08.Jun.2024
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Preview video: Game "Loony Ledges" V0.3C
Besides some other projects like "Deathmine" or "Pumpman", 'PixelPlop' is about to port a game he wrote a while ago on the PC but never published to the Amiga (amiga-news.de reported). The second preview video shows the following changes:
- Rewrote/redesigned the frontend menus so they can all be operated by joystick aswell as keyboard.
- Added a checkpoint password system instead of a save file.
- Wrote a new blitter routine that can clip a sprite to any arbitary rectangle. (Needed by the later levels.)
- Fixed a ton of bugs and got everything fitting in memory.
- Optimized the screen dissolve effect.
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08.Jun.2024
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PDF magazine: Ami Tech-Gazette, Issue 10
"Ami Tech-Gazette" by Eric Schwartz and Michael Barclay is a 14-page retro newsletter with an Amiga focus. The current issue contains, among other things, another installment of the "Graphics Workshop", another part of the PiMiga tutorial and a review of the last US-American print magazine "The New Amigans".
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07.Jun.2024
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Java tool: ham_convert 1.10.1
Sebastian Sieczko's Java-based tool ham_convert converts modern graphic formats into the Amiga's HAM format and is now available in version 1.10.1. New in this version:
- Temporal dithering (fake rgb666 in ham6 animations, dither_temporal command line parameter) updated with flipped pattern on odd fields (similar to dither_masked).
- ICtCp set as default HAM color distance mode.
- write_pal cli parameter can be used to enable saving the calculated palette to a separate JASC pal file.
Download: ham_convert 1.10.1 (7 MB)
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07.Jun.2024
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.16 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.16 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, which is now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.3.1. Detailed changes:
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07.Jun.2024
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Blog: Stupid Slow: The Perceived Speed of Computers
Swedish technology nerd and software developer Carl Svensson has published a new article on his website datagubbe.se, entitled ‘Stupid Slow: The Perceived Speed of Computers’. This article deals with the subjective perception of computer speed and examines how various factors influence this perception, with a particular focus on the Amiga. The article covers historical and technical aspects and offers interesting insights for technology fans – interesting stuff for anyone who wants to learn more about the perceived performance of their machines.
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07.Jun.2024
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Platformer: Release of "Tony Montezuma's Gold"
Monochrome Productions has published the Amiga game ‘Tony Montezuma's Gold’ (amiga-news.de reported). This new platform game lets players take on the role of Polish explorer and film-maker Tony Halik (1921-1998), whose adventures spanned continents and decades. Players will experience a journey through ancient temples and dangerous jungles in search of the legendary gold of Montezuma.
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07.Jun.2024
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Blog Epsilon's World: 1080p videos on the A1222 Plus
As usual, this time Epsilon shows in detail and with numerous pictures how it installs an RX550 graphics card in its A1222 Plus in order to be able to play videos with a 1080p resolution.
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07.Jun.2024
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.7
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 8.7 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. Changes:
- Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.44.2
- Implemented a targeted ReCaptcha workaround to improve its reliability on slower hardware
- Updated to latest cURL
- Fixed the busyloops on cURL thread
- Implemented various performance optimizations in cURL
- Added a workaround for cURL regression that broke video playback and/or seeking
- Fixed PayPal login page redraw issues
- Updated Safari user-agents
- Fixed editing of custom user-agents
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06.Jun.2024
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Programming: Web based m68k assembler editor v3.2.0
Under the title link you can find a webapp to write, run and learn M68K assembly code based on the framework SvelteKit and the programming language Rust (amiga-news.de reported).
Version 3.2.0 among others offers a memory region viewer:
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06.Jun.2024
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.218 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to the current kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels. He has now released version 5.10.218.
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06.Jun.2024
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Video: Gameplay of recent update of Doom clone "Grind"
In mid-April, we reported on the progress made in the development of the Doom clone "Grind". Now the YouTube channel "Amiga Factory" has published a gameplay showing these improvements and further developments.
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05.Jun.2024
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Reverse Engineering: Aira Force 0.6.3 for Windows, Linux and macOS
"Aira Force" is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software (amiga-news.de reported). It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated (preview video). The new version now supports unlimited hunks.
In addition, the author has spent some time configuring archives remotely. This is the first release of archives built remotely with GitHub Actions - at least for Windows and Linux. As a result, he hopes to no longer have to dig out his old Linux laptop and Macbook.
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05.Jun.2024
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Programming competition: Amiga Demo Effect Jam launched
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', has started a new programming competition after the 2022 Retro Trex Game Jam: the Amiga Demo Effect Jam, which runs until 31 July 2024. The task is to create an effect for an Amiga demo. In the end, all these effects will be put together to create a complete Amiga demo (OCS/ECS).
This jam is aimed at beginner programmers who would like to take part in a demo party. The exact technical requirements are listed under the title link.
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04.Jun.2024
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AROS: Emulator for 32-bit software under 64-bit AROS in development
To facilitate the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture for AROS, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has now published the prototype of an emulator, which should enable the continued use of existing 32-bit software until it might get recompiled natively (video).
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04.Jun.2024
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AmigaOS 4: Using a Logitech K400 Plus Keyboard with the A1222 Plus
Kevin 'ktadd' Taddeucci has purchased an A1222 Plus in addition to his existing AmigaOS 4 hardware (MicroA1, AmigaOne X1000) and reports on his experiences in a blog (amiga-news.de reported). In the current entry he describes the challenge and possible solutions when using a PC keyboard with a touchpad using the example of a Logitech K400 Plus.
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03.Jun.2024
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 5.7.2 and 6.3.2 (preview), (update)
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems like the Raspberry Pi, the Odroid XU4 or the Tinkerboard from ASUS, which brings some newly developed features like a "WHDLoad-Booter" or support for controller configuration using RetroArch. For example it is used in the Workbench distribution AmiKit for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
New versions have now been released: version 5.7.1 is recommended for ARM devices (like the Raspberry Pi) and Version 6.3.1 (preview) for x86 and generally faster boards (ARM included). Both versions offer numerous new features, bug fixes and improvements.
The Preview 6.x will become the new "stable" flatpak available. This will help with the limitations of the Flatpak system regarding "stable" vs "beta" versions, since you cannot use both of them at the same time (you have to switch). Having Preview as the "stable" version, will help with people trying to use it in faster boards, like the SteamDeck, with minimum hassle.
Update: (22:04, 06.06.24, dr)
Today version 5.7.2 and version 6.3.2 (preview) have been released.
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03.Jun.2024
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Video: Scorpion Engine game of a user
We recently reported on various ways of familiarising yourself with the Scorpion Engine game construction kit using tutorials. Now the user 'M1CK' has published a short video that shows how someone like him, who has no programming experience, can use it to create a game.
This example is mainly intended as an experiment and should not be explored further. First and foremost, it should show whether he can actually use the engine and how to add some of the features typically found in a 2D platformer.
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03.Jun.2024
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A2000 motherboard in E-ATX form factor: Revision 3.1
At the beginning of 2022, the developer 'jasonsbeer' published revision 2.2 of his replica of the A2000 motherboard in the ATX form factor, "Amiga-2000-ATX". After revision 3.0 in the middle of last year, he has now published revision 3.1 with the following changes:
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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
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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
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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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