02.Jun.2024
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Amiga Kit: Final Writer 7 pre-installed on A600GS
Press release:
Final Writer has been in put back into active development over recent years (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 7 will soon will make it's debut pre-installed on the A600GS computer.
Final Writer is a famous word processor for the Amiga computer originally developed by SoftWood in the mid 1990s. It rapidly developed a significant loyal fan base amongst the Amiga community.
In 2015 it was purchased by Timothy Deters and put back into development after a 20 year hiatus. A large investment of work has been carried out implementing a new spell checker compatible with Open Office dictionaries, RTG fixes, FTP, IPP PDF and Turboprint printing.
AmigaKit Ltd and Timothy Deters are pleased to announce that a special edition of Final Writer 7 will be
pre-installed on the A600GS alongside it's other updated applications of OctaMED 8, PPaint 7.4 and
Directory Opus 4.
Final Writer can be started from AmiBench, the desktop environment and will open on a 1080P screen.
Final Writer 7 Special Edition is fully functional with the exception of the Spell Checker module which will be
offered to A600GS users as an optional paid upgrade.
Matthew Leaman, MD of AmigaKit Ltd commented on the collaboration: "We are very pleased to work with
Timothy bundling the brand new edition of Final Writer on the A600GS low cost hardware platform. Final
Writer is popular and much loved Amiga word processor. A significant amount of hard work has gone into
bringing this application back to our community to the credit of Timothy and his developers. New versions
of Final Writer complementing OctaMED and Personal Paint represents the renewal of Amiga applications."
Timothy Deters, owner of Final Writer added: "I'm happy to have come to an agreement with AmigaKit to
include Final Writer with their system. I’d like to thank the developers who worked on this project and have
been instrumental to its completion."
The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024.
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02.Jun.2024
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Emulator: WinUAE 5.3.0
The Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 5.3.0. Changes:
New emulated RTG boards
- CyberVision/BlizzardVision PPC. 2D only, 3D is not implemented. (Permedia 2)
- GVP EGS 110/24. (INMOS G364)
- Graffity. (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428)
- Merlin, includes support for configurable serial number used by ProBench (Tseng ET4000W32)
- oMniBus (Tseng ET4000AX or ET4000W32)
- Rainbow III (INMOS G360)
- Visiona (INMOS G300)
New features/updates
- Prometheus FireStorm PCI bridge emulation
- Release raw input devices when GUI is open (except during input Test/Remap) or when debugger window is active. Allows Windows shortcut keys like Win+E to work without need to unfocus the window.
- Added Misc panel option to disable default on screen keyboard gamepad button 4 mapping.
- Some uae-configuration (and other similar) debugging logging messages automatically opened the console window. Now only entering debugger will open it.
- Added “Always on (Fixed only)” sound filter option. This enables A500 fixed filter but never enables “led filter”. (A1200 does not have fixed filter, only “led” filter)
- Replaced old Windows 2000 compatible Windows clipboard handling with newer, simpler and more reliable method introduced in Vista.
- Allow also 68020+ CPUs to fetch instruction words from custom chipset space. Only if more compatible is set. If some program really wants to do something weird like execute code located in AGA palette registers.
- Lightpen/gun cursor in any edge of screen: lightpen/gun not pointing at the screen = position can’t be read by the program.
- Statefile shortcut keys now select current config file name as a base statefile name (for example, if “test1.uae” config file is loaded, SHIFT+END+0 will save statefile as “test1.uss”. Quickstart mode config still uses original default “default.uss”)
- Both “SaveImage” (automatically created ext adf when write-enabling non-writable image like ipf) file extension variants are now detected automatically when checking if file exists. Paths panel SaveImage mode option now only affects generated file name when new saveimage is created.
- Added LDP-1450 laserdisc player OSD font emulation. Fixes laserdisc arcade game Platoon (Nova) previously missing “YOU’RE HIT!!” messages. (All OSD graphics are generated by Amiga except this message!)
Bugs fixes
- Fixed XT based Bridgeboards non-working floppy drive emulation, broke during 5.1 DraCo updates (wrong density detection)
- Serial port data receive was unreliable. Loopback serial port mode didn’t work in fast CPU modes.
- CD32 FMV video image size and positioning was weird in most scaled modes.
- Exclusive fullscreen and RTG resolution switch (RTG resolution switch to another RTG resolution without switch to native mode and back) didn’t change fullscreen resolution.
- Some ECS programmed modes (for example SuperPlus) had first visible line blanked.
- Fixed corruption in some “weird” programmed modes, introduced in 5.0 betas.
- Some hardware emulated RTG boards had flickering colors during horizontal panning (>8 bit modes only)
- Fixed ECS Denise superhires mode hires sprite pointer strange odd/even horizontal movement.
- Fixed pre-KS 1.2 HDF/directory filesystem boot. Broke long time ago.
- Multi-monitor active state was not fully reset when system was hard reset. (Multimonitor window was open -> hard reset -> window didn’t open anymore again)
- If x86 bridgeboard SVGA and also other hardware emulated RTG board was active and END+F9 was used to switch monitors: both monitors’ output was drawn in same window, causing corrupted graphics and possibly also crash if monitor sizes were too different.
- It was not possible to write and read ECS/AGA genlock transparency bit in color registers. Was broken long time ago.
- Delay ALG LDP seek complete status reply slightly. Fixes laserdisc arcade game Platoon (Nova) few second hangs.
- Los Justicieros (Zorton Brothers) laserdisc arcade game left holster hooked up correctly. (Was stuck active previously)
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02.Jun.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood goes LaTeX: hTeX 1.0 released
Press release: "Airsoft Softwair, the unstoppable coding machine, is back on your screen with a massive new Hollywood plugin release: hTeX. hTeX allows you to experience the wonderful world of LaTeX as it makes it possible to use the LaTeX markup language from Hollywood. This makes it possible to easily display mathematical formulas in your Hollywood scripts and Hollywood Designer projects. On top of that, you can also use more advanced LaTeX features like tables, boxes, and finetuned formatting. Finally, hTeX also allows you to export LaTeX formatted text as PDF documents, SVG images, and PNG images.
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02.Jun.2024
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Action adventure: June update of "Castlevania AGA"
Dante Mendes has released an update for his conversion of Konami's NES action adventure Castlevania, originally called "Akumajou Dracula" (amiga-news.de reported). This now features a "proper" Simon Belmont, who was created especially for this version. There is now also a menu with a jukebox function, which allows you to listen to the different music.
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02.Jun.2024
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Aminet uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to Aminet:
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02.Jun.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to OS4Depot:
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02.Jun.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to AROS Archives:
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02.Jun.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 01.06.2024
The following files have been added until 01.06.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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02.Jun.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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Programming competition: AmiGameJam 2024 launched
Following the 2022/2023 competition on the topic of "Sword and Sorcery", the next AmiGameJam has now been launched. In this year's edition, the task for the game programmers is: "The Sequel That Never Was". If you want to take part, you have to submit a sequel to a game from the old Amiga days to the organizers by December 1st at the latest.
The participants will as usual be divided into the two categories "OCS/AGA" and "RTG/Vampire/AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS", and voting will again be carried out by both the community and a group of celebrity judges. The judges and prizes will be announced later.
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02.Jun.2024
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Full version of Insanity Fight online
In the download area of Amiga Future the full version of the game Insanity Fight has been published, including data disk, construction set, manual and source code.
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02.Jun.2024
Amiga Future (website)
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German Amiga Podcast: Issue 18
Issue 18 of the "German Amiga Podcasts" (GAP) reports from the Amiga Ruhrpott Convention event (ARC) 2024, which took place on May 25 in Duisburg, Germany.
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02.Jun.2024
Paulee Bow (ANF)
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Music: CD "Bleakwave" by Vogue Renege announced
As part of the "Kickstart 02" event in Nottingham on June 29/30, also Vogue Renege alias Paulee Alex Bow will be performing. The new CD "Bleakwave" is to be released there, and international sales as a physical and digital product will start a few days later.
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02.Jun.2024
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Amiga-Emulator: Activity monitors and DMA bus visualisation for vAmigaWeb
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS.
In this update, the developer 'mithendal' has added an activity or load display for the individual Amiga chips Blitter, Copper and Paula and the CPU. This means that you can now see which games use certain Amiga coprocessors or chips in particular. In addition, pens such as the Apple Pencil are now supported.
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02.Jun.2024
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Open source project: IDE driver lide.device 40.7 (update)
The open source project lide.device provides a new IDE driver for the Amiga, which offers some improvements (amiga-news.de reported). Now version 40.6 was released:
- SCSI-2 Emulation - Fixes compatibility with ACDPlay, OptyCDPlay, OS 3.9 PlayCD etc
- Support masterless slave devices
- Fixup channel detection on Dicke Olga Accelerator
- Various ATAPI bug fixes and performance improvements
Update: (13:50, 02.06.24, dr)
Version 40.7 has just been released and is strongly recommended for all users of the previous version 40.6.
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02.Jun.2024
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Video: Review of Amiga 2000 accelerator board "Dicke Olga"
"Dicke Olga" is a 68030 turbo card for the Amiga 2000 and a hobbyist project. The YouTube channel "Retronaut" has now taken a look at the card under the title link.
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01.Jun.2024
Spadoni Carlo (ANF)
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AROS distribution: AROS One 2.5 (x86)
The "AROS One" distribution, which is based on the AROS binary interface ABI v0 (screenshot), is now available in version 2.5 for x86 computers. It can be downloaded as a DVD ISO file (1.7 GB) or as a USB flash image (3.7 GB) under the title link, where you will also find video recordings (don't be confused by the old title, the download links on the page below the screenshot are correct). The VHD image can be used as a hard drive in virtual machines such as VMware, VirtualBox and QEmu.
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31.May.2024
Jérôme Senay (Mail)
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Print magazine: Boing #8 (French)
"Boing" is a French print magazine by Boing Attitude (e.g. Dir Me Up and Word Me Up XXL) for all Amiga systems on 52 A4 color pages.
The eighth issue includes a big article about MicroProse, the publisher of Civilisation, an interview with Frédéric Cordier, the author of AMOS Pro Unity, and numerous game reviews.
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30.May.2024
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AROS: Review of May 2024
In his blog, Andrzej 'retrofaza' Subocz has published a summary of AROS/x86 news for the month of May at the title link.
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30.May.2024
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Video: Interview with Eric Chahi (Another World)
At the title link Adrian Wallett of "Arcade Attack Retro Gaming Network" did an interview with Eric Chahi, the programmer and graphic artist of the game "Another World".
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30.May.2024
Indie Retro News (Webseite)
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Adventure: Geo's Quest - Gateway to Nowhere
As a sequel to "Geo's Quest: In Search of Queen Lorraine" in "Gateway to Nowhere", the hero, George Angus, is faced with the problem that Queen Lorraine, who was rescued from The Gates of Bill, has been lost by the Knights of Escom, to whom she was entrusted. George is assisted by Dave Haynie in the second rescue of the queen. The fifth chapter then follows (loosely) his path after the end of Commodore (Pios, MetaBox, Merlancia, Fortele).
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29.May.2024
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Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.6.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software. It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (preview video).
The primary goal of this project is to provide a graphical user interface on top of the excellent ira reassembler to accelerate the workflow.
Aira Force implements reassembly using the ira disassembler and the vasm assembler. Ira transforms the source executable or raw binary into assembly language source code, then vasm assembles the source code. The output binary should be identical (or equivalent) to the input binary.
This process allows the user to analyse and annotate the source code efficiently, before make any required changes to the generated disassembly and building a patched binary. It may be useful for fixing bugs, adding features, optimising the code, or academic software archeology. Features:
- Disassemble Amiga executables (hunk Load Modules)
- Disassemble raw Amiga binaries, e.g. bootblocks, non-DOS programs
- Interactively convert disassembly to code, data or text
- Rename and add labels
- Add comments and banners
- Define pointers and equates
- Efficient code navigation
- Tools to search for potential pointers, equates and code
- Live Analysis using 68000 emulator to aid understanding
- In-built Amiga documentation (custom chipset, OS)
- Menu and keyboard driven UI
- Runs on Windows, Linux and macOS (sorry, no Amiga version)
- Hex viewer
- Reassemble disassembled code and compare against source
- Dockable windows and multi-viewports (native OS windows) with Dear ImGui
The tool is currently pre-ALPHA and not all features are implemented yet.
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28.May.2024
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Audio: Prelude Software Bundle V4.1 now available
The updated software bundle (V4.1) for the Prelude sound card family (and derivatives) includes the prelude.library, the mixer and the MHI driver for the Amiblaster.
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28.May.2024
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Crowdfunding for new card game Amiga Trumps
Following the motto "Let's keep Amiga gaming alive... in card game form!", the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the new card game "Amiga Trumps" has been successfully launched. The funding goal of ¤ 1,762 has already been reached, but the campaign will continue until 23 July 2024.
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27.May.2024
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Demoparty: Results of "68k Inside"
The "68k Inside" demoparty took place in Finland last weekend. Among other things, competitions in the "Intro" and "Demo" categories took place there. The organisers have now published the results lists. Amiga productions also made it to the top places:
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27.May.2024
George Sokianos (ko-fi)
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AmigaOS 4: Code analysis with Cpppcheck V2.14r1
Im September 2022, George 'walkero' Sokianos made an AmigaOS 4 port of Cppcheck, a static code analysis tool for the C and C++ programming languages, available for the first time. The tool is designed to be able to analyze your C/C++ code even if it has non-standard syntax common in embedded projects. The latest official version 2.14 has now been ported (release notes).
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