two standard versions 'icon.library_68000' and 'icon.library_68020' do not work under AmigaOS 3.2 anymore.
According to him, the new icon.library provided by AmigaOS 3.2 should be "more efficient and faster, avoiding many useless refreshes". But since he does not own the new OS, he cannot test this. At least 'FastWB' seems to have no advantage anymore. And further he writes: "The new OS 3.2 file type detection of DefIcons is only supported by my v51 libraries like TC020. I have no intention to set the 680x0 versions higher." (dr) (Translation: bb)
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17.Jun.2021
Artur Gadawski per Mail
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7-bit: Software update for Wicher cards
A software update for the cards developed by 7-bit has been released. Changes:
- added support for AmigaOS3.2
- WicherCfg - added support for Wicher1220EC
- WicherCfgGui - added support for Wicher1220EC
- spi.librarby - added support for Wicher1220EC
- enc28j60_w32.device - added support for Wicher1220EC
- Tools_Menu - added support for Wicher1220EC
(dr)
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17.Jun.2021
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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Multimedia MIDI sequencer: BarsnPipes 1.0 for Amiga OS4.1 FE
At the end of October in 2009, Alfred Faust decided to stop developing his multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes due to increasing health problems (we reported). In July 2013 he released the source code of his programm. Mainly due to Corona, Alfred Faust has a lot of spare time which among others he invested in updating his AmigaOS 4 computer and its operating system to OS 4.1 FE and eventually reworking and compiling BarsnPipes for Amiga OS 4.1 FE.
The first official full version 1.0 now is available in the download section of his website also including all previous updates. He also has updated all development documents:
- New Rules for Tools OS 4.1 FE
- Michael Rees SDK OS4.1 FE
- New Rules for Skins
- tools for creating catalogs
By releasing this full version, Alfred Faust wants to consciously distinguish from other development lines "whose programmers", as he wrote, "use my source code, but don't mention me as the main developer of BarsnPipes (not Bars&Pipes Professional 2.5). This is not a good style and also violates the copyrights." (dr)
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16.Jun.2021
AmigaLove (ANF)
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.46beta
After 21 years today Kari-Pekka Koljonen has released an update of his MOD player HippoPlayer on Github. He wrote:
"There was an actual user request (by daxb) in the English Amiga Board a few years back to remove the module list size restriction. This turned out to be a fun challenge. The code assumed the module list index to be a positive 16-bit number, and also used the same index with some magic values to mean a few things. There were a lot of places to change to make this work. The restriction is now at 0x1ffff (131071), which is a crazy amount.
Such a large list eats a lot of memory and is quite slow to process, as it is a doubly linked list. List iteration operations needed some optimization to be usable on an A500. (Next challenge: get rid of the linked list approach.) Random play bookkeeping previously worked only for lists of up to 8192 (0x1fff) modules, this limit is now removed as well.
I decided to challenge myself with some UI changes. The main window buttons are quite cryptic with both left and right mouse button actions, which I have conveniently forgot about. I implemented a modern feeling tooltip which will pop up a helpful text for each button. Maybe this is a first tooltip on kick1.3?
Right clicks on the buttons don't really work like left clicks. I don't know why the past-me left them like that, they're ugly and non-user friendly that way. I changed the buttons to have a proper visualization for right clicks as well.
I also added a few wait pointers to places with long running operations.
Another thing that motivated me to do some hippo coding was the realization that the multitasking approaches used in HiP are bad. At the time I had no idea about thread safe programming. This could lead to some random crashes at times due to bad luck with timing.
Exec provides semaphores to protect shared data, so these were added to a lot of places. Some safety regarging interrupts relying on some data was also added. External applications using the HippoPort still use all data freely.
Fixes:
- Extraneous requester pop up removed when loading TFMX modules.
- Fixed a case where unpacked modules were not identified as modules, or a non-module file was identified as a valid module (due to badly initialized memory).
- A memory leak removed from the file requester.
- Memory usage is lowered in several situations:
- Random play bookkeeping now uses a dynamically allocated table.
- Each modulelist entry is now about 30 bytes smaller, for 1000 modules that means memory savings of about 30 kB! :-)
- Unnecessary library loading removed from startup. This also speeds up starting on slow machines.
- Improved stability
- Starting and stopping playback and loading modules like a crazy person is now not so prone to crashing. This is achieved by adding exclusive access checks to module data and module list in several places (see above).
- Other general bad behaviour removed from many places, not directly visible to user.
- May survive low memory situations better when loading module programs or adding files.
- A bunch of smaller fixes, such as enforcer hit removals at a few places.
- Code refactoring! It's still quite a mess in many places."
The latest beta version can be downloaded from releases. After unpacking the archive, in the folder "dist" the new version is available and can be copied over the existing installation. 'HippoPlayer.group' has to be copied to 'S'. (dr)
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15.Jun.2021
Aminet
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Screen capture: SnapIT for MorphOS 2.x, AROS and AmigaOS 4.1
After more than four years, Stefan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has updated his tool for taking screenshots to version 1.5 (message about version 1.4).
Changes in version 1.5:
- Removed a bug that could be triggered when closing the program.
- Removed a bug that could be triggered lockups when user had multiple screens open.
- Added variable templates for the use of name on Screen / Window in the parser.
- Added variable templates for date (year and month) and time (hour, minutes and seconds) in parser.
- Added "USEALPHA" TOOLTYPE for MorphOS systems.
- Removed the "bubble help" temporary on OS4 binaries since it could cause a lockup on the system.
- Added support to be able to fetch ancient GIMMEZEROZERO windows =) (ex.ZoneXplorer)
(dr) (Translation: bb)
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15.Jun.2021
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CS-Lab: Test of new firmware 1.10 for Warp1260
According to Greg Donner on his unofficial Warp 3060/4060 page, the YouTube channel Amiga Tests has tested the latest firmware 1.10 of the Warp 1260 for the Amiga 1200 and a video published.
Compared to the previous version 1.08, these are the changes:
- MicroSD can be formatted as FFS, PFS3 and others.
- Amiga can boot from microSD.
- Transfer speeds up to 20 MB/s!
- Very low CPU usage [~3-9%] while accessing the microSD.
- 224 MB Fast RAM!
- MicroSD is PCMCIA-friendly.
- Combination of microSD and Warp IDE CF, or microSD and Amiga internal IDE can be used simultaneously.
According to 'JakubH' in the Polish forum ppa.pl the firmware will be made available during the next weeks. (dr)
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14.Jun.2021
Blog Amigaguru
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Game announcement: 'CYBERSPHERE' for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS(x86)
In his latest blog entry the 'AmigaGuru’s Gamerblog' has announced a new commercial point&click adventure developed by GDG-Entertainment among others for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS(x86). You can get some first impressions by watching a YouTube trailer.
According to GDG-Entertainment the game will have the following features:
- Loads of locations to visit, divided into three main areas: city streets, city undergrounds, space station.
- Voxel-based futuristic graphics.
- Easy icon-driven mechanics that mimics text-adventures ones.
- Full range of sound effects and inspiring music.
- Localized in English, French and Italian.
Hardware requirements:
- CPU: G3 or PPC440 (AmigaOS), G3 (MorhpOS)
- Fast memory: 512MB (AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS)
- Harddrive: 100MB
According to AmigaGuru’s Gamerblog the game has been finished and will be probably released in August 2021. On its website there is also a demo version for each platform available. (dr)
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14.Jun.2021
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Contest: Amiga Art Contest 2021
The "Amiga Art Contest 2021" (video) is organized by the two Youtubers 10 Minute Amiga Retrocast and Pixel Vixen. In its third edition, participants can submit their works in the categories of "hand-drawn artwork", "digital photography", "ray tracing" and "music pieces". The submissions of the two previous years 2019 and 2020 can be viewed on the official website.
Only works created or (in the case of digital photographs) edited on an Amiga (real or emulated) are eligible. Second place winners will receive A-EON sponsored digital licenses for Personal Paint 7.3 or ImageFX 4.5, first place winners will receive four $50 vouchers for the Retrorewind.ca store. Deadline for entries is October 11, winners will be announced in an episode of the Youtube show "10 Minute Amiga Retrocast". (dr) (Translation: bb)
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14.Jun.2021
Reddit
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68k.news: Simple HTML-Google News for vintage computers
Recently we reportd about the FrogFind! search engine which simplifies search results and thus make them accessable for older browsers. Simultaneously to this project the YouTuber 'Action Retro' has created a Google News website based on SimplePie and a php port of Mozilla's Readability which displays news items without menus, ads, footers and all what it is not necessariliy needed for the message itself. So it is possible to read them for example with the Amiga browser AWeb. You can set your country as well as your favourite news section in the upper menu of the website. The source code is available on GitHub. (dr)
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13.Jun.2021
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Remake: Textadventure Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut)
In 2019 the commercial textadventure 'Hibernated - This Place is Death' was released as first part of a planned trilogy. His release Stefan Vogt now has ported as Director's Cut' to the Z-machine originally developed by Infocom: An development environment for textadventures.
Vogt finally "ended up completely rewriting it" adding "tons of narrative content and new riddles". The game also now is available for many platforms.
Probably on 1. August the game also will be available in a boxed edition on poly.play featuring the following content:
- 3,5" floppy disk
- Cardboard box with slipcase (23 x 18,5 x 2,5 cm)
- Mission patch
- Developer's autograph card
- MicroSD card including disk images and more
- Manual (DIN A5, English)
- Quick guide "How to Play Interactive Fiction"
- Stickers
- Din-A3 poster
- Shrink-wrapped
The game can be pre-ordered for 35 Euro.
(dr)
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13.Jun.2021
AmigaLove
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Third part of textadventure series: Silk Dust
After Two Days to the Race and The Queen's Footsteps, Davide Bucci has released the third part of his textadventure series named 'Silk Dust'.
About the tasks of the player the author has written: "Today is April 19, 1907. You, Emilia Vittorini, arrived yesterday in Varenna, on the shore of the beautiful Lake Como. You are hosted at the magnificent Villa Briccorosso; Princess Lucilla Briccorosso is preparing the Silk Road Race, a 10,000km rally raid between Cairo in Egypt and Peking in China, to be done by car. You represent ITA, founded by your father, the company that built the car the Princess just bought to use during the rally. The car is supposed to be delivered today. Your role will be to assist the delivery and make sure everything is perfectly functional".
Obviously the author has used real persons and places. Its history he has explained in a separaten article. The game is available for several platforms like Amiga, C64, ZX Spectrum etc. The author asks for reporting "typos, errors and bugs". (dr)
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13.Jun.2021
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Aminet uploads until 12.06.2021
The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to Aminet:
KONEY_MECHMICROBES.lha demo/sound 362K 68k KONEY: MECHMICROBES Hardcore ...
ALS.lha dev/amos 546K 68k AMOS Layers System
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 2.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
dsp3210.lha driver/oth 95K 68k DSP 3210 drivers and tools
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 13K 2021 Carset for F1GP
EXULT_RTG.lha game/role 49M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (EXULT)
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 938K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
D1X_Rebirth_RTG.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Descent (DXX-Re...
ODAMEX_RTG.lha game/shoot 19M 68k Amiga port of ODAMEX
OpenDUNE_RTG.lha game/strat 276K 68k Amiga port of Dune 2 (OpenDUNE)
DOSBox_RTG.lha misc/emu 1.5M 68k Amiga port of DOSBox
Lofoten.lha mods/8voic 2.0M Lofoten 8ch Synth by HKvalhe
Crockettstheme.lha mods/misc 250K 4ch Crockett's Theme Corrected
RNOArchive.lha util/arc 1.7M MOS Graphical archive manager
RNOArchive_AROS.lha util/arc 1.8M x86 Graphical archive manager
RNOArchive_OS4.lha util/arc 2.1M OS4 Graphical archive manager
TDir2Guide.lha util/cli 11K 68k Create AGuide from text dir scan
dintwm.lha util/wb 26K 68k Dynamic Intuition Window Manager
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13.Jun.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 12.06.2021
The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to OS4Depot:
oo.lha dev/lib 1Mb 4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
egalaxtouchusbfd.lha dri/inp 45kb 4.1 USB driver for eGalax touchscree...
itmtouchusbfd.lha dri/inp 45kb 4.1 USB driver for ITM touchscreen c...
wavesharetouchusbfd.lha dri/inp 44kb 4.1 USB driver for waveshare touchsc...
thewidow.lha gam/adv 19Mb 4.0 Game Terror Paranormal Adventure
loschinos.lha gam/chi 4Mb 4.0 This is the classic spanish game...
aos-iconsupdate7.lha gra/ico 17Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
redeth.lha net/sam 3Mb 4.0 Graphical interface to manage co...
zitaftpserver.lha net/ser 11Mb 4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
rnoarchive.lha uti/arc 2Mb 4.1 Graphical archive manager.
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13.Jun.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.06.2021
The following files have been added until 12.06.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
RNOArchive_1.0.lha Files/Archive Graphical archive manager
TheWidow_FinalVersion.lha Games/Adventure The Widow the point and...
LosChinos_3.51.lha Games/Think This is the classic Spa...
AnimWebConverter_4.10.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
YT_URL_Extractor_2.2.lha Network/Web YouTube URL extractor.
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13.Jun.2021
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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A-EON Technology: Updates for Warp3D Nova and Copy command
As part of their Enhancer Software, A-EON Technology have updated both the graphics card driver Warp3D Nova and their own variant of the Copy command - the latter being, besides AmigaOS 4, also available for AmigaOS 3.x. The Warp3D Nova update is especially useful for owners of Radeon RX 570/580 cards, fixing a bug that caused freezes.
As always, customers can download the new versions using the Updater software.
Changes:
- Warp3D Nova 1.85
(Warp3DNova.library, W3DN_SI.library, W3DN_GCN.library)
- W3DN_SI/GCN: Added framebuffer lock failure detection to prevent a crash (#717)
- W3DN_GCN: No more freezing with RX 570/580 cards (#361)
- W3DN_GCN: Fixed W3DNHelloTriangle corruption with Radeon RX 570/580 cards
- W3DN_SI/GCN - Using an array of textures in a loop would cause graphics corruption and also a GPU lockup. FIXED
- W3DN_SI/GCN - Elementwise access to vec3 vertex shader inputs was broken. FIXED
- DDK: Added tests for the bug listed above
- Copy 46.7 / 54.7
- Fixed bug in setting the path of the destination file if it wasn't provided. It could use the source file's path instead of the current dir.
(snx)
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12.Jun.2021
Artur Gadawski (Mail)
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Product announcement: 7-bit accelerator board Wicher 1220 for A1200
After developing the Wicher 508i accelerator board for the A500, Artur Gadawski from 7-bit has announced the version for the A1200, the Wicher 1220:
Currently the board is in beta test phase and will have the following features:
- CPU: MC68EC020
- CPU clock speed: 25MHz, 33MHz
- Memory: 11MB Fast Ram (16MB SDRAM)
- SPI-Controller
- Realtime clock (RTC)
- microSD card reader
- Ethernet controller
A price for the Wicher 1220 has not yet been set. (dr)
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11.Jun.2021
Bufee-Webseite
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Update to accelerator board project 'Buffee'
The open source accelerator board project "Buffee" started by Renee Cousins and Tim Wacker consists of an adapter board which is connected to the processor socket of an A500, A1000 or A2000 and has a SoC of type Octavo OSD335x-SM inclusive 512 or 1024 MB RAM (amiga-news.de reported).
In their latest blog entry the developers has announced that a beta charge of 60 Buffees been ordered. Unfortunately the alpha version of the board did not perform well enough. Therefore in version 0.5 of the board a 'GreenPAK' SPLD (simple programmable logic device) was added: By that it is "ensured that on this version every signal that is not bound to the SPLD, is bound to the PRU (Programmable Realtime Unit) which is almost as good as the SPLD, just not quite as fast".
Changes of version 0.5 of the Buffee project:
- Flash SPI data lines were swapped (this is possible to fix on the alpha)
- Made Flash SPI lines length matched to ensure good data up to 104MHz
- Power rails changed to support down to 2.7V (alpha will brown out at 4.5V)
- JTAG had no system reset only target reset (makes debugging annoying)
- CLK pin may work either as an input or output (improved TF1200 support)
- A few extra passives that weren’t needed were removed
- Switched to lower-profile headers to make Buffee the same height as a 68000
- And added the GreenPAK for some simple programmable fun
- Fixed the silkscreen to align with the BGA orientation
The developers offer four options for users already having the alpha board:
- 1. You can fix the data lines and the alpha will still run in the TF1200.
- 2. We can send you a new PCB and you can try and swap it yourself or source the CPU.
- 3. You can send it back and we’ll try and replace the PCB for you.
- 4. We can send you a TSSOP GreenPAK and you can try and bodge the alpha yourself.
The developers recommend taking the first option. And explain it: "Yes, it’s possible to remove and replace a BGA chip, but on the SAME chip, it’s likely to result in catastrophic damage to the inner components of the CPU. And while the GreenPAK bodge is in theory possible, it would be fragile and very difficult to do correctly as at least one of the pads from the BGA is required and not brought outside of it’s footprint."
Finally they report that due to "all the chip-shortages, we’re actually just barely coming in under the MSRP with almost no margin left. Also, we’re stuck with a six week build time as there are some lead times we have to absorb." (dr)
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11.Jun.2021
Aminet
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ALS 1.94: Screen overlay
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has provided "ALS", the AMOS Layers System, a way to layer individual screens of AMOS Professional, specifying the order, colors and degree of translucency (video).
The whole thing is written in AMOS and is therefore available as a source code library. Due to his work on the puzzler Follix, some changes were also made in ALS with version 1.94:
- Added ALS_CHECK_LAYER_INDEX[].
- Added ALS_COPY_PALETTE_SEGMENT[].
- Added ALS_CREATE_LAYER_AS_CLONE[].
- Added ALS_SET_LAYER_A_AND_COLORS_FROM LAYER[].
- Made check on layer index in ALS_DESTROY_LAYER[] and ALS_MAKE_LAYER_DESCRIPTOR[] more robust.
- Removed check on layer index from ALS_GET_LAYER_DEPTH[].
- Simplified ALS_OPEN_FILE[].
- Updated manual.
(dr) (Translation: bb)
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10.Jun.2021
Twitter
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Preview video: New platform game 'Primal Blade'
Dante Mendes is working on a new hack 'n slash game based on the Scorpion Engine. On his Twitter account Mendes has published a short video demonstrating the attacks of the Druids with fireballs, the life bar and a first version of the start screen showing the title of the new game: Primal Blade. (dr)
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10.Jun.2021
Aminet
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Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.8.10
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz 3.8, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. Recently the boxed edition of the platform game "Putter" has been released which also has been developed with RedPill. An ADF image of the game is available as well. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires a total of 1,5 MB RAM.
Changes in version 0.8.10:
- Start button added to Play the game not from the current level but from the initial game level.
- Level background menu is now in Properties tab in the Level Editor.
- New action trigger Change Icon to change an object icon.
- When editing an object with parent, parent object is now displayed.
- After a new project is created paths are initialized and point to the project folder.
- BlockBreaker example has been added.
- FIX: Not enabled objects are not visible anymore in the level editor screen.
- FIX: When setting the frame manually in Animation screen.
- FIX: Tile On Screen trigger was not working properly.
(dr)
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09.Jun.2021
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Archive manager: RNOArchive for all Amiga systems
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has added another Hollywood application to his 'RNO family' (e.g. PDF viewer RNOPDF, FTP(S) client RNOXFER or DTP application RNOPublisher): RNOArchive is a graphical archive manager which can can extract, modify, and create archives based on the XAD system. RNOArchive also can create ZIP files. As the author wrote "writing to other formats relies on separate Shell commands, and their availability and compatibility in the used system."
RNOArchive has the following features:
- Reads and extracts all archiving formats supported by the XAD system
- Write and modify support for ZIP and LhA archives
- Write and modify support for Tar if MorphOS SDK is installed (experimental, but supports Amiga file attributes)
- Batch extraction for multiple archives
- Automatic sub-directory creation for batch extracted archives
- Archive browsing and file viewing
- Filetype editor for configuring file viewers
- Intelligent drag & drop support
- Recursive adding of files/directories
- Create new directories inside archives
- Delete files and directories
- Handles UTF-8 filenames in archives
- Extensive file selection options
RNOArchive is available for AmigaOS 3/4, MorphOS and AROS. (dr)
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08.Jun.2021
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AmigaOS 4: FTP-Server ZitaFTP 1.21
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.21 of his commercial FTP erver 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
"I'm pleased to announce another ZitaFTP Server update is available now. This is version 1.21, and it's primarily a bug-fix and fault tolerance update. Here's what's new:
- Multiple bug-fixes: For example, adding/editing/deleting users or directories wouldn't take effect until after a manual restart. This is now fixed, and the UI will ask you if you want to restart to apply new changes when it's needed.
- Fault tolerance: The server used to spit out an error and shutdown if something went wrong, such as missing TLS security certificates. A rather poor user experience. Version 1.21 will inform you of the problem, and give you the opportunity to fix it.
- Licensing UI moved to the web-based GUI: While it definitely looks an behaves better, this was done now rather than later in preparation for the Windows version. Windows doesn't allow servers/services to show a GUI directly for security reasons (servers usually run at a higher privilege level, with access to more of the system). So, ZitaFTP Server needs to be split into a pure server, plus a GUI program (on Windows, the AmigaOS version can remain as-is).
The Windows version is coming, but there's more work to do. If you're interested in testing the Windows version as soon as it's ready, then contact me to let me know."
The new version can be tested for 30 days for free. The author also has published a YouTube video explaining the changes of this verson.
(dr) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2021
English Amiga Board (Webseite)
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Italian print magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 2
The Italian print magazine 'Passione Amiga' is only available as an annual subscription: 16 Euros must be paid for four issues per year. The current, second issue offers the following topics, among others:
- Numerous news about video games and the programming of the Amiga
- Tests for Inviyya, Turbo Sprint, Putter, Galactica, Wrong Way Driver, Dodgy Rocks, ArtPazz, Metal Gear und Amiga Forever 9
- Interviews: David Pleasance, Fabrizio Farenga, Gunnar Von Boehn
- AmigaOS 3.2
In addition, readers will receive "a little gift" with this issue. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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07.Jun.2021
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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GUI toolkit: source code for BGUI published
The source code of the BOOPSI-based GUI toolkit BGUI has now been released under a free license. BGUI offers its own GUI builder as well as a preconfiguration program with which end users can adapt the look and feel of the system to their needs. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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07.Jun.2021
FS-UAE (Webseite)
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First version of FS-UAE for Mac computers with M1 CPU
Frode Solheim provides a first version of his Amiga emulator for M1-based Macintosh computers. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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06.Jun.2021
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A-EON allegedly no longer has an AmigaOS 4 license (Update 2)
For months, amiga-news.de has been receiving reports that the licensing agreement between Hyperion and A-EON expired at the turn of the year - and indeed the "X5000" product as well as all versions of AmigaOS have been removed from Amigakit's webstore months ago. But until now, nobody was willing to have his claims published as a news item.
Today, Hyperion's former technical
director Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea confirmed (German) in a discussion on os4welt.de that the OEM agreement between A-EON and Hyperion has expired: "The OEM contracts for the X5000 and Tabor each ran for 5 years and were negotiated by me in 2015. Now we are in the 6th year ... apparently no new contracts have been negotiated yet. At least the old contracts were not extended. At the end of that period, I was still in management, but A-EON showed zero interest when we approached them."
Since Mincea is no longer part of Hyperion manegement, we approached Ben Hermans (Hyperion) and Trevor Dickinson (A-EON), asking for a statement
regarding this issue. Ben Hermans declined to comment. Trevor Dickinson tells us he forwarded our inquiry to A-EON's managing directory, Matthew Leaman. Dickinson does confirm though, that (quote) "A-EON holds a worldwide licence to use the AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4.x names in connection with its hardware should it wish to do so".
Note from staff: As far as we know, the OEM contracts are seaprate from the trademark license, so Dickinson's statement and Mincea's claims do not contradict each other. Already in summer 2019, somebody started
to remove the term "AmigaOne" from AmigaKit's webstore and A-EON's wiki. Back then, Trevor Dickinson had stated several times
(1,
2)
that the product his company was selling was still called "AmigaOne X5000".
Update: (06.06.2021, 23:30, cg)
Added statement from Trevor Dickinson. Removed speculation addressed by said statement from the 'note from staff'.
Update: (07.06.2021, 18:30, cg)
In additional contributions to the discussion on os4welt.de, Mincea specifies and corrects his statements regarding the actual schedule: according to him, the OEM contract for the X5000 already expired in Juli 2019 while the contract for Tabor/A1222 was signed in August 2015 and specified a term of four years. He also gives a more detailed overview what the actual OEM contract regulates.
Note from staff: The "July 2019" date Mincea now specifies for the end of the X5000 contract matches the beginning of A-EON's/Amigakit's efforts to remove the "AmigaOne" trademark from their websites. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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CloudDav_1.31.lha comm/net 1.7M MOS A WebDav/CardDav/CalDav client
COP.lha dev/debug 165K 68k Low Level Debugger
BootWB1x.lha disk/misc 17K 68k Minimal boot into Workbench 1...
AmigaOS_3.2-FAQ.txt docs/help 153K Frequently Asked Questions fo...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 275K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.21
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Sensei.lha driver/oth 34K 68k Displays I2C Sensor informati...
MCE.lha game/edit 3.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.3M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ODAMEX_RTG.lha game/shoot 19M 68k Amiga port of ODAMEX
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 110K 68k ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pentagon1...
SolarSystemCalculator... misc/sci 36K MOS Solar System Calculator
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ViNCEd.lha util/shell 836K 68k ViNCEd, the CON: with ^Z & TA...
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amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
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animwebconverter.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.0 A web anim tool
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.06.2021
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 05.06.2021:
- 2021-06-03 improved: Another World / Out of this World (Delphine Software) reinstated support for another english version (Info)
- 2021-05-31 improved: Side Show (Actionware) registration limit removed, uses less chip memory (Info)
- 2021-05-31 improved: Obitus (Psygnosis) uses less chip memory (Info)
- 2021-05-31 improved: Creature (Actionware) uses less chip memory (Info)
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06.Jun.2021
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Turn-based space strategy: Imperium Terranum 2.818
The source code of the turn-based space strategy game Imperium Terranum 2 was ported from Pascal to C. 'fook42' continues to update and improve this port. Changes since version 2.816:
- new: search for traveling ships (in "SPACE")
- new: shop ship damage indicator in case there is damage
- fixed bug in intro (allocating TmpRasters)
- fixed bug in finances - now shows JHADAR tax again
- replaced all setRGB4 with setRGB32 for better compatibility with RTG systems
- Sound-length values are now UWORD .. as required
- code optimizations/smaller binary (~700B)
A detailed guide for installing the game you can find on the GitHub site of the project.
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06.Jun.2021
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Video: New features of AmigaOS 3.2
'AmigaBill' from the YouTube channel 'The Guru Meditation' has recorded a ten minutes video presenting the 13 most important new features of AmigaOS 3.2. Among others he introduces the special CPU libraries, mouse wheel support, iconifying, ADF support and the enhanced Shell.
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05.Jun.2021
Reddit (Webseite)
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Amiga disks on PC: Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer V2.5
Similar to ADF Drive, Robert Smith's project "Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer" uses a a micro controller - an Arduino board - for enabling a common PC disk drive reading and writing Amiga disks.
In his latest video the YouTuber Neil alias 'RMC' introduces the new feature of the project: Direct access to a disk, inserted into a disk drive of a PC, from the emulator WinUAE.
All documents of Smith's project are available on GitHub under a free license. (dr)
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05.Jun.2021
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Crowdfunding: Book "Demoscene The AGA years"
Following the successful crowdfunding of the first volume of the history of the demoscene, which can be still acquired, now the international crowdfunding website 'Indiegogo' has started the new campaign for the second volume, covering the years 1994 to 1996. So far almost 15.000 of 18.000 Euro has been donated. (dr)
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05.Jun.2021
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A-EON beginnt mit Auslieferung des "AAA Bundle"
As user "AmiFrog" tells os4welt.de, he received his "AAA Bundle" yesterday. His photo shows the scope of delivery of the package, additionally the bundle buyers should have received a download link for the "Remix Edition" of the Amiga documentation "Viva Amiga":
The bundle was introduced as part of the "A1222 Plus Early Adopter" campaign - customers of the 115 euro bundle should have the chance to win one of the first A1222 computers sold to end customers. The last status update we know about the production of the A1222 Plus is from September 2020. (cg) (Translation: bb)
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05.Jun.2021
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AmigaOS 3.2: Updated Native Developer Kit NDK 3.2 R2
A Native Developer Kit is already included on the AmigaOS 3.2 CD, a version "R2" now available contains the following changes:
- Autodoc, BumpRev, CatComp and Localize integrated in the Tools directory
- Added missing entries to Shell and Layers Release Notes
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03.Jun.2021
Aminet
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Aminet: New Version of AmigaOS 3.2 FAQ
Today the new version 47.2 of the AmigaOS 3.2 FAQ was published on Aminet. Among other things the following points were added:
- 1.5: The Vampire V4 is able to boot AmigaOS 3.2, but this requires a special procedure from the user. More information on the support page of the Vampire
- 4.15: Graphical errors in the palette's settings editor and help subsystem are most likely due to the Indivision AGA MK3 scandoubler. Only a new firmware could solve this.
- 4.16: If no drives are connected or none are detected when booting the Amiga, the process stops with a black screen. Either connect a drive or floppy drive or switch to the Early Startup Control menu by holding down both mouse buttons.
- 12.11: When asked if the current Kickstart ROM can also be used to boot older AmigaOS versions, it is pointed out that the system partition must absolutely contain the workbench.library and the icon.library to be extracted from the 'AmigaOS 3.2 Install3.2.adf' image. Further support is not provided here.
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03.Jun.2021
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Demo: THE CURE for AGA-Amigas
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua had produced a demo called 'THE CURE' some time ago, which he released at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 and won first place in the oldskool category. Now he has released an update that, among other things, fixes a supposed memory leak.
At the end of 2017, he extracted the graphics engine from one of his other demos to play around with in the time that followed. Among other things, he intended to release a game based on it, but failed: the engine would have been too tiring on the eyes and inappropriate for small or medium graphic elements.
So he concentrated on using the engine in a demo, but beyond that he pursued a higher goal: to send out a message. Amiga users can convince themselves of this in advance by watching the YouTube video on his site. But Simone recommends for the full graphical and acoustical enjoyment to play the demo on an Amiga, which should fulfill the following conditions:
- AGA Amiga
- 68030 @ 50 MHz
- ~32 kB CHIP RAM
- ~14.5 MB FAST RAM
- ~15 MB disk space
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02.Jun.2021
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Shoot'em Up: More info about RESHOOT PROXIMA 3
Ex-"Amiga Joker"-editor Richard Löwenstein is still working intensively on his third shoot'em up. After RESHOOT and RESHOOT R, the title "RESHOOT PROXIMA 3" is currently being developed.
The developer regularly informs about the latest progress on his Patreon page. Last week, for example, he explained his approach and changes to the ocean theme of his game in a short video. For three months he tinkered with the visual design of this level because he was not satisfied with the original version, which, in his opinion, did not contain anything unique or surprising. He came up with the idea of perspective scrolling: that's what he calls a variation of scrolling that applies scrolling at different speeds to different rows of images. This creates the illusion of a camera pulling forward on a 3D structure, he says. This can greatly enhance visual depth, he says. Normally, horizontally scrolling games like "Street Fighter II" are associated with this, but examples on the Amiga would be rare. He still mentions "Lionheart", "Elfmania", "Overkill" and "RESHOOT R". For his latest game he wanted to turn the feature to vertical orientation, which he succeeded in doing after a few attempts. He asks users to tell him what they think about the sample scene and also if they know any other games with vertical scrolling, if any.
In another brief statement, Richard Löwenstein shares that his "pixel artist" Kevin Saunders and he have completed the themes and color scheme for all five sections of the game. Likewise, his the code and implementation of all visual effects for the levels ready. (dr) (Translation: bb)
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01.Jun.2021
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MorphOS: E-Mail-Program Iris 0.118
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is to become the default MorphOS email client in the future. It supports IMAP and can both display and create HTML emails.
Among the new features of version 0.118 is an improved image scaling when reading mails. In addition, the author asks to ensure that in any case a written server name and not an IP address is to be used for the SMTP server, since some servers reject an IP address when establishing an SMTP connection. For feedback to the author, the corresponding MorphZone discussion on the topic can be used. (dr) (Translation: bb)
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MorphOS: Web-Browser Wayfarer 1.21
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has updated his Wayfarer web browser to version 1.21. The changes at a glance:
- Fixed a crash on player exit
- Fixed an issue where player settings weren't correctly applied when loading pages
- Fixed an issue where wrong player settings were used in some code paths
- Fixed a problem with quitting Wayfarer
MorphOS 3.15 and 1 GB RAM are required. A processor with at least 1.5 GHz is recommended. For feedback to the author, e-mails to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu or the corresponding MorphZone discussion on the topic can be used in addition to the integrated crash detector.
(dr) (Translation: bb)
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Detailed Review (Czech): Graphic cards for Sam440ep-flex
On the Czech Amiga portal, the user 'sailor' has published a detailed review about graphic cards for Sam440ep-flex, here as English-language translation. Of course the texts of the graphics cannot be translated, so these are important words to know:
- neni treba = not necessary
- ne = no
- ani = still
- ano = yea
Finally she has given some conclusions depending on for what you are using your Sam440ep-flex most: For current applications for example she recommends the Radeon HD 7750. In any case she advises to have 128 MB VRAM graphic memory.
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Aminet uploads until 29.05.2021
The following files have been added until 29.05.2021 to Aminet:
AmIRC_DE.lha comm/irc 16K New German catalog for AmIRC
COP.lha dev/debug 165K 68k Low Level Debugger
fpc-3.2.2-arm-aros.lha dev/lang 54M FreePascal for arm AROS ABIv0
fpc-3.2.2-i386-aros.lha dev/lang 53M x86 FreePascal for i386 AROS ABIv0
fpc-3.2.2-m68k-amiga.lha dev/lang 38M 68k FreePascal for AmigaOS 3.x
fpc-3.2.2-ppc-amiga.lha dev/lang 55M OS4 FreePascal for AmigaOS 4.x
fpc-3.2.2-ppc-morphos... dev/lang 55M MOS FreePascal for MorphOS
spod.lha game/actio 317K 68k Spaceship vs Asteroids Game (...
F1GP2021Carset.lha game/data 6K 2021 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 3.1M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.3M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 3.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
pcexhumed.lha game/shoot 604K 68k Exhumed / Powerslave
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha gfx/fract 17M OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.3M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.6M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 4.8M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Bonzai.lha mods/8voic 141K Bonzai 8ch Japanese Pop Ballad
Club82.lha mods/misc 70K Club 82 4ch Synth Disco by HK...
StartinOver.lha mods/misc 73K Startin All Over 4ch Soft Rock
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 618K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 739K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 783K OS4 Multipurpose utility
EjectADF.lha util/wb 3K 68k Add Eject commmand to OS 3.2 ...
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OS4Depot uploads until 29.05.2021
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amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
jfsw.lha gam/fps 2Mb 4.1 First-person shooter video game
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
flashmandelng.lha gra/mis 17Mb 4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
mediavault.lha net/mis 373kb 4.1 Discover online radio stations
bootclock.lha uti/har 2Mb 4.0 Program to computers without bat...
reportplus.lha uti/mis 783kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
yt.lha vid/mis 2Mb 4.0 YouTube URL Extractor script
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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fpc-3.2.2-arm-aros.lha dev/lan 54Mb FreePascal for arm-aros ABIv0
videoslotmachine.lha gam/boa 3Mb A slot video game
casablanca.lha gra/ico 43kb MacroSystem Casablanca GlowIcons
fonttester.lha gra/mis 2Mb test the fonts installed in your...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 29.05.2021
The following files have been added until 29.05.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Chrysalis_3.15.iso Chrysalis This pack allows you to...
AmIRC_3.8.lha Communication AmIRC is the best clien...
FPC_3.2.2.lha Development/FreePascal Free Pascal Compiler
x5000_manual.lha Documentation/X5000 Ceci est le Manuel Tech...
AmiArcadia_27.2.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Blues_R1.lha Games/Platform Blues Brothers & Jukebo...
ReportPlus_8.2.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
BootClock_1.20.lha Misc A little and easy progr...
VAMP_2.30.lha Multimedia A Multimedia Player pro...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 29.05.2021
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 29.05.2021:
- 2021-05-26 fixed: Dimo's Quest (Infernal Bytes/Boeder Software) keyboard handler corrected (Info)
- 2021-05-26 updated: Battletoads (Mindscape) renamed to Battletoads (Info)
- 2021-05-25 improved: Zyconix (Accolade) supports original release, loads and saves high scores (Info)
- 2021-05-25 improved: Garfield: Big, Fat, Hairy Deal (The Edge) uses less chip memory, 68000 quitkey (Info)
- 2021-05-25 fixed: Hero Quest (Gremlin) saving character doesn't crash anymore when no expansion disk is available (Info)
- 2021-05-24 improved: Dimo's Quest (Infernal Bytes/Boeder Software) uses less chip memory, new install script (Info)
- 2021-05-23 improved: Atomic Robo-Kid (Activision) in-game cheat can be enabled with CUSTOM1, support for second fire button (weapon selection), 68000 quitkey support (Info)
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31.May.2021
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Memory game: MeMO 3.11 (update)
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua has released an update of his memory game MeMO. His game is based on the classic memory card game but in his port two payers can simultaneously play for getting the best highscore. MeMO requires a 68020 processor and the ECS graphic chip. The latest update among others provides an improved framework ("which makes the startup and cleanup procedures more robust"), support for joystick in mouse port and a reworked/extended menu.
Update: (06:00, 02.06.21, dr)
Meanwhile version 3.11 is available which fixes a bug introduced with the previous version. (dr) (Translation: dr)
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29.May.2021
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Hyperion: Ben Hermans temporarily relieved from director position
After Timothy de Groote had been delisted as a Hyperion director,
Ben Hermans was entered into the company register as Hyperion's sole manager.
But in contrast to his predecessors, he wasn't listed as a "besturder"
(director): his position is that of a "vaste vertegenwoordiger" (permanent
representative) of the actual director - a company named "Ben Hermans BV".
That company "Ben Hermans BV" now is the subject of a compulsory dissolution: According to
Belgium's legal newsletter, a court appointed a lawyer named Jean Louis de
Chaffoy de Courcelles as an judicial liquidator ("gerechtelijk
vereffenaar") on May 7. As far as we know, this means that this liquidator now also acts as the company's representative in its role as
Hyperion's director.
Ben Hermans still owns the vast majority of Hyperion's shares though - we
assume he will return to his post as a director at some point. We currently
have no information on how this change of management would be achieved though.
In the lawsuit against Cloanto and the Amiga parties a decision regarding the
trial schedule was published
yesterday. The judge grants the motion of the Amiga parties, explaining
that it was the only one properly submitted: Apparently, Hyperion's motion
was transmitted via E-Mail as a Word document by Ben Hermans himself, which
is not accepted court procedure. According to the judge, the reason given by
Ben Hermans was that he was unable to reach the company's US lawyer.
We approached Mr. Hermans and asked for a statement regarding the Ben Hermans
BV issue. Mr. Hermans told us he can't really comment on this, as it's
being handled by his lawyer currently. He gave us the following statement:
"There is no issue of 'insolvency', there was failure to file the yearly
account for 2019 in time due to the accountancy firm not having the time
to complete this in time apparently due to the COVID restrictions
including but not limited to 'work from home' restrictions and very
limited staff allowed in offices. It would be inappropriate for me to comment further without approval for
my lawyer." (cg) (Translation: cg)
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Amiga Corporation: Statement regarding commercial distribution of AmigaOS 3.2
After the release of AmigaOS
3.2, it was stated that a digital edition might take
a while to arrive, since Hyperion wants to create a window for dealers to
generate some revenue with the CD version.
This Thrusday, an anonymous source supplied a PDF document to
amiga-news.de, allegedly containing a fax from Amiga's lawyer Gordon E. Troy
to Digital River. Digital River is an E-commercie service provider that is
used by Hyperion for digital distribution of AmigaOS 3.1.4 - even if
Amiga's and Cloanto's lawyers managed to
stop that for a while.
In the document, which is dated May 25th, the lawyer justifies why the
distribution of AmigaOS 3.2 violates Amiga's trademarks and copyrights
and explains in which areas the judge presiding the case against Hyperion
already agreed with Amiga's point of view.
Mr. Troy also claims that (quote) "our recent investigation of Hyperion [...]
strongly suggests" that Hyperion "would not be able to honour its indemnification
obligations" and that Digital River might end up being found liable. In conclusion,
he asks the E-commerce provider to take down all Downloads of AmigaOS 3.1.4 and
to not act as a distributor for AmigaOS 3.2 at all.
We approached Mike Battilana (Amiga Corporation, Cloanto), to verify if the
document we recieved is genuine. In repsonse, Mr. Battilana supplied us with an
official statement from Amiga Corporation regarding the distribution of
AmigaOS 3.2:
"Timothy De Groote and I negotiated a settlement agreement that was agreed to
by Ben Hermans in writing on January 20, 2021. (He also represented this to
the Court.) Eleven days later, he reneged.
Under the agreement Ben Hermans reneged on, Amiga Corporation would have
granted Hyperion Entertainment the right (which it currently doesn't have) to
release AmigaOS 3.2. If Hyperion wants to release it as a free update, Amiga
has no objection, but Hyperion can't exceed its rights AND profit from it."
(cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 29. May. 2021, 16:41] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2021
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Plattformer: Alpha-Version 0.1m of 'Super Delivery Boy'
A new alpha version 0.1m (video) of platformer 'Super Delivery Boy' developed with the Scorpion Engine can be downloaded from the developer's website. Among other things, new sound effects and features (red bird) have been added. The first two levels are playable, the rest are for preview purposes only. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 29. May. 2021, 08:30] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2021
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CS-Lab: Warp 3060/4060 turbo cards not available until 2022
On his 'unofficial Warp 3060/4060 page' Greg Donner quotes one of the developers of CS-Lab, according to which due to the lack of availability of components on the market and due to lack of time the WARP 4060 will only be finished next year. For the two already finished sister cards for the Amiga 500 and 1200 (amiga-news.de reported) the planned webshop is not yet available. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 29. May. 2021, 08:11] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2021
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Pre-order starts soon: Amiga inspired case in MiniITX format
Stephen Jones had an A3000-inspired case crowdfunded in 2018, reviving the "Checkmate" brand he used thirty years ago for an A500 desktop case. Announced in late summer, the "Checkmate Mini" variant which is significantly smaller and intended for motherboards in the mini-ITX form factor and can also accommodate the "UnAmiga" and "MIster" FPGA emulators using an adapter kit, was successfully crowdfunded by 303 backers to the tune of around 75,000 euros earlier this year.
As the developer Steve Jones told us on request, the 'Mini' is still available until July only for the backers. The general pre-order page is already up, but the links are still hidden until then. The developer has just received detailed documentation on the case in a test version for review.
Pre-orderable, but currently not in stock, is the 'Plus' variant in black or white for around 210 Euros each. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 29. May. 2021, 07:12] [Comments: 0]
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29.May.2021
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #18 (English/Polich)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 18 (spring/summer) are background reports on 'Outrage' and 'Boss Machine', game reviews on 'Dune 2020' and 'Fury of the Furries' as well as articles on 'Amiga68k on a Raspberry Pi 400' and WinUAE.
The magazine is available in a printed edition including the cover disc for 6.67 euros (plus approx. 5 euros shipping costs), the price for the digital edition is 1.56 euros. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 29. May. 2021, 06:43] [Comments: 0]
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28.May.2021
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AmigaOS 4: Fractal and Mandelbrot program FlashMandelNG 3.6
Developer Dino Papararo, about whom we published a detailed portrait the other day, has uploaded version 3.6 of his fractal and Mandelbrot program FlashMandelNG to OS4Depot. This version enables graphics card rendering even under 24bit screens. There are also minor optimizations and speed improvements. (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 28. May. 2021, 06:31] [Comments: 0]
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28.May.2021
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AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.2.0
MediaVault is an open source desktop application for AmigaOS 4 that can be used to stream online radio stations. An external player like AmigaAmp is needed. It is planned to create egine favorite lists with Mediavault and also to be able to retrieve podcasts. The program needs the oo.library v1.13 and the jansson.library v2.12.1.
The author George 'walkero' Sokianos has now released version 1.2.0, which includes the following changes:
- New:
- Added Unicode conversion to system charset on radio station names - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
- Now the application registers properly and can get requests from other apps, like Exchanger - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
- Now the MediaVault can jump to different screens - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
- Added better error manipulation when there were API response errors - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
- Now the size and the position of the window can be saved by the Popup Gadget - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
- Changes:
- Added code to detach the listbrowser before change it's data. That's the way it should be done
- Restructured code to reduce the duplicated code in radiofuncs.c. Now, one method is used instead of three separated that had pretty much the same code. Better code, less problems.
- A lot of refactoring, removing global variables.
- Reduced a lot of duplicated code.
- Now the default radio station number increased to 50. The response is also much faster - Thanks to Tuomas Hokka and oo.library 1.13 fixes
- Changed the way classes and gadgets are initiallized - Thanks to Daniel "trixie" Jedlicka
(dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 28. May. 2021, 06:23] [Comments: 0]
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27.May.2021
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Redesign: Amiga-compatible Joypad 'Protopad'
The well-known C64 vendor Protovision has successfully finished a fundraising campaign for the production of new joypads especially designed for the C64, but also compatible with Amiga (we reported). More than 15,000 Euro collected mean that the new paddles including multibutton controllers can be produced.
Now they are thinking about a redesign. The developers write:
"After the successful crowdfunding campaign for the Protopad, we worked enthusiastically on the project and made some tweaks to make this pad the best possible. During this time, we realized that we were not satisfied with the controller case we originally intended to use. As a result, we are currently looking into suitable alternatives. This has set us back a bit in our intended schedule." (dr) (Translation: bb)
[News message: 27. May. 2021, 06:50] [Comments: 0]
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