05.May.2022
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Mutation Software: First teaser for CyberPunks 2
Already at the end of last year Mutation Software announced the second part of their top-down shooter Cyberpunks (amiga-news.de reported). There is now a first teaser video for the game, which was originally supposed to be released in the third quarter of 2021, but is now announced for the fourth quarter of 2023.
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04.May.2022
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MorphOS 3.17: openssl3.library hotfix
The MorphOS developer team has announced: "New vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Three discovered issues, namely CVE-2022-1343, CVE-2022-1434 and CVE-2022-1473, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.
A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can download (1,6 MB) and install the following replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17. To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot."
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04.May.2022
Erik Hogan (Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine V2022.3
The "Scorpion Engine" developed by Erik 'earok' Hogan allows you to develop games. The engine itself is closed source, all demos and example games are open source. The editor runs under Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, levels created by using the editor Tiled eingesetzt. For importing and creating sounds, music and animations the Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used.
A few moments ago he has relesaed version 2022.3 with the following changes:
- Custom splash screens for Patreon backers.
- Improved AGA support, including "GothicVania" triple parallax demo.
- One click export to Win/Mac (FS-UAE), AmiBerry/A500 mini, Workbench.
- Improved code and animation editing.
You can support the developer on his Patreon website.
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04.May.2022
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Open Source: Talks of 'Open Hardware Summit'
On April 22, 2022, the Open Hardware Summit took place virtually: an annual conference organized by the Open Source Hardware Association about Open Source. The talks were recorded and can now be viewed retrospectively at the title link.
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04.May.2022
Twitter
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Graphics card ZZ9000: New firmware version 1.11
Lukas F. Hartmann's ZZ9000 is a graphics card with additional features and ports (network, USB, SD cards), which can be preordered in different versions (amiga-news.de reported).
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04.May.2022
Harry (ANF)
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The Guardian: How Amiga computers reprogrammed modern music
The British newspaper 'The Guardian' describes in a long article how the Amiga influenced the electronic music scene in the early 90s and continues to do so today.
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03.May.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 3.6
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 3.6 of his MorphOS web browser Wayfarer. Besides bugfixes an Amazon Fire Stick user agent and a check for existing files on download have been added.
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03.May.2022
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Last Minute Creations: Games 'GermZ' and 'Atarenium Falcon' released
Last Minute Creations', a Polish group of amiga game developers, has finally released two of their games that have been available in pre-release versions for quite some time:
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03.May.2022
RetroRGB
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Video interview: Neil und Richard from RMC
The website RetroRGB is comprehensively dedicated to the world of retro games. An interview with Neil and Richard from RMC, who not only run their own YouTube channel but also an interactive retro computer museum in England (amiga-news.de reported), has now been published there.
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03.May.2022
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Motorola68k emulation: Bug-fixed FPU implementation of Emu68
Developer Michal Schulz regularly provides background information and status updates on his Motorola68K emulation Emu68 for the ARM architecture on his Patreon website.
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03.May.2022
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AmigaOS 4: FTP server 'ZitaFTP' 1.32
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.32 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote:
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02.May.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Anniversary: APC&TCP has now been active for 30 years
Andreas Magerl writes: "The APC&TCP computer club was founded more than 30 years ago. (Does anybody of you know exactly when?) As one of the largest Amiga clubs worldwide, the question of how to better support all the programmers in the club came up quite quickly. Our members produced some really good programs and games, but they all voiced their opinion that they weren't very happy with the commercial contracts that were offered by major publisher. After long deliberations, APC&TCP sales was founded in May 1992.
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02.May.2022
David Brunet (ANF)
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New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months. All translations are welcome. Please contact David 'Daff' Brunet for more information.
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02.May.2022
Protovision (Webseite)
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Video: Commodore 64 celebrates 40th anniversary
According to Wikipedia, the Commodore 64 was introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and thus celebrates its 40th anniversary. The YouTuber 'BastichB 64K' has dedicated a special video with several guests to it.
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01.May.2022
U. Beckers (ANF)
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Operating system: MorphOS 3.17 released
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.17. This release includes numerous important performance, stability and security improvements. X5000 hardware support was improved to handle two Radeon cards and the HDD activity LED. Several text layout and rendering issues have been fixed in MUI.
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01.May.2022
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Video review: A1200NET's crystal replacement cases for the Amiga 500
In his latest video, Jan Beta takes a closer look at the new Amiga 500 Crystal Bundle offered by A1200NET, which includes a replacement case for the computer as well as for the mouse.
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[News message: 01. May. 2022, 08:36] [Comments: 0]
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01.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to Aminet:
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01.May.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to OS4Depot:
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01.May.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to AROS Archives:
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01.May.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.04.2022
The following files have been added until 30.04.2020 to MorphOS-Storage:
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01.May.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.04.2022
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 30.04.2022:
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30.Apr.2022
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Chipmusic tracker: PreTracker 1.5
Abyss, an Amiga demo group founded in 1992, hat released version 1.5 of its chipmusic tracker 'PreTracker'. It emulates the Paula soundchip of the Amiga computers. The tracker for creating music for Amiga demos, intros and games runs under Windows. All samples are precalced on startup according to the instruments. While most Amiga trackers only support 3 octaves (Note C-0 to B-2),
PreTracker offers 5 octaves (C-0 to B-4). The group used it for creating the music of some of its games.
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[News message: 30. Apr. 2022, 22:00] [Comments: 0]
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30.Apr.2022
Ko-fi
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AmigaOS 4: Version 2 of editor 'Lite XL' released
At the end of the last year, George Sokianos, author of the AmigaOS 4.1 application MediaVault, had released the first version v1.16.12.3 of hisport of the editor 'Lite XL' (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released version 2 and has written on it:
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30.Apr.2022
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.52
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.52. Changes:
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30.Apr.2022
Amigans (Webseite)
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Demo: THE CURE version 1.4 for AGA Amigas
Some time ago, Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua released a demo called 'THE CURE' (YouTube video) which placed first at the 'Solskogen' demo party 2020 in the category Oldskool (amiga-news.de reported).
This demo he keeps on developing and meanwhile has released version 1.4:
- Improved music: improved S/N ratio by eliminating a peak (caused by the "str" of "street" in the spoken part) and re-normalizing the waveform; amplified initial part a little bit; reduced greatly the noise that affected the coda (due to the 8-bit quantization) by amplifying that part of the waveform to the maximum and balancing that with a real-time volume change; increased sampling frequency to 29073 Hz (side effects: channels 2 and 3 can no longer be used, so the output volume is lower; music decoding takes a little longer as there is more data to decode each frame; the CHIP bus time taken by audio DMA is almost halved, which makes the demo less demanding).
- Added switch-off of filter to ensure music sounds as it is supposed to.
- Fixed audio-to-video synchronization: fixed drifting caused by the difference between the actual video refresh rate (~49.92 Hz) and the theoretical one 50 Hz (which, by the end of the demo, caused an asynchronism of ~0.5); fixed 60 ms asynchronism caused by the fact that the first three frames required for music setup/buffering were ignored; fixed a few timing marks in the script (an off-by-one mark which caused a peak of operations in the specified frame; a mark that caused the following effect to execute 4 frames too late; a few marks that were off by a frame).
- Fixed a bad routine pointer (caused by a wrong letter in the label; it is quite incredible that this bug did not produce disastrous results).
- Added some palette effects.
- Optimized music decoding by unpacking and undeltaing data at the same time (why it was not like this right from the beginning is a mistery).
- Made some other small optimizations.
- Made startup and cleanup code more robust by shielding some critical operations from NMIs and by dealing with audio playback performed with direct hardware access by other programs concurrently.
- Added version string.
- Improved/extended README.
Additional to an AGA Amiga the demo requires a 68030 processor with 50 MHz and about 15 MB FAST-RAM.
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30.Apr.2022
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THEA500 Mini: Video tutorial for fixing too fast WHDLoad games
In his video the YouTuber 'Crazy Burger' explains how to fix the speed of WHDLoad games which apparently run too fast on the 'THEA500 Mini'.
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[News message: 30. Apr. 2022, 09:32] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2022
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Platformer: Developer for Amiga port of 'Flea' wanted
As John Girvin from Nivrig Games (e.g. Turbo Santa or Turbo Tomato) reports, developer Alastair Low (Lowtek Games) said in a conversation on Twitch that he would be open to a port of his platformer 'Flea' to the Amiga. The game was originally funded and released through a Kickstarter campaign for the Nintendo Entertainment System, but ports are now also available or in development for Dreamcast and Windows. The source code was written using Nesmaker. According to John Girvin, this project "looks very doable".
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[News message: 29. Apr. 2022, 17:28] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2022
Passione Amiga (ANF)
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Italian print/PDF magazine: Passione Amiga, issue 7
The Italian magazine 'Passione Amiga' is available in digital (3 Euro) or printed (7,50 Euro) form. Its current issue consists of 42 color pages and includes the following topics:
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[News message: 29. Apr. 2022, 13:58] [Comments: 0]
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29.Apr.2022
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Video: Installation of AmiKit XE on Apollo V4 system
In a short video Willem Drijver has demonstrated how to install the Workbench distribution AmiKit XE on a system equipped with a Apollo-V4.
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[News message: 29. Apr. 2022, 10:16] [Comments: 0]
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