14.Feb.2023
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Blog: The Colorful Charm of Amiga Utility Disks
In his latest, richly illustrated blog entry, Carl Svensson looks at Amiga utility disks and their often creative CLI menus: Utility disks were especially popular in the demo scene, and included editors, crunchers, graphics tools, trackers for composing music, or tools for displaying or playing text, graphics and music files. To create a demo, you only needed a handful of these disks.
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14.Feb.2023
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Review: ZuluSCSI
Already in mid-January, 'Jaruzel' had reported in his blog about his experiences with the file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulator ZuluSCSI.
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13.Feb.2023
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Video: Chemical Free Retrobrighting Alternatives
In his latest video, Robert Smith uses theoretical considerations and practical experiments to address the question of how to brighten up yellowed keyboards and cases of retro computers without the usual hydrogen peroxide. He has found two successful alternatives.
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13.Feb.2023
Heiko Schlomka (e-mail)
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Article on Amiga use in film productions by Digital Domain
Befores & Afters is a (primarily online) magazine on visual effects and animation. At the title link, it dedicates a current article to the use of the Amiga in the film industry - to be more precise, it is simply a reproduction of memories of Digital Domain graphic artist Sean Cunningham, which he published as a comment on the YouTube channel of Retro Recipes after an Amiga 4000 apparently used for the films "Apollo 13" and "Titanic" turned up three years ago.
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12.Feb.2023
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AmigaOS 4: Status of Qt 6.2.0
In October 2021, developer Alfkil Wennermark had published a first preview of a text editor created with Qt6 (amiga-news.de reported).
Now he shows in a current YouTube video how he edits text in this editor and then exports it to a pdf file. The special thing about it:
Until now, there was only a static link version of Qt6, which means that all library objects are collected in the executable file at build time. In the dynamic link now, they use shared objects that are all loaded and linked at runtime. Since most complex programs from other platforms need dynamic links (shared objects) for their build systems to work, this is another development step regarding the creation of such programs for AmigaOS 4.
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12.Feb.2023
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Aminet uploads until 11.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to Aminet:
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12.Feb.2023
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OS4Depot uploads until 11.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to OS4Depot:
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12.Feb.2023
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AROS Archives uploads until 11.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to AROS Archives:
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12.Feb.2023
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 04.02.2023
The following files have been added until 11.02.2023 to MorphOS-Storage:
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12.Feb.2023
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WHDLoad: Neue Pakete bis 11.02.2023
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 11.02.2023:
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12.Feb.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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12.Feb.2023
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Report: Amiga PowerPC hardware in Mini-ITX format (Czech)
Martina Hřebcová Martina Hřebcová is known for her extensive and detailed reports on PowerPC hardware.
Now she has published a series of articles dealing with Amiga PowerPC hardware in Mini-ITX size or smaller:
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12.Feb.2023
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Top-Down action game: "Mighty Mike" for MorphOS and Linux
A few days ago, the developer 'jorio' published version 3.0.2 of the top-down action game "Mighty Mike" for Windows, Mac and Linux (64 bit), originally published by "Pangea Software", including the source code, on itch.io.
Analogous to "Otto Matic", 'BeWorld' has now compiled it for MorphOS and Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky for Linux PPC 32-Bit (direct download, 8 MB).
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12.Feb.2023
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Jump'n Run: Maria Renard's Revenge released
"Maria Renard's Revenge" (video) is a Jump'n Run inspired by Castlevania which was developed using the Scorpion Engine. Today the final version has been released.
An Amiga 1200 or an Amiga CD32 with 1 MB FastRam are required.
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11.Feb.2023
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ReAction GUI for XAD: Avalanche 1.11 for AmigaOS 3 and 4
Chris Young has released version 1.11 of his ReAction-based graphical user interface Avalanche for the unarchiving system XAD, which also supports the xfdmaster.library and can search for viruses using the xvs.library. The developer has written his tool explicitly for AmigaOS 3.2, but has also been tested under AmigaOS 4. Since it uses a new window.class, it might not work with older OS3 versions. Changes:
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11.Feb.2023
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Turn-based strategy: Intro update for "Settle the World"
Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel has released an intro update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" - see detailed introduction on amiga-news.de - which now tells the background story with a slideshow (YouTube video).
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10.Feb.2023
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AROS x86: Update of ABI-v0 developer branch to version 20201110-1
AROS developer Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has released the new version 20201110-1 of AROS ABIv0 for 32-Bit systems (amiga-news.de reported). Over 1400 changes have been integrated, with 1700 still to come to match the main branch. The full list of changes can be seen under the title link.
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10.Feb.2023
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Tech demo: 3D engine for Amiga 1200
In a little tech demo, 'Rst7/CBSIE' presents his 3D engine "SDDDE" for the Amiga 1200. The corresponding project is maintained on GitHub.
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10.Feb.2023
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User Report: The PiStorm32-lite, part 1
I never really planned to get a PiStorm for my Amiga 1200. Firstly, the project - the PiStorm32 - didn't seem to be finished in the near future and then, of course, there was the question of its sense and usefulness.
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10.Feb.2023
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Demoparty: Lovebyte 2023 / Call to Amiga programmers
From 8pm tonight until Sunday, the Lovebyte Demoparty 2023 will take place on Discord and Twitch, where there will again be intro competitions in various categories. However, until just before the closing date, not a single Amiga demo has been submitted for this, which is why the organisers explicitly encourage programmers to submit for example at least a small 1k bootblock intro.
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10.Feb.2023
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MorphOS 3.17: openssl3.library February Hotfix
The MorphOS developer team has announced: "Another round of vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Eight discovered issues, namely CVE-2023-0286, CVE-2022-4304, CVE-2022-4203, CVE-2023-0215, CVE-2022-4450, CVE-2023-0216, CVE-2023-0217 and CVE-2023-0401, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.
A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can download (1,7 MB) the replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17. To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot."
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09.Feb.2023
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.7.1 (update)
Bartman', member of the demo group 'Abyss', provides with 'amiga-debug' a 'Visual Studio Code' extension for "compiling, debugging and profiling Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 11.2 with the bundled WinUAE" (YouTube video). Today version 1.7.0 has been released. Changes:
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09.Feb.2023
Gunnar Kanold (Mail)
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Programming contest: 12th Edition of BASIC 10Liner Contest
Homeputerium is the name of the home computer laboratory of the Eider-Treene school in Friedrichstadt. Using donated computers like Commodore 64, Atari-400, Schneider CPC-464 or Amiga 500 there pupils can make themselves familiar with them and create some sound or colorful lines by writing little BASIC programs.
The organizers wrote: "The BASIC 10Liner Contest started 2011 as a party fun at the NOMAM meeting in Northern Germany. NOMAM means 'Not only marvelous Atari machinery' and is an annual meeting from classic computer enthusiasts. The visitors of the meeting decided to hold a little contest: Write a program in 10 lines of BASIC on Atari Computers! We had loads of fun with programming the whole weekend. 2013 we decided to repeat the contest. This time only games were allowed. In 2014 we opened the 10Liner contest also for programmers who did not visit to the meeting. Owners of other 8 bit computer requested to open the contest for their machines. We met the wish and opened it for all 8 bit computers."
This year marks the twelfth edition of the competition. And even if Amiga computers belong to the 16-bit systems and thus do not fulfil the competition conditions, corresponding entries are included in the category "Wild". This year 'Toolkitman' has already submitted two Amiga projects. These and all other submitted programmes can be found in the overview at bunsen.itch.io.
The deadline for entries is Saturday, 25 March 2023, 18.00 CET. The award ceremony will take place at NOMAM on Saturday, 1 April 2023.
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09.Feb.2023
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Event: AMIGA Ruhrpott Convention in Duisburg (Germany)
On Saturday, 6 May 2023, the first AMIGA Ruhrpott Convention will take place in Duisburg-Rheinhausen (Germany) at the Area 51 youth centre, starting at 10 am. The event is intended as a meeting for Commodore AMIGA fans from the Ruhr region, but is open to everyone. Tickets are available for 18.31 euros.
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09.Feb.2023
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Issue 136 of Amiga Future readable online
The German and English issue 136 (January/February 2019) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can now be read on the magazine's website in the form of image files of the individual pages. Remaining copies of the magazine as well as a higher resolution PDF version can be purchased from the publisher.
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08.Feb.2023
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AmigaOS 4/MorphOS: Odyssey script for GitHub websites v1.6
On our hint that you can't see download links on the GitHub page for version 5.7 of the encryption protocol AmiSSL, released today (amiga-news.de reported), with the browser Odyssey, George 'walkero' Sokianos has again adapted his script for the correct display of GitHub pages and made it available under the title link.
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08.Feb.2023
Twitter
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HxC floppy emulator: Software V2.14.4.1
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, launched in 2006, is basically available in two versions:
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08.Feb.2023
Puni (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Blog summary for January
For the month of January '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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08.Feb.2023
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Obligement: Interview with DJ Nick (Nikola Tomic)
The French AmigaOS and MorphOS magazine Obligement has conducted an English-language interview with the musician and artist Nikola Tomic alias DJ Nick.
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08.Feb.2023
Void
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AmigaOS 4: FeeDBack #14 - 4-channel tracks of Gerp demo party
The demo group 'Void' has published the 4-channel tracks of the demo party "Gerp 2023", which took place from 20. until 22. January in Sweden, as music pack.
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08.Feb.2023
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Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 5.7 (AmigaOS 3/4)
Version 5.7 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL has been released, now based on the latest version OpenSSL 3.0.8, with updated root certificates and some improvements. The changes in detail:
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