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05.Jan.2021



File manager: MCAmiga 0.9 for all Amiga systems (update)
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's MCAmiga is a file manager inspired by Norton and Midnight Commander which can be completely used with the keyboard. Version 0.9 has been already released in August 2020 - we reported about it in our dominical Aminet uploads - but after poiting out by us, Marcus now has added the missing change log which we also want to share with our readers:
  • difference viewer in tools menu
  • basic highlighter for ini, patch/diff files
  • BugFix for start from WBDock2
  • startup scripts to directly start the viewer/diffviewer from shell
  • Bugfix for file size
MCAmiga is available for AmigaOS (m68k, PPC), MorphOS and AROS (x86, x64, ARM). The programm at least requires 4 MB RAM.

Update: (18:40, 06.01.21, dr)
According to the author meanwhile the AmigaOS-4 version does run on a X5000 since it has not been a MCAmiga bug, but a Free Pascal Bug which has been fixed. (dr) (Translation: dr)

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04.Jan.2021



Shoot'em Up: Screenshots and cover of "Inviyya", release in February
The shoot'em up Inviyya obviously is approaching completion: The game will be available on poly.play in February. On Indie Retro News you can see the cover of the box as well as some new screenshots.

Inviyya requires at least an Amiga 500 and is running at 50 frames per second. The game has six worlds with completely different enemies, six different upgrades of the weapon system as well a real final end sequence. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2021



Aminet uploads until 02.01.2021
The following files have been added until 02.01.2021 to Aminet:
Streamer2ItaCat.lha      comm/www   12K       Italian catalog for Streamer2
The_Future_Sound.zip     demo/sound 153K  68k Musicdisk
void-absolutedolle3.zip  demo/sound 575K  68k Musicpack - December 2020
HWP_hURL.lha             dev/hwood  3.4M  MOS The multi-protocol data trans...
DriveMirror.lha          disk/misc  10K   68k 4GB
HULK.lha                 game/data  31K       HULK custom level for Worms:DC
labyrinth64.lha          game/misc  125K  68k Port of Commodore 64 game Lab...
hag.lha                  game/role  136K  MOS An ncurses dungeon crawler
ShadowWolfCyberzine9.lha mags/misc  447K  68k Shadow Wolf Cyberzine Issue #9
MMV8_Complete.lha        mus/edit   1.5M  68k MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0 (Co...
MMV8_Player.lha          mus/play   32K   68k MusicMaker V8 Player
CopyMemAIO.lha           util/boot  50K   68k Speedup your programs & workb...
detect_vampire.lha       util/boot  1K    68k Detects Vampire expansion card
DiskUsage.lha            util/cli   5K    68k DiskUsage estimates file spac...
HuntnGather.lha          util/dir   155K  68k File indexing and search util...
WHDLoadMenu.lha          util/misc  42K   68k A WHDLoad frontend
ViNCEd.lha               util/shell 788K  68k the final CON: solution. ^Z, ...
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03.Jan.2021



OS4Depot uploads until 02.01.2021
The following files have been added until 02.01.2021 to OS4Depot:
basiliskii.lha           emu/com 2Mb   4.1 Macintosh emulator runs MacOS7 a...
thewidow.lha             gam/adv 18Mb  4.0 Point and click adventure horror
a-ftp_server.lha         net/ser 2Mb   4.0 FTP Server for AmigaOS4
fuppes.lha               net/ser 12Mb  4.1 Free UPnP Entertainment Service
snoopy.lha               uti/fil 93kb  4.1 SnoopDos like utility for OS4
vim_mui.lha              uti/tex 14Mb  4.1 The ubiquitous text editor
a1222-mcu-watcher.lha    uti/wor 2Mb   4.1 Workbench Tool To Show A1222 MCU...
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03.Jan.2021



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.01.2021
The following files have been added until 02.01.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
Chrysalis_3.15.iso        Chrysalis                 This pack allows you to...
HWP_hURL_1.1.lha          Development/Hollywood/... A plugin for Hollywood ...
MorphOS-SDK_3.16-20201... Development/SDK           The MorphOS development...
Iris_0.98beta.lha         Email                     New email client suppor...
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.1.lha  Emulation                 FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
FBNeo_previews_1.0.0.0... Emulation                 Preview pack - PNG back...
DungeonRush_1.1.lha       Games/Action              Quick Morphos port of D...
ScummVM_2.3.0git.lha      Games/Adventure           A collection of various...
hag.lha                   Games/Role                An ncurses dungeon crawler
Wayfarer_1.10.lha         Network/Web               Wayfarer is the latest ...
iMacFanCtrl_0.4.lha       System/Monitoring         A simple fan control/te...
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03.Jan.2021



WHDLoad: New installers until 02.01.2021
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 02.01.2021: (snx)

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03.Jan.2021
MorphZone (forum)


MorphOS: e-mail client Iris 0.99 (Update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek's "Iris" is going to be the standard e-mail client for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and is able to display as well as create HTML e-mails.

Compared to betaversion 94 released about two months ago, Iris 0.98 now utilises the core of Wayfarer instead of Odyssey. Additionally there are first localisations, improved navigation and several bug-fixes. For feedback to the author, the corresponding thread at MorphZone can be used.

Update: (22:59, 03.01.21, snx)
Meanwhile version 0.99 is available. The update adds minor fixes and "Upload messages to Folder" functionality. (snx)

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02.Jan.2021



Self-made project: Real-time clock for 68000 Amigas
On Gitlab, Marcel 'Stumpi' Jähne has published documents for self-making a battery-buffered real-time clock for 68000-based Amigas, which "will fit directly under the 68k CPU or Turboboards for 68k sockets". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Jan.2021
David Brunet (ANF)


New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
  • November/December 2020 news.
  • Old articles from Joystick 13 to 15:
    • Interviews: with Shaun Southern, Pierre Adane, Mark McCubbin
    • Review: of Chuck Rock, Multi Player Soccer Manager, Super Cars 2, Ski Or Die, Escape From Colditz, Kick Off 2: The Final Whistle, Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp
    • Report: Imagina 1991
    • News: Demonware prepares five games for 1991
    • etc...
  • Interview with Eli Galindo (Director of Piko Interactive).
  • Interview with Robert Dinnerman (F/A-18 Interceptor programmer).
  • Review of Huenison.
  • Hardware: MiST 1.4.
  • Point of view: A trip down memory lane - icon borders.
  • Point of view: Trouble with Alive Mediasoft.
  • File: Classic Reflections - What happened to Phase 5? (2nd part).
  • File: Celebrities in the Amiga games.
  • Tutorial: Installation and utilisation of HstWB Installer 1.4.2.
  • Tutorial: Printing with MorphOS 3.12+ (update).
  • Special quizz about SiDi.
English articles:
  • Point of view: A trip down memory lane - icon borders.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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01.Jan.2021



amiga-news.de wishes a Happy New Year
amiga-news.de wishes all our readers a Happy New Year which hopefully will give much more cause for joy than the last twelve months. We would also like to thank our readers for the long-time loyalty. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2020
Amiga Impact (Webseite)


AMOS Professional AGA: Source codes released, Patreon site established
The source codes of 'AMOS Professional AGA' now have been released under the MIT licence on Github. 'AMOS Professional AGA' is an AGA port written by Frédéric Cordier of AMOS Professional. Additionally the development work of the author can be honored by donating monry via Paypal as well as using his new Patreon website. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Consoles and arcade emulator 'Final Burn Neo'
Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvel has ported the emulator Final Burn Neo to AmigaOS 4. The project is a combination of 'Final Burn', being an emulator for Capcom's CPS2 platform, as well as an older version of MAME. According to Nouvel is is a work-in-progress currently having done about 60%. Despite of that, already now almost 15.600 games can be played.

In order to be able to use the emulator, some archives have to be downloaded and extracted into the same directory. Additionally the project requires the library 'LibBoostyGfx' which is also developed by Nouvel. According to the author this "Donationware": Before starting the emulator for the first time, the library has to be registered requiring an Internet connection. A free keyfile is available on the download site. If instead you want to have a personalized keyfile, you are invited to make a little donation. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Dec.2020



Operating system: MorphOS 3.15, Software Development Kit 3.16
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.15. This release includes numerous important performance, stability and security improvements. In particular, various serious bugs affecting a wide range of system components and included applications have been fixed, and many components based on open source projects have been updated to their latest versions. The Odyssey web browser also performs better when browsing HTTPS sites due to improved certificate validation performance.

For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.15, please read our release notes.

We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.15 is available for download in our files section.

MorphOS Software Development Kit 3.16

This release offers countless improvements in our compilers, includes, libnix, GeekGadget environment and tools. We've included GCC 10, GDB, unzip and nano, and removed GCC 8. GCC 7 and 9 received updates fixing various bugs. libpthread was fixed and improved in various ways to provide more complete threading support. Binutils, OpenSSL, Perl, cURL, Git and OpenSSH, among others, were also updated. The full list of changes may be found in the SDK.readme file included in the distribution. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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30.Dec.2020
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 1.10
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.10 of his web browser Wayfarer.

MorphOS 3.14 and 1 GB RAM are required. A processor with at least 1,5 GHz is recommended. For giving feedback please use the corresponding discussion on morphzone, the integrated crash reporter or send an eMail to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu.

Changes:
  • Fixed a potential crash in AHI code
  • Implemented an audio player, including audio in video files
  • Codec coverage basically the same as in Odyssey, with Opus and MPEG-TS support added
  • Implemented HLS chunk-based media playback for many live radio streams
  • Configurable popup on media load, with download option
  • Fixed a case where mouse pointer would no longer change above links after scrolling with mmb
  • Fixed not to mangle the file path after resuming a download with name prefix set
  • Fixed to disable menus in several popup windows
  • Fixed to ensure the Sessions folder is always present
  • Worked around a race condition in MUI where it would crash trying to show a help bubble for a tab being closed at the same time
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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30.Dec.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)


Platform game: Super-Go-Down-The-Hole
Erik "earok" Hogan's "Super-Go-Down-The-Hole" (video) is a platform game which was created using Hogan's Game Construction Kit Scorpion Engine. The game still is in beta staus. The author asks for your feedback if there are any issues. The sound in the game only is a placeholder and will be replaced.

Download:

sgdth.adf
sgdth.iso
sgdth.lha (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Dec.2020



Streets of Rage: Demo version of the AMOS port
Streets of Rage is a series of Beat'em Ups published by Sega. Currently a fan tries to port the first part to the Amiga (video). The current stage of development he has uploaded to Google Drive as AMOS source code. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Dec.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)


Arcade classic: Amiga Space Invaders
"Space Invaders" (video) is a port of the arcade classic released in 1978 and written in Blitz Basic. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


APC&TCP and Amiga Future: A small Preview for the Year 2021
Under the title link Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP, Amiga Future) has given a little preview to the projects planned for 2021. Additional to trade shows, a new "Amiga Future" archive DVD and some games projects among others updates for Roadshow, CygnusEd and DigiBooster are planned. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Dec.2020
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood Designer 5.0 SE only available until 31.12.20
Press release: If you are going to purchase the Hollywood Designer 5.0 SE, you should hurry up since Hollywood Designer 5.0 SE will be only available until 31.12.20. Hollywood Designer 5.0 SE is identical to the standard version of Hollywood Designer except for the fact, that the Special Edition is delivered with a special version of Hollywood 8.0 that can be only used together with the Hollywood Designer 5.0 and not as separate application.

It is thus possible to offer Hollywood Designer 5.0 SE for a significantly lower price compared with Hollywood Designer 5.0 and Hollywood 8.0 separately purchased. Of course the standard version of the Hollywood Designer 5.0 will still be available. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Dec.2020
Amigaworld.net (website)


Clipboard manager: ClipViewer 1.12
ClipViewer is a Clipboard manager for AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4 sold by A-EON Technology as part of the Enhancer Software package. Version 1.12 is free for customers who bought either the standalone release in 2016 or the commercial version of Enhancer Software.

The update utilises toolbar.gadget class released a few days ago on Updater utility.

Features of ClipViewer:
  • View clips easily and quickly in a list
  • Search clips for keywords
  • Organise and save clips to files
  • Edit selected clips in configured applications such as MultiEdit or MultiViewer
  • Stays resident in memory (started from WBStartUp)
  • Can be invoked at any time with hotkey combination or directly in supported applications
  • ARexx support: Clipviewer has its own port
(snx)

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27.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 117
The PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") compares the ports of classic games on different systems available back then. Besides the Italian version of the magazine there is also an English one.

Download sites:
Italian
English (snx)

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27.Dec.2020



Aminet uploads until 26.12.2020
Until 26.12.2020, the following files have been added to Aminet:
luettjebookholler.lha    biz/misc   1.7M  OS4 Little Personal Finance program
streamer.lha             comm/www   486K  68k Internet radio player
Void-Dreams34.zip        demo/misc  522K  68k Demopack - December 2020
COP.lha                  dev/debug  164K  68k Low Level Debugger
file-mos.lha             dev/gg     1.5M  MOS Determine file type
HWP_hURL.lha             dev/hwood  3.4M  MOS The multi-protocol data trans...
MCC_BetterString-11.3... dev/mui    316K  MOS BetterString custom class for...
MCC_NList-0.127.lha      dev/mui    2.0M  MOS NList custom classes for MUI
MCC_TextEditor-15.55.lha dev/mui    871K  MOS TextEditor custom class for MUI
MCC_TheBar-26.21.lha     dev/mui    1.6M  MOS TheBar.mcc - Next Generation ...
DriveMirror.lha          disk/misc  10K   68k Mirror a Disk/File opt. Bytes...
WHDLoadMenu.lha          disk/misc  30K   68k A WHDLoad frontend
AxelTetris.lha           game/misc  239K  68k The classic Tetris game in Ax...
AmiGameBoy.lha           misc/emu   42K   68k Great GameBoy emulator for Am...
AmiMasterGear.lha        misc/emu   44K   68k Master System and Game Gear E...
AmiMSX.lha               misc/emu   327K  68k Great free MSX/MSX2 emulator ...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.1M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
dcmo5.lha                misc/emu   1.4M  MOS Thomson MO5 emulator (beta)
Wasteland2020.lha        mods/8voic 93K       Wasteland 2020 5ch Lv1 Ninja ...
CopyMemAIO.lha           util/boot  48K   68k Speedup your programs & workb...
DirTree-cmd.lha          util/cli   5K    68k Shell command displaying dire...
DiskUsage.lha            util/cli   5K    68k DiskUsage estimates file spac...
SysSpeed_FR.lha          util/moni  9K        French catalog for SysSpeed 2.6
modlist.i386-aros.lha    util/shell 34K   x86 Displays a list of resident m...
portlist.i386-aros.lha   util/shell 33K   x86 Lists ports of running programs
xlist.lha                util/shell 3K    68k modlist & portlist
DirStack.lha             util/sys   14K   68k Shell directory stack with pu...
TimeIt.lha               util/time  4K    68k Shell command for timing othe...
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27.Dec.2020



OS4Depot uploads until 26.12.2020
Until 26.12.2020, the following files have been added to OS4Depot:
app.lha                  dev/lib 1Mb   4.0 C++ classes for basic Amiga prog...
oo.lha                   dev/lib 1Mb   4.1 Bring easier programming to C an...
egalaxtouchusbfd.lha     dri/inp 83kb  4.1 USB driver for eGalax touchscree...
itmtouchusbfd.lha        dri/inp 83kb  4.1 USB driver for ITM touchscreen c...
touchdevice.lha          dri/inp 104kb 4.1 Device API for touch devices
wavesharetouchusbfd.lha  dri/inp 82kb  4.1 USB driver for waveshare touchsc...
thewidow.lha             gam/adv 17Mb  4.0 Point and click adventure horror
hermes.lha               gam/pla 2Mb   4.0 Jump'n' Run game with ...
amissl.lha               lib/mis 6Mb   4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
mcc_betterstring.lha     lib/mui 316kb 4.0 BetterString custom class for MUI
mcc_nlist.lha            lib/mui 2Mb   4.0 NList custom classes for MUI
mcc_texteditor.lha       lib/mui 871kb 4.0 TextEditor custom class for MUI
mcc_thebar.lha           lib/mui 2Mb   4.0 The MUI Toolbar custom class
zitaftpserver.lha        net/ser 11Mb  4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
luettjebookholler.lha    off/mis 2Mb   4.1 Little Personal Finance program
touchbench.lha           uti/mis 57kb  4.1 Mouse emulator for touchscreens
touchprefs.lha           uti/mis 206kb 4.1 Settings editor for touch.device
cputemp.lha              uti/wor 2Mb   4.1 Temperature monitor for the X500...
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27.Dec.2020



AROS Archives uploads until 26.12.2020
Until 26.12.2020, the following files have been added to AROS Archives:
mcc_betterstring-11.35.lha   lib/mui 316kb BetterString custom class for MUI
mcc_nlist-0.127.lha          lib/mui 2Mb   NList custom classes for MUI
mcc_texteditor-15.55.lha     lib/mui 871kb TextEditor custom class for MUI
mcc_thebar-26.21.lha         lib/mui 2Mb   Next Generation Toolbar MUI Cust...
modlist.i386-aros.lha        uti/she 34kb  Displays a list of resident modules
portlist.i386-aros.lha       uti/she 33kb  Displays a list of ports of runn...
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27.Dec.2020



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 26.12.2020
Until 26.12.2020, the following files have been added to MorphOS-Storage:
aahr_1.0.lha              Audio/Misc                AHX and HVL ripper
Chrysalis_3.14.iso        Chrysalis                 This pack allows you to...
HWP_hURL_1.1.lha          Development/Hollywood/... A plugin for Hollywood ...
FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.1.lha  Emulation                 FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
ZipMOS.lha                Files/Archive             Zip/Unzip for MorphOS, ...
File_5.39.lha             Files/Tools               Determine file type.
MCC_NList_0.127.lha       System/MUI Classes        NList custom classes fo...
MCC_BetterString_11.35... System/MUI Classes        BetterString custom cla...
MCC_TheBar_26.21.lha      System/MUI Classes        Next Generation Toolbar...
MCC_TextEditor_15.55.lha  System/MUI Classes        TextEditor custom class...
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27.Dec.2020



WHDLoad: New installers until 26.12.2020
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 26.12.2020:
  • 2020-12-25: installs created by VrS! have been removed on author's request
  • 2020-12-21 improved: Neuromancer (Interplay) proper sound and blitter fix (Info)
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27.Dec.2020
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.14 updated
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy has updated version 3.14 of Chrysalis, his pre-configured collection of applications, games and emulators, originally released in October. Requirements are MorphOS 3.14 and an unaltered installation of the operating system.

Changes:
  • Wayfarer 1.8 updated (jacaDcaps)
  • VectorInk 1.1 added (Andre Siegel)
  • GrafX2 2.8 WIP updated (BeWorld)
  • PolyBios 1.3 updated (Andreas Falkenhahn)
  • SDL Librairies updated (BeWorld, BSzili)
  • FinalBurn Neo 1.0.0.1 added (BeWorld)
  • Witch Cleaner 1.55 updated (Templario)
  • WebRadio 2.3 updated (Thomas Igracki)
  • MouseMeter 1.3 updated (Stefan Blixth - OnySoft)
  • AmiSSL 4.7 68k updated (Jens Maus)
  • hURL 1.1 updated (Andreas Falkenhahn)
  • twittAmiga 4.4.2 updated (Oliver Urbann)
  • GhostScript fixed
  • Audio mimetype fixed
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26.Dec.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)


Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #17 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gaming mainly concentrating on Commodore's 8-Bit computers and Amigas. Among others the latest issue includes reviews to 'Smarty and The Nasty Gluttons', 'Fred`s Journey' and 'Tapper', a report on ASCII Art on the Amiga as well as a survey on Lucasfilm Games on 8-bit Commodore computers.

The magazine is available as printed version for 8 Euro erhältlich (plus 15 Euro shipping). The related cover disk costs 5 Euro. The digital version is available for 1,50 Euro. Previous issues of the magazine are available for free in the archive. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Dec.2020
AmiKit (ANF)


Workbench distribution: AmiKit X now available for free
Version X of the Workbench distribution AmiKit, released in May 2017, has been made available for free now. AmiKit is aimed at emulators, supporting Windows, Mac OS and Linux. (snx)

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25.Dec.2020
OS4Welt


ACube Systems: New batch of Sam460cr boards
Press release:

ACube Systems is happy to see a new update for AmigaOS and MorphOS. We would like to make a small party with Amiga users in these difficult times. We then decided to make a small gift to the Amiga and MorphOS Community.

To celebrate the recent release of Update 2 for AmigaOS4.1 FE and MorphOS 3.14, we built a small batch of Sam460cr boards that will be available with a Christmas bundle of the following games:
  • Gorky17
  • Descent Freespace
  • The Secret of Middle City
  • BOH
The whole bundle will be at 489 Euros. OS 4.1 FE is included in this product.

We will be ready for shipping in january 2021. We are also preparing a new shop that will be up to the standards. Available soon so stay tuned!

Hint of the editors:This is the so called cost reduced version replacing the Sam460ex boards. (dr) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2020
RedBaron (Forum)


Virus Help Team: New Bootblock virus Game Over
Again a new bootblock virus was found, called "Game Over". The Virus Help Team describes it as dangerous "due to no antivirus program can find it" but also because the virus injects its code into different places "where there is room on the host disk, so it does not overwrite any data". (snx) (Translation: dr)

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24.Dec.2020
MorphZone (Forum)


MorphOS: FinalBurn Neo 1.0.0.1
FinalBurn Neo is - similar to MAME - an emulator for diverse arcade, consoles and computer systems. Additional to the ROM files, SDL2 are required.

Download: FinalBurnNeo_1.0.0.1.lha (12 MB) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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23.Dec.2020



Hyperion: Update 2 for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition available for download
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce the immediate release of update 2 for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. Update 2 is by far the largest update ever released for AmigaOS and includes more than 200 updated components with hundreds of bug fixes, improvements and new features and six completely new OS components. The update is the combined effort of four years of AmigaOS development and will bring AmigaOS4.1 Final Edition to a completely new level of stability and usability.

The complete list of updated, improved and new components can be found in the changelog that also contains a list of the major bugs and issues that has been resolved. Some of the highlights of update 2 are:
  • New kernel (exec) version 54.28 with many bug-fixes and stability improvements
  • Improvements and bug-fixes in the graphics.library, workbench.library, dos.library, application.library, elf.library and many other essential libraries making them more robust, bug-free and future proof
  • Bug-fixes and improvements to the USB-stack
  • Many bug-fixes and improvements to console.device, ram-handler, appdir-handler and env-handler
  • Many bug-fixes in all reaction classes, datatypes and device drivers
  • New OS-components such as the append dos command, an OS4.1 version of DiskDoctor from Olaf Barthel, SataControl, appdir-handler, ssh2-handler
  • Many, many more bug-fixes, improvements and new features
Update 2 is free to registered users of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and can be found in the download area.

This update is the result of the continuing effort of a dedicated group of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition developers and beta-testers. Thank you!

AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition update 2 prerequisites

We strongly recommend that you install update 2 on top of a fresh install of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition update 1. If you decide to update your existing installation you should back it up beforehand!

Operating System: Installed AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1 Hardware
Compatibility: AmigaOne XE & SE, MicroA1, AmigaOne 500, AmigaOne X1000, AmigaOne X5000, Sam440, Sam460, Pegasos 2, Amiga Classic PPC. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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22.Dec.2020
Floppy (Forum)


AROS: Icaros Desktop 2.3 released for everyone
Just a couple of days after the pre-release for supporters (amiga-news.de reported), version 2.3 of the AROS distribution Icaros Desktop has been released for everyone today. (snx)

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22.Dec.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)


Deluxe Edition of Black Dawn Rebirth available, expansion pack announced
Purchasers of the Dungeon Crawler "Black Down Rebirth", released in Autumn 2019, now can download the "Deluxe Edition" for free which fixes some bugs of the original versiont. Additionally a map editor as well as the full source code are included.

For 2021 the expansion pack "Black Dawn Rogue" was announced which replaces the existing story mode by a mode of randomly generated levels similar to Rogue. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Dec.2020
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood plugin: hURL 1.1 for several file transfer protocols
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working elves in Christmas 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 1.1 is a major update as it now includes full support for SFTP and SCP. Furthermore, this version contains a very important bugfix in the MorphOS version which is why MorphOS users should definitely upgrade to 1.1.


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 AmigaOS3 (m68k), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), macOS (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 on MorphOS. It has been verified to work fine with hURL. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Pistorm: 68k emulation on Raspberry Pi as processor replacement
Under the title link Claude Schwarz has published his project called Pistorm, which at the end of October he had introduced on twitter by presenting a video. Since then several new tweets followed.

He also succeeded in building a combination of Raspberry Pi and the A314. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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21.Dec.2020
EAB (ANF)


Christmas game: Santa Run
Santa Run is a free Christmas game that was created in seven days. As Santa Claus you have to leap from roof to roof and deliver presents down the chimneys (video). (snx)

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20.Dec.2020
Amiga OS4 (Kommentar)


FreePascal: Docker container to develop for AmigaOS 4 / LCL for AROS64
Development of FreePascal software within a Docker container (amiga-news.de reported) is now also possible for AmigaOS 4. Besides this, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow has compiled the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) for the 64-bit version of AROS as well - still containing a few bugs for now, though. (snx)

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Aminet uploads until 19.12.2020
The following files have been added to Aminet until 19.12.2020:
ACME.lha                 dev/cross  670K  MOS Crossassembler for 6502/65C02...
LSEGSave.lha             disk/misc  8K    68k Saves Executables from RDB
PFSSalv2_FR.lha          disk/salv  7K        French catalog for PFSSalv 2.3
f1champ.lha              docs/misc  72K       Statistics of Formula One 195...
Mattonite.lha            game/actio 972K  68k Arkanoid like PAL game almost...
F1GP2020Carset.lha       game/data  28K       2020 Carset for F1GP
labyrinth64.lha          game/misc  125K  68k Port of Commodore 64 game Lab...
dogma14.zip              mags/misc  44M       Ukrainian magazine, HTML (01....
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   4.7M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
ASE2019_1.2.lha          text/edit  101K  68k Text editor
Textra120.lha            text/edit  193K  68k GUI-based Text Editor Written...
Vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha    text/edit  12M   x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-amigaos.lha  text/edit  14M   OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-morphos.lha  text/edit  13M   MOS The ubiquitous text editor
CopyMemAIO.lha           util/boot  47K   68k Speedup your programs & workb...
AmiSSL-4.7.lha           util/libs  5.9M  OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
ViNCEd_Boot_Shin.lha     util/shell 10K   68k Use ViNCEd as boot console
AnalogClock.lha          util/time  38K   68k Analog transparent clock for ...
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OS4Depot uploads until 19.12.2020
The following files have been added to OS4Depot until 19.12.2020:
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
aya.lha                  net/mis 2Mb   4.0 Access wolfram alpha answer mach...
witchcleaner.lha         net/mis 2Mb   4.0 Clean temp data from OWB and Way...
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20.Dec.2020



AROS Archives uploads until 19.12.2020
The following files have been added to AROS Archives until 19.12.2020:
vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha        dev/edi 12Mb  Vim
installerlg.i386-aros.lha    uti/wor 120kb Commodore Installer replacement
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20.Dec.2020



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 19.12.2020
The following files have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 19.12.2020:
ACME_0.97.lha             Development/Cross         A crossassembler for 65...
SDL2_Libraries.lha        Development/Library       All Libraries SDL2 with...
FBNeo_1.0.0.1.lha         Emulation                 FinalBurn Neo, an Emula...
AmiArcadia_26.82.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
FBNeo_titles_1.0.0.0.zip  Emulation                 Titles pack - PNg backg...
AskYourAmiga_0.4.lha      Misc                      AskYourAmiga_0.4.lha
WitchCleaner_1.55.lha     Network/Web               A little and easy progr...
AmiSSL_4.7_68k.lha        System/Library/SSL        OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
Vim_8.2.2148.lha          Text/Edit                 A highly configurable t...
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20.Dec.2020



WHDLoad: New installers until 19.12.2020
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 19.12.2020: (snx)

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19.Dec.2020



AROS: Distribution Icaros Desktop 2.3 for patrons and beta testers
After a longer beta phase, Paolo Besser has released an update of his AROS distribution Icaros Desktop. As main new feature the developer has mentioned a highly reworked "HostBridge" (allowing to start Windows or Linux applications from a hosted AROS). Additionally diverse included applications have been added or updated, e.g. the spreadsheet application "Leu 0.08" or "SilkRAW", a RapaGUI-based front-end for dcraw. If you are going to support Besser on patreon.com, you will get immediately access to this new version 2.3. Otherwise the new version will be available for everyone after a while. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Dec.2020
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Print magazine: Amiga Future 148 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 148 (January/February 2021) have been published online now at the title link. Its contents include reviews of "Wiz: Quest For The Magic Lantern" and "vAmiga" as well as an interview with Jacek "jacadcaps" Piszczek (Wayfarer).

Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Dec.2020
Github


Encryption protocol:: AmiSSL 4.7 (AmigaOS 3/4)
The open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been updated to version 4.7 and is fully compatible to IBrowse 2.5.3.

Changes:
  • Updated OpenSSL backend to full compatibility to latest OpenSSL 1.1.1i (08.12.2020) version, which brings security and bug fixes.
  • Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle
  • Fixed OpenSSL command and https developer example not having execute file permission bit set on OS3
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16.Dec.2020
Aminet


Text editor: Amiga Source Editor 1.2 (2019)
The "Amiga Source Editor" (ASE) is a text editor written by Alain Fontanin. He started to develop it in 1989 but stopped it in 1991. When Fontanin watched the documentary "Viva Amiga" last year, he was reminded "of this beautiful time". Since he no longer develops anything on Mac, he decided to "carry out this personal project and redevelop ASE".

Unfortunately he could not find any of the source codes except the "linked list manager (GLC) which had been published in 1991 in "le Petit Amiga Illustré". Additional to the source codes, he also lost the ASE distribution disks which he is looking for. They were distributed in France at Free Distribution SoftWare (FDS) with the number SH 1064. If anyone finds or has it please write the author.

ASE is a "multi-document" text editor: "You can open as many documents as your activity requires or your machine allows (especially in terms of memory and CPU power). The theoretical limit of the number of lines per document is 4.2 billion! The theoretical limit of the number of characters per line is 4.2 billion! ASE2019 has 1 level 'undo' function and Select / Copy / Cut / Paste editing functions." According to the author the editor runs on Amigas equipped with Kickstart zwischen 2.04 until 3.1, higher versions he could not test under FS-UAE. But we can confirm that ASE2019 also runs fine under OS3.9 (dr) (Translation: dr)

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16.Dec.2020



Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.84
RedPill developed by Carlos Peris is a Game Construction Kit written in AmiBlitz2, which can help developing games of diverse genres - see our little review of two games. Recently a preview video of the forthcoming game "Putter" has been released being also developed with RedPill. RedPill is compatible to AGA and ECS, the "player" requires a total of 1,5 MB RAM.

Changes in version 0.84:
  • Pipeline fully moved to Amiblitz 3.8. Libs are now from this version.
  • Input key functions replaced to be compatible with ApolloOs.
  • Auto slice fixes to allow bigger sprite areas, stack reviewed.
  • In Sprite Sheet screen now the start frame and end frame of the sheet is displayed.
  • Added some more checks to auto slice.
  • FIX: Start shape was badly calculated for sprite sheets bigger than 2.
  • FIX: Only first sprite sheet was exported.
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15.Dec.2020
Twitter (ANF)


Self-made projects: New Gayle adapter for Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200
On amigaworld.de new layouts of the Gayle adapter for A600 and A1200 have been published which now also have a buffered clockport requiring adapted drivers. The board layouts are published under a Creative-Commons licence. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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13.Dec.2020
ANF


FreePascal: Docker container for developing software on Amiga systems
Docker (Wikipedia entry) provides containers which "are a standardized unit of software that allows developers to isolate their app from its environment".

Such a container for Docker, Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow now has created for the Pascal compiler FreePascal as well as for the Pascal-based Lazarus Component Library (LCL) in order to being able to develop programms for AmigaOS 3.x, MorphOS and AROS. A VNC server is used for accessing the container. Due to some problems occuring if LCL is tried to compile for AmigaOS 4, this operating system currently is not supported. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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13.Dec.2020
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 1.8
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.8 of his web browser Wayfarer.

MorphOS 3.14 and 1 GB RAM are required. A processor with at least 1,5 GHz is recommended. For giving feedback please use the corresponding discussion on morphzone, the integrated crash reporter or send an eMail to wayfarer at wayfarer.icu.

Changes:
  • Added jpeg2k support via OpenJPEG
  • Reports browser locale based on system locales
  • Added a Translation service support w/ settings
  • Added session quicksave hotkeys
  • Improved wheel scrolling and mouse cursor code
  • Adjusted page/wheel scrolling deltas to be in-line with WebCore's suggested values
  • Scrolling page content is now possible with mmb pressed
  • Esc key deactivates the WebKit container, instead of being swallowed
  • Improved the cURL thread loop
  • Various UI improvements in the Printing Mode
  • Improved shutdown times
  • Linked against latest OpenSSL 1.1.1i and cURL 7.74.0
  • Fixed RMB to not select word under cursor if there already is a selection in editable components
  • Fixed pasting text into editors handling paste via JS/DOM Events
  • Fixed a crash in FavIcon loader
  • Fixed a crash when logging into AppleID
  • Fixed a crash when closing a window with tabs that are pending website load
  • Fixed early startup issues where OpenURL could send OPEN commands before Wayfarer fully initializes
  • Fixed a race condition in curl cache handling
  • Fixed a use-after-free when closing a window or loading a session
  • Worked around a bug causing some localized strings to be empty
  • Download name scheme is stored when a download begins, so subsequent settings changes won't affect it
  • Page reload actually skips curl caches now
  • Command keys are no longer eaten by webkit
  • Loader now catches all ObjC terminal errors
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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Aminet uploads until 12.12.2020
The following files have been added to Aminet until 12.12.2020:
AmIRC_FR.lha             comm/irc   22K       French catalog for AmIRC 3.62
NewsCoaster_FR.lha       comm/news  21K       French catalogs for NewsCoast...
AmiTradeCenter_FR.lha    comm/tcp   16K       French catalogs for AmiTradeC...
NetPrinter_FR.lha        comm/tcp   8K        French catalogs for NetPrinte...
TankGL.lha               demo/misc  346K  MOS TankGL - simple OpenGL Demo
KONEY_CRIPPLED_CYBORG... demo/sound 240K  68k CRIPPLED CYBORG Hardcore Musi...
HWP_Polybios.lha         dev/hwood  22M   MOS The ultimate PDF tool for Hol...
libpsockets.i386-aros... dev/lib    150K  x86 The part of AROS-stuff (POSIX...
libpsockets.mos.lha      dev/lib    69K   MOS The part of AROS-stuff (POSIX...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   2.1M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
QuickBackup.lha          disk/bakup 5K        Simple Backup Script
SWSyncTool_FR.lha        disk/bakup 6K        French catalog for SW-SyncToo...
LSEGSave.lha             disk/misc  6K    68k Saves Executables from RDB
VieIII.lha               game/misc  95K   68k A GUI Game of Life
BackdPattGener.lha       gfx/edit   49K   68k Create your own backdrop patt...
MathX_FR.lha             misc/math  14K       French catalog for MathX 1.32
MUIMapparium_FR.lha      misc/sci   7K        French catalog for MUIMappari...
SoundBox_FR.lha          mus/misc   9K        French catalog for SoundBox 2.9
AmiModRadio.lha          mus/play   2.7M  68k Play modules from Internet so...
DAPlayer_68k.lha         mus/play   541K  68k Digital audio player mp3, cdd...
Vim_8.2-i386-aros.lha    text/edit  12M   x86 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-amigaos.lha  text/edit  14M   OS4 The ubiquitous text editor
Vim_8.2-ppc-morphos.lha  text/edit  13M   MOS The ubiquitous text editor
UnRAR_FR.lha             util/arc   11K       French catalog for UnRAR 5.90
AssignManager.lha        util/boot  59K   68k GUI for making assigns. V1.24
ToolsMenu_FR.lha         util/cdity 6K        French catalog for ToolsMenu ...
FileMaster2.2.lha        util/dir   59K   68k Powerful file manager, free v...
SysSpeed_FR.lha          util/moni  9K        French catalog for SysSpeed 2.6
OpenParent.lha           util/wb    7K    68k Open Parent Drawer
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13.Dec.2020



OS4Depot uploads until 12.12.2020
The following files have been added to OS4Depot until 12.12.2020:
basiliskii.lha           emu/com 2Mb   4.1 Macintosh emulator runs MacOS7 a...
hwp_polybios.lha         lib/hol 22Mb  4.1 plugin for Hollywood to easily c...
zitaftpserver.lha        net/ser 11Mb  4.1 A fast and secure FTP(S) server.
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13.Dec.2020



AROS Archives uploads until 12.12.2020
The following files have been added to AROS Archives until 12.12.2020:
libpsockets.i386-aros.lha    dev/lib 150kb the part of AROS-stuff (POSIX So...
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13.Dec.2020



MorphOS-Storage uploads until 12.12.2020
The following files have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 12.12.2020:
DAPlayer_1.13.lha         Audio/Players             Digital audio player mp...
HWP_Polybios_1.3.lha      Development/Hollywood/... The ultimate PDF tool f...
libpsockets.lha           Development/Library       The part of AROS-stuff ...
FileMaster_3.1.lha        Files/Manager             Multitasking directory ...
AskMeUp_XXL_Robotics.zip  Games/Think               AskMeUp_XXL_Robotics.zip
TankGL_1.0.lha            Graphics/3D               TankGL - simple OpenGL ...
Wayfarer_1.8.lha          Network/Web               Wayfarer is the latest ...
Vim_8.2.2121.lha          Text/Edit                 A highly configurable t...
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13.Dec.2020



WHDLoad: New installers until 12.12.2020
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 12.12.2020:
  • 2020-12-08 improved: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) re-added support for an AGA version, corrected skip intro custom option (Info)
  • 2020-12-07 improved: Final Assault (Epyx) supports another version (Info)
  • 2020-12-06 improved: Treasure Island Dizzy (Code Masters) joypad and 2-button joysticks controls improved (Info)
  • 2020-12-06 updated: Pinball Fantasies (21st Century) fixed crash introduced in 3.0, fixed possible froze, skip intro added (Info)
  • 2020-12-06 improved: Globdule (Psygnosis) added quitkey for 68000 machines (Info)
  • 2020-12-06 improved: Elite (Mr. Micro) supports another version, more compatible blitter wait routine, fixed music replay (Info)
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12.Dec.2020



Fix for incorrect date of real-time clock on Starboard 2
The memory expansion Microbotics Starboard 2 also provides a real-time clock. But at the end of 2017 it leaped back to 1. January 1978 refusing to display a correct date. Now a user has writen a little program which is launched by the startup-sequence and which pushes forward the date by 40 years. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2020



Patch: Kickstart 1.3 with support of HD drives
An user has written a patch which provides support of HD drives for Kickstart 1.3 (version 34.5). The patch program generates either a new Kickstart disk (for A1000) or writes the patched Kickstart image in a file. The HD drive - the developer uses a Chinon FZ-357A - is a replacement for an existing drive and is connected to the motherboard or put into a case of an old, external drive.

In order to add the new code into the Kickstart, the support of 5,25 inch drive was removed. Additionally, the trackdisk.device no longer warns if some of the required system ressources are not available for initializing it. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)


PDF magazine: Lotek64, issue 61 (German)
The German magazione "Lotek64" covers old and alternative computer systems. Amongst other things. Among other things, issue 61 includes a review on the multi platform adventure "Curse of Rabenstein". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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11.Dec.2020



Quiz for AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: "Robotics" add-on for AskMeUp XXL
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's "Ask Me Up" is a one to five player quiz game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and Windows featuring now 2226 questions. The free add-on "Robotics" provides 50 new questions, such like: "Who used the word "robot" for the first time ?" and "What is the world's best-selling humanoid robot ?". This add-on was done in partnership with the magazine Planète Robots and his publication editor, Frédéric Boisdron! (dr) (Translation: dr)

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11.Dec.2020
Alinea Computer (ANF)


Alinea Computer: Own hardware extensions and spare parts for Amigas
German Amiga dealer Alinea Computer now also offers smaller hardware and spare parts from its own production. Items sold at the title link include replacement capacitors, clockport expanders and a remake of the Amiga B2000 Rev. 6.2 board. (cg) (Translation: snx)

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11.Dec.2020
RELEC (ANF)


Vampire 1200 also available in RELEC shop
The Swiss trader RELEC has announced that the first batch of Vampire-1200 accelerator boards will be delivered to purchasers around the turn of the year. The first purchasers should have been informed to confirm their orders. RELEC will offer V1200 and V500(+) boards as well as V600 (soon). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Dec.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Network port and SD card reader for Amigas with SPI interface
7-Bit offers a combined Ethernet controller (MINI ENC28J60) and MicroSD card reader which can be used with all devices equipped with a SPI bus - and thus mainly with RAM expansions and "Wicher" accelerator boards.

There are no detailed information about drivers available. The products of 7-bit can be ordered from diverse traders. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Dec.2020
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Wicher 1211: 11 MB memory expansion for A1200
7-bit offers a memory expansion providing up to 11 MB RAM for an Amiga 1200. Additionally the card has a real time clock and a SPI port:
  • 11MB FAST RAM for AmigaOS (used 16MB SDRAM memory)
  • RTC clock
  • SPI controller
  • PCMCIA compatible (4MB + 1,5MB)
  • MAPROM and BootROM function
Kickstart 3.1 is recommended. The products of 7-bit can be ordered from diverse traders. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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10.Dec.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)


Preview video: 'Putter' - a Jump'n Run like 'Soccer Kid'
In August for the first time the Jump'n Run game developed by Third_Knight / Czorny was introduced and now was named 'Putter'. A new preview video of the game which was inspired by Soccer Kid shows the title screen as well as the first five levels. A release date for the game which is developed with RedPill is not yet set. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Dec.2020
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Preview videos: 'Scourge of the Underkind' and Doom clone 'Dread'
"Scourge of the Underkind" is a tribute to games like Gods, Chaos Engine and Alien Breed, is developed in assembler and will offer 16 levels devided into four worlds. A new video shows latest level of development. 'Scourge' will be available in two different versions: A "Special Edition" will be sold together with the Amiga 500 cases announced by a1200.net. Shortly afterwards the standard version  - providing different levels and bosses - will be also sold.

Dread" is a Doom clone written for an Amiga 500 equipped with 1 MB RAM. In the latest preview video the developer shows the creation of the ingame menu as well as of the title screen and the problems which had to be solved for it. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Dec.2020
Pär Boberg (ANF)


Liste of "Famous Amiga Uses" updated
"Famous Amiga Uses" is a list of well-known companies and institutions which used an Amiga. Now the list has been updated again. By updating the list, "Famous Amiga Uses" celebrates its 20. anniversary. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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09.Dec.2020
Diverse (ANF)


Kickstarter campaign for Amiga inspired case in MiniITX format
In 2018, Stephen Jones financed a case inspired by an A3000 by crowdfunding and revived his brand "Checkmate" for that which he used 30 years ago for an A500 desktop case. In late summer the "Checkmate Mini" was announced which is much smaller and is meant for motherboards with mini-ITX form factor. Using an adapter kit, the case can also host the FPGA emulators "UnAmiga" and "MIster" und since yesterday it is crowdfunded by Kickstarter.

For about 180 Euro you get the standard case. There are also a "Deluxes" version available for 220 Euro which e.g. includes additional panels for disk and DVD drives as well as diverse combined offers. So far about 37.000 of 55.000 Euro has been financed. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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08.Dec.2020
amiga.org (Webseite)


ACube: Firmware update for Sam 440ep (flex) - U-boot 1.3.1g
For its PPC motherboards Sam 440ep and Sam 440ep-flex ACube Systems has released a firmware update which can be downloaded for free from the corresponding website. Radeon-HD and Radeon-RX- cards now can be used with a PCIe adapter:
  • Improved support for Radeon HD and Radeon RX graphic cards. Now you can use a Radeon HD / RX via a PCI to PCI Express adapter. On the Sam440ep flex motherboard, it is recommended to use PCI slot #1 for maximum performance. Please note that full support for Radeon RX is still under development and for this reason, with many models of gfx cards, U-Boot does not show any output, but the card works fine once the operating system is loaded.
  • Introduced a new menu entry to change the x86 gfx BIOS emulator accuracy. If your graphic card show some visual problems on startup, try increasing the x86 BIOS emulator accuracy.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Dec.2020
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Polybios 1.3: Hollywood Designer 5.0 can import PDF pages
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working elves in snow business, are proud to present Polybios 1.3. This is a major update which makes it possible to import PDF pages into Hollywood Designer 5.0. Furthermore, it also adds full support for treating PDFs as vector animations in Hollywood and there are some bug fixes as well.

The plugin Polybios 1.3 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (arm, arm64), and iOS (arm, arm64) are provided. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Dec.2020
Amiga Ireland (ANF)


Online competition: Commodore Creative Competition 2021
The "Commodore Creative Competition" is organized by the "Amiga Users Ireland" every year. In January in a meeting of the group the winners of the categories "Mod/AHX", "Pixel Art" and "Raytracing" will be elected. This time it is going to be a virtual meeting. You can send a competition entry using the upload website as well as take part in the vote. You can reserve tickets for the virtual meeting on Eventbrite. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Dec.2020



Aminet uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to Aminet until 05.12.2020:
twittAmiga.lha           comm/misc  5.2M  MOS Twitter client
ddns_check_v2.2_web.lha  comm/tcp   318K      retrieve public IP and web se...
streamer.lha             comm/www   356K  68k Play MPEG/RealAudio internet ...
asm-kurs4.lha            dev/asm    780K      Assembly course, German
vbcc_bin_amigaosppc.lha  dev/c      2.6M  OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_bin_powerup.lha     dev/c      1.1M  OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_bin_warpos.lha      dev/c      933K  OS4 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PP...
vbcc_target_m68k-kick... dev/c      474K      ISO C compiler, AmigaOS 1.2/1...
vbcc_target_ppc-amiga... dev/c      186K      ISO C compiler, PPC-AmigaOS T...
vbcc_target_ppc-power... dev/c      351K      ISO C compiler, PPC-Powerup T...
vbcc_target_ppc-warpo... dev/c      221K      ISO C compiler, PPC-WarpOS Ta...
A09-1.45.lha             dev/cross  275K  OS4 6800/6801/6809/6301/6309 Asse...
cazm-1.27.lha            dev/cross  154K  OS4 Z80 Cross Assembler
F9DASM-1.80.lha          dev/cross  348K  OS4 6800/6801/6809/6309 Disassembler
rasm_os4.lha             dev/cross  1.5M  OS4 Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
less-mos.lha             dev/gg     764K  MOS Viewer program similar to "more"
regina-doc.pdf           dev/lang   1.2M      Alternative REXX interpreter doc
sdl_sprite-1.2b.i386.lha dev/lib    168K  x86 Display animated sprites
GoADF.lha                disk/misc  468K  68k AIO software to handle ADF/AD...
Square_Destroy.adf       game/board 880K  68k special version of classic re...
DeluxePacman_A.lha       game/misc  388K  68k PacMan clone with lots of fea...
DeluxePacman_E.lha       game/misc  315K  68k PacMan clone with lots of fea...
labyrinth64.lha          game/misc  123K  68k Port of Commodore 64 game Lab...
dMagnetic.lha            game/role  260K  MOS Interpreter for Magnetic Scro...
dMagnetic.lha            game/text  316K  MOS Interpreter for Magnetic Scro...
BackdPattGener.lha       gfx/edit   49K   68k Create your own backdrop patt...
trx2x.i386-aros.lha      misc/emu   362K  x86 ZX Spectrum floppy image conv...
HexShow.lha              util/cli   5K    68k shows files as Hex
SysInfoFix.lha           util/libs  5K    68k 68040/060-Loadlib fix for Sys...
mousemeter.sbar.lha      util/misc  101K  MOS A mousemeter screenbar module.
SysinfoBoards.lha        util/moni  13K   68k More Boardinfos for Sysinfo
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to OS4Depot until 05.12.2020:
rasm.lha                 dev/cro 1Mb   4.0 Roudoudou's Z80 Assembler
vbcc.lha                 dev/cro 3Mb   4.0 Optimizing ISO C compiler, PPC/A...
vbcc_libs.lha            dev/cro 186kb 4.0 Compiler target AmigaOS 4.x PowerPC
starpusher.lha           gam/puz 7Mb   4.1 A cute Sokoban clone
deficons_dump.lha        uti/she 5kb   4.0 show what project tools is assoc...
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to AROS Archives until 05.12.2020:
a09-1.45.i386-aros.lha       dev/cro 169kb 6800/6801/6809/6301/6309 Assembler
cazm-1.27.i386-aros.lha      dev/cro 111kb Z80 Cross Assembler
dasm-2.20.14.1.i386-aros.lha dev/cro 1Mb   Macroassembler with support for ...
f9dasm-1.80.i386-aros.lha    dev/cro 246kb 6800/6801/6809/6309 Disassembler
sdl_image-1.2.12.i386-aro... dev/lib 939kb library to load images of var. f...
sdl_net-1.2.8.i386-aros.lha  dev/lib 28kb  portable network library
sdl_sprite-1.2b.i386-aros... dev/lib 168kb Display animated sprites
trx2x.i386-aros.lha          emu/uti 362kb ZX Spectrum floppy image converter
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.12.2020
The following files have been added to MorphOS-Storage until 05.12.2020:
twittAmiga_4.4.2.lha      Communication             A Twitter client with m...
Less_563.lha              Development/GeekGadgets   A paginator similar to ...
dMagnetic_0.28.lha        Games/Role                Interpreter for Magneti...
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06.Dec.2020



WHDLoad: New installers until 05.12.2020
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 05.12.2020: (snx)

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06.Dec.2020



AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
  • Beast III - As A New Day Dawns (Neil Mix)
  • Grave Yard (Finally Out Of My Mind Mix)
  • Red Sector Theme - Spatial remix
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05.Dec.2020
Forum64 (Webseite)


PDF retro magazine: Paleotronic
According to its website, the Australian PDF magazine Paleotronic "takes an enthusiastic look back at the history of electronics, including computers, videogames and media, as well as its use professionally, in business and in industry. Along the way, we trace the roots of the devices and technologies which define our modern world. It's education meets entertainment." The final issue was published in October 2019, most of them are available on archive.org. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Dec.2020
commodore.news (Webseite)


Modplayer: AmiModRadio 0.9998
AmiModRadio is "a program to automatically download, extract, and play modules from Aminet." A rating function is included as well. The new version provides bug fixes. If you want to report bugs then please use the official bugtracker. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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04.Dec.2020
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Amiga emulator for Mac OS: vAmiga 0.9.15
Dirk Hoffmann's "vAmiga" is a new Amiga emulator for MacOS computers emulating an A500, A1000 or A2000. Changes in version 0.9.15:
  • Added support for 3.5“ HD diskettes (Kickstart 2.0 required).
  • 'Export disk' opens a new dialog which lets the user view and check all disk sectors prior to exporting.
  • Added 'DIR' as new export format. All files on a disk will be saved in a regular folder on the Mac.
  • Some configuration panels have been cleaned up and restructured.
  • Blitter register values are no longer cached at the beginning of a Blitter operation (Hostages).
  • Hold-B is updated when BLTBDAT is written and keeps the original value if B channel DMA is off (Sanity Arte).
  • Invalid BP2 priorities don’t affect HAM mode any more (Rocklobster).
  • Fixed a bug in the ADF exporter that made it impossible to export newly formatted disks.
  • Fixed a bug in the devices pref panel (clicking a trashcan icon deleted the wrong entries).
  • The core emulator can be compiled with gcc (macOS uses clang by default).
  • Most of the larger data structures are now created on the heap instead of the stack.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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