12.Oct.2024
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Managing ADF files: Rust library "adflib" V0.1.4
In March 2023, we reported on Volker Schwaberow's project to convert ADFlib, written primarily in C by Laurent Clevy, into the Rust programming language. At that time, it could be used to read and write ADFs, read and write tracks and sectors in a byte array.
He has now recently released version 0.1.4 and thus also made a disc bitmap implementation available.
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12.Oct.2024
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Preview video: First level of the game "The Gate"
At the beginning of October last year , we introduced the AMOS game "The Gate" by Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci, a mixture of "Impossible Mission" and "Project Firestart" with his own ideas and concepts. The developer reports on his latest progress in a recent Patreon post and has also published a video of the first level under the title link.
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11.Oct.2024
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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APEO - AMOS Professional Executable Optimizer
Simone 'saimo' Bevilacqua's APEO, which he originally developed for his game "Ring around the World", patches the executable files generated by the AMOS Professional Compiler 2.0 to make them faster. The technical details are included in the manual.
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11.Oct.2024
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Installing floppy disks on hard disk: JST 7.4
JST can be used to install disk-based games on hard disk using WHDLoad slaves. After a long break - our last news-item dates back to 2002 - the further development of this program, which was first released in 1996, has been resumed in 2017. Today's focus is on WHDLoad compatibility, non-upgraded Amigas (or weak emulations) and those without a keyboard, i.e. a substitution by the CD³² control pad.
This year's update 7.4, released three days ago, supports the ReadJoyPort API of WHDLoad 19 (to some extent) and fixes a potential memory cleanup bug when using the Kickstart ROM 1.3.
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11.Oct.2024
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Text editor extension: Motorola 68k assembler environment for Emacs
For those who want to program with current versions of the text editor Emacs (Wikipedia) in assembler for the Amiga, there is an open source extension for it at the title link.
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11.Oct.2024
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Interview: Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS
About a year ago, the first photos of the ARM-based "Games System and Classic 68K compatible computer" A600GS were shown at AmiWest 2023. Since August 2024, the console is officially available (amiga-news.de reported) and we regularly report on updates and new games or software that is provided for the A600GS. Time to talk to Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of A-EON and Amiga Kit, about this project and possible effects on AmigaOS 4 software such as the Enhancer Software.
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11.Oct.2024
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Preview video: Platformer "Robot Jet Action 2"
Tomasz 'Carrion' Mielnik is in the process of porting his platformer "Robot Jet Action", originally released for the C64, to the Amiga as "Robot Jet Action 2" (amiga-news.de reported). In a new preview video #3 under the title link as well as the corresponding developer diary (Polish), the author explains that he has now switched from the programming language Blitz Basic 2 to the game construction kit Scorpion Engine.
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09.Oct.2024
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Malibu 1.5 published
Andreas Falkenhahn writes (translated): "Version 1.5 of Malibu, the Hollywood plugin that can display Scala scripts, has now been released. This version contains some bug fixes that were necessary to make the recently released iconic Scala games Beyond a Steel Sky and Adventure 2 by Quantum Code Monk work.
With Hollywood and Malibu you can now play these games comfortably on your nextgen Amiga, Windows, Mac OS, Linux etc. In addition, Malibu now also supports the Mac OS ARM64 platform. Malibu is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal."
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09.Oct.2024
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AVX instructions: An Amiga fan at Intel?
Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) are an instruction set extension for x86 processors introduced by Intel. Arnaud Carré's blog article at the title link is specifically about the AVX-512 instruction set published in 2013. The vpternlogd instruction it contains immediately reminded him of the Amiga's Blitter.
A frequently used minterm value for it is 0xE2, because it is suitable for masked 2D sprites: If the middle bit of three bitmaps (here: used for the mask) is set, the output value of the first bitmap is used (here: the sprite); if the middle bit is not set, the output value of the third bitmap is used (here: the background). And - coincidentally or not - in the official Intel documentation for the vpternlogd instruction, interestingly, from the 256 possible values also 0xE2 was chosen as an example.
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08.Oct.2024
Scene World Podcast (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast Episode #200 - Mark Cale ("The Last Ninja")
To mark the 200th episode of the Scene World podcast, the team welcomes Mark Cale, founder of System 3 and pioneer of the video game industry. Cale worked on legendary titles such as International Karate and The Last Ninja. In the interview, he talks about his impressive career and the development of these iconic games. The interview starts at 16:15. It is a special anniversary episode that delves deep into the history of video games.
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08.Oct.2024
spillhistorie.no - Retrogamingpappa (ANF)
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Interview: Plaion Marketing Manager on licensing games for retro consoles
The Norwegian video game culture magazine spillhistorie.no has published an interview (‘Licensing is a complicated business’) with Simon Turner, Marketing Director UK and responsible for the global marketing of the retro division. He talks about the modern replica consoles such as TheA500 Mini and TheC64 and the new The Spectrum and explains the challenges of licensing old games and the process of securing the rights to these titles. He also provides insights into the inspiration behind these consoles and possible future projects, mentioning the full-size version of the THEA500, but not discussing it in detail.
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08.Oct.2024
Lord_Santa
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Platform game: 2tinycowboys for the Amiga 500 (update)
2tinycowboys is a new game for the Amiga 500 that is designed for two players to compete against each other on a single screen in an arcade-platformer style. Compared to the PC and Android version, the Amiga version stays closer to the original vision of the developer and includes new features such as a level selection menu and visual upgrades. There are currently five levels available.
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08.Oct.2024
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"Demoscene - The Amiga Renaissance, Volume 3" now available
The new book ‘Demoscene – The Amiga Renaissance’ is the third part of a series of illustrated books about the demoscene (amiga-news.de reported). Following the first two volumes, "Demoscene - The Amiga Years" (1984-1993) and "Demoscene - The AGA Years" (1994-1996), Volume 3 now sheds light on the years 1997 to 2023 and thus the amazing development of the Amiga demoscene, which continues to thrive today despite Commodore's bankruptcy in 1994.
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08.Oct.2024
MDS
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3D polygon models: 3D Object Converter v1.0 for AmigaOS 3.x/4.x
3D Object Converter is a new tool for 3D polygon models, also often referred to as wireframe models. The software was originally developed for MS-DOS and Windows and has now been ported to AmigaOS 3.x and 4.x in version 1.0.
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07.Oct.2024
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.0.10 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.0.10 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools V1.20 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes:
- Read/Write: Fixed save template if destination folder (options) doesn't exist
- Read/Write: Fixed save template missing arguments "Hard-sectors" and "Reverse"
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07.Oct.2024
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Demoparty: Results of Deadline 2024
Last weekend, this year's edition of the demo party Deadline took place in Berlin (amiga-news.de reported). Amiga productions could rank in the various competitions.
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07.Oct.2024
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V4.5 R112 for Windows 10/11 (update)
Raster Master is a sprite/icon/map editor for Windows 10/11 which generates RayLib-, PutImagedata and Map code for gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal, QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, and PC-BASIC (YouTube video).
The following changes have been added since our last news item:
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07.Oct.2024
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MOD player: rePlayer for Windows
If you are looking for an MOD player for Windows (and other systems), you already have a good choice: in addition to NostalgicPlayer, there are the online players Pixeltune or Bassoontracker, for example.
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07.Oct.2024
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Preview video: Halloween X
Sami Vehmaa's latest project is to be a game for Halloween and adapted for AGA Amigas. He has now published a first preview video on Twitch.
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07.Oct.2024
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Arcade game: GoGoGo
After Paweł 'tukinem' Tukatsch recently published a demo version of his game "Ami Robbo 2", which is currently in development (amiga-news.de reported), the next release is already following: in "GoGoGo" (YouTube video) you drive in a car scrolling sideways and have to duck from ghosts or jump over obstacles and collect energy and points. Over the course of the second game, the car drives faster and faster. The game starts in black and white, but can be coloured by pressing the C, O and L buttons simultaneously:
The game runs on any Amiga and is available free of charge.
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06.Oct.2024
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Aminet uploads until 05.10.2024
The following files have been added until 05.10.2024 to Aminet:
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06.Oct.2024
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.10.2024
The following files have been added until 05.10.2024 to OS4Depot:
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06.Oct.2024
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AROS Archives uploads until 05.10.2024
The following files have been added until 05.10.2024 to AROS Archives:
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06.Oct.2024
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.10.2024
The following files have been added until 05.10.2024 to MorphOS-Storage:
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06.Oct.2024
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.10.2024
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 05.10.2024:
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06.Oct.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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06.Oct.2024
ANF
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Emulator: FS-UAE fork started
GitHub user 'jacereda' has started a fork of the Amiga emulator FS-UAE. At the title link, a cleanup is currently taking place; in addition to the dependencies and the goal of a reproducible build environment, especially the JIT needs some work, since it is no longer working after the merge. Help with debugging is welcome.
FS-UAE itself has not been updated since 2022, the last source code addition was on July 29 of that year. Frode Solheim's last online activity known to us dates back to September 11 of last year. An e-mail inquiry to the author has so far remained unanswered, we will update this news-item if possible.
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06.Oct.2024
AmiKit (ANF)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit packages Plug'n'Play and SuperCombo
The workbench distribution AmiKit (video) is now also available in the form of a bootable USB stick that can be used to boot a PC directly into the emulation. Included is the new AmiKit 12 SuperCombo package, which allows installation under Windows as well as Mac OS and Linux alike instead of the previous platform-specific individual licenses and also contains FlowerPot to run AmigaOS 4 on the systems mentioned.
A free older version of AmiKit (from 2017, with updates until 2019) is available at https://amikit.amiga.sk/x. There a voluntary amount including zero euros can be specified at check-out.
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06.Oct.2024
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Video: Explanation of the MiSTer including accessories and costs (German)
In a half-hour explanatory German video at the title link, 'MediaGamesRetroNerdstuff' explains the MiSTer and, in addition to the FPGA itself and the accessories, also discusses the costs - and in this context the cheaper MiSTer Pi variant (amiga-news.de reported).
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06.Oct.2024
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Black Amiga keycaps from A1200.net available in stores
The black Amiga keycaps from A1200.net are now also available at other dealers, e.g. Alinea or Amigastore; previously they were only available directly from the manufacturer. The caps are designed to fit all common Amiga models with the exception of the Amiga 1000 and are available in DE and US layouts.
The keycap sets contain a total of 108 caps, additional springs and key stabilizers. In addition to the 96 regular caps, there are special keys, for example a short space bar for the Amiga 600 or ISO and ANSI return keys.
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04.Oct.2024
Discord (ANF)
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Emu68: Imager Tool V1.0 released
The Emu68 Imager is a utility for Windows 10/11 to allow PiStorm users to easily prepare an SD card with Emu68 (amiga-news.de reported) and a basic pre-configured AmigaOS 3.1, 3.2 or 3.2.2.1 installation, and will allow you to partition the card based on sizes you can define.
It is targeted towards new users to avoid some common pitfalls with a new install, and will pre-install some standard tools and software to get you started including P96 for RTG, wifipi.device for Wifi access (along with demo versions of Roadshow and IBrowse), and DOpus.
AmigaOS 3.1, 3.2 or 3.2.2.1 in the form of ADF files and the Kickstart 3.1, 3.2 or 3.2.2 ROM file must be provided by yourself. Detailed instructions can be found on the project page under the title link.
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04.Oct.2024
Matthew Leaman (Mail)
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Amiga Kit: Updates for A600GS
Updates for the A600GS have been released in the last few days. Among other things, AmiStore purchases and downloads can now be displayed directly on the A600GS and downloaded to the work partition or USB sticks (screenshot). A new internal build of YAM 2.10 has also been added (screenshot). Detailed changes:
Version 46.1.840 (03/10/2024):
SystemV46:
- Add default tool of Multiview to ENVARC:SYS icons
- AK-ILBM datatype replaces the AROS ILBM datatype
A600GS:
- Add Purchases and Downloads panel to allow downloading of products purchased on AmiStore
- Refactor update progress reporting to a global method in the application class, to allow easy reuse between classes and access by deeeply nested object methods.
- Add network download progress reporting using the new framework
- Add force option behind the scenes to allow skipping the checksum optimisation when updating from the advanced section.
- System / Programs / AppInstalls archives: Update installer scripts to support above force option
Version 46.1.825 (24/09/2024):
Programs:
- Network drawer (added)
- Yam 2.10 application new build (added)
- Dopus4: added Download button for retrieving files from the internet
- SnoopDOS 3.11 (added)
SystemV46:
- Picture Datatype 46.15 (updated)
- AMISSL 5.17 (updated)
- DefIcons 46.7 (updated)
- Version 46.18 (updated)
- CLI 46.9 (updated)
- Wget 1.12 (added)
- MultiView: bug fixed where it was always returning 1. Now returns 0 success and 20 failure
- AB-Dock: Add YAM icon and separator
- MUIMaster Library v19.71 (updated)
- Zune Prefs (added)
A600GS:
- Add advance section to the updates area, that allows selective updating / reinstalling of the most recent updates. The default method is preferred for more efficient update, but the extra control will allow fixing problems and reinstalling accidentally deleted component updates
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Under some situations the inserted USB sticks and drives might not appear in AmiBench, now we force a refresh of the USB data before each restart of AmiBench.
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