19.Aug.2022
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Blog Epsilon's World: Checkmate 1500 Mini with RPI4B and Greaseweazle
After restoring an Amiga 2000 (part 1, part 2), Epsilon has already started his next project: in his blog 'Epsilon's World' he now reports how he installs a Raspberry Pi 4 into a Checkmate A1500 mini case and then running it with AmiKit XE including a Greaseweazle V4 floppy drive solution.
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19.Aug.2022
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Music Tracker: MilkyTracker V1.03.01
MilkyTracker is an open source, cross-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the DOS application Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2.x/3.x compatibility.
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19.Aug.2022
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Preview video 5: Jump'n Run "L'Abbaye des Morts"
The developer 'UltraNarwhal', among others Duckstroma, has released another recent recording of its in development extended port of "Abbey(s) of the Dead" (amiga-news.de reported). Like Duckstroma, the Jump'n Run is written with the Scorpion Engine.
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19.Aug.2022
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Video review: BFG9060 accelerator board for Amiga 3000/4000
'Wrangler Amiga' tests in a YouTube video the accelerator board designed by Matthias Heinrichs for the Amiga A3000 and A4000(T) (amiga-news.de reported).
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19.Aug.2022
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Boot Selector for Amiga 600 / 1200 (update)
With a boot selector it is possible to use an externally connected floppy drive (or Gotek Floppy Drive Emulator) as boot floppy. This is made possible by making the Amiga believe that the external drive is DF0:. To avoid soldering and fiddling with wires, there are ready-made solutions of various kinds, but they basically all do the same thing: swap two address lines.
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19.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.5.3 (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). Yesterday versions 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 have been released. Changes:
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18.Aug.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 158 - preview and excerpts
Preview and excerpts of Amiga Future issue 158 (September/October 2022) have been published online now at the title link. Contents include reviews of Duckstroma and AmiBlitz as well as a preliminary report about the Amiga37 event.
Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and a German printed magazine and can be bought directly from the magazine's editorial office as well as several Amiga dealers.
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18.Aug.2022
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Editor: MUI-Vim V8.2.4424 for AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS
MUI-Vim is a port of the editor Vim for AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS. This editor is intended for editing programs as well as plain text files. Multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, block operations and scripting are some of the features. Ola 'sodero' Söder has now ported VIM 8.2.4424, fixing the following bugs:
- AROS graphical glitch fixed
- MorphOS DOS script filetype detection fixed
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18.Aug.2022
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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 6
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers (amiga-news.de reported).
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18.Aug.2022
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Programming help: Creating demos with AProcessing (video)
The very busy 'Phaze101' - among other things Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game or Assembler Coding Course - has started a new video series: together with its developer Alessio 'Ozzyboshi' Garzi, he explains AProcessing, assembler routines for creating Amiga demos.
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18.Aug.2022
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MorphOS: Starfield Blanker V1.0
Das #amigazeux team has released version 1.0 of the Starfield blanker. It draws a zooming, moving, rotating and spinning star field with and without warp speed like effects. TinyGL and at least MorphOS 2.0.0 are required.
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17.Aug.2022
Reddit
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Interview: Alfred Faust (BarsnPipes)
The news service tarnkappe.info has re-published an interview with BarsnPipes developer Alfred Faust from the year 2007.
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16.Aug.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000
The Amiga 1000 is extremely popular right now: After Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports about the restoration, now Richard "Shred" Körber describes in two blog entries (part 1, part 2) his experiences which he made during the refurbishment of the Amiga 1000.
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16.Aug.2022
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Preview video 28: Souverän Soccer
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported).
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16.Aug.2022
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Sprite/Icon/Map editor: Raster Master V1.2 R62 for Windows 10/11
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).
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15.Aug.2022
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Programming language: Update on "Amiga C Tutorial"
Peter John "pjhutch" Hutchison's English-language "Amiga C Tutorial" is supposed to help C newcomers to program under AmigaOS with the help of many code examples (amiga-news.de reported). Even though it has existed for more than ten years, the author still improves it selectively and corrects errors. As he told us, this is what happened in the Screens chapter: A wrong pointer was used to close screens.
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15.Aug.2022
Robert Smith
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Video: The World of Amiga Tracker Music
In his latest video, Robert Smith goes back in time to the 1980s to explore the origins of Amiga Music: the Tracker, and The MOD file.
He looks at how these mod files are put together, how a Protracker module works, and why the files are so small even though they contain such long pieces of music.
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14.Aug.2022
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Image processing: RNOEffects 1.4 for all Amiga systems
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has updated RNOEffects from his family of RNO applications. RNOEffects is a simple image processing program with a focus on good batch conversion options and alpha channel based effects (YouTube video). It was available in previous versions for MorphOS, OS4 and AROS, and the new version now also supports 68k and WarpOS configurations. The changes:
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14.Aug.2022
Stefan Reinauer
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ReA4091: Video and pre-order for the reconstruction of the Fast SCSI2 controller
During the Vintage Computer Festival East, which took place from April 22 to 24 at the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township in the USA (see also the video talk of former Commodore employees), Stefan Reinauer gave a talk about the project of rebuilding the Fast SCSI2 controller A4091, which he and Chris Hooper successfully accomplished. The project, christened "ReA4091", lasted four months and was accomplished with the help of an original copy purchased at an eBay auction.
The YouTube video, which has been available since the end of April and was recorded by Robert Bernardo, has been edited again by him and now has a much better sound quality (see title link).
As Stefan Reinauer explained to amiga-news.de, they are "still busy building cards and debugging". In parallel, the open source driver is being written, which will replace the original ROM. Currently, 30 cards are being built. On the corresponding project page you can not only find more information, but you can also express your interest in building a card. The price is about 225 Euro (without shipping).
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14.Aug.2022
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Aminet uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to Aminet:
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14.Aug.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to OS4Depot:
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14.Aug.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to AROS Archives:
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14.Aug.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 13.08.2022
The following files have been added until 13.08.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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14.Aug.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 13.08.2022
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 13.08.2022:
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14.Aug.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: Plananarama 2.0 manual available in German
Helmut Haake and Dominic Widmer have translated the manual of the Plananarama plugin into German. It is available for download at the title link.
Plananarama is a plugin for Hollywood which allows to use Hollywood even on systems without a graphics card (OCS, ECS, AGA). Thanks to Airsoft Softwair's MetaDoc system, the translation is not only available as PDF file, but also in AmigaGuide, HTML and CHM format.
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13.Aug.2022
Ko-fi
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AmigaOS 4: Platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" V1.22r1
The very busy AmigaOS 4 developer George 'walkero' Sokianos - among others aiostreams, Flawfinder, Lite XL or iGame - has ported the commercial platformer "BlobWars: Attrition" to AmigaOS 4 in the latest version of December 2019.
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13.Aug.2022
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AmigaOS 4: C runtime library clib2 v1.0.0 beta 5
As standard C librar, AmigaOS officially uses a variant of the Newlib C standard library implementation.
A popular alternative C standard library implementation is called clib2 and it is included as an option with the standard Amiga SDK. The clib2 library is particular well suited for porting software from the Unix world (taken from AmigaOS-Wiki).
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmate has created a fork of the official clib2 library, included in adtools. This library is exclusively for AmigaOS 4 to make it easy to maintain and to be able to add all the missing clib2 functions that are hard to add on 68k Amigas. The goal is to make it POSIX compliant and also fix any C++ problems that exist with newer compilers. All warnings (except for a very few) generated by GCC 10 and higher have disappeared. As the developer further writes, all obsolete OS4 functions have been replaced by modern ones (except for StackSwap, for which he has not found a replacement).
Yesterday he released the fifth beta version with the following changes:
- Implemented open() and opendir() and now it is possible to open a directory like open("T:") and use some functions on the returned fd
- Changed some socket functions that now use open source code
- Implemented new funcions
- Fixed a memory leak on fstat
- Removed test on check_abort_enabled prior call since it is already checked in the function
- Moved rand* functions to prng folder
- Implemented syslog (using files)
- A lot of other fixes an improvements
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13.Aug.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1
After five beta versions (amiga-news.de reported), developer Dirk Hoffmann has just released the official version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for macOS, thus ending the beta phase. The minimum system requirement for his emulator is macOS 10.15.
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13.Aug.2022
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Amiga Assembly For Beginners: Let's Make an Amiga Game Tutorial 14
'Prince', founder of the group 'Phaze101', streams the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" in English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube (amiga-news.de reports regularly).
In another tutorial Amiga Assembly For Beginners - Lets Make a Game, Prince now explains with concrete examples how to write a game with assembler. Episode 14 is now available.
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13.Aug.2022
Alain Fontanin
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Anniversary advertising: 30 years of Cristaline mineral water with Amiga
The French mineral water brand "Cristaline" is celebrating its 30th birthday (history in French) and to mark the occasion has published a picture on its Facebook page showing a young girl playing with a Gameboy and an Amiga in the background.
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13.Aug.2022
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Linux: Update of Open Sonic
Yesterday, Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky has released a new version of Open Sonic for Linux PowerPC (32-bit) and thus for AmigaOne X1000/X5000. The updated version provides bug fixed graphics and sounds.
alsa-oss and allegro4.4 required. For the installation, Christian listed the commands:
Void PPC
- sudo xbps-install -S alsa-oss
- sudo xbps-install -S allegro4
Debian (MintPPC)
- apt install alsa-oss
- apt install liballegro4.4
It also works on old Linux distributions like Ubuntu 10.04 PowerPC.
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