23.Apr.2023
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Hyperion Entertainment released AmigaOS 3.2.2.1
Press release: Hyperion Entertainment is providing a Hotfix for the recently released AmigaOS 3.2.2.
Critical bugs were found soon after the AmigaOS 3.2.2 release which need to be addressed promptly. The Hotfix 3.2.2.1 comes as two separate and distinct installers.
- The first features an updated installation archive, for those who have not yet installed the AmigaOS 3.2.2 update.This includes the changes from the hotfix, so you don't need to install it afterwards. Please follow the instructions as described at the enclosed "HowToInstall" text.
- The second is a smaller installation archive, to be used with an existing AmigaOS 3.2.2 system. The hotfix adf should be used which can be found under the "ADFs/Hostfix" folder.
The following problems are addressed by this Hotfix:
- Slowness of ReAction programs using page.gadget (part of the layout.gadget file)
- GIF-datatype incorrectly refused to run on plain 68000 Amigas, e.g. Amiga 600
- Rendering and undo issues in IconEdit, if used with CyberGraphX
- Other small fixes in IconEdit and TextEdit
You can download Hotfix 3.2.2.1 for AmigaOS 3.2 here.
We wish to thank the users that quickly drew our attention to these issues. While we are aware of other reported problems, which have yet to be addressed, we still feel the need to release this Hotfix now. (dr)
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23.Apr.2023
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Aminet uploads until 22.04.2023
The following files have been added until 22.04.2023 to Aminet:
IntyBASIC.lha dev/cross 751K MOS BASIC compiler for Intellivision
evo.lha dev/e 653K 68k E-VO: Amiga E Evolution
pcisata.lha driver/med 13K 68k Mediator SATA Driver
P96Prefs.lha driver/vid 78K 68k P96 Preferences Editor
RescueLander.lha game/actio 46K 68k Land on Earth, Moon or Mars t...
MorPhONG.lha game/misc 438K MOS A remake of the famous Pong ;)
Klondike92.lha game/think 55K 68k Klondike92 - solitaire card game
SPlay.lha mus/play 14K 68k A quick 8SVX/ADPCM SamplePlayer
Multiscan_4color_pics... pix/back 961K 22 4 Colour WB Backdrops
SteMarRegMag2Theme.lha util/dopus 645K My Magellan II theme
IdentifyDev.lha util/libs 66K 68k Identify hardware and more
IdentifyUsr.lha util/libs 99K 68k Identify hardware and more
iGame.lha util/misc 414K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 7.3M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
InstallerLG.src.lha util/sys 1.5M Commodore Installer replacement
JoinGUI-AmigaOS3.lha util/wb 1.3M 68k A GUI for Join command
JoinGUI-AmigaOS4.lha util/wb 1.8M OS4 A GUI for Join command
JoinGUI-AROS.lha util/wb 1.5M x86 A GUI for Join command
JoinGUI-MorphOS.lha util/wb 1.5M MOS A GUI for Join command
(snx)
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23.Apr.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.04.2023
The following files have been added until 22.04.2023 to OS4Depot:
igame.lha uti/mis 414kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
joingui.lha uti/wor 2Mb 4.0 A GUI for Join command
(snx)
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23.Apr.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.04.2023
The following files have been added until 22.04.2023 to AROS Archives:
tong.i386-aros.zip gam/mis 32Mb Tetris meets Pong = TONG!
icaros_v2.3_fix.zip uti/mis 50Mb Little fix for icaros v2.3
joingui-aros.zip vid/mis 1Mb A GUI for Join command
(snx)
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23.Apr.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.04.2023
The following files have been added until 22.04.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
IntyBASIC_1.4.2.lha Development/Cross BASIC compiler for Inte...
Iris_1.13.lha Email New email client suppor...
AmiArcadia_29.38.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
Nanosaur_1.4.4.lha Games/Action This is Pangea Software...
iGame_2.3.2.lha Games/Launcher A frontend to launching...
HollywoodCompile_1.0.lha GUI A GUI for Hollywood com...
FICE-GUI_1.0.lha GUI FICE-GUI_1.0.lha
GetMoreLibs.lha System/Library/Misc Executable allowing to ...
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23.Apr.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.04.2023
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 22.04.2023:
- 2023-04-21 improved: MoonBase: Lunar Colony Simulator (Wesson) supports unofficial french version, slave 512k only provided (Info)
- 2023-04-21 fixed: Bug Bomber (Kingsoft) keyboard handler and interrupts fixed, some empty dbf loops patched, install script updated (Info)
(snx)
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23.Apr.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Turrican 2 - Final Challenge
- Superfrog - Ancient level (Ode to Hathor remix)
- Bundesliga Manager Professional (corpsicle remix)
- Guitar Stardust Space Debris Slinger Medley
(snx)
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23.Apr.2023
Gunnar 'gunaTM' Bernhardt (ANF)
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WinUAE: Update of WinUAE_german.dll
Philipp Lonke has updated the library with German translations for version 4.10.1 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE, WinUAE_german.dll. (snx)
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23.Apr.2023
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Video: Reproduction of "Four-Byte Burger" artwork
On his YouTube channel "Ahoy", Stuart Brown produces documentary-style video content about video games and their influence on culture. His latest video is dedicated to the "Four-Byte Burger", an example from the early days of digital art. The image shows a colourful cheeseburger designed by Commodore's art director Jack Haeger. The original file was not saved and the image is only preserved as a copy because Haeger took photos of the monitor with a 35mm camera. In his video, Brown explores the question of whether a perfect reproduction of the image is possible. (dr)
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23.Apr.2023
diagrom.com
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Diagnosis tool: DiagROM 1.3, Announcement of version 2.0
DiagROM is a diagnosis software which has to be burned into an EPROM and then replaces the regular Kickstart-ROM of an Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). The tool does not require any driver, IRQs or something like that and therefore should also run on only partly working computers performing hardware tests and identifying problems.
The source test of DiagROM is on Github, whereby the author John 'Chucky' Hertell points out that it is not permitted to create one's own version. The source code has been released for archival purposes only.
DiagROM in its current form will end with this V1.3 and will only contain bug fixes (the date will only change). As Hertell explains in a detailed blog entry, he has started development of version 2.0, which will be written using Visual Studio code and cross-compiled with vasm and vbcc. It will be divided into modules and the code will support 68k assembler and C++.
Changes since version 1.2.1:
- 2023-04-21: Well decided to release 1.3 far too many people are still using 1.2.1 so this is now the releaseversion.
Read the text "FuturePlans.txt" for more info.
three might be updates. as V1.3 please check the date. but it will be bugfixes only.
- 2023-01-26: Now default also produces a CD32 image to be burned on 27C800 Proms.
Fixed issue with ghostfastmem found on AA3000+ boards (detectes fastmem that isn't there)
- 2022-11-11: Fixed Addresserrorissue while playing testmodule on 68000 machines.
Fixed issue with Autoconfig printing forever (actually 65535 times) if there was no cards detected.
- 2022-10-30: On RGB test. added white bars at every colorchange to make it more easy to count out what color is shown.
RTC test: added a adjustfunction telling how many frames between everytime RTC changes (second) to help adjusting RTC.
Added function to constantly monitor one memaddress. This is for dev of new hardware and not to diagnose issues.
- 2022-02-21: Fixed addresserror crash on audiotest using 68000/010 CPU
- 2022-02-19: Changed memorytestroutines to the new updated.
Fixed autoconfig so it would not end in a endless loop if no autoconfigcards was detected.
Fixed autoconfig with outside check-in from github to handle boards with an illegal configuration better.
Simple Audio waveformtest now supports volumechanges and also HOPEFULLY oddbyte-bug in Sinuswaves are fixed
Some minor undocumented bugfixes.
- 2021-06-12: Now the new memtestroutine actually seems to work "x" is just hardcoded testareas, but the manual option "7" now lets you
select what area to test and the depth of check (how many longwords between all tests 1 being every byte checked) (higher=faster test)
- 2021-05-15: AGAIN Long pause.. ERASED the memtestroutine I was working on redid it TOTALLY!. available as "x" in memtest menu!
- 2020-11-21: New Memtestroutine now should handle when colliding with workareas.
Manualtest routine now swapped to the new testroutine. you can now enter selected area to scan AND change blocksize.
higher blocksize=more accurate addresstest check.
also if you enter wrong order of area to scan it will be handled. 0 byte scanarea will cancel.
- 2020-10-29: New experimental memtestroutine in the works. right now only doing a test of HARDCODED 16MB fastmem on A4k/3k
Should be much faster, ASWELL as it should handle address-error issues! TEST IT HARD PLEASE!
Also contains bug in Zorro handling asking boards to be shut down, issued via Github! (thanx!!)
- 2020-10-18 Noticed that CSPPC did not work on DiagROM. This as it seems the board needs time to startup (HEY P5.. handle it with RST??)
so doing some waiting and resetmagic if a CSPPC is detected. not it starts OFTEN! (not always, if not. do a reset and it will start)
- 2020-10-02: Fixed bug so if no chipmem available at boot, it doesnt try to do a addresserrortest of that area anyway.
Fixed scrollbug leaving traces of lowest pixelrow.
Added function in Autoconfig mode that lists a summary of detected boards.
Added About text.
Added support for handling 2 different workmem areas: Chipmem and Fastmem, showing info about it in systeminfo screen.
Systeminfo screen if detecting a 060 will show PCR registerbits.
If A3000/A4000 motherboard memory or CPU slot memory is found scanning of A1200 CPU Slot memory is disabled, This will hopefully stop
machine to crash with a 3640 installed and maprom enabled.
- 2020-09-05: Found a interesting behaviour on Amiga 4000. If you have no chipmem, and write something to any chipmemaddress and then
read anything from any chipmemadress (not even same as you wrote to) THAT value will be read! so on an A4000 with no chip.
the memorydetectroutine would say that it finds a shadowram. also the UDS/LDS test said "ok" even it it impossible could be.
so fixed that by doing a write to chipmem with $ffffffff so it will read that if you do not have any chipmem. making the tests more true. A1k Version have not been working for a while due to spaceissues. removed more or less all "not important" tests tomake it fit into the
very limited 64k bootrom. so it should work again.
Fixed bugs when using a 68000 CPU (010 aswell?) that crashed IRQ/CIA tests and also Extended chipmemtest. (Addresserror etc)
Also fixed more information in crashscreen.
- 2020-08-23: During Startup, UDS/LDS test was done by writing $ff to diferent places, this could be wrong as no memory can also
show up as $ff changed value to $aa to be more "random" if memory is not present.
At startup, chipmem is filled with its memoryaddress, while doing this you see a checkered-pattern on screen.
After that, it verifies that the address contains that data, while doing this you see a distorded colorpattern on screen.
if fail, it will show what memaddress it fails at, memaddress as binary and also what it actually contained (should be its same address)
So no more telling ram is ok when thee was shorted/missing addresslines. Now check actually checks ALL memory and not only beginning.
- 2020-08-16: Doing Addresserrorchecks on Chipmem AND workarea.. if left mousebutton pressed at poweron.
fastmem is chosen ar priority ram, if no fastmem found, chipmem will be used but screen turned off.
if addresserror found in chipmem, chipmem will be discarded. will be handled different later
- 2020-08-01: New initcode in start. at memfail bits read will be written as green is correct, red if failed.
Also during error, a dividertext will be printed every 512k block.
At startup, romadresserrors is checked.
(dr)
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22.Apr.2023
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RTG driver: Preferences editor "P96Prefs" 47.7.1 for P96
With "P96Prefs" Thomas Richter has written an improved, alternative preferences editor for the RTG driver P96 (amiga-news.de reported), which he has now officially published on Aminet. P96 V3.0.0 or higher and AmigaOS 3.2 or higher are required. (dr)
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22.Apr.2023
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Print-/PDF magazine: Amiga Addict, issue 20
The 20th issue of the British magazine "Amiga Addict" is now available, among other things, as a digital version for about 5.60 euros. The printed version including shipping (worldwide) costs about 12.30 euros. The current issue contains the following topics:
- Amiga Addict explores Andy Warhol's relationship with creating art on the Amiga and how he helped forge our platform's creative identity.
PLUS: An exclusive interview with Amiga World magazine's co-founder and editor Guy Wright, who interviewed Warhol back in 1986 prior to the iconic artist's passing.
- We head out on the road, turning our focus to Amiga users and reporting from Lincolnshire Amiga Group, Stamford Peterborough Amiga Group and Yorkshire Amiga Group meets.
- The Amiga Walker prototype - the last AGA Amiga computer never to be released.
- Rob Smith's new Retro Directory, a free online listing service.
- We speak to David Upchurch, the renowned ex-editor of The One Amiga magazine.
- Original Amiga hardware engineer Ron Nicholson gives us the low-down on what makes our favourite machine tick.
- A brand new gamepad controller for the Amiga: Ralph Egas brings word of his Dual Stick.
- Latest game review: Maria Renard's Revenge.
- To celebrate both Easter and Amiga Addict's 20th issue, our Gold Standard column reveals the best Easter Eggs and bonuses hidden in classic Amiga games.
- A round-up of the AGA games everyone really should have played!
- Six Of The Best: classic games picked out by Acidbottle (Wonderboy).
- A guide to Bifrost Heimdall Edition, the ultimate LED lighting mod for the Amiga.
- Magazine, manual and reference book scanning. We look at the best way to digitally preserve your Amiga-related print media with the CZUR ET16 Plus overhead scanner.
- Our regulars including former-Sensible Software's Stoo Cambridge, Demoscene, Amiga news, User Groups, Classic Coverdisk Of The Month and readers letters.
- Plus lots lots more..!
(dr)
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22.Apr.2023
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Developer diary: "X-Rotator" effect in Amiga demos
'Slummy' is a member of the Norwegian Amiga demo group Spaceballs. At this year's Revision Demo Party, which took place over the Easter weekend, the group won second place with Candiru in the category "Oldschool Intro" (YouTube-Video). In a developer diary entry, 'Slummy' now explains the "X-Rotator"-based effect used in it. (dr)
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20.Apr.2023
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Tutorial: Updated installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU 8
About four weeks ago we published Rene Engel's Installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU 8, which he had created in collaboration with the Amiga QEMU developer Zoltan Balaton and which at that time still referred to the first release candidate of QEMU 8. The manual had not only triggered a lively discussion, numerous tests and a lot of feedback in our (German) forum, but also beyond. As a result, further problems and pitfalls could be concretised, analysed and partly solved. Since the official version 8.0.0 of QEMU has been available since yesterday, Rene Engel has revised his installation instructions on the basis of this and the feedback from the users. A big thank you to all those who have contributed!
By adding the line "-cpu 7447", it is now possible to emulate or use a G4 PPC CPU with Altivec support, which also results in the error-free use of SFS (screenshot). Overall, the new CPU and SFS have increased the emulation speed enormously (YouTube video).
Those who would like to deal with the topic even more intensively, please refer to Zoltan Balaton's homepage, which now also contains a bugtrucker. There you will also find an installation guide.
1. Preparations
1.1 What is required?
The CD must be available as ISO file, which can easily be done under Windows, for example, with the free tool ImgBurn.
AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 is also required, which can be downloaded free of charge from the Hyperion Entertainment website after registering and entering the CD key supplied. Since owners of the AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition do not have access to the AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 anymore, you would have to find another way to get the required files. Alternatively, you could also buy the AmigaOS 4.1 Sam460 version: this also contains the files.
If you are running an Apple computer equipped with an Apple M1 chip, the package manager Homebrew and Xcode should be installed beforehand, as described in this article. You can then install QEMU via the terminal as follows:
brew install Qemu
- Flash Update für Pegasos 2
Download the file "up050404" either from the bplan homepage (only working under macOS with "Save as...") or via Wayback Machine. The file "extract_rom_from_updater" (direct download) is available on the Qmiga project page and is needed to extract a Pegasos2.rom from it. There is also a description of how to use the "updater".
- an unarchiving tool that can unpack LHA-packed files, such as 7-zip. There are similar tools for Linux and macOS that can do this.
- the freeware tool UltraISO (Windows), a tool that can open and edit ISO files. There are also similar tools for Linux and macOS that can do this.
1.2. Creating a QEMU hard disk image
Via Console/Shell/Terminal under Windows/Linux/Mac:
qemu-img (.exe) create -f raw -o size=2G hd.img
2G here stands for 2 gigabyte hard disk size and can be individually adjusted depending on how large the virtual hard disk is to become. For the beginning, I recommend not going higher than 2GB. Important: to create the hd.img, you must be in the QEMU directory.
1.3 Adaptation of the installation medium
Before we can boot with the Pegasos 2 emulation under QEMU, the installation medium must be adapted. First you should unpack the archive AmigaOs4.1 Update 3 and search for the file "siliconmotion502.chip" in the unpacked folder "Files_Sam460ex/Kickstart".
Now copy the file "siliconmotion502.chip" to your AmigaOS 4.1 FE Pegasos2InstallCD.ISO with the help of UltraIso into the directory /System/Kickstart. Then you only have to open the file "Kicklayout" in the Kickstart and /System/Kickstart folders with a text editor and add the following line without "":
- for the Kicklayout in Kickstart directory: "MODULE System/Kickstart/siliconmotion502.chip"
- for the Kicklayout in System/Kickstart directory: "MODULE Kickstart/siliconmotion502.chip"
It is best to add the entry under MODULE System/Kickstart/PCIGraphics.card. Save the changes under UltraIso. The bootloader should not be affected by the changes and the Pegasos2InstallCD.ISO should still be bootable.
2. Booting QEMU
This is a pure basic command line to be able to boot from the Pegasos2InstallCD.ISO under QEMU. The paths to pegasos2.rom, hd.img and also to Pegasos2InstallCD.iso must be adjusted accordingly. Make sure you are in the QEMU directory and type in the following command line:
qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -M pegasos2 -cpu 7447
-bios /pfad/zum/pegasos2.rom -vga none -device sm501
-drive if=none,id=cd,file=/pfad/zum/Pegasos2InstallCD-53.54.iso,format=raw
-device ide-cd,drive=cd,bus=ide.1
-drive if=none,id=hd,file=/pfad/zu/eure/hd.img,format=raw
-device ide-hd,drive=hd,bus=ide.0
-device rtl8139,netdev=net0
-netdev user,id=net0
rtc base=localtime -serial stdio
Under MacOs, the line -display cocoa or -display sdl must also be entered, otherwise no window will open. If everything has worked, QEMU welcomes you with the Pegasos2 SmartFirmware.
Now simply enter the following command:
boot cd amigaboot.of
The SmartFirmware should now boot AmigaOS 4.1. The installation of AmigaOS 4.1 will then proceed as usual: partition the hard disk, install the boot loader, etc.
An illustrated pdf instruction can be found on the pages of Amedia Computer France.
After the installation on your virtual hard disk and after ejecting the installation CD (ISO), the command
boot hd:0 amigaboot.of
under the SmartFirmware to boot from your virtual hard disk:
For some reason, which is not yet known, the first boot process after installation starts in Pal-LowRes mode and there is incorrect screen display. However, the problem can be easily solved by simply calling System/Prefs/Screenmode and selecting a 16-bit screen there.
Known problems:
- Using -cpu 7447 with Altivec support will not display the GUI/window output correctly for some SDL applications, use -cpu g3 instead.
- After update FE 2 it is possible that your network connection becomes unstable, if this is the case please copy the older rtl8139.device from the Pegasos install.iso to system/devs/Networks on your installation HD.
- Nvram is not yet emulated, so the firmware's environment variables are not preserved, so the boot command must be entered at every startup
- Currently, the maximum resolution is limited to 1440x900 16 bit under the Qemu Pegasos2 emulation.
(dr)
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20.Apr.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface 2.3.2
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.3.2 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:
Fixed
- The custom screenshot sizes were wrongly saved.
- Fixed a duplication in slave names after the execution of a second scan in the same list, introduced in v2.3.0.
- Fixed a crash on systems that use AutoUpdateWB patch.
- Fixed an error on status text after launching a game that showed total of zero games, introduced in v2.3.0.
- Refactored the Slave tooltype parsing on launching to fix a memory hit and potential crashes.
Changed
- Added some spaces left and right of the screenshot. This helps to resize the sidebar as needed keeping the screenshot centred
- Now, only the screenshot part of the GUI is updated on item selection and not the whole right side. This makes the GUI refresh faster on slow computers
- If the screenshot is toggled (show/hide) in the settings window the GUI is updated without the need of restarting iGame
- Now iGame doesn't fail to start even if any of the guigfx.library, render.library or Guigfx.mcc is missing. It falls back using the datatypes and the "No GuiGfx" checkbox is blocked in the settings
- With v2.3.0 WHDLoad games that have different names on .info file against the slave file was not starting. I changed the way the necessary info file is discovered to be closer to what v2.2.1 was doing and now it works fine
Direct download: iGame-v2.3.2-20230420.lha (414 Kb) (dr)
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20.Apr.2023
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Trevor's Amiga Blog: Spring/Fall edition
Trevor Dickinson of A-EON Technology has published a new article in his "Trevor's Amiga Blog" and titles it "Spring/Autumn Edition", alluding to his recent stays in England and New Zealand.
He reports in detail about the upcoming visits to various trade fairs and events and extensively interviews and tests the chatbot ChatGPT under Linux on his AmigaOne X5000, as neither Odyssey under AmigaOS 4, nor Wayfarer under MorphOS were able to do so. In this context he also reports in detail about the new Fienix distribution.
He also informs that David Pleasance has found and hired a printer for the second and third volume of the Vultures to Vampires trilogy based in India. It is expected that the books will arrive at the German supplier in mid-June.
News about the A1222+ he will provide in his next issue. (dr)
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20.Apr.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.13
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.13 of his e-mail client Iris für MorphOS. Changes consist of bugfixes and MUI peformance workarounds.
Download: iris.lha (21 MB) (snx)
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20.Apr.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 162 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 162 (May/June 2023) have been published online meanwhile at the title link. Contents include previews of Boxx and Settle World as well as a review of AmigaOS 3.2.2.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers. (snx)
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19.Apr.2023
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Amiga E Compiler: E-VO 3.6.0
E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more (amiga-news.de reported).
A few moments ago, version 3.6.0 has been released. Changes:
- EDBG: add support for ECX/EEC compiled executables
- fix issue with memfill that could cause odd address exception on 68000
- add TRY..CATCH..ENDTRY allowing more control over exception handling
- Add UNTILN, WHILEN ELSEWHILEN, IFN, ELSEIFN, EXITN, CONTN which are inverse of their counterparts eg. UNTILN x is equal to UNTIL Not(x)
- Add WORD and BYTE types (unsigned 16 bit and signed 8 bit variable types) and Word() Byte() functions as well as PutByte() and PutWord()
- Allow SIZEOF object and SIZEOF object.member
- Fix issue where SIZEOF x didnt throw a compile error if x was not defined
- Added EVO_3_6_0 define
- Added Compare, Ucompare, Fcompare, StrCompare functions
- Fixed Int() function to sign extend result
- Added OPT LEGACYINT to restore old version of Int() command
- Added command line switch LEGACYINT/S which does the same as the above OPT
- Allow BYTE and WORD types in modules, increase module version to 13.
- FindModule: fix error in memory deallocation
- FindModule: update for BYTE and WORD types (module version 13)
- ShowModule: update for BYTE and WORD types (module version 13)
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19.Apr.2023
Siegfried Hübner (ANF)
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THEA500 Mini: Running Atari ST programs with emutos-amiga.rom and Amiberry
For "THEA500 Mini" Siegfried Hübner describes at the title link how to run also Atari ST programs on this rebuild of the Amiga 500 by Retro Games Ltd. Required are EmuTOS-Amiga.ROM and AmiBerry.
To avoid a flickering display, open the Amiberry menu and change Display Line Mode from "Single" to "Double". The .st floppy disk images are compressed with GZip, so that for example the file disk.st becomes disk.st.gz instead. (snx)
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19.Apr.2023
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Jump'n Run: Boxx 4, version 1.03 (update)
At this year's revision demo party, the developer 'Lemming880' in cooperation with "Retroguru" had released the fourth part of his 'Boxx' series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). The update to version 1.02 fixes bugs in version 1.01, which was released a few days ago. Changes:
- Fixed issue for Player 2: it was flying by itself!
- Password for '2 Player Mode' now visible after completing Normal difficulty.
- Added v1.02 to Credits.
Update: (21.04.2023, 05:30, dr)
The developer has fixed a bug reported by one of our readers and released version 1.03. Changes:
- Fixed issue for player not dying in lava.
- Info screen now explains co-op password.
- Added v1.03 to Credits.
(dr)
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19.Apr.2023
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Puzzle game: Tenebra released
The author 'Haplo' describes "Tenebra" as an "an atmospheric puzzle game with rogue-like aesthetics. Guide the hapless protagonist to the exit. Poor guy is afraid of darkness and refuses to walk in the dark areas" (YouTube video).
Move torches around, push lights on rails, find keys to doors, light up cold braziers, pass through archways that collapse behind you, find oil barrels to make your torches brighter, squeeze through cracks in broken walls etc. First the game was released for C64 and other 8 bit systems before now the Amiga version followed. "Tenebra" comes in two flavours: classic 8-bit looks (non-interlaced) and enhanced looks (interlaced). (dr)
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19.Apr.2023
The Buffee Project (Blog)
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Accelerator board projekt: Buffee firmware beta v0.3
In her blog, which has been given a new layout, Renee Cousins, one of the two developers of the turbo card project "Buffee", already reported several times about her emulation solution of the 68k processor under ARM microprocessors, Pseudo-JIT (PJIT), and compared it for example with Emu68 or UAE (amiga-news.de reported). Now the beta version 0.3 has been published.
According to the developers, "PJIT is a real-time version of JIT that avoids the traditional issues of dynamic memory allocation and non-determinism. It is designed to run as a bare metal process on ARM microprocessors operating in big-endian mode to provide transparent access to a traditional 68K bus. It is useable with ARM SoC that integrates only a modest (by today's standards) amount of memory."
PJIT does not attempt to be a full system emulator. The beta version is not stable yet, still having issues with timing. With future versions, loading and debugging will also be possible under Visual Studio Code. Further notes and information can be found in the current blog entry. (dr)
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18.Apr.2023
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MorphOS: Nanosaur V1.44 ported
After Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky had compiled the source code of the game Nanosaur, originally published by Pangea Software in 1998 and now newly ported by 'jorio', for 32-bit Linux PPC (amiga-news.de reported), Bruno 'BeWorld' Peloille has ported the source code to MorphOS. SDL2 2.26.5, MorphOS 3.17 and the latest TinyGL update are required. (dr)
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18.Apr.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Full versions: Deathbringer, MegaTraveller 2, Sleeping Gods Lie, War in the Gulf
Amiga Future has added further full versions of games to its website: Deathbringer, Mega Traveller 2, Sleeping Gods Lie and War in the Gulf. (snx)
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18.Apr.2023
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Maze game: Cube V1.00 demo version
Sami Vehmaa is in the process of writing another game with AmiBlitz3 for fast Amigas with graphics cards or emulators: in "Cube" (YouTube video), the player has to find his way out of a kind of labyrinth (amiga-news.de reported). Before releasing the full version, he now has provided a demo version of his game. (dr)
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17.Apr.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: WebRadio.sbar 3.0 beta
Already at the end of 2021 Thomas Igracki has provided a beta version 3.0 of his WebRadio screenbar module for MorphOS at the title link. Among other improvements, it contains a station search. However, if this is done too quickly one after the other, it can crash due to the beta status.
Download: WebRadio_sbar_v3_beta.lha (264 KB) (snx)
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17.Apr.2023
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SFX engine: Audio Mixer 3.1
Jeroen Knoester's Audio Mixer (YouTube video of version 2.0) allows real time mixing several samples onto a single channel (up to 4 samples on one channel), while maintaining high performance (3.7% CPU time for 4 samples mixed @ 11KHz on an standard 1MB A500).
The author of the "Amiga Tech Files" - for example Different methods for Dual Layer Graphics - introduced first versions in such a blog post. Audio mixer 3.1 is a completely reworked version of that, featuring much more detailed documentation, extra examples, integration with C programs and several new features like looping samples, the internal 'voices' of the mixer being exposed, configuration through a config file (most things will be calculated automatically) and and no longer requiring samples to be a multiple of the mixer buffer size in length (samples can now be a multiple of 4 bytes instead, which saves RAM). (dr)
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16.Apr.2023
Christian Zigotzky (Mail)
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Linux: Nanosaur V1.44 ported
Nanosaur was released in 1998 by Pangea Software as a Mac exclusive. It was a pack-in game on Macs that came out around that time. Nanosaur casts a cybernetic dinosaur from the future who’s sent back in time 20 minutes before a giant asteroid hits the Earth. The developer 'jorio' has ported the MacOS 8 version with permission of Pangea Software to run on modern systems.
Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky, in turn, has compiled the source code for 32-bit Linux PPC on the basis of this LinuxPPC port, so that the game runs, for example, with the distribution Fienix on an AmigaOne X1000 or 5000. (dr)
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16.Apr.2023
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Aminet uploads until 15.04.2023
The following files have been added until 15.04.2023 to Aminet:
Void-Dreams40.zip demo/misc 731K 68k Demopack - Revision 2023
vbrowse.lha dev/c 5K 68k VBCC MSG Browser env. using G...
APPBuilder_AmigaOS3.lha dev/hwood 4.3M 68k manage&compile Hollywood proj...
APPBuilder_AmigaOS4.lha dev/hwood 2.7M OS4 manage & compile Hollywood pr...
APPBuilder_AROS_i386.lha dev/hwood 2.4M x86 manage & compile Hollywood pr...
APPBuilder_MorphOS.lha dev/hwood 2.4M MOS manage & compile Hollywood pr...
APPBuilder_WarpOS.lha dev/hwood 2.5M WOS manage & compile Hollywood pr...
BareMetal.lha docs/misc 185K Examples for Bare-Metal Amiga...
RescueLander.lha game/actio 46K 68k Land on Earthm Moon or Mars t...
Klondike92.lha game/think 36K 68k Klondike92 - solitaire card game
gimemorygame.lha game/wb 260K 68k GI Memory Game
giominostage.lha game/wb 1.1M 68k GI Omino Stage Game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.6M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.9M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
RNOTunes.lha mus/play 9.2M MOS Multi-format audio player
RNOTunes_68k.lha mus/play 8.8M 68k Multi-format audio player
RNOTunes_68k_FPU.lha mus/play 8.7M 68k Multi-format audio player
RNOTunes_AROS.lha mus/play 8.7M x86 Multi-format audio player
RNOTunes_OS4.lha mus/play 9.7M OS4 Multi-format audio player
RNOTunes_WOS.lha mus/play 9.3M WOS Multi-format audio player
SimpleSamples.lha mus/play 43K 68k Little musical toy for Classi...
MagicWB_800x600x8.zip pix/back 1.1M 10 Backdrops for 800x600 8 Co...
HCIcons.lha pix/icon 573K HCIcons
P96ScreenCx.lha util/cdity 8K 68k P96 Multi-Monitor Mouse Movement
IconLib_46.4.lha util/libs 1.2M 68k free icon.library in optimize...
iGame.lha util/misc 411K 68k Front-end for WHDLoad
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.04.2023
The following files have been added until 15.04.2023 to OS4Depot:
rnotunes.lha aud/pla 10Mb 4.1 Multi-format audio player
appbuilder.lha dev/mis 3Mb 4.0 Hollywood language productivity
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
grab.lha gra/mis 31kb 4.0 Simple to use screen grabber
shaderjoy.lha gra/vie 4Mb 4.1 Display fragment shaders
lhx.lha uti/arc 80kb 4.1 Pack & unpack using XZ/LZMA ...
igame.lha uti/mis 411kb 4.0 Front-end for WHDLoad
airscan.lha uti/pri 182kb 4.1 Native Amiga scanner utility
showfiles.lha uti/she 43kb 4.1 sorted & text-formatted file...
tequila.lha uti/wor 28kb 4.1 Task monitor / CPU profiler / to...
(snx)
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.04.2023
The following files have been added until 15.04.2023 to AROS Archives:
rnotunes.i386-aros.lha aud/pla 9Mb Multi-format audio player
appbuilder.i386-aros.zip dev/uti 2Mb Tool to manage & help with H...
freedink.i386-aros.zip gam/rol 31Mb An engine for the top-down RPG D...
drawer_gmes_kv4.lha gra/ico 176kb Drawer Games Icons Kens v4 Style
wcs.i386-aros.zip gra/ray 6Mb world construction set program f...
iconecta.lha net 2Mb A little and easy program to tes...
icaros_v2.3_fix.zip uti/mis 64Mb Little fix for icaros v2.3
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.04.2023
The following files have been added until 15.04.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
RNOTunes_1.1.lha Audio/Players RNOTunes is a GUI based...
APPBuilder_3.1.lha Development/Hollywood APPBuilder is a tool th...
SDL_2.26.5_Libraries.lha Development/Library All Libraries SDL : SDL...
LUA_MUI.lha Development/LUA LUA_MUI.lha
Iris_1.12.lha Email New email client suppor...
MorPhONG.lha Games/Misc -=- MorPhONG -=- A rema...
Fallout1-ce_1.0_R0.lha Games/RPG Fallout for modern oper...
fheroes2_1.0.3.lha Games/Strategy fheroes2 is a recreatio...
JoinGUI_1.1.lha GUI A GUI for Join command
vobTools_1.5.lha Multimedia Contains programs which...
Wayfarer_5.1.lha Network/Web Wayfarer is the latest ...
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16.Apr.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.04.2023
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 15.04.2023:
- 2023-04-15 updated: Beast Busters (Activision) patch rewritten, grenades can be thrown with right mouse and fire 2, 68000 quitkey support, trainer options added, DMA waits fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2023-04-14 improved: European Championship 1992 (Elite) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-04-13 updated: Ambermoon (Thalion) increased chip-memory requirement (Info)
- 2023-04-13 updated: Poker Nights: Teresa Personally (Verlag Teresa Orlowski/Escal Software) added support for another data disk (Info)
- 2023-04-13 improved: Hard'n'Heavy (reLINE) option to jump with fire 2 added (CUSTOM3) (Info)
- 2023-04-11 improved: Stone Age (Eclipse) BEAMCON0 access disabled, disk access disabled, memory requirements changed to 0.5 MB chip memory and 0.5 MB other memory, RawDIC imager updated, 68000 quitkey support, new install script, source code included (Info)
- 2023-04-11 fixed: Desert Strike (Electronic Arts) enemies firing again, mouse works properly in menu (Info)
- 2023-04-10 improved: Phalanx (King Soft) trainer added, speed regulation added, new install script (Info)
- 2023-04-10 new: Phalanx II: The Return (Kingsoft) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-10 improved: Hoyle Book Of Games Volume 3: Great Board Games / Hoyle Volume III (Sierra) supports another version (Info)
- 2023-04-10 improved: Fred (UBI-Soft) trainer added, 68000 quitkey, manual and icons added (Info)
- 2023-04-10 new: Challenge Foot Senior (Génération 5) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-10 fixed: Vengeance of Excalibur (Virgin) music is played again (broke with 1.01 update) (Info)
- 2023-04-09 fixed: Spirit of Excalibur (Virgin) title music is played again (broke with 1.01 update) (Info)
(snx)
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16.Apr.2023
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Programming contest: Deadline extension at AmiGameJam 2022
The current AmiGameJam "Sword & Sorcery" was originally supposed to run until the end of this month (amiga-news.de reported) - however, despite 23 participants, there have been no entries so far. The deadline has therefore been extended to July 31.
New first prize is the Amiga 500 case bundle "Scourge Of The Underkind" from A1200.net, further prize donations are welcome. (snx)
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16.Apr.2023
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Hollywood: APPBuilder 3.1
APPBuilder by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci simplifies the compilation of Hollywood programs and assists in the creation of distribution archives.
Version 3.1 supports Hollywood X and includes an update of the plugins as well as several small additions - for example, the interface has been changed to add an information line at the bottom of the window. (snx)
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16.Apr.2023
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Windows: Embedding media files into Amiga RAM for usage in own programs
'RetroNick', the author of the Sprite/Icon/Map editor "Raster Master" for Windows 10/11, has released "Hunkster" (named after the Hunk format), a Windows program that allows programmers to convert media files so that they are loaded by the Amiga into its memory, if necessary also specifically into Chip or Fast RAM. In the source code of a custom C or Pascal program, their address in memory can then be transferred to a variable or an array, respectively, and used for execution.
The author himself is only interested in publishing the Windows version, but a version for Linux is just as possible. Interested developers should then fork his repository and adapt the name (for example "LinuxHunkster"). (dr)
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16.Apr.2023
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.4 R80 for Windows 10/11
Raster Master (amiga-news.de reported) is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
Now version 1.4 R80 has been released. Changes:
- Added Export for Amiga C/Pascal Bob/VSprites to file instead of just arrays. Exporting to these file formats allows you to use the Amiga Hunkster tool to attach the images to your exe file. Hunkster can be downloaded from its repository
- Fixed Exporting AmigaBASIC vsprites DATA statements - was exporting to file
- Fixed some ILBM open/save bugs with 256 color images
(dr)
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15.Apr.2023
itch.io
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Jump'n Run: Boxx 4, version 1.01
About a week ago, the developer 'Lemming880' in co-operation with "Retroguru" had released the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). Now an update to version 1.01 is available. Changes:
- Fixed a bug where at the second playthrough bonus hearts are not replenished.
- Added option to disable boss flash.
- Level 2: added a spike at the lava/spike trap to prevent the player from going through a little hole and skip the enemy+coin.
- Some turret actor collision box positions were a little off so this is fixed.
- CD32 gamepad reading disabled.
- Added v1.01 to Credits.
(dr)
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15.Apr.2023
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Preview videos: 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 two further preview videos introducing the third and fifth level. (dr)
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15.Apr.2023
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Tool: identify-library 42.1
A few moments ago, Richard Körber has released version 42.1 of his identify.library (amiga-news.de reported) which now supports the Open Amiga Hardware Repository as well as new boards.
Downloads:
IdentifyDev.lha (66 kB)
IdentifyUsr.lha (99 kB) (dr)
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15.Apr.2023
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Do it yourself: Amiga Floppy Swap
Amiga Floppy Swap is an extension for the Amiga 500, 1000, 2000 or 3000 with connected external drive, which is placed under the MOS 8520 Even CIA chip. After pressing Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga twice in quick succession, the drives DF0: and DF1: are swapped, so that booting from e.g. a Gotek floppy drive emulator is possible.
Pressing the reset keys twice again restores the previous state, and a piezo element provides acoustic feedback that the switch has been executed. (snx)
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15.Apr.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Fallout 1 Community Edition ported
After the 2nd part already two months ago, Bruno 'BeWorld' Peloille has now also ported the predecessor for MorphOS: Fallout (Wikipedia) from 1997 is a role-playing game, which is set after a nuclear war, shows black humor and combines futuristic technology with the American everyday culture of the 1950s.
The "Community Edition" is an open source reimplementation, which requires the original, which can still be purchased at GOG or Steam. (snx)
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15.Apr.2023
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Video tutorial: Creating and using Blitter objects (BOBs) in AMOS
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains the creation and use of Blitter Objects (BOBs) and controlling a BOB on the screen by using a joystick for input. (dr)
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15.Apr.2023
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Open Amiga Hardware: Product ID for boards and identify library
The authors of the boards- and identify-library have started a project to promote open source Amiga hardware, the Open Amiga Hardware Repository.
The project has reserved its own manufacturer ID for Zorro boards. Developers of open Amiga hardware can easily request an individual product ID for their project, free of charge. The hardware will be listed in the repository, and will also be recognized by the boards.library and identify.library with their next update.
To be included in the repository, all parts of the hardware (including PCB layout, firmware, drivers) must be freely available under an open license, so that interested people can build their own working copy of the board. In addition, a functional prototype must already exist.
Three memory expansions by Matt Harlum made the start in the repository. More open hardware projects will hopefully follow soon. (dr)
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14.Apr.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.3.1
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.3.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. In this release the gameslist.csv file changed. It is recommended to get a backup of your previous file before upgrade or do a new installation. Changes:
Added
- Some nonWHDLoad games require to be started from their own folder, otherwise they crash or fail to start. This is a problem mainly on systems that do not have WBRun or WBLoad (i.e. AmigaOS 3.1). Now, for all the added games/demos that are started on such systems a temporary script is created under T:
- Added German catalog and an alternative main image
- Added French catalog
Fixed
- When a user changes the tooltypes of a slave, the NewIcon keeps working. The previous versions of iGame were deleting the image information. Now they are dropped from the icon tooltypes, but the image keeps working fine. As a result, the .info file size is reduced almost to half.
- Now it is possible to save the icon tooltypes even if it is used as an item screenshot. In the previous versions the icon file was blocked and no change was possible
- Fixed crashing on exit
- Fixed low memory computer freeze while scanning
- Fixed low memory computer freeze when loading big list of entries
Changed
- Now we compile iGame with NDK 3.2R4
- Now the repositories path requester accepts only drawers
- Memory footprint is now reduced and optimised as much as possible
- iGame window appears first and then the list is loaded from the file. This makes the application appear faster, giving feedback to the user
- When the user selects a relative path (ie. //Games), that changes to an absolute path.
- Changed the way the same title slaves are counted. This will help for removing the multiple "Alt" words in the list
- Changed the repository scanning for files. The code is simplified and now uses more functions from the system API, making it more compatible. Also, all the "Data" folders are skipped from scanning, so slaves that exist in those folders are not used. A lot of code was removed and optimised, so the scan is now around 37% faster on the same machine, scanning a folder with 3562 entries.
- Changed the way the multiple instances with the same title are shown. Now no "Alt" labels will be added. Instead, we introduced a number in square brackets that represent the different instances, i.e. 3DPool [1], 4DSportsDriving [2]. Not every record has these values, so expect to see them only when there are duplicates.
- The gamelist.csv file changed by having double quotes around the string values, like the path and the title.
- A new column was added in the gamelist.csv file which holds the custom name of the item. The old column remains unchanged. This helps in situations like a repository rescan, where the given name by the user doesn't change. The old second column should remain unchanged.
- Now iGame requires icon.library v44+ for changing icon tooltypes. For systems that do include a new version, there is icon.library 46.4 on Aminet is free to download and use. Those that have older versions of the library will still be able to use iGame, but they won't be able to change the icon tooltypes. They will need to do it from Workbench
- Now the filter string field is not disabled in the hidden list, allowing the user to filter the results based on the title or part of it
- "Status" line, "Times played" and "Slave path" do not have a border anymore, since they are read-only fields
- "No smart spaces" checkbox has a proper border now
- "Slave path" in the item properties window doesn't stretch its width anymore. If MUI 5 is used the text will be shortened, showing three dots in the middle of it.
- If WBLoad exists in the C: folder, this is going to be used to start games/demos from WB, when they were added as extra items in the list
- The "Last played" list holds more than one record, so that you can easily find the last games you played
- Moved alt_icons under extras folder
- Updated installer script to give some info to the user at the installation folder selection step
Direct download: iGame-v2.3.1-20230414.lha (411 Kb) (dr)
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13.Apr.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.12
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.12 of his e-mail client Iris for MorphOS. New features include an improved e-mail preview, a requester before sending e-mails without a recipient entered into the "To:" field, and an activation/deactivation of the Undo/Redo buttons depending on availability.
Download: iris.lha (21 MB) (snx)
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13.Apr.2023
Ján Zahurančík (E-Mail)
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Workbench distribution: Wrapper for AmiKit X/XE for Ventura Macs with Apple CPU
For Mac OS users of the workbench distribution AmiKit as well as of the installation assistance for AmigaOS 4, Flower Pot, a wrapper optimized for the current operating system version "Ventura" on computers with Apple processor is available at the title link, which simulates the environment required for execution of the Windows program.
The existing AmiKit installation is simply copied from the old wrapper to the new one. Using this wrapper under the previous Mac OS versions and/or on an Intel Mac is still possible. (snx)
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13.Apr.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: LUA-MUI updated
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's LUA-MUI makes it possible under MorphOS to use the LUA scripting language to make operating system-specific calls, i.e. concerning the graphical user interface, libraries and functions.
The update released today includes changes to the LibCall() function - it now returns integer values or the value NIL if the called function fails. Also, muistructs.lua now registers all structs at startup, which requires more time and memory.
Download: LUA_MUI.lha (74 KB) (snx)
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13.Apr.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 5.1
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 5.1 of his web browser for MorphOS, Wayfarer. Changes include small improvements like saving different file paths for downloading via "Download" or "Download As".
Download: wayfarer.lha (29 MB) (snx)
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13.Apr.2023
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RTG driver: New Prefs editor for P96 in development
According to Thomas Richter in the A1k support forum (German), he is about to completely rewriting the P96 preferences editor. He has released a beta version of this new "P96Prefs" tool and asks to test it and give feedback. Requirements:
- P96 3.0.0 or higher.
- AmigaOs 3.2 or higher. The program depends on the font-sensitive gadtools library that came with 3.2, and the iconification gadget, which also came with 3.2.
The new preferences tool is to become part of P96, but will also be freely available on Aminet, including updates, once the beta phase has been completed.
Direct download: P96Prefs_47_4.lha (65 KB) (dr)
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12.Apr.2023
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Whatever became of... - Bill McEwen?
As one can read on the company website at the title link, the former president of Amiga Inc. Bill McEwen is now working for Stavatti Aerospace.
The plans of its founder are ambitious - he wants to produce military jets e.g. for NATO, although he has no corresponding background. As the press reports, Christopher Besker has acquired his knowledge through self-study, but has already succeeded in acquiring tax payers' money to finance his visions. However, the company, which has existed in various forms since 1994, has not actually produced a single aircraft to date. (snx)
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12.Apr.2023
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Image editor: PyDPainter 1.0.6 for Windows
In contrast to DPaint.js, which we reported on yesterday and which can be executed platform-independently in the browser, PyDPainter (for Windows) uses the Python programming language, but is also inspired by DPaint.
As author Mark Riale wrote, "PyDPainter is an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame, as recently, with a resurgence of all things "retro," low-resolution pixel art and limited color palettes have become popular once again. Many tools to deal with this medium are either too complicated or too crude. This project is an attempt to bring back an old but reliable tool and enhance it with some features to help it better coexist in the modern world."
A short YouTube video gives a first impression of the image editor. On the Roadmap are animations and a font tool that can load Amiga fonts in black and white and colour. (dr)
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12.Apr.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2023.04.11
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). Since our last message about version 1.2.1 of the firmware, there has been a change from version-based to date-based releases. The changes since version 1.2.1:
- Reduce differences with BlueSCSI fork
- Add platform support for new RP2040-based BlueSCSI V2
- RP2040 platform package upgraded to 1.8.0
- RP2040: Add logging to USB
- RP2040: Bootloader fixes
- Boot delay improvement
- Add copyright notices to ZuluSCSI
- Improve error recovery
- RP2040: Unify platform libraries
- Add support for system presets
- Add helper script and workflow for analyzing crash logs
(dr)
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12.Apr.2023
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Musicdisk: Chipo Django 2
Also released at the Revision Demo Part held last Easter weekend in the "Wild" category was the musicdisc "Chipo Django 2" by Raubenage & Bitshifters Collective cross-platform for Atari STe, Amiga OCS/ECS and Acorn (YouTube video of the Atari STe version), which contains 15 tracks and took sixth place. (dr)
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12.Apr.2023
Sven Scheele (ANF)
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Event: Interface XXXIV in Kiel (Germany) on 29.04.2023
On saturday, April 29 2023, in Schwentinental near Kiel (Germany) the next retro-computing event "Interface" is taking place. Details can be found in our German news-item or at the title link. (snx)
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12.Apr.2023
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Audio player: RNOTunes 1.1 for all Amiga systems
RNOTunes is a GUI based audio player application with support for many different audio formats, embedded cover images, and Last.fm scrobbling (amiga-news.de reported). 'jPV^RNO' now has released version 1.1. Changes:
- Added button graphics previews in the settings window
- Button graphics can be swapped without restarting the program
- Optimised removal/deletion of tunes
- Added an option to hide/show filename extension(s) when a filename is used as a title in the tune list
- Improved filename extension hiding for formats that start with an extension
- Adding new Last.fm users failed if the db directory didn't exist
- The Last.fm scrobbling setting was left enabled if its initialising was cancelled
- Added import support for M3U8, EXTM3U, PLS, WPL, and XSPF playlists
- External playlists can be dragged & dropped into the tune list if they have a common filename extension (the program exports them as .m3u itself)
- Added support for system notifications via MagicBeacon (MorphOS), Ringhio (OS4), and Ranchero (OS3)
- The delete requester is more verbose
- The position slider works better with the mouse wheel
- Keyboard shortcuts can be localised
- Initial fixes/work-arounds/safety-checks for Vampire and BPPC issues
- Added Flat graphics by Highlander
- Improved documentation
- Added an Italian catalog
- Minor tweaking
RNOTunes is available on Aminet. (dr)
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11.Apr.2023
Stef (Mail)
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Web-based image editor: DPaint.js
"DPaint.js" by 'Steffest' is a web-based image editor focusing on Amiga file formats, strongly inspired by the classic DPaint. It is run directly in the browser (works also with the MorphOS browser Wayfarer) and can read and write all kinds of Amiga icons and IFF images. As the developer writes, he developed it mainly because he wanted to have a modern tool for creating Amiga icons with a focus on colour reduction and dithering, to quickly convert modern images into old-school icons, and to edit files on ADF disks directly without having to start an emulator.
Originally intended as a modern icon editor for Amiga icons, the programme developed into a full-fledged image editor with the following main features:
- Fully Featured image editor with:
- Layers
- Selections
- Masking
- Transformation tools
- Effects and filters
- Multiple undo/redo
- Copy/Paste from any other image program or image source
- Customizable dither tools
- Heavy focus on colour reduction with fine-grained dithering options
- Amiga focus:
- Read/write/convert Amiga icon files (all formats)
- Reads IFF ILBM images (all formats including HAM and 24-bit)
- Writes IFF ILBM images (up to 32 colors)
- Read and write directly from Amiga Disk Files (ADF)
- Embedded Amiga Emulator to preview your work in the real Deluxe Paint
The editor is still in alpha stage, the source code is available on GitHub. Both initial documentation and a short introduction video are available. Bug reports and suggestions for further features are welcome. (dr)
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11.Apr.2023
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Game soundtrack: MicroProse Soccer (D4XX Remix)
If the prospect of the upcoming short week is not enough motivation, Bert 'D4XX REMIX' Brüggemann's latest work is highly recommended: his remix of the main theme of the game "MicroProse Soccer" is based on the original music by Martin Galway for the C64 (YouTube video) and its conversion by Barry Leitch for the Amiga version (YouTube video) and already brings some Oktoberfest atmosphere into spring... (dr)
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11.Apr.2023
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Demoparty: The best Amiga demos of the Revision 2023
This year's edition of the Revision 2023 demoparty took place last Easter weekend. Under the title link, pouet.net has published the results lists.
First place in the category "Amiga Demo" won the "Batman Rises" parody "Blood Sugar Rises" by AttentionWhore (YouTube video). Second place went to "Neocolora" by Darkage & Lemon (YouTube video). In third place was "Cycle-Op" by Oxygene (YouTube video).
In the category "Amiga Intro", "Electric lifeforms" by Ghostown took first place (YouTube video). "Griffin" by Nah-Kolor & Offence came in second (YouTube video). Finally, "Sciatica" by Nah-Kolor was voted third (YouTube video). (dr)
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10.Apr.2023
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AmigaOS 4: CPU profiler "Tequila" 1.0
Juha 'capehill' Niemimaki's "Tequila" is a simple CPU profiler which samples current running tasks. At the moment it's not very accurate or feature-rich, but it will detect if some task is using CPU.
Direct download: Tequila-1.0.lha (28 KB) (dr)
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10.Apr.2023
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AmigaOS 4: mySQLcontrol 2.10, myApacheStarter 3.10
mySQLcontrol by Michael Christoph is a database administration and editing program for the mySQL database server under AmigaOS 4. It requires the MySQL database server included in Edgar Schwan's development environment AAMP (and update if necessary).
As the author writes, databases and tables can be created, deleted and changed via a Reaction-based interface. The table structure can also be changed. A SQL-QUERY query can also be used to select, display and edit specific data records. Likewise, a connection to a mySQL server on another computer or on the Internet can be established via the Prefs window.
The current version 2.10 has been recompiled with the current SDK (see also part 1 and part 2 of our "Introduction to the Software Development Kit"), gcc and AAMP libs. Likewise, many of the (SQL) error texts that were previously fixed in the programme have been translated and moved out. The programme can be requested free of charge by filling out the form under the title link.
Michael Christoph has also recompiled his tool myApacheStarter for starting, stopping and configuring the Apache web server with the current SDK and gcc and released it as version 3.10. (dr)
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10.Apr.2023
Mad Hackers Lab (ANF)
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USB-C Power Supply for Amiga announced
At the title link a USB-C-based power supply called "PowerShark" has been announced for Amiga 500, 600 and 1200. Battery-powered USB-C chargers would also be supported, as would magnetic USB-C adapters.
Currently, however, only a text-only description has been published. But with BeamRacer (for the C64) there exists already a purchasable product from Mad Hackers Lab, and a CAD screenshot of the PowerShark is available to amiga-news.de. (snx)
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10.Apr.2023
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: E-mail client Iris 1.11
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 1.11 of Iris, his e-Mail client for MorphOS. Changes include faster refreshes when viewing folders and an updated version of the WebKit engine.
Changes:
- Faster message refresh when viewing a folder - instead of checking the status of all messages, Iris will now check small batches as you scroll
- Faster refreshes of large folders when switching between folders
- Additional message list optimizations and fixes
- Improved scaling of images embedded in email contents in the message writer
- Updated WebKit
Download: iris.lha (21 MB) (snx)
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10.Apr.2023
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Jump'n Run: Boxx 4 released
The developer 'Lemming880' in cooperation with "Retroguru" has released the fourth part of his 'Boxx' series developed with the Scorpion Engine at the currently taking place Revision demo party (amiga-news.de reported). Features:
- 14 finest Amiga chiptunes including Jukeboxx
- Lots of old school pixels
- 3 difficulty levels
- Randomly generated screensavers
- Cheats
A physical version will be available soon. The game was written for OCS Amigas, but runs also under ECS/AGA. (dr)
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10.Apr.2023
Ján Zahurančík (Mail)
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Developer package: DevPack 1.2
The free "DevPack" by Dimitris Panokostas and Philipp Lonke is intended for Amiga users who want to develop their own software under AmigaOS. The new version 1.2 provides the following changes:
- ADDED: AmigaRebol V2 by Carl Sassenrath - the cross platform script language (permission granted by email)
- ADDED: Earok's Blitz Basic Tutorials (finally integrated ;-)) find it in Blitz Basic drawer
- ADDED: EVO 3.5.1 by Darren Coles (permission granted by email)
- ADDED: NDK for OS 3.2R4 (link only)
- ADDED: M68k targets for vbcc with includes for proper work
- UPDATED: AmiBlitz 3.9.9 by Sven Droege and supporters - the open source and enhanced Blitz Basic
- UPDATED: REDPILL 0.9.17 by Zener - a Game Creator with AGA support
- UPDATED: The latest vasm and vlink have been added to FreePascal too
- FIXED: AmosPro installation repaired, now it should really work out of the box
- FIXED: The Path commands from MakeItWork didn't work globally. If you open a shell, path was not added. The "Assign C: path: ADD" is now used that works just fine.
(dr)
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09.Apr.2023
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Aminet uploads until 08.04.2023
The following files have been added until 08.04.2023 to Aminet:
BSDSocket-Extension.lha dev/amos 32K 68k Use bsdsocket.library in AMOS...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 3.1M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 8K 2023 Carset for F1GP
MCE.lha game/edit 3.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.2M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.7M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
NAFCYI1991S1-B01.zip text/bfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B02.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B03.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B04.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B05.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B06.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B07.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B08.zip text/bfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B09.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B10.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B11.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B12.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B13.zip text/bfont 2.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B14.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B15.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B16.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B17.zip text/bfont 2.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B18.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B19.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B20.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B21.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B22.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B23.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B24.zip text/bfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B25.zip text/bfont 2.3M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B26.zip text/bfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B27.zip text/bfont 2.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-B28.zip text/bfont 2.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (BMP Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-01.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-02.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-03.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-04.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-05.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-06.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-07.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-08.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-09.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-10.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-11.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-12.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-13.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-14.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-15.zip text/pfont 2.1M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-16.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-17.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-18.zip text/pfont 1.6M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-19.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-20.zip text/pfont 1.9M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-21.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-22.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-23.zip text/pfont 2.2M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-24.zip text/pfont 1.8M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-25.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-26.zip text/pfont 2.0M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-27.zip text/pfont 1.4M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
NAFCYI1991S1-28.zip text/pfont 2.5M NAFCYI Spring 1991 (PS Fonts)
Avalanche_FR.lha util/arc 7K French catalog for Avalanche 2.1
uuid.lha util/libs 11K 68k UUID librariy and utilities
LilCalendar.lha util/time 3.3M 68k Versatile calender and remind...
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AROS Archives uploads until 08.04.2023
The following files have been added until 08.04.2023 to AROS Archives:
lilcalendar.i386-aros.lha uti/wor 3Mb Calender scheduling and reminder...
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 08.04.2023
The following files have been added until 08.04.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
LUA_MUI.lha Development/LUA LUA_MUI.lha
MCE_14.12.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
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09.Apr.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 08.04.2023
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 08.04.2023:
- 2023-04-08 improved: Tie-Break (Starbyte) option added to remove the 4-player joystick adapter routine, dma wait added in intro (Info)
- 2023-04-08 improved: Pink Panther (reLINE) ButtonWait used to see loading screen, QuitKey for 68000, manual included, new install script (Info)
- 2023-04-08 improved: Nebulus 2: Pogo A Go Go (21st Century) trainers added, manual included (Info)
- 2023-04-08 improved: Fred (UBI-Soft) trainers added, QuitKey for 68000, manual included, new install script (Info)
- 2023-04-08 new: Collection Eureka Maths 6ème/5ème (Génération 5) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-08 new: Collection Eureka Maths 4ème/3ème (Génération 5) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-07 new: Demolition (Anco) done by StingRay (Info)
- 2023-04-06 new: Talking Storybook: The Three Bears (Designing Minds) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-06 new: L'essentiel en Maths Niveau 6ème (Generation 5) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-06 fixed: Simon The Sorcerer (Adventure Soft) better CLI closing at startup, gfx text glitches fixed on fast machines (Info)
- 2023-04-05 new: Billiards Simulator (ERE) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-05 new: Billiards II Simulator (Infogrames) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-05 new: Action Service / Combat Course (Cobra Soft) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-04 new: Murders in Venice (Infogrames) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-04 new: Graffiti Man (Rainbow Arts) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-03 improved: Dangerous Streets (Flair/Micromania) supports AGA and CD32 versions, 68000 quitkey, new install script (Info)
- 2023-04-02 fixed: Mind-Roll (Thalamus) slave is 68000 compatible now, install script updated (Info)
- 2023-04-02 improved: Lionheart (Thalion) more interlace option added, QuitKey from keyboard added if a QuitKey from buttons in port 0/1 is used (Info)
- 2023-04-02 improved: Time Runner (Red Rat) removed black screen, updated install script (Info)
- 2023-04-02 improved: Murders in Space (Infogrames) supports another version, new installs script (Info)
- 2023-04-02 improved: Shadow Sorcerer (TSR/SSI/US Gold) supports another version, manual and solution added (Info)
- 2023-04-02 improved: Screaming Wings (Red Rat) supports another version, fixed soundfx (Info)
- 2023-04-02 improved: Nebulus 2: Pogo A Go Go (21st Century) new imager, manual and icons added (Info)
- 2023-04-02 new: International Soccer Challenge (Red Rat) done by CFou! (Info)
- 2023-04-02 improved: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Capstone) stack relocated, h-key fixed (Info)
- 2023-04-02 new: Scary Mutant Space Aliens from Mars (ReadySoft) done by StingRay (Info)
(snx)
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09.Apr.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Pinball Fantasies - Stones 'n Bones (Haunted Remix)
- Space Harrier Live Performance
- Details Turrican 2 Final Fight Tyros Edition
(snx)
[News message: 09. Apr. 2023, 07:15] [Comments: 0]
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08.Apr.2023
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Mastodon client: Amidon 1.1
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.1 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
- Implemented Profile view
- Updated Readme with more details on the requirements
- Added more icons (GlowIcon, MagicWB, 4-color)
- Eliminated the dependency on the MUI Hyperlink class, as it caused issues with some users and it's not part of the MUI 3.9 package.
- Redesigned the Login process, instead of a link to press on, you now have a copy/paste procedure with buttons to help you.
- Only open the Login window if a server name was provided. Otherwise the link would be empty and there wasn't much of a point.
- Fixed a crash when trying to save settings without having logged in first (Anonymous mode).
(dr)
[News message: 08. Apr. 2023, 05:59] [Comments: 0]
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08.Apr.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Tools 1.10
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. Yesterday version 1.10 of the Greaseweazle Tools was released providing the following changes:
- New diskdef ibm.160
- gw erase: New option --revs=N
- gw read: Fix --retries=0
- MacOS: Explicitly search for CAPS library under /Library/Frameworks
- gw: Minor fixes to flux-to-bitcell conversion
- gw: Disallow abbreviated long option names
- SCP: Fix footer metadata format
(dr)
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08.Apr.2023
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Preview video: Super Metal Hero
At the beginning of 2020, Raster Wizards announced its game "Super Metal Hero". After development was initially frozen in favour of the game Hyper Runner, work on the Jump'N Run has been underway again for some time. A short new preview video shows another boss enemy. (dr)
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07.Apr.2023
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Crowdfunding: Illustrated book "Demoscene - The Logo Art
"Demoscene: the Logo Art" is to be an illustrated book in A4 format that will present demoscene logos from more than three decades on around 400 colour pages and provide background information on the corresponding pixel artists or scene groups. In order to produce the book, 20,000 euros in advance orders must be received by 24 April. A single copy costs 40 euros (plus shipping); there are discounts for larger orders. (cg)
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06.Apr.2023
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Amiga disks on PC: FloppyBridge 1.4
Using Robert Smith's plugin FloppyBridge (video on how it works), emulators like WinUAE and Amiberry can work in real time with real floppy disks. Today he has released version 1.4. Changes since our last news item:
Version 1.4
- Fixed issues with stalling mode not working properly, or not as expected
- Updated stalling mode to work better with diskspare device which seems to be very impatient! (writing is not recommended!)
- Updated the icons for the supported hardware and rendered them transparently
Version 1.3
- Fixed Greaseweazle Drive A/B not selectable properly
- Fixed issue with warning message about diskchange on Greaseweazle always re-appearing
- Fixed Greaseweazle Shugart support. (**Does not support disk change** - it will manually check for disks. A PC Drive is strongly recommended)
- Re-worked the profile listing dialog a little
(dr)
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06.Apr.2023
Amigans (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Shader player Shaderjoy 1.25
Shaderjoy allows displaying and creating Shadertoy compatible fragment shaders. Fragment shaders, also called pixel shaders, are programs that are executed per fragment (pixel) on the GPU.The ogles2.library 3.2 and Warp3D Nova 54.16 are required. Now Juha "Capehill" Niemimaki has released version 1.25. Changes:
- Add keyboard channel. Also remove some keyboard shortcuts to avoid conflicts.
- Add projects files (.sjp) for those example shaders that require textures.
- Replace text buttons with more compact images.
- Show busy pointer during shader compilation.
- Disable uninitialized variable check (in icon) due to glCompileShader issue with some shaders: future ogles2.library should fix this.
- Fix loading of arexx.class.
- Fix busy looping of ChannelWindows.
- Refactor some GUI code.
(dr)
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06.Apr.2023
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Programming: TLS library Crypto Ancienne 2.2
Crypto Ancienne by Cameron Kaiser is a TLS library compatible with pre-C99 C compilers and "geriatric architectures", according to the author. With version 2.2, AmigaOS is now also supported; Crypto Ancienne was tested with ADE with the compiler GCC 2.95.3 as well as the ixemul.library and ixnet.library under AmigaOS 3.9. (snx)
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06.Apr.2023
John Bintz (ANF)
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AMOS Professional: BSD Socket Extension 1.0.1
With the BSD Socket Extension for AMOS Professional by John Bintz AMOS programs can easily access the internet. Originally the author had started his project already in 1998. In several videos he presents this extension in detail.
Download: BSDSocket-Extension.lha (32 KB) (snx)
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05.Apr.2023
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Puzzler: Crazy Columns 1.06
Jochen Hoffer's 'Crazy Columns' (video) ist a clone of Saga's classic 'Columns'. it's been updated to version 1.06, which includes the following changes:
- fixed a gfx glitch when pausing the game in one player mode
- fixed: the samples used in the background tunes were compressed incorretly
- properly emptying the keyboard input buffer now, no more deadlock situations
- updated the includeed PTPlayer to version 6.3
(cg)
[News message: 05. Apr. 2023, 23:58] [Comments: 0]
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05.Apr.2023
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Preview video: Amiga port of Breakthru
After the release of the Wonderboy port (amiga-news.de reported), 'acidbottle' now turns its attention to the next Amiga port of a game: Breakthru was released in 1986 by Data East and is a horizontal shoot'em up in which the player controls an armed military vehicle, making his way through enemy forces - consisting of soldiers, flamethrowers, helicopters, tanks, jeeps etc. - to ultimately recover a stolen fighter plane. - to ultimately recover a stolen fighter plane.
The Amiga port will be available for OCS/ECS and AGA Amigas. Area 1 is almost finished, Area 2 and 3 are currently in progress. As the developer writes, "a couple of in game mechanics need refining and plenty bugs to iron out but is essentially fully functioning and playable." (dr)
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04.Apr.2023
Martina Hřebcová (Mail)
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Report: New CPU for AmigaOne XE (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová is known for her detailed reviews and analyses of PowerPC hardware and among others published three reports about her AmigaOne XE (1, 2, 3).
In the now published article, she describes how she swaps the original XPC7451 CPU, clocked at 800 MHz, for a 7455 CPU operating at 1420 MHz and subjects it to various comparative tests. (dr)
[News message: 04. Apr. 2023, 07:21] [Comments: 0]
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04.Apr.2023
Mastodon
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Mastodon client: Amidon 1.0
Dimitris 'MiDWaN' Panokostas, author of the Amiga emulator Amiberry, has released version 1.0 of his Mastodon client Amidon for AmigaOS 3 (amiga-news.de reported. Requirements:
- AmigaOS 3.x
- AmiSSL 4
- MUI 3.9 or newer
- The following MUI classes:
- Hyperlink.mcc (available in the MUI 4.x and 5.x archives)
- TextEditor.mcc
- BetterString.mcc (required by TextEditor)
- HTMLview.mcc
- codesets.library
- 68020+ CPU
- 8MB RAM
- An internet connection and a TCP/IP stack running (cURL will check for bsdsocket.library on startup). AmiTCP 4, Roadshow or emulators with the bsdsocket.library option enabled will work.
- A web browser will be needed once, for the first time you authenticate your account.
As the developer tells us, the release also serves to be able to find and fix any previously undiscovered problems. He is already working on an update that will add some additional features based on the feedback.
The basic functions are available, but some things are not possible due to the current limitations of MUI in combination with Hollywood. For example, notifications are only displayed as plain text, not HTML. MUI Listviews could not contain complex objects, so some compromises had to be made.
The start-up time on a real Amiga could be improved: it is currently quite slow on a 68060 Amiga at 13 seconds. This and many other problems could be solved if he rewrote the programme in C/C++. But that is something for the future, depending on motivation and time.
Basically, he recommends using MUI 3.9, because HTMLview, the MUI class used to display HTML content in Amidon, has problems with some versions of MUI under AmigaOS 3.x. It does not display content with MUI 4 or 5, so at the moment the client only works properly with MUI 3.9. Basically HTMLview seems to have problems with the display of content behind HTTPS links (e.g. images). MUI 3.8 can also be used, but it has some problems with the display of content in the list views, which is why it is not recommended. (dr)
[News message: 04. Apr. 2023, 06:01] [Comments: 0]
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03.Apr.2023
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Video tutorial: The AMOS commands Jleft, Jright, Jup and Jdown
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains the AMOS commands Jleft, Jright, Jup and Jdown which are required to control a character on the screen using a joystick. (dr)
[News message: 03. Apr. 2023, 06:36] [Comments: 0]
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03.Apr.2023
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Platform game: Video tutorial and download for AMOS game "Hop to the Top!"
To mark the upcoming Easter, Robert Smith - we reported on his various projects such as DrawBridge - wanted to create a platform game in AMOS about rabbits and chocolate eggs that could be controlled with a joystick or keyboard.
In his video tutorial, Smith explains how he programmed or integrated the following steps for "Hop to the Top!":
- Double Buffering / Screen Swap
- Tile-Based Game Engine
- Smooth Vertical Scrolling
- Sprite Animation including AMAL (Amos Animation Language)
- Joystick and Keyboard Input
- Background Rainbow Effects (COPPER)
- Sound Samples
- Game Music
The game including source code can be downloaded free of charge via the video description. (dr)
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02.Apr.2023
Various (ANF)
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Hyperion/Cloanto litigation: judgment in the main lawsuit issued
Cloanto had sued Hyperion in
2017, initially to have a judge declare that the Italian company is the
rightful owner of the "Amiga" mark and that Hyperion neither has the right to
fight this trademark registration nor register similar marks like "AmigaOS"
or "AmigaOne" itself. The lawsuit was later merged with another one inititated by Hyperion, which
also added Amino, Itec and Amiga Inc. as additional parties to the litigation
and expanded the scope of the laswuit to cover issues of breach of contract,
trademark violations and alleged IP theft.
Mike Battilana of Cloanto had attempted to also have his 'C-A Acquisition
Corporation', the entity that acquired the Amiga copyrights
from Amiga Inc. in early 2019, added as another plaintiff to the above
lawsuit. The judge denied this
request, since the motion was filed way too late. A few days later, the
C-A Acquisition Corporation filed its own
lawsuit against Hyperion, but this case is currently frozen until the
main lawsuit has been resolved. Already in 2019, the judge declared that Cloanto lacked
standing to sue Hyperion for breach of the 2009 settlement agreement.
Last tuesday, judge Martinez issued a judgment in the
main litigation between Amino, Itec, Amiga Inc. and Cloanto on one side and
Hyperion on the other. Basically, he declared that none of the four
plaintiffs has any standing to sue Hyperion for any of the alleged violations
raised by them:
- In addition to Cloanto (see above), Amino, Itec and Amiga Inc. can't sue
for breach of contract, since they transferred "all rights [...] including
the right to sue [...] for past infringements" to the C-A Acquisition
Corporation.
- Cloanto's accusation that Hyperion changed copyright notices in their
AmigaOS releases to assign ownership to itself, might be a violation of
copyright - but thanks to a "Non-Aggression Clause" in the 2009
settlement agreement, only the C-A Acquisition Corpoation could hold Hyperion
responsible for that.
- The various alleged violations of trademark rights are considered moot,
partially because Hyperion withdrew its objections to the other parties'
marks and abandoned its own attempts to register trademarks in the US and
partially because the only party that could prosecute trademark violations is
C-A Acquisition Corporation.
If none of the parties object to this ruling, the case would end without
resolving any of the issues between Cloanto/C-A Acquisition and Hyperion.
Judge Martinez simply declared that only C-A Acquisition Corporation - renamed to Amiga Corporation in
the meantime - is entitled to sue Hyperion for breach of contract or violating
trademark rights or Amiga related copyright. Such a case already exists, but
has been stayed until the main litigation discussed here is resolved.
Approached by amiga-news.de, Mike Battilana didn't want to issue a statement
"yet". Hyperion posted a press release
on its website, referring to this judgment as a "sweeping victory".
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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02.Apr.2023
jPV^RNO (E-Mail)
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MorphOS: Article about making backup copies
The Finnish member 'jPV' of the demo group RNO, who is also MorphOS beta tester, has written an article for the article collection "MorphOS Library" of MorphZone at the title link about what to consider if you want to make backup copies of your MorphOS installation. (snx)
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02.Apr.2023
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Aminet uploads until 01.04.2023
The following files have been added until 01.04.2023 to Aminet:
Kp2023-TheNomad.lha demo/sound 685K 68k The Nomad, Music disk by Kp 0...
COP.lha dev/debug 167K 68k Low Level Debugger
libmikmod.i386-aros.lha dev/lib 1.0M x86 Portable sound library (music...
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 3.9M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
TunnelsAndTrolls.lha game/role 18M 68k Implementation of Tunnels & T...
giominostage.lha game/wb 1.1M 68k GI Omino Stage Game
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.6M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.9M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 5.1M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmyStromWiFiSwitch.lha misc/misc 7.6M 68k Control and query the myStrom...
hippoplayerupdate.lha mus/play 391K 68k Updated HippoPlayer
ptplayer.lha mus/play 31K 68k ProTracker player w/ support ...
AppLhA.lha util/arc 29K 68k Tool for unpacking LhA- and L...
avalanche.lha util/arc 104K AOS ReAction unarchive GUI for xf...
avalanche_de.lha util/arc 8K German catalog for Avalanche 2.1
avalanche_guide_de.lha util/arc 8K German translation of Avalanc...
MuFastZero.lha util/boot 158K 68k MuLib ZeroP. remapper, replac...
hasMMU.lha util/cli 24K 68k checks for a working MMU
ADiffView.lha util/misc 130K 68k Graphical ASCII file compare/...
(snx)
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02.Apr.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.04.2023
The following files have been added until 01.04.2023 to OS4Depot:
vasmm68k_mot.lha dev/cro 246kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmm68k_std.lha dev/cro 240kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
vasmppc_std.lha dev/cro 203kb 4.0 Portable and retargetable assembler
nvme_driver.lha dri/sto 24kb 4.1 Device driver for NVMe SSDs
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
animwebconverter.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.0 A web anim tool
avalanche.lha uti/arc 104kb 4.1 Simple ReAction GUI for xadmaster
avalanche_ita.lha uti/arc 6kb 4.0 Italian translation for Avalanche
amystromwifiswitch.lha uti/mis 2Mb 4.0 Control and query the myStrom Wi...
grimoriumpdf.lha uti/tex 4Mb 4.0 PDF viewer written in Hollywood
(snx)
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02.Apr.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.04.2023
The following files have been added until 01.04.2023 to AROS Archives:
rnotunes.i386-aros.lha aud/pla 9Mb Multi-format audio player
libmikmod.i386-aros.lha dev/lib 1002k Portable sound library (music mo...
animwebconverter.lha gra/con 2Mb Easy web tool to convert your ol...
grimoriumpdf.lha uti/tex 3Mb PDF viewer written in Hollywood
(snx)
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02.Apr.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.04.2023
The following files have been added until 01.04.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
AmiArcadia_29.37.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
MCE_14.12b.lha Games/Editor Multi-game Character Ed...
Image2PDF_2.0.lha Graphics/Convert Convert JP(E)Gs and PNG...
AnimWebConverter_5.10.lha Graphics/Tools A little and easy web t...
AmyStromWiFiSwitch_1.2... Misc Control and query the m...
GrimoriumPDF_2.40.lha Office/Show A program made with Hol...
SnoopDos_3.11_68k.lha System/Monitoring SnoopDos_3.11_68k.lha
ADiffView_2.3.lha Text/Compare A graphical file compar...
(snx)
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02.Apr.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 01.04.2023
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 01.04.2023:
(snx)
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02.Apr.2023
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: LUA-MUI - Using the scripting language for GUI and OS functions
Stefan 'Kronos' Kleinheinrich's LUA-MUI makes it possible under MorphOS to use the script language LUA (Wikipedia) also to make OS specific calls, i.e. concerning the graphical user interface, libraries and functions. Some examples are documented in the associated forum post of MorphZone.
Download: LUA_MUI.lha (69 KB) (snx)
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01.Apr.2023
amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: "Monthly Roundup" for March 2023
The blog "Gaming on AmigaOS 4" has again published a monthly summary of all happenings and releases around AmigaOS 4. (cg)
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01.Apr.2023
Apollo Team (ANF)
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Apollo team organises demo competition at "Amiga 38"
The Apollo team is organising a demo competition at the "Amiga 38" (7 October, Mönchengladbach). Demo coders can demonstrate their skills in three categories (A500, A1200, Apollo Standalone):
Participants should apparently register in advance by e-mail with Arne von Boehn. According to the organiser, there are "amazing prizes and eternal fame" to be won. (cg)
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01.Apr.2023
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Snake clone: AmiSnakes (beta)
"AmiSnakes" (video) is a Snake clone for one or two players that offers scrolling playfields, a story mode and two-player duels via split screen. The current beta version can be downloaded free of charge. In the final version, better graphics are to be used, and the "Game Over" screen and the credits at the end of the game are still missing. (cg)
[News message: 01. Apr. 2023, 23:22] [Comments: 0]
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31.Mar.2023
Frank Wille (ANF)
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Portable assembler: vasm V1.9c
Frank Wille has updated his portable and retargetable assembler vasm to version 1.9c. AmigaOS 3, 4 and MorphOS as well as TOS, MiNT and Windows are supported. Changes of version 1.9b and 1.9c:
- Fixed a rare expression evalulation bug. Previous versions may erroneously evaluate "label - equate" as constant, when the equate is something like "currentPCsymbol - label".
- Allow a label definition on the same line as a section directive and warn about it.
- Macro arguments were lost at the second repeat-level inside a macro.
- Syntax modules warn about garbage characters in the operand field, when the mnemonic doesn't take any operand.
- No longer cut symbol names in a wide-format listing file after 31 chars.
- Error messages on macros and repetitions now always include the real source file name and line number in parentheses.
- Directives for printing expressions into the console (printv, echo, etc.) now print undefined symbols as "<undefined>+offset".
- New output module "gst" for GST object files (Atari, GST-assembler, Devpac).
- New output file format "dri" for Atari M68k DRI object files.
- m68k: Experimental Apollo TEX instruction, using a simplified syntax after a proposal of John H.
- m68k: Apollo extended/compressed Bcc.B displacements in the range of -256 to 254.
- m68k: MOVEQ.L suppresses any warning about an out of range operand.
- m68k: Allow any size-extension for MOVEQ in Devpac-compatibility mode.
- m68k: Fixed a string-buffer conflict introduced in V1.9a, which occurs when using local symbols in the label field and operand field together with some cpu-specific directives, like EQUR, REG, etc.
- m68k: Optimize small data label in 020 base displacement to a 16-bit offset, or even to (d16,An) when the index is suppressed, provided that options -sd and -extsd have been given.
- 6502: Some mnemonics could be misdetected as implied addressing mode when option -i was given: asl, asr, lsr, rol, ror. 45GS02: aslq, asrq, deq, inq, lsrq, rolq, rorq. WDC02: dec, inc.
- mot-syntax: Do not allow a section with the same name and same type, but with different memory attributes.
- mot-syntax: New option -nolocpfx to disable local symbols by label- prefix (usually '.').
- mot-syntax: ELIF directive implements a real else-if.
- mot-syntax: Export equate symbols with double-colon in vasm-native mode.
- std-syntax: Fixed an issue caused by the introduction of one-digit temporary labels in V1.9a. Labels beginning with _f or _b were misdetected as forward/backward references to such labels.
- std-syntax: Added missing .elseif directive.
- oldstyle-syntax: All byte-directives (byt, byte, dfb, etc.) increment the pc by one without any operand. All word-directives (wor, wrd, word, etc.) increment the pc by two without any operand. Similar to a "declare storage" directive.
- oldstyle-syntax: Whitespace between a label and its colon are allowed again.
- hunk-output: Warn about inability of Kickstart 1.x to initialize BSS sections greater than 256k.
- bin-output: ORIC file names in the tape header are limited to 15 characters and a ".tap" extension is removed automatically.
- bin-output: Added support for the PGX and PGZ format, used by 65816- based C256 Foenix computers.
- tos-output: Support DRI-format object files. New option: -Fdri.
(cg)
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31.Mar.2023
commodore.news (Webseite)
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PDF magazine: RetroMagazine World, issue 18
Available in Italian and English editions, "RetroMagazine World" is dedicated to all topics related to retro computing. The English issue18 is a translation of the Italian issue 40, which was published in November 2022. It includes a test report on the Amiga game "Mision La Luna" and a look back at the release of "Maniac Mansion" 35 years ago. (cg)
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30.Mar.2023
Willem Drijver (Apollo team) (ANF)
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Video: ApolloBoot Omni 9.1 released
ApolloBoot is a preconfigured utility for easier installing and booting of several operating systems from different AmigaOS variants over AROS to Atari TOS and Mac OS on FPGA turbo boards with Apollo core.
Free for all registered users version 9.1 has now been released, at the title link it is presented in a video by Willem Drijver. (snx)
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30.Mar.2023
Simon Neumann (e-mail)
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LookBehindYou is looking for authors for German book about AmigaOS 3.2
Publisher LookBehindYou is looking for further authors for a planned German AmigaOS 3.2 book (amiga-news.de reported). Applicants should be well acquainted with AmigaOS 3.2 and its updates and should enjoy writing. Payment will be based on the delivered pages.
Applicants please contact the following e-mail address: info@lookbehindyou.de. (snx)
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30.Mar.2023
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.0 (x86)
"AROS One", a distribution based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0, is now available in version 2.0 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as DVD ISO file or as USB flash image at the title link, where you can also find video recordings.
Besides updates of the included programs and games as well as bug fixes, a new set of pictograms is also included. The changes in detail:
- Update AROS One OS System:
- Create New Set Icons System AfA One Style for the Whole Operating System
- Create number 6 Installer for Set Icons Disk
- Create nuber 4 Installer for Set Icons System
- Create Catalog.italian for ZunePaint
- Fix Theme OS4
- Fixed Theme Pearl Blue
- Fixed GIF Animations
- Add New Pointer 32 Bit
- filesysbox.library 54.3
- smb2-handler 53.1
- nvidianet.device 1.1
- Create def_icons for Source file with c, c++, h, o extension
- Create Descriptor webp.datatype, now also recognizes "webp" files without extension
- Update GCC 6.5
- C ++ is not yet available, it will be soon
- Add info version Aros One on (About)
- Add info version Aros One on Barra Wanderer
- New Logo Installer Aros One
- All third-party software is now located in the "Extras/APPS" Folder
- SMB2 tutorial for setting up a share with Windows, find all the Extras/Internet/SMB2
- Create Set Disk.info for SMB2 volume, they will insntall with one click, after creating the share volume
- Create two new Directories in SYS:System "Hardware" and "Debug" which includes the dedicated software
- Update AROS One Apps:
- ComicOn 1.4
- HollyPaint 1.1
- Exutil 1.1.3
- Image2PDF 1.3
- Update WHDLoad 18.8 for WHD_MENU
- MUIInspector 1.0
- Asplit 2.03
- Zip HWP 1.2 (PlugIn Hollywood)
- XML HWP 2.0 (PlugIn Hollywood)
- Fenachistoscopio 1.0
- WebpTools 1.3.0
- RPN Scientific+ 1.02
- SMB2-handler 53.4
- Filesysbox.library 54.3
- Image2PDF 1.4
- Lunapaint 0.6.0
- AnimPlayer 2.4
- IconClone 1.9
- InstallerLG 1.0.2
- DirList 1.1
- IconClone 1.09 Update
- Vintage Song Player 2.50
- AmiSSL 4.12
- Videntium Picta 2.60
- AmiTube 1.4
- Tipografia 1.2
- V.A.M.P. 3.0
- AnimWebConverter 5.10
- Update AROS One Games:
- OpenTyrian
- 1941-ExtremeDeluxe
- LazSokoban
- Added three skins for LazSokoban and a script for choosing the skin
- Update Hle Poker Card (Final Version)
- BOFH
- TecnoballZ
- Update Core ABIv0 20201110:
- Display free video memory in SysMon where supported (Kalamatee)
- Initial work on supporting 3D acceleration in VMWare video driver (Kalamatee)
- Implemented network driver for certain nVidia chipsets (Neil)
- Initial work on scsi.device (Kalamatee)
- Signal CxObject support implemented (Hakan Thorngren)
- Support PUBSCREEN argument in Prefs/Appearance, BoingIconBar (Kalamatee)
- Support PUBSCREEN argument in Tools/Clock and multiple Prefs applications (Hakan Thorngren)
- Support PUBSCREEN variable support in intuition.library (o1i)
- Improvements to rendering screen and window title bars (Kalamatee)
- Allow video drivers to report display change (Kalamatee)
- Prefs/IControl works better on low-resolution screens (Kalamatee)
- Set overscan based on information coming from driver (Kalamatee)
- Prefs/ScreenMode display more information about video modes (Kalamatee)
- Prefs/Palette reworked to be more compatible with Intuition (Kalamatee)
- Muimaster.library and built-in classes have been localized (Matthias Rustler)
- Initial work on supporting long filenames in afs-handler (Kalamatee)
- Palette preferences are now loaded into Intuition (Kalamatee)
- Implemented SetMem, Strlcat, Strlcpy in utility.library (Kalamatee)
- Implemented VSNPritnf in utility.library (Matthias Rustler)
- AmigaPL font collection added (wawa)
- Implemented GetKey, AddKBInt, RemKBInt, ElapsedTime in lowlevel.library (Kalamatee)
- Part of functionality of SystemControlA in lowlevel.library available (Kalamatee)
- Additional font collections added (Kalamatee)
- Initial implementation of GetSegListInfo in dos.library (Kalamatee)
- Allow loading AmigaOS-style hunk keymaps and fonts on AROS (Kalamatee)
- Implemented AssignAddToList in dos.library (Kalamatee)
- Implemented v45 datatypes.library functions (Kalamatee)
- Introduced webp.datatype (Kalamatee)
- Introduced ClockSource subsystem in Kernel (Kalamatee)
- Improvements to file system handling in Wanderer (Bo Kopperud)
- Public SDK not longer exposes internal AROS headers & libraries (deadwood)
(snx)
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30.Mar.2023
Chris Young (Mail)
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 2.1 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young's Avalanche is a ReAction-based graphical user interface for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. With the jump to version 2.1, the developer not only gives the tool a new look, but also introduces simple editing of LhA/Zip archives (Zip requires zip.library - only under AmigaOS 4). The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2.1, but has also tested it under AmigaOS 4. Changes:
- New browser mode, removed old hierarchical browser.
- Select/Clear/Invert selection now act on the current directory and all subdirectories when in the new browser mode.
- Basic editing of (LhA, Zip) archives (Zip needs zip.library - OS4 only)
- Create new (LhA, Zip) archives
The source code is available on GitHub. (dr)
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29.Mar.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Disk magazine: Old Power-Brei issues downloadable at Amiga Future (German)
At the title link the issues 1-6 as well as 9-20 of the German-language floppy disk magazine Power-Brei are downloadable, the Amiga Future editors would be grateful for receiving the missing floppy disks as well.
Power-Brei magazine was first published in June 1990, founded by Stefan Kremer and Alexander Carbin, as third senior editor and publisher finally Sven Drieling joined the editorial board. In June 1999 a cooperation with amiga-news.de came about through him. Sven Drieling our news-site owes, beyond the editorial work started at that time, especially many years of extensive programming and maintenance work. (snx)
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29.Mar.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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Video: Background story of the game "Ring around the World"
"Ring around the World" is a point'n'click adventure game about a supposedly drowned man with memory loss, which is also one of three test games for the AMOS Layers System by the same author.
At the title link as well as in a video Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua describes the beginnings of the game, which go back to 1994, as well as the further development history. (snx)
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28.Mar.2023
Indie Retro News (website)
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Arcade conversion: Shoot'em Up 'Xevious' (Beta)
Xevious is a vertical scrolling shoot'em up released by Namco in 1982. Jean-François 'jotd' Fabres is currently working on an Amiga conversion (video), which requires an AGA Amiga. A current beta version can be downloaded from his website for free or for a small donation. (cg) (Translation: snx)
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28.Mar.2023
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.3
"AmiFox" displays modern web pages on an Amiga by downloading and displaying pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). Version 0.3 brings various minor changes which, according to the author, are mainly intended to increase the ease of use of the browser:
- Copy Text from selected webpage (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
- Copy Clipboard from Server (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
- IFF Format (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
- send longer texts to page (needs texteditor.mcc)
- Mouse wheel support
- Shift cursor up/down send as Page up/Down (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
- Error message when Datatype could not load image
- send Youtube URLs to AmiTube
- send Google Maps and OpenStreetmap positions to Mapparium
- AROS Version atm i386 and 64bit ABIv11
- Read URL at Mouse position
- direct download of catched URL at mouse position
- save Webpage Image
- Copy/Paste URL
(cg) (Translation: snx)
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27.Mar.2023
Amigans Forum (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: NVMe device driver for SSD
Besides his audio driver for Intel HD Audio (amiga-news.de reported), Harald Kanning has now started developing a NVMe device driver for SSDs and has released the first version 53.1 under the title link.
As the author explained, "is short for 'Non-Volatile Memory express'. It's basically a transfer protocol for attachment of mass storage to a computer.
Unlike SATA, NVMe is specifically designed for solid state flash memory. There is no separate storage controller. Instead, the NVMe SSD is directly connected to the PCIe bus through an M.2 slot.
None of the current NG systems offer a M.2 slot directly on the mainboard. But since an NVMe M.2 slot is basically a PCIe x4 slot with a different form-factor, we can use a widely available passive PCIeM.2 adapter card.
These adapter cards are available with a PCIe x1 or PCIe x4 connector. Don't use the adapter cards with multiple M.2 slots because they will not work.
The driver was tested on an AmigaOne X5000 and in the x4 slot with the following drives:
- Samsung 970 EVO 1TB
- WD Black SN770 1TB
For this, the developer has provided a few first benchmarks:
p50x0SATA.device: Samsung 840 SSD 120GB
- Copy 1GB file from RAM: to NGFS/01: 51.5MB/s (20.4 sec)
- Copy 1GB file from NGFS/01 to RAM : 98.9MB/s (10.6 sec)
nvme.device: Samsung 970 EVO SSD 1TB
- Copy 1GB file from RAM: to NGFS/01: 129.5MB/s (8.1 sec)
- Copy 1GB file from NGFS/01 to RAM : 152.0MB/s (6.9 sec)
- Copy 1GB file from RAM: to SFS/02 : 327.7MB/s (3.2 sec)
- Copy 1GB file from SFS/02 to RAM : 233.0MB/s (4.5 sec)
(dr)
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27.Mar.2023
AmiKit (Twitter)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12.1 for Raspberry Pi and Windows/Mac/Linux
About 10 days ago AmiKit released version 12.0 of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE (amiga-news.de reported). Yesterday a hotfix was made available with version 12.1, which among other things adds AmiSSL 5.8 and now enables an installation of AmigaOS 3.2.2 via Morpheuz, which previously failed if AmiKit already ran with AmigaOS 3.2.1. Likewise, opening files with RabbitHole apps via double-click now works again under Windows/Mac/Linux. Detailed changelogs for Windows/Mac/Linux and Raspberry Pi 4/400. (dr)
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26.Mar.2023
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Tutorial: Installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU 8
QEMU is an open-source computer emulator and virtualiser. This means you can functionally simulate computers or provide virtual systems that replicate the functionality of a real system. QEMU is able to emulate a complete computer in software without the need to support hardware virtualisation. So it is also possible to emulate Amiga operating systems like AROS, AmigaOS or MorphOS on QEMU. This is provided by the developer Zoltan Balaton who shares many information and tips on his webeite. In the middle of 2021, Amiga-News.de had a closer look at the installation of MorphOS under QEMU 6.
Recently the first release candidate of QEMU 8 was published. What has changed importantly from the Amiga point of view?
- via-ac97: Basic implementation of audio playback via VIA southbridge chip (for the first time it is possible to use the sound support of the via-ac97 directly under the Pegasos-2 emulation)
- sm501: Implemented more 2D raster operations (added simple implementation for two raster operations used by AmigaOS 4.1 to fix graphics problems in some programs like IBrowse).
- Fix PCI interrupt routing: Fix PCI interrupts within the Pegasos 2 emulation under Linux, MorphOS and AmigaOS. This now makes it possible for the first time to activate and use network support via the RTL8139 driver under AmigaOS 4.1
Our reader Rene Engel, in collaboration with Zoltan Balaton, has produced an installation guide for AmigaOS 4.1 under QEMU 8, which he has kindly made available for publication and which will be refined and adapted over time:
1. Preparations
1.1 What is required?
The CD must be available as ISO file, which can easily be done under Windows, for example, with the free tool ImgBurn.
AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 and AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 are also required, which can be downloaded free of charge from the Hyperion Entertainment website after registering and entering the CD key supplied. Since owners of the AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition do not have access to the AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 anymore, you would have to find another way to get the required files. Alternatively, you could also buy the AmigaOS 4.1 Sam460 version: this also contains the files.
- QEMU 8: currently no finished builds are available there (you have to compile them yourself).
Under macOS, the package manager Homebrew and Xcode should be installed beforehand, as described in this article. You can then install QEMU via the terminal as follows:
brew install Qemu
Until finished builds for macOS with Apple chips are available, it is necessary to compile the source code yourself. With the release of the final version of QEMU 8, Homebrew will also have adapted its packages to the new version 8.0. Currently, all versions up to and including Qemu 7.2 can be downloaded and installed there.
- Flash Update für Pegasos 2
Download the file "up050404" either from the bplan homepage (only working under macOS with "Save as...") or via Wayback Machine. The file "extract_rom_from_updater" (direct download) is available on the Qmiga project page and is needed to extract a Pegasos2.rom from it. There is also a description of how to use the "updater".
- an unarchiving tool that can unpack LHA-packed files, such as 7-zip. There are similar tools for Linux and macOS that can do this.
- the freeware tool UltraISO (Windows), a tool that can open and edit ISO files. There are also similar tools for Linux and macOS that can do this.
1.2. Creating a QEMU hard disk image
Via Console/Shell/Terminal under Windows/Linux/Mac:
Qemu-img create –f raw hd.img 2G
2G here stands for 2 gigabyte hard disk size and can be individually adjusted depending on how large the virtual hard disk is to become. For the beginning, I recommend not going higher than 2GB. Important: to create the hd.img, you must be in the QEMU directory.
1.3 Adaptation of the installation medium
Before we can boot with the Pegasos 2 emulation under QEMU, the installation medium must be adapted. First you should unpack the archives "AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2" and "AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3" and search in the unpacked folder for the file "PCIGraphics.card" in the folder Content/Kickstart or for the file "siliconmotion502.chip" in the folder Files_Sam460ex/Kickstart.
Now copy the files "siliconmotion502.chip" and "PCIGraphics.card" to your AmigaOS 4.1 FE Pegasos2InstallCD.ISO with the help of UltraIso into the directory /System/Kickstart. Then you only have to open the file "Kicklayout" in the Kickstart and /System/Kickstart folders with a text editor and add the following line without "":
- for the Kicklayout in Kickstart directory: "MODULE System/Kickstart/siliconmotion502.chip"
- for thw Kicklayout in System/Kickstart directory: "MODULE Kickstart/siliconmotion502.chip"
Save the changes under UltraIso. The bootloader should not be affected by the changes and the Pegasos2InstallCD.ISO should still be bootable.
2. Booting QEMU
This is a pure basic command line to be able to boot from the Pegasos2InstallCD.ISO under QEMU. The paths to pegasos2.rom, hd.img and also to Pegasos2InstallCD.iso must be adjusted accordingly. Make sure you are in the QEMU directory and type in the following command line:
qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -M pegasos2 /
-bios /pfad/zum/pegasos2.rom / -vga none / -device sm501 /
-drive if=none,id=cd,file=/pfad/zum/Pegasos2InstallCD-53.54.iso,format=raw /
-device ide-cd,drive=cd,bus=ide.1 /
-drive if=none,id=hd,file=/pfad/zu/eure/hd.img,format=raw /
-device ide-hd,drive=hd,bus=ide.0 /
-device rtl8139,netdev=net0 /
-netdev user,id=net0 /
-rtc base=localtime / -serial stdio
Under MacOs, the line -display cocoa or -display sdl must also be entered, otherwise no window will open. If everything has worked, QEMU welcomes you with the Pegasos2 SmartFirmware.
Now simply enter the following command:
boot cd amigaboot.of
The SmartFirmware should now boot AmigaOS 4.1. The installation of AmigaOS 4.1 will then proceed as usual: partition the hard disk, install the boot loader, etc.
Important: AmigaOS 4.1 FE can currently only be installed and booted on FFS-formatted virtual hard disks. Partitions with the file system SFS will not be registered under AmigaOS 4.1 for Pegasos 2 (the problem is already being investigated). An illustrated pdf instruction can be found on the pages of Amedia Computer France.
After the installation on your virtual hard disk and after ejecting the installation CD (ISO), the command
boot hd:0 amigaboot.of
under the SmartFirmware to boot from your virtual hard disk:
For some reason, which is not yet known, the first boot process after installation starts in Pal-LowRes mode and there is incorrect screen display. However, the problem can be easily solved by simply calling System/Prefs/Screenmode and selecting a 16-bit screen there.
3. Conclusion
I am unbelievably positively surprised at how fast the whole thing runs and also 2D accelerated. I didn't know anything like that from other emulators before. Not everything runs perfectly yet, but at least the everyday things can already be used under AmigaOS 4.1. On 16 bit, the screen resolution is limited to 1440x900 and there is no 3D acceleration. In this YouTube video I show the general usability of the Workbench under the Pegasos 2 emulation: playing mp3 files, multitasking, loading times and displaying folders with many files, etc.
The biggest thanks go to BALATON Zoltan who programmed the whole thing for us and in his spare time. Without him it would never have been possible! I hope you have fun testing! If you get stuck at any point, please write a comment and ask your questions.
This was tested extensively under macOS 13.2.1 with Apple M1 Max. However, it should be just as possible under Linux and Windows, albeit in a slightly modified form. (dr)
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26.Mar.2023
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Aminet uploads until 25.03.2023
The following files have been added until 25.03.2023 to Aminet:
AmiGemini.lha comm/net 239K AOS Gemini, Spartan, Gopher + Fin...
COP.lha dev/debug 167K 68k Low Level Debugger
MuForce.lha dev/debug 325K 68k V40 Enforcer,detect illegal R...
MuGuardianAngel.lha dev/debug 347K 68k detect accesses to non-alloca...
OsGrind.lha dev/debug 30K 68k Configurable Os argument checker
SegTracker.lha dev/debug 17K 68k A global SegList tracking uti...
eurochamp.lha docs/misc 247K Soccer Euro Champs 1960-2020 ...
worldcup.lha docs/misc 655K Statistics of World Cups 1930...
PcmciaCD.lha driver/med 11K 68k ATAPI PCMCIA CD driver Sony Vaio
F1GP2023Carset.lha game/data 8K 2023 Carset for F1GP
gse.lha game/edit 17K 68k Editor for Gunship2000 roster...
MCE.lha game/edit 3.6M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 4.1M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
Gunship.jpg game/hint 375K A500/2000 Gunship Keyboard Ov...
PhotoMosaic.lha gfx/misc 2.9M 68k Make Photo Mosaic from photo ...
AmiSSL-5.8-OS3.lha util/libs 3.4M 68k OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.8-OS4.lha util/libs 3.1M OS4 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
AmiSSL-5.8-SDK.lha util/libs 2.3M AOS OpenSSL as an Amiga shared li...
MMULib.lha util/libs 786K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 7.3M 68k Versatile Amiga Testprogram
(snx)
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26.Mar.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 25.03.2023
The following files have been added until 25.03.2023 to OS4Depot:
amissl-sdk.lha dev/mis 2Mb 4.0 SDK for AmiSSL
petsciirobots.lha gam/act 2Mb 4.1 PETSCII Robots ported to SDL
terri-fried.lha gam/mis 2Mb 4.1 Everyone is dead except for... a...
unext.lha gam/pla 26Mb 4.1 Super Mario Clone!
vanillara.lha gam/str 4Mb 4.1 Red Alert/VanillaRA V1.1 Port fo...
vanillatd.lha gam/str 3Mb 4.1 Tiberian Dawn/VanillaTD V1.1 Por...
mce.lha gam/uti 4Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
amissl.lha lib/mis 3Mb 4.0 OpenSSL as an Amiga shared library
amigemini.lha net/bro 239kb 4.0 Gemini, Spartan, Gopher + Finger...
nm2mw.lha uti/mis 2kb 4.0 NewMouse events into native IECL...
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb 4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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26.Mar.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 25.03.2023
The following files have been added until 25.03.2023 to AROS Archives:
photomosaic.lha aud 3Mb Make Photo Mosaic from photo col...
eurochamp.lha doc/mis 247kb statistics euro soccer 1960-2020
worldcup.lha doc/mis 655kb Soccer World Cup statistics 1930...
lightwave_quick_guide.zip doc/tut 113Mb Video Tuttorial for Lightwave 3d...
tecnoballz.i386-aros.zip gam/puz 3Mb brick breaking game.
icon_pack_app_kensv4.lha gra/ico 168kb application drawer icon kens v4
vamp.lha vid/pla 2Mb Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 25.03.2023
The following files have been added until 25.03.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
MaestrixReloaded_2.1.lha Audio/Drivers The Maestrix 2: Reloade...
Terri-Fried.lha Games/Misc Everyone is dead except...
PhotoMosaic_1.0.lha Graphics/Misc Make Photo Mosaic from ...
AmiTube_1.4.lha Multimedia The first YouTube Clien...
VAMP_3.05.lha Multimedia A Multimedia Player pro...
AmiSSL_5.8-68k.lha Network/SSL OpenSSL as an Amiga sha...
SnoopDos_3.11_68k.lha System/Monitoring SnoopDos_3.11_68k.lha
Pegasos.zip Videos Video of Pegasos by The...
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26.Mar.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 25.03.2023
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 25.03.2023:
- 2023-03-25 improved: Spellbound (Psygnosis) RawDIC imager used, decruncher relocated in fastmem, save hiscores, trainer added, 68000 quitkey, icons, hits and manual (Info)
- 2023-03-23 improved: Ghouls'n'Ghosts (Capcom/U.S.Gold) supports another version, 2nd button support, 68000 quitkey, icons and solution added (Info)
- 2023-03-19 improved: Body Blows (Team 17) countdown color fixed (Info)
(snx)
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26.Mar.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Midnight Resistance Live Performance
- Wild West World (Sunset Calm remix)
- Final Hyperbase a Live Performance
- Wild West World
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26.Mar.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Elbox: pci.library 13.14
At the title link Elbox have released an update of their pci.library for owners of the PCI busboard Mediator. Information on changes in version 13.14 is not available. (snx)
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26.Mar.2023
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 144 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
Amiga-related, the current issue is about "Enemy: Tempest of Violence (V2)", "Frontier: Elite II" and "OnEscapee". (snx)
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26.Mar.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 137 of Amiga Future readable online
The German and English issue 137 (March/April 2019) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher. (snx)
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25.Mar.2023
Twitter
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Music tip: Track "Amiga" by LukHash
'LukHash' is a musician from Edinburgh in Scottland. He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." His latest track "Amiga" can be listened and bought under the title link from a supplier of choice. He hopes to take the audience "on a magical journey back to the golden age of home video gaming". (dr)
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25.Mar.2023
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AmiTube 1.4: YouTube client for all Amiga systems
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. They are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded.
As the developer wrote on his website, "the biggest enhancement is the Search by ID window for easier handling of YouTube URLs (YouTube video).
A second improvement is the self made AREXX Port for AROS which make it possible to send URLs from AmiFox to AmiTube when you are on a Youtube Video page. (all other platforms had it before already."
The current version can be downloaded from the AmiTube website or installed via the update check in AmiTube. (dr)
[News message: 25. Mar. 2023, 07:30] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2023
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Website application: The virtual Hippoplayer
It all started at the end of 2009, when Spot created aSCIIaRENa as a website for the ASCII scene, which underwent a complete relaunch in 2021 with the help of 'Burps', 'Nicomen', 'Phantasm' and 'Ziphoid'.
Later came other ideas, they wanted to clone the number one ASCII tool, CygnusED, as CED for the web as a way to co-op on ASCII collys similar to how google docs works, but in a CED environment, Fred and Phiwer was brought into the team to write CED. It is available in alpha state now.
When making ASCII you need to listen to Amiga music of course, a prototype clone of Hippoplayer (HiP) was written by Stalvik, but it got scrapped early on.
In a next step of this exciting journey of the project, TAWS developer Michael Rupp was asked to use his Amiga Workbench simulation for browsers for the project. At that time HippoPlayer used the Bassoon tracker's playback routine as backend, work-in-progress was the conversion to a better backend by Jürgen Wothke based on UADE, which supports a variety of Amiga formats (some of them very exotic) due to the Paula emulation included in it. The graphical user interface was already very close to the original HiP 68k, the behavior of the windows was still quite rudimentary compared to TAWS.
It soon became apparent that it was more expedient to not only use Michael Rupp's assistance, but to completely hand over the implementation in TAWS to him, since the GUI was completely rewritten based on his TAWS classes.
Parallel to this it happened that K-P Koljonen had resumed the further development of HippoPlayer for Amiga in 2021 (amiga-news.de reported) and it was agreed that their webclone should become official with K-P Koljonen’s blessing.
In close cooperation between the author of the mod player and Michael Rupp, the original GUI was studied and rebuilt down to the smallest detail for the web implementation. Care was taken to ensure that the two HippoPlayers are compatible, i.e. that playlists can be exchanged. No matter which version created the playlist, the other one can read it.
Thanks to the UHC tools by Patrik Axelsson and David Eriksson, HiP can now access Internet sources directly. The UHC server and its search API is also used for searching in HiP-TAWS. This makes compatible playlists possible, because if local files on the Amiga hard disk were referenced, this would not be possible otherwise.
In this context, one of the new features is the published playlists, which can be found in the "Playlists" folder. Through the Amiga remix search it should then also be possible to play MP3s, but the existing backend was only for the various tracker formats, but not for normal audio files like MP3, WAV, etc.. So Michael Rupp developed this himself. Now it is possible to play all formats including all audio files via this one player class. When HiP finally supported internet radio streaming, a streaming backend was added.
The scopes (graphical representation of what was heard) were also quite elaborate. In addition to the original HippoScope, RuppScope was created as a separate scope option by reverse-engineering.
The site was first published at workbench.asciiarena.se/, and the other existing projects were integrated as iFrame applications by the "aSCIIaRENa" people: AmIRC, NComm and the demos under Work:Demos. AmIRC and NComm is in early alpha stage and their names will probably be changed later on.
The IBrowse implementation was done by Michael Rupp himself and is intended as a homage to the Amiga browser, which its author, Oliver Roberts, took good note of when we pointed it out. In contrast to the original, the online version of course only handles a fraction.
aSCIIaRENA can still be reached through https://www.asciiarena.se if you prefer that instead of viewing it in the iBrowse clone at https://www.hippoplayer.se.
When HippoPlayer became more and more central, the alias address hippoplayer.se/ was added. The UADE backend alone already supports about 300 formats, as Wothke had developed (and continues to develop) more backends, and made them available as open source. So more were integrated, whereby currently about 500 formats are supported. More will follow. (dr)
[News message: 25. Mar. 2023, 06:40] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2023
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.13
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be ordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
Yesterday, the new firmware version 1.13 was released, which mainly provides stability improvements. In addition to the firmware, the driver package (LHA) must also be updated. The changes:
- Fix Z3 autoconfig issues incl. RAM on first boot
- Improve ethernet to amiga irq
- Fix ethernet freeze on NetShutdown
- Fix scaled sprite and split position
- Fix split panning
- Fix 320x200 mode
- Fix 15bit mode for real (remove hack)
- Add 1920x800 video mode
- MHI/AHI mutually exclusive checks by Tom W.
(dr)
[News message: 25. Mar. 2023, 06:29] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.6.0
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.
A few moments ago, version 5.6.0 has been released. Changes:
Bugfixes
- Fix "default" button setting not fully enabling CD32 pad mode when CD32 was configured.
- Detection of hotplug controllers didn't work after 5.4
- Restart would cause crashes sometimes
- fixed controller axis should be separate from joystick axis handling
- memory pattern would cause graphics glitches in some cases
- virtual keyboard now works with CD32 mode as well
- fixed crash if something triggered a CPU HALT3
- fixed various compiler warnings
- revert custom, blitter and drawing to WinUAE 4.4.0 standard
- 50Hz scroll was not smooth
- improve scrolling smoothness under 50Hz
- Don't use SDL_Quit until we actually quit Amiberry
Improvements
- Implemented On-Screen Virtual Keyboard
- Added VKBD default toggle key
- added VKBD retroarch mapping support
- updated game controllers db to latest version
- Clean up filesystem and bsdsocket emulation earlier.
- cherry picked recent updates from dev
- add SDL2 version in logfile
- Rewrite Serial port support, using libserialport - this also adds a new build requirement
- Disk - Check raw write buffer index, removed debugging.
- refactored input event handling to minimize latency
- removed unreachable code
- decrease mouse map sensitivity on joystick handling
- added more logging during retroarch event handling
- refactored controller input logic
- refactored atomic operations, moved byteswap functions
- added new default options in amiberry.conf
- GUI improvements
- added Warp reset option in Misc Panel
- implemented turbo boot option
- added 1024x600 RTG resolution
- minimize diffs from dev branch
- allow on-the-fly change of virtual mouse driver
- add RK3588 platform in Makefile
- increased width of dropdowns in Input Panel
- minor speedup improvements after recent changes
- a few more minor speed optimizations
- automatically center GUI window when opening
- Updated WHDLoad XML to latest version
Build System
- renamed zip archive from ubuntu to debian
- trigger builds on dev branch and pull requests also
- add automated builds for RK3399 Manjaro platform
- added missing parser.cpp in Android and CMakeLists
- switch from Docker to self-hosted builds again
- added missing Virtual Keyboard file in CMakeLists also
(dr)
[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 20:17] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga V2.4 beta 1
Dirk Hoffmann continues working on his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and now has released the first beta version of v2.4. Changes:
Enhancements:
- Improved thread synchronization (Adaptive sync)
- Warp boot support
- Code cleanup
The minimum system requirement for his emulator has been raised to macOS 11.0. Since the developer has left the "Apple Developer Program" ("too expensive"), the app is no longer certified. This means that from now on a warning will be displayed when the app is started. (dr)
[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 17:59] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20201110-2
In mid-February AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz released version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). Today's second release contains some changes and bug fixes (release notes). (dr)
[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 16:15] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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Video tutorial: The AMOS commands Load IFF, Get Icon and Paste Icon
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains the AMOS commands Load IFF, Get Icon and Paste Icon, which he uses to load in graphics for buttons from an IFF file, and use those buttons in a program. (dr)
[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 06:17] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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m68k assembly: "Amiga Assembly" plugin V1.8.3 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. After Paul Raingeard had already corrected a bug of version 1.8.0 under macOS with version 1.8.1, further problems are solved with the now available version 1.8.2.
On GitHub a detailed documentation is available.
Update: (25.03.2023, 07:20, dr)
Meanwhile version 1.8.3 is available, which partly fixes the bug that the link order could not be set. (dr)
[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 05:44] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2023
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Event: Geit@Home #1 2023
From Friday, April 14, till Sunday, April 16 2023, members of the Amiga clubs Osnabrück and Steinfurt meet once again at Guido 'geit' Mersmann's home in Hörstel, Germany. Details can be found in our German news-item or at the title link. (dr)
[News message: 24. Mar. 2023, 04:50] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.8 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.8 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.1.0. The detailed changes:
- Switched to OpenSSL 3.1, with full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL 3.1.0 (14.3.2023) version, which includes:
- SSL 3, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and DTLS 1.0 only work at security level 0.
- Performance enhancements and new platform support including new assembler code algorithm implementations.
- Deprecated LHASH statistics functions.
- FIPS 140-3 compliance changes.
- Replaced many common Exec semaphore protected OpenSSL operations with atomic inline assembly code on both OS3 and OS4, decreasing overhead and increasing performance.
- Fixed bug in the 5.7 SDK (applications built with it should be recompiled using the 5.8 SDK).
Download AmigaOS 3: AmiSSL-5.8-OS3.lha (3,3 MB)
Download AmigaOS 4: AmiSSL-5.8-OS4.lha (3,1 MB)
Download SDK: AmiSSL-5.8-SDK.lha (2,3 MB) (dr)
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23.Mar.2023
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Video: March update on BitBeamCannon projects
In a short video BitBeamCannon has informed about the current status of their projects (Metro Siege, DaemonClaw, Scorpion Boy). (dr)
[News message: 23. Mar. 2023, 06:27] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2023
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Maze game: Cube V0.30
Sami Vehmaa is in the process of writing another game with AmiBlitz3 for fast Amigas with graphics cards or emulators: in "Cube" (YouTube video), the player has to find his way out of a kind of labyrinth (amiga-news.de reported). He has updated to version 0.30, which now features both an intro and an ending scene, as well as adding random lights and sounds (closing doors etc.). (dr)
[News message: 23. Mar. 2023, 04:24] [Comments: 0]
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