15.Dec.2021
AMIGATRONICS
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AmiTube 0.5: YouTube client for 68k-Amigas
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's AmiTube enables watching YouTube videos on an 68k Amiga. To do so, they are converted to Commodore's CDXL format and downloaded (video).
Yesterday version 0.5 has been released, providing the following changes:
- As described before, 3 different quality settings for the movies, CDXL OCS, CDXL AGA, MPEG1
- Share your most favorite videos with other AmiTube users
- Load list of shared videos from internett
- type a YouTube URL to search bar to directly get a video description
- observe clipboard for YouTube URLs
- parameter for CDXL and MPEG Player
- special Version for 68000 processors (normal Version needs at least a 68020)
Additionally a separate website has been set up where always the latest version of the toll can be found. The requirements for AmiTube:
- minimum requirement: 68020 processor, OS3.0, 4MB RAM, MUI 3.8
- minimum requirement for the 68000 version: 68000 processor, OS3.0, 4MB RAM, MUI 3.8
Please not that conversion is executed on the developer's personal server, thus he asks to restrict oneself to few and short videos. Furthermore the program must not be shared but always be downloaded from the author's website at the title link.
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[News message: 15. Dec. 2021, 11:26] [Comments: 0]
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13.Dec.2021
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #19 (English/Polish)
"Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 19 (autumn/winter) are game reviews on 'Turbo Tomato' and 'Metal Gear' as well as articles on AmigaOS 3.2 and WinUAE (part 2.
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13.Dec.2021
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Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS, part 2
Rob Smith, known for his project DrawBridge for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, has now released the second part of his YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS (amiga-news.de reported). While the first video concentrated on the background layer, the second part focuses on the foreground layer and how to combine the two.
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[News message: 13. Dec. 2021, 08:39] [Comments: 0]
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12.Dec.2021
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New preview video: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported) which is supposed to run on unaccelerated Amiga 1200 and CD32 with 50 fps.
Meanwhile the author has published the 22. preview video which is "mostly about visual quality improvements and first gameplay logic functionality."
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[News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 17:41] [Comments: 0]
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12.Dec.2021
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Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.5 (update)
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive is officially supported since the recently released WinUAE 4.9.0. In addition, Smith has made other changes with the new version 2.8.4: Among other things, IPF and SCP files can now be written to floppy disks, HD disks are supported, and reading and writing in general has been improved.
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12.Dec.2021
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Vampire 1200 V2 accelerator board: Availability, reviews
In summer the Apollo team had announced two new accelerator boards: the FireBird (A500/A1000/A2000) and the IceDrake (A1200). Meanwhile, a third card has been added, the Apollo Kraken V4 (Amiga 3000/4000). While the latter is announced for the fourth quarter of 2022 and the Firebird is already available, the IceDrake is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2022. It can currently be pre-ordered for 572 Euros (including fees, plus postage).
Currently available is (still) the Vampire 1200 V2:
We want to give a brief overview of how the specifications of the Vampire 1200 V2 and the IceDrake differ:
Feature Vampire 1200 V2 IceDrake
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Processor Apollo 68080, AMMX, Apollo 68080 AMMX,
64-bit support 64-bit support
RAM 128 MB SDRAM 512 MB DDR3
Video output RTG, truecolor 32 bit, SuperAGA, RTG, truecolor
1280×720@60Hz 32 bit, 1280x720@60Hz
Audio ? 8/16-bit, 56 kHz, 24-bit
mixing, 8 DMA voices
Ethernet Ethernet Module Connector 100Mbit Ethernet RJ45 port
Ports 44-pin FastIDE/CompactFlash 2x FastIDE/CompactFlash
Controller (up to 14 MB/Sek) Controller (up to 20 MB/Sek),
2x USB Port
The decision whether a potential buyer should rather wait for the IceDrake or better buy the Vampire 1200 V2 now, we do not want to take away from him, but at the end we want to give a little help in the form of a test report compilation:
- Blog reviews
- Video reviews
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[News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 12:55] [Comments: 0]
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12.Dec.2021
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Aminet uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to Aminet:
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[News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:28] [Comments: 0]
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12.Dec.2021
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OS4Depot uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to OS4Depot:
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12.Dec.2021
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AROS Archives uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to AROS Archives:
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[News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:28] [Comments: 0]
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12.Dec.2021
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 11.12.2021
The following files have been added until 11.12.2021 to MorphOS-Storage:
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12.Dec.2021
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Windows: DOpus cooperation with Haage & Partner terminated
The file manager Directory Opus, originally from the Amiga and commercially continued for Windows only, which has been open source in the Amiga variant since 2012, was previously distributed by Haage & Partner (H&P) in Germany, with their support page, including a forum, still being online.
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[News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:28] [Comments: 0]
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12.Dec.2021
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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Amigaland: Two rare CDTV games for download / PD area added
At Amigaland.de - a legal collection of games, demos and emulators - Mirko Engelhardt can now offer two rare comic adventures for free download: "The Case of the Cautious Condor" and "Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows" by Tiger Media, published for Amiga CDTV in 1991.
Furthermore a PD/freeware area has been added, listing 41 entries currently.
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[News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:28] [Comments: 0]
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12.Dec.2021
Amiga Future (website)
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Java program: ham_convert 1.84
Java-based program ham_convert for transition of standard graphics file formats into Amiga ones, has meanwhile been updated to version 1.84. Among other changes, now the number of used palette colors can be selected when creating HAM6 and HAM8 files.
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[News message: 12. Dec. 2021, 09:27] [Comments: 0]
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11.Dec.2021
Prince (Mail)
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 3
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler programming course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. After the first two parts, which were mainly for introduction and preparation, the third episode now starts with the actual programming.
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[News message: 11. Dec. 2021, 18:27] [Comments: 0]
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10.Dec.2021
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: E-Mail-Programm Iris 1.1
Recently Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek had released version 1.0 of his email program Iris for MorphOS. Now the first update is available, which contains the following changes:
- Added a Copy Messages... dialog that may be used to copy messages between accounts, local folders, etc
- Drag & drop of messages into a local folder / folder of a different account will copy messages to the destination folder
- Editing of local messages retains their original date
- Fixed a crash in case loading a list of spelling dictionaries fails
- Fixed a condition where the Outgoing Mail manager could send a single message more than once
- Improved progress reports when sending mail
- Additional heuristics when trying to determine the right extension name when saving attachments (if the sender's client did not set the correct MIME type)
- Performing an action on a large multi-selection of messages would sometimes stall forever when trying to obtain full message identifiers to act on
- Optimized a case where setting flags on a large selection of messages would cause the MUI list to perform very costly redraw lookups
Download: iris.lha (34 MB)
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[News message: 10. Dec. 2021, 10:06] [Comments: 0]
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09.Dec.2021
Reddit
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Tutorial: Porting a X-Mas game from HTML5 to AMOS
Rob Smith, known for his DrawBridge project to read Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has released the first part of a YouTube tutorial showing how he ported the Christmas game 'Present Drop' from HTML5 to AMOS.
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[News message: 09. Dec. 2021, 06:59] [Comments: 0]
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09.Dec.2021
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AmigaNG: Website lists emulation options for Raspberry Pi
The website AmigaNG is dedicated to the "next generation of Amiga computers and operating systems" in all its facets. Now with Pi Amiga Images a new category has been added, which compiles the different emulation possibilities of the AmigaOS - like AmiKit XE or Amiberry - on the single board computer Raspberry Pi with links and information. The page will be extended bit by bit.
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[News message: 09. Dec. 2021, 06:42] [Comments: 0]
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08.Dec.2021
Twitter
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RPG: 'Briley Witch Chronicles' being ported to Amiga
Sarah Jane Avory is in the process of porting her role-playing game Briley Witch Chronicles, published for the C64, to the Amiga. It is based on her book series of the same name and is said to be playable at 50 FPS, just like the C64 version.
The story: the witch Briley is abandoned in the village of Maepole, accompanied only by her grumpy, talking cat. She can survive there only if she learns the witchcraft with the help of her spell book. Because the powerful Whitehead family hates witches.
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[News message: 08. Dec. 2021, 06:37] [Comments: 0]
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