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06.Dec.2023
ANF


 Video: Another Robin Hood port preview by Apollo team
The Apollo team is working on a port of the game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" (amiga-news.de reported). A video of the current beta version has been published at the title link.

Major changes in that version are:
  • Tuning of Main Hourglass (divider for lesser important elements)
  • Tuning of Main Refresh (disabled some fancy but costly effects)
  • General cleanup of all individual element Hourglass & Refresh
  • Moved all static UI elements to separate PiP layer
  • Created “intelligent” refresh for UI so it refresh only when there are real Updates
  • Dynamic Audio slot allocation for all Sounds incl. 2D stereo effect (volume + L/R panning)
  • Deleted the complete Threaded Input routines (SDL) and recreated Input from scratch
  • Replaced software blitted Mousepointer with hardware Amiga pointer (to be improved later)
(snx)

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06.Dec.2023
Puni (ANF)


 AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for November
For the month of November 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)

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06.Dec.2023



 Dungeon Crawler: "The Cthulhu Project" (DevLog)
About three weeks ago, we introduced Maurice Doerr's dungeon crawler "The Cthulhu Project" and reported on the first part of his DevLog series. In this episode, he explains parts of his AMOS PRO code in general and loops in particular. (dr)

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05.Dec.2023
MorphZone


 MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 7.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 7.0 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. As the author writes, this is the seventh time Wayfarer has been upgraded to the latest stable WebKitGTK. At the same time, this release also marks the fourth anniversary of the project.

Version 7.0 has been the most challenging update so far: "Several new endian issues have crept into WebKit, with one of them causing an immediate crash when running JavaScript on big endian CPUs. The removal of some of the WinCairo port has also made it more difficult to maintain the MorphOS port. Many of the code paths that the MorphOS port is using aren't being used by the officially supported ports, which requires additional testing and bug fixing." Furthermore, support for the clipboard and the editor for saved passwords have been improved.

The developer appreciates every donation that supports the project.

Download: wayfarer.lha (35 MB) (dr)

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05.Dec.2023



 Video series: Turning an Amiga 600 into a Classic Gaming Console
In a three-part series, two episodes have been published so far ((part 1, part 2), Wolfgang Kierdorf shows on his YouTube channel "RETRO is the new black" how he transforms an Amiga 600 into a retro game console for 4 players. As he told us, this project actually came about by chance, as he didn't want to have a bare Amiga 600 board lying around. All the components used are linked in the second video.

A third part of the video series will be published next week, in which HDMI will be added. In the meantime, there is also a version for the Amiga 500 (same case, only wider and deeper), as some users had asked for it, and the MiSTer/Raspberry Pi. The whole thing was designed in TinkerCad. (dr)

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05.Dec.2023



 Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter v1.2 for Aseprite
Recently We introduced a script written by Prismatic Realms for the image editor Aseprite that converts graphics into an IFF/ILBM file. Version 1.2 has now been released with the following changes:
  • Dialog button shortcuts have been added.
  • Added a new checkbox option to export just the sprite's palette (CMAP). This is useful for Deluxe Paint users and Amiga game developers that work in Blitz Basic 2 and any other tools that allow you to load in an IFF palette file. The file essentially consists of just the IFF CMAP chunk.
  • Miscellaneous code cleanup.
(dr)

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04.Dec.2023



 Video tutorial: Playing samples in AMOS
Following on from his last tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows in the current episode how to use samples on the Amiga in an AMOS programme. He also briefly explains how to use Audacity and SoundBox (Aminet link, key available) to get sample files in the right format on the Amiga. As always, source codes of his programmes can be downloaded from his website. (dr)

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03.Dec.2023



 Mastodon client: Amidon 1.3
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.3 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). This version fixes a bug, where Amidon's Settings window would stop responding if opened on a non-RTG screen.

Download: Amidon_v1.3_OS3.zip (1,83 MB) (dr)

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03.Dec.2023



 Aminet uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to Aminet:
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   4.8M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
f1champ.lha              docs/misc  74K       Statistics of Formula One 195...
anaiis_massive.lha       driver/oth 46K   68k Massive release 1.23
P96Prefs.lha             driver/vid 85K   68k P96 Preferences Editor
Capitan_Trueno_v1.1.lha  game/actio 1.0M  68k El Capitan Trueno
CapitanTrueno_v1.1_WH... game/actio 1.0M  68k El Capitan Trueno
LAbbayeDesMorts.adf      game/actio 880K  68k L'Abbaye Des Morts
F1GP2023Carset.lha       game/data  11K       2023 Carset for F1GP
BackdPattGener.lha       gfx/edit   55K   68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   4.9M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   5.4M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.7M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
ataruita.lha             mods/midi  34K       Urusei Yatsura GM italian song
mdx2wav.lha              mus/misc   541K  68k Convert MDX music files to PC...
vgm2wav-gme.lha          mus/misc   1.0M  68k Convert console music to WAV ...
hippoplayerupdate.lha    mus/play   400K  68k Updated HippoPlayer
Image2PDF.lha            util/conv  19M   ALL convert images to PDF and vic...
MMULib.lha               util/libs  787K  68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  16M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)

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03.Dec.2023



 OS4Depot uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to OS4Depot:
nallepuh.lha             aud/mis 494kb 4.1 Nalle Puh (Paula,CIAA,CIAB emula...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
xrick_sdl2.lha           gam/pla 3Mb   4.1 Rick Dangerous SDL2 port
pintorweb.lha            gra/mis 15Mb  4.0 An easy program to handling pict...
amigagpt.lha             net/cha 795kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
omanko.lha               uti/fil 2Mb   4.0 web tool made to get the MD5 and...
image2pdf.lha            uti/tex 19Mb  4.0 Convert JP(E)Gs and PNGs to PDF
(snx)

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03.Dec.2023



 AROS Archives uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to AROS Archives:
f1champ.lha                  doc/mis 74kb  Statistics of Formula One 1950-2023
pintorweb.lha                gra/con 14Mb  Handle your pictures to use on y...
iff_icon_data_decoder.zip    gra/ico 175kb Iff Icon Data Decoder snippets a...
omanko.lha                   uti/fil 2Mb   web tool made to get the MD5 and...
(snx)

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03.Dec.2023



 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.12.2023
The following files have been added until 02.12.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
WitchCleaner_3.05.lha     Network/Web               A little and easy progr...
Omanko!_1.20.lha          Files/Tools               A tiny web tool made to...
AmiArcadia_30.60.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Image2PDF_2.4.lha         Graphics/Convert          Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
Easy2Install_1.0b46.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
PintorWeb_4.00.lha     	  Graphics/Tools            A little and easy web t...
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03.Dec.2023



 WHDLoad: New installers until 02.12.2023
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 02.12.2023:
  • 2023-12-02 improved: Foundation's Waste (Exocet Software) supports another version, customs option added (Info)
  • 2023-11-30 improved: S.D.I. (Cinemaware) supports another version (Info)
  • 2023-11-30 fixed: Super Hang-On (Sega/Electric Dreams) highscore/laptimes incompatibility introduced with 1.7 update fixed (Info)
  • 2023-11-30 improved: Wings of Death (Thalion/Eclipse) freeze on exit in NTSC mode fixed (Info)
  • 2023-11-29 updated: Hellrun Machine (Amiga Fun) patch rewritten, editor is now supported, control problems fixed, blitter wait patches can be disabled with CUSTOM1, new install script, source code included (Info)
  • 2023-11-26 improved: Time Bandit (Microdeal) supports another version (Info)
  • 2023-11-26 improved: Alien Legion (Pegasus) install script updated (Info)
(snx)

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03.Dec.2023



 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:
  • Apidya (Highscore)
  • Urban Ferret (Afterburner Final Take Off)
(snx)

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03.Dec.2023
Sascha Kirschgens (ANF)


 Amiga38: Video of PiStorm panel held by Michal Schulz
At Amiga38 Michal Schulz gave a presentation about the Amiga extension PiStorm, which uses the minicomputer Raspberry Pi as an 68k emulator. You can find a video recording of it at the title link. (snx)

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03.Dec.2023
Sascha Kirschgens (ANF)


 Amiga Graphics Archive: Article on t3n.de (German)
The "Amiga Graphics Archive" is dedicated to all kinds of pixel graphics created with the Commodore Amiga between 1985 and 1995 (amiga-news.de reported). Outside the Amiga media, it now also received an article yesterday at the title link on the site of the digital magazine t3n, which belongs to Heise. (snx)

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03.Dec.2023



 Emulation: BBoot boot loader v0.5 now supports AmigaOne in QEMU (update)
In our Simplified installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU published in mid-August and written by Rene Engel (in German), the bootloader "BBoot" written by QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan was already used, which can now load the AmigaOne as well as the Pegasos 2 model in version 0.5.

Balaton Zoltan wrote: "BBoot is replacing the second level boot loader (amigaboot.of on pegasos2 and slb_v2 on amigaone) and makes booting AmigaOS on QEMU simpler and without needing a firmware ROM. Because BBoot runs without firmware it does not load files from disk but expects an initrd with the kickstart files in zip format loaded in memory and boots from that. This not only allows BBoot to remain simple but may also be more convenient to work with in an emulated environment and boot faster. The initrd should be a zip archive of all boot files within a Kickstart directory that can be created with "zip -r Kickstart.zip Kickstart/" for example. BBoot will look for Kickstart/Kicklayout file in the zip and boot the first config (LABEL) found in it. Currently BBoot takes no input and does not provide a boot menu so other than 1st config defined in Kicklayout cannot be chosen, but one could have different zip files for different configs and choose on the QEMU command line by using different Kickstart.zip.

BBoot can also configure PCI devices that is normally done by the firmware. Linux and MorphOS don't need this as they scan and configure PCI devices themselves during boot but AmigaOS relies on the firmware to do this so BBoot implements this too. While configuring PCI, BBoot prints debug messages that can be useful to check how these devices are configured, which can help in debugging PCI pass through or even when using newer graphics cards on a real PegasosII as BBoot can also patch 64 bit BARs that the Pegasos2 version of AmigaOS kernel cannot handle."

Balaton Zoltan has published a little guide on how to use BBoot. At least QEMU 8.1 is needed for the -initrd option on Pegasos 2 and QEMU 8.2 for the AmigaOne machine. (dr)

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02.Dec.2023



 Text adventure: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor
After The Curse of Rabenstein and Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), Stefan Vogt has published another text adventure with graphics: "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" (YouTube video). Here, the player takes on the role of writer Thomas King and his wife Cora, who move into a remote Scottish manor house a few days before Christmas 1986. In search of inspiration for his next book, Thomas begins to research the history of Blackwood Manor and discovers a dark secret that goes back to the time of the great Scottish witch hunts.

The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor was written in Infocom's Z-machine format XZIP. The game has three different endings, a bad ending, a neutral ending and a good ending, depending on the player's choices. It is very likely that the player will not reach the good ending on the first playthrough, even though it is possible. Reaching the bad or neutral ending is part of the experience and helps the player to understand the true intentions of some of the protagonists and the consequences of the decisions made, so that these can be reconsidered.

A physical version will be available soon and can be pre-ordered from poly.play. The box will resemble Infocom's original packaging from back then. (dr)

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02.Dec.2023



 Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.1 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:
  • Fix pasting into chat input textbox (AmigaOS 3.2 and 4.1 only for now)
  • Remove trailing newline from user messages
  • Enclose all user lines in asterisks to make bold
  • Fix memory leak that was present in downloading responses from OpenAI
Direct download: AmigaGPT.lha (795 KB) (dr)

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02.Dec.2023



 AmigaOS 4: Extended audio emulator "Nallepuh" 1.7
"Nallepuh" or "Nalle Puh" is the Swedish name for Winnie the Pooh and is a hack that intercepts some custom chip register accesses and converts them into AHI function calls. The project, originally started by Martin Blom and now continued by Kjetil Hvalstrand and Damian, initially only emulated the Paula chip, which is responsible for audio and disc control.


With the resumption of development, the emulation of the Complex Interface Adapter (CIA-Chip), which manages serial, parallel, keyboard and other Amiga input and output activities, and the Blitter, an Amiga coprocessor with its own DMA channel, which is responsible for copying data and line drawing and can manipulate images, have also been added. The latter is based on Peter Gordon's Blitzen project: a blitter emulator for AmigaOS 4, which attempts to implement enough of the functionality of the classic Amiga blitter to allow more old programs to run on OS4 systems without the classic chipset. Blitzen has been integrated into the project by converting it into an Amiga library, libblitter.library. The following is currently being emulated:

Ascending and descending copy operations with shift
  • Descending mode fill operations with shift
  • Line mode (not tested)
  • End of DMA interrupt for apps using SetIntVector()
  • The 68k "WaitBlit" function is patched to wait for the emulated blitter
As Kjetil Hvalstrand tells us, the additions were necessary because some audio players use so-called "scanline synthesis" (see Marko Ciciliani's essay (PDF file) or the example FORMULA MINUS ONE): a translation of pixel data from a digital image or film into a graphic waveform.

Basically, the Nallepuh project tries to support system-friendly 68k software by "hijacking" the exception handler and thus giving it a higher priority than the OS exception handler. The following software has currently been successfully tested:
  • HippoPlayer
  • Dpaint4 (starts, you can do simple drawings, most of the tools are broken)
  • Payback (game sound now works)
  • SamplitudeOpus Light 3.5
  • Myst playable demo (CGX)
  • Symphonie Pro player (Some sound quality issues, 15bit playback not supported.)
  • Symphonie Pro Editor (works partially can be unstable, some sound issues.)
  • Electric Ocean - (use NewMode to set correct screen), Ignore DSI error, and it starts, crashes after.
  • ASnake - Workbench game
  • MiniArcanoid - Workbench game
The ptreplay.library, powerpacker.library and reqtools.library are required.
The author assumes that the problems can be solved with DPaint. There are many other interesting programmes and he is always happy to receive small unit tests: small programmes that test a function in the chipset. Bug report are highly appreciated. (dr)

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02.Dec.2023



 Image and PDF converter: Image2PDF 2.4 for all Amiga systems
At the end of August, we reported on Bernd Assenmacher's PDF2JPG tool, which can be used to convert the images contained in PDFs into JPG images. As the author has developed further tools, Image2PDF (converts images into PDFs) and PDF2PDF (converts PDFs into copy-protected PDFs), there was a request in the subsequent comments to the news article to bundle these tools into one. This has been realised with the present Image2PDF version 2.4, which is available for AmigaOS 3, 4, AROS and MorphOS. The author has kindly provided us with a few explanations of the new version:

"The new version can do even more, such as "PDF2Image" (i.e. convert PDF not only into JPG or PDF format, but also into other formats such as PNG, BMP, GIF or ILBM/IFF). PDF2Image" also includes options such as "scaling" and "PDF2JPG" allows you to set the compression quality of the JPG image.



As another feature I have added an image scaling function "Image2NewSize", which can scale images to the desired resolution while maintaining the aspect ratio. (The result is of course highly dependent on the source image used). All other functions known from "Image2PDF V2.3" are of course still available. With "Image2PDF", you can now also scale the images at the same time by setting "ImageSize" as the format. I am already working on "Image2PDF V2.5", where the whole thing should be a bit more intuitive and where a function for converting images into other image formats will be added.

The beta versions can be downloaded from my my website and tried out. I am well aware that there are good tools that offer such functions, but since "Image2PDF" is all about images and PDFs, I try to include as much as possible.

I hope that many people will enjoy the tool and that it can help with tasks involving scans, images and PDFs.

I would be delighted to receive feedback by e-mail. Everyone who writes to me will receive his/her personal key." (dr)

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02.Dec.2023



 Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.4.0 (beta version)
In mid-November, we introduced Darren 'dmcoles' Cole's "ReBuild" in detail, with which it should be possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct. With version 0.4.0 now released, his project has reached beta status: all planned features have been integrated.


Now the author asks you to test ReBuild extensively and report any bugs to him. (dr)

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01.Dec.2023



 Platform game: Update for Amiga port of Electro Man
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch is porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Miasik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). This update adds the final eighth level. (dr)

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01.Dec.2023



 Platform game: Abbey(s) of the Dead
About two weeks ago, the developer 'UltraNarwhal' released a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead" (YouTube video) which is now followed by the full version, available for about three Euro. (dr)

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30.Nov.2023



 Preview video: Temptations port for CD32
The developer 'S0Y' is working on his CD32 port of Temptations, the platform game originally released for MSX-1 in 1988 (amiga-news.de reported) and now has published another preview video showing the first draft of the sixth level. (dr)

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29.Nov.2023



 Visual Novel: Mansion of Madness for Apollo V4
In mid-September, Sami Vehmaa released his first Visual Novel game, "Mansion of Madness" (YouTube video). He has now added a version for the Apollo V4 accelerator cards. (dr)

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29.Nov.2023



 Pseudo chunky screens on AGA Amigas: PED81C updated
With PED81C ("Pixel Elements Dots, 81 Colors") by Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua there is an approach to work on AGA Amigas with pseudo-native chunky screens without performing the known chunky-to-planar conversions when displaying 3D graphics or any other slowing down additional calculations by CPU or custom chips (Copper, Blitter) at all (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has added a Voxel engine to his project and demonstrates it in a YouTube video. Other changes:
  • Fixed some palette values in a table in the documentation.
  • Added formulas for calculating DIWSTRT, DIWSTOP, DIWHIGH, DDFSTRT and DDFSTOP to documentation.
  • Replaced fixed values with the aforementioned formulas in the AMOS Professional source code example.
(dr)

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29.Nov.2023



 Video: Repairing an Amiga 2000
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he gets a non-working Amiga 2000, which he received for his birthday, up and running again. (dr)

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29.Nov.2023



 Game development: Color Palette Mixer for Aseprite
Two weeks ago, we reported on a script that converts graphics created using Aseprite into an IFF/ILBM file. In the German comments, Thomas 'imagodespira' Claus pointed out that "Aseprite always works in 24 bit." As a result, "Prismatic Realms" has now published a second script with which you only have 4096 colours to choose from.

When executed, a dialogue window presents a retro colour palette and a mixer, an RGB slider known from the Amiga with 4-bit granularity (i.e. values from 0 to 15 for each colour component). The palette mixer supports 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 (Extra HalfBrite) colour palettes without alpha channels and ensures that all colours on the palette conform to the Amiga's 16-bit colour palette restrictions. There is also a button that resets the colour palette to Deluxe Paint V's default palette. (dr)

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29.Nov.2023



 Mod player: HippoPlayer 2.59
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.59. Changes:

Fixes:
  • Patternscope and AHX modules: Fix bug which caused track 0 sometimes not being displayed.
  • Info window: Fix PSID song speed information sometimes showing wrong values.
  • Prevent jam when receiving no results from recent stations search.
  • Allow MS-DOS line changes in playlist/module program files.
  • Info window: Allow mousewheel to work with scrolling the content.
  • Commandline parameters: If started with "QUIT" and there is no existing HiP instance running, do not start a new one.
  • Keep list on exit: when starting HiP with commandline/icon modules as parameters do not lose the kept list, instead append to the end.
New features:
  • Scopes: When paused display the paused contents instead of the Hippo gfx.
  • MED/OctaMED: Display song length and channel count for multichannel modules.
  • Patternscope now supports MED and OctaMED modules, up to 18 channels visible. "mini4" font is needed to display more than 8 channels as before.
  • STIL support added for use with the High Voltage Sid Collection.
  • PSID improvements with the updated playsid.library v1.6:
    • SIDBlaster support upgraded by Erique, now faster and much less likely to cause jams. A 68020 should be enough for normal playback, previously a faster CPU was needed.
    • reSID mode now supports playsid-style digisamples, as heard for example in tunes like "Skate Or Die" and "Arkanoid".
    • "Prefs/Play-2/reSID boost" can be used to boost the volume in reSID mode.
    • The library also now works on kickstart 1.3 in the original playback mode, no need to have a separate kick1.3 lib version.
    • Improved configuration with environment variables, if not using with Hippo.
  • MIDI file playback support:
    • "Prefs/Play-2/MIDI mode" setting chooses which mode is active.
    • Serial output mode using Alastair M. Robinson's "delimidi" player. This will use MIDI equipment connected to the serial port for playing.
    • Paula/AHI output mode using either Timidity Amiga port by Philipp Grosswiler or GMPlay by Christian Buchner.
    • Scopes, song end detection, AHI output supported.
  • Console music playback support using the "vgm2wav" application
(dr)

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28.Nov.2023



 PDF magazine: Commodore Free, issue 97
After a break of more than six years (issue 96), the English-language PDF magazine "Commodore Free" is back: as editor Nigel Parker reports, the original website was hacked via a PHP script and all files were deleted. "Scopperdive LTD" has restored the original website and updated it so that it is easier to read on mobile devices and smaller screens. Even though he suffered numerous strokes of fate during the long hiatus, he decided to revive the magazine, also encouraged by countless emails, and offers a colourful bouquet of topics on Commodore and Amiga computers in this issue. (dr)

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27.Nov.2023



 Frogger clone: Frogger500 v1.24
Frogger500 (YouTube-Video) is a 1:1 conversion of the 1981 Konami game (amiga-news.de reported). Since our last news item, an MMU error has been fixed and the highscore can now be saved and loaded in both the ADF and WHDLoad versions. (dr)

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 Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2023.4
The "Scorpion Engine" (video of development of vertical scroll demos) by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used. Changes of version 2023.4:
  • Improved copper rainbow support on Amiga, including being able to set any of the 256 colors and at 24 bit color depth
  • Support for VGM music on Mega Drive (XGM driver from SGDK)
  • Support for saving on Mega Drive (SRAM)
  • Ability to support more than 32 active actors at one time
  • Improved Cut/Paste/Undo/Redo functionality
  • Support for byte arrays - this will be expanded in future with word array support
In addition, Scorpion Engine now includes the previously exclusive Bullet Hell 2 (Amiga) and Real Time Scaling (Amiga/Mega Drive) demos. (dr)

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26.Nov.2023



 Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.4
AmiWeatherForecasts displays current weather information in a small window in the menu bar. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.4:
  • Encoding problem is solved
  • Some languages removed
  • Fixed any icons can be moved via drag and drop on WB
  • Get Days and Months from locale
  • Added use or not abbreviations for days and months
  • Fixed the issue of color changes using system palette
  • Removed calibration setting for height of the window
  • Added 'Add to Pos Y of Text' button
Direct download: AmiWeatherForecasts1.4.lha (59 KB) (dr)

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26.Nov.2023



 AROS: Poll on "Irritating bug of the month" December
After the "Irritating bug of the month" for November was fixed (amiga-news.de reported), AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has started the corresponding survey for December under the title link:
  • AREXX scripts in Core show no output
  • UHCTools don't work as expected
  • Wanderer Rename: Cannot change size of letters in name without changing name
  • DiskInfo showing OFS instead of FAT
  • Wrong parsing of boot parameters in Prefs/Boot
  • Contrib LHA has issues when used from ZuneARC
(dr)

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26.Nov.2023



 Aminet uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to Aminet:
wla_dx_v10.6.lha         dev/cross  8.8M  68k WLA DX - Cross Macro Assemble...
HollywoodSP.lha          dev/hwood  873K      Hollywood 10.0 spanish catalo...
HWP_Plananarama.lha      dev/hwood  461K  68k Run Hollywood scripts on plan...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   4.8M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
character-sets.lha       docs/hyper 13K       IANA Charset MIB (Amiga catal...
drally.lha               game/race  387K  68k Death Rally Amiga Port
BackdPattGener.lha       gfx/edit   54K   68k Create your own backdrop patt...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha    gfx/fract  35M   OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.7M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
NightfallMID.lha         mods/midi  1K        MIDI GM Nightfall Piano Balla...
file.driver.lha          mus/misc   9K    68k CyberSound driver for file ou...
AmiWeatherForecasts1.... util/app   38K   68k Weather forecasting application
BootPicture.lha          util/boot  87K   68k Shows pictures, plays sound d...
sysvars.lha              util/boot  16K   68k Put system information in env...
IconLib_46.4.lha         util/libs  1.8M  68k free icon.library in optimize...
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  659K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  771K  MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  830K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
incase.lha               util/shell 49K   68k Conditional execution of a sh...
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 OS4Depot uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
flashmandelng.lha        gra/mis 35Mb  4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
videntiumpicta.lha       gra/vie 2Mb   4.0 Videntium Picta is picture and a...
hwp_plananarama.lha      lib/hol 461kb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for planar screen
iconecta.lha             net/mis 2Mb   4.0 A little and easy program to tes...
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 830kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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 AROS Archives uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to AROS Archives:
hollywoodsp.lha              dev/mis 873kb Spanish Catalog for Hollywood 10
antiryagx.zip                dev/uti 359Mb Advanced 2D/3D Game Engine
videntiumpicta.lha           gra/vie 2Mb   Videntium Picta is picture and a...
iconecta.lha                 net     2Mb   A little and easy program to tes...
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 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.11.2023
The following files have been added until 25.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
Arexx.lha                 Dependencies              Library to activate Are...
libfreetype2_2.13.2.lha   Development/Library       LibFreetype 2.13.2 for ...
xad-7z_2.8.lha            Files/Archive             A client for xadmaster....
fheroes2_1.0.10.lha       Games/Strategy            fheroes2 is a recreatio...
VidentiumPicta_3.00.lha   Graphics/Tools            An image viewer  progra...
ReportPlus_8.44.lha       Misc                      A Multipurpose utility ...
YT_2.4.lha                Multimedia                YT.rexx is a script for...
Easy2Install_1.0b45.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
iConecta_5.10.lha         Network/Wifi              A little and easy progr...
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26.Nov.2023



 WHDLoad: New installers until 25.11.2023
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 25.11.2023:
  • 2023-11-25 improved: Traders (Linel) supports another version, new install script, icons added (Info)
  • 2023-11-25 improved: Campaign (Empire) supports another version (Info)
  • 2023-11-21 improved: Hammerfist (Vivid Image) supports another version (Info)
  • 2023-11-21 fixed: Super Hang-On (Sega/Electric Dreams) problem with "Super" animation on some machines fixed (Info)
(snx)

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26.Nov.2023



 Theme set: 32se and 32se-lite v7.40 for AmigaOS 3.2
AmigaOS 32se" is a supplement of themes for AmigaOS 3.2, which is available free of charge in a "lite" version (video) or in a full version (video) for about 1,50 US Dollars. It was tested by the developer Sami Vehmaa under emulators.

Additional to some changes and bug fixes, for the first time the Vampire V4 is experimentally supported. Besides, a new Theme set 9 was added, and the lite version now has free access to four themes. (dr)

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26.Nov.2023



 Dock: QDock V2.07
Since our last news item, Sami Vehmaa has updated his start bar "QDock" to version 2.07 (YouTube-Video), which includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements. (dr)

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26.Nov.2023
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 Scene World podcast Episode #177 - Richard Loewenstein
Episode #177 of the 'Scene World' podcast features an interview with Richard 'Spieleschreiber' Löwenstein, former writer for German games magazine 'Amiga Joker', currently developing games for the Amiga, his latest release being Reshoot Proxima 3. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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25.Nov.2023
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 PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 152 (Italian/English)
PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in English and Italian editions. REV'n'GE tries to compare ports of old Games to various classic platforms or review lesser known titles from the homecomputer era. The current issues contains reviews of the motorcycle racing game 'Red Zone' and the recently released Amiga port of the old DOS game "Star Wars:Dark Forces". (cg)

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25.Nov.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Print magazine: Amiga Future issue 140 available online
The German and English editions of Amiga Future's issue 140 (September/October 2019) are freely available on the Magazine's webpage now. A few printed copies as well as high resolution PDF copies can be purchased from the publisher. (cg)

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25.Nov.2023
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 Illustrated text adventure: C64 the Mysterious Cassette
"C64 - The Mysterious Cassette - La Cassetta del Mistero" is an illustrated text adventure for AGA Amigas, featuring English and Italian translations. The game was programmed by Colin Vella, with graphics and project management by Paolo D'Urso and music by Allister Brimble. it is based on an Italian novel written by Carlo Pastore.


'C64 the Mysterious Cassette' is available in digital (9,99 Euro) or physical (29,99 Euro) editions. The latter features an USB stick containing the game as well as a DINA3 sized poster.

Note from staff: The publisher's website does not feature any screenshots or videos of the game, a demo version is not available either. Thanks to Jürgen 'Evillord68' Weiß for kindly providing the screenshots for this news item. (cg)

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25.Nov.2023



 AROS: Irritating bug of the month November
Around a month ago, AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz launched a new initiative including a survey: every month, a bug can be selected from a list of bugs that bother the community and have been reported in the bug tracker, which he then fixes. For the month of November, a bug that did not occur 14 years ago was fixed with 40% of the votes: Wanderer can now run CLI programmes with an argument again, so that it behaves like OS3.9. He has released an updated workbench.library V45.4 for this purpose. (dr)

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24.Nov.2023



 Video: A look back at the cracker scene of the 80s
In a video, the YouTube channel "Modern Vintage Gamer" takes a look back at its own history of software piracy in the 1980s, in particular at the time of X-Copy Pro and Amiga. (dr)

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24.Nov.2023



 Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.16.2
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 1.16.2 of the Greaseweazle Tools provide the following changes:
  • DCP, DIM: Fix image import
  • Flux: Emit one revolution of flux where possible, rather than two
(dr)

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23.Nov.2023



 Amiga Kit: A600GS Wiki updated
In addition to the launch of a dedicated, albeit currently still empty, A600GS website for the planned games console, which will be available in the first quarter of 2024, the Wiki under the title link has also been updated. According to this, there will be two versions available: "A600GS" will be equipped with 2GB system memory and 64 GB total memory and the "A600GS+" with 4GB system memory and 128 GB total memory. The official joypad will be standard equipment, while the mouse will only be supplied with the A600GS+ or as an additional purchase. This will be required for the standard applications such as Personal Paint (PPaint) and OctaMED. Furthermore, Amibench V46 and Directory Opus 4 GPL are included in the software package. Three screenshots of the Amibench user interface are now also available, showing which icons are used.

As Matthew Leaman from AmigaKit Ltd. informs us, an agreement has also been concluded with Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen. The A600GS contains his original Amiga music tracks "Space Debris" and "Beyond Music" as well as their newer MP3 remasters and remixes. (dr)

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23.Nov.2023



 Video: The best original Rogue game
The Amiga user 'intric8' has published a detailed video for the Amiga website 'AmigaLove' and its YouTube channel under the title link as well as a detailed article about what he considers to be the best implementation of a Rogue game from the 80s: the Amiga implementation. He also discusses other variants and releases. (dr)

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23.Nov.2023



 Developer log: Platform game "Robot Jet Action"
Ten days ago we reported about Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik's start to port his platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the Amiga. Now he has published a first developer update (YouTube video) and describes the progress as follows:
  • Working on the first tileset for the first world of the game. What you see on the video is going to be one of the world’s graphics. Still a lot things to do, but at least the idea is here.
  • Reimplemented the fuel gauge on the bottom panel. It’s more accurate and animates smoother… and it looks cooler
  • Implemented my own fonts routine. I did that mainly to not use any workbench libraries of Amiga system.
  • Also implemented my hex to decimal conversion routine that is used to show score and (later) also lifes left
  • First initial Implementation of up-down scroll. It needs some tuning but it works.
  • The copper colors in the background started to look like some parallax effect which, most likely I will keep in the game in this form
  • sprites collisions implemented but turned off as for now
  • collisions for collecting diamonds needs tuning as they are not accurate in all cases.
  • For the copper colors I’ve implemented set of scripts to convert them from png files. This way I can simply draw them in gfx program and convert to Amiga OCS compliant copper colors. I needed this as there will be a lot of copper colors needed for levels.
  • I also have set of scripts that convert tilemaps that I create in Tiled to my own format that I use in the game.
  • Some code optimization was done because the game started to slow down on Amiga 500 configs
  • some concept works on the overall gfx and design, like for example some experiments with the panel at the bottom
  • Regarding the gfx, I usually work iteratively on it so please keep in mind that gfx is going to evolve during the development.
(dr)

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22.Nov.2023



 SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware v2023.11.27 (update)
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). The Firmware release v2023.11.22, originally described in this article, has been rescinded by the author. He has released v2023.11.27 instead:
  • Restore implicit device settings
  • Fix device type being ignored in zuluscsi.ini
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22.Nov.2023
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 Emerald Web: Emerald Caves offers 64 new levels
The "Emerald Web" has set itself the goal of offering as many variants and level sets of the legendary arcade puzzlers Emerald Mine and Boulder Dash/Rockford as possible for download (amiga-news.de reported). The "Emerald Caves" now released for both OCS and AGA Amigas (YouTube video) offers 64 new levels. (dr)

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22.Nov.2023



 Preview video: Platform game "Deathmine" (v0.03C)
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 some new features like animated torch flames, toxic rain drops, glow worms and Morlocks. (dr)

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22.Nov.2023



 Preview video: Shadow Dancer
Mohammed Malik is about to implement one of his favourite games on the Amiga with the Scorpion Engine: Sega's Shadow Dancer. He has now published another preview video. The game is to run on an A500, and a project page has also been set up on GitHub. (dr)

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21.Nov.2023



 Turn-based strategy game: Developer version for "Settle the World"
As Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes, from now on the latest development version of "Settle the World" can be downloaded from the project page. The author asks that these versions not be used for public reviews or similar, as they are often poorly tested and contain features that have not yet been fully implemented. However, as updates for the stable branch of the game can only be released at longer intervals, the author hopes to receive feedback for planned or already partially implemented features by testing the developer versions. (dr)

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20.Nov.2023



 Image Gallery: Update of the "Amiga Graphics Archive"
The latest update of the "Amiga Graphics Archive" adds a series of images from the 1988 air racing game Gee Bee Air Rally, whose graphics were created by Mike Nowak. (dr)

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20.Nov.2023



 CLI command: sysvars V0.11
The sysvars command creates environment variables with system information in order to make it dependent on these, for example, in the startup sequence, which patches are included. So far there is information on the CPU and FPU, the chipset, the vertical frame rate (PAL/NTSC), Kickstart version and revision, version and revision of bsdsocket.library as well as whether the emulator UAE is used - and if so, in which version.

Die Version 0.11 provides the following changes:
  • Added the tiny tool KSGE36 to the distribution
    • Stands for KickStart greater or equal 36
    • Tests if the current OS is at least version 36 (i.e., OS 2.0)
    • Used in the test script to decide if an ENV: assign is necessary (which is for OS below 2.0) and commands have to be made resident (see below)
    • It is more or less equivalent to calling Version 36 from Workbench, with the difference that it can be freely distributed (unlike the Version command) and also works below OS 1.3
  • Improved the speed of the test script in OS1.2 and OS1.3 by putting the ECHO, IF, ELSE, and ENDIF commands into RAM (via resident if in shell)
  • The test (in test/echo-test) can be run from workbench or deployed on a bootable floppy for real Amigas. The script CreateTestDisk can be called with a device name (e.g., df1:) to create such a disk
  • Fix for AROS (here, SetVar cannot access the bsdsocket.library id string)
  • Code builds with most ASM-One flavors again.
  • Added version information so you can call Version sysvars
  • Code/comment cleanup
Direct ownload: sysvars.lha (16 KB) (dr)

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19.Nov.2023



 Web browser: IBrowse 3.0
Press release: IBrowse 3 has arrived. It's finally time to move on from IBrowse 2, which has been developed for over 20 years! IBrowse 3 makes available the previously unreleased features that were originally being worked on alongside IBrowse 2.4 (on a completely separate development branch), whilst retaining everything from IBrowse 2.5.9 and all the new developments since its release. The IBrowse 2 and 3 development branches are now fully merged, which was a complex and time-consuming task, due to considerable divergence. The process was completed methodically and carefully, in order to not compromise stability or lose any functionality. Development can now move forward without being restricted to the limitations of the IBrowse 2 framework, allowing for more substantial changes.

See the new What's new? and "History Log for full details of all the changes, but a brief summary follows:
  • IBrowse 2 and IBrowse 3 Unification
  • New Reimagined HTML Parser
  • Improved HTML Engine
  • The HTML engine has been improved with numerous layout and rendering enhancements, including tables, lists and superscript + subscript text.
  • Hotlist Multi-aliasing
  • Early Data / Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)
  • Better GIF Animation Playback
  • AmigaOS 3.2 Context Sensitive Mouse Pointers
  • NList GUI Consistency
  • Improved Preferences Window
  • Decompression and Image Decoding Libraries Upgraded
  • Space Saving Improve Efficiency
We hope you enjoy the new version and we look forward to adding new features and improving the HTML engine much further over the coming months.

IBrowse 3 is a free upgrade for those who registered IBrowse 2.5 (or upgraded) at the full 68K/PPC rate - existing key can be used with IBrowse 3. Users of the 68K only version of IBrowse 2.5 and older IBrowse versions will need to upgrade to unlock full functionality.

To celebrate the release of IBrowse 3, we are offering registration at reduced rates for new users (25-30% off) and upgrades (30-35% off) compared to the previous IBrowse 2.5 pricing. (dr)

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19.Nov.2023



 GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.3 for Windows
Just the other day, in an article about setting up a Greaseweazle V4, we mentioned the graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools. Now 'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.3. Changes:
  • Read: Fixed reported issue #3: filename problem for kryoflux
  • Convert: Fixed reported issue #3: filename problem for kryoflux
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19.Nov.2023



 Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.4
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.

Now version 5.6.4 has been released. Changes:

Bugfixes
  • Fixed problems writing parition tables to HDFs after latest updates
  • Fixed crash in Add Harddrive dialog
  • Quickstart did not select correct ROM for A4000T
  • The default.uae could not be deleted
  • GUI would not use default screenmode
  • not all RAM settings were reset when changing Quickstart model
  • DMX targets would crash when opening the GUI
  • CD images were not activated on Reset, only on Restart
  • copy all directories in macOS bundle
  • add missing dirs in macOS when generating them also
  • macOS did not have IPF support
  • removed unused cda wait() reference
  • A3000 emulation didn't work
  • Fixed compiler error: braces around scalar initializer for type 'int'
  • Keyboard reset would not restore keys
Improvements
  • increase size of text field in Create Hardfile dialog
  • fixed various clang compiler warnings
  • Use CD Image name as a fallback for screenshot filename, if no floppy was found
  • Accept archive formats as disk images also (e.g. .zip, .lha, .7z)
Build system
  • use Github hosted macOS runner
  • Build Flatpak for both x86_64 and aarch64
  • fixes for aarch64 flatpak build
  • Remove flatpak from Github releases (they will be hosted on Flathub instead)
  • fixed paragraphs in flatpak metainfo description
  • fixed flatpak source browser link in metainfo
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19.Nov.2023



 Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.3
AmiWeatherForecasts is a weather forecasting application that provides the latest weather information for any location. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.3:
  • Using screen text font for GUI (Prefs/Font)
  • Added customize color settings
  • Changed min and max values for 'Add Pos X and Y'
  • Added feature that finding of your location automatically
Direct download: AmiWeatherForecasts1.3.lha (38 KB) (dr)

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19.Nov.2023



 Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.29
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, which allows the development of games from various genres (e.g. Agonman). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial. Changes of version 0.9.29:
  • Copper gradient editor has been added in the Level Properties screen.
  • Instantiated objects are now not rendered the same frame they were created.
  • Dialogs now works fine when reducing the width of the screen.
  • Added a condition trigger CD Playing to check if audio is playing. Only works with 020+ executables.
  • In objects screen, cursor keys can be used to change the display offset.
  • In objects screen, 1 and 2 keys can be used to browse objects.
  • Level managing optimizations.
  • Trigger optimizations.
  • Condition trigger optimizations.
  • Final project size optimization: Sprite and background images are not copied for each level, now they are unique.
  • Attempt to fix some unwanted actions when going to the workbench screen for file accessing.
  • Less artifacts when going back to the editor after playing the game.
  • Fix for render objects, it could be after some plays not all objects were rendered.
  • Fix in using own screen being ignored sometimes.
  • Fix in HUD screen select page controls when selecting a variable.
  • Fix in font sheet not being initialized properly for new projects.
  • Fix in animations for basic_platformer example.
  • Fix in memory available number displayed in the settings screen.
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19.Nov.2023
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


 Hollywood plugin: Plananarama 2.1 released
Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, is proud to announce that version 2.1 of Plananarama has just been released. Plananarama is the magic plugin which allows Hollywood scripts to be run on classic Amiga hardware without any graphics board. Once Plananarama is installed, all Hollywood scripts will 'automagically' run on palette screens as well! All resolutions are supported - from 8-bit LowRes to 1-bit productivity SuperHighRes Interlace. Version 2.1 is a minor update which a new feature which makes it easier to create applications that run on both, RTG and planar screens. Plananarama 2.1 is available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. (dr)

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19.Nov.2023



 Aminet uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to Aminet:
Amidon_OS3.zip           comm/net   1.7M  68k A Mastodon client for Amiga
GitDesktop.lha           dev/misc   1.2M  MOS Graphical git frontend
BackMan68k.lha           disk/bakup 48K   68k The backup system (MUI3.8+ XP...
NetStratego.lha          game/board 2.9M  68k Network Stratego game
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha      game/misc  11M   68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 2.0...
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha      game/misc  11M   68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.0...
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha    gfx/fract  40M   OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals AOS4
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   5.0M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   5.3M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   5.5M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.7M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
Nightfall.lha            mods/8voic 207K      16bit 7ch Piano Ballad by HKv...
AmiWeatherForecasts1.... util/app   53K   68k Weather forecasting application
AmigaGPT.lha             util/misc  795K  AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
ReportPlusMOS.lha        util/misc  768K  MOS Multipurpose utility
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  16M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
setrc.lha                util/shell 30K   68k Support for AmigaDOS script d...
when.lha                 util/shell 49K   68k Conditional execution of a sh...
TZUtil.lha               util/time  21K   68k Time Zone and DST Utility
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19.Nov.2023



 OS4Depot uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to OS4Depot:
vasmm68k_mot.lha         dev/cro 251kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha         dev/cro 245kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha          dev/cro 205kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
animwebconverter.lha     gra/mis 3Mb   4.0 A tool to play and convert anima...
flashmandelng.lha        gra/mis 40Mb  4.1 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
amigagpt.lha             net/cha 795kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
grimoriumpdf.lha         uti/tex 3Mb   4.0 PDF to open invoices and see the...
wbtoolbar.lha            uti/wor 68kb  4.1 Toolbar on every Workbench drawe...
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19.Nov.2023



 AROS Archives uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to AROS Archives:
netstratego.i386-aros.lha    gam/ser 3Mb   Network Stratego game
animwebconverter.lha         gra/con 2Mb   A tool to play and convert anima...
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19.Nov.2023



 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.11.2023
The following files have been added until 18.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
GitDesktop_0.10.17.lha    Development/Tools         A graphical git fronten...
AmiArcadia_30.50.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
AnimWebConverter_6.00.lha Graphics/Tools            A little and easy web t...
Easy2Install_1.0b44.lha   Network/PackageManager    A package manager to do...
GrimoriumPDF_2.50.lha     Office/Show               A program made with Hol...
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19.Nov.2023



 WHDLoad: New installers until 18.11.2023
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 18.11.2023:
  • 2023-11-18 improved: Crash Garrett (ERE Informatique/Infogrames) patch is NTSC compatible now (Info)
  • 2023-11-16 new: Zener Drive (Altair) done by paraj (Info, Image)
  • 2023-11-12 improved: Total Recall (Ocean) trainer options added, access fault fix improved (Info)
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17.Nov.2023



 Platform game: Demo version of Abbey(s) of the Dead
The developer 'UltraNarwhal' has published a demo version of his extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead", which is currently under development (amiga-news.de reported) and which he is realising with the Scorpion Engine. The full version is due to be released at the end of November. (dr)

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16.Nov.2023



 Video tutorial: Playing sound in AMOS
In another instalment of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' takes a look at the PLAY command in AMOS to see what it does and how it can be manipulated. A small sample programme is available on his website. (dr)

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16.Nov.2023



 Frogger clone: Frogger500 v1.21
The update to version 1.21 of the Frogger clone "Frogger500" now offers a WHDLoad version of the game and some bug fixes. (dr)

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16.Nov.2023
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 Game development: IFF/ILBM exporter for Aseprite
Aseprite is an image editor that is primarily intended for drawing and animating pixel graphics for games. However, as already mentioned in our article about the dungeon crawler "The CTHUHLU Project", it is not possible to export graphics in IFF/ILBM format. To solve this problem, Prismatic Realms has now released a script to convert graphics into an IFF/ILBM file. This makes the use of additional programmes or online conversion tools unnecessary.

The project is in development. Although it should work well in most cases, it currently has no options. If anyone encounters problems or has suggestions, please contact the author for feedback. Currently there are the following limitations:
  • Images exported with this script do not currently support compression. If problems occur or the file size is too large, the author recommends loading the exported file into Deluxe Paint V and saving it again from there.
  • To be able to export an image from Aseprite, the colour mode of the sprite must be set to "Indexed" and the colour palette must consist of exactly 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 or 256 colours.
The script can be added via the menu File --> Scripts --> Open Scripts Folder. A registered version is required. (dr)

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16.Nov.2023



 m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.6 for Visual Studio Code (update)
"Amiga Assembly" is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to support assembly language for the Amiga Motorola 68000 machines and emulators. Version 1.8.5 fixes bugs. On GitHub, a detailed documentation is available.

Update: (20.11.2023, 06:44, dr)

An update to version 1.8.6 fixes more bugs. (dr)

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15.Nov.2023
David Brunet (ANF)


 Obligement: Interview with Laurent Zorawski (Amedia Computer/AAA Technology)
David Brunet has conducted an interview with Laurent Zorawski for Obligement. As Amedia Computer, the dealer is part of the AAA Technology group, which distributes the AmigaOne X5000 and the A1222, that is expected for the end of the year, whereby Amedia Computer contributes the AmigaOS 4.1 license from Hyperion, which A-EON Technology no longer has.

Besides the french original of the interview, there is also an english translation. (snx)

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15.Nov.2023
Mastodon


 Developer conference "Handmade Seattle": Lecture on the Amiga demo "Eon"
"Handmade Cities" is the largest indie conference for system programmers, which will be held both on-site and online in Boston in summer and in Seattle in autumn. Among the talks at the event, which starts today at 18:00 CET, is a presentation by Andreas Fredriksson, who will talk from 20:00 CET about the development of the A500 demo Eon and what you can take away from it and use as a programmer in everyday life. The demo took first place at the 2019 Revision. (dr)

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15.Nov.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further full versions of Amiga software have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Disk Salv 3, Moonbases, Supaplex, Tritus and Zodes. (snx)

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15.Nov.2023



 Reverse Engineering: Task Force
In terms of games (software), reverse engineering is the process of analysing the code and content of the game to understand how it works (amiga-news.de reported). In this case, the website Tetracorp has analysed Task Force, a Freeware game released 1994 by Mark Sheeky. (dr)

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14.Nov.2023
Simon Neumann (E-Mail)


 Alinea Computer: New products and firmware updates
Press release: Alinea Computer presents three new products:

Joyport Power-Adapter (power thief)

With the Joyport Power-Adapter (power thief), external 5V devices can be operated via the Amiga. The joystick port of the Amiga is looped through. A USB socket is available as an interface via which, for example, the Wodem or the KickRom-Progger can be supplied with Storm via a MicroUSB cable. According to the specification, a maximum of 50 mA current can be drawn via the joystick port of the Amiga, so no power-hungry devices such as mobile phones etc. should be connected there. The Joyport Power-Adapter is available for 9,99 Euro.


Fan power adapter

With the fan power adapter, 5V/12V fans can be supplied with power internally via the Amiga on the disc drive power cable. Available for 4,99 Euro.


Flash adapter for classic programming devices

With the flash adapter (48 pin), the KickRom flash modules can also be programmed with a classic programming device. Here, all connections are passed through 1:1. The adapter was successfully tested on a Batronix Battego II BX48. An optional zero-force base can be ordered in addition to the adapter. Available for 14,95 Euro.



Additionally, the firmware of the KickRom-Progger was updated to version 1.0.9 (changelog) and of the Amega 32 Adapter to v1.4.5 (changelog). (dr)

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14.Nov.2023



 Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.3.0 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 now for the first time with a native version AmigaOS 4.1. The other changes:
  • Scrollbar works again
  • Improve response handling from OpenAI preventing a crash
  • Latest OpenAI models added
  • Stability improvements
  • Improved error handling
Direct download: AmigaGPT.lha (795 KB) (dr)

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14.Nov.2023



 Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle V4.1
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" reads the magnetic layers of the disks independently of the used disk format and saves as much information as possible in a so called "Flux Level Image" in the Supercard-Format (SCP) which enables reading and writing copy-protected disks. Greaseweazle consists of a mikro controller board that costs only a few euros which is connected to a disks drive and then via USB to the PC. V4.1 is the very latest version, updating the V4 design with new features:
  • Larger form factor with stronger mounting holes
  • Modern USB-C connector
  • Input protections (ESD, over-current)
  • USB power isolation, allows Greaseweazle to be powered by external PSU along with drive(s)
The new version is already available in his eBay shop and should also be listed in other stores in the next few days. (dr)

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14.Nov.2023



 Tool: AssetBundleManager V0.3
Asset bundles are content such as textures, scripts or scenes that are saved separately from a main game or application and loaded when required. This minimises the number of resources to be loaded at startup. Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen has written "AssetBundleManager", a tool for managing asset bundles that are used with the Scorpion Engine. (dr)

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13.Nov.2023



 Module player: NostalgicPlayer 2.1.0 for Windows
NostalgicPlayer is a program for playing Amiga music modules under Windows, based on APlayer. The development of the player had been started by the author Thomas Neumann in 1993 on the Amiga, later continued on BeOS and now on Windows (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2.1.0:
  • Some synthesis sounds in StarTrekker did not play.
  • Made the SidSongLength reader in SidPlay more robust for syntax errors in the file.
  • When some agents was marked as disabled in the settings, they was not disabled again the next time NostalgicPlayer starts.
  • If double buffering is on and you have the settings open and showing either Formats or Players tab, then the previous module agents will not be black again when NostalgicPlayer automatically switch to the next module.
  • The sample visualizers, e.g. Oscilloscope and Spectrum Analyzer, only shows 20 ms of sample data each frame. The audio core output agent have a latency of 200 ms, which means the visualizers only show the last 20 ms. That could be visible sometimes, depending on the music playing. Now the audio core agent latency has been decreased to 20 ms, so all samples are visible in the visualizers now. If you experience that the sound stutters and you do not mind the scopes are not that precisely, you can try to increase the latency in the Core Audio settings.
  • Added new option in the Core Audio output agent to set the latency between 20 and 200 ms.
  • Can now show pictures if available in the module information window. The following formats supports this at the moment: MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.
  • Wrote my own control to display comments and lyrics in the module information window. Now each line is right under each other and special characters are displayed correctly. This makes graphics made in e.g. comments look as they should.
  • Moved some of the options in the settings window into its own Modules tab.
  • Added a new option telling the order on how to activate tabs in Module Information window.
  • Updated libFLAC to version 1.4.3, which now support 32-bit formats for both decoding and encoding.
  • Updated Ancient to version 2.1.1.
  • Updated NAudio to version 2.2.0.
  • Updated SharpCompress to version 0.34.0.
  • Added these new module formats: Audio Sculpture and OggMod.
  • Added Xmp player, which uses the libXmp library. Then moved these formats from MikMod to Xmp, which should play them more correctly: Asylum, Composer 669, Digital Sound And Music Interface, Digital Sound Interface Kit, Farandole Composer, FastTracker II, General DigiMusic, Imago Orpheus, Impulse Tracker, Scream Tracker 2, Scream Tracker 3, Scream Tracker Music Interface Kit, UltraTracker, Unis 669 and Unreal Music File.
  • Renamed Asylum to Asylum Music Format.
  • Renamed Unreal Music File to Epic Games UMX.
  • Renamed Digital Sound Interface Kit to Digital Sound Interface Kit RIFF.
  • Removed MikMod converter and player. This also removes support for UniMod modules. They couldn't be played correctly anyway, so I guess no harm is done by that.
An installation package can be found on Microsoft Store. (dr)

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13.Nov.2023



 Video: Zorro network adapter for the Amiga
In its latest video, the YouTube channel Casual Retro Gamer (CRG) describes how the Zorro LAN IDE network card designed by Matthias Heinrichs is assembled and installed in an Amiga to make it Internet-enabled. (dr)

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13.Nov.2023
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 Preview video: Platform game "Robot Jet Action"
Almost two years ago, Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik released the platformer "Robot Jet Action" for the C64. Now he has started porting the game to the Amiga and has presented an initial concept study. The author describes the current status as follows:
  • Super early development stage
  • Final game title to be decided
  • Release date not decided yet – will take some time for sure
  • 5 years old code resurrected and adapted in 2023
  • Will work on every Amiga in 50 FPS! (512kb+512kb)
  • 100+ colors on screen with copper effects
  • Developed in Blitz Basic 2 + M68k Assembly
  • Temporarily used music by Lizard aka Magnar of Censor Design and Nah-Kolor
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13.Nov.2023



 Blog: Restoration of three Amiga CDTV
In his latest blog entry, Retrohax.net has described the restoration of three Amiga CDTV. (dr)

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12.Nov.2023



 Development tool: vasm 1.9f
Frank Wille has published an update of the modular assembler vasm. Changes of version 1.9f:
  • Fix relative section offset directives, which must be unsigned to work correctly over the whole target's address space.
  • Fixed a few issues with named macro arguments.
  • Do not warn about missing references to Common or Weak symbols.
  • Binary output modules allow addresses outside of the backend's address space.
  • m68k: MOVEM (An),An/Am must not be optimized into two MOVE instructions. This was a new bug in V1.9e.
  • std-syntax: Fixed binary constant 0b...., which was erroneously mistaken for a one-digit temporary label destination since V1.9a.
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12.Nov.2023



 MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.10.16
Rafał Zabdyr has released a second beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). "Git Desktop" (Aminet link) is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required. Currently the following features are supported:
  • add existing repository
  • clone from remote repository
  • create (init) new repository
  • switch, rename, delete branch (only for local ones)
  • create branch from current or from selected
  • list of tracked/untracked file(s)
  • stage/unstage changes
  • commit with short (and full message)
  • fetch, pull, push
  • view (raw/color) diffs for changed files (few modes including SPLIT mode)
  • list of stashes with preview
  • stash actions: stash, apply, drop, drop all, pop
  • changes history (for now limited to latest 50 log entries) also with showing (raw/color) diffs of changed files
  • undo last commit
  • discard changes for given tracked/untracked file
  • discard changes for selected/all files
  • stash given file
  • stash selected files
  • edit given tracked/untracked file, via external editor -> Flow Studio
  • help viewer for git subcommands
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12.Nov.2023



 Accelerator board: A630 Rev 3 for the Amiga 600
The accelerator board "A630" developed by Archi-Tech for the Amiga 600 is now available in the third revision and, in addition to the 68030 processor clocked at 50 Mhz, now also has a 68882 FPU. The card can be equipped with 64 or 128 MB Fast RAM. In addition to the in-house shop, the card should also be available from RetroPassion in the next few days. (dr)

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12.Nov.2023



 Creating Amiga Reaction GUIs: ReBuild 0.10 (alpha version)
Darren 'dmcoles' Coles is in the process of writing a remake of ClassMate called "ReBuild", which should make it possible to write graphical user interfaces for ReAction, the evolution of ClassAct.

When asked about the motivation behind this project, the developer explained that ClassMate is only available in a demo version without a save function and with very limited options. He had asked around and could not find a registered version, so it seems to be lost. He had therefore decided to develop a new tool based on the original design.


This version is completely written in Amiga E and already has more functions than the original, for example:
  • multiple window capability
  • C and E code generation
  • temporary copy buffer
  • menus are shown on the preview window
  • much more flexible system of reordering the gadgets
In the past, he continues, he has used MUIBuilder to help create MUI code, and he felt that something similar for ReAction would be useful for himself as well as other developers. Currently, his tool does not yet support the newer Reaction gadgets, but there are plans to add them.

The next steps involve first reviewing all the current code to ensure that the application runs correctly on the standard Amiga screen resolution as currently some settings pages do not fit. Then the gadgets not supported in ClassAct will be added. The developer would appreciate help to test the generated C code with different compilers (currently only with SAS C). An icon is also needed, which he would like to put in the hands of capable graphic designers/artists.

Direct download: rebuild0.1.0-alpha.lha (100 KB) (dr)

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12.Nov.2023



 Aminet uploads until 11.11.2023
The following files have been added until 11.11.2023 to Aminet:
makedepend_AmiMod.lha    dev/c      249K  68k makedepend bugfixed + modifie...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha   dev/misc   4.8M  68k Game Creator with AGA support
AmigaMon_162.lha         dev/moni   34K   68k Amiga Monitor from 1993 (w/ P...
CopDis_JL.lha            dev/moni   10K   68k Copper Disassembler from 1993
Zap_205.lha              disk/moni  10K   68k Binary file editor from 1990
ioblix_netcard.lha       docs/hard  89K       ioblix network card gerber fi...
ioblix2_drv.lha          driver/oth 217K  68k ioblix2.library and driver (I...
F1GP2023Carset.lha       game/data  11K       2023 Carset for F1GP
drally.lha               game/race  386K  68k Death Rally Amiga Port
tfe-darkforces.lha       game/shoot 3.3M  68k Dark Forces Amiga Port
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha        misc/emu   5.3M  MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
anes.lha                 misc/emu   46K   68k A/NES v1.21 - Nintendo emulator
LastIndian.lha           mods/8voic 2.9M      16bit 5ch Panflute Jungle by ...
AmySequencer.lha         mus/midi   642K  68k MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA ...
CompareDirs_OS4.lha      util/cli   365K  OS4 Compare two dirs for differen...
IdentifyLib_FR.lha       util/libs  21K       French catalog and docs for i...
AmigaGPT.lha             util/misc  206K  68k App for chatting to ChatGPT
ReportPlus.lha           util/misc  658K  68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha       util/misc  828K  OS4 Multipurpose utility
InstallerLG.src.lha      util/sys   1.5M      Commodore Installer replacement
AnalogClock.lha          util/time  40K   68k Resizeable analog transparent...
AmiAuthenticator.lha     util/wb    79K   68k 2FA (TOTP) code generator
DrawerGenie.lha          util/wb    163K  68k Toolbar for Workbench Drawers
fullpalette_de.lha       util/wb    1K        German catalog for FullPalett...
fullpalette_guide_de.lha util/wb    8K        German guide for FullPalette ...
GoVars.lha               util/wb    11K   68k environment variables editor
ResetLever.lha           util/wb    483K  68k Reset your Amiga with ResetLever
RNOWidgets.lha           util/wb    5.3M  MOS Desktop widgets application
RNOWidgets_OS4.lha       util/wb    4.9M  OS4 Desktop widgets application
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 OS4Depot uploads until 11.11.2023
The following files have been added until 11.11.2023 to OS4Depot:
nallepuh.lha             aud/mis 461kb 4.1 Nalle Puh (Paula,CIAA,CIAB emula...
iconecta.lha             net/mis 3Mb   4.0 A little and easy program to tes...
comparedirs.lha          uti/fil 365kb 4.1 Compare two dirs for different f...
reportplus.lha           uti/mis 828kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
rnowidgets.lha           uti/wor 5Mb   4.1 Desktop widgets application
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 AROS Archives uploads until 11.11.2023
The following files have been added until 11.11.2023 to AROS Archives:
aget.lha                     net     5Mb   HTTP Protocol Tester
iconecta.lha                 net     2Mb   A little and easy program to tes...
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 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 11.11.2023
The following files have been added until 11.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
RNOWidgets_1.6.lha        Ambient/Commodities       Desktop widgets applica...
pt2-clone_1.65.1.lha      Audio/Tracker             ProTracker 2 clone - po...
Lua_5.4.6.lha             Development/LUA           Latest release of Lua c...
AmiArcadia_30.40.lha      Emulation                 A Signetics-based machi...
Wayfarer_6.6.lha          MorphOS-update            Wayfarer is the latest ...
iConecta_5.00.lha         Network/Wifi              A little and easy progr...
PolyOrga_1.25.lha         Office/Organizer          PolyOrga is a general-p...
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 WHDLoad: New installers until 11.11.2023
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 11.11.2023: (snx)

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12.Nov.2023



 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:
  • Enigma-Goria
  • A Prehistoric Tale
(snx)

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 Diagnosis software: Amiga Test Kit 1.21
Keir Fraser's "Amiga Test Kit" is a software-based solution for checking diverse components of an Amiga. The download archive includes a bootable disk image as well as an executable file which can be started from the harddrive (amiga-news.de reported).
In the recent version 1.21 new video test cards have been added which are used for calibrating displays (usually CRTs). The new test cards include full-field colours for colour purity, colour bars, greyscale bars, and dot and hatch fields for convergence and linearity respectively.

Direct download: AmigaTestKit-1.21.zip (194 KB) (dr)

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 Dungeon Crawler: "The Cthulhu Project" (DevLog 1)
Maurice Doerr is not only a photographer, but has also been a passionate Amiga user since 1987. Over the years he has owned several models such as the A500, A600, A1200 and the CD32 and programmed in Assembler, AMOS, Amiga E and Blitz Basic. After a long break and separation from all hardware, he returned to the Amiga about a year ago and started programming his first "Dungeon Crawler Oldschool" game based on the Lovecraft universe in AMOS PRO.

Since then, he has provided insights into the current state of development in numerous YouTube videos. Yesterday, he published the first part of a DevLog series under the title link, in which he provides general information about the project.

As he explained to us, he chose AMOS PRO because it was the perfect tool to develop these kinds of games on the Amiga. He uses Aseprite on the PC for pixel art graphics. The only weak point is that it can't handle IFF, which is why he wrote a BMP -> IFF converter to allow a smoother and faster workflow. Basically, his game engine is already very advanced, but features such as sound, which he does not compose himself, are still missing. (dr)

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 Platform game: Update for Amiga port of Electro Man
Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch is porting the game Electro Man, originally published in 1992 by Polish programmers Maciej Msik and Janusz Pelc for MS-DOS, to AGA Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). This update adds the fifth level, refines game controls slightly and fixes graphical errors in level 2 regarding lasers and minimap. (dr)

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 Arcade classic: Super Bagman (beta version)
After Bagman, Jean-François Fabre is now in the process of porting the next arcade classic for the Amiga, Super Bagman from Stern Electronics (YouTube video) and has released a first beta version. (dr)

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10.Nov.2023
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 MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.6
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.6 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. As the author explained, this version updates WebKit to WebKitGTK 2.40.5 (and is likely the last update before Wayfarer 7). This build also works around the issues with PayPal and improves performance on websites that abuse DOM timers (especially with throttling enabled in settings).

Download: wayfarer.lha (35 MB) (dr)

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10.Nov.2023



 Amiga Tool Jam: GoVars
GoVars written by Krzysztof Donat (bitplan) for the Amiga Tool Jam in Amiga E is an easy-to-use Amiga Environment Variables editor. (dr)

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10.Nov.2023



 Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.3 (update)
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.

Now version 5.6.2 has been released. Changes:

Bugfixes
  • DiskSwapper slots should be 10
  • Virtual Keyboard options were not saved correctly
  • fixed a few memory leaks from the GUI
  • fixed another GUI memory leak
  • don't shutdown graphics when showing gui message
  • Fixed memory leak when using AROS rom
  • fixed crash on startup on x86_64 platform
  • fixed types diff between classes
  • fix naming of start_minimized
  • rename local variable to avoid shadow of global one
  • fixed crash if Restart was pressed
  • GUI would not redraw always after ShowMessage was triggered
  • actually fix
  • fix CMake build on branch
Improvements
  • added flatpak package files
  • improved help text in DiskSwapper panel
  • attempt to transliterate characters that fail to be converted
  • don't disable CD drive if no image path is specified
  • if start_minimized is specified, do not show a window on startup
  • check for usage help cmd line parameter early
  • Hide the Linux hidden directories from dialogs
  • improved help text in GUI->Expansions
  • added VSync option
  • added missing help text in GUI->Priority
Build system
  • added RPI4 debian builds
  • replace self-hosted RPI builds with docker
  • fixed incorrect docker image reference
  • fixed remaining incorrect docker image references
  • Added RPI5 in automated builds
  • updated flatpak metainfo
  • updated Github workflow, include flatpak in releases
  • add libserialport sources to externals
  • prefer archive, avoid permission issues
  • change branch for flatpak
  • added USE_LTO option in Makefile
  • fixed cmake build (for x86-64)
Platforms
  • add Raspberry Pi5
Update: (12.11.2023, 21:20, dr)

Today version 5.6.3 has been released. Changes:

Improvements
  • Improved Help text in GUI->Display panel
  • Improved Help text in GUI->DiskSwapper
  • Optionally keep a backup of existing file, when downloading updates
  • Improved DMS support
  • merged various updates from the preview branch
  • Show SDL2 render thread option in the GUI
  • disable SDL2 render thread checkbox on KMSDRM
Build System
  • updated flatpak manifest
Build System
    Removed smaller flatpak icons Removed extra options from Cmake Flatpak fixes updated flatpak content rating to 1.1
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09.Nov.2023



 MorphOS: PolyOrganiser 1.25
Frederic 'Polymere' Rignault's PolyOrganiser is a 'Personal Information Management' tool that features a calendar, an address book and ToDo lists. Changes since version 1.22a:
  • Fix: Double start the app don't open an MUIcon with fail message but show first instance
  • Fix: Default icon size from 100 to 48.
  • Fix: time in alarm win don't have custom setting
  • Change: Icon size by 8 pixels steps. Minimum at 24 pix.
  • Fix: Remove custom class for copy menu text by use official MUI attributes (log dump about unfree memory)
  • Fix: Memory leak for icon renderer
  • Change: icon size switch to pixels.
  • Fix: Redaw icons all in one (resize)
  • Fix: free issue in guigfx class
  • Fix: Tabs color update broken
  • Fix: Remove contact in dual name mode now do it correctly
  • Add: Limit number of link to 128 (drop not possible)
  • Add: Settings for icon size
  • Fix: Background of icon when clicked
  • Fix: broken link when remove something.
  • Add: Stamp button in Event & Contact edit window
  • Add: Preview of the stamp in preferences
  • Add: Re-activate note area when press "Insert stamp"
  • Add: Stamp format setting in prefs
  • Fix: More that 16 links cause Event/Contact/Task to not displayed at restart! Limit now 206.
  • Fix: Remove link don't work.
  • Add: Button for create an event from a task.
  • Add: Basic stamp button for add current date (compact without hour)
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08.Nov.2023



 Amiga Tool Jam: DrawerGenie V0.4
For the Amiga Tool Jam, Rob 'daedalus2097' Cranley has written the commodity "DrawerGenie" for AmigaOS 3.5 or higher (amiga-news.de reported) and updated it once again. Among others, DrawerGenie allows you to add simple toolbars to the Workbench drawer windows. Changes of version 0.4:
  • Added Sort by Type option
  • Added support for popup items to be used in main toolbar
  • Changed OS version check from exec to workbench to suit some hybrid 3.1 / 3.9 installations
  • Fixed occasional misalignment of gadgets in drop-downs
  • Adjusted layout in preference and toolbar editing windows
  • Added *experimental* option to adjust windows to accommodate toolbar
  • Added HELP: to documentation search path
  • Added workaround for icon-only files preventing file operations (fallback method using ARexx added)
Direct download: DrawerGenie.lha (163 KB) (dr)

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 Video: Installation of a ZuluSCSI
In the first part of a video series (with English subtitles), the French YouTuber 'stephbb75' introduces the ZuluSCSI-RP2040 card, which makes it possible to operate SCSI drives on an SD card, and shows its installation using the example of an A4000T. In the second part, he sets up the SD cards. (dr)

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 Desktop widget: RNOWidgets 1.6 for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4
RNOWidgets combines several utilities (widgets) in a single application and is available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4. RNOWidgets contains widgets for calendar (ISO), analog clock, digital clock, notes, pictures (local and net), RSS feeds, sticker, and weather. Changes of version 1.6:
  • Added a fullscreen 5-day forecast display for the Weather widget
  • Added a 12-hour option to the Digital Clock widget
  • Added support for Atom feeds and renamed the RSS widget as the Feeds widget
  • Added fullscreen mode for the Feeds widget
  • Added placeholders for date/env content in the Pictures widget's paths/URLs
  • Fixed a Pictures widget fullscreen crash issue that was introduced in v1.5
  • Fixed a memory leak in the Pictures widget
  • Rewrote the weather API code
  • Other small changes
A YouTube video shows the RNOWidgets in action. The tool is available on Aminet. (dr)

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07.Nov.2023



 AmigaOS 4: CompareDirs V1.12
Using CompareDirs the directory structure of two directories can be compared, including all files. The result window shows the files with size and date. Alexandre Balaban's tool can be controlled either from the shell or via Reaction GUI. Version 1.12 was released at Micro Alchemie VII which took place last weekend. Changes:
  • Added NODATE command line switch to ignore file with same content but different date (cjwyche, Issue#871)
  • Fixed to compile with latest DOS SDK
  • Added horizontal scrollbar (Issue#903)
  • Added a proper title to the internal diff view window
  • Added diff navigation buttons to the internal diff view window
  • Added hint help to all gadgets
(dr)

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 APC&TCP: Boxed version of Boxx 4 released
Press release: APC&TCP is pleased to announce that the boxed version of Boxx 4 online shop is available today.

About Boxx 4:

Once upon a time, in a distant land, there lived a little box-like creature named Cubo. Cubo was a happy-go-lucky creature who loved nothing more than exploring his world and find new areas.

One day, Cubo discovered that an evil robotic witch had slowly taken over his home area and was using her army of followers to torture the local inhabitants. Cubo knew he had to do something... to save everyone - and set out on a quest!

Certainly, getting the electronic monster eliminated wasn't easy. The way was blocked with checkpoints, but coins opened the doors magically. It seems even evil watchmen can be attracted by money. Supporters of Cyrce, the robotic witch, might still look after you and will crush you without mercy.

Can you survive and succeed in your mission?

Features:
  • Coded with Scorpion Engine
  • 14 finest Amiga chiptunes including Jukeboxx
  • Lots of old school pixels
  • 3 difficulty levels
  • Randomly generated screensavers
  • Cheats... for cheaters :)
  • Amiga OCS Floppy Disk (works on ECS/AGA too)
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07.Nov.2023
Michael Rupp (ANF)


 Javascript: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation 0.36
TAWS ("The Amiga Workbench Simulation") is a Javascript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.0 - 4.1 FE for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple-WebKit-Browser (including Odyssey). Any kind of feedback the author Michael Rupp would very appreciate. His work can be supported by a little donation from inside TAWS or via this link.

Version 0.36 includes the following changes:
  • Tribute to OS 3.2:
    • new preset «OS 3.2»
    • new patterns «AmigaOS 3.2» (for WB) and «Light Grey» (for windows)
    • new window layouts:
      • 3.2 18*14 (9:7)
      • 3.2 18*16 (9:8)
      • 3.2 18*18 (1:1)
    • MagicMenuPrefs: new entry «OS 3.2» for «Look» with option «Mark submenus» activated
    • new Kickstart image when cancelling «TAWS Early Preset Selection»
    • simulation of 3.2 specific details:
      • RAM fuelbar showing its real size and not always 100%.
      • Resistance when dragging a window out of the screen
      • Resize pointer on the Sizer gadget and while chaning the window's size
      • Displaying the release version in the Workbench titlebar.
      • Menu adjustments:
        • «Workbench / Open volume»
        • «Window / Update» is active even if no window is active and will therefor update the Workbench.
        • «Window / Sort order»
        • «Icons / Eject disk»
        • «Tools / Auto-arrange Icons»
        • «Tools / Help» (Funktion aber noch nicht implementiert)
      • Shell: icons can be dragged into the shell window to insert their paths at cursor position.
      • Iconifying of windows:
        • Prefs windows
        • Shell
        • MultiView
        • Clock
      • Behaviour of iconified window's appicons:
        • Menu «Icons»: all items disabled except «Open»
        • Message in screenbar if drag'n'dropped into a window.
        • Open if an icon is drag'n'dropped onto an appicon.
        • Open if an appicon is drag'n'dropped onto another icon on the Workbench.
      • AsyncWB activated
      • AsyncWB requester:
        • exclamation symbol
        • resizeable
        • center on screen
        • support for «Enter» and «Esc» to invoke first and last buttons
      • AmigaGuide:
        • Support for embedded images using @{img filepath}, even in IFF-ILBM format. Links to .info files are resolved to the according TAWS icon images, as well.
        • Support for the virtual assignment GUIDEDIR: being AmigaGuide file's the origin path.
        • new navigation layout, «Forward» button, page number, displaying buttons on two rows for small windows
        • displaying image resolutions in the «About» dialog
      • Palette:
        • 8 NewLook presets plus 1 additional classic («Magic»)
        • larger color wheel
      • Clock:
        • date font
        • menu item «Help / Show Guide» opens the corresponding help file in «MultiView», shortcut «Help» («Pause/Break» in TAWS)
      • Font, Palette, Workbench: shortcut «Help» («Pause/Break» in TAWS) the corresponding help file in «MultiView»
      • mouse wheel activated
      • maximize windows when clicking on the SizeChanger gadget while holding shift key
      • Icons blink if selected by entering their names.
    • Amiga Early Startup Control
      • customised layout
      • keyboard shortcuts
      • Expansion Board Diagnostic: more columns
      • Boot Options:
        • Enable System Log: creates the file «Ram:syslog»
        • Failsafe Boot: boots into a basic 4-color-MedRes-Workbench and disabled some features.
    • customised «Boot With No Startup-Sequence»
    Many thanks to Hyperion Entertainment and the AmigaOS 3.2 Development Team for continuing to develop the AmigaOS classic line. Link to their product webpage: AmigaOS 3.2
  • HippoPlayer: new features according to version 2.58 for 68k Amigas by K-P Koljonen:
    • support for lots and lots of additional module formats
    • support for playing audio files using HTML5 audio (if supported by the browser):
      • MP3
      • AAC/M4A
      • OGG
      • OGG
      • WAV
      • AIFF (Safari only)
    • internet search (based on the UHC-Tools server like in HiP 68k) for
      • AmigaRemix
      • Aminet
      • Modland
      • Radion stations
      • Remix.Kwed.org
      • Shared lists
      • Turran FTP
    • support for packed files in ZIP or LHA format
    • improved random playing like in HiP 68k
    • keyboard shortcuts like in HiP 68k 2.58
    • support for subsongs in favourites and playlists (#song parameter)
    • When playing SID files, displaying STIL informations (SID Tune Information List).
    • «Ctrl-G» downloads the currently selected file.
    • new Scopes:
      • HippoScope (with options for amount of points and if they should be connected by lines)
      • StereoScope (with options for points/line's width and if lines should be drawn)
      • Filled StereoScope
      • MultiScope (with options for dynamic or fixed width, points/line's width and if lines should be drawn)
      • Filled MultiScope (with options for dynamic or fixed width)
      • RuppScope (my own implementation for visualizing audio, or: «butterflies on speed»)
    • Preferences:
      • Grouped into tabs: «General», «Display-1», «Display-2» and «Play»
      • Deep link (direct URL to play a specific track or playlist)
      • UHC search limit
      • Auto save
      • Wake lock (if supported by the browser)
      • Show (type of text in the window's titlebar)
      • Main font
      • Other font
      • Skip module after x minutes (if the backend cannot detect an end)
      • Position slider
    • lazy-Loading of the backends (i.e. the classes are only loaded on first use, this increases TAWS' initial loading speed compared to v0.35 quite a bit)
    • miscellanious bug- and layout fixes
  • Complete dutch localization - many thanks to Peter Slootbeek
  • OS >= 1.2: requester shortcuts: left Alt-key+V for the first, linke Alt-key+B for the last button
  • OS > 3.1 (except 3.5): Amiga Early Startup Control will be shown if the Help key (in TAWS «Pause/Break») is being hold, as well.
  • OS 3.1.4: RAM fuelbar showing its real size and not always 100%.
  • OS 3.5: iconifying of Prefs windows
  • OS 3.9 / 4.0: iconifying of Prefs windows and «MultiView»
  • OS < 4.1 (except 3.2): Simulation of a ClickToFront bug: doubleclicking an icon also brings the icon's window to the front.
  • OS 4.1: iconifying of Prefs windows, «MultiView» and «Shell»
  • OS 4.x:
    • Requester: support for «Enter» and «Esc» to invoke first and last buttons
    • Icons blink if selected by entering their names.
    • «Window / Update» is active even if no window is active and will therefor update the Workbench.
  • MagicMenuPrefs: added images for «OS 4.1 Sultry» and link that setting for the «OS 4.1 FE» preset.
  • MultiView: support for FLAC audio files (if supported by the browser)
  • AmigaGuide: implemented a special case for @{LINDENT x} if used in the 1st line of a node.
  • added «WBStartup» icons for various iconsets
  • simulation of the files in Ram:ENV
  • removed compatibility for Origyn Web Browser, because it's incompatible with modern HTTPS.
  • Maiden-Demo: show a message if the browser doesn't support AudioContext.
  • Removed «MicroKnight» font and use «MicroKnightPlus» as «MicroKnight».
  • «About TAWS» no longer links to Software-Wiki but to Marjorie-Wiki, as this one is commercial free.
  • Bugfixes:
    • Odyssey: restored compatibility (broke with v0.35), various compatibility improvements compared to v0.34.
    • OS 4.x: no longer show a message in the WB titlebar when when overwriting a file and cancelling the corresponding requester.
    • OS 3.1.4 / 4.x: added missing shortcut «Amiga-D» for «Delete».
    • Firefox, Prefs windows: layout fix for the lower border if window being active
    • Amiga Early Startup Control / Kickstart: layout fix when changing the browser's window size
    • Boot with no Startup-Sequence:
      • Text got truncated after the © symbol.
      • text adjustments for OS 4.0
      • OS 4.x: fixed text clipping
    • menu width
    • Allow renaming an icon if only upper-/lowercase has changed.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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06.Nov.2023



 Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12.3
AmiKit has released version 12.3 of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE. Among other things, handling of ADF files has been simplified and diverse software updated. Detailed change logs for Windows/Mac/Linux and for the Raspberry Pi 4/400. (dr)

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06.Nov.2023



 Do it yourself: Revision 4.0.1 of N2630 expansion board for Amiga 2000
Parallel to his project of a replica of the A2000 motherboard in ATX form factor, "Amiga-2000-ATX" (amiga-news.de reported), the developer Jason 'jasonsbeer' Neus has another one : the N2630 is a further development of the original Commodore A2630 expansion card, offering an Amiga 2000 a 50MHz Motorola 68030 CPU card with additional RAM and IDE device connector, and is installed in the CPU slot (amiga-news.de reported).

The now published documents of the new production revision 4.0.1a/b offer two interesting changes: on the one hand revision 4.0.1b supports the 68882 PGA footprint and revision 4.0.1a the PLCC footprint. On the other hand, the new revision supports the original German A2000 computer (the left side of the board should be marked with "Made In Germany" and "(C) 1986 Commodore"; then it is not a cost-reduced Amiga 2000 board), but this could not be tested yet.

New firmware has also been released. Some bugs have been fixed and the latest firmware is faster and more stable. The following hardware has been tested and works well with the latest firmware:
  • A2000 Rev 4.x
  • A2000 Rev. 6.x
  • A2000 EATX
  • A2088
  • A2286
  • A2091
  • RIPPEL
  • Oktagon SCSI
  • WordSync
  • GottaGoFastRam
  • Freeway Pro
  • XSurf 100
  • Ariadne
  • GBAPII+
  • Opal Vision
  • Picasso
  • ACE2b Chip-Erweiterung
(dr)

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06.Nov.2023



 Do it yourself: RGB to VGA adapter AMI-RGB2VGAULTIMATE
The RGB2VGAULTIMATE is an adapter for the RGB output of the Amiga 500 to 4000, which is designed to prevent vertical lines on LCD screens and take impedances into account, is double buffered and offers a choice of four filter settings. (snx)

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06.Nov.2023
Simon Adolf (ANF)


 Event: AmigaWinterTreffen 9.-11.02.2024 in Großensee (Germany)
Details about this event, taking place February 9-11 in Großensee, northern Germany (federal state Schleswig-Holstein), can be found in our german news-item. (snx)

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06.Nov.2023
Sven Scheele (ANF)


 Event: Interface XXXVI in Kiel, 25.11.2023
Details about this event, taking place November 25 in Schwentinental, near Kiel in northern Germany (federal state Schleswig-Holstein), can be found in our german news-item. (snx)

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06.Nov.2023



 Amiga Tool Jam: AmiAuthenticator V1.1.0
AmiAuthenticator was also written for the Amiga Tool Jam and is a 2FA (two-factor authentication) code generator for the Amiga that is compatible with many websites that use 2FA. It generates TOTP (Time based one time passwords) codes with SHA1 or SHA256. Similar (non-Amiga) applications are Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator and FreeOTP. These codes can be used to secure access to various websites, e.g. GitHub, LastPass, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 1.1.0:
  • Added 'Copy' menu item to copy the current values to the Clipboard (05-Nov-2023)
  • Added clarification of the SHA type (SHA1 is the standard default option used by 2FA TOTP)
  • Allow spaces in the secret
  • Internet time not always read correctly
  • Minor UI bug fixes
Direct download: AmiAuthenticator-1.1.0.lha (79 KB) (dr)

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06.Nov.2023



 Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.28
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.98, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the finished creations requires a total of 1.5 MB RAM. Jens 'Farbfinsternis' Henschel has written a tutorial. Changes of version 0.9.28:
  • Fix for levels always black after changing level introduced in previous version.
  • Fix for Is AGA condition trigger.
  • Fix for condition parameters not taking into account decimals.
  • Fix for Overwrite color and Overwrite Gradient action triggers.
  • Refactor in the checks of the runing machine.
  • Fix in both the editor and player not calling the right loaders.
  • Internal: debug memory improvements.
  • Some old code has been removed.
  • Some internal tracking code has been removed.
(dr)

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06.Nov.2023



 Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.5
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 1.7.5:
  • FIX: fixed missing obj and out directories in template project
  • FIX: __attribute__((always_inline)) in gcc8_c_support.h for -Ofast
(dr)

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05.Nov.2023
David Brunet (ANF)


 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 September/October 2023
  • Old articles from Génération 4 to 6:
    • File: role-playing games and computing - strength in numbers
    • Review of Fantavision
    • Review of Action Service
    • Review of Mafdet And The Book Of The Dead
    • Hardware: Freeze Frame Video Recorder
    • Review of The Armageddon Man
    • Review of Arkanoid: Revenge Of Doh
    • File: digitising images
    • Interview: Sandy Petersen
    • Review of Ultima IV
    • Review of Star Wars
  • Interview with Adrian Wallett (Arcade Attack)
  • Interview with Allister Brimble (musicien)
  • Review of Neon Noir
  • Review of DGen 1.24
  • Hardware: PiStorm32-lite
  • The best of Byte from November to December 1985
  • File: Idea Software
  • File: AmigaDOS error messages
  • File: Where does Vim come from?
  • Tutorial: configuring Emu68 on PiStorm
  • Tutorial: connection and use of GitHub from MorphOS
  • Programming: Copper, part 2 - rasters
  • Special quiz about Andy Warhol and the Amiga
(snx)

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05.Nov.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 165
The English and German issue 165 (November/December 2023) 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 preview of Roguecraft and a show report about Amiga38. (snx)

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05.Nov.2023



 Aminet uploads until 04.11.2023
The following files have been added until 04.11.2023 to Aminet:
SteMarRegAMOSSources.lha dev/amos   398K  68k 10 AMOS sources+exes by Stefa...
makedepend_AmiMod.lha    dev/c      248K  68k makedepend bugfixed + modifie...
AMIGA-SCARTRGBcable.jpg  docs/hard  26K       Schematic for generic Amiga S...
anaiis_massive.lha       driver/oth 46K   68k Massive release 1.23
Untangle.lha             game/think 28K   MOS Amiga port of a popular logic...
Passcodes.lha            game/wb    5.8M  68k Passcodes network word guessi...
BackdPattGener.lha       gfx/edit   51K   68k Create your own backdrop patt...
AmiArcadia.lha           misc/emu   5.0M  68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha       misc/emu   5.5M  OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha               misc/emu   3.7M  68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
Freaks.lha               mods/misc  2.4M      16bit 4ch Up-Tempo Techno by ...
AmySequencer.lha         mus/midi   659K  68k MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA ...
file.driver.lha          mus/misc   8K    68k CyberSound driver for file ou...
AmiWeatherForecasts1.... util/app   35K   68k Weather forecasting application
Albatros.lha             util/boot  34K   68k Lock your AMIGA by a keyword
sysvars.lha              util/boot  11K   68k Put system information in env...
IdentifyDev.lha          util/libs  67K   68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyUsr.lha          util/libs  100K  68k Identify hardware and more
iGame.lha                util/misc  437K  68k Front-end for WHDLoad
Mnemosyne.lha            util/misc  78K   68k Disk usage statistics+file/fo...
VATestprogram.zip        util/misc  15M   68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
VisualGuide_de.lha       util/misc  1K        German catalog for VisualGuid...
AmiAuthenticator.lha     util/wb    75K   68k 2FA (TOTP) code generator
DrawerGenie.lha          util/wb    158K  68k Toolbar for Workbench Drawers
SteMarRegDOSScripts.lha  util/wb    13K       12 AmigaDOS scripts by Stefan...
(snx)

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05.Nov.2023



 OS4Depot uploads until 04.11.2023
The following files have been added until 04.11.2023 to OS4Depot:
nallepuh.lha             aud/mis 431kb 4.1 Nalle Puh (Paula,CIAA,CIAB emula...
pt2_clone.lha            aud/tra 13Mb  4.1 Ported clone of Protracker II
openjpeg.lha             dev/lib 3Mb   4.1 Open-source JPEG 2000 codec
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
astromenace.lha          gam/shm 72Mb  4.1 Hardcore 3D space scroll-shooter
igame.lha                uti/mis 437kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
sacrificiopagano.lha     uti/mis 5Mb   4.0 Magic Tool
(snx)

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 AROS Archives uploads until 04.11.2023
The following files have been added until 04.11.2023 to AROS Archives:
passcodes.i386-aros.lha      gam/mis 6Mb   network word guessing game
sacrificopagano.lha          uti/mis 5Mb   Magic Tool
(snx)

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 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.11.2023
The following files have been added until 04.11.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
CRABUM_1.7.lha            Ambient/Utilities         A MUI GUI for creating ...
pt2-clone_1.65.0.lha      Audio/Tracker             ProTracker 2 clone - po...
iGame_2.4.5.lha           Games/Launcher            A frontend to launching...
Untangle_0.1.lha          Games/Misc                A logic puzzle, where t...
SacrificioPagano_2.00.lha Misc                      A special app to people...
AmiSSL_5.12.lha           Network/SSL               OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
WitchCleaner_3.00.lha     Network/Web               A little and easy progr...
Meltium_1.60.lha          System/Monitoring         A small graphical CPU-u...
Neatvi_12.lha             Text/Edit                 Neat vi clone
(snx)

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 Racing game: Rally Cross V1.0
Developer and Resistance member Alessio 'OzzyBoshi' Garzi released his Amiga version of Fabio Antoniazzi's PC shareware racing game Rally Cross at Flashparty 2023 and has now made it available to the general public.

Direct download: rc.adf (880 KB) (dr)

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 Weather data: AmiWeatherForecast V1.2
AmiWeatherForecasts is a weather forecasting application that provides the latest weather information for any location. It was written in the C programming language under Amiga OS 3.2 and uses data from OpenWeather (amiga-news.de reported). Changes in version 1.2:
  • According to SnoopDos, continuous querying of the TZ variable is blocked.
  • Added set date and time manually menu
  • Added sync system time using sntp menu
  • It synchronizes the system time using sntp if avaliable an internet connection when executing firstly
(dr)

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