18.Feb.2023
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Floppy disk images on PC and Mac: Greaseweazle Firmware 1.3
Keir Fraser's "Greaseweazle" does - similar to Kryoflux - read the magnetic information on a floppy disk independently from the format used and saves as much information as possible to generate a so-called "Flux Level Image" in Supercard format (SCP), which enables reading and back-writing of copy-protected disks (amiga-news.de reported)
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18.Feb.2023
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Developer log: Single player mode in "Settle the World"?
A week ago, Christian 'TheoTheoderich' Wiegel published an intro update for his turn-based building and trading game "Settle the World" (amiga-news.de reported). In the feedback, the wish was expressed to integrate a single-player mode including at least one computer opponent into the game.
In a recent developer log, the programmer now outlines how this could be implemented:
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17.Feb.2023
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Unofficial successor: "It Returned From The Desert" for Windows
Tim Rachor's "It returned from the desert" (official release trailer) is an unofficial successor of the Amiga game It came from the desert for Windows (amiga-news.de reported), which now was released on Steam for 8,99 Euro.
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17.Feb.2023
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Video: Hidden developer messages
Piracy was rife on the Amiga, and almost every game was cracked by various scene groups. In his latest video, Kim Justice presents the messages and rants left in the code by developers for these crackers, which were sometimes angry but mostly hilarious.
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17.Feb.2023
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SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI firmware 1.2.1
ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators (review of an user). ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Version 1.2.1 of the firmware has been released. Changes:
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16.Feb.2023
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Programming language: AmiBlitz 3.9.9
A few moments ago, version 3.9.9 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been released. Changes:
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16.Feb.2023
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Linux: Stable long-term kernel 5.10.167 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000
Parallel to new kernels (amiga-news.de reported), Christian 'xeno74' Zigotzky also provides the latest version of the stable long-term kernel for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000. It is suitable for old Linux distributions that do not work with the latest kernels, such as Ubuntu 10.04, or if users have problems with the latest kernels. The new version offers support for PCI-Express SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) host adapters.
Download: linux-image-5.10.167-X1000_X5000.tar.gz (71 MB)
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16.Feb.2023
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Video tutorial: The AMOS command "Limit Mouse"
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains, how you can limit your mouse movements on screen by using the AMOS "Limit Mouse" command.
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15.Feb.2023
BBSIndex
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Demoparty: MountainBytes 2023 (Switzerland)
After a six-year hiatus and another three years of involuntary postponements by Covid, from 24 to 26 February 2023, the "MountainBytes" demo party will take place in Cham, Switzerland, organized by Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur. In addition to various workshops and competitions (timetable), the nominees for The Meteoriks Award will be presented during a show on Friday. The award ceremony will then take place at the Revision demo party in Saarbrücken at the beginning of April.
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15.Feb.2023
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Mod-Player: HippoPlayer 2.56
Kari-Pekka Koljonen, the developer of the Amiga-MOD players HippoPlayer, has released an update to version 2.56 which among others provides improved MP3 support and PSID playback.
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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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