02.Apr.2024
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Operating system: NetBSD 10.0
The Unix derivative NetBSD has been released in version 10.0. The eighteenth major version of the NetBSD operating system is also available as an original port for PowerPC-Amigas (experimental) and 68k-Amigas.
The global changes since the last version 9.3 are listed on the NetBSD website and include numerous performance, security and general aspects. Two new features are listed specifically for Amiga systems:
- support for Kickstart 3.2 (the release from 2020)
- loadbsd bootloader now loads the kernel into the highest priority memory segment instead of the largest segment
The following system requirements are specified for installation and operation on 68k Amigas: Amiga with 68020 processor or higher with MMU, at least 24 MB Fast RAM and at least 250 MB free hard disc space. An FPU is not required; according to the developers, the system "does not run correctly" on LC processors 68LC040 and 68LC060 as well as on the 68040V. (nba)
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02.Apr.2024
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Video tutorial: First steps in game porting with the Scorpion Engine
In addition to existing video tutorials on using the Scorpion Engine, its developer Erik 'earok' Hogan shows in a short video how to proceed when porting an existing game. (dr)
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02.Apr.2024
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Demoparty: Demos and results of Revision 2024
This year's edition of the demoparty Revision took place this Easter weekend in Saarbrücken (amiga-news.de reported). In two YouTube videos you can watch the competition entries in the categories Amiga Intro and Amiga Demo. The winners are ((overview of all entries and winners on Demozoo):
Amiga Intro
Amiga Demo
(dr)
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01.Apr.2024
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for March 2024
For the past month 'Puni' has again published a news summary for AmigaOS 4 at the title link. (snx)
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01.Apr.2024
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Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux
'tildearrows' Furnace is a tool that can be used to create sound chip music ("chiptune"), mostly from the 8/16-bit era (amiga-news.de reported). It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and the Amiga. Version 0.6.2 provides many bug fixes, improvements and new effects.
The songs can be exported as audio files (.wav), VGM files and ZSM files (for Commander X16). An manual is available. (dr)
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01.Apr.2024
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Puzzle game: Glubble
The "Revision" demo party takes place in Saarbrücken over the Easter weekend. The group Oxygen has published a puzzle game there called "Glubble", in which blobs of the same color have to be pushed together to form groups of the same color.
Glubble is a conversion of the PC game Yugo Puzzle. The title runs on any Amiga with one megabyte of RAM. If you want to play from hard disk you need more RAM. (cg)
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31.Mar.2024
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Aminet uploads until 30.03.2024
The following files have been added until 30.03.2024 to Aminet:
ign-AddOn-ODS.lha biz/spread 203K OS4 ignition addon for access ods...
amigassh.lha comm/net 30K 68k SSH2 for the Amiga
amospro_darkula.lha dev/amos 26K Dark theme for AMOS Professional
amospro_setflash.lha dev/amos 3K Edit AMOS Pro cursor flash
expression_1.0.lha dev/hwood 23K MOS Hollywood plugin: calculate e...
REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc 5.6M 68k Game Creator with AGA support
P96Tests.lha dev/src 103K P96 Test programs
BWBasic111_Manual.zip docs/help 497K bwBASIC111 Manual AND Orig. i...
F1GP2024Carset.lha game/data 8K 2024 Carset for F1GP
ScummVM_RTG_060.lha game/misc 55M 68k Amiga RTG port of ScummVM 2.5...
Exult_AGA.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
Exult_RTG.lha game/role 50M 68k Amiga port of Ultima 7 (Exult)
ODAMEX_AGA.lha game/shoot 19M 68k Amiga port of Odamex (DOOM)
gitressetteadf.zip game/think 351K 68k Tressette a Perdere card game
gimemorygame.lha game/wb 262K 68k GI Memory Game
gimemorygameadf.zip game/wb 326K 68k GI Memory Game
2D_ATcad_UAE.lha gfx/misc 526K 68k 2D-CAD-Programm
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 7.4M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 7.8M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 8.0M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M 68k Simulates OpenVMS commands
tap2dsk.lha misc/emu 78K 68k Oric tape to disk
2D_ATcad_UAE720.png pix/misc 20K ATcad_UAE in 720p
gicalaratafont.lha text/bfont 11K 68k GI Caralata Font
AmigaGPT.lha util/misc 910K AOS App for chatting to ChatGPT
isomount.lha util/rexx 24K Mounting img,iso,adf... on do...
(snx)
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31.Mar.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.03.2024
The following files have been added until 30.03.2024 to OS4Depot:
libfreetype.lha dev/lib 3Mb 4.1 A Free, High-Quality, and Portab...
libsdl2_ttf.lha dev/lib 4Mb 4.1 A Freetype 2.0 wrapper for SDL2
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 8Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
losmalditosdemo.lha gam/adv 20Mb 4.0 Adventure point and click R.P.G.
thf.lha gam/fps 301Mb 4.0 THF for Heretic II Multiplayer Mod
amigagpt.lha net/cha 910kb 4.0 App for chatting to ChatGPT
ign-addon-ods.lha off/spr 203kb 4.1 Ignition addon for access ods-files
meminfo.lha uti/har 23kb 4.0 show meminfo usage in a GUI
(snx)
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31.Mar.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.03.2024
The following files have been added until 30.03.2024 to AROS Archives:
barsnpipesaros.lha aud/edi 10Mb Port of Amiga 68k Midi Sequencer
residualvm-0.3.1.i386-aro... emu/mis 4Mb ResidualVM
scummvm-1.9.0.i386-aros.zip emu/mis 16Mb ScummVM
losmalditosdemo.lha gam/adv 20Mb Adventure point and click R.P.G.
(snx)
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31.Mar.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.03.2024
The following files have been added until 30.03.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
tap2dsk_2.1.lha Emulation/Misc A tool that builds a Se...
LosMalditos_1.00.lha Games/Demo Adventure point and cli...
DirSize_2.6.lha System/Shell Calculate directory sizes
neatvi-14.lha Text/Edit Neat vi clone
(snx)
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31.Mar.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.03.2024
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 30.03.2024:
- 2024-03-26 new: De Profundis (The Deadliners Lemon. & Oxygene) done by Psygore (Info, Image)
- 2024-03-26 fixed: Fusion (Bullfrog) check disk protection in game patched now (Info)
- 2024-03-26 fixed: Hard Drivin' (Domark) fixed keyboard on version SPS0126 (Info)
- 2024-03-26 improved: Alien Breed 2 (Team 17) added modding options, better blitter waits for A1000 (Info)
- 2024-03-25 fixed: Second Samurai (Psygnosis/Vivid Image) disk change patch in OCS version fixed, game now continues to end sequence after defeating the final boss (Info)
(snx)
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31.Mar.2024
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Video tutorial: WIFI internet on Amiga with BlueSCSI v2
BlueSCSI v2 is an SCSI solution for retro computers. Based on the Raspberry Pi Pico-W microcontroller, there are further possibilities, though.
The Video at the title link demonstrates how one can also use it to access wireless LAN, thanks to an Amiga driver written by Rob Smith. (snx)
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31.Mar.2024
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Video: The Amiga 500 as a guitar pedal
The video at the title link demonstrates the ability of the Amiga to serve as a guitar pedal to alter the sound of an electric guitar in real-time. (snx)
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31.Mar.2024
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware V2024.04.01
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of a user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 2024.04.01:
- Unified USB Mass Storage for RP2040 and GD32F205 platforms
- Move RP2040 based projects to new framework
- DaynaPORT Wi-Fi Amiga patch from Rob Smith
- Implement the SCSI side of a SCSI control and data transfer mechanism
- Allow custom block sizes, addresses issue
- Fix Plextor 0xD8 SCSI vendor command
- Free some SRAM by putting some code in flash
(dr)
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30.Mar.2024
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Motorola68k emulation: Status update on the WLAN driver for Emu68
After Michal Schulz had released the first stable version 1.0 of his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 a good week ago (amiga-news.de reported), he is working intensively on a WLAN driver and had made first considerations and tests in a Patreon post.
In yesterday's post under the title link, he now reports that he has made quite a bit of progress with the development: the WLAN driver initialises correctly, scans for available networks and can connect to them. As soon as this happens, you receive data packets (frames) that can now be passed to the network stack.
Michal's next step is to finalise the SANA II driver interface. For the time being he will only connect to a predefined network for testing reasons. Once this is working and he can use the driver with AmigaOS, he will add the wireless features - releasing network scans to AmigaOS, getting signal strength, selecting a wireless network to connect to and so on.
After completing this step, he will either use an available tool or write his own to display the networks on AmigaOS and allow the user to connect. Finally, he will also provide some sort of configuration file to allow the driver to connect to a specific network at startup. As a last step he will then try to implement wireless security protocols like WPA/WPA2/WPA3. (dr)
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29.Mar.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 142 of Amiga Future readable online
The German and English issue 142 (January/February 2020) 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. (nba)
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29.Mar.2024
Multiple sources
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Hyperion: Bankruptcy proceedings reopened against Ben Hermans B.V. (Update)
Since a restructuring in 2019, the Belgian lawyer Ben Hermans has owned around 97% of all shares in Hyperion (Heretic 2, AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3.2), which he transferred to his company "Ben Hermans B.V." a few months later. Since then, this very company also acts as the "Director" of Hyperion Entertainment.
Bankruptcy proceedings had already been opened against Ben Hermans B.V. in May 2021: the annual financial statements for 2019 - the year in which Hermans had transferred its private Hyperion shares to Ben Hermans B.V. - had still not been published, in violation of applicable Belgian law. When asked by amiga-news.de at the time, Hermans stated that the external accountant had not been able to complete the annual report on time (quote) "due to COVID restrictions - such as the requirements to work from home and to allow only minimal staffing in offices". The problem was resolved a few months later by submitting the missing annual report.
In the meantime, the company's status in the Belgian company database is once again listed as "Opening of bankruptcy procedure" (announcement in the Belgian Company Newsletter). A quick look at the published financial statements shows that the last filed report covers the 2021 financial year. We have asked Ben Hermans for a statement on the reopening of bankruptcy proceedings, but have not yet received a response.
Update: (30.03.24, 23:30, cg)
According to the Belgian Business Register, there is now another company called Ben Hermans B.V., founded on March 11 of this year. The provider faillissementsdossier.be, which centrally processes up-to-date information on Belgian company insolvencies and similar events, has an entry for the original Ben Hermans B.V., which claims "Ben Hermans [...] was declared insolvent by a court in Brussels on 19.03.2024". (cg) (Translation: cg)
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28.Mar.2024
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Overview: Linux for Sam and A1222-Plus boards
With our ongoing coverage of new Linux kernels for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 models (amiga-news.de reported), the availability of the A1222 Plus, as well as the Sam460LE boards, raises the question of how Linux support will look here.
Sam boards
As Amiga Linux expert Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky explains to us, the kernels for the X1000 and X5000 cannot be used for the Sam boards. The responsible developer Julian Margetson, who built, tested, published and offered support for these Linux kernels for the Sam, had to stop working on them for personal reasons, so someone is currently being sought to take over this task.
However, there are still working Linux downloads available for the Sam boards.
A1222 Plus
The Debian developers have removed the PowerPC SPE platform so that there will be no more Linux developments for the A1222. The reason for this was the deletion as a target platform in version 9 of the vcc compiler, which was already obsolete in version 8.The Debian developers have removed the PowerPC SPE platform so that there will be no more Linux developments for the A1222. The reason for this was the deletion as a target platform in version 9 of the vcc compiler, which was already obsolete in version 8.
However, all kernels and images remain available on the Tabor Linux download page. As Christian explains, Debian PowerPC-SPE works very well on the Tabor board (screenshot). If you would like to test Debian on the A1222 Plus, you will find Linux Guide. The links to the latest kernel and to the PowerPC-SPE version of the Arctic Fox browser:
Further downloads can be found on the A1222 Linux downloads page (user name: tabor, password: amigaone). (dr)
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28.Mar.2024
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: Review of March 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of December at the title link. (snx)
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26.Mar.2024
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AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.39
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. In the current version 0.39, numerous optimisations have increased the speed at which documents are read. (dr)
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