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Archive 11/2021

`05.Nov.2021` Prince (Mail)	Video tutorial: Episode 19 of assembler coding course 'Prince', the founder of the former demo group 'Phaze101', currently streams on Twitch the assembler coding course "Corso completo di programmazione assembler in due dischi" (amiga-news.de reported) in English and after some time uploads the videos of it to YouTube. Yesterday episode 18 was published, continuing running through chapter 7 of the book teaching about 'Attached Sprites'. Furthermore the group 'Phaze101' has announced to publish an English-language version of the original Italian book. (dr) [News message: 05. Nov. 2021, 06:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Nov.2021` amigaworld (Webseite)	Ben Hermans listed as Hyperion's director again In early May, Ben Hermans was delisted as Hyperion's director and presumably replaced by a judicial liquidator for Ben Hermans B.V. - the company that held the actual director position, while the person Ben Hermans acted as its permanent representative. According to an entry in Belgium's legal newsletter (local copy), Hermans was already reinstated as a director at the end of June (automated translation): "With judgment of the Dutch-speaking business court of Brussels from June 18, 2021 [...] the judgment of May 7, 2021 where Mr. Jean Louis de Chaffoy de Courcelles was appointed as judicial liquidator, has been overruled. The judicial dissolution of Ben Hermens [B.V.] was revoked and the judicial liquidator was released from his assignment." This week, Belgium's company register has been updated as well and now lists Ben Hermans' company as a director and Hermans himself as the company's permanent representative in that role again. In a statement included in our previous news item, Mr. Hermans had announced that his private company had only got in trouble because it failed to file the yearly account for 2019 in time and that he was working on solving that. Said yearly account is also available online now (local copy). The last page of the PDF file is - in contrast to the Rest of the document - made up of a picture containing scanned text instead of actual text and is therefore not readable for translation software. We OCR'd the document and fed the resulting Dutch text to a translation program. The result tells us the following: On November 4, 2019 Ben Hermans sold 2165 Hyperion shares he personally owned to his company Ben Hermans B.V, for a price of 402,690 Euro (186 Euro per share). These are likely all of Hermans' shares: After a capital increase just a few months before the transaction in question, Hermans owned about 97% of the total of 2245 Hyperion shares. The transfer of shares from Ben Hermans to Ben Hermans B.V. has to be reported in the latter's yearly account due to a potential conflict of interest: Hermans sold shares of the company he runs to another company, while permantently representing the latter in the former's board of directors. (cg) [News message: 05. Nov. 2021, 00:10] [Comments: 2 - 21. Nov. 2021, 23:56] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Nov.2021` Andreas Magerl (ANF)	Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 153 The English and German editions of Amiga Future issue 153 (November/December 2021) has been published yesterday and can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include an interview with Frank Röchter and a "Making Of" of his release 'Falconia', a review of 'Athanor 2 - Legend of the Birdmen' as well as 'Trevors Soapbox'. (cg) [News message: 05. Nov. 2021, 00:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Nov.2021` Miguel Fides (Mail)	Accelerator board: First batch of 'Tsunami 1230' delivered At the beginning of August the developer Miguel Fides had announced a new accelerator board called 'Tsunami 1230' for the A1200. At the beginning of September then a first production run was started. As Miguel announces on the 'The Tsunami Project website, these boards have now been sent not only to the first pre-order customers, but also to selected stores. These include Relec (Switzerland) and Retropassion (UK) as well as Alinea in Germany. When asked, Simon Neumann from Alinea told us that currently, however, no cards have arrived yet. Those who missed the pre-order campaign for the first production run can still express their interest in the card via Mail. (dr) [News message: 04. Nov. 2021, 12:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Nov.2021` Amiga Love	Self-made project: Amiga 2000/3000 keyboard The developer 'grahamshaw1972' has started the project 'A2000 Serotina' which is a build it yourself Open Source hardware mechanical keyboard for the Amiga A2000 and A3000 computers. Features are: Uses standard PC keyboard parts, case + keycaps Allows the use of the WASD keycap printing service for Amiga specific keycaps All soldering is Through Hole - no SMD soldering required (see Wikipedia article) No original A2000 keyboard parts required All electronic components are still available to buy Uses an Arduino micro-controller Uses Cherry MX type switches Uses QMK firmware ( with Amiga specific code added ) Multiple QMK keymaps supported for regional key variations Plugs directly in to an A2000 or A3000 using the 5 pin Din connector - no USB required (dr) [News message: 04. Nov. 2021, 11:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Nov.2021`	Shoot'em up: Third demo version of Jackal NeesoGames had recently announced an amiga version of the game Jackal originally published by Konami in 1986 and had already released two demo versions. Now a third demo version of the game created with the Scorpion Engine is available. The changes: MENU, SCREENS ETC fully working menu including intro with music (wait 7 seconds to see the intro) updated credits 2 mission complete screens (depends on the powerup you have at the end of the level) mission results screen loading indicator updated music (THANKS JMD!) IN GAME fixed collisions with rocks tileset dept (can drive behind palms or walls) animated shooting turrets all powerups implemented ('nade > missile > side explosions > cross explosions) deploy pows to copter complete basic boss fight (still a bit buggy but fully playable) a lot of optimizations and bug fixes STILL MISSING BUT MOSTLY COSMETIC/li> proper score/highscore calculation and display regular pows copter fly away when all pows are saved (dr) [News message: 04. Nov. 2021, 06:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Nov.2021` OS4Depot	AmigaOS 4: FTP-Server 'ZitaFTP' 1.30 Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.30 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote: "I have a new ZitaFTP Server update for you. This one has a major new feature that's almost invisible (and that's by design). The new feature is: countermeasures against password cracking. It's designed to keep hackers out of your server and your machine, keeping your files safe. More specifically, it protects against brute-force and dictionary type password cracking attempts. These attempts involve repeatedly trying different username and password combinations until they finally stumble on one that gets them in. It may sound impractical, but remember that these attacks are automated. Without any countermeasures, many password combinations could be attempted automatically per-second. ZitaFTP Server's password cracking prevention slows down and locks out would-be hackers, thereby keeping your files safe. ZitaFTP Server is currently designed to be an easy to use private network server. It's perfectly capable of being an internet facing FTP server, but deliberately haven't added that ability to the UI. That's because the internet is a risky neighbourhood. In the physical world, thieves can rattle windows and doors at night, looking for one that's loose (had that happen in Toronto one night). If they find a loose one, they sneak in. Well, on the internet the entire globe is your neighbourhood. Every single computer on the internet could potentially communicate with your internet facing server, meaning that good, bad, and downright evil people could all potentially come knocking, or rattling your server's virtual windows. I simply wasn't comfortable adding internet server features to the UI without some kind of countermeasures against hacking attempts. The countermeasures are now here, so adding UI features to make setting up a full internet facing FTP server will be next (e.g., handling an external domain & TLS certificate)." A single license of 'ZitaFTP Server' is available for about 47 Euro. The program can be tested for free for 30 days. (dr) [News message: 04. Nov. 2021, 05:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Nov.2021` David Brunet (ANF)	Obligement website reach now 7000 articles David Brunet wrote: "The magazine Obligement is active on the Amiga scene since 1997. New articles of all kind are regulary added on its website. And the number of articles has now passed the 7000 mark! To celebrate this big number, the 6999e and 7000e articles published are the original review of the Amiga 1000 PAL and NTSC. Unfortunatly, the translation engine of the website is no more functional (thanks Google :-(). We are searching an alternative solution for our non-french speaking readers. The following articles have been added to the website of the Amiga magazine Obligement during the last two months: September/October 2021 news Old articles from Joystick 29 to 32: News: Street Fighter 2 an eventful arrival, Interview with Thierry Magnaldi, Review of Ween The Prophecy, Review of Sim Life, Review of The Aquatic Games, News: Accolade in American time, Interview with David Braben, Review of The Carl Lewis Challenge, Review of Civilization, News: Silmarils' new products for summer 1992, Review of Winter Supersports 92, Review of G-LOC R360, etc. Interview with Benoît Wiblé (crazy manager of Relec) Review of Inviyya File: Monkey Island, or how Ron Gilbert created an adventure game that didn't suck File: What happen to Eyetech Group? (second part) File: Amiga history, years 1984-2003 (update) File: Zool Arcade File: History of ERBE Software/Topo Soft Hardware: Amiga 1000 PAL and Amiga 1000 NTSC Programming: Introduction to MUI programming on MorphOS Tutorial: Printing on AmigaOS 4 via GoogleCloudPrint Special quiz about Xtreme Racing Feel free to contribute. Please contact David "Daff" Brunet for more info." [News message: 03. Nov. 2021, 06:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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