11.Nov.2022
Amiga Future (website)
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Do it yourself: Sound card Prelude replica (Update)
The Zorro II sound card Prelude supported recording and playing in full-duplex mode at a resolution of 16 bit and a frequency of upto 64 kHz. Those who are interested in building a replica themselves can find a corresponding project - inluding the expansion module MPEGit - at the title link.
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11.Nov.2022
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Video: The history of the British video game developer "Magnetic Scrolls"
In his latest video, Kim Justice takes a look at the British computer game company "Magnetic Scrolls", which from 1984 onwards became known mainly for their text adventures like THE PAWN, Myth or Fish!. On the page "Magnetic Scrolls Memorial" you can find more information about the developers and other games.
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11.Nov.2022
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Puzzle game: LUMA
Indie game developer Dan 'zooperdan' Thoresen (among others Wheel of Fortune implementation YAWoFFA or Amiga Blitz Basic Game Jam) has released the Amiga port of the puzzle game LUMA, originally written for the Commodore 64.
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10.Nov.2022
Vinnny (ANF)
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Distributed.net: OGR-28 completed, Distributed Amiga in second place
Around the turn of the millennium, various initiatives were started to make unused computing time available for projects, which also led to the formation of teams in the Amiga area that competed with others - be it against other operating systems or among each other (amiga-news.de reported).
With OGR, for example, the task is to search for an optimal Golomb ruler. More than eight years after finding the 27th-order one, when the Distributed Amiga team came in third, the optimal 28th-order Golomb ruler has now been found: The Distributed Amiga team even achieved second place this time, the MorphOS team twelfth.
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10.Nov.2022
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WHDLoad: Graphical user-interface iGame 2.2.0
iGame is a MUI-based frontend for starting WHDLoad games (amiga-news.de reported). Recently George 'walkero' Sokianos (editor 'Lite XL' or MediaVault) has released version 2.2.0 for AmigaOS 2.04 and higher, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, providing the following changes:
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09.Nov.2022
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Jump'n Run: Minky V1.3
Minky (Video) is a Jump'n Run similar to Super Mario or Giana Sisters, which requires an Amiga 500 with one Megabyte RAM (amiga-news.de reported). In version 1.3 "strange crashes were removed when throwing a ball and jumping at same time".
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09.Nov.2022
Twitter
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RastPort: KA02 - Improved version of external PCMCIA adapter
Grzegorz Kraszewski's RastPort designs and manufactures accesories and expansions for Amiga computers. At the end of 2018, he had presented his project "KA02": a PCMCIA adapter for the Amiga 1200 in a standard desktop case. With the adapter, the PCMCIA card is placed vertically on the side of the Amiga and thus takes up much less space on the desk. Now he has published on Twitter a first photo of a variant that has an improved plug-in part. Inserting it into the slot is much easier that way, he says.
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09.Nov.2022
Amigans
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Metacompiler: Portabl E r6
Christopher Handley's metacompiler "Portabl E" - now written with spaces - works by translating your code written with the programming language Amiga E into C++, and then using GCC to compile it into an executable. This needs an installation of GCC. Please read his official press release:
Portabl E is my recreation of the AmigaE programming language, along with most of the improvements I have wanted. Portabl E works on AmigaOS4, AROS, MorphOS, as well as even Linux & Windows! (It should also work on AmigaOS3, but compiling needs a powerful machine like WinUAE.)
This is the finished r6 release, with the "beta" tag removed (amiga-news.de reported), although it hasn't really been beta since the last couple of release.
See the main manual for what has changed since r5. The biggest changes since the last r6 beta release include:
- Added basic Linux support (64bit x86 only), to the same level as Windows, i.e. Shell-only, with no graphics or internet access. This was a major effort, partly due to all the differences (64-bit pointers, case-sensitive filing system, mount-points anywhere, etc), and partly due to all the C headers that needed to be converted.
- Linux: PEGCC now supports cross-compilation (for Amiga & Windows) using the TargetOS parameter, as long as an appropriate GCC cross-compiler is installed.
- Programs will now compile using the latest SDK of AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS.
- All OS procedures that can support unlimited parameters now do so, including the Amiga's SystemTags().
- AmigaOS3: No-longer needs a modified "intuition/classusr.h" file.
- Added the 'std/pUnsigned' module, to provide basic support for unsigned number types, and the example program "Examples/std/Shell/crc32.e". Useful for porting certain C algorithms.
- Added the procedures InStrNoCase(), BigMax(), BigMin(), BigFastMod(), IsBigEndian() & IsLittleEndian().
- In 'std/pTime', improved CurrentTime() to take a timezone parameter.
- Fixed FastNew() (and so NEW) which would trash memory, instead of raising the "MEM" exception, if it failed to allocate memory. Thanks to Dimitris Panokostas for reporting symptoms of this long-standing bug, especially as I don't see out-of-memory errors on the OSes I normally use.
- Amiga: The installer would fail at "Copying executables..." if the user-specified path for executables did not contain any (sub) folders, such as "C:" (which sadly was the default). Many thanks to "Zendarion" for the bug report.
- Windows: In 'std/pTime', CurrentTime() now returns the correct time when DST is in effect.
- I've renamed the language from "PortablE" to "Portabl E" with a space, in the hope of making it more easily searchable on the internet (as well as clarifying how to pronounce it). But the "PortablE" command name itself is unchanged.
The new version can be downloaded under the title link or via OS4Depot.
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08.Nov.2022
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Preview video: Amiga port of "Cecconoid"
Earlier this year, musician, DJ and developer 'Hoffman' had released the vertical-scrolling shooter Knightmare, originally written for the MSX and published by Konami, as an Amiga port (amiga-news.de reported). His new project is the port of the game "Cecconoid", originally released by "Triple Eh?": "an 8-bit inspired, flick-screen, twin-stick-shooter, set in an alternate dimension where the pixels are still chunky, and the bad guys are black and white." A Twitch recording now gives an impression of the game. As the author tells us when asked, about 85% of the game is finished. First and foremost, an integrated sub game "Eugatron" and the game's soundtrack are still missing.
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08.Nov.2022
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Video interview: Jens Schönfeld talked about acceletator board projects
At this year's AmiWest among other things an interview between Bill Borsari and Jens Schönfeld was planned, which couldn't take place due to technical difficulties. This has now been made up for via Jitsi and published on YouTube. The two mainly talked about the ACA1240/1260 turbo cards first announced by Individual Computers at the end of December 2018, of which the first pictures of the cooling system were shown a year later.
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07.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4: Porting WebKit started
According to George 'walkero' Sokianos in his recent Ko-Fi blog entry, he has frozen most of his projects to devote himself entirely to porting WebKit to AmigaOS 4. The goal, he said, is to provide WebKit as a dynamic or static library that can be used in any kind of application such as a new web browser or email client.
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07.Nov.2022
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Dungeon Crawler: "Black Dawn Technomage" (AGA) released
"Black Dawn: Technomage" (video) is the sequel to Black Dawn Rebirth, developed by the same team, and now available. The game requires an AGA Amiga and can be purchased for at least about 11,40 Euro.
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07.Nov.2022
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AmigaOS 4.1: HiRes set of mouse pointers
On Amiga-Look (amiga-news.de reported),'levellord' has released "a modern hires set of pointer presets for Amiga 4.1 operating system loosely based on a DMZ-White and Quintom pointers for Linux. Pointers are optimized for 1080p and there are three different sizes of 18px, 20px and 24px all in red, white and black base colors with white/black outlines."
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07.Nov.2022
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Puzzle game: Connect 1.1
In the puzzle game "Connect" (screenshots), you have to connect a series of ICs in such a way that each chip receives exactly the number of connections printed on its package. Now version 1.1 is available providing the following changes:
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06.Nov.2022
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Dock: QDock V1.17
Sami Vehmaa had released the first version of his start bar "QDock" almost two weeks ago (amiga-news.de reported). The new version 1.17, as the developer writes to us, "has gone trough a big transformation and is now working more like it was intended." A new YouTube video explains the changes: among other things, there is now a second row with space for another 25 icons. Likewise, drives can be added to the dock.
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06.Nov.2022
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Programming language: Amiga C/C++ Visual Studio Code Extension 1.6.6
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). A few moments ago, version 1.6.6 has been released. Changes:
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06.Nov.2022
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Aminet uploads until 05.11.2022
The following files have been added until 05.11.2022 to Aminet:
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06.Nov.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 05.11.2022
The following files have been added until 05.11.2022 to OS4Depot:
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06.Nov.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 05.11.2022
The following files have been added until 05.11.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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06.Nov.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 05.11.2022
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 05.11.2022:
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06.Nov.2022
Amigaworld.net (forum)
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Video: Not even scammers want to support AmigaOS
Fraudsters who pretend to be Microsoft support on the phone, for example, in order to get computer users to download and run malware, are one of the unpleasant side effects of the internet age. As an Amiga user, however, you are excluded even from this nowadays, as the video at the title link documents.
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06.Nov.2022
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: 20th anniversary - XLSX plugin 1.0 released
Press release:On November 4th 2002, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released Hollywood 1.0 for 68k AmigaOS. Originally advertised as a multimedia authoring solution, nobody would have expected back then that this software would turn into a cross-platform programming language for lots of platforms with dozens of plugins for all kinds of tasks. Now, 20 years later, Hollywood is still going strong, receives regular updates and new plugins, and is used by many people around the globe. All of this would not have been possible without the continued support of many Hollywood enthusiasts in the past 20 years. Only the positive feedback we received right from the start made us continue developing Hollywood into what it is today.
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06.Nov.2022
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Amiga37: Music title for download / Music video online
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr writes: "Wow, how time has passed so quickly again! The Amiga37 event is now already three weeks ago... In this context I would like to point out that the official Amiga37 music title is available for free download for everyone who is interested.
Likewise, a video has now made it onto Youtube at the title link to introduce itself to the world, for the inclined listeners. :-)"
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05.Nov.2022
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 159
The English and German issue 159 (November/December 2022) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed. It can be ordered directly from its editorial office and from Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.
Content of the current issue includes a report about the demo scene as well as reviews on Pagestream and the "Dynatech 30th Anniversary Edition".
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05.Nov.2022
a1k.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 3/4: Web browser IBrowse 2.5.7
The team of Oliver Roberts has released version 2.5.7 of the web browser IBrowse. Most important changes (detailed changelog) of this update:
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[News message: 05. Nov. 2022, 19:45] [Comments: 0]
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05.Nov.2022
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MorphOS: GUI for Snes9x emulator - SnesMUI released
Developer 'jPV^RNO' has released a GUI named SnesMUI for the Snes9x emulator providing the following features:
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05.Nov.2022
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Kung Fu action: "Devil's Temple" V3.4
About two weeks ago, Geezer Games had released "Devil's Temple (amiga-news.de reported). Now an update to version 3.4 is available which fixes some bugs. Changes:
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