08.Oct.2023
ALBs Blog
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Program for DeepL use: AmiTranslate 0.3
Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow's programme AmiTranslate (video) serves as a link to the translation service DeepL and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS (x86, x64, ARM) and MorphOS.
The new version 0.3 can now also display and print Japanese characters.
Besides an SSL-secured internet connection (OpenSSL3 under MorphOS resp. AmiSSL for the other systems) the program also needs the MUI class texteditor.mcc.
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08.Oct.2023
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Event: News from the Amiga38 (update)
This weekend the Amiga38 took place. We asked around for news and things worth reporting:
AmigaOS 3.3: Camilla Boemann, who joined the AmigaOS 3 development team 4 years ago, gave a preview of the upcoming version 3.3 in a speech (YouTube video), which among other things should offer an improved and more intelligent handling of ADF files and run noticeably faster. The HDToolbox will also be replaced and partitioning will become much easier: it will no longer be necessary to specify a device or block size.
Enhancer 2.3, Virtio GPU driver: In his talk (YouTube video), Trevor Dickinson described the history of A-EON's hardware developments, announced a new Enhancer version 2.3 for probably before Christmas, and introduced the Virtio GPU driver for Picasso96: a virtual GPU for use with emulators like QEMU and virtual machines (KVMs), developed for A-EON by Hans der Ruiter. Features:
- Looks like a regular PCI device
- Passes graphics commands through the host operating systems graphics drivers
- Provides 32-bit display support
- High resolution
- Fast - no need to emulate hardware registers
- Virtio GPU has 3D and video decoding hardware acceleration - WIP
Virtio GPU driver current status:
- Fully working framebuffer driver, with 8, 16, and 32-bit modes
- Hardware accelerated mouse pointer
- DDC/EDID working, so automatically gets available screen-modes
- High resolution
- Fast - no need to emulate hardware registers
- Virtio GPU has 3D and video decoding hardware acceleration - WIP
- Version 0.5 has just been released
- Very usable as-is
Pre-order of A1222 Plus: At Amedia France, part of the "AAA Technology" alliance consisting of Amedia Computer, AmigaKit and A-Eon, one could place pre-orders for an A1222-Plus complete system at the special price of 1600 Euros (incl. VAT, plus PayPal or extra shipping costs), and continue to do so by via e-mail or the corresponding website. The following is a sample offer, which can be modified according to your wishes, e.g. graphics card, tower, etc:
- Chieftec mATX Tower
- A1222+ 1.3 Motherboard
- Kingston 4GB SoDDR3 1600MHz
- Crucial 240GB SSD harddisk SATA3
- AFox Radeon RX550 4GB gfc card
There should be an official sales link on the official A1222 Plus website soon.
new products from Alinea Computer: new products were available for purchase at the Alinea Computer stand, which will also be available in the shop this week. More details will be published this week:
- Wodem - WLAN via the serial interface for every Amiga
- KickRom-Flash - 4-fold flash-rom adapter with up to 4 kickstarts
- KickRom-Progger - Flash-Rom programmer for programming the KickRom flash modules directly on the Amiga
And a few prototypes were also shown, which will be released this year:
- KickRom switch - 4-fold kick-start switch for the KickRom flash
- KickRom switch as TV port version
- Joyport Power Adapter - Get 5V power via the joystick port and use it for Wodem, KickRom Progger or other 5 V devices so that a separate power supply unit no longer has to be used.
- Floppy to 5V/12V switch - To be able to quickly connect e.g. fans via the floppy power cable
native AmigaOS 4 version of Heretic II: At the beginning of the year we reported that Steffen Häuser was working on a native AmigaOS 4 version of Heretic II. The finished version could be marvelled at both at the HunoPPC stand and at Alinea Computer. At the latter, the game was shown on a Sam460ex with Radeon HD 7750 and the new GL drivers. According to Simon Neumann, it ran "absolutely smoothly". On the Sam with a resolution of 1280x1024 with 39 fps, on Steffen Häusers own AmigaOne 1000 at 1024x768 with about 100 fps.
Videos: In addition to the recording of the official live stream, there are also short tours of the fair that visitors have uploaded to YouTube, including Retro Merlin and Propheus.
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08.Oct.2023
ALB-Blog
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Web browser: AmiFox 0.4
"AmiFox" displays modern web pages on an Amiga by downloading and displaying pages converted to images by a web rendering proxy ("AmiFox server"). At Amiga38, some copies of a boxed version financed by the author were given away, which contains the new version 0.4. This offers some new features like an AREXX interface or the possibility to pass a web page as a command line parameter (both useful for OpenURL use).
Especially for Amigas with small screens (e.g. Native PAL Hires Mode), parts of the interface can be hidden: either automatically (the status bar) or by pressing a button (the text input bar).
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08.Oct.2023
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Shoot'em Up: Reshoot Proxima 3 released
The official release party took place at this weekend's Amiga38, and now, after Reshoot and Reshoot R, the third part of Richard Löwenstein's shoot'em-up series has been released: Reshoot Proxima 3 (official YouTube teaser) offers the following features:
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08.Oct.2023
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Aminet uploads until 07.10.2023
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08.Oct.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 07.10.2023
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08.Oct.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 07.10.2023
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08.Oct.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 07.10.2023
The following files have been added until 07.10.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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08.Oct.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 07.10.2023
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 07.10.2023:
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08.Oct.2023
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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:
- Battle Squadron - Loose (Spatial Mix)
- Physical Presence (Spatial mix)
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08.Oct.2023
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Forum: AROS-Exec preserved on AROSWorld
After the closure of Ola '4pLaY' Jensen's forum AROS-Exec for health reasons, AROSWorld has preserved it read-only for posterity at the title link.
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07.Oct.2023
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Music album: "Virtual Burnout" by LukHash
'LukHash' is a musician living in Edinburgh (Scotland). He describes his music as "fusion of 8-bit digital mayhem and '80s inspired synth music combined with modern sounds and cyberpunk aesthetics." In March we reported on his track Amiga, which is also included on the now released new album "Virtual Burnout" and can be purchased on music stores and streaming platforms.
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07.Oct.2023
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Blog: Author of "Fire and Ice" about game engines
Andrew Braybrook has also written classics for the Amiga: Rainbow Islands, Paradroid 90, Realms, Fire and Ice und Uridium 2. He runs his own blog and in his latest entry talks about his experiences with game engines gained during his long creative career as a developer.
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07.Oct.2023
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Detailed article: Connecting an Amiga to a modern display
Developer Steffest, among other things author of the Amiga MOD tracker Bassoontracker and the web-based image editor DPaint.js, describes in a detailed article on the website of the Belgian Amiga Club the possibilities of running an old Amiga on a current monitor, if no old crt monitor is available.
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05.Oct.2023
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Tutorial: Writing an Amiga GUI program in C
Edwin van den Oosterkamp has already dedicated two books to programming on the Amiga: "Classic AmigaOS Programming - An introduction" is an introduction to programming the AmigaOS in C and assembler. The target group are programmers without Amiga experience, or former Amiga programmers who want to develop for the Amiga again after a longer break. "Bare Metal Amiga Programming" goes into the programming of the hardware bypassing the operating system.
We invited the programmer to show how to get started with C programming by means of a concrete example and say thank you very much for the following instructions:
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04.Oct.2023
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Chat software: AmigaGPT V1.2.0
Cameron Armstrong has written AmigaGPT, a chat program for AmigaOS 3.2 that uses the power of the chatbot ChatGPT (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 1.2.0 adds backwards compatibility to AmigaOS 3.9.
Direct download: AmigaGPT.lha (207 KB)
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04.Oct.2023
ANF
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Event: Gameday#2 at Wolfsburg indoor swimming pool (Germany)
After the premiere in March, where according to a video also the Amiga was represented in the retro area, the Gameday#2 will take place on October 22nd in the indoor swimming pool Wolfsburg. The retro area is already open from 10am.
If you want to exhibit your own computer in the retro area, please contact the organizer at bloekchen@gmx.de.
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04.Oct.2023
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Touch Device 0.12
The Touch Device makes it possible under AmigaOS 4.1 to also use the touch function of touchscreens - a list of supported models can be found at the title link. Ports for MorphOS and AROS are planned.
Version 0.12 now also includes a HID touch driver for the first time, which should enable uage of most modern touchscreens.
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03.Oct.2023
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Introduction: The AMOS game "The Gate" (in development)
For quite some time now, we have been reporting on Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci's projects such as the Hollywood GUI system HGUI or the Hollywood utility APPBuilder. After G.E.M.Z., the programmer has now again started writing a game, which he has given the provisional name "The Gate" and is being written with AMOS Professional and AMCAF & Turbo extensions. We asked Fabio to write something about himself, his development history and that of the new action adventure. Thank you very much, Fabio!
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03.Oct.2023
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Event: Amiga Ireland 2024
The next Amiga Ireland will take place on 19/20 January 2024. The venue for the meeting, which is regularly attended by more prominent members of the Amiga community, is as usual the Sheraton Hotel in the town of Athlone, located in the heart of the island. Tickets can already be purchased at the title link. The coming Amiga Ireland is to be much more relaxed in terms of the schedule: so there will be neither an "official" dinner nor a main guest. This should leave more time for workshops and games.
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02.Oct.2023
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Introduction: Research project "CH LUDENS"
"Confoederatio Ludens", or "CH LUDENS" for short, is a joint project of the two universities of Bern and the universities of Lausanne and Zurich that began in February 2023 and is intended to research Swiss games culture in the period from 1969 to 2000 by 2027.
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02.Oct.2023
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Chiptune tracker: Furnace V0.6 for Windows, Mac and Linux
A year and a half after the last release, a new version of Furnace is available: a tool which allows you to create music using sound chips ("chiptune"), most from the 8/16-bit era. It supports a wide range of functions and sound chips, from NES, SNES and Genesis to ES5506, VIC-20 and of course the Amiga.
Every chip is emulated using many emulation cores, therefore the sound that Furnace produces is authentic to that of real hardware. An English-language manual is available.
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01.Oct.2023
Amiga.org (forum)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for September
For the month of September 'Puni' has again published a news summary in the areas of hard- and software for AmigaOS 4 at the title link.
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01.Oct.2023
Frank Wille (ANF)
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Development tool: vasm 1.9e
Frank Wille has published an update of the modular assembler vasm.
Changes:
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01.Oct.2023
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Aminet uploads until 30.09.2023
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01.Oct.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 30.09.2023
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01.Oct.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 30.09.2023
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01.Oct.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 30.09.2023
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01.Oct.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 30.09.2023
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01.Oct.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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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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