21.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.5.0 for Vampire V2
Version 11.5.0 of the Workbench distribution AmiKit specially adapted for Vampire processor cards has just been released (amiga-news.de reported). The AmigaOS files, Kickstart ROMs and the Picasso96 graphics drivers are required. The update includes the following changes:
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21.May.2022
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Custom chips: Replacement project of Buffee developers
As Renee Cousins, one of the developers of the turbo card project 'Buffee' (amiga-news.de reported), explained a few days ago, she has turned back to her original Amiga project dedicated to hard-to-find custom chips and their replacements. The first one is Gary and will be called 'Gary Zander'.
At the moment this board is 100% reliably tested on an Amiga 500 and only needs a bit more time during reboot. The lack of tri-state and open-drain pins on the Xilinx chip would be the reason not to release it now. The board would be produced and tested with these supplemented pins soon.
Following this, the replacement for the Agnus will be tackled, called 'Willoe'. Currently, 3D models of the board are being printed to ensure they fit into the PLCC socket. The rough functional scope of Willoe:
- 100 pin TQFP Lattice MachXO2 core (XO2-2000)
- Near instant-on (CPLD-like) functionality
- 16MB of 133MHz, 8-bit pSRAM for AGA+ bandwidth
- 1MB, 2MB Agnus and 2MB Alice compatibility
- Jumpered NTSC/PAL default modes (will also obey pin and software changes)
- Automatic 8372 and 8375 pin detection (universal socket compatibility)
- Many optional features to come
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21.May.2022
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Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.01
After several beta versions the developer Dirk Hoffmann had released the final version 2.0 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS ten days ago (amiga-news.de reported). Version 2.01 was made available yesterday fixing two crash causes (DMA debugger, drive export menu).
The minimum system requirement is macOS 10.15.
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19.May.2022
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit XE 11.7.0 for Windows/Mac/Linux
An update to version 11.7.0 has been released for the workbench distribution AmiKit, which is intended for emulators. In addition to an emulator, AmigaOS 3.x and the Kickstart ROMs are required.
The changes primarily include updated Amiga programs:
- UPDATED: ADiffView 2.1 by Uwe Rosner (with a code from M.Hertel)
- UPDATED: AmiSSL 4.11 by AmiSSL Open Soure Team
- UPDATED: guigfx.library 20.1 (FPU) by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: HippoPlayer 2.52 by Kari-Pekka Koljonen
- UPDATED: Infinite Module Player (IMP) 3.379 by Pawel Nowak
- UPDATED: JFIFdt44 44.17 by Henryk Richter and Gunther Nikl
- UPDATED: MCC_BetterString 11.36 Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_NList 0.128 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TextEditor 15.56 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MCC_TheBar 26.22 by Open Source Team
- UPDATED: MysticView 1.07 by Timm S. Mueller
- UPDATED: RapaGUI 2.1 Hollywood Plugin by Andreas Falkenhahn
- UPDATED: RNOPDF 1.4 by jPV^RNO
- UPDATED: SnoopDos 3.11 by Eddy Carroll, Thomas Richter et al.
- UPDATED: UnRAR 6.11 by Alexander Roshal, Amiga port by Marcin Labenski
- FIXED: Initialising of YAM theme works now
- FIXED: HippoPlayer uses the default AHI mode now (if enabled)
- FIXED: LoadModule was not updated last time
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19.May.2022
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Development environment: Update on 'Grimoire' project
About a month ago we reported about Frédéric 'AmiDARK' Cordier's new project of a software development solution for Amiga computers: Grimoire. In two recent blog entries he reports about the progress on the project:
With the first entry he opens his developer diary and lists all changes he has made to the project starting in January 2020 until today. The second entry reports specifically on his progress with 'screens':
- 'getBestScreenMode' can be returned for Planar and Saga Chunky modi.
- 'OpenScreen' can open bitplanes screens (up to 256 colors).
- working on ’primitive’ copper list support for full screen view with 1 screen. This will later be replaced by a more complex system that can handle more than one screen in view and grid effects.
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18.May.2022
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Accelerator board project: Buffee partly Open Source again
At the end of March we reported that the turbo card project 'Buffee', originally started as Open Source under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, is fully Closed Source. In a new blog entry from yesterday, the developers now announce that the source code for PJIT has been reopened and the private repository has been merged and closed. From now on there is only one repository for PJIT.
Closed Source on the other hand remains the firmware, which contains the boot loader, the PRU programs and the CPLD image, and the hardware design files.
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18.May.2022
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Video tutorial: Blitz Basic
The Irish Amiga user 'Daedalus2097' has started a tutorial series about Blitz Basic on Twitch. So far there have been two live streams, which you can watch again in retrospect at your leisure: part 1, part 2. AmiBlitz 3 was used as development environment.
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17.May.2022
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Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' update
The Polish designer Lukas Remis had successfully finished a Kickstarter campaign for the re-release of the wireless Commodore Maus 1352 (amiga-news.de reported).
In a short status update, the developer writes that he is in the process of updating the mouse firmware and finding the best solution for the USB-DB9 adapter regarding the chip shortage. Next up, he says, is the production of the injection molds. In the recent poll on which color shade to use, most votes fell on RAL 9002, which was also used for the campaign photos. However, the developer is looking into the possibility of using a second color shade: RAL 1013 (overview of RAL color shades).
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[News message: 17. May. 2022, 06:03] [Comments: 0]
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17.May.2022
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Video tutorial: Bars & Pipes Professional
As the user 'Ricebug' reports in the Amiga Love forum, he has been using Bars & Pipes Professional for many years (see also our article about BarsnPipes 1.0 for Amiga OS4.1 FE). He would like to share his experiences with it and has started a corresponding YouTube channel. Currently there are four videos showing the installation, giving an overview of the program, demonstrating the setup of the workplace as well as the MIDI export. More videos are to follow.
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16.May.2022
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Real-time strategy: Vanilla Conquer V1.0 released
Artur Jarosik is known for various game ports like the platformer Hydra Castle Labyrinth or the action adventure Heart of Darkness besides his SDL implementation of the browser NetSurf. As a contribution for the AmiGameJam he started to port the first part of the realtime strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga and named it "Vanilla Conquer" (amiga-news.de reported).
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16.May.2022
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Aracade game: 'Green Beret' May update
Green Beret is a conversion of Konami's arcade classic of the same name to the Amiga, written using the Scorpion Engine and won third place at AmiGameJam.
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[News message: 16. May. 2022, 08:43] [Comments: 0]
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16.May.2022
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Video review: LAZARUSTORM for PiStorm
In his latest video, Jan Beta has tested the LAZARUSTORM adapter for PiStorm: By the help of this adapter it is possible to externally use a PiStorm accelerator board without having to remove the internal CPU of the Amiga 500.
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16.May.2022
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Hollywood Designer 6.0 released
Press release: To celebrate Hollywood's 20th anniversary this year, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with another massive release: This time we are proud to present the brand-new version 6.0 of our famous Hollywood Designer.
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15.May.2022
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Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000
The developer Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings (among other things RGBtoHDMI adapter and ChipRam extension RAMesses) describes in a new blog series how he reconditioned a recently acquired Amiga 1000: while in the first article he puts the device into operation, describes the state of preservation and the special features of the Amiga 1000, he takes a closer look at floppy drive in the second article.
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[News message: 15. May. 2022, 08:48] [Comments: 0]
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15.May.2022
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Aminet uploads until 14.05.2022
The following files have been added until 14.05.2022 to Aminet:
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15.May.2022
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OS4Depot uploads until 14.05.2022
The following files have been added until 14.05.2022 to OS4Depot:
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15.May.2022
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AROS Archives uploads until 14.05.2022
The following files have been added until 14.05.2022 to AROS Archives:
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15.May.2022
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 14.05.2022
The following files have been added until 14.05.2022 to MorphOS-Storage:
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15.May.2022
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WHDLoad: New installers until 14.05.2022
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 14.05.2022:
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15.May.2022
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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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14.May.2022
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ACube Systems: Fifteen years of Sam440ep
Press release: Dear customers,
It was the year 2007 when we introduced our first “baby”, the Sam440ep. Fifteen years ago. We designed and produced the Sam440ep, a lovely mini-itx motherboard that many enjoyed running AmigaOS 4, AROS and Linux.
At that time, we, a bunch of mad amigans, resolved to do our best to bring this hardware to life for all the Amiga Community because it was in dire need of a new computer platform to run AmigaOS.
Without the Sam440ep, the future of AmigaOS would have been very difficult.
After all these years, just as the latest batch of Sam460ex LE is being produced, we choose to release the electrical schematics of the Sam440ep (PDF file) to the community.
We hope many of you will be happy to see one of the first image of our first project.
(dr)
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14.May.2022
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Amiga 500 HDD LED Adapter
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch has designed a simple HDD-LED adapter for the Amiga 500, which visually displays the activity of a hard disk on accesses (e.g. on a Warp 560, Vampire 500 and many other expansion cards) via the original LED board (DISK LED). The new revision C adds LED indicators for Power, Reset and Use. A YouTube video shows the adapter in action.
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14.May.2022
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Subscription: German edition of Commodore - The Inside Story
At the title link former Managing Director of Commodore UK David Pleasance offers subscription at a reduced price of a German edition of his book "Commodore: The Inside Story" (amiga-news.de reported).
Further details can also be found in the German version of this news-item.
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[News message: 14. May. 2022, 06:46] [Comments: 0]
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14.May.2022
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Preview video: Kung Fu action 'Devil's Temple'
Devil's Temple features 10 stages of intense arcade kung fu action based on the classic Irem games Kung Fu Master and Vigilante. Over 300 frames of animation were packed into the game and every cycle of performance was used on the Amiga A500. The game will adapt to upgrades, so additional chip ram will result in better music, AGA will provide additional colors and a greater variety of enemies in the game.
Yesterday, a new preview video was released for the game in development, showing levels one through six. However, the developer points out that there are still "many annoying bugs to be fixed." The game is already available for pre-order as a boxed edition. Likewise, a demo version of the first stage is available on itch.io.
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