12.Mar.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.6
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.6 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS which provides more video playback improvements and fixes. (dr)
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12.Mar.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.22, Contacts 1.2
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.22 of his e-mail client Iris and version 1.2 of the contact manager Contacts for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
Iris V1.22
- Search window will now show partial results while the search is pending
- Fixed search window's results to remove messages as they get deleted
- Improved timezone information sent in calendar events
- Calendar events are now attached twice to be compatible with both Outlook and Gmail
Contacts V1.2
- Improved handling of legacy VCARD formats
(dr)
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12.Mar.2024
Wolfgang Kierdorf (E-Mail)
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Video: DIY instruction to build an Arcade Stick gamepad for the Amiga CD³²
At the title link, Wolfgang Kierdorf demonstrates how a standard arcade stick gamepad can be adapted for use with the Amiga CD³² console with a little soldering work using a purchasable circuit board. (snx)
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12.Mar.2024
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WHDLoad: Running cracktros from the website
WHDLoad author Bert Jahn has updated the WHDLoad website so that all Cracktros can now be started directly using the Amiga emulator vAmigaWeb via the "Info" link. This works for all productions that do not require an AGA or a Kickstart image. There are also corresponding plans for demos and mags. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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MIDI sequencer: BarsnPipes for AROS
Now that AROS developer Franck Charlet has published a driver for the MIDI system 'camd.library' that closes the gap between camd.library and Poseidon's camdusbmidi.class (amiga-news.de reported), Alfred Faust made good on his promise to finish the suspended AROS port of the MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes and adapt it to this new environment. (cg)
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11.Mar.2024
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Event: AmiWest 2024 (25.-27. October in Sacramento, USA)
The organisers have announced that the 27th AmiWest show will take place as usual at the Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento, California, from 25 to 27 October 2024. Further information will be published in near future. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Editor: Lite XL 2.1.3r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.1.3r1 of the editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 (OS4Depot link) and MorphOS. The developer has introduced a new feature in LiteXL that allows switching between ISO and Unicode files while preserving the text. Users can also enter any text in their own language, including umlauts. All changes:
Added:
- Added AmiUpdate support
- Added the Tetris plugin
Updated:
- Updated the code to the upstream 2.1.3 release
- Compiled with SDL 2.30.0 that supports editing with ISO encodings, other
than English. Now the editor should be able to support any language
and in conjuction with the codesets plugin be able to make text
encodings conversions
- Now the codesets plugin supports MorphOS 3.18 and above
Changed:
- Changed the way the "Open in system" option executes the WBRun command
in AmigaOS 4, with a more secure way
- Did a lot of code cleanup in sync with the upstream, and parts of code
that were left over
- Compiled with pcre2 10.42 (MorphOS version only)
Fixed:
- I did a lot of changes on path manipulation and usage, fixing scanning
the root of a partition or an assign path
- Fixed an error with the codesets plugin, where an empty file could
not be opened
- Improved the folder suggestions when opening projects or changing paths.
Now even the root folders of a partition are presented
- Fixed ghmarkdown plugin, but now requires a GitHub token to be provided
If you want to follow George 'walkero' Sokiano's work on Amiga projects, you can visit his Ko-fi page. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Blog Epsilon's World: AmigaOne A1222, part 1
This time, Epsilon devotes himself to the A1222 Plus, which has been officially available since the end of last week (amiga-news.de reported), in his usual detail and with numerous pictures. As a beta tester, he has been working with the system since 2016 and introduces the programs and tools supplied with AmigaOS 4 in the first part. He also gives his personal buying advice for people who want to buy an A1222 or Sam460LE. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Video: Internet-enabled without PlipBox adapter
In his last video, Robert Smith showed how he builds his own PlipBox adapter for his Amiga 2000 in order to make the Amiga Internet-capable with its help. In the current video this adapter is removed again, but surprisingly the Amiga can still access the Internet. He then explains why. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Puzzle game: AmiWordle 1.1
Following conversions of the puzzle letter game Wordle by Robert Smith in AMOS and Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow in Pascal, 'Macetze' has now named his version AmiWordle and written it with Blitz Basic. It can be played with German and English words. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Turn-based strategy game: Demo version of "Ecliptic"
Ecliptic is described by the author as a mixture of turn-based tactical combat and role-playing. Visually, it is reminiscent of the retro-futuristic science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. The player's task is to regain control of a spaceship drifting in space and occupied by aliens. A first demo has now been released.
The game is currently under development and has no sound at the moment. It requires 1MB RAM, recommended is an Amiga 1200 with HD and Fast RAM. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
Glames (BOING)
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Boing Attitude: Interview with Ján Zahurančík (AmiKit)
Boing Attitude published the seventh issue of the French print magazine "BOING" in October 2023. Among other things, it included an interview with Ján Zahurančík, the publisher of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE, which is now publicly available at the title link. (dr)
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11.Mar.2024
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Arcade port: Moon Patrol
Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released another arcade classic for the Amiga: in Moon Patrol, the player controls a moon car with which he has to avoid obstacles such as craters or mines (YouTube video). You are also attacked by UFOs and tanks at the same time. Moon Patrol was one of the first video games to introduce side-scrolling into the gameplay. (dr)
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10.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Another World, Intro (Vandahlia Special Remix)
- Dune - Ecolove's Pauls Theme
- Dune Ecolove (Vandahlia Special Remix)
- Elvira MotD Upstairs Music (Vandahlia Special Remix)
- Rambo III Stage 2 Music (Vandahlia Special Remix)
- Stardust Memories - Nebula Falling
(snx)
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10.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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Print/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 28
Issue 28 of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" will be published on March 21. The lead article is about the multimedia program Scala.
Amiga Addict is published monthly and is available as a single issue or as a subscription, either in printed form or as a PDF file. (snx)
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10.Mar.2024
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Italian Print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 18
Issue 18 of the Italian magazine "Passione Amiga", which consists of 48 colour pages and is available either in printed form or as a PDF file, contains the following topics:
- Games: Karate Champ, Super Delivery Boy: The Holiday Shift 2023, AMI H.E.R.O., BreakThru, Final Fight Enhanced, Duck Hunt, Ninjaferatu, Spheroid, Tetris1200, Santa’s Workout III - Silent Night
- Review: RNO Effects
- Preview: A600GS e A1222Plus
- Interview: ACube Systems
- Amiga GCC - Probabilità
- And also: Games news, Tech news, Readers mail, Demo Sene, Back Chat etc.
(snx)
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10.Mar.2024
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Zoom meeting: Chris Hülsbeck guest at the Toronto Users Group
The next meeting of the Canadian Amiga users of the Toronto Users Group on March 21 will only take place online via Zoom - but with a prominent guest, the musician Chris Huelsbeck. The access data for participation can be found at the title link. (snx)
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10.Mar.2024
Micromiga.com (ANF)
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Amiga 500 case available in stores
The licensed new Amiga 500 case from A1200.net is now also available in stores. So far only the French dealer MicroMiga is known to us (see title link), should other suppliers also stock it, this news-item will be updated.
The following advantages are mentioned:
- Made from a more UV-resistant plastic
- New hatch on the right-hand side (HDMI, USB and MicroSD)
- A single hatch for the right-hand side is also included for mounting more in line with the original)
- Additional rear hatch for RJ45 adapters
- Bottom hatch with additional cooling
- Robust metal threads for screws
- Additional threaded metal brackets for Raspberry Pi and Apollo Vampire V4 Standalone
(snx)
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10.Mar.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further full versions of Amiga games have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Jonathan and The Puzzle Gallery: At the Carnival.
A lot of further games, which are also marked as being new, are just re-uploads. (snx)
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10.Mar.2024
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Aminet uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to Aminet:
ellipse_algorhytms.lha dev/amos 7K ellipse algorhytms
Rebuild.lha dev/gui 160K 68k Amiga Reaction GUI Builder
HollywoodSP.lha dev/hwood 899K Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
7mezzoadf.zip game/board 344K 68k Popular Italian Christmas game
gimineadf.zip game/board 312K 68k classic game of mines
GIPoker.zip game/board 307K 68k Poker game
AmiWordle.lha game/think 119K 68k Wordle clone for OCS Amiga - ...
2nd-Albireo.ACEpansio... misc/emu 23K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
Albireo.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 45K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 7.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
Dandanator.ACEpansion... misc/emu 682K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
MirageImager.ACEpansi... misc/emu 18K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 19M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)
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10.Mar.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 7Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
amigagpt.lha net/cha 909kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
dnetc.lha net/mis 783kb 4.0 A distributed.net client
rvncd.lha net/ser 115kb 4.1 Amiga VNC Server
amienvmon.lha uti/mis 34kb 4.0 Calls homemade Pico environment ...
(snx)
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10.Mar.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to AROS-Archiven:
glfw3_4.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 635kb GLFW is an Open Source, multi-pl...
raylib5.i386-aros.zip dev/lib 21Mb A simple and easy-to-use library...
hollywoodsp.lha dev/mis 899kb Spanish Catalog for Hollywood 10
icarosfix.lha uti/mis 87Mb Little fix for icaros v2.3
(snx)
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10.Mar.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 09.03.2024
The following files have been added until 09.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Albireo_1.6.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Dandanator_1.1.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Dandanator_1.1.lha
MirageImager_1.2.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
Fallout1-ce_1.1.lha Games/RPG Fallout for modern oper...
Woof_14.2.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
SuDokuL_1.3.lha Games/Think Sudoku game for Switch/...
Easy2Install_1.0b50.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
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10.Mar.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 09.03.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 09.03.2024:
(snx)
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10.Mar.2024
Dietmar Planitzer (Mail)
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Operating system for Amiga 3000/4000: First alpha version of "Serena OS"
At the end of 2022, we reported on the start of Dietmar Planitzer's project to write "Apollo", an experimental operating system for the Amiga 3000/4000. After another status update at the end of last year, the developer has now renamed his project "Serena OS" and released a first alpha version, about which he kindly wrote us the following:
"Let's start with the most obvious change: Apollo is now called Serena OS.
A few other things have changed over the last few months. Serena now has an API which makes it possible to write (simple) programmes. Dispatch queues, files, directories, pipes as well as clock and timer functions are currently supported. In addition, there is an advanced C standard library (libc) and the beginnings of a C maths library (libm). There is now also a simple shell and a RAM-based file system. The VT52 and VT100 terminal emulation is now also largely complete and the VT52 emulation now also supports the Atari ST extensions. Both VT100 and VT52 emulation now also support multiple colours (in VT52 emulation mode the corresponding Atari ST ESC codes must be used).
At the moment, however, the system still has a very significant limitation: neither floppy disc nor hard disc is currently supported. However, achieving this is the plan for the next stage of the project. It will then be possible to create a programme for Serena on a Windows or Linux computer and then run it on the Amiga under Serena.
I suspect that some of you are wondering what these ominous dispatch queues are?
Dispatch queues are used to run programme parts in parallel. The original Amiga OS provided tasks for this purpose and other operating systems provide threads. Apple's macOS implements dispatch queues on the basis of traditional threads.
The problem with threads and tasks is that programs allocate them, then use them intermittently, then spend most of their time just sitting passively on the thing without actually using it (threads spend a lot of time sleeping). However, a thread always uses memory and kernel resources - whether it's sleeping or actually doing work makes no difference.
Serena is instead built entirely around dispatch queues: Processes manage dispatch queues and dispatch queues do their work with the help of "virtual processors". You can think of a virtual processor as a highly dynamic thread that is not tied to a specific process. Virtual processors are moved back and forth between dispatch queues and processes as required. If a dispatch queue needs to do more work, it gets an additional virtual processor. However, if it does less work, it gives up a virtual processor, which can then be used by another queue in another process." (dr)
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09.Mar.2024
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.7.0
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
Darren 'dmcoles' Coles has now released version 3.7.0. Changes:
- Compiler sometimes produced garbage error message with an error at the very
end of the file.
- Reformatted the Amigaguide document to better fit in 80 columns.
- added Arexx compile scripts
- allow creating a new object directly into an object member,
eg. self.a:=NEW self.a.method()
- method table was not correctly initialised for objects declared as
eg. DEF a:b OR DEF a[5]:ARRAY OF b
- heap in compiler is allocated with MEMF_CLEAR in compiler to ensure all
data in the exe is initialised to 0 and not contain random data from
memory
- calling a method on an array element of an object did did not calculate
the correct address for the method.
- compiler was creating 020 opcodes when accessing an array of objects
- added NIL pointer checks when calling methods on array of objects
- self variable was set incorrectly for methods declared with an exception
handler
- fix issue with wrong opcode being generated in this code
DEF a
DEF b:PTR TO LONG
a:=[0,b[0]:=5]
resulting in the value not being stored correctly
- include textfield module
- fix bug in reaction_lib with the freeClickTabs, freeChooserLabels and
freeRadioButtons functions not looping through the list correctly.
- add support for long branch 020 instruction.
- fix invalid memory access when casting the result of a procedure call
to an object
- fix inconsistencies with SIZEOF command
- fix error in branching code for the == operator
- add missing listview module
- add some extra functions in reaction_lib (openClass, openLibs,
closeLibs, libDoGadgetMethodA)
- added PSIZEOF operator
- added ARRAYSIZE operator
- added SelectFirst function
- added debug symbols for methods
- allow CONT and EXIT within SELECT statement
- updated Rnd() function to be pure
- flagged openw, opwns, boolgad, settopaz, sets, gets functions as not pure
- added WARN TRUE/FALSE to enable/disable warnings
- added Rol() and Ror() functions
- the 020 variant of Mod() was not correctly used by the compiler and
was also taking the parameters the wrong way around
- added 020 variant of ListItem function
- track line numbers for warnings
- NOREGS option was not correctly parsed on methods
- taking a reference to a method {obj.method} did not return the
correct address
- 1.3 startup code now updates stack pointers to allow stack space
functions to return the correct values.
- skip NameFromFH call on kick 1.3 meaning the compiler now works
on that OS again
- NOT operator was very broken (inconsistently applied and in some cases
not applied at all)
- Added EVO_3_7_0 define
- casting and PTR TO PTR handling is improved and should now work in all
use cases.
Direct download: evo.lha (673 KB) (dr)
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09.Mar.2024
Amiga Kit
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Amiga Kit: ARM Graphics library for A600GS computer
Press release: AmigaKit Ltd is pleased to announce an important software development for
the forthcoming A600GS computer system (amiga-news.de reported). The new ARM Graphics Library is pre-installed accelerating the performance of AmiBench and 68K applications.
The ARMgraphics.library was created by AmigaKit's in-
house developer to bypass the bottleneck of the 68K graphics
functions. It accelerates graphics rendering performance in
applications.
AmiBench is pre-installed on the A600GS computer system. It
opens the desktop environment in high resolution 1080p with
True Colour icons. Now it can use the new ARM Graphics
Library for various purposes including faster rendering of
windows, icons and backgrounds.
Third party developers can take advantage of this library by using
it's powerful functions from their 68K application. It also offers an
opportunity for 68K games developers to enhance their games
with faster graphics rendering.
The library provides a link between 68K programs and the native
ARM processor.
Further work is underway to patch 68K system graphics functions
so older applications that are not written to use the ARM
Graphics Library can benefit.
AmigaKit has developed AK-Datatypes, Picture Datatype and Datatypes Library over the many years for
the Enhancer Software on X5000, X1000 and A1222+. These have been compiled for 68K to run on the
A600GS, In addition these system components can also be accelerated by the ARM Graphics Library for
extra performance.
The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024. (dr)
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09.Mar.2024
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.4.3 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.4.3:
- Updated to the latest OpenAI chat models
- Fix crash when config.json doesn't exist
- Fix crash when selecting the root menu items
- Adjust screen colours to enhance visibility
- Improved error handling for connection errors
- Use a stack cookie to set minimum stack size to 32768 bytes (AmigaOS 3.1.4 or higher required)
- Shows a warning if the stack size is smaller than 32768 bytes (AmigaOS 3 only)
- Send button no longer appears in corner of screen on image mode in 3.X after an error message is dismissed
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (909 KB) (dr)
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08.Mar.2024
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Crowdfunding: Book "The Graftgold Story"
"Fusion Retro Books" has launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance a book about the video game company Graftgold, which is responsible for Amiga classics such as Fire and Ice or Uridium 2, among others. The campaign is still running for 13 days, and around 14,300 of the required 17,551 euros have already been raised. (dr)
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08.Mar.2024
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Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine" (V0.05C)
In the middle of last year, we reported on an early version of the game "Deathmine" as an entry for the Amiga Blitz Basic Jam. At the end of October, the developer 'pixelplop' had converted the game into C/C++ code and has now published a new preview video, showing the following new features and changes:
- The flame on the HUD lantern gets smaller as the lantern oil depletes.
- The map graphics slowly get darker as the lantern oil depletes.
- Changed the throwable flares to dynamite.
- Added dynamite sticks to the HUD so you can see how many you are carrying.
- When the dynamite explodes it briefly lights up the screen revealing the map.
- Added an Oil can and Dynamite pickup.
- When you die you leave a grave stone behind as a permanent marker.
- Hardware sprites now clip correctly with the top of the screen.
- Hardware sprite data fixed so it ends in a blank line which prevents glitches.
- Added sfx for the toxic drip and other misc sfx.
- Improved character movement.
- Improved character collision and ladder logic.
(dr)
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07.Mar.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2024.03.07
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.03.07:
- Added Apple CD-ROM digital audio over SCSI
- Added Xebec Support
- Added Plextor d8h vendor cmd
- Initiator improvements from BSv2 fork
- Fix SCSI-1 check in initiator mode
- Fix for ZuluSCSI v1.0 mini logging debug with default settings
(dr)
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07.Mar.2024
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A1222 Plus: Production finished, available in shop
AAA Technology, a joint venture between Amedia France, A-Eon Technology and AmigaKit in co-operation with ACube Systems, informs us that the production and subsequent testing of the A1222-Plus boards (formerly "Tabor") has been completed and can now be ordered via the title link:
In addition to the board from ¤1,199.00, a complete system is also available for ¤1,599.00. Around 80% of all participants in A-EON's "Early Adopter" programme have already been contacted within the last three months, and the rest are now gradually following suit. Potential buyers are recommended to read Eldee Stephens The QuickStart Guide for New A1222+ Users (amiga-news.de reported), which is still being updated. (dr)
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07.Mar.2024
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PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 98
After a break of more than six years, the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" returned at the end of November (amiga-news.de reported). The latest issue 98 offers, among other things, a brief overview of the history of Commodore. (dr)
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07.Mar.2024
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Tool: Consumer 1.0 shows memory consumption
lifeschool' wanted to find out how much memory its recently released game prototype Dizzy 1 consumes and has written the "Consumer" tool for this purpose. Among other things, this is intended to enable developers to estimate the system requirements for newly written software.
The results are printed on the screen and also saved in a text file on S:. Kickstart 3.0+ is required. (dr)
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07.Mar.2024
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Cross development: amitools 0.8.0 for macOS
Christian Vogelgsang has published amitools, a collection of Python 3 tools that should make it possible to work with Amiga OS binaries and files on macOS and all other *nix-like platforms that support Python. The author has not tested it on Windows, but it should work just as well.
The developer focusses his tools on classic Amiga setups, i.e. a 680x0-based system running Amiga OS 1.x - 3.x. However, as this is an open project, other Amiga configurations can also be supported. However, as this is an open project, other Amiga configurations can also be supported. The tools are mostly developer orientated, so a background in Amiga programming will be very helpful. A documentation is available on GitHub.
Now the new version 0.8.0 is available. (dr)
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05.Mar.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 167
The English and German issue 167 (March/April 2024) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes, besides various reviews, a show report from Passione Amiga Day 2023, an interview with Michael Kafke (ASM game) and a preview of Jari-Matti Rally. (snx)
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05.Mar.2024
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Developer log: Amiga Isometric Scrolling
Nivrig Games is working on porting an isometric arcade adventure game to Amiga. Under the title link a corresponding developer log was published (YouTube video). (dr)
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05.Mar.2024
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Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild v1.1.0
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, which is intended to make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (for example EmptyADF). Changes of version 1.1.0:
- Creating a virtual gadget could cause crashes (due to a bug
in the version of E-VO used to compile 1.0.0)
- About dialog changed 'Rebuilder' To 'Rebuild'
- Loading a bitmap with no image selected reported an incorrect error
- Added option to generate code that does not use macros in the object
definitions (for better GCC compatibility).
- add GA_TabCycle property to click tab
- code generated for fuel gauge now uses GA_Text instead child label
- fuel gauge used incorrect default number of ticks
- GetScreenMode did not include child label in generated code
- Glyph did not include child label in generated code
- Glyph used incorrect default type
- Added USEMACROS tooltype
- Sketchboard was missing many of the settings in the generated code
- SizeBRight and SizeBBottom did not work correctly in preview window
Download: Rebuild1.1.0.lha (160 KB) (dr)
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04.Mar.2024
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXXVII in Kiel (germany) on 16.03.2024
Press release: On Saturday, March 16, 2024, the first "Interface" in 2024 will take place in Schwentinental near Kiel, Germany. This will be the 37th edition of the retro computer get-together. As always, the organizers are the Vintage Computer Club (VCC), the Amiga Club Schleswig-Holstein (ACSH) and the Computer Club Klausdorf (CCK).
Registration by e-mail to interface@jugendhaus-klausdorf.de is recommended. Without registration there is no guarantee of a free place.
There are again two large rooms available. The café on the first floor (as a "workshop" for hardware projects, repairs, etc.) and the top floor offer enough space to talk and play on the computers and consoles you have brought with you. Participants must bring their own power strips and network cables.
The official start is at 2 p.m., the organization team will begin setting up the tables etc. at around 12 noon. The venue is the Jugendhaus Klausdorf, Dorfstraße 101 in Klausdorf, which is part of 24222 Schwentinental. (snx)
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03.Mar.2024
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Aminet uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to Aminet:
Amix561.lha comm/amiex 1.1M 68k AmiExpress BBS system redevel...
amigassh.lha comm/net 32K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga
ellipse_xct_npt_drggb... dev/amos 6K Dragable ellipse with input
lwtools.lha dev/cross 899K MOS Cross-development system targ...
GitDesktop.lha dev/misc 1.6M MOS Graphical frontend for git
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.4M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
AmiWordle.lha game/think 84K 68k German-only Wordle clone for ...
Albireo.ACEpansion.lha misc/emu 28K MOS ACEpansion plugin for ACE CPC...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 5.3M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
4_Colour_Backdrops.zip pix/back 2.8M Backdrops for a 4 Colour Work...
codesets-6.22.lha util/libs 639K ALL handle codesets + character c...
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 812K MOS Multipurpose utility
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03.Mar.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
rave.lha aud/edi 3Mb 4.1 An editor for mono/stereo audio ...
resrc4.lha dev/mis 127kb 4.1 MC680x0 Disassembler
arabic_console_device... dri/inp 3Mb 4.1 An arabic console device, line &...
codesets.lha lib/mis 639kb 4.0 Library for handling codesets an...
(snx)
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AROS Archives uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to AROS Archives:
pana_sx-kc600.lha aud/mis 5Mb Piano Music MP3
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb Control Sonos speakers with your...
ptk_v2.6.6.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 23Mb Tracker program with advance fea...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.03.2024
The following files have been added until 02.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
codesets_6.22.lha Dependencies/Library/Misc Library handling codese...
lwtools-4.22.lha Development/Cross Cross-development syste...
GitDesktop_0.13.22.lha Development/Tools A graphical git fronten...
Albireo_1.6.lha Emulation/ACEpansion Plugin for ACE CPC Emul...
AmiArcadia_30.81.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
MCE_14.61.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
ReportPlus_8.48.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Iris_1.21.lha MorphOS-update Iris, the MorphOS email...
Wayfarer_7.5.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
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03.Mar.2024
Fredrik Rambris (ANF)
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Programming: AMOS Professional Manual - HTML version modernized
Fredrik Rambris has adapted the "AMOS Professional Manual" compiled by 'Asymetrix' in 2008 to modern web browsers at the title link so that it is easier to navigate and can also be used on mobile devices.
His revision is also available on GitHub, so that easy collaboration with other interested parties would be possible. (snx)
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03.Mar.2024
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
- News from January/February 2024
- Old articles from Generation 4 10 to 12:
- News: The race for arcade game licences 1989
- Interview with Gary Bracey
- Review of Zork Zero
- Review of Space Quest 3
- News: Transputers and new architectures
- Report: Imagina 1989
- Review of Cybernoid 2
- Review of Gold Rush!
- Review of The Games: Winter Edition
- Interview with Brian Hartley (graphic designer of Micro Machines)
- Review of Reshoot Proxima 3
- The best of Byte in September 1986
- File: The tools included in MorphOS
- File: The history of Lemmings
- File: Uridium 2 graphics
- File: Amiga Games List (updated)
- File: The "Juggler" animation (updated)
- Hardware: FastATA 1200 MK-V
- Hardware: Tank Mouse
- Tutorial: Data transfer between Amiga and Linux with APCComm
- Programming: Creating a demo - chapter 2, part 2, bit plans
- Special quiz on the year 2023 on the Amiga
(snx)
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03.Mar.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for February 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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03.Mar.2024
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Character set conversion: codesets.library 6.22
The codesets.library allows applications to access codeset/charset tables via a standardized interface or to perform conversions between different character sets.
With version 6.22, the strlen() function is only called if CSA_SourceLen is not set. (snx)
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02.Mar.2024
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MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.13.22
Rafał Zabdyr has released another beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required.
Besides bug fixes the new version provides the following changes:
- add .gitignore from templates when creating new repository
- edit .gitignore and reload from templates for existing repository
- add LICENSE file from templates when creating new repository
- preview/compare image files via datatypes (for untracked files, current changes and history/logs)
- better integration with GitLab/Bitbucket repositories (via url links)
(dr)
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02.Mar.2024
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Tower defense: Demo version of "Dice Masters" for Apollo Vampire V4 (update)
Sami Vehmaa's latest project is a tower defence game in which you have to fend off aliens on a spaceship (YouTube video). The demo version offers two of the planned ten levels.
Update: (05.03.2024, 06:10, dr)
A new demo version 0.91 is available which offers a third level and improved game input logic as well as a more clean gameplay. (dr)
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02.Mar.2024
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Musik track: "199X" by LukHash
'LukHash' is a musician living in Edinburgh (Scotland). He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics."
His current chiptune "199X" takes you back to the 90s: just out of school, you fire up your (Amiga) computer and start playing. Connoisseurs will recognise various references to classic games. The track can not only be listened to as a YouTube video under the title link, but can also be bought on iTunes or bandcamp. (dr)
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01.Mar.2024
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.3
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
The adapter gets connected between a floppy disk drive - e.g. a standard 3.5" PC one - and a USB port of the PC or Mac. Version 1.16.3 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:
- FDI: Fix import of FDI image files
- gw read, write: --dd option renamed to --densel
- --dd remains valid for now
- gw write: Option --gen-tg43 generates 8-inch /TG43 signal on pin 2
(dr)
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01.Mar.2024
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Mailbox: AmiExpress 5.6.1
AmiExpress is a rewrite by Darren Coles of the original Joe Hodge/LightSpeed Technologies mailbox program in Amiga E. It is open source and includes most of the features of the previous version as well as new features and bug fixes. Version 5.6.1 offers some fixes to resolve issues when running on 68000, support for conf NDIRS setting in the configuration editor and the option to move mail messages to another conference.
Direct download: Amix561.lha (1,1 MB) (dr)
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01.Mar.2024
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Video tutorial: Further screen commands in AMOS
Following on from his last two videos about screen commands and especially the "Screen Copy" command, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows more screen commands in the current part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, in particular how to scroll a screen, or rather part of a screen. As always, the source file for the programme shown in the video can be downloaded free of charge from his website. (dr)
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01.Mar.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.8
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. Changes in version 5.6.8:
Bugfixes
- GUI Hardware sprite checkbox wouldn't enable when needed
- some RTG options were not changed on-the-fly
- fix mouse drift when using RTG hardware sprite
- absolute mouse movement did not scale correctly in single line mode
- fix offset for button indicators in ControllerMap GUI
- Fix absolute mouse positioning for RTG modes as well
- Fixed crash when using Restart after previous updates
- Fixed crash/freeze when trying to access FloppyDriveBridge devices under macOS
- Ensure changes in virtual mouse and magic mouse are applied immediately
- Removed some buggy Fast copper experimental code
Improvements
- When emulating, disable RTG settings that cannot be changed on-the-fly
- added always on top options to Misc panel in GUI, fixed navigation
- Partial merge of GFX updates from Preview
- improve WHDBooter prefs changes
- implement floppydatapullup option
- more WHDBooter improvements
(dr)
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29.Feb.2024
Jeroen Knoester
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SFX-Engine: Audio Mixer 3.6
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500) (amiga-news.de reported). Version 3.6 has several new features, such as a high quality mixing option that exchanges CPU time for higher quality sound, a plugin system so that effects can be added to samples that are being played (such as pitch changes), the ability to loop from any point in the sample rather than only the start and more. (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: E-Mail client Iris 1.21
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.21 his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. Detailed changes:
- Added an option to block loading of any external assets (images, css, etc) used in HTML emails. When enabled, Iris will only show images attached to the email itself. External content may still be loaded using context menu
- Double-clicking a message in Drafts will now open it in Edit mode
- Right mouse click on the messages list selects the clicked email
- Added a help bubble to the messages list
- Extended the AREXX WRITE command
- It's now possible to create and send calendar invitations in emails
- Updated WebKit & co
(dr)
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28.Feb.2024
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.5 (update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.4 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. This update introduces a reworked settings UI, possibility to fine-tune browser settings per 1st component of a URL path as well as fixes of reported crashes.
Update: (01.03.2024, 20:50, dr)
Meanwhile version 7.5 is available which fixes reported crashes and HLS Live video playback (live Youtube streams on mobile frontend). (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
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Demo party: Ticket sales for Revision 2024 launched
Ticket sales have now started for the Revision demo party (amiga-news.de reported), which traditionally takes place on the Easter weekend in Saarbrücken, Germany. (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
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Video series: Restoration of an Amiga 4000
In a six-part video series, the YouTube channel "Retronaut" shows how an Amiga 4000, which was part of a whole conglomerate of items used by a commercial television station in the British Midlands in the 1990s and which no longer worked, is brought back to life. (dr)
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28.Feb.2024
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AROS: "Irritating bug of the month" February fixed / Poll for March
In the "Irritating bug of the month" poll for February, the addition of an easy way to enable tethering in the network settings was chosen. AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has added this feature, which will be available in the next update.
The "Irritating bug of the month" survey for March has also begun. Please vote. (dr)
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27.Feb.2024
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Preview video: Dungeon Crawler "The Cthulhu Project"
At the end of last year, we introduced Maurice Doerr's dungeon crawler "The Cthulhu Project". In another preview video, he now shows interactions with computer-controlled characters (NPCs) for the first time. (dr)
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27.Feb.2024
Cameron Armstrong (Mail)
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AI assistant for Amiga development: "Amiga Guru"
Cameron Armstrong, author of the chat program AmigaGPT (amiga-news.de reported), has created a custom GPT based on the Amiga documentation so that it is much more accurate for Amiga development than the standard ChatGPT.
Since ChatGPT sometimes knows quite little about Amiga development (and therefore often gives wrong, albeit convincing, answers), he has created a custom GPT tailored to Amiga development.
It has been trained on the entire contents of all current editions of the official reference manuals, some third-party Amiga development books and all current documentation autodocs for AmigaOS 3.2 and 4.1.
Chatting with custom GPTs requires a ChatGPT Plus subscription. (dr)
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26.Feb.2024
Puni/Void (ANF)
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Diskmagazine: Voting on Amiga demoscene charts for Versus #10
Issue 10 of Versus, the disk magazine of the demo groups Nukleus and Void with the Amiga demoscene charts, is in preparation and the voting has started. At the title link you can name your favorites for AmigaOS (OCS/ECS) and AmigaOS 4, whereby not all fields in the corresponding tables have to be filled in. (snx)
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26.Feb.2024
ANF
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AmigaOS 4: Audio editor Rave 1.7
Daniel 'trixie' Jedlicka has released version 1.7 of his audio editor "Rave". The program requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 and the Enhancer-Core classes from A-EON Technology.
Die Änderungen in der Version 1.7:
- The program now keeps a list of recently opened files, and has an associated item in the Project menu for quickly opening these files again
- Reworked the file requester, which now features a more flexible Access Panel with a user-definable Favourites section
- Another addition to the file requester is the Browsing History pop-up for selecting recently used paths
- Fixed a playback-related bug that would make Rave unresponsive, waiting for a signal that never arrives
- Updated documentation
Download: rave.lha (3 MB) (snx)
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26.Feb.2024
Amitopia (ANF)
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.6
AmiFox, first released a year ago, displays modern web pages on an Amiga or under AROS by downloading and displaying the pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server").
New features of version 0.6 include the ability to set the preferred language so that Google and other sites do not always appear in Finnish (the public AmiFox server is located in Finland), and a history of the websites visited. (snx)
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26.Feb.2024
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 155 (Italian/English) - 10th anniversary
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, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about the games Roach Motel and Spheroid as well as the program PageSetter 3. (snx)
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25.Feb.2024
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Aminet uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to Aminet:
SonosController_AROS.lha comm/misc 2.6M x86 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.6M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3.lha comm/misc 2.2M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3fp... comm/misc 2.1M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS4.lha comm/misc 3.0M OS4 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_WOS.lha comm/misc 2.5M WOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
amigassh.lha comm/net 32K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 342K AOS Gemini/Spartan/Gopher/Finger/...
BSDSocket-Extension.lha dev/amos 35K 68k Use bsdsocket.library in AMOS...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
escribed_ellipse.pdf docs/misc 107K ellipse targetted through 5 p...
anaiis.lha driver/oth 241K 68k ANAIIS USB Stack Release 1.24
anaiis_boot.lha driver/oth 268K 68k ANAIIS USB Boot disk Release ...
anaiis_massive.lha driver/oth 46K 68k Massive release 1.24
RescueLander.lha game/actio 118K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
MCE.lha game/edit 4.0M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Chocolate_DOOM.lha game/shoot 2.5M 68k Amiga port of Chocolate DOOM
Pana_SX-KC600.lha mods/mpg 4.5M Music played by Panasonic SX-...
hippoplayerSource.lha mus/play 2.0M HippoPlayer source code
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 402K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
GF4RSID1.zip pix/misc 76K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID2.zip pix/misc 81K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID3.zip pix/misc 78K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID4.zip pix/misc 83K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID5.zip pix/misc 81K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID6.zip pix/misc 85K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID7.zip pix/misc 77K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID8.zip pix/misc 75K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSID9.zip pix/misc 78K Gradient Fonts for RSI Demo M...
GF4RSIDA.zip pix/misc 79K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDB.zip pix/misc 79K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDC.zip pix/misc 80K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
GF4RSIDD.zip pix/misc 76K Grad. Fonts for RSI Demo Make...
NAFCYI1991S1-B04.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B05.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B06.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
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gcr1.1.lha util/cli 5K 68k Show console window resolutio...
HexSee_OS4.lha util/misc 399K OS4 Hex File Viewer (OS4 version)
iGame.lha util/misc 438K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 662K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 834K OS4 Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 18M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
AppLauncher_sbar.lha util/wb 43K MOS Run apps from the screenbar
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OS4Depot uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your...
mce.lha gam/uti 5Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
amigemini.lha net/bro 342kb 4.0 Gemini/Spartan/Gopher/Finger/Nex...
rvncd.lha net/ser 115kb 4.1 Amiga VNC Server
hexsee.lha uti/fil 399kb 4.1 Hex File Viewer
igame.lha uti/mis 438kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
reportplus.lha uti/mis 834kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_deu.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_fra.lha uti/wor 21kb 4.0 AmiUpdate French Catalog
amiupdate_ita.lha uti/wor 47kb 4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_spa.lha uti/wor 19kb 4.1 Spanish catalog files for AmiUpdate
wb2filer.lha uti/wor 48kb 4.0 Hack to run Filer when dbl-click...
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AROS Archives uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to AROS Archives:
usbmidi.i386-aros.lha dri/aud 66kb MidiDriver with source
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 24.02.2024
The following files have been added until 24.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
AppLauncher_2.6.lha Ambient/Screenbar Run your apps from the ...
Protrekkr_2.6.5.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
SonosController_1.4.lha Devices/Speakers Control your Sonos spea...
iGame_2.4.6.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching...
Woof_14.0.0.lha Games/Shoot3D Woof! is a continuation...
Easy2Install_1.0b49.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
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25.Feb.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 24.02.2024
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 24.02.2024:
- 2024-02-23 new: Spectral (The Black Lotus) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2024-02-21 new: Panacea (The Black Lotus) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2024-02-21 improved: Darkside (The Black Lotus) caches are enabled on 68020/030 without MMU system too now (Info, Image)
(snx)
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25.Feb.2024
Forum 64 (Webseite)
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DIY: "Joystick Reanimator" repairs micro switches using electric impulses
C64 fan 'GI-Joe' - a service technician in real life - has come across many faulty microswitches in his professional life. The silver-plated switching contacts of switches that only have to switch very low currents were often oxidized: the arcing that occurs at higher currents, which "cleans" the oxidizing contacts in a kind of self-cleaning function, does not occur at lower currents. Sooner or later, the electrical resistances become too high due to the oxidizing switching contacts, even though the switch switches mechanically perfectly.
To solve this problem with the microswitches built into many joysticks, GI-Joe invented the "Joystick Reanimator": A joystick that no longer works is connected to the device. When the stick is moved or a fire button is pressed, the associated switch is then activated with a current high enough to generate the "self-cleaning" arc. The circuit board also contains connection sockets for a multimeter so that the electrical resistances of the microswitches built into the joystick can be easily tested.
German and English instructions as well as all documents required for reproduction (including circuit diagram, assembly list and KiCad project files) are available for download. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Feb.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 167 - preview and excerpts
Previews and excerpts from Amiga Future 167 (March/April 2024) have been published on the magazine's website. Amongst other things, this issue features the following topics:
- Show report: Passione Amiga Day 2023
- Interview: Michael Kafke (ASM Game)
- Preview: Jari-Matti Rally
- Review: The last Dungeon
- Review: Adventure 1 & 2
- Review: Jack the Pit
- Review: Spheroid
- Review: Ami-H.E.R.O.
- Review: Stuntman Seymour
- Review: Board game vs Amiga: Darts
- Review: FS-UAE 3.1
- Review: Frotz
- Review: Santa´s Workout III - Silent Night
- Review: Denise – ITX Amiga 500
- Review: Super Delivery Boy: The Holiday Shift
- Review: Amiblaster Clockport Edition
- Review: Pi Storm #2
- Book Review: PHP 8 und MySQL
- Demoscene: Soil, Knight Chips
- Workshop: Dynamic websites with PHP
The staff asks all Amiga Future subscribers to check that they supplied both their current postal and e-mail addresses to the team. The Amiga Future gets packed and shipped a few days prior to its actual release date, so any changes or updates to the address should passed on to AF before we dispatch it. Bear in mind that requests to forward on mail usually do not cover magazines.
The team also asks that you check that your subscription fee(s) are paid - apparently, quite a few subscription fees are still not fully paid. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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24.Feb.2024
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Controlling Sonos speakers: SonosController 1.4 for all Amiga systems
Known for his Workbench simulation TAWS, Michael Rupp has also been working on his Amiga program for controlling Sonos loudspeakers since 2021: SonosController (amiga-news.de reported). He has now released version 1.4, for the first time also for AROS and thus for all Amiga systems, written in the Hollywood 10.
As the author reports, he had set up AROS One 2.4 on his older "tinker PC", including a functioning network, and was finally able to test the AROS version of the Sonos controller. After implementing a workaround for a small Zune bug, everything now also works with AROS. The changes in the new version:
- NEW: first release for AROS x86
- NEW: ARexx command REINDEX to invoke re-indexing the Sonos music library
- NEW: include all icons in every distribution in new subdrawer "Icons"
- NEW: include additional icons by AMIGASYSTEM (thanks Carlos!)
- IMPROVED: reloading the browser with F5 will not loose the selected position and item anymore.
- FIXED: loading of data (playlists, queues, etc.) is no longer limited to 100 entries (bug introduced with 1.3).
- FIXED: if network is off the app won't crash on startup but show an error message.
- FIXED: possible crash when clicking the "looking for Sonos..." entry.
(dr)
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23.Feb.2024
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Power supply adaptor: STL files for 3D printing a 'PowerShark' case
On printables.com, 'Shred' has released designs for a 3D printable case for the USB power supply adaptor Powershark. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Feb.2024
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TCP networking on Kickstart 1.3: AmigaNOS tutorial
KA9Q aka "NOS" is an early TCP stack designed for Packet Radio or computers with serial connections. The existing Amiga port is compatible with Kickstart 1.3 and supports both SLIP as well as PPP.
In his tutorial, 'neongod' describes - in authentic 90's internet visual design - how he installed and configured AmigaNOS on his Amiga 500 and networked it to a Raspberry Pi using a serial cable. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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23.Feb.2024
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Book: "68000 - The Flame Wars" available, sales discount
The German-French coproduction "68000: The Flame Wars" (initially: "STAMIGA: The Flame Wars") covers the competition between Amiga and Atari ST in the second half of the 1980ies combining factual and opinion-based approaches. Starting last June, the book could be preordered, now it is in stock and can be purchased regularly from the Germen publisher Microzeit.
The hardcover edition costs 44,90 Euro plus shipping, customers will also be supplied with a free PDF version. If you use the code "45 Years MC68000" when purchasing, you get a 4,90 Euro discount. The first 20 customers using this code will also be supplied with a free "Flame-Pack" (refer to "Perks" of the original crowdfunding campaign for details). (cg) (Translation: cg)
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22.Feb.2024
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Book: "AmigaOS 3.2 – Das Handbuch" available, English version announced
The German book "AmigaOS 3.2 - Das Handbuch" ("AmigaOS 3.2 - The Reference Manual") has been published by Look Behind You. It has 512 pages and is available both as a hardcover book and as a PDF file.
The official press release can be found in our corresponding German news-item. Also an English version of the book has been announced. (cg) (Translation: snx)
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22.Feb.2024
AmigaPortal.de (ANF)
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Coders wanted for an AGA remake of Cryos 'Dune'
Graphic designer 'barjack' is designing a remake of Cryo's classic adventure Dune for AGA based Amiga computers. The new version will preserve the original story, but expand it with new locations, characters and storylines. On top of that it is intended to look a lot better, given that it targets AGA and uses the full PAL resolution - a few example illustrations are supposed to showcase the improved visuals:
Several planned changes to the gameplay have been outlined so far:
- Battles will be fought in an isometric 3D environment, they will be turn based affairs inspired by tactical RPGs
- The resource management part of the game will be expanded with additional trade options
- 6 new characters from Frank Herbert's ScienceFiction novel that the original game is based on
- bigger playfield: the palace is mentioned as an example - it will contain 42 locations now, not just 11
- All locations and characters will feature their own illustrations, all groups will feature their own leader
Barjack has announced his project on amigafrance.com a few days ago, asking for interested coders - preferably native french speakers, to make communication easier. He states he has been contacted by three interested programmers so far, they will be supplied with detailed specifications of his design to see if they're interested to implement it.
Work on the design was started in mid 2023. If the final game will run on a stock A1200 or require a 68030 and some FastRAM is yet to be determined. The game will be distributed for free, but barjack would like to create a limited run of a physical edition. (cg)
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21.Feb.2024
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amiga-news.de: Server update on Friday evening
This Friday evening, amiga-news.de's server will be upgraded to a newer version of Debian Linux resulting in a short period of downtime for the website. Since the update was tested several times in a test environment, we're confident update will be painless and expect the job to take less than half an hour. (cg)
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20.Feb.2024
ANF
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Article on the advertising games of the 90s (German)
In a (German) GamersGlobal article at the title link, 'Nischenliebhaber' looks back at the advertising games of the 1990s. These include the games "BiFi 2 - Action in Hollywood", "Das Telekommando kehrt zurück", "Victor Loomes" and "Der rasende Reporter", which were also released for the Amiga. (snx)
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20.Feb.2024
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Accelerator: PiStorm16 for the Amiga 600 in development
At the title link Michal Schulz describes the PiStorm16 turbocard currently under development. In contrast to the classic PiStorm, an Efinix FPGA chip is used here as with the PiStorm32-lite. This means that no external devices are required for configuration, which is loaded as soon as the Emu68 emulation starts.
A first prototype is currently being manufactured, and separate connections for HDMI and network are planned for the future. (snx)
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19.Feb.2024
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Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.2.0. Changes:
New features/updates
- MacroSystem DraCo emulation. Full emulation except V-Lab Motion video board which is totally undocumented. Amiga clone without Amiga custom chips.
- Picmatic Marbella Vice light gun laser disc arcade game is now fully working.
- American Laser Games and PicMatic statefile support.
- Genlock emulation display positioning/scaling updates.
- Retina Z2 and Z3/Altais RTG board emulation. (NCR 77C22E+ and 77C32BLT SVGA chips)
- S3 Trio64 PCI RTG board.
- On screen led font is now configurable, settings in GUI Miscellaneous panel.
- A2410 updates (Latest Picasso96 driver with DMA mode enabled graphics corruption)
- All emulated RTG boards now autoswitch (Automatic switch between chipset mode and RTG mode). Previously only RTG boards that have built-in switcher and PCI RTG boards autoswitched.
- Do not emulate special cases in native chipset screen mode last and first line(s) unless Overscan mode is Overscan+ or higher. (For example OCS Denise top and bottom line mismatched blanking start and end)
- NTSC mode screen vertical positioning improved.
- Disk swapper insert/remove cursor position now works as expected. Same image can be inserted in multiple slots.
5.1.0 Bugs fixes
- Fast 68020+ mode interrupt timing fix. (Some games hung or had missing or badly playing sound)
- Copper timing was unreliable in non-CE modes (Mainly affected horizontally multiplexed sprites)
- Dark mode was not initialized if config file was started directly (for example from command line), without opening GUI. Some sub-dialogs didn’t support dark mode.
- Zero length disk DMA with enabled disk word sync never finished (some copy protections failed to work).
- Game Ports panel default config overrode button 4 with on screen keyboard enable/disable option even if it was already configured in Input panel.
Older bug fixes
- Any TV overscan option + NTSC mode: few pixel grapohics corruption was visible in right edge of screen.
- Many hardware emulated RTG boards had problems with horizontal panning.
- 68040 MMU emulation fix. (MOVEM restart didn’t work correctly in all situations and MOVES 68040-only special case bus fault behavior was wrong)
- CyberVision 64/3D and Picasso IV overlay fixes. P96PipDemo is now working correctly.
- Ateo Pixel 64 had BGR/RGB swapped colors in most color depths.
- UAE AHI ignored AHI volume slider setting.
- Fixed mouse cursor jumping randomly when in tablet mode and clicking mouse button(s).
- Game Ports panel input device type getting stuck or entering Test/Remap window crashing in some situations.
- Some config file and registry/ini paths were always written in absolute format even if WinUAE was configured to relative path mode.
- "AVI output enabled" (and few similar on/off buttons) button type changed, previously they worked unexpectedly in some situations, visible state was not always matching internal state.
- Some sub dialogs (for example Gameports input mapping autofire) had old style and no high DPI support.
- 256 color screenshot mode created wrong colors in some situations, usually when AGA and almost all palette entries were allocated.
- Changing some native display settings (Filter/Display panel) settings didn’t reset all required display parameters until full display reset (for example window was resized)
(dr)
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19.Feb.2024
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Video: Building a PlipBox adapter
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he builds his own PlipBox adapter for his Amiga 2000 in order to use it to get connected to the Internet. (dr)
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19.Feb.2024
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Blog: Restauration of an A1060 Sidecar, part 2
A few months ago, Richard Körber was very lucky to acquire an A1060 Sidecar on eBay and reports in a three-part series on how he restored it. In the first part he disassembled it, in the second part now available under the title link all the broken parts are repaired and the Sidecar is restored to its original condition. (dr)
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19.Feb.2024
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.6
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.6 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Some optimisation in list loading reduces the time needed more than 42%.
Direct download: iGame-v2.4.6-20240218.lha (438 Kb) (dr)
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18.Feb.2024
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AmigaOS 4: AmiUpdate V2.54
After AmiUpdate was recently updated several times (amiga-news.de reported), another update has been released today with version 2.54. Changes:
- Changed the main list to include a "Last Changed" column. This now allows you to sort updates
according to date.
- Improved the log output for clarity when connecting to WWW realms and using login credentials.
- Prefs_Updates 53.18 (12.2.2024):
Missed yet another application interface conflict. Hopefully this should be it now.
(dr)
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Aminet uploads until 17.02.2024
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to Aminet:
ellipse.lha dev/amos 15K ellipse targetted 5 points
ellipse_exact.lha dev/amos 9K Precise solution of ellipse
escribed_ellipse.pdf docs/misc 94K ellipse targetted through 5 p...
AmiDuke_AGA.lha game/shoot 372K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 662K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
ham_convert.zip gfx/conv 5.2M HAM graphic converter
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 5.0M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.5M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
WizzPlay.lha mus/play 8K 68k A tiny protracker player
morsconv.lha text/misc 10K 68k Modular Morse code generator
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OS4Depot uploads until 17.02.2024
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to OS4Depot:
resrc4.lha dev/mis 125kb 4.1 MC680x0 Disassembler
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
wipeout.lha gam/dri 1Mb 4.1 Re-implementation of the 1995 PS...
sdl2.lha lib/mis 7Mb 4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer 2
luettjebookholler.lha off/mis 2Mb 4.1 Little Personal Finance program
amiupdate_dan.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 Danish catalog files for AmiUpdate
amiupdate_ita.lha uti/wor 47kb 4.0 Italian catalog files for AmiUpdate
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AROS Archives uploads until 17.02.2024
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to AROS Archives:
ptk_v2.6.5.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 23Mb Tracker program with advance fea...
mididriver.zip dri/aud 49kb MidiDriver
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18.Feb.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 17.02.2024
The following files have been added until 17.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
openxcom_1.0.lha Games/Strategy A free open-source reim...
(snx)
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18.Feb.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 17.02.2024
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 17.02.2024:
(snx)
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18.Feb.2024
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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:
- Poormouth
- Shadow Fighter BGM09
(snx)
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18.Feb.2024
Simon Adolf (ANF)
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Event: Report and video from AmigaWinterTreffen in Großensee (Germany)
From February 9-11 2024 this year's "AmigaWinterTreffen" event took place in Großensee, Germany. A show report by Simon Adolf can be found in our German news-item, also there is a video on YouTube. (snx)
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18.Feb.2024
Amitopia (ANF)
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.5 with Itch.io downloads
AmiFox displays modern websites on an Amiga by downloading and displaying the pages converted into images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server").
New features of version 0.5 include the ability to download files directly from Itch.io and the display of the URL as a QR code, for example to continue surfing on a cell phone. The browser is available for AmigaOS and AROS (x86, x64, ARM). (snx)
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17.Feb.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.7
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. Changes in version 5.6.7:
Bugfixes
- Use path-type config file line save method.
- SX32Pro can support 128M RAM, fix memory mapping.
- "Warp mode reset" on the fly change wasn't recognized
- Fixed GUI->Chipset->Chipset Extra dropdown not being updated correctly
- Revert Vsync option effect: only affect internal emulation state
- Wnsure keyboard keys are released when pressing Alt-Tab
- Ignore Alt-Tab if used to release focus
Improvements
- History list paths now follow relative/absolute path mode.
- Merge updates from Preview branch
- Improve auto-crop accuracy
(dr)
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17.Feb.2024
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Demoparty: The nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards
This weekend, the demo party "MountainBytes 2024" will take place in Switzerland (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday evening, the nominees for the "Meteoriks" awards were determined, which will then be presented during Revision 2024, which takes place from 29 March to 1 April in Saarbrücken. Among the candidates are also some Amiga entries in three categories:
Best Midschool Production
Best Soundtrack
Outstanding Technical Achievement
(dr)
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17.Feb.2024
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Emulation: BBoot bootloader V0.6 for QEMU
BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan (amiga-news.de reported). It replaces amigaboot.of on Pegasos2 and slb_v2 on AmigaOne and simplifies the booting of AmigaOS 4 under QEMU. A firmware ROM is no longer required. The current version 0.6 solves problems when booting the AmigaOne machine with the latest QEMU 9 version.
As Balaton Zoltan kindly explains to us, this new version is currently only required for those users who compile QEMU themselves from the current Git master repository, from which version 9.0 will later emerge.
The developer has also provided a tutorial Booting AmigaOS 4.1 on QEMU with BBoot.
However, as Alinea, for example, has informed us, the AmigaOne version of AmigaOS 4 has not been available for some time despite ordering from Hyperion Entertainment. The company could not be reached for comment. (dr)
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17.Feb.2024
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AROS: Music program ProTrekkr v2.6.6 (update)
ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can (mainly) be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) targeting small sized intros, demos or games. Now version 2.6.5 was released for AROS (and FreeBSD, macOS and Windows). Changes:
- Added handling for 512 midi patches via bank selection.
- Fixed a couple of bugs in the standalone replay.
- Added effects 3F & 40 to set the scale of the two 303 units.
- The file keyboards.txt was missing from the repository.
- Added effects 29, 2A & 2B to turn tracks compressor on/off, set compression threshold & ratio respectively.
- Fixed the audio bug on Intel Macs.
Download: ptk_v2.6.6_aros.zip (23 MB)
Update (21.02.2024, 06:05):
Version 2.6.6 is available and the download link above was adapted. Changes:
- Doesn't actualize UI from audio thread anymore (which fixed a few issues).
- Fixed the 303 units note off bug.
- Added a function to swap two instruments in the patterns.
- Refactored a lot of the code
(dr)
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16.Feb.2024
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Platformer: Jump'n Bump (beta version)
Erik 'earok' Hogan has released a first beta version of his port of the game Jump'n Bump using his Scorpion Engine, which essentially contains the core functions of the original game, but has not yet been extensively tested, so there may still be a few bugs here and there. New features:
- Title screen (eg, player select)
- Players at same height repel each other
- Butterflies
- Score screen, including breakdown of each player's kills vs other players
Still to come:
- Title screen text loop
- Performance mode build for smooth gameplay on A500
- Mega Drive conversion
- Maybe additional levels derived from the original game's map packs?
- AI and/or some form of single player mode
Download: jump_n_bump_LATEST.adf (dr)
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16.Feb.2024
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Tool: EmptyADF 1.0
After several beta versions, Darren 'dmcoles' Cole released the first stable version of "ReBuild" about a week ago, which should make it possible to create graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct (amiga-news.de reported). Krzysztof Donat (bitplan) has now used ReBuild to create the EmptyADF tool, which can be used to generate empty ADF files. Main features:
- creating DD (880 KB) or HD (1.76 MB) disk images
- creating OFS or FFS disk images
- creating images with or without system bootblock
- creating disk images with your own label
- completing system disk dates:
- last root alteration date
- last disk alteration date
- filesystem creation date
He tested it under AmigaOS 3.2, but it should run on any Amiga with Kickstart 3.0+ and installed ReAction libraries. (dr)
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16.Feb.2024
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Twin-Stick-Shooter: Pre-Order of boxed editions of Cecconoid
At the end of 2022, the musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' - for example the Amiga port of Knightmare - began porting the game "Cecconoid", originally published by "Triple Eh?": "an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate dimension where the pixels are still chunky, and the bad guys are black and white. Except for their dangly red bits..." (YouTube video).
Now Thalamus Digital, an independent video game developer and publisher, is offering the game for pre-order in various boxed versions, which should be available in April 2024. As the developer explained to us when asked, the game has now been finalised and the digital version should also be available when the physical versions start shipping. (dr)
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15.Feb.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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TCP/IP stack: Roadshow 1.15 released
Press release: "Slightly delayed by only 18 months (we are getting faster), the free Roadshow TCP/IP stack 1.15 update is now available to all customers.
This update is focused on improving installation and maintenance tasks, as well as making the installation documentation more useful and accessible. The single documentation file, still small in 2014, became increasingly unwieldy and has become a set of shorter files, each focused on one single aspect of Roadshow. By request, new documentation has been added which details all the files which will be installed for Roadshow.
The single installation script, which combined several tasks, became a set of scripts, each with its own task. The new update script will take care of upgrading an older Roadshow installation (versions 1.9-1.14) as well of upgrading a currently installed demo version to the commercial version.
New commands have been added to automatically find and install network device configuration files and fix errors & defects in the many configuration files Roadshow uses. You may no longer need to find and install the network device configuration files to match your network devices all by yourself.
By request, a 'compact' Roadshow installation disk image (1.76 MByte high-density) is available for the first time, containing a 'reduced' version of the full installation archive. The 'compact' installation is restricted to software built for all Amigas (68000 CPU or better) and omits the large reference documentation.
As before, bug fixes and smaller enhancements have been made, which are detailed in the installation documentation. Some of the bugs resisted detection for more than 20 years... Starting with this Roadshow version, all the commands (in particular ftp, wget and tcpdump) consistently work under Kickstart 2.04, assuming that sufficient memory is available.
The new Roadshow software development kit (SDK), version 1.8, is also available for download. It contains much more example source code than before, including source code for all the new Roadshow commands. The vbcc compiler is fully supported for the first time and the existing gcc compiler support has been significantly improved.
Our thanks go to the beta testers and forum members who helped to make this update possible and to spark the ideas which led to the creation of the new Roadshow commands, the 'compact' installation and the reworked installation documentation!
Roadshow ist available in three formats:
- as a digital download
- on CD-ROM
- on USB card (FAT32-formatted medium)
The CD-ROM and USB card versions include a digital download for Roadshow.
If you already bought the digital download, you can upgrade to the CD ROM or the USB card version for 4,90 ¤, plus shipping, in our online shop.
If you bought the CD-ROM version, you can 'upgrade' to the USB card version for 4,90 ¤, plus shipping, in our online shop. The same holds true if you bought the USB card version and wish to 'upgrade' to the CD-ROM version.
Careful: In order to order an upgrade, you need to do so with the same online shop account which you previously bought Roadshow with.
Roadshow update: To receive the free update from Roadshow, simply log into your account at snx)
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15.Feb.2024
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Event: 10th Alternative Computer Meeting in Wolfsburg (Germany)
The 10th meeting for alternative operating systems and computers in the Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Flechtorf near Wolfsburg, Germany, will take place from June 28 to 30, 2024. All fans of home computers and consoles from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, as well as their clones and successors, are welcome.
According to the organizers, the Alternative Computer Meeting will remain mainly an Amiga event. For years, regular guests have included Entwickler X, Alinea Computer, Frank Mariak and members of A1K.org, and also further developers like Daniel Müßener, Costel Mincea and Martin Schüler have been there already. (snx)
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14.Feb.2024
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Video tutorial: "Screen Copy" command in AMOS
Following on from his last video about screen commands, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at the screen commands "Screen Copy", "Screen Hide" and "Screen Show" in another part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro. As always, the source file for the program shown in the video can be downloaded free of charge from his website. (dr)
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14.Feb.2024
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Blog: Restauration of an A1060 Sidecar, part 1
The A1060 Sidecar is an expansion hardware device developed by Commodore and released in 1986 for the Amiga 1000 computer. It features a complete PC XT-clone system mounted in an expansion case which connected to the expansion bus on the right side of the Amiga 1000 computer.
A few months ago, Richard Körber was very lucky to acquire such a sidecar on eBay and reports on how he restores it in a three-part series. The first part is available at the title link. (dr)
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14.Feb.2024
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Platformer: Playable demo of "Silhouette Threat" for AGA Amigas
Three weeks ago, we introduced the platformer "Silhouette Threat", which 'psquaredish' is developing together with his daughter for AGA computers with the Scorpion Engine. Now he has released a playable demo version of the first level (YouTube video). (dr)
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13.Feb.2024
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AmigaOS 4.1: SDL 2.30.0 Release Candidate 2
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki has published the second release candidate of version 2.30.0 of the multimedia library SDL for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). The library is intended to make it easier for programmers to develop portable applications and is used by numerous open source games. SDL requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and optionally OpenGL ES 2.0. Changes:
- Add "dead key" support.
- Add checkkeys test program.
- Improve installer.
- Update documentation.
Download: SDL2.lha (7,0 MB) (dr)
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13.Feb.2024
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.4 (x86)
The distribution "AROS One" (screenshot), which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.4 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file or as a USB flash image at the title link, where video recordings can also be found.
This is the most stable AROS x86 version to date, with many bug fixes relating to Wanderer and hardware compatibility, the list of which has since been further revised. Above all, however, the distribution has now been compiled with the C library, which makes porting and compiling easier for developers, but requires to be installed from scratch because it is no longer compatible with the old core and the old software included in the contrib archive. Thus own configurations of the included software must therefore be saved and reinstalled manually.
Changes:
- Update AROS One OS System:
- Update Descriptor Datatypes (Image File)
- Update Dopus4 Config
- Update ZuneARC (Fixated LZH Archive)
- New BootSound (Presets/BootSounds)
- Add Menu GRUB "Early Startup Control"
- Update OWB Config (fixed Fonts)
- Update AROS One Apps:
- Icondrop 1.1.0 (Creating DualPNG icons)
- SCANdal 1.4
- VorbisTools 1.4.0
- JCalc 0.4
- IconDropx86 1.2
- Image2PDF 2.5
- Potrace 1.16
- Dcraw 8.89
- Memeter 2.2
- WorldTime 1.31
- RNOEffects 2.0
- Demos Mindlapse
- Sacrificio Pagano 2.10
- MCC_Thebar 26.22
- Protrekkr 2.6.4
- Sonos Controller 1.3
- LoView 2024
- World Construction Set 2.031
- Update AROS One Games:
- Abbaye Des Morts
- WormWars
- AstralGame
Updates Core ABIv0:
- Functionalities:
- Introduce new C library, synchronized with 64-bit AROS (deadwood)
- Allow linux hosted AROS to work under WSL (Kalamatee)
- Better default mouse cursor image (JuanDoble07)
- Early Boot Menu made more functional (JuanDoble07, Kalamatee)
- Updates:
- AROS build system (deadwood)
- Italian and Polish translations (AMIGASYSTEM, subocz)
- Prefs/Boot 1.4 (deadwood)
- Functional fixes:
- Wanderer (bugs: #107) (deadwood)
- fat-handler (bugs: #107) (deadwood)
- intuition.library (bugs: no auto scroll up screen) (JuanDoble07)
- dos.library (bugs: NOMOUNT partitions are automounted, wrong path copying) (JuanDoble07, Ronnie Beck)
- exec.library (bugs: infinite crash loop) (deadwood)
- dos.library (bugs: #60) (deadwood)
- utility.library (bugs: #63) (deadwood)
- stdlib.library (bugs: wrong support for '*' in sscanf) (deadwood)
- Stability fixes:
- muimaster.library (deadwood)
- debug-handler (deadwood)
(snx)
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13.Feb.2024
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Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb V2.6
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
In this update mainly file usage was improved. Changes:
- import previously unmountable files on a disk (DD/HD 880KB/1.76MB), e.g. single files such as demo.lha (YouTube video), todos.txt, space_ship.iff, blitter_force.asm
- extended ADF files are recognized by header bytes regardless of its file extension
- select files from zip folders, improved zip file support
- upgraded to most recent vAmigaCore v2.6 for increased machine compatibility
(dr)
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13.Feb.2024
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Shoot 'em Up: Early demo version of "NEON world" (V0.1)
After Frank Neumann had not programmed anything for the Amiga with assembler for 30 years, he wants to get back into it with the shoot 'em up "NEON world" (amiga-news.de reported). This second early demo version he calls "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) having more than 80 enemies in less than a minute playtime. The game should run on an Amiga 500.
Direct download: NeonWorld.adf.zip (93 KB) (dr)
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12.Feb.2024
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Demoparty: Results of Lovebyte 2024 (update)
Last weekend, Lovebyte 2024 took place on Discord and Twitch (amiga-news.de reported). Three Amiga productions were among the first-placed ones in the various categories:
- 1st place for Glenz 1k by gigabates / Desire in the category "1k Intro Oldschool"
- 2nd place for strss by Losso / AttentionWhore in the category "512 Byte Intro Oldschool"
- 6th place for Tiny Squares by gigabates / Desire in the category "64 Byte Intro Oldschool"
Update: (13.02.2024, 22:01, dr)
Alexander 'Losso' Grupe, member of the demo group AttentionWhore, has explained on his website "heckmeck!" about the creation of the demo "strss". (dr)
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12.Feb.2024
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Apollo cards: File sharing tool "ApolloExplorer" v1.1.3 (update)
ApolloExplorer is a simple file exchange programme that can be used to transfer files from a PC to an Amiga running an Apollo card and vice versa over the network. A server software runs in the background on the Amiga and allows a client running on a PC with Windows, Linux or MacOS to connect to the Amiga and browse the local hard drives. This is the first stable version, while previous ones were still considered as beta versions. Changes:
- A problem where certain Apollo Accelerator targeted distributions used an icon for the SD Card that didn't appear in the PC client browser has been fixed.
- Similarly, FAT filesystems (SD Cards are formated such) will get the default def_SD0.info icon if this available on the Amiga.
Update: (12.02.2024, 20:18, dr)
The developer has pointed out that his application should basically run on all Amigas that are equipped with sufficient CPU and RAM to run a web browser. For example, ApolloExplorer should work on PiStorm Amigas or 68030 Amigas. (dr)
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12.Feb.2024
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Blog: The Infocom logo
The blog "Zarf Updates" deals with the design and history of the Infocom logo in an article. (dr)
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12.Feb.2024
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Music: Piano arrangements of Amiga game music
Grazia Pizzuto is a church musician in Bonn and teaches piano and improvisation. She also runs a YouTube channel where she presents piano arrangements of game music, including Amiga games. She has recently published the following songs:
When asked how she came to arrange and play Amiga game music, Grazia kindly replied:
"I have never had an Amiga myself. It all started when my husband introduced me to Chris Hülsbeck's Piano Collection. These are sheet music and CD/mp3s that we had supported as a Kickstarter project. When I heard this music for the first time, it immediately appealed to me and since then I've always been looking for good music in (retro) computer games.
Several factors play a role in the selection of the pieces: First and foremost, I consider the recommendations/tips from my viewers. Another decisive factor is how much the pieces appeal to me personally. I also talk to my husband about how much a piece of music evokes nostalgia in him (he had a C64 and knew the Amiga from friends). Next, I check whether there is already sheet music available, for example on Musescore, or whether I have to arrange the piece myself.
For the Amiga songs I often work with MOD files in an MOD file tracker. If I have neither notes nor MODs, I often listen to the originals and then write the notes from what I hear. Of course, I also have a look at longplays to get an idea of the game. Occasionally I play one or two games on emulators (Vice, WinUAE, RetroArch) to get a feel for the gameplay."
Thank you very much, Grazia. We look forward to many more Amiga titles! (dr)
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11.Feb.2024
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.7
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 13.1 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE and GDB." (YouTube video). Changes of version 1.7.7:
- FIX: Resource bitmap colors red & blue swapped
- FIX: auto-reload .size.amigaprofile, .shrinklerstats if changed on disk
- CHG: changed shrinkler output name from a.exe.config.shrinkler to a.shrinkler_config.exe so you can use EXE2ADF on the resulting shrinkled file
- CHG: Makefile: don't strip symbol names (-s) in elf2hunk so Shrinkler can display nicer shrinklerstats
- FIX: fixed/optimized memclr
- NEW: ELF disassembly: move cursor with Shift to show accumulated cycle counts
- FIX: flashing document when Show Source has been disabled in Profiler Assembly view
(dr)
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11.Feb.2024
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Shoot'em Up: BreakThru V1.1
Since the beginning of last year, 'acidbottle' has been working on the amiga version of the horizontal shoot'em up Breakthru, which was originally released by Data East in 1986 (YouTube video). Following the release at the beginning of March, there is now a first update
- Tweaks to fire tank, flame vanishes immediately when destroyed.
- Fixed occasional crashing when helicopter is onscreen.
- Fixed scores now register if game beaten on 2nd loop.
- Fixed powerup properly deactivating after game over.
- Added sound effects.
(dr)
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11.Feb.2024
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AROS: CAMD MIDI driver (update)
In our (German) news item on the release of version 1.0 of the multimedia MIDI sequencer BarsnPipes for Amiga OS4.1, Alfred Faust stated: "Before I made the OS4.1 FE version, I worked intensively on the AROS version. Unfortunately, AROS lacks a usable MIDI transfer. Without this, BarsnPipes is NOT usable. I had tried very hard to write a CAMD driver for USB MIDI transmission. Unfortunately, this did not lead to the success I had hoped for."
In a thread on AROS World, help was sought in this regard, which Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet has now provided using his CAMD-MIDI driver under the title link.
Regarding the installtion he has written:
- Delete any file present in the devs:midi directory (probably just "debugdriver")
- Copy the file "mididriver" into devs:midi directory.
- Reboot.
In the archive there are two tools:
- "ShowClusters" will show the midi ports of the driver.
- "MidiWatch" will monitor a given port as argument (usually mididriver.in.0 or mididriver.out.0).
Update: (16.02.2024, 06:18, dr)
A new version is available on Franck 'hitchhikr' Charlet's website: it fixes a bug that caused AROS to crash. He has also added the shell commands MidiThru (forwards messages from one port to another) and MidiSendC (sends a middle C to a specific port).
Charlet also found out that there are two bugs in camdusbmidi.class.c that prevent the sending of multiple midi messages in the nParseMidiOut() function. A corrected version is now also included in the archive. The following must therefore be installed:
- Copy "mididriver" into devs:midi (and remove any file that may be there before).
- Replace "camdusbmidi.class" from SYS:Classes/USB with the one included in the archive.
- Reboot.
(dr)
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11.Feb.2024
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Aminet uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to Aminet:
LuettjeBookholler.lha biz/misc 1.7M OS4 Little Personal Finance program
Leu.lha biz/spread 8.0M ALL Simple spreadsheet application
SonosController_MOS.lha comm/misc 2.5M MOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3.lha comm/misc 2.1M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS3fp... comm/misc 2.0M 68k Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_OS4.lha comm/misc 2.9M OS4 Control Sonos speakers with y...
SonosController_WOS.lha comm/misc 2.4M WOS Control Sonos speakers with y...
strange_src.lha comm/www 204K source of strange'
Rebuild.lha dev/gui 158K 68k Amiga Reaction GUI Builder
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 4.3M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MahjongScore.lha game/misc 47K 68k Accounting of a Mahjong game ...
SudokuSolverE.lha game/misc 129K 68k Sudoku solver written in AmigaE
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
AmiDuke_RTG.lha game/shoot 662K 68k Amiga port of Duke Nukem 3D
wcs.lha gfx/3d 3.2M 68k recompiled World Construction...
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 660K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 765K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 832K OS4 Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 18M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
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11.Feb.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to OS4Depot:
sonoscontroller.lha aud/mis 3Mb 4.1 Control Sonos speakers with your...
snes9x.zip emu/gam 128Mb 4.1 Super Nintendo / Super Famicom e...
leu.lha off/spr 8Mb 4.0 Simple spreadsheet application
reportplus.lha uti/mis 832kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
amiupdate_deu.lha uti/wor 20kb 4.0 German catalog files for AmiUpdate
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AROS Archives uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to AROS Archives:
ptk_v2.6.4.i386-aros.zip aud/tra 23Mb Tracker program with advance fea...
acidwarp.i386-aros.zip dem/mis 168kb Colour cycling eye-candy
badapple.i386-aros.zip dem/mis 3Mb The famous Bad Apple animation w...
void-fb11-aros.i386-aros.zip dem/mus 4Mb Music-disk
void-fb8-aros.i386-aros.zip dem/mus 3Mb Music-disk
dosbox.i386-aros.zip emu/com 2Mb Dosbox a PC Emulator
boh.i386-aros.lha gam/act 28Mb game released upon humanitarian ...
jetpac.i386-aros.zip gam/act 1Mb Remake ZX Spectrum classic game
wcs.multi-aros.lha gra/ray 6Mb World Construction Set
mcc_thebar-26.22.zip lib/mui 2Mb Mui Custom Class
owb-1.26.i386-aros.zip net/bro 45Mb Odyssey Web Browser
wput-0.3.4c.i386-aros.zip net/ftp 58kb Wput is a command-line ftp-client.
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 10.02.2024
The following files have been added until 10.02.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
Protrekkr_2.6.4.lha Audio/Tracker A hybrid of modern day ...
SDL_2.30.0_Libraries.lha Dependencies/Library/SDL All Libraries SDL : SDL...
strange-src-0.22.lha Development/Sources source of strange'
SonosController_1.3.lha Devices/Speakers Control your Sonos spea...
MCE_14.60.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
SonicMania_1.0.1.lha Games/Platform A complete decompilatio...
fheroes2_1.0.12.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
ReportPlus_8.47.lha Misc A Multipurpose utility ...
Wayfarer_7.3.lha MorphOS-update Wayfarer is the latest ...
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WHDLoad: New installers until 10.02.2024
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 10.02.2024:
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Event: AUGS meeting 2024 in Zurich (Switzerland)
The Amiga User Group Switzerland is hosting this year's meeting on March 16 and 17, 2024 at the Centrum Čechů a Slováků in Zurich.
Admission is free for visitors, but registration is mandatory for participation with hardware and subject to a stand fee for non-members of AUGS. Further information can be found at the title link. (snx)
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AmigaOS 4: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.87
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Now Achim Pankalla has released version 1.87. Changes:
- Bug: Report account-flow has not offer the last years, only last 12 month.
- Bug: Long catogory names are not shown in ignition tables.
- Changes: Now also the values are shown in ignition pie-graphics.
- Bug: Corrects some little bugs in ignition-sheets.
(dr)
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10.Feb.2024
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Blog: Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS
As Carl Svenssons writes in his blog entry "Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS", most consumer models of the Amiga series were shipped with heavily watered-down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception to this rule, but owners of later machines - such as the A1200 - may not have received any documentation for the command line portion of AmigaOS at all.
Furthermore, the normal end user had no access to the official developer documentation. His present essay is dedicated to hidden or even completely undocumented or unfinished features of AmigaDOS versions 2 and 3. (dr)
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Terrain models: World Construction Set 2.031 (Emerald-Berta), AmigaOS 3 and AROS
As can be read in the history of the development of their software products, Gary Huber of Questar Productions recognized the potential of the graphics capabilities of the personal computers of the time in the late 1980s and began researching and developing software for his Amiga computer to combine 3D terrain data and landscape/vegetation information into a computer-generated synthetic 3D view with colored trees (coniferous and deciduous), ground cover patterns, sky and haze.
Other software companies had developed similar software for the Amiga, including VistaPro from Virtual Reality Labs and the "Scenery Generator" (later "Scenery Animator") from Naturalgfx and Panorama. All included a basic method of automatically placing one or more types of vegetation based on local terrain criteria, usually using elevation and slope. However, none of the available commercial tools could handle large, detailed regions, making them unusable for commercial and industrial terrain mapping.
In 1992, Huber began developing algorithms and programs to meet the requirements he had predicted. Originally written in an advanced BASIC language and later rewritten in C for speed reasons. Chris Hanson joined Questar and Huber and helped develop the user interface, language conversion, optimization and graphics. The result, announced in August 1994, was World Construction Set 1 (WCS) for the Amiga with a host of advanced features (and a name inspired by the popular Electronic Arts audio tool of the time, "Deluxe Music Construction Set"). WCS V1 extended the land cover and vegetation placement techniques of earlier software to include the placement of so-called "ecosystems".
WCS V2 (video) for the Amiga was released in late 1995, followed by a Windows version in January 1996. Version 2 introduced oceans with waves and reflections, DEM buildings, realistic looking clouds, sun and moon, better vegetation and OpenGL support.
Both versions 1.25 and 2.04 are available as packed ADF files on the 3DNature.com website. The corresponding source files were published on GitHub some nine years ago. Alexander Fritsch began working on the source files containing the penultimate version 2.03 ("Emerald") in 2017. As he tells us, the project first had to be made gcc-compatible. The aim of his new compilation using Bebbo's gcc was and is to achieve the highest possible speed. This required very extensive tests with various compiler options and lengthy test calculations on a real Amiga, always under the same boundary conditions. As Bebbo also continued to work on gcc, it had to be tested again and again to see whether a new compiler version with new optimizations would bring a speed advantage. Since WCS as a complex program is also a test case for the compiler itself, Alexander reports, WCS also revealed errors in the compiler over time, especially with various optimizations and floating point calculations.
As a result, the new version of WCS now available on Aminet on a 25MHz 68040 Amiga only needs 4 hours instead of 5 hours for a "Canyon Sunset" example image. A nice result that would not have been possible without Bebbo's work, as Alexander says, and his gcc. An AROS version is also included in the archive. (dr)
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10.Feb.2024
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Podcast: The Retro Hour talked to Matthew Leaman (AmigaKit)
The podcast The Retro Hour spoke to Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of AmigaKit, about his latest project, the A600GS gaming computer, among other things. (dr)
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10.Feb.2024
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.208 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels. PowerPC-relevant changes:
- powerpc: update ppc_save_regs to save current r1 in pt_reg
- powerpc/ftrace: Fix stack teardown in ftrace_no_trace
- powerpc/ftrace: Create a dummy stackframe to fix stack unwind
- powerpc: Don't clobber f0/vs0 during fp|altivec register save
- powerpc/perf: Fix disabling BHRB and instruction sampling
- powerpc/pseries: fix potential memory leak in init_cpu_associativity()
- powerpc/imc-pmu: Use the correct spinlock initializer
- powerpc/xive: Fix endian conversion size
- powerpc/40x: Remove stale PTE_ATOMIC_UPDATES macro
- powerpc/mm: Fix boot crash with FLATMEM
- powerpc/64e: Fix wrong test in __ptep_test_and_clear_young()
- powerpc/8xx: Fix pte_access_permitted() for PAGE_NONE
- powerpc/watchpoints: Disable preemption in thread_change_pc()
- powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Update domain value check
- powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()
- powerpc/iommu: Fix notifiers being shared by PCI and VIO buses
- powerpc: Don't include lppaca.h in paca.h
- powerpc/perf: Convert fsl_emb notifier to state machine callbacks
- powerpc/fadump: reset dump area size if fadump memory reserve fails
- powerpc/kasan: Disable KCOV in KASAN code
- powerpc/rtas_flash: allow user copy to flash block cache objects
- powerpc/mm/altmap: Fix altmap boundary check
- drm/radeon: possible buffer overflow
- drm/radeon: Use RMW accessors for changing LNKCT
- drm/radeon: Fix integer overflow in radeon_cs_parser_init
- Support for Microsoft devices that are not fully compliant with HID standard (CONFIG_HID_MICROSOFT=y)
Download: linux-image-5.10.208-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71,5 MB) (dr)
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