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Archive 06/2022

`10.Jun.2022`	MorphOS: Bounty amount for new graphics card drivers reached After MorphOS team developer Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen offered a bounty project for better OpenGL support as well as additional graphics card drivers, the funding goal has now been reached thanks to a particularly large individual donation from Wiktor 'Pampers' Głowacki. (snx) [News message: 10. Jun. 2022, 14:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2022` Andreas Magerl (ANF)	Print magazine: Amiga Future "Amiga 37" edition planned In October the "Amiga 37" will take place in Mönchengladbach, Germany. For this occasion, a special edition of the print magazine Amiga Future is planned, which will be distributed free of charge at the entrance and will contain, among other things, the hall plan, the event schedule, background reports on Amiga 37 and interviews with the organisers. (snx) [News message: 10. Jun. 2022, 14:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2022`	AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 5 of 'WhatIFF?' published 'WhatIFF?' is an Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format. Unlike other magazines or journals, WhatIFF? does not deal with games, but is mainly intended for users who want to be creative with their Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). Now issue 5 has been published with the following content: Reviews: Anno Calendar SCART to HDMI Scan Doubler Framemeister X-RGB Clover Icons Replacement Power Supply Tutorials: Lightwave 101 - texturing Brilliance 101 - tweening MsMadLemon ProTracker/Tracking Tutorial Retrobrite the easy way Wireless Printing From Your Amiga Interviews: Ms Mad Lemon Karl Jeacle (dr) [News message: 10. Jun. 2022, 07:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2022`	Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.8 / FloppyBridge 1.2 Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin FloppyBridge, WinUAE is also officially supported since version 4.9.0. DrawBridge has been updated to version 2.8.8 providing the following changes: Added support for reading and writing track 82 and 83 (firmware update needed too, not all drives support this anyway) Fixed a mistake in diagnostics suggesting pin A0 was write protect, it's A1! Now hides any CH340 com ports from the list as they're incompatible anyway Fixed compiling under Linux Changes of the latest version 1.2 of FloppyBridge: Added no-click disk check when it has to be done manually Added support for tracks 82 and 83 if supported by the drive (firmware update needed for DrawBridge) Updated Greaseweazle driver to also support Shugart interfaces Some cosmetic fixes Prior installation of the new DrawBridge firmware 1.9.25 is required. (dr) [News message: 10. Jun. 2022, 06:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Jun.2022` mithrendal (Mail)	Emulator: vAmigaWeb v2.1 beta2 vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator for MacOS vAmiga. After its release of the second beta version of version 2.1, the developer 'mithrendal' has not only integrated this latest vAmigaCore2.1b2 into his application, but also some other changes: CPU overclocking up to 100Mhz (great for legendary titles like frontier/elite2 or fa-18 interceptor) PAL/NTSC hot switching (pixel ratio and 50/60 Hz chipset system speed) floppy drive and hard drive sounds and track display in the HUD completely reworked display sizes for overscan games like "the settlers" various bugfixes e.g. memory leaks, pixel precision and more (dr) [News message: 10. Jun. 2022, 05:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2022`	Amiga emulator for MacOS: vAmiga 2.1b2 By releasing version 2.0 (amiga-news.de reported), developer Dirk Hoffmann has started the beta phase of version 2.1 of his Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS and has just released the second beta version. Changes: Enhancements: Added NTSC support Kickstart 3.2.1 (Hyperion) is a recognised Rom now Bug fixes: No more graphics glitches in DPaint IV overscan modes Null modem cable is no longer broken No more graphics glitches in Seven seas by Andromeda ShowConfig utility (Hyperion) does no longer crash with Kickstart 3.2 Fixed an error in the Hunk parser Refactoring: Now the line drawing code is invoked at the beginning of the HBLANK area The minimum system requirement is macOS 10.15. (dr) [News message: 09. Jun. 2022, 18:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2022` English Amiga Board	RTG driver: P96 V3.3.1 released Jens Schönfeld (individual Computers) has released version 3.3.1 of his RTG driver P96, which can be bought or downloaded from the order history at iComp. This is again a minor service release providing the following features: The Cirrus5434.chip driver was broken (Piccollo64, Matze's graphics card) and did not switch back from direct color modes to chunky modes. One release of UAE had an issue by indicating that it would support mode mixing, but forgot to provide the necessary call-backs in some configurations. P96 provides now default call-backs avoiding the crash. Bitmap handling was simplified and streamlined. The Visiona driver supports now panning and interlace. The installer places now the P96 version into ENVARC:Picasso96/Version so you know what you have on the system. The installer no longer provides wrong default selections for the available boards in case the list of installed boards requires more than one page. The installer makes a very tiny consistency check on the unpacked files as some people unpacked on the PC, and then protection bits were incorrect. (dr) [News message: 09. Jun. 2022, 06:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Jun.2022` Kevin Saunders	Contest: Amiga Art Contest 2022 The "Amiga Art Contest 2022" (video) is organized by the Youtuber channel 10 Minute Amiga Retrocast and the graphics artist Kevin Saunders. Participants can submit their works in the categories of "Hand-drawn Artwork", "Digital Photography", "3D/Ray Tracing", "MOD/Music" and "Animation" (submissions of the previous years 2019, 2020 and 2021). Only works created or (in the case of digital photographs) edited on an Amiga (real or emulated) are eligible. Deadline for entries is October 11, winners will be announced in an episode of the Youtube show "10 Minute Amiga Retrocast". (dr) [News message: 09. Jun. 2022, 05:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jun.2022`	AmigaOS 4: Spreadsheet ignition 1.20, update of OpenDocument plugins Achim Pankalla has released version 1.20 of the spreadsheet ignition which at least requires AmigaOS 4.1 update 6. Many bugs and problems have been solved and some minor new functions added. For example: Zoomen with ctrl and mousewheel Old column/row title will be displayed if they are not standard 22 new functions correct/update some functions correct some error turbocalc add-on extend and corrected some changes in the manual The ods-addon was reworked as well. The addon allows loading and saving tables in OpenDocument format, which is used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc among others. Changes in ign-ods-addon 0.35: add new functions og ignition correct the problem, which appears after save a ods-file Achim Pankalla thanks all testers, bug reporters, translators and supporters. He welcomes any feedback via email, and also refers to the official ignition support forum at os4welt.de for further information and discussion. (dr) [News message: 08. Jun. 2022, 17:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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