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28.Oct.2021 French print magazine: "Boing" Nr. 2 available
Following the successful first issue of the French-language print magazine "Boing," Boing Attitude (known for the file manager Dir Me Up and the quiz game Word Me Up XXL, among others) has announced the release of the second issue.

The magazine is dedicated to Amiga in all its diversity (AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS and Aros) and offers in the second issue among other things an exclusive interview with Romain Canonge, one of the co-founders of Amiga Dream magazine and a test of the game Athanor 2 including the interview with its author Eric Safar. Also included are tests of the games Wrong Way Driver, Smarty and the Nasty Gluttons and the multimedia application Mediavault. (dr)

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28.Oct.2021

USB-Adapter: Firmware update v.012 for Ryś MKII
The Ryś MKII adapter can be used together with USB HID devices like mouses, joysticks and pads to connect them as input devices for Amiga computers. The latest firmware update includes support for new mouse models. RysWheel driver has been given option to turn off the wheel driver operation (Stop option).

Added support for models:

Logitech M-BT83
Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse
LogiLink ID0010
Acer SM-9023
Logitech RX 250
Logitech RX 300
A-EON MX 1000-4

Downloads:
RysMKII_v0.12_beta.hex (Firmware, 123 KB)
RysWheel_Installer_v0.12.lha (AmigaOS Software, 72 KB) (dr)

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27.Oct.2021
reddit Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.7
Robert Smith has updated his project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge)for read Amiga disks using a common PC disk drive. According to the author, additional to improved diagnostics, improved reading/writing, extra features and new UI version 2.7 mainly offers HD floppy disk support. All this work has fed back into WinUAE meaning that WinUAE (and soon Amiberry) will also support real HD disks in real-time. more ... (dr)

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26.Oct.2021
AMIGAworld (Twitter) GitHub project: Amiga 4000 accelerator board 'Z3660'
On GitHub the developer 'shanshe' has started a project for the Amiga 4000 accelerator board 'Z3660' which is based on John "Chucky" Hertell's A3660 board as well as the Z-turn Board. In contrast to the A3660 (currently) only 060 CPU are supported. If Z-turn FPGA is not used, then you get a simple A3660. The only difference is that all A3660 PLDs are replaced by a XC95144XL-TQ144 CPLD. If you use a Z-turn FPGA, then you can add 128 MB of CPU RAM (more RAM, RTG, AHI, USB, SCSI are planned in the future). (dr)

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25.Oct.2021

MorphOS: QR-Code generator 'QRCodeLab'
MorphOS developer Frank Mariak has released a MUI tool called 'QRCodeLab' which can be used to easily create QR codes and afterwards copying them to the Clipboard or saving them as pictures. We have tested the tool using our Amiga-News website: Working!

As the author wrote, "currently, it only supported encoding to UTF8 and non of the other compressed formats like numeric and/or alphanumeric are supported to reduce the code size. It dynamically adjusts the QRCode version based on the length of string."
If you have any suggestions or ideas for improvement, please feel free to contact the author via mail. (dr)

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25.Oct.2021
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF) Hollywood: RapaGUI 2.1 released
Press release: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of RapaGUI 2.1. This release contains several minor bug fixes and one major bug fix for the Amiga compatible platforms. Because of a major bug in the Amiga versions of RapaGUI 2.0, everybody should upgrade to RapaGUI 2.1. RapaGUI 2.1 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. (dr)

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25.Oct.2021
Twitter Reprint: 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium'
In 2014, the book 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' was successfully financed by a Kickstarter campaign. In a reprint available from 22. November "over the course of some 420 pages, 'Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium' showcases more than 140 of the biggest titles, bringing them vividly to life with a double-page screen grab or loading page. Each is accompanied by quotes and commentary from renowned Amiga artists, developers and publishers, including R.J. Mical, David Braben, Sid Meier, Ron Gilbert, Julian Eggebrecht, Tobias Richter, Dave Gibbons and many more. In this latest reprint of Commodore Amiga: a visual compendium, we’ve added a handful of new game reviews, as well as including a spread for Dune. Contributor entries now include their role in the game or profession, in line with more recent visual compendiums." (dr)

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24.Oct.2021 Aminet uploads until 23.10.2021
The following files have been added until 23.10.2021 to Aminet:
more ... (snx)

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24.Oct.2021 OS4Depot uploads until 23.10.2021
The following files have been added until 23.10.2021 to OS4Depot:
more ... (snx)

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24.Oct.2021 MorphOS-Storage uploads until 23.10.2021
The following files have been added until 23.10.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
more ... (snx)

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24.Oct.2021
Twitter (ANF) Amigaworld.de: Do-it-yourself Amiga 600/1200 CF-IDE adapter
At the title link Amigaworld.de published an - in revision D now also buffered - do-it-yourself CompactFlash to IDE adapter for the Amiga 600/1200 including an HD-LED fix and a second port for another drive. (snx)

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23.Oct.2021 Tech-Demo: Update for 'Street Fighter 2' game with Scorpion Engine
'Street Fighter 2' is the attempt to recreate the well-known beat'm up on the Amiga using the Scorpion Engine in a better way. The author is not going to develop a full game but hopes to inspire other developers. The update for the playable demo version includes the following changes: more ... (dr)

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23.Oct.2021 Countdown: C64 & Amiga game music remade as epic film scores
Running until Sunday, 24. October 00:39 CEST, a Kickstarter campaign tries to finance the C64 & Amiga game music album 'Epic Action Vol1' (amiga-news.de reported). So far 13.000 Euro from the required 23.000 Euro were payed. On our request a member of Prismatic Realms told that a failure of the financing also definitely mean the end for the project. But in any case the group will continue to develop retro games. (dr)

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23.Oct.2021 AmigaGuide to HTML converter: GuideML 3.16 for AmigaOS 3/4
GuideML is an AmigaGuide to HTML converter which can convert most AmigaGuides and since v3.1 also has a GUI. After 13 years the author Chris Young has updated the tool, which originally was started by Richard Körber. Additional to some bug fixes, now the tool uses the locale.library v38+ which should remove accents from characters for better compatibility. And version 3.16 introduces basic support for the '@{img' command of AmigaOS 3.2. more ... (dr)

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21.Oct.2021 Music editor: MusicMaker V8 Version 3.12 (update)
Thomas Winischhofer's 'MusicMaker V8' ('MMV8') is a sample-based music editor which the author started back in 1986 as hobby project. As the author wrote, "much later it published in France and the German speaking parts of Europe by Data Becker (V1.76) and by Wolf Software (V2.358, Germany only)." This version 3 dates back to late 1992 and was never published as a commercial product.

In the readme it is explained, that MMV8 uses "macros" which - unlike "patterns" in trackers - apply to a single channel only. Those "macros" are then put in a playing order, which is called a track. As MMV8 provides up to eight audio channels, up to eight tracks can be set up.

As Thomas Winischhofer told us some time ago, he "doesn't really want to do anything more on the MM except occasionally fix bugs that stand out." That would not be worth reporting. However, this has turned into a few updates in recent times, each of which has been published on Aminet. As the developer writes, he has small windows of time at the moment, which, unlike the DSP drivers - his other Amiga project of the recent past) he can use sitting at the emulator to fix bugs and improve the source code from 1986 and the following years. But he definitely doesn't want to take away the character and charm of the 80s from the program.

In the latest versions the author mainly worked on the GUI and fixed several minor bugs.

Who of our readers had or has used the music editor?

Update: (07:43, 24.10.21, dr)

Meanwhile version 3.12 is available. Now "m" now shows instrument paths and minor inconvenience in the install script were fixed. (dr)

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21.Oct.2021
Prince (Mail) Video tutorial: Episode 17 of assembler coding course
'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams on Twitch the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English and after some time uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday episode 17 was published, continuing running through chapter 7 of the book which is about "Sprites / Joysticks / Tables / Bit Manipulation". (dr)

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