20.Jul.2023
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Video tutorial: Blitz Basic
Rob Cranley has streamed on Twitch another part of his Blitz Basic tutorial (amiga-news.de reported), "looking at some general Blitz stuff, 3rd-party libraries, AmiBlitz includes and more".
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20.Jul.2023
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Retrohax blog: Amiga 500 upgrade #1
As Retrohax.net writes, he had restored hundreds of retro machines to their original state over the past years (sometimes with minor modifications) and he was kind of tired of it, so the time had come to try something different.
So he decided to create a new series of posts in which he will try to describe upgrades and visual modifications of the 20 remaining unrestored Amiga 500s. Each of these Amiga 500s will be unique and described in a separate blog post. As soon as such an Amiga is completed and tested, he will start an eBay auction with it. This is post number 1 of 20.
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20.Jul.2023
GitHub
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.4.1
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). George 'walkero' Sokianos has released version 2.4.1 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Changes:
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19.Jul.2023
Apollo-Forum
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FPGA: Apollo-Core-Update GOLD 2.17 "Bronto"
The Apollo-Core is a FPGA reimplementation of the m68k series produced by Motorola which also provides a separate graphics driver called SAGA. The core is used in the Vampire accelerator boards 600 V2, 500 V2+ and 1200 V2. Changes:
- Card supports now to run in one of 4 different speed mode. This allows for run old games e.g. in speed of A500 or A1200, to improve running old games that have problems running on faster CPUs.
- Support for new instruction EXTUB.L
This instruction is very useful for type conversion.
It is used by some GCC versions.
Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
- Support for new instruction EXTUW.L
This instruction is very useful for type conversion.
It is used by some GCC versions.
Supporting it does improve code density and improves performance.
- Support for enhanced instructions
BRA.s+ BSR.s+ BCC.s+
This instruction is supported by some compilers and assemblers.
This instruction improves code density and improves performance.
- Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.w
- Hardware optimized version of FPU instruction FDBcc.l
- several FPU Performance optimizations ported from V4-FPU to V2
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19.Jul.2023
Yawning Angel (E-Mail)
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Video tutorial: Writing a simple game in AMOS
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' had published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro over the past twelve months (amiga-news.de reported). Based on this, in the latest video he shows how to program a small, functional game and thus finishes his series for the time being.
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19.Jul.2023
Mastodon
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Platform game: Rastan demo v0.31
Rastan was released in 1987 by Taito for arcade machines. Now an Amiga port is in development and after a first preview video (amiga-news.de reported) there are now also demo versions, which the developer still calls alpha versions. Changes in version 0.31:
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19.Jul.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Special issue of ASM (German)
German magazine ASM ("Aktueller Software-Markt", current software market) was published from March 1986 to February 1995. Now a special issue is available, which contains more than 30 reviews of current games for 8- and 16-bitters as well as numerous interviews:
On the one hand with a number of people involved at that time - Manfred Kleimann, Frank Brall, Martina Strack, Bendrik Muhs, Stefan Swiergiel, Klaus Segel, Stefan Bayer, Torsten Oppermann and Dirk Fuchser - and on the other hand also with Thomas Meiertoberens (Magic Bytes) and Steve Wilcox (Elite Systems), Roman Werner (Super Marble Boy), The Mojon Twins (Ramiro el Vampiro), Juan Manchon (Amigastore. eu), Andreas Magerl (APC&TCP) and Sebastian Bach (Polyplay).
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18.Jul.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: Finance management LüttjeBookholler 1.86
"Lüttje Bookholler" is a German dialect and means "little accountant". The program is capable to import account data via csv-import. Changes since our last news item:
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18.Jul.2023
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AmigaOS 4.1: ignition-OpenDocument plugin v0.38
The ods-addon of the spreadsheet ignition (amiga-news.de reported) was updated to version 0.38. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. Some improvements were made to prevent endless reading and the debug outputs were removed to speedup performance.
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18.Jul.2023
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Event: "ZZAP! Live" in Kenilworth (England)
On 12 August 2023 at The Holiday Inn in Kenilworth (England) the first "ZZAP! Live" event, organised by the South West Amiga Group and Retro Computer Museum, among others. All Commodore computer systems including the Amiga will be represented.
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17.Jul.2023
Rafał Zabdyr (E-Mail)
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MorphOS: Version management "Git Desktop" v0.9.19
Rafał Zabdyr has released a first beta version of his graphical user interface for the version management Git for MorphOS. "Git Desktop" (Aminet link) is written in C++ and based on MUI through his C++ wrapper. MorphOS 3.x and the Git component of the SDK are required.
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17.Jul.2023
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Arcade port: Pengo released
After the beta version (amiga-news.de reported) the developer Jean-Francois 'jotd' Fabre has released the full version of the game "Pengo", originally published for Sega's arcade machines (video). As a red penguin, you have to fight off so-called Sno-Bees in a labyrinth of ice blocks.
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16.Jul.2023
Eldee Stephens (E-Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: Guide for new A1222 users
In the course of the press release about the start of production of the A1222+ motherboards (amiga-news.de reported), A-EON also gave Eldee Stephens permission to make his guide for potential A1222 users public.
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16.Jul.2023
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Start bar: WBDock2 V2.896
Today Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.896. Changes:
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16.Jul.2023
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Aminet uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to Aminet:
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16.Jul.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to OS4Depot:
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16.Jul.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to AROS Archives:
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16.Jul.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 15.07.2023
The following files have been added until 15.07.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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16.Jul.2023
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WHDLoad: New installers until 15.07.2023
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 15.07.2023:
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16.Jul.2023
Epsilon's World
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Blog "Vintage is The New Old" is discontinued
The blog "Vintage is the New Old" (ViTNO) - formerly known as "CommodoreBlog" and then as "Commodore is Awesome" - will stop all activities at the end of the month. The blog used to report on all facets of retro computing. The operator Paulo justifies his step with the fact that despite the numerous readers, the engagement and feedback on articles and actions is close to zero. In contrast, news published on ViTNO is very often used and commented on in other media (podcasts, websites, etc.) without the site being named as a source.
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15.Jul.2023
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LinuxJedi blog: Restauration of an Amiga 3000
In two detailed blog entries Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings shows how he restores an Amiga 3000 bought from the USA. The first part is mainly about adjustments to the power supply and changing from NTSC to PAL system, in the second part he replaces the 100MB SCSI drive with a BlueSCSI-V2.
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15.Jul.2023
itch.io
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Platform game: "Boxx"-Remake v1.0
The developer 'Lemming880' is currently working on the fourth part of his "Boxx" series developed with the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). At the same time he is also porting the first part of the series, originally written with Backbone, to the Scorpion Engine. The latest update to version 1.0 includes the following changes:
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15.Jul.2023
MorphZone
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MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 6.0
Jacek 'jacadcaps' Piszczek has released version 6.0 of his web browser Wayfarer for MorphOS. As the developer wrote, the WebKit core has again been rebased to the latest stable WebKitGTK tree. But that's not all, 6.0 also brings many UI improvements like Bookmark filtering, improved password management, Youtube playback fixes, additional Altivec acceleration and more.
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14.Jul.2023
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 12.2 for Raspberry Pi and Windows/Mac/Linux
AmiKit has released version 12.2 of the workbench distribution AmiKit XE. Among other things, AmigaOS 3.2.2.1 is now supported and it has been updated to the latest version of the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry. Detailed change logs for Windows/Mac/Linux and for the Raspberry Pi 4/400.
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14.Jul.2023
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Gotek firmware: FlashFloppy 3.41
FlashFloppy is an alternative, open source firmware for the floppy emulator Gotek. Its original firmware is not developed any further. Changes in version 3.41:
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14.Jul.2023
jPV RNO (E-Mail)
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Review: "Finnish Amiga Users Group" at the Vectorama 2023
In mid-June, Vectorama 2023, an online gaming event aimed at people of all ages, took place in Oulu, Finland. Also present was the Finnish Amiga Users Group, which organised an Amiga stand at the gaming event.
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14.Jul.2023
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Demoparty: Results of Pågadata 2023
At the beginning of July the Pågadata 2023 took place in Kvidinge, Sweden (amiga-news.de reported). At the demo competition held there, the following Amiga results were achieved:
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14.Jul.2023
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Adventure interpreter: ScummVM 2.0.1.01 for Amigas with 68060 processor
The developer 'NovaCoder' has been porting the adventure interpreter ScummVM to AmigaOS 3: the latest version 2.0.1.01 is available for RTG-Amigas and AGA-Amigas with 68060 processor and is based on ScummVM 2.0.1 for the first time.
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14.Jul.2023
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MorphOS: Screen blankers fxBlankers V1.2
Stephan Blixth (OnyxSoft) has released version 1.2 of his screen saver fxBlankers for MorphOS (amiga-news.de reported) which now also includes DotFlag and RandomPixels.
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14.Jul.2023
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Event: Banquet ticket registration for AmiWest 2023
The banquet ticket registration form is now available for AmiWest, which will be held in Sacramento, California, from 12 to 15 October 2023. In addition, two more raffle sponsors, AmiKit and Alinea Computer, and prominent attendees, Doug Compton of 10MARC and Alex Perez of Rabbit Hole Computing (ZuluSCSI), have been secured. The speaker at the banquet will be Garry Hare, former CEO ("Chief Executive Officer") of Amiga Inc. (see also his legal dispute from 2005).
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14.Jul.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Amigaland.de: Games by California Dreams added
At Amigaland.de now all games by California Dreams are available. This month the titles Street Rod, Street Rod 2: The Next Generation, Blockout, Tunnels of Armageddon, TrianGO and Vegas Gambler have been added to that collection of legally downloadable software.
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14.Jul.2023
Amiga Future (website)
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Start bar: WBDock2 2.877
Thomas Rapp has updated his Toolmanager or AmiDock style start bar, WBDock2, to version 2.877. Changes of this program for AmigaOS 3.1 and higher include addition of an experimental separator app (only working properly in AmiDock style yet) and a change in autohide mode preventing the dock to also appear when a previously started program ends.
Download: wbdock2.lha (377 KB)
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14.Jul.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New full versions online
Further full versions of Amiga games have been added to Amiga Future's download area: Wibble World Giddy, Giddy 2, Operation Firestorm, and Space Ace 2 - Borfs Revenge as well as the Bauersoft releases Basket, Hotel, Imbiss, and Toon.
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14.Jul.2023
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Image editor: PyDPainter 1.2.0 for Windows, Linux and macOS
The image editor PyDPainter (YouTube video) is inspired by DPaint and according to its author Mark Riale an attempt to create a usable pixel art program in Python using PyGame that can handle low resolutions and limited colour palettes and which can be as easy to use as possible (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of version 1.2.0:
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14.Jul.2023
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Virtual Enemies: Devlog #2 - Registration, Network, Language-Support
For the announced strategy game "Virtual Enemies" (amiga-news.de reported), the developers have published a second devlog:
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