25.May.2024
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Video: Installing a new network printer on MorphOS
'jPV' is a very active MorphOS developer, but with his software projects such as the image processing software RNOEffects or the MUI-based SFTP/FTP(S) client RNOXFER he mostly supports all Amiga systems. As he writes, it had been quite a while since he had dealt with the printer problem under MorphOS. As he had just bought a new printer - a Xerox B230 printer - he had to deal with drivers and network support under MorphOS again and recorded his results in a video.
In it, he explains how to set up the netprinter default settings and add drivers for the new printing system (PPD) and for the old TurboPrint-based system. In order for a printer to be integrated as a network printer under MorphOS, it must currently support PostScript, PCL5, ESC/P-R or SPL2/SPLc.
As 'jPV' explained to us, the new printing system in MorphOS is great because it supports all the new printer features: the printer settings GUI is created according to the provided PPD file, so you can change all the options available in any printer in MorphOS.
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25.May.2024
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Blog: Building an Amiga PSU for upgraded Amigas
As Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings writes, many users use Meanwell power supplies as a replacement for the ones supplied with the Amiga. Usually the 50W variants like the RPT-60B would be used because it fits well into an original Amiga power supply. In the first part of his report, Hutchings investigates whether a 75W power supply can also be used for heavily upgraded Amigas.
In his second blog post, he reports on corresponding tests and some improvements.
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[News message: 25. May. 2024, 10:57] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2024
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Editor: Lite XL 2.1.4r1 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS
George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.1.4r1 of the Editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported). Changes:
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[News message: 24. May. 2024, 16:19] [Comments: 0]
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24.May.2024
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Game collection: Arcade Classics for CD32
Jean-François 'jotd' Fabre has gathered all his previous arcade ports and released them for the CD32 (YouTube video).
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[News message: 24. May. 2024, 06:14] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2024
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Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #25 (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 25 (spring/summer) are several game reviews as well as an interview with Paolo Cattani (former interview).
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[News message: 23. May. 2024, 22:31] [Comments: 0]
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23.May.2024
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Music tip: "Grogon - Hoppy Cardiocore"
'no9' has been working in the audio sector for years and occasionally composes music for games. He also regularly publishes his own compositions on his YouTube channel, such as now the track "Grogon - Hoppy Cardiocore". He uses the "ProTracker 2" clone for Windows by Olav Sorensen (amiga-news.de reported).
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[News message: 23. May. 2024, 07:55] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2024
EAB
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Beat 'em Up: Update of Final Fight Enhanced
In late January, developer 'Prototron' released its improved version of Capcom's Final Fight written in machine language (amiga-news.de reported). Now some small fixes, a new move and a new music track have been added.
An overview of the changes:
- added new music to the elevator stage
- added guy and Maki's "off the wall jump"
- fixed a bug that crashed the game when Belger was killed with a regular punch
- removed some superfluous collision checks from Belger in an attempt to fix the stall bug
- some minor animation fixes, plus checks added to prevent some bugs that didn't halt the player during level transitions
The developer points out that the realisation is explicitly a private, non-commercial project. An ECS or AGA Amiga with 2MB Chip RAM and 512KB Fast RAM is required.
YouTube-Video: Final Fight: Enhanced - Maki (Full Game - Amiga 600 ECS)
Download: Final Fight Enhanced.rar (2,8 MB)
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[News message: 21. May. 2024, 11:24] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2024
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Video: Installation of Internet tools and game tests on a PiStorm Amiga
Even though George 'walkereo' Sokianos concentrates mainly on the development of AmigaOS4 software, he also has classic hardware at his disposal. In a detailed video he shows how he equips his Amiga 1200 equipped with a PiStorm-lite with the necessary Internet software and tests it. He also tests some WHDLoad games.
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[News message: 21. May. 2024, 06:45] [Comments: 0]
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21.May.2024
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Turn-based strategy: Bugfix update May 2024 for "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel writes about his recently published update:
"The bugfix update is finished and is recommended for everyone who is still playing on the April 2024 version.
In addition to fixing bugs, the movement system of units has been reworked.
Units can now move a little more, and the player should now receive the message about too few movement points much less frequently.
Furthermore, Settle the World can now be played completely in the German language.
This also lays the technical basis for additional translations into other languages.
Of course, the game still contains bugs or features that do not yet work properly.
Settle the World is far from finished...but with this bugfix update it is much more playable than ever before.
I would be very happy to receive feedback from players about this update. The amount of work involved in creating this update was really enormous.
As always, Settle the World can be downloaded free of charge from the project page."
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[News message: 21. May. 2024, 06:21] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2024
ANF
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Video: Another Robin Hood port preview by Apollo team
The Apollo team is working on a port of the game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" (amiga-news.de reported) for the Apollo V4 equipped with SAGA chipset. A preview video of the second beta version has now been published under the title link.
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[News message: 20. May. 2024, 14:05] [Comments: 0]
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20.May.2024
Mastodon
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Modplayer: Minimod V1.2
Harry 'piru' Sintonen has written a minimal Protracker command line modplayer using Frank Wille's ptplayer routine that runs on AmigaOS 1.3 and higher.
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[News message: 20. May. 2024, 11:21] [Comments: 0]
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19.May.2024
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Boing Attitude: Interview with George Sokianos
Boing Attitude published the seventh issue of the French print magazine "BOING" in October 2023. Among other things, there was also an interview with George 'walkereo' Sokianos, who is responsible for the WebKit port for AmigaOS 4 and implements software projects such as the Editor Lite XL for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
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[News message: 19. May. 2024, 20:43] [Comments: 0]
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19.May.2024
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SCSI emulation: BlueSCSI toolbox V1.2
The BlueSCSI Toolbox combines two utilities for managing a BlueSCSI V2 or ZuluSCSI in a Commodore Amiga.
The CD changer makes it possible to switch between CD ISO images on the SD card during operation. The SD transfer tool can be used to transfer files from the SD card to the Amiga.
Download: BlueSCSI-toolbox-Amiga_v1.2.zip (37 Kb)
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[News message: 19. May. 2024, 10:19] [Comments: 0]
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19.May.2024
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Aminet uploads until 18.05.2024
The following files have been added until 18.05.2024 to Aminet:
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[News message: 19. May. 2024, 07:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.May.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 18.05.2024
The following files have been added until 18.05.2024 to OS4Depot:
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19.May.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 18.05.2024
The following files have been added until 18.05.2024 to AROS Archives:
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19.May.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 18.05.2024
The following files have been added until 18.05.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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[News message: 19. May. 2024, 07:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.May.2024
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news-item, the following mp3 files have been added:
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[News message: 19. May. 2024, 07:13] [Comments: 0]
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19.May.2024
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 8.6 (2nd update)
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released another bug fix for version 8 of his Wayfarer web browser for MorphOS. This fixes a performance regression in curl/nghttp2.
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18.May.2024
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Game: Hack and Slay V0.9
In this simple Amiga conversion of the mailbox game "Hack and Slash", the aim is to explore five levels with a stick figure. In the new version, a few "nasty traps" have been added in a few random rooms on all levels and some bugs have been removed. AmigaOS 3.x and 1 MB RAM are required.
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[News message: 18. May. 2024, 22:48] [Comments: 0]
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18.May.2024
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.5.0 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). Originally written for AmigaOS 3.2, the programme meanwhile also supports AmigaOS 3.9, Cloanto's Workbench 3.X and AmigaOS 4.1. Changes of version 1.5.0:
- Support for OpenAI text to speech voices. Fast internet connection recommended
- Updated to latest OpenAI chat models (including GPT-4o which will only work for ChatGPT Plus subscribers for now)
- Removed debug symbols for faster and smaller executable
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (221 KB)
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[News message: 18. May. 2024, 21:44] [Comments: 0]
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18.May.2024
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ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.c for Sam460EX, Sam460CR and Sam460LE boards
Press release: Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 18 May 2024
ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the U-Boot firmware for its Sam460 line of motherboards.
New in this version:
- added support for Radeon RX cards
- updated x86 emulator
- fixed USB handling especially for keyboard support
- new boot logo and menu graphics
- added FAT support
- fixed several typos and small graphic mistakes
The updated installation guide describes in detail the usual installation method (ISO image) and alternative methods (TFTP and USB).
You can buy the update from our online shop with the following options:
For customers who bought version 2015.b, the downloadable version is free of charge. Please contact us if you are eligible for the free update.
To celebrate the new UBoot update we also lowered the price of Radeon RX550 in our shop, both the bundle version and the stand-alone version.
Please note: UBoot and UBoot updater make use of GPL code and thus are both published under GPL (download of the source code).
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[News message: 18. May. 2024, 21:40] [Comments: 0]
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18.May.2024
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AROS x86: Card game conversion Scopa
Giovanni Iacobelli has released the Italian card game Scopa for AROS x86 (YouTube video). In this digital version, the player plays against the computer. The first player to reach or exceed a score of 11 wins the game.
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[News message: 18. May. 2024, 16:40] [Comments: 0]
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