05.Apr.2024
OSnews (ANF)
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History of technology: The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disc
IEEE, an online magazine specialising in technology topics, has published a background report on the storage medium floppy disk and the company 3M that is well worth reading.
Floppy discs had an amazingly long life - it was only in January 2024 that the Japanese government announced that it would no longer require floppy disc copies of government applications. 3M got out of the data storage business some 28 years ago when it transferred its floppy disc production to an outsourced company called Imation. Imation still exists, under the name Glassbridge Enterprises, but with a much lower profile.
You can read the entire article in English under the title link.
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05.Apr.2024
Amigans.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4.1: Graphics card driver RadeonHD V5.20 for Sam460
The RadeonHD driver software is a graphics driver for RadeonHD graphics cards for AmigaOS 4.1 (amiga-news.de reported). Version 5 only supports "Southern Islands" cards (HD7000 series), but offers hardware-accelerated video decoding (Enhancer Software 2.2 required). The new version 5.20 has now been released for the Sam460. The changes:
- Fixed a potential crash in the find card code when the card is already in
use
- Fixed an infinite loop in code to get PCIe speed capabilities, which would
trigger if the parent PCIe device isn't the root controller
- Disabled GART for the Sam460 again (was accidentally enabled)
- The usleep() threshold for using the timer device was broken a while ago.
FIXED
- Rewrote usleep() so it no longer needs to open/close the timer device
every time there's a longer delay (lowers overhead)
- Now skips attempting to initialize the card altogether if the card is
already in use
- Fixed a potential crash if initializing the driver failed
- Enabled the UVD interrupt (trap handler)
- Fixed interrupt handling for the Sam460. Caching on PCIe reads from VRAM
was causing the interrupt handler to read stale data, resulting in missed
interrupts which, in turn, causes a complete freeze. Added fallback and
workaround code
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04.Apr.2024
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools : FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.4 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.4 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for the Greaseweazle Tools (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes:
- Requires Greaseweazle 1.16.3
- Read: Added new template "Commodore C64 SingleSided 48-TPI floppy disks (35 tracks).inir" by Richard Verlinden
- Write: New option --gen-tg43 generates 8-inch /TG43 signal on pin 2
- Write: Added new template "CommodoreC64170kbSingleSided(35tracks).iniw" by Richard Verlinden
- Read: --dd option renamed to --densel
- Write: --dd option renamed to --densel
- Read: Fixed reported issue #5: File extension error when select EDSK format
- Convert: Fixed reported issue #5: File extension error when select EDSK format
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04.Apr.2024
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Casual puzzle game: Kondi Krush
"Kondi Krush" is a clone of the smartphone classic Candy Crush: On a playing field filled with sweets, the aim is to place at least three identical elements in a row and making them disappear from the playing field by swapping two pieces of sweet in each turn.
Kondi Krush versions are offered for a host of retro platforms: In addition to the Amiga port (Video), there are also conversions for Commodore 64, Commodore 16/Plus 4 and the Hungarian Videoton TC Computer.
Direct Download:
Executable: kondikrush-amiga (432 KB)
ADF image: kondikrush-amiga-adf (880 KB)
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04.Apr.2024
David Brunet (ANF)
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Obligement: Interview with AmigaOS 3.2 developer Camilla Boemann
David Brunet has published on his Obligement website an interview with the Danish developer Camilla Boemann, who is part of the AmigaOS 3.2 team.
Besides the english version at the title link there is also a french one.
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04.Apr.2024
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Video tutorial: Extended Parallax scrolling in AMOS
Following on from his parallax scrolling tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at how to implement commands such as Double Buffer, Autoback, and Screen Swap in order to address some of the scrolling issues in the latest part of his tutorial series.
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04.Apr.2024
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Preview video: Pumpman v0.003
In addition to several other projects such as "Deathmine", 'PixelPlop' is also working on the game "Pumpman" (amiga-news.de reported), for which he has now published a new preview video. Changes:
- "Fake" vertical scrolling allowing for more floors.
- Increased the spacing between floors.
- Dithering pattern added to the background to help smooth the colour gradient.
- Added a bonus balloon that floats up between the floors.
- Added a trap door at the top so you can complete/exit the level.
- Status bar is now mostly functional.
- Redrew most of the gfx to add more detail.
- Added/changed some sfx.
- Bugfixes.
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03.Apr.2024
Amiga.org (forum)
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AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 13 of "WhatIFF?"
"WhatIFF?" is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. The topics of the thirteenth issue include reviews of hardware (e.g. xT Amiga 600 Turbo Card, Open Amiga Sampler) and games (e.g. The Deep, Dice Masters), instructions (e.g. Game Graphics: What NOT to do, Making Modules 101 Part One) and interviews (e.g. Massimo Loi, Simone Bevilacqua).
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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